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Great Aphorisms Sprout in the Dark (2016)
From The Philosopher, Volume CIV, Autumn 2016
WHY ARE THE GREAT APHORISTS SO GLOOMY?
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius
Aphorisms have been done a great disservice by being printed on postcards and posters alongside images of flowers and sunsets. Here, aphorisms become heart-warming 'words of wisdom' like:
'We do not remember days, we remember moments' (set with a nice seaside image), or 'Never miss an opportunity to see something beautiful'.
(That one is displayed with a sunset as the background, of course.)
Rather, the aphorism is a special kind of phrase. The root of the word itself is about distinctions and definitions and the first known use of the term is attributed to Hippocrates, the Ancient Greek physician the name for a long series of propositions concerning the symptoms and diagnosis of disease. The opening sentence of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates is:
'Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.'
This piece of epic negativity has set the tone for aphorisms ever since. In fact, most of what followed, which is depressing stuff about diseases and symptoms, would not even count as aphorisms today. But the fact that the art of aphorisms was born with a treatise on sickness and death is by no means without significance.
Don't imagine the diagnosis is accompanied by a more positive messages about possible cures either, rather it is more like this:
'Persons who have had frequent and severe attacks of swooning, without any manifest cause, die suddenly.'
'Those who are very fat by nature are more exposed to die suddenly than those who are thin.'
Hippocrates' list of interconnected statements was scientific in outlook, and the first aphorists were also focused on setting out very clearly the facts of the matter, whatever area it might be. Over time indeed aphorists moved away from the maxims of physical science towards fluffier moral and philosophical and literary truths. In the process, they began to look less and less compelling and factual and more and more subjective instead. Today, in the modern usage, an aphorism is often reduced to being merely a shrewd or witty observation, pithily written.
The Greeks had two words for what they saw as two kinds of wisdom: one for the wise who scaled the heights of thought and knowledge; another for those who, without logical method or technical jargon held up a mirror to human nature. It is really in this second kind of wisdom that the power of the aphorism lies.
The rather misnamed Golden verses of Pythagoras, although unremittingly depressing, inspired many later philosophers to try their hand. These three consecutive ones (Verses 56, 57 and 58) build to a nice finale.
'Few know how to deliver themselves out of their misfortunes
'Such is the fate that blinds humankind, and takes away his senses.'
'Like huge cylinders they roll back and forth, and always oppressed with innumerable ills.'
One of the key works of the Bible, Ecclesiastes, also attempts to be a mirror for humanity. Rarely have so many quotable aphorisms appeared in one short work - and the tone is unrelentingly depressing. Here are a few of my personal favorites.
'Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.'
'For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.'
''Meaningless! Meaningless!' says the Teacher. 'Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.''
I can't help but smile when I read these. However some are a bit TOO gloomy...
'It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.'
... and clumsy in expression too.
'Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.'
There's a bit of repetition there, but repetition is one the tools of the aphorists' art. Hippies everywhere will remember these verses, if more likely from the Pete Seeger song (or maybe the Byrds' cover version), repetitively entitled Turn! Turn! Turn! than from Bible class that 'There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens'. Indeed, the shadow of death looms large in Biblical aphorisms writing, that it even makes it rather contradictory. Although one warning runs:
'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.'
... another offers the countervailing reflection:
'What does anyone gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?'
In a lecture to The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution on November 11, 1887, John Morley, a politician and newspaper editor (of all things), recalls Cicero's description of such sayings as saltpits, explaining 'that you may extract salt out of them,' and sprinkle it where you will. For him, sayings like these are illustrative: 'He who has less than he desires, should know that he has more than he deserves,' and one of my own favorites which is: 'People who never have any time are the people who do least.' John Morley has in fact a very nice aphoristic style of his own, clearly aided by his study of the topic, even if he complains that:
'Truth that has been picked up from books only sticks to us like an artificial limb, or a false tooth, or a rhinoplastic nose'.
And it is surely as one that has tried that he usefully warns: 'If any of you should be bitten with an unhappy passion for the composition of aphorisms, let me warn such a one that the power of observing life is rare, the power of drawing new lessons from it is rarer still, and the power of condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence is rarest of all.
Morely also notes the particular quality of the written word that means: 'Reading is thinking with a strange head instead of one's own.' Curiously, James Geary, a contemporary aphorist, picked out this last saying for a mention on his internet blog, adding 'I didn't make a note of the author...' Evidently the thought fitted so well within his own thoughts that he didn't feel the need to.
James Geary addresses the issue of the darker side of aphorisms by saying that aphorists 'typically don't need much convincing to look on the bright side, but the writer who sheds darkness on things does us a great service'. Why? Geary sees negativity acting as a kind of inoculation, boosting our 'existential immune system'.
In similar spirit, Geary writes in his book called The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, that:
'They definitely do not cheer you up. Instead, aphorisms fulfill a much more difficult and important task: They make you question everything you think and do. Aphorisms deliver the short sharp shock of an old forgotten truth. They keep your mind in shape by making you wonder every morning whether you're simply walking to work or digging your own grave.'
James Lough also explores the 'dark side' of aphorisms in the recent book, Short Flights 1, talking about 'aphorisms of insight' that strip away conventional wisdom, peeling the shiny surfaces to get at ugly truths beneath. He says that the aphorism of insight is 'not a champion of tradition -it's an outlaw'. Or perhaps one might say, a scofflaw, as the tone is often mocking and sardonic. Whatever the approach, Lough thinks that the power of such aphorisms is that they tell us:
'...how things are, tells us what's what, at a deeper level than common sense.'
And Short Flights closes with an essay by Sara Levine in which she too talks about 'bad-ass' aphorists who begin to make you think that aphorisms are all about 'the villainy of mankind, the treachery of friends, the foolishness of lovers'. For Levine, the saving grace of such a gloomy approach and the virtue of aphorisms, is that they are so 'patently provisional, unfinished and partisan'. Here we have a possible insight into the aphorists' particular taste for gloom - the pill is taken in such small dosages that it does no harm.
Certainly the Moral Reflections of François de la Rochefoucauld (1665), one of the most founding books of aphorism, modeled on the Proverbs of Solomon, is full of little poison pills. One such is the saying:
'In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.'
A concerned critic wrote: 'I count Rochefoucauld's Maxims a bad book. As I am reading it, I feel discomfort; I have a sense of suffering which I cannot define. Such thoughts tarnish the brightness of the soul; they degrade the heart.' That's the power of aphorism!
Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld's fellow countryman and contemporary, attempted to put things right. The Thoughts of Pascal concern the deeper things of speculative philosophy and religion, rather than the wisdom of daily life, and, besides, though aphoristic in form, they are in substance systematic.
In an essay for 'The Book of Life' website, part of his own philosophical organization 'The School of Life', Alain de Botton describes Pascal as both one of the most pessimistic figures in Western thought and simultaneously one of the most cheering, adding that 'The combination seems typical: the darkest thinkers are, paradoxically, almost always the ones who can lift our mood.' De Botton calls Pascal's Pensées ('thoughts') a 'brilliant, intensely pessimistic series of aphorisms' and he sees the gloom factor as integral to a pedagogic (teaching) purpose: to convert readers to God through evoking everything that was terrible about life. De Botton's second observation is telling too:
'Unfortunately for Pascal, very few modern readers now follow the Pensées like this. The first part of the book, listing what is wrong with life, has always proved far more popular than the second, which suggests what is right with God.' Aphorisms like: 'All of man's unhappiness comes from his inability to stay peacefully alone in his room' and 'We struggle against obstacles, but once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces' appeal to our inner darkness, as does: 'We are so presumptuous that we want to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come after we have gone.'
Nonetheless, like Geary, de Botton sees the gloom as extremely therapeutic, even suggesting that:
'...the work is consoling, heartwarming and even, at times, hilarious. For those teetering on the verge of despair, there can paradoxically be no finer book to turn to than one which seeks to grind man's every last hope into the dust. The Pensées, far more than any saccharine volume touting inner beauty, positive thinking or the realization of hidden potential, has the power to coax the suicidal off the ledge of a high parapet.'
The idea is that it is a relief, to read philosophy that confirms our very worst fears, that sheds light into the inner darkness, however nasty may be what is revealed. However, the Pensées, it should be repeated, are not a series of aphorisms, in the modern sense of separate nuggets of wisdom. They are rather an interlinked series of claims offered in a the manner of a geometrical proof. The bulk of the book consists of uplifting, religiously-inspired thoughts like:
'Happiness is neither without us nor within us; it is in God, both without us and within us.'
The point is, the aphorisms we value are often not merely 'hacked from the rock-face' but pillaged like trophies from larger works of spiritual or other significance that we neither understand nor are very much interested in.
If de Botton and others are quick to recommend the Pensées, as a whole, as a timeless and powerful work - for me, it is tedious and outdated, its conclusions neglected for its tangential asides. Yet if Pascal's conscious aim is thwarted, thoughts he may barely have considered significant - the darker ones that sprang from this collective consciousness perhaps? - do continue to speak across the centuries.
And then there's Nietzsche. If many of the gloomy aphorists intended to have an optimistic message, Nietzsche is an aphorist who offered fine thoughts with the intention of belittling and mocking human optimism.
'There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness'.
The phrase has been immortalized in innumerable books and internet blogs, where, as ever, it has been given a rose-tinted makeover. Poor old Nietzsche! His intention was rather the opposite. I think most of us would take this as saying something like, yes, to feel love for another may be illogical, but there are other, higher, kinds of logic that make such feelings wise. We would not think that of it as an endorsement of the kind of violent madness that characterizes the slaughter of innocents during war, for example. But that is nearer the mark.
So pity Nietzsche! His sardonic ironies and contemptuous harrumphs target just about everyone and everything, he's ended up representing instead, the common man against the elite. If it's odd to find the doom laden verses of Ecclesiastes turn up as sixties pop songs, it's only to be expected that out of all the movies other people tell you about, or indeed all the movies made, Nietzsche appears more often than any other philosopher. This is because he is both very quotable and very much misrepresented. You can't have one without the other, I guess. Anyway, at least according to my Google-based research methods, out of all the philosophers, he is the philosopher-du-jour of the movie industry.
There was even a movie made in his honor in 2003 called simply 'Nietzsche' which has as the opening line: 'God is dead'. This Nietzscheism is so famous that its even got its own 2000-odd word Wikipedia entry, for God's sake! Or should I say, for evil's sake... You have to admire the brevity in that saying. A whole lot of ideas encapsulated in one bitter pill.
Here are a few more catchy Nietzscheisms, judged by that dubious yardstick that that they appear in popular movies:
In Enter the Matrix (2003), the character Ghost recalls Nietzsche's advice that:
'One must want nothing to be different-not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not only bear what is necessary, but to love it.'
In The Doors (1991) as part of a discussion of Jim Morrison's film class project, the soon-to-be-pop-star Morrison reports Nietzsche's words that '
'All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.'
And in Smallville (2001), Lana says: 'Nietzsche? I didn't know you have a dark side, Clark.' to which Clark (aka Superman) says 'Doesn't everyone?' Lana then asks: 'So what are you: Man or Superman?' The punch line is Clark's droller than droll (or is it 'duller than dull'?) reply: 'I haven't figured it out yet.'
Of course, this exchange has nothing to do with Nietzsche's philosophy. But the connection pleases the film maker and the audience alike. Because, to movie director, philosophy professors and aphorists alike, Nietzsche is a hero. All cherish the way that he wrote wildly opinionated texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, without doing anything dull like thinking about the practical, social consequences, all the while defying conventional ethics and dazzling with savage wit, metaphor, irony, and aphorism.
Philosophy has long offered big ideas, world-shaking ideas, in small formats
What strikes me about these mass-market Nietzschean aphorisms is that they all feed off a very dark and sinister aspect of philosophy. Nietzsche was not writing in the bien-pensant school associated (probably wrongly) with the cuddly Ancient Greeks, like Plato and Socrates, whose own dictums revolving around 'seeking the good' so pleased the Christian Church looking for more uplifting thoughts than those in the Old Testament. Philosophy has long offered big ideas, world-shaking ideas, in small formats, the classic text being Descartes'': 'I think therefore I am. But Plato is pretty quotable too. Thoughts like these could go on motivational posters... though they'd never sell.:
'There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. '
'Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. '
'No one, purposely or knowingly, chooses what is wrong. '
Actually, talking about philosophers being misquoted and misappropriated, didn't Plato really say:
'No one, purposely or knowingly, chooses what is bad for themselves '.
It's not quite the same thing, and indeed the distinction is all.
The philosophical aphorisms of Plato quoted so far are in fact just fragments, quotes, understood to be from longer works. However, Plato was following in the footsteps of great aphorists like Pythagoras and Heracleitus - the one the Ancients nicknamed 'the Dark'.There are lots of Pythagorean verses, but precious few words left of Heracleitus - scraps the historians actually call 'fragments'. However, apparently Heracleitus only uttered these kinds of short sayings, like a kind of grumpy grandpa, and was renowned for being thus inscrutable. To today his enigmatic announcements like the one about the river: 'No man ever steps in the same river twice' - are misunderstood. Other sayings are less obscure but equally seem less quotable:
'Much learning does not teach understanding' and 'There is nothing permanent except change'
But neither Plato nor Heracleitus, 'Dark' or not, can ever catch the public eye in quite the same way as Nietzsche. No, if you want to get to Hollywood, better make sure the plot is rather more brutal.
When Nietzsche says 'God is dead' he also adds:
'DEAD ARE ALL THE GODS: NOW DO WE DESIRE THE SUPERMAN TO LIVE.' Let this be our final will at the great moontide! - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
But no one quotes that bit. In passing, I should note that I'm not sure if Nietzsche actually used capital letters - screamers - as it were for this phrase, but he sprinkled his notebooks with such things, and heavy underlining. I venture that a good phrase NEEDS NO EMPHASIS.
The 'Superman' is actually part of Nietzsche rant against women and the 'bungled and the botched' and not at all to do with protecting citizens from creepy and mutated underworld villains. On the contrary, his aim is to belittle the popular and mainstream and to privilege the esoteric and select. Nietzsche's Notebook for Autumn 1887, otherwise preoccupied with lamenting the abolition of slavery and the new propaganda in favor of treating people as 'equal', speaks of his struggle against Rousseau and his notion of natural man as good. Egalitarian notions of natural rights are a philosophy born, Nietzsche declares fiercely, 'out of a hatred of aristocratic culture.'
As writers really ought to accept, context matters, and an aphorism - a glittering shard of thought broken from the wordface, still has a context. It's just that often it's unclear what it is. Nietzsche had no time for the masses even if his imaginary character, Zarathustra, is tempted by pity to help them. His contempt extends not only to those social classes excluded from the privilege of higher education, but also to all people who limit their lives and aspirations to the pursuit of trivia and convenience. For Nietzsche, that includes the majority of artists and writers, of students and professors, of journalists and politicians-the majority, that is, of what is sometimes called the 'cultural elite'. They all fall far short of seriously developing their personal or their human potential. Not for him the appeal of the English, like those of Jeremy Bentham, Englishman and philosophical father of practicality, who thought: "In order to love mankind we must not expect too much from them."
Nietzsche's own life was a tragicomedy. A creative and brilliant mind turned bitter by professional failure and long-running physical illness, he is forever trapped in the contrast, familiar to so many of us, between aspirations and achievements. In his lifetime, that is. For later, Nietzsche's overturning of conventional morality and plan to make 'good' evil, and 'evil', good) did come to some kind of fruition. His dream of an elite of merciless 'Supermen' proud to show no pity for the weak taking joy in Dionysian destruction reappeared in a special edition of his writings that Hitler distributed to his soldiers in World War Two. In short, a rather different 'Niezschean Superman' to that in the movie. Of course, some people say that it was his sister who distorted his views and introduced the nasty bits. But Hitler, who also remarked famously:
'What is important is not what the creator of an idea of genius may mean, but what this idea becomes in the mouth of whoever transmits it.'
- had it basically right, when he recommended little snatches of Nietzsche for the troops. In his Notebook 5, for example, the unedited Nietzsche writes:
'I dream of a collective of men who are absolute, who know no consideration, and
who want to be called 'destroyers'.'
Not that you need to scour through obscure notebooks for nasty bits. So beware the platitudinous tendency in philosophy-of warm words and pious sentiments. The authors applauded for such things likely did not think anything like what they are credited with doing.
Context is all. All of which only goes to show, as Critical Theorist might say, that the 'author' does not have a monopoly over the interpretation of the text. And Nietzsche is a good place to start trying to work out the secrets of the art of aphorism, as he is certainly one of its most famous exponents, yet to make sense of his style - and its power - it helps to recall that he was himself only following in an ancient, if, in his day neglected, philosophical tradition.
Nietzsche admired the pre-Socratic philosophers, who in turn reflected an Eastern tradition of pithy words of wisdom delivered as from on high. Teaching around the same time as Pythagoras (the first century BCE), Confucius had dispensed with long boring recitals to teach instead via short pithy analects. Aphorisms by any other name.
The Analects were a series of moral maxims, superficially preoccupied with the question of the proper observation of ancient ritual. But their philosophical and social scope is much broader, and the Analects became the basis of educational theory, political and social science in China. For instance, Confucius says:
'The Superior Man stands in awe of three things...'
Whoa! Stop there. Because aphorisms tend to share certain structural features. The root of the word is in lists of interconnected definitions and on a rhetorical and indeed pedagogical level the 'rule of three' is one key element. Speeches, or mere sayings, carry more weight when they are presented as triples.
Clearly Confucius knew all this. So he says of the Superior Man and his fears.
• He is in awe of the decree of Heaven.
• He is in awe of great men.
• He is in awe of the words of the sages.
The power of the triple, of course, always lies in the closing statement.
Yet , at other times, Confucian wisdom is binary. Take the golden rule, for example. One of the last of the analects recalls that Tzu Kung asked the Master: 'Is there a single concept that we can take as a guide for the actions of our whole life?' To which Confucius responds, 'What about 'fairness '? What you don't like done to yourself, don't do to others.'
Binary language reeks of school, 'do this, don't do that.' Its dogmatism is antithetical to the art of literary aphorism. However, it is binary distinctions that underlie another great, indeed I would say, greater, Eastern text is the Tao Te Ching. The Tao Te Ching is all about binary pairs, about opposites.
Its starting point is that these are the two aspects of everything in reality. Yin, _, the feminine aspect, is dark, soft, and yielding. Yang, _, the masculine aspect, is bright, hard, and inflexible. Everything in the world consists of both elements, and everything is in a state of flux, changing to become more yin or more yang. Human beings are born soft and flexible; yet when they die that are stiff and hard... Plants sprout soft and delicate, yet when they die they are withered and dry...
'Thus the hard and stiff are disciples of death, the soft and flexible are disciples of life.
Thus an inflexible army is not victorious, an unbending tree will break.
The stiff and massive will be lessened, the soft and fluid will increase.'
This is great stuff! But it is not yet the stuff of aphorism. It is yin and yang and not yin, yang and he. Which it could have been, as where there is a harmonious balance between yin and yang, it establishes he (harmony).
The Western tradition grew from Eastern texts like these, with (over time) the binary style winning out over the triadic.
Another perhaps less obvious influence on modern day aphorists is Zeno of Elea, who is always remembered, indeed much loved, for his puzzles and paradoxes. Long before anyone else he examined the mathematical and logical nature of some of our most basic concepts concerning the fundamental nature of space and time. And in his philosophizing, Zeno used a very distinctive kind of argument, one which proceeds by apparently reasonable steps to a completely unreasonable conclusion. Aristotle credited Zeno with being the first philosopher use the 'dialectic', the method of reasoning that later inspired Marx to predict world revolution. Contradiction fuels philosophy and aphoristic language alike.
Take Epicurus's 'Argument from Evil' for example. The entire argument is eight lines long.
'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? '
Or recall Socrates famous 'closing speech' in Plato's dialogue The Apology, after drinking a glass of hemlock:
'To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. '
With philosophy for so many centuries dedicated to producing contradictions in aphoristic style, and aphorists dedicated to responding in like form, it is a relief to come across Schopenhauer. The iconoclastic German philosopher studied not only the classical Greek tradition but also the Eastern texts. Schopenhauer even called his beloved poodles 'Atma', after the universal soul - all of them sharing one name. He was, in addition, a fine writer with a terse, elegant style. And he offers this explanation for what he calls the 'Emptiness of Existence'.
'That human life must be a kind of mistake is sufficiently clear from the fact that man is a
compound of needs, which are difficult to satisfy; moreover, if they are satisfied, all he is granted is a state of painlessness, in which he can only give himself up to boredom. This is a precise proof that existence in itself has no value.'
- On the Emptiness of Existence
Sigmund Freud would study Schopenhauer's description of the primal 'will to live' and 'sexual impulse' nothing less than avidly, before drawing up his own account of the id or 'life-instinct' and making the libido the central feature in human life. Yet it is not the Austrian psychoanalyst who wrote '...consciousness is the mere surface of our mind, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust', but this, still today, relatively obscure, German philosopher.
So perhaps the all-important closing phrase should go to Schopenhauer:
'One should use common words to say uncommon things.'
Martin Cohen is Editor of the Philosopher and author of numerous books on philosophy and social science. His most recent book is Crakcing Philosophy (Cassell 2016)
Address for correspondence: Martin can be contacted via Twitter: @docmartincohen
Labels: aphorisms, Aristotle, Bible, Blaise Pascal, Confucius, François de la Rochefoucauld, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hippocrates, John Morley, Martin Cohen, Pythagoras, Shopenhauer
Oliver Bishop 29 January 2017 at 02:05
Martin Cohen 29 January 2017 at 06:45
Thank you , Oliver. We don't get many comments (philosophers are a reclusive bunch except when angry) so the ones we do get are all the more appreciated1
Jack Mitchell 9 March 2017 at 17:08
Very much enjoyed this article!
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Postby LSD Jellyfish » Sat May 04, 2019 10:09 pm
Just rewatched this, remains one of my favorite Godzilla movies, but each time I’m increasingly surprised by how inconsequential Godzilla and co are, minus the destruction scenes.
The two fights with Ghidorah, the one midway, and the one at the end are laughably short. It is also kind of underwhelming how the fight takes place after the Xilliens are killed, where all the dramatic tension sort of dissipates.
One big missed opportunity, would probably have the UFOs take a more proactive role in the destruction scenes. It would’ve added some variety, and I realized despite how many aliens exist within the showa series, how little aliens ufos that actually attack are. We get a brief scene of the Xilliens attack the space base, but not much else. Even Godzilla or Rodan taking a brief swipe at them would’ve been cool.
Again, none of these really detract from the movie for me because it’s a great sci-fi film and I love a lot of little elements within it.
I haven’t really seen many people talk about this, but Fuji’s brother in law to be, is an inventor, who like Serizawa has some love drama, and ultimately makes a weapon that undermines the main antagonist of the film. Of course it’s a less tragic story in this case, but I realized in a way he’s a funny play on Serizawa. And, what really strikes me as interesting is how this film has two live issues, the other being with Namikawa and Glenn. While it’s not as fleshed out, it’s a really interesting element, especially with the whole tonal backdrop of the Xilliens being run by a computer.
What’s also interesting is that while yeah Glenn and Fuji are technically scientists, they’re primarily astronauts; a unique profession throughout the Godzilla franchise. To further them being interesting, they also have separate side plots from one another, and while clearly being friends, clearly also bicker throughout the story, with Glenn actually taking Fuji’s sisters side.
And yeah, the Xilliens look a little goofy, but really they have remarkable standout and iconic designs. While minute, the minor detail with the radio antenna sticking out the back of their cap reinforces the idea that they’re controlled by a computer. I actually would say for the alien invasion genre as a whole, the Xilliens are actually the quintessential alien invasion force. And that’s where IATOM wins, Id argue for the time it was one of the best films in the alien invasion genre.
This time around, I also noted a brief, sortve genius by then standards, editing moment. There’s a shot of Fuji and Glenn in space, leaving for Planet X, and it shows a background of space. Cut to a backdrop of the fancy resturaunt that Fuji’s sister is meeting her boyfriend in, which has space themed wallpaper. A minor detail but a cool one nonetheless.
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Postby eabaker » Sun May 05, 2019 9:17 am
LSD Jellyfish wrote: Just rewatched this, remains one of my favorite Godzilla movies, but each time I’m increasingly surprised by how inconsequential Godzilla and co are, minus the destruction scenes.
Yeah, I'd say the primary purpose of the monsters in this movie isn't as much to provide monter-vs-monster spectacle as it is to provide disaster porn during the Xillien attack.
That said, while it's brief, the Planet X fight is one of my favorites in the series. It's economical; every moment matters.
Sekizawa wrote few different takes on guys' friendships in this era, with Sakurai and Furue, Glenn and Fuji and Komai and Mark Jackson standing out as the most distinctive of the lot, in large part because the amount of bickering or competition between them.
I've always really liked that moment. Though I do think "genius by then standards" slightly underestimates the sophistication of editing techniques at the time. I mean, this was nearly 40 years after Battleship Potemkin, and more than 20 years after Citizen Kane and Sanshiro Sugata.
Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world.
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FOUNTAINHEAD Property, which already owns two prominent retail properties in Cape Town, is set to further increase its footprint in the city’s southern suburbs.
Late last month Fountainhead announced details of an agreement to buy Access Park, which is nestled between Claremont and Kenilworth, for nearly R420 million.
The sellers are Momentum Property Investments and several nominee companies (which according to CIPRO are associated with property entrepreneurs Peter Cunliffe and James Angus McKay).
Access Park is a popular retail node offering mainly value for money shopping.
Fountainhead CEO Anton Raubenheimer says the Access Park acquisition is in line with Fountainhead’s strategy of acquiring “quality retail assets which are located in strong retail nodes and possess good future growth prospects.”
And it’s not like Fountainhead is not familiar with the lay of the retail land in this area. The Access Park property is very close to one of Fountainhead’s existing Cape Town properties, Kenilworth Centre.
The Access Park property should immediately kick through to Fountainhead’s bottom line. The total rentable area of the Access Park property is over 20 000 sq m’s at a weighted average gross rental of R153 per sq m.
The average rental escalation by rentable area for the property is a nifty 11% and the annualised property yield is a steady 8.7%.
The deal is interesting because Fountainhead may have been forgiven for being loathe to commit further to Cape Town (where it also owns 58% of the N1 City Mall).
Currently the group is already busy with major renovations to the Blue Route Mall (which, one must remember, is one of Cape Town’s oldest retail precinct’s having been built way back in the seventies).
Fountainhead’s annual report shows that the Blue Route Mall is currently undergoing a major redevelopment.
In his annual review Raubenheimer says the construction work on the Blue Route project started in April 2010 with the demolition of a portion of the existing building and the preparation of the new mall’s foundation and parking garage.
He says the project is on schedule with an expected completion date of March 2012. On completion the new look Blue Route Mall will have 56 000 sq m of gross lettable area with around 3 000 parking bays.
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Dangerous Bonfires
The two spectacular nights looked forward to by many country kids in the 1960's was Bonfire night and Guy Fawkes night. Leading up to the nights, in June and December, the community would build a stack of flammable rubbish for weeks on end. Usually the pile ended up 20-30 feet high and would be situated within a local vacant block. Cupboards, chairs, timber, tyres, trees, shrubs, boxes and anything that would assist the pile to reach high up into the sky and produce a spectacular raging bonfire.
Hundreds of parents and kids from streets away, with their tom thumbs, 1 penny bungers, 3 penny bungers, jumping jacks, sky rockets, wheels and sparklers, all purchased at the local Milk Bar, would congregate on dark for the light show to begin.
Pour on the sump oil and throw on a flaming Kero soaked rag. Boom, the stack would burst into an inferno and within seconds roar up into the sky. The tyres would catch and the flames would fork and dance up in huge plumes of black smoke and yellow spurts that duplicated lightning. Of the dozens of spectacular nights that I can recall, not one kid was injured. It was fun, responsible fun, as taught by our parents and responsibly enforced by our siblings and friends.
So much for the conventional firecrackers of the day. Country kids also had a knack of inventing and making their own fun. The following items were either invented or the details handed down by older friends and family. Kids had to make their own fun in those days and incredibly the ideas stayed around even though there was no internet or instructions on how to make them or do it. Fireworks were no exception.
The Fireball
One of the great invented games that we perfected was the fireball relay. We would wrap up cotton rag into a ball the size of a softball and then wrap thin wire around the ball to keep it all together. We would then soak the ball for some time in metholated spirits. When lit, we could handle the ball for a few seconds without feeling any burns. We would throw the ball to each other, catching it and throwing it on. The sound going through the air was like a jet engine travelling through the sky. It could last up to 5 minutes before requiring another dip. Who would do that today!
The Giant Sparkler
Then there was the giant sparkler. Dad would bring home a dozen or so gelignite explosive lighters, used in the demolition of rock within the works tunnels. They were about 8" long and the thickness of your little finger. When lit, they would produce a beautiful blue and orange light and last for about 5 minutes. We were so lucky that we could get hold of these.
Other Dangerous Fun
Nothing intrigued kids more than projectiles. We made gings, cracker guns, bows, arrows, bolt bombs and miniature bows and arrows made from match sticks and hairpins. Here are some of those items showing how they were made and used.
The Ging
The Ging or sling shot was the best weapon around. You could hit cans, rabbits, light bulbs, windows and mates from 20 yards. Steel ball bearings were the best ammo, as they would travel straight and were heavy. We would test them through corrugated iron sheeting to make sure they passed the velocity and power test. When they ran out, we had to settle for glass marbles or just the humble rock.
Gang warfare
We all gathered together our gings, ball bearings, rocks, bull rush spears and comics and stored them all in our underground fort. The fort was a 5' depression along the SEC aqueduct and it was covered in corrugated iron and camouflaged with grass and blackberry bushes. We had a trapdoor in the roof, so that we could open it up, throw and shoot at the enemy and then close it down again waiting for the return fire. Clunk, bang as we huddled together.
Then Willy Button chucked a yonnie that bounced off Gray Clarker's head. He ran home screaming with his henchmen in toe. They didn't come back for the rest of the summer holidays.
Willy's Stories of War
This is where Willy Button's version of the above story comes in. He reminded me of his recollection of the story the other day. He also added a story at the end, that I do recall. He did this off his own bat for the good of his mates and reclaimed the swing. For his lone bravery, we gave him one of the gang's Phantom comics that we had in the fort.
"We were about 12 and playing up above the Bogong Road (our favourite hangout). Robbie Chrystal, Willy Button, Don McKenna and Kenny Wyatt against Gray Clarker, the McGregs, Doug Swany and the Crowtherd brothers. I think Aiden Horse might have been with them too. Aiden was our spy, as he played cricket with us and wasn't a bad kid. He couldn't help living north of the golf course. The bad boys from North Beauty had come trespassing into our territory again. The leader, as usual, was Gray Clarker. He was always stealing our ideas and smashing up our forts. We had to teach him and his henchmen another big lesson. We had the same strongly feared gang from Mt Beauty Upper of Don McKenna, Willy Button, Robbie Chrystal and Kenny Wyatt. The ensuing rock fight was a war over the reclamation of land. That day was when a golf ball from a penny bunger mortar landed on Clarker's head. He later showed us the egg on his head which was the size of the golf ball. Don McKenna might have been a lousy bowler but he could sure chuck a rock. We all could. You see, the enemy didn’t play cricket like us. Even though they had the higher ground advantage that day, we caned them due to our superior fighting skills, specialist artillery and fortified trench."
"Another time, we had made a rope swing at the big gum tree near from the picnic shelter above Bogong Road. It was a swing across the gully with a tree fort above it. Robbie Chrystal fitted the rope. I was up there one day when Swany and a city slicker belted me up and told me that the swing and the fort was theirs' now. The next morning, early, I went to the tree and tied a slip knot in the rope where it was attached to the tree. I was on the other side of the gully when they arrived. I told them to piss off. They threw rocks at me and I retreated. Swany promptly grabbed the swing to swing across and chase me and he fell into the blackberry bushes below as the rope gave way.
The others ran and got Swany's dad and 3 other dads to extract him from the thorns. It took about an hour and he was badly bruised and scratched and went to the hospital. I did enact some devious plans sometimes."
Will Button remembers another time when Gray Clarker decided to wear a tunnel hard hat for protection when we used to have the yonnie fights. This particular day, it didn’t protect his hand from being wacked with a glass marble from a ging. He ran home screaming. The next day at school he was showing the kids his bandaged swollen hand. Will Allens said, ’give me a look’ and promptly belted his hand with a ruler. Clarker ran home screaming again. His mum must have been sick of that.
UFO Sighting in the Kiewa Valley
Circa 1965, Willy Button and Ken Wyatt, in a Science class, mixed some hydrochloric acid and zinc filings in a bottle to create hydrogen gas. A black weather balloon pinched from the science lab at school as well, was fitted over the bottle, filling the large balloon with hydrogen gas and released after school. It ascended quickly and was soon seen high in the western sky at sunset. Button commented that it looked like a UFO, whereupon we got the school science Master (Mr Meddely) who was intrigued by it. It was moving slowly to the west picked up by the setting sun. Before long, half the town was out looking at the UFO, including the local constabulary. You could hear the comments, ‘it’s moving slowly, it is saucer shaped. My God, it’s a flying saucer!’ All of a sudden it picked up speed to the North West, obviously getting caught in a jet stream and it rapidly disappeared over the hills. The town was abuzz with rumours and wonderment. It even made the news and was in the local Hydro Courier – UFO sighted at Mt Beauty. To this day, the real secret of the UFO at Mt Beauty has been maintained by Willy Button and Kenny Wyatt.
The Cracker Gun
The cracker gun was a novelty. We used to make one around Bonfire night and as it was cumbersome we wouldn't play with it for long. We would either run out of penny bungers and ball bearings or Willy Button would shoot someone on the bum and we would all get into trouble. He nearly shot my brother once and he used to walk through the township with a .22 slung over his shoulder. Wild West Willy we used to call him.
The Bow and Arrow
We always had the long bow and arrow. The bows were bought as they were very hard to make. The arrows however, were mass produced. The target arrows tips were made from the old .303 calibre WW2 shells. The tip was heated on our Primus until the lead melted inside and then fixed to the arrow. The hunting tips were bought also, were usually 3 cornered, sharp as razors and were used for rabbits, hares, wild pigs and kangaroos. On the lathe we would round the softwood shafts through a jig dad had invented. We would glue our own feathers on and paint or shellite the shaft to our own recognisable style.
Pictured below: An actual photo of the old Rifle Range across the East Kiewa River, where we would dig up the spent .303 bullet tips, melt the lead inside and use them for our arrow tips.
The Bolt Bomb
The Miniature Bow and Arrow
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Travel Guide Geneva
Flights to Geneva from the UK
Which Geneva airport do flights land in?
Flights to Geneva land in Geneva International Airport, located just 2.5 miles (4km) from central Geneva.
Are there direct flights between the UK and Geneva?
There are plenty of direct flights between the UK and Geneva.
How long is the flight from the UK to Geneva?
The flight from London to Geneva takes about an hour and a half.
What is the time difference between the UK and Geneva?
Geneva is one hour ahead of London time.
Which airlines fly to Geneva from the UK?
Jet2 offer direct, cheap flights to Switzerland from Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast, Leeds and East Midlands. easyJet flies to Switzerland from Glasgow, Leeds, Belfast, Bristol, London Stansted, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Gatwick, Luton, Manchester and Edinburgh. Flybe offers service from Newcastle, Edinburgh, Jersey, Exeter, Isle of Man, Glasgow, Guernsey and Southampton. bmibaby offers flights to Switzerland from Cardiff, East Midlands, Birmingham and Manchester. British Airways flies direct from Gatwick and London City.
Flights to Geneva from the USA
Are there direct flights between the US and Geneva?
There are direct flights to Geneva from a number of cities in the US.
How long is the flight from the US to Geneva?
A direct flight from New York to Geneva takes about nine hours.
What is the time difference between the US and Geneva?
Geneva is six hours ahead of New York time.
Which airlines fly to Geneva from the US?
Condor has direct flights to Switzerland from Portland, Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Seattle and Honolulu. United has connecting service from Albany, Nashville, Pensacola, Palm Springs, Louisville, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, San Antonio, Cleveland, New York, Aspen, Colorado Springs, Jacksonville and Indianapolis. Lufthansa flies from Raleigh, Jacksonville, Indianapolis and Rochester. Continental has flights from Grand Rapids, Fort Meyers, Kansas City, Knoxville, Jackson, Boise, Baltimore, Austin, Buffalo, Charlotte, San Antonio, Portland, Tulsa, Washington, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York and Nashville. Air Canada has indirect flights from Albany, Nashville, Manchester, Milwaukee, Syracuse, Portland, Providence, Dayton, Cleveland, Baltimore, Kansas City and Grand Rapids. KLM flies to Switzerland from Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Miami, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta and Detroit.
British Airways has flights to Switzerland from Philadelphia, Phoenix, Miami, Tampa, San Diego, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta, Baltimore and Denver. Iberia has flights to Switzerland from New York.
Alitalia flies to Switzerland from Miami, Boston, Atlanta and Detroit.
Airports in Geneva
Geneva Airport(GVA)
The airport is situated three miles (5km) north of Geneva.
Climate and when to go to Geneva
Visa and Passport requirements
Practical travel information
Embassy contacts
WHEN YOU'RE THERE
What to see in Geneva
What is on in Geneva
Restaurants in Geneva
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Vol. 13, #19 - May 12, 2008 - Issue #673
More Important XP SP3 Gotchas
This issue of WServerNews is sponsored by
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WinXP SP3 Means You Are Locked Into IE7
COFEE - "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor"
Tip: Establishing Multiple Hardware Profiles In Windows XP
How To Use Exchange Management Shell's Filter Command
Podcast: How To Manage User Rights, Patches And Group Policy
Windows Server 2008 vs. Linux Ubuntu In Power Test
Does Upgrading To SharePoint Server 2007 Mean Rebuilding?
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You may have heard the news that Hyper-V will likely ship earlier than the 180 days Redmond promised after the W2K8 ship date. That's both good and bad. Normally you would say competition is good. But with hypervisors the deal is a bit different. Ultimately it would be better for all of us System Admins that there would be just one (commoditized) virtualization platform, and a rich choice of different management environments built on top of that. Example; TCP/IP is used by everyone, but you can choose between many sniffer product to look the traffic. But with virtualization it's going to look like the old HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray wars again.
The problem is that the Hyper-V and VMware layers are not compatible and thus the management environments aren't either. Both players are trying to lock you into their architecture. This is not going to be beneficial and will give us management headaches. The hypervisor code itself is just a very thin slice of code that sits directly on top of the hardware and is the abstraction layer that makes all the virtual servers above think they own all the hardware exclusively.
Microsoft knows perfectly well that managing dozens of virtual servers quickly becomes a nightmare. And so they are making their play "By taking our knowledge of the Windows environment and expanding it to address heterogeneous management needs across platforms, applications, hardware and virtualization, we are opening up a new level of opportunity for companies to drive greater efficiency, responsiveness and value for their business." as per Bob Muglia, MS Senior Veep Server and Tools.
Microsoft is looking at VMware as the market leader and wants to get a foot in the door. Multi-platform management tools are that Trojan Horse. And then MS will try to replace the VMware layer. Kind of ironic and a sign of the new times we live in that Microsoft wants to win the coming Virtualization Wars with a heterogeneous approach.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go" -- Oscar Wilde.
Thank you for being a WServerNews subscriber. Please tell your friends about us. They can subscribe here:
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Hope you enjoy this issue of WServerNews! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman | Email me: [email protected]
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This week, Redmond notified the world that updating to WinXP SP3 means they won't be able to downgrade from IE7 to the older IE6 without uninstalling SP3 itself.
This juicy bit of technical news appeared in a blog written by the IE dev team. It states: "If you choose to install XP SP3, Internet Explorer 7 will remain on your system after the install is complete,... Your preferences will be retained. However, you will no longer be able to uninstall IE7. If you go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, the Remove option will be grayed out." Here is the blog posting:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-IE-and-XP-SP3
Late last Friday afternoon Redmond announced that it had posted what it called "slipstream builds" of SP3 for download by subscribers of its IT professional and developer services. These slipstream builds integrate SP3 with WinXP itself into one single file that can be used to install the now upgraded OS on multiple machines without hooking up to a WSUS server.
Redmond also seems to have found a workaround for the Dynamics RMS bug. And so after about a week, they re-released SP3 to the general public. XP users trying manually on Windows Update on Tuesday were able to get SP3, approximately 67MB in size. Oh, and it seems that the SP3 FAQ is an identical copy of the SP2 FAQ, some one in the UK tells me.
The first major problem also seems to have surfaced. Some machines with AMD CPUs seem to go into endless reboots. Blogger Johansson said there are two separate issues. One is AMD-equipped PCs sold by HP. "The problem is that HP, apparently along with other OEMs, deploys the same image to Intel-based computers that they do to AMD-based computers," said Johansson. "Because the image for both Intel and AMD is the same, all have the intelppm.sys driver installed and running. That driver provides power management on Intel-based computers. On an AMD-based computer, amdk8.sys provides the same functionality." The other problem, according to Johansson, also seems to affect only AMD machines, and involves an error message indicating trouble with the PC's BIOS. I'm not going to copy his whole blog though, here is a link to the details:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-AMD-CPU
The other thing you might want to check is this FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-XP-SP3-FAQ
Microsoft is now talking about COFEE, a tool they have released to some law enforcement agencies to let them take a look at Windows computer in a faster, less intrusive way that's easy to use. COFEE stands for "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor" and details about what it can do are thin on the ground. That's understandable from a law enforcement perspective but when you combine a lack of hard facts to a distrust of Microsoft and some government agencies you get plenty of rumor, guesswork and outright paranoia all across the Internet. Office Watch has the whole story:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-COFEE
Administrators can use hardware profiles in Windows XP to enable or disable hardware devices. Microsoft MVP Brien Posey explains how to create and configure hardware profiles in a Windows environment in this tip. (registration required)
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Hardware-Profiles
Understanding how to use the basic syntax of Exchange Management Shell commands in Exchange 2007 will allow administrators to perform tasks that may not be possible through the Exchange Management Console. The problem is that Exchange Management Shell commands can return thousands of search results. In this crash course, get expert advice on how to use the Filter command to obtain more granular search results.
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Filter-Command
This installment of SearchWindowsSecurity.com's Ask the Security Expert podcast takes a look at Windows patch management, user rights management and Windows network security. Learn how you can know for sure if your Windows patches have actually been installed, how to prevent software installations with a Group Policy setting, and how to manage general user rights for files and folders.
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Manage-Policies
Going green has been the latest craze and has even found a niche in the computer world with power consumption comparisons. In this exclusive article, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com contributor Pam Derringer pits Windows Server 2008 and Ubuntu against one another to examine their power consumption.
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Power-Test
Learn how to plan and perform a gradual upgrade from Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007 by testing, rebuilding and redeploying custom Web parts.
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-SharePoint-Server-2007
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Close to 200,000 people have signed the petition since January 14. However, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks we're not serious about the Save XP movement, nor does he seem to take the people who signed it seriously. That's where you come in. Help InfoWorld meet their goal of 300,000 unique petition signatures by June 2008. Please ask your friends, family and colleagues to join the movement by signing up at:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Save-XP
El Caminito del Rey (The King's Pathway), a hair-raising hiking trail built in 1901 along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, Spain. Whoa:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-El-Caminito-del-Rey
Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated (with more than 8,000 separate parts) that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, Babbage's Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley ... and it works!
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Babbage
Vista 64-bit RTM is faster than Vista 64-bit SP1. And WinXP SP3 is faster than Vista 32-bit SP1. Here are the graphs and the benchmark numbers:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-SP-vs-SP
Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission. The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names.
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-LRO-Mission
Wonder what caused the subprime meltdown? This article puts it in perspective. The author walks thru the 'dot com' bubble, the housing bubble and predicts the next one. This guy covers lots of ground in one page, a long page but a very interesting one:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Subprime-Meltdown
When the boss is not coming into the office that day:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Golf
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags). At ETech 2008, Pablos Holman shows how easy it is to read personal data from those credit cards using a $8 card reader bought on eBay:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-RFID-Credit-Cards
Pentagon Looks for 'Killer Switch' | Danger Room from Wired.com
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Killer-Switch
This site is all about personal helicopter technology
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Helicopters
JATO Rocket Car - a popular urban legend of a former Air Force sergeant who mounted a rocket engine on a 1967 Chevy Impala:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-JATO-Rocket-Car
Sunbelt's Install and Configuration Manager started a blog not long ago:
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Install-Guru
Golden Oldie. An ex-VP Sales in Sunbelt wanted to see if he could resurrect a dead dry-erase marker in a microwave. Here are the results of that experiment. Do not try this at home. Your significant other will be quite cross with you. Did I say "ex"-Vp of sales? [grin]
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Marker-vs-Microwave
A robotic massage chair with a 'human touch':
http://www.wservernews.com/080512-Robotic-Massage
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Celebrity Gossip and Entertainment News | Judy Greer finally moving in with husband after seven years of marriage
Judy Greer finally moving in with husband after seven years of marriage
Zap Gossip News / September 13, 2018
Judy Greer is moving in with her husband – seven years after they got married.
The ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ star has finally decided to live with Dean E. Johnsen, who she met on a blind date and wed in 2011, now her stepchildren have moved out.
She told People magazine: "Our married life is a little weird. He had his house and I had mine. We spent our nights together back and forth. I married the right guy for me. I think marriage is great. He’s the most supportive person I could’ve imagined if I’d Weird Science’d a husband."
Meanwhile, Judy previously opened up about her family life, and how she once convinced her stepdaughter not to have sex whilst in high school by telling a little tale.
She confessed: "I lied to my stepdaughter once, when we watched Uncle Buck. She really loved the actress who played the teenage girl, and she said, ‘Why isn’t she a movie star?’ I said, ‘Because she got pregnant in high school and had to quit acting forever,’ which was a lie. My stepdaughter was like, ‘Oh my God!’"
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Venturing Awards
Summit Board of Review
Elective Requirements
Cycling / Mountain Biking
Venturing - Leadership Award
Young American (Limited availability)
Silver Award Overview (Discontinued) (Discontinued)
Venturing Oath and Code (Obsolete)
Bronze Awards Fact Sheet
This award has been discontinued.
Background and Purpose
One of the strengths of the Venturing program is its ability to meet the interest of all Venturers. Sometimes Venturers like to investigate new, different areas. Variety in a crew always seems to make it more fun to go to meetings and outings. Also, Venturers probably have many interests or would like to have more. Because of that desire, and to provide a pathway to many different experiences, the Venturing Bronze Awards Program is offered..
Venturers can earn their crew's specialty Bronze Award or all five Bronze Awards.
The five different Venturing Bronze Awards (shown above in this order) are:
Arts and Hobbies,
Sea Scouting (The requirement is to earn the Ordinary Rank),
Sports, and
Religious Life. (Formerly called Youth Ministries)
All five Bronze Awards contain the common elements of experience, learning a skill, and sharing your experiences and skills with others. Earning at least one Bronze Award is required for the Venturing Gold Award. The Bronze Award is designed as the entry-level award for a Venturer so that they can acquire usable skills that will carry them along the trail to the Venturing Silver Award.
For the Arts and Hobbies, Sports, or Religious Life Bronze Awards, a Venturer must complete at least nine of twelve requirements established for each of those three areas. For the Outdoor Bronze Award, Venturers must complete at least four core requirements and two electives that are found in the Ranger Award requirements. For the Sea Scout Bronze Award, Sea Scouts must earn the Ordinary Rank. To earn a specific Bronze Award such as the Arts and Hobbies Bronze Award, all completed requirements must be Arts and Hobbies requirements.
Here are a couple of sample requirements:
Sports: Demonstrate by means of a presentation at a crew meeting, or a Cub Scout or Boy Scout meeting that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while playing sports.
Religious Life: Produce or be a cast member in some type of entertainment production with a religious or ethical theme, such as a play, puppet show or concert, for a children's group, retirement home, homeless shelter, or Cub or Boy Scout group.
Bronze candidates may have their crew Advisor or a specialty consultant approve or sign off on that completed requirement. Requirements for the Arts and Hobbies, Sports, and Religious Life Bronze can be found in the Silver Award Guide. Requirements for the Sea Scout Bronze (Ordinary Award) can be found in the Sea Scouting Manual. The requirements for the Outdoor Bronze Award can be found in the Ranger Guidebook. There is no committee review for the Venturing Bronze Award.
The Bronze Award is available in two formats. The original award is a colorful, campaign-style ribbon that may be worn on the Sea Scouting or Venturing uniform. If all five are earned, all five may be worn on the uniform. Each ribbon has an icon representing the area it was earned in superimposed on the ribbon, shown at the top of this page.
A Bronze Award medal is also available, and is also shown above. Miniature Pins, which represent the campaign ribbons, are worn on the ribbon portion of the medal, as shown above.
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Tyler Prochazka
2016 Fulbright U.S. Student grantee
Tyler Prochazka (left) enjoying the Tofu Festival with New Taipei Mayor and former Taiwanese presidential candidate Eric Chu (center) and a fellow Fulbright recipient (right).
Tyler Prochazka ('16)
Tyler Prochazka, of Newton, Kansas, never thought he would be discussing U.S. foreign policy with a taxi driver in China. Now, Tyler frequently finds himself discussing U.S. culture and politics with his peers and others at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Tyler received a Fulbright U.S. student grant to pursue a master’s degree abroad and is studying income inequality and the feasibility of a universal basic income.
“What has been particularly fascinating to me is seeing the similarities and differences between Taiwan and mainland China, and how young Taiwanese have been able to shape their own unique identity.”
Tyler graduated from WKU in 2016 with degrees in international affairs, Asian religions and cultures, and economics. His experiences at WKU prepared him to pursue a master’s degree abroad.
Tyler was member of the nationally-recognized WKU Forensics Team and a Kentucky champion in Lincoln-Douglas policy debate, extemporaneous, and impromptu competitions. He received a Lifetime Experience Grant from the Office of Scholar Development to conduct research on Chinese and American college students’ perceptions of China’s future role in the international community. He also wrote articles for the College Heights Herald.
While at WKU, Tyler studied abroad in China and Taiwan through support from the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, David L. Boren Scholarship, and the Critical Language Scholarship. Tyler, an Honors College and Chinese Flagship Program alumnus, completed his capstone year by studying at Tianjin Normal University in Tianjin, China with funding from the Boren Scholarship. He served as a research assistant and wrote research briefs for TNU economics faculty that compared and analyzed American and Chinese economies.
“Even in spite of the cultural and political differences, I have many great friends who are Chinese. This experience helped me to look past even profound differences to try to understand the fundamental humanity that we all share,” Tyler said.
After completing his Fulbright, Tyler plans to pursue a career in public service using his Chinese language skills.
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Watch Ella Mai's Get Soulful And Strong On 'Saturday Night Live'
The singer performs two songs from her self-titled debut, and RBG gets the Sheck Wes treatment
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Rapper gets some help on "Can't Be Broken" and "Uproar'
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Saturday Night Live is in the middle of an amazing run of incredible ratings these past few seasons, but the show has made a slight change. Colin Jost and Michael Che , who are currently anchoring the show's "Weekend Update" segment, have been named two of the show's new co-head writers. They join...
WATCH: Winners & Highlights from the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards
Television's biggest night proved to be a huge night for streaming services once again.
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1,100 dead dolphins washed up on French shores since January
By By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press Mar 28, 2019, 12:18 PM ET
The dolphins' bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off.
But what shocked French marine researchers wasn't just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intelligent mammals, but also the numbers involved — a record 1,100 have washed up on France's Atlantic coast since January.
The mass deaths, widely blamed on aggressive industrial fishing, has alarmed animal welfare groups and prompted France's ecology minister to launch a national plan to protect them.
"There's never been a number this high," said Willy Daubin, a member of La Rochelle University's National Center for Scientific Research. "Already in three months, we have beaten last year's record, which was up from 2017 and even that was the highest in 40 years."
Though Daubin said 90 percent of the fatalities resulted from accidental capture in industrial nets, the reason behind the spike this year is a mystery.
"What fishing machinery or equipment is behind all these deaths?" he asked.
Autopsies carried out on the dolphins this year by La Rochelle University's National Center for Scientific Research show extreme levels of mutilation.
Activists say a common practice is for fishermen to cut body parts off the suffocated dolphins after they are pulled up on the nets, to save the net itself.
French Ecology Minister Francois de Rugy rushed last Friday to La Rochelle in an attempt to lower the number dying as a result of human action. He's under pressure not least because of French President Emmanuel Macron's pro-ecology stance and oft-quoted slogan to "Make the Planet Great Again."
Rugy has come up with some plans, including bolstering research into existing acoustic repellent devices in place in some 26 two-vessel trawlers off the Bay of Biscay, an industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean. When activated, the devices send unpleasant signals to nearby dolphins that cause them to swim away.
But animal rights group Sea Shepherd said they do not go far enough, and has already decried such measures as "useless."
It claims many of the trawlers they watch in the region don't activate the repellent devices owing to fears they will scare off valuable fish as well, and operators only turn them on if they are checked by an "onboard observer."
It also said that increasing the number of devices is no long-term solution for the underwater mammals as the move would make the ocean an uninhabitable drum of noise pollution.
"The government needs to take responsibility and act — especially Macron, who said he wanted to protect ecology," Lamya Essemlali, President of Sea Shepherd France, told The Associated Press.
She pointed to scientists who predict the current rates of fishing will likely drive the dolphin population to extinction.
"The spotlight has been put on the trawlers that fish for sea bass ..., which is a scandal. But they were not the only ones responsible."
She suggested that aggressive hake fishing, which was given the green light three years ago after long ban, was a major factor. The spike in dolphin deaths also began three years ago.
Sea Shepherd explained the ecological crisis as stemming from unprecedented demand for low-cost fish.
"Right now, the sea bass that is being caught by the trawlers that kill dolphins, you can find on the French market for eight euros-per-kilo ($9)," she said.
Global seafood consumption has more than doubled in the past 50 years, according to European Commission, a rate that rights groups have branded unsustainable.
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Frank Edwards celebrates 17 years of being healed of Asthma
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How billionaire kidnapper Evans killed my father after N15m ransom – Ex-Super Eagles player
Former Super Eagles player, Chikelue Iloenyosi has narrated how billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans killed his 84-year-old father after collecting N15 million ransom.
In a chat with Punch, the footballer said the late patriarch, Chief James Iloenyosi was kidnapped on November 25, 2013 on his way from mass.
He said his father was on his way back from their local Catholic church when three SUVs double-crossed him and whisked him away.
“When they took him away, they did not talk to us until after five days. They phoned my twin sister. She was sobbing when she called me that the kidnappers had made contact.
“When we the children gathered, my sister called the kidnappers again and they simply told us that they would call back. They did not call back until after another five days just to build our anxiety,” he said.
He said the kidnappers called on the morning of the fifth day to demand a ransom of N50m.
He said it was later reduced to N15m after much begging and negotiations.
Chikelue said, “When we paid the N15m, my father was already dead and we did not know.
“What made me upset was that despite how seriously we worked to get him back, my father did not come out of it alive.”
Ha added that a suspect known as Nonso, was arrested along with three other members of his gang.
“The SARS boss in Anambra told me at the time that any suspect arrested for any major crime always mentioned the name of Evans,” he said.
He narrated how one of Evans’ boys was arrested but the main suspect escaped and his father was never found alive.
“He immediately told us that his leader was Evans. But he said there was no way we could get Evans because he had fled to Lagos after the completion of the operation. At this point, Nonso kept our hope alive. He said my father was still alive. He refused to give precise information,”
Chikelue said, “While we were negotiating for ransom, they would call and put the phone on speaker so I could hear how they beat him. My father would cry and beg me to find a way to ensure his freedom.
“We buried him few days after we found his body and started the search for Evans. One of the vital information Nonso gave us was that they were on their way to a robbery when they got information about my father and they diverted to Abagana to kidnap him. So, I was really particular
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Creativity Pick of the Day
Ridley Scott and Coke Reintroduce You to the Polar Bears in Short Film
Published on January 03, 2013.
Who are the Coke Polar Bears -- and where did they come from? Coca-Cola, CAA Marketing and producers Ridley Scott and the late Tony Scott usher the brand into 2013 with this beautifully animated short film that features the iconic bear family, and gives them extended, developed personalities. Directed by John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) the film gives viewers an inside look into the bear family that has been one of the symbols of the beloved brand (which was also one of Creativity 's most creative advertisers of 2012) for years.
It has been a while since we saw the bears. They were animated and given distinct characters in Coca Cola's Super Bowl outing last year, where Wieden & Kennedy Portland created an interactive campaign which had the bears reacting as the football game progressed.
Check it out on Creativity -Online.com, and follow @creativitymag on Twitter for more great work.
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Necromunda: Underhive Wars Is The Next Warhammer Title On Its Way
by David 'Hades' Becker [ Wednesday, 18th of January 2017 - 08:00 PM ]
Another Warhammer title is in the works with Necromunda: Underhive Wars and it aims to tackle the Necromunda game in a tactical RPG setting
Maybe you were sitting around and thinking that we needed another Warhammer 40,000 game out there after the success of Mordheim and that it also need to be set in the Necromunda setting of the classic game. It isn't just you as it looks like Rogue Factor was doing that too and so was Focus Home Interactive as they are working together to bring us yet another title in the universe just as described. Yes, now we have Necromunda: Underhive Wars here to be announced for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on its way due to all that success and also to bring another version of the universe off of the table and into a digital world setting. Happy days…
Of course this also means that as we have just this announcement of Necromunda: Underhive Wars and the “What’s Next” event on February 1st and 2nd that we also have very, very little to bring you here for the game. Pretty much outside of it being a turn-based tactical RPG title in the setting of Necromunda there isn't much more to say. I am not sure why there was a huge fuss to get the announcement out now when it could have been better suited in a few weeks, but there you have it. I am sure that a bunch of the table-top players out there just became overly excited and will need to change their under garments now. At least that would be the best assumption here.
Necromunda: Underhive Wars is a turn-based tactical RPG. Rival gangs of ruthless warriors are locked in an endless war for control of the Underhive, a gigantic warren of derelict factories, rusted metal husks, and forgotten technologies. Anarchy, violence, betrayal and death rule this hellish place, long forsaken by any semblance of civilization.
“Rogue Factor’s collaboration with Focus and Games Workshop is a story of trust, hard work, and true passion for the Warhammer Universe. Our adventure began by building the foundations of Mordheim: City Of The Damned Early Access. Regarded as a highly successful and well-executed endeavour, the Early Access of Mordheim: City Of The Damned gathered a vast number of passionate gamers that helped foster an amazing community and improved many aspects of the game. After a strong launch on PC and consoles, and an incredible experience with many lessons learned, the way was paved for our next step in conquering the tactical RPG genre: Necromunda: Underhive Wars.”
— Yves Bordeleau, General Manager at Rogue Factor.
“We are delighted to welcome Necromuda: Underhive Wars to the catalogue of great games based on our worlds and settings. Rogue Factor and Focus Home Interactive made a wonderful Mordheim: City Of The Damned game and having done such a great job they're clearly the right people to realize the nightmarish world of Necromunda. Now fans of this unique and highly influential IP will at last be able to pick up their stubber and search for cool archaeotech whilst wiping out rival gangs throughout the Underhive.”
— Jon Gillard, Head of Licensing at Games Workshop.
What do you think about Necromunda: Underhive Wars getting the announcement in the wake of the other rather successful game from the studio? Do you think that it will be more than just your standard turn-based RPG or will it just be the basics with the setting that fans have silently been asking for? Are you also confused as to why we have the announcement here without much to show when there is a huge event in just a few weeks? Let us know your thoughts on it all down in the comments and feel free to discuss. When more for Necromunda: Underhive Wars is revealed though we will have it here. Be sure to keep checking back in so you can see what this game is all about.
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Your Gamer Motivation Profile :
Calm, Spontaneous, Independent, and Creative
Your profile consists of your percentile rank across a broad range of gaming motivations. Your scores are based on how strong your motivations are relative to other gamers. In this customized report, we’ll explain how to interpret these scores and what motivations we measured.
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The 6 Motivation Groups
We identified 6 clusters of motivations. In general, motivations within the same cluster tend to be positively correlated, while motivations between clusters tend to be statistically unrelated. We’ll walk you through the individual motivations in the section below.
Read our blog post on how we developed this Gamer Motivation Profile
A Quick Word on Percentiles
Percentiles are how you rank relative to other people. In this report, your percentiles are how you compared with other gamers who have participated in this profile tool. A percentile of 80% means you scored higher than 80% of gamers. Conversely, a percentile of 10% means 90% of gamers had a higher score than you. This means that a 50% is perfectly average.
Most people will have high scores on a few motivations, low scores on another few motivations, and the majority of their remaining scores will fall near the average (in the 35%-65% range). Thus, it’s your non-average scores that most define your profile as a gamer.
Keep in mind that this isn’t a competition or an exam. High scores are not “better”. Gamers with extreme motivations (on both the low and high end) represent a smaller proportion of gamers and may have a harder time being satisfied by available games (which try to capture more average gamers within their genres).
The Action Components (18%)
Gamers with high Action scores are aggressive and like to jump in the fray and be surrounded by dramatic visuals and effects. Gamers with low Action scores prefer slower-paced games with calmer settings.
Destruction (13%): Gamers who score high on this component are agents of chaos and destruction. They love having many tools at their disposal to blow things up and cause relentless mayhem. They enjoy games with lots of guns and explosives. They gravitate towards titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield. And if they accidentally find themselves in games like The Sims, they are the ones who figure out innovative ways to get their Sims killed.
Excitement (34%): Gamers who score high on this component enjoy games that are fast-paced, intense, and provide a constant adrenaline rush. They want to be surprised. They want gameplay that is full of action and thrills, and rewards them for rapid reaction times. While this style of gameplay can be found in first-person shooters like Halo, it can also be found in games like Street Fighter and Injustice, as well as energetic platformers like BIT.TRIP RUNNER.
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In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Destruction and Excitement:
Excitement: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Battlefield Series/3/4, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, God of War, Destiny, Kingdom Hearts 2, Resident Evil, League of Legends
Destruction: GTA Series/V, Battlefield Series/3/4, Destiny, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Halo, Borderlands Series/2, Doom, God of War, Counter Strike
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The Social Components (11%)
Gamers with high Social scores enjoy interacting with other players, often regardless of whether they are collaborating or competing with them. Gamers with low Social scores prefer solo gaming experiences where they can be independent.
Competition (12%): Gamers who score high on this component enjoy competing with other players, often in duels, matches, or team-vs-team scenarios. Competitive gameplay can be found in titles like Starcraft, League of Legends, or the PvP Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft. But competition isn’t always overtly combative; competitive players may care about being acknowledged as the best healer in a guild, or having a high ranking/level on a Facebook farming game relative to their friends.
Community (18%): Gamers who score high on Community enjoy socializing and collaborating with other people while gaming. They like chatting and grouping up with other players. This might be playing Portal 2 with a friend, playing Mario Kart at a party, or being part of a large guild/clan in an online game. They enjoy being part of a team working towards a common goal. For them, games are an integral part of maintaining their social network.
In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Competition and Community:
Competition: Counter Strike Series/GO, Super Smash Bros. Melee, DoTA Series/2, League of Legends, Street Fighter, Heroes of the Storm, Starcraft 2, Call of Duty, Battlefield Series/3/4, FIFA
Community: Final Fantasy XIV, Battlefield Series/4, Destiny, Guild Wars Series/2, EverQuest, League of Legends, Monster Hunter, World of Warcraft, Counter Strike, DoTA Series/2
The Mastery Components (8%)
Gamers with high Mastery scores like challenging gaming experiences with strategic depth and complexity. Gamers with low Mastery scores enjoy being spontaneous in games and prefer games that are accessible and forgiving when mistakes are made.
Challenge (12%): Gamers who score high on Challenge enjoy playing games that rely heavily on skill and ability. They are persistent and take the time to practice and hone their gameplay so they can take on the most difficult missions and bosses that the game can offer. These gamers play at the highest difficulty settings and don’t mind failing missions repeatedly in games like Dark Souls because they know it’s the only way they’ll master the game. They want gameplay that constantly challenges them.
Strategy (12%): Gamers who score high on this component enjoy games that require careful decision-making and planning. They like to think through their options and likely outcomes. These may be decisions related to balancing resources and competing goals, managing foreign diplomacy, or finding optimal long-term strategies. They tend to enjoy both the tactical combat in games like XCOM or Fire Emblem, as well as seeing their carefully-devised plans come to fruition in games like Civilization, Cities: Skylines, or Europa Universalis.
In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Challenge and Strategy:
Challenge: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Devil May Cry 3, World of Warcraft, Dark Souls, Counter Strike, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, DoTA Series/2, Starcraft 2, Warcraft 3
Strategy: Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 2, Civilization Series/5, EVE Online, XCOM, Starcaft Series/2, Fire Emblem, Age of Empires, Warcraft 3, Kerbal Space Program
The Achievement Components (62%)
Gamers with high Achievement scores are driven to accrue power, rare items, and collectibles, even if this means grinding for a while. Gamers with low Achievement scores have a relaxed attitude towards in-game achievements and don’t worry too much about their scores or progress in the game.
Completion (46%): Gamers with high Completion scores want to finish everything the game has to offer. They try to complete every mission, find every collectible, and discover every hidden location. For some players, this may mean completing every listed achievement or unlocking every possible character/move in a game. For gamers who score high on Design, this may mean collecting costumes and mounts in games like World of Warcraft.
Power (77%): Gamers who score high on this component strive for power in the context of the game world. They want to become as powerful as possible, seeking out the tools and equipment needed to make this happen. In RPGs and action games, this may mean maxing stats or acquiring the most powerful weapons or artifacts. Power and Completion often go hand in hand, but some players enjoy collecting cosmetic items without caring about power, and some players prefer attaining power through strategic optimization rather than grinding.
In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Completion and Power:
Completion: Final Fantasy Series/IX, Assassin’s Creed Series, Legend of Zelda Series, God of War, Animal Crossing, Elder Scrolls Series, Destiny, Pokemon, Guild Wars 2, Fire Emblem
Power: World of Warcraft, Diablo 2/3, DoTA Series/2, Runescape, Destiny, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Counter Strike, God of War, Resident Evil
The Creativity Components (69%)
Gamers with high Creativity scores are constantly experimenting with their game worlds and tailoring them with their own designs and customizations. Gamers with low Creativity scores are more practical in their gaming style and accept their game worlds as they are.
Discovery (70%): Gamers who score high on Discovery are constantly asking “What if?” For them, game worlds are fascinating contraptions to open up and tinker with. In an MMO, they might swim out to the edge of the ocean to see what happens. In MineCraft, they might experiment with whether crafting outcomes differ by the time of day or proximity to zombies. They “play” games in the broadest sense of the word, often in ways not intended or imagined by the game’s developers.
Design (62%): Gamers who score high on this component want to actively express their individuality in the game worlds they find themselves in. In games like Mass Effect, they put a lot of time and effort in the character creation process. In city-building games or space strategy games, they take the time to design and customize exactly how their city or spaceships look. To this end, they prefer games that provide the tools and assets necessary to make this possible and easy to do.
In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Discovery and Design:
Discovery: Elder Scrolls Series (Oblivion/Morrowind/Skyrim), Fallout Series/3/New Vegas, Fable, Legend of Zelda Series/Ocarina of Time, GTA Series/V, Minecraft, Earthbound, Kerbal Space Program, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metroid Prime
Design: The Sims Series, City of Heroes, Animal Crossing, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Dragon Age Series/Origins, Mass Effect Series, Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Elder Scrolls Series/Oblivion/Skyrim
The Immersion Components (48%)
Gamers with high Immersion scores want games with interesting narratives, characters, and settings so they can be deeply immersed in the alternate worlds created by games. Gamers with low Immersion scores are more grounded in the gameplay mechanics and care less about the narrative experiences that games offer.
Fantasy (37%): Gamers who score high on Fantasy want their gaming experiences to allow them to become someone else, somewhere else. They enjoy the sense of being immersed in an alter ego in a believable alternate world, and enjoy exploring a game world just for the sake of exploring it. These gamers enjoy games like Skyrim, Fallout, and Mass Effect for their fully imagined alternate settings.
Story (58%): Gamers who score high on Story want games with elaborate campaign storylines and a cast of multidimensional characters with interesting back-stories and personalities. They take the time to delve into the back-stories of characters in games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, and enjoy the elaborate and thoughtful narratives in games like The Last of Us and BioShock. Gamers who score low on Story tend to find dialogue and quest descriptions to be distracting and skip through them if possible.
In our data from over 100,000 gamers, these are the most frequently mentioned games from gamers who score high on Fantasy and Story:
Fantasy: Dragon Age Series/Inquisition/Origins, Elder Scrolls Series/Morrowind, Dishonored, Mass Effect Series/2/3, Skyrim, Fable, Fallout New Vegas, Knights of the Old Republic, Journey, Legend of Zelda
Story: Dragon Age Series/Origins, Mass Effect Series/2/3, Persona 3/4, Tales of Symphonia, Xenogeras, Final Fantasy VIII/IX/X, Knights of the Old Republic, Fire Emblem, Kingdom Hearts Series/2, Planescape Torment
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Using Internal Sinks and Links in SRH-2D
By aquaveo on July 17, 2019
Do you have an SRH-2D project that requires placing a drain inside the mesh? Or perhaps you have two seperate meshes in your project where you need to have water flowing between them? Both of these scenarios can be resolved by respectively using the internal sink and link boundary conditions.
Internal Sink Boundary Condition
The internal sink boundary condition is assigned to an arc on an SRH-2D boundary condition map coverage. Unlike an inflow or outflow boundary condition, an internal sink is assigned to an arc that is inside the mesh boundaries.
An internal sink can simulate wells, drains or other points of outflow. It can also simulate a source by specifying a negative number for the flow.
It should be noted that an internal sink boundary condition should not be used as a model’s primary source of inflow or outflow. Inflow and outflow boundary conditions should be placed on the mesh boundary.
Link boundary conditions can be used to simulate moving water between two different meshes or two different areas of the same mesh. Links can sometimes be used to make a simple representation of a pipe or similar structure connecting two areas.
Links are made by making two arcs on an SRH-2D boundary condition coverage. Both arcs are selected when assigning the Link property type. One arc should be assigned as the link inflow boundary condition and the other arcs should be assigned as the link outflow.
It should be noted that link boundary conditions should not be used to model culverts or other such structures. Also, link boundary conditions should not be used as the primary inflow or outflow source for a project.
Now that you know a little more about using internal sink and link boundary conditions, try using them in your SRH-2D projects in SMS.
Using the Plot Data Coverage
By aquaveo on June 5, 2019
Have you generated a plot in SMS and found it was difficult to see where a bridge, culvert, or other structure location matched up with the plot? The Plot Data coverage helps make them more visible, making an observation coverage more meaningful in a profile plot.
Typically, a profile shows some desired value such as water surface elevation or the riverbed elevation. This data can be more useful in many cases if structures are displayed on the plot as well. A Plot Data coverage allows creating polygons over structures that then helps display the location of the structure on the plot profile.
To use the Plot Data coverage, do the following:
In the Map Module, create a new coverage with the Plot Data type.
In this new Plot Data coverage, create a polygon over the area of interest.
Double-click on the Polygon to assign attributes in the Plot Data dialog.
Create an observation arc that includes the area of interest.
Create an observation profile plot.
In the Plot Data Options, turn on the Plot Data coverage.
The profile plot will now show where the polygon on the Plot Data coverage aligns with the profile.
For example, if you want to consider the impact of a new bridge placement on the flow of a river, you could create a polygon representing the bridge location. When included in the profile, this could help you visualize placing a bridge at that location along the river and at the indicated height. If water elevation data is available, such as from an SRH 2D simulation, the height of the bridge can be easily compared with elevation profile of the water surface. This could be helpful in considering if the bridge would be washed out or flooded during periods of heavy rain when the river swells.
Culverts can similarly be shown on the profile by using the Plot Data coverage. Likewise, obstructions or structures of any shape could also be shown in the profile using the Plot Data coverage. Multiple plot data coverages could be used when there is a desire to layer structures such as a hypothetical bridge and the supporting abutments or columns.
Try out using the Plot Data coverage in SMS today!
Using Advanced Data Services Options
By aquaveo on May 22, 2019
In the current versions of GMS, SMS, and WMS, the data service options for importing online maps has changed. It was noted by some of our users that the Advanced option for the Data Services Options dialog was removed.
We are happy to say that the advanced options for the Data Services Options dialog has been restored. The new advanced options are only available when using the Import from Web command in the release of GMS, SMS, and WMS that went out at the beginning of May 2019.
To access the Advanced options from the Data Services Options dialog, click the Advanced button, just as before, to bring up the Select Online Source dialog. This dialog allows users to bring in new data sources for downloading data.
Adding new data sources to the Select Online Source dialog can be done in any of three ways:
The Select Online Source dialog contains a list of all of the data sources currently available. You can select one of these sources and click the Duplicate Source button to create a copy of the data source. Then, with the copy selected, click the Edit Source button to reach a dialog where you can make modifications to the source such as limiting the layers downloaded from the source or changing the image format downloaded from the source.
You can click the Add New Source button to reach a dialog where you can specify the url of a new data source along with any modifications.
Finally, if you have an Online Source File with the information needed to reach a source, you can click the Add Sources from File to add the source to the available list.
Sources can be deleted from the available list by selecting a source in the list and clicking the Remove Source button. Only sources that have been manually added can be removed or edited.
To get access to the new advanced options for the Data Services Options dialog, visit our downloads page today.
What Makes a Good Quality Mesh?
Several models in SMS rely on using a 2D mesh. The quality of this mesh can greatly impact your model run and overall results, so here are some tips for making a good quality mesh.
Start with a Good Mesh Generator Coverage
A lot of how well a mesh turns out begins with the mesh generator coverage. Generally, when a poor mesh has been generated, it is because the arcs, vertices, and polygons on the mesh generator coverage did not clearly define a good quality mesh.
When defining the mesh parameters in the coverage, there are few items to keep in mind:
Make certain the polygons accurately reflect the work area. Do not draw polygons outside of your elevation data.
