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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Diabetic Retinopathy in a Rural Chinese Population: The Yangxi Eye Study
Guangming Jin; Wei Xiao; Xiaohu Ding; Xiao Xu; Lei An; Nathan Congdon; Jialiang Zhao; Mingguang He
Guangming Jin
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Wei Xiao
Xiaohu Ding
Xiao Xu
Rehabilitation Administration Department, National Institute of Hospital Administration, Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
Lei An
Nathan Congdon
Translational Research for Equitable Eye Care, Centre for Public Health, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Orbis International, New York, New York, United States
Jialiang Zhao
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Mingguang He
Centre for Eye Research Australia, Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Correspondence: Mingguang He, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, #54 Xianlie South Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510060, People's Republic of China; mingguang_he@yahoo.com.
Jialiang Zhao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, #1 Dongjiaomin Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; 13501132676@163.com.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science October 2018, Vol.59, 5067-5073. doi:10.1167/iovs.18-24280
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Guangming Jin, Wei Xiao, Xiaohu Ding, Xiao Xu, Lei An, Nathan Congdon, Jialiang Zhao, Mingguang He; Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Diabetic Retinopathy in a Rural Chinese Population: The Yangxi Eye Study. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2018;59(12):5067-5073. doi: 10.1167/iovs.18-24280.
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Purpose: To investigate the prevalence and determinants of diabetic retinopathy (DR) among older adults in rural Southern China.
Methods: Using random cluster sampling, persons aged 50 years or older were randomly selected in rural Yangxi County, Guangdong Province, China. All participants underwent a standardized interview, fundus photography, and point of service glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) testing. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was diagnosed based on confirmed medical history or HbA1c ≥6.5%. Fundus photographs were graded for DR and diabetic macular edema (DME) based on the United Kingdom National Diabetic Eye Screening Program guidelines. Prevalence of and risk factors for DR and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) were evaluated.
Results: Among 5825 subjects who participated (90.7% response rate) in the Yangxi Eye Study, 562 (9.6%) were diagnosed with DM, including 79 (14.1%) known and 483 new (85.9%) cases. Among DM cases, 476 (84.7%) had gradable fundus photos. The prevalence of any DR and VTDR were 8.19% (95% confidence interval [CI] 5.9–11.0) and 5.25% (95% CI 3.43–7.66), respectively. These figures were 23.9% and 12.7% for known and 5.43% and 3.95% for new DM cases. Risk factors for any DR were higher HbA1c level (OR [odds ratio] per unit 1.34, P < 0.001), longer duration of DM (OR per year = 2.29, P < 0.001) and having previously undergone cataract surgery (OR 4.11, P < 0.030).
Conclusions: Our study found a lower prevalence of DR among adults 50 years and older than in previously reports. Perhaps this difference can be explained by the short duration of most cases.
The total number of people with diabetes mellitus (DM) in China is projected to rise from 171 million in 2000 to 366 million by 2030, meaning that China will become the country with the largest diabetes population in the world.1 Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a common complication of diabetes, is the leading cause of blindness in the working age population worldwide.2–4 The global prevalence of DR grew 64% from 1990 to 2010, virtually all due to increases in low- and middle-income countries, but few population-based data from such settings have been published.5–8 Reports from upper-income countries are comparatively plentiful,8–20 and substantial regional variation has been identified.21
China is the world's most populous country, with one-half of its 1.4 billion people living in rural areas.22 However, population-based data on the prevalence of DM and DR in China remained limited,23–27 particularly in rural areas, where only a single study has been conducted, in Handan, northern China, more than 10 years ago. With the diabetes population increasing rapidly in China,28,29 an up-to-date study on the rural prevalence of DR is needed by policy makers to assess the current magnitude of the disease and requirements for service delivery. Additional population-based data would also help quantify regional variation in a large country such as China, where genetic background, lifestyle, and quality of and access to healthcare services differ considerably from region to region.
In the current study, we investigated the age- and sex-specific prevalence of DM and DR and potential predictors in a large, population-based cohort in rural southern China.
Study Population
The Yangxi Eye Study is a population-based, cross-sectional study of Han Chinese age 50 years or older living in a rural setting in southern China. As part of the 2014 China Nine-Province Survey, this study of visual impairment and blindness was designed to report the prevalence and clinical characteristics of eye diseases, including DR and age-related macular degeneration.30 From August to November 2014, based on data from the Residence Administrative Committee, 6425 eligible subjects were identified using cluster random sampling from 268 geographically defined basic sampling units. The subjects underwent full ocular examinations. The research followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki, written informed consent was obtained from all the participants, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (Guangzhou, China).
Study Procedures
Eligible participants, persons age 50 years and older who had been living in the catchment area for at least 6 months, were recruited based on a household registry and door-to-door enumeration. A standard questionnaire conducted by trained interviewers was used to collect past medical history regarding DM, including the date of confirmed diagnosis and current use of medications. Glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) was analyzed using a point-of-care device (Afinion AS100; Axis-Shield, Norway). New diabetes mellitus (NDM) was diagnosed by HbA1c ≥6.5%, as recommended by the America Diabetes Association,31 and known diabetes mellitus (KDM) was defined as a self-reported history of physician diagnosis or current drug treatment for diabetes. A systemic examination was performed by a trained nurse, including the measurement of blood pressure and height and weight for the computation of body mass index (BMI).
Basic eye examinations were performed after the interview and the aforementioned systemic examination, according to standardized protocol. Visual acuity was assessed with Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) charts.32 The presenting visual acuity (PVA) of each eye with habitual correction where available was recorded, and the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was assessed with noncycloplegic automated refraction (KR-8900; Topcon, Tokyo, Japan) in those with PVA <6/12 in either eye. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy and direct ophthalmoscopy were performed by trained ophthalmologists to identify and record abnormalities of the anterior and posterior segments.
Fundus photography was undertaken for each eye in all participants using a digital non-mydriatic fundus camera (FundusVue; Crystalvue, Inc., Ltd., Taoyuan City, Taiwan), consisting of NHS screening program standard field 1 (centered on the optic disc) and field 2 (centered on the fovea).33 Pupils were dilated by applying compound tropicamide eye drops (each milliliter contains 5 mg tropicamide and 5 mg phenylephrine hydrochloride), 3 drops in each eye.
Diabetic Retinopathy Grading
Retinal photographs were graded by trained graders according to the United Kingdom National Diabetic Eye Screening Program (UK NDESP) guidelines.33 DR was graded as R0, R1, R2, R3a, or R3s. R0 was defined as no DR and R1 as background DR with at least one of the following features: microaneurysm(s) or HMa (a term used when it is difficult to distinguish between a microaneurysm and a dot hemorrhage); retinal hemorrhage(s); venous loop(s); any exudate in the presence of other non-referable features of DR; or any number of cotton wool spots in the presence of other non-referable features of DR. R2 was defined as pre-proliferative DR with at least one of the following features: venous beading, venous reduplication, multiple blot hemorrhages, or intraretinal microvascular abnormality. R3 was classified into two groups: R3a was defined as active proliferative retinopathy with at least one of these features: new vessels on the disc, new vessels elsewhere, pre-retinal or vitreous hemorrhage, or pre-retinal fibrosis with or without retinal traction. R3s was defined as stable post-treatment retinopathy, with evidence of previous peripheral retinal laser treatment. R3s was rare in this study's setting and was therefore combined with R3a to report the prevalence of R3.
Diabetic macular edema (DME) was graded as M0 or M1. M0 was defined as no maculopathy, and M1 had at least one of the following features: exudate within 1 disc diameter of the center of the fovea, or a collection of exudates within the macula. Vision-threatening DR (VTDR) was considered to be present if any feature(s) of M1, R2, or R3 were found. Photographs were classified as ungradable if quality precluded classification according to the above system.
DR was graded based on the worse-affected eye for each participant, as previously described.34 In particular, if one eye was ungradable and the other was gradable, the participant would be classified based on the gradable eye.
As called for in the NDESP protocol,33 two trained, experienced graders graded each image independently, based on the protocol as outlined. If there was any discrepancy between them, the image was reassessed by a senior grader (ophthalmologist), whose decision was final. These graders were trained and certified in the UK NDESP national screening program online course35 and had worked as service providers for a national diabetes screening program run by the Chinese Ministry of Health. The interobserver agreement between the graders was good (weighted κ 0.84 for retinopathy and 0.73 for DME).
Overall, age-specific and sex-specific prevalence of DR and its component signs were assessed. Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare characteristics between sexes and different age groups. Multivariate-adjusted logistic regression analysis of risk factors for the development of DR was also performed. The impact of diabetes on vision impairment was assessed, and prevalence of visually significant comorbid eye disease were compared between groups with and without diabetes. According to WHO criteria, visual impairment was categorized as: <6/18–6/60 (moderate visual impairment), <6/60–6/120 (severe visual impairment), and >6/120 (blindness).36 All data analyses were performed using Stata 14.0 software (Stata Corp., College Station, TX, USA). P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Of 6425 eligible participants, 5825 (90.7%) took part in the study. Hb1Ac results were available for 5742 (98.6%) participants, and medical history data available for 5744 (98.6%). A total of 562 persons (9.6%) were diagnosed with DM, including 79 (14.1%) known DM (KDM) and 483 (85.9%) new DM (NDM) cases. Among the DM cases, 476 (84.7%; mean age 65.7 ± 9.48 years, 37.2% men) had gradable photos in at least 1 eye, including 34 persons were graded as non-VTDR in one eye and ungradable in the fellow eye (Fig. 1). Characteristics of all persons with DM are shown in Supplementary Table S1. Participants without gradable photos were significantly older (P = 0.012) and significantly more likely to have PVA <6/18 (P < 0.001). Characteristics of NDM and KDM participants with gradable fundus photographs are shown in Table 1.
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Flowchart of participants included and excluded from analysis for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in the Yangxi Eye Study.
Characteristics of New Diabetes Mellitus and Known Diabetes Mellitus in the Yangxi Eye Study
Table 2 shows the age- and sex-specific prevalence of DR among participants with DM. The overall prevalence of DR in this cohort was 8.19% (95% CI, 5.9%–11.0%). VTDR was present in 5.25% (95% CI, 3.43%–7.66%), and M1 in 3.58% (95% CI, 2.10%–5.67%) of participants with DM. The prevalence of DR, M1 and VTDR did not differ significantly by age or sex (Table 2).
Age- and Sex-Specific Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy in the Yangxi Eye Study
Table 3 shows the prevalence of DR in those with KDM and NDM. Compared with NDM subjects, KDM subjects had significantly higher prevalence of any DR (23.9% vs. 5.43%, P < 0.001) and VTDR (12.7% vs. 3.95%, P = 0.002) but not M1 (5.63% vs. 3.22%, P = 0.312). Both the presence and severity of DR increased significantly with longer duration of diabetes (Fig. 2). Any DR was present in 40% of KDM participants with a 10-year history of diabetes, compared to 5.43% of NDM participants (P < 0.001).
Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy in Those With Known Diabetes Mellitus and Newly Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus in the Yangxi Eye Study
Prevalence of types of diabetic retinopathy by known duration of diabetes mellitus in the Yangxi Eye Study.
Table 4 shows the associations of various potential determinants of any DR and of VTDR. In multivariate analysis, factors significantly associated with any DR were higher HbA1c (OR, 1.34 per 1% increase, P < 0.001) and longer diabetes duration (OR, 2.29 per year increase, P < 0.001). HbA1c (OR, 1.32 per 1% increase, P < 0.002) and longer diabetes duration (OR, 1.82 per year increase, P < 0.019) were also risk factors for VTDR.
Risk Factors for Presence of Any Diabetic Retinopathy in the Yangxi Eye Study
A total of 546 (97.2%) participants with DM completed assessment of PVA, as did 5021 without DM (95.4%). The prevalence of moderate and severe visual impairment and blindness among those with diabetes was 3.66% (95 CI, 2.25%–5.60%), 1.28% (95 CI, 0.52%–2.62%), and 2.38% (95 CI, 1.27%–4.04%), respectively, and did not differ significantly from rates among those without diabetes (Table 5). Visual impairment associated with glaucoma was significantly higher among participants with DM than without DM, but the rates for cataract and refractive error did not differ significantly by DM status.
Impact of Diabetes on Visual Impairment and Visually Significant Comorbid Eye Disease in the Yangxi Eye Study
In the current study, we chose to use the UK NDESP classification to assess the severity of DR because our graders had been trained and certified using this system. Although the UK NDESP classification system differs from research grading systems such as that used in the ETDRS,37 it is capable of classifying referral DR and VTDR cases, has been widely used in DR screening programs, and is less resource-intensive and time-consuming for patients.34,38,39 In these respects, it was more suitable in this low-resource setting.
A number of studies have been carried out on DR prevalence worldwide to date. A retrospective study pooling of 35 population-based studies from the United States, Australia, Europe, Asia, and other countries and regions over the past 30 years (1980–2008) reported that the mean prevalence of DR and VTDR were 34.6% and 7.0%, respectively, among persons with DM.21 The prevalence of DR and VTDR identified in our study was much lower than reported in developed countries in Europe,12,40–43 the United States,9,10,13,14,44 Australia,11,45,46 and Asia (Singapore).15 Interestingly, reported prevalence of any DR from another low- to middle–income country (India: 10.3%–18.0%)8,16 was more in line with our own findings in rural China. However, our observed prevalence of any DR was also lower than has been reported in other population-based studies conducted in China (Supplementary Table S2), with values ranging from 9.9% to 43.1%.23–27
There are several possible explanations for the low prevalence of DR observed in the current study: First, different characteristics of the study populations might contribute to the discrepancy. The ratio between KDM to NDM was 1:5 in the current study, which is substantially lower than that identified in developed countries or the findings from the Handan Eye Study conducted in northern rural China (ratio = 1:2),11,12,47,48 presumably due to relatively poor access to care in our study setting. Given the fact that DR was much less common in NDM patients,27 presumably due to their shorter mean duration and possibly lesser severity of disease, this is a likely explanation for the low prevalence of DR observed in our study. Second, race, which is considered an independent risk factor for DR, is another possible reason.21,49 Many studies have investigated the relationship between ethnicity and DR, with typical associations to be dependent on differences in the control of established risk factors.14,50 However, some studies have identified ethnicity as an independent risk factor for DR that could not otherwise be explained.44,51 Third, regional differences between northern and southern China, secondary to lifestyle, environmental differences and variations in access to care, may be another factor contributing to the discrepancy. Regional differences within the same ethnic group—for example, between Indian migrants to Singapore and those remaining in India—have also been reported in the Singapore Indian Eye Study.18
We identified both HbA1c and longer duration of DM as risk factors for both DR and VTDR, but no such association was present for age, BMI, hypertension, and insulin use. Our findings for Hb1Ac and DM duration are consistent with previous studies.15,17,27,52 HbA1c reflects glycemic levels over the past 3 months, and DM duration is an index of cumulative damage to the microvascular system. Therefore, it is biologically plausible that these factors may be linked causally with the presence and severity of DR.
Strengths of this study include the population-based design with large sample size, high participation rate, and the use of recommended HbA1c testing (shown to be more accurate in assessment of DM than is random plasma glucose31). Limitations of the study must also be addressed: First, although the UK NDESP grading system was suitable for this rural Chinese setting, differences in photographic protocol and cutoffs limit our comparison with studies based on other systems. Second, data on other biomarkers that are potentially important in the DR pathway (including genetic factors and blood lipids) were not collected here; therefore, an assessment of their effects on DR is not possible. Third, consistent with previous studies,15,27 we used nonstereoscopic digital photography, which may affect the accuracy for DME classification, where stereoscopic findings can be important.
In conclusion, prevalence of DR and VTDR among persons with diabetes in this population was far lower than has been reported previously in rural China.27 The four-fold difference (between 10% and 40%) has important implications for human resource and equipment needs across the very large populations of rural China. Furthermore, the high proportion of previously undiagnosed diabetes observed in our study suggests that further efforts are needed to improve access to basic healthcare in at least some parts of rural China. Additional studies are required to confirm these findings elsewhere and elucidate reasons for possible regional variations in DM and DR prevalence across China.
The authors thank the National Institute of Hospital Administration of the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission, funded under ORBIS International North Asia (Beijing, China) contract no. 1541.
Supported by the National Institute of Hospital Administration, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission and ORBIS International. Mingguang He receives support from the Fundamental Research Funds of the State Key Laboratory in Ophthalmology, Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province 2013B20400003, and the University of Melbourne Research Accelerator Program and the CERA Foundation. The Centre for Eye Research Australia receives Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian State Government. Nathan Congdon is supported by the Ulverscroft Foundation (UK). The sponsors had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Disclosure: G. Jin, None; W. Xiao, None; X. Ding, None; X. Xu, None; L. An, None; N. Congdon, None; J. Zhao, None; M. He, None
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THE PARALLAX EFFECT: THE IMPACT OF ABORIGINAL MEDIA ON ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
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parallax: (mfparallaxe fr. Gk. parallaxis, change, alternation...) 1. the apparent displacement or the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points. {Webster's Third New International Unabridged Dictionary, 1976) Ethnographic film no longer occupies a singular niche. Other voices call to us in forms and modes that blur the boundaries and genres that represent distinctions between fiction and documentary, politics and culture, here and there. For those situated in the larger, nonspecialist audience outside of anthropology per se, these other voices often seem more incisive, informative, and engaging...The voice of the traditional ethnographic filmmaker has become one voice among many. Dialogue, debate, and a fundamental reconceptualization of visual anthropology in light of these transformations is, quite simply, essential (Nichols 1994: 64). Central to multiculturalism is the notion of mutual and reciprocal relativization, the idea that the diverse cultures placed in play should come to perceive the limitations of their own social and cultural perspective. The point is not to embrace the other perspective completely but at least to recognize it, acknowledge it, take it into account, be ready to be transformed by it... At the same time, historical configurations of power and knowledge generate a clear asymmetry within this relativization. The powerful are not accustomed to being relativized...It is therefore not
merely a question of communicating across borders but of discerning the forces which generate the borders in the first place (Shohat and Stam 1995: 359). This essay is an effort to rethink the way we position ethnographic film at the end of the twentieth century, with special attention to the relationship of the genre to the burgeoning of work by filmmakers from communities thathave, historically, been anthropology's objects, in particular the work of indigenous media makers. Because the assaults on indigenous people have been so severe, these current efforts to reassert a cultural and historical presence through a widely acccessible media form are particularly important, because their self-consciousness about cultural production suggests a close parallel to the project of anthropology, yet one whose urgency is far greater than any academic agenda. Moreover, ethnographic film at the fin de siecle cannot pretend (anymore than can anthropology in general) that it occupies the same postion in the world it did even twenty-five years ago, as the only show in town, so to speak. The genre now exists amidst a bewildering array of imagery from around the planet and an equally complex range of technologies for its production and circulation. Certainly, the moral and empirical imperatives of these new media forms would make it necessary to rethink the genre's project at the present moment- Additionally, the rich possibilities that this rethinking can offer in terms of epistemology, aesthetics, pedagogy, production, and research seem more than sufficient to justify the expanded framework I advocate here, and that others have elsewhere from
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slightly different perspectives (Michaels 1986, 1987; Nichols 1994; Prins 1994; Roth 1994; Shohat and Stam 1994; Turner 1990, 1992).1 I am not in any way advocating that indigneous media should displace ethnographic film, as has been suggested by some critics. Rather, I argue more positively for developing a framework that will allow us to think of the different but related projects of ethnographic film and indigenous media in relation to each other, to help expand and refine the broader project of representing, mediating, and understanding culture through a variety of media forms. To do so requires attending to both ethnographic and indigenous films as representations of culture and as objects that are themselves implicated in cultural processes. While my research (and therefore my case) is based on my work with Australian Aboriginal and other indigenous media makers, my suggestions could easily be extended to work being done by media makers from diasporic communities and Third World communities, as others have done (Nichols 1994), although with important attention to the historical and political differences inherent in these terms and the people and objects they point to (Shohat and Stam 1994).2 Specifically, I am interested in how indigenous film and video offer productive challenges to the assumptions of the genre of ethnographic film by (1) refraining questions about the representation of cultural differences; by (2) highlighting mediamaking as a dimension of contemporary (and historical) social, cultural, and political processes; and by (3) expanding the discursive field that can bring a variety of subjects into conversation around questions raised by these media as they travel across boundaries of difference. Most importantly, in my view, this work demonstrates the necessity of acknowledging multiple points of view in both the creation and reception of screen representations of culture. In this way, ethnographic film can offer an exemplary model for social theory that increasingly argues for the contested nature of cultural production. To capture the sense I have ofthe epistemologically positive impact that indigenous media might have on ethnographic film, I use the metaphor of the parallax effect.3 In astronomy, this term was invented for the phenomenon that occurs when a change in the position of the observer creates the illusion that an object has
been displaced or moved; this effect is harnessed to gain a greater understanding ofthe position and nature ofthe cosmic object In optics, the small parallax created by the slightly different angles of vision of each eye enables us to judge distances accurately and see in three dimensions- Drawing on a similar principle, one might understand indigenous media as arising from a historically new positioning ofthe observer behind the camera so that the objectthe cinematic representation of cultureappears to look different than it does from the observational perspective of ethnographic film. Yet, by juxtaposing these different but related kinds of cinematic perspectives on culture, one can create a kind of parallax effect; if harnessed analytically, these "slightly different angles of vision" can offer a fuller comprehension of the complexity of the social phenomenon we call culture and those media representations that selfconsciously engage with it. It is my argument that the parallax created by the different perspectives in these media practices is crucial in responding to contemporary critiques of ethnographic film that regard indigenous media and related practices as the genre's death knell. Rather, bringing these different practices into relationship can help us expand our sense ofthe field's possibilities and revive its contemporary purpose. This notion ofthe parallax grows out of my interest in Jean Rouch's longstanding commitment to and development of film as a vehicle for the creation of a "shared anthropology," in research, in production, in exhibition, in pedagogy, and in social action. First and foremost is his concern that one's knowledge about another culture be produced in a way that can be shared with members of that culture. As he wrote almost twenty years ago .. .what reason could we as anthropologists give for the glances we cast over the wall at others? Without a doubt, this word of interrogation must be addressed to all anthropologists, but none of their books or articles has ever been questioned as much as have anthropological films...film is the only method I have to show another just how I see him. In other words, for me, my prime audience is.. .the other person, the one I am filming (Rouch 1975: 99).
Faye Ginsburg is the Director of the Program in Culture, Media and History at New York University and a member of the Department of Anthropology.
Other key ideas and practices associated with Rouch are really extensions of this idea, such as cinema verite in which the activity of filming becomes a reflexive and catalytic encounter among all involvedor the collaborative production of a series of "ethno-fiction" films with his African friends (Rouch 1975). These were early important efforts to create cultural dialogue and critique through the juxtaposition of commentaries of Europeans and Africans, accommodating not only diverse views but also multiple formal strategies, including collaboration as in semi-fictional works such as Jaguar (1967), parodic narrative as in Petit a Petit (1969), and surreal techniques as in Cocorico, Monsieur Poulet (1974). The rich alternative possibilities Rouch s films provided for cultural dialogue and commentary from the point of view of the subjects foreshadowed later developments in indigenous media, both in terms of production methods and stylistic experimentation. Rouch's concept of regards compares (compared views) most closely resembles the idea of the parallax effect. Beginning in 1978, Rouch organized a series of conferences at the Musee de l'Homme devoted to a comparative study of the media coverage of different groups, beginning with the Yanomamo. The events brought together people from all over the world, including anthropologists, filmmakers, television executives, video artists, amateur movie makers, as well as people from the societies being viewed, to begin to see how different media agendas, as well as the culture/nationality and gender of producers, shape the images produced. The juxtaposing of these different kinds of films and their producers and subjects together to jointly contemplate the images that they had created of a culture is precisely what the parallax effect is meant to describe; of course, this kind of understanding can occur in many different processes. As another example, Rouch's work has always been in dialogue with and supportive of the development of an African cinema as an essential component of his Utopian view of cinema as a "a new language which might allow us to cross the boundaries between all nations" (1975: 90). While in this paper I focus on producers of work from other communities, the changing composition of audiences for these works has also motivated this essay, as others have also noted. For instance, in their recent book Unthinking Eurocentrism, Ella Shohat and Bob Stam point out, "Spectatorship is not sociologically compartmentalized; diverse communities can resonate
together" (1995:351), Indeed, during the last decade of teaching ethnographic film to graduate students in New York City, my classes have become increasingly "multicultural" Seminars regularly include Native Americans, African Americans, recent immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, Indonesians, Indians, Pakistanis and Iranians, to name just a few. Many of these people are themselves media producers; in any case, their readings of films are not only quite sophisticated but also bring an unexpected perspective to "classic" works. Discussions have ranged from a lively debate about why (unpredictably) the Native American students liked Nanook of the North (Flaherty 1922) or what difference it made to watch N!ai: The Story of! Rung Woman (Marshall 1980) from the point of view of a black female spectator- The complex responses of these students to films over the years made it very clear that the assumed spectators for most ethnographic films, until recently, have been white middle class male straight audiences, and that some interrogation of the relationship of these films to other kinds of audiences is long overdue, and would be a welcome extension of the recent excellent research on ethnographic film spectatorship by Wilton Martinez (1992).
GENRE POSITIONS: INDIGENOUS MEDIA AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
Ethnographic film is in trouble. Not entirely due to what ethnographic filmmakers have done, or failed to do, but also because of the nature of the institutional discourse that continues to surround this mode of documentary representation. And not entirely due to either of these factors, but also because of the ground-breaking, convention-altering forms of self-representation by those who have traditionally been objects (and blind spots) of anthropological study: women/natives/others. For over ten years a significant body of work has been accumulating that comes from elsewhere, telling stories and representing experiences in different voices and different styles (Nichols 1994: 63). The origins of what we have come to identify as ethnographic film were in the efforts of Western scholars, travellers, explorers and filmmakers to record on film what they regarded as the supposedly "vanishing worlds" of people from non-western, small-scale, kinship-based societiesi.e., those who had been the
initial objects of anthropology as it developed in the early twentieth century. However, it was only after World War II that ethnographic film took on definition and shape as a genre, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s when efforts to "reinvent anthropology" (Hymes 1969) kept pace with a variety of historical, intellectual, and political developments. Briefly stated, these include movements for independence by colonized peoples; the radicalization of young scholars in the 1960s who began to question the purpose of their knowledge and its relevance to those they were studying; the replacing of positivist models of knowledge with more interpretive and politically self-conscious approaches; and a reconceptualization of "the native voice" as one that should be in more direct dialogue with anthropological interpretation. By the 1980s, this constellation of events precipitated what some have called "a crisis in representation" for the field that required new, experimental and more dialogical strategies for transmitting anthropological understandings (Marcus and Fischer 1986). It is, perhaps, a reflection of ethnographic film's position in the academy that little attention was paid to the fact that a number of central figures in ethnographic film already had responded to this "crisis" with moral, intellectual, and aesthetic creativity. For example, questions of epistemology, ethics and the position of the native interlocutor were being addressed as early as the 1950s by ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, in works such as Les Maitres Fous (1954) and Chronicle of a Summer (1960). Visual anthropologists such as Jay Ruby also articulated arguments in print advocating a critical reflexivity in ethnographic film (Ruby 1980); and, in an important shift toward the current paradigm in 1975, David MacDougall called for more participatory methods of production and styles of representation (MacDougall 1975). Beginning in the mid-1970s, David and Judith MacDougall, John Marshall, Gary Kildea, Barbara Myerhoff, and Jorge Preloran and later, filmmakers such as Sarah Elder were developing collaborative and/or highly reflexive film projects that subverted the purely observational style that had initially characterized the field. In the hands of Rouch, such methods also challenged the prevailing scientific realism of the time through "ethno-fiction" projects developed jointly with his African friends. In films like Jaguar (1967) and Petit a Petit (1969), the imaginative re-creation of contested cultural and
political realities provided rich alternative possibilities for native self-representation, foreshadowing indigenous media both in terms of production and style. A more "sober" (Nichols 1994) attempt to put the means of production and represenation into the hands of indigenous people was carried out by Sol Worth and John Adair in the 1960s. Their project (discussed in the book Through Navajo Eyes [1972]) taught filmmaking to young Navajo students without the conventions of western production and editing, to see if their films would reflect a distinctively Navajo film worldview. While it was a shortlived project and was very limited in its view of the social processes around making media (e.g., no thought was given to circulation or even the social aspects of production), the experiment was nonetheless groundbreaking, and helped break the classic paradigm of ethnographic film of "us" always filming "them." This situation began to change radically by the 1980s, as indigenous people began producing their own images; some chose to work with accomplished and sympathetic filmmakers and activists such as Vincent Carelli at the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista in Sao Paolo, Brasil (Aufderheide, this issue); Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling at the Alaska Native Heritage Project, described in this volume (Elder, this issue); or with anthropologists such as Terry Turner, who initated the Kayapo Video Project (Turner 1990). Others have entered directly into film and video production themselves, for example Hopi video artist and activist Victor Masayesva, Jr. (1984,1988) or Inuit producer/director Zacharias Kunuk (1989). Their media work has been provoked by an increasing awareness of the politics of representation on the part of indigenous people, spurred on by the not always welcome introduction of communications satellites that bring television reception to indigenous people living in remote areas. The desire to be in control of imagery made about them has been facilitated by the increasing availability of relatively inexpensive media technologies such as portable video cameras and VCRs, as well as more complex communication forms that have been used to facilitate regional linkages, as in the development of compressed video through The Tanami Network in Central Australia (Ginsburg 1993). The enthusiasm with which these have been embraced (Molnar 1995) suggests the importance of indigenous media as an expression of contemporary indigenous sensibili-
ties, part of a desire on the part of Aboriginal people to "talk back" on their own terms to those who might have presumed to speak for them. It is worth noting that these developments have received relatively little attention in contemporary anthropology despite the repeated call for more dialogical approaches. As Aboriginal activist and anthropologist Marcia Langton astutely observed in discussing the development of Aboriginal media (1993:84), Aboriginal people have invented a theatre of politics in which self-representation has become a sophisticated device, creating their own theories or models of intercultural discourse such as land rights, self-determination, 'White Australia has a black history' and so on... The complaint, "This is all so tiresome and infantile; why do we have to listen to this chorus of 'I want.' 'I demand'?" is part of an intellectual malaise. Some intellectuals even demand that the Native answerback in a refereed journal, say something about the French intellectuals, Jacques Derrida or Jean Baudrillard, and speak from the hyperluxury of the first world with the reflective thoughts of a well-paid, well-fed, detached scholarIt seems that the interest in hearing "the native voice" is too often confined to those texts that are already inside the academic circle, providing "new and improved ways for institutionalized ethnographers to vex each other more precisely by involving 'others' more thoroughly in the process" (Nichols 1994: 84). Yet, indigenous media, because it can circumvent the more rigid hierarchicies of print genres, provides a unique opportunity to bring these kinds of representations into a more equitable relationship. With these developments in mind, I would like to consider the challenge indigenous media poses to the assumptions on which ethnographic film has been based. One response to the presence of indigenous media production (in its broadest sense) is that it has demonstrated the irrelevance of ethnographic filmmaking. In part, this follows from fraught discussions of the last decade about the "burdens of representation"; in some formulations, only members of particular communities are considered entitled to represent these groups, thus reinscribing essentialism in the face of a
growing recognition of the complexity and instability of identity- Underlying these responses, of course, is a profoundly static and reified understanding of culture. The very notion of "we" and "they" as separate is built on the trope of the noble savage living in a traditional, bounded world, for whom all knowledge, objects, and values originating elsewhere are polluting of some reified notion of culture and innocence, as Johannes Fabian clarified so eloquently in Time and the Other (1985). While such ideas seem patently out of date in relation to contemporary work in anthropology, they undergird recent critiques of indigenous media practice as inherently corrupting and commodifying (Faris 1992; Moore 1992). Similarly (and equally discouraging), anthropologists have been known to question the socalled authenticity of an indigenous person's identity because he or she was using a camera. As a succinct response to that position, let me quote Kayapo video maker Mokuka's response to such a comment when he visited Manchester, England in 1992 with Terry Turner: "Just because I hold a white man's camera, that doesn't mean I am not a Kayapo...if you were to hold one of our head-dresses, would that make you an Indian?" (in Eaton 1993). In other cases, anthropologists have responded to videos I have shown of traditional ceremonies made by Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia as "salvage anthropology," unable to comprehend that the camera was not a "cause" for its performance but had been incorporated into an ongoing ritual practice. The making of images by anyone, whether by "outsiders" or "insiders," is problematic when ethical and social rules have been violated in the process and the grounds for the filmmaker's presence unacknowledged. Conversely, the fact that one is an "insider" does not guarantee an untroubled relationship with one's subject, as is dramatically clear in Navajo filmmaker Arlene Bowman's problematic encounter with her traditional grandmother in Navajo Talking Pictures (Bowman 1991). The legitimacy of one's presence with a camera in any setting (especially when power relations are unequal) should always be raised, not simply as a textual question referred to through reflexive cinematic strategies, but in social relations that are secured before a film or video project even begins. The fact that the people with whom one is dealing may also have cameras and choose to represent themselves with them should not diminish that concern. Each approach raises
its own sets of issues regarding ethics, social relations, power, and rights to represent, whether one is filming others or one's own groupIndigenous media production has also provoked more conservative responses, which consider such work as an equal but altogether separate category from ethnographic film, with different intentions and audiences, such that they can be held apart both practically and analytically- Indigenous work might be viewed, for example, as intended only for internal cultural consumption and therefore not satisfying some minimal definition of ethnographic film, as if one could assume the stability and singular identity of the audience either culturally or historically- Clearly, there are institutional structures that channel the circulation of work to certain kinds of spectators. However, in practice, neither "ethnographic film" nor "indigenous media" have ever been bounded by their potential audience. To name one prominent example, for nearly half a century, Jean Rouch has argued that he considers the primary audience for his films to be the people who are in them, although mostly they are viewed and appreciated by Western viewers, many of whom are not anthropologists. As another example, the works of many indigenous makers that were originally intended for community viewing are circulating nationally and even internationally . And recently, people all over the world have been appropriating colonial photography and films for purposes of cultural revival and political reclamation, completely resituating these earlier works for entirely unanticipated viewers. For example, the film Box of Treasures (Umista Cultural Center 1983) shows how contemporary Kwakiutl Indians are utilizing a number of resourcesincluding colonial photographyto facilitate cultural revival. Given the inadequacies of arguments concerning singular positions of the producer or audience as bases for holding ethnographic and indigenous film apart, I suggest we explore the possibilities for considering these practices within the same analytical frame. This is part of a more general and healthy revision of the field that comes out of a broad rethinking of cultural theory. For example, Terence Turner, in an essay on this topic, makes a compelling argument for rethinking our understanding of culture in a way that clarifies how practices like indigenous media are linked to broader struggles for political rights:
.. .from the critical vantage point of a conception of culture as empowerment to collective action, selfproduction, and struggle, the presently constituted forms of multiculturalism may be seen as embryonic expressions of the revolutionary principle that the protection and fostering of the human capacity for culture is a general human right and, as such, a legitimate goal of politically organized society (1993:428). David MacDougall suggests the term "intertextual cinema" to draw attention to these changes as they apply to ethnographic film. He writes: Since 1896, ethnographic film-making has undergone a series of revolutions, introducing narrative, observational and participatory approaches. With each, a set of assumptions about the positioning of the film-maker and the audience has crumbled. Now it is the single identity of each of these that is under review.... ...we are already seeing the changes in a new emphasis on authorship and specific cultural perspectives... .1 think we will increasingly regard ethnographic films as meeting places of primary and secondary levels of representation, one cultural text seen through another...films which are produced by and belong equally to two cultures... If we are in the midst of a new revolution, as I believe we are, it is one which is interested in multiple voices and which might be called an intertextual cinema. In recent years ethnographic films have become less insular in opening themselves to the voices of their subjects, but one can now foresee films which are produced by and belong equally to two cultures. This should not in my view result in cultural relativity run wild... It may instead help us recast the problem of Self and Other more productively as a set of reciprocal relations in which film, when all is said and done, plays only a very small part (1992: 97). MacDougair s idea of intertextual cinema addresses similar concerns to those I am raising and allows for a
Figure 1. Title card from Manyu-Wana (Justfor Fun), a community-based Aboriginal children's program.
Figure 2. Host of Manyu-Wana children's program,
Video Clips (Figures 1-4) in courtesy ofWarlpiri Media Association, Yuendumu, Northern Territory. broader framing that can accommodate ethnographic and indigenous work. Additionally, I would argue not only for intertextuality but also for an emphasis on the social relations constituted and reimagined in media explicitly engaged in representing culture. This focus on social action extends the Griersonian assumption regarding documentary practice that the viewing of a work will lead to enlightened social action. In an ironic critique of that premise, film theorist Bill Nichols argues that documentary consumption is built on the viewers' pleasure in the kind of "knowing" that draws on our social imagination and cultural identity, what he calls "epistephilia" (as a parallel to the erotically-based scopophilia in theories of narrative film speactatorship); epistephilia, he argues, creates a paradoxical aesthetic that produces "less a disposition to engage directly with the world than to engage with more documentary" (1994: 180). In the case of ethnographic film and even indigenous media, epistephilia is no doubt a part of the pleasure that brings audiences to watch them, including most anthropologists. However, in terms of an analytic frame that we can use in thinking about this work, we need to attend more closely even ethnographically to the very activity of film/video production, as part of a social process engaged in the mediation of culture. This understanding builds on the insights of indigenous producers who clearly recognize their media work as a form of social action when they become the authors of representations about themselves. The motivations behind Aboriginal community video production and television transmission can be seen as basic issues of self-determination, cultural maintenance, and the prevention of cultural disruption. .. -The strategies which indigenous Australians have employed to overcome the problems posed by the impact of television and video include: cultural and aesthetic interventions; control of incoming television signals; control of self-representaion through local video production in local languages; refusal to permit outsiders to film; and negotiation of coproductions which guarantee certain conditions aimed at cultural maintenance. An expansion of experimental film- and videomaking is vital to allow Aboriginal people to make their own self-representations and to create culturally useful meaning (Langton 1993: 85). In other words, the pleasure that Aboriginal producers and viewers get from creating and viewing media about their own lives derives from the very production and circulation of this work as forms which enable them to articulate and enhance their own cultural practices. This is true for work that is viewed primarily in Aboriginal communities, as well as for work that is explicitly intended for "white audiences" (although such categories are questionable given that these media
Figure 3. from Manyu-Wana. Teaching children the Warlpiri word for the number three.
Figure 4. from Manyu-Wana. Illustrating the number three and a Warlpiri word using the letter "k"
quickly and inevitably escape their original circuits). For those looking at work produced by people from another culture there may be more than epistephelia involved; instead it may summon up new sources of identification and engagement, as Shohat and Stam have suggested. Arguing that identity is less something one has than something one does, they write: The concept of crisscrossing identifications evokes the theoretical possibility and even the political necessity of sharing the critique of domination and the burden of representation. It even involves making representation less of a burden and more of a collective pleasure and responsibility (1995: 346). In the case of indigenous work created explicitly for outsiders, the intervention of Aboriginal views of Australian history, for example, are part of an ongoing effort to reverse efforts to erase the presence of Aboriginal people that began with the colonial doctrine of terra nullius. This allowed settlers to declare Australia "unoccupied," justifying the colonial appropriation of lands from Aboriginal people from the seventeenth century until the present, a hegemonic legacy that was only challenged successfully in the 1993 Mabo decision (Pearson 1994). Under such circumstances, not unlike those faced by indigenous people in many other regions, the very creation and viewing of work representing Aboriginal perspectives is a significant form of social action. An example of the mobilization of media
to assert Aboriginal presence in Australian history, on a national scale, occurred with the approach of Australia's Bicentenary celebrations in 1988. Protests over the lack of appropriate media representation for Aboriginal people became widespread, as activists drew attention to their view of the founding of a British colony on their shores as "Invasion Day." The state television channel, the ABC, in response to such pressures, formed the Aboriginal Programs Unit The first work produced by the unit, Babakiueria, was made by a mixed ensemble of European and Aboriginal Australian actors. This biting satire of the 200 year legacy of racism in Australia entailed a recasting of Australia's past as if the native population had been white Europeans and the colonists Aboriginal. We follow an Aboriginal investigative reporter as she lives with "a typical white family in a typical white ghetto" in a parodic indictment of ethnographic inquiry and the journalistic gaze. The show was broadcast on national television in 1988 during the Bicentenary. This explicit sense of indigenous media as cultural production has specific manifestations in the work itself. As a novel form for indigenous societies, film and video provide an especially important arena in which an Aboriginal past and present as well as social relations with the encompassing society can be playfully reimagined, a possibility more traditional indigenous forms cannot so easily accommodate. Indigenous productions are often directed to what I call the mediation of ruptures of cultural knowledge, historical
memory, and social relations between generations. For example, Manyu-Wana (Just For Fun) (1991) is a community-based Aboriginal children' s program made at Yuendumu, a remote desert settlement of Warlpiri people living in the Northern Territory. The project was initiated by Warlpiri elders who, along with school teachers, were concerned about the loss of traditional language and numerical skills that seemed to accompany the acquisition of English literacy. Aware of the lure of television for kids, they decided to make a series of video programs that would teach them literacy in Warlpiri, with the participation of the children themselves and the help of a local filmmaker, David Batty. Looking like a combination of Sesame Street and home movies, using considerable humor and modest special effects (e.g., a cardboard box "magically" turns into a truck), the programs are comprised of short segments improvised with children at Yuendumu; written Warlpiri words are superimposed along the bottom of the screen. The tapes, originally designed for local consumption in Warlpiri communities, schools and out-stations, quickly escaped their original circuit. Manyu-Wana has been shown on national television in Australia (on the SBS channel) and charmed audiences at festivals and exhibitions in London, New York, and Montreal, despite the fact that is entirely in Warlpiri. (The series was funded by the National Aboriginal Languages Programme in Australia, along with Central Television, London, indexing the increasing combination of local and global interests in creating this kind of cultural imagery). Such mediations are not simply repair or salvage work; they enable Aboriginal people to envision what the late Eric Michaels called a "cultural future" (1987), some "third path" along which possibilities can be imagined other than those offered by the non-choices of assimilation or traditionalism, possibilities which might allow for something as basic as literacy in an Aboriginal language or an Australian nation in which an Aboriginal perspective prevailed. One can see in such media productions how longstanding Aboriginal skills at collective self-production through narrative and ceremonial performance are engaged in innovative ways that are simultaneously indigenous and intercultural. Coniston Story (1984), one of the first tapes made at Yuendumu by Frances Jupurrurla Kelly and the Warlpiri Media Association with American researcher Eric Michaels, records an elder telling about "the Killing Time" in 1929, when one hundred Warlpiri men, women, and children gath-
ered for a ritual were massacred by whites at Coniston Station, near their settlement, in retaliation for the killing of a white trapper. According to Michaels^ this story "has come to function like an origin myth, explaining the presence and nature of Europeans and articulating the relations that arose between the two cultures. Which version of the story becomes 'official' would seem to matter greatly....These are crucial historiographic issues..."(Michaels 1987: 40-41). When they began shooting the story, twenty-seven people turned up to make a film that featured only three people and required only two operators. Upon inquiring, Michaels was told: "They're kudungurlu [ceremonial managers of the land]. They want to stay on the side for this story." In other words, video production was organized socially according to the same structures for the performance of religious ritual, the cult structures still had to be observed: the kurdungurlu maintained their traditional role, to witness and instruct the kirda (owners of the land) on their performance (Langton 1993:64, 65). The mediating qualities of indigenous media point to the common (and perhaps most significant) characteristic that they share with more conventional understandings of ethnographic film. They are all intended to communicate something about that social or collective identity we call "culture," in order to mediate across gaps of space, time, knowledge, and prejudice. However, the differences in the goals of such work can bring important questions to the fore regarding cultural difference and social inequalities. This point is central to the arguments of Shohat and Stam (1994). They advocate what they call a "polycentric multiculturalism," but not as a favor, something intended to make other people feel good about themselves; it also makes a cognitive, epistemological contribution. More than a response to a demographic challenge, it is a long overdue gesture toward historical lucidity, a matter not of charity, but of justice. An answer to the stale, flat, and unprofitable complacencies of monoculturalism, it is part of an indispensable reenvisioning of the global politics of culture (1995: 359). The films most closely associated with this desire (ideally) work toward creating understanding between two groups separated by space and social practice.
Increasingly, they also are calling attention to the difficulties of such comprehension, for example, as in Dennis O'Rourke's Cannibal Tours (1988) or Trinh T Minh-ha's Reassemblage (1982). Additionally, indigenous media and the best of contemporary ethnographic film share an interest in the processes of identity construction, creating and asserting a position for the present that takes into account the inconsistencies, contradictions, and complex subject positions of contemporary life. In conclusion, let me return to the idea of a parallax. The common object of interestthe representation of culture in film and videohas not been displaced because of the changed position of the observerin this case, the perspective of indigenous (and other) media makers. The media produced by these people helps to realign a long outdated paradigm of ethnographic film built on the assumption of culture as a stable and bounded object, and documentary representation as restricted to realist illusion. By recognizing indigenous media (and other works) as forms of social action, we are obliged to move away from comfortable and taken for granted narrative conventions that reify "culture" and "cultural difference." Instead, weas producers, audiences, and ethnographersare allowed to encounter the mulitiplicity of points of view through which culture is produced, contested, mediated, and reimagined. This is very much part of what Terry Turner has recently articulated as historically emergent "praxis-oriented notions of culture as the realization of a collective human potential for self-production and transformation" (1994: 4271). Indigenous media opens up not only socio-cultural questions regarding the production and circulation of media, but also shifts our attention to new possibilities for the expression and interrogation of questions of culture and its representations. Hopi videomaker Victor Masayesva, Jr. states the case with straightforward eloquence (1994): If film is about imagined time and space, it is borne from the imagination of people each of whom have constructed those times and spaces differently...Certainly I feel the power of sacred spaces of ancient kivas at the ruins of Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Betattakin, and certainly our ancestral ruin Kawestima. Then why are we continually left out of the recreation of these spaces and times on film?
Figure 5. Cannibal Tours,o.filmby Dennis O'Rourke. (Photograph Courtesy of Direct Cinema, Santa Monica, CA). Looking at how film and video are produced crossculturally, we encounter a complex range of formal/ narrative strategies for reflecting on subjective and objective conditions of identity formation as a means of "representing reality." As a few examples, I think of the effective use of parodic juxtaposition and performance in a number of Native American films such as Harold of Orange (Brennan/Vizenor 1983), Ritual Clowns (Masayesva 1988),or5wn, Moon, and Feather (Rosen and Miguel Sisters 1989); the use of multilayered screen texts to explore the complex relations between generations and former homelands explored by Asian diasporic videomakers such as Richard Fung (The Way to My Father's House 1992) or Rea Tajiri (History and Memory 1992); or the use of dramatic reflexivity to consider the intersections of class, culture subjectivity, historical iconography, and sexuality in works such as Looking for Langston (1993) or The Attendant (1994) by Black British filmmaker Isaac Julien. To restate the case, ourcinematic practice of ethnographic film can be seen as part of a continuum of practices engaged in representing culture that are all enmeshed in wider social, cultural, and political processes in which cross-cultural "looking" must be understood as taking place within relations of inequality With the development of indigenous media (as well as work from other communities), the possible positions of authorship in ethnographic film and video expand, and we are more able to "see" the multiple ways cultural realities are understood and experienced, (Rouch's regards compares), producing an illuminat-
ing (if slightly disorienting) parallax effect Thus, indigenous media not only provides important new arenas of cultural production; it also resituates ethnographic film as a cinematic mediation of culture by calling attention to the presence of other perspectives as well. It is my argument that this revision of the genre of ethnographic film is necessary if the field is to keep in step with changing understandings of culture and cultural representation, both in the academy and, more importantly, in the world. In my view, this is not a revolution for the genre, but the logical next step for a field that has been shifting slowly over the last twenty years toward more dialogical, reflexive, and imaginative modes and away from the monologic, observational, and privileged Western gaze stereotypically associated with the field.
I would like to thank a number of people who helped make this article possible including: Nancy Lutkehaus, Fred Myers, Bill Nichols, Jay Ruby, and Terry Turner for extremely helpful comments on early drafts- Fieldwork on which this work is based could not have been done without the help of Fred Myers in 1988 and Francoise Dussart in 1992 in the logistics and languages of Aboriginal research in the field and out; I am deeply grateful to both of them. In addition, I want to thank the following people in Australia who shared their time and insights with me in 1988,1989,1992, and 1994: Philip Batty, Annette Hamilton, Freda Glynn, Francis Jupurrurla Kelly, Ned Lander, MarciaLangton, Mary Laughren, Michael Leigh, Judith and David MacDougall, Michael Niblett, Rachel Perkins, Frances Peters, Nick Peterson, Tim Rowse, David Sandy, Neil Turner, Peter Toyne. For research support, I am grateful to the Research Challenge Fund of New York University (1988) and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1991-92). An early version of this essay was written in 1993 for The Visible Evidence Conference. Since then, portions of this piece have appeared in two essays (Ginsburg 1993, 1994).
debates in the field are highly selective and somewhat out-of-date; for example, he chooses not to include absolutely key figures such as Rouch who would disrupt his argument regarding the sobriety and scientific insularity of ethnographic film, yet several times quotes people such as Jack Rollwagen, whose presence and ideas are marginal at best to the field. Similarly, while he mentions some indigenous media productions, he chooses not to mention any of the analytical work on indigenous media that has been in press since the late 1980s (Faris 1992; Ginsburg 1991, 1993; Michaels 1987; Turner 1990), which have raised questions and debates regarding the field of visual anthropology along similar lines to those of Nichols. Turner and Ginsburg in particular advocate the importance of looking at media practices by indigenous people as forms of social action, which pushes Nichols' notion of looking at film as cultural representation even further into the arena of lived experience that he finds lamentably absent in his somewhat selective history of the field. 2. Shohat and Stam write: The concept of the "Third World" also elides the presence of a "Fourth World" existing within all of the other worlds; to wit, those peoples variously called "indigenous," "tribe," or "first nations"; in sum, the still-residing descendants of the original inhabitants of territories subsequently taken over or circumscribed by alien conquest or settlement. As many as 3,000 native nations, representing some 250 million people, according to some estimates, function within the 200 states that assert sovereignty over them. (1994: 32). 3. I want to thank Jacqueline Urla for recently referring me to "Double Visions", a review written by Homi Babha, in an article that appeared in the January 1992 issue of Artforum, in which he also uses the idea of the parallax as a way of thinking about the postcolonial perspective in the presentation of cultures. As he points out, ...a theory of cultural difference must be able to explain those transformations in esthetic value and cultural practice that are produced through histories and broad patterns of cultural conflict, appropriation, and resistance to domination (1992; 88). ...There is no simple parallelism or equidistance between different historical pasts. A distinction must be maintainedin the very conventions of
1. Nichols, in his essay "The Ethnographer's Tale" (1994) is attempting a similar project, but in the end, seems not to have found a frame that can place ethnographic film and multicultural media in a productive analytical relationship to each other. His characterizations of ethnographic film practices as well as the
representationbetween works of art whose pasts have known the colonial violence of distinction and domination, and works that have evolved into an antiquity of a more continuous, consensual kind, moving from courts to collectors, from mansions to museums. Without making such a distinction we can only be connoisseurs of the survival of Art, at the cost of becoming conspirators in the Death of History (1992: 89).
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Hymes, Dell 1969 The Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal. In Reinventing Anthropology, New York: Vintage: pp. 3-81. Langton, Marcia 1993 Well, I Heard it on the Radio and Saw it On the Television. Sydney: Australian Film Commission. MacDougall, David 1975 Beyond Observational Cinema. In Principles of Visual Anthropology. P Hockings, ed. Chicago: Aldine. pp. 109-124. 1992 Complicities of Style. In Film as Ethnography. P Crawford and D. Turton, eds.Manchester: University of Manchester Press, pp. 90-98. Marcus, George E. and Michael Fischer 1986 Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Martinez, Wilton 1993 Who Constructs Anthropological Knowledge? Toward a Theory of Ethnographic Film Spectatorship. In Film as Ethnography. P.Crawford and D.Turton (eds.). Manchester: University of Manchester Press: pp. 131 - 163. Masayesva, Jr., Victor 1994 The Emerging Native American Aesthetic. The Independent: 21 -23. Michaels, Eric 1986 The Aboriginal Invention of Television in Central Australia: 1982-1986. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1987 For A Cultural Future. Melbourne: Art & Criticism Monograph Series. Molnar, Helen 1995 Indigenous Media Development in Australia: A Product of Struggle and Opposition. Cultural Studies 9(1): 169-90. Moore, Rachel 1992 Marketing Alterity. Visual Anthropology Review, 8(2): 16-26. Nichols, Bill 1994 Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pearson, Noel 1994 Mabo: From Remnant Title to Social Justice. Text of a lecture delivered at the University of Sydney: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies: 16.
Prins, Harald 1994 Indigenous Advocacy in the Electronic Domain: Documentary Film and Human Rights. Paper presented at the 93rd American Anthropological Assocaition Meetings, Washington D.C. Rouch, Jean 1975 The Camera and Man. In Principles of Visual Anthropology. P. Hockings (ed.). Chicago: Aldine: pp. 83-102. Roth, Lorna 1994 Northern Voices and Mediating Structures: The Emergence and Development of First People's Television Broadcasting in the Canadian North. Unpublished Dissertation. Montreal, Quebec: Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University. Ruby, Jay 1980 Exposing Yourself: Reflexivity, Anthropology, and Film. Semiotica 30 (1/2): 153-179. 1991 Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside: An Anthropological Dilemma. Visual Anthropology Review 1 (2): 50-67. Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam 1994 Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media New York; Routledge. Sloan,Jen 1979 Compared Views of the Yanomamo. In Film Library Quarterly 12 (l):20-22. Turner, Terence 1990 Visual Media, Cultural Politics, and Anthropological Practice: Some Implications of Recent Uses of Film and Video Among the Kayapo of Brazil. Commissionon Visual Anthropology Newsletter. Spring: 8 - 1 3 . 1992 Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video. Anthropology Today 8 (6); 5-16. 1993 Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What is Anthropology That Multiculturalists Should Be Mindful of It? Cultural Anthropology 8(4): 411429. Worth, Sol and John Adair 1972 Through Navajo Eyes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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Bowman, Arlene 1991 Navajo Talking Pictures Brennan, Dianne and Gerald Vizenor 1983 Harold of Orange Carelli, Vincent 1988 Video in the Villages Elder, Sarah and Leonard Kamerling 1988 The Drums of Winter Featherstone, Don (for the ABC) 1988 Babakieuria Flaherty, Robert 1922 Nanook of the North Fung, Richard 1992 The Way to My Father's House Julien, Isaac 1993 Looking for Langston 1994 The Attendant Kunuk, Zacharias with Norman Cohen 1989 Quaggiq MacDougall, David and Judith MacDougall 1992 Photo Wallahs A Wife Among Wives Marshall, John 1980 N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman Masayesva, Jr., Victor 1984 Itam Hakim, Hopiit 1988 Ritual Clowns Myerhoff, Barbara with Lynn Littman 1977 Number Our Days O'Rourke, Dennis 1988 Cannibal Tours Rosen, Bob and the Miguel Sisters 1989 Sun, Moon, and Feather Rouch, Jean 1954 Les Maitres Fous 1960 Chronicle of a Summer 1967 Jaguar 1969 Petit a Petit 1974 Cocorico, Monsieur Poulet Tajiri, Rea 1991 History and Memory Trinh T. Minh-ha 1982 Reassemblage Umista Cultural Center 1983 Box of Treasures Warlpiri Media Association 1984 Coniston Story 1992 ManyuWana
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February 17, 2017 by Michael Adain Carroll
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Sign up for an account and start lurking in popular subreddit forums and those relevant to your business niche. The site as a whole has rules for users, and each subreddit has its Reddit rules or Reddiquette on top of those. Start liking, commenting, and posting your own posts when you get comfortable. You’ll know you’re on the right track if you gain karma, a gamified point approval system.
Plan an Ad Strategy
When you’ve started to get the hang of Reddit, you’ll want to start planning your ad campaign strategy. Sitewide, there’s a particular tone that tends to do well with all redditors (Reddit users) — interesting, lighthearted, epiphany moments, and/or conversation-starting. You can get a sense of this from the site’s front page content (the most popular content by karma point ranking). However, for each subreddit community, there’s often a unique tone and mood you’ll have to figure out and adhere to.
To get started finding communities that would be interested in your business, start a search for a particular subreddit, or a content keyword search. Another technique is to use a 3rd party tool like metareddit to find subreddits you may want to target with a campaign. These tools are a big help since Reddit boast over 10,000 active subreddit communities.
When you find a particularly promising subreddit, there are a few things to look out for. The best subreddits to target are active with a sizable number of users. Subreddits that haven’t seen a post or discussion in weeks or months may be defunct.
Learn about your target subreddits from the right sidebar. This area lists the number of subscribed redditors, FAQs, community rules, and the usernames of subreddit forum moderators. You may want to observe how moderators run the subreddit and reach out with a direct message before posting content.
Build Your First Campaign
Feel like you have the hang of it? Head over to Reddit’s advertising page to get started creating your own campaign. There’s a lot of information here to walk new advertisers through the process, including ad requirements, best practices, audience, etc.
Your ad will appear as the top post for a particular subreddit. Text post ads and link ads are allowed, both with an option image thumbnail. Reddit uses an auction-based ad platform for its self-serve ads, with the minimum spend starting at $5. CPM is the only cost model option.
One unique benefit of Reddit advertising worth pointing out is timing. While targeting for a platform like Facebook may help you reach a user demographic who likes widgets, there’s no guarantee that user will want to see your ad about widgets during your widget campaign. But with Reddit, users are navigating to a particular subreddit to consume content on widgets. And that’s when they see your ad for widgets.That’s nice timing.
Optimize and Repeat
Like any new advertising medium, especially one that’s self-serve, you may not succeed on your first attempt. The byzantine nature of Reddit’s rules and culture can make it hard to hit a home run your first time.
That’s why measurement, optimization, and iteration are important for Reddit ad campaigns. Analyze the comments and feedback on your ad, the traffic brought to your site and its behavior, and your campaign’s marketing impact. Make adjustments and try again.
Though Reddit may not be the first site marketers think of, it’s not one to sleep on. Many brands have great success with Reddit advertising because they’ve figured out the right mix of content and strategy. With a little experimentation, you too could rule Reddit advertising.
Need help with Reddit’s advertising platform? Call us at 313-338-9515 or email hello@kaleidico.com to learn how we can help.
About Michael Adain Carroll
Michael Carroll is the Creative Director at Kaleidico Digital Marketing. A former political operative, journalist and perhaps, most impressively, an ice maker, his diverse experience makes for an unusual Creative Director – but we’re pretty sure that’s the point. A writer, visual storyteller and strategic thinker, Michael’s favorite part about leading the Kaleidico team is the challenge created by our diverse portfolio of clients. He is a rabid consumer of bad movies and good books, is partial to facial hair and bears a striking resemblance to a koala.
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Iggy Pop – Passenger (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)
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Joined on stage by something of a super-group featuring Homme, Fertita, Helders, Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens Of The Stone Age, and guitar legend Matt Sweeney, Iggy storms through a selection of tracks from Post Pop Depression and his 1977 David Bowie-produced albums The Idiot and Lust For Life. The Royal Albert Hall was packed to capacity and Iggy performed one of the standout shows of his career. The Post Pop Depression backing band supported Pop’s punk antics with a rock ‘n’ roll homage of their own to a true original.
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John Carter 3D (2012)
tags: Andrew Stanton, Bryan Cranston, Ciaran Hinds, David J. Fowlie, Disney, Dominic West, Edgar Rice Burroughs, film, John Carter, Lynne Collins, Mark Strong, Michael Chabon, review, Samantha Morton, Taylor Kitsch, Thomas Hayden Church, Willem Dafoe
by David J. Fowlie
written by: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews & Michael Chabon
produced by: Jim Morris, Colin Wilson & Lindsey Collins
directed by: Andrew Stanton
rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action
U.S. release date: March 9, 2012
My earliest memory of John Carter was back in the late 70s, seeing the Marvel Comics series on the spinner rack of my local 7-11. Adapted by Marv Wolfman with bold art by Gil Kane, it came across like an outer space Conan the Barbarian. Although my young brain couldn’t fully register it as I casually flipped through the comic, it seemed to exude a certain retro-cool that would become emblazoned into my collection of random geek images. Little did I know that the Edgar Rice Burroughs creation, which is now a century old, highly-influenced the movies that captured my imagination at the time, like “Superman” and “Star Wars”. But I never imagined that a swashbuckling space fantasy could be as fully-realized as “John Carter”, Disney’s attempt at building a bold and enormous blockbuster franchise adventure. It’s amazing that a century old story can be so invigorating, sweeping an audience into a movie that is overflowing with pure escapism.
“John Carter” wastes no time, kicking off by dropping us into a heated Civil War on the planet Barsoom, the planet we know as Mars. Elaborate gliding solar planes fly above a vast barren landscape, engaging in an impassioned battle. These are the Zodongans and the Heliumites, two clashing humanoid species indigenous to the planet. Led by Sab Than (Dominic West) and aided with powerful weaponry from the mysterious Tharn race, the aggressive Zodongans pursue the sophisticated yet overpowered Heliumites. What we’re given here is a spectacular taste of what’s to come, and then we immediately travel to post-Civil War America.
It’s there we meet John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), a haunted former Confederate Captain from Virginia, who now spends his days prospecting gold in the caves of Arizona. He also evades the tenacious Col. Powell (Bryan Cranston) who wishes to recruit Carter into battle against the Apaches. Fleeing both parties by escaping into a cave with a secret chamber that suddenly transports Carter to Barsoom. He finds the change in gravity grants him superhuman strength and the ability to effortlessly leap to enormous heights and distances. Carter soon encounters a race of towering green-skinned, four-armed creatures called Tharks, specifically their curious leader, Tars Tarkas (voiced by Willem Dafoe) who is amazed at what the earthing can do on his world. Without much say in the matter, the Tharks take Carter in, assimilating him to this strange environment, with some befriending him, like the helpful Sola (Samantha Morton), while others, like Tal Hajus (Thomas Hayden Church), see him as a threat.
Determined to find the device he believes will send him back to Earth, Carter soon finds himself embroiled in the Civil War that continues. Instinctively, he meets Dejah Thoris (Lynne Collins), the smart and resourceful princess of Helium, when he rescues her as she fights the Zodongans. Although Carter realizes the beautiful heroine can fend for herself, he is compelled to help her get out of the marriage to Sab Than that her father (Ciarán Hinds) arranged, as part of a truce between the two waring nations. He urgency increases when he discovers that mentalist Tardos Mors (Mark Strong – yes, him again…deal with it, he’s great) a deceptive Tharn, has been the manipulator of both the war and the pending nuptials, for the sake of his own dubious reasons.
Using his experiences and know-how from back home, Carter sets out to not only aid Dejah, as the two fall in love, but also her people from being overrun. Along the way, he must recruit the usually uninvolved Tharks, survive a meet-and-greet with two giant white apes, and overcome his own reluctance. In doing so, John Carter becomes immersed in an amazing world and in doing so, finds himself able to call it home.
It’s a huge gamble for Disney to go forth and adapt Burroughs’ Barsoom books, but boy does it pay off. The majority of moviegoers have been scratching their heads, wondering why what looks like Episode 1.5 of the Star Wars prequels (based on marketing-challenged trailers and TV spots) is called “John Carter”. Admittedly, I was hesitant with what I saw too. While I wanted the live-action debut of writer/director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo” and “WALL-E”) to be a success, I wasn’t particularly whelmed with what I saw. Something rare happened though – instead of all the best scenes being crammed into the trailer (like we usually get) – Stanton’s ambitious feature squashes and surpasses any doubts or suspicions. It’s clear he’s a fan first, as he embraces the pulpy science fantasy of the source material, while combining succinct storytelling with fantastic special effects technology. Even his use of 3D is gimmick-free, using it as a tool to sell the third rock from the sun as a inhabitable world, instead of throwing objects at our 3D glasses.
Stanton now joins fellow Oscar-winning director and Pixar pal, Brad Bird (who recently helmed “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”, the best of that series), as one who has successfully transitioned into non-animated work. Of course, Stanton’s animation background has served him well, as “John Carter” requires it’s own specific animation as well. Stanton surrounds himself with an incredible team of visual artists and production designers, in order to bring “A Princess of Mars”, the first of the books (which premiered back in 1912) to the big-screen. Just as Burroughs’ work impacted so many mediums of fantasy, Stanton clearly has his share of genre influences. Sci-fi and western classics like the original “The Planet of the Apes” and “The Outlaw Josey Whales” come to mind, adding tonal elements of those movies that may seem familiar. In fact, the whole movie may feel familiar to some, but keep in mind what came first.
The CGI characters on Barsoom are award-worthy creations. They obviously have to be convincingly sold by the actors who play them – which they are – but we must also believe they visually exist. The movements of the Thark race feel real and even in the way they emphasize with either two or four arms is a deliberate character move that contributes to the creatures believability. It’s a fine combination of allowing actors to embody characters created by imagination and digital talent.
The best thing about casting Kitsch as the Carter, is that he’s not an actor who is globally recognizable, yet he’s not an unknown. Compare it to another fantasy film like “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” where audiences are seeing: Jake Gyllenhaal with muscles – having Kitsch portray a role that (let’s face it) is mainly known by sci-fi geeks, is easier to accept. The “Friday Night Lights” star isn’t the most compelling actor, but that’s not what the character requires. His performance is an amalgam of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo with a dash of The Man with No Name, and yet the playfulness and physicality he brings is all his own. What Kitsch does best is fully give himself over to the role, allowing himself to disappear which sends the viewer’s focus in the right direction.
Kitsch reunites with his “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” costar, Lynne Collins, who may be playing the best Disney princess yet. Dejah Thoras is just as able-bodied and courageous as Carter and knows what to do with a sharp sword. It’s also nice to give the character a scientific mind to go with her scarlet tattooed, navel-bearing body. Like Kitsch, Collins also throws herself into the role and is enjoyable to follow, especially when she shows Dejah’s vulnerable side which sharpens her steely resolve. Is she anymore compelling than Kitsch? Hold on, let’s be real here – this isn’t an actor’s movie. Yes, it needs the right actors, which it has, but we should be investing in the characters of “John Carter” just as much as the actors are, rather than looking for any kind of Oscar moments.
Composer Michael Giacchino provides an infectious score that is just as integral as any other artist contributing to the film. Using rousing themes with, at times, a mysterious ethereal chorus, Giacchino adds yet another stellar soundtrack to his career. One particularly moving battle sequence that Giacchino elevates reminded me of the emotional opening of J.J. Abram’s “Star Trek”, where we get important character details about Carter simply through sound and visuals.
If the movie has any flaws, it can be found in its effort to cram too much information once we get to Barsoom, but at no point did trying to figure out who’s who or what a ninth ray is take me out of the film. Stanton, Mark Andrews (director of the upcoming Pixar film “Brave”), and Michael Chabon (“Wonder Boys”) balance the retro, serialized tone well in their screenplay, with a needed PG-13 heft. A nice touch is bringing in the young Edgar Rice Burroughs (played by former Spy Kid, Daryl Sabara) from the books, as Carter’s nephew and biographer. It’s a cool inclusion that bookends a palpable emotional touch to the movie, further investing the audience.
This is the movie that “Cowboys and Aliens” could’ve been and the movie that “Green Lantern” tried to be. Those movies can learn quite a bit from “John Carter”, primarily how important it is to stay true to the source material. Sure, some tweaks and deviations may be necessary or logical, but if the material is worthy of adapting – then do it justice and do it with exuberant passion, just like Stanton is doing here.
Watching the movie, I felt like a kid again – seeing the kind of movies that sparked my curiosity and imagination so many years ago. I’ll bet that’s what Stanton’s goal was. The result: it’s the first movie this year that I wanted to immediately see again (in IMAX for sure) and that’s always a welcome feeling. “John Carter” may not be a movie for everyone, but here’s the thing – it certainly can be.
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well, this is certainly good news, because Calvin REALLY wants to see this movie, and I was prepared to endure the movie for his sake.(which is what I did going to Star Wars Episode I with a friend of mine’s daughter–I really did not enjoy that movie at all ) I was going in with low expectations, but I think I am going to actually look forward to going to it now!
I don’t mind a little camp and a little cheese, if done correctly. But there is a fine line for sure, and based on the previews, I wasn’t prepared to enjoy the movie very much at all.
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Well, that’s where Disney’s marketing team has totally dropped the ball.
Your enthusiasm is viral; I’ll see it!
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The medical field was the first thing that went into operation in Kirpal Sagar. After just under a year, the first treatment room was set up in the first multifunctional building in 1982.
Rashly, a drug depot and a waiting room were added. Over time, what began as a small practice grew larger. Rooms for patients became necessary, fixed office hours replaced help when needed. Finally, a building tailored to the needs of a hospital was needed, which started operation in 1995.
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Now, in a two-storey building, there were rooms for patients, the outpatient clinic, a patient admission, a small laboratory, a medicine dispenser and an on-call room available. On the upper floor, an area for operations was set up, with an operating theatre, changing rooms and an adjoining recovery room. The new operating theatre was commissioned in 2007.
This was also where the cataract surgeries that had previously been performed by mobile teams from government hospitals since the 1990s could now be performed.
The new building was built in traditional brick construction, also for reasons of time and cost. At the same time, a functional wing in modern concrete stud construction was built next door, in which the stationary treatment was to be accommodated on a long-term basis. Its ground floor was inaugurated in 2012 and currently houses the emergency room, dialysis, X-ray, laboratory, a large waiting hall for outpatient departments and consultation hours. In the future, an air-conditioned operating theatre area is to be built on the first floor. Preparations for the infrastructure, such as a better power connection and a separate emergency power generator, are underway.
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Final Fantasy Month: Final Fantasy VIII
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The Plot
The story follows a group of elite teenage soldiers called SeeD who enter the organization with a live fire exam that drops them into an active war zone. Our protagonist and eventual leader of the SeeD team is Squall Leonheart, a moody teenager who isn’t quite sure what to do with himself. He leads an adventurous team to help a group of freedom fighters take back their country but one goof leads to another and soon they’re trying to assassinate a Sorceress – a dangerous and powerful spellcaster – who has become the ambassador to the foremost military powerhouse in the world. The assassination plot fails due to a sniper that can’t pull the trigger and a former SeeD/ Squall’s rival who has become the Sorceress’ personal “Knight.” The whole botched job ends with Squall taking an ice spear to the chest and the team ending up in prison.
The next leg of the adventure splits the team up as they attempt to stop the Sorceress who has taken control of the entire nation from wreaking vengeance on their home bases in retaliation for the attempted assassination. This results in the destruction of one home base – called Gardens – and another having to activate a flight mode amidst an internal power struggle civil war. After saving their home, the team takes some time before realizing that they actually all grew up in the same orphanage but couldn’t remember due to their summons erasing their memories, and that the caretaker of the orphanage was the Sorcereress Edea. They head off to the site of the orphanage but find the third and last Garden also activated its flight mode and is there waiting. Amidst a massive brawl between the two Gardens, the team faces off with Sorceress Edea and her Knight and win, only to discover that Edea, while a sorceress, was not evil but being controlled by a Sorceress named Ultimecia in the distant future who has been controlling Sorceresses back in time so she could secure her rule in the future and become a god. All the while, Rinoa – a girl from the freedom fighters that Squall has taken a liking too – becomes hypnotized and revives the Knight before falling into a coma.
Edea explains that Ultimecia is looking for a particular girl – Ellone – who has a unique power to send minds through time. Using this, Ultimecia hopes to collapse all of time down into a single moment and combine all the sorceress’ powers through history to make herself a god. Squall however is less interested in that and more in having an existential crisis as he comes to grip with the strange new concept of ’emotions’ and decides to take Rinoa to the hidden country of Eshtar to get her some help and to find Ellone. In Eshtar, they end up going to a space station to find Ellone. But Seifer – the Knight – awakens a 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith to suck monsters from the moon to the earth, attacking the spacestation and freeing the sorceress (Adel) imprisoned there. Squall and Rinoa have a romantic moment trying not to die in space and find a gassed up space ship that returns them to Eshtar, only to have Rinoa hauled off in cuffs for being found out as a Sorcereress herself. Squall’s friends convince him that these “emotions” means he loves Rinoa and he should save her. With Rinoa saved, they decide the only way to stop Ultimecia is to fight her head on in her own time, and that means letting Ultimecia compress time.
The SeeD attack the Lunatic Pandora (the 2001 monolith) to face off with Ultimecia now possessing Sorceress Adel’s body. Adel takes Rinoa and attaches her to Adel’s body, thus allowing Ellone to send their united minds together and begin Time Compression. Squall and his team assault Ultimecia’s castle. They battle Ultimecia’s myriad of forms until she is defeated and sends a rippling explosion across compressed time. As time begins to reset, the SeeDs are forced to try to navigate the void of time/space to try and find their way back home. Squall and Ultimecia end up meeting Edea in the ruins behind the orphanage years before SeeD and the Gardens were even a thing. Ultimecia passes on her powers (as Sorceresses do before they die) to Edea, turning her into the Sorceress from earlier in the game, and then Squall makes mention of him being a SeeD from Garden on a mission to destroy the Sorceress thus setting in motion for Edea and her Husband to found the Gardens and create SeeD. Squall almost loses himself in the timestream before Rinoa finds him, the two are reunited and everyone lives happily ever after.
Final Fantasy VIII was my first Final Fantasy in the Playstation era and from what I recall, I really liked it. Enough that I and my ex back in high school actually cosplayed as Squall and Rinoa for our local anime convention. I remember really enjoying the love story aspect of it and the idea that Squall and Rinoa fulfilled the ‘destined’ romance that their respective parents were unable to share. I also remember really enjoying the completely jigsaw puzzle of a plot but then again I was also REALLY into Evangelion at the time, so that may have just been a thing I was in to. I clearly wasn’t good at it because after replaying some of the game and re-reading the plot synopsis I totally missed like 30% of the stuff in this game. Not that it’s hard to. Much of the background details of the world and the story are doled out in small bites across dozens of random NPCs in the world. Didn’t talk to Ma Dincht this one time you were passing through? Well, good luck figuring out the mythology of Hyne and what connection it has to the Sorceress’. Seriously, this game begged for a Wiki years before Wikis were a thing.
Not helping matters is that it seems that the plot is all over the map. It’s a coming of age tale, an epic battle of good versus evil, a war story, a love story, and a time travel story. And it hits all those notes, but it’s definitely debatable if it hits them well or if it needed to hit them all. The time travel bit honestly added the most confusion, with your characters occassionally falling unconscious to experience the adventures of Laguna and his crew thirty years prior. You’re explicitly told that nothing you can do there can change the outcome of what happens so it’s not a time travel plot in that sense, nor are the events told linearly in these flashbacks either. So it really just serves as very confusing exposition. Arguably the worst kind of exposition. Confusion really is a big factor here and I remember it leading into a lot of debate back in high school as we sat around and argued over plot details like ‘Is Squall Laguna’s son?’ (He is for the record. Ellone arrives at the orphanage with Raine’s child that was born after Laguna vanished.) and trying to make sense of the whole Time Compression thing. The real issue I have with the plot is that in only works in the cursory glance that the game gives it and doesn’t really hold up to a lot of question in my opinion. Why does Ellone have the power to send people’s minds through time? Why does Ultimecia become a god by squishing time into a single moment? Why when Ultimecia passes her power on to Edea, does Edea have ice powers instead of Ultimecia’s powers? Who built the Gardens? Why build the Gardens? Is each Garden a completely separate entity from each other? WHY AND HOW DO GUARDIANS ERASE YOUR MEMORIES?! I honestly can keep going on this. The story leaves a lot of things not fully developed and not fully explained. It feels like a lot of this is because of a lack of focus on what they wanted the story to be about.
However, one common complaint I hear is that Squall is a whiny emo that is a terrible protagonist. I disagree. Honestly, Squall comes off to me as a teenager. One who acts like one. He’s unsure, he’s cynical, he doesn’t know how to deal with things that are thrust upon him. He reminds me of actual people I knew in high school. Squall’s arc and his romance with Rinoa is honestly the best part of this game in my opinion. It feels like there’s a level of honesty with it that you don’t find in a lot of RPGs. The other characters less so. Seifer is clearly a school bully and would be an internet troll had the internet existed in the world. Most of the others seem like they’re built around school stereotypes that would fit in with an average high school anime. Zell is the sporty dude bro with a short fuse. Selphie is the free spirit fun lover. Quistis is the serious one with glasses. Irvine is the one who looks cool but is actually a complete mess. Rinoa is Usagi from Sailor Moon.
The game continues to push further into the experimental from VII with brand new mechanics such as not having equipment. You have one weapon. You upgrade said weapon several times. There is no armor or accessories or anything. This is all replaced with the Junction system! Where you take your spells and slap them into slots to augment your stats. The more of a spell you have, the better the stat becomes. More of a spell, you ask? Well the spell system is completely different too. Instead of learning magic, you draw it from monsters and draw points around the world and stock it like items. What does one Fira look like? No clue but I have 34 of them. Even the whole young adult style story is a big experiment from the previous series. With all these changes to the formula it’s not hard to see why this game is incredibly divisive. Some folks love it, some hate it, and some like aspects of it. I think I’m in that third category.
To me, VIII feels like a mess of a game. But it’s a mess of a game with a bunch of REALLY great moments scattered through out it. The love story is solid, there’s a bunch of really good suspense building where you don’t know the fate of certain characters. Heck, even the ending plays with this in not knowing if Squall is alright unless you watch the post-credits scene. And there is a video that plays through half the credits of everyone getting their happy ending on back at the Garden with Squall NOWHERE to be found. I remember honestly wondering if he actually made it, or simply vanished into the timestream after saving the world and going back in time to set everything on the path. In this game, you just DON’T know. There are no established rules at this point. On the same hand, it feels like there were a lot of ideas in here that could of have been handled better and were in other games. Some of which we’ll be looking at as part of this series.
So is VIII a BAD game? Eh, maybe. But much like a fundamentally bad movie it doesn’t mean there isn’t something to love about it. It wouldn’t be my first recommendation to a new fan, but it’s not like I would warn them away from it either.
Next time we’ll be getting some sun, some surf, and exposing an ancient conspiracy that has trapped the world in the iron grip of an endless spiral of death.
Till then, May the light of the Crystals guide your way!
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Posted on November 16, 2016, in Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Month and tagged 8, edea, FF8, FFVIII, Final Fantasy, playstation, rinoa, seifer, squall, steam, VIII. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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GDPR: what are organisations doing post-May 25th?
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Written by Hannah Riley and Chunky Satija
Due to rapid advances in technology and growing number of internet users, personal data has amassed, requiring new methods for its collection, storage and use. Previously outdated data protection laws such as the EU Data Protection Directive adopted in 1995, have struggled to keep pace with this expansion of data.
In May 2018, these laws were replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a legislation now fit for purpose for the digital age, and intended primarily to protect personal data for individuals within both the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) (see fig.1). GDPR has become a global concern, with both advanced and emerging markets aiming to conform to these privacy and data protection standards. Companies worldwide who wish to continue offering goods and services to EU residents or aim to strike trade deals with the world’s largest biggest trading bloc will have to also adopt the new European rules.
It has been more than 2 months since GDPR was enforced on May 25th – providing consumers with more data rights than ever before and changing the way companies manage and process personal data. Whilst companies may have viewed the GDPR deadline to be their biggest challenge, (ensuring requirements were adhered to for the enforcement date) arguably, even bigger challenges remain, with companies experiencing an ever increasing risk of non-compliance.
The measures that companies choose to put in place, will be critical to their success in a post-GDPR world. Though many organisations have invested in solutions to combat GDPR challenges pre-emptively or at an early stage, there is still more that organisations could do to not only maintain compliance, but also to benefit from the business value gained through enhanced customer confidence.
Figure 1 – A timeline of key events leading up to GDPR enforcement.
Organisations continue to face barriers to GDPR compliance
The risk of infringement and subsequent penalties is growing ever more likely for organisations who continue to face compliance barriers in a post-GDPR world. Despite significant investment to ensure solutions are in place to adhere to the new data protection laws, companies continue to experience ongoing challenges in the execution of these solutions.
This is particularly due to the breadth of requirements and the strict timeframe associated with their execution. For example:
Processing high volumes of subject data access requests (SARS) within a 30 day period.
Reporting information breaches within 72 hours to regulators.
Ensuring anonymised data is in fact fully anonymised.
Providing evidence of a valid and lawful basis to process personal data.
Inefficient IT systems and data management processes are significantly exacerbating these execution challenges, preventing data from being located quickly due to not knowing precisely where personal data resides.
Similarly, a lack of clarity on GDPR requirements and conflicts with data protection components of other legislation are causing difficulties for organisations. Misinterpretation of the new legislation due to its ambiguous guidelines could expose organisations to risk of non-compliance. An area in most need of clarity is the GDPR data retention policy. This policy allows companies to determine their own retention period for clinical trial data, as long as it can be justified according to certain GDPR requirements. This policy not only leaves room for uncertainty but directly overlaps with ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP), which allows clinical trial data to be archived for at least 25 years after the end of a clinical trial.
