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About the minnesota review: a journal of creative and critical writing
Volume 2017, Issue 88
Introduction|May 01 2017
A Material-Documentary Literacy: Documents, Practices, and the Materialization of Information
Marc Kosciejew
the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 96-111.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-3787426
Marc Kosciejew; A Material-Documentary Literacy: Documents, Practices, and the Materialization of Information. the minnesota review 1 May 2017; 2017 (88): 96–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-3787426
The document is one of the oldest material objects of all recorded civilizations, one upon which we are, in many ways, still dependent today. Documentation — that is, documents and their associated practices, institutions, and histories — plays an important role in helping to materialize information, transforming it from something seemingly intangible into something tangible. Indeed, one of the main effects of documentation is information's materialization. This article contributes to new materialism by introducing a documentary approach to analyzing and understanding information's materiality. The article calls for a more materialist reorientation in the library and information science (LIS) field, specifically, and for considerations of information generally, by drawing attention to the important role played by documentation in the materialization of information. This reorientation also serves as a response to Ann-Sophie Lehmann's call for greater material literacy to help us better learn and understand more about our material surroundings. Lehmann argues that we need to have more awareness of and appreciation for the basic materials of our daily life and world. She explains that to uncover the richness of the material world, including how it affects us and its implications for our lives, we need to know what it is made of; in other words, what actually makes up the objects and things that we need and use? Documentation science complements and supports Lehmann's call for material literacy by drawing attention to documents and our practices with them. It explores how documents relate to the material world and vice versa. One places a specific document, or documents, at the center of observation, study, and analysis and thereby develops documentary dialogues about and for it, uses the document to better illuminate its context, and integrates the document in teaching and researching information.
documentation, document, information, materialism, literacy
© 2017 Virginia Tech
Critical Special Focus: New Materialist Genealogies
Frameworks for Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy and Writing Goals in the Archives
Unpacking the Universal Library: Digital Reading and the Recirculation of Economic Value
Paper Trails
Paradoxes of Visibility: The Proposed Guatemalan Gender Identity Law
Statelessness-in-Question Expert Testimony and the Evidentiary Burden of Statelessness
Architecture as Atmospheric Media Tange Lab and Cybernetics
Reading the Real Žižek’s Literary Materialism
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Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Which is best for me?
We compare Sony’s Xperia X, the HTC 10, Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and the LG G5, four of the biggest and best Android phones of 2016, to see which is best for you. Here’s our full comparison review, where we take a look at performance, battery life, design, features and more.
Sony’s Xperia X is the first X-Series phone to launch, kicking off a funky new strategy from Sony: strip the unnecessary bits from your premium phone to make it a wee bit cheaper than the competition. So gone is Sony’s usual water resistant design, while the Xperia X also cuts back on processing power.
Question is, how does the Xperia X compare to the biggest and best flagship Androids of 2016 so far: the HTC 10, LG G5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S7? Here’s our full comparison review.
Read next: Best Android phones you can buy right now
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: At a glance
Screen size 5.2-inch 5.3-inch 5.1-inch 5-inch
Screen res 2560×1440 2560×1440 2560×1440 1920×1080
Fingerprint sensor? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Waterproof? No No Yes No
Processor Snapdragon 820 Snapdragon 820 Snapdragon 820/Exynos 8890 Snapdragon 650
Memory 4GB 4GB 4GB 3GB
Storage 32/64GB 32GB 32/64GB 32GB
microSD? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rear camera 12MP 16MP + 8MP 12MP 23MP
Front camera 5MP 8MP 5MP 13MP
Price £549 £510 £450 £450
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Design
Three of these four awesome Androids sport a shiny metallic coat, namely the HTC 10, LG G5 and Xperia X. You can grab them in a selection of colours and they’re all pleasingly rugged, resisting scuffs and scratches with the best of them.
The G5 is the chunkiest mobile here and quite difficult to use one-handed, but LG has at least addressed this by adding in some helpful features, such as the notifications shortcut in the bottom toolbar. Meanwhile the other phones here sport more compact frames and pleasingly curvy edges, for a comfortable one-handed experience. Sony’s Xperia X is especially dinky at just 5-inches, although it doesn’t fit the hand quite as wonderfully as the Galaxy S7.
Samsung’s phone is the only one here to rock a glass-and-metal design, and the Galaxy S7 is arguably the best-looking mobile as a result. It’s all a case of taste of course, but those sleek curves and sexy colours really are visually appealing. If you’re after a handset to play with in the bath, the S7 is also your only choice; it’s the only phone here to offer full water resistance.
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Features
The LG G5 is a stand-out phone when it comes to features, offering a very unique modular design. Basically, you can pull off the bottom edge and clip on LG’s selection of modular ‘Friends’, to expand the handset’s functionality. In theory, this should mean that the G5 has the potential to grow and expand over time. However, right now LG has only launched a couple of Friends and we’re waiting with baited breath to A) test them out and B) see if any interesting new ones emerge.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 is more geared towards fitness fans, with its built-in heart rate sensor and S Health app, while the Xperia X boasts Sony’s Remote Play feature, for gamers to stream their PS4 sessions direct to their phone (handy if you’re planning an extended toilet session). The HTC 10 by contrast uses a mostly vanilla version of Android, with few added features, although it does boast the very funky Freestyle Desktops mode to give your phone a fresh new look and feel.
If you’re serious about security then the good news is that all four phones here boast responsive, super-accurate fingerprint sensors. That gives you quick and convenient access to your private data, while keeping out thieving miscreants.
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Screen and media
If you enjoy catching up with the latest telly or kicking back with movies on your mobile, then all four phones here should please. Video and photos look crisp and clear on each handset and there’s no big clarity difference between the Full HD Xperia X panel and the Quad HD displays on its rivals.
Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen is the most vibrant of the bunch, boasting colours so rich that they bleed off the screen. You can drop the vibrancy if desired in the Galaxy S7’s settings of course, while the Xperia X and HTC 10 also offer the option of boosting colour hues.
HTC’s mobile is one of the best here for audio, thanks to its powerful BoomSound speakers which surround the screen. Sound quality is fantastic, although the Galaxy S7 manages to pump out louder, more bass-heavy audio. Check out our speaker test video to see them in action against the Xperia X.
The HTC 10 and Xperia X also support Hi-res audio tracks, as does the LG G5 with the special speaker Friend plugged in.
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Performance
The Galaxy S7, HTC 10 and LG G5 all boast Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 820 processor, which provides silky smooth everyday performance and handles the latest games with ease. Note that the Galaxy S7 can also be picked up with Samsung’s super-powered Exynos 8890 processor on-board instead.
To cut costs, Sony went with the more modest Snapdragon 650 processor instead. And while it doesn’t benchmark as strongly as the Snapdragon 820, and will show signs of ageing earlier, for now at least the Xperia X is a slick performer.
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Battery life
It’s a close call in the battery life test, with the Xperia X, HTC 10, Galaxy S7 and LG G5 all managing just over a day of full-on use. That’s constant messaging, occasional web browsing and a bit of camera and app use, plus some media streaming for good measure.
If you want to stream video non-stop, however, then the Galaxy S7 is the winner of this group with eight hours of playback. The HTC 10, LG G5 and Xperia X all come close, but can’t quite reach that target.
However, the HTC 10 and LG G5 charge up to full the fastest thanks to their Quick Charge 3.0 support and the LG G5 goes one step further with its removable battery, which can be quickly and cleanly replaced when needed.
Sony Xperia X vs HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs LG G5: Cameras
These four phones all boast excellent camera tech, but of course each has its own specialty features.
The LG G5 packs a stand-out snapper, with two lenses stacked on the back. You get a very impressive 16-megapixel camera which captures intricate details in almost any conditions, as well as a handy 8-megapixel wide-angle lens that’s ideal for group shots and vistas. You can shoot up to 4K video on the standard lens and Full HD on the wide-angle lens.
Sony’s Xperia X boasts the ‘best’ camera in terms of pure specs, with a mighty 23-megapixel snapper housed on the rear. Photos are crisp and packed with detail, with Sony’s auto mode dealing well with all kinds of tricky conditions. You can shoot up to Full HD video at 60 Frames-Per-Second, but there’s no support for 4K video.
The HTC 10’s 12-megapixel camera is another dependable snapper that can shoot up to 4K UHD video. However, it’s not quite as impressive as the Samsung Galaxy S7’s 12-megapixel rival, which is superb in low light and captures more attractive, vibrant images.
Check out our Xperia X vs Galaxy S7 camera review, LG G5 vs Galaxy S7 camera review and HTC 10 vs Galaxy S7 camera review to see how these three awesome snappers compare with Samsung’s best-in-class camera. You can also see full video samples on the Recombu YouTube channel.
Three of the handsets in this comparison are also all available from O2. You’ll find tariffs for the Sony Xperia X here, the Samsung Galaxy S7 here and LG G5 here.
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Bee imagery is some of the most beautiful in reconciliation poetry. These two poems, The Stare’s Nest by My Window by W. B. Yeats and As I lay sleeping by Antonio Machado use the metaphor of the honey bee’s energy.
The poem by Yeats is highlighted in Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize acceptance speech, excerpted below the poem. Yeats wrote,”In the west of Ireland, we call a starling a stare, and during the civil war, one built a nest in a hole in the masonry by my bedroom window.”
The Stare’s Nest by My Window
W.B. Yeats
The bees build in the crevices
Of loosening masonry, and there
The mother birds bring grubs and flies.
My wall is loosening; honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty; somewhere
A man is killed, or a house burned,
Yet no clear fact to be discerned:
A barricade of stone or of wood;
Some fourteen days of civil war;
Last night they trundled down the road
That dead young soldier in his blood:
We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare;
More Substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Commentary by Seamus Heaney:
“We are rightly suspicious of that which gives too much consolation…; the very extremity of our late twentieth century knowledge puts much of our cultural heritage to an extreme test. Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote. …I have heard this poem repeated often, in whole and in part, by people in Ireland over the past twenty-five years, and no wonder, for it is as tender minded towards life itself as St. Kevin was and as tough-minded about what happens in and to life as Homer. It knows that the massacre will happen again on the roadside, that the workers in the minibus are going to be lined up and shot down just after quitting time; but it also credits as a reality the squeeze of the hand, the actuality of sympathy and protectiveness between living creatures. It satisfies the contradictory needs which consciousness experiences at times of extreme crisis, the need on the one hand for a truth telling that will be hard and retributive, and on the other hand, the need not to harden the mind to a point where it denies its own yearnings for sweetness and trust…. I also strain towards this in the poetry I read. And I find it, for example, in the repetition of that refrain of Yeats’s, “Come build in the empty house of the stare,” with its tone of supplication, its pivots of strength in the words “build” and “house” and its acknowledgement of dissolution in the word “empty”. I find it also in the triangle of forces held in equilibrium by the triple rhyme of “fantasies” and “enmities” and “honey-bees”, and in the sheer in-placeness of the whole poem as a given form within the language. Poetic form is both the ship and the anchor. It is at once a buoyancy and a steadying, allowing for the simultaneous gratification of whatever is centrifugal and whatever is centripetal in mind and body. And it is by such means that Yeats’s work does what the necessary poetry always does, which is to touch the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed. The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry’s power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry’s credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.
Last Night As I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado, 1903
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.
Last night as I slept,
that it was God I had
A beautiful visualization of this poem is found here.
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Home For MomsHow Their Gardens Grow
How Their Gardens Grow
For Moms, Heroes, How-To
https://relish.com/articles/how-their-gardens-grow/
By Relish Intern on January 19, 2012
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The Cabbage Patch Calls
Each year, Bonnie Plants distributes free cabbage plants to third-grade classrooms. First launched in 1995, the program awards a $1,000 scholarship to one student in each participating state. Last year, more than 1.2 million students from 45 states participated in the program. To register your school, visit bonnieplants.com.
Garden and Community
The George Washington Carver Food Park in Nashville, Tenn., is an oasis for learning about composting and for nourishing the community. “Some people grow tomatoes and corn. We grow compost. Our crop is soil,” says Sizwe Herring, executive director of Earthmatters Tennessee. On a three-acre plot donated by the state, Herring and his team of volunteers dote on organic discards like coffee grounds and leaves that “don’t belong in a land fill.” For more information go to carverfoodpark.com .
Health Barn USA
Kids dig in to learning at Health Barn USA, located in Bergen County, N.J. Founded by Stacey Antine, a registered dietitian and former food marketing professional in New York City, Health Barn USA aims to get children excited about good food. Describing Health Barn as a “health education program,” Antine says, “I want kids to have an amazing, natural experience.” During 10- to 12-week programs after school and during summers, children, ages 3 to 15, grow their own fruits and vegetables, learn to cook with the farm-fresh foods and go on shopping expeditions with educators who talk about fresh ingredients and the positive effects of making good choices. For more information, go to healthbarnusa.com
Veggie U
While other boys were down at the swimming hole or playing baseball, Lee Jones was picking green beans and driving a tractor. Today, he and his family operate one of the country’s most successful specialty produce farms for chefs, The Chef’s Garden. They also are working with chefs nationwide through the nonprofit Veggie U to spread the word to kids about the wonders of vegetables. Soil (not dirt), earthworms, seeds, grow lights, root view boxes and delicious vegetable samples are just part of Veggie U’s Earth to Table program, a fourth-grade curriculum kit sent to more than 625 schools across the country. Kids follow seeds from the earth to the table as they learn about building a nutrient-rich soil, nourishing their bodies and creating tasty dishes that star vegetables.
The National Farm to School Network
Kids in York and Kittery, Maine, now have grass-fed beef on their lunch room menu; locally caught seafood is served in Sitka, Alaska, schools; and Boyle County, Ky., students enjoy lettuce grown by fellow student Tucker Huntsinger through his Future Farmers of America project. More than 2,000 other project like these find support in the National Farm to School Network that aims to serve healthy meals, improve student nutrition, provide health and nutrition education, and support local farmers. To find a Farm to School program near you, go to farmtoschool.org.
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Air date January 15, 2011
Written by Jed Elinoff
Directed by J.B. Sugar
Nightmare Inn Next
Ghostly Stare
The Red Dress is the sixth episode of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series.
Jamie is a lowly country club worker who will do anything to look like a glamorous rich girl. When she stops by a local thrift shop called "The Raven's Chest," she steals a beautiful red dress without payment and soon learns the hard way that nothing in life is free.
An upcoming summer dance is coming up, and Jamie wants to find a way to impress Zack, her crush and a member of the local golf club. The only problem is Jamie finds herself unattractive and a popular girl named Stella who already knows Zack might end up taking him to dance instead.
Jamie and her best friend named Nicole come upon a mysterious store called The Raven's Chest, a shop in which everything for sale was once somebodies prized possession. Among the many different items in the store, one in particular catches Jamie's eyes, a beautiful red dress. They ask Abigail Raven (Emmanuelle Vaugier), the creepy blind owner of the store how much the dress costs, but when the dress turns out to be too expensive Jamie and Nicole decide not to waste their money. Later that night, Jamie returns to the Raven's Chest and tries on the dress.
Entranced with her own newfound beauty, she begins fantasizing about asking Zack out on a date, but the fantasies end when she hears Abigail coming down the stairs. Terrified of being caught Jamie tries to hide, but moments before she is caught, Jamie flees the store, unintentionally stealing the dress.
After going to movies with Zack, Jamie realizes that she is being stalked by Abigail. She begins running to her house and hides in her closet. The next day Jamie tells Nicole about her ordeal and reveals to her that she stole the red dress. Nicole begs Jamie to bring the dress back to The Raven’s Chest before something horrible happens, and Jamie agrees.
As she stands outside The Raven's Closet with the red dress in hand, Jamie gets a call from Zack who invites her to the Summer Dance she so desperately wanted to go to. The opportunity is too valuable, so she decides to keep the dress for a little longer.
That night at the dance, Jamie appears wearing the red dress. She is stunning and catches the eyes of everyone there, but most imporantly, she catches the eyes of Zack, who immediately asks her for a dance.
Jamie finally has what she wants, but can’t seem to enjoy her time because everywhere she look she sees Abigail coming after her. Guilt begins to consume Jamie as she flees the dance and goes home. While standing outside her bedroom, she spots the Raven from the Raven's Closet. Jamie timdly tells Abigail that she can have the dress back because she no longer wants it, but it is far too late. A hand snatches Jamie from her room and pulls her inside as she lets out a scream.
Jamie wakes up the next day, complaining of the darkness, despite that it's 11:00 in the morning. She reaches for her glasses, only to find them gone. As she opens the window and bright light shine through, she screams in horror as she realizes she is now blind. At the Raven's Closet, Abigail (who is no longer blind) puts Jamie's glasses into a case and mutters, "Everyone must pay."
Linda Tomassone as Jamie
Eve Harlow as Nicole
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Abigail Raven
Ryan McDonell as Zack
Elise Gatien as Stella
Matthew Mylrea as Dancer
Promo Still
R.L Stine's Haunting Hour - S01E06 - The Red Dress-0
This episode could seen a visual allusion to the phrase of "robbing someone blind".
For fans and viewers of stories with twists, it's easy to find the hints that Jamie's eyesight would be taken.
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FACTORS DETERMINING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HYPERIID AMPHIPODA IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA.
SIEGEL-CAUSEY, DOUGLAS.
Hyperiidae
Marine plankton -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
Plankton populations
Amphipoda -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
Hendrickson, John
The plankton community of the Gulf of California exist in a transition region from oceanic to neritic habitats, tropical to warm-temperature waters that is strongly influenced by a complex hydrography and bathymetry. Hyperiid Amphipods were chosen as a focus of this study to elucidate the various forces that shape the distributions of the entire community. To test how strongly hyperiids select water of a particular type (the "Water Mass" hypothesis), multiple regression analysis was applied to species' distributions and station hydrography. The quantitative results indicate that there is a strong relation between the distribution of a given hyperiid and the location of discrete water bodies in the Gulf of California. Three linked gyral currents, powered by a tidally-driven interval wave have been hypothesized to influence phytoplankton distributions in the Gulf. Through both qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis, these gyres are shown to be quite important in structuring species' distributions and have a strong effect on the character of the Gulf hydrography. Significant change in community diversity are found to occur only at the boundaries of these gyres. Many authors consider hyperiid amphipods as obligate parasites upon gelatinous zooplankton, and not worthy of distributional analyses. Both qualitative and quantitative test of this hypothesized relationship between hyperiid and "host" offer little support for the concept of hyperiid amphipods as parasites. Instead, there is considerable evidence that hyperiids are "substrate-bound," as are most amphipods, and use gelatinous zooplankton as facultative, transient hosts. Being able to switch hosts as desired, hyperiids can select for optimum conditions, and can serve to model the zooplankton community as a whole.
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Measurement of Functional Wrist Motion
Hazel Boyd
Little is known, from a clinical perspective, about the use of wrist motion during daily living activities. This work aimed to identify an informative list of physical tasks that could be measured practically in a clinical setting. Measurement methods including data gloves were investigated, but these were not used for reasons of practicality and accuracy. A commercial electrogoniometer system was chosen and used to measure wrist motion in flexion/extension and radial/ulnar deviation planes while eighteen right-handed, healthy, volunteer subjects (twelve male and six female, aged 23 to 56 years, mean 29.9 years) carried out mock-ups of the twelve everyday tasks listed in the Michigan Hand Questionnaire. The 2-plane data from each task-measurement test were displayed on an angle-angle scatter plot, overlaid with an elliptical, estimated maximum-motion envelope. The mean ranges of motion, averaged over all eighteen subjects, varied widely between tasks: 1.3° of flexion/extension (S.D. 1.49°) and 1.4° of radial/ulnar deviation (S.D. 2.10°) were seen while holding a glass of water, and corresponding values of 61.4° (S.D. 12.1°) and 24.3° (S.D. 7.79°) while buttoning a shirt. Frequency plots were also generated to show which wrist positions were most commonly used during the tasks. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to reduce the original task list to just four tasks which represented a wide range of aspects of wrist motion, including large mean ranges of motion and mean locations that were displaced away from the neutral wrist position. These four short-listed tasks (holding a frying pan, turning a key in a lock, holding a glass of water and buttoning a shirt) could all be carried out whilst seated, with little reliance on other physiological joints and with low-cost props. The overall approach described in this thesis could be refined into a useful clinical tool, either for identifying motion impairments tracking individual patients’ progress. In particular, the use of the elliptical estimated motion envelopes gave immediate and useful context to the task data.
Awarding Institution
Anthony Miles (Supervisor) & James Cunningham (Supervisor)
Functional wrist motion
Boyd, H. (Author). 1 Sep 2008
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Cencosud to continue high-level of investment in 2019
Date : 23 April 2019
Chile-based Cencosud are one of the top five grocery retailers in Latin America, with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia. The business has announced plans to invest US$300m in 2019, of which 50% will be invested into new and remodelled stores. A third will be invested into enhancing its ecommerce business.
Cencosud forecast consolidated revenues of US$15,194m for 2019
Cencosud has forecast it will achieve consolidated revenues of US$15,194m in 2019. This figure incorporates revenues across all store formats and operations, including its non-food offer.
The business anticipates increased sales (in Chilean Peso’s (CLP)) in all its operating markets except Argentina, due to the deprecation of the Argentine peso against the CLP.
US$300m to be invested in 2019
In 2019 Cencosud plans to invest US$300m of Capex into its business. This represents a c. 7% increase on the c. US$280m it invested in 2018.
As in 2018, half of the expenditure is estimated to be invested in store remodelling and new store openings. Cencosud has also said it plans to invest US$100M into accelerating its ecommerce business.
Estimated 2019 Investment Plan
Source: Cencosud
Strategy for enhancing its food business
Cencosud’s focus in 2019 is to implement best practice and to identify synergies across its multiple formats. The business has identified six key aims to achieve this;
Strengthening ecommerce capabilities
Transformation to meet the new digital era e.g. incorporating new technologies/process automation
Store format adaptation and remodelling
Improving commercial processes e.g. price optimisation, promotions and product mix
Identifying opportunities to improve planning, supply processes and logistical capabilities for developing ecommerce
Strengthening private brands/exclusively imported products
IGD’s recent visit to Cencosud, Rio de Janeiro
We recently visited Cencosud’s Prezunic store in Rio de Janeiro’s Botofogo neighbourhood.
This high-performing store is Cencosud’s flagship store in Rio, where it operates 31 stores under the Prezunic banner. This is one of four Prezunic stores planned to be remodelled in 2019 with a further four currently underway.
Source: IGD Research
Transforming to meet the new digital era
Despite the store having not been remodelled there already signs of how Cencosud is ‘transforming to meet the new digital era’. In the last three months the store has been working with last-mile delivery app Rappi and has one checkout specifically dedicated to purchases made through it. This will be key for Rappi, a business which operates on speed of delivery. Despite only launching with Rappi three months ago sales have been very strong.
As part of the stores’ future remodelling, self-checkout tills will be installed. Currently a large proportion of customers who shop the store are performing trolley shops. Given the stores’ high-footfall location, there are many on-the-move customers so introducing self-scan tills will allow the store to better cater for different types of shop.
Strengthening private brands
In Brazil private label penetration is currently low, but this is slowly changing. Cencosud is strengthening the quality and range of its private label products, which will support sales in the future. The Prezunic banner has its own private label and Prezunic products can be found in most categories.
Prezunic stores in Rio also have a competitive edge through offering a range of imported branded products which can’t be found in other stores in the city.
Offering budget friendly solutions
Prezunic understands its customers and provides solutions to those on restricted budgets. First, the business provides a service whereby customers can pay for their groceries by credit card in four instalments, interest free. This is desirable for lesser affluent shoppers and those on a tight budget who can distribute the cost of a monthly/bi-weekly shop across the month.
Secondly, Prezunic has a loyalty/reward scheme ‘Dotz’. Customers collect Dotz points when they spend money in store (One Dotz is given for every BR$3 (US$0.77) spent) and these can be accrued over time and redeemed for more products.
Source: Cencosud/Dotz
Cencosud setting itself up for success
Cash and carry stores are currently the fastest growing store format in Brazil. However, many shoppers cross-shop between cash and carry stores and supermarkets. In highly competitive cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, supermarkets need to find ways to differentiate to grow and retain customers. Cencosud’s strategy to remodel stores and to strengthen its ecommerce and omnichannel capabilities will give its stores a competitive edge over some of the more traditional supermarkets in these cities.
In the long-term Cencosud could gain further traction by continuing to improve the quality, extend the range and raise awareness of its private label.
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SPAR South Africa develops its digital strategy
Date : 08 November 2018
Spar South Africa has revealed plans to develop its digital strategy. The retailer hopes it will “streamline its IT operations and maintain its competitive edge in the local retail market”.
SPAR adopts Microsoft Office 365
The retailer has adopted Microsoft Office 365 and the cloud computing service Microsoft Azure. Greg Hay, group technology and operations executive at the SPAR Group, explained, “The cloud gives us the flexibility and scalability we need to expand operations at will... At a tactical level, we’re using the Microsoft Cloud to implement practical steps that drastically reduce IT overhead and make us a nimbler company”.
Set-up time reduced from hours to minutes
Following its adoption of Microsoft’s software, SPAR’s set-up time has been reduced from hours to minutes. It has also said that issues can also be resolved quicker with Microsoft professional direct support. This increased efficiency is in line with the retailer’s wider digital transformation plan.
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Myeloma UK London Paris Ride
The Ultimate Ride Experience
Where funds go
Past Rides
Professor Graham Jackson is a Consultant Haematologist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne and has worked with Myeloma UK since the organisation began, over 21 years ago.
“During my time working with this wonderful charity, I have been involved in over 25 Infodays and have had two 3 year spells as a Director of the charity. Myeloma UK has always been so focused on the patient and their families, and they provide so much valuable, up to date, well sourced and balanced information on myeloma, such as patient information covering the complications of the disease, the treatment of the disease and the treatment of myeloma related complications. Every day in my myeloma clinic I see and hear how important Myeloma UK is – in terms of helping, supporting and informing our patients and their families. Myeloma UK have worked tirelessly to make sure our patients get access to new therapies as soon as possible and ensures that they are available to as many people as possible.
I decided to sign up again for the Myeloma UK London Paris Ride for a number of reasons. I love cycling, I love travelling, but most of all I am passionate about improving the care and outlook of myeloma patients. I am delighted that I am fit enough to be in a position to help Myeloma UK, by raising funds through this challenge. I also want to do it for our Newcastle patients and their families. They are a fantastic bunch of patients. It’s important for me to raise money for Myeloma UK, who in turn support our patients and their families, I previously did the Ride in 2016 and raised over £4,000 and I would love to beat that total. The money raised will help fund a lot of myeloma related research and through developing clinical trials patients can receive early access to novel, exciting and experimental therapies.
As I’ve mentioned I love cycling, so for my preparation for the Ride forms part of my daily routine. I cycle approximately 20 miles a day, 10 miles each way to and from work, so I am at a reasonable fitness level but plan to do some longer rides of 60-70 miles prior to setting off for Paris.
Whether you are a healthcare professional, patient, or Myeloma UK supporter the Ride is a life-changing experience, which gives you an opportunity to make a real difference. By signing up you’ll be supporting a brilliant charity and you’ll also meet some fantastic people cycling along one of Europe’s most beautiful routes. One of the best aspects of the Ride is that people of all abilities can take part, and with a full-support team on hand you will be well looked after. There’s nothing like celebrating under the Eiffel tower at the end of the Ride and enjoying a celebratory dinner in Paris to mark your achievement. The Ride is a tough journey but nowhere near as tough a journey as the one myeloma patients face. Sign up for the Ride and help make myeloma history.”
You can help Graham Jackson raise money for Myeloma UK by donating directly to his fundraising page.
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Inflation drops for seventh consecutive months to 16.01%
Statistician General for the Federation/Chief Executive, NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja
The National Bureau of Statistics on Friday released the Consumer Price Index report, which measures inflation, with the rate dropping year-on-year from 16.05 per cent in July to 16.01 per cent in August.
The bureau, in the report, which was made available to our correspondent, said August was the seventh consecutive month that the index would be declining since January this year.
On a month-on-month basis, the report stated that the headline index increased by 0.97 per cent in August, representing a 0.24 per cent point decline over 1.21 per cent recorded in June.
The report read in part, “The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, increased by 16.01 per cent (year-on-year) in August 2017. This was 0.04 per cent points lower than the rate recorded in July (16.05 per cent), making it the seventh consecutive decline in the rate of headline year-on-year inflation since January 2017.
“On a month-on-month basis, the Headline Index increased by 0.97 per cent in August 2017, 0.24 per cent points lower from the rate of 1.21 per cent recorded in June.”
The NBS report stated that food inflation increased to 20.25 per cent year-on-year in July, down marginally by 0.03 per cent points from the 20.28 per cent recorded in July.
On a month-on-month basis, the report said the food sub-index increased to 1.14 per cent in July, down by 0.38 percentage points from 1.52 per cent recorded in July.
Speaking on the drop in inflation rate, finance analysts attributed the decrease to various factors such as transparency in the foreign exchange market and intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria in ensuring liquidity in the foreign exchange market.
A former Managing Director of Unity Bank Plc, Mr. Rislanudeen Mohammed, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that while the intervention of the apex bank had reduced the level of core inflation, such success had not been recorded in the area of the food index.
He said that more work needed to be done in increasing food production as well as addressing the impediments to agricultural production.
Mohammed stated, “The pace of decline in the inflation rate is largely due to transparency in the management of the foreign exchange market as well as the recent interventions of the CBN in that segment of the market.
“But while the core inflation seems to be coming down due to the transparency in the forex market, the food index is still a source of concern and it calls for more attention in that area.”
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States fault sustainability of FG’s social investment programmes
Published April 3, 2018 April 3, 2018
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
State governments have raised concerns over what they described as the lack of proper mechanism for the sustainability of the National Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government.
This was one of the decisions reached at the first quarter 2018 edition of the Forum of Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Secretaries to State Governments with the theme, ‘Intergovernmental relations for sustainable growth and development’ held in Yola, Adamawa State.
The Director of Information, Office of the SGF, Lawrence Ojabo, made a copy of the forum’s communique available to journalists in Abuja on Monday.
After listening to a presentation by the Special Adviser to the President on the SIP, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, participants also decried what they called over-centralisation of the NSIP’s structure at the federal level.
They also noted that there were no proper mechanisms for sanctioning defaulters under the scheme.
In finding ways out of the identified challenges, they said the structure of the NSIP needed to be reviewed and strengthened in some states.
The communique read, “Monitoring and evaluation should be strengthened both at the state and federal levels.
“There is a need for extensive consultation with states in the planning and implementation of the NSIP and other similar programmes.
“There should be increased awareness on how to benefit from the programme.”
The participants also asked that a component of the NSIP, the National Homegrown School Feeding that caters for pupils from Primary 1-3, should be extended to cover Primary 4-6.
They made a case for continuous and regular funding of the school feeding scheme and asked that proper structure and coordination of the programmes should be ensured at the state level.
After listening to a presentation on the government’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, the participants regretted that loan beneficiaries under the scheme were not willing to pay back.
This, they noted, might hinder the inflow of cash into the programme for expansion and continuity.
Other challenges identified under the ABP included lack of adequate publicity and enlightenment on the modalities for accessing the programme; and delay in the release of funds by banks to the beneficiaries because of bureaucratic bottlenecks as well as the frequent changes in both fiscal and monetary policy guidelines that make the conditions for granting loans stringent for poor farmers to fulfil.
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Marisa Kennedy May 14, 2019
Ryan McHugh has provided a positive update on the form of Paddy McBrearty since the return of the forward to the Donegal panel following a lengthy injury. The 25-year-old sustained a cruciate injury during last year’s Ulster Football Championship final against Fermanagh but returned to action for his club, Kilcar, last month, kicking four points against Glenswilly. McHugh maintains that …
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Joel Slattery October 24, 2017
Donegal are a team in transition but with the appointment of Declan Bonner as county manager for the 2018 season, the men from the north-east will be looking to get back to challenging for provincial, and even national honours, next year. While a loss in the fourth round of the qualifiers would constitute a good season in most counties, Donegal …
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Simon O'Keeffe November 3, 2016
The GAA/GPA All-Star football team has been announced, with All-Ireland champions Dublin being represented by no fewer than six players. Jim Gavin’s side retained the Sam Maguire after a pulsating final replay win against Mayo in October, Stephen Rochford’s team themselves represented with four players (all of whom are at the back). _____ The six Dublin players named, Jonny Cooper, Philly …
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Alan Drumm August 2, 2015
Ryan McHugh’s goal may come to be remembered as the best score of the summer With ten minutes left to play, Donegal produced a special goal to kill off Galway’s challenge. Despite taking an early 1-2 to 0-1 lead, the tribesmen proved to be a stubborn opponent for Donegal. Galway employed a defensive system that contained their more illustrious rivals for …
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When the global Energy Transition gets local
In this op-ed for pv magazine, Dr. Wes Herche of Arizona State University brings insights from a recent conference on the Energy Transition in Arizona.
April 10, 2018 pv magazine
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by Dr. Wes Herche
Some politicians, professors, and industry practitioners walk into a bar and the bartender says, “so what’s the future of energy in Arizona?”… No, this isn’t the setup to a joke, and actually there wasn’t a bar, but rather an engaging public discussion hosted by the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University (ASU).
Kris Mayes, former Commissioner for the Arizona Corporation Commission (AZCC) that regulates power utilities in Arizona, opened her comments by saying, “the commission is one of most powerful branches of government in Arizona and perhaps also the one people know the least about.” Mayes’s insightful comment might also serve as a good metaphor for describing public sentiment on energy in Arizona and around the country. Energy is such a powerful and integral part of every aspects of our lives; but the complex system of producers, regulators, and consumers of energy is usually not a major focus of the office water cooler conversation.
But before we can understand the future of Arizona’s energy transition, we have to understand a little about its past and present. Formed with the establishment of Arizona statehood in 1912, the AZCC is responsible for approving the filing for all corporations in the state of Arizona, regulating securities, and regulating the water and power utilities in the state. All controlled by five elected officials who cannot be overridden by the legislative or executive branches of the Arizona government. Mayes went on to add, “in the drafting of the Arizona constitution, the framers spent more time carefully constructing the Commission than they did the legislative, executive, and judicial branches combined because they knew how powerful and important this body would be.”
Fast forward to today; it is a packed house on the top floor of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU. If today is any indication, people are starting to pay attention. ASU faculty and staff, representatives from various advocacy groups, and citizens from communities throughout central Arizona, have gathered to hear the guest panel and engage in a public dialog. An event coordinator has to yell over the growing chatter of the crowd that it’s time for everyone to take their seats, some people are standing in the back as we’ve run out of space. Seated on the panel are a heavyweight lineup of panel members with titles and credentials too long to list, but a quick rundown goes like this: Current AZCC Commissioner Andy Tobin, ASU Professor of History and Salt River Project elected Board Member Dr. Paul Hirt (SRP is one of the nation’s largest public utilities, but not regulated by the AZCC), Former AZCC Commissioner and ASU faculty Kris Mayes, VP of Photovoltaic (PV) systems at utility-scale solar giant First Solar Dr. Mahesh Morjaria, all moderated by Maren Mahoney from the ASU Energy Policy Innovation Council.
Perhaps Professor Hirt captured the atmosphere best when he commented, “my last book was on the history of US Electric Power from 1870 to 1970, so I can say with confidence that we’ve never seen anything like the type of transition we’re seeing in energy right now.” In fact, much of the initial discussion is dominated by comments that painted the setting through relevant history, politics, and law that still shape our energy paradigm.
Later as the discussion moves forward, Mahesh Morjaria, VP at First Solar, brings us up to date with some state-of-the-industry facts on solar. “Ten or more years ago the big complaint I always heard was that solar was too expensive, but that is just not true anymore.” “Solar has been getting cheaper at an exponential rate, and it is driven by increased volume and technology improvements, so every time we double the capacity in the world the module price goes down by about 22%” (Morjaria explaining “Swanson’s Law”, a “cousin” of sorts to the more famous “Moore’s Law” in computer chips). Morjaria further added, “coal and other commodity fossil fuels can go up and down a lot, but when you build new solar generation you know that you are locking in those low rates for 20 to 30 years or more.”
The list of impressive credentials were not just limited to the panel members. As just one example, sitting in the front row was the Director of The ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and former President of BP Asia-Pacific (the oil and gas super-major), Dr. Gary Dirks. As the first question from the audience, Dr. Dirks asked Tobin if the Commission would consider setting up a fully transparent, collaborative platform for policy and economic modeling. Dr. Dirks elaborated that the idea would be to bring in the utilities, subject matter experts from universities, and other stakeholders so that we could start to take an honest and critical look at the trade-offs and potential benefits of various different energy proposals.
Several times during the discussion, Commissioner Tobin highlighted the importance of energy storage. His recent proposal, yet to be taken up by the Commission, is the most aggressive the history of Arizona. Tobin’s Arizona Energy Modernization Plan proposal calls for a target of 80% “clean energy” by 2050 and at least 3,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030. Speaking about his impetus to focus on storage, Tobin commented he was growing increasingly concerned while “watching peak demand rates skyrocket.” Further he added, “I asked for storage and I got more burners.” And this had consequences for Arizona utilities. Every 2 years the major Arizona utilities come to the Commission with their “integrated resource plan” which typically go uncontested by the Commission and largely unnoticed by the public, but just last March Tobin, joined by Commissioner Burns and Commission Chair Tom Forese, rejected the integrated resource plan of the three largest regulated utilities in the state. The Commission told utilities to go back to the drawing board and come back with less gas, and more renewables and storage.
The proposed Arizona Renewable Energy Standards Initiative (2018) –a proposed November ballot initiative led by the Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona Committee that would set a target of 50% renewable energy by 2030 for Arizona– was also a popular topic of discussion for the panel and audience members. Mayes pointed out that the goal of this ballot initiative would actually pair nicely as one of the stepping-stones to Tobin’s call for 80% clean energy by 2050. Prompted by an audience question, Mayes also pointed out that the 50% renewable ballot initiative does not call for the shutdown of any current nuclear generation, including the Palo Verde Generating Station.
Another piece of revealing context that might get lost on those from outside the state is that Arizona traditionally has a conservative leaning both culturally and at the polls. The fact that former Commissioner Mayes and all five current Commissioners on the AZCC are republican was mentioned numerous times throughout the discussion. Nonetheless, many panel members pointed out that in every poll they have seen, a massive majority of Arizonians say they want more renewable energy in their state. This supposed oddity in a traditionally conservative state actually isn’t all that unusual, and concurs with numerous other reports that highlight the fact that the movement towards a transition to renewable energy does not easily map to the all-too tired “red state” vs “blue state” polemic.
If you’ve read this far you might be thinking, yeah ok, but like the bartender said, what is the future of energy in Arizona? Well, even after this great discussion I still don’t know that we can answer that definitively. But for me, my biggest takeaway happened before the event even started. Standing outside the venue and talking with Maren Mahoney –Program Manager for the ASU Energy Policy Innovation Council and moderator for the event– I remarked to Maren about the amazing turnout and palpable excitement in the air. Maren thoughtfully replied, “yes, it’s good to see that people care about these issues that are so important.” I couldn’t agree more Maren, I couldn’t agree more.
Dr. Wesley Herche is a former senior intelligence officer for the United States Department of Defense, who researches energy security at Arizona State University. Currently Dr. Herche is the Associate Director of Research at the ASU Global Security Initiative, and a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability. His work has been subject to scientific peer review for accuracy.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those held by pv magazine.
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While on maternity leave, Faith Howells spends a night out drinking with friends while her loving husband, Evan, takes care of their kids. The next morning, Evan leaves for work but never arrives, forcing Faith to deal with the clients at their law firm.