Vertices along the arcs determines the size and spacing of elements in the mesh. Adding too few or too many vertices along an arc can cause poor spacing. Using the Redistribute Vertices tool can help with getting the correct number of vertices, and making sure they are evenly spaced along each arc.
Keep individual arcs smooth and rounded to avoid interior acute angles.
Use the 2D Mesh Polygon Properties dialog to preview how the final mesh will appear.
Check the Size Transition of the Elements
How elements transition in size can greatly impact how a model uses the mesh. In general, a gradual change in element size functions makes for a better mesh for most models. A poor mesh will have a quick change in elements size, acute interior angles, and thin triangles.
The solution for smoothing out the element transition is to adjust the spacing of the arc vertices in the mesh generator coverage and to examine the proximity of the arcs. In general, arcs that are close to each other should have a similar number of vertices. Arcs that are further apart can have a greater disparity of vertices.
Check For an Even Patch
When creating quadrilateral elements in a mesh using a patch, it is important that the spacing of the vertices be precise. Parallel arcs need to have the same number of vertices when creating a patch or the result will be an uneven patch.
It is recommended to always preview the mesh when using the patch option, then adjust the number of vertices to make certain the patch is even.
Remove Unnecessary Elements
Cleaning up a mesh after it has been generated is sometimes necessary. When generating a mesh from a scatter set or other source, more of the mesh may need to be reviewed and cleaned. Using the Select Thin Triangles command and the Clean command can help with getting rid of unnecessary elements that could cause problems during the model run. It is also recommended to use a mesh with the fewest number of elements needed for your project.
These are only some of the recommended guidelines for generating a good quality mesh. We hope this helps you in your projects.
If you have questions about how to make a better mesh in SMS, contact our technical support for general questions, or contact our consulting services for project-specific inquiries.
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ATLANTA, GA — May 7, 2019 — ArcherPoint Retail, a division of ArcherPoint Inc., is pleased to announce that it has been named LS Retail Platinum Partner for 2019. ArcherPoint Retail is one of 22 Platinum Partners out of a worldwide network of 300 LS Retail Partners.
To achieve Platinum Level, partners must consistently provide excellent service and support and satisfy demanding criteria in their performance and commitment as LS Retail Partners. They have attained this high level within the partner network through excellent performance in sales, service, and support to LS Retail customers.
“There´s an African proverb that says: ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ For a long time, we have been building up our Partner Network, and some of our partners have been around for over two decades. LS Retail would not be where it is without the togetherness of the network. The expanding channel of partners provides local support and services all over the world, and LS Retail is very grateful for their loyalty and dedication. Together we bring our customers world-class solutions deriving from best practices from all over the world,” said Magnus Norddahl, CEO and President of LS Retail. “Our Platinum Partners have delivered fantastic results in the past year to contribute more value in their partnership with LS Retail. We are proud to recognize and honor ArcherPoint for the superb performance over the past year.”
“We’re extremely proud to receive this honor and be one of the few LS Retail Platinum Partners in North America,” said Tina Terrezza, Director of Sales and Marketing for ArcherPoint Retail. “We’re in an era where, in order to compete at the very smallest level of success, brands must have already moved on from legacy systems that impede progress. They must operate from a holistic technology standpoint that integrates their entire business, from the front-end to the back-end to the supply chain to customer channels, and all the way through its extended business network. Only then can you harness everything you need to deliver a truly unified – and profitable – customer experience.
“We have such a great appreciation for LS Retail’s vision for retail and hospitality because they understand this, and they support us as we empower our clients with transformed, comprehensive solutions that really deliver. What’s more, when you’re making this level of investment in your business and customers, the purchasing process is complicated, even labyrinthine. Our clients tell us that the partnership of LS Retail and ArcherPoint Retail is just what the doctor ordered: the antidote to unnecessary headaches in purchasing, implementations, upgrades, training, and continued support,” said a smiling Terrezza.
About LS Retail
LS Retail is a world-leading provider of all-in-one business management software solutions for retail and hospitality companies of all sizes.
For over two decades, we have been developing market-leading software solutions that are currently used by retailers and restaurateurs in 140 countries, with support from more than 340 certified Microsoft and LS Retail partners in over 85 countries.
Thanks to our vast knowledge and experience in the retail and food-service industry, we are able to offer scalable solutions to manage the complex operational requirements of organizations within such diverse areas as: fashion, electronics, furniture, duty free, restaurants, coffee shops, forecourt, c-stores and many more.
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ArcherPoint Retail is a division of ArcherPoint Inc., a Microsoft Dynamics ERP Gold Partner and full-service provider for Dynamics NAV (since 2002) and Dynamics 365 Business Central. Midsize retail and hospitality brands look to ArcherPoint Retail as an innovative business solution provider and partner they can depend on to deliver results. ArcherPoint Retail helps brands in the areas of fashion & apparel, beauty & fragrance, home goods, specialty retail, restaurant brands, retail & restaurant hybrids, and more.
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Diabolik: from comic strip to movie
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Born in 1962, Diabolik, The King of Terror, was the brainchild of as the “wicked sisters” Angela and Luciana Giussani.
Angela and Luciana Giussani
Since then, the comic strip has been translated in 7 languages and it has become a dark pop icon who has greatly inspired writers, designers, filmmakers, and artists who still celebrate the rebellious and contrarian alter-ego of the two sisters. An inspiration that for a long time has been haunting the minds of Antonio and Marco Manetti, the directors collectively referred to as Manetti Bros., who finally announced that their idea is going to become a movie written by Michelangelo La Neve, Mario Gomboli and themselves, which will come out in 2020.
“Diabolik is an Italian comic strip, a myth of the collective imagination, and we strongly wanted the cast to be one hundred percent Italian. In choosing the protagonists we did not rely on the mere resemblance, but we tried and found good actors, able to communicate the right emotions,” said the Manetti Bros. revealing the cast: Luca Marinelli in the role of Diabolik, Miriam Leone in the one of his inseparable companion Eva Kant, and Valerio Mastandrea to interpret inspector Ginko. With an exquisite and suggestive setting set in the 1960s, the directors aim to render on the big screen a “dark romantic story” focused on the relationship between the protagonist and his Eva Kent.
According to what was revealed by a local newspaper, the final scenes of the movie will be filmed in Trieste next autumn, while it has been confirmed that part of the filming will take place in Valle d’Aosta.
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The focus of our advocacy must now move to PGY2, PGY3 and vocational training positions. While the increase in medical graduates has been called a tsunami, the reality is that it is more like a permanent increase in the sea level.
In the recent past, many of the PGY2, PGY3, ‘service’ registrar and vocational training posts have been occupied by overseas trained doctors to meet the gap between workplace requirements and the output of Australian graduates.
Now, that gap is rapidly disappearing, or has disappeared completely, and the increase in Australian graduates is not the only factor at work. There has also been a freeze on additional appointments as hospitals struggle to meet their budgets, and a reduction in the number of positions available as a result of ‘reform’ or adjustments to match ‘affordable staffing’ within the constraints of Activity Based Funding.
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Corrupt California Government Assaults Uber – National ID Cards & Leaderless Organizations
By AWC on June 24, 2015 • ( 0 )
I was recently discussing with someone a ruling in California against Uber that would treat Uber drivers as employees and therefore subject Uber to providing all of the benefits and regulations required by an employer in California, which is also to say that should the ruling stand, Uber will become uncompetitive in California and thousands of Uber drivers will go back onto the unemployment lines or sit at home watching Jerry Springer and thousands of Uber users will get shafted and have to pay three times as much for a taxi and wait twice as long for one. How many young people were using Uber, a cheap alternative to taxi’s for rides home after a night of drinking – but will now just choose to drive their own cars home and risk a DUI or death to themselves or others? Will California pay for the funerals?
Nothing kills jobs and opportunity and the improvement of our standard of living like Government.
My hope is that the Government is defeated by the creation of an open source Uber-like app that allows ride-sharing to continue unregulated because Government job assassins will not have a single individual or entity to decapitate in order to maintain their tyrannical and destructive control over the economy.
I saw an interesting comment on the article I linked to above that said, “The California Labor Commissioner’s Office is just implementing one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, i.e., the Sixth Plank: Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.” This makes complete sense, especially when you consider my earlier post on how driver’s licenses are really just Citizen ID Cards. You cannot travel in America without one. Drive your own car, board a plane, a train, rent a car, get on a ship – not a chance without your driver’s license Citizen ID Card. The only freedom you have to move about in America without Government permission is by walking. Combine that with the hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their “drivers licenses” for violating Government edicts that have nothing to do with driving a car and these facts should terrify you. The Government has complete control over your ability to move freely, and it’s in your wallet.
And why do you think the Government is working so hard to give illegal aliens access to Driver’s Licenses? Because it’s really just a Citizen ID Card, but Americans are so stupid they just shrug and say, “what’s the big deal, it’s just a driver’s license?” Which is why the Government is happy to keep calling it a driver’s license, when, again, it is really a CITIZEN ID CARD. Let’s not forget, the UK has already created a national ID card called a CitizenCard, and all they had to do to get their citizens to swallow that kinda “papers please” type of socialism was to offer them discounts at their favorite retailers. Its idiocracy. It’s THAT easy to make people slaves. Again.
At any rate, during my discussion, the response was that as soon as a murder or rape happened on my decentralized Uber-like app idea, it would be shutdown. But I disagree. The book I cite below includes dozens of examples of decentralized tools and opportunities that continue unregulated precisely because the Government has no head to lop off with their Big Government samurai sword.
Yeah, that wouldn’t happen. You should check out the book, The Starfish & The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.
I read it a few years ago and it focuses on leaderless organizations precisely. Governments, and individuals, when confronted with a concept, entity or even another individual that they don’t like simply aims for decapitation. The body will die. But a leaderless organization is immortal. Untouchable. The books points all of this out, and has dozens of examples.
Like your comment, what about Craigslist? People have been raped and murdered using Craigslist, and yet it is not possible to decapitate it, so it persists, unregulated. It is the same with the Tor Network. The Dark Web is host to drug trades, prostitution, child porn, hired killers, and even legitimate companies like the New York Times that use it to protect whistle-blowers trying to share inside or sensitive information with them, and the Government can’t do anything about it. Sure they can go after specific individuals if they want to expend the resources to try and find out who they are and track them down which is what makes the Dark Web so attractive to so many people.
But again, what the Government would PREFER to do, is knock on the door of the CEO of TOR and tell him, shut it down or WE will shut it down for you. But they can’t shut it down, so it persists, unregulated. Remember Napster? They went after the INDIVIDUAL and shut it down, but a host of decentralized peer-to-peers spontaneously combusted ever since, and as long as they remained decentralized, the Government could do nothing about it. They still persist. Even Bitcoin is decentralized for the precise reason that there is no Government agency; not the SEC, not the CFPB, not the FEC, not the Fed that can go after it because there is no actual company, no CEO, no shareholders, no “legal” entity that can be sued, or regulated into submission or threatened by Government violence.
The internet itself is so decentralized the Government cannot control it. But you damn well better be sure if they could have centralized control of it from the beginning they sure as fu** would have.
Why do you think the Government is hell bent on gaining control of the internet today? They want to control access. They can’t control the contents, so they need to control access to that content. In our lifetime, we will see the Net Neutrality laws used to reduce or eliminate bandwidth on any service the Government deems “illegal” or capable of permitting illegal activity. What flag-wrapped, pledge-washed American would not support that? The Government will call it the, “Safety & Security of the Internet for Children Act” and will simply explain that they require all domestic ISP’s to throttle “potentially” illegal sites, or block them completely, and block all searches related to illegal entities from a “block list” the Government provides which of course, will be available for review by any American, because it will have websites most Americans will believe are illegal.
ISP’s, to play it safe, will block damn near everything that might even remotely be considered illegal by the Government because the fines for failure will be so steep and severe, none of them will want to take the chance. It will be exactly like PROJECT CHOKEPOINT, where banks are cutting off accounts to any business the Government might not approve of, even though they didn’t specify any particular industry. This chilling effect is how Governments’ choke freedom off. They don’t need to kill it, they just need to suffocate it slowly until everyone is used to the new normal. And once the new normal is established, they tighten their grip just a little bit more until yet another new normal is reached. Repeat. Repeat. This is exactly what Thomas Jefferson meant when he said, “…that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
There will also be other websites that are blocked for “national security” reasons which we will not have access to see the list of, for example, Tor. Why? Because Tor is used by terrorists in the Middle East to communicate and trade weapons and ammunition, so it will be exceedingly easy for Americans to allow the Government to block access to Tor for all Americans, “to keep us safe” and as long as you “don’t have anything to hide” then you shouldn’t care if they block Tor. Right America?
See how easy it is? We will see this happen in our lifetime. Americans will continue to support and vote in favor of the “slow perversions” that are leading them and us to tyranny. It’s inevitable, they are all fu***** asleep at the wheel. Sheep walking towards a cliff.
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Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages may still be going to the wrong place
iPhone owners shouldn't have to worry that a thief might receive their …
Jacqui Cheng - Dec 14, 2011 9:50 pm UTC
Those who have had a phone lost or stolen are familiar with the horrors that follow: the thief (or the person he sold your phone to) starts to send texts as you to your family and friends, leaving you scrambling to de-activate the device as soon as possible. For modern iPhone owners, though, such a phenomenon should be in the distant past thanks to the advent of remote wipe capabilities, right?
Perhaps not. Some unlucky iPhone owners are beginning to discover that, despite their best efforts to remove all information from their stolen phones, thieves and unsuspecting buyers are still able to send and receive iMessages as the original owner—even after the device is registered under a new account. Almost nothing seems to work—remote wiping, changing Apple ID passwords, or even moving the old phone number to a new phone—and users are becoming more than frustrated that thieves are so easily able to pose as them.
Our attention was drawn to this story by Ars reader David Hovis, whose house was recently burglarized and his wife's iPhone 4S was stolen. According to Hovis, his wife deactivated her iPhone with her carrier, remote wiped it, and immediately changed her Apple ID password—"we picked up a new iPhone the next day, figuring that our insurance would end up paying for it," Hovis told Ars.
For most users, this would be the end of the story. The phone number had been transferred to a new device and the old one had been deactivated; what more is there to say? A lot, apparently, and in the form of iMessages. The thief who stole Mrs. Hovis' iPhone had sold the device to an unsuspecting buyer elsewhere in the state, and the buyer had begun sending and receiving iMessages from the phone as Mrs. Hovis—even though the stolen phone had apparently now been activated under a new number.
Hovis iMessaged back and forth with the new owner—his iMessages, incidentally, going to both his wife's new phone and the old phone at the same time—but the new owner came off as confused and uncooperative, and the whole situation seemed to be at a dead end. That's when Hovis began searching online, discovering that such a thing has happened to other iPhone users as well.
In a MacRumors forum thread from late October/early November, multiple users tell very similar stories about stolen iPhones and misdirected iMessages. The original poster of the thread remote wiped, changed his Apple ID e-mail and password, suspended his service through Verizon, and iMessages sent to him still went through to the stolen phone. Another user named PDiggles said his stolen iPhone was being used by someone going by "BigDaddy," but when PDiggles' friend tried to iMessage PDiggles, BigDaddy had replied back saying the friend had the wrong number (indicating that the phone had indeed been activated under a new number).
A separate thread posted on the Apple Support boards discusses the same issue. A user named mindy1285 says her stolen iPhone 3GS is still receiving iMessages sent to her phone number, even though she already has a new phone activated on that number. Further down in the thread, she points out that the person who now has her stolen 3GS isn't receiving regular phone calls or even normal SMSs sent to her number—only iMessages sent from other iPhone users appear to be making their way through to the stolen phone.
Why is it happening?
We reached out to Apple to ask why this seems to be happening and how it can be prevented, but the company has not responded to our request for comment. So we turned to iOS security expert Jonathan Zdziarski for his opinion on how a stolen (or even just an old, retired) device could be holding onto an iMessage identifier.
"I can only speculate, but I can see this being plausible," Zdziarski told Ars. "iMessage registers with the subscriber's phone number from the SIM, so let's say you restore the phone, it will still read the phone number from the SIM. I suppose if you change the SIM out after the phone has been configured, the old number might be cached somewhere either on the phone or on Apple's servers with the UDID of the phone."
In other words, iMessage may be pulling the old phone number from a cache somewhere and continuing to use it on the device if the SIM was removed after it was configured as a new phone. We were unable to test this theory (and keep in mind that it's just a theory), but it certainly sounds like one of the more logical explanations for this phenomenon.
But my iPhone is still stolen. Now what?
This could be the first major kink in Apple's iMessage setup since the service was rolled out as part of iOS 5 in October. Otherwise, iMessage works well as a seamless replacement for SMS between those using iOS devices, and users generally seem quite happy with the service. So what are you to do if your iPhone is lost, stolen, or just resold and you don't want your iMessages going through to the new owner?
The original poster from the MacRumors forum thread, andrewhdn, eventually said he was able to resolve the issue by registering his new iPhone under a brand new Apple ID and canceling his old Apple ID completely. (This shouldn't have worked, according to what AppleCare and iTunes representatives told him originally, but he claims his iMessages "work fine now.") There's one major downside to this option, however: ditching an Apple ID completely means that you no longer have access to your past music and TV purchases through iTunes—apparently "not a big deal" for andrewhdn, but we can see this being a sticking point for those who buy lots of media.
Have any other Ars readers run into this problem? If so, what were your solutions (if any) to making sure your iMessages weren't going to the wrong place? We'll continue to press Apple on this issue to see if we can get further clarification, but in the meantime, make sure to keep an extra close eye on your iPhones so they stay out of the wrong hands.
Update: Twitter user Kim Hunter told me that he spoke with "Apple [security]," who told him it's not a security problem and to turn iMessage off on the offending device. When I pointed out that you can't turn iMessage off on a device that has been stolen because it's not in your hands anymore, he agreed: "exactly, i found the issue when i put my sim in a friends phone to activate it. then they were able to send/view/obseve all my mess."
Jacqui Cheng Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more.
Email jacqui@arstechnica.com // Twitter @eJacqui
Firehawke Ars Centurion
That would also drop your apps, too, and those are potentially more expensive in the long run. Not really a good option at all.
deas187 Ars Scholae Palatinae
i thought stolen iPhones could be disabled/tracked if you reported it stolen to the carrier?
(and yo what's up with this music blasting when pages load. i think it's the samsung ad in the top right?)
redtomato Ars Tribunus Militum
Hmm. I have lost two iPhones to theft in the past. Fortunately they are both too old to run iOS 5.
However, my company (edit: i work there, i dont own it) runs about 20 iPhone 4's, all on iOS 5. Wouldn't be nice if confidiental iMessages continued being sent to a stolen, wiped corporate iPhone.
Has this happened to people who have legitimately sold on their iPhones? It seems this bug might be quite easy to reproduce.
I really wouldn't want to give up my Apple ID - it contains several hundred quids worth of purchases. I don't use iCloud or the Lion App store yet, but closing an Apple ID might result in losing access to many expensive software purchases or data in iCloud.
1801 posts | registered Nov 5, 2009
nehinks Ars Praefectus
Could this indicate some problems with the underlying remote wipe implementation? I know that is one of the big things that many large corporate customers require on an official "work" phone, and if there is any further issues, could theoretically nix it as an allowable device. I'd heard the latest releases of Android and iOS were supposed to be bringing in a lot of those security policies, but this is the first I'd heard about issues with anything.
Nagumo Ars Praefectus
deas187 wrote:
I was under the same impression. Not just for iOS devices either.
eJacqui Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Almost everyone in this story (including the original person who contacted me) spoke with their carriers to track and eventually de-activate the stolen phones. That's the whole point. The iMessages still go through!
(As for the Samsung ad, I'm not sure what that's all about but I've brought it up to our tech team for you. It's not happening for me, though, and I see that ad.)
JonnyChimpo Seniorius Lurkius
I always thought iMessage was a bit suspect. First thing i did when I got my 4s was switch it off.
5 posts | registered Dec 13, 2011
uhuznaa Ars Praefectus
It looks like the phone number is tied together with the Device ID on Apple's servers when you setup iMessage and there is no way to change this anymore then. Pretty obviously somewhat like that is needed to make iMessage work but offering no mechanism to wipe that info is shoddy implementation.
kharms Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I use separate Apple accounts: one for the app store and another for iCloud/iMessages/FaceTime. I did this when iOS was released in order to separate my personal information while still sharing app purchases with my family. Apparently it avoids this iMessage problem too, as I could easily delete my iMessage account while still retaining all my purchases.
coreycubed Ars Praetorian
Huh, I wiped my 3GS which had iOS 5 and iMessage set up with my Apple ID, then gave it to my mom when I got a 4S. I wonder if she's getting my iMessages from my wife? I hope not.
Demondeluxe Ars Tribunus Militum
Please tell me that imessage is some sort of apple messaging service, and not just a fruity apple-themed way of saying text message.
johnmacward Seniorius Lurkius
I'm pretty surprised by the shocking blunders Apple make - especially in regards private access and information. In a sense you wouldn't mind if it was the other less important stuff like dodgy wifi or crashing apps or wallpapers that don't load properly but for me all that stuff is solid as a rock. It's when it comes to location data, phone wiping - where it really matters, that they get it wrong and they're clever chaps... The good news is they usually fix it pretty fast.
Demondeluxe wrote:
You're in luck today...
willyu34 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Well, if the problem has existed this long and Apple hasn't responded, I think the affected users should sue Apple and see if this will get their attention.
This could be a privacy/security issue since the new owners of stolen iPhones would be getting private messages intended for the original owner. What if the guy go "Hey I forgot that password for the server, could you message to me" (bad security practice, but ppl do it anyways) and someone else now have your server password.
So far it seems it's only a few cases, but Apple totally could have pull some strings and get these individual cases fixed while they work on a permanent fix.
Seriously, Apple's silence to important issues is starting to irate me. Before when they only a smaller following, the fanboys are willing to suffer. Now that Apple are more mainstream, not everyone is going to take this kind of treatment willingly.
938 posts | registered Feb 5, 2010
eJacqui wrote:
Well, that just plain sucks.
S4WRXTTCS Ars Praetorian
How about instead of a remote wipe they have a remote kill?
Sure they have remote lock which is only good until the thief plugs it into a computer and wipes it.
There is also findmyphone, but that only works till its been wiped or disabled.
Last edited by S4WRXTTCS on Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:45 pm
helpmehelpyou Seniorius Lurkius
How did the thief and/or stolen-goods purchaser activate a stolen smartphone? I thought they had unique IDs burned in, and if they tried to activate a stolen phone at a carrier they would be denied (and the cops called)?
arsIdentity97 Smack-Fu Master, in training
Looks like I am stuck in the last century! Doesn't every phone have an IMEI number? I thought if your phone is stolen you give the IMEI number to the operator to deactivate the phone (the device is blacklisted on the network). Dealers can re-program a stolen phone with a different IMEI number, but there are a limited number in circulation (in practice they need a smashed or dunked phone damaged BER to get an unused, legitimate IMEI). Don't iPhones use this system? How come they can send SMS on the phone network? I am missing something here.
^Technically an iMessage isn't an SMS although it can be. That being said everyone seems to insist that the phones have been reactivated using a different phone number (different SIM).
I don't think the US carriers blacklist the IMEI number.
For my next phone I'm going to do some serious research on finding a smartphone that can be incrediably locked down remotely. Not just setting the passcode, but changing the passcode. Where it also won't do a complete wipe, but just does a partial wipe allowing me to still track it. In fact I want it to go as far as not allowing anyone else to attain ownership.
culus Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
The iMessages go over the internet, apparently a wiped phone still has enough information to authenticate with the iMessage server and this authenticator cannot be reset/revoked.
I'd be more concerned under what conditions it is possible to construct such a message. If I sniff communication between a phone and iMessage can I learn enough to forge messages?
What else can the phone still access? iCloud?
This is why closed communication protocols are bad. Who knows what mistakes Apple made in designing this thing, but now an increasingly large percentage of texts are going through it.
BananaBonanza Ars Praetorian
All these reports involve stolen phones? What's different about handing down a phone? Shouldn't that cause the same issue?
riskin Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
S4WRXTTCS wrote:
jmmx2 Seniorius Lurkius
Has it occurred to anyone that the order in which things are done after the theft might have an effect? Was the number changed before or after the wiping? Would it make a difference if the thief set a new number before it was wiped?
It seems to me that Apple could set up a service by which it would permanently lock out a phone if a valid police report were provided.
I would also like to see "Where is my iPhone" expanded to include the ability to turn on tracking which would record a track of the location of the device through time, even when the owner is not logged into the "Where is…" app or website. Finally, a feature to signal when a phone becomes visible would complete the feature set. This would send an SMS, email, iChat or phone call when a phone is connected. It seem that this could be done based on hardware address even if the thief changes the sim card.
It could be a premium feature. Someone would be happy to pay $50 to turn it on.
FUCK_SOCIETY Smack-Fu Master, in training
You would think that in 2011, Apple could do a halfway decent job of copying BBM. And you would be wrong.
That's what I love about standards. A group of people spend years working out a system that works (like the IMEI system) and then some twat goes and makes up his own incompatible proprietary version that tries to do the same thing but doesn't work properly. I suppose Apple will just have to revise their system if it doesn't meet the requirements. Presumably they'll never include the IMEI in the authentication and use the already-built system.
eyhk Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Recently, I purchased a new iPhone 4S for my wife, gave her iPhone 4 to my sister-in-law, and recommissioned the 3GS my sister-in-law was using as a baby monitor. All were on iOS 5 using iMessage. According to the above, my wife's iMessages should have been sent to both the new 4S and the old 4, while my sister-in-law's iMessages should have been sent to the 4 and the old 3GS. Neither of these happened. Another theory might be that Apple keeps the device ID cached until a new AppleID is registered from that device. If the thieves never set up a new AppleID on the stolen device, the device ID would remain cached and iMessages would go to both the new and old device. My sister-in-law registered her AppleID to the iPhone 4 as soon as she got it so there would not have been time for a mixup of iMessages.
David Hovis Wise, Aged Ars Veteran et Subscriptor
Thanks for helping to publicize this Jacqui. Something screwy is going on, and it is clear that there is no good solution or workaround right now.
I hope Apple has a solution, quick.
eyhk wrote:
I tried remote wiping my old 3GS as a test and I did not get the associated iMessages. I'm willing to accept that it is a corner case, but it definitely really happened.
salamanderjuice Ars Tribunus Militum
What difference does it make that they changed the number? iMessage works on iPads/iPod Touches as well, perhaps it puts the serial numbers of all of the user's iOS devices on that person's AppleID account, and just sends them to that serial numbered device regardless of the actual AppleID that is being used.
That would explain why deleting an AppleID would work since it would delete the serial numbers associated to the account.
SaberUK Smack-Fu Master, in training
I thought that GSM hardware had a unique id embedded in each device? Why is there no system for blacklisting/tracing stolen devices based on this id?
ersatzplanet Smack-Fu Master, in training
If that happened to me I would be spamming the hell out of that iMessage account (if your data plan is the unlimited grandfathered one). All hours, all day. Make my stolen phone a real PITA to own or use. Imagine seeing 200 notices every time I turned it on. Not to mention having to turn the message chime off every night.
DrCheesecake Seniorius Lurkius
Might I suggest you go into iTunes, select iTunes Store, access your account in the top right of the store display, and manage devices. Here you will be able to disassociate devices from your ID.
I'm banking on some sort of UDID/Apple server linking. Regardless, I didn't read about anyone trying to disassociate their device from the Apple ID, only trying to change their ID (or password).
Anyone willing to try it out?
peppeddu Ars Praetorian
arsIdentity97 wrote:
Because carriers don't like to deactivate/blacklist the IMEI.
For them a stolen phone is still a working phone that is making phone calls and bringing in money.
aye, by deactivate i figured the carriers were sending the IMEI to the blacklist, like some others have suggested. i guess it doesn't work like that?
withak Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
US carriers love stolen phones. It means an additional handset sale (for the existing customer) and probably adding a new customer (whoever ends up with the stolen phone). In the rest of the civilized world, trying to activate a stolen phone means that you first have to explain to the police where you got it.
Last edited by withak on Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:40 pm
DrCheesecake wrote:
Just looked. The only device I have listed is my laptop, not my iPhone.
mausium Ars Tribunus Militum
withak wrote:
Right, and the stolen user pays the full subsidized monthly fee without having a subsidized phone. It's win/win for the US carriers!
2307 posts | registered Mar 3, 2010
I just posted an update, but a Twitter follower told me he had the same issue when he popped his SIM into a friend's iPhone to activate it. After that, his friend was able to observe ALL of his iMessages even though his friend was later using a different SIM. I think Zdziarski's theory is correct: if a phone is configured as a new device with your SIM, it will assume that iMessage ID whether or not it's supposed to.
rvm4 Seniorius Lurkius
Um, why not just pretend that your data and everything else on your phone is valuable and password protect it? Problem solved.
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What is perhaps most interesting about Ruth Proctor and João Ferro Martins‘ show at The Mews Project Space is the way their work is so similar yet has subtle differences when neither had met until they hung the exhibition.
João Ferro Martins & Ruth Proctor From L to L and Back Again
Following a set of outline instructions for sculpture combining found or ready-made materials, striking similarities occur in the choice of orientation of objects whilst differences appear in the choice of object design; straight edges versus curves, material, dimensions, volume, weight, colour, etc., which combine to give Martins work an austere, solid and workerly feel, whereas Proctor’s has a sunnier, more vibrant and perhaps feminine outlook. With a bass ‘E’ guitar string stretched across each chair as if to create a rudimentary instrument, a vinyl record is similarly placed behind the back of the chair so about 60% visible from the front, but one is an album and other incorporates a single. Meanwhile, at the Barbican, Laurie Anderson is pictured playing her musical invention/sculpture, the Viophonograph, with a record mounted upon a violin body and a pickup in the bow.
Laurie Anderson Viophonograph, 1976 Black-and-white photograph Photograph: Bob Bielecki Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. © Laurie Anderson
Perhaps it might also be relevant to mention Christian Marclay’s Recycled Records (1980-86), at this point, as another example of an artist using this sonic yet visual form, combining cut records to create a new sound. Meanwhile Martins’ further experiments with record media include Cymbal Scratching (2010), which seems to be the inverse of Anderson’s work in that a traditional instrument is being played by a twentieth century one, whereas Anderson plays the record with the violin bow.
Cymbal Scratching (2010) by João Ferro Martins. Turntable, amplifier, pre amplifier, two speakers, cymbal. Dimensions variable. Sound reproduction of the texture of the cymbal.
Mary Temple. South Light for a Sunny Day, Chateau de Chamarande, France. (2008), (from the series Light Installations 2002-ongoing). Latex paint on existing architecture.
Proctor and Martins are also showing a series of Polaroid photographs of what might be described as backgrounds that have been over-painted solid blocks of colour in triangular and circular forms in a similar manner to Example’s music video. Many of the Polaroids depict dappled shadows cast upon the ground by trees, much like the subverted installation paintings of Mary Temple. Like Gordon Matta-Clark, included in the exhibition with Anderson, Temple has directly affected built environments. Matta-Clark made permanent incisions into the fabric of buildings, somewhat similar to Marclay’s action with the records but on a much larger scale and in a more deconstructive manner, introducing natural elements into the built environment and exploring its structure. Meanwhile, Temple creates much more restrained works, painting permanent shadows upon building surfaces which could potentially last for the lifetime of the building.
Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting 9, 1977 Gelatin silver print Courtesy Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Collection. Fundacio Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona. Long-term loan of Harold Berg© 2011 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS London.
Ruth Proctor and João Ferro Martins are on show at The Mews Project Space, 15c Osborne Street (in alley to the west), E1, Sundays 4-7pm and by appointment until 15th May 2011.
Ruth Proctor is also exhibiting I’ll Be Your Mirror at Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, SE1 6ER from 13 May – 25 June 2011.
Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s closes on 22nd May at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS.
Mary Temple has works on show in various exhibitions around USA, see website for details.
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Tags: Art, Barbican Centre, Bob Bielecki, Chateau de Chamarande, Christian Marclay, Contemporary art, France, Gordon Matta-Clark, João Ferro Martins, Laurie Anderson, London, Music, New York, Ruth Proctor, Sound art, The Mews Project Space, Visual Arts
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Artists Making a Mark with their Bodies « Art Critiqued - May 19, 2011
[…] like Barba’s work, Ruth Proctor, written about in A Comparative Study in Space and Sound, has made sculptural installations with film in The Stranger and the Savant (2008). The Stranger […]
Works of Art for All Surfaces « Art Critiqued - August 26, 2011
[…] work can currently be seen along with that of Mary Temple, featured in the article A Comparative Study in Space and Sound, in Image Wars at Abrons Arts Center, 456 Grand Street, New York 10002 until 3rd September 2011. […]
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Natural disasters and trade war seen slowing Japan economy
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Nikkei staff writers September 11, 2018 01:10 JST
A woman is buffeted by winds from Typhoon Jebi in Tokyo on Sept. 4. Japan has been hit by a series of natural disasters in recent months that are expected to weigh on the economy. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Japan's economic growth is expected to slow in the July-September quarter due to a string of natural disasters this summer, as well as crossfire from the U.S.-China trade war.
Real gross domestic product grew by its fastest clip in nine quarters in April-June, an annualized 3%, according to revised figures released by the Cabinet Office on Monday. Capital investment and consumer spending helped lift the figure, which was revised upward by 1.1 points from the preliminary growth rate reported in August.
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Australia and New Zealand eye new Pacific security framework
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SYDNEY -- Australia and New Zealand are considering upgrading a security arrangement with Pacific island nations, seeking to counter China's moves to expand its influence through development assistance.
The two nations and their Pacific neighbors are expected to agree on tighter cooperation on defense, humanitarian aid and disaster relief when their leaders meet in September at a Pacific Islands Forum summit in Nauru. It is expected to build on the Biketawa Declaration inked by forum members in 2000.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade cited the need to respond to emerging regional threats, a veiled reference to China's expansion.
Beijing has used its financial clout to bankroll infrastructure construction in the region, extending its sphere of influence. China furnished more than $1.7 billion in development assistance to eight Pacific island nations between 2006 and mid-2016, according to the Sydney-based Lowy Institute. Reports emerged in April that China was considering building a military base on Vanuatu, though these were denied by both countries.
Australia, alarmed by this trend, has stepped up its involvement in the region. Canberra agreed in April to provide most of the funding for an undersea cable between the Solomon Islands and Australia, scrapping a previous deal by the islands to have China's Huawei Technologies build the link. Australia also said last month it will start negotiating a security treaty with Vanuatu.
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Debunking Christian Nonsense: Presuppositional Apologetics (Sye Ten Bruggencate)
June 21, 2018 by Anton Dybal
Photos: TheThinkingAtheist/YouTube; Waiting For The Word/Flickr
During his debate against Matt Dillahunty, the presuppositional apologist Sye Ten Bruggencate made a variety of unjustified and ridiculous arguments. Presuppositional apologetics is a branch of theological argumentation that appears confusing and perhaps even convincing at first glance, but it does not withstand a close inspection, as I show here.
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Debunking Dave Rubin on JRE (#1131): Deregulation, Libertarianism & Trump
Thumbnail photos: PowerfulJRE/YouTube
In a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Dave Rubin made a series of ridiculous and unjustified arguments on deregulation, the role of government, and the net effect of the Trump administration. Here, I refute and explain the folly of these viewpoints.
In The News (#3): Outrage Culture, Trump & North Korea, EPA Deregulation, CO2 & Obesity
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In today's In The News segment, I discuss how I think outrage culture has been going too far lately (e.g., Samantha Bee, Sam Seder, Cenk Uygur, and Al Franken), the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un of North Korea (and calls by House Republicans and Trump supporters to award Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts), recent EPA deregulations under Scott Pruitt, and a study which found that injecting CO2 reduced belly fat.
Debunking: "Global Warming Is GOOD For Us & The Environment!"
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Some argue that global warming is actually going to be GOOD—both for humans and for the environment. Although there are a few potential benefits from climate change, these are far outweighed by the many harms that will result. Furthermore, many of the benefits are not as straightforward as they're made out to be, and they, in fact, come with many qualifications.
Debunking: "Record-Setting Cold & Snow Disproves Global Warming!"
May 29, 2018 by Anton Dybal
Photos: C-SPAN/C-SPAN.org; cwizner/Pixabay
Contrary to what climate-change deniers will tell you, record-setting cold or snowy days do NOT disprove global warming. In addition to explaining here what's wrong with these arguments, I also point out how global warming can actually exacerbate certain cold-weather events, and I also break down and refute some arguments made by a climate-change denier on subjects like Arctic Sea ice, Al Gore, and so forth.
May 29, 2018 /Anton Dybal
Debunking Steven Crowder's Arguments – Defending Social Democracies
Photos: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons; Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons; Political Map of Europe/Mapswire
Steven Crowder's criticisms of Bernie Sanders and the social democracies of Europe are inaccurate and misguided. Here, I examine how these countries compare to the United States in a variety of ways, and I also break down and refute some of Crowder's arguments on subjects like health care, education, taxation, and the best way to structure our government.
Debunking The Paranormal – The Existence of Ghosts: Sightings, Photos & Videos
Photos: Rachel Titiriga/Flickr; Waldkunst/Pixabay; tombud/Pixabay
The paranormal belief in the existence of ghosts is unjustified because the evidence provided is unconvincing and ample alternative explanations exist. Here, in addition to making my case, I also examine some ghost stories to see if they're impressive enough to warrant belief, and finally, I point out the flaws in arguments made by people who believe in ghosts.
Homeopathic "Medicine" Is Ineffective, Pseudoscientific Nonsense
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Usage of homeopathy is widespread, yet, as I argue here, the theoretical foundation of homeopathy is unjustified nonsense, and the scientific evidence makes clear that homeopathy is not effective. I also respond to several counter-arguments made against my position by defenders of homeopathy.
Proof of Creationism: Peanut Butter?!? | Origin of Life & God
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We're told by creationists that life could not originate from non-life without God because of jars of peanut butter. Here, in addition to pointing out the number of problems with this argument, I also describe some of the experimental findings which support the idea that life could have, in fact, originated from non-life on the early Earth.
Debunking Ben Shapiro's Healthcare Arguments in Politicon Debate vs. Cenk Uygur
April 24, 2018 by Anton Dybal
Photos: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons; Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons
Here, I refute flawed arguments and false claims made about health care by Ben Shapiro. Topics include why U.S. health care is so expensive and how it compares to the rest of the developed world.
April 24, 2018 /Anton Dybal
In The News (#2): Syria Strike, Facebook vs. Free Speech, & Stormy Daniels
Photos: Adam Hartman & John Kowalski/U.S. Navy; John S. Quarterman/Flickr; Glenn Francis/Wikimedia Commons
Here I discuss the recent US, UK, and French bombing of Syria in response to an alleged chemical attack by Assad, calls for Facebook to crack down on hate speech, and the Donald Trump & Stormy Daniels scandal.
In The News (#1): David Hogg & Laura Ingraham, Syria, & Police Shootings
Photos: Barry Stock/Flickr; Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Kremlin.Ru/Wikimedia Commons
Here I discuss the Laura Ingraham advertiser boycott triggered by her Tweet about David Hogg, the recent Syrian chemical weapons attack, and a Huffington Post article on police shootings.
Refuting Dave Rubin's Falsehoods & Junk Arguments in David Pakman Interview
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Here, I debunk some of the flawed arguments and falsehoods put forth by Dave Rubin in a recent David Pakman interview. Topics include the left vs. the right, the Trump administration, and gay marriage.
Brilliant Tactics & Fun Facts From "Warfare in the Classical World"
Dun.can/Flickr & Lorenzo A. Castro/Wikimedia Commons
Here, I describe some impressive tactics, interesting facts, and amusing anecdotes that I learned reading "Warfare in the Classical World" by John Warry. Examples of such tactics include the usage of war elephants in battle, using the elements to one's advantage, and deceiving the enemy. Notable commanders mentioned include Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, Xerxes, Hannibal and Sulla, and forces mentioned include Roman, Greek, Persian, Parthian, Gallic, and Celtic.
Debunking ClimateGate (Pt. 3): Data & E-mail Deletion + FOIA Requests
Photos: J.J. at the English language Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons; Robert A. Rohde/Wikimedia Commons
In my final piece on the ClimateGate e-mails, I examine the claims that data and e-mails were deleted by the CRU, and I also take a look at whether or not FOIA requests were appropriately complied with, asking what impact, if any, these things would have on the validity of climate science.
Debunking ClimateGate (Pt. 2): "Scientists Suppressed Research & Subverted Peer Review!"
The CRU scientists did NOT suppress research not supportive of global warming, nor did they subvert the peer review process or pressure into resigning journal editors who allowed publications which went against the global warming consensus, as climate change–deniers allege.
Debunking ClimateGate (Pt. 1): "Global Warming Scientists Falsified Data!"
Contrary to what climate change deniers claim, the ClimateGate e-mails actually do NOT discuss the destruction or hiding of data, and they certainly don't call into question or prove as a hoax global warming in general.
Conversation About: Drug War, Artificial Intelligence, and Skepticism
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FixMyTransport Journal
Closing the loop, or Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Posted 5th July 2012 by fixmytransport in Developers, News, Open Data.
FixMyTransport uses a lot of public transport data in the interests of giving people an intuitive interface for reporting their problems with public transport. This kind of data can change pretty quickly though, as bus stops get moved, bus routes are closed or change hands, and mistakes in the original data get fixed.
Since we started work on FixMyTransport, the datasets it uses have become more freely available, and more frequently updated. This is great news as it makes the task of building and running a site like ours (and a myriad of other useful transport apps) a lot easier. So for the last few months I’ve been working on allowing us to update our transport data with the latest versions of public transport data on a regular basis. This can be fairly unglamorous work, and is one of those jobs where you know you’ve succeeded when you rollout months of work and no one notices. I think of it as a bit like learning to do the trick where you pull out the tablecloth from a heavily laden table without disturbing any of the plates and cups. Hopefully. But this morning, there was a glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel.
One of the things I’ve been working on is being able to produce lists of the changes that we’ve made to the data in order to make the site work, and in response to feedback from members of the public – so, for example, back in August last year, someone wrote to let us know that they couldn’t find Dore & Totley station on the site. Turns out it was there, but using the old name Dore. We corrected that in our data, and last week, that change was in the first set of feedback I added to the NaPTAN dataset of bus stops and stations using ITO World’s nifty data quality service.
This morning, I noticed that some of our feedback (including the tweak to Dore & Totley) has already made it into the latest release of NaPTAN, available under an open license at http://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan. That’s a great turnaround time, it means we won’t have to keep a separate copy of those changes in our database any more, and everyone else who uses the data benefits too. Closing that loop feels like a small, but significant, bit of progress.
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Bible > Cross Refs > Genesis 49:23
The Shepherd, the Stone of Israel
'... The mighty God of Jacob. From thence is the Shepherd, the stone of Israel.'--GENESIS xlix. 24. A slight alteration in the rendering will probably bring out the meaning of these words more correctly. The last two clauses should perhaps not be read as a separate sentence. Striking out the supplement 'is,' and letting the previous sentence run on to the end of the verse, we get a series of names of God, in apposition with each other, as the sources of the strength promised to the arms of the hands …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture
Joseph Attacked by the Archers
Joseph is dead, but the Lord has his Josephs now. There are some still who understand by experience--and that is the best kind of understanding--the meaning of this passage, "The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him; but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." There are four things for us to consider this morning. First of all, the cruel attack--"the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855
Now, my brethren, if it be so in earthly things, it is so also in spiritual. Instability in religion is a thing which every man despises, although every man has, to a degree, the evil in himself, but stability in the firm profession and practice of godliness, will always win respect, even from the worldly, and certainly will not be forgotten by him whose smile is honor and whose praise is glory, even the great Lord and Master, before whom we stand or fall. I have many characters here to-day whom …
The Messianic Prophecies in the Pentateuch.
In the Messianic prophecies contained in Genesis we cannot fail to perceive a remarkable progress in clearness and definiteness. The first Messianic prediction, which was uttered immediately after the fall of Adam, is also the most indefinite. Opposed to the awful threatening there stands the consolatory promise, that the dominion of sin, and of the evil arising from sin, shall not last for ever, but that the seed of the woman shall, at some future time, overthrow their dreaded conqueror. With the …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament
Balaam's Prophecy. (Numb. xxiv. 17-19. )
Carried by the Spirit into the far distant future, Balaam sees here how a star goeth out of Jacob and a sceptre riseth out of Israel, and how this sceptre smiteth Moab, by whose enmity the Seer had been brought from a distant region for the destruction of Israel. And not Moab only shall be smitten, but its southern neighbour, Edom, too shall be subdued, whose hatred against Israel had already been prefigured in its ancestor, and had now begun to display Itself; and In general, all the enemies of …
Bunsen's Biblical Researches.
When geologists began to ask whether changes in the earth's structure might be explained by causes still in operation, they did not disprove the possibility of great convulsions, but they lessened necessity for imagining them. So, if a theologian has his eyes opened to the Divine energy as continuous and omnipresent, he lessens the sharp contrast of epochs in Revelation, but need not assume that the stream has never varied in its flow. Devotion raises time present into the sacredness of the past; …
Frederick Temple—Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World
Appendix viii. Rabbinic Traditions About Elijah, the Forerunner of the Messiah
To complete the evidence, presented in the text, as to the essential difference between the teaching of the ancient Synagogue about the Forerunner of the Messiah' and the history and mission of John the Baptist, as described in the New Testaments, we subjoin a full, though condensed, account of the earlier Rabbinic traditions about Elijah. Opinions differ as to the descent and birthplace of Elijah. According to some, he was from the land of Gilead (Bemid. R. 14), and of the tribe of Gad (Tanch. on …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah
His Throat is Most Sweet, Yea, He is Altogether Lovely. This is My Beloved, and this is My Friend, O Daughters of Jerusalem.
The good qualities of ordinary things may be sufficiently well expressed by ordinary phrases of commendation, but there are some subjects so above expression that they can only be worthily admired by declaring them above all praise. Such is the Divine Bridegroom, who, by the excess of His perfections, renders His Bride dumb when she endeavors most worthily to praise Him, that all hearts and minds may be attracted to Him. Her passion causes her to burst out into the praise of some of the excellencies …
Madame Guyon—Song of Songs of Solomon
The Debt of Irenæus to Justin Martyr
If we are to proceed with safety in forming a judgment as to the relation between Justin and Irenæus in respect of the matter which they have in common, it will be necessary not merely to consider a number of selected parallels, but also to examine the treatment of a particular theme in the two writers. Let us set side by side, for example, c. 32 of Justin's First Apology with c. 57 of the Demonstration. Justin has been explaining to his Roman readers who the Jewish prophets were, and then …
Irenæus—The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
'Fruit which is Death'
'Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 2. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: He shall break down their altars, He shall spoil their images. 3. For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us? 4. They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus …
The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. (Gen. Xlix. 8-10. )
Ver. 8. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. Ver. 9. A lion's whelp is Judah; from the prey, my son, thou goest up; he stoopeth down, he coucheth as a lion, and as a full-grown lion, who shall rouse him up? Ver. 10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing …
General Notes by the American Editor
1. The whole subject of the Apocalypse is so treated, [2318] in the Speaker's Commentary, as to elucidate many questions suggested by the primitive commentators of this series, and to furnish the latest judgments of critics on the subject. It is so immense a matter, however, as to render annotations on patristic specialties impossible in a work like this. Every reader must feel how apposite is the sententious saying of Augustine: "Apocalypsis Joannis tot sacramenta quot verba." 2. The seven spirits, …
Victorinus—Commentary on the Apocolypse of the Blessed John
The Holy Spirit and the Incarnation of the Word. ...
The Holy Spirit and the Incarnation of the Word. We are so familiar with the part assigned in our Creeds to the Holy Spirit in connection with our Lord's birth, that the passage now to be quoted from Justin may at first sight seem very surprising. It may be well to approach it by citing some words from the learned and orthodox Waterland, who in 1734, in his book on The Trinity (c. vi: Works, III, 571: Oxford, 1843), wrote as follows in reference to a passage of St Irenæus: "I may remark by …
The Growth of the Old Testament Prophetic Histories
[Sidenote: Analogies between the influences that produced the two Testaments] Very similar influences were at work in producing and shaping both the Old and the New Testaments; only in the history of the older Scriptures still other forces can be distinguished. Moreover, the Old Testament contains a much greater variety of literature. It is also significant that, while some of the New Testament books began to be canonized less than a century after they were written, there is clear evidence that …
Charles Foster Kent—The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament
The Jewish Dispersion in the West - the Hellenists - Origin of Hellenist Literature in the Greek Translation of the Bible - Character of the Septuagint.
When we turn from the Jewish dispersion' in the East to that in the West, we seem to breathe quite a different atmosphere. Despite their intense nationalism, all unconsciously to themselves, their mental characteristics and tendencies were in the opposite direction from those of their brethren. With those of the East rested the future of Judaism; with them of the West, in a sense, that of the world. The one represented old Israel, stretching forth its hands to where the dawn of a new day was about …
A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising
'If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled.' - Col 1:23. Intending next Lord's day to enter upon the work of catechising, it will not be amiss to give you a preliminary discourse, to show you how needful it is for Christians to be well instructed in the grounds of religion. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled.' I. It is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith. II. The best way for Christians to be settled is to be well grounded. I. It is the duty of Christians …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity
Fifthly, as this Revelation, to the Judgment of Right and Sober Reason,
appears of itself highly credible and probable, and abundantly recommends itself in its native simplicity, merely by its own intrinsic goodness and excellency, to the practice of the most rational and considering men, who are desirous in all their actions to have satisfaction and comfort and good hope within themselves, from the conscience of what they do: So it is moreover positively and directly proved to be actually and immediately sent to us from God, by the many infallible signs and miracles …
Samuel Clarke—A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God
Gamala. Chorazin.
These things determine the situation of Gamala:--1. It was "in lower Gaulon," in which, as we have seen, Bethsaida was. 2. It was "upon the lake [of Gennesaret]." 3. It was "over-against Tarichee." Compare the maps, whether in their placing of it they agree with these passages. Here was Judas born, commonly called 'Gaulanites,' and as commonly also, the 'Galilean.' So Peter and Andrew and Philip were Gaulanites; of Bethsaida, John 1:44; and yet they were called 'Galileans.' While we are speaking …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica
What Messiah did the Jews Expect?
1. The most important point here is to keep in mind the organic unity of the Old Testament. Its predictions are not isolated, but features of one grand prophetic picture; its ritual and institutions parts of one great system; its history, not loosely connected events, but an organic development tending towards a definite end. Viewed in its innermost substance, the history of the Old Testament is not different from its typical institutions, nor yet these two from its predictions. The idea, underlying …
Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy.
The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting
The Prophet Jonah.
It has been asserted without any sufficient reason, that Jonah is older than Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah,--that he is the oldest among the prophets whose written monuments have been preserved to us. The passage in 2 Kings xiv. 25, where it is said, that Jonah, the son of Amittai the prophet, prophesied to Jeroboam the happy success of his arms, and the restoration of the ancient boundaries of Israel, and that this prophecy was confirmed by the event, cannot decide in favour of this assertion, …
On Genesis.
[1139] Gen. i. 5 And it was evening, and it was morning, one day. Hippolytus. He did not say [1140] "night and day," but "one day," with reference to the name of the light. He did not say the "first day;" for if he had said the "first" day, he would also have had to say that the "second" day was made. But it was right to speak not of the "first day," but of "one day," in order that by saying "one," he might show that it returns on its orbit and, while it remains one, makes up the week. Gen. i. 6 …
Hippolytus—The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus
The Sixth Commandment
Thou shalt not kill.' Exod 20: 13. In this commandment is a sin forbidden, which is murder, Thou shalt not kill,' and a duty implied, which is, to preserve our own life, and the life of others. The sin forbidden is murder: Thou shalt not kill.' Here two things are to be understood, the not injuring another, nor ourselves. I. The not injuring another. [1] We must not injure another in his name. A good name is a precious balsam.' It is a great cruelty to murder a man in his name. We injure others in …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments
The Plan for the Coming of Jesus.
God's Darling, Psalms 8:5-8.--the plan for the new man--the Hebrew picture by itself--difference between God's plan and actual events--one purpose through breaking plans--the original plan--a starting point--getting inside. Fastening a Tether inside: the longest way around--the pedigree--the start. First Touches on the Canvas: the first touch, Genesis 3:15.--three groups of prediction--first group: to Abraham, Genesis 12:1-3; to Isaac, Genesis 26:1-5; to Jacob, Genesis 28:10-15; through Jacob, …
S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks about Jesus
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Bible > Songs > Chapter 3 > Verse 9
◄ Song of Solomon 3:9 ►
King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.
King Solomon’s carriage is built of wood imported from Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
"King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair From the timber of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made a carriage for himself with wood from Lebanon.
The throne is made of trees from Lebanon.
King Solomon is carried on a throne made of the finest wood.
King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself with wood from Lebanon.
King Solomon made the sedan chair for himself from the trees of Lebanon.
King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon had a carriage made for himself from the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.
“King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair From the timber of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,
Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day
…8All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of night. 9King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon. 10He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.…
Song of Solomon 3:8
All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of night.
Song of Solomon 3:10
He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
a chariot
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king
שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה (šə·lō·mōh)
Strong's Hebrew 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne
has made
עָ֤שָׂה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make
his carriage
אַפִּרְי֗וֹן (’ap·pir·yō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 668: A sedan, litter, palanquin
out of the timber
מֵעֲצֵ֖י (mê·‘ă·ṣê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood
of Lebanon.
הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃ (hal·lə·ḇā·nō·wn)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel
(9) A chariot.--Marg., bed; Heb., appiryon. A word of very doubtful etymology. Its derivation has been sought in Hebrew, Persian, Greek, and Sanskrit. The LXX. render ???????; Vulg., ferculum; and it seems natural, with Gesenius, to trace the three words to the root common in parah, ????, fero, fahren, bear, and possibly the sign of such a common origin in the Sanskrit pargana = a saddle (Hitzig). At all events, appiryon must be a palanquin, or litter, both from the context, which describes the approach of a royal cortege, and from the description given of it, where the word translated covering suggests the notion of a movable litter, rather than of a State bed.
Verses 9, 10. - King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon. He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the seats of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem. The palanquin is described, that the attention may be kept fixed awhile on the bridal procession, which, of course, forms the kernel of the whole poem, as representing the perfect union of the bride and bridegroom. The Greek versions translate φορεῖον: the Vulgate, ferculum. We read in Athenaeus (5:13) that the philosopher and tyrant Athemon showed himself on "a silver-legged φορεῖον with purple coverlet." There probably is some connection between the Hebrew appiryon and the Greek phoreion, but it is exceedingly doubtful if the Hebrew is merely a lengthened form of the Greek. Delitzsch derives the Hebrew from a root parah, "to cut or carve" anything of wood. The Greek would seem to be connected with the verb φερω, "to bear," "carry." The resemblance may be a mere coincidence. The rabbinical tradition is that the Hebrew word means "couch, or litter." Hitzig connects it with the Sanscrit paryana, meaning "saddle," "riding saddle," with which we may compare the Indian paryang. "bed." Others find a Chaldee root for the word, פָרָא, "to run," as currus in Latin, or from a root גָּאַר, "to shine," i.e." to be adorned." At all events, it would not be safe to argue the late date of the book from such a word as appiryon, on account of its resemblance to a Greek word. The "wood of Lebanon" is, of course, the cedar or cypress (1 Kings 5:10, etc.). There may be a covert allusion intended to the decoration of the temple as the place where the honour of the Lord dwelleth, and where he meets his people. The frame of the palanquin was of wood, the ornaments of silver. The references to the high value set upon silver, while gold is spoken of as though it was abundant, are indications of the age in which the poem was composed, which must have been nearly contemporaneous with the Homeric poems, in which gold is spoken of similarly. Recent discoveries of the tomb of Agamemnon, etc., confirm the literary argument. The palanquins of India are also highly decorated. The daughters of Jerusalem, i.e. the ladies of the court, in their affection for King Solomon, have procured a costly tapestry, or several such, which they have spread over the purple cushion. Thus it is paved, or covered over, with the tokens of love - while all love is but a preparation for this supreme love. (For the purple coverings of the seat, see Judges 5:10; Amos 3:12; Proverbs 7:16.) The preposition מִן in the last clause is rendered differently by some, but there can be no doubt that the meaning is "on the part of," that is, coming from. The typical interpreter certainly finds a firm ground here. Whether we think of the individual believer or of the Church of God, the metaphor is very apt and beautiful - we are borne along towards the perfection of our peace and blessedness in a chariot of love. All that surrounds us speaks to us of the Saviour's love and of his royal magnificence, as he is adored by all the pure and lovely spirits in whose companionship he delights.
3:6-11 A wilderness is an emblem of the world; the believer comes out of it when he is delivered from the love of its sinful pleasures and pursuits, and refuses to comply with its customs and fashions, to seek happiness in communion with the Saviour. A poor soul shall come up, at last, under the conduct of the Comforter; like a cloud of incense ascending from the altar, or the smoke of the burnt-offerings. This signifies pious and devout affections, and the mounting of the soul heaven-ward. The believer is filled with the graces of God's Spirit; his devotions now are very lively. These graces and comforts are from the heavenly Canaan. He, who is the Peace of his people, the King of the heavenly Zion, has provided for the safe conveyance of his redeemed through the wilderness of this world. The bed, or palanquin, was contrived for rest and easy conveyance, but its beauty and magnificence showed the quality of its owner. The church is well guarded; more are with her than are against her: believers, when they repose in Christ, and with him, though they have their fears in the night, are yet safe. The chariot here denotes the covenant of redemption, the way of our salvation. This is that work of Christ, which makes him loved and admired in the eyes of believers. It is framed and contrived, both for the glory of Christ, and for the comfort of believers; it is well ordered in all things and sure. The blood of the covenant, that rich purple, is the cover of this chariot, by which believers are sheltered from the wind and storms of Divine wrath, and the troubles of this world; but the midst of it is that love of Christ which passes knowledge, this is for believers to repose upon. Christ, in his gospel, manifests himself. Take special notice of his crown. Applying this to Christ, it speaks the honour put upon him, and his power and dominion.
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by b2tw | January 25, 2012 · 4:15 AM
Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us
by Carl Wilson
[With trademark untimeliness, Back to the World is presenting a series of belated, cross-genre, year-end lists, as we did last year, and again loosely on the model of Greil Marcus’s long-running Real Life Rock Top Ten. Margaux posted last week and Chris will post soon. Once again I’ve confined myself to topics I haven’t written about at length here before, or in my year-end chatter in the Slate Music Club (and accompanying Spotify playlist).]
1. Marcus Boon, In Praise of Copying (out, late 2010; read, early 2011)
The Toronto-based writer, musician and scholar Marcus Boon’s generous intervention (that’s a full, free PDF) over one of the issues of our time (cf SOPA) seemed to echo everywhere – as far out as the viral reproduction of revolutionary courage through Arab countries, and the call-and-response of the “human microphone” of Occupy Wall Street and its own hashtag-breeding copycats.
What I found so moving, even given the book’s digressive wander through a potentially infinite subject (and the foolhardiness of trying to control infinitudes) was its restoration of copying’s many sensual and spiritual connotations in what has been much too abstract and legalistic a debate. The back-and-forth weave and warp of repetition and difference is a pervasive leitmotif of existence, and not just the human. Boon’s treatment is elusive, with no definitive answers, but that means it will reward repeated re-reading, never just a copy of the first time.
2. The sex scenes in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce (March, 2011)
There was a lot of debate about what Haynes, one of my favourite American film directors, did in his HBO mini-series with the template of the 1940s melodrama starring, of course, Joan Crawford: Had he evacuated the original film’s queerness, its camp, and left only a portrait of a status-and-materialism-driven woman who brings ruin, reinstating the misogyny of James M. Cain’s 1941 novel? Yes and no. Yes, he was bringing back the sting of the novel’s more radical anti-capitalism. But he was also taking the mini-series’ extra time to push the viewer’s nose far deeper into the mortification (social death, social stiffening) Kate Winslet’s Mildred endures when all the guarantees of the social contract are pulled out from under her by economic-cycle brutality and masculine bad faith, and the contradictions she helplessly generates (chiefly in her daughter, almost earning Evan Rachel Wood’s scenery-masticating performance) in the course of trying to maintain vestiges of her expectations within that outcaste position.
But Haynes also grants Winslet’s Mildred a grace Crawford’s could never taste – full-blown, full-grown sensual gratification, in her leggy, languorous love scenes with Guy Pearce as aristocratic reprobate Monty Beragon, the real sex object of the piece. Granted, the plot ensures this is in many ways another trap, but between them the actors and Haynes refuse that old morality’s to overpower the commandments of skin and light on skin, the manifesto for being and perseverance that an intimate bodily encounter can’t utter but can proclaim. It enacts what camp once did but no longer can: victory within defeat, not just despite but also because of loss, in its unapologetic ensnarement with entropy and other ultimate unfairnesses, against which desire still demands, “Live all you can.”
By making that so vivid, and driven by the will of the “unrespectable” woman, Haynes discredited his own tragedy, asking why a male film figure like George Clooney or Clark Gable (whom Pearce’s Monty directly recalls) can give that same kind of vicarious pleasure and get at best lightly slapped, while Mildred Pierce has to be dragged through the shoals. In this, though the rest isn’t perfect, Haynes really made a melodrama to end all melodrama.
3. WTF with Marc Maron interviewing Bryan Cranston (June 10); Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad (all year)
If you measured by the number of hours spent on it in the year, you would conclude my most cherished art form is not music, literature, live performance or even TV, but the podcast. Check my iTunes: I’m currently subscribed to about 65, though the majority are really radio shows, not native to the pod. And the majority of those aren’t mwhusic but talk. Perhaps it’s that I live alone and am comforted by the chatter during cleaning, cooking, trying to go to sleep and other routines (I wish I were better with silence). But it’s also because non-broadcast radio lets people take liberties with talk – that most eternally human of media – that feel fresh and exciting without being consciously experimental and avant. There’s no better example, title down, than Marc Maron’s What the Fuck?! I came to it a little late, compelled by its backstory: A veteran, never breakout comedian who’s struggled with personal demons gets new career success and satisfaction by sitting down with people in his field in his garage and asking them frank, patient questions of craft, d but also how their own flaws and hauntings have affected their stories – empathetically sounding their barriers and/or divulging his admiring but frustrated puzzlement at how they surpass them.
The editions that draw hype tend to be confronting, sensational – a showdown with a hack, an uncomfortable discussion with a friend, a comedy writer confessing an attempted suicide. But I love the quieter talks he has with people about their growth. One of my favourites was with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, and not just because he’s an actor whose work left me wide-eyed over the past several years (as it clearly did Maron). Cranston is at once enormously garrulous and open about his route to his ambitions (he tells stories with theatrical gusto) and humble (not showbiz humble, but humble) and grateful for the improbable fact that his journeyman dues-paying led to an artistic and career jackpot. I listened in early summer and have thought about it at least weekly since.
Bryan Cranston, out of character … and in.
For several months, that was partly because a highlight of each week was the fourth season of Breaking Bad, the best drama on television since The Wire, even better if only because it had the previous show to go by (just as The Wire had The Sopranos). Unlike those two, it isn’t a big ensemble piece. Supporting players are super, but this is a show about two people, Cranston’s Walter White and his protégé (considering how terribly he’s protected, that’s exactly the wrong word): Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman. I have nothing original to add to the accolades: Beyond character and cinematic weave, what’s remarkable is its arc in which a good man becomes very far from good, at first for circumstantial reasons and then for deeply rooted ones, and the audience has to test how far our sympathies can extend, even as we vicariously participate in the rot.
The season finale is the obvious standout, featuring both one of the most ingenious murder scenes ever committed to film or video and an ending many viewers might find it hard to get past (and not just for its dangling plot threads). But three weeks earlier, there was an atypical episode, in which the focus shifted from Walter to Jesse for nearly the whole hour and forced the younger man to find unexpected strengths. It mattered because the question has become whether anyone in this saga will walk away alive with something like an intact soul, and there’s really only one hope left. Here we begin to see that a story that seemed to be about one person and his themes and issues might really be a story about someone and something else. As always: The story of the parents turns into the story of the children, which then turns out to be the story of their children, and the next, and so on. If it doesn’t, that’s when there’s real trouble. (Attention, anyone who compared Occupy Wall Street to Woodstock.)
4. The consolations of comedy: Party Down on Netflix, “Adults in Autumn” (Chris Locke, Kathleen Phillips, Nick Flanagan, Rebecca Kohler, Jon McCurley, Tom Henry
, Glenn Macaulay) at Double Double Land (November), Louis CK at the Sony Centre (October) and Louie, Maria Bamford at Comedy Bar (January), Parks & Recreation, Community, the Comedy Bang Bang podcast …
Along with having become a podcast nerd – and abetted by it – what really struck me in 2011 is that over the past several years I was becoming a comedy nerd. I’m now usually more enthusiastic to go see people say funny things than to hear a concert, or to listen to or watch comedy on my computer than to listen to music. I follow local comics, especially the way-underpublicized Kathleen Phillips, as avidly as I used to follow bands, even here in the greatest musickest citiest of them all-est. I am still puzzling. Perhaps it’s just that a change is as good as a rest, as they say: The comedy nodes in my brain may be less worn-down than the music nodes. Or perhaps there really is more fresh happening in comedy than in music (in Toronto specifically or in general?), or more likely that whatever was new a half-decade ago or more to true comedy nerds finally has become obvious and available to us rabble. (The fact that I still don’t love the Best Show on WFMU is the clinching evidence, right?)
Or as Woody Allen would say, maybe I just needed the eggs. A lot of us had a grim year.
And speaking of eggs, I agree completely with Margaux about the Louie duckling-in-Afghanistan episode.
5. Have Not Been the Same by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider: reissue (June), panel (Soundscapes, Toronto, July) and CD (November)
Have I gotten this far without having to declare any conflicts of interest? No matter, plenty more to come.
Even in this supposedly retromanic age of eternal re-re-return, the bubbles of cultural history with local habitations but no names can easily pop away and leave only stains on the barroom floors. A decade ago, three Canadian music writers, one of them my friend Michael Barclay, tried to guard against that by writing a history of the Canadian music world (mostly indie division) from the mid-‘80s to the mid-‘90s, Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance. It was a fairly thankless task in 2001, when those scenes were waninh, fractured and with little apparent trace, though since the book mentioned dozens upon dozens of people it sold well enough. Perceptively, though, they later realized the Canadian successes of recent years lent their subject renewed relevance – and that made it incomplete as history. So they undertook many more interviews, updated the individual stories and overall tale with a new introduction and conclusion and brought the book back this year. They held launch concerts and discussions – including a panel at Soundscapes record shop in Toronto with Julie Doiron (ex-Eric’s Trip, current-Julie Doiron), Don Pyle (ex-Shadowy Men, ex-Phono Comb, many more, current Trouble in the Camera Club) and Alison Outhit (ex-Rebecca West, ex-Halifax Pop Explosion, current FACTOR) that was one of the most worthwhile discussions of how musicians and music live and that life has changed I’ve experienced in ages, even (I think) without nostalgia.
Michael’s also curated a companion soundtrack, possibly the first of many, with more recent Can-Rockers playing gems from the book’s era. Which coverers and coverees you like best likely will depend on your own faves: For me, there’s something especially poignant about the Hidden Cameras coaxing out the gentleness of Mecca Normal’s “Throw Silver,” or Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) and Little Scream slipping into the steamy ether of Mary Margaret O’Hara’s “When You Know Why You’re Happy.” Maps overlaid, outlines of one sunken continent shimmering around the contours of one newer-risen. Lenses, focusing other lenses, or a more vibrant blur.
6. Stand-In (1937) with Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Joan Blondell, on Turner Classic Movies (August 24)
Not at all new, of course, but new to me when I stumbled upon it on TV in the summer. It’s a bundle of this-but-that: A screwball, Hollywood-skewers-Hollywood comedy that bridges Bogart’s tough-guy and leading-man days, with Busby Berkeley star Joan Blondell (the excuse for its airing, in an evening featuring her) being cutesy-charming but also the brains of the outfit, Leslie Howard stiff and patrician-blinkered but then melting and gaining his senses, and the whole thing ending with a ridiculous/stirring Hollywood labour uprising that gives away its Depression-to-New Deal moment, hard to imagine in many other eras. Apparently the original was more radical still – censored were “a speech about the stifling of competition in the industry and the crushing of independent companies by the majors; and … a speech by Atterbury at the end, in which he says he is going to start a Senate investigation of the motion picture business.”
Here’s a link to the whole movie, as long as it lasts:
It probably stuck with me because the broadcast just preceded the #Occupy moment, but anything mainstream-American that talks explicitly of economic justice without patting itself on the back until its spine breaks (like recent supposed treatments of the financial crisis), frankly, is memorable on its own.
7. The Citizens’ Filibuster (July 28)
Another classic movie came to mind in Toronto a month earlier, on the night of July 28: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. We mentioned it and pictured it here at the time, but too briefly: The bizarre, nearly-24-hour session of citizen testimony – or, as it became known, the “citizens’ filibuster” – against Rob Ford’s attempt to slash budgets was, just as Torontoist says, one of the truly heroic moments of the year, here or anywhere: Our local mini-Newt’s attempt to force closure became the opposite, a populist force to pry the oyster of debate back open, which led to this month’s still-surprising turnabout, in which Ford’s agenda was, for the time being, trounced.
Culturally, whether you were at City Hall or following it on the simulcast and especially social media, it was incredible civic theatre, in which vivid characters (none more heart-tugging than the one below, but some others close) displayed the eloquence and, more significantly, the expertise of so-called ordinary people who normally aren’t even allowed to pick up the marbles in the political game. It’s a contrast to the ugly pro-death-penalty and anti-immigrant ovations of selected attendees at Republican primary debates, for instance. Don’t let those things kill your faith in humanity. The corpse of that faith is what the vultures feed upon.
8. DJs Debate Club at the Henhouse (March 6)
This entry’s a tad more self-indulgent: For the past few years, the Henhouse on Dundas West in Toronto has been the place that I and a few close friends have gone to get our cheap beers on and make like Jonathan Richman, except in a post-Will-Munro-polymorphic Third Place. Our hosts Katie Ritchie, Jenny Smyth and Vanessa Dunn made us more than welcome, and last spring invited me and pal Michael McManus (yes, the last of the Brunnen-G) to DJ one night under our Henhouse nickname, Debate Club (for our propensity to jawbone loudly about politics till closing time).
On the theme of #occupy-precursors that runs through this list, Michael decided we should intercut tracks of famous political speeches between tracks. It would have been a big hit if it had been six months later. Instead we eventually abandoned poor Mario Savio when cooler (but sweatier) heads prevailed and taught us girls just wanna have Robyn. I hadn’t DJ’d since the last time I supplied Wavelength with an iPod playlist, and had forgotten what a rush it is to play music very, very loud, like conjuring worlds, and sex, and astral projection. (Thanks also to Jacob Zimmer, Small Wooden Shoe and Dancemakers for letting me do it again at a fundraiser in December.)
The Henhouse has changed hands now, sadly for its denizens, end of an era. Ladies, you regularly made a room a festival and a roundup of strays into a small community, as best a bar can do. You’ll be missed, but I’m excited to see what you all do next.
9. Misha Glouberman’s Negotiation Class (winter/spring)
Along with assuming the role of author (along with our comrade Sheila Heti) of The Chairs are Where the People Go (about which I really recommend this Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, along with LARB in general), B2TW associate Misha embarked on another new venture this year: An experienced teacher of many forms of improvisation and facilitator of conferences and events, he began this year giving a class in negotiation and communication born of both his innate inclinations to and his concerted studies of reason, compromise and low-bullshit ways for people to have difficult conversations.
I took the pilot-workshop version of it last winter, with mostly Misha’s friends in it, at a time that I was navigating some crucial personal and professional transitions; some parts worked out and some didn’t, but I’d been given new tools to break down what was happening and address it with, most of all, relative fearlessness. That’s what much of Misha’s work is about: how to cope with the fear that human exchange sparks, which causes us to act protectively in ways that read as irrational to the very people we want most to understand, and find productive alternatives. Generosity, he shows, is a more winning position – not #winning, but in the sense that there’s usually less substantial conflict than meets the eye. (The urge to win, itself, might be an evolutionary catch-22.) He’s teaching a short, intensive version of the course again next month at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
10. Quite Interesting (QI) with Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Jimmy Carr and Stephen Fry (Sept., 2007)
Back to humour again: This is from a few years ago but I first saw it because over Vietnamese dinner Misha brought up the BBC quiz/chat/comedy show QI, hosted by Stephen Fry, so I spent an afternoon watching clips. And then I hit this, which (beginning at 0:22), makes me laugh helplessly and forgive Britain all its sins. I like to watch it any time I feel overwhelmed, with no straight lines to follow. Or maybe I’ll do it ritually every year, as a colonial amusement, the way northern Europeans watch Dinner for One.
Melancholia, especially Charlotte Rampling as the archetypical Bad Mother, and Earth as the even more archetypical Bad Mother; Kirsten Dunst at the Cannes press conference for Melancholia; the BBC series Sherlock, the other BBC series The Hour, and the other (much less smart about Britain, class and war, but still absurdly entertaining) BBC series Downton Abbey; Christian Marclay’s The Clock at Paula Cooper and Alexander McQueen’s “Savage Beauty” at the Met (the two art shows I most regret missing) and “Alexander McQueen” (the song by Tomboyfriend); Ryan Trecartin’s “Any Ever” in Queens (the show I’m gladdest I didn’t miss); the Doug Loves Movies podcast and the (for me, unplayable) Leonard Maltin Game (throughout “Two Oceans 11”); the Slate Culture Gabfest (especially being on an episode, which was a thrill); The Ex with Brass Unbound at Lee’s Palace in May; two concert/tour movies about Canadian artists that I didn’t expect to like but that each made me cry, watching them in immediate sequence, Look at What the Light Did Now (Feist) and We’re the Weakerthans, We’re from Winnipeg (Weakerthans); the saving of Saint Mark’s Bookshop; the Smee jokes in Pat Thornton’s third 24-hour standup marathon at Comedy Bar; Tim Hecker’s pipe-organ concert at the Music Gallery; poems by Michael Robbins and D.A. Powell; John Hawkes and Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene; Sandro Perri’s CD launch concerts at the Tranzac in November; Ty Segall at the Wrongbar in NXNE (June); Jeff Mangum at Trinity Saint Paul’s church in Toronto, Aug. 12; discovering this early-1980s scene from a Ron Mann art film featuring Jim Carroll and Jack Layton improbably together, both RIP, #occupymemory; as an epigraph to the year, these lines from “Hindsight,” by Richard Buckner: “Stricken as we stood/ Broken as we made/ Time for make-believe/ Stealing, when we should/ What we couldn’t give away.”