Another critical barrier to GDPR compliance is the management of third party vendors. Organisations are continuing to experience difficulty in mitigating third party risk under GDPR, particularly organisations that are working with large numbers of vendors. Difficulty in monitoring the handling and processing of sensitive data by vendors, means organisations may be liable for their vendors’ data security flaws. Organisations face similar challenges with ensuring data requirements are cascaded down the supply chain effectively, so sub-contractors may comply with the new legislation.
Although significant time to prepare for GDPR was provided, for smaller organisations funding training and awareness programmes has proven difficult. For multinationals too, particularly those headquartered outside Europe, knowledge and awareness gaps of GDPR are a challenge; the scope to raise global awareness and response is significant.
Organisations have a range of measures in place to support GDPR compliance
In order to satisfy GDPR requirements companies have invested in a range of measures (see fig.2). However, while these may lead to a reduced risk of non-compliance, it is the integration of such measures in a holistic approach that will enable organisations to benefit and generate business value.
Organisations have heavily invested in technology, as it plays a significant role in supporting GDPR compliance, primarily through accelerating the speed and efficiency of locating data and processing requests. However, technology alone will not guarantee compliance. Data protection should be built into processes, also known as ‘privacy by design’. While the redesigning of processes and templates have become a common approach for companies, it must work in parallel with technology – this integrated approach will provide greater assurance for GDPR compliance.
Investment in data management technology has also become a popular GDPR strategy for organisations. This has enabled companies to streamline their workflow processes to become more efficient, improve understanding around utilising customer data, particularly when responding to customer requests and above all, help to provide consistent compliance to GDPR guidelines.
Companies have also pursued various structural measures such as, implementing governance frameworks to provide sufficient GDPR oversight. Frequent and open communication between different functions and ensuring assigned roles and responsibilities are in place, are crucial aspects of a stable governance structure.
Ensuring availability of sufficient resources is also essential and has been an early strategy deployed by organisations, particularly so as to respond effectively to large volumes of SARs, as data subjects exercise their new rights. Investing internally in development of training and awareness programmes, particularly in non-EU regions, is crucial to bridge GDPR knowledge gaps.
Equally as important are external investments, such as collaborating with other organisations, specialist lawyers, or consultants. This will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, understanding and awareness of GDPR requirements in order to reach a consensus from business, as they bed down GDPR operations and respond to EU feedback mechanisms.
Figure 2 – An overview of a range of company measures in place to support GDPR compliance.
GDPR can provide a valuable opportunity for organisations worldwide
While GDPR has its challenges, it also presents an opportunity for companies to reposition their relationship with customers: responsible handling of personal data builds trust and confidence. Building this reputation can help organisations set themselves apart and may be achieved through a holistic approach to GDPR while ensuring long-term strategies are in place. In a data-centric world, the importance of personal information will only increase further, especially as other regions enact legislation similar to GDPR. The enforcement of GDPR in Europe is the first critical step towards good corporate citizenship for how companies should value and respect the personal data with which they are entrusted.
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Atlanta Reporters Pay Homage To Phife Dawg In The Best Way Possible
Reporter Mark Arum was on an "Award Tour" with his amazing tribute to Phife Dawg this week.
By: Desire Thompson
For Atlanta traffic reporter Mark Arum, A Tribe Called Quest was more than just a rap group, and his unique on-air tribute to the late Phife Dawg proved as much.
Arum, along with WSB-TV’S Fred Blankenship, took the creative route by including Malik Issac Taylor’s lyrics in Wednesday’s traffic report. Arum incorporated lyrics from ATCQ’s “Award Tour” and “Oh My God,” and still managed to effortlessly report on accidents and roadblocks throughout the city.
Via The Huffington Post:
“This rush hour is coming with more hits than the Braves or the Yankees,” Arum said in reference to Phife’s verse on “Award Tour.” Next he revamped a line from the legendary rap group’s 1993 single “Oh My God“:
“One for the treble, two for the bass/ You know the style Mark McKay/ Time to flip this.”
Phife passed at the age of 45 on March 22 after a longtime battle with diabetes.
Arum continued to honor the rapper in his awesome way on Twitter:
Do or Die Bed Stuy??? https://t.co/wmvcPOTWDG
— Mark Arum (@MarkArum) March 24, 2016
All the time Chef! https://t.co/aMHpDLct3h
😮😮😮 Questlove just tweeted me. https://t.co/eVRsSlnkwZ
In a Facebook Live video with Blankenship, the reporters explained how they’ve thrown hip-hop lyrics into traffic reports in the past, but had to take it up a notch for their favorite emcee.
Check out the story behind the video below.
SOURCE: The Huffington Post | VIDEO CREDIT: Inform, YouTube, Facebook | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
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43: The AFC Wildcard - Post Season Special
This Week In Chiefs Football
Friday, January 5th
The Road to the Super Bowl. Mitch Holthus, Kendall Gammon, Dani Welniak and Dan Israel discuss the regular season and the upcoming home playoff game against the Titans. #AFCWildcard #ChiefsKingdom
Hey good afternoon everyone on this AFC wild card race Friday. This afternoon we have a special for you call the road to the Super Bowl. Until this day anywhere they can all night aired this yesterday it's the first and hopefully a series of post season specials for this season. This morning Kindle and I released our normal episode 42 of this week and she's so small. This afternoon we wanted to have a second helping for your playoff appetite. Colossal error an encore presentation tomorrow here in Kansas City on 11 the fox at 11 AM but in case you missed it or you're out of town. He thought would provide it to you here in episode 43. Of this weekend chiefs football and George. Each August. 32 teams begin their journey that unfolds week by grinding weeks. For many bad journey ends far too soon. Alex Smith goes to a near Madison and it is a memorable. The Kansas City Chiefs are one thing hey I have seen. Winning the division. Sixteen seats it now just six teams remaining NBA champs keep playing. This is the role of business Super Bowl. It's presented by X Kennedy TV good cop networks of lives sports on the go. Plus an on demand and DVR contents you can download from anywhere. Extremity give you more this streamed to any screen. Now you're you're hosts and it's all this Kendall Gammon. Danny well knee action and then Israel. What to do our playoff special on the eve of the chiefs' first home playoff win since 1993. Talk about all that much more we have a great show playing for you. And joined by the voice of the chiefs Mitchell to us. Former Kansas City chief fifteen year NFL veteran pro bowler that guerrilla. Kendall Gammon and 2008 WPF Super Bowl champion former women's pro wide receiver anywhere on the act. Welcome you to view is what it appears in times this is a lot of anticipation for the scale absolutely summary you know we all kind of I reconvene with the seeks ordinary hopes for the season and frankly when we start planning this special IO is comic count it a little. It's not easy to get here. And we've had a lot of seasons in the past thirty years were we to make it. I think I started off with a number of years in a row where I just it almost was like a given it was an entitlement of is that what you did the into the season which you learn very quickly if you in this league long and it can learn very quickly. That is not the case known especially when you have one and six middle portion of your earlier schedule now but I think back two of in the 1917 was a really good. And only five team was good VO three team was really good offensively the ten team not as much. In the in the sixteen team was going to none of those could win a home playoff games so I think this team this. Ready get it done as we sit here today he would mean what are your thoughts its primary what's foremost in your mind in. Will curse of all it's the fact that we've had such proficient rookies this season and the fact that you saw Corey hunt stepped up. And become the league's leading rusher and set that it at title in Henderson but Kirk come in and just east sewed. Dominant and pretty consistent for this team went. You thought that would Paris Santos went down you know who was gonna replace him and then on top of that. Both miss a field goal in fumble their carry on the first try and then we come back to set records so it's kind of it's than usual story going to have a duplicate in within the same team it is and it really speaks to the mental fortitude. Of those two guys especially and then also the team in general because they survived a few injuries this year. But what strikes me is the fact of even with some of the injuries that the chiefs have had. They've got weapons. At all the different positions and there. Bill as well flexing in the recent past to be able to make a deep run into the playoffs and and really make a run for thanks and that's always pharmacy. Russ the chiefs kingdom it started on April 27 chief's response to their first pick that night constantly. The number 27. On Dorsey Andy Reid decided to make a splash. For the first time Mitt since 1983. To Kansas City Chiefs franchise drafted high profile quarterback. And I will not forget the image in front of me of all those thousands of fans. Setting up on the stage and looking out and the reaction. It was. I can hear my neck stand every now and and the fact that the chiefs did it mean that aggressive trading took. Second are actually set the tone for the season even though Patrick has had enough practice time because the enthusiasm that was there that night. Never wavered and ended just carry the team right on into the OTAs and into the training camp in St. Joe. Yeah or midnight as well it just thinking you know what's gonna happen here and there. And then you knew you'd know that they were gonna go to Shawn Watson you didn't know whether they gonna go Patrick Holmes as it works out I think either one of those would have been a good. Good pick but what a fun night ones yeah I really was and of course a career taught him what he became a team. OK so more homes as your first round pick that he's not doing things purse say is he's that it premiership. But Corey Hart reform lecture 11 pick I mean anytime you could lead the league. If rushing met's huge and not to mention the fact of being a rookie. And staying healthy and be built to do not just on the ground but also the scrimmage yards catching the ball out of the backfield. And also maybe surprising I think a lot of people coaches included. With his long speed that I don't think they believe she had with the I took him in the third round out of Toledo so. That's always nice when you have a lot of research done on your draft picks and you're happy with them and they surprise you even more that's a good thing. Shortly after the draft the shake up in the personal scouting wing at one arrowhead. Occurs GM John Dorsey and chairman Clark Hunt decide to part ways that's one of his final acts was. As drafting both Korean hunt and quarterback pat my home to mean possibly future this organization the chiefs would promote Brett beach in July we all reported to camp. Spencer aware goes down in Seattle pre season game number three. I think we all collectively went low they're discuss it you know is almost like it shattered that specialness that we'd seen it can't you out because he's if he's a valuable player I get excited to think he's coming back next year. With what we already know about what happened to this team and seventeen game that can make this team really good out any team but what it in your narrative listening to that. You brought up what Brett breach brought to the party and what he brought to the party was. He has continually turning on him getting Reggie Redlands on August the 28. For a fourth round pick in 2019. Might very well be the one thing that helps this team won in the playoffs. Don't forget last year the chiefs lost to the titans 1917. In the game with a tightens control the running game they were just like the Steelers did. This year the regular season and last year in the playoffs. Right let's change that now you have a Willie Lanier looking guy. Complete downhill and be athletic. Hope had him as their number one special teams guy when he came out of college and he said that they ended following an all time during the offseason when you are schematic college. And they have their list of if anybody does go down who they gonna go to you would hope said. We knew immediately that since he was available at the guy we've got to go get. He was so calm I kept telling Kendall. I remember Lillian I was there or is there a place kickers means so much they can be the difference in coach told was just really milk were good we got this and it's kudos to not only the scouting department the Indy Reid's coaching staff. How well prepared they are how thorough they are about the talent that is out there yet and two kennels point we need to put barker in this class. And really technically we're probably ought to correctly in the. Class like I agree completely because it's who you bring all that year and then it doesn't matter how you go get them but to go back with radical and a six foot 1252. Pounds. And the fact that he's not only a far upper but he can run sideline to sideline. I think he hasn't shown the ability to be three down linebacker. Which he wants that known to be coming out of Alabama but when you last big read about him he said all along you know we we thought he had a chance to do that and you know is the way he picked up the defense this is the deep crystal suited for him he was about 43. I change a buffalo that wasn't going to work. As well schoolwork here this is what is suited to do but. The way he started recognizing runs in France and giving him and through the line of scrimmage and and it just. It is just energize the defense I think a little bit and also watching the practiced. It literally energized number 56 Dirk Johnson because now. You could put him down a little bit give him more rest and we saw. Times where. He he did some things that I gusher could have done had been playing full time and that's made a difference even during the season and also. Quite honestly I think it's going to make a huge difference going into the playoffs. On back to your point mention about you know you got courage drag and in this murky class in your Reid told us on the first pick him up. Guys got to realize that this pretty much is his rookie season even though it's a second season. And so he's gonna have a learning curve and he's going to have to get it just it like Kendall said this defense of steam. But he has just embrace that he has done so well this year. In the team's top five in the NFL in scoring defense in the last eight games of the year via a you have to look at them statistically. Once rag and kick then. And basically had a pseudo pre season in the first half of the year the second have very different. In the way this team was to salon points yeah they were really a tale of two seasons they are for rent one. And the last half when you wanna be playing your best football. Hopes were high end training camp but it would not take long. Those hopes to the test. National Football League would open its 2017. Season. On Thursday night football in front of an entire day. The Cole we'd go to big cheese to go on the road and battle the defending world champion New England Patriots. But the injury to where would trust the chiefs' third round pick. A little known running back from Toledo into the starting rules. Many will lessen doubting whether careen Khan a rookie was ready for the enormous spotlight. And marine on the road it's his first start this NFL career and hunt goes right site breaks for the first well and gets into the secondary now bubbles that leg. Now Bill Bennett says auriemma and his first NFL carry is fumbles the football. And now houses many fumbles in his NFL career as a head in his college career. Well be uncharacteristic. Stumble reinforced fans doubts. The coaches trust in the hunt never wavered telling. With the throw under pressure on left spreading of us are re just out touchdown. Tens out survey. Rave about this is actually a. Now the victory over the reigning Super Bowl champion patriots was a foreshadowing. Of this season. Weary in winning would com and its office. You're the theory is on the ground right now they're working on his left. Blake he is sitting on the ground he's slow to get up. The chiefs have lost to improve school safety and a formidable force inside the locker room. As Eric Berry's torn Achilles would end his season after just three and a half quarter. Having caught the eyes of the nation in week one. Week two would have the red and gold hosting the Philadelphia Eagles. It's. In the back field for the ride at valley. Alex Smith now wheels back on. A second the impressive win it would send it to windows chief squad back on the road. In what would feel like a home game. In the chargers new stadium. A small soccer field in Los Angeles storyline it's gonna in the rookie running back. It's right there is the exact. The high of the division win. Would again demand double payments from the 2017. T the player is down Santos appears to be injured at this time they're young sure footed and reliable place kicker. Tyrone Santos and cut his plant leg and Santos is our. At three and over the chiefs were prize. For primetime. A home Monday Night Football game against the Washington Redskins. Questions in the back. The pocket now running right. The victory would leave Kansas City is the only remaining undefeated team in the National Football League. But the only thing garnering more national attention. Kansas city's fourth straight win. Was the cheapest next opponent. Big Houston Texans and their rookie phenom. Quarterback Sean. Watson thanks in just one of four on third down conversion only touchdown pass to Leon Greyhound. Snapped to the right may end up the shot Watson will be Ian gold and white and red and other boomer with a middle of the field. At the eighteenth first man miss going to the right side need to block it by that guy the thirty look. Undefeated. Even hardened chiefs fans began to ponder the possibilities. Of this five and bills luck. A team that seed. Unbeatable. But after having climbed to the very top of the lead the whole load. This speaks he and close to woods suddenly drop leaving fans to wonder what was behind that next corner. First the Steelers loss at home there in the last minute meltdown and Oakland. He had no time left on the clock change thirty Oakland when he for any wild series of events here. Over the past several sent to Oakland thought they had a touchdown upon review they put the ball the half yard line Oakland decided to throw. On the throws offensive pass interference on the ensuing play of the ball went high inning completely pulled Parker for holding. And now the raiders have the ball at the five and a chance to win the game it's boiling. Of this car in the backfield he's got three nights. In the shotgun right footed. Looks eleven months those other. I don't Kansas City. And we're gonna do this again Kansas City thirty. Oakland twenty for the ball gets a half the distance Billy ball just inside the free. Action by guard zipped a pass your. The day. 31 took thirty Oakland Raiders. In a crushing loss to Kansas City this. Right back to back losses. Now it's five minutes two overall and one in one and ended division big cheeks would host Denver through week gates. The sound defeat of the Broncos would recharge the whole of the chiefs kingdom. And elevate that team took first place in the AFC west. And to really felt like this season was off to a fairy tale start. Much like Disney does in their old cartoons planted in the middle somewhere was like Google fashion scare will pick up the second half of the season next. You're listening to exclusive coverage of the chiefs football. Sports. Hey. Do you hear that. The silence. Silence is the sound of things working. Sounds is the sound of brand new technology for your home bringing you amazingly fast more reliable Internet. The sound of aches for unity X one updating itself and it totally advanced fiber based network and Comcast were continuing to make our technology more reliable so enjoy the silence with our most reliable network ever. One that keeps you connected to what matters most to you learn more at X Hannity dot com slash service. Chased the lane now back to the road to the Super Bowl presented by extended DTV. Then Israel missile this Kendall Gammon. In Danny well the end guys we talked about the first half of the season which really probably couldn't have gone too much better I mean I guess you could of gone undefeated but the practical aspects of being six into. I don't think anybody would argue with that right. Known known would argue with that whatsoever specially whose baby when they beat the patriots you know they wrecked their dinner party up in New England on the road. Then you go when you face a one of Indy Reid's former coaches in Doug Peterson in the Eagles who end up just running away with the NFC. So some of those wins were huge the Redskins win was big so. You could've asked for a better burst half. I would agree it because there were some definition given to. To the team and because we've talked about a retiree kill emerged as a route runner. In cream on matured and Travis Kelsey so. The whole stat line that was given at the end of the of the 4001001001000. Those seeds were planted in the first eight games of the season. I think when you look at it also is. You watched confidence dipped built am most anybody with click OK six and two here we go. And yet that really wasn't the case absolutely chiefs come out of the gate strong. Very little drama from that first half in fact. Of the two losses the Steelers and raiders games may both we were in contention late in the game. As we're preparing for week nine. At first trip back to Dallas we really had no idea were sitting in that draw lawless shadow. The first state what the second half of October. In the month of November would entail. The chiefs were six into it that passed away march and had completed the most difficult path of this digital. Exactly and only one team of their remaining eight had a winning record. That's one team and that Dallas Cowboys. And for the first time in over a decade. The chiefs would return to their birthplace. Of the Dallas Texas yeah. The last minute court ruling would stay the suspension of the cowboys star running back and Ezekiel Elliott him. Making him eligible for the week nine contest. A sluggish start with the chiefs behind early but in the final seconds of the half. The cowboys would experience firsthand. Just how fast and timing this year's cheeks could be. Receivers in the right Alex it. Turn it back right it's Tyreke killed is at the thirty of the cowboys' Tony five running out of lockers he's got the warning comes out the best candidate. All right the big days. Boys were blacked out expecting help marrying. I think she's the event. Probable touchdown. The first half wow. Despite making big game close they're chiefs of 2017. Could not escape the goats just keeps teams packed house. And since moving to Kansas City in 1963. The franchise would have to remain winless in besides that Dallas city limits. To make the cowboys lost worse the defeat would have to marinades in the extra time of the week ten. The players would return to work in week eleven they are prepared for the first of three consecutive New York team. The first an away game against a floundering won a major New York Giants. On paper. This appeared to be a mismatch. For a powerful chiefs offense. Led by coach who has become known for his success following a week of rest. Beat inexplicably. Flat performance against one of the league's worst teams would overthrow the chiefs by a field goal in overtime. Then in week will. The bills would take off but driving Alex Smith within reach of the go ahead score ceilings that keeps me. In front of the home crowd. A return trip to the meadowlands against gang green for weeks thirteen would provide no relief. The agony of November's journey rocketed drums it's entertaining it's UConn student days. The once tight grip on the AFC west and old little slip through their fingers. The four game losing streak had left geez bad news. Questioning of the roller coaster ride that come to an end. The month of December it would provide three straight home games for the team's. And the first two would be against divisional opponents. The raiders were desperately trying to keep pace in the west. And sweeping the chiefs would certainly help. In week seven the chiefs defense struggled to be as physical as the talented array of raiders. That would become a blueprint for other teams to use against the chiefs and fuel for the festering turmoil. In the Casey locker room. The chiefs eventual decision to suspend Marcus Peters one of the league's best cornerbacks. Would suit stands discontent. Over teacher's behavior. But it would also leave concerns about Kansas city's ability to understand and athletic readers T. Without a part of a broader. But that's one Victoria are. That's a good jolt tricked out football. Dog treats and second down nine for the chief of the thirteen other raiders. Turkey's request this and you'll get. It's the. Car's gonna throw the lives of the Johnson. Leading tackler and she's history but his helmet right between the two and four of Marshawn Lynch and win and tonight we. Smoke if Jesus had broken the losing streak with grit and determination. They would use up post season must win mentality. To revenge their hated rival. It was a focused they would you lose again. The following week. Delivered rivers and the chargers had climbed their way back into contention. Winning four straight. And seven of their last nine games. The outcome of the week's G esteem it would determine which one of the now seven and six teams would take control of the AFC west. Some third into Kansas. 21 year old. And Alex Smith. There on the near side of the field capacity and. The convincing thirty to thirteen sweep of Los Angeles. Firmly buckled and Kansas City into the division's driver's seat. And he'll win in either of the final two games. But cement up post season berth the chiefs team. On creeks they would pull the very next week. Against my yet. Alex Smith goes to Indian medicine and it is a memorable day for the change kingdom. The Kansas City Chiefs have beat the Miami Dolphins 49 to thirteen that she's one lead AFC west title. Winning the division racked up back for the first time in franchise history dating all the way back to the 1968. Season. As a reward for looking up to division relief week seventeen men and cheese would have an opportunity to rest key players. And big chance to start their first round pick in the draft. Holds on first down in trouble. The football on the look what both the right side and the 44. A twelve yard pick up. Given a fifteen yard sack in wild bills back in the saddle and heavily. The trial in Denver elevated Dan do you read into the ninth most winning coach in the history of the game. And it would be the truth it dawned cool to have drama filled years. They're twisting ride of the regular. Season would come to rested ten and six. Doubt that low. One in six with attendance six team aware. One of six stretch and most teams don't survivor. And in kennel and Damien thanks at the beginning of the show so well that. Surviving it was a testimony to these guys and and the leadership but I had some discussions. Recently. I think the team is better prepared. To make a run in the playoffs because of what happened at the scar tissue of being one and six of those seven games. Would Matt Nagy tick what would any read let men make you take over the play college of an Andy Reid could look at other parts of the team. And have his influence they make the personnel the schematic changes. They've done some things differently with their defense that's made it more effective. Last year the chiefs. Twelve enforce the two seed. This year attendance six's the foresee may be stronger by what they experienced. In the wants extra. Eric Johnson attacked him this week about that as well and asked him. What makes this team a Super Bowl contender he you know you did have your downs with defense especially. We're now battle absent. As a defense rather than people thinking about what they're doing individually I'd like make esteem batter out alliant group. It's a whole key aspect it's a whole team function and you saw I didn't know generators game you saw the chargers in that after every single play. When the defenders would make a good play they all rallied together they all you know what's up on the but sir slap on the helmets and it was more unified team be as a bats at. I think that lol when you looked at it. There really brought to light the whole team the fact of but you know certain games offense played well deepest and holder and up and now vice Versa and I think that made him realize that okay the only way this is gonna happen is if we all get on the same page. And it wit there was as captain float for a little while but the the last four games certainly. They started to get the go and and and you could tell that they just started you know not only defense I think. Opposite street about the defense is an energy and and vice Versa and special teams start doing some things and it sure showed them that okay. We've got the talent to get it done but I think it it. It promotes some confidence in the guys also because. The coaches have shown that OK they're not a freight to do some different things are really shake it up to get things move and I think that's going to help build confidence as they move into the playoffs. You cannot build muscle without tearing it down you know we always talk about what went wrong. You have to look backwards at the failures be able to prevent those in the future in if you never tested. If you never truly forge that steel. And it's not there when you need it most but the regular season's goal is all about making the playoffs and been able to make a run deep in the plans to be healthy in the playoffs. To meet the chiefs did that if they spread those losing out into never would've. Felt the anguish that we did but because I thought Kaman and a group critical in one bucket it was like carried her out of sludge bucket and they had 15100 but. I so agree with what you guys are saying and really feel like they. In a fit of that losing is the fire tested that that really prepared. Laser focus that they have. Right now and I'll just quickly say the fact is it starts with leadership up top and and big red and be able to be in there. Oh with 53 guys and it talked to them straight faced and tell them they're doing the right things quite also tell them they're doing the wrong things and being in my elbow I. I have a talk man to man and make sure they understand that there are accountable for that's huge because that happens there and that builds and all the sudden you become more cohesive as you move into the stretch and try to get into the playoffs. I agree with Kendall. Wholeheartedly because they'd be reason CEO. The idiocy over any of the biggest companies in the trees kingdom and the CEO. Are really tested and crisis management. And now we have seen him twice in fifteen and this year how does he handle it. He security uses a leader hit the yield the play calling that had to be a little bit of an ego shot. He's also a guy that has the acumen even those backgrounds an offense I think he could be a defensive coordinator for the of the 31 teams in the league. It's so he understands the game comprehensively. And he can have input with Bob Sutton. It's above Suggs line is straight victory and defeat for the imposter that they both are. But in Bob had to have a little bit of your hopes check your ego at the door of no we got to do some things differently on defense. Well and speaking of leadership I think one of the big agency use one as. The re emergence of air area there on the sideline and his leadership and what he brings to the table. Is so much more than just being out Aaron playing so well in being such a rock for that defense. Ease and he's more than that I he came out on the sidelines during a couple of those games he let the pregame chant he rallied this team around in and around each other. And I think from a leadership standpoint whether it TD reader mad Maggie who maybe set something or he just took it upon himself. Was like you've got to get out there and you've got to be another rock for this team whether your. Cleaner sales have chills when you're standing I talked about it just dead as well oh how she said it would do is gone off the rails in the way he leads. Interest in his impact on the whole kingdom outside of the foot ballroom when we return to the extent that he TV wrote to the Super Bowl take a look at this game Kansas City Chiefs posting. The Tennessee Titans. And AFC wild card through Cingular exclusive coverage of chiefs for. For a second. Stanford. Today states. Hey. Do you hear that. Silence. Now there's nothing wrong quite the opposite actually. Because silence. Is the sound of things working. Connecting. Seamlessly. Silence is the sound of brand new technology. Bringing new amazingly fast more reliable Internet and every room for streaming all your favorite shows like all of them. And if you think that silent check out the sound of mixed in eighty X one updating itself so you're never in erupted. And it totally advanced state of the art fiber based network that happens to be as silent as they come out. At Comcast we're continuing to make our technology more reliable than ever. So enjoy the silence with our most reliable network ever won that keeps you connected to what matters most to you. Silently. Learn more headaches Hannity dot com slash service. This is the road to the Super Bowl. Brought to you by X in any TV fixture underneath gives you more to scream to win any screen. Dan Israel may told this to the damage Danny brilliant guys were talking the playoffs can't think of a better way to spend my time. But I can actually use but you know we talk about not winning a home playoff game. Since the 1993 season. One thing that helps you get a chance to do that is to have more frequent home playoff games this sir you don't have to wait seven years between your chances. It's a hole. In my time. You gotta beyond the thunderstorm hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. And you're not gonna catch lightning in a bottle if you're not out not thunderstorm is she's got to get there. He's got to get their play you know you can't predict the matchups it's not like that Italy amounts September and say well if we play Pittsburgh and in January that it's over we play these guys it just doesn't work that way. I always remember you know of course but first he was with the Steelers coach coward who came comparable chiefs but I just from Herbert the same will will always stay with me was. Just get into the tournament just get into equities at tournament not tournament but there should be set but let's just get in there and give yourself a chance and then like you said it's Europe's hold you give yourself a better chance. It was just you know he slugged a little in common though the chiefs can get this done. Is akin gamut of Mubarak heart OK okay Gonzalez any risk there's was news is that and now you get to be part of the seventeen chiefs of medicine so. I hope I hope I like that are better outcome for you this game and just asked and no question. Well on this team like you mention it certainly is different we they're so many new faces when we talk about the rookies earlier in the shell. And they knew that we mention Alex Smith playing at. He wants this he wants it really bad and you can tell that that kind of is siphoning to all the rest of the offense and how badly they wanna get this when Taylor. I think you saw. To begin the season training camp you saw of veterans come in with a look at their eye they understood that this team was poised to have a chance to do some things. To get into the playoffs course that's a long ways away but you've got to be thinking the end of mind you look at the chiefs this year they have a 106 combined games a post season experience on the team what players. The mets' fifth most in the playoffs this year so there. They're built solidly to understand what they need to do and I don't care who you are truly believe this which is. You need guys. Who not be happy to be in the playoffs you need guys. Who were expected to be in the playoffs and her look in to get to the end game which is the Super Bowl and I think that's. A process that teams go through and really will probably talked about it a little bit Tennessee I think is a map first process because. They haven't been to a playoff game since 2008. And they have won a playoff game since 2003 so this is new for them this is like mark he's first time in the playoffs is a head coach these are all new things for them. A larger you had a conversation this would Justin Houston people were here that. Throughout the week. In on pregame and I loved it but I saw that look in just abuse at the very beginning of training camp let's keep in mind this is the first time you'll play in a playoff game with the chiefs. He's healthy. Was not healthy and thirteen and he was not healthy and 1516 total of fourteen was gonna set Tilton and a full sacks record. We make the playoffs that year and what's thirteen 1516. He's been beat up not be nuts and it is coming in without book in that tell you had with him. And reaffirm that are with me I was on a show with. Folks in Nashville I mean to your point of forty to 53 chiefs have been in the playoffs before. End in you mentioned the there's just not very much. Our playoff experience on this tiger team once Delanie Walker we'd talk about in his most of his experiences with Alex Smith of San Francisco. But they asked me to go to even in early 2.4 years he played our playoff experiences of we don't think it's about bigger factor. It's it was kind of game it's got our guy player by player some players and word destined to succeed in the playoffs and left their mother's womb. Others have to change their underwear four times before halftime. To meet the Kansas City Chiefs have more of the former. Now hopes instead of the latter well I think so and there's the experience it because these students are just. I think they're rated Iraq in the playoffs and it's not. The satisfaction of oh we got in a wanted to be right back to back these guys are hungry and it's the Derrick Johnson's in the Justin Houston and Dustin Colquitt. Who have waited for this moment. And I'll add to that the coaching staff is the same way I think you have a more experienced coaching staff in post season play. In the titans do well and everybody keeps talking about in the locker room how there is a complete intensity change when you go from. You know training camp to the pre season and it's different the regular season and it's even that much more an up and revved up when you go to the post season I don't care who tells you that. Experience doesn't matter it does because you've seen how much faster and more is at all these other teens get these opponents yet. They look like different teams the chiefs will look like it better more improved team in the post season because. Varies that much more intensity and Mitch was talking about how the experience. Reggie crackle and mentioned that it's just some ink that is. That if you get air he experienced a championship field policies and feel with Alabama under exceed that so he knows what it's like wind. When you start winning eighty have wins and experience the post season. It makes your team that matter. And like which is sort of Alex Smith it's seeing him this week ever say it's eat even getting on the plane coming off from Denver. It was like the will Farrell seem resigned as the irises are burning like he looks like for you think that aspect he's looking Emmy but he's not looking Emmys during threw me an almighty. The by brain matter. And I think I'm gonna turn a pillar of salt if I don't look away now I mean that's the look Alex Smith has had all. Week yeah the bad guys super hyper focus for the script you don't 1993. We. Took a quarterback from San Francisco and we will beat Houston Oilers. Now we'll take a quarterback. San Francisco. Let's go beat Houston Oilers and why don't interesting to saying yes I'm a part that's my prediction. Do you think the guerrilla. I'm I can't say it any better than that I'm still at all the fact that you came up with now. It's release time and let's talk quickly about this game itself so. The Tennessee Titans are somewhat a pedestrian offense their predominant rushing team I mean are you ought to in my opinion is not going to beat you with his arm you look at them. They have thirteen more rushing TDs in their opponents that's number two in the league but they are thirteen fewer passing TDs which is tied. With Cleveland so this is a team that's built on the run with a QB and the running backs but. I think if you keep Marietta Mary Oda at bay. You've got a great chance I think it's interesting also the factor there but the doctor Markus Mario you can run the ball is slick and everything hope. News flash our QB has more yards rushing. Dead than he does actually I was shocked and I think that shocks most people doubt them in the Yucca personnel also Mario in the past 42 to nineteen for Alex soak. They're very similar and it's it's there's no doubt that the most proficient passing team is the Kansas City Chiefs. Well and I mean I talked to Chris Jones this week he said the biggest key he died you know all season one of the reasons why their batters that he thought it's it act here. Tech quarterback you know affect the passing game really stop the run game and that's the same key when it comes into this week against the titans is that. If they can stop dear Henry they can slow him down. Marcus Murray today inside the pocket that's where they're gonna have success and they can force those turnovers. That has been do or die for the chiefs of late they're living and breathing off of the turnovers and that's what's made them so successful. And Chris also said we know that we don't have to worry about past games we've got our secondary who can drop back in they cover and they've been solved that. They're gonna force those turnovers if we can stop Iraq. Final thoughts guys let's start with Mitch pilots like this team like this chiefs team a lot like the president I like the future. I like where have we do look at 52 wins in five years. You look at. I look at the big picture small picture I think those two things all work I think they were together. I think this we have mentioned it throughout the show that this team is hungry. There's no human being. War Hungary to make a run in the playoffs in the chiefs kingdom and Andy Reid. He is burning tuchman Alex Smith being hyper focused. Eighty readers' burning to win this game and the next game and the next game and to me that's the best sign this team. You know I think I'm just gonna go with turnovers in the a look at the offense of Tennessee they've had a turnover in thirteen consecutive games so it is what they do and I believe. The chiefs play even or plus one in the turnover ratio it's going to be good news for them on Saturday which you're saying is. It's up to the market since. There you go I just listening Marcus Marcus. I love it I have to say adjustments that's probably the theme of the season you came out five and now. You thought you were. I'm gonna be able to cruise through the rest of the season because a second half of the season looked like it was going to be cakewalk with the records that they were going into it but then you hit basket. And then you were able to adjust both offensively and defensively we talked about the leadership they were able to come out and say yeah we're not doing things the way they need to be done. And so we will make changes and we saw them as they made those changes not only during games. Also after teams going at the following gains the adjustments are what make this team better and what make him I'd be different and any of the other team in the. To me the chiefs have done a great job the past or weeks of getting out early. It's fast starting in their early and that's to me was real important against the titans team the you know. Reporter talked about their inexperience you know there's doubt planted there in the first thing we needed is water that doubt. I think there's half of this team that doesn't even know who the players were in 1993 in fact I'd go even more effective there's 25% this team. Doesn't know the players from 2013. South Africa I. That's gonna differ are what condemn Saddam. Actually. That's gonna give brats are playoff special thanks to voice of the chiefs Mitchell this can began in gaining well it also outstanding work this week of the greatest voice in professional football Perlman and of course special thanks to our sponsor. It's going to be T. You've been listening to the road to the Super Bowl presented by extended BTV. With the top networks and lives sports on the goal. Plus an on demand that DVR contents you can download from anywhere. They X Kennedy gives you more to streamed to any screen. This week he would teach football and the officials chiefs radio podcasts. Check out more on demand content that Casey cheap radios dot com.
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GTA V Players Find Cool New Bigfoot Secret
Patricia Hernandez
Filed to: Grand Theft AutoFiled to: Grand Theft Auto
The legend of Sasquatch just got hella trippier thanks to an awesome recent discovery made by the GTA community.
About a week ago, a curious GTA V update dropped. Some players noticed something fishy about a new achievement titled “Cryptozoologist.” It was all in the flavor text: “You unlocked all animals for use in Director Mode... or did you?” This led some of the community to believe that maybe, just maybe, Rockstar had hidden something within GTA once more.
Things escalated from there. Some players noted that there were audio files that seemed to point to Big Foot. And today, r/Chiliadmystery member rkRusty made a breakthrough related to the mystery: they found a new Peyote plant that, once digested, could transform the player into Sasquatch—thus allowing the player to have a drug-addled adventure as Big Foot.
It was not happenstance. The player had dug into the GTA files and found the coordinates for every existing Peyote plant, and in doing so, discovered that there were actually a few unknown and unaccounted Peyote plants listed in said files. They also noted that there was a segment in the code that would only trigger if the weather type was set to foggy.
So rkRusty put two and two together, forced the game to become foggy, and then proceeded to these exact coordinates: -1472.531, 4439.456, 18.862:
Voila. At that exact point, they found a completely new peyote plant that wasn’t in the game before:
You can watch the transformation into the mythical creature/video evidence of this discovery thanks to footage provided by 2H2K below:
Pretty amazing, huh?
It’s not entirely clear what the specific conditions for triggering this are. rkRusty notes that they had 100% completion, and had gone to the site on a Tuesday at 8am while the weather was foggy. rkRusty claims it will only work from the 7:30-8am range on a Tuesday while it’s foggy, but a different player who also provided image evidence within that same thread says they found it while it was snowing on a Tuesday within the same time frame. The first player to provide footage online of this phenomenon says they found it at 8am on a Tuesday while SMOGGY outside, and that they also had 100% completion. I tried going to the spot myself, but kept getting killed by a random cougar every time it neared 7am, so I can’t really confirm/deny the weather or completion rate specifications. Your mileage may vary if you decide to hunt the Peyote down. Just remember: there is a cheat code you can use to immediately change the weather while searching for this. Otherwise, your search may be crapshoot.
The question is...will the other new Peyote coordinates eventually turn something new up, too? I leave it up to you, vigilant GTA players.
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How to Transfer a Boat Title
Written by Jennifer Mueller, JD
This article was written by Jennifer Mueller, JD. Jennifer Mueller is an in-house legal expert at wikiHow. She received her JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2006.
There are 8 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page.
If you want to operate a boat in American waters, it must be titled and registered in the state where you live. Part of the process of buying a boat from another individual is getting the boat title transferred from the seller's name into your name. While the process is fairly straightforward, mistakes could result in disputes over the ownership of the boat.[1]
Method One of Two:
Selling a BoatEdit
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Gather required proof of ownership. In general, you'll need your copy of the title for the boat and the title for the outboard motor. In some states, these may be two separate title documents.[2]
If you had the boat financed and there is a lien on the title, you'll also need documentation for release of that lien from the finance company.
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Complete a bill of sale. An official bill of sale provides a record of the sale and the amount for which you sold the boat. Some states require the buyer to present a written bill of sale when they apply to transfer the title.[3]
Even if your state does not require a bill of sale, it's still good practice to have a written document recording the transaction, in case questions or problems arise later.
Take the bill of sale to a notary public so your signature and the buyer's signature on the bill of sale can be notarized. If the transaction is later disputed, the document will more likely hold up in court. Have 2 copies notarized so both you and the buyer have an original.
Fill in the transfer section of the title. On the back of the boat title, there will be a section to record the transfer of the boat to another person. Write the buyer's name, address, and any other information required.
Check with the buyer to make sure the information you have is correct. Write legibly in blue or black ink.
Sign the title in the presence of a notary. To complete the transfer of the title to the buyer, you must sign the back of the title below the transfer section. Some states require your signature to be notarized.
If there is a space for a notary seal on the back of the title, that's an indication that the signature must be notarized. If you're unsure, you can call your state's boat licensing office to find out.
Getting the title notarized at the same time you have the bill of sale notarized can save you some time and money.
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Give the title to the buyer. Once you've completed the transfer section on the back of the title and signed it, it's the buyer's responsibility to take it to the title office in your state and apply for a new title.
You may want to make a photocopy of the title before you hand it over, so you have it for your records. This might come in handy if, for example, the buyer misplaces the title before they get a chance to go to the title office.
Accompany the buyer to the title office. Until the buyer applies for a new title, the boat is still in your name. If you go to the title office with the buyer, you can make sure the buyer gets their new title promptly.[4]
If there are any questions or problems with your title, you also have the opportunity to clear those problems up immediately if you're there in person.
Method Two of Two:
Purchasing a BoatEdit
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Have the seller sign the title. Before you can have the title to your newly purchased boat transferred into your name, the seller must fill out the transfer section on the back of the title and sign it.
Some states require titles to be signed in the presence of a notary. If there is space for a notary seal on the back of the title, don't let the seller sign it until they're in front of a notary. Otherwise the signature will be invalid.
Request documentation from authorized representatives. Some sellers may have an authorized representative, such as an attorney or dealer, complete the title transfer for them.[5]
An authorized representative should have a contract, power of attorney, or other document that makes it clear they are the legal, authorized representative of the title owner of the boat.
If the representative cannot produce documentation, don't go through with the sale – it might not be legitimate. Contact the title owner of the boat if possible.
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Have the seller accompany you to the title office. Having the seller with you can help you avoid a nasty surprise if you find out there is some sort of problem with the title or the record of ownership for the boat.[6]
With the seller by your side, most problems can be cleared up immediately. For example, the title may have a lien on it. The seller could produce a release of lien document to prove that they owned the boat free and clear when they sold it.
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Complete an application for a title. Each state has a title application form that you must fill out with your name, address, and other information regarding the boat you've just purchased. The information you provide will be used to issue your new title.[7]
Some states also require you to present a written bill of sale for the boat. If you're buying the boat from an individual, you may want to call your state's boat titling office in advance and find out what documents you'll need.
Make sure all information about the boat is exactly the same as the information on the original title. This ensures a clean transfer of title.
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Pay any required taxes and fees. When you submit your title application to the title office, you'll typically be assessed taxes and fees on your purchase. These taxes vary widely among states. It's a good idea to call ahead and find out how much you'll have to pay, as well as what methods of payment are accepted.[8]
Some states don't assess taxes on casual boat sales (sales between two private individuals). However, you'll still have to pay a fee to have the new title issued, typically around $15 or $20.
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Receive your new title. In some states, you'll get your title immediately after you submit your application and pay the fees. However, many states will give you a temporary document and send your official title in the mail.
If you have to wait for your official title, find out if you can still register your boat with the temporary document. You won't be able to take the boat out on the water until it's registered.
How do I get a title for a boat when it can't be found?
File for a lost title. Go to your DMV with your information on the boat. You will also need this for the motor and trailer too, as they all have individual titles.
Who signs the front of the title, the buyer or the seller?
How does one transfer a boat title from father to daughter?
How do I transfer a boat title from multiple owners to a single owner's name?
If I am in one state and a seller is in another state, how do I send a deposit if I want to have a boat title transferred?
How do I transfer a boat title from an owner name that I can't get in touch with anymore?
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Jennifer Mueller, JD
↑ https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/boat/owner/buying_and_selling/
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ReactOS: A Windows Compatible Alternative OS
Moving to a new OS can be a steep learning curve, and you may have to leave behind your beloved Windows apps. What if you could run Windows apps without using Windows? Step up ReactOS.
Mac OS X is fantastic. Linux is great. But what if you need access to Windows apps? What if you like the look, feel, and functionality of Windows? I recently took a look at Q4OS, a Linux distro with a Windows skin, but it doesn’t allow you to install Windows apps seamlessly.
Wine/Crossover
Running Windows apps on other platforms isn’t new. We already have Wine for running Windows apps on Linux as well as commercial software titles, such as Crossover from CodeWeavers, that allows Mac and Linux users to run Windows apps on their respective operating systems. Both negate the need to install Windows itself.
My review of Q4OS was glared at by Linux users who couldn’t see why you would want to run Linux and then make it look like Windows. ReactOS is different: It is a complete operating system that is compatible with Windows apps and drivers. It is a replacement for Windows.
According to their website, ReactOS “is a free open source operating system based on the design principals found in the Windows NT architecture.” Before I continue, I should point out that ReactOS has nothing to do with Microsoft. It is built completely from scratch by a non-Microsoft team. The name react is a reaction to Microsoft’s monopoly on the PC market.
ReactOS stems from an earlier project called FreeWin95, which was started in 1996. However, it failed to get off the ground. In 1998, the developers revived the project and renamed it ReactOS, this time basing it on an NT kernel.
ReactOS has a similar look to Windows so that people used to the familiar interface of Windows could use it easily, allowing them to use an alternative to Windows without changing the software and applications they are used to. Let’s have a look.
With most open source software, it is available free. The ISO is 348 MB, around the same size as Windows 2000. Installation is very simple, and for anyone used to installing Windows 2000 or XP, you will recognise the blue background and white text based installer. A few questions about language and drive options, and the installer sets off doing its thing, which it does very quickly.
I installed it in VirtualBox on my Early 2009 MacBook, and the installation completed within 5 minutes, after which I was presented with a nice looking boot screen reminiscent of Windows XP with a black background, centre logo, and progress bar.
The first boot pops up a familiar blue background with Microsoft style information/dialogue boxes asking further questions and finalising set up and hardware installation.
Whereas Q4OS went for a near identical look to Windows 2000/XP classic, ReactOS looks like a combo of Windows and Linux. However, it is not Linux or Unix based OS at all – this is an NT5 upwards compatible OS.
You have your familiar Start Button and task bar, desktop, and icons up the top left hand side. The Start Button pops up a Start Menu featuring sub menus that feel very Windows-like in their arrangement and naming.
Clicking the My Computer icon on the desktop opens an explorer window. Browsing around the menus and settings you could be fooled in to thinking this is a Microsoft product, with even the System Configuration screen looking very similar to the msconfig one in Windows XP.
Outside Code
While the main core of ReactOS is built from scratch, it has some dependencies on existing software and protocols. It uses parts of Wine, networking in the form of lwIP, USB from Haiku, as well as FreeType, Mesa3D, and UniATA.
ReactOS is capable of running native Windows apps and comes with its own Application Manager, which points to tested app downloads. I found Firefox 26 in the Application Manager and installed it. As it is installing, you can see it downloading from the Mozilla FTP site and see it pulling in the Windows version.
Firefox installed fine, and I browsed a few sites including Facebook without any issues. I then thought I would see I could install an application from a website, so I headed over to the AVG site – after all, if this is based on Windows, I might need to get some protection.
Five minutes of browsing and before I got the chance to download it, I was faced with something most Windows users see, a blue STOP screen. Nothing screams “I’m based on a Microsoft product” like a blue screen of death.
Joking aside, this is still a very early alpha version. The developers do not claim it is stable or the ability to operate as your main OS and clearly state it is “recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes”.
Here is where it gets interesting. ReactOS has some very low requirements. A Pentium processor and 64 MB RAM are minimum with 256 MB RAM recommended. 350 MB of hard drive space is need and a 2 MB VESA video card. Windows XP wouldn’t run on hardware this low; in fact, these are closer to the Windows 2000 requirements. Obviously higher hardware would give you a better experience.
So if your aging machine is struggling under today’s demands, this lightweight OS could be a great answer, once it reaches beta and public release.
Purpose?
You may be wondering what purpose this has. Well. Windows 2000 is too old and Windows XP is being killed off at the beginning of April. Your hardware might not be able to run Windows Vista or 7 or you might not want the expense of doing so and Linux might be a step too far for some.
ReactOS could extend the life of hardware, by installing this lightweight’ Windows compatible alternative. For those who want the feel of Windows and who has basic needs, ReactOS could be useful.
It has the ability to run native Windows apps, which means most software should run.
No purchase. No installation code. No activation. Windows without the hassle of Windows. A very interesting project indeed, one I shall be keeping a close eye on.
For more information and to keep up with the latest releases, visit the the ReactOS Project website.
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US STOCKS-Wall St rises as trade hopes drive tech gains; S&P at record-high
Shreyashi Sanyal
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* Trump says China trade talks ‘back on track’
* Chipmakers surge on trade relief
* Boeing drops on report of Dreamliner 787 subpoena
* Casino operators rise on higher Macau revenue
* Indexes up: Dow 0.30%, S&P 0.55%, Nasdaq 0.88% (Updates to early afternoon)
By Shreyashi Sanyal
July 1 (Reuters) - Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 hitting an all-time high, as technology stocks gained on growing optimism around U.S.-China trade talks and a likely reprieve for Chinese telecoms company Huawei.
“We’re right back on track,” U.S. President Donald Trump said after the world’s two largest economies agreed to restart trade talks.
Trump also offered concessions including no new tariffs and an easing of restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , while China agreed to make unspecified new purchases of U.S. farm products.
Tech stocks, Wall Street’s top performers so far in 2019, jumped 1.22%, with heavyweight Apple Inc’s 1.7% gain providing the maximum support.
Chipmakers with a sizable revenue exposure to China jumped, fueling a 2.30% gain in the Philadelphia Semiconductor index . Huawei suppliers Intel Corp rose 0.1%, while Micron Technology Inc gained 4%.
“The outcome between Xi and Trump was probably the best that could be expected,” said Robert Pavlik, chief investment strategist and senior portfolio manager at SlateStone Wealth LLC said.
“Now with a trade truce and quite likely an eventual trade agreement coming online, the technology space, which is heavily connected to Asia, would be an area of the market you want to take a bet on.”
Stocks saw their steepest sell-off this year in May after a breakdown in the U.S.-China trade talks sparked concerns of a global economic slowdown.
But hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates to preserve a strong run of U.S. economic growth helped the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes post their best June performance in generations.
Despite the latest development in talks, traders still expect the Fed’s next move will be a rate cut at its July 30-31 policy meeting.
Data showed growth in manufacturing cooled in the United States in June while factory activity shrank across much of Europe and Asia, further boosting chances of a rate cut.
June factory activity data is evident of the impact tariffs and tensions are having on global growth, said Lindsey Bell, investment strategist at CFRA Research in New York.
At 12:54 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 80.44 points, or 0.30%, at 26,680.40 and the S&P 500 was up 16.15 points, or 0.55%, at 2,957.91.
The Nasdaq Composite was up 70.21 points, or 0.88%, at 8,076.46. Shares of Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc , and Amazon.com Inc also boosted the tech-heavy index.
Gains on the Dow were limited by a 1.7% drop in Boeing Co after a report that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed records relating to the production of the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina.
Wynn Resorts Ltd jumped 6.3%, the most on the S&P, as gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau rose more than expected in June. Shares of peers Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd and Las Vegas Sands Corp also rose.
Coty Inc tumbled 16.1%, falling the most on the S&P, after the company said it would overhaul its operations and write down about $3 billion in value of its brands acquired from Procter & Gamble Co.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.67-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.50-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 59 new 52-week highs and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 113 new highs and 19 new lows. (Reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal and Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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by Alberto Luperon | 1:24 pm, December 17th, 2017
Things are not getting easier for attorney Michael D. Petersen. On Friday, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ordered that his state license be suspended for a year, starting next January 26. This is just another punishment stemming from his lying to a client about a plea deal, and then covering it up. His name might not sound familiar, but this behavior got him a memorable punishment handed down in a Waupaca County criminal court in 2015. After a contempt of court conviction, the judge sentenced him to a year of probation and 30 days in jail with 25 of those stayed, ordered him to pay restitution to a client identified as “K.F.” and give clients a copy of his criminal complaint along with this letter:
I am a crook. I am a cheat. I am a thief. I am a liar. I was convicted of a crime on November 9th, 2015. My conviction resulted from my intentional choice to sell my own clients down the river and then trying to cover it up. You may not hire me or have me legally represent you in any fashion until you read the Criminal Complaint and Judgment of Conviction in my Outagamie County Wisconsin Case no. 15-CM878. This disclosure is required as one of the conditions of my probation.
“I want you to have as much business as a pimp in a nursing home,” Judge Philip Kirk said at the 2015 sentencing hearing.
Flash forward to 2017. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin said Petersen lied to client K.F.
“Attorney Petersen misled K.F. by telling him to plead no contest to the Class C felony and that the charge would be amended after the hearing to a reduced charge of the Class H felony,” Friday’s ruling said. “K.F. believed he was entering a plea to the Class H felony.”
The suspension was initiated by the state’s Office of Lawyer Regulation. Petersen admitted to the misconduct allegations, the ruling said.
Justice Ann W. Bradley wrote the dissent, joined by Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson. They argued that he got off too light.
“Attorney Petersen apparently forged a judge’s signature on a fabricated court order, lied to the court and to the police, all the while continuing the lies to his client,” Bradley wrote.
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To: "Brown, Julie C." <[log in to unmask]>
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> A family brings their child to your emergency department. If you say, "We
> are going to take excellent care of Johnny/Suzie", how do you think this
> will make the patient/parent/family feel? Will they feel reassured and
> comforted, or will they feel like you are self-promoting or trying to
> manipulate them? Do you think this simple statement would influence their
> impression of the visit afterwards? Do any of you work in institutions
> that encourage you to use specific statements in your interactions with
> families? If so, what statement(s)? Does anyone know of any evidence to
> support this?
> Julie
> You can follow me on twitter: @donteatmagnets
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/ June 3rd 2018
older driver
Driver licence discounts: older drivers won’t miss out
The State’s peak motoring body has corrected reports older drivers were ineligible for cheaper multi-year licences in Queensland.
The reminder came after RACQ received multi-inquiries from concerned members who incorrectly believed they must purchase a new licence every year after the age of 75.
RACQ spokesperson Lauren Ritchie clarified that while drivers over 75 years old must obtain an annual medical certificate every 13 months, they were not required to get a new driver licence every year.
“All drivers must have valid licences, but you don’t need to get a new one every year once you’re over 75, as long as your existing licence isn’t out of date,” Ms Ritchie said.
Related Coverage Older Drivers: When is it time to hang up the keys
Ms Ritchie said older motorists could benefit from a significant discount if they purchased a five-year licence rather than a one-year licence.
“Paying for a one-year licence every year is more than double the cost of buying the five-year licence outright, so it’s worth looking into,” she said.
“Even if you’re unsure whether you’ll be driving in five years, it actually pays to purchase for the long-term.”
Ms Ritchie said it was worth noting that motorists who did not remain driving for the duration of the licence were eligible for a refund.
“If you purchase a five-year licence but cease driving after just two years, for example, you are entitled to a refund for the years you don’t use,” she said,
Ms Ritchie said it was important to have the conversation with friends or family members about when was the right time to hang up the keys.
“It is a delicate conversation to have to have, but when it comes to the safety of your loved ones and all road users, it is one we can’t ignore,” she said.
“You might find our Older Driver Self-Assessment Questionnaire helpful. The Questionnaire helps to identify a range of issues including safe driving and gives you a score based on your responses.”’
Reckless e-scooter riders have been filmed risking lives riding though Brisbane’s Airportlink tunnel, prompting a reminder from RACQ that tunnels were for cars, motorbikes trucks and buses only.
A knife-wielding man has triggered a police siege at the entrance of a major tunnel in Brisbane’s inner-east on Thursday morning, prompting a warning from RACQ to expect delays throughout the morning.
As south east Queensland shivered through a bitterly cold morning, RACQ has reminded drivers of the impacts low temperatures could have on their car.
The State’s peak motoring body has called for improved checks for written-off vehicles to better protect drivers from buying a lemon after it was revealed 11,000 crashed or damaged cars were put back on the road last year.
RACQ has urged motorists to rethink their vehicle’s security after more than 16,322 cars, motorcycles and trucks were reported stolen across Queensland last financial year.
RACQ has called for an acceleration of cheap but effective safety upgrades after it was revealed on average more than 100 people were injured in crashes on a dangerous stretch of the Bruce Highway every year.
Car lovers delighted at RACQ MotorFest
More than 10,000 car lovers rolled into Eagle Farm Racecourse yesterday for RACQ MotorFest to admire more than 580 classic, vintage and unique vehicles.
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Chelmsford funeral directors
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Bullying does long-term damage to mental health
Governor Tom Wolf (2016) ©
SIGNAL 12 May 17
Bullying might end in the playground, but its effects follow victims long into later life. As the impact of peer victimisation is recognised for its long-term damage, school systems are reinterpreting the responsibilities of guiding and educating young people.
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AI learns from people, but its users won’t always opt to teach good over evil – just take the corruption of Microsoft's Tay. SimSimi is an automated chatbot that has found its niche in cyberbullying, calling into question who's responsible when AI morality goes rogue.
Singapore’s schools are scrapping grades 10 Mar 17
Singapore’s students are racing ahead of the rest of the world, but while other nations praise its education system, Singapore is revamping its fiercely competitive education system to focus on emotional intelligence, rather than grooming students for competition.
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The global cost of mental healthcare is set to exceed $6 trillion by 2030, and as dementia, depression and anxiety afflict a greater number of people, it’s unlikely that existing treatment options will be able to meet demand. Can tech, drugs or video games provide a viable alternative?
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Snapchat brings AR Lenses to its self-serve ad tool, launches Sponsored Snappables & builds on its e-commerce efforts
Along with its latest AR ad developments, Snapchat is rolling out goal-based bidding around conversions for e-commerce advertisers.
Amy Gesenhues on June 12, 2018 at 9:41 am
During its earnings call for the first quarter of this year, Snapchat said one of its key priorities was to grow its online sales business.
“In order to onboard these advertisers, we have been rolling out our self-serve tools and investing to create a frictionless buying experience,” reported Snapchat’s chief strategy officer, Imran Khan.
The company is continuing to drive its ad business objectives with an announcement yesterday outlining a number of new ad initiatives. Snapchat introduced new programmatic purchasing for its AR Lenses, a new AR ad product connected to the platform’s Snappables games and what the company claims is its “largest push” for e-commerce advertisers.
Here is a rundown of Snapchat’s latest announcements.
AR Lenses now available via self-serve ad tool
With Snap Ads, Story Ads and Filters already available to purchase programmatically, Snapchat is now adding AR Lenses to its self-serve ad-buying tool.
Snapchat is making its AR Lenses available via its self-serve reach and frequency tool based on costs per impression, which run from $8 to $20, depending on various factors, including targeting.
Sponsored AR Lenses will include the same advanced demographic targeting available with Snap Ads, with 500 preset audiences around information like household income, parental status, lookalikes and audience match. The AR Lenses will also include full funnel measurement to track real-time metrics around pixel-based conversion attribution, mobile app installs and offline sales measurement.
Before making it available to all advertisers, Snapchat says test partners that were able to buy the AR Lenses programmatically experienced a 46 percent drop in CPMs.
New Sponsored Snappables turns Snapchat’s AR game into ads
In addition to bringing AR Lenses to its self-serve ad tool, Snapchat is rolling out a new AR ad product — Sponsored Snappables. The new ad product is a branded version of the messaging platform’s two-player AR selfie games that require users to make “funny faces in public” in order to play the AR game via the Snapchat camera.
The company recruited three well-known brands — Bud Light, Dunkin Donuts and “Candy Crush” developer King — to test the Sponsored Snappable before their official launch. Here’s what the Sponsored Snappables look like using the “Candy Crush” branding:
Snapchat’s latest e-commerce push
Snapchat is also building on its e-commerce offerings. In what it calls its “largest push for e-commerce advertisers,” the company is introducing goal-based bidding conversions — its first targeting optimization for e-commerce brands.
E-commerce advertisers now can use Snapchat’s Pixel (the JavaScript code that helps advertisers measure campaigns) to create campaigns around direct-response objectives such as purchases or sign-ups.
Snapchat says advertisers will be able to see the total number and total value of purchases driven by their Snapchat campaigns, along with the exact return on ad spend (ROAS). It also plans to make conversion lift metrics available in the next few months.
The Snap Pixel, which launched last October, is now available to all advertisers behind a whitelist — meaning anyone can sign up to use it and take advantage of the goal-based bidding conversions. (Snapchat says the number of advertisers using its Pixel tripled between Q4 of last year and Q1 of 2018.)
Snapchat is also testing a new e-commerce ad product. After launching Shoppable Lenses for e-commerce advertisers in April, the company says it is testing Shoppable Snap Ads and Story Ads for e-commerce advertisers. The ads showcase a “tappable product catalog” that, when clicked, launches the advertiser’s website without leaving the Snapchat app.
Amy Gesenhues
Amy Gesenhues is a senior editor for Third Door Media, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land, Search Engine Land and MarTech Today. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed to a variety of traditional and online publications, including MarketingProfs, SoftwareCEO, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine. Read more of Amy's articles.
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Bits, Brains, and Behavior
Occasional commentary by Markus Meister
Irresponsible musings on Lamarckian evolution
meister4 Uncategorized April 19, 2019 April 19, 2019 8 Minutes
Preamble: In May 2018, HHMI Janelia hosted a wonderful conference on the evolution of neural circuits, organized by Albert Cardona, Melina Hale, and Gáspár Jékely. This is a transcript of a short talk I gave there. Caution: utter speculation!
Good evening. My name is Markus Meister. Many of you probably wonder what I am doing up here, and so do I. This started innocently enough when I wanted to attend this conference to learn about a different field. But the organizers asked for a poster abstract and I sheepishly complied. Then Albert Cardona unilaterally converted this poster to a talk, so now you know whom to blame. Let me also give two warnings. First, what I’ll present is pure speculation, there are no new results, only stringing together old results into questions. Fortunately it is timed to transition into the Apres-Ski part of the conference, so please consider this as part of the evening entertainment. Second I want to deliver a trigger warning. For those of you not at an American university, we professors are encouraged to warn our sensitive students when a lecture threatens to bring up a subject they might find offensive. The present talk will include notions reminiscent of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in particular his idea that acquired characters are inheritable.
I want to consider how neural circuits evolved to what we find today. In any given brain one finds some circuits that are essentially specified by the genome. A good example of that is the retina: pretty much the same circuit in every member of the species, with rather little influence from visual experience. It’s a rather complex and precise network among 80 or so cell types. That ultimately produces about 30 different types of retinal ganglion cell with different visual functions. Those functions are exquisitely well adapted to the visual environment. For example the well-known center-surround organization of receptive fields matches beautifully with the statistical structure of natural scenes to produce a kind of image compression that functions a bit like JPEG. Delving in more detail we find a type of retinal ganglion cell designed to pick out a moving object against a moving background, a function that is obviously useful for both predator and prey animals. Each of these circuits relies on precise connectivity among a dozen or so different cell types. And that connectivity is ultimately determined by the developmental program stored in the genome.
The common explanation for how this adapted circuit came about is through the cumulative effects of mutation at the gene level and natural selection at the level of behavior. And I’m sure that is a large part of the story. But we have to consider that the brain also has powerful mechanisms for adapting in real time. In the visual system, if we just take a couple steps forward from the retina, we find circuits in the mammalian cortex that are much more dependent on environmental exposure, and can adapt plastically to many different environments. For example you can raise a mouse with cylindrical goggles so it experiences almost exclusively patterns with one orientation. After just a few weeks of this the cortex has reorganized to preferentially encode that orientation. The detailed synaptic circuits that accomplish this are acquired through experience, shaped by various cellular mechanisms of learning. In the course of a lifetime an organism acquires a great deal of experience from the environment that gets stored in synaptic connections within these plastic circuits. But the common notion of brain evolution says that all this experience is lost to the next generation.
So I would like to revisit this question now: Is it possible that some of the acquired knowledge about the environment is in fact passed on genetically to the offspring. And more specifically, is it possible that the innate neural circuits we find today are really the accumulated result of many generations of acquired circuitry that eventually got frozen in the genome. This of course relates to Lamarck’s doctrine that organisms can pass acquired traits on to their offspring. Although it is worth remembering that Darwin also speculated about this possibility. But why revisit this question now? Do we know of any example where an organism learns from the environment and stores that knowledge in the genome for the benefit of future generations?
Of course, you will say: the ancient bacterial immune system. By now even theoretical physicists have been caught up in the hoopla around CRISPR. But beyond the technological promise of gene editing and the associated patent fights, I find the biological function of this system more fascinating. The molecular machinery in the bacterium identifies foreign DNA, like from a virus infection, chops it into small pieces, and inserts those pieces at a special location in the bacterial genome. Meanwhile other proteins read the sequences stored in that memory and look for matching items floating around in the cell to destroy them. The descendants of this cell inherit the stored memories and are therefore better prepared for threats in the environment. Of course this clever mechanism itself had to evolve somehow, but once in place it opens the door to a Lamarckian mechanism of inheritance.
Given that some early forms of life have developed a way to record experience in the genome, it seems plausible that Nature has continued to use this powerful principle. Now there are two aspects of this bacterial system that make it particularly easy to transmit acquired experience genetically. First, the information gathered about the environment is already in the form of genetic sequences, such as a viral genome. Second, the cell that is sampling the environment is the same cell that transmits the genome to the descendants. In multi-cellular animals of course the germ line is separated from the rest of the body, and the environmental experience is not directly available as a DNA sequence. So in thinking about how this might work in animals we need to try and solve both problems: Turn synaptic connectivity into sequence information and then transmit that from the brain to the gonads.
So let’s think about a concrete example with minimal complexity, what is commonly called a “toy model”. We suppose that lifetime experience has set up new synaptic circuits in the brain. This leads to new synapses between two cell types, call them A and B. Each of these types is defined by expression of a specific transcription factor, TF-A and TF-B. We would like to communicate this event to the germline in such a way that in the next generation these two neurons are more likely to form a synapse all by themselves, without the need for learning and plasticity. Of course we don’t require that this happens deterministically after just one generation. Even if the probability of forming such a connection is enhanced just by a tiny amount, that biases the genetic program for this neural circuit a little bit, and that bias can accumulate over generations.
So how do we imagine that information about this event in the brain gets to the germ cells? Whatever carries that signal has to be a information-rich message, because the event is rather specific. Assuming the brain has about 1000 cell types, and we want to encode synapses between any two of them, that requires abut a million different symbols. So the signal has to be something with a million possible values. Obviously we’re not talking about some hormone. Instead the likely carrier would be a nucleotide sequence, like RNA. Short RNAs would be sufficient, since 10 bases can already encode a million signals.
Now in recent years there has been a flurry of discoveries about RNA mechanisms, and I want to point to three of them that may be relevant for the scheme we’re considering here. Starting with synapse formation: We learned just a few months ago that at a synaptic junction cells can pass RNA to each other inside a virus-like capsid, and that alters gene expression in the partner neuron. One might imagine that this could be used to strengthen a synaptic connection. For example if cell A expresses a homotypic cell adhesion molecule CAM-A, the mRNA for that could transfer to cell B, leading to expression of CAM-A in that neuron as well and consequent cell adhesion. More importantly, cell B now has a complement of RNAs that it did not have before this event, for example the mRNAs for transcription factor TF-B and for the adhesion molecule CAM-A. That can lead to the production of new species of RNA that did not exist before.
Second, how can that information flow to the germ line? One such mechanism are extracellular vesicles, sometimes called exosomes (although that term is ambiguous). These are small vesicles extruded from the plasma membrane of many cells. They can carry protein, RNA, and DNA. They provide a route for cells to exchange all these information-rich signals. They are transported through the blood and remarkably enough they can cross the blood-brain-barrier. Separate evidence says they are taken up in the testes. So in principle a route exists for RNA molecules to convey information about such peripheral events to the germline.
Finally, how could that information be used to alter the genome? Again here we are learning about new mechanisms that are potentially relevant. In particular there are a number of reports of DNA editing guided by sequences in non-coding RNA molecules. Of course the man-made systems based on CRISPR-Cas9 present just such a mechanism, but there seem to be related endogenous processes as well.
How would one test whether something like this is afoot? There have been a good number of studies of transgenerational learning, starting perhaps with the infamous experiments on cannibalistic planarians of the 1960s. I don’t think that’s a promising route, because any bias for directed evolution from such a cascade would likely be too weak to be observed in one or a few generations. Instead one might look for some essential mechanistic ingredient, like the postulated transport of polynucleotide signals from brain to germ cells. Is it possible, for example, to chemically label all the RNA synthesized in the brain and look for species that make their way to the testes?
As I said at the outset, these ruminations are purely speculative. But it seems to me there is still room for discovery in the ample dark regions of the genome, and some mechanism of this kind would perhaps fit there. If so it could fundamentally change our view of how the complex circuits of the brain came about. In any case, I hope that some of the napkins at the bar get used to sketch some candidate mechanisms or even to prove why it cannot possibly work.
Literature cited on the slides:
Ashley J, Cordy B, Lucia D, Fradkin LG, Budnik V, Thomson T. Retrovirus-like Gag Protein Arc1 Binds RNA and Traffics across Synaptic Boutons. Cell. 2018;172: 262-274.
Briggman KL, Helmstaedter M, Denk W. Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina. Nature. 2011;471: 183–188.
Kreile AK, Bonhoeffer T, Hübener M. Altered visual experience induces instructive changes of orientation preference in mouse visual cortex. J Neurosci. 2011;31: 13911–20.
Pastuzyn ED, Day CE, Kearns RB, Kyrke-Smith M, Taibi AV, McCormick J, et al. The Neuronal Gene Arc Encodes a Repurposed Retrotransposon Gag Protein that Mediates Intercellular RNA Transfer. Cell. 2018;172: 275-288.
Pitkow X, Meister M. Neural computation in sensory systems. In: Gazzaniga MS, Mangun GR, editors. The Cognitive Neurosciences. 5th ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2014. pp. 305–318.
Sanes JR, Masland RH. The types of retinal ganglion cells: current status and implications for neuronal classification. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2015;38: 221–246.
Zhang Y, Kim IJ, Sanes JR, Meister M. The most numerous ganglion cell type of the mouse retina is a selective feature detector. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109: E2391-8.
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Deloitte and ForgeRock Announce Alliance to Provide Advanced, Global Customer Identity and Access Management Solutions
PRNewswire June 26, 2018, 4:45 pm June 26, 2018
Deloitte Will Make Forgerock Identity Solutions Available as a Managed Service
Deloitte and ForgeRock announced a strategic alliance designed to help organizations around the world to secure, connect and manage the digital identities of people, devices and things. ForgeRock’s customer identity and access management (CIAM) solutions enable organizations to securely identify, protect and respect the preferences of each customer on whatever device, app or service they’re using. Working in concert, Deloitte will make ForgeRock identity solutions available as a managed service, making it possible for businesses of all kinds—financial services, retail, media and more—to create omnichannel experiences and build secure, personalized customer relationships.
“Enhanced consumer engagement can help brands rise above their competitors,” said Chuck Saia, CEO of Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Key to this engagement is trust and personalization. ForgeRock’s CIAM can help brands earn customer loyalty by authenticating consumer identity and importing consumer preferences across devices and applications.”
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“Deloitte is widely recognized as a trusted provider of cyber risk services to top global brands, and this alliance will help ForgeRock to expand our reach into new global markets,” said John Fernandez, ForgeRock’s chief financial officer. “With the recent launch of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy and data security are on the minds of business decision-makers as never before. Together with Deloitte, we’ll be able to scale secure CIAM solutions that can assist Global 5000 firms to execute on digital transformation strategies like a single view of the customer as well as privacy and consent for regulatory compliance.”
As digital transformation takes hold across one business sector after another, there are more ways for customers to interact with companies, products and services than ever before. This shifting consumer landscape is prompting new concerns about data security and privacy. A recent study sponsored by ForgeRock found that nearly 9 in 10 consumers have deep concerns about the security and privacy of their personal information. Similarly, 92 percent of consumers believe they should have control over what personal information is automatically collected. CIAM solutions like the ForgeRock Identity Platform are optimized to secure and personalize customer interactions across the full range of digital touchpoints and Internet of Things (IoT) business cases.
“Innovations in a smart home, connected vehicles, intelligent devices and IoT are underpinning exciting new business models,” said Alex Bolante, managing director at Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory Cyber Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “At the same time, the rise of social media and advancements in digital technologies are driving concerns around privacy and security across customer-oriented business sectors such as financial services, retail and communications. Our alliance with ForgeRock helps us provide CIAM capabilities to organizations that need to secure customer interactions and tailor experiences around personal preferences.”
Recommended Read: Deloitte Named a Leader by Gartner in Data and Analytics Service Providers, Worldwide
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Stay Classy San Diego: Mashable’s Got a Blogger for That
A popular subject at Mashable has been how mainstream media is adapting to the world of social media. Our recent feature – 4 Ways News Organizations Are Using Twitter Lists – is a great example of how much more responsive at least some outlets have become to the always evolving Web.
Now, some exciting Mashable news to announce along similar lines: Associate Editor Jennifer Van Grove has joined NBC’s San Diego affiliate as a social media correspondent for the network’s morning show. Jenn will be contributing periodically to the channel’s on-air programming, while continuing in her role at Mashable.
Here’s Jenn’s debut from this morning’s broadcast, using some of the tools we rely on at Mashable like Trendrr and Crimson Hexagon to illustrate how the social media world responded to this week's massive T-Mobile outage, Twitter lists, and the App Store’s latest milestone:
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The first queen of 'Medieval Times' is ushering in a new era of representation
Written by Ray White
After 34 years of operation, Medieval Times has introduced queens to their show. Erin Zapcic is the first queen at the Lyndhurst, New Jersey location.
Tom Hardy as Al Capone is virtually unrecognizable
Written by Tara Flanigan
We wouldn't expect anything less from the master of transformations.
Poldark (L) and Downton Abbey (R) are among the most popular shows on TV.
Image: BBC/ITV/COmposite
Film director perfectly sums up the feelings of all the 'Downton Abbey' haters
Written by Gianluca Mezzofiore
"It puts your brain to sleep," said Ken Loach.
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Announcements, Board Information, Front Page Items, News Releases, Public Notice
November Route Changes
By MPMSupport Administrator on
- Announcements, Board Information, Front Page Items, News Releases, Public Notice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Myrna Pittman
October 3, 2018 Director of Marketing
mpittman@bjcta.org
MAX Transit Announces Changes to Several Routes in November
(BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA) On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) announced that changes would be made to several of its routes. The most impacted routes include the #3 Jefferson- Wenonah, #39 Homewood, #31 Hoover, and #42 Brookwood. “The reality is that the City of Homewood requested these route changes, and it is the BJCTA’s obligation to meet their request. We expect that these changes will be an inconvenience to our riders and sympathize with them,” said Interim Executive Director, Christopher Ruffin, Sr.
One of the most drastic changes is the elimination of route #39 Homewood. Cutting this route means there will no longer be bus service to the Walmart located on Lakeshore Drive. In addition to this, there will be less frequent trips made to Downtown Homewood, Brookwood Mall and Brookwood Hospital. These changes are set to take effect on Monday, November 5, 2018.
The BJCTA will host a series of public information meetings with the intent to discuss the changes in detail. The meeting information is listed below.
Tuesday, October 9th – 8:00 A.M.
Homewood City Hall
2850 19th Street South
Tuesday, October 9th– 5:30 P.M.
MAX Transit Administrative Offices
1801 Morris Avenue
Thursday, October 11th– 4:30 P.M.
Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce (Fire Training Room)
101 Hoyt Lane,
Mountain Brook, AL 35213
*Located on the north side of City Hall*
Tuesday, October 16th– 2:00 P.M.
The public is encouraged to attend these meetings to gain insight and clarity on the upcoming route changes. For a complete listing of affected routes and changes visit www.maxtransit.org.
Announcements, News Releases
Route Changes 10.3.18
By BJCTA Communications Department on
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Myrna Pittman
The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) Announces
Notification of Route Changes
Effective Monday, December 3, 2018
Birmingham, AL – Previously announced route changes which were to take place on November 5, 2018 have been postponed until December 3, 2018. The date change was implemented in order to ensure passenger safety by allowing MAX operators time to be fully trained on the new routes. The changes were designed to improve frequency of trips in certain routes and reduce the time a rider is waiting on their bus.
“By delaying the route change for 30 days, we are also giving our riders an opportunity to completely understand the changes and determine how they can incorporate them into their transportation planning,” said Christopher Ruffin, interim executive director of BJCTA. “We are undertaking additional avenues of communication with our passengers to ensure they are informed in multiple channels.”
Route changes will include:
Route #3 – Jefferson and Route #28 – South Eastlake: No longer Cross-Town
Route #3 – Jefferson: Extended to serve a portion of the west Lakeshore area
Route #28 – South Eastlake: Slight route change
Route #39 – Homewood: ELIMINATED
Route #42 – Brookwood and Route #31 – Hoover: Consolidated Route. Trips to Homewood, Brookwood Hospital and Brookwood Mall reduced to seven (7) on weekdays and five (5) on Saturdays
Route #99 – Mountain Brook: Spartan Shuttle three month pilot
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Gerard Houllier ‘proud’ to be Aston Villa’s new manager
metrowebukmetroWednesday 8 Sep 2010 8:30 pm
Aston Villa have confirmed the appointment of
Gerard Houllier as their new manager.
Aston Villa have appointed Gerard Houllier as manager to replace departed Martin O’Neill
The Frenchman, who was previously in charge of Liverpool in the Premier League, had been expected to become Martin O’Neill’s successor this week.
He has resigned from his job as technical director of the French Football Federation to return to England with Villa.
O’Neill quit just days before their opening game with West Ham and former reserve-team boss Kevin MacDonald took the reins.
However, Villa’s American owner Randy Lerner insisted he wanted a coach with top-flight experience and has finally got his man.
Houllier said: ‘I am very happy and proud to join this great and historic club.
‘It was a very difficult decision for me to leave the FFF but I could not turn down the opportunity to manage a club whose approach, both on and off the pitch, I have long admired.
‘Aston Villa is one of England’s biggest clubs and has an amazing set of fans. This is a tremendous challenge and one I am very much looking forward to taking on.’
It is unclear whether MacDonald will remain as part of Houllier’s backroom staff after former Liverpool defender Phil Thompson, now a Sky Sports pundit, turned down the chance to become assistant manager on Tuesday.
Houllier’s first game in charge will be at Stoke on Monday.
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Wot No Watch
Teresa Young
https://metros.org.uk/event/wot-no-watch-roxbourne-park-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/
Wot No Watch – 9.20 & 9.40 am
Food Bank Donation
https://metros.org.uk/event/food-bank-donation-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/
See the Foodbank website for the latest wish list.
Metros Walk
Marilyn and Henry Pickford
https://metros.org.uk/event/metros-walk/
Approximately six miles starting at Ealing Common, through Gunnersbury Park, onto Kew, along the Thames Path to Barnes and finishing in Hammersmith.
https://metros.org.uk/event/parkrun-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/
Hampton Court Palace Half Marathon
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace, KT8 9AU
https://metros.org.uk/event/hampton-court-palace-half-marathon/
Finchley 20
Steve Paull
Hillingdon Athletic Club, Bury Street, Ruislip, United Kingdom
https://metros.org.uk/event/finchley-20-2/
5 Mile Handicap
Gordon Valentine
https://metros.org.uk/event/5-mile-handicap-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/
Datchet Club 20 Miler
Datchet Dashers
Datchet
Datchet Dashers, Home Park, Romney Lock Road, Windsor, SL4 6HX
https://metros.org.uk/event/datchet-club-20-miler/
Gade Valley Training Run
Gade Valley Harriers
Boxmoor Cricket Club Ground (The Oval), Saint John’s Road, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
https://metros.org.uk/event/gade-valley-training-run-2-2/
9.30 am start
£10 cash only on day
Maidenhead Easter 10
Maidenhead Athletic Club
Maidenhead Office Park, Westacott Way, Littlewick Green, Maidenhead SL6 3QN, UK
https://metros.org.uk/event/maidenhead-easter-10-2/
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MainWP / Blog / WordPress Business / Two years later: The state of page builders and who has changed directions
Posted on June 19, 2019 by Todd Jones — 4 Comments
Two years later: The state of page builders and who has changed directions
A little over two years ago, I decided to write an article on WordPress page builders. In reality, I wanted to know how many there were. I started a spreadsheet to keep up with them.
It was a pretty long article and in the end, we came up with some 33-page builders. I know I missed some too. For example, I didn’t list Avada because it is a theme framework that includes a page builder.
The landscape has changed drastically since April 2017 when the article was published. For instance, Gutenberg has launched. Even though Gutenberg is not consistent in everyone’s workflow, it has changed how things are being done.
Even so, the need for page builders hasn’t slowed down. The best ones have gotten better and bigger while some have gone away or changed directions.
This article is an update to that article published in early 2017. If I do not mention a page builder that was originally in the article, then it is still going strong. Few can argue that Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder have taken more of the market share.
Without further adieu, let’s look at some updates.
Beaver Builder is still going strong | Screenshot: https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/
Visual Composer and WP Bakery are strange bedfellows
Frankly, I’m not quite sure what to make of this situation. These days, Visual Composer is seen as a website builder and WPBakery a page builder. They try to clear it up in this article earlier this year, but it seems even more clear as mud.
Well, VC is a new product with an old name,
“Visual Composer Website Builder’s code was built from zero with React.Js. It does not use any of the WordPress shortcodes. It was developed using the feedback from our users to offer them the best experience possible.”
Visual Composer is a website builder and was built using React.JS. You can build a complete website using VC now, just the content.
It is no longer a part of the Evanto marketplace. What to do with the old shortcode laden page builder? Rename it, of course. So, now it is called WP Bakery.
Here is a video that explains the changes.
Maybe it was all a marketing ploy, I don’t know. The company talks as if it was an honest mistake and they are trying to own that mistake. That being said, VC is not really a page builder anymore and might be worth taking a look.
WP Onepager | Screenshot: https://themesgrove.com/wp-onepager/
WordPress Repository page builders
There are a number of page builders on our original list that have not been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress.
Octonis Page Builder
Forge – Front-End Page Builder -The website also no longer exists
BCorp Visual Editor –
WDS Simple Page Builder –
Tailor page builder
Aqua Page Builder
Page Builder by WooRockets
One can assume that these are no longer priorities for the developers.
Unyson is still in the WordPress repository, but the official website has a link to Brizy for a page builder. The website makes mention of a framework. Does this mean they are changing their focus? Maybe they are looking to include Bizy for the page builder in their framework?
Onepage seems to be called Onepager or WP Onepager. The official website suggests that it is more of a landing page builder but it still drag & drop.
Pagelines has been removed from the WordPress repository even though it still has its website. The message in the repository says,
This plugin was closed on December 8, 2018, and is no longer available for download. Reason: Guideline Violation.
Other page builders
Two CodeCanyon plugins we mentioned previously are no longer available for purchase. These two are Creator – Visual Page Builder for WordPress and PT Builder | WP Drag & Drop Page Builder.