Evan is officially filed as a missing person, but Faith decides not to tell the police about the fake ID and wig she found in his things. After learning that their law business is heavily in debt, Faith represents reformed criminal Steve in a custody battle.
Having been dragged into the station and questioned about Evan's disappearance, Faith continues to clash with her old adversary DI Susan Williams, despite her police officer brother-in-law, Terry, trying to mediate. Later, Faith defends a priest accused of taking money from the church.
After receiving a threatening letter, Faith takes the kids to stay at a hotel, where Steve tells her that Evan may have had ties to the Glynns, a notorious criminal family. While Faith follows the new lead, the police search for a body but find other evidence instead.
After the police arrive to investigate the break-in at her house, Faith confronts her colleague Cerys, who leads Faith to Dr. Alpay, a dentist involved with the Glynn family. Faith also helps an elderly man whose landlord wants him evicted.
When the police find Evan's car by the docks, a known suicide spot, Williams brings Faith back into the station and locks her in a cell overnight. The next morning, Cerys represents Faith as Williams grills Faith about her relationship with Steve.
Feeling betrayed by her former client Arthur, Faith goes through his phone and finds evidence that Williams was at the scene of the crash that killed Dr. Alpay. Cerys attempts to return Faith's children to her, while Faith gets Steve out on bail.
Even with Williams arrested for fleeing a crime scene, Faith seems to be losing her custody hearing until Cerys deals a low blow to the prosecution's surprise witness. Later, Faith reluctantly makes a tenuous deal with Williams.
1 5 add-to-cart genre:Drama DVD Drama 8 hours 3 Region 1 0054961266890 Eve Myles (Torchwood, Broadchurch), Mark Lewis Jones (Master and Commander), Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch), Bradley Freegard (Doctors), Aneirin Hughes (Hinterland), Eiry Thomas (The Indian Doctor), Hannah Daniel, Mali Harries "Gripping…a hit"—Daily Post (UK) "It will have you hooked."—WalesOnline.co.uk 8 Episodes supplierCost tags
Keeping Faith: Series 1
Eve Myles (Torchwood, Broadchurch), Mark Lewis Jones (Master and Commander), Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch), Bradley Freegard (Doctors), Aneirin Hughes (Hinterland), Eiry Thomas (The Indian Doctor), Hannah Daniel, Mali Harries
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"Gripping…a hit"—Daily Post (UK)
"It will have you hooked."—WalesOnline.co.uk
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LETTERS: We're stronger and more united after Newham academy battle
Published Mon 7 May 2018
Protesting against academies in Newham (Pic: Guy Smallman)
Academy plans at Cumberland school in Newham, east London, have gone ahead. We have lost, but we have won much, and we are not defeated.
Last week we had a NEU union meeting of around 80 people at the end of the school day before the full staff meeting.
My introduction to the meeting was as upbeat as I could make it.
I wanted to remind everyone that we went into the battle determined to stand up for principled opposition to academies.
And now we need to continue to strengthen ourselves as a union group. We acknowledged that we have been a major part of a borough-wide, London-wide, and apparently a developing national fightback.
Some schools have turned back from academising, although unfortunately Newham council’s U-turn to an anti-academy position came too late for us.
We are determined to continue building links with parents as we did not achieve what we needed to stop the academy—an unstoppable force of parents, local people and workers.
I proposed the union’s guidance at this point to suspend the strikes.
We voted unanimously to do so and went into the staff meeting as a union group together. I made a statement on behalf of the union group and after the meeting introduced the new secretary of Newham NEU to the chief executive of the school.
Our union secretary made it quite clear that we are here to fight our corner.
This phase of the dispute ended, under the circumstances, as best it could—united and proud. Our new solidarity with each other and with wider forces will survive this defeat.
Thanks to Socialist Worker for its coverage throughout the dispute—good work and fantastic support.
Carolyn McGrath, NEU rep, Cumberland School, Newham
Wrecking our NHS
I am 75 and was a relatively fit anti-fracking campaigner until January when I developed severe neck and shoulder pain.
I had to fight for a doctor’s appointment as two doctors had recently left. By February the pain was so bad I was spending half the night in an armchair. No GPs were available so I saw a nurse and persuaded her to refer me to a consultant.
The earliest appointment was four weeks away. The receptionist suggested I ring for a cancellation. I did, but a recorded voice said the hotline was not staffed due to shortages.
I had no choice but to pay to see an osteopath, who re-diagnosed the problem. There was a marked improvement but I was still in great pain.
In mid-April I fought again to see a GP and persuaded her to arrange an ultrasound. After that appointment the doctor said he would immediately forward the ultrasound images to my GP.
But the surgery said results will take seven weeks to arrive from Scarborough hospital. I now have another appointment to see a specialist—in mid-July!
After months of debilitating pain I still don’t have a proper diagnosis and am unable to perform even basic tasks, never mind join in the important activities of my local anti-fracking group.
The NHS is being destroyed so US corporations can move in for the rich pickings. We need to fight now to save it.
Brian Chambers, Filey, North Yorkshire
Now we have Corbyn, ditch independence
Why does Socialist Worker still support Scottish independence?
The only good reason for a Yes vote in the 2014 referendum was to break from the Tory British state and register opposition to the successive regimes of austerity.
I didn’t agree with that, but I could see the argument.
But now there is the very real possibility of a Jeremy Corbyn government in Westminster. If people still obsessively hark on about independence they are not going to vote Labour. And Labour isn’t going to alter its stance.
And that means we are likely to have continuing Tory rule or at best a minority Labour government that has to rely on the highly unreliable Scottish National Party.
Clear out all the secondary issues. Full speed ahead to an all-British government that can raise the banner of change.
Ann McIvey, Paisley
Stop anti-abortionists harassing women
Anti-choice bigots march in London (Pic: Guy Smallman)
Recently in Cardiff we had to experience the anti-abortion group Abort67 setting up large images of foetuses.
Abort67 actively campaigns against a woman’s right to choose. Its members often stand in cities and towns with offensive imagery that harasses women.
This was clearly very upsetting for a number of people, many of whom complained to the police.
When I complained to the police, they told me the display was legally allowed as it was informative. Women should be supported, not made to feel guilty for their choices.
Groups such as Abort67, Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and 40 Days for Life want to tell women what they can and can’t do with their bodies.
I was pleased to see that there was opposition to the March for Life organised by
anti-abortionists in Parliament Square in London last Saturday.
Such events actively aim to restrict women’s rights.
We need to defend a woman’s right to choose, and fight the restrictions women face when making decisions about their own bodies.
Helen O’Sullivan, Cardiff
Don’t repeat ID for voting
The pilot schemes that forced people to provide ID to vote last week in Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking were a disaster.
People were prevented from voting who had every right to vote.
And a polling officer in Bradford demanded ID even though Bradford wasn’t even in the scheme.
ID requirements hit poor people, young people and black people. We should oppose them.
Jane Roberts, west London
Will machines delete class?
What will socialism look like in a world where technology is steadily encroaching on working class roles?
Tim Rothwell, Leamington
‘Enemy aliens’ were locked up
The treatment of the Windrush Generation has highlighted the racism of the ruling establishment.
Caitlin Davies has produced an excellent book, Bad Girls, which gives examples of the mistreatment of women in Holloway prison.
She reveals that during the Second World War thousands of Jewish women who had escaped Nazi Germany were imprisoned without trial in Britain. Being an “enemy alien” meant they were locked up not for anything they had done but because of who they were.
John Appleyard, Liversedge, West Yorkshire
Let’s unite against Tories
Socialists should make the links between the home office’s racism and the state’s attacks on disabled people that have caused severe damage, even deaths.
Phil Howard, Hull
No cuts for the parasites
Two Bentleys, three Rolls-Royces, three Daimlers and then one horse-drawn coach for the royal wedding. Austerity?
Jasmine Wright, on Facebook
Mon 7 May 2018, 16:06 BST
Standing in the way of privatised education - the battle against academies in Newham
Tens of thousands on the streets for Scottish independence
Tories’ £50 million grammar school scam to entrench class division
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Iowa's Amani Jones taking snaps at new position this spring
The spring is a perfect time for football coaches to experiment. Iowa is taking advantage of that opportunity, and it could result in a position change for one linebacker.
According to Chad Leistikow of Hawk Central, Iowa linebacker Amani Jones has been taking snaps at defensive end during spring practices. The Hawkeyes are lacking depth on the edge, and Jones could provide just the spark they need next fall.
Linebackers coach Seth Wallace says Jones’ energy and explosiveness makes him a good fit as a defensive end for the Hawkeyes.
“He’s a high-energy kid, somebody who has a passion for his game,” Wallace said. “You could argue, is he one of the 11 best true football players we could on the field defensively? Maybe.”
Jones started the 2018 season at middle linebacker but lost his role due to mistakes. He appeared in 13 games last fall, making 22 tackles, including two for loss. Playing along the defensive line might be the best way for Jones’ to see more frequent playing time, even if he is undersized for the position.
So far, though, it seems like Jones is making some moves on the edge and could find himself in a permanent role in that position.
In three seasons in Iowa City, Jones has registered 31 stops while appearing in 38 games, several of which game on special teams. This will be an interesting position change to keep an eye on throughout spring and into the summer and fall.
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Apolipoprotein E modifies the CNS response to injury via a histamine-mediated pathway.
Recent evidence demonstrates that apolipoprotein E (apoE) influences the central nervous system (CNS) response to both acute and chronic injury. To address the mechanisms by which apoE influences neurological disease, we examined differential gene expression in the brains of apoE transgenic mice after closed head injury. Apart from confirming the knockout of apoE, the largest differential gene expression occurred for the interleukin-9 receptor (IL-9R), which was > 100-fold up-regulated in apoE-deficient versus wild-type mice. We observed a similar pattern of posttraumatic IL-9R up-regulation in APOE4 targeted replacement mice as compared with their APOE3 counterparts. This difference in gene expression was associated with increased neuronal protein expression of IL-9R in E4 animals compared with E3 as demonstrated by immunohistochemistry. The consequence of IL-9R binding in mast cells is the induction of proliferation and differentiation. This indirectly favors degranulation and release of histamine and inflammatory mediators, which have previously been demonstrated to exacerbate secondary neuronal injury. We found that apoE-deficient animals had increased levels of systemic histamine after injury and that pre-treatment with antihistamines improved functional outcomes in apoE-deficient but not wild-type animals after head injury. These results suggest that apoE modifies secondary neuronal injury caused by histamine release and are consistent with previous observations that apoE affects the CNS inflammatory response in an isoform-specific manner.
Laskowitz, Daniel Todd
Sullivan, Patrick
Wang, Haichen
Mace, BE; Wang, H; Lynch, JR; Moss, J; Sullivan, P; Colton, H; Morgan, K; Renauld, J-C; Laskowitz, DT
Neurological Research
10.1179/016164107X158974
Apolipoproteins E
Craniocerebral Trauma
Gene Expression Profiling
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
Receptors, Interleukin-9
Up-Regulation
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Organic Matter Status of Tehsil Kahuta of District Rawalpindi
Sohail Jamil Qureshi, Ghulam Abbass , Sofia Bano , Taj Muhammad , Mir Ajab Khan and M.Yousaf
The study was conducted to evaluate the organic matter status of soil in the Kahuta tehsil from District Rawalpindi. Nintey composite soil samples were analysed for organic matter contents. Soil texture varied from sandy loam (Light) 20%, loam (Medium) 78% and Clay loam (Heavy) 2%. Organic matter was deficient in 100% soil samples.The maximum organic matter of 0.85% were recorded at Loona Kahuta site and minimum organic matter of 0.20% were observed at Kahuta and Dodheli site. The average maximum organic matter of 0.70% were observed at Loona Kahuta site. Fertilizer recommendations were given to farmers according to soil condition and organic matter status.
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Sohail Jamil Qureshi, Ghulam Abbass , Sofia Bano , Taj Muhammad , Mir Ajab Khan and M.Yousaf , 2001. Organic Matter Status of Tehsil Kahuta of District Rawalpindi. Journal of Biological Sciences, 1: 227-228.
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2001.227.228
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2001.227.228
Soil organic matter is most important factor for maintaining the soil fertility and cycling of carbon. Tiessen et al. (1994) reported that many tropical soils are poor in inorganic nutrients and rely on the recycling of the nutrients from soil organic matter to maintain fertility. In undisturbed rainforests such nutrients are recycled via the litter. The role of organic matter in soil fertility has been well known for hundreds of years, but the role of humus quality and its environmental functions has been discovered only during the last 30 years (Hargitai, 1993). The availability of N, P, K and organic content of the soil at 0 to15, 15 to 30 and 30 to 45 cm depths were estimated in a long term field experiment testing farm yard manure (F Y M) and fertilizer N doses in a pearl millet-wheat cropping sequence. Application of farmyard manure (F Y M) increased available P, K and Organic C content of soil at all depths and doses of fertilizer N (Gupta et al., 1992).
Scholes (1990) observed that in dry savannas, soil fertility has a controlling influence on the slope of the relation between annual rainfall and annual above ground herbaceous production. It also influences many other aspects of their structure and function, such as species composition, morphology, forage chemistry and degree and type of herbivore. Syres and Springett (1984) reported that earthworm redistribute organic materials within the soil, increase the soil penetrability and under certain conditions, influence ion transport in soils. They influence the supply of nutrients in several ways by increasing the rate of recycling.
Qureshi et al. (2000) analyzed forty eight composite soil samples from tehsil Gujar Khan of district Rawalpindi and reported that 100% soil samples were poor in organic matter contents. FarmYard Manure (F Y M) is especially beneficial as improved the physical conditions of soils and offset nutritional problems of the plants (Ghafoor et al., 1990).
During the present studies an effort has been made to assess the organic matter contents of tehsil Kahuta from district Rawalpindi.
Ninety composite soil samples from different sites of tehsil Kahuta of district Rawalpindi were collected from 0 to 15 and 15 to 30 cm depths to asses organic matter status of the soil. Previous crop history was recorded for formulating the recommendations. Samples were air dried, ground and passed through 2 mm sieve and analyzed for physico chemical characteristic in soil fertility survey and soil testing institute, Rawalpindi. Soil texture was determined by measuring saturation percentage of soil (Malik et al., 1984). Soil pH was recorded (Schofield and Taylor, 1955) and electrical conductivity (EC) at 25°C was measured by preparing soil and water suspension (1:1) (Richards, 1954). Samples were analyzed for Organic Matter (Cottenie et al., 1979). The following criteria were used for classification. The data was subjected to statistical analysis for Standard Deviation and computation of Means (Table 1) (Steel and Torrie, 1980).
The data concerning soil pH, salinity /sodicity, soil texture and organic matter is given in (Table 1) and minimum, maximum and average values of all the determinations are given in (Table 2). The soil analysis data of different sites of Kahuta tehsil indicate that pH values of the area varied from 6.9 to 7.8 (Table 2). These soil samples were considered as normal, so that 100% soil samples were safe from salinity hazard (Table 1). According to Muhammad (1978) the area was free from salts but salinity and sodicity patches may develop later gradually due to application of brackish water either by pumped or collected from salts loaded run off in the reservoirs.
The soils are low in organic matter contents. Firstly because of arid climate resulting in a rapid degradation of the organic matter and secondly because of very little organic matter is added to the soil as the entire above above ground plant parts are removed from the fields. In the present study 100% soil samples were poor in organic matter contents (Table 1) .The soil texture of the area indicate that 20% soil samples were sandy loam, 78% loam and 2% were clay loam. According to Cottenie et al. (1979) soil organic matter tends to increase with increase in clay content of the soil. As the soil is loam to medium and rare in clay contents, due to this all soil samples were poor in organic matter. The farmers were recommended to use farm yard manure (F Y M) once in three years would promote the crop yield by improving physical, chemical, biological and nutritional properties of the soil.
Table 1: Number of soil samples analysed for soil texture, soil pH and salinity/sodicity and organic matter
L=Light (Sandy loam), N = Normal, P = Poor, M =Medium (Loam), S = Saline, S = Satisfactory
H = Heavy (Clay Loam), SS= Saline Sodic, A=Adequate, Sod=Sodic, S.D=Standard Deviation
Table 2: Minimum, maximum and average values of different determinations
The present study supports the view that production of most crops can be quadrupled with higher level of inputs and modern management (Mian, 1985).
It is concluded that the soil of tehsil Kahuta were highaly deficient in organic matter . There is no severe problem of salinity. The productivity of soil is declining due to imbalance use of fertilizer.
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Comics about a quantum labyrinth
I am looking for a comic book I read when I was a child. I read it in my brother's collection of Science et Vie Junior, a French science popularization magazine (or its adult version Science et Vie). The magazine was releasing a few pages every month. I guess the story was also released in one or several volumes too. It appeared in the magazine during my brother's childhood, so during the 80's or at last the early 90's.
The comic book was Franco-Belgian style (I seem to remember a Blake et Mortimer-ish drawing style), and the author's name felt Italian. The story was about a young adult (late 20's, early 30's) lost in a strange labyrinth. I was like a scientific version of Alice in Wonderland. The main character had to go from one room to another, to discover a new test or trap, in a hope to finally get his freedom back. All of these were based on quantum mechanics or at least hard science (that's why it appeared in the science magazine).
I read only a few pages so I don't remember any other information. I know that this is quite tiny, but hopefully the context will help. Science et Vie is very famous in France and many of the French scientists that visit Stack Exchange regularly read it as child (and may still read it).
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The comic is part of Aventures Quantiques by Sven Ortoli and Jean-Michel Pelhate.
This fits with the description as Sven Ortoli is the founder of Science et Vie Junior and is a PhD in Physics
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Environmental protest
'Shoot us all': Hazaribagh still in shock at police firing on protest against land acquisition
Farmers in Badkagaon were opposing coal-mining project by National Thermal Power Corporation.
Manob Chowdhury
Oct 05, 2016 · 12:44 pm
Days after the Jharkhand police opened fired on farmers protesting land acquisition for coal mines by the National Thermal Power Corporation in Badkagaon, Hazaribagh, on October 1 resulting in several deaths, the demonstrators are still shocked at what they claim was the excessive use of force by the administration.
Residents say five persons have died in police firing, including three students in their late teens, and more than 40 have been injured. On Tuesday evening, the district administration put the number of deaths at four. It was the third time since 2013 that the police have fired on farmers in Badkagaon.
“We want to ask [Chief Minister] Raghuvar Das to ask officials why they shot us all,” said Badkagaon resident Kumar Divakar. “Why should we live in suffocation like this, where the officials are shooting us one by one? Raghuvar Das can live here with the company officials. Should we line up in a queue so they can shoot us all?”
The farmers have been opposing land acquisition of their multi-crop farmland for coal mines allotted to National Thermal Power Corporation since 2004. They had been on a sit-in protest near a mining site in Chiru Barwadih village for two weeks when the police tried to break their protest at 5 am on October 1. When the farmers, including several women, tried to stop the police from detaining Nirmala Devi, the member of legislative assembly from Badkagaon who was supporting the protest, the police fired 60 rounds of bullets into the crowd.
The family of 16-year-old student Pawan Kumar mourns his death. Credit: Manob Chowdhury
The family of Pawan Kumar, a 16-year old student who died in the incident, alleged the police had beaten Kumar after he was shot. “After Pawan was shot, the policemen dragged his body to the panchayat bhawan and kept it in a vehicle there,” alleged Makhi Ram, Pawan’s father who works as a coolie in Kolkata. “He was alive but instead of taking him to the hospital, the police kept him at the panchayat bhawan and thrashed him. The villages heard his screams for three-four hours before he succumbed to his death.”
Families of the other deceased said they were threatened by the police.
“The whole area has been turned into a military camp,” said Santosh Rai, whose 18-year-old nephew Abhishek Rai was among those who died. “We managed to get my nephew’s body back with great difficulty by 4 pm on Saturday," said Rai. "At the autopsy center, the policemen present were saying, 'Learn your lessons, let the mining work go on, or more bodies will fall.' A lot of people had gathered outside, we were worried how we will take the body back, if the police starts firing again.”
In Chindwar village, Sudeshwar Verma expressed anger that the public sector unit and the district administration were not "listening" to the farmers. "NTPC does not want to talk to raiyat(farmers) directly, but only to dalal(land brokers). They have put a board and have an office here. But if we go there, they will not even speak to us." Verma said media reports after the incident had portrayed the farmers as insurgents. "Papers are reporting that Yogendra Sau's Tiger Naxal Force attacked the police," he said. "We are ordinary farmers, we are not Tiger Naxal Force or any such group."
The family of student Abhishek Rai, 18, said they were threatened by the police. Credit: Manob Chowdhury
Women farmers said they too were not spared. “The circle officer started dragging Nirmala Devi by her hair and clothes, when we tried to stop him, the police abused us..." said a farmer who declined to be identified. “They chased us in the fields and broke all our utensils and material lying at the dharna site.” At the protest site in Chiru Barwadih village, the protesting farmers’ utensils and blankets lay torn and scattered on the ground.
Said Jai Birendra, a farmer: “We were on a peaceful protest and were not obstructing any officials for two weeks and were even talking to officials. Why did the circle officer try to attack us at 4 am? Why did he attack and abduct Nirmala Devi in early hours of morning? What sudden pressure were they under?” He added that police force had occupied Chirudih school building for the last three months, interrupting classes there.
At the protest site in Chiru Barwadih village, the protesting farmers’ utensils and blankets lay torn and scattered on Monday. Credit: Manob Chowdhury
By Monday evening, hundreds of families had fled their homes after the police and paramilitary forces carried out a door-to-door search of houses in six villages in the mining area, in Chapakala, Chipakhurd, Sonbarsa, Churchur, Arahar, Nagri. District Superintendent of police Bhimsen Tuti said the police had detained 10 residents on suspicion of having attacked the police but had allowed nine of them to go by Tuesday evening.
“We have video evidence of protestors attacking the circle officer and the additional superintendent of police, and are looking for residents who we suspect to have attacked the police on Saturday,” said Tuti. “We acted to carry out a preventive arrest of MLA Nirmala Devi after the NTPC registered two FIRs on September 28 when the farmers blocked the mine vehicles and interrupted mining operations.”
A First Information of Report has been registered against Devi, her husband former agriculture minister in the state Yogendra Sau, and “500 unnamed persons” and more than 300 police and Rapid Action Force have been stationed in the villages. The police have not been able to detain Nirmala Devi.
Lok Nath Mahto, a former MLA of All Jharkhand Students Union which has formed a coalition government with BJP in Jharkhand expressed surprise that no government official had met the families of the victims since the incident. "The chief secretary and director general of police visited, but even they did not meet the families," said Mahto."What could be be more unfortunate than such an incident?"
On Tuesday, former chief minister Babulal Marandi, former Member of Parliament from Hazaribagh Bhuneshwar Mehta of the Communist Party of India, Rashtriya Janata Dal state president Gautam Sagar Rana and Janata Dal (United) district president Bateshwar Mehta were stopped by the district administration from visiting the area. "The administration does not want out the stories of police atrocity to emerge, thus they have made a situation worse than emergency in Badkagaon," said Rana. "We managed to meet some villagers who say all bullet injuries are above the waist. The intention was intimidation of farmers, not dispersal of crowd."
Rapid Action Force personnel and the police were deployed in the villages near the coal mine site on Monday. Credit: Manob Chowdhury
Land war
Badkagaon in Hazaribagh, 150 kilometers from the state capital Ranchi, has been the epicenter of a dogged protest for the last 12 years by farmers who do not want to sell their land to the National Thermal Power Corporation. Their farms lie over the Rs 33,000 crore- Pakri Barwadih coal block. With a 1.6 billion-tonnes reserve, it is one of the largest coal blocks in the country.
According to NTPC data, seven years into the process, it had by 2015 been able to acquire 4,043 acres of the total 8,055 acres needed for the project. This includes forest and government-owned land. Of 8,745 affected families, only 2,614 have accepted compensation.
The farmers’ opposition has forced NTPC to revise the rate of compensation four times, more than doubling it from its initial offer of Rs 8 lakh per acre in 2007 to Rs 20 lakh per acre now. The affected families say this is inadequate compensation for their land and the norms should be four times the market value of land as per the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Several hundred families in 36 villages say they do not wish to sell their farmland at all. “We grow crops here all 12 months,” said Sudhlal Sau, a farmer. “We grow vegetables, pulses, wheat, we are self-sufficient and every morning five to seven trucks loaded with vegetables go from Badkagaon to Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Patratu. What will we eat if you deprive us of our livelihood?” The farmers complained that they had met Chief Minister Raghuvar Das in August, and he had assured them of an enquiry into the issue within ten days but they had not heard back a word since August.
Security personnel in the villages near coal mine site on Monday. Credit: Manob Chowdhury
Contested history
The Pakri Barwadih coal block has a chequered history.
As the Economic Times reported, the NTPC in 2014 cancelled its 27-year contract with its contractor, Thiess Mines. The mining contractor said that while the NTPC was inexplicably willing to spend Rs 7,000 crore on imported coal, it was unwilling to spend Rs 36 crore annually on a better compensation package for the affected villagers.
The NTPC floated a new tender where the mining contractor would have the responsibility for land acquisition and rehabilitation. A consortium of two companies, Thriveni Earthmovers and Sainik Mining, won the new tender last year and promised to start mining by the end of 2016. Thriveni has been accused of illegal mining in Odisha by the Shah Commission.
At the time of publishing, response from NTPC to a questionnaire was still awaited.
Thriveni Earthmovers amid fields in Badkagaon. Thriveni and Sainik Mining were given mining contract in Badkagaon last year. Image credit: Manob Chowdhury
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Virgin Galactic stages second piloted spaceflight
February 22, 2019 William Harwood
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION
Virgin Galactic chief pilot Dave Mackay and co-pilot Michael “Sooch” Masucci at the controls of SpaceShipTwo during Friday’s test flight. Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, accompanied the pilots on the flight to the edge of space. Credit: Virgin Galactic
Two test pilots and their instructor flew Virgin Galactic’s winged spaceplane out of the discernible atmosphere Friday for the second time in nine weeks, a successful sub-orbital flight that moves Richard Branson’s company one step closer to its goal of launching paying passengers and payloads on brief forays into the weightlessness of space.
Running two days late because of high winds, Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo rocketplane, also known as VSS Unity, was carried aloft from the Mojave Air & Space Port north of Los Angeles by a twin-fuselage carrier jet known as WhiteKnightTwo.
After the air and spacecraft were off the ground, Virgin Galactic revealed that chief pilot Dave Mackay and co-pilot Mike “Sooch” Masucci were joined by Beth Moses, the company’s chief astronaut instructor.
A few minutes later, around 11:50 a.m. EST (GMT-5), SpaceShipTwo was released from the carrier jet and a few moments later, Mackay and Masucci ignited the spacecraft’s hybrid rocket motor to begin a steep near-vertical climb out of the thick lower atmosphere.
It was the fifth supersonic flight of the futuristic-looking spaceplane and the 16th overall since a catastrophic 2014 in-flight breakup that destroyed an earlier version of the spacecraft and killed one of its two pilots. Friday’s flight was the company’s second featuring a long-duration rocket firing.
SpaceShipTwo fires its rocket motor during Friday’s test flight. Credit: Virgin Galactic / MarsScientific.com / Trumbull Studios
Branson, who was not on site for the test, said earlier he hopes testing will be complete in time for him to fly into space himself on July 20, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. But he said meeting an arbitrary target will not drive the test schedule and that commercial operations will not begin until all aspects of testing are complete.
“Having Beth fly in the cabin today, starting to ensure that our customer journey is as flawless as the spaceship itself, brings a huge sense of anticipation and excitement to all of us here who are looking forward to experiencing space for ourselves,” Branson said in a statement. “The next few months promise to be the most thrilling yet.”
Friday’s flight appeared to go off without a hitch as the pilots guided the vehicle out of the discernible atmosphere. The rocket motor shut down normally about a minute after ignition and the spacecraft coasted upward at a Virgin record 3.04 times the speed of sound to an altitude of 55.87 miles, or 295,007 feet.
For comparison, NASA pilot Joe Walker flew the air-launched X-15 rocketplane to an altitude of 67.1 miles on Aug. 22, 1963, the highest point ever achieved by the legendary aircraft, 17 miles above the 50-mile altitude the Air Force considers the “boundary” of space.
SpaceShipTwo made its first trip into space Dec. 13, reaching an altitude of 51.4 miles. The two pilots, Mark Stucky and C.J. Sturckow, a former space shuttle commander, were awarded commercial astronaut wings by the Federal Aviation Administration and their rocket motor was put on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Mackay and Masucci flew a similar flight profile Friday, but SpaceShipTwo was rigged more like it will be or commercial flights and the motor fired slightly longer, pushing the vehicle to a higher altitude. And they had a passenger of sorts in Moses.
As the spacecraft arced over at the top of its trajectory, the crew experienced about five minutes of weightlessness as they enjoyed a view of Earth’s curved horizon and the deep black of space. Moses had time to unstrap and float about the cabin.
“Beth floated free to complete a number of cabin evaluation test points,” Virgin said in a post-flight statement. “The human validation of data previously collected via sensors, and the live testing of other physical elements of the cabin interior, are fundamental to the provision of a safe but enjoyable customer experience.”
Before plunging back to Earth, the pilots raised the vehicle’s twin tail booms to an angle of 60 degrees, a maneuver known as “feathering,” that increases atmospheric drag and eases aerodynamic stress.
SpaceShipTwo took off with its carrier airplane from Mojave Air and Space Port, California. Credit: Virgin Galactic
“Beth, Sooch and I just enjoyed a pretty amazing flight which was beyond anything any of us has ever experienced,” Mackay said in a statement. “It was thrilling yet smooth and nicely controlled throughout with a view at the top, of the Earth from space, which exceeded all our expectations.
“For the three of us today this was the fulfillment of lifelong ambitions, but paradoxically is also just the beginning of an adventure which we can’t wait to share with thousands of others.”
The feather concept was the brainchild of legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan. With financing from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Rutan’s company at the time, Scaled Composites, carried out the first privately funded sub-orbital spaceflight in 2004 to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
Branson then arranged to use a scaled-up version of the design and founded Virgin Galactic, which eventually took over development and commercial flight operations.
During Friday’s flight, the feathering procedure worked normally and after rotating the tail booms back to their normal position, Mackay and Masucci flew a normal gliding approach to a runway landing back at the Mojave Air & Space Port.
“The team’s overriding priority is always to bring crew and spaceship home safely,” Virgin said in a pre-flight statement. “Whether we complete all our objectives during the next flight or not, we remain committed to completing the final stages of flight test as quickly, but more importantly as safely, as possible.”
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Getting Geeky with Otis Kenyon Roussanne
Amber LeBeau in Washington wine, Wine grapes, Wine Knowledge, Wine reviews
Going to need more than 60 Seconds to geek out about the 2013 Otis Kenyon Roussanne from Lawrence Vineyards in the Columbia Valley AVA.
Otis Kenyon was founded in 2004 by Steve Kenyon who still runs the winery today with his daughter, Muriel.
The winery’s name comes four generations of Otis Kenyons with the original John Otis Kenyon, a dentist by training, being a notorious figure in Walla Walla for burning down a competitor’s office when the later starting stealing half of Kenyon’s clients.
The labels of Otis Kenyon wines pay tribute to this family history in a playful manner with a silhouette of the original Otis Kenyon with singed edges as well as a red wine blend, Matchless, featuring an open matchbook on the label. The winery’s “business cards” are also matchbooks filled with actual matches.
Along with sourcing fruit from throughout the Columbia Valley, Otis Kenyon has an estate vineyard, Stellar Vineyard, located in the Rocks District of Milton-Freewater on the Oregon side of Walla Walla.
The wines are made by Dave Stephenson, who founded his eponymous Stephenson Cellars in 2001. Prior to working at Otis Kenyon, Stephenson started his career at Waterbrook and today consults for several boutique wineries.
Around 247 cases of the 2013 Otis Kenyon Roussanne were made.
Map showing the proposed Royal Slope AVA (in yellow) where Lawrence Vineyards are located. Prepared by Richard Rupp of Palouse Geospatial.
The Lawrence Vineyards are located on the Frenchman Hills of the Royal Slope of the Columbia Valley basin and includes six named sites–Corfu Crossing (first planted in 2003), Scarline (2003), La Reyna Blanca (2010), Laura Lee (2008), Solaksen (2013) and Thunderstone (2015). The Lawrence family also manages the nearby Boneyard Vineyard that includes five acres of Syrah. All the Lawrence Vineyards are sustainably farmed.
While managing 330+ acres of plantings the Lawrence family also own Gård Vintners which produces around 6000 cases a year sourced from their estate grown fruit and made by Aryn Morell. Together with Morell they also produce Morell-Lawrence Wines (M & L).
The Roussanne used by Otis Kenyon cames from 2007 plantings of the Tablas Creek clone in Corfu Crossing which sits on a south facing slope at an elevation that ranges from 1,365-1,675 ft. The soils here are a mixture of silt and sandy loam on a bedrock of fractured basalt.
Riesling sourced from Lawrence Vineyards has been used in some of the state’s most highly acclaimed Riesling wines.
In addition to Otis Kenyon, M & L and Gård, other wineries that source fruit from Lawrence includes Latta Wines, Southard Winery, Cairdeas, Armstrong Family, Matthews Winery, Pend d’Oreille as well as Chateau Ste. Michelle for their top-end Riesling Eroica.
Other varieties that the Lawrence Vineyards farm include Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Malbec, Merlot, Mouvedre, Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Pinot gris, Sauvignon blanc and Viognier.
The (future) AVA of the Royal Slope
The proposed Royal Slope AVA was formerly delineated and submitted for AVA approval in early 2017. It includes the south facing slopes around Royal City located between the established AVAS of the Ancient Lakes and Wahluke Slope. Within the AVA is a sub-region of the Frenchmen Hills. The lead petitioner for the AVA was geologist Alan Busacca, former professor at Washington State University and Walla Walla Community College who also wrote the successful petitions for the Wahluke Slope, Lake Chelan and Lewis-Clark Valley AVAs.
The topography can range from relatively gentle to fairly steeper slopes of up to 22 degrees in the Frenchmen Hills region. The soils are fairly uniformed in their mixture of sandy and silty loam river deposits covering layers of fractured basalt left over from a period of intense volcanic activity during the Miocene Epoch. These soils are very high in calcium carbonate which may contribute to the strong minerality that wines from the Royal Slope tend to exhibit.
Throughout the growing season the region sees heat units (growing degree days or GDD) ranging from 2700 GDD to over 3000 GDD making it one of the warmest wine regions in the state. However the areas bordering the Ancient Lakes AVA to the northeast can be considerably cooler.
Charles Smith’s highly acclaimed K Vintners Royal City Syrah is sourced from the Stoneridge Vineyard in the proposed Royal Slope AVA.
Elevations range from 900 feet to upwards of 1700 feet with the higher elevation sites seeing much more diurnal temperature variation from the daytime highs to very cool temperatures at night which maintains acidity and keeps the vine from shutting down due to heat stress.
The proposed AVA contains 156,389 acres of which around 1400 have already been planted. Other notable vineyards in this proposed AVA includes Novelty Hill Winery’s estate vineyard Stillwater Creek, Frenchmen Hills Vineyard and Stoneridge
The Grape
Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz note in Wine Grapes that the first recorded documentation of Roussanne occurred in 1781 describing its use in the white wines of Hermitage. The name Roussanne is believed to be derived from the French term roux and could refer to the russet golden-red color of the grapes’ skins after veraison.
DNA analysis shows that there is a likely parent-offspring relationship with Marsanne but it is not yet known which variety is the parent and which is the offspring.
The reddish bronze hue that Roussanne grapes get after veraison likely contributes to the grape’s name.
In the northern Rhône regions of St. Joseph, Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage, Roussanne adds acidity, richness and minerality when paired with Marsanne. It can also be used in the sparkling Northern Rhone wines of St. Peray. As a varietal it can have a characteristic floral and herbal verbena tea note.
Unlike Marsanne and Viognier, Roussanne is a permitted white grape variety in the red and white wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape where today it makes up around 6% of the commune’s plantings as the third most popular white grape behind Grenache blanc and Clairette.
From a low point of 54 ha (133 acres) in 1968 plantings of Roussanne steadily grew throughout the late 20th century to 1074 ha (2654 acres) by 2006. Outside of the Rhone, the grape can be found in the Savoie region where it is known as Bergeron and is the sole variety in the wines of Chignin-Bergeron. In the Languedoc-Roussillon it is often blended with Chardonnay, Bourboulenc and Vermentino as well as Grenache blanc and Marsanne.
Roussanne is a late-ripening variety that is very prone to powdery mildew, botrytis and shutting down from excessive heat stress towards the end of the growing season.
Even in ideal conditions, Roussanne can be a troublesome producer in the vineyard with uneven yields often caused by coulure (also known as “shattering”) when the embryonic grape clusters don’t properly pollinate during fruit set after flowering. A significant cause of this is poor management by the vine of its carbohydrate reserves which the vine begins storing for the next year after the harvest of the previous vintage. Other factors at play can include nutrient deficiencies in the soil–particularly of boron and zinc with the later often being exacerbated in high pH soils.
During fruit set (shown here with Merlot), flowers that weren’t pollinated will “shatter” and not develop into full berries. This creates uneven yields with clusters having a mix of fully formed and “shot” berries. Roussanne is particularly susceptible to this condition.
Other varieties that are similarly susceptible to coulure include Grenache, Malbec, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel and Gewürztraminer.
A Case of Mistaken Identity
Prior to phylloxera, Roussanne was relatively well-established in California in the 19th century with plantings in Napa, Sonoma and Santa Clara where it was often blended with Petite Sirah. However, following phylloxera and Prohibition in the 20th century, most all Roussanne vineyards were uprooted.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, producers in California began experimenting again with the variety. In 1994, Chuck Wagner of Caymus Vineyards in Napa purchased 6400 Roussanne vines for his Mer Soleil project. The vines he purchased came from Sonoma Grapevines owned by the Kunde family who originally sourced their cuttings from a vineyard owned by Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon (who did not know that Kunde was going to commercially propagate them). The Bonny Doon cuttings came from a visiting Châteauneuf-du-Pape winemaker.
Many plantings of Roussanne in California in the 1980s and 1990s turned out to be Viognier (pictured).
Four years later a visiting viticulturalist identified the plantings in the Mer Soleil vineyard not as Roussanne but rather as Viognier–an identification that was later confirmed by DNA testing at UC-Davis. The discovery unleashed a cascading effect of lawsuits and countersuits from various parties involved as well as a hunt for true Roussanne plantings in California.
Tablas Creek Winery in Paso Robles began importing their Roussanne cuttings directly from their sister-property, Château de Beaucastel, in Châteauneuf-du-Pape in 1989. Additionally, John Alban began sourcing authentic Roussanne cuttings in 1991 with nearly all of the 323 acres of Roussanne vines in California (as of 2017) now being descendant from the Tablas and Alban vines.
Roussanne in Washington
Paul Gregutt notes in Washington Wines and Wineries that Roussanne in Washington “… can taste like a real fruit salad mix, everything from apples, citrus and lime to peaches, honey and cream.”
The grape was pioneered in Washington by Doug McCrea, the state’s original Rhone Ranger, of McCrea Cellars and Cameron Fries of White Heron Cellars in the 1990s. While varietal examples can be found, the grape is mostly used as a blending component in Rhone-style blends with Grenache blanc, Viognier and Marsanne.
Along with Doug McCrea of McCrea Cellars, Cameron Fries of White Heron Cellars (pictured) helped pioneer Roussanne in Washington State.
By 2017, there were 71 acres of Roussanne planted in Washington.