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 82 (July 2019)
John Joseph Adams and Others
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
If you're the outdoorsy type, our new short story by Simon Strantzas, "Antripuu," might make your next adventure a little more terrifying. We apologize if you're too frightened to enjoy that hike or camping trip! Our other original short story, "No Other Life," by Isabel Cañas, should please both lovers of medieval history and fans of vampire lore. We also have reprints by Seanan McGuire ("Threnody for Little Girl, with Tuna, at the End of the World") and Cody Goodfellow ("At the Riding School"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Kaaron Warren looks into the weird and disturbing world of ghost photography. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Adam-Troy Castro.
More Books by John Joseph Adams, Adam-Troy Castro, Seanan McGuire, Simon Strantzas, Isabel Cañas & Cody Goodfellow
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Mkwaju Ensemble - MKWAJU
Cat No: WRWTFWW025CD | WRWTFWW Records | modern classical / ambient
Highly anticipated official reissue of this album from Midori Takada’s MKWAJU ensemble, sourced from the original masters and available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of Deutsche Grammophon) and a digipack CD. "Originally recorded in February and March 1981 and released by fabled Japanese avant-garde label Better Days (home of Ryuichi Sakamato’s debut album, Yasuaki Shimizu’s Kakashi, Colored Music self-titled LP and many more) MKWAJU is the fruit of the collaboration between Takada’s crew and world-famous composer/musical director Joe Hisaishi, the man behind most of of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli anime soundtracks and over 100 other films scores, including Takeshi Kitano’s Sonatine, Hana-Bi, and Kikujiro. The ensemble’s transcendental wonder is, in fact, the first-ever Midori Takada album and the first-ever Joe Hisaishi-produced album. Historic. Led by Midori Takada on marimba, gong, vibraphone, and tom tom, MKWAJU is an inventive and riveting take on Eastern and Western minimalist traditions, African rhythms, and early electronica. Drawing from its jazz-rooted polyrhythmic improvisations in the most inventive ways, the album covers a wide spectrum of sounds, from colorful dance floor-ready percussion pieces that stand somewhere between proto-techno and experimental synth-pop, to cinematic ambient landscapes and ethereal drone delicacies. The feverishly sought-after full-length is a stepping-stone in Midori Takada’s career and an all-around pioneering album. Alongside Takada and Hisaishi (who not only produced the album but also played synthesizers), personnel on MKWAJU includes famed Japanese musicians Yoji Sadanari and Hideki Mats." more
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CURRENT 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All
Cat No: THESPHERES22BELLA | THE SPHERES | electronic
David Tibet pairs his apocalyptic prognostications with plush pastoral backdrops ranging from unsettlingly rose-tinted to beautifully melancholic, supplied by Andrew Liles, Ben Chasny, and various, nefarious associates of Coil, including bagpiper Michael J. York and Ossian Brown (Cyclobe) ““The Light Is Leaving Us All” is the new album from Current 93, everyone’s favourite Hallucinatory Cuneiform SuperGroup. Three years in Her Making and Shaping, “The Light Is Leaving Us All” Spells WithIn Her 11 tracks.” more
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Various Artists - Belgian New Beat Volume 2
Cat No: 541795CD | 541 | industrial / wave / electro
Another massive 4CD payload of prime New Beat - no Nougat Beat! - including way more than your RDA of late ‘80s Belgian bangers Synthesising a crossroad between US house and techno, Italian disco, Mittel Euroepean EBM and frothy Belgian sensibilities, New Beat is the much maligned precursor to rave techno, which, in recent years, has seen a long overdue reappraisal of its charms by dancers and DJs who’ve become snagged on its direct, to-the-floor rhythms and addictive hooks. For the massive 2nd volume of ’New Beat - The Compilation’, they’ve pulled together 57 heaters from the short-lived heyday of New Beat circa 1987-1990. There’s a lot of well known and fairly easy to find pieces, but also a lot of choice rarities, most notably the likes of Blue Vertigo’s tuff but sexy ‘Abadan (Monday Morning Mix)’, the amazing staccato perk of ‘Komobinn’ by Acidity - an alias of the legendary Tony Baron (Teknokrat’s) - and the steely hardball of ‘Take Me To Your Leader’ from another Teknokrat’s member, F.X. Intruder a.k.a. Mike Butcher, plus oddities such as Rebel X & Vector S’ ‘Controller II’, Inter Phase’s darkside acid trip ‘Back From The Space’, and New Design’s acid jacker ‘Some Like It Hot’. more
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Choir Boy - Passive with Desire
Cat No: DAIS117 | Dais Records | indie / alternative
Since his recording debut as Choir Boy in 2016, Adam Klopp mined a sound swirls 1980s synth noir with captivating, cinematic songs sweeping with pensive sorrow and glowing hope. As a former member of the Mormon faith, Klopp spent his youth both in the pews of his place of worship, but also churning through DIY punk venues, before leaving the sect in the thick of a mission in Tahiti. "The duality of faith and fiction are central to the lush explorations on his debut album Passive With Desire. Recorded at Studio Studio Dada, the album’s tracks permuted as bedroom sketches, awash with camp, the sting of loss, and allusions to halcyon days of nocturnal, electronic driven pop. Retaining elements of Klopp’s original demos, Passive With Desire was recorded with a full band and polished with trumpet, strings, as well as archival samples calling back to Klopp’s hazy youth. Engineered by Klopp, Bret Meisenbach, and Stephen Cope, Passive With Desire is the entry point to Choir Boy’s world of emotive wit, novella kissed lyricism, and bouncy, synth-forward takes on traditional song writing bound by the universal themes of loss, desire, evolution, and exploration." more
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Hen Ogledd - Mogic
Cat No: WEIRD114D | Weird World | electronic
Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Richard Dawson’s Hen Ogledd transmogrify from psychedelic no wave time travellers into a wild, inimitable pop unit on ‘Mogic’, their 3rd album together, their debut for Weird World. Named for a Welsh word describing the historic region between southern Scotland and northern England, the band has grown from the locus of Davies on harp (++) and Dawson on guitar (++) to incorporate Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington on vocals and multiple instruments - most curiously credited with Red Witch Violetta, Pipa Del’ochio, Mooer Green Mile, Hott’s Rombah, among others, between them. If you copped either of Hen Ogledd’s first two LPs, logic would dictate that this one was always going to be a bit mad, but hardly anyone could have predicted where they’re going with ‘Mogic’, as the band’s combined, contemporary rationale and arcane urges fulminate a persistently unpredictable sound that ties up influence from all corners - vacillating hot-stepping post punk with plaintive folksong, rubbery primordial techno and lysergic indie-pop. Other notable inclusions clem from sax virtuoso, Mette Rasmussen on some of the album’s strangest/seductive moments, the Canterbury-esque opener ‘Love Time Feel’ and the brilliantly daft indie-pop of ‘Tiny Witch Hunter’ with Dawn Bothwell’s seemingly sung down the wrong end of a telescope, and also the subtle but pivotal percussion of Will Guthrie. But we can very simply sum this one up as far exceeding the sum of its parts. Gotta be one of 2018’s most beguiling, trend-oblivious pop records. more
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Various Artists - Brainfeeder X
Cat No: BFDNL077 | Brainfeeder | electronic
Flying Lotus’ label marks 10 years in the game with ‘X’, a 36 track compilation featuring 22 brand new, previously unreleased cuts by Thundercat, Martyn, Georgia Anne Muldrow, mr.oizo, Jameszoo, Dorian Concept, Iglooghost +++ Trust Jameszoo to make it freaky on ‘Flake’, while mr.oizo knocks out the searing disco bullet ‘Ham; DJ Paypal coughs up the hot footwork drums of ‘Slim Trak VIP’; FlyLo chips in his remix of Brandon Coleman’s ‘Walk Free’; Ross From Friends roll out the deep house of ‘Squaz’; and even George Clinton turns up on WOKE’s ‘The Lavishment of Light Looking’. “For the last ten years, Brainfeeder has reminded the world that the future is only as far away as it needs to be. It’s less a label than an international conspiracy to conquer clichéd sounds, a glowing neon helix re-organizing the DNA of hip-hop and house, jazz and ambient, techno and soul, funk and footwork and every other strain of beat music that eludes compartmentalization. The Flying Lotus-founded label has become a sanctified refuge for those who believe that nothing is too weird, genre is largely obsolete, and the wildest style will always reign supreme.” more
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B12 - Time Tourist (Expanded Edition)
Cat No: WARPCDD37R | Warp Records | electronic
From the golden era of Warp, B12’s ‘Time Tourist’ is reissued for the first time, newly expanded with four bonus tracks previously found on their B12 Records archives volumes Somewhere between a computer game soundtrack, pulpy sci-fi score, and an armchair accelerant, ‘Time Tourist’ holds a special place in the pantheon of mid-late ‘90s electronica/IDM. Some of it sounds pretty dated now, but the innocent sincerity of of B12’s retro-futurist aesthetics still glow from highlights such as ‘Infinite Lites (Primitives Mix)’ and ‘The Radiophonic Workshop’. more
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Yama Warashi - Boiled Moon
Cat No: SPR139 | Small Pond | jazz / fusion
Asnakech Worku - Asnakech
Cat No: ATFA031cd | AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA | world
Another amazing entry from ‘70s Ethiopia, introducing krar player, singer and national icon Asnakech Worku to the world at large with a beautiful collection of songs made alongside Hailu Mergia at the height of her career, most notably on a haunting prototype of Mergia’s standard ‘Tche Belew’ “There is perhaps no woman more cherished in modern Ethiopian history than Asnakech Worku. As a musician, actress, dancer and cultural icon, Asnakech inspired and challenged society for decades, until her death in 2011. From her beginnings as Ethiopia’s first theater actress in 1952 to her acclaimed film appearances to her days as a club owner-turned-master musician, Asnakech’s inimitable confidence and charm made her a household name. She earned endless accolades across the artistic spectrum. She made seminal recordings of unforgettable original compositions, as well as legendary renditions of traditional songs, that became national staples. With a singular sense of style, glamour and sex appeal that sometimes stunned mainstream society, Asnakech wore clothes no one else wore and said things no one else said. Staid notions of how women should dress and behave didn’t apply to her. Battling a mentality that until the early 1950s had men wearing dresses to play female roles in the theater, Asnakech became a national treasure on her own terms. Her family wasn’t pleased with Asnakech becoming an azmari—an itinerant praise musician who sings, often in bars, for tips—and didn’t bother her, especially after Emperor Haile Selassie I began to emphasize theater and music in society, officially legitimizing her career. Asnakech became an internationally-celebrated performer of Ethiopia’s ancient harp, the krar, making her one of the most visible female musicians of the 20th century. All this while leaving controversy, broken hearts and a changed cultural landscape in her wake. In 1975, keyboardist and bandleader Hailu Mergia got a call from the owner of Misratch Music Shop to do a recording with Asnakech and he went for it. This recording is a nearly-forgotten artifact of the remarkable icon’s singular legacy, remastered and available outside Ethiopia for the first time. It also provides a rare glimpse into Mergia’s work as a arranger-sideman in the Addis Ababa music scene.” more
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Tomasz Bednarczyk - Illustrations For Those Who
Cat No: RM495 | Room 40 | modern classical / ambient
Polish ambient composer Bednarczyk gracefully boomerangs back to Room40 with the diffuse structures of ‘Illustrations For Those Who’ nearly a decade on from his early couplet of ‘Summer Feelings’ and ‘Painting Sky Together’ landed on Lawrence English’s label “Across the late 00s, Tomasz Bednarczyk created a series of acclaimed ambient recordings that married the unsteadiness of archival technologies with an extensive palette of pastoral timbres. These recordings quietly set a particular tenor of work for a new generation of Middle Eastern European ambient composers. Following these recordings however Bednarczyk’s energies were re-directed with his time being split between a multiple of more techno oriented electronic music outings. In early 2018, following the success of his New Rome project released in 2016, Bednarczyk began exploring a new approach to his more atmospheric works. Using an incredibly reductive set-up, he took single sources and exploded their potentials. Through a process of layering and synthesis, he was able to create incredibly minimal, yet dense sound textures from very singular materials. Within a matter of weeks he had devised a new way of approaching his more ambient compositional interests. Illustrations For Those Who is the result of this first investigation. Each piece is singular in nature, in that its source is one synthesiser or instrument. The resulting pieces though are anything but singular. Rather, each of them maintains a detailed and rich sensibility built around complex cycling of sonic materials. This edition marks out an important new direction for Bednarczyk and firmly asserts him as a continued force for ambient music emanating out of Eastern Europe.” more
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Niagara - Apologia
Cat No: P024 | Príncipe | electronic
Unique psychedelic killers from Niagara, mounting a sterling debut album with Lisbon’s Príncipe five years after their first 12”, ‘Ouro Oeste’ [2013]. Trust that they have lost none of the weirdness that’s endeared them to freaks around the world ever since they emerged. If anything they’re stranger, more spaced-out and porous to wild influence... Outlining Niagara’s definitive description of contemporary exotica, ‘Apologia’ limns a frayed, buzzing sort of “Fourth World PLUS” sound, where the “PLUS” refers to their embrace of noise as an agent of chaos. But it’s not necessarily malefic chaos, and should be taken as a smart acknowledgement of the overlooked yet crucial role that roughness of grain and construction play in contrast with so many clinically smooth and even anodyne efforts from the same, imagined arena of worldly music for a new age. In allowing for the entropy of time and the inevitable infidelity of attrition to enter their soundsphere, Niagara’s organic machine music keenly reflects a natural world order without the need for algorithmic process. Their world is a fertile interplay of acoustic and electronic sources rendering hazy, fata morgana-like glimpses of musical possibility, practically triangulating the visions of likeminds such as Jamal Moss/Hieroglyphic Being and Dolo Percussion with the explorative precedents of Portugul’s Telectu to realise a fine expression of anachronistic modernism. Most of the tracks loosely work around 3 minute timeframes, lending a zig-zagging mosaic quality to the tracklist in between its longer parts. Richly colourful spiritual jazz arps and raw machine grooves spring from opener ‘França’, triggering a cascade of ideas that bends between acidic kosmiche in ‘6:30’ to the heatsick boogie gliss of ’40’ and the stark emptiness of ‘Senhora Do Cabo’, to give up the gorgeous, extended flute and acid meditation ’Siena’, and mess with Vangelis-style synth majesty on ‘Via Garibaldi’, before spending their coolest energies in the drowsy Afro-latin swagger of ‘Cabo Verde.’ It’s hard to ignore the fact that Alberto, António and Sara a.k.a. Niagara have distilled their sound to imperfection on ‘Apologia’, resulting one of 2018’s most crucial and vital electronic albums. more
Kosmose - First Time Out
Cat No: SR437 | Sub Rosa | industrial / wave / electro
First ever pressing of a 1975 psych throw-down by soon-to-become important members of the Belgian wave underground; Alain Neffe, Guy Marc Hinant, and friends “Something undoubtedly cosmic but with a DIY, home-made edge: a cosmos for sure, but dirtier than clean, noisier than technology-based. All songs are unreleased. Recorded and mixed in March 1975. After some years rather cosmic and raga-esque music, Kosmose slowly began to explore some more experimental and noisy sonic expression. At the time, the band only owned a few instruments and sound effects and, no drummer. They used to play long tracks in order to follow the trend of the alternative music of the period -- remember, this was 1975. The event was a total spectacle with an inventive light-show including a stroboscope and a frantic projection of strange abstract slides on a giant screen by Freddy Pourcel. Some incense was burnt time-to-time. Personnel: Alain Neffe - monophonic synthesizer, flute, primitive rhythm box, bell, clumsy voice, tarang; Francis Pourcel - bass, bass with violin bow, electric guitar; Daniel Malempré (aka MAL) - electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar.” more
Julius Eastman - Femenine
Cat No: FR6 | FROZEN REEDS | modern classical / ambient
Première release of a pivotal piece by important American composer, Julius Eastman. After more than 40 years, Julius Eastman’s Femenine - a euphoric, colourful, and inventive work by the brilliant but criminally overlooked composer with the S.E.M. Ensemble - finally sees the light of day thanks to Finland’s Frozen Reeds, bringing to life a wondrous iteration of the highly fertile 1970s north american minimalist/modern classical nexus for a whole new generation of ears. Notable not least as the only known recording of Femenine, recorded live in 1974 at Composers Forum in Albany, New York - which makes it only the 2nd CD with Eastman’s name at the top - this release also documents the composer on piano (whilst wearing a dress, as it goes) and features his unique innovation, a set of mechanised sleigh bells, rattling throughout the 72 minute performance, which, in a way, neatly characterises the artist’s wide-open, pioneering idiosyncrasies and dichotomies for anyone new to his work. Un/fortunately, depending your perspective, far too many folk will be new to his work or even unaware of Eastman’s involvement in some true totems of the time; whether that’s as lead vocalist on Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs For A Mad King (1971), playing keys on Dinosaur L’s disco-not-disco classic 24→24 Music (1981), or conducting Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning (1983). And we say too many folk, because, all considered, until quite recently, Eastman has been long overdue the shine afforded to many of his peers and contemporaries. As a Gay, Afro-American new music composer, pianist and vocalist in the ‘70s, Eastman’s work was innately politicised and exceptional by the nature of its provenance, not to mention the music itself, which pulled from his personal history as much as wider social movements to represent a uniquely fluid perspective on minimalist music’s rigid process and presentation right up to his untimely death, aged 50 in 1990. With that in mind, Feminine stands at a crossroads between Eastman’s earlier chamber work Stay On It, and later pieces such as his iconic, majestic Evil Nigger and the ambiguous flux of emotions in Gay Guerilla; sounding quite unlike any of them thanks to its sense of communal joy (there were somewhere between 12 and 15 players) and the polymetric meter of his mechanised sleigh bells, coupled with a display of massed, pitching tonal colour that moves with the kind of deliquescent, flighty optimism that’s hard not to be wowed by. Ultimately, it genuinely lives up to the mantle of “new music” and presents its ideas in a deeply refreshing, insistent, yet never-cloying manner. A huge recommendation. more
JANEK SCHAEFER - What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing
Cat No: TRR305cd | Temporary Residence Ltd. | modern classical / ambient
‘What Light There Is’ finds Janek Schaefer feeding off and disassembling Robert Wyatt’s ‘Cuckooland’ [2003] album in his sublime style, paired with seven new, original pieces that share a captivating eldritch aura. Huge recommendation if you're into work by The Caretaker, Philip Jeck, WIlliam Basinski. Continuing a series of releases reverential of significant British composers, writers and artists such as J.G. Ballard and John Tavener, Janek treats Robert Wyatt’s material with the same poetic license. What follows is an immersive, hypnagogic episode from the mental realm between waking life and dreamspace, gently teasing the pastoral loveliness of Wyatt’s music into a woozy, heavy-lidded parallel dimension. As always with Schaefer’s work, the idea of nostalgia and the fidelity of memory is also key to the appeal of ‘What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing’. In the 21 minute title piece, commissioned by the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury and presented as a multi-channel radio installation, Schaefer revels in the profundity of Wyatt’s work with poignant slivers filtered into gaseous shapes suggesting a fleeting mix of pastoral glory and somnambulant melancholy comparable with the most striking Philip Jeck works, or the trace echoes of memory supplied by The Caretaker. The other seven pieces follow with a more cinematic appeal, as though we’ve dozed off during a midday matinee programme in middle England and slipped into a silvery phantasy of medieval gallantry and posh English gentry, before nods to Schaefer’s Polish ancestry flicker into his nostalgic reverie via the bobbling loops and glitching chorales of his three ‘Corah’ pieces. Stunning. more
Jana Winderen - Spring Bloom In The Marginal Ice Zone
Cat No: TONE65 | Touch | modern classical / ambient
Presenting richly detailed hydrophone recordings of algae development in the rapdily depleting Arctic, Jana Winderen’s latest research is a fascinating and acutely topical study of ‘Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone’. Prefaced by a sobering interview with world-renowned Professor of Marine Science, Carlos Duerte, the album presents headphone and speaker mixes of the title track, offering an immersive sonic inspection of the transitional area between open sea and sea ice, where the world’s biggest bloom of phytoplankton - the micro-organisms that produce half of the oxygen on the planet - accounts for the most critical CO2 sink in the biosphere. The results are unmistakably foreboding, layering the sounds of blooming plankton with the tense cracks, pops and creaks of sea ice, and the subaquatic sound of bearded seals, migrating humpbacks and orcas, crustaceans and spawning cod, into a properly suspenseful and eerily alien experience. more
Mutant Beat Dance - Mutant Beat Dance
Cat No: RHM 027 | Rush Hour | industrial / wave / electro
Revolving around hot-wired sluggers, Melvin Oliphant III (Traxx), Beau Wanzer and Jason Letkiewicz, Mutant Beat Dance turn out a monstrous debut album packing 25 tracks of zig-zagging, raw electronic blatz for the dancefloor and beyond. Including more gear than you can shake three sticks at, the MBM posse make up for lost time since their ‘PolyfonikDizko’ [2014] outing by throwing some of their strongest gear into the pot and stirring it good and proper for those dancers and DJs who prefer buffets over fine dining. That’s not to say this all ain’t tasty AF, but there is a f***ck tonne of it. We could be here all day playing favourites, but there are some obvious numbers to highlight and give taste of the breadth of styles on offer. Most unexpectedly, the trippy recursions of ‘From Another Source’ come off like a cyberpunk take on Torsten Pröfrock’s Traktor aces, Funk Groove (skit) sounds like a killer reworking of Prince's Erotic City while ‘Revival 80s’ trades in killer proto-Drexciyan vibes; ‘Midi’ offers proper, scowling darkwave pressure. For the sickest sequencer tweaks, check out the ruddy swerve of ‘Uncanny Ignorance’, and try not to buckle in the psychoactive recursions of ‘The Fear of Future and Euphoria’ or spin your limbs off in the razorblade whirling arps and scissoring rhythms of ‘No Ambition’. more
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Reto A Ichi - The Lapse of the Exchange / Alone Moving Often
Cat No: K7363D | !K7 Records | electronic
Reto A Ichi is the new alias of Guillermo Scott Herren, also known as Prefuse 73. "The act of escaping that which is predestined. / A hustle. Reto A Ichi is a sonic tabula rasa for Guillermo Herren AKA Prefuse 73. There are identifiable elements of the artist you already know - an uncanny sense for rhythm, an ability to shape samples and frequencies like clay, an affinity for the subtle changes of repetition - yet this is first and foremost music born from the need for silence. There is no easy entrance point or index for the listener. The first album, The Lapse of Exchange, is the sound of life as heard from a small Chinatown window in downtown Manhattan, the thunder of populism on the horizon. The album opens with music that reflects the inherent tension between the life of the artist - the self-doubt, the late nights, the aspirations - and the world outside - the hustle and bustle of a city that never sleeps, the wars abroad, the politicians at home. It's a tension felt in the repeating, circling keys of "Let The Pianos Freeze", the pulsating rhythms of "No Juntos", or the call and response of pitched vocal samples in "A Sword In The Rain". Ultimately it all becomes too much for our unwitting hero: the car horns outside the window, the 24 hour news cycle, the early stages of an election that tears down any remaining semblance of normality. Reto A’ichi can no longer grasp his humanity or connect to that of people around him. With the walls closing in, he packs his small life and escapes. This change in situation is reflected in the second half of the album, with tension giving way to a rush of emotions: modulated elation on "All Regrets", sweeping melancholy on "Tuesdays Always Awful", and soaring hope on "Broad Plant Pt.2". On Alone Moving Often, the second album, we find Reto A’ichi away from the city, lost in the vastness of empty summer houses and the complications that solitude brings. Sitting in the prison of his own quiet, Reto A’ichi seeks to capture the essence of silence: the compositions are stripped back further ("Pforever Reto"), the instruments given prominence ("So Contra"), and the chaos of the city replaced by the cacophony of nature ("Criminality"). To be alone, one must learn to constantly move in both work and purpose. As the rest of the record unfolds, Reto A’ichi comes to realize that nothing is ever truly quiet and that to run from the world is to simply find yourself in another part of it. A sense of acceptance for these unsettling realities is reflected in the music, from the harsher tones and frequencies that resonate throughout "Noise Counter Melody" and "Ghost Arpeggio" to the heavy stroke of the keys on "Alone Moving Often" and the haunting drone of "Mountainside Hillside"." more
Ames Sanglantes - Chindia Tower Impalements
Cat No: HOS589 | Hospital Productions | extreme / noise / computer music
‘Chindia Tower Impalements’ is Âmes Sanglantes’ foul and torrid 3 hour dedication to Vlad The Impaler, the infamous Voivode of Wallachia during the 15th century. Three years after the original tape release, and in parallel with a new 3CD reissue, Hospital Productions see fit to dispense this downloadable version, remastered for purpose by Paul Corley. “Âmes Sanglantes means "bloody souls". Nowhere else in Âmes Sanglantes' sprawling and massive wild/punk/junk discography has this idea been more focused than on the epic and original Chindia Tower Impalements, as well as on cult tapes like Anti-Anti (1999), Mega Star Barbies, Violation, and the immense and impossible 12-hour-long Crackdown cassette box from Hospital Productions last year. This newly remastered version is the definitive document revealing the cruelty of the Wallachian landscape myths and realities. Dracula vs. Vlad Tepes... Caustic, brittle, and eerie, the six long-duration tracks secure Âmes Sanglantes as one of the most original and overlooked extreme electronic monikers of the '90s North American cassette underground. Distorted but textural where the voices of young androgynous screams mingle together with chirping birds and wolf breath. It's the subtle layering and tape splicing structure beneath the crust that elevates this above the average "noise" recording. You will have to dig and claw past the walls built out of clay bricks, but beyond that is a rich and subtle world of loops equal parts Georges Braque and William Basinski, like collapsing scaffolding melting and crumbling on top of each other. This is rotting electro-acoustic studies where one can see a portrait float to the surface in the rippling and muddy puddles. Shockingly, after nearly 100+ cassette-only release since 1996, this comes forward as the first Âmes Sanglantes compact disc. A true student of the '90s, you'll find a stunning presentation that is equal parts in reference to Cold Meat Industry as well as Japan's Alchemy Records. So open up the old CD changer, light a few candles, and a pour the red wine for an epic that revives the imagination of times lost and losses yet to come. RIYL: William Basinski, Incapacitants, Brighter Death Now, and the early works of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement. Remastered by Paul Corley (Oneohtrix Point Never, Ben Frost, Prurient).” more
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JON PORRAS - Voices Of The Air
Cat No: BING143 | Ba Da Bing! | modern classical / ambient
Barn Owl’s Jon Porras (Elm) arrestingly redresses his sound from the ground up in ‘Voices Of The Air’, a diaphanous new album of tempered ecstasies crafted with the multi-timbral voices of the Yamaha DX7 synth “Taking the Yamaha DX7 as his main instrument on Voices of the Air, Porras read about John Chowning's work with FM synthesis, where a sound waveform's frequency, called the carrier, is modulated with a frequency similar in range. The result is a nuanced and multidimensional voice, and the possibilities are endless. Yamaha specifically licensed Chowning's creations for the DX7, and Porras spent a sleepless weekend poring through the manual, figuring out how to build textures. Taking a conscious step away from improvisation, Porras used these new sounds "as a plastic source to shape and mold." He stacked, arranged and adjusted through digital synthesis and effects. "The process felt like mixing paint to get the right color and texture, then laying down a brushstroke, each day returning to the canvas to build on something I left there from the day before," says Porras. Once he had the basic structures he experimented with them in live performance,e took the stand-up comedian route with new material and tried out performing it live, (kinda weird esp in the experimental music context ha) seeing what worked, what provoked reactions in the audience, how to perfect each composition to its ideal form. This process went from June 2017 to February of this year, when into he recorded the album at Gary's Electric Studio in Greenpoint with Al Carlson to record the album. Voices of the Air broadcasts these intricate balance of sounds that slowly set together like wet concrete. In their final forms, Porras has created an album of delicacy and power, one that is only fully realized by a listener ready to allow it to take full effect.” more
Smith & Mighty - Ashley Road Sessions 88-94
Cat No: SMLP30 | Tectonic Recordings / Punch Drunk Records | jungle / footwork
Punch Drunk & Tectonic pay dues to pivotal Bristol duo Smith & Mighty with an unmissable compilation marking 30 years of crucial, if overlooked, influence on Avon bass styles and the UK scene at large. Anyone into dubby strains of breakbeat rave, jungle, dubstep - the ‘ardcore ‘nuum - needs to check this one! Weighing in 10 massive riddims recorded between 1988-1994, ‘The Ashley Road Sessions’ drills down to the mutant roots of deep, UK rave music as a synthesis of Jamaican dub, rolling hip hop breaks, deep house pads and nagging electronics - a sound that was arguably unprecedented in British dance music for its bias toward proper, wide and glutinous subbass and stoned, rolling structures, rather than wide-eyed nuttiness. Back in the late ‘80s this sound sort of had parallels in the rolling dance forms of SoYo bleep techno and NYC house, but Smith & Mighty were out on their own in Bristol, a city steeped in Caribbean culture perhaps more than any other in the UK. It was here that Smith & Mighty shaped a definitive Bristol sound at the time when The Wild Bunch and Massive Attack were also coming into their own. It’s maybe stating the obvious that Massive Attack have had the most financial success since then, but ask almost any Bristolian DJ or raver and they’ll tell you Smith & Mighty were the real dons of that era. ‘Ashley Road Sessions’ is another timely reminder, then, where needed, of S&M’s masterfully grooving, deep and rude style. Stepping down the timeline from Bristol Sound Archive’s ‘The Three Stripe Collection 1985-1990’ to the most critical phase of UK rave music circa 1988-1994, you’ll hear acid house moulded for play on proper sound systems, with proper scoops that could recreate the sensuous pressure of their subs and crisp, lithe percussion and filigree moire of FX. Sounds that could equally work in a big dance or a packed, smoky blues, provided the system was rite and nice. If pushed to pick favourites from this set, we’d highlight the bare bones pressure of ‘Through A Dark Cloud’, where the division between UK steppers dub, D&B and hard techno is only a slight pattern change; also the beautiful slow chuggers’ recoil and spine-tracing arps of ‘Higher Than Tempo’; the skittish jungle dexterity of ‘Filmscore’; the haunting dread dub dirge ‘Tumbling (Death March)’; and the proper ravers’ spesh, ‘Always Be There (Step Up)’, but we’d be remiss to not state it’s all killer, absolutely no filler. For any with an interest in the history of UK dance music, the technoid links between dub and techno, the Black Atlantic, or who simply like getting red-eyed and having a bubble, this set is 100% indispensable. more
PLANNINGTOROCK - Powerhouse
Cat No: DFA2617 | DFA | electronic
Planningtorock - aka Jam Rostron - return with their radical fourth album ‘Powerhouse’ via DFA Records. "‘Powerhouse’ was written and recorded across Berlin, London, New York and Los Angeles. It comes couched in the precision-tooled synths that have become Rostron’s signature, though critics and fans will hear a subtle, ear worm-y shift in style here: from the Noughties US R&B swagger of ‘Transome’ and the bubbling old school 90s house of ‘Beulah Loves Dancing’ and ‘Non Binary Femme’, to the funky, flute-laced ‘Much To Touch’ (the only track on ‘Powerhouse’ to feature a co-producer, long-time friend and collaborator Olof Dreijer of The Knife).Ultimately, ‘Powerhouse’ is a celebration of liberation, a groove-filled record that sees Rostron consolidating power both personal and artistic." more
Beast - Ens
Cat No: Thrill-475 | Thrill Jockey | electronic
Bright, colourful modular magick from Mountains’ Koen Holtkamp in BEAST mode “BEAST is a new project by composer Koen Holtkamp, known for his sweeping, maximalist work with Mountains, as well as his labyrinthian solo recordings. While taking some time away from music to focus on working with light and color his approach shifted, opening himself up to new working methods which led to the creation of a virtual ensemble of sorts. The process of refocusing on music found Holtkamp gravitating towards pieces centered on simple rhythmic patterns which, when built upon one another, create elaborately intertwining castles of sound. On Ens, Holtkamp reins in his sprawling sound with new resolve, crafting tightly constructed pieces of engaging and ecstatic beauty. Ens was made during a time of anticipation of change for Holtkamp: the birth of his first child. Having recorded and mixed the album late at night and at odd hours in the months leading up to the birth and during the early sleepless days of fatherhood, Ens (which means entity or existence) is a profoundly intimate and heartfelt journey into Holtkamp’s psyche. The constant motion created by the ebb and flow of rhythmic elements connects Ens’ diverse compositions and mirrors the building expectation of such a momentous change. Holtkamp’s initial recordings as BEAST (Vol 1 & Vol 2) were mostly conceived for the immediacy and physicality of performance and were directly linked to a series of visual environments he created with 3D laser projections. As a purely studio project, Ens takes on a more precise and contemplative approach. Moments of blissful grandeur such as the convalescence of melodies in “Paprika Shorts” are at once overwhelming and crystalline in the placement and clarity of each sound. Deceptively simple pieces like “Boketto” and “Miniature” appear more sparse and subtle, but the arrangement of sounds reveal deeper levels of nuance with each listen. By carefully arranging and selecting each element, Holtkamp both references genre tropes, from classical minimalism to beat-driven dance music, and constructs a sound all his own. The intricately detailed depth of field gives the album an almost sculptural presence. This level of detail is underpinned by Holtkamp’s move towards more virtual instrumentation which he utilizes to push beyond the physical limitations of their acoustic equivalents, as well as to synthesize new instruments. As BEAST, Holtkamp has nimbly altered his process of creating dense, immersive music. Ens stands as not only the culmination of his newfound methods, but also a deeply personal moment. In crafting the graceful and passionate sonic tapestries into compact compositions, BEAST’s Ens masterfully melds the earthbound and the ethereal.” more
Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - KE I TE KI
Cat No: RM499 | Room 40 | dark ambient / drone / metal
‘Ke I Te Ki’ documents the prepared intuitions of Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda, performing live in 2015 at The Emily Harvey Foundation - former studio of Fluxus founder George Maciunas. The pair make particular use of the room’s acoustics by moving around a lot while they “play” electric fans, radios, stone flute, and other assorted ephemera, resulting a fluid dispersal of sound from all corners of the stereo spectrum. An immersive recording, prone to surprise... “This album "ke i te ki" was recorded in New York City in Fall 2015 at The Emily Harvey Foundation - a SoHo loft-style art space that was once the studio of Fluxus founder George Maciunas. Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota, whom Akio met around the early ‘80s, used to live in the same building; another former resident and friend of Akio, Yoshi Wada, was said to have done some of the carpentry and plumbing. It is a historic building of New York avant-garde culture, and the last of the artist co-ops that Maciunas created in New York City. How could this not have an effect on the recording? We had one day of preparation for the multi-track recording, performing for two nights surrounded by a limited but packed audience. The Emily Harvey loft is itself quite constrained, and Akio and I needed a significant portion of the floor to place our gear and roam around. Microphones were everywhere, since our sounds diffused across the space. My role was to set an assortment of “scenes” with field recordings, sustained drones generated by an industrial electric fan, and electronic tones and pulses from radios, et cetera. Akio then built upon these with layers of melodies and rhythmic patterns, while we both engaged in fabricating distinctive texture and timbre. Akio kept changing his instruments—such as the Analapos, the stone flute, discarded objects, et cetera—bringing surprises and sudden changes, creating contrast and powerful tension. “ke i te ki” in Japanese means the sound of an alarm, or a whistle to call attention to a hazardous event. We hoped to further develop our unconventional style by adopting a set of self-imposed rules related to the multi-directional soundscape, acoustical response to the space, implementation of visual elements, and so on. Akio suggested the name “ke i te ki” as a reminder to push ourselves further. It was a lesson for us in questioning ‘norms’ and exploring other possibilities. It’s having no determined limit or boundary.” more
ERIK GRISWOLD - Yokohama Flowers
Cat No: RM4101 | Room 40 | modern classical / ambient
Erik Griswold coaxes charmingly off-kilter, rhythmelodic ribbons of sound from his prepared piano on return to Room40 with ‘Yokohama Flowers’, his 6th release for fellow Antipodean, Lawrence English’s label. RIYL AFX’s prepared piano works, Indonesian gamelan, African thumb piano music “For over two decades, Griswold has been crafting a particular and utterly personal language around his instrument of choice. His preparations, which are in a state of perpetual refinement, are like a kind of lens; it is through them that a certain audio reading of his instrument is made possible. It’s understandable then that Griswold would be inspired by the work of Australian experimental film maker Louise Curham. Like Griswold, she too reveals a very personal reading of her surroundings through a range of preparations and expanded techniques. Discovering her work through a series of collaborations hosted by Room40, Other Film and other groups, the pair slowly developed a strong approach to joint performance. In many ways, these recorded works reflect upon those performances. Similar to her filmic works, which maintain an unfamiliar, yet tangible beauty; Griswold’s compositions remind us that the piano is never truly knowable, or known. Each composition collected here reveals another detail or way of knowing the piano. The preparations release something in excess of the instrument itself. It’s in these extensions, these ruptures of familiarity, that the language of the piano is born and reborn. It is a state of perpetual discovery and resolution, framed in composition.” more
Lionel Marchetti & Cat Hope - The Last Days of Reality
‘The Last Days of Reality’ is a broodingly enigmatic Lionel Marchetti composition performed on acoustic and electronic instruments by Decibel, a new music ensemble from Perth, Western Australia. Concrète poetry in effect... “From Cat Hope (Decibel): I first met Lionel Marchetti in Australia during the Liquid Architecture Festival in 2010. Decibel were touring our Alvin Lucier program, and Lionel was on the same bill performing a live performance set manipulating electro-acoustic materials with dancer Yoko Higashi. I was so taken with Lionel’s performances and the resulting music, that I asked him if he would write a piece for Decibel. I didn’t realise that he hadn’t done something like this before. The first work was “Première étude (les ombres)”, communicated as a text score, and premiered in 2012. I was asked by Lionel to make some recordings of ocarinas, harmonicas, and folk instruments – and I sent these to him for the creation of a ‘partition concrète d'accompagnement’– a fixed media part that is featured in the live performance. For this piece, the part comes from speakers beside each performer, and a bass amplifier beneath the piano. Like his own performances I had seen the year before, the work was naturally performative – with unique speaker and performer configurations, interesting and odd additional instruments. It was such a rich work, a remarkable combination of electronic, spatial, acoustic and textural music. The performers use the partition concrete as a score. I visited Lionel in Lyon, France in 2014, recording flute improvisations in his studio. He used these as a basis for “Une série de reflets”, again communicating via text instructions and each performer having their own dedicated speaker to interact with. “Pour un enfant qui dort”, which again requested flute sounds that were this time part of the live performance as well as the partition concrète, was also written around that time. The next work saw a more ‘compositional’ collaboration - “The Earth defeats me" began as a graphically scored work written by me and recorded by Decibel in the studio. That recording was used to make the partition concrète which is now an embedded as part of the animated score file, thanks to the software we had developed to do so. These works exist as live performances, but also as singular concrète works, when heard without the instruments. Working with Lionel has been remarkable: he has a singular way of thinking about sound and its relationship to works and images. Music concrete is a lifestyle for him, it is a way of thinking, communicating and being. These pieces enable the acoustic instruments to be part of that – extending the ideas in the partition concrete, using them structurally and texturally, as well as being part of them. When I first met Lionel, I didn’t realise he was in Australia because it was originally planned he would be travelling with French composer Éliane Radigue, performing some of her electroacoustic works, as her preferred diffuser. I would commission a work for Decibel from Élaine (“Occam Hexa II”) in 2014 and it was during that process I realised the link between them. Decibel performed Lionel and Eliane’s music together – it is music that concerns itself with the incredible power of sound, but from the most delicate and dream like perspective.” more
Various Artists - JD Twitch presents Kreaturen der Nacht
Cat No: STRUT196D | Strut | industrial / wave / electro
Optimo’s JD Twitch cherry-picks classics, rarities and percies from Germany’s original independent post-punk scene from 1979-1985, including necessary oddball grooves and songs ranging from Malaria!’s snotty ohrwurm ‘Your Turn to Run’ to Andreas Dorau’s NDW rocket ‘Fred Vom Jupiter’, an edit of Christiane F’s sleazy ace ‘Wunderbar’, and the killer disko mission of ‘Veb Heimat’ by Weltklang “This was an era of particular artistic upheaval in Germany; emphasis was placed on expression rather than technical perfection, artistic impact rather than skill. Bands consciously abandoned the English-speaking mainstream with German band names and lyrics. “Although we had a small underground scene, it was very vibrant,” explains Gudrun Gut of Malaria! “Bands like Die Haut, our first band Mania D., Malaria!... we organised gigs ourselves, hung around together in a handful of clubs like Risiko or Dschungel and went to gigs at SO36. West Germany had other regional scenes too: Düsseldorf and Köln around Der Plan and the Ata Tak label and there was the Hamburg side with Abwärts. Germany didn’t have a real music industry like the US or UK back then.” This new collection is a personal selection from JD Twitch: “The compilation is not designed to tell a definitive story of what was going on in Germany in this era; it is more an arbitrary collection of records I adore from a specific era with a specific attitude that hopefully together sum up some of the musical undercurrents in Germany at that time.” The package features a host of rare and unseen photos from the period along with extensive interviews with artists including Beate Bartel (Mania D.), Gudrun Gut (Malaria!, Mania D.) Christoph Dreher (Die Haut), Michael Hirsch (P1/E, ExKurs) and Thomas Voburka (Weltklang).” more
ART OF NOISE - In No Sense? Nonsense! (Deluxe Edition)
Cat No: 0190295837365 | Rhino | electronic
EP-4 - Lingua Franca
Cat No: WRWTFWW032CD | We Release Jazz | disco / boogie / funk
Reissue of a wicked, rugged punk-funk/no-wave/jazz-fusion blast from Japan, 1983. Sounds like Les Vampyrettes meets 23 Skidoo at Haruomi Hosono’s studio for a proper lark. Not hard to hear why 2nd hand copies are highly coveted... “Straight from the delirious minds of beautiful provocateur Kaoru Sato (who had previously released an album as R.N.A. Organism on legendary Osaka label Vanity Records) and unconventional genius Yuji "Banana" Kawashima, Lingua Franca-1 is a seamless voyage of spellbinding mutant funk grooves, joyful post-punk explorations, synth fantasies, sexy distortions, and fluid cool-no-sweat vocals. Constantly mutating in an almost biological way (similarly to Colored Music’s self-titled album), always mysterious and seductive, sometimes reminiscing of a freaky cross between PiL, Liquid Liquid, Bowie and Yello, EP-4’s debut is hard to label, although "Debonair Wave" could be a legitimate way to describe this Japan’s best-kept-secret of an album. Defying the rules wasn’t limited to sonic experimentations for band leader Kaoru Sato. To promote Lingua Franca-1, he and his crew plastered gigantic (illegal) billboards all over Shibuya and Harajuku, announcing performances in four different cities on odd hours of the same day (May 21st 1983) - and yes the shows did happen. Other of his notable antics included originally sub-titling the album Death to the Emperor Showa causing a controversy (which led to censorship and a title-change), trying to release two albums on the same day without the concerned labels being aware of the plan or, in the R.N.A. Organism days, fooling Vanity Records into believing the demo he sent them came from a foreign band (it worked). Unique personality, unique music!” more
Molly Nilsson - Twenty Twenty
Cat No: LSSN063 | Night School | industrial / wave / electro
Sterling 8th album by contemporary cold wave queen Molly Nilsson, baiting an apocalyptic near-future with some of the sweetest hooks and nagging lyrics you’ll hear before the world implodes. Lovers of John Maus, Courtney Love, and pop songs that won’t leave your head, need to give it a whirl ‘"After a cancelled flight I found myself stranded at the Tokyo airport overnight. Between my interrupted bench naps the surroundings found their way into my dreams, particularly the big banners in the departure hall stating: 2020. Not aware that they were announcing upcoming Olympic games, my imagination wandered. 2020, a leap year. The year of the rat, the election. Perfect vision. The year of hindsight. The repetition, the ritual of the superstitious. A spell cast on the approaching future; not yet there, but close enough to be seen with full clarity. The year itself seems to draw a circle around its followers, as to protect anyone who dares enter. And it all begins on a late-Capitalist night…" Twenty-Twenty is Molly Nilsson’s 8th album; the latest opus of an artist in a constant state of development and strength. Twenty-Twenty is about emerging from the husk of your old self, about binning the chrysalis and daring to stand up both to power, and also to your own limits. In 2018, we see the climate changing, democracy crumbling, inequality and injustice erupting. 2020 examines the near future, seeking out clarity, reflection, renewal and opportunity. It contains anthems so tall as to induce vertigo, leaving the taste of Euro Dance in your mouth, albeit without a four on the floor beat. Here, the pop auteur is haunted by the late Prince, channelling Courtney Love and Lou Reed, anger and love.” more
RICHARD DEVINE - Sort\Lave
Cat No: TIMESIG009D | Timesig | electronic
Atlantan electro contortionist Richard Devine presents his first significant body of work since ‘Risp’ [2012] with the complex designs and computerized soul of ‘Sort\Lave’ for Venetian Snares’ Timesig . Recorded between 2016 and 2017 on Devine’s custom Eurorack modular rig and a couple of Nord G2 units, ’Sort\Lave’ is a hi-tech rinse-out best compared with the work of Autechre or indeed, Timesig boss, Venetian Snares’ recent modular output. And we don’t use either comparison lightly. Where Devine has been releasing music on a computer for more than 20 years now, this is the first time he’s made tracks nose-to-tail on a modular set-up and the results are just staggering, and certainly worthy of those five years - pretty much since the completion of ‘Risp’ - spent just establishing the systems that would be used on the album. Within this complex modular playground/framework he goes thru his exercises like a double-jointed gymnast with a mind & body-bending disarray of polymetrics thru insectoid swarms of percussion and diffracted chromatic madness. If we’re playing favourites, the most dancefloor-ready pieces are in that list, including the tense, pendulous electro of ‘Opaque Ke’, the outstanding tech-step rolige of ‘Sentik Pin’, and the slow-fast teeter of ‘Revsic’, if you’ve got the legs for it, but if you’re in it for the next level sound design, the dizzying designs of ‘Microscopic Recurse’, the plonging torque of ‘k-0’ and the viscous roil of ‘Brux’ are waiting your dropped jaw. more
Thought Gang - Thought Gang
Cat No: SBR214cd | Sacred Bones Records | jazz / fusion
Oh my days this is amazing! David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s psycho-jazz duo Thought Gang commit a full album of music in this mode after previously racking up credits on the Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me, and Limited Event Series Soundtracks. Recorded in the early ‘90s , Thought Gang’s “long-lost” LP revolves around 12 tracks that were made years apart yet add up to a most ominous dish of huffin’ blues, psycho-jazz and tumbles into breakbeat horror themes, including pieces which have previously turned up everywhere from an Adidas commercial to Mulholland Drive and deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me. I mean, we were under no illusions as to Lynch and Badalamenti’s inimitable skills, but this set only ratchets our admiration to new levels, with pieces such as the lounge lizard freakout ‘Jack Paints It Red’, the enigmatic mash of vocals and splayed jazz beat on ‘Woodcutters From Fiery Ships’, thru to the Gray and Bill Laswell-like ‘Frank 2000 Prelude’ and the 16 minute ‘Frank 2000’, or the doomy slink of ‘Multi-Tempo Wind Boogie’, all revealing that these guys operate on a parallel plane. Welcome to your new favourite Lynch & Badalamenti record. more
Nurse With Wound - NWW Play 'Changez Les Blockeurs'
Cat No: DPROMD138 | Dirter Promotions | electronic
Nurse With Wound rework The New Blocakders rare AF 1982 début, ‘Changez Les Blockeurs’ in a mechanically reclaimed reflux of the OG, as gruesome as McNuggets, and just as tasty. For the uninitiated (or sensible-minded) listeners who are unfamiliar with The New Blockaders: they’re one of the cheeriest acts to ever emerge from Newcastle-upon-Tyne; a pair of siblings responsible for some of post-industrial/noise and avant-garde music’s greatest oddities, ranging from a severe collab with an early iteration of Coil, to pioneering cut-up recordings with Mixed Band Philanthropist, and even later recording for Prurient’s Hospital Productions. They’re basically certified noise music heroes (anti-heroes?). As ever, NWW’as Steven Stapelton was way ahead of the curve in 1982, and the first person to pick up TNB’s début LP, which he subsequently distributed via United Dairies. 36 years later, he’s returned to that slab, seemingly with a hatchet and some steam-powered Victorian loom, to extract its guts and weave them into a sound which physically lives up the record’s title; Changez Les Blockeurs. Across two sides, he hacks, splices and hacks up the OG in a tirade of frayed rhythmic complexity and decimated racket, at times sounding like a Saturday afternoon’s worth of striped geordies fed into a massive sausage grinder. As grim as your life. more
Charles Mingus - Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
Cat No: BBE453ADG | BBE | jazz / fusion
Radical discovery by Amir Abdullah of 5 two-track master tapes of the Charles Mingus Quintet recorded live in Detroit at Strata Concert Gallery. These electrifying recordings took place during Mingus’ week-long residency in February 1973. They were broadcast live by drummer/producer and broadcaster Robert “Bud” Spangler for WDET FM – a public radio station dedicated to jazz – from Kenny and Barbara Cox’s multi-purpose home for Strata Records at 46 Selden. Entrance to the gig was $5 dollars in advance and $6 on the door. "By the early Seventies Mingus’ militant musings, volatile character and hugely innovative musical offerings had already earned him global notoriety. He’d played with the Bird, Dizzy, Max Roach, Duke Ellington and had released universally acclaimed albums as a leader like ‘Blues & Roots’, Oh Yeah’ and ‘Black Saint & The Sinner Lady’. This gig – one of a Jazz In Detroit series that also included Keith Jarrett, Tribe and Herbie Hancock – took place a few months after the release of Mingus’ “third stream” masterpiece ‘Let My Children Hear Music’. The music on these tapes is blazing. According to the late Roy Brooks, the band – which included himself and fellow Detroit trumpeter Joe Gardner - had not long returned from playing two tours in Europe. Fresh to the quintet was stellar pianist Don Pullen and listening to these recordings Pullen’s church-driven power, blues sensibility and harmonic sophistication perfectly complements the bassist’s own vision. On tenor saxophone we have the soulful and innovative John Stubblefield. Like Pullen he was a recent recruit. Unfortunately, the saxophonist’s time with Mingus lasted a mere 5 months: “I got in a fight with Mingus and I shouldn't have done that. After that, I couldn't get arrested in New York." Ironically, when Sue Mingus formed the Mingus Big Band in 1992, to perpetuate her husband's legacy, Stubblefield emerged as a talismanic presence in the ensemble until he passed in 2005. Thanks to BBE, 180 Proof Records and Strata Records we can now tune in to WDET-FM and transport ourselves back to Detroit ’73, and get a taste of the furious energy and compositional sophistication of a unique and modern master at work in the most intimate of settings." more
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Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
Cat No: WARPCDD297 | Warp Records | modern classical / ambient
0PN live ensemble member, NYC’s Kelly Moran joins Warp to issue her new album of sync-ready electro-acoustic composition. “The composer, producer, keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist made an early name for herself in New York collaborating with dance performance and composing for long-term John Cage collaborator Margaret Leng Tan, and, most recently, performing around the world as part of Oneohtrix Point Never’s live ‘MYRIAD’ tour ensemble. ‘Ultraviolet’ plays to a wide, arresting array of stylistic influences, from jazz and dream pop, to classical composition and black metal.” more
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim... It's Surfer Rosa
Cat No: 4AD0084CD | 4AD | indie / alternative
30th Anniversary Edition of Pixies’ debut releases, ‘Come On Pilgrim’ and ‘Surfer Rosa’, also includes bonus 1986 Radio Concert ‘Live From The Fallout Shelter’. "It’s been thirty years since the release of ‘Surfer Rosa’ – a record made up of rage, religion, gore, incest and superheroes named Tony – a debut album so good that it’s now seen as a masterpiece. A year prior came ‘Come On Pilgrim’, an eight-track mini-album released in 1987 which contained cuts culled from their first ever studio session, where they famously recorded seventeen tracks in just three days. These formative records showed the Pixies to be an alien breed; four oddball outsiders from Boston blending US underground thrash rock, indie surf pop and Spanish-language flamenco with the Biblical mythology of Frances’s childhood. They would go on to record another masterpiece in 1989’s ‘Doolittle’ but it’s the gruesome glory of ‘Surfer Rosa’, and the ruined sexuality of its cover image (a topless flamenco dancer in a crumbling Mexican bar) that set a fresh blueprint for an indie rock dynamism that not only planted the seeds of grunge (Kurt Cobain would admit that he was trying to imitate the record while writing ‘Nevermind’) but of much of the best rock music made since. To celebrate this milestone, Pixies are playing five sold-out intimate shows at London’s Roundhouse starting this October and preceding them is the release of ‘Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa’, the thirtieth anniversary nedition which contains ‘Come On Pilgrim’, ‘Surfer Rosa’ and ‘Live From The Fallout Shelter’, a concert-cum-session that first aired in late-1986 on WJUL in Lowell, MA. Vaughan Oliver returns as designer – as with all other Pixies sleeves - to stunningly reinterpret his original artwork thirty years on, delivering a fresh take while retaining Simon Larbalestier’s iconic photographs as the centrepiece of his design." more
Cat No: BFDNL070 | Brainfeeder | beats / hip hop
Soul queen Georgia Anne Muldrow blesses her new home, Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder, with a deeply rooted but properly fresh album ‘Overload’ after taking a minute out since ‘A Thoughtiverse Unmarred’ [2015]. Watch out for the dripping late night vibes of ‘Canadian Hillbilly’ and the ruggeder knocks of ‘Play It Up’ and you’ll know which side your bread’s buttered... ““Music is my discipline. It’s my way of meditating, it’s my way of thanking God, it’s my way of communicating… It’s my way of life,” Georgia explains. Typically working alone, her new album flips that dynamic and takes Georgia out of her comfort zone for the first time since “Seeds” (2003) which was entirely produced by Madlib. “Overload” bears the fruits of numerous collaborations, most notably with duo Mike & Keys (50 Cent, Nipsey Hussle, Snoop Dogg, G-Eazy) who contribute production to four tracks including the sleek, anthemic title track - Pitchfork ‘Best New Track’ on 25 June 2018 - alongside Khalil (Dr Dre). “Overload [the album] is an experiment in restraint,” she explains. I pack myself into something as clear as possible with the help of gifted artists from all over the world. The live show is an experiment in interpretation. That's when [my band] The Righteous and I unpack into a joyful noise. Both of these dynamics have been striving to balance themselves within me since birth… since wanting to record anything. And by the grace of Patience, Discipline and Devotion, a sweet spot has started to appear.” Elsewhere Dutchman Moods and Manila’s Lustbass bring the slo-mo funk heat on ‘Aerosol’ and ‘Vital Transformation’ respectively, and Shana Jenson (Muldrow) and Georgia’s partner Dudley Perkins crop up on ‘You Can Always Count On Me’ (a cover of the Gap Band classic) and ‘These Are The Things I Like About You’. Flying Lotus, Aloe Blacc and Dudley Perkins share Executive Production credits on the album. Themes of Love, Spirituality, Self-Actualisation are woven into Georgia’s music, but she also does not shy away from politics and has been loudly and vigorously critical of the persistent state of inequality between Black and White in the US. Nowhere more directly than on ‘Blam’ - a song about self-defence. “I believe that it has the bones of spiritual song,” says Georgia. “It’s an updated negro spiritual in aesthetic”.” more
AKIRA RABELAIS - Caduceus
Cat No: SOUNDCDSS019 | Samadhisound | modern classical / ambient
Akira Rabelais' small but perfectly formed catalogue of releases has created one of the most complete and consummate identities in electronic music. On this album for David Sylvian's Samadhisound imprint, the Texan-born artist returns to the guitar - an instrument he wielded during his early years on the Austin live scene, playing in industrial bands during the 1980s. Although processed guitar music became something of a staple on the experimental electronic scene of the earlu 00's, 'Caduceus' sounds very different from other records in the field, taking on a far more radically abstract tone. 'Seduced By The Silence' introduces the record with an almost percussive, grinding sound that resembles an annihilated tabla than a stringed instrument. More subtle, implicitly melodic episodes follow, with the crumbling timbres of 'Then The Substanceless Blue' and the blissful cacophony of 'Where To Let Our Scars Fall In Love' representing early highlights. Considering this album is derived from a single instrumental source, the dynamics are remarkably broad, ranging from the quiet AM radio-style lullabies of 'Comme Un Ange Enivré D'un Soleil Radieux' to the howling distortion surges of 'Night Dances Through Heaven's Black Amnesia'. In both cases there's a magical otherness at work that goes beyond the realms of electronic music's conventional cold logic, and holds the kind of mysterious appeal you'd associate with artists like Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles. 'Surface Of Soft Steps, Violets Whisper' and 'On The Little In-Betweens' momentarily unshroud the guitar to reveal more conventional harmonic structures, while 'In A Cadence Of Vanishing' spies untreated acoustic guitar as it shifts through an ominously stationary chord sequence and a backdrop of static jetisons tarces of melody. A remarkable, deeply absorbing album from a modern great. more
The Radiophonic Workshop - Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Cat No: RWSDL003 | Room 13 | early electronic / soundtracks
Perhaps the most significant new work from The Radiophonic Workshop in its 50 years of scoring radio and TV, the ‘Possum’ soundtrack is, remarkably, their first feature length score for film, and includes material from Delia Derbyshire's archive, heard here for the first time. From the studio boffins and composers behind the influential, original Doctor Who and Quatermass soundtracks, the ‘Possum (OST)’ includes all cues from the film plus 9 bonus tracks, adding up to a bloodcurdling bevy of dread synth tones, pastoral flutes and bowed percussion notably laced with sound elements and drones from the archive of Delia Derbyshire, the legendary creator of the original Doctor Who theme tune. It’s a seriously generous set, running to 38 cues that say their piece with haunting effect, along with a number of more meaty parts, and all primed to make you double check that the doors are locked on long, cold Autumn nights. In particular the eerie, evaporating flutes of ‘Possum Sting and Undercurrent’, and the likes of ‘The Barracks’ with its cold, empty tones, or the palpitating dread of ‘Pursuit’ really put the willies up us, and will likely do the same or worse when synched with the film. While the personnel of The Radiophonic Workshop (as opposed to The BBC Radiophonic Workshop) is not disclosed, the sounds are unmistakably from that particular school of the eldritch uncanny and should be strongly recommended to fans of their classic BBC works or their Italian library/horror counterparts as much as Coil, Deathprod or Demdike Stare’s atmospheric moments. more
Harold Budd / Akira Rabelais - Avalon Sutra
Harold Budd at his very best, coupled with an extra disc featuring a 70 minute re-working by Akira Rabelais. A timeless classic on David Sylvian's Samdhisound label. It's hard to over-estimate the contribution Harold Budd has made to modern music, his seemingly effortless take on minimalism and ambience imbuing this often academic genre with all the warmth and humility so often missing from the work of his contemporaries. Best known for his collaborations with Brian Eno and the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie, Budd here delivers 14 immensely moving pieces, strewn with Piano cascades and panoramic soundscapes, drifting off into sublime, almost unbearable reflection. It's a theme that's further developed with the second of the two cd's here, featuring a 70 minute re-working of Budd's work by the remarkable Akira Rabelais: a breathless, beautiful tapestry of midnight strings and echoes of lost piano taking time to unravel, eventually displaying all the warmth and intimacy Budd has spent a musical lifetime striving to perfect. more
Toy - Happy In The Hollow
Cat No: TLV118LP | TOUGH LOVE | indie / alternative
Redshape - A Sole Game
Cat No: MTR091DNL | Monkeytown Records | techno / house
Redshape presents his 3rd and most-rounded dedication to ‘90s dance music with ‘A Sole Game’ for Modeselektor’s Monkeytown Records. In a finely honed style he worked towards since 2006, Berlin’s Sebastian Kramer a.k.a. Redshape draws from classic Detroit house, UK rave and AI, Frankfurt techno, and the endless party spirit of his home city, to render a definitive, darkly-toned self-portrait sounding every bit as synthetic, romantic and classic as the CD’s cover art looks. “In typical Redshape style, the eight tracks of A Sole Game take you on a journey through nighttime worlds and dusky industrial landscapes haunted by howls and other strange voices. It’s obvious that one of the most important goals was to craft a perfectly seamless whole of an electronic album that works without interludes or what others would consider “album material”. Each track is a universe of its own and ready to be played in a club. A limited amount of instruments made it possible for the songs to sound quite homogenous despite being constructed very diversely. Most of the melodic structures stem from a Prophet 12 synth, most of the drums from the duo of 808 and 909, providing a warm and analogue sound. This kind of traditionalist techno setup allowed for a fast and immediate workflow while recording the foundations of each track. Later on, Kramer took these recordings and elaborately arranged and processed them, trying to maintain the sometimes naive and pure emotions of the initial recordings and establish an organic feel. By fusing this proper songwriter approach with the codes of techno, Redshape takes a big step forward in his musical evolution.” more
William Basinski + Lawrence English - Selva Oscura
Cat No: TRR312dig1 | Temporary Residence Ltd. | modern classical / ambient
Preeminent sound artists William Basinski and Lawrence English roll out the quietly breathtaking ’Selva Oscura’ as the first fruit of their collaborations spanning the past half decade and more. Mantled in reference to Dante’s Inferno, ‘Selva Oscura’ literally translates to ‘Twilight Forest’, a title which serves as metaphorical device for the way Basinski and English’s lives in transit have serendipitously crossed paths over the years between Zagreb, L.A., and Hobart, in a variety of situations. On another level it also speaks to the nature of losing one’s way in place and time, which is beautifully reflected in the music’s disorienting, otherworldly ebb and flow flux. Using a palette of sounds broken down, magnified and inverted from macro to micro scales and vice-versa, and mailed to each other between L.A. and Brisbane, the results map out vast tracts of psychic terrain that shift like the sands of time, with sounds perpetually rearranging themselves on the granular level to render a broader, slow moving tapestry of sublime, anaesthetic quality. The A-side’s ‘Mono No Aware’ (Japanese for “the pathos things” or “a sensitivity to ephemera”) is a captivatingly transient and hypnagogic work of sferic tones and sprawling wide bass, lulling listeners into a state of lushest melancholy with the allure of a time-lapse video of autumnal weather patterns. ‘Selva Oscura’ follows with a discernibly darker and submersed appeal, as though the clouds have come down to us (or us to them?) and we’re left wandering the firmament, initially swaddled in a creamy grey-pink expanse marbled with pealing partials, before crossing oceanic basses and gently touching down to pinch ourselves. more
Primitive Knot - Thee Opener Of The Way
Cat No: ABX073 | AURORA BOREALIS | dark ambient / drone / metal
Steeply hypnotic and immensely powerful mix of possessed drone, doom metal and pounding motorik rhythms from Manchester’s Primitive Knot, who, being local and all, we’re ashamed to say we’ve never seen before, but will do on the strength of this evidence presented by Aurora Borealis (home to The Haxan Cloak, KTL, Burial Hex) “Hailing from Manchester, UK, Primitive Knot have created a cult underground following with their prolific output and aura of arcane mystery. Primitive Knot cover a lot of musical ground, from motorik Krautrock to primitive thrashing doom metal, garage rock to the kind of industrial pop bombast associated with latter era Sisters of Mercy. Yet at all times, the sound is pure Primitive Knot. ‘Thee Opener Of The Way’ sees Primitive Knot exploring the spiritual outer realms with drone, doom and dark ambient methodology, delivering over an hour of shamanic cosmic drift. ‘Thee Opener Of The Ways’ collects the sold out tape releases of ‘DOOM I’ and ‘DOOM II’, combining them with the tracks ‘Thee Opener Of The Way’ and ‘Devotion And Decay In Interstitial Space’ to bring this material to a wider audience in a cohesive album format.” more
Cassette out of stock
THE BETA BAND - The Three Eps (20th Anniversary Remaster)
Cat No: BEC5543616 | BECAUSE | indie / alternative
The Beta Band's hugely collectable‘The Three EPs’, available for the first time on a deluxe vinyl reissue. "Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996. Innovative and singular, their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for a relatively short period of time, the three albums and three EPs they released between 1996 and 2004 would nonetheless help define them as one of the most exciting and cherished bands of their generation. This is a deluxe vinyl edition gathering in a slipcase the EPs ‘Champion Versions’, ‘The Patty Patty Sound’ and ‘Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos’ with remastered tracks and coloured vinyl edition." more
Box Set (4LP + CD) out of stock
THOM YORKE - Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
Cat No: XL936DA | XL Recordings | early electronic / soundtracks
Following the fleeting reveal of instrumental passages in two trailers and the release of the track 'Suspirium' - Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) is finally here. "Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work, interstitial pieces and interludes, and more traditional song structures featuring Thom’s vocals such as “Unmade”, “Has Ended” and “Suspirium,” the album's first single featuring the melodic theme that recurs throughout the film and its score. As scoring a horror film presented Thom with altogether new challenges and opportunities, Suspiria stands apart from any of his other work. Piano/vocal ballads, Krautrock-esque modular synth work inspired by the film’s Berlin 1977 setting, multilayered vocals, and melodies that convey terror, longing and melancholy combine to create a chaotic yet cohesive musical spell. Suspiria was written and arranged by Thom Yorke, recorded and produced by Thom and Sam Petts-Davies. The album also features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, Noah Yorke on drums on “Has Ended” and “Volk,” and Pasha Mansurov on solo flute on “Suspirium.” more
Colour 2LP £22.49
2CD £9.99
Jessica Moss - Entanglement
Cat No: CST138cd | Constellation | modern classical / ambient
Haunting, rustic works for strings, synths and voice by Jessica Moss, violinist for A Silver Mt. Zion “Jessica Moss, the violinist, composer and singer best known for her fifteen-year tenure in political post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion, is newly ascendant as a soloist, captivating audiences with gritty, warmly expressive electronic- and drone-inflected post-classical Minimalism (and sometimes Maximalism), accented by a distinctive melodic sensibility that channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes. On Entanglement, her new and second album, Moss channels quantum theory as a metaphor for creating energetic connections through esoteric processes. Using violin (and occasionally, voice) as sound source, her compositions are set in motion like entangled particles – spinning, ricocheting, warping and stretching in extra-dimensional space. Moss has played 80 shows in the past year and Entanglement is also profoundly informed by her experiences travelling alone, giving concerts in precarious spaces preserved by passionate subcultural communities, attempting fragile, intimate, abstract transmissions through sound and performance. This is long-attention-span music that wonderfully synthesizes form and substance, spit and polish, austerity and lushness, expansiveness and intimacy. Entanglement is a deeply felt and deeply rewarding work that testifies to the unique stylistic and textural space Moss is carving out in the contemporary/New Music continuum.” more
Bruce - Sonder Somatic
Cat No: HESLP004D | HESSLE AUDIO | techno / house
‘Sonder Somatic’ is the debut Bruce album for Hessle Audio. If Monolake came thru in the UK during the post-dubstep phase, his music may have sounded a bit like this one. “Bruce – AKA Larry McCarthy – is set to release his debut album Sonder Somatic this October on UK imprint Hessle Audio. The album packs 11 singular UK club tracks that evoke a distinctly emotive and dense energy, channelling detailed sound designs, tangled textures and club anthems for 2018 and beyond. The record is deeply varied in styles, ideas and tempos; from the tight rhythmic groove of album opener 'Elo' to the weaponised onslaught of ominous club cuts 'What' and 'Cacao' - through drifting, meditative techno and the skeletal sound design of 'Ore' and 'Baychimo.' Each track shifts the tonal mood in subtle and distinct ways, whilst retaining a consistent icy sound palette infused with colour and human warmth. The shapeshifting Hessle Audio imprint is run by Pearson Sound, Ben UFO and Pangaea. For over ten years, through their combined tastes they have continued to unravel and explore the edges of sounds and ideas from the wider dance music scene, across the boundaries of the functional and the experimental, with consistently innovative results. As a long time follower of the label, Bruce wanted to craft an album that continues their singular attitude and approach; incorporating vibes from UK soundsystem music as well as music from his home town of Bristol. "From being a fan of their work from the very beginning, it's not only the music they have released that has informed my taste/work, but also the journey they have formed through the application of their attitude and approach." - Bruce Much of Sonder Somatic was shaped by Bruce's own understanding of club culture as a whole, and predominantly his personal relationship with it both professionally and recreationally. The album was partly written as an attempt to capture that rare transformative feeling that can cause you to fully lose yourself in a club space, disconnecting from your immediate environment for a short time. Sonder Somatic follows EPs for Timedance, Livity Sound, Idle Hands and Hemlock, and comes 4 years after his debut EP 'Not Stochastic' for Hessle Audio. The album pushes the boundaries of what club music can be whilst expertly refining his work as both a club producer and an experimental sound designer. With a unique sense of flair that sets him apart, Sonder Somatic is set to raise Bruce's profile across all corners of the dance world.” more
Julia Holter - Aviary
Cat No: WIG417D | Domino Recording Co | indie / alternative
After a series of increasingly inward-looking, conservative LPs since her stunning debut, Julia Holter finally unleashes her imagination in technicolour once again on ‘Aviary’, an expansive observation of the ratchet madness that makes up the world today. “Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” Out on October 26th via Domino, it’s the Los Angeles composer’s most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, it takes as its starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: "I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds." It’s a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with its endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void Aviary, executive produced by Cole MGN and produced by Holter and Kenny Gilmore, combines Holter's slyly theatrical vocals and Blade Runner-inspired synth work with an enveloping palette of strings and percussion that reveals itself, and the boundless scope of her vision, over the course of fifteen songs. Holter was joined by Corey Fogel (percussion), Devin Hoff (bass), Dina Maccabee (violin, viola, vocals), Sarah Belle Reid (trumpet), Andrew Tholl (violin), and Tashi Wada (synth, bagpipes).” more
Heather Leigh - Throne
Cat No: EMEGO257 | Editions Mego | electronic
Jesus this album is incredible. Heather Leigh channels Kate Bush and Coil via lapsteel guitar and staggering vocals on a her new album for Editions Mego. Following her previous solo LP ‘I Abused Animal’ for Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ with a record that few beyond her inner circle could have predicted. Epic in scope, devastating on impact. Do not miss this one! “Heather Leigh takes her Throne as queen of pedal steel with a suite of heartbleed ballads cauterised with burning riffs. After the rawness of its precursor I Abused Animal, Throne is a record of late night Americana and heavy femininity; intimate love songs smoked in sensuality. The songs on Throne are woozy, gorgeous and uncomfortable, smothered in thick layers of bass but lifted by multitracked vocals. These are rich song forms that stand in contrast to the stripped down steel in her duo with Peter Brotzmann. Prelude To Goddess sashays in wearing leopard print jeans under the twinkling fluorescent illuminations of the British seaside, like Brighton Rock with extra bass. It is followed in by Lena – arguably Leigh's Jolene – a perverse love song soaked in a subversive sexuality, weighed down with a heavy pulse. Soft Seasons is anchored with sunken beats shrouded in wailing, growling steel and an earwormy melody. Gold Teeth, the longest track on the record, crests and breaks in waves; ecstatic peaks balanced and echoed by melancholic troughs. It soars on an updraft, and from cosmic heights dives seaward into a gnarly and riotous pedal steel breakdown, before catching the breeze again. Days Without You and Scorpio & Androzani are shorter, intimate songs, in the latter the synths seethe and the steel bows and bends as Leigh's voice falters above a Greek chorus of shadows and reflections. But this isn't autobiography, and Throne departs on Days Without You, a confrontationally unfinished romantic song, anxious with half-thoughts and missed connections. It glides into the night on stilettos leaving unanswered questions, in a fug of psychic disturbance and lovesick sensuality. Leigh's artwork (which she photographed and designed) is a visual mirror of the songs on Throne. It is an album of cosmic echoes, abstractions and introspection, of characters and stories that make up Leigh's first best pop record, its melodies and hooks set alight with the fiery core of her unique and distinctive pedal steel. - Jennifer Lucy Allen, 2018” more
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Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.
Peer to peer post-scarcity computing
Trinity College Library, Dublin.
In previous notes on post-scarcity hardware (here and here) I've assumed a single, privileged, main memory manager which maintains the canonical memory pool. All requests for memory objects go to that manager, and new non-private memory objects must be created in the address space managed by that manager. The memory manager thus becomes both a bottleneck and a single point of failure.
In the second note, I'd suggested that memory should be allocated in pages with each page belonging to a single thread. On true post scarcity hardware, that means that each page could physically co-reside with the processor on which that thread was run. That processor would be responsible for curating its own memory objects (which in essence means updating their reference counts, and garbage collecting them when they're no longer required).
Memory objects would still be requested by other processors by outputting the request on the address bus. Because memory objects are immutable, any processor which currently holds a copy of the requested object can respond by outputting that copy onto the data bus. Whether this is a win depends on topology, but my own mental model of the internal arrangement of the processor array is that each node has direct communication with eight nodes on the same layer, and nine on each of the layers above and below.
In this model there's no physical space to route a single address/data bus pair which connects every node, so the model is necessarily store-and-forward like old-fashioned Usenet, so it would be a win for the topographically nearest node which has the data to respond with it. This does of course require that every node can trust every other node to obey the rules of the system.
Reference counts are of course not immutable, but no node but the canonical owner of the memory object needs to know anything about them. Of course, when a node which is not the canonical owner of the memory object passes a copy of the object to a third node, it must communicate back to the canonical owner to update the reference count; and when a node holding a copy of an object deletes that copy, it must again communicate back to the canonical owner that the copy no longer exists.
It also means that, for any object, when the reference count of that object on its canonical node hits zero, it must not be deleted immediately, because an 'add reference' message may still be propagating through the system; instead, it must be queued to be deleted, and held in that queue for the maximum time it could reasonably take for a message to propagate.
