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‘Supernatural’: Oldest rule in hunting
THEN: Sigh. I miss Bobby. I miss Rufus.
Grand Rapids, MI. Naoki Himura is attacking the wallpaper in her newly purchased fixer upper like she has a grudge against it. She peels back a section, revealing a painted red mark on the wall underneath. The scraper breaks the mark’s line. Upstairs, her daughter screams.
Naoki throws open her daughter’s bedroom door. Kat is sitting in a terrified huddle in the middle of her bed. She says something bad is in the house. She heard footsteps. ” … Why did we have to move here?” Naoki puts an extra blanket over Kat to fight the chill in the room. She says the furnace will be fixed tomorrow. They just have to be patient.
Kat curls up under the covers while her mother goes downstairs to get her a glass of water. The lights in the room fritz off. The bedroom door swings shut. There are footsteps and the shadow of feet under the door. Kat watches from under her bed. The door creaks open. There’s no one there.
Grey hands reach out to grab Kat by the ankles and drag her away.
Sam joins Dean at the diner counter. He says there’s nothing on Amara and nothing on Cas. Dean sips his coffee and stews. Sam tells him to buck up little camper. They’re going to win this, remember? Keep grinding? Dean says that was before two weeks of squat. An inspirational speech from a tarnished hero can only carry him so far. Sam presents the Grand Rapids case, arguing that they can’t just sit and wait for leads. It would be nice to have a win, and a haunted house seems like a layup.
Oh, Sam. When is it ever that easy?
They interview Naoki at the hospital. Kat is in a coma. Sam asks about the night of the attack, but Naoki says no one believes there was an attack. “Even the Internet thinks I’m crazy.” With the boys’ gentle encouragement, she tells them about the footsteps and cold and Kat’s feeling that something bad was in the house.
Naoki gives them the green light to check out the house and sits by Kat’s bedside. She tucks the blanket around Kat’s leg. There’s a dark purple bruise above the girl’s ankle where the gray hands grabbed her.
Sam and Dean are stopped halfway up the front walk by Neighbor Lady. “Why do the FBI keep coming back to that house?” She says two agents came to the house a handful of years earlier. The memory of their interaction still rankles. “They were two of the rudest people I’d ever met.”
A HANDFUL OF YEARS AGO
Bobby is parked in front of the house, asleep in the front seat. Rufus quietly opens and then slams the driver side door. Bobby jerks awake and comes up with a revolver pointed at his partner’s face. “The Apocalypse is on the horizon, and you want to hunt a damn ghost.” Rufus is like, darn right ghost. They’ve still got a job to do, “unless you found a way to stop the end of the world during your little siesta.” He thought a win would be nice. Also, he needs Bobby to do all the heavy lifting while he watches. “It’s Shabbat.”
Neighbor Lady challenges them as they walk towards the house. Bobby flashes his badge. Special Agents Riggs and Murtaugh. Official business. Nothing to see here. Please disperse. Neighbor Lady presses. She’s the head of the neighborhood watch, and she would officially like to know what this business is about.
“It’s officially none of your damn business, ma’am.”
Bobby asks Rufus if he was ever nice.
“1985. Worst year of my life.”
A train horn sounds in the distance as they knock on the door. In the present day, Sam and Dean let themselves in with the hide-a-key. They break out the EMF meters and scan the house. Sam is skeptical that they’re walking in Rufus and Bobby’s footsteps. He says the world is small, but not that small. It gets smaller still when they check into the motel and the manager tells Sam two FBI agents stayed there years ago. He gets the same room, “for luck.”
Bobby walks into the motel room. He apologizes for disturbing his holiness’s reading time. “Do not religiously persecute me, Bobby.” Rufus asks again why he was sleeping in his car. Bobby ignores the question and says the police don’t have anything on the current victim, Will Henderson, but he was able to get a copy of the realtor’s report on the house. Rufus asks who died.
Sam says there were two deaths at the house. The first was accidental – death by chicken bone. The second was a murder. Man shot his wife. Dean hands one of Bobby’s journals to Sam. Sam reads the brief entry aloud. “Grand Rapids, MI. Possible ghost hunt with jackass.”
Dean theorizes that one ghost broke bad back when, and the other has been marinating until now. But with no way of knowing which they were hunting, Chicken Bone or Asshat, the boys might have to dig up two graves. Dean sighs and sips his beer, already exhausted at the thought. Sam still has doubts. The answers seem to easy. Dean says easy like Sunday morning works for him. And Sam said it himself – this case is supposed to be a layup.
Tags: CW, Hunting, I love Supernatural, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Oldest rule in hunting, Sam and Dean, SPN 11, SPN fans, Supernatural, Supernatural Cast, Supernatural Community, Supernatural Family, Winchester Brothers
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PROS / About / News / Gartner: PROS Broadens Sales Effectiveness Management Scope with Cameleon Deal
Gartner: PROS Broadens Sales Effectiveness Management Scope with Cameleon Deal
May 5, 2014-
By Praveen Sengar and Chris Fletcher
Pricing analytics firm Pros’ buy of configure-price-and-quote player Cameleon will be complementary and expand Pros’ scope. But challenges loom in integrating price and product data models and rationalizing quoting abilities.
News Analysis:
On 24 October 2013, price optimization and analytics software provider Pros Holdings, headquartered in Houston, announced a deal to acquire Cameleon Software, a configure, price and quote (CPQ) software provider headquartered in Toulouse, France, for $33 million in cash. The deal, which is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in 1Q14. Pros plans to retain the Cameleon brand name and product line, which will continue to be led by Cameleon founder Jacques Soumeillan.
This deal is the latest example of consolidation in the CPQ market, which has suddenly heated up given the close timing of this deal with the 23 October announcement of Oracle’s intention to buy CPQ provider BigMachines. Gartner expects that the crowded CPQ landscape will see continued market consolidation through 2014, forcing clients to re-evaluate their long-term sales automation and quote-to-cash process strategies.
The two companies’ products are largely complementary. The acquisition will enable Pros to expand its big data, analytics and price optimization product portfolio with CPQ capabilities. The outcome that Pros is seeking is the assembly of a broad suite of sales effectiveness applications to be sold into organizations that, in many cases, will have already bought a sales force automation application. The strengths in two geographies — the U.S. and Europe — will benefit the combined entity and help it better meet the project delivery requirements of U.S. and European markets. This deal will also help Pros expand into new industry verticals, given Cameleon’s strength and experience in insurance, telecommunications, media and high-tech markets.
The newly combined company will face a few challenges. For example, Pros and Cameleon have different pricing and product data models, so Pros will have to focus on moving to a common data model for two different tools to reduce integration and product and pricing management efforts for its current and future mutual customers. And while Pros has a strong focus in discrete manufacturing, Cameleon has limited expertise in complex assemble-to-order and engineering-to-order capabilities. In addition, prior to this deal, Cameleon was targeting the salesforce.com ecosystem. While Pros already has an integration option with salesforce.com, most of its newest customers use SAP ERP applications. Pros was already partnering with other CPQ vendors such as BigMachines, so this acquisition will disrupt these relationships.
If Pros can overcome these challenges by 1H15, the combined organization will pose a real threat to its competitors. Pure-play CPQ and price optimization vendors will suffer due to this acquisition.
Given the complexity of work environments and the geographic distribution of expertise across enterprises, a critical competitive advantage will accrue for the enterprises that can create a socially active workforce that can tap internal and external knowledge and expertise easily. The engagement initiative provides significant advantages in how business consumers work by delivering the following:
Cameleon customers: Continue to invest in Cameleon, and evaluate whether you can use Pros for advanced analytics capabilities.
Pros customers: Continue with your existing CPQ tools until Pros comes out with a common data model, and then consider migrating to Cameleon if the tool meets your specific needs.
CPQ and price optimization prospects: Evaluate Cameleon and Pros based on independent CPQ and price optimization requirements. But discuss with Pros its integration and development plans, and ascertain the cost and effort needed to use Pros’ advanced quoting and pricing capabilities in the future. Also assess Pros’ vision and road map alignment with your long-term sales effectiveness process automation strategy.
Source: Gartner Research G00259116, Praveen Sengar, Chris Fletcher, 30 October 2013
Q&A: Sebastian Mamro of PROS on big data problems
Industrial Distribution: Is Dynamic Pricing Good For Business?
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Cannabis (botany)
Drawing of C. sativa
Taxonomical nomenclature
Eudicots
Rosids
Cannabaceae
Sativa & Indica
Common nomenclature
Cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, Mary Jane, grass, herb, devil's lettuce
Active constituents
THC, CBD, etc
1.1 Leaves
1.2 Flowers
3 Favorable growing conditions
3.1 Growth medium
3.2 Warmth
3.3 Light
3.4 Water
3.5 Nutrients
4 Growth timeline
4.1 Germination
4.2 Seedling phase
4.3 Vegetative phase
4.3.1 Topping
4.3.2 Pinching
4.3.3 LST'ing
4.4 Pre-flowering phase
4.5 Flowering phase
5 Active constituents
Cannabis is an annual, dioecious, flowering herb. The leaves are palmately compound or digitate, with serrate leaflets.[1] The first pair of leaves usually have a single leaflet, the number gradually increasing up to a maximum of about thirteen leaflets per leaf (usually seven or nine), depending on variety and growing conditions. At the top of a flowering plant, this number again diminishes to a single leaflet per leaf. The lower leaf pairs usually occur in an opposite leaf arrangement and the upper leaf pairs in an alternate arrangement on the main stem of a mature plant.
The leaves have a peculiar and diagnostic venation pattern that enables persons poorly familiar with the plant to distinguish a cannabis leaf from unrelated species that have confusingly similar leaves (see illustration). As is common in serrated leaves, each serration has a central vein extending to its tip. However, the serration vein originates from lower down the central vein of the leaflet, typically opposite to the position of, not the first notch down, but the next notch. This means that on its way from the midrib of the leaflet to the point of the serration, the vein serving the tip of the serration passes close by the intervening notch. Sometimes the vein will actually pass tangent to the notch, but often it will pass by at a small distance, and when that happens a spur vein (occasionally a pair of such spur veins) branches off and joins the leaf margin at the deepest point of the notch. This venation pattern varies slightly among varieties, but in general it enables one to tell cannabis leaves from superficially similar leaves without difficulty and without special equipment. Tiny samples of cannabis plants also can be identified with precision by microscopic examination of leaf cells and similar features, but that requires special expertise and equipment.[2]
Cannabis normally has imperfect flowers, with staminate "male" and pistillate "female" flowers occurring on separate plants. It is not[3], however, for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers.[4] Although monoecious plants are often referred to as "hermaphrodites", true hermaphrodites (which are less common) bear staminate and pistillate structures on individual flowers, whereas monoecious plants bear male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant. Male flowers are normally borne on loose panicles, and female flowers are borne on racemes.[5]
The germination of cannabis seeds is triggered by darkness, moisture, and warmth. Thus in absence of the necessary conditions they may be stored for years and possibly decades, though this will decrease the germination rate. Germination can take from 12 hours to a week to occur, often slower the longer the seeds have remained dormant. When these conditions are met the seed shell is broken and a living plant emerges, as simply two round leaves and a single root tendril.
Favorable growing conditions
Growth medium
Soil is required, except for cannabis grown with hydroponics or aeroponics
Sufficient nutrients—commercial potting soils usually indicate this as "N-P-K = x%-y%-z%" the percentages of the fundamental nutritional elements, i.e., nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Nutrients are often provided to the soil via fertilizers but such practice requires caution.
pH between 5.9 and 6.5. This value can be adjusted – see soil pH. Commercial fertilizers (even organic) tend to make the soil more acidic (decrease its pH).
The optimal day temperature range for cannabis is 24 to 30 °C (75 to 86 °F). Temperatures above 31 °C (88F) and below 15.5 °C (60F) seem to decrease THC potency and slow growth. At 13 °C the plant undergoes a mild shock, though some strains withstand frost temporarily.[6][7][8]
Light can be natural (outdoor growing) or artificial (indoor growing).
Under artificial light, the plant typically remains under a regime of 16–20 hours of light and 4–8 hours of darkness from the germination until flowering, although the plant can use a full 24 hours of light without harm. There is an ongoing debate over the importance of the "dark period". It has been suggested that, when subjected to a regimen of constant light without a dark period, cannabis begins to show signs of decreased photosynthetic response, lack of vigor, and an overall decrease in vascular development. Typically, flowering is induced by providing at least 12 hours per day of complete darkness. Flowering in cannabis is triggered by a hormonal reaction within the plant that is initiated by an increase in length of its dark cycle, i.e. the plant needs sufficient prolonged darkness for bract/bracteole [9] (flowering) to begin. Some Indica varieties require as little as 8 hours of dark to begin flowering, whereas some Sativa varieties require up to 13 hours.
Watering frequency and amount is determined by many factors, including temperature and light, the age, size and stage of growth of the plant and the medium's ability to retain water. A conspicuous sign of water problems is the wilting of leaves.[6] Too much water can kill young cannabis plants.
The additives in tap water can reduce plant growth and can be removed with reverse osmosis filtration but is expensive and produces poorer results than well or spring water.
Nutrients are taken up from the soil by roots. Nutrient soil amendments (fertilizers) are added when the soil nutrients are depleted. Fertilizers can be chemical or organic, liquid or powder, and usually contain a mixture of ingredients. Commercial fertilizers indicate the levels of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). During the vegetative stage, cannabis needs more N than P and K, while during the flowering stage, P is more essential than N and K. The presence of secondary nutrients (calcium, magnesium, sulfur) is recommended. Micro nutrients (e.g. iron, boron, chlorine, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum) rarely manifest as deficiencies.
Because cannabis' nutrient needs vary widely depending on the variety, they are usually determined by trial and error and fertilizers are applied sparingly to avoid burning the plant.[6]
Growth timeline
Germination is the process in which the seeds sprout and the root emerges. In cannabis it takes from 12 hours to 8 days. Warmth, darkness and moisture initiate metabolic processes such as the activation of hormones that trigger the expansion of the embryo within the seed. Then the seed coat cracks open and a small embryonic root emerges and begins growing downward (because of gravitropism), if placed in a proper growing medium. Soon (after 2–4 days) the root is anchored and two circular embryonic leaves (cotyledons) emerge in search of light and the remains of the seed shell are pushed away. This marks the beginning of the seedling stage.
Germination is initiated by soaking seeds either between wet paper towels, in a cup of water at room temperature, in wet peat pellets, or directly in potting soil. Peat pellets are often used as a germinating medium because the saturated pellets with their seedlings can be planted directly into the intended growing medium with a minimum of shock to the plant.
Seedling phase
The seedling stage begins when the seed coat splits open and exposes the root and round “seed leaves” or cotyledons. It lasts from 1 to 4 weeks and is the period of greatest vulnerability in the life cycle of the plant, requiring moderate humidity levels, medium to high light intensity, and adequate but not excessive soil moisture. Most indoor growers use compact fluorescent or T5 fluorescent lights during this stage as they produce little heat. HPS and MH lights produce large amounts of radiant heat and increase the rate of transpiration in the plant which can quickly dry out seedlings with their small root systems.
The plant will naturally begin to develop identifiable sex characteristics in this stage after 4 to 6 weeks, but some growers will hasten this by switching to a 12/12 hour light period to induce flowering and, once sex is determined and the male plants are removed, returning the plants to the vegetation stage with 6 hour light period. However, forcing a plant to flower and then return to the vegetative stage adds significant extra growing time and has been shown to produce lower yields and reduce potencies by a factor of 2 to 3, so growers who wish to sex the plants as early as possible without these drawbacks take a clone of each seedling, root it, and force flowering in a separate growing area.
Vegetative phase
Duration: 1–2 months indoors. In this stage the plant needs a significant amount of light and nutrients, depending on the genetics of the particular plant. It continues to grow vertically and produce new leaves. The sex is starting to reveal itself, which is a sign that the next stage begins. Concurrently the root system expands downwards in search of more water and food. Some newly developed strains (auto flowering hybrids) omit the vegetative stage and pass directly from seedling to pre-flowering.
When the plant possesses seven sets of true leaves and the 8th is barely visible in the center of the growth tip, or shoot apical meristem (SAM), the plant has entered the vegetative phase of growth. During the vegetative phase, the plant directs its energy resources primarily to the growth of leaves, stems, and roots. A strong root system is required for strong floral development. A plant needs 1 or 2 months to mature before blooming. The plant is ready when it has revealed its sex. Plant size is a good indicator of sex. Females tend to be shorter and branchier due to their raceme type inflorescence than males, whose flowers grow in panicles. The males tend to have fewer leaves near the top and females have more leaves surrounding the flowers.[10] The males are then usually culled when they are identified, so that the females will not be pollinated, thus producing "sin semilla" ("without seed") buds.
During the vegetative phase, cultivators generally employ an 18- to 24-hour photoperiod because the plants grow more quickly if they receive more light, although a warmer and cooler period are required for optimal health. Although no dark period is required, there is debate among cultivators as to whether a dark period is beneficial, and many continue to employ a dark period. Energy savings often support using a dark period, as plants undergo late day decline and therefore lighting during the late night hours is less effective.
The amount of time to grow a cannabis plant indoors in the vegetative stage depends on the size of the flower, the light used, the size of the space, and how many plants are intended to flower at once, and how big the strain gets in "the stretch" (i.e., the first two weeks of flowering).
Cannabis cultivators employ fertilizers high in N (nitrogen) and K (potassium) during the vegetative stage, as well as a complete micro nutrient fertilizer. The strength of the fertilizer is gradually increased as the plants grow and become more hardy.
The modification of a plant's growth habit is called training. Indoor cultivators employ many training techniques to encourage shorter plants and denser canopy growth. For example, unless the crop is too large to be extensively pruned, cultivators remove adventitious growth shoots, often called suckers, that are near the bottom of the plant and/or receive little light and will produce poor quality buds.
Many cultivators also employ other techniques:
Topping is the removal of the top of the apical meristem (dominant central stem), called the apex or terminal bud, to transfer apical dominance (the tendency for the apex to grow more rapidly than the rest of the plant) to the shoots emanating from the two nodes immediately beneath the pruning cut. This process can be repeated on one or both of the two new meristems, when they become apically dominant, with the same results. This process can actually be repeated nigh infinitely, but over-diffusion of apical dominance produces smaller, lower quality buds, so it is usually done no more than a few times. Topping also causes more rapid growth of all of the branches below the cut while the plant heals.
Pinching (also called super cropping) is similar to topping in that it causes lower branches to grow more rapidly, but the apical meristem maintain apical dominance, which is especially useful if the plant has already been topped. Pinching is performed by firmly pinching the apical meristem(s) so as to substantially damage vascular and structural cells but without totally breaking the stem. This causes lower limbs to grow more rapidly while the pinched tissue heals, after which time the stem resumes apical dominance.
LST'ing
LST stands for Low Stress Training and is another form of supercropping, many times referred to as LST super-cropping. This technique involves bending and tying the plants branches to manipulate the plant into a more preferred growth shape. This method of training works very well for indoor growers who need to illuminate their plants using overhead lights. Since light intensity greatly diminishes with increased distance (Inverse-square law), LST'ing can be used to keep all growth tips (meristems) at the same distance from the light and can achieve optimal light exposure. LST can be used in conjunction with topping, since topping increases axial growth (side shoots). Topping is often done a few weeks before beginning LST'ing. The training works by changing the distribution of hormones—more specifically Auxins—in the plant. LST'ing resembles the training of grape vines into their support lattices. Outdoor gardeners also employ training techniques to keep their plants from becoming too vertical.
Pre-flowering phase
Also called the stretch, this takes one day to two weeks. Most plants spend 10–14 days in this period after switching the light cycle to 12 hours of darkness. Plant development increases dramatically, with the plant doubling or more in size. (See reproductive development below.) Production of more branches and nodes occurs during this stage, as the structure for flowering grows. The plant starts to develop bracts/bracteoles where the branches meet the stem (nodes). Pre-flowering indicates the plant is ready to flower.
Flowering phase
The flowering phase varies from about 6 to 22 weeks for pure indicas with their shorter flowering time than pure sativas. Mixed indica/sativa strains have an intermediate flowering time.The sex is clearly revealed in the first the flowering phase. Males produce little ball-like flowers clustered together like grapes called panicles. Most plants (except auto flowering strains that flower independently of photoperiod) begin to flower under diminishing light. In nature, cannabis plants sense the forthcoming winter as the Earth revolves about the Sun and daylight reduces in duration (see also season). If females are not pollinated (fertilized by male pollen) they start to produce buds that contain sticky white resin glands or trichomes in a final attempt for pollination by windborne male pollen. The trichomes produce resins that contain the largest amounts of THC and CBD, the two main psychoactive substances. Fertilized females continue to produce resinous trichomes but more plant energy is consumed by the production of seeds, which can be half the mass of a fertilized bract; thus, to maximize resin per gram, infertile cultivation is preferred.
Inflorescence that produce no seeds are called sin semilla (which translates to "without seeds" in Spanish, and is often misspelled as one word). Potent sin semilla is especially important to medical users, to minimize the amount of cannabis they must consume to be afforded relief. Cannabis with seeds is generally considered to be of inferior quality and/or grown with inferior technique.
Cannabis grown is induced into flowering by decreasing its photoperiod to at least 10 hours of darkness per day. In order to initiate a flowering response, the number of hours of darkness must exceed a critical point. Generally the more hours of darkness each day, the shorter the overall flowering period but the lower the yield. Conversely, the fewer hours of darkness each day, the longer the overall flowering period and the higher the yield. Traditionally, most growers change their plants lighting cycle to 12 hours on and 12 hours off since this works as a happy medium to which most strains respond well. This change in photoperiod mimics the plant's natural outdoor cycle, with up to 18 hours of light per day in the summer and down to less than 12 hours of light in fall and winter. Some 'semi-autoflowering' strains that have been bred exclusively for outdoor use, particularly in outdoor climates such as that of the UK, will start flowering with as much as 16–17 hours of light per day. Usually they can start flowering in July and finish far earlier than other strains, particularly those that haven't been bred as outdoor strains. Semi-autoflowering strains can be harvested before the weather in northern latitudes becomes very wet and cold (generally October), whereas other strains are just finishing flowering, and may suffer from botrytis (grey mold) caused by wet weather. Alternatively growers may artificially induce the flowering period during the warmer months by blacking out the plants for 12 hours a day i.e. by covering the plants with black plastic for example, which excludes all light during this period so the plant can flower even during long days.
Although the flowering hormone in most plants (including cannabis) is present during all phases of growth, it is inhibited by exposure to light. To induce flowering, the plant must be subject to at least 8 hours of darkness per day; this number is very strain-specific and most growers use 12 hours of darkness.
Flowers from certain plants (e.g. cannabis) are called bract/bracteole, and are (with cannabis) the most prized part of the plant. During the late period, the bract/bracteole are easily visible to the naked eye. Bract/bracteole development begins approximately 1–2 weeks after the photoperiod is reduced. In the first weeks of flowering a plant usually doubles in size and can triple. Bract/bracteole development ends around 5 weeks into flowering and is followed by a period of bract/bracteole “swelling”. During this time the buds greatly increase in weight and size.[6][11]
Cannabis plants contain a number of different specific compounds at various ratios. Cannabis contains more than 460 compounds;[12] at least 80 of these are cannabinoids,[13][14]chemical compounds that interact with cannabinoid receptors in the brain.[15]
The most psychoactive cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant is tetrahydrocannabinol (or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), commonly known as THC. C. sativa and C. indica generally grow tall (some varieties reach 4 m) and their females start the production of flowers rich in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) (up to 29% by weight) as the season changes from summer to autumn.
Cannabis (Wikipedia)
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A Day in the Life of Hank the Therapy Dog
August 26, 2016 | Patient Care, Patient Stories, Pediatric Surgery
Author: Anna Altavas 2 Comments
Ever wonder what it’s like to walk in the ‘shoes’, or rather the ‘paw prints’, of a furry friend? In honor of National Dog Day, On the Pulse is featuring one of the incredible canine and human companion pairs that bring joy and comfort to the hospital each week through Seattle Children’s Visiting Dog Program.
Hank, the 5-year-old, 78-pound Old English sheepdog, may seem like an unlikely visitor strolling through the colorful halls of Seattle Children’s, but he’s there for one important reason — to put as many smiles on the faces of young patients as possible.
The shaggy canine with a slow strut makes his rounds visiting patients in different units of the hospital every other Thursday of the month alongside his trusty human companion, Tom Whalen.
During their visits, the “Tom Hanks” duo carry a celebrity-like status, frequently being stopped in the hallways by patients, parents and staff for a quick pet on the head or simple greeting.
From his calm demeanor, soulful stare and wag of the tail each time he encounters someone, it’s clear that Hank, a registered therapy dog who has been visiting the hospital for two years, is skilled in comforting those that he meets.
Whalen said he understands that for some kids, the stress of a hospital stay can be overwhelming; especially for those whose stays last weeks or even months due to the need for significant medical care. But, he believes a visit from a therapy dog like Hank can help patients experience joy, even in the midst of challenging circumstances, and provide them with energy and motivation to aid in their healing process.
“The fuzzy feeling Hank provides reaches far beyond the surface of these kids’ hands,” said Whalen. “We are able to give them a new focus aside from what they are currently feeling. It’s amazing to see the positive shift in energy for both the patient and their family after Hank walks in.”
An unbreakable bond leads to a healing paw
Hank and his human companion, Tom Whalen, visit the hospital every other Thursday.
This dynamic duo is just one of nine six-legged teams that Christi Dudzik, Visiting Dog Program Coordinator in Seattle Children’s Child Life Department, leads. She and her yellow Labrador, Paddy, make frequent visits to the hospital as well.
“Teamwork is key in the relationship between a therapy dog and its owner,” said Dudzik. “It’s not just about the dog — there needs to be a strong connection between both ends of the leash.”
This connection was immediate the very first day Whalen laid eyes on Hank as a bushy 9-pound puppy. With his laid-back, loving temperament, Whalen felt like he couldn’t have been luckier in finding the perfect dog.
Hank soon became Whalen’s travel and sightseeing companion, driving thousands of miles across the country to visit friends and family and making pit stops along the way to famous landmarks like Mount Rushmore.
It was not long until Hank’s relentless patience and gentle nature sparked the idea for Whalen that he should become a therapy dog so he could spread joy to those who needed it most.
Whalen also understood the challenges of spending time in a hospital. When he was just 9-years-old, his brother was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent several years visiting his brother at a children’s hospital in Southern California where he grew up.
Hank makes a pit stop to see Mount Rushmore.
“I remember how my brother loved having visitors,” recalls Whalen. “This is part of the reason why I love visiting kids at Seattle Children’s. I’m able to see the amazing affect Hank and I can have. I’ve even seen patients whose parents have told me that their child had not smiled or laughed in days or weeks, but as soon as Hank walked in, they lit up with sheer joy.”
In ‘puparation’ for a visit
The hospital requires a therapy dog to be bathed 24-48 hours prior to a visit due to infection control. Luckily, Hank enjoys bath time and perks up the minute he sees Whalen spread out towels on his bathroom floor meant to soak up the expected overflow of water.
After the bath and brushing his long luxurious locks, Whalen carefully places a bright orange Seattle Children’s bandana around Hank’s neck, which indicates it’s go-time.
Once at the hospital, the duo receives a list of patients who are awaiting a visit from a furry friend. Then they’re off to do what they do best.
On this particular evening, the pair is stopped by a mom walking down the hall who is taken by Hank’s irresistible charm. As she bends down to pet Hank with a grin from ear-to-ear, she said, “He’s such a cutie! You have to visit my daughter — it would make her day!”
Never turning down a visit, the pair was on their way.
A ‘fur-ever’ friend, the ‘pawsitive’ effect of a therapy dog
Isabella Antoun, 13, glows during her visit with Hank.
Jo-Anne Antoun’s 13-year-old daughter, Isabella, was admitted to the hospital after she felt an uncomfortable pain in her abdomen. It turned out that she had appendicitis and developed a large abscess, which needed to be treated by pediatric surgeons immediately.
After the surgery, Isabella needed to stay at the hospital for a few days to fully recover. Antoun said that Isabelle was feeling down and was anxious to go home.
However, as soon as Whalen knocked on the door and Hank trotted in, Isabella’s eyes widened and her face glowed with pure joy.
Hank gently walked over to her and laid his large head on the side of her bed as an invitation to pet his freshly-groomed mane.
Isabella cheerfully uttered, “Wow, he’s so fluffy and friendly!”
Antoun was ecstatic to see the change in her daughter’s mood during and after Hank’s visit.
“Hank was adorable — he lifted our family’s mood and took the time to interact with all of us in the room. Hank is amazing.”
Whalen said this type of reaction is common and is why they do what they do.
“Some of the reactions I’ve witnessed are remarkable,” said Whalen. “We once visited a patient that had been unresponsive, but a gentle stroke of Hank’s hair encouraged movement and interaction that their family hadn’t seen in days. Hank has also consoled families in distress, and on occasion, has transformed tears of sadness to tears of joy. I am just in awe of Hanks ability to help heal and I am honored to be on the other end of his leash, helping to brighten these kids’ day.”
To see Tom and Hank talk about their experience volunteering as one of Seattle Children’s visiting dog teams on KING 5’s New Day Northwest, watch A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog.
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Duanette Collins says:
I adore Hank. God put animals on this earth to help us and he is doing just that. Keep it up Hank.
Cecile Manalo says:
Thanks for bringing Hank to this hospital he’s adorable and it makes them smile every time they see him! Love you Hank from Alaska!
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Check Out Alamo Drafthouse’s All-Clown Screening of IT
by Matt Dolloff
Alamo Drafthouse has released a slew of new photos from their clown-only screenings of IT. Andrés Muschietti's reimagining of Stephen King's classic novel has shattered expectations at the box office in its opening weekend, virtually doubling projections and posting the biggest debut ever for a horror movie. The film also drew strong reviews from critics, making it one of the year's biggest all-around successes after less than a week in theaters.
IT appears poised to continue its big box office run on the strength of its infectious core group of young actors, Muschietti's unsettling visuals, and of course, Bill Skarsgard's frightening thrills as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The iconic villain inspired the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain to host clown-only screenings at many locations, requiring patrons to attend showings of the film in full clown costumes. They had no shortage of viewers willing to don the makeup and outlandish outfits, and a new set of photos reveals what some of the events looked like.
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You can see many of the "clowns" that invaded Alamo Drafthouse via the chain's official blog, Birth. Movies. Death. The photos reportedly came from pre-parties at four of Alamo Drafthouse's six locations in Austin, Texas, where the chain was founded. A wide variety of harlequins dressed for the occasion; you can spot a few visitors who went as Tim Curry's Pennywise from the original IT miniseries. The clowns ranged from silly to disturbing to murderous.
Check out photos from Alamo Drafthouse's all-clown screening of IT
According to Birth. Movies. Death., not everyone had to arrive at the events in full clown makeup. Those who weren't "sufficiently clownish" could get their faces painted by on-site artists. The parties also featured games and photo ops, in addition to Alamo Drafthouse's unique food & drink menu, before everyone got to see Muschietti's IT for the first time.
The events were ostensibly a rousing success for Alamo Drafthouse, which also held clown parties in Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Omaha, and even Brooklyn. As a company known for its strict policies regarding moviegoing etiquette, the IT screenings were probably that much creepier with literally everyone sitting in silence dressed as killer clowns. Considering the film's commercial success, perhaps you'll see more Pennywise lookalikes roaming around your local theaters.
Alamo Drafthouse certainly made plenty of IT fans happy, but it probably did nothing to curry favor with real-life clowns over their concerns that the new film would hurt their image. But that kind of controversy has followed Stephen King's story since the book's debut in 1986; it would have been hard for Muschietti's re-adaptation to make things any worse. For now, Alamo Drafthouse fans can simply get their clown costumes ready for the sequel.
Next: IT Shatters Box Office Records With Biggest Horror Movie Opening Ever
Source: Birth. Movies. Death.
IT (2017) release date: Sep 08, 2017
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'Inception' Viral Site Explores Dream Research
by Mike Eisenberg
– on Apr 23, 2010
The latest stage of the interactive game on Inception's viral website presents us with a video of director Christopher Nolan interviewing "dream researchers" on the thematic element of the film.
The video takes its sweet time to reward the patient viewer with more hints about the concepts within Inception. Still, the first few minutes give fantastic insight into the ideas about the origin of dreams and how we perceive them.
Give the entire video a chance, because the way these subjects speak about dreams, and the subconscious, is fascinating. What better context, than in preparation for one of the most mysterious films ever, to explore physiological theories and research?
The video comes a few stages into the game unfolding at Mind Crime. We recently showed you four new images from the film as well as the device used to access dreams in the film - the Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous Device (PASIV).
Now, you can work your way through the game's maze to find a poster with a note stating, "SEND TO CPT. DARREN BARTEL."
But you won't find the video right there. You've got to make your way to YouTube, where a simple search for the fictional captain reveals the viral video in a Cloverfield-like method of promotion.
The last leg of the video is where it gets especially interesting. But, halfway through, the mentions of flying in your dreams by the female researcher definitely hints at the possibility of some flying in Inception. Honestly though, I wouldn't expect it from Nolan.
"Once someone is aware they are dreaming, they can actively participate in the dream- sometimes even change it. Usually when you're aware you're dreaming, you wake up. But we have techniques that can train someone to stay in the dream and with enough practice one can stay in a dream for an extended period of time."
"[The military] took it one step further. If one can actively participate in one's own dreams, what would happen if one could participate in another person's dreams? The military calls this program 'Project Somnacin.' And from what I've heard, two or three subjects are able to collectively participate in one dream."
Give the video a look and see if you can decode it even further.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEItJLwvsF0&feature=player_embedded
Who is to say much of the footage is not real research from Christopher Nolan? We don't have any proof that these people are not, in fact, real researchers in the science of dreaming - and clearly Nolan has done his homework on the topic. Either way, the video is a perfect example of what the film hopes to bring by balancing intelligence and creativity.
It's also worth mentioning that the video is edited together in a way that suggests somebody removed vital sequences. Maybe we will see the missing pieces later in the viral campaign? Maybe this is just another example of how good the viral marketing has been so far - leaving us wanting more. It's fascinating how engaging the process has been without giving away much of anything at all.
It is strange to see Christopher Nolan actively participating in the video - which, as far as we can tell, is completely artificial and strictly for the purpose of viral marketing. In general, the director tends to stay away from openly participating in these types of modern promotional campaigns - but the upcoming summer blockbuster is calling for more face time from Nolan.
With great budgets comes great responsibility, perhaps?
Viral marketing is becoming an art form in itself. The Dark Knight and Cloverfield immediately come to mind as two of the most creative, as well as efficient, campaigns - and Inception is toying with the same ideas without becoming so involved that it's overwhelming. The Inception trailers have found a way to mix anticipation with mystery - leaving the viral sites to give the audience a chance to learn more.
It's tough to say what's next for the summer film, but the promotions are picking up steam, so the next trailer doesn't seem too far away. We've heard rumors of a new one in front of Iron Man 2 - though, given the fact the films are coming out of different studios, the speculation may be a long shot.
Inception releases in theaters and IMAX on July 16th, 2010.
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Stranger Things Salutes Evil Dead With Its Latest Retro Poster
by Michael Kennedy
Stranger Things' latest retro poster pays tribute to The Evil Dead. Netflix's hit TV series Stranger Things is many things. It's a horror story, it's a sci-fi tale, it's a mystery, and it's a dark fantasy, all rolled into one mesmerizing piece of entertainment. Above all else though, Stranger Things is a loving homage to the pop culture of the 1980s, whether it be movies, TV shows, books, video games and/or music.
Since early last month, Stranger Things' season 2 promotional push has embraced this '80s mindset, releasing a series of tribute posters designed to insert the residents of Hawkins into classic art for horror and sci-fi films from the decade.The films given the tribute poster treatment so far include A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Running Man, Alien - which technically came out in 1979, but close enough - and Stephen King's Firestarter. That last one was especially appropriate, as Stranger Things fan-favorite Eleven's psychic powers and the usage thereof have drawn heavy comparisons to both Firestarter and fellow King book Carrie.
Related: Stranger Things Director is Open to IMAX Screenings
Now, Netflix has released the latest Stranger Things' season 2 retro poster, via the official Stranger Things Twitter account. This time out, the poster is a tribute to the signature art for Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead, which introduced genre icon Bruce Campbell to the world at large, and started Raimi down a career path that would eventually lead to him directing the original Spider-Man movie trilogy in the 2000s. Check it out below:
The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Curiosity. #StrangerThursdays begins now. pic.twitter.com/x6c9NC0ZwL
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) September 7, 2017
While it's unlikely that any Kandarian demons dwell within the Upside Down - although realistically, it's possible, only a small part of that realm has been shown thus far - that's probably for the best, as the people of Hawkins look to have enough to deal with in Stranger Things season 2 as it stands. This includes whatever the heck that gigantic monster that Will sees off in the distance in the show's season 2 trailer is.
Of course, there's also a theory going around that Will himself - much like Walter White - is the danger, after being corrupted by the evil deeds done to him during his time trapped in the Upside Down in Stranger Things season 1. When asked about that very idea, series director and executive producer Shawn Levy has refused to either confirm or deny the possibility. Whether the danger comes from within or without though, Stranger Things season 2 looks to up the ante even more when it comes to scares, as its latest retro poster further suggests.
NEXT: 15 Craziest Fan Theories About Stranger Things 2
Stranger Things season 2 premieres October 27 on Netflix.
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Home National Shadow campaign: Mike Pence has been secretly wooing big GOP donors
Shadow campaign: Mike Pence has been secretly wooing big GOP donors
Mike Pence has been secretly wining and dining major Republican donors, building up a private political operation that could take over if Donald Trump is removed from office.
The unusual development of Mike Pence's private political operation has been building for months, and a new wrinkle reveals that he is working outside of his partnership with Donald Trump.
For months, Pence has been secretly meeting with well-heeled Republican financiers, entertaining them "in a series of private gatherings and one-on-one conversations," according to The New York Times.
Pence has been hosting 30 to 40 guests at his official residence at the Naval Observatory for dinner parties every few weeks. Attendees have included Chicago hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, Charles Schwab, and Republican fundraisers and executives from companies like Dow Chemical and United Technologies.
The meetings have not been included on Pence's official schedule released by his office to the press, indicating that they did not want the public to know they were happening.
The Times notes the gatherings "have fueled speculation among Republican insiders that he is laying the foundation for his own political future, independent from Mr. Trump."
The secret meetings are part of a pattern of behavior from Pence, fueling speculation that he is making personal political contingency plans should Trump be removed from office before the 2020 election.
He has recently been on a swing state tour visiting states decided by single-digits like Ohio, Michigan, and Florida. He has made four trips to Ohio since the beginning of the year, and is scheduled for his fifth before the end of July. On those trips, he visited manufacturing plants and NASA, in photo ops that could easily be seen as campaign appearances.
Pence has also formed his own PAC, separate from the PAC dedicated to Trump's re-election.
As investigations continue into the scandal of Russian interference in the 2016 election, including multiple contacts between those rogue elements and the Trump campaign, Pence has sought to separate himself from the affair.
But unfortunately for his political prospects, he is as knee-deep in the proceedings as Trump, and played a pivotal role in installing Michael Flynn as national security adviser.
Later made aware of Flynn's contacts with Russia, acting Attorney General Sally Yates said it meant he could be compromised by the Russians.
Why Pence gave the green light is a question he will eventually have to answer, whether he's running as vice president, or at the top of the ticket on his own.
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Mbappe Banned For Three Matches
PSG, who have already been confirmed champions, still have four Ligue 1 fixtures to play this season.
Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe, has been handed a three-match ban after his red card in the Coupe de France final.
Mbappe was dismissed in extra-time for a dangerous challenge on Damien Da Silva.
A statement released by the French Football Federation (FFF) on Friday, read: “Meeting on Thursday, May 2, 2019, the Federal Commission of Discipline, following the final of the Coupe de France between Stade Rennais and Paris-Saint-Germain, Saturday, April 27 at the Stade de France, sanctioned Kylian Mbappe with a three-game suspension and opened proceedings against Neymar.”
Mbappe will be unavailable for the games against Nice, Angers and Dijon.
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About Sapphire Heaven
A cozy, new cabin of rustic elegance, which offers your soul over 200 acres of privately gated nature, peace, and solitude, but yet provides the convenience of being so close to everything.
Fifteen minutes from Cashiers, and 55 minutes southeast of Asheville, N.C. is Sapphire Heaven; a cozy, new cabin of rustic elegance, which offers your soul over 200 acres of privately gated nature, peace, and solitude, but yet provides the convenience of being so close to everything. Fine dining, boutique/convenience shopping, golf, tennis, stream/lake fishing, hiking, and incredible waterfalls are all within fifteen minutes. There is even a post office, gas station, and a convenience store three minutes from the cabin, on the main east-west artery, State Road 64.
Built in 2007, Sapphire Heaven is a two bedroom (sleeps four), one bath cabin that ranks high on the luxury scale and boasts a spectacular, long distance, panoramic, sunrise view. Enjoy the indoor or outdoor shower, the patio hot tub, a premium sound system, the high end kitchen appliances, a wide screen LCD television, the audiophile DVD/CD player, the outdoor gas grill/rotisserie, and the wireless high speed internet. Naturally, there is also a fax, copier, printer, and scanner in case business calls.
Constructed of 150 year old historic timbers, and boasting over 1000 square feet of outdoor covered area alone. Guests can gaze at the spectacular views even in inclement weather. Located on a rolling five acre gated estate, in the exclusive gated community of the Preserve at Rock Creek, peace and quite abound. Well maintained hiking trails wind past waterfalls and ancient rock formations throughout the 200 acre private preserve.
Historic Timbers
There is no mistaking the handsome, distinguished look that age bestows on 150-year-old hand hewn timbers. Understandably, it has become trendy for builders to honor these wooden elders by using them as prominent, rustic accents in stylish mountain homes. The patchy, uneven patterns that were chopped into them by broadaxes so many years ago still remain and provide proof that our early American ancestors labored intensely for those necessities. Such history on display quickens one’s curiosity about long-ago daily events that would have been observed by these silent witnesses. This rustic cabin stands as a tribute to these enduring natural resources and the past efforts of early settlers.
It was built using timbers and siding salvaged from two historic barns. Inquisitiveness is rewarded when you learn that one of the barns stood on the Battlefield at Gettysburg prior to and during the Civil War. The other was built by skilled Amish craftsmen.
In the mid-1840s, beech, oak, black walnut, maple, fir, and hemlock trees were all used by Amish barn raisers to complete a large structure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Well over 150 years later, that farm fixture was sold and carefully dismantled by a team assembled by Rex Bass, a “barn aficionado” from Houston, Texas. The still usable timbers were pressure washed with a borax solution to eliminate the pungent livestock odor and then stacked onto a flat bed semi-truck. From that point, Rex made one additional stop just down the road in Gettysburg. A partially collapsed barn built in the mid-1800s had been taken down and removed from the famous battleground to make way for a new Visitors Center. Select serviceable timbers, which Rex purchased from the demolition contractor, were carefully arranged on top of the Amish barn salvage. Once the load was secure, Rex headed for Sapphire, NC.
After the timbers were offloaded in Sapphire, Derrell Brushaber, local resident and craftsman extraordinaire, began to reconfigure the diverse assortment of antique materials into what he so aptly describes as “a work of art”. “My Dad was a craftsman who only used hand tools. He hewed his own timbers. His dream was to build a rustic cabin, but he never found the time” explained Derrell. “I’ve really enjoyed this project and although I did use power tools, there were times when only one of Dad’s vintage hand tools could produce the right look”.
An undisturbed iron ring on a corner post
The “right look” can be seen everywhere. A tour of the cabin reveals hand forged nails, iron rings, and even a rusty horseshoe, all still attached to their original supports. Plainly visible are wooden pegs once used to join structural members. The name “John B.”, carved into a hemlock beam in the garage, personalizes the allure inherent with such pedigreed timbers. Was John B. Amish? Was he a young soldier? Where in the barn was this beam located when John carved his name there? Did he go there to relax and dream away the hours, or was he hiding with fear during a less peaceful time? Like John B.’s name, other details contribute to the character of this cozy retreat.
High end kitchen appliances set in antique wood bring together the old and the new
However, it’s ultimately the blend of the old and the new that endows this cabin with such refreshing charm. The use of vintage design appliances, built-in state of the art electronics and veiled security system all confirm that modern day comforts can coexist with the past.
The perfect setting for an outdoor gas grill and rotisserie
On an outside deck, above a stone encased gas barbeque grill, hangs a rusted hay trolley once relied upon to move heavy bales through the Amish barn. It is on a beam canopied by an extension of the home’s rusted, tin covered roof, which boldly belies its age.
Upon further inspection of the cabin exterior, however, you realize it isn’t the trolley, the timbers, the rusted roof, or even the stonework that commands your visual attention. It’s something with much more of a WOW! impact. The panoramic view from the back deck has been described by many as one of the best views in the entire area. At an elevation of 3800 ft., the home’s position on the Toxaway Mountain ridgeline affords a pristine view of the majestic 4700 ft. summit directly to the left.
From that vantage point, your eyes are slowly drawn across and down to the right, sweeping 180 degrees to the shimmering waters of Sapphire Lake in the valley below.
Spectacular Waterfalls
There is a spectacular waterfall about 150 yards from the cabin. The trail to it is steep, which makes it a difficult, but not dangerous, hike. It’s not for everyone, but well worth the effort if you’re so inclined. In 2016 the decent/ascent was made easier with the installation of a 65 foot ship’s rope ladder. The waterfall area is totally private and exclusively accessible from our cabin property. What is even more amazing is the fact that you can easily walk behind the falling water and stay totally dry. There is so much room under/behind the falls that you can have a picnic for the whole family. The falls are made private by the sheer walls above and below the shelf. Naturally, I’ve named it Sapphire Heaven Falls. Standing behind the water, the top of the falls starts about 30 feet above your head, then drops out fifteen feet from you, to hit the mountain ten feet below and cascade steeply down toward the next falls, which you cannot see from there. Further down the mountain is the second remarkable waterfall, Indian Falls, which was considered sacred by the Cherokee. Indian Falls is about 125’, not easily accessible from the cabin, but can be heard from there.
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Home News In English About Somaliland Somaliland And Somalia In Fresh Battle Over Control Of Airspace
Somaliland And Somalia In Fresh Battle Over Control Of Airspace
By Odindo Ayieko
A new battlefront between Somaliland and Somalia is emerging over the control of the airspace.
This comes after Somalia signed agreements to transfer complete management of Somali airspace to Federal Somalia with International Civil Aviation Organization and International Air Traffic Authority, the former having been responsible for its management and control for over 28 years.
The handover of the airspace includes the transfer of staff who were manning the operations under ICAO as well as all the revenue realized of airspace use and overflights which was previously managed by the international agencies.
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While Somalia minister for Aviation, Mohamed Abdullahi Oomaar disclosed at the weekend that his ministry has signed agreements, the Somaliland government is crying foul and have lodged a complaint with the United Nations.
‘Alhamdulillah (Thanks to Allah),” minister Oomaar wrote on his Facebook page, “we have, today, successfully signed agreements with ICAO and IATA to transfer the airspace with the staff and all revenues to us. The agreement will be effective from 30th July.”
But Somaliland government said the signed agreements were against previous agreements and have already filed a complaint with the United Nations.
Somaliland ambassador in Kenya Bashe Omar confirmed the country had filed a complaint through the UN and other international partners and the matter was already being dealt with by the international community.
“The government of Somaliland have made an official complaint because Somalia has bypassed the agreements reached in Istanbul, Turkey when they {Somalia} and Somaliland agreed on joint airspace management. ICAO has not implemented the agreed set of protocol,” Bashe said in a statement in Nairobi.
Somaliland, a former British protectorate proclaimed independence from the rest of Somalia after the collapse of the central government of Somalia led by the late dictator General Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1991.
Somalia minister for Aviation, Mohamed Abdullahi Oomaar during the agreement signing.
However, the international community is yet to recognize Somaliland’s sovereignty though the nation has diplomatic relations with several countries where it has liaison offices.
Somaliland is pushing for complete freedom from the rest of Somalia while the Federal Government of Somalia wants to retain the unity of Somalia.
The two countries have failed to agree on the control of airspace despite several meetings to resolve the issue.
Since 2012, there have been several meetings and talks between Somaliland and Somalia, including Istanbul II Communiqué, where the two parties agreed on establishing the Air Traffic Control Board (headquartered in Hargeisa, Somaliland) and four members of technical committee (two from Somaliland and two from Somalia).
This agreement was supported by the United Nations envoy in Somalia/Somaliland and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia at the time, Nicholas Kay, who described the agreement as a model for other areas of mutually beneficial cooperation.
The U.N.’s aviation agency began controlling air traffic over Somalia after the county descended into civil war. Due to security concerns, the organization worked from Kenya until 2017 when the government of Somalia took control of the airspace from ICAO.
In March last year, Somali government relocated 34 air control personnel who were working in Nairobi to operate in the Somali capital, Mogadishu before officially starting operations in August to the chagrin of Somaliland.
Because of tension between Somaliland and Somalia, Somaliland had banned all UN flights from landing at its airports and threatened to close its airspace to UN flights if the Istanbul II agreement was not implemented.
The ban was later lifted. The Istanbul agreement allowed for a strategy to manage the two countries airspaces through a joint body to be established in Hargeisa. The body was also to be responsible for equitable sharing of revenues.
SOURCEThe East African Business Week
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Past Tours
Aug - Sep 2019 •et; AU + NZ
Oct - Nov 2019 •et; AU + NZ
Nov 2019 •et; AU
The Beautiful Girls
Fresh from another successful month-long European tour hitting the UK, Germany and The Netherlands, including shows at London’s legendary O2 Academy, Boardmasters Festival and Holland’s infamous Zandstock, The Beautiful Girls are pumped to bring their Beautiful World tour back home…
Due to overwhelming demand, Orbital's Sydney show on Thursday 28 Feb 2019 has been upgraded to the Enmore Theatre. All existing tickets remain valid and no action is required. Dance Music Legends Orbital bring their spectacular live show to Australia…
35-years deep, Brooklyn’s freewheeling local heroes They Might Be Giants remain rock's most original perpetual-motion machine; creating startling new music and performing shows packed with spontaneity and undeniable joy across the globe. TMBG’s brand new show features two big sets…
HAPPY MONDAYS formed in 1980 in Salford, Greater Manchester: the original line-up included Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, with brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, Drummer Gary Whelan who are all still with the current line up! The group's work bridged the Manchester independent rock music of the…
Dust off your dancing shoes, punk rock’s greatest supergroup cover band, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes have confirmed a run of headline shows along with their Download Festival performance. For the uninitiated, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes consists of…
Gregory Alan Isakov announces his first ever Australian tour, confirming a run of headline shows along with his appearance at Port Fairy Folk Festival this March! Known for his soft, mellifluous crooning, poetic lyrics and acoustic finger picking, Isakov crafts…
Get ready to stomp your feet in the pit and raise your fists in the air, Canadian political punks, Propagandhi have just announced a run of shows across Australia and New Zealand! The first thing to know, if you want…
Due to a scheduling conflict Thrice's Australian tour has been moved to May 2019. All existing tickets remain valid and no further action will be required for existing holders. All you need to do is present your ticket at the door…
Performing songs from ‘Never Take Friendship Personal’ and ‘Cities’ plus career spanning fan favourites. Limited VIP Meet and Greet Packages Available Australia holds a special place in the hearts of ANBERLIN and fans similarly embrace the band with open arms. …
Joey Cape (Lagwagon)
U.S Punk stalwart Joey Cape of the legendary Lagwagon returns to Aussie shores this September for 2 exclusive headline shows! A venerated punk prodigy and man of collaborative whim, for over 25 years Joey Cape’s creative spirit has compulsively driven him…
An Acoustic Evening With Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
Performing songs from his critically acclaimed solo releases as well as favourites from Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin. Singer-songwriter Andrew McMahon returns to Australia for 2 exclusive shows this September, performing songs from his critically acclaimed solo releases as well as favourites from Jack's Mannequin, Something…
Kesha is set to bring her critically acclaimed ‘Rainbow Tour’ to Australia this October. Joining will be Ben Abraham, who co-wrote her platinum-certified, top 10 hit “Praying”. The tour follows a celebrated era for Kesha, including her triumphant latest No.…
Heading downunder as part of Parkway Drive’s Reverence tour, Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE have unveiled two epic and intimate headline shows this October-November! At the turn of the century KILLSWITCH ENGAGE spawned an entire genre with their earth-shattering debut, ‘Alive or…
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends
The legendary actor and comedian Bill Murray, and world renowned Cellist Jan Vogler are bringing their ‘New Worlds' tour to Australia and New Zealand this November. The two met during their travels and became friends in New York. Curious about…
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Frank Turner's seventh studio album, Be More Kind (released on May 4th through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records), represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. It’s a record that combines universal anthems with raw emotion and…
VENUE CHANGES - Ahead of the tour, there has been venue changes for the shows in Adelaide, Perth and Auckland. Adelaide has moved from HQ to Jive, Perth has moved from Metro City to Capitol and Auckland has moved from Powerstation to Galatos. All existing…
Mayday Parade
Mayday Parade are thrilled to announce 'Welcome To Sunnyland’ Australia and New Zealand headline shows alongside their already announced appearances at Good Things Festival! 13 years ago, a group of friends from Tallahassee, FL formed a band and travelled the U.S to sell their CD…
Lewis Watson
At The Drive In
Leroy Sanchez
The Matches
Raised Fist
Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
Dotcom and Spenda C
Duncan Trussell
Never Shout Never
Jay Brannan
Ryan Keen
The Almost
Johnny Craig
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
Howie Day
Yuksek
Sam Sparro
Royal Crown Revue
Jesus Jones, The Wonder Stuff and Clouds
Boy & Bear
Pony Up
Does It Offend You Yeah?
Slayer and Megadeath
Josh Pyke
The Special Beat
Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu
The Teenagers
Limbeck
Hitmen
Neville Staple’s Specials
Fiery Furnaces
Something With Numbers
Pink Grease
The Immortal Lee County Killers
Young Heart Attack
SBM Presents is a collaboration between Select Touring and Blue Murder, two Sydney-based companies who are both prominent players in the Australian live music industry with over 35 years’ experience.
Headed by Co-Directors Stephen Wade (owner of Select Music Agency) and Chris Moses (owner of Blue Murder Touring), along with Andrew Perumalla and Rob Giovannoni (Select Music), SBM Presents brings together an incredible team with over 35 years’ experience in the Australian live music industry.
Select Touring and Blue Murder have had the privilege to promote tours for Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Kesha, Good Charlotte, The Pogues, Thievery Corporation, NOFX, Missy Elliott, The Darkness, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Marc Maron, Dan Harmon and more throughout Australia and New Zealand.
SBM Presents will continue to promote a diverse range of high profile international artists, across music, comedy and live performance, continuing their former companies’ dedication to world class production, state of the art marketing and a hands on approach to all aspects of concert touring.
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*Doctoral Student Lingling Wu wins Vacuum Society award WMN, 6/24/1999, pg. 5 (picture).
*News from the Charles Center FH, 10/22/1999, pg. 3.
*Nominations for Duke award due WMN, 12/16/1999, pg. 1.
*Robert Pike wins Dreyfus Award WMN, 1/20/2000, pg. 2.
*Rhodes Scholars head for Oxford FH, 1/28/2000, pg. 2 (picture).
*Committee calls for nominees FH, 3/24/2000, pg. 4.
*Fulbright selects two College students FH, 4/7/2000, pg. 2 (pictures).
*College honors Jack Edwards, Lois Hornsby FH, 4/7/2000, pg. 4 (pictures).
*High School leaders honored by first annual College ward FH, 10/2/1998, pg. 4.
*Weekend program immerses high school leaders in college life WMN, 10/15/1998, pg. 2, 6 (picture).
*Tennis standout endows scholarship AG, Mar. 1999, pg. 9 (pictures).
*Physics prize awarded to Abigail Flower, Paul Larson WMN, 4/1/1999, pg. 7.
Materials in the Special Collections Research Center
Guide for conducting research related to the College of William & Mary
FH=The Flat Hat, WMN=William & Mary News, AG=Alumni Gazette, C=Colleague, CO=College Observer:
Students propose scholarship FH, 12/12/1916, pg. 2.
Student co-operative scholarship FH, 1/16/1917, pg. 3.
Rhodes Scholarship has increased FH, 2/12/1921, pg. 3.
Establishment of the George Blow Scholarship FH, 4/23/1921, pg. 4.
Virginia Pilots’ Association Scholarship established FH, 5/21/1921, pg. 1.
Students and alumni try for Rhodes Scholarship FH, 10/7/1921, pg. 1.
Rhodes Scholarship candidates chosen FH, 11/11/1921, pg. 2.
Otto Lowe to try for Rhodes prize again FH, 12/9/1921, pg. 1, 2.
John Stewart Bryan establishes the Belle S. Bryan scholarship at W&M FH, 2/17/1922, pg. 1, 7.
Edward Coles Scholarship established FH, 2/17/1922, pg. 1, 6.
William Parks scholarship to be presented to College FH, 10/6/1922, pg. 1.
Rhodes Scholarship to be awarded in December FH, 10/13/1922, pg. 1, 8.
Candidates for Rhodes Scholarship FH, 10/20/1922, pg. 2.
Panhellenic Council awards scholarship cup to Kappa Alpha Theta FH, 9/28/1923, pg. 1.
Rhodes Scholarship elections announced FH, 10/10/1924, pg. 1, 8.
Poetry and translation scholarships given by Literary Magazine FH, 10/24/1924, pg. 1.
Society of the Cincinnati offers medal for best history paper FH, 1/14/1927, pg. 7.
National Oratorical Contest on the constitution held FH, 2/18/1927, pg. 7.
Two twenty-five thousand dollar prizes offered by Woodrow Wilson Foundation FH, 2/18/1927, pg. 7.
Announcements of foreign scholarships FH, 2/25/1927, pg. 6.
Rhodes Scholars candidates must file papers soon FH, 10/21/1927, pg. 2.
List of awards; John W. Campbell offers fund of $6000 FH, 3/16/1928, pg. 5.
Fellowships announced by dean FH, 4/6/1928, pg. 3.
$1000 offered for essay on Alfred E. Smith FH, 10/5/1928, pg. 3.
Rhodes Scholar to be chosen from Virginia FH, 10/5/1928, pg. 10.
Essay contest on Alfred E. Smith closed Sunday FH, 10/19/1928, pg. 8.
Oratorical contest again this year FH, 1/18/1929, pg. 2.
Opportunities in foreign studies offered FH, 2/22/1929, pg. 2.
Law prizes offered FH, 3/8/1929, pg. 8.
Two essay contests for history students FH, 3/15/1929, pg. 10.
Dr. Pollard to give gold seal of college to student with highest marks in jurisprudence FH, 3/28/1929, pg. 8.
Chi Delta Phi to offer woman’s scholarship FH, 5/17/1929, pg. 10.
Awards to go to top law students FH, 3/21/1930, pg. 7.
Girl Scouts offer scholarship to School of Social Work and Public Health FH, 4/11/1930, pg. 4.
W. E. Boeing offers scholarships to aeronautic schools FH, 5/17/1930, pg. 1, 11.
New John Stewart Bryan Scholarship established FH, 9/26/1930, pg. 8.
Changes made will affect all future Rhodes Scholars FH, 10/10/1930, pg. 1.
Chemistry essay contest offered FH, 11/14/1930, pg. 11.
Prizes offered to student writers FH, 11/21/1930, pg. 10.
Two prizes offered to English students FH, 1/16/1931, pg. 9.
Francis Scott Key prize offered by great grandson for best poem FH, 5/1/1931, pg. 1.
Lucille Palmer receives prize for chemistry essay FH, 5/19/1931, pg. 12.
North Carolina alumni chapter is first to give College scholarship FH, 9/29/1931, pg. 5.
Monthly Literary Magazine prizes go to Chris Sorenson and Georgia Bennett FH, 11/29/1932, pg. 1.
International scholarships established FH, 10/3/1933, pg. 1, 8.
Applications for Rhodes Scholarships due FH, 10/3/1933, pg. 2.
North Carolina Chapter of Alumni Association gives $200 scholarship to W&M student from *North Carolina FH, 3/6/1934, pg. 1.
Dr. Morton announces awards to be won through history department FH, 3/6/1934, pg. 7.
Athletics Council awards letters to varsity men FH, 3/13/1934, pg. 3, 6.
William Musbach receives medal from Alpha Kappa Psi FH, 3/27/1934, pg. 1, 2.
52 scholarships available from Boston University FH, 3/27/1934, pg. 2.
Harvard Business School offers $300 scholarship FH, 5/1/1934, pg. 6.
Howard Scammon and Henry Wolfe receive medals from Music Department Council FH, 5/8/1934, pg. 1, 2.
Literary Magazine announces winners of contest FH, 11/27/1934, pg. 1, 6.
Southern Conference adopts new rules for scholarships FH, 4/7/1936, pg. 6.
May 1 is deadline for new scholarships and job applications FH, 4/21/1936, pg. 1, 6.
Henry Seymour awarded scholarship to Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy FH, 5/12/1936, pg. 2.
Rhodes Scholars recommended FH, 11/24/1936, pg. 1.
Monogram awards follow Southern Conference rule FH, 1/12/1937, pg. 1.
Rules for Bryan award announced FH, 1/12/1937, pg. 5.
Six seniors honored by PBK FH, 4/27/1937, pg. 1.
ODK, Motor Board honor eighteen at Convocation FH, 5/11/1937, pg. 1, 7.
Four Phi Bete’s get scholarships FH, 9/13/1938, pg. 1, 2.
Mrs. Benjamin H. Frayser offers prizes for essays FH, 10/25/1938, pg. 2.
John Fisher tells about work of W&M grads FH, 11/8/1938, pg. 1.
Sidney Jaffe awarded Geneva scholarship FH, 3/21/1939, pg. 1.
James L. Mills awarded Blythe-Branch scholarship FH, 10/10/1939, pg. 1.
Alexander W. Weddell gives scholarship; student may go to Spain FH, 2/20/1940, pg. 1, 5 (picture).
Theatre scholarships open to W&M FH, 4/9/1940, pg. 1.
Jean Clarahan awarded scholarship to Clark University FH, 4/16/1940, pg. 2.
Scholarship in memory of Cary T. Grayson to be given to Freshmen FH, 4/30/1940, pg. 1, 5.
W&M starts new foreign policy group; award prizes FH, 11/26/1940, pg. 1, 2.
Four high school seniors will get Grayson award FH, 3/4/1941, pg. 1.
Scholarship to be offered to Virginia boys FH, 3/18/1941, pg. 1, 5.
Arlene Murray and Farrest Murden win scholarships in graduate study FH, 4/22/1941, pg. 2.
High school men compete for Graysons FH, 5/13/1941, pg. 1, 5.
The William and Mary Freshman brain trust FH, 9/23/1941, pg. 1 (picture).
Awards for scholarship made at sixth annual honors convocation FH, 10/14/1941, pg. 1, 8.
Christopher Branch scholarship for men announced FH, 12/2/1941, pg. 1, 2.
Prizes will be offered for government essays FH, 2/18/1942, pg. 1.
Four Grayson scholarships open to competition from Southern states FH, 3/25/1942, pg. 1, 5.
Competition ends for Literature prize FH, 4/22/1942, pg. 5.
Merit scholars to make bow at Convocation FH, 10/20/1942, pg. 1.
20 from William and Mary make College Who’s Who FH, 11/10/1942, pg. 1.
Scholarship fund founded by wife of W&M graduate William Arthur Maddox FH, 3/2/1943, pg. 7.
Chance Vought Aircraft Company Interviews Co-eds for scholarships FH, 4/27/1943, pg. 1, 4.
Seventeen year olds eligible for military scholarship FH, 10/5/1943, pg. 3.
College names merit scholars FH, 10/5/1943, pg. 3.
Eleven are chosen for Who’s Who FH, 11/2/1943, pg. 1.
Cincinnati Award offered to women FH, 11/9/1943, pg. 7.
College to aid service men with scholarships FH, 3/29/1944, pg. 3.
21 receive monograms FH, 5/10/1944, pg. 5.
Annual honors convocation presents merit scholars, new PBKs FH, 11/15/1944, pg. 7.
Contest winner to attend W&M FH, 4/4/1945, pg. 3.
Osburn Wynkoop obtains Theater award FH, 5/9/1945, pg. 4.
Foundation Fellowships offer overseas study FH, 2/27/1946, pg. 4.
Alumni Scholarship recipients AG, March 1946, pg. 5.
Chemistry scholarship offered in W&M contest FH, 5/1/1946, pg. 8.
Seventeen top College students receive awards FH, 9/25/1946, pg. 7.
Oxford scholarships offered to American men FH, 10/8/1946, pg. 4.
Merit students receive awards FH, 9/23/1947, pg. 9, 10.
Royalist awards go to Boynton, Morton for poetry, prose FH, 4/20/1948, pg. 4.
Students to receive merit scholarships FH, 10/12/1948, pg. 3.
Eighteen men and women awarded merit scholarships FH, 10/12/1948, pg. 11.
Bright adds names to list FH, 10/26/1948, pg. 3.
Science winners named FH, 5/3/1949, pg. 3.
Fulbright program offers scholarships FH, 10/25/1949, pg. 1.
Committee to judge Fulbright applications for foreign studies FH, 12/13/1949, pg. 9.
W&M receives gifts to aid scholarships FH, 1/10/1950, pg. 1.
High School seniors to compete FH, 4/18/1950, pg. 4.
George Belk, Ann Buckles win Barter summer scholarships FH, 4/25/1950, pg. 1, 8.
Bud Bridges wins MIT scholarship FH, 4/25/1950, pg. 1.
Committee awards Jennette Keimling Exeter Exchange Scholarship FH, 5/9/1950, pg. 1, 9 (picture).
Hocutt announces scholarship winners FH, 5/9/1950, pg. 10.
Fenton Martin wins Paul Gantt award FH, 5/16/1950, pg. 9.
Lawrence Carter, Richard Cooke win accounting honors FH, 5/16/1950, pg. 10.
Pomfret presents cups to top fraternities FH, 1/16/1951, pg. 1.
Lambda Chi Alpha to present scholarship in memory of War heroes FH, 2/13/1951, pg. 12.
President awards scholarship cups to Lambda Chi Alpha and Delta Delta Delta FH, 3/20/1951, pg. 12.
Royal Drama Award goes to Marianna Brose FH, 4/24/1951, pg. 1 (picture).
Robert Roeder wins Wilson scholarship FH, 5/1/1951, pg. 12.
Nan Jones wins Exeter scholarship FH, 5/8/1951, pg. 1 (picture).
Gene Burns wins advertising award FH, 5/15/1951, pg. 9.
President presents scholarship cup FH, 5/15/1951, pg. 11.
L. Tucker Jones Memorial Trophy Case displays academic awards FH, 9/18/1951, pg. 3.
W&M offers aid to science scholars in talent contest FH, 2/12/1952, pg. 12.
Virginia Trust Company announces law contest FH, 2/19/1952, pg. 3.
Marshall-Wythe trophy case houses College awards FH, 10/21/1952, pg. 1, 10.
Merit scholars listed FH, 11/25/1952, pg. 1, 12.
Mary North wins WSCGA scholarship FH, 1/13/1953, pg. 7.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Pi get scholarship cups FH, 4/28/1953, pg. 11 (picture).
Graduate scholarships for British study available FH, 9/15/1953, pg. 10.
Entering state students receive 10 scholarships FH, 9/15/1953, pg. 12.
Anna Nimmo gives College Theatre scholarship FH, 9/29/1953, pg. 4.
Fifteen request Fulbrights FH, 11/10/1953, pg. 4.
Fri Delta alumnae grant scholarship; Sonya Warner wins Chemistry honor FH, 11/10/1953, pg. 4.
Three receive national honors FH, 4/27/1954, pg. 2.
WSCGA awards Fairbanks sophomore academic honors FH, 1/18/1955, pg. 1.
Bunny Scheie receives Virginia Sociology Scholarship FH, 3/1/1955, pg. 5.
Don Glover receives Fulbright award for graduate study in Australia FH, 3/15/1955, pg. 12.
W&M offers scholarships to state science students FH, 3/22/1955, pg. 4.
Nancy Ramsey wins Exeter award FH, 5/10/1955, pg. 1 (picture).
Danforth Foundation awards Ann Zimmerman FH, 5/10/1955, pg. 12.
Johnson, Rhyne win Sociology scholarship award FH, 5/17/1955, pg. 4.
Dr. Lutz receives Harseley Award FH, 5/17/1955, pg. 12.
Scholarships awarded to graduating seniors FH, 5/24/1955, pg. 12.
Special awards distributed at commencement FH, 9/20/1955, pg. 16.
Prentice Hill Scholarship goes to James Challender FH, 9/27/1955, pg. 9.
Women’s Student Government Awards scholarship to Diane Oakerson FH, 2/28/1956, pg. 6.
Five students get awards from National Science Foundation FH, 3/20/1956, pg. 10.
Annual scholarships go to six in science contest FH, 5/1/1956, pg. 11.
Zona Mae Fairbanks receives scholarship to tour Italy FH, 5/15/1956, pg. 5 (picture).
Students win law scholarships WMN, 5/22/1956, pg. 11.
Natalie Wright receives math achievement award FH, 10/15/1957, pg. 7.
Sigma Pi receives scholarship award FH, 11/12/1957, pg. 8.
Twenty merit scholarships awarded FH, 12/10/1957, pg. 1.
Crowd attends concert to raise funds for Hibbard scholarship FH, 3/25/1958, pg. 1.
Kappa Delta Pi offers scholarship FH, 4/22/1958, pg. 4.
College hosts science contest candidates FH, 4/29/1958, pg. 10.
Pan-Hellenic awards two scholarships FH, 5/6/1958, pg. 10.
Chi Omega Initiates award in honor of former housemother FH, 5/20/1958, pg. 14.
Senior Nunn receives Fulbright Award to study in France FH, 5/20/1958, pg. 5 (pictures).
Applications available for Fulbright scholarships FH, 9/23/1958, pg. 2.
Student arrives on Draper scholarship FH, 9/23/1958, pg. 10.
Draper scholarship applicants must file forms FH, 9/23/1958, pg. 12.
Richard Prosl wins Draper scholarship FH, 12/16/1958, pg. 5 (picture).
Students undertake task to raise funds for R.L. Morton scholarship FH, 4/28/1959, pg. 2.
Awarded scholarship at State University of Iowa FH, 5/5/1959, pg. 10.
Gabe Wilner wins Exeter scholarship FH, 5/12/1959, pg. 1 (picture).
Merit scholars honored at convocation FH, 11/17/1959, pg. 2.
Richard Lee Morton Scholarship announced AG, Dec. 1959, pg. 16.
Students gain prominence in mathematics FH, 3/1/1960, pg. 5.
AIFC offers Fraternity award FH, 5/3/1960, pg. 12.
Journalism fraternity taps John Quinn as member FH, 5/3/1960, pg. 12.
Pete Bracken receives Exeter scholarship FH, 5/10/1960, pg. 1 (picture).
Ann Perkins receives Exeter scholarship FH, 9/23/1960, pg. 12 (picture).
Marty Beaty awarded Draper scholarship FH, 2/10/1961, pg. 3 (picture).
Three receive Danforth scholarship FH, 2/10/1961, pg. 3 (picture).
Recipients AG, Mar. 1961, pg. 1.
Committee selects Bill Bryant for Rex Smith award FH, 3/3/1961, pg. 1 (picture).
Roger Earls receives Exeter scholarship FH, 5/12/1961, pg. 1.
John Cooter receives student award FH, 5/12/1961, pg. 1.
Four W&M journalists receives scholarships for Newspaper work FH, 5/19/1961, pg. 1, 11 (picture).
Beaty, Earles receives scholarship for study in Europe FH, 5/19/1961, pg. 5.
State supplements W&M scholarships for local teachers FH, 9/29/1961, pg. 5.
Robert Betts receives Johns Hopkins scholarship FH, 4/20/1962, pg. 12 (picture).
Tom Johnson receives Exeter Scholarship FH, 5/18/1962, pg. 1 (pictures).
Norma Murray wins accounting award FH, 5/18/1962, pg. 8.
Applications available FH, 9/21/1962, pg. 6.
Top students win merit scholarships FH, 9/21/1962, pg. 10.
Stuart, Sherman, Johnson, Dolmetsch receive Willet Research prize FH, 1/11/1963, pg. 10.
John Lacks given faculty award FH, 12/7/1962, pg. 1 (picture).
Joan the Lee receives Fulbright FH, 3/29/1963, pg. 1, 3 (picture).
Roger Swagler wins newspaper Scholarship FH, 4/19/1963, pg. 16 (picture).
Forty seniors receive assistance to continue thirst for knowledge FH, 5/17/1963, pg. 12.
Students receive merit scholarships FH, 10/25/1963, pg. 1.
Graduates found new scholarship in History Department FH, 10/25/1963, pg. 12.
Three nominated for Danforth FH, 11/1/1963, pg. 11.
Who’s Who in American Universities FH, 10/10/1969, pg. 1.
Molly Shryer receives Rex Smith Scholarship Award C, 12/11/1969, pg. 8; FH, 12/15/1969, pg. 2; C, 1/15/1970, pg. 6.
Rex Smith Scholarship FH, 1/10/1969, pg. 3.
Kathy Powell places 1st in National Ass’n of Teachers of Singing auditions C, 3/12/1970, pg. 6.
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award established for best research project in science and math C, 4/2/1970, pg. 6.
Bancroft Prize given to Gordon S. Wood, former professor FH, 4/9/1970, pg. 1-2.
Science Contest scholarships C, 4/9/1970, pg. 9.
Aston Economic Geology Award established for undergrads C, 4/30/1970, pg. 2.
Robert S. Parker wins 2nd prize in nat’l tax essay contest C, 10/1/1970, pg. 3; CO, 10/6/1970, pg. 3.
Requirements for Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright awards C, 10/22/1970, pg. 2.
Jamestowne Society essay contest C, 1/14/1971, pg. 2; CO, 2/9/1971, pg. 3.
Tom McDonald wins Rex Smith award FH, 2/2/1971, pg. 3; CO, 2/16/1971, pg. 2.
GE Ed. Incentive Awards C, 2/18/1971, pg. 3.
Nat’l Association of Teachers of Singing awards to 3 W&M students C, 3/18/1971, pg. 2.
State-wide Science Contest winners CO, 4/6/1971, pg. 1.
Edward Scott May wins James Barron Hope Scholarship for poem CO, 10/22/1971, pg. 8.
General Electric Foundation announces 1972 Educational Incentive Awards C, 1/27/1972, pg. 3.
Who’s Who in American Universities FH, 2/11/1972, pg. 2.
John Hall wins James Barron Hope Scholarship FH, 9/2/1972, pg. 3.
Merit Scholarship recipients announced WMN, 10/31/1972, pg. 1.
John Fausz wins graduate student prize for history paper WMN, 12/5/1972, pg. 3.
John Pagan is finalist for Rhodes scholarship WMN, 1/9/1973, pg. 1.
MacArthur Memorial Foundation to give 2 annual scholarships WMN, 1/9/1973, pg. 1.
Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges FH, 2/9/1973, pg. 4; WMN, 1/30/1973, pg. 1.
John Pagan receives Marshall Scholarship WMN, 2/27/1973, pg. 1.
Sue Billingsley wins Rex Smith Scholarship Award for excellence in journalism FH, 3/2/1973, pg. 3; WMN, 3/6/1973, pg. 6.
David Shields is awarded the IT&T scholarship FH, 3/2/1973, pg. 3; WMN, 3/6/1973, pg. 6.
William Cross Ferguson Graduate Scholarship in Publishing Grant for summer term at Radcliffe established WMN, 3/20/1973, pg. 1.
Ferguson publishing scholarship AG, April 1973, pg. 2.
King Scholarship drive AG, April 1973, pg. 5.
1974 William Cross Ferguson Graduate Scholarship in Publishing awarded to Linda R. Musser WMN, 4/9/1974, pg. 6.
Glenn D. Mann Scholarship WMN, 5/7/1974, pg. 4.
UVB Scholarships awarded WMN, 9/24/1974, pg. 1.
Outstanding students earn awards WMN, 10/1/1974, pg. 3.
J. Wilfred Lambert Leadership Award FH, 4/20/1975, pg. 4.
Applications due for Ferguson scholarship WMN, 1/7/1975, pg. 2.
Prentice Hill Dramatic Scholarship awarded to Carmella Maurizi and Mark Martino WMN, 1/21/1975, pg. 1.
Foreign Studies Committee announces awards WMN, 12/10/1974, pg. 1.
Who’s Who in American Universities FH, 2/7/1975, pg. 8.
Announcement for McArthur scholarships WMN, 3/4/1975, pg. 1.
Trosvig Scholarship established for Walsingham and Lafayette graduates WMN, 3/11/1975, pg. 3.
Carol Radford receives Ferguson scholarship WMN, 3/25/1975, pg. 1.
Trevor Smith wins English Speaking Union Scholarship to study in UK WMN, 4/1/1975, pg. 2.
J. Wilfred Lambert award given to Dave Oxenford WMN, 4/29/1975, pg. 4.
L. Tucker Jones Memorial Prizes awarded WMN, 4/29/1975, pg. 4.
James F. Redington is recipient of Glenn D. Mann Scholarship WMN, 4/29/1975, pg. 4, 5.
Heather Hollowell receives Kays Gary-Charles McDowell Jr. Award WMN, 4/29/1975, pg. 4; FH, 5/2/1975, pg. 2.
Richard J. Anderson gives large bequest to establish scholarship WMN, 4/29/1975, pg. 1.
Carmella Maurizi receives honorable mention in Glamour contest WMN, 5/6/1975, pg. 2.
Jefferey Sconyers receives MacArthur award WMN, 6/3/1975, pg. 4.
Martha L. Burrough Scholarship established for Essez High School Graduates WMN, 6/3/1975, pg. 3.
Theresa A. Chalkey wins Trosvig award WMN, 6/16/1975, pg. 2.
Paul Collins and James William Anderson win Rex Smith award WMN, 7/8/1975, pg. 2.
Anne Dobie Peebles wins “Unsung Virginian” award WMN, 8/5/1975, pg. 1.
United Virginia Bank Scholarship awarded to Lynn K. Pierce WMN, 9/2/1975, pg. 5.
David B. Rock receives Stephen P. Paledes Scholarship WMN, 9/16/1975, pg. 2, 3.
Merit Scholarship Awards announced WMN, 11/11/1975, pg. 2.
Who’s Who in American Universities WMN, 11/11/1975, pg. 2.
English Speaking Union Scholarship offered WMN, 1/20/1976, pg. 2.
Applications sought for Ferguson award WMN, 1/27/1976, pg. 2.
Glenn D. Mann Scholarship nominations are sought WMN, 2/17/1976, pg. 2.
Deirdre Gerda Memorial Scholarship Fund created by classmates; supported through walk-a-thon FH, 3/19/1976, pg. 4; WMN, 3/23/1976, pg. 6.
Gerda walk-a-thon successful in raising $2,000 FH, 4/2/1976, pg. 8.
Marcia Carl named alternate Young Career Woman for district WMN, 3/23/1976, pg. 6.
J. Wilfred Lambert award given to Dave Nass WMN, 4/6/1976, pg. 2.
Glenn D. Mann Scholarship awarded to James F. Redington for second year WMN, 4/6/1976, pg. 2.
Jeanne Mershon wins L. Tucker Jones award as outstanding senior participant in intramurals WMN, 4/6/1976, pg. 2.