In addition to the plantings of Lawrence Vineyard, there are notable acreages of Roussanne on Red Mountain at Ciel du Cheval Vineyard, Stillwater Creek, Boushey Vineyard in the Yakima Valley and at Alder Ridge, Destiny Ridge and Wallula Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills.
Medium intensity nose–tree fruits like spiced pear and apricot with a citrus grassy component that could be verbena.
On the palate the wine is very full-bodied and weighty with almost an oily texture. The spiced pear notes definitely come through with that herbal citrus tinge. Medium-plus acidity is still giving the wine freshness and balancing the weight. The moderate length finish ends on the pear and herbal notes.
I’m usually skeptical about how well many domestic white wines age but this 2013 Otis Kenyon Roussanne is holding on quite well for a 4+ year old white. The acidity seems to be the key and is a helpful balance to the full-bodied fruit.
The big weight and texture of this wine is reminiscent of a lightly oak Chardonnay with no malolactic and would serve as a good change of a pace for not only a Chardonnay drinker but also a red wine fan who is craving something very food friendly to go with heavier cream sauces, pork and poultry dishes.
At $25-30, this wine offers a fair amount of complexity and is definitely worth trying.
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A blog about world events particularly sporting one's
Bristol Rovers one step away
Admittedly, this is not the start to the season some Rovers fans were expecting, after playing poorly and being relegated on the final day of last season, many were expecting a triumphant return to the football league this season as either champions or by easily going through the end of season play-off’s.
Whilst this is a small minority their unrealistic expectations have led to an almost toxic atmosphere at the football club at the moment, something I was reminded of in the early stages of our latest home game against Wrexham on Tuesday night. Wrexham were unbeaten in their last 3 away games and started brightly against us, creating several chances and looking far more convincing in the opponent’s final third. At this point some of the fans started to voice their frustration with the team, with little encouragement coming from the Blackthorn end at this point.
From here thankfully things improved for Rovers as they edged their way into the game and took the lead with an Andy Monkhouse header from a corner in the 34th minute. Once we took the lead, Rovers fans showed themselves at their best as they began heartily singing and supporting the team from here until the final 10 minutes, when a edgy Rovers just managed to hold of a threatening Wrexham team. For the majority of the game Rovers fans showed themselves to be one of the loudest supports in the lower leagues, from League 1 downwards.
If Rovers fans could consistently match they hype surrounding their support, the team would have a hugely positive presence at every game cheering them on. Granted, recently this sounds like wishful thinking after early losses to part time teams such as Altrincham and Braintree. It’s not simply the losses but the poor manner in which we played those games, which have led a select view to voice their opinion that Darrell Clarke should be sacked. Whilst the games have not been great I personally can’t see any positives to sacking Darrell Clarke so early in the season, especially since he came into the worst possible situation before the final run-in last season.
Clarke has proved he can cut it at this level with Salisbury City, and deserves a full season at Rovers at the very least to prove his worth at the club during this transition period for Bristol Rovers. By far the biggest issue at the moment with Bristol Rovers seems to be emanating from the boardroom. The lack of investment in any other area apart from the new UWE stadium is worrying at the very least, with the recent news that Rovers are now suing Memorial stadium buyers Sainsbury’s shows all is not well with the stadium also.
It seems in my opinion that owner Nick Higgs has sacrificed financial investment to improve the results on the pitch, in favour of pouring money into this new stadium. Whilst the stadium is a brilliant idea and will secure a lot of money for the club in the future, the investment needed at the present moment seems to have affected the club. In calling for Higgs to invest more into the squad I’m not asking for him to sign Messi, Ronaldo or Bale I simply feel we need a slight investment to strengthen our already decent squad. Investment in players would also appease the fans and keep them on side for a time until the row with Sainsbury’s is resolved.
In conclusion, whilst I want the new stadium as much as anyone else, I will not be able to fully believe it until I see it with my own eyes. The potential is huge but so is the risk, something we can ill afford right now with our current position in the Vanarama Conference. It’s unlikely my hopes of squad investment in the near future will come to fruition, though I can still dream. Whatever happens with Bristol Rovers you’ll be able to find me on match day supporting the team from the Blackthorn end terraces, something that will hopefully drown out the doomongers amongst us who seemingly want Rovers and Darrell Clarke to go downhill. That would be a tragedy for Bristol’s finest sporting club, I admit I have no evidence on that and am writing from a totally biast standpoint yet everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Posted in Bristol rovers, Football and tagged bristol rovers, Darrell Clarke, Football, Non league football, UK, Vanarama conference, West Country, Wrexham on September 11, 2014 by brfcjordan95. Leave a comment
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Adventures with Your Neighbors
Leah Willis, Springmoor’s Resident Life Director and master adventure planner
Springmoor has an active tour schedule planned for the spring. Have you made reservations for the adventure to the zoo or to the museum? Would you prefer an afternoon tea at Fearrington or a trip to the Durham Bulls ballpark for nine innings of spring baseball? What’s your style? Leah Willis, our Resident Life Director, has planned an exciting and varied spring schedule for our residents. She has outdoor tours and evening dinners, lunch outings, movies and so much more on our calendar. Residents will want to make reservations immediately for these great trips as they all fill up quickly.
The calendar is published each month and in the residents’ mailboxes by the middle of the proceeding month. Those on our Wait List receive a schedule too. If transportation is available, Wait List participants are welcome to join the trip. Of course, if a Wait List participant wants to meet us at our destination, that’s also a possibility depending on our reservations. Every adventure is more fun with a friend and neighbor.
The Whirligig Park in Wilson
Whirligig Park & Museum
Our May calendar has a trip to Wilson to see the wind-powered sculptures of world renowned artist and engineer, Vollis Simpson. The Whirligig Park was designed to bring art and science together. The colors, motion and sounds will certainly dazzle you!
Vollis Simpson brings art and science together with his whirligigs
The New York Times described Simpson as “a visionary artist of the junkyard…who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land.” His interest in moving parts began when he was young. His father was in the house moving business. After the war, Vollis opened a machinery repair shop. His collection of odd parts continued to grow through the years. After his retirement, he began to construct enormous windmills in his yard and the field of whirligigs soon began.
The Aloha Zoo in Cameron
Aloha Safari Zoo
This working zoo in Cameron is a true family affair. Lee Crutchfield’s mother, father and sister all have roles in the daily activities. “This is God’s gift to me. Every single day, I get to do the work I love,” he says. Rescuing animals in need has been his mission for many years. The Aloha Safari Zoo opened in 2010 and covers 60 acres. They are licensed for up to 500 animals and now have a current population of 450. The habitats are constructed with hurricane strength enclosures. They are all equipped with ultraviolet lighting to provide Vitamin D for its wide variety of species.
The animal’s are artists
You will certainly want to stop by and see the Animal Art Gallery while you are there. Using non-toxic, water-based tempera paint and a canvas, they let the animals paint with their tails, toes or a brush. The artwork sales go to the upkeep of the park and the care of their animals.
Afternoon Tea at Fearrington
Afternoon Tea at Fearrington Village
Would you prefer a quiet afternoon cup of tea? Tea sandwiches, French cakes, Southern-inspired tarts and jams from the Fearrington House Restaurant are a wonderful accompaniment to a loose-leaf tea or herbal flavored teas. Hot cinnamon, Organic green with Citrus, Peppermint or Fresh Mint are just a few of the many tea options on the menu.
Fearrington Village is home to a dairy farm, restaurants and gift shops
Located just outside of Chapel Hill, the Fearrington House Restaurant has been offering fine dining for nearly 40 years. They are honored to be on the AAA Five Diamond list since 1995. There is an independent bookstore, a luxury women’s boutique, gift shop and wine shop in the Village. The Fearrington family established the 640-acre property as a dairy farm in 1930. Although the original owners have sold the land, the farm continues to be an important part of the community with gardens and animals providing many of the garnishes for the restaurant’s menus.
Take me out to the ballpark
If an afternoon at the ballpark is more your cup of tea, then we invite you to join us for hotdogs, popcorn and a few curve balls at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Triple-A minor league baseball in the 10,000 seat stadium is a must see in our area. The ballpark was designed with many of the same characteristics of an old-time park complimenting the historic downtown Durham architecture. The Snorting Bull, the park’s most distinctive feature, was modeled after the bull used in the popular Bull Durham movie.
The snorting bull was used in the famous Bull Durham movie
Last year the Durham Bulls were the Triple-A National Champs beating the Memphis Redbirds for the title. They have won the International League championship twice and look forward to a successful 2018 season ahead. Watch the calendar for the Springmoor date to join your neighbors for some of the best baseball in the area along with a chili dog and a bag of peanuts!
Vivian Howard’s exceptional storytelling and recipes from the south can be found in her book, Deep Run Roots
Chef & The Farmer
Vivian Howard, owner and chef, is this year’s award winner of the James Beard Foundation Best Television Personality. A Chef’s Life is the only television series ever to win a Peabody, an Emmy and a James Beard Award. Her fifth season begins on PBS in September. Her restaurant and her book, Deep Run Roots, is the recipient of many awards. Located in Kinston, Vivian and her husband, Ben, came home to North Carolina to be close to family. Her original plan was to become a journalist. Food became her passion after working at a few restaurants in New York City.
Vivian with the Travel Channel’s Andrew Zimmern
With her father’s encouragement (the farmer in the restaurant’s name), they opened Kinston’s first fine dining restaurant, the only one in a 100-mile radius. Travelers have made Chef & The Farmer a destination dining spot and now come from all over the nation to taste the southern ingredients she so carefully prepares.
What’s on your calendar this spring? There’s a trip to the Bird Park in Scotland Neck and a Home and Garden Tour on the schedule. A trip to North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro and a Garden Tour with a Master Gardener is also planned for our residents this spring. So much to see, so much to do! Mark your calendars now for an adventure with your neighbors.
We invite you to schedule a tour and find out more about our busy calendar at Springmoor.
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When You War for the Crown, You Win or You Die
As the Ruins of Azlant sink below the waves, a new age dawns across the Inner Sea. Discord is coming to Taldor. More accurately: the discord that has simmered quietly just beneath the staid surface of Taldor is ready to boil over, and consume the remnants of the once-great empire. Taldor's end is in sight, and has been for a thousand years. The end may be a generation away, or a century, or an age, but always it closes. The nations passengers know they plod steadily toward to edge of the world, and yet the captains at the wheel refuse to see, refuse to change the course. Most Adventure Paths aim to save the world from a new and immediate threat to emerge on the scene, but the villain threatening to destroy Taldor is entropy and tradition. And victory means changing how a whole nation thinks. Victory means winning the War for the Crown.
War for the Crown began two years ago, as an idea I pitched as part of the meetings that eventually led to Ironfang Invasion Adventure Path. I wanted players to feel like they had some real stake in the future of the Inner Sea region, but the worry at the time was that my first AP should be something more traditional while I learned the ropes. I put my notes in a drawer and a year later I brought them back out, and this time I dug my feet in. This time I wanted to tackle one of my first loves of the Inner Sea: Taldor! And I wanted the PCs to help flesh out this maligned and oversimplified nation—seen as little more than laughable aristocracy stereotypes—into a complex nation on par with Andoran and Cheliax. I wanted Taldor to have a future and I wanted the PCs to help guide it there.
And that's what we got.
The final War for the Crown evolved a lot from those first notes. In my first draft, the PCs chose one of three inheritors to back, and the adventure text itself would abstract the adventure a little more, referring to the major NPCs as the Patron, the Ally, and the Adversary. As much as I loved this idea, the problem is that it means about 1/3 of each volume would be useless to any given group (and no I couldn't make the books any longer; I asked). It also caused problems in not being able to flesh out specific NPCs very well, since any given NPC would need to serve one of three masters. Eventually we started asking which of the three candidates would be the "canon" inheritor of the Primogen Crown, and opted to focus the entire AP around working for them.
That "canon" inheritor, who now ends up your patron, was Princess Eutropia. Not exactly shocking, given that we've teased her revolutionary leanings and political goals since the original Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting back in 2008. The lady's worked hard and wants try steering Taldor away from its 600-year status quo of slow ruin, and there are more than a few traditionalists who think she hasn't earned it, or that she has sinister motives, or just that a woman needs to know her place. Grand princess Eutropia going into the second decade of Golarion's existence doesn't just move the timeline forward, it means Taldor becomes a nation of tradition vs. progress and old vs. new, a nation of backroom political intrigue where fortunes and family fates hang in the balance. Not just a stagnant world of laughable, foppish nobles.
And if your group doesn't particularly want to back Eutropia for the throne? If they want to select their own candidate or make their own grab for power? The core plot of War for the Crown is (hopefully) designed to still be flexible enough that a GM can adapt to a different inheritor taking center stage for their campaign. The foreword for #127: Crownfall has a few notes and suggestions for adapting the campaign to your own table.
Interchangeable Pieces
One of the big goals for War for the Crown was a campaign with a lot of fun player options for tables to use or ignore depending on their own preferences. Several adventures use the various social combat and influence rules from Pathfinder: Ultimate Intrigue, but GMs should feel free takes the NPC personality notes and goals and let their tables simply play out dramatic scenes. Volume 2 introduces two special subsystems to capture two different aspects of Taldor: The Cults of Personality—so PCs can feel like movers and shakers all on their own—and the Relics system—which introduces magic items that grow stronger as their wielder accomplished great things on behalf of their people. Social, scheming tables will find the first system a delightful little distraction between game sessions, directing their psychophants and hangers-on to spy, spread word of their awesomeness, or rob the public blind. More combat-oriented tables will love the second, as your favorite sword or armor or ring grows cooler and more powerful just like your character does. Neither is central to the AP plot. Both suit the mood.
Humanity and NPCs
One of the challenges in a campaign built around intrigue and politics is finding motivation and personality for everyone involved, as almost anyone can serve as a friend, an ally of convenience, or an enemy, depending on a given table. Everyone needs a little personality and motivation, because hey, who isn't above a bribe? I had wanted to get rid of alignment altogether, because the nine-alignment system seemed overly simplistic for the complex moralities that lie at the heart of good political dramas, but apparently the alignments are "traditional" and "integral to several spells, class features, and monsters."
I tried guys.
Instead I've opted for showcasing little bits of NPC motivations and personality. Maxillar Pythareus might be a distant asshole who thinks women should be at home bearing kids, but his face brightens up if you want to talk war history and miniature wargames. Kalbio of Breezy Creek might be kind of an annoying hick, but dammit if he isn't just SO INVESTED in everything, because Oppara is SO BIG you guys. And Eutropia, the sophisticated dilettante, the respectable princess-come-social reformer? She is exactly the kind of nerd who would name her dog a pun.
As part of humanizing the characters, the running theme for this AP's foreword illustrations is showing where they came from: A major NPC's childhood illustrated, largely without comment, in each volume. Here are the first three.
Illustrations by Miguel Regodon Harkness
War for the Crown is an Adventure Path with very human opponents and very human consequences. Failure doesn't mean the apocalypse, just a continuation of Taldor's current course and slow decline. Someone may change things in the future, but those who suffer in the current system won't stop suffering until someone changes Taldor's course.
War for the Crown kicks off in just a couple weeks with Pathfinder Adventure Path #127: Crownfall, and you can still preorder or subscribe now!
And I'm going to close out this blog with the motivational poster that's been watching over my desk since I started the earliest outlining stages of War for the Crown, guiding and encouraging me along the way. If you ever think you're not doing good enough, always remember:
Crystal Frasier
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Curse of the Crimson Throne Player's Guide
Oct 6, 2016, 02:00 pm
All the information you need to start and run a Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign is included in the new hardcover edition, but what if you're planning on being a player in the campaign instead? Well then, this blog post is for you! Alternately, you can check out the original Curse of the Crimson Throne Player's Guide we produced back in 2008 for even more details—most of the rules mechanics in that book have long since been updated to the Pathfinder RPG, with one notable exception—the Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign traits. These traits are presented in full detail in the hardcover edition, but they are also reprinted in this blog post for you to peruse with ease.
Illustration by Miguel Regodon Harkness
Curse of the Crimson Throne is primarily an urban-based campaign set in the city of Korvosa in southeastern Varisia, although there are a few lengthy portions of the Adventure Path that take place outside of Korvosa's walls. To a certain extent, these portions of the game are intended to force urban-themed PCs out of their comfort zone, but the reverse certainly holds true. You can absolutely play a barbarian or druid or other nature-themed PC in Curse of the Crimson Throne, but you should come up with an in-character reason to explain why your non-urban character is in Korvosa at the start of the campaign, as well as why you'd want to stay in Korvosa as things inevitably start to go bad for the city. Building strong links to other player characters is a great solution—your druid or barbarian might normally just abandon the city, but not when a close friend or relative or other ally who lives in the city is in danger!
Character Races
Korvosa is predominantly a human city, although all of the PC races in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook are welcome within its walls. Korvosa itself was founded many years ago by Cheliax, and most of its human citizens are of the Chelaxian ethnicity today as a result, although there are large numbers of Varisians, Taldans, and Vudrani present within the city walls as well.
Shoanti are also quite common, although they tend to be less welcome in certain parts of the city and face the specter of racism that lingers still in Korvosa, thanks in part to the city's unfortunate history of Chelaxian conquerors claiming the land from the Shoanti and forcing them to flee to the northeast to the harsh Cinderlands. While a Shoanti character may be subjected to bigotry from some of Korvosa's more narrow-minded citizens, having a Shoanti PC may open up other advantages later in the campaign. Other ethnicities are rare but not unknown in the city.
Dwarves mostly hail from nearby Janderhoff, many of whom have ties to robust trade and mercantilism between Korvosa and the nearby Sky Citadel.
Elves and gnomes are relatively rare in Korvosa, but not so much that they'd turn heads when spotted walking down the city streets.
Halflings are relatively common in the city; many have escaped from lives as slaves in Cheliax to the south, and many of Korvosa's shipping concerns have large numbers of halfling sailors on their payroll.
Half-elves and half-orcs are present in the city as well, but while half-elves can generally pass uncommented upon, many of Korvosa's inhabitants (particularly the Shoanti, who have a long, bitter history with orcs) react poorly to half-orc presences; bigotry and fear are unfortunately not uncommon against these oft-misunderstood folk.
Curse of the Crimson Throne, as an urban-themed campaign, presents numerous opportunities for intrigue-based characters to shine, yet there remain plenty of old-fashioned dungeon crawls and dangerous combats awaiting as well. As with all campaigns, having a balanced party with regards to combat prowess, magical ability, and intrigue skills will go a long way toward success.
Character Classes:
Alchemist, Arcanist, Magus, Sorcerer, Summoner, Witch, Wizard: Korvosa is welcoming to those who specialize in arcane magic, and there are numerous opportunities for an arcane spellcaster to flourish in the city—and being an adventurer is certainly one option for prosperity! One important thing to keep in mind, though, is that Korvosa's most well-known school for arcane spellcasters, the Acadamae, does not play a significant role in Curse of the Crimson Throne. If you wish your character to be associated with the Acadamae, speak to your GM or build your character so those links are relatively minor. All of the standard familiars are good choices in Korvosa. There is a long-standing feud in the city between imps (who've escaped servitude to Acadamae students and teachers) and pseudodragon-like creatures called house drakes. Both of these are classic choices for improved familiars. (A spellcaster must be 7th level and chaotic good to gain a house drake as a familiar; full statistics for these tiny dragons appear in Curse of the Crimson Throne.) Other commonly seen improved familiars in Korvosa include dire rats, lyrakien, nosois, and pseudodragons, but anything approved by your GM could serve.
Barbarian, Bloodrager, Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Skald: These classes are not normally associated with urban regions, but as long as you have a reason for your character to live in or be on an extended visit to Korvosa, the campaign will accommodate such characters (and in fact, when the plot moves beyond the city walls, such characters may well be particularly helpful!). A character associated with one of the Shoanti quahs might provide some additional advantages or opportunities as the campaign progresses, particularly if the PC hails from one of the quahs that dwells in the Cinderlands (the Lyrune-Quah, the Sklar-Quah, or the Skoan-Quah)—although if your PC is a member of one such tribe, don't assume that you'll be automatically welcomed back into your tribe's arms after spending a significant amount of time in Korvosa! Classes that take animal companions should be able to function normally in Korvosa—after all, this is a city where defenders mounted on hippogriffs exist. The sight of someone with an exotic animal companion is unlikely to raise many eyebrows, provided the animal companion is well behaved. Nonetheless, there are certain types of animal companions that are more commonly encountered in this part of Varisia, including alligators, badgers, bears, birds, boars, dogs, horses, ponies, small cats (mostly firepelt cougars), wolverines, and wolves.
Bard, Investigator, Rogue, Slayer, Swashbuckler: These intrigue-focused characters make excellent choices for an urban campaign like Curse of the Crimson Throne. Korvosa has a wide range of organizations and groups that characters like this can belong to, but the campaign works best for "freelancers"—intrigue-based characters who haven't yet selected a group to associate with, be they underground guilds or high society. As the Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign progresses, you'll encounter several groups with which your intrigue-themed character might ally with or oppose, and coming to these groups without having a strong affiliation at the outset makes for a more rewarding play experience. Of course, there's one group your intrigue-focused character should start quite loyal to—that of the player character party! If you want to associate with a particular group, speak to your GM before the game begins. Note also that any of these intrigue-focused characters could benefit from the specific information provided below for vigilante characters.
Brawler, Cavalier, Fighter, Monk: As with intrigue-focused characters, there are numerous options for martial classes to flourish in Korvosa. The most appropriate group to ally with in this campaign would be the Korvosan Guard, which serves as the city's police force and plays a significant role in the campaign. Other groups, like the Hellknight Order of the Nail and the Sable Company have specific roles to play in Curse of the Crimson Throne that make them poor choices for PCs. If you wish to associate with one of these two groups, speak with your GM before the game.
Cleric, Inquisitor, Oracle, Warpriest: All four of these divine spellcasting classes are well known and welcome in Korvosa—provided they do not use their religious beliefs and zeal to cause trouble. Consult the Religions section below for further details.
Kineticist, Medium, Mesmerist, Occultist, Psychic, Spiritualist: There are a few opportunities for psychic classes to particularly shine throughout the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, be they links to the deep themes of spiritualism associated with the Harrow or explorations of particularly notorious haunted sites. Make sure your GM is familiar with and comfortable with options from Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures before choosing one of these classes for your character.
Paladin: Paladins are an excellent choice for Curse of the Crimson Throne—with one caveat: do not let the lawful portion of your alignment rule your play choices. Things rapidly get out of control and go bad in Korvosa as the campaign unfolds, and your paladin's choices should put her or him firmly on the side of the PCs. Speak to your GM before playing a paladin in this game. As a general rule, it's probably better to play a paladin of a neutral good deity than of a lawful neutral deity in Curse of the Crimson Throne.
Ranger: If you choose to play a ranger, make sure to consult the information above for other nature-themed classes (barbarian, druid, etc.), including advice on animal companions. Note also that while Korvosa has a ranger-themed organization that operates within its walls (the Sable Company), that group is not a great choice for association with as a player character. If you wish to be associated with the Sable Company, clear it with your GM before play. The best options for favored enemy are animal, humanoid (human), undead, and vermin. These choices remain strong in the later parts of the campaign, but outsider (evil) and outsider (native) grow stronger as options. Most other favored enemy choices will be represented now and then in the campaign, but not nearly as often. The best favored terrain choices are (in descending order of importance) urban, underground, desert, swamp, and plains.
Gunslinger, Ninja, Samurai: These three classes are all but unknown in Korvosa. While samurai and gunslingers can fit in well with other martial-focused classes and ninja fit in well with intrigue-focused classes, there are no specific themes in Korvosa tailored specifically for these exotic class choices.
Vigilante: Korvosa's current political climate is ripe for the attention of a vigilante. In fact, the city already has one notorious legend in this category: Blackjack, a figure at once beloved and reviled, is a masked hero who has fought for Korvosa's downtrodden for many decades. Rumors about his or her identity, race, and gender are across the board, as are opinions as to whether Blackjack is one person or a role held by several over the course of the city's growth. Whatever the truth, Blackjack has been lying low of late, perhaps retired, perhaps dead, or perhaps (as the downtrodden hope) merely waiting for the right time to burst back onto the scene. Of course, this means the city is potentially ready for a new vigilante to look up to or to fight against. Your vigilante could even be interested in taking on the role of Blackjack, although if you do so, speak to your GM first to determine how that might be worked out.
Prestige Classes: The Harrow plays a significant role in Curse of the Crimson Throne, and as such, the harrower prestige class from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide would make a particularly interesting choice for anyone who can qualify for it. Certain prestige classes are associated with key organizations in Golarion, and some of those organizations have key roles to play in Curse of the Crimson Throne. As such, these prestige classes are inappropriate for use in this campaign, but in order to avoid spoiling too much, those classes are not called out here. If you wish to build your character toward a specific prestige class, make sure to let your GM know as soon as possible so that she or he can either approve or deny your choice based on whether it makes sense to take levels in that class for Curse of the Crimson Throne.
The Common tongue is the most appropriate language for this campaign, but two others that will see a lot of use are Shoanti and Varisian. Beyond these three obvious choices, Orc, Thassilonian, and Vudrani will have some sporadic uses here and there. You can expect to encounter the typically wide range of creatures in a lengthy campaign, with more common languages (such as Dwarven, Elven, and Draconic) likely being more useful than obscure ones (such as Azlanti, Cyclops, or Orvian), which may not have much use at all.
Korvosa is tolerant of a wide range of religions and doesn't favor any one faith over another. The city's largest and most publicly active temple is the Bank of Abadar, but the city also hosts temples devoted to Asmodeus, Pharasma, Sarenrae, and Shelyn. Beyond these temples, the Pantheon of the Many in southern Korvosa represents 17 of the core 20 deities of the Inner Sea region—the only three deities who are not represented here are Gorum, Lamashtu, and Rovagug. While worship of Gorum isn't illegal in the city, his following has never been strong in the region (even among the Shoanti, who prefer a more shamanistic or druidic form of worship). While the faiths of Zon-Kuthon, Urgathoa, and Norgorber are represented in the Pantheon of the Many, their shrines are generally unused and neglected. When choosing a faith for your character, it's best overall to avoid worshiping an evil deity—if you do wish to worship such a deity, speak to your GM as your choice may be inappropriate (for reasons beyond alignment!) for this campaign.
Campaign Traits
Korvosa, like any city, has its share of undesirables. Cutpurses, thugs, thieves, burglars, assassins, and lowlifes of every sort can be found in waterfront slums, creeping in the sewers, or hiding in the tangled rooftop-scape known as the Shingles. The Korvosan Guard does what it can to keep the city's criminals from causing too much harm, but the cold reality is that crooks will always outnumber the law. And that means some crimes go unpunished and some criminals see great success.
The worst of these, perhaps, are the city's crime lords. Dozens of them operate in Korvosa today, from the scheming leader of the Cerulean Society all the way down to the Varisian Sczarni thugs who preside over a gang of a half-dozen friends and cousins. These minor crime lords are often, ironically, the ones who do the most damage to Korvosa's law-abiding citizens, as larger organizations have little need to bother commoners. One such undesirable is Gaedren Lamm, a despicable wretch who missed his chance at being somebody big in Korvosa's murky underworld. Well past his prime, the decrepit thief abducts orphans and forces them to support his parasitic lifestyle with petty crime. Many members of Korvosa's lower class have had dealings with Lamm, and even a few of the city's middle class and nobility have had their lives complicated by this foul old man. Yet no matter what he does, he always seems to slip away from the guards and avoid answering for his crimes.
Gaedren Lamm's luck is about to change, though. For among those his actions have recently touched are men and women destined to become some of Korvosa's greatest heroes—your player characters!
Before your Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign begins, look through the following Campaign Traits and select one that works well for your character. These traits detail how your PCs has been wronged by Gaedren Lamm, and set up the initial events for the Adventure Path—events that may well allow you and your fellow PCs to see that Gaedren Lamm answers for his terrible crimes, be that in a court of law or at the edge of a vengeful blade.
The campaign traits all tie Gaedren to a PC, and represent historical snippets that explain how this detestable crime lord has affected each PC in the past. Each trait is categorized into one of six unique themes with two separate choices for each campaign trait. In addition to selecting one of these campaign traits, each player should select an additional character trait; see Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide for more rules on character traits.
Campaign Traits:
You were hardly a model citizen as a child or young adult. Your reasons for turning to a life of crime may be varied, but what matters is that you eventually fell in with a certain well-connected and notorious crime lord named Gaedren Lamm. His reputation as a snake and a treacherous scoundrel was known to you, but for reasons of your own, you chose not to turn him down when he offered you a chance to work for him. You may have assumed you were an exception, or that you'd be able to handle him, or perhaps even planned to betray him. As it worked out, though, Gaedren got the upper hand and took you down you first. You may have served time in jail, may have been beaten by his thugs and left for dead, or could simply have had your profits stolen out from under you. Whatever the cause, Gaedren wronged you, and you are eager for the chance to get revenge.
Choose one of the following benefits.
Hungry for Revenge: You've never forgiven Gaedren for his betrayal, and have vowed to make him pay for what he did. Whether that's seeing him rot in jail or a shallow grave, you hope to taste vengeance someday. Whenever you deal damage with a melee weapon on a creature that is flat-footed, you gain a +1 trait bonus on the damage roll.
Reformed Criminal: You've given up the life of crime, and managed to talk your way out of any repercussions such as jail time or fines. You've told yourself that you would rather leave your past behind, yet the concept of seeing Gaedren Lamm pay for his crimes still appeals to you. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Diplomacy checks, and Diplomacy is a class skill for you.
Someone you know has become addicted to shiver, a drug distilled from the venom of tropical arachnids known as dream spiders. The drug induces sleep filled with vivid dreams, during which the user's body shakes and shivers, giving the substance its street name. You've always thought of shiver as a problem of the lower class, but then someone you know overdosed on the stuff. You've done a bit of investigating and have learned that the villain who got your friend addicted in the first place was a crime lord named Gaedren Lamm. Unfortunately, the guards seem to be focused on the bigger dealers. They don't have time to devote many resources to what they've called "a bit player in a beggar's problem." It would seem that if Gaedren's operation is to be stopped, it falls to you.
Addicted Friend: The addict is a friend or lover who might or might not have survived the overdose. Your research into the drug scene and local politics has given you a respectable education in street knowledge. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Knowledge (local) checks, and Knowledge (local) is a class skill for you.
Personal Addiction: You were the addict. You blame Gaedren for your brush with death and hate how his drugs are causing similar problems among other youths. Fortunately, your body recovers quickly from toxins, and you gain a +1 trait bonus on Fortitude saving throws.
Someone you know and love was accused of murder. A supposed eyewitness account from a local fisherman seemed to be enough to seal the case, but the accused had enough alibis that sentencing wasn't immediate. Someone confronted the fisherman and discovered he was intimidated into providing false witness and forced into planting the murder weapon by the actual murderer—a local crime lord named Gaedren Lamm, whose thugs killed the fisherman before he could recant his testimony. Although this removed the key witness and resulted in the accused being set free, the stigma was enough to badly damage the accused's reputation. If you can find Gaedren, you're sure you can find evidence that ties him to the murder and can clear the accused's name.
Dropout: You were the one accused of the murder. Although you were eventually freed when a friend confronted the fisherman and got the truth, the damage had been done. You were forced to leave your school or church. As a result, you were forced to self-train and promised yourself you would become better at your chosen profession despite the spurning of your peers. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Spellcraft checks, and Spellcraft is a class skill for you.
Family Honor: The person who was framed was a family member, perhaps a father or sister. You managed to trick the fisherman into revealing the truth with your skilled tongue. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Bluff checks, and Bluff is a class skill for you.
Someone you loved was knifed to death in a dark alley one night. You were called to the scene by the Korvosan Guard to identify the body, and as rough as that was for you, you also noticed a ring was missing from your loved one's finger. Whoever murdered your loved one stole that ring—you're convinced of it. You've done some investigation on your own and recently found the ring for sale at a local merchant's shop. To your great frustration, you can't yet afford the 500 gp to buy it back, but the merchant did tell you from whom he purchased the ring: a man named Gaedren Lamm. It seems likely this criminal killed your loved one, or at the very least, he knows who did. The only problem is finding him.
All Alone: The murder victim was a lover. With your lover's death, a part of you died as well, leaving you haunted, grim, and prone to dark musings. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Intimidate checks, and Intimidate is a class skill for you.
Orphaned: The murder victim was your only surviving parent. You had to work hard to make ends meet for yourself and any siblings, and often had to scavenge for food. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Survival checks, and Survival is a class skill for you.
You suspect that a child you know has been abducted by Gaedren Lamm. Whatever the relationship, you've heard rumors about "Lamm's Lambs," and of how the old man uses children as pickpockets and agents for his crimes. You've even heard rumors that the child you're looking for has been spotted in the marketplaces in the company of known cutpurses and pickpockets. Although the Korvosan Guard has been understanding of your plight, it has its hands full with "more important" matters these days, it seems, and has not yet been able to learn anything more about Gaedren. No one else is interested in bringing Gaedren down and rescuing his victims—that task falls to you. Yet where could the old scoundrel be hiding?
Missing Sibling: The missing child is a brother or sister. Although everyone else has given up hope, you believe your sibling still lives. Your constant search for the missing sibling has developed into great skill at rumormongering and finding out information from others. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Sense Motive checks, and Sense Motive is a class skill for you.
Missing Son or Daughter: The missing child is your own son or daughter, a niece or nephew, or a child you were charged with protecting. The child was abducted during a trip to the market or other daily event. Your stubbornness and long hours spent searching for rumors grant you a +1 trait bonus on Will saves.
Unhappy Childhood
You spent a period of time as one of Gaedren Lamm's enslaved orphans, doing all manner of dirty work for him. Maybe you were abducted from your parent's home or during a trip to the market. Perhaps the irresponsible matron who ruled your orphanage traded you to him in return for a desperately needed financial loan. Or perhaps you, like most of Gaedren's slaves, were merely a child of the street who succumbed to his promise of regular meals and a roof in return for what he said would be "a little light work." Whatever the case, you spent several years of your life as one of "Lamm's Lambs" before escaping. You've nursed a grudge against the old man ever since.
Religious: One day, while on a job for Gaedren, you found a holy symbol of the god you worship, and intrigued by it, you snuck off to attend services. When Gaedren found out, he beat you to within an inch of your life and broke your holy symbol. Your faith let you block out the pain, and you escaped his control and took shelter in the church, where you spent the rest of your youth. You gain a +2 trait bonus on concentration checks and Constitution checks to stabilize at negative hit points.
Tortured: After you made one too many errors, Gaedren tortured you and left you for dead in a garbage heap. Your scars and memories have motivated you to hone your reaction speed and make you rather jumpy. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Reflex saves.
James Jacobs
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The Giants Are Coming!
It's nearly February, which means it's almost time for the next Pathfinder Adventure Path, Giantslayer! And it all kicks off with Pathfinder Adventure Path #91: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill. Fans of the orc hold of Belkzen should get kick out of this first installment, which starts in the human town of Trunau in Belkzen, and while you'll see plenty of orcs at the beginning of this Adventure Path, we move into giantslaying territory pretty quickly. In fact, the PCs will have to face their first giant before the Battle of Bloodmarch Hill is finished!
The Giantslayer Adventure Path features an almost bewildering variety of Brobdingnagian foes for your PCs to battle and slay, from old favorites like hill giants, stone giants, frost giants, fire giants, cloud giants, and storm giants, to less common colossi like cave giants, marsh giants, slag giants, and ash giants, not to mention cyclopes, ettins, ogres, trolls, and more. We've even got a couple of all new giants—the mongrel giant and the tomb giant—making appearances in Giantslayer, so be sure to take a look at the bestiaries for this AP.
Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak
Illustrations by Dmitry Burmak, Miguel Regodon Harkness, Maichol Quinto
So get ready! In just a few short weeks, the Giantslayer Adventure Path arrives! And keep an eye on this blog for the Giantslayer Player's Guide, which will be here soon, featuring a gazetteer of the town of Trunau (previously featured in Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Towns of the Inner Sea) and all sorts of tips and tricks to make the best giantslaying character out there! Until then, check out some of the art that will appear in the Giantslayer Adventure Path.
Rob McCreary
Tags: Dmitry Burmak Ekaterina Burmak Giantslayer Maichol Quinto Miguel Regodon Harkness Pathfinder Adventure Path
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A First Look at Crown of Fangs
By now I hope you've had a chance to check out Deadly Foes, the hot new Pathfinder Battles set of pre-painted plastic gaming figures from WizKids that's in stores and shipping from the paizo.com warehouse RIGHT NOW! Deadly Foes contains a wide variety of commonly encountered creatures from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and looking at the production-run figures, I think it's one of our finest sets to date. In fact, following up Deadly Foes is a bit intimidating.
Happily, our next set, April's Crown of Fangs, ups the ante in ways that will take me several weeks to fully explore. It's an exciting time for Pathfinder Battles, with lots of new figures and set features unlike anything we've done before.
It's become a bit of a tradition that the first image I post from a new set is that set's limited edition case incentive figure, but in the case of Crown of Fangs, the Court of the Crimson Throne incentive playset is so awesome, so packed with value that I don't have enough time today to go into it in full, glorious detail. Instead, I'd like to show off four figures (including two from the incentive) that give a nice taste of what's in store.
For starters, Crown of Fangs is a bit of an unofficial companion to Paizo's popular Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, now available in a special collected hardcover edition! The set includes many key NPCs, factions, and creature types encountered in that classic Pathfinder campaign, but the set also includes plenty of "generic" figures useful for any fantasy campaign. Today's preview shows off both types of figures.
First up today is the imposing Queen Ileosa Arabasti, wearer of the titular Crown of Thorns and a major, let's say character, in the Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign. Ileosa previously appeared in a different outfit in our Legends of Golarion set a few years back. I'll leave the reasons behind her costume change to the campaign itself, but suffice it to say we thought it would be fitting to include an "after" figure to Legends of Golarion's "before." Queen Ileosa Arabasti is a Medium, rare figure.
Here's another look at Queen Ileosa seated upon the eponymous Crimson Throne itself, the centerpiece of the Court of the Crimson Throne case incentive playset. The seated version of Ileosa seen here also comes in the incentive playset, and is fully removable from the throne, which stands alone as an amazing piece of dungeon dressing.
But it's not just Crimson Throne and Ileosa all the time. Crown of Fangs also includes tons of in-demand figures for commonly encountered foes such as this awesome Bone Devil. The Bone Devil is a Large, uncommon figure, and I simply cannot wait to add a couple of handfuls of these to my personal Pathfinder Battles collection.
Speaking of Pathfinder Battles collections, the best way to make sure you never miss a single figure is to sign up for a Pathfinder Battles Ongoing Subscription, which delivers Pathinder Battles goodness directly to you as it is released. Your subscriptions are the single most important factor in keeping the line healthy with lots of robust offerings, and I'd like to offer a heart-felt "thanks" to all current and future subscribers.
You guys are the best!
Next week, I'll have more awesome Crown of Fangs figures to reveal!
Until then, I remain...
Erik Mona
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Berk the Black Jan 3, 2017, 07:37 pm
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As much as I dislike very rares, most people have not embraced the invisibles. I've managed to get them for fairly reasonable prices. They're worth it. Being able to offer a wide range of races and classes usually brings a smile to any character that is using invisibilty. While I haven't used them all, several have seen lots of table time. I'll continue to pick these up as long as each offers something different. They all go in a box marked "Invisibles" that the players love to dig through.