There are some problems I haven't worked out, which may make this idea unworkable. Suppose a node (A) requests a memory object (1) from each of its 26 neighbours. None have it, so each passes the request on to each of its neighbours which haven't yet received the request. One node in this second shell, (B), has a copy of (1) and responds. How do we communicate with each of the nodes currently retransmitting the request that the request has been satisfied? If the 'cancel' message propagates though the system at the same speed as the original message, then it can never catch it.
For sending 'update reference' messages to work effectively, each node must know which single one of its neighbours is nearer to the target node of the message, but this does not seem to me in itself problematic. Obviously broadcasting 'update reference' messages across a store-and-forward network would be dreadfully inefficient. But is broadcasting 'have you got' messages any more efficient than simply querying nodes on the direct route to the canonical owner? I'm not sure.
And, when receiving a copy of a broadcast message, its obviously desirable that each node should only rebroadcast it only to nodes which have not yet received it. But is it computationally cheap to know which nodes that will be? I think so, but I'm not confident and will have to prove it.
Finally, the single memory manager acted as a single point of failure. But a system in which every single node is the canonical owner of a segment of the memory map means that the loss of any node could mean catastrophic failure if that node was the canonical owner of some widely used object. Obviously if the object is widely used it's likely that many nodes will have copies of it, so it's probably possible to rebuild at least the critical bits of the missing node's memory.
But how does one construct an algorithm to decide which node should take canonical responsibility for the orphaned memory objects? How does one construct an algorithm that would scale, as nodes are progressively lost?
This I don't know.
Posted by Simon Brooke at 10:31
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A really interesting map of Scotland
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The fool on the hill by Simon Brooke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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Dragon Quest V: I Bet There's Going To Be a Reprint
Square Enix published Dragon Quest IV and Dragon Quest V for the Nintendo DS on their own but they had Nintendo publish Dragon Quest VI and Dragon Quest IX. Apparently Square Enix underestimated demand on Dragon Quest V because it sells for about $55-60.
The same thing happened with Super Mario All-Stars, Persona 2, Digital Devil Saga, Shin Megami Nocturne, and Mario Dance Dance Revolution. All of them were eventually reprinted. The price of the game on the resale market is the best indication to a publisher that they didn't make enough and are passing up on some easy money by turning the printing presses back on.
I have a new found love for the Dragon Quest series after playing IX (my first Dragon Quest game) and DQVI. I plan to get Dragon Quest V too, but I think I will be waiting for the inevitable reprint.
Can you think of any CD based games where the publisher didn't reprint the title when the resale price was higher than the retail price? If you do you might be able to convince me to pay the extra money to get my Dragon Quest fix.
Author: JJ Hendricks 7 comments
Labels: nintendo ds , rare games
NBA Elite 11 is a Super Rare Video Game
There is a new rare game for Playstation 3 fans to collect - NBA Elite 11.
NBA Elite 11 sells for about $300 used and $350 new and only eight copies have sold so far.
Why is this game so rare and will it be a good collectible in the future?
NBA Elite 11 History
NBA Elite 11 was developed at Electronic Arts as a reinvention of their NBA Live series of basketball games. The game was originally slated to come out in September 2010 to coincide with the start of the new NBA season, but it was delayed due to quality issues.
In November, EA officially canceled the game and said any future NBA games would be handled by a different developer. BUT a few copies were sent to retailers as samples. AND a few of those samples made their way to eBay.
I've contacted two of the sellers who listed copies of this game and both confirmed they were samples from Electronic Arts but apparently it is the complete version of the game.
How Rare is NBA Elite 11?
With games like this it is hard to say how many copies actually exist. When a game is canceled the publisher stops marketing efforts so copies of the game will no longer ship to retailers or reviewers. Anyone who had a copy is generally supposed to send it back to EA so it can be destroyed.
Right now there are eight confirmed copies of the game in the wild, but more copies can come on the market at any time. Other retailers or reviewers might still have copies they can decide to sell, or EA might decide to sell all their copies at some point.
For now, the game is probably the rarest Playstation 3 game - even more rare than Uncharted 2: Fortune Hunter Edition and Dead Space Ultra Limited Edition. which had 200 and 1,000 copies respectively. BUT there is a risk that at some point thousands of copies of the game will flood the market.
Do you think it is worth the risk? Will it stay a super rare game?
Labels: playstation 3 , rare games
Sealed & Graded Stadium Events Up For Auction with Reasonable Price
A few weeks ago we wrote about the Stadium Events Merry-Go-Round and the auction with the ridiculously high $500,000 price. The seller decided to list it in a straight auction with a starting bid of $0.01 but there is a reserve.
The auction is up to $21,800 now, which is $1,000 lower than the price they paid. With more than three days left in the auction, I think there is a good chance the seller will at least break even.
Labels: nes , rare games , stadium events
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Time to plan for mentored youth hunts in Pa.
Categories: Archery, Bear Hunting, Birds, Camping, Conservation, Deer, Deer Hunting, Hiking, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Shooting Sports, Wildlife
Posted at 09:28:59 PM on August 31, 2010
Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe encourages experienced hunters, who have historically helped pass along the state’s rich hunting heritage, to consider introducing youths to hunting through the Mentored Youth Hunting Program (MYHP).
“Since 2006, Pennsylvania’s hunters have been taking advantage of a remarkable opportunity to introduce those under the age of 12 to hunting through the Mentored Youth Hunting Program,” Roe said. “Hunting is deeply woven into the cultural fabric that
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Bald eagles make early arrival at Hawk Mountain
Categories: Birds, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Film, Hiking, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Science, Travel, Wildlife
awk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, reports that its annual autumn hawkwatch is shaping up to be an interesting season in the skies. Just two weeks into the count, numbers of many species are above average for this time of year, and none more so than the Bald Eagle…especially on Thursday, August 26, when Research Biologist David Barber tallied 36 Bald Eagles, the second-highest one-day count in Hawk Mountain history.
The highest one-day count occurred in 1950 when 48 Bald Eagles sailed south. The August 26 tally is the highest one-day count since the DDT-era, and further sign of recovery of this species in the lower 48 states.
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is recognized internationally as the
Game commission seeks to prevent CWD from entering Pa.
Categories: Archery, Bear Hunting, Birds, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Deer, Deer Hunting, Government, Hiking, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Shooting Sports, Travel, Wildlife
With thousands of Pennsylvania hunters heading off to hunt big game in other states and Canadian provinces, Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe reminds hunters that, in an effort to prevent the introduction of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) into the Commonwealth, the agency prohibits hunters from importing specific carcass parts from members of the deer family – including mule deer, elk and moose – from 18 states and two Canadian provinces.
Roe noted that this importation ban is a revised executive order signed into effect in July, and affects hunters heading to: Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan,
Dove and Canada Goose season starts Sept. 1 in Pa.
Categories: Birds, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Government, Hiking, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Shooting Sports, Wildlife
Pennsylvania hunters are breaking out their shotguns for Wednesday, the first day of September.
Early season dove and Canada goose seasons begin today in the Commonwealth as part of Pennsylvania’s 2010-11 migratory bird seasons.
Dove hunters, once again, will have the opportunity to participate in a triple-split season. During the first season (Sept. 1-28), hunting will start at noon and close at sunset daily. The second and third splits will be Oct. 23-Nov. 27, and Dec. 27-Jan. 1, with hunting hours a half-hour before sunrise until sunset. In all three seasons, the daily bag limit will be 15, and the possession limit will be 30.
The early statewide season for resident Canada geese will open Sept. 1, and continue through Sept. 25. The early season retains a daily bag limit of eight Canada geese and possession limit of 16. However, Kevin Jacobs, agency waterfowl biologist, noted that these bag limits are restricted in certain areas.
In the Southern James Bay
Fish Report for Aug. 27, 2010
Categories: Boating, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Fishing, Flyfishing, Government, Hiking, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Trout Fishing, Wildlife
Volunteers are needed at Nockamixon State Park on Saturday to help build fish habitat. The state park, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and volunteers will build and install about 40 porcupine crib fish structure at the 3-mile Run Launch Area beginning at 8 a.m.
Volunteers should bring work gloves and a hammer. Landis Block Company of Souderton is providing the concrete blocks to sink the structures.
You should also check out the Little Lehigh Fly Shop’s website for a variety of programs and seminars that will take place beginning next month.
And, we’re still in search of photos to run with the Fish Report. Please submit your high resolution photos to our Outdoors Photo Gallery located on the Outdoors web page at www.mcall.com/outdoors and include details as to who is in the photo, the type and size of the fish, where and when it was caught, and who took the picture.
Smallmouth action has been hot on all the area rivers except the Delaware below Route 80.
Wallenpaupack Sports Shop, Hawley (570-226-4797): Mark says walleye action has picked back up on Lake Wallenpaupack. Anglers are successful trolling in
Fresh water and salt water fish report for 8/20/2010
Categories: Boating, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Fishing, Flyfishing, Hiking, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Science, Travel, Trout Fishing, Wildlife
This was a strange week for reports. Some of the regular contributors were unable to give their usual reports, but the shops that did report indicated that action is up from the past few weeks, partly due to last week's rain and the mild drop in temperatures to a more pleasant high-80s as opposed to the 90s we have been experiencing all summer.
Wallenpaupack Sports Shop, Hawley (570-226-4797): Mark says Lake Wallenpaupack has a lot of smallmouth and largemouth bass action right now. They’re going after
2010-11 Waterfowl Seasons and bag limits are set
Categories: Archery, Birds, Boating, Camping, Conservation, Current Affairs, Government, Hiking, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Shooting Sports, Wildlife
Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that the agency has made its selections for the 2010-11 migratory game bird hunting seasons and bag limits.
Annual waterfowl seasons are selected by states from a framework established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Game Commission selections were made after reviewing last year’s season results, waterfowl survey data, and input gathered from waterfowl hunters and the public. Final approval from the USFWS is expected by late September.
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The frequency of microscopic and focal active colitis in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Kamil Ozdil1,
Abdurrahman Sahin1Email author,
Turan Calhan1,
Resul Kahraman1,
Adil Nigdelioglu1,
Umit Akyuz2 and
Hacı M Sokmen1
BMC Gastroenterology201111:96
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-11-96
© Ozdil et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional bowel disorder. The frequency of microscopic colitis and focal active colitis in the colonic mucosa has been investigated in IBS patients.
Between June 2007 and September 2010, 378 patients (between 16 and 84 years) were recruited prospectively. Of these 378 patients, 226 patients were diagnosed with IBS using the Rome III criteria. 152 control patients were also enrolled who were undergoing colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening or investigation of anemia. Histopathological abnormalities identified during colonoscopy were compared between the IBS and control groups.
The average age of the IBS group was 46.13 ± 14.16 years and and the average age of the control group was 57.01 ± 13.07 years. The prevalence of microscopic colitis (MC) in the diarrhea predominant and the mixed subgroup of IBS patients was 4.32% (7/162) whereas in all IBS patients, the prevalence was 3.09% (7/226). MC was not found in the 152 control cases, (p = 0.045). Lymphocytic colitis was seen in 7 IBS patients, with 1 case in the mixed group and 6 cases in the diarrhea group and there was a significant difference in the frequency of lymphocytic colitis between the IBS subgroups (p < 0.01). Focal active colitis was found in 6.6% (15/226) of the IBS patients and in none of the controls (p < 0.01), and there was no differences between IBS subtypes.
Microscopic colitis was more often found in the diarrhea predominant/mixed subgroups of IBS patients and in patients who were older women. In patients who are older woman with non-constipated IBS, it may be reasonable to perform a biopsy to screen for microscopic colitis. Focal active colitis was significantly increased in patients with IBS compared to controls.
focal active colitis
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder of unknown etiology without a curative treatment. In addition to abdominal discomfort and pain, relief from discomfort upon defecation and/or abdominal pain is associated with a change in the frequency of defecation and/or in the form of the feces [1]. The prevalence of IBS varies in different populations. The prevalence of IBS in Turkey was found 7.4-19.1% with female percentage between 64% and 69% [2, 3]. Similar rates have been reported in the USA and Europe and range between 6.2% and 25% [4, 5]. Although the specific location and the pattern of symptoms varies among different functional gastrointestinal diseases, there are also many common characteristics [6]. A small percentage of patients with IBS are referred to outpatient gastroenterology clinics.
In 1980, microscopic colitis (MC) was defined as having symptoms of watery diarrhea and specific histological characteristics when the colonic mucosa is macroscopically normal or near normal [7]. Currently, MC is divided into two subtypes- collagenous colitis (CC) involving chronic mucosal inflammation and a wide subepithelial band and lymphocytic colitis (LC) involving chronic mucosal inflammation and no subepithelial band. In 1976, Lindstrom showed for the first time that collagen deposits accumulated as a wide subepithelial band in the rectum and colon in patients with persistent watery diarrhea of unknown cause [8]. Some experts claim that LC is an early phase of CC [9–11]. In Europe, the annual incidence of CC is 0.6-2.3/100000 and the prevalence is 10-15.7/100000 whereas the annual incidence of LC is 3.1/100000 and the prevalence is 14.4/100000 [12–16]. MC and IBS have similar symptoms. MC not only leads to diarrhea but also causes constipation. Constipation may be short-term or chronic [17, 18].
Focal active colitis (FAC) is characterized by focal crypt damage caused by neutrophils and may be associated with infections, ischemia, Crohn's disease, partially-treated ulcerative colitis and IBS [19]. It may consist of one focus that can be detected in a single biopsy, or multiple foci. Since focal inflammation is a feature of Crohn's disease, studies of FAC have examined whether it precedes the subsequent development or diagnosis of Crohn's disease. In two studies of adult patients with FAC, it was observed that very few developed Crohn's disease [19, 20]. However, in a group of pediatric patients with FAC, a higher proportion (27.6%) went on to develop Crohn's disease [21].
The purpose of this study was to determine histopathologically the frequency of underlying organic causes of IBS, including MC and FAC, in macroscopically normal colonic mucosa.
Between June 2007 and September 2010, 378 patients (between 16 and 84 years) were recruited into the study prospectively. Two hundred and twenty six of these patients were diagnosed with IBS using the Rome III criteria and had no alarm symptoms, no chronic disease history and had macroscopically normal colonoscopy/upper gastrointestinal system endoscopic findings. There were 152 control patients who had no history of chronic disease or drug use, who were undergoing colonoscopy for reasons not related to IBS (familial colorectal cancer screening or investigation of anemia) and who had macroscopically normal colonic mucosa.
Patients with IBS were divided into 3 subgroups according to the Rome III criteria. Patients with hard or lumpy stools ≥ 25% and loose (mushy) or watery stools < 25% of bowel movements the constipation-predominant group (IBS-C). Patients with loose (mushy) or watery stools ≥ 25% and hard or lumpy stools < 25% of bowel movements as the diarrhea-predominant group (IBS-D). Patients expressing hard or lumpy stools ≥ 25% and loose (mushy) or watery stools ≥ 25% of bowel movements were defined as the mixed group (IBS-M) [22–24]. The presence of alarm symptoms (Table 1)[25], malignancy of the gastrointestinal system, inflammatory bowel disease or other chronic diseases in other systems, metabolic or endocrine diseases (diabetes, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, adrenocortical diseases), heart insufficiency, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatic cirrhosis, chronic renal insufficiency, severe depression or a history of persistent use of medications and tobocco were excluded from the analysis. All patients were examined using microscopic evaluation of the stool, a stool occult blood test, digestive stool analysis, hemogram, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, blood glucose, urea, creatinine, liver tests, thyroid hormones (free T4, TSH), anti-endomisium IgA and anti-gliadin IgG antibodies with upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (for excluding Celiac disease and other upper GIS disorders), abdominal ultrasonography and colonoscopy. During colonoscopy, terminal ileum was intubated and then two biopsy samples were taken from the cecum, ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid colon and rectum.
Alarm features considered potentially relevant in the diagnosis of organic disease as opposed to Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Family history of colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, or celiac disease
Night-time symptoms (awakening the patient from sleep)
Signs of anemia
Abdominal mass
Biopsy specimens were sent to the pathology laboratory in 10% formol solution. All biopsy samples were evaluated by two pathologists who specialized in the gastrointestinal system. Paraffin blocks were cut into 5 μm thick sections and stained with hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) and Gomori's trichrome stain. A diagnosis of lymphocytic colitis required an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes to more than 15 lymphocytes/100 epithelial cells, surface epithelial damage with increased lamina propria, plasma cells and absent or minimal crypt architectural disruption. For a diagnosis of collagenous colitis, an increase/irregularity in subepithelial collagen (> 10 μm) that typically trapped superficial capillaries was required as well as the other inflammatory changes seen in lymphocytic colitis [12]. Focal active colitis is the term used to describe focal neutrophilic infiltration of colonic crypts. It may consist of one focus in a single biopsy, or multiple foci [19].
The study protocol was approved by our Institutional (Umraniye Training and Research Hospital) Research Ethics Committee and informed consent was obtained from each subject.
Statistical analysis was performed using NCSS (Number Cruncher Statistical System) 2007 & PASS (Power Analysis and Sample Size) 2008 Statistical Software (Utah, USA), SPSS version 11.0 and Microsoft Excel. Statistical comparisons of findings between the IBS and control groups were performed by χ2 or Fisher's exact test. Logistic regression was used to adjust for differences in age and gender between groups. A p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
A total of 378 patients were included in the study, 193 were female (51.1%), and the mean age of was 50.51 ± 14.72 for all patients (range 16-84). Two hundred and twenty six patients were in the IBS groups and their average age was 46.13 ± 14.16, 125 (55.3%) were female and 101 (44.7%) were male. In the control group of 152 patients, 84 were males (55.3%), 68 were females (44.7%) and the average age was 57.01 ± 13.07 years. There was a statistically significant difference in the age distributions of the IBS and control groups (P < 0.01). Additionally, a statistically significant difference in the gender distribution between the two groups was present (p = 0.044). Lymphocytic colitis was present in 3.1% (7/226) of IBS patients and 0% of controls (p < 0.05)(Table 2). Collagenous colitis was found neither patient group, nor control group.
Demographic and pathological data of IBS and control patients
IBS (n = 226)
Control (n = 152)
a Age; Mean ± SD
57.01 ± 1.,07
0.001**
b Gender (female, %)
0.044*
b Lymphoscytic colitis
b Focal active colitis
a Student t test b χ 2 test
*p < 0.05
**p < 0.01
The IBS group of 226 patients was divided into 3 subgroups. 64 patients (28.3%) were in IBS-C, 90 patients (39.8%) were in IBS-M and 72 patients (31.9%) were in IBS-D. Serum biochemical tests, hemoglobin values and stool tests and macroscopic colonoscopic examinations were normal in all patients. MC was present in 4.32% (7/126) of non-constipated patients (diarrhea predominant and mixed) and in 3.1% of all IBS patients (7/226). However, lymphocytic colitis differed between non-constipated IBS group (IBS-D and IBS-M) and constipated IBS patients (p < 0.01). No lymphocytic colitis was seen in the constipation dominant group, only 1 case (1.1%) was seen in the mixed group and 6 cases (8.3%) were seen in the diarrhea dominant group (Table 3 and Table 4).
Demographic and pathological data of IBS subgroups
IBS subgroups
IBS-C (n = 64)
IBS-M (n = 90)
IBS-D (n = 72)
α Age (Mean ± SD)
b Gender (female,%)
β Lymphochytic colitis n (%)
β Focal active colitis n (%)
α Oneway Anova test
β χ 2 test or Fisher's exact test
Demografic characteristics of patients with lymphocytic colitis and focal active colitis
IBS Subtype
Lymphocytic colitis
(Mean age: 60.5)
IBS-D
IBS-M
IBS-C
IBS-C: Constipated predominant, IBS-D: Diarrhea predominant, IBS-M:Mixed
Focal active colitis was found in 6.6% (15/226) of IBS patients and in none of the controls (p < 0.01). There was no significant difference among the incidence of focal active colitis according to IBS subtype (p > 0.05), although there was a higher incidence in the mixed group. Of the patients with FAC, 1.6% (1/64) were in the constipation predominant group, 11.1% (10/90) were in the alternate group and 5.6% (4/72) were in the diarrhea predominant group (Table 2).
IBS is a public health problem since it is widely seen and does not have a cure [26]. Some experts claim that LC is a precursor to CC [9–11]. A previously published study evaluated 89 patients suspected to have IBS and 59 controls using flexible sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy. These authors reported that no IBS patients or controls had macroscopic or microscopic findings that resulted in a change in diagnosis. Specifically, the authors identified no patients or controls with microscopic colitis. But according to recently published a study by Kao et al. in which a total of 547 cases of MC were examined, MC had a higher occurrence in IBS than in controls (P < 0.001)[27]. Conditions such as celiac disease, IBS, and thyroid disease were found to be related to MC. Furthermore, neither an increased risk of colorectal cancer nor IBD was associated with MC [27]. Chey et al. found that colonoscopy and colonic mucosal biopsies were able to identify an alternative diagnosis in 1.9% (9/466) of non-constipated IBS patients [28]. Of these nine patients, seven had microscopic colitis, one had Crohn's disease, and one had ulcerative colitis. The overall prevalence of microscopic colitis was found to be 1.5% in a large cohort of non-constipated IBS patients. In a subgroup analysis of IBS patients over the age of 45, the prevalence of microscopic colitis was 2.3% (4/171). In our study we found that all subjects with microscopic colitis were at least 49 years old and microscopic colitis was seen in 4.32% (7/126) of non-constipated IBS patients and in 3.1% of all IBS patients (7/226). All MC patients were over 45 years old and the average age was 62 ± 8. Limsui et al. found that 56% of the 131 patients diagnosed with microscopic colitis fulfilled the Rome III criteria for IBS and that 33% had been diagnosed with IBS before receiving the diagnosis of microscopic colitis. Therefore, patients with suspected diarrhea-predominant IBS should undergo biopsies of the colon to investigate possible microscopic colitis if symptoms are not well controlled by anti-diarrheal therapy [29].
A retrospective study found that 11% (43/376) of patients with LC and 18% (30/171) of patients with CC had been diagnosed with IBS before receiving the diagnosis of MC [27]. In two large studies of patients with MC, the mean age of diagnosis was found to be in the seventh decade [27, 29]. A recent review on this topic suggested that between 18% and 34% of patients with collagenous colitis may not be identified if only rectosigmoid biopsies are obtained [30].
IBS has 3 subtypes according to its clinical course (constipation predominant, diarrhea predominant and mixed). IBS can be differentiated from MC only by histopathological investigation. Symptoms of MC are often attributed to diarrhea predominant IBS [31]. In view of this information, the present study explored if mucosal pathology, including MC, could be identified in IBS patients using microscopic evaluation, given that macroscopically, the colonic mucosa was normal.
Microscopic colitis is a rare disease [12–16]. However, Tuncer et al. reported that there is a 23.3% MC prevalence in IBS patients compared to a 5% prevalence in controls [32]. According to a study by Olesen et al., MC was diagnosed in 10% of all Swedish patients (1018 patients) with non-bloody diarrhea referred for colonoscopy. In the subset of patients older than 70, the prevalence was almost 20% [14]. Another study found that lymphocytic colitis was diagnosed in 199 cases. The female/male ratio was 2.4:1. The median age at diagnosis was 59 (range: 48-70) years. The most frequent symptoms were diarrhea (96%), abdominal pain (47%) and weight loss (41%). The symptom course was chronic intermittent in 30% of patients, chronic continuous in 7%, and single attack in 63%. MC patients may have constipation and there may be an association between MC and chronic constipation. Chronic constipation was found in 43.39% of MC patients in the study performed by Barta et al. [17, 26]. However, in our study, MC was not found in the constipation predominant IBS subgroup. According to the American College of Gastroenterology Task Force [25], "routine colonic imaging is not recommended in patients younger than 50 years of age with typical IBS symptoms and no alarm features. When colonoscopy is performed in patients with IBS-D, obtaining random biopsies should be considered to rule out microscopic colitis."
Focal active colitis is characterized by focal crypt damage caused by neutrophils and may be associated with infections, ischemia, Crohn's disease, partially-treated ulcerative colitis and IBS [19]. There are reports that there is an association between focal active colitis and oral sodium phosphate ingestion [33–36]. Driman et al. indicated that evidence is emerging that sodium phosphate is a commonly used oral laxative agent, causes aphthoid ulcers and/or FAC in the colon and rectum. FAC was present in 11 of 316 patients (3.5%) who had biopsies but who were otherwise normal, as determined by endoscopic evaluation [33]. In a follow-up study by Xin et al., which consisted of 29 patients who were diagnosed with focal active colitis, the disease duration ranged from 4 months to 7 years with a mean of 4.2 years. Eight patients (27.6%) developed Crohn's disease. Pediatric patients with focal active colitis have a much higher incidence of Crohn's disease than adults. Hence, it is important to document the presence of focal active colitis in pediatric patients [21]. In this study we found that 6.6% of IBS patients had focal active colitis (15/226) and this ratio is higher than that reported in previous studies. It may be eligible take a routine biopsy in female patients and in patients over 50 years old.
We acknowledge the limitation of the study is the difference between the groups in terms of age and gender. The percentage of women with IBS is 55.3%. This percentage is close to the female:male ratio of previous studies from Turkey. The mean age of the control group was higher than the IBS patients. However, this situation was due to selection of asymptomatic patients screened for colorectal cancer and anemia.
Microscopic colitis can be identified in patients with diarrhea predominant IBS and in women of older age with IBS. It appears reasonable to test for microscopic colitis in those patients by performing a colonic biopsy. Focal active colitis was found to be more common than expected. Routine biopsy of normal colonic mucosa helps identify rare miscellaneous causes of colitis.
collagenous colitis
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AS participated in coordination and drafted the manuscript. KO conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. TC and AN helped collecting the data of the patient. RK conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. UA has contributed to statistic analysis and manuscript preparation. HMS has contributed to study design and has coordinated research team. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Department of Gastroenterology, Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Adem Yavuz street No:1, Umraniye, Postal code:34766, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Gastroenterology, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital, Ataşehir, Postal code: 34770, Istanbul, Turkey
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Research article | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 11 June 2009
The denominator problem: Estimating MSM-specific incidence of sexually transmitted infections and prevalence of HIV using population sizes of MSM derived from Internet surveys
Ulrich Marcus1,
Axel J Schmidt2,
Christian Kollan1 &
Osamah Hamouda1
BMC Public Healthvolume 9, Article number: 181 (2009) | Download Citation
Measuring prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections in hard to reach populations like men who have sex with men (MSM) is hampered by unknown size and regional distribution of this population. Community sample – and study-based measurements are often fraught with participation biases and do not allow generalization of the results for other regions or the whole population group of MSM.
We used the proportional regional distribution of participants of large internet-based surveys among MSM from Germany together with a general population survey-derived estimate of the MSM population to estimate regional population sizes. Based on transmission group category from surveillance data and regional MSM population size we calculated regional population-specific incidence rates of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis. For HIV prevalence we compared estimates of prevalent HIV infections in MSM from a surveillance data-based model with a mixed model in which we used the proportional regional distribution of HIV positive participants from surveys and the estimated total number of prevalent HIV infections from the surveillance based model.
Assuming a similar regional distribution of survey participants and the MSM population as a whole, the regional proportion of MSM in the general population can be estimated. Regional incidence calculated with the estimated MSM population as denominator and national surveillance data as numerator results in regional peak incidence rates of 7–8 per 1,000 MSM for newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis. The gradient between metropolitan and rural areas narrows considerably compared with calculations which use the total (male) population as denominator. Regional HIV prevalence estimates are comparable in the two models.
Considering the difficulties to obtain regionally representative data by other sampling methods for MSM, in Western post-industrialized countries internet-based surveys may provide an easy and low cost tool to estimate regional population distributions. With national surveillance data, which categorize transmission groups, regional population-specific incidence rates for reportable sexually transmitted infections can be estimated. HIV prevalence estimates for regional MSM populations show differences related to the level of urbanization, MSM concentration, and starting points of the HIV epidemic in western and eastern Germany.
Currently there is a lack of simple and reliable methods of measuring the regional prevalence and incidence of health conditions or infections in subpopulations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) because the size of the denominator (total number of MSM) is usually unknown. Prevalence measurement in convenience samples is subject to numerous biases and it is difficult to generalize results to the whole population of MSM or to other regions. Incidence measurement is even more difficult. The most reliable method is direct measurement in longitudinal cohort studies, but cost and necessary infrastructure are prohibitive for widespread use. In addition, the experience from many intervention trials and cohort studies has demonstrated that participation in a study often leads to a reduction of incidence compared to baseline, independent of the interventions even in the control arm of studies.
Because of difficulties in recruiting sufficiently large samples of MSM, previous efforts to estimate subpopulation-specific incidence and prevalence of HIV usually remained restricted to metropolitan areas with enlarged proportions of MSM in the population [1, 2]. Prevalence and incidence measurement for rural MSM populations are almost non-existent.
In many western post-industrialized countries the HIV epidemic prompted efforts to collect data on transmission group for surveillance of HIV and selected STIs (in most countries, these groups separate MSM from intravenous drug user, or heterosexual contacts). These surveillance data likely underestimate MSM-related transmission, because the transmission group reported by health care providers requires communication about sexual behaviour between client and care provider and disclosure of often stigmatised behaviour by the client. However, the main problem in using these data for subpopulation-specific diagnosis incidence measurement and prevalence calculation is the unknown size and regional distribution of the MSM population (denominator). Population-based surveys have recently been used to estimate the total size of MSM populations [3, 4], which allows the calculation of national prevalence and incidence rates for the MSM population based on surveillance data which report transmission risk. However, it would require very large sample sizes for general population surveys to make reliable estimates for the regional size of small subpopulations like MSM.
We used the regional distribution of (predominantly online) survey participants and an estimate for the total number of MSM in Germany derived from representative studies on the general population to estimate regional population sizes of MSM at the level of federal states and the largest cities [5]. Using these estimates as denominator and HIV and syphilis diagnosis data (attributed to MSM) from the statutory infectious disease surveillance system in Germany as numerator, we calculated MSM specific incidence rates of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis. We compared these subpopulation specific incidence rates with transmission group-specific incidence rates that relate to the general population as denominator. We also explored whether estimates on regional HIV prevalence for MSM based on the regional distribution of HIV positive survey participants lead to comparable results as prevalence estimates based on surveillance data.
HIV and syphilis surveillance data
The German HIV surveillance system has been described in detail elsewhere [6]. Briefly, newly diagnosed HIV infections must be reported anonymously, but with a unique identifier, by laboratories with complementing patient history and clinical data provided by the primary care physician on a duplicate of the laboratory reporting form. The syphilis surveillance system is similarly organized, with the only difference that syphilis is reported without a unique identifier [7]. This requires an extensive search for double reports, based on birth date, postal code and any other matching information on the report forms. Regional allocations are based either on the first three digits of the five digit postal code of the patients' place of residence, or if not provided, on the postal code of the health care provider, or if this is also missing, on the postal code of the laboratory. For the years 2006/07 information on transmission group was available for 73% of the syphilis reports and 86% of reports of newly diagnosed HIV infections. For HIV incidence analysis it was assumed that reports without information on transmission risk have a risk distribution equal to cases with risk information. For syphilis surveillance data, in which reported transmission group categories are heterosexual, homosexual, and unknown/no risk identified, we counted all male patients as MSM unless heterosexual transmission was explicitly reported. By doing so, 323 females and 361 males could be attributed to heterosexual contacts in 2006, and 263 females and 352 males in 2007. 2,467 cases were counted as MSM in 2006 and 2,629 in 2007.
For HIV reports, currently about 70% of regional allocations of cases are based on patient postal code, 20% on health care provider postal code and 7% on laboratory postal code. For syphilis reports, 88% of allocations are based on patient postal code, 10% on health care provider, and less than 2% on laboratory postal code.
Regional size of MSM populations
Absolute total size and regional distribution of MSM populations and HIV positive subpopulations
The proportion of MSM in the adult male population in Germany was estimated from data on sexual preference collected in a representative telephone survey with 3,100 adult male participants in late 2007. This survey was conducted by the Federal Agency for Health Promotion (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung) for regular evaluation of HIV related health promotion activities. 2.5% (95%CI 1.5 – 3.4) of the male participants reported sexual contacts with men in the previous 12 months [[8], BZgA, personal communication]. Since general population surveys usually rather under- than overestimate homosexual contacts [9], which is still a stigmatized behaviour, we believe that the upper range of the confidence interval may reflect a more realistic range. Based on this proportion and population statistics provided by the Federal statistics agency (Statistisches Bundesamt), we estimated the number of MSM in the adult population between 20 and 59 years of age in Germany at approximately 575,000 to 785,000 persons (i.e. 2.5 – 3.4% of the adult male population). For incidence calculations in Additional file 1 and Figures 1, 2, and 3, we assumed a total MSM population of 650,000, resembling a MSM proportion of 2.9%.
Estimated incidence of newly diagnosed HIV in MSM per 1,000 MSM in 2007 in postal code regions of Germany.
Estimated incidence of newly diagnosed syphilis in MSM per 1,000 MSM in 2006 in postal code regions of Germany.
The relative regional distribution of MSM – as well as of HIV positive MSM – in Germany was estimated based on the relative regional distribution of internet survey participants of MSM behaviour surveys, as described elsewhere [5]. We used the mean value of the relative proportion of survey participants, resp. HIV positive survey participants, from two separate surveys, the KABaSTI-study with n = 5,928 (n = 403 HIV positive) participants conducted in 2006 and the latest GMA-study with n = 8,170 (n = 545 HIV positive) participants conducted in 2007.
Proportional regional distribution of survey participants and the total MSM population estimate for Germany were used to calculate the absolute size of regional MSM populations.
The KABaSTI study was approved by the ethical committee of the Charité University Clinic in Berlin.
Regional incidence of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis in MSM populations
Using reports of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis in MSM from the statutory surveillance system as numerator and the estimated regional MSM population as denominator we calculated MSM-specific incidence rates of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis. Numbers for HIV and syphilis both include risk re-distribution of reports with missing information on transmission risk, and HIV numbers in addition include an adjustment for unrecognized multiple reports. Incidence rates were calculated for all 95 postal code regions defined by the first two digits of the five digit postal code. The largest cities are defined by one, two (Hamburg, Munich) or four (Berlin) two-digit postal code regions.
MSM concentration factors
MSM concentration factors were calculated from both surveys for all 95 postal code regions by dividing the proportion of survey participants living in the respective region with the proportion of the male general population living in the region.
Comparison of HIV prevalence estimates for regional MSM populations from models based on surveillance and on survey data
The number of MSM living with HIV in different regions was estimated by two methods. The surveillance data based method [10] is composed of back-calculation of incident HIV cases for the period 1980 until 1990 from AIDS cases reported up to 1995 [11], the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections from 1995 through 2008, including risk re-distribution of cases with missing information on transmission risk and adjustments for double reporting, as a surrogate for the number of incident infections during this period, and an interpolation of incident HIV cases from 1991 through 1994. This model does not consider changes of residence after HIV diagnosis and assumes a comparable regional distribution of as yet undiagnosed HIV infections in MSM.
The survey based method uses the mean of the proportional regional distribution of HIV positive participants from both surveys and the estimate of the total number of HIV positive MSM living in Germany from the surveillance data based model to estimate the regional size of the HIV positive MSM population.
MSM-specific regional incidences of newly diagnosed HIV infections and syphilis
Incidence rates of newly diagnosed HIV infections in 2006 and 2007 remained highest in the largest cities (around 5–6/1,000 MSM in metropolitan areas), but incidence can be as high in surrounding regions and occasionally also in peripheral regions (see Figure 1, based on HIV surveillance data from 2006, and Additional file 1). E.g., the high incidence in border regions in the West, South, and Southeast of Germany reflect transient HIV incidence peaks related at least partly to syphilis outbreaks in these regions. Syphilis incidence showed a more diverse pattern, reflecting regional outbreaks within periodic epidemic waves sweeping through the MSM population (see Additional file 1, Figure 2 and 3, based on syphilis surveillance data from 2006 and 2007). Epidemiological trends for newly diagnosed HIV infections and syphilis among MSM in postal code regions over time (calculated for the period 2001–2007) usually reflect respective trends in the nearest gay centre (cities with larger MSM populations and a gay infrastructure of bars, discos and bathhouses; data not shown).
Due to the variable concentration of MSM in metropolitan areas (for MSM concentration factors in postal code areas resembling the largest cities of Germany see Figure 4), estimates for regional incidences of newly diagnosed HIV infections and syphilis with the total population or the total male population as denominator overestimate the disease burden of metropolitan MSM compared to MSM residing in non-metropolitan areas (see Figure 5 and Additional file 1). If the estimated MSM population is used as the denominator, HIV and syphilis incidence among MSM still show a gradient between metropolitan and rural areas. The gradient, however, becomes much smaller.
Estimated relative regional distribution of the MSM population in postal code regions of Germany.
Estimated incidence of newly diagnosed HIV in MSM per 100,000 men of the general population in 2007 in postal code regions of Germany.
Estimating regional HIV prevalence in MSM
The national HIV prevalence in MSM in 2008 was estimated to be 38,700 HIV infections [10]. If all these infections among an estimated number of 575,000 MSM in the age group 20–59 years (resembling a proportion of 2.5% MSM in the adult male population), the national HIV prevalence rate in MSM in Germany in this age group would be 6.7%. If we assume, that 3.4% of the adult male population are MSM, the HIV prevalence would decline to 4.9%. In Additional file 2, regional HIV prevalence rates in the estimated MSM populations of the 16 federal states of Germany and of the cities with the largest MSM populations are calculated for a proportion of 2.5% MSM in the 20–59 years old male general population (= 575.000 MSM, with a national HIV prevalence rate of 6.7%) and a proportion of 3.4% (= 785.000 MSM, with a national HIV prevalence rate of 4.9%. The estimates derived from survey data are higher than those based on surveillance data in all Eastern German states, particularly in Berlin, and lower in almost all Western German states, except Lower Saxony and Saarland, where the estimates are the same. In the larger cities, where MSM are concentrated, the range of the estimated HIV prevalence among MSM is between 5% and 16%, depending on the assumptions about the absolute size of the MSM population. If the mean values for the estimate ranges are compared, HIV prevalence in cities with the most developed infrastructure of gay venues and highest MSM concentrations ranges between 10 and 12%.
Using estimated MSM populations as denominator we observe much narrower ranges of HIV incidence rates (and incidence of other STI) between cities and federal states than suggested by incidence rates based on general population denominators. This indicates the advantage of this approach, because comparability of epidemiological data between different regions is improved.
An explanation for the moderate differences in incidence rate estimates for metropolitan and non-metropolitan MSM may be the high partner seeking mobility in MSM populations. MSM from rural areas and smaller cities often seek sexual partners outside of their place of residence, often in the next gay centre. Thus, the likelihood to meet sexual partners infected with HIV and/or syphilis may not be too different – at least in a country like Germany with a very well developed traffic and public transport infrastructure, which allows MSM in many non-metropolitan and rural areas to reach the next gay centre within less than two hours. In recent years, the use of the internet for finding sex partners has become a highly plausible additional factor for reducing differences between metropolitan and rural areas.
If we compare the estimated incidence of newly diagnosed HIV infections among German MSM (mean 0.3%, peak values in metropolitan areas around 0.5–0.7%) with HIV incidence among MSM in other types of studies in the Netherlands, we find rates in the same order of magnitude, especially if a participation bias towards sexually more active MSM outside of regular relationships in those studies is considered. In prospective cohort studies in MSM in Amsterdam and Rotterdam incidence rates between 1.1 and 1.5/100 person-years were observed between 1999 and 2005 [2].
In most, but not all cities and regions, incidence of newly diagnosed Syphilis in 2007 was higher than incidence of newly diagnosed HIV infection. Outbreak-like incidence peaks even higher than in metropolitan areas can occasionally be observed in peripheral regions like Trier (border region in the Western part of Germany; see Figure 2/3, Additional file 1).
We also analyzed whether it is feasible to estimate regional prevalence of HIV infections among MSM. Direct regional HIV prevalence estimates for MSM populations in all 95 postal code regions of Germany based on participation rates of self-reported HIV positive MSM in the Internet surveys are however not reliable due to the relatively small sample sizes of approximately 403 HIV positive participants in the KABaSTI and 545 in the GMA-2007 survey, which are distributed across 95 postal code areas. To minimize inaccuracies and biases due to low numbers per area, we evaluated to which extent the relative proportion of HIV positive MSM residing in the gay centres and in the 16 federal states may be reflected by the regional distribution of KABaSTI and GMA-2007 survey participants.
When the regional prevalent HIV cases in MSM are estimated according to the cumulative incidence of HIV reports in MSM adjusted for the estimated number of deaths between 1980 and 2008 (RKI prevalence model), the estimated HIV prevalence compared to the prevalence estimate based on the distribution of HIV-positive survey participants is higher in all western German federal states, and considerably lower in Berlin, Saxony, and the other federal states in Eastern Germany.
The main reason for this difference is the change of the epidemiological dynamics during the German reunification in 1990. While the cumulative distribution of HIV from the RKI model also reflects the regional distribution of HIV infections among MSM during the first wave of HIV infections in the 1980s, prevalence estimates based on survey participant distribution rather mirrors a distribution of currently sexually active MSM, and thus neglects infections which occurred many years ago. These infected persons may still be alive, but meanwhile sexually less active or not using the internet to find partners. This is especially relevant for the discrepancies observed between Western and Eastern Germany. The German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) had not experienced the first wave of HIV infections in the 1980s. Thus, after the German reunification in 1990, MSM in the eastern part of Germany and East-Berlin had a much lower HIV prevalence than MSM in Western Germany and West-Berlin in the early 1990s.
On the other hand, the surveillance data based method probably underestimates the prevalent cases in eastern German MSM, because for Eastern Germany the estimates are predominantly based on the number of already diagnosed infections, while in Western Germany a proportion of as yet undiagnosed infections is included in the model by using the back-calculation method for the early period of 1980 until 1990 (back-calculation based on AIDS cases accounts also for undiagnosed HIV cases). Thus, the real prevalence in MSM in Eastern Germany may lie somewhere in between the two estimates.
Other factors that may explain some of the differences between the surveillance data and survey based estimates:
Selective migration of HIV-positive MSM after HIV diagnosis from rural areas to larger cities and between cities (net gains to be expected especially for Berlin, Frankfurt and Leipzig, net losses for rural areas in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatina, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and the cities Stuttgart and Hanover).
Underrepresentation of (HIV positive) MSM among the survey participants from the respective state/city (especially for Bavaria, where a difference between MSM population estimates based on proportion of MSM website user profiles and the proportion of survey participants has been described [5])
Overestimation of the proportion of HIV positive men living in a city by geographical attribution based on the postal code of the health care provider in the surveillance data based model (may be relevant especially for cities with large catchment areas in densely populated areas, such as Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Duesseldorf and Stuttgart). In our experience the distinction between health care provider and patient postal code is not always reliable, thus a larger proportion of allocations than currently acknowledged may be based on the health care provider postal code.
The discrepancy between the two estimates disappears for the eastern German states except Berlin and becomes smaller for the western German states if we make a tentative adjustment in the survey based model for the federal states in Eastern Germany and reduce the prevalence estimate by 50%. Due to a later starting point of the HIV epidemic in MSM who live in the region of the former German Democratic Republic an adjustment of the estimate is justified. A 50% reduction could be justified by the fact that at the time of German reunification approximately 50% of the total cumulative HIV cases in Germany had already occurred in the former Western part of the country, and the number of prevalent cases would have a considerable impact on the number of new infections occurring in the period after the reunification. For the united federal state of Berlin which is geographically located in the eastern part of the country but is composed of the former West-Berlin (2.1 Mio. inhabitants) and the former East-Berlin (1.3 Mio. inhabitants), such kind of adjustments are more difficult. While MSM in West-Berlin had a similar or even higher HIV prevalence as other large cities in Western Germany, HIV prevalence in MSM in East-Berlin was dramatically lower before reunification. How much the estimate for Berlin based on the observed prevalence among survey participants could be reduced to account for the "reunification effect" is unclear. However, it does not seem realistic to explain the large difference between survey and surveillance based estimates for Berlin by such a "reunification effect".
For the relative proportions of the federal states of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia some adjustments might be reasonable as well because we observed a slightly skewed representation of survey participants from these two states compared with the MSM website profile data from the largest German MSM website (GayRomeo): from the KABaSTI participants who were recruited on GayRomeo 14.6% reported residence in Bavaria, 19.3% residence in North Rhine-Westphalia, compared with 10.6% and 25% of all survey participants. But again, even if we adjust the data according to these proportions, the surveillance based estimate for Bavaria will remain higher than the survey based estimate.
In Germany, a major challenge for regional prevalence estimates arises from temporal changes of the spread of HIV in MSM populations, mainly from the different epidemiological dynamics in the Western and Eastern part of the country before reunification. Another factor which is difficult to assess is selective migration of HIV positive men to metropolitan areas after HIV diagnosis. As life expectancy and quality of life of people living with HIV have improved during the last decade, such selective migration may have played an increasing role in recent years. Because of the existence of larger sexual networks of HIV-positive MSM in metropolitan areas and because of better access to quality medical HIV care, MSM diagnosed with HIV infection in non-metropolitan areas may see even larger benefits from moving to metropolitan areas than their non-infected peers. The pronounced differences between the surveillance and survey based HIV prevalence estimates for Berlin and Bavaria may be an indication for such selective migration processes. Questions about post-HIV diagnosis migration of HIV positive MSM in clinical surveillance studies could be used to verify this hypothesis.
The regional distribution of participants of internet convenience samples may be used as a tool to estimate the regional distribution of a "hidden" population like MSM. Potential biases should be considered, which may arise from subtle differences in regional participation rates and recruitment on websites with skewed user characteristics. Together with data on reported transmission group from national infectious disease surveillance systems and with total population size estimates for MSM, local or regional population group-specific incidence and prevalence for HIV and incidence for syphilis and other STIs can be estimated. Compared with infectious disease surveillance based models for the estimation of regional HIV prevalence, the estimates based on internet survey data may be able to reflect post-HIV diagnosis migration of HIV positive MSM. Resulting estimates are within expected and plausible ranges and could be used to compare regional epidemiological trends, prevention needs, and efficacy of prevention activities.
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We would like to thank Sabine Ritter for technical assistance in drafting the incidence maps of Germany. The KABaSTI study has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Health, the GMA survey by the Federal Agency for Health Promotion (BZgA).
Robert Koch Institute, Dept. Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, PO box 650261, 13302, Berlin, Germany
Ulrich Marcus
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& Osamah Hamouda
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Public Health Unit, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785, Berlin, Germany
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UM conceived and designed the KABaSTI study, OH designed the statutory surveillance system for HIV and syphilis. The KABaSTI and GMA survey were coordinated by AJS, data analysis and interpretation were done by UM and AJS. The surveillance data based model was developed by OH and updated and revised by UM and CK, with supervision by OH. The idea for linking and comparing regional distribution of survey participants with statutory surveillance data came from UM, AJS compared the KABaSTI sample with the GMA sample. The manuscript was drafted by UM and AJS and critically revised by OH. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ulrich Marcus, Axel J Schmidt contributed equally to this work.
Additional file 1: Incidence of newly diagnosed HIV infection (n = 2,180) and syphilis (n = 2,622) in the MSM transmission group in 2007. Incidence estimates for federal states and the largest cities are calculated per 100,000 male population and compared to estimated incidence of newly diagnosed HIV infection and syphilis per 1000 estimated MSM population (assuming a total number of 650,000 MSM) (DOC 62 KB)
Additional file 2: Estimates for the regional distribution of MSM and HIV prevalence by end of 2008 in Federal States in Germany. Estimation of the MSM population size, HIV prevalence, and HIV prevalence rates among MSM for all federal states and largest cities of Germany (DOC 70 KB)
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Setting Mars Free: What Allegiance to Earth Should A Human Colony on Mars Retain?
NASA continues to plan for manned missions to Mars in the 2030s. NASA’s missions plan for humans to land, stay perhaps for as long as a few months, and return. Others have bolder plans. Probably the most daunting problem with a traditional Mars mission is getting astronauts back. Why not solve that problem by letting them stay as permanent colonists on Mars?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which already builds Falcon 9 rockets that resupply the International Space Station, plans to build a massive rocket of unprecedented size called “The Mars Colonial Transporter” which could carry up to 100 colonists to Mars at a time. The “Mars One” organization has its own plans to land human colonists on Mars for long-term or permanent residence as soon as the middle to late 2020s.
It seems inevitable that some sort of human colony, or colonies, will eventually exist on Mars, possibly even within our generation. Everyone assumes that such a colony would be the “property” of the country/countries that put it there, with the colonists retaining the citizenship of whatever nations they are from. But will that work for the long term?
Eventually, “Martian” interests would diverge from the interests of those on Earth who sent them there. This has always been the experience of colonization here on Earth. (Consider the American Revolution.) Surely colonies separated by the vastness of space, existing in a completely different environment, would come to feel even less connection to their “homeland” over time. Think of the second and third generation “Martians” who grow up, live and die, never having seen Earth, never mind their supposed “home” countries. How long could we expect these people to continue thinking of themselves as Americans (or whatever)? This is particularly true considering that private organizations such as SpaceX and Mars One appear to be leading current colonization efforts, rather than national space programs like NASA.
This fascinating question was probably first explored by Isaac Asimov in his 1952 novella The Martian Way. In that story, the Martian Colonists remain dependent under increasingly despotic Earth rule because of their need for water from Earth. However, they achieve and declare their independence from Earth after providing for their own water by moving a large chunk of ice from Saturn’s rings. The notion of Mars fighting to achieve its independence from Earth was also a primary feature in the two Total Recall movies and Cidney Swanson’s Saving Mars series.
At least one forward thinking scientist studying this question has a radical proposition. Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra of the Blue Marble Space Institute for Science suggests that any Martian colony, upon its creation, should be free and independent from Earth with the people of the new colony losing their citizenships on Earth. They would instead be citizens of a free, independent and sovereign Mars to govern themselves as they deem fit. In his article The Transformative Value of Liberating Mars, Dr. Hagg-Misra details just such a plan that is further discussed in a Popular Science article.
But I see a problem with this. In my Starstruck novels, the sprawling colony on Mars, with its roughly quarter of a million people, has existed independent of Earth for nearly 3,000 years after being brought there, then abandoned by their alien overlords, the Grentl. Those living in Nuath were never regarded as part of any Earth government and they achieved both their political and economic independence long before most modern nations on Earth (including the United States) existed. The Nuathans of Starstruck never had to achieve independence from Earth because they were never dependent upon it.
That’s the problem. Earth colonial history suggests a colony cannot become independent of its host nation until it has achieved some degree of economic independence from that nation. A Mars colony, likely for quite some time, would be heavily dependent on Earth for basic supplies. That economic dependence would likely make political independence difficult for them. Even in Asimov’s The Martian Way, the Martian colonists had to effectively end their economic dependence on Earth before declaring their political independence. Similarly, the citizens of a real, future Mars colony might not ever become wholly self-sufficient, any more than any nation on Earth truly is, but would eventually need to create their own products or services of value to trade with Earth, in a roughly equal exchange, to move their relationship with their home planet from parasitic to symbiotic.
Still, with enough time, it seems unimaginable that a colony, or colonies, on Mars would not eventually cut the 100 million mile umbilical cord to Earth. Perhaps it’s not too soon to start thinking about how we might make that transition a smooth and nonviolent one, so that it will not mirror the various colonial battles for independence scattered throughout Earth’s history. Sure, a gradual, peaceful solution might not make for great fiction, but I’m guessing my great-grandchildren will be able to live with that!
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A Series 2 front spoiler was fitted in addition to the smaller Euro bumpers, and both look good. The chassis has been inspected for rust by the seller’s mechanic, and though no photographic evidence is provided, the seller says that it looks great. Though largely peeling and faded, paint still has some shine in spots and gold, JPS-style pinstripes remain intact as well. Per the ad, a buff and wax would improve its appearance, but ultimately, the car deserves to be repainted at some point. Wolfrace alloys are also a bit worn and could stand to be refinished.
Interior cosmetics are much better, and the seller suspects that the cabin may have been previously reupholstered. Still, there are a few issues present, the worst of which seems to be a sagging headliner. Aside from a one-inch split in the outer bolster of the driver’s seat, leather looks very good and missing, upholstered pieces meant to surround the steering column will be installed prior to sale.
Euro-spec Dell’Orto carbs have replaced stock US Strombergs, and the engine bay features an aftermarket vent fan for additional cooling. The car has been driven only five miles since an oil change, though brakes sound to need work.
Provided it’s solid with no major undisclosed electrical or mechanical needs, this one could make for a fun rolling restoration.
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April 6, 2017 • 8:51 pm 0
Amara West: a new book for children
A book for children, Life in the Heart of Nubia, presents local heritage found within the communities, from traditional lifestyles to archaeology.
Tomomi Fushiya, Leiden University
I arrived at the Amara West dig house in Ernetta island towards the end of the 2017 season with a final draft of the children’s book, Life in the Heart of Nubia. Designed as an introductory booklet for schoolchildren in the local communities around Amara West – Abri, Amara East and Ernetta – the book explores the lifestyles, culture, language, oral histories and archaeology of these communities. It is shaped by members of these communities and their responses, and also questions we received from them during the interviews and outreach programmes over the last two years.
In November 2016, I had travelled to Abri to discuss and plan the book with those who were willing to volunteer in their spare time on this small project. We discussed the concept, topics, structure and the book title, and decided to focus on three key points throughout the book: exploration, continuity and locality.
The cover features a painting by a young local art student, Mosaab Sorta
Exploration: Knowledge and stories about objects, buildings and skills which they considered part of the local Nubian heritage, practised and remembered over generations. The book is intended to encourage schoolchildren to question, explore and find answers about the local heritage within the community, but also to remind other community members that amongst them is much knowledge about that heritage.
Continuity: The book starts with scenes of today’s life in and around Abri. Selected aspects of everyday life are introduced through change and continuity with the past, to emphasise the relevance of older lifestyles to the present.
Locality: Resources for heritage education can be found within the local communities, although local teachers rarely use them. Topics and images in the book are selected from those found in the local area, where possible, to help schoolchildren to feel familiar with the book, and help teachers find resources in their neighbourhood.
A story of this unique building in Abri Qoin features in the book
As schools finished their final exams in March, I returned to Abri with the freshly printed books, to plan and deliver a pilot heritage program at the local school. Despite swarms of nimiti-flies, thirty schoolchildren and 3 school staff showed up for the program. Hassan Sorta, one of the bookmaking team and the headmaster of Amara East primary school, explained about the book and how to use it. I gave a short presentation with objects and rubbish from the ancient site (sherds!) to convey how they can help understand history of place. I used images of the Meroitic temple, which once stood here but was destroyed in the late 19th century AD, to show how history can easily disappear from memory. A program that utilises the book will then be discussed with Hassan and other local teachers for when the books are distributed to each school.
Teacher Hassan introduces the book to students of Amara East primary school.
650 books will be handed out at local schools at the beginning of the school year in July. Some copies of the books will also be used in a teachers’ training course at a newly built centre in Abri. Other members of the book team will be invited into classrooms to talk about local heritage in the coming school year. The most encouraging part of the project, for me, is how teachers and others felt this will help raise awareness of the local heritage among younger generations.
Download the book here: Arabic or English.
The Amara West Project is generously funded by the Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project, with this book made possible through the Research Grant Program of the Toyota Foundation, Japan.
Alongside regular updates on the blog, follow the project on Twitter: @NealSpencer_BM and #amarawest
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February 17, 2017 • 8:53 am 0
Amara West 2017: ivory and bone objects
Manuela Lehmann, Project Curator, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
After the funerary beds, I moved onto objects made of ivory and bone. These can be roughly divided into two groups: those that had been used as tools and those that can be considered items for personal and cosmetic use: combs, hair and cloth pins, beads, knobs, and vessels. Many of them would also have been used as inlays in wooden furniture, the wood itself lost to decay, leaving behind the harder inlays of bone and ivory. These pieces are often relatively small and are therefore difficult to understand without seeing the furniture.
Bone tools
The bone tools are mainly of pointed shape, probably used as awls. Sometimes part of the unworked bone end was used as a handle, in other cases the points had a small shaft attached to a handle that is no longer preserved, presumably in a different material. A cluster of five pointed tools was found within one room in the rearmost part of house E13.3-S. As no other unworked bone material was found here, we might think that the work for which the points were used took place in this room rather than the production of the tools themselves. Or had the tools been dumped here? This room was also notable for the number of objects we recovered.
In addition, a lot of smaller pieces of pre-cut blocks of bone and ivory were most likely intended to be shaped further into different objects. Usually these raw pieces show cut marks on several sides of them: often the sawing started from two opposite sides until the thin remaining middle part was then broken off.
Another interesting accumulation of bone and ivory finds can be attested for three adjacent rooms in the storage complex E13.14, including unworked bone material. This suggests that there existed some sort of production area of bone objects in these rooms, or at least nearby. In a later phase, when this building was overbuilt with house E13.6, a similar range of material survives. Many of the objects show traces of burning suggesting that they might have been hardened in fire, before being processed further into objects. They are often polished to a shiny surface.
As for the personal items of daily life, these are found in both town and cemetery, providing interesting insights into the related spheres of life and death.
Convex disc-shaped bone and ivory fittings
A very high number of flat, almost disc-shaped, objects with a convex upper side remain puzzling! There is much variation in the size of these objects, which range from about 4cm to under 1cm. Some are more convex, while others are flatter and are with or without one or two indentations or perforations. We have them in various stages of working: from raw cut, to finished, to extremely finely polished. A number of these objects were probably knobs for boxes or beads while others might have been fittings or inlays of furniture.
Bone and ivory gaming pieces and inlays
Easier to interpret are pieces of gaming boards and gaming figures. The gaming board parts, also inlays, consist of flat plaques of bone cut into square or rectangular pieces that were then smoothed and often polished. Some of them are slightly convex on the surface due to the natural shape of the bone. While two such inlays were found in the tombs, four of them were found in different houses in the town.
Bone and ivory fragments with worked and drilled surfaces
The inlays are again not easy to understand as we are missing the actual objects. In general most of these objects are very flat and sometimes have incised patterns: horizontal parallel lines, flower or petal motifs. Here the study of furniture like wooden boxes, chests or other wooden objects might lead to further insights into the material of Amara West used by the inhabitants, along with examples from better preserved tombs in Nubia and Egypt.
Filed under: Amara West 2017, funerary, Nubian, Nubian traditions, objects, tools
February 7, 2017 • 4:38 pm 0
Amara West 2017: Greetings from Osiris!
Elisabeth Sawerthal (King’s College, London)
Working on objects in a study season involves the close cooperation of different specialists on the same objects. This became especially apparent in the last days …
Elisabeth pondering coffin fragments for illustrating
As an illustrator for the study season at Amara West, I get to work on a great variety of types of objects collected over eight seasons of excavation at the site. These objects need to be drawn for final publication and further study. In their own way, all objects provide fascinating insights into the lives of the ancient town’s inhabitants. They range from very beautiful miniature amulets, including a wadjet-eye, and ivory beads, to the very practical diagnostic potsherds analysed by our ceramicist Valentina Gasperini, which can be visually reconstructed through a simple drawing. Other, less well preserved materials initially seem rather unimpressive in terms of aesthetics, but nonetheless, they help us deepen our understanding of life and death in the New Kingdom town of Amara West. Such is the case with the wooden coffin fragments from tomb G322 in Cemetery D, excavated in 2016, and tomb G244 (Cemetery C, excavated in earlier seasons) which I am currently drawing.
My task is to produce an accurate image of each piece that complements the more “neutral” photograph, and draws attention to the object’s most important features. This involves a consideration of the relationship between individual coffin fragments, as to if and how they were attached to each other. For this, I draw each fragment separately and then combine them to recreate a bigger surface, somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle. Particularly interesting details are traces of paint on the surface – mostly fragmented lines and patches of black, white, red, yellow and Egyptian blue – which I highlight with my drawings in order to facilitate a reconstruction of the original decorative motif. Hardest to identify by far, as often particularly badly preserved, is Egyptian blue, a specific man-made blue pigment, later exported to other parts of the ancient world, including Greece and the Near East.
We are again using VIL photography. The adapted camera can detect minute quantities of Egyptian blue, using a method developed by Giovanni Verri (formerly British Museum scientist, and now at the Courtauld Institute). Egyptian blue luminesces in the infrared spectrum when it is excited by visible light, so if it can be photographed with an infrared-sensitive camera while illuminated it will glow very brightly – even if nothing is visible to the naked eye!
One evening, having identified three possible lines and a few small patches of Egyptian blue on an otherwise completely unimpressive coffin fragment from tomb G322 in Cemetery D, we undetook VIL photography of the piece. Our aim was to gain some clarification on the outlines of the remains of paint for my drawing. In expectation of further little blobs and bits of blue, we were totally surprised by what appeared on the camera display: “glowing areas” that made up a band of readable hieroglyphs.
Photograph (left) and VIL-image (right) of a painted coffin fragment, showing a column of inscription (F8767h/j/k/l/m)
This column of inscription must have been positioned centrally on top of the lid of the coffin, and reads “words spoken by Osiris”. After this unexpected success we continued to take VIL photographs of other coffin fragments from the same tomb and discovered further traces of Egyptian blue hieroglyphs and an image of a bird with outstretched wings.
Photograph (left) and VIL-image (right) of a painted coffin fragment, showing wings of a bird (F8767a/b/d/e)
Elina Rodriguez Millan (Spectrum Heritage, Edinburgh)
The pieces of this coffin had been consolidated on site directly during the excavation by Maickel van Bellegem in 2016 as the remaining fragments are incredible thin and otherwise would not have been able to be lifted. As with most conservation treatments in the field, Maickel aimed to stabilise the finds so they could be removed to safe storage at the dig house, where they would await further study.
In contrast, during a study season, we are poring over the objects in more detail, and sometimes require further cleaning or consolidation of objects. In this case, the consolidated fragments of the coffin had a thin layer of sand, and some small stone fragments, on top of them due to the difficult conditions in the tomb: wind, dust, swirling sand. If they were plain fragments, they probably wouldn’t need to be treated further, but in this case, removing the sand layer is key to unveil further parts of the inscription they hold. That is why, as soon as the inscription was discovered by Manuela and Elisabeth, I was asked to work on this exciting fragments and, soon, the biggest coffin fragment was brought to the conservation lab.
Elina cleaning part of the front of a painted coffin
Given that most part of the inscriptions and decoration are only visible with UV light in the evenings, cleaning the coffin fragments during the day has proven to be quite tricky! That’s why I constantly use the VIL photographs as a reference, to see which areas are more likely to hold hieroglyphs that will help decipher the inscription. These photographs cover the conservation room wall, and are changed whenever we take new photographs, to see the progress of the treatment.
Filed under: Amara West 2017, archaeology, conservation, New Kingdom, objects, Uncategorized
January 29, 2017 • 2:46 pm 0
Amara West 2017: local/non-local flint tools
Nora Shalaby, Freie Universität Berlin
Nora photographing flint assemblages
Among the thousands of finds being studied at Amara West this season, I have been looking at hundreds of flint implements that were excavated from the site. Unsurprisingly, the majority of pieces come from within the settlement, with only three implements having been found in the cemetery.
The preliminary documentation and study of the almost 350 pieces has already uncovered some aspects about the lithic industry at Amara West. There appears to be the use of both local and non-local material for the manufacture of tools.
The local material consists of small pebbles that would have been easily accessible and readily available in the vicinity. They vary in color, are marked by dull cortexes and are usually of poorer quality material. The tools produced from these local pebbles would have been relatively small in size, the pebbles themselves having little flexibility to produce a wide range of tools.
The non-local material is characterized by nodules that would have been much larger in size, producing flakes and blades of much larger dimensions. They are mostly beige to greyish-beige in color, sometimes still retaining their chalky white cortex, which suggests that they were quarried rather than simply picked up. There are others which are a dark chocolate brown, but are fewer in number. The presence of large unworked flakes and blades from this material within the assemblage is a good indication that the tools were being worked on site, although there is as of yet little evidence of production waste, or a possible workshop where they were being produced – perhaps in areas yet to be excavated?
An interesting question to ask is whether the settlement was being supplied from outside with these quarried nodules, or perhaps prepared blanks, for tool production, or whether the residents/knappers were quarrying the flint themselves? It still remains to be seen whether there are any flint raw material sources close to the site.
In terms of the types of tools that were being produced, the majority are segmented blades/sickle blades, made with both the local and non-local material. In many cases, the characteristic sheen – that develops along the edge of the blade when cutting through plant fibres – is present. The technology of production is the same on all pieces – truncated short ends, and retouch along the lateral edges, but with little standardisation in shape. Those made on local pebbles are of course much smaller in size. Apart from sickle blades, there are a number of ad hoc and informal tool types such as notches and a few end-scrapers, but they are much fewer in number. It is clear that the real use of flint at the settlement was for the production of sickle blades needed in agriculture. Use-wear analysis on the edges of the blades with sheen can help clarify the different types of material they were being used on and so confirm their exact function.
Further on, it will be interesting to examine the spatial distribution of the tools and debitage within the settlement and determine whether specific patterns arise, integrating flint artefacts found in Egypt Exploration Society excavations at the site in the 1930s and 1940s. Did some areas have access to the non-local material, while others depended on local pebbles for production, or was there an equal distribution?
Hopefully some of these questions can be answered by the end of the season!
Filed under: Amara West 2017, archaeology, objects, settlement, tools
January 25, 2017 • 8:50 am 0
Amara West 2017: sleeping beauties
Wood to sift through…
I started with wooden objects this season. Though organic material is generally poorly preserved at Amara West, we have an astonishing amount of wooden remains collected over the years. Almost all of this comes from tombs excavated in the two cemeteries: very little survives from the town.
Much of the material had to be conserved in situ while the excavation was ongoing, as the wood is very damaged due to termites, and being crushed by the collapse of the burial chamber roofs. The tiny wood remains were collected in bags, and we can now spread it out and sift through for distinctive carved decoration or diagnostic shapes that tell us about the original objects
Joining components from an ancient angareeb bed
The most interesting objects are the remains of the funerary beds. They seemed to have been very similar to the wooden angareeb beds that are still in use in Sudan today. The frame of the bed consisted of beams around which the stringing of the bed was tightly wrapped: many such pieces have survived and seem to be quite consistent in width and thickness. A few fragments of the actual fibres of the middle part of the bed are preserved as well.
The bed legs comprised three parts: the base itself, at least one middle part and an upper part into which the beams of the frame were inserted into recesses. So far fragments of a smaller and a larger size of terminals have been identified. There also seem to have been sets with cuboid components in combination with cylindrical elements
All of these are decorated in very similar patterns, mostly with horizontal incised lines that run parallel to each other around the components. A few objects show more elaborate patterns such as elongated vertical rectangular fields or zig-zag-lines in the style of the Egyptian hieroglyphic waterline.
In addition, there are a few preserved remains that may be parts of the footboards of such beds, similar to those known from tombs in Kerma. But the famous inlays that were found there have not been found in the Amara West examples.
Manuela working with the wood fragments, seeking joins
The study of the material has so far lead to the joining together of many more fragments enabling us in the end to determine a minimum number of beds used in the tombs.
Due to the carving elements of the legs the thinnest diameter among the elements is often only 2cm per leg which would likely not have been strong enough to carry an adult person. It therefore seems like some of the beds might have been produced only for the burial itself. One circular element of a wooden bed leg was found in the town as well, suggesting the use of the same designs for the beds of the living.
Modern angareeb bed leg
Interestingly, the modern angareeb beds still show many similarities with the ancient versions in terms of decoration, as today incised lines are also often used and the legs mostly end in cuboid parts above which cylindrical components of decoration can be found
Parallels from other ancient cemeteries suggests head-rests and the body of the deceased would have been placed on the beds. Some examples of head-rests can be found amongst the wood from the burials at Amara West: the examples studied so far consist of three parts that were assembled. The base is usually rectangular and quite long and flat with a smaller middle part that tapers into a raised oval shape with a recess. Here the middle part would have combined the base with the top part that had the rounded concave surface that supported the head. Often the bases are decorated like the beds with the pattern of incised parallel lines. In this way the bed and head-rest were built as sets, matching in style. Sometimes more elaborated versions can be found with finer line decoration.
A flat wooden element, perhaps from a coffin
The body of the deceased was quite often placed into coffins or wrapping that was then put onto the bed. Yet it is not easy to identify which of the surviving wooden fragments belonged to the coffin and which to the bed. The coffin fragments often do not have much of their original plaster and paint preserved, with only a few fragments still bearing traces of vivid colours like red, yellow, Egyptian blue or black. Often perforations for dowels and tenons give indications about the techniques used in the woodwork.
Substantial amounts of wooden branches were found that still have their bark on them and therefore were not worked, or at least very little. They are too long to have been used as a dowel and their diameter is too thick. Maybe some of the bodies were wrapped in some sort of matting that was produced with branches and twigs as is sometimes still used in the Sudan for burials of infants.
Even with their fragmentary and often badly preserved state, it is clear that there is a lot to be learned from the study of wooden remains. I am looking forward to more exciting discoveries as I sift through all the material and piece together more fragments!
Filed under: Amara West 2017, archaeology, conservation, funerary, New Kingdom, Nubian, Nubian traditions, objects
Amara West 2017: a different kind of season
Neal Spencer, Keeper of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
A silent, deserted, Amara West seen from the river-side dunes
After 9 seasons of daily pre-dawn Nile commutes, the clatter of excavation tools scraping against pottery sherds and the climatic extremes of the site – chilly mornings, howling winds, plagues of nimiti-flies and hot, dry afternoons – this is going to be very different.
Our excavation house will be the setting for the whole team. Where once the house was brimming with up to 30 specialists, and deluged daily with pottery, finds, sample bags, skeletons – alongside drawings, digital images and other documentation – it is now a spacious oasis of calm, with only seven of us here to start this study season, alongside our cook Ali Dal.
The dig house on Ernetta island
With over 10,000 objects, and many many more pottery sherds, this is our opportunity to lay out similar types of objects, or arrange them in groups depending on which room, house or neighbourhood of the town they were found in. We then consider what needs drawing or photographing. Most crucially we have the time to think about the artefacts, pore over them, and try to understand how they were made, how they functioned, and how some were modified or re-used. Later will come library time, to research parallels, and eventually the writing up. But now is the time to compare objects, turn them over, hold them in a different light, try joining fragments.
The dusty mud fragments in these wooden trays are the only remnants of a colourful niche – probably a shrine – in house E13.7
I’ve been working on a series of painted and moulded mud fragments that I think came from a household shrine in house E13.7, while elsewhere in the same room Manuela Lehmann has been examining fragments of the funerary beds (angareeb) found in the cemetery, as Nora Shalaby studies the flint blades and tools.
In the adjacent courtyard, the salon – the old house’s reception room – is home to Valentina Gasperini analysing pottery, Elisabeth Sawerthal drawing a range of finds, and Shadia Abdu Rabo. Shadia is combing through the jewellery excavated since 2009. Meanwhile, Elina Rodriguez – familiar with another era of Amara West excavations – is deep in the cool and dark finds storeroom, resolving numbering problems and registering artefacts from last year.
Manuela sifting through a box of coffin fragments to select pieces for drawing – those which offer clues to the original decoration
Even without excavations, there’ll still be discoveries and insights, and we’ll post some of our findings in the coming weeks. That is all subject to our internet connection, which is much worse now than in 2009, despite an array of dongles and smartphones that confidently proclaim “3G”.
Meanwhile, we’ll wonder if the traditional four meals a day – including an archaeologists “second breakfast” at 11am – really is a good idea for this studious yet sedentary season.
Filed under: Amara West 2017, archaeology, ceramics, funerary, New Kingdom, objects, pottery
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The University of Illinois at Chicago, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public and Government Affairs is seeking a Director of Marketing and Brand Management to work closely with the Associate Vice Chancellor and manage institutional brand management as well as oversee University-wide marketing projects in an effort to increase the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) reputation and perception. The Director will work closely with other campus marketers and will advocate for consistent, compelling and clear branding that broadens the University’s brand and increases awareness and interest among internal and external constituents.
Build on and help operationalize the university’s strategic marketing and communications plan through compelling messaging and branded design.
Identify strengths and challenges of the UIC brand including prevailing attitudes and perceptions by key audiences, competitive review, brand distinctions, and market research to create marketing initiatives that advance the university’s key strategies and distinct messages.
Establish marketing priorities, a marketing scorecard, and allocate resources prudently to accomplish objectives and ensure the integration of marketing activities with fundraising, alumni and student engagement and recruitment and other campus objectives.
Conduct periodic marketing research and audits to inform and evaluate marketing decisions.
Advance brand and marketing integration across the campus as the key liaison to the colleges and other major campus administrative units; lead regular meetings and communication with the campus communicators and marketers. Serve as liaison to system re: marketing projects and results.
Provide leadership and counsel to colleges, departments, and other units on campus as they develop and implement marketing and communications plans and initiatives.
Supervise vendor relationships for contracted services.
Work with AVC on reputational advertising campaigns, execute and track media buys, do post buy analysis, work off of annual editorial and marketing calendars and in coordination with other areas (athletics, UI Health, admissions)
Coordinate advertising on behalf of the Chancellor's Office and other university offices, as needed, and produce campus marketing material and image-building publications.
Plan, assign and review work of staff to ensure that group objectives are met. Hire, train, develop and manage staff to ensure that a qualified staff exists to meet group objectives.
Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in communications or marketing required.
Minimum of five years of marketing, advertising, communications, media relations and public relations. Experience in large, complex organization required; preferably in both the public and private sectors. Higher education communications experience preferred.
Established record of accomplishment implementing strategic in successful marketing and communication campaigns.
Progressive responsibility in institutional branding and identity.
Experience managing issues that have the potential to damage an institution’s reputation.
Knowledge and experience in marketing metrics from creating scorecards to advertising campaign analysis.
Experiencing working with media on advertising buys that maximize spending.
Experience with Wordpress, digital design, data analytics, and social media.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Demonstrated experience managing a team of creative professionals.
Ability to use independent judgment and gather, manage and impart information to the media and various internal and external audiences.
Experience managing crisis communication situations.