Velocity has no website anymore, and the same is true for Awesome Page Builder. Oxygen Builder has a new version and a new website. Upfront has been retired by WPMU Dev. Fact is, the company is changing directions with a few of their products and focusing on the ones their community likes the best. Upfront was retired in April of 2018.
As far as Carrington goes, it is not listed as a product on the Crowd Favorite website.
Emo says, “I don’t know”
Add Brizy to the list. Brizy looks like it might be worth exploring. Interestingly, they offer a WordPress as a Service program (WaaS). Brizy is a product of ThemeFuse who is also behind the Unyson framework.
Finally, there is yet another page builder to add to the list, OffSprout.
In spite of the landscape change, there is still a need for page builders. Page builders can help you build custom pages in minutes versus hours, and the market has greatly matured.
What is your page builder of choice? Have you changed over the past two years? Let us know in the comments below.
Todd Jones
Along with being the resident writer for MainWP and content hacker at Copyflight, I specialize in writing about startups, entrepreneurs, social media, WordPress and inbound marketing topics.
Category: WordPress Business
Tags: Page Builders, Visual Composer
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Richard Kauffman
How could you skip Elementor on this list?
Elementor definitely needs to be mentioned here
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Jing Jing Espinosa faces ‘delayed’ prison sentence
A conviction for frustrated murder on Monica barangay kagawad Jesus “Jing Jing” Espinosa Jr. had long been affirmed by both the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, but because of the topsy-turvy files at the temporary quarters of Regional Trial Court Branch 31 in September 2012 at the De Paul College campus, the case records were buried out of sight.
And it was only during an inventory of cases conducted by RTC Branch 31 that court personnel discovered the case folders remanded by the Court of Appeals for implementation of the decision handed down by then RTC Branch 31 presiding judge Rene Hortillo imposing a prison term for Espinosa.
“By the time we found the case folders containing the decision of the Court of Appeals and order from the Supreme Court affirming the conviction, Judge Hortillo had already retired, and we could not proceed with the case,” a court official told The Daily Guardian over the weekend.
The official said it was only recently that RTC Branch 34 Presiding Judge Yolanda Panaguiton-Gavino was designated as acting Presiding Judge, and she is expected to report to her assigned sala in Branch 31 today, Monday, September 26, 2016.
“This case will be among the first to be taken up with Judge Gavino,” the official said.
She added that under court rules and procedures, Judge Gavino will issue a warrant of arrest against Espinosa and his companion, Robinito “Bord” Malaga, for them to be put to jail and serve the penalty for frustrated murder.
Espinosa and Malaga were found guilty for shooting and seriously wounding Mark Serra, a resident of Barangay Monica, at around midnight on November 24, 2002. A third accused, Cris Rudy Balidiong, died during the pendency of the case.
Espinosa was meted a prison term of six months and one day of prision correccional as minimum to eight years and one day of prison mayor as maximum. Malaga was sentenced to a more severe prison term of eight years and one day of prision mayor as minimum to 14 years, 8 months and one day of reclusion temporal as maximum.
Case records show that Serra was walking towards home from a dance hall in Barangay Concepcion that night when he passed by a foot walk where he saw Balidiong, Espinosa and Malaga standing on both sides.
Just as Serra passed by the three, Balidiong just shot him without provocation.
Although wounded, Serra was able to run away, during which time he saw Espinosa and Malaga emerging from the shadows with hand guns and firing at him but missed.
Both Espinosa and Malaga gave chase, their guns firing. Serra was hit on the left shoulder and right side of his back, court records show.
It was only when Serra reached the house of his first cousin that his attackers fled.
Serra was rushed to the Iloilo Mission Hospital where he had to undergo an operation to save his life.
In convicting Espinosa and Malaga, then RTC Branch 31 Presiding Judge Hortillo said there was no way Serra could not have identified his attackers, as he lived in the barangay, and the area where the attack took place was lighted.
In his decision dated June 20, 2005, Hortillo swept aside the defense of denial put up by the accused and pronounced them guilty of frustrated murder.
However, Espinosa filed a motion for reconsideration on the ground that the trial court failed to give weight to the PNP Crime Laboratory report showing that he was negative for powder burns.
In an amended order, Hortillo reduced the penalty for Espinosa as an accomplice in the crime.
Espinosa filed an appeal before the Court of Appeals which upheld the ruling of Hortillo on July 14, 2008. He then filed a petition for review with the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court denied the appeal on May 30, 2011. An entry of judgment declaring the decision final and executory was made on October 24, 2011.
The markings on the case records show that these were sent by registered mail by the Court of Appeals on August 23, 2012 to RTC Branch 31 which had by then moved to its temporary sala at the De Paul College campus.
The Department of Public Works and Highways declared the Hall of Justice unsafe for occupancy and undertook refurbishing works to improve the structural integrity of the building.
The case records were marked “Received” by RTC Branch 31 on September 7, 2012.
The records also indicate that Espinosa’s counsel at the time, the late Atty. Felipe Macahilig, received a copy of the decisions at around the same time.
But the chaotic condition of the files at the temporary Hall of Justice led to the misplacement of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court records.
During the whole month of July this year, RTC Branch 31 personnel conducted an inventory of cases along with the rest of the judiciary and it was only then that the oversight on the enforcement of the decision was discovered.
All the courts and other agencies that held office at the Hall of Justice were ordered to evacuate from the Hall of Justice on February 25, 2012 after a strong earthquake caused cracks on its walls and floors.
This is the second prison sentence to be imposed on Espinosa.
In 1995, he was also convicted for the murder of a deaf-mute in Barangay Monica. He was sentence to serve an indeterminate sentence of 10 years and one day as minimum to 17 years and four months as maximum.
He was released from the Bilibid prison after serving the minimum prison sentence.
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Home In English Arab Eagles Riders
Arab Eagles Riders
BY CLAUDIA TERRA
PICTURES AND VÍDEO: ARAB EAGLES RIDERS
Arab Eagles Riders group from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, founded in 2015, by the initiatives of road captains Walid Mahmoud and Amjad Basuni, current president and vice president of the group, respectively. The group has 22 members from various nationalities, including Amjad Basuni, who is from Egypt, but all of them live in Jeddah and are members of HOG Jeddah, which has approximately 1,000 members, according to Amjad. With the slogan “Ride to the Sky”, according to Amjad, the group’s main goal is not to have a large number of members, the main objective of the group is to make international tours and longer rides requiring special type of motorcyclists, those who They like to ride for long hours. The group accepts women as active members in the group, with their own bikes. The group is officially recognized and enrolled in SAMF (Saudi Arabian Motor Federation).
The Arab Eagles Riders always make long trips through the region of Saudi Arabia, as well as to other countries. Annually they perform a super tour to Egypt, the Ride In Love from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. This year the journey took place from February 14 to 25, 4,000 km round trip: “The journey left from Jeddah to Dhuba, 900 km. We started our trip to Egypt by visiting the Egyptian consulate in Jeddah, and the second day we Gathred on Jeddah Madian Highway as per the plan. The journey began at 7 am on the night of February 14, 2019. We rested and the next day we took the ship to cross the Red Sea to Hurghada, 4 hours at sea. More than 300 motorcyclists were with us. Last year there were more than 500 motorcyclists with us in Alexandria. It was a wonderful trip, “Amjad explains.
In Egypt the traveling bikers were welcomed with great party by the Egyptian groups, about 200 motorcyclists: Alex bikers, Free Riders, Road Hammers, Family Bikers, Commanders, Anubis, Freedom Riders, Cairo Scooters, Suais Bikers, Dumiat Bikers and AFRC. The adventurers of the Arab Egles Riders stayed in Cairo for 14 days after moving on to Alexandria, Al-Ain Al-Sokhna, on the Red Sea side, where they had a big event. There is no special requirement for the motorcyclist to participate except the willingness to run love for adventure, the payment of the $ 2,500 registration, which included food and lodging.They traveled only during the day, for safety reasons, in addition to day trips being the coolest to know the natural beauties of the region that make up the route: “During the trip we make several stops to rest, take photographs to take Water. The look on our route had mountains and the Red Sea.
We usually plan our trip with stops every 120 km. We drove about 1000 km a day. For overnight stays we stayed in motels and hotels. When we got to Egypt it was raining in Cairo. We are already planning the new 2020 season of Ride In Love from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and this time with a big surprise. Follow the information on our page https://www.facebook.com/arabeaglesbikers,”explains Amjad. In the name of Enthusiast (https://entusiastaadventure.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_10.html) thank you for the invitation and we plan to attend the next group tour to Egypt.
The group always has a long trip in the agenda. In April the team along with other members of HOG Jeddah, rode 1500 in a grand 3-day celebration for the 20-year presence of the HOG Jeddah Chapter and the Harley Davidson in the city. There is always a new project on the horizon of the Arab Egles Riders. Amjad Basuni is a very experienced motorcyclist, but he has lived in Saudi Arabia for 25 years. A fan of Harley Davidson and has an Ultra Glide, he has traveled by motorcycle through Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Chezk Republic, Germany, Austria and there are plans to shoot in Brazil and South America. And his great dream as a motorcyclist is to do a super tour International under the title under ‘Peace and Love for All Humanity’ for peace on the planet among all peoples: “The dream is to take an international tour, my plan is to make this trip for 6 months with another 1 or 2 friends. And we will begin the journey through the continent of Asia going to Africa, Europe, North America and South America. But to carry out this project we need a lot of planning and a great sponsor, “says Amjad. This is a grandiose project for a noble cause beyond the adventure and pleasure of running on new routes and discovering the beauties of this beautiful planet, but also of carrying a beautiful message of peace to all people, all nations. Enthusiast and Moto Adventure we are also in this beautiful campaign for peace with great reporting.
At any time and place all flags and voices for peace will always bring more joy to all on this beautiful planet. Peace is always a noble path to follow for all on this planet that is constantly evolving. We motorcyclists all over the Earth always find an extra flag to show off in our adventures of joys and freedom for our pleasure and well-being and for harmony among all. May the Arab Egles Riders peace journey be launched soon and successfully. Peace, love and beautiful adventures for all!
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Spotlight on Electric Forest – Paper Diamond and MiMOSA
By Will Durkin | 05.24.2012
Today we have two new free MP3’s for you from artists performing at the upcoming Electric Forest Festival. Check out the awesome electronic sounds of Paper Diamond and MiMOSA!
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Recent Mad Decent label signing Paper Diamond is known for making many different kinds of music. Since starting out in January of 2011, Paper Diamond has been on the rise, soon finding himself on a globetrotting, music making escapade, with non-stop shows, festival plays, and around the clock studio sessions. Sounds pretty great right?
With one EP and a handful of notable remixes under his belt, Paper Diamond‘s hard-nosed work ethic is about to pay off – he has been secretly amassing over 100 original songs/beats/instrumentals and is collaborating with a variety of artists, singers, rappers, and MCs all over the country. The time has now come for an unveiling.
Paper Diamond‘s new EP Wavesight will be released on Thursday May 3rd 2012 on Diplo’s MAD DECENT/JEFFREES imprint. The EP features three heavy hitting original tracks that show Paper Diamond‘s musical versatility.
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San Francisco producer MiMOSA has a unique style, creating tracks that are somewhere between hip hop beats and UK electronic styles like garage and dub. With a keen ear for sonic experimentation his tracks manage to be loads of fun while sounding like little else out there.
In just a few short years he’s shared the stage with standard-bearers likeBenga,Skream,Rusko,Datsik, Glitch Mob, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar and Flying Lotus. He’s also played festivals and shows across North America, including Coachella, Symbiosis Gathering, Burning Man, Decibel Festival, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Artists: Paper Diamond
Tags: concert, DJ, Electric Forest, Electronic, Live, Spotlight
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Brennan Dylan, “Burning”
Brick & Mortar, “Bangs”
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Make Fallout 4 more anime than ever with this AnimeRace mod
by Lewis White
Fallout 4 is a pretty good game but it’s not very “kawaii”, is it? Molerats aren’t cute, Deathclaws can be when they’re frequently trapped in a wall, but the humans are pretty uggers all around. The o...
Two new games now on Xbox Game Pass, more coming soon
by Ash
As we reported on earlier, Just Cause 4 has already been added to Xbox Game Pass just three months after its official launch. It’s now not alone – Xbox have added LEGO Batman 2 too. Like we said in our review of the ga...
Hidden Fallout 76 room hides the game’s only human NPC alongside unreleased secrets
It would appear that not every human is another player in Fallout 76, contrary to Todd Howard’s speech at E3 2018. After discovering a secret developer room within the MMO FPS game, fans of Fallout 76 have found the gameR...
This week’s Deals with Gold and Spotlight sales feature Fallout 4 and Rainbow Six Siege
by Jennifer Locke
Every week dozens of games are discounted across Xbox One and Xbox 360 for some stellar deals. These titles range from smaller indie experiences to AAA blockbusters. If you’re trying to get the most bang for your buck, you’ll ...
Free Play Days For All event takes place this weekend on Xbox
Those without an active Xbox Live Gold membership are in luck this weekend as Xbox is hosting another Free Play Days For All event, letting everyone play online for free. The event started today, May 17 at 12:01AM PT. It is set to...
Bethesda is offering bundles of its most popular games on Xbox One
While we all eagerly await news about upcoming Bethesda projects at E3, we can still play some of Bethesda’s best games in recent years. The company is now offering bundles of several of its most popular titles on Xbox One. ...
This week’s Deals with Gold and Spotlight sales feature Fallout 4 and Forza Horizon 3
Fallout 4 is free to play this weekend on Xbox One
Bethesda has announced that Fallout 4 will be free to play this weekend for Gold members on Xbox One. The company detailed the event over on its website, which you can also read below. “Forget dieting, or exercise, or any nu...
Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition updates going out today add Xbox One X enhancements
Bethesda previously announced that both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 would be receiving Xbox One X enhancements, and it looks like those updates are going out today according to the publisher. On the c...
Bethesda details Xbox One X enhancements for various games including Wolfenstein II and Fallout 4
Some of your favorite games are about to look a whole lot more beautiful. Bethesda, one of the most popular publishers out there with an impressive portfolio, has revealed exactly which of its games are receiving Xbox One X enhanc...
This week’s Deals with Gold feature The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4
HTC now giving away Fallout 4 VR for free with new Vive purchases
HTC cut the price of its Vive virtual reality headset by $200 in August, bringing the price of the headset down to only $599. The company is now offering further discounts to attract more sales of the headset. Today, the company a...
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Memorial Day Gadgets And Veterans In Tech
Waves of TechBy Modern Life Network May 31, 2016
We consider Memorial Day, we also report on the number of opportunities nonprofits and entrepreneurs are creating to provide those returning from service and the battlefield with jobs in the tech industry. With Memorial Day just past us, we dive into the tech gadgets we are now using during holiday weekends and show how times have changed. Rounding out the podcast, we celebrate knowing that Podcasts was a category on Jeopardy and discuss the future TV licensing battle brewing between Roku and Google.
Microsoft Energy Push, Google Home And Kindle Oasis
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon! Microsoft has committed itself to generating 50% of the energy used in their data server farms with renewable energies, like solar, wind, and hydropower. We tell you how are actions as consumers have made tech companies consider the renewables approach. Also, Microsoft is using some interested tactics to force users into upgrading to Windows 10. Google introduced a new device, Google Home, to compete directly with Amazon Echo. Home has very similar features as Echo but one major component is missing and we let you know. And finally, we discuss the new Kindle Oasis from Amazon. The latest line of Kindle products boosts over a month battery life and a new ergonomic design.
UPS Follow My Delivery and Windows 10 Promoted Apps
UPS is launching Follow My Delivery, which will bring us live mapping to track our packages. Twitter continues to struggle with stock prices, grabbing new users, time in app, and so much more. We examine why and how. On the other hand, Facebook continues to gain in popularity and we tell you how much CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes per day. And finally, Windows 10 is doubling it’s promoted apps in their Anniversary Edition.
Uber And Lyft Lose In Austin
On Episode 307 of The Waves of Tech, we dive into the battle surrounding Uber & Lyft in Austin. Voters took to the booths to vote on whether the ride-hailing companies can operate in their city. The decision may have some ripple effect through other cities. Also, The Intern starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway is a good insight into an online startup and what young and older workers bring to the workforce. A new browser is out, Brave, and it is super fast and removes malvertising that is designed to harm your system and your identity. Finally, Steve checks in with his latest tech toys – Echo Dot and a new drone. Thanks for tuning in and continue to ride…the waves of tech. And don’t forget to Keep on Techin’
Comcast Buys DreamWorks And The Push For Tablets Over People
Waves of TechBy Modern Life Network May 3, 2016
We dive into the $3.8 billion acquisition of DreamWorks by Comcast and what that means to the industry. Next up, we dissect the rumors behind Hulu offering a subscription based live TV service in early 2017 and explore the journey behind new media in the traditional media realm. Third, we discuss the trend of others playing explicit music and podcasts in front of groups of people and at restaurants. And finally, we examine McDonald’s purchase of thousands of tablets for use in their chains across the UK and the potential impact this technology will have on the workforce and wage earners.
Lost Art Of Photo Albums And The Dying Desktop
Waves of TechBy Modern Life Network April 26, 2016
On this week’s podcast we dive into some considerations tech companies need to recognize and realize about older workers during the hiring process. Also, we talk about the lost art of photo albums, the memories associated with albums, and how the tech era has drastically changed the once popular past time. Drones continue to create air hazards and one in the UK actually hit a jetliner carrying 137 people! And finally, as 1-in-6 people live and work only on a mobile device, the topic of the dying desktop resurfaces.
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Tag / spotted dolphin
Artiodactyla, bycatch, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, fishing, fishing gear, human activities, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippines, PMMSN, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, threats, toothed whales, whales and dolphins
Photo: Dr. Jose Maria Alindongan
Two Pantropical Dolphin (Stenella attenuata, possibly a mother and calf, were found dead in a net (bycatch) by local fishermen in Poblacion Bacon, Bacon, Sorsogon. The incident was reported to the Provincial Agricultural Office, Provincial Veterinary Office, and City Veterinary Office of Sorsogon. No lesions were found in the animals upon necropsy.
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network, Phuket, Phuket Marine Biological Center, PMMSN, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, stranding, Thailand, toothed whales, whales and dolphins, wildlife rescue
https://www.facebook.com/PhilippineMarineMammalStrandingNetwork/photos/pcb.1012744672169816/1012744628836487/
Photos: Dr. Jenwit Wanich
As the participants of the Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Stranding Network (SEAMMSN) gather during the symposium in Pattaya, Thailand, our friends at the PMBC rescued and are rehabilitating a stranded Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) in Phuket.
Artiodactyla, Bali, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, Indonesia, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, toothed whales, Whale Strandings Indonesia, whales and dolphins
A baby Dolphin has been found by Kenny Peavy at Pantai Pasir Putih, Jasri. RIP little one. We are gathering more info at the moment to see if the corpse is still on site to do a necropsy.
Source: Soul Surf Project Bali Facebook
Thanks to Soul Surf Project Bali, we learned about a code 2 baby Dolphin in Jasri, East Bali, stranded yesterday morning, found by Mr Kenny Peavy. However, when our contact investigated it, the carcass isn’t there anymore. Either nature (wave, animal) or humans have gotten the baby Dolphin…
Source: Whale Strandings Indonesia Facebook
Based on the colour patterns, this is possibly a Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata).
September 19, 2016 January 1, 2018 by mondaymorgue
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Mindanao, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network, Philippines, PMMSN, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, stranding, toothed whales, whales and dolphins, wildlife rescue, Zamboanga, Zamboanga City
Photos: Christopher Luyong
A young Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) stranded in Zamboanga City this morning. The Dolphin was released but restranded. PMMSN Zamboanga City led by the City Veterinary Office is taking charge of the rehab efforts.
Update: This Dolphin was released this afternoon. The coastal community in the area were advised to look out for a possible restranding of this individual.
August 25, 2016 January 1, 2018 by mondaymorgue
Artiodactyla, Batangas, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, Luzon, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippines, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, whales and dolphins
A dead Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) stranded in front of the Aquaventure Reef Club Resort in Mabini, Batangas this morning.
Source: Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines Facebook
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, Ilocos, Ilocos Sur, Luzon, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network, Philippines, PMMSN, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, stranding, toothed whales, whales and dolphins, wildlife rescue
A juvenile Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) was rescued in Namalpalan, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur earlier today. The animal was deemed healthy enough and released immediately by PMMSN Ilocos Sur team lead by BFAR Region 1 LEQRT.
March 4, 2016 January 1, 2018 by mondaymorgue
Artiodactyla, Bicol, Camarines Sur, Cetacea, cetaceans, Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae, dolphins, GMA News Online, Luzon, mammals, marine, marine mammals, Odontoceti, pantropical spotted dolphin, Philippines, spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, stranding, toothed whales, whales and dolphins, wildlife rescue
Photo: Peewee Bacuño Twitter
Philippines: Camarines Sur residents, BFAR officials aid injured, beached Dolphin
4th March 2016;
Residents of Barangay Agay-ayan in Camarines Sur’s Tinambac town and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources officials came to the aid of a beached and injured Dolphin on Friday afternoon, GMA News stringer Peewee Bacuño reported.
Fishermen saw the beached Dolphin, and when they examined the 2.5 meter-animal, they saw that it was wounded and very weak.
Barangay and BFAR officials were then called in, and on examining Dolphin, the BFAR personnel believed a Shark had caused the injuries.
The Dolphin was given treatment, was taken to deeper water, then released.
Source: GMA News Online
The spotted patterns identify this Dolphin as a Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata).
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Eric Garner’s Mother Blasts ‘Tricks’ And ‘Lies’ At Trial For Her Son’s Killer
The trial was happening nearly five years after Daniel Pantaleo used a deadly chokehold banned by the NYPD.
Written By NewsOne Staff
UPDATED: 6:11 p.m. EDT — Eric Garner‘s mother was forced to watch the chokehold death of her son in an NYPD courtroom during the killer officer’s administrative trial on Monday. Gwen Carr used a break from the trial to talk to the press about the “tricks” that Daniel Pantaleo‘s lawyers were using.
“The day after Mother’s Day, to have to watch the video that the world saw of my son being killed, to be at this trial after five years, and to see all of the tricks that Pantaleo’s lawyers are trying to pull to avoid accountability, it’s really hard,” Carr said Monday afternoon.
“The day after Mother’s Day, to have to watch the video that the world saw of my son being killed, to be at this trial after 5 yrs, and to see all of the tricks that Pantaleo’s lawyers are trying to pull to avoid accountability, it’s really hard,” Gwen Carr, #EricGarner’s mother. pic.twitter.com/WxKYM6JBUi
— CPR Change the NYPD (@changethenypd) May 13, 2019
Carr also spoke about the “strength” that she has and needs to attend this trial, which was taking place nearly five years after Pantaleo killed Garner.
“All the lies and stuff that’s being portrayed up there,” Carr said Monday about the trial. “I’m just hoping I can I can stand up,” she added as her voice trailed off.
She credited her community leaders with where she gets her strength from.
NOW: Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner steps out of 1 Police Plaza during the NYPD trial of Daniel Pantaleo. @pix11news pic.twitter.com/HnetbQkauh
— Ayana Harry PIX11 (@AyanaHarry) May 13, 2019
Pantaleo has never been fired or even indicted for his role in the killing that was caught on video.
New York City rush hour traffic was literally brought to a halt Monday morning ahead of administrative trial for the police officer who killed Eric Garner nearly five years ago. NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who has not only avoided being arrested for the flagrant killing caught on video but also managed to secure a lucrative salary boost in the interim, could be fired if found guilty.
In anticipation of the ruling, protesters took to a major highway in Manhattan to bring attention to something they say should have been done immediately following the death caused by the use of a chokehold that the NYPD bans its officers from using. A small handful of activists unfurled a banner in the middle of the busy southbound lanes of the FDR Drive to show the words reading “ERIC GARNER” followed by the declarative hashtag “#FIRE PANTALEO.”
#EricGarner Black life matters protesters stoping traffic on the FDR highway, standing up against what they are calling police injustice. pic.twitter.com/1HiMhzmDNc
— Marvin Hoffman (@theeye74) May 13, 2019
The vantage point from a nearby highrise building showed the extent of the disruption in traffic. However, there were not any immediate reports of angry drivers, which could be an indication that even the typically temperamental motorists in the city’s five boroughs were sympathetic to what under normal circumstances would have been considered murder.
VIDEO: The #FDR Drive Southbound in #Manhattan was shut down this morning (southbound near the Williamsburg Bridge) by a small group of protesters against #NYPD Officer Pantaleo, facing trial today for the death of #EricGarner. Video via @missmetaverse pic.twitter.com/YrhktS0Hgp
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) May 13, 2019
Meanwhile, nearby at the Police Department’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan, the courtroom was reportedly packed with standing room only ahead of the trial’s start. However, according to the New York Times, even though the trial was open to the public, its verdict may not be made public immediately. The decision “will be sent to the police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, who has the authority to uphold, modify or even vacate the ruling,” the Times reported.
Issues from the courtroom: not enough seats for all media, we are seated in the very back of the courtroom (hearing aides on, if prescribed) and if you leave don't expect to get your seat back. #danelpantaleo #ericgarner
— Christina Carrega (@ChrisCarrega) May 13, 2019
Family members of past victims of police brutality by the NYPD were at the courtroom to offer support for Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, according to a tweet from a local activist.
Wow. Power & solidarity. These fams whose loved ones were killed by NYPD were at 1PP early this morn to make sure they get into courtroom for the Pantaleo trial to support #EricGarner mom & fam: aunt of #AkaiGurley & moms of #RamarleyGraham #MohamedBah #AnthonyBaez #FirePantaleo pic.twitter.com/pVTXLJZaws
— Joo-Hyun Kang (@JooHyun_Kang) May 13, 2019
Pantaleo’s trial was coming about a month after the NYPD determined that Garner was not killed by a chokehold. That questionable decision could provide a hint at what to expect from Pantaleo’s trial.
Garner was approached by undercover NYPD officers on July 17, 2014, for the alleged offense of selling untaxed loose cigarettes. When officers failed at handcuffing him for the nonviolent misdemeanor, Pantaleo was caught on video with his arms wrapped tightly around Garner’s neck from behind. The chokehold ultimately killed Garner. The entire deadly episode was captured on cellphone video and filmed by a bystander. Garner’s final words “I can’t breathe” — became a rallying call for social justice advocates who saw his death as a murder.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) only began disciplinary proceedings against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in June of 2018. A grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo and the Department of Justice declined to bring a civil rights case against him.
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Freedom of speech in NZ assassinated by Microsoft
Alerted by a reader in the United States
Microsoft’s Bing has removed “Zombie Democracy – Apartheid Fort NZ” blog from its search index
We have been alerted by a reader in the US that Bing.com, owned by the software Goliath Microsoft, has removed our blog from their search index. We are unaware of any legal reason for this egregious attack on our freedom of speech.
Microsoft Bing has not provided any explanation.
Our colleagues in 8 countries have tried their local Bing search for any information or links to this blog, without success.
Having followed the link Some results have been removed … we found the following:
How Bing delivers search results
Microsoft respects freedom of expression. If Microsoft receives requests to remove content from individuals, businesses, and governments, in limited cases, where quality, safety, user demand, relevant laws, and/or public policy concerns exist, Bing might remove results, inform users of certain risks, or provide users with options for tailoring their content. Bing limits removal of search results to a narrow set of circumstances and conditions to avoid restricting Bing users’ access to relevant information.
Legal requests from governments, individuals, or otherwise
Certain countries maintain laws or regulations that apply to search service providers and require removal of access to certain indexed pages. Some of these laws allow specific individuals or entities to demand removal of results (such as for copyright infringement, libel, defamation, personally identifiable information, hate speech, or other personal rights), while others are administered and enforced by the government.
When Microsoft receives a request or demand, Bing balances its support for freedom of expression and for free access to relevant content with compliance with local law. We review and assess the request or demand, including the reason and basis for the request or demand, the authority or rights of the requesting party, our applicable policies and our commitments to our users with regard to freedom of expression, and determine whether and to what extent we should remove access to the content.
Examples of legal request areas with global approaches
Child sexual abuse materials
The production and distribution of, and access to, child sexual abuse materials is universally condemned and generally illegal. Sadly, the abuse of children is not new, but the web affords new opportunities to those who would commit crimes against children. Bing works with others in technology and industry groups, law enforcement, and governmental and non-governmental organizations to help stop the spread of this horrific content online. One way we do this is by removing pages that have been reviewed by credible agencies (or identified via Microsoft PhotoDNA) and found to contain or relate to the sexual exploitation or abuse of children.
In particular, we remove pages from our index that have been identified by the Internet Watch Foundation (UK), NCMEC (US), and FSM (Germany) as, in their good faith judgment, hosting or providers of access to child sexual abuse material. Removing these links from displayed search results doesn’t block the materials from being accessed on the web or discovered through means other than Bing, but it does reduce the ability of those who would seek it out or profit from it.
More at How Bing delivers search results
Needles to say, none of the above apply to this blog. The only charge we are “guilty” of, is speaking out our minds.
We are rapidly reaching a point where only major catastrophes could save us from total tyranny manufactured by multinational corporations.
Posted in Tourist Deathtrap | Tagged: Apartheid Fort NZ, Bing search, censorship, fascism, freedom of speech, Microsoft, multinationals, Oligarchy, zombie democracy | Leave a Comment »
Plagued by a corrupt system that doesn’t protect you against poverty, the super rich, foreign investors, drink drivers…
Sent by a reader in “Homeless City”
Homeless Crisis: Families living in cars, garages, and under a loading dock
In his Rotorua Daily Post column this week, Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell said there were families living in cars and garages, or living with friends and other families in crowded conditions, because they were unable to secure housing.
“The issue of homelessness has always been around, however there is now a huge shortage across the Bay of decent housing,” he said.
“There is a struggle for single people, small families and big families as well, there’s just not enough housing in Rotorua. We have to do a lot of emergency accommodation and hope and pray that we find people places,” says Social worker Liz Tai.
http://nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11658715
A country plagued by poverty
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/81204284/we-must-do-more-to-tackle-poverty
Deadly Police Chase/ Police Brutality
Yet another driver in critical condition after police chase
A man is in a critical condition fighting for his life in hospital after a crash with a police car during a chase in Whangarei.
Police say he turned into the path of the pursuing police car and was thrown from the vehicle on Otaika Road early on Monday morning. [NZ Wire report.]
Teacher Grooms Student for Sex
Canterbury teacher Mark Robert Ashby struck off for grooming 14-year-old girl
Christchurch man Mark Robert Ashby, 27, has been struck off the teachers’ register.
Killed on the Roads
Family of crash victim Philip Eden angry he may have been killed by a drink driver
Cyclist Philip Eden had visited his elderly mother, something he did three times a week, when driver Mark Vincent Green caused the crash that killed him in north Christchurch on Friday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/81248795/Family-of-crash-victim-Philip-Eden-angry-he-may-have-been-killed-by-a-drink-driver
Child killed in New Zealand every five weeks
And that’s just the official records!!
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/abuse-rates-rising-child-killed-in-new-zealand-every-five-weeks
Murder [NO Mystery]
Two in court following weekend murder
A man, 21, and a youth, 16, have been declined bail after allegedly attacking a man who died at the weekend in Murder City [Auckland.]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11659935
Bodies Found
Body found on edge of Waikato River
The body found on the edge of the Waikato River yesterday was that of Hamilton man William Rex Sims. Mr Sims was reported missing last week.
Killed by Drowning
Two divers drown at Pourerere Beach in Hawke’s Bay
Roger Nathan, 44, and Raymond Cooper, a 45-year-old truck driver from Whakatu, near Hastings, were named as Pourerere drowning victims. Nathan, a former professional paua diver is believed to have drowned while attempting to retrieve Cooper’s body at Pourerere on Sunday. Cooper’s body was recovered on Sunday, and the police dive squad recovered Nathan’s body on Monday morning.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81233037/Roger-Nathan-and-Raymond-Cooper-named-as-Pourerere-drowning-victims
Two men killed in a crash on Main North Rd near Kainga on Friday
The two men who were killed in a crash in north Christchurch on Friday have been named as Philip Eden of Ohoka and Mark Vincent Green, 57, from Christchurch. Vincent was driving a Toyota Corolla car and Eden was cycling at the time of the crash. Police say the car crashed into a truck-and-trailer unit causing the truck to hit the cyclist
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81221449/Two-victims-of-crash-at-Kainga-near-Christchurch-named
Motorcyclist Killed in a crash in Okauia, Waikato
A motorcyclist was killed inn a crash between a car and motorcycle at Okauia, near Matamata, on Sunday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81224602/Motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-in-Okauia-Waikato
Toddler killed by van in carpark named
2-year-old Isaiah Oxley was hit and killed by a van last Friday night at Aranui’s Cowles Stadium.
Truth about the daily road carnage would hurt New Zealand’s $10 billion tourism industry…
The NZ TOURISTS or truth? Campaign (police censorship of road fatalities) continues…
Blog estimate: About 900 people are killed on NZ roads each year. [Most probably] up to 420 road fatalities have occurred in NZ since 1 January 2016
No of road fatalities recorded by Minitru as of June 10: 154
Posted in Tourist Deathtrap | Tagged: child abuse, death by drowning, drink driver, homeless crisis, killed in NZ, nz road fatality, police chase, poverty, road toll, Waikato | 1 Comment »
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New Jackson reimagines David Bowie’s ‘Sound And Vision’ on Fort Romeau’s label
9 new songs you need to hear right now
David Bowie,
Elliot Lion,
Fort Romeau,
New Jackson
Electronic & Dance,
House & Techno,
Irish Music,
Cin Cin
While David Kitt has a new solo album on the way, which he previewed on January 1st to fans, he is also very much active in the field of electronic music as New Jackson.
His work as NJ has always been informed by his experience, his record-collecting, his love of synths and electronic music as a culture. A debut album will arrive this year, AFAIK, but until then, Kitt has a song on a new release on Fort Romeau’s Cin Cin label (with Ali Tillett) worthy of our attention.
Cin Cin’s previous release was a split between Romeau and Bezier and features the standout track ‘Korgs’.
As featured on Thump this week, the new release is a split between New Jackson and Elliott Lion, with Jackson’s ‘Electric Blue’, itself uses David Bowie’s lyrics for the largely instrumental ‘Sound And Vision’ from 1977’s Low as a jumping off inspiration point.
It’s a track that allows itself to grow, to seep into you, as some of the best dancefloor music does.
https://soundcloud.com/cin-cin-303122974/new-jackson-electric-blue-1
Here’s Manchester producer’s Elliot Lion’s cut:
Buy the release.
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Meet the Spies Doing the NSA’s Dirty Work; This obscure FBI unit does the domestic surveillance that no other intelligence agency can touch.
Carnivore, DCS-1000, Data Intercept Technology Unit, DITU, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, inlichtingen(operatie(s)), internet surveillance, NSA, National Security Agency, Prism, United States of America USA
With every fresh leak, the world learns more about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive and controversial surveillance apparatus. Lost in the commotion has been the story of the NSA’s indispensable partner in its global spying operations: an obscure, clandestine unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, even for a surveillance agency, keeps a low profile. When the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they really mean is that the FBI helps the [lees verder]
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top priority” this year. Last week, during a talk for the American Bar Association in Washington, [lees verder]
Is NSA Prism the New FBI Carnivore?
From the ‘Uncle Sam is Watching’ files: Lots of concern and talk in the last couple of days over the Washington Post’s leaked government story on PRISM. The TL;dr version is that PRISM was/is an NSA operation that routes American’s private information to the NSA where it can be analyzed in the interest of national security. While the revelation about NSA PRISM is new – the fact that the U.S. Government has active programs to surveil the Internet for email [lees verder]
FBI retires its Carnivore (2005)
FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic, according to documents released Friday. Two reports to Congress obtained by the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the FBI didn’t use Carnivore, or its rebranded version “DCS-1000,” at all during the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years. Instead, the bureau turned to unnamed commercially-available products to conduct Internet [lees verder]
EarthLink Says It Refuses to Install FBI’s Carnivore Surveillance Device (2000)
One of the nation’s largest Internet-service providers, EarthLink Inc., has refused toinstall a new Federal Bureau of Investigation electronic surveillance device on its network, saying technical adjustments required to use the device caused disruptions for customers. The FBI has used Carnivore, as the surveillance device is called, in a number of criminal investigations. But EarthLink is the first ISP to offer a public account of an actual experience with Carnivore. The FBI has claimed that Carnivore won’t interfere with an [lees verder]
Carnivore (2000) FOIA documents
On July 11, 2000, the existence of an FBI Internet monitoring system called “Carnivore” was widely reported. Although the public details were sketchy, reports indicated that the Carnivore system is installed at the facilities of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and can monitor all traffic moving through that ISP. The FBI claims that Carnivore “filters” data traffic and delivers to investigators only those “packets” that they are lawfully authorized to obtain. Because the details remain secret, the public is left [lees verder]
Carnivore Details Emerge (2000)
A web spying capability, multi-million dollar price tag, and a secret Carnivore ancestor are some of the details to poke through heavy FBI editing. “ Carnivore is remarkably tolerant of network aberration, such a speed change, data corruption and targeted smurf type attacks. ” FBI report WASHINGTON–The FBI’s Carnivore surveillance tool monitors more than just email. Newly declassified documents obtained by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Carnivore can monitor all of a [lees verder]
FBI agent Marcus C. Thomas (who is mentioned in the EPIC FOIA documents) made a very interesting presentation at NANOG 20 yesterday morning, discussing Carnivore. (2000)
Agent Thomas gave a demonstration of both Carnivore 1.34 (the currently deployed version) and Carnivore 2.0 (the development version) as well as some of the other DragonWare tools. Most of this information isn’t new, but it demonstrates that the DragonWare tools can be used to massively analyze all network traffic accessible to a Carnivore box. The configuration screen of Carnivore shows that protocol information can be captured in 3 different modes: Full, Pen, and None. There are check boxes for [lees verder]
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If I Were Secretary of the U.S. Navy for Just One Day
January 19, 2017 Topic: Security Region: America Tags: U.S. NavyStrategyU.S. MilitaryDefenseNaval PowerDepartment Of Defense
What one of the world’s leading naval experts would change.
by James Holmes
Riddle me this: what one thing would you change about the U.S. Navy if you were appointed Secretary of the Navy for a Day? And not just any garden-variety secretary of the navy, but an omnipotent secretary empowered to alter the thing of his choosing.
My answer: the culture. It’s the common denominator among naval pursuits. Get the institution’s culture right—get the habits and attitudes of the people comprising it right—and countless other things fall into place. And they will do so almost of their own accord. Inculcating healthy attitudes toward hardware, operations and tactics, and prospective foes bolsters the likelihood of managing these domains well.
Or at least that’s the gist of a recent late-afternoon conversation here in the hallowed halls of Newport, where the ghosts of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Raymond J. Spruance waft about in twilight hours. Such conversations constitute a great joy of working at the Naval War College. They can be high-toned, pondering matters of grave strategic import. They can be silly.
Or they can be both, straddling the serious and the inane. Debating which widget to create or perfect, what policy to institute or abolish, or what institutional trait to instill or modify falls into this category. Strategists like Monty Python and Mike Tyson are as apt to put in an appearance as Thucydides and Clausewitz.
Banter furnishes a focal point for serious thinking nonetheless. It helps us identify problems and issues and set priorities. And setting and enforcing priorities is what strategy’s all about.
Granted, it’s not immediately obvious why a mythical all-powerful official would expend a silver bullet to change something as seemingly malleable as culture. Military institutions are hierarchical institutions reliant on obedience. Why not just issue the requisite orders and watch as the hierarchy executes them?
Because it isn’t so simple to modify how an institution transacts business. Big bureaucratic organizations have distinct worldviews and ways of doing things that give rise to what Robert Komer calls institutional “repertoires.” That’s their virtue—and their vice. Bureaucracy, that is, is good at mass-producing routine acts in steady-state surroundings. Machinelike organizations aren’t so good at keeping up with transients. They tend to keep doing the same thing as the world changes around them.
Repertoires are a problem if you believe Florentine scribe Niccolò Machiavelli, who insists that staying apace of changing times is central to the art of statecraft. So it is for rulers and generals. So it is for leaders of all types. So it is for big, unwieldy institutions.
Komer was mainly critiquing the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He upbraided the army leadership for fighting the conventional war its institutional culture had preprogrammed it to fight rather than the counterinsurgent war actually raging in Southeast Asia. Rather than conform to the nature of the war, the leadership tried to fit the war to its preferred mode of fighting.
That seldom works out well. But Sixties-era groundpounders were far from unique in being enculturated into orthodox ways of thinking and acting. The U.S. Navy operates not on dry land but on the featureless saltwater plain that is the sea. It remains susceptible to Komer’s diagnosis nevertheless, despite the drastically different operating medium.
Some of the greats testify to it. Franklin Roosevelt, who served as Woodrow Wilson’s assistant secretary of the navy, wisecracked that the sea service was like bedding: “To change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a feather bed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching.”
The organization springs back to the same shape, unperturbed by efforts to institute change.
Not to be outdone, FDR’s secretary of war, Henry Stimson, portrayed the Navy Department as “a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church.” Religions change slowly. If indeed there’s a religious character to navy culture, and if the goal is to make the navy agile and adaptable, then the task before navy leaders is to nurture a culture in which agility and adaptability are the institutional religion.
That way the leadership can turn fixed habits of mind to advantage. It can conscript the logic of bureaucratic culture to combat dogmatism.
Hence my wish as Secretary of the Navy for a Day: I wish for a naval culture that’s fatalistic, skeptical, and upbeat. First, fatalism. Sounds dour, doesn’t it? And in a way it is. But fighting forces must take a tragic view of the profession of arms, accepting that certain facets of martial competition and strife are permanent and immutable. Such a worldview erects a bulwark against complacency.
For example, a fatalistic U.S. Navy would refuse to yield to narratives holding that history has ended. It would scoff at the notion that U.S. maritime mastery is a virtual birthright. It would reject claims that the oceans constitute a safe haven from which the navy can bombard foreign shores, land troops, and otherwise reap the fruits of maritime command—and can do so without wresting command from enemy fleets.
A fatalistic navy would never issue a directive like …From the Sea, its first post-Cold War venture in strategy-making. The preamble to that document proclaimed that there was no one left to fight following the Soviet Navy’s demise. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, consequently, could turn their energies to exploiting command of the sea. In effect sea-service potentates sought to repeal an iron law of naval warfare—the law that a navy that wants to exploit maritime command must first win maritime command, perhaps at great cost and hazard.
There may be a lull in seaborne competition, as indeed there was for ten, maybe fifteen years after …From the Sea appeared in 1992. But while there may be permanent victories over particular foes—Japan, Germany—no victory puts a final end to seaborne competition and warfare. There will be other opponents.
So a U.S. Navy without a fatalistic worldview is a neglectful navy. It lets basic functions of naval warfare atrophy while cherishing the belief that America still rules the waves. And indeed, the post-Cold War navy let such fundamental missions as surface and anti-submarine warfare languish, along with the implements needed to prosecute them.
A navy without a tragic outlook is also prone to disparage new rivals. It fails to take them seriously, overlooking the fact that weaker contenders can amass advantages over the strong. It ignores the bleak reality that, given sufficient resolve and nautical resources, a newcomer can take to the oceans to contest a dominant sea power’s hegemony. It’s happened before.
And may again. Even if China, or Russia, or Iran never constructs a navy powerful enough to vanquish the U.S. Navy outright, it could prove a troublemaker of the first order. Indeed, it could exact a higher price for sea control than Americans and their elected leaders are prepared to pay. If so, it would win by default, even without triumphing in sea combat.
A fatalistic naval culture, then, assumes that the navy will have to fight a peer navy again someday. A service animated by hardscrabble assumptions works to preserve and expand its material and human advantages in preparation for that day—even when no antagonist has yet appeared on the horizon.
History has not ended—nor will it.
Second, skepticism. Skeptics abjure hype about the next big thing. A fatalistic navy nourishes an experimental mindset. A new ship is a hypothesis. So is an airplane or weapon. Skeptics know that hypotheses exist to be disproved. Only after repeated efforts to disprove a hypothesis fail should anyone accept it. Until builders have reduced the latest big idea to engineering and subjected hardware to rigorous field trials, then, no one should assume it will work in the real world.
Just the opposite: many great ideas never pan out.
Think about all the great ideas that have gone into fleet design over the past decade or two. To name one: “minimal manning.” The navy conceived the notion that it could substitute automation for manpower and save big bucks on salaries and benefits. It envisioned assigning just 175 sailors to operate a 15,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer—a vessel that displaces half again as much as a cruiser operated by a crew of 330.
Or, the leadership foresaw operating a 3,000-ton littoral combat ship with 40 sailors, compared to the 300 needed to crew the slightly larger Oliver Hazard Perry frigates the LCS was replacing. Good idea if it works. A skeptic, though, would insist on testing the hypothesis before deciding that the LCS would comprise over one-sixth of the U.S. Navy fleet. (The initial tally was 55 LCS hulls, while the goal for ship numbers hovered around 300 until recently.)
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Introduction 1.1
Need for book 1.1.1
Proposed contents of book 1.1.2
Custody of child 1.1.3
Guardianship 1.1.4
Interim custody, visitation, shared custody etc 1.1.5
Which courts handle child related cases 1.1.6
Abbreviations 1.1.7
Work flow - Judgments to analyze 1.2
Full custody to Grandparents inspite of Father is alive 1.3
Shyamrao Maroti Korwate vs Deepak Kisanrao Tekam 1.3.1
Anjali Kapoor vs Rajiv Baijal 1.3.2
Landmark Judgments 1.4
Mother can be guardian when father alive but not involved-Githa Hariharan vs
Reserve Bank Of India-SC 1999 1.4.1
Welfare of the child paramount consideration-Lekha vs P. Anil Kumar SC 2016
6 month shared custody to both parents-K M Vinaya vs B R Srinivas 1.4.2
Karnataka HC 2013 1.4.3
Full custody of child with mother 1.5
Mother retains full custody of child upon leaving for abroad-Vikram Vir Vohra vs
Shalini Bhalla SC 2013 1.5.1
Full custody of child with father 1.6
SHALEEN KABRA vs SHIWANI KABRA-SC 2012 1.6.1
Mausami Moitra Ganguli vs Jayanti Ganguli-HC 2008 1.6.2
Mohd. Irshad Maternal Grandparents vs Mr. Nadeem Father 1.6.3
Equal Shared Custody 1.7
Sarika Palsokar vs Sachin Palsokar-SC 2016 1.7.1
Joint Parenting Plan 1.8
Tushar Vishnu Ubale vs Archana Tushar Ubale-Mumbai HC 2016 1.8.1
Judgments on interim custody to father 1.9
Visitation rights to grandparents 1.10
Judgment visitation rights to grandparents-Kerala HC 2016 1.10.1
Judgments on visitation to father 1.11
Parental Alienation Syndrome 1.12
Proposed law amendments to enable shared parenting and custody 1.13
Proposed reforms in guardianship and custody laws 1.14
Appendix I. Consultation Paper on Adopting a Shared Parentage System in India 1.15
Appendix II. Report no 257 of Law Commission to reform custody and guardianship
laws 1.16
Child custody, guardianship, interim
custody/visitation for fathers
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Need for book
Here is a list of practical problems faced related to child custody and visitation by fathers:
1. In many cases, the child is taken by mother to her native place, and being far away the
father is deprived not only of physical contact with child but he is usually not allowed to
allow even telephonic or online communication with child by mother.
2. A general problem is that lawyers discourage fathers to file for child custody or visitation
giving various reasons like "child is very small", "child custody is usually given to
mother", "we will handle other cases right now", and so on. What is not informed to
father is that the longer he delays (or doesn't file a case at all), at later stage the same
can be used as a reason against him from giving him meaningful access/interim custody
or visitation of child. However, the interesting thing is that if the situation is reversed in
the sense that mother has left the child and father had been raising the child alone, the
mother can approach court even after a gap of 1-2 years and be able to get full custody
of child easily or get meaningful shared custody rights. It reflects the societal and
judicial mindset of considering mother's presence as very important for child's
upbringing and father's role being more important as a financial provider for family. That
attitude is not going to change in a day, and possibly may not change at all. So the
focus should be to consider those logical points where some sense can be hammered
back into the legal system that keeping father out of child's life is not in paramount or
any kind of interest of child's best welfare.
3. Many fathers assume that the separation between wife/child and them may get sorted
out over a period of time, and combined with discouragement by lawyers they delay
filing any case whatsoever. As pointed above, fathers are not given a sympathetic
hearing which mothers get if they delay asking for child access or custody. Also a
general scare factor is there that the "laws are in favour of women" so people are
unable to understand that child custody law is not about women, it's just a myth (even if
a convenient one) that custody decisions will automatically go in favour of women.
The fact is that the custody decisions are given in favour of mothers mainly because of the
following reasons:
1. Due to practical reasons of mother/child in different city, they don't want father to meet
or contact child, and all these combined with the fact that fathers are not filing GWC
case asking for any kind of access with child, e.g. time during vacations where they can
take child with them to their own city.
2. Even if child and mother are in same city as father, most fathers don't file a case in time,
and that itself results in various other circumstances including possible alienation of
child from father that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Later the same reasoning is
used by courts that the child is not comfortable in presence of father (which can be
'arranged' too) so interim custody cannot be given to father. When a father is not being
allowed to child, then merely hoping won't work and courts cannot grant any relief
unless an appropriate relief is asked for under the appropriate act (Guardians and
Wards Act is the appropriate law for asking child custody or even proper visitation
rights).
3. In cases there are other cases pending in court between the couple like CrPC 125, DV
Act case, IPC 498A/406 etc, many fathers spend their energies to prove to court about
ill-behaviour and false cases allegations made by wife, whereas the child custody
decisions are not made based on what false allegations (since anyway as yet not
having been deemed as false by court) and mental cruelty the wife has been inflicting
on husband. Fathers need to highlight child welfare as the main focus of their
arguments and bring in all specific wife's behaviours to notice of court to the extent that
such behaviour is also against child's well-being and welfare. E.g. if wife is in habit of
threatening suicide often, then the argument can be made in court that such behaviour
patterns of wife will definitely make her not a fully fit parent, leave alone her being given
responsiblity of becoming a sole/single parent to child in case of sole custody given to
her. The focus on child welfare has to be brought in, merely highlighting wife's
irresponsible or cruel behaviour won't be enough for court to automatically grant reliefs.
At least that is the current situation. In future maybe a framework can be evolved
(preferably in law) where child custody decisions according to framework based on
which facts are proven true about each parent. As of now the ad hoc process seems to
be that by default child custody is with mother so that cannot be disturbed unless very
strong evidence is brought against her fitness to be a sole custodian and guardian of
child, but if a father has the custody of child, then mother can come at a later point of
time and get meaningful custody of child based on the fact that she is a mother and
courts deem it very important for mother to be part of child's life. This is also because of
the current legal regime of child custody laws where there is no concept of shared
guardianship of child, with the regime being that one parent gets full custody and other
parent gets visitation rights. But it is already changing quickly based on what is seen in
individual cases for those fathers who fight persistently in court for shared custody etc.
Further in the book we will consider the child custody aspect from various angles listed
1. Brief discussion on laws related to child custody and how child's welfare has emerged
as the main point of deciding on child custody and guardianship. So the focus will be on
highlighting how the point of child welfare gets decided by courts. For this reason focus
will be mostly on judgments rather than bare acts related to custody since the judgment
precedents are already set which tend to overrule the statutory points in
custody/guardianship laws.
2. Judgments highlighting custody decisions whether in favour of mother, father, or both
parents having joint custody, as has started to happen in last few years.
3. Come up with practical suggestions on how to get shared child custody, interim custody,
visitation etc depending on various practical circumstances depending on child's
location, ongoing cases and allegations among couple, and so on.
4. How to retain child custody with father in case mother has left the child and/or is unfit for
playing a role as good mother. If child's welfare is sole criterion, then this has to be a
viable approach in appropriate cases, too.
5. Discuss the important of various HC guidelines on shared parenting plan, and how to
utilize it in your state's courts whether the HC has already approved or not in your state.
6. Come up with practical points in filing GWC case, both with regards to points about
father's role, as well as what kind of custody or shared custody to ask for.
7. Discuss law commission's report on shared parenting, and whether it already contains
good recommendations or the laws of custody need further modifications before laws of
guardianship and custody are amended by parliament.
Proposed contents of book
Proposed Contents of book (please add new
topics at bottom only)
1. Need for the book
2. Need for fathers having meaningful custody and access to children
3. Basics of laws related to custody and guardianship.
4. What is meant by custody of child
5. Meaning of guardianship - rights and responsibilities
6. Interim custody
7. Visitation
8. Shared Custody/Shared Parenting
9. Parental Alienation
10. Approach towards custody of child
11. Approach for guardianship of child
12. Using parenting plan approved by HC in various states
13. Proposed amendments to laws for reforming custody and guardianship laws
Custody of child
Definition of Guardian under Hindu law
Guardian of a minor (below 18 years of age) means any person who has responsibilities as
well as certain rights that come with responsibilities, to take care of affairs and of welfare of
the minor child.
Definition of guardian is below:
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110381761/
Section 4(b) in The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act,
(b) “guardian” means a person having the care of the person of a minor or of his property or
of both his person and property, and includes—
(i) a natural guardian,
(ii) a guardian appointed by the will of the minor’s father or mother,
(iii) a guardian appointed or declared by a court, and
(iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of
wards;
Definition of natural guardian is below:
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/39958047/
Section 6 in The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956
1. Natural guardians of a Hindu minor.—The natural guardian of a Hindu minor, in respect
of the minor’s person as well as in respect of the minor’s property (excluding his or her
undivided interest in joint family property), are—
(a) in the case of a boy or an unmarried girl—the father, and after him, the mother: provided
that the custody of a minor who has not completed the age of five years shall ordinarily be
with the mother;
For other clauses (b)-(c), read at webpage given above.
Though a father is considered natural guardian of a minor child, as of today for all practical
purposes the guardian and parental or non-parental custodian of a child is decided by courts
based solely on criteria of "welfare of child" and not as per statute above. Read Chapter on
Landmark Judgments for judgments pertaining to this concept.
Interim custody, visitation, shared custody etc
Which courts handle child related cases
Due to establishment of Family Courts as per Family Courts Act, 1984; wherever a family
court is in existence, child custody and guardianship related matters are to be filed.
Courts of which Jurisdiction?
HMA - Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
GWA - Guardianship and Wards Act
Work flow - Judgments to analyze
Gitbook allows 5 collaborators for free, maybe we can add more later by removing
existing ones
Here is list of judgments to analyze under various topics.
Suggested workflow is like this:
1. Find a judgment related to child custody, visitation, interim custody etc on
http://indiankanoon.org or http://bharatlaw.in
2. Get link of judgment you are reading/working on and put it under your name below:
choose only one category: (i) To analyze, (ii) analyzed and summarized in book, (iii)
analyzed not useful for book.
3. If you find a judgment which you believe is useful but not reading it yourselves, then put
it under Judgments to analyze. Someone else can put it into their list.
4. Each author to check that if someone else is already working on a judgment, then don't
take it up. Just do a search/find on this page to confirm the link you want to read is not
already there in someone's list.
Judgments to analyze
Here we give a webpage link of all judgments related to book's topic. Whether they are
found useful or not is to be done by each author. Take a link from here and put it into To
analyze under your name.
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1020239/
(Umesh: Please go through the judgement. Its pretty long and need your expertize to
summarize. Tx)
(i) To analyze
Constitutional etc
U.N’s CRC (Conventions on the rights of child) Article 9 states:
“States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents
against their will.”
“States Parties shall respect the right of the child who is separated from one or both
parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular
AND Article 51©: foster respect for international law and treaty obligations in the
dealings of organized peoples with one another
Argument: India has ratified and accepted UN CRC in 1992, and all member states are
bound to honour international treaties and conventions, and it is also in agreement with
Article 51©.
Indian Constitution Article 21. No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty
except according to procedure established by law.
Argument: Life and liberty of the child is affected when she doesn’t have access to,
presence, love, and affection of father.
Indian Constitution Directive Principle: 39(f): [(f) that children are given opportunities and
facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that
childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and against moral and material
abandonment.]
Argument: For a child having father and still not allowed to grow with father’s care and
upbringing is akin to forced moral abandonment of the child from one parent’s care.
Judgment Citations
1. Francis Coralie Mullin vs The Administrator, Union … on 13 January, 1981
Equivalent citations: 1981 AIR 746, 1981 SCR (2) 516
Judgment summary: Even detenu has a right to see his family.
1. Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India 1978 AIR 597, 1978 SCR (2) 621
Judgment summary: “Article 21 should be interpreted with the widest amplitude”
1. In Kumar V. Jahagirdar v/s Chethana Ramatheertha, (2004) 2 SCC 688, while
dealing with the issue of child custody, the Supreme Court observed that mother cannot
always claim superior custody rights.
2. In R.V. Srinath Prasad v. Nandamuri Jayakrishna, (2001) 4 SCC 71 , it was observed
“that custody of minor children is a sensitive issue. It is also a matter involving
attachment. Such a matter is to be approached and tackled carefully. A balance has to
be struck between the attachment and sentiments of the parties towards the minor
children and the welfare of the minors which is of paramount importance.”
3. In Sumedha Nagpal v. State of Delhi, (2000) 9 SCC 745, the Supreme Court while
deciding the question of custody observed that what we have to bear in mind the
welfare of the minor child and not decide such a question merely based upon the rights
of the parties under the law… During infancy and impressionable age, the care and
warmth of both the parents are required for the welfare of the child.
4. In Nil Ratan Kundu v/s Abhijit Kundu, (Civil Appeal No.4960 of 2008, decided on 8th
August 2008), Supreme Court, in paragraph 56 thereof held thus: … But over and
above physical comforts, moral and ethical values cannot be ignored. They are equally,
or we may say, even more important, essential and indispensable considerations.”
5. Mohan Kumar Rayana vs. Komal Mohan Rayana IN THE HIGH COURT OF
JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE JURISDICTION FAMILY COURT APPEAL
NO.29 OF 2007
para 47…If the order of access does not work in future the custody will have to be
handed over to the father on being satisfied that the respondent-mother is responsible
for poisoning the mind of Anisha against the appellant father.
para 48. We are aware that initially the access period may temporarily cause flutter and
Anisha may not be able to immediately adjust herself at the home of the appellant-
father, but it does not mean that mere willingness of Anisha would be decisive factor.
Looking to her age and hostile attitude towards the appellant, her wish, insofar as
access/visitation right is concerned, need not be given importance or any weightage.
The Court is not supposed to act as executor of the wish expressed by the minor.
1. [2010(1) Femi-Juris C.C. 169 (Raj)] Mangal Das Vaishnava and another (Appelants)
Versus Jitendra Kumar Vaishnava and another (Respondent)
Trial court directed appellants—maternal grand-father and grand-mother to handover
custody of child to respondent father. Appeal against order by maternal grand-parents.
Father charged with offence under Sections IPC 498a and 304 of IPC. Child expressed wish
his willingness to live with his maternal grand-father and grand-mother. Held that no
evidence that welfare of child is in any way in peril in the hands of father. Appeal dismissed.
Argument: IPC 498a case against father no bar for shared custody of child with father.
(ii) analyzed and summarized in book
http://bharatlaw.in/doc/AViCVw7tdGcup1PUfyRD /judgments-where-full-custody-to-
mother.md
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1241462/ /mother-can-be-guardian-when-father-alive.md
http://menrightsindia.net/2014/06/6-month-child-custody-year-father-mother-karnataka-
hc.html
(iii) analyzed not useful for book
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1143841/ (Supreme Court of India: Father wins the custody of
Daughter, Parental Alienation Symdrome (PAS)
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/328533/ (Welfare of the child paramount consideration)
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/57070529/ /visitation-rights-to-grandparent.md
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112269492/](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112269492/) ( Joint
parenting plan which is based on the report of the Law Commission submitted on
25.5.2015)https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112269492/( Joint parenting plan which is based on
the report of the Law Commission submitted on 25.5.2015)
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161443015/ (Equal shared custody)
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/463034/
Yuvraj
Paritosh
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33634887/ Shaleen Kabra vs Shiwani Kabra Supreme Court
Full custody to Grandparents inspite of Father is alive
Shyamrao Maroti Korwate vs Deepak
Kisanrao Tekam on 14 September, 2010
Fact of the case
Appellant is grandfather of the child who is appealing in supreme court against the order of
Bombay high court whereby the High Court reversed the judgment and order passed by the
District Judge, Yavatmal, Maharashtra.
Marriage of the respondent (father of the child) was solemnized with the daughter of the
appellant (grandfather of the child). Out of the said wedlock, a son was born on 23.03.2003.
After giving birth to son, on the same day, the respondent's wife died. Son of the respondent
is residing with the appellant-maternal grandfather and his family since his birth. After the
death of his wife, the respondent contracted second marriage and also has a son from the
second marriage.
On 07.08.2003, the appellant-maternal grandfather of the minor filed an application in the
Court of District Judge II, Yavatmal, Maharashtra under Section 7 of the Guardians and
Wards Act, appointing him as guardian of the minor grandson. The said application was
opposed by the respondent (father) and, on 15.10.2003, he also filed an application under
Section 25 of the GWA for the custody of his son. The District Judge by a common judgment
dated 16.04.2007 in both the proceedings, allowed the application filed by the appellant
(grandfather) herein and appointed him as a Guardian of grandson Vishwajeet till he attains
the age of 12 years. The District Judge further directed the newly appointed guardian to
allow the respondent-father to meet the minor once in a month.
Aggrieved by the said order, the respondent (father) appealed in the High Court of Bombay.
On 17.10.2007 Judge of the High Court allowed the appeal filed by the respondent (father)
and directed the appellant (grandfather) to hand over the custody of the child to the
respondent (father). Challenging the said order, the appellant (grandfather) has preferred
this appeal in Supreme court.
Points of law raised
In the appointment or declaration of any person as guardian of a Hindu minor by a court, the
welfare of the minor shall be the paramount consideration. No person shall be entitled to the
guardianship by virtue of the provisions of this Act or of any law relating to guardianship in
marriage among Hindus, if the court is of opinion that his or her guardianship will not be for
the welfare of the minor."
One thing is clear that in a matter of custody of a minor child, the paramount consideration is
the "welfare of the minor" and not rights of the parents or relatives under a statute which are
in force. The word "welfare" used in Section 13 of the Act 1956 has to be construed literally
and must be taken in its widest sense.
The moral and ethical welfare of the child must also weigh with the court as well as its
physical well-being. Though the provisions of the special statutes which govern the rights of
the parents or guardians may be taken into consideration, there is nothing which can stand
in the way of the court exercising its parens patriae jurisdiction arising in such cases.
Facts held important in case
Though father is the natural guardian in respect of a minor child, taking note of the fact that
welfare of the minor to be of paramount consideration.
child was all along living with the maternal grand-father and his family since birth, residing in
a Taluka Centre where the child is getting good education.
At any point of time the respondent-father did not attempted to meet the child when he was
in the custody of maternal grandfather.
SC Final Verdict
Permitted the appellant grandfather to have the custody of the child till the age of 12 years
as ordered by the District Judge. The above conclusion is based on welfare of the minor as
provided in Section 13 of the Act 1956 and visitation rights given to the father:
Though probably not the most important part of judgment but an opinion is expressed by
"Within a period of one year after the death of Kaveri, daughter of the appellant herein, the
respondent- husband married another woman."
"There is no material to show that at any point of time the respondent-father had attempted
to meet the child when he was in the custody of maternal grandfather"
This tends to suggest that past actions of the parents in a child custody case can be
considered important for any future amendments / appeals to the orders.
Shyamrao Maroti Korwate vs Deepak Kisanrao Tekam
Anjali Kapoor vs Rajiv Baijal
Anjali Kapoor vs Rajiv Baijal on 17 April,
Appeal in Supreme Court by Grandmother against the judgment and order passed by the
High Court of Indore, the High Court has directed that the custody of the child be handed
over to the respondent/father.
The respondent (father), had got married to the appellant's daughter. Appellant's daughter
went to Indore to the appellant's residence for delivery of the child nd gave birth to a female
child on 20.05.2001, but she did not survive to see the new born baby. As the child was born
premature, she was kept in incubator in the hospital for nearly 45 days. After discharge from
the hospital, the infant was brought to the residence of the appellant, and she was named
Anagh.
The Respondent (father) filed an application under Guardian and Wards Act before the
Family Court, inter-alia asserting that being the father of the child Anagh, he is her natural
guardian and therefore, entitled to the custody of the child.
The Family Court, Indore in its order dated 18.3.2004 given priority to the welfare of minor
child, and gave custody of minor child - Anagh to the respondent father. Aggrieved by the
said order, the appellant (grandmother) had carried the matter to the High Court.
the High Court in its judgment has held, that there are no compelling reasons on the basis
whereof the custody of the child should be denied to her father/respondent. Respondent has
been making efforts right from the infancy of the child for guardianship of the child which was
strongly resisted by his mother-in-law. For better upbringing and welfare of the child, her
custody should be entrusted to her father. Aggrieved by the said judgment, appellant
(Grandmother) is appealed the matter in Supreme Court
Under the Guardian and Wards Act, 1890, the father is the guardian of the minor child until
he is found unfit to be the guardian of the minor female child. In deciding such questions, the
welfare of the minor child is the paramount consideration and such a question cannot be
decided merely based upon the rights of the parties under the law
This Court considering the welfare of the child also stated that, the children are not mere
chattels: nor are they mere playthings for their parents. Absolute right of parents over the
destinies and the lives of their children have, in the modern changed social conditions,
yielded to the considerations of their welfare as human beings so that they may grow up in a
normal balanced manner to be useful members of the society."
Court has observed that whenever a question arises before Court pertaining to the custody
of the minor child, the matter is to be decided not on consideration of the legal rights of the
parties but on the sole and predominant criterion of what would best serve the interest and
welfare of the child.
Reference of Madras High Court has observed, that, if a minor has for many years from a
tender age lived with grandparents or near relatives and has been well cared for and during
that time the minor's father has shown a lack of interest in the minor, these are
circumstances of very great importance, having bearing upon the question of the interest
and welfare of the minor and on the banafide of the petition by the father for their custody.
The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, or by physical comfort only. The
word welfare must be taken in its widest sense. The moral or religious welfare of the child
must be considered as well as its physical well-being. Nor can the ties of affection be
Ordinarily, under the Guardian and Wards Act, the natural guardians of the child have the
right to the custody of the child, but that right is not absolute and the Courts are expected to
give paramount consideration to the welfare of the minor child. The child has remained with
the appellant/grandmother for a long time and is growing up well in an atmosphere which is
conducive to its growth. It may not be proper at this stage for diverting the environment to
which the child is used to. Therefore, it is desirable to allow the appellant to retain the
custody of the child.
The court has mentioned that In spite of notices issued to father, he has not appeared before
the Court personally or through his counsel which shows his lack of concern in the matter.
Also he has got married for the second time and has a child too.
SC allowed the appeal and set aside the impugned order. Also permitted the appellant
(grandmother) to have the custody of the child till she attains the age of majority.
Landmark Judgments
Mother can be guardian when father alive but not involved-Githa Hariharan vs Reserve Bank
Of India-SC 1999
[Githa Hariharan vs Reserve Bank Of India-SC 1999]
(https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1241462/\)
Facts of case
1. When appeal came to SC, a divorce case was pending in district court of Delhi between
spouses, and also mother had asked for custody of minor son in same petition.
2. The mother had applied to RBI (Reserve Bank of India) for bonds to be purchased in
name of minor son, but RBI refused saying that father's signature on application form
were a must (since that was presumably bank's policy that father is considered natural
guardian of child).
3. RBI also gave an alternative that mother can produce a certificate of guardianship of
child from a competent court.
4. Mother had challenged this requirement of signature of father stating that she was
taking care of minor son, and on point of law, a challenge was made to the HMGA, 1956
provision which states that father is considered natural guardian of child, and thereafter
mother. Read Section on Guardianship in Ch 1.
1. Whether the provision in HMGA, 1956 that a father must be considered natural guardian
and not the mother is as per the legislative intent of various guardianship laws, and
whether such an interpretation violates the constitutional principle of equality before law
to both genders.
Part of HMGA 1956, which was challenged for constitutionality:
Natural guardians of a Hindu minor.—The natural guardian of a Hindu minor, in respect
(a) in the case of a boy or an unmarried girl—the father, and after him, the mother:
provided that the custody of a minor who has not completed the age of five years shall
ordinarily be with the mother;
Points of law decided
1. SC held that the word "after" in above section of HMGA, 1956 should be interpreted in a
wider sense to mean not only that mother becomes natural guardian of child after father
is no more; but also that mother can be considered natural guardian of child if father is
alive but not involved in life of or taking care of the minor.
Points of law reiterated
1. Welfare of child is the main criterion.
1. It is not explicitly stated by court but it is presumed that court agreed that mother was
primarily taking care of child and father was not involved much in child's life.
1. Though it is commonly argued point in legal proceedings that "father is the natural
guardian of child", practically speaking that part of statute is more of theory than of real
value in custody and guardianship cases. Courts primarily tend to see welfare of child
as main criterion and merely stating "father is natural guardian" will be of ritualistic effect
unless there is good evidence of father's contribution and role in child's upbringing and
needs of child. This point can be there in petition and arguments but it has little value in
absence of real evidence.
2. In this case too, it is alleged that father was showing total apathy to child and was
merely stating his rights to be natural guardian. This judgment by SC set a precedent
taking away effect of statutory law where father was considered primary guardian of
Lekha vs P. Anil Kumar on 21 November, 2006
The appeal is directed against the order of the High Court of Kerala allowing matrimonial
appeal for the custody of the child of the respondent by reversing the finding of fact arrived
at by the trial Court. The trial Court, after considering the evidence on record and
interviewing the child, came to the conclusion that for the welfare of the child the custody
should be given to the mother and dismissed the original petition of the respondent-father
filed under the Guardians and Wards Act holding that he is not entitled for the custody of the
child. On appeal, the High Court reversed the finding of the trial Court and directed to give
the custody of the child to the father without interviewing the child. The High Court also
permitted the respondent to take the child to Gulf.
Wife files divorce on the ground of cruelty. The respondent (father) filed a petition for
restitution of conjugal rights against the appellant and also filed an original petition under the
Guardians and Wards Act for the custody of the 11 years old minor son. Allegation by father
was that if the child is in the company of the appellant, it would affect the education of the
child. The respondent also contended that he is financially better than the appellant and
hence the custody of the child be given to him.
In the meantime, the Subordinate Judge passed an ex- parte decree for divorce in favour of
the appellant and the petition for restitution of conjugal rights filed by the respondent was
dismissed for default.
Against the order of the Family court, the respondent filed an appeal before the High Court
of Kerala. The contention of the respondent was that contrary to the deposition made by the
appellant before the trial Court that she would not re- marry, immediately after the judgment
of the petition filed under the Guardians and Wards Act, she remarried. It is, therefore,
contended that the continued custody of the child with the appellant would be detrimental to
the interest, progress and welfare of the child.
The High Court, without giving an opportunity to express the willingness of the child, allowed
the appeal only on the ground of remarriage of the appellant/mother of the child. The High
Court also held that the respondent-father is a businessman in Saudi Arabia and the father
is more apt and suitable to protect the interest of the minor child and also in imparting
education to the required standard of the child.
We are of the opinion that the remarriage of the mother cannot be taken as a ground for not
granting the custody of the child to the mother. The paramount consideration should be
given to the welfare of the child. As already noticed, at the interview, the boy has expressed
his willingness and desire to live only with his mother and was admitted by him that the
mother will provide him good education. The mother is also drawing pension of Rs.6,000/-
p.m. and also having land and properties in her name. When the boy says he prefers to live
with his mother, we are of the view that it will be beneficial for the boy and his education for a
better future. The High Court, in our opinion, erred in allowing the appeal on the ground of
remarriage of the appellant without considering the other aspects of the matter. It is a matter
of custody of the child and the paramount consideration should be the welfare of the child. It
is not in dispute the boy is living with his mother for the last several years and the separation
at this stage will affect the mental condition and the education of the child and considering
that the child himself attaches importance to his education if the custody is to be given to the
father will now affect his academic brilliance and future.
The High Court, in our opinion, ought to have seen that the re-marriage cannot be taken as
a ground for giving custody of the child. There is also no finding by the High Court that the
remarriage has adversely affected the mental condition of the minor child.
The principles of law in relation to the custody of a minor appear to be well-established. It is
well settled that any matter concerning a minor, has to be considered and decided only from
the point of view of the welfare and interest of the minor. In dealing with a matter concerning
a minor, the court has a special responsibility and it is the duty of the Court to consider the
welfare of the minor and to protect the minor's interest. In considering the question of
custody of a minor, the Court has to be guided by the only consideration of the welfare of the
minor.
The High Court committed a grave error in not ascertaining the wishes of the minor, which
has consistently been held by the Courts to be of relevance in deciding grant of custody of
minor children. We are, therefore, inclined to restore the order passed by the Family Court
and to give custody of the minor boy to his mother, but as indicated hereinbefore, we do not
want the child to grow up without knowing the love and affection of his natural father who too
has a right to help in the child's upbringing. We are of the view that although the custody of
the minor child is being given to the mother, the child should also get sufficient exposure to
his natural father and accordingly we permit the respondent to have custody of the child from
the appellant during Onam and other important festivals and during the school vacation. We
make it clear that the appellant-mother shall hand over the child to the respondent-father
during every mid summer vacation for about a month without adversely affecting the child's
education. The appellant should not also prevent the respondent-father from coming to see
the child during weekends and the appellant should make necessary arrangements for the
respondent to meet his child on such occasions. The appellant should not also prevent the
child from receiving any gift that may be given by the respondent- father to the child.
High Court committed a grave error in not ascertaining the wishes of the minor, which has
consistently been held by the Courts to be of relevance in deciding grant of custody of minor
remarriage of the mother cannot be taken as a ground for not granting the custody of the
child to the mother.
the point of view of the welfare and interest of the minor.
6 month shared custody to both parents-K M Vinaya vs B R Srinivas Karnataka HC 2013
[6 months shared custody to father and mother-Karnataka HC 2013]
(http://menrightsindia.net/2014/06/6-month-child-custody-year-father-mother-karnataka-
hc.html)
1. As stated by husband, wife had left husband's house during 5th month of pregnancy.
She did not come back even after birth of their son.
2. A surgery of son when 1 year old was not disclosed to husband.
3. Wife got a job when son was 8 months old and works 10-12 hours a day leaving child in
custody of her mother.
4. Father also said that the child needed medical care due to a congenital condition.
5. Husband had sent a legal notice to wife to come back, and had later filed a GWC case
in 2004 for full custody of child.
6. Wife countered GWC case of husband by stating several allegation on him like he is
irresponsible, in debt, steals things from house etc.
7. Wife said she got the child admitted to good school and has filed a divorce petition too
8. Both mother and father had produced doctors to testify on health condition of child. Lot
of doctors' reports were submitted from both sides.
9. The family court of Bangalore had given order to hand over custody to father. The order
was made based on fact that mother who had custody of child neglected his health, and
that she was trying to alienate child from father, and that failed to implement one order
under IA (Interim Application).
10. Mother had appealed against family court's order to Karnataka HC. She retained
custody of child apart from few instances of interim custody to father and visitation every
month.
11. Karnataka HC decided to allow custody for first 6 months of year (Jan-Jun) to father and
from Jul-Dec to mother. Court also allowed visitation to non-custodial parent on Sat-
Sun, and telephonic/video access to child for both parents.
12. Since both parents were earning well, they were directed to maintain education and
other expenditures of their son in equal proportion.
1. Technical legal grounds were raised by both parties, however the sole decision in
judgment was based on considerations of interest and welfare of child.
1. Primary determinant of child custody decision is welfare and interest of child, and not
father's right under GWA Section 25.
1. Though child expressed desire to be with mother, it was not considered too important
also because he had been primarily in custody of mother all along, and was 12 years
2. That respondent father had a joint family and children of his brother and sister were also
there to give company to his son.
3. Court also opined that numerous studies had found that children who live with their
father are more likely to have good physical and emotional health to achieve
academically and more likely to exhibit self control and pro-social behaviour.
4. Though child had been with mother till about 12.5 years of age, it was deemed that son
needs guidance of father also at his age of adolescence.
5. Father had been fighting for custody of son since 8 years till case was decided by HC.
Full custody of child with mother
Mother retains full custody of child upon leaving for abroad-Vikram Vir Vohra vs Shalini
Bhalla SC 2013
[Vikram Vir Vohra vs Shalini Bhalla](http://bharatlaw.in/doc/AViCVw7tdGcup1PUfyRD)
http://bharatlaw.in/doc/AViCVw7tdGcup1PUfyRD
1. Parents in the past were divorced after having agreed to a mutual consent divorce. As
per terms of MCD, custody of child was to be with mother with twice a month visitation
for father.
2. Mother decided to pursue job opportunity in Australia, and applied to court to modify
visitation terms.
3. Trial court modified orders and granted visitation twice a year to father during child's
vacations presumably.
4. Father objected and wanted full custody of child instead.
1. Whether court can decide on child custody/visitation terms under Section 26 of Hindu
Marriage Act(HMA) if the contention is that the divorce decree did not contain terms of
child visitation and custody.
1. HC and SC held that even if there was absence of the terms and conditions of child
custody in the divorce decree that fact does not disentitle a parent (mother in this case)
to file an application under Section 26 of the Act seeking revocation of the visitation
1. Child custody related orders and decisions are always interlocutary and can be modified
as circumstances and needs of child evolve.
1. Child when interviewed by both HC and SC categorically said he wanted to be with
mother. Child's age was 7 years and above.
2. Respondent mother cannot be denied opportunity to take up job opportunity and pursue
her career in Australia, and develop herself.
1. Though probably not the most important part of judgment but an opinion is expressed
by judges: "The appellant-father, for all these years, lived without the child and got used
to it." This tends to suggest that past actions of the parents in a child custody case can
be considered important for any future amendments to the orders. At the time of MCD,
had the father asked for and enjoyed more substantial amount of time with child, could
the decision have been different? Probably not, but at least such an opinion will also will
not be expressed in the judgment. Also, it could have led to higher interim custody
during vacation times.
Full custody of child with father
Mausami Moitra Ganguli vs Jayanti Ganguli-HC 2008
Mausami Moitra Ganguli vs Jayanti Ganguli on 12 May, 2008
Facts of the case
1. Whether the father or the mother should have the custody of an almost ten year old
male child is the short question which falls for consideration in this appeal.
2. The appellant-mother and respondent-father got married on 18th April, 1996.
3. On 28th May, 1998, a boy, namely, Master Satyajeet was born from the wedlock.
However, within a short time, the relationship between the spouses came under strain
4. She was subjected to physical violence, due to which, on 16th August, 2001, she was
forced to leave her matrimonial home at Allahabad, leaving the infant with the father.
5. On 5th April, 2003, the appellant moved a petition under Sections 10 and 25 of the
Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 read with the provisions of the Hindu Minority
andGuardianship Act, 1956 before the Family Court, Allahabad seeking a declaration in
her favour to be the lawful guardian of her minor son, Satyajeet and a direction to the
respondent to hand over the custody of the child to her.
6. Resisting her claim, it was alleged that having left him when he was less than three
years of age, the appellant had no emotional bond with the child; after leaving
Allahabad, she had not even talked to the minor child over the telephone or enquired
about his welfare; being the natural guardian of the child he was capable of and was, in
fact, looking after the welfare of the child; the child was studying in a prestigious school
at Allahabad for which he was paying a fee of Rs.25,000/- per annum and had also
nominated him in his insurance policy.
7. As regards his financial position, it was stated that he owns a house, telephone and a
motor car whereas the appellant has no house of her own and is living with her mother
and brother in a two-room flat at Calcutta.
8. The family Court observed that the appellant was a highly qualified teacher drawing a
salary of Rs.22,000/- per month whereas the respondent was only a private contractor
without regular source of income and though the child was studying in a prestigious
school in Allahabad, there was lack of constant care and protection of the child in the
house of the respondent.
9. Finding the testimony of the appellant and her two witnesses to be credible, the Family
Court held that for the welfare of the child, the custody should be with the mother.
10.Being aggrieved, the respondent preferred Regular Appeal to the High Court. Vide order
dated 28th February, 2007, the High Court has set aside the order of the Family Court and
granted permanent custody of Satyajeet to the respondent.
Decision made by high court
the questions which were put to the child and answers thereto indicate that the child wants
to study at Allahabad. Having regard to the prevalent circumstances and the fact that the
child had received his education from primary stage with his father at Allahabad, the Court
came to the conclusion that the welfare and development of the child and his future would
be best served at present at Allahabad in the hands of the father. Accordingly, the High
Court set aside the order passed by the Family Court and granted the custody of Master
Satyajeet to the respondent.
During interview of the child by the High Court and this Court, the child has in very clear
terms expressed the desire to stay with the father which shows that he is being looked after
properly and is already studying in a good school at Allahabad. It was submitted that shifting
of the child from Allahabad to Panipat in an absolutely new environment, all alone, with the
mother, who had abandoned him when he was less than three years of age would not only
adversely affect his studies, it will also affect him emotionally.
The dislocation of Satyajeet, at this stage, from Allahabad, where he has grown up in
sufficiently good surroundings, would not only impede his schooling, it may also cause
emotional strain and depression on him.