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I advise buying the remaining singles cheap here:
Auggie´s Games
Because initial prices here are ridiculously high:
Miniature Market
I usually start my singles shopping at Paizo. With my subscriber discounts, some of the seemingly high prices come down to reasonable. But after that, I always go to Auggie's. Great prices, great service. Only thing is, after a while, his stock runs kinda' low for certain miniatures. Then I'll go to Miniature Market. It's odd - sometimes their prices are lower for certain miniatures and sometimes higher, but over all, still usually reasonable, and I can often find a couple of other non-D&D/Pathfinder/WizKids minis I can rebase and use with my regular minis, things like Golem Arcana, Confrontation or even HeroClix.
Berk the Black Jan 4, 2017, 11:17 am
I never thought to go here for D&D miniatures. I do often get Pathfinder minis here, and you're right: A Pathfinder Battles subcription really pays off for them. I'll have to check out some of the other things they might have here...
Marco Massoudi Jan 4, 2017, 02:13 pm
I agree: "Pathfinder Battles" is worth a case subscription!
You get every miniature at least once and the quality (especially the faces and the paint jobs) are much better than with the D&D sets.
That said, i also buy the D&D minis because i like to have different miniatures for the same creature on the table or if Pathfinder hasn´t yet made a mini for the creature.
Here are two new pictures of two D&D minis:
This one has already been done in the "Deadly Foes" set:
Gynosphinx
I like the "Liz Taylor" version from PFB better, but can see the use of another one, especially because it is flying.
This one hasn´t YET been done in PFB:
Androsphinx
I will buy the Pathfinder (Battles) version Bestiary 3 pawn when it comes out.
A matching counterpart to the Pathfinder Battles Gynosphinx would be awesome. The pawn would be great to base it off of.
I'm so pumped for getting a new preview after 5 weeks!
I hope to see renders of the complete "Court of the Crimson Throne" playset or a descriptive text of it's contents.
But a render of one or two regular minis would also suffice.
The best thing for me though, is that Erik already acknowledged the presence of HUGE miniatures in the set(s) after "Crown of Fangs".
Cat-thulhu Jan 6, 2017, 06:45 pm
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No previews this week. I understand it but disappointingly it's a kickstarter advert this week. Plus Erik out for two more after this so we'll be waiting for crown of fangs.
Cleanthes Jan 6, 2017, 10:15 pm
I haven't gotten any of the new MM2 minis in hand yet, but I have to say that the pictures I've seen make the paint jobs looks pretty awful. It's also obvious (to me, anyway) that they're using the same basic sculpts over and over with very few changes made between minis, and I don't just mean the ones where it's just a weapon changed. I think they're using the same basic body for lots of different monsters. The difference in quality between Paizo and WotC minis just seems to me to widen with each set. It's hard for me to believe the same company is producing both lines, the results are so different.
Cat-thulhu Jan 9, 2017, 05:49 am
I agree 100%. Almost every medium has a very sloppy paint job and every PC type mini I pulled had NO FACE to speak of, a blood with a tampo for a face! That said in hand I was very happy with both sphinxes, the black pudding and the beholder - which I did not need at all since I have about 30 from all the releases over the years. Pathfinder battles in leagues ahead in terms of quality. I can only assume it's a QC thing?
Cleanthes Jan 9, 2017, 11:02 am
Cat-thulhu wrote:
I can't help thinking that Wizards is taking advantage of the big influx of new players to 5th Ed. who don't know any better and will buy anything "official". I'm finding there are a lot of minis buyers who want the "official" mini and are reluctant to believe me when I tell them that there are better (and sometimes cheaper!) minis available if they're willing to look at Pathfinder and other lines.
DropBearHunter Jan 9, 2017, 12:12 pm
we should be happy that Pathfinder sets get delayed for the D&D line.
This way the workers get to practice on the other stuff.
Another thing about quality too: If you look back at a lot of the old Wizards minis, even where the paint jobs weren't great, there was often a lot of potential there in the sculpt itself. The standard paint job on the pre-paints often didn't even come close to catching the potential of the sculpt underneath, and on occasion I've repainted them myself to do something with that. (This is true of their Dreamblade line too; there were some *amazing* sculpts in that line that got painted totally monochrome in a way that ignored a wealth of wonderful detail.)
By contrast, Wizkids' Pathfinder minis tend to pretty much use the detail that's there, and Wizkids' D&D minis by and large simply lack the details in the first place. Their ordinary sculpts are just very basic. Their adventurers, for instance, tend not to have lots of gear or sculptural flourishes in their outfits. It's all just very cut-and-paste and uninspired. (The unsculpted faces that you mention, Cat-thulu, are a great example of this.) With the old line, you might feel justified in repainting a poorly painted pre-paint. But with these new ones, there's just not enough potential there to justify the bother.
Steve Geddes Jan 10, 2017, 03:08 am
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It's puzzling.
For me, I only care about the quality when it comes to the rares and large figures and luckily for me I don't see any difference there (many of the D&D rares and huges were terrific, imo and there have definitely been some D&D rares I preferred to the PFB version).
However, paint and sculpt quality for common minis is clearly an issue for most and I can't understand why Wizkids would adopt a different level of detail for what seem on the surface to be essentially two identical product lines (other than branding).
From my distant viewpoint, I can't see any profit motive for Wizards of the Coast at all in lowering the quality - I can't see any savings on production costs flowing through to increased licensing fees.
I can only assume we're seeing the visible effect of Erik's contribution via the approval process. Perhaps WotC's D&D team just don't have the staff any more to devote to overseeing their licensed mini line as carefully as Erik does.
Anguish Jan 10, 2017, 05:04 am
Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path Subscriber
Steve Geddes wrote:
Could be given WotC's brand-recognition, the licensing fee may be higher for them. Meaning that for a given mini, WizKids may earn a lower percentage of its retail cost. They can't raise the price meaningfully, so that means lowering the manufacturing cost, which means quality.
Steve Geddes Jan 10, 2017, 07:59 pm
I discounted that possibility, since even ignoring the inclusion of huges, I thought the D&D price was significantly higher than PF minis. (As such, I figured such differences were already factored in). Maybe that's just the places I shop though. I haven't done much research.
I still like to think it's Erik. :)
Cleanthes Jan 11, 2017, 08:31 pm
I'm confident Erik is a big part of it. It's wonderful knowing that the line is in the hands of someone at least as obsessive about minis as I am. Whoever is approving the recent D&D minis must be blind.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Com. of the ACM, Vol. 57(10), Oct. 2014, p. 47-55
9 Pages Posted: 14 Dec 2014
See all articles by Axel Arnbak
Axel Arnbak
University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR); Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Hadi Asghari
Michel van Eeten
N.A.N.M. van Eijk
Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Date Written: October 5, 2014
Hyptertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) has evolved into the de facto standard for secure web browsing. Through the certificate-based authentication protocol, web services and browsers first authenticate one another (“shake hands”) using a TLS/SSL certificate, then encrypt web communications end-to-end, and show a padlock in the browser to users to indicate a communication is secure. In recent years, HTTPS has become an essential technology to protect social, political, and economic activities online.
Recent breaches at Certificate Authorities (CAs) have exposed several systemic vulnerabilities and market failures inherent in the current HTTPS authentication model. This article outlines the systemic vulnerabilities of HTTPS, maps the thriving market for certificates, and analyzes the suggested regulatory and technological solutions on both sides of the Atlantic.
Our findings show existing yet surprising market patterns and perverse incentives: not unlike the financial sector, the HTTPS market is full of information asymmetries and negative externalities, as a handful of CAs dominate the market and have become “too big to fail.” Unfortunately, the proposed E.U. legislation will reinforce systemic vulnerabilities, and the proposed technological solutions are far from being adopted at scale.
Regardless of major cybersecurity incidents and even the Snowden revelations that showed the systemic vulnerabilities in CAs are exploited by Western intelligence agencies, a sense of urgency to secure HTTPS seems nonexistent. As it stands, major CAs continue business as usual. For the foreseeable future, a fundamentally flawed authentication model underlies an absolutely critical technology used every second of every day by every Internet user, corporation and government. On both sides of the Atlantic, one wonders what cybersecurity governance really is about.
Keywords: HTTPS, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Security Economics
Arnbak, Axel and Asghari, Hadi and van Eeten, Michel and van Eijk, N.A.N.M., Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market (October 5, 2014). Com. of the ACM, Vol. 57(10), Oct. 2014, p. 47-55. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2537568
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Zasha Ranken
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Zasha Ranken was a female Human admiral in the Sith Imperial Navy during the Great Galactic War and the Cold War. She was a promising officer in the final part of the Great War, when Rycus Kilran took her under his wing. She was onboard Kilran's starship during the Sacking of Coruscant, and enjoyed bombarding civilian buildings. During the Cold War, she became the admiral in charge of the Imperial Forward Command.
Ranken became one of the few experienced officers to survive the Eternal Empire's conquest of the galaxy. Ranken desired to join the Outlander's Alliance but had no way to contact them. In her search, she came into contact with Balmorra Senator Tai Cordan and Malita Tal, an exiled Zakuulan and popular holo-dancer. Deciding to search for the Outlander together, the trio formed an alliance. Eventually, they were captured by Emperor Arcann's forces and were en route to Zakuul for interrogation as to the Outlander's whereabouts. Thankfully, the Alliance raided their transport ship and set them free.
In Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ranken is voiced by actress Anna Graves.
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Ranken appears in Chapter XV: The GEMINI Deception of Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire. At the climax of the chapter, the prison transport is set to self-destruct and Outlander must manually deploy the escape pods one at a time. Predictably, the first two escape pods make it to safety but the third is destroyed. Ranken, Tai Cordan and Malita, save two but the third dies. Lana Beniko's approval will go up if Ranken is one of the survivors; if not, she will disapprove and comment about it later.
If Ranken was saved, Darth Krovos will mention that the Admiral and her family send their regards to the player in the post-Jedi Under Siege mission, "Hearts and Minds".
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – The Salisbury University women's tennis team opened the 2019 season with a pair of neutral site matches played at the University of Mary Washington, coming away with wins against Methodist University and Franklin & Marshall College.
Salisbury 6, Methodist 3
The Sea Gulls began their season with a 6-3 win, coming from behind to beat the Monarchs (1-3). Methodist claimed two of the three doubles matches to take a 2-1 lead. The lone doubles point for Salisbury came at No. 2 where senior Taylor Cooper and sophomore Laura Brown earned an 8-2 win.
The other two doubles matches were closer, but the Monarchs pulled them out with junior Annika Kezman and sophomore Sydney Soto falling at No. 1 by a 9-8 (9-7) score and at No. 3 where senior Shannon Hickman and freshman Sarah Dover dropped an 8-5 decision.
Salisbury came back with five points in singles, as Brown earned the most lopsided win, picking up a 6-2, 6-2 victory at No. 2. Kezman took a 7-5, 6-3 win at No. 1 while Soto at No. 4 and Dover at No. 6 also won in straight sets. Soto won 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 and Dover won 7-6 (7-4), 6-4.
Cooper needed three sets, but earned a 7-5, 1-6, 10-8 victory at No. 3 while Hickman fell at No. 5 by a 6-4, 6-2 score.
Salisbury 8, Franklin & Marshall 1
Salisbury took two of the three doubles matches against the Diplomats (0-2) to start things off. Cooper and Brown claimed an 8-0 win at No. 2 while Hickman and Dover won 8-4 at No. 3. Kezman and Soto took another tie-breaker loss at No. 1, falling 9-8 (7-5).
The Sea Gulls (2-0) swept the six singles matches, winning five in straight sets. Cooper claimed the No. 3 spot with a 6-1, 6-1 win while Brown, at No. 2, and Soto, at No. 4 gave up just four games each, with wins of 6-1, 6-3 and 6-2, 6-2, respectively.
Hickman picked up a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 5 and Kezman took a 6-4, 6-3 win at No. 1. Dover went three sets, but came from behind to take the No. 6 match 2-6, 7-6 (7-3), 10-5.
The Sea Gulls will be off for the next two weeks before hosting Catholic University of America on Saturday, March 2 in their first home match of the year.
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The announcement, at a Prince's Trust event in Cardiff, confirmed that the University’s Technocamps Programme at the Department of Computer Science would receive £5.3 million from the European Social Fund.
The three-year Technocamps Operation aims to inspire and motivate pupils across Wales to learn more about Computer Science and STEM subjects and will engage with 3,600 pupils. There is a particular focus on girls – to help address the disturbing gender imbalance within Computer Science – with two thirds of targeted pupils being female.
The programme will target pupils from schools who are struggling to offer or deliver Computer Science at GCSE with the view to encourage and support schools to offer it in the coming years.
Each youngster will complete a STEM Enrichment Programme over a school year, taking part in a range of Computer Science- and STEM-based activities both at school and on university campuses.
They will look at a broad number of topics such as:-
Cyber-physical systems
They will also learn how to apply these topics in a range of subject areas such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and politics.
Director of Technocamps, Professor Faron Moller said: “We wholeheartedly welcome this funding announcement which will help ensure that young people in Wales, particularly in schools where delivering GSCE Computer Science is a challenge, will not be left behind in gaining such key skills. We are committed to driving this forward and by helping young people gain these fundamental skills, we hope equip them to take on the digital world which is now encompassing our everyday lives.
“We also want to see computer science education extending to widening participation, providing digital up-skilling opportunities to people in employment as well as various opportunities for life-long learning.”
Congratulations to our 2019 VTCT Graduates!
Celebrating the success of eighteen teachers who have completed their VTCT qualification with Technocamps
FREE Accredited CPD Opportunity for Teachers across Wales 2019!
Starting in the Autumn term 2019, Technocamps will once again offer a free opportunity for teachers to up-skill in computer science.
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Technocamps was once again privileged to be asked to participate in this amazing event which promotes relationships between Science, Research, and Industry in Wales.
Swansea University Launches into the CoSMOS
Swansea University continues to enhance its reputation for reaching out into the wider community with the official launch of CoSMOS, the new College of Science Margam Outreach Space.
Are you interested in arranging a Technocamps workshop for your school or college? We offer a range of computational thinking based workshops to support students and staff through KS2 to KS5. Get in touch to find out more.
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Murfreesboro residents Bonnie Tinsley and her husband Cliff Richeson were living in India in the mid-1980s when a vacation detour brought them to the Darjeeling Shanta Bhavan Missionaries of Charity orphanage, where they saw, tucked away in a corner crib, a baby girl. “It was love at first sight,” Tinsley said.
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Catholic radio stations sprouting across the diocese
The Catholic faith is filling the radio airwaves in Middle Tennessee as several low-power Catholic radio stations are either on the air or close to it.
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Man Caught on Video Assisting Dallas Ebola Patient Without Hazmat Suit
By Nolan Feeney
A man seen assisting an Ebola patient board a plane in Dallas this week without wearing any kind of protective gear has sparked further concerns about safety protocols in regard to containing the virus.
In news footage above aired by NBC, the unidentified man can be seen helping with the transfer of Ebola patient Amber Vinson at Dallas’ Love Field airfield, who was being taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta by private jet following her recent diagnosis.
It is unclear from the footage how much, if any, risk the man was in: Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids and is not an airborne disease. The man also does not appear to have been directly touching Vinson, who was herself wearing protective gear to contain the spread of the virus alongside four other people in hazmat suits.
Still, the footage arrives amid great concern over how the virus has spread despite the safety precautions at Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Vinson, 29, is the second Texas health worker to have been diagnosed with the often deadly virus in the U.S. She, like 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham before her, helped care for and had “extensive contact with” Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from Ebola earlier this month. A nurses union has criticized the hospital for failing to put safety protocols in place.
The ambulance service that took Vinson to the airport said the man, who boarded the plane, is likely part of the the flight’s air crew, NBC reports.
[NBC]
See The Tobacco Leaves That Could Cure Ebola
Tobacco plants are grown for six weeks in the Medicago greenhouse in Quebec City so their leaves are large enough to serve as a factory for making antibodies. The plants are not modified or genetically altered in any way during this time.
Mathieu Belanger—Reuters
Researchers at Icon Genetics in Germany prepare the DNA coding for antibodies that can neutralize Ebola. These genes are inserted into a soil bacterium that easily infects the tobacco plant cells. Once in the cells, the gene is treated like any other plant gene and the plant starts churning out the antibodies.
Sean Gallup—Getty Images
To infect the leaves with the antibody-containing bacteria, the plants are submerged in a water solution of the loaded bacteria. Plant cells have plenty of empty spaces filled with air, so a vacuum removes the air and the water, along with the bacteria and antibody genes, flow in.
The leaf at the bottom has not been treated. The leaf on top is now an antibody-making factory. The plant's normal machinery starts making the antibody as if it is a plant protein.
Researchers at Icon Genetics grind the leaves down to filter out the antibodies.
Ultraviolet light reveals the clusters of cells that are busy making antibodies. One kg of leaves produces about 5g of antibodies, which is about a third of the dose required to treat an Ebola patient.
Write to Nolan Feeney at nolan.feeney@time.com.
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Eva Marie Ulla Margareta Ehrensvärd
Cartography historian, art historian, librarian
Ulla Ehrensvärd was an internationally famous cartographic historian, art historian, and cultural historian. For many years she was the head of the Kungliga Bibliotek (royal library Stockholm) maps and charts department and in 1990 she was awarded a professorship.
Ulla Ehrensvärd was the foster daughter of Signy and Baron Carl-August Ehrensvärd, a major who worked in insurance. She had been born in Stockholm to Svea Johansson, an unmarried servant girl, and then adopted by the Ehrensvärd couple in 1930 (officially in 1932). Her biological father was Josef Carlsson, from Lund, who later became editor-in-chief of Svensk Uppslagsbok.
Having completed her school education in Stockholm at the reputable Nya Elementarskola for girls (the Ahlström school) Ulla Ehrensvärd gained her school-leaving certificate in the school’s classical studies section in 1946. That same year she began to read art history at Stockholm college. Her Bachelor’s thesis focused on the artist Carl August Ehrensvärd (1745-1800). After gaining her Bachelor’s degree she then gained her licentiate in art history based on a dissertation entitled ‘Landskapet i Augustin och Carl August Ehrensvärds konst’. She defended her doctoral thesis on the medallist Erik Lindberg in 1975 and became a docent that year. The government awarded her the title of professor in 1990.
Ulla Ehrensvärd was a multi-talented individual. She was also an accomplished pianist who drew very well. From an early age she was interested in literature, art, and cultural history and sought out older, talented friends and role models such as the author Ingegerd Granlund, her teacher at the Nya Elementarskola, and the author Erik Blomberg. Her diaries reveal the numerous cultural events she attended and museum visits she made during her youth and student years. In addition, from 1944-1945 she served as a volunteer air warden, known as ‘tornsvala’ (swift), at Björnön in Jämtland. Her dearly beloved adoptive father died in 1935 and from then on Ulla Ehrensvärd was largely brought up by her mother. Her mother shared her cultural interests but did not fully understand Ulla Ehrensvärd’s zeal for studying and scientific knowledge.
Ulla Ehrensvärd’s interest in books and art became definitive for both her life and her career. She held down her first jobs as librarian at Stockholm stadsbibliotek (city library) in 1946, at Vitterhetsakademien (academy of sciences) in 1950, and at the Kungliga Bibliotek from 1953-1959, whilst she was studying and making brief visits to the Swedish National Archives and Carolina Rediviva (Uppsala university library) in 1952, as well as during the period she spent as an assistant at the department of art history at Stockholm college from 1949-1951. A stipend from the Sverige-Amerikastiftelse (Sweden-America trust) in 1962 allowed Ulla Ehrenvärd to spend a year in the USA, after which she was hired by the Kungliga Bibliotek as head of the maps and charts section. She was employed there from 1963-1982. She became chief archivist at the Krigsarkiv (Military Archives) in 1983, where she remained until 1992.
Her research was broad and varied, and her list of publications comprises more than 300 titles, covering map history, art history, book art, medal art, Scandinavian cultural history, and work on the Far East. Her best known work is her thesis from 1974, Medaljgravören Erik Lindberg 1873-1966, which included catalogue section released in 1988 to very favourable reception within the art history and numismatic circles. Equally well-known is her Den svenska tomten, from 1979, which sold very successfully and was also released as an audio-book and in braille. In 2006 she published – in several languages – Den nordiska kartans historia. Her other publications which deserve note are Mare Balticum, from 1995, on the 2000-year history of the Baltic Sea; Topographica Estoniæ, from 2001, which is a thorough survey of maps and drawings of Estonia held in Swedish collections; and Cartographica Poloniæ 1570-1930, from 2008, a work on Polish maps held in Swedish collections and which received a merit of honour from the Polish government in 2010.
Ulla Ehrensvärd was a very meticulous researcher who did not tolerate shoddy work either by herself or by others. Her research methods, which followed the traditional empirical approach, show both breadth and depth. Testimonials from the time of her earliest jobs mirrored what had already been true of her school marks, namely that she took an orderly and thorough approach to her work, and that she possessed an aptitude for scholarship and intellectual acuity. The title of her 2003 festschrift was Accurata description, in reflection of this aspect of her activities. Further to this, her particular skill as a cartography historian was her application of her knowledge of art history to maps. Through her studies of map coloration, and the quality and watermarks of map paper, she brought innovative developments to cartographic research methodology. Similarly, she was greatly intrigued by the history of technology. Her cultural history interpretations involved understanding the artist’s and cartographer’s perspective and craftsmanship, as well as the entire creative process of the subject and the maps.
Ulla Ehrensvärd was heavily involved in numerous research projects, exhibitions, and held a variety of organisational and board-membership positions throughout her life, largely within the sphere of cartographic history, but also within the wider spectrum of cultural history. She was particularly interested in contacts with The East, as well as with Finland, Poland, and Russia, and also Turkey – and these interests were reflected in her travels, publications, and exhibitions. Of special note are the following exhibitions: ‘Atlasen genom tiderna’ (the atlas through time), from 1966; ‘De historiska förbindelserna mellan Sverige och Turkiet’ (historical ties between Sweden and Turkey), from 1977; and an exhibition on Swedish land plots in 1978 which almost came about by sheer accident. When a substantial portion of the Kungliga Bibliotek material for a planned exhibition was lost in a robbery Ulla Ehrensvärd inventively pulled an entirely different exhibition together from what they had left to offer. This resulted in an exhibition on land plots and the popular book on the same.
Similarly her engagement in various organisations and boards spanned a broad spectrum of cultural history. Ulla Ehrensvärd was the secretary of Svenska forskningsinstitut (Swedish research institute) in Istanbul from 1976-1988, and then served as chair of Svenska Istanbulinstitutes vänner (friends of the Swedish Istanbul institute) from 1988-1998, as well as for Svenska Orientsällskapet (Swedish-Oriental association) from 1995-2003. She was also the secretary of the Kartografiska sällskap (cartographical association) section for historical maps from 1968-2001 and the Swedish representative at the International Cartographic Association from 1972. She was elected onto the Sällskapet för utgivande av skrifter rörande Skandinaviens historia (society for the publication of manuscripts on Scandinavian history) in 1978 and into the Carl Johan association in 1986. Her interest in Swedish relations with The East and her research into the Carolinian-era diaries led to her serving as a board-member and club-master of the Karolinska förbund (Carolinian association) for many years, from 1981-2010. The Ehrensvärd family history certainly contributed to her interests in Finland, militaria, and naval studies. She became an honorary member of Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskap (royal Swedish society of naval sciences) in 2003. She was elected into the Kungliga Vitterhetsakademi (royal academy of sciences) as member by correspondence, number 264.
Ulla Ehrensvärd could be both strict and demanding in her professional life, but she was also very good-humoured and approachable, both professionally and privately. She was unattached, which was perhaps a consequence of the particular form of professional and research career that she led, involving long hours at her desk, in the archives, and constant research travels abroad. She had no shortage of close friends, however, including both friends and family, whom she would entertain with endless stories and humorous anecdotes. She had a slightly complicated relationship with the Ehrensvärd family: as an adoptee she was never fully accepted within the official records, but she, nevertheless, prioritised the family and many of her activities touched on areas found within genealogical studies: military history, naval studies, and numismatics.
Her family was one which had suffered significant financial losses in the Kreuger crash of 1932 and, despite Ulla Ehrensvärd’s certainly privileged upbringing, following her father’s death she had no major financial cushion to rely on. The sums she earned as an adult librarian were meagre and did not cover the costs of research trips, hospitality, and the like. To cover these expenses she had to pay for them herself. The expectation nevertheless remained that she would work for free in a variety of contexts: this may have been accentuated by the fact that she was a woman, and that she had a name of noble origins. Despite the constant worries of pressures of time and money, she never let herself be defeated by them and continued producing new articles, finding new research projects, and commissions. Her many public recognitions serve as important evidence of the wider significance of her activities. Following her retirement she had the opportunity to complete some of her larger and more important works, and she remained busy working on several manuscripts – some of which were dictated onto tapes – right up to the end of her life.
Ulla Ehrensvärd died in Stockholm in May 2015. Her funeral was held in the Gustav Adolf church and she is buried at the family grave in Solna cemetery.
Nanouschka Myrberg Burström
Eva Marie Ulla Margareta Ehrensvärd, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/UllaEhrensvard, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article by Nanouschka Myrberg Burström), retrieved 2019-07-18.
Maiden name: Johansson
Civil Status: Unmarried
Mother: Svea Eva Maria Johansson
Mother: Svea Eva Maria Johansson (1904-12-31 – 1998 -11-15)
Tjänsteflicka, sömmerska
Father: Josef William Carlsson
Father: Josef William Carlsson (1899-11-27 – 1961-07-20)
Fil.lic., redaktionschef
Adoptive mother: Eva Signy Maria Ehrensvärd, född Burström
Adoptive mother: Eva Signy Maria Ehrensvärd, född Burström (1883-11-02 – 1952-03-11)
Adoptive father: Carl-August Frans Adolf Ehrensvärd
Adoptive father: Carl-August Frans Adolf Ehrensvärd (1868-10-10 – 1935-03-24)
Major, friherre, försäkringsman
Sister: Görel Ehrensvärd, gift Picozzi
Sister: Görel Ehrensvärd, gift Picozzi (1899-09-06 – 1939-07-01)
Stiftsjungfru
Brother: Torsten Carl Augustin Ehrensvärd
Brother: Torsten Carl Augustin Ehrensvärd (1901-07-17 – 1983-01-30)
Forstmästare
Brother: Richard Stensman
Brother: Richard Stensman (1938 – ?)
Läkare, konstnär
Flickskola, Stockholm: Studentexamen, Nya Elementarskolan för flickor (Ahlströmska skolan), privatskola
Flickskola, Stockholm: Studentexamen, Nya Elementarskolan för flickor (Ahlströmska skolan), privatskola (1933 – 1946)
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.kand.examen, konsthistoria, Stockholms högskola
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.kand.examen, konsthistoria, Stockholms högskola (1946 – 1951)
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.lic.examen, konsthistoria, Stockholms högskola
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.lic.examen, konsthistoria, Stockholms högskola (1951 – 1953)
Studieresa, USA: Studier i USA, stipendium från Sverige-Amerikastiftelsen
Studieresa, USA: Studier i USA, stipendium från Sverige-Amerikastiftelsen (1962 – )
Universitet, Stockholm: Fil.dr.examen, docent, Stockholms universitet
Universitet, Stockholm: Fil.dr.examen, docent, Stockholms universitet (? – 1975)
Profession: Bibliotekarie, 1946–1953 assistent, Stockholms stadsbibliotek, 1949 –1951 amanuens, Konsthistoriska institutionen, Stockholms högskola, 1950 biträde, Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek, 1951–1952 bibliotekarie, Nationalmuseum, Riksarkivet, Carolina Rediviva, 1953–1959 amanuens och bibliotekarie, Kungliga biblioteket (KB), 1959–1963 bibliotekarie, Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek
Profession: Bibliotekarie, 1946–1953 assistent, Stockholms stadsbibliotek, 1949 –1951 amanuens, Konsthistoriska institutionen, Stockholms högskola, 1950 biträde, Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek, 1951–1952 bibliotekarie, Nationalmuseum, Riksarkivet, Carolina Rediviva, 1953–1959 amanuens och bibliotekarie, Kungliga biblioteket (KB), 1959–1963 bibliotekarie, Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek (1946 – 1963)
Profession: Bibliotekarie, chef, kart- och planschavdelningen, Kungliga biblioteket (KB)
Profession: Bibliotekarie, chef, kart- och planschavdelningen, Kungliga biblioteket (KB) , Stockholm (1963 – 1982)
Profession: 1:e arkivarie, Krigsarkivet
Profession: 1:e arkivarie, Krigsarkivet , Stockholm (1983 – 1992)
Profession: Forskare, författare, bl a kart-, konst-, kultur-, krigs- och sjöfartshistoria, numismatik
Profession: Forskare, författare, bl a kart-, konst-, kultur-, krigs- och sjöfartshistoria, numismatik (1960-talet – 2015)
Friend: Ingegerd, kallad Tommie, Granlund
Friend: Erik Blomberg
Friend: Jan Hellner
Friend: Torsten Althin
Friend: Gunnar Jarring
Relative: Lars Burström, kusinbarn
Relative: Liva Söderhjelm, kusinbarn
Kartografiska sällskapet
Medlem, sekreterare, sektionen för historiska kartor
Medlem, sekreterare, sektionen för historiska kartor (1968 – 2001)
International Cartographic Association
Svensk representant
Svensk representant (1972 – ?)
Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul
Medlem, sekreterare
Medlem, sekreterare (1976 – 1988)
Kungliga Samfundet för utgivande av handskrifter rörande Skandinaviens historia (LSkS)
Ledamot (1978 – 2015)
Föreningen Norden
Ständig medlem
Ständig medlem (1980 – 2015)
Karolinska förbundet
Medlem, styrelseledamot, klubbmästare
Medlem, styrelseledamot, klubbmästare (1981 – 2010)
Karl Johanförbundet
Svenska Istanbulinstitutets vänner
Medlem, ordförande
Medlem, ordförande (1988 – 1998(?))
Svenska Orientsällskapet
Medlem, ordförande (1994 – 2003)
Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien
Korresponderande ledamot nr 264
Korresponderande ledamot nr 264 (2006 – 2015)
Scholarship: Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen
Scholarship: Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen (1962)
Medal: H.M. Konungens medalj i guld, 8:e storleken, i serafimerordens band
Medal: H.M. Konungens medalj i guld, 8:e storleken, i serafimerordens band (1982)
Medal: Elias Brenner-medaljen, Svenska numismatiska föreningen
Medal: Elias Brenner-medaljen, Svenska numismatiska föreningen (1989)
Other: Professors namn
Other: Professors namn (1990)
Medal: Olaus Magnus-medaljen, Kartografiska sällskapet
Medal: Olaus Magnus-medaljen, Kartografiska sällskapet (1993)
Order: Finlands Vita Ros-orden, Riddartecknet av I klass
Order: Finlands Vita Ros-orden, Riddartecknet av I klass (2002)
Honorary membership: Hedersledamot, Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet
Honorary membership: Hedersledamot, Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet (2003)
Prize: Rettigska priset, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien
Prize: Rettigska priset, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (2004)
Medal: Sven Hedin-medaljen, Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi
Medal: Sven Hedin-medaljen, Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi (2005)
Other: Hedersutmärkelsen för främjande av polsk kultur, Polska staten
Other: Hedersutmärkelsen för främjande av polsk kultur, Polska staten (2010)
Prize: Helen Wallis Award, International Map Collector’s Society
Prize: Helen Wallis Award, International Map Collector’s Society (2014)
Berg, Bo, Gussarsson, Maria, Lundström, Bo, 'Ulla Ehrensvärd har avlidit', Riksarkivet, 2015-04-28 (Hämtad 2017-12-08)
Bäärnhielm, Göran, 'Ulla Ehrensvärd in memoriam', Biblis (Tidskrift)., 2015(70), s. 68-69, 2015
Lagerqvist, Lars O., 'In memorian Ulla Ehrensvärd 1927-2015', Svensk numismatisk tidskrift., 2015:3, s. 84., 2015
'Ulla Ehrensvärds litteratur om Turkiet till SUITS', Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (Hämtad 2017-12-08)
Bäärnhielm, Göran, ’Internationell kartografisk utmärkelse till Ulla Ehrensvärd’, Kart- & bildteknik, 2014(16):4, 2014
Av Ulla Ehrensvärd
Om Ulla Ehrensvärd
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Transport, Local Transit
San Francisco Area Transit Union Announces Plans for Second Strike
Mihir Zaveri , Associated Press
- Aug 02, 2013 8:24 am
Last month’s strike provided an interesting case study of which alternative transit options were most popular — ride and car sharing services soared among the wealthy. But apps couldn’t help the vast majority of commuters.
— Eliza Ronalds-Hannon
Two transit unions issued a 72-hour strike notice, alerting the more than 400,000 San Francisco Bay area commuters that the system could be shut down during Monday’s commute if labor issues aren’t resolved.
Union leaders said they gave the notice Thursday evening as a courtesy to riders of Bay Area Rapid Transit trains, stressing that they intend to participate in labor talks up until the contract expires at midnight Sunday in hopes of averting a strike.
“This is not something that we want to do. This is not something that we intend to do,” said Antonette Bryant, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, one of two unions in talks with BART.
The unions went on strike last month, shutting down BART service for four days and snarling transit in the region. Commuters faced long lines for buses and ferries, and roadways were jammed, but a transit shutdown next week could be more disruptive because the first work stoppage occurred around the Fourth of July holiday.
The unions — which represent nearly 2,400 train operators, station agents, mechanics, maintenance workers and professional staff — agreed to call off the strike and extend their contracts until Aug. 4 while negotiations continued.
BART spokesman Rick Rice said the agency was disappointed by Thursday’s move.
“A strike only stalls and delays the decisions that need to be made while using our riders as pawns,” he said in a statement. “BART is willing to stay at the table for as long as it takes to reach an agreement. Even if there isn’t a deal in place by Sunday night, talks can be extended.”
The two sides negotiated Thursday but did not appear close to an agreement.
Bryant said progress was made on peripheral issues, but the “meat and potatoes” issues of the contract, including salaries and benefits, had yet to be resolved.
BART, the nation’s fifth-largest rail system, carries passengers from the farthest reaches of San Francisco’s densely populated eastern suburbs across the bay, through the city, and to San Francisco International Airport.
The agency contractually cannot hire any replacement workers, but BART spokesman Jim Allison said it will secure about 95 charter buses to transport Bay Area commuters if there’s a strike.
Key sticking points in the labor dispute include worker safety, pensions and health care costs, according to BART and union officials.
The transit agency has said union train operators and station agents average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers pay nothing toward their pensions.
BART says it needs to save money on benefits to help pay for system improvements.
Unions submitted their last financial proposal last month and were awaiting a counteroffer from BART, said Josie Mooney, chief negotiator for the local Service Employees International Union, the other union in talks with BART. Mooney said they offered to contribute to the pension, but she could not say how much because of a gag order issued by a mediator.
Associated Press writer Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco contributed to this report. Copyright (2013) Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Tags: labor, san francisco
Photo Credit: Tense BART negotiations resume with strike looming. Associated Press
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
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How San Francisco Deals With Skyrocketing Events Demand
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Pre-eruptive vapour and its role in controlling eruption style and longevity at Soufrière Hills Volcano
Edmonds, Marie, Humphreys, Madeleine C. S., Hauri, Erik H., Herd, Richard, Wadge, Geoff, Rawson, Harriet, Ledden, Rachel, Plail, Melissa, Barclay, Jennifer, Aiuppa, Alessandro, Christopher, Thomas E., Giudice, Gaetano and Guida, Roberto (2014) Pre-eruptive vapour and its role in controlling eruption style and longevity at Soufrière Hills Volcano. Journal of the Geological Society, 39. pp. 291-315. ISSN 0016-7649
We use volatiles in melt inclusions and nominally anhydrous phenocrysts, with volcanic gas flux and composition, and textural analysis of mafic inclusions to estimate the mass of exsolved vapour prior to eruption at Soufrière Hills Volcano (SHV). Pre-eruptive andesite coexists with exsolved vapour comprising 1.6–2.4 wt% of the bulk magma. The water content of orthopyroxenes indicates a zone of magma storage at pressures of approximately 200–300 MPa, whereas melt inclusions have equilibrated at shallower pressures. Inclusions containing >3 wt% H2O are enriched in CO2, suggesting flushing with CO2-rich gases. Intruding mafic magma contains >8 wt% H2O at 200–300 MPa. Rapid quenching is accompanied by crystallization and vesiculation. Upon entrainment into the andesite, mafic inclusions may undergo disaggregation, where expansion of volatiles in the interior overcomes the strength of the crystal frameworks, thereby recharging the vapour content of the andesite. Exsolved vapour may amount to 4.3–8.2 vol% at 300 MPa, with implications for eruption longevity and volume; we estimate the magma reservoir volume to be 60–200 km3. Exsolved vapour may account for the small volume change at depth during eruptions from geodetic models, and has implications for magma flow: exsolution is likely to be in equilibrium during rapid magma ascent, with little nucleation of new bubbles.
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Information published on 7 August 2018 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 611.
United States: Smoother, more reliable service coming for Amtrak Northeast corridor customers
News from UIC members
Amtrak investing $370 million in equipment to improve corridor
WASHINGTON – Amtrak is investing $370 million over an estimated three-year period for new equipment that will improve the overall experience for those travelling along the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The purchase of this new equipment will double Amtrak engineering efforts on the NEC, accelerating maintenance work.
“More than 890,000 Amtrak customers and commuter passengers rely on the Northeast Corridor for transportation every weekday, and we are working to make their ride smoother and more reliable,” said Amtrak Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, Scot Naparstek.
Amtrak is investing in one track laying system, two undercutters, five high-speed surfacing machines, reference surfacing, heavy lift cranes for New York Penn Station and the necessary freight cars and locomotive power to help sufficiently advance the Northeast Corridor to a state of good repair.
These upgrades will significantly improve train on-time performance and quality of the customer experience with smoother rides. Customers consistently rate schedule reliability as the primary factor in judging their satisfaction with Amtrak services.
In addition to these investments, Amtrak is also working to advance other long-term upgrades such as: buying modern train equipment, including new Acela trainsets, ongoing Concourse Management Strategy studies of New York Penn Station, and further development of stations in Chicago Washington, D.C., Baltimore-Penn, Philadelphia 30th Street and the new Moynihan Train Hall in New York.
(Source: Amtrak)
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Joy Reid ‘AM Joy’ Tops CNN Quarterly Ratings For The First Time
Once again Black Girl Magic is on display and this time on MSNBC anchor Joy Reid and her show AM Joy. The Wrap reports that Reid’s...
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Jimmy Fallon Shows Love For HBCU Texas Southern University Basketball
It’s March which means the NCAA’s March Madness is in full effect with teams from all over the country participating. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy...
‘Different World’ Actor Sued By Family For Mismanaging Father’s Estate
Former “It’s A Different World” actor Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) was once sued by his family for mismanaging his...
This Photo May Explain Why Kandi Burruss Wasnât Down To Do A New Xscape Album
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Nick Gordon’s Girlfriend Defends Him On Abuse Charges
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Woman Says Trey Songz Beat Her While Others Watched
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Keri Hilson Aims To Relaunch Career After 7-Year Battle With Depression
Keri Hilson has previously spoken on her self-imposed, 7-year musical hiatus that she says was caused by “hitting rock bottom.” Now she’s speaking publicly again...
Tristan Thompson Given Private Birthday Bash After Baby Shower
Following Khloé‘s Kardashian’s grandiose baby shower to celebrate her first child with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, the mom-to-be and her family celebrated the NBA star’s upcoming...
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Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim is a regional journalist and blogger in Falls Church, Va., who publishes in the Richmond and Washington, D.C., publications, with publication credits including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post, Skagit Valley Herald, Falls Church News Press, Mental Floss Magazine, Teaching Tolerance, Weekly Standard and others. He is a Democrat, but remains committed to exploring both sides of the divide on cultural issues. His Twitter handle is @okonh0wp.