Patricia Ann Joyce receives Ferguson Award WMN, 4/13/1976, pg. 6.
Peter R. Hegeman wins Gar-McDowell award WMN, 4/13/1976, pg. 6.
Tiberius Gracchus Jones Literary Prize awarded to Steven J. Ward WMN, 7/27/1976, pg. 2.
United Virginia Bank Scholarship awarded to MBA Student Linda Allen WMN, 10/12/1976, pg. 2.
Glenn D. Mann Scholarship nominations sought WMN, 3/1/1977, pg. 3.
Joe Stover wins James Barron Hope Scholarship WMN, 3/29/1977, pg. 4.
Mobil Oil Corp. sponsors business program for college women FH, 4/8/1977, pg. 7.
Scholarships, awards presented at honors convocation WMN, 4/26/1977, pg. 6, 7.
Peter Holloway wins Prentice Hill Dramatic Scholarship WMN, 4/26/1977, pg. 7.
Pat Daniels, Ann Ruble accepted to Radcliffe College summer course in publishing procedures FH, 4/29/1977, pg. 5.
Tiberius Gracchus Jones Winners: George & Stover; Barnhard, Barthomew, Pryor, Ruble WMN, 6/14/1977, pg. 2.
Lady Astor scholarship in need of aid AG, Aug. 1977, pg. 2.
Ray Johnson receives UVB scholarship; Marie Cruz receives scholarship WMN, 10/18/1977, pg. 5, 7.
Scholarship for foreign study WMN, 11/1/1977, pg. 3.
Friel and Barton receive Drapers Company Exchange Scholarships WMN, 11/22/1977, pg. 3.
Ken Smith wins NCAA award WMN, 1/17/1978, pg. 4.
Nominations sought for Glenn D. Mann Scholarship; Applications available for Ferguson *Graduate scholarship WMN, 2/21/1978, pg. 2, 3.
Morse awarded St. Andrus Exchange scholarship; Lacker-man awarded Exter Exchange scholarship WMN, 3/28/1978, pg. 5.
Clayton Clemens receives Harry S. Truman Scholarship WMN, 4/25/1978, pg. 6.
Scholarship from Bicentennial Council of 13 original States AG, May 1978, pg. 5.
$1300 Scholarship awarded to Brooke Trible WMN, 5/2/1978, pg. 7.
Bicentennial Scholarship awarded to Emilie Margaret Amt WMN, 5/9/1978, pg. 1.
Wagner, O’Connor, Anderson, Bane receive business awards; Brown, Richardson, Butler receive history awards; Tiberius Gracchus Jones Literary Prize for ’78 awarded to Perrow and Goodrich WMN, 5/23/1978, pg. 4.
Deadline for Fulbrights WMN, 9/19/1978, pg. 2.
Applications open WMN, 9/5/1978, pg. 4.
Late John Kratzer awarded FH, 9/29/1978, pg. 19; WMN, 10/3/1978, pg. 3.
Dakin receives CPA award WMN, 10/10/1978, pg. 2.
Brian Moore receives award from Sigma Phi Epsilon WMN, 10/10/1978, g. 3.
Drapers’ Scholars named WMN, 10/17/1978, pg. 2.
Winners of British scholarships are named FH, 10/20/1978, pg. 6.
Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities announced FH, 1/18/1980, pg. 3.
Merit Scholars named WMN, 1/22/1980, pg. 1.
Kappa Kappa Gamma Scholarships WMN, 1/22/1980, pg. 7.
Deirdre Mullane wins WMN, 3/11/1980, pg. 2.
Heritage Award to Nelson WMN, 3/18/1980, pg. 3.
Norenberg & Gaines win WMN, 3/18/1980, pg. 5.
Nominations for Kratzer Award WMN, 4/8/1980, pg. 1.
Nominations for Carr & Sullivan Awards WMN, 4/15/1980, pg. 5.
List of Senior Awards WMN, 4/29/1980, pg. 3, 6.
Lady Astor Scholar WMN, 8/12/1980, pg. 2 (picture).
VELA funds run out WMN, 9/16/1980, pg. 3.
Who’s Who taps students WMN, 1/27/1981, pg. 5.
Martin Zaccaria going abroad next year on scholarships WMN, 3/24/1981, pg. 4 (picture).
Kenan is named Drapers’ Scholar WMN, 5/5/1981, pg. 3.
Cadet wins Mann Scholarship WMN, 5/12/1981, pg. 3 (picture).
Martin A. Jarow Theatre award is established WMN, 7/7/1981, pg. 3.
New students get Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship book awards WMN, 9/1/1981, pg. 4 (picture).
Ross gift establishes Renick Memorial Award WMN, 10/6/1981, pg. 1, 2.
James Geithman wins Nimmo Foreign Service Scholarship Award WMN, 10/20/1981, pg. 2, 6 (picture).
Business leaders receive Prentis award for service to College WMN, 10/27/1981, pg. 6.
Award to accounting dept. WMN, 11/17/1981, pg. 6 (picture).
Glen Delaney wins Sea Grant Award WMN, 12/1/1981, pg. 4 (picture).
Jim Comey selected as Rhodes scholarship finalist FH, 1/22/1982, pg. 5 (picture).
History students William D. Martin (Dr. A.F. Zimmerman Award) and Kathi Rae Jones (Phi *Alpha Theta) win scholarships WMN, 3/2/1982, pg. 7.
Mann nominations WMN, 3/16/1982, pg. 3.
Sophomores Nanette Davis and Mark Rogers are top contenders for Truman honors WMN, 3/30/1982, pg. 4.
Publishing opportunities widened as the Committee on Training in Publishing Procedures expands scholarship program WMN, 4/6/1982, pg. 2.
Four win Ferguson Biology Awards: Todd Stravitz, Paul Gordon, Jane Boggs, and Donna *Desmarai WMN, 4/6/1982, pg. 3 (picture).
Judith Ewell wins Organization of American states award WMN, 4/6/1982, pg. 4 (picture).
Nominations sought for College Honors WMN, 4/13/1982, pg. 3.
Mark Rogers wins 1982 Harry Truman scholarship WMN, 4/13/1982, pg. 4 (picture).
Opportunities for publishing widened WMN, 4/13/1982, pg. 5.
Three win Prentice Hill and Albert Haak awards WMN, 4/27/1982, pg. 4 (picture).
Lady Astor Scholarship brings British women to W&M AG, May 1982, pg. 3 (picture).
Ranking scholars WMN, 5/11/1982, pg. 2 (picture).
Bonnie Banks wins management scholarship WMN, 7/6/1982, pg. 1.
ROTC scholarship awards WMN, 9/7/1982, pg. 2, 4.
Competition for Foreign Service scholarship WMN, 10/19/1982, pg. 5.
Teresa Hood named USAA Scholar WMN, 10/26/1982, pg. 5.
John Funk wins award from Purchasing Management Assoc. of Carolinas-Virginia, Inc. WMN, 11/9/1982, pg. 3.
Alpha Lambda Delta scholarship entries due WMN, 11/9/1982, pg. 5.
$1,500 Grant offered by Nathan P. Jacobs for summer study in Israel WMN, 2/15/1983, pg. 1.
Nominations for three journalism awards sought WMN, 3/29/1983, pg. 2.
Literary Awards WMN, 5/17/1983, pg. 2 (picture).
UVB Bankshares establishes new scholarship fund WMN, 8/2/1983, pg. 1.
Business School gives medallion to Hawley WMN, 10/11/1983, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Business School medallion WMN, 10/18/1983, pg. 5 (picture).
Druker award recipient AG, Sept. 1983, pg. 17.
UVB establishes scholarship funds AG, Sept. 1983, pg. 15.
Bank endows scholarships AG, Oct. 1983, pg. 11.
Braxton gets Mellon award WMN, 11/8/1983, pg. 1, 3 (picture).
Academy of American Poet announces $100 prize WMN, 11/15/1983, pg. 3.
DOE awards/training listed WMN, 11/15/1983, pg. 7.
Vice rector receives award WMN, 11/22/1983, pg. 1.
Hill scholarships established WMN, 11/22/1983, pg. 2.
Math scholarship WMN, 11/22/1983, pg. 2.
Alpha Lambda Delta offers scholarships WMN, 11/22/1983, pg. 3.
Bibliophiles offer 3 prizes WMN, 11/22/1983, pg. 3.
Homecoming awards AG, Nov. 1983, pg. 10, 11.
Hawley receives Business Medallion AG, Nov. 1983, pg. 18 (picture).
Rathert receives award AG, Nov. 1983, pg. 23.
Tom Corsi wins Zollinger award WMN, 12/6/1983, pg. 6.
Education students win Johns awards WMN, 12/6/1983, pg. 7 (picture).
Gulesian’s student wins English Journal award WMN, 1/17/1984, pg. 2.
Jacobs award for Judaic study WMN, 1/24/1984, pg. 1.
Erin Sheehy first winner of Southland Olympia award WMN, 1/24/1984, pg. 2 (picture).
First Federick L. Hill awards made to Karen Maher and May McDiffett WMN, 2/7/1984, pg. 1 (picture).
Jefferson award citations WMN, 2/7/1984, pg. 5.
Ruin at the Rhodes: What’s wrong with W&M FH, 2/3/1984, pg. 16, 20.
Entries sought from journalists for Rex Smith award and Charles McDowell-Kays Gary award WMN, 4/10/1984, pg. 6.
Journalist awards may go begging WMN, 4/17/1984, pg. 1.
Christine Jones wins book prize WMN, 4/17/1984, pg. 4.
Nancy Young wins Truman award WMN, 4/24/1984, pg. 1.
Nominees sought for writing prizes WMN, 4/24/1984, pg. 1.
First Lessin Scholarship awarded to Anne Weybright WMN, 5/1/1984, pg. 1 (picture).
22 faculty receive humanities awards WMN, 5/1/1984, pg. 3 (picture).
Nominees sought for Fulbright posts WMN, 5/1/1984, pg. 5.
Christ Paradis wins Laurie Lucker Blount award WMN, 5/15/1984, pg. 1, 3 (picture).
Anne Carol Weybright receives first Kathy Lessin scholarship AG, June 1984, pg. 22.
Rodd Macklin named Draker award recipient AG, June 1984, pg. 23.
Alumni Association presents awards AG, June 1984, pg. 23.
Neal Walters receives G. Glenwood Clark Prize and the Tiberius Gracchus Jones Prize AG, *June 1984, pg. 23; WMN, 6/19/1984, pg. 1.
Daud Ali receives Gorowy Owen prize for poetry WMN, 6/19/1984, pg. 1.
Sheila Cunneen receives Martha Barksdale scholarship WMN, 10/3/1984, pg. 2 (picture).
Sheila Cunneen wins Barksdale Award AG, Nov. 1984, pg. 22.
James Mozingo and Brian Sirower receive Zollinger award WMN, 11/7/1984, pg. 6 (picture).
Jeri Daniels honored as ’84 Olympia award winner FH, 11/30/1984, pg. 14.
Southland awards Jeri Daniels with Olympia award AG, Dec. 1984, pg. 7 (picture).
Elizabeth Tinsley and Laurie Cogswell awarded math scholarships WMN, 12/5/1984, pg. 2.
Phi Beta Kappa offers new McCulley Humanities award WMN, 2/13/1985, pg. 1.
Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching is established AG, Mar. 1985, pg. 14 (picture).
Tracy Flora is named first recipient of Harold W. Ramsey scholarship AG, Mar. 1985, pg. 15.
Dr. William J. Hausman receives PBK Faculty Award WMN, 3/13/1985, pg. 3 (picture).
Hausman wins PBK Faculty Award FH, 3/15/1985, pg. 5.
Mills Godwin receives conservative award from College Republicans WMN, 3/20/1985, pg. 1.
Hugh Waters receives Koenig-Nimmo Foreign Service Scholarship WMN, 3/20/1985, pg. 3.
Economics professor William Hausman wins PBK award FH, 3/22/1985, pg. 11 (picture).
Scholarship planned for Israel study and summer travel WMN, 3/27/1985, pg. 4.
Nominations being taken for journalism awards WMN, 3/27/1985, pg. 6.
English Department to give prize for best poem WMN, 3/27/1985, pg. 7.
Scholarships in publishing AG, April 1985, pg. 14.
Award established in honor of Cecil B. McCulley AG, April 1985, pg. 22.
Lee Anne Bush wins first Karen Dudley scholarship AG, April 1985, pg. 22.
Angela Stephanos to receive McCulley Humanities Award FH, 4/12/1985, pg. 4.
Dean William Spong receives Virginia Chamber of Commerce's Distinguished Service award WMN, 4/17/1985, pg. 2.
Angela Stephanos wins McCulley award WMN, 4/17/1985, pg. 3.
Jill Pryor wins Exceptional Student Fellowship Award WMN, 4/24/1985, pg. 3.
Steven Mackey receives the Guggenheim award AG, May 1985, pg. 3 (picture).
Scholarship honors Dean Birdena Donaldson AG, May 1985, supplement.
William Spong receives Chamber of Commerce award AG, May 1985, pg. 22 (picture).
Awards and honors given to students WMN, 5/1/1985, pg. 1.
Botany award is established WMN, 5/1/1985, pg. 3.
Commencement prizes and awards WMN, 5/16/1985, pg. 5.
First Graves Award is presented WMN, 5/16/1985, pg. 6.
Jill Pryor receives State Far Award AG, June 1985, pg. 21.
Hays T. Watkins receives Governor's Award for the Arts AG, June 1985, pg. 23.
Andrew Jewell receives first Roger Higgs Memorial Scholarship WMN, 6/28/1985, pg. 3.
Wayne Zell receives U.S. Law Week Award WMN, 6/28/1985, pg. 3.
Institute of Early American History and Culture establishes award in honor of Richard L. Morton AG, Sept. 1985, pg. 23.
Lauri Bell wins gold medal for top score on CPA exam WMN, 9/11/1985, pg. 1.
John King wins CPA award WMN, 9/18/1985, pg. 1.
Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest announces winners WMN, 9/25/1985, pg. 6.
Phi Kappa Phi gives scholarship to Laurie Wilkerson WMN, 9/25/1985, pg. 7.
Brenton S. Halsey receives the business school's 1985 Business Medallion WMN, 10/9/1985, pg. 1.
Koenig-Nimmo Scholarship available WMN, 10/23/1985, pg. 2.
1985 Honeywell Futurist Awards Competition seeking applicants FH, 11/1/1985, pg. 16.
United Kingdom scholarships for summer study being offered WMN, 11/27/1985, pg. 2.
Elizabeth J. Flamm awarded the Karen Dudley Memorial Scholarship WMN, 11/27/1985, pg. 2.
Alpha Lambda Delta offering 14 scholarships to members FH, 12/6/1985, pg. 15.
Scholarship for summer study in the United Kingdom being offered by the English-speaking Union of Richmond FH, 12/6/1985, pg. 15.
Dr. Charlotte P. Mangum presented with award AG, 12/1985, pg. 15.
Award in Philosophy established in memory of Gerald G. Miller '1974 by classmates and friends AG, 12/1985, pg. 19.
Walter G. Mason Endowment established AG, 12/1985, pg. 20.
Stanley B. Williams award in Psychology grows thanks to donations AG, 12/1985, pg. 21.
Two juniors awarded Frederick L. Hill mathematics education teaching scholarships WMN, 1/15/1986, pg. 2 (picture).
Phi Eta Sigma offering scholarships to graduating senior members FH, 1/17/1986, pg. 16.
Two William and Mary accounting majors receive medals for high C.P.A. exam scores WMN, 1/22/1986, pg. 5.
Two new scholarships created: Eddie Murphy scholarship to benefit minority students from the *New York City area, and the Irving Wachs Scholarship to aid students pursuing study in philosophy FH, 1/24/1986, pg. 2.
Secretaries in President's Office win Z-104 award with poem WMN, 1/29/1986, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Law, graduate students receive awards WMN, 1/29/1986, pg. 2 (picture).
College selected for eligibility to nominate a junior for the Beinecke Memorial Scholarship FH, 1/31/1986, pg. 7.
Eddie Murphy, Irving Wachs Scholarships founded WMN, 2/12/1986, pg. 2.
Nathan P. Jacobs Scholarship offers 4-6 weeks of study in Israel WMN, 2/19/1986, pg. 2.
Program in Israel; students can study Hebrew, history, culture FH, 2/19/1986, pg. 3.
John Thelin awarded the 1986 Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Award WMN, 3/12/1986, pg. 2 (picture).
Mary Siegrist Hinz Leadership Fellows Fund established in Law School WMN, 3/19/1986, pg. 1, 6 (picture).
Williamsburg Players establish an annual scholarship program honoring Howard Scammon and *Cecil McCulley WMN, 3/19/1986, pg. 2.
Frederick L. Hill Mathematics Education Teaching Scholarship awarded to two juniors at William and Mary AG, 3/1986, pg. 14.
Peter Neufeld '1958 establishes a research scholarship in memory of friends at W&M WMN, 4/2/1986, pg. 1, 8.
Kevin J. Duffy wins the Cecil M. McCulley Humanities Award for 1985-86 WMN, 4/2/1986, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Greg H. Lehman is selected as Drapers' Scholar WMN, 4/16/1986, pg. 1 (picture).
Christine Sparks and Brook Johnson win writing awards WMN, 4/16/1986, pg. 2.
Nominees sought for journalism awards WMN, 4/16/1986, pg. 2.
Andrew Gordon wins scholarship to study in China WMN, 4/16/1986, pg. 3.
History scholars win large share of National Endowment for the Humanities WMN, 4/23/1986, pg. 1.
Law school receives $250,000 to establish Mary Siegrist Hinz Leadership Fellows Fund AG, May 1986, pg. 5.
Peter Neufeld establishes Thomas Harland Llanso and Alan Clarke "Smokey" Sherman *Scholarship Fund AG, May 1986, pg. 14.
Student awards announced WMN, 5/7/1986, pg. 2 (picture).
Andrew Gordon wins China scholarship WMN, 5/7/1986, pg. 3 (picture).
Lewis Leadbeater receives the Thomas Ashley Graves Jr., Award WMN, 5/15/1986, pg. 7.
Allen J. Ng Wins Llanso-Sherman Research Scholarship WMN, 5/15/1986, pg. 2 (picture).
List of awards given at commencement WMN, 5/15/1986, pg. 4.
Kelly Doyle, Richard Sullivan and Sheila Venable are chosen as Governors' Fellows WMN, 6/4/1986, pg. 1.
First Llanso-Sherman Research Scholarship awarded to Allen Jongying Ng AG, June 1986, pg. 17.
First Emil O. Johnson scholarship for female scholar-athlete presented to Lorie Lonegro AG, June 1986, pg. 26.
T. C. Clark Scholarship awarded to Jennifer Pelnick WMN, 7/2/1986, pg. 5.
Jeanne A. Ito Memorial Fund established for student in sociology WMN, 7/23/1986, pg. 1.
Governor's fellows WMN, 8/27/1986, pg. 7 (pictures).
Gail Patricia Clayton receives United States Law Week Award WMN, 8/27/1986, pg. 7.
Darryl Gugig awarded Gerald Miller award in philosophy WMN, 9/3/1986, pg. 3.
Applications for Koenig-Nimmo Foreign Service Awards now being taken WMN, 10/22/1986, pg. 3.
Lady Astor, Rotary scholars enjoy William and Mary WMN, 10/29/1986, pg. 7 (pictures).
Brian Keith receives state graduate fellowship WMN 12/17/1986, pg. 2.
Lisa Clement, Jenifer Roche, Laura Baumhofer win Congressional Teacher Scholarships WMN, 12/17/1986, pg. 3.
Richmond Area Mensa offers scholarships WMN, 2/4/1987, pg. 7.
Evan Ruzecki receives VIMS award for service WMN, 2/25/1987, pg. 5 (picture).
Lisa Clement, Jennifer Roche and Laura Baumhofer win congressional teacher scholarships AG, March 1987, pg. 19.
Cary Holladay wins literary prize AG, Marcy 1987, pg. 20 (picture).
New scholarships named in honor of Anne Dobie Peebles WMN, 3/4/1987, pg. 7.
Opportunities for scholarships, internships, prizes WMN, 3/25/1987, pg. 7.
Four scholarships endowed in honor of Anne Dobie Peebles AG, April 1987, pg. 1.
New Cheek Award announced WMN, 4/1/1987, pg. 1.
Spiked Shoe Society establishes scholarship fund for track FH, 4/3/1987, pg. 12.
Deadline for Rex Smith and Charles McDowell-Kays Gary awards WMN, 4/8/1987, pg. 5.
Presswomen offer Cooke scholarship WMN, 4/8/1987, pg. 5.
Publishing prizes offered WMN, 4/8/1987, pg. 5, 8.
Leslie Cheek establishes new art award FH, 4/10/1987, pg. 15; AG, May 1987, pg. 18.
John Koegl receives Cecil M. McCulley Humanities Award WMN, 4/15/1987, pg. 1.
Georgie Boge wins Harry Truman Scholarship WMN, 4/22/1987, pg. 1.
Four students win education awards WMN, 4/22/1987, pg. 4 (picture).
Phi Delta Kappa taking nominations for education award WMN, 4/22/1987, pg. 5.
Va. Society for Hospital Public Relations and Marketing offers scholarship WMN, 4/22/1987, pg. 5.
Georgie Boge wins scholarship FH, 4/24/1987, pg. 1, 2.
Student Association presents 27 seniors with Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Award FH, 4/24/1987, pg. 3.
Virginia Association of Teachers of English WMN, 4/29/1987, pg. 2.
Four education students receive awards AG, May 1987, pg. 18.
Stephanie Jayne receives first Rita Welsh Award WMN, 5/6/1987, pg. 1.
First Benjamin Stodder Ewell awards given WMN, 5/6/1987, pg. 2.
John Koegl receives Fulbright scholarship to study in Germany WMN, 5/6/1987, pg. 2 (picture).
Cadets receive ROTC awards WMN, 5/6/1987, pg. 2.
Ingrid Hillinger receives teaching award WMN, 5/13/1987, pg. 5 (picture).
William Dean wins Haak award WMN, 5/13/1987, pg. 5 (picture).
Prizes and Awards given at 1987 commencement WMN, 5/20/1987, pg. 3.
Students win prestigious awards AG, June 1987, pg. 2.
Susan Young receives G. Glenwood Clark Fiction Prize and Jenny Drummey receives Goronwy Own Poetry Prize AG, June 1987, pg. 19 (picture).
$100,000 is donated to establish the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Scholarship for *minority students WMN, 7/22/1987, pg. 1.
Iverson and Grace Almand Scholarship Endowment for three Va. students established by Louis I. Almand AG, Sept. 1987, pg. 22.
Christopher Kenney and Thomas Wren named Commonwealth Fellows WMN, 10/7/1987, pg. 1, 8 (picture).
Cheek Award for presentation of the arts to be given to Gaillard Ravenel II and Mark Leithauser of the Nat'l Gallery of Art WMN, 10/23/1987, pg. 2 (picture); AG, November 1987, pg. 20.
Applications for Koenig-Nimmo, Master Printers and Shidler Group awards WMN, 1/20/1988, pg. 2.
Craig Crawford awarded the Karen Dudley Memorial Scholarship FH, 1/29/1988, pg. 3 (picture); WMN, 2/3/1988, pg. 2.
Keith Krusz awarded Draper's scholarship to study in England WMN, 3/2/1988, pg. 3 (picture).
Nominations sought for second Cheek Award WMN, 3/16/1988, pg. 1.
Jennifer Blount and Margaret Ruscus given Koenig-Nimmo scholarships WMN, 3/30/1988, pg. 2 (picture).
Lisa Hecht-Cronstadt named Truman Scholar WMN, 4/20/1988, pg. 1 (picture).
"The Write Stuff" [more students submitting entries for literary awards] FH, 4/22/1988, pg. 9.
Nominations sought for Cheek award WMN, 4/6/1988, pg. 3.
Two journalism awards offered WMN, 4/6/1988, pg. 3.
Rebecca B. Edwards given Cecil M McCulley Humanities Award FH, 4/15/1988, pg. 4.
Faculty Award goes to Virginia Kerns AG, May 1988, pg. 18.
Alumni Society gives literary awards AG, May 1988, pg. 23 (picture).
1988 Spring Awards Banquet Honors Student Achievers WMN, 5/4/1988, pg. 2.
Cheek Award presentation to Florence Knoll Bassett WMN, 10/26/1988, pg. 3.
Dean of Arts & Sciences offers new prize for Women's studies WMN, 11/30/1988, pg. 2.
Senior George DeShazo wins Rhodes Scholarship WMN, 12/14/1988, pg. 1, 3 (picture).
10th year for Crestar Scholarship for MISAs WMN, 12/14/1988, pg. 4 (picture).
Teaching Fellows FH, 12/2/1988, pg. 13.
William and Mary senior named Rhodes Scholar AG, Winter 1989, pg. 2 (picture).
J. R. DeShazo on the Rhodes to Oxford FH, 1/20/1989, pg. 6, 9.
Three W&M faculty receive NEH awards AG, March 1989, pg. 10.
James Tabor receives PBK award WMN, 3/1/1989, pg. 5 (picture).
Five receive interdisciplinary studies scholarships FH, 3/17/1989, pg. 2.
Ferguson-Blair scholarship applications being accepted FH, 3/17/1989, pg. 8.
William and Mary and Cambridge University Scholarship applications being accepted FH, 3/17/1989, pg. 10.
Awards presented for service, teaching and volunteerism at VIMS WMN, 3/22/1989, pg. 4 (pictures).
Merediths establish scholarship WMN, 3/29/1989, pg. 5.
Variety of literary awards offered WMN, 3/29/1989, pg. 5.
Randolph Reynolds receives Aquino Award WMN, 3/29/1989, pg. 6 (picture).
William and Mary wins distinguished Delegates Award FH, 3/31/1989, pg. 4.
Merediths give scholarship endowment FH, 3/31/1989, pg. 4.
Deans offer new prize for work in women's issues WMN, 4/5/1989, pg. 2.
Three share new Don Edward Harrison, Jr., Physics award WMN, 4/5/1989, pg. 4 (picture).
David Hughes win NEH Younger scholar award, 4/15/1989, pg. 4.
Deborah Bodolus wins Allen Scholarship WMN, 4/5/1989, pg. 5 (picture).
Boerth wins McCulley award WMN, 4/19/1989, pg. 2.
Fernandez receives $1,000 for dissertation research WMN, 4/19/1989, pg. 2 (picture).
Judith Ewell and James C. Livingston receive Outstanding faculty awards WMN, 4/26/1989, pg. 1 (pictures).
First Baldwin-Speese winners named WMN, 4/26/1989, pg. 1, 3 (pictures).
Students recognized at spring awards luncheon WMN, 4/26/1989, pg. 4 (pictures).
Wilson independent study program scholarships awarded WMN, 4/26/1989, pg. 4.
Gazette editor speaks at Adult Skills Program awards ceremony WMN, 4/26/1989, pg. 5 (pictures).
James Tabor receives PBK faculty award AG, May 1989, pg. 16.
Freshman (Rachel Schucker) wins essay prize WMN, 5/10/1989, pg. 3 (picture).
Mark Bunster receives Timm award WMN, 5/17/1989, pg. 2.
Student Literary awards WMN, 5/17/1989, pg. 2.
Award sat commencement WMN, 5/17/1989, pg. 2.
Jay Chambers receives Sullivan award WMN, 5/17/1989, pg. 4 (picture).
Commencement 1989 AG, June 1989, pg. 10, 12.
Student literary award winners AG, June 1989, pg. 17 (picture).
Baldwin-Speese winners named AG, June 1989, pg. 22.
Karne Burrell receives Fulbright award AG, June 1989, pg. 26.
Mary C. Ferrari recipient of scholarship from Colonial Dames WMN, 8/23/1989, pg. 3.
McDonald's program aids education WMN, 8/30/1989, pg. 1 (picture).
Scholarship honors 1988 alumnus, John Lee Vahradian AG, Aug. 1989, pg. 16.
Erin Brisbay wins Phi Alpha Theta award WMN, 9/19/1989, pg. 4 (picture).
Robinson named Goldwater scholar WMN, 9/3/1989, pg. 4 (picture).
New women's studies prizes to be awarded WMN, 9/27/1989, pg. 7.
Daily Press receives Prentis award AG, Dec. 1989, pg. 16.
Georgie Boge wins Rhodes scholarship AG, Winter 1990, pg. 5.
Jennifer Stowe awarded CASE scholarship AG, March 1990, pg. 10.
Nominees sought for Carr, Sullivan, Ewell awards WMN, 3/14/1990, pg. 1, 4.
William Ivey Long to receive Cheek award WMN, 3/14/1990, pg. 6.
William Ivey Long honored with Cheek award FH, 3/23/1990, pg. 11.
John Oakley receives PBK faculty award WMN, 3/28/1990, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Eve Agee, Mark Rudolph, and John Broadwater named Fulbright finalists WMN, 3/28/1990, pg. 1, 6.
Seniors Matt McIrvin and Kenneth Sizer win 1990 Harrison Physics Award WMN, 3/28/1990, pg. 2 (picture).
Commencement Awards committee to meet FH, 3/30/1990, pg. 10.
Mary V. Bicouvaris to receive Institute of Bill of Rights Law Distinguished Public Service Award WMN, 4/4/1990, pg. 1.
Students win award in Japanese speech contest FH, 4/13/1990, pg. 2.
Pig tails win award at festival FH, 4/13/1990, pg. 9.
Lisa R. Hecht-Cronstedt win Dean's Honor Scholarship WMN, 4/18/1990, pg. 5 (picture).
Aleda Noelle Borders receives McCully Award WMN, 4/18/1990, pg. 6 (picture).
Cadets receive awards FH, 4/20/1990, pg. 5.
BSO hosts annual awards ceremony WMN, 4/25/1990, pg. 5 (picture).
John Oakley receives PBK faculty award AG, May 1990, pg. 21.
Rex Varner receives Alumni Prize in economics AG, May 1990, pg. 22 (picture).
Spring Luncheon acknowledges student achievements in many fields WMN, 5/2/1990, pg. 4, 5 (pictures).
Alumni Society presents Literary awards WMN, 5/2/1990, pg. 4 (picture).
Scholarship honoring Altshuler will support student field work WMN, 5/9/1990, pg. 4.
Richard John awarded Nevins prize for dissertation WMN, 5/17/1990, pg. 2.
Alumni Society wins gold, two silver national CASE awards WMN, 5/17/1990, pg. 2.
Family feeling dominates commencement AG, June 1990, pg. 1 (picture).
Class of 1940 celebrates 'That Wonderful Year'; endows merit-based scholarship AG, June 1990, pg. 11 (picture).
Students recognized with Alumni Association Literary awards AG, June 1990, pg. 12 (picture).
David B. Eggleston wins Zeigler Student Achievement Award AG, June 1990, pg. 23.
Wilson scholarships enable students to develop research WMN, 6/27/1990, pg. 2.
Commonwealth Center announces awards WMN, 6/27/1990, pg. 7.
Student awards at VIMS WMN, 7/25/1990, pg. 2.
Class of 1940 gift endows first 4-year scholarship AG, Summer 1990, pg. 3.
Russell Wincheski awarded scholarship for post-graduate study by NCAA WMN, 8/22/1990, pg. 3.
Botetourt medal and Sullivan awards presented to four AG, Sept. 1990, pg. 23.
Russell "Buzz" Wincheski wins NCAA award AG, Sept. 1990, pg. 19.
Wilson fellowships support cross-disciplinary research WMN, 10/24/1990, pg. 4 (picture).
Graduate students win Commonwealth Fellowships AG, Oct. 1990, pg. 14.
Class of '65 sets record with commitment of $250,000 WMN, 11/14/1990, pg. 1, 2.
Presented at 'Classic' Homecoming AG, Dec. 1990, pg. 4 (picture).
William Rehnquist receives Lowance medal AG, Dec. 1990, pg. 21 (picture).
Students place in Truman Scholarship contest FH, 2/8/1991, pg. 2.
Graduate scholarships available in publishing WMN, 2/13/1991, pg. 2.
Cheek award goes to Dennis Barrie of Cincinnati WMN, 3/13/1991, pg. 1 (picture).
Entrants Sought for Dean's Prize WMN, 3/13/1991, pg. 5.
Area teachers win School of Education awards WMN, 3/27/1991, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Professor, alumna, student win top mathematics awards WMN, 3/27/1991, pg. 2 (pictures).
David Kulp and Julie Richardson win Fulbrights WMN, 4/3/1991, pg. 1, 6 (pictures).
Student researchers win Don Edward Harrison Jr. Award WMN, 4/3/1991, pg. 2 (picture).
Dennis Barrie of Cincinnati to receive Cheek award WMN, 4/3/1991, pg. 3.
Two awards offer cash prizes for excellence by student writers WMN, 4/3/1991, pg. 7.
Seniors David Kulp and Julie Richardson win Fulbrights FH, 4/5/1991, pg. 2.
Art and the first amendment; Cheek award FH, 4/12/1991, pg. 9.
Nicholas DiProspero awarded 1991 Llanso-Sherman Research Scholarship WMN, 4/17/1991, pg. 5 (picture).
Gerald Johnson and Virginia Kerns earn Outstanding Faculty awards FH, 4/19/1991, pg. 2 (pictures).
Paul T. Baker receives Ghandi award FH, 4/19/1991, pg. 3.
Merit award winners for student art exhibition FH, 4/19/1991, pg. 10.
Fourth Century campaign surpasses $100 million; more than 125 new student scholarships endowed AG, May 1991, pg. 2.
Cheek award goes to Dennis Barrie AG, May 1991, pg. 16 (picture).
Seniors Tom Hays and Lee Harrell receive Harrison award AG, May 1991, pg. 17.
Four students awarded Ferguson-Blair Scholarships FH, 4/26/1991, pg. 2.
Lynda L. Butler and Thomas M. Finn receive NEH summer awards for research WMN, 5/1/1991, pg. 1 (pictures).
Patricia Kane receives five-year NSF award WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 1, 7 (picture).
Three receive Dean's Prize in Women's Studies WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 2 (picture).
Four seniors selected first Renick scholars WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 1, 2 (pictures).
Students win two of three NHPRC editing awards WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 2.
Biologists win major research awards WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 2 (picture).
Fleet foundation commits $1 million for scholarships WMN, 5/24/1991, pg. 1.
Mark Heaphy receives Recording for the Blind Award WMN, 5/24/1991, pg. 2 (picture).
Ten graduates selected for Teach for America Program WMN, 5/24/1991, pg. 8.
VIMS students garner awards WMN, 5/24/1991, pg. 8.
Diverse commencement emphasizes liberal arts AG, June 1991, pg. 1.
First Renick scholars selected AG, June 1991, pg. 8 (picture).
Students Alumna receive scholarships for Publishing Institute WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 3.
Robert Lowry's prose wins big Time awards WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 4 (picture).
Brendon Douglas MacBryde wins Cecil M. McCulley humanities award WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 5.
VIMS holds annual service awards ceremony WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 6 (pictures).
Seniors Matthew P. Holbrook and Katherine E. Aloise win scholarships to study Chinese WMN, 5/8/1991, pg. 6.
College receives $1,000,000 commitment for Fleet scholarships AG, June 1991, pg. 11.
Students recognized with Literary wards AG, June 1991, pg. 13 (picture).
Nicholas DiProspero will receive Llanso-Sherman scholarship AG, June 1991, pg. 17.
Alumni win Ferguson-Blair scholarships AG, June 1991, pg. 18.
Laura Flippin wins Truman award AG, June 1991, pg. 22.
VACTE scholarship awarded to Emily Ruth Alder WMN, 6/19/1991, pg. 2.
BOV meets; adopts resolutions to establish Lawrence W. I'Anson Memorial Scholarship WMN, 7/17/1991, pg. 1, 2.
Chemistry professor Patricia Kane wins NSF Young Investigator's Award AG, Summer 1991, pg. 4 (picture).
David Kulp and Julie Richardson win Fulbright Awards AG, Summer 1991, pg. 4 (picture).
Law School Program wins Gambrell Award WMN, 8/21/1991, pg. 3 (picture).
Several prizes awarded law graduates WMN, 8/28/1991, pg. 5.
Law Scholarships honor former Virginia Chief Justices WMN, 8/28/1991, pg. 1, 6.
Southside Chapter plans $25,000 scholarship AG, Oct. 1991, pg. 2 (picture).
Prentis award presented to Roxie White WMN, 10/16/1991, pg. 6 (picture).
Student Affairs has applications for Awards/Scholarships WMN, 11/6/1991, pg. 2.
Rhodes, Marshall nominees named WMN, 11/20/1991, pg. 1 (pictures).
Sigma Chi presents prize money to College WMN, 11/20/1991, pg. 6 (picture).
Roxie White receives Prentis award AG, Dec. 1991, pg. 14.
Student exchange program receives permanent endowment from Drapers' Co. WMN, 1/15/1992, pg. 1, 6.
Melissa Kolonoski and Laura Ferguson win scholarships FH, 1/17/1992, pg. 12.
Douglas Stambler awarded Rotary Scholarship to study in Spain WMN, 1/22/1992, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Overseas internships, Arthur Carter scholarship awarded WMN, 1/22/1992, pg. 2.
Parents' Association establishes six student fellowships, awards WMN, 1/29/1992, pg. 3.
Joseph Price is finalist for Truman Scholarship WMN, 2/5/1992, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Luisa Rebull wins 1992 Harrison Award for Senior Project in Astrophysics WMN, 2/5/1992, pg. 4 (picture).
Scholarships to honor visit of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion WMN, 2/19/1992, pg. 1, 7 (picture).
Writing contest WMN, 2/26/1992, pg. 3.
Douglas Stambler receives Rotary honor AG, March 1992, pg. 14.
New PBK scholarship honors Colonel Lamb WMN, 3/4/1992, pg. 1, 7 (picture).
Two win Space Consortium awards WMN, 3/4/1992, pg. 2.
James E. Howard establishes trust for Athletes WMN, 3/18/1992, pg. 1.
Sponsored Research awards at VIMS WMN, 3/18/1992, pg. 6.
Scammon, Sherman to receive Cheek awards WMN, 3/25/1992, pg. 1, 6 (pictures).
Deans offer five prizes WMN, 3/25/1992, pg. 5.
Wilsons, parents fund summer research projects for students WMN, 4/8/1992, pg. 4 (pictures).
Essays win awards in Economics WMN, 4/8/1992, pg. 5.
Students win Gold Circle Awards WMN, 4/15/1992, pg. 2.
Nine receive School of Education Awards WMN, 4/22/1992, pg. 1, 6, 7 (picture).
Katherine O'Neill and Marcy Rockman win Geoscientist scholarships WMN, 5/6/1992, pg. 2, 4 (picture).
Francis Joseph Probst III wins Llanso-Sherman award WMN, 5/6/1992, pg. 4.
Three awarded Dean's Prizes for essays about women's issues WMN, 5/6/1992, pg. 4 (picture).
Mitchell Byrd honored by Izaak Walton League WMN, 5/16/1992, pg. 4.
Society of the Alumni offers literary, science prizes WMN 5/6/1992, pg. 5 (picture).
Beinecke Scholarship goes to Sepulveda WMN, 5/6/1992, pg. 5 (picture).
Joseph Galano receives Scholar Awards for Virginia Science Association WMN, 5/6/1992, pg. 6.
Hugh Conroy and Jacques Herman plan Fulbright Study Abroad in Japan and Romania WMN, 5/20/1992, pg. 2.
Commonwealth Center awards summer research scholarships WMN, 5/20/1992, pg. 2.
Continental Corporation honors James Singley, Stanley Brown, and William Geary WMN, 5/20/1992, pg. 3.
Awards and prizes were presented at Commencement WMN, 5/20/1992, pg. 6 (pictures).
Student Literary and Science Awards announced by Society of the Alumni AG, June 1992, pg. 7 (picture).
Commencement 1992 AG, June 1992, pg. 13 (pictures).
PBK names two awards AG, June 1992, pg. 23.
Gifts fund numerous scholarships AG, Summer 1992, campaign insert, pg. 3-5.
Carroll Hardy wins service award WMN, 8/5/1992, pg. 2, 6 (picture).
Liang-Gui Wang presented with NASA Public Service medal WMN, 8/5/1992, pg. 2, 7 (picture).
Lenkiewicz and Casey named Jurow Interns WMN, 8/5/1992, pg. 3.
Altshuler scholarship winner studies in Israel WMN, 9/23/1992, pg. 4 (picture).
John Strong receives Dean's award WMN, 9/30/1992, pg. 2 (picture).
E. Laurence Libelo wins NOAA award WMN, 9/30/1992, pg. 3 (picture).
Britain offers scholarship FH, 10/2/1992, pg. 6.
Brent Singley and Ana-Maria Lopez win Insurance scholarships FH, 10/16/1992, pg. 9.
Ten nominated for Rhodes, Marshall scholarships WMN, 11/11/1992, pg. 1, 6 (pictures).
Students vie for Rhodes FH, 11/13/1992, pg. 4.
Ten nominated for Rhodes, Marshall scholarships AG, Dec. 1992, pg. 27.
Danielle Sepulveda wins Marshall scholarship FH, 12/4/1992, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Danielle Sepulveda wins Marshall award WMN, 12/9/1992, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Cadets honored at ROTC Fall awards ceremony WMN, 12/9/1992, pg. 4 (picture).
Scholarships available FH, 1/29/1993, pg. 17.
Deadline nears for International Service scholars program WMN, 2/3/1993, pg. 3.
Two seniors share Harrison award in Physics WMN, 2/10/1993, pg. 3 (picture).
Senior Danielle Sepulveda wins coveted Marshall award AG, Winter 1993, pg. 3 (picture).
Kate Valenta wins Nimmo award WMN, 2/17/1993, pg. 5 (picture).
Bonnie Powell gets Tercentenary scholarship FH, 2/19/1993, pg. 6.
Opportunities for Study Abroad WMN, 2/24/1993,pg. 5.
Publishing scholarships available WMN, 2/24/1993, pg. 7.
Alumni Society offers four prizes in literary competitions WMN, 3/17/1993, pg. 5.
Kanazawa Scholarship FH, 3/19/1993, pg. 16.
Carr Cup and Sullivan Awards WMN, 3/31/1993, pg. 3.
Benjamin Studdert Ewell Award WMN, 3/31/1993, pg. 3.
Jolen Kratzer Memorial Award WMN, 3/31/1993, pg. 3.
Prizes offered to Journalists WMN, 3/31/1993, pg. 4.
Kristin Loerzel wins 1993 Truman Scholarship AG, April 1993, pg. 22.
Francie Cate-Arries wins PBK Scholarship Award WMN, 4/7/1993, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Scholarships provide exciting opportunities for research WMN, 4/14/1993, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Carnegie Endowment selects Lukas Haynas WMN, 4/14/1993, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
Rachel Ann Shachter wins Jacobs Scholarship WMN, 4/21/1993, pg. 5 (picture).
PBK and SCHEV honor faculty members WMN, 4/28/1993, pg. 1, 6 (picture).
Spring Award recipients WMN, 4/28/1993, pg. 3.
School of Education holds Annual Student Awards luncheon WMN, 4/28/1993, pg. 4 (picture).
Siemans Awards WMN, 5/5/1993, pg. 6 (picture).
Jones Endowment reaches $50,000 WMN, 5/12/1993, pg. 5.
Hammond, Powell, Ostertag win awards WMN, 5/19/1993, pg. 3.
Society of the Alumni presents Student literary and science awards WMN, 5/19/1993, pg. 3 (picture).
Endowment honors Ed Jones AG, May/June 1993, pg. 10.
Anne Barrett awarded Fulbright Scholarship at William and Mary AG, May/June 1993, pg. 19.
Alumni Society presents student literary and science awards AG, May/June 1993, pg. 19.
Volleyball standout receives NCAA scholarship AG, Sept. 1993, pg. 15.
Summer scholarships offer opportunities AG, Oct. 1993, pg. 4, 5 (pictures).
Truman scholar finalist WMN, 11/10/1993, pg. 1 (picture).
William and Mary Bands award Scholarships WMN, 11/10/1993, pg. 4 (pictures).
ROTC fall awards ceremony WMN, 11/10/1993, pg. 7.
Hamilton-Phillips receives award WMN, 12/1/1993, pg. 2 (picture).
Postal director receives award WMN, 12/1/1993, pg. 3 (picture).
Military Science award presented to Regina Flango WMN, 12/1/1993, pg. 4 (picture).
Ronald Giese receives award AG, Dec. 1993, pg. 21.
Scott Hirsch awarded physics distinction WMN, 1/12/1994, pg. 2 (picture).
Andrew Zawacki second Rhodes Scholar in College’s history WMN, 12/15/1994, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Liping Lo and Pavao Rudan receive honors at Zamora lecture WMN, 2/9/1994, pg. 3.
College honors Hamada and Livingston with Jefferson awards FH, 2/11/1994, pg. 6 (picture).
Honoring Zamora’s hope FH, 2/18/1994, pg. 12 (picture).
College senior wins first Zamora award WMN, 2/23/1994, pg. 4 (picture).
Award honors Mario Zamora AG, March 1994, pg. 19 (picture).
SCHEV honors Hamanda with outstanding faculty award WMN, 3/9/1994, pg. 2.
Congratulations summer recipients FH, 3/18/1994, pg. 21.
Mary Ann Malfi receives NEH award WMN, 3/23/1994, pg. 2.
Summer scholarship winners honored at reception WMN, 3/23/1994, pg. 3 (picture).
Five students honored by Virginia Space grant consortium WMN, 4/6/1994, pg. 3.
Ferguson-Blair Scholarship winners named WMN, 4/6/1994, pg. 3.
Scholarship info sessions set WMN, 4/6/1994, pg. 6.
Awards bolster teamwork FH, 4/15/1994, pg. 5 (picture).
Christopher McGowan given Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship award FH, 4/22/1994, pg. 6.
Students honored at awards luncheon FH, 4/29/1994, pg. 8 (pictures).
Celebrating excellence at awards ceremonies WMN, 5/4/1994, pg. 6-7 (pictures).
Annual Dean’s prizes in Women’s Studies awarded WMN, 5/19/1994, pg. 4.
Kratxer award presented Posthumously to parents of William McGough WMN, 5/19/1994, pg. 9 (pictures).
Scholarship service recognized WMN, 5/19/1994, pg. 5, 6 (pictures).
Alumni society presents achievement awards for science, literature, and law AG, May 1994, pg. 11 (pictures).
Mac Gowen receives PBK scholarship award AG, June 1994, pg. 13.
Martin Jurow award winners named WMN, 6/15/1994, pg. 3.
Virginia Space Grant Consoritum awards scholarships to undergraduates WMN, 7/13/1994, pg. 2.
Virginia Space Grant Consortium announces scholarship/fellowships WMN, 9/21/1994, pg. 3.
Jason Weedon wins Campus Improvement Award FH, 11/4/1994, pg. 8 (picture).
Scholarships available for study abroad WMN, 12/2/1994, pg. 3.
Four students win tax competition AG, Jan. 1995, pg. 11.
SA presents award to UCAB FH, 1/27/1995, pg. 2.
Ingrid Nelson named class of 1940 merit scholar WMN, 3/16/1995, pg. 3.
Tonia Valletta named Truman Scholar WMN, 3/29/1995, pg. 3 (picture).
Applicants/Nominees sought WMN, 3/29/1995, pg. 3.
Goldwater scholars are Michael Groenert and Hans Ackerman WMN, 4/14/1995, pg. 3.
Society of the Alumni Awards Academic prizes WMN, 4/14/1995, pg. 3.
Summer winners FH, 4/21/1995, pg. 8.
Student turns down Ewell Award FH, 4/28/1995, pg. 1, 4.
Students garner art awards FH,4/28/1995, pg. 10.
School of Education honors eight students WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 4 (picture).
Harrison award goes to Leventhal and Taggart WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 4 (picture).
Undergraduatespursue summer research in chemistry WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 4 (picture).
Fulbright winners WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 4.
St. Andrew’s scholarship WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 4.
Two receive National Security education program scholarship WMN, 5/13/1995, pg. 4.
Neal Cardwell named Beinecke scholar WMN, 5/3/1995, pg. 5 (picture).
Law faculty, students recognized WMN, 5/22/1995, pg. 2.
Audrey Manring receives St. Andrew’s Society award WMN, 5/23/1995, pg. 3.
Alumni Society honors Academic Prize winners AG, June 1995, pg. 5 (pictures).
Neal Cardwell named Beinecke scholar AG, June 1995, pg. 11.
Five students awarded teacher ed scholarships WMN, 7/27/1995, pg. 3.
Elizabeth Canuel and Roberto Refinetti recognized with prestigious NSF award WMN, 10/4/1995, pg. 4 (pictures).
James Cady named Drapers scholar WMN, 12/1/1995, pg. 3.
David Wilmouth named to All-U.S.A. Academic Team WMN, 3/13/1996, pg. 3.
BOV bestows honors FH, 4/12/1996, pg. 1, 6.
Fulbright scholarships given FH, 4/19/1996, pg. 6.
Two seniors named Fulbrights WMN, 4/24/1996, pg. 2 (pictures).
Henry Mlodozeniac garners conservation award WMN, 6/19/1996, pg. 7.
Winners of Dean’s prizes named WMN, 6/19/1996, pg. 7.
Heide Werner, Zetherene Jones awarded geology scholarships WMN, 7/17.1996, pg. 4.
Academic prizes awarded by Alumni Society WMN, 5/16/1996, pg. 6 (picture).
Winners of economic writing prize named WMN, 5/16/1996, pg. 6 (picture).
Kudos for school of Ed students WMN 5/16/1996, pg. 6 (picture).
Public policy students win national honors WMN, 5/16/1996, pg. 6.
Two seniors named Fulbrights AG, June 1996, pg. 20 (pictures).
Senior Stephen Bernier wins Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship WMN, 8/21/1996, pg. 7.
College named Truman Honor Institution WMN, 9/18/1996, pg. 3.
Truman scholarship honors public servants of the future FH, 9/20/1996, pg. 6.
PBK awards go to Sita Nataraj and Erica Weitzman WMN, 1/16/1997, pg. 3.
Duke award recognizes outstanding employee service WMN, 1/16/1997, pg. 3.
Doron Blum was awarded the Draper’s Scholarship on Charter Day WMN, 2/12/1997, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Matthew Mizenko awarded Harrison physics prize WMN, 2/26/1997, pg. 4.
Three undergraduates win Goldwater Awards WMN, 4/9/1997, pg. 6 (pictures).
Cybelle McFadden wins Fulbright FH, 4/11/1997, pg. 1, 4 (picture).
‘Miss Ruby’ honored with first Duke award WMN, 4/23/1997, pg. 1 (picture).
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association awards scholarship to Leigh Anne Wright WMN, 4/23/1997, pg. 4 (picture).
Winners of Dean’s Prize named WMN, 4/23/1997, pg. 7.
Ewell award recipients FH, 4/25/1997, pg. 7.
Tribe athletes honored at AEF banquet FH, 4/25/1997, pg. 18.
Ed School recognizes outstanding students WMN, 5/1/1997, pg. 6 (picture).
Winners of Econ Writing prize announced WMN, 5/1/1997, pg. 7.
Alumni Society recognizes 15 students AG, June 1997, pg. 4 (picture).
Athletes presented with awards AG, June 1997, pg. 9.
Three win Fulbright Scholarships AG, June 1997, pg. 19-20.
Hans Ackerman wins Renaissance Hotel award WMN, 5/21/1997, pg. 2.
Fulbright scholars take on Brazilian Terreiros and Australian poetry WMN, 5/21/1997, pg. 2.
Students, Faculty honored at Commencement WMN, 5/21/1997, pg. 1, 4, 5 (pictures).
V. Earl Dickinson honored with Botetourt Award WMN, 5/21/1997, pg. 5 (picture).
J. Rebecca Ferguson wins Lambda Alpha Anthropology Scholarship WMN, 5/21/1997, pg. 7.
Duke award—in his father’s name AG, Aug. 1997, pg. 16 (picture).
Fulbright scholarships awarded to professors FH, 11/21/1997, pg. 2.
Messier, Ward honored with research award WMN, 9/17/1997, pg. 7 (picture).
Nominations Sought for Duke Award WMN, 1/16/1998, pg. 3.
Military Science awards new scholarships WMN, 2/12/1998, pg. 7.
Harrison physics prize goes to two seniors WMN, 3/19/1998, pg. 7.
Concert by Gentlemen benefits Snyder scholarship fund FH, 4/3/1998, pg. 1, 2 (picture).
Two physics majors receive Harrison prize FH, 4/3/1998, pg. 7, 11 (picture).
New scholarships in chemistry, biology funded WMN, 2/23/1998, pg. 3.
Students win academic prizes, inducted into PBK WMN, 5/7/1998, pg. 6.
Dellis Harris honored for outstanding service with Duke Award WMN, 5/7/1998, pg. 1 (picture).
Society bestows nineteen academic prizes AG, June 1998, pg. 8 (picture).
Goldwater and Udall scholars WMN, 5/28/1998, pg. 6.
Three Biology faculty vin NSF awards FH, 4/15/1999, pg. 1, 5 (pictures).
Duke award honors Betty Sandy WMN, 4/29/1999, pg. 1, 6 (picture).
Doctoral Student Lingling Wu wins Vacuum Society award WMN, 6/24/1999, pg. 5 (picture).
News from the Charles Center FH, 10/22/1999, pg. 3.
High School leaders honored by first annual College ward FH, 10/2/1998, pg. 4.
Weekend program immerses high school leaders in college life WMN, 10/15/1998, pg. 2, 6 (picture).
Former students helping students AG, Dec. 1998, pg. 3 (pictures).
Benefit show aids Coon scholarship FH, 1/29/1999, pg. 11 (picture).
Nominations sought for Duke award WMN, 2/4/1999, pg. 7.
Talbot Taylor honored with outstanding faculty award WMN, 2/18/1999, pg. 1, 7 (picture).
Tennis standout endows scholarship AG, Mar. 1999, pg. 9 (pictures).
Physics prize awarded to Abigail Flower, Paul Larson WMN, 4/1/1999, pg. 7.
Nominations for Duke award due WMN, 12/16/1999, pg. 1.
Robert Pike wins Dreyfus Award WMN, 1/20/2000, pg. 2.
Rhodes Scholars head for Oxford FH, 1/28/2000, pg. 2 (picture).
Committee calls for nominees FH, 3/24/2000, pg. 4.
Fulbright selects two College students FH, 4/7/2000, pg. 2 (pictures).
College honors Jack Edwards, Lois Hornsby FH, 4/7/2000, pg. 4 (pictures).
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CC0 1.0 Universal
3. Air Monitoring for Marietta Ohio Valley Educational Service Center - CARES Data Set 3
This data set and accompanying files represents air monitoring data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-08-17 to 2012-02-25 at the Ohio Valley Educational Service Center in Marietta, Ohio (39.443477 , -81.452199). The variables of interest were the amount of manganese and lead in the air measured as PM10 particle size. The visualizations were created from monthly averages for the concentration of airborne manganese The data was collected using the TO-15 collection systems for air monitoring device. (reference - https://www3.epa.gov/air/sat/pdfs/VocTechdocwithappendix1209.pdf) The files included are: The raw data - Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter_Raw.csv . Aggregated monthly averages of the raw data - Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter_Processed.csv. How the raw data are processed into monthly averages - Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter_WorkingFile.xlsx. How the video is generated- Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter.ppt. Video - Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter - generated from Marietta_OhioValleyEducationalServiceCenter.ppt.
Yao, Zhiyuan; Hilbert, Tim, and Haynes, Erin
4. Air Monitoring for East Liverpool East Elementary School - CARES Data Set 4
This data set and accompanying files represents air monitoring data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-08-12 to 2012-01-28 at the East Liverpool East Elementary School, in East Liverpool, Ohio (40.635093 , -80.545558). The variables of interest were the amount of manganese and lead in the air measured as PM10 particle size. The visualizations were created from monthly averages for the concentration of airborne manganese. The data was collected using the TO-15 collection systems for air monitoring device. (reference - https://www3.epa.gov/air/sat/pdfs/VocTechdocwithappendix1209.pdf) The files included are: The raw data - EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool_Raw.csv . Aggregated monthly averages of the raw data - EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool_Processed.csv. How the raw data are processed into monthly averages - Marietta_EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool_WorkingFile.xlsx. How the video is generated- EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool.ppt. Video - EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool- generated from EastLiverpoolEastElementarySchool.ppt.
Haynes, Erin; Hilbert, Tim, and Yao, Zhiyuan
5. Air Monitoring for East Liverpool Water Treatment Plant - CARES Data Set 5
This data set and accompanying files represents air monitoring data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-08-12 to 2012-01-28 at the East Liverpool Water Treatment Plant, in East Liverpool, Ohio (40.639501 , -80.523561). The variables of interest were the amount of manganese and lead in the air measured as PM10 particle size. The visualizations were created from monthly averages for the concentration of airborne manganese The data was collected using the TO-15 collection systems for air monitoring device. (reference - https://www3.epa.gov/air/sat/pdfs/VocTechdocwithappendix1209.pdf) The files included are: The raw data - EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant_Raw.csv . Aggregated monthly averages of the raw data - EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant_Processed.csv. How the raw data are processed into monthly averages - Marietta_EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant_WorkingFile.xlsx. How the video is generated- EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant.ppt. Video - EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant- generated from EastLiverpool_WaterTreatmentPlant.ppt.
2009-01 to 2018-04
6. Plotting Our Future: The UC Visualization Laboratory & Services Model
Poster presented at the 2019 Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference. Abstract: In 2018, the University of Cincinnati Libraries’ Research & Data Services (RDS) unit unveiled a new Visualization Laboratory (Viz Lab) and expanded service model including data visualization/data analysis. The RDS unit has its roots in STEMM and currently includes informationists, librarians and technical consultants who engages with researchers across all disciplines. The Viz Lab and its associated services are the culmination of several years of planning and implementation. This poster will share lessons learned and good practices with our visualization space and service planning, including considerations for space design, service and training models, staffing and assessment. In addition, this poster will describe the early impact of our efforts, as seen through consultation logs, trainings and campus outreach, space usage and grants activity. We will also reveal some future directions for RDS, including plans to increase integration of the Viz Lab and data visualization/data analysis services into the university’s teaching and research missions. Acknowledgments: Amy Koshoffer, for creation of the Research & Data Services consultation log dataset and database structure.
Johansen, Richard and Baldwin, Ted
Ted Baldwin
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
7. Meteorological Data Jumpingpound Ridge
Meteorological data from an Onset tower including shielded air temperature, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall collected every 15 min. The location is 50.9583N, -114.8809W, alt 2083m The station is still operational and files will be updated after manual yearly downloads.
Matter, Steve
Stephen F. Matter
8. Pulse Generator Pastry
""Pulse Generator Pastry" is my first collaboration with my mother, the ceramic artist Betty Woodman. Betty created the shapes which contain the patterns in the video, based on the forms she uses in her work. I used those shapes as stencils into which both the positive and negative spaces were filled with textures, created using a piece of electronic test equipment called a pulse generator. The video was show in the storefont window at Salon 94 Gallery, during Betty’s show there in spring 2016. on Somehow the rapper ASAP Ferg ended up shooting part of his video for "Let It Bang" standing in front of the work.
Woodman, Charles and Woodman, Betty
Charles Woodman
9. Industrial AI:is it manufacturing’s guiding light?
In this research, Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI) is discussed as the most promising technology for enabling and realization of the next industrial revolution. The key enablers for this transformative technology along with their significant advantages are discussed. In addition, this research explains “Lighthouse Factories” as an emerging status applying to the top manufacturers that have implemented IAI in their manufacturing ecosystem and gained significant financial benefits. It is believed that this research will work as a guideline and roadmap for researchers and industries towards the real world implementation of IAI. // Please use this for citation: "Jay Lee, Jaskaran Singh, Moslem Azamfar. Industrial AI: Is It Manufacturing’s Guiding Light? Manufacturing leadership Journal. 2019:26–36. doi:10.7945/tt9s-gz25."
Singh, Jaskaran; Azamfar, Moslem, and Jee, Jay
Moslem Azamfar
10. A Grammar for Children with Emblematic Illustrations
1835 printing of the 1834 copyrighted text. The text uses pictorial illustrations to aid in the instruction of parts of speech. The text covers orthography, etymology and syntax. The syntax sections has examples to be parsed. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Greene, Roscoe G. (Roscoe Goddard)
Russel Durst
Public Domain Mark 1.0
11. Inductive Exercises in English Grammar; Designed to Give Young Pupils a Knowledge of the First Principles of Language: accompanied by progressive parsing lessons. The whole intended to inculcate habits of thinking, reasoning, and expressive thought
1831 printing of the 1831 copyrighted text of the Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. This text is an abstract of a larger book. The directions for teachers says the book may be used with "children from five to eight or twelve years of age." The author states, in the preface, that as grammar is founded in custom, its best to teach students grammar by induction, allowing them to form rules based on their own knowledge of language. The first section of introductory exercises focuses on the senses as a source of knowledge. The second section is inductive exercises for different classes of words, such as nouns, articles, adjectives, and verbs, as well as different cases, such as nominative, possessive, imperative, intransitive, etc. A series of questions is used for each to help a student understand each classification. The final section is Orthography and Orthoepy. Periodically, the text has a section of recapitulation, wherein it asks a series of review questions. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Green, Richard W.
12. A Concise and Comprehensive Manual of English Grammar: containing, in addition to the first principles and rules briefly stated and explained, a systematic order of parsing, a number of examples for drilling exercises, and a few in false syntax: particularly adapted to the use of common schools and academies
1842 printing of the 1841 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Teach of the High School in Cambridge, Mass. The preface explains the text is mostly influenced by Murray's Grammar. It uses a clear and systematic order of parsing and explains its principles in simple language to make them understood by students. The Schultz Archive's copy includes preface, first and final chapters.
Goldsbury, John, 1795-1890
13. The Youth's Catechetical Grammar: or, simple illustration of the principles of the English language adapted to the capacity of the juvenile mind; comprising a philosophical view of orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody, illustrated by appropriate exercises
1835 printing of the 1834 copyrighted text. The introduction explains the author has taught for ten years and sought to write a text for his own use that comported to his own methods of teaching grammar. He states his text recognizes most of the principles adopted by Murray, but differs in the mode and style of illustrating them. His style of language has been adapted to the juvenile mind and he uses a philosophical mode of parsing and correcting false syntax and orthography to exercise the understanding of the pupil. The text uses numerous questions in each section as a method of exercising students' understanding. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Gilbert, Eli
14. Familiar Tales for Children
1841 printing of the 1841 copyrighted text. The preface explains that too much emphasis has been given to teaching children facts and not enough to teaching morality. The stories in this collection are meant to teach children morals in simple enough language for them to understand. The collection contains 28 different stories with titles such as Carelessness, Anger, Candor, and the Fruits of Infidelity. Other stories have titles such as Snakes, More about Birds, and The Holiday. The text contains a few illustrations, but they are dark and details are difficult to make out. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Griffin, Sarah L. (Sarah Lawrence)
15. Exercises for the Improvement of the Senses for Young Children
1887 printing of the 1886 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the author of Arithmetic for Young Children. Willard Scott is the editor of this American edition. The introduction explains that this book contains exercises for children too young to read or write. The exercises involve examining objects to develop attention, memory, judgment, and invention. The book provides instructions for teachers on how to conduct conversations with children about the objects in the lessons. The book has three parts: exercises on familiar objects, practical exercises for the senses and hand, exercises for the body for young children. The exercises include questions to ask children and activities for them to perform (with detailed directions). The book also includes a few illustrations to guide students in their exercises. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Grant, Horace, active 1838-1886 and Small, Willard (editor)
16. Object Teaching: A Lecture
1888 printing of the 1887 copyrighted text. The author is credited as a member of the London School Board, and as a Ph.D. and as a Fellow of the Royal Society. A lecture on object teaching, covering its origins in the Pestalozzi school, its adoption, rejection, and re-adoption in English schools, and how to practice it in the classroom with specific lesson examples. Includes an appendix on a box of different tools and materials to be used with object teaching. The Schultz Archive seems to be the complete text of this issue of Teachers Manuals, No. 6.
Gladstone, J. H. (John Hall), 1827-1902
17. Outlines of Composition and Rhetoric
1915 copyrighted text. Genung is credited as the author of Outlines of Rhetoric, etc. Hanson is credited as the author of Two Years' Course in English Composition. The preface boasts a motto of "a minimum of theory and a maximum of the kind of practice that brings good results." The book is organized into three parts: elementary work, on how to approach any subject; rhetorical effectiveness, on style, figures of speech, and sentence and paragraph structure; kinds of composition, on different kinds of correspondence, and the modes of narration, description, exposition, and with a considerable emphasis on argument. Models of good writing are meant to be approachable ideals, exercises are used throughout and based on the practices of known writers, and oral composition is given attention as a step in the composing process.The Schultz Archive's copy is incomplete: It contains up to page 40, and roughly 192 to 353, and appendix II, pages 360 - 365.
Hanson, Charles Lane and Genung, John Franklin, 1850-1919
18. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples
1890 printing of the 1886 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. The book's preface emphasizes the practical, being those elements that may be applied to the construction of literature and can be taught. It must be taught as mechanism and through its effects in the concrete. The introduction further explains that rhetoric is adaptation, a science and an art, and that the text will deal with it in two main topics: style, which deals with the expression of discourse, and invention, which deals with the thought. The style section of the book has chapters on diction, figures of speech, and composition. The invention section has chapters on mental aptitudes and habits, general processes in the ordering of material, reproduction of the thought of others, invention deal with observed objects (description), invention dealing with events (narration), invention dealing with generalizations (exposition), invention dealing with truths (argumentation), and invention dealing with practical issues (persuasion). The introduction credits the influence of Campbell. The rules are accompanied with illustrative examples from notable writers. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text. A few pages cut off the edges of the text.
Genung, John Franklin, 1850-1919
19. Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a Progressive Course of Prose Composition
1894 printing of the 1893 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College and as the author of two other texts on rhetoric. The preface explains that the book is meant to provide the necessary rhetorical theory and to accompany every step with critical and constructive written exercises in a progressive and systematic order. The theory is given as a list of rules, each accompanied by a paragraph of explanation and illustrative examples (the rules are positive expressions of principle rather than a series of don'ts). The exercises are novel according to the author and are based in groups of rules rather than individual ones, and they include compositions (on familiar topics) to be rewritten and sentences to be amended in a creative, problem-solving manner rather than corrective. The appendix has a digest of rules and a glossary of words and forms. The book is organized into two parts. Part One is Mastery of Materials and includes chapters on choice of words, phraseology, and special objects in style. Part Two is Organization of Materials and includes chapters on the sentence, the paragraph, and the whole composition. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
20. How to write : a pocket manual of composition and letter-writing embracing hints on penmanship and the choice of writing materials, practical rules for literary composition in general, and epistolary and newspaper writing and proof-correcting in particular, and directions for writing letters of business, relationship, friendship, and love, illustrated by numerous examples of genuine epistles, from the pens of the best writers : to which are added forms for letters of introduction, notes, cards, etc., and a Collection of Poetical Quotations
1857 printing of the 1856 copyrighted work. Conceived as an alternative to the Letter Writers which merely supply sample epistles to be copied or imitated. It wishes to provide instructions for young writers who wish to think for themselves. It credits the influence of Jardine's Principles of English Composition, Newman's Rhetoric, Fowler's English Grammar, Parker's Aids to English Composition and Letter Writing Simplified, Wilson's Treatise on Punctuation, and Mrs. Hale's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations and The Treasury of Knowledge. For a list of subjects, see the text's title. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Fowler & Wells
21. The Teacher's Institute; or, Familiar Hints to Young Teachers
This first New York edition was printed in 1867 and copyrighted in 1866. Based on lectures given by the author at the Teachers' Institutes at the invitation of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts in 1845 and 1846. The contents include many education topics from arithmetic to geography to music to discipline. The Schultz Archive's copy includes only three chapters: the uses and abuses of memory, English grammar, and composition. The author's lecture of grammar seems to draw mostly on the work of Murrary, Crombie, Wallis, and Priestley. The composition chapter is brief and mostly covers the teaching of punctuation.
Fowle, William Bentley, 1826-1902
22. Introduction to Theme-Writing
1895 printing of the 1893 copyrighted text. Fletcher is credited as Instructor of English at Harvard College and Carpenter is credited as Professor of Rhetoric and English Composition in Columbia College. A series of lectures delivered to the Freshman class at Harvard (by Fletcher) in the spring of 1893. It purports to be a study of the different kinds of composition and their treatment of a variety of subject matter. The kinds considered are letter-writing, translation, description, narration, criticism, exposition, argument, and persuasion. The main principle (called relativity) is that compositions should be judged by their effectiveness for the purpose at hand. The purpose is defined by the object in view, the individuality of the writer, and the capacity of the reader. The lectures are accompanied with examples and exercises for students. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Fletcher, Jefferson Butler, 1865-1946 and Carpenter, G. R.
23. The Youth's Letter-Writer: or The Epistolary Art made Plain and Easy to Beginners, through the example of Henry Moreton
1834 printing of the 1834 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Mrs. John Farrar and is the author of Congo In Search of His Master and The Children's Robinson Crusoe. The text seeks to address the difficulty children have in writing letters (epistles) and to offer an alternative to another popular text, Complete Letter-Writer, which the author finds filled with absurdities and faults. The text offers general directions, simple criticism, and good examples in the form of a narrative about a young letter writer of fourteen. The work covers many topics, such as punctuation, paragraphs, folding letters, sample topics, and invitations. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Farrar, John, Mrs., 1791-1870
24. Exercises in English
Revised edition, 1904 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Principal of the George G. Meade Grammar School. Preface begins by acknowledging that textbooks don't succeed in teaching grammar, providing students with examples of false syntax is unproductive, students learn language outside the classroom, so in the classroom they should be given correct forms of use. The work has 280 exercises using pictorial illustrations; questions; prompting statements, paragraphs to be summarized or paraphrased; words to be described, defined, rearranged, or used in sentences; fill in the blanks; and other prompts for writing and phrase combining. The book credits school periodicals as sources for its exercises, such as Canadian School Journal, the New England Journal of Education, and the School Journal Intelligence. A handbook that emphasizes a wide assortment of exercises for grammar practice.
Gideon, Edward
25. A Practical Grammar: with progressive exercises in orthography, analysis, and grammatical composition
1842 printing of the 1842 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia. Seeks to address the insufficiency in teaching grammar through parsing alone. It maintains the common forms of classification, but treats orthography more fully than usual, shortens the section on construction, expands the rules of arrangement, and uses oral and written exercises. Derivation has been moved to the appendix. Although it maintains much of Lowth and Murray, the work credits the heavy influence of M'Culloch. The work includes pictorial illustrations, especially in the sections of writing exercises. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Frost, John, 1800-1859
26. Elements of English Grammar: with progressive exercises in parsing
The printing is indeterminable from the copy. The text was copyrighted in 1828. The author is credited as the Principal of the Mayhew Grammar School in Boston. The text simplifies the principles of grammar for younger pupils and asks them apply those principals in series of progressive exercises in parsing. Organized by the four divisions: orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. It also includes a series of exercises in false grammar at the end. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text, but the original was apparently water damaged, such that throughout the text the bottom corners are dark and may be difficult or impossible to read.
27. An Improved Grammar of the English Language, on the Inductive System: with which elementary and progressive lessons in composition are combined.
1845 printing (and second edition) of the 1844 copyrighted text. The author, Reverend Frazee, is credited as the Late Principal of Elizabeth Female Academy, Washington, Mississippi. The work is organized into orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. Etymology and syntax are arranged to be progressive and practical, the arrangement being founded on nature and therefore philosophical; definitions and rules are more accurate and precise; the mode of instruction is inductive, teaches the idea, illustrates it plainly, exercises the student upon it, and then requires the student to commit it to memory. The work credits the influence (in philosophical grammar) of Harris's Hermes, Monboddo, Cobbett's Grams. Lewis' An. Outlines, Tooke's Purley, De Sacy, Brewster, Crombie's Syntax, Webster's Grams. Latham's Grams. In practical grammar: Ben Jonson, Lowth, Andrew, Buchanan, Lennie, Stucliffe, Richard Hiley, Alexander, Comley, Chandler, Cardell, Cooper, Alger, Pond, Fowle, Frost, Green, Hull, Ingersol, Nutting, Parkhurst, Picket, Brace, Goodenow, Park and Fox, Pierce, Wright, Hazen, Cornell, Pue. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text. 192 pages.
Frazee, Bradford
28. The Common School Grammar, Part Second: being a practical grammar of the English Language designed for Grammar Schools
1842 printing of 1842 copyrighted text. The second part is for grammar schools, while the first part is for preparatory schools (and includes illustrative engravings).The text rejects the old system of grammar of Murray. It claims to be a proper conservative grammar written for those English speakers who will not study other languages, addressed to the understanding and not the memory. It covers classes of English words (with tables of examples), rules for sentence construction, analysis and parsing, rules of syntax, and includes review questions Includes practical exercises to illustrate every principle and is arranged to explain the differences between its system and the old system. Credits the influence of Wallis, Harris, Horne Tooke, Gilchrist, and Crombie. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the entire text of the second part.
29. A Grammar of the English Language
1866 printing of the 1866 copyrighted text. Fewsmith is credited with a Master of Arts and as Principal of an English and Classical School. Singer is credited as Principal of Zane Street Grammar School. The preface states there is an elementary introduction to this work being prepared. The work seeks to offer just the right amount of explanation to aid students in the understanding of its principles. It is for the classroom and personal study, following the usual division of the four parts of grammar: orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. Includes examples, models, and exercises (in parsing, false syntax, analysis). Credits the influence of Goold Brown. A grammar handbook structured around simple definitions. The Schultz Archive copy includes only up to page 40 (including the preface and ToC) of a text that is at least 228 pages.
Singer, Edgar A. and Fewsmith, William
30. A Comprehensive Grammar: Presenting some new views of the structure of language; designed to explain all the relations of words in English syntax and make the study of grammar and composition one and the same process
1837 printing of the 1837 copyrighted text. Title page asserts this edition was abridged from a work preparing for publication. No information about the author is given. The preface explores many of what it argues are the faults with the rules of Murray's grammar, from which most contemporary grammar textbooks are derived. In its place, the author is working on a system of grammar termed the Architective, Constructive, or Structural System. It attempts to explain all the relations of words in the forms of speech, and its classifications are based on those relations. The preface says the work draws on, rebuts, or is in response to the works of Lowth, Cheever Felch, Rees, Cardell, Emerson and others.The Schultz Archive excerpt only includes preface and first few examples on nouns/verbs.
Felch, Walton, 1790-1872
31. Drifting Checks
Woodman, Charles
Nicki Davis
32. Perceptive Birds
Live audio visual improvisation with on June 2, 2019 at the Ellen Web Studio in Oakland, CA.
33. Data of SysML Modeling Mistakes
Data extraction results of a systematic mapping on the SysML modeling mistakes
Savolainen, Juha; Niu, Nan, and Alenazi, Mounifah
Nan Niu
Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
34. Air Monitoring Data Sets from various locations for the Communities Actively Researching Exposure Study
This collection contains air quality data collected from five air monitoring sites in Eastern Ohio located in two cities - Marietta, Ohio and East Liverpool, Ohio.
Tim Hilbert; Erin Hayes, and Amy Koshoffer
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
35. Symptoms Of Depression, Negative Life Events, And The Role Of Perceived Social Support
Abstract not available.
Drury, Anna Marie
UC Libraries
36. Downtown Revitalization Strategies For The Glasgow, Kentucky Central Business District
Gardner, Stephen
37. Success Of A Short Term Genetics Educational Intervention For Nursing And Dietetic Students
Cragun, Deborah L.
38. Assessment Of Fungal Contamination In Moldy Homes: Comparison Of Different Methods
Niemeier, Richard Todd
39. Evaluation Of Interactive Bloodborne Pathogen Training: A Follow Up Study
Reeb, James E.
40. Gender, Race, And Level Of Education As Predictors Of Beliefs And Attitudes About Personal Recovery From Serious Mental Illness
Restrepo, June A.
41. The Role Of Public Space In Place Making: A Case Study Approach
Thoppil, Gincy O.
42. Marie Laurencin's Fame
Brinker, Nancy
43. Morphological Diversity Of The Brachiopod Platystrophia Through Changing Paleoenvironments In The Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician)
Doran, Neal A.
44. Interactions Among Environmental And Social Impacts Of Large Dams
Andavarapu, Deepika
45. The Treatment Of The Piano Suite In The Twentieth Century As Exemplified By Schoenberg, Dello Joio, Donovan, And Apostel
Adams, Elizabeth
46. A Singer's Examination Of Olivier Messiaen's Harawi: Chant D'amour Et De Mort
Anderson, Christine Lynn
47. The Choral Music Of Ross Lee Finney (1906 -)
Amman, Douglas Dorrance
48. Investigating Ideation Flexibility through Incremental to Radical Heuristics
Ideation flexibility is the ability to shift between a designer’s preferred and non-preferred ways of generating solutions as required by the presented task. There are many tools that exist to support ideation; however, there is a lack of research defining how to facilitate ideation flexibility and how to support designers in this process through use of such tools. In this paper, we report on the development of a new tool, the "Incremental to Radical Heuristics" (I2Rh), which may provide inspiring prompts for ideation, ranging from more incremental to more radical examples. We tested the use of this I2Rh with a small set of industrial design and architecture students and aim to report on ways in which designers with varying cognitive styles perceive and apply these heuristics and further the impact of the heuristics on the students’ problem solving processes and ideation outcomes. Preliminary results demonstrate that more innovative students found the adaptive applications of the heuristics to trigger more novel solutions, whereas the more adaptive students found that the innovative applications to be more inspiring. Ideation is critical as it allows designers to form many diverse ideas to choose from and eventually test and validate them (Sheppard, Macatangay et al. 2009). However, in many cases, designers find it difficult to come up with many diverse ideas as a result of fixation they experience on particular ideas (Crilly 2015). Being a flexible designer means being able to move from one solution to another, in order to produce the most promising solutions for the given context. In this movement, idea generation methods play a critical role as facilitators of this movement while pushing designers to think differently (Silk, Daly et al. 2014). The focus of the proposed work is ideation flexibility (Yilmaz, Daly et al. 2014), defined as the ability to ideate in both incremental and radical ways – or, more precisely, to ideate along a continuum of thinking between the two, depending on the needs of the problem. Building on the theoretical foundation of Kirton’s adaption-innovation theory (Kirton 1976), we defined the ideation success as a designer’s ability to move between his/her preferred and nonpreferred ways of generating ideas as required in the design brief. To specifically target ideation flexibility, we took an empirically-driven and validated ideation tool, Design Heuristics (Yilmaz, Seifert et al. 2016), and modified it based on the Kirton’s adaptiveinnovative theory. This revised set, called the "Incremental to Radical Heuristics" (I2Rh), illustrates heuristics’ application both incrementally and radically to the same example design problem. I2Rh is intended to help designers execute an ideation strategy based on prompts, examples, and directions to incorporate more incremental or more radical changes to their naturally preferred ways of generating ideas, through facilitating flexible thinking. Our goal in this paper was to investigate how designers with different cognitive styles perceive and apply these revised heuristics and their impact on the students’ ideation outcomes.
Baker, Ian; Sevier, Daniel; McKilligan, Seda; Jablokow, Kathryn W.; Daly, Shanna R. and Silk, Eli M.
49. Forms Of Large Folds In The Central Appalachians, Pennsylvania
My Ph.D. dissertation is composed of three chapters, all based on studies of fold forms in the central Appalachians.