Under these circumstances and bearing in mind the paramount consideration of the welfare
of the child, The high court is convinced that child's interest and welfare will be best served if
he continues to be in the custody of the father. In our opinion, for the present, it is not
desirable to disturb the custody of Master Satyajeet and, therefore, the order of the High
Court giving his exclusive custody to the father with visitation rights to the mother deserves
to be maintained. We feel that the visitation rights given to the appellant by the High Court,
Mohd. Irshad Maternal Grandparents vs Mr. Nadeem Father
Mohd. Irshad (Maternal Grandparents vs Mr. Nadeem (Father) on 4 March, 2013
Smt Kanwar Khan, daughter of the Mohd. Irshad & Smt. Anwari Begum (petitioners) was
married to the respondent no. 1 as per Muslim rites and customs on 25.11.2007 and out of
their wedlock Master Rehan was born on 24.11.2008.
On 21.11.2010, Smt. Kanwar Khan had died and on the allegations of the petitioners that,
the respondent no. 1 killed Smt Kanwar Khan by throwing her from the fourth floor balcony
of her matrimonial home an FIR was registered against the respondents (Mr. Nadeem
(Father) Naimuddin (Grandfather)). All the respondents i.e. father and paternal grandparents
of the minor child were arrested and remained in the custody as under trials.
The interim custody of the minor child Master Rehan was handed over to the petitioners
(Maternal Grandparents) by the Court by order dated 03.07.2010 when child was 1 ½ years
old and since then child is residing with the petitioners (Maternal Grandparents).
By judgment dated 07.11.2012 all the respondents (father and paternal grandparents) were
acquitted of all the charges.
When the matter came up of the hearing there was three applications to consider under
Section 12 of Guardian and Wards Act 1890. The first application was filed on 18.08.2012 by
the respondent no. 2 and 3, paternal grandparents for the minor child praying for his interim
custody. The second application dated 11.10.2012 was filed by the respondent no. 1, father
of the minor child praying for an order for visitation rights. The third application dated
24.01.2013 was filed by the respondent no.1, father of the minor child praying for his interim
custody..
Now the minor child is aged 4 years and 3 months. The minor child has been living with the
petitioners since 3.7.2010 i.e. for almost 2 years and 8 months.
What will be the effect of the acquittal of the respondents (Father & Paternal Grandparents)
in relation to the charged leveled against them by the petitioners with respect to the custody
of the minor child? Whether it is in the interest and welfare of the minor child to let him
remain in the custody of the petitioners or to hand over his custody to his father? The minor
child did not appear to be able to form an intelligent preference to the Court.
What should be the approach of the Court while arriving at a prima- facie conclusion
regarding his interest and welfare which is of paramount consideration in these matters?
In all the judgments cited by the counsel for the petitioner, the Courts have consistently held
that pendency of criminal prosecution against the father of the minor child of charges under
Section 498A/304B IPC is a relevant consideration. If the pendency of such charges is a
relevant consideration, then the acquittal of the father and paternal grandparents of such
charges after a fair trial would also be relevant consideration. The respondents will therefore
be entitled to claim the benefit of their acquittal of these charges when it comes to deciding
interim custody of the minor child.
It is clear that the role of a father is very important for the upbringing of a minor child. The
Hon'ble Supreme Court has also observed that the hatred of a child towards a parent can be
caused by constant poisoning of his mind by the other parent. In the present case the minor
child has lost his mother. Allegations of his maternal grandparents that his mother was killed
by his father have not been believed by the Trial Court. During chamber interaction, the
minor child was not looking in the direction of his father. The reason for such behavior of a
child of such a tender age is not far to be found. He must be under the influence of his
maternal grandparents of to try and convince this Court that he does not wish to reside with
his father.
The minor child has suffered tremendous amount of trauma at a very young age. He has lost
his mother. In normal circumstances, the minor child would be left with one parent. The facts
of the present case reveal that minor child is in danger of losing his father as well. It has
been put to the minor child that his mother has been killed by his father.
judges: "Though father is unemployed but court does not deem it proper to deny custody of
the minor child to the father on this ground.
Equal Shared Custody
Sarika Palsokar vs Sachin Palsokar-SC 2016
Sau. Sarika W/O Sachin Palsokar vs Sachin S/O Suresh Palsokar on 15 September, 2016
(Equal shared custody)
1. Family Court Appeal, the appellant (Wife) challenges the judgment of the Family Court,
Nagpur dated 20.12.2011 allowing a petition filed by the respondent for a decree of
divorce under Section 13(1)(i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. In the First Appeal
filed by the appellant (wife), the respondent (husband) has filed a Cross Objection for
seeking the custody of the minor child as the Family Court has held that the custody of
the minor child, would remain with the appellant.
1. Who would be entitled to the custody of Anvesh (son). The wife has admitted in her
cross-examination that her brother had threatened to kill Anvesh. She had also admitted
in her cross-examination that though on 08.09.2011, she had telephoned the husband
that Anvesh had a fall and had a bump on his head with a bleeding injury, she did not
take Anvesh to a doctor.
2. Though the aforesaid admissions on the part of the wife would result in recording a
finding that the wife was not taking proper care of Anvesh, we are not inclined to permit
the husband to have the custody of Anvesh in the entirety. It is not in dispute that the
husband is paying a sum of Rs.10,000/- to the wife and Anvesh and also paying the
school fees, fees for the speech and development therapy and is bearing the other
expenses for Anvesh. It is fairly stated on behalf of the husband that even if the custody
of Anvesh is granted to the husband, the husband would still continue to pay a sum of
Rs.10,000/- to the wife. We have found from the evidence of the husband and the
statements made on his behalf in this Court at the time of hearing that the husband is
conducting himself as a good father and is also desirous of giving a substantial amount
to the wife towards her maintenance. It is also not disputed by the counsel for the wife
that the husband used to drop and collect Anvesh from the school and the coaching
classes, even after the parties had decided to share the custody-access to Anvesh, as
per the terms of settlement executed on 19.09.2013. The husband and the wife had
agreed in terms of the interim settlement that Anvesh would be in the custody of the
wife from Monday to Friday and from Friday evening to Monday Morning, the custody-
access of Anvesh would be with the husband. We find that the custody of Anvesh is
given to the wife by the Family Court only because the custody of a child should
normally remain with the mother, if the child is below five years of age. Now, Anvesh is
seven years of age and in the circumstances narrated hereinabove, it would be
necessary in the interest of justice to permit the husband to have the custody of Anvesh
for some more time during the school days and equally with the wife during the
vacations. In the circumstances of the case, we are not inclined to grant the custody of
Anvesh only to one of the parents as the child is a slow learner, and in our view, both
the parents should be able to shower their love and affection on Anvesh so that the
child remains attached with both of them.
HC Verdict
1. The terms of settlement executed between the parties on 19.09.2013 as an interim
arrangement have worked to a great extent and in the circumstances of the case, we
direct that the custody of Anvesh would be with the husband from Friday evening (after
the School hours) till Tuesday morning, when Anvesh would be dropped to the school. It
is needless to mention that the wife would have the custody of Anvesh from FCA 344/14
20 Judgment Tuesday evening (after the School hours) till Friday evening. We have
arrived at this arrangement, with a view to give equal opportunity to both the parents to
spend time with Anvesh who is just seven years of age and is a slow learner. The
husband may continue to drop Anvesh to the school and classes and bring him back to
the house of the wife even when Anvesh would be in the custody of the wife. During the
vacations, the custody of Anvesh should be shared equally by the husband and the
wife, that is to say that, if the vacations are for a period of twenty two days, Anvesh
would remain with each of the parents for eleven days. This arrangement would apply to
all the vacations including the Summer, the Winter and the Diwali vacations.
1. Though probably not the most important part of judgment but an observation by judges:
"We have found from the evidence of the husband and the statements made on his
behalf in this Court at the time of hearing that the husband is conducting himself as a
good father and is also desirous of giving a substantial amount to the wife towards her
maintenance"
2. Anvesh is given to the wife by the Family Court only because the custody of a child
should normally reain with the mother, if the child is below five years of age.
Joint Parenting Plan
Tushar Vishnu Ubale vs Archana Tushar Ubale-Mumbai HC 2016
Mr. Tushar Vishnu Ubale vs Mrs. Archana Tushar Ubale on 15 January, 2016 (Joint
parenting Parenting)
1. The order dated 27.5.2015 passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court, Mumbai,
in respect of directing the joint parenting plan by handing over six months custody of the
child to each parent is challenged in this appeal.
2. The petitioner/father is a Surgeon and the mother is working as a nurse.
1. Counsel for the Petitioner (father), submitted that the Family Court in its order had
directed the parents to submit a joint parenting plan. She argued that the adopting joint
parenting plan is a voluntary act of the parents. She submitted that the correct method
was not adopted by the learned trial Judge to take forward the idea of joint parenting
plan which is based on the report of the Law Commission report no.257 In which it has
recommended reforming the Guardianship and Child Custody laws in India
2. The learned Senior Counsel for petitioner (father) pointed out various sections of report
of the Law Commission and submitted that though those are referred to, they are not
properly considered by the learned Judge.
3. Counsel for the Petitioner (father) further submitted that the learned Family court Judge
has shown concern about making financial provision for the child. The father is going to
deposit Rs.10,000/- and the mother will deposit Rs.5,000/- per month and thus, the child
will have Rs.15,000/- per month in her account and for withdrawal of the said amount,
the parents will have to come to the Court and seek permission of the Court. She
submitted that this is not workable.
4. Counsel for the respondent (mother) also relied on the report of the Law Commission.
He submitted that the Family Court has relied not only on the Law Commission report
but also a draft of the parenting plan which was approved by the High Court and which
is put on the website of the Family Court.
5. In reply to Counsel for the respondent (mother), the learned Senior Counsel for
petitioner (father) submitted that Joint Parenting is different from joint custody. The Law
Commission's report is not only on joint parenting plan but the suggestions are given in
respect of changes in Guardian and Wards Act and custody. The Law Commission has
laid down a number of aspects which the Judge has to take into account in respect of
custody of a child and one of them is the joint parenting plan. However, she pointed out
that in Clause no. 3.3.5 of the Law Commission Report, the Law Commission has
expressed that they are not in favour of law placing presumption in favour of joint
HC observation and Points of law decided
Law Commission has mentioned and discussed the considerations for deciding child
custody cases. These considerations are as follows:
actors to consider for best interest and standard
Determining the preference of the child
Access to records of the child
Grandparenting Time
Parenting Plan
These are the recommendations given by the Law Commission and that is not law and
is not binding. The intention of the learned Judge of the Family Court to adopt these
suggestions and also the High Court rules and chalk out a Parenting Plan is
undoubtedly admirable. It shows that he was keen to experiment these new methods
and apply to this case however, the learned Judge has used a mathematical formula in
deciding the custody issue, which needs to be modified. The Law Commission wants
the Judges working in the Family Court or handling the issues of guardians and wards
to refurbish their fixed ideas and to have a makeover in their perceptions. In detail,
various aspects are considered in the report.
Joint custody is provided as an option. Therefore, the Judges, who are working on the
family laws and the issue of custody, should not hold a view that once the Law
Commission has given the suggestion of a Parenting Plan, it is binding in all the cases
to adopt the same. The parties are not to be compelled to give such plan which
amounts to illegality. Parenting Plan is an option for both the parties.
Shared custody may be an option open for the court to offer parents and make them
aware of not only their child's needs but also the child's rights. As argued by the learned
Counsel for both the sides, the 257th report of the law commission is not only about
shared parenting, but these are the recommendations on guardianship and custody
laws in India, wherein under different chapters, the Law Commission has penned down
its concept of joint custody, mediation in child custody cases and, also in chapter V, the
considerations for deciding the child custody cases. Number of factors are to be taken
into account in custody cases in the best interest of the child and parenting plan is one
of these considerations.
The Judge has to use his/her worldly wisdom to find out at the time of interviewing the
child whether child is a victim of the attitude of blackmailing parents emotionally.
One of the tests to ascertain a healthy and happy mind of a child is whether the child
has love, affection and equal respect towards non- custodial parent or not. If it is found
that a child is not willing to go to the non-custodial parent and complains continuously
about the other parent, then it can be inferred that the child's mind might be poisoned
and the child is tutored. This indicator can be applied to ascertain the healthy upbringing
of the child. It is to be remembered that to have access to both the parents is the right of
the child which prevails over the privilege of the parents to have custody or access.
There is no statute granting any legal right upon any parent to have the child's custody
in preference to or overriding the other. Therefore, the jurisprudence on the subject is
taking into account the welfare of the "child" alone. In most of the cases, egos or
incompatibility are the reasons for fights between the parents. They become selfish and
the child is put to stake as a pawn by one parent to avenge the other. A person may be
a bad husband or a bad wife, but he may not be a bad father or she may not be a bad
mother. It is necessary for the fighting parents to understand and to bear in mind that
the child loves both, needs both.
Separation is a shock for the child that his family has been destroyed. It gives rise to
fear of the future as well as anger in the mind of children and they do not understand
who should be blamed. There is a possibility of self blame and a feeling of guilt also. A
majority of the children want contact with both the parents on regular basis and if it is
denied, then, the children become hostile to the once loved but now non- custodial i.e.,
absent parent. If a custodial parent speaks badly about the the absent parent, the child
tends to identify with that sentiment. Gradually a feeling that I can do without the absent
parent develops and this gradual parental alienation becomes a part of the child's life
and which may lead to social alienation which is in fact a deep trauma and not a healthy
or happy circumstance. Alienated children often show contempt and withdraw affection
whenever they are in contact with the parent. Physical estrangement adds to emotional
alilenation.
Thus, Parenting Plan is a mutual arrangement of custody and access which is an
outcome of matured parenting. The ideal situation is that joint parenting is a rule and
single parenting is an exception. There may be a single mother or a single father left
behind due to a blow of destiny, then, the child has no option. However, when both the
parents are available, their association with the child cannot be artificially denied only
due to fights and hatred and vindictive approach of the parents. Hence, though it is not
mandatory that all the parents should adopt a Parenting Plan, it is advisable that the
family Court to invite a Parenting Plan in the cases found suitable upon the Law
Commission which has taken formal cognisance of the legal right involved in joint
parenting. This, of course, may be attuned to circumstances and must account for the
special needs of the particular child.
It is necessary to buttress that the word used is "parenting plan" and not "custody plan".
Custody is a narrow term and parenting is a wider terminology which implies joint
responsibility. Hence, it does not only contemplate physical handing of the child 50% to
one parent and the other 50% to the other parent. A parenting plan must therefore take
into account the "parental responsibility" as opposed to "parental rights" which are not
statutorily granted. The aforesaid recommendations of the Law Commission must be
read in that light. In the case of Smt.Anjali Kapoor vs. Rajiv Baijal (supra), the Supreme
Court has referred to the observations of the New Zealand Court in Walker vs. Walker &
Harrison reported in 1981 New Ze Recent Law 257, which are as under:
...Welfare is an all encompassing word. It includes material welfare; both in the
sense of adequacy of resources to provide a pleasant home and a comfortable
standard of living and in the sense of an adequacy of care to ensure that good
health and due personal pride are maintained. However, while material
considerations have their place they are secondary matters. More important are the
stability and the security, the loving and understanding care and guidance, the
warm and compassionate relationships that are essential for the full development of
the child's own character, personality and talents."
Considering the totality of the circumstances, I am of the view that the custody of the child
shall at present essentially remain with the father because in this case, the child has stayed
and has been brought up in the 17 / 20 wp.5403.2015(R).doc house of the father. I found
this case as the best wherein the order of shared custody can be passed and implemented
without much fights and opposition by the parents. Since about past 7 months, both the
parents are having a shared parenthood and more access is given to the mother time to time
so that the daughter can get used to her mother's home. The mother is to be given a
sufficient period of custody each month during which she would be responsible for the
upbringing of the child. The mother shall pick up the child on the first day of each month and
have custody of the child continuously for 9 days and on the 10 th day after lunch or the
school time drop the child at the father's house. The child shall live with the mother
continuously during such period. The mother shall attend to the needs of the child. On the
last day of such period, the child shall be sent either directly to the school or to the father.
Thereafter, the mother will take the child on the third Wednesday of the month after school
hours and will drop the child at the house of the father at around 1/2 pm or after lunch on the
third Sunday. Thus, the child will not feel disconnected from the mother and there shall be
continuous and simultaneous association with the mother. The child shall have the love, care
and company of both the prents she loves for a reasonable stretch of days as also
weekends. The school vacations shall, as is usual, be shared equally in this upon mutual
arangement and understanding between the parties. Besides absent parent may call the
child on phone 18 / 20 wp.5403.2015(R).doc morning and evening and may talk for 5 to 10
minutes. The parents shall have equal say on attending school meetings and on deciding
child's education, day schedule, hobby classes without taxing child. The birthday of the child
is to be celebrated together in the presence of the parents. In respect of the meeting of the
other family members of both the sides and celebrations of important events in the family the
both the parents being quite mature, will take the decision accordingly, keeping in mind the
best interest of their child. Thus, complete flexibility in taking decisions on such issues is left
to both the parents. In the event of dispute, the other party can approach the Court for
necessary orders. This arrangement to continue till there is any drastic change of
circumstance or dependency of psychological need of the child.
[ ] The arrangement of payment of Rs.10,000/- and Rs.5,000/- can be continued but
there is no need to approach the Court for the purpose of withdrawal of the money. The
amount can be withdrawn with the signature of both the parents. It should be a joint
account under the joint guardianship, in the name of the child with both the parents as
the first 19 / 20 wp.5403.2015(R).doc account holder. The amount can be withdrawn
with the signature of the both the parents and only for the purpose of her education and
maintainance if necessary. I do not think it is necessary to appoint a mediator in this
case because I found the child mentally and physically healthy. If at all in future, if
unfortunately, the necessity arises, then, the trial Court is always empowered to pass
the required order.
Judgments on interim custody to father
Visitation rights to grandparents
Judgment visitation rights to grandparents-Kerala HC 2016
AGAINST THE JUDGMENT IN O.P.(GUARDIAN) 1293/2012 of FAMILY COURT,
IRINJALAKUDA, Kerala
DATED 06-02-2016.
1. When the trial was in progress, the 1st respondent (father) died in a motor accident and
thereupon the 2nd and 3rd respondents (parents of father) were impleaded as
additional petitioners and the trial continued in Family Court.
2. The family court had framed two main points for consideration:
(2.1) Whether grand-parents are entitled to get permanent custody of their minor grand
daughter from daughter in-law?
(2.2) Who will be the proper custodian of the minor child?
Judgement of Family Court
1. As the natural guardian (father) of the child is no more, the respondent mother is
declared as the natural guardian of minor child. However the Family court had granted
visitation rights to grandparents every alternative 3rd Saturdays from 9 a.m., till 9 a.m.
of the succeeding Sundays.
2. Apart from the above, 3 days interim custody was granted during 'Onam' and
'Christmas' holidays and 10 days during mid-summer vacation. Further the respondents
2 and 3 were provided with custody of the child on the death anniversary date of the 1st
respondent and also on the 3rd Sundays after Easter, in connection with the festival of
their Parish Church. Even while granting the said interim custody, a rider was added to
the effect that they are entitled to get such interim custody only if they bear the entire
educational expenses of child.
3. The said arrangement will continue till the child attains the age of 8 years.
Appeal and Arguments in HC
1. It is aggrieved by the said visitation rights granted to respondents 1 and 2, by family
court the appeal is preferred in HC.
2. Main contentions advanced by learned counsel for the appellant are that, the
respondents 2 and 3, who are the grandparents are entitled only for a visitation right
and they are not entitled to get interim overnight custody of the child, as ordered by the
Family Court. That the order of the Family Court providing temporary custody to the
grandparents is illegal and arbitrary, especially when there are no justifiable
circumstances put forth by the respondents 2 and 3, in evidence before the Family
Court to establish their claim for interim custody.
3. On the other hand, learned counsel for respondents 2 and 3 contended that, since their
son is no more, they are entitled to have at least the interim custody of the child and to
express their love and affection to the child, which will be conducive to the health,
welfare, wellbeing and growth of the child.
4. Learned counsel for the appellant even though vehemently argued that the Guardian
and Wards Act does not recognize an overnight custody of children to the grandparents,
he could not point out any specific provision under the Act to sustain the said
contention. On the other hand, the Act enables and recognises the right of others on
securing permission from court
Final Verdict by HC
We find that the minor girl child was aged only 11 months at the time of filing the application
in the year 2012 and at present the child is only at the most 4 years old. Therefore we are of
the considered opinion that, if the custody of the child is handed over to respondents 2 and 3
all on a sudden, without there being any acquaintance and intimacy built up with the
grandparents, it may not be conducive for the child to be in their custody and to spend time
at the house of the respondents 2 and 3, that too on an overnight basis. Creating such a
situation may not be within the interest, welfare and well being of the minor child. Therefore,
we feel that overnight custody of the child can be stepped up in a slow pace and the day
time custody of the child can be increased in a phased manner
The above said arrangements will continue for a period of two years and thereafter
respondents 2 and 3 are entitled to take custody of the child on every 1st and 3rd Saturdays
from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. of the succeeding Sundays. Likewise, they are also entitled to get
overnight custody of the child for a period of 5 days each during Onam and Christmas
holidays and 15 days during first half of the mid-summer vacation, apart from the death
anniversary date and 3rd Sundays after Easter provided above. The said arrangements will
continue till the child attains the age of 8 years as directed by the Family Court.
Arrangements with regard to the handing over of the child and resumption of custody, and
other directions issued by the court below are sustained.
Judgments on visitation to father
Parental Alienation Symdrome (PAS)
Sheila B. Das vs P.R. Sugasree on 17 February, 2006
Proposed law amendments to enable shared parenting and custody
Proposed reforms in guardianship and custody laws
Report No.257 by Law Commission of India proposes important Reforms in Guardianship
and Custody Laws in India. Refer to Appendix II to find link to the report.
On 10th Nov, 2014 Law Commission of India had floated a consultation paper on adopting a
Shared Parentage System in India. Refer to Appendix I to find link to the consultation paper.
Appendix I. Consultation Paper on Adopting a Shared Parentage System in India
Law Commission on India had floated a consultation paper on Nov 14th, 2014 to get inputs
from public about reform of existing custody and guardianship laws and adopting a shared
parenting system in India. Link to the paper is given below.
[Law Commission's Consultation Paper on Adopting a Shared Parentage System in India]
(http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/Consultation%20Paper%20on%20Shared%20Parentage.
pdf)
Above paper can be studied to understand motivations behind the proposed amendments to
various custody and guardianship laws by Law Commission to in its Report number 257.
Appendix II. Report no 257 of Law Commission to reform custody and guardianship laws
Subsequent to floating a consultation paper and getting feedback from public, Law
Commission of India had submitted its report where it proposed various amendments to
multiple Acts related to guardianship and custody of minor children.
[Law Commission's Report on amendments to custody and guardianship laws]
(http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/reports/Report%20No.257%20Custody%20Laws.pdf)
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Beyond the Trail
Six stories about Luke, Nora,
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The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy.
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Genre: Historical fiction
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Tag Archives: Monk Rowe
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN: JON-ERIK KELLSO SPEAKS WITH MONK ROWE (September 12, 1997)
Over the past fourteen years, I’ve been privileged to have many conversations, serious and hilarious, with the most admirable musician Jon-Erik Kellso. He picks his words carefully, often as whimsical commentaries on some passing absurdity. Jon doesn’t need twenty choruses to speak his piece, but what he says is solid.
Thus it was a pleasure and a surprise to find this video interview done by the gracious Monk Rowe for the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College September 1997 (at that time I’d heard and admired Jon on recordings but hadn’t yet encountered him in person) at Jazz at Chautauqua . . . those familiar with the Hotel Athenaeum will recognize the wallpaper.
Monk leads Jon-Erik through his fortunate blossomings as a musician, improviser, and trumpeter: along the way there are quiet irreplaceable insights about the trumpet’s role in the improvising ensemble, a loving tribute to Milt Hinton, and much more.
I’m not sure what Jon-Erik, in 2018, thinks of his young self, but this boyish fellow acquits himself with easy grace:
For many more of these wonderful interviews, some done by eminent musicians as well as the amiable Mr. Rowe, visit here. And for a splendidly tonic infusion of the Kellso magic — cage-free and organic — check this out.
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MONK ROWE’S TREASURE CHEST
Marian McPartland and Monk Rowe, photo by Val DeVisser
A the end of the preceding century, while many of us were standing at Tower Records, considering which CD to buy, Monk Rowe — musician and scholar — was busy doing good work in the land of jazz.
Monk is a modest fellow, so he will probably protest all this praise aimed at him and say, “It’s not me . . . it’s the Filius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College,” but he will have to put up with the adulation for the time being. Monk’s ongoing gift to is a series of video interviews done with jazz artists and luminaries from 1995 on. More than 300 interviews have been conducted, and they are appearing — almost daily — on the Archive’s YouTube channel. Most of the interviews run an hour, which is a wonderful visit with people you and I haven’t had the opportunity for such sustained conversations with.
I confess that I have been slow in alerting JAZZ LIVES’ readers to this magic toybox, because I feared for the collective health. The interviews are wonderfully informative in a low-key, friendly way — Rowe does not obsess over musicological details but is interested in letting the artist speak — and they are devilishly addictive. I’ve lost hours in front of the computer because of them, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
And the interview subjects often are people who have not been fussed over in public — at all or in such gratifying ways. Here are a dozen names: Manny Albam, Eddie Bert, Bill Charlap, Benny Waters, Keith Ingham, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, Sherrie Maricle, Stanley Kay, Grover Mitchell, Rossano Sportiello, Ron Carter — and those interviews have been posted on YouTube in the past month. Let that sink in.
Here’s Monk himself — in under two minutes — introducing the channel. You can see how low-key and amiably focused he is. He mentions the book that he co-authored, drawn from the interviews: I’ve written about it here.
Here are several interviews that will fascinate JAZZ LIVES’ readers. prepare to be entranced, amused, moved, informed.
Monk talks to Tom Baker — someone we miss seriously — in 1997: it amuses me that this interview was recorded in a corner of the Hotel Athenaeum at Chautauqua, New York — the fabled home of Jazz at Chautauqua:
and the illustrious Marty Grosz in 1995:
Kenny Davern, Part One, in conversation with Dr. Michael Woods:
and Part Two:
and “just one more,” Nicki Parrott in 2010:
Set aside a few weeks: this is much more rewarding than several semesters deep in the Jazz Studies curriculum, I assure you. And I haven’t even included Helen and Stanley Dance, Vi Redd, Ruth Brown, Jean Bach, Jerry Jerome, Chubby and Duffy Jackson, Ralph Sutton, Bob Wilber, Joe Wilder, Sweets Edison . . . . that you can do for yourself.
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“HAVE YOU TRIED THE ELEPHANT BEER?”: INSPIRED STORIES: “JAZZ TALES FROM JAZZ LEGENDS,” by MONK ROWE with ROMY BRITELL
Monk Rowe is a jazz musician — saxophonist, pianist, composer, arranger — and he has a day gig at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, as the Joe Williams Director of the Filius Jazz Archive there. The Archive will be twenty-one in 2016, and it is indeed remarkably adult.
So far, Monk has conducted video interviews with more than 325 musicians, ranging from the great forbears (Doc Cheatham, Eddie Bert, Kenny Davern, Jerry Jerome, Ray Conniff, Joe Williams, Milt Hinton) to the living legends of the present and future (Nicki Parrott, Kidd Jordan, Sherrie Maricle, Bill Charlap, Holly Hofmann, Maria Schneider). And excerpts from those interviews, thematically and intelligently arranged, now form a compact yet impressive book (with a brief foreword by jazz eminence Dan Morgenstern) whose title is above.
A friend at Hamilton sent me a copy of the book some weeks back, and I have been slow to write about it — for two reasons. One, the semester got in the way, unforgivably, and two, I was often making notes and laughing so hard that I couldn’t read much at a sitting. But my instant recommendation is BUY IT. So those of you who want to skip the evidence can zoom to the bottom of this post. Others can linger.
A brief prelude. I am immensely in favor of oral history although it cannot replace the best analysis or aesthetic criticism. I wouldn’t give up Whitney Balliett, Martin Williams, Gary Giddins, Anthony Barnett, Frank Buchmann-Moller, Manfred Selchow, or John Chilton . . . the list goes on and I know I am leaving two dozen worthy writers out. But what wouldn’t we give for a ten-minute interview with Tony Fruscella, Frank Teschemacher, Jimmy Harrison, Herschel Evans, Eddie Lang, Jimmy Blanton, or Buster Bailey? True, some musicians were and are shy or not always able to articulate much about the music, but others — as we know — are born raconteurs, sharp observers, comedians, anthropologists. Their stories, no matter how brief, are precious. Two pages by Clark Terry where he speaks of being beaten by Caucasians because he was a “Nigerian” while in Mississippi — and then being rescued by another group of Caucasians — say more about race relations in the United States than twenty hours of PBS footage could ever do.
The material is organized thematically, enabling the reader to hear, for instance, stories of life on the road from Kenny Davern, Lanny Morgan, and Phil Woods. Then there are sharp observations — one can almost hear the rimshot that follows. Dave Pell calls Stan Getz “the greatest dressing room player that ever lived.” Stan Kenton stops his band from swinging too much and says, “This is not Basie. This is Stan Kenton.” Bobby Rosengarden talks about Toscanini, Joe Wilder about punctuality, Dick Hyman and Bucky Pizzarelli about life in the recording studio. Keter Betts, as a high-school student, is bought lunch by Milt Hinton; Jean Bach explains the Ellington habit of “seagulling”; Sherrie Maricle recalls her metal clarinet. Dan Barrett gives advice to young musicians. Randy Sandke talks about the perils of thinking. Karl Berger talks about his conducting; Kidd Jordan deconstructs a song’s title. And there’s a historical perspective covering nearly a century: we hear Doc Cheatham talk about Ma Rainey, then Jerry Jerome describe the first Glenn Miller band — all the way up to the present.
It’s an enthralling book. And since Monk Rowe is a professional musician, his interludes and commentary are more than useful; his questions are on the mark. Other writers put themselves into the dialogue merely to say, “Well, Dizzy always used to say to me,” but Monk is a gracious interpreter rather than a narcissist.
To find out the story of the elephant beer and the priceless answer, visit Monk’s JAZZ BACKSTORY blog here and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Then you can read the rest of Phil Woods’ words and — by the way — find out exactly what Dizzy Gillespie said when presented with the key to the city of Syracuse, New York.
JAZZ TALES FROM JAZZ LEGENDS is available here through Amazon. And the proceeds from the book support the Archives.
NEWS FLASH: Monk is going to be teaching a free online course on jazz, starting February 2, 2016: details here.
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Willie Jones III: Moving the Music Forward
The drummer and bandleader discusses his education, mentors and label WJIII Records
Published March 16, 2014 April 26, 2019 – By Lee Mergner
Willie Jones III
Drummer Willie Jones III was born and raised in Los Angeles in a very musical household; his father Willie Jones II was an accomplished jazz pianist. In addition to studying with Tootie Heath at CalArts, Jones is also a product of Billy Higgins’ WorldStage program in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jones has performed with the late Milt Jackson, Horace Silver, Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Eric Reed and Cedar Walton.
Jones was scheduled to perform on the 2014 Jazz Cruise with Walton who died about six months before it sailed. Benny Green was asked to fill his piano seat with Walton’s group, including Jones, bassist David Williams and saxophonist Dmitri Baevsky.
In this video interview recorded during the Cruise, Jones spoke with JazzTimes about Walton, as well as about his other teachers and mentors. He also discusses his record label WJ3 Records and his most recent recording, a tribute to Max Roach.
For more information about Jones and his label, you can visit his website.
You can see more of video interviews from The Jazz Cruise and other events at the JazzTimes YouTube channel.
Willie Jones III on his musical development – from his first musical instrument to his first paid gigs:
Willie Jones III on the genesis of his record label WJIII Records and his recent tribute to Max Roach:
Willie Jones III on the late Cedar Walton and playing with Benny Green on The Jazz Cruise:
Lee Mergner
Lee Mergner is JazzTimes‘ Contributing Editor. Between 1990 and 2018, he served the magazine in a multitude of roles, including Editor and Publisher.
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Don MacCallum's Michigan Histology - Volume 4
By Stephen C. Kempf, Michael Hortsch & Donald K. MacCallum
Genre: Textbooks
Before he retired, Prof. Donald K. MacCallum put together an extremely useful hands-on histology lab manual that was based on his experience of teaching histology to many generations of University of Michigan students. Unfortunately, that original digital manual was never published and is no longer compatible with today’s computer systems. The authors have updated and revised the original manual as an ebook version that allows histology learners to link the theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures and textbooks with the appearance of cellular microscopic anatomy and organ tissue structure as seen through a light microscope. Starting with a chapter on staining methods and histological artifacts, the four volumes cover the cytology of all basic tissues, organs and organ systems of the human body. Images of superb histological preparations produced by Prof. MacCallum are accompanied by a concise description. New information was added and the labeling of many images was improved to better correlate the appearance of these tissues at the light microscope level with their cellular organization and functions. Brief multiple-choice quizzes at the end of each volume reinforce major learning objectives. “Don MacCallum’s Michigan Histology” helps the beginner, as well as the more experienced student of histology, to navigate and comprehend the complexity of human tissues at the microscopic scale. As the 1st edition of Don MacCallum’s Michigan Histology eBook series was published a few years ago, we felt that updating the original edition would be a timely undertaking. In the second edition, we not only carefully revised the text to clarify it, but also corrected a number of errors.
• 26 chapters covering all basic tissues and major organs/organ systems of human histology
• More than 1100 high quality histological images on 724 pages
• 236 image-based multiple choice review questions
• Volume 1: Introduction, Epithelia, Connective Tissue, Cartilage, Bone, Blood
• Volume 2: Muscle, Nervous System, Eye, Ear, Circulatory System, Lymphatic System
• Volume 3: Respiratory System, Integument, Oral Glands, Oral Cavity, Gastrointestinal Tract, Liver, Gall Bladder & Pancreas
• Volume 4: Endocrine Organs, Urinary System, Male Reproductive System, Female Reproductive System, Mammary Gland
“Don MacCallum’s Michigan Histology” is complemented by the Michigan Histology Virtual Slide Collection, which can be accessed for free via the Internet at http://histology.sites.uofmhosting.net
Volume 4 of this 4 Volume lab manual set is concerned with the Histology of human tissues. It covers Endocrine Organs, Urinary System, Male Reproductive System, Female Reproductive System, and the Mammary Gland with a descriptive text and pictures.
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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur
A mosasaur with sharp, conical teeth. (Smithsonian Institution)
by Danielle Hall
Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land, the ocean was home to a remarkable group of lizards—the mosasaurs. With powerful flippers and a tail built for thrust, these marine lizards were a formidable presence in the marine food web. Some were cunning predators akin to the killer whales and sharks of today and had razor sharp teeth that they used to slash and tear chunks of flesh from large prey. Others were proficient foragers and had specialized blunt and bulbous teeth that hammered away at the tough shells of oyster-like shellfish.
Over millions of years many of the traces of this ecosystem have eroded, and so scientists use several clues from the fossil record to make informed hypotheses as to what they ate.
Scant Remnants
The most obvious clues that help determine what a mosasaur ate are fossilized meals. But finding such a specimen is like winning the lottery. First, the mosasaur had to have died immediately after consuming their prey, before digestion obscured all traces of its shape. Second, the animals needed to be buried shortly after death, away from scavengers like sharks and fish. And finally, the fossil needs to be in a place easily visible to scientists but sheltered from the elements.
There are only a handful of instances where this has occurred, and for many, the stomach contents are a jumble of bones that only a trained eye could identify. In cases where the remains can be identified, they have included everything from pieces of fish, squid and octopus relatives, seabirds, turtles, plesiosaurs, and even other mosasaurs.
Here is an up-close look at the belly of a Prognathodon kianda. There are at least three mosasaur skulls within its stomach. (Smithsonian Institution)
The best example of clearly identifiable prey (even to the untrained eye) can be found displayed in the Ocean Focus Gallery at the far end of the Sant Ocean Hall’s Sea Monster’s Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. The featured Prognathodon kianda lived 72 million years ago and has at least three mosasaur skulls within its stomach, including a “Platecarpus” ptychodon, a juvenile Mosasaurus, and even another juvenile Prognathodon kianda— indicating that mosasaurs, at least in this case, were not averse to cannibalism.
Modern Day Analogue
Often in paleontology, understanding animals of the past requires looking to animals that exist today. Specifically, comparing teeth shape can reveal what kinds of prey an animal would target. Blunt teeth, like the molars of walruses, can indicate crushing of shellfish while serrated teeth, like those of a great white shark, can slice through bone and can indicate the consumption of larger prey.
The earliest mosasaurs were most likely fish eaters. They almost exclusively had conical teeth, a simple shape common in present-day dolphins, that could efficiently snag fish and, in some cases, more formidable prey. But by 80 million years ago mosasaurs underwent an explosion of evolution and soon teeth that could crush, puncture, and slice like blades appear. Globidens phosphaticus, on display in the exhibit, is one such mosasaur that crunched on shellfish with teeth the shape of mushrooms, while Prognathodon kianda tore into larger prey.
Globidens phosphaticus crunched on shellfish with teeth the shape of mushrooms. (Smithsonian Institution)
The “Platecarpus” ptychodon had an especially unique tooth arrangement for mosasaurs. Like the South Asia river dolphin and the gharial, a crocodile from the Ganges, this mosasaur had interlocking teeth that ran the length of its narrow, cylindrical snout. It likely swam alongside its prey and flicked its head sideways to snap up small fish. The shape of the snout helped reduce drag and is a classic example of convergent evolution, where environmental pressure causes animals of completely different lineage to evolve a very similar trait—much like how dolphins and sharks evolved similar body plans to maximize hydrodynamics.
A Tooth’s Story
Examining teeth visually can reveal much about what a mosasaur ate, but hidden within the molecular structure of the tooth yields another clue. Both bone and tooth enamel are built as crystal structures, the atoms spaced in intricate geometric honeycomb patterns. Tooth enamel has ample atoms of phosphorus, but in some instances, the phosphorous is replaced by carbon. It is this carbon that scientists use to help understand the story of mosasaur diets.
A view of life in the Benguela Current 72 million years ago. Angola’s Cretaceous seas were dominated by many species of large, carnivorous marine reptiles. (Karen Carr Studio Inc.)
Not all carbon is the same, a fact that scientists exploit to their advantage. Some atoms of carbon contain six neutrons to pair with the six protons in the core of the atom— Carbon 12. But there is another naturally occurring and stable form of carbon that has an extra neutron. This is called Carbon 13 and the extra neutron makes it heavier than Carbon 12. Scientists know that the amount of Carbon 12 compared to Carbon 13 also indicates where a creature likes to feed. This is because plants tend to have higher amounts of Carbon 13. Since you are largely what you eat, the farther an animal feeds from shore, the less Carbon 13 it will incorporate into its tooth enamel.
By comparing the carbon profiles of the mosasaurs to known profiles of animals that live today, the scientists are able to make inferences as to where mosasaurs ate. “Platecarpus” ptychodon had similar amounts of Carbon 13 to modern sea otters, indicating that it likely ate in a shallow habitat, close to shore. Mosasaurus was closer to whales and dolphins, meaning they likely ate in slightly deeper waters, but still not too far offshore. Prognathodon kianda, the species found with other mosasaurs in its stomach, appears to have ranged from nearshore to offshore feeding areas.
While this method does not specifically pinpoint what a mosasaur ate, it does help flesh out the story of their life as predators. Oceans of millions of years ago may have had different animals, but the structure of ancient food webs are not as foreign as you might think. An animal with a powerful, hydrodynamic build, strong flippers, and teeth meant to ensnare fish—this could be the description of both a killer whale and a mosasaur. So, as you attempt to wrap your head around what life might have been like millions of years ago under the sea, just think about the creatures of today— you may be surprised by how close your vision comes to reality.
Editor's note: The great mosasaur fossils along with other animals that lived in the ancient Angolan sea will be on display in the Sant Ocean Hall beginning November 9, 2018. Come by the new exhibit to learn more about how geology impacted the lives of these amazing creatures and their marine ecosystem!
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It’s time to raise the age of draft eligible players
7 years ago | Jason Strudwick
With the draft rapidly approaching, managers league wide are huddling with their scouts trying to put together a draft list that will fill their teams up with talent for years to come. They look at each player and try to project what he will become in two, five or ten years’ time.
GOOD SMYTH, BAD TAMBO, GREAT DRAFT PARTY
7 years ago | Wanye
Last offseason Ryan Smyth made it known he wanted to be traded from the LA Kings to the team where it all began – our beloved Edmonton Oilers. Daryl "Kay-Z" Katz got personally involved to make his wish a reality, telling Smyth that if he came back to Edmonton he would remain an Oiler for…
The Edmonton Oilers Professional Scouting Staff
7 years ago | Jonathan Willis
The Oilers’ professional scouting staff monitor and report on players in both the NHL and AHL. Their recommendations carry weight in Edmonton’s front office, and help general manager Steve Tambellini to make decisions on personnel moves, from free agency to the trade market. They’re also a group we don’t typically spend a lot of time…
YAKUPOV: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
7 years ago | Robin Brownlee
The old saying is you never get a second chance to make a first impression. If that’s true, Nail Yakupov did considerably better in his audition in front of reporters at Rexall Place today than I did with him. Perhaps I’ll get a chance to take another swing at it after June 22.
WEEKEND WRAP: OILERS DOWN TO FIVE
7 years ago | Jason Gregor
Nail Yakupov arrived in town last night and since leaving EIA he’s had a hectic schedule meeting with Oilers management, touring the dressing room, getting checked over by doctors and meeting Daryl Katz. Yakupov is a legit 5’11". I stood beside him in this media scrum, and he’s one of the few players under six…
Are the Phoenix Coyotes a good trading partner for the Edmonton Oilers?
Talking about the upcoming NHL Entry Draft, Phoenix Coyotes general manager Don Maloney has made it very clear that he’s interested in potentially making a deal. Are the Coyotes a good match for the Oilers on the trade front?
Nail Yakupov: in his own words
7 years ago | Andrey Osadchenko
You may or you may not have read my story on Nail Yakupov in The Hockey News. Well, the thing is, they only gave me 1300 words to work with. So I was left with an immense amount of quotes I didn’t use in the article. I piled them all together so you’d get an…
The Skill Positions
7 years ago | Lowetide
The Edmonton Oilers future is fast, furious and spectacular. At this point it’s not a matter of "if" they’ll contend for a spot near the top of the conference, but "when" they’ll put it together. The gathering of jacks and kings has given Edmonton a tremendous amount of skill. Do they have enough high end…
Nation Radio – June 2, 2012
7 years ago | NationRadio
Mikhail Grigorenko at the NHL Draft Combine late last week. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The NHL Draft is rapidly approaching, and with the top-prospects in Toronto for the Draft Combine last week, excitement about the event is beginning to crest (especially in Edmonton). Between the upcoming draft, the hiring of Bob Hartley in Calgary, and…
ECHOES DOWN THE CANYON
Nail Yakupov arrives in Edmonton today to sunshine, blue skies and Jim Matheson talking about the Oilers taking RyanMurray #1 overall! The story writes itself!
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE?
The odds of it happening are about as likely as me ending up on the cover of GQ Magazine, but I can’t help but wonder if there’s a way that the Edmonton Oilers could come away from the 2012 NHL Entry Draft with Nail Yakupov and Alex Galchenyuk of the Sarnia Sting.
THREE WEEKS FROM NAILING IT
Steve Tambellini put it out there yesterday: in order for Edmonton to give up the first overall pick it would have to be a "significant proposal" from another NHL team. What would it look like?
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Saving Us from Ourselves
Posted on January 13, 2013 by davidsberry
It is meant as no insult to the Welsh, Cumbria, Peak District or anywhere else to say that Scotland has the most extensive rugged landscape in the British Isles—or, for that matter, Western Europe. There are more mountains to scale, coasts to kayak, wildlife to watch, islands to explore, etc. than almost anyone can cope with in one lifetime.
But this huge variety of inspirational places lie at the heart of Scotland’s attraction as a tourist destination that brings so many people to visit has a darker side. Whereas Mountain Rescue England & Wales do sterling work rescuing over 1,300 people who get into trouble and recover some 30 fatalities each year, Scottish Mountain Rescue, covering only 8.6% of the UK population rescue almost 700 people and recover over 50 fatalities each year. Those figures alone mark Scotland as a dangerous place.
Rather than scare the socks off potential visitors, the consistent message put out by VisitScotland, SMR, RNLI and related organisations is welcoming but firm: do come and visit us; but dress appropriately, bring appropriate equipment, check and be wary of weather/sea conditions—last but not least—let people know where you’re going and when to expect you back.
Most people, when setting off to climb the Buachaille or sail out of Oban or explore the Summer Isles by sea kayak, are too busy with their arrangements to consider who is going to come to their rescue if the mist falls or the mast breaks or a kayaker develops appendicitis. So effective are our rescue services that it is small wonder people give them little thought. But just like checking your pack for map, food compass, foul weather gear, and having some idea where the nearest refuge is, being aware of what rescue services there are and their capabilities is sensible prep work.
The Scots (and their many visitors to its magnificent outdoors) are generally appreciative of the well integrated and equipped rescue services and the professional and resolutely brave people who staff them. Other than the Forces and Coastguard, they are all volunteers who regularly put themselves in harm’s way to save the lives of others.
Across Scotland (not just in the Highlands) are the 1,000 volunteer members of the 27 Scottish Mountain Rescue teams (plus 3 police and 2 RAF). Among them, they spent some 24,000 hours deployed in 2011, getting 157 urgent cases off the hills by helicopter, lugging 65 off by stretcher, walking 71 to safety and getting another 24 out by vehicle. Of the rest, 157 were found to not need evacuation and 25 managed to find their way to safety without the team finding them first.
Moutain Rescue Team Guides in a Rescue Helicopter with a Smoke Marker
The MRTs are backed up by some indefatigable flyers operating out of five ASR helicopter bases around the country, flying the big yellow Sea King helicopters:
Rescue 102 & 103 at MCA Coastguard at Lerwick, Shetland
Rescue 100 & 101 at MCA Coastguard at Stornoway, Lewis
Rescue 137 & 138 at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray (‘D’ Flight, No 202 Sqdn)
Rescue 177 & 178 at RN HMS Gannet, Prestwick, Ayrshire
Rescue 131 & 132 at RAK Boulmer, Northumberland (‘A’ Flight, No 202 Sqdn)
These assisted in 197 rescues in 2011 and were supplemented in another 9 by Scottish Ambulance Service craft and 19 by police helicopters.
If you have no concept what their job entails, watch the Highland Rescue TV programme to get some idea of the skills they deploy and risks they take to whisk the seriously injured from some inaccessible crag direct to hospital. Frequently the pilot will be holding the craft in winds, sleet or mist with rotor tips just metres from a cliff while the winchman dangles down to administer first aid and ease the casualty onto a stretcher.
The ASR helicopters also assist in many of the sea rescues that occur around Scotland’s 10,000 km of coastline. Here the RNLI are usually involved under direction of the Coastguard. Like the MRT, RNLI crews are all volunteers and, thanks to the generosity of the public, operate a dense network of stations for both inshore RIBs and deep-water displacement lifeboats all around the British Isles.
The RNLI regularly make 8,000 launches (‘shouts’) all around the coast of the UK and Ireland, regularly saving over 300 lives each year, with Scotland contributing 1,000 launches and over 40 lives to those statistics. One reasons Scotland plays a more proportional role in RNLI statistics is that, despite our long coast, the bulk of shipping and recreational boating is elsewhere.
All RNLI stations are proud of their record of almost 90% of ‘shouts’ resulting in a launch within 10 minutes and an enviable reputation for skilled boatwork getting people out of life-threatening situations. They work closely with HM Coastguard who direct them to the scene and co-ordinate any ASR helicopter involvement to take casualties ashore and/or to hospital faster then the lifeboat could achieve. This is one reason why the loss of Fife and Clyde coastguard stations was objected to so strongly—the masterful knowledge of the coast exhibited by coastguards is hard to retain now that the three remaining stations each average 3,500 km of rugged coast to be familiar with.
But the biggest difficulty of all is people and—dare we say it—their stupidity. Despite the warnings, despite their putting members of the rescue services in harm’s way, the general public seems to be getting more cavalier about venturing into mountains or out to sea not properly prepared. Whereas 53% of MRT callouts were from slips or illness or avalanche and could not reasonably have been predicted, 44% came in because people got lost, were overdue, got benighted or some other reason where carelessness and/or bad planning was the cause.
This is also reflected in the RNLI statistics. Whereas barely 10% of their callouts are to professional sailors, 51% are to pleasure craft (mostly powered), 18% to people in the water and another 13% to people stranded. There were 128 incidents from running out of fuel, 185 ‘man overboard’s, 505 stranding/cut off by tide and 622 groundings. While these can theoretically happen to anyone, any sailor worth their salt would be acutely embarrassed if they were responsible.
Proportion of RNLI Rescues in 2011 by Type
A corollary of our more affluent lifestyle is not just more time off and easier access to more remote places but also ownership of recreational vehicles such as jet skis. Given that rescues on both land and shore have increased some 40% in the last decade, the question whether irresponsible behaviour that causes such rescues should be penalised is being asked.
One ‘yachtsman’ had to be rescued twice in two days; he was using a road map to navigate the North Sea. Another family with no maps torches or proper clothes also got lost a second time in two days (despite a broken ankle from the first incident), causing three MRCs to waste 150 hours in the Lake District. In one out-of-control stag do, several young males in t-shirts had to be stretchered off Snowdon.
Certainly no-one in danger should be left. But if a disdain through lack of respect for nature and the elements is what caused the danger in the first place, why should brave, skilled, selfless people have to put themselves in harm’s way to make up for such irresponsible stupidity without some form of comeback?
Or perhaps such behaviour should just be treated as a category of Darwin Award.
About davidsberry
Local ex-councillor, tour guide and database designer. Keen on wildlife, history, boats and music. Retired in 2017.
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Several weeks ago we found ourselves in a situation where we needed to get from Bideford in North Devon to RAF Boulmer in Northumberland, actually we needed to be dropped off just outside of that area, The traffic on the motorways was crazy, but we got there In the end…Its been a while since we used a taxi for such a journey and I just wanted to say thanks to the guy for not charging what the meter said…is it the fuel costs that set what the charges are??
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Notre Dame downs South Carolina to claim Gulf Coast Showcase title
Elizabeth Greason | Tuesday, November 28, 2017
No. 3 Notre Dame’s seven-game road trip is officially in full swing, as the Irish emerged victorious at the Gulf Coast Showcase after coming out on top in the tournament’s finale Sunday, which featured a marquee matchup against reigning national champion South Carolina. The Irish (6-0) began their trip to the final against East Tennessee
Notre Dame makes strides as it splits Invitational
Alex Bender | Monday, September 4, 2017
With six games now under its belt, Notre Dame is getting into a rhythm, as it had encouraging weekend at the Notre Dame Invitational, suffering a close loss against No. 11 South Carolina on Friday before bouncing back in a big way Sunday to pick up the 4-1 win over Santa Clara. Friday evening, Notre Dame
Carson: Cinderellas still alive this year
Alex Carson | Monday, March 27, 2017
There was no “Cinderella” this year, right? No. 12 seed Middle Tennessee was a good contender, but the Blue Raiders fell out of the tournament in the second round. Princeton, also a No. 12 seed, had a shot to become a tournament darling, but its final-seconds shot to beat Notre Dame was off-target. Many had
Klaus: NCAA gifted South Carolina home court against Duke
Ryan Klaus | Friday, March 24, 2017
As college basketball dives into the second weekend of March Madness, I’m still having an tough time coming to terms with a small, yet undeniably significant, detail regarding the tournament’s first weekend, and specifically South Carolina, the team that pulled off arguably the most astonishing upset so far. While the seventh-seeded Gamecocks certainly deserve credit for
Padanilam: Irish performance far from complete
Benjamin Padanilam | Monday, March 21, 2016
For most teams, a 95-61 win in the first round of NCAA tournament is a great start in the pursuit of a national championship. Not for No.1 seed Notre Dame. Irish head coach Muffet McGraw said as much in her postgame press conference following Notre Dame’s win over North Carolina A&T: “I thought we played
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Brett O'Connell | Thursday, October 15, 2015
Every so often you see an example of sport as a transcendent form of culture — an instance where the game surpasses its surface meaning as a simple competition. This past weekend, the LSU football program produced one such moment via its treatment of the situation surrounding its “away game” against South Carolina. For those of us who follow
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Greg Hadley | Monday, April 6, 2015
TAMPA, Fla. — You may think you’ve seen this game before. Dec. 10, 2014. April 8, 2014. April 7, 2013. Every time, the same storyline and the same result. Despite a flurry of pregame hype, favored Connecticut defeats underdog Notre Dame by a comfortable margin. But while from the outside, the two teams might appear
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Mary Green | Monday, April 6, 2015
TAMPA, Fla. — Down by one with five seconds left, South Carolina’s Tiffany Mitchell dribbled out to the left wing and took a step outside the arc. Jewell Loyd and Hannah Huffman trapped her back with a double-team, just like the Irish had planned. Mitchell fired the throw, and the ball met Huffman’s extended right
Huffman seizes the moment, pushes Notre Dame to title game
TAMPA, Fla. — Her defensive stat line is hardly overwhelming: 0.2 blocks, 0.8 steals, 1.03 defensive rebounds per game. She has never started a game for Notre Dame, and she saw the court for just five minutes Sunday night. But when it came down to it, Irish head coach Muffet McGraw called Hannah Huffman’s name
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How 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Is a Comedy
by Luke Y. Thompson
May 29 2018 • 11:35 AM
2001: A Space Odyssey, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, isn’t a laugh riot, but it is more of a comedy than most people realize. It’s not by accident that one of the most memorable lines of dialogue during the movie’s relatively talk-free runtime refers sarcastically to human error, and what is funnier than showcasing the absurdity, futility and the flaws that make us mortal?
Possibly the most aped, so to speak, of 2001‘s moments is its famous cut from a bone thrown into the air to a spaceship. It’s commonly described, thanks to additional information provided in the concurrently written novel by Arthur C. Clarke, as a depiction of the evolution of weaponry; a bone used to smash skulls that transitions over time to a space weapons platform. The movie, however, offers no obvious cues that it is a warship; the book pays it off by having the starchild mentally detonate all space-based artillery in the final chapter. This transition is, rather, an absurdity–a funhouse version of the creationist intelligent design viewpoint that says God must exist because it’s ridiculous to think apes became humans by random mutation. Director Stanley Kubrick sees the absurdity of bone-slinging apes becoming spacefarers in the blink of an eye, relative to infinite time, and suggests that indeed, intelligent design helped things along, but it wasn’t God…just something so advanced we would regard it as such. We are, after all, dumb apes.
Not every joke is that sophisticated. When I was a child watching 2001, I laughed at the zero-gravity toilet because, huh-huh, toilets are funny. Later in life, I though it was just part of the overall obsession with minutiae Kubrick had, and not a cheap gag. Nowadays, I tend to think it’s both: Kubrick could have indicated a lavatory without further detail, but the fact that it sports detailed instructions for using a zero-gravity toilet seems clearly designed to make the viewer imagine the difficulty, and laugh at how one of the most notable challenges of space travel might be something as simple as taking a dump. Classically, comedy is defined by shining a light on the base desires and needs that make us human, and Greek playwrights frequently used the form to bring deities down to earth…and the bathroom.
Some humor plays differently now than it did in 1968: the notion of a phone call from space costing $1.70 was funny because it was expensive; now it’s funny because it seems so cheap. The absurdity of a world in which a bush baby can be obtained easily as a pet still holds, though there’s accidental humor in the fact that the actual president in the real year 2001 turned out to be a “Bush baby.” But the notion that astronauts, upon finding an alien artifact, immediately make it their first impulse to take a picture of themselves with it? That might have been the most accurate, on-point prediction of the millennium, though Kubrick instantly smashes the human ego on display by having the Monolith promptly deafen our would-be selfie pioneers, whom we never see again.
Leonard Rossiter’s appearance as a Russian scientist might not mean much to non anglophiles–in the UK, he’s best known for starring in TV comedies, though at the time he was relatively new to them, having been a classical stage actor prior. Still, imagine Patrick Stewart suddenly showing up in a serious sci-fi movie as a nervous Russian, and you get a sense of how British audiences might have received the scene with Dr. Smyslov. Kubrick would undoubtedly have been in on the joke.
It has never been fully confirmed as to whether the name of HAL the computer is a riff on IBM, with each letter in the name being one letter prior in alphabetical order (HI, AB, LM). However, what is clear, and made clearer by the sequel and the books, though supporting evidence is onscreen in the first film, is that HAL is presented with evidence of his own fallibility. That’s a classic comedy device, and he reacts by proving just how vulnerable the humans in his care are by attempting to dispose of them. When that fails to take them all out, and the last survivor deactivates him, his fallibility is even further and more comedically exposed, as he regresses to “childhood” singing a simple song.
Other than the odd contrast that advanced aliens would assume a cold, ornate hotel suite makes a perfect zoo cage for a human specimen (intelligent design coming full circle, in a way), the final section of the film isn’t necessarily funny or satirical, but it does bring home human vulnerability in an allegorical way. We anticipate our own mortality, unlike other animals, and Dave Bowman does so literally, seeing each steadily older version of himself outside his body before becoming that next person. He’s finally “born again” in what once more passes as a funhouse mirror of a religious idea; Jesus (as far as we can tell) hasn’t renewed him as a baby into eternal life, but something has.
The final image is of a man become a godlike being, having been brought down into vulnerable positions many times over to get there. It’s the “scheintod,” or fake death, of heroic narratives that end in the hero surviving, and subsequently re-attaining divine or royal status, contrasted with the visual of a baby. We’ve seen a species develop from metaphorical infancy; literal infancy starts a whole new cycle, and new vulnerability.
Luke Y. Thompson is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and 2001 is his favorite movie of all time.
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The Reason Republicans Can't Pass Anything on Immigration
By Danny Vinik
Why didn’t Republicans preempt President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration with their own legislation? At the very least, that would have worsened the politics of Obama’s move. At best, it would have forced Obama to rethink taking unilateral action at all.
New York’s Jonathan Chait answered that question Wednesday, arguing that Republicans failed to recognize that their traditional legislative strategy—to block everything Obama opposes—would not work on the issue of immigration, since Obama had the legal authority to take unilateral action. “Republicans were stuck carrying out a strategy whose endgame would normally be ‘bill fails, public blames Obama’ that instead wound up ‘Obama acts unilaterally, claims credit, forces Republicans to take poisonous stance in opposition.’” Chait writes. “They had grown so accustomed to holding all the legislative leverage, they couldn’t adapt to a circumstance where they had none.”
I think Chait slightly overstates how poisonous the GOP position is. But let’s assume he’s right and Obama’s move is a huge political victory for the Democratic Party. I think there is a better reason why Republicans didn’t adjust their legislative strategy: This is actually the best political outcome for them.
To understand that, you have to look what legislation the House GOP would actually pass on immigration. The problem is Republicans cannot agree on what such legislation would look like. Last week, for example, the Washington Times published a special section on conservative immigration solutions, with contributions from Senator-elect Cory Gardner, Governor Susana Martinez, anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, Representative Jason Chaffetz, right-wing heart throb Ben Carson and many others. In Ron Fournier-esque fashion, Martinez and Norquist sidestepped the question entirely, instead demanding that Washington show leadership. But the others tried to answer the question. Nearly all agreed on the need for stronger border security and an expansion of high-skilled immigration. But that leaves a big question unanswered: What would Republicans do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. right now? Carson suggests a program where they could apply for guest worker status once they leave the country. Some undocumented immigrants might choose that option but millions wouldn’t. They'd remain here in the U.S., just like they are now, and Carson doesn’t say what how he would handle them. Gardner and Chaffetz ignore the issue entirely.
Their political dilemma here is pretty obvioius. They can’t endorse a path to citizenship, or even just legal status for undocumented persons, because the conservative base wouldn't tolerate it. Ideas that attempt to find some middle ground, like Carson’s proposal, don’t fully address the problem. What the base really wants is to deport almost everyone living in the U.S. illegally—something that's not possible, as a practical matter, and would be political suicide if somehow it did work. Even those Hispanics sympathetic to the Republican Party now would abandon it.
Simply put, the GOP cannot pass anything on immigration without incurring significant political repercussions. For instance, legislation that beefs up border security and increases high-skilled immigration—which is what the GOP could pass—would leave their effective policy towards the undocumented immigrants in the U.S. as deportation. Is that really a better political position than they find themselves in now? I doubt it. At least now Republicans can deflect some of the blame for blocking immigration reform by saying Obama “poisoned the well.” (Yes, it’s ridiculous, but it will work with some voters.)
The problem for Republicans is not that Obama could take executive action on immigration. It’s that immigration is a political nightmare for them, no matter what. As Vox’s Ezra Klein has explained, Obama has a plan to address our immigration system. Republicans don’t—and due to the politics of it, they won’t have one anytime soon.
The Republican predicament on immigration will only get worse as the presidential election approaches. Senator Ted Cruz will push to the right as he plays to the base and tries to capture the GOP nomination. It will force other Republicans to move to the right as well, further alienating Hispanics and making it harder for the eventual nominee to win key swing states like Florida and Colorado. That, of course, is a terrible political position for the GOP. But given the xenophobia of their base, there really isn’t anything the party can do about it.
Danny Vinik is a former staff writer at The New Republic.
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James Cameron is still really committed to 3D movies
Photo: Frederick M. Brown (Getty Images)
As the director of Avatar, James Cameron deserves a lot of credit for the massive (and yet mercifully brief) 3D movie fad, and even though you no longer have to see the 3D version of a movie in order to get the full experience, theaters all over the country are now fully equipped to screen uglier versions of new movies that require audience members to wear stupid glasses over their real glasses just so they can get in an extra “ooh” or “aah.” Still, while most moviegoers are pretty much over 3D, Cameron himself is still fully committed to the format, to the point that he recently promised that the next four Avatar movies—yes, four—will all be in 3D and they’ll all “look sumptuous.”
Cameron dropped that sumptuous quote during a culture and technology event in Australia called Vivid (via VFXBlog), and while he was there he talked a bit about the current status of 3D. He notes that the technology that makes movies like Avatar possible is now “ubiquitous,” which makes it “not remarkable,” so even though there are 70,000 3D-capable theaters in the world instead of the 3,000 that existed when Avatar came out, the technology no longer seems special. He also pins some of the blame for that on Hollywood, which made a habit of shoehorning 3D onto non-3D movies with post-conversion, leaving audiences disappointed by half-assed effects and giving 3D a bad name.
Cameron goes on to say that he hopes people eventually get sick of reaching toward 4K resolution, because production technology has “basically stalled” over the last three or four years and isn’t in place yet for “the next big thing.” Naturally, he wants that to be real 3D that you don’t need special glasses for, saying that technology for “good 3D” is in the works but that it will only happen if people can be convinced to want it. He’s hoping Avatar 2 is sumptuous enough to make the case for 3D, but if not, at least Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 will all have some cool effects.
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Sunshield layers fully integrated on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The first layer of the Webb telescope sunshield installed at Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California. Credit: Northrop Grumman Corp.
The five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are now fully installed.
Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, California who designed the Webb telescope's optics and spacecraft bus for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, integrated the final flight layers into the sunshield subsystem. The team is now folding and stowing the layers, in preparation for deployment tests in August.
The sunshield layers work together to reduce the temperatures between the hot and cold sides of the observatory by approximately 570 degrees Fahrenheit. Each successive layer of the sunshield, made of kapton, is cooler than the one below. All layers were installed and tested in June and July 2017 at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Space Park facility in Redondo Beach.
"This is a huge milestone for the Webb telescope as we prepare for launch," said Jim Flynn, Webb sunshield manager, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. "The groundbreaking tennis court sized sunshield will shield the optics from heat and assist in providing the imaging of the formation of stars and galaxies more than 13.5 billion years ago."
All 5 layers of the Webb telescope sunshield installed at Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California. The five sunshield membrane layers are each as thin as a human hair. Credit: : Northrop Grumman Corp.
"All five sunshield membranes have been installed and will be folded over the next few weeks," said Paul Geithner, deputy project manager - technical for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Webb telescope's sunshield will prevent the background heat from the sun from interfering with the telescope's infrared sensors. The five sunshield membrane layers, designed and manufactured by the NeXolve Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama, are each as thin as a human hair. Because the sunshield is the size of a tennis court, it helps solidify the Webb telescope as the largest ever built for space. The sunshield, along with the rest of the spacecraft, will fold origami-style into an Ariane 5 rocket.
The Webb telescope is the world's next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb telescope will observe distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies formed and see unexplored planets around distant stars. The Webb Telescope is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
The sunshield layers work together to reduce the temperatures between the hot and cold sides of the observatory by approximately 570 degrees Fahrenheit. Each successive layer of the sunshield, which is made of Kapton, is cooler than the one below. The sunshield is in the clean room at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California. Credit: Northrop Grumman Corp.
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Published July 16, 2008 comics , distribution , kids' comics , subscriptions 1 Comment
Here’s an interesting piece from this week’s PWCW newsletter that’s worth looking at. As Heidi says, “Todd Allen digs into the BPA audited circulation figures for comics and figures out why Marvel publishes the Marvel Adventures line” when sales to direct-market comic shops are very low:
The comic with the most subscribers was Marvel Adventures Spider-Man with a whopping 27,395. You want to know why Marvel Adventures exists with low direct-market sales? There’s your answer—subscriptions. The second-highest subscriber count was Ultimate Spider-Man with 14,890.
Later in the piece:
I also find it interesting that the Marvel Adventures subscription numbers are quite so high. Does this mean parents with young children don’t feel comfortable taking the kids into a comic store, or just that the direct market isn’t convenient for them?
Well, yes. The reason those Archie digests are by the supermarket checkout lane, right next to Cosmo, is so parents can spend five bucks on something to keep the kids quiet on the ride home. It does not usually spark a lifetime obsession with the medium of sequential art — perhaps in the child, but definitely not in the parent.
The funny thing about the comics industry is that everyone in it loves comics. Which is great, but they don’t really know how to relate to people who don’t.
For a parent who has no interest in comics, given a choice between A) driving out to a comic book store, once a month, every month, [walking past the nerds and the Witchblade statues to the kids’ comics ghetto] to spend $3 on a Spider-Man book for your kid… and B) taking five minutes to pay $25 ($2 per book) for a Spider-Man book to arrive magically in your mailbox, once a month, every month, without having to do anything?
Also, for civilian readers, that’s just what you do. Kid wants Ranger Rick, you get ‘im a subscription. You don’t go to REI every week asking if the new issue is out and socializing with other outdoorsy people.
It’s what I did when I was a kid — in 1991, somebody gave me an issue of Disney Adventures bought from a checkout aisle, and I loved it so I talked my grandma into buying me a subscription. Somebody gave my brother and me some X-Men comics, so we started looking for the X whenever we went to the drugstore. Even after we discovered the (crappy) local comic shop, it was so rare that we would get to go — and so likely that the issue we wanted would be out of stock or too expensive (last month’s comic suddenly costs twice as much because it’s a “back issue”) — that it made more sense to just get a subscription. Heck, we paid up front for four years of X-Man.
It’s a different world and a different industry now, but new readers are still essential.
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Cops searching for predator who sexually assaulted 7-year-old in Queens
Posted 10:46 AM, May 2, 2013, by andrewramospix
QUEENS (PIX11) — The hunt is on for a man following the alleged sexual assault of a 7 year old girl. It happened in South Ozone Park, Queens. A police mobile command unit sits near the scene of the crime on 115th street and Sutter avenue as investigators pour over clues.
The girl told cops a man grabbed her at about 6 Wednesday night and forced her into an driveway. That’s where he allegedly forced the girl to perform the sex act. A neighbor who asked that his name not be published told PIX 11 he heard the commotion.
” He snatched her,” he said that’s when he forced himself on the girl. ” Her little brother saw it and ran away.” He went on to say “She was so traumatized, she was scared.” the neighbor says the guy escaped but he was caught on surveillance video.
Carmen Gonzalez lives in the house next to where the attack took place. “I’m very terrified. I’ve lived here 25 years and nothing like this has ever happened.” Gonzalez says kids often play in the area . “They are good kids . I hope they arrest this guy as soon as possible.”
The girl was taken to a local hospital. So far police have not released a description or any information on a suspect. The investigation continues.
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Home Specialties Neck Cervical Disc Surgery
What Is Cervical Disc Surgery?
Cervical disc surgery is a surgical procedure where degenerated and damaged cervical discs are removed and replaced with bone. The cervical discs in the body act as shock absorbers and cushions between the cervical spine (the neck) and the bones (the vertebra).
Damaged discs, whether damaged by degeneration or trauma, can be extremely painful. When part of the disc moves from its normal position, it causes a lot of pressure on the central spinal cord or the nerve roots. Over time, the body forms bone spurs that are also known as osteophytes as a reaction to the disrupted discs. The osteophytes cause significant pressure on the spinal cord and the roots of the nerves.
Disc disruption can be a major source of neck pain, weakness, and numbness that starts from the neck and moves to both arms.
What Are The Treatments For Disc Herniation?
The most common treatment for symptomatic cervical disc disease involves medication, physical therapy, and occasional spinal injections.
Some patients with disc herniation, which is localized on one side of the spinal canal, are treated with a procedure that is done at the back of the neck known as lamino- foraminotomy or posterior discectomy.
Traditional operations of the symptomatic cervical disc disease usually mean fusion surgery and anterior cervical discectomy. In these techniques, the doctor makes an incision in the front of the neck. This allows the surgeon to remove the disrupted disc that creates bone spurs. It relieves pressure on the nerve roots and spinal cord.
Once the disc has been removed, the gap that is created between the two bones is filled with a piece of bone that is grafted from your pelvis. Sometimes, it is also filled with synthetic titanium or plastic that is medical grade.
Once the pressure from the bones is relieved, the procedure is meant to cause the two bones to fuse together. In this fusion procedure, plate screws are frequently applied to the front of the spine, thus providing stability, which ensures that solid fusion is achieved.
When Is Cervical Disc Surgery Recommended?
If you experience pain for more than 12 weeks after the treatment procedures have been followed, then surgery can be considered.
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Cervical radiculopathy is a clinical description of neurological symptoms resulting from any type of condition that irritates nerves in the neck.
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Pain, numbness, or weakness can appear along the nerve pathways into the shoulder, arm, and hand. This is commonly attributed to nerve irritation through compression or inflammation.
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Spinal stenosis is a procedure that removes pressure on the spinal cord. It has a surgical success rate of 90%<./li>
Anterior Cervical Discectomy
Anterior cervical discectomy is meant to relieve neck pain caused by nerve pinching at the herniated disc.
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Laminoplasty is a procedure meant to create more room for the spinal cord at the spinal canal and relives pain in the nerve roots.
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Rest or activity modification
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What Are Herniated Discs?
Herniated discs in the neck can leak fluid into the spinal canal or nerve root tunnel. This condition can produce cervical radiculopathy. A herniated disc can cause severe pain and symptoms that disrupt your quality of life. However, surgery is rarely necessary unless symptoms are progressively worsening or fail to improve.
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As with any surgery, there are a number of possible risks and complications. The rate of occurrence is variable and dependent mainly on individual patient conditions. Although cervical disc surgery is generally regarded as safe, there are several possible complications:
Failure to heal
Reaction to anesthesia
Excessive bleedings
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How Should I Prepare For Cervical Disc Surgery?
Before you go for the cervical disc procedure, you need to make your home a conducive environment for you to recover fast.
Place the phone in a convenient area
Purchase easy-to-make foods
Find a friend to help you with the chores
Move essential items to top shelves to avoid bending
Purchase a tub seat to make your recovery easier and safer
You may need a walker, a long-handled reacher, and elevated commode
You also need to ensure that you visit your doctor to rule out any medical complications such as allergies.
Recovering From Cervical Disc Surgery
After surgery, you are more likely to be able to move around in a few hours, and you can choose to go home either the same day or the next. You will feel some discomfort in the area that is operated on, but it is likely to ease. Most patients are placed in a cervical collar for six weeks. The fusion takes anywhere between three and 12 months to become solid, and you may still have symptoms during this time. You may speed up the healing process by eating healthy, regular workouts, and practicing good posture.
Follow Medical Instruction
Practice Good Posture
Take Medication as Suggested
Information contained in this site relates to medical topics and issues; however, no information in the site should be construed as medical advice. All questions regarding your health or possible health problems should be directed to your physician. Orthopaedic Associates does not guarantee medical recovery or the successful outcomes described in this website.
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A '''Slava''' ('''Крсна Слава''' also '''Крсно Име''' it means "celebration") is the celebration of the family's [[patron saint]]. It is primarily known as a [[Church of Serbia|Serbian]] custom: when the [[disciple]]s of Sts. [[Cyril and Methodius]] were [[convert]]ing ancient Serbia, they replaced the [[Paganism|pagan]] custom of the household divinity with a family patron saint. However, this is not an exclusively Serbian custom, as it is also known among the [[Church of Bulgaria|Bulgars]], the [[Church of Albania|Albanian]], and even in parts of [[Church of Greece|Greece]] and [[Church of Romania|Romania]]. A saint was determined by the day on which the household was baptized. Serbs do not celebrate a family Slava instead of an individual nameday (onomastik), but rather in addition to their namedays. The most common Slavas are St. [[John the Baptist]], St. [[George]], and St. [[Nicholas of Myra]].
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Slava is a day not only of feasting, but also a day of spiritual revival through which the Serbian national soul is formed and crystallized. To these celebrations, customs, and traditions, our nation owes its existence, and, therefore, deserves to be appreciated and perpetuated by all grateful Serbian sons and daughters all over the world. The living example of the Patron Saint gives to the celebrant assurance, persistence, and the feeling of protection, support, and the encouragement to do good. For that reason, we hear among our people the ancient saying: "Ко Славу слави њему и помаже".
Because Krsna Slava is regarded as the anniversary of the baptism of the family into Christianity, it is an annual reaffirmation of the family to its baptismal vows and the renewal of its ties to the Orthodox faith and church.
The commemoration of Krsna Slava was to Serbian ancestors one of the most important expressions of their Orthodox faith. So they always celebrated their Krsna Slava, regardless of how dangerous the situation. In our long suffering history, the state and freedom ceased to exist, but in our homes, the candle of our Patron
Saint never was extinguished.
The Serbian Krsna Slava links, as a golden string, our past and our present, our ancestors and their descendants. Serbian people should never ignore their Krsna Slava because through it the Orthodox faith was preserved and they were held together through the centuries. Krsna Slava should be kept not only as a sacred custom, but also to attest to the sacred truth that "Where the Serb is, Slava is also" .
The celebration of Krsna Slava requires the Icon of the family Patron Saint and several items that symbolize Christ and the believer's faith in his death and resurrection: a lighted candle, Slava’s (кољиво) wheat, Slava's bread (Славски колач), and red wine.
The lighted candle reminds us that Christ is the Light of world. Without Him we would live in darkness. Christ's light should fill our hearts and minds always, and we should not hide the Light of Christ in our lives.
Slava’s wheat represents the death and resurrection of Christ. Christ reminded us that except a grain of wheat die it cannot rise again, even as it was necessary that He die, be buried, and on the third day rise again so that we all can triumph over death. The Slavа's wheat is prepared as an offering to God for all of the blessings we have received from Him; it also is to honor the Patron Saint and to commemorate our ancestors who lived and died in the Orthodox faith.
The Serbs in particular, but also many Albanians, Bulgars, and even Romanians and Greeks, observe not only their individual [[name day]] (onomastik), but also their family patronal feast, which is dedicated to the [[saint]] of the [[feast]] commemorated on the day in which their first ancestor was [[baptism|baptized]]. Families keep with great honor an [[icon]] of this saint or feast which is passed from generation to generation, and observe the day with a Krsna Slava Service at home, which is lead by the [[priest]], or in his absence, by the domachin (head of the family).
Various Serbian communities (villages, cities, organisations, political parties, institutions, companies, professions) also celebrate their patron saint: for example, Belgrade celebrates the Ascension as its slava.
== External links==
*[http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/historyofchurch/book2/ Serbian Patron Saint (Krsna Slava)]
*[http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/pages/Orthodox_Life/serb_slava.htm "The Serbian Slava"] by Lev Puhalo
*[http://www.istocnik.com/articles/40/eng_slava.html Serbian Krsna Slava]
*[http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=494 Serbia & Montenegro] from the St. Nicholas Center
*[http://www.st-george-church.org/English/Krsna_Slava.htm Krsna Slava]
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Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene poet and novelist, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He received his BA in American studies from Washington State University in Pullman.
His books of poetry include Face (Hanging Loose, 2009), One Stick Song (2000), The Man Who Loves Salmon (1998), The Summer of Black Widows (1996), Water Flowing Home (1995), Old Shirts & New Skins (1993), First Indian on the Moon (1993), I Would Steal Horses (1992), and The Business of Fancydancing (1992).
He is also the author of several novels and collections of short fiction, including a young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Little Indians (2003); The Toughest Indian in the World (2000); Indian Killer (1996); Reservation Blues (1994), which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award; and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Among his other honors and awards are poetry fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He has also received the Stranger Genius Award, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a citation as "One of 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40" from Granta magazine.
Alexie and Chris Eyre wrote the screenplay for the movie Smoke Signals, which was based on Alexie's short story "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." The movie won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 and was released internationally by Miramax Films. He is also a three-time world heavyweight poetry slam champion. Alexie lives with his wife and son in Seattle, Washington.
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The eyes open to a blue telephone
In the bathroom of this five-star hotel.
I wonder whom I should call? A plumber,
Proctologist, urologist, or priest?
Who is most among us and most deserves
The first call? I choose my father because
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I say, "Can I talk to Poppa?" She gasps,
And then I remember that my father
Has been dead for nearly a year. "Shit, Mom,"
I say. "I forgot he’s dead. I’m sorry—
How did I forget?" "It’s okay," she says.
"I made him a cup of instant coffee
This morning and left it on the table—
Like I have for, what, twenty-seven years—
And I didn't realize my mistake
Until this afternoon." My mother laughs
At the angels who wait for us to pause
During the most ordinary of days
And sing our praise to forgetfulness
Before they slap our souls with their cold wings.
Those angels burden and unbalance us.
Those fucking angels ride us piggyback.
Those angels, forever falling, snare us
And haul us, prey and praying, into dust.
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I wanted to walk outside and praise the stars,
But David, my baby son, coughed and coughed.
His comfort was more important than the stars
So I comforted and kissed him in his dark
Bedroom, but my comfort was not enough.
His mother was more important than the stars
So he cried for her breast and milk. It's hard
For fathers to compete with mothers' love.
In the dark, mothers illuminate like the stars!
Dull and jealous, I was the smallest part
Of the whole. I know this is stupid stuff
But I felt less important than the farthest star
As my wife fed my son in the hungry dark.
How can a father resent his son and his son's love?
Was my comfort more important than the stars?
A selfish father, I wanted to pull apart
My comfortable wife and son. Forgive me, Rough
God, because I walked outside and praised the stars,
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Health Information Exchange, System Size and Information Silos
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43 Pages Posted: 20 Aug 2009 Last revised: 15 Oct 2013
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Amalia R. Miller
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)
Date Written: October 14, 2013
There are many technology platforms that bring benefits only when users share data. In healthcare, this is a key policy issue, because of the potential cost savings and quality improvements from 'big data' in the form of sharing electronic patient data across medical providers. Indeed, one criterion used for federal subsidies for healthcare information technology is whether the software has the capability to share data. We find empirically that larger hospital systems are more likely to exchange electronic patient information internally, but are less likely to exchange patient information externally with other hospitals. This pattern is driven by instances where there may be a commercial cost to sharing data with other hospitals. Our results suggest that the common strategy of using 'marquee' large users to kick-start a platform technology has an important drawback of potentially creating information silos. This suggests that federal subsidies for health data technologies based on 'meaningful use' criteria, that are based simply on the capability to share data rather than actual sharing of data, may be misplaced.
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JEL Classification: I1, K2, L5, O3
Miller, Amalia R. and Tucker, Catherine E., Health Information Exchange, System Size and Information Silos (October 14, 2013). NET Institute Working Paper No. 09-07. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1457719 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1457719
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Home // Jewellery and Watches // Rings // Capt. Greenvile Collins Map "Fowey and Mounts Bay"
A wonderful original map of Fowey and Mounts Bay, Cornwall from "The British Coasting Pilot" by Captain Greenvile Collins, published in 1693, by Clerk.
The British Coasting Pilot was commissioned by King Charles II in 1676 after a Dutch invasion of the Thames showed a weakness in our knowledge of our own coastline. He spent 7 years collating information and making sketches and plates for his atlas, which was initially published in 1693 by a number of engravers. The production of the atlas did not end until 1792.
This example covers the stretch of the Cornish coast around the mouth of the Fowey with an inset map of Mounts Bay, around Penzance. The top left has the number 17 in a small square and the bottom right shows the engravers mark' Ja Clerk sculp'. It has its original fold as published and is coloured. There is a fine illuminated cartouche presenting and dedicating the chart to the Lord Bishop of Bristol.
Condition is very good showing no fading or bleaching.