What The Evolution Of The ‘Star Trek’ Franchise Says About The Shifting TV Landscape
To better understand how important ‘Star Trek’ is to reading the TV climate, it’s worth looking at what happened the last time it was so popular.
We Won’t Solve Racism By Blacklisting Liam Neeson
The problem with seeking to cure racism through full-blast eradication is that this treats racism as a defining trait of character when it’s more a pre-conceived set of malleable beliefs.
High-Profile Films Show How To Bravely Discuss Race In 2018
Many of the films depicting the African-American experience this year are admirable, but the most meaningful one is, ironically, by the man who made ‘Dumb and Dumber.’
Film Critics’ Insufferable Wokeness Is Reinstituting A Moral Code For Movies
Every Oscar loss, every protest, and every mass wave of slanted criticism has an effect on what Hollywood greenlights, and how bold films can be.
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Brudini: Reflections is the recurring focal point of the lyrics
Posted by Keira Brown | 19 April 2019 | Features, Music | 0
Brudini has not only attracted praise from NYC punk manager legend Danny Fields (Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Doors), he has collaborated with Lulu Gainsbourg (son of the French icon Serge Gainsbourg), agender BBC superstar Lanah Pillay, and has co-starred a sold out Soho underground alt-cabaret featuring Erasure’s Andy Bell, performed at Tate Britain and headlined last years Blogtober Festival. With new single, Reflections, out Brudini spoke with The Fountain about the new single as well as putting it out on his own label.
The reception has been pretty good so far! I had a stellar review in Louder Than War and also some other nice mentions in the blogosphere, and it has been listed on over twenty indie radio stations so far, everywhere from UK to US, Canada, Turkey, Norway, Spain and Australia. But its a bit nichy and I guess I’m a bit of an outcast. So let’s see how it goes.
TF: What inspired you to title it Reflections, what do you see looking back at you in the mirror?
Reflections is the recurring focal point of the lyrics and therefore was the natural title for the song. Looking back at me in the mirror is the reflection of someone half-familiar, but eerie and strange too. As if the eyes staring back at you almost becomes someone else, stranded in time, a surreal, disconnected reflection of who you once were. But next to this subjective narrative, the song has a more current interpretation too. With the beautiful machine lost in the night, I am also thinking of how our ideas and long held ideals of liberal democracy – such a monumental achievement for humanity – now seem to be crumbling in so many places. And the eerie, half-familiar reflections that we see in the mirror and that we thought belonged to the past are those of populism and surging nationalism. The sense of darkness and desperation is the same in both narratives. That link was the idea behind the cover – a beautiful, yet obsolete structure in an abandoned house. In Hungary.
I did a small UK tour in January and a show in New York. Right now I am working on putting together a tour in the UK, Norway and possibly Paris, for the summer and early fall. I am also lining something up in Spain, where I just did a video, and possibly also something in Tanger and Istanbul which would be absolutely wicked! I am fortunate to play with some really gifted musicians and I really aim to do a lot of shows towards the album launch. So stay tuned for more live dates!
I’ve done over seventy gigs so far and in many different settings, it’s hard to pick a favorite one. From more traditional shows to underground cabarets, or blended music and poetry performances in tiny bookshops. I did an intimate show in Paris with my longstanding friend and Californian beatnik writer Chip Martin in an apartment-turned-performance-space on the left bank. It was completely packed and I was set up with an acoustic piano and some analogue synths plus my guitar. I remember Chip doing a long poem he had written for his son Gabriel, ponderings on life and death from the perspective of an old man, with my music coming in and out in different places. There was something about the energy in the room during that performance, like there was no barrier between performance and audience anymore, it felt like it all just melted into one moment. That was my feeling anyway. And why I remember it.
TF: How has it been working with Ask The Date thus far?
Hehe. Ask the Dust Records is a one-man label consisting of me and myself, so being signed with them has obviously been absolutely brilliant! I have full control of all decisions and my artistic vision, who I want to collaborate with and when I want to do things. But at the same time, pushing your own stuff can be somewhat exonerating, and also distract a bit from the core of what I am doing – create music! Having said that I have a great team. Chris at Lost In The Manor is handling all my PR after having booked me probably ten times at his venue The Finsbury in London, so he knows me and my music really well. For distribution I have signed with The Orchard, which is a bit of a juggernaut, but I have a couple of guys there who like what I do and have been pretty helpful. The disadvantage of not being on a bigger label is that I am starting out from zero, we are building up all my network and contacts from scratch. So reaching out and getting my music out there I guess becomes a slower process. But if the music is good enough, people will eventually come around to it. And I like being the underdog. Suits the fabric of the music as well. And meanwhile Ill just keep going. Lets see. And thanks for the interview!
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Essay: There’s Nothing New About this Wave of Anti-Semitism
Photo by Bettina Schwehn
Linda Laderman
Since 11 Jews were murdered on Nov. 4 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh, it seems like every media outlet has a theory as to why anti-Semitism is on the rise.
The reporting is non-stop, from in-depth analyses in the New York Times of the psychology that underlies hatred of Jews to cable news personalities convening panels whose members feign disbelief at the intensity of the ugliness targeted at Jews. It’s as if anti-Semitism were a contemporary phenomenon, rather than a 2,000-year-old trope.
Not long after the murders in Pittsburgh, I was sitting in my bed writing while I half-watched an edition of Meet the Press. I turned the sound off right after they showed a clip of President Trump discussing the synagogue shooting. I should have turned it off before he started talking.
My stomach tightened as he blamed the victims for their inability to defend themselves. Then I laughed and said to the air, “Of course it’s their fault.” Scapegoating is nothing new to Jews.
Just this week, I was talking with my friend Alex, a financial planner, who told me he hadn’t experienced overt anti-Semitism until he was an adult. He’d grown up in a Jewish community much like Squirrel Hill. When he made the mistake of telling clients that he wasn’t available on Saturdays because he was Jewish, they pulled their business from him. Told him he was satanic.
Unlike my friend, I knew what Jew hatred was from the time I was old enough to be told by my mother that our Catholic neighbors hated us because they think we killed Jesus. “They hate us on Good Friday but not as much on Easter when they believe he rose again,” she declared, nodding her head in agreement with herself.
At that point, I didn’t know what the significance of my mother’s reference to Jesus was, but I was pretty sure he was someone whose very existence was the source of a lot of trouble for Jews.
My mother’s words were a warning I could never forget.
They were with me when I was 8 years old and Harry, the boy next door, locked me in his yellow woodshed, just feet from the chain link fence that separated our houses.
Sitting on the damp mud floor, I heard him shout that I was a dirty kike and to consider myself lucky I was still alive. He gave me the conditions that would determine my freedom. I could come out when I accepted Jesus.
Jesus again. By now any uncertainty about this guy’s status had vanished. If only I had known Jesus was a Jew. That might have changed everything.
Again, I remembered what my mother said when my neighbor on the other side, Patty, came by, intent on converting me to Catholicism. We sat on my gray concrete steps when she announced that I would be allowed to play at her house as long as I had a communion. “You’ll get to wear a bride dress.” Even though it was a warm September day, the concrete felt so cold pressed against my bare legs.
Still, her offer sounded pretty good. A frilly white dress, a veil, a blue beaded rosary, a Bible and a visit to her house. I wanted that. I was in second grade, and I wanted to play at Patty’s house.
We were the only Jews left in the neighborhood. To my mother’s credit, she managed to get me across town to religious school and, later, to Hebrew school, where I met my teacher, a kind woman with a sad smile. She had blue numbers etched into her flesh. Even though it was 1959, the numbers looked fresh.
By now, the search for approval from my neighbors had evolved into a desire to know more about why they had such disdain for me.
I knew Jews were different from most Americans. I knew when I was sent home from Hebrew school because swastikas were painted on the windows, and I knew when I was cajoled into singing Christmas carols at my public school, where I was one of two Jews.
In honor of my Lithuanian grandmother who often reminded me, “Don’t think it can’t happen here,” I told myself I would defend Judaism wherever and whenever I could. I would be brave. I would shout down anyone who disparaged my people.
That childish notion disappeared long ago. And now with our country on the precipice, I’m not so sure.
I’m leaning toward silence. It’s safer.
Linda Laderman Jackie Headapohl | Detroit Jewish News
Linda Laderman is a Detroit area freelance writer who often writes about social justice issues.
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Caesarion
By Tommy Wieringa
The 2013 IMPAC Shortlist is a Global Affair
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The IMPAC Award shortlist was announced today. The IMPAC sets itself apart with its unique approach. Its massive longlist is compiled by libraries all over the world before being whittled down by judges. This makes for a more egalitarian selection. It’s also got a long lead time. Books up for the current prize (to be named June 6th) were mostly published in 2012, putting the IMPAC more than a year behind other big literary awards. There’s a distinct upside in this. By now, nearly all the shortlisted books are available in paperback in the U.S. The IMPAC also tends to be interesting for the breadth of books it considers.
This year’s shortlist is remarkable because half of its titles are works in translation.
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (review)
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq (review)
Pure by Andrew Miller (Ellen Ullman’s Year In Reading post)
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Charles Baxter’s Year In Reading post, “Reading 1Q84: The Case for Fiction in a Busy Life“)
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (excerpt)
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips (excerpt)
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (The Millions interviews Karen Russell not once but twice.)
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón (review)
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomsvold (review)
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa
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Home › Fiction › The Secret Diaries of Watkin Tench by Russell Schneider AM
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The Secret Diaries of Watkin Tench
Russell Schneider AM
Why did the British Government invest a fortune in 1787 to send the worst of its people to the other side of the world? And what was behind the mysterious disappearance of French naval hero and explorer La Perouse, whose two frigates arrived in Botany Bay only days after the First Fleet?
Marine Captain Watkin Tench’s daily journals open a new perspective on international politics in the late 18th century and explain why English spymaster Evan Nepean insisted Tench take part in the Botany Bay expedition. They expose the British Government’s real intentions in the South Seas, and reveal a secret society vital to the convict colony’s survival.
Tench explores the background of the convicts on board his prison ship Charlotte, finding many are quite different from their depiction as “dregs of society”.
Along the way he discovers much about his fellow man (and woman) and befriends two convict veterans who fought on opposite sides in the American War of Independence. This friendship will save his life, but put theirs in danger. And he discovers more and more about the secret life of the Governor, Arthur Phillip, whose destiny became entwined with naval hero La Perouse and the Frenchman’s wife.
Tench, Phillip and their secret society form critical alliances with both convicts and the indigenous population. And they become increasingly concerned about the actions and intentions of La Perouse until the French ships leave Botany Bay, never to return, leaving a mystery which has never been solved—until now.
Trim size: 6 x 9 (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Internal pages: B&W
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In Defense of The Wolverine
By Keith Chow December 3, 2013 October 9, 2014
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At the beginning of this blog’s life, The Wolverine was a very popular topic. Jenn wrote about her issues with the film — primarily how she felt the movie was yet another example of Hollywood’s exotification of Asia and is essentially an Orientalist fantasy in the spirit of Miss Saigon. Later, Claire rebutted Jenn’s claims of Orientalism in the movie but still thought it sucked because of all the plot holes and poorly drawn characters. We even discussed it at length on Hard NOC Life.
Here’s the thing, though. I liked this movie. Like, a lot. It was probably one of my favorite movies of the summer and is definitely my favorite in the X-Men movie canon (which, I guess, isn’t all that difficult since X2 and the Magneto bits in First Class are the only good ones in the franchise).
Now that it’s out on blu-ray and DVD, I thought it was an opportune time to express why I liked it (even though it seems no one else on the blog did).
Let’s be clear, I did not have high hopes for the movie going in. Ever since the post-credits sequence in X-Men Origins: Wolverine alluded to a sequel set in Japan, I was filled with dread. Here was going to be another in the long line of movies where the white guy goes to Asia to be better at being Asian than the Asians. In other words, I expected to see the movie Jenn saw because Frank Miller and Chris Claremont’s Japan-set Wolverine stories were just that, Orientalist fantasy played out in the pages of a comic book.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a movie that, in my opinion, steered away from the cliches found in other movies in this milieu. Yes, Logan — the lone white guy in the movie — kills a lot of Asian folk. And yes, there is a “romance” between Logan and the female love interest. But I didn’t feel either case was a result of Orientalism or Asian fetishism. Because, let’s face it, the real problem with any kind of Orientalist take on Asia is positing Asia as some sort of fantasy world. The Japan in The Wolverine felt like a real, lived-in place with real people. Also, the prologue set during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was both breathtaking and harrowing. In the case of the high blood count, it’s a Wolverine movie, there’s going to be a ton of casualties anyway. The fact that the victims all happen to be yakuza and/or ninjas this time is because of the setting of the movie. Through the course of six movies, a whole ton of folk have felt the pointy end of Logan’s adamantium claws. Hell, the victims in the opening scene were going to be a bar full of abusive Canadian bear hunters before Yukio intervened.
A scene pulled almost identically from the comics, by the way.
As far as the “romance” between Logan and Mariko, this was another aspect that was culled directly from the comics, but handled much better in live action. I never got the sense that these two lusted after one another like in the comics. And they don’t really have a romance besides a one-off fling towards the middle part of the movie. By the resolution of the film, once Mariko has assumed CEO-status of the family business, she’s basically cast Wolvie away, and he isn’t too broken up about it either. Yes, they’re supposed to be “soul mates” in the comics, but unlike most Miss Saigon-type WM/AF romances in the movies, no one is sacrificing anything for anyone. Again, the “it could have been so much worse” argument doesn’t hold a lot of water with some folks, I know. But really, it could have been so much worse.
I also appreciated that, though it is clearly set in a time period post X-Men: The Last Stand, it’s basically a standalone film. Logan starts off as a reluctant hero who unwittingly gets tangled up in a high-stakes family drama. I mean, Logan is barely the protagonist in his own movie. And while this might be a narrative foul in most situations, I found it refreshing insomuch as it once again steered The Wolverine away from “White Savior” syndrome. Not to mention the fact that while Mako Mori got all the fanboy love and feminist cred over the summer, I thought Yukio was actually the baddest Japanese female badass on the big screen.
Interestingly, The Wolverine is also Bechdel Test-approved as well.
Is this movie perfect? Of course not. Viper is probably the worst comic book movie villain in the history of comic book movies, the Jean Grey dream sequences were a little contrived, and the overindulgent action set piece at the end of the movie is out of place and really kind of dumb, but nonetheless, I really enjoyed Hugh Jackman channeling Toshiro Mifune for most of the movie. And I also appreciated the fact that the movie didn’t have to suffer from being an origin story/sequel continuation and was just allowed to be a movie. So yeah, maybe I need to turn in my Asian American activist card, but I had no qualms with The Wolverine and didn’t find it to be an Orientalist’s wet dream of a movie (that would be, ahem, Pacific Rim. Yeah I said it!)
Also, the “Unleashed” Extended Edition on blu-ray is supposed to flesh out some of the characters more — including Mariko and the rest of the Yashidas — and have more ninja mutilations. And let’s not forget the piece de resistance in the deleted scene that was supposed to introduce Wolverine’s classic costume into movie continuity:
I mean, that’s got to be worth the price of admission — or in this case, the purchase of the blu-ray — right?
Tags: Blu-ray DVD Hugh Jackman Mako Mori Mariko Orientalism Rila Fukushima Superheroes The Wolverine Wolverine X-Men Yukio
Published by Keith Chow
Keith is the editor-in-chief of the pop culture blog The Nerds of Color, a co-editor of the Asian American Comics Anthologies Secret Identities and Shattered, host of the podcasts Hard NOC Life, Southern Fried Asian, and DC TV Classics, and one of the founders of WICOMICON. View all posts by Keith Chow
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BernieB says:
Reading some of the other anti-Asian accusations against this film has been a real shock. Some of them, like from The Toast, are plain misandrist and have no understanding of the comic book origins of the film. They just blew the anti-Orientalist horn once they saw any attributes of Asian culture even those shot in Japan itself. On that note, cliché Japanese elements, like ninjas and samurai are used a lot in Japan’s own pop culture If people don’t like having Hollywood depict any Asian culture they should say so and make their own films.
squeesh says:
Saw this film some months ago after it came out, and really didn’t know too much about the plot—it was good to see that it was shot in Japan, which is why it actually came off as less stereotypical in its depiction of its Asian characters (my guess is that the Japanese actors would not have stood for any lame stereotypes anyway.) All in all, it was a little better than I though it was going to be, and I enjoyed the bullet train sequence, mainly because it reminded me of of a similar sequence from Jackie Chan’s classic actioner SUPERCOP (minus the special effects) and it was cool to see Hiroyuki Sanada in it, even if he was playing the bad guy. And of course, I like the swordfighting chick because she did serious ass-whooping, and I always like watching ass-kicking female characters onscreen anyway, since I’m also a woman.
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It Takes Astute Observation, Not Mea Culpas
Mark Halperin has a hysterical op-ed in the NYT today, designed to be a mea culpa for the failures of presidential campaign journalism. Halperin reveals the reason behind the press corps' obsession with horse race politics--they all read Ben Cramer's What It Takes--and then admits that success in a political horse race does not necessarily equip someone to run the country.
For most of my time covering presidential elections, I shared the view that there was a direct correlation between the skills needed to be a great candidate and a great president. The chaotic and demanding requirements of running for president, I felt, were a perfect test for the toughest job in the world.
But now I think I was wrong. The “campaigner equals leader” formula that inspired me and so many others in the news media is flawed.
Wow, Mark, that's one doozy of an insight. You mean all this horse race campaign journalism is counter-productive to choosing a good president? Who could have imagined that?!?!?!
The reason I say it's hysterical, though, and not just pathetic, is in Halperin's description of how he determined that he had been wrong--his analysis of the two presidents he has covered in the last sixteen years. See, Halperin describes those two presidents as both being great politicians--"wildly talented."
Our two most recent presidents, both of whom I covered while they were governors seeking the White House. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are wildly talented politicians. Both claimed two presidential victories, in all four cases arguably as underdogs. Both could skillfully serve as the chief strategist for a presidential campaign.
And then he proceeds to describe how the characteristics that made these "wildly talented" politicians made them failed presidents. Of note: he sees them both as failed presidents, Clinton and Bush. Here's how he supports his claim that Clinton's was a failed presidency:
For instance, being all things to all people worked wonderfully well for Bill Clinton the candidate, but when his presidency ran into trouble, this trait was disastrous, particularly in the bumpy early years of his presidency and in the events leading up to his impeachment. The fun-loving campaigner with big appetites and an undisciplined manner squandered a good deal of the majesty and power of the presidency, and undermined his effectiveness as a leader. What much of the country found endearing in a candidate was troubling in a president.
See where I'm going with this? Halperin claims that a guy who presided over tremendous economic growth, some innovative policy solutions (many of which I dislike, but admire for their pragmatism), and real success in foreign policy, had a failed presidency. He claims that a guy whose approval ratings stayed high during a trumped up impeachment "ran into trouble." Halperin clings to the Village's caricature of the Clinton presidency all so he can claim both Clinton and Bush failed. And in the process, he ignores a great deal of hard work and policy wonkiness that, in fact, made Clinton a successful president. Precisely the kind of characteristics you'd want good presidential journalism to cover--a candidate's comfort with the complexity of policy issues that translates into competent governance.
You see, Halperin tries hard to explain away his failures of judgment and discernment as failures of process. But in the process, he only emphasizes those failures of judgment. If Halperin really believes that Clinton and Bush experienced the same level of failure in office; if he remains ignorant of Clinton's considerable discipline (in all matters not involving his penis) and hard work and policy acumen, then he has proved his own failures of basic observation, not a failure to cover the right topics.
With his op-ed, Halperin proves he couldn't identify good governance if it looked him in the face. Sure, he calls for a different kind of campaign journalism. But at the same time, he proves he's not the guy to provide it.
Update: Hahahahaha! A friend sends along this poignant review of What It Takes by Matt Bai.
I remember exactly where I was sitting when I started reading “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s 1,000-page, tiny-print history of the 1988 presidential campaign. It’s not a hard thing to remember, because I couldn’t sit anywhere else: I had mangled my knee in a touch football game, and all I could do was sit on the couch with my leg strapped into a motion machine. Like a lot of young journalism school graduates then and now, I had come to see political journalism as a lesser form of the craft, populated mostly by the effete and the unindustrious, while the real reporters were out there braving crack corners and foreign wars. “What It Takes” showed me something else entirely.
From the first unforgettable pages, when he described in minute detail the logistics needed to move George Bush, who was then vice president, out of his field box at a Texas Rangers game (accompanied by his hotheaded and ambitious son, George W.), Cramer told his obsessively reported campaign story not just from the inside, but from inside the heads of a half-dozen painfully human and complex candidates: Bush, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden. “What It Takes” was the ultimate campaign book. [my emphasis]
Figures.
Though I wonder. Does Matt Bai fancy that his own reporting tells stories "from inside the heads" of his subjects? Is that why he got my motivations so horribly wrong (not to mention reported the facts inaccurately)? Because he thought he was inside my head but was in fact in his very own little fantasy world?
Update: PhoenixWoman is right. Krugman kicks Halperin's non-observant ass much more effectively than I.
November 25, 2007 at 09:17 in 2008 Presidential Election, Contributor--emptywheel, Press and Media | Permalink
I remember when Clinton was in office, how angry they would get when he would compromise or do something they agreed with. It absolutely infuriated them. They accused him of "stealing" their ideas!! Well except for the part about working together to accomplish effective change. He didn't steal that. That was his. But that's the part of leadership that they fail to recognize as anything more than a pain in the ass. He was effective. And they hate it when they are exposed.
He proved for the final most devastating time, that trickle down economics was a lie.
Posted by: katie Jensen | November 25, 2007 at 09:48
The continuing "Village" problem may be the very heart of things. Check out, for example, the complete line up for Meet the Press this morning. Or the hysterics which meet the poll showing that a majority of Americans believe some people in the government had specific warnings about 9/11 in advance.
Posted by: Beel | November 25, 2007 at 09:50
I should say, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of things Clinton did. I think he used policies that postponed the eventual resolution of our financial house of cards (though he did pay down our debt).
But I can't deny he was a successful president. Apparently, the "experts" are still doing so.
Posted by: emptywheel | November 25, 2007 at 10:00
What, you mean like he, and Mr Citigroupin Rubin and Dem congress repealing Glass-Steagall?
Posted by: greenhouse | November 25, 2007 at 10:41
Yeah, we'd be better off now if he hadn't done that, huh?
EW - yes, a lot of the solutions proposed by the Clinton Administration did rely on labor arbitraging and financial sleight of hand that had the effect of avoiding hard decisions on certain issues, but Clinton did recognize that the first priority was to get at least the federal budget in line, and then work on issues of true productivity and investment to finance the American lifestyle. Had Gore been permitted to take office in 2000, I believe that there would have been an emphasis on transforming the economy to focus of alternative energy and biotechnology as a replacement for the internet bubble that gave Clinton some room to manouever.
OT, but somewhat similar to your Matt Bai experiences. I was sent on media training this week, as part of the work I am doing on native land claim issues, and the course focussed on effective messaging for all kinds of interviews, telephone, TV, radio, print - the course was given by a real media pro, had been a reporter, spokesperson, media trainer, academic, and he really knew his stuff. After the course, I went up to the instructor and told him I thought I had learned an awful lot (and I did!) - but I was surprised that throughout this whole course on messaging, there was no mention of the internet, blogs, using social networking sites and software, etc, and I was wondering what his thoughts were on using these new media. Well, it was a real DFH moment for me! He looked at me with a benign smile, put his hand on my shoulder, with a look in his eye like I had asked him whether he preferred Captain Picard or Captain Kirk, or maybe had invited him to take part in a game of Dungeons and Dragons. He said that he wasn't sure how all this Internet stuff was going to work out, and that his personal opinion was that "it might all turn out to be a flash in the pan", and therefore wasn't putting any emphasis on it! I should add that this guy is a real pro, he trains newly elected Members of Parliament on media techniques and other high level stuff! All I can say is, I think I felt a modicum of your pain with Bai.
Posted by: Ishmael | November 25, 2007 at 11:16
He said that he wasn't sure how all this Internet stuff was going to work out, and that his personal opinion was that "it might all turn out to be a flash in the pan", and therefore wasn't putting any emphasis on it!
Is he still using quill pens on parchment? Sending messages via carrier pigeon? Using chalk on slate?
Jeebus, talk about not getting it!
(I've been at a convention most of the weekend: they now do registration online and send PR via e-mail. The number of electronic devices being worn and carried was astonishing - to anyone who doesn't hang out in places like this.)
Posted by: P J Evans | November 25, 2007 at 12:00
Halperin helped me quit TV cold turkey after a 40+ year love affair.
Posted by: jonno | November 25, 2007 at 12:23
Matt Bai is part of the up and coming generation of media weasels waiting in the wings to replace the current batch of fossils.
Posted by: Hugh | November 25, 2007 at 12:32
It is a strange thing that people don't change their opinions all at once, they only move over ever so slightly, shifting a little at a time, while keeping most of their opinions almost exactly as before.
The key shift here, is a big one: Mark Halperin is admitting a what internet bloggers have been pointing out for years, namely that the last 10 years of mainstream journalism have been execrable. The rest of his thinking is exactly as before,
Posted by: Harold | November 25, 2007 at 12:35
This editorial is yet another piece of evidence why I stopped reading the NYT awhile ago -- my blood pressure couldn't take it anymore.
I think part of the problem that the Village just can't get a grip on was addressed in Gore's book Assault on Reason. The MSM has an unhealthy obsession with "balance" that drives them to false equivalences. They just can't seem to help themselves. If someone says the sky is blue, they feel compelled to find someone they can quote who says the sky is green. In this endless quest for balance, they turn their backs on objective reality. Indeed it seems that in their "he said/she said" world view there is no objective reality, just subjective ideological opinion. We really do need better science and critical thinking education in this country that everyone must take. When you drop a brick and a marble off the leaning Tower of Pisa, they really do hit the ground at the same time, no matter what politician says the brick will hit first.
Posted by: phred | November 25, 2007 at 12:41
EW, if you're wondering why you had to use the other clue-by-four to smack Halperin's idiotic ass, it's because Paul Krugman took yours to smack at him first:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/on-coming-across/
Go read. It is a thing of beauty.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | November 25, 2007 at 12:43
The only substantial failure during the Clinton presidency was the Republican coup attempt. That would have to wait until passage of the Patriot Act.
Posted by: On the Clock | November 25, 2007 at 13:19
We managed to get someone on the moon and back using a sliderule. [Amusingly, sliderule is underlined in red because the word processor fails to recognize it.] Simply because something worked in the past doesn't mean that it is the best technology. The dinosaurs that developed wings survived better than those who roared their way into extinction.
That teacher who fails to teach politicians to open their minds to new technology, whether for communication, design, fabrication is failing to give them the tools they'll need to represent or understand their constituents.
Posted by: hauksdottir | November 25, 2007 at 13:28
Halperin and Bai?
"Have laptop, will suck"
There's just no way - short of these guys coming to this blog and opening their eyes - that the "Access"-Age Reporters are going to transition into Reality-based, fact-citing, story-line reporting, insight-generating Journalists - without cascading through a series of self-serving, but cloudy, Denials of Complicity.
To the subscribers of today's New Media, having the 'interpretive stenography' skills of Halperin and Bai comes across as nothing less than journalistic flatbacking, not one shred different than that paragon of Access Journalism, Judy Fucking Miller.
The Access Reporters competed with each other to signal that they 'bought' the Cheney-spin-line fantasy first, and then - when they got tapped to take dictation - they embellished on the spin - so that they might be told they could get back in line, again.
Now that the fantasy of BushCo Omnipotence is substantially separating from the concensus of the Reality Journalists, won't it be interesting to see which of the Access Journalists keep servicing the spin.
How dismal.
To make an 'unsuccessful-Presidency' equivalency argument between Bush and Clinton based on the logic that "good campaigners do/don't neccessarily make good leaders," while ignoring the effectiveness of that campaigner/leader's policies, is as bad as believing a 'threat-equivalency' argument that misses the nuclear difference between Pakistan and Iran.
Today's issues are too complex and too important for the 'fantasy stroking,' knee-pad wearing, round-mouthing Access Jounalists of the MSM.
Posted by: radiofreewill | November 25, 2007 at 13:43
"We really do need better science and critical thinking education in this country that everyone must take." Boy, howdy; do we ever. Education is the closest thing to a magic bullet that we possess for the across the board ills we face. Fucking morons like Norquist and the tax cut/greed first Republicans are drowning that infrastructure too.
Posted by: bmaz | November 25, 2007 at 13:53
Apropos of all this discussion, did anyone see Meet the Press today? Carville, Matalin, Shrum and some other Rethug, with Russert acting like it was the f****** Algonquin Round Table - for all the "insights", they may as well have taped these guys having brunch at the Mayflower Hotel, it was all about perceptions and framing and who's hot/who's not, and not a single hard question.
Regarding Russert; just exactly how the hell did he get to where he is and become so exalted? Really, wasn't he basically a political hack with a law degree who never practiced law? I mean, seriously, he is basically an earlier version of George Stephanopolis, except without the lofty accomplishments before joining the media. (And before you all start chirping, that was meant to be dripping with sarcasm).
bush and bill, equal failures ???
Hillary is the Democratic frontrunner for the democratic Nomination
and george herbert walker bush has been on television FUCKING CRYING about how georgie porgie has ruined jeb bush's chances of ever being presnit
looks like bill and george had exactly the same fucking problem
has this guy been on this planet the whole time he was writing about ???
Posted by: freepatriot | November 25, 2007 at 16:05
Wow, what amazing comments on this thread.
So Halperin is finally realizing that a political campaign may not be the best predictor for determining how someone will run a huge government bureaucracy in a diverse society in a globalized economy.
Glad he's started to glimpse the flaws in his assumptions.
The 'money quote' for me was this by EW: he couldn't identify good governance if it looked him in the face.
Good governance is not necessarily a good 'story'. The few times that I've glimpsed it, it appeared to be mostly routine, relatively boring, and generally requires humans who can make complex calculations, sythesize huge amounts of disparate information, listen carefully, and make decisions.
How that translates into the kind of 'box office' required by the economics of current media conglomerates escapes me.
It may be worth noting that Halperin is writing this the week after Rove started at Newsweek (with a thud).
Now, if Halperin can figure out what good governance looks like , and figure out how to explain the significance of a water district budget, or examine who a candidate might actually appoint to run an agency, perhaps his writing would improve. If he can figure out 'what good government looks like' -- irrigation lines, dam turbines, FDA inspectors, cops on patrol... all the daily minutia that is required in a very complex, technically challenging society, then perhaps he'd be better able to assess who might be skilled at moving things forward.
I'm with Harold: I think this is a big deal.
Posted by: readerOfTeaLeaves | November 25, 2007 at 16:34
He also totally missed the point of Ben Cramer's What It Takes. What it takes to win a presidential election, we find out, is someone who is utterly willing to give up everything important to their soul.
Posted by: tc | November 25, 2007 at 16:54
"sliderule" was underlined in red because it's two words, not one. See Wikipedia.
Posted by: quake | November 25, 2007 at 18:01
Boy these guys can't drop the "Clinton did it too" meme, even if it doesn't fit.
Posted by: dead last | November 25, 2007 at 18:25
Halperin is beyond pathetic:
A hundred years after Mark Hanna and Wm McKinley and Mark Twain, seventy-five after H.L. Mencken and Will Rogers, forty-five years after a photogenic Kennedy defeated Nixon, thirty years after Nixon's dirty tricks squads, and seven years into the Cheney/Rove presidency, and Halperin is just discovering that what sells during a campaign may be diametrically opposed to what makese a good president and that it may be wrong for America?
With that level of ignorance and inability to learn from history, I suspect Halperin wouldn't pass today's test for US citizenship. He certainly should be given his walking papers as a political "journalist".
Posted by: earlofhuntingdon | November 25, 2007 at 19:13
earlofhuffington, I'm reasonably certain that I'm at least as frustrated and fed up as most of us.
But it appears that Halperin has (finally) recognized that the work he's done to pay his bills is both: (1) fraught with error, and (2) very socially and politically damaging.
Am I angry about the damage, and his contribution? Of course.
Does he still need to gain clarity and clear the mindrot from his head? Hell, yes!
But any time people seriously examine their impacts on others (and I count myself in that category), and then publicly express, "I really blew it, but I'll try to do a more thoughtful job starting today..." That takes guts, and I suspect that Halperin had a Dark Night of the Soul before he wrote that OpEd, so at least he's trying to figure out his errors and improve.
Progress is seldom fast enough, but it's always a small miracle.
I wish Halperin well.
I hope that from 'inside the narrative' he can help rethink and reshape how we look at candidates, what is reported about them, how voters can make decisions that are more likely to produce better governance.
I think his OpEd shows a man who would now be less susceptible to being punked by K-k-k-karl Rove and his minions and their ilk.
I wish him well, for all our sakes.
Awww, the fall is when Halperin waxes, wanes and whines, isn't it?
Seems like just a year or so ago, when he was out sales pitching his book (with John Harris) that he divined that the reason GWB got unstinting war backing on the front pages of the NYT for years is that the press was all wildly liberal.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200611060008
The Halperin who, in January of 06:
...was so bowled over by Bush's rhetorical flourish that he announced, "That is the kind of answer and vision that will get a man's approval rating back over 53% any day now."
and who in June of 06:
was warning Democrats about their bleak prospects for electoral gains this year: "If I were them, I'd be scared to death about November's elections,"
and who, in his Oct 23, 06 piece for The Note, was informing the world at large about:
How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election
which included his bewilderment over why political journalists might not join in on daily conference calls between Rush Limbaugh and Ken Mehlman, despite receiving invitations.
Krugman pretty much flushes the dead mouse down the toilet without much wasted effort.
BTW - having followed the links, I don't know the "Marcie" in Peanuts, but I'd have to say EW reminds me a bit of Kate Martin, with the Center for National Security Studies.
Posted by: Mary | November 25, 2007 at 21:21
I disagree with the notion that Halperin is engaged in honest self-assessment or that he's apologizing for his inferior and misleading prior work.
Rather, he is using the form of it to hit Clinton and aid Bush, by suggesting that Bush's failures are of the same order of magnitude as a bright, competent, curious and involved CEO (who couldn't keep his zipper up - like his hero JFK). That's not honest regarding Clinton, Bush or Halperin's prior work: it's blatantly dishonest.
The "professional apology" has come a long way since J&J did the right thing after a nut poisoned a few bottles of Tylenol twenty-five years ago. Then, their corporate behavior was exemplary. As a consequence, they saved their brand and their reputation.
The current crop of "disaster/apology consultants" nominally teach how to do that. They don't. They teach its appearance, while admitting nothing, they adequately disclose neither the problem nor its fix. Hence, we get needlessly extended scandals at eg, HP. The CEO eventually quietly slinks away with tens of millions to keep their mouth shut. Even J&J no longer does it the old way.
The nether end of disaster consulting has reached its apogee with Cheney/Rove, who apologize for nothing, investigate nothing, publicly disclose nothing; instead of fixing what we all consider "the problem", they reward those who caused it.
Halperin is engaged in the latter, and its not funny. He should take ten or fifteen Tylenol, half a bottle of Johnny Walker, and think about another line of work.
earlofhuffington, I had thought about Halperin's conduct in the way that you describe, but decided to be gracious, as I'd just solved a nasty problem and was in a generous mood. Besides, EW's take-down addressed his errors fully ;-)
Agree that 'apologia' have become devalued since J&J.
But CheneyRoveScooter and the rest of the cabal don't even grasp the value of a devalued apology; which I interpret as additional evidence that they've lost touch with reality.
Unfamiliar with Halperin's background, which Mary lays out in such loving detail ;-)
You may well be right; nevertheless, in the past few weeks, I've seen a number of blog posts expressing vehement (sometimes hilarious) disgust over why 'horserace journalism is toxic.' Now, weeks into this much-needed conversation, Halperin's chiming in.
He finally claims to recognize the problem with horserace journalism.
EW has pointed out additional -- serious -- flaws with other parts of his logic, and let's hope he reads her and takes her analysis to heart (!)
Whether he got to this place by silent, tormented struggle -- or whether he was merely being expedient and tripped himself up -- is actually of no interest to me.
What matters is that he can't go back again; this was a Rubicon of sorts, and long overdue. He has to figure out how to do a better job of reporting on campaigns. Or not report on them at all. (If he's smart, he'll take two weeks to analyze why Paul Krugman's writing is sheer genius, but a start would be to read EW and call to make sure he grasps every point she's made in her post.)
I decided to give the man the benefit of the doubt; maybe I'm just in a good mood b/c I finally solved a nasty bug ;-)
But he can't fall back on horserace journalism again, and that's progress.
How he got there is actually no concern of mine.
Halperin has not boxed himself in or committed to a fundamentally different kind of journalism. He can "cover" horse race instead of substantive issues at will.
His purported new direction comes via the ever popular sport of defaming Clinton (who hasn't been in office for seven years), and by extension, his candidate spouse, by adhering to the currently popular false equivalence, a version of the Rovian meme that, "It's only politics; they both do it; no harm done; what great sport it is to watch". Which is demonstrably false and makes us witless observers while truly bad actors empty the candy store.
For actors such as Rove and Cheney, and many journalists who cover them, rules, restraint, professional conduct are not necessary lubricants that keep society civil; they are weaknesses to be exploited.
I hope that Halperin has seen the light on the road to Damascus. But like Hillel's farmer, being told that the Messiah has come to town, I'll finish plowing my field before dropping everything to follow him. His claims may be false and I have children to feed; if he's the One, he would be the first to esteem good sense instead of blind optimism.
BTW, Arianna Huffington has little in common with the earlofhuntingdon, except a desire to see progressive politics return to Washington.
Didn't Tip O'Neill make the observation in Man of the House back in 1987 that gee, Jimmy Carter's crew was real good at getting Carter elected but not so hot at governing?
Posted by: Rich | November 26, 2007 at 09:31
Being consistently right about people like Halperin and Klein is small compensation for the fact that these cretins have a much bigger megaphone than you. There's too much hack work among mass media outlets - getting basic facts wrong, passing along spin uncritically, taking candidates at face value - for it to be a coincidence. At some point we need to say they reflect the standards of the outlets they work for.
Posted by: Dan | November 26, 2007 at 10:05
Is that hysterical = funny, or hysterical = crazy, wrought with emotion?
Or is it a two-fer?
Posted by: Mauimom | November 26, 2007 at 12:38
Mauimom, hysterical = two-fer, but more heavily weighted to the 'funny' end of the spectrum.
earlofhuff, I actually think that Halperin can't go back again to horserace reporting. Not after an OpEd in the NYT. He may not be 'boxed in' to any specific mode, but he can't repeat the error of his ways without risking public scorn, ridicule, and condemnation. I view that as all for the best.
I think your point about how false equivilences and the 'everyone does it meme' are sideways smears at the Clintons is excellent, and I agree with you.
I lived in a village for several years, and whenever someone overstepped the social boundaries, they were ostracized: no food, no social support, no clothing... they were 'on their own'. (And frankly, it is life-threatening for people from that community to be ostracized.) That may sound harsh to middle class Americans, but it drove home the fact that societies need some kind of internal mechanisms by which they protect themselves from members who cause too much danger to the group. The villagers took a lot of thought in distinguishing between someone who's made an honest mistake and wants to do better, and people who repeatedly violate accepted norms. Because for people on a marginal existence, the efforts required to repair damage and bring someone to a better level of contributing are quite expensive and risky. They have to be pretty damn sure the individual in question really is motivated to do better.