Aytuna, Sezgin
50. The Symphony Ca. 1775: An Analysis And Comparison Of Selected Works
Ansbacher, Charles Alexander
51. The 18th Century Bassoon: Performance Feasibility Of W. A. Mozart's Wind Sextets
Atsalis, Theodore Nicholas
52. An Experimental Evaluation Of The Stylistic Approach In Teaching Written Composition In The Junior High School
Ash, Irvin Oda
53. A Study Of Certain Chemical Changes Which Occur In Rabbits With Experimental Diphtheria Intoxication
Ashley, Alta
54. Approaches In The Preparation Of Teachers Of Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Learners: Clinical And Cultural Perspectives
Zwicker, Sally Ann
55. Effects Of Alterations Of Blood Lipids By Diet On Solvent Air:Blood Partition Coefficients In Vitro
Edwards, Brent William
56. In Defense Of Himself: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Selected Accounts Of William Jefferson Clinton's Excuses And Apologies.
Larcher, Wendy L.
57. Hush: Notes On Architecture And Silence
Pincus, Elizabeth
58. Effects Of Stress And Affect On Perceived Physical And Mental Well Being
Rademacher, Jennifer
59. Novel Three Coordinate Molybdenum(III) Complexes For Nitrogen Removal From Flue Gas Under Ambient Conditions
Tsunakawa, Mina
60. An Evaluation Of Fountain Square Based Upon Behavioral Design Principles For Public Spaces
Brott, Linda D.
61. The Cincinnati Union Terminal And The Art Deco Movement
Crotty, Frances Kern
62. Musical History Of Cincinnati
Robertson, Reba
63. The College Conservatory Of Music Of Cincinnati, 1955-1962; A History
Souder, Marian Jo
64. A Comparison Of Hippolytus By Euripides With Phedre By Racine
Dietz, Rosalie Johanna
65. German Agriculture In 1871 And The Conflict Between Protection And Free Trade
Loewenheim, Francis Lippmann
66. Submarine Topography And Bottom Sediments Off The Southeast Coast Of Iceland
Hartsock, John Kaus
67. Petrology Of The Memesagamesing Lake Complex
Weaver, John Ferry
68. Hoelderlin, Moerike, And The Greeks
Schoolfield, George C.
69. Land Use And Landsliding In Price Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio
Agnello, Tim J.
70. Lead Mineralization In Natural And Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Stonesifer, Kimberly Kay
71. Estro Poetico Armonico: The First Fifty Psalms Of Benedetto Marcello (1686 - 1739)
Owen, Thomas Gerald
72. Seventy Eighth Self Portrait: For Soprano, Alto Flute, Bassoon, Harp, Violoncello, And Tape
Lee, Jong Chan
73. Time For Change: For Electric Violin And Jazz Orchestra
Szewczyk, Piotr
74. Beyond Social Media: A Current View of the Digital Marketing Landscape in Libraries
There has been a lot of discussion and application of social media marketing in libraries. Not surprisingly, many libraries manage multiple social media accounts on top of traditional marketing strategies. However, not many libraries have developed a strategic digital marketing strategy that synthesizes areas such as video marketing, email marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), mobile marketing, and even outreach through traditional marketing channels. These additional digital marketing channels are equally as important as social media, yet play different roles in attracting, retaining, and engaging users. As users spend an increasing amount of time online searching, it is essential for them to identify the right library resources in a search engine, find the right event in their email and social media, and develop a sense of loyalty through valuable content generated in videos and blogs. Planning for channel overlap as well as users that a campaign may have missed is an essential part of this strategy. This paper is intended to provide an overview of the multi-channel digital marketing landscape and its application in libraries. Recommended actions are provided as well.
Cheng, Hong
Hong Cheng
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
75. Global Library Services
Scholarship and best practices about global library services: - library service to global users - library partnerships - library's contribution to the campus internationalization - hosting visiting scholars
76. Top Three Challenges Working with Chinese Partners
If your organization is interested in establishing and developing a joint international program in China, it is inevitable to face both manageable risks and unpredictable changes. There are mainly three types of challenges. ● Political impact on travel and visa application: the 2017 re-election in China and leadership change in the United States affect how efficient for both sides to visit each other and stay for work. ● Technology restriction on teaching and communication: While the fast internet speed and open internet are taken for granted in the US, technological difficulties in China can be a barrier for effective teaching and communication. ● Censorship: In China, censorship is always a challenge, especially in the current state. Be proactive to work effectively within the constraints. The presenter is intended to share some experience and best practice based on a successful joint institute between University of Cincinnati and Chongqing University. As the first coop based program in China, the program continues to be a leading model in international engineering education.
77. Global Partnership
Scholarship and best practices about the global partnership in higher education: campus internationalization, global learning, strategic partnership, intercultural communication, etc.
78. Connecting with American Faculty and Chinese Students Overseas: Repositioning the Library’s Role in the Digital Age
As an increasing number of universities expand programs globally, libraries are seen as an essential partner for this endeavor. Some library units are fully or semi-fully integrated into these academic programs. The University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) and Chongqing University (Chongqing, China) introduced the first co-operative engineering education program in China in 2013. Since this time, the University of Cincinnati library has been striving to connect American faculty and Chinese students in three main areas: 1.utilizing library websites and social media for reference, instruction, and outreach; 2.playing a peer role for traveling faculty with course materials, elearning, and basic technical support; 3.developing a sustainable relationship with matching librarians in Chongqing for collection development and beyond. This presentation is intended to share experience and practices with librarians in similar positions, as well as administrators looking to develop a similar position.
79. Looking to the Current and Future of Global Librarianship Today: Global Library Services Discussion Group Online Open House
The Global Library Services Discussion Group welcomes all interested colleagues to join us in a discussion about serving our library users in a global setting. This will be an opportunity for audience members to discuss challenges and opportunities they are facing, and give their perspectives on what the most important developments are in this field. From online instruction and reference services strategies, to access and inclusion challenges in serving our users across many time zones, all topics are welcome for discussion. Members of the Global Library Services DG will be on hand to lend their own perspectives in this very important discussion.
Perkins, Daniel; Cheng, Hong; Hubenschmidt, Holly, and Hickok, John
80. Service Excellence in Global Librarianship: Perspectives and Trends
As the opportunities afforded by globalization expand, colleges and universities are committed to providing students with academic opportunities on a global scale. This has led academic libraries to focus efforts on meeting the needs of students and faculty at global campuses and study abroad sites. In this panel, we’ll be discussing the similarities and differences between our global library services programs and the opportunities and challenges we’ve faced, with practical advice on working with partners on-campus and overseas. This will be an interactive session where the audience will work towards formulating and refining global initiatives based on institutional needs.
Perkins, Daniel; Wharton Lindsey; Tang, Neely, and Cheng, Hong
81. Global Librarianship: Perspectives and Trends
As the opportunities and challenges raised by globalization become more a part of people’s everyday lives, colleges and universities are committed to providing their students with academic opportunities on a global scale. This has led academic libraries to focus their efforts on meeting the needs of their students and faculty at global campuses and study abroad sites. Also under the same trend, the number of global services/education librarians is on the rise with unique responsibilities and experiences. In this panel, we’ll be discussing: the similarities and differences between the global library services programs at our respective sites; the opportunities and challenges we’ve faced, including how to work with partners on main campus as well as overseas; discuss how global library services may be evolving in the future.
Perkins, Daniel; Wharton, Lindsey, and Cheng, Hong
82. Engaging and Educating Students Worldwide
Abstract: Can a library support an overseas program with a full-time librarian position? Can this position provide distant services successfully through e-learning techniques, social media and other methods? The answer is yes. As many American universities enroll students through a shared or global campus, librarians can play a vital role as the primary information and library services provider. The University of Cincinnati (UC) and Chongqing University, China (CQU) established the first shared engineering programs in China with mandatory co-operative education, the Joint Co-op Institute (JCI), in 2013. Students primarily receive on-campus instruction in China from JCI instructors; however, no UC librarian is onsite to provide dedicated support. In response, UC Libraries developed the new Global Services Librarian position as the lead presence for support of the Libraries’ growing global engagement and partnerships, especially with the JCI. This Librarian provides a full range of services, mostly at a distance, including instruction, outreach, and faculty support. This presentation will describe the development of the Global Services Librarian position, its roles in supporting the JCI, lessons learned in the first year of this position, and how this role could be adapted for other library environments.
83. Non Academic Development Of Negro Children In Mixed And Segregated Schools
Prosser, Inez Beverly
84. DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOSLY REFRESHING A TACTILE DISPLAY
A tactile display apparatus renders information to a user, and comprises multiple braille cells attached adjacent to each other along a predefined path, a set of pins housed within the braille cells, and a set of pin holders inserted on the braille cells. The braille cells are moved periodically at a predefined speed via a driving assembly. The pins are selectively actuated by actuators, where the linear motion of the braille cells allow the user to contact the pins to read the information represented by the arrangement of the pins. The pin holders are moved along a defined path to contact the pins, and each pin holder comprises a rigid body and multiple elastic rings attached along the rigid body. The number of elastic rings is equal to the number of pins to allow the pin holder to selectively hold or release a pin.
Azamfar, Moslem
85. Moshrefifar and Azamfar method, a new cycle counting method for evaluating fatigue life
It is shown in present study that Rainflow method is unable to accurately estimate fatigue life ofcomponents under random loading, almost always. The inconsistencies between results of Rainflowmethod and hysteresis curve are also discussed. Alike the Peak counting method, it is shown that Shadowmethod doesn’t consider the possibility of deformation within individual cycles. Hence, Moshrefifar andAzamfar method is proposed as a novel technique having accurate results in different analytical condi-tions which are in good consistence with results obtained from hysteresis curves. Authors finally proposean algorithm as well as a C language program for this method.
Moshrefifar, Masoud and Azamfar, Moslem
86. Simple Formulae for Control of Industrial Time Delay Systems
Control of time delay integrating systems is a challenging and ongoing research. In this paper a new structure for control of stable and integrating time delay systems is presented. The control design process is as simple as selection of some constant gains, for which simple formulae are introduced. The design methods are derived analytically, while no fractional approximation for the time delay term of the plant transfer function is used. Simulation, as well as, experimental studies reveal the exceptional effectiveness of the proposed methods in achieving a robust and well-performing tracking, even when the plant pure time delay is very large. © 2016, Brazilian Association of Computational Mechanics. All rights reserved.
Azamfar, Moslem and H. Davaie Markazi, Amir
87. A blockchain enabled Cyber-Physical System architecture for Industry 4.0 manufacturing systems
Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) are complex manufacturing systems which aim to integrate and synchronize machine world and manufacturing facility to the cyber computational space. However, having intensive interconnectivity and a computational platform is crucial for real-world implementation of CPPSs. In this paper, the potential impacts of blockchain technology in development and realization of real-world CPPSs are discussed. A unified three-level blockchain architecture is proposed as a guideline for researchers and industries to clearly identify the potentials of blockchain and adapt, develop, and incorporate this technology with their manufacturing developments towards Industry 4.0.
Azamfar, Moslem; Lee, Jay, and Singh, Jaskaran
88. Lessons in Language
No printing date given. Copyrighted 1888. The author is credited as Principal of the George S. Meade Grammar School Philadelphia. The book purports to train young students to use their own simply vocabulary to compose properly-expressed sentences, as well as oral and written stories and descriptions, while also gradually expanding their vocabularies. Questions accompany detailed pictorial illustrations or short textual examples, some of which are abridged versions of Aesop's fables, to encourage thought and prompt elaboration or storytelling. There are 82 lessons in all. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete text.
89. How to Write a Composition: Containing Original Skeleton Compositions on a Great Variety of Subjects, With directions for Dividing Each into its Appropriate Heads and for Arranging The Divisions in their Natural Order
No printing date given. Copyrighted 1871. The author is credited for authoring a number of other books on various subjects. Although the preface argues thought is the seed of composition, the writer must also first conquer/study spelling, grammar, punctuation, style, and clearness of expression before writing an acceptable composition. The two most important points in preparation are the proper formation of ideas and their correct arrangement. The book provides a long list of themes/topics for a composition, with each being broken into several sections for elaboration and discussion. Some themes/topics are given introductions and conclusions. Others contain probing questions, sample quotations for evidence, or claims for further exploration. A few are more complete, brief compositions for study and imitation. Topics/themes include politeness, umbrellas, letter on business, and the cowardice of crime. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text, but many pages are blurred close to spine, making them either difficult or impossible to read in their entirety.
Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie)
90. Lessons on Common Things: For the use of Schools and Families on the Basis of Dr. Mayo's Lessons on Objects
1857 printing of the 1857 copyrighted text. The author is credited as a Doctor of Laws in English (LL. D.). Despite the 1857 copyright notice, this work is identical to the 1835 edition also in the Schultz Archive: Lessons on Common Things: Their Origin, Nature, and Uses for Schools and Families. Illustrated with Fifty-Two Engravings on Wood. Frost is credited as the editor. This is an American edition of the English book Lessons on Objects, published by teachers of the Pestalozzian school. In this edition hard and Latinized words have been replaced with common ones. Objects are broken down into parts and qualities. Certain lessons are written as dialogues between children and the teacher. The investigation of the objects at the center of these lessons increases in complexity as the lessons progress. Later lessons are written in full paragraphs or as a series of questions. Some of the objects or scenes are illustrated by the wood cut engravings. The book is sectioned into five series, the last two are further separated into subsections such as "on the senses" or "on the metals." The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text. Some of the pages are dark and may be difficult to read.
91. Lessons on Common Things: Their Origin, Nature, and Uses for Schools and Families. Illustrated with Fifty-Two Engravings on Wood
1835 printing (third edition) of the 1835 copyrighted text. Frost is credited as the editor. This is an American edition of the English book Lessons on Objects, published by teachers of the Pestalozzian school. In this edition hard and Latinized words have been replaced with common ones. Objects are broken down into parts and qualities. Certain lessons are written as dialogues between children and the teacher. The investigation of the objects at the center of these lessons increases in complexity as the lessons progress. Later lessons are written in full paragraphs or as a series of questions. Some of the objects or scenes are illustrated by the wood cut engravings. The book is sectioned into five series, the last two are further separated into subsections such as "on the senses" or "on the metals." The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text. Some of the pages are dark and may be difficult to read.
92. 500 Progressive Exercises in Parsing: Adapted to Murray's and Other Approved Treatises of English Grammar
1828 printing, the second edition, copyrighted 1827. Short book focusing on exercises etymological and syntactical parsing that grow in difficulty over each chapter. The work attempts to make the study of English grammar easier through classification of the forms of English construction. It is to be used after students have committed the rules of grammar to memory. There are forty lessons in all. Some use quotations by distinguished authors. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
93. Easy Exercises in Composition: Designed for the use of Beginners (Extended Edition)
1839 printing, the second edition - stereotyped, copyrighted 1839. The author has a Master of Arts degree and is credited at Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia. Conceived as an alternative to texts which teach composition through an emphasis on words and phrases and neglect things, which form the substratum of thought. The text is a course of composition exercises on pictures and real objects. The first edition of 3,000 copies sold out, prompting a second edition which included additions of pictures and a section on dialogue writing. The work has three sections: Introductory Course of Easy Exercises, Structure of Sentences, and Figurative Language. The first section covers description of objects and scenes, subjects for description and narration, and narration of real and imaginary incidents. The second section covers parts of speech and exercises in composition focusing on qualities of style such as clearness, precision, strength, unity, and harmony. The book features many heavily detailed pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
94. Easy Exercises in Composition: Designed for the use of Beginners
1839 printing, copyrighted 1839. The author has a Master of Arts degree and is credited at Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia. Conceived as an alternative to texts which teach composition through an emphasis on words and phrases and neglect things, which form the substratum of thought. The text is a course of composition exercises on pictures and real objects. The work has three sections: Introductory Course of Easy Exercises, Structure of Sentences, and Figurative Language. The first section covers description of objects and scenes, subjects for description and narration, and narration of real and imaginary incidents. The second section covers parts of speech and exercises in composition focusing on qualities of style such as clearness, precision, strength, unity, and harmony. The book features many heavily detailed pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
95. Monographs on Education in the United States: Educational Organization and Administration
1904 printing of the 1904 and 1899 copyrighted text.The author is credited as President of the University of Illinois. The text covers the history of organized systems of education in the United States. It begins by discussing the role of English and Dutch settlers on the educational culture and values of the people of the United States and it precedes to look at the different levels of organization based on levels of government and administration from school districts to townships to counties to states and the national level. It includes private education and colleges and universities. It uses statistics from the United States bureau of education. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Butler, Nicholas Murray (editor) and Draper, A. S. (Andrew Sloan), 1848-1913
96. Language Lessons: Book One
No printing year given. 1897 copyrighted text. The author is a Ph.D. and credited as President of Swarthmore College. Based on two leading ideas: progressive exercises in composition and an inductive approach to grammar. The work is divided into sentences exercises and composition exercises. The exercises are based on occupations, nature, history, and great literature. Pictorial illustrations are used to stimulate the imagination. Book I of the text is for third and fourth graders. Book II is for fifth and sixth graders. The author credits the influence of Baron, Junghann, and Schindler. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text of Book I.
De Garmo, Charles, 1849-1934
97. The Elementary Principles of English Grammar: accompanied by appropriate exercises in parsing. With an appendix
1846 fifth edition/printing of the 1843 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the author of District School Speaker. The text endeavors to find a more natural way of teaching grammar than to rely on the methods used for Latin and Greek. The text's first part is a plan for oral instruction. The second part covers the Eight Parts of Speech. The third part covers twelve rules of syntax, and contains lessons for parsing and the correction of false grammar. The Schultz Archive's copy only includes the preface.
Day, Parsons E.
98. Composition Writing: A Practical Guide, Containing Model Lessons and Hints to Teachers and Pupils
1864 printing of the 1864 copyrighted text. The preface states the methods of the text are the result of eight years of classroom experience and testing. The text is written as a teaching guide with advice on lessons and providing feedback to encourage composition in younger students. The text's method is to introduce composition through the presentation of various forms of writing rather than simplified rhetorical principles. These forms include letters (epistles), diary writing, news items, advertisements, and extempore writing. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Davis, W. W.
99. The Art of Discourse: A System of Discourse Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also for Private Study
1867 printing of the 1867 copyrighted work: a reconstruction of Elements of the Art of Rhetoric (1850). The author is credited as the author of books on logic, grammar, composition, and rhetorical praxis. The preface states Elements of the Art of Rhetoric was distinct for elevating invention to the first rank in rhetorical instruction, reduction of the principles of rhetoric to a more exact system, and the treatment of rhetoric as an art rather than a science. This text made changes to make stronger relations between rhetoric and logic and aesthetics, fuller develop the processes of explanation, and the more exact classification of style. A treatise and textbook on rhetoric, it is divided into two parts: invention and style. Invention is further divided into explanation, confirmation, excitation, and persuasion. Style is divided into absolute properties, subjective properties, and objective properties. Discourse is discussed as oratory, epistolary composition, poetry, representative discourse, judicial, deliberative and sacred. Exercises are used throughout. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
Day, Henry Noble, 1808-1890
100. Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also, for Private Study
1850 printing of the 1850 copyrighted text. This text professes to elevate invention to the first rank in rhetorical instruction. It credits Whately as the only other recent author not to excluded invention, but states that he does so more narrowly than this work shall do. Secondly, it attempts to reduce of the principles of rhetoric to a more exact system,. The art of rhetoric is philosophically distinguishable from logic, grammar, aesthetics, poetry, and elocution, and it is not limited, as it is in Whately, to argumentation. Day argues that explanation and persuasion are large parts of rhetoric and distinguishable from argumentation. and the treatment of rhetoric as an art rather than a science. Thirdly, an emphasis on the practice of rhetoric as an art, and not merely a science, has resulted in the prescription of numerous exercises, and the inclusion of an appendix of themes for composition. The preface credits the influence of German writers Schott, Hoffmann, Richter, Eschenburg, Theremin, and Becker. The text it is divided into two parts: invention and style. Invention is further divided into explanation, confirmation, excitation, and persuasion. Style is divided into absolute properties, subjective properties, and objective properties. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
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Associations between smoking and psychiatric comorbidity in U.S. Iraq-and Afghanistan-era veterans: Bulletin of the society of psychologists in addictive behaviors: Bulletin of the society of psychologists in substance abuse
The risk of smoking increases with specific psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder); but the risk has also been shown to increase as a function of the number of psychiatric illnesses with which a person is diagnosed. The current study examined this association and other correlates of smoking-psychiatric comorbidity in a sample of U.S. Iraq-and Afghanistan-era veterans who have served since September 11, 2001. The sample consisted of 1,691 veterans (Mage = 37.5 years, 20.2% women, 53.2% minority). Veterans completed measures of smoking history, nicotine dependence, and smoking expectancies; they also underwent a structured diagnostic interview to establish any current and/or lifetime psychiatric diagnoses. Consistent with previous studies, the number of comorbid diagnoses was significantly associated with both heavy (>20 cigarettes/day) and light-to-moderate (≤20 cigarette/day) smoking. Moreover, among current smokers, significant correlations between self-reported dependence and number of diagnoses were observed. Examination of self-reported smoking expectancies revealed that a greater number of diagnoses were associated with greater expectancies of negative affect reduction, stimulation and state enhancement, taste and sensorimotor manipulation, social facilitation, craving and addiction, and boredom reduction. The present findings confirm the association between the number of comorbid diagnoses reported in previous studies, and extends those findings by identifying smoking expectancies differences among smokers with comorbid diagnoses. © 2013 APA.
Beckham, Jean Crowell
Calhoun, Patrick Shields
Dedert, Eric
McClernon, F Joseph
McClernon, FJ; Calhoun, PS; Hertzberg, JS; Dedert, EA; Beckham, JC
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Explore Search Results: author: Lawrence L. Greischar
Aging is associated with positive responding to neutral information but reduced recovery from negative information (Journal Article)
Carien M. van Reekum,
Stacey M. Schaefer,
Lawrence L. Greischar,
Studies on aging and emotion suggest an increase in reported positive affect, a processing bias of positive over negative information, as well as increasingly adaptive regulation in response to negative events with advancing age. These findings imply that older individuals evaluate information differently, resulting in lowered reactivity to, and/or faster recovery from, negative information, while maintaining more positive responding to positive information. We examined this hypothesis in an ongoing study on Midlife in the US (MIDUS II) where emotional reactivity and recovery were assessed in a large number of respondents (N = 159) from a wide age range (36-84 years). We recorded eye-blink startle magnitudes and corrugator activity during and after the presentation of positive, neutral and negative pictures. The most robust age effect was found in response to neutral stimuli, where increasing age is associated with a decreased corrugator and eyeblink startle response to neutral stimuli. These data suggest that an age-related positivity effect does not essentially alter the response to emotion-laden information, but is reflected in a more positive interpretation of affectively ambiguous information. Furthermore, older women showed reduced corrugator recovery from negative pictures relative to the younger women and men, suggesting that an age-related prioritization of well-being is not necessarily reflected in adaptive regulation of negative affect.
Aged, 80 and over,
Electromyography,
Middle Aged,
Multivariate Analysis,
Photic Stimulation,
Reaction Time,
Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Are Inversely Coupled during Regulation of Negative Affect and Predict the Diurnal Pattern of Cortisol Secretion among Older Adults (Journal Article)
Heather L. Urry,
Ned H. Kalin,
Marchell E. Thurow,
Hillary S. Schaefer,
Cory A. Jackson,
Corrina J. Frye,
Among younger adults, the ability to willfully regulate negative affect, enabling effective responses to stressful experiences, engages regions of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the amygdala. Because regions of PFC and the amygdala are known to influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, here we test whether PFC and amygdala responses during emotion regulation predict the diurnal pattern of salivary cortisol secretion. We also test whether PFC and amygdala regions are engaged during emotion regulation in older (62- to 64-year-old) rather than younger individuals. We measured brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging as participants regulated (increased or decreased) their affective responses or attended to negative picture stimuli. We also collected saliva samples for 1 week at home for cortisol assay. Consistent with previous work in younger samples, increasing negative affect resulted in ventral lateral, dorsolateral, and dorsomedial regions of PFC and amygdala activation. In contrast to previous work, decreasing negative affect did not produce the predicted robust pattern of higher PFC and lower amygdala activation. Individuals demonstrating the predicted effect (decrease < attend in the amygdala), however, exhibited higher signal in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) for the same contrast. Furthermore, participants displaying higher VMPFC and lower amygdala signal when decreasing compared with the attention control condition evidenced steeper, more normative declines in cortisol over the course of the day. Individual differences yielded the predicted link between brain function while reducing negative affect in the laboratory and diurnal regulation of endocrine activity in the home environment.
Cortisol,
emotion regulation,
Negative affect,
pupil dilation,
ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Amygdalar function reflects common individual differences in emotion and pain regulation success (Journal Article)
Tim V. Salomons,
Although the co-occurrence of negative affect and pain is well recognized, the mechanism underlying their association is unclear. To examine whether a common self-regulatory ability impacts the experience of both emotion and pain, we integrated neuroimaging, behavioral, and physiological measures obtained from three assessments separated by substantial temporal intervals. Our results demonstrated that individual differences in emotion regulation ability, as indexed by an objective measure of emotional state, corrugator electromyography, predicted self-reported success while regulating pain. In both emotion and pain paradigms, the amygdala reflected regulatory success. Notably, we found that greater emotion regulation success was associated with greater change of amygdalar activity following pain regulation. Furthermore, individual differences in degree of amygdalar change following emotion regulation were a strong predictor of pain regulation success, as well as of the degree of amygdalar engagement following pain regulation. These findings suggest that common individual differences in emotion and pain regulatory success are reflected in a neural structure known to contribute to appraisal processes.
Data Interpretation, Statistical,
Hot Temperature,
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted,
Individuality,
Pain Measurement,
BOLD signal in insula is differentially related to cardiac function during compassion meditation in experts vs. novices (Journal Article)
Antoine Lutz,
David M. Perlman,
The brain and the cardiovascular system influence each other during the processing of emotion. The study of the interactions of these systems during emotion regulation has been limited in human functional neuroimaging, despite its potential importance for physical health. We have previously reported that mental expertise in cultivation of compassion alters the activation of circuits linked with empathy and theory of mind in response to emotional stimuli. Guided by the finding that heart rate increases more during blocks of compassion meditation than neutral states, especially for experts, we examined the interaction between state (compassion vs. neutral) and group (novice, expert) on the relation between heart rate and BOLD signal during presentation of emotional sounds presented during each state. Our findings revealed that BOLD signal in the right middle insula showed a significant association with heart rate (HR) across state and group. This association was stronger in the left middle/posterior insula when experts were compared to novices. The positive coupling of HR and BOLD was higher within the compassion state than within the neutral state in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex for both groups, underlining the role of this region in the modulation of bodily arousal states. This state effect was stronger for experts than novices in somatosensory cortices and the right inferior parietal lobule (group by state interaction). These data confirm that compassion enhances the emotional and somatosensory brain representations of others' emotions, and that this effect is modulated by expertise. Future studies are needed to further investigate the impact of compassion training on these circuits.
Brain mapping,
Cerebral Cortex,
Cerebrovascular Circulation,
Empathy,
Heart Rate,
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted,
Conscientiousness predicts greater recovery from negative emotion (Journal Article)
Gayle Dienberg Love,
Carol D. Ryff,
Greater levels of conscientiousness have been associated with lower levels of negative affect. We focus on one mechanism through which conscientiousness may decrease negative affect: effective emotion regulation, as reflected by greater recovery from negative stimuli. In 273 adults who were 35-85 years old, we collected self-report measures of personality including conscientiousness and its self-control facet, followed on average 2 years later by psychophysiological measures of emotional reactivity and recovery. Among middle-aged adults (35-65 years old), the measures of conscientiousness and self-control predicted greater recovery from, but not reactivity to, negative emotional stimuli. The effect of conscientiousness and self-control on recovery was not driven by other personality variables or by greater task adherence on the part of high conscientiousness individuals. In addition, the effect was specific to negative emotional stimuli and did not hold for neutral or positive emotional stimuli.
Internal-External Control,
Linear Models,
Personality,
Effects of electrode density and electrolyte spreading in dense array electroencephalographic recording (Journal Article)
Cory A. Burghy,
Daren C. Jackson,
Diego A. Pizzagalli,
Corrina Mueller,
OBJECTIVE: High-density EEG recording offers increased spatial resolution but requires careful consideration of how the density of electrodes affects the potentials being measured. Power differences as a function of electrode density and electrolyte spreading were examined and a method for correcting these differences was tested. METHODS: Separate EEG recordings from 8 participants were made using a high-density electrode net, first with 6 of 128 electrodes active followed by recordings with all electrodes active. For a subset of 4 participants measurements were counterbalanced with recordings made in the reversed order by drying the hair after the high-density recordings and using a fresh dry electrode net of the same size for the low-density recordings. Mean power values over 6 resting eyes open/closed EEG recordings at the 6 active electrodes common to both recording conditions were compared. Evidence for possible electrolyte spreading or bridging between electrodes was acquired by computing Hjorth electrical distances. Spherical spline interpolation was tested for correcting power values at electrodes affected by electrolyte spreading for these participants and for a subset of participants from a larger previous study. RESULTS: For both the complete set and the counterbalanced subset, significant decreases in power at the 6 common electrodes for the high-density recordings were observed across the range of the standard EEG bands (1-44 Hz). The number of bridges or amount of electrolyte spreading towards the reference electrode as evidenced by small Hjorth electrical distances served as a predictor of this power decrease. Spherical spline interpolation increased the power values at electrodes affected by electrolyte spreading and by a significant amount for the larger number of participants in the second group. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding signal effects caused by closely spaced electrodes, detecting electrolyte spreading and correcting its effects are important considerations for high-density EEG recordings. A combination of scalp maps of power density and plots of small Hjorth electrical distances can be used to identify electrodes affected by electrolyte spreading. Interpolation using spherical splines offers a method for correcting the potentials measured at these electrodes.
Artifacts,
Electroencephalography,
Scalp,
Electromyogenic artifacts and electroencephalographic inferences (Journal Article)
Alexander J. Shackman,
Heleen A. Slagter,
Jeffrey S. Maxwell,
Muscle or electromyogenic (EMG) artifact poses a serious risk to inferential validity for any electroencephalography (EEG) investigation in the frequency-domain owing to its high amplitude, broad spectrum, and sensitivity to psychological processes of interest. Even weak EMG is detectable across the scalp in frequencies as low as the alpha band. Given these hazards, there is substantial interest in developing EMG correction tools. Unfortunately, most published techniques are subjected to only modest validation attempts, rendering their utility questionable. We review recent work by our laboratory quantitatively investigating the validity of two popular EMG correction techniques, one using the general linear model (GLM), the other using temporal independent component analysis (ICA). We show that intra-individual GLM-based methods represent a sensitive and specific tool for correcting on-going or induced, but not evoked (phase-locked) or source-localized, spectral changes. Preliminary work with ICA shows that it may not represent a panacea for EMG contamination, although further scrutiny is strongly warranted. We conclude by describing emerging methodological trends in this area that are likely to have substantial benefits for basic and applied EEG research.
Muscle, Skeletal,
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Electromyogenic Artifacts and Electroencephalographic Inferences Revisited (Journal Article)
Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in using oscillatory brain electrical activity to understand the neural bases of cognition and emotion. Electrical signals originating from pericranial muscles represent a profound threat to the validity of such research. Recently, McMenamin et al (2010) examined whether independent component analysis (ICA) provides a sensitive and specific means of correcting electromyogenic (EMG) artifacts. This report sparked the accompanying commentary (Olbrich, Jödicke, Sander, Himmerich & Hegerl, in press), and here we revisit the question of how EMG can alter inferences drawn from the EEG and what can be done to minimize its pernicious effects. Accordingly, we briefly summarize salient features of the EMG problem and review recent research investigating the utility of ICA for correcting EMG and other artifacts. We then directly address the key concerns articulated by Olbrich and provide a critique of their efforts at validating ICA. We conclude by identifying key areas for future methodological work and offer some practical recommendations for intelligently addressing EMG artifact.
Davidson lab
Identifying robust and sensitive frequency bands for interrogating neural oscillations (Journal Article)
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in using neural oscillations to characterize the mechanisms supporting cognition and emotion. Oftentimes, oscillatory activity is indexed by mean power density in predefined frequency bands. Some investigators use broad bands originally defined by prominent surface features of the spectrum. Others rely on narrower bands originally defined by spectral factor analysis (SFA). Presently, the robustness and sensitivity of these competing band definitions remains unclear. Here, a Monte Carlo-based SFA strategy was used to decompose the tonic ("resting" or "spontaneous") electroencephalogram (EEG) into five bands: delta (1-5Hz), alpha-low (6-9Hz), alpha-high (10-11Hz), beta (12-19Hz), and gamma (>21Hz). This pattern was consistent across SFA methods, artifact correction/rejection procedures, scalp regions, and samples. Subsequent analyses revealed that SFA failed to deliver enhanced sensitivity; narrow alpha sub-bands proved no more sensitive than the classical broadband to individual differences in temperament or mean differences in task-induced activation. Other analyses suggested that residual ocular and muscular artifact was the dominant source of activity during quiescence in the delta and gamma bands. This was observed following threshold-based artifact rejection or independent component analysis (ICA)-based artifact correction, indicating that such procedures do not necessarily confer adequate protection. Collectively, these findings highlight the limitations of several commonly used EEG procedures and underscore the necessity of routinely performing exploratory data analyses, particularly data visualization, prior to hypothesis testing. They also suggest the potential benefits of using techniques other than SFA for interrogating high-dimensional EEG datasets in the frequency or time-frequency (event-related spectral perturbation, event-related synchronization/desynchronization) domains.
Alpha Rhythm,
Beta Rhythm,
Cognition,
Delta Rhythm,
Monte Carlo Method,
Psychomotor Performance,
Reproducibility of Results,
Long-Term Meditators Self-Induce High-Amplitude Gamma Synchrony during Mental Practice (Journal Article)
Nancy B. Rawlings,
Matthieu Ricard,
Richard J. Davidson,
Burton H. Singer
Practitioners understand "meditation," or mental training, to be a process of familiarization with one's own mental life leading to long-lasting changes in cognition and emotion. Little is known about this process and its impact on the brain. Here we find that long-term Buddhist practitioners self-induce sustained electroencephalographic high-amplitude gamma-band oscillations and phase-synchrony during meditation. These electroencephalogram patterns differ from those of controls, in particular over lateral frontoparietal electrodes. In addition, the ratio of gamma-band activity (25-42 Hz) to slow oscillatory activity (4-13 Hz) is initially higher in the resting baseline before meditation for the practitioners than the controls over medial frontoparietal electrodes. This difference increases sharply during meditation over most of the scalp electrodes and remains higher than the initial baseline in the postmeditation baseline. These data suggest that mental training involves temporal integrative mechanisms and may induce short-term and long-term neural changes.
Contemplation by Applied Subject,
Neuroscience and Contemplation,
Science and Contemplation
Practitioners understand “meditation,” or mental training, to be a process of familiarization with one's own mental life leading to long-lasting changes in cognition and emotion. Little is known about this process and its impact on the brain. Here we find that long-term Buddhist practitioners self-induce sustained electroencephalographic high-amplitude gamma-band oscillations and phase-synchrony during meditation. These electroencephalogram patterns differ from those of controls, in particular over lateral frontoparietal electrodes. In addition, the ratio of gamma-band activity (25-42 Hz) to slow oscillatory activity (4-13 Hz) is initially higher in the resting baseline before meditation for the practitioners than the controls over medial frontoparietal electrodes. This difference increases sharply during meditation over most of the scalp electrodes and remains higher than the initial baseline in the postmeditation baseline. These data suggest that mental training involves temporal integrative mechanisms and may induce short-term and long-term neural changes.
Meditation,
electroencephalogram synchrony,
gamma activity
Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence (Journal Article)
Andrew D. Francis,
The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impairments in sustained attention in patients with attention disorders have been associated with increased trial-to-trial variability in reaction time and event-related potential deficits during attention tasks. At present, it is unclear whether the ability to sustain attention and its underlying brain circuitry are transformable through training. Here, we show, with dichotic listening task performance and electroencephalography, that training attention, as cultivated by meditation, can improve the ability to sustain attention. Three months of intensive meditation training reduced variability in attentional processing of target tones, as indicated by both enhanced theta-band phase consistency of oscillatory neural responses over anterior brain areas and reduced reaction time variability. Furthermore, those individuals who showed the greatest increase in neural response consistency showed the largest decrease in behavioral response variability. Notably, we also observed reduced variability in neural processing, in particular in low-frequency bands, regardless of whether the deviant tone was attended or unattended. Focused attention meditation may thus affect both distracter and target processing, perhaps by enhancing entrainment of neuronal oscillations to sensory input rhythms, a mechanism important for controlling the content of attention. These novel findings highlight the mechanisms underlying focused attention meditation and support the notion that mental training can significantly affect attention and brain function.
Neuroscience,
Sustained attention
Cognition and Contemplation,
Psychology and Contemplation,
Acoustic Stimulation,
Analysis of Variance,
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity,
Auditory Perception,
Case-Control Studies,
Contingent Negative Variation,
Dichotic Listening Tests,
Evoked Potentials, Auditory,
Prolonged marital stress is associated with short-lived responses to positive stimuli (Journal Article)
Marital stress is associated with a higher incidence of psychiatric disorders, in particular major depression. One pathway through which marital stress may impact emotional health is by compromising emotion-responding processes. We examined a longitudinal sample of adults (N = 116; 59 males; 39-84 years) to verify how marital stress predicts reactivity to, and recovery from, emotional provocation. Individuals watched positive, neutral, and negative pictures while an objective measure of affective state, corrugator supercilii muscle activity, was recorded continuously. Our results indicate that marital stress is associated with short-lived responses to positive pictures, indexed by a less persistent decrease in corrugator activity after picture offset. Extending beyond the prior focus on negative emotional processes, these results suggest that social stress may impact health by influencing the time course of responding to positive events.
Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortical Activity and Behavioral Inhibition (Journal Article)
Individuals show marked variation in their responses to threat. Such individual differences in “behavioral inhibition” (BI) play a profound role in mental and physical wellbeing. BI is thought to reflect variation in the sensitivity of a distributed neural system responsible for generating anxiety and organizing defensive responses in response to threat and punishment. Although progress has been made in identifying the key constituents of this behavioral inhibition system (BIS) in humans, the involvement of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) remains unclear. Here, we acquired self-reported BIS-sensitivity and high-density EEG from a large sample (n=51). Using the enhanced spatial resolution afforded by source modeling techniques, we show that individuals with greater tonic activity in right posterior dlPFC rate themselves as more behaviorally inhibited. This observation provides novel support for recent conceptualizations of BI and clues to the mechanisms that might underlie variation in threat-induced negative affect.
Simultaneous acquisition of corrugator electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging: a new method for objectively measuring affect and neural activity concurrently (Journal Article)
Michael J. Anderle,
The development of functional neuroimaging of emotion holds the promise to enhance our understanding of the biological bases of affect and improve our knowledge of psychiatric diseases. However, up to this point, researchers have been unable to objectively, continuously and unobtrusively measure the intensity and dynamics of affect concurrently with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This has hindered the development and generalizability of our field. Facial electromyography (EMG) is an objective, reliable, valid, sensitive, and unobtrusive measure of emotion. Here, we report the successful development of a method for simultaneously acquiring fMRI and facial EMG. The ability to simultaneously acquire brain activity and facial physiology will allow affective neuroscientists to address theoretical, psychiatric, and individual difference questions in a more rigorous and generalizable way.
Affect,
Facial Muscles,
Spatio-temporal dynamics of brain mechanisms in aversive classical conditioning: high-density event-related potential and brain electrical tomography analyses (2003, Journal Article)
Social cognition, including complex social judgments and attitudes, is shaped by individual learning experiences, where affect often plays a critical role. Aversive classical conditioning-a form of associative learning involving a relationship between a neutral event (conditioned stimulus, CS) and an aversive event (unconditioned stimulus, US)-represents a well-controlled paradigm to study how the acquisition of socially relevant knowledge influences behavior and the brain. Unraveling the temporal unfolding of brain mechanisms involved appears critical for an initial understanding about how social cognition operates. Here, 128-channel ERPs were recorded in 50 subjects during the acquisition phase of a differential aversive classical conditioning paradigm. The CS+ (two fearful faces) were paired 50% of the time with an aversive noise (CS upward arrow + /Paired), whereas in the remaining 50% they were not (CS upward arrow + /Unpaired); the CS- (two different fearful faces) were never paired with the noise. Scalp ERP analyses revealed differences between CS upward arrow + /Unpaired and CS- as early as approximately 120 ms post-stimulus. Tomographic source localization analyses revealed early activation modulated by the CS+ in the ventral visual pathway (e.g. fusiform gyrus, approximately 120 ms), right middle frontal gyrus (approximately 176 ms), and precuneus (approximately 240 ms). At approximately 120 ms, the CS- elicited increased activation in the left insula and left middle frontal gyrus. These findings not only confirm a critical role of prefrontal, insular, and precuneus regions in aversive conditioning, but they also suggest that biologically and socially salient information modulates activation at early stages of the information processing flow, and thus furnish initial insight about how affect and social judgments operate.
Association Learning,
Conditioning, Classical,
Dominance, Cerebral,
Fear,
Frontal lobe,
Imaging, Three-Dimensional,
Prefrontal cortex,
Visual Pathways
Stress Potentiates Early and Attenuates Late Stages of Visual Processing (Journal Article)
Stress can fundamentally alter neural responses to incoming information. Recent research suggests that stress and anxiety shift the balance of attention away from a task-directed mode, governed by prefrontal cortex (PFC), to a sensory-vigilance mode, governed by the amygdala and other threat-sensitive regions. A key untested prediction of this framework is that stress exerts dissociable effects on different stages of information processing. This study exploited the temporal resolution afforded by event-related potentials to disentangle the impact of stress on vigilance, indexed by early perceptual activity, from its impact on task-directed cognition, indexed by later post-perceptual activity in humans. Results indicated that threat-of-shock amplified stress, measured using retrospective ratings and concurrent facial electromyography (EMG). Stress also double-dissociated early sensory-specific from the later task-directed processing of emotionally-neutral stimuli: stress amplified N1 (184-236 ms) and attenuated P3 (316-488 ms) activity. This demonstrates that stress can have strikingly different consequences at different processing stages. Consistent with recent suggestions, stress amplified earlier extrastriate activity in a manner consistent with vigilance for threat (N1), but disrupted later activity associated with the evaluation of task-relevant information (P3). These results provide a novel basis for understanding how stress can modulate information processing in everyday life and stress-sensitive disorders.
Theta Phase Synchrony and Conscious Target Perception: Impact of Intensive Mental Training (Journal Article)
Sander Nieuwenhuis,
The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the attentional blink—a deficit in identifying the second of two targets (T1 and T2) presented in close succession. This deficit is thought to result from an overinvestment of limited resources in T1 processing. We previously reported that intensive mental training in a style of meditation aimed at reducing elaborate object processing, reduced brain resource allocation to T1, and improved T2 accuracy [Slagter, H. A., Lutz, A., Greischar, L. L., Francis, A. D., Nieuwenhuis, S., Davis, J., et al. Mental training affects distribution of limited brain resources. PloS Biology, 5, e138, 2007]. Here we report EEG spectral analyses to examine the possibility that this reduction in elaborate T1 processing rendered the system more available to process new target information, as indexed by T2-locked phase variability. Intensive mental training was associated with decreased cross-trial variability in the phase of oscillatory theta activity after successfully detected T2s, in particular, for those individuals who showed the greatest reduction in brain resource allocation to T1. These data implicate theta phase locking in conscious target perception, and suggest that after mental training the cognitive system is more rapidly available to process new target information. Mental training was not associated with changes in the amplitude of T2-induced responses or oscillatory activity before task onset. In combination, these findings illustrate the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind by revealing the neural mechanisms that enable the brain to successfully represent target information.
The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the attentional blink-a deficit in identifying the second of two targets (T1 and T2) presented in close succession. This deficit is thought to result from an overinvestment of limited resources in T1 processing. We previously reported that intensive mental training in a style of meditation aimed at reducing elaborate object processing, reduced brain resource allocation to T1, and improved T2 accuracy [Slagter, H. A., Lutz, A., Greischar, L. L., Francis, A. D., Nieuwenhuis, S., Davis, J., et al. Mental training affects distribution of limited brain resources. PloS Biology, 5, e138, 2007]. Here we report EEG spectral analyses to examine the possibility that this reduction in elaborate T1 processing rendered the system more available to process new target information, as indexed by T2-locked phase variability. Intensive mental training was associated with decreased cross-trial variability in the phase of oscillatory theta activity after successfully detected T2s, in particular, for those individuals who showed the greatest reduction in brain resource allocation to T1. These data implicate theta phase locking in conscious target perception, and suggest that after mental training the cognitive system is more rapidly available to process new target information. Mental training was not associated with changes in the amplitude of T2-induced responses or oscillatory activity before task onset. In combination, these findings illustrate the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind by revealing the neural mechanisms that enable the brain to successfully represent target information.
Attentional Blink,
Consciousness,
Negotiating,
Theta Rhythm,
Time Factors,
Validation of ICA-based myogenic artifact correction for scalp and source-localized EEG (Journal Article)
Muscle electrical activity, or "electromyogenic" (EMG) artifact, poses a serious threat to the validity of electroencephalography (EEG) investigations in the frequency domain. EMG is sensitive to a variety of psychological processes and can mask genuine effects or masquerade as legitimate neurogenic effects across the scalp in frequencies at least as low as the alpha band (8-13 Hz). Although several techniques for correcting myogenic activity have been described, most are subjected to only limited validation attempts. Attempts to gauge the impact of EMG correction on intracerebral source models (source "localization" analyses) are rarer still. Accordingly, we assessed the sensitivity and specificity of one prominent correction tool, independent component analysis (ICA), on the scalp and in the source-space using high-resolution EEG. Data were collected from 17 participants while neurogenic and myogenic activity was independently varied. Several protocols for classifying and discarding components classified as myogenic and non-myogenic artifact (e.g., ocular) were systematically assessed, leading to the exclusion of one-third to as much as three-quarters of the variance in the EEG. Some, but not all, of these protocols showed adequate performance on the scalp. Indeed, performance was superior to previously validated regression-based techniques. Nevertheless, ICA-based EMG correction exhibited low validity in the intracerebral source-space, likely owing to incomplete separation of neurogenic from myogenic sources. Taken with prior work, this indicates that EMG artifact can substantially distort estimates of intracerebral spectral activity. Neither regression- nor ICA-based EMG correction techniques provide complete safeguards against such distortions. In light of these results, several practical suggestions and recommendations are made for intelligently using ICA to minimize EMG and other common artifacts.
Algorithms,
Muscle Contraction,
Sensitivity and Specificity,
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted,
Validation of regression-based myogenic correction techniques for scalp and source-localized EEG (Journal Article)
EEG and EEG source-estimation are susceptible to electromyographic artifacts (EMG) generated by the cranial muscles. EMG can mask genuine effects or masquerade as a legitimate effect-even in low frequencies, such as alpha (8-13 Hz). Although regression-based correction has been used previously, only cursory attempts at validation exist, and the utility for source-localized data is unknown. To address this, EEG was recorded from 17 participants while neurogenic and myogenic activity were factorially varied. We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of four regression-based techniques: between-subjects, between-subjects using difference-scores, within-subjects condition-wise, and within-subject epoch-wise on the scalp and in data modeled using the LORETA algorithm. Although within-subject epoch-wise showed superior performance on the scalp, no technique succeeded in the source-space. Aside from validating the novel epoch-wise methods on the scalp, we highlight methods requiring further development.
Regression analysis,
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Natalie Knight and Suzanne Priebatsch collection, EEPA 2012-010
Biographical / Historical
Ndebele, Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, and Venda Peoples, Ornamental Clothing, Kraals (Homesteads), Artwork, and the Domba Initiation Dance in Transkei, Mpumalanga and Zululand
Knight, Natalie
Priebatsch, Suzanne
circa 1970s-2011
1,305 Slides
325 negatives (photographic)
331 Photographic prints
3 electronic discs (dvd)
manuscript materials
The collection includes (1,305) 35mm color slides, (325) 35mm color negatives, (331) photographic prints, (3) DVDs and manuscript materials. The images were produced between circa 1970s and 1999 and most depict the Ndebele peoples of South Africa in their kraals (homesteads) making bricks, thatching roofs, and performing other daily activities; architecture, especially homes with painted murals, churches, and schools; and ornamental objects, including leg rings, neck rings, maces, Nyoga (Snake), Pepetu, Jocolo, Linaga, Nguba, Ghabi, Breast Plates, and Scotch. While the majority of the photos document the Ndebele, there are also images of Venda, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Sotho, Tsonga/Shangaan and Tswana peoples. Ceremonies including the Domba Initiation Dance, a Zulu wedding, and a Swazi Reed Dance are also represented. The photos were primarily taken in South Africa, including in Mpumalanga, Limpopo Province, Delmas, Loskop, and Nebo. Some of the photographs were taken by Zamie Liknaitzky and Norman Priebatsch.
The collection's manuscript materials date from 1977 to 2011 and include exhibition announcements and catalogs, publications, including articles and clippings, correspondence, and research notes. Many of the photos in catalogues were taken by Berna Jersich. The collection also contains three DVDs, Dungamanzi: Stirring Waters, Tsonga and Shangaan Art from Southern Africa, and two that document the exhibition l'Afrique: A Tribute to Maria-Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel (Museum Africa, 2009), which was curated by Knight.
This collection is arranged according to format and is comprised of 5 series:
Series 1: Slides, circa 1977-circa 1983 (1305 items)
Series 2: Negatives, circa 1970s-circa 2000s (325 items)
Series 3: Photographic Prints, circa 1970s-circa 2000s (331 items, Boxes 1-2)
Series 4: DVDs, circa 2007-2009 (3 items, Box 2)
Series 5: Manuscript Materials, 1974-2011 (19 folders, Box 2)
Natalie Knight: Art gallery owner, collector, curator, researcher, writer and art critic Natalie Knight was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and earned a Diploma of Law (1957) and Bachelor of Arts (1974) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). After practicing as a lawyer for a short time, she moved her professional focus to art. She founded the Natalie Knight Gallery in Hyde Park (1981-1995), with the opening show Whatever Happened to Pop Art? which featured works by Warhol, Dine, Hamilton and Hockney. In 2007, along with Nessa Leibhammer, Knight curated Dungamanzi/Stirring Waters (Tsonga and Shangaan Art from Southern Africa) at JAG 2007 and l'Afrique: A Tribute to Maria-Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel at Museum Africa in 2009. From December 2008 through 2012, Knight served as Art Curator for the West Campus at Wits University. In 2013 Knight curated the exhibition We Love Mandela: Art Inspired by Madiba, which previewed at the Peacemaker's Museum in Sandton to celebrate Mandela's 95th birthday (July 18, 2013), and (in October 2013) at the South African Embassy in Trafalgar Square, London. In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts and Culture section from CEO Magazines "Most Influential Women in Business and Government". In 2017 Knight published her Art-O-Biography, The Big Picture, which documents the major events of her professional career.
Suzanne Priebatsch: A graduate of Smith College (B.A., 1971) and Harvard University (Masters in Theological Studies, 1974), Priebatsch has held such varying positions as volunteer teacher at Clarke School for the Deaf (1967-1971), Assistant Art Librarian at Yale University (Summer 1969), Director of the Hillel Program at Simmons College and Wheelock College (1972-1974), Education Programming and Public Relations Assistant at Johannesburg Art Gallery (1974-1975), Projects Officer at the Art Institute, South Africa (1975-1976), freelance writer, lecturer at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Partner of the Economic Planning Group, Boston. She began an investment management career in 1986 and has worked at Smith Barney, now Morgan Stanley, for three decades. She is currently a Senior Vice President, with the title of Senior Investment Management Consultant, at Morgan Stanley.
Natalie Knight and Suzanne Priebatsch earned funding to research Ndebele art in South Africa from the Smithsonian Institution in 1976. Their collaboration produced an exhibition and audiovisual program, Designs of the Ndebele, for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), which toured the United States from 1979 to 1981. Additionally, Knight and Priebatsch have published numerous books and articles, including Ndebele Images (1983), which accompanied the exhibition at the Natalie Knight Gallery, Johannesburg, 1983, Art of the Ndebele: Evolution of a Cultural Identity (Atlanta International Museum, 1998), which was produced for the exhibition at Atlanta International Museum, 1998, and two articles in African Arts: "Traditional Ndebele Beadwork" (1978) and "Ndebele Figurative Art" (1979). Knight and Priebatsch have placed examples of Ndebele and Tsonga/Shangaan art and artifacts in major museums around the world.
Finding aid created by Eden Orelove, 2017.
Slide titles were largely provided by Knight and Priebatsch. The three letter codes (i.e. PNJ, PSF, PZA, etc.) listed in the scope and contents notes of Series I (slides) refer to a system that Knight and Priebatsch used during their many trips to South Africa to distinguish one trip from another (especially date and location). When known, this information has been included in the slide's description. Images used in publications are also identified.
Eden Orelove
Natalie Knight and Suzanne Priebatsch Collection, EEPA 2012-010, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Pilkington Planar™ supports a new era at Durham University Business School
Durham University Business School’s new £16million fit-for-purpose building utilises NSG Group’s world class Pilkington Planar™ to create an inspiring space for students to learn.
Durham University Business School: Photo credit: Fotohaus and GSSArchitecture
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Durham University’s world-renowned Business School is one of an elite group of UK schools with Triple Accreditation. However, its existing facilities were in need of expansion and modernisation to underpin the success of the courses offered and GSSArchitecture was commissioned to create a fit-for-purpose facility to enable the School to achieve its strategic objectives. To do this the architects wanted glazing that was both visually striking but also energy efficient and Pilkington Planar™ fitted the bill.
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Retirement Party for Fr. Frank Wampach
By Parish Administration on June 9, 2017 in Events
Fr. Frank Wampach Retirement Party on Saturday June 24 following the Saturday Vigil Mass at 5:30pm. Potluck, Hotdogs and beverages provided. Please come and wish him well!
Wannigan Days at St. Joe’s – June 10
By Parish Administration on June 9, 2017 in Events, Fundraiser, Religious Education, St. Joseph
Join us for Wannigan Days in Taylors Falls this Saturday, June 10 from 3-8 pm! St. Joe’s Eats at St. Joseph Catholic Church will be open and offering hamburgers, Brats, hot dogs, chips, and beverages. Proceeds support Religious Education. See you there!
Archdiocesan Reorganization Update from Archbishop Hebda
By Parish Administration on March 29, 2017 in Archdiocese
Below is a short video update from Archbishop Hebda regarding the Archdiocesan reorganization. The video script is also shown in letter form from the Archbishop to the faithful of this Archdiocese. [gview file=”https://stjosephtaylorsfalls.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/HEBDA-BANKRUPTCY-UPDATE-LETTER-FINAL.pdf”]
A Thank You from Fr. Frank
By Parish Administration on March 29, 2017 in St. Francis, St. Joseph
Dear Parishioners of St. Joseph and St. Francis Xavier, By now almost the entire archdiocese knows that our two parishes, along with at least six others in the archdiocese are being “open-listed” this weekend. With the most gracious and fond remembrances of this assignment, I have been granted the status of “retired clergy” due to […]
2016-2017 Faith Formation Registration Open
By Parish Administration on February 23, 2016 in Religious Education, St. Francis, St. Joseph
Religious Education should take us from birth until death. It begins at home with prayer and passing on our Catholic faith. Parents are the child’s first and primary teachers. Religious Education is something we do our entire lifetime, not just as children. Registration is now open for the 2016-2017 Faith Formation classes. See the Faith […]
Christmas Tree Sales
By Parish Administration on November 22, 2015 in St. Joseph
We’ll be offering Christmas trees for sale at St. Joseph’s to benefit the Religious Education program. Trees will be for sale weekends only beginning November 28 through December 13th; Saturdays from 10-4 and Sundays from 8-2.
Time-Talent-Treasures Weekend at St. Joseph
By Parish Administration on September 28, 2015 in St. Joseph
Time-Talent-Treasures Weekend at St. Joseph Catholic Church on October 24-25 Join us for a Time-Talent Treasure Information Fair the weekend of October 24-25. We’ll have pancake supper on October 24 following Mass and pancake breakfast on October 25 following Mass. You’lll have a chance to see the kitchen remodel upstairs renovation, and rectory basement. We […]
By Parish Administration on September 28, 2015 in St. Francis, St. Joseph
New Mass Times Begin October 18, 2015 St. Joseph, Taylors Falls Saturday Vigil 5:30 pm Sunday Morning 7:30 am St. Francis Xavier, Franconia/Shafer Sunday Morning 9:30 am Religious Education times changing to 10:30-11:30 am at St. Francis only.
Blessing of the Animals
By Parish Administration on September 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
In honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, there will be a Blessing of the Animals on October 4, 2015 around noon at the St. Joseph/St. Francis Xavier Rectory. Bring your cats, dogs, horses, or whatever kind of pet you may have for the blessing.
Youth Ministry Job Opening
By Parish Administration on July 31, 2015 in Uncategorized
The churches of St. Joseph and St. Francis are looking for a Youth Group Coordinator who will organize and manage activities for the 7th-12th grade students. Please contact the Parish Office for more information.
Mass Times & Confessions
Mass at St. Joseph
Monday-Friday 7:30 am
Saturday – 5:30 pm
Sunday – 7:30am & 11:00am
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Friday 8:00 am-3:00 pm
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Saturday 4:30 – 5:15 pm
Or by appointment. Call Fr. Drees at 612.234.1345 to schedule a time.
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Sunday 9:15 am
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January 23, 2017 stopelon All, Tesla
Tesla Aims to Cut Crashes (And Misses)
Musk was expanding on a report published last week by the U.S. National Highway Safety Administration that not only exonerated AutoPilot of having a role in a fatal crash in Florida last summer but added that airbag deployments indicated that the crash rate had fallen nearly 40 percent, to 0.8 per million miles driven, down from 1.3 per million miles before the original version of AutoPilot was installed.
The fatal crash had cast a pall over Tesla’s system, prompting some critics to say that the company had overpromised simply by choosing the name AutoPilot. Tesla acknowledges that AutoPilot is not—yet—a truly autonomous system but rather a package of driver-assistance features, such as emergency collision avoidance, lane keeping, and active cruise control.
On Saturday Musk warned customers who were about to have access to the newly downloaded software package that there might be a need to adjust the hardware—specifically the angle of the cameras.
Tagged Autopilot, Elon Musk, Failure, Tesla
Beware of Elon Musk, Who ‘Didn’t Build That’
Elon Musk pushed for a carbon tax at meeting with Trump
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Your Aeronautical Clock is Ticking
November 25, 2002 July 5, 2018 ~ Thomas Turner
If you’re flying under a U.S.-issued pilot certificate, your days are numbered.
Before you panic, I’m not screaming “the TSA is coming,” or warning of some new restriction on private flying. Although an FAA pilot certificate is good for the life of the pilot, since the early 1970s, U.S. pilots have had to regularly renew their certificates in order to exercise flying privileges. Yet even now, there’s much misunderstanding about the requirement for a Flight Review.
WHERE’S THE “B”?
Federal Air Regulation (FAR) 61.56 outlines the requirement for the Flight Review. Many, many pilots and instructors call it the biennial flight review (“BFR“), but the “b-word” disappeared from the books over a decade ago. “Biennial” means “every two years,” and for the first 15 or so years of the Flight Review requirement the “regs” in fact officially called it the BFR. In the late 1980s, though, studies showed many fatal aircraft accidents happen to pilots without instrument ratings, or with less than 400 total hours. To stem that tide, the Feds proposed an annual flight review requirement (the “AFR“) for all non-instrument rated pilots, and all pilots with less than 400 total logged hours. The AFR wording was worked in with the proposed rulemaking that led to the Recreational pilot certificate.
Wayback machine moment: This was the same time the 250-hour total time requirement for the Instrument rating was first lowered to 125 hours, and soon after dropped altogether to encourage newly minted private pilots to launch immediately into life-extending instrument training.
Although pilot political action committees got the AFR requirement dropped, the FAA had already revised the wording of 61.56 to apply equally to an annual or a biennial flight review — since then calling it simply the “flight review.” Calling it a BFR now is quaint and outdated, something like calling a 747 a “jumbo jet,” or referring to airspace around a major airport as a “TCA.”
WHEN YOU GOTTA … WHEN YOU DON’T
To exercise the privileges of the recreational, private, commercial or airline transport pilot certificate, you must accomplish a Flight Review administered by a current instructor pilot rated to act as pilot-in-command of the airplane used.
Insider’s tip: You can get a flight review in an approved flight simulator, but it must be a true simulator for a type of aircraft for which the pilot is rated, and the training must be administered in a Part 142 Training Center — like FlightSafety or an airline’s training department. No desk-top “sim” or PC-based “flight training device” time may count toward the Flight Review.
Your Flight Review is valid for 24 calendar months — the last day of the month in which it comes due, two years after the last review. Complete a Flight Review on November 5, 2002, and your next Flight Review is due no later than November 30, 2004.
Flight Review alternatives:
Take a checkride. Take (and pass) an FAA checkride for an additional pilot certificate or rating, and the 24-month clock starts over on the date you passed.
Earn your WINGS. Complete the classroom and flight portions of a level of the FAA Wings Program (and receive the completion certificate), and you have 24 more calendar months to fly before needing your next flight review or alternative.
Pass that airline check. Required airline and military flight proficiency checks meet the requirements of FAR 61.56.
DO IT, LOG IT
If you go the Flight Review route (as opposed to one of the alternatives), the review must consist of the following:
A minimum of one hour each of ground training and flight instruction, including:
a review of the current general operating rules of FAR Part 91, and
a review of “those maneuvers and procedures that, at the discretion of the person giving the review, are necessary for the pilot to demonstrate the safe exercise of the privileges of the pilot certificate.“
Exception: The rules are a little different for glider pilots, in allowing three instructional flights in a glider as replacement for the one hour of flight requirement … sometimes conditions won’t allow a one-hour flight in a glider. Then again, the FARs don’t say the one hour requirement in airplanes has to be flown in a single flight, either.
The “regs” require us to log all flight time used to prove currency, so have your CFI sign it off in your book. It costs nothing extra to include in the written log the ground instruction time and topics also. The instructor must also provide an endorsement for the Flight Review — there’s an FAA-approved incantation that he/she must write in your book to be legal. If the instructor does not feel his/her student flew well enough to receive the endorsement, the student has not “failed” anything — log the time as dual received, and realize sometimes we all need a little extra refresher to be safe to act as pilot-in-command.
DO INSTRUMENT PROFICIENCY CHECKS COUNT?
Does a logged instrument proficiency check (IPC; old timers might cling to the term Instrument Competency Check, or ICC, but like BFR the term is long outdated) count as a Flight Review? Maybe. But, to satisfy FAR61.56, the IPC must include:
the minimum one hour each of ground and flight instruction, and
the Flight Review logbook endorsement in addition to that for the IPC.
In other words, if you’re instrument rated and your instructor agrees an instrument instructional flight demonstrates your ability to safely exercise your pilot certificate, that’s fine. Just spend the required time on the ground and in the air, and make sure your instructor writes TWO endorsements in your book — one for the IPC, and one for the flight review.
Flight Instructor Refreshers
How about renewal of a flight instructor certificate? We CFIs have to attend a seminar, take a checkride or otherwise renew our instructor certificates every two years, too. Does a CFI renewal pass for a Flight Review? No. FAR61.56 allows a 16- to 24-hour Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic (FIRC) to count for the one hour of Flight Review ground instruction, but the pilot still needs to log an hour of dual in the air, and receive the Flight Review logbook endorsement.
BOTTOM LINE: Your aeronautical clock is ticking. It’s all about being safe as well as legal. No matter how you meet the requirement for the Flight Review, make sure you’ve fully logged your option in your pilot’s logbook. Beyond that, make sure it means what it says.
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Chinese international students now looking for other study abroad options
US used to be the top choice for Chinese students, but that's no longer the case. Source: Shutterstock
By Study International Staff | July 10, 2019
Spurred by the China-US trade war, Chinese students are now seeking alternative study abroad destinations.
The US used to be a top choice for outbound Chinese students, but visa restrictions and the growing conflict between the two countries are urging them to seek an international student experience elsewhere.
According to AFP, via Channel News Asia, “China accounts for nearly a third of foreign students on US campuses who pour billions of dollars into the economy, but in March their numbers dropped for the first time in a decade.
“Visa delays, concerns over being shut out of research projects and safety fears have turned off Chinese students, according to several admissions consultancies and nearly a dozen parents and students interviewed by AFP.”
According to NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Chinese international students are responsible for contributing US$13 billion to the US economy in tuition fees and living expenses.
But now that revenue is dropping, as increasing numbers of Chinese students are turned off by the increased scrutiny they are facing.
“Top US universities including Yale and Stanford have complained that the trade war has affected campus recruitment.
“The State Department has said the increased scrutiny was prompted by a rising number of students who were co-opted by foreign intelligence while in the United States.”
Trump’s next trade war target: Chinese students at elite U.S. schools https://t.co/2yzU7zN6NW
— Bloomberg (@business) June 3, 2019
Besides the visa restrictions and increased scrutiny, the Chinese government recently issued a ‘travel warning’ against gun violence and robberies in the US, which could also be a deterrent.
Li Shaowen, a foreign college tour organiser, told AFP, “State media have been pumping up reports about crime in the US and families, especially from smaller Chinese cities, feel America isn’t safe.
“We have over 250 families visiting universities in Europe and the UK during this summer break, while only 75 families are going to the US. The numbers were reverse last year.”
Trump has made some efforts recently to encourage Chinese students to continue applying to the US, but the damage might have already been done.
“Trump attempted to allay Chinese students’ fears after reaching a trade war truce with President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit last week, saying they would be treated “just like anybody else”.
“He also proposed a “smart person’s waiver” that would make it easier for the brightest minds to get a Green Card allowing permanent residency.”
Chinese students in US are upder some pressure from tougher visa rules & indirect effect of US-China trade war. Despite current woes of Canada-China bilateral relations, Chinese students & scholars in Canada are not yet under same pressures. https://t.co/nhDVwhhgpM
— Gordon Houlden 侯秉东 (@GordonHoulden) July 7, 2019
So where are Chinese students looking to for their overseas education?
A survey by New Oriental China’s biggest private education provider said that Britain, Australia, and Canada will benefit the most, followed by other countries in Asia and Europe.
According to AFP, “Japan and South Korea – traditional study abroad destinations for the Chinese elite – and parts of Europe, especially Germany and Scandinavian countries with strong engineering programmes, have also seen an uptick in applications, the survey found.”
Melissa Zhang, a 17-year-old high school senior in Beijing, told AFP that she has changed her mind about applying to a US university and is now taking German lessons in hopes of gaining admission into a robotics programme in Dresden.
She felt she wasted a year preparing for the SATs, but didn’t see the point of studying in the US if she was just going to be “shut out of a research lab, just because I am Chinese.”
Her mother Mingyue said, “If America makes them feel unwelcome, they’ll go elsewhere…this generation feels the whole world is open to them.”
How are Chinese students being affected by the US-China trade war?
The international student’s guide to the US-China trade war and how it impacts them
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SE OriginalsBy Eric Kasimov July 10, 2019
Big Thanks to @dannyygreenwood for being a SportsEpreneur contributor with this idea execution video from the Leicester City vs Huddersfield Town. Execution of an idea is everything. An idea becomes a strategy that then demands execution. In this video you see James Maddison of Leicester City execute the plan to perfection. “What a beauty”! Our SportsEpreneur contributor,…
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PodcastBy Eric Kasimov March 22, 2019
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Soccer is here to stay whether you buy it or not. In this episode, we discuss the 7 reasons why I’m a big-time buyer in the future of soccer in the United States.
Internationally, soccer is the biggest sport. It’s just that in the US it’s not. While it has grown over the years, it’s not there…Yet. But as I look ahead, I see an incredible future for soccer in the United States. After thinking, reading, studying, and asking, I have 7 reasons why I believe soccer has an enormous future in the US.
The 7 reasons why I believe soccer has an enormous future in the United States:
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3:28 | Branding
6:03 | Amount of leagues and tournaments
8:15 | Television rights
10:22 | Recognizable Players
12:15 | The potential in the United States market
14:15 | Football is at its peak
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A David De Gea and business leader story about the Manchester United Goalkeeper, not getting credit, and making it look easy. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He is one of the best, maybe even the best, soccer goalie in the world. The world? Yes. Or, at least, that’s my opinion. Other people have different opinions.…
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Soccer isn’t as popular in the United States as it is overseas. There are a lot of reasons—most of us didn’t grow up with the sport, we don’t have an elite league in this country yet (MLS is trying!), and on and on. But a big complaint I hear from my friends (when I tell…
Blog, SE Originals, SportsBy Eric Kasimov June 27, 2018
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The mental side of the World Cup is a big deal. Sure, skill plays a major role in the success of a team, but if players do not think properly about the task at hand, it could cost their country a victory. Thinking seems basic, but it isn’t. All too many of us, all too often,…
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A story about soccer, coffee and social media It’s a cold, rainy Sunday morning. Turf fields make playing soccer possible on days like today. We’re ready. I mean, my son is ready, he’ll be the one playing. I’ll be a spectator in the stands. I’m also the driver. There’s no time for my morning coffee, we have to…
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Women's World Cup: Groenen strike takes Netherlands into final
Netherlands will face the United States in the final after it beat Sweden 1-0 after extra time, thanks to Jackie Groenen.
Ryan Benson
04 July, 2019 03:21 IST
Netherlands becomes the eighth different side to reach a Women's World Cup final, and the fourth different European nation to do so. - Getty Images
Jackie Groenen's brilliant strike in extra time secured European champion Netherlands a place in the Women's World Cup final, thanks to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Sweden on Wednesday.
Neither side managed to find a way through in the regulation 90 minutes despite the woodwork being struck twice, but recent Manchester United addition Groenen finally found the mark to set up a final against the United States on Sunday.
The respective defences generally came out on top in the first half, as neither team particularly captured the imagination when on the front foot, providing a stark contrast to Tuesday's semifinal contest between USA and England.
Re-live Netherlands 1-0 Sweden | Dutch through to first ever final, to meet USA on Sunday
Proceedings opened up more after the break and both sides were denied by the frame of the goal, but it took until extra time for the decisive goal to arrive, with Groenen producing a fine finish to seal a first ever World Cup final for her side.
Sweden looked the brighter of the two sides in the early stages and carved an opening 13 minutes in, Sofia Jakobsson driving forward and feeding Stina Blackstenius to her right, but the eventual shot was blocked and then smothered by Sari van Veenendaal.
A generally cagey first half produced few other highlights, however, with the next clear-cut chance coming just before the hour, when Nilla Fischer saw her controlled effort tipped onto the post by Van Veenendaal.
READ | Points proven, Women's World Cup heads into grand finale
Hedvig Lindahl was similarly inspirational at the other end soon after, getting a fingertip to Vivianne Miedema's looping header to nudge it onto the crossbar.
It was little surprise to see the game go to extra time, and Netherlands' superior fitness saw them take control before making the breakthrough – Groenen clinically picking out the bottom-left corner from 25 yards in the 99th minute.
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SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club
Latest appearance
SMG4: A Day In The Life Of Everyone
Minako Kotobuki
Ellyn Barclay (singing voice)
Any dating sim character
Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club
Giffany from Gravity Falls
Junko Enoshima & Mukuro Ikusaba from Danganronpa series
Saiko-Chan
Anime (by Mario and Swagmaster69696969696)
February 10, 2018 (brought to life)
16-21 (physically)
1 (mentally)
Behavioral Alignment
Bad, later Good/Neutral
Fishy Boopkins (ex-boyfriend)
Wario (formerly)
Waluigi (formerly)
Luigi (teacher/friend)
Axol
Waluigi (forced to)
Wario (forced to)
Bob (The Rapper Bob Arc)
Anime Secret Service
Mario (SMG4: The Mario Channel - Mario's Jackass, and SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario)
SMG4 (SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario)
Hanging out with people (or her friends)
Playing around
Waifu body pillows
Other anime girls
Being ignored
Being left behind
Getting rejected
Being touched
Anime Secret Service (A.S.S.)
Powerful kicks
Scaring people
Inhuman strength
Mech (Stolen By Wario And Waluigi.)
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"こんにちは! (Konnichiwa!)"
Saiko Bichitaru (美千足 最子 Bichitaru Saiko, also known as Saiko-Chan) is a character from a generic dating sim brought to life by Fishy Boopkins in order for him to have a real girlfriend, but she begins to suffer from mental instability and evil intentions. Though introduced as a temporary antagonist, she has more recently been more of an anti-hero, become a protagonist, and part of the latest main roster of SMG4.
In her debut episode in the SMG4 universe, she comes to life when Fishy Boopkins uses Kamek's wand to make her come out of his dating sim, but in real life, she becomes extremely jealous, destroying anything that might get between her and Boopkins, even his waifu body pillows, which she ignites with fire. This, of course, leads to Boopkins dumping her, and her going insane, plotting revenge on him and the main protagonists. She is later stopped and both her and Boopkins are forced to let go.
SMG4: Mario Battle Royale
Saiko tried to attempt to defeat SMG4 and Mario with her Minigun Machine she was lucky to acquire. When Fishy Boopkins was about to fall, it is revealed that she still has feelings for him and wanted him back, as she tries to save him from falling off a cliff; although she appears to have gone tsundere since her debut. Unfortunately, Mario knocked her down the cliff with Boopkins.
SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario
Saiko makes the antagonist again in the episode as the Commander of the Militia Base. As Meggy had not met Saiko previously, Mario and SMG4 are forced to explain to her that she used to be Boopkins’ ex-girlfriend and that she’s crazy. She states that her goals are to rid the world of pretty people, allowing her to become the prettiest person in the world.
Mario then diagnoses that Saiko has Schizophrenia. Retorting that she is not crazy, but heartbroken, she orders a squad of Cactite to rid of the party. SMG4 uses magic to summon walls to block off any damage. Now surrounded, Meggy comes up with a plan. She tells Mario to use his Buster Sword to send herself airborne just above the wall so she can shoot down the Cactite. Saiko, now very unsatisfied, pulls out a UNSC Asymmetrical Recoiless Carbine-920 (Also known as a Railgun to fans of the Halo Series of games.) and destroys the wall surrounding the party. Everyone, now on the ground, she tells them to run back home, then fires more lasers on the team. Mario tries to dodge the oncoming fire but is knocked backed, SMG4 and Meggy try to counteract by throwing their inventory at Saiko, who can dodge anything they throw.
Mario then reappears by flanking her right and makes her go airborne and drops her. SMG4 demands that she gives up. But it appears that Saiko hasn’t finished; she whistles up a flying mech as everyone stares in bewilderment and confusion. The Commander says it's time to end this. SMG4 retaliates by throwing fire; it does absolutely nothing. Saiko finds this quite cute, then fires Banzai Bullet Bills. Mario tells her off but is blasted once again. SMG4 erects a glacier to protect himself and Meggy, who comes up with another plan. With the help of SMG4 and Mario, she makes a Banzai Bill flip and hit the flying mech, causing it to explode. An unconscious Saiko is last seen being thrown through a portal by Mario.
SMG4: The Mario Channel - Mario's Jackass
In this episode, she appears in a park after being called by Mario. When she got there, Mario tells her that he's doing a TV show and needs her to be a part of it, which she was excited about since she thought he needed a model. However, Mario reveals she is part of his next challenge where he turns the turret on which would fire at her. Later in the video, she and the others get revenge on Mario with the same stunts pulled on them, as she was waiting for him in a bunker with a sentry who fired at Mario. At the end of the video, she asks Mario if he has anything to say to people he pranked, attempting to make the plumber apologize, but he then said: "Eat my Mario Pingas" to which she makes the sentry fire at him again.
SMG4: Luigi's Lesson
In this episode, she is seen tired of being feared by everyone because of her behavior and Luigi tries to teach her to be nice but fails to do so. Later, Saiko tries to give something good to the characters she hates the most. Bob doesn't like Saiko at all. He has received a chocolate ice cream from Saiko and when he tasted it, he didn't like what she gave him. Saiko is about to kill Bob for disrespecting her, but Luigi stopped her as he tells her that "Murder = Bad." A little later, together with Luigi, she races Mario to the hospital when he gets a heart attack after eating 500 hot dogs. Luigi was happy to see that Saiko did know how to be nice even though she claimed she didn't know what he was talking about and after delivering Mario to the hospital, Luigi thanks Saiko and hope that they could be friends, bringing Saiko a smile to her face and then drives away on her motorcycle.
SMG4: The Mario Hustle
She reappears as a main character/protagonist who was selling rocks since SMG4 accidentally bought a million of them. Her customer, SMG3, ended up buying 2 million, who was convinced he'd be much cooler than SMG4 by doing so, therefore Saiko Bichitaru became the highest seller in SMG4's Twitter Post Picture.
SMG4: The Mario Café
She reappears as a protagonist/main character in the restaurant of Bowser. She hates working without getting paid, as she sold two million rocks in SMG4: The Mario Hustle but received no money. Naturally, she got mad and refused to work without pay. Bowser begged her to keep working, and she inevitably joined the team to run the restaurant. She was assigned as a waitress with Luigi by Bowser. Saiko impatiently took orders from customers. When she served Shroomy his meal, she once again demonstrated her violent side by throwing the meal at his desk, but with surprising accuracy.
She and Luigi made a good team and they briefly celebrated with a high-five. A few scenes later, Bob came into the restaurant and ordered a meal, but when he urged Saiko to hurry up, she threw Bob out of the restaurant because of his annoying personality. Luigi warns Saiko, “Remember? Don't murder customers." After this, she tried to improve her attitude to the customers. Saiko received a lot of orders and gave them to the chef, Bowser, but he was unable to cook them all in time, which made the customers agitated.
While the customers are about to leave, Luigi called for everyone to an emergency meeting where Saiko admits that she would rather stay in the SMG4 Universe than go back to her boring dating simulator world. Luigi demanded everyone to work together and he utilized Saiko’s strength as he started throwing food at tables while Saiko threw customers to their tables. When their work was done, Saiko was seen hanging out with her friends in the end.
SMG4: Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse
She comes back in the episode where she saves Mario from becoming a T-Pose Zombie. She is later turned into a T-Pose Zombie at the end of the video by Waluigi.
SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018
She appears in the challenges where both Mario and SMG4 must endure a date with her. She later assists the gang with their rap against Waluigi where although she had no lines in it, she does be their backup dancer.
SMG4: Mario's Late!
She appears at the Mushroom Kingdom Awards show with her friends Meggy and Tari.
SMG4: The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018)
She attempted to flee the Teletubbies with Tari but both were caught.
SMG4: Mario and the Bob Mansion...
In this episode, she joined the gang in visiting Bob's Mansion. She later reconciled with Fishy Boopkins, agreeing with him that they're still friends.
SMG4: The Melancholy of Fishy Boopkins
She with Meggy and Tari took Boopkins to one of Bob's concert but the idea failed. She later told the girls to try to make him happy while she went to be Bob's fan.
SMG4: Mario and The Diss Track
Saiko became Bob’s manager where she helps him become a worldwide celebrity. Saiko gets inspired and decides to start her career as a band with the rest of the cast. After seeing what Bob's Diss Track did to Boopkins, Saiko teams with the gang to create a diss track on Bob. The diss track was so popular that all of Bob's fans started abandoning Bob by not listening to his raps, and throwing out all his merchandise. To make matters worse, Bob lost his new mansion without his fan’s support and Saiko’s management. The final nail in the coffin is when Bob tries to reconcile with his friends, to no avail.