Experience working with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
For fullest consideration, you must complete the UIC online application, submit a cover letter and resume by July 10, 2019
https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=114887
The University of Illinois at Chicago is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Internal Number: Job ID #114887
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November 27, 2018 / 8:30 PM / 8 months ago
Oil investors still on edge, waiting on OPEC's word
Devika Krishna Kumar
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global oil markets are nervously eyeing OPEC’s upcoming meeting for clarity on future supply as the dust settles after a full-fledged rout in crude markets over the last several weeks.
The logo of the Organization of the Petroleoum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is seen at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna, Austria June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
So far, there is no clear view if production will be cut or remain steady, and that uncertainty raises the risk of more volatile trading after mass selling caused oil to drop by more than 30 percent in little over a month.
Participants generally expect OPEC will trim production at its Dec. 6 meeting by about 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd), but there is enough uncertainty to make traders defensive.
Speculators, once betting on $100-a-barrel oil, are now going the other direction, having boosted short positions in oil to their biggest in more than a year. The options market currently shows a record number of open positions in U.S. oil falling to $45 or $40 a barrel by the end of 2019, though bullish bets have also edged higher.
“Getting some resolution around the intent of the Saudis and OPEC ... would go a long way to helping the market feel better,” said Greg Sharenow, portfolio manager at PIMCO, who co-manages more than $15 billion in commodity assets.
He added that if OPEC does not reduce production, prices could tumble to $40 a barrel.
The signals from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its leader, Saudi Arabia, have been mixed. Officials familiar with Saudi plans told Reuters they expect it to trim production, but an industry source also said Saudi oil output exceeded 11 mln bpd for the first time in November.
The cartel’s deliberations have been compounded by the growing influence of Russia, whose production has climbed to a post-Soviet era high, and by the United States, which is now producing at a record 11.7 million bpd. Russian oil executives and officials have been skeptical of the need to cut output.
Meanwhile, the U.S. decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran, only to grant waivers to major importers of that nation’s oil, threw the market for a loop.
Macro-focused and commodity trading advisory funds (CTAs) had bet on a further rally ahead of renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran, but instead were caught wrong-footed after waivers were announced and U.S. production surged faster than expected. Wall Street banks looking to protect against exposure from selling options to oil producers intensified that selling, market sources said.
Implied volatility, a gauge of options demand, soared, with U.S. crude implied volatility hitting its highest level since February 2016 last week.
The price swings hit funds hard. Among renowned oil bulls, the Andurand Capital Commodities Fund lost 4.1 percent for the month through Nov. 16, putting it down 15.7 percent for the year, according to HSBC data.
Open interest in bearish bets on U.S. crude falling to $45 or $40 a barrel by the end of 2019 are at record levels but bets on U.S. oil rising to $80 a barrel by end-2019 are also high, as some see the sell-off as having gone too far, too fast.
“As sharp as the falloff has been, I think the market is poised to have as sharp a comeback,” said Shawn Reynolds, portfolio manager of the VanEck Global Hard Assets Fund in New York.
In recent weeks, both OPEC and the International Energy Agency cut their demand forecasts due to sagging fortunes in developing economies. The forward Brent futures curve - the market’s primary indicator of expectations for supply and demand - now signals a potential glut through mid-2019.
CME Group’s OPEC Watch Tool, which uses option-market activity to predict the probability of OPEC’s decision, currently puts a 70 percent chance on a small OPEC production cut and a 30 percent chance of little to no change in output.
This uncertainty is in part due to U.S. President Donald Trump, whose decision not to punish the Saudis for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has raised the possibility that the kingdom will be less inclined to cross Trump by cutting output dramatically.
“President Trump’s tacit support of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MbS) in the wake of the Khashoggi murder seems to have provided him with significant leverage over the Saudi leadership,” Capital Economics analysts said in a note.
Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in New York; Additional reporting by Lawrence Delevingne; Editing by Tom Brown
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By Marta Petrosillo, 13 July 2019
Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of the diocese of Dori, in the northeast of Burkina Faso. Image: Aid to the Church in Need.
“If the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the Christian presence in this area and quite possibly in future from the entire country.”
These were the warning words given to the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) by Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of the Diocese of Dori, in the northeast of Burkina Faso, following the umpteenth attack against Christians in the country recently.
The latest incidents took place on 27 June, but the news had only come through now. “It happened in the neighbouring diocese of Ouahigouya,” the bishop explained, “when the people of the village of Bani had gathered together to speak among themselves. The islamists arrived and forced everybody to lie face down on the ground. Then they searched them. Four people were wearing crucifixes. So they killed them because they were Christians. After murdering them, the Islamists warned all the other villages that if they did not convert to Islam they too would be killed.”
This is the fifth attack against Christians since the beginning of the year in the northeast of the country, bringing the number of Christians killed to 20. The attacks have affected the three dioceses of Dori, Kaya and Ouahigouya.
According to Bishop Dabiré, the action of these Islamic fundamentalists has intensified since 2015. “At first they were only active in the frontier region between Mali and Niger. But slowly they have moved into the interior of the country, attacking the army, the civil structures and the people. Today their main target appears to be the Christians and I believe they are trying to trigger an interreligious conflict.”
Although initially it was thought that the extremist were all foreigners, over time it has been discovered that there are also some Burkinabé among them. “They include youths who have joined the jihadists because they have no money, no work and no prospects, but there are also radicalised elements who are involved in these movements which they see as the expression of their Islamic faith.”
Meanwhile, there is growing fear within the Christian community.
“It is since 2015 that we have been subjected to this spate of violence” said Bishop Dabiré, in whose own diocese a priest was abducted on 17 March this year, Father Joël Yougbaré. “To this day we still have no news of him,” the bishop adds. “The degree of insecurity is growing constantly and it has even forced us to reduce our pastoral activities.” He explained that in fact there are some areas where it is now impossible to go and that he has been forced to close down two parishes in order to protect his priests, religious and faithful.
What hurts, in the midst of so much suffering, is also the lack of any action to defend the Christian communities, and above all the aid being channelled from abroad to the jihadists. “The weapons they are using were not made here in Africa. They have rifles, machine guns and so much ammunition, more than the Burkina Faso army has at its disposal. When they come to the villages they shoot for hours. Who is supplying them with these resources? If they were not getting this support from outside, they would have to stop. That’s why I’m appealing to the international authorities. Whoever has the power to do so, may they put a stop to all this violence!”
Prayer Points
For the safe return of Father Joël Yougbaré who was abducted on 17 March 2019.
For the conversion of those that have been radicalised.
For peace in Burkina Faso and that the community can be free to express their religious beliefs without fear or being attacked.
That international authorities can ensure that terrorists are not being supplied with weapons.
For Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré that the Holy Spirit can help him in protecting his diocese in this difficult time
Lord hear us,
Lord graciously hear us.
Republished with permission from Aid to the Church in Need.
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DIRECTOR: Michael Damian LEAD CAST Keenan Kampa, Nicholas Galitzine, Jane SeymourSCREENWRITER: Michael Damian & Janeen Damian PRODUCER: Michael Damian & Janeen Damian EDITOR: Michael & Janeen Damian/Peter CabadaHagan & Byron Speight MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Nathan Lanier GENRE: Drama/Romance CINEMATOGRAPHER: Viorel Sergovici LOCATION: USA RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes
Technical assessment: 3.5
Moral assessment: 3.5
CINEMA rating: V13 (Viewers aged 13 and below with parental guidance)
Midwest ballet student Ruby Adams (Keenan Kampa) goes to New York as a scholar at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts. Johnnie Blackwell (Nicholas Galitzine) is a gifted British violinist who plays for money at the subway station. Ruby’s extraordinary talent is recognized by school authorities but she is challenged to go beyond mere technique, lest she lose her scholarship. Similarly, Johnnie has a problem with his non-immigrant status. Ruby and Johnnie meet, and under the circumstances a friendship is born. The all-technique dancer and the all-soul violinist are both high strung (pardon the pun) over their problems, try to help each other out, and in the process fall in love. Or is it the other way around?
With a plot like that, High strung is a foregone conclusion. Like all the dance-centered flicks young audiences love like Step up and Fame, its story is written to show off performances. Its 27-year old star Kampa is a real-life ballerina and has been dancing since she was four years old—this is her first movie, and she’s here for the dance, so she’s not really an actress in that sense. Nonetheless, she delivers well, the dance floor being her real world—she can emote as her role demands, and she executes enviable splits in mid-air. Galitzine on the other is said to have studied violin, but let the virtuosos judge how well the actor with a pout does it here. Performances from the other dancers are engaging, and the final piece that blends ballet and contemporary moves is really refreshing.
Thus, despite the clichés, High strung is not that bad, really; in fact, it pleases in that it highlights certain desirable human traits like closeness between mother and daughter, honesty of shop keepers, hard work, true friendship, self-mastery, etc. Unlike most “dance” movies with the lead couple getting hot over each other, here there are no “bad examples” for young viewers. It’s the couple’s transformation and their transcendence over their individual situation that are underscored. The uptight ballerina learns to loosen up and therefore becomes a superior dancer, the brooding violinist opens up to his friendly neighbors and… well, all is well that ends well. If you want exuberance and energy in a movie, this is it.
Posted by the editor CBCP CINEMA at 5:53:00 PM
The Hunstsman: winter's war
DIRECTOR: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan STARRING:Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Colin Morgan, Nick Frost, Sam Claflin, Rob Brydon PRODUCER: Joe Roth EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:Sarah Bradshaw, Palak Patel SCREENWRITERS: Craig Mazin,Evan Spiliotopoul BASED ON:Characters by Evan Daugherty FILM EDITOR: Conrad Buff IV MUSIC:James Newton Howard ART DIRECTOR & VISUAL EFFECTS: Steve Street GENRE:Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Drama CINEMATOGRAPHER: Phedon Papamichael PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dominic Watkins PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Perfect World Pictures, Roth Films DISTRIBUTORS: Universal Pictures COUNTRIES: United Kingdom, United States LANGUAGE: English RUNNING TIME: 114minutes
Technical Assessment: 3
Moral Assessment: 3
Cinema Rating:V13
A prequel to Snow White and the Hunstman, the story happens many years before the Snow White’s story. The evil queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) has a sister, Freya (Emily Blunt), whose magical cryokinenetic powers—the power to use cold and ice in physical combat—awaken following the mysterious death of her only child. She leaves her sister's kingdom and establishes her own empire in the icy North. She abducts children from villages, and raises them to be her soldiers—hunstmen. Two of these children are Eric and Sara (Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain), who grow to become her finest huntsmen. And in spite of Queen Freya's rules against love, the two fall in love. Queen Freya uses her magic to separate them, and Eric, believing that Sara is murdered, spends the next seven years mourning her death. Things take a different turn, when the Ice Queen Freya hunts for the magic mirror which used to belong to Queen Ravena, now believed to be dead.
The Hunstman: Winter’s War takes a different turn on the original popular fairy tale, Snow White. Here, the audience will only hear the name of the famous princess who will not really appear in the picture. The result is pretty interesting, although one can sense that the film is having quite a difficulty in terms of focus and real identity. Although the two huntsmen are in the center of a love story, the sister/rival queens seem to be more interesting characters. The acting is fine. Hemsworth and Chastain are able to deliver although as lovers in the story, there should perhaps be more justification to endear them to the audience. Blunt is terrific and Theron is as fierce as ever although she lacks the needed exposure to establish more tension in the story. Elaborate production design and visual effects are effective, making The Huntsman: Winter’s War in its totality a feel-good and an enjoyable watch only despite its weaknesses.
The film is very clear on its theme as it is verbalized quite a few times – “love conquers all.” It refers mainly to the romance built between Eric and Sara amid the strong rule of the ice queen not to love. Although the love the queen is referring to is love in general so it also applies to kinds of love other than the romantic one. The Huntsman: Winter’s War is able to deliver the message loud and clear. Freya’s traumatic experience brought out the worst in her and her outrage and anger turned her into a cold being – literally and figuratively. Her heart turned not just cold but as hard as ice. The film clearly defines hatred, greed and vanity as evil. Ravena symbolizes the evil of all evils. Freya’s circumstance made her evil for a time but then, goodness in her heart still triumphed in the end as it is her real nature. It may have been hard at first to accept her sudden change of heart just because of one traumatic experience—but then, that could be very human of her to feel hate and anger. Her remorse towards the end is a redeeming factor. The bond between Eric and Sara could have been stronger had there been more tension and emotions at stake. But shallow or not, love is love, is able to conquer the evil of evils, and it is maybe enough that the message “love conquers all” comes across loud and clear. The violence in the movie, although in context, must be explained to the very young audience.
TITLE: Bastille Day (received, edited, uploaded April 27, Meldy) DIRECTOR: James Watkins LEAD CAST: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Eriq Ebouaney, Jose Garcia SCREENWRITER: Andrew Baldwin PRODUCER: Bard Dorros, Fabrice Gianfermi, Steve Golin, David Kanter EDITOR: Jon Harris MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Alex Heffes GENRE: Action, Adventure CINEMATOGRAPHER: Tim Maurice-Jones DISTRIBUTOR: Focus Features LOCATION: Paris RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes
CINEMA Rating: V14
Hustler pickpocket Michael Mason (Richard Madden) is an undocumented American tourist in France. His modus operandi involves getting attention of the people in a crowded spot of Paris, France which he succeeds without being caught. Until he observes an anxious woman Zoe Naville (Charlotte Le Bon), who happens to be a terrorist accomplice, as his next likely victim. He steals her handbag not knowing it contains a bomb hidden in a stuffed toy. Thinking there is no valuable in the bag, he throws it in the street corner; it detonates to his surprise, killing four people. He is caught in a camera that goes viral in social media, identifying him as a prime suspect in a terrorist plot. He becomes the object of a nationwide terrorist manhunt. CIA agent Sean Briar (Idris Elba) captures Mason and discovers he’s not a terrorist. He then uses Sean’s pickpocketing skills to uncover a large-scale corruption and conspiracy in a bombing campaign designed to bring Paris to downfall on Bastille Day.
Bastille Day has a thrilling story. It cleverly connects street crimes like pickpocketing and high profile corruption to Bastille Day, a special holiday in the France. This has been heightened by director Watkins’ good treatment of combined action, humor, and suspense. Although there seems to be carelessness in a scene of conversation openly in the street after discovering a suicide and beside a hot car. The roof chase also unnecessarily takes a while. Nevertheless, the lead actors Madden, Le Bon, and Elba equally give their strong and impressive performances. The editing is likewise good especially in pickpocket scenes. The cinematography is shot with clarity and coherence, supported by good production design. Other technical aspects – sounds, musical scoring, and lighting complement the overall presentation of the film.
Bastille Day believes that there is always a chance to change and that criminal skills like picking pockets may be used in a positive way to stop the chaos or to uncover high level corruption. No one can deny that corruption involving high ranking officials and law enforcers is already a reality in human society. Pickpocketing becomes relatively petty beside big-time stealing although viewers are reminded that it is still stealing and an equally punishable act. Similarly, a bomb in whatever form is dangerous and can kill people; therefore allowing one’s self to act as a mule to plant a bomb for whatever reason is a big risk to one’s life and others, not to mention property. The serious situation in Bastille Day needs a strong willed, discerning person with wisdom and the willingness to take risks, like the character of Agent Sean. Finally, social media can make or unmake a person. Viewers are reminded anew to be responsible in their use.
DIRECTOR: Dan Trachtenberg LEAD CAST: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher, Jr. SCREENWRITER: Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken, Damien Chazelle PRODUCER: J.J. Abrams, Lindsey Weber EDITOR: Stefan Grube MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Bear McCreary GENRE: Science Fiction Psychological Thriller CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jeff Cutter DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures LOCATION: United States GENRE: Suspense, action RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes
Shortly after a love quarrel with her fiancé, Michelle (Elizabeth Winstead) figures in a car accident and loses consciousness. On waking up she finds herself chained onto a wall without any idea where she is. In that strange place she meets Howard (John Goodman)) who explains to her that she has been rescued from the danger of chemical hazards and is brought to the underground place for safety and protection to keep her alive. In the same place, Michelle meets Emmet (John Gallagher, Jr.), another rescued survivor. The two of them think that Howard is an equally dangerous man when he denies entry to Leslie (Suzanne Cryer), who is already contaminated by the chemical. Emmet and Michelle plan to escape. But Howard discovers their attempt to flee. 10 Cloverfield Lane has a commendable plot. It is well developed, unpredictable and impressively sustains suspense. The director did well in carrying the story with effective attention to detail. The actors equally gave their share of excellent, thrilling performance. The cinematography is likewise good; it complements the amazing production design while being enhanced further by careful editing. The rest of the technical aspects satisfactorily contribute to the overall aesthetic value of the film.
There is value in possessing foresight, resourcefulness, and strong determination to protect life. There is further value when interest for safety is not contained to one’s self but is extended to include others. The film depicts charity that is marked by hospitality and generosity in sharing home and food to the needy. However, distrust gets in the way and the motivation in helping others is questioned. While trust may bring peace of mind and a carefree feeling in the heart, in times of trouble and confusion, it is very hard to trust and to forgive. The film 10 Cloverfield Lane disregards the trust, forgiveness and sacredness of life.
Posted by the editor CBCP CINEMA at 12:35:00 AM
DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau LEAD CAST: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giarncarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken, Neel Sethi PRODUCERS: Jon Favreau, Brigham Taylor SCREENWRITER: Justin Marks EDITOR: Mark Livolsi CINEMATOGRAPHER: Bill Pope MUSIC: John Debney GENRE: Fantasy Adventure BASED ON: Disney’s The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling PRODUCTION COMPANY: Walt Disney Pictures, Fairview Entertainment DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures LOCATION: United States RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes
CINEMA rating: VA (Viewers of All Ages)
Toula Portokalos-Miller (Nia Vardalos) and husband Ian (John Corbett) are now often at odds with their 18-year-old daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris) who disagrees with Greek traditions and can’t accept her clan’s behavior. Toula has also to contend with the expectations of close relatives and the aging parents—something that pulls her away much of the time from her husband. Crisis arises when the family discovers that Toula’s parents Kostas (Michael Constantine) and Maria (Lainie Kazan), husband and wife for 50 years, are not yet officially married in Church. Now Maria wants Kostas to seriously propose marriage to her. Kostas adamantly refuses but at a crucial point gives in and pops the question. The wedding planner hired for the occasion quits from the pressure imposed by the loud and huge family. How will the big fat Greek wedding then come to pass?
A sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) this can stand on its own, although some parts may not make sense to those who have not seen MBFGW #1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 may have its technical loopholes—some jokes fall flat, sometimes characters project like amateur actors, editing is sometimes lumpy, etc.—but with a story that everyone one with a family can relate to, technical imperfection is forgiveable. If the plot is the spine, the development of the characters is the flesh and blood around it, animating the movie and putting on the big screen people that viewers can care about. Credit goes to Vardalos’ script, delivered from the heart by the ensemble. It will be remembered that Vardalos, its star and screenwriter, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002.
Critics have been harsh on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. The consensus on Rotten Tomatoes says it is “as sweet and harmless as the original, but its collection of sitcom gags and stereotypes never coalesces into anything resembling a story with a purpose.” We have yet to see how MBFGW #2 eventually compares at the box office with MBFGW #1, but it’s clear that critics and audiences do not see eye to eye here. The original had a budget of $5 million and ultimately grossed $368.7 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing rom-com in history despite its never becoming number one in box office charts. It seems film critics who bash the movie miss the “purpose” in Vardalos’ story. Dipped in cream and rolled in sugar and spice is its dough—solidly but subtly promoting the values of love, marriage, family. The movie throbs with love and acceptance—perhaps that’s what viewers really want to see in a world that’s bent on destroying itself with selfish isms and ideologies. Read the viewers’ comments and reactions to reviews and understand why audiences even clap their hands at the end of the movie.
As a baby, Mowgli (voiced by Neel Sethi) is rescued by Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), a black panther. He is brought to the wolves Raksha (Lupita Nyong’o) and Akela (Giancarlo Esposito), and is raised by them. When Mowgli grows to become a young boy, the tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba) threatens to kill him as humans are not allowed in the jungle. Mowgli flees his jungle home and sets on an action-packed adventure and self-discovery into the deep forest where he is hypnotized by the python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson). He is rescued by and becomes friends with Baloo (Bill Murray), a bear, and kidnapped by King Louie (Christopher Walken), an orangutan. A note of caution to parents: some scenes may be too violent for very young children. (Full review to follow).
Superman vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice
Direction: Jack Snyder; Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter; Story: based on characters published by DC Comics; Screenplay: Chris Terrio, David Guyer; Cinematography: Larry Fong; Editing: David Brenner; Music: Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL; Producers: Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder; Genre: Action; Location: Gotham City and Metropolis; Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 151 minutes
Rating: V14
Eighteen months prior to the present times, Bruce Wayne (Affleck) loses his father as he witnesses the destruction caused by Superman’s (Cavill) battle with Zod in the Metropolis. For Bruce, Superman’s presence attracts alien hostiles and his over protectiveness for Lois Lane (Adams) puts the entire society in danger. Fast forward to the present, Clark Kent, now a senior reporter in the Daily Planet, frowns upon Batman’s vigilante style in combating crime. Meanwhile, Lex Luther has been plotting a scheme to frame Superman for countless loss of lives in an encounter with an African dictator and eventually have him and Batman battle to death. Amidst this complication, another superhuman, alien—Wonder Woman—is trying to make her own investigation before Lex discovers the rest of her kind living on earth.
Superman vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice is one of those movies whose outcome does not meet expectations set by all the hype of its publicity and anticipation of the fans. It is disappointingly awkward, slow paced and illogically convoluted. Affleck and Henry have no chemistry as “frenemies” or charm as the unknowing victims of Lex’s insanity. Wonder Woman is like a stick figure surfacing merely to parade her evening gowns and flash that synthetic smile. The real let down is the direction—or the lack of it. There are just too many subplots that need to be explained and back stories that had to be exposed at the expense of moving forward. By the time the action picks up, viewers are already too exhausted trying to put pieces together. Holly Hunter’s Senator Finch and Affleck’s worn-out Bruce Wayne are the performances that saved the film, as well as Zimmer’s dramatic scoring. Sadly, not enough to make viewers believe all the wait and anticipation was worth it. At the end of the movie, you simply don’t feel any sympathy for any of the characters.
What does it take to be a hero? Bravery? Courage? Superhuman powers? Gadgets? Intelligence? Cunning? Maybe all of the above because these qualities make one SUPER. But at the same time, we can’t produce a real superhero/heroine even with all of them combined. Why? Because our superhero has to have a heart and soul. A heart that empathizes with the oppressed, the victim, the one in need and a soul which pushes one to sacrifice him/herself to save someone else and to dedicate his/her existence for the betterment of the world. The heroes in this film are as super as they can be but every inch human as well. While Batman and Superman had their boyish moments of territorial aggression and dislike for each other, they were able to overcome their grudges to save Superman’s Martha - and figuratively Batman’s Martha as well. At the end of the film, Superman chooses to sacrifice himself to save the world and Batman chooses to honor his sacrifice by gathering and protecting other super humans so they can in turn continue saving the world.
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Communities, Culture and Heritage
What are the different types of heritage registration?
The Government of Nova Scotia’s Heritage Property Act allows for different types of property registration based upon the property’s historical associations.
For example, if a local business and its owner are known for contributing to the establishment of a town’s economy, the property may have heritage value as a registered municipal heritage property. However, if the same property affected the industrial economy of the province, it may also have strong heritage value as a registered provincial heritage property.
In either case, the property’s historical associations help determine its designation once registered under the act. It should be noted that the different designations do not represent different levels of heritage value.
Types of Heritage Registration:
Individual registered provincial heritage properties can occur when they are deemed to have a provincial level of heritage value. Heritage value may include architecture, historical associations or settings, and provides important representations of Nova Scotia’s history.
A registered provincial streetscape can occur when a grouping of properties (collectively) is deemed to have provincial heritage value. These properties must all be visible from one vantage point.
A registered provincial public-building interior can occur when the character-defining elements of a publicly accessible building interior owned by the Government of the Province is deemed to have provincial heritage value.
A provincial cultural landscape can occur when a distinct geographical area or property uniquely representing the combined work of nature and of people is deemed to have provincial heritage value.
Individual registered municipal heritage properties can occur when properties are deemed to have a local or community level of heritage value. Heritage value may include architecture, historical associations, or settings and provide important representations of municipality’s history.
A registered municipal streetscape can occur when a grouping of properties (collectively) is deemed to have local or community heritage value. These properties must all be visible from one vantage point.
A registered municipal heritage conservation district can occur when a large area of urban or rural properties (collectively) is deemed to have a local or community level of heritage value. The properties contained within the district’s boundaries typically cannot be entirely seen from one vantage point. All districts are developed by the community for the community and have their own bylaw and plan for administrations.
A registered municipal public-building interior can occur when the character-defining elements of a publicly accessible building interior owned by the municipality is deemed to have municipal heritage value.
A municipal cultural landscape can occur when a distinct geographical area or property uniquely representing the combined work of nature and of people is deemed to have municipal heritage value.
Heritage is that which society inherits from previous generations and deems worthy of taking special measures to preserve for future generations
Exploring our Past
Why is heritage registration important?
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How do I register a property?
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Mapping Aquifer Zones Based on Microbial Ecology and Geochemistry in a Landfill Leachate Plume with a Self Organizing Map
by A. R. Pearce,
P. J. Mouser,
G. K. Druschel,
D. M. Rizzo,
Part of: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
We implemented a self-organizing map to delineate aqueous geochemistry and microbial ecology in landfill leachate. In subsurface ecosystems microorganisms mitigate a myriad of chemical processes in the environment (including contaminant degradation and immobilization, redox cycling and nutrient transport). Resident microbial communities depend on geochemical energy for their metabolism. Thus, microbial diversity and survival depends on geochemical and contaminant variations in groundwater; yet it is difficult to explicitly include their relevance in site characterization. In many environmental systems there are benefits to including microbial diversity information in characterizing that system; yet traditional multivariate statistical methods are not suited to process multi-dimensional datasets. A self-organizing map, also known as SOM or Kohonen Map, is a non-linear clustering algorithm. The SOM reduces high-dimensional data to a lower dimension that is then grouped using clustering techniques. The SOM is effective with multiple data types (e.g. including microbial phylogeny and the environmental parameters that describe their habitat). For proof-of-concept, we test this clustering algorithm on data collected from monitoring wells in a shallow landfill leachate-contaminated groundwater aquifer that we sampled for hydrogeochemistry (petroleum byproducts, halogenated volatile organic compounds and inorganic species) and microbial community members. Due to high concentrations of organic carbon in landfill leachate, groundwater sampled from these contaminated aquifers typically exhibits a large range of redox processes, from aerobic to methanogenic conditions. The in situ microbial community is directly related to available nutrients in each zone. The dataset available from the Schuyler Falls Landfill in Schuyler Falls, NY includes detailed site-wide apparent conductivity as well as hydrochemical and microbiological data from 28 different monitoring wells. Groundwater samples were analyzed for temperature, pH, redox potential, turbidity, specific conductance and a suite of organic and inorganic contaminants. Microbiological ecology is described with 16S rRNA gene surveys using primer sets specific for Bacteria, Archaea and Geobacteraceae and DNA sequences were identified as operational taxonomic units (OTUs) for further analysis. We used the SOM to cluster and delineate the hydrochemical and microbial data identifying redox zones in the subsurface. The SOM can be modified to account for spatial auto-correlation that exists within most groundwater datasets. Identification of different zones using this clustering algorithm is an important step in linking microbial activity to biogeochemical processes that are important for site characterization and long-term monitoring stewardship (i.e. delineating groundwater plumes, identifying changes in redox condition, types of contamination or potential for biodegradation or immobilization).
Subject Headings: Mapping | Groundwater pollution | Algorithms | Hydrologic data | Aquifers | Microbes | Ecosystems | Landfills
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Basti district
Rudhauli tehsil
Mhuari
Mhuari Population, Caste, Working Data Basti, Uttar Pradesh - Census 2011
Mhuari is a village situated in Rudhauli tehsil of Basti district in Uttar Pradesh. As per the Population Census 2011, there are total 72 families residing in the village Mhuari. The total population of Mhuari is 561 out of which 284 are males and 277 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Mhuari is 975.
The population of Children of age 0-6 years in Mhuari village is 78 which is 14% of the total population. There are 39 male children and 39 female children between the age 0-6 years. Thus as per the Census 2011 the Child Sex Ratio of Mhuari is 1,000 which is greater than Average Sex Ratio (975) of Mhuari village.
As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Mhuari is 67.7%. Thus Mhuari village has higher literacy rate compared to 56.6% of Basti district. The male literacy rate is 78.37% and the female literacy rate is 56.72% in Mhuari village.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act (Amendment 1998), Mhuari village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of the village.
Mhuari Data as per Census 2011
As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Mhuari village.
Children 78 39 39
Literacy 67.7% 78.37% 56.72%
Scheduled Caste 183 88 95
Scheduled Tribe 0 0 0
Illiterate 234 92 142
Caste Data as per Census 2011
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 32.6% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0% of total population in Mhuari village.
Working Population as per Census 2011
In Mhuari village out of total population, 149 were engaged in work activities. 98.7% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 1.3% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 149 workers engaged in Main Work, 0 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 128 were Agricultural labourer.
Main Workers 147 142 5
Agriculture Labourer 128 125 3
Other Workers 19 17 2
Marginal Workers 2 2 0
Non Working 412 140 272
Map of Mhuari, Basti, Uttar Pradesh
Nearby Villages to Mhuari, Rudhauli
Below are the list of villages near Mhuari village in Rudhauli.
Belbhria 743
Bdhya Raja 1,303
Pakri Adheen 407
Bheeta Ramseen 1,359
Pada Kharhara 1,367
Tighra Pandit 546
Sariya 903
Mathurapur 650
Sathwalia 566
Semra 886
Census 2011 Data - censusindia.gov.in
Mhuari, Basti, Uttar Pradesh - Wikipedia
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The Lodger
Mashiba, Shin
* Nightmare Inspector is from Square Enix, the Japanese publisher of Fullmetal Alchemist and Final Fantasy.
* For fans of Kaori Yuki (Angel Sanctuary, The Cain Saga, Godchild)
* For fans of Neil Gaiman's Sandman and DC's classic House of Mystery/House of Secrets
* First VIZ Media shojo title aimed at boys and girls. The story is shonen, and the art is shojo.
* Self-contained storylines in each volume so readers can jump in at any volume number.
For those who suffer nightmares, help awaits at the Silver Star Tea House, where patrons can order much more than just Darjeeling. Hiruko is a special kind of private investigator. He's a dream eater. And he'll rid you of your darkest visions...for a price.
The Lodger Dreams on the menu in this volume: a telephone operator who may be the girl of another patron's dreams, a girl without sight whose hearing is driving her mad, a missing fiancé who may be trapped in his own painting, and a mysterious lodger intent on discovering Hiruko's private past.
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : VIZ Media, 2008.
Characteristics: 163 p. :,chiefly ill. ;,19 cm.
Additional Contributors: Collinge, Gemma
Read more reviews of The Lodger at iDreamBooks.com
nimradar123 Jul 06, 2012
spooky but very interesting a must read #imagineteencontest
Nightmares — Comic Books, Strips, Etc.
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Water level and velocity measurements from the 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE)
This data release contains water level and velocity measurements from wave runup experiments performed in a laboratory flume setting. Wave-driven water level variability (and runup at the shoreline) is a significant cause of coastal flooding induced by storms. Wave runup is challenging to predict, particularly along tropical coral reef-fringed coastlines due to the steep bathymetric profiles and large bottom roughness generated by reef organisms. The 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE) measured water levels and velocities for sixteen wave and offshore (still) water level conditions on a 1:36 geometric scale fringing reef profile with and without bottom roughness. Experiments were performed in a 55-m long wave flume (Eastern Scheldt Flume) at Deltares, the Netherlands. These data accompany the following publications: Buckley, M.L., Lowe, R.J., Hansen, J.E., and van Dongeren, A.R., 2015, Dynamics of wave setup over a steeply sloping fringing reef: Journal of Physical Oceanography, v. 45, p. 3005-3023, https://doi.org/10.1175/Jpo-D-15-0067.1 Buckley, M.L., Lowe, R.J., Hansen, J.E., and van Dongeren, A.R., 2016, Wave setup over a fringing reef with large bottom roughness: Journal of Physical Oceanography, v. 46, p. 2317-2333, https://doi.org/10.1175/Jpo-D-15-0148.1 Buckley, M.L., Lowe, R.J., Hansen, J.E., van Dongeren, A.R., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2018, Mechanisms of wave-driven water level variability on reef-fringed coastlines: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013933.
Buckley, Mark L., Lowe, Ryan J., Hansen, Jeff E., Ap R. van Dongeren, and Storlazzi, Curt D., 2018, Water level and velocity measurements from the 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE): data release DOI: 10.5066/F71V5D7J, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, California.
https://doi.org/10.5066/F71V5D7J
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5a8f2aa8e4b06990605dddb6
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.0
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.0
Calendar_Date: 2018
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: CSV
Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
The physical model results presented are not for a particular geographic areas.
CSV files are self-contained and attribute information may be found in the header of the file itself. Rough_Run02_gauge_data.csv and Smooth_Run02_gauge_data.csv contain water level and velocity measurements for Run 2 with (rough) and without roughness (smooth). Rough_runup_data.csv and Smooth_runup_data.csv contain runup measurements for the complete set of sixteen runs.
The entity and attribute information was generated by the individual and/or agency identified as the originator of the data set. Please review the rest of the metadata record for additional details and information.
Mark L. Buckley
Ryan J. Lowe
Jeff E. Hansen
Ap R. van Dongeren
Curt D. Storlazzi
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
This data release contains water level and velocity measurements used in the analysis by Buckley and others (2018) to provide insight into sea-swell and infragravity wave transformation and wave setup dynamics on steep-sloped coastlines, and the effect that future losses of reef bottom roughness may have on coastal flooding along reef-fringed coasts.
The following steps were used in development of the physical model. For an in-depth discussion of processing, see Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933). 1. A plywood reef structure was constructed in the 55-m long Eastern Scheldt Flume at Deltares, in the Netherlands. The reef profile is based on a typical fringing reef profile with a 1:5 fore reef slope, a 14 m horizontal reef flat (500 m in field (prototype) scale with a 1:36 geometric scaling factor), and a 1:12 sloped beach. 2. Two sets of 16 runs were conducted. The first set of runs used a smooth plywood bottom to minimize the role of bottom roughness. In the second set of runs, a staggered array of 1.8 cm (65 cm in field scale) concrete cubes were affixed to the plywood bottom on the fore reef slope and reef flat to replicate the bottom roughness characteristics of a coral reef. 3. Water levels (18 locations with resistance-type gauges) and horizontal velocities (6 locations with electromagnetic current meters) were measured synchronously at 40 Hz, with the highest spatial density of measurements in the surf zone region near the reef crest at x = 0 m. The total duration of runs was 2520 s, with the first 480 s removed from statistical analysis to allow for wave setup on the reef flat to fully develop. 4. Runup time series were measured using an array of resistance-type gauges with a 0.025 m spacing along the beach slope for the first 1.0 m and a 0.05 m spacing for the remaining 1.2 m 5. Water level and velocity measurements used in the analysis by Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933) are included as .csv files in this data release
Minor typos were corrected. No data information was changed. Person who carried out this activity:
Buckley, Mark L., Lowe, Ryan J., Hansen, Jeff E., Ap R. van Dongeren, and Storlazzi, Curt D., 2018, Mechanisms of wave-driven water level variability on reef-fringed coastlines: Journal article Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933., American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.
See Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933) for an in-depth discussion of accuracy.
No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted, nor are they applicable
No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted. See Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933) for additional information.
USGS-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain from the U.S. Government and are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize and acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Western Australia as the originators of the dataset and in products derived from these data.
What's the catalog number I need to order this data set? These data are available in csv format (Rough_runup_data.csv, Smooth_runup_data.csv, Rough_Run02_gauge_data.csv, and Smooth_Run02_gauge_data.csv), along with CSDGM FGDC-compliant metadata, contained in one zip file (FlumeRunup_DataRelease.zip).
Zip file contains water level and velocity data in .csv format. in format CSV (version none) Size: 12.0
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Last modified: 30-Aug-2018
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Future Education: Learning The World through The Lens of “Technology”
Education of Future, Learning of Tomorrow and Technology to change Our Life with it.
We are rapidly entering a new era in which our economy, our institutions, and our societal structures – indeed, the very bedrock of our lives – are shifting at an accelerating pace. With the help of technology this new era of education promises to change learning so dramatically that both the ways in which education prepares learners for the future and the reasons why people pursue learning could look drastically different in future than they do today.
Many factors are contributing to this era shift, among them new social norms, organizational approaches, and economic models. Above all, exponential advances in digital technology is changing our world at an unprecedented pace.
Our devices are becoming increasingly smaller, more efficient, connected, and affordable. We do not just use them; we wear them as extensions of our bodies and adornments to ourselves. Data is captured in vast amounts, creating ever more detailed images of our realities, behaviors, and patterns.
Increasingly sophisticated computational tools and algorithms are ushering in smart machines such as driver-less cars; robots that work alongside humans; and digital helpers that can think, learn, anticipate our needs and wants, and even create art. Such developments are disrupting organizational and business models, re-configuring civic relationships, and changing the role of employment in people’s lives. They will also have a profound effect on how, when, and why people learn.
Given the many possible futures that could unfold, the next decade represents a critical window of choice. More specifically, we have many choices to make about what learning might look like and whether education supports everyone in navigating rapidly changing landscapes.
We urgently need to find the right approaches to education as the world around it changes. As a continuous critique and commentary on the impacts on people, structure and societies, please find the attached Blog for ready reference. This would be a series of comments that I excerpt and connect to lay the foundations of why “I am Because We Are”.
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Primary Sources: The 1910's: The Titanic
Online Sources: The Titanic
Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic
Contains various images related to the disaster and a video of an interview with Frank Ward, a Ground Crew Member.
R. M. S. Titanic in Newspapers
A collection from the Library of Virginia containing digital reproductions of newspaper articles related to the sinking of the Titanic.
RMS Titanic: Nova Scotia Archives
This site from the Nova Scotia Archives includes a virtual exhibit, news-magazines, and a list of bodies.
Survivors of the Titanic: BBC
"Their memories, and internal BBC documents about the controversies that followed, are now gathered together to tell the true story of the disaster. Hear the survivors describe a night they could never forget. "
Site provided by the BBC
Survivors of the Titanic: NARA
Partial list of survivors who were taken aboard the Carpathia
Titanic Inquiry Project
Electronic copies of British and American inquiries into the disaster
Titanic Memorandum
An exhibit from the NARA; it includes a link to search the ARC database for more items.
U.S. Senate: The Titanic Disaster Hearings
This site provides access to the final report issued by the panel.
Book Sources: The Titanic
The Loss of the SS. Titanic; its Story and its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley
Call Number: G530.T617 B415
Written by a passenger on the SS Titanic
The Story of the Titanic, as Told by its Survivors by Jack Winocour
Call Number: G530.T617 W776
Titanic, the official story [kit] : April 14-15, 1912
Call Number: Oversize G530.T6 T573 1997
Facsimiles of 18 documents relating to the Titanic
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If you're serious about your love of all things western, you should seriously consider joining.
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, CT 967
blued overall 21 slide action 13 repeating 61 varnished 52 finish 98 except for hammer which is in the white magazine 88 stock 186 walnut 486 grooved 5 tubular 51 forend 16 semi-pistol grip 25 plastic buttplate 17
military 45 shotgun 354
L: 39 in, Barrel length: 19.25 in, H: 8 in
Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection
The Model 1897 slide action repeating shotgun was a revamped and greatly improved version of the Model 1893. An action slide lock was incorporated for safety and a wide variety of styles was introduced. The Model 1897 was the first Winchester shotgun to accomodate 2 3/4-inch shot shells, the first available in 16 gauge, and the first with solid frame or takedown features. It was the most famous visible hammer repeating shotgun made in America. This short barrel shotgun version was extremely popular with law enforcement agencies during this century--a few are still in use. Magazine capacity: 5 shot shells.
bottom receiver/E/488403/top bbl/MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. U.S.A./PAT. NOV. 25. 90. DEC. 6. 92. JULY 21. 96. FEB. 22. 98. JUNE 14. 98. OCT. 16. 1900. DEC. 25. 06. JULY 5. 10./12 GA/left side bbl/CYL/bolt actuating rod/MODEL 1897/-WINCHESTER-TR [obliterated] S. PAT. OFF./
Riot version.
Model 1897 | Riot version
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Oklahoma State adds Dutch forward Hidde Roessink
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State announced Wednesday it has added Dutch basketball player Hidde Roessink to its 2019 recruiting class. Roessink,...
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Calipari signs $86 million, 10-year extension with Kentucky
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At least 6 men's hoops programs to face NCAA allegations
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Appeals court upholds dismissal of Oregon basketball players
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Canisius wins MAAC opener with 75-72 win over Marist
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(Image: FARC)
Now that FARC congressman is a fugitive, do former rebels lose seat in Congress?
by Kristin Rounds July 12, 2019
Following the disappearance of FARC congressman “Jesus Santrich,” Congress and the demobilized rebels are left wondering: what will happen to his congressional seat?
Article 134 of Colombia’s constitution, commonly referred to as the “Vacant Seat” principle, disallows political parties from replacing lawmakers who have a warrant out for their arrest, are a fugitive of justice, or have been convicted of a crime.
Members of the Public Bodies of public elections will not have substitutes. They could only be replaced for absolute or temporary absences determined by the law, by the non-elected candidates that, according to the order of registration or voting obtained, follow successively and descending in the same electoral list.
In no case can members be replaced if they were convicted of common crimes related to affiliation, promotion or funding of illegal armed groups or narcotics-trafficking activities; intentional crimes against the public administration; against the mechanisms of democratic participation, nor for Crimes Against Humanity. In addition, there will be no replacement of people that have resigned having been formally linked in Colombia to penal processes for the commission of such crimes, nor for temporary absences of those people with capture warrants within the framework of the respective processes.
This constitutional amendment was enacted in 2011 after dozens of congressmen and their replacements were found to have connections with paramilitary groups and drug traffickers.
The article was intended to force political parties to better vet their candidates, or risk losing their representation if their elected officials turn out to be criminals.
Santrich has a distinct case, because the FARC were guaranteed 10 congressional seats as part of a constitutional peace deal instead of by elections.
Constitutional Law professor Juan Manuel Charry told newspaper el Espectador this doesn’t change the validity of the Vacant Seat article.
Some say this article does not apply because their case is the result of the Peace Agreement, but no, because the Havana texts, although they grant the FARC party the lists in the Senate and House, and in the event of not obtaining a vote, assure it five seats in each chamber, these seats continue to be subject to the rules of the ordinary regime.
Constitutional Law professor Juan Manuel Charry
“For now Charry’s input is merely speculation,” former State Council magistrate Rafael Ostaou told the newspaper, stressing that the decision is purely judicial and lies with the high court.
“The Council of State will determine the reason why he would lose his investiture and, based on that, the empty chair clause could apply. But Article 134 could be also inapplicable, because the occupation of Santrich’s seat was not the result of an ordinary election, but a constitutional one,” said Ostaou.
What is certain is that nothing will happen to the FARC’s 10th seat until someone files a petition with the State Council to invoke Article 134.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home - Marisa Tomei Almost Had A More Classic Looking Aunt May Haircut
Marisa Tomei's take on Aunt May has become a favorite amongst Spider-Man fans, and that will only continue after her reprisal of the role in Spider-Man: Far From Home. While we've become accustomed to Tomei's version of May, the actress recently revealed that they went through several different looks for the character before settling on the current one, and that included a host of hairstyles. One, in particular, is much more reminiscent of the Aunt May from the comics, though that ended up getting the ax as well before all was said and done.
"I wanted to show you a few of the Aunt May pre-looks, things that were just rejected," Tomei wrote. "Maybe they'll show up in another character, you never know. Bunch of hairdos and let's see what you think."
You can take a look at all the looks in the post below, which Tomei posted with the caption "All that #AuntMay could have been! Here were a few of the hair possibilities we went through in the making of #spidermanfarfromhome @spidermanmovie @marvelstudios — which do you like best?! 🤔"
All that #AuntMay could have been! Here were a few of the hair possibilities we went though in the making of #spidermanfarfromhome @spidermanmovie @marvelstudios — which do you like best?! 🤔
A post shared by Marisa Tomei (@marisatomei) on Jul 7, 2019 at 8:22pm PDT
Tomei describes Photo #1 as a "curly top. The 1940s meets 70s kind of thing. Photo #2 is much closer to the comics, featuring some grey in her hair.
"Here we thought, well, because we were thinking how old do we, how are we gonna reinvent Aunt May? What's the idea? Maybe should she be all grey or maybe partly grey, so here's like a little Anne Bancroft homage," Tomei said.
The next few photos show Tomei in various other styles, and you can check them all out in the images above.
"Are kind of kinky hair, which personally I think I should've been born with (laughs), didn't make it for this character, and then bangs. The eternal girl question, bangs or no bangs," Tomei added.
Spider-Man: Far From Home is directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. The film stars Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Smulders, Zendaya, Jon Favreau, JB Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei, and Jake Gyllenhaal. You can check out the official description below.
"Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever."
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Gaming News:Epic Games Demonstrates Advanced Tech with Star Wars Vignette
Jack Gardner posted a topic in Announcements
At GDC, Epic Games revealed an unprecedented demonstration alongside NVIDIA and ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm's division in charge of experimenting with experimenting with techniques for advancing digital trickery. The three companies worked together on a technique called real-time ray tracing and seem to have achieved it, demonstrating the technique on stage during Epic's "State of Unreal" session at the Game Developer's Conference. This represents the first time real-time ray tracing has been publicly displayed live. So what is real-time ray tracing? Ray tracing is basically the technology that allows digital graphics to simulate light and shadow. Real-time ray tracing represents the next step beyond the tech we have now, allowing for multiple light sources to reflect and create shadows in real-time as either they move or the objects around them move. It essentially closes the gap between the tech between what digital animators can achieve in film and what game developers can create in video games. Epic's demonstration ran on NVIDIA's tech housed in Volta GPUs while an iPad running ARKit used a virtual camera to get a close-up view of the smallest details. The assets themselves were created by Lucasfilm for use in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The demo showcased advances in textured area lights, ray-traced ambient occlusion, reflections, and shadows, and cinematic depth-of-field. Take a look at what that all looks like in action: If that doesn't get you excited and you need something a little more gaming related, NVIDIA also worked with Remedy Entertainment, the developers behind Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Max Payne, to create a tech demo showing what real-time ray tracing can do inside a video game environment. Remedy's demo could also be a small tease for their mysterious project that's currently only known by the codename "P7." This technology is just on the horizon. It's hard not to get excited over what that could mean for games coming out in the next few years that take advantage of the ability to utilize real-time ray tracing. The one hitch might be that bitcoin mining has caused a huge uptick in GPU prices, so the cost of upgrading a PC graphics card could be prohibitive for those looking to upgrade to a device capable of handling this kind of graphical horsepower. What do you think? Are you excited by these teasers? View full article
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Epic Games Demonstrates Advanced Tech with Star Wars Vignette
Jack Gardner posted an article in Gaming News
At GDC, Epic Games revealed an unprecedented demonstration alongside NVIDIA and ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm's division in charge of experimenting with experimenting with techniques for advancing digital trickery. The three companies worked together on a technique called real-time ray tracing and seem to have achieved it, demonstrating the technique on stage during Epic's "State of Unreal" session at the Game Developer's Conference. This represents the first time real-time ray tracing has been publicly displayed live. So what is real-time ray tracing? Ray tracing is basically the technology that allows digital graphics to simulate light and shadow. Real-time ray tracing represents the next step beyond the tech we have now, allowing for multiple light sources to reflect and create shadows in real-time as either they move or the objects around them move. It essentially closes the gap between the tech between what digital animators can achieve in film and what game developers can create in video games. Epic's demonstration ran on NVIDIA's tech housed in Volta GPUs while an iPad running ARKit used a virtual camera to get a close-up view of the smallest details. The assets themselves were created by Lucasfilm for use in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The demo showcased advances in textured area lights, ray-traced ambient occlusion, reflections, and shadows, and cinematic depth-of-field. Take a look at what that all looks like in action: If that doesn't get you excited and you need something a little more gaming related, NVIDIA also worked with Remedy Entertainment, the developers behind Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Max Payne, to create a tech demo showing what real-time ray tracing can do inside a video game environment. Remedy's demo could also be a small tease for their mysterious project that's currently only known by the codename "P7." This technology is just on the horizon. It's hard not to get excited over what that could mean for games coming out in the next few years that take advantage of the ability to utilize real-time ray tracing. The one hitch might be that bitcoin mining has caused a huge uptick in GPU prices, so the cost of upgrading a PC graphics card could be prohibitive for those looking to upgrade to a device capable of handling this kind of graphical horsepower. What do you think? Are you excited by these teasers?
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David L. Gillespie, Xzabia A. Caliste
Contrast-enhanced venography has been practiced for more than half a century. In 1940, Bauer published details of normal venographic anatomy and the venographic appearance of acute and chronic deep venous thrombosis (DVT).1 Early attempts at venography were marked by complications related to the equipment, contrast agents used at that time, and incomplete understanding of venous hemodynamics. Since 1960, the procedure has become the leading diagnostic test for DVT.2 The technique evolved during many years and became the “gold standard” for the diagnosis of DVT after Rabinov and Paulin published their seminal article on contrast-enhanced venographic technique in 1972.3 Most current techniques are modifications of their approach to venography. Early leg venography required venous cutdown for access to the deep venous system, but this technique was modified by Welch and coworkers, who recommended that contrast material be injected into a superficial vein in the foot with a tourniquet applied above the ankle to prevent filling of the superficial veins, which often obscured the deep system.4
The two primary techniques of venography that we employ today are ascending and descending venography. Ascending venography is more common and is used to elucidate the presence of DVT in the lower extremity. Descending venography predominantly evaluates incompetent valves in patients with chronic venous insufficiency. This requires direct access to the deep venous system. The techniques of ascending and descending venography are described in the next section on clinical applications.
The current indications for venography are detailed in Box 20-1. Despite the availability of less invasive techniques, venography is still considered the gold standard against which all examination modalities are compared to determine the presence of DVT. This is particularly true in instances in which duplex ultrasound is inconclusive or unavailable. Venography also continues to have a higher sensitivity and specificity in detection of infrapopliteal thrombotic disease. Venography is indicated in evaluation of valvular insufficiency and venous malformations, and it has been shown to be helpful in planning adjunctive techniques in the operating room. Relative contraindications to venography are also listed in Box 20-1. Other common modalities used in detection of thrombosis and reflux are compared in Table 20-1.
Box 20-1
Current Indications for and Relative Contraindications to Venography
Current Indications for Venography
1. Diagnosis of DVT in a patient
a. With a nondiagnostic duplex ultrasound examination or for whom a duplex examination is not technically feasible
b. With a high clinical suspicion for DVT but with a negative duplex examination
c. When duplex ultrasound is not available
2. As an adjunct during venous thrombolysis
3. Evaluation of valvular insufficiency prior to stripping or ligation of superficial varicose veins
4. Venous mapping prior to or following a surgical interventional procedure
5. Evaluation for venous stenosis or venous hypertension
6. Evaluation for venous malformations
7. Preoperative evaluation for tumor involvement or encasement
Relative Contraindications (Included But Not Limited To)
1. Evidence of active cellulitis of the extremity to be imaged
2. Iodinated contrast allergy
3. Renal insufficiency in patients who are not on dialysis, particularly those with diabetes or congestive heart failure
DVT, Deep venous thrombosis.
Reproduced from ACR-SIR practice guideline for the performance of diagnostic infusion venography, revised 2008.
Comparison of Various Modalities for the Detection of Venous Disease
Ascending Venography
Ascending venography has been used for many indications, including DVT, incompetent perforating veins, and venous aneurysms and malformations.
Deep Venous Thrombosis
DVT cannot be reliably diagnosed by clinical examination. Indications for ascending leg venography include a nondiagnostic ultrasound study and a need for better imaging of calf veins in the setting of high clinical suspicion of DVT.5 Because of its high diagnostic accuracy, a leg venogram is immediately useful for evaluation of the presence of deep venous disease. Another indication is delineation of DVT before endovascular intervention, such as thrombolysis, thrombectomy, or angioplasty.
There are a number of problems with venography, such as inability to cannulate the appropriate vein because of edema, incomplete venous filling, and other technical issues, all of which lead to inadequate studies in as many as 5% to 15% of cases.6,7
Technique.
Ascending venography requires a 22-gauge catheter, three 25-mL syringes, two tourniquets, a tilting fluoroscopic table with footrest, C-arm fluoroscopy, contrast agent, and normal saline. In addition, a 5F sheath should be available for direct access to the venous system through the popliteal vein if needed. It begins with placement of a catheter in a peripheral vein. The access device is usually a 22-gauge intravenous catheter inserted into a superficial vein on the dorsum of the foot. When the affected extremity has significant edema, percutaneous catheterization of peripheral veins becomes difficult. In such cases, we use ultrasound to guide vascular access. It is important that access for ascending venography not be through the saphenous vein adjacent to the medial malleolus at the ankle because contrast material may preferentially fill the superficial system without demonstrating the deep venous systems adequately. The likelihood of this problem can be decreased by placing a tourniquet at the ankle and one at the knee, which will drive the contrast material into the deep venous system. However, these tourniquets should be released just before image acquisition to relieve extrinsic compression and to avoid occlusion of the deep veins.
The patient is placed on a tilting fluoroscopic table and a footrest to enable near-upright positioning. With the patient initially in a reverse Trendelenburg position, the table is tilted to recumbency as the bolus is tracked. This approach enhances visualization of the large-capacity lower extremity venous anatomy as gravity delays the outflow of contrast material. The contralateral leg is supported with a small platform so that no weight is borne on the leg to be examined. Side grip handles can be placed on the table as needed, depending on the patient’s comfort and security in the semiupright position.
The examination is begun with the patient in a 40- to 60-degree semiupright position. As contrast material is injected, fluoroscopic evaluation is performed to ensure that there has been no extravasation of contrast and to optimize deep vein opacification. The bolus is followed by radiographic imaging as the material flows to the central veins. As the contrast agent ascends, additional filming of the deep and superficial femoral veins is performed. At least two projections are needed in the tibial and popliteal locations. About 50 to 100 mL of contrast material is needed to fill the deep venous system adequately from ankle to groin. Additional contrast material can be injected, as needed, to visualize problem areas.
Even with appropriate venous access and the use of tourniquets, adequate opacification of the deep veins of the lower extremities may be difficult because of dilution of the contrast agent and preferential flow from deep to superficial regions, which allows contrast material to escape to the superficial system. In such cases, we place the patient in the prone position, access the popliteal vein under ultrasound guidance, insert a 5F sheath, and inject contrast material into the deep venous system. At completion of the examination, the veins are flushed with 50 mL of normal saline to minimize contact of the contrast agent with the venous endothelium and the chance for development of thrombophlebitis.
Interpretation.
The classic venographic sign of venous thrombosis is a luminal filling defect with a surrounding rim of contrast (Figs. 20-1 to 20-6). This appearance of parallel lines of contrast material around the thrombus is referred to as the “tram-track” sign. Other indicators of thromboembolism are an abrupt termination of intravascular contrast or the formation of a meniscus. Correct and consistent interpretation of lower extremity venography to rule out DVT, however, may be difficult. Intraobserver disagreement about the probable presence or absence of thrombus has been shown to occur in up to 10% of venographic cases.8 The invasive nature of the technique, the exposure to radiation, and the upsurge of ultrasound technology have made venography a secondary technique for the detection of acute and chronic venous thrombosis.
Figure 20-1 Normal right leg venogram. A, Lateral calf projection. B, Anteroposterior projection of the knee. The anterior tibial veins (small arrow), peroneal veins (short arrow), posterior tibial veins (arrowhead), gastrocnemius veins (open arrow), great saphenous vein (curved arrow), and popliteal vein (long arrow) are indicated.
Figure 20-2 Acute thrombus in the deep femoral and great saphenous veins. The deep femoral vein (short arrows) and the great saphenous vein (long arrow) are shown. The femoral vein is occluded.
Figure 20-3 Acute thrombosis of the soleal veins. Arrows indicate fresh thrombus filling the soleal veins.
Figure 20-4 Subacute thrombus in the popliteal vein. Arrows denote retracted thrombus, indicative of subacute thrombosis.
Figure 20-5 Chronic popliteal venous thrombosis. Note the extensive recanalization of the popliteal vein (open arrows) and relatively large caliber of the great saphenous vein (solid arrow).
Figure 20-6 Chronic deep venous thrombosis. Note the extensive collateral channels and no visualization of normal deep venous structures.
Incompetent Perforating Veins
The normal outflow from veins of the lower extremity includes pathways from the superficial system to the deep system through perforating veins. Perforating veins possess unidirectional valves, which, when competent, prevent reflux of blood from the deep into the superficial veins of the leg. Perforating veins with incompetent valves contribute to the development of venous hypertension in the superficial system, which results in the formation of varicose veins and venous ulceration.
Normal perforating veins are small, thin, and smooth. Incompetent veins, however, are dilated, irregular, and valveless. Historically, ascending venography has been a reliable technique for identifying incompetent perforating veins. This invasive technique, although useful, has largely been replaced by color-flow duplex examination of the lower extremity.
Ascending venography for incompetent perforating veins involves the injection of contrast material into a foot vein with a tight tourniquet around the ankle to occlude the superficial veins such that reverse flow from the deep veins into the superficial veins through the incompetent perforating veins can be seen. A translucent ruler is then used to measure the location of the incompetent perforating vein from the tip of the medial or lateral malleolus. The table is next moved through the horizontal position and then into Trendelenburg position, and flow of contrast material is followed under fluoroscopy. Lateral views are especially important in the thigh for accurate localization of a midthigh perforating vein. Once a perforating vein is identified, a tourniquet can be used above that level to direct the contrast agent into any incompetent perforating vein.
Thomas and Bowles compared ascending venography with varicography for identification of incompetent perforating veins.9 Sixty-one legs of 50 patients were examined with both methods. Incompetent perforating veins of the gastrocnemius muscle and midthigh were more accurately shown with varicography than with ascending venography (Fig. 20-7).
Figure 20-7 Incompetent medial calf perforating veins. A single-frame image of a videotape shows free flow of contrast material from the posterior tibial vein through the incompetent perforating veins (arrows) into the superficial varicose veins.
Venous Aneurysms and Malformations
The most serious complication associated with lower extremity venous aneurysms is the development of thrombus within the aneurysm and subsequent embolization. Pulmonary embolization has been reported to occur frequently in extremity venous aneurysms, most notably in those involving the popliteal vein (Fig. 20-8). Aldridge and coauthors in 1993 reported 24 cases of popliteal venous aneurysm in which all patients had experienced thromboembolic events.10 Aggressive treatment with immediate anticoagulation and preoperative planning has become the standard of care for this reason. Venography is a useful method for preoperative planning before resection and interposition grafting or lateral suture repair of these aneurysms.
Figure 20-8 Popliteal venous aneurysm. (Courtesy Mitch Cox, MD.)
Venous malformations may take the form of isolated venous lakes or diffuse venous aneurysm formation, such as Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome (Fig. 20-9). Patients often become symptomatic from mass effect, reflux, or venous thromboembolism. Operative or interventional management may be indicated in symptomatic patients. Most patients do well without treatment or with elastic compression only. Surgical treatment of the vascular malformation in Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome is rarely needed and continues to be controversial.11 Preoperative venous imaging with ascending venography or direct stick varicography is useful for planning treatment.
Figure 20-9 Tibial venous malformation in a patient with Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome. (From Gillespie DL, et al: Presentation and management of venous aneurysms. J Vasc Surg 26:845-852, 1997.)
The technique used is the same as when ascending venography is performed. Direct stick varicography is most useful for the evaluation of venous malformations (see Figs. 20-8 and 20-9). Ultrasound-guided access provides the ability to perform direct stick venography. In patients being treated for venous malformations, access can be difficult and painful. In such cases, either general or regional anesthesia may be useful.
Focal dilatation of the deep or superficial venous system is diagnostic of venous aneurysms and malformations (see Figs. 20-8 and 20-9). Because of the small number of venous aneurysms included in most individual series, no single diagnostic method has been reported to be superior to another. Most series, however, do report color-flow duplex examination to be extremely valuable in the diagnosis of popliteal venous aneurysms and to provide information on the presence of mural thrombus.12 Gillespie and associates found in their series that venous aneurysms were correctly diagnosed in 85% of patients with imaging techniques: phlebography (60%), color-flow duplex scanning (27%), and magnetic resonance imaging (10%).13
Passive filling of the vascular tree after compressive exsanguination of an extremity, extrinsic occlusion of its arterial supply, and venous drainage has been shown to be a useful technique for evaluation of venous malformations.14 Closed-system venography was performed in 17 patients, and it correctly identified 11 of 12 surgically confirmed vascular abnormalities. There were no false-positive findings.
Descending Venography
As with ascending venography, lower extremity descending venography is no longer used as a screening study. It has largely been replaced by color-flow duplex study, which has shown good agreement with descending venography in the grading of deep and superficial vein reflux.15 However, duplex examination is limited in that it does not permit accurate localization of the levels of valve stations and specific identification of incompetent segments. For this reason, descending venography remains the definitive test for identifying incompetent valves in patients with chronic venous insufficiency who are candidates for venous valve repair or valve transplantation.
Descending venography is used for evaluation of the anatomy and function of the venous valves in the lower extremities. It shows the location of the valves in the veins and also demonstrates the competence or incompetence of these valves. Kistner16 and Herman17 and colleagues developed a classification system used commonly to categorize the severity of deep venous reflux and the functional integrity of the venous valves (Table 20-2).
Grades of Venous Reflux
Grade Description
0 Normal valvular function with no reflux
1 Minimal reflux confined to the upper part of the thigh
2 More extensive reflux, which may reach the lower part of the thigh; a competent valve is present in the popliteal vein, and there is no reflux to the calf level
3 Reflux as above but associated with popliteal valvular incompetence and leakage of contrast material into the calf veins
4 Virtually no valvular competence with immediate and dramatic reflux distally into the calf; this type of reflux often opacifies incompetent calf perforating veins
From Kistner RL, et al: A method of performing descending venography. J Vasc Surg 4:464-468, 1986; and Herman RJ, et al: Descending venography: a method of evaluating lower extremity venous valvular function. Radiology 137:63-69, 1980.
Descending venography requires a tilt radiographic table, C-arm fluoroscopy, a short 4F or 5F straight catheter with distal side holes, syringes, and contrast agent. It is performed on a tilt radiographic table to allow examination in the 40- to 60-degree upright position. Descending venography always requires direct catheter access into the deep veins. In most cases, the venous access site is the common femoral vein contralateral to the side of interest. The catheter is advanced to the inferior vena cava (IVC) and then to the iliac vein and common femoral vein of the symptomatic lower extremity. A short 4F or 5F straight catheter with distal side holes is positioned at the junction of the external iliac vein and common femoral vein (Fig. 20-10). For unilateral examination, the catheter is placed from the ipsilateral femoral vein, and for bilateral examination, a single femoral vein puncture is used. A transjugular approach may be used to direct the retrograde catheter into both lower extremities from a single access site. The contralateral leg is supported with a small platform, as with ascending venography, so that the leg being examined will be relaxed and bear no weight.
Figure 20-10 A-C, Descending left leg venogram showing grade 4 reflux. Note the lack of valves in the femoral vein (solid arrow) and the large caliber of the popliteal vein (arrowhead). The deep femoral vein (open arrow) is shown.
With the catheter tip in the common femoral vein, the table tilted to a 60-degree semiupright position, and the patient bearing weight on a block placed under the nonexamined leg, contrast material is injected and tracked by fluoroscopy as it flows caudad through the incompetent venous valves. A total of 10 mL of contrast material is slowly injected by hand at a rate of 5 mL/s. As the contrast material is injected, the patient breathes normally, after which the patient is instructed to bear down and perform a Valsalva maneuver to enhance evidence of valvular incompetence. Specific areas of interest can be further studied by sequential injections of contrast material to optimize image capture of valve location and function and the extent of reflux.
Although superficial varicosities are frequently present, they are rarely a prominent feature of symptomatic advanced chronic venous disease.18 Most patients with symptoms of chronic venous insufficiency who undergo venography have reflux into the deep venous system. The two main abnormalities that cause venous valve reflux are postphlebitic valvular incompetence and primary valvular incompetence, with primary valvular incompetence being responsible more frequently.19 With the use of descending venography, candidates are selected for deep venous valve repair or transplantation, which is offered to patients with grade 3 or grade 4 reflux who have recurrent symptoms of venous insufficiency after treatment of superficial varicosities and perforating vein incompetence (see Fig. 20-10 and Table 20-2).
Iliac Vein Assessment and Inferior Venacavography
IVC anatomy and patency are routinely assessed as part of IVC filter placement. Phlebography allows assessment of caval anatomy and evaluation for the presence of caval thrombus. In addition, there are several anomalies of the IVC, as outlined in previous chapters. Duplicated cavae, megacavae, and left-sided venae cavae are but a few of these anomalies. Although these anomalies are uncommon, it is important to routinely assess the vena cava with venography before placement of IVC filters to avoid complications caused by either filter misplacement or leaving the patient vulnerable to pulmonary embolism through alternative pathways.
Access to the venous system is achieved through the internal jugular or common femoral vein. Puncture of just a single wall is facilitated by ultrasound guidance, and a micropuncture kit is used to minimize access size. Once access is achieved, a 5F sheath is placed and proper placement confirmed by free flow of venous blood from the sheath.
From the groin, a 0.035-inch J wire is passed into the common iliac vein. A 5F pigtail catheter is advanced over this wire into the common iliac vein, and cavography is performed.
An alternative method of cavography is to proceed with placement of the IVC filter kit, which consists of a sheath, usually 8F. The insertion track is serially dilated from 5F to 8F. The 8F sheath is advanced over the wire to the level of the common iliac vein, and a power-injected cavogram is performed.
From the neck, a 0.035-inch J wire is passed through the right atrium to the common iliac vein. Passing the J wire through the right atrium into the IVC can be somewhat of a challenge, however. If simple manipulation fails, a deflecting wire can be useful. Once the J-wire is in position, an iliocavogram is performed using a protocol of 10 mL/s for a total of 20 mL of nonionic contrast agent.
After completion of the iliocavogram, the pigtail catheter is removed over a wire. All wires are then removed and the sheath is pulled. Hemostasis should be obtained easily with digital compression for 10 to 15 minutes, depending on whether anticoagulation has been administered.
The iliocavogram is reviewed for the diameter of the vena cava, the anatomic level of the bifurcation, the level of the renal veins, and any other anomalies (Figs. 20-11 and 20-12). Typically, the renal veins will not fill with contrast material and instead will be identified by a characteristic flow pattern of the mixing of blood filled with contrast material and unopacified blood. The confluence of the common iliac veins is usually identified by the spilling over of contrast material into the contralateral side.
Figure 20-11 A, Inferior venacavogram demonstrating confluence of the common iliac veins and a normal flow pattern formed by mixing of unopacified renal vein blood with contrast material in the inferior vena cava (arrows). B, Inferior venacavogram demonstrating filling of the renal veins.
Figure 20-12 Inferior venacavogram demonstrating left common iliac vein deep venous thrombosis (unknown source).
Some centers advocate first-order selective venography instead of or as a supplement to nonselective venography. Danetz and coworkers found that when selective venography was used in conjunction with nonselective venography, 23% of patients had either an abnormal finding or aberrant anatomy, and most of these patients required a major change in vena cava filter position.20
Before removal of the IVC filter, the surgeon should examine whether the filter has retained thrombus, penetrated the IVC, migrated, or angulated (Fig. 20-13). Severely angulated temporary filters with more than 20 degrees of tilt are more likely to make removal unsuccessful.21
Figure 20-13 Venogram of the inferior vena cava (IVC) before attempted retrieval of a prophylactic IVC filter with trapped thrombus (arrow)
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OOL on the Rocks
An important survey of the origin-of-life (OOL) field has been published in Scientific American. Robert Shapiro, a senior prize-winning chemist, cancer researcher, emeritus professor and author of books in the field, debunks the Miller experiment, the RNA World and other popular experiments as unrealistic dead ends. Describing the wishful thinking of some researchers, he said, “In a form of molecular vitalism, some scientists have presumed that nature has an innate tendency to produce life’s building blocks preferentially, rather than the hordes of other molecules that can also be derived from the rules of organic chemistry.”
Shapiro had been explaining that millions of organic molecules can form that are not RNA nucleotides. These are not only useless to life, they get in the way and clog up the beneficial reactions. He went on to describe how extrapolation from the Miller Experiment produced an unearned sense of euphoria among researchers: “By extrapolation of these results, some writers have presumed that all of life’s building could be formed with ease in Miller-type experiments and were present in meteorites and other extraterrestrial bodies. This is not the case,” he warned in a section entitled, “The Soup Kettle Is Empty.” He said that no experiment has produced amino acids with more than three carbons (life uses some with six), and no Miller-type experiment has ever produced nucleotides or nucleosides, essential for DNA and RNA.
…the spontaneous appearance of chains of RNA on the early earth “would have been a near miracle.”
Shapiro described in some detail the difficult steps that organic chemists employ to synthesize the building blocks of RNA, using conditions highly unrealistic on the primitive earth. “The point was the demonstration that humans could produce, however inefficiently, substances found in nature,” he said. “Unfortunately, neither chemists nor laboratories were present on the early Earth to produce RNA.” Here, for instance, is how scientists had to work to create cytosine, one of the DNA bases:
I will cite one example of prebiotic synthesis, published in 1995 by Nature and featured in the New York Times. The RNA base cytosine was prepared in high yield by heating two purified chemicals in a sealed glass tube at 100 degrees Celsius for about a day. One of the reagents, cyanoacetaldehyde, is a reactive substance capable of combining with a number of common chemicals that may have been present on the early Earth. These competitors were excluded. An extremely high concentration was needed to coax the other participant, urea, to react at a sufficient rate for the reaction to succeed. The product, cytosine, can self-destruct by simple reaction with water. When the urea concentration was lowered, or the reaction allowed to continue too long, any cytosine that was produced was subsequently destroyed. This destructive reaction had been discovered in my laboratory, as part of my continuing research on environmental damage to DNA. Our own cells deal with it by maintaining a suite of enzymes that specialize in DNA repair.
There seems to be a stark difference between the Real World and the imaginary RNA World. Despite this disconnect, Shapiro describes some of the hype the RNA World scenario generated when Gilbert first suggested it in 1986. “The hypothesis that life began with RNA was presented as a likely reality, rather than a speculation, in journals, textbooks and the media,” he said. He also described the intellectual hoops researchers have envisioned to get the scenario to work: freezing oceans, drying lagoons, dry deserts and other unlikely environments in specific sequences to keep the molecules from destroying themselves. This amounts to attributing wish-fulfillment and goal-directed behavior to inanimate objects, as Shapiro makes clear with this colorful analogy:
The analogy that comes to mind is that of a golfer, who having played a golf ball through an 18-hole course, then assumed that the ball could also play itself around the course in his absence. He had demonstrated the possibility of the event; it was only necessary to presume that some combination of natural forces (earthquakes, winds, tornadoes and floods, for example) could produce the same result, given enough time. No physical law need be broken for spontaneous RNA formation to happen, but the chances against it are so immense, that the suggestion implies that the non-living world had an innate desire to generate RNA. The majority of origin-of-life scientists who still support the RNA-first theory either accept this concept (implicitly, if not explicitly) or feel that the immensely unfavorable odds were simply overcome by good luck.
Realistically, unfavorable molecules are just as likely to form. These would act like terminators for any hopeful molecules, he says. Shapiro uses another analogy. He pictures a gorilla pounding on a huge keyboard containing not only the English alphabet, but every letter of every language and all the symbol sets in a typical computer. “The chances for the spontaneous assembly of a replicator in the pool I described above can be compared to those of the gorilla composing, in English, a coherent recipe for the preparation of chili con carne.” That’s why Gerald Joyce, Mr. RNA-World himself, and Leslie Orgel, a veteran OOL researcher with Stanley Miller, concluded that the spontaneous appearance of chains of RNA on the early earth “would have been a near miracle.”
The majority of origin-of-life scientists who still support the RNA-first theory either accept this concept (implicitly, if not explicitly) or feel that the immensely unfavorable odds were simply overcome by good luck.
Boy, and all this bad news is only halfway through the article. Does he have any good news? Not yet; we must first agree with a ground rule stated by Nobel laureate Christian de Duve, who called for “a rejection of improbabilities so incommensurably high that they can only be called miracles, phenomena that fall outside the scope of scientific inquiry.” That rules out starting with complex molecules like DNA, RNA, and proteins (see online book).
From that principle, Shapiro advocated a return to scenarios with environmental cycles involving simple molecules. These thermodynamic or “metabolism first” scenarios are only popular among about a third of OOL researchers at this time. Notable subscribers include Harold Morowitz, Gunter Wachtershauser, Christian de Duve, Freeman Dyson and Shapiro himself. Their hypotheses, too, have certain requirements that must be met: an energy source, boundaries, ways to couple the energy to the organization, and a chemical network or cycle able to grow and reproduce. (The problems of genetics and heredity are shuffled into the future in these theories.) How are they doing? “Over the years, many theoretical papers have advanced particular metabolism first schemes, but relatively little experimental work has been presented in support of them,” Shapiro admits. “In those cases where experiments have been published, they have usually served to demonstrate the plausibility of individual steps in a proposed cycle.” In addition, “An understanding of the initial steps leading to life would not reveal the specific events that led to the familiar DNA-RNA-protein-based organisms of today.” Nor would plausible prebiotic cycles prove that’s what happened on the early earth. Success in the metabolism-first experiments would only contribute to hope that prebiotic cycles are plausible in principle, not that they actually happened.