Anyway, I put Halperin in the first category; Rove in the second.
IMHO, Halperin is salvagable; Rove isn't.
My village would have worked with Halperin to help him become a better contributor to the community; but they'd have shunned Rove and NOT allowed him back in the community.
What concerns me -- if you think about this in terms of epidemiology or public health -- is that we've had a situation where toxic, corrosive behaviors have been lauded by an ignorant, myopic press. IMHO, that translates into all kinds of health-related impacts, on both the personal and social levels. And once set in motion, it takes on a dynamic of its own (kind of retrovirus-like).
But sometimes, the people who've screwed up the worst, and made the biggest mistakes can turn out to have more passion or energy in terms of putting things right again. That's what I would hope for Halperin and his fellow reporters, because the consequences of their covering politics as if it were the latest athletic competition are irresponsible and dangerous. If Halperin is motivated enough, and if he sees that his work could be more meaningful on a larger social scale, then I wish him all the best. And I say that as a pragmatist.
This has been a longish exchange, but you've made me 'think harder' and I really appreciate it. All best.
Halperin's spent the last few days being roasted by progressive blogs. A published OpEd in the NYT would no more constrain him than Bush's low approval ratings constrain his actions. If it worked that way, we wouldn't be where we are, and neither would Rove, Halperin, Russert and Co.
Authoritarians overdose on inconsistency where it promotes their views. They are ED drug addicts who admire "hardness and strength", not professional competence, practicality or the previously normal give-and-take of politics.
That's what makes the likes of Lieberman and much of the traditional media so vile. They sell a form of "bipartisanship" that is long past its "sell by" date. In fact, what they're promoting is abject capitulation to the administration's demands. That's as destructive and dysfunctional in government as in a family.
I would love it if Halperin and his publisher were to have an awakening on the road to Damascus, but I'm not holding my breadth.
Bingo: ...what they're promoting is abject capitulation to the administration's demands
Honestly, I often think that the media and DC are some kind of bizarro Cargo Cult more than they're anything else.
Claiming to 'hate' Big Govt, they're first to belly up and swill like snorting oafs.
The reporters need to recognize what government actually does look like, which is quite different from what the appearance of government is.
When I've seen 'gummint', it's looked a lot like some of my neighbors who test water, or teach, or take phone calls. Mostly boring. That just doesn't fit the economic constraints of A Big Story Every Day. It doesn't fit the needs of Big Media, which is always slavering for a 'story' that's going to make us all tune in. IMHO, the MSM got suckered by the economics that support their vanity and their lifestyles, and they got inflated egos, and they did a lot of damage. (By enabling, and even celebrating, rotten scoundrels like Rove, Delay, et al.)
Meanwhile, smaller local papers have been in trouble, readership has declined, and the kind of behavior that 'grabs eyeballs' and 'sells stories' has been consistently antisocial ("Smoke 'em out', GWBush).
That Halperin couldn't spot 'decent government' if it smacked him in the nose says more than I really needed to know.
It also explains volumes about how on earth he could fall for the swinish offal of a sinister creep like Rove. He needs to know what government looks like so he can write better.
I think we mostly agree ;-))))
You nailed Halperin. His article is a jumbled mess of confused musings without any sense of responsibility for his errors of judgement and observations. In fact he continues to make stupid observations in his comments about both Clinton and Bush.
It is interesting that Halperin now says he sees the error of the "horse race" coverage but he doesn't see the way through to any future way to cover elections. He has nothing to say about how to evaluate a presidential candidate from any other perspective than horseracing.
For my money Kucinich is the only candidte who can say he was right about Bush lying and the futility of the Iraq invasion from the first. Why? because he read he intelligence reports.
Kucinich is the only candidate who can say he got it right to vote no on the Patriot Act. Why? because he read it before he voted.
Kucinich is the only candidate who has impeachment right. why? Because he has read the Constitution.
Clearly, if you don't use horseracing as the campaign paradigm, the alternative is to use the ability to read. The candidates should be given reading material and tested by writing an essay about what it means. Then we can do a proper job interview.
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Attack on Titan Volume 21 Review: The Basement Reveal Delivers the Best Chapter so far.
thereviewmonster Review November 16, 2018 7 Minutes
Chapter 83: Falling Axe.
The follow-up chapter to Armin’s heroic sacrifice, Chapter 83, “Falling Axe” is set-up for the three brilliant chapters to follow in this volume.
Much like the previous chapter, it starts off great showing how Eren and Armin first met, with Eren encountering Armin after he had been beaten up by bullies.
Armin’s words about how he did not really lose because he did not run away and then Eren asking his name made for a fantastic transition into the current timeline where Eren is trying to cope with Armin’s charred body.
Before he can do anything, however, he is interrupted by Zeke (and the other Titan) who confront each other in their first meeting.
While I did like the scene between the two, after reading the rest of the volume I felt like the twist to who Zeke is probably should have been revealed here because we do not see Eren’s reaction to this.
However, it still is an interesting scene and if I had not already been spoiled on who Zeke was it would have been very intriguing build-up.
I especially liked how Zeke told Eren he would rescue him some day because it shows that Zeke thinks he is in the right.
However, their meeting is interrupted by Levi who naturally killed all the Titans Zeke sent after him, which prompts Zeke to go rescue Reiner.
But, before he is rescued, Hange and the others manage to retrieve a letter from Ymir to Historia that was in his possession.
Unfortunately, this adds to my increasing fears that Ymir is already dead, which I hope is not true because she is one of my favourite characters and I feel she could add a lot to the story given more screen time.
The chapter ends with the surviving soldier from Erwin’s suicide run at Zeke arriving with a badly injured Erwin leaving Levi to decide who should get the Titan Serum and eat Bertholdt, Erwin or Armin.
Once again, I had been spoiled on who would eat Bertholdt so this did not leave much investment for me by the end.
However, this does not change the fact that “Falling Axe” is still great build-up.
It might have its minor problems but it delivers quite a few great scenes like the first meeting between Eren and Zeke.
Chapter 84. Midnight Sun.
As I said, I had already been spoiled on who would eat Bertholdt and become the Colossal Titan so I figured this chapter would not be very investing but, oh, how wrong I was.
“Midnight Sun” is an incredible chapter of Attack on Titan that delivers so much emotion.
I really wish I had not been spoiled on what would happen because this was just amazing to read.
First of all, I now know what that great mid-credits scene at the end of episode twelves of season three was all about.
The reason Levi is fighting with Eren and Mikasa is because he wants to give the Serum to Erwin while they want to give it to Armin.
However, before Mikasa can do anything crazy, Hange and the others show up and calm everyone down.
Both sides give good justifications for who should be chosen to eat Bertholdt, including the new character Floch, who compares Erwin to the devil, saying only he can save humanity.
Eren tries to get Levi to choose Armin by bringing up his dream to see the ocean.
This moment was so powerful it left me tearing up, which was a huge surprise because I already knew how it would end, showing just how amazing this chapter was at drawing out emotions.
In the end though, Levi chooses to save Armin and finally let Erwin rest.
The reveal that Armin was the one chosen was expertly handled and the death of Bertholdt that followed left me feeling sorry for him, despite everything he had done.
Then there was the death of Erwin.
Erwin is in my top five favourite characters of the series so I was sad to see him go but I personally believe he was killed off in a great way that tied off his character arc brilliantly.
I was also glad that I had not been spoiled on at least one major character death.
I knew coming in that Erwin would probably die because I had been spoiled Armin would become the Colossal Titan but I still had my reservations because I had not been spoiled.
So, it was nice to see a major character death I did not know for a certainty would be happening.
Speaking of character deaths, we also got confirmation this chapter that Moblit died saving Hange.
I feel like his death will probably be overlooked compared to Erwin and Bertholdt’s but he was still a great side character with a heroic death and I will miss him.
Overall, Midnight Sun was a perfect chapter that delivered a great emotional gut punch, even though I knew what was coming.
Chapter 85: Basement.
After 84 chapters of build-up, we finally got the reveal of what was inside the basement in Chapter 85 and it did not disappoint.
I was so glad I did not get spoiled about what was in there because what is revealed in this chapter and the next one open up the world of Attack on Titan in so many amazing ways.
We see at the end of the chapter that what Grisha left for Eren in his basement was a book that explains everything, along with a photo, writing that outside the walls humanity is not extinct.
This was a fantastic cliffhanger that led into the next chapter amazingly.
Not only this, but the cliffhanger also built on the recently departed Erwin’s legacy because we get a flashback to Nile telling the other military leaders that Erwin’s theory was that there were still humans outside the walls.
Well, his theory is confirmed with the ending cliffhanger, which not only adds to his legacy but it makes his death all the more tragic because he could not see that he was right all along.
The rest of the chapter is just as great, starting off with Armin waking up after eating Bertholdt.
The panel where he hallucinates(?) the crying face of Bertholdt’s Colossal Titan with half of its face a skull is very striking.
Eren’s reaction to Armin waking up was also very touching and Levi’s pep-talk with Armin about saying there should be “no regrets” was a fantastic reference to his OVA with the same title.
After this, we get another great panel with a before and after shot of Mikasa and Armin arriving at their old home in the present and when they went to save Carla after Bertholdt breached the wall.
This leads to the scene in the basement where, originally, I though Hajime Isayama was going to pull something where it turned out that there was actually noting in the basement.
This fear was caused by Eren’s key not fitting the basement door and the group initially not finding anything in there.
Thankfully, this fear was unjustified because they later discovered Grisha’s book, leading to the fantastic cliffhanger.
I am so glad Isayama actually revealed there was something in the basement because if he had pulled a fast one then I would have hated it.
The final cliffhanger in “Basement” is the standout of the chapter and leads brilliantly into the next chapter, the incredible “That Day.”
Chapter 86: That Day.
Coming into this chapter, I was expecting the full explanation of the world of Attack on Titan.
I not only got that but also my favourite chapter of the entire manga so far.
“That Day” is an absolutely incredible chapter and I cannot wait to see it animated when the second half of the season three anime airs in April.
This chapter has one of the best cases of world building I have ever seen, with Grisha’s notes revealing who is actually behind everything in the series.
It is revealed that over a thousand years ago a woman named Ymir Fritz supposedly made a deal with the devil and became the first Titan Shifter.
After she died, her powers were transferred into nine people, creating the nine Titan Shifters who built the empire of Eldia.
Centuries later, Eldia was overthrown by the nation of Marley who oppressed the remaining Eldians as punishment for years of genocide under them.
Some Eldians fled to the island of Paradis, under King Fritz, where the walls were created with the Founding Titan power and everyone’s memories were wiped.
It is also stated the reason Marley sent its Warriors to attack Paradis was because of the large amount of fossil fuels there and to retake the Founding Titan.
This one piece of exposition takes the previously small world of Attack on Titan and expands it exponentially.
It opens up so many interesting opportunities and questions.
Did Ymir really make a deal with the devil, how is she connected to the Ymir we know, along with Marley are there any other countries and cultures out there?
These are all interesting questions and I cannot wait for them to be answered.
It is also brilliant with how Grisha’s backstory ties into the explanation, with the persecution he faces at the hands of Marley being very similar to the ways the Nazis treated Jewish people before the Holocaust, a comparison Isayama is obviously trying to make.
Watching Grisha be motivated to begin his stand against Marley because of the violent death of his sister and the completely brainwashed fear his father presents was amazing for him character development wise, and all of this in one chapter.
This led to Grisha joining the Eldia Restorationists where he met Dina Fritz, a descendant of the royal family.
They eventually married and, in a brilliant twist, are revealed to have had a son who is Zeke, which makes him and Eren half-brothers.
Still, while this was a great twist, I do wish it had been revealed earlier when Eren and Zeke first met in Chapter 83 because we do not get a reaction from Eren to them having the same father.
That said, I still like the twist and the one that follows it when Zeke betrays his parents to the Marley government after Grisha tries to turn him into one of Marley’s warriors as a double agent.
This adds new meaning to Zeke’s first meeting with Eren when he tells him Grisha has brainwashed him, likely believing his father tried to do the same thing to him.
The chapter can end before more details about Grisha’s past can be revealed but what we got and how this tied into the explanation of what was outside the walls was nothing short of brilliant.
I had fears that the reveal of what was outside the walls would not live up to expectations but those fears were baseless because this reveal was everything I hoped for and more.
It had fantastic world building, fit in with the themes, and had great character development for Grisha to go along with this.
Chapter 86 “That Day” is my favourite chapter of Attack on Titan so far.
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New Pedestrian Bridge Opens on West Side
By Edmond Ortiz | June 8, 2019
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A new pedestrian bridge located on Highway 90 between West Military Drive and Loop 410.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) recently opened a pedestrian bridge above U.S. Highway 90 on the West Side with hopes it will prevent further fatal collisions between vehicles and people trying to cross the freeway.
The new pedestrian bridge is located between Loop 410 and West Military Drive, linking the Lackland Mobile Home Village and a mostly commercial area along westbound 90.
TxDOT’s plans for a larger improvement project along this stretch of U.S. 90 out to Loop 1604 did not originally include a pedestrian bridge, but the state agency saw a need to increase pedestrian safety in the area after several deaths there over the years.
TxDOT included the bridge into its larger plan for the highway about six years ago.
“We’re proud to have taken on this project because it was not planned, but it’s something we decided to take on in cooperation and collaboration with the community because we saw a need,” TxDOT San Antonio spokesman Hernan Rozemburg said in a livestream presentation Thursday.
TxDOT held an open house in 2014 for neighborhood residents, but had since been awaiting funding to become available and allocated for safety projects in order to proceed with construction.
TxDOT had previously put up a chain-link fence along the median as a deterrence, but agency representatives acknowledge that it has not been enough to prevent people from trying to cross the highway on foot.
Dale Picha, traffic operations manager for the TxDOT San Antonio District, said in the livestream that neighborhood residents had spent years asking TxDOT to see what the agency could do to improve pedestrian safety.
“This is probably the best we could do,” said Picha of the new bridge. “I don’t know what more we can do beside this.”
“It’s now open and we’re hoping it’ll get lots of use and most definitely that no one will ever again attempt to risk their life sprinting into traffic to get across U.S. 90,” Rozemburg later told reporters.
About Edmond Ortiz
Edmond Ortiz, a lifelong San Antonian, is a freelance reporter/editor who has worked with the San Antonio Express-News and Prime Time Newspapers.
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Review: Coming Of Age with Resilience in Giant Little Ones
By Steve Prokopy on March 15, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
In this unexpectedly satisfying sophomore work from writer/director Keith Behrman (2002’s Flowers & Garnet), Giant Little Ones is the story of two fairly popular high school boys—Franky (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas (Darren Mann)—who have an event transpire between them after Franky’s drunken 17th birthday party that causes their friendship and deep connection in each other’s lives to implode in such a way that it disrupts their lives and the lives of their families. The reason the film works so well is that the story of the two boys doesn’t exist in a bubble—we see the rippling impact it has on everyone around them, things playing out in unexpected and expected ways as a result.
Image courtesy of Vertical Entertainment
With Franky being the real central character here, each person around him is given their moments to shine and grow at some point in the film. His recently divorced parents (Maria Bello and Kyle MacLachlan, both of whom add a wonderful strength to the proceedings) are still figuring out how to negotiate around each other after MacLachlan’s character left the family after realizing he was attracted to men. Some of my favorite moments in Giant Little Ones involve Franky hanging out with his oldest friend, an out lesbian named Mouse (Niamh Wilson). They share a devastatingly funny scene in which she explores her curiosity about men’s bodies (more for scientific purposes than any attraction) using Franky as her warm-blooded, anatomically correct mannequin. Even though I like the film, I could have easily watched one just about these two.
Also quite impressive is the way filmmaker Behrman examines the early-stage relationship between Franky and Ballas’ sister Natasha (Taylor Hickson), which Ballas is not happy about. Natasha has been through a great deal in her young life, and the way she reveals this to Franky is one of the film’s most beautiful exchanges.
In an honest and sweet way, Giant Little Ones is a film about how confusing sex and sexuality can be when you’re in the earliest stages of your life where it’s even a concern. The 20-year-old Wiggins has been so impressive since his debut in Hellion five years ago, as well as in such works as Walking Out and the upcoming Sundance hit Light From Light. Here, he captures both the fearlessness and the resilience of youth, and he does so quietly and with a reserved strength that actors twice his age haven’t quite mastered yet. This is a terrific film overall, and a great showcase for Wiggins talents.
The film opens today at the AMC River East 21.
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Grenade, Mills
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From the Collection of Frankston RSL Sub Branch 183 Cranbourne Road Frankston Victoria
A WW2 era Mills type Hand Grenade. This grenade has a plate fitted to the bottom plug for use with a grenade launching version of the Enfield service rifle.
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Framed Artwork - Sketch of Frankston RSL Clubrooms, Davey Street
Frankston RSL Sub Branch, Frankston
Framed artwork produced by artist Marie Minton, dated 1972. The artwork is an ink drawing with watercolour tonings and depicts the Frankston RSL Sub Branch clubrooms of the time. The artwork is mounted with a gold coloured wooden frame and glass front. Artist, Marie Minton was apparently the daughter of a member of the time, Laurie Minton. This scene is of a Frankston landmark building on the corner of Davey Street and Young Street, Frankston locally known as the 'Plowman Residence'. Prior to being the clubrooms of the Frankston RSL Sub Branch this building was the family home of Dr Sidney Plowman. In Dr Plowman's time the building was known as the 'The Lofts' and was his residence and operated as a private hospital, the building was constructed ca 1900. Dr Plowman died in May 1932.
Title 'Frankston RSL' and the artist's name 'Marie Minton '72' appear on the front lower area of the sketch. The rear has the following note inscribed "Sketch of RSL clubrooms Davey St. by Marie Minton daughter of member (Laurie)"
Munition, 2 PDR
Pair of 2 PDR cartridges of WW1 vintage, probably a version used by Naval weapons. These are an example of trench art. These used cartridges have been modified with the addition of three brass 'feet' which have been brazed onto the filled end to enable them to be used as a flower vase.
Souvenir, Ashtray
Example of trench art, an ashtray made from brass (possibly originally recovered from a used munition cartridge). The finished item has been engraved with the RAAF insignia and motto and the words "EGYPT 1941".
This small ashtray has been engraved with the RAAF insignia and motto and the words "EGYPT 1941".
cake serving set
Example of a trench art cake serving set consisting of a cake slice and a cake fork (could be for serving pies). These have been made with a handle which is a used 0.303 inch rifle ammunition round and have been chrome plated and finished with elaborate engraving.
A WW1 era Australian Light Horse pack saddle. The saddle has large panniers mounted on either side and metal fittings for attaching devices such as additional carriers or weapons, made of leather and is complete. The saddle is displayed on a steel frame.
A WW1 era Australian Light Horse riding saddle. The saddle is a 1915 pattern Officers riding saddle, made of leather and is complete. The saddle is displayed on a wooden frame.
This saddle formerly belonged to MAX ARMSTRONG a WW2 ex-serviceman and a Frankston RSL Sub Branch member. Max and other ex-service officers were members of a volunteer Light Horse Mounted Section who, for many years, rode at the head of the annual Melbourne ANZAC Day commemoration March, leading the marching troops. At the completion of the march the Light Horse Mounted Section would visit the Memorial Horse Trough near the north east corner of the Shrine of Remembrance for a brief service paying tribute to Australian war horses.
Scabbard
Bayonet holder without knife ,it is called a frog from 1916 , WW1. Bayonet holder which is known as a frog with two rivets in the material webbing.
From WW1
Has a 1916 marking on the back of bayonet holder
Embroidered Cloth
This is a square yellow silk cloth with pink fringing. It has an embroidered blue rising sun, under which are the words Australian Imperial Forces. On the lower edge of the cloth are the embroidered words ‘From Sergeant Frank McDonald’ It is also embellished with embroidered flowers.
Embroidered cloths like this were sent home as souvenirs. Individual names were embroidered on the cloth.
RSSAILA Event Programme collection - Festival of Empire and Remembrance 11 November 1944
Printed paper booklet and three (3) paper poppy leaves
Front cover has printed Title information and brief description of the event. Sixteen pages contain a Royal photograph and detailed description of organisation and programme of activities and instructions. Six original signatures of decorated servicemen appear on the front cover
Medal, Imperial German
A WW1 era Imperial German Iron Cross Second Class medal contained in a presentation case. The medal has a black and white striped ribbon threaded through a suspender ring. This medal was issued during WW1 to German Army personnel. refer to AWM item https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1176843
Mortar Bomb (Practice) 81mm, Vietnam era
Practice mortar round, 81mm, steel (black) with aluminium tailpiece
81mm practice mortar bomb, U S from Vietnam era
On aluminium tailpiece "DS" and underneath "22 M O 82 M 1 7 0 "
Container, Lubricating Oil
Container used for lubricating oil for 18 PDR and 25 PDR artillery pieces. Used during WW1 and WW2
Used for storing lubricating oil for artillery pieces, 18 PDR and 25 PDR, during WW1 and WW2.
Markings on base "DɅD" and serial number "CM 2404 "
Case, Transit
A wooden, protective transit case to suit a plane table compass as used by surveyors and artillery crew. These compasses were used by artillery units of the Australian Military Forces during World War 2. Refer 00330 and 00330.1
Case, Leather
A purpose made protective transit case for the sight clinometer MK IV used in conjunction with the QF 25 PDR field gun. Standard equipment issued with the 25 PDR artillery piece. Refer to items 00111 and 00111.1
Compass, Plane Table
A plane table compass as used by surveyors and artillery crew complete with a protective wooden transit case. This compass is the type used by artillery units of the Australian Military Forces during World War 2. This compass was manufactured by J. W. Handley P/L of Melbourne in 1943. Refer 00330.1 and 00330.2
Sight clinometer MK IV used in conjunction with the QF 25 PDR field gun. This device was mounted on a fitting beside the gun barrel and used to accurately indicate the elevation of the gun barrel. The device is calibrated in degrees and minutes and is adjustable enabling the weapon to be accurately aimed. Standard equipment issued with the 25 PDR artillery piece. Refer to items 00111 and 00111.2
Hat, Felt
Standard Australian Department of Defence issue khaki fur felt slouch hat as worn by Army personnel. The hat brim has a bound edge finish and one side of the brim is folded against the hat crown. The folded brim is attached by a brass clip to the side of the crown. This hat has the normal seven fold puggaree.
MOUNTCASTLE PTY LTD MAY 2005 57 O/N 235032
Hat, RAN
Royal Australian Navy ratings cap worn by able seamen when in uniform, this white cap has a tally band and chinstrap in black material with the embroidered name "H.M.A.S. VOYAGER". This type of cap is a personal purchase for 'wearing out' and is known to sailor's as a "tiddly" hat. The hat has internal red (for Port) and green (for Starboard) lining bands and a blue sweat band.
Donated by Frank Verco service number R62418, who enlisted in the RAN as a young man. Frank was posted to the HMAS Voyager and was on board when the ship was involved in an accident which resulted in it's sinking in February 1964. Fortunately Frank was uninjured, he was in the bow area of the ship at the time of the accident Frank and went down with that section of the ship. Frank later served on the HMAS Sydney ferrying troops to Vietnam. Frank was in the RAN for three years, his rank was Ordinary Seaman/Electrical Mechanic.
The band is embroidered with the inscription: "H. M. A. S. VOYAGER" and the cap has the name "F. J. VERCO" written inside. The iside lining has the imprint "Manufactured Expressly for Sinbad Trading Company Melbourne Made in England"
Propellor, Desk Ornament
Munition, Cartridge
Pair of 2 PDR cartridges. These are an example of trench art.
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With Its Primary Opponents Voted Out, What's Next For Labor Unions?
NPR on Wednesday, November 14 2018 - 10:38am
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, about union strategies following the midterm elections.
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How Working People Defined the Midterm Election
Richard Trumka on Tuesday, November 13 2018 - 10:26am
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Trumka: Record Labor Voter Mobilization Emphasizes Pocketbook Issues
Mark Gruenberg on Thursday, November 1 2018 - 12:19pm
Organized labor’s record voter mobilization efforts this year, which started earlier than ever before for a mid-term election, emphasized pocketbook issues and – says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka – will produce huge “momentum at the ballot box” on Nov. 6.
It also produced a record number of unionists running for everything from city council and county commissioner to Congress and governor, Trumka and Julie Greene, the federation’s mobilizing – and politics – director said in an Oct. 30 telephone press conference.
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Working-Class People are Underrepresented in Politics. The Problem Isn’t Voters.
Dr. Nicholas Carnes on Monday, October 29 2018 - 11:59am
The president is the billionaire head of a global business empire, and his mostly millionaire Cabinet may be the richest in American history. His opponent in the 2016 election was a millionaire. Most Supreme Court Justices are millionaires. Most members of Congress are millionaires (and probably have been for several years).
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Trump Administration Taking On Overtime Pay, Franchise Liability
Jaclyn Diaz on Monday, October 29 2018 - 11:48am
The Trump administration plans to tackle two important labor policy issues in the coming months: overtime pay and “joint employer” liability for companies in staffing and franchise relationships.
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Labor Voices: Your Vote Is Your Voice
Gary Jones on Wednesday, October 24 2018 - 12:40pm
For the people of Flint, justice may come from a courtroom, but change comes at the ballot box.
November 6 is Election Day.
In 2010 and 2014, as families in Flint went to the voting booth, little did they know that their decisions would impact something as fundamental as the water they drink. However, policies put in place by the state and local officials elected on those days put saving money ahead of the health and water quality of Flint residents.
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Working People Need Answers on Latest North American Trade Deal
Richard Trumka on Monday, October 15 2018 - 10:50am
It seems every talking head in Washington has been in a frenzy recently, rushing to either glorify or condemn the new North American Free Trade Agreement, known as the United States Mexico Canada Agreement. But the truth is that it is still too early to pass any final judgment.
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Trumka: 'On November 6 We’re Going to Have One Hell of a Party—A Scott Walker Retirement Party'
Bill Glauber on Wednesday, September 26 2018 - 11:09am
Richard Trumka came to Milwaukee Tuesday to fire up labor activists and tear into Gov. Scott Walker.
The national president of the AFL-CIO used his address at the group's state convention to portray Walker as a "little puppet" of the billionaire Koch brothers.
Walker, the two-term Republican governor whose Act 10 crippled organized labor in 2011, faces Democrat Tony Evers in the fall.
"On November 6 we’re going to have one hell of a party — a Scott Walker retirement party," Trumka said.
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LEAP summer youth work program kicking off its second year
Milwaukee’s LEAP internship program will enable even more Milwaukee young people to gain critical job skills and work experience while also allowing for regular communication and interaction with Milwaukee police personnel.
By Willie Wade - Jun 18th, 2013 11:43 am
Now entering its second year, Milwaukee’s LEAP internship program will enable even more Milwaukee young people to gain critical job skills and work experience while also allowing for regular communication and interaction with Milwaukee police personnel.
LEAP (Learn, Earn and Achieve with Police) identifies promising young leaders and prepares them for future workforce and civic success. The program kicks off with a gathering at 12:00 p.m. TODAY at Manpower headquarters, 100 Manpower Pl. Media coverage is invited.
In LEAP, the Milwaukee Police Department, LISC Milwaukee and the City of Milwaukee’s Earn and Learn program are collaborating to strengthen communication between Milwaukee teens and police, preparing teens for future career success and introducing Milwaukee companies to a diverse group of Milwaukee’s future workforce. The program launched last summer with an inaugural class of 17, but additional funding approved by the Common Council will allow the city to expand the number of participants this year.
“The more young people we have learning job readiness and job skills, the more young people will be successful upon entering the workforce and pursuing a career or a good job,” Alderman Wade said.
Alderman Wade said the LEAP program provides paid work with area businesses that can help build work readiness skills and valuable experience opportunities for Milwaukee teens who are enrolled in the STOP (Students Talking it Over with Police) program. Students will work at area businesses to learn first-hand how to apply the skills they’ve learned in school and through STOP to the workplace.
Through LEAP, participating companies employ young leaders, ages 17-21, 20 hours per week for eight weeks, June 24 through August 16, Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, interns participate in the Milwaukee Police Department STOP Program. Companies contribute a flat rate of $2,250 for participation and interns are paid between $7.25 and $9.00 per hour.
Participating employers include Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Educators Credit Union, Harley-Davidson, KBS Construction, LISC, Marquette University, Northwestern Mutual, Running Rebels, US Bank, Jonco Industries and MillerCoors.
The MPD’s STOP Program is designed to improve communication and build trust between police and teens. STOP was developed to educate young people on the nature of police work and explain the reasons that law-abiding citizens might find themselves interacting with police officers. Students who participate in STOP receive a photo ID, a T-shirt and a certificate of completion.
LISC’s mission is to help transform distressed urban neighborhoods into healthy communities of choice and opportunity—great places to work, do business, and raise children.
LISC will work with Manpower Group to provide payroll services and supervision for participating teens. An adult team leader will maintain regular contact with the youth and employers at all worksites.
People: Willie Wade
Organizations: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Educators Credit Union, Harley-Davidson, Jonco Industries, KBS Construction, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, ManpowerGroup, Marquette University, MillerCoors, Northwestern Mutual, Running Rebels, US Bank
Buildings: Manpower Headquarters
Government: Milwaukee Police Department
Neighborhoods: Schlitz Park
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Alderman Willie C. Wade said today that services have been set for his mother, Sadie Louise Wade, who passed away on Friday, August 22, 2014.
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Statement of Alderman Willie C. Wade July 11, 2014
Residents can get flu shots, enroll in health care coverage at Saturday event
Jan 28th, 2014 by Willie Wade
Residents can receive a flu shot, learn about their health care options and sign up for the health care marketplace at a free event Saturday hosted by Alderman Willie C. Wade, the Milwaukee Health Department and Molina Healthcare.
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Music of late artist Prince now on Spotify
Prince's music is coming to Spotify this Sunday - Feb. 10, 2017 / Photo from 'CNN' - cnn.com
After never being allowed on streaming services, Spotify and other similar apps can now showcase Prince
by Morgan
February 13, 2017 at 4:53 AM Mon 13 Feb 2017 04:53:32 AM EST
One of the greatest musicians to come out of the 80’s to well into the 90’s and beyond is brilliant singer-songwriter Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as just Prince (or a certain “sign,” or The Artist Formerly Known As…you get the idea). His death in early 2016 was a blow to longtime pop music fans everywhere, even as he left a wealth of thus far unreleased music and other valuable assets in his home/studio of Paisley Park in Minnesota.
His legacy is just so big that he received a tribute performed by Bruno Mars at the 59th Grammy Awards last Sunday, February 12. Now it’ll be possible to hear the best of Prince’s music online with many of his iconic songs becoming available on music streaming app service Spotify.
A lot of talks has been circulating in past days regarding the possibility that the artist’s music will become legally available on streaming.
Last Friday, February 10 Spotify itself confirmed that starting Sunday Prince’s music catalog from Warner Bros. will be up for anybody listening. To be precise, this includes, for now, most of his music recorded for WB up until 1995, when he broke with the label (and started using his alternate monikers due to Warner’s hold on the “Prince” label), meaning songs from “Purple Rain” and “Dirty Mind” has been on Spotify starting even as the Grammys were going on, tribute to Prince included.
Even before the formal announcement billboards in New York City and London teased the new arrangement with Spotify, featuring the app service’s logo and nothing but purple.
Then again, Spotify wasn't the only streaming service that has received this magnificent boon. Apple Music, Amazon Music, Napster, and iHeartRadio will also be blasting Prince's pre-1995 library as well, owing to more choice in what streaming service fans and listeners will prefer.
Purple Spotify billboards in NYC and London suggest Prince's catalog could return to streaming music services during Grammys this weekend! pic.twitter.com/Z3Lys9rW0B
— Samuel Burke (@samuelcnn) February 8, 2017
In a separate announcement Universal Music Group, which was Prince’s label after the 1995 WB split up until 2014 when he returned there, revealed that they too have forged an agreement with the late artist’s estate to have exclusive licensing rights to his post-1995 catalog and his unreleased music, said to be worth a fortune all on their own.
Whether this will translate to more streaming a la Spotify has not been revealed.
It was well known how fiercely protective Prince was of his works, actively removing YouTube videos and turning down streaming services save for one run by fellow artist Jay-Z, which has exclusive streaming rights to the "Hit N Run: Phase One" album.
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Talk:Dolphin
2008-2010 restructuring discussion
This page has become very long and very detailed - somewhat out-of-scale with most other pages. I wonder if it would be sensible to move a lot of this content to a tutorial on 'Getting the most out of Dolphin' or some such? The Tutorials page seems to be often viewed, and I think it would actually be found more often there than in a general overview page.
I'd help with this, if we go ahead, but it will impact on the language pages, I think, so we need some agreement first. --annew 10:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
It doesn't necessarily have to be a tutorial. Actually it isn't a tutorial, tip or howto but more of a handbook. My suggestion would be to split up the current Dolphin page into more manageable chunks, something like Dolphin, Dolphin/Panels, Dolphin/Views, etc. (since each section is quite long and detailed).
As for language pages, we could just move them as well. But yes, we should wait for some agreement. Within two days perhaps? --Jucato
Splitting of a bigger page into many small ones would work, but it is against the wiki idea, or? Could not find the link I want to give. If you split a big page in many small ones it sometimes ends in having stubs. Also it is easier to search in one page instead of getting 10 pages as a search result and grep them for desired content. Just my 2 cents. --Mark Ziegler 12:53, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Splitting into smaller chunks of information was just one idea. Of course we could just keep it all in one page, but definitely needs a proper table of contents. I was just thinking about the situation where the page gets too long and too overwhelming. Presenting it in more manageable chunks would be better, like what most KDE Handbooks do.
Whichever way is chosen, the important thing is that the "front page" for each app (http://userbase.kde.org/AppName) would be a simple, digested summary of the app with all the necessary info and links that a user can read at a glance: icon, screenshot, description, website, links to further info/tutorials/tips, maybe even a developer. --Jucato
It would be really cool if we could use expanding sections - simple page, with sections expanding on demand. I wonder if that is possible? --annew 16:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
To bring this into line with other applications I've written and introduction, then moved the whole of the original content to Tutorials (linked, of course). --annew 12:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
This change created problems for the translated pages: The language template for the tutorial page still links translated pages to this page. As a consequence, only one of these pages can be translated, and that translation is shown both as introductory page and as tutorial.
Currently there are danish and russian translations of the introduction and german, frensh and polish translations of the tutorial. I have corrected the language template on the tutorial page and copied the contents of of the german, frensh and polish pages there. I haven't deleted these translations from this page, so now there are two identical copies of them. Maby someone could look into this?
--Claus chr 2 August 2009
Sorry I overlooked that. I need to do some more moves on the Tutorials pages, to make the links more consistent. I'll try to get this done today. Perhaps you could either ping me on IRC or exchange emails with me (annew at kde dot org), so that we can ensure that everything is brought into line. Thanks.--annew 09:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
There's a problem - Amarok also has a very, very long wiki page. Should these long pages be acceptable, or should Amarok's page be changed as Dolphin's has? The madman 18:32, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
The Amarok page was written by the Amarok team. My feeling is that changes should only be made to it after consultation with the team. --annew 12:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Description: A bullet-pointed list
Is it really appropriate to make the description a bullet-point list of features? With Konqueror, Konsole and other applications (such as Okular and Amarok) using primarily descriptive paragraphs for their description (or whatever they have in place of the description), should Dolphin's be changed to better suite the general feel of the wiki? The madman 12:19, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Again this is due to conflicts in the styles preferred by contributors. Consultation with previous authors should precede any major changes. They can usually be contacted by looking at the History of the page to get an author name, the writing a message on Talk:Username. They will be alerted to read the message. --annew 12:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
OK, thank you. I will go about asking the original author about this change.
This looks like the revision that changed from paragraphs to a bullet-list and, consequently, removed a lot of information about dolphin. Was this part of the change discussed above?
Recently, the translation markup in this page has been changed. Among other thing, the second bulleted list was spilt into two translation units. This has resulted in the list being displayed wrongly on the page: the last line of the first unit and the first line of the second unit is run into one line! The reason for this seems to be that there is no blank line between the two units.
Why split one relatively short list into two translation units, and can it be done without unfortunate side effect in the displayed page? --Claus chr 09:02, 28 June 2010 (CEST)
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GitHub links here/needs developer info 2 23:34, 20 June 2019
yurchor keeps vandalizing the wiki with impunity 1 06:11, 5 December 2018
the use of dedicated 2 05:26, 23 June 2011
Troubleshooting section 1 08:11, 28 September 2010
GitHub links here/needs developer info
Summarize
The first result from Googling "dolphin KDE source code" is https://github.com/KDE/dolphin , which has a one-line README
See http://dolphin.kde.org for information about Dolphin.
which redirects here. The code and commit history are indeed mirrored on GitHub. But developers wondering about changes ("pull requests" on GitHub), issues, project status, etc. will either realize the info is not on GitHub and give up, or follow the link here... and find no information for developers and give up. I had similar problems looking for other KDE projects.
Either that barebones GitHub README should be expanded to point developers to relevant resources (https://www.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/development , Phabricator, bugs.kde.org ?), or this page needs to have something for developers.
Skierpage3 (talk)
07:56, 29 September 2018
This is a question for the Dolphin developers. There is a Dolphin page on community.kde.org; maybe the link should go there? We could have a similar link here, but more extensive developer info really doesn't belong here.
Claus chr (talk)
Thanks, I filed KDE bug 408967 against Dolphin. It is quite a confusing maze! https://dolphin.kde.org is "the" website for Dolphin in applicaiton info, so it's not just for developers; if "community" is the right place then this page could have have a
https://community.kde.org/Dolphin has information for developers
23:34, 20 June 2019
yurchor keeps vandalizing the wiki with impunity
I hereby file an official complaint against yurchor who obviously seeks a personal vendetta with legit contributors.
he keeps deleting stuff for no good reason.
he is not fit for the job.
prove: his latest "run as root" revert.
yurchor keeps vandalizing the wiki with impunity.
Firef (talk)
00:03, 5 December 2018
See my entry on your user page.
the use of dedicated
I was just wondering why the word "dedicated" is used. And somehow I don't think that it makes much sense. It's just like saying Rekonq is a dedicated web browser...
Zhao Han
10:01, 7 April 2011
Historical. At the point that that was written most people were still migrating to KDE4, and were used to Konqueror being part file-manager and part web-browser. I'd be inclined to leave it, as there are still people in this position, and at some point the Enterprise distros will presumably change to KDE4 so bringing a new generation of people used to a hybrid.
annew
Edited by 2 users.
Last edit: 05:26, 23 June 2011
alright, i see.
Troubleshooting section
Hi, This page: http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting suggests that application specific troubleshooting should go on the application page. I had this problem already twice so I though it might be useful for others. I'm new to this wiki - would it make sense to have a specific Troubleshooting section?
Problem: Dolphin's menu entries 'View - Additional' and/or 'View - Panels' are empty although nepomuk is enabled in System Settings.
Solution: Rename the folder '~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphin' and restart dolphin. This will purge your dolphin customizations but the entries should be back. This happened to me after an upgrade from KDE 4.4 to 4.5
Dinsdale
Hi Dinsdale. Yes, when something is likely to be experienced by others it's good to share your knowledge. Please add a Hints and Tips section underneath the Tutorials section, and put your entry there. Thanks
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Network Working Group P. Chimento
Request for Comments: 5136 JHU Applied Physics Lab
Category: Informational J. Ishac
NASA Glenn Research Center
Defining Network Capacity
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Measuring capacity is a task that sounds simple, but in reality can
be quite complex. In addition, the lack of a unified nomenclature on
this subject makes it increasingly difficult to properly build, test,
and use techniques and tools built around these constructs. This
document provides definitions for the terms 'Capacity' and 'Available
Capacity' related to IP traffic traveling between a source and
destination in an IP network. By doing so, we hope to provide a
common framework for the discussion and analysis of a diverse set of
current and future estimation techniques.