SMG4 Christmas 2018: The Most Important Thing
She appears at the start still feeling pissed off with Bob regarding his diss track and betrayal of his friends. She later opens up her present (a body pillow/sandbag) but was disgusted by it.
SMG4: Mario's Hell Kitchen
She appears as one of Team Thicc's members. Her psychotic mentality assisted her in making the roasted chicken Team Thicc was working on as she claimed she worked faster if she was angry. Therefore, she told Shroomy to make her angry. Due to her craving for attention, she was unwilling to help her friends on Team Spicy to bake their cake to win Bowser’s cooking competition.
SMG4: Mario's Valentine Advice
In this episode Saiko appears briefly as one of the characters that try to help Shroomy get a relationship with a red Teletubby, she tries to teach Shroomy to be tough, later Shroomy gets beheaded by a troll.
SMG4: Super Challenge 64
In this episode, she appears to complete a challenge that needs her to be nice. At first, she tries to help an old man cross the street but she was so creepy that the old man got paralyzed in fear and later got run over by a car. Then, Saiko tried to get a cat (voiced by Markiplier) from the top of a tree for a crying Koopa Troopa kid by using a chainsaw to cut down the tree and get the cat. However, she also accidentally crushes the kid. Not realizing it Saiko completes the challenge by stabbing a nearby vending machine that gives her milk which she gives to the cat.
SMG4: Mario's Prison Escape
In this episode, she appears alongside Tari and Meggy to rescue Fishy Boopkins, Mario, Luigi, and Bob from the officers Chris and Swagmaster69696969696. Attempting to get them off their trail, she tried to kill Swag numerous times but fail. In the end, Mario throws Fishy Boopkins to deflect the missiles from Swag's bazooka (Fun stick) (that shoots multiple missiles in one shot). This results in stopping both officers and ending the episode.
SMG4: Mario and the Anime Challenge
In this episode, she appears briefly as part of a challenge that needs characters, Bob, Fishy Boopkins and Mario to speak Japanese which Saiko judges. After beating up Mario and Bob for doing badly (especially Bob for insulting her), Fishy Boopkins speaks fluent Japanese (Using the Voice of Dio (from JoJo's Bizarre adventure)) and impresses Saiko, making him the winner of the challenge.
SMG4: Mario's Illegal Operation
In this episode, the Anime Secret Service (A.S.S.) hunts down anime which forces Saiko to leave the mushroom kingdom (since she is also anime) and go to Japan, she takes Bob, Boopkins and SMG4 as her escorts while Mario stays in the kingdom to do a very dangerous mission for the anime cartel.
SMG4: The Japan Trip
Continued from Mario's Illegal Operation, Saiko took the boys around a tour in Japan. Just then, she notices Axol after being mistaken for one of his creations by one of his fans. Realizing that he could bring anime to life (albeit for a while), she gets the rest to go after him. Eventually, they managed to catch up with him and after she showed him what happened back in the Mushroom kingdom, he agreed to aid them in unbanning anime.
SMG4: The Mario Showdown
Upon returning to the Mushroom Kingdom, the group was naturally denied entry by Swagmaster and Chris due to her. Using his paintbrush, Axol used some anime to distract them long enough for them to slip past the gates where SMG4 drove a stolen bus until they crashed into Meggy and the others in Shroomy's monster truck. Now reunited, the gang agreed to help Meggy get back her Splatfest equipment from Desti.
Saiko appeared in Meggy's house, along with Tari, and Meggy. She, Tari and Meggy are going on a "war" on Meggy's house. She then later gone insane after seeing the gun that she is holding and then gone shooting with her gun, continuously. Tari and Meggy told Saiko to stop, but to no avail.
In the typical anime style, Saiko is an incredibly tall and skinny teenager with a curved figure and large bust, who towers above her love interest Fishy Boopkins. She has pink, curly hair with two different colored highlights at the tips: purple highlights on the right side, and yellow highlights on the left. Her eyes are purple and almond-shaped, with thick, curly lashes on the ends.
In terms of attire, Saiko is always seen wearing a tan jacket with a black tube top underneath, a dark-brown miniskirt, a black belt with a skull buckle, black leggings, and light-grey casual shoes. She wears a skull-and-crossbones pendant around her neck, and her hair is tied up in twin tails with two red bows.
In SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario, Saiko also wears a black beret, which is detailed with white trimming, a red gemstone embedded in gold, and white feathers on the side.
In the video SMG4: The Mario Hustle, Saiko wears an Atwood Sandy Palm Hat and a red short bow tie as her business outfit while holding her leather steel briefcase.
In the video SMG4: The Mario Café, in the middle of the video, she wears a tan bear hoodie hat as casual waitress appearance.
Just like her name, Saiko, which was derived from Psycho implies, she is a psychotic Yandere who causes death and destruction to everything she comes across, which is one of her ways to get attention. Since her debut, Saiko started as a nice and friendly girl who loves to hang out with Boopkins. When someone started to making fun of her and anything close to Boopkins, she will destroy anything to get her way, thus leading to Boopkins dumping her because of this reckless and violent behavior. Due to this, she becomes mentally unstable and is now even more egotistical so everybody can notice her.
In recent bloopers, Saiko changed to be repentant towards her past actions, which leads her to become a better person thanks to Luigi's advice in SMG4: Luigi's Lesson. Despite this, she still has moments of being a tsundere.
Despite her sarcastic and semi-aggressive attitude, she deeply cares for her friends. An example is in SMG4: Mario and the Diss Track where she used to be Bob's manager who helped him with his rap career, but when she finds out what Bob did Fishy Boopkins, she later helps the gang get by at Bob by making a diss track on a home. Another example is in SMG4: The Splatfest Incident as she appeared to be concerned about Meggy when she and the others see that Meggy was probably kidnapped. In the fight scene, she got mad at Desti when she accused her of being involved with what happened to Meggy when Desti saw how defensive she was of Axol.
"Oh you chose me? On Valentines Day?"
"Oh that makes me so happy, Boopy-kun"
"Thank you for choosing me... Nobody ever picks me..."
"Cmon, bring me to life!~ That'll show everybody!"
"Don't give up, Boop-kun!"
"Wow... You actually did it!"
"Thank you, Boopky-kuuun!"
"I'm so happy you're going on a date with JUST me!"
"Oopsies...sorry. My foot must of slipped!"
"Y-y..you're watching other girls? !!!"
"Jerk."
"Haha, it's a pleasure meeting you!"
"OK, now that your call is done. Wanna play with me?"
"Hehehee, come get me!"
"That's really....something."
"Oh....heehee, what...is that?"
"And how many more do you have? ..."
"Wow! That's so cool!"
"I was a bit cold Boopy-kun, I hope you don't mind the fire!"
"W...WHAT?!"
"B-BUT...YOU CAN'T!... After all the love I gave you?!"
"I'm...i'm a good date right!? I would never make you hate me!...."
"Maybe I should have never existed..."
"Stupid...fish ..breaking my heart...."
"For me?! :D aww, you're too kind!"
"Oh...well aren't you boys funny..."
"But since I have no money, i'll just take it anyway cause you're so kind!"
"awww why are you guys being meanies? I thought you wanted to spend time with me."
"I'm glad you boys can spend time with me. Now i'm gonna need help getting revenge. Think you can do it?"
"I SAID CAN YOU DO IT?!"
"I wanted to come visit you again, boopy-kun!"
"Oh, sorry! My new friends here helped me block off the exits and got me this cool mech!"
"HOW ABOUT THE BIG HOLE YOU LEFT IN MY HEART!?"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT IS THIS!!! GET OFF!!!"
"YOU IDIOTS! COME HELP ME!"
"NOO! Boopkins! Let me out!....please!"
"Shut up...you....you just don't understand..."
"DO YOU KNOW HOW LONELY IT IS...WHEN NO ONE EVER PICKS YOU..."
"TO SPEND EVERYDAY KNOWING YOU'LL NEVER BE WANTED......"
"That's why...I can't control myself when I lose attention..."
"Hey!..."
"You boys ready to die? ..."
"DON'T THINK I FORGOT WHAT YOU BOYS DID!"
"What? I'm only saving you so I can kick your ass later..."
Saiko's voice comes from voice clips of Lana and Cia (Minako Kotobuki) from Hyrule Warriors.
It seems she was the replacement after Enzo and the Villager left the part as the psychos of the show last serving a major role in SM64 Christmas 2015 - Christmas Crazies.
Though mentally unstable, Saiko has a friendship with Luigi. She playfully took his hat and invited Luigi to come and get her. In contrast, Mario panicked upon believing that anime had suddenly come to life.
While Saiko is singing in SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club and SMG4: Mario and The Diss Track, she is voiced by Ellyn Barclay.
Saiko's first name is a play on the term "psycho," referring to her mental instability; meanwhile, her last name is a play on the word "bitch".
However, "Saiko" is an actual name in Japanese. The kanji in her name, 最 (sai) and 子 (ko), translates to "the greatest child."[1]
"Saiko" also can be translated to "the best" due to her attention-hogging personality.
She seems to be based on Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club and .GIFfany from Gravity Falls, with the latter both characters are from the fictional video game and wanting to get rid of everyone and only want to be with their love, although Saiko in recent videos coexists with everyone else.
Saiko Bichitaru is a custom character according to SMG4's twitter picture and SMG4 sponsor Behind The Scenes Exclusive video.
Her appearance might be based off Junko Enoshima from the Danganronpa series.
She was forced to leave the Mushroom Kingdom following a ban of anime because she IS anime.
Saiko can be considered a foil to Tari. While Tari doesn’t enjoy fighting in real life and is very friendly, Saiko is known to have psychotic tendencies and is more prone to violence than most other members of the cast.
Saiko is one of the few characters to have a known surname, the others being Peach Toadstool, Professor E. Gadd, Dr. Robotnik, Chris Gordman, Fishy Boopkins, and Meggy Spletzer.
↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/saiko/submitted
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if you could improve saiko as a character what would you do
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Maybe make her a villain or make her SMG3's henchman. 2019-06-01T01:21:58Z
Maybe Get Her Sent Back Into Her Game Where She Came From. 2019-06-21T19:12:04Z
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I would kill this chat via posting 500 messages 2019-04-29T20:44:18Z
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New London venue for Vertical World Circuit announced
Posted: May 9, 2018 in News, Upcoming Events
The Vertical World Circuit will return to London on Saturday 24th November with an event at Broadgate Tower in the heart of the City of London.
Returning for its third edition, the Broadgate Tower Run Up will see some of the very best tower runners in the world race up the building’s 35 floors and 877 steps.
The event takes over from Vertical Rush as the London stage of the multi-race series held at towers across the world. The Broadgate Tower Run Up will be valid for an extra 25% bonus points on the VWC final ranking, a competition that sees the world’s top stair climbers compete for the VWC Champion title and cash prizes.
The other eight races in the series will take place in towers in Korea, France, USA, Philippines, China, Japan and Hong Kong.
The London event is being organised by Total Motion Events, the leading stair race organiser in the UK.
‘Total Motion are honoured to be hosting the London leg of the prestigious Vertical World Circuit at The Broadgate Tower in November 2018. We look forward to welcoming the world’s top stair climbers to the UK where they will be competing for valuable points in the last 2018 VWC event before the grand final in Hong Kong,’ said Total Motion CEO, Matt Hudson.
Aside from the elite race, the Broadgate Tower Run Up will also have new family categories, with options for one adult plus one child, as well as two adults and two children.
We’ll also see the return of the ¼ Vertical Mile and full Vertical Mile races to the UK. Most stair climbing events consist of one climb to the top however Total Motion are offering the chance to climb Broadgate Tower three times to reach a quarter vertical mile, or 12 times to reach a full vertical mile.
Nobody else offers this in the UK, so if you’re really keen to push yourself out of your comfort zone, and one climb just won’t cut it, then this is definitely the event for you.
With the popularity of stair climbing rising year-on-year, demand is likely to be high for this high-profile event so if you’re considering it, it’s probably best to get your place booked up early.
Registration is now open on the Total Motion Events website and there’s currently a 20% discount on entry fees up until 31st May.
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Kahlil Joseph, Ryoji Ikeda and Hito Steyerl unveil new A/V works at Venice Biennale 2019
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Live video collage, AI plant-life and corridors of light.
New audio-visual installations from Kahlil Joseph, Ryoji Ikeda and Hito Steyerl have been unveiled at the opening of the Venice Biennale this week.
Commissioned by The Store X The Vinyl Factory, the works are situated in the Biennale’s Central Pavilion curated by Ralph Rugoff (who was behind the 2016 exhibition The Infinite Mix).
Kahlil Joseph’s BLK NWS is a dual-screen installation which focuses on Black American life using found media ranging from news excerpts to internet memes, presented as a live broadcast. Footage is continually added to the video stream, to reflect real-world events as they take place over the course of the exhibition.
The work follow’s Joseph’s 2018 film Fly Paper which was also commissioned by The Store X The Vinyl Factory and appeared in London at Strange Days: Memories of the Future last year.
Artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph’s BLK NWS at The Venice Biennale 2019 in the Central Pavilion, curated by Ralph Rugoff and commissioned by The Store X and The Vinyl Factory l #VFartists @thestoresdotcom _________________ The dual-screen installation focuses on Black American life using found media ranging from news excerpts to internet memes, presented as a live broadcast. Footage is continually added to the video stream, to reflect real-world events as they take place over the course of the exhibition. #kahliljoseph #venicebiennale #BiennaleArte2019
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Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s latest commission is spectra III – a corridor of bright fluorescent lights that obstruct the viewer’s vision to disorientating effect. By impairing the senses, the excessive amount of light acts similarly to that of total darkness.
Ikeda is also presenting a new work called Data Verse at the Biennale, which is similarly commissioned by The Store X The Vinyl Factory.
@ryoji_ikeda’s new work ‘Data Verse’ — a mind blowing sensory experience currently showing at #VeniceBiennale2019. Commissioned by @thestoresdotcom x @thevinylfactory. —— #RyojiIkeda
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Following her recent exhibition Power Plants at Serpentine Galleries, artist and theorist Hito Steyerl presents her new The Store X The Vinyl Factory commission This Is The Future, in which Steyerl uses AI technology to create a garden of the future that emulates the Venetian landscape of elevated walkways.
Interrogating the ability of AI to predict the future, Steyerl’s piece features a soundtrack by Kassem Mosse and Kojey Radical, with whom she released a Power Plants 12″ this month.
Hito Steyerl’s This Is The Future at The Venice Biennale 2019 in the Central Pavilion, curated by Ralph Rugoff and commissioned by The Store X and The Vinyl Factory. Accompanying VF-produced soundtrack features @kojeyradical, Kassem Mosse (@kareem_moser), Brian Kuan Wood, Hozan Hogir, and deleted_user_2731495 | #VFartists @thestoresdotcom Steyerl uses AI technology to create a garden of the future that emulates the Venetian landscape of elevated walkways. Viewers walk among digital flowers that cycle through their lifespan without ever actually existing. Through Steyerl’s self-created technology, she ask’s whether AI can successfully predict the future, the answer being an explicit no. #venicebiennale #BiennaleArte2019 #hitosteyerl #kojeyradical
The work of all three artists is exhibited alongside a range of artists who have previously collaborated with The Store X The Vinyl Factory, including Christian Marclay, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Cyprien Gaillard and Arthur Jafa.
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Home CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS Yannick Nezet-Seguin Announced as New Met Opera Music Director
Yannick Nezet-Seguin Announced as New Met Opera Music Director
The Metropolitan Opera has today announced French-Canadian conductor, Yannick Nezet-Seguin as their new Music Director
The Metropolitan Opera, in New York has today announced French-Canadian conductor, Yannick Nezet-Seguin as their new Music Director.
He will serve as Music Director-Designate from the commencement of the 2017-18 season, for 2 production per year – and take on full duties of the position in 2020-21.
The 41 year old will succeed Maestro James Levine – who will step down from the podium at the end of the current season after more than 40 years in the leadership role.
“Becoming the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for me – I believe it is the greatest opera company in the world with the best principal singers on the planet,” Nezet-Seguin has told The New York Times.
“Yannick was the clear choice … he is the right artist to lead us forward into a new chapter in the history of the Met,” Met Opera General Manager, Peter Gelb has said.
Nezet-Seguin has served as Principal conductor of the Montreal Orchestre Metropolitan since 2000 – and as Music Director of the the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012.
Maestro Levine will move the role of Music Director Emeritus.
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/ Whisky Review Round Up: Okanagan Spirits Rye and BRBN
Whisky Review Round Up: Okanagan Spirits Rye and BRBN
By Shauna McKnight / December 12, 2018
In 2004, when Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery first opened their doors they were the only liquor producers in the Canadian province of British Columbia, making them industry leaders in Western Canada. With British Columbia’s restrictive tax laws in place, it was difficult for small operations to get their production up and running. Attitudes changed in 2013, when legislation passed making it easier for craft distilleries to set up shop and since then, many have, but Okanagan still remains the first to carve the way for a rapidly growing whisky industry in Canada.
Father-son duo Tony Dyck and Tyler Dyck run the self-proclaimed “farm-to-flask” company together. Their dedication is apparent in their robust line of products and list of pretty impressive list of awards. Okanagan Spirits has garnered a reputation for quality, receiving World Class Distillery accolades from the European-based World Spirits Awards (WSA), and Distillery of the Year from WSAs in Denmark and Austria in 2013.
In addition to whisky, Okanagan Spirits also produces gin, eaux-de-vies, aquavit, absinthe, vodka and liqueurs. They have four lines of whiskey; I’m taking a look at Okanagan Rye and BRBN, a bourbon-style whisky made with corn. Both are unique takes on typical and not-so-typical Canadian styles.
Okanagan Spirits BRBN
Tasting Notes: Okanagan Spirits Rye
Vital Stats: 40% abv. The mash bill is 51% rye from Coldstream Valley, and 49% locally malted barley. It’s aged in Tennessee Bourbon casks – charred American White Oak barrels. I read one review that said these were old Jack Daniels barrels, although I couldn’t find any information to corroborate. It typically sells out very quickly, and costs about $60 Canadian dollars per bottle.
Appearance: Mahogany hues reflect in the soft, elegantly fragile legs. It’s viscosity is light and airy.
Nose: Buttered popcorn and toasted vanilla waft around, leaving room for light asian pear, allspice, sourdough bread, maple syrup and orange peels. It’s very sweet-smelling, light and floral with citrus and other warm, baking spices complementing.
Palate: The rye makes itself known with soft, lingering spice creating a backbone for the swarm of interesting flavors surrounding it. There are hints of lavender, coriander, charred oak, apricot, and orange-vanilla cream soda. I usually tend to go for a more in-your-face rye whiskey, but I like how this expression leaves the rye as a more subtle note that kicks in on the back of your tongue right before you swallow. The finish is short and sweet, literally, with notes of vanilla and maple syrup.
Final Thoughts: It’s a pretty unique take on a Canadian Rye, with a lot more complexity and depth. It’s also easy to sip because of its low ABV.
Score: 4/5
Tasting Notes: Okanagan Spirits BRBN
Vital Stats: The mash bill is actually 100% corn, grown in Coldstream Valley. It’s touted as a bourbon-style corn grain whiskey, and it’s aged in toasted White American Oak barrels. According to the distillery, the honeycomb barrels infuse a toasted caramel flavor into the whisky. The ABV is again, pretty low at 40%. A 750ml bottle costs $60 in Canadian dollars.
Appearance: An orangey ocre, with red hues and sticky, thick legs.
Nose: Smells a lot like corn, toasted and coated in movie theatre butter.
Palate: If I mixed it with cola, it’d be like drinking the movie theatre experience, but not necessarily in a bad way. It’s a little bit thick with bitter notes of sweet corn, honey, Kix cereal, freshly-mowed grass and oak. It fell a little flat of my expectations, and didn’t really remind me very much of bourbon at all.
Final Thoughts: I think calling this a bourbon-style is a little bit of a stretch. It’s more interesting to look at it as a 100% corn grain. As a bourbon-impersonator, it felt very one-dimensional, because it’s lacking the complexities that I would look for in a typical bourbon.
Score: 2.5/5
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Resistance Closing Party
Welsh DJ, record producer and Gammy Award nominee, Sasha is unequivocally one of the best DJs Wales have ever produced. He started in the late 1980's playing acid house music, partnering with DJ John Digweed in the 1990's to tour internationally and release music.
Cox was born in Manchester in 1962, to parents originally from Barbados. Cox began DJ'ing at family get-togethers at the age of eight, selecting records from his parents' stack of soul 45's.
Producer and DJ Adam Beyer concentrates on percussion to a large degree for his appropriately named Drumcodes imprint. Begun in mid-1996, the label released a dozen records during the next two years, half by Beyer himself, with others featuring Cari Lekebusch, Oliver Ho and Thomas Krome.
Daley Padley aka Hot Since 82 is as British DJ and producer currently based in Leeds ,UK. He has been releasing music under his alias Hot Since 82 since 2012 and his music has been quickly gaining fame, with Mixmag Magazine, describing his progression in the house music scene as “meteoric”.
Deborah De Luca
As a teenager in Italy, Deborah de Luca discovered a passion for music after her pursuing of fashion left her wanting more. It was the nightlife, the sounds rising to the rafters of Northern Italy that inspired her, pushing Deborah towards DJ Giuseppe Cennamo.
Charlotte De Witte
John Digweed began in 1999 when he unveiled "Bedrock Compiled And Mixed". Over the years he has established himself in music, bringing out more music in 2016 with "Live In Montreal - Finale (Stereo)". He will be heading out on tour soon, with shows in Brooklyn and Sant Antoni de Portmany.
Luigi Madonna
RESISTANCE Ibiza is ready to storm the White Isle for its 2019 season. After only recently wrapping up the debut of RESISTANCE Island at the 21st edition of Ultra Music Festival in Miami, the DJ Awards’ winner for Ibiza Night 2018 has unveiled the season calendar for its third summer on the island. The loaded nine-week residency will launch with its Opening Party on 23 Jul and take place every Tuesday at Privilege Ibiza until its colossal Closing Party on 17 Sep. Ultra Worldwide’s esteemed underground concept had already announced its stacked roster of headliners a few weeks ago, and now the rest of the programming has taken shape. Joining the robust group of headliners as special guests this season are Andres Campo, ANNA, Bart Skils, Daria Kolosova, Deborah De Luca, Dense & Pika, Enrico Sangiuliano, Erick Morillo, Fabio Florido, Hector, Joel Mull, Josh Wink, La Fleur, Layo & Bushwacka!, Layton Giordani, Luigi Madonna, Nastia, Patrice Bäumel, Popof, and Technasia. The Opening Party is set to kick the season off with a jam packed lineup that is headlined by an Ibiza Exclusive B2B between Main Room Resident Adam Beyer and Maceo Plex. Joining them in the Main Room are Exclusive Residents Sasha | John Digweed and Patrice Bäumel, who plays his first of three shows this season. Next door, Charlotte de Witte, Eats Everything, Hot Since 82 will begin their Exclusive Terrace Residencies and set the tone for their season. Also performing on the Terrace will be English duo Layo & Bushwacka!, who will be playing their first of two Ibiza Exclusive performances. The momentum continues into Week 2 where RESISTANCE Global Ambassador Carl Cox makes his return to the RESISTANCE residency for his always highly anticipated birthday party. The King will be accompanied by Jamie Jones and Loco Dice who will be going B2B, Charlotte de Witte, Hot Since 82, Eats Everything and Nic Fanciulli, who Carl himself will be playing a special B2B set with in the Terrace to start off the night at 22:00. Week 3 will see Adam Beyer bring his Drumcode label back to RESISTANCE Ibiza after a highly successful debut showcase on the island last season. For this season’s iteration, the Don of Drumcode is bringing an all-star group that includes Joseph Capriati, ANNA, Layton Giordani, Bart Skils, Joel Mull, La Fleur and an Ibiza debut B2B between himself and the burgeoning Enrico Sangiuliano to close out the night. Maceo Plex invites Testpilot for a takeover in Week 4, marking a special Ibiza debut and exclusive performance for deadmau5’s techno alias. Meanwhile in the Terrace, Patrice Bäumel will start off the night before handing the reins over to Sasha | John Digweed for one of their highly regarded extended sets. Richie Hawtin is also set to bring his PLAYdifferently imprint back on Week 8 for RESISTANCE Ibiza’s penultimate show of the season to showcase his industry leading Model 1 mixer. The techno titan will be joined in the Main Room by the high flying B3B of Dubfire, Nicole Moudaber and Paco Osuna, German duo Pan-Pot, and a unique B2B between Ukraine’s own Nastia and Daria Kolosova. The Terrace will be graced by the likes of Eats Everything, ANNA, Fabio Florido and La Fleur. RESISTANCE Ibiza concludes at its Closing Party on 17 Sep, and will do so in style, calling on some of its foremost stars to wrap up the season. Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, Sasha | John Digweed and Layo and Bushwacka! are all scheduled for the Main Room with Adam and Carl finishing the RESISTANCE Ibiza season with an Ibiza Exclusive B2B set, while Charlotte de Witte and Hot Since 82 will cap off their immense season as Terrace Residents along with Dense & Pika, Deborah De Luca and Luigi Madonna. Bringing in its most comprehensive lineup yet to the White Isle, it’s clear that RESISTANCE Ibiza will be the event to go to for the best in techno and house. Early bird tickets for RESISTANCE IBIZA are on sale NOW and can be purchased at resistanceibiza.com/tickets.
Sat 14 Sep 2019
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God bless you — you need it more than me, anyway
I knew the "Atheist/Christian" episode of 30 Days would infuriate me, but I soldiered through it anyway.
In this particular episode, an athiest named Brenda lives with a Christian family for 30 days.
First, let me disclose my own bias — I’m no fan of organized religion. I like spirituality fine, and I think spirituality and creativity come from the same primeval source. But the organization of spirituality is self-defeating — doctrinizing what’s supposed to be intuitive is counter-intuitive.
Monotheistic systems are the most problematic. There’s an inherent arrogance to the belief in one all-powerful diety, an automatic framing of perception in absolutes. It’s exclusionary and intolerant at the outset, regardless of the content of the tenets. Preach about love and good works all you want — there’s still the first commandment to deal with.
I’ll answer the question of my theism later.
The husband of the host family, Michael Shores, was especially infuriating. If there’s a poster boy for the arrogance of Christianity, he’s it. (The preacher using all the war analogies during his sermon would be another.)
He comes across in the show as someone too frightened by the idea of other belief systems, not just atheism. The way he speaks, it sounds like the only source for a moral code is Christianity. In fact, he uses the word "ultimate" at one point. Uh-huh. And I guess Confucianism giving structure to Chinese families 500 years before Jesus is just a fluke.
Tracy, his wife, got it. She hit the epiphany when she likened her awakening to Jesus as her personal savior to the realization Brenda and her husband had about their beliefs. The fact she understood is hopeful.
I was frustrated at the debate over the phrase "In God We Trust", during the scene when Michael and Tracy were brought to an atheist meeting. The debate got derailed because neither participant — Michael and one of the atheists — could remove their blinders about their theism.
What if Michael had to carry around money with "In Buddha We Trust" or "In Vishnu We Trust" or "Blessed Be"? An atheist would probably be just as uncomfortable carrying money stamped with any of those other proclamations.
That scene pretty much demonstrated the failure of this episode. In a country that guarantees religious freedom, oppression affects every non-monotheistic religion. Would it have diluted the debate to mention Buddhism or Zen Buddhism or Wicca? For the hour-format of the show, probably.
Brenda’s atheism is pretty specific to monotheism. I would have liked to hear her views on the other belief systems that aren’t pre-supposed on a diety.
Before anyone thinks I’m an atheist, I’m not. My Catholic upbringing is far too ingrained to think otherwise. But my perception of God isn’t flattering.
Believers tend to gloss over the fact God is all-powerful. Keyword: all. That includes the bad stuff — he can be petty, mean, bored and evil. If he made man in his image, we can turn to the evening news to see how that all turned out.
And what makes anyone so special to warrant the attention of someone that all-powerful anyway? And wouldn’t being all-powerful include being flawed as well? I would feel more comfortable with God if he indeed made mistakes.
(I would like to see Michael’s head explode if he were ever introduced to string theory. If anything has ever gotten remotely close to the mind of God, that would be it.)
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If The Avengers Had Basic Emotional Skills
May 13, 2016 May 13, 2016 Alex GabrielCaptain America, Captain America: Civil War, Comic books, Film, humour, Marvel, Pop Culture, The Avengers
Spoilers.
The secretary fixed Rogers with a hardened stare.
‘Tell me, Captain—have you any idea where Doctor Banner is?’
‘Self-soothing.’
All eyes turned to Romanov.
‘He had a breakthrough in Sokovia about women’s emotional labour and went to learn how to self-soothe.’
The odd looks continued.
‘We text.’
‘There’s no process here. We need oversight.’
A pregnant silence passed.
‘Tony,’ said Rhodes. ‘Not to be blunt, but you don’t get to overrule the team.’
The Vision nodded. ‘Situational pressures aside, records suggest a need for consensus.’
Stark slumped.
‘You got me, tin man. Active listening. What do we do?’
Progress was made quickly after the team committed to an adult discussion.
‘Ultimately,’ Rogers remarked, ‘I don’t agree. But I get why Tony’s concerned.’
‘Thanks Cap. You raise compelling points yourself.’
‘Sure is complicated,’ sighed Rhodes.
‘A proposal,’ said the Vision, having been quiet. ‘If the accords fail to address the full complexity of our context, might we reply with an alternative?’
Wilson looked up. ‘You’re saying negotiate?’
‘Could work,’ said Stark. Rogers nodded.
‘Well,’ replied Romanov. ‘Thank God that didn’t escalate.’
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The trouble with Captain America: The Winter Soldier
June 16, 2014 March 13, 2016 Alex GabrielCamels with Hammers, Captain America, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dan Fincke, Film, Marvel, Robert Redford, The Avengers10 Comments
Having seen it a second time last night, Marvel’s Captain America sequel has grown on me. Comic book franchises have given us lots of strong follow-ups – Superman II, Batman Returns, X2, Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight are all deemed better than their predecessors – and the Avengers series, including Cap’s sub-strand, has resisted sequelitis impressively.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a well put-together, thoughtfully directed thriller that succeeds at departing from the prior film‘s aesthetic, evoking seventies espionage rather than WWII nostalgia. (It helps that Robert Redford of Three Days of the Condor appears.) But its script still fails fundamentally at what it sets out to do.
It might be appropriate Dan Fincke of the ethics-focused, Nietzsche-reading blog Camels with Hammers loves this film, because it sold itself intently as ‘a morally ambiguous modern espionate thriller’, darker, edgier and politically greyer than the Captain’s first outing. Redford’s casting as a character of murky loyalties is part of this, and the first half captures Cold War paranoia expertly. The problem is, the picture doesn’t make good on this premise.
From the start, it’s clear to any sensitised cinemagoer Alexander Pierce (Redford) is a villain. His talk of tearing old worlds down, of diplomacy being futile and of the need for world-policing is meant to land as a compelling challenge to Cap’s land-of-the-free philosophy, but the character has only just been introduced, played by a seasoned actor and pitched as an alternate version of S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, presumably to explore darker themes than the latter’s role allows.
Their similarity makes us trust Pierce less rather than more, and it doesn’t help when he replaces a presumed-dead Fury as top brass. Despite Redford’s best efforts, the reveal he’s a straight-up antagonist just isn’t surprising: I never took him for a knight in dirty armour in the first place. The truly complex and audacious twist would have been to give him a right-all-along arc, making him a flawed hero and Fury himself the villain.
There were storytelling strands in place already that could have led to the latter, particularly Fury’s actions in The Avengers and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series. It’s as if the writers limbered up for a stunning bait-and-switch then chickened out. In fact, Fury’s ominous scheming in the opening scenes and Pierce’s praise for compromise are both characters’ most convincing moments, because the actors are playing the arcs they want to play. Yet the second half returns us to factory-setting heroes and villains.
It doesn’t help at all when Hydra, the first film’s ‘Nazi deep science division’, is revealed to have survived and be the power behind Redford’s character. At least in the language of cinema, there’s no better shorthand for unqualified evil than a Nazi uniform – what made them work in the previous instalment is that raygun wielding super-Nazis are, in a word, camp – so Hydra’s presence in The Winter Soldier jars completely with its hopes of moral greyness.
To put it bluntly, I don’t care how nuanced or ambiguous your world is: once your bad guys are whispering ‘Hail Hydra’, bad guys is plain and simple what they are. When Redford has to recite this line, he actually looks embarassed; its silliness, glorious in the original Captain America, was even lampshaded on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. How could anyone see Pierce’s people as nobly misguided authoritarians when they still use retro Nazi branding, octopus-skull and all?
It’s not that Soldier isn’t in the end a perfectly solid film. But I do think that as well as hobbling its tries at realism and grit, these narrative choices make it less good than it could be. For all its atmospheric uncertainty, I never for a moment doubt Cap is the white hat and will remain so. He has no true arc, and ends up the same person he was two hours before, because its lines of good and evil are in truth just as sharp as his origin story’s. I wanted to see him re-examine his beliefs, but he doesn’t once begin to.
Captain America’s old fashioned values are, granted, what define him. (Both his introductory film and The Avengers play to this.) But that’s just what would make challenging them, as Soldier promised to do, compelling. Much as Iron Man 3, behind its explosions and CGI, was really about Tony Stark’s identity crisis – breaking and rebuilding his trademark confidence – Marvel still owes us a story where Cap questions who he is.
In its battle between War on Terror surveillance and pie-eyed hymns to liberty, the film only pits one American dream against another: his patriotic values aren’t deconstructed as we’re led to believe at all. With its titular nemesis wearing Soviet colours and a Russian female lead in Agent Romanov, the script could have done this several ways, unpicking the U.S. mythos of wartime heroism Cap is rooted in. Instead, and despite its dismantling S.H.I.E.L.D., I’ll remember The Winter Soldier for its timidity.
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Best of the EFL
Top 50 Players of the EFL – 33rd: Jed Wallace (Millwall)
By Adam Allcroft on May 14, 2018 0 Comments
Millwall midfielder Jed Wallace has been voted by you as the 33rd best player in the EFL.
Over the last month, we have been gathering votes from you to find the best managers and players in the EFL. And after counting the votes, we have discovered you think that Wallace is the 33rd best player in the Football League. This is the first time that he has been on this list.
The Lions surprised many this season by challenging for a spot in the Sky Bet Championship play-offs this season when most thought that they would be fighting against relegation. Lots of players contributed to how got that close to finishing in the top six and it would be fair to say that Wallace was one of them. Sometimes after performing well on loan at a club and getting that permanent deal off that, players can underperform. Wallace did not do that.
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Instead Wallace got back to being at the best he showed at Portsmouth which marked him out as a star of the future. In his 47 appearances for the club he scored seven goals and also showed he was a creative force by making nine assists. And if you had any doubt he could mix it up at this level from his mediocre spell with Wolves, his performances against Bristol City, Leeds United and QPR proved he could be a top player in the Championship.
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Wallace will want to push Millwall into the play-offs next season after missing out this time.
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June 19, 2014 by stuartnoel
Five things from….Spain 0 Chile 2
I could have taken the easy (sensible) option and just gone straight to bed after the Australia game. I did have good intentions and went back to the hotel but I made the mistake of turning the TV on and there on Channel 1 was the lovely Lucy Zelic, seducing me to stay with her for this “enthralling match”. “If Chile win, then Spain can pack their bags and fly home tomorrow” she told me. As if! They didn’t become World Champions and the most dominant force in global football by bottling it under pressure. I mean, they weren’t the new France were they?
1. Spain are the new France – OK we were all wrong. Hands up who genuinely thought Spain would be the first team eliminated from the World Cup (well, technically joint first as this result also sent Australia home)? Their patient, passing game simply didn’t faze the Chileans who played around their holding midfielders and got the ball into the danger areas, putting the shaky Casillas under pressure time and time again, leading to one of the two goals.
2. Brazil are the big winners, probably – Defeat for Spain means that the Netherlands only need a point from their last game against Chile to capture top spot and line up a second round tie with either Mexico or Croatia. They will be happy with that, as probably Spain were prior to the tournament when they mapped out their route to Rio. The second place team, most predicted as Netherlands, would face Brazil. However, the group has now been thrown up in the air and it is probably Chile who will now face Brazil – a game that they will fancy more than having to play either of the Europeans.
3. “Too hot to handle” gags – The result was a headline writers dream, with a number of news agencies immediately posting headlines in relation to Chile’s win. I’d personally gone with “Abdication”….I’ll get my coat.
4. Brand names galore – Spain had Alba (cheap stereos), Costa and Koke…Chile had Bravo, Vidal and Medel – massive opportunity missed there for sponsors…unless of course they had got in on the act years ago and the players had changed their names already.
5. Chilean fans – Once again they surpassed themselves, taking almost every seat in the stadium, with colorful dress. Some even themed their outfits for the game, whilst others tried any possible means to get into the game including breaking into the stadium’s press box and trying to hide there.
Due to the hour of the day, there was no Beer World Cup
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Juan Soto reminds Howie Kendrick of Mike Trout
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
Mike Trout is widely regarded as the best player in baseball, a true five-tool superstar who made the All-Star team seven times before turning 27.
Nationals infielder Howie Kendrick knows Trout well, having played with him on the Angels from 2011-14. And in 20-year old phenom Juan Soto, Kendrick believes he's found a player reminiscent of the two-time MVP.
"I played with another guy that was just like that and his name was Mike Trout. The guy came in and would play the game, wanted to win every day and had a great attitude every single day. I see a lot of those same similarities with Juan." -Kendrick on Soto
— Brittany Ghiroli (@Britt_Ghiroli) February 18, 2019
More Kendrick: "Probably not as speedy as Trout but he [Soto> does a lot of similar things that Mike does." High praise.
"I played with another guy that was just like that and his name was Mike Trout," Kendrick said of Soto Monday, the Nats' full squad report day at spring training. "The guy came in and would play the game, wanted to win every day and had a great attitude every single day. I see a lot of those same similarities with Juan."
Soto launched himself into the conversation as one of baseball's best young players with a breakout rookie season in 2018. As a 19-year old, he finished second in the NL Rookie of the Year race after hitting .292 with 22 home runs, 70 runs batted in. He also set MLB teenage records in OBP (.406), OPS (.923) and walks (79).
"Probably not as speedy as Trout, but (Soto) does a lot of similar things that Mike does," Kendrick added.
Sure, Soto doesn't steal as many bases as Trout, but he did become the youngest player in MLB history to steal three bases in a single game last year. All in all, Nats fans should be very excited about what the future holds for Juan Soto.
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In Hollywood, a frenzied competition for attention begins every fall. That’s when studios start submitting films for awards consideration. Each studio wants its movies to touch as many critics, guild members and Academy members as possible.
Small wonder: The more voters who see a film, the better its chances of winning a trophy at one of the many January and February awards shows — perhaps even landing the most coveted prize of all: an Oscar.
To get their awards contenders seen, studios send out DVD screeners of movies that in many cases have not yet been released in theaters. That’s where problems begin — issues of cost and, more important, piracy. The DVDs are protected by the most sophisticated security technology money can buy. Yet every year, almost the moment screeners are sent, illegal copies wind up online.
“This is something every studio has to deal with,” says the person responsible for organizing awards screeners at a top distributor, who spoke with Variety on condition of anonymity. “No matter how much you try to secure your product, if you’re sending out a movie, it will leak online.”
The problem is the DVD itself: It can get lost or stolen or vanish. That’s why many are urging studios to forgo DVDs and instead send links to eScreeners — digital copies accessible online via password-protected streaming links. eScreeners are safer from piracy and vastly less expensive.
But studios are hesitant to switch.
On the face of it, switching to digital would seem an obvious choice. DVD screeners are enormously costly and challenging: Studios are obliged to mail out upwards of 70,000 screeners per year per movie — and as membership in the guilds and the Academy increases, that number will rise. Between producing the discs, constructing the packaging, fulfilling the orders, shelling out for shipping (often overnight express) and paying for the expensive watermarking process that aims to protect against piracy, the cost can be as high as $35 per screener.
“It’s lots and lots of money,” another studio rep explained off the record. “Even un-watermarked movies sent via USPS ground mail are a six-figure spend.”
And with that many physical DVDs floating around, it’s easy for one to end up in the wrong hands. “Think about how many discs are sitting on an agent’s desk waiting for an actor to pick them up,” says another distributor. “Maybe someone in the mailroom is snatching them. Maybe a director’s neighbor is poaching the mail. It’s a whole black market at this point.”
Matt Suggs, exec VP of Mediafly, an eScreening platform, agrees. “The most famous leaks in recent years have been the result of physical media,” he says. “If studios send out DVDs, they’re out into the open.”
The kinds of eScreeners offered by companies like Mediafly are superior to traditional DVDs in several ways. For one, they’re cheap: where a DVD screener can cost up to $35, providing a fully watermarked screener link costs less than $4.
And they’re less likely to be pirated: “You have a lot of security options with an eScreener that you simply don’t have on a DVD,” says Jason Shah, Mediafly’s CTO. “You can become instantly aware if the screener is being consumed more than once. Or you can lock it down if it’s being consumed in the wrong area, like China or Russia.”
So why haven’t the studios switched?
The simple answer is fear of losing voters. “The No. 1 concern is the older awards-voter demographic,” Suggs says. “This is brought up by every one of our customers.” Many critics, guild members and especially Academy members who are crucial votes are not young and, the studios worry, not tech-savvy. Says one insider: “The only way to win awards is to guarantee that people see your movie. And you can’t guarantee that if you’re sending out a link. Who is going to be the first studio to say, ‘We didn’t send out DVD screeners, and we still won?’”
Yet some see the technology as inevitable. Mark Nakano, senior director of product marketing at NexGuard, which offers watermarking services for both DVD screeners and eScreeners, agrees that a lot of people in Hollywood have difficulty with eScreeners, but maintains that the format will be embraced sooner or later. “I think as more people get used to technology and to watching things on an iPad or a tablet, these fears are going to go away,” he says.
Suggs points out that concerns about technological transitions are nothing new — even when it comes to screeners. “The same concerns existed when the studios moved to DVDs,” he says. “For several years, they still had older members asking for VHS tapes. It’s just inevitable that they’re going to migrate to eScreeners in the same way. The real solution to this problem is time.”
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Comcast Considers NBC Sky News Channel as NBCUniversal Revs Streaming Strategy
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Comcast is considering the launch of a news channel that would draw from the resources of NBC News and Sky News.
Comcast chairman-CEO Brian Roberts dropped that tidbit during his remarks Thursday morning on the cable giant’s first quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts. NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke also spoke enthusiastically about NBCU’s progress on its plan to launch an advertising-supported streaming platform.
“We look at this as a way to grow our company and power our company for decades to come,” Burke said of the streaming service that he said is targeted to debut this time next year.
Reps for NBC News declined to elaborate on the news channel discussions referenced by Roberts. “We’re exploring launching a global NBC Sky news channel later this year,” Roberts said.
Roberts cited Comcast’s focus on building up its direct-to-consumer capabilities in four key markets: The U.S., U.K., Germany and Italy, now that it has greatly expanded its footprint outside the U.S. with the acquisition of Sky last year. Roberts said those markets represent 15% of the world’s broadband and video customers but some 50% of pay-TV revenues.
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“That’s where the best customers reside,” Roberts said. “You want content opportunities in those countries.”
Roberts and Comcast Cable chief Dave Watson made it clear in their remarks that the traditional cable side of Comcast is increasingly focused on wooing high-margin broadband customers. For the first quarter, Comcast reported a net loss of 121,000 video customers and a net addition of 375,000 broadband customers.
“The engine of growth for cable is broadband,” Roberts said. The consumer migration to on-demand streaming platforms will only magnify the importance of cable’s ability to deliver speedy broadband and WiFi to consumers who are using more and more high-speed internet services. Broadband usage grew some 34% year-over-year among Comcast’s residential customers, Roberts noted.
“Video over the internet is more friend than foe,” Roberts said, calling the seemingly limitless demand for streaming and high-speed internet connectivity “the sweet spot of where this company is going to grow.”
Roberts emphasized Comcast’s heft as a buyer and producer of content. He said the company spends $24 billion annually to “purchase and produce” entertainment, sports and news content for NBCUniversal and Sky.
“As the streaming eco-system evolves, (the market) leans toward the wonderful strengths across all of Comcast,” Roberts said.
Burke didn’t offer too much in the way of details about NBCU’s ad-supported streaming platform other than to say that “hundreds of people are working on rights and technology” to support the 2020 launch. Former NBCU Cable chief Bonnie Hammer was dispatched to head the effort in January.
Burke said he was not concerned about NBCU being late to enter the arena as Disney, Apple and WarnerMedia also rev up streaming platforms. “We think it’s very, very early innings,” Burke said. “In some ways its reminiscent of cable in the 1970s and ’80s.”
Burke said NBCU’s focus is on grabbing viewers quickly with a free service to launch first in the U.S. followed by the U.K. “We think that’s the way to get to real scale quickly and achieve profitability more quickly,” he said. “We think there is plenty of room for multiple companies and different strategies.”
Among other highlights from the hourlong call:
Roberts refused to tip Comcast’s hand on plans for its 30% stake in Hulu. Disney became the majority owner of Hulu last month after absorbing 21st Century Fox. AT&T sold its 9.5% interest in Hulu back to the joint venture — which now consists of Disney and NBCUniversal — earlier this month. “It’s really valuable,” Roberts said of Hulu. “We’re glad we own a large piece of it.”
Burke said NBCUniversal saw the predicted slowing of growth on the virtual MVPD market, which helped offset some of the cord-cutting pain for cable programmers in recent quarters. Churn for the new entrants is increasing as promotional pricing discounts end. The rate of traditional MVPD erosion was “nothing really dramatic” in the first quarter, he added.
Burke also gave a bullish outlook for the coming upfront advance advertising sales for the 2019-2020 TV season. For one, the U.S. economy is generally strong, as evidenced by scatter market pricing that has been consistently 30%-40% ahead of last year’s upfront pricing. “The reality is there are more and more places to spend on digital. But TV remains a platform for big companies that want to change people’s brand perceptions in a way that you just can’t find on the internet,” Burke said.
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How watching Breakfast at Tiffany's today may be a good indicator you need to change your approach
By Tugrul Turkkan, CEO | 4 min read
By Tugrul Turkkan, CEO
It’s all about keeping the viewer engaged
Only 20% of you will read this article until its last word, and that fact, as insignificant as it may sound, points out a huge problem in the future of learning. Why? Because we find it harder and harder to pay attention, even for things that matter.
According to a Microsoft study, thanks to smartphones, our attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds in 2015.
Since we are not even close to quitting our phones, the only thing left is to adapt. And believe it or not, Hollywood filmmakers have, for years now, known the solution.
How Hollywood adapted to the decreasing human attention span
We’re thrown into the dark canvas of space. Tiny stars sparkle in the distance, embedded in the exotic surrounding. As the camera gradually leans down, our eyes lie on the blue horizon of a gigantic planet. For a short second, the orchestra music in the background becomes nearly inaudible. It’s a peaceful shot. A small spaceship, loudly perused by the sound of laser fire penetrates the serenity of the moment. What next unfolds is a massive, grey battleship - the Imperial Star Destroyer - chasing the nice little ship into the darkness of the galaxy.
The Star Wars opening shot mesmerized millions of people. Back in 1977, the shot “was such a great way to start a film, and it caught the audience off-guard,” said the artist Joe Johnston, in a 2012 interview for Star Wars Insider.
But while opening shots capture the viewers’ attention at the beginning of the movie, the real question is, what keeps them engaged until the end?
Average Shot Length (ASL) in Film Industry
A 2011 studyconducted by James Cutting, a Cornell University psychologist reveals that the evolution of film expresses an explicit goal of the filmmaker, to increase the control over viewers’ attention, and increase engagement. In the paper, he argued that the duration and pattern of shots have evolved over the years, changes made “to hold our attention better.”
Consequently, Cutting reveals that the average shot length in English language films has been declining. In 1930, movies had an average shot length (ASL) of about 12 seconds, while today, the ASL is approximately 2.5 seconds. The research team measured 160 English-language films released from 1935 to 2010, and among other things, they discovered that contemporary films have more motion and movement and a shorter shot length than earlier films.
Let’s take a look at the evolution of the Average Shot Length (ASL) in some well-known movies:
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) – ASL of 15 seconds.
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) – ASL of 16.3 seconds.
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) – ASL of 6.2 seconds.
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) - ASL of 3.1 seconds.
Lessons from filmmakers: How can the digital learning industry convey effective learning strategies?
When Gloria Mark, professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and her colleagues, shadowed 36 managers, financial analysts, software developers, engineers, and project leaders for three days, they made some significant discoveries. Namely, each employee got interrupted after only 11 minutes of work, with a demand unrelated to the task at hand. What’s even more interesting is that on average, the employee needed 25 minutes to return to the task after the distraction occurred. Which means, in a 60-minute long video study session, the employee can expect at least five interruptions. Counting the time it needs to get back to the video, a one-hour long video could take over three hours to digest.
But that is not the only problem. Even if the employee doesn’t get interrupted, research shows that the average adult can sustain their attention for approximately 20 minutes (Dukette and Cornish, 2009). To keep the audience interested, the video should not only be shorter, but made up of different shots averaging around eight seconds each.
A report published by Tubemogul in 2008 indicates that when viewing online videos, nearly half the audience is gone by the 60-second mark. The report shows that most of the time, getting to the bottom of the problem through a short, 90 second story is more efficient than through a dull, long video.
Adding to that, only 37% of people finish a 3-4 minute online video, which leads to the conclusion that “shorter videos are better for getting people to watch the whole thing. “ (see infographic).
Case Study: Vibons Video for Hitachi
To adjust to its employees’ short attention span and busy schedules, Hitachi assigned Vibons to create an animated micro-learning to train its employees about open enrollment. The outcome:
Length of video– Using the Twitter approach, Vibons removed repetitive information, fillers, and irrelevant data to fit valuable lessons about open enrolment in a 5-minute animated video. Vibons produced the video in only ten days, achieving a 74% completion rate after a month of training.
Average shot length – In the video, Vibons never exceeded the attention span rule, stimulating the viewer every eight seconds by using storytelling, motion effects, infographics, and animated visual metaphors.
Short, but problem-solving – “When employees are stuck, they need the answer quickly. It doesn’t help them to sign up for a class that will happen three weeks from now and sit through a four-hour session to get the answer they need this minute,” says Britt Andreatta, Ph.D. Consultant, Speaker, and Top LinkedIn Learning Author.
Storytelling – In training videos, Vibons focuses on only one strong character, highlighting one area at once. Click here to read more on how to use digital storytelling to enhance workplace learning.
Microlearning is the new approach to corporate training. According to the 2017 LinkedIn Workplace Learning report, seven out of ten organizations are starting to incorporate video-based online training into their learning cultures. Are you one of the seven?
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As China retaliates on tariffs, stock markets take deep dive
Mon., May 13, 2019 4:39 p.m. | Monday, May 13, 2019 4:39 p.m.
Trader Jonathan Corpina works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
U.S. markets plunged Monday as China said it would raise steep tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods, upping the stakes of a trade war that threatens to imperil the global economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 617 points, or nearly 2.4%, as investors feared that a trade standoff with China would escalate into a full-blown economic crisis — tipping the U.S. and world economies into recession. Dragging the Dow were Apple, Caterpillar and Boeing, with drops of 5.9%, 4.3% and 4.8% respectively. The blue-chip index hit its lowest close since January.
It was a brutal day on Wall Street, with plenty of carnage to go around. The Dow closed more than 600 points down, and had shed more than 700 points at its lowest point during the day. The Nasdaq saw its worst day of 2019. https://t.co/tJbkafgKde pic.twitter.com/1SZoW5r03w
— CNBC (@CNBC) May 13, 2019
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 2.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was off 3.4%, its worst day of the year and continuing the losses from last week. Ten of 11 market sectors landed in negative territory. Utilities was the only bright spot.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq saw their worst day of the year. The S&P on Monday held just above a key threshold of 2,800.
Technology stocks took a hit Monday, with all five FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet — deeply in the red.
Commodity futures in U.S. soybeans, the largest U.S. export to China, and copper, a predictor of the global economy, were both hitting lows on trade fears.
“Today’s tit-for-tat in U.S./China trade tariffs has exacerbated tumbling futures out of fear that tensions could trigger a global recession,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
Highlight: "It makes sense to us that some type of correction is going to happen here," LPL Financial's @RyanDetrick says. "Trees don't grow forever. Markets don't go up forever. … It could be a much better buying opportunity after a well-deserved correction here." pic.twitter.com/BOEdOgYncl
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) May 13, 2019
The drama began last week after President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on $200 billion in Chinese imports to the United States. He also told aides to begin plans to hit more than $300 billion in other Chinese goods.
Asian markets were down more than 1% on China’s response, with the Shanghai Composite dropping 1.2% and Japan’s Nikkei 225 down just shy of 1%. European markets were down across the board, with the German Dax leading the drop, off 1.5%. France’s CAC had fallen 1.2% and the Pan European Stoxx 600 was off 1.2%.
Volume on Wall Street was up but “not massive” as the market moved into its last hour of trading, said Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices.
“Selling is organized,” he said. “People are not dumping. Investors have reassessed the trade issue. They weren’t factoring enough risk into it.”
So far this month…
– S&P 500: -4.5%
– DJIA: -4.7%
– Nasdaq -5.3% https://t.co/2tmB7ZddNN
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) May 13, 2019
Adding to the pressure on stocks was a Saudi news report that said two Saudi oil tankers had been attacked with “significant damage” in coastal waters near the Persian Gulf, heightening tensions with Iran.
The tankers were subjected to an “act of sabotage” early Sunday morning off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement from Khalid Al-Falih, the Saudi minister for energy, industry and mineral resources, carried by the official Saudi news agency.
Saudi Arabia did not say who was responsible for the apparent attack, which caused no casualties or oil spill, according to the statement.
Oil futures initially climbed on the news, with U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate advancing 1.6%t and Brent crude up nearly 2%. Both benchmarks had reversed and oil prices were on the decline by early afternoon as the trade fears overwhelmed the Iran concerns.
“Stock investors are in risk-off mode this morning as Trump’s trade war with China seems to be escalating while negotiations seem to be breaking down,” said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research. “Adding to the geopolitical tumult is mounting tension in the Middle East following the sabotaging of Saudi oil tankers over the weekend.”
Today America's stockmarket tumbled as China announced new tariffs. Last month, we explained the problems of starting a trade war with an autocracy https://t.co/ClTvS04L55
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 13, 2019
John Kilduff of Again Capital said that, at least for now, the concerns about Iran are taking a back seat to the fear that the trade salvos between the United States and China could ultimately lead to a reduction in world oil demand.
“Trade fears are overwhelming oil markets and sending prices down,” Kilduff said. “Markets are worried that the demand side of the oil trade will take a hit from tariffs and a slowdown in world economies.”
Here are Monday’s worst stock-market performers as U.S.-China trade dispute escalates https://t.co/64Eq4k3Ykl pic.twitter.com/hkdwgNspp3
The president has alleged that the Chinese government is ripping off U.S. consumers and businesses by unfairly subsidizing Chinese companies, stealing intellectual property from U.S. firms, and flooding global markets with cheap goods to put other companies out of business.
On Monday, he warned China against retaliation in a series of tweets. But China countered with its own tariffs. The Chinese government said it would impose levies on U.S. imports starting June 1, with the steepest penalties affecting certain beef, live plants, dyed flowers, and a range of fruits and vegetables. The tariffs would range from 5% to 25%.
Technology stocks took the brunt of the pain. Apple shares were off 6% because of the risk a China trade war could have on Apple revenue in that country. The shares also were reacting to a Supreme Court ruling Monday that allows iPhone users to sue the phone giant over prices at its App Store.
Shares for Uber Technologies, another high-profile technology company, fell $3, more than 7%, Monday in its second day of trading. The ride-hailing company debuted Friday at $45 per share. Shares in the company, which is the most anticipated initial public offering of the year, are 17%t off their opening price.
$UBER is plunging over 12.5% https://t.co/tGhP69chrb pic.twitter.com/cHPW69lmrP
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 13, 2019
Monday’s skid comes on the heels of the first weekly decline of 2019 in U.S. stocks.
The S&P 500 eked out a gain Friday on speculation that the escalation wouldn’t derail global economic growth, paring its loss for the week to 2.2%. That’s the steepest drop since the five days ended Dec. 21, when stocks were tumbling toward the brink of a bear market. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2.1%, to 25,942. Apple had one of the biggest declines in the 30-member gauge as the iPhone maker’s close ties to China put its profits at particular risk. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3%.
The sell-off started last Monday after Trump’s weekend tweets threatening to more than double tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, which he then followed through on. Equities staged a late-day comeback Friday on renewed optimism that an all-out trade war can be averted.
Stocks in all 11 major industry groups ended lower last week, with technology and industrial companies sinking the most as Beijing promised to retaliate against the fresh U.S. tariffs.
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Mahindra finalizes deal to supply SUVs to Ford
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Indian car manufacturer Mahindra and Mahindra said it signed a deal with Ford India to jointly develop and supply a midsize sports utility vehicles, the C-SUV.
As per the agreement, Ford and its affiliate companies will invest Rs 680 crores for the development of vehicles over a period of 10 years.
The number of SUVs to be supplied has not been disclosed.
Ford India Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
Headquartered in Chennai, it is currently the sixth largest car maker in India after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda, Tata, and Mahindra.
The consolidated revenue of Ford India in the financial year 2017-18 was Rs 22,400 crores.
“C-SUV will have a common Mahindra product platform and powertrain, thus driving engineering and commercial efficiencies”, said Mahindra and Mahindra.
In March 2018, both the companies had signed five Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop new mid-size and compact SUVs and electric vehicles.
Ford India and Mahindra had entered into a strategic alliance in 2017, under which both the players agreed to jointly develop sport-utility vehicles and electric variants.
Mahindra & Mahindra is the largest, home-grown maker of SUVs in India, and used to be the biggest, before it was dethroned by Maruti Suzuki last year.
It continues to have the biggest portfolio of SUVs in the country.
Prominent SUVs manufactured by Mahindra include XUV300, XUV500, Mahindra Scorpio, Thar, Bolero, Alturas G4 and TUV300.
Established in 1945, Mumbai-headquartered Mahindra and Mahindra is part of the Mahindra Group. It is one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in India by production and the largest manufacturer of tractors in the world.
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Black Box federal spinout makes first acquisition
By Ross Wilkers
Tyto Athene, formerly the government business of Black Box, said Tuesday it has acquired Island Information Technology Consultants to add new communications offerings for intelligence agencies.
Terms of the transaction were undisclosed. This is the first acquisition for Herndon, Virginia-based Tyto Athene since it was acquired in August of last year by private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners for $70 million.
Chester, Maryland-based IITC was founded in 2004 and its employees specialize in telecommunications technologies, enterprise security and system support.
IITC is a small woman-owned business that touts larger industry partners such as Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, ManTech International, AT&T, Engility Corp. (acquired by Science Applications International Corp.) and Van Dyke Technology Group (acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group).
“The addition of IITC allows Tyto Athene to continue enhancing its strategic focus on recurring managed services contracts, providing the business with increased revenue visibility, while at the same time expanding its customer base,” Arlington Capital Vice President Gordon Auduong said in a release.
“Additionally, we are excited by the opportunity to augment IITC’s existing capabilities with Tyto Athene’s and provide a broader set of services to IITC’s end customer.”
At the time of the divestiture, Black Box said the government business was a $119 million-revenue entity.
Ross Wilkers is a senior staff writer for Washington Technology. He can be reached at rwilkers@washingtontechnology.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rosswilkers. Also find and connect with him on LinkedIn.
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NetCents portal goes down, transparency goes up
The Air Force’s portal for its NetCents 2 Products contract apparently is having some technical issues and the service announced today that solicitations for so-called fair opportunities will be pushed out via FedBizOpps.gov.
Also known as FBO.gov, the website is commonly used by agencies to issues solicitations with one big exception -- IDIQ contracts. Often these multiple-award contracts have their own portals and solicitations go out only to contract holders.
This lack of visibility has long been a sore spot for me because it is hard to track what the government buying and who is winning with much consistency. And some of these task orders can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
There needs to be some sort of sunlight on these task orders especially as more and more business flows through these IDIQ contracts.
It makes sense from a taxpayer and government accountability perspective. But it also limits visibility for other companies looking for opportunities.
OK, off my soap box.
The FBO notice that triggered this post is for software licenses for the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Squadron Operations Center. The contract is being managed out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The Air Force is looking for a Veritas Backup Exec Bundle and VMware vCenter Server 6 and vSphere 6 Production Support/Subscription. They also need mIRC software, which is an Internet Relay Chat client that enables chat, file sharing and other collaboration.
Proposals are due Dec. 27 and an award is scheduled for Dec. 31. It is being competed as lowest price, technically acceptable contract.
As part of the notice that the portal is having technical difficulties, the Air Force also announced that Lt. Col. Brian Miller has been appointed ombudsman to field contractor complaints, disagreements and other related items. He doesn’t develop solicitations, the Air Force pointed out. Any questions on solicitations should go to the contact listed and then to Miller.
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Karle's Korner
Posts from FOX6 WBRC Sports Director Rick Karle.
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Celebrating The 4th Of July: The Ten Most Patriotic Moments in Sports
A hearty 237th "happy birthday" greeting to the good ole USA! While we celebrate our independence and the great people who help us remain free, a reminder that despite our differences, we live in the greatest country in the world. And isn't it fitting that the world of sports can unite us and heal us when times are tough. So on this day I remind you that while there are 289 Americans currently named Ben Franklin, 2727 American women named Liberty, and 2062 Americans named, yes- America, it's time to get sentimental and check out my Top 10 Most Patriotic Moments In Sports.
10. Joey Chestnut's World Record
Perhaps it's because I just watched it on TV, but the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest is purely American. Chestnut has set a world record by eating 69 hot dogs and buns in just ten minutes. Call it cheesy (sorry), call it disgusting, but watching this Californian ingesting 1173 grams of fat in one sitting has become a July 4th staple. After watching the broadcast, it may be some time before I eat again, and when I do, I think I'll try a hamburger.
9. Mike Piazza's Home Run 10 Days After 9/11
The nation was still in shock, but ten days after the attack, sports returned in a big way. Mets catcher Mike Piazza, in front of a weary and proud New York crowd, went deep to give his team a 3-2 lead over the Atlanta Braves. It came in the first professional sporting event held since 9/11, and instantly helped unite a broken city and a mourning nation .
8. Gymnast Kerri Strug Helps U.S. Clinch Gymnastics Gold
With all due respect to Mary Lou Retton sticking the vault at the 1984 Olympic games, you have to hand it to gymnast Kerri Strug, who battled through a bum ankle to stick a landing for the ages. With a 1996 Olympic team gold medal on the line, Strug nailed the vault (a 9.712), landing on one foot. Strug was carried to the medal stand by coach Bela Karolyi, and was later treated at an Atlanta hospital for a third degree lateral sprain and tendon damage. It's a moment that you remember where you were and what you were doing. Team USA won the gold thanks to a teenager that wouldn't quit.
7. Baseball Star Rick Monday Saves The Day
It was the year we were celebrating our nation's 200th birthday, and baseball star Rick Monday suddenly found himself a hero for reasons other than hitting a baseball. As a pair of protestors ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium ready to burn an American flag, Monday, playing then for the Cubs, snatched the flag and helped police catch the protestors. Monday's six years spent in the U.S. Marine Corp Reserves certainly ramped up his patriotism. Said Monday, "If you are going to burn the flag, don't do it around me. I've been to too many veterans hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it." Americans were ramped up over Monday's heroics, and for good reason.
6. A First Pitch From President George W. Bush
It was a scene that still gives Americans the chills: Game three of the 2001 World Series, the Yankees hosting the D-Backs. President Bush, just three weeks removed from 9/11, strode to the mound at Yankee Stadium with seemingly no security (he was wearing a bulletproof vest under his FDNY fleece). Bush became the first sitting president to throw a World Series ceremonial first pitch since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. Amid chants of "USA, USA", the president appropriately threw a strike to Yankees catcher Todd Greene. Roger Clemens and the Yankees won the game 2-1 but lost the series to Arizona.
5. Muhammed Ali Lights The Olympic Torch
You see the tower every time you drive through Atlanta- the tower climbed in 1996 by boxing legend Muhammed Ali. Who can forget the scene as Ali, the effects of Parkinson's showing, stood trembling, trying his best to light the Olympic flame to signify the beginning of the 1996 Olympic Games. Ali, an Olympic gold medalist himself, was later presented a second golf medal in Atlanta after officials found out that the former boxer had thrown his medal into the Ohio River after being denied service at a segregated restaurant.
4. Jesse Owens Wins Four Olympic Medals In Berlin
The year was 1936, and Adolph Hitler was using the Olympic games in Berlin to showcase his resurgent Nazi Germany. Along came a 22-year old from Oakville, Alabama named Jesse Owens. As Hitler watched, Owens would win gold in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump and the 4 x 100 relay. That, my friend, is what you would call a slap in the face. Interestingly, Hitler later sent Owens an inscribed photograph of himself, while Owens had some harsh words for our leader. Said Owens, "Hitler didn't snub me, it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
3. Brandi Chastain's World Cup Penalty Kick
July 10, 1999, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The World Cup title would come down to penalty kicks, and American Brandi Chastain knew just what to do against China. Chastain hit Team USA's fifth PK kick with perfection, giving the Americans the World Cup title. Within seconds, a celebratory Chastain ripped off her jersey, her sports bra there for the world to see. Said Chastain, "It was momentary insanity, nothing more, nothing less. I wasn't thinking about anything." The moment was perhaps the greatest ever for womens sports, and the image of Chastain celebrating remains one of the world's most famous pictures of a woman athlete.
2. Whitney Houston Wows 'Em At Super Bowl XXV
January 27, 1991: At the height of the United State's involvement in the Gulf War, along came the greatest rendition of the National Anthem ever delivered. As the Bills and the Giants waited to take the field, Houston's performance resulted in tears and pride- in fact I still cry every time I see that performance. A life-long Bills fan, that Super Bowl was the first of four long years- but when I think of Whitney Houston, I realize the game's really not the thing. The rendition was so strong and so powerful, that it instantly made it's debut at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 list: It was the only live sports musical performance ever to find itself that high on the charts.
1. The Miracle On Ice
OK, this one's a no-brainer, but for a New England kid watching this game live at my off-campus college apartment, it brought me and millions of others chills (it still does). Really? A bunch of college kids led by Herb Brooks knocking off the powerful Russians 4-3? The Americans went onto beat Finland for the gold medal. Dave Christian, Mark Johnson, Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig. Who can forget them? Who can forget goalie Craig looking for his dad after the game? Draped in an American flag, Craig was asking "Where's my dad?". A perfect storm it was as the Americans (and Al Michaels for that matter) became legend. Greatest patriotic sports moment ever? Sure- it's also my greatest sports moment, period.
It's hard not be emotional and proud on a day like today, and thanks to some of the great sports moments ever, I can say that covering sports for the last 33 years has helped mold me into a proud American. Now, back to Joey Chestnut...
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Ponor claims gold for host nation on final day of European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
By Liam Morgan
Cătălina Ponor ensured Romania had a golden ending to their home European Artistic Gymnastics Championships as she secured her fifth balance beam title on the final day of the event in Cluj-Napoca.
The 29-year-old, winner of three gold medals at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, delighted the crowd inside the Polyvalent Hall with a nerveless display as she topped the podium with a score of 14.566 points.
Dutch gymnast Eythora Thorsdottir did enough for the silver as she finished with 14.066, while Larisa Iordache added to the Romanian haul with bronze on 13.966.
Reigning Olympic champion Sanne Wevers of The Netherlands ended a disappointing fifth having scored 13.341.
The host nation had earlier been denied another gold when Artur Dalaloyan of Russia pipped home favourite Marian Drăgulescu, who won the floor final yesterday, to the vault title.
Dalaloyan scored 14.933, 0.200 more than 36-year-old Drăgulescu, while defending champion Oleg Verniaiev of the Ukraine took bronze on 14.649.
Olympic champion Oleg Verniaiev won the parallel bars gold medal ©Getty Images
Verniaiev, who successfully defended his all-around crown yesterday, recovered to dominate on the parallel bars - an event he won the gold medal in at last year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The Olympic all-around silver medallist was given a score of 15.466 for his routine, beating Germany's Lukas Dauser by 0.100.
Nikita Nagornyy of Russia was the recipient of the bronze on 15.266.
Russian Angelina Melnikova, European junior champion in 2014, claimed the floor honours with a dynamic routine which yielded 14.100.
Britain's history-maker Ellie Downie, winner of the women's all-around gold medal, earned silver with a total of 14.066, while Thorsdottir's score of 13.700 saw her return to the podium.
In the event of this year's European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Pablo Braegger of Switzerland edged team-mate Oliver Hegi to seal the high bar title on 14.933.
David Belyavskiy of Russia rounded off the podium with bronze on 14.366.
April 2017: Derwael claims Belgium's first-ever European Artistic Gymnastics Championships gold
April 2017: Downie secures historic European Artistic Gymnastics Championships gold
April 2017: Olympic beam gold medallist safely qualifies while Downie makes European Championships history
April 2017: Olympic gold medallist Petrounias tops rings qualification at European Championships
April 2017: Cluj-Napoca ready to host 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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Lionsgate Summons Glorious Second Trailer For Hellboy
By Michael Briers @briersytweets 5 months ago
What’s big, demonic, and red all over? The new Hellboy trailer, of course! Which has emerged from the fiery depths of the underworld baying for blood.
Front and center as Big Red is David Harbour, star of the Netflix phenom Stranger Things, who’s clearly traded the Upside Down for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense – or BPRD, for short.
From the moment Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment announced this R-rated retelling of the Hellboy saga, we all knew that Harbour faced an uphill challenge if he was to really fill the boots left vacant by Ron Perlman, but at least based on tonight’s scintillating new promo, it won’t take long to silence the naysayers – mostly because this teaser trailer heralds a vast improvement over the first in that it has the look and feel of a Hellboy movie, all the while bringing something a little new to the table.
And that’s exactly what Neil Marshall has achieved here with the second (and presumably final?) Hellboy trailer. This is likely the last major content drop before April 12th, as the Powers That Be will no doubt spend the next six weeks releasing short snippets and brief clips from the R-rated bonanza.
It currently faces the daunting task of opening under the shadow of Avengers: Endgame, though we’re quietly confident that Hellboy will still be able to carve out an audience of its own when all is said and done.
Once scheduled for a mid-January release, Hellboy is now expected to see the warm light of day on Friday, April 12th. It’ll grace select IMAX theaters, too, just in case you’re wanting to go up close and personal with Big Red, humanity’s unlikely savior.
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Hallelujah! Sound the trump. All hail the “Messiah from the shire”, blasts Rupert’s Daily Bugle; The Australian, a claque whose long and frenzied coalition applause now induces a vision of Morrison as the son of God, in scribe, Simon Benson, or “Beno”, as ScoMo fondly calls his top press gallery sycophant.
Or is ScoMo just the liar from the shire? His campaign slogan warned us Labor would raise our taxes. In fact, it’s exactly what his coalition will do. When Abbott waddled into office in 2013, federal tax was 21.3 per cent of GDP. Morrison’s 2020 “budget surplus” will bring a tax-to-GDP ratio of 23.3 per cent.
By Monday, Beno is beside himself over ScoMo’s massive new cabinet. Messiah Morrison’s 22 MP monster is purged of all small L Liberals. Behold, at last, a party of hot-eyed Neocons! Banished is the “left-leaning clique” of Malcolm Turnbull, antichrist, technophile and closet socialist.
Off, to a US diplomatic post, is party amnesiac who stood down as former chairman of Australian Water Holdings in 2011, Arthur Sinodinos, a man who was daft enough to publicly question Morrison policy.
Sinodinos doesn’t challenge much. Our former assistant treasurer, told the NSW corruption watchdog, ICAC, in April 2014, he never investigated ballooning costs at Australian Water Holdings. Costs allegedly included million-dollar salaries and a $28,000 limousine bill for which taxpayers picked up the tab.
Nor was Sinodinos aware the company was once in such dire straits that it could not meet tax and superannuation commitments until corrupt ex-MP Eddie Obeid’s family threw it a $400,000 lifeline. With Sinodinos’ special talent, he’ll have no trouble working with the Trump administration, which traffics in alternative facts, or a president who has made the phrase “truthful hyperbole” his own.
Will his new, expanded, Cabinet 2.0 work for ScoMo, now that it’s purged of all “leftist” elements; independent thinkers? Never. It’s big enough to fit those whom he needs to control, but far too big to control. If you gave each minister enough time to begin to discuss their portfolios in any detail you’d be meeting for a week.
Just getting Energy Minister, Angus Taylor whose portfolio is now combined with that of minister responsible for reducing greenhouse emissions to explain how he’s going to keep coal-fired power stations burning, open new coal mines and still get our carbon emissions down would take a fair while.
“Climate damage is one of the biggest risks that Australians face right now, so we need Angus Taylor to understand that and take action to move the country towards renewable energy,” the Nature Conservation’s foundation’s CEO Kelly O’Shanassy tells SBS News.
Ms O’Shanassy says the new government needs to better address the issue.
“Having the same minister in charge as before the elections makes me very concerned that the Morrison government has no plan for changing the way it deals with energy in the way it deals with climate change.”
ScoMo has no such plan. As for team-work, delegation and consultation are entirely absent from his CV. Of course there’s always room for improvement. Tourism Minister, Fran Bailey, sacked him in July 2006 from his $350,000 PA job. “I’m sure he has learned how to work better with people these days.”
Working better with people? It’s hard to explain how he’d keep Barnaby Joyce in the dark about his demotion as drought envoy. I knew about only via a tweet from TV, Sunday, Joyce complains.
“I would have (expected a phone call), but I didn’t and that’s life,” the former deputy PM says.
“That is the role a leader has, they can make that call. But I think it is incumbent upon them to relay that to person to people, not to have them to find out via Twitter.
‘Why it’s important is because you’ve got staff and you’ve got to ring people up.
Expectations, however, are absurdly high. A fawning MSM expect miracles from the miracle man.
Believing in miracles is also a team thing. Nationals’ top cocky, Michael McCormack, is a chap of great faith. Praying for rain is one of his drought responses, a parched nation learns to its immense relief.
“One of many policies, I will always pray for rain, I pray for lots of things. I think people should pray more, it’s a good thing to pray,” McCormack explains. He loses us when he talks of more policies.
Reform will, at best, get some airplay. Ken Wyatt will be kept busy, not only fixing bullying in his department, but after cleaning up aged care, he’ll be up for closing the gap. Then the Uluru Statement from the heart needs immediate triage to put right centuries of government persecution and neglect.
Wyatt is Australia’s first Indigenous Affairs Minister and first Indigenous cabinet minister. Indigenous leaders of all faiths and persuasions rush to back him. But his PM is, typically, much more guarded. Morrison has no inkling of why constitutional recognition matters. Alarmingly, he appears incapable of making any commitment towards equality.
Seven months ago Morrison rejected the proposal; repeated the lie that an indigenous voice to parliament was a call for a third parliamentary chamber. Yet he introduces a new indigenous consultative agency Monday, a thought bubble, which is no part of the process of a voice to parliament.
ScoMo won’t set a timeline. Instead, he says it will take “as long as needed” the kiss of death. Clearly Morrison is already ducking and weaving; dissembling. How good is ScoMo? Flunks his first test of leadership.
Constitutional recognition and the inclusion of a voice to parliament should be imperatives to any self-respecting Australian federal government. Under Morrison, indigenous issues are already in danger of being fobbed off with waffle, another “national discussion on the best way” to stall for time, a total lack of urgency and a worrying lack of respect for years of work already undertaken by first peoples.
Other appointments already draw controversy. Minister for African Gangs, (AKA Assistant Minister for multicultural affairs) the mono-cultural Jason Wood, a former copper who has just held on to his Victorian seat of LaTrobe by campaigning to “deport foreign-born thugs”, is already drawing the ire of the Sudanese community in Victoria.
South Sudanese Community Association of Victoria, Chairwoman, Achol Marial, finds Wood’s dog-whistling rhetoric to be “quite disturbing”.
“It was a tool for use by politicians to manipulate viewers and voters to make people think there was an issue, it was a trick … But if you look at the statistics, [the rate of crime committed by] South Sudanese and Africans in general was very low compared to other Australians. I find it quite sad that Jason Wood would use it as a tactic to try to get people’s attention.”
Invisible Environment Minister Melissa Price does not make the team despite ScoMo’s earlier assurances. She’ll be outside the tent but as DIM (Defence Industry Minister) a non-cabinet post, she’ll continue to work on flying below the radar.
Sussan Ley, who had to resign as Turnbull’s Health Minister in January 2017 over allegations that she rorted her travel allowance to visit her Gold Coast investment properties, will replace Price. Her opinions, so far, suggest that she is pro-Adani.
In tabling a petition from local constituents opposing the Adani coal mine proposal on February 8th, Hansard records Sussan Ley distancing herself from the petition and attempting to de-legitimise the views expressed in the petition.
“This [the Adani coal mine] is a very important and emotional issue for many of them.”
Ley then says the Stop Adani group has expressed their views to her “very forcefully.” Her dog whistling dismisses calls for evidence-based climate change policies as the “bleatings of bleeding-heart leftists and dangerous political extremists.”
“A new generation is in control,” says Benson. A new dominion is born, based in the ‘burbs and the bush, the suburban, regional outliers where, as everyone knows, true-blue, real Australians reside.
Is it blasphemy or just hypocrisy? For weeks, Holy ScoMo harped on about how we were not just “anointing Bill Shorten”. Instead, we could fall for his policy-free scare campaign, lies about Labor’s death duties and a tax cut, for most of us, of $5 per week. For Chinese language speakers’, Chinese lies:
“Correct way to vote: on the green voting card, put preference 1 next to the Liberal party,” a sign, in electoral commission purple, reads. “The other boxes can be numbered from smallest to highest.” The sign pops up at Weeden Heights in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, and at Kooyong and Chisholm.
WeChat also carried ads warning Chinese language readers that Labor planned to introduce a million migrants over the next ten years and cost taxpayers $10 billion per year. Weibo is reported to have carried advertisements warning readers of Labor’s plans to introduce death taxes.
The 2019 campaign is now notorious for its lies; false or exaggerated claims made by fringe groups on Facebook, such as Labor’s 40% inheritance tax, claims later echoed by Coalition candidates. The process was detected by The Guardian’s project to monitor clandestine political advertising on social media.
Our first social media election involves a place where, Christopher Warren argues, the almighty “algorithm rewards extremism by pulling people’s attention from mainstream political parties, like the Liberal and National Parties, to more right-wing fringe parties like One Nation, Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party and Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party.”
Yet, now, washed in the blood of the lamb, ScoMo’s own, tiny, victory, is heralded as a “miracle” and an “historic victory” by the boys and girls from The Oz, The Daily Tele, The Herald angels- and all other tabloid tattle-sheets, corporate shills and ambulance-chasers who rule our nation’s print media.
Across Australia, all media echoes News Corp, “a propaganda operation masquerading as a news agency”, as Denis Muller calls it out; a definition that evokes News Corp’s 1922 secret origins as News Limited, a mining company propaganda rag, owned by the most powerful industrialists of the day.