Paper Size: 50 x 61.5cm
Print Size: 45.1 x 57cm
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Marika Proctor: the Pride of Saint Paul
On July 9, 2018 / News
McKenna Kelly-Eiding, Marika Proctor, and Ricardo Beaird. Photo by Petronella J. Ytsma
While this may be her first foray on the Park Square stage, Marika Proctor is no stranger to the Saint Paul playhouse, having been born and raised in the capital. Like so many actors, however, she’s experienced her fair share of travels – attending the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and more recently, the professional actor training program at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky, home to the world-renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays, where she was featured in the play, You Across From Me.
This summer, however, Proctor returns to Minnesota and is excited to share the wild adventure of Baskerville with her home audiences. As for what they come away with Proctor says, ” I hope they feel they’ve had an excellent night of theater — imaginative and creative and satisfying.”
Those three words encapsulate the Ken Ludwig play, first performed in 2015, but making it’s Minnesota premiere at Park Square. For her part, Proctor is one of three actors tasked with the feat of portraying close to forty different characters! She is thrilled by how the play relishes the sense of fun and mystery.
I’m really excited by the sense of play that Theo’s [Langason, Director] brought to the room—I’ll definitely keep this in mind as I figure out how to jump from character to character to character.
Marika Proctor
It’s that sense of play and challenge that Proctor brings to all of her roles. Past Twin Cities’ credits include One Man, Two Guvnors at Yellow Tree Theatre where Lavender Magazine said, “Marika Proctor teases and delights in a crossgender turn.” She has worked with Savage Umbrella and several shows with Classical Actors Ensemble, including the direction of a Comedy of Errors that garnered positive reviews from the Star Tribune and City Pages.
With such a rich and varied background in the theatre, what else could Proctor possibly do to fill her time? She says she writes part time for a consulting firm specializing in archaeology, cultural planning and exhibit development for museums and national parks. If variety is the spice of life, then Proctor is doing something right!
You can come along for the ride too when you see her in Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at Park Square this summer! The show runs now until August 5, so don’t wait!
McKenna Kelly-Eiding, Marika Proctor. Photo by Petronella J. Ytsma
AAROOOOO–The Dogs of Baskerville!
On June 14, 2018 / News
Mavis the golden-doodle
Imagine pouncing straight at you–out of the dark, murky moors–a monstrous, demonic dog from legend known as the Baskerville hound, described as “a creature from a nightmare, with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” in Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Baskerville–the very word elicits a spine-tingling shudder of terror, an urgent need to scream and, at Park Square Theatre from June 15 to August 5, an irrepressible desire to laugh.
Mavis and Keely Wolter
In the spirit of our very fun production of this classic Sherlock Holmes whodunnit, members of the cast, creative team and production department shared photos of their own hair-raising Baskerville dogs:
Beware of Mavis the four-year-old golden-doodle, who’s biggest threats, according to Dialect Coach Keely Wolter, are to sleep directly on top of her legs at night and attack unattended bowls of popcorn (her favorite).
Lilly and Laura Topham
If you’re not already scared silly, meet two-year-old Lilly. A German shepherd/Australian cattle dog mix rescued by Stage Manager Laura Topham, Lilly once scaled a five-feet-high chain link fence in hot pursuit of a rabbit.
Jasmine the boxer mix
Then there’s Jasmine, actor Marika Proctor’s “90% pitbull sweetness,” listed as a boxer mix at the Animal Humane Society. Doesn’t she look eager to–horror of horrors– lick your face?!?!
Actor Eric “Pogi” Sumangil, not a dog-owner himself, is an uncle to his sister’s pugs, Rupert and Lola. Rupert has since passed away but shared with Pogi the Instagram hashtag #Pugsimangot, which is a play on the Filipino word pagsimangot, meaning to frown or look grumpy. He was a bit deaf, very lazy and so mysteriously quiet.
Rupert and Eric “Pogi” Sumangil
Now it’s just Pogi and Lola mugging together. Unlike Rupert, she’s more active and mischievous, hopping up on chairs and eventually the table if no one’s looking, plus getting into things that she knows not to. Oh, and she’s stubborn to boot!
Lola the pug
Last but not least, is the most terrifying of all: honorary dog Ned, who may very well want to scratch my eyes out for deeming him as such. Proud black cat dad, Eli Sherlock (formerly Schlatter), Baskerville’s set designer, may also get slightly scratched up for describing Ned as a “weird and photogenic” cat of no specific breed that was initially found in a train yard and adopted by folks on the Barnum and Bailey circus tour; hence, earning Ned the affectionate moniker “Ned the Circus Cat.”
Ned the Circus Cat
What is the Baskerville hound? Is it even a dog? Is it even real? Or may it merely exist as a part of ourselves, as Holmes himself surmised (“The hound, he said, was deep in all of us, the part of our souls that is dark and troubling . . . .”)?
Presume nothing when you come to see Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. Sit back and enjoy as you follow the scent with Holmes and Watson. You’re in for a doggone good time! Tickets and information here.
-By Ting Ting Cheng
A female duo of Holmes and Watson are on the case!
On May 3, 2018 / Featured, News
The premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville is witty and fast-paced – with women playing the famous sleuthing duo! Park Square Theatre cherishes its summertime tradition of cozying up audiences with a good mystery. This year’s edition for the company’s 43rd season – Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: a Sherlock Holmes Mystery – offers a fresh take for Holmes devotees AND a special invitation for those who’ve never spent an evening with the iconic sleuth. McKenna Kelly-Eiding (closing a spectacular run in The Wolves at The Jungle) stars as Sherlock Holmes and Sara Richardson* (last seen at Park Square in The Liar) as Dr. Watson. The remaining 40 characters in this smart send-up of The Hound of the Baskervilles are played by just three actors: Eric “Pogi” Sumangil*; Ricardo Beaird; and Marika Proctor*. Cue the lightning-fast costume changes as wealthy Henry Baskerville is threatened by the fable of a bloodthirsty hound on the moors and the dynamic duo sniff out the culprit.
From Left: Sara Richardson (Dr. Watson) and McKenna Kelly-Eiding (Sherlock Holmes).
Women have been winning over Holmes fans in recent years, from Lucy Liu as Watson in the CBS series Elementary, to Christopher Walsh’s new play Miss Holmes, to Carole Nelson Douglas’ eight acclaimed Irene Adler suspense novels – the first to reinvent a woman from the Holmes “canon” as the protagonist. Director Theo Langason, in his Park Square directing debut, admits that “some Sherlockians will be skeptical of a woman in the role. But, all the things we love about the character – intuition, ingenuity, intelligence – aren’t tied to gender. And when I saw McKenna’s audition, her performance was so grounded – which this script needs since the other actors jump from character to character.”
In many ways, Watson takes center stage as the cataloger and helpmate. Like the character of Archie Goodwin in the two Nero Wolfe mysteries Park Square has commissioned, Watson serves as the “investigator on the ground” while the great detective muses in solitude. “Sara Richardson is so wonderful,” says Langason, “and I’m glad we get to spend so much time with her as Watson in this play.”
Langason relishes the challenges of tweaking audience expectations while staying true to the core of the Holmes story that keeps winning fans generation after generation. “Sherlock is a fascinating character,” he says. “He deserves a role in the pantheon of super heroes. I mean, without Sherlock Holmes, is it possible to have Batman? This show clips along with a very atmospheric, cinematic quality that I think will be really satisfying to both the artists and the audience. Peter Morrow (the sound designer) and I are working hard on where the sound comes from in the auditorium, trying to achieve the sensation you get in a surround-sound movie theatre. I want those ‘howls off the moors’ to give us all the heebee jeebees!”
The creative team for the production includes Ashawnti Ford (Assistant Director), Eli Sherlock Schlatter (Set Designer), Mandi Johnson (Costume Designer), Peter Morrow (Sound Designer), Michael Kittel (Light Designer), Sadie Ward, Properties Designer, Annie Enneking (Fight Choreographer), and Keely Wolter (Dialect Coach). Laura Topham* will serve as Stage Manager and Sam Diekman* is the Assistant Stage Manager.
Previews begin Friday, June 15, and continue through Thursday, June 20. June 21 is Opening Night, and the run continues through August 5. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. except for Saturday and Sunday matinees, which begin at 2 p.m. All performances are on the company’s Proscenium Stage in Saint Paul’s historic Hamm Building, 20 W. Seventh Place.
Ticket prices: Previews: $20/$27/$37. Regular Run: $25/$40/$60. Discounts are available for seniors 62+, members of the military, those age 30 and under, groups, and ASL/AD patrons. Tickets are on sale at the Park Square ticket box office, 20 W. Seventh Place, and by phone, 651.291.7005, (12 noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday), or online at parksquaretheatre.org.
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US7158839B2 - Cardiac harness for treating heart disease - Google Patents
Cardiac harness for treating heart disease Download PDF
cardiac harness
Lilip Lau
Paracor Medical Inc
2004-03-05 Application filed by Paracor Medical Inc filed Critical Paracor Medical Inc
2004-07-09 Assigned to PARACOR MEDICAL, INC. reassignment PARACOR MEDICAL, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: LAU, LILIP
2005-07-29 Priority claimed from US11/193,043 external-priority patent/US20060009831A1/en
A61N1/02—Details
A61N1/04—Electrodes
A61N1/05—Electrodes for implantation or insertion into the body, e.g. heart electrode
A61N1/0587—Epicardial electrode systems; Endocardial electrodes piercing the pericardium
A61F2/2478—Passive devices for improving the function of the heart muscle, i.e. devices for reshaping the external surface of the heart, e.g. bags, strips or bands
A61F2/2481—Devices outside the heart wall, e.g. bags, strips or bands
A61F2002/2484—Delivery devices therefor
A61N1/375—Constructional arrangements, e.g. casings
A61N1/3756—Casings with electrodes thereon, e.g. leadless stimulators
A system for treating the heart includes a cardiac harness associated with a cardiac rhythm management devise which does not have a lead system. The cardiac harness applies a compressive force on the heart during diastole and systole, and the cardiac rhythm management devise will deliver an electrical shock to the heart for defibrillation and/or can be used for pacing/sensing. The cardiac harness and cardiac rhythm management devise are both delivered and implanted by minimally invasive access.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of co-pending application Ser. No. 10/704,376 filed on Nov. 7, 2003, which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to a device for treating heart failure. More specifically, the invention relates to a cardiac harness configured to be fit around at least a portion of a patient's heart. The cardiac harness includes electrodes attached to a power source for use in defibrillation or pacing.
Congestive heart failure (“CHF”) is characterized by the failure of the heart to pump blood at sufficient flow rates to meet the metabolic demand of tissues, especially the demand for oxygen. One characteristic of CHF is remodeling of at least portions of a patient's heart. Remodeling involves physical change to the size, shape and thickness of the heart wall. For example, a damaged left ventricle may have some localized thinning and stretching of a portion of the myocardium. The thinned portion of the myocardium often is functionally impaired, and other portions of the myocardium attempt to compensate. As a result, the other portions of the myocardium may expand so that the stroke volume of the ventricle is maintained notwithstanding the impaired zone of the myocardium. Such expansion may cause the left ventricle to assume a somewhat spherical shape.
Cardiac remodeling often subjects the heart wall to increased wall tension or stress, which further impairs the heart's functional performance. Often, the heart wall will dilate further in order to compensate for the impairment caused by such increased stress. Thus, a cycle can result, in which dilation leads to further dilation and greater functional impairment.
Historically, congestive heart failure has been managed with a variety of drugs. Devices have also been used to improve cardiac output. For example, left ventricular assist pumps help the heart to pump blood. Multi-chamber pacing has also been employed to optimally synchronize the beating of the heart chambers to improve cardiac output. Various skeletal muscles, such as the latissimus dorsi, have been used to assist ventricular pumping. Researchers and cardiac surgeons have also experimented with prosthetic “girdles” disposed around the heart. One such design is a prosthetic “sock” or “jacket” that is wrapped around the heart.
Patients suffering from congestive heart failure often are at risk to additional cardiac failures, including cardiac arrhythmias. When such arrhythmias occur, the heart must be shocked to return it to a normal cycle, typically by using a defibrillator. Implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICD's) are well known in the art and typically have a lead from the ICD connected to an electrode implanted in the right ventricle. Such electrodes are capable of delivering a defibrillating electrical shock from the ICD to the heart.
Other prior art devices have placed the electrodes on the epicardium at various locations, including on or near the epicardial surface of the right and left heart. These devices also are capable of distributing an electrical current from an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator for purposes of treating ventricular defibrillation or hemodynamically stable or unstable ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
Patients suffering from congestive heart failure may also suffer from cardiac failures, including bradycardia and tachycardia. Such disorders typically are treated by both pacemakers and implantable cardioverter/defibrillators. The pacemaker is a device that paces the heart with timed pacing pulses for use in the treatment of bradycardia, where the ventricular rate is too slow, or to treat cardiac rhythms that are too fast, i.e., anti-tachycardia pacing. As used herein, the term “pacemaker” is any cardiac rhythm management device with a pacing functionality, regardless of any other functions it may perform such as the delivery cardioversion or defibrillation shocks to terminate atrial or ventricular fibrillation. Particular forms and uses for pacing/sensing can be found in U.S. Pat. No. 6,574,506 (Kramer et al.) and U.S. Pat. No. 6,223,079 (Bakels et al.); and U.S. Publication No. 2003/0130702 (Kramer et al.) and U.S. Publication No. 2003/0195575 (Kramer et al.), the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference thereto.
The present invention solves the problems associated with prior art devices relating to a harness for treating congestive heart failure and placement of electrodes for use in defibrillation, or for use in pacing.
In accordance with the present invention, a cardiac harness is configured to fit at least a portion of a patient's heart and is associated with one or more electrodes capable of providing defibrillation or pacing functions. In one embodiment, rows or strands of undulations are interconnected and associated with coils or defibrillation and/or pacing/sensing leads. In another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes a number of panels separated by coils or electrodes, wherein the panels have rows or strands of undulations interconnected together so that the panels can flex and can expand and retract circumferentially. The panels of the cardiac harness are coated with a dielectric coating to electrically insulate the panels from an electrical shock delivered through the electrodes. Further, the electrodes are at least partially coated with a dielectric material to insulate the electrodes from the cardiac harness. In one embodiment, the strands or rows of undulations are formed from Nitinol and are coated with a dielectric material such as silicone rubber. In this embodiment, the electrodes are at least partially coated with the same dielectric material of silicone rubber. The electrode portion of the leads are not covered by the dielectric material so that as the electrical shock is delivered by the electrodes to the epicardial surface of the heart, the coated panels and the portion of the electrodes that are coated are insulated by the silicone rubber. In other words, the heart received an electrical shock only where the bare metal of the electrodes are in contact with or are adjacent to the epicardial surface of the heart. The dielectric coating also serves to attach the panels to the electrodes.
In another embodiment, the electrodes have a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being in contact with the outer surface of the heart, such as the epicardium, and the second surface faces away from the heart. Both the first surface and the second surface do not have a dielectric coating so that an electrical charge can be delivered to the outer surface of the heart for defibrillating or for pacing. In this embodiment, at least a portion of the electrodes are coated with a dielectric coating, such as silicone rubber, Parylene™ or polyurethane. The dielectric coating serves to insulate the bare metal portions of the electrode from the cardiac harness, and also to provide attachment means for attaching the electrodes to the panels of the cardiac harness.
The number of electrodes and the number of panels forming the cardiac harness is a matter of choice. For example, in one embodiment the cardiac harness can include two panels separated by two electrodes. The electrodes would be positioned 180° apart, or in some other orientation so that the electrodes could be positioned to provide a optimum electrical shock to the epicardial surface of the heart, preferably adjacent the right ventricle or the left ventricle. In another embodiment, the electrodes can be positioned 180° apart so that the electrical shock carries through the myocardium adjacent the right ventricle thereby providing an optimal electrical shock for defibrillation or periodic shocks for pacing. In another embodiment, three leads are associated with the cardiac harness so that there are three panels separated by the three electrodes.
In yet another embodiment, four panels on the cardiac harness are separated by four electrodes. In this embodiment, two electrodes are positioned adjacent the left ventricle on or near the epicardial surface of the heart while the other two electrodes are positioned adjacent the right ventricle on or near the epicardial surface of the heart. As an electrical shock is delivered, it passes through the myocardium between the two sets of electrodes to shock the entire ventricles.
In another embodiment, there are more than four panels and more than four electrodes forming the cardiac harness. Placement of the electrodes and the panels is a matter of choice. Further, one or more electrodes may be deactivated.
In another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes multiple electrodes separating multiple panels. The embodiment also includes one or more pacing/sensing electrodes (multi-site) for use in sensing heart functions, and delivering pacing stimuli for resynchronization, including biventricular pacing and left ventricle pacing or right ventricular pacing.
In each of the embodiments, an electrical shock for defibrillation, or an electrical pacing stimuli for synchronization or pacing is delivered by a pulse generator, which can include an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD), a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D), and/or a pacemaker. Further, in each of the foregoing embodiments, the cardiac harness can be coupled with multiple pacing/sensing electrodes to provide multi-site pacing to control cardiac function. By incorporating multi-site pacing into the cardiac harness, the system can be used to treat contractile dysfunction while concurrently treating bradycardia and tachycardia. This will improve pumping function by altering heart chamber contraction sequences while maintaining pumping rate and rhythm. In one embodiment, the cardiac harness incorporates pacing/sensing electrodes positioned on the epicardial surface of the heart adjacent to the left and right ventricle for pacing both the left and right ventricles.
In another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes multiple electrodes separating multiple panels. In this embodiment, at least some of the electrodes are positioned on or near (proximate) the epicardial surface of the heart for providing an electrical shock for defibrillation, and other of the electrodes are positioned on the epicardial surface of the heart to provide pacing stimuli useful in synchronizing the left and right ventricles, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and biventricular pacing or left ventricular pacing or right ventricular pacing.
In another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes multiple electrodes separating multiple panels. At least some of the electrodes provide an electrical shock for defibrillation, and one of the electrodes, a single site electrode, is used for pacing and sensing a single ventricle. For example, the single site electrode is used for left ventricular pacing or right ventricular pacing. The single site electrode also can be positioned near the septum in order to provide bi-ventricular pacing.
In yet another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes one or more electrodes associated with the cardiac harness for providing a pacing/sensing function. In this embodiment, a single site electrode is positioned on the epicardial surface of the heart adjacent the left ventricle for left ventricular pacing. Alternatively, a single site electrode is positioned on the surface of the heart adjacent the right ventricle to provide right ventricular pacing. Alternatively, more than one pacing/sensing electrode is positioned on the epicardial surface of the heart to treat synchrony of both ventricles, including bi-ventricular pacing.
In another embodiment, the cardiac harness includes coils that separate multiple panels. The coils have a high degree of flexibility, yet are capable of providing column strength so that the cardiac harness can be delivered by minimally invasive access.
In yet another embodiment, a system for treating a patient's heart has been contemplated, that includes a defibrillation compatible cardiac harness that does not include a lead system, and a leadless defibrillator that partially surrounds the heart (but does not touch the heart) and the harness. In this embodiment, the cardiac harness and the leadless defibrillator are delivered to the heart through the same minimally invasive access site. However, in other embodiments, the cardiac harness and leadless defibrillator are delivered to the heart through separate access sites. It has also been contemplated that the cardiac harness and leadless defibrillator could be delivered to the heart during separate surgical procedures at different dates.
In another embodiment, a system for treating a patient's heart includes a cardiac harness having an antenna for transmitting QRS signals of the heart to a defibrillator. The defibrillator may be an external defibrillator, an automatic external defibrillator (“AED”), or a leadless defibrillator implanted near the heart. To form an RF antenna on the cardiac harness, at least some of the undulations of the cardiac harness are not covered with a dielectric material, leaving the bare wire of the harness exposed at specified locations. Also, coils associated with the harness can operate as an RF antenna to transmit signals to a defibrillator. Therefore, the electric signals provided by the heart will be transmitted through the bare metal wire of the cardiac harness that is in contact with the heart's surface, or through the coils, and the signal will be received by the defibrillator.
All embodiments of the cardiac harness, including those with electrodes, are configured for delivery and implantation on the heart using minimally invasive approaches involving cardiac access through, for example, subxiphoid, subcostal, or intercostal incisions, and through the skin by percutaneous delivery using a catheter.
FIG. 1 depicts a schematic view of a heart with a prior art cardiac harness placed thereon.
FIGS. 2A–2B depict a spring hinge of a prior art cardiac harness in a relaxed position and under tension.
FIG. 3 depicts a prior art cardiac harness that has been cut out of a flat sheet of material.
FIG. 4 depicts the prior art cardiac harness of FIG. 3 formed into a shape configured to fit about a heart.
FIG. 5A depicts a flattened view of one embodiment of the cardiac harness of the invention showing two panels connected to two electrodes.
FIG. 5B depicts a cross-sectional view of an electrode.
FIG. 5C depicts a cross-sectional view of an electrode.
FIG. 5D depicts a cross-sectional view of an electrode.
FIG. 6A depicts a cross-sectional view of an undulating strand or ring.
FIG. 6B depicts a cross-sectional view of an undulating strand or ring.
FIG. 6C depicts a cross-sectional view of an undulating strand or ring.
FIG. 7A depicts an enlarged plan view of a cardiac harness showing three electrodes separating three panels, with the far side panel not shown for clarity.
FIG. 7B depicts an enlarged partial plan view of the cardiac harness of FIG. 7A showing an electrode partially covered with a dielectric material which also serves to attach the panels to the electrode.
FIG. 8A depicts a transverse cross-sectional view of the heart showing the position of electrodes for defibrillation and/or pacing/sensing functions.
FIG. 8B depicts a transverse cross-sectional view of the heart showing the position of electrodes for defibrillation and/or pacing/sensing functions.
FIG. 8C depicts a transverse cross-sectional view of the heart showing the position of electrodes for defibrillation and/or pacing/sensing functions.
FIG. 8D depicts a transverse cross-sectional view of the heart showing the position of electrodes for defibrillation and/or pacing/sensing functions.
FIG. 9 depicts a plan view of one embodiment of a cardiac harness having panels separated by and attached to flexible coils.
FIG. 10 depicts a flattened plan view of a cardiac harness similar to that of FIG. 9 but with fewer panels and coils.
FIG. 11 depicts a plan view of one embodiment of a cardiac harness having panels separated by and attached to flexible coils.
FIG. 12 depicts a plan view of a cardiac harness similar to that shown in FIG. 11 mounted on the epicardial surface of the heart.
FIG. 13 depicts a perspective view of a cardiac harness similar to that of FIG. 9 where the harness has been folded to reduce its profile for minimally invasive delivery.
FIG. 14 depicts the cardiac harness of FIG. 13 in a partially bent and folded condition to reduce its profile for minimally invasive delivery.
FIG. 15A depicts an enlarged plan view of a cardiac harness showing continuous undulating strands with electrodes overlaying the strands.
FIG. 15B depicts an enlarged partial plan view of the cardiac harness of FIG. 15A showing continuous undulating strands with an electrode overlying the strands.
FIG. 15C depicts a partial cross-sectional view taken along lines 15C–15C showing the electrode and undulating strands.
FIG. 15D depicts a partial cross-sectional view taken along lines 15D–15D showing the undulating strands in notches in the electrode.
FIG. 16 depicts a top view of a fixture for winding wire to construct the cardiac harness.
FIG. 17 depicts a plan view of a portion of a cardiac harness showing panels separated by electrodes.
FIGS. 18A, 18B and 18C depict various views of a mold used for injecting a dielectric material around the cardiac harness and the electrodes.
FIGS. 19A, 19B and 19C depict various views of molds used in injecting a dielectric material around the cardiac harness and the electrodes.
FIG. 20 depicts a top view of a portion of an electrode having a metallic coil winding.
FIG. 21 depicts a side view of the electrode portion shown in FIG. 20.
FIG. 22 depicts a cross-sectional view taken along lines 22—22 showing lumens extending through the electrode.
FIG. 23 depicts a cross-sectional view taken along lines 23—23 depicting another embodiment of lumens extending through the electrode.
FIG. 24 depicts a top view of a portion of an electrode having multiple coil windings.
FIG. 25A depicts a side view of a portion of a defibrillator electrode combined with a pacing/sensing electrode.
FIG. 25B depicts a top view of the electrode portion of FIG. 25A.
FIGS. 26A–26C depict various views of a defibrillator electrode combined with a pacing/sensing electrode.
FIG. 27 depicts a side view of an introducer for delivering the cardiac harness through minimally invasive procedures.
FIG. 28 depicts a perspective end view of a dilator with the cardiac harness releasably positioned therein.
FIG. 29 depicts an end view of the introducer with the cardiac harness releasably positioned therein.
FIG. 30 depicts a schematic cross-sectional view of a human thorax with the cardiac harness system being delivered by a delivery device inserted through an intercostal space and contacting the heart.
FIG. 31 depicts a plan view of the heart with a suction device releasably attached to the apex of the heart.
FIG. 32 depicts a plan view of the heart with the suction device attached to the apex and the introducer positioned to deliver the cardiac harness over the heart.
FIG. 33 depicts a plan view of the cardiac harness being deployed from the introducer onto the epicardial surface of the heart.
FIG. 34 depicts a plan view of the heart with the cardiac harness being deployed from the introducer onto the epicardial surface of the heart.
FIG. 35 depicts a plan view of the heart with the cardiac harness having electrodes attached thereto, surrounding a portion of the heart.
FIG. 36 depicts a schematic view of the cardiac harness assembly mounted on the human heart together with leads and an ICD for use in defibrillation or pacing.
FIG. 37 depicts an exploded a side view of a delivery system with the introducer tube, dilator tube, and ejection tube shown prior to assembly.
FIG. 38 depicts a cross-sectional view of the introducer tube taken along lines 38—38.
FIG. 39 depicts a cross-sectional view taken along lines 39—39 showing the cross-section of the dilator tube.
FIG. 40 depicts a cross-sectional view taken along lines 40—40 extending through the plate of the ejection tube and showing the various lumens in the plate.
FIG. 41 depicts a cross-sectional view taken along lines 41—41 of the proximal end of the ejection tube.
FIG. 42 depicts a longitudinal cross-sectional view and schematic of the ejection tube with the leads from the electrodes extending through the lumens in the plate and the tubing from the suction cup extending through a lumen in the plate.
FIG. 43 depicts a schematic view of a cardiac harness mounted on a human heart.
FIG. 44 depicts a schematic view of the cardiac harness mounted on a human heart and an introducer being inserted through a lateral incision to form a subcutaneous pocket.
FIG. 45 depicts a schematic view of the cardiac harness mounted on a human heart and a leadless defibrillator being implanted through the lateral incision.
FIG. 46 depicts a schematic view of the cardiac harness and the leadless defibrillator partially surrounding the heart.
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for treating heart failure. It is anticipated that remodeling of a diseased heart can be resisted or even reversed by alleviating the wall stresses in such a heart. The present invention discloses embodiments and methods for supporting the cardiac wall and for providing defibrillation and/or pacing functions using the same system. Additional embodiments and aspects are also discussed in Applicants' co-pending application entitled “Multi-Panel Cardiac Harness” U.S. Ser. No. 60/458,991 filed Mar. 28, 2003, the entirety of which is hereby expressly incorporated by reference.
Prior Art Devices
FIG. 1 illustrates a mammalian heart 10 having a prior art cardiac wall stress reduction device in the form of a harness applied to it. The harness surrounds a portion of the heart and covers the right ventricle 11, the left ventricle 12, and the apex 13. For convenience of reference, longitudinal axis 15 goes through the apex and the AV groove 14. The cardiac harness has a series of hinges or spring elements that circumscribe the heart and, collectively, apply a mild compressive force on the heart to alleviate wall stresses.
The term “cardiac harness” as used herein is a broad term that refers to a device fit onto a patient's heart to apply a compressive force on the heart during at least a portion of the cardiac cycle.
The cardiac harness illustrated in FIG. 1 has at least one undulating strand having a series of spring elements referred to as hinges or spring hinges that are configured to deform as the heart expands during filling. Each hinge provides substantially unidirectional elasticity, in that it acts in one direction and does not provide as much elasticity in the direction perpendicular to that direction. For example, FIG. 2A shows a prior art hinge member at rest. The hinge member has a central portion and a pair of arms. As the arms are pulled, as shown in FIG. 2B, a bending moment is imposed on the central portion. The bending moment urges the hinge member back to its relaxed condition. Note that a typical strand comprises a series of such hinges, and that the hinges are adapted to elastically expand and retract in the direction of the strand.
In the harness illustrated in FIG. 1, the strands of spring elements are constructed of extruded wire that is deformed to form the spring elements.
FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate another prior art cardiac harness, shown at two points during manufacture of such a harness. The harness is first formed from a relatively thin, flat sheet of material. Any method can be used to form the harness from the flat sheet. For example, in one embodiment, the harness is photochemically etched from the material; in another embodiment, the harness is laser-cut from the thin sheet of material. The harness shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 has been etched from a thin sheet of Nitinol, which is superelastic material that also exhibits shape memory properties. The flat sheet of material is draped over a form, die or the like, and is formed to generally take on the shape of at least a portion of a heart.
With further reference to FIGS. 1 and 4, the cardiac harnesses have a base portion which is sized and configured to generally engage and fit onto a base region of a patient's heart, an apex portion which is sized and shaped so as to generally engage and fit on an apex region of a patient's heart, and a medial portion between the base and apex portions.
In the harness shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the harness has strands or rows of undulating wire. As discussed above, the undulations have hinge/spring elements which are elastically bendable in a desired direction. Some of the strands are connected to each other by interconnecting elements. The interconnecting elements help maintain the position of the strands relative to one another. Preferably the interconnecting elements allow some relative movement between adjacent strands.
The undulating spring elements exert a force in resistance to expansion of the heart. Collectively, the force exerted by the spring elements tends toward compressing the heart, thus alleviating wall stresses in the heart as the heart expands. Accordingly, the harness helps to decrease the workload of the heart, enabling the heart to more effectively pump blood through the patient's body and enabling the heart an opportunity to heal itself. It should be understood that several arrangements and configurations of spring members can be used to create a mildly compressive force on the heart to reduce wall stresses. For example, spring members can be disposed over only a portion of the circumference of the heart or the spring members can cover a substantial portion of the heart.
As the heart expands and contracts during diastole and systole, the contractile cells of the myocardium expand and contract. In a diseased heart, the myocardium may expand such that the cells are distressed and lose at least some contractility. Distressed cells are less able to deal with the stresses of expansion and contraction. As such, the effectiveness of heart pumping decreases. Each series of spring hinges of the above cardiac harness embodiments is configured so that as the heart expands during diastole the spring hinges correspondingly will expand, thus storing expansion forces as bending energy in the spring. As such, the stress load on the myocardium is partially relieved by the harness. This reduction in stress helps the myocardium cells to remain healthy and/or regain health. As the heart contracts during systole, the disclosed prior art cardiac harnesses apply a moderate compressive force as the hinge or spring elements release the bending energy developed during expansion allowing the cardiac harness to follow the heart as it contracts and to apply contractile force as well.
Other structural configurations for cardiac harnesses exist, however, but all have drawbacks and do not function optimally to treat CHF and other related diseases or failures. The present invention cardiac harness provides a novel approach to treat CHF and provides electrodes associated with the harness to deliver an electrical shock for defibrillation or a pacing stimulus for resynchronization, or for biventricular pacing/sensing.
The Present Invention Embodiments
The present invention is directed to a cardiac harness system for treating the heart. The cardiac harness system of the present invention couples a cardiac harness for treating the heart coupled with a cardiac rhythm management device. More particularly, the cardiac harness includes rows or undulating strands of spring elements that provide a compressive force on the heart during diastole and systole in order to relieve wall stress pressure on the heart. Associated with the cardiac harness is a cardiac rhythm management device for treating any number of irregularities in heart beat due to, among other reasons, congestive heart failure. Thus, the cardiac rhythm management device associated with the cardiac harness can include one or more of the following: an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with associated leads and electrodes; a cardiac pacemaker including leads and electrodes used for sensing cardiac function and providing pacing stimuli to treat synchrony of both vessels; and a combined implantable cardioverter/defibrillator and pacemaker, with associated leads and electrodes to provide a defibrillation shock and/or pacing/sensing functions.
The cardiac harness system includes various configurations of panels connected together to at least partially surround the heart and assist the heart during diastole and systole. The cardiac harness system also includes one or more leads having electrodes associated with the cardiac harness and a source of electrical energy supplied to the electrodes for delivering a defibrillating shock or pacing stimuli.
In one embodiment of the invention, as shown in a flattened configuration in FIG. 5, a cardiac harness 20 includes two panels 21 of generally continuous undulating strands 22. A panel includes rows or undulating strands of hinges or spring elements that are connected together and that are positioned between a pair of electrodes, the rows or undulations being highly elastic in the circumferential direction and, to a lesser extent, in the longitudinal direction. In this embodiment, the undulating strands have U-shaped hinges or spring elements 23 capable of expanding and contracting circumferentially along directional line 24. The cardiac harness has a base or upper end 25 and an apex or lower end 26. The undulating strands are highly elastic in the circumferential direction when placed around the heart 10, and to a lesser degree in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis 15 of the heart. Similar hinges or spring elements are disclosed in co-pending and co-assigned U.S. Ser. No. 60/458,991 filed Mar. 28, 2003, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. While the FIG. 5 embodiment appears flat for ease of reference, in use it is substantially cylindrical (or tapered) to conform to the heart and the right and left side panels would actually be one panel and there would be no discontinuity in the undulating strands.
The undulating strands 22 provide a compressive force on the epicardial surface of the heart thereby relieving wall stress. In particular, the spring elements 23 expand and contract circumferentially as the heart expands and contracts during the diastolic and systolic functions. As the heart expands, the spring elements expand and resist expansion as they continue to open and store expansion forces. During systole, as the heart 10 contracts, the spring elements will contract circumferentially by releasing the stored bending forces thereby assisting in both the diastolic and systolic function.
As just discussed, bending stresses are absorbed by the spring elements 23 during diastole and are stored in the elements as bending energy. During systole, when the heart pumps, the heart muscles contract and the heart becomes smaller. Simultaneously, bending energy stored within the spring elements 23 is at least partially released, thereby providing an assist to the heart during systole. In a preferred embodiment, the compressive force exerted on the heart by the spring elements of the harness comprises about 10% to 15% of the mechanical work done as the heart contracts during systole. Although the harness is not intended to replace ventricular pumping, the harness does substantially assist the heart during systole.
The undulating strands 22 can have varying numbers of spring element 23 depending upon the amplitude and pitch of the spring elements. For example, by varying the amplitude of the pitch of the spring elements, the number of undulations per panel will vary as well. It may be desired to increase the amount of compressive force the cardiac harness 20 imparts on the epicardial surface of the heart, therefore the present invention provides for panels that have spring elements with lower amplitudes and a shorter pitch, thereby increasing the expansion force imparted by the spring element. In other words, all other factors being constant, a spring element having a relatively lower amplitude will be more rigid and resist opening, thereby storing more bending forces during diastole. Further, if the pitch is smaller, there will be more spring elements per unit of length along the undulating strand, thereby increasing the overall bending force stored during diastole, and released during systole. Other factors that will affect the compressive force imparted by the cardiac harness onto the epicardial surface of the heart include the shape of the spring elements, the diameter and shape of the wire forming the undulating strands, and the material comprising the strands.
As shown in FIG. 5, the undulating strands 22 are connected to each other by grip pads 27. In the embodiments shown in FIG. 5, adjacent undulating strands are connected by one or more grip pads attached at the apex 28 of the spring elements 23. The number of grip pads between adjacent undulating strands is a matter of choice and can range from one grip pad between adjacent undulating strands, to one grip pad for every apex on the undulating strand. Importantly, the grip pads should be positioned in order to maintain flexibility of the cardiac harness 20 without sacrificing the objectives of maintaining the spacing between adjacent undulating strands to prevent overlap and to enhance the frictional engagement between the grip pads and the epicardial surface of the heart. Further, while it is desirable to have the grip pads attached at the apex of the spring elements, the invention is not so limited. The grip pads 27 can be attached anywhere along the length of the spring elements, including the sides 29. Further, the shape of the grip pads 27, as shown in FIG. 5, can vary to suit a particular purpose. For example, grip pad 27 can be attached to the apex 28 of one undulating strand 22, and be attached to two apices on an adjacent undulating strand (see FIG. 7). As shown in FIG. 5, all of the apices point toward each other, and are said to be “out-of-phase.” If the apices of the undulations were aligned, they would be “in-phase.” The apices are all out-of-phase since the number of spring elements in each undulating strand is the same, however, the invention contemplates that the number of spring elements in each undulating strand may vary since the heart is tapered from its base near the top to its apex 13 at the bottom. Thus, there would be more spring elements and a longer undulating strand per panel at the top or base of the cardiac harness than at the bottom of the cardiac harness near the apex of the heart. Accordingly, the cardiac harness would be tapered from the relatively wide base to a relatively narrow bottom toward the apex of the heart, and this would affect the alignment of the apices of the spring elements, and hence the ability of the grip pads 27 to align perfectly and attach to adjacent apices of the spring elements. A further disclosure and embodiments relating to the undulating strands and the attachment means in the form of grip pads is found in co-pending and co-assigned U.S. Ser. No. 60/486,062 filed Jul. 10, 2003, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. While the connections between adjacent undulating strands 22 is preferably grip pads 27, in an alternative embodiment (not shown) the undulating strands are connected by interconnecting elements made of the same material as the strands. The interconnecting elements can be straight or curved as shown in FIGS. 8A–8B of commonly owned U.S. Pat. No. 6,612,979 B2, the entire contents of which is incorporated by reference herein.
It is preferred that the undulating strands 22 be continuous as shown in FIG. 5. For example, every pair of adjacent undulating strands are connected by bar arm 30. It is preferred that the bar arms form part of a continuous wire that is bent to form the undulating strands, and then welded at its ends along the bar arm. The weld is not shown in FIG. 5, but can be by any conventional method such as laser welding, fusion bonding, or conventional welding. The type of wire used to form the undulating strands may have a bearing on the method of attaching the ends of the wire used to form the undulating strand. For example, it is preferred that the undulating strands be made out of a nickel-titanium alloy, such as Nitinol, which may lose some of its superelastic or shape memory properties if exposed to high heat during conventional welding.
Associated with the cardiac harness of the present invention is a cardiac rhythm management device as previously disclosed. Thus, associated with the cardiac harness as shown in FIG. 5, are one or more electrodes for use in providing defibrillating shock. As can be seen immediately below, any number of factors associated with congestive heart failure can lead to fibrillation, acquiring immediate action to save the patient's life.
Diseased hearts often have several maladies. One malady that is not uncommon is irregularity in heartbeat caused by irregularities in the electrical stimulation system of the heart. For example, damage from a cardiac infarction can interrupt the electrical signal of the heart. In some instances, implantable devices, such as pacemakers, help to regulate cardiac rhythm and stimulate heart pumping. A problem with the heart's electrical system can sometimes cause the heart to fibrillate. During fibrillation, the heart does not beat normally, and sometimes does not pump adequately. A cardiac defibrillator can be used to restore the heart to normal beating. An external defibrillator typically includes a pair of electrode paddles applied to the patient's chest. The defibrillator generates an electric field between electrodes. An electric current passes through the patient's heart and stimulates the heart's electrical system to help restore the heart to regular pumping.
Sometimes a patient's heart begins fibrillating during heart surgery or other open-chest surgeries. In such instances, a special type of defibrillating device is used. An open-chest defibrillator includes special electrode paddles that are configured to be applied to the heart on opposite sides of the heart. A strong electric field is created between the paddles, and an electric current passes through the heart to defibrillate the heart and restore the heart to regular pumping.
In some patients that are especially vulnerable to fibrillation, an implantable heart defibrillation device may be used. Typically, an implantable heart defibrillation device includes an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or a cardiac resynchronization therapy device (CRT-D) which usually has only one electrode positioned in the right ventricle, and the return electrode is the defibrillator housing itself, typically implanted in the pectoral region. Alternatively, an implantable device includes two or more electrodes mounted directly on, in or adjacent the heart wall. If the patient's heart begins fibrillating, these electrodes will generate an electric field therebetween in a manner similar to the other defibrillators discussed above.
Testing has indicated that when defibrillating electrodes are applied external to a heart that is surrounded by a device made of electrically conductive material, at least some of the electrical current disbursed by the electrodes is conducted around the heart by the conductive material, rather than through the heart. Thus, the efficacy of defibrillation is reduced. Accordingly, the present invention includes several cardiac harness embodiments that enable defibrillation of the heart and other embodiments disclose means for defibrillating, resynchronization, left ventricular pacing, right ventricular pacing, and biventricular pacing/sensing.
In further keeping with the invention, the cardiac harness 20 includes a pair of leads 31 having conductive electrode portions 32 that are spaced apart and which separate panels 21. As shown in FIG. 5, the electrodes are formed of a conductive coil wire 33 that is wrapped around a non-conductive member 34, preferably in a helical manner. A conductive wire 35 is attached to the coil wire and to a power source 36. As used herein, the power source 36 can include any of the following, depending upon the particular application of the electrode: a pulse generator; an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator; a pacemaker; and an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator coupled with a pacemaker. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the electrodes are configured to deliver an electrical shock, via the conductive wire and the power source, to the epicardial surface of the heart so that the electrical shock passes through the myocardium. Even though the electrodes are spaced so that they would be about 180° apart around the circumference of the heart in the embodiment shown, they are not so limited. In other words, the electrodes can be spaced so that they are about 45° apart, 60° apart, 90° apart, 120° apart, or any arbitrary arc length spacing, or, for that matter, essentially any arc length apart around the circumference of the heart in order to deliver an appropriate electrical shock. As previously described, it may become necessary to defibrillate the heart and the electrodes 32 are configured to deliver an appropriate electrical shock to defibrillate the heart.
Still referring to FIG. 5, the electrodes 32 are attached to the cardiac harness 20, and more particularly to the undulating strands 22, by a dielectric material 37. The dielectric material insulates the electrodes from the cardiac harness so that electrical current does not pass from the electrode to the harness thereby undesirably shunting current away from the heart for defibrillation. Preferrably, the dielectric material covers the undulating strands 22 and covers at least a portion of the electrodes 32. In the FIG. 5 embodiment, the middle panel undulating strands are covered with the dielectric material while the right and left side panels are bare metal. While it is preferred that all of the undulating strands of the panels be coated with the dielectric material, thereby insulating the harness from the electric shock delivered by the electrodes, some or all of the undulating strands can be bare metal used to deliver the electrical shock to the epicardial surface of the heart for defibrillation or for pacing.
As will be described in more detail, the electrodes 32 have a conductive discharge first surface 38 that is intended to be proximate to or in direct contact with the epicardial surface of the heart, and a conductive discharge second surface 39 that is opposite to the first surface and faces away from the heart surface. As used herein, the term “proximate” is intended to mean that the electrode is positioned near or in direct contact with the outer surface of the heart, such as the epicardial surface of the heart. The first surface and second surface typically will not be covered with the dielectric material 37 so that the bare metal conductive coil can transmit the electrical current from the power source (pulse generator), such as an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD or CRT-D) 36, to the epicardial surface of the heart. In an alternative embodiment, either the first or the second surface may be covered with dielectric material in order to preferentially direct the current through only one surface. Further details of the construction and use of the leads 31 and electrodes 33 of the present invention, in conjunction with the cardiac harness, will be described more fully herein.
Importantly, the dielectric material 37 used to attach the electrodes 32 to the undulating strands 22 insulates the undulating strands from any electrical current discharged through the conductive metal coils 33 of the electrodes. Further, the dielectric material in this embodiment is flexible so that the electrodes can serve as a seam or hinge to fold the cardiac harness 20 into a lower profile for minimally invasive delivery. Thus, as will be described in more detail (see FIGS. 13 and 14), the cardiac harness can be folded along its length, along the length of the electrodes, in order to reduce the profile for intercostal delivery, for example through the rib cage or other area typically used for minimally invasive surgery for accessing the heart. Minimally invasive approaches involving the heart typically are made through subxiphoid, subcostal or intercostal incisions. When the cardiac harness is folded, it can be reduced into a circular or a more or less oval shape, both of which promote minimally invasive procedures.
In further keeping with the invention, cross sectional views of the leads 31 and the electrode portion 32 are shown in FIGS. 5B, 5C, and 5D. As shown in FIG. 5B, the electrode 32 has the coil wire 33 wrapped around the non-conducting member 34 in a helical pattern. The dielectric material 37 provides a spaced connection between the electrode and the bar arms 30 at the ends of the undulating strands 22. The electrodes do not touch or overlap with the bar arms or any portion of the undulating strands. Instead, the dielectric material provides the attachment means between the electrodes and the bar arms of the undulating strands. Thus, the dielectric material 37 not only acts as an insulating non-conductive material, but also provides attachment means between the undulating strands and the electrodes. Because the dielectric material 37 is relatively thin at the attachment points, it is highly flexible and permits the electrodes to be flexible along with the cardiac harness panels 21, which will expand and contract as the heart beats as previously described.
Referring to FIG. 5C, the non-conductive member 34 extends beyond the coil wire 33 for a distance. The non-conductive member preferably is made from the same material as the dielectric material 37, typically a silicone rubber or similar material. While it is preferred that the dielectric material be made from silicone rubber, or a similar material, it also can be made from Parylene™ (Union Carbide), polyurethanes, PTFE, TFE, and ePTFE. As can be seen, the non-conductive member provides support for the dielectric material to attach the bar arms 30 of the undulating strands 22 in order to connect the strands to the electrode 32. A conductive wire 35 extends through the non-conducting member and attaches to the proximal end of the coil wire 33 so that when an electrical current is delivered from the power source 36 through conductive wire 35, the electrode coil 33 will be energized. The conductive wire 35 is also covered by non-conducting material 34. Referring to FIG. 5D, it can be seen that the non-conductive member 34 continues to extend beyond the bottom (apex) of the cardiac harness and that conductive wire 35 continues to extend out of the non-conductive member and into the power source 36. In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 5B–5D, the cardiac harness is insulated from the electrodes by the dielectric material 37 so that there is no shunting of electrical currents by the cardiac harness 20 from the electrical shock delivered by the electrodes during defibrillation or pacing functions.
While it is preferred that the cardiac harness 20 be comprised of undulating strands 22 made from a solid wire member, such as a superelastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol, and be insulated from the electrodes 32, it is possible to use some or all of the undulating strands to deliver the electrical shock to the epicardial surface of the heart. For example, as shown in FIG. 6A, a composite wire 45 can be used to form the undulating strands 22 and, importantly, to effectively transmit current to deliver an electrical shock to the epicardial surface of the heart. The composite wire 45 includes a current conducting wire 47 made from, for example silver (Ag), and which is covered by a Nitinol tube 46. In order to improve the surface conductivity of the outer Nitinol tube 46, a highly conductive coating is placed on the Nitinol tube. For example, the Nitinol tube can be covered with a deposition layer of platinum (Pt) or platinum-iridium (Pt—Ir), or an equivalent material including iridium oxide (IROX). The composite wire, so constructed, will have superior mechanical performance to expand and contract due to the Nitinol tubing, and also will have improved electrical properties resulting from the current conducting wire 47 and improved electrolytic/electrochemical properties via the surface layer of platinum-iridium. Thus, if some portion or all of the undulating strands 22 are made from a composite wire 45, the cardiac harness 20 will be capable of delivering a defibrillating shock on selected portions of the heart via the undulating strands and will also function to impart compressive forces as previously described.
In contrast to the current conducting undulating strands of FIG. 6A, are the non-conducting insulated undulating strands 22 as shown by cross sectional view FIG. 6B. As previously described, some or all of the undulating strands 22 can be covered with dielectric material 37 in order to insulate the strands from the electrical current delivered through the electrodes while delivering shock on the epicardial surface of the heart. Thus, as shown in FIG. 6B, the undulating strands 22 are covered by dielectric material 37 to provide insulation from the electrical shock delivered by the electrodes 32, yet maintain the flexibility and the expansive properties of the undulating strands.
An important aspect of the invention is to provide a cardiac harness 20 that can be implanted minimally invasively and be attached to the epicardial surface of the heart, without requiring sutures, clips, screws, glue or other attachment means. Importantly, the undulating strands 22 may provide relatively high frictional engagement with the epicardial surface, depending on the cross-sectional shape of the strands. For example, in the embodiment disclosed in FIG. 6C, the cross-sectional shape of the undulating strands 22 can be circular, rectangular, triangular or for that matter, any shape that increases the frictional engagement between the undulating strands and the epicardial surface of the heart. As shown in FIG. 6C, the middle cross-section view having a flat rectangular surface (wider than tall) not only has a low profile for enhancing minimally invasive delivery of the cardiac harness, but it also has rectangular edges that may have a tendency to engage and dig into the epicardium to increase the frictional engagement with the epicardial surface of the heart. With the proper cross-sectional shape for the undulating strands, coupled with the grip pads 27 having a high frictional engagement feature, the necessity for suturing, clipping, or further attachment means to attach the cardiac harness to the epicardial surface of the heart becomes unnecessary.
In another embodiment as shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, a different configuration for cardiac harness 20 and the electrodes 32 are shown, as compared to the FIG. 5 embodiments. In FIGS. 7A and 7B, three electrodes are shown separating the three panels 21 with undulating strands 22 extending between the electrodes. As with previous embodiments, springs 23 are formed by the undulating strands so that the undulating strands can expand and contract during the diastolic and systolic functions, and apply a compressive force during both functions. The far side panel of FIG. 7A is not shown for clarity purposes. The position of the electrodes around the circumference of the heart is a matter of choice, and in the embodiment of FIG. 7A, the electrodes can be spaced an equal distance apart at about 120°. Alternatively, it may be important to deliver the electrical shock more through the right ventricle requiring the positioning of the electrodes closer to the right ventricle than to the left ventricle. Similarly, it may be more important to deliver an electrical shock to the left ventricle as opposed to the right ventricle. Thus, positioning of electrodes, as with other embodiments, is a matter of choice.
Still referring to FIGS. 7A and 7B, in this embodiment electrodes 32 extend beyond the bottom or apex portion of the cardiac harness 20 in order to insure that the electrical shock delivered by the electrodes is delivered to the epicardial surface of the heart and including the lower portion of the heart closer to the apex 13. Thus, the electrodes 22 have a distal end 50 and a proximal end 51 where the proximal end is positioned closer to the apex 13 of the heart and the distal end is positioned closer to the base or upper portion of the heart. As used herein, distal is intended to mean further into the body and away from the attending physician, and proximal is meant to be closer to the outside of the body and closer to the attending physician. The proximal ends of the electrodes are positioned closer to the apex of the heart and provide several functions, including the ability to deliver an electrical shock closer to the apex of the heart. The electrode proximal ends also function to provide support for the cardiac harness 20 and the panels 21, and lend support not only during delivery (as will be further described herein) but in separating the panels and in gripping the epicardial surface of the heart to retain the harness on the heart without slipping.
While the FIGS. 7A and 7B embodiments show electrodes 32 separating three panels 21 of the cardiac panel 20, more or fewer electrodes and panels can be provided to suit a particular application. For example, in one preferred embodiment, four electrodes 32 separate four panels 21, so that two of the electrodes can be positioned on opposite sides of the left ventricle and two of the electrodes can be positioned on opposite sides of the right ventricle. In this embodiment, preferably all four electrodes would be used, with a first set of two electrodes on opposite sides of the right ventricle acting as one (common) electrode and a second set of two electrodes on opposite sides of the left ventricle acting as the opposite (common) electrode. Alternatively, two of the electrodes can be activated while the other two electrodes act as dummy electrodes in that they would not be activated unless necessary.
At present, commercially available implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICD's) are capable of delivering approximately thirty to forty joules in order to defibrillate the heart. With respect to the present invention, it is preferred that the electrodes 22 of the cardiac harness 20 of the present invention deliver defibrillating shocks having less than thirty to forty joules. The commercially available ICD's can be modified to provide lower power levels to suit the present invention cardiac harness system with electrodes delivering less than thirty to forty joules of power. As a general rule, one objective of the electrode configuration is to create a uniform current density distribution throughout the myocardium. Therefore, in addition to the number of electrodes used, their size, shape, and relative positions will also all have an impact on the induced current density distribution. Thus, while one to four electrodes are preferred embodiments of the invention, five to eight electrodes also are envisioned.
In keeping with the present invention, the cardiac harness and the associated cardiac rhythm management device can be used not only for providing a defibrillating shock, but also can be used as a pacing/sensing device for treating the synchrony of both ventricles, for resynchronization, for biventricular pacing and for left ventricular pacing or right ventricular pacing. As shown in FIGS. 8A–8D, the heart 10 is shown in cross-section exposing the right ventricle 11 and the left ventricle 12. The cardiac harness 20 is mounted around the outer surface of the heart, preferably on the epicardial surface of the heart, and multiple electrodes are associated with the cardiac harness. More specifically, electrodes 32 are attached to the cardiac harness and positioned around the circumference of the heart on opposite sides of the right and left ventricles. In the event that fibrillation should occur, the electrodes will provide an electrical shock through the myocardium and the left and right ventricles in order to defibrillate the heart. Also mounted on the cardiac harness, is a pacing/sensing lead 40 that functions to monitor the heart and provide data to a pacemaker. If required, the pacemaker will provide pacing stimuli to synchronize the ventricles, and/or provide left ventricular pacing, right ventricular pacing or biventricular pacing. Thus, for example, in FIG. 8C, pairs of pacing/sensing leads 40 are positioned adjacent the left and right ventricle free walls and can be used to provide pacing stimuli to synchronize the ventricles, or provide left ventricular pacing, right ventricular pacing or biventriculator pacing. The use of proximal Y connectors can simplify the transition to a post-generator such as Oscor's, iLink-B15-10. The iLink-B15-10 can be used to link the right and left ventricular free-wall pace/sense leads 40, as shown in 8D.
In another embodiment of the invention, as shown in FIGS. 9–14, cardiac harness 60 is similar to previously described cardiac harness 20. With respect to cardiac harness 60, it also includes panels 61 consisting of undulating strands 62. In the disclosed embodiments, the undulating strands are continuous and extend through coils as will be described. The undulating strands act as spring elements 63 as with prior embodiments that will expand and contract along directional line 64. The cardiac harness 60 includes a base or upper end 65 and an apex or lower end 66. In order to add stability to the cardiac harness 60, and to assist in maintaining the spacing between the undulating strands 62, grip pads 67 are connected to adjacent strands, preferably at the apex 68 of the springs. Alternatively, the grip pads 67 could be attached from the apex of one spring element to the side 69 of a spring element, or the grip pad could be attached from the side of one spring to the side of an adjacent spring on an adjacent undulating strand. In further keeping with the invention as shown in the FIGS. 9–14, in order to add stability and some mechanical stiffness to the cardiac harness 60, coils 62 are interwoven with the undulating strands, which together define the panels 61. The coils typically are formed of a coil of wire such as Nitinol or similar material (stainless steel, MP35N), and are highly flexible along their longitudinal length. The coils 72 have a coil apex 73 and a coil base 74 to coincide with the harness base 65 and the harness apex 66. The coils can be injected with a non-conducting material so that the undulating strands extend through gaps in the coils and through the non-conducting material. The non-conducting material also fills in the gaps which will prevent the undulating strands from touching the coils so there is no metal-to-metal touching between the undulating strands and the coils. Preferably, the non-conducting material is a dielectric material 77 that is formed of silicone rubber or equivalent material as previously described. Further, a dielectric material 78 also covers the undulating strands in the event a defibrillating shock or pacing stimuli is delivered to the heart via an external defibrillator (e.g., transthoracic) or other means.
Importantly, coils 72 not only perform the function of being highly flexible and provide the attachment means between the coils and the undulating strands, but they also provide structural columns or spines that assist in deploying the harness 60 over the epicardial surface of the heart. Thus, as shown for example in FIG. 12, the cardiac harness 60 has been positioned over the heart and delivered by minimally invasive means, as will be described more fully herein. The coils 72, although highly flexible along their longitudinal length, have sufficient column strength in order to push on the apex 73 of the coils so that the base portion 74 of the coils and of the harness 65 slide over the apex of the heart and along the epicardial surface of the heart until the cardiac harness 60 is positioned over the heart, substantially as shown in FIG. 12.
Referring to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 9 and 11, the cardiac harness 60 has multiple panels 61 and multiple coils 72. More or fewer panels and coils can be used in order to achieve a desired result. For example, eight coils are shown in FIGS. 9 and 11, while fewer coils may provide a harness with greater flexibility since the undulating strands 62 would be longer in the space between each coil. Further, the diameter of the coils can be varied in order to increase or decrease flexibility and/or column strength in order to assist in the delivery of the harness over the heart. The coils preferably have a round cross-sectional wire in the form of a tightly wound spiral or helix so that the cross-section of the coil is circular. However, the cross-sectional shape of the coil need not be circular, but may be more advantageous if it were oval, rectangular, or another shape. Thus, if coils 72 had an oval shape, where the longer axis of the oval was parallel to the circumference of the heart, the coil would flex along its longitudinal axis and still provide substantial column strength to assist in delivery of the cardiac harness 60. Further, an oval-shaped coil would provide a lower profile for minimally invasive delivery. The wire cross-section also need not be round/circular, but can consist of a flat ribbon having a rectangular shape for low profile delivery. The coils also can have different shapes, for example they can be closed coils, open coils, laser-cut coils, wire-wound coils, multi-filar coils, or the coil strands themselves can be coiled (i.e., coiled coils). The electrode need not have a coil of wire, rather the electrode could be formed by a zig-zag-shaped wire (not shown) extending along the electrode. Such a design would be highly flexible and fatigue resistant yet still be capable of providing a defibrillating shock.
The cardiac harness embodiments 60 shown in FIGS. 9–12, can be folded as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14 and yet remain highly flexible for minimally invasive delivery. The coils 72 act as hinges or spines so that the cardiac harness can be folded along the longitudinal axis of the coils. The grip pads typically connecting adjacent undulating strands 62 have been omitted for clarity in these embodiments, however, they would be used as previously described.
In an alternative embodiment, similar to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 9–12, the cardiac harness 60 includes both coils 72 and electrodes 32. In this embodiment, as with the previously described embodiments, a series of undulating strands 22 extend between the coils and the electrodes to form panels 21. In this embodiment, for example, the coils and electrodes form hinge regions so that the panels can be folded along the longitudinal axis of the coils and electrodes for minimally invasive delivery. Further, in this embodiment, there are two coils and four electrodes, with two of the electrodes positioned adjacent the right ventricle, with the remaining two electrodes being positioned adjacent the left ventricle. The coils not only act as a hinge, but provide column strength as previously described so that the cardiac harness can be delivered minimally invasively by delivery through, for example, the intercostal space between the ribs and then pushing the harness over the heart. Likewise, the electrodes provide column strength as well, yet remain flexible along their longitudinal axis, as do the coils.
Referring to FIGS. 15A–15D, the electrodes 32 or the coils 72 can be mounted on the inner surface (touching the heart) or outer surface (away from the heart) of the cardiac harness. Thus, the cardiac harness 20 includes continuous undulating strands 22 that extend circumferentially around the heart without any interruptions. The undulating strands are interconnected by any interconnecting means, including grip pads 27, as previously described. In this embodiment, electrodes 32 or coils 72, or both, are mounted on an inner surface 80 or an outer surface 81 of the cardiac harness 20. A dielectric material 82 is molded around the electrodes or coils and around the undulating strands in order to connect the electrodes and coils to the cardiac harness. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 15D, the electrodes 32 or coils 72 can be formed into a fastening means by forming notches 83 into the electrode (or coil) and which are configured to receive portions of the undulating strand 22. The undulating strands 22 are spaced from the coils or electrodes so that there is no overlapping/touching of metal. The notches 83 are filled with a dielectric material, preferably silicone rubber, or similar material that insulates the undulating strands of the cardiac harness from the electrodes yet provides a secure attachment means so that the electrodes or coils remain firmly attached to the undulating strands of the cardiac harness. Importantly, the electrodes 32 do not have to be in contact with the epicardial surface of the heart in order to deliver a defibrillating shock. Thus, the electrodes 32 can be mounted on the outer surface 81 of the cardiac harness, and not be in physical contact with the epicardial surface of the heart, yet still deliver a defibrillating shock as previously described.
It is to be understood that several embodiments of cardiac harnesses can be constructed and that such embodiments may have varying configurations, sizes, flexibilities, etc. Such cardiac harnesses can be constructed from many suitable materials including various metals, fabrics, plastics and braided filaments. Suitable materials also include superelastic materials and materials that exhibit shape memory properties. For example, a preferred embodiment cardiac harness is constructed of Nitinol. Shape memory dielectric materials can also be employed. Such shape memory dielectric materials can include shape memory polyurethanes or other dielectric materials such as those containing oligo(e-caprolactone) dimethacrylate and/or poly(e-caprolactone), which are available from mnemoScience.
In keeping with the invention, as shown in FIG. 16, the undulating strands 22 and 62 can be formed in many ways, including by a fixture 90. The fixture 90 has a number of stems 91 that are arranged in a pre-selected pattern that will define the shape of the undulating strands 22 and 62. The position of the stems will define the shape of the undulating strands, and determine whether the previously disclosed apex of the springs is either in-phase or out-of-phase. The shape of stems 91 will define the shape of the springs in terms of radius of curvature, or other shape, such as a keyhole shape, a U-shape, and the like. The spacing between the stems will determine the pitch and the amplitude of the undulating strands which is a matter of choice. Preferably, in one exemplary embodiment, a Nitinol wire 92 or other superelastic or shape memory wire having a 0.012 inch diameter, is woven between stems 91 in order to form the undulating strands. Other wire diameters can be used to suit a particular need and can range from about 0.007 inch to about 0.020 inch diameter. Other wire cross-section shapes are envisioned to be used with fixture 90, particularly a flat rectangular-shaped wire and an oval-shaped wire. The Nitinol wire is then heat set to impart the shape memory feature. Any free ends can be connected together by laser bonding, laser welding, or other type of similar connection consistent with the use of Nitinol, or the ends may remain free and be encapsulated in a dielectric material to keep them atraumatic, depending upon the design.
Again referring to FIG. 16, after the Nitinol wire is heat set to impart the shape memory feature, the wire is jacketed with NuSil silicone tubing (Helix Medical) having 0.029 inch outside diameter by 0.012 inch inside diameter. Thereafter, the jacketed Nitinol wire is placed in molds for transfer of liquid silicone rubber which will insulate the Nitinol wire from any electrical shock from any electrodes associated with the cardiac harness, or any other device providing a defibrillating shock to the heart. The dimensions of the silicone tubing will of course vary for different wire dimensions.
In another embodiment of the invention, shown in FIG. 17, cardiac harness 100 includes multiple panels 101 similar to those previously described. Further, undulating strands 102 form the panels and have multiple spring elements 103 that expand and contract along directional line 104, also as previously described for other embodiments. In the cardiac harness 100 shown in FIG. 17, the amplitude of the spring elements is relatively smaller than in other embodiments, and the pitch is higher, meaning there are more spring elements per unit of length relative to other embodiments. Thus, the cardiac harness 100 should generate higher bending forces as the heart expands and contracts during the diastolic and systolic cycles. In other words, the spring elements 103 of cardiac harness 100 will resist expansion, thereby imparting higher compressive forces on the wall of the heart during the diastolic function and will release these higher bending forces during the systolic function as the heart contracts. It may be important to provide undulating strands 102 that alternate in amplitude and pitch within a panel, starting at the base of the harness and extending toward the apex. For example, the pitch and amplitude of an undulating strand closer to the base or the harness may be configured to impart higher compressive forces on the epicardial surface of the heart than the undulating strands closer to the apex or the lower part of the harness. It also may be desirable to alternate the amplitude and pitch of the spring elements from one undulating strand to the next. Further, where multiple panels are provided, it may be advantageous to provide one amplitude and pitch of the spring elements of the undulating strands of one panel, and a different amplitude and pitch of the spring elements of the undulating strands of an adjacent panel. The FIG. 17 embodiment can be configured with electrodes as previously described in other embodiments, or with coils, both of which assist with the delivery of the cardiac harness by providing column support to the harness.
The cardiac harness of the present invention, having either electrodes or coils, can be formed using injection molding techniques as shown in FIGS. 18A–18C and 19A–19C. The molds in FIGS. 18A–18C are substantially the same as the molds shown in FIGS. 19A–19C, with the exception of the undulating pattern grooves that receive the undulating strands previously described. In referring to FIG. 18A, bottom mold 110 includes a pattern for receiving the cardiac harness and a coil or an electrode. For illustration purposes, FIG. 18B shows top mold 111 and FIG. 18C shows end view mold 112. The top mold mates with the bottom mold. As can be seen, the cardiac harness undulating strands will fit in undulating strand groove 113, which extend into coil groove 114. The previously described electrodes or coils fit into coil grooves 114. Injection port 115 is positioned midway along the mold fixtures, however, more than one injection port can be used to insure that the flow of polymer is uniform and consistent. Preferably, silicone rubber is injected into the molds so that the silicone rubber flows over the undulating strands and the electrodes or the coils. When the cardiac harness assembly is taken out of the mold, the undulating strands will be attached to the electrodes or the coils by the silicone rubber according to the pattern shown. Other patterns may be desired and the molds are easily altered to provide any pattern that ensures a secure attachment between the undulating strands and the electrodes or the coils. Importantly, the molds of FIGS. 18 and 19 can be used to inject the dielectric material or silicone rubber inside the coils and, if necessary, between the gaps in the coils in order to insure that the coils and the undulating strands are insulated from each other. The silicone rubber fills the inside of the coils, extrudes through the gaps in the coils, and forms a skin on the inner and outer surface of the coil. This skin is selectively removed (as will be described) to expose portions of the electrode coils so that they can conduct current as described. Further, it is desired that the coils and the undulating strands do not overlap or touch in order to reduce any frictional engagement between the metallic coils and the metallic undulating strands. In order to increase the frictional engagement between the cardiac harness and the epicardial surface of the heart, small projections (not shown) can be molded along the surface of the coils that will contact the epicardial surface. As previously described with respect to the grip pads, these small projections, preferably formed of silicone rubber, will engage the epicardial surface of the heart and increase the frictional engagement between the coils and the surface of the heart in order to secure the harness to the heart without the use of sutures, clips, or other mechanical attachment means.
In further keeping with the invention, as shown in FIGS. 20–23, a portion of a lead having an electrode 120 is shown in the form of a conductive coil 121. The coil can be formed of any suitable wire that is conductive so that an electrical shock can be transmitted through the electrode and through the myocardium of the heart. In this embodiment, the coil wire is wrapped around a dielectric material 122 in a helical configuration, however, a spiral wrap or other configuration is possible as long as the coil has superior fatigue resistance and longitudinal flexibility. Importantly, conductive coils 121 have high fatigue resistance which is necessary since the coil is on or near the surface of the beating heart so that the coil is constantly flexing along its longitudinal length in response to heart expansion and contraction. The cross-section of the wire preferably is round or circular, however, it also can be oval shaped or flat (rectangular) in order to reduce the profile of the electrode for minimally invasive delivery. A circular, oval or flat wire will have a relatively high fatigue resistance as well as a relatively low profile for delivery purposes. Also, a flat wire coil is highly flexible along the longitudinal axis and it has a relatively high surface area for delivering an electrical shock. The electrode 120 has a first surface 123 and a second surface 124. The first surface 123 will be proximate the epicardial surface of the heart, or other portions of the heart, while the second surface will be opposite the first surface and away from the epicardial surface of the heart. A conductive wire (not shown) extends through the dielectric material 122 and attaches to the coil wire 121 at one or more locations along the coil or coils, and the conductive wire is connected to a power source (e.g., an ICD) at its other end. As shown in FIG. 22, the cross-section of the electrode 120 can be circular, or as shown in FIG. 23, can be oval for reduced profile for minimally invasive delivery. Other cross-sectional shapes for electrode 120 are available depending upon the particular need. All of these cross-sectional shapes will have relatively high fatigue resistance. As shown in FIGS. 22 and 23, multiple lumens 125 can be provided to carry one or more conductive wires from the electrode to the power source (pulse generator, ICD, CRT-D, pacemaker, etc.). The lumens also can carry sensing wires that transmit data from a sensor on or in the heart to a pacemaker so that the heart can be monitored. Further, the lumens 125 can be used for other purposes such as drug delivery (therapeutic drugs, steroids, etc.), dye injection for visability under fluoroscopy, carrying a guide wire (not shown) or a stylet to facilitate delivery of the electrodes and the harness, or for other purposes. The lumens 125 can be used to carry a guide wire (not shown) or a stylet in such a way that the column stiffness of the coil is increased by the guide wire or stylet, or in a manner that will vary the column stiffness as required. By varying the column stiffness of the coils with a guide wire or a stylet in lumens 125, the ability to push the cardiac harness over the heart (as will be described) will be enhanced. The guide wires or stylets also can be used, to some extent, to steer the coils and hence the cardiac harness during delivery and implantation over the heart. The guide wire or stylet in lumens 125 can be removed after the cardiac harness is implanted so that the coils (electrodes) become more flexible and atraumatic.
In keeping with the invention, as shown in FIGS. 20–23, the electrode 120 not only provides an electrical conduit for use in defibrillation, but also has sufficient column strength when attached to the cardiac harness to assist in the delivery of the harness by minimally invasive means. As will be further described, the coils 121 provide a highly flexible electrode along its longitudinal length, and also provide a substantial amount of column strength when coupled with a cardiac harness to assist in the delivery of the harness.
In further keeping with the invention of FIGS. 20–23, a dielectric material such as silicone rubber 126 can be used to coat electrodes 120. During the molding process (previously described), when the electrode 120 is attached to the cardiac harness, silicone rubber 126 will coat the entire electrode 120. Soda blasting (or other known material removal process) can be used to remove portions of the silicone rubber skin from the coils 121 in order to expose first surface 123 and second surface 124 (or portions of those surfaces) so that the bare metal coil is exposed to the epicardial surface of the heart. Preferably, the silicone rubber is removed from both the first surface and the second surface, however, it also may be advantageous to remove the silicone rubber from only the first surface, which is proximate to or in contact with the epicardial surface of the heart. The electrode 120 has a surface area 128 which essentially includes all of the bare metal surface area that is exposed and that will deliver a shock. The amount of surface area per electrode can vary greatly depending upon a particular application, however, surface areas in the range from about 50 mm2 to about 600 mm2 are typical. While it is possible to remove the silicone rubber from only the second surface (facing away from the heart), and leaving the first surface coated with silicone rubber, an electrical shock can still be delivered from the bare metal second surface, however, the electrical shock delivered may not be as efficient as with other embodiments. While the dimensions of the electrodes can vary widely due to the variations in the size of the heart to be treated in conjunction with the size of the cardiac harness, generally the length of the electrode ranges from about 2 cm to about 16 cm. The coil 121 has a length in the range of about 1 cm to about 12 cm. Commercially available leads having one or more electrodes are available from several sources and may be used with the cardiac harness of the present invention. Commercially available leads with one or more electrodes is available from Guidant Corporation (St. Paul, Minn.), St. Jude Medical (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Medtronic Corporation (Minneapolis, Minn.). Further examples of commercially available cardiac rhythm management devices, including defibrillation and pacing systems available for use in combination with the cardiac harness of the present invention (possibly with some modification) include, the CONTAK CD®, the INSIGNIA® Plus pacemaker and FLEXTREND® leads, and the VITALITY™ AVT® ICD and ENDOTAK RELIANCE® defibrillation leads, all available from Guidant Corporation (St. Paul, Minn.), and the InSync System available from Medtronic Corporation (Minneapolis, Minn.).
In an alternative embodiment, as shown in FIG. 24, the conductive coils 121 need not be continuous along the length of the electrode 120, but can be spatially isolated or staggered along the electrode. For example, multiple coil sections 127, similar to the coil 121 shown in FIG. 20, can be spaced along the electrode with each coil section being attached to the conductive wire so it receives electrical current from the power source. The coil sections can be from about 0.5 cm to about 2.0 cm long and be spaced from about 0.5 cm to about 4 cm apart along the electrode. The dimensions used herein are by way of example only and can vary to suit a particular application.
When removing portions of the silicone rubber from the electrode 120 using soda blasting or a similar technique, it may be desirable to leave portions of the electrode masked or insulated so that the masked portion is non-conductive. By masking portions of two electrodes positioned, for example, on opposite sides of the left ventricle, it is possible to vector a shock at a desirable angle through the myocardium and ventricle. The shock will travel from the bare metal (unmasked) portion of one electrode through the myocardium and the ventricle to the bare metal (unmasked) portion of the opposing electrode at a vector angle determined by the position of the masking on the electrodes.
The cardiac rhythm management devices associated with the present invention are implantable devices that provide electrical stimulation to selected chambers of the heart in order to treat disorders of cardiac rhythm and can include pacemakers and implantable cardioverter/defibrillators and/or cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-D). A pacemaker is a cardiac rhythm management device which paces the heart with timed pacing pulses. As previously described, common conditions for which pacemakers are used is in the treatment of bradycardia (ventricular rate is too slow) and tachycardia (cardiac rhythms are too fast). As used herein, a pacemaker is any cardiac rhythm management device with a pacing functionality, regardless of any other functions it may perform such as the delivery of cardioversion or defibrillation shocks to terminate atrial or ventricular fibrillation. An important feature of the present invention is to provide a cardiac harness having the capability of providing a pacing function in order to treat the synchrony of both ventricles. To accomplish the objective, a pacemaker with associated leads and electrodes are associated with and incorporated into the cardiac harness of the present invention. The pacing/sensing electrodes, alone or in combination with defibrillating electrodes, provide treatment to synchronize the ventricles and improve cardiac function.
In keeping with the invention, a pacemaker and a pacing/sensing electrode are incorporated into the design of the cardiac harness. As shown in FIGS. 25A and 25B, a lead (not shown) having a defibrillator electrode 130 at its distal end, shown in partial section, not only incorporates wire coils 131 used to deliver a defibrillating electrical shock to the epicardial surface of the heart, but also incorporates a pacing/sensing electrode 132. The defibrillator electrode 130 can be attached to any cardiac harness embodiment previously described herein. In this embodiment, a non-penetrating pacing/sensing electrode 132 is combined with the defibrillating electrode 130 in order to provide data relating to heart function. More specifically, the pacing/sensing electrode 132 does not penetrate the myocardium in this embodiment, however, it may be beneficial in other embodiments for the pacing or sensing electrode to penetrate the myocardium. One advantage of a non-penetrating pacing/sensing electrode is that there is no danger of puncturing a coronary artery or causing further trauma to the epicardium or myocardium. It is also easier to design since there is no requirement of a penetration mechanism (barb or screw) on the pacing/sensing electrode. The pacing/sensing electrode 132 is in direct contact with the epicardial surface of the heart and will provide data via lead wire 133 to the pulse generator (pacemaker), which will interpret the data and provide any pacing function necessary to achieve, for example, ventricular resynchronization therapy, left ventricular pacing, right ventricular pacing, synchrony of both ventricles, and/or biventricular pacing. As shown in FIG. 25B, the pacing/sensing electrode 132 is incorporated into a portion of a cardiac harness 134, and more particularly the undulating strands 135 are attached by dielectric material 136 to the pacing/sensing electrode. As can be seen in FIGS. 25A and 25B, the wire coils 131 of the defibrillating electrode 130 are wrapped around the dielectric material 136, and the dielectric material insulates the pacing/sensing electrode 132 from both the wire coils 131 and from the undulating strands 135 of the cardiac harness. Multiple pacing/sensing electrodes 132 can be incorporated along defibrillating electrode 130, and multiple pacing and sensing electrodes can be incorporated on other electrodes associated with the cardiac harness.
In one of the preferred embodiments, multi-site pacing (as previously shown in FIGS. 8A–8D) using pacing/sensing electrodes 132 enables resynchronization therapy in order to treat the synchrony of both ventricles. Multi-site pacing allows the positioning of the pacing/sensing electrodes to provide bi-ventricular pacing or right ventricular pacing, left ventricular pacing, depending upon the patient's needs.
In another embodiment, shown in FIGS. 26A–26C, a defibrillating electrode is combined with pacing/sensing electrodes, for attachment to any of the cardiac harness embodiments disclosed herein. In this embodiment, the defibrillating electrode 130 is formed of wire coils 131 wrapped in a helical manner. The helical wire can be a wound wire having a single strand or a quadrafilar wire having four wires bundled together to form the coil. The wire coils 131 are wrapped around dielectric material 136 in a manner similar to that described for the embodiments in FIGS. 25A and 25B. In this embodiment, the pacing/sensing electrode 132 is in the form of a single ring for unipolar operation, and two rings for bi-polar operation. The pacing/sensing electrode rings 132 are mounted coaxially with the defibrillating electrode wire coils 131, and the conducting wires from the wire coils and the pacing/sensing ring electrode are shown extending through the dielectric material 136 and being insulated from each other. The conducting wires from the defibrillating electrode 130 and from the pacing/sensing ring electrodes 132 can be bundled into a common lead wire 133 which extends to the pulse generator (an ICD, CRT-D, and/or a pacemaker). As can be seen in FIGS. 26A–26C, the pacing/sensing electrode rings 132 have a diameter that is somewhat larger than the defibrillator electrode coils 131 in order to insure preferential contact by the electrode rings against the epicardial surface of the heart. Preferably, several pairs of pacing/sensing electrode rings (bipolar) would be positioned on the cardiac harness and be positioned to come into contact with, for example, the left ventricle free wall. Multi-site pacing allows the pacing/sensing electrode rings 132 to be used for both pacing and resynchronization concurrently. Further, the pacing/sensing electrode rings 132 also can be used in the absence of defibrillating electrodes 130. The prior disclosure relating to molding of the cardiac harness to the defibrillator electrode applies equally as well to the pacing/sensing electrode rings. The wire coil 131 and the pacing/sensing electrode rings 32 can be fabricated in several ways including by laser cutting stainless steel tubing or using highly conductive materials in wire form, such as biocompatible platinum wire. As previously disclosed, the wire coils 131 can be quadrafilar wire (platinum) for improved flexibility and conformability to the epicardial surface of the heart and be biocompatible. The surface of the pacing/sensing electrodes can vary greatly depending upon the application. As an example, in one embodiment, the surface area of the pacing/sensing electrodes are in the range from about 2 mm2 to about 12 mm2, however, this range can vary substantially. While the disclosed embodiments show the pacing/sensing electrodes combined with the defibrillating electrodes, the pacing/sensing electrodes can be formed separately and mounted on the cardiac harness with or without defibrillating electrodes.
The defibrillating electrode 130 as disclosed herein, can be used with commercially available pacing/sensing electrodes and leads. For example, Oscor (Model HT 52PB) endocardial/passive fixation leads can be integrated with the defibrillator electrode 130 by molding the leads into the fibrillator electrode using the same molds previously disclosed herein.
The foregoing disclosed invention incorporating cardiac rhythm management devices into the cardiac harness combines several treatment modalities that are particularly beneficial to patients suffering from congestive heart failure. The cardiac harness provides a compressive force on the heart thereby relieving wall stress, and improving cardiac function. The defibrillating and pacing/sensing electrodes associated with the cardiac harness, along with ICD's and pacemakers, provide numerous treatment options to correct for any number of maladies associated with congestive heart failure. In addition to the defibrillation function previously described, the cardiac rhythm devices can provide electrical pacing stimulation to one or more of the heart chambers to improve the coordination of atrial and/or ventricular contractions, which is referred to as resynchronization therapy. Cardiac resynchronization therapy is pacing stimulation applied to one or more heart chambers, typically the ventricles, in a manner that restores or maintains synchronized bilateral contractions of the atria and/or ventricles thereby improving pumping efficiency. Resynchronization pacing may involve pacing both ventricles in accordance with a synchronized pacing mode. For example, pacing at more than one site (multi-site pacing) at various sites on the epicardial surface of the heart to desynchronize the contraction sequence of a ventricle (or ventricles) may be therapeutic in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, where creating asynchronous contractions with multi-site pacing reduces the abnormal hyper-contractile function of the ventricle. Further, resynchronization therapy may be implemented by adding synchronized pacing to the bradycardia pacing mode where paces are delivered to one or more synchronized pacing sites in a defined time relation to one or more sensing and pacing events. An example of synchronized chamber-only pacing is left ventricle only synchronized pacing where the rate in synchronized chambers are the right and left ventricles respectively. Left-ventricle-only pacing may be advantageous where the conduction velocities within the ventricles are such that pacing only the left ventricle results in a more coordinated contraction by the ventricles than by conventional right ventricle pacing or by ventricular pacing. Further, synchronized pacing may be applied to multiple sites of a single chamber, such as the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both ventricles. The pacemakers associated with the present invention are typically implanted subcutaneously on a patient's chest and have leads threaded to the pacing/electrodes as previously described in order to connect the pacemaker to the electrodes for sensing and pacing. The pacemakers sense intrinsic cardiac electrical activity through the electrodes disposed on the surface of the heart. Pacemakers are well known in the art and any commercially available pacemaker or combination defibrillator/pacemaker can be used in accordance with the present invention.
The cardiac harness and the associated cardiac rhythm management device system of the present invention can be designed to provide left ventricular pacing. In left heart pacing, there is an initial detection of a spontaneous signal, and upon sensing the mechanical contraction of the right and left ventricles. In a heart with normal right heart function, the right mechanical atrio-ventricular delay is monitored to provide the timing between the initial sensing of right atrial activation (known as the P-wave) and right ventricular mechanical contraction. The left heart is controlled to provide pacing which results in left ventricular mechanical contraction in a desired time relation to the right mechanical contraction, e.g., either simultaneous or just preceding the right mechanical contraction. Cardiac output is monitored by impedence measurements and left ventricular pacing is timed to maximize cardiac output. The proper positioning of the pacing/sensing electrodes disclosed herein provides the necessary sensing functions and the resulting pacing therapy associated with left ventricular pacing.