Chimento & Ishac Informational [Page 1]
RFC 5136 Network Capacity February 2008
2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Links and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Definition: Nominal Physical Link Capacity . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. Capacity at the IP Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3.1. Definition: IP-layer Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3.1.1. Standard or Correctly Formed Packets . . . . . . . 5
2.3.1.2. Type P Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3.2. Definition: IP-type-P Link Capacity . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3.3. Definition: IP-type-P Path Capacity . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3.4. Definition: IP-type-P Link Usage . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3.5. Definition: IP-type-P Link Utilization . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.6. Definition: IP-type-P Available Link Capacity . . . . 8
2.3.7. Definition: IP-type-P Available Path Capacity . . . . 8
3. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Time and Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Hardware Duplicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3. Other Potential Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Common Terminology in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5. Comparison to Bulk Transfer Capacity (BTC) . . . . . . . . 10
5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Measuring the capacity of a link or network path is a task that
sounds simple, but in reality can be quite complex. Any physical
medium requires that information be encoded and, depending on the
medium, there are various schemes to convert information into a
sequence of signals that are transmitted physically from one location
to another.
While on some media, the maximum frequency of these signals can be
thought of as "capacity", on other media, the signal transmission
frequency and the information capacity of the medium (channel) may be
quite different. For example, a satellite channel may have a carrier
frequency of a few gigahertz, but an information-carrying capacity of
only a few hundred kilobits per second. Often similar or identical
terms are used to refer to these different applications of capacity,
adding to the ambiguity and confusion, and the lack of a unified
nomenclature makes it difficult to properly build, test, and use
various techniques and tools.
We are interested in information-carrying capacity, but even this is
not straightforward. Each of the layers, depending on the medium,
adds overhead to the task of carrying information. The wired
Ethernet uses Manchester coding or 4/5 coding, which cuts down
considerably on the "theoretical" capacity. Similarly, RF (radio
frequency) communications will often add redundancy to the coding
scheme to implement forward error correction because the physical
medium (air) is lossy. This can further decrease the information
capacity.
In addition to coding schemes, usually the physical layer and the
link layer add framing bits for multiplexing and control purposes.
For example, on SONET there is physical-layer framing and typically
also some layer-2 framing such as High-Level Data Link Control
(HDLC), PPP, or ATM.
Aside from questions of coding efficiency, there are issues of how
access to the channel is controlled, which also may affect the
capacity. For example, a multiple-access medium with collision
detection, avoidance, and recovery mechanisms has a varying capacity
from the point of view of the users. This varying capacity depends
upon the total number of users contending for the medium, how busy
the users are, and bounds resulting from the mechanisms themselves.
RF channels may also vary in capacity, depending on range,
environmental conditions, mobility, shadowing, etc.
The important points to derive from this discussion are these: First,
capacity is only meaningful when defined relative to a given protocol
layer in the network. It is meaningless to speak of "link" capacity
without qualifying exactly what is meant. Second, capacity is not
necessarily fixed, and consequently, a single measure of capacity at
any layer may in fact provide a skewed picture (either optimistic or
pessimistic) of what is actually available.
2. Definitions
In this section, we specify definitions for capacity. We begin by
first defining "link" and "path" clearly, and then we define a
baseline capacity that is simply tied to the physical properties of
the link.
2.1. Links and Paths
To define capacity, we need to broaden the notions of link and path
found in the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) framework document
[RFC2330] to include network devices that can impact IP capacity
without being IP aware. For example, consider an Ethernet switch
that can operate ports at different speeds.
We define nodes as hosts, routers, Ethernet switches, or any other
device where the input and output links can have different
characteristics. A link is a connection between two of these network
devices or nodes. We then define a path P of length n as a series of
links (L1, L2, ..., Ln) connecting a sequence of nodes (N1, N2, ...,
Nn+1). A source S and destination D reside at N1 and Nn+1,
respectively. Furthermore, we define a link L as a special case
where the path length is one.
2.2. Definition: Nominal Physical Link Capacity
Nominal Physical Link Capacity, NomCap(L), is the theoretical maximum
amount of data that the link L can support. For example, an OC-3
link would be capable of 155.520 Mbit/s. We stress that this is a
measurement at the physical layer and not the network IP layer, which
we will define separately. While NomCap(L) is typically constant
over time, there are links whose characteristics may allow otherwise,
such as the dynamic activation of additional transponders for a
satellite link.
The nominal physical link capacity is provided as a means to help
distinguish between the commonly used link-layer capacities and the
remaining definitions for IP-layer capacity. As a result, the value
of NomCap(L) does not influence the other definitions presented in
this document. Instead, it provides an upper bound on those values.
2.3. Capacity at the IP Layer
There are many factors that can reduce the IP information carrying
capacity of the link, some of which have already been discussed in
the introduction. However, the goal of this document is not to
become an exhaustive list of such factors. Rather, we outline some
of the major examples in the following section, thus providing food
for thought to those implementing the algorithms or tools that
attempt to measure capacity accurately.
The remaining definitions are all given in terms of "IP-layer bits"
in order to distinguish these definitions from the nominal physical
capacity of the link.
2.3.1. Definition: IP-layer Bits
IP-layer bits are defined as eight (8) times the number of octets in
all IP packets received, from the first octet of the IP header to the
last octet of the IP packet payload, inclusive.
IP-layer bits are recorded at the destination D beginning at time T
and ending at a time T+I. Since the definitions are based on
averages, the two time parameters, T and I, must accompany any report
or estimate of the following values in order for them to remain
meaningful. It is not required that the interval boundary points
fall between packet arrivals at D. However, boundaries that fall
within a packet will invalidate the packets on which they fall.
Specifically, the data from the partial packet that is contained
within the interval will not be counted. This may artificially bias
some of the values, depending on the length of the interval and the
amount of data received during that interval. We elaborate on what
constitutes correctly received data in the next section.
2.3.1.1. Standard or Correctly Formed Packets
The definitions in this document specify that IP packets must be
received correctly. The IPPM framework recommends a set of criteria
for such standard-formed packets in Section 15 of [RFC2330].
However, it is inadequate for use with this document. Thus, we
outline our own criteria below while pointing out any variations or
similarities to [RFC2330].
First, data that is in error at layers below IP and cannot be
properly passed to the IP layer must not be counted. For example,
wireless media often have a considerably larger error rate than wired
media, resulting in a reduction in IP link capacity. In accordance
with the IPPM framework, packets that fail validation of the IP
header must be discarded. Specifically, the requirements in
[RFC1812], Section 5.2.2, on IP header validation must be checked,
which includes a valid length, checksum, and version field.
The IPPM framework specifies further restrictions, requiring that any
transport header be checked for correctness and that any packets with
IP options be ignored. However, the definitions in this document are
concerned with the traversal of IP-layer bits. As a result, data
from the higher layers is not required to be valid or understood as
that data is simply regarded as part of the IP packet. The same
holds true for IP options. Valid IP fragments must also be counted
as they expend the resources of a link even though assembly of the
full packet may not be possible. The IPPM framework differs in this
area, discarding IP fragments.
For a discussion of duplicates, please see Section 3.2.
In summary, any IP packet that can be properly processed must be
included in these calculations.
2.3.1.2. Type P Packets
The definitions in this document refer to "Type P" packets to
designate a particular type of flow or sets of flows. As defined in
RFC 2330, Section 13, "Type P" is a placeholder for what may be an
explicit specification of the packet flows referenced by the metric,
or it may be a very loose specification encompassing aggregates. We
use the "Type P" designation in these definitions in order to
emphasize two things: First, that the value of the capacity
measurement depends on the types of flows referenced in the
definition. This is because networks may treat packets differently
(in terms of queuing and scheduling) based on their markings and
classification. Networks may also arbitrarily decide to flow-balance
based on the packet type or flow type and thereby affect capacity
measurements. Second, the measurement of capacity depends not only
on the type of the reference packets, but also on the types of the
packets in the "population" with which the flows of interest share
the links in the path.
All of this indicates two different approaches to measuring: One is
to measure capacity using a broad spectrum of packet types,
suggesting that "Type P" should be set as generic as possible. The
second is to focus narrowly on the types of flows of particular
interest, which suggests that "Type P" should be very specific and
narrowly defined. The first approach is likely to be of interest to
providers, the second to application users.
As a practical matter, it should be noted that some providers may
treat packets with certain characteristics differently than other
packets. For example, access control lists, routing policies, and
other mechanisms may be used to filter ICMP packets or forward
packets with certain IP options through different routes. If a
capacity-measurement tool uses these special packets and they are
included in the "Type P" designation, the tool may not be measuring
the path that it was intended to measure. Tool authors, as well as
users, may wish to check this point with their service providers.
2.3.2. Definition: IP-type-P Link Capacity
We define the IP-layer link capacity, C(L,T,I), to be the maximum
number of IP-layer bits that can be transmitted from the source S and
correctly received by the destination D over the link L during the
interval [T, T+I], divided by I.
As mentioned earlier, this definition is affected by many factors
that may change over time. For example, a device's ability to
process and forward IP packets for a particular link may have varying
effect on capacity, depending on the amount or type of traffic being
2.3.3. Definition: IP-type-P Path Capacity
Using our definition for IP-layer link capacity, we can then extend
this notion to an entire path, such that the IP-layer path capacity
simply becomes that of the link with the smallest capacity along that
C(P,T,I) = min {1..n} {C(Ln,T,I)}
The previous definitions specify the number of IP-layer bits that can
be transmitted across a link or path should the resource be free of
any congestion. It represents the full capacity available for
traffic between the source and destination. Determining how much
capacity is available for use on a congested link is potentially much
more useful. However, in order to define the available capacity, we
must first specify how much is being used.
2.3.4. Definition: IP-type-P Link Usage
The average usage of a link L, Used(L,T,I), is the actual number of
IP-layer bits from any source, correctly received over link L during
the interval [T, T+I], divided by I.
An important distinction between usage and capacity is that
Used(L,T,I) is not the maximum number, but rather, the actual number
of IP bits sent that are correctly received. The information
transmitted across the link can be generated by any source, including
those sources that may not be directly attached to either side of the
link. In addition, each information flow from these sources may
share any number (from one to n) of links in the overall path between
S and D.
2.3.5. Definition: IP-type-P Link Utilization
We express usage as a fraction of the overall IP-layer link capacity.
Util(L,T,I) = ( Used(L,T,I) / C(L,T,I) )
Thus, the utilization now represents the fraction of the capacity
that is being used and is a value between zero (meaning nothing is
used) and one (meaning the link is fully saturated). Multiplying the
utilization by 100 yields the percent utilization of the link. By
using the above, we can now define the capacity available over the
link as well as the path between S and D. Note that this is
essentially the definition in [PDM].
2.3.6. Definition: IP-type-P Available Link Capacity
We can now determine the amount of available capacity on a congested
link by multiplying the IP-layer link capacity with the complement of
the IP-layer link utilization. Thus, the IP-layer available link
capacity becomes:
AvailCap(L,T,I) = C(L,T,I) * ( 1 - Util(L,T,I) )
2.3.7. Definition: IP-type-P Available Path Capacity
Using our definition for IP-layer available link capacity, we can
then extend this notion to an entire path, such that the IP-layer
available path capacity simply becomes that of the link with the
smallest available capacity along that path.
AvailCap(P,T,I) = min {1..n} {AvailCap(Ln,T,I)}
Since measurements of available capacity are more volatile than that
of link capacity, we stress the importance that both the time and
interval be specified as their values have a great deal of influence
on the results. In addition, a sequence of measurements may be
beneficial in offsetting the volatility when attempting to
characterize available capacity.
3. Discussion
3.1. Time and Sampling
We must emphasize the importance of time in the basic definitions of
these quantities. We know that traffic on the Internet is highly
variable across all time scales. This argues that the time and
length of measurements are critical variables in reporting available
capacity measurements and must be reported when using these
The closer to "instantaneous" a metric is, the more important it is
to have a plan for sampling the metric over a time period that is
sufficiently large. By doing so, we allow valid statistical
inferences to be made from the measurements. An obvious pitfall here
is sampling in a way that causes bias. For example, a situation
where the sampling frequency is a multiple of the frequency of an
underlying condition.
3.2. Hardware Duplicates
We briefly consider the effects of paths where hardware duplication
of packets may occur. In such an environment, a node in the network
path may duplicate packets, and the destination may receive multiple,
identical copies of these packets. Both the original packet and the
duplicates can be properly received and appear to be originating from
the sender. Thus, in the most generic form, duplicate IP packets are
counted in these definitions. However, hardware duplication can
affect these definitions depending on the use of "Type P" to add
additional restrictions on packet reception. For instance, a
restriction only to count uniquely-sent packets may be more useful to
users concerned with capacity for meaningful data. In contrast, the
more general, unrestricted metric may be suitable for a user who is
concerned with raw capacity. Thus, it is up to the user to properly
scope and interpret results in situations where hardware duplicates
may be prevalent.
3.3. Other Potential Factors
IP encapsulation does not affect the definitions as all IP header and
payload bits must be counted regardless of content. However, IP
packets of different sizes can lead to a variation in the amount of
overhead needed at the lower layers to transmit the data, thus
altering the overall IP link-layer capacity.
Should the link happen to employ a compression scheme such as RObust
Header Compression (ROHC) [RFC3095] or V.44 [V44], some of the
original bits are not transmitted across the link. However, the
inflated (not compressed) number of IP-layer bits should be counted.
3.4. Common Terminology in Literature
Certain terms are often used to characterize specific aspects of the
presented definitions. The link with the smallest capacity is
commonly referred to as the "narrow link" of a path. Also, the link
with the smallest available capacity is often referred to as the
"tight link" within a path. So, while a given link may have a very
large capacity, the overall congestion level on the link makes it the
likely bottleneck of a connection. Conversely, a link that has the
smallest capacity may not be the bottleneck should it be lightly
loaded in relation to the rest of the path.
Also, literature often overloads the term "bandwidth" to refer to
what we have described as capacity in this document. For example,
when inquiring about the bandwidth of a 802.11b link, a network
engineer will likely answer with 11 Mbit/s. However, an electrical
engineer may answer with 25 MHz, and an end user may tell you that
his observed bandwidth is 8 Mbit/s. In contrast, the term "capacity"
is not quite as overloaded and is an appropriate term that better
reflects what is actually being measured.
3.5. Comparison to Bulk Transfer Capacity (BTC)
Bulk Transfer Capacity (BTC) [RFC3148] provides a distinct
perspective on path capacity that differs from the definitions in
this document in several fundamental ways. First, BTC operates at
the transport layer, gauging the amount of capacity available to an
application that wishes to send data. Only unique data is measured,
meaning header and retransmitted data are not included in the
calculation. In contrast, IP-layer link capacity includes the IP
header and is indifferent to the uniqueness of the data contained
within the packet payload. (Hardware duplication of packets is an
anomaly addressed in a previous section.) Second, BTC utilizes a
single congestion-aware transport connection, such as TCP, to obtain
measurements. As a result, BTC implementations react strongly to
different path characteristics, topologies, and distances. Since
these differences can affect the control loop (propagation delays,
segment reordering, etc.), the reaction is further dependent on the
algorithms being employed for the measurements. For example,
consider a single event where a link suffers a large duration of bit
errors. The event could cause IP-layer packets to be discarded, and
the lost packets would reduce the IP-layer link capacity. However,
the same event and subsequent losses would trigger loss recovery for
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a BTC measurement resulting in the retransmission of data and a
potentially reduced sending rate. Thus, a measurement of BTC does
not correspond to any of the definitions in this document. Both
techniques are useful in exploring the characteristics of a network
path, but from different perspectives.
This document specifies definitions regarding IP traffic traveling
between a source and destination in an IP network. These definitions
do not raise any security issues and do not have a direct impact on
the networking protocol suite.
Tools that attempt to implement these definitions may introduce
security issues specific to each implementation. Both active and
passive measurement techniques can be abused, impacting the security,
privacy, and performance of the network. Any measurement techniques
based upon these definitions must include a discussion of the
techniques needed to protect the network on which the measurements
are being performed.
5. Conclusion
In this document, we have defined a set of quantities related to the
capacity of links and paths in an IP network. In these definitions,
we have tried to be as clear as possible and take into account
various characteristics that links and paths can have. The goal of
these definitions is to enable researchers who propose capacity
metrics to relate those metrics to these definitions and to evaluate
those metrics with respect to how well they approximate these
quantities.
In addition, we have pointed out some key auxiliary parameters and
opened a discussion of issues related to valid inferences from
available capacity metrics.
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Hannu, H., Jonsson, L-E., Hakenberg, R., Koren, T., Le,
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Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP,
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A UKIP Supporter’s Letter To The Guardian – from A New Place Of Exile
Posted by Mike Sivier in Satire
Ladies and gentlemen, if you haven’t seen his work before, may we present the genius of Richard Hutton:
I write to register my personal affront at the tone of your newspaper’s coverage on matters of Ukip-related importance. It has become an insult to a once serious publication.
Ukip have a Member of Parliament – one MP, no less, out of 650. The balance of power now lies with us. Ukip is the peoples’ army – there is no greater sight in British politics than Mr Farage’s Privates arrayed in full view of the electorate. What is more, at Ukip, we recruit for attitude; not ability. Our hiring policy is based on a very strict criteria: namely, glancing at a photograph of the potential candidate. We want a political contender that we can look at and think ‘He can hold his own’ – whether this be a talking point; or a golf club.
Yet so far, there has been little but effrontery shown by the Guardian. The querulous air of impertinence has been tangible throughout. Quite contrary to much insinuation, it is obvious what the source of Ukip’s triumph is; and why the party are currently ascending the polls, like soaring vultures of aspiration. Nigel Farage is a true folk-hero – a self-made man. A national saviour, the country’s future is safe in Farage’s muscular hands. Here is a man, who entirely due to his own efforts – and the connections the circumstances of birth granted – has risen to the very summit of our society as Britain’s most successfully unelected non-member of Parliament. One of the most influential Parliaments in the country, at that.
Repackaging the common wisdom of the Golf club for the benefit of the long-suffering taxpayer, Farage’s voice is unique; and resonates powerfully among a British public which has long since tired of those who refuse to base their views on anecdote. To this effect, Farage’s mastery of hearsay has no equal. His tactical predictability is without peer. Of all political leaders, only Farage has the sheer strength of personality – and the necessary force of character – to identify a new problem, and deliver a new solution, every week. Able to second-guess the thoughts of the common-man on complex subjects the very second they arise – usually in between picking-up a newspaper and putting it back down again – his steady application of commonsense to such issues as inter-governmental trade arrangements, short-skirts, and the price of a pint, is an inspiration to all.
I have no doubt leftists will gainsay at this point, and suggest that endless media attention is the whole explanation behind the phenomenon that is Farage; but they merely demonstrate their own lack of patriotism thereby. By contrast, self-made, right-thinking people will look up at Farage as he and his Privates parade to and fro; and think “I would elect this man as vice-chairman of the golf club – so why not Prime Minister of Britain as well?”.
The Guardian would do well to recognise this appropriately.
Reginald Horace; UKip (Colonel; Humberside Branch).
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14 thoughts on “A UKIP Supporter’s Letter To The Guardian – from A New Place Of Exile”
penniewoodfall said:
Oh dear, oh dear..it does not get any better! I’m emigrating! 🙁
Where do these people come from?
Mike Sivier said:
Don’t worry – it’s a satirical letter. The author was only passing comment on this political organisation; he isn’t part of it (at least, I don’t think he is).
Michelle said:
The give away – even the name ‘Reginald Horace’ is a sitcom delight! Though very sad that the satirical rings true.. wonder what a ‘common man’ looks like – golf brolly anyone?
Joan Edington said:
Surely you didn’t think that was serious Pennie? The best laugh I’ve had all week. For those old enough, it reminds me of the Henry Root Letters.
Graham said:
Well it is England, what do you expect, its what you voted for in the end so swallow it like you do on a daily spoonfed basis from westminster yet never got off your arses to sort it out before now, stop greeting and grab your lifejackets, you will need them when westminster sinkks the rest of what was once a wonderful country, good luck, youll need it !
Yes! Indeed, Graham. Thank you…we will need all the luck going…especially since my powers of discrimination have let me down recently….:( Overworked.. underpaid! Looking forward to the twilight years! grin! (a joke)
chriskitcher said:
Had to check the date surely not April already?
casalealex said:
I really like this ‘letter’! If we read between the lines we can see that Horace has an uncanny insight, and we should all take note of his erudition!
Simon said:
very funny & sadly true…
hstorm said:
I’d say this is a written documentary, not a satire; the thing about satire is it’s supposed to be exaggerated.
Richard Otto said:
Disturbing thing is, some people will believe it thanks to the drip drip effect of mass media distortion.
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement. Just saying…..
Barry Davies said:
So you know it is satire but didn’t headline it as such so that the more ignorant readers will think it is true how sad that is.
It says: “Posted by Mike Sivier in Satire.”
In fact it is true that I left it uncategorised at first – as I tend to do with all posts that refer to other people’s articles. Then I saw someone on Facebook refer to it as satirical and changed it to ensure that there should be no mistake.
So you’re doubly wrong, if you think about it. I did label it as satire, specifically to ensure that readers (ignorant or not) would know what it was.
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Upcoming 3D Releases June 2015
May 30, 2015 by adolph vega
June brings only two 3D movies, but they are both big name releases. The 3DS has a few game releases in June but E3 is happening in June and we should have lots of news to cover.
3D Movies:
Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure based on the novel “Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton. The screenplay is by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Trevorrow & Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
3DS Games:
Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven
Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven is a simulation RPG that boasts a unique strategic battle system which encourages players to aim their attacks just right in order to “bowl” over as many enemies as possible with a single strike. Players can also turn the tide of battle by crafting new skills with unique items obtainable through StreetPass registration and participation in Free Battles. With adjustable difficulty levels during gameplay and a fast-forward feature to help speed through cutscenes for battle-hungry players, the customizable experience on offer here promises to leave lasting memories, complemented by in-game movie and art galleries that allow players to review key dramatic moments at will.
Following the epic storylines of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, as well as the highly anticipated Jurassic World, LEGO® Jurassic World™ is the first videogame where players will be able to relive and experience all four Jurassic films. Reimagined in LEGO form and told in TT Games’ signature classic LEGO humour, the thrilling adventure recreates unforgettable scenes and action sequences from the films, allowing fans to play through key moments and giving them the opportunity to fully explore the expansive grounds of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna.
June: Date Not Available
Mutant Mudds: Super Challenge
Mutant Mudds Super Challenge continues Max’s adventure from this moment. The intel revealed the location of the original meteor impact site – and showed that mutant mudds are still being spawned from it! Max sets out from a secret hideout in the jungle to locate the meteor and destroy it for good.
Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 incorporates the best features from previous Samurai Warriors titles, including the detailed customization mode and battle system of Samurai Warriors 4, as well as the Challenge Mode, which tests players speed and efficiency as they fight against the clock and thousands of enemies simultaneously!
In the Story Mode, players control either a uniquely customized character or one of the much loved, historically-inspired Samurai. Stories and lives unfold in multiple ways offering numerous resolutions to large scale battles and multiple endings affected by the players choices, actions, and affiliations.
Exclusively created to offer exhilarating action on the go, Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3will fully utilize the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and SpotPass, as well as the PlayStation®VITA touch screen.
I apologize if I missed any releases, all Game and/or Movie release dates are subject to change at any time and represent releases to USA/North America only. The 3DS may have more exclusive e-shop games released within the month that are not known to the public at this time. See you next month, remember to subscribe to the HOME RSS Feed to never miss out on upcoming releases.
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Hawaiian Airlines operates the last Boeing 767 revenue flight
Hawaiian Airlines on Monday, January 7, 2019 operated the last Boeing 767-300 revenue flight.
The pictured N594HA named ‘Ulili, operated flight HA 19 from Sacramento to Honolulu ending an era at the airline.
The airline issued this report:
On January 7, 2019 we bid a fond aloha to the last of our Boeing 767-300ER – the aircraft that propelled Hawaiian Airlines to far-reaching destinations, empowering us to share our authentic hospitality with millions of guests from around the world. The widebody twin-engine jet joined our fleet in 2001, replacing our DC-10s by heralding a new era of aviation engineering at the start of the 21st century.
Hawaiian Airlines hosted a retirement ceremony for the last Boeing 767 in its fleet at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL). Employees, executives and the last flight’s pilots and crew members came together on the tarmac for one last aloha.
After flying the Pacific skies for over a decade, aircraft tail number N594 – named ‘Ulili after the Wandering Tattler bird – completed its final scheduled commercial flight this afternoon when it arrived at Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) from Sacramento International Airport (SMF) at 1:30 p.m. HST. Our agents welcomed the 258 guests and 10 crew members with celebratory lei as they deplaned from our historic HA19.
Our Hawaiian Airlines ‘ohana, including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook and President and CEO Peter Ingram (pictured center), line up to greet on flight HA19 with fresh lei.
“The Boeing 767 was instrumental to our transpacific growth, international expansion and success in introducing millions of guests to this special place we call home,” Peter Ingram, president and CEO of Hawaiian Airlines, remarked following a Hawaiian blessing of N594 alongside the pilots and crew of HA19. “Today’s 767 retirement marks another chapter in our ongoing fleet modernization program as we continue to take more deliveries of Airbus A321neos and prepare to welcome the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in 2021.”
The pilots and flight crew who operated our last Boeing 767 flight today from Sacramento to Honolulu.
Over the years, our fleet expanded to a total of 18 Boeing 767 aircraft, which would lead to the launch of 16 new, nonstop routes throughout the Pacific region, including service between Honolulu and Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, Osaka, Tokyo and Sapporo in Japan, and Seoul in South Korea.
Boeing 767 flying over O‘ahu
As Hawaiian entered new markets, its passenger count grew from 5.8 million in 2001 to 8.4 million in 2010, when the airline began introducing another wide-body aircraft type, the Airbus A330, to its fleet. Since 2016, Hawaiian has topped 11 million annual guests.
A photo of the three pilots who flew our first scheduled Boeing 767 flight on Nov. 15, 2001, from HNL to SAN.
“The Boeing 767 changed the game in the medium widebody market. The airplane enabled Hawaiian to efficiently serve its unique routes and achieve impressive growth over the years,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of commercial marketing, Boeing. “In 2021, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner brings more range and much greater fuel efficiency. It will again transform Hawaiian’s ability to efficiently and comfortably bring people to and from the beautiful islands of Hawai‘i.”
Our flight crew in front of the Boeing 767 before we inaugurated nonstop between Honolulu and Seoul, South Korea in 2011.
Above Copyright Photo (all others by the airline): Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-332 N594HA (msn 23275) LAX (Michael B. Ing). Image: 945232.
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Please join us in recognizing the milestones made by the B767-300ER and a warm mahalo for over 17 years of service to our Island home.
This entry was posted in Hawaiian Airlines and tagged Boeing 767-300, Boeing 767-332, Hawaiian Airlines, msn 23275, N594HA on January 9, 2019 by Bruce Drum.
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Why you’ll want to double check your paycheck in February
NEW YORK – You’ve probably heard by now that the new tax reform bill will hit your paycheck as soon as February. But the change may not accurately reflect your ultimate tax bill.
About 90% of people will see more take-home pay, according to the U.S. Treasury. That may sound like great news, but here’s the problem: There’s a chance you’ll end up with too much money in your paycheck — meaning you’ll either be stuck paying it back at tax time next year or get a smaller refund.
There’s also a possibility that too much will be withheld, and your paychecks will be smaller than they should be.
Figuring out how much to withhold from your pay is always a bit of a guessing game. It’s an estimate based on how you filled out your Form W-4 and calculation tables created by the IRS.
But in a rush to implement the new law this year, the estimate could be off more than usual.
That’s because the IRS has updated the calculation tables, but not the Form W-4.
“We’ve done the best we can in the short term to come up with tables that accurately reflect the tax liability of individual taxpayers. Going forward, in order to be more precise, we’re going to need a new system,” said a senior IRS official on a call with reporters last week.
A new Form W-4 won’t be ready for the 2018 tax year. The new calculations were made to work with the existing form, but the form factors in some deductions and credits that no longer exist or have been changed under the new law.
For most people, the amount withheld throughout the year is usually more than your actual tax bill — which means you get a refund after your file your tax return. If not enough is withheld, you end up owing money to Uncle Sam. Generally, you want to get as close as possible to breaking even.
The new tables may result in under-withholding for some employees.
Those who claim a large number of allowances based on their number of dependents, or on itemized deductions that no longer exist, or are limited by the new law, have the most reason to re-examine their withholding status, said Mike O’Toole, the Senior Director of Publications, Education, and Government Relations at American Payroll Association. The group’s members represent 17,000 employers.
But the changes could also result in over-withholding.
The good news is the withholdings are within your control. You can always update your Form W-4 to change the amount that’s withheld from your paycheck.
Here’s what you can expect.
When will I see a change in my paycheck?
The IRS has encouraged employers to start using the new withholding tables by February 15, but it may take your employer longer to make the change.
“I can’t say that this particular change is appreciably more difficult than in other years. But what will be different is the time pressure and the pressure from employees, who are going to be more sensitive to this,” said Jonathan Zimmerman, a partner at Morgan Lewis, who helps employers with benefit plans and payroll matters.
Don’t expect your employer to advise you on whether you should change your allowances on the W-4, though. Employers should explain the uniqueness of the situation to workers, communicate when the new rates will be implemented, and then suggest consulting with a tax adviser, according to Mike Boro, a partner at the accounting firm PwC.
How can I make sure my pay is accurate?
Wait for your first paycheck that accounts for the new withholding tables before making any changes, said Barbara O’Neill, a CFP and a financial management specialist at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension.
Then, you can estimate what you think it should be and adjust accordingly.
IRS officials said the agency will be publishing a new online calculator by the end of February that can help you decide how to adjust your allowances based on information you provide regarding your income level and number of children under the age of 17.
But you can also try to estimate your 2018 tax liability yourself. Then divide that amount by however many paychecks you’ll receive this year.
“If the math is close, hang tight,” O’Neill said.
If the math is way off, that’s when you’ll want to make a change to your Form W-4. You can make a change to the number of allowances you’ve selected, or you can simply change your allowances to zero and write in how much you want withheld exactly, O’Neill said.
The changes don’t need to be made immediately. O’Neill always recommends taking a look mid-year. By then you’ll know if you are receiving a raise or if you’ll have additional income coming in during the year.
What happens if my withholding is still off?
If too much is withheld, you’ll simply get a bigger refund check after filing your 2018 taxes.
This amounts to an “interest-free loan” to the government until then, and could tighten your cash flow, said CFP Jim Guarino.
If too little is withheld, you could owe money after filing and possibly face a tax penalty if the balance is $1,000 or more, Guarino said. Generally, you can avoid paying the penalty in this case if you paid at least 90% of what you owe or at least as much as you owed during the previous tax year.
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Back to the future with Marty Kettle
Jul31 by weegingerdug
The Guardian’s Martin Kettle has been making use of his steam powered time machine Delorean to voyage into the future and look back at the independence referendum from the vantage point of 2024, using a route planner that Nick Clegg sketched on the back of a Lib Dem election pledge. Marty was hoping that this would help him find the plot that he lost when the referendum was announced, as previous attempts to locate it had depended on using the same dowsing rod that Iain Gray had employed when he was searching for a Labour majority in the 2011 Scottish elections.
Marty’s time machine tells him that the independence referendum is all a dreadful waste of time, and for some inexplicable reason that Scottish independence is going to spark off a civil war in Ireland – possibly because Gerry Adams will be outraged that he can no longer watch River City on the BBC.
The article was allegedly intended as a light hearted humorous look at a subject which Marty finds both deeply unfunny and intensely perplexing. These articles exist solely in order to give Unionists the opportunity to tsk that independence supporters have no sense of humour, because making jokes about bomb blasts in Belfast is just a bit of fun when Westminster supporters do it. If a Yes supporter was to do the same, it would be evidence of the atavistic nationalism that Marty only espouses when it’s called British. Because then it doesn’t count as nationalism.
Like most UK media commentators whose umbilical cords are firmly attached to the belly of the Westminster beast, Marty can’t conceptualise political debates which take place in areas where Jim Murphy’s bus tour can’t reach. So instead he prefers to blame it on atavistic English hating nationalism, a concept which he can get his head around better than the shocking truth that as far as Scotland is concerned Marty and his opinions are about as informed and informative as a Glesca bus timetable during the Commonwealth Games. That’s his real difficulty – he’s faced with a political discourse in which he is irrelevant, so at least you’d think he’d now appreciate what Scotland has experienced in UK politics for the past 40 years. Sadly not.
Marty’s a fully paid up member of George Robertson’s Cataclysm Club, and his wee prediction checked all the Unionist dire consequence tick boxes with the exception of the plagues of frogs and locusts, and the invasion of lizard aliens from outer space. Which is a bummer because I was quite looking forward to the lizard aliens, they’re far more fashionable than the genocidal robots from the Andromeda Galaxy who’re set to take over an independent Catalonia.
According to Marty, 2014 is the “last golden summer of the UK”. So enjoy those ATOS disability interviews and Danny Alexander admitting he was wrong about the Bedroom Tax while it all lasts then. But the only gold in the UK these days is creamed off by bankers in bonuses, the rest of us are left with the radioactive heavy metals that are the decay products of a Trident warhead and a media without a clue.
About the only thing Marty wrote that wasn’t utterly risible was his premise that Yes will win in September. We’ve come a long way from 2011, when the Unionist parties were claiming that an 80% majority was in the bag and Scottish nationalism would be killed stone dead – again. However at last the penny is beginning to drop that Scotland can no longer be taken for granted. We’re being noticed and told we’re loved by people who never noticed us before. They’re still praying for a No vote so they can get back to ignoring us. Little people aren’t qualified to decide what’s best for themselves. Only people who ignore little people can do that.
Marty and the rest of the UK media are never going to understand the independence debate, because understanding it would mean grasping a true appreciation of the bankruptcy of the political system that they have hitched themselves to. And they have no idea how it should be fixed. They don’t want to fix it. It already works just fine – at least for the only people who count. That would be those who are in it, and people like Marty whose careers depend on reporting them and presenting their views to the rest of us.
Scottish independence is about recognising that the Westminster system of politics is irretrievably knackered. It is not capable of reforming itself. No further evidence is needed than the continuing existence of an unelected second chamber. When it was enjoying its record breaking three consecutive majority governments, Labour abolished the right of heriditary peers – or at least most of them – to sit in the Lords and influence our legislation, but they replaced it with the only system that could be worse. Instead of the lottery of aristrocratic birth, peers are now entirely appointed by politicians who increased the power of their own patronage.
The result is that UK politicians are the least accountable in any democracy. To cite my favourite example of odiousness, during the 1997 General Election Michael Forsyth led the Tory party in Scotland to a wipeout at the polls. Politicians like to tell us that they must listen to the message sent to them by the voters, and in 1997 Scotland sent Michael Forsyth a message. We told him that we didn’t want him, we didn’t want his policies, and we didn’t want his party. Every single Scottish Conservative MP lost their seat, and the party has apparently abandoned any hope of ever recovering. Short of sending him to the bottom of a coalmine in Sverdlovsk, this is the strongest message an electorate can send to a politician in a democratic system. And the message was “Away you tae fuck.” But what happened? Mikey got a seat in the Lords and he’s still casting his baleful influence over our legislation and our lives.
But lack of accountability also means that political manifestos have become even less fact based than the proverbial Glesca bus timetable during the Commonwealth Games. They mean little or nothing. So we get a series of political parties making promises they have little intention of keeping, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Vote one lot out and the next lot will take over and do exactly the same. The only difference is the PR. The Magic Roundabout of Westminster, it’s the only ride in the Magic Kingdom amusement park where the little people aren’t admitted. We press our noses against the fence while Marty drops nuggets of wisdom for us to digest gracefully.
The independence debate has upturned the old certainties. Now it’s Marty who’s pressing his nose against the fence, complaining that a debate is taking place that he’s not a part of. The single biggest prize we can achieve with independence is a written constitution that spells out the checks and balances required to keep our politicians accountable, and which will put a spanner in the works of the Magic Roundabout.
And then perhaps we might even achieve a media which understands the country it’s reporting on. But it won’t be one involving Marty.
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Rosa Alba says:
Not only do I believe that after the Referution we need to rename the “gentlemen’s club association” of M(S)Ps with the termiinology of Representative of the People of (Kirkton, Dundee) at the Scottish Pariiament (RSP/RPSP), but that we need to follow the Swiss system of holding referenda on matters of conscience, to with the Right to Die, Termination of Pregnancies, Gay Adoption (I am in favour and part company with Church on this), Armed Police etc.
I also think there is a need for a separate bottom-up overseer (Common Weal might do nicely) with local to district to regional to national committees. Like the Cooperative and the way the Constituency Political Parties used to operate.
I need to return to blogs. School hols….
BTW how is Mr Ginger Dug doing – still in hospital?
He’s in the rehab ward and will probably be there for at least another week. He suffered another stroke a few weeks ago, and his mobility is a concern. Fingers crossed he’ll be home soon.
handclapping says:
I like your new name for out Reps, no more members of Parliament, get rid of the club. Yes I do like that.
To call that man a fantasist, would be an insult to fantasists. Jim Murphy as the leader of an independent Scotland, f**k me, I’d vote naw if I thought that would happen. A total load, from start to finish.
You sir, however; are quite magical in your wit and prose. Always a pleasure to read.
hiorta says:
Aye, definitely and without the shadow of a doubt. Hilarious, witty and informative yet still down to earth.
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Bamstick says:
I read the Kettle piece yesterday but didn’t get it at all. Your writing is much better!
Was stopped today in my YESmobile when visiting my wee old dad. One of his neighbours said “I was going to vote to keep things the same” (NO voter, thinks I what do I say?), “But I’ve been watching the Commonwealth Games and the reporter said There are two English runners, one from Scotland and one from Wales”. The neighbour than said “I’m sick of it, I’m voting YES”
So I told him about the wee ginger dug and wings. Panic over. I never seem to know what to say.
I think I can count that as my first conversion or maybe it should go to the BBC?
Out delivering more leaflets this afternoon. Quite a small village and quite a few Union Jacks and No stickers. Bummer. But I did meet a lovely black and white cat and a beagle so the afternoon was still a success.
Just say what you think and feel and you’ll be fine. Like now for instance. 🙂
Though keeping swerry wurds to a minimum helps. 😀
Dis it fuck.
It does when you’re trying to convert folk on the street. 😀
Now yer works canteen, that’s a different matter. I’ve been known to go on for five minutes without breaking into a sentence.
Ya bugger! I was drinking a civilised coffee when I chanced on that response.
David Agnew says:
Michael Forsyth – regarded at the time as the most Hated Man in Scotland – once said of his own people that the idea of them having a devolved parliament, was like giving an alcoholic the keys to the drinks cabinet. That is the measure of the man right there. Utter contempt and a deep loathing for the country of his birth.
The idea that if we win, people like him will suffer the fate they fear more than anything; Irrelevance, puts a smile on my face.
That is how we make these people pay. We don’t just elect them out, we boot their over paid arses out completely. The only thing they get to do in Scotland is pass wind, not policy.
Davidson, Sarwar, Lamont, Rennie and all the other dreary little rat-bags – consigned to the dustbin of history along with their precious union. A fate they richly deserve.
Kettle and all the rest have never understood this. The evidence was staring them in the face. Holyrood. Do they think we voted for that in 1997 because we trust in the union and the status quo? Hell no! we voted for that because we do not trust in the status quo.