Nevertheless, Shapiro himself needed to return to the miracles he earlier rejected. “Some chance event or circumstance may have led to the connection of nucleotides to form RNA,” he speculates. Where did the nucleotides come from? Didn’t he say their formation was impossibly unlikely? How did they escape rapid destruction by water? Those concerns aside, maybe nucleotides initially served some other purpose and got co-opted, by chance, in the developing network of life. Showing that such thoughts represent little more than a pipe dream, though, he admits: “Many further steps in evolution would be needed to ‘invent’ the elaborate mechanisms for replication and specific protein synthesis that we observe in life today.”
Time for Shapiro’s grand finale. For an article predominantly discouraging and critical, his final paragraph is surprisingly upbeat. Recounting that the highly-implausible big-molecule scenarios imply a lonely universe, he offers hope with the small-molecule alternative. Quoting Stuart Kauffman, “If this is all true, life is vastly more probable than we have supposed. Not only are we at home in the universe, but we are far more likely to share it with unknown companions.”
Update Letters to the editor appeared in Science1 the next day, debating the two leading theories of OOL. The signers included most of the big names: Stanley Miller, Jeffrey Bada, Robert Hazen and others debating Gunter Wachtershauser and Claudia Huber. After sifting through the technical jargon, the reader is left with the strong impression that both camps have essentially falsified each other. On the primordial soup side, the signers picked apart details in a paper by the metabolism-first side. Concentrations of reagants and conditions specified were called “implausible” and “exceedingly improbable.”
Wachtershauser and Huber countered that the “prebiotic soup theory” requires a “protracted, mechanistically obscure self-organization in a cold, primitive ocean,” which they claim is more improbable than the volcanic environment of their own “pioneer organism” theory (metabolism-first). It’s foolish to expect prebiotic soup products to survive in the ocean, of all places, “wherein after some thousand or million years, and under all manner of diverse influences, the magic of self-organization is believed to have somehow generated an unspecified first form of life.” That’s some nasty jabbing between the two leading camps.
1Letters, “Debating Evidence for the Origin of Life on Earth,” Science, 16 February 2007: Vol. 315. no. 5814, pp. 937 – 939, DOI: 10.1126/science.315.5814.937c.
Thank you, Robert Shapiro, for unmasking the lies we have been told for nearly a century. The Miller Experiment, the RNA World, and all the hype of countless papers, articles, popular press pieces and TV animations are impossible myths. We appreciate your help revealing why it’s all been hyped bunk. Now finish the job and show that yours is no better.
You know you cannot stay with small molecules forever. You have not begun to bridge the canyon between metabolic cycles with small molecules to implausible genetic networks with large molecules (RNA, DNA and proteins). Any way you try to close the gap, you are going to run into the very same criticisms you raised against the RNA-World storytellers. You cannot invoke natural selection without accurate replication (see online book).
Funny how these people presume that if they can just get molecules to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to the replicator stage, Charlie and Tinker Bell will take over from there. Before you can say 4 Gya, biochemists emerge!
Shapiro’s article is very valuable for exposing the vast difference between the hype over origin of life and its implausibilities – nay, impossibilities – in the chemistry of the real world. His alternative is weak and fraught with the very same difficulties. If a golf ball is not going to finish holes 14-18 on its own without help, it is also not going to finish holes 1-5. If a gorilla is not going to type a recipe in English for chili con carne from thousands of keys on a keyboard, it is not going to type a recipe for hot soup either, even using only 1% of the keys. Furthermore, neither the gorilla nor the golf ball are going to want to proceed further on the evolutionist project. We cannot attribute an “innate desire” to a gorilla, a golf ball, or a sterile planet of chemicals to produce coded languages and molecular machines.
Sooner or later, all the machinery, the replicators, the genetic codes and complex entropy-lowering processes are going to have to show up in the accounting. Once Shapiro realizes that his alternative is just as guilty as the ones he criticizes, we may have an ardent new advocate of intelligent design in the ranks. Join the winning side, Dr. Shapiro, before sliding with the losers and liars into the dustbin of intellectual history.
Tags: featured, Miller experiment, origin of life, Shapiro, vitalism
Categories: Cell Biology, Dumb Ideas, Genetics, Geology, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science, Physics
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CfP: conference “The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces” Dec 5-7, 2019 @ University of Warsaw (PL) Extended deadline: May 1, 2019
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An international conference organized by the Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw
American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland
For most of its history, or at least since the late 19th century, the core conversations of science fiction (SF) have not been kind to the senses. For different reasons in different decades, the creative communities and the critical circles have focused on the genre’s status as the supreme expression of western technomodernity, its imbrications with the discourses of science and technology, and its subversive political potential. While always already present in SF’s structural, material, and creative dimensions, the formal, the aesthetic, and the sensible have been largely neglected at the expense of the functional, the political, and the cognitive. The questions of language and literary style have been discussed only with regard to selected writers, such as J.G. Ballard or William Gibson, while spectacle in film and television has been treated with a degree of suspicion and distrust—as something that dilutes the core values of rigorous speculation. Other less narrative media—forms in which the aesthetic plays the central role—have received very little or virtually no critical attention. And yet, for all its scientific bent and political urgency, science fiction has always strived to appeal to the senses and to instill in its audiences a sense of the beautiful, the harmonious, and the sublime.
The notion of aisthesis, that is sense perception, has recently regained prominence in humanities, playing a significant part in the philosophy of speculative realism, the turn towards the posthuman, and the shift away from anthropocentrism brought about by the increasingly widely embraced paradigm of the Anthropocene. In recognition of this newfound appreciation of the aesthetic, this conference seeks to recuperate the invisible and forgotten history of the sensible in the cultures of science fiction. It also seeks to find new ways of talking about these dimensions of SF texts across all media that in one way or another appeal to and engage all things sensible: sight, hearing, touch, movement, composition, but also smell, taste, auras, and speculative senses. Such attentiveness to the sensory in science fiction does not entail abandoning narrative, political, or scientific perspectives. Indeed, historically, many cultural forms have successfully intertwined formal elegance with political agency and emotional appeal with philosophical reflection. We believe science fiction is—and has always been—among these forms.
While the conference specifically namechecks science fiction, we follow in the footsteps of Sherryl Vint, Mark Bould, and John Rieder, treating the genre as a practice and a discourse, rather than an object of finite parameters. In fact, from a more traditional perspective, many SF texts that appeal to the senses as much as to the mind have been generically “impure,” borderline, slipstream, or otherwise hybrid.
Possible topics and areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the following:
styles and schools in science fiction literature and media
aesthetics and politics
aesthetics and fantastic identities (race, gender, sexuality)
science fiction sublime(s)
science fiction art, illustration, graphics
science fiction music, radio, and podcasts
fantastic architectures: real, visionary, speculative
design and typography
science fiction and stage arts: theater, opera, dance
SF art in/of the Anthropocene
outsider art
non-western SF aesthetics
speculative avant-gardes
new materialist perspectives on science fiction
affects, senses, and sensations in science fiction
hapticity and tactility in science fiction texts
immersive worlds of science fiction
the virtual and the actual
fantastic synaesthesias
senses and sensations of SF universes and franchises
SF soundscapes in movies, television, music, and games
science fiction fashion: upcycling, recycling, DIY, slow fashion, haute couture
sounds and spaces of Ethnofuturisms: Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, Gulf Futurism, and others
material-discursive entanglements of science fiction
spatial dis/orientation
science fiction aesthetics around the world
social inequalities and aesthetic differences
For individual papers, please send proposals of up to 300 words. For multiple participant formats (e.g. discussion panels, roundtables, etc.), proposals may be up to 500 words long. We also welcome and encourage non-traditional forms of participation and presentation: performances, lightning presentations (1 slide & 5 minutes), speed panels, poster discussions, and others. Pre-formed multiple participant panels that are all-male will not be considered for inclusion in the conference.
The Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission has generously funded a limited number of conference grants for the U.S.-based doctoral students / candidates. Please indicate interest in being considered when submitting an abstract. If you have already sent in a proposal, send a new email indicating interest.
All submissions should be sent to SFSenses2019@gmail.com by May 15, 2019. Abstracts are evaluated on a rolling basis, typically within 5 days after their receipt.
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CfP: conference “Illustration and Adaptation” Oct 10-11, 2019 @ University of Burgundy, Dijon (FR). Deadline: March 01, 2019.
CfP: Theorising the Popular Conference 2018. July 11-12, 2018 @ Liverpool Hope University (UK). Deadline: March 23, 2018.
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Super-Blog Team Up 6: Top 10 80’s DC Comic Titles That Ended Before Their Time..
Posted: May 6, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: Ambush Bug, Batman, Batman and The Outsiders, Blue Beetle, Blue Devil, Booster Gold, Comic Books, Comics, DC Comics, DC Comics Events, Hex, Keith Giffen, Legion Of SuperHeroes, Manhunter, Marv Wolfman, Marvel Comics, Millenium, Night Force, SBTU, Steve Ditko, Super-Blog Team Up, Super-Blog Team Up 6, Super-Hero Satellite, Ted Kord, Top Ten Lists
The mighty S.B.T.U. has returned and welcome back heroes to our sixth official event! For those new to Super-Blog Team Up, welcome to a blog experience like no other. For those faithful out there..a hearty WELCOME BACK!! As you all know the S.B.T.U. are a collective of like-minded comic book bloggers/podcaster’s who have come together to save blog readers from the boring abyss of the blogosphere. The team comes together quarterly to each take a turn putting our unique spin on a singular topic!
This time around its everyone’s favorite topic.. TOP TEN LISTS! Don’t worry there will be no bait clicking here.All lists will be contained within one page of each blog..no clicking each number of the list to get to number one!! Well enough formality…you are now on-board the Super-Hero Satellite. We ask that you strap in tight..this Satellite is equipped with the technology for time travel. Todays destination will be the 80s and in the offices of DC Comics! We present the Top Ten 1980s DC Comics that were cancelled before their time.
Begin Transmission: May 6th 2015
10: Ambush Bug: Poor Irwin Shwab a down on his luck shlem. His friends Arg Yle The sock and Cheeks The Wonder Toy, were companions to Bug who was a man with a mental condition who thought he was a superhero. Irwin had the ability to teleport with a device inside a green insect like skin suit he found. Ambush Bug was an intentionally a comedic character who gathered quite a following in the mid 80s. He popped up in a number of titles and was the DC universes very own nuisance. After a one shot special and two mini series, Ambush Bug drifted into obscurity as fast as he entered the DCU. He would re-appear out of the blue several times more but the honeymoon was over. The comedic aspect of these books would not fit in with the new direction of DC today…however in the 80s..this was comic gold. Ambush Bug was not a case of cancellation but rather a case of what was not meant to be. After the strong reaction to his mini series, the Bug was primed for a solo series debut, however with shifts in creative at DC and changes in the comic book landscape..poor Ambush was simply shelved and not revisited. Ambush Bug remains a soft spot in my heart as it was on a trip as a kid to the “Big City” that I visited a local Comic Book Store and purchased my first Ambush Bug issue (Son Of Ambush Bug #1) along with an issue of the Direct Only Legion Of Super-Heroes #1 Baxter Series!! It was also on this day that I passed on a book that the comic store owner told me was great..Watchmen #1. Who wanted that right? Especially at cover price…Besides it had a stupid cover. Yikes..what was I thinking!! Hindsight my friends..
9. Night Force: In 1982 the comics industry Horror market had, with all intents and purposes, died. Hits like Tomb Of Dracula had expired and interest in the genre had waned. So it came as a surprise when Marv Wolfman of New Teen Titans fame decided he wanted to do a new horror title which would be a hard sell to DC or any company at that time. Wolfman convinced DC and along with Horror master artist Gene Colan, they went to work on this new horror concept, Night Force. It was cool because it avoided going to the cliche well by not going with classic horror movie monsters (Like Dracula) and they created a new group of Horror characters. It centered around a sorcerer Baron Winters, who played the puppet master to a team of Supernatural Demon Hunters. They tracked the Supernatural in what ever place or time it existed. Winters could send his team back in time or where ever the threat may appear. The Night Force cast was not consistent (One of the knocks on the series) and the series rotated members in and out which always kept the book fresh. The high hopes that Wolfman preached did not add up to sales on the newsstand. The cancellation was based on early direct sales numbers which Wolfman contested. The Newsstand sales had come in much later, the book had actually performed pretty well. It was too late as the book was sentenced to its death. I compel you to find these issues in a back issue bin somewhere as these books were ahead of its time. It was brought back (sans Gene Colan ..which was the heart of the book IMO) twice, but the magic was not there. One cant help but think Night Force would make a great AMC or Netflix Series these days…you heard it here first kids!
8. Vigilante: Screw the Punisher.In 1983, after the pending demise of Night Force, Marv Wolfman paired up with one of the best artists in the industry, George Perez. Together they created a hard-hitting, very adult themed, violent book based loosely on a Golden Age western character of the same name. The Vigilante was an exercise in unevenness. Obviously inspired by Marvels Punisher, The Vigilante began his campaign of revenge following the murder of his family by a gang of Mobsters. Adrian Chase, was a successful District Attorney hell-bent on seeking vengeance for his family. The Vigilante was different in the sense that he didnt “Have it all together” sometimes his violence escalated into killing the innocent. He even gave up his identity for a period of time with two others taking up his mantel. When he made the call to return to the hood..the sad part was it was too late. *Spoilers* The Vigilante spiraled into a dark place and went on a killing spree that included bad guys, police, and whoever go in his way. Upon realizing his mistake he was taken over by overwhelming grief. The Vigilante took his own life which at the time was groundbreaking. This book was overlooked by many which is a shame as some writing credits went to Alan Moore and Paul Kupperberg. This was also one of the early Direct Market only books which many newsstand fans may have totally missed out on. If you like great writing..and you like the Punisher, then read the book that set the bar for violence in the 80s!
7. Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew : I loved Harvey Comics and I loved Funny Animal Comics! DC was not exactly known for their kids books…but boy they went out and delivered one of the best one that was ever published. Like a Heavy Metal band writing an amazing ballad, DC swung for the fences making one of the first Super-Hero Funny Animal teams!! I grabbed every Captain Carrot book I could find with my allowance money of a very rich 20 bucks. (Thats was BIG money in the 80s as a kid people!!) The Zoo Crew was the funny animal version of the JLA..and this kid was hooked. You had Captain Carrot (Superman), FastBack (The Flash), Alley Cat Abra (Zatanna) Yankee Poodle (Captain America meets Wonder-Woman) Rubber Duck (Elongated man/Plastic man) and Of course the Metal Pig…PIG IRON (The Thing meets the Hulk!) Interestingly enough..the Zoo Crew as they were called, often crossed over with regular DC Cannon. Cap met with Superman several times and even battled Starro just like the original JLA!! Of course after a great start and hot sales, Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew became lost in the shuffle. The final nail was driven into the coffin of the era of the funny animal books. Cap of course would return in several cameos throughout the years but I am still looking forward to the day a full on Zoo Crew book is relaunched!! To Read more about the Zoo Crew, the Satellite has covered these crazy super animals in detail..check out this link!!
https://charltonhero.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/super-blog-team-up-4-prequel-capes-and-carrots/
6. Manhunter: Anyone remember Marvels Secret Invasion? You know, its the one where The Skulls infiltrated The Marvel Universe and stole a number of heroes identities. No one could be trusted. They could be a Skrull!! Well anyone who collected comics back in the mid 80’s knows of a little DC Comics Crossover event known as Millennium. The Green Lantern’s old nemesis, The Manhunters, infiltrated the DC Universe long before any Skrull! Once again..No one could be trusted! Manhunter’s literally took the place of many people in the DC Universe. Well as successful as Marvels Secret Invasion series was..Millenium was equally unsuccessful. DC seemingly produced a great crossover until it went off the rails at the end as its conclusion. It was notorious for spawning a brand new Super Team..The New Guardians. Sounds great right! Guess what..they absolutely SUCKED. Anyways..On to this Manhunter Solo Series. This Manhunter was yet another public defender named Mark Shaw, who as well was disillusioned with the justice system who sought out a mysterious underground sect of crime fighters called the Manhunter’s. Historically the Manhunter’s were a group of crime fighting Androids who’s mantra was “No One Escapes The Manhunters” . Eventually the Manhunter androids would go too far in Shaw’s mind as they attemoted to take over the Guardians and destroy the DC Universe! Shaw would escape their ranks and go on to don a Ninja influenced uniform and spent his time kicking ass. I will admit back in the 80s I was a fan of Ninjas..and while this book comes off as total **** today..in its time..in its place..I thought Manhunter’s were the coolest thing ever!!
5. Blue Devil: When you collect comics one of the best thing about the hobby was trading! Cashing in a few of your undesirables for some brand new books that you wanted. One mans garbage is another man treasure…as was the case on this particular trade. While I cant remember what the book I traded, I fondly remember grabbing Blue Devil #2. Blue Devil was brand new to me at the time and just looked damn cool!! He was a muscled up Blue skinned, Big Horned…uhhh well Devil! He wore a big giant collared singlet and toted a super charged pitch fork. Well while it may sound terrible..Blue Devil was charming. The title didn’t take itself seriously and there was a lot of self parody. You better believe the rouges gallery were one for the ages. The Devil combated the likes of Shockwave, Godfrey Goose, Roadmaster, The Green Gargoyle and more. I always though the fact Blue Devil was never a member of Keith Giffens Bwah Ha Ha version of the Justice League was a missed opportunity. I think DC mishandled his return to the New52 most recently, making him a dark Demon Hunter who killed off Demons with his Trident Of Lucifer!! I cant help but think this book deserved better! In the right comedic hands this book could return or he would make a great accent to a team!! By The way…he was good enough to be on the Justice League Unlimited TV series so that has to stand for something…right??!!
4. Hex: The Future was never the same when Jonah Hex was teleported from 1875 to the year 2050 with guns a blazin!! I may not be joined by many on this but, this was my all time favorite incarnation of Hex! From the gunslingin wild west to the post nuclear Mad Max inspired dark industrial future, Hex took on a Futuristic Batman, Giant metal Robots, a Chain Saw wielding crazy cyborg and even fought his own girlfriend Stiletta! The book lasted a mere 17 issues due to poor sales and a horrendous creative switch late in the series. Mark Texiera was the titles original artist and visually made the book look and feel cant miss!! However..Keith Giffen (Who has been mentioned several times in this article) at the time had adapted completely an abstract noir art style that literally put the fork in the title. It was THAT bad. While this series gets no love on the web..this reader would insist on the HEX title returning for one more run! Hey,there’s a new Mad Max movie coming out this year…its time for Hex to return back to good ole 2050!! I go into extreme detail on this title and more in one of my favorite Satellite posts “Hex Style”. https://charltonhero.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/hex-style/
3. Booster Gold: On what Earth did a slick talking, Super Jock Celebrity Thief, from the year 25th Century get cancelled? No justice I say! Booster Gold was originally portaryed as a disgraced character from the 25th Century who was caught cashing in on Football Games that he was playing and intentionally throwing for his own personal financial gain. Well one night as he was working his new blue-collar security job (After being fired from his career in disgrace!) in a Space Museum Micheal Jon Carter would steal everything he needed to get his life back! Lifting a slick magnetic Gold Power Suit…one Legion Flight Ring and even a Force Field belt..he was transformed into the Futures #1 Superhero Celebrity..whether they were ready for him or not! With his Robotic companion Skeet’s, and as well his Time Traveling buddies like DC’s father of Time, Rip Hunter, Booster was set for sure success upon his solo debut in 1986 . With Dan Jurgen’s at the helm Booster lasted a mere 25 issues and his last issue came out during the ill fated Millennium crossover. With these characters and creators on the books side, the character had unlimited potential.While Booster was highly positioned in big events several times over the years and even received his own book again, he can never seem to keep readers at the door. This is DC’s most underrated and misused character and Booster deserves better. Booster was given a lease on life after the cancellation when mastermind Keith Giffen (I am still mad at him for ruining Hex!!) used him for his infamous Bwah Ha Ha Justice League book where he became a comedic buddy cop team with…well he happens to be next..Its Blue Beetle!!
2. Blue Beetle: Years ago companies like Charlton Comics were in an industry Turf war to stay relevant in the comics landscape of the 60s and 70s. Charlton had Marvels former number one artist Steve Ditko,fresh off his run on The Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko was famous in Charlton Editorial Offices for churning out book after book ,hoping something would stick..well one that didn’t interestingly enough but would be brought to life years later in the DC Universe was Ditkos Ted Kord..The Blue Beetle! No not that Jamie Reyes crap..Ted Kord damn it! Beetle debuted around the same time that DC was trying a bunch of new titles in 1986 for a minimal 24 issue run. Like the aforementioned Booster Gold, DC would have plans for Booster and Beetle in the new 1980s mega popular Justice League where they became the new dynamic duo of slapstick. Both characters were reborn in a new comedic light but did not receive their own team book at the time when they were white-hot which was a critical mistake. So much has happened to both characters that this book would not make sense to reunite them without the pre 52 history intact. There’s still hope DCs newest crossover Convergence can fix some of the lost magic!
1. Batman and The Outsiders: Batman shouted “I’ve had ENOUGH of your two-bit JUSTICE LEAGUE…from now on these are my NEW PARTNERS!!” as he quit the JLA on the front cover of one of my favorite all time comic books….Batman and The Outsiders #1.
I was a HUGE Batman fan as a kid. It’s all I wanted to do was role play the dynamic duos adventures with my best friends. Of course Batman was a key member of the Justice League as well and I loved that he was part of a bigger team. It always seemed that the Caped Crusader was held back in the JLA…so when I heard he was quitting and making his own team I couldn’t wait to see who this new team would be! In 1983 in a special insert edition within the pages of The Brave and The Bold the Outsiders debuted! The shape shifting Metamorpho, was joined by the electric cool Black Lightning, Sword wielding Katanna, the dreamy Halo, and earth shattering Geo-Force whom along with Batman himself made up this unconventional team of heroes. I loved them…they were not mainstream but they were my Super Group! After 32 issues Batman left the group and the characters went on their separate ways. The book was never the same… The Outsiders have been brought back to life several times in many failed efforts but Batman and the Original Outsiders never reformed. (Batman and The Outsiders Vol. 2 came close!!) It was one of the lost Gems of the original DC ..one I would love to be reborn in the New52 era. Get on it DC!!
Well..thats all folks...I would love for those who agree or disagree with this list let me know what YOUR picks are below in the comments section. My list is just that..MY LIST..it is by no means meant to be a definitive list created from years of data and opinion. Maybe you like it…maybe you dont..but you have a right to be wrong..lol. Anyways..lets not stop there…as promised the team has loaded the deck with ton more of awesome Top Ten lists..but dont take my word for it…take it away team!!
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5. The SuperHero Satellite: Top 10 DC Comics Titles That Ended Before Their Time- https://charltonhero.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/super-blog-tea…ore-their-time/.
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Masters Of The Universe: A HE-ROs story
Posted: April 20, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: 80s Cartoons, 80s toys, Beast-Man, Castle Grayskull, DC Comics, Evil-Lyn, He-Man, He-Ro and The Masters Of The Universe, Man-At-Arms, Marvel Comics, Masters Of the Universe, Mer-man, MOTU, Powers Of Grayskull, Rare Toys, Retro, Skeletor, Sorceress, Super-Hero Satellite, Teela, Top 5 He-Man Toys
Welcome Back Heroes..a huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the last round of Super-Blog Team Up. Hopefully if you were new to The Super-Hero Satellite you like what you saw and will once again join our mighty crew to race back into the glorious 1980s for more Retro adventures. Satellite File: In 1981 Mattel Toy Company developed the first glimpse of the Masters Of the Universe Toy-line. Their plan however would blaze trails. It would be the first show based on a toy-line and TV series that would air in unison with each other.
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I may have been one of the biggest Masters Of the Universe in my home town. I had a great collection of figures, vehicles , Play-Sets and animals. I was a big He-Man fan and the He-Man and The Masters of the Universe animated series was a staple in my home. I digested all the MOTU as I could. I devoured the television animated series from Filmation. To this day when I see the scrolling Filmation logo and chime… it means He-Man! I loved the Masters of The Universe comic books from DC and Marvels STAR Imprint. The Marvel Masters Of The Universe title maybe the single best Masters title out there and was 100% faithful to the source material of the cartoon! Plus my figure collection could stand up to anyone else’s in my home town. I thought I knew it all about the original Masters Of The Universe collection. I knew about every character..episode or comic book. If there was a trivia competition I would have bet the farm on myself…To Clarify my knowledge stopped at the original series. After its cancellation in the late 80s I did not keep up my level of fanaticism for the newer updated series in the 90s-2000s.
That said..I knew my stuff…that is until I heard of He-Ro: Son Of He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe?? You may as well wonder what I am talking about. After the cancellation of He-Man and The Masters Of the Universe Series a prequel(She-Ra: The Princess Of Power not forgotten either!!) was in production without He-man in the lead role! Confused? I think its time we fill our data banks with knowledge. He-Ro originated as the proposed lead character of a new series “The Powers Of Grayskull”. At the very end of the Masters Of The Universe toy-line a prototype action figure of a brand new character called He-Ro…who at this point was NOT meant to be He-Mans son..but rather a relative who was not the most powerful man in the universe like He-Man..but rather the most powerful WIZARD in the universe…weird huh?
“Powers Of Grayskull” would be a direct prequel to the He-Man and The Masters Of the Universe series that in the mid eighties, had reached its life expectancy. He-Ro was a figure prototype created to showcase the new lead star of the show..the Wizard, He-Ro. Interestingly enough poor He-Ro had two specific origins both totally unrelated. The first of which was as a direct ancestor of He-Man. The Powers of Grayskull show itself would be based in “Preternia” the precursor to what would become Eternia….essentially it was its prehistoric predecessor. It promised to deliver the complete back story to He-Man and the entire Masters Of The Universe lineage. All He-Mans secrets would be revealed. Like He-man himself, He-Ro was the secret identity of the man known as “Gray” would hold his hand to his chest and utter the words “Magic & strength tempered by heart..I stand For Peace “ and would transform into the “Mightest Wizard In The Universe”..He-Ro!
The line was cancelled before many of these properties went into the development stage. The 1987 Mattel Toy Catalog published pictures of the proposed toys from the “Powers of Grayskull” line, including an action figure of He-Ro. Three of the dinosaur toys from the line actually made it to stores, and the two “giant” action figures saw release as exclusives in Italy, but He-Ro was never released as a toy.
Though much has been speculated concerning the character in the intervening years by fans of the He-Man franchise, He-Ro remains as much a mystery today as he was in 1987, when a perplexed He-Man was forced to ask, “But who is he?” The show died before it was green lit and the concept was seemingly aborted..that is until Lou Shiemer, the original shows producer ,took ownership in creating a brand new sequel a few years later that would be known as HE-RO: Son Of He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe.
This time the rules changed. In fact everything about He-Ros origin was washed away and now He-Ro was now actually He-Mans adopted son rather than a descendant and did NOT live in the Pre-Eternian age but rather after the events featured in the original Masters Of The Universe television cartoon series. As the story goes He-Ro was raised in the plush jungles of Eternia by an indigenous creature known as a She-Bearcat who found the child shivering in the jungle and took him in as her own and raised him until his teenage years. He-Ro who took on the skills and senses of his jungle family could not only speak english but could communicate to the animals as well. He had heightened senses of speed, and smell and took on the acrobatic skills of his jungle friends and could swing through the jungle like an Eternian Tarzan. His animal mother passed on, as a result orphaning He-Ro to the Jungle once again. Meanwhile Adam , who as we all know as He-Man, is for-told of the boy who would one day take his place as the holder of the Power Sword of Grayskull. He-Man climbs aboard his friend Battle Cat Kringer and summons his trusty friends Man At Arms and Orko and heads off on a blind quest to find this folklore legend “The Lost Child Of The Jungle”.
The Wild Child is No Myth..
He-Man, after the events of MOTU TV Series had defeated Skeletor and his army, had married Teela and now reigned over Eternia as King and Queen. History of Pre-Eternia and several other concepts post TV series were seemingly dropped from cannon.What is interesting is that Shiemer had written an actual ending to the original animated series in which He-man with the help of The Sorceress not only defeated Skeletor and his goons but vanquished him off of Eternia in a frozen state never to be seen or heard from again..
The Original Ending To Masters Of The Universe.
That is until Skeletor discovered a way to free himself of the spell of the Sorceress and He-Man. He then gathers his original army and begins a march upon Grayskull but not before hearing the tale of the Boy would be the new Most Powerful Man In The Universe..He-Ro..or at this point, the Lost Boy. Was this a mere legend? Could this possibly be true?…Parties in both good and evil camps could not risk the other finding out. So a parallel search begins with Skeletor and his army of thugs hunting for the same mystery child that He-Man and friends are searching for!! This potentially mythical “Wild Child” was now the crux behind the power struggle for Eternia.
The BOSS is Back..
Skeletor’s hordes included some familiar faces such as his heavy Beast-Man, Evil-Lyn, the aquatic warrior Mer-Man (Who appeared to have taken on one of the most dramatic look changes) and Trap-Jaw (who literally does not resemble the mold of the original character!) Many more would be involved (not pictured) Such as ToungeLashor, Odar (Like Skunk face??), Missle -Toe, Evermean (a plant-based villain) and a metal toothed character named Saw Tooth.
Skeletor’s army
Skeletor is first to actually find the Wild Child and begins poisoning his mind right away. He tells him that He-Man and his friends being responsible for his mothers demise!!! Skeletor sets up shop on the top on the Mountains Of Fire (No Snake Mountain??) and sets a series of traps and obstacles in He-Mans path. Meanwhile Skeletor and the evil Sorceress Evil-Lyn have all but cast a spell over the Lost Child and are slowly weaning him to their dark intentions. He-Ro swears revenge on He-Man and his friends. He-Man and friends battle all of Skeletor’s hordes and manages to succeed in getting past the traps and enemies standing in the way of the child.
“We Have The Power!!!”
Finally, an age-old rivalry is reborn as Skeletor and He-Man go to war one more time with the fate of the child hanging in the balance. Now aligned with Skeletor and his army, He-Ro finds out in short order that Skeletor is not what he says he is. The Evil warrior brutally almost kills He-Ro’s bird friend, Craven while attempting to get to He-Man. The Wild Child lays his life on the line to defend He-Man and his friends and with all their forces combined, Skeletor and his army is driven away!! He-Man and the Eternian warriors return to his kingdom with the child. From there the boy is adopted by Adam and Teela and is named officially Dare. In an interesting note, by the age of 13 He-Ro is now resembling a hero he is able to seek the heroic transformation from Dare to He-Ro with the magical power sword bestowed to Adam years earlier. What is surprising is that only in circumstances of extreme situations He-Man and He-Ro cannot appear together..only one or the other can transform at a time. Only in dire times the dual transformations can occur as they share the power sword and repeating their individual transformation tagline and “We have the power!” .
He-Ro would have lots of help defending his fathers Kingdom!
He-Ro, like He-Man in his prime was surrounded by a great supporting cast. Some familiar faces make up He-Ro’s new contingent of Eternian Defenders. He-Ro’s answer to He-Mans love interest Teela of course would be Kay-La. Like her mother she has an affection for strong men not weaklings like Dare. Joining the supporting cast would be Ram-Man, who was a carry over from the original MOTU cartoon. He is seen in a revised state here with improved armor. As an aside Ram-Man, was always one of my favorite original MOTU action figures!!
Ram-Man, A crude but great figure from the original Masters Of The Universe line.
The cast included a couple of newer characters as well that would have been easy money for Mattel at the toy stores..Air bag and Forklift!! (Not so sure on the Air Bag name..but I digress.) With them as well would be a very “Metamorpho” (Editors note: Metamorpho is a classic DC comics Super-Hero) looking Man-E-Faces who like Ram-Man, was also a classic MOTU character re-imagined!! Of course old favorites like ORKO (Not pictured) would return as well!! This would be Eternia`s finest! So back to Dare and Kay-La..
Dares love interest is very similar to He-Mans and Teelas, who, not coincidentally, was the Daughter of Man At Arms. Well looks like that runs in the family as Dare is paired with Kay-La, Man At Arms Niece to be taught the ways of the warrior. At first Kay-La thinks that this assignment is a pure inconvenience but grows to respect Dare. With a new cast of Heroes we are off to the races…this new version of He-Man was ready to hit the mass market…Toy companies would have had a new batch of MOTU to line the shelves of retailers all over the world..the classic Filmation Logo would have tinkled across the screen for another trip back to Eternia ..but it was not meant to be. The concept would go no further than Lou Shiemers “He-Ro and the Masters Of the Universe Bible”..and the project was permanently shelved when the production company DIC didnt express any further interest in developing the series. fans who want to read the complete details on this project by all means check out http://old.he-man.org/cartoon/exclusivefeatures/exclusive-heroseriesbible-intro.shtml for the complete production proposal!!
Our time on Eternia is almost done Heroes…it is time to head back to the iso-quarters of the Satellite and shut down the archives for a short time..until we return with the next installment of Super-Blog Team Up where we tackle…well..take a look for yourselves!!
Take care Heroes..see you soon when the SBTU Returns for round 6!!
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SUPER-BLOG TEAM Up 4 : Masters Of The DC Universe?
Posted: September 24, 2014 in Uncategorized
Tags: 80s, Bronze Age Babies, Charlton Hero, Chasing Amazing, DC Comics, Fantastiverse, Flodo's Page, He-Man, In My Not so Humble Opinion, LongBox Graveyard, Marvel Comics, Masters Of the Universe, Masters Of the Universe Toys, Retro Gaming, Spider-Man, Super-Hero Satellite, Team Up Tear Down, The Daily Rios, The Middle Spaces, The Retroist, The Unspoken Decade, Top 5 He-Man Toys
“When a Collection Of The Worlds Best Bloggers Come Together To Protect The Blogosphere from The Depths Of Despair and Boredom. One Topic, One Mission, A Million Different Points Of View..Blogging Will NEVER Be The Same…Welcome To SUPER-BLOG TEAM-UP 4…TEAM UP TEAR DOWN.”
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I remember the day I saw Superman and Spiderman teaming for the first time. It was monumental. Every comic fan at some point or another mulls over the thought of Dream Team Ups. What if Spiderman teamed With Superman, What if Batman teamed with Wolverine? Over the years DC and Marvel made a lot of these team ups happen and made them into a reality. Super-Hero Satellite tackled one of those in the Official Super-Blog Team Up Prequel when Superman teamed with Captain Carrot and The Amazing Zoo Crew! DCs experimental run in the very early 80s saw a lot of team ups you would never dreamed of would happened. One of which I present to you today. Superman teams with 80s Iconic Toy Franchise The Masters Of The Universe! It did happen and boy do we have a lot of ground to cover..this topic could only be contained in the pages of the Super-Blog Team Up 4 ….TEAM UP TEAR DOWN!!
In 1981 action figures were my life. My toy case was filled with Star Wars, Bionic man, Micronauhts, and very soon a toy called He-man. A very simple sounding name for a hero as it was intended. Mattel, following the success of Star Wars trilogy sought to capture some market share in the figure market with a new line of toys “inspired” by Conan The Barbarian fame..unofficially of course. After battling off a lawsuit with the Conan people Mattel launched one of their most profitable and iconic toy lines in history The Masters Of the Universe collection.
The Masters Of the Universe collection or MOTU for short, was a Mattel’s meal ticket back to the action figure market. He-Man and company exploded! Anyone who remembers this line of toys remembers a group of figures that were muscled up, action pose ready that were unlike anything out there at the time. I remember getting a great selection of these toys I believe for Christmas of 81. Boy did I get the motherload. In my first foray into the He-man toy line I received He-Man, Skeletor, Battle Cat, Panthro, Teela, Stratos, and Beast Man. Throw in Castle GreySkull, and The Battle Ram!!
Hows that for an intro!! So with the success of the toy line the next logical step was He-mans introduction to the small screen!! He-Man and the Masters of the Universe the animated series debuted on airwaves across the nation in 1983. The opening would be one that kids of the 80s would have engrained into their heads..Without further adieu..Satellite Bring up the video wall..He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe intro please!!
Everyone back on deck Heroes! The Masters of The Universe cartoon was a staple in my house. I have seen every episode probably 3-4 times each. I loved that show and its characters!! Click below to re watch this great series..that’s right, all in one click..that’s what we do.
Click HERE for The He-Man Universe Channel..
Outside of my play time in Eternia, the rest of my life was spent as a super comic nerd! If anyone asked me what my favorite comic book publisher was in the 1980s I would proudly say DC with great vigor!! I loved everything about them but what I loved was their Super-Heroes. They were always The Nintendo to The Sega, They were The Coke to The Pepsi, The DC Heavy was The Man Of Steel himself. No one was bigger and more recognizable than Superman. In saying that, DC used Superman at every stop to push other properties. Supes was guaranteed bank and the publisher knew that putting him in a book with anyone would instantly give that property instant cred in the eyes of comic book readers..like old Hero here! Superman teamed with everyone but the kitchen sink. DC even went so far as to team him with Captain Carrot and The Amazing Zoo Crew. The Folks at the Satellite pieced together a great Prequel..Check out the link below the picture below!!
Click HERE To Read The SBTU Prequel Capes and Carrots!
As Satellite readers hopefully who have read the Prequel DC tried something radically different in 1982 by giving Comic fans a real bang for their book with the DC Prevue inserts. As stated these inserts were standalone stories meant to introduce readership to new characters and concepts. The idea was to introduce the new hero or team inside the pages of a best-selling title to provide maximum visibility to this new potential break out concept. Superman was usually the anchor. DC did this twice with their latest acquistion..Matells Masters Of The Universe!! In the years prior to the World killing Crossover Crisis On Infinite Earths, DC was pretty liberal with their use of alternate realities, timelines, and worlds. It lead to a seamless insertion of the MOTU characters and worlds to simply become another “World” in the grand scale of the DCU in 1982! Yes Eternia was officially a reality in DC!!
DC created a very unusual version of Eternia very different from the one seen on the Cartoon show a little later. Still seemingly set in medieval times This Eternia boasted over the top technology and mystifying magic all at once! Magic and Swordplay were the center of its concept. With Curt Swan, of long time Superman fame and legendary Comic Book penciller extraordinaire, took his stab at the Toy franchise and did a Masterful job of it. The characters were directly in line with the toy line visually but what was not carried over from the Comic book to the show was the language. Eternians talked like they were out of a Shakespeare novel. The verbage was very grandious. If you were a fan of the show you would know that He-man and friends did NOT talk like this!! Check out the panel below as He-Man, aka Prince Adam is challenged by a patron at the bar on Eternia who had just made fun of his sidekick Cringer (Battle Kat!) Whats unique about DC’s version of Eternia is that number one..He-Man is a drinker? When did you ever see bars on Eternia in the TV show? He-Man also refers to Teela as “woman” so it is decidedly male dominated planet as well. She-Ra would NOT stand for this!
Gone as well is the famous Transformation scene thats featured on every show on the Cartoon version of He-Man and The Masters Of the Universe…we all know what I mean. On this page we see that the Sorceress is responsible He-Mans and Battle Kat’s transformation!! Gone is the famous “By The Power Of GraySkull” raise your sword and transform gimmick..
He-Man is simply turned into his more powerful self by the all-powerful Sorceress..
At this point we meet the “Demonic Skeletor” Enemy of “Thy ” World? Skeletor is seen with his right hand man Beast Man in front of the Mysterious Castle Grayskull! The Grayskull Playset is undoubtedly the best play set in history! Okay maybe the Star Wars Death Star is better but this thing rocks people!! Believe! Skeletor and his sidekick discuss his need to unveil the secrets Of Castle GraySkull so he can rule the world with this knowledge! However one thing remains,…. to gain access to the Castle, Skeletor must have a power sword..which he does..but to gain entry you must have TWO!! The action figures themselves came bundled with a sword a piece for He-man and and a piece for Skeletor. Both had flatbacks and for some reason the two could connect together and allow the holder of the two united swords access to the secrets of Grayskull..
Its time to take a break…We will be right back AFTER THESE MESSAGES..
How cool are the He-man toys? I cannot describe the amount of joy these thing gave me..plus after I was done role playing in Eternia, He-Man and gang made great additions to my wrestling figure federation I also ran from my bedroom floor. He-Man, more specifically Power Punch He-Man won the title many times! Okay while on the topic lets talk best original MOTU toys..here’s the
Satellites Top 5 Most Underrated MOTU Figures:
5. Ram Man:One of the very few figures that broke the He-Man mold. Ram Man was the Eternia’s version of the Juggernaut and wore a huge metal helmet that he used to smash through things. You push down on his head and his legs, which we based on a spring ,were physically joined together and did no contain any articulation. Press down on his head Ram Man squat to the ground touch him again he launched into action!!
4. Moss Man. The MOTU line used the same basic body mold over and over at will and in some cases the same figure altogether. Beast Man one of the original MOTU super-bad’s was turned green, stripped of his armor, and covered in green “moss’ like fur. A very unusual toy but friggin awesome. My Moss Man was stolen on a camping trip as a child when playing in all things..The woods. I guess his camouflage was just too good. I’ll find you one day Moss man!
3. Two Bad: The Conjoined twin alien heads which shared a torso. This was another figure that maintained a unique mold and was very cool. The toy had great double punching power and two great alien heads! I played the death out of Two Bad and feel he’s a must have in any MOTU collection!
2.Extendar: The Armor covered Knight in the MOTU collection. Extendar was a silver armor covered classic Knight Of The Round Table style of figure. His uniqueness however was in the fact that his head arms, waist, torso, and legs all extended to make Extendar a giant. He was a highly touted figure in the collection as he toiled playing double duty in my imaginary wrestling figure collection!
1. Fakor. Okay okay..its was He-Man painted blue. Literally that’s all Fakor was. He was a Robot He-Man clone That Skeletor created to infiltrate He-Mans inner circle. No one would notice if He-Man was Blue now would they? Even so, I loved Fakor during his short run in my collection as he was an early victim to the arms and leg figure exchange..He-Man figure collectors know what that means!
WELCOME BACK HEROES!! Back to our story..Beast Man and Skeletor converse on how they are going to break into Castle Grayskull. Outside the Grayskull, Skeletor talks about the need of having both halves of the Power Sword to open the castle. Beast Man notices Skeletor only has one half, but he tries to use it to open Grayskull anyways. The result? The opening to a great inter-dimensional worm hole in clouds form that opens on Earth!! The impact of Skeletor,s assault was so great, its effects were felt on Earth.!! As with Superman..he has a history of falling into such portals …and today would be no different..
Superman is transported to Eternia in short order. He was investigating the giant cloud/portal and as always he is sucked in like a tractor beam and lands with a Thud directly in front of Castle GraySkull. Thelingering foes Skeletor and Beast Man look on like they have just seen Santa Clause!. The unusual part of this is not only how passive the Eternian’s are with Superman’s grand entrance but how non-chalant Superman is by being transported to yet another dimension. Apparently no big deal for the Man Of Steel.
Skeletor knows that this is not cool and quickly figures out that this guy in Blue spandex falling from the sky is his enemy!! Not giving any time for Superman to recover or gain his bearings Skeletor goes on the attack on this Other Worlder. Both spend a moment to mock each other as Skeletor calls Superman a `Strangely Garbed Foe while Superman sees Skeletor as a Skull faced clown with the Over Grown pocket Knife. Ahhh The 80s!!
The fight is on as Skeletor tries to slice Superman in half but to know avail as Supes batters the Eternian with a barrage of body shots. Beast Man joins the fray and is dispatched easily in ultra 80s fashion as Superman simply takes him on a loop de loop and dumps him handily on the ground. Skeletor resorts to the magic of his half of the power sword and forces Superman to be blown off in the distance. Waiting on hill observing the disruption is He-Man himself on his gentle steed Battle Kat!
He-Man rushes to Supermans aid recognizing him from ancient Eternian lore. This goes to show that the DC Universe was always a part of DCs elaborate Multiverse of the 80s Pre Crisis. With Introductions out of the way, He-man and Superman are soon joined by Man at Arms riding the Wind Raider!
Okay, its pointless product knowledge time. The Wind Raider was one of the first and best MOTU Vehicles and makes a very early appearance here.MOTU toys were always emblazoned with deluxe painted artwork as seen on the Wind Raider box art!! Note the original Wind Raider was mean for a single figure. So in this case the Comic book had it right!!
Original Wind Raider plus He-Man!!
A great footnote here The Wind Raider like the Toy is a single passenger Vehicle however in the original He-Man and the Masters Of the Universe Television Show The Winder raider is a much larger capacity vehicle.
Pause for ONE TO GROW ON.. Take It AWAY MR T!!
Now Back To The Show..
The Triple Threat of He-Man, Superman, and Teela’s father Duncan, aka Man At Arms (Where is Duncan..has he abandoned his friends??) go after Skeletor. He-man swings for the fences with his battle-axe but not before Skeletor uses the magic of his half power sword to cast a hypnotic spell on Superman. Skeletor turns Supes on his own team instantly and the battle of the century begins..He-man vs Superman..one on one for the inter-dimensional title. Superman attacks first stopping He-Man assault on Skeletor but The Most Powerful Man In the Universe easily turns the tide employing The Giant Swing into a power bomb!!
Superman no selling He-Mans attack goes toe to toe with He-Man in a slugfest. Looks like DC will not look bad in comparison to Matell and He-Man is driven to the ground with a solid Superman upper cut ending the `Battle Of The Century only seconds into the fight. Winner is Superman..and DC. With He-Man out..and Man At Arms nowhere to be seen,,Skeletor commands the Man Of Steel to open the doors to Castle GreySkull and reveal its secrets to him at once! With fists raised Superman roars towards the gates of GraySkull..
Superman still fighting his hypnosis, cannot stop Skeletor’s spell, but comes up with a plan on the fly. If only the Man Of Steel can distract Skeletor long enough to utilize his heat vision to create a Molten barricade around Skeletor and block the spell of Skeletor. That’s right Superman melts rocks to form a rock cocoon around the evil one. Superman is able to stop his spell just in time as not to impact The Castle! Skeletor bursts free of his confinement in Molten rock and swears he will cast yet another spell on Superman. This time Superman is ready for Skeletor’s magic and He-man (who has already forgiven and understood why Superman attacked him,) returns to watch the fray. Superman apparently has a plan to lift Skeletor out of harms way. Exactly where was Superman taking him?
With Skeletor having been to this dance once to often, he pulls the old disappearing act. Superman still taken aback from the events of what just happened has no time to chat with his new friends as he notices a Time Space warp in space with his Super Vision and has to hustle so he can get back home to earth and bids a quick fare the well to his Medieval friends.
In summary: You could not have done this Team-Up any quicker. The whole story while really cool, is mega rushed. Superman literally falls from the sky, has a light tussle with Skeletor,and even He-Man , gets hypnotized , stops Skeletor and rushes back to Earth in a wormhole. The whole time, He-Man and friends act like it’s any other day. Love the vintage Curt Swan art. Mr. Swan is one of my all time definitive Superman artists, so I was pumped to see him do the cross over. Swan has a real grasp on He-Man and friends. His inspiration is directly from the Matell Toy line as is seen with the depictions of Man At Arms, Skeletor and Beast Man. Hilariously the depiction of Eternia as an old world Shakespearean society is pretty far off in what we see later in the Animated Series and subsequent spinoffs, and Movies. The Eternian dialect is pretty entertaining as seen in these pages. I am glad they made the change to everyday linguistics in the animated show. The declaration and focus on the 2 halves of the Power Swords is also a storyline not often referenced in the Animated Series. He-man himself does not perform the transformation or do the whole “I have The Power” bit. That’s key…say what you want. Having the Sorceress simply transform Prince Adam and Cringer is just not cutting it People!! Overall, the excitement this book created at the time was all the hype I needed as a bright-eyed 8-year-old comic book fanatic! The kid in me still gives this story a thumbs up..the adult in hindsight gives it a “Where the hell is the story??” As well I leave you all with one final question..exactly what was the point of putting Man At Arms in the story with The Wind raider when he did not even show up in the battle?? Hmmmm…
Hope you have enjoyed this stay on Eternia, setting Coordinates for our next mission. Heroes strap in..Super-Blog Team Up continues…plenty more to read as Team Up Tear Down continues all over the Blogosphere..please read and follow all the blogs below..you will not be disappointed! Super-Blog Team Up…Unite!!
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4. The Daily Rios: New Teen Titans/DNAgents http://thedailyrios.com/
5. The Middle Spaces: Super Hegemonic Team-up! Spider-Man, Daredevil & ‘The Death of Jean DeWolfe
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6. Chasing Amazing: Spider-man/Spider-man 2099 Across the Spider-Verse: A Once in a Timeline Team-Up http://wp.me/p1wQNx-1N5
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8. Fantastiverse: Superman/Spider-man http://fantastiverse.com/ *COMING SOON*
9. Mystery V-Log The Avengers #1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6G3GZ0yhXkR1vl6BCPegw *COMING SOON*
10. In My Not So Humble Opinion: Conan /Solomon Kane
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11. The Unspoken Decade: Punisher/Archie: Two Wrongs Making a Right: Punisher Meets Archie!!
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12. Flodos Page: Green Lantern and the Little Green Man http://flodospage.blogspot.ca/ *COMING SOON*
13. Between The Pages: World’s Finest Couple: Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne http://betweenthepagesblog.typepad.com/between-the-pages-blog/2014/09/worlds-finest-couple-lois-lane-and-bruce-wayne.html *UPDATED*
14. BronzeAge Babies: When Friends Like These ARE Your Enemies (FF/Doom, Batman/Joker, Warlock/Thanos, and Cap/Red Skull), http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.ca/
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SUPER-BLOG TEAM UP Vol. 2 (#7 of 9) RETCON: Crisis On Continuity Earths
Posted: February 19, 2014 in Uncategorized
Tags: Alan Moore, Archie MLJ Universe, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Charlton Action Heroes, Charlton Comics, Crisis, Crisis On Infinite Earths, DC Comics, Earth 2, Earth 4, Earth S, Earth X, Retcon, Super-Blog Team Up, Super-Hero Satellite, SuperHero Satellite, The Question, Watchmen
Welcome all to the 2nd volume of Super Blog Team Up. It is the Satellites privilege and honor to welcome several new blogs to our ever-growing roster! The Super Blog Team unite several times a year to bring the Blogosphere the biggest unified exploration of any one particular topic related to our favorite genre…Comics! For those new to the Satellite..welcome and for those faithful readers who often frequent our orbiting time traveling hulk of technology strap in! As we say here at the Satellite..Welcome aboard Heroes..today the Satellite takes us back to 1985…with a topic that sends shivers down the spins of comic continuity and universes and as well as us the fans..RETCONS! Be warned..what you think you know..maybe greatly altered in a moments notice. Without further adieu..
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Welcome back Satellite Subscribers, forgive the temporary system interruption a Retcon will do that to a Satellite. Forget what you know, even things that look similar are not as they were. If you were a fan of comics in the Golden and Silver Age then you were in on the joke that was continuity. As decades came and went so did story telling sensibilities. A lot can happen in 50 years worth of storytelling. With my ever-growing stack of comic books the 1980s were as readers of The Satellite know , were my favorite era for just about everything. in the 1980s. DC was about to embark on a reboot as such. I loved all comics DC was primarily my favorite company and it was a big surprise to me when they injected their universe with heroes from The Charlton Publishing company.
Near the back of my book shelf were my well-worn issues of Charlton Comics. In my home town it was rare to find any Charlton material but on that rare occasion when I would venture into the dusty depths of some out port Convenience stores Charlton treasures were uncovered and I snapped them up every time. In their tattered gritty, cheap newsprint format Charlton Comics were different from the norm published by the big two of DC and Marvel. Some of their books like their Horror titles were decidedly more adult in theme. They had licences like The Bionic man and Hanna Barbera that were unusual for a small publisher to gain these rights. The ads in the books were even more mature! I loved reading the stories of Blue Beetle, E-Man, Captain Atom Hercules, and Judo Master! Suddenly the Charlton Heroes that I had read sporadically for years were being reborn alongside my DC favorites like Batman, and Green Lantern! In 1985..DC and Charlton universes collided and the result..was the ultimate Retcon in comic book history!
Evolution Of A Company…
How did Batman not age over the course of 50 years? Why did Robin take 30 plus years to graduate from school ? How did the lone survivor of Krypton, Superman, suddenly have a cousin Super Girl, as well as Krypto The Superdog, hell even DC even had Super Powered Horses and a Monkeys?
How did Flash meet The Original Flash Jay Garrick in the classic 1960s story “The Flash Of Two Worlds”? Why did Green Lanterns origin change several times without explanation over the years? How did heroes that existed in another Super Hero universe (and Publisher!) suddenly appear within the DC Universe? Even DC and their writing team had written themselves into a proverbial corner.
A Flash Of Two Worlds were a reason stories like these began to present a problem!
Thus was born the Multiverse. A series of parallel Earths that crossed over from time to time and explained away all the weirdness and continuity errors. If something didn’t make sense storyline wise it could now be explained away as having happened on a parallel world! With every backdoor though comes overkill. Earths 1 and 2 became Earths 3, and 4. We had Earth X, Earth S and so it goes. What started as a way to explain away continuity issues and to maintain the integrity of the Golden age, spiraled into a confusing mess even DC themselves could not get out of. After 50 years of publishing no one had ever taken the time to make sense out of 50 years of stories. There were stories of value in every era however how did it all make sense in the bigger picture? Easy answer..it simply didn’t. What was important..what was not? What was considered cannon and what were considered “What If” stories? There was no definitive answer. That is until writer Marv Wolfman of DC took on the task of making sense of 50 years of DC Comics continuity.
With so many stories interwoven into the fabric of DCs continuity making the decision on what should stay and what should go was not an easy chore. In 1985 Marv Wolfman alongside penciller George Perez , Jerry Ordway and (editor /inker)Dick Giordano embarked on a 12 issue Maxi series known as Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crisis was intended to eliminate the concept of the “Multi-verse” and streamline DC continuity once and for all. It is best known for the demise two key characters in the DC Universe Barry Allen (Flash) and Super Girl. For our purposes it is not the deaths that is the thrust of our discussion it is rather the inclusion a group of heroes RETCONNED into DC continuity by way of Crisis. That group of characters..The Charlton Action Hero Universe! How did an entire universe simply get absorbed into DC? With great difficulty filled with twists and turns that one might not have expected.
Crisis Casualities..
DC stalwart Paul Levitz of Legion Of Super-Heros fame was on of those responsible for bringing the Charlton Universe as a “gift” of sorts to his colleague and now Managing Editor Dick Giordano. Giordano a former member of The Charlton Action Hero creative team who carries a special place in his heart for the characters in the Charlton Universe. The Universe consisted of several Ditkionian era heroes such as Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) , Captain Atom, The Question, and Night Shade. It was easy to see why the company would have interest in acquiring theses properties. Others like Peace Maker, Sarge Steel, The Judo Master and Peter Cannon Thunderbolt would be added later as well.
Charlton Heroes Come to DC sharing the cover with DC icon Superman!
It was decided that the introduction of Charlton’s Action Heroes into the DC Universe of the 1980s would occur through The Crisis event. All Earths of The Multiverse would be merged into one Earth..including the Charton Universe. In short all alternate Earths such as Earths 1,2,4, Earth X, Earth S, just to name a few are suddenly slowly merging cosmically and in doing so, some worlds such as Earth 3 are systematically destroyed as a result of the event. The Charlton Universe for our readers purposes was known as Earth 4. Before I confuse our reading audience with the already impossible to understand Crisis / Earths debacle I present to you a Crisis for Dummies if you will.
EARTH X :
Earth X is a world created to explain the existence of War Time characters as it is set in a world where World war 2 did not end. Characters included the likes of The Freedom Fighters, The Black Hawks, and even Plastic Man!
EARTH S:
Earth S was a world created to include the purchased characters from several defunct companies most notably Fawcett publications. Most notable of the character set were Captain Marvel (Shazam) and the Marvel Family, as well as the Squadron Of Justice!
EARTH ONE: DC PROPER.
Earth One was simply OUR Earth. It included Silver and Bronze age versions of the DC Universe that existed up to Pre- Crisis events.
EARTH TWO:
Earth-Two was the reality designation assigned to the planet Earth, and the Universe it includes, that existed prior to the Crisis. Earth-Two itself was inhabited by various characters who resembled those of its primary Earth One. This Earth served the purposes of maintaining the existence of DC`s Golden Age characters namely The Justice Society !
EARTH THREE:
Earth-Three was introduced in a 1964 issue of Justice League of America. Earth-Three’s history is seen as a mirror image to that of the Earth One. Earth-Three was home most famously to an analogue Villains to the Justice League, the Crime Syndicate of America. Earth Three is the one world not merged in the Crisis series as it is destroyed very early in the event!
EARTH FOUR:
Earth Four was essentially the Charlton Action Hero Universe!
Crisis tells the story of two God like beings, the Monitor and the evil Anti-Monitor, both created by the Multiverse experiment. The Monitor was teased in many DC comic book series for two years prior to the launch of Crisis. The Monitor was teased to be a villain but he is revealed to be working on a seemingly futile plan to stop the inevitable destruction of the Multiverse hands of the Anti-Monitor. The Crisis event throws the DC Super in a desperate war to stop the Anti-Monitor’s plan rule the entire Multiverse.
Crisis On Infinite Earths: The Ultimate Retcon!
The Monitor is murdered by Harbinger, his own assistant, while under the possession of the Anti Monitor . All 5 Earths (1, 2 4, S, and X) are merged into one LIMBO universe, however Harbinger, coming out from under the spell of the Anti Monitor unifies the heroes of all worlds (Including the Charlton Action Heroes) to bring down the Anti Monitor.
Harbinger recruits The Blue Beetle from the Charlton Action Hero Universe (Earth 4)
However, it would be the Spectre`s battle with the Anti-Monitor,that creates an energy overload that shatters space and time.The result …the ULTIMATE RETCON.. A single universe is created and all the superheroes return to a present-day reality where the various elements of the five Earths were fused into one single Earth, with no one except the people present at the dawn of time remembering the original reality.
The DC Universe Post Crisis looked a lot different than it did prior to the event and included many new faces into its (At that point 50 year History)
DC had much bigger plans for the Charlton universe. Not only would they have a role in the events of Crisis but DC took a gamble that these Heroes could draw an audience by themselves in solo titles! Personally this was an exciting time as a fan as new title popped up everywhere with DC throwing new concepts at the wall attempting to feed off of the buzz of Crisis.
DC had big plans for The Charlton Action Hero cast..starting with the Beetle himself!
Blue Beetle flew out of his flying Beetle on the cover of his official DC solo series in 1986! I remember pulling this and Captain Atom #1 off the spinner rack with my 20 dollar a week allowance and drooling over these new heroes!
Captain Atom was one of the most successful acquisitions and went on to not only star in his own solo series but as with Beetle joined the DC franchise the Justice League!
To this day Blue Beetle #1 serves as the way you showcase a hero on his debut issue! Beetle not only brought along some of his rogues gallery like The Madmen. His title also served as a launching pad for the return of Charltons The Question who returned in issue 5 of the series.
The Question returned in grand fashion in the pages of The Blue Beetle #5 in 1986.
Nightshade another Charlton alum returns in the pages of Captain Atom #14. The gang was slowly creeping into the DC Universe!
The Question would also get his own solo series in a direct format and a much more adult style. Possibly influenced by Watchmen alternate! (See Below!)
Of course each series would have varying degrees of success, DC also embedded these characters permanently into the DC universe. Beetle joined The Justice League, Atom lead the Justice League Europe, Nightshade was a member of the Suicide squad! Everywhere you looked DC took full advantage of these properties and did not let them go to waste. As a fan Justice League was my all time favorite team book and heroes like Beetle and Atom were easy favorites!
The Bwah Ha Ha Era of The League was my personal favorite Team Book of all time!
Blue Beetle came into his own and gained full acceptance as DCs fun-loving tag team partner of Booster Gold and perennial team member of the Justice League. Captain Atom went on to greater heights and actually captained a branch of the Justice League dubbed The JLE, Or Justice League Europe. Both titles were big sellers for DC and prominently featured the Charlton flagship characters.
The Captain takes the reigns on his own Justice League..The JLE!
The Charlton Action Heroes arrived in the DC Universe mostly intact with a few differences in origin and slight appearance modifications. Beetle retained his classic look while Captain Atom was dramatically streamlined into a chrome skinned embodiment of nuclear power, a much-needed upgrade from his dated Charlton look. His origin however was modified to fit the times. Nightshade arrived in her original guise but would be altered for the 80s in her Suicide Squad attire. The Question survived both in look and origin. Later additions to the Charlton gang would be Peace Maker, Judo Master, Peter Cannon Thunderbolt and Sarge Steel all of whom were given ill-fated solo runs and didn’t catch an audience like the Ditko characters. All in all the Charlton Action Heroes were now officially DC Super-Heroes and now firmly entrenched in DC hallowed halls. I was a fan and these were great times as a reader! DC had been relaunched and had been injected with a dose of new characters to move forward with!
However the introduction of The Charlton Heroes into DC almost took a much different path….
Satellite Extra:
Can you believe that at one point and time The Archie MLJ Universe were being considered to be the main characters for TheWatchmen?
Prior to the decision to Retcon the Charlton heroes into the DC universe via Crisis, fate could have taken a much stranger turn. After the Charlton acquisition by DC comics Managing Editor and former Charlton creator Dick Giordano was approached with an informal proposal by writer Alan Moore. Originally the proposal involved the use of Archie Comics MLJ group of Heroes. Moore want to use the death Mighty Crusader, The Shield as the thrust for the story that would eventually become the most famous graphic novel of all… Watchmen. After this idea fizzled it was Moore’s proposal that the newly acquired Charlton Action heroes be used as the central characters in the storyline. The original concept was a story called “Who killed the Peacemaker?” The story would be a deconstructionist piece that set the Charlton Heroes in a desperate race against the clock to investigate a murder and to stop a nuclear apocalypse. Giordano who had an investment in the characters from his time at Charlton Publishing deterred Moore from using the characters and instead swayed him to use archetypes based around the Charlton Heroes for the story instead. Moore convinced that as long as the characters felt familiar he would be able to project the same sense of investment a reader would have in the actual characters…and boy was he right. Thus was born Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan, Silk Specter, Rorshach, The Comedian and Ozymandias…THE WATCHMEN.
These characters would never have existed without the Charlton Action Heroes who were the influence for each of The Watchmen.
Had Moore had his way our Heroes would never have existed in the same fashion that they had been introduced into the DC Continuity in the 80s! As cool as it may be to have my Charlton heroes as Watchmen I much preferred the manner in which I came to enjoy each of these heroes in the DCU!!
For those who are wondering its more than clear who inspired each hero in the Watchmen universe. For those who could use a little more clarity here’s your Watchmen/Charlton cheat sheet!
What Charlton Hero inspired YOUR favorite Watchmen Character?
Well that’s it Heroes!! After all this Retcon talk, I am retiring to the Satellites hibernation chamber for a long nap as we set course to return back to present day! One more extra before we go..I mentioned prior to our conclusion here that The Charlton Heroes introduction required a light modification to their Charlton origins..so I have included complete DC Who’s Who Bios of the core Characters so we have a complete go to source for your Charlton/DC Retcon needs!! Enjoy!
If You have enjoyed this blog contact me on Twitter @Charlton_Hero and join the conversation using #SuperHeroSatellite Thanks for reading!
Okay its time to check out the continuation of this cant miss series! Retcon Continues NOW: Super Blog Team activate!
1.Silver Age Sensations: The Red, White, and Blue Silver Age Avenger!
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*NEW*6. Superior Spider-Talk: Peter Parker – Child of Radioactivity or Mysticism?
7. Super-Hero Satellite: Hey you are here already!! RETCON: Crisis On Continuity Earths
#8 Fantastiverse: Age of the Retcon: Bucky 4.0 – The Winter Soldier
#9*NEW*Superior Spider Talk: #9 Chasing Amazing: Brand New Day and the Retcon of Harry Osborn Coming Soon
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The battle for the Middle East’s future begins in Yemen as Saudi Arabia jumps into the abyss – Middle East – World – The Independent
03/27/2015 Region: Middle East
Saudi Arabia has jumped into the abyss.
Its air attacks on Yemen are a historic and potentially fatal blow to the Kingdom and to the Middle East.
Who decided that this extraordinary battle should take shape in the poorest of Arab nations? The Saudis, whose King is widely rumoured in the Arab world to be incapable of taking decisions of state? Or the princes within the Saudi army who fear that their own security forces may not be loyal to the monarchy?
The “story” of Yemen appears simple. Houthi rebels, who are Shia Muslims, have captured the capital of Sanaa with the help – so say the Saudis – of the Iranians. The legitimate President – Abed Rabou Mansour Hadi – has fled to the Saudi capital of Riyadh from his bolthole in the old southern Yemeni capital of Aden. The Saudis will not permit an Iranian proxy state to be set up on their border – always forgetting that they already have an Iranian-proxy state called Iraq on their northern border, courtesy of the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. The real “story” is more important. Perhaps half of the Saudi army is of Yemeni tribal origin. Saudi soldiers are intimately – through their own families – involved in Yemen, and the Yemen revolution is a stab in the guts of the Saudi royal family. No wonder King Salman of Saudi Arabia – if he indeed rules his nation – wishes to bring this crisis to an end. But are his bombing raids on Sanaa going to crush a Shia Muslim rebellion?
You can understand what it looks like from Riyadh. To the north, the Shia Muslim Iranian Revolutionary Guards are assisting the Shia-dominated Iraqi government in their battle against Sunni Muslim Isis. To the north-west, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are assisting the government of Alawite (for which read, Shia) president Bashar al-Assad against Isis and al-Nusrah and whatever is left of the so-called “Free Syrian Army”. The Shia Hezbollah from Lebanon are fighting alongside Assad’s army. So are Shia Muslims from Afghanistan, wearing Syrian uniforms. Saudi Arabia claims the Iranians are in Yemen with the Houthis. Unlikely. But be sure their weapons are in Yemen.
Unprecedented in modern Arab history, a Sunni Muslim coalition of 10 nations – including non-Arab Pakistan – has attacked another Arab nation. The Sunnis and the Shia of the Middle East are now at war with each other in Iraq, in Syria and Yemen. Pakistan is a nuclear power. The armies of Bahrain and the Gulf states include Pakistani soldiers. Pakistanis were among the dead in the first great battle against Iraqi troops in the 1991 Gulf War.
But already, the battle for Yemen is dividing other Arab countries. In Lebanon, the former Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Saad Hariri has praised the “brave and wise” decision of King Salman to attack. Mr Hariri is not only a Sunni – he is also a Saudi citizen. But the Shia Hezbollah, who oppose Saudi intervention, called the Saudi assault an “uncalculated adventure”. These words were chosen with care. They are exactly the words the Saudis used against Hezbollah after it captured three Israeli soldiers in 2006, a stupid political act which started the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon that year.
The battle for Yemen is dividing Arab countries (AFP/Getty)
The Americans do not know what to do. They cannot give the Saudis direct military assistance – their nuclear talks with Iran are more important – and so their soft verbal support for King Salman is supposed to mollify their Sunni allies and avoid antagonising the Iranians. But the closer a nuclear deal comes between the US and Iran, the more forcefully their partners in the Arab world will push their cards. What provoked the Saudis into their extraordinary adventure in Yemen was not the approach of Houthis towards Aden but the approach of US-Iranian agreement at Lausanne.
Hezbollah may call the Saudi attacks a “Saudi-American conspiracy” – an overused phrase which contains some truth – but the reality, evident to every Arab, is that the Saudis, armed (or over-armed, as many might say) by the US, are clearly prepared to use their firepower against another Arab nation rather than the traditional enemy further north. Listening to the rhetoric of the Saudis, you might think that they were bombing Israel.
History may say that the attacks on Yemen are the start of a great civil war between Sunnis and Shia in the Middle East. This would satisfy the West – and Israel – in a belief that the Arabs are at war with themselves. But it may also be true that this is the last attempt by the Saudis to prove that they are a major military power. In 1990, faced with the arrival of Saddam’s legions in Kuwait, they asked infidel America to protect them (to the fury of Osama bin Laden). They are a Wahabi nation, loyal – officially, at least – to the same theology as the Taliban and Isis. Saudi provided 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11. They gave us Bin Laden, who – let us not forget – was also of Yemeni tribal origin. After Yemen supported Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, the Saudis threw tens of thousands of Yemenis out of the Kingdom. In revenge for their disloyalty. Do they expect Yemenis now to rally to their support?
The last time the Saudis involved themselves in Yemen, they fought Nasser’s Egyptian army. It was a disaster. Now they have the Egyptians on their side. Indeed, they even suggest the Egyptians may stage a landing in Yemen. But to do what? To ensure that Yemen remains a faithful Sunni nation? Will this assuage the Sunni militias battering the Egyptian army in Sinai?
More seriously, will it resolve the coming struggle within the royal family, whose princes do not all believe Yemen must be the cornerstone of Saudi power – nor that Wahabism must be the permanent sectional belief. And who gains from the new Yemen crisis? The oil producers, of course. And that means Saudi Arabia – and Iran.
via The battle for the Middle East’s future begins in Yemen as Saudi Arabia jumps into the abyss – Middle East – World – The Independent.
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Canadian Commission Rules Against Bridal Shop for Refusing to Allow Man to Try on Wedding Gown
By Heather Clark on September 19, 2013 2 Comments
SASKATOON — A Canadian bridal boutique has reached a settlement with a man who identifies as a woman after the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled that the owner broke the law by refusing to allow him to try on a gown for his wedding.
The incident occurred in April of this year as Rohit Singh, who moved to Canada from India three years ago, went to Jenny’s Bride Boutique with his fiance Colin Peace to shop for a gown for their “wedding.”
However, when Singh wanted to try on a particular gown in the women’s changing room, owner Jenny Correia refused to allow him to do so.
“I don’t allow men to wear dresses in my store,” she stated, according to reports.
“I’m not a man. I’m a transgender and my sex change procedure is going on,’’ Singh replied.
“He looked like a man,” Correia told CBC News. “There were quite a few brides in the store. If you see a man trying on dresses, you’re going to feel uncomfortable.”
But Singh asserted that he was wrongly being discriminated against, and wanted to ensure that other men who identify as “transgenders” will be able to utilize the bridal boutique.
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“It might happen to some other transgender that might come to the store and she will hurt the same,” he told the publication. “It so embarrassed me and my husband.”
Singh then filed a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, who ruled that Correi had “infringed Section 12 of The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code by denying a transgender woman service.”
Following the decision, both sides went into mediation in an attempt to reach a settlement.
“Typically, and where resolution involves a financial obligation, money is paid to a complain[ant] often as a recognition of damage to dignity or, sometimes, for lost income,” the Commission wrote in a news release about the matter.
However, Singh asked that instead of paying him damages for the incident, Correia should donate to two local organizations that support homosexuality and transgenderism. Therefore, the bridal shop owner has now agreed to contribute $500 each to Avenue Community Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity and Aids Saskatoon.
“I’m quite happy with the settlement.” Singh told reporters. “I don’t think any other business will do this again … after hearing these results.”
Response to the settlement from the general public has been mixed.
“Why would anyone turn away a paying customer, no matter what gender, size, shape, etc. they are?” one commenter asked. “As a business owner for many years, my interests are pretty simple: I make sales and keep my clients happy. As long as they like my work and their money is good, they can show up in a duck suit for all I care.”
“So the kangaroo court is having someone write another cheque. Imagine that,” another wrote. “With this precedent, dudes everywhere can try on wedding dresses!”
“The world is getting stranger,” a third commenter stated. “It seems only the minorities have a right to gather and voice their opinions; everyone else is intimidated.”
Canadian Commission Rules Against Bridal Shop for Refusing to Allow Man to Try on Wedding Gown added by Heather Clark on September 19, 2013
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The 12th Annual Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) conference was held from December 27 – 30, 2018 at SPJIMR Mumbai. As a key chapter of the DSI, ISDSI has been steadily growing for the past few years.
With the central theme of ‘Data Driven Decision Making in the Digital Age’, the conference provided a platform for leading academicians, researchers and practitioners from both India and abroad to come together and deliberate on this theme. More than 400 delegates from eight different countries and leading management schools in India and abroad participated at the conference. Over 325 research papers were presented in 20 parallel tracks.
The conference started with a dedicated day-long Doctoral Colloquium on December 27, anchored by the inaugural speaker, Professor C Rajendran – IIT Madras. The Doctoral Colloquium focused on providing young doctoral students guidance on academic life and facilitated a healthy interaction of scholars – both local and international to provide a flavour of academic life. In addition to 27 doctoral students presenting their research and senior faculty mentors providing them with useful inputs, the doctoral colloquium featured several sessions: Converting dissertation to papers, Navigating job market and early career challenges for PhD Scholars, Enhancing teaching & learning effectiveness. This colloquium was carried out, under the leadership of Professor Antony Paulraj, Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School in China, supported by Dr. Sreedevi R, SPJIMR.
From left to right (from conference inauguration):
Jeet Gupta – Past President DSI; Gopichand Katragadda – Group Technology Officer, Tata Sons; Abhijeet Digalwar – Past President India DSI; Ranjan Banerjee – Dean SPJIMR; Ravi Jain – Vice President – APDSI; Bhimaraya Metri – Director, IIM Trichy; Sajeev George – Conference Co-chair; Sriram Narayanan – Conference co-chair.
On December 28th, the Inaugural address of the conference was delivered by the chief guest Mr. Gopichand Katragadda, Group Chief Technology Officer, Tata Sons who set the theme for big data and the possibilities therein. The guest of honour, Professor Jeet Gupta, presented a video message from the DSI President during the inaugural ceremony. “Outstanding Services Award” was conferred on Professor B A Metri for his contribution to ISDSI and APDSI and “Best Director of Business Schools in India Awards” were presented to the following Professors.
Dr. Bharat Bhasker (Director, IIM Raipur)
Fr. E. Abraham, S.J. (Director, XLRI Jamshedpur)
Dr. Ravi K Jain (Director, SIBM Hyderabad)
The three keynote speakers for the conference were: Professor Kingshuk Sinha (Carlson School, University of Minnesota); Mr. Ankur Thareja (Johnson Controls India) and Ms. Mridula Ramesh (Founder, Sundaram Climate Institute). These speakers focused on setting themes around tackling grand challenges of society, the possibilities in big data and data science and discussion around climate change and its impact on India, respectively. The conference also showcased seven Featured Panels and three workshops with a total of 52 leading academics and practitioners who engaged the audience. The deliberations in the following Featured Panels held at the conference had a distinct focus on the India specific concerns currently faced by academicians and practitioners.