An important feature of the present invention is the minimally invasive delivery of the cardiac harness and the cardiac rhythm management device system which will be described immediately below.
Delivery of the cardiac harness 20,60, and 100 and associated electrodes and leads can be accomplished through conventional cardio-thoracic surgical techniques such as through a median sternotomy. In such a procedure, an incision is made in the pericardial sac and the cardiac harness can be advanced over the apex of the heart and along the epicardial surface of the heart simply by pushing it on by hand. The intact pericardium is over the harness and helps to hold it in place. The previously described grip pads and the compressive force of the cardiac harness on the heart provide sufficient attachment means of the cardiac harness to the epicardial surface so that sutures, clips or staples are unnecessary. Other procedures to gain access to the epicardial surface of the heart include making a slit in the pericardium and leaving it open, making a slit and later closing it, or making a small incision in the pericardium.
Preferably, however, the cardiac harness and associated electrodes and leads may be delivered through minimally invasive surgical access to the thoracic cavity, as illustrated in FIGS. 27–36, and more specifically as shown in FIG. 30. A delivery device 140 may be delivered into the thoracic cavity 141 between the patient's ribs to gain direct access to the heart 10. Preferably, such a minimally invasive procedure is accomplished on a beating heart, without the use of cardio-pulmonary bypass. Access to the heart can be created with conventional surgical approaches. For example, the pericardium may be opened completely or a small incision can be made in the pericardium (pericardiotomy) to allow the delivery system 140 access to the heart. The delivery system of the disclosed embodiments comprises several components as shown in FIGS. 27–36. As shown in FIG. 27, an introducer tube 142 is configured for low profile access through a patient's ribs. A number of fingers 143 are flexible and have a delivery diameter 144 as shown in FIG. 27, and an expanded diameter 145 as shown in FIG. 29. The delivery diameter is smaller than the expanded diameter. An elastic band 146 expands around the distal end 147 of the fingers and prevents the fingers from overexpanding during delivery of the cardiac harness. The distal end of the fingers is the part of the delivery device 140 that is inserted through the patient's ribs to gain direct access to the heart.
The delivery device 140 also includes a dilator tube 150 that has a distal end 151 and a proximal end 152. The cardiac harness 20,60,100 is collapsed to a low profile configuration and inserted into the distal end of the dilator tube, as shown in FIG. 28. The dilator tube has an outside diameter that is slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the introducer tube 142. As will be discussed more fully herein, the distal end 151 of the dilator tube is inserted into the proximal end 147 of the introducer tube in close sliding engagement and in a slight frictional engagement. The slidable engagement between the dilator tube and the introducer tube should be with some mild resistance, however, there should be unrestricted slidable movement between the two tubes. The distal end 151 of the dilator tube will expand the fingers 143 of the introducer tube 142 as the dilator tube is pushed distally into the introducer tube as shown in FIG. 29. In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 27–36, the cardiac harness 20,60,100 is equipped with leads (previously described) having electrodes for use in defibrillation or pacing functions.
As shown in FIG. 31, the delivery system 140 also includes a releasable suction device, such as suction cup 156 at the distal end of the delivery device. The negative pressure suction cup 156 is used to hold the apex of the heart 10. Negative pressure can be applied to the suction cup using a syringe or other vacuum device commonly known in the art. A negative pressure lock can be achieved by a one-way valve stop-cock or a tubing clamp, also known in the art. The suction cup 156 is formed of a biocompatible material and is preferably stiff enough to prevent any negative pressure loss through the heart while manipulating the heart and sliding the cardiac harness 20,60,100 onto the heart. Further, the suction cup 156 can be used to lift and maneuver the heart 10 to facilitate advancement of the harness or to allow visualization and surgical manipulation of the posterior side of the heart. The suction cup has enough negative pressure to allow a slight pulling in the proximal direction away from the apex of the heart to somewhat elongate the heart (e.g., into a bullet shape) during delivery to facilitate advancing the cardiac harness over the apex and onto the base portion of the heart. After the suction cup 156 is attached to the apex of the heart and a negative pressure is drawn, the cardiac harness, which has been releasably mounted in the distal end 151 of the dilator tube 150, can be advanced distally over the heart, as will be described more fully herein.
As shown in FIG. 30, the delivery device 140, and more specifically introducer tube 142, has been advanced through the intercostal space between the patient's ribs during insertion of the introducer tube, the fingers 143 are in their delivery diameter 144, which is a low profile for ease of access through the small port made through the patient's ribs. Thereafter, the dilator tube 150, with the cardiac harness 20,60,100 mounted therein, is advanced distally through the introducer tube so that the fingers 143 are expanded until they achieve their expanded diameter 145. The suction cup 156 can be attached to the apex 13 of the heart 10 either before or after the dilator tube is advanced to spread the fingers 143 of the introducer tube 142. Preferably, the dilator tube has already expanded the fingers on the introducer tube so that there is a larger opening for the suction cup as it is advanced through the inside of a dilator tube, out of the distal end of the introducer tube, and placed in contact with the apex of the heart. Thereafter, a negative pressure is drawn allowing the suction cup to securely attach to the apex of the heart. Visualizing equipment that is commonly known in the art may be used to assist in positioning the suction cup to the apex. For example, fluoroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), dye injection to enhance fluoroscopy, and echocardiography, and intracardiac, transesophageal, or transthoracic echo, all can be used to enhance positioning and in attaching the suction cup to the apex of the heart. After negative pressure is drawn and the suction cup is securely attached (releasably) to the apex of the heart, the heart can then be maneuvered somewhat by pulling on the tubing 157 attached to the suction cup, or by manipulating the introducer tube 142, the dilator tube 150, both in conjunction with the suction cup. As previously described, it may be advantageous to pull on the tubing 157 to allow the suction cup to pull on the apex of the heart and elongate the heart somewhat in order to facilitate sliding the harness over the epicardium.
As more clearly shown in FIGS. 32–36, the cardiac harness 20,60,100 is advanced distally out of the dilator tube and over the suction cup 156. The suction cup is tapered so that the distal end of the harness slides over the narrow portion of the taper (the proximal end of the suction cup 158). The suction cup becomes wider at its distal end where it is attached to the apex of the heart, and the cardiac harness continues to slide and expand over the suction cup as it is advanced distally. As the cardiac harness continues to be advanced distally, it slides over the apex of the heart and continues to expand as it is pushed out of the dilator tube and along the epicardial surface of the heart. Since the harness and the electrodes 32,120,130 are coated with the previously described dielectric material, preferably silicone rubber, the cardiac harness should slide easily over the epicardial surface of the heart. The silicone rubber offers little resistance and the epicardial surface of the heart has sufficient fluid to allow the harness to easily slide over the wet surface of the heart. The pericardium previously has been cut so that the cardiac harness is sliding over the epicardial surface of the heart with the pericardium over the cardiac harness to help hold it onto the surface of the heart. As shown in FIGS. 35 and 36, the cardiac harness 20,60,100 has been completely advanced out of the dilator tube so that the harness covers at least a portion of the heart 10. The suction cup 156 has been withdrawn, and the introducer tube 142 and dilator tube 150 also have been withdrawn proximally from the patient. Prior to removing the introducer tube, a power source 170 (such as an ICD, CRT-D, and/or pacemaker) can be implanted by conventional means. The electrodes will be attached to the pulse generator to provide a defibrillating shock or pacing functions as previously described.
In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 27–36, the cardiac harness 20,60,100 was advanced through the dilator tube by pushing on the proximal end of the electrodes 32,120,130, on the lead wires 31,133, and on the proximal end (apex 26) of the cardiac harness. Even though the electrodes are designed to be atraumatic and longitudinally flexible, the electrodes have sufficient column strength so that pushing on the proximal ends of the electrodes assists in pushing the cardiac harness out of the dilator tube and over the epicardial surface of the heart. In one embodiment, advancement of the cardiac harness is accomplished by hand, by the physician simply pushing on the electrodes and the leads to advance the cardiac harness out of the dilator tube to slide onto the epicardial surface of the heart.
As shown in the embodiments of FIGS. 27–36, the delivery device 140, and more specifically introducer tube 142 and dilator tube 150, have a circular cross-section. It may be preferable, however, to chose other cross-sectional shapes, such as an oval cross-sectional shape for the delivery device. An oval delivery device may be more easily inserted through the intercostal space between the patient's ribs for a low profile delivery. Further, as the cardiac harness 20,60,100 is advanced out of a delivery device 140 having an oval cross-section, the harness distal end will quickly form into a more circular shape in order to assume the configuration of the epicardial surface of the heart as it is advanced distally over the heart.
In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 35 and 36, the cardiac harness 20,60,100 remains firmly attached to the epicardial surface of the heart without the need for any further attachment means, such as sutures, clips, adhesives, or staples. Further, the pericardial sac helps to enclose the harness to prevent it from shifting or sliding on the epicardial surface of the heart.
Importantly, during delivery of the cardiac harness 20,60,100, the harness itself, the electrodes 32,120,130, as well as leads 31 and 132 have sufficient column strength in order for the physician to push from the proximal end of the harness to advance it distally through the dilator tube 150. While the entire cardiac harness assembly is flexible, there is sufficient column strength, especially in the electrodes, to easily slide the cardiac harness over the epicardial surface of the heart in the manner described.
In an alternative embodiment, if the cardiac harness 20,60,100 includes coils 72, as opposed to the electrodes and leads, the harness can be delivered in the same manner as previously described with respect to FIGS. 27–36. The coils have sufficient column strength to permit the physician to push on the proximal end of the coils to advance the cardiac harness distally to slide over the apex of the heart and onto the epicardial surface.
In another embodiment, delivery of the cardiac harness 20,60,100 can be by mechanical means as opposed to the hand delivery previously described. As shown in FIGS. 37–42, delivery system 180 includes an introducer tube 181 that functions the same as introducer tube 142. Also, a dilator tube 182, which is sized for slidable movement within the introducer tube, also functions the same as the previously described dilator tube 150. An ejection tube 183 is sized for slidable movement within the dilator tube, that is, the outer diameter of the ejection tube is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the dilator tube. As shown in FIGS. 40 and 41, the ejection tube has a distal end 184 and a proximal end 185, wherein the distal end of the ejection tube has a plate that fills the entire inner diameter of the ejection tube. The plate has a number of lumens 187 for receiving leads 31,132 and for receiving the suction cup 156 and associated tubing 157. Thus, lumens 188 are sized for receiving leads 31,132 therethrough, while lumen 189 is sized for receiving suction cup 156 and the associated tubing 157. The number of lumens 188 in plate 186 will be defined by the number of leads 31,132 associated with the cardiac harness 20,60,100. Thus, as shown in FIG. 40, there are four lumens 188 for receiving four leads therethrough, and one lumen 189 for receiving the suction cup 156 and tubing 157 therethrough. The leads and the tubing 157 extend proximally out the proximal end 185 of the ejection tube. As shown in FIG. 42, the suction cup and cardiac harness are on the left side of the schematic, and the ejection tube 183 is on the right hand side of the schematic. For clarity, the dilator tube and the introducer tube have been omitted, however, in practice the cardiac harness would be mounted in the dilator tube, and the dilator tube would extend into the introducer tube, while the ejection tube would extend into the dilator tube. As can be seen in FIG. 42, the leads 31,132 extend through lumens 188, while the tubing 157 associated with the suction cup extends through lumen 189. The tubing and the leads extend proximally out of the proximal end of the ejection tube, and extend out of the patient during delivery of the harness. As previously described, after the introducer is positioned through the rib cage, and the apex of the heart is acquired by the suction cup, the harness can be advanced out of the dilator by advancing the ejection tube 183 in a distal direction toward the apex of the heart. The leads, the cardiac harness and electrodes all provide sufficient column strength to allow the plate 186 to impart a pushing force against the cardiac harness to advance it distally over the heart as previously described. After the cardiac harness is pushed over the epicardial surface of the heart, the ejection tube can be withdrawn proximally so that the tubing 157 and the leads 31,132 slide through lumens 189,188 respectively. The ejection tube 183 continues to be withdrawn proximally so that the proximal end of the leads and the proximal end of tubing 157 are pulled through the distal end 184 of the ejection tube so that the ejection tube is clear of the leads and the tubing.
As with the previous embodiment, suitable materials for the delivery system 140,180 can include the class of polymers typically used and approved for biocompatible use within the body. Preferably, the tubing associated with delivery systems 140 and 180 are rigid, however, they can be formed of a more flexible material. Further, the delivery systems 140,180 can be curved rather than straight, or can have a flexible joint in order to more appropriately maneuver the cardiac harness 20,60,100 over the epicardial surface of the heart during delivery. Further, the tubing associated with delivery systems 140,180 can be coated with a lubricious material to facilitate relative movement between the tubes. Lubricious materials commonly known in the art such as Teflon™ can be used to enhance slidable movement between the tubes.
Delivery and implantation of an ICD, CRT-D, pacemaker, leads, and any other device associated with the cardiac rhythm management devices can be performed by means well known in the art. Preferably, the ICD/CRT-D/pacemaker, are delivered through the same minimally invasive access site as the cardiac harness, electrodes, and leads. The leads are then connected to the ICD/CRT D/pacemaker in a known manner. In one embodiment of the invention, the ICD or CRT-D or pacemaker (or combination device) is implanted in a known manner in the abdominal area and then the leads are connected. Since the leads extend from the apical ends of the electrodes (on the cardiac harness) the leads are well positioned to attach to the power source in the abdominal area.
It may be desired to reduce the likelihood of the development of fibrotic tissue over the cardiac harness so that the elastic properties of the harness are not compromised. Also, as fibrotic tissue forms over the cardiac harness and electrodes over time, it may become necessary to increase the power of the pacing stimuli. As fibrotic tissue increases, the right and left ventricular thresholds may increase, commonly referred to as “exit block.” When exit block is detected, the pacing therapy may have to be adjusted. Certain drugs such as steriods, have been found to inhibit cell growth leading to scar tissue or fibrotic tissue growth. Examples of therapeutic drugs or pharmacologic compounds that may be loaded onto the cardiac harness or into a polymeric coating on the harness, on a polymeric sleeve, on individual undulating strands on the harness, or infused through the lumens in the electrodes and delivered to the epicardial surface of the heart include steroids, taxol, aspirin, prostaglandins, and the like. Various therapeutic agents such as antithrombogenic or antiproliferative drugs are used to further control scar tissue formation. Examples of therapeutic agents or drugs that are suitable for use in accordance with the present invention include 17-beta estradiol, sirolimus, everolimus, actinomycin D (ActD), taxol, paclitaxel, or derivatives and analogs thereof. Examples of agents include other antiproliferative substances as well as antineoplastic, antiinflammatory, antiplatelet, anticoagulant, antifibrin, antithrombin, antimitotic, antibiotic, and antioxidant substances. Examples of antineoplastics include taxol (paclitaxel and docetaxel). Further examples of therapeutic drugs or agents include antiplatelets, anticoagulants, antifibrins, antiinflammatories, antithrombins, and antiproliferatives. Examples of antiplatelets, anticoagulants, antifibrins, and antithrombins include, but are not limited to, sodium heparin, low molecular weight heparin, hirudin, argatroban, forskolin, vapiprost, prostacyclin and prostacyclin analogs, dextran, D phe pro arg chloromethylketone (synthetic antithrombin), dipyridamole, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa platelet membrane receptor antagonist, recombinant hirudin, thrombin inhibitor (available from Biogen located in Cambridge, Mass.), and 7E 3B (an antiplatelet drug from Centocor located in Malvern, Pa.). Examples of antimitotic agents include methotrexate, azathioprine, vincristine, vinblastine, fluorouracil, adriamycin, and mutamycin. Examples of cytostatic or antiproliferative agents include angiopeptin (a somatostatin analog from Ibsen located in the United Kingdom), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors such as Captopril® (available from Squibb located in New York, N.Y.), Cilazapril® (available from Hoffman LaRoche located in Basel, Switzerland), or Lisinopril® (available from Merck located in Whitehouse Station, N.J.); calcium channel blockers (such as Nifedipine), colchicine, fibroblast growth factor (FGF) antagonists, fish oil (omega 3 fatty acid), histamine antagonists, Lovastatin® (an inhibitor of HMG CoA reductase, a cholesterol lowering drug from Merck), methotrexate, monoclonal antibodies (such as PDGF receptors), nitroprusside, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, prostaglandin inhibitor (available from GlaxoSmithKline located in United Kingdom), Seramin (a PDGF antagonist), serotonin blockers, steroids, thioprotease inhibitors, triazolopyrimidine (a PDGF antagonist), and nitric oxide. Other therapeutic drugs or agents which may be appropriate include alpha interferon, genetically engineered epithelial cells, and dexamethasone.
Referring now to FIGS. 43 to 46, another embodiment of a system for treating a patient's heart has been contemplated, that includes a defibrillation compatible cardiac harness 200 and a leadless defibrillator 202. The cardiac harness of this embodiment is configured to conform generally to at least a portion of a patient's heart and does not include any electrodes or leads. Several embodiments of a defibrillation compatible cardiac harness are described in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/458,991, filed on Mar. 28, 2003, titled “Multi-Panel Cardiac Harness”, now U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 10/811,245, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The defibrillation compatible cardiac harness may include undulating strands that form panels or rings, and the harness is configured to provide no electrical continuity circumferentially about the harness. Thus, when a defibrillator is used to shock a patient's heart, the electric current created by the defibrillator in not conducted around the heart through the harness. Instead, the electric current passes through the heart, and the effectiveness of the defibrillator is not defeated by the presence of the harness. To prevent an electric current from being conducted around the harness, the undulating strands are coated with a dielectric material and are connected to adjacent strands by connectors that are formed of a dielectric material. Coating the cardiac harness with a dielectric material prevents the harness from developing into a Faraday cage. The cardiac harness may also include a plurality of engaging elements that provide a gripping force between the cardiac harness and the outer surface of the heart to prevent the harness from migrating off of the heart. Other embodiments of a cardiac harness suitable for use with the leadless defibrillator 202 are shown in FIGS. 9–14, where coils separate panels of undulating strands.
The leadless defibrillator 202 can be an ICD having no lead system. An example of a leadless defibrillator is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,647,292 (Bardy et al.), the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. A housing 204 of the leadless defibrillator contains a source of electrical energy, a capacitor, and sensing circuitry, and the leadless defibrillator includes at least a pair of electrodes 206 disposed on the housing and electrically interfaced to the circuitry. The pair of electrodes is disposed on opposite ends of the housing to deliver high voltage cardioversion/defibrillation energy across the heart. In one embodiment, there is at least a pair of sensing electrodes 208 disposed on the housing of the leadless defibrillator and the sensing electrodes are electrically insulated from the housing and electrically interfaced to the circuitry. These sensing electrodes are spaced far enough apart from one another to provide good QRS detection. The housing of the leadless defibrillator has a generally curved shape following the contour of the heart and it is made of a biocompatible material. Patients having cardiac disease and especially congestive heart failure have hearts in all different sizes, therefore the housing of the leadless defibrillator will be sized and shaped to fit partially around but not touching the patient's heart.
The housing 204 of the leadless defibrillator 202 should be able to provide maximum voltage ranging from about 750 V (volts) to about 2000 V and have an associated maximum energy of about 40 J (joules) to about 200 J. The capacitance of the leadless defibrillator should range from about 50 to about 200 micro farads.
The circuitry of the leadless defibrillator 202 is programmed to monitor the heart rhythms and sense whether or not there is a life threatening ventricular arrhythmia. The detection rate range of the circuitry may be changed to meet the needs of a patient based on several personal factors related to the patient.
In one preferred method of use, the leadless defibrillator 202 will be positioned partially around the cardiac harness 200 (but not touching) and will be located between the left mid-clavicular line approximately at the level of the inframammary crease near the fifth rib and the posterior axillary line, just lateral to the left scapula. At this position, the leadless defibrillator will be able to deliver a current to the ventricular myocardium through the cardiac harness. In another preferred embodiment, the leadless defibrillator will be subcutaneously implanted near the same minimally invasive access site that the cardiac harness is delivered through.
In this embodiment, the cardiac harness 200 having no leads is used in conjunction with the leadless defibrillator 202 and can simultaneously treat multiple cardiac failures including congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, bradycardia and tachycardia. The cardiac harness is able to provide a compressive force on a heart during at least a portion of the cardiac cycle, while the leadless defibrillator is able to provide defibrillation and pacing functions.
Still referring to FIGS. 43 to 46, one method of implanting a cardiac harness 200 and a leadless defibrillator 202 will now be described. FIG. 43 shows the torso of a human patient with a lateral incision 210 that provides a minimally invasive access site between the ribs for delivery of the harness and leadless defibrillator. This incision can be about 0.1 cm to about 10 cm, and is more typically about 1 cm to about 10 cm. The cardiac harness will be delivered through this incision by a delivery device and placed around the heart as previously described above with reference to FIGS. 27–42.
After the delivery device used to position the cardiac harness 200 around the heart is removed from the patient, an introducer 212 is then inserted into the incision 210 as shown in FIG. 44 to allow placement of the leadless defibrillator 202. In one embodiment, the subcutaneous pocket is formed medially to the inframammary crease and extends posteriorly to the left posterior axillary line. Once the subcutaneous pocket is formed, the leadless defibrillator is implanted in the subcutaneous pocket through the incision 210 as shown in FIG. 45. The leadless defibrillator is positioned to partially surrounding the heart (but does not touch the heart) and cardiac harness, as shown in FIG. 46. By using the same minimally invasive access site to position the cardiac harness and the leadless defibrillator, relatively little trauma is caused to the patient from this surgery.
After the leadless defibrillator 202 is implanted into the patient, any necessary diagnostics, testing and programming may be performed prior to closure of the incision 210. FIG. 46 shows the leadless defibrillator in position around the harness and the incision closed.
In another method of implanting the cardiac harness 200 and the leadless defibrillator 202, two separate incisions forming separate access sites may be formed. In this embodiment, the cardiac harness and leadless defibrillator are delivered to the heart through separate access sites. In still another embodiment, two separate surgical procedures can be performed to implant either the cardiac harness or the leadless defibrillator, and then on a later date the remaining device can be implanted.
In yet another embodiment of a system for treating the heart, a cardiac harness includes an antenna 214 for transmitting QRS signals of the heart to a defibrillator. Any defibrillation compatible cardiac harness can be used for this embodiment, including those harnesses disclosed above or those disclosed in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/458,991, which is already incorporated by reference in its entirety. The cardiac harness shown in FIGS. 9–14, where coils separate panels of undulating strands may also be used. These cardiac harnesses include undulated strands formed from a metal wire that comprise panels or rings that are interconnected. In some cardiac harness embodiments, the panels are connected together with coils. The metallic strands of the harnesses are coated with a dielectric material to prevent electricity from being conducted around the harness when it is placed on a heart.
To form an RF antenna 214 on the cardiac harness, some of the harness loops or undulations or coils or panels or coils connecting panels (depending on the harness configuration) will not be covered with a dielectric coating. In some embodiments, only a specific length of the coil, ring or panel will not be covered with a dielectric element, and in others the entire coil, panel or ring may be uncovered. Still in other embodiments, more than one coil, ring or panel will not be covered with a dielectric coating. Therefore, the electric signals provided by the heart will be transmitted through the bare metal wire of the coil or the cardiac harness that is in contact with the heart's surface, and will be received by the defibrillator. The defibrillator may be an external defibrillator, an automatic external defibrillator (“AED”), or a leadless defibrillator implanted near the heart as described above. The electrical signal from the heart will pass through the antenna creating a magnetic field that can then be sensed by the defibrillator. The antenna formed on the cardiac harness will increase the signal from the heart being sensed by electrodes on the defibrillator.
The antenna 214 or antennas created on the cardiac harness 200 can also be used to help provide a more efficient defibrillation shock that is channeled through the heart. In other words, the antenna can act as a “lightening rod” when the defibrillator sends an electric shock to the heart. When the shock is discharged from the defibrillator, the antenna can re-channel the energy vector created by the defibrillator, directing the energy towards the antenna and then through the heart.
Although the present invention has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments, other embodiments that are apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art are also within the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is intended to be defined only by reference to the appended claims. While the dimensions, types of materials and coatings described herein are intended to define the parameters of the invention, they are by no means limiting and are exemplary embodiments.
1. A method of implanting a cardiac harness and a leadless defibrillator, comprising:
providing a cardiac harness formed from a metal alloy;
providing a leadless defibrillator;
coating the metal alloy with a dielectric material to electrically insulate the cardiac harness from a defibrillating shock;
providing a minimally invasive access site;
inserting the cardiac harness through the minimally invasive access site and around at least a portion of the heart; and
inserting the leadless defibrillator through the minimally invasive access site and around a portion of the cardiac harness.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a delivery device for carrying the cardiac harness.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing an introducer and inserting the introducer into the minimally invasive access site to create a subcutaneous pocket for inserting the leadless defibrillator.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing diagnostics, testing, and programming of the leadless defibrillator prior to closure of the minimally invasive access site.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the minimally invasive access site is positioned between the ribs.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising making an incision in the pericardium so that the cardiac harness is mounted on the epicardial surface of the heart and under the pericardium.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the leadless defibrillator includes a housing containing a source of electrical energy, a capacitor, and cardioversion-defibrillation circuitry, and the leadless defibrillator includes a pair of electrodes formed on opposite ends of the housing and electrically interfaced to the cardioversion-defibrillation circuitry.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the leadless defibrillator includes at least one sensing electrode disposed on the housing.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the dielectric material is a silicone rubber material coated onto the metal alloy cardiac harness to insulate the harness from an electrical shock delivered by the leadless defibrillator.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the cardiac harness includes undulating strands that are interconnected.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the cardiac harness includes a gripping element to increase gripping force between the cardiac harness and the outer surface of the heart.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the leadless defibrillator senses electrical signals from the heart and provides a defibrillating shock through the cardiac harness and through the heart.
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The 2017 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) report evaluates access to and usage of affordable financial services by underserved people across 26 geographically, politically, and economically diverse countries. The report assesses these countries’ financial inclusion ecosystems based on four dimensions of financial inclusion: country commitment, mobile capacity, regulatory environment, and adoption of selected traditional and digital financial services. The report further examines key developments in the global financial inclusion landscape, highlights selected financial inclusion initiatives within the 26 FDIP countries over the previous year, and provides targeted recommendations aimed at advancing financial inclusion.
DEL OTRO LADO: Financial behavior of households receiving international remittances in the Mexico Financial Diaries
This report was commissioned by the Remittances and Savings Program of the Multilateral Investment Fund to provide insight into the financial lives of remittance recipient households in Mexico. This information will inform both private and public sector initiatives to leverage migrant remittances for wealth building throughout Latin America and the world.
The research finds that remittance income is just one of many sources of income for these families. On average, households earned income from 6.5 different sources during the Financial Diaries study, including remittances. Remittance payments tend to be irregular and may exacerbate income volatility. The frequency of remittance payments is often a function of the employment situation and financial needs of the migrant sender. The research shows that some households are able to use financial instruments to smooth consumption in the absence of consistent income. Among the households included in this study, informal credit instruments dominate financial portfolios. The most common informal credit instrument used were loans from friends and family, buying goods on credit from local shops, and participation in rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). The study found that families direct the majority of their remittance income towards daily household expenses, including increased spending on healthcare, better quality food, and education. In addition to meeting their basic household needs, recipients also leverage remittance payments as a sort of insurance mechanism, and request money in the case of emergencies or an unexpected need. Finally, the study showed that housing, education, and preparing for the migrant remittance sender’s return were the main motivations for saving among these households.
Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps
This paper seeks to identify the causal effects of expanded access to microcredit on borrowers and communities using six randomized evaluations. The evaluations are based on a variety of sampling, data collection, experimental design, and econometric strategies. The methods are deployed across urban and rural areas of six countries in four continents representing vast disparities in terms of borrower characteristics, loan characteristics, and lender characteristics. The paper finds a consistent pattern of modestly positive, but non-transformative effects of microcredit. Other highlights include:
Studies do not find clear evidence, or even suggestive evidence, of reductions in poverty or substantial improvements in living standards;
There is strong evidence suggesting that businesses expand, though the extent of expansion may be limited, and there are hints that profits increase with access to microcredit;
Analysis shows that it is likely for access to microcredit to have an effect on occupational choice, business scale, consumption choice, female decision power, and improved risk management;
There is little evidence of harmful effects of microcredit, even with individual lending at high real interest rates;
Analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects of the studies suggest the possibility of transformative effects on some segments of microlenders’ target populations.
Sustained Effort, Saving Billions: Lessons from the Mexican Government’s Shift to Electronic Payments
Thanks to a concerted and well-planned shift to electronic distribution of many government payrolls, pensions and social benefits, the Government of Mexico is saving a significant amount of funds. In the first of the The Better Than Cash Alliance Case Study Series to be released, researchers identify the many billions that are estimated to be saved by the Mexican government each year. It also provides key lessons for other governments that are undergoing similar efforts around the world. The full report can be viewed in the Evidence Paper. An abridged version is available in highlights while the factsheet provides a quick overview of the findings.
Why Mexico transitioned to electronic payments In the mid-1990s, federal government spending in Mexico was highly decentralized:
Dependencias had one or more accounts at commercial banks;
Tesofe maintained accounts at these same banks;
When Dependencias requested their budgetary appropriations, Tesofe transferred the money — within the banks — from its accounts into those of the Dependencias, where it sat until being disbursed. The process provided ample opportunity for delay and confusion:
Dependencias had to hand-deliver the paperwork showing they were entitled to the transfer;
Tesofe had wide discretion on the timing to execute transfers;
Tesofe had no means to assess whether the money was spent as authorized; and
There were no centralized guidelines outlining the remuneration banks had to offer the Dependencias in return for keeping the float in their accounts prior to disbursement.
The Challenge of Understanding Pricing of Micro-loans
For decades, the microfinance industry made a rather disciplined effort to ignore prices we were charging on our loan products. That changed with the Compartamos IPO of 2007, where the largest MFI in Latin America made hundreds of millions of dollars in profit while charging interest rates of over 100%. This provoked intense discussion as the industry tried to understand what true interest rates really are, and as we tried to determine what rate Compartamos was really charging its clients.
Thanks to Compartamos’ transparency on its financial statements, we had access to ten years of financial reports; however, we still had no real idea of what price they were charging. Compartamos publicly claimed its interest rate was approximately 82%, yet even on its own website, the organization stated that its primary loan product had an annual interest rate of 105%, including the 15% government tax. Which of these is the price? Or is it something different? Or is there really no one figure that is the true price? This paper uses the Compartamos example to explain how interest rate calculations work and why there is so much confusion over what true prices really are. We will also see that most MFIs in Mexico use similar pricing systems – Compartamos is not an aberration, but rather more the norm of practice in Mexican microfinance.
How to Develop an Institutional Code of Ethics
The Smart Campaign’s client protection principle on Fair and Respectful Treatment of Clients encourages financial service providers to treat clients with fairness and respect and to ensure that measures exists to detect and correct corruption and abuse, particularly during the credit sales and collection processes.
An institutional Code of Ethics helps employees practice fair and respectful treatment of clients by defining clear standards of ethical behavior that they must uphold. A written Code does not ensure ethical conduct, but it is the first step toward creating an ethical organizational culture. In other words, establishing high standards of ethical employee behavior is a two-part process; first, the institution defines standards of behavior, and second, those standards are brought to life throughout the institution. This guide will focus on the first part of the process—defining standards of behavior through a formal Code of Ethics.
Most microfinance institutions already have a Code of Ethics, but many of these Codes are not “living” documents that carry significance within the organization. This short guide provides concrete suggestions for creating or remaking an institutional Code of Ethics.
Loan Officer Manual at Banco Solidario
Excerpts related to avoiding client over-indebtedness, translated from Spanish.
Código de Ética y Conducta
En Compartamos tenemos fuertes valores compartidos que delinean nuestra personalidad y que se expresan a través de acciones concretas que siempre buscan el bien de los demás. Nos dedicamos a ofrecer oportunidades, te invito a que des el primer paso aceptando tú mismo la oportunidad de convertirte en mejor persona, de servir con un interés auténtico en la persona, de vivir y trabajar con pasión y responsabilidad, de reconocer el valor de los demás aprendiendo a trabajar en equipo y a generar riqueza económica, social y humana al servicio de los demás. Es la oportunidad de vivir con plenitud y recorrer el camino de la felicidad.
Nuestro Código de Ética y Conducta no es sólo para leerse: es para vivirse. Hoy, formas parte de un equipo ganador, pero ninguno de nuestros éxitos valdría algo si nosotros mismos no somos personas en las que nuestros clientes, los demás colaboradores y consejeros, accionistas, inversionistas y proveedores puedan confiar plenamente. Nuestro mayor éxito es la vivencia de la Filosofía Compartamos, la cual tú construyes diariamente con cada una de tus acciones, actitudes y decisiones.
Compartamos Initial Public Offering: A Case Study on Microfinance Interest Rates and Profits
On April 20, 2007, Banco Compartamos, a microfinance institution (MFI) that was launched in 1990 and originally funded by grants from various sources, including CGAP, completed a landmark initial public offering (IPO) of its stock. The IPO was 13 times oversubscribed and considered a huge success by any financial market standard.1 Pent-up demand caused the share price—representing 30 percent ownership in the bank—to surge 22 percent in the first day of trading. Demand was driven by the exceptional growth and profitability of Compartamos, a dearth of Mexican investments for emerging market portfolios,rarity value, strong management, and the appeal of microfinance.
The spectacular success of the IPO was a milestone not only for Compartamos, but for microfinance. Mainstream international fund managers and other truly commercial investors—not socially responsible investors—bought most of the shares. The transaction will probably give a significant boost to the credibility of microfinance in commercial capital markets and accelerate the mobilization of private capital for the business of providing financial services to poor and low-income people.
Beyond Codes: The Foundation for Client Protection in Microfinance
Beyond Codes was an action research project of the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION. The project was designed to provide a body of experience and knowledge from leading financial institutions serving low-income people about how consumer protection codes of conduct are implemented. The two-year project started in mid-2008 and ended in June 2010. The project aimed to develop the tools and experience that could inform the subsequent work in client protection by grounding it in practices of financial institutions.
Twelve financial institutions (FIs) participated in the project. FIs were of various ages, from less than three to more than ten years. The institutions included banks, non-deposit finance companies, NGOs, and credit unions. Some were large operations with close to one million clients, while others were medium-sized and even small, with fewer than 10,000 customers. The countries represented in the research were: Bosnia, India, Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines. All the FIs engaged in lending including a range of loan products using various methodologies. More than half also offered savings, transaction accounts, and insurance.
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Browsing by Author "Peñaranda, Ma. Michelle D."
Anti-luminous Vibrio factors associated with the ‘green water’ grow-out culture of the tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon
GD Lio-Po, EM Leaño, MMD Peñaranda, AU Villa-Franco, CD Sombito & NG Guanzon Jr. - Aquaculture, 2005 - Elsevier
The ability of the “green water” grow-out culture of the tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon to prevent outbreaks of Luminous Vibriosis was investigated by screening associated isolates of bacteria, fungi, phytoplankton and fish skin mucus for anti-luminous Vibrio metabolites. Among the 85 bacterial isolates tested, 63 (74%) caused +∼+++ inhibition of the Vibrio harveyi pathogen after 24–48 h co-cultivation. The variation in growth inhibition rates of +, ++, and +++ were demonstrated by 15 (18%), 13 (15%), and 28 (33%) isolates, respectively, 24 h after treatment. Eight bacterial isolates showed consistently sustained maximum inhibition of luminous Vibrio after 24 to 48 h exposure. The majority of these luminous Vibrio inhibiting bacterial isolates were obtained from tilapia mucus and gut. In tests with fungi, 4 of 20 (20%) yeast isolates showed intracellular metabolites inhibitory to luminous Vibrio. Among filamentous fungi, 5 of 45 (11%) isolates yielded intracellular metabolites while 3 of 41 (7%) isolates had extracellular metabolites inhibitory to luminous Vibrio. These fungal isolates were identified as Rhodotorula sp., Saccharomyces sp., Candida sp., Penicillium sp., mycelia sterilia, and two unidentified species. The microalgae, Chaetoceros calcitrans and Nitzchia sp., consistently demonstrated complete inhibition of luminous Vibrio from 24 h and 48 h post exposure, respectively, and during the 7-day experiment. Leptolyngbia sp. caused a 94–100% reduction of the luminous Vibrio population from 104 to 101 cfu/ml 24 h post exposure which was sustained throughout the 10-day observation period. In contrast, the inhibitory effects of Skeletonema costatum on luminous Vibrio was bacteriostatic throughout the 7-day exposure while Nannochlorum sp. did not significantly inhibit luminous Vibrio. The skin mucus of jewel tilapia, Tilapia hornorum, had no resident luminous bacteria and inhibited this bacterial pathogen in 6–48 h, which was proportionate to the 103 and 105 cfu/ml test concentrations of luminous Vibrio. This study provides a scientific explanation that the effectiveness of the “green water” culture of tiger shrimp (P. monodon) in preventing outbreaks of luminous Vibriosis among P. monodon juveniles in grow-out ponds can be attributed to the presence of anti-luminous Vibrio factors in the bacterial, fungal, phytoplankton microbiota and the skin mucus of tilapia associated with this novel technique of shrimp culture.
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On the sound radiation of a rolling tyre
The sound radiation from rolling tyres is still not very well understood. Although details such as horn effect or directivity during rolling have been investigated, it is not clear which vibrational modes of the tyre structure are responsible for the radiated sound power. In this work an advanced tyre model based on Wave Guide Finite Elements is used in connection with a contact model validated in previous work. With these tools the tyre vibrations during rolling on an ISO surface are simulated. Starting from the calculated contact forces in time the amplitudes of the modes excited during rolling are determined as function of frequency. A boundary element model also validated in previous work is applied to predict the sound pressure level on a reference surface around a tyre placed on rigid ground as function of the modal composition of the tyre vibrations. Taking into account different modes when calculating the vibrational field as input into the boundary element calculations, it is possible to identify individual modes or groups of modes of special relevance for the radiated sound power. The results show that mainly low-order modes with relative low amplitudes but high radiation efficiency in the frequency range around 1 kHz are responsible for the radiated sound power at these frequencies, while those modes which are most strongly excited in that frequency range during rolling are irrelevant for the radiated sound power. This fact is very essential when focusing on the design of quieter tyres.
Wolfgang Kropp
Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Applied Acoustics
Patrik Sabiniarz
H. Brick
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
T. Beckenbauer
Journal of Sound and Vibration
0022-460X (ISSN) 1095-8568 (eISSN)
Vol. 331 8 1789-1805
10.1016/j.jsv.2011.11.031
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Meanwhile, in Facebook/NCAA News…
This has nothing to do with bad research.
Bad Facebook, that’s another story.
So one of the basketball pools I’m in is hosted at cbssports.com. I installed their Facebook application because I was hoping it would let me log into the main site through the application, which would let me attach my bracket to my profile. (I’m 8 for 8 so far, but Villanova is making me nervous.) That didn’t seem to be an option, so I went to delete it … but first, I screengrabbed this strange status updater thing that was built into the app:
So, last year, I told a different CBS Sports application that North Carolina was my favorite team; it pulled that info from somewhere and pre-wrote all these status updates for me. Six of the eight pre-written updates insert the name of my favorite team into the update: all of the six were written as if the name of the team was singular. As a result, all of those updates come out looking like they were written by an idiot.
But here’s the thing: I can’t think offhand of ANY sports team, college or otherwise, whose name is singular. Tar Heels. Wildcats. Orangemen. Huskies. Banana Slugs. Hoyas. I might be wrong, but if I’m not, whoever developed this app for CBS has managed to ensure that six of eight of their status updates will never be right.
There’s definitely a lesson of some sort in here for researchers — beware of automated processes that might make you look stupid is probably it — but I’m not really going for the tie-in here — I’m just making fun of some bad, bad Facebook application design.
Filed under social media
3 responses to “Meanwhile, in Facebook/NCAA News…”
Brian LoCicero
The Stanford Cardinal (singular) is, I think, the only singular college nickname out there (out of the major colleges)
So maybe the app was developed by some of those smart fellas out there?? 🙂
Let’s face it geekdom (IT) and sports cross at a very odd intersection of life at times.
Ken Starr
Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Syracuse Orange (used to be Orangemen, but no longer)
researchrants
Ehhhhh. I’m not really convinced.
None of them are really a solitary little THING, the way a cardinal is one single bird. A wave, or a tide, sure, it’s technically singular, but it’s a really massive thing. As is a hurricane. Whatever Cornell’s Red is, it’s similarly big. And the Orangemen are the Orange the way Mile High Stadium is Invesco Field, which is to say, it’s not, outside the corporate media.
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SADTU REC Induction Workshops, 2015
2016 Local Government Elections
COSATU Limpopo PEC; SADTU KZN PEC
ANC Local Government Candidate Selection, 2016
Unpacking “Door‐to‐Door”
2016 Election Mini‐manual
Sub‐Branch Co‐ordinating Teams (SBCTs)
COSATU and the Party On‐Message with the ANC
National Development Plan
ANC Branch Manual: Networking the Community
From Mail and Guardian, 4 September 2015
COSATU Limpopo PEC, 14 September 2015: 2016 Local Government Election The meeting noted that the ANC 2016 Local Government campaign is in full swing and COSATU fully participates in all election structures all over the province.
• Work together with the ANC to complete the ward profiles in the all ward • Assist the ANC in revisiting issue raised by communities in the last elections with an intention to give feedback on the progress made. • Encourage members of COSATU to be part of the BET VD and street coordinators • Mobilization for the election must form part of each and every activity of the federation • That the federation must fight for the selection of quality and credible candidates for the 2016 Local Government Elections.
SADTU KZN PEC, 14 September 2015: On Local Government Elections (Extracts) The PEC noted that the local government elections are just around the corner. The meeting after long deliberations resolved that for 2016 elections SADTU must run an election programme that would ensure that ANC remains victorious. The PEC was disturbed by the divisions and instabilities in the regions of the ANC. SADTU is raising these concerns because her belief is that it is only the ANC‐led Alliance that has the capacity to look after and implement the National Democratic Revolution which is the transformation agenda of South Africa. We think that there are people who believe that it is time to loot, and the way they are dangerous is that they don’t care who is behind their programme as much as they are assisted to ascend to power and dish tenders whilst people are suffering. The PEC noted the insults directed to some leaders of the Alliance and call upon the Alliance to deal with these tendencies. It cannot be correct that there are people who are determined to destroy the people’s movement by insults using vulgar language to the Chairperson of the ANC, the Secretary of the Party; this is an affront to the people of the country and the province who had put trust in these leaders.
ANC National Results by Province 2014 and 2009 Source: IEC via News24 Percentages
Overall: Gains: Northern Cape KwaZulu Natal Western Cape Eastern Cape Losses: Free State North West Mpumalanga Limpopo Gauteng
Difference % ‐ 3.75 + 2.78 + 1.34 + 1.14 + 1.05 ‐ 1.19 ‐ 6.05 ‐ 7.01 ‐ 7.30 ‐ 9.84
SA by Province (National) 2014 ANC, DA and EFF Source: IEC via News24 Totals: Registered Voters: 25 388 082 Votes Cast: 18 654 771 Valid Votes Counted: 18 402 497 Overall Provinces:
62.15% 11 436 921
6.35% 1 169 259
The above table accounts for almost 91% of all votes cast. All other parties polled less than 2.40% overall (IFP). 10 small parties share 37 seats.
About the ANC Local Government Candidate Selection Process for 2016
The ANC document on the ANC Local Government Candidate Selection Process is not officially out. We may be concerned that these rules have not been properly released, but are already circulating. If some know the procedure, while others do not, then they could be disadvantaged. These brief notes will indicate what is in the document, so as to equip members to lobby for its early release. These are not instructions as to how to proceed. For that you must obtain the official document. But time is short. Deadline
The document we have seen gives the last date for BGMs as 11 October 2015, less than two months from now. The lists should be finalised by the NEC on 15 December. Contents
The first approximately half of the 16‐page document are devoted to saying what the ANC wants and expects from councillors, and describing the principles behind the selection process. The well‐known document called “Through the Eye of a Needle” is summarised. These broad requirements and principles are important and educational, but we will not cover them here. We will only indicate the process described.
The second part deals with the Candidate Nomination and Selection Structures, and the powers that each structure has. For example, “Nomination may only be made by BGMs”.
The third part deals with the Ward Candidate Nomination Process, and the fourth part deals with PR Candidates Nomination.
The short, final part is called “Management and Timeframe for the Candidate Selection Process”, which is where the deadlines are laid down.
So these are the main sections of the document:
1. General Requirements and Principles (6 pages, not further described here) 2. Selection Structures (2 pages) 3. Ward Candidate Nomination Process (4½ pages) 4. PR Candidates Nomination (2½ pages) 5. Management and Timeframe for the Candidate Selection Process (½ page)
Candidate Nomination and Selection Structures 1. BGM. All members of the branch in good standing are eligible to vote for nomination of ward and PR candidates. Nomination may only be made by BGMs; if a BGM fails to quorate three times, a nomination may be made by the third meeting with a note attached that the meeting failed to quorate 2. Ward Screening committee, and ward selection committee. Six ANC members plus one representative from each of the Alliance partners and SANCO from structures that are active in the ward. Interviews candidates, and together with the RLC deployee, selects the ward candidate, after the community meeting. 3. Regional List Committee (RLC). Set up by the REC and comprising 6 ANC members with no direct interest in the outcome of the candidate selection process plus one representative from each of the Alliance partners and SANCO. Takes responsibility for organising the list conferences at local municipal and regional level. 4. Municipal and district/metro PR list conferences: Municipal: The regional list committee plus branch chairs and secretaries in each municipality plus COSATU, SACP and SANCO chair and secretary from the sub‐region. Metro/District: The RLC plus all branch chairs and secretaries in the region, plus the COSATU, SACP and SANCO chair and secretary from the region. PR lists are presented by the regional list committee and decided and ordered at this conference and forwarded to the PEC, according to the given process. 5. A Provincial List Committee (PLC) set up by the PEC convened by the Provincial Secretary, and comprising 6 ANC members with no direct interest in the outcome of the candidate selection process plus one representative from each of the Alliance partners and SANCO. Oversees the work by regional list committees and selection conferences. The first point of appeal for branches or members who feel that the process was not fair or had an undesirable outcome. They make decisions on appeals. 6. The PEC has to ratify all PR lists and ward candidates that are produced by the process in this document. It may make changes. 7. A National List Committee set up by the SG and comprising 6 senior ANC members with no direct interest &c. plus one representative from each of the Alliance partners and SANCO, makes the rules and oversees the process, hears final appeals and presents final lists to the NEC 8. NEC ratifies all final lists
Ward Candidate Nomination Process Main processes: Nomination by the branch; Screening and short‐listing by the screening committee; Community meeting where shortlisted candidates answer questions; Selection by the selection committee; Ratification by the PEC. Branch nomination meeting
Nominations will be made at duly constituted quorate Branch General Meetings that must include the participation of leagues and alliance members in their capacity as ANC branch members at which a delegated regional list committee or provincial list committee member is present to oversee proceedings. The branch shall nominate a minimum of four candidates who have the capacity and track record to represent the people of that ward and lead development the area. Each candidate must be supported by at least 10% of members present. Half the candidates must be women. AII nominees should present a CV and be interviewed.
Community meeting to answer questions
AII nominees shall be presented to a broader meeting of the community that comprises members of the ANC branch, Alliance, MDM and ANC supporters registered as voters in the ward, overseen by the ward screening committee and members of the regional list committee who make up the selection committee. The community meeting should be chaired by a person that is deployed by the RLC. Each nominee must be presented to the community meeting and asked the same three or four questions and given the same amount of time to respond. All attending the community meeting may also question nominees and make comments about them. A maximum of two questions per nominee maybe entertained so as to minimise unfair advantages. The selection committee must note and take into consideration the responses of the community meeting in order to make a determination about who the most suitable nominee is.
Selection of ward candidates
The selection committee selects the best two candidates according to wishes of the ward and the community meeting, capacity of the nominee, and gender. The names of the first and second candidates are then submitted to the Provincial List Committee (PLC) in writing with reasons to motivate for their appointment as ward candidates. The PLC explains its decision to the BEC of the local branch within one week.
PR Candidates Nomination All branches may submit a maximum of six nominees for consideration on the municipal PR list. Each nominee must have the support of at least half the members present at the BGM constituted for both ward and PR nomination. Nominees for the PR list do not necessarily have to reside in the ward. AII ward candidate nominees names may also be submitted to the regional list committee for consideration in the PR list conference for the respective municipality/sub‐region. Screening and selection of PR candidates Screening of PR candidates should be done by the RLC with the involvement of the branch chairs and secretaries in the municipality (subregion) or in metro areas, the involvement of zonal chairs and secretaries. This structure should be called the Municipal or Metro/District PR Conference. It considers capacity, representivity, track record, motivations and experience. Every second name must be female. A Regional (for Metro) or Zonal/sub‐regional list conference is then called where the municipal PR list is voted on. The RLC sends a draft list to the Provincial List Committee (PLC) for every municipality in the region. The PEC ratifies or rejects the list. If it is rejected reasons must be given in writing to the RLC and provided by them to branches. An NEC meeting approves or amends all PR lists.
Management and Timeframe (Draft, “subject to SG changes”) All BGMs, including Alliance and SANCO reps who are ANC members must take place by 11th October 2015. All nomination screening processes at ward/branch level and broader community consultation must take place no later than 31st October 2015. Regional list committees plus branch reps must submit draft PR lists to the PLC by 16th November 2015. Provinces must finalise candidate lists by 20th November 2015 and send them back to branches. Objections must be made to the PLC by 30th November 2015 and objectors must be informed of decisions by 5th December 2015. They may appeal to the NLC by the 10th December 2015. The decisions on candidates and appeals processes of the national list committee are final. The NEC will ratify or amend lists on 20th December 2015.
ANC Election Campaign 2014
(Door‐to‐door work)
Contents: 1 2 3 4 7 8
Contents Canvassing Door‐to‐door in more detail Training Your Volunteers Voter education during door‐to‐door work Electoral Code of Conduct
This booklet is adapted from parts of the ANC Election Campaign 2014 Volunteers’ Manual, compiled by the Education and Training Unit (ETU).
ETU web Site: http://www.etu.org.za/
(Door‐to‐door work) Voters must be at the centre of all campaign action. Our most important task in each phase of the campaign is to reach voters and communicate with them. All campaign action must aim to get to voters and persuade them to come and vote for the ANC on election day. In strong ANC areas our voters are unlikely to vote in numbers for any other party. The main threat is that ANC voters will not vote on election day because of apathy or disillusionment. In these areas our campaign must aim to make sure that people who voted for the ANC in the past, do so again. We will only achieve this if we reach voters directly, discuss their concerns and explain what the ANC is doing to address them. In areas where we have never won a majority of the votes, our main aim is to change the choice voters make. These different types of areas need different methods. Personal contact is the best way of keeping our voters loyal and winning over new voters and canvassing from door to door is our most important campaign tool. The purpose of door‐to‐door work is to meet the voters to find out who they support and to persuade them to vote for the ANC. If they are ANC voters we must make sure they have IDs and are registered on the right voters roll. On Election Day we must use our record system to find and mobilise every single ANC voter.
Door‐to‐door work is only useful if clear records are kept so that we can use the records to: • Register unregistered voters. • Send leaders to persuade weak and undecided voters or invite them to house meetings and other events (organise a house meeting or small meeting within days of blitzing and area and invite voters you visit to attend) • Make sure all our voters come to vote on Election Day. There are different record‐keeping systems for different areas, depending on whether they are strong ANC areas or contested areas [see pages 19 and 20]. Door‐to‐door work can be done in two ways:
Blitzes – where a big group of volunteers and some candidates spend the day going door‐ to‐door in one area. Blitzes can be best used in areas where we are strong and can visit voters just once, or in areas where we are very weak and have to bring in reinforcements to blitz an area. For blitzes you need pamphlets to leave behind. Street door‐to‐door work – where each volunteer is given one street to look after and the same person goes door‐to‐door until all voters are covered. The volunteer identifies the undecided voters and if they cannot win them over, the list is given to the VD team leaders and candidates for follow up visits. Door‐to‐door work is best used in areas where there are many weak or undecided voters who need proper follow‐up work.
Use candidates and councillors when branches do door‐to‐door work blitzes. High profile candidates should be used very strategically and you should always let the press know. Candidates also help to motivate our own volunteers if they participate in door‐to‐door work. When candidates do door‐to‐door work they must introduce themselves to the voters as ANC candidates. Training and deploying door‐to‐door teams
Try to set up a door‐to‐door team for every voting district, with a coordinator or team leader who keeps the records and the voters roll. The team can split the area into streets and each one can take a few streets to look after, or they can work as a team and target one street at a time. The same team can be used for each phase of the campaign. The work they will do changes in each phase:
• Now: Popularise the manifesto and mobilize for final registration of voters. • Election week: Mobilise for Election Day. • Election Day: Get voters to the voting station.
Training Your Volunteers It is important to train and brief door‐to‐door volunteers properly. They may be the only ANC members that a voter ever has a chance to talk to. Run workshops to prepare door‐ to‐door volunteers. Make sure the workshop helps them to understand: How to behave with voters. Discuss do’s and don’ts of conduct with voters. Make sure volunteers act respectfully and do not embarrass the ANC. What are the most important problems in the area and the most important government achievements? Go through the key problems that affect people and make sure volunteers understand what the ANC government has done or plans to do about them. ANC policies on key issues. All volunteers should know the basics of ANC policies on issues like economic development, jobs, youth employment, crime and corruption, education, health, HIV and Aids, housing and land. Identify other policy areas that are important in your area and cover them as well. The ANC election message and manifesto. Explain the key parts of the manifesto and message to all volunteers. How to use the record‐keeping system. Teach volunteers how to use the record keeping system you decide on. Basic voter education for first time voters Make sure volunteers can explain how voting works Remember: A badly behaved or misinformed ANC volunteer can put voters off supporting the ANC. Use role plays where people act out the roles of voters and ANC volunteers for training volunteers and always send inexperienced people out to first work with more experienced people. Hold regular meetings after door‐to‐door work for canvassers to discuss voter concerns and questions. Discuss the best way of answering difficult questions that come up. Try to deploy people to the same area each time so that they get to know the voters and can make proper follow‐up on any questions voters have.
Door‐to‐door work records
Remember that we need to keep records of our door‐to‐door work so that we can analyse and use the results. There are two different types of records we should keep for different areas – contested areas and strong ANC areas Contested areas
Branch Election Teams must decide what is the best way of keeping records for door‐to‐ door work in areas where voters are potential ANC voters or undecided. Here we need to have a clear record of individual households and the undecided voters who live there so that we can send canvassers and candidates to work on persuading them. Also identify ANC voters so we can mobilise them on election day. It is best to use Street Sheets or House Sheets to keep records for door‐to‐door work. Make your own cards or forms and keep them in shoe boxes that are sorted according to streets or blocks in your area. Below is an example of a house sheet in a contested area. Write each voter’s name and then make ticks in the columns next to their name: HOUSE SHEET
Street_______________House number____Phone number____________ Voters Name
Strong ANC
Weak Undecided Against (for Registered ANC which party?)
Canvasser’s Name Date of visit Follow‐up needed
Third Visit
Fourth Visit
Strong ANC areas In strong areas where almost everyone supports the ANC, we should split the area into blocks or streets and after a door‐to‐door work drive or blitz we should fill in a form for each street or block. These forms should capture whether voters have IDs and are registered, need special votes or have concerns we should send someone to discuss with them. If you find that the house is not ANC, draw a line through the name and details so that it is clear that we should NOT mobilise them on Election Day. Check voter registration by asking voters if they previously registered and voted in the VD where they live. If they are not sure, check their ID and see if they have a sticker for the right VD.
STREET SHEET Street / Block ________________ House Family Total How How Special Issues raised Number Name number many many votes or voters ANC not transport? decided TOTALS: Fill in the street number of each house and the family name. Then write the total number of voters in the house and the number without IDs, unregistered or in need of special votes or transport on Election Day.
Voter education during door‐to‐door work
A very effective way of doing voter education is during door‐to‐door work where you visit voters at home and ask them directly if they need any information or have any questions about the elections. When you do door‐to‐door work you will only have a few minutes to explain the importance of voting and the voting process. Make sure you know your facts so that you can use your time well. When you speak to voters, make sure you cover at least the following facts: • On Election Day you must go to the voting station closest to you where you registered as a voter. If you have a registration sticker in your ID it has the voting district number on it. • Once you get to the voting station you will have to show your identity document. The officials will use a scanner (Zip‐Zip) to check that you are on the roll. An official will look at your identity document and then cross your name off the voters’ roll. • They will then check your hands to see if you have voted before and if your hands are unmarked they will mark your hand with a special ink to make sure that you cannot vote again under a different name or ID. • You will then be given two ballot papers – one for the national election and one for the provincial election. Take the ballot papers into the voting booth. You must make a cross in the box next to the name and the symbol of the political party that you support. No‐one can see who you are voting for. • If you cannot read or write look for the symbol of the party you support with the photograph of its leader and make your cross next to that. You can also ask an official to help if you need assistance. • When you finish voting, fold the paper in half and go to the ballot boxes where you must put the papers in the correct ballot boxes. • No‐one will know who you voted for. There is no way that anyone can find out afterwards which ballot paper belongs to which person as your name and identity number does not appear on the ballot paper. Your vote is your secret.
Make sure that you show the voter an example of a ballot paper and how to make a cross. Remind them where they should go and vote in that area.
Electoral Code of Conduct The same Code of Conduct applies as in all previous elections. Political parties that break the Code can be fined, stopped from working in an area, or have their votes in an area cancelled. The individuals who break the Code or commit other offences under the Electoral Act can be fined or jailed. In the ANC we expect all our candidates, members and supporters to stick to the Code of Conduct. Anyone who breaks it will commit a crime and can be prosecuted. The ANC may also be punished for an individual member or supporter’s behaviour if it can be shown that we did not urge our supporters to abide by the Code and did not take all reasonable steps to stop them from breaking the Code. In serious cases the ANC Disciplinary Committee will also take action against members who break the Code. Here are the main Do’s and Don’ts of the Code of Conduct: Do: • encourage all your members and supporters to be tolerant of other parties, • condemn political violence, • support the right of all parties to campaign freely, • inform the proper authorities of all planned marches and rallies, • actively work with all IEC structures, • co‐operate with the police in their investigation of election crime and violence. Do not: • use any kind of violence or threats against anyone who supports another party, • remove or destroy any other party’s property, posters or pamphlets, • disrupt another party’s public meeting, • stop other parties from door‐to‐door work or campaigning in your area, • threaten or stop people who want to attend meetings of other parties, • force people to join your party, attend meetings or donate money, • spread false rumours about another party, • use violent language or urge people to use violence against any party or person. ETU web Site: http://www.etu.org.za/
There are many different kinds of “door‐to‐door.”
In all cases, records need to be kept. The prerequisite for canvassing and for all door‐to‐door work, if it is to get results, is a record‐making and record‐keeping system, based on the Voters' Roll. Until you have that, you can't do canvassing or door‐to‐door work effectively. Outside of election times or other specific campaigns, door‐to‐door corresponds to the concept of “Know Your Neighbourhood”. The work needs to be harvested in the form of a record so that it can be shared and so become collective knowledge of the ANC in the given area, and particularly at voting‐district (VD) level.
Usually, there is a national voter registration drive that is synchronised with the IEC's special local registration days, when the voting stations are opened for that purpose. There may be two of these, one early, and one nearer the election. The first registration drive is usually the first door‐to‐door sweep of any election campaign. If we there are sufficient volunteers, then we can potentially knock on all doors our VD a number of times before the election happens. In that case, it is an advantage to call each time on a different errand. Not all door‐to‐doors are the same! If you are calling at the same house for the second time, for example, it will be convenient to be able to say: "Last time I was doing a Public Voter Registration Campaign. This time I am here to ask you on behalf of the ANC, if you will please pledge us your vote?” (i.e. “I’m canvassing”). In other words, we can have a perspective on the campaign. We can plan it in parts so that it can be sustained all the way through to the Election Day. The parts need not simply be repeated. They can work towards developing a personal relationship with the voters, and gently educating them, while we are progressively collecting the information we need for our electoral campaign.
The ANC’s fundamental objective of electoral work are: identify our vote, maximise our vote, and then get all of our voters out on the Election Day. For all of these, records are required, The records must be based on the Voter’s Roll, as closely as possible. The Voter’s Roll is the official IEC (Independent Electoral Commission) list of registered voters in each Voting District. It is published after registrations are closed. Consequently, for most of the campaign, political parties are obliged to use the Voter’s Roll from the previous election, updating it themselves as best they can. Each VD will have to assess its resources and plan accordingly.
Model Plan of Campaign
To assist this planning process, here is a model plan 1. Survey – Getting to know your neighbourhood 2. Voter registration (all) 3. Canvassing (all) 4. Canvassing (repeat for houses not yet covered) 5. Recruitment (selected addresses from canvassing returns) 6. "Celebrity" door‐to‐door, with candidate, MEC, MP et cetera ‐ avoiding DA‐ pledged houses 7. Another voter registration drive 8. ANC leaflet blitz (all, but letterboxes) 10. Canvassing (repeat of 3., above) – for houses still not covered 11. Repeat of 5. ‐ another celebrity door‐to‐door 12. All‐dwelling leaflet blitz to advertise a public meeting ‐ which would have been organised before the blitz Feedback from any of these parts could suggest further variations.
An ANC victory mini‐manual prepared from the 2013 ANC National Election Manual
This booklet is prepared for political and induction schools prior to the mid‐2016 Municipal Election. It is derived from the ANC’s 2013 68‐page A4 election manual. Some parts have been set aside. Some parts are covered in other booklets. The previous municipal election was held on 18 May, 2011. This time we are required to build machinery at Sub‐Branch (Voting District) level to identify and mobilise every ANC voter and get them to the voting station on the day.
Sub‐branch Coordinating Teams are described on the back page of this booklet. The IEC
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) manages and supervises our elections. In every province the IEC has an office under a Provincial Election Officer. In every local council area a Municipal Electoral Officer (MEO) is appointed by the IEC to organise voting stations, voter registration and to run the elections on Election Day.
Any representative or candidate of a political party has the right to talk to voters in any public or private place. Parties can go into farms or hostels to talk to the workers who live there. If bosses refuse reasonable requests, report them to the MEO.
The Voters’ Roll
The voters’ roll is a list of all the voters in the country. It is broken into separate lists for each voting district. The voters’ roll will close about three months before the election. Anyone who did not register by then will not be allowed to register. The compilation of the voters’ roll is a process that the ANC will pay attention to, so as to assist all ANC voters to complete the process successfully. The final voters roll should be published about five weeks before the election.
Key tasks on Election Day are:
1. Get out the vote: make sure that all the ANC voters are contacted and encouraged to go to the voting station. 2. Transport: Make sure that voters get transport if they need it and offer transport to reluctant or apathetic voters. 3. Monitor the area and voting stations and deal with any crises that may come up – send organisers from your ops centre to all voting stations to check. 4. Check that volunteers are at all posts; report to Regional office every 4 hours.
Getting out the vote We want to ensure that every ANC voter gets to the voting station to vote on Election Day. To do this we will have to set up a system where volunteers visit every house with ANC voters and check that they have gone to vote. There should be 2 categories of volunteers for this:
1. Block coordinators who are in charge of the street sheets and co‐ordinate the work of the door‐knockers. 2. Door‐knockers who go door‐to‐door to remind all ANC and undecided voters to go and vote. They should use street sheets and door‐to‐door work records to identify these voters. If voters need transport the door‐knockers must inform them about where the nearest pick‐up points are and the time transport is available, or, if door‐knockers have their own cars to take the voters to the voting station.
Transport Most voting stations are within walking distance of the majority of voters. If transport is needed you need to work out the best arrangement for your area. You will need these volunteers:
1. Coordinator – based at the office to coordinate all drivers, taxis and volunteers. 2. Drivers who will either follow specific routes to pick up voters at arranged pick‐up points or who will go to individual homes to fetch disabled, old or reluctant voters and take them to the voting station. 3. Hoppers – who go with each vehicle and jump out to fetch the voters at their homes. 4. Pick‐up point coordinators who stay at the points and help with transport arrangements.
The best way to co‐ordinate the transport is to use door‐to‐door work records and to find out which voters have indicated that they need transport. Try to book transport beforehand or to negotiate free transport from local taxi associations. If many voters are far from the voting station set up pick‐up points and routes that will cover all the areas in that voting district and ensure that a taxi or car goes around and around to the voting station. Voting hours are usually 07h00 to 21h00.
Election day workers NAME
Election coordinator
This person will be in charge and take all final decisions on election days. Must make sure everyone does their tasks, gets reports and make reports to sub‐regional office. Deploys problem solving team. Organiser and Moves around the area in roving car, makes sure everyone is problem working and deals with problems in the field. Takes reports solving team from voting station and block coordinators. Administrator Assists coordinator with communication and supervises catering team. Transport Deals with transport requests and problems. coordinator Party agents Make sure there is no cheating at the voting station and monitor vote‐counting. Door‐ Remind voters to go and vote, check that they have IDs and knockers know how to vote, report problems to block coordinator. Block Deploy door‐knockers and take reports from them. Report coordinators problems to organiser. Drivers and Transport voters and check that they have iDs and know how to hoppers vote. Pick‐up point Sit at pick‐up points and help with transport arrangements. coordinators Catering team Feeds volunteers.
One organiser, two problem solvers One One 3 per voting station: 2 on duty, one off 1 per street 1 per block 1 each per vehicle 1 per pick‐up point 5‐10
Voting process
Voter’s ID scanned in queue. Inside the voting station, voter's name is crossed off the voters roll. Voter's hand is examined to see if it has been marked, then hand marked. Voter gets ballot paper for the national elections and one for the provincial elections. 5. An official stamp is put on the back of the ballot papers. 6. The voter goes to the voting booth and makes a cross for one party on each of the ballot papers, folds the ballot papers and puts them into the correct ballot boxes.
Counting will happen at the voting station in almost all cases. Provisional results will be signed by party agents, announced outside the voting station when counting is finished, and then sent to the IEC through the office of the MEO. This should be a few hours after the close of voting.
ID and Voter Registration Campaign Work must begin now to ensure that all voters have identity documents (IDs) and are registered to vote. This work is in itself necessary for the success of the ANC in the election. Therefore it is done very seriously and conscientiously. But while our volunteers and Branch members go from door to door, they must also not fail to note down who are the confirmed ANC supporters. The complete listing of the ANC voters is a long task and it is essential an essential one, if we are to be able to get our voters out on Election Day, in the process described in the previous section. This campaign has the purpose of getting voters on the roll, and also the purpose of building our record of who the ANC voters are. Key Target Groups
• • • • • • •
Learners, especially first time voters who will be 18 soon Youth in rural and urban areas, especially unemployed youth Elderly people Mine workers with South African citizenship. Farm‐workers Domestic workers Disabled people
How to Get an ID
Applications for ID books can be made at any regional or district office of the Department of Home Affairs. But because many people can't afford to travel to these offices, the ANC must work with Home Affairs to organise that mobile units come to communities.
Many people who apply for IDs do not collect them when they are ready 2‐3 months later. To overcome this problem, places like schools should be used for mobile unit visits. Learners can tell their family members to come and apply, and the Home Affairs staff can return to the school when IDs are ready, for easy distribution.
All South African citizens of 16 years and older, and all permanent residents, can be issued with an ID book. To apply, a person needs their birth certificate and two ID‐size photographs.
If a person doesn't have a birth certificate then they need to prove they were born in South Africa. Their parent, senior relative or someone else who has known them since birth should complete an affidavit providing the details of their birth. Other documents they should take are a valid baptismal certificate, first school letter, clinic card or a house permit.
All South African citizens over the age of 18, who are registered voters, will normally be allowed to vote in elections. On Election Day you should vote at the voting station where you registered on the voters roll and you must have a bar‐coded ID. If you lose your ID you can get a temporary replacement ID called a 'Temporary Identity Certificate', which can also be used to vote with if it has not expired.
South Africa is divided into more than 20 000 voting districts – each one with its own voting station. To vote you should be on the voters roll for your voting district. On Election Day the national roll will be available on a scanner at the voting station and voters who are outside their VD will be allowed to vote through a special process.
Most voters are already registered from past elections. If you are still living in the same voting district where you registered and voted before, you do not have to register again. If you have moved, you should change your registration so you can vote at the voting station in your area.
Registration at MEO offices starts in April 2013. The main focus will be on public voter registration weekends that are likely to be held in November 2013 and January or February 2014. For voter registration we must target:
• Voters who have turned 18 since the last elections. • Voters who have never registered. • Voters who have moved from one voting district to another. • Voters living in VDs where boundaries have changed Registration works like this:
• You need a green ID book with a bar code [issued after 1986] or a temporary ID document. • Go to the voting station on a public registration day (or the municipal office on a normal working day) and fill in a form to show that you live in the area. • A special machine [Zip‐Zip] will be available in each voting district – it can read the bar code in your ID book and automatically records the correct information about your name and ID number for the voter's roll. The machine also prints a sticker that will be pasted in your ID book to show that you have registered at that voting station.
The IEC has the whole voters’ roll on one national computer and when you register the computer will check if your ID number already appears somewhere else. If it does, the computer will automatically cancel your registration at your old voting district and only accept the latest registration.
ANC Election‐Campaign Structures The main aim of our campaign is to reach voters and persuade them to vote for the ANC on Election Day. There are guiding principles for election structures: • Structures should be set up in such a way that they promote unity in action between the ANC, the Leagues and the Alliance. • The appropriate constitutional structures take responsibility for election work. • At other levels, like sub‐region/zone, Voting District (VD) or village levels, election teams can play a coordinating role. • The chain of command should be as short and simple as possible. Local election coordinators (at zonal/sub‐regional level) should be used to get information and resources to branch coordinators, who get it to VD coordinators. Branch coordinators should report problems and progress to LET coordinators. LET coordinators should relate to the RET or, when needed, directly to the PET. The work of the LET and the BET
Every branch must set up a Branch Election Team, reporting to the BEC. The BET consists of the coordinator plus task team heads and VD team heads, and will do most of the actual campaign work through its team of campaign volunteers. At zonal/sub‐regional level there will be a Local Election Team to coordinate work in a municipal area and to liaise with structures at other levels as well as with Branch Election Teams. The LET coordinates and supports the campaign run by BETs, and also sets up campaign teams in areas where we do not have branches. The Branch Election Team (BET)
Branches should form an election committee made up of the BEC plus Alliance and League secretaries to strategise and oversee the election campaign. The BEC secretary should coordinate the campaign. Each branch can decide how best to organise volunteers to do the campaign tasks. The main tasks that need a lot of people are door‐to‐door work and pamphlet distribution. Branches can organise volunteers into VD or area teams, or task teams, or can keep one big team and deploy people when needed to do specific tasks. Tasks like putting up posters, fundraising and organising meetings can be done by small groups of committed people or volunteers who are deployed to those tasks. Volunteers can be recruited from ANC, Alliance and League branches.
The Local Election Team (LET)
An LET must be set up in each local municipal area (which corresponds with an ANC sub‐ region or zone). Metro areas will set up regional structures and can set up LETs at sub‐ regional or zonal level if they need to for coordination purposes. The LET is made up of the LET coordinator plus all BET coordinators. LET coordinators will be deployed by the provincial office. They will be public representatives or other comrades who are available to work almost full‐time on the campaign without being paid. Their job is to bring together all BET coordinators and to make sure that the campaign is properly implemented in all municipal areas. They will be responsible for distributing media and other resources to branches and will also take responsibility for paying campaign funds to branches and accounting for the funds to the province. LET coordinators will report to their region and province on progress and will ask for support where needed. LET meetings with BET coordinators must be used to plan the campaign and discuss progress and problems.
Monitor implementation
A strategy means nothing unless the action plans are implemented. An important part of the BET's work is to check that implementation is going as planned. Monitoring is an ongoing activity and cannot be left until after the campaign – we have to identify problems as soon as possible and address them. Monitoring is the responsibility of all team coordinators. There are three main ways of monitoring:
It is a good idea to use a chart to monitor progress, as in the example for door to door work below:
VD number 1
Number of voters on roll 1205
Voters seen door to door
Number will vote ANC
Number voted ANC 2011
Number still undecided
New voters identified for registration
Establishment of Sub‐branch Coordinating Teams (SBCTs)
The BEC must establish sub‐branch structures equal to the number of voting districts (VDs) in the ward. The structures so established shall be called Sub‐Branch Coordinating Teams (SBCTs) because they do not have executive powers as they are coordinating structures. The SBCT shall be responsible for the following; • Establishment and maintenance/servicing of Street Coordinators in the VD • Establishment and maintenance/servicing of Political Education Study Circles in the VD • Coordinating of membership recruitment, growth and maintenance in the VD. This includes membership of the Leagues and MKMVA • Identifying problems in the community in the VD, proposing and coordinating solutions to such problems • Dissemination of information to ANC members in the VD The members of the SBCT are appointed by the BEC, not elected at a meeting of members convened at VD level. The BEC must appoint the following seven members of the SBCTs. • Convener of SBCT, to act as the chairperson and facilitator • Coordinator of SBCT, to act as the secretary • Member responsible for membership recruitment and coordination • Member responsible for political education • Member responsible for campaigns • Member responsible for coordination of issues on governance • Member responsible for coordination of structures below the VD The names of the members appointed in the SBCTs must be announced by the BEC at the BGM. This must be after consulting these individual members and their acceptance of the responsibility. [Gauteng]
COSATU and the Party: On‐Message with the ANC
In this election campaign, COSATU and the Party (SACP) have together committed ourselves to the comprehensive Manifesto and National Development Plan of our liberation Movement, the African National Congress. We invite all our members and supporters, and the whole great South African Nation, to join us. Our message is one:
Together We Move South Africa Forward!
Together, by our votes, we commit to raise employment; develop rural South Africa and achieve food security; create fully serviced human settlements; expand education and training; create comprehensive health and social security; fight corruption and crime; work for peace and progress in the world; and build the nation.
The ANC liberated South Africa from racism and apartheid. Since 1994, 5m more people are in work. Total employment is now 14m. Twice as many are at university, and twice as many are graduating. 5,000 farms have been transferred to black people, benefiting 200,000 families. 80,000 land claims have been settled, benefitting 1.8 m people. Those receiving social grants increased from 3m to 16m. Over 3.3 million free houses have been built, benefiting more than 16m people. 92% have access to potable water, compared to 60% in 1996. Access to electricity has doubled and nearly everyone has it now.
Five years In the last five years ANC membership has more than doubled. The ANC is everywhere recognised as the only organisation that can unite the country.
In these years the ANC‐led government has invested R1 trillion in infrastructure, double the rate of the previous 5 yrs. In these five years, adults with banking services grew from 60% in 2009 to more than 75%.
In these last five years, 500 informal settlements have been replaced with quality housing and basic services. The matric pass rate increased from 60.6% in 2009 to 78.2%. In the two years between 2010 and 2012, FET enrolments almost doubled from 345,566 in 2010 to 657,690. Loans and bursaries to poor students went up from R2.3bn to R8bn. Over 7m learners are now in no‐fee schools. New teacher graduates doubled from 6,000 in 2009 to 13,000 in 2012. Babies born HIV+ reduced from 24,000 in 2008 to 8,200 in 2011. Average life expectancy increased by 4 more years to 60 years in 2012 Here is what we are now going to do, together: Work: There will be local procurement. The state will buy at least 75% of its goods and services from South African producers. It will support small enterprises, co‐operatives, and broad‐ based empowerment. The massive roll‐out of infrastructure in Energy, Transport, ICT and Water will continue. There will be a many‐sided national effort to get our youth into work, including placement and internship and training incentive schemes, and 60% youth employment in infrastructure and other youth employment projects.
Together we will promote investment and access to credit, consolidate the public works programme, creating six million more work opportunities by 2019 ‐ many of which will be of long duration. Together we will enforce measures to end abusive work practices for part‐time and contract workers and those employed by labour brokers
In the Rural Areas We will come together to support local markets and credit facilities. We will increase investment in agricultural infrastructure in support of small‐holder farmers, prioritising former homeland communal areas. We are going to strengthen agricultural college education through skills development funds. We will expand the Food for All programme for procuring and distributing affordable essential foodstuffs directly to poor communities.
We will increase the number of youth participants in the National Rural Youth Service Corps from the present 14,000 to 50,000 in the next five years. We will accelerate settlement of remaining land claims and re‐open the period for lodgement of claims for restitution of land for a period of five years, starting in 2014.
Human Settlements and basic services We will provide a million housing opportunities for qualifying households in urban and rural settlements over the next five years, keeping to the same rate but now with better quality homes. We will increase affordable housing through housing allowances for teachers, nurses, police officers, office workers and others who do not qualify for RDP subsidy, yet cannot afford housing. We will work with banks, private sector organisations, co‐operatives and social partners to increase provision of capital for housing. We will also establish a mortgage insurance scheme. We will connect an additional 1.6m homes to the electricity grid over the next 5yrs.
Education and Training 2 years of pre‐school education are going to be compulsory. Teacher development will proceed through many different measures, and improve the quality of basic education up to the senior grade. We will build 1000 new schools and provide accommodation for 50 000 students. We will introduce compulsory community service for all graduates.
Health Care and Comprehensive Social Security for all With the full support of COSATU and the Party we will together implement the next phase of the National Health Insurance (NHI) through a publicly funded and administered NHI Fund. 213 new clinics and community health centres and 43 hospitals will be constructed. Over 870 health facilities in all 11 NHI pilot districts will undergo major and minor refurbishments. We will strengthen and expand the free primary health care programme, train an average of 2000 new doctors per year, improve public hospital management and reduce the costs of private health care.
Together we will intensify the campaign against HIV and AIDS , and ensure that 4.6m receive their anti‐retrovirals. We will make sure that all chronic medication is available and delivered closer to where patients live.
We will increase the supply of social service professionals, introduce mandatory cover for retirement, disability and survivor benefits, continue to roll out existing social grants to those who qualify and urgently finalise policy discussions on a comprehensive social protection policy that ensures no needy South African falls through the social security net Fight Corruption and Crime The ANC, COSATU and the Party will intensify our joint fight against corruption both in government and in the private sector. We will stop public servants from doing business and hold public officials individually liable for losses arising from corrupt actions. We will pursue action against companies involved in bid rigging, price fixing and corruption in past and current infrastructure build programmes. We will strengthen Sexual Offences and Community Affairs Units as a priority to deal with domestic violence and violence against women and children.
Poverty and equality Long term we need to build an economy that provides decent jobs for all. This is the only way to develop the country and end poverty. Skills development and better education are the key to economic development.
In the short term we have to make sure that poor households get support and services for a better life now. We can do this. Since 1994, on every single working day, the ANC government delivered 600 new houses, water and electricity to 1 300 new households, 2 600 new social grant beneficiaries, 7m school meals and free education and health care for the poor. All of these measures target poor households. The total cost of all free services exceeds R3000 p/m per poor household. Together, we can do it.
National Development Plan The NDP aims to eliminate income poverty before 2030. We will reduce the proportion of households with monthly income below R419 per person from 39% to zero. The National Development Plan addresses key challenges
Too few people are in work. The quality of school education for black people is poor. Infrastructure like power, roads, rail, communication, water and sanitation is poorly located, inadequate to serve all and under‐maintained. Apartheid spatial planning hampers inclusive development. The economy is unsustainably resource‐intensive. The inherited public health system cannot meet demand for quality services, which are consequently uneven and often of poor quality. Corruption levels are too high, and South Africa remains a divided society.
NDP is a plan to increase employment from 13m in 2010 to 24 m in 2030; raise average income from R50 000 in 2010 to R120 000 by 2030; and increase the share of national income of the bottom 40% of people from 6% to 10% of national income.
All of the commitments we will jointly make when we cast our vote for the ANC on 7 May are in keeping with the NDP. It is a commitment for more than the 5‐year term.
The NDP is our plan to create full employment, eliminate poverty and reduce inequality by 2030. The NDP is complemented by medium term government programmes: National Growth Path, Industrial Policy Action Plan, Infrastructure Development Plan, Skills Development and small business development. Together these plans will increase the skills of our work force, build modern industry including small businesses, add value to raw materials before export, build jobs in more industries here rather than importing products, invest billions in infrastructure projects that create jobs, grow the economy and meet the basic needs of our people.
Our message and slogan – Together We Move South Africa Forward – is consistent with the ANC’s unity‐in‐action in the struggle years, in the Mandela years, and all the way up to the present moment. Consequently, we now have an opportunity to move forward in a way that is more favourable than ever before. The African National Congress is still the only organisation that can unite the nation. COSATU and the Party are on‐Message with the ANC:
ANC Branch Manual 2010
SECTION 3: WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY
This section concentrates on the work branches should be doing in the community. It covers the following: 1. Understanding your constituency and doing a community profile 2. Outreach work with your constituency • Meetings and direct contact with voters • Outreach to sectors • Networking
Understanding your constituency and doing a community profile Branches can only be successful if they understand the communities and the people they have to organise. You can only be effective if you go to the people you want to organise, learn from them, understand their conditions and work for change at a pace that they can accept. You probably think that you know your constituency well and have many opinions about what people see as their problems and what their attitudes are. Remember that leaders and activists often see the world differently from ordinary people. It is very important that you do research to really find out what people see as their problems, how they see solutions and what their attitudes are to change.