Conceived in spin, News Corp’s specialty du jour -relentless personal vilification – is but a short spit. Helping Liberals’ “Kill Bill”, a character assassination campaign to mock, defame and pillory Labor’s leader for the last six years, is one of the triumphs of the coalition’s most powerful backer. More wondrous, still, is how Murdoch’s hacks apply themselves assiduously to the apotheosis of Morrison.
Rapturous applause echoes up and down our wide, brown-nosing land, a state run by corporate profiteers as the oligarchs of Oz applaud their puppets. No hint of the jeers that greeted Malcolm Turnbull’s meagre win in 2016. Turnbull earned censure for his “pathetic” angry election night speech, “a flabby failure”, according to Mike Carlton, delivered well after midnight at the Wentworth Hotel.
We may live in secular times, writes The Monthly’s Sean Kelly, but there is a remnant of anointment in the ascension of prime ministers, the erasure of the past and the chance to start anew. Before, you were mortal; now, you are divine. What you did before hardly matters in these new, immortal days.
ScoMo is not the messiah from the shire, however, much his cheer-squad insists. Instead, he’s created a vast cabinet to manage and control a coalition of mediocrity and negativity which has just won an election with no coherent policy, beyond the promise of slightly lower taxes for most and a flatter tax system which will greatly benefit the elite.
Of greatest concern is Morrison’s move to stall Indigenous constitutional recognition, a rejection of the Uluru Voice from the Heart, in effect, a response which suggests yet further inaction and delay, an alarming abdication of leadership and humanity.
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“How good is Australia? How good are Australians? … an amazing country of amazing people.” ScoMo manages to amaze himself -shades of Trump – by the Coalition’s shock election results. How good is change that stays the same?
How good are Queenslanders? One in eight votes for Pauline Hanson or Clive Palmer; deliver the Coalition its big win. Of course, it helps that, unlike 2016’s campaign, News Corp now has a monopoly over news in the Banana-benders’ state.
Banana-bender Kevin Rudd’s former campaign manager Bruce Hawker sees News Corp as “easily the most powerful political force in Australia, bigger than the major parties or the combined weight of the unions … I saw how, on a daily basis, the storm of negative stories that emanated from News Corp papers blew our campaign off course.”
Helping “Foxify” Queensland, Win TV last year began broadcasting Sky News, including the right wing nutters’ “Sky After Dark” free-to-air through its network across regional Queensland and NSW. It’s helping create two nations as in the US.
On the other hand, as Crikey’s Guy Rundle argues, Labor made itself a big ticket, big target without articulating a vision; making a compelling case about what it was all for, what sort of society it wished to create.
Its failure left it wide open to scare campaigns about death duties which didn’t exist. Its franking credits reform ended up worrying a third of voters. Such was the rabid fear-mongering. It didn’t matter that only a tiny percentage of Australians would be affected. It was an election decided by fear and lies. For Rundle, Labor has only itself to blame,
“They bore the cost of their big-ticket strategy” whilst gaining “none of the benefit from a more comprehensive vision”.
Lord of the flies, Morrison seems elated; euphoric. Or is he just grinning with relief? Abbott’s squirrel grip on Liberal policy is at last released. The budgie smuggler is trounced by Zali Steggall in Warringah – not because of GetUp! – but because Abbott’s worked so hard to make himself irrelevant to his electorate. He’s had a fair go; now he has to go.
As Niki Savva puts it, on ABC Insiders, Sunday, Abbott’s resignation is six years’ too late. “I’d rather be a loser than a quitter”, says the suppository of all wisdom. Relax, Tony. Like your predecessor, Howard, you’ve never troubled the nation with any big ideas. But your seventeen plus different positions on climate change will take some beating. As will your craven sycophancy towards the IPA, your policy HQ.
Similarly, your toxic legacy of negativity, hyper-partisanship and your brazen politicisation of the public service lives on. And you can be sure, for all the talk of this being a climate change election, your climate change denial will still thrive. Above all, your contempt for UN conventions regarding refugees’ rights to seek asylum is now a core Liberal value. Arbitrary, indefinite detention? It’s in the Liberals’ DNA.
As is your war on the poor, the crusade your austerity budgeting Treasurer, Joe Hockey portrayed as “lifters” against “leaners”. Expect Centrelink’s extortion via Robo-debt to ramp up. Expect even fewer disabled Australians to qualify for the NDIS.
And now that the ABC board is stacked with Liberal and pro-government appointees, expect the next scheduled $84 million cut in funds to sail through. It may even be time to further delight the IPA by privatising Aunty.
Morrison has nothing to crow about. There is nothing decisive about his “victory” nor can he claim any mandate having taken no policies to the people beyond a tax cut for the rich and a less progressive, more unfair tax system. His thought bubble of a first home buyers’ housing loan deposit guarantee capped at 10,000 borrowers is not a costed policy. Nor does it amount to anything in our vast home lending market.
UBS senior economist George Tharenou scoffs at ScoMo’s stunt. “It’s far too small to change the nature of the property market. It is a tiny 1 per cent share of annual total home loans of $227 billion,” he says.
The world’s most expensive tax cuts will mean cuts to funds for hospitals and schools and welfare but since the $80 billion cost was never taken to the electorate, you have no real mandate, ScoMo. Instead, you will need to cut into funds for the disabled, for hospitals and schools, the things you told voters were ring-fenced with our strong economy – an economy, in fact which is tanking, before Trump’s trade war with China further shrinks our export earnings, especially in coal and iron ore.
A quarter of votes cast in pre-poll or postal remain uncounted. A one or two seat majority may well be the future of the Coalition, the marriage of convenience between the Nationals and the Liberals – a coalition of secrets and lies, not to mention chaos, ineptitude, bullying, misogyny, corruption, racism and paternalistic arrogance.
Two cheers for the scare-mongering, dog-whistling ScoMo-government of the top end, for the top end, by the top end of town. A government playing the game of mates has no time at all for environment or climate or lifting wages or ensuring workplace equality.
Oddly Scott Morrison alludes to none of this in his vainglorious victory speech.
You can tell ScoMo’s got no victory speech prepared. No notes. How good is ScoMo? The presumptive Prime Minister, crows and struts on stage at Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel, named after explorer, lawyer, entrepreneur, author, William Charles Wentworth’s original inn, Saturday. Good? A quarter of us put minor parties as our first preferences.
How good? Mark Kenny appears on ABC TV News 24, Sunday, rebuking Labor for its low primary vote of 26% in Queensland, while Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, a stalking horse to lower Labor’s vote, earns no censure. One Nation can do what it likes to subvert our gun laws with secret NRA funding providing its preferences go to LNP. Its followers show a Trump-like immunity to any evidence of corruption or ineptitude.
How good is Australia? A mining billionaire can buy the government that suits his business interests; field a party with instant candidates in every seat; bombard us with anti-Labor ads with the sole aim of lowering the Labor primary vote. Few seem even mildly perturbed that Palmer may have bought the political result that his business needs. Except for the retiring Wayne Swan.
Something is rotten at the heart of our politics Wayne Swan protests, “A $60 million spend by a conservative-aligned billionaire in a preference recycling scheme for the Liberal and National Party cannot be allowed to stand.”
No leveller, no democrat, Wentworth, like ScoMo held that men must be free, but free to rise—and his own family especially. In charcoal, Canali lounge suit and powder blue Hermes tie, ScoMo radiates aspirational prosperity and the cachet bestowed by a good label.
You’d never guess he’s only there, by and large, thanks to the power of negative thinking. Commentators and politicians tut-tut. Negative campaigns are deplorable but they do work a treat.
What doesn’t work is Labor’s big target, or actually having costed policies to put to the electorate. News Corp has helped abolish all of that. But there has never been a government campaign so devoid of policy; so full of lies and slurs.
In the Labor camp, the knives are out for Party National Secretary, Noah Carroll, reports The Guardian’s Katharine Murphy and Sarah Martin. Carroll is bagged for not telling Shorten his tax agenda is electoral suicide. If only Bill had got the memo Noah couldn’t bring himself to send. Labor’s much-vaunted discipline and team-work takes a beating.
Back at the Wentworth oasis, a Liberal mob cheers as ScoMo pitches a few easy clichés about how great we are. Voting for a pig in a poke. Then it’s into the schmaltz-pot; how his family deserves thanks. Next ScoMo bullshits about how his own disciplined team’s hard work helped win it for the “Quiet Australians”.
Team? Everyone knows he did it almost entirely on his own, jawboning others out of the spotlight; gagging others; hiding MPs such as anti-Environment Minister Melissa Price.
Bear-like ScoMo stoops to a group-hug; proprietorially paws Jenny and the girls, a public paterfamilias, publicly fondling his family and electoral asset; his living CV. It’s an American import, this showing of the trophy family as political accessory, testament to paternalism, a suburban hetero-normality presentation of credentials. And it shows.
The Morrisons look as if they’re about to start of family game of Twister. But let’s stay on message. Who needs day care? Here’s living proof that even a daggy dad can breed like a cabbage aphid and still get to run the show.
Blokes rule, OK. Father ScoMo knows best. Yet even Morrison’s surprised by his win.
“It’s a miracle”, he says, Trump-like, he ignores the main force in conservative politics, News Corp, with its long-running Kill Bill defamation campaign, an unceasing demonising and character assassination boosted by Clive Palmer and his UAP’s saturation Labor-bashing ad campaign. A chipper Palmer is upbeat about his own party’s loss and upfront about his main aim being to trash Labor.
Advance Australia, the Tory anti-get up group pitches in with “Wake up to GetUp!” episode 2, a second video showing how GetUp! is a gateway drug to world socialism; repeating the lie that GetUp supports Labor, despite GetUp! being found by the AEC in February not to be affiliated with any political body.
How good is the repeated lie, ScoMo? Goebbels knew. How good are citizens who know their place. Know to shut up?
“Quiet Australians” make their debut. “Quiet Australians” echoes Nixon’s “silent majority”. It’s the populists’ conceit that ScoMo, somehow, mystically, intuits the will of a muted majority. A dog-whistle to those who believe the myth that we are muzzled by “political correctness”. Pauline Hanson makes the same claim. If this were true, Morrison would have a bit to say about raising wages or leading on carbon abatement, not a toxic, policy-less campaign based on fear and hate and lies.
“Quiet Australians” also evokes a government which has kept itself in shape by limiting whistle-blowers” rights and increasing ways the state may legally intrude on our Facebook and Twitter, for example, all in the interests of protecting us from terrorists, of course. Quiet Australians are trained not to question as Bernard Keane observes.
“… we are becoming a specific kind of police state, in which the government hands itself ever more power to prevent scrutiny, deter and punish whistle-blowers, smear opponents and hide its wrongdoing, using legal framework justified in the name of national security. We’re becoming a nation where embarrassing the government, or revealing its misconduct, has become a dangerous occupation. Perhaps police state is less accurate than an anti-dissent state.”
ScoMo shrewdly credits his victims for his extraordinary election heist, a win which defies fifty consecutive negative opinion polls for the Abbott-Turnbull- Morrison puppet government and its backers. a policy-free zone where chaos is coaxed into catastrophe but whatever he says, (I’m-a-billionaire-and-I-don’t-give-a-shit), Clive Palmer has the last word.
“It’s clear Scott Morrison has been returned as Prime Minister and he’s only done so because of the 3.5 percent of the vote of the United Australia Party,” his overweening modesty and generosity of spirit prompts Palmer to point out.
Palmer drops a lazy $80million into creating his own party and anti-Labor trojan horse. It doesn’t net a single seat in the lower house, nor in the senate – but for a man who boasts he’s worth $4 billion dollars – it’s a shrewd investment should tax rates be eased; a tax system flattened.
Or a coal mine or a coal-fired power station project need permission to proceed. Palmer has both on the drawing board. Or beyond. He boasts he’s got environmental approval and he’s already advertising for workers for his coalmine.
Clive’s help in bashing Labor through relentless anti-Shorten ads in his election campaign will give him leverage in negotiating further approval for his massive Alpha North Coal Project, right next door to Adani’s stake in the Galilee Basin – but a third bigger. It is capable of producing 80 million tonnes of coal a year, enough to put a swag of other mines out of business overnight.
Palmer’s Alpha North Coal Mine Project, adjacent to Adani, would be a series of open-cut and underground mines covering an area of 144,000 hectares, according to documents submitted to the federal Department of Environment and Energy by Mr Palmer’s Waratah Coal, reports the ABC.
Waratah Coal chairman Palmer even has a 700MW coal-fired power plant planned to help power the mine.
Scott Morrison may kid himself he’s won victory all he likes, but, in reality it’s as much Rupert Murdoch’s win – a victory of fear and loathing over reason supercharged by Clive Palmer’s anti Labor propaganda. It is a victory no-one could see coming but that says more about our pollsters outmoded polling techniques than it does about our political landscape or our capacity to be hoodwinked by a biased right wing media.
Scott Morrison calls it a “miracle” but his victory is very much business as usual. Dirty business. Morrison, to adapt, Churchill, may be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is how a negative campaign and an appeal to self-interest can combine with a reactionary media monopoly to re-elect a PM who has offered us nothing in the way in policy to earn a single vote.
If it’s a vote for more of the same, Morrison’s record – carefully airbrushed out of his campaign – gives cause for alarm. Although it’s presented as ScoMo’s “superior reading of The Australian character” by Father Paul Kelly in The Australian, the Coalition victory is more of the ScoMo show combined with Kill Bill, a campaign started by Abbott and happily amplified ever since by News Corp media.
Kill Bill is a theme eagerly taken up, sadly, by Nine News and even our ABC, too cowed by budget cuts and calls to the top floor to dare not to follow the pack.
Saturday sees the finale of the one-month ScoMo Unplugged solo tour. Our narcissist-in-chief, benches the rest of his team to perform a solo populist parody: a beer-chugging, footy-kicking, basket-balling, bingo-calling, razzle-dazzle hoopla-variety show while he repeatedly puts the boot into Bill Shorten. Pure vaudeville.
Look out! He’s behind you! Shifty Bill’s after your savings. Hell-bent on raising massive taxes. Look out. He’ll “take money from your pocket.”
Is it a spin-off from the Trump beats Clinton Show; the same franchise that brought us fake news and alternative facts? There are many alarming parallels. What is certain is that whilst Scott Morrison’s Coalition may get the votes he needs to form government, he has neither the statesmanship, nor the policies, nor the record of success to inspire any form of confidence. History suggests the very opposite; government by SNAFU.
Expect instead, a continuation of the ScoMo circus, lurching from chaos to catastrophe with nothing but the prompting of its sponsors and its mining, banking and other corporate lobby groups to guide it, – forever reacting to self-inflicted disaster – a vitiated democratic state that rules by force and fear and favour; not a democracy nor a meritocracy but a one man band and his cronies, The ScoMo oligarchy.
Scott Morrison’s Liberal campaign flop at the Melbourne Convention Sunday may be a teensy setback but at least he gets to talk for 55 minutes. Jim Jones would harangue The Peoples’ Temple for hours. Fidel Castro bored on at the UN for four hours, 29 minutes. Ted Cruz ranted against Obamacare for 21 hours 19 minutes. ScoMo’s clearly working up to that.
“I believe that Australia is a promise to everyone who has the great privilege to call themselves an Australian. It’s the promise that allows Australians quietly going about their lives to realise their simple, honest and decent aspirations,”
ScoMo’s clearly been influenced by Robert Lee James Hawke who invoked the same promise in a real speech in 1987.
“This is the promise of Australia. This is the Australian vision. This is the reality of the Australian dream. Together, let us begin a new century of Australian achievement.”
But even a train-wreck of a campaign launch may have a silver lining. It’s great to hear Sarah Henderson run through stale talking points about how we can’t afford Bill Shorten, framing the election to be about who you would pick to be PM.
And how good is Michael McCormack? His own campaign itself is tanking. He may well lose his seat. He changes the topic if you mention climate change. But what guts.
The Morrison government appears to be in a spot of bother. MPs are rushing to save the furniture polishing cloth. “Senior cabinet ministers are panicking and drawing in resources to protect their own seats,” reports ABC’s Laura Tingle.
But all is well. The nation is all aflutter this week with a confirmed sighting of “invisible” Melissa Price, our reclusive environment minister. No-one expects Mel to campaign or anything – she’s refused umpteen invitations to appear on ABC 7:30 alone – not that anyone could blame her.
So one million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction? Dire are the implications for human survival, the United Nations warns Monday, reports The Washington Post. The work doesn’t rate a mention in ScoMo’s speech.
Seven lead co-authors from universities across the world compile a ground-breaking report which directly links the loss of species to human activity. It also reveals how those losses undermine food, water security and human health.
“150 authors from 50 nations labour for three years to compile the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services — a panel with 132 member nations, including the United States. Representatives of each member nation signed off on the findings.”
In most countries, in most parties, the environment minister would reply promptly. Mel doesn’t even go “meh”.
Morrison backs her up. “I don’t want to see the Labor Party get to office where they tie businesses up with all sorts of union red tape and all sorts of the Greens’ green tape, which would just cost people jobs,” he says.
It takes a special kind of PM to call to reduce environmental protection at the time of such a report. And facing an election where pollsters find addressing climate change and preserving the environment top Australian citizens’ concerns. But Mel says Meh.
Is she OK? Mad-dog McGrath said he’d get her dumped. Call publicly for her to resign. Yet all Pricey has to do is pick up her pen. Sign on the dotted line. OK Adani’s water and conservation plans for ecology. Flawed? So what if Adani’s a $60,000 party sponsor? It’s just due process. No bullying. ScoMo’s fixed all that Liberal bully culture stuff.
Last September, Liberal senator Lucy Gichuhi threatened to name and shame the bullies. But she’s withdrawn all that. After a chat with ScoMo, where he appealed to her as “a good Christian woman”, Lucy came to her senses and decided to give ScoMo a fair go to assert his authority; fix party discipline. You can tell it’s working by the tiny turnout at the campaign launch Sunday. Only a strong leader could persuade so many party members to stay away. Lucy’s there, though, hoping for censure of Safe Schools.
Will Mel and her Yeelirrie, WA uranium mine approval earn her a guest role in the next instalment of Kill Bill? “Pretty big decision. A lot of money at stake. Made in the dead of night, the day before the election’s called.” What’s he insinuating? There’s a glut of Uranium. It could be years before the mine is built – if ever. But it’s an announceable. And it’s in Durack, her electorate. But News Corp will get Bill back.
OK, even The Australian states that Yeelirrie’s unlikely to be built this decade. Claims “Senior mining industry sources” tell The Weekend Australian that large sections of the industry are fuming at the timing of Price’s Yeelirrie decision. It could have been made well before the election. Price’s latest calls are a “desk-clearing” exercise that make the industry look dodgy.
Make the uranium industry look dodgy. You’d have to go a long way for someone to rival that achievement. As you’d have to go a long way to see an election turn on an attack on a leader’s recount of his mother’s career.
The latest episode of Kill Bill, sees Bill pilloried yet again in The Daily Telegraph, for not telling the whole truth about his mother Ann’s brilliant career. On Q&A, Shorten shares the fact that like so many intelligent women of her generation, Ann was forced by family circumstances to forgo her dream of a law career and take a teaching scholarship instead.
Anna Caldwell’s story, sensitively timed for the week before Mother’s Day, bears the banner, Mother of Invention.
Shifty Bill leaves out the bit where, in her late fifties, Ann did qualify as a lawyer only to suffer the age and gender discrimination which still flourishes in our “fair go if you have a go” workplace. Later, Shorten explains that his mother,
“… got about nine briefs in her time. It was actually a bit dispiriting. She had wanted to do law when she was 17, she didn’t get that chance, she raised kids, and at 50, she backed herself. But she discovered in her mid-50s that sometimes, you’re just too old, and you shouldn’t be too old, but she discovered the discrimination against older women.”
The Kill Bill Show is one of many ways our ruling oligarchy of Murdoch, Mining and Banks supports its Coalition puppet government, while, in return, the great string-puller gets away with paying no tax. News Corp’s creative reportage also leads the Australian media pack in cheering us on in our triennial ritual hunt for the elusive democracy sausage.
False narratives abound. We hang on MPs every word, in one myth, weighing up policy and promise as if our lives depend on it. Or the campaign’s the thing! We dismiss all recall of a government’s actual performance in office in favour of their carefully costed promises and that unicorn of contemporary politics, their policy platform. Myths both of them.
For Waleed Aly, our myopia is alarming. “The whole neo-liberal economic world view is being called into question; “the benefits of trickle-down economics don’t trickle down much at all; politics is a game geared to the benefit of an elite. … the British Parliament – under conservative control – has just declared a state of emergency on climate change in line with countless warnings from scientists. Yet our federal general election may turn on Bill’s mother’s work history?
Yet three quarters of us are naughty, report researchers. We forgo the democracy sausage. Make up our own minds – and before the campaign even begins. Worse, 2.2 million have already voted. By Polling Day, next Saturday, millions will have already voted. A huge Eurovision Song Contest legitimising Palestinian oppression will upstage televised tally rooms, screens of polling results booth by booth.
Happily, Rupe provides us with countless ripping yarns, diversions and false narratives. These include, ScoMo imagines he is Prime Minister an illusionist masterpiece which prefigures the Liberals’ anti-campaign launch, Sunday where their leader talks to himself alone on stage after being photographed, US-style, hugging his daughters, Abbey and Lily. Wife, Jenny has to stretch her arm to stroke his shoulder. It’s a non-launch, a radically post-modern event for a Bronte bogan.
“It’s not going to be a party hoopla event,” Mr Morrison tells Leigh Sales on 7.30 Monday. “It’s not about the Liberal Party and it’s not about the National Party … It’s not about who is coming, it’s about who will be listening.”
Motor-mouth Morrison is never sure who is listening. Or when he’s made his point. When to stop. Earlier in the week, he pioneers the killer comeback with a two-day delay.
“Who remembers PAC-MAN? That little thing that goes around gobbling up like that?” ScoMo shows and tells. Moves hand. Imagine a snapping turtle sock puppet without the sock. “That’s Bill Shorten’s tax policy. And you know how it chases people around, in the maze? That’s Bill Shorten’s tax policy. The only space he’s going to invade is your wallet.”
Hilarious. Not. A smart comeback is ruined if you have to explain it. Or it takes two days to think up. But ScoMo just loves a bit of panto. Almost as much as refusing to answer questions. Or monstering opponents. Suddenly he springs a surprise puppet show. How funny am I? Who remembers PAC-MAN? Melissa Price? The environment? Policy?
We may not have an environment, energy, education or arts policy from this government., but at least we’ve got ScoMo’s magic Muppet-Show to win our hearts and minds; lift our GDP; save our koalas and Reef. But PAC-MAN?
Get a grip, ScoMo. PAC-MAN isn’t the bad guy. PAC-MAN’s a hero; a digital Odysseus. You help PAC-MAN through a maze full of hungry ghosts. Think Banquo. Or Turnbull.
ScoMo muffs his riposte to Bill’s withering “Space Invaders” slap-down in the second leaders’ debate. Bill wins easily. Goes on to trounce his opponent 3:0 in the series. Commentators turn absurdly to body language to explain how ScoMo actually won on confidence. Or body language. Or sock puppetry.
Graham Freudenberg warns Morrison will flop. “Because … he does take people at the lowest common denominator.”
Sean Kelly sees something of the Kinder teacher in him. Always gesturing. Talking down. Question Time, he’ll ask MPs to put their hands up. If Morrison is elected, Saturday, a lucky nation can expect further infantilising. More vapid, saccharine banter. More beers with the boys. More footy-kicking. Picking up fallen women and other CWA heroics.
Expect more banal, populist, faux-patriotic bull-shit. “Who loves Australia? Everyone. We all love Australia. Of course we do. But do we love all Australians? That’s a different question, isn’t it? Do we love all Australians? We’ve got to.”
Beneath this sanctimonious veneer lurks a monster at war with the poor via Centrelink’s Robo-debt, a man who sees nothing wrong with freezing wages, cutting penalty rates or locking up men women and children on island prisons indefinitely, with no charge, driving them mad as a deterrent to others. Others whose only fault is to throw themselves on our compassion. There is no compassion for our refugees in his speech.
No reference either to the Islamophobia and the misogyny spread by his own government ministers – all the interests of “loving all Australians”.
Daggy dad, deadbeat or dinosaur? Fossil Morrison, Paul Keating calls him at the Labor launch. “There’s the prime minister walking around with a lump of coal. Coal is a fossil. The prime minister is a fossil himself – a fossil with a baseball cap, but a fossil.”
A federal election is not a presidential contest, despite Murdoch’s urging and the Mexican wave of independent MSM. Yet fewer and fewer of us take them seriously these days. Nor do we believe ScoMo who endlessly, witlessly, insists it’s “a choice between Bill and me”.
The punters always right, as William Bowe reminds us; take the Victorian election for example. But Betfair odds on Labor victory shorten to $1.13 while the Coalition eases to $6.00. One punter bets a million dollars on Bill.
It’s a record for a political bet in Australia but it’s barely half what Mal paid to win his one seat majority in 2016.
Coalition MPs panic. Stampede wild-eyed, out of Canberra, hell-bent on saving their own seats. Laura Tingle reports Liberal insiders writing off Abbott in Warringah while in NSW, Gilmore and Reid are gone. Labor may even snatch Lindsay. Cowper may go to Rob Oakeshott, & Farrer, despite Sussan Ley’s 20% margin, may go to a local mayor.”
But it’s the Daily Tele’s attack on Shorten’s story of his mother, a whopper that he’s laundered her story shopped around Canberra Tuesday, which backfires horribly on Gotcha Morrison. The low blow gives Labor’s leader an opportunity to cut through the fog of cockamamie economics, dog-whistling, scaremongering, falsehood, fabrication, distortion, outright lies, character assassination and personal abuse that is the News Corp Trumpery integral to Coalition campaigning.
“An absolute gift to Bill Shorten”, says a back-handed, Barrie Cassidy on Friday’s ABC Breakfast News, “it humanised him in a way he hasn’t been able to do so far. One hell of an own goal; a very nasty story and it backfired”.News Corp sources say the Daily Telegraph has another story in their dirt file to throw at Shorten, writes Paul Bongiorno. “It is highly defamatory and legally dubious. The desperation that led to the attack on Shorten and his mother’s memory may give them pause to think about running it. As one Labor campaign worker says, “”It’s difficult to know where the government ends and News Corp begins.””
Stop your lies, Frydenberg, your climate and environment policy is a failure.
May 6, 2019 · 2 Comments ·
Bobbing its blue-grey head and cackling, ecstatically, as it greets its mate, the Southern Black-throated Finch, (Poephila cincta cincta) whose rufous wings and cinnamon body evoke a tiny, tan Driza-Bone coat, is fighting to survive.
Only one-eighth of its natural habitat remains in North Queensland. Even that remnant is under threat as habitat-clearing continues. Should seventeen proposed new Galilee Basin mines proceed, we’re all in trouble.
Twenty years ago, we made laws to help. Our Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) was lauded as a way to preserve endangered species. Queensland’s own Vegetation Management Act was set up in the same year to regulate the clearing of vegetation. Neither has succeeded. The fate of the gregarious and plucky black-throated finch illuminates the failure of our attempts at environmental governance.
The EPBC is fragmented, decentralised and inconsistent among states. It is unclear what is state and what is national responsibility. Compounding all, is a lack of accountable federal leadership. On cue, Sunday, ScoMo does a runner. He declines an invitation to appear on ABC The Insiders. Josh Frydenberg appears instead. He lies about,
“… why we take our Paris commitments seriously and why we’ll beat our 2030 target, just as we’ve beaten our original Kyoto target and on track to beat our 2020 target. We have $25 billion in renewable investment currently under way in Australia – a record amount. And we are one of the most attractive destinations in the world for renewable energy. We’re also investing in Snowy 2.0 to become the big battery on the east coast of Australia. But you shouldn’t see climate change as a zero sum game, as a binary choice between doing something and doing nothing.”
Frydenberg should tell the truth. We fudged Kyoto by including land clearing. (LULUCF). Article 3.7, The Australia clause, was added to the agreement by Howard’s environment minister, Robert Hill. It allows countries with net emissions from land-use change, usually land clearing, to include those emissions in their baseline calculation.
Barrie doesn’t call him on it. The lie is repeated each time a Morrison government minister trots out the day’s talking points. Hill’s fiddling the books greatly benefited Australia. In 1990, when the baseline was determined, Australia was land clearing massively. After 1990, a Hawke Government initiative saw land-clearing cut sharply.
The resulting credit was big enough to allow Australia to boost emissions, especially from electricity generation and transport fuels while sticking within its rigged Kyoto-con emissions limits. Yet the credits have run out now and a useful question for the Coalition, sadly not asked on Insiders, is how do we plan to meet our target now?
Given our LULUCF credit has now expired, what cuts will be made in which other sources to meet even the lame 26-28 per cent reductions we committed to in our signing the Paris Agreement? Or why is ScoMo shying away?
What is clear is that the PM won’t appear, Barrie Cassidy explains, until after the election. Morrison’s pathological fear of scrutiny, his love of secrecy and his contempt for accountability are entrenched. As Immigration Minister he’d walk out of his own press briefings. A reverse space invasion. Then he abandoned briefings altogether.
Poorly led at federal level, our attempts to protect our environment are maladministered; open to abuse. Above all, nowhere do they factor in climate change, flaws writ large also in The Murray Darling Basin scandal.
Last October, the UN gave all of us twelve years to curb catastrophic climate change. In March, it called for ambition, urgency “We are the last generation that can prevent irreparable damage to our planet,” warns General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, “climate justice is intergenerational justice.”
If we don’t curb our carbon emissions to 45% by 2030, zero by 2050, keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels expect more droughts, floods and heatwaves; more extreme, freak weather.
Hundreds of millions of us will be forced into poverty. Yet nowhere in our phony election campaign is climate change seriously addressed. Only school children demonstrating, it seems, grasp the reality; the urgency.
Instead a coal-puppet Coalition ignores its role in increasing carbon emissions; brazenly lies that we’ll meet our Paris targets “at a canter” when, in fact we’ll miss our modest target of 26 per cent by 2030. Our current policies are more consistent with a scenario of four degrees warming. Disastrous. And it will be expensive.
University of Melbourne’s Professor Tom Kompass sums up, “The severe falls in GDP in the long term will put many governments in fiscal stress. Tax revenues will fall dramatically and increases in the frequency and severity of weather events and other natural disasters, which invoke significant emergency management responses and expenditures, indicate that pressure on government budgets will be especially severe.”
Modelling from Brian Fisher of BAE Economics, a coal-lobby stooge, who never met a climate plan he didn’t like, is used as a diversionary dead cat on the table. Labor’s carbon abatement will be hideously unaffordable – causing GDP to drop by “up to” $542 billion by 2030. The diversion is taken up by MSM, now, while Morrison delights in pretending that Labor can’t cost its policy or it’s hiding the true cost. For ScoMo, it beats trying to save the planet.
What is unaffordable is doing nothing. No coalition MP acknowledges the $130 billion PA, The Australia Institute (TAI) calculates doing nothing would cost our annual GDP. Our climate debate is deficient on three points:
The cost of inaction on climate change is huge – Australia’s GDP would average $130 billion per year lower if the Paris Agreement is not achieved according to a prominent study.
Under the carbon price period, Australia successfully reduced emissions by 2% while the economy grew by 5%.
Economic literature suggests the economic impacts of climate policy will be minor.
For the Coalition to claim we even need modelling to show we can’t afford carbon abatement is a monstrous lie.
“In just two years Australia reduced emissions by 2% and grew the economy by 5% under a carbon price and the sky did not fall in. In fact, employment grew by 200,000 jobs,” writes TAI Research Director Rod Campbell.
The nomadic black-throated finch once foraged for fallen seeds and the odd spider, termite or ant from Inverell in northern NSW to Cape York in Queensland. Today it’s lost the southern two-thirds of its former range. Yet such is the incoherence of our ineffectual environmental protection systems that it is all too easy to play politics
The vast, grassy woodland, the finch once grazed, is now, mostly farm paddock. Clearing for Adani’s massive Carmichael mine would tip the gregarious bird into extinction. Yet this week, the Queensland government puts Adani on hold because its plans to protect the endangered finch do not meet the miner’s approval conditions.
Howls of outrage erupt from Adani and its claque. It’s “a massive blow”. Adani won’t be able to start construction for another five years, “a spokesman” tells The Australian’s Charlie Peel who joins Michael McKenna, in public handwringing, promoting the Coalition lie that state and federal Labor MPs are delaying and politicising Adani’s approval because the mine is unpopular with voters in “inner-city electorates”.
Helpfully, Federal Resources Minister, Barnaby Joyce’s protégé, Matt Canavan, tells The Australian that Labor has caved in to pressure from the Greens and from inner-city electorates. “The Labor Party has to answer why they are listening to anti-coal academics in Melbourne and not the workers of central and north Queensland,” he says. Canavan could tell workers the truth. Opening Adani or any other new mine will put existing jobs at risk.
Research by The Australia Institute estimates that developing the Galilee Basin would reduce coal mining jobs by 9,000 in the Hunter Valley (NSW), 2,000 in the Bowen Basin (QLD) and 1,400 in the Surat Basin (QLD), compared to a scenario with no Galilee mines out to 2035. With declining world demand for coal, each new mine opened in The Galilee Basin will cause layoffs and closures in Australian mines elsewhere. And jobs in the industry are scarce.
Across Australia, coal mining accounts for half of one percent of all jobs (0.5%) or half a job out of every hundred. Even in peak coal-mining territory, North Queensland, coal mining represents only four percent of all jobs. Twice as many jobs are to be found on reef regions, jobs which Adani’s Abbott Point pollution has already endangered.
“If Adani can’t safely operate Abbot Point, how can it be expected to safely operate a giant coal mine?” asks ACF’s Christian Slattery.
The Stop Adani convoy which began in Hobart just before Easter, arrives in Canberra today and in a rally on Parliament House lawn, Bob Brown tells thousands that they can’t rely on divine intervention to prevent the Adani coal mine. He also explains that the journey has not always been cheered on by fellow Australians.
“We had rocks thrown at us, we had people spat on, some people were actually physically abused.”
Writer and Booker-prize winning novelist, Richard Flanagan makes an impassioned speech. MPs are patently insincere when they profess to care about workers, Richard Flanagan, who grew up in a coal town, says.
“If they cared wouldn’t they be advocating to end black lung disease, a 19th century industrial disease now returned, because of unsafe working conditions, to kill Australian coal miners in the 21st century?”
If they cared wouldn’t they be speaking out about the increasing casualisation and pay stripping of coal miners, supported by the Morrison government?
And if they cared wouldn’t they question whether Adani is an appropriate business to employ Australian miners? Adani, such a friend of the working man that, when building its giant Shantigram luxury estate in India, it housed workers in conditions so appalling that there were 15 recorded outbreaks of cholera.”
As the canary is a type of finch, the black-throated finch may be the canary in our national coalmine. Perhaps its fate will receive such publicity that it will serve to alert the nation and its leaders to the need to act on climate.
Adani may never act. Despite its epic “gunner” political theatre, Adani may do nothing but endlessly re-announce that work is beginning. A lot of care goes into the performance. “Gunner start” “before Christmas” the latest reveals planning. “Gunner start.” Presto! A yellow grader appears. Workers in Hi-Vis vests clear scrub. But that’s it. Adani, clearly, has no intention of beginning unless it can get funding or compo from our government.
It’s likely to be a long, slow, wait. Environmentally catastrophic, financially unviable yet outrageously oversold, Adani’s Carmichael Mine is surreal performance art with a hefty price tag. Last July it failed to pay $18.5 million for 12.5 billion litres of water, a fee to take water from the Sutton River. No matter. It gets another year to pay while world demand for coal continues its four-year fall. Public subsidies and freebies could sustain it forever.
Currently, thermal coal fetches up to US$90/tonne for top quality Newcastle coal but prices are declining. Carmichael, which has inferior coal, is a basket case unless it can earn over US$110/tonne.
Adani is hanging on, partly to disguise booking a loss of $3bn on its accounts, spent acquiring the mine and partly in hope its lawyers can persuade an Australia government to compensate it for breach of contract.
University of Queensland economist John Quiggan reminds Guardian Australia readers that the current price of coal is enough to prevent Adani’s Carmichael Mine or Clive Palmer’s or Gina Rinehart’s or any of the other mines from ever opening. Adani has no intention of investing its own money. It would take a massive ongoing government subsidy. For every new Adani worker employed, another job would be lost by a competitor.
But it’s art with a hefty price tag. Adani will string things out until it’s told to go away or long enough to demand compensation from the federal government. John Quiggan suggests that a claim is possible under the investor state dispute settlement system (ISDS) which applies despite the lapse of our free trade agreement with India.
An emblem for every living, sentient being on our planet ark, the tiny finch is, at best, granted a stay of execution.
“If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon,” David Attenborough warns the UN. Action, of sorts occurs late in the week on Adani’s plans.
Despite invisible Federal Environment Minister, Melissa Price, ticking the box, Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science, (DES) spurns Adani’s offer of a cow paddock as an adequate bird management plan. With seventeen coal mines proposed for the Galilee Basin, Adani may be banking on the finch’s inevitable demise. On the other hand, with coal-mining increasingly uneconomic, the government may be banking on Adani stalling.
Yet we live in a land where coal barons own politicians. Not to mention a media cheer squad. Even ABC 24 anchor Ros Childs asks an expert guest if the creature’s plight is not just “an Adani stalling tactic”. Our national broadcaster plays into mainstream media fictions; false narratives about how noble coal-barons create jobs and prosperity but their mission to boost our prosperity is thwarted by the pettifogging impediments of Green lawfare.
In fact, miners’ bulldozers and land clearing for sugar-cane farms and apartment buildings have razed vast tracts of the black-throated finch’s North Queensland home, its last refuge after pastoralists’ land-clearing and overgrazing led to the species’ extinction in NSW in the 1990s. Solar farms are proposed. Adani and Palmer’s and Rinehart’s proposed giant open cut and underground coalmines, should they proceed, will inevitably spell the end.
A sleek but thickset bird that seeks only to forage for fallen seeds in an undisturbed natural habitat is locked in an heroic battle for survival in a week of dirty electioneering, in which neither science nor nature, nor environmental law has its champion – the southern black-throated finch assumes iconic status; a type of national emblem.
Coalition will have to do better than rely on bogus announceables, attacking Labor and lurid scare campaigns.
April 29, 2019 · 1 Comment ·
“Scott Morrison had a choice between standing up for ripped off workers or sucking up to a tosser who ripped them off and he chose the tosser. He chose Clive Palmer,” Labor’s Anthony Albanese, MP Federal Member for Grayndler Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development Shadow Minister for Tourism
A land down under stands tall this week as our nation is regaled with tales of former glory from our annual Anzackery bash, vows of congestion-busting and refugee-capping via Coalition focus-groups and a Labor policy with teeth, its $2.4 billion pensioner dental plan – along with a $4 billion boost to childcare subsidies announced Sunday.
William Richard Shorten is also impressing those contacted by News Poll which reports late Sunday his highest approval rating since March 2015, with 39 percent of voters satisfied with his performance. He’s also narrowed the gap between himself and Morrison in preferred Prime Minister to 37 percent compared with ScoMo’s 45 percent.
The poll puts the Coalition 49 to 51, two party preferred which is an improvement of one point on its last survey, yet YouGov Galaxy conducted by Sunday News Corp tabloids, published Saturday, has the margin 48-52.
Capturing the nation’s imagination, a last-minute Coalition preference deal with Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party may give Palmer the edge over Hanson’s One Nation and put Malcolm Roberts out of the race. Digger ScoMo, on the other hand, may imagine himself heroically plucking victory from the jaws of disaster; going over the top at The Nek in a Gallipoli all in his own mind, to win a few preferences in some marginal lower house Queensland seats.
History is against Morrison. “In the last three decades, Labor has won 86 seats on preferences after trailing on first preferences. The Coalition has won two,” election analyst, Anthony Green, cheerfully tells ABC TV. Clive was present for 25 of 400 votes last time he was an MP, Labor reminds Insiders. “It’s a marriage between a con-man and an ad-man” ventures Penny Wong leading wags on social media to suggest that ScoMo’s tag should be “failed ad-man”.
It’s a week of mythic stories of larrikin heroes, noble sacrifice, true grit and other inspiring fictions of national identity, our unique courage, enterprise and ingenuity – our can-do attitude – from ANZAC Cove to Uruzgan, while our amazing run of luck with getting multinational mining companies to dig up our buried treasure, take our water and taxpayer subsidies, wreck our environment, extinguish our unique wildlife and evade paying tax continues.
Exxon Mobile’s $33.1 billion over four years with zero tax paid will be hard to beat – but Adani’s got form.
Adani has breached its licence twice in two years and was prosecuted for releasing coal-contaminated water near the Great Barrier Reef, but its scaled-down, 15 million tonnes a year, mini-monster, a mine opposed by two-thirds of Australians, gets a federal government rubber-stamp on its flawed groundwater management plan.
CSIRO tells the minister the plan is useless given its poor modelling and is riddled with errors and false assumptions.
“The modelling used is not suitable to ensure the outcomes sought by the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Protection Act are met,” the CSIRO and Geoscience Australia state in a joint report.
Adani underestimates how the mine will guzzle bore water local farmers rely on. The water will be drained more severely; more quickly than predicted, the scientists warn. Above all, the mine could drain Doongmabulla an ecologically sensitive ancient natural springs complex, exceeding strict limits on draw-down of the springs’ waters.
But there’s more. Adani also gets a secret sweetheart royalty holiday possibly worth hundreds of millions, unlimited free water, a $100 million access road and an airport funded by Rockhampton and Townsville local councils in a not so open tender deal which has attracted the attention of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission.
Giant Canadian uranium miner, Cameco, with its massive Yeelirrie mine, 500km north of Kalgoorlie in Environment Minister “M.I.A.” Melissa Price’s Durack, WA, electorate also gets approval. Is Price bullied into any decision? Nope just “intense pressure” over Adani by her QLD colleagues, James McGrath, Matt Canavan and Peter Dutton.
We know from previous incidents, revealed by Julia Banks and others that there’s no bullying in the Coalition. Nor any hard feelings. Julia will now exchange her preferences with Labor in the seat of Flinders, she announces Sunday.
Mad-dog James McGrath merely threatened to call publicly for Ms Price to be sacked if she didn’t sign off on the project. Jacqueline Maley hates that the Coalition campaign is a bit of men’s shed, blokes-only show but that’s what you get with ScoMo who promised to look into the whole bullying thing, last September after Ann Sudmalis quit.
Maley is disgusted by ScoMo’s duck-shoving, not to mention his high-handed if not autocratic, abortion gag.
“There has been no investigation into the claims of misogynistic bullying made following the coup against Malcolm Turnbull, and just before the campaign began, Morrison decreed that the issue of abortion was a “debate” that doesn’t “unite” Australians, and was therefore not “good for the country”.
Mining is clearly good for the country, the Coalition contends, but it has botched both uranium and coal decisions in its rush to win votes and reward a mining lobby which donated $45,000 to the LNP last year. Good for the country? There is every reason, economic, environmental or health, to leave our coal and uranium underground.
“55,000 jobs depend on our coal mining industry. That’s what it does. And I think that’s great for Australia,” crows “Stunts” ScoMo who gained notoriety for waving a lump of coal at the despatch box. But 55,000 jobs is less than half of one per cent of Australia’s workforce. And far from being great for us, it’s toxic and costly. Taxpayers fork out $12 billion, a year in fossil-fuel subsidies alone. Other costs are borne by government. Then there are health costs.
Coal mining is the second greatest source of coarse particle pollution (22%) after metal ore mining (28%). Australia’s 92 coal mines emitted 320 million kg of PM10 (coarse particles) in 2017-18. There is no safe threshold for coal dust. Coal particulates contain heavy metals; toxic at low concentrations.
Coal dust blows out over MacKay from open stockpiles and uncovered rail wagons when the wind is right and port workers along with mine workers contract black lung, a disease thought to have been eradicated in 2015.
What’s great about inhaling lead, mercury, nickel, tin, cadmium, mercury, antimony, and arsenic, as well as radio isotopes of thorium and strontium? Fine coal dust causes a range of diseases and health problems including an increased incidence of heart and respiratory diseases like asthma and lung cancer.
Coal is toxic; lethal. Along with the enormous, social and environmental costs of coal mining and coal burning are how it helps to shorten our lives. If you live within 50km of a coal-fired power station, you are three to four times more likely to die prematurely than your peers who live further away. Not that our states appear alarmed.
The government’s National Pollutant Inventory NPI’s April 2019 report shows our State governments allow coal-fired power stations to pump out as much as 20 times more toxic air pollution than other countries allow. Coal-fired power stations are the main source of Australia’s fine particle pollution (26% of the national ‘all sources’ total), oxides of nitrogen (26%), and sulphur dioxide (49%). They are responsible for a health bill of $2.6 billion, P.A.
Australia produces 5.5% of the world’s coal. We export more coal than any other nation; 38% of the world’s total coal exports. But the there is little to be proud of. Assuming that only two million of the seven million deaths attributed to air pollution are due to coal burning, Australian coal causes 110 000 deaths each year.
All uranium ends up as either nuclear weapons or highly radioactive waste from nuclear reactors. Yet Yeelirrie’s approval is only after the federal government is persuaded to drop a requirement that would render it less hazardous – a requirement that the company demonstrate that no species would be made extinct. This requirement had previously caused the WA EPA in 2016 to issue advice that the mine not be implemented.
Matthias Cormann tells Sky News the approval was made 5 March but it is not until 10 April, the day before the election date is proclaimed, that the news is quietly posted on the department’s website. Australian Conservation Foundation’s national nuclear campaigner, Dave Sweeney, deplores a political decision based on a flawed process.
An environmental catastrophe, Yeelirrie may yield over 35 million tonnes of radioactive waste, consume 10 billion litres of groundwater while 2500 hectares of vegetation will be razed for its nine-kilometre long open pit.
Groundwater levels may drop by 50cm and not recover for 200 years, according to Cameco’s own reports.
“Australia could be a leader and driver of renewable energy tech. Instead, the government is rushing through approvals of the Yeelirrie uranium mine and Adani coalmine in what could be the government’s dying days,” Sweeney says.
Yeelirrie means “place of death” in the language of the local Tjiwarl people who were not notified of the decision.
Place of death? Mining uranium could drive to extinction rare subterranean fauna species and harm other wildlife species like the rare and likely to become extinct Malleefowl, the vulnerable Princess parrot and Greater bilby.
The elusive Price drops off the radar. Labor says she’s in witness protection after another shonky Morrison deal.
Shonky? True, the minister did vow last October to wait until the WA Supreme Court ruled on the legitimacy of state government approvals. Granted also, mining won’t proceed until uranium prices rise, if they ever do, but, in the meantime, what a coup for the rule of brute force, duplicity and stupidity. Bugger science or due process.
Our lucky country’s spoilt for choice, national chaplain, Father Morrison, tells us in what Paul Bongiorno calls the PM’s “warm and cuddly appearances” for nightly television bulletins: remember the fallen, mind our own small business, (the nation’s backbone), have a go to get a fair go and don’t ask questions. Especially on the Reserve Bank’s tipped to cut interest rates or water rorts. Or anything else. ScoMo is into government by announceables.
ScoMo, like Abbott and like Rupert Murdoch and before him the great showman Phineas T Barnum, follow Hollywood’s golden rule, as Jerry Roberts notes in The Dumbing down of politics, religion and trade unions.
“People are stupid. Therefore, they should be fed garbage. An alternative rule goes back to the Scottish enlightenment and Presbyterian social conscience and says people are stupid because they are fed garbage.”
Morrison talks down to us at his peril. His folksy homilies, collection of caps and his tedious family anecdotes are barely coherent but the intent is clear; he seeks to patronise. Thus he alienates where he seeks to ingratiate. Nowhere is this clearer than in his pathological evasion of questions. His bullying, autocratic ego will be his undoing.
“Canberra bubble stuff” is ScoMo’s pet brush-off. Sometimes he borrows Angus Taylor’s favourite evasion “I’ve already answered that question.” Michelle Grattan notes a third evasive tactic he favours, also given detailed analysis by The Monthly’s Sean Kelly in The Rise, Duck and Weave of Australia’s no-fault Prime Minister.
Q: Should Clive Palmer, given he’s spending $50 million in advertising, pay the $70 million back to the Commonwealth plus the $7 million he owes to workers?
PM: Clive Palmer is making his own statements on those matters.
Plucky Gus, pencil-sharpie of post-modern Aussie mateship and rule by oligarchical collectivism may be our latest national hero, as he almost single-handedly bails out Team Barnaby; plugging leaks in the dyke of Watergate, a boondoggle where government pays $79 million for rain collected by agri-business rich and shrewd enough to build huge levees to divert overland flows into their own dams leaving high and dry the river system nature favours.
And sell it back to us. 28,000 megalitres. At huge profit. Exactly who profits is invisible thanks to cutting-edge Gus’s Cayman Island company, Eastern Australia Irrigation (EAI), parent of Eastern Australia Agriculture, (EAA), a mob the former director has nothing to do with now; knows nothing about. No further questions? But where’s the water?
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder confirms to Karen Middleton of The Saturday Paper that the two contentious water licences for which the federal government paid $79 million have returned next to no water to the environment since they were purchased two years ago. Is this why ScoMo and co insist there’s nothing to see here?
Our ABC has a go. ABC RN’s Patricia Karvelas asks Barnaby Joyce some fair and reasonable questions, Monday. Why buy water that cannot be returned to the environment? Why pay so much for rights to water so unreliable? Why no open tender? Who were the beneficiaries? It’s a train-wreck of an interview from an MP who could well be our next deputy PM should the Coalition be returned to office. But only if you’re looking for accountability, lucidity or logic.
Labor. Labor. Labor. Labor. Barnaby seeks to shift the blame. Evade all responsibility. It’s a surreal performance – a Dadaist interpretation of ministerial irresponsibility. “How would I know?” is his most lucid response.
“And Labor did it, too.” The lie is repeated by ScoMo’s daggy dad, avatar, our nation’s post-truth pastor. That Labor ran open tenders, is way too much information for most voters, ScoMo calculates. Meanwhile his turd-polishing unit will come up with other trusty falsehoods: Taylor’s water problem is all due to politics anyway. One side is just as bad as the other. The line is now received wisdom on energy, despite its palpable absurdity.
Perhaps, after all, it’s the river’s fault? In a novel twist, former NSW MP Pru Goward blames the victim,
“Governments have struggled with how do we solve sharing a very poor river. Let’s face it, it’s a terrible river, between three states with all these competing interests.”
ANZAC Day brings a brief lull in the slanging-match between our business, banking and mining proxies, the volatile, Liberal, National Coalition, telling lies about Labor death taxes while trying to bribe voters with tax cuts and the representatives of their wage-slaves, Labor, once a workers’ party but, now, badly ravaged by the neoliberal pox.
Coalition campaigning gets a boost from a fake news item in local Chinese language social media about how Labor plans school programmes to instruct youngsters in gay sex. It’s an extension of the disinformation circulated about the Safe Schools anti-bullying programme. A photograph of William Richard Shorten accompanies the article which warns readers of Mandarin using recycled scare tactics from some quarters of the marriage equality debate.
“That men can use women’s toilets. For men to wear women’s clothing. That the following vocabulary cannot be used: dad, mum, older brother, younger brother, older sister, younger sister, uncle, aunt, boy, girl, pregnant, and other gendered words.”
From Queensland, appears a fresh source of hope to the far right or just far out. The civil war the Coalition loves to call its” broad church” whose views on climate change, are enriched by such luminaries as Craig Kelly and Tony Abbott will embrace its recent recruit, Queensland LNP climate nut and (winnable) number three spot senate candidate, Gerard Rennick, whose $30,000 party donation last year is totally unrelated to his pre-selection.
An advocate of a nuclear armed Australia and a self-professed Russophile, Gerry has a compelling case. He “hates it when we vilify the Russians”, “They don’t want to be hated. I mean, they’re part of the West: they drink, they’re Christians, they play soccer, they’re Caucasians, they have very similar customs and values to us.”
Rennick will not only be a big help to Penny Wong on foreign policy but a boon to the senate’s deliberations on climate and energy with his belief that the Bureau of meteorology fakes data to pump up global warming hysteria. To be fair to Gerard, this mad claim is one of many circulated to all conservative candidates by our friendly IPA.
Of course there’s no real cessation of hostilities. ‘Our heroes don’t just belong to the past, they live with us today,’ claims ScoMo in Townsville, where he embraces coal-mining, the Coalition’s back to the future portal with its iconic anti-Greenie, Australia based around real heroes, big blokes digging up stuff in our glorious war on nature and science.
All is well, however, in Rupert Murdoch’s media monopoly where scribes quietly declare their man Morrison to be well in front of shifty Bill Shorten. Others give the Murdoch empire a pat on the back. Election campaign and Canberra bubble veteran, Michelle Grattan, opines,
“Morrison so far has more than held his own on the campaign trail; Bill Shorten has under-performed. Second, the Liberals’ relentlessly negative campaign looks dangerous for Labor. This is especially so as Shorten is facing the full weight of News Corp’s hostility.”
Grattan is articulating a key component of the upcoming federal election, the mainstream media narrative. The scorer, whom she awaits eagerly is of course News Poll. Expect a frenzy of adulation as “Morrison closes gap”. In truth, the News Poll may well be an outlier while Labor needs a uniform swing of just one per cent to win government. Pre-polling will open Monday and it’s clear that many voters have already made up their minds.
The Coalition’s hasty, flawed, last minute mining approvals are unlikely to provide the boost in popularity it seeks. If public opinion polls are any guide neither new mine is likely to win hearts and minds. Nor is it certain either will proceed if only on economic grounds and each could face a series of legal challenges over the approval process.
What is clear is that any political party that underestimates voters’ intelligence and common sense is in for a rude awakening. With three weeks until election day and still no sign of policies on energy, environment, education, the Coalition will have to do better than rely on bogus announceables, attacking Labor and lurid scare campaigns.
It’s not the economy, stupid, it’s climate change that matters most to the nation.
April 22, 2019 · 3 Comments ·
“In climate change, there will never be enough figures to satisfy the climate sceptics. If you don’t believe in the science of climate change, no amount of evidence will ever convince you because, fundamentally, it’s a stupid position not to take action,” Labor’s leader squelches a popular press narrative in Darwin Tuesday. The News Corp story is a “bait the left” stunt is that Labor’s emissions policy target will cost business $25 billion.
Bill-baiting starts Tuesday. 10 “News First” Jonathan Lea asks, “When can voters learn more about Labor’s emission reduction target, how you will get there and the cost to the economy?” Read their policy?
A “look at me” moment from a TV journalist, to engineer a sense of something at stake, says The Guardian’s Katharine Murphy who has her own thoughtful analysis of a policy which has been available since December.
It’s not perfect. Labor’s carbon trading raises questions. No carbon budget exists yet, given the hyper partisan state of our energy debate, but it’s way ahead of a Coalition driven by a group of climate change deniers.
Malcolm Turnbull helpfully enters the fray, swinging at ScoMo, his nemesis, Sunday, alleging that by dumping the national energy guarantee, (NEG) Scott Morrison’s captain’s recall will drive up electricity prices. Turnbull takes issue with a Daily Telegraph column by Sky News’ David Speers on the NEG and electricity prices.
Turnbull takes exception to Speers’ characterisation of the NEG as “Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee”. The NEG had support from cabinet and ScoMo. It is no longer policy only because of a “right wing minority” revolt in the party room: a few MPs threatened to cross the floor unless the NEG was dropped.
Disregarding the many flaws in the NEG, Turnbull argues, “The consequence is no integration of energy and climate policy, uncertainty continues to discourage investment with the consequence, as I have often warned, of both higher emissions and higher electricity prices.” In a parting shot at Labor, the former PM helpfully calculates Labor will have to find about $35 billion through carbon credits purchased offshore by 2030.
A small fraction of the economy would be affected, argues ANU economist, Professor Warwick McKibbin. The Morrison government policy to reduce carbon emissions would subtract about 0.4 per cent from the economy by 2030, he reckons, despite much criticism of Direct Action’s usefulness and Labor’s would do the same.
But long range forecasts are fraught. And why must cost dominate? William Richard Shorten remonstrates.
“This has been a 10-year torture on climate change, where the climate has got worse, the extreme weather events have got worse, and this government is still trying to delay and discourage.”
Australians are united on global warming. New research from The Australia Institute, puts the lie to myths of a North/South divide: most voters in all states and a majority across political allegiances want the government to mobilise all of society, “like they mobilised everyone during the world wars”, to tackle global warming.
Instead, the Coalition mobilises a scare campaign to panic electors. Labor will massively tax superannuation. Business will go bust with the extra costs of international carbon credits. Labor’s climate change policy is Carbon Tax 2.0 which will impose MASSIVE costs on Australians. Basic, diversionary tactics help it evade scrutiny of the $40 billion in spending cuts required to pay for the Coalition’s promised tax breaks.
The prospect of any cuts upsets the states. Treasurers in Victoria, Qld, WA, the ACT and the Northern Territory write to fledgling Federal Treasurer Frydenberg, this week asking him to “confirm that there will be no further funding cuts to hospitals, schools, infrastructure and other essential services that Australians rely on.”
Their letter points out that a $40 billion cut in spending “is more than the Commonwealth’s entire annual contribution to the states and territories for health ($22.8 billion) or education ($21.5 billion) in 2019-20”.
Along with its Kill Bill campaign and ScoMo’s nervous tic of naming Bill Shorten twice at least in every sentence, the Coalition attacks Labor’s electric vehicle target of 50% of all new car sales by 2030; a government fleet target of 50% by 2025 and 20% tax deductions for businesses purchasing electric vehicles (EVs) with witty retro word-play; Bill’s Car-Bon tax. Suddenly we’re back in 2013 with the Mad Monk Abbott.
Meanwhile, astonishingly, our accidental PM morphs into a clear communicator, admired for his consultative style by key stakeholders in an explosion of spin from his turd polishing unit which even has a piece on The BBC News website. Yet Scott Morrison cannot, so far, voice a single reason for toppling Turnbull. Instead he is photographed in business suit and RM Williams boots clod-hopping carrot fronds in Tasmania.
“What’s over there?”, he power-points, as all leaders must, on camera. “Carrots” says a minder. On a carrot farm? What will they think of next? Root vegetables deracinated, plant husbandry done, an honest tiller of the soil for a whole photo-op, hands dirty, ScoMo turns to ask reporters, “How shifty is Bill Shorten?” As he does.
ScoMo’s parody of John Cleese as Minister of Silly Walks may well win over a few Monty Python fans and those who warm to visual puns about carrot incentives and Easter Bunny (EB). But is it wise? EB’s role may be already taken by the lovely “Dutts” as Home Affairs’ Dutton is known to sycophants such as Hunt and Sukkar.
Peter Dutton is Labor’s Easter Bunny, their secret weapon, notes Paul Bongiorno in The Saturday Paper, who observes that Dutton’s abortive coup, (his numbers’ man Mathias Cormann botched the arithmetic), is a living reminder of the dysfunction and deep division that is today’s post-modern conservative Liberal Party. And a reminder of Morrison’s curiously confected legitimacy, his party’s antidote to having Dutton elected leader.
Dutton is toxic in Victoria, Labor research finds. He may even be the most unpopular Liberal politician in living memory, a keenly-contested title. ScoMo’s campaign stump in Deakin with local MP, Michael Sukkar, a Dutton numbers man, is briefly diverted when a wag hack asks whether the odium Victoria reserves for Morrison has anything to do with Sukkar’s judgement that “Peter Dutton should have been the leader of the Liberal Party?”
Luckily the government has campaign strategists and consultants CT Group to lead them onward; upward. There’s a bit of static about gorgeous George Christensen’s neglect of electoral duties in Dawson, QLD. “The Member for Manila”, as wags dub him, love-struck George spent seventy days each year, visiting April Asuncion, his fiancée in The Philippines for the last four years.
“He’s a human being,” David Littleproud offers a conjugal defence but Dawson voters may argue he’s their MP, first. At least his long-distance romance keeps him off the streets; away from Reclaim Australia Rallies.
On the streets, a Liberal Party advertising truck tools around Canberra, a city Walter Burley Griffin designed for “a country of bold democrats”. “Labor will tax you to death” its slogan runs, a hoax which invokes rumours on Fake-book, (bogus Facebook pages) that Labor will re-introduce death duties.
The legend mimics Conservative negative advertising in the UK in 2010, by Crosby-Textor (now CT group) whose fear-mongering and dead cat on the table diversions failed to deliver a Tory majority in 2017 or avert Turnbull’s 2016 near-disaster.
Yet, as Lizard of Oz, Sir Lynton Crosby and former Australian Liberal Party Director, knighted for frightening UK folk to vote for their neoliberal oppressors, famously opines, “you can’t fatten a pig on market day”.
Or by weighing it. Sadly CT group has its own problems to contend with; Mohammed Saderuddin Syed, 44 the firm’s former chief financial officer has recently been charged with defrauding the company of $850,000.
The dead-cat slogan on the truck simply betrays Morrison’s mob’s desperation. Even those inside the Canberra bubble, a no-go-zone which bubble-dweller, ScoMo, invokes to dodge questions, know the Coalition’s on the run from voters wanting policy on environment, climate change, energy, – anything -even a budget passed by parliament. Josh Frydenberg’s recent dodgy estimates will never appease our high priests, the economists.
Above all, voters have had a gutful of government profligacy, waste and the game of mates. Fourteen out of a flurry of 70 appointments to boards, statutory bodies and tribunals, and diplomatic postings in the last few weeks are former Liberal or National MPs, party executives or advisers to Coalition ministers, according to Guardian Australia analysis. No-one suggests corruption, but the practice does politicise government bodies.
Corruption’s stench does, however, waft up from water rorting in the Murray-Darling Basin, while Adani’s last-minute fake approval stinks; its water management plan is not endorsed by CSIRO, despite Price’s pretence.
The Australia Institute reports that “Minister Price was reportedly threatened by members of her own Government to approve the groundwater plan or face public calls for her to be sacked. The internal lobbying reportedly included Ministers Canavan and Dutton demanding answers of their colleague last week. Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow even flew to Canberra to push the case, having recently threatened to sue for damages if any restrictions were made to coal mining in Queensland.”
Adani still faces a number of other tests before it gains final approval from the Queensland government but the way the “approval” is rushed through, on the cusp of caretaker mode, raises serious concerns about the Morrison government’s regard for due process. It may also provide grounds for approval to be rescinded.
No-one was ever bluffed by Hunt’s Direct Action boondoggle. Now renamed “The Climate Solutions Fund”, it’s re-set to squander a $2 billion top-up paying farmers to plant trees they would have planted anyway, amongst other rorts, such as refurbishing Vales Point coal-fired power station. The move puts Australia at odds with The World Bank, the US and Europe, all of whom opposed using climate funds to retrofit coal power stations.
“If you were committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which the Australian government says it is committed to, this is just lunacy,” says Sean Kidney, CEO of London-based Climate Bonds Initiative.
“No investors in the western world will accept any green bonds that incentivise anything like coal station retrofits. From an investor’s perspective, coal is a dead duck.”
Nothing to see here, is the Morrison dead Mallard’s response. Every truck, bus and Vespa motor-scooter in Canberra should bear the legend. Foremost is the erupting scandal of Murray-Darling Basin scheme water buy-backs. Minister for Agriculture and Water Rorts, Barnaby Joyce, fulminated against buy-backs, whilst overseeing at least three big deals; $200 million for giant corporate irrigators such as Webster farming.
The Menindee Water Savings Project will fundamentally change the lives and livelihoods of all of the people in the Lower Darling Valley report The Australia Institute’s MaryAnne Slattery and Rod Campbell, September 2018. The Australian government has paid one large agribusiness $80m in compensation. No other stakeholder has received any compensation, instead they have all been made more vulnerable.
Pressure mounts for an inquiry. By Saturday, however, it’s go-low ScoMo who accuses William Richard Shorten of “throwing mud around” during the election campaign. Our own Watergate scandal is upon us thanks to research compiled by The Australia Institute and some assiduous detective work by investigative journalist Michael West. Channel 10’s, The Project’s Hamish Macdonald re-runs the story, which first broke a year ago.
The issue has been “raised before and has been addressed” says Scott Morrison whose much-lauded (by his own spin unit) clear communication style becomes cloudier the more he says; the longer his sentences extend.
“I understand the Senate inquired into the matter and sought production of documents from the government, regarding those transactions, which the government has provided,” he bull-shits before reaching for the buzz-words. “So, that strikes me there is a high level of transparency.” Expect more posturing and protestation but Labor has asked for an explanation by Monday 22 April. It’s a scandal unlikely to help Morrison’s campaign.
Nor is the Coalition’s war on climate change abatement. It is “malicious and stupid” snorts William Richard Shorten; as a reporter twits him about the cost of Labor’s carbon reduction policy on Thursday in Darwin, now another China One Belt One Road, port thanks to a Coalition financial management and security masterstroke.
In 2015, Adam Giles’ NT government leased the port for ninety years to Chinese-owned Landridge group for a mere $506 million. Andrew Robb, Former Trade Minister, who later became a star Landridge recruit, at $880,000 PA, promoted the lease and purchase of a controlling interest in port operations. It was a “powerful sign” of a commercial relationship through a free trade deal of his. Later he resigned from the firm when it did not seem to have much work from him to do. No suggestion is made that Robb acted with impropriety.
The deal did, however earned a protest from then US President Barack Obama who said he would at least have liked some prior notice. He should be so lucky. Even federal cabinet was not aware of the deal until hours before then-chief minister Adam Giles announced it publicly in November 2015. The $506 million is long spent.
Undeterred, News Corp hacks and flacks cackle gleefully at the prospect of beating up another great big new tax on everything fear campaign, praying that it’s 2013 all over again. As Darwin’s sale shows, only the Coalition, a party whose MPs have financial management in their DNA, according to fiscal wizard Tony Abbott can be trusted to propitiate our gods of the economy, free trade deals and security.
The Australian’s, Chris Mitchell, a flack with the Morrison incumbency’s propaganda arm, savages opponents of the Adani Carmichael Mine with environmental concerns. First, it is nowhere near the reef. The Galilee Basin is inland in sparsely settled, dry pastoral country. Adani’s coal will have to be railed 300km to the Abbott Point coal loader, which already services coal exporters from Bowen Basin fields 200km closer to the coast.
That settles that, then. Or does it? For James Bradley, in The Monthly, opening one more coalmine while allowing emissions to continue on their current path it is like locking our children in a burning house.
“Ecosystems around the world will collapse, wiping out most species of animals. Acidification and anoxia will devastate the oceans. Rising sea levels will destroy coastal areas, while heat and famine and cascading climate disasters will kill hundreds of millions. These are not outside possibilities. They are the inescapable and near-term outcomes of failing to reduce emissions. In the face of this reality, opening new coalmines is like locking our children in a burning house and throwing away the key.”
Divided, delusional and drowning in a Watergate scandal of its own making, the Morrison government is held by some news outfits to have “won” the first week of the campaign.
It’s a dubious claim that ignores vital evidence that voters see through the scaremongering, the nonsense about the prohibitive cost of acting responsibly on climate change – not to mention ScoMo’s Canberra bubble, his cone of silence, which is just Morrison’s update on refusing to speak on “on water” matters – a practice he began as Minister for Immigration and, later, Border Force, now a part of Dutton’s struggling super-ministry.
The phrase “on water matters” is particularly apt again now that a scandal is brewing around the rorting of water from the Murray-Darling Basin scheme that could help cause a Coalition election washout.
Seven flaws in the NEG from Environment Victoria
It is worse than doing nothing for our renewable energy industry.
It may give polluting coal generators an incentive to keep polluting for longer.
It is inconsistent with our Paris climate agreement commitments or stronger targets necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2°.
It concentrates market power with the ‘Big Three’ energy retailers (leading to higher electricity bills for consumers).
A major loophole – international offsets instead of domestic action.
It undermines state renewable energy and greenhouse pollution reduction targets.
It ignores the advice of the Chief Scientist and is a thought bubble with no economic modelling.
Coalition campaign launch a real shocker.
“Their end game is simply winning at all costs, even at the expense of decency, compassion, and principle”.
Former Liberal leader, Dr John Hewson, Professor at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy, on Coalition tactics.
Pledging “a fair go for those who have a go” , a triumph of self-righteous humbug; a vow to pull an aspirational nation up but only by its own bootstraps, and homage to upwardly mobile “Helloworld” lobbyist Joe Hockey’s fabulous lifters and leaners in one, cloth-eared, slogan, the Morrison government doesn’t even give itself a chance in this week’s spectacular self-abortive surprise launch of its five-week federal election campaign show, Thursday.
A bit of sniping from Point Piper doesn’t help. Mal Turnbull gives ScoMo a bollocking over Dutton’s random act of kindness in organising a special citizenship ceremony for the family of billionaire Huang Xiangmo, one of the Coalition’s keenest patrons. Dutton needs to pulled into line. It’s something Turnbull never could manage.
Although Huang was not granted citizenship, himself, given some Chinese whispers from ASIO spooks over the glad-handed tycoon’s links to China’s Communist Party, Turnbull tells Morrison to hold Dutton to account. Malcolm says he knows what it is to be Prime Minister and where the buck stops. He’s forgotten his own capture by the right wing and his secret undertaking to the Nationals to continue key Abbott policies.
But time wounds all heels. A joint investigation by Four Corners, The Age and SMH shows Dutton granting then-Labor senator Sam Dastyari approval to hold a ceremony for the family of Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo, reports the ABC. Turnbull is “concerned and troubled” by the story; the Prime Minister should take it seriously.
“(Dutton) is supposed to be the minister responsible for the domestic security of Australia, he is supposed to be the minister responsible for ensuring our politics is not influenced by foreign actors,” Turnbull nags, helpfully.
“Scott Morrison is the Prime Minister and you can’t wave this off and say that it is all part of gossip and of the bubble — this is the national security of Australia,” Turnbull wags his finger. The former PM, until ScoMo deposed him, draws a parallel with Sam Dastyari, who resigned over similar issues, in a “furore”. (Created by the Coalition.)
There’s also a bit of bother brewing in the deep north where a mob of mostly Queensland fossil-fools succumb to Adani madness, an affliction chronicled brilliantly by James Bradley in The Monthly. Those afflicted include Barnaby fanboy, Matt Canavan and “crazy as a jaybird” James McGrath who threatens to quit or get work experience environment minister, former Minerals Council of Australia shill, Melissa Price to resign.
What they want is Adani to be approved. It means a lot to their career prospects in a few QLD NLP electorates where climate change isn’t happening and where the lies that Adani will create thousands of jobs are believed. Canavan gets all fired up. Steams in to shirt front ScoMo, Thursday 11 April. It’s Adani approval or else.
Later he denies threatening to resign or that anyone is bullying Melissa Price to comply or resign – yet some letters are leaked, according to Barrie Cassidy on ABC Insiders, Sunday, which suggest that bullying may well have occurred.
Liberal senator, James McGrath is both a “fruit loop” and a “Tea Party extremist” to canny Doug Cameron, and a former Boris Johnson boffin. Jim, who also brags he got the scalps of Abbott and Turnbull – or at least helped in their political downfall, now threatens Price. She should resign. Unless she complies with his demand and approves Adani’s groundwater plan, the last hurdle before Queensland gives the final OK.
It’s an edifying glimpse into Coalition democracy at work and it quite puts the lie to any rumours of bullying. But who is former assistant minister, James McGrath, that he should wield such power? His 2013 entrance into the senate gives a fair clue.
Junkee’s James Colley makes a fair analogy. “If Clive Palmer, as the Tele suggested, came in like a wrecking ball, then James McGrath came in like a strange man who wasn’t quite finished shouting on the bus.”
McGrath’s maiden maunder is timely in the wake of Christchurch and as a clue to ScoMo’s woes. Early in his maiden speech, McGrath says,
“The ‘Hundred Years War against Tyranny’ continues today on three fronts: first of all Islamist fundamentalism intent on caliphates destroying Western civilisation, especially religious freedom; secondly, democratic governments restricting freedom of speech and association, betraying hundreds of years of liberty; and, finally, leftists delegitimising all views other than their own, especially in media and education.”
Typically, at such times of conflict, or brewing scandal, a Liberal PM could count on a hand from The Oz. Look over there! Bingo! Here’s a bit of rabid Labor-bashing.
Labor plans “to destroy the two core foundations of not just a modern economy but modernity itself and indeed civilisation” rants Liberal hack, Terry McCrann in Murdoch family rag The Australian, after bagging Shorten’s suits.
“I actually think this is my favourite Terry McCrann column ever,” tweets Labor Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen.
Labor leader, William Richard Shorten replies: “I don’t remember putting this in our Fair Go Action Plan.”
Your campaign launch and your leadership is in trouble when your opponents point and laugh at your propaganda organs. Or when the Oz publishes Matt Canavan’s tweeted selfie as he bites into an onion at the Brisbane markets, Sunday, messaging “not as bad as I thought”, a cunning plug for Abbott’s return, or faint praise for ScoMo’s pitch. By eerie coincidence, sacks of brown onions mysteriously pop up in Warringah as if in silent vigil to Abbott’s fall.
But the Coalition runs off the road with its scare campaign. Labor’s target of 50% of new vehicle sales being electric vehicles is soviet-style economics. It’s Pink Batts all over again (in reality, a successful programme trashed by Abbott and a compliant media). Worse, it’s the end of the weekend – (unlike the abolition of penalty rates).
Unfazed, Labor socialists even plan to inject tens of millions into the production of electric vehicles; revive Australia’s moribund manufacturing industry. Instead of coal-fired power? Whatever will they stoop to next?
Electric vehicles can’t tow a caravan? (Nonsense retorts Toyota, we have powerful electric utes in production.) A farrago of lies and ignorance simply invites derision – and an industry rebuke. Wheeling in Michaelia Cash, without her whiteboard but with all her illegal AWU baggage, however, takes the Coalition campaign beyond peak stupidity and into mind-blowing, lunatic absurdity.
“50% of tradies will lose their utes under Bill Shorten”, she rages.
How many? Only 50% of NEW car sales will be an electric target by 2030. Unless tradies trade-in their utes every year, it will affect less than half of them. Then there’s good news, electric utes and SUVs will soon hit the markets.
As The Blot Report, reports, “One of the current ute models developed in the US, the Rivian R1T, is expected to be on sale 2020… in three different versions, 105kWh, 135kWh and 180kWh, which will deliver a range of between 370 km and 650 km. Its payload is only 800 kg, it can tow 5 tonnes. Tesla also has an electric ute in production.”
“We are going to stand by our tradies and we are going to save their utes,” shrieks the Small Business Monster.
Yet Labor’s Great Ute Grab Scare of 2019 is abandoned, suddenly, when experts point out a range of fundamental flaws in Ms Cash’s case. This includes evidence that Josh Frydenberg, himself, was spruiking their virtues in January 2018. Where? You guessed it. The Australian, the one stop drop for every aspiring Coalition politician.
Since then, Josh has rocketed from Energy punching-bag to cadet-Treasurer despite lashing out at dinosaur colleagues, still behind the energy wheel. Josh even advocates electric car subsidies, predicting that “the critics will be the ones driving the vehicles in the next decade as part of a revolution taking place in the transport sector.”
We all expect ScoMo to go hard and go low but the fair go is first casualty of the campaign. Coalition rottweiler and Liberal leadership rival, Peter Dutton, slips his leash; attacking the honesty and integrity of Ali France, Labor candidate for his marginal seat of Dickson in Brisbane’s aspiring outer northern suburbs, accusing her of “using her disability as “an excuse” not to live in her electorate” causing the nation of the fair go to rightly cry foul.
Dutton digs in. “Voters are angry,” he tells Coalition propaganda unit and minder, The Australian. “A lot of people have raised this with me.” It’s the “people say” fallacy, a common evasion of responsibility and the rules of valid argument. It’s preferred by Donald Trump, a figure hugely admired by our PM, PHON and other local politicians.
Matthias Cormann, Dutton’s numbers klutz in last August’s Liberal leadership coup, rushes to defend his idol by implying that Dutton lacks all moral autonomy and must, therefore, publicly repeat others’ defamation.
“Well, Peter Dutton was expressing views which were put to him by his constituents who had expressed those concerns,” Cormann tells the press. “There are people with a disability [who] live across Dickson and people in his electorate have put [it] to him, … that they don’t accept the explanation that was offered, as a reason for his opponent not moving into the seat of Dickson.”
Relaying malicious hearsay with intent to impugn, defame or gain unfair advantage is unlikely to impress his opponent, or her party, or local voters, or our judiciary.
Nor did MPs echoing opinion impress conservative icon Edmund Burke in 1774. “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Morrison defends Dutton’s diatribe, which, he says, he hasn’t seen, despite Dutts rubbishing his own PM’s public views. Then, class act, ScoMo implies France is lying. “When Labor tell lies in this campaign, we’ll call them out.” Centrelink reversed the onus of proof for its clients; now you even have to prove your false leg is true.
Yet, ScoMo thunders “We have to establish a culture of respect for people living with disabilities and the families who support, love and care for them.” He proclaims a royal commission into abuse of disabled Australians. But his support for Dutton – and his snide insinuation that Ali France is a liar – makes him part of that abuse.
There’s not a wheel-chair accessible home for rent in Dickson, explains France. She’s forced to live six kilometres outside the upwardly mobile electorate. Dutton later tweets a delayed apology. By then, however, he’s torpedoed the campaign mainstay, the ritual ridicule, when Liberals finds black holes in Labor’s costings. Jeering, and finger wagging are cut short, however as Dutts fronts up with an apology – sort of.
Is it something Kristina Keneally says that triggers Dutts’ remorse? Saturday, The Labor senator says she is “gobsmacked” that Morrison has not called upon Dutton to apologise. Is he “afraid of Mr Dutton?” she asks.
“You cannot stand in the [Prime Minister’s] courtyard and shed a tear for people with a disability and then the very next week turn a blind eye to a low, despicable attack by Peter Dutton against Ali France,” Keneally protests.
She calls Dutton, “mean and despicable”, a “thug”, and the “most toxic man in the Liberal party”. To borrow a Duttonism, “many will view” Keneally’s counter-attack as showing admirable restraint and discernment but it’s a brave call nonetheless – especially given that “many will view” others in the Liberal Party as rival contenders.
It’s a public service. Open-minded voters can apply Keneally’s razor to assess any candidate’s despicable thuggery.
Or relative toxicity. ScoMo’s launch blows up in his face, upstaging the Liberals’ asinine slogan with their signature, baroque incompetence, policy nonsense, shonky costings and internecine division. A toey, Tony Abbott, in “diabolical trouble” according to senior Liberals, with party polling a twelve percent swing against him, goes solo.
Abbott tells a hundred electors in a Sky News Pub Test at the Harbord Beach Hotel in the beach-side suburb of Freshwater, a local watering-hole in well-heeled Warringah, that immigration is the big issue of the campaign.
“Oh fuck off! You’re a migrant, Tony”, a woman in the audience reminds her local member, forgoing the temptation to go low. Call the budgie-smuggler out for being a ten pound Pom? They’re all class in Warringah.
But is there unseemly haste in Morrison’s surprise election call? Is he desperate to get into caretaker mode before any further questions can be asked in Senate estimates about how it could approve Adani’s Carmichael mine 2.0, now a pared-down mini-mega mine, a mere 27.5 million tonnes output P.A. instead of the 60 million in its permit?
“We were framed”, imply CSIRO and Geoscience Australia who step back from the Coalition’s assertion that the agency has given the green light to Adani’s new, improved groundwater plan. There is no new plan. The CSIRO merely answered a narrow set of questions on some aspects of Adani’s water management plans.