Women in Decision Sciences
Pedagogy: Engaging in Active Learning in Collaboration with Industry
Publishing in High Quality Journals
Global Accreditations and its Impact
Industry and Decision Sciences: Applied Research and Built Environment Applications.
Applying Decision Sciences for Creating Inclusive Environment
In addition to the above panels, the conference featured two workshops centred around the following themes.
Data Security, Privacy and Localization
Managerial Decision Making and use of TOC Evaporating Clouds
Apart from these, the conference featured a New Faculty Colloquium, held on December 29. The colloquium provided useful inputs to junior faculty to help them successfully navigate their academic careers and introduced them to the possible traits needed to become a world-class faculty. This was organized under the leadership of Dr. Subash Sarin, Paul T. Norton Endowed Professor, Virginia Tech.
From left to right (from doctoral consortium):
Abhijeet Digalwar – Past President India DSI; Antony Paulraj – Doctoral Consortium Coordinator; Dr. C. Rajendran – IIT Chennai; Ranjan Banerjee – Dean SPJIMR; Sriram Narayanan – Conference co-chair; Sajeev George – Conference Co-chair.
The conference was generously supported by the Industry with Tata Steel as the Platinum Sponsor, SAS as the Data Science Partner, Indian Express as the Media Partner and many other companies as associate sponsors. The SPJIMR Dean’s welcome dinner was held at Andheri Recreation Club on 28th December and the Conference Gala Dinner at J W Marriott, Sahar on 29th December.
The Conference Chairs: Professor Sajeev Abraham George (SPJIMR); Professor Sriram Narayanan (Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University) and Professor Abhijeet Digalwar (Past President ISDSI, and Associate Professor at BITS-Pilani) shared their thoughts: This year, in addition to exciting keynotes and workshops, a new format of ‘Featured Panels’ was introduced to stimulate a discourse on current issues that are critical in the Indian environment and to potentially elicit research interest from scholars on these issues. In addition to creating an intellectually stimulating programme, the organizers also focused on providing superior conference experience to the delegates through the use of a home-grown student developed iPhone and Android conference apps for delegates to track the papers and events. In addition, the conference also focused on creating a technology infrastructure to integrate ISDSI with rest of the research community. Particularly, for the first time, the conference undertook Facebook live streaming of sessions and archived the videos in a newly launched ISDSI YouTube channel. This channel will allow researchers around the world to access the deliberations.
The Facebook link is shown below:
https://www.facebook.com/isdsi.spjimr.org/
The YouTube link is also shown below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5vvxN2j_2CsOp05If7qm5g/videos?view=0&flow=grid&sort=da
SPJIMR Dean, Dr. Ranjan Banerjee said: “The ISDSI conference has brought together leading researchers and practitioners in the decision sciences area and the conference had many interesting ideas and discussions. At SPJIMR, our mission is to influence practice and promote value-based growth. Conferences like ISDSI that brought several issues we face in the country to the fore can do a lot to foster collaboration, spread best practice and help to positively impact the state of theory and practice with regard to scientific decision making.”
The SPJIMR MBA students were a key part in organising the events over the course of the four days that enabled them to learn the nuances of conducting a high repute international event on campus.
In the valedictory, the Conference Chairs also acknowledged and thanked the DSI and ISDSI board and leadership for their support. The conference was not possible without their assistance. The conference concluded with the announcement by the new president of ISDSI, Professor M P Jaiswal, Director IIM Sambalpur that the 13th edition of the conference will be held at Bhubaneswar from December 27-30, 2019.
The conference event and its deliberations will be covered by Indian Express – a national news outlet in India.
We encourage future participation from the broader DSI community in the 13th ISDSI conference that will be held in Bhubaneshwar by Indian Institute of Management, Sambhalpur from 27th through 30th December 2019. We request the DSI community to stay tuned into it. Please visit the conference website https://dsiindia.org/ for more details.
Big data, impact of climate change on India discussed at ISDSI Annual Conference featured in The Indian Express.
Updated: February 4, 2019 — 2:53 pm
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JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities on Sunday ordered the demolition of a Palestinian residential building inhabited by eighty Jerusalemite citizens near the Old City in occupied Jerusalem, reports say.
Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Islamic Supreme Council in Jerusalem and Aqsa preacher was quoted by local media as saying that staff from the Jerusalem municipality notified the demolition of a building composed of 16 apartments, including his apartment, in the neighborhood of Sawwanah east of the Old City under the pretext of being built without permit.
Israel has demolished more than 2,000 homes in East Jerusalem since 1967, with 771 being pulled down between 2000-2011. A further 1,500 demolition orders are pending execution. ICAHD has presented the United Nations with its findings and demanded an inquiry, saying Israel targeted Palestinians by demolishing homes, revoking residency and eroding quality of life.
Earlier, Israeli border police demolished on Tuesday (February 5) a two-floor building in East Jerusalem housing 24 members of an extended Palestinian family.
Israel seized Arab East Jerusalem, including the Old City, in the 1967 Middle East war. It later annexed the area and surrounding West Bank villages into a Jerusalem municipality that it declared the united and eternal capital of Israel.
There are some 300,000 Palestinians residents in East Jerusalem, representing about 35 percent of the citys total population, but the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) said that since Israel took control of largely Arab areas it had systematically prevented their development.
One third of land in East Jerusalem was taken for the construction of Jewish neighborhoods, while only nine percent of the remaining land is legally available for housing. This has all been built on, making expansion impossible.
Meanwhile on the outskirts of Ramallah at Deir Jreer village in the West Bank, Palestinians accused Jewish settlers of vandalising vehicles and writing graffiti on an apartment building belonging to the Khamis family.
Preacher of the Aqsa Mosque stated that the Jerusalem municipality has always refused to grant Jerusalemites building permits, noting that only ten permits have been granted to Jerusalemites since 1967, while it allows the establishment of thousands of Jewish settlement units in the city. He called for a Palestinian, Arab and Islamic act to support the Jerusalemites and their rights and to promote the Palestinian housing projects.
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Cape Henlopen falls to Salesianum 13-5 in boys lacrosse title game
Jun 3rd, 2017 · by Andy Walter · Comments:
DOVER — Just two goals separated Cape Henlopen High and Salesianum the last time they played.
And the Vikings had some history of standing up to the Sals in state championship games.
But second-seeded Sallies was more than up to the challenge on Saturday afternoon, netting the contest’s first three goals before putting away a 13-5 victory over No. 4 Cape in the DIAA boys’ lacrosse state championship game at Dover High.
The Vikings (14-5), who lost to the Sals (15-3) only 10-8 on May 12, were able to stay within striking range of Sallies for a while. Finally, though, the Sals tallied the game’s final four goals to wrap up the program’s ninth state crown.
It was the eighth state championhip in the past 11 seasons under coach Bob Healy, the Dover resident and Capital School District teacher.
Gregory Boyce of Cape Henlopen is congratulated by his teammates after scoring a goal against Salesianum. Special to The Delaware State News/Gary Emeigh
“Cape’s always had a great team,” said Healy. “They’re well-coached, they’ve got tough kids. It’s always really a battle.
“I thought we played smart today. We hustled. We made good decisions, we picked up groundballs. We did a lot of the little things that really led to the win. And we had each other’s backs. I think that was the biggest thing.”
Jacob Brown of Cape Henlopen takes a shot that was blocked by Salesianum goalie Brady Emmi. Special to The Delaware State News/Gary Emeigh
Cape is the last Delaware school to beat Sallies, knocking off the Sals in the 2014 state finals. The Vikings were 2-1 in title games against Sallies, which was playing in the finals for the 11th straight year.
After falling behind 3-0, Cape closed within 5-3 on a goal from Greg Boyce with 6:52 left in the second quarter. But the Sals followed with three unanswered goals to take an 8-3 advantage into halftime.
The Vikings then got back within 9-5 on a goal from Brock Maloomian with 4:39 remaining in the third quarter. But Sallies shut them out the rest of the way.
The five goals matched a season-low for Cape.
“We made a couple mistakes early that gave them fastbreaks — which was similar to the last game,” said Vikings’ coach Mark D’Ambrogi. “Beyond that, I thought we had some opportunities we didn’t capitalize on. It was a little bit a steamtroll effect where we didn’t capitalize and they did. That let them get the momentum.
Viking sophomore Gregory Boyce scores a first quarter goal in DIAA championship game Saturday against Salesianum. Special to The Delaware State News/Gary Emeigh
“They’re a complete team. They’re a good team. We’re a good team but I don’t think you saw our best effort. We handled ourselves in a dignified and sportsmanlike manner and for that I’m very proud.” Maloomian tallied three of Cape’s goals with Boye and Erik-Stephane Stancofski scoring the others. Goalie Brendan Kane made eight saves for the Vikings as both squads took 28 shots.
Sallies’ goalie Brady Emmi had 10 saves, including a couple stops on point-blank shots. Cooper Urban and Bradley Santore netted three goals apiece to lead the Sals.
Under Healy and assistant coach Shawn Plews, another Dover resident and teacher, Sallies has grown into a regional program. The Sals played only three Delaware teams during the regular season, facing squads from Pennslyvania, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Connecticut and Canada.
But Healy said the Sals never consider it easy to claim another state title. On Saturday, Sallies lost probably its best defender, Jimmy Blaszkow, to a foot injury early in the game.
Healy said all season the Sals just tried to go back to their blue-rollar roots.
“They’re young guys and they don’t really know where we were in ‘06 to where we are now,” he said. “Our schedule prepared us for this game today, without a doubt. The guys were ready. They were fired up today.”
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(January 8, 2018 / JNS) The crowd in Jerusalem’s Zion Square is civil as protesters hold up signs decrying alleged government corruption. Standing on the stage, Dr. Yoaz Hendel, with his trademark tussled hair, addresses the crowd.
Hendel is a well-known Israeli journalist who served in the elite IDF naval commando unit. He has a doctorate in military history and writes a regular column for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
He also serves as director of the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS), a conservative think tank based in Jerusalem. He draws his ideology, which can be defined as “liberal nationalism,” from the legacies of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
“Israel as a national state is part of my identity, many aspects of which are derived from Jabotinsky and Begin,” Hendel said in an interview with JNS. “Unfortunately many people are not familiar with Israeli history and don’t realize that it was Jabotinsky who was the voice of liberalism and it was Begin who fought for human rights in the ’50s.”
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He continued, “We believe that Zionism is still the main goal of our generation. We are neo-conservatives, coming from a patriotic position. At the same time, we understand that without democracy and liberalism, we will not be able to maintain this miracle that is the state of Israel.”
Decrying what he says is the perceived notion on both the right and left that they have a monopoly on certain issues, Hendel emphasized, “Zionism doesn’t belong to the right and human rights doesn’t belong to the left.”
To demonstrate this, he brings right-wing activists to Israeli checkpoints to monitor the soldiers and ensure they follow Israeli as well as international laws.
“My goal,” he said, “besides appealing to people abroad, is to speak to my own people here in Israel and educate them. What we are trying to do at [IZS] is break these monopolies.”
On his rally
Hendel said he is worried about how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responding to corruption allegations and for this reason, he organized the Jerusalem rally in December.
As prime minister, Netanyahu should be expressing support for the state institutions, including the police and the courts. Instead, Hendel asserted, Netanyahu is creating the idea that everyone is against him. “It can’t be that a suspect can attack the investigators or the courts,” he said.
“The last two years have me worried,” Hendel lamented. “What started with criticism of the army’s handling of the Elor Azaria affair (regarding an IDF soldier found guilty of killing a terrorist while he was already incapacitated on the ground) has now turned to criticism of the police and the courts with regard to the three corruption cases involving the prime minister. People are starting to relate to the country and its institutions as if it isn’t theirs.”
Another reason Hendel organized his own rally is because he could not relate to the protests in Tel Aviv that have been calling for Netanyahu to be sent to prison. Hendel believes Netanyahu is innocent until proven guilty and said he will wait for the courts to determine that.
To many, the protests appear to be about removing Netanyahu from power, guilty or not. Hendel suggested that while the demonstrations might appear to be only about corruption, “let’s not be naïve. The opposition is involved in these protests and is deepening the divide.”
On Netanyahu
As former director of communications and public diplomacy for Netanyahu, Hendel has seen the prime minister’s bureau from within.
Ideologically, Hendel said he is close to Netanyahu in terms of economy and security. But in terms of how he is running the “tribal” issue—the divide between American Jewry and the Israeli rabbinate, for instance—and the discussion surrounding it, he disagrees.
“Netanyahu is doing a lot of damage,” he said.
Hendel said his biggest worry is internal discord among Jews, which has already led to division here in the past: the ancient Jewish states of Israel and Judah.
On entering politics
The Israeli media is full of speculation over the possibility of a governing coalition breakup and looming elections, and while there has been some talk of Hendel going into politics, he dismissed the idea. Hendel believes he can do more for the country from outside the government rather than serving it from within the Knesset. “I’ve been offered positions with [Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Avigdor] Lieberman, with [Jewish Home party leader Naftali] Bennett. I have no shortage of offers. I want to be able to say what I want and I can only do that from the outside,” he said.
On the Palestinians
Decidedly against the continuation of the failed peace process, Hendel conceded he accepts “the vision of Netanyahu, at least the way I see it.”
Hendel predicts that the Palestinians will ultimately gain maximum political independence, but minimum security independence. They would have a “state minus” or “autonomy plus,” without an army and without a border with Jordan—a situation that the current Israeli government views as too risky.
On the future of Israel
Hendel bemoaned the lack of discourse on the future and vision of Israel due to the insecure political arena in the country. “Before we define borders,” Hendel said, “we need to define our character—who we are, what we are. And what we are is a national state—a liberal and democratic one.”
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Rockin South Austin Since 1955
The legendary Continental Club opened its doors in 1955 and celebrates over 60 years as one the oldest continuously running clubs in all of Austin. It started out as a swanky supper club, then became Austin's first burlesque club and later became a working man's blue collar bar on South Congress that opened every morning at 7am and eventually grew into one of the premier live music venues presenting bands like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Paul Ray and the Cobras, Joe Ely, Bill Carter and the Blame and many more onstage back in the late 70's thru the early 80's. It continued from '83-'87 as a hotbed for new wave/punk and rock n roll with bands like Social Distortion, The Replacements, The True Believers and many others performing. In 1987, the club was renovated and refurbished to make it as close to it's original 1950s version as possible, including the restoration of the original murals that you see on the walls today. From '87 to the present The Continental Club, now a historical landmark is the premier roots rock, traditional country and blues, rockabilly and garage rock club in the country. Roosevelt "The Grey Ghost" Williams kicked things off New Years Eve 1987 and continued to play regular happy hours. Ernie Bowser, TD Bell and the Blues Specialists followed suit with Friday happy hours and are still playing after 3 decades with the next generation onstage with original member Mel Davis. Everyone from Junior Brown to Link Wray to Robert Plant have graced the stage. Folks like Bill Frisell, Southern Culture on the Skids, Alejandro Escovedo, Barfield the Tyrant of Texas Funk, Wanda Jackson, Toni Price, James Burton, Dale Watson, James McMurtry, Jon Dee Graham and the country super group Heybale call The Continental Club home.
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When thinking of fine entertainment, there’s one sure-fired destination that continues to deliver. And, yes, we’re talking about the now famed Continental Club and Gallery. Always a winner!
— Billy F Gibbons
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The Continental GalleryAustin, Texas
Tameca Jones photo © Greg Giannukos
Mike Flanigin on B-3, photo © Michael Corcoran
The Continental Gallery started out as Irving's Steakhouse in the mid 50's providing food for the Continental Club back in the day, and later became an architect's office (who in fact designed the long gone Terrace Motel that sat directly behind the Continental Club and belonged to Willie Nelson at one time and also the Villa Capri Hotel near UT campus). The space became the famous One World Guitars owned and operated by collector and music lover Steve Brown. After Steve passed away, we took over the space and moved a full sized Hammond B-3 organ and Leslie speaker and a ping pong table up above the Continental Club, and began a revolving art show on the walls and named it the Continental Gallery. Over the last 7 years the gallery has been home to the organ stylings of Mr. Mike Flanigin as a host to everyone from Jimmie Vaughan to Derek O'Brien, Denny Freeman, Billy F Gibbons, Jake Langley, Dave Biller and more great guitar players with the incomparable Barry "Frosty" Smith on drums. The Continental Gallery is a little hidden upstairs speakeasy of sorts and an intimate room for enjoying jazz, soul, r&b and singer-songwriter music with the likes of Dr. James Polk and Elias Haslinger, Ephraim Owens, The Lost Counts and James McMurtry holding court. It is as close to having a house concert in your living room as you can get.
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The Continental Club
Dick Dale photo © Jay Lee
Bringing You The Best in Bayou City
In the year 1999, then Austin Continental Club manager Pete Gordon and owner Steve Wertheimer partnered together with Houstonian Bob Schultz to expand the reach of the famous club 150 miles east of Austin into the rockin city of Houston, Texas. Houston's Main Street, south of downtown had gone neglected for many years but showed much potential in the old buildings lining the street. In a vintage 1920's drugstore they set out to rebuild a neighborhood around the new Club. Many of the Continental Club regular bands needed a new home in Houston and Continental Club Houston quickly became the go-to venue for all the great roots rock, rockabilly, gulf coast soul and rock n roll bands that tour through the southwest. Worldwide talent such as Ian McLagan and Ronnie Wood, U2, Bobby Blue Bland, Nick Lowe, Dick Dale and Houston Legends Roy Head, Archie Bell. Barbara Lynn and Little Joe Washington plus many many more grace the stage.
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Big Top Lounge
photo © Jay Lee
"Shoeshine Charley" Miller
The Big Top is the local extension of the Continental Club. It came to life when vintage circus paintings were found preserved on the walls and soon discovered that the building had housed Playhouse Toys, a Houston institution for many years beginning in the 1940’s. A perfect starting point for the new neighborhood lounge.
Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge is the proper name and is a tribute to The Master of Ceremonies "Shoeshine Charley" Miller. Charley moved down to Houston as soon as the new Continental Club was up and running to lend a hand to Pete Gordon and give him hell, as well as keep all the musicians in line. Everyone who knew Charley loved and adored him (unless you stood too close to his shine stand "pitiful" without gettin a shine) His band introductions were legendary and a true honor when Charley would bring them up onstage and butcher their names (just ask "Ali-hondo Escalator" if you don't believe me). Charley’s shoeshine stand watches over the Big Top with pride nightly, and you can always find top-flight entertainment, Peter and James, The Ugly Beats, The Light Rock Express, Nick Gaitan and the Umbrellamen, Allison Fisher and many more.
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Tag Archives: Representation is Important
#FirstTimeISawMe? I’m Still Waiting.
“Representation is important.” You hear this message all the time, just like you do with “Climate change is real” and “gender is fluid”. All of which are equally true, but it sometimes feels like they’ve lost their gravitas, merely being used as buzzwords to keep the message in the zeitgeist.
Thankfully, there are initiatives that come around that remind you that these aren’t just slogans sparking political debate – they’re real issues that greatly effect society now and for future generations to come. In this particular case, one such initiative is the #FirstTimeISawMe campaign, which encourages people to reveal which character first represented them in the media.
The hashtag is a collaboration between Netflix and all-around cool organization Black Girl Nerds. They released this video earlier this month, and hundreds of people took to Twitter to share their own firsts.
BGN had an amazing chance to collaborate with @netflix for #FirstTimeISawMe, where we chat about the first time we saw ourselves in media. pic.twitter.com/Y0nAApQ6tO
— Black Girl Nerds (@BlackGirlNerds) August 1, 2017
Answers ranged from older TV characters:
#FirstTimeISawMe Sulu from "Star Trek". An Asian man piloting a GD space ship. No wonder I got an engineering degree. https://t.co/15nc3E5LF3
— Eric R. Umali (@dark_wesley) August 1, 2017
Being a #scifi fan, Seeing suave, charismatic Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian in the #StarWars sequels #FirstTimeISawMe pic.twitter.com/QWEy3mhosp
— The 7th Matrix (@The7thMatrix) August 1, 2017
Gotta be Cherry on Punky Brewster. Her friendship with Punky was like the one I had with my white best friend. #FirstTimeISawMe pic.twitter.com/E2JpkejrBK
— Nikki Trufant-Wade (@NTDubb) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe was @SoniaMManzano on Sesame Street pic.twitter.com/KLNg2ZHT1U
— Sofia Quintero (@sofiaquintero) August 1, 2017
John Leguizamo as ChiChi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. A Nuyorican femme queen! https://t.co/btyOQ7DbqI
— Mathew Rodriguez (@mathewrodriguez) August 1, 2017
To those that resonate with a lot of millennials:
Telly on Salute Your Shorts! #firsttimeisawme pic.twitter.com/QznymjA5HW
— ᴊᴇɴɴ✘ғᴇʀ🎧 (@jennofthewired) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe was @4everBrandy as Cinderella. Had such a positive impact on my childhood and still to this day tbh. pic.twitter.com/rpve7sAa78
— صفية Safiya (@Saafxo) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe was w Princess Jasmine. A pseudo Arabic cartoon character despite me being South Asian. pic.twitter.com/E7EfYA0dBX
— missing the waffles (@aviviavai) August 1, 2017
The #FirstTimeISawMe was Fiona in Shrek. I know she wasn't an ogre the whole movie/series but I still had a fat princess to look up to. 💚 https://t.co/3yMTysPeRW
— 🌤 (@JaceFaceInSpace) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe was on Gullah Gullah island, seeing a beautiful, supportive, functional Black family gave me hope pic.twitter.com/ogG3YzFJVl
— Queen Kay (@kaylagocrazyy) August 1, 2017
#firsttimeisawme outside of Stand and Deliver was Carmen in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Mixed girl with parental issues. pic.twitter.com/5JGVN3NBwk
— Ace in Space ⚡🌈 (@KdoubleP) August 1, 2017
The #FirstTimeISawMe was in the Culture Shock episode of The Proud Family. I'll never forget how emotional it made me at age 10. pic.twitter.com/mYrGYmTtv1
— Fatima (@fatimapuri) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe tbh Willow Danielle Rosenberg totally changed the game for me as a young lesbian goth, still one of my favorite characters. pic.twitter.com/xNTbxcOl2m
— Brooklyn Birzin (@BrooklynBirzin) August 3, 2017
To the contemporary:
#FirstTimeISawMe When Jane's grandmother spoke in Spanish and she answered in English. I cried! pic.twitter.com/jyPQO63RPz
— Latinx Nerds (@comosedicenerd) August 1, 2017
Rocky from Shake It Up. She was thesmart black girl that I totally related to and I was so happy I had her! #FirstTimeISawMe @BlackGirlNerds pic.twitter.com/OCnryaTNbo
— ThatBlerdyKid. (@KingCharXOXO) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe #CerebralPalsy is unique to each person, but @Speechless_ABC articulated my life better than anything else ever has. pic.twitter.com/u4JaCdvDz7
— Rachel Wendte (@rkwendte) August 3, 2017
And #FirstTimeISawMe as an adult. Afro latina with an attitude #LimeHeightsAdjacent @NayaRivera 😍 pic.twitter.com/i20Ln3IIEk
— Kayla (@Maria_Giesela) August 1, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe This is for my mom. It was Moana. My mom left Samoa at 15 & was the daughter of a chief. Her childhood was brought to life.
— aaammmyyy (@ohhnoitsamyy) August 2, 2017
#FirstTimeISawMe 2015 Regina King played a Black Muslim woman on primetime TV…and got an award for it!! #blackgirlmagic @ReginaKing pic.twitter.com/UM2gvfZz3a
— Sofia the First. (@PhiloSofiar) August 3, 2017
For a lot of people, coming up with an answer to this is viral hashtag is probably easy. Especially if you’re white. And a male. In which case, you probably haven’t thought beyond your answer to a simple question. But when I decided I should chime in too, I realized (or just became completely mindful of) the fact that there hasn’t truly been one character that I felt fully represented me as a female Filipino-American. I was having a difficult time coming up with an honest answer.
I’ve touched on this before in my Fresh Off The Boat post (why aren’t you watching it yet), but the first time I remember seeing an *Asian woman* on TV was in 1994, when Margaret Cho starred in All-American Girl, a short-lived sitcom that was cancelled after one season.
Fun fact: There was a plot line in Fresh Off the Boat in which Emery and Evan want to become actors, but their reluctant mom Jessica (played by the brilliant Constance Wu) says, “You’re not going to become actors. You think they’re going to put two Chinese boys on TV? Maybe if there’s a nerdy friend or a magical thing where someone wanders into a Chinatown, but no.”
Cut to the end credits when they’re watching an episode of All-American Girl, and Emery quips at his mom, “So, no Asians on TV?”
The show centered on U.S.-born Margaret (Cho) who lives with her Korean-American family in San Francisco. Her much more Westernized POV on life is in stark contrast to the traditional, Eastern values her family has, and of course, comedy ensues. Sure, I too am a first-generation child who has arguably taken up American culture more-so than my parents, but I’m not Korean.
This problem kept coming up anytime I’d try to see myself in any of my favorite TV or movie characters. I speak to my parents in English when they talk to me in Tagalog like Jane does with Abuela in Jane the Virgin, but I’m not Venezuelan. I enjoy hip-hop and grew up obsessing over music like Eddie on Fresh Off the Boat, but I’m not a Taiwanese male. I so hardcore related to Dev’s dynamic with his parents in Master of None, but I’m not an Indian male wannabe actor. If you took Lane Kim’s upbringing in a religious household (and tbh, Lorelai’s hot/cold relationship with her parents and knack for pop culture), you’d be pretty close to representing me – but I continue to not be Korean.
In fact, the only example I could come up with of even seeing Filipinos on TV at all is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – and that show just ended its second season. Overall, the show is superb and speaks to my interests of romance, comedy, tragedy, and musical theater, but moreover, for the first time, I saw a Filipino as a main character. And one that didn’t just ignore the fact that he’s Filipino. Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) isn’t even a goofy sidekick. He’s the hot guy who is the one with the “crazy ex-girlfriend”. His name is literally in every episode title.
I already loved the show as soon as I finished the pilot, but what really turned the tide for me was the 6th episode titled “My First Thanksgiving with Josh”, written by comedy writer/actor and Filipino-American, Rene Gube (he also plays Father Brah). In this ep, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) manages to get herself invited to Josh’s family Thanksgiving, despite the fact he’s still engaged to Valencia, who the Chans do not like that much. Because of this, Rebecca wants to impress his family as much as she can, which is why she teaches herself some basic Tagolog while cooking a traditional Filipino dish called Dinuguan (a stew with pork blood that I even refuse to eat).
Not sure what I was expecting, but I don’t think I ever expected to see a white actress learning Tagalog while making a Filipino dish on network TV. That is not a thing I ever expected would happen. But then the episode continues, and we meet the rest of his family including his dad, mom (played by Amy Hill, who was also the grandma on All-American Girl), and sisters Jayma and Jastenity (who have perfectly ridiculous Filipino names). Not to mention there’s an entire ROOM full of Filipinos, or Asians that act like they’re Filipino at least, eating a mix of American and Filipino food on Thanksgiving, just like I did growing up.
“I saved you the pork adobo and turkey skin, anak (child/something my parents and aunts and older relatives still call me to this day)” Mama Chan to Josh
Plus there’s the other line that Mrs. Chan says to Rebecca in yet another slight to Valencia, by saying, “We are so thankful God sent you to us”, a precursor for when Mrs. Chan later invites Rebecca to mass that same night. This isn’t a thing that I personally did with my family, but I will say that I grew up going to Filipino Bible Study, was super active in my Protestant church, and went to Catholic school my entire life. So yeah, my parents love the Lord and I understand the Chan’s church on Thanksgiving tradition.
Later in the season, we’re introduced to Josh’s aunt, played by Queen of the Philippines Lea Salonga, and we get to see even more of the Filipino culture when Josh’s sister Jayma gets married. The men, including Jayma’s Jewish husband, all wear traditional shirts called Barong Tagalog, which are lightweight and embroidered and worn at formal gatherings. Again, never in my life have I seen so many barongs on American TV. I never could have imagined this.
So all this to say, that’s what I tweeted. I said I’m still waiting for the one person in media that I can relate to wholeheartedly, but the Chans are the closest thing I got. And lo and behold, they responded:
I love being a Chan sister ❤️ #FirstTimeISawMe cc: @CorynMabalot @VRodriguezIII https://t.co/MrCQtcwAzb
— Tess Paras (@TessParas) August 2, 2017
Dude same https://t.co/JqgkiIZeoc
— Coryn Mabalot (@CorynMabalot) August 2, 2017
Vinny also tweeted back and I unexpectedly started a Twitter convo between the Chan family. #FangirlGoals, amirite?
But through my own delve into how Filipinos/Asians/Females are represented in the media and seeing all the responses from other POCs on Twitter, it’s just a reminder that we still have so far to go. There are so many more stories to be told, especially in America, where not only are we a melting pot, but minorities are lit’rally taking over the country. According to a 2015 U.S. Census Bureau report, by 2020, “more than half of the nation’s children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group.” By 2060, the minority population is expected to rise to 56%, while the foreign-born population will reach 19% (that stat was 13% in 2014). Plus, the population of bi-racial, or “two or more races” is projected to be the fastest-growing in the next four decades.
If this is the direction the U.S. is heading, doesn’t it just make sense for the media we consume to reflect the diverse makeup of this country? The more we see POCs in the media, the less likely we as a nation are to be culturally insensitive and racist. Just look at the LGBTQ community. Over the past two decades, the mere presence of characters like Willow and Ellen and Will Truman and Jack McFarland, Cam and Mitchell, have become part of pop culture history and “normalized gays” for those in the South or midwest or any area in the U.S. where being gay is considered against God’s will.
Perhaps most importantly, it’s the accurate portrayals of this community that have helped society embrace the real life gays and lesbians and transgendered folks we meet at work or in the grocery store. The same goes for all the POCs listed above – Brandy proved that she, too, could be a Disney princess in Cinderella (and get the handsome Filipino prince), America Ferrera inspired Latinas in both Gotta Kick It Up! and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as a smart, confident young lady, and Regina King showed in American Crime that wearing a hijab might just be a superpower to become a badass who never gives up on seeking justice. These characters don’t fall into negative stereotypes that have long been shown in film and TV, which can subsequently give viewers a false sense of these minority groups. If you’re a white woman living in a small town in Alabama where the population is 95% white and all you see are black people on TV who are gangsters and drug dealers, I’m going to assume there’s at least a small part of you (if not whole) that believes this stereotype to be true of all black folks. Whether you realize it or not, the negative portrayal of minorities leads to invisible (and possibly outright) racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., which is why we need to keep having conversations like #FirstTimeISawMe.
Not only do we get to see others’ personal experiences with representation in media, but it’s a reminder that when you forget about skin color for just one moment, these are people just like the people in your bubble, who are going through similar trials and tribulations. That’s not to say we should be completely colorblind, but rather encourage the acceptance and appreciation of all cultures, no matter how different they are from our own.
I’m grateful that I live in a time where I can see Filipinos (and minorities as a whole) being portrayed in an accurate light on screen, and it gives me positive reinforcement that we aren’t an afterthought. That we, too, have a place in this society, despite what the horrible actions and hate crimes of other Americans may say. It provides an intangible sense of belonging that no travel ban or affirmative action law can change. It gives us the ability to open up the dialogue and insist that there is always room for representation of all people on TV and film. Despite knowing all this, we can always do better. We have to do better. And we have the power to do so. If you’re a storyteller, tell your unique story to the masses. Pen a script. Direct a movie. Write a blog post. Yeah, Representation Is Important. And who better to represent us than, well, us?
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WSJ Editorial Board Warns Stock Market Will Fall As Navarro Rises In The White House
Thomas Phippen Reporter
March 12, 2018 10:01 AM ET
The elevation of Peter Navarro to the White House National Economic Council could have adverse effects on the American economy, according to The Wall Street Journal editorial board.
“If Mr. Navarro gets the job, cash in your stock-market profits,” the editorial board wrote Sunday. President Donald Trump is looking to nominate someone to lead the council after Gary Cohn resigned earlier in March, and neither of the rumored candidates look good to the nation’s top business journal.
Christopher Liddell, another potential candidate for the position, inspires slightly more hope than Navarro, according to WSJ’s editors. Though he “probably also has enough executive skill to manage a fair policy-making process,” Liddell, who is currently the White House director of strategic initiatives, hasn’t made much progress with his present portfolio, which includes reforming Air Traffic Control systems.
Navarro, a former supporter of Hillary Clinton who now espouses Trump-style protectionism and supports the recently announced tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, would be an even worse choice, according to WSJ.
No one knows what effects the highly unpopular tariffs will have on the economy. Trump wants the import duties to promote fairer trade and decrease trade deficits with other nations, particularly China, which he and Navarro agree has been taking advantage of open trade with America for years.
“Since China joined the [World Trade Organization] in 2001, over 70,000 American factories have closed, the average median household income has actually fallen and we now owe trillions of dollars to China,” Navarro told the Los Angeles Times in 2016, after he had become an adviser to Trump’s campaign.”Fully half of our annual trade deficit in goods is with the biggest trade cheater on the planet. This is causality, not correlation.”
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The strong stock market gains and other economic improvements in the first year of Trump’s presidency are at risk of fading, the WSJ editorial board argues, as the tariffs take effect. If Trump refuses to exempt certain countries from the tariff, it could escalate retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports.
“The U.S. economy in the last year has entered a faster growth phase precisely because Mr. Trump has promoted the classic free-market remedies of deregulation and lower tax rates to spur more investment and hiring,” the board wrote. “Mr. Liddell sounds like he has the wrong instincts to sustain better times.”
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Kate Middleton Turns Heads In Striking Green And Blue Tartan Dress
REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
Kate Middleton definitely turned heads Tuesday when she stepped out in a striking green and blue tartan coat dress during a trip to Dundee, Scotland, for the Victoria & Albert museum opening.
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who are known as the Duke and Duchess of Strathearn in Scotland, during a visit to officially open the V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum on January 29, 2019 in Dundee, Scotland. (Photo by Jane Barlow – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge greets the crowd after visiting the “V&A Dundee” museum in Dundee, Scotland, January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
The Duchess of Cambridge looked just as gorgeous as ever in the long-sleeve number that hit above her knees, as she greeted crowds of people lining the streets to meet the members of the royal family. (RELATED: 20 Reasons To Celebrate Pippa Middleton’s Birthday [SLIDESHOW])
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge meets children during visit to the “V&A Dundee”, Scotland’s first design museum, in Dundee, Scotland, January 29, 2019. Jane Barlow/Pool via REUTERS
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits a community centre in Dundee to meet with employees and their families from the local Michelin tyre factory which is to cease production, in Dundee, Scotland, January 29, 2019. Ian Rutherford/Pool via REUTERS
She completed the great look with loose hair, a bright green scarf and black high heels, as she joined Prince William. The two met with “representatives from the Young Peoples Collective, who design programs, and lead activities and tours of the Museum,” per a tweet from Kensington Palace. (RELATED: 18 Times Meghan Markle Already Looked Like Royalty [SLIDESHOW])
At @VADundee The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined representatives from the Young Peoples Collective, who design programmes, and lead activities and tours of the Museum. #RoyalVisitDundee pic.twitter.com/La5Cer7AL4
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) January 29, 2019
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and director Philip Long visit the “V&A Dundee”, Scotland’s first design museum, in Dundee, Scotland, January 29, 2019. Jane Barlow/Pool via REUTERS
Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit the “V&A Dundee”, Scotland’s first design museum, in Dundee, Scotland, January 29, 2019. Jane Barlow/Pool via REUTERS
“I hope that @VADundee will serve as an inspiration to others by showing how great things can be achieved when different communities pull together and work for the common good.” — The Duchess of Cambridge #RoyalVisitDundee,” the royal household tweeted earlier, along with a great picture of Middleton looking fabulous.
“I hope that @VADundee will serve as an inspiration to others by showing how great things can be achieved when different communities pull together and work for the common good.” — The Duchess of Cambridge #RoyalVisitDundee pic.twitter.com/K0CzBqIvlx
She truly shines this time of year. Check out some of her greatest looks to date here.
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Alleged 700m fraud: Ize-Iyamu slams APC, recalls ordeal in prison
Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the 2016 Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said the All Progressives Congress(APC), has betrayed the trust of Nigerians who voted them into power by infesting them with hunger, killings and untold hardship.
Ize-Iyamu, made the allegation at the Solidarity Rally held in his honour and other party members who were recently detained and released from the prison over an alleged N700 million fraud in Benin City.
Ize-Iyamu said the APC- led government is full of deceit and hypocrisy and has also promoted corruption across the length and breadth of the country noting that the party failed to purge itself of its sinful act but has resulted to pointing accusing fingers at others.
“They said, we collected money for presidential election. Who does not spend money for election? So APC did not spend money for election. They said if you give anybody more than N5 million you have guilty of money laundering. I want APC to swear that they did not give their LGA chairmen or their ward chairmen money above N5 million.
“The hypocrisy, lies and the deceit is too much. I want to tell you that corruption is worse in Nigeria. The insecurity, Fulani herdsmen are killing people, you cannot even go to the farms again and they want us to still vote for that government”, he said.
He said it was good that the APC was given the opportunity to prove their worth to Nigerians stressing that if they were not given the chance, one would have concluded that they should have been the Saviour that the country never had.
“Let me tell you, this government has failed. But you know, it was good that they came because if they had not come we will not know that they will fail so badly. And in federal they have failed, in every state they have failed and God is saying they must not return.
“They must not return. I want all of you to get ready because this country belongs to us. All of us cannot leave this country for abroad and all of will not die today. By the grace of God, our enemies will die and we will be here to bury them. We must rescue our people. We must rescue our country”, he said.
On his part, the state PDP chairman, Dan Orbih, admonished party faithful to start the 2019 campaign now by letting the people know that the election is for the survival of the nation and democracy.
Dan Orbih who was represented by the party’s publicity secretary, Chris Nehikhare, said ” PDP built democracy and good governance in Nigeria for 16 years, but APC, in three years has destroyed everything. We should not allow that and the only way to do that is to get your PVCs and vote them out,”.
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Errol Morris’ wonderful portrait of Cambridge photographer Elsa Dorfman
On July 27, 2017 July 27, 2017 By Dan KennedyIn Culture, Photography
Elsa Dorfman. Photo copyright © 2010 by Tim Kennedy. All rights reserved.
Last weekend we had a chance to see “The B-Side,” Errol Morris’ wonderful documentary about the Cambridge portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman. I know Elsa through her husband, Harvey Silverglate, my friend and occasional collaborator. She also once took our family’s picture for a Boston Phoenix article. Our son, Tim, took Elsa’s photo a few years ago when he was attending photography school.
Dorfman is warm and outgoing, and her photos reflect that. Now mostly retired, she is best known for her work with a large-format Polaroid camera that takes 20-by-24-inch photos. And though she is known for her portraits of artists such as Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan, she’s also taken photos of literally hundreds of ordinary families who found their way to her studio. In the film, she comes across as intensely proud and self-aware, yet still the same person who once sold her photos out of a shopping cart in Harvard Square.
Here’s some backstory that the film does not explain: Several years ago Morris wrote a book about Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the former Army doctor serving a life prison term after being convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and young children. The book brought Morris into contact with Silverglate and Dorfman, as Silverglate is a member of MacDonald’s legal team. As Morris’ book, “A Wilderness of Error,” clearly shows, MacDonald did not receive a fair trial and may actually be innocent. (I reviewed the book for BookForum.)
Morris is a master storyteller, and Dorfman is an ideal subject. As Richard Brody wrote recently in The New Yorker, Dorfman is “a remarkable presence, a cinematic character whose comments distill a lifetime of wisdom, self-awareness, frustration, and survivor’s pride.” Go see it.
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On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for public comment (the Proposed Rule) introducing a regulatory regime to govern the receivership of national banks that are not insured (uninsured banks) by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). See OCC, Receiverships for Uninsured National Banks, 81 Fed. Reg. 62,835, 62,835 (Sept. 13, 2016) (the Proposed Rule). While the Proposed Rule would apply to the existing pool of 52 uninsured national trust banks, its broader impact would be to establish a receivership regime that would support the creation of new forms of limited purpose, uninsured banks for the financial technology (FinTech) industry. The Proposed Rule would not apply to uninsured federal branches and agencies of foreign banks under the International Banking Act of 1978. Proposed Rule at 62,838.
Prior to the Great Depression, the OCC exercised receivership authority over national banks, and a significant body of common law developed regarding those receiverships. During the period 1933 through 1989, that authority was transferred to the FDIC. Following the passage of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991, however, the reference to the FDIC acting as receiver for uninsured banks pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act was removed, leaving the OCC to appoint receivers pursuant to its general authority under the National Bank Act. As the OCC acknowledges, it does not enjoy under its statutory grant the sweeping receivership powers of the FDIC. Id. at 62,836.
While the OCC has not previously acted to formalize that authority through regulation, its consideration of limited purpose, uninsured charters for FinTech companies has led it to consider the receivership framework for such entities in greater detail. As the OCC says in the Proposed Rule:
As part of the agency’s initiative on responsible innovation in the Federal banking system, the OCC is considering how best to implement a regulatory framework that is receptive to responsible innovation, such as advances in financial technology. In conjunction with this effort, the OCC is considering whether a special purpose charter could be an appropriate entity for the delivery of banking services in new ways. For this reason, the OCC requests comment on the utility of the receivership structure in the proposed rule for receivership of such a special purpose bank. Proposed Rule at 62,837 (footnote omitted).
The Proposed Rule is brief. The OCC’s grounds for appointing a receiver, which could be the OCC or another governmental entity or third party, would parallel the FDIC’s with respect to an insured bank and would require public notice of the receiver’s appointment. Unlike an FDIC receivership, however, the administrative claims process would not be exclusive — claimants could submit their claims for judicial review in addition to, or as an alternative to, filing a claim with the OCC. Claims disallowed by the OCC could be brought to a court for de novo review. This potential for dual tracking creates some significant practical challenges for managing such a receivership.
Approved claims and administrative expenses would be paid out of the proceeds of the assets of the uninsured bank. The receiver’s powers and duties in furtherance of winding up an uninsured bank would include “taking possession of the books and records of the bank, collecting on debts and claims owed to the bank, selling or compromising bad or doubtful debts (with court approval), and selling the bank’s real and personal property (also with court approval).” See Proposed Rule at 62,841. Claimants holding a valid security interest would be treated as secured up to the value of the collateral; amounts in excess would be unsecured. The Proposed Rule recognizes banks’ set-off rights against claimants, with the net difference allowable as a claim. See Proposed Rule at 62,839–40; see also 12 U.S.C. §§ 193–194 (2012).
In addition, the receiver may “close the uninsured bank’s fiduciary and custodial appointments, or transfer such accounts to a successor fiduciary or custodian under 12 CFR 9.16 or other applicable Federal law.” See id. at 62,840–41. The Proposed Rule also incorporates, without specification, reference to the general powers of a receiver under the National Bank Act and common law, which the OCC asserts include the authority to repudiate certain contracts, including executory contracts, contracts that involve fraud or misrepresentation or contracts that are “contrary to public policy.” See id. at 62,842–43.
Payments from the assets of the receivership estate would be made in the following priority: (1) administrative expenses of the receiver; (2) unsecured creditors; (3) subordinated unsecured creditors; and (4) shareholders, ratably in accordance with their shares. In order to balance the need to quickly distribute funds for proven claims, but reserve sufficient funds to pay other claims that may be subject to a somewhat drawn-out dispute process, the OCC proposes that the receiver make “ratable dividends from available receivership funds … for claims that have been proved to the OCC’s satisfaction or adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction …. periodically, at the discretion of the OCC, as the receiver liquidates the assets of the uninsured bank.” Proposed Rule at 62,842. The OCC specifically seeks comment on this approach.
Pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 197, a receivership terminates when all claims have been paid in full and any residual amounts have been distributed ratably to shareholders. At that point, shareholders may vote to continue oversight by the OCC or to end the receivership and appoint a liquidating agent. The OCC seeks comment on whether to contemplate other termination circumstances “such as when there are no receivership assets remaining after completion of receivership activities.” See id. at 62,842–43.
In sum, the Proposed Rule is an important first step in the process to enable the OCC to support financial innovation through a limited purpose, uninsured charter targeted for the FinTech industry. Although the Proposed Rule is understandably broadly worded in light of the inapplicability of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, entities contemplating such a charter should consider whether clarification of any of the provisions of the Proposed Rule would help avoid unnecessary ambiguity that may impair the ability of such uninsured banks to contract with third parties who would be at risk in an OCC receivership.
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A Time Delay for the Cluster‐lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112
J. Fohlmeister, University of Heidelberg
C. S. Kochanek, Ohio State University - Main Campus
E. E. Falco, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
J. Wambsganss, University of Heidelberg
N. Morgan, Ohio State University - Main Campus
C.W. Morgan, United States Naval Academy
E.O. Ofek, California Institute of Technology
D. Maoz, Tel Aviv University
C.R. Keeton, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
J.C. Barentine, Apache Point Observatory
G. Dalton, University of Oxford
J. Dembicky, Apache Point Observatory
W. Ketzeback, Apache Point Observatory
R. McMillan, Apache Point Observatory
C.S. Peters, Dartmouth College
We present 426 epochs of optical monitoring data spanning 1000 days from 2003 December to 2006 June for the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112. The time delay between the A and B images is tBA . 38: 42: 0 days (2 . 4) in the expected sense that B leads A and the overall time ordering is C-B-A-D-E. The measured delay invalidates all published models. The models probably failed because they neglected the perturbations from cluster member galaxies. Models including the galaxies can fit the data well, but conclusions about the clustermass distribution should await themeasurement of the longer, and less substructure sensitive, delays of the C and D images. For these images, a delay of tCB ’ 681 15 days is plausible but requires confirmation, while delays of tCB > 560 days andtAD > 800 days are required.We clearly detect microlensing of the A/B images, with the delay-corrected flux ratios changing frommB mA . 0: 44 0: 01 mag in the first season to 0: 29 0: 01 mag in the second season and 0: 32 0: 01 mag in the third season.
Fohlmeister, J.; Kochanek, C. S.; Falco, E. E.; Wambsganss, J.; Morgan, N.; Morgan, C.W.; Ofek, E.O.; Maoz, D.; Keeton, C.R.; Barentine, J.C.; Dalton, G.; Dembicky, J.; Ketzeback, W.; McMillan, R.; and Peters, C.S., "A Time Delay for the Cluster‐lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112" (2007). Open Dartmouth: Faculty Open Access Articles. 2515.
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Spring Is Here: Campus IT Teams Can Get to Work
EdTech offers advice for embarking on summer tech upgrades, from outdoor LANs to data center optimization and everything in between.
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Ryan has been a magazine and newspaper editor for 18 years, with the last 12 covering a variety of bases for CDW’s family of tech magazines. As Editor in Chief, he works on developing editorial strategy and is always on the lookout for new writing talent and sharing great stories with the IT world. In his spare time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his family, biking and obsessively following Iowa Hawkeye sports and Cubs baseball.
Summer is right around the corner, and while students are focused on summer school, internships and the beach, higher education IT teams are putting their plans into action and working on those much-needed upgrades and replacements.
To help support those initiatives, this issue of EdTech: Focus on Higher Education offers some advice and expertise on planning and optimizing campus enterprise networks and data centers, from information on new endpoint security solutions to getting started with software-defined storage. It also provides information about how colleges and universities such as Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., are incorporating hybrid cloud environments and tips for properly deploying an outdoor LAN.
If your focus is more on the classroom, discover how institutions such as the University of Maryland University College and Louisiana Delta Community College are bringing the world to their students with new networking strategies and unified communications tools — without the need for numerous IT team members.
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Apr 11, 2019 - Apr 12, 2019 | 8:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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The New Hazlett Theater continues its sixth season of Community Supported Art with the premiere of a new contemporary dance work, Dolina, by artist, dancer, and choreographer Kasia Reilly on April 11th and 12th. In this immersive multi-disciplinary dance performance hope propels four characters through a surreal and hostile world. The players of Dolina are brought together by fate, transform, and rely on one another as they find the inner strength to keep pushing forward.
New Hazlett Theater Community Supported Art:
Every year the New Hazlett Theater provides five local artists with a year-long residency to create a new performance. From dance to music, original plays to experimental animation, our CSA artists push the boundaries of performance at every show. We give them access to people, space, tools, and connections to help them create thought-provoking new work. Our CSA introduces you to the freshest, most original artists in town.
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Cardinal Energy Group Acquires 2,800 Net Eagle Ford Acres
Gonzales County Eagle Ford Shale Map
Dublin, OH-based Cardinal Energy Group is buying 2,800 net Eagle Ford acres from Hamburg Germany-based Nordic Oil USA 1 LLLP for an undisclosed amount of money.
The acreage is located in Gonzales and Wilson Counties in the oil and liquids-rich window of the play. The acquisition will include operating interests in ten producing wells and one salt water disposal well. The deal also secures production equipment, leases and drilling permits plus other assets needed to operate the wells.
We have been diligently looking for an entry into the Eagle Ford Shale formation for the past year.
— Cardinal CEO, Timothy Crawford
According to officials, the newly acquired oil and gas properties are currently producing from the Anacacho and Austin Chalk formations, and also include deep rights in approximately 1,500 net acres, for development of the Eagle Ford Shale and Buda formations. Officials also say other companies operating adjacent and in proximity to this acreage have horizontal wells coming in at 3,000 to 4,000 b/d oil. During the first quarter, EOG Resources, a major Eagle Ford producer, revealed strong initial production rates for two of its Gonzales County wells of 4,940 and 4,195 b/d oil.
According to its company website, Cardinal's focus is on reclaiming reserves from abandoned or minimally producing oilfields. The company indicates their primary focus is on Texas. Currently, there are 47,000 inactive and “orphan” wells in the state, according to the Texas Railroad Commission.
Read more at cardinalenergygroup.com
In News Tags Acreage Deals, Cardinal Energy Group, Gonzales County TX, Nordic Oil USA 1 LLLP, Wilson County TX
Penn Virginia Acquires Eagle Ford Acreage - $45 Million
Penn Virginia Eagle Ford Acreage Map
Penn Virginia Corp. announced in July of 2014 that it will acquire ~13,125 (11,660 net) Eagle Ford acres in Lavaca County, TX for $45-million.
The transaction will bring the company's total Eagle Ford position to 142,500 (101,800 net) acres. The newly acquired assets are located next to the company's Shiner area. Officials estimate ~150 gross potential drilling locations from the acquired acreage, most of which will be prospective for the Upper Eagle Ford Shale.
Recently, Penn-Virginia stated it planned to further expand its Eagle Ford position to a minimum of 100,000 net acres. With this most recent acquisition, the company will reach its target goal.
Read more: Penn Virginia Seeks to Expand Eagle Ford Position
This acquisition is an optimal fit with our current acreage position in Lavaca County, and we believe is primarily prospective in the Upper Eagle Ford Shale, but could also have potential in the Lower Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk.
— Penn Virginia CEO, H. Baird Whitehead.
Penn-Virginia has been growing aggressively in the Eagle Ford. During the first quarter alone, the company added 6,400 net acres at a cost of $3,000 per acre.
Closing for the recently acquired Lavaca County acreage will be in August of 2014.
In News Tags Acreage Deals, Lavaca County TX, Penn Virginia Corp
Eagle Ford Deal Closings - June 2014
July 1, 2014 Kirk Eggleston
Freeport-McMoRan Eagle Ford Acreage Map
Several significant Eagle Ford acquisitions were announced in April and May of 2014. In June of 2014, the details of these acreage deal closings were announced by the buyers, which included Encana Corporation, Sanchez Energy, Panhandle Oil & Gas and Warwick Energy.
Encana Corporation
The Encana deal was by far the largest. The company completed its acquisition of ~45,000 net Eagle Ford acres located in the oil window of Karnes, Wilson and Atascosa Counties from Freeport McMoran on June 20, 2014 for $3.1 billion.
In the first quarter of 2014, the acreage produced 53,000 boe/d. Company officials estimate a drilling inventory of more than 400 locations. The company plans to update its production guidance in its next quarterly report on July 24, 2014.
Read more about the deal: Encana Purchases Eagle Ford Assets from Freeport McMoran
Dimmit County Eagle Ford Shale Map
Sanchez Energy announced on June 30, 2014 that it closed its massive Eagle Ford acreage deal with Royal Dutch Shell for 106,000 net Eagle Ford acres.
Total consideration for the acquisition was approximately $553.5 million, comprised of the $639 million purchase price less approximately $85.5 million in normal and customary closing adjustments. The transaction was funded from cash on hand from a portion of the net proceeds from the company's previously issued $850 million senior unsecured 6.125% notes due in 2023.
Read more about the deal: Sanchez Nearly Doubles Eagle Ford Acreage in $639 Million Deal with Shell
Panhandle Oil & Gas
Panhandle Oil & Gas announced the closing of its Eagle Ford acquisition on June 17, 2014. The deal includes a 16% non-operated working interest in a 11,100 leasehold acres (1,775 net) block that company officials say is held largely by production with 63 producing wells.
Net to the company's interest, May 2014 production in the newly acquired acreage was 825 boe/d , with an 80% oil cut. The property is currently being developed with a one drilling rig program by the operator, Oklahoma City-based Cheyenne Petroleum Company.
Read more about the deal: Panhandle Oil and Gas Acquires Interest in Eagle Ford Acreage for $80 Million
Warwick Energy
Read more about the deal: Warwick Energy Buys Eagle Ford's R/C Sugarkane for Undisclosed Amount
Closing details: Warwick Energy Closes Deal for 7,300 Net Eagle Ford Acres
In News Tags Acquisitions, Acreage Deals, Encana Corporation, Freeport-McMoRan, Panhandle Oil & Gas, Sanchez Energy, Shell, Warwick Energy
Sundance Energy Acquires 11,000 Net Eagle Ford Acres for $33-Million
May 27, 2014 Kirk Eggleston
Sundance Energy's Eagle Ford Acreage
In late May of 2014, Australian-based Sundance Energy announced the acquisition of 11,000 net acres in Dimmit and Maverick counties for $33-million and a four gross Eagle Ford well drilling commitment to the seller. The deal adds 115 gross (69 net) locations to the company's Eagle Ford drilling inventory and approximately 200 boe/d in production. Sundance now has approximately 19,500 net Eagle Ford acres covering 295 gross (196 net) drilling locations.
This acquisition is the company's second strategic move to add Eagle Ford acreage to its portfolio in just over a month's time. In late April 2014, the company announced the completion of a lease acquisition and development agreement for Eagle Ford acreage in McMullen County. That deal added 4,800 net acres and 50 gross locations to the Sundance’s Eagle Ford drilling inventory.
Read more: Sundance Energy Completes Ealge Ford Lease Acquisition and Development Agreement
Sundance Building a Core Eagle Ford Operating Area
In late May of 2014, Sundance also announced the sale of its acreage in the DJ Basin in Colorado for $116-million. The company is shifting its assets to build a core operating area in the Eagle Ford, and a portion of the funds from this sale will be re-allocated to the play.
This sale of a non-core project allows the company to not only crystalise an attractive return on its DJ Basin investment, but provides a significant opportunity to reinvest capital into accelerating growth in our core projects in the Eagle Ford and Mississippian/Woodford.
— Sundance's Managing Dir., Eric McCrady
undance's most recent acquisition in Dimmit County is for a 60% working interest, and a 30% working interest in the Maverick County acreage. Dimmit County wells are prospective for the Eagle Ford formation, while the Maverick County wells are targeting the Georgetown formation.
We are very excited to add a second core Eagle Ford area to our development inventory. Dimmit County has seen significant activity and strong results from some of the leading Eagle Ford operators such as Anadarko.
— McCrady
In the purchase and sale agreement, Sundance secured an option to buy the remaining 40% interest in the Dimmit County acreage, and an additional 20% interest in the Maverick County acreage. Sundance did not disclose any information about the seller. Closing is expected in late June or early July of 2014.
Read more at sundanceenergy.com.au
In News Tags Acreage Deals, Dimmit County TX, Maverick County TX, Sundance Energy
Memorial Production Partners Buys Eagle Ford Assets in $173 Million Deal
March 27, 2014 Kirk Eggleston
Alta Mesa Eagle Ford Acreage Map
Memorial Production Partners announced in March 2014 that it purchased Eagle Ford assets from Alta Mesa Holdings for $173 million. The deal includes 15,200 (800 net) acres in Karnes County, with 99-percent of the assets already held by production.
According to company officials, Memorial will gain an interest in 117 non-operated wells, with average net production of 1,650 boe/d. Approximately 80-percent of current production is oil.
Additionally, Memorial is acquiring a 30-percent interest in Alta Mesa's Eagle Ford leasehold, which includes an interest in over 180 gross and 9 net proved developed non-producing and proven undeveloped locations. Murphy Oil Corporation is the primary operator of the acquired properties.
Read more: Murphy Oil's Eagle Ford Production Grows to 39,000 boe/d in 2013
This acquisition is consistent with our strategy of acquiring reserves in proven basins with long lives and high margins. Further, this acquisition provides an entrance into one of the country’s premier resource plays in a structure appropriate for an MLP and an opportunity to partner alongside a top operator like Murphy Oil.
— Murphy Oil CEO, John Weinzierl
Murphy Oil Company continues to grow steadily in the Eagle Ford. At the end of 2013, the company grew production in the play to 39,000 boe/d in the play.
Memorial and Alta Mesa are both based in Houston, TX. Alta Mesa began acquiring assets in Karnes County in 2010, and will retain a 50-percent net profits interest in the proved developed producing wells included in the sale as of January 1, 2014. At year-end 2014, 2015 and 2016, the net profits interest will automatically reduce to 30-percent, 15-percent and 0-percent, respectively.
Read more at memorialpp.com
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Complete works of classic authors – 15 free ebooks and index files
by Piotr Kowalczyk Published: Nov 21, 2013 / 15:09
Want to have works of Mark Twain or William Shakespeare in one file, and completely for free? Explore authors’ entire works on Project Gutenberg.
One of the biggest benefits of ebooks is that they are convenient. One file can contain 5 thousand or 500 thousand words. Instead of downloading 50 separate books from one author, you can get most of her publications by clicking on a download button just once.
Our favorite source of free ebooks, Project Gutenberg, has on offer several files that include complete electronic publications of selected classic authors.
The files are of two kinds.
First, you can get ebooks that contain all the works of the author, published on Project Gutenberg so far. If a new book from that author is added to PG catalog, it’ll be also added to the complete works ebook. You can get notified of the updated ebooks using Project Gutenberg’s RSS feed.
The second kind are index files to authors’ works. These files don’t include the content of the books. They just contain links all ebooks. Simply click on the Download button and you will get the entire index to the disc of your computer. Follow these instructions to make all the books available on your computer when you are offline.
Most of PG books are very well formatted, so you won’t have any problem in navigating through the titles inside a single file. Books have clickable table of content, which includes not only links to the beginnings of books, but in many cases also to single chapters.
Please note, that books listed below are not entirely “complete works”, but all works that were published so far on Project Gutenberg.
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The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
Mark Twain in his later years / Wikipedia
This compilation of Mark Twain’s works now includes over sixty publications. This file will get updated as more books become available on Project Gutenberg.
The content of the ebook was organized in the order of the date of first publication. The bibliography of Mark Twain by Albert B. Paine has been widely used to correct that order.
You’ll find in the book, among others:
Life on the Mississippi
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Produced by World Library, the file doesn’t consist a table of content, but here is a quick tip on how to quickly move to the next book in a file. Simply use the search box and type “by William Shakespeare” (“by William” is enough). This phrase is used under the title of every work included in the file.
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George Meredith / Wikipedia
George Meredith was a Victorian era novelist and poet. The collection compiled by Project Gutenberg volunteers includes four volumes of poetry, and author’s most famous novels:
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John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize winner from 1932, was an English novelist and playwright. The PG collection includes his most notable novels:
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Kigali: Super Cup scandal solved, the time and score will be considered
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By admin On Sep 25, 2017
The resolution, of FERWAFA Competitions Commission, ‘the Super Cup match between APR Fc and Rayon Sports will recommence at the minute at which play was interrupted rather than being replayed in full, and with the same scoreline’, at Stade Nyamirambo on Wednesday, 27/09/2017 at 16h00.
According to Ferwafa.rw, the Competitions Commission of the Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA) met on Monday, 25/09/2017 to decide on the fate of the Super Cup 2017 which was halted on Saturday, 23/09/2017 due to power failure moments which resulted from technical problems with Umuganda Stadium internal installation.
The Competitions Commission was comprised of its president Mwanafunzi Albert, Mbabazi Alain, Uwamahoro Ariane and Nzeyimana Felix.
The Commission reviewed article 8 of the Super Cup regulation as well as the FERWAFA Competition regulation, but then referred to article 99 of the Ferwafa competition regulation after finding no provision that clearly puts into consideration the fate of the Super Cup match which was abandoned on Saturday, 23/09/2017.
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Article 99 of the Ferwafa competition regulation states that for all the cases not provided for in these regulations, the jurisprudence of Fédération Internationale de Football Association shall apply.
FIFA Competition Regulations
The FERWAFA Competition Commission based on the general provisions as provided by the regulation of the FIFA Confederation Cup 2017 held in Russia from June 17 to July 2, 2017.
Article 6 of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 Regulations refers on the Withdrawal, unplayed matches and abandoned matches.
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Further to the above provision, in the case of a match being abandoned as a result of force majeure after it has already kicked off, the following principles will apply:
a) The match shall recommence at the minute at which play was interrupted
rather than being replayed in full, and with the same scoreline
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c) No additional substitutes may be added to the list of players on the start list;
d) The teams can make only the number of substitutions to which they were still entitled when the match was abandoned;
e) Players sent off during the abandoned match cannot be replaced;
f) Any sanctions imposed before the match was abandoned remain valid for the remainder of the match.
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Datong District is located west of Taipei Basin and at the east shore of the Tamsui River. The southern part of the district was previously the site of Dadaocheng, one of the first settlements in Taipei. The northern part was the site of the village of Dalongdong.
The most notable of the district is the traditional Baroque-style architecture on some streets, especially on the Dihua Street. A traditional shopping festival is hosted during the Lunar New Year holidays on the street every year. People purchase dried fruits, nuts, meats, seafood, snacks, Chinese herbs, etc. at shops on the street. When you first walk into the Dihua Street, you will feel like coming to the gallery of Taipei City. Besides, Datong District has several specific commercial zones like the Taipei City Mall and the Railway Rear Station, where visitors can find inexpensive quality leather articles, decoration items, home appliances, etc. The district also boasts well-known night markets like the Ningxia Night Market, the Yansan Night Market, and the Dalong Night Market, selling various kinds of delicious local foods.
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The district was initially named Ba-lan-bong in the Qing Dynasty and renamed Da-long-dong in 1844 and then renamed Datong in 1946. In 1990, the original Datong District merged the former Jiancheng District, Yanping District and became today's Datong District. The culture of Datong District originated from Dalongdong, close to the crossover section of the Keelung and the Tamsui River.
Datong district was developed earlier than the most of other areas in Taipei City, so there are a lot of historic spots and old temples like the Confucius Temple, the Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Xiahai City God Temple, etc. . In the 19th century, after the Opium War between Britain and the Qing Dynasty, a port was opened officially in Dadaocheng along the Tamsui River for international trade, and many foreign companies were set up here for ex-importing of tea and other merchandises. Business of those foreign trading companies resulted in important influences to the development of the trade and culture of the district.
Taipei Confucius Temple
Dalongdong Baoan Temple
Xiahai City God Temple
Dihua Street & Shopping Festival
Dadaocheng Wharf (Blue Highway)
Ningxia Night Market
Railway Rear Station
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
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Interview with Ariel Maislos (Anobit)
Innovation Career Lessons from a Master
Technion - Instituto Tecnológico de Israel
4.2 (19 calificaciones) | 5.3K estudiantes inscritos
Curso 3 de 4 en Startup Entrepreneurship Programa Especializado
This course, which is Part Three in the series of Startup Entrepreneurship specialization, offers Life Lessons from a Master Innovator, with proven achievements. During this course you will listen to conversations and interviews with Mr. David (Dadi) Perlmutter, who until recently was Executive VP of Intel corporate. Dadi will talk about 10 life lessons, based on his 34 years as a rebel innovator and entrepreneur. We will share with you the following lessons: Love and Knowledge are infinite: grow and share; Learn from Failures and Successes; Nothing Moves without a Vision; Have a Differentiated Market Transforming Strategy; Dare to Take Action; Fight Resistance; It is All About the Ecosystem; Build a Team; Keep it Simple and Work Hard. By the end of the course the learner will: * Know how to lead a process of innovation and implement ideas through all its phases from discovery to delivery in your own field of choice. * Know how to apply creativity to generate creative ideas in a wide range of strategic management issues. * Know how to solve problems in general, with a high degree of innovative creative thinking, to widen the range of possible choices * Identify new and unfamiliar challenges and needs, reflect on them from a creative point of view (zoom in), decide on the action they require (zoom out) and generate a novel and useful solution * Transform ideas into real value-creating products, services and processes. * Be able to analyze both success and failure and draw conclusions from both, for improving future innovative efforts. * Be able to identify and create key features of innovative products and services and in doing so, generate strategically differentiated innovations that are unique * Be able to present your ideas persuasively and overcome resistance. * Know how to simplify a complex product and make it user friendly. Course assignments will include participation in two discussion groups and four assignments. In each assignment you will be asked to deal with a question relating to an interview you have seen.
Summary & Final Assignment
We began by observing that innovation is about breaking the rules. Nonetheless, experience shows that there are some basic lessons that can be learned from long years of experience, lessons that can help young startup entrepreneurs improve their chances of ultimate success. We hope and trust that Coursera learners have integrated these ten lessons, adapted and expanded them to fit their needs and personalities, and will make them part of their personal toolbox as they set out to use their creativity to change the world. The capstone project, the fourth of four courses in this specialization, will help them learn how to do this.
Interview with Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dan Shechtman - video 15:50
Interview with Ariel Maislos (Anobit)20:10
Interview with Uri Weiser - part 16:44
Prof. (Emeritus) Shlomo Maital
Prof. Shlomo Maital Sr. Research Fellow, S. Neaman Institute, Technion
Dadi Perlmutter
Hello, I'm Shlomo Maital, we're speaking with Ariel Maislos.
Ariel together with two friends, Ehud Weinstein and
Ofir Shalvi started a company called Anobit in 2006.
Six years later, they sold it for
a great deal of money to a little company called Apple.
Ariel, I think we should tell our learners
that this is the second time we're doing this interview.
The first time we had an equipment failure,
that was my fault, and we're very grateful to you for
agreeing to do this again, despite- >> It's my pleasure.
>> Thank you.
So this interview is part of a course, Innovation Lessons from a Master.
It's the third course in a three-course specialization on Coursera
on startup entrepreneurship.
Ariel, many of our learners will start businesses, and they'll be keenly
interested in the possibility of selling their company eventually to a big
organization so they can scale it up and create value for a large number of people.
Your company, Anobit, when you sold it to Apple, had a large portfolio of patents.
You had 24 patents granted, 41 patents pending, 65 patents.
And just a short background survey for our learners.
Your breakthrough was in chip design.
It relates to solid-state drives.
Hard disk drives that we're familiar with spin, and you hear the whirring sound.
Solid state drives don't move.
>> Kind of flash memory.
They have a problem.
They're up to eight times more expensive and they're sometimes less reliable.
You develop technology called memory signal processing that help
increase the value and reduce the cost and improve the reliability.
So you and two friends, three young men, you took on,
basically, Apple with its 1,000 chip designers.
>> Well, we didn't set out to take on Apple.
What we set out to do was transform the way flash memory was being consumed.
We brought the fundamental innovation, the technological signal processing,
that is used today in communication, in speech processing,
in audio, in what was called the modem that people used to do dial up with.
And we brought that innovation into the field of memory design.
It was a field that was dominated by chemists and physicists.
And by using the techniques that were available in the field of signal
processing, we were able to innovate and build better products as a consequence.
Apple ended being our largest customer.
>> Right. >> And
as a consequence, eventually they acquired the company.
So it wasn't a confrontational relationship,
in fact it was quite a supportive one.
>> And it was a long term love affair.
>> [LAUGH] >> Eventually there was a marriage and
they acquired you.
So, you worked closely with Apple for years and you got to know them,
they got to know you, and they essentially became a strategic partner.
How hard was it to implement this idea that you had,
was it harder than you thought at the beginning?
>> I believe everything is hard.
It's difficult.
Anobit was not my first endeavor as a startup.
It wasn't the first one for my cofounders either.
They both founded a company called Libit Signal Processing that was doing a cable
modem design.
>> Mm-hm.
>> And once you go through this adventure once, you realize that everything is hard.
And yet you need a sufficient level of naivety to
be able to approach the market with open eyes,
with enthusiasm, and hope for success.
And then not to become a cynic as a consequence of your past failures and
successes.
So we were greatly optimistic, we knew it was a huge challenge, and
we approached it with our eyes open.
And indeed it was a great challenge, both designing the products
around the core technology as well as bringing it to market, finding customers,
and building a company.
Building a company's tough.
>> Yes it is.
And let's talk for a moment about building a company.
So I don't think you had in mind that you would do an exit when you began.
Three young men starting Anobit working on unique technology, and
by 2012, in six years, you had 200 employees, so you had a real business.
Some founders discover that it's hard and boring to manage
a big company rather than work on technology and design a chip.
How did you deal with that, building a company and managing 200 people, in 2012?
>> So, managing an organization means that you need to have a strong management team.
People that are actually doing the day-to-day management, working with
people, giving them their assignments, and following up on what's required.
And myself and my cofounders were more tasked with the leadership of the company,
and not with the day-to-day management of everything.
Which I think is approach that allows you to scale and grow the company.
It's not the same technique that you're using when you're at 20 people,
applicable when you're 200, and certainly not when you're growing beyond that.
>> Right. >> So that was the first thing.
The second thing is that, again,
we set out to build something of value and of substance.
We never tried to sell the company, that wasn't our intention or design.
And in fact, it was actually quite hotly debated whether we should do that at all
when the time came.
Eventually, we sold Anobit to Apple, and
Apple has become a big employer in Israel and the design center has
grown significantly since then, so I think that's a great success.
>> Yes, on my way here I passed number 12 with a big Apple sign and a huge building.
>> Now, in our office, we're neighbors actually to Apple.
We see them across the street.
>> Do you still have contact with Apple?
>> I do. I'm in touch with members of my past team.
And we exchange ideas, and we talk once in a while.
>> Cool.
So I sometimes tell my students,
if they intend eventually to do an exit to sell their company.
The best way to do that is to act as if you're going to grow the company forever.
>> Absolutely.
>> You have to build a company, manage it,
put a processes in place, have professional managers, document things.
And you really need a strategic partner.
This is a principle I learned from a legendary person named Ed Malinowski who
was the head of an Israeli organization that did strategic partnerships.
And he said every startup needs a strategic partner.
You had a strong strategic partner.
Tell us a bit about the kind of the elephant phenomenon, how does
a small startup work with a really big, sometimes bureaucratic company?
So I mean in life, I've had opportunity to partner with multiple large companies.
And I must say that it's a double edge sword,
it's not something easy to execute on.
Large companies are moving at a very slow pace, and the key decision criteria for
an executive in a large company is how to not make a mistake.
>> Exactly.
>> So he can keep his position.
So naturally, these are not innovative or risk taking organizations.
And they would work with a startup only when they have no choice.
It's our role as the innovators and the founders of startups
to make it a no-brainer for them to collaborate with us and
make it the easy choice rather than the risky choice for them.
And for us that's the path of giving them significant
technology advantage that would allow them to work better, in their business, and
it creates business follow to them, and we bridge that gap by providing technology.
I think that's the essence of a startup in technology.
Now, nano businesses are built around partnerships.
It depends on the kind of goto market,
as far as GW executing on, and out of bed, we had a goto
market strategy that was very aligned with partners, so we had a few of them.
We had partnerships with SD Hinicks, we had partnerships with Samsung,
we had partnerships with Micron.
And there was a sadness.
And that allowed us actually to grow and penetrate the market.
>> Right eventually though Apple wanted to keep
your strategic breakthrough to themselves.
>> Correct. >> So
they fired you and that of course keeps it from their competitors.
It kept it from competitors obviously, but
it gave them better control over their suppliers.
Again, we were working indirectly with Apple, we're supplying technology into
their suppliers and they were our strategic partners selling into Apple.
Apple ended up being the largest customer.
And at some point in time, it made sense to consolidate the technology and
be able to manage better their supply chain so that's why they did it.
>> Got it, so I'm sure our learners want me to ask this question,
you mentioned, Anobit wasn't your first startup.
You made a great deal of money from Anobit and now you're doing another startup.
And it's a very difficult one end up this is a Jewish holiday right now and
as I look through your offices, I see everybody working here
even though it's a holiday and I see little kids running around as well.
So why in the world if you don't need the money,
why in the world you go this difficult process again and again?
>> Well I think, so to some extent, it's for
the same the same reason that you're teaching.
I greatly enjoy working with people and building companies,
building technologies and products.
So for me, it's a passion, it's a calling in life you can say.
And I'm not looking to make a quick profit,
which allows me to take a very long-term view on the things I'm doing.
And it's actually creates a virtual circuit and
a circle that allows me to set a very ambitious goal.
People are looking at me and
say he's an accomplished entrepreneur so we think he can do what he sets out to do.
And then suddenly I have the means to accomplish the goal I set out to do by
capitalizing on that little bit of a reputation that I managed to build so far.
>> Right.
>> Having a big goal is actually quite attractive to great talent,
people that want to do something of significance, as I do, and
it's attractive also to the best partners who want to participate in that,
and again through that, we managed to raise significant funding so far,
we have raised over $72 million into Stratoscale.
We are approaching 90 employees globally and we've managed to develop some
technology that now we are in the process of bringing to market.
So, it's exciting times.
>> Okay, so, let's talk about your new startup,
Stratoscale >> So
I understand straddle scale is something related to the cloud.
And you have found a way to create value for
companies with regard to their use of the cloud.
>> Correct. So what cloud technology is, I think,
the ultimate consumption paradigm of computing resources.
Is the most efficient and most effective easy way
to run applications anywhere you want.