Key things you should find out There are many ways to do a community profile. It is best to write down everything you find out and to update it regularly. A community profile should be a branch resource and the BEC should always look at it before planning programmes or campaigns for the year. It will help you to make sure you address the correct issues in your area.
Here is a broad list of the types of things you may want to know. It is divided into three: • The people in your ward and the problems they experience • What exists in the ward ‐ the physical environment • Community life ‐ what else is happening in the community
The people in your ward and the problems they experience
Use meetings, interviews and official sources to find out as much as you can about: • People's practical needs and problems ‐ concentrate on issues like housing, water, electricity, roads, transport, health services, education, social grants, child care and facilities. • Issues that worry or concern them ‐ these could be things like crime, violence, youth and HIV/AIDS, etc. • Their hopes for the future ‐ what changes do they long for and what basic improvements do they want in the area. • Their attitudes towards, and opinions about plans and proposals from government, especially local government. • Facts and figures about age groups, gender, employment status and income
2. What exists in the ward ‐ the physical environment
Make a list of what exists, what the problems are and what is planned for the future. Look at things like: • Types of housing • Basic services like water, sanitation and electricity • Schools • Roads • Health services: hospitals, clinics, ambulance • Firefighting services • Police services • Postal and telecommunication services • Sport, parks and other recreational facilities • Municipal facilities (paypoints and service centres) • Shops, Markets and Banking Facilities • Factories and other places of employment • Places of Worship • Community Halls • Transport services
Community Life ‐ What else is happening in the Community
Make a list of all the organisations you can think of. Ask any organisations you meet to give you contact details for others they know of. Use the form at the end of the community profile to capture the details.
Think of the following: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Political Organisations School Governing Bodies Community Policing Forum Civic Organisations Religious organisations Youth organisations Women's organisations Business organisations – including taxi and hawkers’ associations, etc. Burial societies, stokvels and other credit and saving organisations MP or MPL constituency offices Traditional leaders; Traditional healers Sport and cultural clubs Shebeens and other social spots Gangs, crime, taxi rivalries and loan sharks
How to collect information about your constituency Now that we have an understanding of what information you need to understand your ward, we will look at how you go about getting this information. You can get information from official sources, through community meetings or by doing interviews and research yourself.
Official sources • Schools and Crèches can provide enrolment figures as well as gender breakdowns • Hospitals and clinics can provide details of admissions and details of the major health problems facing the community • The local Police Station can provide crime statistics • The Municipality can provide details on: o Registered voters from the voters roll o Plans to develop the area o Payment levels for services o Backlogs in the provision of services • If the council has completed its Integrated Development Plan it may be able to provide fairly accurate details on population size, employment status and plans to develop the area. • You can visit the website of the Municipal Demarcation Board at www.demarcationboard.org.za. There is a breakdown of information from the last population census for each Local Council Area. • Check with both non‐governmental and government agencies for any studies conducted in the community you work in. • Ask community development workers, councillors and ward committees in your area for information
Community meetings Community meetings can be called to hear the views of people on a particular issue. For example, a meeting of the community could be called to discuss the proposed upgrade of an informal settlement. The meeting can hear the plan of the council and the views of the community.
Doing your own research Most people do not attend meetings and if you want to get reliable information on people's needs, attitudes or views, you will have to go to them and ask. When you do research by going door‐to‐door with a set of questions, it is called a survey. You do not have to visit everyone, but must see enough people to get a representative sample of the views in the community.
Outreach work with your constituency
This section deals with: • Meetings and direct outreach to people in your areas • Outreach to organisations and sectors • Networking
Community outreach work means staying in touch and communicating with the people in your area. This work is best done through other organisations since most people belong to churches, clubs, etc. When you stay in touch with organisations in an ongoing way, it is called networking. When you target a sector, for example churches, for outreach work, it is called sectoral outreach.
You should also try to reach people more directly ‐ through pamphlets, information tables, house and street meetings, forums, etc. This is called direct contact.
People should be at the centre of our branch work since the ANC branch and the ward councillor are the face of the ANC in the area. Most people make no difference between ANC and government and see local ANC leaders as representatives of the people. All activities must aim to get to them, hear their concerns, assist with their problems, report and consult on government programmes and to persuade them to vote for us on Election Day. Personal contact is the best way of keeping our supporters loyal and winning over new support.
Councillors, MPs and MPLs should be used to help communicate our message to the people. People want to meet the leaders who represent them in government and MPs, MPLs and councillors win attract more people to our events.
When you organise an event always think of the following questions: • How can we reach new groups and not just strong ANC supporters? • Will the event give us good publicity or directly reach lots of people?
We now deal with different methods that can be used for events and outreach.
Meetings and direct outreach to people
There are many different types of public meetings you can organise. It is important to think about your target group and the funds available before you decide what type to use. The most expensive type is a rally where you need lots of people, transport, a stage and an expensive sound system. Rallies are best for motivating strong ANC supporters – they are not very useful for informing or reporting to people, consulting your community or winning over new support. If you want to organise a large event like a rally, get support from the region. The checklist below applies to all public meetings CHECK‐LIST FOR ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Decide target group Decide type of meeting Plan programme Get venue Confirm speakers Brief speakers Publicise event ‐posters and publicity Organise transport Organise sound Organise security and marshals Organise catering Organise decorations Organise ANC table Pay all accounts
Report‐back meetings
All people in your ward should be invited to regular report‐back meetings. If the ward committee in your area is organised and holds regular report‐back meetings, you do not have to organise them. The ward councillor should briefly outline the key council plans and programmes for the area. Officials who can answer questions and describe progress, should also attend the meeting. These meetings should also be a place where people can raise problems and concerns, Take note of all important issues that come up and find a way to report back to the people who raised them, MPs and MPLs should also be involved in report back meetings
Fundraising dinners, banquets, parties, etc.
Fundraising events need a very professional approach ‐ people are paying and must be impressed and entertained enough to want to give us money again. Try to target a specific group of people who share common concerns.
Steps: 1. Decide on a target group and send out attractive invitations with a number and date by when people should reply. If you have a high‐profile speaker, issue the invitations in their name – e.g. "President Jacob Zuma invites you to come and meet the ANC parliamentarians and councillors for the Nokeng area." 2. Follow up the invitations with a phone call. 3. Get a decent venue which can accommodate everyone comfortably. 4. Organise catering and drinks, hire the necessary equipment. 5. Invite the press and supply them with the programme; do not make them pay. 6. Get speakers and brief them properly. Organise some entertainment if appropriate. Allow enough time on your programme for people to ask questions and to chat to MP/MPLs and leaders. 7. Decorate the venue and organise ANC information tables. 8. Confirm your speakers on the day of the event and make sure they know how to get there and have the necessary transport. They should be there before the event is meant to start.
Outreach to organisations and sectors Ongoing outreach work is the most important task for branches. You have to stay in touch with what is happening in your community. The branch should actively participate in important meetings and forums that affect development in the community. In many cases it is not easy for the ANC to get direct access to members of organisations and it is better to use the ward councillor ‐ for example to speak to schools or workers at their place of employment.
Here are a few tips for outreach to organisations and sectors:
Attending meetings The ward councillor and members of the BEC should try to attend all important public, civic, local development forum and community police forum meetings. It is a very visible way of showing interest in the community.
Meeting organisations leaders Develop a systematic plan to meet all the key people and organisations identified on your contact sheets and to discuss their problems and programmes with them. The ward councillor should also visit government departments and key civil servants to assess their service delivery in the area. Write to them to ask for appointments. Most organisations and civil servants will gladly meet with a ward councillor.
Inspections Organise site visits for the ward councillor, MECs, MP/MPLs and government officials to inspect problems in the community. These could be things like: school registration day, areas where waste is dumped, support groups for people living with AIDS, clinics, flooded areas, etc, Intervening on local issues and development The branch should participate in local campaigns, take local issues up at other levels of government and get involved in solving local problems. Work with other organisations that are already active in the area. It is very important to get involved in local development projects and to use your influence to get things moving. Co‐operating with other spheres of government Work closely with provincial and national politicians and officials so that you can access other resources to solve local problems. Not all problems are dealt with by local government and you cannot always use the ward councillor.
An example is a local school that has no textbooks – this should be referred to provincial government.
Helping welfare and other organisations Assist with fundraising events and other activities of welfare and other community organisations. Use the influence of the ward councillor to assist these organisations with access to business people, funders and government support.
Targeting a sector Use the sheets on organisations in your area to help you target a specific sector for outreach work ‐for example all high schools, all churches, and specific welfare organisations.
There are different ways to organise work in a sector: • Use the contact person and ask them to invite a branch leader or the ward councillor to come and address their organisation. • Write and offer the services of the ward councillor for any events or meetings they would like. (be careful to not make promises you cannot keep) • Invite leaders to a small meeting with the ANC leaders and the ward councillor to discuss their concerns ‐for example all religious leaders or school principals. • Organise a discussion forum on, for example, economic development and invite all traders and hawkers • Target a sector for work and find out all the events they have planned ‐make sure branch members attends their events ‐for example church fete, opening of school hall, etc.
Networking means staying in touch with organisations and key individuals who can affect your work or make it easier. Networking can serve many purposes and can help you to: • Build partnerships with civil society • Build alliances that will strengthen your work • Stay in touch with developments in your area • Get access to information that will help your work • Influence other organisations to take up and support your issues • Influence individual decision‐makers Systematic networking Networking should be an ongoing and systematic part of your work. It is important to build up a system that can be used for networking. It is best to gather all the names of organisations and individuals, their contact details and their areas of interest. Then you should divide these lists into categories or topics.
You should think about all the different sectors in your community and put in the ones that you should network within each sector you will then have to list the relevant organisations or individuals. For example under the health sector you may want to list the clinic, the municipal health committee, the local Red Cross society and local doctors.
Examples of sectors are: Political groups or parties Education Business Burial societies
Unions Health Credit clubs Service organisations
Religious Welfare Sport Cultural
Networking works best if you have individual contact people you work with in each organisation. It will also help you if this individual who understands your work and is sympathetic to your issues.
Meet with the leaders of these organisations and make sure they are represented on forums and in consultation meetings. Have consultation meetings with their members to discuss their problems and campaigns. When you develop your communication strategy for a campaign, make sure that information goes directly to these organisations.
From the Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, 4 September 2015: Extracts: Although most of the country’s cities and towns, especially in rural areas, remain safe bets for the ANC, a number of critical councils are at play.
In Tshwane, last year’s general election saw ANC support plummet to just 50.96%, and in Johannesburg the ANC vote came in at 53.63%.
In Nelson Mandela Bay, a stronghold of the rebel National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) that was recently expelled from the COSATU fold, recent by‐ elections saw the United Democratic Movement unexpectedly secure ward seats.
But the ANC is fighting back, and many factors suggest that it could yet reverse its fortunes in battleground cities.
The M&G reported in April that the ANC’s draft guidelines for municipal elections include potential questions for public interviews such as what the prospective candidate has done for the community, what they see as the main problems the ANC must address, how the candidate would contribute to strengthening the council if elected and what skills the candidate would bring to the council.
The ANC still has numerous advantages over the competition.
The cities likely to be the most contested next year differ widely from one another and ward by ward, suggesting that over‐arching national strategies may be less important than hyperlocal campaigns at the level of individual streets.
With its extensive network of branches and its large membership pool, the ANC will be able to knock on more doors and organise more micro‐events than all the other parties combined.
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by Myrna Velasco, 22 March 2015
More than a year after the onslaught of super Typhoon Yolanda, the Energy Regulatory Commission has finally scheduled the public hearings for the proposed recovery of transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on damages the company incurred during the typhoon.
The public hearings are scheduled in Cebu on April 22; and the final stretch will be in Manila on May 13-14.
NGCP has batted to recover P1.114 billion in force majeure (FM) event cost, which is considerably lower than its estimated damages of P2.569 billion.
Once approved, the company will recover the cost by charging it to its customers. NGCP has already estimated its pass-on cost to customers in the Visayas grid at P0.1874 per kilowatt hour (kWh) if the application gets provisional approval this year.
Onward for years 2016-2020, the cost pass-on cost would be on a dwindling trend from P0.0257 to P0.0201 per kWh.
NGCP has noted that if a provisional authority will be issued, it plans “to implement and bill the FM pass-through amounts to Visayas customers starting January 2015 billing month to December 2020 billing month or until such time that the amount incurred is fully recovered.”
The company has also been seeking the regulatory body’s approval for it “to approve the capex (capital expenditure) it incurred for the repair, restoration and rehabilitation of the damaged transmission assets and other related facilities due to the FME typhoon Yolanda.”
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NGCP further asserted that it needs “to immediately recover the actual expenses incurred for the repair, restoration and rehabilitation of the damaged transmission assets and other related facilities.”
The company stressed that the occurrence of FM event as extreme as super typhoon Yolanda in 2013, “required massive capital infusion, thus, the recovery of which should be allowed immediately in order to avoid any financial strain in its operation and to allow the continuous provision of transmission service to the grid customers.”
It added that “the timely implementation of the FM pass-through amount will allow the equal or even spread of the increases or decreases in tariffs from the initial implementation of the recovery of the cost.”
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Summer has arrived! It’s that time of year when the skirts are shorter (disclaimer: the skirts are always short in anime), the temperature is hotter (disclaimer: not if you’re in the southern hemisphere), and the bloggers are outside enjoying the weather and don’t realize THE PREVIEW’S DUE AHH!! Luckily some fan-favorite franchises are exploding, phoenix-like, back into life this season, including the teasing comedy Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2, the dungeon crawling adventure Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka II, and fresh spin-offs of best-selling series in Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator and Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note. There are several new adaptations to be hyped about as well, especially the lost-in-space throwback Kanata no Astra, the larger-than-life shounen action Dr.STONE, and the viking epic Vinland Saga. There’s even an original here and there, like the 2D mecha Granbelm. Let’s all usher in the summer months by staying inside and watching anime! Or maybe watching on the porch? As long as anime is happening. This is Random Curiosity’s Summer 2019 Preview.
As a quick reminder, most entries are divided into two paragraphs:
A brief introduction to the series and its premise, often with the starring cast of characters.
The writer’s impressions, expanding on the plot and highlighting specific points of interest.
This season we’ll continue using the Excitement Levels we introduced a while back. You know how this works by now, right? Every new anime is a tangle of hype, and rather than pretend to objectively prognosticate, we’re going to embrace the spin and give you our visceral gut reactions instead. For more information, check out the Overall Impressions section at the bottom, which includes an expanded explanation of each category and a list of all shows by excitement level.
Disclaimer: Back in ye olde year of 2012, which is about to be last decade holy crap, previews were done by a single writer, Divine. But the RandomC preview is a substantial task, so we’ve divided it up among our staff staff (Choya, Guardian Enzo, MissSimplice, Pancakes, Passerby, Stars, Stilts (that’s me!), Takaii, Zaiden, and Zephyr) in order to maintain the quality of this preview. We will try to point out what appeals to us in each series, in the hope it will help you determine if it coincides with your tastes.
Disclaimer #2: Please note that this list does not reflect all the series airing this coming season. It is meant to be as comprehensive as possible, but omissions have been made for shows that stray from the anime norm or seem to be oriented toward young children. Please check out MOON PHASE for complete listings, syoboi for specific air times, and Fansub DB for a list of potential sources for each series.
Let me once again take this opportunity to thank the entire Random Curiosity crew for their work on this preview. I say this every time, but it hasn’t gotten any less true up till now, and I don’t expect it ever to: you all are rockstars, and I couldn’t do it without you. Special thanks go to Zephyr for doing early prep work; Stilts (that’s me!) for editing, people wrangling, and “managing personnel” (i.e. making fun of takkun); Takaii for gathering the images; Passerby for proofreading and shorts; Zaiden for doing all the formatting, links, etc, plus a bunch of random stuff; Pancakes for filling in on some of that random stuff last second; and Pictor for helping with the encodes. Also, thanks to everyone who wrote previews, including our kouhais MissSimplice and Stars, who continue to kill it! For a more Enzo-centric point of view, check out the LiA summer preview for a second opinion on many of these shows.
Finally, and as always, thank you to the readers and commenters of Random Curiosity. Whether you read every posts and stalk the Discord channel, or a lurker who just stops by for the season previews (been there!), thank you so much for giving us your time. We appreciate your trust in us, and we’ll do our best not to blow it. Only the finest bad opinions on anime from us, yes siree!
Technical Note: The chart below is ordered by the date and time that the shows premiere. The links in the schedule will take you to a series’ corresponding entry and the “Top” links on the right will bring you back. You can also use the back/forward buttons in your browser to jump between links you’ve clicked. All times are given in a 24-hour, relative-day format where times are extended to show which day they belong to. For instance, Friday morning at 1:30AM would become Thursday at 25:30 to show that the episode aired late Thursday night.
22:00 MX (07/07) Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?
20:00 AT-X (07/08) Tejina Senpai
23:00 MX (07/02) Kengan Ashura
00:00 Netflix (07/31) Uchi no Musume no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.
23:30 MX (07/04) Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya
00:00 AT-X (07/19) Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note
24:00 AT-X (07/06)
22:00 AT-X (07/07) Kochouki: Wakaki Nobunaga
21:30 AT-X (07/08) Sounan Desu Ka?
23:15 MX (07/02) Kanata no Astra
21:00 AT-X (07/03) Given
24:55 Fuji (07/11) Joushikousei no Mudazukai
21:30 AT-X (07/05) Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV
25:00 MX (07/06)
22:30 MX (07/07) Starmyu 3rd Season
22:00 MX (07/01) Isekai Cheat Magician
22:00 AT-X (07/10) Machikado Mazoku
25:28 TBS (07/11) Dr.STONE
22:30 MX (07/07) Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e
23:00 MX (07/01) Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru?
22:30 AT-X (07/03) Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator
24:10 NHK (07/07) Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
23:30 AT-X (07/08) Maou-sama, Retry!
24:00 MX (07/03) Tsujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de 2-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka?
25:35 Fuji (07/14) Cop Craft
25:35 Fuji (07/08) Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka II
Enen no Shouboutai
25:25 MBS (07/05)
25:55 MBS/TBS (07/05)
Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.
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Starmyu (2019) | スタミュ (2019)Top
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Animation: C-Station Premiere: July 1st, 2019
Genre: Music, School Life, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 22:00
Episodes: 13 Station: Tokyo MX
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Preview by Takaii
Picking up right where the second season left off, Starmyu returns to continue the story that’s spanned over twenty-four episodes and two OVAs. For those out of the loop, Starmyu revolves around five somewhat talented students and their struggles as they make their way through the prestigious music department of Ayanagi Academy. Like most good academies, the curriculum isn’t easy and the staff are always looking for ways to highlight their best performers. In this third season of Starmyu, the boys have made their way into performing at the all-important end of semester performance. Except, as with every season of Starmyu, the problem this time is that the ever-powerful Kao Council has made it known that they’re looking to fill their ranks and in order to do so, applicants would be unable to perform during this important show.
As I said in my preview for Starmyu’s second season, this show just didn’t do it for me on a personal level. However, that doesn’t mean this can’t be the show for you! If you’re looking for something that tiptoes the line between performers and idols, and that also dives into the struggles of school life, this could be just what you’ve been looking for—though, with this being the third season, if you’re not watching yet you’ll have a lot of material to catch up on.
Watching This: No one yet Excitement Level: Average
Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e | かつて神だった獣たちへTop
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Animation: MAPPA Premiere: July 1st, 2019
Genre: Action, Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 23:00
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Preview by Pancakes
In a nameless land on a faraway world, a bloody civil war raged. Northerners fought against the men of the South, and in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, the North turned to magic to create the ultimate weapon: Incarnates. Weaponized humans of a distinctively beastly nature, Incarnates helped the keep the North free, but with the war now over they find themselves shunned and ostracized by a society fearful of the power they possess. In this uncertain world Nancy Schaal Bancroft (Kakuma Ai) seeks out the one who murdered her Incarnate father. Believing him to have been killed for no reason other than his Incarnate status, Nancy is determined to see justice done, but when she catches up with her quarry she gets more than she bargained for. As the girl soon learns, there’s more to her father and his fellow Incarnates than meets the eye, and to find closure for her pain she’ll have to delve into this new dark world of cold hard truths.
Let’s see: magical politics? Check. Humans turned into magical weapons? Check. Female lead wielding a bloody big gun? Definitely check. Yupp, if you think this is like Fairy Gone, you aren’t the only one. The good news is that Kemono-tachi is not related to P.A. Works’ latest divisive anime original. Based on the manga of the same name, Kemono-tachi is a more character-driven story in the same vein as Kami-Nai, trading convoluted politics for a tighter, more suspenseful story with fewer moving pieces to worry about. Did you think Fairy Gone would be better with a slimmed down cast and better paced action? You’re in the right place here. While it’s always a good idea to keep expectations in check, considering blessed MAPPA is producing and Hajime no Ippo’s Shishido Jun is directing, we are likely looking at one fun dark fantasy here. We won’t know for sure until the first episode drops of course, but if you’re in need of some magical action this season, look no further than this.
Watching This: Pancakes, Stilts Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Tejina Senpai | 手品先輩Top
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Animation: LIDENFILMS Premiere: July 2nd, 2019
Genre: Comedy, School-Life Airtime (GMT+9): Tuesdays at 23:00
Episodes: Unknown Station: Tokyo MX
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Preview by Choya
This madcap magical comedy centers around an unnamed male student known as Assistant (Kayano Ai), who is required to join a club. In his reluctant search for a club to be a part of, he stumbles across the Magic Club, which is lead by its sole member, a whimsical girl who goes by Senpai (Hondo Kaede) or Tejina-senpai. She is a connoisseur of all things magic, but because she suffers from stage fright, her attempts at showing off her spells and sorcery often end with failure. Despite all the times she falls on her face, Assistant can’t take his eyes off her as an adorable ball of energy. In the end, faced with the prospect of expulsion, he finds himself forced into being the second person to join the Magic Club, which itself risked being cancelled if he didn’t join. Through their partnership, Tejina-senpai and Assistant aim to get the ball rolling on gathering more students to join their club while refining the magic that Tejina-senpai holds so dear.
The main appeal of Tejina Senpai is Senpai herself, as she is cute in her appearance, her devotion to magic, and her failed attempts at trying to perform magic tricks in front of others. The manga’s artwork certainly makes her and the other girls look absolutely adorable, so if the anime is able to breathe life into the comic’s art style, it is certain to capture anyone’s heart if they’re looking for an expressive and charming comedy. The narrative also isn’t shy about the bits of ecchi that are sprinkled about, making it a generous series for those seeking out a little bit of spice with their saccharine sweetness. It’s reminiscent of Dagashi Kashi where an eccentric girl arrives to change a boy’s life for the better by enlightening him on the magic behind their artistry. In the case of Tejina Senpai, her imperfections are what make her magic so potent. By formulating an adorably goofy comedy with a sprinkle of tasteful ecchi, Tejina Senpai is set to make for a spellbinding experience this summer.
Watching This: Choya, Zaiden Excitement Level: Average
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Sounan Desuka? | ソウナンですか?Top
http://www.sounandesuka.jp/
Animation: Ezóla Premiere: July 2nd, 2019
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Tuesdays at 23:15
Join the conversation @sounan_desuka or #ソウナンですか
After surviving a plane crash, four girls are trapped on a deserted island. Among these four are Onishima Homare (M.A.O.), Suzumori Azuka (Kouno Hiyori), Amatani Mutsu (Yasuno Kiyono) and Kujou Shion (Waki Azumi). Homare is a stoic girl who makes use of the survival skills her father taught her and keeps any other concerns or interests out of sight and out of mind. Asuka is active and athletic to a fault as she is quick to jump into situations that scare her without thinking her actions through. Mutsu is careful and book-smart, yet also has an audacious imagination and looks up to the survival skills that Homare has cultivated over the years. And Shion is a selfish rich kid who has a brave, hard-working side to her that comes out when she’s given enough praise. Using the combined efforts of their strongest traits, the four girls must use their strengths to subsist and survive as they wait for help to arrive.
The initial premise might seem like it came right out of Lord of the Flies. With young teenagers stuck on a deserted island, it might seem eerily similar to the doom and gloom that came from that book’s idea of how the youth would survive on an island. However, the tone of Sounan desu ka? is far more lighthearted as it focuses on the survival techniques the girls employ to live off the land successfully in a civilized manner. The way it plays out is vaguely like Yuru Camp as it also gives viewers instructions in laymen’s terms on how to craft makeshift methods of immersing oneself in nature. But seeing as the anime is about surviving on an island, many of these instructional lessons will hone in on creating tents using foliage, feeding off of the flora and fauna you would find on an island, and taking care of bodily functions and hygiene in a place where plumbing isn’t a thing. The most unique and fun aspect of Sounan desu ka? is that knowledge is just as important to the story as courage is, making it so the anime can both entertain viewers with the girls learning to live with each other and teach them valuable information on survival skills for when the occasion arrives when even you may have to run through the rain or feed on a tree frog.
Watching This: Choya, Takaii, Zaiden Excitement Level: Average
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Kanata no Astra | 彼方のアストラ Top
http://astra-anime.com
Animation: Lerche Premiere: July 3rd, 2019
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi Airtime (GMT+9): Wednesdays at 21:00
Episodes: Unknown Station: AT-X
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Preview by Guardian Enzo
It’s not meant as a dig at Kanata no Astra , but any season that has this series at #2 on my expectations list (after Vinland Saga) looks thin indeed. I actually like Shinohara Kenta’s manga quite a lot (more than I expected to, given that I’m no fan of his more famous work SKET Dance), but it’s hardly a masterpiece – just a good, solid not too serious classic sci-fi dramedy. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. To be honest I wound up liking the manga a whole lot more than I expected to, given who the author is. What I like about Kanata no Astra is how it’s authentically retro without seeming clever-clever about it – this really does play like an anime of 25 years ago. It also strikes a perfect balance between goofy comedy, teen angst and genuine danger. The result is a modest but rock-solid package that seems like it would be pretty hard to mess up. And the experienced crew Lerche has in charge of this adaptation should be more than up to the job.
If I were to try and describe this series… Maybe Infinite Ryvius with a sense of humor? The premise is as boilerplate 80′s-90′s anime sci-fi as it gets – a bunch of kids lost in space, in dire peril when their ship is mysteriously transported far across the galaxy. But somehow Shinohara manages to maintain an irreverent tone without undermining the sense of genuine danger which makes this series a thriller. That’s quite a feat, and it’s the reason why Kanata no Astra should work just as well as an anime as it did as a manga.
Watching This: Guardian Enzo, Pancakes, Passerby, Stilts Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru? | ダンベル何キロ持てる?Top
http://dumbbell-anime.jp/
Animation: http://www.dogakobo.com/en/ Premiere: July 3rd, 2019
Genre: Sports, School-Life, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Wednesdays at 22:30
Episodes: 12 Station: AT-X
Join the conversation @dumbbell_anime or #ダンベル
Preview by Zaiden
Sakura Hibiki (Fairouz Ai) is a gluttonous high school gyaru who’s slightly chubby due to her eating habits. When her childhood friend points out that she gained weight again, a mortified Sakura decides to pursue action which doesn’t involve too much running, push-ups and sit-ups – understandable, since a girl wouldn’t want to lose all her hair (editor’s note: wut.). After deciding against these options, as well as absolutely ruling out anything that would require her to eat less food, Sakura decides to check out her local gym. There she meets Soryuuin Akemi (Amamiya Sora), an honours student with a crazy muscle fetish and a desire to get a macho body. And although Sakura doesn’t like the idea of working out too much to begin with, she sticks around for Machio Naruzou – a fitness instructor whom she finds extremely attractive. Will Sakura be able to lose weight?
Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru is a series about cute girls staying fit and lifting weights in a gym. If you like these two things, you’re in for a treat. What’s more, Doga Kobo will be in charge of the animation! Though a small disclaimer: for those who’ve become accustomed to expecting yuri from Doga Kobo shows, you won’t be getting anything out of this in spite of the majority female cast. Though if you squint hard enough and stretch your beliefs, then maybe you might perceive a squiggle on the cusp of your imagination. While the story will be pretty thin, the visual assets will be particularly strong, and Doga Kobo can generally be trusted to elevate any adaptation, not to mention Yamazaki Mitsue is in charge. Considering she’s directed Gekkan Shoujo and Tada-kun, you could say she’s rather trustworthy and we can be assured that the end result will most likely be satisfactory. I wouldn’t expect it to make a big splash this season, but it will certainly hit the spot where its target demographic is concerned.
Watching This: Choya, Stilts, Takaii, Zaiden Excitement Level: Average
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Maou-sama, Retry! | 魔王様, リトライ!Top
http://maousama-anime.com/
Animation: Ekachi Epilka Premiere: July 3rd, 2019
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Wednesdays at 24:00
Join the conversation @maousama_anime or #魔王様リトライ
Well would you look at that, another isekai revolving around the life of someone who’s been mysteriously whisked away into a whimsical fantasy and given such insanely overpowered stats that they could probably crush an entire continent with a single snap. Luckily, Maou-sama, Retry shakes off some of the typical isekai fixings by changing up the world and the needs and wants of the main protagonist. Before that though, let’s dive into the basic setup. On the day the online game he’s been running is about to shut down, Oono Akira (Tsuda Kenjirou) is about to log onto his main (and fully geared out) character Demon King Kunai Hakuto. But instead of being able to log in and enjoy things one last time, he’s suddenly transported to a new world where he’s inside the body of Hakuto. Confused, he tries to figure out just what in the world is going on when he’s suddenly attacked by a rampaging demon. Luckily his character’s stats were also brought over and he dispatches the demon with ease. With the immediate threat dealt with, he meets a young girl named Aku (Takao Kanon) who ends up becoming his traveling partner as he ventures out to figure out just where he’s been taken to and why he’s in someone else’s body.
If you were looking for an isekai that leans on RPGs to help with world building, look no further than Maou-sama, Retry. With a (at times accidental) charismatic lead that is taking the whole isekai thing in stride, plus a wacky group of supporting characters to play off that charisma, there’s rarely a boring moment. Add on the whimsical parts of game/RPG elements that have been tossed in (like Hakuto pulling out a bar of soap from the void or teleporting around to save time) to help account for things or ideas that come from our world and you have a solid foundation for a show that can appease almost anyone. If I had to pick one thing that really resonated with me though, it’d have to be just how creative our protagonist is at utilizing the powers he’s been given. With a mind as creative as Einstein is smart, it’s great to see someone finally going above and beyond when it comes to really living their best life within an isekai. While only time will tell whether or not Maou-sama, Retry’s adaptation to the small screen will hold up, I think there’s a lot of good things, from the story to the characters all the way to the world they all exist in, to help keep this adaptation afloat.
Watching This: Pancakes, Takaii Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Uchi no Musume no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai. | うちの娘の為ならば, 俺はもしかしたら魔王も倒せるかもしれない.Top
http://uchinoko-anime.com
Animation: Maho Film Premiere: July 4th, 2019
Genre: Fantasy, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Thursdays at 23:30
Join the conversation @uchinoko_anime or #うちの娘
Dale (Okamoto Nobuhiko) just finished killing some slimes, as stipulated by the extermination quest. As he was minding his own business, sitting by a campfire in the woods cooking up some fish, a horned little girl suddenly wanders into the clearing. This little girl is covered in blood, emaciated and is unable to comprehend anything Dale says. After investigating the nearby vicinity, Dale discovers the corpse of a horned man nearby – presuming the dead demon to be the girl’s father. Unable to leave her on her lonesome, Dale names the little girl Latina (Takao Kanon), taking her back to his place to raise her like his own daughter. This is the wholesome story of how a young adventurer takes in a cute demon girl and embraces the delights of fatherhood – with delicious sprinklings of fluff along the way.
This was one of those light-novel-to-manga adaptations that I really got into when the chapters first started dropping. Uchi Musume provides a solid premise with excellent art and likeable characters. However, some online parsing has indicated that there’s an Usagi Drop situation later in the story. (For those who don’t know what that means, think Woody Allen.) I don’t expect that segment to be covered within this adaptation, but if the very idea squicks you out, then I’d probably avoid this show. It should also be pointed out that the director’s most prolific series is Isekai Smartphone – with some hentai OVA side gigs. Yeah… doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. But at least Yoshioka Takao (Elfen Lied, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Zero no Tsukaima) is an esteemed veteran of script and series composition within the industry. Perhaps Yoshioka can bring out the spirit of the source material, which is all we’d need really. The premise is relatively simple, and I think there’s little room to mess up the execution. So if you just want some fluffy soul healing up to a certain point, then you should be fine for the most part, assuming that the romance segment does not get adapted.
Watching This: Takaii, Zaiden Excitement Level: Average
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Joshikousei no Mudazukai | 女子高生の無駄づかいTop
http://jyoshimuda.com
Animation: Passione Premiere: July 5th, 2019
Genre: Comedy, School-Life, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 21:30
Episodes: Station: AT-X
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Preview by Stars
Tanaka Nozomu (Akasaki Chinatsu) is a rascally high school girl who decided to give her friends nicknames based off of their stereotypes quirks. Her friend, Kikuchi Akane (Tomatsu Haruka) becomes “Nerd” for her nerdy interests, and Saginomiya Shiori (Toyosaki Aki) becomes “Robo” because she emotes about as much as Yuki from Suzumiya Haruhi. In return, they decide to affectionately call her “Dummy.” Anyway, this series shows these girls either making the best of or completely wasting their youth. Sound familiar?
Way back when, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou came out. It was a series about a group of three boys who spent their free time re-enacting videos games in real life—which people do all the time in real life and it’s gold—trying on girl’s clothes, and generally being a bunch of goofballs. With the strength of voice actors like Sugita Tomokazu behind it, some legitimately inspired writing, and shortened episode times, it managed to be a genuinely amusing watch that left an impression. Now, take those three boys, and make them girls. Which, to be fair, Danshi Koukousei itself actually did that, devoting a portion of its screentime to a group of girls who were essentially a genderswap of the main cast, except the shy, cute one used to be a raging dictator of a schoolyard bully which the kids had to work together to subdue in the past, and it was interesting. If you take those girls, though, and give them the same basic design with different hairstyles, and the thinnest of characterization (the idiot, the nerd, the robot), then you get this show. I don’t believe that making girls into gender-swapped boys is the answer to a more balanced distribution of slice-of-life comedies, but I do think the girls should at least be interesting, and right now, the most interesting thing about this series isn’t the girls at all, but the male teacher who apparently hates girls, yet still applied for a job at an all girl’s school. There’s a story there and I want to know what it is.
Watching This: Choya, Stars Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Dr.STONETop
https://dr-stone.jp
Animation: TMS Entertainment Premiere: July 5th, 2019
Genre: Action, Comedy Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 22:00
Episodes: Station: Tokyo MX
Join the conversation @STONE_anime_off or #ドクターストーン
Ooki Taiju (Furukawa Makoto) has it made. His best friend, Ishigami Senkuu (Kobayashi Yuusuke) is a genius, and Taiju is finally about to confess his feelings to the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, a blinding white light puts an indefinite hold on that plan when everyone in the world is turned into stone statues. This includes Taiju and Senkuu, though they manage to keep their consciousness alive by obsessing about their crush and counting respectively. It doesn’t sound that impressive, unless you keep in mind that they’ve been doing those things consistently for thousands of years. Luckily, they’re able to wake up, making them the only humans left until Senkuu can finish producing an antidote. It’s a dangerous world, though. Maybe waking up some extra muscle is exactly what they need to survive long enough to save it.
Inagaki Riichiro’s Dr. Stone is something that knows exactly what it is and isn’t afraid to admit it—it’s an absurd action series with tons of gratuitous fanservice. Some might think that series reminiscent of Fairy Tail and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure would be a dying breed, but Dr. Stone would like to passionately disagree. It’s a throwback to the days of manly shirt-bursting, big hair, larger-than-life personalities, and the same brand of science that made a radio out of a coconut. Katou Tatsuya will be handling the music, which is a great indicator that there’s some serious skill and experience behind this production, in addition to the fact that Inagaki Riichiro was the original creator of Eyeshield 21, a manga that in Japan has sold over 20 million volumes and increased the popularity of American football among teens. Inagaki has a gift for over-the-top characters (with spiky white hair), so I fully expect this one to be an entertaining watch.
Watching This: Choya, Guardian Enzo, Pancakes, Passerby, Stilts, Takaii Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Enen no Shouboutai | 炎炎ノ消防隊Top
http://www.fireforce-anime.jp
Animation: David Production Premiere: July 5th, 2019
Genre: Supernatural, Sci-Fi, Action Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 25:25
Episodes: 12 Station: MBS
Join the conversation @FireForce_PR or #炎炎ノ消防隊
Preview by MissSimplice
It’s the year 198 in the Solar Era, we’re in a world where Spontaneous Human Combustion isn’t uncommon, and Tokyo has become the playing field for a dangerous game of fire between the Special Fire Force and Infernal beings. Wrapped in flames and having lost their humanity, these first generation beings lay a trail of destruction wherever they go. It’s up to the members of the Special Fire Force to fight fire with fire and discover the source of the phenomenon. Made up of later generation humans, some members can manipulate fire without losing their human form. The story follows Kusakabe Shinra (Kajiwara Gakuto), a boy with the ability to ignite his feet, and the Special Fire Force’s 8th Company of which he’s a part.
A two-cour series about spontaneous combustion, speedy flaming feet, and who knows what else by David Production? Sounds about right. If Soul Eater caught your attention when it first came out with it’s vivid action scenes and detailed artwork, then you’ll probably fancy this shounen anime too. Ookubo Atsushi, author of both mangas, is having his work adapted by David Production (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure), a studio reputed for playing with artistic boundaries. Aside from the animation, the mysterious premise is good enough to hook anyone looking for an action-packed show similar to Shingeki no Kyojin. The PVs alone had me on the edge of my seat, securing Enen no Shouboutai a spot on my must-watch list.
Watching This: Choya, MissSimplice, Pancakes, Passerby, Stars, Stilts Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Granbelm | グランベルムTop
http://granbelm.com
Animation: Nexus Premiere: July 5th, 2019
Genre: Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 25:55
Episodes: 12 Station: MBS/TBS
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Preview by Passerby
A mysterious power used to course through the world. Magic. On magic, mankind ascended. Civilisation flourished. Empires were wrought. But, one day, magic seemingly disappeared. Overnight, the magical empires crumbled, and over the millennia their memories were lost to time. Now, no trace of magic can be found and average high school girl Kohinata Mangetsu (Shimabukuro Miyuri) lives a perfectly mundane and happy life. That is, until one day, on the night of the full moon, Mangetsu accidentally stumbles into a forgotten past and there runs into mysterious transfer student Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami (Tanezaki Atsumi), freshly returned from Germany. And with that Mangetsu finds herself embroiled in a battle with powers that should no longer exist in this world — and that perhaps was best left that way.
The first ten minutes of the first episode of Granbelm are actually on Youtube. It doesn’t really tell anyone anything but you should go have a look if you want to get an idea of the general feel of the show. I don’t know about you, but the thing that grabbed me was… 2D mecha! Modern anime seems to have decided that computer graphics are the economically superior model for all things mecha, so hand-drawn robots, even those of a quirky, super-deformed variety, are a rare treat. I think our last 2D mecha anime was Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars, and while that show certainly looked good it stumbled somewhat in writing. How will Granbelm go? Since it’s an original anime property we can only guess, by which I mean look at the staff. Director Watanabe Masaharu you’ll know from Re:Zero (and actually little else), while scripts supervisor Hanada Jukki is capable of very good work (though can be frustratingly inconsistent at times). On the balance this is promising, but I still have my worries. Nexus is a relatively young studio, and often these fledglings attempt to take to the skies with an original production and discover too late that they were not yet ready to fly. I’m hoping that Granbelm is not an overreach. Still, from what we’ve seen it’s got some interesting designs and plenty of explosions, and there’s not much more an anime really needs to be watchable.
Watching This: Pancakes, Passerby, Takaii Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. | 荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ.Top
http://araoto-anime.com
Animation: Lay-duce Premiere: July 5th, 2019
Genre: Drama, School-Life, Romance Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 26:25
Join the conversation @araotoproject or #荒乙
Class is about to begin and Kazusa (Kono Hiyori) wants to make the most of her new life in high school. She thought she would join the Literature Club to discuss the Harry Potter books with some new friends, but she never expected to receive the icebreaker question, “Say one thing you want to do before you die”. When a unique blonde girl named Niina (Anzai Chika) blurts out “sex” as her answer, a snowball effect is created and each girl is compelled to reflect on what sexuality means to them. While Kazusa begins to have strange thoughts about her childhood friend, her best friend Momoko (Asakura Momo) tries to piece together how she should react when newfound feelings start to emerge from her heart. Meanwhile, the prudish club president Rika (Uesaka Sumire) finds herself coming out of her shell when one boy gets the courage to ask her out despite being intensely guarded about sexuality or relationships. The question also calls attention to Hitoha (Kurosawa Tomoyo), whose curiosity about sex draws attention to her side-hobby of writing stories about adult relationships. With each of the girls pondering how exactly the icebreaker answer applies to them, this anime focuses on the coming-of-age stories of the Literature Club as they stumble into their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional pathways through puberty and sexuality.
At first glance, Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. may seem like it would fit well alongside the more exploitative stories of high school sex lives that have come out in recent years. However, what sets this apart is how natural the conversations and situations come about, and how the overall goal is not to lose their V-cards, but rather figure out in their own minds how love, romance, and sex all tie together. There are some wacky and comical situations in the mix, but it’s all part of showing how awkward it is to figure yourself out when you’re in the early stages of learning about what sex is, how it happens, when it should happen, and why people do it. Think a less crass, female version of The In-Betweeners where the main cast find themselves stumbling into embarrassing and troublesome scenarios as they try to get to the bottom of why the topic of sex is as mind-boggling and confusing as it can be. Instead of seeing the girls in compromising situations or being sexually active, Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. wants to punctuate how affection, infatuation, and romance ties into human sexuality. Even if there is plenty of shock and cringe comedy to be had with teens finding out what sex is supposed to be, sexuality is handled with maturity as the girls try to pinpoint what it is about sex that has them feeling discombobulated about the boys they’re interested in.
Watching This: Choya Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note
ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 -魔眼蒐集列車 Grace note-Top
https://anime.elmelloi.com
Animation: TROYCA Premiere: July 6th, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Saturdays at 24:00
Join the conversation @elmelloi_anime or #事件簿アニメ
Preview by Zephyr
Based on Sanda Makoto’s novel of the same name, Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo officially arrives this July after its brief introductory preview last December. Set after the events of Fate/Zero, the story follows Waver Velvet (Namikawa Daisuke), who returns to the Clock Tower with renewed dedication following his participation in the Fourth Holy Grail War. There he begins to make a name for himself as a respected professor of the Mage’s Association, while simultaneously attempting to recover the research left in disarray following the passing of his former professor, Kayneth El-Melloi. His achievements sets the stage for the restoration of the declining House of El-Melloi and Waver is subsequently given the title Lord Melloi II until the family’s genuine heir becomes of age. With new apprentice Gray (Ueda Reina) in tow, the two begin to investigate various mysteries of the magical world. The Rail Zeppelin arc will be adapted and combined with original content under the directorship of Katou Makoto (Re: Creators, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru, Yagate Kimi ni Naru). Studio TROYCA will be producing the series, with former Fate/Zero director Aoki Ei supervising the series’ production as one of the studio’s founders.
And so, the Fate train continues… in the form of a spin-off mystery series. As strange as it sounds, it’s a formula that works (if Episode 0 was any indication), and this was one of the series I was really looking forward to watching this year. Given the franchise’s historic adherence to Holy Grail Wars and its participants’ master/servant relationships, the fact that we’re getting a rare glimpse of life outside those wars makes the series appealing precisely because it’s different, and it doesn’t hurt that we have a fan favorite in Waver leading the fray. It remains to be seen whether the series can come together in a way that makes it more than just a mystery series with Fate flair, but I wager that fans of the franchise like myself would be just fine with that. Pairing together Katou Makoto and Aoki Ei (whose resumes speak for themselves) only elevates expectations and at the very least, one can look forward to solid production values given TROYCA’s work the past few years. I can’t say it’s a must-watch for those who aren’t familiar with the franchise, but given the dearth of mysteries these days, it may be at least worth a shot. It might just serve as the entrance to the Fate franchise you’ve been looking for.
Watching This: Choya, MissSimplice, Pancakes, Passerby, Stars, Stilts, Takaii, Zaiden, Zephyr Excitement Level: High
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Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV | 戦姫絶唱シンフォギアXVTop
http://www.symphogear-xv.com
Animation: Satelight Premiere: July 6th, 2019
Genre: Action, Music, Sci-Fi Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 25:00
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In the years prior to the original series, humanity found itself suddenly under attack from aliens known as the Noise. Capable of turning humans into dust on contact and impervious to weapons, the Noise drove humanity to the brink of destruction, and were stopped only by those wielding armor known as Symphogears. Having acquired a Symphogear after the death of its previous wielder, Tachibana Hibiki (Yuuki Aoi) found herself fighting to protect humanity from the Noise, coming together with other Symphogear users in Kazanari Tsubasa (Mizuki Nana) and Yukine Chris (Takagaki Ayahi) to stop their advance and prevent the moon from colliding with the earth in what became known as the Frontier Incident. Joined by former enemies of previous seasons, the group awakens to new powers just in time to prevent alchemists from breaking the planet into pieces, ultimately setting up for a fight with the Bavarian Illuminati—the organization revealed to have been behind many of the aforementioned incidents. Once again led by Ono Katsumi (the director of Symphogear G, GX, and AXZ), the newest iteration will see our Symphogear users thrust into yet another life or death fight to save the planet.
At this point there really isn’t much to say. The Symphogear ride has been something of an outlier in the anime fandom in terms of its longevity, and even I—despite watching and enjoying all the previous seasons—quite honestly don’t know how they’ve managed to keep things rolling to this extent. The series just gets more and more over-the-top every single season, and I suppose at least part of its appeal comes from that fact that they’ve managed to overtake each year’s ridiculousness with something even more so. In just a few seasons, we’ve gone from beating up on random aliens to destroying entire mountains just for the heck of it, and while I’d like to say you should just strap in and enjoy the ride, that isn’t even an apt metaphor given how our protagonists have long since moved on from just riding regular vehicles. Ultimately though, BD sales are king, and last I checked, AXZ continued the recent trend of Ono Katsumi-led Symphogear series ending near the top of sales charts. Combine that with Mizuki Nana’s stated desire to continue the series and let’s just say I won’t be surprised if XV doesn’t end up being the franchise’s swan song.
Watching This: Zephyr Excitement Level: Established
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Re:Stage! Dream Days♪ | Re:ステージ! ドリームデイズ♪Top
https://rst-anime.com
Animation: Graphinica and Yumeta Company Premiere: July 7th, 2019
Genre: Music Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 22:00
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Shikimiya Mana (Makino Amane) may only be in middle school, but she already has a dream: she wants to be an idol! Luckily for her, there’s already a competition ready-made for middle school idol hopefuls, the Prism Stage. Mana knows there’s only one thing to do in a situation like this: assemble a group of friends to compete on the Prism Stage and become the top (middle school) idol!
Yeah, okay, that synopsis was not much. But there’s not really all that much. That’s only as far as anime goes, though; Re:Stage! Dream Days♪ is but one wing of a mixed-media project with significant franchise weight behind it. Even Dream Days itself already has a mobile game, a light novel, and live performances lined up, the whole shebang. All these accessories, though, don’t necessarily make for good television. The mixed-media cross-over idol anime is already rather pedestrian at this point, and not exactly with a reputation for quality shows. Some do make an attempt to be interesting in their own right — I’m thinking Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight — but most, unfortunately, are paint-by-numbers genre clones. Dream Days, on its surface, doesn’t seem to do much to distinguish itself from the standard cute-girls-doing-pop-song-things other than its slightly younger cast, and the staff isn’t exactly fireworks either. Director Katagai Shin seems to specialise in comfortable mediocrity, while for series composition they’re bringing in the writing group behind the light novel, yoree. I don’t know anything about them but ‘writing group’ sounds too much like writing by committee, so I’m reflexively sceptical. All that said, whether you watch a show like this is usually purely visceral. Do you like the character designs? Like some of the songs they sing in the PV? That’s the hook right there.
Watching This: No one yet Excitement Level: Limited
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Naka no Hito Genome [Jikkyouchuu] | ナカノヒトゲノム [実況中]Top
http://www.nhg-anime.com/
Animation: Silver Link Premiere: July 7th, 2019
Genre: Thriller Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 22:00
Join the conversation @nhg_anime or #ナカゲノ
In the near future in a world very much the same, online gaming is all the rage, and no game is more popular than Naka no Hito Genome. Free to play and at the end of its beta development, NnHG’s claim to fame is its uncanny ability to have players close to beating it suddenly disappear, leaving nothing physical behind—and Iride Akatsuki (Yamashita Daiki) is one such player. A wildly popular game streamer, Akatsuki one day unlocks hidden content in NnHG, content physically transporting him body and soul to a remote real world island. There he encounters fellow gamers of similar stripes, all who quickly learn that the only way home is by hosting a collective livestream of NnHG. Reach 100 million views and freedom is theirs, but if they fail to do so (or break the livestream rules), going back home will be the least of their concerns.
Well do we have an interesting one here. At its core NnHG is an oddball even by anime standards, straddling the line between MMORPG isekai a la SAO and the more over-the-top survival game stuff in the vein of Danganronpa. Every character is a pro in a specific game category (with hilariously ridiculous personalities to boot), their attendant is llama head meme-worthy crazy, and the overall premise is ludicrous enough to actually work pretty well in practice. While the series lacks a proper conclusion considering the source manga is still ongoing (and this type of story never meshes well with finale cliffhangers), given Fate/kaleid’s Oonuma Shin is directing and Shinoyama Kento of NGNL fame is composing the script, a train wreck is very likely not in the cards. NnHG may not wind up being the next great animated Battle Royale, but if you’ve been missing out of late on some upper crust pulp psychological game shenanigans, definitely consider giving this one a try.
Watching This: Choya, Pancakes, Stars, Stilts, Zaiden Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Ensemble Stars! | あんさんぶるスターズ!Top
http://ensemblestars-anime.com
Genre: Music, School-Life Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 22:30
Join the conversation @stars_animation or #あんスタ
Based off of the wildly successful mobile otome-idol game sharing the same name, Ensemble Stars! is the anime adaptation that we all thought would have been made ages ago. Revolving around a wide number of good boys who are all striving to be the top idol, it can be a little tough to talk about all the individuals, units, and temporary units that exist in the Ensemble Stars! universe. Instead, let’s dive into the somewhat unique system that students of Yumenosaki Private Academy live by.
In a somewhat dog-eat-dog system, students of the almost exclusively male Yumenosaki Private Academy learn and demonstrate their skills as idols. From courses ranging from Vocals to Theater, each student must demonstrate aptitude in a wide range of skills in order to find success at this academy — success which comes in the form of winning Dream Idol Festivals, or DreamFes for short. These are broken down into different levels: SS, S1, S2, A1, and B1, with SS being the most competitive (and difficult) but also carrying the best rewards. At the end of the day, it’s a constant cycle of fledgling idols trying their best to achieve victory by claiming the top spots during DreamFes. When it comes to making an anime though, it remains to be seen just how well this pattern translates onto the small screen. That said, the strengths of Ensemble Stars! comes from its unique characters and the interactions among all the various units. Luckily the original voice actors from the game will be reprising their roles and the original scenario writer will be coming on-board to handle series composition. Overall, I’d say this would be a no-brainer for any Ensemble Stars! fan and a good pick up for anyone who’s into the idol genre.
Watching This: Takaii Excitement Level: Limited
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Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 | からかい上手の高木さん2Top
http://takagi3.me
Animation: Shin Ei Animation Premiere: July 7th, 2019
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School-Life Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 23:30
Join the conversation @takagi3_anime or #高木さんめ
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san has returned for a second season to give audiences a lesson in trickery. As with the previous season, the story centers around Takagi (Takahashi Rie), a master trickster whose friendship with a boy named Nishikata (Kaji Yuuki) is defined by their attempts to embarrass each other. However, while Nishikata has his daily goal to try to embarrass Takagi as revenge for all of the times she’s humiliated him, Takagi is skillful at not only turning the tides against him, but also creating situations for the explicit purpose of making a fool out of Nishikata. Although Nishikata’s desperate struggles to get the upper hand and Takagi’s one-sided victories are what define the comedy, the series also places emphasis on their growing relationship. With how long they’ve gotten to know each other, there are signs of feelings emerging between the two. In the meantime, the anime gives us a nice diversion from our two main characters by dedicating segments to other side characters, such as a trio of friends who are constantly befuddled by the little things in their lives. This season introduces two new students: an adult-like classmate of Takagi’s named Houjou (Yuuki Aoi) and Nishikata’s classmate Hamaguchi (Uchiyama Kouki), who is lovestruck upon seeing Houjou. What will happen between them? And will anything special emerge from Takagi and Nishikata’s bonding? Find out in this second season of Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san.
The last season of Takagi-san left us in strange, interesting territory as Nishikata and Takagi start to slowly fall in love with each other. While Nishikata had previously only been flustered by Takagi’s teasing, there were several moments last season that signaled toward something more, while Takagi almost caught herself slipping when she was taken aback by Nishikata wanting to walk home with her. With the tone that future spin-offs, it will be neat to see how they develop throughout the second season and if their pranks will take on a more Kaguya-sama tone by trying to coax a confession out from one another. The introduction of Houjou and Hamaguchi may also lend itself to a second season themed around the romantic tension between the main couples in the cast.
Watching This: Choya, Guardian Enzo, Passerby, Stilts, Zaiden, Zephyr Excitement Level: High
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Vinland Saga | ヴィンランド・サガTop
https://vinlandsaga.jp
Animation: Wit Studio Premiere: July 7th, 2019
Genre: Adventure, History, Drama Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 24:10
Episodes: Unknown Station: NHK
Join the conversation @V_SAGA_ANIME or #VINLAND_SAGA
Thorfinn Karlsefni (Ishigami Shizuka) would sit in a wooden cabin with the other village children, while the local crazy old man would recount his adventures and tell of the discovery of the legendary Vinland – a paradise of pastures. Despite being born and raised in a farming settlement by extremely pacifist parents, a desire for combat and fresh blood has always coursed through Thorfinn’s veins, and he yearns to venture beyond Iceland, while partaking in battle. And that opportunity might come sooner than he thought. Floki of the Jomsviking (Ono Atsushi) comes to seek out Thorfinn’s father, Thors (Matsuda Kenichirou), on the premise that the Jomsviking chieftain has demanded Thors’ participation in the war against England. After Floki threatens the village’s safety, the peace-loving Thors is forced to reluctantly acquiesce, leaving him no choice but to take up arms and return to his past life of bloodshed and carnage. However, a young Thorfinn secretly stows away on the departing boat, never suspecting the tragic events that are about to change his life forever. Soon, an extremely destructive desire for burning vengeance will end up defining Thorfinn’s existence to the point of utterly enslaving him, and he will find himself on a journey of a lifetime without peace of mind – one that will take him to places he never could have imagined in his wildest dreams.
Loosely inspired by the Norse sagas, the award-winning Vinland Saga is set in England at the start of the 11th century, a nation beset by invasions from Vikings. The story combines a dramatisation of King Canute the Great’s historical rise to power, alongside a revenge plot centred on the historical explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni. Every so often, the stars will line up. Here, we have one of the best possible source materials to work with and a studio that has proven itself capable of magnificently adapting big titles. Then you’ve got the big guns like Hata Shouji (sound director in Fairy Tail, Mahoutsukai no Yome, Darling in the FranXX) and Seko Hiroshi (script and series composition in Mob Psycho 100, Shingeki no Kyojin, Ajin) who have been brought in to work their magic – and Aimer will be performing the OP theme! The only lingering question for me is Yabuta Shuuhei, who has only worked on one show as a director (Inuyashiki) – though he remains relatively experienced in storyboarding and 3D production, which should have interesting implications on the resulting product. If these pieces can assemble like Exodia and if the director works out, then I have no doubt that Vinland Saga will become the greatest entry of the season, if not the calendar year.
Watching This: Guardian Enzo, MissSimplice, Pancakes, Passerby, Stilts, Zaiden, Zephyr Excitement Level: High
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可愛ければ変態でも好きになってくれますか?Top
https://hensuki.com
Animation: Geek Toys Premiere: July 8th, 2019
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School-Life Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 20:00
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Kiryuu Keiki (Shimono Hiro) is just your typically high school boy. He likes girls, thinks a lot about girls, and—oh yes—fails miserably when it comes to actually talking to girls. Well, unless it involves the daily weather forecast of course. It certainly makes for agonizingly ordinary days of academic learning, but all of that changes when Keiki finally attracts the romantic attention of one particular girl. Receiving a love letter in his locker one day, Keiki is incredibly elated, but also a tad bit concerned when said letter has no sender name nor meeting location listed—and is accompanied by a pair of clean white panties. With Keiki only personally knowing four girls it’s the question of the ages just who wound up sending him that unique confession, but with curiosity firmly on the mind Keiki is determined to solve this mystery, one way or another.
Ahh ecchi shows, love them or hate them you know exactly what you’re going to get, and Kawaikereba will be no exception to the rule. Well, mostly. Make no mistake, there will be nothing surprising here (the gaggle of harem girls is firmly cookie cutter, while Keiki is about as pathetic a male lead as they come), but Kawaikereba does have a few noticeable curveballs to throw among all the lewd love carnage. Depending on adaptation faithfulness, expect some audaciously ecchi scenes to make their appearance—and some seriously aggressive female attention to spice things further. Did I mention this adaptation has a designated panty designer? Oh yeah, this one is going places. Kawaikereba will be the finest form of guilty romance pleasure this season, and considering both Masou Gakuen HxH and Jitsu wa Watashi wa staff are helping steward it along means you can bet the uncensored version will be a thing of glory. It may only be another conventional wish fulfillment harem story, but if Kawaikereba lives up to its source manga, this romance series definitely won’t be lacking in terms of entertainment.
Watching This: Choya, Pancakes Excitement Level: Average
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Kochouki: Wakaki Nobunaga | 胡蝶綺 ~若き信長~Top
http://wakanobu.com
Animation: Studio DEEN Premiere: July 8th, 2019
Genre: Adventure, History, Action Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 21:30
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Oda Nobunaga (Kobayashi Yuusuke) was a famed warlord in Japanese history known for his decisive strategic prowess, relentless strength, and his all-encompassing goal of unifying Japan at any cost. But has he ever been fabulous? This is a question that Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga seeks to answer. This bold interpretation of Oda Nobunaga’s life will focus on his youth, exploring the defining traits of his teenage years that would eventually come to the fore when he grows up to become a legendary warlord. The series will also explore the rivalry he has with his brother Oda Nobuyuki (Ishikawa Kaito) as Nobuyuki tries to regain prominence in the Oda family in spite of Nobunaga being the legitimate heir to his father’s title. How will the energy and bombast of this adaptation fare in depicting Nobunaga’s rowdier side? Will it shed further light on how we see Nobunaga as a feudal lord knowing that it shows him when he was younger? Find out in this aesthetically daring historical drama.
You may have seen many interpretations of feudal warlords in Japanese history. But have they ever had panache and style? As a reunion of the staff behind the Hakuoki anime franchise, Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga has enough pedigree to ensure the narrative will be able to deliver a fun, unique interpretation of Nobunaga’s youth. The artwork does a lot to make the show seem like a fun send-up of Sengoku history that twists the trendy flair of bishounen action anime with epic legends of a past era when disputes were settled through conquests on the battlefield. It will also be fascinating how they work Nobuyuki into the picture since he’s usually considered to play a much smaller role in your standard biography for Nobunaga as a younger brother who failed in a rebellion against him. It should be cool to see how much they dig into his history considering he’s only been known for his failed attempts to overthrow Nobunaga. This season, Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga is looking to give us further insight on how Nobunaga used to be and how Nobuyuki fell from grace.
Watching This: Guardian Enzo Excitement Level: Average
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Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou | ありふれた職業で世界最強Top
https://arifureta.com
Animation: White Fox and Asread Premiere: July 8th, 2019
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 23:30
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Nagumo Hajime (Fukamachi Toshinari) would have been a regular otaku who no one would have cared about. But it just so happens that the most beautiful girl in the school, Shirasaki Kaori (Oonishi Saori), showers him with attention every day. Cue jealous classmates who bully him, making his life difficult. One day, the whole class gets transported to another world. The class ikemen becomes the designated hero, and while most people get cool abilities, Hajime gets stuck with being a mere ‘synergist’ – one of the weaker jobs. On an expedition to a subterranean dungeon, the class come across a black crystal and are suddenly teleported to a Behemoth – a creature far beyond their capabilities. Despite being weak on paper, Hajime’s ingenious and courageous usage of his skills helps them find even footing in the fight for their lives. But just as the path to victory appears, one of his classmate intentionally shoots a fireball into his back, sending him tumbling into the maw of an endless abyss. But he survives the fall. Hajime wakes up at the brink of death within the darkest depths, surrounded by dangerous creatures that could kill him at a moment’s notice. It will be a new beginning as he strives to survive this hell following a vicious betrayal. And he will be reborn anew, as timely opportunities and fateful encounters allow him to exceed the limits of this new reality.
For those that have come for their dose of seasonal isekai, you’ve come to the right place. Arifureta has a powerful (but otherwise ‘average’) anti-hero protagonist who collects devoted waifus wherever he goes – including another one of those 1000 year old vampires who looks like she’s 10. But saying it’s an entirely generic premise wouldn’t be fair. From the get go, the realm is depicted as something akin to the Wild West, where it’s dog eat dog – though eventually, Hajime’s entourage have the ability to easily deal with anything that comes their way. So while the story begins by being grounded in survival and revenge, it eventually resolves these aspects fairly early once Hajime becomes ridiculously powerful, and moves onto exploring other things. I’m one of those individuals who felt the story began quite well, then fell off pretty hard as it continued on. But where it lacks in substance, it should provide good entertainment without needing viewers to exert effort in watching. As for the staff, I do not consider Yoshimoto Kinji’s directorial resume to be impressive. However, he seems to be pretty darned good at handling explicit fanservice in a way that could be described as borderline hentai – namely Queen’s Blade and Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai. And with the backing of White Fox, I’d expect the visual assets to be aesthetically pleasing and the ecchi components to be enticingly animated. Arifureta is worth checking out, but I would encourage viewers not to get their hopes too high based off the premiere, since it isn’t particularly representative of what to actually expect.
Watching This: Pancakes, Stilts Excitement Level: Average
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COP CRAFTTop
http://copcraft.tv
Animation: Millepensee Premiere: July 8th, 2019
Genre: Crime, Action, Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Mondays at 24:00
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Opposites attract in this summer’s new detective duo series. It’s fifteen years after a hyperspace gate opens up over the Pacific connecting Earth to a magical world known as Leto Semani. With the gate now open, millions of immigrants from both worlds settle in the seemingly peaceful and multicultural city of San Teresa. But not all is as it seems. While the surface basks in light, a hidden underworld of drugs, prostitution, and other crime lurks below. It’s here where Matoba Kei (Tsuda Kenjiro), a level-headed ace detective from Earth, and Tlarna Exedilika (Yoshioka Mayu), a young apprentice Knight from the alternate world, team up against San Teresa City criminals.
How fantasy will fit into the detective genre, I’m not quite certain. However, I’m convinced the combination will create space for interesting dynamics whether this is showcased in world or character building. Last time I enjoyed a detective show was a while ago, but I’m hoping this will guide me right back into the genre. On top of it, the noir and grunge styles animated by Millepensee (Berserk) are additional attractive factors if it’s pulled off correctly. Similar buddy cop shows like Gangsta often use the style to add a dash of darkness, but I’ve rarely (if ever) encountered the combination with the fantasy genre. That said, this unconventional detective duo will definitely add a touch of comedy to the mix, which has inspired me to give Cop Craft a shot.
Watching This: MissSimplice, Pancakes, Passerby, Stars Excitement Level: Average
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Isekai Cheat MagicianTop
http://isekai-cheat-magician.com
Animation: Encourage Films Premiere: July 10th, 2019
Genre: Action, Fantasy Airtime (GMT+9): Wednesdays at 22:00
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Boy, would you look at that, another isekai. However, after giving this title the attention it deserves (and subsequently getting stuck reading all of it that I could find), I have to say that I’m really loving everything about Isekai Cheat Magician. Like most typical isekai shows, our two protagonists Nishimura Taichi (Amasaki Kouhei) and Azuma Rin (Takahashi Rie) are suddenly spirited away to a world similar to ours in most aspects, except that magic exists. Comprised of four different elements (fire, earth, wind, and water), humans can harness the power of these elements and become powerful magicians. Luckily for our protagonists, they enter this world with an insane amount of latent ability where the latter can utilize all four elements and the former draws from the non-element. Together they start their journey in this new world as Cheat Magicians, garnering the attention of both friends and foes.
For someone who enjoys the whole isekai genre, I was happily surprised just how much I enjoyed this one. At this point, I think it’s clear that an important part of any good isekai is the ability for the story to ground their main character(s), since they usually enter their new world with terrifying base stats or insane special powers. In Isekai Cheat Magician’s case, I love how the story manages this balancing act by playing off of Taichi and Rin’s personality flaws while also throwing intelligent enemies at them. Not only does it keep them on their toes, but the threat of possibly dying at any moment keeps things fresh. That said, a good story doesn’t really mean anything if the production staff aren’t up to the job—and luckily this show has a good group of heads. Between Ikami Takayo of Mawaru Penguindrum fame handling the writing, and director Tsukushi Daisuke who’s been around since 2003 holding the reigns with his experienced hands, I’m cautiously excited to see what they can do with a fun isekai story. At the end of the day I’m sure we’ve all had our fair share of isekai, but I think if you give this one a shot it might revive the love for the genre if you’ve been feeling a little burnt out.
Watching This: Pancakes, Stilts, Takaii Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Given | ギヴンTop
http://given-anime.com
Animation: Lerche Premiere: July 11th, 2019
Genre: Music, Romance, School-Life Airtime (GMT+9): Thursdays at 24:55
Episodes: 11 Station: Fuji TV
Join the conversation @given_anime or #ギヴン
This summer has been blessed with a musical anime. Given follows the story of a four-member band including newcomer Sato Mafuyu (Yano Shougo). Mafuyu is found napping, holding onto a broken guitar by Uenoyama Ritsuka (Uchida Yuuma), a guitarist. During a practice session, Mafuyu’s voice sparks Ritsuka’s long lost passion for music. The two develop a new musical friendship. However, this bond is not the only relationship they navigate together.
One screening of the PV and expectations have been set. I have a soft spot for boy bands. Even if airing a boys love (BL) anime is a notable step for NoitaminA and might be the initial draw for fans, I’m ready to bet the music and characters are what will keep the audience coming back. Alongside our two mains are Makayama Haruki (Nakazawa Masatomo) and Kaji Akihito (Eguchi Takuya), making it so all band members are named after the four seasons. I remember gambling on Sanzaranmai during the spring 2019 season and the return was tenfold. NoitaminA is diving head first into their first boys love series and I’m sure Lerche’s adaptation of the popular manga won’t disappoint. I’ll be keeping an eye out for this one.
Watching This: Guardian Enzo, MissSimplice, Stars Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Machikado Mazoku | まちカドまぞくTop
http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/machikado/
Animation: J.C. Staff Premiere: July 11th, 2019
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Airtime (GMT+9): Thursdays at 25:28
Episodes: 12 Station: TBS
Join the conversation @machikado_staff or #まちカドまぞ
As a newly minted devil with awakened powers, the high school girl Yoshida Yuuko (Kohara Konomi) has her work cut out for her. Entrusted by her ancestor Lilith (Takahashi Minami) to defeat the Light Clan’s shrine maiden Chiyoda Momo (Kito Akari), Yuuko must not only find her nemesis and bring about her end, but do so quickly before the curse Lilith placed on her family to ensure compliance is activated. And to make matters worse? Momo is a magical girl and close friends with her classmate (and fellow friend) Sada Anri. When challenging Momo to a duel winds up with Yuuko’s defeat, it takes everything the girl has to persevere in her objective, but thanks to a strange ability of Yuuko’s to drain Momo’s power whenever the two are close together, Yuuko sees a light at end of the tunnel. There’s a way yet to see her fated mission through, and this little devil won’t let the chance pass her by.
Magical girls and anime, like peanut butter and jam it’s a timeless combination and Machikado Mazoku intends on making the most of it. Similar to the likes of Gabriel Dropout and Rokujouma no Shinryakusha, this one will be following the comedy and slice-of-life route: there will be ridiculous gags, lighthearted humour (looking at you and your weightlifting fetish, Momo), and plenty of adorably cute awkwardness, alongside a hefty dose of slice-of-life shenanigans to help keep things fun. While J.C Staff’s involvement does give reason to doubt (this type of show honestly screams for Dogakobo), given Kaichou wa Maid-sama’s Sakurai Hirokai is directing and Ohchi Keiichirou of Hinamatsuri fame is handling series composition, expecting a fun and wholesome slice-of-life adventure is a pretty safe idea. We may not know exactly what Machikado Mazoku has in store, but you can bet this will be one magical showdown worth paying attention to.
Watching This: Pancakes Excitement Level: Average
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To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator | とある科学の一方通行[アクセラレータ]Top
https://toaru-project.com/accelerator/
Genre: Sci-Fi Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 22:00
Join the conversation @toaru_project or #アクセラレータ
Based on the wildly popular Index franchise spin-off, To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator stars none other than Accelerator (Okamoto Nobuhiko) himself and begins shortly after the events of the penultimate Sisters arc. Having come within inches of death thanks to a bullet to the brain, Accelerator is determined to recover and atone (in his own way) for the crimes he committed in the name of power. The plan for redemption, though, is rudely interrupted when the white haired crazy boy winds up saving the life of one Estelle Rosenthal (Kubo Yurika), an otherwise ordinary girl possessing a very unusual picture of his new charge, Last Order (Hidaka Rina). Digging down into the curiosity, Accelerator quickly finds himself at the centre of a broad conspiracy headed by the zealous Disciplinary Action, an underground organization determined to remake Academy City in their own image. With Disciplinary Action planning on using Last Order for their own nefarious ends, it’s up to Accelerator to help save his new companion, because if the group gets their way, it’ll be more than Last Order’s life which winds up on the line.
Well boys and girls, it’s finally here. As the first kickoff to the next big wave of Index franchise adaptations (Railgun III says hi), Accelerator is pretty much the made for prime time summer success: it’s the Index franchise’s most popular spin-off next to Railgun, it stars its most popular antihero, and returns to the better loved half of the Index universe magic-science divide. There’s no question Accelerator will be blockbuster material from the get-go, but there are some concerns holding the hype train back. For starters J.C. Staff has quite a bit of goodwill to rebuild after the hatchet job it did with Index III, while the choice of director in Big Order’s Kamanaka Nobuharu definitely doesn’t lead to happy thoughts. Couple this with Accelerator only having one complete arc to work with (the second is still ongoing), and we’re either looking at a single cour sprinkled with filler, or one hell of a two cour anime original run. Frankly, anything is possible here, although given the source material and personalities at play, I have my hopes up. With a franchise this popular and a starring character this good, it’ll take something pretty serious to screw it all up.
Watching This: MissSimplice, Pancakes, Takaii, Zaiden, Zephyr Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Nikai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desuka?
通常攻撃が全体攻撃で二回攻撃のお母さんは好きですか?Top
https://okaasan-online.com
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Romance Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 24:00
Join the conversation @okaasan_online or #お母好き
Oosuki Masato (Ishiya Haruki) is your ordinary high school student who is an avid gamer. His doting mother Oosuki Mamako (Kayano Ai) is quick to get on his nerves as she is overprotective and constantly worries about him. With their relationship strained, Masato finds himself having a tough time with his mother and Mamako becomes desperate to find a way to get him to cheer up and be a little more appreciative. After filling out a random survey, Masato unwittingly agrees to a secret government scheme that transports him into an RPG world. Masato is initially excited about the prospect of showing off his gaming prowess in this brave new world. What he didn’t expect was to find his mother Mamako trapped in the same world! On top of that, she’s overpowered! As a dual-wielding warrior who can decimate foes with two-hit, multi-target attacks, Mamako is a beast who gives everyone, including her son, a run for their money. Together, Mamako and Masato make for a power duo that can clear through waves of enemies no matter the size. But will Mamako achieve her goal of being able to bond with her son during their journey across this RPG world? Find out once this hilarious mother/son adventure story in another world premieres this season!
We all know why we’re watching this. There are no pretenses that can hide that the main draw of the story is to see Mamako mow down countless hordes of enemies while bonding with her son. The latter point could also tap into some territory that has been recently carved out by doujinshi featuring particularly thick women. With a title like Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit, Multi-Target Attacks!, why wouldn’t that subtext be present? Not to mention the promo event Animate held where customers who brought their mothers to the store were rewarded with a 16-page short story booklet dedicated to the story. But as fetishy as the anime may seem, it’s a down-to-earth examination on familial relationships that tackles the complicated bonds that parents have with their children and vice versa. Throughout their journey across this RPG world, Masato starts to understand why his mother would be so protective of her son while Mamako learns why her son would be guarded about being perceived as vulnerable as he’s trying to make something of himself in his formative years. At the same time, it confronts the turbulence in their relationship with how they handle Masato’s harsh embarrassment around his mother and how they confront Mamako on what drives her to be overly possessive of her son. There’s an air of wholesomeness to the narrative that may not present itself right away, but as soon as you get invested in the story, it quickly emphasizes that their journey to another world is an opportunity for a mother and son to learn to be on better terms with one another as they bond in the RPG world they’re stuck in. Will it live up to the potential of being a thorough examination on parenthood, or will the anime focus on the gimmicky nature of the story’s main hook? Will you fall in love with the mother and her two hits, multi-target attacks? The answers you’re searching for will finally be unveiled this summer.
Watching This: Choya, Pancakes Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatte Iru Darouka: Familia Myth II
ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか FAMILIA MYTH IITop
http://danmachi.com/danmachi2/
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance Airtime (GMT+9): Fridays at 24:30
Join the conversation @danmachi_anime or #danmachi
Preview by Stilts
The worryingly named Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? is back for a second season! But it’s a worrying title in the same way as The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, because as far as magical-fantasy-action-harem anime go, this is a great one. The story takes place in the city of Orario, commonly known as “Dungeon” for its huge underground labyrinths. Adventurers, supported by gods, flock to Orario to seek honor, adventure, and maybe even love. Bell Cranel (Matsuoka Yoshitsugu) began his adventure last season, as the only member of the Hestia Family, so named for the failed “lolita god” Hestia (Minase Inori), who is hopelessly in love with Bell. Along with his friends Welf Crozzo (Hosoya Yoshimasa), Liliruca Arde (Uchida Maaya), and more, Bell will continue his adventure as he chases after his own love-at-first-sight in legendary adventurer Aiz Wallenstein (Oonishi Saori), and becomes a legend in his own right.
DanMachi is one of the better magical-fantasy-action-harem anime on the block. My appreciation for it has only heightened since its premiere in in 2015, as I’ve learned the value of a solid setting through painful effort. It takes place in a classic fantasy setting with some “gamey” elements tacked on—monsters sparkle and disappear into loot, etc—but even when these elements don’t make sense, they’re fun. They also work in context, which is what matters most. The characters are also great in this series, likeable and unique, to the point that even the gods (with names cribbed from Greek, Norse, Hindu, & Japanese mythologies) feel like new characters rather than tired old rehashes. Following the anime-original (though written by the original author) Arrow of the Orion movie, season two picks up where the first left off. In staff news, Tachibana Hideki is taking over as director, but all the other major staff members (and the studio in J.C.Staff) are back from season one. If you liked the first season, of course see this one. If you haven’t seen the first and have a fondness for fantasy adventures though, I suggest you catch up on the previous season in time to see this one when it airs.
Watching This: Choya, Pancakes, Stilts, Takaii, Zaiden, Zephyr Excitement Level: Optimistic
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BEMTop
https://newbem.jp
Animation: LandQ studios Premiere: July 14th, 2019
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Supernatural Airtime (GMT+9): Sundays at 25:35
Episodes: 12 Station: TV Tokyo
Join the conversation @newbem2019 or #妖怪人間ベム
The Youkai Ningen Bem (Humanoid Monster Bem) franchise is getting a new remake to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The series follows three humanoid youkai, who each protect humanity from dangerous threats despite being ostracized by both humans and youkai. There’s Bem (Konishi Katsuyuki), who looks like a gangster and fights to protect the humans he hopes to become; Bela (Ichimichi Mao), a witch who looks up to humans and attends school in order to understand them better; and Belo (Ono Kensho), who dove headfirst into the world of gaming and has a rather philosophical view of humanity. Together these ugly monsters fight to protect the humans who will never accept them.
This is not a franchise I was familiar with. It’s quite a storied one, though, having persisted since its first season in 1968, with multiple iterations since. This 2019 remake is definitely dialing up the production budget, at least if the teaser videos are to be believed; they looks stylish as all hell, even if they’re also dark as all hell. Gritty noir is the feel here, get used to it. I do worry about the staff; director Odaka Yoshinori has mainly been an episode director, and script writer Tomioka Atsuhiro is prolific, though he hasn’t worked on anything I’m familiar with since Zombie-Loan—there’s a series that doesn’t come up often. Other than that, it’s got a pedigree, and resources are being put into it. I see no reason not to check it out if a dark, gritty tale of monsters fighting for the humans that despise them—and opposing a mysterious lady (Sakamoto Maaya) who is trying to get her hands on these three human-passing monsters—sounds like a good time to you.
Watching This: Guardian Enzo, Passerby Excitement Level: Optimistic
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KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC: SAINT SEIYATop
https://www.saintseiya-kotz.com/pc/
Animation: Toei Animation Premiere: July 19th, 2019
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi Airtime (GMT+9): Friday at 00:00
Episodes: Unknown Station: Netflix
Join the conversation @ToeiAnimation or #saintseiya
Saint Seiya returns to the screen over three decades after it originally aired. Based on the manga of the same name, the story follows Seiya (Morita Masakazu), an orphan boy who becomes one of the Knights vowed to protect the goddess Athena (Orikasa Fumiko). With his new powers and the help of his fellow Knights, Seiya is tasked to protect humanity from the evils lurking in the darkness.
When I heard Netflix was doing a reboot, I thought this could either go really well giving the notable series a fresh new look, or it could go horribly wrong. So far, it’s difficult to tell. The quality of the 3DCG animation is not the most appealing, but the style hints the show could be directed toward a younger audience. However, that doesn’t deter me from giving this a quick glance. The trailer showcases characters, now redesigned after 30 years with as much conviction as they had in the original series. Although the dialogue errs on the minimalist side, the few action shots added some entertainment value to the mix. But the biggest uncertainty is Netflix and Toei’s agreement to change one of the most adored characters of the series: Andromeda Shun (Sato Satomi). Andromeda is now a girl, and not many longtime fans like the idea. However, the goal is probably to reach a new generation of fans and the animation, alongside the drastic character change, might be just what Netflix needs to attract a larger audience. I could see myself sitting with my niece and nephew to watch the show, and I bet I’d be entertained through the whole thing.
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Kengan Ashura | ケンガンアシュラTop
http://kengan.net
Animation: Larx Entertainment Premiere: July 31st, 2019
Genre: Action, Sports Airtime (GMT+9):
Episodes: 11 Station: Netflix
Join the conversation @kengankai or #KGA
This season’s Netflix 3DCGI anime is trading in the fantasy and superhero aspects of previous projects for bloody knuckles and bulging muscles here. There are gladiator arenas in Japan where wealthy business owners and merchants can hire men to fight in unarmed combat. One of the best of these gladiators is Tokita Ohma (Suzuki Tatsuhisa), nicknamed “Ashura.” He destroys his opponents with the ferocity and ruthlessness of a demon, eventually catching the attention of the elites who profit from this blood sport, including the Nogi Group CEO, Nogi Hideki (Nakata Jouji).
Since the manga’s original run was completed in 2018, there’s a possibility that Netflix could adapt the entire series, though the platform tends to drop thirteen episodes at a time so anything more than that would be unusual. Ura Sunday decided to hold a contest for which manga series their readers wanted adapted into an anime, and the winner was Sandrovich Yabako’s Kengan Ashura. Now, 3DCGI actually looks great in action scenes, and I’m sure the models are convenient, but part of the appeal of a series like Kengan Ashura is the art. The intensity of the heavy black-and-white pages that convey Tokita’s demonic aura, the flexing of their musculature as they fight, the shadows and harsh highlights – all of these things add up to truly engaging action sequences where the drama and stakes leap off the page, and for as much as 3DCGI is progressing, it’s not quite there yet. The teaser didn’t give any indication of the characters, but it did suggest that battles, really the mainstay of a series like this, will be fast-paced, and Takahashi Yasuharu’s OST is guaranteed to be filled with tracks that draw on his years of experience making compositions for action-filled series like Naruto Shippuden and Fairy Tail. I wouldn’t be too optimistic, but don’t count it out either. You may have an underdog on your hands.