CSIRO categorically did not give the whole project its approval, reports The Saturday Paper’s Karen Middleton. Worse, it did not see Adani’s revised plans until two days after it had answered the department’s few questions.
Yet the senate was due to question CSIRO executives Thursday night and officials of the department the following morning. Suddenly Scott Morrison breaks with tradition to pay a 7:00am to the Governor-General. By 8:29 am, half an hour before Senate Estimates Committee is due to begin he is able to prorogue the parliament.
Murdoch family newspapers already have the news the night before, given a scoop that appeals to Morrison’s twisted sense of giving the media a fair go. It’s a way of punishing those scribblers who criticise policy. It also undermines democracy, claims AFR’s Aaron Patrick, because it polarises media further; removing grounds for a policy debate in the centre. “Moderate voices are lost in a tribal war between conservatives and liberals.”
Patrick defines postmodern conservatism. So, too in a symbolic way does Morrison’s trip to the GG. ScoMo’s driver backs out the 3.6 tonne Prime Ministerial Limousine. The ScoMobile is one of a fleet of nine armoured, bullet-proof BMWs, ($500,000 plus per car) like ScoMo himself, an Abbott indulgence or fit of paranoid megalomania.
Top Ocker Morrison, Fair Dinkum Bloke, Pride of Sutherland Shire, is on his early morning secret mission to the residence of His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter John Cosgrove, Principal Knight and Chancellor of the Order of Australia, Military Cross, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia; Pete’s pad at Yarralumla.
Yarralumla means echo, a perfect fit for ScoMo’s Canberra bubble. The federal election is at last proclaimed for 18 May. It will be an Adani of an election, Adani is the coal warriors’ totem in our postmodern war between those determined to act to heed the realities of climate change and those who would retreat into the denialism of coal.
Adani is one a dozen key carbon bombs, identified a decade ago which will spew out enough carbon dioxide to make a safe environment impossible. Should emissions continue, writes James Bradley in The Monthly, they will cause four degrees or more of warming well before the end of the century. ”
“Ecosystems around the world will collapse, wiping out most species of animals. Acidification and anoxia will devastate the oceans. Rising sea levels will destroy coastal areas, while heat and famine and cascading climate disasters will kill hundreds of millions. These are not outside possibilities. They are the inescapable and near-term outcomes of failing to reduce emissions.
In the face of this reality, opening new coalmines is like locking our children in a burning house and throwing away the key.” Yet all our PM has to offer is a vacuous slogan about a fair go. He is gelignite putty in the coal lobby’s hands.
“I believe in a fair go for those who have a go,” Morrison proclaims outside his office Thursday morning. “And what that means is part of the promise that we all keep as Australians is that we make a contribution and don’t seek to take one.” Has he even begun to think about those who can’t “have a go”? His slogan is pernicious twaddle, a form of words which will lead to denying those of us in need as undeserving.
Borat impressionist, bingo-caller and a dab hand with a curry, our PM is a man of few parts and no interior or life of the mind but having worked for the Property Council early in his career he knows all about housing. In fact, there’s not much anyone can tell him.
Expect more nonsense about Labor’s grandfathered capital gearing causing property prices to plummet. There’ll be no admission of how over nearly six years’ flat wages growth has eroded each household’s standard of living.
The Morrison omnishambles even makes a hash of its formulaic set-piece, blowing their fake black hole deception by roping in an aggrieved Treasury. Having a flashback? John Fraser, who did little in Treasury except expunge all reference to climate change and take the department back to the (John) Stone age, was similarly put upon.
Bernard Keane reports “Treasury was regularly used to cost bastardised versions of Labor policies that were then dropped to News Corp stenographers as sensationalist “Labor $10 billion hole exposed” fictions.
Plus ça change … In June, 2018, Fraser made clear that Treasury wasn’t costing Labor’s policies, but what was fed them by Morrison’s office. Perhaps he was underwhelmed when ScoMo publicly snubbed Treasury on negative gearing, insisting he, personally, knew more about the experts on housing. We are at the mercy of ScoMo’s “own experience and understanding”, his faith, or his chutzpah or even just the vibe that guides every dud captain’s call.
Treasury Liberal Phil Gaetjens, a former chief of staff to Costello and Morrison, himself, who also has a seat on the Reserve Bank Board, says that Treasury wasn’t costing Opposition promises. It was just given sets of figures to add up. In other words, like the Minister for the Environment, he’s been conned. Or he’s conning us.
In brief, the new black hole is nonsense but as it quickly hardens – as it surely will- into campaign false narrative, by endless media repetition, it is vital to challenge. Labor’s taxes will never cost $387 bn; try $157 bn- that is, if you can set much credence on projected expenditure over ten to twelve years – an almost meaningless exercise.
The coalition’s election campaign is all over the auction – rather like Morrison’s dysfunctional government itself. The fair go slogan has been ruptured on the reality of Dutton’s cruelty to Ali France, aided and abetted by Scott Morrison himself who has not even tweeted an apology for calling her a liar.
The centrepiece of the black hole in Labor’s costings has been eclipsed by revelations from Treasury that the government has lied about its new figures being based on Treasury costings. The true figure is closer to $157 bn dollars over ten years, despite what the Coalition may try to tell you.
Above all, the Coalition is divided and under fire from two former PMs, each with their own agendas. What adds some semblance of coherence, finally, is based a series of lies. Adani has not received CSIRO approval for its water treatment plans. Nor will they be soon forthcoming. The Queensland government will need to see far more detail and evidence of practicality before it can even contemplate the process of final approval.
“This advice was limited to answering discrete inquiries on whether elements of Adani’s proposed plans would be adequate to protect nationally significant environmental assets,” says CSIRO’s executive director for environment, energy and water, Dr Peter Mayfield. Adani’s dreadful environmental record internationally offers little hope of this.
“In that advice, CSIRO had found a number of problems with Adani’s proposed groundwater plans and recommended changes. The environment department, which has the role of regulator, summarised and conveyed those concerns to Adani, which then undertook to make adjustments.”
So far, the department, with its bullied, inexperience Minister, Melissa Price inspires little confidence.
What is certain, however, is that before too soon, electric cars could be produced in Australia and before that the import of electric cars, buses, trucks and utes will bring us cleaner, quieter, cheaper transports of delight. Not only are both parties’ plans almost identical on electric vehicles, it will take more than a catastrophic coalition election campaign to impede their uptake. Yet the launch is a moral and ethical disaster.
Above all, Dutton’s attack on the integrity and honesty of Ali France reveals the vacuity of ScoMo’s fair go slogan and his Prime Minister’s failure to censure him an indictment of his leadership. To accuse a disabled woman of lying about her disability, moreover, plumbs new depths of cruelty and inhumanity.
There is no undoing the hurt, but Morrison and Dutton could start by making genuine apologies. The fair go nation will expect no less.
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Mary Ann Nuñez
Luis Crespo
Patty Vo
Cameo Cross
Joshua Sturgeon
Two Time winner of the US OPEN Swing Dance Championships in the Showcase Division. Inducted into the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame, World Swing Dance Hall of Fame and Legends of Swing. Three Time Feather Award and Three Time Dancers Choice Award winner. Has placed first in many Champion Level Jack n' Jill WC Swing competitions nationwide and has accumulated one of the highest female Jack n' Jill contestant points in the World Swing Dance Councils Competitors Registry.
Teaches Workshops Nationally & Internationally. Is a certified Golden State Dance Teachers Association Instructor.
Mary Ann and Benji — 1st place SwingDiego 2010
Luis and Patty Vo — ACC Showcase 2010
Luis and Courtney — 2011 Northern California
Luis and Taletha — U.S. Open Classic 2011
Luís Crespo is a competitive U.S. Open Swing Dance Champion in the West Coast Swing Community, and can be found teaching at various private dance studios, guest appearing at many workshops nationally and internationally, and on staff (as an instructor and judge) at numerous WSDC and NASDE sanctioned dance conventions. He also instructs and competes with a diverse, growing group of ProAm students of all levels around the nation helping them achieve their own personal goals with their dancing styles and accomplishments. He is originally from New York City (born and raised) and currently resides and teaches weekly group classes in Northern California (San Francisco Bay Area).
Luís began his journey in dance when he first learned traditional Ballroom and Latin working at the Fred Astaire Franchise in upper Manhattan in New York City. Shortly after he fell in love with Argentine Tango, he was introduced to West Coast Swing. It was through West Coast Swing, he discovered a true understanding for musicality and connection between partners in dancing.
After going to an actual West Coast Swing dance, I realized that the people who were dancing it really well, actually were “dancing” to the music and not dancing through “patterns” as much. This was what attracted me the most to the dance, the fact that you are actually able to “dance” as opposed to just move through patterns. Don't get me wrong, though, I still love and continue to dance the Waltz and Foxtrot, as well as Salsa, Cha-Cha, etc. I just feel that I am most expressive when I'm dancing West Coast style swing.
On the competitive West Coast Swing circuit, Luís has earned multiple placements in both Jack n' Jills and Strictly Swings, as well as, routine divisions. Most notably are:
3 Time Top Male Pro — Monterey Swingfest
1st Place — U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships 2002 — Strictly Swing
3rd Place — U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships 2009 — Showcase Division
2nd Place — Swing Dance America 2009 – Classic Division
2nd Place — 4th of July Greater Phoenix Swing Dance Club Champion of Champions 2011 – Jack n' Jill Division
1st Place - Mountain Magic 2011 - Showtime Cabaret Division
Throughout the years, people have come to recognize Luís’ smooth, crisp, sharp style, which comes from his very diverse background of movement carried from Argentine Tango to his break dancing days in the Bronx. With over 250,000 YouTube views and counting, Luís continues to inspire, teach, and make his mark in the West Coast Swing community, showing all his students and colleagues that “if you’re not dancing, you’re wasting your feet!”
Patty and Jake — ACC Classic
Patty and Kyle — Reno Dance Sensation
Patty is one of the most creative and dynamic dancers around and is becoming known for her unique style of dance. She is considered one of the top female West Coast Swing Dancers on the scene. Through her versatility she is able to mesh her unique styles of dance to create a distinctive style of her own.
Based in Northern California, she travels internationally, teaching, competing, performing, coaching, and judging at dance events across the globe.
Her most recent placements at national events are:
1st Place — 2012 Americas Classic
1st Place — 2011 Tampa Bay Classic
1st Place — 2010 Liberty Swing Dance Event
1st Place — 2010 Dallas Dance Event
2nd Place— 2010 Grand Nationals (Showcase Division West Coast Swing)
2nd Place — 2010 Capital Swing National Dance Event (Classic Division)
2nd Place — 2010 ACC Nationals
Barry and Patty — 2010 Showcase 1st Place
Barry and Kellese — Chicago Classic
Barry and Katie — Dallas Dance
Barry Jones has 4 U.S. Open titles, three being from the Showcase Division. Barry has been very instrumental in the development of several dance communities, most notably Tulsa, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Dallas. The mayor of St Louis Missouri bestowed a great honor of declaring April 5, 1996 “Barry Jones Day” for his work in training and working with the youth in swing dancing.
He was honored and inducted into the National Swing Dance Hall of Fame in 2006 at the US Open. He won the Feather Award both as Best Showcase, and Classic Couple also capturing the Best Choreographer Award at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles California. He has won every award that possibility could be given and he continues to share his many years’ experience for the growth of West Coast Swing.
He has been well respected and sought out National judge including the US Open for several years. He has recently come out of retirement with now partner, Patty Vo, where they just captured 1st place in the Showcase Division at Liberty Swing, 1st place in Showcase Division at Dallas Dance and 1st place Showcase Division at Tampa Bay Classic.
Not only is he known for his coaching abilities and working with new swing dancers, but also his workshops are always fun and full of knowledge and energy. He brings valuable experience in the west coast and has been instrumental in the development of the dance. His judging and coaching experience brings very important knowledge to dancers both in Jack and Jill’s, and couple divisions.
Barry is also a Event promoter where and partner Johnny Siharath had a successful first year event called the VIP and Westie Awards in Burbank, CA.. also they are in their third year with the successful event called “The Challenge”. He continues to promote the WC Swing dance by putting on workshop weekend in the Texas area.
His experience in all facets of the community is valuable when working any event along with the energy and great attitude he also brings in the ballroom and workshop classes.
Cameo and Nicholas — US Open 2011
Cameo and Benji — City of Angels 2012
Cameo and Kyle — 1st Place SDC 2011
Cameo is a recent graduate of The University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance. She has just moved to Chicago to further pursue her dance career and is currently apprenticing with River North Chicago Dance Company.
From a very young age, Cameo has been exposed to dance. Her parents, Michael and Amber Cross, are National Swing Champions and are still teaching and choreographing today in Phoenix, Arizona. As a child she traveled the swing circuit with them and soon won her own title of National Junior Swing Champion in 1996.
Currently Cameo is competing All-Star on the national swing circuit and has many Jack and Jill wins. Along with training in west coast swing, Cameo has trained for many years in ballet, pointe, jazz, modern and tap. She spent 10 years studying under the direction of Sharon Meko, Artistic Director of Ballet Etudes in Mesa, AZ.
In February 2009, Cameo had the opportunity of a lifetime to dance the role of Odette in the second act of Swan Lake, which was performed at the University of Arizona.
Along with performing, Cameo is also skilled in choreography and teaching in multiple styles of dance. Most recently she has been a part in choreographing for Wii and Kinect dance video games.
Joshua began his life of partner dancing when he walked into a country bar on his 21st birthday. He was instantly hooked and found himself country dancing five nights per week. But soon, that wasn’t enough. He migrated to ballroom where he spent a few years competing and teaching for the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Boise, Idaho. He then moved back to Seattle where he got heavily involved in salsa. He spent the next two years dancing, teaching, traveling, and performing with the prestigious Salsa Salvaje dance troupe. After dabbling in multiple forms of dancing for 12 years, he decided that WCS would be his home. Why WCS? In his words, “WCS is all about dancing with this partner to this song in this moment. Every dance time you dance WCS, it’s a unique experience.”
In 2010, Joshua decided to get serious about WCS, at which point he won 5 out of his first 6 competitions. Since that time, he has been steadily rising through the WCS ranks. He is now a competitive Allstar dancer and this year he will put his 3rd routine on the floor in the Classic division with his up-and-coming partner, Lindsey Nastos.
Joshua has a reputation for being a very attentive partner on the social floor. He says, “anyone is worthy of my best three minutes.” He is also known for the unique style he brings to the floor. Robert Royston says of him, “He is the perfect combination of what’s new about swing, and then what’s kinda retro-cool about swing... He’s like Usher meets Sinatra.”
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Personal security alarms for the prevention of assaults against healthcare staff
The review was led and conducted by Chloe Perkins, Phil Edwards and Deirdre Beecher in the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, assisted by David Colas Aberg and Nick Tilley from the Jill Dando Institute for Security and Crime Science at UCL.
The Crime Survey of England and Wales (2014-2015) found health and social care associate professionals to be the occupational group most at risk of violence after those working in protective services, such as police officers. Over six per cent of health and social care professionals, which include most nurses, suffered one or more incident of violence at work in 2015-6. Personal security alarms comprise one measure to try to reduce violence against healthcare staff.
A 2003 report from the National Audit Office identified a variety of security measures in place across NHS trusts. Panic alarm systems were used in 85% of trusts and were therefore, selected as the focus of this review. A Health & Safety Commission report* outlined three types of alarm system all of which would be eligible for inclusion in the review:
Panic button systems are part of an internal alert system, which often comprise hardwired buttons placed in locations where there is a high risk of violence or linked portable attack devices. Their activation triggers an alarm on a monitoring console.
Personal security alarms range from simple 'shriek' devices, designed to shock or disorientate an attacker to give victims time to get away, to a component in a monitored system (as above).
Complex personal alarm systems include personal alarms linked to fixed detection systems e.g. by radio or infra-red. Components may include panic buttons (linked to switch board and/or police) and portable personal devices (linked to central system with location information).
Alarms are seldom the sole means used to try to prevent violence against staff in healthcare settings. The contexts in which alarms are employed differ widely in terms, for example, of the other violence prevention methods in use, clinical specialism, whether lone working is a factor, and the population served. This review targeted all studies that examined the use of any personal alarm interventions that were implemented to address the risks of violence and assault. The focus was primarily on studies relevant to NHS or healthcare setting, although evaluations of alarms used in other occupational settings were not excluded.
This review is the fourteenth in a series of systematic reviews to be delivered by the Commissioned Partnership Programme.
A research protocol has been included below.
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*Commission HaS. 2nd ed.Violence and aggression to staff in health services: guidance on assessment and management. Norwich: 1997.
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By Stephanie Bergeron Kinch, Wi-Fi NOW Staff Writer
The Downtown Boulder Foundation in Colorado recently received a public Wi-Fi facelift thanks to a grant from Google.
Google, which opened up a $131 million campus in Boulder last year, gave $261,000 to the foundation to update public Wi-Fi in the center of town. That means a greater coverage area, better equipment, and a more satisfying user experience throughout the downtown area.
Google ups its Wi-Fi Game
Google is a big player in community Internet projects. In July, the company announced that it was partnering with three Kenyan Telcos to launch commercial operations for internet-beaming balloons in the country. In Thailand and Nigeria, Google Station is expected to roll out 200 free Wi-Fi hotspots in 2019. The company’s Rolling Study Halls program also provides Wi-Fi to school buses across the United States.
In Boulder, Google gave the tech-centered city’s Downtown Boulder Foundation a grant to strengthen and expand the Pearl Street Wi-Fi Network, which is located in a lively part of the city with many outdoor cafes, shops, and foot traffic. The free network covers 12 blocks of downtown Boulder.
“Google wanted to thank the community and give back to us,” says Terri Takata- Smith, VP of Marketing and Partnerships for the Downtown Boulder Partnership. “It was perfect timing because our system needed an upgrade.”
Boulder’s early adaption
Boulder has long been known as a tech and innovation hub. The city has the highest “high-tech startup density” of any metro area in the U.S., according to the August 2013 Kauffmann Foundation Report. Bloomberg BusinessWeek also cited Boulder’s many natural and economic assets and declared it a “top U.S. destination for new tech companies largely because of a bottom-up revolution by entrepreneurs.” The new Google Boulder campus has 2,000 employees, primarily in the company’s cloud and hardware units.
Because of all this innovation, Takata-Smith says that reliable Wi-Fi access is essential for the downtown area – and the numbers show that Boulder is making it happen. In the first month since this recent expansion, the new Wi-fi system had 29,000 users who logged in from the sidewalks of Pearl Street, also called “The Living Room of Boulder.”
The Pearl Street Wi-Fi network is available for free, with users able to sign on via a splash page. Takata-Smith says that while users will see a landing page featuring local events, no personal data is captured and the system ad-free.
“We’re trying to make it non-obtrusive in terms of gathering data,” she says. “The benefit for us is to have a really strong outdoor network for our residents and visitors.”
In 2004, Downtown Boulder launched its first public outdoor Wi-Fi project using a Cisco Meraki equipment that covered four blocks.
“We were an early adapter to offer it, but it was on an antiquated system. It was very temperamental to outdoor issues,” says Takata-Smith.
The project has since expanded twice with the help of smart city tech consultants from Sky Packets. The recent expansion included a deployment of two WiFi radio types to maximize the coverage along Pearl Street. In the walking mall area, where there is a lot of foot traffic area, there are two Ruckus T610 WiFi APs. For areas outside the mall, which have a mixed-use of pedestrian walkways and vehicular traffic, the Ruckus T310 is used.
“Combining these two types of radios allow us to hit the heavy pedestrian traffic areas with Ruckus’ high-density AP’s and still provide excellent performance and thruput on the regular streets by implementing the T310,” says Sky Packet CEO Henry Quintin.
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Have you seen this Kickstarter? Feb. 2018
By Tekkaman-James
Kickstarter and its generous community have brought the video gaming world some top-notch entertainment over the last few years. Games like Divinity: Original Sin 2, Undertale, and Shovel Knight might never have seen the light of day without the support of gamers like you and me. However, with the success of games like these, there are literally hundreds of people trying to make their game ideas a reality. While high profile campaigns like Banner Saga 3, Battle Princess Madelyn and Pathfinder: Kingmaker need little or no introduction, there are some truly brilliant gems hiding among the sea of copyright-infringing remakes and people simply looking for handouts. With this monthly series of articles, I hope to shed some light on a few of the diamonds-in-the-rough that need support from people like you.
Here are five such potential games-to-be whose campaigns are ending in the month of February 2018:
AVARIAvs
Imagine an entire planet that is populated by creatures completely devoid of emotion, the cold and immortal Eoni. This might sound like a nightmare scenario, but their is a reason for this species’ aversion to feeling anything. In this world, emotions have a direct impact on the planet, its inhabitants and the ecosystem. A sense of passion might cause a massive explosion while a feeling of greed could unleash a deadly plague. Still, emotions are hard to ignore. Any Eoni that develops an emotion transforms into a Hume and loses their immortality in the process. The Hume, knowing the threat these feelings impose, have lived subserviently under the rule of the Eoni…until now.
At it’s core, AVARIAvs is a turn-based RPG that focuses on player-vs-player combat. You will be able to create a 3-person team whose skills and abilities will be measured against another player’s 3-person team in a fight to the death. You’ll have access to 16 different characters each representing one of four main classes. Each class has 40 different abilities to choose from. Additionally, every character has two available archetypes to choose from which will dictate their ultimate move, equipment and stat placement. Altogether, this allows for over 2,000 unique party combinations that you can create and encounter in online or split-screen offline matches.
As of this article going live, there is just under two weeks to show your support. So far, they have collected about two-thirds of their minimum goal. Back the campaign by just $15 to get a copy of the full version at release. Giving more will grant you extra digital rewards such as Beta access and the game’s soundtrack along with physical goodies like pins, t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts! The team are currently aiming for release in August of this year. At launch, the game will be available via Steam or DRM-Free for Windows and Mac users. Stretch goals could also add home console and mobile phone ports, so spread the word if you’d prefer one of those platforms!
Genesis Noir
Astrophysicists agree that our known universe came into being 13.8 billion years ago as the result of a massive event known as the Big Bang. This awesome force that created all that we can see was brought about when an incredibly dense mass rapidly rose in temperature. What scientists don’t know is what came before that event. For all we know, maybe that mass was originally an evocative jazz singer and that sudden heat was actually a gunshot she suffered from a crazed fan. Maybe there is a down-to-earth street musician who saw it all go down. Maybe he has the power to stop that from occurring. Doing so would mean that our entire reality would never come to pass. If you were that man, would you stop it anyway?
Genesis Noir is a visually striking puzzle game with an emphasis on art and exploration. It takes the classic film noir genre and uses it to tell a story about the birth of the universe. Since the laws of physics and time didn’t exist prior to the Big Bang, you will be able to move backwards, forwards and sideways through the events leading to the death of the jazz singer. Interesting riddles and games will need to be solved to alter each moment. Objectives will vary widely including things like improvising a jazz duet, planting seeds to change the layout of future locations or even destroying stars. When you can interact with everything from entire solar systems to the smallest microscopic objects, where does it end…or begin?
With two weeks remaining, the campaign is about halfway to their goal. With good momentum, they should be able to reach it. Early bird tiers are sold out, but you can still get a copy of the game for only a $15 contribution. If you’re feeling generous, extras such as stickers, pins and an interactive art book can be yours as well. Stretch goals include working on a prequel story, side missions, and a second playable character. The developers are aiming to have the project finished around December of 2019. Upon release, the game will be available through Steam and DRM-Free on itch.io and Humble for Windows and Mac.
Vulpine
We originally covered this project back in our September 2016 article. The campaign was unable to reach its goal, but the team at Clockwork Giant had been hard at work on the game regardless. Now, they have returned to Kickstarter with a more solid vision, enhanced visuals and refined gameplay. If you’re unfamiliar, Vulpine is set in a world inhabited only by animals. Some cataclysmic event took place long ago that wiped out all of humanity. Nature has reclaimed the land and the roles of predator and prey have been upended as wildlife has started utilizing tools and weaponry. It’s truly a dog-eat-dog world except that the dogs are now wielding axes.
In this open-world adventure game, you will be able to choose to play as six (or more) different animals. The species are divided into three sizes; small, medium and large. Each size has it’s own benefits and drawbacks as well as unique types of weapons to wield. You will be tasked with exploring a large, procedurally-generated world made up of a variety of biomes. Many secrets will be waiting to be discovered and many more threats will be there to challenge you at every step. Each enemy you defeat can be scavenged for resources you can use to upgrade your gear. If the world seems too big for you to traverse alone, join up with your friends online and tackle large threats and quests with up to 32 people!
The campaign is pacing very well with over three-fourths of their minimum goal and about two and a half weeks to go. With that said, they have some awesome stretch goals like adding more playable animals and even porting the game to home consoles! Get yourself a copy of the game for as little as $15 or loosen your purse strings to unlock additional items like Beta access, a digital soundtrack and even resin miniatures of the six playable animal races! There are even some social goals to add red pandas and customizable fur patterns! The game will be released around April of 2019 via Steam for PC, Mac and Linux. With enough support, this could also include PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Cerebrawl
Life can seem pretty bland and boring at times, can’t it? One day, a powerful weapon called the Imagination Bomb is detonated in the middle of Harmon City guaranteeing that life will never be uninteresting ever again. The bomb causes everyone caught in the blast to suddenly have all of their wildest dreams (and nightmares) to become reality. With whole worlds suddenly popping into being, Harmon City starts to burst at the seams. These new realities will need to assert their dominance in order to ensure a foothold in the new version of the world that is taking shape. Tension and aggression are high as these new lifeforms fight to stay alive. What will Harmon City look like tomorrow? It’s literally anyone’s guess.
Cerebrawl is a colorful, fast-paced 2D fighting game in the same vein as the first two Marvel vs Capcom games. The main gameplay mode will be 4-player 2v2 matches where each team has one fighter active at a time with the benched player able to call their fighter in for a variety of combo-enhancing or combo-breaking assists. Using these assists will expending some of the special meter that both players share, so you will need to work together to avoid needlessly deleting that gauge. For a more traditional experience, there will also be a 2-player 2v2 option. All of the character sprites are being hand-drawn and will feature a cast of over-the-top fighters like a witch, a knight and a track-and-field runner. Check out the demo on the campaign page!
There is just over three weeks remaining, but this ambitious project has a long way to go towards its $278K goal. Contribute now and tell all your professional fighting game champion friends to do the same. Early bird tiers are still available that will get you a digital copy for just $19 which includes the soundtrack. Get rewarded for larger donations with physical prizes like pins, shirts, body pillows and even an original animation cell from the production! The development team are aiming for release around February of 2019. At launch, the game will be available on Steam for Windows PCs. Stretch goals could also allow for home console ports as well.
Perfect Tides
Teenage life is hard. You are just starting to learn about the world and what your role in it is. It’s a time of sexual awakening, experimentation and self-discovery. Who you end up becoming is formed during this time and you’ll probably have your first encounter with Love. Our story is set in the year 2000 and revolves around Mara, a young girl who lives on an island just off the mainland. It’s easy to feel alone when you’re a teen, but imagine your home being a ghost town for nine months out of the year. As such, Mara has formed many of her lasting relationships online. Summer is quickly approaching and it is shaping up to be the most pivotal point in Mara’s life so far.
Perfect Tides is a traditional point-and-click adventure game that focuses on Mara’s life and her interactions with her family and friends across her expansive island home. The narrative will take place over the course of an entire year. As Mara, you will be able to freely roam the island, find and utilize items, and solve puzzles. Each season, as well as day and night, will present their own secrets to uncover. All the while you will get to know Mara’s innermost thoughts, fears and aspirations. Visually, the world is depicted in classic pixel art with characters designed and story written by Meredith Gran, creator of the long-running web comic Octopus Pie.
This campaign is off to a great start with about one-third of their funding goal already raised and three and a half weeks to earn the rest. With a consistent pace and your support, this project should easily hit its goal. A digital copy of the game will cost you $25, but also includes a PDF prequel comic and a hand-written “Thank You” postcard from Meredith herself. Generous backers will be able to acquire a t-shirt, a boxed copy of the game and even a chance to be included as a character in the story! The team are estimating the launch window for October of 2019. At that time, the game will be available via Steam and DRM-Free for Windows PCs. Stretch goals are planned to include the addition of a Mac version as well.
Of the games I featured in December, only The Ballad Singer was fortunate enough to reach its funding goal! Sadly, this means that Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story, Du Lac & Fey: Dance of Death, Raji: An Ancient Epic and Choreo: Legend of Loco were not as lucky. Fortunately, all four of these development teams are pushing forward in spite of these defeats. If any of these projects relaunch on Kickstarter, I will be sure to let you know.
On a positive note, a wonderful tactical RPG that I featured back in October 2016 has finally been released! If you are one of those people who have been itching for another Advanced Wars game, you might want to give Tiny Metal a try. Pick up a copy of the game on Steam, Switch or PS4 right now!
Did any of these games strike your fancy? Let us know in the comments or on social media! And, as always, until next month, happy gaming!
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Brief impressions: Canjam London 2017
By flinkenick on July 20, 2017 Brief Impressions, Company & Product Launches, News
This year’s Canjam London was my second, and seemed to be a resounding success. An impressive list of manufacturers signed up, which inspired a large crowd to show up. It was pleasantly busy, without feeling crowded.
Smyth Realiser
So I started Saturday off with what, in my opinion, was the highlight of the show: the Smyth Realiser. The Realiser required advanced sign-up, as the technology needs to be calibrated as well as experienced in a secluded room. The Realiser is a fairly new technology designed to recreate the spatial sound coming from a surround sound speaker setup in a particular room. What this basically means, is that the technology allows you to experience sound in a headphone, almost identically as if it were coming from speakers all around and above you. A 3D listening experience if you will, that accomplishes this with an almost scary accuracy. To achieve this experience, the session begins with the insertion of two microphones in the ears. Next, test tones are produced from the speakers to the front and the side, followed by similar measurements with the headphone on.
The result is nothing short of spectacular. After calibration, the tones produced in the headphone (a Stax I believe) seem to come from the speakers you can visually see around you. It’s a fully 3D experience, which mimics the tones actually being produced by the speakers, even when coming from above and behind you. When I heard the tones in the headphones, even fully knowing they where being produced in the headphone, I needed to regularly check whether they weren’t actually coming from the speakers – it works that well. Even when you move your head, the sound cues continuously come from the same direction, as a sensor tracks the motion of your head. While the technology’s main application seems to be geared more towards film, gaming, and virtual reality, the realistic and precise recreation was a pure delight for audio enthusiasts. It provides a whole new meaning to the definition of soundstage, especially in terms of external realism.
IEMS
Over the last year, interesting new technologies have emerged for iems. Shure’s KSE1500 has been around for a while, but more recently Audeze added a lineup of planar iems, while 64 Audio introduced TIA technology in their flagships. Starting off with the Audeze i4, an impressive all-rounder that seemed to do a lot right. Its bass is not only punchy with a very nice quantity leaning towards the fun side of things, the mid-bass is highly resolved as well. Truly a quality bass, both in terms of fun and performance. While its midrange and vocals were lightly warm, smooth, and pleasing, the focus of its upper mids seemed geared towards clarity. The treble in turn displayed an extraordinary performance, sounding articulate, detailed, and very quick – an ethereal feel, that felt like it was offering something different than the traditional BA or DD designs. It had a nice touch of sparkle, and sounded very transparent. In addition, its stage felt spacious in all directions, and its separation was excellent. There was a nice body to the sound, without sounding overly thick. As one remark, the tuning of the upper mids gave me the feeling Audeze was making too hard an effort to position it as a neutral tuning, rather than going for a natural signature in line with their house sound. I would have preferred to see if the upper mids were just slightly warmer, to benefit the coherency of the signature. However, as a whole package, the Audeze i4 is an impressive and unique addition to the upper tier iems, combining both a neutral and fun signature with very special treble.
Much like the i4, 64 Audio’s TIA Fourte has a unique presentation, which sets it aside from the herd. Its dynamic driven bass bares close resemblance to that of two other top tier dynamic drivers, the RE2000 and Dita Dream. A nice rounded feel, but tight, punchy, and a slight decay. Even so, its quantity was fairly neutral. But the Fourte’s speciality is undoubtedly its stage, and the way it creates its air and space. This is partially due to its open TIA drivers, but also its midrange tuning. By creating a leaner body of vocals, the open and three-dimensional stage feels especially large. In addition, the Fourte’s midrange and treble both sound fast, and highly resolved. The result is a unique listening experience, with excellent separation and definition. The Fourte seems to pair better with the WM1Z than my AK, despite a trade-off of performance for a more even presentation in terms of note and vocal size. When compared to the A18, the A18 has larger bass quantity, and a quicker decay. The A18’s stage is wider, although the Fourte’s is deeper, and accordingly more three-dimensional. In addition, the A18 has more body in its midrange, with more forward and larger vocals. While both have excellent resolution, I would give the edge to the Fourte. In sum, the Fourte provides a more unique, hi-fi experience due to its speed, resolution and stage; nevertheless, some might find the A18’s signature more engaging due to its bass and midrange.
In addition, I briefly tested the KSE1500. Shure’s electrostat driver provided possibly the best sub-bass I have heard so far in an iem, being incredibly precise and well-extended, really a bass you can sense driving the rhythm in the background, without ever becoming overpowering. Even so, its overall quantity is fairly neutral, with an emphasis on sub-bass rather than mid-bass. It’s a tight and controlled bass, resulting in a clean stage. However, as a result, the signature isn’t particularly warm, although its timbre was nevertheless fairly accurate. The midrange itself is tuned with a 3 KHz bump, which seems to be a close reflection of the ideal Harmon curve. By specifically bumping the 3 KHz range, it creates a slightly forward but leaner vocal presentation. Personally, I prefer a wider 2-3 KHz bump, resulting in a larger, denser, and what I personally consider, a more engaging vocal reproduction; a tuning that many ‘traditional’ BA flagships opt for. But one might argue that this is preference, shaped by my personal reference points.
Dunu has established their name by bringing quality sound to a wide audience due to their affordable pricing, and have recently started looking upwards. The DN-2000j provided a high level of detail with a brighter tuning, but their new 3+1 hybrid flagship DK-3001 provides a more serious tuning with nice body in its sound and a fairly neutral signature, as well as a bodied bass down below from its single dynamic driver. The DN-2002 on the other hand is their smoother offering in a 2+2 hybrid configuration, which provides a warmer sound at the cost of some of its transparency and detail compared to the DK-3001.
Westone’s new flagship ciem, the ES80, is a precise monitor that creates a clean and highly resolved sound by means of its excellent top-end extension, combined with a smooth and warm albeit somewhat leaner sound. Westone has been always known for their warm and smooth house sound, so I was equally curious to their universal flagship, the W80 that uses similar drivers. The W80 has a beautiful vocal reproduction, full-bodied with a pleasing warm tone. In addition, its low-end provides a nice bit of power and warmth to the signature. Even so, the upper midrange and treble is surprisingly close to neutral with a nice touch of sparkle, rather than being overpowered by the warmth of the bass. While the W80 has an easy-going signature, the upper mid tuning gives the W80 a nice musical touch, and I found it quite enjoyable.
Empire Ears brought along a few prototypes, which were variations of a similar driver configuration. The prototype seemed to be tuned with a traditional 1-3 KHz bump in its midrange, providing Empire Ears’ trademark vocal performance reminiscent of Zeus-XIV. Vocals sounded clear with good transparency, while a lift in its treble provided a touch of sparkle, as well as an overall fairly neutral tuning in terms of tone. However, these particular models differentiated themselves from the previous Empire Ears’ lineup by means of their powerful and full-bodied low-end. As a result, the prototype combined a versatile signature, with an engaging low-end. Between the two models, one sounded more neutral and clear, while the other seemed a bit warmer and smoother.
Finally, the Beyerdynamic Xelento was a nice surprise as a single dynamic driver combining a natural signature with nice dynamic driven bass. While its bass was punchy with a very nice quantity, the bass never overpowered the signature. The midrange was warm, and seemed to be tuned with an upper mid peak followed by a lower treble dip. It’s a tuning that provides a nice touch of clarity and sparkle, yet with a natural sound. It kind of reminded me of a DD version of Lime Ears Aether. A nice option for a solid all-rounder in this price range, that’s very easy to listen to.
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David lucena on November 9, 2017 9:08 am
Hello! Nice reading. I’m also a neuroscientist and love audio. Do you think hugo2 as a dac is better than Sony nwmw1z also as dac.
I know their amp are very different, but I’m searching about their sound quality.
flinkenick on November 9, 2017 9:52 am
Hi David! Well if we look at just the sound, not the fact that the 1Z is a standalone dap and the Hugo 2 a transportable amp/dac that needs input, I prefer the tone of the Hugo 2 over the Sony. The Hugo 2 is close to neutral, but very melodious and musical. The 1Z on the other hand is decisively warmer and darker, with laid-back treble. It’s also a very mature, audiophile tuning, and works especially well with brighter iems/Hps, making them sound more accurate in timbre.
Clarence on July 29, 2017 5:33 pm
How do you compare SP1000 SS to Hugo 2?
Which one do you find more musical and fun to listen to?
flinkenick on July 30, 2017 12:02 am
Personally, I found the Hugo 2 to have the more pleasing tone, and being the more musical of the two. I listened to them both twice briefly, and the Hugo 2 immediately impressed, where I struggled with the SP1000. It sounded powerful and resolved, but didn’t come across as completely coherent to me.
chopstix2112 on July 22, 2017 10:02 am
good to hear your impressions of the Beyer xelento.
\.I have the AK version: t8ie mkii….got ’em for us$585 shipped..
.looking forward to them when I receive them.
flinkenick on July 26, 2017 9:19 am
Hope you enjoy them, the Xelento was very nice!
CL Chan on August 30, 2017 5:33 am
beyerdynamic, campfire vega-lyra 2 and the dita answer truth or dream…thoughts of how they differ?
The Xelento is an easy-going, lightly warm and natural sound. Vega is all about big sub-bass impact, and the full sound resulting from the overall enhanced sound; a thick sound. Dream on the other hand is the analytic, highly detailed one. So these three are pretty different. Haven’t heard the others.
CL on August 30, 2017 6:59 am
cool thanks and keep up the great work!
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Business Insider – It takes $1.7 million to get your kid into an elite college, according to rich people – Abby Jackson 11/28
Clearly this is not the only, or even necessarily the best way. But some people take it to this level.
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“But for wealthy families, the costs start long before that very first college-tuition payment, according to Town & Country.”
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“The 2017 version tallied to an eye-popping $1.7 million per child. The analysis aimed to show how wealthy families approach the competition to get their kids into the Ivy League.”
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FT – Uber accused of running secret competitive intelligence unit – Chloe Cornish and Leslie Hook 11/28
“Judge says ride-hailing group withheld evidence in Waymo trial.”
FT – Venezuela accused of ‘systematic’ abuse of prisoners – Gideon Long 11/28
“Human Rights Watch says severity of crackdown under Maduro is unprecedented.”
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A Teachable Moment – Rage Against The Fee Machine – Anthony Isola 11/27
CNBC – Chance of US stock market correction now at 70 percent: Vanguard Group – Eric Rosenbaum 11/27
“Don’t panic, but there is now a 70% chance of a U.S. stock market correction, according to research conducted by fund giant Vanguard Group. There is always the risk of a correction in stocks, but the Vanguard research shows that the current probability is 30% higher than what has been typical over the past six decades.”
“‘It’s about having reasonable expectations,’ Davis (Joe Davis, Vanguard chief economist) said of the research, which attempts to provide investors with a view of what can occur in the markets in the next five years. ‘Having a 10% negative return in the U.S. market in a calendar year [within a five-year forward period] has happened 40% of the time since 1960. That goes with the territory of being a stock investor.’ He added, ‘It’s unreasonable to expect rates of returns, which exceeded our own bullish forecast from 2010, to continue.'”
“In its annual economic and investing outlook published last week, Vanguard told investors to expect no better than 4% to 6% returns from stocks in the next five years, its least bullish outlook since the post-financial crisis recovery began.”
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FT – Made in China – the world energy market of the future – Nick Butler 11/26
FT – Let the 5G battles begin – Rana Foroohar 11/26
FT – HNA planned 2012 bond deal shows tolerance for expensive debt – Robert Smith 11/26
FT – Venezuela stakes claim as Schrodinger’s cat of the debt world – Jonathan Wheatley 11/27
Pragmatic Capitalism – How to Manage an Asset Price Mania (Like Bitcoin) – Cullen Roche 11/27
“One of the main reasons why millions of people jump on investment manias and get crushed by them is because of a simple Fear Of Missing Out. Your co-worker made $10,000 investing in Fidget Spinners and now you feel like you weren’t enough of a dumbass with your dumbass money so you invest your dumbass money in something that is truly for dumbasses and you lose your (dumb) ass.”
The Registry – Murder on the Retail Express? – John McNellis 11/28
Fast Company – Cord-cutting is speeding up: Here’s how many people ditched cable TV this quarter 11/15
I’m sure this number would be higher if people had heard of YouTube TV…
Bloomberg Quint – SoftBank Is Said to Seek Uber Stock at $48 Billion Valuation – Eric Newcomer 11/28
FT – Saudi crown prince pledges to rid world of Islamist terror – Simeon Kerr 11/26
“Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has pledged to rid the world of Islamist terrorism as he launched a military alliance that critics fear will deepen rifts between the kingdom and its arch-rival Iran.”
“Prince Mohammed has vowed to restore moderate Islam in the kingdom, where puritanical strains of the faith that encouraged violence have been promoted for decades. The launch of the alliance follows Friday’s jihadist attack on a mosque in Egypt that left more than 300 people dead. ‘The greatest danger of extremist terrorism is in distorting the reputation of our tolerant religion,’ the prince said.”
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“One of Europe’s leading energy consultancies has estimated that Tesla’s electric haulage truck will require the same energy as up to 4,000 homes to recharge, calculations that raise questions over the project’s viability.”
“The US electric carmaker unveiled a battery-powered lorry earlier this month, promising haulage drivers they could add 400 miles of charge in as little as 30 minutes using a new ‘megacharger’ to be made by the company.”
“John Feddersen, chief executive of Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy set up in 2013 by a group of Oxford university professors, said the power required for the megacharger to fill a battery in that amount of time would be 1,600 kilowatts.”
“That is the equivalent of providing 3,000-4,000 ‘average’ houses, he told a London conference last week, ten times as powerful as Tesla’s current network of ‘superchargers’ for its electric cars.”
Bloomberg Technology – Telsa’s Newest Promises Break the Laws of Batteries – Tom Randall and John Lippert 11/24
“Elon Musk touted ranges and charging times that don’t compute with the current physics and economics of batteries.”
NYT – If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy – Kevin Quealy 7/5
“Just 36% got it right.”
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“Dispelling misconceptions about what’s driving income inequality in the U.S.”
WSJ – Samsung’s Tumble Sounds a Warning for Tech Stocks – Jacky Wong 11/27
“The fall in Samsung shares Monday followed a mild analyst report – a sign of the market’s current high state of nervousness.”
Zero Hedge – Demographic Dysphoria: Swiss Village Offers Families Over $70,000 To Live There 11/25
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FT – In charts: how US retailers fared as Amazon powered ahead – John Authers and Lauren Leatherby 11/22
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“’London is a two-tier market right now—the Asian investors and everybody else,’ said Joe Valente, head of research and strategy of European real estate at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, adding that the firm is waiting for the prices to fall before entering the market again.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: FRED – Commercial and Industrial Loan Growth 11/27
Visual Capitalist – Visualizing the Journey to $10,000 Bitcoin – Jeff Desjardins 11/27
FT – ICO regulation inconsistent as cryptocurrency bubble fears grow – Caroline Binham 11/23
“US scrutiny of cryptocurrency offerings could mean criminal penalties are looming.”
WSJ – Mugabe’s Reign Ushered In Zimbabwe’s Economic Decline – Matina Stevis-Gridneff 11/22
FT – Alibaba’s finance arm bans high-interest consumer loans – Gabriel Wildau 11/23
WSJ – Beijing is Making Its Most Serious Effort Yet to Tackle Its Financial-System Issues – Anjani Trivedi 11/27
FT – Corporate Japan hit by severe labor shortages – Robin Harding 11/26
“Japanese companies are scouring the country for workers and offering more attractive permanent contracts as they struggle to overcome the worst labor shortages in 40 years.”
“Companies across a range of sectors — from construction to aged care — have warned in recent days that a lack of staff is starting to hit their business.”
“The hiring difficulties highlight Japan’s declining population and the strength of its economy after five years of economic stimulus under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.”
“’Delays to construction projects are becoming chronic,’ said Motohiro Nagashima, president of Toli Corporation, one of Japan’s biggest makers of floor coverings.”
“One way companies are tackling shortages is by offering more generous permanent contracts, which provide job security and pension benefits. That policy has broken a decades-long trend towards more part-time and contract work.”
“The way companies are responding — using every means other than wage increases — suggests that shortages will not yet turn into higher inflation.”
“Irregular work has risen relentlessly from about 19% of total employment when Japan’s bubble burst in 1990, to a peak of 37.9% in 2015.”
“But there are now signs of stabilization, with the percentage of irregular staff falling to 37.4% in the third quarter of this year.”
FT – Saudi elite start handing over funds in corruption crackdown – Simeon Kerr 11/24
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NYT – Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last – Thomas Friedman 11/23
NYT – Where Brexit Hurts: The Nurses and Doctors Leaving London – Katrin Bennhold 11/21
Vanity Fair – The End of the Social Era Can’t Come Soon Enough – Nick Bilton 11/23
Investment News – Nontraded REITs to post worst sales since 2002 – Bruce Kelly 11/21
“Sales of nontraded real estate investment trusts are headed for their worst year since 2002, with the industry on track to raise just $4.4 billion in equity in 2017, about $100,000 less than a year earlier, according to data from Robert A. Stanger & Co.”
“Making matters worse for the industry is that one newcomer to selling nontraded REITs, The Blackstone Group, has the highest sales for the year to date through September. Blackstone had almost $1.4 billion in sales with its new REIT, the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, over the first nine months of the year, according to Stanger.”
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In addition to an accounting scandal at industry behemoth, American Realty Capital (ARC), new securities rules have hurt sales.
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Investment News – Nontraded BDC (Business Development Companies) sales in worst year since 2010 – Bruce Kelly 11/22
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WSJ – A Decade After the Crisis, King Dollar Is the World’s Tyrant – Jon Sindreu and Mike Bird 11/26
“Many economists have long predicted an end to the dollar reign that was established after World War II, especially after President Richard Nixon unpegged the greenback from gold in 1971. The creation of the euro in 1999 and the breakneck growth of the Chinese economy led many analysts to say the dollar would need to share the limelight.”
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“A one-currency dominance challenges economic models that see global financial markets as a flat surface where, on average, investors shouldn’t be better or worse off depending on which currency they trade.”
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“Cargo theft in Rio de Janeiro, whose greater metropolitan area has a population of 12m people, has increased sharply from 5,890 incidents in 2014 at the start of the economic downturn to a record 9,862 last year, says the local industry association Firjan. The state is on track to top a similar number this year, with food, beverages, electronic appliances and cigarettes among the preferred targets.”
“According to a 2017 report by the Inter-American Development Bank, crime and the efforts to combat it cost Brazil some $120bn a year, three times the toll on Mexico, which is ravaged by drug-cartel violence.“
Is this what happens when a society becomes too unequal? Politicians play their hand at their ability to regulate with intent to collect personal payoffs – graft becomes endemic – the people go on a corruption hunt – political infrastructure suffers – basic services decline – theft and looting become common place. I would imagine that the walls around the wealthy compounds are getting higher with more armed guards.
Filed under: Bike Sharing, Brazil, Brexit, Britain, Cryptocurrencies, Nontraded BDCs, Nontraded REITs, Saudi Arabia, Shipping, Social Media, US Dollar
WSJ – Daily Shot: Moody’s – Higher Ed & Not For Profit Debt Rating Changes 11/19
“College debt continues to get downgraded. Some suggest that this could become a severe problem if the economy slows (colleges are no longer able to raise tuition at the rate they used to). Will we see colleges consolidating or even going under?”
WSJ – Google Has Picked an Answer for You – Too Bad It’s Often Wrong – Jack Nicas 11/16
FT – Can journalists ever regain Americans’ trust? – Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson 11/16
“According to Gallup, Americans’ trust in mass media peaked at 72% in 1976, the year All The President’s Men hit cinemas. By last year, that figure had plunged to 32% — just 14% among Republicans.”
“America is not unique in this, but in few countries are views of journalists more defined by party allegiance and in no other has a president so weaponized that mistrust.”
“A Politico/Morning Consult poll in October found 46% of Americans believe news organizations fabricate Trump stories, and more than three quarters of Republicans think we are making it up. Far more Americans now define ‘fake news’ as sloppy or biased reporting than White House spin.”
“Knowing the consequences my colleagues and I would face if we fabricated a story, I find such polls baffling and alarming. It is tempting to quibble with the methodology or even to despair of those who don’t understand how we work. But it feels more important to examine how we became so vulnerable to the ‘fake news’ charge.”
FT – US trade problems begin at home not abroad – Rana Foroohar 11/19
FT – China’s growth miracle has run out of steam – Michael Pettis 11/19
“Beijing must reveal the true level of GDP and wasted investment.”
FT – Lex in depth: Hammond’s housebuilding budget fix will not repair market – Jonathan Eley 11/19
“What if a lack of homes is not the real problem.”
WSJ – How to Spot a Market Top – Ken Brown 11/19
“The issue isn’t whether the market will crash, it is how much money investors will make, or lose, in the coming years. With cash sloshing around the global financial system, prices can go higher, but investors who buy at those prices shouldn’t expect their returns to match those earned in the past few years.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Bitcoin 11/19
FT – Left behind: can anyone save the towns the economy forgot? – Sarah O’Connor 11/15
“Soaring antidepressant usage, falling life expectancy: Blackpool embodies much of what is going wrong on the fringes of Britain.”
Bloomberg Businessweek – Patient Deaths Show Darker Side of Modern Chinese Medicine – Hui Li 11/2
Filed under: Britain, China, Cryptocurrencies, Debt, Education, Google, Investment Management, Journalism
VC – Walmart Nation: Mapping the Largest Employers in the U.S. – Jeff Desjardins 11/17
NYT – A Great Migration From Puerto Rico Is Set to Transform Orlando – Lizette Alvarez 11/17
“More than 168,000 people have flown or sailed out of Puerto Rico to Florida since the hurricane, landing at airports in Orlando, Miami and Tampa, and the port in Fort Lauderdale. Nearly half are arriving in Orlando, where they are tapping their networks of family and friends. An additional 100,000 are booked on flights to Orlando through Dec. 31, county officials said. Large numbers are also settling in the Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach areas.”
“With so many arriving so abruptly, the migration is expected to transform Orlando, a city that has already become a stronghold of Puerto Ricans, many of them fleeing the island’s economic crisis in recent years. The Puerto Rican population of Florida has exploded from 479,000 in 2000 to well over one million today, according to the Pew Research Center, with the better part settling in Orlando.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Moody’s – Global Demographic Shifts 11/17
A Teachable Moment – If You Are Reading This, You Already Won the Genetic Lottery – Anthony Isola 11/16
A Teachable Moment – 6 Ways to Foil a Financial Predator – Dina Isola 11/17
CNBC – Homeownership doesn’t build wealth, study finds – Diana Olick 11/16
Essentially, depends where you live and how disciplined you are with your savings. Further, if you live in a part of the world where home price appreciation has lagged, there is value in having flexibility to move to parts of the country where it hasn’t (which of course further builds on that trend).
FT – Donald Trump’s silence over Roy Moore speaks volumes – Edward Luce 11/16
“…Then there is the evangelical vote. Mr Trump appears single-handedly to have changed their moral position. In 2011, 70% of white evangelicals said bad private behavior should disqualify an individual from public office, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. That had dropped to just 28% last year. It is perhaps the most astonishing sea change among any group of voters in recent years. It is also a good example of ‘negative partisanship’ — no matter how bad your candidate might be, he or she could not possibly be worse than the other party’s.”
FT – Prepare to bet against bitcoin as it becomes civilized – Gillian Tett 11/16
“If the cryptocurrency ceases to be a ringfenced product, the normal rules of investing will apply.”
NYT – Middle-Class Families Confront Soaring Health Insurance Costs – Robert Pear 11/16
WSJ – Upbeat Moody’s Misses the Mark on India – Anjani Trivedi 11/17
“Ratings company’s upgrade is its first in more than a decade, but still looks premature.”
FT – Investors sue Monte dei Paschi over cancelled bonds – Rachel Sanderson, Robert Smith, and Thomas Hale 11/16
Bloomberg – China’s Outbound Investment Plunges as Irrational Deals Curbed – Jeff Kearns and Jessica Sui 11/15
WSJ – Daily Shot: China 5yr AAA Average Corporate Bond Yield 11/16
FT – China tightens rules on asset management to rein in risky lending – Tom Mitchell 11/17
“China’s central bank outlined sweeping new regulations aimed at curbing financial risk in the asset management industry on Friday, in the latest signal of its determination to rein in the country’s runaway shadow banking sector.”
“The new rules, affecting $15tn of asset-management products, are aimed at unifying regulatory practices across the financial industry and will come into force in June. They will prohibit asset managers from promising investors a guaranteed rate of return, while also requiring them to set aside 10% of the management fees they collect for provisioning purposes.”
“Fears about the potential impact of regulatory tightening have contributed to a recent spike in Chinese sovereign bond yields, with the China 10-years rising through 4% this week for the first time since 2014.”
“On Thursday the PBoC injected almost $50bn into the financial system to calm investor fears, its largest intervention in almost a year. But Friday’s regulations indicated that Mr Xi’s administration will not back away from the more stringent approach it has adopted towards risk management.”
“In a party congress speech last month that marked the beginning of his second five-year term in office, Mr Xi indicated that his administration was prepared to accept lower rates of economic growth in order to defuse financial risks.”
“In August the International Monetary Fund warned that non-financial sector debt was poised to exceed 290% of GDP by 2022, compared with 235% at the end of last year.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Venezuelan Household Purchasing Power 11/17
FT – Exodus the only answer for thousands of Venezuelans – Gideon Long and John Paul Rathbone 11/17
Filed under: China, Cryptocurrencies, Demographics, India, Monte dei Paschi, Puerto Rico, Real Estate, Venezuela, Wal-Mart
WSJ – Leonardo da Vinci Painting ‘Salvator Mundi’ Smashes Records With $450.3 Million Sale – Kelly Crow 11/16
“Leonardo da Vinci’s rediscovered portrait of Jesus Christ sold at auction for $450.3 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.”
“The estimate for the work was around $100 million. But before Wednesday night’s sale in New York, dealers had wagered the image of an enigmatic Christ dressed in a blue robe and holding a crystal orb could sell for far more—given that da Vinci is a household name, fewer than 20 of his paintings survive and this is the last one deemed by him in private hands.”
“The price more than doubled the $179.4 million spent two years ago for Pablo Picasso’s 1955 ‘Women of Algiers (Version O),’ as well as an earlier record of $170.4 million for Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917-18 ‘Reclining Nude.’ In private sales, paintings by Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin have commanded as much as $250 million and $300 million, respectively.”
“Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s postwar and contemporary art department, fielded the winning telephone bid after a 19-minute bidding war with at least five rivals in which bids were initially lobbed in $10 million increments. Billionaire collectors in the saleroom watched with their cellphone cameras held aloft as though they were at a rock concert.”
“’I’ve been going to auctions for decades, and I’ve never heard that room let out a collective gasp like they did when it sold,’ said Joanne Heyler, founding director of the Broad, a Los Angeles museum. ‘It’s hard for me to even comprehend that level of bidding.’”
“’Salvator Mundi’ isn’t instantly recognizable, like da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ or ‘Mona Lisa.’ This painting was considered a plum for its rarity. Auction records show only a trio of da Vinci’s 2,500 drawings have ever even come up for sale—the highest fetched $11.4 million in 2001—and no authenticated paintings have entered the market in at least a century.”
“Da Vinci painted the portrait around 1500, and it bounced among European royals for hundreds of years before shoddy cleaning efforts and overpainting rendered it almost unrecognizable.”
“When it surfaced in 1958 at Sotheby’s, it sold as a ‘school of da Vinci’ work for only £45 (about $125 at the time). But in 2005 a group of Old Master dealers and a conservator took a closer look and campaigned for its reauthentication. Ultimately, they won validation from museums and da Vinci scholars.”
“’Salvator Mundi’ comes from the collection of Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian fertilizer billionaire.”
Bloomberg – Billionaires Stunned as Da Vinci’s Christ Sells for $450 Million – Katya Kazakina 11/16
More information on the seller. Rybolovlev purchased the painting for $127.5 million in 2013, part of his $2 billion art collection. Which he has been in the process of trimming.
WSJ – Daily Shot: RadioFreeEurope – Where Do IS Foreign Fighters Come From 11/16
Economist – The rich get richer, and millennials miss out 11/16
“Buoyant financial markets meant that global wealth rose by 6.4% in the 12 months to June, the fastest pace since 2012. And the ranks of the rich expanded again, with 2.3m new millionaires added to the total, according to the Credit Suisse Research Institute’s global wealth report.”
“The report underlines the sharp divide between the wealthy and the rest. If the world’s wealth were divided equally, each household would have $56,540. Instead, the top 1% own more than half of all global wealth. The median wealth per household is just $3,582; if you own more than that, you are in the richest 50% of the world’s population.”
“America continues to dominate the ranks of millionaires with 43% of the global total. Both Japan and Britain had fewer dollar millionaires than they did in June 2016, thanks to declines in the yen and sterling. Emerging economies have been catching up in the millionaire stakes; they now have 8.4% of the global total, up from 2.7% in 2000.”
“In the 12 months covered by the report, the biggest proportionate gains in wealth occurred in Poland, Israel and South Africa, thanks to a combination of stock market and currency gains. Egypt is by far the biggest loser, having lost almost half its wealth in dollar terms. Switzerland is still the country with the highest mean and median wealth per person.”
“There is a wide generational gap: millennials (those who reached adulthood in the current millennium) have a lot of catching up to do in the wealth stakes. Americans currently aged between 30 and 39 years of age are calculated to have amassed 46% less wealth on average in 2017 than the equivalent cohort had gathered in 2007.”
“Higher student debts and the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder have made it harder for millennials to build a nest-egg. That disparity might come back to bite the baby-boomer generation, who are fast moving into retirement. When baby-boomers want to cash in their assets, they may find millennials can’t afford to buy them at current prices.”
A Teachable Moment – Insanely Expensive Life Insurance – Anthony Isola 11/15
Civil Beat – Here’s What It Really Takes To Survive in Hawaii – Neal Milner 11/16
“Hate them if you must, but homelessness, vacation rentals and unlicensed care homes are natural responses to problems plaguing the islands.”
FT – The Zuckerberg delusion – Edward Luce 11/15
“Talking about values has the collateral benefit of avoiding talking about wealth.”
NYT – Deception and Ruses Fill the Toolkit of Investigators Used by Weinstein – Matthew Goldstein and William Rashbaum 11/15
WSJ – Daily Shot: Moody’s – Housing Market Valuations 11/16
And there it goes again.
WSJ – The Music Industry’s New Gatekeepers – Neil Shah 11/15
“Playlist professionals have replaced radio DJs as the new power brokers, as streaming services’ ready-made song lists become hitmakers.”
Reuters – Beijing hits brakes on subway boom over debt concerns – Brenda Goh 11/14
“China has been in the grips of a metro-building binge with more than 50 cities working on over 1 trillion yuan ($150.8 billion) worth of projects, after population restrictions were loosened last year to allow more cities to have metro systems.”
“Such infrastructure spending has helped to shore up economic growth but is now being scrutinized more closely after the government pledged to clamp down on financial risks.”
“China has hit the brakes on subway projects in at least three cities and Beijing is asking others to slow down their plans, local governments and media have reported, indicating concerns over high debt from city-level infrastructure spending.”
FT – China’s laid-off workers pose daunting welfare challenge – Emily Feng 11/15
“Early retirement for 1.8m in coal and steel sectors imposes heavy burden on state.”
Bloomberg – A Dud Diwali For Developers This Year – Purva Chitnis 11/16
“Developers hoping for a Diwali revival were left disappointed. Enquiries surged to their highest since demonetization during the festival season. Sales didn’t.”
“Fewer apartments were sold in the top eight cities in the quarter ended September, according to property research company PropEquity. Sales declined 13-60% in the three months, according to its data. Sales haven’t picked up since January even as initial cash crunch after the note ban began to ease. New launches that contribute the bulk of the demand plunged as well.”
“The housing market continues to hurt from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to outlaw old high-value bills and a new housing law. Demonetization had hit real estate the hardest as buyers had to pay up to 40% cash upfront – unaccounted. The Real Estate Regulation Act that followed protects customers against false promises and bars builders from shifting funds from one project to another (a good thing). A combination of the two triggered a cash crunch, bringing down demand and new launches.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Topdown Charts – Japan Labor Force Participation 65yrs and older 11/16
Filed under: Art, China, Cryptocurrencies, Hawaii, India, Inequality, ISIS, Japan, Music Industry, Real Estate
If you were only to read one thing…
FT – S&P says Venezuela is in default on sovereign debt – Edward White and Hudson Lockett 11/13
“Standard & Poor’s has declared that Venezuela is in default after it missed two interest payments and following a meeting in Caracas that left investors with little notion of how a default on its $60bn debt pile can be avoided.”
“S&P, which is the first rating agency to say the country is in default, said on Tuesday that Caracas had failed to make $200m in coupon payments for global bonds due in 2019 and 2024 within the 30-calendar-day grace period.”
“The agency said it had downgraded the issue ratings on those bonds to D from CC and cut the country’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to selective default, or SD, from CC.”
“’Our CreditWatch negative reflects our opinion that there is a one-in-two chance that Venezuela could default again within the next three months,’ said S&P.”
Bloomberg – Trump Is Shattering His Own Tweet Records – Brandon Kochkodin 11/13
FT – India’s Ambanis top Asia family rich list – Kiran Stacey 11/14
WSJ – Daily Shot: Credit Suisse – Global Wealth Report 11-14
Bloomberg – Yale’s Swensen Sees Low Volatility as ‘Profoundly Troubling’ – Janet Lorin and Christine Harper 11/14
Bloomberg Businessweek – The Global Economy Looks Good for 2018 (Unless Somebody Does Something Dumb) – Peter Coy 11/2
WSJ – AB InBev Switches U.S. Boss as It Struggles With Sales Slump – Jennifer Maloney 11/13
CNBC – Millennials lose taste for dining out, get blamed for puzzling restaurant trend – Patti Domm 11/14
WSJ – Small IPOs Are Dying. That’s Good – James Mackintosh 11/13
Investment News – Cole Capital, once part of a company coveted by Nicholas Schorsch, is being sold – Bruce Kelly 11/13
iea – World Energy Outlook 2017 – Global shifts in the energy system 11/14
“Bitcoin has bounced off the lows but remains volatile.”
FT – Sweden’s big banks call an end to decades-long housing boom – Martin Arnold and Richard Milne 11/13
“Sweden’s decades-long housing market boom is over, two of the country’s bank bosses admit, while trying to reassure investors that their institutions will not suffer a painful hangover of defaults even if the cheap mortgage-fueled party is finished.”
“Swedish house prices have been red hot, rising almost 6% a year on average since 2007, while a surge in household indebtedness from 1.2 to 1.6 times disposable income has attracted intense scrutiny from regulators.”
“Swedish house prices fell 1.5% in September, the first decline for several years, reflecting the impact of measures introduced by regulators to constrain riskier mortgage lending as well as a recent increase in the supply of new homes.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Bank of Japan Balance Sheet as % of GDP 11/14
FT – Russia agrees to restructure $3.2bn of Venezuelan debt held by Moscow – Henry Foy 11/15
WSJ – The Class of 1994, Venezuela’s Golden Generation, Is Fleeing the Country – Ryan Dube 11/14
More than “…two million…Venezuelans…have left the country since 1999, the year Mr. Chavez gained power, according to Tomas Paez, a Venezuelan immigration expert. That exodus is roughly twice the number who fled Cuba in the two decades after the revolution there, and is set to worsen.”
WSJ – Default in Venezuela: What’s Next – Julie Wernau 11/14
“Venezuela has been falling behind on debt payments in its prolonged economic crisis. Some payments have come late. Others haven’t arrived at all. The South American country has said it wants to restructure its remaining debt, which analysts put as high as $150 billion. But observers say Venezuela’s debt crisis could be one of the most complicated in history.”
“Cash-strapped Venezuela and its state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, have been putting off making interest payments on their debt, taking advantage of 30-day grace periods to save money.”
FT – Venezuela: what happens now after official default – Robin Wigglesworth 11/14
“The most likely outcome, investors and analysts say, is a protracted period of financial limbo with a restructuring precluded by US sanctions and Venezuela facing a barrage of lawsuits that will tie it up for years to come.”
Filed under: AB InBev, Cryptocurrencies, Energy, Investment Management, Japan, Markets, Real Estate, Sweden, Venezuela, Wealth
NYT – China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home – Paul Mozur 11/8
Another example of how easy it is to manipulate people. Seemingly the spread of the internet was meant to give people access to factual information to make better decisions and to be better informed. Rather it seems that while more information is available, the habit of selection bias has only amplified.
FT – Does the oil market expect a new Mideast war? – Nick Butler 11/12
“The oil price has risen by almost 20% over the last four weeks. Does anything in the market justify such an increase, or is the change driven simply by speculation about the dangers of a direct conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran?”
“The real explanation for the rise in prices clearly lies not in the physical balance of supply and demand but in speculation. Once again traders have been bidding up prices on the basis of fears about what could happen next.”
“An open conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran would expose numerous oil fields and installations on both sides of the Gulf to attack. The Straits of Hormuz are still a potential choke point for the global flow of oil. Some 17m barrels a day – almost a quarter of world traded oil – goes through the straits.”
“War would be an illogical step, but since when has logic been the ruling force in the Middle East? If the risk of conflict recedes so will the oil price – there is nothing in the fundamentals to justify a price much over $50 or $55 a barrel. But if open war between the two major Gulf powers did break out the price rise we have seen so far would look trivial.”
FT – The tax reform the US really needs – Rana Foroohar 11/12
“America’s taxation system is fundamentally unsuited to the digital economy.”
FT – Saudi Arabia confronts legacy of corruption – Ahmed Al Omran and Simeon Kerr 11/12
“When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke to his nation six months ago, he pledged to crack down on corruption. ‘I assure you that nobody who is involved in corruption will escape, regardless if he was minister or a prince or anyone,’ he said.”
“But few people could have expected the sudden storm this month when a new anti-graft committee ordered the arrest of more than 200 suspects, including princes, prominent businessmen and former senior officials, on allegations related to at least $100bn in corruption.”
“The arrest of so many big names has been hailed within the country as proof ‘no one is above the law’. But others have raised questions about the motivations behind a probe that also targeted a member of the royal family once seen as a contender for the throne.”
“Executives estimate that anywhere between 10% and 25% of the value of government contracts is routinely skimmed, with the proceeds used to fund lavish regal lifestyles, channel money to loyal tribes and grease the palms of favored functionaries. ‘This is how the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has balanced power historically,’ said one executive.”
“While fully eliminating corruption is unlikely, experts say limiting the presence of princes in government could help. King Salman has significantly decreased the number of family members in cabinet — today only the ministers of defense, the interior and the national guard are royals.”
“Some suggest that, even if corruption by the royals continues, the crackdown could still bring important dividends.”
“’Centralized corruption is better because you have one rent-seeker on top.’ said Steffen Hertog, an expert on Saudi political economy at the London School of Economics. ‘That actor has an interest in keeping the whole system efficient and stable, and keeping it from collapsing.’”
WSJ – SoftBank’s Uber Deal Shows Doubts About Ride-Hailing – Jacky Wong 11/13
Bloomberg Quint – Bitcoin’s Roller-Coaster Ride Cuts $38 Billion Before Reversal – Justina Lee and Yuji Nakamura 11/13
“After plunging as much as 29% from a record high following the cancellation of a technology upgrade on Nov. 8, the largest cryptocurrency came roaring back in early trading Monday before fluctuating between gains and losses.”
“While multiple reasons are being cited for the price volatility, one of the more viable is that some investors are switching to alternative coins. Bitcoin cash, an offshoot of bitcoin that includes many of the technical upgrades being debated by developers, has more than doubled in the same period.”
“The resulting volatility has been extreme even by bitcoin’s wild standards and comes amid growing interest in cryptocurrencies among regulators, banks and fund managers. While skeptics have called its rapid advance a bubble, the asset has become too big for many on Wall Street to ignore. Even after shrinking as much as $38 billion since Nov. 8, bitcoin boasts a market value of about $110 billion.”
WSJ – Daily Shot: Homeownership and Apartment Vacancy Rates by US Region 11/12
WSJ – ETF Heyday Is No Bonanza for Wall Street – Asjylyn Loder 11/6
Environment / Science
FT – China recovery pushes greenhouse emissions to global record – Tobias Buck and Lucy Hornby 11/13
“Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world’s efforts to curb climate change.”
“A new report by the Global Carbon Project, an international research consortium, predicts that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry will rise 2% this year. The report was released at the UN climate change meeting in Bonn on Monday.”
“The increase — which is largely caused by China and developing countries — suggests the world is straying further from the course set at the landmark UN conference in Paris two years ago.”
“This year’s rise is especially disappointing as it follows three years of almost no growth in emissions despite a world economy expanding at a steady clip. In 2016, emissions were flat even though the world economy grew 3.2%. One explanation for the uptick is that China’s economic slowdown in the middle part of this decade was more pronounced than official figures suggested.”
“The GPC report concludes: ‘The world has not reached peak emissions yet.’”
“It finds that carbon dioxide emissions decreased in 22 countries accounting for 20% of global emissions, but rose in 101 countries that together represent 50% of pollution. China is predicted to see a 3.5% jump in emissions in 2017. As the biggest producer of carbon dioxide in the world, China plays a crucial role in shifting the global trend.”
FT – Italian emigration continues despite strong economic recovery – Valentina Romei 11/12
“Italy’s economy is doing its best for years, but Italians are still pouring out of the country.
Gross domestic product is growing faster than at any point since 2010, employment is back to pre-crisis levels and the labor inactivity rate is close to an all-time low.”
“So why has the number of Italians living outside the country reached 5.4m — a figure that represents almost 10% of the population and which grew 3.5% last year?”
“The data highlight a story of a dysfunctional labor market, a society in which young, ambitious people often feel unfairly treated, and an economic recovery from which, in large part, they have yet to benefit.”
“Overall, the official figures show that 1.5m people have moved abroad since the crisis broke in 2008.“
“Nor is that the end of it. Foreigners are also leaving: 45,000 non-Italians left the country in 2015, more than three times as many as the figure for 2007.”
“The consequences of the phenomenon could be grave, despite Italy’s recent economic good news.”
“Since the country has long contended with low fertility rates, emigration is a particular threat to Italy’s workforce. Italy is second only to Japan in terms of the proportion of the population accounted for by people aged 65 and over, and in the 25 years to 2015 the working age population as a share of the total population dropped 5 percentage points.”
“In the past five years alone, the number of those aged between 18 and 44 contracted 6%, while the overall population rose 2%.”
“Both the Italian and the British data also show that young people account for the bulk of Italian emigration. The UK National Insurance statistics show that since 2002 more than 90% of Italians registering to work in Britain were under 44 years old. Some 77% were aged between 18 and 34 years old.”
“Italian emigrants are also more highly educated than the overall Italian population and university trained people are leaving in increasing numbers. Graduates make up about 30% of emigrants from Italy, up from 12% in 2002, according to official statistics.”
“The causes of this brain drain are deep-set, writes Guido Tintori, Research Associate at Fieri — International and European Forum on Migration Research, in a forthcoming academic paper on the issue.”
“He argues that skilled young Italian graduates ‘not only are underemployed and underpaid, but constantly frustrated by a society and a labor market that hinge on relationships and seniority over competence’.”
“Furthermore, the economic recovery has yet to touch them. The proportion of young people who are unemployed in Italy is a daunting 35% and has barely changed over the past year.”
“The share of under-34s who are neither in employment nor in education is the highest in the EU and more than half of under-25s in employment are working under temporary contracts. Nearly one in four is working part time because of the unavailability of a full-time job — a higher proportion than in any other high-income economy.”
Filed under: Cryptocurrencies, Energy, Environment, Investment Management, Italy, Propaganda, Real Estate, Saudi Arabia, Tax Reform, Uber
FT – How Germany got its gold back – Claire Jones 11/10
“It was kept abroad to escape the Soviet Union. But then Germany decided to bring it home.”
NYT – After Weinstein: A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and the Fallout for Each – Sarah Almukhtar, Larry Buchanan, and Michael Gold 11/12
FT – Little room for error as investors chase leveraged loan boom – Ben McLannahan 11/9
“Riskier ‘covenant-lite’ loans now account for about 70% of new leveraged loans, up from 30% before the Lehman Brothers crisis. Protections that were standard back then have now vanished altogether.”
“’As long as investors keep buying these loans, there’s nothing really to put the brakes on,’ says Derek Gluckman, a vice-president at Moody’s. ‘Things just keep getting worse.’”
“’Loan terms never got this bad in ‘07,’ says Mr. Cohen (founder and CEO of Covenant Review). ‘The contracts … are the worst they’ve ever been. Period, full stop.’”
WSJ – A Starbucks Coffee Costs What? – Chelsey Dulaney and Ira Iosebashvili 11/9
You’ve heard of the Big Mac Index, this is the Starbucks proxy.
WSJ – Daily Shot: FRED – Financial Stress Index 11/10
FT – Catastrophes wipe $35bn from insurers’ profits – Oliver Ralph and Alistair Gray 11/12
“A string of natural disasters from Hurricane Harvey in the US to earthquakes in Mexico have left the insurance industry facing one of its most expensive years on record.”
“The catastrophes have wiped more than $35bn from insurers’ profits, according to a Financial Times analysis of third-quarter results that have laid bare the scale of the damage. Berkshire Hathaway, run by billionaire Warren Buffett, and AIG were among the hardest hit in the US, while in Europe Swiss Re and Munich Re face large claims. Lloyd’s, the London-based insurance market, expects to pay out a total of $4.5bn.”
“Insurers say the final cost is likely to be larger and push up premiums. Commercial insurance and reinsurance have suffered from years of falling rates, as excess capacity and a lack of big claims combined to drive prices down.”
“’The losses have been extensive across reinsurance, commercial insurance and personal lines,’ said Kurt Karl, chief economist at Swiss Re. ‘There were $20bn of natural catastrophe losses across the industry in the first half. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, combined with the earthquakes in Mexico, will create about $95bn of insured losses.’”
“Added together, the industry is facing more than $110bn of insured losses from natural catastrophes. Only 2005 — when Hurricane Katrina hit the US — and 2011 — when there were earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand — were more costly.”
“The $35bn figure, taken from company reports, does not include losses from unlisted companies, or from insurance-linked securities in which investors’ capital is used to directly back insurance risk.”
Statista – Attack of the Clones – Felix Richter 11/9
WP – The Earth’s ozone hole is shrinking and is the smallest it has been since 1988 – Marwa Eltagouri 11/3
“This year, the ozone hole is the smallest it has been since 1985. NASA and NOAA scientists have been studying the ozone layer and monitoring its hole over Antarctica for years. This year, the ozone hole is the smallest it has been since 1985.”
“Here’s a rare piece of good news about the environment: The giant hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer is shrinking and has shriveled to its smallest peak since 1988, NASA scientists said.”
“The largest the hole became this year was about 7.6 million square miles wide, about two and a half times the size of the United States, in September. But it was still 1.3 million square miles smaller than last year, scientists said, and has shrunk more since September.”
“Warmer-than-usual weather conditions in the stratosphere are to thank for the shrinkage since 2016, as the warmer air helped fend off chemicals like chlorine and bromine that eat away at the ozone layer, scientists said. But the hole’s overall reduction can be traced to global efforts since the mid-1980s to ban the emission of ozone-depleting chemicals.”
“The ozone hole was largest in 2000, when it was 11.5 million square miles wide, according to NASA.”
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“As Indian politicians squabble over who is to blame for the thick smog that has descended over the north of the country this week, citizens have been looking enviously over the border at China, where particulate levels have been falling for years.”
“Many in India believe Beijing has been better able to combat its air pollution problem because it does not get bogged down in political infighting. They blame India’s problems on the country’s raucous but inefficient democracy.”
“This week, pollution in Delhi literally went off the charts, hitting the top reading of 999 on the US embassy’s air quality index. Anything over a reading of 100 is considered unhealthy.”
“By Wednesday afternoon, Delhi saw airborne levels of tiny damaging particles known as PM2.5 hit 833 parts per million, while in Beijing the level was 76. Anything over 50 is considered unhealthy, and anything over 300 hazardous.“
“The difference between the two cities reflects a broader divergence over recent years, during which Delhi has taken over from Beijing as the world’s most polluted megacity.”
“’Indian politicians have this very weird idea that we will do something about pollution when we are developed, but we won’t develop unless they invest in public health,’ says TK Joshi, director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health in Delhi.”
“He adds: ‘Beijing has tackled this problem much better, but then it is much easier to control things in an authoritarian regime than in a democracy, especially one like India, where 50% of the people are so badly educated about the problem.’”
WSJ – Saudi Crackdown Targets Up to $800 Billion in Assets – Margherita Stancati and Summer Said 11/7
“The Saudi government is aiming to confiscate cash and other assets worth as much as $800 billion in its broadening crackdown on alleged corruption among the kingdom’s elite, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“The country’s central bank, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, said late Tuesday that it has frozen the bank accounts of ‘persons of interest’ and said the move is ‘in response to the Attorney General’s request pending the legal cases against them.’”
“Much of that money is abroad, which will complicate efforts to reclaim it, people familiar with the matter said. But even a portion of that amount could help Saudi Arabia’s finances. A prolonged period of low oil prices forced the government to borrow money on the international bond market and to draw extensively from the country’s foreign reserves, which dropped from $730 billion at their peak in 2014 to $487.6 billion in August, the latest available government data.”
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This Innovative Idea By An IIT Jodhpur Team Can Purify Contaminated Water At Low Cost
The Logical Indian Crew Rajasthan
November 23rd, 2018 / 10:26 AM
Water contamination is a major problem in various parts of the country. Be it the addition of impurities from industrial effluents or fluoride contamination in bore wells, people have been suffering in search of clean water. While state and central governments have been working in tandem to provide clean drinking water, one professor and his team from IIT-Jodhpur have developed a process in which water can be purified by using a natural clay available in Rajasthan.
Water Purification Using Natural Clay Pot
“The motto of the project is to find a mechanism for purification of contaminated water at low cost using natural process without affecting the environment, and after eight years of research, we processed a mechanism to purify contaminated water using natural clay found here,” told Assistant Professor Rakesh Kumar Sharma of Chemistry department at IIT Jodhpur to The Logical Indian.
“This clay pots acts like ceramic filters. We have used the metal nanoparticles inside the galleries of the clay. When water travels through the galleries it absorbs on the metal surface which exists in the gallery. Since this metal is highly dispersed, they act as an isolated catalytic centre for the impurity and then it gets trapped inside. Roughly one clay pot can purify 100 liters of water. Once the filter gets saturated, it will be choked and we can cook the pot once again for reuse,” told Rakesh Sharma.