But it's a very complex technology to make that work under the hood.
So today many organizations
don't have engineering talent to build that technology internally.
And they had no choice but to rely on companies like Amazon, or Google, or
Microsoft to do this for them.
Usually what's know as a public cloud.
We want to empower them and enable them to do the same thing on their own.
So for that, we're taking out of that complex technology and
packaging in a way that it's very intuitive, very easy to use.
And friendly to the user that does not require too much training or
complex engineering.
It's to a large extent similar to an iPhone
where an iPhone is extremely complex technology.
That is packaged in such a way it's very easy to use.
Very intuitive, and very powerful.
So we're doing the same thing for the data center.
Packaging it in such a way that anybody can deploy on their own.
>> So this is the principle I think, that we taught in,
in one of our Coursera courses.
And that is, you use complexity,
you can justify complexity only when the purpose is to make the actual product
simpler for the end user, but for the client is that the idea?
>> I think complexity is evil, to a large extent.
In a venture, complexity slows down
the buying process.
When you're bringing a product to market.
Complex products are difficult to sell.
It's difficult to sell, it's slow to sell,
and start-ups are built on the hockey stick principal.
You need exponential growth.
Very complex products that require a lot of hand-holding do not spell
exponentially very well at all.
So we need to beat complexity in the head and simplify things tremendously.
But this is simplification that is customer facing.
Under the hood we take that complexity dragon and we tame it.
And we package it in such a way that it appears to be much, much, much simpler.
>> This is an important insight because the people that I interview are really,
really smart by definition.
And for them a lot of things are trivially simple.
For me, they are very, very complex.
It's very hard to explain to engineers that they have to design stuff for
dummies like myself.
>> So it's a huge lesson, huge, huge lesson.
Not for myself, but for almost everybody that I meet.
My journey.
The people I surround myself with at the startups are literally
So they're not representative of the greater population.
They're that few, that one percent.
And, as a consequence, they have a bias, obviously,
the same way that I have a bias based on the people that surround me.
And thinks that appear simple to me, to others are more complex, and vice versa.
So we need to, to a large extent, stop building products that are for
our own consumption.
And instead, get into the shoes of everyday people, right?
The average Joe and simplify things, and dumb them down for them.
Because this is not for dummies, this is for everyday people, right?
And it's not very intuitive, it's a very difficult thing to do.
We're learning, sometimes from our own mistakes.
>> So, I want toask you about your family and your personal life.
In this course,
it's a course that I'm doing with who's a senior executive at Intel.
And he has offered ten lessons, based on his 34 year career at Intel.
And the first lesson was a surprising one and it relates to his family.
And taking into account your family,
as you do the difficult work of entrepreneurship and innovation.
You have a family, what insight and wisdom can you share about your family?
>> So first of all, regarding family,
I try to give them the most that I can.
Try to be a good father and a good husband but
I recently read a very interesting quote.
There's no life work balance if you want to win a Nobel Prize, okay?
Likewise, if you want to succeed in business or
build a thriving start up.
It's a very, very total approach.
Full commitment.
It's not a nine to five and then, I move to my other life.
I'm fully immersed and fully dedicated to what I'm doing.
So I try once a week to come home earlier and be with the kids.
I fail miserably at that, by the way.
I don't honor that commitment and
I try to be with them during the weekends and again, I fail at that as well.
Many times I travel over the weekends and
I come home probably 8, 9 PM everyday.
And then, spend an hour with them before they go to bed and
then do some e-mails or or something.
So, that's the startup life and if you don't like it, it's not for you.
>> That's very honest, and personally I
object to the term work life balance, when it comes to a startup.
Because I think in any field or profession, if you want to succeed
you have to work extremely hard >> Extremely hard and my
father was a doctor and I remember he worked extremely hard.
In order to become successful at his profession, so
entrepreneurs are as any other field in life.
You need to work hard.
>> Yes so we're coming to the end of this fascinating interview Ariel,
other insights, important insights that you'd like to share?
We have thousands of young people, young learners that are potential entrepreneurs.
Some of them have businesses already.
Insights that you'd like to share with our learners?
>> So I think that one of the biggest insights is the quality of
the people you surround yourself with.
Both their caliber and their passion.
Having said that, startup is an extremely difficult thing to do.
You need to be able to unite yourself internally and
face the outside challenges.
Having challenges from the inside is significantly detrimental to that effort.
So, you need people that are not necessarily
agreeing with everything you say but they share the same spirit.
And bring the same fashion and then, you can tackle the world and
maybe conquer it, who knows.
>> Pick your partners carefully.
>> So Ariel, we wish you good luck.
>> Thank you Sloem.
>> Thank you very much for your valuable time.
>> My pleasure.
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Sleep disorders are among the most common clinical problems encountered in medicine and psychiatry. Inadequate or nonrestorative sleep can markedly impair a patient’s quality of life. [1] Sleep disorders may be primary or may result from a variety of psychiatric and medical conditions.
Primary sleep disorders result from an endogenous disturbance in sleep-wake generating or timing mechanisms, often complicated by behavioral conditioning. They may be divided into the following 2 broad categories:
Parasomnias – These are unusual experiences or behaviors that occur during sleep; they include sleep terror disorder and sleepwalking (which occur during stage 4 sleep) and nightmare disorder (which occurs during rapid eye movement [REM] sleep).
Dyssomnias – These are characterized by abnormalities in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep; they include primary insomnia and hypersomnia, narcolepsy, breathing-related sleep disorder (ie, sleep apnea), and circadian rhythm sleep disorder
It is important to distinguish these primary sleep disorders from secondary sleep disorders. At times, determining whether anxiety and depression are causing sleep problems or the anxiety and depression are secondary to a primary sleep problem is difficult. (See Anxiety Disorders and Depression.)
Primary insomnia is the general term for difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep. Because sleep requirements vary from individual to individual, insomnia is considered clinically significant when a patient perceives the loss of sleep as a problem. Insomnia may be further characterized as either acute (transient) or chronic.
Sleep is divided into the following 2 categories, each of which is associated with distinct patterns of central nervous system (CNS) activity:
REM sleep – This is characterized by muscle atony, episodic REMs, and low-amplitude fast waves on electroencephalography (EEG); dreaming occurs mainly during REM sleep
Non-REM (NREM) sleep – This is further subdivided into 4 progressive categories, termed stages 1-4 sleep; the arousal threshold rises with each stage, and stage 4 (delta), characterized by high-amplitude slow waves, is the sleep state from which arousal is most difficult
Disturbances in the pattern and periodicity of REM and NREM sleep are often found when people admit to experiencing sleep disorders.
Sleep-wake cycles are governed by a complex group of biologic processes that serve as internal clocks. The suprachiasmatic nucleus, located in the hypothalamus, is thought to be the body’s anatomic timekeeper, responsible for the release of melatonin on a 25-hour cycle. The pineal gland secretes less melatonin when exposed to bright light; therefore, the level of this chemical is lowest during the daytime hours of wakefulness.
Multiple neurotransmitters are thought to play a role in sleep. These include serotonin from the dorsal raphe nucleus, norepinephrine contained in neurons with cell bodies in the locus ceruleus, and acetylcholine from the pontine reticular formation. Dopamine, on the other hand, is associated with wakefulness.
Abnormalities in the delicate balance of all of these chemical messenger systems may disrupt various physiologic, biologic, behavioral, and EEG parameters responsible for REM (ie, active) sleep and NREM (slow-wave) sleep.
The major causes of insomnia may be divided into medical conditions, psychological conditions, and environmental problems.
Cardiac conditions that may give rise to disordered sleep include ischemia and congestive heart failure. Neurologic conditions include stroke, degenerative conditions, dementia, peripheral nerve damage, myoclonic jerks, restless leg syndrome, hypnic jerk, and central sleep apnea. Endocrine conditions affecting sleep are related to hyperthyroidism, menopause, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and hypogonadism in elderly men.
Pulmonary conditions include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, central alveolar hypoventilation (the Ondine curse), and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (associated with snoring). Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions include gastroesophageal reflux disease. Hematologic conditions include paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, which is a rare, acquired, hemolytic anemia associated with brownish-red morning urine.
Substances that may result in insomnia include stimulants, opioids, caffeine, and alcohol, or, withdrawal from any of these also may cause insomnia. Medications implicated in insomnia include decongestants, corticosteroids, and bronchodilators.
Other conditions that may affect sleep include fever, pain, and infection.
Psychiatric conditions
It should be borne in mind in mind that the major psychiatric conditions now are known to have a biologic basis and thus constitute a subset of medical conditions.
Depression may cause alterations in REM sleep. As many as 40% of people with depression have insomnia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can produce vivid and terrifying nightmares. Anxiety disorders predispose to insomnia. The most common of these are generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and anxiety disorders not otherwise specified. Thought disorders and misperception of sleep state are other potential states that cause insomnia.
Psychotropic medications, such as antidepressants, may interfere with normal REM sleep patterns. Rebound insomnia from benzodiazepines or other hypnotic agents is common.
Stressful or life-threatening events (eg, bereavement or PTSD) may cause insomnia. Shift work may disturb the sleep cycle, as may jet lag or changes in altitude. Sleep deprivation may occur as a result of an overly warm sleeping environment, environmental noise, or frequent intrusions (such as occur in an intensive care unit [ICU]).
Approximately one third of all Americans have sleep disorders at some point in their lives. Between 20% and 40% of adults report difficulty sleeping at some point each year, and about 17% of adults consider the problem to be serious. Sleep disorders are a common reason for patient visits throughout medicine. Approximately one third of adults have insufficient sleep syndrome. Twenty percent of adults report chronic insomnia.
Age- and sex-related demographics
Increasing age predisposes to sleep disorders (5% incidence in persons aged 30-50 years and 30% in those aged 50 years or older). People who are elderly experience a decrease in total sleep time, with more frequent awakenings during the night. Elderly persons also have a higher incidence of general medical conditions and are more likely to be taking medications that cause sleep disruption.
People who are elderly may have widespread or multisite pain that is associated with sleep difficulty, according to the Maintenance of Balance, Independent Living, Intellect, and Zest in the Elderly study (MOBILIZE) study. [2]
Primary insomnia is more common in women, with a female-to-male ratio of 3:2. Hormonal variations during the menstrual cycle or during menopause may cause disruptions in sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is more common in men (4%) than in women (2.5%).
The prognosis varies widely, depending on the cause of the insomnia or other sleep disorder. For example, insomnia due to OSA resolves with successful treatment of the apnea, whereas insomnia due to refractory major depression is itself refractory until a successful treatment can be found for the depression.
Chronic insomnia is associated with an increased risk of depression and accompanying danger of suicide, anxiety, excess disability, reduced quality of life, and increased use of health care resources.
Insufficient sleep can result in industrial and motor vehicle crashes, somatic symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, depression, and decrements in daytime work performance owing to fatigue or sleepiness.
Yaffe et al suggest that older women with sleep-disordered breathing (characterized by recurrent arousals from sleep and intermittent hypoxemia) have an increased risk of developing cognitive impairment compared with those without sleep-disordered breathing. [3]
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Home News How Police ‘secretly’ release woman blamed for man’s death over phone
How Police ‘secretly’ release woman blamed for man’s death over phone
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The Nigeria Police Force has released a woman popularly called ‘Iya Iyabo’, who is accused of instigating thugs to kill Olamide Omolede, a 22-year-old man who was wrongly accused of stealing mobile phone.
PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported how Mr Omolede was killed on Monday and thrown into the lagoon at Badore-Ajah by some hoodlums, led by the woman who wrongly accused him.
The phone was later seen with the son of the woman, who is presently at large.
The body of the deceased was brought out from the river two days after and has been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.
Arrest and release
The Langbasa Police Division on Wednesday arrested five suspects including the woman who led the thugs to the victim’s house.
They were all detained at the police station.
A source very close to the investigation told PREMIUM TIMES that the community leaders have been able to conspire with police to secretly release the woman.
Our source, who requested not to be named because of fear of attack, also said that the family of the perpetrators threatened community members over the matter.
The police have also refused to grant the victim’s father, Francis Omolede’s request for the preliminary investigation report in respect to the case.
The refusal was ordered by the Divisional Police Officer, Ada Okafor.
The Lagos State Police spokesperson, Bala Elkana, said he had no knowledge of the matter until he was briefed by PREMIUM TIMES.
When confronted with evidence, he called back, admitting that the incident indeed occurred and affirmed that four suspects have been arrested.
When asked about the woman who led the thugs, he told our correspondent that she was just a “witness” in the case.
“Four suspects have been arrested and the CP has instructed the homicide section to take over the matter. They are transferring them to Panti today.
“The woman did not participate in the killing, so, you can’t treat her as a suspect. Her son is the suspect. The woman is being used as a witness to help us,” he said.
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US decision on tariffs upsets Lithuania, but doesn't mean trade war - vice-formin
Lithuanian officials say that the US decision to impose tariffs on EU steel and aluminum imports is very disappointing, but does not mean a trade war.
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"First of all, we are very disappointed, because the intensive talks between the European Commission and the United States, and efforts by other European countries to persuade them not to apply these measures against the EU failed," Deputy Foreign Minister Albinas Zananavičius told BNS by phone from Paris on Thursday.
A 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico will take effect on Friday.
EU capitals expressed their outrage and disappointment over the US decision and the European Commission announced it was planning retaliation.
Leading German MEP calls on Lithuania to choose Europe in disputes with US
President Grybauskaitė expects 'respectful' EU-US discussions on trade
According to Zananavičius, the US solution is in line with recent protectionist trends, but "the EU's aim is to keep global trade free".
"Obviously, we are entering a completely new stage where we are subjected to measures on the basis of US national security. We can't see how the EU can threaten US national security," the official said.
"The EU is definitely not a problem here, because we don't have surplus steel and aluminum production," he added.
According to the vice-minister, the EU's response to Washington will be based on international trade rules and, therefore, these processes should not be called a trade war.
"Under international trade rules, the EU has the right to impose compensatory, counter-balancing retaliatory measures," he said.
In the official's words, the US tariffs will not directly affect Lithuanian businesses.
Steel and aluminum are used in various industries, including car manufacturing, and road and railway construction.
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Eric XI of Sweden
The seal of king Eric XI of Sweden
King Eric on his gravestone in Varnhem Abbey.
Damaged 13th century bust assumed to be of King Eric
Eric "XI"[1] the Lisp and Lame[2] Swedish: Erik Eriksson or Erik läspe och halte; Old Norse: Eiríkr Eiríksson (1216 – 2 February 1250) was king of Sweden in 1222–29 and 1234–50.[3] Being the last ruler of the House of Eric, he stood in the shadow of a succession of powerful Jarls, especially his brother-in-law Birger Jarl, whose descendants ruled as kings after his death.[citation needed]
2 First reign
3 Second reign
4 Eastward expansion
5 Renewed domestic feuding
6 Family and heirs
Eric was the son of Eric X of Sweden and Richeza of Denmark. According to the chronicle Erikskrönikan written in the early 1320s, Eric is said to have been partly lame; "King Eric was lisping in his talk / Limping was, as well, his walk".[4] For this reason, later historians referred to him as "Erik the Lisp and Lame" which was apparently not used in his own time. Eric was born after his father, King Eric X, had already died (1216). The fifteen-year-old John I from the rival House of Sverker was hailed king by the Swedish aristocracy, while Queen Richeza returned to her Danish homeland where her brother Valdemar Sejr ruled.
Eric spent his early youth in Denmark, while Valdemar championed his rights to the Swedish throne and tried to prevent the coronation of John I. Pope Honorius III ordered three North German bishops to investigate the issue in 1219, however to no avail. John I nevertheless died in 1222, whereby the House of Sverker became extinct in the male line.[5]
First reign[edit]
With no dynastic rivals at hand, the six-year-old Eric was hailed as king, sometime between August 1222 and July 1223. The Archbishop Olof Basatömer supported his cause and appears to have crowned him in Strängnäs Cathedral on 31 July 1223. During the minority of the king, a council was formed, consisting of Bishop Bengt of Skara, the king's foster father Erengisle Vig, Stenar, Knut Kristinesson, and Knut Holmgersson (Knut the Tall). The two last-mentioned were second cousins of King Eric.[6] In 1225 Eric and his realm were taken under the protection of the Pope. In the same year a brief conflict with Norway flared up, as King Håkon Håkonson made an incursion into Värmland in retaliation for support given to Håkon's Norwegian enemies.[7] The members of the royal council were termed consiliarii (Sw., rådsherre), a term that now occurs for the first time in a Swedish context. However, the internal cohesion of the council was weak, and its members were considered notoriously unreliable. Knut Kristinesson went to Norway in 1226 in order to claim the crown of this country, and Bishop Bengt died in 1228.[8]
In the next year 1229, a feud broke out, as Knut the Tall and a party of nobles, the Folkung Party, rose against the young ruler. The causes are not known, but a wish by some nobles to restrain the power of the Church might have had a role.[9] Eric was overthrown after the battle of Olustra (slaget vid Olustra). The battle is believed to have taken place in Olustra (Ostra) in Södermanland, although Alvastra in Östergötland has been mentioned as a possible site. After his loss, the young king fled to Denmark where his uncle Valdemar Sejr was still ruling. Knut the Tall was crowned King Canute II of Sweden in 1231, but his time was short and he died in 1234.[10]
Second reign[edit]
According to a Danish source, Eric returned to Sweden already in 1232, when Canute was still king. The Swedish Erikskrönikan on the contrary asserts that he came back after King Canute's death, after a new round of fighting.[11] At any rate Eric was once again accepted as king and ruled until his own death in 1250. At first, he reconciled with the Folkung Party. The Folkung Ulf Fase, who had been Jarl of the realm under Canute II, continued to serve in that function under Eric. Ulf Fase was an able politician who managed to prevent feuding between the noble factions for many years. As a king, Eric is depicted in Erikskrönikan as good-natured but physically passive:
He liked to strengthen reason and right,
and was pleased to care for his own kin.
He maintained domestic honour and noble custom,
and gave the peasant good peace,
He well understood serious matters,
but would not care much for tournaments.[12]
In fact he was relatively insignificant and heavily dependent on stronger men in his entourage; first Ulf Fase and, after his death (1248), the latter's kinsman Birger Magnusson (Birger Jarl) (d. 1266). They were both scions of the large and influential Bjälbo family from Östergötland, but entertained different political agendas. While Ulf pursued a policy of alliance with the Norwegian king, Birger strove to strengthen royal authority by allying closely with the Catholic Church. In about the late 1230s, King Eric's elder sister Ingeborg was married to Birger, in the latter's first marriage. Birger was purportedly the son of a female heiress of the Sverker dynasty, thus having royal blood.[13]
Eastward expansion[edit]
Sweden had a certain presence in south-western Finland by the early 13th century, although it is unclear to what extent this translated into political power. A bishopric existed in Nousiainen and later Turku (Åbo), which stood under the papal legate of the Baltic region. The Erikskrönikan contains a graphic description of a military expedition to Tavastia further to the east that King Eric dispatched in an unspecified year, possibly in 1238-39 or 1249-50. While not literally a crusade, the professed aim was to Christianize still pagan lands. A sizable fleet was assembled under the leadership of Birger and sailed over to Tavastia (a problematic statement since Tavastia is an inland region). According to the highly propagandist chronicle, the expedition was an unqualified success:
They took their banners and went ashore,
The Christians were successful in the war.
They let their shields shine
all over the land, and so their helmets.
They were keen to try their swords
on the pagan Tavasts
As I expect, they achieved
gold and silver and large herds.
The Tavasts then ran and were gone,
the pagans lost and the Christians won.
Anyone who wanted to serve them,
and become Christian and accept baptism,
they allowed to keep goods and life,
and to live in peace without further strife.
To any pagan who would not do that,
they administered death.[14]
The expedition led to the establishment of a permanent fortress, Tavasteborg, and the formal Christianization of the region. As the chronicle has it, "I think the Russian king lost it".[15] The enterprise is not mentioned in other sources, and its circumstances are hotly debated among modern historians. It is possibly connected to a Swedish foray in the Novgorod Republic in 1240. A fleet of ships commanded by a certain Spiridon and accompanied by a few bishops went up the Neva River, but were attacked and routed by the Novgorodian prince Alexander Nevsky. Details of the battle are partly legendary, and its significance might have been exaggerated in Russian historiography. According to a 14th-century source, the Swedish leader was a Belgerd, corresponding to Birger, though this may be a later construction.[16]
Renewed domestic feuding[edit]
Internal fighting once again broke out in 1247, shortly before (or possibly after) Ulf Fase's death. The Folkung Party warred with King Eric and Birger, but their peasant allies in Uppland lost the Battle of Sparrsätra and were punished by tightening royal taxation. The Folkung leader Holmger Knutsson, a son of Canute II, fled to Gästrikland but was captured by Eric's men and beheaded.[17]
Shortly after the defeat of the uprising, Birger was appointed Jarl of the realm. As such he oversaw a clerical meeting in Skänninge in February 1248, summoned by the papal legate William of Sabina. On behalf of Pope Innocent IV, he urged the Swedes to stick to canonic-juridical praxis as laid down by Rome. The authority of the bishops was strengthened and Sweden was increasingly incorporated in the Catholic Church.[18]
Family and heirs[edit]
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Eric married Queen Catherine in 1243 or 1244. She was the daughter of (Jarl) Sune Folkason of Bjälbo and an heiress of the House of Sverker. In that way the two long-competing royal houses were eventually united. Commonly, sources say that Eric was childless, but some sources claim that he had a couple of baby daughters who died.
Eric XI died on 2 February 1250, and was buried in the monastery of Varnhem Abbey in Västergötland. With him the House of Eric became extinct in the male line, with the possible exception of Canute II's son Filip (d. 1251).[19] Under these circumstances the throne went to the offspring of Birger Jarl and Ingeborg, the more since Birger was now in full control over the realm. Their eldest but still under-age son Valdemar was elected king in 1250 to succeed Eric, possibly by-passing the sons, to the extent there were such, of Ingeborg's elder sisters.[20] Birger Jarl became the Regent, holding the true power in Sweden until his own death in 1266. Skáldatal reports that Óláfr Þórðarson was one of Eric's court skalds.
^ Referring to Erik the Lisp and Lame as King Eric XI is a later invention, counting backwards from Eric XIV (1560–68). He and his brother Charles IX (1604–1611) adopted numerals according to a fictitious history of Sweden. The number of Swedish monarchs named Eric before Eric XIV (at least seven) is unknown, going back into prehistory, and none of them used numerals. It would be speculative to try to affix a mathematically accurate one to this king.
^ "Kings and Queens of Sweden — A thousand year succession". Royal Court of Sweden. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ Erik "läspe och halte" Eriksson (Historiska personer) Archived 10 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pipping, Erikskrönikan, pp. 4-5.
^ Bolin, "Erik Eriksson"
^ Knut "långe" Holmgersson (Historiska personer) Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ Line, Kingship and State Formation in Sweden, p. 127.
^ Bolin, "Erik Eriksson", sok.riksarkivet.se; accessed 31 January 2019.‹See Tfd›(in Swedish)
^ Line, Kingship and State Formation in Sweden, pp. 110-13.
^ Pipping, Erikskrönikan, p. 3.
^ Line, Kingship and State Formation in Sweden, pp. 101, 116.
^ Pipping, Erikskrönikan, p. 8-9.
^ Pipping, Erikskrönikan, p. 10.
^ Line, Kingship and State Formation in Sweden, pp. 442-43; Harrison, "Birger jarl och Aleksandr Nevskij".
^ Harrison, Sveriges historia: medeltiden, p. 134-6.
^ He and his father Canute II were probably descendants of Eric the Saint, although the details are not quite certain; Line, Kingship and State Formation in Sweden, p. 568.
^ Ingeborg had at least one, possibly more sisters, though their birth dates or birth order are not known. The sons of her documented sister Sophia (d. 1241) were dukes in Mecklenburg but made no known claims.
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Cherie Corinne Rice
Original language(s)
No. of seasons
No. of episodes
20 (list of episodes)
Executive producer(s)
Tom Brunelle
Brad Wollack
Lydia Tenaglia
Craig Shepherd
Camera setup
Single-camera
Production company(s)
Lionsgate Television
Dakota Pictures
Trout the Dog Productions
Free 90 Media
Zero Point Zero Production
Original network
Picture format
16:9 HDTV
November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) –
August 2, 2017 (2017-08-02)
Nightcap is an American comedy television series created by and starring Ali Wentworth with supporting roles by Lauren Blumenfeld, Brendan Clifford, Don Fanelli, Jacob Wallach and Cherie Corinne Rice. On January 12, 2016, the series was picked up for a 10-episode first season.[1] On October 27, 2016, the series was renewed for a second season.[2] The series premiered on Pop on November 16, 2016.[3]
1 Plot
2 Cast
2.1 Recurring
3 Series overview
4.1 Season 1 (2016–17)
4.2 Season 2 (2017)
Plot[edit]
Staci Cole is the overworked head talent booker on the fictitious fifth highest-rated late night talk show called Nightcap with Jimmy where she and her fellow workers interact with different celebrities that will appear on the show.
Cast[edit]
Ali Wentworth as Staci Cole, the head talent booker on Nightcap with Jimmy.
Lauren Blumenfeld as Penny, Staci's assistant.
Don Fanelli as Todd, a producer on Nightcap with Jimmy.
Jacob Wallach as Randy, an audio guy on Nightcap with Jimmy.
Cherie Corinne Rice as Malik, a very popular celebrity publicist.
Recurring[edit]
Jeff Hiller as Phil Miller, a security guard.
Paulina Porizkova as Ana, Jimmy's personal stylist.
Karl Gregory as Marcus Rice, the make-up designer on Nightcap with Jimmy.
Brendan Clifford as Grady Dupont, the personal chef on Nightcap with Jimmy.
Series overview[edit]
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
10 November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) January 11, 2017 (2017-01-11)
10 June 7, 2017 (2017-06-07) August 2, 2017 (2017-08-02)
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2016–17)[edit]
No. in
1 "Babymaker" Brendan Clifford November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) 101
Guest stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Andy Cohen
2 "A-List Thief" Brendan Clifford November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) 102
Guest stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jim Norton, Nate Berkus
3 "Lice-ism" Brad Wollack November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23) 103
Guest stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Denis Leary, Jonathan Geffner
4 "The Cannon" Story by: Ali Wentworth
Teleplay by: Tom Brunelle & Brad Wollack November 30, 2016 (2016-11-30) 104
Guest stars: Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, Jim Gaffigan, The Great Nippulini
5 "The Unwanted Guest" Brad Wollack December 7, 2016 (2016-12-07) 105
Guest stars: Debra Messing, Mark Cuban, Tim Gunn
6 "Mean Guest" Tom Brunelle December 14, 2016 (2016-12-14) 106
Guest stars: Jason Biggs, Beth Ostrosky Stern, Keisha Zollar
7 "The Horny Host" Tom Brunelle December 21, 2016 (2016-12-21) 107
Guest stars: Gigi Gorgeous , Stephanie March, Janeane Garofalo
8 "IBS-ISIS" Ali Wentworth December 28, 2016 (2016-12-28) 108
Guest stars: Mario Batali, George Stephanopoulos, Aparna Nancherla
9 "Go-Fund Yourself" Tom Brunelle & Brad Wollack & Brendan Clifford January 4, 2017 (2017-01-04) 109
Guest stars: Paul Rudd, Wendy Williams
10 "Guest in a Snake" Ali Wentworth January 11, 2017 (2017-01-11) 110
Guest stars: Mariska Hargitay, Joel Schumacher, Rosie Perez
Season 2 (2017)[edit]
US viewers
(millions)
1 "Out of the Box" Tom Brunelle & Brad Wollack June 7, 2017 (2017-06-07) 0.136[4]
Guest stars: Julianna Margulies, Mehmet Oz
2 "Match Game" David Bickel June 7, 2017 (2017-06-07) 0.136[4]
Guest stars: Alec Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin, Mehmet Oz
3 "What Would Staci Do?" Brendan Clifford June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14) 0.123[5]
Guest stars: Juju Chang, Kelly Rutherford, Brooke Shields
4 "Single White Staci" Ali Wentworth June 21, 2017 (2017-06-21) 0.103[6]
Guest stars: Barbara Corcoran, Donny Deutsch, Julianne Moore, Mehmet Oz
5 "Always a Beard, Never a Bride" Elizabeth Rose Quinn June 28, 2017 (2017-06-28) 0.102[7]
Guest stars: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ross Mathews, Michael Strahan
6 "Spinster Code" Elizabeth Rose Quinn July 5, 2017 (2017-07-05) 0.095[8]
Guest stars: Rachel Bloom, Cedric the Entertainer, Naked Cowboy
7 "Poop Show" Brendan Clifford July 12, 2017 (2017-07-12) 0.11[9]
Guest stars: Brendan Fraser, Debra Messing
8 "Bringing Up Baby" David Bickel July 19, 2017 (2017-07-19) 0.089[10]
Guest stars: Carrot Top, Bob Saget
9 "The Show Might Go On, Part 1" David Bickel July 26, 2017 (2017-07-26) 0.099[11]
Guest stars: Christie Brinkley, Bethenny Frankel, David Hasselhoff, Mehmet Oz
10 "The Show Might Go On, Part 2" Tom Brunelle & Brad Wollack August 2, 2017 (2017-08-02) 0.072[12]
Guest stars: J. J. Abrams, Christie Brinkley, Mark Hamill, Rachael Ray
Reception[edit]
In a mixed review, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times described the show as "a shaggy, amiable trifle in which character is sometimes subservient to quips."[13] A more favorable review in Variety described the show as "lightweight, rewarding, and extremely watchable comedy."[14]
^ Andreeva, Nellie (2016-01-12). "Pop Orders 'Traci From Nightcap' Comedy Series Starring Ali Wentworth". Deadline. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
^ Pedersen, Erik (2016-10-27). "'Nightcap' Renewed For Season 2 By Pop Ahead Of Series Premiere". Deadline. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
^ Pedersen, Erik (2016-07-31). "Pop's 'Nightcap' Sets Premiere Date & Big-Name Guests For First Season – TCA". Deadline. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (June 8, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.7.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
^ Metcalf, Mitch (June 15, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.14.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
^ Metcalf, Mitch (July 7, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.5.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
^ Metcalf, Mitch (July 13, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.12.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
^ Metcalf, Mitch (August 3, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.2.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
^ Lloyd, Robert (2016-11-16). "Pop's new comedy 'Nightcap' takes on the absurdities, rivalries of late-night TV". Los Angeles Times.
^ Saraiya, Sonia (2016-11-16). "TV Review: 'Nightcap' on Pop Starring Ali Wentworth". Variety.
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New commitments for Brazil’s Cerrado?
posted by Helen Burley, 5 March 2019
Cargill has announced a new soy policy for South America and a group of traders have signed up to a new monitoring initiative, but are these commitments enough to protect the Cerrado?
The soy giant Cargill has unveiled a new sustainable soy policy for South America, committing that its soy will be deforestation-free, and that it will protect “natural vegetation beyond forests”, including important areas such as Brazil’s Cerrado and the Chaco which stretches across Argentina and Paraguay.
The company’s forest policy, which has been updated, now applies “across all entities, all agri supply chains, including indirect, with immediate effect”.
The company has committed to publish a time-bound Action Plan, developed in consultation with stakeholders, by the 15 June 2019, which will be key in establishing how the commitment will be implemented and the timeframe that it is working to.
New mechanism for monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado
Cargill is also one of the six companies to sign up to a new agreement to improve transparency and traceability for soybean supply chains in Brazil’s vast Cerrado.
The Cerrado’s ecologically and carbon rich biome has been the target for much of the recent soy expansion in Brazil – not only threatening precious biodiversity, but also impacting the region’s water supplies.
The initiative, led by the Soft Commodities Platform, follows sustained pressure from NGOs and some retailers and manufacturers in soy supply chains to increase protection for the area.
Cargill and the other five companies (Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, COFCO, Louis Dreyfus and Glencore Agriculture) have agreed to a common mechanism to monitor deforestation, recognising the importance of the Cerrado's vegetation, but the statement does not include any agreement to eliminate deforestation and vegetation clearance.
This is particularly disappointing given that some of the companies have gone beyond this in their individual commitments. Louis Dreyfus committed last year to discourage and eliminate the clearance of native vegetation, while COFCO has a policy to avoid deforestation and protect against conversion of natural and critical habitats leading to loss of biodiversity.
Need to do more
The Soft Commodities Platform agreement does however represent some progress in that it is important that companies work together to address these complex challenges. But the slow steps are cause for concern. As Cargill’s updated forest policy recognises, there is an urgent need to act on climate change – and eliminating the clearance of forests and native vegetation is key to this. While better monitoring is crucial, this needs to lead to action by the soy traders involved. Simply monitoring the loss of vegetation on its own, is not enough.
Similarly, Cargill’s new soy policy is an important step in the right direction but its value will ultimately depend on the promised action plan.
Forest 500 has introduced new assessment criteria to look at the steps companies are taking to implement commitments, recognising that without these, it is impossible to understand what progress companies are making.
Our assessment process suggests there are still large gaps in Cargill’s new policy.
When developing the action plan, we urge Cargill to consider:
clear commitments on levels of transparency (will they for example be publishing details of sourcing areas and suppliers?),
clear commitments on levels of traceability;
clear commitments on how suppliers are monitored for compliance;
details of how non-compliance is dealt with;
and clear information about grievance procedures, which should be open to all and should cover environmental and social issues, is also important.
Time is running out for companies making commitments to eliminate the conversion of native vegetation – not just because the 2020 deadline is looming but because time is also running out to protect global biodiversity and keep global temperature rise from climate change within two degrees.
All of the companies operating in forest-risk commodity sectors need to be taking urgent action while there are still forests and important native vegetation such as the Cerrado and the Chaco left to save.
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Recurrent pulmonary hydatid disease: analysis of ten cases
Arinc, S.; Alpay, L.; Okur, E.; Köksal, C.; Sogukpinar, O.; Kosif, A.; Halezeroglu, S.; Atasalihi, A.
Surgery Today 38(11): 983-986
To investigate the incidence and define the importance of recurrent pulmonary hydatid cysts in developing countries. We analyzed the records of 312 patients with pulmonary hydatid cyst disease diagnosed in our center between 1999 and 2005. A recurrent pulmonary hydatid cyst was diagnosed in 10 (3.2%) of the 312 patients [8 men and 2 women, mean age 36.9 (range 20-60) years]. The diagnosis was based on radiographic, clinical, or serological findings, established intraoperatively. The most frequent symptom of recurrent pulmonary hydatid cyst was hemoptysis (60%). The mean interval between diagnosis of the initial hydatid cyst and detection of recurrence was 8.75 (range 3-15) years. Bronchoscopy was performed in all patients, but proved diagnostic in only one. The localization of the initial and recurrent cysts differed in seven patients. A median follow-up period of 5 years revealed second recurrences in only two patients; manifesting as an intrapleural rupture of the cyst in one and as empyema in one. The recurrence was treated by resection in all patients; as cystectomy in eight patients, lobectomy in one patient, and pneumonectomy in one patient. Pulmonary hydatid cyst may recur in the same or a different location in the lung. Patients with a pleural lesion must be followed up regularly for any signs of recurrence.
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3759-x
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Multi-vesicular pulmonary hydatid cyst, the potent underestimated factor in the formation of daughter cysts of pulmonary hydatid disease. Lung India 32(4): 375-377, 2015
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You are here: Home / Economy / Britain aligns with EU rivaling US on trade and Iran, abandons bilateral ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Britain aligns with EU rivaling US on trade and Iran, abandons bilateral ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
May 3, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment
Cecilia Malmström, Member of the European Commission in charge of Trade, receives Tarō Kōno, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs. Date: 25/04/2018. Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont. © European Union, 2018 / Source: EC-Audiovisual Service / Photo: Lukasz Kobus.
Last Sunday 29 April, Britain determinedly joined the other two major European Union powers, Germany and France in cautioning the US not to activate its super levies of 25% and 10% on imports of steel and aluminum respectively. Donald Trump, the president of ‘America first’, on 23 March had announced the imposition of the above mentioned extra tariffs on related items imported in the US.
Some days later he deferred for 1st May the application of the new levies on relevant imports from Canada, Mexico, the EU, Australia, Argentina and Brazil. Last Monday he deferred them again for 1st June. On top of that last Monday London joined Berlin and Paris in asking the American President not to repudiate the P5+1 nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Iran. The three European leaders had participated in a joint conference call. Let’s take one thing at a time.
With the EU on trade
Only hours before midnight of Monday 30 April, the White House announced a new deference for the application of the new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the EU for 1st June, while it said it granted permanent exemptions to Australia, Brazil and Argentina. It’s not clear on what terms the exemptions were granted to the last three countries, but a relevant arrangement with South Korea is a strong indication about what Washington wants. Seoul says, South Korea has accepted to impose self restrictions on steel exports to the US by 30% on the 2017 quantities, in exchange for the permanent immunity. As for aluminum products, this country is still subject to the 10% extra tariff on her exports to the US.
Understandably the European Union hasn’t welcomed the deference for another month and keeps asking for a permanent exception. It also complained that the American ruling has already disturbed international trade, resulting to increased steel exports to the EU from all over the world, because of the open character of the club’s internal market. To be noted, Brussels and more precisely the European Commission, exclusively manages and decides about the entire package of foreign trade terms and conditions for all EU member countries. In view of Brexit though, Britain has been advertising she visions some different, bilateral trade packages of its own.
EU to retaliate
Nevertheless, last Sunday, London aligned with Brussels in telling the US they don’t accept a South Korean-type deal, demanding a permanent exemption. Cecilia Malmstrom the European Commissioner for Foreign Trade has threatened the US with retaliation (see European Sting lead of 2 May). In any case, the Brussels’ answer is designed to be moderated value wise in response to the US possible application of the new tariffs. It will concern American goods of a value of €2.8billion, compared to €6.8bn targeted by the US. Britain is one hundred per cent behind Malmstrom in this.
It’s very interesting then to notice that Britain, being on her way out from the club in less than a year from now, is fully cooperating with the EU in this affair. Not a word about a bilateral agreement between the UK and the US. According to Reuters, “The leaders of Germany, France and Britain urged the U.S. government on Sunday to steer clear of imposing unilateral trade measures against the European Union”.
Together on Iran too
There was more to that. London is also cooperating very closely with Berlin and Paris in urging Washington not to kill the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Tehran. Back in June 2015 the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany signed a nuclear Agreement with Iran. It provides for a full stop of the Iranian nuclear arms program, in exchange of a partial lifting of the trade sanctions the world had imposed on that country.
The Europeans now ask the US President not to realize his threat and repudiate the P5+1 Agreement. According to the American law, Donald Trump has to decide this month, if the US is to uphold the P5+1 Agreement or Washington chooses to restore the trade and other economic sanctions on Iran. The three European countries seem to have important joint interests in safeguarding the Agreement, which opens the way for big EU business deals in Iran.
For one thing, Airbus has already signed a preliminary agreement with Tehran, for the sale of tens of European commercial aircrafts. Britain has a large stake in Airbus together with France and Germany. The Americans have shown no interest in doing business in Iran. Bit by bit, Britain finds out that leaving the EU will create rather than solve problems.
Aligning with the Commission
It’s more interesting to watch London unreservedly joining Berlin and Paris in pressing the Americans through the EU Commission, about the steel and aluminum issue. No signs whatsoever of UK proposals to the US for bilateral solutions. Theoretically, Britain by leaving the EU in March 2019 is above all counting on developing bilateral trade agreements with the world major economies, and the US should be a prime target under this Brexiteer theorizing. Still, this week, London decided to join mainland Europe in asking the US to work with the EU on a multilateral trade pact. There is strong evidence about that here below.
According to a Reuters report, a British government spokesperson said “the extension (in relation to the steel and aluminum tariffs) for the EU was ‘positive,’ but the UK steel and aluminum industries needed safeguarding. We remain concerned about the impact of these tariffs on global trade and will continue to work with the EU on a multilateral solution to the global problem of overcapacity, as well as to manage the impact on domestic markets.”
Why leave the EU then?
It’s a revelation to see Britain zealous about working “with the EU on a multilateral solution”. The British Brexiteer government ministers – with first among them the unbelievably heavy liar Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary – have been trumpeting the ability of the UK to determine alone its foreign trade prospects after leaving the EU. However it becomes now clear the Theresa May administration has no other policy option, than rejoining the EU and participating and working with mainland Europe in a campaign to protect key multilateral trade packs, including the Iranian deal. Certainly, in 10 Downing Street they have understood the hard way, that the other approach, the single British solution, leads to dreaded dead ends.
London is not any more asking the US for a ‘preferential’ bilateral agreements as Brexiteers deceitfully told their fellow Brits, to convince them to vote ‘leave’. There is no such thing. As a result, in the first major disturbance of the global order, Britain forcefully rejoins the security of the European Union. It’s a clear revelation of how gigantic were the lies the Brexiteers sold to the Brits.
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Encana (ECA) to Gain From Output Growth, Maintains 2019 View
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Encana Corporation ECA has been riding high on impressive production from its core assets namely Permian, Montney and Anadarko. Notably, the company delivered the sixth consecutive earnings beat in the last reported quarter on the back of robust output growth. Recently, Encana provided an update on second-quarter-to-date production, underscoring strength of operations.
Production Growth to Drive Performance
The company expects second-quarter output within 585-595 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (MBOE/d), higher than 338 MBOE/d and 566.6 MBOE/d recorded in the year-ago period and the last reported quarter, respectively.
A few years back, natural gas accounted for around 95% of Encana’s output. However, the company successfully repositioned the asset base via acquisitions and divestments, which will aid its transition to the more profitable crude over a couple of years. Markedly, the firm expects liquids to account for 54% of the total output in the second quarter.
Encana’s liquid production so far in the second quarter averaged 320,000 barrels per day (bbl/d), higher than the 292,700 bbl/d in the last reported quarter. Strong well performance in the STACK play of the Anadarko Basin, and increased output from Permian and Montney will drive production growth of the company in the quarter.
Driven by higher year-over-year liquids production and prices, its earnings and cash flows are poised to grow further.The company is targeting 15% liquids production growth from its core assets namely Permian, Montney and Anadarko, while being within cash flows. The management team expects cash flow to soar about 300%, with margins doubling over the next five years.
Other Key Updates
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Where you can see Broadway actors perform in Disney classics in Utah!
Posted 2:53 pm, June 19, 2019, by The PLACE, Updated at 01:39PM, July 2, 2019
Family friendly shows are happening now through October at Tuacahn! Their Summer Broadway in the Canyon Amphitheatre series includes: Disney's The Little Mermaid, Disney's When You Wish, and The Sound of Music.
Tickets start at only $32, and you'll see Broadway quality talent and production. It's the perfect way to complete your weekend getaway to St. George with the shows in the outdoor amphitheatre with beautiful red rock scenery.
We met two Broadway actors who are in the shows, who told us their favorite performances and their first impressions of Tuacahn!
Wilkie Ferguson III - plays Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) and Genie from Aladdin & King Louie from The Jungle Book (When You Wish)
• Performed in Hairspray
• Says his favorite Summer series show is When You Wish, because it's Disney's greatest hits all in one show
Elisabeth Evans - plays Maria (The Sound of Music) and Belle from Beauty and the Beast & Snow White (When You Wish)
• Performed in Once on Broadway
• Says her favorite Summer series show is "The Sound of Music" because the first show she ever did was the same one, and playing Gretl!
The actors also love Disney's The Little Mermaid because there's a new look for Costumes, Set Design, Choreography and Special Effects!
To purchase tickets today, go to TUACAHN.ORG and use promo code PLACE25 to receive 25% OFF! Limit of 6 tickets per customer and restrictions apply.
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Topics: Amanda Jones, amphitheatre, Broadway, discount, Disney, entertainment, family, little mermaid, shows, sound of music, Tuacahn, utah, When you wish
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A Texas police officer was his department’s first officer killed in the line of duty in more than 40 years
Posted 6:42 am, June 23, 2019, by CNN Wire
Texas police officer was his department's first officer killed in the line of duty in more than 40 yrs
(CNN) — A Texas police officer who’d been featured on the A&E show “Live PD” has been killed in a shooting, becoming his police department’s first officer lost in the line of duty since 1978.
Cpl. Jose “Speedy” Espericueta, an officer in the city of Mission near the Mexico border, was responding to an assistance call from another officer Thursday night, police Chief Robert Dominguez said during a press conference Friday. A woman had waved down police, saying her son had shot at her car, he said.
When Espericueta arrived, he saw the son, later identified as Juan Carlos Chapa Jr., walking and attempted to make contact with him. Chapa began to run, then turned around and started firing at Espericueta, hitting him, police said.
The officer, with the help of others who had responded, exchanged gunfire with the 33-year-old man, Dominguez said.
Espericueta was transported to McAllen Medical Center, where he later died.
Chapa, who had also been hit, was pronounced dead at another McAllen hospital.
The Texas Rangers are now investigating the incident, the chief said.
‘This environment can be extremely dangerous’
The Mission Police Department hadn’t lost an officer since December 1978, Dominguez said.
“Our officers, as well as everyone in the line of duty, work in an incredibly difficult environment,” Dominguez said. “At times, as we see today, this environment can be extremely dangerous.”
The chief said officers sometimes patrol alone and other times in tandem, depending on the “number of officers working and … if they’re in training.”
The slain officer had recently received a Meritorious Service Award after saving an elderly woman from a burning house, according to CNN affiliate KGBT.
Espericueta had been featured on A&E’s “Live PD,” a show that follows officers’ lives as they work.
Host Dan Abrams offered condolences on Friday night’s program.
“His fellow officers called him Speedy because a lot of them had trouble pronouncing his last name, and also because we was fast responding to calls,” Abrams said.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and colleagues.”
‘We’re all in this together’
Espericuerta leaves behind a wife and two children, the chief said.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sent his condolences, saying he was “saddened to hear” of the officer’s passing.
“Please join me in lifting up his family in prayers and for the continued safety of all the courageous men & women who work to protect our community,” Cruz said on Twitter.
Members of the community have been showing their love and support for the officer’s family.
“We’re all in this together as we mourn the loss of Cpl. Jose ‘Speedy’ Espericueta,” the city of Mission wrote on Twitter. “Thanks to our businesses for stepping up and standing by us.”
Outside the police department and City Hall, residents have put up flowers and black ribbons.
Public visitation will be held Monday at the Palm Valley Church. A funeral Mass for Espericueta will be Tuesday.
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Accused stalker sent man 65,000 texts after one date, police say
Posted 6:55 PM, May 10, 2018, by CNN Wire, Updated at 06:56PM, May 10, 2018
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. – A woman is accused of breaking into an Arizona home, bathing in the homeowner’s bathtub, and sending tens of thousands of disturbing text messages to the man’s phone after the pair went on one date, according to KNXV.
In July 2017, 31-year-old Jacqueline Ades was found parked outside of the victim’s Paradise Valley home, police said. The man also accused her of repeatedly texting him, despite him saying he no longer wanted to talk to her.
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A large butcher knife was discovered on the passenger’s seat of her car, court paperwork said. She was taken into custody and charged with trespassing.
After Ades was released from jail, she allegedly started sending more threatening text messages to the victim — some of the messages alluded that “harm may come to him,” authorities said.
Less than three weeks later, the victim called authorities to report receiving multiple threatening text messages from her, court documents said. The man also explained that they met on a dating website, and after one date Ades began stalking and harassing him.
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On May 4, police were called to a business in Scottsdale after passersby reported Ades “acting irrationally and claiming to be the owner’s wife,” police said. The owner of the business is the Paradise Valley homeowner.
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Commentaire de Lazebrait
Alliance Side Only.
Minimum Required Level: 28
Commander Althea Ebonlocke is located just outside the Town Hall in Darkshire.
Completion of this quest leads to "Mor'Ladim".
Commentaire de kreghx
280 xp and 25 Stormwind faction at lvl 33.
Commentaire de Limoncello
The book you will receive from this quest has a truly touching story inside. If you have accidentally destroyed it, here is a free copy of the whole story:
Morgan Ladimore was a great and noble knight who fought in defense of the innocent, the poor, and the afflicted. For many years, he worked diligently throughout the outlying areas of Azeroth, bringing relief to the suffering and swift justice to evildoers.
He was married to a young girl named Lys in the summer of his eighteenth year. They were much in love with each other and would eventually produce three children, a son and two daughters.
Morgan was thirty-two when war broke out in Lordaeron. Morgan was called to the side of the legendary paladin Uther the Lightbringer to fight against his wife and children in the safety of his home, Morgan left for war.
The years passed and the war dragged on, and Morgan would witness many horrific events, including the disbanding of the Paladins of the Silver Hand, the death of Uther and the spread of the plague. The only thing that kept him from the brink of madness was the knowledge that he would someday be reunited with his wife and children.
Morgan would eventually return to his homeland, but find it nothing like how he remembered it. The once verdant forest was corrupted and teemed with the undead and other dark forces. Destroyed houses and farms could be found everywhere, and the cemetary near Raven's Hill now dominated much of the area. A shocked and bewildered Morgan eventually made his way to his home, only to find it in ruins. Not knowing what had befallen his homeland, he headed towards the village to find answers, and, he hoped, his wife and children.
Morgan inquired about his family, but could not find any answers. A priest in Darkshire, as it was now called, said that he might search the cemetary at Raven Hill for a gravestone. Morgan refused to believe that his family was dead, and continued to search every farm and house in Duskwood, but to no avail.
Morgan rode from Darkshire to nearby Lakeshire, thinking that perhaps his family had fled. On his way there, he decided, against his better judgement, to stop by the Raven Hill cemetary. Morgan spent hours walking amongst the gravestones. He recognized many names of people that he knew and became more and more distraught. Then he saw them: a small, untended plot amongst the many with three small gravestones. A feeling of dread washed over him as he approached. Morgan brushed off the dust of the most prominent gravestone to reveal the name on it. Simply carved upon the grave, letters spelled out his worst fear:
Lys Ladimore
Beloved Wife and Mother
Morgan's apprehension turned to dismay and then to grief, and he fell to his knees weeping. For hours he stared at that one grave, begging the cold stone for forgiveness and sobbing apologies. Then, hours later, something in him snapped, and he began to lash out. He brought his sword out of its scabbard and began to rain blows on the gravestones, screaming in rage. Blind in his fury, he lashed out and swung wildly, catching the notice of a trio of the cemetary's attendants. As they tried to restrain him, he turned his focus to them, hurling accusations of guilt upon the innocent attendants, then killed them all.
Later, when the rage had passed, realization crept into Morgan's mind, and he saw his bloody sword driven into the chests of one of the attendants. Driven to the brink by his emotions, he removed his belt knife and plunged it into his heart.
Morgan Ladimore's body and the three bodies of his victims were found the next day. He was quickly buried, without ceremony, in a hastily dug grave on the outskirts of the cemetary. Because Morgan committed murder against innocents, something that went completely against his beliefs and his nature, and because of the grief that he held in being unable to save his family, Morgan could not die a peaceful death, and lived on as one of the restless dead.
Only days later, his grave was disturbed, and his body could not be found. The being that was Morgan now wanders Duskwood, consumed by his grief over the loss of his wife and children and his own self-hatred, Mor'Ladim, as he now calls himself, roams Duskwood with mindless vengeance and hatred, and has been known to commit murder indiscriminately.
Morgan Ladimore
Parler au commandant Althea Bouclenoire à Sombre-Comté.
<Il cherche quelques instants sur les étagères puis en sort un livre relié en cuir.>
Si vous voulez en savoir plus, vous devriez parler à Althea, c'est elle qui s'est occupée du… problème… avec lui ces derniers temps.
Morgan Ladimore? Never heard of...
Oh, you mean Mor'Ladim! I guess you haven't heard the story?
Well, I'll give you the short version. A wandering undead calling itself Mor'Ladim has been wandering Duskwood. From what we've gathered, it appears to be the undead body of Morgan Ladimore, of whom you apparently know. He's been causing us all sorts of problems, attacking Watchmen on patrol and killing people.
<She sizes you up.>
You seem to be capable enough, maybe you could lay him to rest.
L'histoire de Morgan Ladimore
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Shopping for Uncle Sam
Rick Gunderson’s internship programs at the Transportation Security Administration are a promising means of filling federal acquisition positions with qualified employees
By Jason Miller
DOD resets cert requirements
The Defense Department lists 13 positions in its career acquisition workforce. Those positions include contracting officers, program managers, technology managers, facility engineers, and testing and evaluation employees.
Each of the 13 positions has associated training courses. As part of a review of its acquisition workforce, DOD is updating certification requirements for each position, said Frank Anderson, director at the Defense Acquisition University.
Anderson said DOD recently finished the systems engineering career requirements. Future students will go through an eight-year certification course instead of finishing in four years, he said.
Anderson said DOD plans to focus next on contracting positions. Shay Assad, DODs director of procurement, will lead that effort. After contracting, program management and logistics are the next areas DOD will review.
Jason Miller
Rick Gunderson came to the Transportation Security Administration with a mission to build a workforce that could manage the agency’s acquisition workload, which had grown to more than $1 billion a year.
When he arrived at TSA in 2002, the assistant administrator for acquisition had a staff of about 30. He needed more employees in a hurry. Gunderson faced a situation common among federal acquisition officials: Could he find employees to meet the agency’s needs?
Gunderson didn’t know whether enough qualified employees existed, especially after a decade in which the government had eliminated many acquisition jobs.
The Government Accountability Office reported that the number of federal acquisition workers fell by half in the past decade, while, during roughly the same period, federal agencies doubled their procurement spending to more than $400 billion a year.
Governmentwide, the staffing predicament that Gunderson faced five years ago at TSA hasn’t improved significantly. Acquisition offices are still understaffed, and officials are worried that staff shortages will get worse with the wave of retiring baby boomers. Retirements could hit hard at the Defense Department, which estimates that 76 percent of its acquisition workforce will be eligible to retire in the next decade. Civilian agencies face a less dramatic but still significant retirement dilemma. About 50 percent of civilian agency acquisition workers could retire in the next 10 years.
Yet despite those demographic trends, some procurement experts say the acquisition workforce is not in as bad a shape as many people might think, primarily because of the efforts of TSA and other agencies to rebuild it. “We are aggressively increasing the acquisition workforce,” said Paul Denett, administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).
The Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) reported that the number of acquisition employees increased to 59,997 in fiscal 2006, compared with 59,477 in 2005. They include contracting officers and specialists, program and project managers, and contracting officer technical representatives. The number of acquisition employees has steadily increased since 1999, but the government has gained only 1,600 employees.
Meanwhile, the number of acquisition employees who retired or left government increased to 6,991 in 2006, compared with 6,348 in 2001, FAI reported.
Overall, federal agencies gained about 538 acquisition employees in 2006, basically keeping pace with reductions. Yet while acquisition workforce numbers remained flat, agency procurement spending increased to $400 billion in 2006, compared with $200 billion in 2000.
“We are challenged to stay balanced and keep the levels we have,” said David Litman, the Transportation Department’s senior procurement executive and chairman of the Chief Acquisition Officers Council’s Workforce Committee. “The biggest challenge is filling the pipeline with people and finding ways to keep them.”
Internships at TSA
Gunderson has experimented with ways to attract and retain acquisition employees. Through several innovative programs, he has helped raise TSA’s acquisition workforce count to 120, and he plans to add at least 20 more employees.
TSA started a three-year internship program that offers classroom training and on-the-job experience. At the end of the program, the former interns are certified as contracting officers. Gunderson said 18 interns from the first intern class became TSA employees.
A second internship program, which TSA started in 2006, resembles a boot camp. Interns go through an intense eight-month program to learn the basics of federal acquisition. They participate in a variety of simulations before receiving any on-the-job training.
After being assigned to an acquisition office, they receive additional classroom training, online coursework and mentoring for three years before they become certified as contracting officers.
“The first class was successful, but bringing in another 18 to 20 junior-level folks when you already had that number, we couldn’t ensure they would receive the right mentoring and support,” Gunderson said. “Our chief of staff at the time suggested a boot camp scenario, and that took off.”
TSA put another 18 interns through a boot camp internship in 2006. Through both internship programs, the agency now has been able to acquire 36 junior-level acquisition employees in a short time.
“The boot camp was appealing because it focused on developing and integrating you into the office,” said Kerry Toscano, a new TSA acquisition employee who participated in the intern boot camp. “It was really intense because it was your job 40 hours a week for eight months.”
Melany Pollock, another new TSA acquisition worker, took part in the agency’s traditional three-year internship program. She said the program gave her opportunities to develop public-speaking and writing skills and made her feel that she was doing important work.
Once the interns finish their respective programs, they will have achieved Level II certification in accordance with Federal Acquisition Certification - Contracting, and would be well on there way to becoming contracting officers, but they cannot sign contracts on behalf of the government.
Other agencies observed TSA’s success with internship programs and plan to build on those efforts. In addition, several organizations are collaborating with FAI to develop an agencywide civilian acquisition internship program. Those organizations — the Office of Personnel Management and the Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC) — established a career and internship coalition to gather agency best practices and develop tools for recruiting potential acquisition employees, said Karen Pica, FAI’s director.
Pica said OPM and FAI conducted a focus group in which they asked participants what the perfect internship program would look like, and the organizations are basing their plans on what they learned from the focus group.
Where’s the sizzle?
Various agency acquisition internship programs have brought more than 1,200 interns into the government in the past three years, and about 90 percent of them have remained in the federal workforce after their internships ended, Denett said.
But acquisition experts say more can be done to hire and retain acquisition employees. Litman would like to see more effort to sell the sizzle of a federal acquisition career.
“We need to be more proactive in recruiting and tying the career field to agency missions so people understand how their work contributes to the agency’s mission,” Litman said. “We need formal mentoring and rotational programs. We need to expand the structured experience into midcareer and senior-career levels.”
Pica agreed that agencies must create a strong identity for the acquisition profession. “We will develop a career path model and post it on our Web site,” she said. “We also want to share success stories.”
Room for innovation
Steve Kelman, a former OFPP administrator who is now a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a columnist for Federal Computer Week, said acquisition training is important. “You want a creative workforce, and people need to be well-trained to do that,” he said. “The government has to recruit people and promote the fun and interesting parts of the job.”
Kelman said agencies need to improve their acquisition training in areas such as cost and pricing analysis, negotiation, acquisition planning, performance metrics and contract incentive structures. But, he added, a lack of proper training only partly explains the contracting mistakes and project failures that cost the government millions of dollars. Having too few employees to handle the workload is a major source of acquisition failures, he said.
“By and la r e, they are doing these gs because it is either a workload issue, or they are trying to be responsive to their customer,” Kelman said. “They end up using shortcuts because they don’t have enough time to do their work.”
Workforce shortfalls create their own vicious circle, Kelman said. “We have a death spiral in the procurement system where we don’t have enough people. Mistakes get reported by various overseers, and that creates more paperwork and reviews. Everything takes longer, and there is less willingness to be innovative.”
Denett said he is working with lawmakers and their staff members to address federal acquisition training issues. Bush administration officials want to extend and increase the formula for FAI’s Acquisition Training Fund, which Congress created in the Services Acquisition Reform Act of 2003, he said.
“We are meeting with congressional staffers to come up with an adequate amount for the training fund,” Denett said. “GSA also is seeing if it can give additional resources and money to FAI.”
OFPP has focused on training and certification as ways in which the government can build a qualified acquisition workforce. Denett and Clay Johnson, deputy director for management at OMB, have signed several policy memos this year to address training and workforce needs. The most recent memo, issued in September, urges agencies to rehire retired acquisition experts to mentor younger employees. A second memo, released in April, establishes project and program manager certification requirements. A third memo, distributed in January, requires FAI and the CAOC to develop a certification program for contracting professionals in civilian agencies.
Some experts say training efforts are frequently misplaced. Gregory Garrett, chief operating officer at Acquisition Solutions, which provides acquisition support to agencies, said there are too few senior-level acquisition courses to satisfy the demand.
“There is a lot of basic training, but very little has been done to put together an entire professional development program,” Garrett said. “Agencies also need to invest in industry training programs so they understand how the other side of the business equation works.”
Officials responsible for acquisition workforce training said results from two recent surveys of workforce skills and competencies will help the government develop training programs that are better targeted to fill specific needs.
“In many respects, it will verify what we already know,” Denett said. “We need to accelerate training in certain areas and provide new training in others. It also will open up our eyes to what skill gaps the departments have so they can know how best to spend their training dollars.”
DOD’s acquisition workforce remained relatively flat at about 128,000 employees for the past six years. During that period, however, its procurement budget doubled.
DOD is conducting a similar acquisition workforce assessment. “If we act with a sense of deliberateness and capture the right information in our workforce analysis and assessment, we have time to put smart initiatives in place” to solve the workforce problem, said Frank Anderson, president of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).
OPM and FAI also would be smart to look at DOD’s long-established intern programs, which have helped the services maintain their acquisition workforce numbers, Anderson said.
Each service has its own acquisition intern program to help meet its workforce demands. DAU provides additional training for military and civilian acquisition employees. The Navy, for example, had 300 people in its program, each of whom will begin their careers at the equivalent pay of a General Schedule 7 employee, Anderson said.
“We all feel the pain of finding well-qualified entry-level people,” he said, adding that DAU is considering a departmentwide acquisition training program that could help all the services.
Workforce assessment surveys
Many procurement experts agree that workforce assessment is a necessary first step, but they question whether the government is spending enough money on training. FAI had about $8 million in its training fund in 2006. It spent about $2.5 million from the training fund to have DAU develop courses that both training institutions can use.
Pica said many federal employees benefited from the fund since Congress established it in 2004. More than 20,000 students took online training courses, and 9,000 received classroom training.
Denett said more funding for training funding would help, but he said every agency can offer some form of training. “With online training and brown-bag lunches or symposiums, shame on anyone who says they don’t have training money.”
Anderson said his organization’s $100 million training fund makes long-term planning easier. “We know what we have each year,” he said, which results in better training programs.
Anderson said DOD is developing tools and models that should help it determine the right size for its acquisition workforce. He said he expects that DOD will introduce programs late this year or in early 2008 that will address its workforce needs.
Agencies’ success at promoting federal acquisition as a career field remains a challenge.
“If I can help the government save money and time, it is fun,” Pollock said. “If I keep getting complex work, it will help me stay in the field. I do look forward to coming to work every day because I don’t know what will happen. This is definitely not a slow-moving job.”
Capt. Dean Richter, a Navy program manager in the Program Executive Office of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Warfare Office, said he recently joined the acquisition workforce after spending most of his career as a submarine commander. Richter said the acquisition career field provides stability for his family now that he has retired from the service.
The way to hire and keep a qualified workforce is the obvious way, Richter said. “We need to focus on education and promotion opportunities. We don’t have trouble recruiting people. We just are in a constant state of change, and we have to manage that change.”
Some procurement experts say federal acquisition is finally getting the attention it deserves. “The future is getting brighter,” Pica said. “Because we are focusing on the workforce and because Congress is asking questions and raising awareness, we are beginning to address the recruitment, training and retention challenges.”
Acquisition workforce numbers
Hiring and retention statistics show that growth in the federal acquisition workforce has been flat since 2001 while the total procurement dollars that the workforce must manage has nearly doubled. (all dollars in billions)
Total procurement budget
Source: Federal Acquisition Institute and the Federal Procurement Data System
An update on the SARA panel's workforce recommendations (pdf)
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OH LUCY! (2017): Review by Brigid K. Presecky
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By Brigid K. Presecky March 1, 2018 FF2 Media
Written and directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi, Oh Lucy! follows Setsuko Kawashima (Shinobu Terajima) a Japanese office worker who finds a new lease on life through her American alter ego. Based on Hirayanagi’s 2014 short film of the same name, the writer-director uses one woman’s life as a bizarre-but-funny vessel for humans’ capacity for change. (BKP: 4/5)
Review by Managing Editor Brigid K. Presecky
Terajima was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for her portrayal of Setsuko/Lucy, and it’s easy to see why from the first 30 minutes of Oh Lucy! When Setsuko enrolls in an English class at her niece’s urging, she finds that her American teacher takes a hilariously odd approach to instructing. Josh Hartnett takes on the strange role of John, giving her the name Lucy and asking her to embody the character in order to better learn English and its “lazy” American tendencies. Hartnett provides many of the film’s unexpected laughs, from the randomness of his interactions with students (“I’m a hugger”), to the words ENGLISH-ONLY ZONE written on taped printer paper in his “classroom,” to later unabashedly singing Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles.
Though she is startled and confused by the experience at first, Setsuko is quickly enraptured by (obsessed with?) John. The early revelation that he’s in love with her niece leads her on a wild goose chase to discover if it’s him or the newness and possibility of that first lesson that truly impacted her. When the possibility of something new and strange is yanked out from under her, she carries the blond wig and its alter ego with her, attempting to create a whole new world for herself – however pathetic and disappointing that may be when she realizes John may not really be all that interesting after all. Though it takes a while for her self-actualization to get off the ground, it truly begins when she follows John and her niece to the Los Angeles, along with her concerned sister.
Mixing Japanese and American customs with the more universal need for self-definition, Oh Lucy! Is an exercise in not only cross-cultural humor and drama, but the human struggle for just wanting more out of life. Whether or not that was well-executed by Terajima and Hirayanagi will be up to the viewer, and if they see themselves more in Setsuko’s unhappy office job or Lucy’s enthusiasm and honesty.
It’s rare to find dialogue that is sharp and clever even in translation. With amusing supporting roles from Hartnett, Kaho Minani and a quick laugh from the always-hilarious Megan Mullally, the film is imbued with a very distinct and realistic humor. Though Oh Lucy! is not without its lulls and head-scratchers, it’s refreshing to see a female lead not defined by romance, but by the occasional dullness of daily life and the questions that come with trying to change them. Her characterization isn’t always clear-cut – why go so far and hang so much on just one strange English lesson? – but it just might be bolstered by the same thing that motivated Felicity Porter to move to New York or Hannah Horvath to have a baby; a confusing sort of self-discovery with a lot of odd, funny obstacles along the way.
© Brigid K. Presecky (3/4/18) FF2 Media
Top Photo: John shows Setsuko and her sister the LA way of life.
Middle Photo: Setsuko as Lucy, who doesn’t appear in the film quite enough.
Bottom Photo: Mika urges Setsuko to take her place in John’s class.
Q: Does Oh Lucy! Pass the Bechdel-Wallace test?
A: Yes. Setsuko has relationships and conversations
with her sister and niece unrelated to John.
Written by Brigid K. Presecky
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time for european football – part three
greatest talent in the europa league? probably this 17-year old man, romelu lukaku, belgian from rsc anderlecht.
here a quick overview of the remaining groups:
el-g: zenit st petersburg is trying to win this group with portuguese veterans bruno alves, fernando meira and danny and some really good russian internationals (malafeev, semak, anyukov). rsc anderlecht will fight it out with aek athens for second place; the czech jan polak is belgian’s biggest foreign star, lukaku, the belgian, has he greatest future. at age 17, he is the current belgian top scorer and sure will move to a big team after this season. aek has 32-year old world cup 2002 veteran from senegal, papa bouba diop.
cl-h: arsenal fc is the clear cut favorite for the weakest champions league group of all. with fabregas, arshavin, van persie, nasri, vela, walcott, denílson, bendtner: they already showed what they can do on tuesday. the brazilian-croatian eduardo da silva moved from arsenal do shakhtar donetsk – e team with eight more brazilians and srna as a captain. sporting braga and partizan belgrade will fight it out for the europa league qualifying third place. braga has 17 brazilians (!) and only 7 portuguese players in their squad.
greatest goalscorer in this year's europa league? good chances for luis fabiano.
el-j: sevilla fc is the favorite for the europa league group, with their attacking stars kanouté, luis fabiano. ivory coast ‘s zokora will help talented spaniards capel, negredo, navarro and jesus navas. paris sg really wants to bring it this year, and has french veterans coupet, makélélé, giuly and rothen. they still have kezman (ex-chelsea and atletico) on their pay role, but the promise in the attack is hoarau. this group is tough because the third force is borussia dortmund, which have a very strong team this season: turkish midfielder sahin, barrios in the attack, new japanese player nakawa, and some really good young german players, like grosskreutz and hummels. karpaty lviv is dangerous basically because they are from the ukraine.
el-b: atletico madrid have the greatest star of the world cup, diego forlan. fran merida is still a talent, juan antonio reyes still has more promise, and sergio aguero is the ideal partner for forlan up front. bayer leverkusen have michael ballack, who is injured. vidal, helmes, kiessling, castro, adler, hyppiä… pretty good. rosenborg trondheim is no champions league regular any more, and aris saloniki isn’t really a contender… or are they?
diego forlan is the greatest star in the europa league - and the current champion!
in the other groups, here are my picks to go to the next phase:
el-d: villarreal and club brugge
el-k: liverpool and ssc napoli
el-c: sporting lisbon and osc lille
el-a: juventus, manchester city
el-i: psv eindhoven, sampdoria genova
el-e: dynamo kiev, bate borisov
el-f: cska moscow, us palermo
el-h: vfb stuttgart, getafe fc
Tags: champions league, europa league, forlan, luis fabiano, lukaku
time for european football – part two
here are the next four groups of the european football action which will start on tuesday.
cl = champions league, el = europa league, (historical rank/current rank)
cl – group b
enyeama was one of this year's world cup stars - and he'll play some serious champions league for hapoel tel aviv.
olympique lyon (37/10), benfica lisbon (8/21), fc schalke 04 (57/39), hapoel tel aviv (201/64)
quite an unpredictable group we have here, and more attractive than in first sight. french goal keeping future hugo lloris will at some point play hapoel, who has no one less than vincent enyeaman, goalie hero from nigeria at this year’s world cup. benfica can count with midfielder javier garcia, young real madrid talent who dreams of a national team career. the brazilian luisão, central defender, was part of he 2010 world cup squad. maxi pereira had a very successful world cup for uruguay, and who doesn’t know argentinian striker saviola, left back fabio coentrão and their captain, nuno gomes. not a bad team from benfica, who had a great season in 2009/10, but lost brazilian midfielder ramires to chelsea.
raul hopes to continue to lead all scoring statistics in the champions league...
it should be quite a battle with the other two favorites. schalke 04 has just bought atletico madrid midfielder jurado, ex-milan and ex-real madrid striker huntelaar (who just scored 5 goals in the first two euro qualifiers for the netherlands) – and, of course, real madrid legend raul. none of these were actually starters for their respective teams, but maybe they will find their football luck in germany. metzelder, 3 years at real madrid, is another one of those. peruvian farfan, future german full back höwedes, and american national jones are not well known in europe, but this might change. lyon’s captain is the brazilian cris, who didn’t make it in germany (leverkusen); the brazilians michel bastos and ederson, and the argentinians delgado and mostly lisandro lópez. the newest star is courcuff, who just ame from girondins bordeaux and is france’s rising star. striker gomis has a great future, toulalan is already very successful.
cl – group e
bayern munich (3/5), as roma (23/12), fc basel (96/57), cfr cluj (374/89)
ribery wants to finally become a world star this season...
bayern are the german powerhouse, roma is only second to inter in italy; at least has been for the last four or five years, where milan has been passing through a crsis. it seems like a run for first position in this group. bayern has world stars like robben (who will not play the group stage, since he player the world cup with an incredible injury), ribéry, lahm, schweinsteiger, müller and klose, and future stars like badstuber, contento and kroos. to put people like turkish star hamit altintop, ukraine captain tymoschuk, german national striker mario gomez and argentinian full back martin demichelis on the bench is a sign of quality. roma has quite a lot of quality, too: eight brazilians are there, the most famous being striker adriano, who is still looking for his physical form. juan is a world class defender, doni is a good goalkeeper, and julio baptista hopes to play more often this year. but it is totti’s team, and he is the star. de rossi is also very important for the team, which has played together for quite some years now. it seems that fc basel (most famous player is the swiss striker alex frei) and cfr cluj (captain cadu played for his native boavista porto) will be playing for the europa league, which is the third place.
cl – group d
fc barcelona (2/2), panathinaikos athens (26/32), fc copenhagen (103/50), rubin kazan (323/73)
carlos eduardo dreams of being brazil's next midfield star in the national team - and hopes to show his from for russian champs rubin kazan.
ok, i guess we agree that barcelona is through; the question will be if xavi, iniesta, messi, villa, puyol & co. will manage 18 points out of six matches. the run is for the second position, and my bet is on rubin kazan, even if the russians have much less experience than panathinaikos. rubin has been great in their home league, as current champions they have a chance to defend the title. adding to an already good team, the russians bought obefami martins (nigeria) and carlos eduardo (brazil), both from the bundesliga and both currently in their national squads. panathinaikos has some international stars, too: cissé, french striker, and gilberto silva, brazilian central midfielder, were both in south africa. but both of them are older, just like gouvou, who just joined the team after a decade of success at olympique lyon (and also played the world cup). other international veterans include spaniard luis garcia (ex-barcelona, atletico madrid and liverpool) and the greek european champion karagounis. a veteran team with the bigger names – will they reach the second round for the third time in a row? copenhagen would love to continue in european football after december and would be happy about a third place. veteran jesper gronkjaer will try to help his team get there.
el – group l
fc porto (12/13), besiktas istanbul (81/62), cska sofia (43/116), rapid vienna (39/111)
after playing for real madrid since teenager years, guti will now defend besiktas in the europa league.
this is by far the most interesting froup in the europa league, even more interesting than a champions league group. this is quite obvious, since porto has played champions league almost every year since the beginning of the tournament, and besiktas saw themselves in the cl, too. rapid vienna and cska sofica are both very traditional clubs, both are well within the best 50 in european history. and quite a few stars will play in this group. porto counts on uruguain internationals álvaro pereira and jorge fucile, who had a great world cup. otamendi played for argentina, and joão moutinho is a veteran for portugal; brazilian goalie helton is their captain. besiktas has famous goalkeeper rüstü (world cup 2002 star), the portuguese defensive winger quaresma, brazilians bobô and tabata, germans ernst and hilbert (both ex-national players) – and their newest star, real madrid’s guti. nihat is the most famous turkish player. cska sofia has michel platini – but don’t worry, he’s just an unknown brazilian player! at rapid, at least a known name: jan vennegoor of hesselink has had quite a successful career at psv eindhoven and celtic (including 17 matches for holland).
Tags: carlos eduardo, champions league, enyeama, europa league, guti, raul, ribery
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