Watching This: No one yet Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Try Knights | トライナイツTop
https://www.ntv.co.jp/tryknights/
Animation: Gonzo Premiere: July, 2019
Genre: Sports Airtime (GMT+9):
Episodes: Unknown Station: Nippon TV
Join the conversation @try_knights or #トライナイツ
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a young man with no direction finds his passion for a sport he used to love reignited by a meet-cute with another athlete. The type of athlete in question tends to vary. Sometimes it’s an old childhood rival, other times its a rookie in need of guidance, but in the case of Try Knights, rugby player Kariya Akira (KENN) is a physically strong and rambunctious counterpart to Haruma Riku (Sakamoto Shougo). Riku gave up on rugby due to his physique, but will Akira be just the spark he needs to set his love for the sport ablaze?
With lines like, “I’ll put a leash on you, Kariya Akira” and attractive character designs by Takarai Rihito, it looks like Try Knights will be aiming for that sweet, sweet Free! demographic. With that said, should rugby really look so pretty? There are plenty of series out there about just about every sport under the sun, Eyeshield 21 being one of my personal favorites, so while it’s fine that these designs are pleasant to the eye, I really hope this series isn’t afraid to mess them up. As a sport, rugby is one of the most brutal there is. It’s like you took football and soccer, blended them together, and then threw a piece of leather on an athlete’s head and called it a helmet, so for as nice as these boys look, if there’s going to be any sort of authenticity, they’ll have to get down and dirty, sweat-soaked and covered from head-to-toe in mud at some point. Honestly though, as tough as it is to make a great sports anime, it’s nowhere near as hard to make a good one. So long as Try Knights succeeds at energetic rugby sequences and nails the friendship between the mains, it will surely be a proper addition to the long line of sports anime that came before it.
Watching This: Stars Excitement Level: Average
Mo Dao Zu Shi 2 | 魔道祖师Top
https://www.tohomh123.com/modaozushi/
Animation: G.CMay Animation & Film Premiere: July, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Supernatural Airtime (GMT+9):
Episodes: Station: Tencent Video
In order to save his beloved friends and family from demise by the tyrannical Wen Clan, and left at the doors of death after being ruthlessly cast into an abyss of resentful spirits that had been driven to insanity, Wei Wuxian (Zhang Jie) sacrifices his soul to the utterly forbidden path and becomes a grandmaster of demonic cultivation, gaining the ability to control spirits and reanimate the dead. But he unleashes decay and sorrow upon the world, earning him the hatred of millions for causing so much suffering. Or so it was told. Eventually, the powerful clans unite to stop him. He is ultimately backstabbed and killed by his dearest shidi (disciple), before the clans work to eradicate any trace of his legacy – though the effects of undeath and stagnation continue to linger. But this is not the end of Wei Wuxian’s story. Thirteen years later, a young man is disgraced for being homosexual and commits suicide, enacting a sacrifice ritual that can help him exact revenge. Wei Wuxian reincarnates into the young man’s body with all his previous memories intact. But his archnemesis, Lang Wangji (Bian Jiang), soon takes him into custody as a senior of the Lan Clan, suspecting that he might indeed be the long-dead Yiling Patriarch. Together, they go on adventures that involve fighting fantastical monsters, solving mysteries – and even seek to clear Wei Wuxian’s name from the accusations levied against him prior to his untimely death.
While I definitely acknowledge how terrible every other Chinese donghua is when compared to anime, I make an exception for Mo Dao Zu Shi. Adapted from a famous web novel written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, the donghua adaptation of Mo Dao Zu Shi’s first season became a massive hit in China, generating 1.74 billion views on Tencent’s streaming platform at the end of 2018. It’s also amassed something of a cult following in the west, even quietly sneaking into the Top 50 on MyAnimeList at one point. And for good reason. Director Xiong Ke brings significant experience from his other critically acclaimed project, Quanzhi Gaoshou, and Mo Dao Zu Shi offers some of the most beautiful visuals you’ll see in animation, easily rivaling some of the best that Japanese anime has to offer. Meanwhile, the story is set in a martial fantasy world and deconstructs many classical Chinese fantasy tropes, by contrasting the high ideals of your typical martial cultivators with the reality of politics and war. Three scriptwriters might seem like too many cooks, but they did an excellent job conveying subtle nuances in narrative flow and characterisation over 16 episodes, so I’m confident they can do so again. Although fujoshis would be a key demographic for this show, considering the source material’s copious BL elements, this got toned down in the adaptation – because who wants to get into trouble with the Chinese government? Nevertheless, when readers of the source material have hinted that this season should surpass the first, at least where the story is concerned, it’s hard not to be extremely excited.
Watching This: Zaiden Excitement Level: High
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Quanzhi Gaoshou | 全职高手Top
https://www.tohomh123.com/quanzhigaoshou//
Genre: Drama, Sports Airtime (GMT+9):
Before the beginning of the series, Ye Xiu (Zhang Jie) establishes an unprecedented dynasty by captaining his team, Excellent Era, to three championship titles in the popular online game Glory. However, after refusing to take part in shady sponsorship deals to profit the team, a contractual term forces him to give up his account and prevents him from competing for a few years. He is made to retire into a situation that makes him homeless and penniless. Ye Xiu eventually finds work and a place to stay in a nearby internet cafe. When Glory launches its tenth server, he decides to make a return under a new name – Lord Grim. Intent on honing his skills and exceeding his previous limits, Ye Xiu patiently bides his time and finds new allies and companions, who might have the potential to join him in creating a new team. Together, they will strive to surpass the major guilds that dominate the game and reach the summit of Glory.
Beginning from Starcraft and expanding to DOTA, Counterstrike, League of Legends, Overwatch and Fortnite, eSports is a digital phenomenon which has hit the world by storm. Quanzhi Gaoshou is an animated work that seeks to dramatise the narrative of a fictitious star player, offering a relatively unique take and interesting foray into this world. To me, Ye Xiu evokes the greatest League of Legends player, Faker, in an alternate timeline where SKT’s failure to qualify for the S4 Championship resulted in him being booted off the team. Like Faker, Ye Xiu is a quiet and confident person. He also believes in his own skills and ability to outplay the opposition – leading to magical moments that go down in eSports history. Some people may describe this characterisation as boring, but I think it’s a hallmark of the eSport greats that I’ve been familiar with – so intensely obsessed and dedicated to their games that they somewhat verge on being machine-like. And for fans of competitive League of Legends, it will be reassuring to see this parallel. But admittedly, while the art and animation and character designs are all really beautiful, it is true that the rest of the characters lack depth. There is also uncertainty about the staff on board, since no information has been released yet. And there have been rumours that production has been shifted to a cheaper but vastly inferior team. But given where the previous season left off on, I’m willing to at least give this new entry a chance and I’m excited to see what happens next, especially if it entails Ye Xiu being able to exact his revenge and surpassing his former heights.
Watching This: Zaiden Excitement Level: Optimistic
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Short Series List
Technical Note: As of the Fall 2016 Preview onward, short one-cour series that are being broadcast with irregular duration times (about five to ten minutes) have been separated from the main preview into their own section. This is to account for the increasing number of short series and to allow for ease of viewing for those who have a preference for one type of series over another. While the list should be complete, two notes: we have excluded shows intended for younger audiences, and there are short series that have been announced very close to the start of a season that may not have made it onto the list. If you notice an anything missing, incomplete, or incorrect, please feel free to point it out in the comments or e-mail Passerby directly.
07/08 Yami Shibai 7
闇芝居7
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/yamishibai7/
AniDB, ANN Encyclopedia, MyAnimeList, syoboi, Wikipedia If you want horror
You can always rely on
Yami Shibai.
OVA / Movie
Technical Note: OVAs are sorted by the date they are released. For series that have multiple episodes coming out over the course of the season, please refer to the Notes column for additional dates. More information on each OVA can be found on their respective websites, including promotional videos in some cases. Movie premiere dates are not included since they don’t mean a whole lot to viewers outside of Japan. BD/DVD movie releases are, however. This list is likely incomplete and will be updated as more titles surface (usually by the next season’s preview). If you notice anything missing or incorrect, please feel free to point it out in the comments or e-mail one of us directly (Stilts, Zephyr).
05/31 Trinity Seven Movie 2: Tenkuu Toshokan to Shinku no Maou
劇場版トリニティセブン -天空図書館と真紅の魔王-
https://movie.trinity-7.com/ea/ BD/DVD Release.
06/03 Ookami to Koushinryou VR | 狼と香辛料VR
http://spicy-tails.net/saw-vr/ PC, PS VR, Switch, Oculus Rift Release.
06/05 Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly | ドラゴンボール超（スーパー） ブロリー
http://www.dbmovie-20th.com/ BD/DVD Release.
06/07 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Memory Snow
Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 Memory Snow
http://re-zero-anime.jp/ BD/DVD Release.
06/19 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation | 魔法少女リリカルなのは Detonation
http://www.nanoha.com/ BD/DVD Release.
06/20 Kyochuu Rettou | 巨蟲列島
http://kyochu-retto.net/ Bundled w/ LE manga Vol. 6.
06/25 Tennis no Ouji-sama: Best Games!! | テニスの王子様 BEST GAMES!!
http://tenipuri.jp/ BD/DVD Release.
06/28 Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine Movie | 劇場版「王室教師ハイネ」
https://heine-movie.com/ BD/DVD Release.
07/08 Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken OVA | 転生したらスライムだった件 OVA
http://www.ten-sura.com/ Bundled w/ manga Vol. 12. OVA 1 of 2.
07/09 Majimoji Rurumo: Kanketsu-hen | まじもじるるも 完結編
http://anime-rurumo.com/ Bundled w/ LE manga Vol. 9. OVA 1 of 2.
07/24 Strike the Blood III | ストライク・ザ・ブラッドⅢ
http://www.strike-the-blood.com/third/ Episodes 7-8 of 10.
07/26 Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
ラブライブ！サンシャイン!!The School Idol Movie Over the Rainbow
http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/uranohoshi/ BD/DVD Release.
07/31 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Movie: Orion no Ya
劇場版 ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか ― オリオンの矢 ―
http://www.danmachi.com/movie/ BD/DVD Release.
08/21 Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II.lost butterfly
http://www.fate-sn.com/hf/ BD/DVD Release.
08/23 Lupin the IIIrd: Mine Fujiko no Uso | LUPIN THE IIIRD 峰不二子の嘘
http://fujiko-mine.com/ BD/DVD Release.
08/23 Youjo Senki Movie | 劇場版 幼女戦記
http://youjo-senki.jp/ BD/DVD Release.
09/18 PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case 1: Tsumi to Batsu
PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス|SS(Sinners of the System) Case.1「罪と罰」
http://psycho-pass.com/ BD/DVD Release.
09/18 PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case 2: First Guardian
09/18 PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case 3: Onshuu no Kanata ni
PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス Sinners of the System Case.3「恩讐の彼方に＿＿」
09/25 Mob Psycho 100: Daiikkai Rei toka Soudansho Ian Ryokou – Kokoro Mitasu Iyashi no Tabi
モブサイコ100 第一回霊とか相談所慰安旅行~ココロ満たす癒やしの旅~
http://mobpsycho100.com/ BD/DVD Release.
09/26 Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka??: Sing for You | ご注文はうさぎですか?? ~Sing For You~
https://gochiusa.com/ova2/
Mid-Late 2019 Bean Bandit
https://twitter.com/Anime_ProjectBB Kickstarter OVA Release.
Late 2019 Choujigen Game Neptune: Nep no Natsuyasumi
超次元ゲイム ネプテューヌ THE ANIMATION ~ねぷのなつやすみ~
http://nep-anime.tv/
As I progress in my anime-watching career, it’s always hard to pick out whether the patterns I see are objectively true, or whether they’re colored by my previous experience. Is this anime series good? Is it bad? Am I bad? I think there’s one thing I can say for sure, though: the isekai train rolls on. Haha! In all seriousness, there are definitely some highly anticipated series at the top of the docket, but after that it feels like there’s not a ton of variety. Oh, there’s some, but there’s a lot of isekai and fantasy, which as a fantasy fan I do enjoy, though variety is still the spice of life. But I’ve long since stopped getting my hopes up, for good or for ill. What will happen, will happen, yes? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Which is a perfectly stupid segue into…
Excitement levels! Yes, we’ll be continuing with our now-customary Excitement Levels, which includes four main levels plus Established for special cases. Our goal with these is to make it easier to use the top and bottom of the scale, and to take away the incentive to hedge our bets—after all, we’re not saying these shows will be good or bad, we’re just saying how excited we are. Exciting things can be flawed, and unambitious things can be fun! Hopefully this guide will help those of you with limited time understand which shows to try first, based on our preliminary examination of each show’s staff, seiyuu, and source material. Failing that, it’ll give you another reason to laugh when we get all worked up about a show that ends up falling apart.
As usual, these levels were arrived at by our regular (and reliably shady) “Excitement Council” of Passerby, Zephyr, and yours truly, Stilts. While we’ve gone to great lengths to consider multiple viewpoints and not get swept away by their own proclivities, these aren’t predictions, and shouldn’t be taken as such. Take these with the appropriate amount of salt.
Note: Lists are sorted in alphabetical order.
The Rundown:
High excitement shows are the ones we’re truly pumped about. These are the shows we want to watch the most, and which we think have a good chance of being exemplars of their kind — or at least come close. Shows in this category might be sequels to excellent anime, adaptations of highly regarded source material, projects with stellar pedigrees, or even originals that just light up our minds. They don’t have to be perfect, but they do have to feel like something special. If you consider yourself a casual fan who only gets your toes wet every season, then these are the shows we feel you should most keep an eye on.
High Excitement: Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2, Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note, Mo Dao Zu Shi 2, Vinland Saga
Optimistic shows are ones that we’re hopeful will be really good, and which we have good reasons to think they might be. The underpinnings of these are generally strong, with a lot to suggest in each of them, but with one or two elements that give us pause and keep our enthusiasm from boiling over. They still have most of the makings of very strong series, though, and many stellar anime will arise from this category. If you’ve exhausted all the High shows, or want to delve deeper into your favored genres, check out these as well.
Optimistic Excitement: Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo., BEM, Dr.STONE, Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka II, Enen no Shouboutai, Given, Granbelm, Isekai Cheat Magician, Joushikousei no Mudazukai, Kanata no Astra, Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e, Kengan Ashura, Maou-sama, Retry!, Naka no Hito Genome [Jikkyouchuu], Quanzhi Gaoshou, Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator, Tsujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de 2-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka?
Average excitement shows look middle-of-the-road to us. They could be good or they could be bad, but they don’t provide much immediate indication that they’ll be amazing in retrospect. This is often the case with shows that are firmly ensconced in their genres’ tropes, or which overly rely on some of anime’s overused plot devices. It can also apply to shows that seem deeply flawed, with elements that could make them amazing, but with so many potential pitfalls that we’re not getting hyped up. However, in many of our experiences these shows still provide a great deal of entertainment, and may turn out a lot better than they appear. Personal taste comes heavily into play, so your mileage will vary.
Average Excitement: Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou, Cop Craft, Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru?, Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?, Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya, Kochouki: Wakaki Nobunaga, Machikado Mazoku, Sounan Desu Ka?, Starmyu 3rd Season, Tejina Senpai, Try Knights, Uchi no Musume no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.
Limited excitement shows are ones that we simply aren’t all that excited about. They often don’t seem to be striving for much, and choose to focus on more frivolous aspects such as senseless humor and fanservice. Other times they’re doing the same thing we’ve seen a thousand times, with few mitigating signs that they’ll rise above their tropes. That doesn’t mean they’re the bottom of the barrel and shouldn’t get any consideration, but simply that they’re not doing a lot to suggest themselves. Keep in mind what kind of show they are, though, and you might find something you enjoy amid this cohort.
Limited Excitement: Ensemble Stars, Re:Stage! Dream Days♪
Established shows are any series that has aired for more than 40 episodes or has been previewed three or more times. This can include anything from never-ending shounen and decade-spanning dramas to that quirky comedy that keeps getting renewed season after season. The only commonality is that they’ve aired a lot of episodes, and that they’re the kind of show that most viewers will want to catch up on all the previous content before watching the new. Spin-offs and remakes don’t automatically qualify, since they’re considered new series.
Established: Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV
June 28, 2019 at 8:03 amstarss
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Aw fudge yes! That’s what Im talking about! And I was JUST thinking about this post not an hour ago!
Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Nikai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desuka? My lord. Is there some English version of this title!?
June 28, 2019 at 9:20 amMcFate
June 28, 2019 at 9:03 amUrahara
Seems like there are 17 Isekai shows for every non-isekai one
June 28, 2019 at 1:18 pmJon
Is the trend this days, though there are still good Isekais out there that are not copying the formula, and are truly following a coherent and well written narrative. Surley we will see them adapted sooner or later.
June 29, 2019 at 12:56 amzztop
Also we have yet to get anime of the shoujo/otome isekai titles, esp. the ones about people reincarnated as the game villianess and try to overturn their bad end.
Bakarina may be coming up, but most anime isekai adaptations have been of titles aimed at male readers.
June 28, 2019 at 2:08 pmbassgs435
There’s only 4 this season (5 if you want to add Cop Craft, despite the fact that it doesn’t take place in fantasy-land, and it’s the fantasy-land stuff mixing with modern times in a modern setting). The rest is all non-isekai. Certainly more isekai than previous seasons, but non-isekai shows still outnumber isekai
June 28, 2019 at 10:58 pmJohn
Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de 2-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka?
June 29, 2019 at 1:59 ambassgs435
@John Naka no Hito isn’t isekai. Or rather, if it’s isekai, Btoom is also isekai. In Genome, they’re in some island, but in our world, not some other world. They aren’t magically transported, just kidnapped.
Thinking that’s isekai is nonsensical
June 29, 2019 at 6:13 amJohn
problem here is that you’re reading mal synopsis not the actual synopsis of the show https://i.imgur.com/tisCCVr.jpg
June 29, 2019 at 12:51 pmbassgs435
@John
1)I’m not using MAL. I’m basing my statement on what was explained on this very season preview.
2)The anichart synopsis sounds like a metaphor for a BTOOM scenario (as desribed here) of “Kidnapped and forced to recreate the game in real life”, as described here. Naka no Hito doesn’t sound like an actual “pulled into the actual virtual world” like SAO. More like “someone recreated the game IRL and kidnapped the cast to serve as players for their twisted reasons”, like BTOOM
June 28, 2019 at 10:44 pmaaaaaaaaaaaa
You clearly don’t know how to count then, because there’s only 4.
June 29, 2019 at 5:07 amLyfe
His statement was clearly hyperbole.
I’d blame the success of previous Isekei work for causing terrible authors to produce their take on the genre. Some authors who clearly lack talent have seen the sort of sales a good Isekai can bring and the rest is history.
June 28, 2019 at 9:24 amFlareKnight
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I’m definitely hyped for Summer. This is probably the most exciting season for me in 2019 thus far. Winter and Spring weren’t terrible, but they didn’t quite have enough great shows. Summer may not have extreme variety, but what it does have looks good.
Sign me up for another season of Symphogear. I don’t know what the future of the franchise is past this point. Will they end it, continue to another season, or keep going but follow a different team of Symphogear users to change things up? No idea. But I’m ready for Episode 1 to be absolutely insane as is standard for this franchise.
There’s just a lot of stuff I want to see. Enen no Shouboutai’s previews made me want to sit down and rewatch some Soul Eater. I did enjoy what I read of the Arifureta novels. Tend to agree that it would have been better to hold onto what made that first arc work, but I still really enjoy the cast and story. And of course I’m up to see another Fate series, more Takagi-san, and fingers are crossed that Accelerator works out. After Index III’s debacle I need my hopes restored.
June 28, 2019 at 9:32 amPlayer
Looking forward to 11 different shows. As an isekai fan, I have been quite hyped for July.
The Arifureta description seems to downplay its popularity as always but oh well. I suppose it’s fine to lower people’s expectations because the anime might screw up the source material anyway. It’s just unfortunate that they left Yue looking so unattractive, with permanent sleepy eyes…
June 28, 2019 at 9:41 amNaru
Wow, this season is going to be AMAZING!
June 28, 2019 at 11:33 amJayDrink
As always, THANK YOU FOR THE PREVIEW!
Honestly, spring has been such a great season and summer’s looking amazing as well. 2019 continuing strong!
June 28, 2019 at 12:03 pmGoukaRyuu
As always thank you all for your hard work.
June 28, 2019 at 12:25 pmshirocat
Protagonist in Maou-sama, retry! looks better in real life than in isekai, which is rare xD So Mo Dao Zu Shi 2 will be released in Japan as well, since it was included in the list? I hoped for dubbing for so long, because I can’t watch it with original one (yes, I tried). Thank you as always for your hard work, I always participate for list from RC and I always use it often through the each season.
I plan to watch around 15 series, so this season looks really promising, however I was thinking the same about previous and was left disappointed… :P
This season looks pretty juicy, Even the “Average” things are above the average of other seasons. Since when we had a season like this? 2006-2007 maybe. Definetly the jewel of this season is Vinland Saga, the manga is almost 15 years old, and I thought it would never get an adaptation. Let’s see what other hidden gem we find this summer.
June 28, 2019 at 1:34 pmThe suffocated
Agree. Vinland Saga is great. Highly recommended to everyone who likes historical drama. Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Historie is another manga in the same genre that I wish can be adapted, but that one is serialised too slowly.
June 28, 2019 at 1:40 pmiskendaris
i am SO looking forward to MDZS (grandmaster demonic cultivation) and QZGS (kings avatar). Most Chinese donghuas are awful, but these two are actually good
the other one is El-Melloi’s case files — I liked him in Fate/Zero with Iskendar, and the whole magic school that plots your death + sherlockian mystery is high stakes academia which I love
June 28, 2019 at 3:48 pmPokeNirvash
Actually, BEM is airing on TV Tokyo, not Fuji TV. I suggest changing it, even though everyone here that’s watching it are gonna be streaming the show anyways.
I’m definitely planning on watching Dumbbell, but if I have the free time and motivation, I may check out the first episodes of Dr. Stone, Vinland Saga, and/or the mommy isekai.
June 29, 2019 at 3:05 amPasserby
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Fixed!
June 28, 2019 at 4:01 pmewok40k
2 things are on my must watch list:
rest is up to decide
but that Isekai flood gets tiring…
gimme GATE or Log Horizon another season dammit! or Overlord!!!
Now a confession: My mother is playing MMO – a simple one, but she does dragonslaying to destress… she was always a bookworm and she teached me the ropes of the SF and Fantasy by giving me Tolkien, Herbert and Asimov to read… truly amazing woman.
She hates the anime, though, she can’t stand the high-pitched voices of the VA.
For all you MILF amateurs though, she’s over 60 now so forget any fantasizing…
June 28, 2019 at 4:02 pmGlancoplox
Reading this previews would be a bit easier if the images were aligned with the info box. Would you mind adding this to your css?
#season_preview > tbody > tr > td:first-child { vertical-align: top; }
Is that so? We align images to the centre of each preview as a style choice. If other readers have an opinion on whether realigning the images would be preferable for them we would love to hear it.
June 29, 2019 at 8:04 amGlancoplox
When moving down a page, the human eye is always attracted by images first, then large headings. Since the show titles are quite small, images are the main attractors. If they are below the title, the gaze will focus on them, and then will need to go back up to find the title, instead of following the more natural (at least in the west) left-to-right movement.
But yes, would be interesting to know how other readers feel about it!
June 30, 2019 at 4:24 amMockman
I don’t care about the image placement per se but I do dislike how each preview begins. For most of them, the last line of the previous preview, which is typically a URL and thus coloured, sticks out. The colour and placement attracts the eye but it’s misleading. At least push the PV url so it doesn’t stick out to the left of the column.
Meanwhile, the actual show title is the same size, weight and placement as the infobox headings and can’t stand out. Even when there isn’t a link above, the ‘Watching this’ is there and it is the same as the title.
I would like to see the PV url put inside the infobox and then something added to the top of each preview to catch the eye better. Maybe make the infobox jut into the margin or something. Moving the photo might also work. Maybe also reduce the infobox headings (especially the ‘(GMT+9)’ which actually belongs after the start time). Or put some white space above each preview. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a dramatic change but ideally something that makes it easier to scan/scroll through the page and pick up where each entry begins. Thanks, for both the previews and for considering improvements.
NB, not complaining but since the subject came up….
July 1, 2019 at 11:36 amGlancoplox
In case it helps, the small changes in my custom style: https://imgur.com/5pblhNN
June 30, 2019 at 3:30 amlebleu
100% agree – alignment with infobox is much neater and nicer to look at. the way it is atm looks somewhat not right to me due to the lack of alignment.
June 28, 2019 at 8:03 pmArche
Definitely watching
Sounan Desuka?
Re:Stage Dream Days
Joshikousai no Mudazukai
Arabu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo
Tejina Senpai
Uchi no Musume no it’s still faster to say I don’t want to type the whole thing
Machikado Mazoku
Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo
Give it an episode
Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru
So many new shows. Silly me for thinking I could read all this before work
June 28, 2019 at 8:50 pmOne Pinch Man
With job slowly taking over my time, perhaps I won’t watch much. I’m gonna give a try to:
- Vinland Saga: I heard this will be popular so I might check this out.
- Enen no Shoubotai: Just your average shonen anime. I just happen to like the setting.
- Isekai Mom: Honestly I’m getting tired of isekai but I’ve read the first volume of the novel and I thought it’s quite funny, like Konosuba. We need more MILF anime.
- Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru: I love the manga and lately I enjoy more cute girls show than action anime.
June 28, 2019 at 9:57 pmKisaChan
As much as I’m hyped for Dr.Stone, Vinland Saga, and Fire Force…. I have to say Given is the show I’m most excited for, finally a decent Shonen-ai show and I can’t wait, the visuals look amazing and the cast are good choices. While others would name these series above there anime
of the season, personally for me is if they pull it off Given could actually be my anime of the season, so I’m hyped and ready ^^
June 28, 2019 at 11:37 pmChisel
Oh man this season is lit. With quite a few shows I’ve been waiting for and new ones I’m now excited to check out. 12 shows I’ll be giving a go. Let’s see which ones I stick with till the ending.
Booyah! Finally:
- DanMachi S2
- The King’s Avatar S2
Super Hyped for:
- Astra Lost in Space
- Dr. Stone
- Fire Force
- Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note
- Vinland Saga
Will be checking out:
- Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?
- If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord
- Maou-sama, Retry
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
June 29, 2019 at 1:23 amIncognito
“Ah s**t, here we go again.”
Also, how many of these isekai shows are under Kadokawa? Anyway…
Will definitely watch:
- Vinland Saga – If the isekai bubble finally bursts, I honestly wouldn’t mind more historical epics like this one taking over. (Looking at you, Ad Astra: Scipio to Hannibal.)
Will try out (three-episode rule):
- Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou – As if you need more proof that the isekai train is still far from losing steam… That being said, the synopsis feels like the beginning of Shield Hero where the MC seeks to redeem himself after being betrayed. The character designs look nice, though.
- Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Nikai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desuka? – Will Ai Kayano’s Mamako fill the void left by Shield Hero‘s Queen Mirelia? Might as well take the plunge on this one.
- Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka? – Obligatory ecchi rom-com fix.
Obligatory sequel/spin-off watch:
- Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2
- To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator – Looking forward to seeing more of Academy City–never mind the confusing, rushed AF mess that was Index season 3… Oh, and hearing more of Nobuhiko Okamoto’s maniacal laughter.
Movies, shorts, OVAs and carryovers:
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo – Just counting down to the grand finale of this part.
- Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO – The mystery unravels with each new time leap but the questions also pile up.
- Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation, Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow, and Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II.lost butterfly – Thank you ODEX for bringing these movies to my neck of the woods. (Aniplus Asia ought to step up their game next year.)
- Youjo Senki Movie – Managed to finish the main TV series after the season 1 finale of Isekai Quartet–and despite the admittedly sociopathic protagonist, Youjo Senki was still pretty good. (Also, Visha best girl.) Might take a look at the movie now.
Backlog pile additions from Spring 2019:
- Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai – After skipping it the past season (and despite the superior Quintessential Quintuplets), I decided to take a look at this thanks to one “best teacher” from the show: Mafuyu Kirisu.
- Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai – Should have considered this as the “second coming” of B Gata H Kei.
- Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu – It’s no Komi-san, but as far as slice-of-life series with a socially anxious protagonist goes, it will have to do for now.
- Miru Tights – Four words: Guilty. Pleasure. Fetish. Anime.
(Inb4 an unexpected mid-season pickup.)
June 29, 2019 at 1:56 amTeutates
“Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou ”
oh this is such a trap.
The first act is really great but after they get out… it really is awful and bland.
I’m going to check it out, but i will probably drop it after the first act if they keep it really close to the original material.
June 29, 2019 at 4:00 amWanderer
SYMPHOGEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not a fan personally but I find it odd how they keep producing Trinity Seven movies instead of a second season. It makes a lot more sense to produce 12-13 episodes to push the manga sales than a one off event movie each year.
June 29, 2019 at 8:04 amsealouse
Hey on these season previews do you think you could add the internet streaming options to the shows?
June 29, 2019 at 11:44 amLyfe
What would be the point in that? For those who watch the subtitled episodes only a few legal places carry the episodes. Such as Funimation & Crunchyroll. Just bookmark these places and visit when you know an episode is out.
Oh and Netflix & Amazon of course.
June 29, 2019 at 9:22 amURGH
How retarded do you have to be to like that dungeon garbage? Wet toilet paper has more character than the mainliner there, and he didn`t even pick up shit, lol.
But it`s all good, if anything, even more isekai trash is required. Scorched land, motherfuckers. Animoo was a mistake indeed.
June 29, 2019 at 11:54 amLitho
Practically nothing. Maou-sama, Retry’s art looks like shit compared to the manga adaptation. Was mildly interested in Granbelm, but Passerby seems to rate it which is a bad sign (he rates BlahBlahGatari which I consider garbage). Vinland Saga, I lost interest after the manga turned to Farmville Saga. The Kanata no Astra trailer seemed interesting until the cheesy J-Pop ruined the atmosphere. Overall, meh. Get back to me if a decent studio decides to animate Ride-On King.
June 29, 2019 at 3:06 pmTakaii
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June 29, 2019 at 4:05 pmMcLXIX
I personally think also announcing movie releases in your seasonal previews with will be a great addition.
For instance, the Hibike! Euphonium Movie 3: Chikai no Finale will be releasing in select North American theaters this coming July 16 and 18 in dub and sub versions. If I recall correctly, a big portion of RC writers love this show so your thoughts and expectations to the up coming film will be great to share with your readers.
Vinland Saga is being written by the same author of Planetes. I will be expecting greatness.
June 30, 2019 at 8:52 amZaiden
Wait, what?!? I never even realised. And I’ve been a massive fan of both for many years XD
Might ninja edit into the preview when I get to my laptop.
June 30, 2019 at 2:19 pmZephyr
I’ll think about it for the next preview, but it’s tricky because you’d then have to consider that NA has their own release schedule and Japan’s also premiering movies as well, so there’d be a lot of additional information on the chart that may not pertain to what’s actually going to be available/watchable for most people, which is why we’ve traditionally omitted non BD/DVD releases. Also for now, the information we’d gather would likely be very inaccurate as many movies are being announced or brought over now with little fanfare or with very short notice to their actual air date.
It’s kinda like the whole Netflix thing where we weren’t sure how to put them in and initially just had them in the OVA/Movies list as ONA’s, but now we try to do previews where we can, so we’ll see. Perhaps as they bring more movies overseas and not just premiere them at Anime Expo or a few major cities, we could possibly add another section just for those.
@Zephyr
Actually, my bad.
Now that I have deep thought about it. Adding movie releases in your previews will be a pain and I don’t really expect you guys to go through all that trouble when there is Reddit available for the latest updates.
I live in Canada so the release of the Hibike movie has different release dates compared to the states all be it both have their show times in July. Have no idea if this movie is being release else where.
Of course this won’t be an issue if RC writers live in Japan but that is not the case. RC writers I know for a fact are all over the place. Some live in the UK, Australia, Singapore and so forth.
June 29, 2019 at 4:41 pmLonghaul
Uchi no Musume no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai
This series suffers from a lot of misinformation floating around, which is hinted at by its website being titled Uchi no Ko instead of Uchi no Musume. As an example Show Spoiler ▼
Dale and Latina never have a father/daughter relationship, they are at most 10 years apart in age and Latina is initially raised by the couple at the tavern.
I mean, you say that. But Dale shows up for parent’s day, and conducts most of the parental duties. The inn folks only really look after Latina when Dale heads off to do his job. Sounds exactly how a single parent with support from friends/family would raise a child. Also, I’m not convinced Dale is within a 10 year gap. If I had to guess, he’s in his twenties because of his special history with that particular institution and his position within that particular institution. And Latina’s seems like she’s elementary school age at the start of the series, so I’d wager a twenty year age gap.
I’m gonna guess you are going on second hand information because their ages are actually stated in the series.
July 4, 2019 at 12:44 pmKarmafan
1st episode is out and its quite good. Worth giving it a shot.
June 30, 2019 at 1:19 pmDamrod
Some interesting shows to watch out for i guess this season, although i am suprised Stilts was not on the watch list for Tejina Senpai with that premise and image :P
Also, did i spot a one-punch man reference in that dumbbell description?! Only thing missing was a banana to make it fit just perfectly >.>
June 30, 2019 at 4:50 pmsteve
Websites prove their identity via certificates, which are valid for a set time period. The certificate for randomc.net appears to be expired.
We’re working on it right now.
July 1, 2019 at 4:17 amPatrick Poe Cadano
So excited for Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 !!.
So so ready to hear that “hmmm” from Takagi again :)
July 2, 2019 at 9:02 amYanDaMan
Now this is a stacked season, so many good shows airing at once.
Maou Sama Retry, Accelerator, Arifureta, Kawaikereba, and lol 3D Saint seiya that’ll be terrible but i’ll watch anyway.
July 2, 2019 at 10:45 amsygnl_
Nothing much for me this season. Only watching Takagi-san. Will try out BEM. Will also use this time to watch some of my backlogs and other shows relevant to the Fall season
I’m more excited for the Fall season, where so far, I will be watching 9 shows (8 of them are sequels)
July 2, 2019 at 2:27 pmMockman
Is it really Kayano Ai in Tejina-senpai? I’m not seeing her name anywhere else.
July 5, 2019 at 2:42 amKuzame
Mods update the “Spring 2019 Preview” and “Winter 2019 Preview” icon please! Almost missed this new summer section :x
July 5, 2019 at 6:35 amJust a comment
I’m kinda disappointed on you for missing fact that original COP CRAFT novel was written by Shouji Gatou, Full Metal Panic author.
July 6, 2019 at 7:31 amRenaSayers
Just watched the first episode to Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. and I am pretty impressed with the story. This beginning event had easily captivated my heart. I am looking forward to future reviews on this show, hoping there will be one.
https://randomc.net/image/Miscellaneous/Summer%202019%20Preview/araoto.jpg
July 7, 2019 at 8:35 amWorldwidedepp
@Dr. Stone
Passed for me
01/03 done
Feeling good. The voice for both males are need to get used (of course, because the manga use your own imagination) but it seems on the right path. Lets see
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A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life
Publisher: Boston : G.K. Hall, 1993
Characteristics: 565 p. (large print) ; 25 cm
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Before Downton Abbey, there was Howard's End, a delightful romp of the classes.
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Masterful descriptive narrative with intense emotional drama makes this one of the best novels concerning turn-of-the-century England. It's a fascinating historical period, with rapid changes in social mores and unsettling technological advances. Don't miss the film either. Only connect!
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The new Sony Xperia C4 is a selfie-focused smartphone that houses a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with 25mm wide-angle lens and a soft LED flash. It also houses a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash. The phone features a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD IPS display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 and scratch resistant glass for protection.
The Xperia C4 is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752 processor with 700 MHz Mali 760 MP2 GPU and runs Android 5.0 (Lollipop) OS out of the box. It is packed with 2GB of RAM and also 16GB of internal storage supports an microSD expansion slot to upgrade the storage up to 128GB. It is backed by a 2600 mAh battery with STAMINA mode.
In term sof connectivity options, the Sony Xperia C4 include 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio with RDS, 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and NFC. It measures 150.3 x 77.4 x 7.9 mm and weight 147 grams.
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Da Vinci Fest blends artistic passions in community
The Da Vinci Fest features drawings. Both the picture on the left, by junior Jordan Schmidt, and the picture on the right, by junior Lily Cichon, were submitted in the 2018 Da Vinci Fest. Both done in charcoal, Schmidt's piece is a portrait of sophomore Abbie Garness, and Cichon's piece portrays her parents.
Photo submitted by Jordan Schmidt
Elsa Persson, Online Editor
One of the community’s most special showcases of talent is coming around once again. This festival displays incredible art and science projects made by students in the Stillwater district, for which participants strive to win the competition.
The Da Vinci Fest is an annual tradition in the Stillwater school district. The Partnership Plan, the educational fund serving the Stillwater school district, runs the festival. With this year’s date on Jan. 5, students from fourth to twelfth grade congregated at Stillwater Area High School to showcase their submitted art and science works. There are three main sections: Art, Science, and a completely new section, Upcycling.
The Da Vinci Fest is a laid back, yet still competitive arts and science festival. Participants have described it as a welcoming environment. Though students are drawn to the festival for reasons such as its impact on a high school transcript, it is well known for its wide variety of talents showcased.
“After you see how everything works, and see what they do with how they present the art and how they present the projects, it feels very approachable,” junior Bella Anderson said.
One of the Da Vinci Fest sections is the art section. As one of the more popular sections of the contest, students submit works in a wide variety of mediums, including charcoal, prints, sculpture and much more. Performing arts, like ballet and improv, are showcased additionally.
At the Da Vinci Fest, “a lot of peoples’ interests come into one. People showcase what they’re most interested in… it’s not really something you see a lot,” senior Mia Pariseau said.
Another section of the Da Vinci Fest is the science section. Participants create their own science experiments and present their findings at the festival. Science projects fall into categories such as astronomy, social sciences, engineering and so much more.
As a submission in the science fair, “I tested the chemical ethanol on fruit to see how it ripens more quickly,” junior Ryan Ciminski said.
A lot of peoples’ interests come into one. People showcase what they’re most interested in… it’s not really something you see a lot.”
— Mia Pariseau
The Upcycling Fair is a brand new addition to the Da Vinci Fest. Upcycling is defined as taking used objects, waste or found materials and making a new product with it. The submissions in this section will be divided into two categories: artistic upcycling projects and usable upcycling projects.
Since it is such a new part of the Da Vinci Fest, even students with Partnership Plan board members as family members know little about the project, Anderson said.
Works in the Art Fair, Science Fair, and Upcycling Fair are all critiqued by a set of three judges. These judges observe the projects individually while the artist or scientist explains the work and answers their questions.
“You just talk about your art and just describe why you decided to pick this specific thing, what it really means to you, and stuff like that,” junior Jordan Schmidt said.
Those who win the competition all show a similar standard of passion through their work. Technical skill is highly important in terms of succeeding, but personal connection and feeling towards the work are even more significant.
“I think the thing they look for is a personal connection to the piece, and that you can speak a lot to what it means to you and why you made it… a lot of people who have won have shown a lot of hard work, that they’ve put a lot of effort into a piece, and that they had some sort of attachment to the subject matter,” Anderson said.
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Some exhibitions shown at the Da Vinci Fest are merely showcases and are not judged for competition. This includes a wide range of performances, such as improv by the Jockeys of Comedy, ballet by Belle Ballet, and science demonstrations by the 3M Wizards. Classes, such as Astronomy with Ben Straka, will also work together on projects for the Da Vinci Fest. The Astronomy class is currently planning on presenting StarLab, a constellation storytelling exhibit inside an inflated dome inside the school building.
Working with classmates rather than alone on the StarLab project is interesting because, “people tell stories in different ways, so you get different perspectives,” Pariseau said.
The Da Vinci Fest plays a huge role in community engagement. Residents of Stillwater value that students are able to come together and show the talent and intelligence within the community.
It is crucial to involve people in the community with arts and STEM, Ciminski said.
The Da Vinci Fest is something Stillwater is proud to call their own. The unique arts festival shows the excellence of the youth in the community and reinforces the wide variety of talents and passions that are practiced. In the festival, “a lot of people’s interests come into one. People showcase what they’re most interested in… which is not really something you see a lot,” Pariseau said.
Tags: Arts, Bella Anderson, Belle Ballet, Ben Straka, Da Vinci Fest, Mia Pariseau, Partnership Plan, Ryan Ciminski, STEM, Upcycling Fair
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Home / Ming & Ping / “The Light of Day / The Darkness of Night” Vinyl
“The Light of Day / The Darkness of Night” Vinyl
Ming & Ping’s first vinyl album, “The Light of Day / The Darkness of Night” combines the trademark synth-pop sound of previous records with an approach previously unseen by fans of the spicy duo as they combine two contrasting EP’s into one full-length record. Take a trip through the contrasting “sides” of the album: the melancholia of “The Darkness of Night” and its uplifting conclusion “The Light of Day”, or play the songs in the opposite order.
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Both sides of the record are united by the gritty analog synth-driven style and layered vocal hooks that that made “Causeway Army” one of our best albums. The dark side of the album explores our favorite themes, including the feeling of being lost in a big city, as heard in the tracks “City of Angels” and “Chinatown,” which features Mariqueen Maandig Reznor (How to Destroy Angels). Meanwhile, the light side showcases the bittersweet optimism of previous Ming & Ping hits like “The Bright Sunlight” and “Beautiful Things.” The track, “Here We Go Again,” has an energetic and inescapable hook that’ll get stuck in your head for days. Some other fave tracks “The Most Beautiful” and “The Light” both show an embattled, yet hopeful spirit that illuminates the album.
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7. The Darkness of Night
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10. Dream Within a Dream
11. White Lights (ft. Bao Vo)
12. Someone Else
13. Chinatown (ft. Mariqueen Maandig Reznor)
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14. The Light (Something Like Kites Remix)
15. City of Angels (Members Only Mix by Data Twins)
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18. Someone Else (Demo v1.0)
19. Last Day of December (Here We Go Again Demo v1.0)
20. Juicykits.com Theme Song
21. World of Color (CiwiPlanet Theme Song)
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Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status
RFC - Informational (May 2011; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 1145, RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, RFC 1110, RFC 1693, RFC 1146
Updates RFC 4614
Was draft-eggert-tcpm-historicize (tcpm WG)
TSVDIR Early Review
Wesley Eddy (Wesley.M.Eddy@nasa.gov) is the document shepherd.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Eggert
Request for Comments: 6247 Nokia
Obsoletes: 1072, 1106, 1110, 1145, May 2011
Updates: 4614
Category: Informational
Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106,
RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to
Historic Status
This document reclassifies several TCP extensions that have never
seen widespread use to Historic status. The affected RFCs are RFC
1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and
RFC 1693.
published for informational purposes.
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Eggert Informational [Page 1]
RFC 6247 Undeployed TCP Extensions to Historic May 2011
TCP has a long history, and several proposed TCP extensions have
never seen widespread deployment. Section 5 of the TCP "roadmap"
document [RFC4614] already classifies a number of TCP extensions as
Historic and describes the reasons for doing so, but it does not
instruct the RFC Editor and IANA to change the status of these RFCs
in the RFC database and the relevant IANA registries. The sole
purpose of this document is to do just that. Please refer to Section
5 of [RFC4614] for justification.
2. RFC Editor Considerations
Per this document, the RFC Editor has changed the status of the
following RFCs to Historic [RFC2026]:
o [RFC1072] on "TCP Extensions for Long-Delay Paths"
o [RFC1106] and [RFC1110] related to the "TCP Big Window and Nak
Options"
o [RFC1145] and [RFC1146] related to the "TCP Alternate Checksum
o [RFC1379] and [RFC1644] on "T/TCP -- Extensions for Transactions
Functional Specification"
o [RFC1693] on "An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service"
IANA has marked the TCP options 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
documented in [RFC1072], [RFC1146], [RFC1644], and [RFC1693] as
"obsolete" in the "TCP Option Kind Numbers" registry [TCPOPTREG],
with a reference to this RFC.
As mentioned in [RFC4614], the TCP Extensions for Transactions
(T/TCP) [RFC1379][RFC1644] are reported to have security issues
[DEVIVO].
Lars Eggert is partly funded by [TRILOGY], a research project
supported by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework
6.1. Normative References
[RFC1072] Jacobson, V. and R. Braden, "TCP extensions for long-
delay paths", RFC 1072, October 1988.
[RFC1106] Fox, R., "TCP big window and NAK options", RFC 1106,
[RFC1110] McKenzie, A., "Problem with the TCP big window option",
RFC 1110, August 1989.
[RFC1145] Zweig, J. and C. Partridge, "TCP alternate checksum
options", RFC 1145, February 1990.
options", RFC 1146, March 1990.
[RFC1379] Braden, B., "Extending TCP for Transactions --
Concepts", RFC 1379, November 1992.
[RFC1644] Braden, B., "T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions
Functional Specification", RFC 1644, July 1994.
[RFC1693] Connolly, T., Amer, P., and P. Conrad, "An Extension to
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Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Is Open
Filed Under:El Niño, Homeless, Pier 80, Shelter
A homeless man pushes a shopping cart along a rainy street in San Francisco. (CBS)
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — It might not be very homey, but San Francisco officials are hoping as many as 150 people will call Pier 80 home this winter.
City workers put the finishing touches this week on a new shelter inside the pier’s shed, consisting of a 9,900-square-foot tent with mattresses and pillows spread across a tarp on the ground, separate showers and restrooms, as well as office space for social and health workers inside portable buildings.
The shelter, now open, is intended to be the city’s response to El Nino and the heavier winter storms that have been predicted. Depending on the weather, it will operate through March or April.
Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city’s Human Services Agency, said during a tour of the shelter Wednesday that the city so far this winter has been temporarily increasing the number of beds available at existing shelters and other locations on nights when storms are expected.
The feedback from homeless outreach workers, however, suggests that approach isn’t working well for everyone.
Many homeless people have large amounts of belongings that shelters won’t let them bring in, Rhorer said. They have pets, which many shelters don’t allow, or they are part of a couple and most shelters are single-sex. Moving inside can mean losing the spot they have staked out.
“For one or two nights, it really isn’t worth it to get their stuff together and move inside,” Rhorer said.
Based on a model pioneered at the city’s Navigation Center in the Mission District, the new shelter at Pier 80 will provide storage for belongings. Pets will be allowed and couples can stay together. Residents can stay all day, with access to restroom facilities and social services that city officials hope will help get them off the street permanently.
While the pier area in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood feels remote, it is close to a T-Third light-rail line stop, and shelter workers will provide both Muni tokens and transportation for clients who need help hauling their things or to go into town for things like medical appointments, city officials said.
Setting up the shelter in the pier shed, which previously housed Oracle Team USA during the America’s Cup sailing races, is a significant undertaking costing the city around $500,000, Rhorer said.
The shelter will cost around $150,000 a month to operate, Rhorer said.
Homeless advocates and protesters in recent weeks have alleged that the city is working to push the homeless out of sight in time for the Super Bowl celebrations taking place through this weekend. A large protest was held Wednesday outside Super Bowl City near the Ferry Building to call attention to the need for more housing and help for the homeless.
City officials, however, have denied that they are increasing enforcement on homeless encampments because of the Super Bowl. Rhorer said Wednesday that the timing of the new shelter’s opening had nothing to do with the Super Bowl and everything to do with the weather.
“We’re opening the shelter to take care of people and get them inside, this has nothing to do with the Super Bowl,” Rhorer said.
Sam Dodge, head of the mayor’s office of Housing, Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement, said he appreciated the protesters’ “passion and energy” and the attention that has been drawn to the issue of homelessness.
Dodge said the city hopes the new shelter will help get more of the 3,500 people currently estimated to be living on the street to engage with city services.
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Alumnus Vaughn Spann among artnet's "6 Emerging Artists to Seek Out During Art Basel Miami Beach"
Vaughn Spann has had a big year. Graduating from Yale in May, the 27-year-old Florida-born painter has already been included in a number of notable group shows, including exhibitions at Almine Rech Gallery in London, the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh, and Night Gallery in LA. He just began working with Half Gallery, and opened his first ever solo show there, “Orange, Yellow, Purple, Blue Skies,” last week. It sold out within the first night.
Now, the artist is off to Miami. Spann’s work, which alternates between lush portraiture and mixed-material abstractions, will be included in Half’s NADA booth, curated by artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; a group show at David Castillo Gallery titled “The Strangeness Will Wear Off”; and a Rubell Family Collection exhibition of newly acquired work (alongside Jonathan Lyndon Chase—another artist on our list). In January, he’ll inaugurate Titus Kaphar’s NXTHVN residency in New Haven.
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#Industry: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland releases its review of 2017
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has released its 2017 infographic, which charts much of its activity over the past year.
Mirroring the format of the BAI Strategy Statement 2017-2019, the infographic captures the work of the Authority over the past year under its five strategic themes: Promoting Diversity and Plurality; Communicating and Influencing; Empowering Audiences; Enhancing Innovation and Sectoral Sustainability; and Achieving Excellence and Accountability.
In 2017, the BAI:
Offered €11.27m in funding for 239 radio and TV projects under the Sound and Vision Scheme.
Licenced 25 temporary radio contracts.
Issued more than 350 social media posts supporting and promoting the Irish broadcasting sector.
Hosted events to support the launch of the BAI Strategy Statement 2017-2019, the new General Commercial Communications Code, and the BAI-funded section of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
Supported screenings of a number of high profile Sound and Vision funded programmes and films, including The Breadwinner; Between Land and Sea; Meetings with Ivor; Poc na nGael and Cardboard Gangsters.
Received 109 valid complaints relating to programming and advertisements broadcast on Irish radio and television.
Allocated €495,000 to training and development initiatives and provided nearly €143,000 in sponsorship to events and activities.
Received 29 Freedom of Information requests.
The BAI’s role is not just to regulate the broadcast sector in Ireland, but also to ensure that it reflects and shapes a modern Ireland. Our work in 2017 included allocating more than €11m from the television licence fee to quality radio and TV programmes on Irish culture, heritage and experience, improving media literacy and programming in the Irish language; allocating nearly €500,000 for training and development initiatives such as Women on Air, Learning Waves, and the Community Television Association; and sponsoring events such as the All-Ireland Radio Awards, the Choice Music Prize and the National Student Media Awards.
We have a number of key activities planned for 2018, including the launch of referenda guidelines and public consultation on the Broadcasting Services Strategy and BAI ownership and control policy, and we look forward to engaging with sectoral interests and audiences alike over the coming year.
Michael O’Keeffe, Chief Executive – BAI
A copy of the infographic can be found here.
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American theaters are going to be exposed to a blast of hyper-stylized oddity on August 29th. That would be when Strand Releasing will begin the theatrical run of Amer duo Bruno Frozani and Helene Cattet's sophomore film The Strange Color...
AMER Duo Eye Cult Novel LAISSEZ BRONZER LES CADAVRES As Their Next
Though there is no green light in place yet and things can always change at these early stages, it appears that Amer and The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears directing duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet may have found...
TIFF 2013 Review: THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS Will Break Your Brain
Already well loved on the festival circuit for a string of stellar, giallo infused short films, Belgium based directing duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet burst on to the international scene is spectacular fashion with their 2009 debut feature Amer....
Watch The First Teaser From AMER Duo's THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS
The directing duo of Brune Forzani and Helene Cattet spawned a large and loyal cult following around the globe with the release of their debut feature, Amer. A picture steeped in the traditions of classic giallo, Amer left fans hungry...
Exclusive New Images From AMER Directors' THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS
The directing duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzaniinspired quite a loyal cult for themselves with the release of their 2009 debut feature Amer, a cult they teased recently with their brilliant O Is For Orgasm segment in The ABCs...
2011-10-06T19:26:11Z by J Hurtado
AMER Blu-ray Review
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's debut feature, Amer, is a staggeringly stylish and vividly disorienting work of art that will leave you gasping by the final frame. Amer is an overt tribute to the giallo films of the '70s...
Olive Films Finally Brings AMER To US Blu-ray/DVD October 4th
It has been a busy day if you are me. Tons of awesome Blu-ray and DVD news, including this latest piece fresh off the Twitter from Olive Films. Neo-Giallo Amer lands on US Blu-ray and DVD this October 4th, along...
2011-01-06T07:10:18Z by James Dennis
Catch AMER + TENEBRAE Double Bill in London!
Amer hits UK cinemas this Friday, and to support the theatrical run the ICA in London is hosting a double bill of said giallo pastiche, followed by Dario Argento's 80s classic Tenebrae, on Sunday 9th Jan. What's more, directors Helene...
Neo-Giallo AMER Hitting BluRay In The UK
Our love for Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet's Amer is well documented in these pages, the duo's love letter to classic giallo film being - in my opinion - the great discovery of Sitges 2009.And I would hazard to say...
2010-11-28T03:34:36Z by Kwenton Bellette
AMER review
I saw Amer as part of Melbourne's Hello Darkness film festival, I have written two other entries, this is my belated third.Amer is a visual tour de force that gives new meaning to the term eye candy. Its imagery is...
2010-11-22T09:14:20Z by Matthew Lee
Grimm Up North 2010: AMER review
Amer definitely wears its heart on its sleeve. Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are in love with the giallo, the pulpy Italian thrillers which had their heyday in the 70s and 80s and subsequently influenced a generation of...
SXSW 2010: AMER Review
[With Amer screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post my review from the film's premiere in Sitges.]When dipping in to a long abandoned style, adopting a language and syntax of film distinct to a particular era, a film...
2010-02-14T18:36:50Z by Peter Cornelissen
IFFR 2010: AMER Review
'Amer' marks the feature film debut of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani who already made a name for themselves with award winning short films in which they experimented with still photography, color filters and what can only be called the...
SXSW 2010: Final Trailer For Belgian Neo-Giallo AMER
In a word: Brilliant. That describes both Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's neo-giallo Amer and the brand new, final theatrical trailer, which you can see exclusively right here, right now for a limited time before it spreads out into the...
Fresh Clip From Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet's AMER!
You know the drill on this one by now. We are greatly smitten by Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet's neo-giallo feature Amer around these parts. And while it's still on the festival circuit in the rest of the world -...
Fresh Clip From Belgian Giallo AMER!
You should know the drill on this one by now. Amer is the neo-giallo film from young directorial duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet that took the Sitges festival by storm with its spot-on manipulation of the mood and tone...
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Ward Plummer
Boyd Professor of Physics
Ph.D., 1968 - Cornell University
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Experimental Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Investigations of the phenomena associated with the unique environment at a surface or interface driven by broken symmetry and reduced dimensionality. Specifically of primary interest is the coupling of the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties (static and dynamic) at a surface.
This general theme is being applied by us to study correlated electron materials (CEMs) with functionalities like high-Tc superconductivity, "colossal" magnetoresistance, and coupled metal to insulator and magnetic transitions. Our approach is to investigate and hopefully learn how to tune the functionality in these materials by using the manifestations of broken symmetry, reduced dimensionality and spatial confinement, using a variety of experimental techniques couple closely with theory.
Mentored over 100 students and postdoctoral fellows; Published >400 papers; director of PENN laboratory for research in the structure of matter; director of Tennessee Advanced Material Laboratory; elected to the National Academy of Sciences; fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; International Science and Technology Coopeation Award (China); Davission-Germer Prize; Welch Award, and; recipient Guggenheim and Humboldt Fellowships.
Xun Jia, Shuyuan Zhang, Raman Sankar, Fang-Cheng Chou, Weihua Wang, K. Kempa, E. W. Plummer, Jiandi Zhang, Xuetao Zhu, Jiandong Guo, “An Anomalous Acoustic Plasmon from Topologically Protected States,” Phys. Rev. Letter, 119, 136805 (2017).
Silu Huang, Jisun Kim, W. A. Shelton, E. W. Plummer, Rongying Jin, “Non-Trivial Berry Phase in Magnetic BaMnSb2 Semimetal,” Proc. Nat. Academy of Sciences, 40, 6256 (2017).
Jian Shao, Hao Liu, Kai Zhang, Yang Yu, Weichao Yu, Hanxuan Lana, Jiebin Niu, Kai Du, Yunfang Kour, Wengang Wei, Fanli Lan, Yinyan Zhu, Wenbin Wang, Jiang Xiao, Lifeng Yin, E. W. Plummer, “Emerging single phase state in small manganite nanodisks,” Jian Shen, accepted PNAS (2016)
Xuetao Zhu, Yanwei Cao, Jiandi Zhang , E. W. Plummer, and Jiandong Guo, "Classification of Charge Density Waves Base on Their Origin," Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, 112, 2367 (2015).
Quorong Li, Qing, Li, Minghu Pan, Biao Hu, Chen Chen, Jing Teng, Zhenyu Diao, Jiandi Zhang, Rongying Jin, & E. W. Plummer, "Atomic-Scale Fingerprint of Mn Dopant at the Surface of Sr3(Ru1-xMnx)O7," Nature Scientific Reports, 3, 1 (2013).
Jing Teng, Chen Chen, Yiming Xiong, Jiandi Zhang, Rongying Jin, and EW. Plummer, "Anomalous Surface Lattice Dynamics in the Low Temperature Phase of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2," Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, accepted.
Y. Wang, K, Kempa, and E. W. Plummer, "Foundations of Plasmonic," Advances in Physics, 60, 799 (2011).
T. Z. Ward, X. G. Zhang, L. F. Yin, X. Q. Zhang, Ming Liu, P. C. Snijders, S. Jesse, E. W. Plummer, Z. H. Cheng, and J. Shen, "Time-Resolved Electronic Phase Transitions in Manganites," Phys. Rev. Letters, 102, 087201 (2009).
R. G. Moore, Jiandi Zhang, V. B. Nascimento, R. Jin, Jiandong Guo, G. T. Wang, Z. Fang, D. Mandrus, and E. W. Plummer, "A Surface-Tailored Purely Electronic Mott Insulator-to-Metal Transition," Science 318, 615 (2007).
J. M. Carpinelli, H. H. Weitering, E. W. Plummer, and R. Stumpf, "Direct Observation of a Surface Charge Density Wave," Nature 381, 398 (1996).
E. Jensen and E. W. Plummer, “Experimental Band Structure of Na,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1912 (1985).
H. J. Freund, W. Eberhardt, D. Heskett, and E. W. Plummer, “Influence of Multielectron Excitations on the Band Structure of Adsorbate Overlayers,” H. J. Freund, W. Eberhardt, D. Heskett, and E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 768 (1983).
W. Eberhardt and E. W. Plummer, “Angle-Resolved Photoemission Determination of the Band Structure and Multi-Electron Excitations in Ni,” Phys. Rev. B 21, 3245 (1980).
H. J. Levinson, E. W. Plummer, and P. J. Feibelman, “The Effects on Photoemission of the Spatially Varying Photon Field at a Metal Surface,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 952 (1979).
W. Ho, R. F. Willis, and E. W. Plummer, “Observation of Nondipole Electron Impact Vibrational Excitations: H on W(100),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 480,1463 (1978).
E. W. Plummer, T. Gustafsson, D. E. Eastman and W. Gudat, “Partial Photoionization Cross Sections of N2 and CO Using Synchrotron Radiation,” Phys. Rev. A 15, 2339 (1977).
C. Allyn, and T. Gustafsson, “The Orientation of CO Adsorbed on Ni(100),” E. W. PlummerChem. Phys. Lett. 47, 127 (1977).
E. W. Plummer and J. W. Gadzuk, "Surface States on Tungsten," Phys. Rev. Lett. 25, 1493 (1970).
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Carrochia shines in Chopin and Scriabin at Miami Piano Festival
By David Fleshler
Luigi Carrocchia performed Saturday night at the Miami International Piano Festival.
The Miami International Piano Festival takes pride in presenting undiscovered performers on the cusp of their careers.
And so Saturday evening at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach, the festival hosted the United States debut of the Italian pianist Luigi Carroccia, who graduated from the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory of Bolzano in 2013 and is making the rounds of European competitions and concert halls.
From a glance at the composers on the Discovery Series program, this would appear to be a young man’s concert, promising a keyboard-pounding evening of flash and fire. There was Scriabin, Chopin and Rachmaninoff, with Bach appearing only in an arrangement by the Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.
But while Carroccia has ample technique, he chose works from these composers’ more lyric and contemplative sides, giving a recital in which his range of tone colors, gift for long melodies and yes, ability to zip up and down the keyboard and play rapid-fire octaves when called for, came in service of the music.
Carrochia may want to work on his stage manner, though, since he came off as impatient and dour. The pianist bowed quickly after each work and seemed as if he could not get off the stage fast enough.
He opened with a grave and solemn performance of the Bach-Busoni choral prelude “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” (“I call to you, Lord Jesus Christ”). His soft but assured style drew glowing, organ-like tones from the keyboard, with a big crescendo toward the end that rose and fell without a trace of percussiveness.
Alexander Scriabin composed his Sonata No. 3 in his late 20s, before the Russian pianist-composer’s mind and music departed for unchartered territory. Unlike what was to come later, this work’s melodic and harmonic vocabulary sounded similar to what his late-19th century colleagues were composing.
Carroccia gave a rousing performance, without over-personalizing the music, nor engaging in the sort of rushed, emotionally supercharged playing with which some pianists distort this sort of piece. He showed respect for the rhythmic and melodic structures, with his big tone and assured technique drawing forth the music’s Chopinesque romanticism, its bursts of melody and climactic passages in octaves. The bass figures in the Andante came off with a smoky allure, and in the last movement, he drew maximum force and emotion from the sudden rhapsodic melody that rose over rumbling bass passages.
From Chopin, he chose some of the composer’s final works: the Barcarolle Op. 60, Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61 and Nocturne Op. 62. In the Barcarolle, he brought a light, silvery tone to the ornaments running over the rolling accompaniment in the bass. He gave a detailed account of the Polonaise-Fantaisie, taking the time to relish details such as the harp-like arpeggios that open the work and appear later.
Yet the most impressive thing through all these works was his gift for Chopin’s melodies. In these passages, which typically fall within the range of the human voice, he played with a natural rubato, drawing out their tensions and emotional ache in a manner that seemed to bring out the essence of Chopin’s music.
He ended with four Preludes by Rachmaninoff. His performance of the galloping Prelude in G Minor may have been more subtle than many performances, but it came off as underpowered. So too the upper-register melody in the middle, pure Rachmaninoff in its Romantic yearning, sounded hurried, with the pianist not taking the time to draw out its deepest emotion. He ended climactically with an uncharacteristic blur of virtuosity in the Prelude in C Minor, playing the rapid running figure in a smooth and even manner, building it in intensity, with a haunting performance of the melody running through it, to earn a well-deserved ovation.
As encores, he gave a light, elegant performance of the famous Chopin Waltz in E-Flat Major Op.18, and an excessively subdued account of the Chopin Prelude No. 13, Op. 28.
The Miami International Piano Festival concludes 7 p.m. Sunday with a vocal and piano recital in collaboration with the Vocal Studio of Manny Perez, with arias of Verdi, Puccini and other composers, as well as operatic piano transcriptions performed by Vincenzo Maltempo and Misha Dacic. miamipianofest.com
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My grandmother, whom we called Nanny, was a strong, independent, and very conservative woman (except when it came to buying jewelry). Born on February 23, 1924, she was a farmer's daughter--one of eight children--who grew up during the Great Depression. A polio survivor, she battled this crippling disease while expecting her 2nd child and caring for her eldest son, a two-and-a-half-year-old toddler, at the time. My grandfather had to add casters to my uncle's baby highchair so she could push it around the kitchen.
Although most married women of her era remained housewives, she worked as a "nanny", babysitting other families' children while raising her own. Later, when my grandfather underwent open heart surgery and had to take early retirement, she took a full-time job as an LPN in a nursing home.
Whenever I went to visit Nanny, I slept downstairs in the finished basement. The basement consisted of a great room, an adjoining laundry room, a half-bath and a cold cellar. The great room contained a hodge podge of old furniture (a sofa, chairs, a table, a bed, and even a rocking horse) that had been replaced by upgraded models upstairs. These castaways, however, were still serviceable and would never be thrown out. In fact, not much was thrown out in her depression-era household. Nanny saved the twist ties from bread, used old juice cans for composting, and made tea towels from flour sacks.
Downstairs, next to the guest bed, there was a 1950's era refrigerator (that still worked and was used for extra food storage). Next to the fridge there was a large freezer where my grandparent's kept surplus summer vegetables and beef from my uncle's farm.
Although she loved us, Nanny was far too practical and puritanical for a lot of demonstrative affection. As I grew older and started pursuing the many opportunities for young women of my generation (traveling abroad, entertaining on cruise ships, cocktail waitressing in a 4-star hotel), Nanny had difficulty relating to me. She was concerned that I was living a "fast" life andshe couldn't understand why I wasn't following her dream for me, which was to "marry a red-headed minister, sing in the choir, and have red-headed babies". I kid you not. My French Pascal was certainly a far cry from a red-headed minister!
Around this same time, my fascination with all things vintage was born. This was another thing that Nanny just didn't get. At a time when I had just started a collection of vintage brooches and jewelry, I was heartbroken to learn that Nanny had unwittingly sold all of her old costume jewelry in a yard sale at just 25 cents per piece! Someone got very lucky, scoring all "that old junk", as Nanny called it, for a pittance.
When Nanny died, I (like each of the granddaughters) inherited one of her rings. Nanny had a weakness for jewelry and amassed quite the collection of rings, earrings and necklaces that were the "real McCoy". I didn't really care about the ring. The things I cherish the most are two old chairs from the basement that were almost sent to the Goodwill; the rusty vintage tin that sat on her kitchen windowsill collecting all of those twist ties; and a small collection of her floursack-tea towels that we use daily in our own kitchen. I also inherited that vintage refrigerator that used to hum next to me whenever I slept in Nanny's cool basement.
For a while now, Pascal and I have been talking about rebranding our business and updating our bon bon packaging, but we couldn't seem to settle on an idea that felt just right. But inspiration comes from unlikely sources.
As a devotee of interior decorating, I loved those early episodes of Trading Spaces when interior designer Genevieve Gorder would design a room around an eggplant or a bowl of miso soup. I also smile knowingly at that Kohler commercial when the couple visits the architect to present a designer sink faucet explaining: "We want you to design a house around this."
Our own home decor has been inspired by a motley collection of flea market finds and trash-day treasures. But it wasn't until recently that I remembered Nanny's fridge, which has been sitting patiently in storage at my parents' house waiting for me to decide its next life. A bolt of creative inspiration surged through me, when I suddenly realized that Nanny's vintage fridge would be the perfect launching point for our bon bon business makeover.
Nanny wouldn't understand. "Why on earth would you want to do anything with that old thing?", she'd probably ask increduously. But, I still think she'd be secretly proud that we find value in her old castaways, especially since they're still perfectly serviceable.
Thomas Edison said: "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration." Now that we've found the inspiration, it's time for the perspiration. There's no better example than my hardworking Nanny to remind us that hard work does indeed eventually pay off. After a lifetime of daily work and sacrifice, she was able to enjoy life's luxuries in her later years: new clothes, fancy jewelry, and fur coats.
We love the idea of an old-fashioned, hardworking fridge that will hold an abundance of life's little luxuries, South 'n France Bon Bons. We'll be sharing our path from inspiration to makeover completion in the weeks to come, and we hope you'll join us for the journey. For a sneak preview of our plans for Nanny's old fridge, visit Big Chill (photo credit), an appliance company that shares our appreciation for vintage values.
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Category: Photo Galleries
OLYMPIC Pop Up Street Performances (Gallery)
Solid Harmony Collective, the senior and alumni singers from the choir, were honoured to be invited to perform across Newham during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.
Thanks to Newham Council, we will always remember our important role in celebration the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to Sheli for taking such amazing shots on the day!
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Jack Petchey Awards – Oct 2012 (Gallery)
Congratulations to Deja, Mica, Michael, Priscilla and Evelyn who are our Jack Petchey Award winners for October 2012!
We’d like to thank the Jack Petchey Foundation for their continued support of Solid Harmony!
Holocaust Memorial Day – 26th January 2012 (Gallery)
Solid Harmony’s senior performance choir (SPC) were invited to sing for Holocaust Memorial Day at 8 Northumberland Ave, Trafalgar Sq, London.
The choir created and performed an opening fanfare, “Listen To My Voice (Speak Up, Speak Out)” and closed the ceremony with their own arrangement of “Courage” by Orianthi.
End Of Term Concert 6th July 2011 @ NewVIc
All 3 choirs of Solid Harmony performed at the end of term informal sharing on Wednesday. It was great to hear Nashaa and Shammi, Michael and John perform on the same bill. Thanks to those who came down to support, and to Steve Lodder and Ian Newton Grant for helping us sound so good!
Jane, Paul, Geneta and the choirs wish everyone a great summer! See you in September!
WELLCOME TRUST 75 years celebration
Thanks to SERIOUS, Solid Harmony Senior choir had the privilege of being invited to sing on the steps of St. David’d Hall, Cardiff on Saturday as part of this important Wellcome Trust 75th Anniversary. Dame Gwyneth Jones listened to us and gave us valuable advise about how to look after our vocal chords and sing with a ‘beautifully rounded sound’.
Newham Mayors Festival of Choirs 2010 – March 2010
For the second year running, Newham held a festival of choirs this month. This is a series of choir sharing events leading up to a finale of 8 choirs. Solid Harmony enjoyed reviving their own creation, ‘Chicken and Rice’ for one of the sharing events and sang Michael Jackson’s ‘Will You Be There’, conducted by Geneta Crooke for the big finale at Newham Town Hall.
Among the other choirs taking part were Young and Gifted, Gouri Choudhury’s Hindi and Bangladeshi singers, Forest Voices and the Urban Development crew.
Amandla Esandla visit from S.E Cape, South Africa – 9th March 2010
This week the amazing Amandla Esandla were resident in London, as part of their partnership with the Sing Up London Community, led by ARK Schools. The group visited us to perform and lead us in a workshop of traditional and modern Xhosa song and dance. Their energy and musicianship was a total inspiration. We have already coined the phrase, “Amandlasize it!”, if ever our performance lacks energy or commitment!
Thank you Amandla Esandla! We hope we get to work with you again!
Solid Harmony at PGL, Isle of White
“Why can’t we stay the whole week?” says Shaima. Spending a weekend at PGL was such a great opportunity to connect, enjoy out of London activity, get to know each other in a different context, set and meet personal challenges, encourage and support each other, play cards, sing, compose, relax and generally set the tone for working together as a choir for the next year. Thank you PGL for a great time, and especially our groupi Jamie, who looked after us wonderfully! Onwards! See the video here.
PS – respect to Charles’ finger. Such powers of recovery!
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King Alfred School
The Client Brief
The client appointed us as Executive architects to oversee the construction of this design & build project, including obtaining building control approval, fire safety and resolving party wall matters.
The new building was conceived to be inclusive and accessible to all as well as fully compliant with CS4 (Code for sustainable homes).
The main features of the new buildings are:
New Staff room located at ground floor and overlooking the field and Year 2 play area
New Library, learning support department and the ICT department were located a First Floor
New Art/DT departments located at Lower ground.
New platform lift, large rooflights over the main roof and over the basement roof were also installed.
The proposed new building replaces an old building on a very steep sloping site adjoining a neighbouring property and a wooded area of the school ground.
Demolition and construction of the new Lower Ground floor represented a big challenge both in terms of safety, construction details for both foundations & waterproofing and as well as logistic.
New landscaped external play areas as well as external steps and timber deck areas were developed to complement the building.
We developed, together with the appointed building contractor all the construction drawings, detail drawings and specification as well as the interior fit out drawings of all the new elements of this projects.
The site constrain and the lower ground floor provided not only a constructional challenge but also an opportunity to develop a novel way of connecting with the upper floors.
A new staircase conceived with very large sweeping steps double up as an Auditorium space and as a flexible space that can accommodate several functions.
The cedar clad envelop together with areas of white render and green living walls gave the building a natural and reassuring feel and pleasure to live in.
The client priority to complete the project in time for the start of the new academic year was fulfilled and was very pleased with the end product.
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Asian Games 2018: Lakshay Sheoran-Shreyasi Singh Finish Sixth In Mixed Trap Shooting Event
Lakshay-Shreyasi scored 16 points in the finals to be eliminated first with a disappointing performance.
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Lakshay Sheoran (in picture) and Shreyasi Singh finished sixth in mixed trap shooting © AFP
India's mixed trap shooting duo of Lakshay Sheoran and Shreyasi Singh finished sixth and last at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday. Lakshay-Shreyasi scored 16 points in the finals to be eliminated first with a disappointing performance. Lebanon's Alain Moussa and Ray Bassil came up with an Asian record score of 43 to take the gold medal, while Chinese Taipei and China claimed the silver and bronze medals. Earlier during the qualification round, Lakshay and Shreyasi finished fifth with a total score of 142. Chinese Taipei and China scored 146 to finish first and second respectively, with both registering qualifying world record scores.
For India, contributed 72, while Shreyasi scored 70. Lakshay got 23, 24, 25 in three series, while Shreyasi got 23, 25, 22 in her three series.
Lakshay on Monday got a silver medal in the singles trap event. Lakshay shot a total of 39 in final to finish second on podium at the JSC - Shooting Range. The other Indian in the event, Manavjit Singh Sandhu finished fourth in the final. He shot a total of 26 in final. Taipei's Kunpi Yang won the gold medal while equalling the Games record with 48, while Korea's Daemyeong Ahn bagged bronze after scoring 30 at the JSC Shooting Range. Daemyeong went out of the competition after 40 shots, getting 30 points, while till then Lakshay and Kunpi headed into the final 10-pointer round with 34 and 38 respectively.
However, it was likely that Kunpi would go on to win the gold medal having a four-point gap over the Indian. Kunpi, 20, didn't miss any shot as he charged his way to the title with a joint world record score, while Lakshay missed a shot in the 49th spot. The Indian missed the first stroke. But he made a strong comeback to hit 17 strokes in a row. But he fumbled in the 19th, 21st and 22nd shots to blow his chances.
(With inputs from agencies)
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India Hopeful of Big Foreign Investment as it Aims to Connect With East Asia
India is pursuing its ‘Act East’ policy with much zeal and to realise major connectivity plans with its eastern neighbours, the country is looking at major foreign investments to set up infrastructure in its sensitive northeastern states. Sputnik has spoken to Himanta Biswa Sarma, the ruling BJP's most prominent leader in the northeast about this.
Guwahati (Sputnik): India's ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has bestowed a huge responsibility on Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is considered the face of the party in the country's northeast, to draw up a strategy aimed at boosting connectivity with countries in the vicinity that include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, and China. The northeastern region that comprises eight states is also looking at huge foreign investment in infrastructure and connectivity projects.
Sputnik's Rishikesh Kumar spoke to Sarma about India's Act East Policy and the possibility of Chinese investment in this sensitive region.
Sputnik- Guwahati is considered India's gateway to East Asian countries. What are the steps you have taken to boost relations as well as trade and commerce with those countries?
Himanta: When we talk about ‘Act East Policy', it is basically opening up to Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. We are working on a trans-Asian highway and Asian railway network which will basically take us to Myanmar and beyond.
So work on those big projects are on and things are moving as per routine and schedule. With Bangladesh, our road connectivity has improved, river connectivity has improved.
China Likely to Pitch for Investment in Northeast India by Partnering With Japan
Bangladesh has given us the right to use ports in their country; we are grateful to them. Bhutan is our very close neighbour with which we have close diplomatic relations. As emotional bonding is there, the policy is there, now we want physical infrastructure to be improved, so that intent can be translated into action.
In the last two years, dredging in Barak and Brahmaputra River, the building of roads towards Myanmar- all these are going on. I think it will take another three-four years to see the physical infrastructure and the final result in terms of improved trade and commerce. We are working towards that very aggressively and I am hopeful that it will become a reality soon.
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Sputnik: In August this year, three northeastern states had together put up a proposal before China seeking investments to boost connectivity in the region including that between India and Bangladesh. Can we safely infer that India is ready to receive Chinese investment in this strategically sensitive part of India?
Himanta: Because, China is an economic power, Chinese industries can invest in the northeastern part of India but subject to a security clearance and fulfilling the existing norms and policies. So they are welcome, but all Chinese investment has to comply with the guidelines, security clearance, and other norms, which are in existence.
Sputnik: Recently, Japan and China agreed to collaborate in infrastructure development projects in Asian countries. If Japan and China agree to invest in northeast India, would you welcome such investment?
Himanta: Japanese investments are already visible in the northeastern region.
The Japanese have very emotional bonding with India's northeast because during the Second World War many of their military personnel had lost their lives in this part of the region. Several Japanese tourists come here to find their lineage, find the place where their ancestors sacrificed their lives during the war. So we have an emotional connect.
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When it comes to investment, whether it is Chinese investment or Japanese investment, it is always governed by parameters, rules, and security clearances. So you have to find out the basis of such an alliance between Japan and China and whether it meets the standard set up by the government of India. Ultimately, in India, all foreign investments are part of the authority vested with the federal government. As a state, we will be guided by the Ministry of External Affairs.
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Sputnik: In May this year, the Assam Government signed a MoU with the Government of the Sakhalin Region (Russian Federation) on trade-economic, scientific-technical and humanitarian cooperation. Would you shed some light on the present status?
Himanta: Our industry minister was present at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPEIF) and we signed the MoU.
Russia- India relations are beyond government level. It is people to people relations. It is an age old relationship which we always cherish. Our government is working on the MoU and we are looking forward to a closer relationship and we want Russia to get more involved in the economic developments, science technology, and other areas concerning the northeast.
© AP Photo / Anupam Nath
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Sputnik: There was fear among the people in the northeastern states, including Assam that China was waging a water war against them. What is the current status?
Himanta: Yes, it is true that there was fear among the people because China was not sharing the hydrological data from the Brahmaputra River with the government. But this year they are very cooperative; they are giving advance warning and sharing data with us which has benefitted us very much. I think post-Doklam, many apprehensions have subsided.
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Sputnik- There has been a change of regime in Bhutan. As a large part of Assam shares a border with Bhutan and people cross the border frequently, do you have any kind of new concerns?
Himanta: With Bhutan again, as I mentioned about Russia, India's relationship is not impacted by the regime. Relationships are so strong, so robust that whatever regime may come the Indo-Bhutan relationship will remain the same.
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World Cup 2018 Russia
Mexico Triumphs 2-1 in Match Against South Korea, Securing Playoff Spot
© REUTERS / Marko Djurica
Mexico crushed the World Cup 2014 winner Germany, while South Korea lost to Sweden in their first matches in Group F.
Mexico has won 2-1 the match against South Korea in the match in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, securing the spot in the playoff stage of the tournament.
Striker Carlos Vela gave his side the lead in the 26th minute after converting a penalty awarded to Mexico following a hand ball by Jang Hyun-soo. Striker Javier Hernandez doubled the team's lead in the 66th minute and scored his 50th international goal in the process.
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South Korea gained a conciliation in stoppage time courtesy of an excellent left-footed strike from Son Heung-min.
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Last week, Mexico shocked reigning champions Germany 1-0 in the teams' first match of the tournament. At the same time, South Korea lost the game against Sweden 0-1.
Almost 17,000 Mexican fans will visit Rostov-on-Don for the World Cup match between Mexico and South Korea, according to the region's authorities.
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Pilot medicated in fatal Cody crash — (Billings Gazette)
Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
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Billings Gazette
CODY, Wyo. – A pilot killed when his cargo plane crashed in a snowstorm last year had ingested anti-depressant and several over-the-counter drugs, according to federal investigators. The pilot, Donald Rhodes, 37, of Casper, was the only person on board when the plane went down on Cody’s outskirts the morning of Oct. 29, 2003.
The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan was operated for FedEx by Corporate Air, of Billings. It was circling to land at Yellowstone Regional Airport when it flipped in mid-air, crashed on a slushy highway and slid into an icy lake. Heavy, wet snow and rain was falling.
While the probable-cause report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board did not blame the crash on the pilot’s use of drugs, the synopsis went into detail about the substances and their effects.
Chlorpheniramine, desmethylsertraline, sertraline, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine and acetaminophen were evident, the report said. Sertraline, which has the trade name Zoloft, is a prescription anti-depressant medication.
The investigation report quoted the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners: “The use of a psychotropic medication is considered disqualifying. This includes all … anti-depressant drugs.”
Chlorpheniramine is an over-the-counter sedating antihistamine used primarily to treat allergies. Pseudophedrine, or Sudafed, is a decongestant. Acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, is an over-the-counter pain-reliever and fever-reducer.
The NTSB summary said adverse side effects of chlorpheniramine include drowsiness, dizziness and lessened coordination. Side effects of pseudophedrine may include sleepiness, dizziness, restlessness, headache, and perhaps some loss of coordination and alertness or confusion.
The official cause of the accident was “the pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control. Contributing factors include the pilot’s failure to divert to an alternate airport, an inadvertent stall, and the snow and icing conditions.”
The plane departed Casper at 7:30 a.m. Approaching Cody, the pilot told an air traffic controller, “I can barely see Beacon Hill. … Can’t make out any ceiling because snow is too thick.”
At 8:33 a.m., the pilot said that if he missed his approach, he would divert to Billings. It was the last recorded communication from the plane.
The crash occurred at 8:54 a.m.
The same storm sent temperatures plummeting 50 degrees across the state, dropped more than 2 feet of snow, closed several highways and caused hundreds of collisions, including three traffic deaths.
Copyright © 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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