Sand for Various Applications
“The clay used in this is Quartz which is found in sand. We have developed a process to make the clay out of sand which is useful for this application. This clay is not only used for water treatment, but for multiple applications like; we have developed biofuel out of that by converting the algae floating on water into diesel grade hydrocarbon and making Lithium-ion batteries,” added Professor Rakesh. IIT Jodhpur has tested this process on clay from 16 different countries and it is successful. They have received appreciations from international conferences and the research got published in a global science journal.
He said that the process by which the clay is made useful is what is more crucial. The sand undergoes a treatment process. IIT-Jodhpur has patented the treatment, he informed. It took alone five-years for them to develop that treatment.
Presently for purifying water, we use Reverse Osmosis (RO) Purifiers which everyone cannot afford and it also utilises a lot of power energy to function. “This clay has been existing in the world since the inception of the earth, but there is no report and ours is the first publication. In order to make our country energy dependent, we should look for solutions available in nature here itself, instead of depending on the western countries,” Rakesh said.
Presently, the clay pots are being used in the campus for drinking purposes. “We are testing on different concentration of water for purification treatment and the process is successful. We do not want to change the fundamental process of making pots. We have spoken to few potters for manufacturing this clay pot so that potters will also benefit financially,” Rakesh explained.
Rakesh, who has an expertise in catalytic agents and reaction said that he gets funds from various firms to work on his research.
“In India, we have only around two per cent of drinkable water, not everyone can afford RO purifier to drink purified water, the main motto and target behind this research are to make peoples life easy and for those who cannot afford money this innovation will be the solution,” he added.
Recently, IIT Jodhpur was in the news for creating hydrogen fuel using sunlight and water by reversing the method of “photosynthesis”.
Lack of access to safe water
More than two billion people lack access to safe water in the world, says United Nation Secretary General.
“In India, around 2 lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to safe water. The country is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history, and millions of lives and livelihood are under threat,” said a NITI Aayog report.
In North Karnataka, many health issues have been reported for drinking contaminated water. Dr Harshavardhan Patil, the Ortho physician at Lingasugur taluk, 90 km from Raichur, said, “Every month 10 to 15 people consult him for Fluorosis. Due to Fluorosis, back becomes stiff and bones turn fragile further leading to fracture.” He added, “The best and the only way to cure this disease is by preventing it.”
This technique of purifying can help many places like Raichur in the country which are affected by an abnormal mineral ratio in the drinking water.
The Logical Indian Take
We feel proud of our country saying we have achieved a lot, but at present millions of people in India have no access to clean drinking water. IIT-Jodhpur made a significant innovation for the well being of the people. The Logical Indian wholeheartedly applauds the IIT Jodhpur team and hopes that young Indian researchers and scholars will continue with their researches which can help in the benefit of the nation.
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Thomas Street Neighborhood Garden plans orchard with Friends of GR Parks grant
Elizabeth Rogers Drouillard
Friends of Grand Rapids Parks offers mini-grants to neighborhoods and individuals to increase Grand Rapids' tree canopy and engage citizens in caring for mature trees.
Thomas Street Neighborhood Garden choose apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach, and apricot trees for their mini orchard. /Courtesy of Jack Amick
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Grand Rapids will be increasing its tree count to the delight of both neighbors on Thomas Street and those at Friends of Grand Rapids Parks working to see the city's tree canopy grow. The new Thomas Street Community Garden is receiving six fruit trees through a mini-grant from the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks.
Sarah Scott, a member of the Baxter Community, was dreaming about adding some dwarf fruit trees to the new garden for shade and community at a neighborhood meeting.
"We liked the idea of fruit trees on the land because our neighborhood has often been overlooked, and we have not had a good way to connect with each other on our block. I have a fruit tree in my front yard, which is a few doors down from the garden space, and I've spent a lot of time in my own yard talking to neighbors, picking and eating fruit together. Our group thought fruit trees on our garden land would be great for teaching each other how to take care of the trees, while picking and harvesting and connecting with one another while doing so," says Scott.
Scott mentioned saving up for the trees herself to Anna Johnson, who works at Baxter Community Center greenhouse. Johnson referred her to Friends of Grand Rapids Parks for their mini-grant program for just such projects.
Scott's process was as simple as going to their Urban Forest Project website and filling out the mini-grant application form.
"We serve as a resource for other neighborhood groups and individuals. Our goal is to keep it as open and available as possible so neighborhoods can come to us with great projects they already support. Our matching program is pretty easy to do and includes contributions through volunteer hours, donations, or in-kind gifts," says Steve Faber, executive director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks.
Scott's experience, she says, proved to be easy.
"The process was incredibly user-friendly and easy," says Scott. "The mini-grants are only two pages long, and most is just basic info about the intent of the tree planting you would like to do. I asked the Thomas Street group for feedback and hand-wrote the grant in 20 minutes. They followed up with a call and a site visit, both of which were quick and easy. It's clear that Friends of GR Parks wants this money to be accessible to groups and projects, and not make us jump through lots of red tape."
Faber says the goal is to "get a project done."
"We work with them to facilitate what needs to happen," he says. "It's long-term thinking of long-term survival, so we not only work to get new trees in, but focus on caring for the trees as they grow as well."
Faber also notes that as Grand Rapids works to return to a 40 percent tree canopy, caring for mature trees is also very important.
"Mini-orchards help people identify with trees and begin to care about the trees around them. We need this because part of our goal is to preserve and protect what is already there. We must preserve the old, big trees to make it to the 40 percent goal," he says. "We can plant trees all day, but if the big trees die, it's decades to replace their spot in the canopy."
The mini-orchard at the Thomas Street Community Garden will be joining this canopy soon.
"We are in the process of obtaining six semi-dwarf, self-pollinating fruit trees from Flowerland, which are grown in Michigan. Our neighborhood group decided on cherry, apple, plum, peach, pear and apricot trees. Five of the trees will be planted at the back of the garden, so as not to overshade the raised beds we will be putting in with the help of Baxter neighborhood and generous donations of neighbors. One tree will be closer to the front of the land and we hope to have a picnic table under it, for shade from the more intense growing months," says Scott.
For more resources on caring for existing trees, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks has a list here.
For those thinking of planting mini-orchards in their community gardens, Faber encourages them to apply now for the fall planting season. This season is already full, and spring trees were ordered in February. There's still room in the fall planting season, which is two months long. Interested people can apply here.
Applications are due by August 15 for fall tree planting.
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November 28, 2014 by Mark Chua in Press
Australia’s largest hotel operator, Accor, today announced that they will be part of a new mixed-use hotel, commercial and retail precinct to be developed in Mascot, near Sydney Airport. Accor has signed a management agreement with Goodman to manage a 5-star hotel to be badged Pullman Sydney Airport as part of a new AUD$100 million development project that will encompass extensive office and retail facilities.
Pullman Sydney Airport will include 229 accommodation rooms and suites, a restaurant and bar, conference facilities and gymnasium. The hotel will offer an Executive Lounge - a hallmark of every Pullman hotel - adding a quiet and convenient space for guests to do business or relax. Construction of the hotel development on O’Riordan Street, Mascot has commenced this November generating over 100 jobs during the build. The expected opening date for Pullman Sydney Airport is May 2016.
Once operational, Pullman Sydney Airport will join Australia’s fastest growing 5-star hotel network which has recently expanded to 13 hotels and resorts across nine locations. Pullman has established itself as the largest network of upscale hotels in the Asia Pacific with more than 45 hotels across the region and counting.
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President Trump threatens China with new $100 billion tariff plan
Posted 7:39 am, April 6, 2018, by CNN Wire
President Donald Trump ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric with China on Thursday evening, saying he was considering another wave of steep tariffs on the country’s exports to the United States.
“In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have instructed the [United States Trade Representative] to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate,” the president said in a statement.
Earlier this week, the United States announced new tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods, claiming that China is stealing US intellectual property. China responded within hours by announcing $50 billion worth of tariffs on US goods.
The moves follow US tariffs that were imposed earlier this year on Chinese steel and aluminum, which also prompted retaliatory measures from China.
Trump’s announcement late Thursday that his administration could target another $100 billion of Chinese goods rattled markets and drew criticism from businesses and from within his own party.
The Chinese government responded by reiterating that it doesn’t want “to fight a trade war, but we are not afraid of fighting it.”
“If the United States disregards the opposition of China and the international community, and insists on unilateralist and protectionist trade practices, the Chinese side will follow through to the end and will not hesitate to fight back at any cost,” the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement Friday. “We will take new comprehensive measures to respond and resolutely defend the interests of the country and the people.”
Dow futures fell after Trump’s announcement on Thursday and were down nearly 200 points, or 0.8%, early Friday. That followed a day of stock market gains in the United States as investors appeared to warm to the idea that the barbs between Washington and Beijing were all talk.
Investors were reassured by Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House National Economic Council, who also characterized the tariffs as just proposals in remarks on Thursday. He told reporters there is “nothing around the corner” regarding any concrete tariff plans.
Asian stock markets showed little sign of alarm over Trump’s latest announcement, with most indexes posting moderate gains or losses on Friday. Stocks in Hong Kong, where the market had been closed Thursday, gained more than 1%. Exchanges in mainland China were shut Friday for a public holiday.
Trump’s latest tariff threat was met with criticism from members of his own Republican party. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse called the move “the dumbest possible way to do this.”
“Hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but, if he’s even half-serious, this is nuts,” he said in a statement.
“China is guilty of many things, but the President has no actual plan to win right now. He’s threatening to light American agriculture on fire,” Sasse added.
US retailers also slammed Trump’s announcement, accusing him of “playing a game of chicken with the nation’s economy.”
The National Retail Federation, an industry group, said in a statement that while it agreed on the need to address China’s unfair trade practices, “these tit-for-tat trade actions could … make it harder for Americans across the country to afford everyday products and basic necessities.”
The US government on Tuesday threatened to levy import taxes on more than 1,300 Chinese products, including TVs, dishwashers and printers. In turn, China vowed to target key US exports, including soybeans.
“Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,” Trump said in his statement Thursday.
Trump said he instructed the US Trade Representative to “identify the products upon which to impose” the additional tariffs he suggested.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in a statement late Thursday called Trump’s request “appropriate.”
“China has chosen to respond thus far with threats to impose unjustified tariffs on billions of dollars in US exports, including our agricultural products,” Lighthizer said. “Such measures would undoubtedly cause further harm to American workers, farmers, and businesses. Under these circumstances, the president is right to ask for additional appropriate action to obtain the elimination of the unfair acts, policies, and practices identified in USTR’s report.”
Trump said he had also instructed the Secretary of Agriculture “to use his broad authority to implement a plan to protect our farmers and agricultural interests.”
He also left the door open for further talks with the Chinese government.
“The United States is still prepared to have discussions in further support of our commitment to achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade and to protect the technology and intellectual property of American companies and American people,” he said.
Chinese officials this week also said they were eager to negotiate. But it’s unclear whether the two sides will be able to reach a mutually acceptable deal.
“The US-China trade rhetoric fluctuates between escalation and negotiation,” said Kerry Craig, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. He warned that talks “could be complex and various factors such as [intellectual property] and technology will linger beyond a single trade dispute.”
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Judges In Broward Dismiss 24,000 Red-Light Camera Tickets
Two Broward County traffic judges dismissed 24,000 pending red-light camera ticket cases Monday, ruling that the third-party screening program violates Florida law. So how much money are we talking about? At $264 per ticket, the citations would have amounted to more than $6.3 million.
Ted Hollander, an attorney with Ticket Clinic has been challenging the Red Light Camera program for more than four years on behalf of clients. He says, “We made the argument that the program was an improper delegation of police power because the videos were being sent out of state for employees of American Traffic Solutions to do the screening.”.
The basis of the disagreement is that American Traffic Solutions (located in Arizona) reviewed the Broward County traffic videos before forwarding them to local police for ticketing. State law mandates that only law enforcement can issue violations. Hollander argued that you can’t enforce one law by breaking another. He felt that’s what the cities of Broward County have been doing for the last four years.
What are other South Florida cities reactions based on the results of this case? Boca Raton stopped its red light camera program last month, joining municipalities like Palm Beach County, Margate, Hallandale Beach and Coral Springs, which have stopped issuing red-light camera tickets.
What about drivers who have been issued red light tickets and have paid the fines? Will they get refunds? Hollander said a class-action lawsuit has also been filed in federal court in Miami looking to recoup fines for clients who have paid tickets since the program began four years ago.
What do residents think? Most of the comments were pretty heated and disagreed with the use of red lights. But others had suggestions to improve the process. Here are some comments from Local 10 News:
Here is my big issue, the red light camera cannot use discretion like an officer can. If you stop when you see the light turn but stop over the line, an officer is not going to pull you over and issue you a ticket because he / she sees that you made an effort to stop.
The camera on the other hand, snaps a photo of your license plate and the next thing you know, you are getting a ticket.
These cameras are less about safety and more about generating funds for the city budget.
Correct the procedures, having a Police officer reviewing every violation, then put up twice as many cameras! Penalize with financial PAIN these pathetic drivers that endanger everyone else
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Religion After the Discovery of a Multiverse
It has occurred to me that were to get substantial evidence we lived in a infinitely large and old multiverse, the effects on religions would be massive.
A incredibly large number of religions are based on the idea of a deity or deities creating everything that exists. However while our universe would still be finite the newly discovered multiverse never even had a beginning in this scenario.
The evidence for the newly discovered multiverse is substantial, denying it would be like denying relativity. We can directly observe other universes with new technology, though we can't see anything above the atomic level, however this is still sufficient to figure out how their physical laws differ. Scientists haven't found any universes that are hypothesized to be very similar to to our own, but they can prove that while choosing which new universes to look at is random, the multiverse is infinite and had no beginning as thus universes just like our own are almost certainly infinite in number.
Should in real-life we discover evidence that suggests a infinite multiverse it is unlikely the evidence will be quite this damning. This scenario is designed to make it clear, that in this scenario the people who deny the evidence for this multiverse are like solipsists in that they would have to deny the ability to trust their senses and thus other equivalent claims like the fact objects fall.
What would be the effect of this evidence?: Both initially in the first few months when the evidence wasn't undeniable, and after a year or more once the evidence can't be plausibly refuted. I would like answers both for what it would mean to religious individuals, and how religious organizations would react as time progressed, the long term effects on religion will be highly speculative, so I encourage most of the detail to be on the effects in the first few decades.
The technology itself is irrelevant and is assumed to be of very little actual use. This question is primarily concerned with the reactions religions might have to evidence that undermines one of their most vital tenets, though certain religions wouldn't be affected very much, because existence being eternal and infinite wouldn't run counter to them necessarily. I also don't see a lot of religions liking the idea of redefining their god to be finite and for admitting humans are infinitely insignificant cosmically.
I don't exactly see this as being a death-blow to religion, with it only affecting some religions and potentially drawing people to other religions both old, and to some of the religious sects that would be produced by this.
And of course one only need look at the number of creationists to see how well religion can deny that which is utterly undeniable, the fact evidence in this situation is even more damning than that for evolution, likely won't make a whole lot of difference to some religious groups.
Edit: The fact the multiverse is infinite and eternal wasn't postulated, it was confirmed by direct observations, I'm not sure what those observations would have to be but that is irrelevant, what's important is that you couldn't just look at the evidence another way, to deny it being eternal and infinite means rejecting the evidence altogether.
Edit 2: Well I understand that some people have problems with whether observations that could prove the assumptions in the question may be impossible. But even if they are impossible, in the scenario they just turn out to be how the universe is even if it doesn't necessarily make sense.
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$\begingroup$ Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. $\endgroup$ – Tim B♦ Aug 20 '15 at 13:31
$\begingroup$ What's the practical difference to a devotee between another universe and another galaxy? $\endgroup$ – Nick T Aug 21 '15 at 1:48
$\begingroup$ Well our universe only has a finite number of galaxies the infinity part is crucial. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 21 '15 at 1:56
$\begingroup$ In some religions, devotees accept that there are things about the nature of the world cannot be completely understood by a human intellect. Thus, reconciling the existence of a multiverse with already esablished religions (even in the face of apparent logical paradoxes) could be as trivial as "it is compatible, but we just can't comprehend how". $\endgroup$ – Sigma Ori Aug 21 '15 at 9:10
$\begingroup$ "that were to get substantial evidence ... the effects on religions would be massive." Why? We have evidence that the universe is Old and not centered on the Earth, but creationists and geocentric beleivers still abound. Look at the Nye/Ham debate: evidence means nothing to the beleiver. $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Feb 28 '16 at 9:04
I don't think just discovering that we're part of a multiverse will make much of difference to religion. You would have to discover a lot of details about the multiverse to answer questions better than religions currently do. I think there's still plenty of room for Gods even if a multiverse exists. For example, who created the multiverse? Maybe God could live outside of our universe in the multiverse?
Bear in mind religions don't just answer questions about how we were created, but also about how we should live our lives. Many people are drawn to religion because it gives them rules and order, knowing that there's a multiverse does not do this!
If you look at history you will notice that religion adapts it's philosophy according to the times. I think there will be plenty of wiggle room for religious people to keep justifying their believes if we discover there is multiverse.
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$\begingroup$ Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. $\endgroup$ – Monica Cellio♦ Aug 21 '15 at 3:29
Absolutely nothing would change. Many Christians still believe the earth is 6,000 years old, evolution doesn't happen, and we're not warming the earth. You're somehow imagining more convincing proof for the multiverse theory than for the fact the earth is older than the Mesopotamian civilization?
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$\begingroup$ My thoughts exactly. $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Aug 20 '15 at 1:24
$\begingroup$ Don't forget that there are also many Christians who do believe the Earth is billions of years old, and that evolution and global warming do happen. This means that religion does not necessarily rely on denying evidence about the physical world. $\endgroup$ – vsz Aug 20 '15 at 6:23
$\begingroup$ Also, one only needs to look at the flat-Earth believers that claim all proof of a round planet is a lie. Some people will believe whatever they want to believe, despite all proof to the contrary. $\endgroup$ – phyrfox Aug 20 '15 at 12:41
$\begingroup$ @Luaan : I could argue about why it's not the denying of logic, but that's not the point here. The point is not whether you agree with them or not, neither is whether you find it a good or a bad thing. The point is, that the view I presented, exists, and is a widespread one, so that religion can exist without requiring any denial of any evidence delivered by physics. I think this was the intention of the OP, and not a general discussion about the merits of specific theological arguments. $\endgroup$ – vsz Aug 21 '15 at 14:06
$\begingroup$ Faith uses belief as its foundation, not logic or facts. What happens when both conflict is that people provide another explanation to maintain their beliefs, rather than changing them, especially if they invested a lot in their faith. As an example : a group of ET-believers firmly believed they would land on earth on a specific date, and after this rendez-vous (obviously) did not occur, they simply adjusted their faith (in this case, by claiming the group actions made ET postpone the earth destruction). $\endgroup$ – Uriel Aug 22 '15 at 11:43
What constitutes creation is a big deal here. "God created the Heavens and the Earth" - Creation means organization. Yes many believe that he created everything out of nothing, but unless the multiverse (and especially our dimension part of it) existed forever in it's current form there still leaves room for a creator.
In fact, come to think of it, I don't think that a proven infinite timeline would be a detriment to the creation story at all. God is commonly believed to be completely outside time, without beginning or end, who else could create something infinite?
The whole idea of multiverses and infinite time and dimension are perfectly suited to religion, with God as a being transcending those dimensions, with invisible spiritual planes (heaven, hell, purgatory what have you). Concepts like this will only encourage religion.
The people who will lose there faith over this lose it only because they change the way they view the world, shifting to cold hard science over religious experiences. It is the same for any other scientific discovery/theory, evolution, the big bang, etc. It's not that those things are at all incompatible with religion, it's because by shifting to scientific based answers they are changing their value system.
The whole idea of physics ever disproving religion in the minds of the religious is ridiculous. The farther to the right a science is in XKCDs field purity comic, the less likely it is to convince someone there is no God. This is coming from someone very religious, and I can tell you that the stuff on the left bothers me sometimes, while the stuff on the right is perfectly in line with my religious views.
wedstromwedstrom
$\begingroup$ Well I suppose the main difference is how much apologetics would have to change, currently most apologists usually deny the possibility of a multiverse. The main reason they deny this of course is that a multiverse makes it impossible to use the design argument, as well as the fact it makes humans cosmically insignificant. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 20:55
$\begingroup$ No, it would not make it impossible to use the design argument (there is always room for a higher dimension than we are aware of, creation is a lose term anyway, see my organized comment), and no, it would not make us less cosmically significant. If the sheer scope and scale of this universe is not enough to humble someone, learning about infinite multiverse won't either. $\endgroup$ – wedstrom Aug 19 '15 at 21:13
$\begingroup$ Yes humans are already cosmically insignificant but at least our universe is small enough you don't expect identical copies of our planet, at the very least, with a multiverse there are infinite copies of any given universe. Plus the fact our particular universe allows life wouldn't be in any way indicative of design since that's just a inevitability. It wouldn't disprove design (can't prove a negative) but it would eliminate any perceived need for design. As for design, well it is kind of difficult to even argue something could be designed if we know it was always around basically the same. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 21:20
$\begingroup$ The similar universes could be a problem. If you see many lifeforms evolving randomly, that could be a problem. Worst could be watching thousands of civilizations dying in the frigid void and the heat death of their uncaring "godless" universe. That would be difficult to deal with. However, that sounds very much like hell/damnation/end times as told in the bible and many other religious works... $\endgroup$ – wedstrom Aug 19 '15 at 21:35
$\begingroup$ @VakusDrake Not really, to be honest. For example, every time science proved man's environment was larger, the Judeo-Christian deity was moved farther away so it could be attributed to the environment's creation. The existence of a deity must be taken on faith; science can't disprove a deity's existence. $\endgroup$ – Frostfyre Aug 20 '15 at 14:07
I think that very little would actually change for religion. Consider the current battle over Evolution. The Priesthood of Science, the vocal teachers of science as a source of truth, already proclaim "Evolution is true." They have nowhere more emphatic to go, so if one was to prove an infinite multiverse, they could be no louder. They would simply proclaim "The Multiverse is true."
Accordingly, religion would be expected to change no more than it has had to to deal with evolution. Very few can read the scientific papers that would discern the difference between today's epistemological statement, "the evolution model fits the observed data better than other theories," and a very ontological, "the multiverse is infinite." Accordingly, few would treat the situation differently. Everyone would go on living their lives, just as they always have, with the same arguments - only the names have changed.
Oh, except for Philosophy StackExchange. They'd flip out over there! Questions would spill in from all over the world asking Philsophy SE to use the new ontologically proven multiverse to prove that their religion was right all along!
$\begingroup$ A lot of your answer is of course inevitable, people will just deny evidence. Still people have a much harder time denying things that can be directly observed, for instance most creationists don't deny what they call "microevolution" so the fact you can directly observe the multiverse would make something of a difference potentially. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 21:43
$\begingroup$ The real question is what is defined as "directly observed." For 99.999% of the population, there's a huge difference between "one multi-billion dollar collider, the LHC, has made the claim that their observed results are consistent with the Higgs Boson," and claiming it is directly observed with one's own eyes. Honestly, most people don't know enough to sort the wheat from the chaff here, they rely 100% on the scientific community to tell them what to believe with regard to scientific discovery. $\endgroup$ – Cort Ammon Aug 19 '15 at 21:46
$\begingroup$ Now if we were forced to be face to face with infinity every step we take during the day, that would create some changes! $\endgroup$ – Cort Ammon Aug 19 '15 at 21:47
$\begingroup$ Is that actually so different? Think of it not from the perspective you want to see it from, but from the perspective of someone for whom science is once again telling them "truth" information to believe. Can the average person even comprehend what it means to observe an infinity (I'd argue no, given just how much hell we could give you by actually pestering you into defining exactly which meaning of "observing infinity" you mean)? Can they appreciate the true observation, or can they only appreciate the rolled-up version like the candy-coated versions we tell people today? $\endgroup$ – Cort Ammon Aug 19 '15 at 21:54
$\begingroup$ Hmm, that's the thing about the question, is that for it even to work requires hypothetical information that may be completely impossible to have in the real world. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 21:56
For some religions, this would actually be a boost for their belief system. Hindus who believe in an eternal cycle of creation and rebirth would have proof that their religion was based on a real and verifiable fact, for example.
The existence of a multiverse could also be made to fit into the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), as mentioned by wedstrom and Bug J., for example.
And there are lots of people who believe or deny things even in the face of contrary evidence (9/11 "truthers", Hollow Earth. the "Face on Mars", young Earth creationism/evolution (depending on what side of the fence you are on), the Apollo Moon landing etc.), so the existence of a Multiverse will simply not register on their belief system(s).
Finally, I think you are seeing science and religion as a zero sum "either/or" proposition. Consider that most of the giants who developed science during the Age of Enlightenment were in fact deeply religious men, and that science is a system to understand the "how" of things while religion is a system to understand the "why". There is no reason that the two cannot be complimentary for most people.
$\begingroup$ last point: Yes, though as science advanced, we saw that there is no need for an anthropomorphic creator/maintainer. The term "religion" has a use as an opposite to science in that it has an irreconcilably opposite stance on this little detail. $\endgroup$ – kaay Aug 20 '15 at 9:03
$\begingroup$ I would have given you a +1, had you not put creationism and evolution on the same level. $\endgroup$ – Burki Aug 20 '15 at 9:03
$\begingroup$ @burki He didn't mean them being of equal value, just strongly believed. The OP asks what effect the revelation would have on beliefs. $\endgroup$ – kaay Aug 20 '15 at 9:16
$\begingroup$ I didn't say I thought this would in any way abolish religion, however it would make it hard for people to make a lot of theistic arguments. The argument from design could no longer rely on god of the gaps reasoning. The Kalam argument would also be right out, as would any other argument that relied on a finite existence. Also in this scenario it strongly suggests that there is nothing special about our universe or indeed us. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 13:27
$\begingroup$ The thing is, religion used to have the same role as science - it's just that science is so much better at it, religion had to retreat from those. At present time in western society, all that's left is the "Why" and "afterlife", basically - the US being a notable exception with it's proportion of YECs and similar, who still claim Bible's expertise in cosmological matters (among others - for example, putting Bible's biological claims above science's evolution etc.). $\endgroup$ – Luaan Aug 21 '15 at 10:48
I'm not sure of the etiquette for suggesting that part of your scenario might well be impossible, so I'll put it at the end of my answer, but I think there is good reason to believe that no multiverse could possibly be eternal in the past.
That said, I think many religions would be perfectly fine with the discovery either that the universe is eternal in the past, or that the universe is part of a past-eternal multiverse. Many individual people may change their religious beliefs, but the religions themselves will likely still stand. They will either not particularly care whether the universe was created, or they might hold that the universe was created despite being eternal.
Not really caring
As I mentioned in my answer to a question about religion in a world with backwards time travel, many religions do not rely on claims about specific events in the past, including the origin of the universe. These religions either don't make the claims at all (non-dogmatic "philosophy of life" religions), or they modify the claims to fit the current view of the facts (while medieval Catholics may have considered the Big Bang a weird theory, it's now officially sanctioned by the church as the method by which God created the universe).
Many holy writings originating from the Ancient Near East can easily be interpreted as describing a past-eternal universe. Creation myths often describe a habitable world being formed from chaotic (but already present) material; many people consider the Genesis story to be of this form. If the universe were proven to be past-eternal, many believers will have to change how they interpret their scriptures, but the scriptures won't have been proven wrong.
God created a past-eternal universe
The Omphalos Hypothesis states that perhaps God created the universe recently, but with the appearance of billions of years of age. Using something like an extreme version of this hypothesis, one could maybe say that at some time in the past the universe was created with the appearance of past eternality.
In fact, someone who believes in a god who is "outside of" time, and also holds a B-Theory of time (that is, this person considers the flow of time to be an "illusion", and past, present, and future are all equally real), could reasonably believe that the god created the entire space/time manifold that we call the [uni|multi]verse, "all at once" in a sense. There are, of course, quite reasonable philosophical objections to this viewpoint, but as there are many B-theorists in the world, and many believers in a transcendent god, many people probably already hold this view. Many believers in transcendent gods would likely just add B-Theory of time to their belief collection if the [uni|multi]verse were proven eternal.
Nitpick: Possibility of an eternal universe
I don't think it's entirely apparent that a eternal-in-time universe is even logically possible. This sort of comes down to the problem of "Actual infinity", the philosophical disagreement over whether an infinity can truly exist. While this problem classically applied primarily to questions like "Do the natural numbers exist?", it has also been applied to the age of the universe.
I can not imagine what sort of physical evidence could be reasonably expected to resolve this issue (to demonstrate that not only can an actual infinity exist, but that one does). Many philosophers (especially philosophers who hold religious views) will see the statement "The multiverse has an infinite past" as belonging in the same category as "my nephew is a married bachelor". Physical evidence (particularly theories based on physical evidence) cannot demonstrate the truth of a statement that is logically impossible.
DeolaterDeolater
$\begingroup$ I can see how religious people, as you said would simply postulate that the multiverse was created to deceptively appear eternal, so I certainly see most creationists going with that explanation. And you're right as I said in the question some religions don't actually have any conflict with this. I thought the mention of the B-theory of time was interesting because that's a circumstance where scientific observations did kind of come into philosophical discussion: Namely in relativity events may not appear to have happened at the same time from different reference frames. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 17:17
$\begingroup$ The phrase you are talking about in the first paragraph of your answer is "challenging the frame of the question" and is allowed, though tends to be used to challenge certain assumptions made (also see the XY problem) rather than the premise stated as being true. $\endgroup$ – Mourdos Aug 20 '15 at 9:05
$\begingroup$ @Mourdos I addressed the problem of the potential impossibility of the premise in some of the Edits: at the end of the question, and in other comments. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 13:20
Id say it does not counter for example the essence of Christian faith at all. There are plenty of stories that there are both different levels of Heaven and "Hell".
Id say the discovery of a finite or infinite multiverse would rather give me more faith in God. And the son. :-)
Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this world", (but of another 'verse right ? )
And "I go away to prepare place for thee". "I have other flocks that are not of this fold".
Mod me down if you like, but I cant say anything but a multiverse makes the stories of an existing Heaven more credible..
Bug J.Bug J.
$\begingroup$ But the idea that existence never had a beginning does run counter to the idea of it having been created, something that has always existed can't have been created that's where the conflict lies. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 19:50
$\begingroup$ @VakusDrake I don't think there is much in Christianity about when and how Heaven was created, just how Earth was made, and some fan-fiction about Hell. God was there in the 'beginning', but nothing says that Heaven and other various places (to which Jesus could have been referring) didn't already exist as well, or how long before the 'beginning' God had been around. $\endgroup$ – DaaaahWhoosh Aug 19 '15 at 20:39
$\begingroup$ @DaaaahWhoosh I suppose they'd have to say stuff like that. However the main problem is that it makes humans seem insignificant given our universe isn't really special in any way. There's also the the issue that it makes it impossible to feasibly argue design if there is probably going to be an infinite number of universes like our own. The main thing this scenario does is it makes various god of the gaps argument not work very well anymore. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 21:00
$\begingroup$ Even within a multiverse construct, there is no reason to suppose that THIS universe isn't created (the Big Bang theory does presuppose there was a time this universe did not exist), and as Bug J is saying, a Multiverse provides some sort of context for other elements of the Christian faith. Much of the question really comes down to how this "evidence" is interpreted and fitted into existing belief systems. $\endgroup$ – Thucydides Aug 20 '15 at 3:49
$\begingroup$ @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft I would guess that this is because Christianity is the religion with which he is familiar. As one of the worlds major religions an answer from this perspective is still a partial answer. I'm not saying if it is a good answer or not, I'm just saying that it does attempt to address the question. $\endgroup$ – Mourdos Aug 20 '15 at 9:02
Since there are degrees of infinity, I would imagine some theologian would postulate there is a being of an even greater magnitude of infinity than the multiverse. Some would even claim it is necessary as how could you have an infinite multiverse if someone more infinite didn't make it, after all many people already believe that the universe requires a creator but don't seem very concerned about why the creator doesn't also appear to need a creator.
Dave HalsallDave Halsall
$\begingroup$ Hmm, I suppose this is the exact sort of religious cop-out I would expect in this scenario, to reconcile the logical impossibility of a beginning with the need for a creator in their belief system $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 16:17
$\begingroup$ I don't think very many people choose to follow a religion for logical reasons (eg. Pascal's Wager - arguably wrong but based on logical reasoning). They do it by default of their upbringing or by having an emotional desire to follow it. Similarly, people don't usually lose their religion for logical reasons, it's usually something emotional that triggers it. $\endgroup$ – Dave Halsall Aug 19 '15 at 16:42
$\begingroup$ Yes and that's why I said I didn't see this as being a deathblow to religion, people are very good at denying blatant evidence. However this is still a massive event that people are going to be talking about for decades, and I see the most of the public debate be about the theological implications. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 16:45
$\begingroup$ I agree, I can't see any single scientific discovery dealing a deathblow to religion, but if science allows us to lead more comfortable lives with less hunger, disease and infant mortality religion is more likely to be about getting a warm feeling while singing hymns than burning your neighbour as a witch because your crops failed. $\endgroup$ – Dave Halsall Aug 19 '15 at 16:55
$\begingroup$ Yeah though I do imagine maybe a few percent of the religious population will end up losing their faith or converting to another religion more compatible with this discovery. But then again this question is asking for a time scale of at least a few decades so within that timespan a few percent of the religious population will have lost their faith anyway without any discovery like this. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 19 '15 at 16:58
I once wrote a story in which the deleterious effect of a proven multiverse on religion was mentioned in passing - but the problem didn't relate to the multiverse being infinite in age or size (as others have already said, that is easily assimilated), but on the realisations that
a multiverse makes moral decision pointless. Whatever good act you struggle to do, some other "you" does the opposite. In fact infinite versions of "you" do all possible variations of good and evil.
looking specifically at religion, in a multiverse that contains infinite versions of historical religious figures such as Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha, their acts and teachings vary infinitely, including taking directions that real-world Christians, Muslims and Buddhists would consider evil.
Something like this is described in Larry Niven's memorable short story "All the Myriad Ways". In that story Niven suggests that the effect would be widespread depression and suicides, along with more crimes committed for kicks as people feeling a random sadistic impulse say to themselves "Versions of me will do it whatever 'I' do. So why not this version of me?"
It should not be forgotten that the effect of a proven multiverse "on religion" will not stop there. In turn the changes in religious belief will bounce back to affect multiverse-aware society. It might be possible* for religions to push back against widespread despair (and perceptions of their own irrelevance) by concentrating on teachings of personal morality and salvation after death for THIS version of "you". Even in our world, religions and religious people are generally much more practically interested in questions of day-to-day good and evil human behaviour than in their beliefs about creation.
*Well, ex hypothesi it would be not just possible but inevitable, as would all other possibilities.
LostinfranceLostinfrance
$\begingroup$ That's something few of the other answers have considered +1, the idea that existence was always around is the other major way the discovery would impact religion, after all now you have to deal with the fact that humans aren't anything but a statistical inevitability and that your god didn't create existence, it also doesn't leave much room to attribute things to god. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 13:43
Any idea that fundamentally changes religion is generally rejected by religion and religious leaders based off the fact that these individuals generally value Ethos (Authority of the Source of information) over Logos (the actual rationale behind the argument being made). The value of their religious texts outweighs science until the belief is widely popular, and undeniable.
For example, it was thought that the revelation of the sun as the center of the solar system (instead of the earth) would cause dramatic fallout for religious groups, and while there was backlash, it did not make any drastic difference to established religious groups.
IceMageIceMage
I think that Buddhists already believe something like this is the case, so they especially would be unaffected.
As for the other religions, i don't think they would be affected too much either. Any evidence can be ignored if it doesn't fit one's beliefs. Young earth creationists are a great example of this. If their theories were true, we wouldn't be able to see any celestial objects that are more than 6000 light years away. But as you can see, for people with strong beliefs the evidence doesn't matter.
Other than simply ignoring the evidence, religious people could claim that God is infinite and that this does not clash with their beliefs. And as always when new scientific evidence arises, they would retroactively find biblical passages that agree with it through some kind of a metaphor.
jgosarjgosar
$\begingroup$ Yes they do. Here is a brief description of Buddhist cosmology. It already deals with the multiverse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology $\endgroup$ – chasly from UK Aug 20 '15 at 8:10
$\begingroup$ +1 for the mention of the fact that young earthers can't explain objects over ~6000 light years away, I would say that that must mean they believe in a deceptive god but I digress. I was actually thinking of buddhism when I wrote that some religions would be unaffected. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 13:51
$\begingroup$ Which is funny - since the "religious" (as in mentioned by religion) city of Jericho is the oldest known city in existence that has been inhabited by humans, dating back to almost 9500 BC, determined through means OTHER than carbon dating (which is openly disputed among young earth creationists). $\endgroup$ – IceMage Aug 24 '15 at 14:13
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." –Alan Watts[1]
Buddhism uses a similar image to describe the interconnectedness of all phenomena. It is called Indra's Net. When Indra fashioned the world, he made it as a web, and at every knot in the web is tied a pearl. Everything that exists, or has ever existed, every idea that can be thought about, every datum that is true—every dharma, in the language of Indian philosophy—is a pearl in Indra's net. Not only is every pearl tied to every other pearl by virtue of the web on which they hang, but on the surface of every pearl is reflected every other jewel on the net. Everything that exists in Indra's web implies all else that exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net
GawesakaGawesaka
Religion would both adapt, as others have pointed out, and also it would collapse completely, depending on which part of the mulitverse you are in.
I would ask this in comments but I mostly lurk and haven't answered any questions on Worldbuilding SE yet. Could you refine the question as there literally infinite valid answers?
Also 'because multiverse' would replace 'because magic' on many internet forums (in most universes).
Dan JenksDan Jenks
$\begingroup$ Welcome to visibility, @danjenks $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Aug 20 '15 at 16:52
$\begingroup$ Actually, not in "most" universes because if you have an infinite set of universes then any subset of that set is also infinite. You cannot have a preponderance of infinity. (Yes, I should get a life.) $\endgroup$ – Lostinfrance Aug 20 '15 at 17:19
$\begingroup$ @Lostinfrance Very true. But since it was intended as a humorous aside I'll leave it as is for now. I like the phrase "preponderance of infinity" though. :-) $\endgroup$ – Dan Jenks Aug 21 '15 at 8:02
In answering I am mostly going to focus on Christianity, but it is equally applicable to other religions. I am of course focusing on the 'verse we are in, as who knows what kind of religious systems other 'verses have...
Religions are not always blind to science
Many modern religions are not solely based on faith anymore, but rather try to correlate science and our modern world to the scriptures and traditions of their own religion. This is not only true of the average believer but also for the head figures of these religions, despite the news and the common stereotypical perception generally assuming that believing in a religion implies giving absolute priority to literal interpretation of whatever sacred text to any scientifically proven fact.
Specifically for the Catholic Church, it is the official position of the Church now that while the Scriptures are generally infallible, as word of God, they have been expressed in written words by individuals limited to a human understanding of the world, and by their culture. That is to say that specific religion, like others do, believes that not all of their scriptures and traditions are to be taken literally or as absolutes. Not all churches are as close minded as it's commonly thought, and while they may take longer than others for them to react to new scientific discoveries, they don't ignore them on grounds of a fixed system of beliefs solely centered around blind faith.
As an interesting anecdote, even the rather well known story of Galileo Galilei and Copernicanism didn't exactly go as it is usually told. While at some point the Church denounced Copernicus' theory to be against the scriptures, they had been initially open to considering it as a plausible option, and got to more drastic measures only after Galileo had insisted that the theory, including many assumptions that were wildly wrong, was to be considered right despite being yet unproven and as such considered the true interpretation of the scriptures (this represented a problem for the Catholic Church as personal interpretation of the Bible was one of the staples of Protestantism). This shows that even in the past religions have not always been as narrow minded as one may think - I do agree that some still had a dangerous tendency to declare some thoughts as heretic a tad too easily.
Changes in existing religions
As a consequence of what I outlined above, a more than reasonable number of religions will accept the discovery in due time, and look at their scriptures, rituals, traditions, to re-interpret them with the new information provided by science. They might accept a new interpretation, find an explanation to parts of their tradition until now accepted as pure faith, or in some cases lose faith as they cannot find a way to justify an information they accept as true as scientifically proven with what they believed in so far - this last case being more prominent in churches where the focus is on personal interpretations of the teachings of that religion. Some may continue to be believers, accepting by faith that there is some way to reconcile two apparently conflicting truths; this is what many believers do nowadays, trusting in science but following a religion cause they have reasons to believe it is the true religion, despite not understanding 100% of it.
Less open-minded religions and more "extreme" believers, as said in other answers, will simply ignore the science and happily go on with their lives as they do nowadays.
New religions and hypotheses in current ones
Both as a current of thought in already existing religions, and in the form of brand new religions, people will start questioning wether god, the gods, angelic/demonic beings, or yet other entities, are creatures from another 'verse or somehow not belonging to any of them, who somehow have a degree of influence on ours.
Is the Christian god one of such entities, normally having no physical body and somehow out of the 'verses? Jesus a part of his essence become physical and moved into our 'verse, the Holy Spirit a part / parts of his essence in our 'verse without a physical body? Is this essence constituted by eletric impulses like the ones in our brain, and can therefore affect our world in multiple ways (miracles), and the body of regular people it inhabits (saints, the apostles, prophets...) assisting the regular mechanics of their biology? This would be an empirical attempt to explain the nature of the triune God in light of the new findings, the effects of the Holy Spirit, etc.
At the same time other christians will go on assuming God has nothing to do with the Multiverse at all and somehow trascends the reality explainable by science.
Someone else might start anew and state that the circles in Nazca are portals to rest of the Multiverse, left to us by a god so that we can someday use them.
Or there could be a return of the older type of religion, where divinities were thought to have an impact on nature: perhaps there really are divine beings from someverse else who can manipulate the physics of our world to cause events that we believed so far to only be controlled by the laws of nature.
While these are only examples made up without solid reasoning, it is plausible for any of them to become real in such an environment. New religions or religious currents within pre-existing faiths start all the time with the flimsiest of pretexts, I can easily see some of them making the scientific proof of the Multiverse having the same effect.
Michele CMichele C
I agree that an infinitely old and large universe would have a devastating effect on religion.
For example, the strongly held belief of 'Cause and Effect' would be nullified - after all, a universe that was never created could never have a cause!
As such believers of scientism would have to reconcile their beliefs to scientific fact. Maybe they should convert to a religion that professes an infinitely old, wise and large deity?
NPSF3000NPSF3000
Regarding to all the comments you gave so far and given the restrictions mentioned in your OP the answer is pretty simple and it looks you have chosen that already for you and just want to be confirmed.
The fact that you say something is observable and therefor given is ok. So in which way it happens is irrelevant, I aggree to that. But one strong point given by zfrisch on an answer is:
The problem is that, even if we were able to manage to prove that we were in a multiverse, most people wouldn't be smart enough to understand how that would imply their religion is incorrect. When part of your religious rhetoric is to believe without proof or logic(faith), you can't really do a whole lot to sway those people with science.
Where you counter ~Thats why this proof is puplicated in a way so everyone gets it~ (stated in my own words)
So this is the final knock out!
given it is observable that it is infinite and all religions rely on some one that had to be first, so there cant be anything infinite excepting him self. AND given that this fact is presented in a way that everyone udnerstands in what way that affects his religion. so everyone understands why it is prooved that his religion can't be true.
given this limitations. (what simply are the limitations you give in collection of OP and different comments)
Then religion is simply dead. In the moment everyone knows that religion is wrong and everyone knows that everyone else knows aswell. Then religion is simply dead and there is nothing else you will get as answer for it.
ZaibisZaibis
$\begingroup$ I doubt that. People tend to believe all kinds of stuff, often enough in the face of all evidence. Just proving that something is plainly wrong seldomly stops believers. Simple answers to complex questions are just too attractive. $\endgroup$ – Burki Aug 20 '15 at 9:07
$\begingroup$ @Burki: I 100% absolutley aggree to you. BUT op gives as one of his limitations, that in his scenario the proof is that obisious that that wont happen. and this answer is based on the limitation that this WONT happen. Thats why I quoted the comment, because this was an awesome point and OP's reaction simply was "It is given that this wont happen.". what was my motivation to put this in as answer: given that each individum will accept this fact, there is no other option. $\endgroup$ – Zaibis Aug 20 '15 at 9:10
$\begingroup$ @Burki: So I strongly doubt that aswell. but given by definition that our doubts are wrong. This is the only thing that can happen (I wrote the answer with a flavour of sarcasim!) $\endgroup$ – Zaibis Aug 20 '15 at 9:14
$\begingroup$ @Zaibis I would still expect some fundamentalist religion to remain unconvinced they would simply claim that the universe was merely created to appear infinitely old (though this implies a deceptive god) after all they claim our universe was made only thousands of years ago but we can still see stars billions of light years away, that already implies a deceptive god. So even though I stated that the evidence was incredibly hard to deny some fundamentalists would still do just that. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 13:48
$\begingroup$ @VakusDrake: But what are you expecting to get as answer as this comment again shows to me jsut that you have allready a clear view of what would happen in your opinion by the given limitations? What do you want to get as answer by just commenting any answer to be not fitting to what you expect? $\endgroup$ – Zaibis Aug 20 '15 at 13:51
I just thought, taking as an example Catholicism, it has evolved its doctrines through time (encyclicals, ecumenical councils), though never incorporating new concepts brought about by science. Actually, Christianism (under which Catholicism is) has fragmented so much it would be mind boggling just to think of how it got fragmented that way, of course influenced by pockets of societies (borne by culture) in which it is thriving. Generations of people come and go, some things forgotten, some held on to, some replaced by something else. I myself am in a society I can describe as living in a duality - people recognize science and understand and believe (shucks, that word in itself is a can of worms in this context but it seems to be the best way to describe it) in it, yet deeply religious, never feeling conflicts in how they perceive life. Whether that duality is just for show or not, it just is there.
I do believe though humans will further evolve in intellect and emotion some time, forgetting the concept that we presently call "religion"
beefbeef
With many religions it would help! Aren't heaven and hell held to be in sort of parallel universes? (e.g. you can't dig to hell, or fly a rocket to heaven)
The religious people would simply say, "Yes I know, we've been telling you that for years!"
colmdecolmde
I don't see most Religions changing at all through such a discovery, even if they openly accept everything about it.
The main point is that the interpretation of the most gods allmightiness would be easily shifted from creating everything in our universe to creating the multiverse and everything in it.
The missing "startpoint" of the multiverse is no problem, too, as this could easily shifted to be misinterpreted by humans as no start point in time but a start point in exiastance or such, and thus jump away every time science would prove it wrong.
So in short those religions who don't want to change would not change.
On the other hand many soiritual oriented people would probably (and correctly given the nature of an infinite multiverse) believe to find a physical version of their god's reals as one of the many universes. The aboriginis dreamworld, christians paradise or norse valhalla come to mind.
SorsSors
Just because the uni/multiverse would not have a temporal beginning doesn't mean it wouldn't have a beginning of some sort. The world can still proceed from something other/greater than it even if this is not evident within the space/time manifold we experience.
A lot of individuals either lose their faith or resort to denial in the face of scientific revelation of course. But really it seems to me that when a scientific discovery "disproves" or makes "less room for" God, it only really damages worldviews that fail to consider how complete the transcendence of God is.
It seems to me that the responsible thing for a religious group to do is develop a robust theology that goes beyond whatever minimums for transcendence are put in place by modern science, and properly asserts an all-powerful, completely other god. My (limited) understanding is that a rich tradituion of robust theology has existed for many centuries within at least the Christian church and presumably with other religions as well (although fundamentalists may choose to ignore it).
dn3sdn3s
$\begingroup$ "proceed from something other/greater than it even if this is not evident within the space/time manifold we experience" Yeah that statement's nonsense. Saying something began is a fundamentally temporal statement, you can't remove temporality from that statement. Science removes things from the domain of god all the time Isaac Newton thought that the planets motion required god to function and couldn't work through totally natural phenomenon, well so much for that idea. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 23 '15 at 6:35
$\begingroup$ "beginning" is not a fundamentally temporal statement; it can be used in other contexts, for example spatial ("the line begins at this point and ends at this point"). It is possible that I have chosen the wrong word. Perhaps "proceed from", "originate in", or something along those lines would have been more appropriate. EDIT: Just read it over again. I never used the word "began". $\endgroup$ – dn3s Aug 26 '15 at 19:21
$\begingroup$ Saying something proceeds from something is still a temporal statement. Can you give any example of a way something could "proceed" or do anything for that matter, without time? $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 26 '15 at 19:27
$\begingroup$ As for science removing things from the domain of a god: no rigorous theology would rely on something as mutable as the mechanism behind planetary motion. That aside, by definition, nothing is ever removed from the domain of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god. Conservation of engergy, for example, didn't remove objects from the domain of God, it merely disproved incorrect assumptions about the nature God and the universe. You certainly can say that assuming an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god is absurd, but a worldview based on that assumption remains internally consistent. $\endgroup$ – dn3s Aug 26 '15 at 19:33
$\begingroup$ The only examples that come to mind are within the Christian tradition, such as Christ proceeding from the Father (I know the question is not about Christianity, but about all religions, but I will talk about what I know). Within the Church there is a long tradition of terms of procession/priority outside of time, in keeping with the view of an atemporal god— a being who does not vary across time. The point being that at least the Church would be well-equipped to deal with an infinite universe. I shouldn't assume, but was that your downvote? If so, care to explain? $\endgroup$ – dn3s Aug 26 '15 at 19:46
Well, an easy cop-out would be to note that our time is not god's time, and therefore what is an infinite time for us may well be a finite time for god. Thus god can have created the universe at what to us is an infinite time ago.
celtschkceltschk
$\begingroup$ Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. $\endgroup$ – Tim B♦ Aug 23 '15 at 8:55
The necessary course of action depends solely on how accessible are the other universes. How universes behave should also be considered.
Inaccessible Alternate Universes
If you know something is most probably true somewhere else, but have no way of knowing, then you have nothing to worry about how true that something is, not even where that something is. You simply have to stop caring, because you can't do anything. Really, you can't affect them and they can't affect you. Let each other be for each other's sake. If you can't make peace with that, declare war on the compartmentalized multiverse find out how to have access.
Accessible Alternate Universes
This is the problem. There are other universes, and there are a lot of ways we can affect them. Just remember they can affect us too. The ultimate problem here is defining the rules of the multiverse, so that we'll know if we can (and then how to) circumvent them.
Some Types of Access (and possible courses of action based on each)
1. Unlimited Parallel Universes: Our universe exists alongside countless others
This means that the cosmos is truly infinite. We can be anything, anyone, anywhere, rules does not really exist. Order comes after chaos. God is also Satan, somehow. Do whatever you like, or not. Your choice. Anarchy reigns.
2. Limited Parallel Universes: Our universe exists alongside countable others
The cosmos is not infinite, but there are a lot more within it. This means rules between universes can be set to the bare minimum of not destroying each other. Universes are like people. Treat each other with respect and caution, should you choose to access another and still desire to safely return to your own.
3. Possible Universes: Our universe exists with others
The multiverse obeys probability and statistics, and some universes receive the anthropic bias of being the best among the rest, wherein the worst ones are eliminated by the best or some shit. Religion now, is to become the best universe, whatever that means.
4. Altered Universes: Other universes are not really universes
The laws of physics in other universes are not the same as with ours. We are not allowed to exist there as we exist here. We can go there, but we need interuniversal law translation devices. Religion now, is to create the best such device, and conquer all the others.
Note that all some of these types might actually be just one, or that the ones listed here are just what I can extemporaneously design.
Like all memetic structures, religion is alive. Depending on how one universe can affect another and how the meta-universe can affect all universes, religion shall adapt and evolve accordingly for it to survive.
Kyle ZabalaKyle Zabala
Your question is flawed from the start. Early on, you say "The evidence for the newly discovered multiverse is substantial, denying it would be like denying relativity. " And yet you provide no references, nothing but your word that this evidence exists.
Let me provide some. Or rather, this blog post provides a collection of references that are very informative. Plenty there that points the other way, in spite of the title of the post.
But I especially want to draw your attention to the quote from Dr. Mersini-Houghton, who claims the data proves her multi-verse hypothesis.
Now that she has studied the Planck data, Dr Mersini-Houghton believes her hypothesis has been proven. Her findings imply there could be an infinite number of universes outside of our own.
Of those scientist looking at the Planck data, the main body saw no evidence of a multi-verse, and even evidence there is none (no dark flow). But even this scientist who wants to prove her hypothesis comes up with findings that imply that there could be an infinite number of universes. She jumps from evidence that she sees as pointing to at least one other universe (all that is necessary for the distortions in radiation, even if her observations in those distortions are granted) to implications of the possible existence of infinite universes. You make the further jump to saying that the multiverse is an undeniable scientific fact. And then on to infinite number of infinitely old universes. Wow!
Full Disclosure: I am a Christian. And, as others have said, the Bible if anything, predicts that there is at least one universe besides the one we currently reside. When the Big-Bang was first theorized, it was demonized as Christian creationist non-sense - until its leftover background radiation was measured and its scientific fact became irrefutable. Unfortunately the alignment between the Big-Bang and creation was quickly forgotten. Now Mersini points to a universe outside our own possibly having a hand in the Big-Bang. It would be quite ironic if you have just managed to promote Christian creationism.
$\begingroup$ I think this answer is missing the point of this site. Questions on this site typically present a hypothetical or fictional scenario and then ask about possible implications. The original question creates a scenario where there is undeniable evidence for an infinite amount of multiverses. Whether there exists evidence in the real world or not for this idea is irrelevant. $\endgroup$ – ncalmbeblpaicr0011 Aug 20 '15 at 20:09
$\begingroup$ @ncalmbeblpaicr0011 - But, in presenting a hypothetical, one should present possibilities as possibilities, not state that they are undeniable scientific fact, on par with the theory of relativity. That is the flaw in the OP's post, so interwoven and essential to his post, which jumped at me like a prime rib steak being wiggled in front of a pit-bull. PS: the OP has edited the post to make it sound less factual and more hypothetical, but up to now has not managed to do it fully. $\endgroup$ – AgapwIesu Aug 20 '15 at 20:33
$\begingroup$ I explicitly stated that this sort of evidence may be impossible in the real world you really didn't bother to read the question thoroughly. $\endgroup$ – Vakus Drake Aug 20 '15 at 23:53
$\begingroup$ @GiliusMaximus I down vote your question since in Webkanguru and djechlin top rated answers your argument is embedded, already with a clear good language. Religion is not evidence based it is acquired by conversion. $\endgroup$ – Any Body Aug 27 '15 at 9:52
$\begingroup$ @AnyBody - as someone who was dragged, kicking and screaming, by the evidence, from atheism into what you would call "religion", I have to dissent with the assertion that "religion is not evidence based it is acquired by conversion." At one level, you are kind of right; "religion" is hugely based on "faith", which the Bible defines as "the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." But a religion worth believing should have tons of archeologically and historically verifiable facts to go with it. Otherwise (no outworking in human history) it is worthless. $\endgroup$ – AgapwIesu Aug 27 '18 at 21:35
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The latest OTX offering, in beta since April 2015, is modeled on social sharing technologies, enabling security practitioners from around the world to openly research and collaborate on emerging threats, correlate data better and quickly implement that threat data into their own security systems, including AlienVault’s Unified Security Management (USM) v5.1, which is also generally available today. Launched in 2012 as one of the first crowd-sourced threat-sharing systems in the industry, OTX now has more than 26,000 participants in over 140 countries that contribute more than one million threat indicators daily.
“Nearly every vendor has some sort of threat service or product, but access is often limited unless you’re a customer or willing to pay a fee to consume that data,” said Stefan Schwoegler, Director of NetOps at b Spot, a mobile games community that lets you legally bet and win cash in the U.S. “What is compelling about AlienVault OTX is that it is open to anyone to participate or contribute, and it is truly a community where individuals can share, explore, challenge and validate threat data. OTX essentially gives practitioners everywhere their own security research organization.”
Powered by a sophisticated big data platform that combines natural language processing and machine learning to automate the collection and correlation of threat data from a variety of sources like third-party threat feeds, blogs, external API and local agents, the latest version of OTX contains thousands of threats, or pulses, created by OTX participants. Each OTX pulse provides users with a summary of the threat, a view into the software targeted and the related indicators of compromise (IoC) that can be used to spot attacker activity and detect threats, like IP addresses, domains, malware samples, emails and file hashes.
“We created the Open Threat Exchange on a core belief of strength in numbers,” said Barmak Meftah, president and CEO of AlienVault. “It has been shown time and time again, that if we work together as a community and freely share threat information and resources we can identify attacks sooner and react quicker, before they become devastating breaches. A collaborative defense is the only way to get ahead of the attackers. Security wins when we go on the offensive.”
Participants in the AlienVault OTX community can:
Create + Share Pulses: Users who observe suspicious or malicious behavior are able to create a pulse or add additional IoCs onto an existing pulse. This transforms threat data from one-way communication (e.g., from a vendor’s research team to subscribers) to open two-way communication. This also allows for community-based validation of a user’s findings where participants can also up-vote and comment on individual pulses to help others identify useful threat data.
Subscribe + Follow Pulses: Users can automatically instrument their security defenses based on pulses produced by specific users or pulses relating to specific threats, saving time and ensuring their security controls are up to date against the threats they care most about.
Export + Integrate Pulses: With the new AlienVault DirectConnect API, users can automatically download threat data and IoCs from OTX and integrate them into their existing security infrastructure using open standards such as STIX, OpenIoC and CSV. For AlienVault customers, data from OTX is automatically instrumented into the AlienVault USM platform.
“We have found the OTX 2.0 integration with USM capable of taking threat detection to the next level,” said Grant Leonard, co-founder of Castra Consulting. “We are excited to see hashes and domain matching alongside IP in near real-time correlation with our client data. We enjoy direct current information on what we are seeing right at our fingertips. This single innovation is really what helps us find the ‘right now’ threat vectors for our clients.”
AlienVault USM and OTX will be shown in the company’s booth #619 at Black Hat, August 5-6.
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Font size key to reading success in children with infantile nystagmus
Pediatric Ophth/Strabismus
This prospective study found that maximum reading speeds can be near normal in infantile nystagmus when optimal font sizes are provided, even in individuals with poor visual acuity or intense nystagmus. However, reading performance was acutely sensitive to font-size limitations.
The authors write that the optimal conditions required for reading in infantile nystagmus patients have not been defined clearly. However, standardized reading charts, such as the MNREAD (Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research, University of Minnesota) and Radner reading charts, have been used to determine the effect of changing font size in a range of visual disorders, such as age-related macular degeneration, amblyopia, uveitis and drusen maculopathy.
The authors investigated the optimal font sizes for reading performance in 71 individuals with infantile nystagmus compared with age-matched controls using the Radner reading test. Of those with infantile nystagmus, patients with no obvious afferent deficits (idiopathic infantile nystagmus) were compared with those with infantile nystagmus associated with albinism.
In optimal reading conditions, maximum reading speeds were 18.8 percent slower in albinism and 14.7 percent slower in idiopathic infantile nystagmus patients compared with controls. Reading acuities were significantly worse (P < 0.001) in infantile nystagmus patients compared with controls. Also, the range of font sizes over which reading speeds were less than optimum was much larger (as much as 6 logMAR lines) in some infantile nystagmus patients compared with controls (P < 0.001).
In infantile nystagmus patients, reading acuity was strongly correlated with near visual acuity but was better than near visual acuity in participants with poor visual acuity. Near visual acuity was a poor predictor of maximum reading speed. Nystagmus intensity and foveation were poor indicators of both reading acuity and maximum reading speed.
The authors conclude that these results provide evidence for the potential use of reading speed measurements in patients with idiopathic infantile nystagmus and albinism for assessing functional vision because they more accurately reflect visual function than near visual acuity alone. They can be used as a guide to develop schemes for providing patients with the optimal font sizes for reading. Alternatively, where limitations in font sizes are imposed, they can indicate the adjustments in the time allowed for tasks requiring significant reading activity in schools and work places.
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Elvis Presley fans line-up for roles in big-budget Baz Luhrmann movie about The King
ABC Gold Coast
By Tom Forbes
Photo: Aspiring actor Elvis Roberts hoping to star in Baz Luhrmann film about The King (Tom Forbes)
Audio: Being the world's Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist (RN Drive)
Map: Banora Point 2486
Australian film producer Baz Luhrmann may not have to cast a wide net to find an actor to play Elvis Presley in his big-budget film being shot on the Gold Coast.
Producer Baz Luhrmann is searching worldwide for role of Elvis Presley
One fanatic wants to star in the film, while another says he wants to be a technical advisor for his Elvis knowledge
Village Roadshow Studios say the movie's production schedule will be finalised in coming weeks
Elvis Roberts — yes, that is his real name — from Banora Point on the southern Gold Coast said he had a burning love for The King and acting.
"I really want to be in it," he said.
"That's my goal — I really want to be a movie star.
"I've always acted, I make little short films and I have been in two feature films, but only as extras."
The 23-year-old has been working in a pet store and said he tried to email Luhrmann when he heard the movie about Presley's life was going to be filmed at the Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.
"It would be good to play Elvis, because you won't have to change my name," Mr Roberts said.
Photo: Luhrmann and Palaszczuk in London discussing the filming of the Elvis biopic. (Supplied: Annastacia Palaszczuk)
Dual Oscar winner Tom Hanks has been signed to play the role of Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker.
When the film was announced by the Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk last week, Luhrmann said he was conducting a worldwide search for the leading role of Elvis, but added he would also employ locally.
"I am committed … to developing Queensland's creative culture and supporting filmmakers, storytellers and artists of all kinds, in the same manner that we ourselves were supported and mentored early in our careers."
'A passion inside of me'
Mr Roberts' love of Presley came from his father, Rusty Roberts, who said he had amassed Australia's largest collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia.
"It's enormous," Rusty said.
"Anyone can step forward and try to challenge me.
"Collecting Elvis is like breathing to me. I just wake up and start doing it."
Photo: Rusty Roberts says he has Australia's largest collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia. (ABC Gold Coast: Tom Forbes)
The 47-year-old personal trainer said he wants to work on the Elvis Presley movie as a technical advisor.
"Anything I say would be gospel," Rusty said.
"I had Elvis as a passion inside of me as a child, I read about Elvis every day, I watch Elvis every day."
"You can't just go and read one book and know everything."
Mr Roberts and his father have been regular fixtures in the Elvis Presley community with the pair regularly performing at tribute festivals.
"We do Elvis shows at weddings, parties, you name it," he said.
"He does the older [Elvis], I do the younger."
The film is expected to create 900 jobs and inject more than $105 million into the Queensland economy.
A spokesman from Village Roadshow Studios said the production schedule is expected to be finalised in the coming weeks.
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Albanov, Valerian & Linda Dubosson; Roberts, David & Jon Krakauer & Alison Anderson Listings
1 Albanov, Valerian & Linda Dubosson; Roberts, David & Jon Krakauer & Alison Anderson In the Land of White Death An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
New York Modern Library 2000 0679641009 / 9780679641001 First Edition; First Impression Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Signed by Author
Inscribed "I hope you enjoy this true adventure, Christmas 2000" and signed. The signature could be of author or just someone gifting the book. Jon Krakauer is the writer of the preface and author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. Dust has been price clipped otherwise in new condition. In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions that left the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy. For nearly a year and a half, the twenty-five men and one woman aboard the Saint Anna endured terrible hardships and danger as the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that the Saint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov and thirteen crewmen left the ship in January 1914, hauling makeshift sledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping to reach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. With only a shockingly inaccurate map to guide him, Albanov led his men on a 235-mile journey of continuous peril, enduring blizzards, disintegrating ice floes, attacks by polar bears and walrus, starvation, sickness, snowblindness, and mutiny. That any of the team survived is a wonder. That Albanov kept a diary of his ninety-day ordeal-a story that Jon Krakauer calls an "astounding, utterly compelling book," and David Roberts calls "as lean and taut as a good thriller"-is nearly miraculous. First published in Russia in 1917, Albanov's narrative is here translated into English for the first time. Haunting, suspenseful, and told with gripping detail, In the Land of White Death can now rightfully take its place among the classic writings of Nansen, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, and Shackleton. Dust jacket now in Brodart mylar protective (clear) cover.; Signed by Author
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Racial Segregation in the Church Term Paper by Peter Pen
An examination of the reasons for racial segregation in the church looking at it from a Biblical, sociological and ethical context.
# 103266 | 2,055 words | 11 sources | MLA | 2008
Published on Apr 30, 2008 in Religion and Theology (Christianity) , African-American Studies (Racism)
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The paper will examine the reasons why during the time of the American Civil Rights Movement, African-American religious integrity was challenged through segregation, racism, church participation and religion. It also looks at the possible solutions to segregation, specifically the changes made by Martin Luther King Jr. The first section of the paper explains segregation in a Biblical, sociological and ethical context. It examines religious limitations that were place on the African-American society, as well as the violence directed at it. Finally, the paper questions why the church was reluctant to participate in desegregation.
From the Paper:
"How is segregation justified through the Bible? It is not when it is motivated by hatred. The story of Noah's son has nothing to do with race and the curse of Babel was for sin. The Bible separates people by faith and believer. Race, national origin, wealth, and education are not scriptural and mock Christ and his love for all people. Jesus wants us to come to him and when churches refuse to allow Christian blacks to worship in their church, it becomes a serious problem in our country's psyche and Jesus' sacrifices. This issue becomes more alarming through denying blacks the right to vote, ending discrimination in public places, the right to free association with any man, equal enforcement laws and adequate education. Blacks at this time did not receive these rights and were seen as dumb and dishonest. The affects of slavery help salvage the attitude and the progression of blacks a problem as they saw whites as cruel, dishonest and selfish."
Sample of Sources Used:
"Men's Trophies Will Pass Away," Christianity Today, February 15, 1963, 16.
"Attack on the Conscience," Time, February 18, 1957, 17-20.
G. C. Berkouwer, "The Silent God?" Christianity Today, November 8, 1963, 7.
Earle E. Ellis, "Segregation and the Kingdom of God," Christianity Today, March 18, 1957, 6-9.
"The Racial Turmoil," Christianity Today, August 2, 1963, 47.
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Racial Segregation and Brown versus The Board of Education
A look at how racial segregation played out in the case Brown versus The Board of Education.
Ethnic and Racial Segregation in Canadian Cities
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Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental donates a van to Pancreatic Cancer Scotland
Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental has donated a van to Pancreatic Cancer Scotland (PCS) to help them tour seven cities in Scotland.
Next week, Pancreatic Cancer Scotland (PCS) will hit the road in their purple ‘PanCanVan’ to mark Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
The charity hopes to educate and engage the public this November for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Their aim is to raise awareness of the symptoms and risks associated with pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously hard to diagnose because the subtle symptoms can often be dismissed as something less serious. This explains why, out of all the major cancers, pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate.
The PCS seven-city tour kicks off in Glasgow on Thursday 8th November at Buchanan Street, and finishes on Friday 20th November in Dundee. You can find more details of the tour here.
Fiona Brown, Development Manager for Pancreatic Cancer Scotland, said: ‘We’re really grateful to Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental for this donating this fabulous new van. It’s so eye- catching, especially with the colour purple, which is the colour associated with pancreatic cancer and will really help with our mission to raise as much awareness as possible.’
Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental’s Operations Manager, Margaret Spiers, said: ‘We are very proud to support Pancreatic Cancer Scotland for their upcoming tour of Scotland. It’s a privilege to play a small role in the great work they’re doing’.
If you spot the purple van make sure to ask lots of questions and find out more about the signs, symptoms and causes of pancreatic cancer. Tell the PCS team and volunteers we sent you, and be sure to send us a picture of you with the PanCanVan.
Can’t make it to any of the cities for the PanCanVan’s tour? Watch out for major landmarks being lit up purple to support World Pancreatic Cancer day on Thursday 15th November.
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Open EQUELLA
EQUELLA Becomes Open Source Software - What You Need to Know
EQUELLA Press Release 2017
EQUELLA is evolving. After 6 years of stewardship by Pearson, EQUELLA is undergoing an evolution into an open source sustainability model. This is the place to ask questions about this evolution - and discover answers.
Is EQUELLA being retired or shut down?
No. Pearson’s involvement with EQUELLA will end at the end of 2017. However, an open source model under Apereo provides long-term evolution and stability to the platform. This is great news for EQUELLA clients around the globe - ultimately supporting millions of learners worldwide.
What is open source software?
“Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.” (Wikipedia)
Why is open source software important?
There are several reasons why open source software is important for education:
Choice, flexibility and control: Open Source Software provides choice and flexibility. An educational institution can choose to deploy open source software with support from the community that produces it, with a service offering from a commercial provider, or as a hosted solution. Institutions often use a mixture of these three approaches to control costs and upgrade cycles. Using open source software, rather than commercial proprietary solutions, means you always have an “out”; you’re not locked into a single vendor or support approach.
Suitability for purpose, collaboration and innovation: Open source software from Apereo is built by education for education. Hundreds of institutions around the world contribute code, documentation and other expertise to make that software fit for educational purpose. Apereo open source software helps institutions to innovate, and then provides a path to making that innovation sustainable by contributing it back to the greater whole.
What is Apereo?
Apereo is a membership organization that is registered as a non-profit in the United States. The overwhelming majority of Apereo members are educational institutions on five continents. Apereo acts as an umbrella for several well-known open source communities serving education. The core mission of Apereo is to assist and facilitate educational organizations that “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research." More information about Apereo is available at www.apereo.org . Apereo works closely with partner organizations the ESUP-Portail consortium in France, and LAMP consortium in North America. That’s a network of almost two hundred institutions worldwide.
Why is Apereo important for EQUELLA?
Apereo provides a neutral point where intellectual property can be shared. It’s your guarantee that the software you rely on will be made available in perpetuity.
What open source license will EQUELLA be released under? What does this license enable?
EQUELLA will be licensed under the Apache 2 license. Details of Apereo licensing policy, together with a further, detailed FAQ on licensing can be found here. The Apache 2 license is a “liberal” open source license. In brief, it allows the use, modification, distribution and sale of software for any purpose.
Will commercial support offerings be available?
Commercial support offerings will be immediately available from three established organisations, all with EQUELLA expertise:
North America - Unicon
Asia Pacific - Edalex Solutions
EMEA - Next Education Services
What's the near-future product roadmap?
The Edalex Solutions team has already commenced development on version 6.5 of EQUELLA. This version delivers on client-requested enhancements to core areas of the platform. Anticipated features in the release span 4 key areas:
UX improvement: introducing drag & drop functionality during file uploads from the wizard page
Workflow enhancements:
UI enhancements: improved placement of approve/reject buttons and placement of comments in a scrollable panel
Notifications: configure workflow notifications by task; user opt in/out of notifications
File attachment: enable file attachment related to workflow
Task management: enhanced filtering, sorting & searching; improved UI; introduction of bulk actions for tasks
Script task: addition of new task type to invoke workflow script
Customisable email templates: enabling customisation of email templates for emails sent for notifications and moderation
Version 6.5 is expected to be released in late 2017, with the final scope of the release subject to change.
What's the long-term plan for setting direction?
As EQUELLA progresses towards being a fully formed open source community, it’s vital that voices from EQUELLA adopters are heard. While Edalex Solutions, Unicon, and Next Education Services will be active leaders in establishing and guiding an initial roadmap, we want to carefully create the conditions for greater contribution across the global community.
The first step will be the formation of advisory groups to help steer the open EQUELLA product, and further develop community ownership and investment. We’ll be communicating frequently and regularly about this. Subscribe to equella-users[at]apereo.org to learn how to get involved. (Subscribe by sending a mail to equella-users+subscribe[at]apereo.org)
What are the security considerations under open source?
Open source software is a critical part of IT infrastructure for many large enterprises. Developing software in the open means that developers cannot rely on security by obscurity, and more eyes on software exposes weakness more quickly than much proprietary software.
An independent security firm recently conducted penetration testing on the EQUELLA platform recently. They identified a number of long-standing issues - for which there are no known exploits. These vulnerabilities have been mitigated through software changes, and these fixes are included in the open source version of EQUELLA.
The penetration testing was conducted at the behest of a client. While penetration tests are not conducted centrally, the community takes security very seriously and will respond as rapidly as possible.
As part of the Apereo incubation process we will develop and publish a security policy.
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School funding group wants more time
Instead of recommendations to overhaul the school funding formula, state leaders are focused on Proposition 123, the school-funding ballot proposal that goes to voters May 17.
School funding group wants more time Instead of recommendations to overhaul the school funding formula, state leaders are focused on Proposition 123, the school-funding ballot proposal that goes to voters May 17. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1Qgbzxr
Alia Beard Rau, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 9:44 p.m. MT Dec. 2, 2015 | Updated 9:50 p.m. MT Dec. 2, 2015
K-12 and universities: Ducey will inevitably use the stage to champion education reforms and Proposition 123, the $3.5 billion K-12 public-education-funding plan voters will decide in May.(Photo: Getty Images)
The Classrooms First Initiative Council wants another six to nine months to overhaul school funding
Gov. Doug Ducey is focused on Prop. 123, which goes to voters May 17
Gov. Doug Ducey's Classrooms First Initiative Council was scheduled to announce its final recommendations for overhauling Arizona's complex 35-year-old funding formula Wednesday. Instead, it asked for more time.
Any significant formula changes will be pushed off for another six to nine months while the group continues its work, allowing Ducey and other state leaders to keep the public focused on the related school-funding ballot proposal.
Proposition 123, which would use a combination of general fund and Sate Land Trust funds to add about $3.5 billion to schools over the next decade, goes to voters May 17.
Ducey said he is fine giving the council the additional time.
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"For us, step one remains Prop. 123," he said. "We're going to have $3.5 billion added to the pie once we're successful. What we then need to do is make sure those dollars are spent effectively. There's a lot more work to do."
Request for more time
Ducey's council, which is relatively evenly split between members with district-school connections and those with charter-school connections, spent six months analyzing the funding formula. The last time the formula was overhauled, a group spent two years working on it.
Council chairman Jim Swanson, president and CEO of Kitchell construction company, said the work was complicated.
Arizona legislators unlikely to boost state spending
The current system treats public district and charter schools differently. For example, while charter schools get more state money, district schools can seek additional revenue from local taxpayers through bonds and overrides. Ducey charged the group with creating a more equitable and transparent system.
"While the vision and goals are relatively easy, getting there is difficult," Swanson said. "We have a desire to be thorough and thoughtful in this process."
Some details released
The council did release some broad recommendations, although many were the same as the preliminary recommendations released in September.
The recommendations include:
A single funding formula for all public schools. However, the council suggests it should "take into consideration" differences such as bonds, overrides and desegregation funding. This would be the main issue the council will continue to discuss.
Standardized property-tax rates combined with state general-fund appropriations would fund the system. Currently, property taxes vary by school district.
Eliminating separate funding for higher functioning special-needs students such as those with dyslexia or a speech impairment. The funds currently dedicated to these students would be moved into the base funding level for all students.
Eliminating additional funding to districts for experienced teachers, rolling that money into the base amount allocated per student.
Clarifying school finance policies to make them more accessible to the public. Give parents online access to annual information about how their child generates funding for their school.
Giving school districts more flexibility on how they spend their funds, giving them a lump sum instead of the current practice of designating certain money for certain things. Giving principals more control over staffing and budgeting at their school.
Giving high-performing schools additional money, reserving the most money for high-performing schools in low socioeconomic areas.
Eliminating regulations so high-performing schools can more easily expand.
Conducting an updated cost study to determine the true costs of special education. The Legislature last funded a study in 2007, which showed some schools were spending more than they receive to cover costs.
Finding ways to recruit and retain good teachers, such as mentoring, bonuses and more equitable pay.
Allowing school districts to sell or lease unused and under-used buildings more quickly.
Not unanimous
Dysart Unified School District teacher Beth Maloney, one of the council members, said the council had not yet found consensus, particularly on the funding issues. There has been discussion about whether lower-income schools should get additional funding, similar to the proposal that would give higher-performing schools more money.
"We have a lot more discussion we need to do, especially involving the opportunity funding," she said. "I feel like it would have just as much impact as the achievement funding."
Council member Ken Hicks, chief financial officer of the Peoria Unified School District, urged caution as the group moves forward with proposals on the funding formula. He suggested working with district financial experts to better evaluate the financial impact of recommendations.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, a member of the council, said she would wait for more details but had some initial concerns about the idea of a statewide property tax.
"I"m a local-control fan," she said. "Local communities are entitled to look at their needs. How can we have people in Tucson deciding what's best for the people in Surprise?"
Swanson said he will meet with Ducey and his staff to determine if there are some measures that could be introduced as legislation when the session begins in January. He declined to suggest options, echoing Ducey's statements that Proposition 123 is the priority.
"Our goal is to build an equitable system for every kid," he said. "Combing Prop 123 and the work that we're doing on some of the reforms, those things can work in concert. Proposition 123 is a good start that's putting some money in the system."
Ducey said the changes that resulted from the council's work would be long-term.
"We are going to look though this and then prioritize what's most important now, what comes first and what comes next," he said.
Ducey said there's a lot that could be done next session, but declined to offer details.
"We'll have a legislative agenda," he said, smiling. "You'll hear about it in the State of the State in January."
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Irish food: Full Irish breakfast and more traditional dishes for St. Patrick's Day
By Georgia Kral Updated March 11, 2016 2:58 PM
What better way to celebrate a holiday than by eating?
As is true in most cultures, food plays an important role in holiday celebrations. And while St. Patrick's Day in America is largely associated with drinking beer and whiskey, it's advisable to take a moment and consider the foods of Ireland, too: they are very much representative of where they come from. Potatoes and chips (French fries) are to Ireland what wine is to France.
And let's get real, eating goes with drinking. And it helps you to drink more!
Padraigh Connolly is the owner and chef at the Dog and Duck in Sunnyside, Queens (thedogandduckny.com. The Ireland native opened the gastropub in 2011, having moved to the area from the United Kingdom in 1998. We learned a lot about Irish food.
Here are some of the traditional foods you should seek out this St. Patrick's Day. Or really any day, because they're usually always available.
A 'fry up' or full Irish breakfast
Photo Credit: Georgia Kral
A traditional full Irish breakfast (called a "fry up" in Ireland, because it's all cooked in a fry pan) comes with sunny-side-up eggs, black and white sausage (pork mixed with barley or other grains, the black also includes blood), Irish bacon, baked beans, mushrooms, sausages and mash. At the Dog and Duck, the mash is served as a potato cake. While the dish is popular on weekends, chef Padraigh Connolly said that appetites are shifting away from heavy breakfasts and toward more healthy ones, which is affecting the popularity of the dish. But despite that, it's still one of the most popular items on the brunch menu. What about the tomato? Many full Irish breakfasts in America come with a griddled tomato, but that's not traditional, Connolly said.
Battered sausages
After a night of drinking, an Irishman or woman usually heads to a "chipper," Connolly explained. Sometimes, a chipper is only open at night! At the chipper, you can order any manner of fried items, just the kind of foods necessary after a night of drinking. There are chips, of course, as well as fish and chips and battered sausages (pictured). Battered sausages are just what they sound like: a sausage that has been dipped in beer batter and deep fried. The Irish are fond of mild curry, and at the Dog and Duck, curry sauce is served on the side of the battered sausages, along with baked beans. Connolly said a spot in NYC that would be comparable to an Irish chipper would be a dollar slice joint or a kebab shop.
Irish stew
Irish stew is like a pot roast, except it's always made with lamb. In this traditional dish, lamb is braised along with root vegetables and potatoes. At the Dog and Duck, it's served in the style of a chicken pot pie, with a pastry crust. But that's not how it would be served in an Irish home, Connolly said. It would just be a stew, with nothing fancy like a crust on top. He runs a restaurant, he said, where presentation goes a long way.
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Essentially defined as bread made with soft flour (rather than hard, which requires yeast to rise) and using soda as a leavening agent, Irish soda bread was something all the Irish could easily make at home. Today it is made in bakeries all over the country for St. Patrick's Day, even Italian bakeries and others not associated with Irish food.
Colcannon
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This side dish is made with potatoes, cabbage or kale and often onions. At the Dog and Duck, Connolly serves it with leeks and kale. Colcannon, also sometimes known as "bubble and squeak," is one of the most traditional Irish foods. Potatoes are a staple food of Ireland and play a major role in nearly all Irish dishes. Connolly says that's largely because they are easy to grow, are cheap and can be used to stretch any meal into something bigger or more filling.
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Corned beef was not something the Irish ate until they immigrated to America, Connolly said. In the homeland, they ate Irish bacon, or "rashers" -- which is leaner because it's cut from the loin instead of the pork belly like American bacon is -- with boiled potatoes and cabbage. Both dishes are sold at the Dog and Duck on St. Patrick's Day, but only for the holiday.
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Irish coffee is not something you'd order at the pub, Connolly said, but it's very traditional to have it on holidays. "After Christmas dinner, definitely," he said. Traditionally it's a coffee with sugar and whiskey that's topped with cream.
By Georgia Kral
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Bath's Halfpenny Bridge SHUT for two weeks in 140th anniversary year of fatal disaster
This will mean a slight detour for people travelling to and from Widcombe Parade
James Crawley
Halfpenny Bridge has been closed by Western Power Distribution
A Bath footbridge has been closed almost 140 years to the day since it collapsed, claiming the lives of ten people.
The Halfpenny Bridge, which spans the River Avon connecting Widcombe with the back of Bath Spa railway station, has been shut for up to two weeks.
Western Power Distribution has been forced to close it on Monday (June 12) because of an electrical fault in the area.
Pedestrians should use the riverside path from Rossiter Road to access the city centre.
A Western Power Distribution spokeswoman said: "We have got a fault on the 33,000 volt network in the area and to carry out a full repair, we need to close the bridge.
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"We acknowledge this may cause some disruption locally for which we apologise but this is an emergency repair on the network which must be completed."
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Decision impact statement
Commissioner of Taxation v David Clark; Commissioner of Taxation v Helen Clark
Court Citation(s):
Full Federal Court
[2011] HCATrans 236
(2011) 80 ATR 20
Venue: Federal Court
Venue Reference No: QUD 1 of 2010; QUD 2 of 2010 (FC) / B10 2011 (HC)
Judge Name: French CJ, Crennan and Kiefel JJ
Judgment date: 21 January 2011 (FC) / 2 September 2011 (HC)
Appeals on foot: No.
Decision Outcome: Adverse
Impacted Advice
Relevant Rulings/Determinations:
Continuity of trust estate
Net capital gain
Net capital loss
Net income in relation to a trust estate
Share of the net income of a trust estate
The ATO has reviewed the impact of this decision including any precedential documents and Law Administration Practice Statements.
Précis
Outlines the ATO view of this case which concerns whether for tax purposes capital gains made in the 2001 income year could be reduced by prior year capital losses, where a number of significant changes were made to the trust in the intervening period.
Brief summary of facts
In working out whether the Carringbush Unit Trust (CUT), a closely held unit trust, had made a net capital gain in the 2001 income year in connection with the sale of properties acquired in 1997, an issue arose as to whether capital losses made by the CUT originating from the 1991, 1992 and 1993 income years could be applied against the gains made from those sales.
The relevant capital losses were made by the CUT whilst the CUT was under the control of the Denoon family and its units were held by members of the Denoon family and entities associated with that family (the Denoons).
In June 1993, various instruments were entered into that provided for control in the CUT to pass from the Denoon family to the Clark family, and entities associated with the Clark family received units in the CUT. Until then, as reflected in its most recent balance sheet, the CUT had a deficiency of liabilities over assets of approximately $3.9 million.
In particular, these instruments resulted in:
a change in the trustee of the CUT from a Denoon controlled entity to a Clark controlled entity;
the Denoon controlled trustee writing off all but $10 of the CUT's assets (i.e. loans owing to it from associates), securing the release of the liabilities it owed to associates and third parties, and purportedly waiving its right to indemnity from the trust fund in respect of liabilities properly incurred by it in discharging its powers and duties as trustee;
the Clark controlled trustee injecting $1.8 million into the CUT;
Denoon controlled entities transferring five of the 10 issued units in the CUT to Clark controlled entities on the understanding and provision that the remaining 5 units (still held by the Denoons) would receive no further benefits from the CUT unless and until the Denoons had made a matching contribution of $1.8 million to the CUT, and nonetheless would be transferred to Clark controlled entities if this contribution was not made within two years.
The Denoons received a fee of $60,000 for passing control of the trust to the Clarks.
In the event, the Denoons did not make the matching contribution of $1.8 million to the CUT. As a result, in April 1996, the remaining 5 units in the CUT were transferred to the Clark controlled entities.
The CUT made capital gains in the 2001 income year from property development activities that were funded by capital contributions (including the $1.8 million) from the Clark controlled entities, namely from the sale of two properties.
The Commissioner proceeded on the basis that the capital losses made in respect of the earlier years of income were not available to be recouped against the gains made in the 2001 income year in calculating the net income of the trust for that year on the basis that the trust estate that made those capital losses was not, for tax purposes, the same trust estate that made the gains. In proceeding on this basis, the Commissioner looked to whether continuity of the trust estate had been maintained and in this context focussed on the three main indicia of continuity identified by the High Court in Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Commercial Nominees (2001) 75 ALJR 1172. These indicia are continuity of the constitution of the trusts under which the fund operated, of the trust property and of its membership.
Issues decided by the courts
Full Federal Court - majority decision in taxpayer's favour
Edmonds & Gordon JJ rejected the Commissioner's contention that there was a lack of continuity of the trust estate.
Their Honours acknowledged [at para 77] that a similar issue arose in Commercial Nominees in respect of the former taxing regime for superannuation funds, and quoted the High Court as finding in that case that:
[t]he three main indicia of continuity [for the purposes the former taxing regime for superannuation funds] are the constitution of the trusts under which the fund (if a trust fund) operated, the trust property , and membership . Changes in one or more of those matters must be such as to terminate the existence of the eligible entity, or to produce the result that it does not derive the income in question , to destroy the necessary continuity. [emphasis added by Edmonds and Gordon JJ]
However, their Honours were of the view [at paras 78 and 79] that the High Court had also endorsed the reasoning of the Full Federal Court in Commercial Nominees (1999) 167 ALR 147 that so long as any amendment to the trust obligations is made in accordance with a power conferred by the trust instrument creating the obligations, and continuity of the property that is the subject of the trust obligation is established, then there will be 'identity' of the taxpayer notwithstanding any amendment of the trust obligation and any change in the property itself.
Finally, their Honours concluded [at para 87] that:
[w]hen the High Court in Commercial Nominees spoke about trust property and membership as providing two of the indicia for the continued existence of the ... trust estate, the Court was not suggesting that there had to be a strict or even partial identity of property for the first and objects for the second. It was speaking more generally: that there had to be a continuum of property and membership, which could be identified at any time, even if different from time to time; and without severance of one or both leading to the termination of the trust in question...
On this basis, their Honours rejected the Commissioner's contention that there was a 'substantial discontinuity' with respect to each of the three main indicia identified by the High Court in Commercial Nominees. Their Honours also made some specific observations in respect of each of the indicia.
Constitution of the trust
Their Honours observed [at para 76] that it was not without significance that all of the arrangements
were effected without making any alteration to the terms of the [deed of the CUT]. In other words, there was no alteration to the terms of the trusts embodied in that document even if a beneficial interest in the trust fund was affected, even extinguished, by virtue of the arrangements ...
Their Honours then referred by way of example to the Denoon controlled trustee's waiver of its right to be indemnified out of the assets of the trust fund, later observing [at para 82] that this 'no more created a new trust than it terminated an existing one. At the most it may have extinguished a 'beneficial interest' in the trust assets .... but even that is not clear'.
Their Honours also found that the arrangements under which the Denoons agreed they would obtain no further benefits from the CUT unless and until they made a capital contribution to the trust equal to that made by the Clarks 'did not vary the trusts [of the CUT] let alone terminate them or bring a new trust into existence' [at para 83].
Trust property and membership
Their Honours observed that it was significant in their view that the Commissioner had never contended that 'there was a cessation in the continuum of trust property such as to leave it open to find that the trust estate as originally constituted had come to an end', adding that at most 'it was put that only a money amount of $10, being the amount of the original settlement, remained', but it was not disputed that this amount continued to exist [at para 53].
Their Honours also noted that under the terms of the CUT, it would be expected that trust property would change as units were subscribed for and redeemed, and its membership would change as new units were issued and existing units transferred or redeemed [at paras 85-86].
Their Honours found [at para 87] that whilst the identity of the trust property and objects of the CUT changed over time, there had not been any severance in their continuum.
By way of final remark, their Honours stated [at para 88] that the approach they had taken was 'consistent with the position at general law in relation to the four essential indicia of the existence of a trust: the trustee, trust property, the beneficiary and an equitable obligation annexed to the trust property' and that:
[i]n Commercial Nominees both the Full Court, at [49] of its reasons, and the High Court, at [35] of its reasons, pointed out that there was nothing in Pt IX [the then statutory taxation regime for superannuation funds], nor in the 1936 Act generally, which imposed some statutory requirement of continuity for determining when there is a sufficient identity of the trusts involved. With respect, the same applies in the case of Div 6 of Pt III of the 1936 Act.
Full Federal Court - dissent
Dowsett J dissented and found that the trust estate that made the capital gains was not the same trust estate as made the capital losses [at paras 44 and 45]. In so doing, his Honour commented [at para 44] that:
it cannot seriously be contemplated that [the 2001 net capital gain] was the product of any part of the trust estate held prior to, or at 18 June 1993, nor can it sensibly be argued that any part of the capital gain was produced by the $10 settlement amount. It cannot be said that there was continuity of the trust estate from any time prior to 18 June 1993 until the date of acquisition [of the properties in 1997] or the date of their sale in the 2001 year of income.
Earlier his Honour had observed [at para 39] that by 18 June 1993, the CUT had 'in effect, been wound up ... as at 18 June 1993 the relevant trust estate was of only nominal value'.
His Honour concluded [at para 45] that while changes in the ownership of the units were clearly contemplated by the trust deed, and while changes in the terms of the trust were also contemplated, as was augmentation of the fund, 'where a trust has been effectively deprived of all assets and re-endowed, I see no way in which it can be said that the original trust estate has continued'.
Application for special leave to appeal to the High Court rejected
The Commissioner sought special leave to appeal against the decision of the Full Federal Court to the High Court. In support of his application, the Commissioner argued that in proceeding on the assumption that the Commissioner could only succeed if there was a complete absence of trust property with the result that the trust estate had come to an end, the Federal Court's approach was difficult to reconcile with that of the High Court in Commercial Nominees. The Commissioner argued that:
in Commercial Nominees the High Court had rejected the proposition that the test to be applied looks simply to whether there has been a resettlement of trust property at general law;
the High Court, contrary to the apparent approach of the Full Federal Court in Clark, expressly stated in Commercial Nominees [at para 36] that the test to be applied was instead one of continuity, a point also made by the Full Federal Court in that case [at para 55];
the test of continuity set out by the High Court in Commercial Nominees has two limbs, namely, whether changes in one or more of the trust constitution, property and membership are such to:
terminate the existence of the trust, or
produce the result that it does not derive the income in question.
Expressed in terms of the facts in Clark, the relevant enquiry is therefore not complete simply by asking whether changes in one or more of the constitution of the CUT, the trust property, and membership were such as to terminate the existence of the trust. Rather one must go further and also ask whether the changes were nonetheless such as to produce the result that the trust estate that made the earlier capital losses is not the trust estate that made the later capital gains from the sale of trust property acquired after the recapitalisation;
such a two limb approach to the test of continuity necessarily contemplates the existence of situations in which the existence of a trust was not terminated but changes to the constitution, trust property and / or membership nevertheless produce a situation in which the requirement of continuity is not satisfied.
In refusing the Commissioner's application for special leave, the High Court stated that the decision of the Full Federal Court 'involved characterisation and evaluation of the continuity of the trust estate' and it was not attended with sufficient doubt to warrant the grant of special leave.
Tax Office view of Decision
The Commissioner considers that the decision of the Full Federal Court in Clark does not change the basic proposition that, based on the authority in Commercial Nominees, the relevant focus is on whether continuity of the trust estate has been maintained. That this is so is confirmed by the High Court's language in disposing of the Commissioner's application for special leave where the High Court noted that the decision of the Full Federal Court involved 'characterisation and evaluation of the continuity of the trust estate '.
The statute does not contain a statement of the applicable criteria against which continuity is to be assessed. As was recognised by the Full Federal Court in Commercial Nominees [at para 49], the consequence is that criteria must be established for these purposes. As decided by the High Court in Commercial Nominees, the Commissioner considers that the test to be applied looks to whether changes to one or more of the trust's constituent documents, the trust property, and the identity of those with a beneficial interest in the trust property are such as to terminate the existence of the trust.
To the extent that the High Court in Commercial Nominees left open the possibility that there might be a loss of continuity in circumstances short of the existence of the trust having come to an end, the Commissioner acknowledges that in Clark there were significant changes to the property, membership and operation of the CUT without any finding by the courts that there was a loss of continuity such as to deny the trust access to the losses being carried forward. Relevantly, in disposing of the Commissioner's special leave application, the High Court noted that the application raised the question:
[w]hether a trustee of a unit trust could set-off, against capital gains, capital losses incurred some years before under a different trustee with different unit holders, with an intervening excess of liabilities over assets, subsequent recapitalisation of the trust and a waiver by the original trustee of its right to be indemnified from the assets of the trust.
Accordingly, following Clark, there will not be a loss of continuity sufficient to deny a trustee access to any capital losses being carried forward without a termination of the existence of the trust estate.
Not being central to the matter in dispute, the Commissioner does not view this case as deciding the issue of whether or not an attempt by a trustee to waive its right of indemnity may be effective at law.
Administrative Treatment
Even though this case considered whether changes in a continuing trust were sufficient to treat that trust as a different taxpayer for the purpose of applying a net capital loss, the ATO accepts the principles set out in this case have broader application. In particular, the case is relevant to the question of the circumstances in which CGT Event E1 may happen by reason of a new trust coming into existence consequent on changes being made to an existing trust. In that context the ATO accepts that the reasoning of the court has the effect that a valid amendment to a trust, not resulting in a termination of the trust will not of itself result in the happening of CGT event E1. On this basis the 'Creation of a new trust - Statement of Principles August 2001' was withdrawn on 20 April 2012.
Consequently the ATO has withdrawn Creation of a new trust - Statement of Principles August 2001. The ATO view in relation to this matter is now set out in Taxation Determination TD 2012/21 which addresses the question: does CGT event E1 or E2 in sections 104-55 or 104-60 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 happen if the terms of a trust are changed pursuant to a valid exercise of a power contained within the trust's constituent document, or varied with the approval of a relevant court?
Implications on current Public Rulings & Determinations
Implications on Law Administration Practice Statements
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Chief Commissioner of Stamp Duties (NSW) v Buckle
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75 ATR 1
Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Commercial Nominees of Australia Ltd
(2001) 75 ALJR 1172
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Salt v Marquess of Northampton
[1892] 2 AC 1
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2011-02-25/the-intimates/
New in Print
Reviewed by Monica Riese, February 25, 2011, Books
The Intimates
by Ralph Sassone
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., $24
At its core, Ralph Sassone's debut novel, The Intimates, showcases a frank and charming portrait of the unconventional love between absorbent Maize and anal-retentive Robbie, who met in high school and fumbled with flirtation before becoming constant platonic threads in each other's lives for the next decade.
In practice, though, they are separated by years and by continents, by omissions and miscommunications; in fact, they're together only in e-mails and memories until the third act. We observe their friendship mostly through the lenses of others – reflections and refractions are meaningfully scattered throughout the tale – but we can glean that their friendship is a modern one, complicated but steady, especially in their roles as "each other's human diaries."
As our heroes stumble through the revolving door of lovers, jobs, and (in Maize's case) haircuts in their tumultuous teens and twenties, a fascinating character study emerges. Sassone's strength, though – his precise characterizations – turns out to be his weakness as well. The entirety of his collection of brainstormed metaphors seems to have made its way into the novel (one character is, in the course of half a page, "an unsolved puzzle," "a horror movie," and "a psychic channeling different voices during a séance"), weakening the otherwise apt comparisons and making minor characters, by means of their concision, more approachable, despite their relegation to roles as oversexed boyfriends or archetypal co-workers. Unfortunately, "without reminders [people] could forget entire experiences," and many seemingly significant cohorts are little but footnotes later on.
Though relatively little actually transpires in the course of the novel – she applies for college, loses her virginity, gets fired by a kleptomaniac boss; he visits his estranged father in Rome, has an affair with an older professor; and they both help Robbie's mother pack up his childhood home before a move – we're reminded that "the big changes [come] mostly at odd, unexpected moments ... during ordinary conversations instead of speeches ...
"And while you were waiting for them to occur things got taken."
One can't help but wonder if Sassone meant to include the words "for granted" at the end of that sentence, as it seems each protagonist holds the love and happiness the other seeks – and has all along – but remains a silent supporter along for the ride.
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APPGA Advisory Group
Chair and Officers
APPGA highlights (2017)
The Chair and Officers of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism
All Party Groups are governed by the Chair and Officers – all of who are either MPs or members of the House of Lords.
It is they who make all the decisions about the Group.
The Chair and Officers are elected by the Members of the Group at an annual AGM.
Our current Chair is the Rt Hon Cheryl Gillan MP.
Cheryl was elected Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham in April 1992. Following the 2010 General Election, Cheryl was appointed Secretary of State for Wales. Cheryl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff, was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and the College of Law and she is married to Jack Leeming.
She is the MP responsible for taking the Autism Act through the Houses of Parliament.
Our current vice-chairs are Lord Touhig, a vice president of The National Autistic Society and Jonathan Reynolds MP, who has a son on the autism spectrum and created a video about his experiences.
Our chairs and officers are:
Rt Hon Cheryl Gillan MP
Lord Touhig
Jonathan Reynolds
Labour (Co-op)
Maria Caulfield
Thangam Debbonaire
Baroness Hollins
Crossbench
Justin Madders
Huw Merriman
Christina Rees
Jim Shannon
Cat Smith
Baroness Uddin
Lord Warner
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Australia's Crown casino denies slot-machine 'tampering'
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Australia's largest casino has denied allegations it deliberately tampered with slot machines and ignored evidence of drug use and domestic violence.
The claims, by three people who said they were ex-employees of Crown casino, were tabled in Australia's parliament.
Authorities will investigate the allegations, described by one MP as "chilling".
Crown Resorts Limited said it rejected claims of "illegal and improper conduct" at the Melbourne venue.
The whistleblowers allege that staff were told to alter poker machines, known in Australia as "pokies", to remove some betting options.
The casino also overlooked drug use and domestic violence incidents, and tried to avoid reporting some transactions to authorities, the former employees say.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan said an anti-money laundering regulator, Austrac, would investigate a claim that staff were told to use different player ID cards when processing transactions over A$10,000 (£6,000; $8,000).
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The other claims will be "thoroughly investigated" by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation, it confirmed.
Australia has the world's highest gambling loss per head, according to recent research by UK consultancy H2 Gambling Capital, with Australians losing an average of A$1,260 last year.
Allegations detailed in video
The claims were outlined in a 30-minute video tabled to parliament on Wednesday by an independent MP, Andrew Wilkie.
The faces and voices of the three former employees were masked in the footage to protect their identity.
"If the allegations are true, it does suggest there is a systemic problem rather than a rogue individual," said Mr Wilkie, an anti-gambling campaigner.
In denying the allegations, Crown called on Mr Wilkie to "immediately provide to the relevant authorities all information relating to the matters alleged".
Crown is one of Australia's largest gambling and entertainment companies and is publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
The company is currently embroiled in a landmark court battle involving a former gambling addict who alleges the casino and a manufacturer of a slot-machine game misled gamblers over their chances of winning.
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Andy Murray column: Meeting Royal surgeon was pivotal in helping me play again at Queen's
From the section Tennis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/48662873
Andy Murray is set to make his competitive return on Thursday in the doubles at Queen's. In his regular BBC Sport column, the 32-year-old Scot talks about meeting the woman who performed his "life-changing" hip surgery and how operating on the Queen Mother didn't necessarily mean she was right for him.
Five months ago, sitting in a news conference at the Australian Open, I thought I was seemingly on the verge of retiring from the sport that I love.
It was uncomfortable playing with my children at the soft play centre. I couldn't sleep properly. I couldn't do basic everyday tasks like putting on my shoes and socks. I was in pain all the time.
Now I'm getting ready to step back on to the court competitively in the doubles at Queen's.
I didn't expect to be in this position, I didn't know how it would feel if I had the hip resurfacing operation.
Even if I'd never tried to play tennis again, I would have had the operation because I couldn't walk properly.
A pivotal moment in my return has been meeting Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, the surgeon at the London Hip Unit who operated on me in January.
I knew she had operated on the Queen Mother's hip in the past and other well-known people from outside of sport - but I didn't know how that would translate to working on an athlete.
I first met Sarah in late January, shortly after I got back to London from Melbourne, and we chatted for about an hour. During this I asked her: "How do I know you're good?"
I wasn't doing it to be rude, but in sport you can tell how good someone is by their ranking. But how do I know a surgeon is good?
She just said to me: "Well, you don't. You don't know."
I felt she was very honest with me and I admired that. She didn't promise I would get back to playing. She told me exactly what to expect and what my expectations should be.
If she didn't know something then she would say she didn't know the answer rather than trying to sell me something that might not be case. That was why I had surgery with her.
I didn't want to have someone telling me "you'll definitely be back and winning Wimbledon in five months", because it doesn't work like that and it wouldn't have been true.
I wasn't promised that. The reason for having the operation was not to come back and play tennis. The reason was to improve my quality of life and the operation has been life-changing.
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'I don't believe in fate - but some odd things happened'
A few very strange things happened on the day I met Sarah for our first chat.
I went to have a scan after our meeting and the guy who operated on my back in 2013 messaged me out of the blue, asking how I was getting on with my hip.
I told him I was actually having a scan at the Lister Hospital in Chelsea - and it turned out he was in the room next door seeing patients.
So he came to see me and we chatted about Sarah. He said she had a fantastic reputation and that she was very good.
I also bumped into the guy who has read all of my scans over my whole career when I walked out of the lift.
He asked what I was doing there and I told him I'd just met Sarah. He also said only very positive things.
After speaking to Sarah for about an hour, and then hearing what these people in the medical industry said, I knew in my head I wanted her to operate on me.
I don't necessarily believe in fate but it was really odd.
I went home and chatted it through with my wife Kim and my team. Then a few days later I had the operation.
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Andy Murray speaking about his 'life-changing' operation
'It was harder to enjoy spending time with my children'
Long-term pain can be demoralising and it definitely affected my mental health, but at the time I didn't realise it as much because it became the norm.
Days just became trickier and I wasn't living life like I would want to. I'd finish practising and would just want to have my feet up all day because of the pain.
I was still able to play with my kids; it was just getting harder to enjoy the things we did together.
When we'd go to soft play places, it was so uncomfortable on my hands and knees crawling through tunnels. Now I'm the first one on the slides or taking part in mini gymnastics.
Murray recently liked this Instagram post which highlights the mental struggles for people suffering from chronic pain
I'm doing all the things I used to really enjoy doing and which I wouldn't have been doing six months ago - playing golf, taking part in 'escape rooms', spending more time with friends. Added to that, I'm back on the court and enjoying playing and all the physical training.
Escape rooms are definitely something worth trying if you haven't yet. You get locked in a room with your friends and try to escape within your allotted time. It is all about the strategy and it gets competitive, which I love.
I also played golf with my brother in the club championship at Wentworth on Saturday. It's an amazing course, but it didn't go well - and I started with several shanked shots on the first hole. We both shot triple digits and I play off a handicap of six! It was windy though...
Before the operation I'd have never played golf the day before a tournament because my hip would hurt, whereas now I can do things like that and be pain free.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Jonathan Jurejko.
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Claysburg-Kimmel celebrated top 10 national placings from these members of its Future Business Leaders of America chapter. From left are Canaan Burket, Hayley Jenkins and Benjamin Weiland, who placed third as a team with their Business Financial Plan; Michael Baker, second in public speaking; and Mackenzie Clemens, Kyle Glass and Jocelyn Shultz, who placed ninth as a team in Broadcast Journalism during the National FBLA conference in San Antonio, Texas, June 27 to July 2.
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Emily Claar, member of the Claysburg-Kimmel Future Business Leaders of America chapter, was recognized in the “Parade of States” as the Who’s Who in FBLA recipient for Pennsylvania. She was also recognized for earning her way to the national leadership conference all four years. She received the FBLA Distinguished Business Leader scholarship. She is shown with her award during the national FBLA conference in San Antonio, Texas, held from June 27 to July 3.
C-K FBLA members take top 10 placings at nationals
By Elizabeth Coyle Gazette Managing Editor
Elizabeth Coyle
A Claysburg-Kimmel student placed second and two teams of his fellow students placed third and ninth in their respective competitions during the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas, from June 27 to July 3.
The chapter was one of three represented at the national conference, with qualifiers also traveling from Chestnut Ridge and Northern Bedford chapters.
Michael Baker, son of Michael and Cheryl Baker of Queen, placed second in the nation in the Public Speaking event. He will be a senior this coming school year at Claysburg-Kimmel.
Claysburg-Kimmel’s team competing in Business Financial Plan placed third in the country. The team members were Canaan Burket, son of Craig and Darla Burket of Imler; Hayley Jenkins, daughter of Robert and Christina Jenkins of East Freedom; and Benjamin Weiland, son of Michael and Bernadette Weiland of Imler.
The high school’s Broadcast Journalism team took ninth place in the U.S. The team members were Mackenzie Clemens, daughter of Adam and Kimberly Clemens of Claysburg; Kyle Glass, son of Dave and Jodi Glass of Imler; and Jocelyn Shultz, daughter of Dan and Amy Shultz of East Freedom.
Baker also represented the state of Pennsylvania as its FBLA secretary, having been elected to the state officer position at the State Leadership Conference in April.
Emily Claar, daughter of Shawn and Christina Claar of Imler, was recognized in the “Parade of States” as the Who’s Who in FBLA recipient for Pennsylvania. She was also recognized for earning her way to the national leadership conference all four years. She received the FBLA Distinguished Business Leader scholarship. She will be attending St. Francis University this fall majoring in physician assistant studies.
Sixteen students from Chestnut Ridge School District qualified for nationals, also. No further information was available from the chapter as of Friday.
Northern Bedford County junior Abby Mickle also earned a spot at the national conference, competing in Introduction to Business Communications, for which she won the state in April.
Baker said in a phone interview Friday that the speech he delivered twice to the conference — once for preliminaries and again for the finals — centered around the late co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, and how FBLA’s goals were characterized in Jobs and in Baker, himself.
Baker said he was very nervous before the performance when he and two other finalists were on stage delivering their final addresses to the large audience.
After the speech was over, Baker said, “I felt so amazing in that room at the end. It felt that every eye was on me. Everyone was paying attention to the speech and it felt so good to finish it.”
He said he intertwined in his speech the influence FBLA and adviser Steve Walter have been for him.
Baker called Walter “an enormous role model to us and our chapter.” The chapter also was honored as a Gold Seal Chapter for the seventh consecutive year and was recognized as one of the Outstanding Chapters in the nation.
Baker said he is looking forward to the Claysburg-Kimmel chapter’s next year in which he will serve as state secretary.
Last year, the chapter conducted a project called “Celebrating Seniors: Thanks for the Memories.”
“That was an amazing experience and we’re hoping to do a project similar to that as well as our personal competitive projects.”
Walter said it’s a rigorous process for FBLA member to qualify for nationals. They have to get through regional and state competitions.
“It’s been a very successful year for our chapter. Many have received individual honors and awards on the state and national levels. We set a new record in raising money for our state project, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, had a very successful chapter community service project, Celebrating Seniors, and set a record for the number of members attending and placing at states and nationals. Finally, we are so thankful for all of the community support this year to provide these kids with so many opportunities and memories.”
Abby Mickle, daughter of Chad and Trisha Mickle of Woodbury, said though she didn’t place, the experience allowed her to meet other other FBLA members from across the country.
“The Pennsylvania FBLA had many things planned for us to do while in Texas, and there was a lot of free time for fun with friends,” Mickle said.
“Overall, it was an extraordinary conference,” Mickle said. “I was able to experience the Southern culture of San Antonio and explore the city.” She said she learned line-dancing, enjoyed local cuisine “and had opportunities that I wouldn’t have without FBLA. I made lasting memories, and I hope to continue to make more in the future of my FBLA career.”
She said she participated in a testing event but wants to enter a “performance” project — such as public speaking — next year.
“I now feel more confident and ready to compete in a performance event next year. I am surprised at how FBLA has challenged me to become more open and willing to try new things. It helps me be a better version of myself,” she said.
Contact Elizabeth Coyle at ecoyle@bedfordgazette.com; 623-1151, ext. 105.
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Ex-lover in midnight torment
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Sindiso Masuku parted ways with Shamine Yolanda Manunga because he accused her of being a prostitute. However, he still torments her at midnight.
He goes to where she stays in Nkulumane 5 and taps by her bedroom window. If he doesn’t get a response he starts hissing and in most cases pleads with her to fall in love with him again.
Masuku’s actions have been so creepy and disturbing such that Manunga’s neighbours also hear him making funny noises and they have since threatened to report her to the police if she does not control her estranged ex-lover.
A distressed Manunga was left with no option but to seek help from the courts in a bid to have Masuku distanced from her.
“I wish to apply for a protection order against Sindiso Masuku who is my ex-boyfriend.
We have a daughter who is a month old.
He comes to my place at midnight and starts making noises in the night and disturbs neighbours,” said Manunga.
She further revealed that whenever Masuku comes he also forces her to fall in love with him again.
“He forces me to fall in love with him, but I have moved on and I no longer love him.
Whenever I tell him I’m not interested he insults me,” said Manunga.
Western Commonage magistrate Stephen Ndlovu granted an interim order.
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Positive News Media – 3rd Ibon-Ebon breaks all festival records in Luzon
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CANDABA, Pampanga, Feb. 6 (PNA) – Vice President Noli De Castro expressed his admiration to the celebration of the two-day 3rd Ibon-Ebon Festival here which kicked off Friday.
The festival, also known as “Bird and Egg Festival”, has been attended by more or less 10,000 participants and guests, breaking all festival records in the entire Luzon.
The annual event has proven to be a big hit in terms of colors, uniqueness, number of participants who all came from the 33 villages here and guests from the different universities and colleges in the province and in Metro Manila.
This developed as the Ibon–Ebon Festival is now officially recognized as a national Philippine festival after it has been “successfully” celebrated for three consecutive years.
The almost one-kilometer parade from Candaba Town Plaza to Miss Earth Park started from 7:30 to 11:30 in the morning.
The parade was participated in by street dancers, floats, delegates from the 33 barangays, students in high school and elementary, local officials and employees including some guests such as De Castro, senatorial bets Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos, Ralph Recto, Atty. Raul Lambino, Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Gloria Diaz who represented Gilbert Remulla, Philip Salvador, Vice Governor Joseller “Yeng” Guiao, Board Member Ricardo Yabut, Mayor Jerry Pelayo, Councilors Peter Guevarra, Agerico Tecson, Raquel Foz and Luis “Goding” Pelayo.
De Castro who signaled the formal opening of the festival said Mayor Jerry Pelayo has marked this bird sanctuary again into the World Map not only on the aspect of wild bird and environment protection but also in promoting tourism and cultural heritage that can be passed through generation.
He said other local governments should learn from Candaba particularly on the way they promote and make the people aware on the importance of protecting and promoting biodiversity while encouraging the people to become more productive.
Senatorial bet Ferdinand “Bong-Bong” Marcos said this was his first time to see a “very successful” festival in the entire Luzon as he expressed his appreciation to the warm welcome given by the people here.
“The celebration of the 3rd Ibon-Ebon Festival in this town has proved to be big hit as the number of participants and guests has increase for about five times compared to the previous,” Pelayo said.
Pelayo said the Ibon-Ebon Festival is not only institutionalized, it was instilled firmly in the minds and hearts of the youth and their families.
The Ibon-Ebon Festival, has proven to be not just a showcase of more than 40 species of birds and tons of eggs laid, but it was a reunion of families and balikbayans from abroad, Pelayo said.
“There are people who went home from US and other countries to personally witness the ongoing ibon-ebon festival which they also watched in television and read in the newspapers,” Pelayo said.
The celebration was highlighted with the presentation of high school talents and street dancers in bird costume, parade of floats and delegates from the 33 barangays, hot air balloon exhibit, kite flying contest, trade fair, special band concert, parade of best dressed itik, special tribu performances, Itik race, Itik Cooking contest, exhibition of ultra light and RC planes show and boat race.
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REBBL Wins Best Functional Beverage at BevNET’s Best of 2015
Press Release Dec. 10, 2015 at 10:26 am
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — REBBL™ was awarded Best Functional Beverage Award1 at BevNET’s Best of 2015.BevNET, the leading beverage-oriented media company in the U.S., held its 13th annual awards on December 7th, where it honored REBBL alongside other beverage industry pioneers.
“We are deeply honored to be recognized with this award amongst so many respected companies,” says REBBL Founder Palo Hawken, who received the award at the event. “It is our mission at REBBL to continue engaging and educating consumers in the health benefits and power of functional beverages, specifically the power of our unique adaptogen-based formulations to support a healthy, active lifestyle while giving back to communities through REBBL’s partnership with Not For Sale. We aim to redefine functional beverages to go beyond nutritional benefits to reflecting the entire production process.”
With the functional food and beverage market booming at $51.1 B2 this year alone (an impressive 7.8% growth), innovative and rapidly growing beverage company REBBL is revolutionizing the beverage industry with its super-herbed, sustainably-sourced elixirs. Every bottle of REBBL is certified organic, vegan, soy and dairy free, using only the purest ingredients and extracts. Powerful adaptogens help to awaken, re-energize, and de-stress the body through robust super herbs like Cat’s Claw, Maca, Reishi, Matcha, Ashwagandha, Ginseng, and Eleuthero.
REBBL comes in six wild-crafted and revitalizing Elixirs: REBBL Ashwagandha Chai, REBBL Matcha Latte, REBBL Turmeric Golden-Milk, REBBL Maca Cold-Brew, REBBL Maca Mocha, and REBBL Reishi Chocolate.
REBBL was born out of a passionate collaboration between global thought-leaders to identify an innovative, sustainable, market-based solution to prevent exploitation. Closely working with nonprofit Not For Sale, REBBL donates 2.5% of their total revenue to help put an end to exploitation and human trafficking in poverty stricken and vulnerable parts of the world. This is an integral part of REBBL’s ethically driven mission.
About REBBL™
REBBL was developed and Co-Founded by Palo Hawken, who also serves as its Chief Innovation Officer. Formerly with Bossa Nova and Zico, Mr. Hawken is working with Sheryl O’ Loughlin, CEO of REBBL. Prior to REBBL, Ms. O’Loughlin was the CEO of Clif Bar and CEO and Co-Founder of Plum Organics.
REBBL is available for purchase in select Whole Foods and independent retail stores nationwide. Find REBBL on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram (@rebbltonic) or visit www.rebbltonic.com. For inquiries, contact Rajan De Los Santos at rajan@christiecomm.com or (805)-969-3744.
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Campari America Launches New Cynar 70 Proof
Press Release Oct. 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Who would have thought the artichoke could garner such interest in the U.S. cocktail community? As Italian drink culture and tradition – from the aperitivo to amari – infiltrates drink rituals stateside, Campari America mounts a new campaign in the battle for bitter: Cynar® 70 Proof. Double the intensity and proof of original Cynar, the bartender-beloved bittersweet artichoke liqueur, Cynar 70 Proof is a bold entry in the burgeoning bitters category.
As an authentic imported Italian bitter, Cynar has become just one in a select group of Italian spirits and liqueurs, including Campari®, Aperol®, Averna® and Braulio®, finding newfound favor with consumers and mixologists in the U.S. This new, higher proof spin on the classic artichoke liqueur is meant to be enjoyed as a digestivo either chilled, on the rocks, or as a higher-proof shot than the 35 proof original.
The original Cynar recipe was introduced in Italy in 1952 by Venetian entrepreneur and philanthropist Angelo Dalle Molle with the slogan “Cynar, against the stress of modern life.” The name Cynar is derived from a property found in artichokes, cynarin. Though Cynar doesn’t taste like artichokes, the cynarin is believed to have digestive properties.
Like its older sibling, Cynar 70 Proof is crafted from the same secret recipe of 13 infused herbs and plants. The liqueur carries distinctive herbal qualities married with hints of dried fruit and rounded by caramel smoothness. The result is a pleasant woody and caramel bitter taste. Its versatile and distinct flavor – and dark amber-brown color with reddish tones – is achieved through a two-stage process of infusion and blending with a higher alcohol content to achieve a more pronounced flavor profile than the original Cynar.
Cynar 70 Proof will be available nationwide at fine spirits purveyors at $34.99 MSRP for a one liter bottle. A favorite of millions inEurope and South America, and growing in popularity in North America, Cynar is produced in Italy.
About Campari America
Campari America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A. (Reuters CPRI.MI – Bloomberg CPR IM). At the heart of Campari America are two legends in the American spirits industry. The first, Skyy Spirits, was founded in San Francisco back in 1992 by the entrepreneur who invented iconic SKYY Vodka. The second is the world-famous Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, where they have been making the world’s finest whiskies since the 1800’s. Both companies were purchased by Davide Campari-Milano and together they form Campari America, which has built a portfolio unrivaled in its quality, innovation and style, making it a top choice among distributors, retailers and consumers. Campari America manages Gruppo Campari’s portfolio in the US with such leading brands as SKYY® Vodka, SKYY Infusions®, Campari®, Aperol®, Wild Turkey® Straight Kentucky Bourbon, American Honey®, Russell’s Reserve®, Glen Grant® Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Forty Creek® Canadian Whisky, Cabo Wabo® Tequila, Espolon® Tequila, Appleton® Estate Rum, Wray & Nephew® Rum, Coruba® Rum, Ouzo 12®, X-Rated® Fusion Liqueur®, Frangelico®, Cynar®, Averna®, Braulio®, Carolans Irish Cream®, Irish Mist® Liqueur, Sagatiba® Cachaca and Jean-Marc XO Vodka®. Campari America is also the exclusive US distributor of BULLDOG® Gin.
About Gruppo Campari
Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A., together with its affiliates (‘Gruppo Campari’), is a major player in the global beverage sector, trading inover 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas. The Group was founded in 1860 and today isthe sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry. The Group’s portfolio, with over 50 brands, spans spirits, the core business, wines and soft drinks. Internationally-renowned brands include Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, Cinzano, SKYY and Wild Turkey. Headquartered in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, Campari owns 16 plants and 2 wineries worldwide and has its own distribution network in 19 countries. The Group employs around 4,000 people. The shares of the parent company, Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A. (Reuters CPRI.MI – Bloomberg CPR IM), are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. For more information: http://www.camparigroup.com. Please enjoy our brands responsibly.
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Blair's Lost and Found Men (MFM)
by Eileen Green
Men of Montana 15
Heat Rating: Scorching
[Siren Ménage Amour: Erotic Contemporary Cowboy Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, HEA]
Twenty years ago, brothers Brock and Tanner Tillman lost the love of their lives. Heartbroken, the two made their way to Montana to start over again. Working as ranch hands, they don’t get into town very often, so they didn’t meet too many new people.
Blair Anderson has a past. It’s not one that very many people have had to endure, but she has, starting at a young age.
Shock overwhelms all of them when they see each other at the Polson Diner. So many emotions blanket them, anger being the biggest one for the men. Blair’s is fear.
Having to dig into her past, Blair knows she must leave Polson, something she doesn’t want to do, but she doesn’t want harm to come to Brock or Tanner or to anyone in town because of her.
With a romance kindling, can she find sanctuary with the two men who are in love with her, or will she run?
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Everyone had turned to see who had walked into the restaurant, but only one person had his attention. She stood next to the counter, staring at them.
It had been twenty years since Martha had left them. Twenty years of them grieving and shying away from any woman who reminded them of her because it hurt so much.
Now, for the first time since that tragic day, Tanner was looking at a woman who resembled Martha. This woman’s hair was mahogany instead of burgundy, save the gray streaks in her hair, and she had a few wrinkles at the corners of her eyes that weren’t there before.
By the way that the woman was staring at them, with a mixture of surprise and fear, Tanner knew in his heart that this was the woman who had broken his heart so long ago.
“Jesus!” Brock exclaimed next to him.
The woman didn’t say a word, but her lips mouthed, Oh, shit, before she turned and ran into the kitchen.
He could see her through the service window running toward the back of the diner. When she disappeared from his sight, Tanner knew he had to go after her. He wasn’t going to lose her again without an explanation.
Ignoring the gasps and questions people were spouting, he took off running through the restaurant and then the kitchen. He followed the sound of the slamming door and was only a couple of seconds behind her. He yanked the door open that stood in his way and ran out into the alley.
Footsteps rang out to his right, causing him to follow them. He could hear Brock behind him.
The footsteps bouncing off the back walls of businesses in the alley were beginning to slow. In the dimness, he could finally see her despite the dark clothes she wore. At the end of the alley, she ducked off to the right. He knew he had to catch her, for if she tried to cross the street there, she could possibly be hit by a car. Although it was evening, and a weeknight, Highway 93 was a busy highway, and travelers tended not to obey the speed limit when going through town.
Closing in on her, he lunged for her, grasping his arms around her waist. A scream sounded from her as she began to fall to the sidewalk.
He wanted to protect her from getting hurt, so he twisted his body and hit the pavement with her landing on top of him. The breath was knocked from his lungs, and pain pierced the back of his head where it hit the ground. Holding tight, he felt her fighting against him, trying to pull his arms from around her.
Stars erupted in his head as a ringing in his ears sounded. He knew the blow to the back of his head was bad, but he wasn’t going to let the woman loose without finding out what the hell was going on.
“Let me go!” she wailed. “Please, let me go!”
“No, Martha! We’re not letting you go until you explain yourself,” Brock said above him.
Martha was still fighting them, but her slight frame belied her strength. “Damn it, Tanner! Release her!” Brock shouted.
Doing as his brother requested, Tanner let go. Martha screamed. Tanner looked up, and through his slightly blurred vision, he could see Brock holding Martha around the waist. They were facing each other, although Martha was still fighting.
“Stop!” Brock roared. Martha stopped fighting him.
Except for the traffic that was moving along, all was silent for a few moments. Tanner shook his head, just to make sure it wasn’t the injury to his head causing it, but since he could hear the cars, he knew it wasn’t.
Footsteps came running up on them, drawing Tanner’s attention. People from the party were coming to find out what was going on.
Connor stood over him, a hand out to help him up. Jared stood next to Brock, an angry look on his face.
Tanner rose with Connor’s help while Glen pulled Martha out of Brock’s arms. “What the hell do you two think you’re doing?” Glen shouted.
“This woman was our fiancée twenty years ago,” Brock began. “She wrote a note saying she had to leave, and then to top it off, she faked her own death.”
Their Martha was crying as Gina, Anita Olsen-Tilsdale-Bowman, and Siobhan Hawthorne all gathered around her. They made a cocoon, wrapping her in their supporting arms while speaking soft words to her.
It was Gina’s look of disbelief that had Tanner wondering if they were going to be unemployed and homeless over this. Could it have been a case of mistaken identity? No, he didn’t think so.
Connor grabbed hold of both him and Tanner and pulled them aside so that they were standing up against the wall of the building next to them.
“What in the blazes had you chasing a helpless woman?” he asked, using his sheriff’s voice.
“You saw her, Connor. She took one look at us and ran. We didn’t do anything but walk in and look over at her. She recognized us and ran.” Brock was hoping he was making a good case. If not, he and Tanner were screwed. “Ask her why she ran. If she’s not who we know she is, then why did she run?”
Connor looked over at the now tight circle of women around Martha. Glen was standing next to Gina, glaring at Brock and Tanner. However, it was Glen who agreed with them. “Let’s take this inside, and then we’ll get some answers.”
Brock nodded his thanks toward Glen.
Feeling like a criminal and a cad for the way he had manhandled Martha, Brock walked next to Tanner back to the diner. Connor and Jared walked close behind them as if they thought the brothers might take off.
Entering the restaurant, they found Martha from the Circle G and Ruth from the Lazy R ranches sitting at a table in the corner with the kids who had come with their parents. Martha, the older one, was holding the Goodall-Lighthorse’s baby, while Ruth was helping the four older kids with their coloring.
Brock took a seat in the nearest chair at the large table they had fashioned together with smaller ones. Tanner followed suit and sat to his right. As they took seats at the end of the tables closest to the front door, Connor sat at the head of the table next to Brock, and Jared guided their former woman into the seat across from Tanner. When Glen navigated Victoria to the seat beside Martha, their Martha, Jared moved around and seated himself on the other side of Tanner. Gina perched next to Jared.
Their Martha kept her head lowered, in shame, Brock hoped.
All the other partygoers filed in and took their seats around the table. Some had to utilize the booths. Everyone was quiet, looking at them expectantly.
“Now, would someone like to explain why my wife’s birthday party was interrupted?” Connor asked harshly.
Yup! I’m going to be out of a job come morning!
“When we lived in Texas, we met Martha. It wasn’t long before we fell in love,” Tanner began.
“We dated for a year before we proposed to her. Then one afternoon.” Brock’s voice cracked. He cleared his throat. “I was living in an apartment in town, but still worked on the family ranch. I just needed some independence. Anyway, I found a note on the counter with Martha’s engagement ring lying on top of it. All she wrote was, ‘I have to leave.’ That was all. Nothing else. No I’m sorry, kiss my ass. Nothing!”
Martha, their Martha, flinched at the harshness with which he spoke. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, and he knew that he and Tanner were correct. She was their former woman. But why did she fake her death?
Heat was building throughout her entire body as her nipples were being pinched and pulled by Tanner. She loved a bit of pain from her boobs while making love, and she had missed this so much.
One hand she wrapped around the back of Brock’s head, and let her fingers feel the strands of his short auburn hair with its red highlights. She was hoping to guide his mouth to where she wanted it now, but Brock fought it. He was taking his own sweet time.
With her other hand, she reached behind her. Rough denim met her fingers as she found Tanner’s bulge, drawing a groan from him. “It seems like someone is as anxious as I am,” she teased.
Tanner leaned down until his mouth was next to her ear. Hot breath caressed her ear when he whispered, “I want you so much, Blair, that it hurts.”
He licked the shell of her ear, sending chills through her body.
Brock’s cold nose pressed through her folds, followed by his mouth. Rearranging herself, she shifted so she could stand with her legs apart. Soon, she could feel a tongue lick her from her pussy opening to her clit. Another chill ran through her body as she grabbed more of his hair.
Moving one of his hands from her thighs to her pussy, Brock pressed two of them into her. Her cunt spread for him as he plunged them deep. He slid his mouth up until it enclosed over her clit, and he sucked on it.
“Oh, my…” She couldn’t finish the words for Tanner had turned her head and covered her mouth.
His tongue fought hers for control while his fingers continued to play with her nipples. Brock was finger fucking her as he sucked her clit. The familiar feelings of sexual satisfaction were building at a rapid speed, taking her higher and higher. The spring within her was tightening so quickly that it amazed her how much her body needed this. Needed these men.
That spring snapped, and she went flying. She felt as if she was floating high above the ground on the winds of her orgasm. Her senses left her as her heart pounded in her chest. Deep short breaths came from her lungs. Every nerve felt as if electricity coursed through her.
Slowly, she floated down off her climactic high. Sound began to seep back as did her vision. She felt different than before and realized she was lying on the bed, one man on each side of her.
Blinking, she glanced at each man. She found she had been out of it long enough for them to have stripped out of their clothes.
Although they were brothers, their bodies had some differences. Brock was much more muscular than Tanner, his strength in his chest, shoulders, and arms. Tanner’s was in his legs and back, even though he was still muscular up top.
They both sported six packs with those magnificent muscles that pointed down to their groins. Of course, their cocks were works of art. Long and thick, but different.
Brock’s was longer with a slight outward curve near the head, which was amazing when he was inside her. It naturally struck that sweet spot on the top of her walls, and he didn’t have to shift a certain way to do so. His balls were heavy as they hung down from the thick patch of dark brown hair he kept trim.
His brother’s cock was slightly shorter, but it was wider. He could fill her up so much that she thought she would burst. When the two would fuck her at the same time, she felt as if they were going to rip her open. But it was a fantastic feeling.
Tanner’s thatch of hair was a lighter brown, and his sac was tighter and held higher than Brock’s.
Both men had sexy masculine legs. Sparse hair was sprinkled on their thighs and calves, a contrast to their chests, which were both a bit furrier.
Throughout her adult life, Blair had seen men with their chests shaved for whatever reason. There were even men who shaved their legs. That was so unnatural. She liked her men to be a bit on the teddy bear side.
Yes, she read. She read a lot of erotica and had learned the term from her favorite authors. Thinking she was going to be alone for the rest of her life, she needed some kind of outlet, so books were where she was able to live out her fantasies.
Tanner propped himself up on one elbow so that he was facing her from his side. “Did you like that, sugar?” he asked, a wicked smile on his lips.
“You know I did,” she said, her voice low and gravelly. “Now, can someone make love to me, please?”
“We’re going back to the beginning, Blair,” Brock said as he shifted until he was between her legs. “It’s been a while for you, so we’ll need to build you up again until we can love you at the same time. But right now, I’m going to love on you.” He cleared his throat. “You said you haven’t…I mean, it seems none of us have been with anyone in a long time. Will you let us make love without anything between us?”
Blair was touched that they would be concerned about her comfort after all this time, and that Brock was embarrassed about asking if they needed to use protection. Her heart opened fully to them in that instance, knowing they were committed to this.
She raised a hand and made a come here motion with a finger toward Brock. When he moved to loom over her, she felt his hard, hot length between her folds. It throbbed against her clit, sending currents shooting through her again.
“I need to feel you come inside me, Brock. You can’t hold back, and I want to make love to both of you at the same time as soon as possible. I love you. And, too much time has gone by. I don’t want to waste any more time.”
If she wasn’t mistaken, Blair saw some moisture in Brock’s eyes at her words. She knew how she felt all these years, but she couldn’t fathom how they felt.
A thought ran through her mind. Were they just wanting to play, or did they really wish to rekindle the relationship they had back when she was Martha? If they were serious, would they desire kids?
“Are you on any birth control?” Tanner asked.
Well, there went that thought.
A touch of sadness hit her, for she didn’t see any reason to wait. “No. No, I’m not.”
“Hey, it’s okay. We’ll go along with whatever you want, sugar, but you have to make sure you can deal with the aftereffects should any arise.” Tanner was looking down at her, concern written on his face.
“But know this, Blair,” Brock began. “We’re not letting you go. If for some reason the plans don’t go as we want it to, we will be going with you.”
How do these guys know how to say the right things?
Reaching up, Blair wrapped her arms around Brock’s neck and pulled him down to her. “Fuck me,” she demanded before she covered his mouth with hers.
Brock kissed her back with a passion she had missed. When he pulled out of the kiss a minute later, he positioned the tip of his dick at her opening. He pushed himself up on his arms before he drove in slowly, as if letting her get used to him, until he was balls deep within her.
A sigh escaped her at the feeling of finally having one of her men inside her. Unable to be still, she began to work her hips, hoping Brock would take the hint.
Tanner leaned in and captured her mouth with his. He used his tongue expertly to fuck her mouth. Brock was thrusting in and out of her, the head of his cock finding her special spot each time he moved in her.
Over and over, Brock fucked her. Higher and higher, she climbed up the orgasmic mountain. When he propped himself up on one arm and moved his other hand between him and her, she knew it wouldn’t take much to snap. He slid his thumb and finger on both sides of her clit, and when she felt as if she was at the precipice, he pinched the hard bud, sending her spiraling on a climactic free fall.
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A Letter From Our Founder: On Two Years, On Heartbreak, On Healing
When we first started #bossbabesATX, I was really young. And fired up.
I remember sitting there at that first meet in 2015, wearing grey skinny pants I had just ripped at the crotch, in disbelief that 200 women had showed up, and I thought: This is proof. This is proof that sexism can be conquered. That equity is something we all want. That community is tangible.
And as we continued to grow, more women came. We threw more events, and we did all we could to accommodate everyone we met. We doused shit in glitter, schemed up bigger events that gave our community a bigger platform, drummed up ways to approach tougher topics, to give more a voice. We went from simply popping up as a networking space to exploring not only creative industry and the arts, but professional and personal development, activism and entrepreneurialism. We went from meets to retreats to talks to meets to markets to pop-up concerts to festivals to meets and back again. We scraped pennies and DIYd shit to the nines, and we didn’t care. We were committed to the cause, committed to creating space.
We’ve had some tangible rough patches. There have been times when we’ve done our best and failed. Like throwing events that didn’t break even or attempting to transform an empty warehouse into the BABES FEST launch within two hours OR the time we booked 60 speakers for our three-hour Community Caucus, because everyone deserved a chance on the mic. We somehow knocked out 12 panels in 2.5 hours. (And surprisingly, despite the stress, we're still doing all of these things again. They're now a part of our regular programming.)
So, obviously, there have been times when I have sincerely considered giving up. Times when I was sure others had given up on us—on this concept of what a creative community that supports and amplifies self-identifying women really looks like. And not just because the work is hard, or because time and resources are scarce, but because the world is hard. We live in a patriarchal system that locks people out of opportunity, and we have a really long way to go in Texas—in the City of Austin—before we become a state that does better by all of its citizens, no matter gender, orientation, race, socioeconomic class, ability. Fighting for that is equally tough, because there is a gray area that comes with being a large community of like-minded folks, with different values, interests, goals. The magnanimity of our many identities can be overwhelming.
It’s on us to continually reiterate the value of what we’re pursuing and what we believe, especially when those things are not valued in the dominant culture. We have to act against the distraction—that human urge to get excited, divert our attention and drop vulnerable causes in the pursuit of something shinier. We have to recognize inequality and call it by name. We have to self-reflect and speak up for ourselves. We must do the work—even when it’s not glamorous or popular. And in that vein, we have to celebrate.
The last two years of #bossbabesATX are proof that these things are possible. That we as a humanity can surprise ourselves. At our events and behind the scenes, we have seen this community rally together. Listening to each other's needs. Sharing information and resources. Discussing thoughts and plans for a better future, then working toward that future. Through shitty elections, through apathy. When we have been faced with heartbreak, as a team, as a community, as a nation, there has been healing. Below, you'll find something I wrote last summer, after the United State of Women Summit, before the 2016 election.
Culture is intangible.
A thread that runs through generations, the backbone of our social understanding, a shifting, weightless, faceless thing. It's the reason memes are funny, it's why the bird is a sign of disrespect and it's the force behind our understanding of commercial value. It's the way we learn to live... Together.
In the United States of America, our culture is both melting pot and viscous intolerance. It's the reason unshaven legs on a woman make some recoil. It's the idea that her clothes justify her rapist. It's being comfortable knowing female entrepreneurs are generating the most jobs, yet receiving the least capital from investors. It's the historically patriarchal influence on work-home balance—the 9-5 framework that makes no room for mothers with families, but praises fathers with babies and wives at home. It's the shoulder shrug at racism, the silencing of both data and stories that speak to disparate access to opportunity for women of color. It's the entitlement to a woman's reproductive system, coupled with the rejection of her story as a mother. It's the fetishization of two women kissing, the amusement at two men making love, the raised eyebrow at bisexuality.
When I think about the last year, I liken #bossbabesATX to a spoon. We have hosted around 5,000 women, providing 300 a town hall platform to speak publicly about their businesses, passions and causes. We've raised money for Austin nonprofits and we've created free programming and services that funnel both resources and information back into the community. We have attempted to stir the pot. Through this journey, we've come to better understand the multiplicity of womanhood. There is no anatomy, no favorite color, no hobby, no career that applies to us all. There is no one story to define us. There is no one struggle to unite us. Yet, we stir. At the United State of Women Summit two weeks ago, 5,000 women—tradeswomen, entrepreneurs, activists, politicians—gathered to discuss what America tastes like. We stuck a stick into her stew, and out came speeches from some of the world's most powerful decision-makers, like President Barack Obama's talk on the pressures and inequalities of a forced gender binary, Michelle Obama's powerful conversation with Oprah on self-value, VP Joe Biden's address on domestic violence and sexual assault. We heard the stories of rape victims, the cry from overworked mothers, the call for transwomen's visibility, the plea for investors to pay mind to women-owned business, the silence on issues surrounding reproductive rights. The speakers' words or lack thereof were a reminder—that although we've come so far, we have a long way to go. And as Austin's own 11-year-old Mikaila of Me + the Bees introduced the President of the United States, we learned that a new generation of girls, entrepreneurs, activists and government is coming.
It's coming soon, and it tastes like 5,000 women in one room discussing politics, development and the state of the Union. It tastes like equal pay for equal work. It tastes like the end of violence against women. It tastes like 50% of C-level positions held by women of all backgrounds, ethnicities and sexualities. It tastes like Mikaila's lemonade. It tastes like Beyonce's lemonade. It tastes like our lemonade. So, we stir. We stir for the mothers expected to be both provider and caregiver. We stir for the grandmothers who were taught to fight for homecoming queen and forget their times tables. We stir for the women who have been silenced, who have been disbelieved, who have been told that that's just what boys do. We stir for her anger. We stir for the sidewalks, for the cessation of default masculine spaces. We stir for a change in culture, for a future that holds its people to equal standards.
I still believe in the stir. I would do the last two years over and over again for the rest of my life.
I did not know how strong women really are until all of this began. I have always been a feminist, but the last two years have burned all my damn bras. I am continually inspired, touched and just fucking enamored with the women who come through our events. Women forgive, give, care, push, drive, hold and fuel our communities. On our backs, on our dime. With an unparalleled vicious tenderness. We survive.
So, thank you. You are amazing, and yes, I realize I am writing this to the Internet. I don't care what kind of day you've had and if we've never met, if you're reading this I am thankful you're alive. You have potential and opportunity, and you are powerful. With every dollar you spend, every person you love, every time that you say HELL NO, WE WON'T GO.
And if you've been pickin' up what #bossbabesATX has been throwin' down, thank you for seeing us through this growth as we center in on our mission, purpose and our strategy. Thank you for supporting your community and self-identifying women in creative industry and the arts. I hope you find moments of victory in your day-to-day.
Assign value to equality and joy.
With love and tacos,
Jane Claire Hervey is a digital marketing consultant, musician and founder of #bossbabesATX and BABES FEST.
Originally from the Rio Grande Valley (956 por vida), Hervey moved to Austin to study at the University of Texas. After earning her Bachelor's of Science in Journalism and pursuing a career in freelance writing, Hervey began searching for resources and a space to ask professional questions. She hosted her first #bossbabesATX meet in 2015, hoping to foster community and connection between self-identified women in Austin, Texas. She now runs the nonprofit and its festival, BABES FEST, while managing operations and marketing at multinational design firm In-House International.
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Home » Navigation » PBA » Spare Shots » Clemmer, Zimmerman to face off in Teen Masters Grand Championship
Clemmer, Zimmerman to face off in Teen Masters Grand Championship
Spare Shots
Two of the countries standout youth bowlers will experience the thrill of competing on one of bowling’s grandest stages when Breanna Clemmer of Clover, S.C., and Adam Zimmerman of Deer Park, N.Y., compete for the Teen Masters Grand Championship presented by Ebonite Sunday on ESPNU at 5 p.m. ET.
Both players earned their trips to the Grand Championship by winning the Teen Masters boys and girls championships last summer in Tamarac, Fla., which were live-streamed on Xtra Frame.
The Grand Championship finals, involving a best-of-two-game match between the boys’ and girls’ champions, were held during GEICO PBA World Series of Bowling VIII in Reno. If necessary, a one-ball sudden death roll-off will decide the outcome.
Jesper Svensson named Sweden’s “Rookie Sportsman of the Year”
A year after earning PBA Rookie of the Year honors, Sweden’s Jesper Svensson received one of his home country’s most prestigious awards when he was recognized as Sweden’s Rookie Sportsman of the Year at the annual Swedish Sports Gala.
Sharing the stage with Olympic gold medal winners from other sports, the 21-year-old two-handed player took center stage during a live nationally-televised black-tie gala to accept the award in front of millions of television viewers.
After winning three of his five career PBA titles in 2016, including the 51st PBA FireLake Tournament of Champions, Svensson was chosen by a jury from the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet over football (soccer) player Victor Nilsson Lindelöf, world champion Thai-boxer Patricia Axling and talented skier Ebba Andersson.
The award is presented to a young and upcoming athlete. According to Swedish Bowling Federation reporter Markus Hegnelius, it marked the first time a bowler has received an award at the biggest stage of Swedish sports, bringing tenpin bowling onto the front pages of the newspapers.
Former PBA Player of the Year David Ozio elected to USBC Hall of Fame
Eleven-time PBA Tour champion and 1991 PBA Player of the Year David Ozio of Beaumont, Texas, has been elected to the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in the Superior Performance category.
He will be inducted, along with one-time PBA Tour titlist Mike Shady of Fairview, Pa., during the USBC Convention on April 26 in Las Vegas.
Ozio, 62, was a 1995 inductee into the PBA Hall of Fame. Among his titles was the 1991 Firestone PBA Tournament of Champions. Throughout his career, Ozio was considered the prototype stylist based on his technically-flawless delivery.
He also had a brief but successful career on the PBA50 Tour, winning two titles including the 2004 Senior U.S. Open and PBA50 Rookie of the Year honors that same year. In 2009, Ozio was recognized as the 34th best player on the list of the 50 greatest players in PBA history.
“When you spend your whole life practicing, bowling 200 games a week and living in bowling centers, recognition like this means a lot,” Ozio said. “After all these years, I wondered if it was going to happen, and if it did, it would be great. It was a welcomed phone call and a sigh of relief.”
Other PBA stars on USBC’s performance ballot who fell short of the 70 percent majority required for election were Dave Ferraro of Kingston, N.Y.; Mark Williams of Beaumont, Texas; Randy Pedersen of Clermont, Fla.; Mike Scroggins of Amarillo, Texas; and Danny Wiseman of Baltimore.
QubicaAMF PBA Regional Update: Rhino Page to host CCFA South Open
For eight years, four-time PBA Tour titlist Rhino Page has worked with the Thomas Cacioppo family in New York, staging fund-raising bowling events that have raised more than $225,000 to help fight Crohns and Colitis.
Pictured is Rhino Page, center, with the Cacioppo family. From left father Tom, Tyler, Thomas Jr. and mother Patti.
In March, Page is expanding the effort by hosting the PBA Strike Out Crohns and Colitis South Open at Boardwalk Bowl in his adopted hometown, Orlando, Fla. The PBA South Region tournament will take place over the March 24-26 weekend.
QubicaAMF PBA Regional competition in 2017 gets underway over the Jan. 20-22 weekend at South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas with the South Point West Challenge for non-champions, and the South Point member/non-member doubles, both presented by Track. The PBA Central Region also returns to action with the PBA/PBA50 Don Vay Memorial Central Doubles Classic at Legend Lanes in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
The Jan. 27-29 weekend includes the PBA and PBA50 Sands Regency West/Northwest Winter Classic doubleheader presented by Storm at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev. The weekend also will include a Sands Regency West/Northwest Winter Challenge event for non-champions.
For complete QubicaAMF PBA Regional schedules, rules and entry information, click here to find the event(s) in your area.
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Trump Cuts $200 Million In Aid To Palestinians
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Deborah Danan
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump ordered that more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority be cut, a State Department official said on Friday.
The announcement comes on the heels of a review examining U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.
According to the official, Washington seeks “to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with US national interests and provide value to the US taxpayer.”
“As a result of that review,” the official continued, “at the direction of the president, we will redirect more than $200 million in [fiscal year 2017] economic support funds originally planned for programs in the West Bank and Gaza. Those funds will now address high-priority projects elsewhere.”
The terror group Hamas’ control of the Gaza Strip was partly to blame, the State Department official said. The measure “takes into account the challenges the international community faces in providing assistance in Gaza, where Hamas control endangers the lives of Gaza’s citizens and degrades an already dire humanitarian and economic situation,” he said.
The Trump administration has already cut aid to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
In January, Trump slammed the PA over its refusal to deal with the US, saying his administration should not continue to give “massive payments” to the Palestinians when they are “no longer willing to talk peace.”
“We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” Trump tweeted. “They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more.”
Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is reportedly pushing to get rid of the refugee status of millions of Palestinians as well as shut down UNRWA.
The PLO’s envoy to Washington responded to the latest cut by saying that the Trump administration was “weaponizing” humanitarian aid.
“This administration is dismantling decades of US vision and engagement in Palestine,” Husam Zomlot said in a statement.
“After Jerusalem and UNRWA, this is another confirmation of abandoning the two-state solution and fully embracing (Israeli prime minster Benjamin) Netanyahu’s anti-peace agenda,” he added in reference to Trump’s formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent transfer of the U.S. embassy there.
“Weaponizing humanitarian and developmental aid as political blackmail does not work,” Zomlot said.
“Only a recommitment from this administration,” he added, “to the long held US policy of achieving peace through the two state solution on the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem the capital of the state of Palestine and respecting international resolutions and law will provide a way forward.”
Meanwhile PLO Executive Committee member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi said the Trump administration “has already demonstrated meanness of spirit in its collusion with the Israeli occupation and its theft of land and resources; now it is exercising economic meanness by punishing the Palestinian victims of this occupation.”
On Friday, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the head of UNRWA, implied that the U.S. aid cuts were in order to punish the Palestinians over their reaction of the U.S.’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“One cannot simply wish 5 million people away,” Kraehenbuehl said.
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Brick Fanatics Magazine Issue 2 available now
10/01/2019 29/01/2019 Rob 0 Comments 75220 Sandcrawler, 76112 App-Controlled Batmobile, Brick Fanatics Magazine, Johnny Thunder, LEGO, LEGO magazine, LEGO Wild West, The LEGO Movie 2, Ultrakatty, Unikitty
Single copies of Issue 2 of Brick Fanatics Magazine, as well as 12-issue and 24-issue subscriptions from Issue 2 are available to purchase now
Brick Fanatics Magazine, the A5, 80-page print publication all about LEGO, is back and will now be published monthly from Issue 2. Issue 2 is available for purchase now in single copies (plus a postage and packaging charge) or as part of a 12-issue or 24-issue subscription, and will be distributed from a scheduled print date at the end of January.
We are delighted to present the front cover for Issue 2, and reveal some of the content that will be inside this issue.
As we welcome our follow-up to late 2018’s launch issue, there’s no better time to focus on another upcoming sequel, The LEGO Movie 2. Alongside an exclusive cover build of a fallen Statue of Liberty that puts even the impressive official LEGO set 74840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg! to shame, readers of Brick Fanatics Magazine Issue 2 are transported straight into the post-apocalyptic world of The LEGO Movie 2.
Following the devastating events of a DUPLO invasion, the LEGO Group takes us on an exclusive tour of what’s left of Bricksburg thanks to never-before-seen artwork, behind-the-scenes concept work and interviews. This is a unique opportunity to find out exactly how the company deconstructed the world they had built in 2014’s The LEGO Movie for its 2019 sequel.
Meanwhile, Vice President of Design at the LEGO Group Matthew Ashton reveals all that went into the creation of Unikitty, and her notable transformation for The LEGO Movie 2 into Ultrakatty. Did you know her character was originally designed as a male king? Well, our On Topic section – filled with insight into the very latest and most interesting areas of the LEGO world – reveals this and much more in Issue 2.
In Review+ – where we delve deeper than traditional reviews – we are treated to a LEGO designer tour of Emmet’s Dream House, we take the App-Controlled Batmobile on a rigorous field test all in the spirit of trying to break it, and we discover a new way to look at the latest Sandcrawler.
Our Retro section – crammed with old set reviews, new builds for classic themes, fact-packed features and historic oddities – has a heavy double dose of nostalgia in Issue 2, as we take a trip back to the Wild West, and continue the adventures of Johnny Thunder.
There’s a great deal more to discover in this A5, 80-page print publication, put together by LEGO fans, for LEGO fans. Whatever your level of interest and involvement in the brick world, there’s something in each issue of Brick Fanatics Magazine for you.
You can order single copies of Issue 2 (plus a postage and packaging charge), or save money and qualify for free postage by subscribing for 12 or 24 issues. Subscriptions are available from Issue 1 (Issues 1-12 or 1-24) or Issue 2 (Issues 2-13 or 2-25). Issue 2 will be distributed from its print date scheduled for the end of January. You can still order single copies of Issue 1 too.
Every order, and in particular every subscription, supports the work we do at Brick Fanatics Magazine and goes a long way to ensuring that we can continue to deliver the very best, most engaging and relevant brick-based material each and every issue.
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CHERUBS Announce New EP 'Fist In The Air'
Austin, TX cult noise rock kings, Cherubs have announced a brand new EP entitled Fist In The Air to be released on double 7" and digital download on February 26th. The band has premiered the song "Red Carpet Blues" from the forthcoming EP via Consequence of Sound at this location. Pre-Orders for the EP are available via Brutal Panda Records HERE and digitally via Bandcamp HERE.
Produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, ....And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead) and including remixes by Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington and $hit and $hine, Fist in The Air is another warm fuck you from the venerable Cherubs. This double EP package comes with TWO 7" slices mastered at 45 RPM, all packaged inside a plastic wrapper to keep the freshness locked in. Includes a bonus RUSH sticker!
Fist In The Air Tracklisting
1. Fist In The Air
2. Donkey Suite
3. Red Carpet Blues
4. Fist In The Air ($hit & $hine Remix)
5. Fist In The Air (Tim Harrington Remix)
Fist In The Air Pressing Info:
10 Test Presses
50 Red Carpet Blue Split Vinyl
150 Moldy Green
450 Clear
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Robert Burns choral settings
from Schumann to MacMillan
Choral Settings
A Man’s a Man (Cooper)
A Rose-Bud by my Early Walk (Attwood)
Ae Fond Kiss (Boyle)
Ae Fond kiss (Scott)
Auld Lang Syne (Whyte)
Ca’ the Yowes (Williams)
Combien Triste et Longue (Gédalge)
Comin’ thro’ the Rye (Boyle)
Duncan Gray (Boyle)
I Love my Jean (Bennett)
My Nannie’s Awa’ (Roberton)
O Wert thou in the Cauld Blast (Roberton)
Poortith Cauld (Tippett)
Quodlibet (Davie)
So Deep (MacMillan)
Tam’s Moral (Fowler)
The Duke’s Dang o’er my Daddie (Scott)
The Gallant Weaver (MacMillan)
Ye Banks and Braes (Whyte)
Zahnweh (Schumann)
Thomas Attwood
George John Bennett
Rory Boyle
Katy Lavinia Cooper
Cedric Thorpe Davie
Tommy Fowler
André Gedalge
James MacMillan
Hugh Roberton
Francis George Scott
Michael Tippett
Ian Whyte
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sir Michael Tippett
Photo © Nicky Johnston
Sir Michael Tippett was an English composer, born in London in 1905. He studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, and also undertook private studies of counterpoint and fugue with R. O. Morris. He conducted and directed a number of orchestras and Festivals, including the Bath Festival in its 1969 edition. He received a CBE in 1959, and was knighted in 1966. Over and above that, he received a CH in 1979 and an OM in 1983.
In 1943 he faced prison after failing to comply with the conditions dictated for conscientious exemption from serving in the military.
Music was very much the centre of Tippett’s life, although fame for him arrived relatively late. The work which made his name known more widely was his 1938-39 Concerto for Double String Orchestra.
The opera King Priam marks a shift from Tippett’s early works (which have been termed his ‘lyrical’ phase) to what is known as a ‘disjunct’ phase, which lasted approximately until 1969 when he entered another phase in which he would combine the previous two aspects of his style with high sophistication. He also looked at various other genres for inspiration: from serious to popular, and from blues to folk.
Tippett’s autobiography, Those Twentieth Century Blues, was published in 1991. He died in London in 1998.
Poortith Cauld
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Tippett’s evocative composition dates from 1957, and here he uses the text for a lyrical musical exploration of Burns’ theme of love and wealth.
Funded by the University of Glasgow Chancellor's Fund
Centre for Robert Burns Studies
7 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QH
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70% Of People Don't Know How To Give A Proper Handshake — Here's How
Drake Baer
Dec. 25, 2014, 11:02 AM
President Obama and Pope Francis show how its done.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
For all its popularity, the handshake is not well understood.
According to one poll, some 70% of people don't feel confident about their ability to give a proper handshake.
The mass ignorance is startling, given that the handshake is "one of the most crucial elements of impression formation," according to University of Manchester psychologist Geoffrey Beattie.
As we know, people read a ton into first impressions.
"A handshake reveals aspects of the personality of the person giving it," he tells the Daily Mail. "For example, a soft handshake can indicate insecurity, whilst a quick-to-let-go handshake can suggest arrogance."
One of the most fascinating studies about handshakes came from St. John's psychologist William Chaplin.
In 2001, his study of 122 college students found that handshake styles indicate personality types. Extroverts tend toward firm handshakes; introverts don't.
That's tough news for introverts.
"Having a firm handshake is important for making a good impression," Chaplin said. "We found that men had firmer handshakes than women did, on average, but we also found that women who had firm handshakes tended to be evaluated as positively as men are."
But a proper handshake isn't a play for dominance. It's a sign of sincerity.
Take it from Esquire writer Tom Chiarella, who wrote an ode to a proper handshake that we can't help but endorsing:
On the street, in the lobby, square your shoulders to people you meet. Make a handshake matter — eye contact, good grip, elbow erring toward a right angle. Do not pump the hand, unless the other person is insistent on just that. Then pump the hell out of their hand. Smile. If you can't smile, you can't be gracious. You aren't some dopey English butler. You are you.
And that's a fine way to make a first impression.
SEE ALSO: 9 Proven Ways To Get People To Take You Seriously
More: Psychology Self-improvement Learning Body Language
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Texas pastor Joel Osteen: Backlash over not opening megachurch for shelter 'probably helped us to step up some things'
This April 24, 2010 file photo shows Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen at Dodger Stadium during his "A Night of Hope" in Los Angeles.
Associated Press/Richard Vogel
Celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen took to several morning shows on Wednesday to respond to backlash over not opening up his Houston megachurch sooner to help shelter Harvey victims.
Lakewood Church, which has the capacity to seat more than 16,000 parishioners, began accepting displaced residents Tuesday morning, following several days of public criticism as evacuees began filling up other local shelters by the thousands.
Asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo whether the online outcry changed the church's plans, Osteen said, "It really didn't," saying he hadn't personally read any criticisms but was made aware of them by his staff. But he added that the backlash "probably helped us to step up some things, to do it faster."
He continued: "It's not easy when we have our own staff members and pastors that are being rescued — how do you get people to the building to take care of people? It's a big building, you can't just open it up. So it was a big storm, maybe next time we would be a shelter before — get people housed before the storm."
Osteen told CNN that Lakewood Church's doors had always been open and willing to take in residents, although a Facebook post on Sunday had said the megachurch was "inaccessible due to severe flooding." The church provided photos to media outlets that showed standing water in parts of the building.
Some social-media users quickly rebuked the notion that the church was flooded, posting their own photos and videos of what appeared to be a dry building and parking lot. A Lakewood Church spokesman said Tuesday that the floodwaters had already begun to recede by Monday.
Osteen also blamed the backlash on a "false narrative" that had been pushed across social media, saying he had been reluctant to open up immediately because the church — a former basketball arena — is prone to flooding.
"I think somebody created that narrative that somehow we were high and dry and none of that is true," he told ABC News.
"Think of the story if we had housed a whole bunch of evacuees and the building flooded. That wouldn't have been a good story," he said on NBC's "Today."
SEE ALSO: Texas pastor Joel Osteen responds to backlash over not opening his megachurch to Harvey victims
NOW THIS: Harvey makes 2nd landfall on Louisiana border after pummeling Texas with 'catastrophic' flooding — here's the latest
More: Houston Texas Harvey Joel Osteen
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Apparently Kanye "Crossed The Line" With Jay-Z, And That's Why They're No Longer Friends (Sad Face)
"You brought my family into it, now it’s a problem."
Erin La Rosa
Remember when Kanye West and Jay-Z were friends? They made Watch the Throne, and genuinely seemed like pretty great buds. Simpler times.
Larry Busacca / Getty Images
So simple. So nice.
Well, it's 2017 and because the world is one flaming pile of shit, nothing good can stay — including this friendship.
Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images
In a new and rare interview, Jay-Z told Rap Radar (a Tidal podcast) that Kanye "crossed the line."
Dave Kotinsky / Getty Images
He also went into that elevator fight with Solange, in case you're curious about that.
"What really hurt me was, you can’t bring my wife and my kids into it. Like, Kanye is my little brother. He’s talked about me a hundred times, he even made a song called ‘Big Brother.’ We’ve gotten past bigger issues. But you brought my family into it, now it’s a problem," Jay-Z said.
"You know it’s a problem because me and him would have been talked about it, been resolved our issues. And he knows [he] crossed the line, he knows," Jay-Z said. "And I know he knows. Cause we’ve never let this much space go between one of our disagreements and we’ve had many. That’s just who we are."
Kanye and Jay-Z have disagreed publicly in the past, like in 2013 when Kanye dissed Jay-Z's collab with Justin Timberlake. "I got love for Hov, but I'm not fucking with that 'Suit and Tie,'" he rapped.
Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Images
But in 2016, Kanye went on two rants about not just Jay-Z, but Beyoncé (and their kids as well) during his Saint Pablo tour.
Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images
In October, Kanye told a crowd, "I can’t take this shit, bro! Our kids have never even played together."
And then in November, Kanye spilled even more, "Beyoncé, I was hurt because I heard you said you wouldn't perform unless you won video of the year over me and over 'Hotline Bling.' In my opinion — now don't go dissing Beyoncé, she's great. Taylor Swift is great. We are all great people. But sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win... Jay Z, call me, you still ain't called me ... Jay Z, I know you got killers. Please don't send them at my head. Just call me. Talk to me like a man."
And while many have cited Jay-Z's "Kill Jay Z" song from his new album 4:44 as a Kanye diss track, Jay put those rumors to rest by saying, "It’s not about a Kanye diss. I’m talking about me. When I say, 'You dropped out of school, you lost your principals,' I’m not talking about Kanye. I’m talking about me. The whole thing."
If you don't remember the lyrics to "Kill Jay Z," here's a little refresher: "You walkin’ around like you invincible, you dropped outta school, you lost your principles / I know people backstab you, I felt bad too / But this ‘fuck everybody’ attitude ain’t natural / But you ain’t the same, this ain’t Kumba Ye / But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye / You gave him 20 million without blinkin / He gave you 20 minutes on stage, fuck was he thinkin’? / ’Fuck wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’ / But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane."
::: insert big side eyes 👀:::
So, to recap: Jay and Ye aren't on good terms because Kanye "crossed the line," but "Kill Jay Z" isn't about Kanye... (even though it still kinda seems like it is).
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You can see the Jay-Z interview in full here and judge for yourself, though!
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