They are actually going into the final months of this campaign with nothing whatsoever to offer no voters. Nothing. 5 will get you 20 that Darling will pull out of the debate. All that’s left is BT wittering on about expats and rehashing last years scare stories.
mary vasey says:
Flipping great post. Don’t know how you do it but each one is better than the last and so spot on. Fandabbydozy – hope I don’t get banned for quoting the krankies was it? Lol 😎
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You’re absolutely right about the bubble journalists. It’ll be like up here when the SNP got in in 2007. All the political commentators who’d made their reputations in the Kremlinology of Slab politicking found that a degree in Kremlinology was toilet paper so they asked their chums in Slab who’d helped them to the dizzy hights of editorship and bylines and they got the same message as Slab, hate the SNP.
Now your actual editors are looking at the sales figures and wondering why they are employing “political editors” whose total input is to remove the “Press Release from Better Together” from Press Releases from Better Together. Shoogly peg time.
WRH2 says:
Fantastic post. I read the Kettle piece and thought he must be on LSD. I don’t think anything else can explain such rubbish. Initially I was taken aback by the nonsense about Murphy but then realised that Kettle doesn’t know anything about Scottish politics at all. He doesn’t know anything about our MSPs which is why he chose the most glaikit one of the SLAB Westminster bunch. I would suggest Kettle and the rest of the southern press should do a little homework and try to connect with reality instead of writing tripe. September 19th is going to be seriously difficult for them.
Nice one Paul. Had a fit when I clocked that one myself. 😀 I thought at the time – odd I didn’t realise serial drug abuse was allowed in editorial these days?
The London meeja has been irrelevant in this debate from start to finish. Its not just that they’re part of the establishment themselves, and kinda disinclined to consider an opposing point of view, but that they lack knowledge, empathy and understanding of the debate on every level. They cannot conceive of ordinary people forming their own opinions on how they wish to be governed.
Oh no, they’re too damn busy gazing into their own metrocentric navel to care what wrong headed rowdy natives think about the management. I mean after they’ve pattered away on their keyboards for half an hour and waxed lyrical on the lack of appreciation amongst locals for the gift of civilization, they’ve got important shit to discuss. I mean just what flavour will they add to their half caff rich Belgian Mocca? Cinnamon or nutmeg? And will they munch on the biscotti or slum it with a kit kat? Fuck it no, they’re on a diet. Make it the Earl Grey, slice of lemon and a Jacobs, no spread. Those are the real decisions at the beating heart of big name editorial, nane o’ yer pish popular democracy nonsense. 😀
They are as divorced and distant from the needs of our electorate as it is possible to get. They may as well be commenting from the other side of the globe.
Wish I had thought of the serial drug abuse bit, he must be on something, well something more serious to come up with that piece of tosh, drivel, pish pee, I am running out of adjectives for it. Has been watching science fiction films whilst composing his article me thinks. Labour Party in charge down South and Dougie Alexander Prime Minister of Fuk, he has to be on something. Not only is there very little chance of Labour getting elected in the present conditions but a Scotsman, fake or otherwise, not a chance. I cannot even see them getting elected to a safe seat if they do the chicken run, when we vote for Independence, why on earth are they making the fuss they are Mr Kettle. Away and bile yer heed.
Like I said they are as divorced from the reality of our conversation as it is possible to get. I mean I knew they were struggling with the concept, but Kettle’s piece exposed the London meeja’s lack of understanding in the equivalent of ten foot high neon letters.
DougtheDug says:
“Like most UK media commentators whose umbilical cords are firmly attached to the belly of the Westminster beast, Marty can’t conceptualise political debates which take place in areas where Jim Murphy’s bus tour can’t reach.”
I agree with that but for those like Martin Kettle their British identity also means that Scottish politics are unfathomable. I’m not talking about unionism which recognises that the UK is a union state but about those who think of Britain as one country and one nation.
Since they can’t understand the idea of a Scottish identity which is national and not regional they can’t understand what drives the debate up here. It’s got to be something else and simple anti-English sentiment fits the bill. Not everyone in the Yes campaign is driven solely by the issue of Scottish identity but their Scottish identity whether overt or not has weakened their British identity to the point where they are not bothered about rejecting it.
For Kettle, Scotland leaving the UK is as puzzling as East Anglia leaving England would be for us.
Illy says:
I must be wierd then, because for me, a Yes vote isn’t about identity at all, it’s that Westminster isn’t fit for purpose any more (if it ever was), and Scottish Independence is the only way I can see of fixing it, for any part of these islands.
In no other region of the UK has the option of independence as a means to reject Westminster become a reality. Plenty of other regions of the UK do not like Westminster politics but there are no independence movements in say Yorkshire or the West Midlands because both retain a strong British identity.
Only in Scotland is British identity weak enough to make independence an option when rejecting Westminster politics and it’s weak because of a competing Scottish identity.
I thought Yorkshire and Cornwall had pretty strong identaties as well.
Maybe I’m just outdated?
Each with a strong regional identity. Not a national identity which is strong enough among the population to form an independence party and get the electorate to vote for it.
Was talking to my dad about this a while back. Apparently their regional identities have been steadily eroded over the last 40 years or so.
Somehow Scotland hasn’t let that happen. Hopefully we’ll see a resurgence of regional identities in England after we leave the union.
I’m a Yes for serious reasons, but the thought of giving a big GIRUY to certain people adds a little spice. 🙂
Another excellent post, Paul. Thank you.
Paul M says:
I agree the piece is a lot of shite – but it doesn’t say anything about bomb blasst in Northern Ireland or a civil war. Just that Gerry Adams proproses a referendum in N.Ireland. So that was a misrepresentation and you’re the one raising the prospect of violence in this scenario.
Whoops, it does – “March 2016 – the month in which Northern Ireland voted narrowly to join the republic, thus reigniting the Ulster civil war”. My error. Didn’t see that first time.
Not to be mean, but that’s *exactly the problem*. I mean, good for you picking up on it and saying so, and since the article it comes from was a particularly impenetrable list of nonsense, it’s not the most egregious example. But every single week I lose count of the number of times this ‘misrepresentation, and *you’re* the ones promoting x’ happens to people *only quoting No*. I don’t believe it usually is malicious, even. It’s just how the repetition of a dominant narrative (in this case, that Yes misrepresents people *and* are only ever one small step from violent ultra-nationalism) always works: it affects what people even *see* when they look elsewhere.
When this sort of confirmation bias is affecting even open-minded diligent folk of good faith (you’re reading here as well, and checked yourself) it’s a serious problem for *everyone* whatever their politics. Creating this sort of situation is a keystone of negative campaigning, because if one can manage to successfully characterise political opponents as ‘the minority other side’ *and* the ones being negative, then everything negative (including awful things one says oneself) gets attributed to them, or taken as proof of how extreme one’s ‘forced’ to be to counter them.
The particular problem with this in a referendum (although it’s bad enough in party politics!) is that the effect is *not* to change minds on the issue – the effect is simply to put people off engaging with it, or voting. The other problem is that this tactic cannot actually create a consensus, even if it creates a winning vote. (Folk remember they were being manipulated and that they lost the will to counter it.) When the issue is our collective future, I can’t see any way that’s not dangerously irresponsible.
Are Yes saints, then, who do none of this? No. But the practical reality is twofold. Yes have neither the money nor the media coverage to effectively go negative. And Yes cannot afford to win on a low turnout (whereas the No point has always been that no-one except SNP fanatics even wants this ‘divisive’ debate, nevermind a vote on it). So Yes have to get *all* the votes in, and that means positive campaigning.
faolie says:
Read Kettle’s piece too yesterday but I prefer your deconstruction!
I wonder if we’re entering the days when the London-based media has accepted that, shit, these guys are serious and they really are going, so best to look into the future now and write pieces that laugh and sneer at their inability to run a country without us.
So; oh haw haw haw, excellent piece by Kettle in the Guardian. Just exactly what’s going to happen dontcha think?
Aye, I read this little bit of UK dreaming, got right to the bitter end, now I know why it is called bitter end. I have Macart to ahem, thank for that. Note to myself “Stay away from the Newspapers? ahem”
Fine as a premise until you got to the end and then you knew how Alice in Wonderland must have felt.
Afraid I told him then and there it was Pee.
I liked your bit though, much funnier than mine. If they left enough room I would love to put it onto the comments page, that is if I had not promised never, never to return to my Hubby.
Here tae help. 🙂
Just brilliant. Thank you.
Cag-does-thinking says:
What the English political intelligencia can’t stomach is that the biggest change to their place in the world could be coming without them being able to lift a finger to argue for the status quo. i find it hilarious seeing these lords and old school ties starting to quake in their boots as their world of certainty is challenged by the great Scottish public.
What I have been noting is how certain members of the establishment have reacted to the idea of Scottish independence. I’m not talking about politicians but supposed non-aligned members of the establishment whose reaction is surprisingly old-fashioned and purportedly sentimental.
Instead of the sophisticated post-imperial ennui which they usually affect, they have been displaying the same sense of upset and pique reminiscent of the British Raj when they realized that they were about to lose the “Jewel in the Crown”. Who would have thought that Simon Schama, with his air of being so laid-back he was in danger of falling over, could swing into action to save the union with something which read like any imperial Victorian waxing sentimental about the inclusiveness of the Empire? Or that David Bowie could even remember where Scotland is any more?
It only goes to show that a deep sense of ownership was not confined to those brought up in the days of Empire. We have trodden on their dreams it appears. Who knew that buried in the psyche of so diverse a cast of characters was such a close identity with the British establishment that they feel shaken by the fact that it might change?
Those of us voting Yes don’t care about their emotional attachment to an imaginary entity. We are going to vote for reality. Time to wake up and get out of the nursery..
Union Jack says:
This is the first time I have ever replied or commented on anything like this! Never been on Trip Advisor or any forums etc. I find the whole preceding article absolutely nauseating. Why have people in this wee suburb got such an issue with being BRITISH ???? I would never say anything other than BRITISH not scottish.I am embarrassed!. Yes Enland has its share of ***h**** but my God get real up here! That arrogant man is on a major ego trip and when things go pear shaped he will stand up dust himself down and leave the mess to his wee noddy sidekick. I and many I know will be out the next day if this ludicrous vote goes through. Union Jack
You are entitled to your own opinion. But you must respect that of others who do not feel British, but who feel Scottish.
Please could you explain your “***h****” comment as I don’t understand it. Thank you.
Also you say you will be “out the next day” where do you intend to go?
I think he meant “arseholes”.
No, that doesn’t fit with the number of stars used. I counted them very carefully.
I think he meant potholes. South of the border does have lots but we have more. I think that’s his point?
Now I am really confused. What do people that will put up with using a gazunda have to do with the price of fish?
I have to admit to confusion also. I don’t know this Mr Trip Advisor, any clues? Maybe he’s famous? Sounds American with a name like Trip.
I much prefer a good old commode to a gazunda though. My choice.
I’m getting more and more anxious that Mr Jack hasn’t told me where he intends to go the next day.
The United Kingdom should remain united. This pace will be a third world country in 5 years, heading down begging. And people should surely see that guys plot. It is a no go! EVER. surely.
Now you have got the commenting bug, you have no excuse for not replying to my question, which is “Why should the United Kingdom remain united?”
Who is this ‘guy’ you are referring to? What plot?
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The BritArt school of conceptual politics
Tony Blair, who is to great politics as Chris De Burgh is to great music, has been opining again about the state of British politics and how it’s rubbish now because no one likes him any more. The former Prime Minister was speaking to an invited audience in London at an event for Prospect magazine, because an uninvited audience would only have thrown rotten vegetables, booed, hissed, and demanded that he was hauled off to stand trial at the Hague. Tone prefers not to engage with the public at all, it’s far more profitable to be engaged by dictatorships in Central Asia who can help him with large amounts of money to keep growing his property portfolio.
Blair was a creature of the 90s, the founder of the BritArt school of conceptual politics, which consisted of fancy sounding and pretentious ideas that signified nothing attached to a hauf arsed piece of dreck. It was a confection which served as a means for an artist bereft of talent or skills to get very rich while creating absolutely nothing of note or value, whose only lasting legacy is an emptiness of the soul and the draining of the ocean of public credulity. All that Blairism left behind it is a dry seabed of cynicism. Although to be fair Tony did have one very great talent, it’s just that his talent was for lying and manipulation and turning the Labour party into a pale imitation of the Tories. No wonder Maggie Thatcher hailed him as her greatest achievement.
Blair did manage to achieve something that Thatcher could never aspire to, he demonstrated that it was actually possible for working class people to despise a politician even more than we despised Thatcher. With Thatcher you got what she claimed to be, a triumphalist populist right wing Tory, who made no bones about the fact that her aim was to beat working class communities and their institutions like the trade unions about the head with a police baton full of rusty nails. And that’s exactly what she did.
Blair claimed to represent the aspirations of the working classes, and then he beat us about the head with a stick full of rusty nails on behalf of the bosses and the banks while he told us mournfully that doing so hurt him more than it hurt us. He turned the Labour party from the party of the trade union movement into the party of managing the trade union movement on behalf of the British establishment and the banks of the City of London. Then he got on with the serious business of making himself seriously rich, a business into which he has thrown himself with far more enthusiasm than he ever demonstrated for the supposedly progressive politics he claimed to espouse.
Tony’s the creator of the politics of the Westminster that we see today. The politics of fear and vapidity, of hyperbole and stupidity, where politicians compete to see who can hold the public in the greatest contempt. The EU referendum where where all we have are different shades of Tories vying with one another to scare the public the most is devoid of anything positive or meaningful because Blair destroyed the capacity of the Labour party to pose as a force for moral good. Labour can’t take the moral high ground when Tony’s still camping on it with his dubious justifications for a war of aggression and the smoking ruins of Baghdad are blocking the path.
Having failed to learn the lessons of the last war, now he wants another. In his presentation for Prospect he raised the appalling prospect of another war. Tony likes his wars. Wars mean no one is demanding an investigation into how he got so wealthy because in war you can demonise your opposition for its lack of patriotism. Wars are very useful for politicians like Tony. He called for Western troops to get involved in Iraq again in order to defeat the demon that is ISIS. But it was Tony who unleashed the demon to begin with, and he still refuses to accept his culpability. You don’t rectify a crime by repeating it.
In his speech on Tuesday he complained that there is no longer any centre ground in British politics, but he’s only got himself to blame for that. Tony took the centre ground and set fire to it, he scorched it with lies and booby trapped it with deceit. He taught the public that in British politics occupying the centre ground meant attempting to face both ways at once, and now he’s upset because the public don’t trust either of his two faces.
There is a real and lasting achievement of Tony Blair and his successor, the only man in Britain whose ego matched his own. Between the two of them they finally put to rest the myth that kept the Labour bandwagon on the British Parliamentary Road to Socialism. They came into office having realised the impossible dream of the Labour movement, that crushing majority which meant that the party could at long last, after so many decades and so many disappointments, finally set about the reforming agenda it had been preaching to our parents and grandparents. Then they set about about going back on every promise that they’d made.
The promise of proportional representation was quickly ditched because it meant that Labour wouldn’t keep getting its large majorities. That deception is one of the reasons why they’re now nowhere near getting any sort of majority for the foreseeable future. The promised reform of the Lords turned out to mean reforming the Lords into the only possible thing worse than a chamber whose members inherited their seats, a chamber whose members got their seats for life due to favouritism and patronage. The promise of devolution was only kept grudgingly, after watering down the powers of the new Scottish parliament and foisting tax raising powers on it that were designed to be impossible to use and an electoral system designed to keep Labour and the Lib Dems in power. How has that worked out for them eh?
Tony Blair taught us a valuable lesson. He destroyed the centre ground of British politics with his lies and deceit. He proved finally and without any question or doubt that the British state and the Westminster parliament are incapable of meaningful reform. He demonstrated that if we want to live in a country which values its public services, which seeks to ensure that every citizen has a decent standard of living, all that is left is for Scotland to leave the UK and build that country for itself. When you strip away the hype from the BritArt school of conceptual politics, all that is left is Tony’s empty promises and an unmade bed of lies.
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ellie gates says:
Spectacularly well written and observed.
Bugger (the Panda) says:
Possibly your best ever.
Internet problems so hope this goes through.
The warmonger in red, will have to pay the ferryman.
Alistair Robertson says:
Jings! Is that a C. de B. fan with a nice twist o satire among us?
I have to admit that initially I believed Blair to be an honest person…….until I read what the Head of his school had to say about him. He described an incredibly poor student and declared Blair unfit to be a politician let alone PM.
With time, Blair proved the teacher to be a top man.
Still Positive. says:
Wow, Paul. You huvnae missed and hit the wa’. Brilliant!
Margaret Thatcher is better than Tony Blair. Blair isn’t dead yet.
The Scottish Play says:
Be not a niggard of your speech!
It would be nice to get away from it all for while (from all the lies) but I fear, due to the reappearance Project Fear, it may cost £230 more than normal.
I think your phrase “emptiness of soul” can be applied directly to Bliar himself, not just his legacy.
Another brilliant piece Paul.
Lest we forget, The Clunking Fist, he of the ‘light touch’, PPP, Academy schools, Working Tax Credits bonus to Tesco, Sainsbury, and Morrisons, , War Monger’s Paymaster, Pension Pot Raider, scrap the 10% Tax Rate for low earners, was his more than willing co-pilot.
An earthmoving excoriation of this black hearted man, Paul. Well done.
Mumbo says:
Tony Blair eh? Have to admit I was taken in doon the Dock Park after he flew in with the “I don’t believe it” guy. That’s probably the reason I’m so political now and so anti Westminster. Tony is a cheat and a liar and even did more damage than Thatcher. His time is coming though – the man that killed the labour party
davy1600 says:
Blair, Thatcher, Brown, Osborne, Darling, Cameron, their all c___ts .
That’s not true. C___ts are useful things.
Blair is of course sick. I’m not sure if he’s quite all there. The problem is that we put him there, whats wrong with people……wakey fuckin wakey people. Blair is a moronic death monger who seeks your emotional response to tick his box in the name of your mum and dad.
All knots come to the comb.
FergusMac says:
That poor nail must be awfu sair – you keep hitting it right on the heid …
Norma Slimmon says:
Nail right on head! What a hideous inhuman he is and he, and all his Blairite followers murdered any socialism in the Labour Party. I stopped voting for them when in London and he started all that warmongering crap.
And the people they murdered in their insane wars?
All for their own self-interest.
cirsium says:
superb post, WGD. One of your best.
BTP beat me to it Paul – possibly your best ever.
I wish every person in Scotland could read your assessment of Blair – I will be doing my best to ensure that they do!
And England and Wales and N.Ireland and Europe and the World
Tony is still the poster boy of britnats in Scotland. How proud they all feel.
Britnats hero-worship lying, corrupt and evil toads.
Carmel Townsend says:
Your writing gets better and better. Polemical, truthful and right on target. If only this were mainstream journalism.
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North Carolina toddler who was missing for 3 days says he ‘hung out with a bear’
CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. – It took three harrowing days for a search team to find Casey Hathaway alive.
Facing heavy rain, gusty winds and low visibility, rescuers and law enforcement combed the difficult Craven County, North Carolina, terrain — focusing on up to 1,000 acres of heavily wooded areas.
On day three, a tip led the search team to a spot where they were able to hear the 3-year-old calling out for his mother, Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told reporters at a news conference Thursday night.
They followed his call 40 to 50 yards into the woods, through water, to find Hathaway tangled in vines and thorns, Hughes said.
He was cold, authorities said, but alive and responsive. Hathaway was taken to a hospital where he is expected to be released on Friday or Saturday.
The boy told deputies that he spent two days hanging out with a bear, according to WNCT.
Hathaway was playing with two other relatives in his great-grandmother’s backyard Tuesday, but didn’t come inside when the others did, WTVD reported.
His family searched for him for 45 minutes before calling 911, Hughes said.
“He was walking in the woods back there and we can’t find him,” his great-grandmother told the 911 dispatcher. “The other ones come through the house but left him there and he walked off somewhere and we can’t find him.”
Search and rescue teams from across the state immediately came together to brave the treacherous terrain and low temperatures hoping to find Hathaway.
The FBI, NCIS, dozens of volunteers and the US Marine Corps also joined the effort to find the boy, Hughes said.
Authorities employed helicopters, drones and K-9 units, Craven County Emergency Management Director Stanley Kite said. Divers also assessed nearby ponds, WTVD reported.
The boy authorities described as 25 pounds and 2 feet 4 inches tall was stuck out in conditions so bad that volunteers were turned away from the search.
Hughes said his team was concerned about the “extreme cold” as temperatures dipped near freezing, but against all odds, they found him.
“It was folks giving us tips and leads,” Hughes said. “We hit every one of them immediately and it paid off.”
Already asking to watch Netflix
Hathaway is receiving medical treatment for cuts and scrapes at Carolina East Medical Center, said Shelley Lynch, spokeswoman for the FBI Charlotte field office.
But, police say, he is in good spirits and has been reunited with his family.
“He’s good, he’s up and talking,” Hathaway’s mother told reporters. “He’s already asked to watch Netflix, so he’s good.”
What was really special was how Hathaway brightened up when his little sister was brought in to see him, Hughes said.
Hughes said there is no sign of abduction in this case.
Topics: bear, cold, found, freezing, Lost, missing, North Carolina, Playing, toddler
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Central California > San Luis Obispo County > Oso Flaco Lake and the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
Oso Flaco Lake and the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
Oso Flaco Lake lies within the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, the largest remaining coastal dune system in California and an important breeding area for several imperiled species, including the western snowy plover, California least tern, and California red-legged frog. The lake is within the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, but is off-limits to the noisy...
Oso Flaco Lake lies within the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, the largest remaining coastal dune system in California and an important breeding area for several imperiled species, including the western snowy plover, California least tern, and California red-legged frog. The lake is within the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, but is off-limits to the noisy off-road vehicles that frequently swarm nearby. Enjoy the natural quiet at the lake.
In 1923, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments was filmed in the Nipomo Dunes and the sets were later buried beneath the sand; more recently, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was shot in the dunes. Picnic tables and benches alongside an accessible trail offer plenty of opportunities to enjoy the rare coastal lake as well as abundant birds and wildlife. A boardwalk crosses the lake, then travels through dunes, which support more than 1,000 species of plants and animals.
Visitor center: Located in a restored 1910 Craftsman-style bungalow, three miles south of Oso Flaco Lake in the town of Guadalupe. On the wheelchair-accessible first floor you can see a treasure of period furnishings and accurately restored elements of the Craftsman style. The second floor is not accessible, but the videos that are shown upstairs can be shown downstairs upon request. Among these videos is a fascinating story about the Dunites, a community of artists and free spirits who lived in the dunes during the Depression; another details the making of The Ten Commandments.
Dune Trail
Trailhead: Lot at foot of Oso Flaco Lake Road
Overgrown plants narrow the path in some sections, possibly preventing access for some manual wheelchair riders.
The first section of trail is hard-packed dirt and can be muddy during the rainy months. Sand blown across the trail in some places may prevent passage.
The one-mile Dune Trail travels through three very different environments—woodlands, wetlands, and dunes—and is excellent for spotting birds. You travel the first few hundred yards on firm dirt through streamside woodland, with arroyo willows, wax myrtles, and other trees providing a canopy of shade—something you won't find elsewhere on the trail. You can hear the burbling creek, the...
view full description The one-mile Dune Trail travels through three very different environments—woodlands, wetlands, and dunes—and is excellent for spotting birds. You travel the first few hundred yards on firm dirt through streamside woodland, with arroyo willows, wax myrtles, and other trees providing a canopy of shade—something you won't find elsewhere on the trail. You can hear the burbling creek, the music of birdsong, rustling trees, and waves crashing in the distance. Shortly after you begin to see tule and other water plants, turn left onto the boardwalk. (The dirt trail continues uphill a short distance, then ends in sand.)
The boardwalk travels slightly uphill, then levels out. As you cross Oso Flaco Lake on a footbridge, stop at one of the viewing areas for a closer look. You may see ruddy ducks, least terns, gadwalls, swallows, and other birds, though a 36-inch railing running the length of the boardwalk may block the view for some wheelchair riders.
After crossing the lake, the route climbs a moderate slope onto the dunes, where stretches of undulating boardwalk have a cross-slope that may pose challenges for those using manual wheelchairs. The landscape here changes to coastal scrub, which during my visit in late October was blooming with Hooker's evening primrose and silver bush lupine. In several places the lupine had overgrown the boardwalk, narrowing the path to less than 30 inches, but it was easy to push the plant aside with my hands and get past it in my motorized wheelchair. Soon you come to a trail junction by a picnic area and information board, where a new 100-foot section of elevated boardwalk leads to a platform overlooking the dunes.
Available seven days a week, 10 am-4 pm. Best to call several days in advance to reserve: Dunes Center: (805) 343-2455; Oceano Dunes Ranger Station: (805) 473-7220; or ask entrance station attendant at Oso Flaco.
Accessible Parking: Limited Accessibility
At Oso Flaco Lake there is no striping, only a disabled parking sign. Surface is hard-packed dirt and gravel. Visitor center has accessible parking.
Portable units at trailhead and near end of accessible portion of trail have no running water; visitor center has full restroom
On boardwalk over lake and at end of accessible portion of the trail at the dunes
Other Things of Interest
Some 12 miles south of Oso Flaco is Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, where you can see great expanses of the dunes from your car and there is level access onto the dunes.
New overlook where trail ends (Dan McElhinney, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center)
www.dunescenter.org/
Foot of Oso Flaco Lake Rd.
Daily, 6 am-6 pm
Dunes visitor center: Tues.-Sun., 10 am-4 pm
Sedges have edges, and rushes are round, and reeds are hollow right down to the ground.
Reviewed by Bonnie Lewkowicz, June 29, 2007
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Williams College melts down in a big way
Williams College is truly going the way of Evergreen State, and the trouble is happening today on three fronts. The College administration has lost control of the both the students and the faculty, and a student sit-in will happen this week. Here are the issues:
1.) Campus Security Officer pushes back against unfounded student complaints about university security. In a poignant letter addressed to students in the campus newspaper the Williams Record, Nancy MacCauley, a campus safety and security (CSS) officer, who happens to be black, has chastised the students for claiming that her office isn’t doing their job and is making the students unsafe. This comes from the customary accusations leveled against campus security and police when students feel they are victimized and unsafe. (My theory, which is mine, is that when students are unsettled, they blame the cops and campus security for their insecurities and grievances. Perhaps that’s because of the name “campus security.” ) In fact, as far as I know, Williams CSS is doing a good job and has not been found culpable of anything. (We see the same criticism of the campus police by students at the University of Chicago.) One of the student demands in the CARENow list (the list compiled by the Aggrieved, Offended, and Entitled Students) is this:
9. Fund a thorough external independent investigation into the practices and interactions CSS has with students, namely minority students.
Here’s part of MacCauley’s letter (my emphasis):
Dear Williams Students,
I see you, I hear you, I have helped many of you and I have been here for you. Therefore, I feel the need to share how disheartened I am about the recent article in the Record [JAC: I believe she’s referring to this article, which makes a lot of accusations against CSS but gives no specifics] and the negative perception about Campus Safety and Security. Not sure how this all happened, this change in perception. I have lived in Williamstown and walked on this campus since 1957. This college has brought me so much joy.
Since I was 10 years old, the students at this campus have had my attention. I witnessed the Hopkins Hall takeover. There have been so many new student faces, decades of history, and conversations which have always been about giving you the tools to change the future.
The allegations made against the men and women who work hard to keep you safe from yourselves and outside the purple bubble [JAC: Purple is the official college “color”.] saddens me deeply.
We didn’t ask to be a part of your struggle. You put us in it because it was easier to blame us. You didn’t work to make change in a productive manner that this college stands for. You fail to communicate.
I was raised, as a Black woman, to communicate my frustration and work for solutions. You choose to blame and not see it worthy to come to the table and meet us as people. You say, “why do I have to, we shouldn’t have to.”
I would suggest that you look at yourselves and history. Talk to those of us who have experienced racism, fear, struggles and injustice so that you can learn. It’s a journey. We’ve all taken it. . .
. . .Disappointed, saddened I am for you…
Nancy Macauley
I’ve omitted some in the interest of conserving space. Note that MacCauley says “it was easier to blame us”, supporing my theory that campus security is somehow responsible for soothing sooth student anxiety. I have to add that MacCaulay is brave for doing this. Even though she’s an African-American woman, she’s now going to be demonized for telling the students that they are both wrong and overreacting. Her job might even be on the line. But she could hold her tongue no longer. Kudos to this woman (this information is on the CSS public page:
2.) Two English professors have a big public fight about racism. This is documented in both the article below, by the paper’s editors, as well as a letter in the newspaper from two students (Jamie Kasulis and Emily Zheng) who witnessed the altercation. The altercation involved a white English professor, Katie Kent, and a “woman of color” professor, Dorothy Wang, who is Asian. Once again it involves so-called “violent practices” and “structural racism” in the college. The fight broke out when Wang asked Kent if they were going to discuss these issues at a faculty meeting vis-à-vis another English professor, Kimberley Love, who took medical leave because of “structural racism”. The altercation is almost humorous in the extremity of the claims made, except this is not at all good publicity for Williams. From the article by the paper’s editors:
On April 17, two students saw Chair and Professor of English Katie Kent behave aggressively toward Professor of American Studies Dorothy Wang, a woman of color, in an approximately 15-minute verbal confrontation in Hollander Hall.
Wang, a former faculty affiliate in English, had approached Kent on her way to a departmental meeting to ask Kent if the meeting would discuss the recent leave of Assistant Professor of English Kimberly Love. Love had cited the College’s “violent practices” as a reason for her departure at the beginning of the spring semester. Wang had previously expressed concerns about the cancellation of recent English department meetings. For her, they were reflective of the department’s unwillingness to discuss what she sees as its longstanding history of hostility toward faculty of color (FoC) – a concern that had compelled Wang to disaffiliate from the department several weeks ago.
The two students who witnessed the event – Jamie Kasulis ’20 and Emily L. Zheng ’20 – have met with Dean of the Faculty Denise Buell and President of the College Maud Mandel about Kent’s behavior. The two have called for Kent’s resignation, citing her role in what they perceive to be issues of structural racism in the department. Kent wrote notes of apology to Wang, Kasulis and Zheng, but all three found the apologies insufficient and disingenuous.
The incident is then described for a second time in the same article:
According to Wang, Kasulis and Zheng, Kent reacted immediately and negatively, saying that sufficient conversations around Love had already been held.
“Professor Kent got immediately irritated,” Kasulis said. “She took a defensive posture. She raised her voice.” When Wang mentioned the particular relevance of Love’s departure for the English department, given Love’s critiques of feeling unsafe and unwelcome, Wang said that Kent responded, saying, “‘She was talking about the College, Dorothy. She wasn’t talking about the department; she was talking about the College.’”
For Wang, that statement was emblematic of what she sees as the English department’s continual inability to reconcile with its historical and present-day manifestations of racism.
Kent briefly left after making that statement, and Wang said to Kasulis, “This is why I disaffiliated from English.” Upon hearing Wang’s comment, according to Wang, Kasulis and Zheng, Kent immediately turned around and made an incensed statement closely resembling, “Are you talking shit about me to your students?”
“She was literally yelling in the hallway,” Kasulis said. At that point, Zheng, who had been listening from a chair across the hallway, walked up to Wang and Kasulis.
“I came over as soon as I heard her run back into the hallway and yell profanities,” Zheng said. “I didn’t really want to intrude … but I did so only after she started raising her voice, because that was alarming. I stood up because I couldn’t just sit there while she verbally attacked my friend and my professor.”
Zheng said Kent’s tone and physical posture made her fear for the safety of Wang and Kasulis.
If there were a National Enquirer for colleges, this would belong in it.
Kent is not going to resign: the dean asked her to write an apology and she did. I would love to have been a fly on that wall. The issue of Kimberly Love has already been settled—she’s taken paid medical leave for the semester—but Wang won’t let it rest. My best inquiries and investigations have not led me to find evidence for any structural racism in either the college or the department. In my view, this is an issue of unhinged faculty and of entitled students who want to be offended.
There’s a lot more in the article, but the upshot is that the students won’t accept Kent’s apology: they want her GONE. And the students are arguing that this yelling by professor Kent is an example of the “violence of the institution” and the “toxic culture” of the English Department. Meanwhile, the students are now going to have a sit-in about this. This should be interesting:
Students have organized a protest, “Love and Accountability: Occupy Hollander for FoC,” for Friday from 12:30–1:30 p.m., calling for recognition of what the organizers call “violent racism” in the College’s treatment of FoC [Faculty of Color]. Students have also invited the community to express gratitude and support for FoC, and have called for Mandel and administrators to address issues of racism at the College against people of color (PoC).
3.) Williams students refuse to recognize a pro-Israel student organization though they’ve already recognized a pro-Palestinian one. The college gives the pro-Israel group secondary status, probably without perks.
Meanwhile, as I reported a few days ago, the Williams College Council (the student governmental body) refused to recognize as a registered student organization (RSO) the group Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI), even though they had recognized the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as an RSO. As I said, this is manifestly unfair, constituting viewpoint discrimination. I also reported that President Maud Mandel made nice noises about approving the existence of WIFI, but didn’t demand that the students give it equal status to SJP. Mandel said this (my emphasis):
We’ve always expected the Council to follow its own processes and bylaws. I’m disappointed that that didn’t happen in this instance. College leaders have communicated to the organizers of Williams Initiative for Israel that the club can continue to exist and operate without being a CC-approved RSO. This is not a special exception. It’s an option that has been open to any student group operating within the college’s code of conduct. Even without CC approval, WIFI or any other non-CC organization can still access most services available to student groups, including use of college spaces for meetings and events. I see the communication of this fact to WIFI as a basic matter of fairness and people’s right to express diverse views. Differences over such views are legitimate grounds for debate, but not for exercising the power to approve or reject a student group.
Mandel’s tepid response has been called out by both The College Fix, which points out that the only guiding principle of WIFI is that Israel has a right to exist, and by The Algemeiner in the article below, which quotes a statement from the college rabbi:
Rabbi Seth Wax, Jewish chaplain at Williams College, told The Algemeiner on Thursday that while he is concerned about the CC’s decision, “by and large, it will not affect how the group functions.”
“WIFI organizers have been meeting with me, faculty, staff, and administrators since the decision last week,” he said. “Stakeholders at the college have made it abundantly clear that the club can exist without being an RSO, and I can assure you that it continues to do so.”
“The group can access almost any service available on campus, including campus spaces for meetings and events, even without RSO status,” Wax added.
He expressed particular gratitude to the college administration for supporting WIFI’s existence, and “viewing it as a matter of fairness and the students’ right to express their views.”
Gratitude to Mandel for allowing WIFI to exist, even with secondary status? This is like Jews in a ghetto licking the hand that gives them inferior rations. A group not recognized by the College Council, I’ve discovered, has no ability to request money from the College Council. Thanks for nothing, President Mandel, and thanks to you and Rabbi Wax for pretending that every group is equal (but some groups are more equal than others.)
Williams College Student Leaders Deny Recognition to ‘Pro-Israel’ Group, Prompting Calls for Inquiry
I wrote Rabbi Wax (my letter is below the fold) politely expressing my dissatisfaction with his tepid words, but of course I haven’t heard back from him. The biggest issue is whether the second-class status conferred with sweet words by Mandel on WIFI denies them the financial support offered to registered student organizations like SJP. The College Fix reports that “Williams has not answered College Fix queries about what benefits are only available to ‘registered student organizations.'”
The pro-Israel organization Stand With Us wrote a strong letter to President Mandel, also protesting the unequal treatment of WIFI versus SJP, and saying that this hypocrisy violates Williams’s own non-discrimination policy, its code of conduct, and the Student Council’s own protocols. And they’re right. What Williams is tolerating here is discrimination against a pro-Israel organization in favor of a pro-Palestinian one. That’s in line with Authoritarian Leftist sentiments, but not with fundamental principles of justice, equality and decency. All groups should be treated equally.
Yet some students are objecting in the other direction: they don’t want WIFI recognized at all. The letter below from three students, which just appeared in the student paper, tries to justify why SJP is okay but WIFI is not. This straining at gnats is laughable:
Although it is the first time a club has been denied in years, it is also the first time someone has attempted to start a nationalist club. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organizes around issues related to Israel-Palestine; however, they are not interested in defending the interests of some hypothetical Palestinian state. [JAC: Hypothetical? That’s what SJP is pushing for!] Instead, SJP takes a human rights-based approach to the conflict; it is deeply troubling that WIFI could not commit to doing the same. It is this inability to take a human rights approach to the conflict that factored heavily into WIFI’s request for recognition being denied.
Failures of Mandel’s WIFI statement: How her words are being weaponized against students
Clearly, Williams is melting down on multiple fronts, and everyone is to blame from the President and the administration, to the professors, and to the students, who are becoming unhinged and are not being reined in by faculty or administration.
If Williams doesn’t want its reputation to vanish the way Evergreen State’s has, they need to act now. President Mandel needs to stand up to unreasonable student demands and emphasize that there is no evidence for structural racism or violence at Williams. And if the administration finds no malfeasance on the part of Campus Security, they need to publicize that and tell the students to shut up about it (in nice words, of course). Finally, Williams needs to stop discriminating against the pro-Israel organization in favor of the pro-Palestinian one, and give them equal status and equal access to the perks allow for all registered student organizations. Unless the administration stops catering to this whining mob of entitled students, Williams will no longer be a place where parents will want to send their kids. After all, parents want their kids to get an education, not a course in grievance studies.
My letter to Rabbi Wax (of lesser interest) is below the fold:
My unanswered letter to Rabbi Wax (something tells me it might be answered if it gets some publicity):
Dear Rabbi Wax,
As a secular Jew, I’ve been following the WIFI controversy at Williams for the past couple of weeks, and was distressed to see that the College Council voted to deny that organization status as a registered student organization. This was particularly invidious in view of the fact that Students for Justice in Palestine, which I find viciously anti-Israel if not anti-Semitic, has already gained RSO status. There is no good reason why SJP should have registered status while WIFI does not. This is palpably a case of viewpoint discrimination, something prohibited by the First Amendment in public universities. (Williams should follow these guidelines as well.)
This double standard was recognized by President Mandel, who is allowing WIFI to coexist and use student facilities while not calling for the students to grant the organization its proper status. I’m not sure if she has that power, but she should certainly be calling for WIFI to have the same status as SJP.
I read in an article in Algemeiner that you had been somewhat of an apologist for how the WIFI affair has been handled, saying that it’s basically okay for the organization to exist without being an RSO, as they still have access to campus facilities. (I’m not sure, though, whether they have been denied the funds allotted to other RSOs.)
And while you’ve expressed gratitude to the administration for “supporting WIFI’s existence,” I’m not sure if you’ve been critical of the College Council for denying the organization RSO status.
Although I’m not a religious Jew, I am deeply concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism in Western countries and on college campuses. I think it’s incumbent on all of us to fight the fulminating anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tendencies of colleges, particularly among the students. While I appreciate your position and need to get along with the students, I can only say that I wished you had spoken up more strongly against this odious infringement on student rights, which clearly reflect anti-Semitic tendencies.
If you have spoken up strongly against WIFI’s disenfranchisement, and I haven’t seen that, my apologies. But what I see in Williams is an increasing growth of the brand of extremist Leftism that demonizes Jews and Israel while at the same time extolling a regime in Palestine that is far less liberal and far more oppressive of human rights. I would hope that the Jewish community at Williams would stick up for its own, and fight hard against the kind of sentiments demonstrated by the College Council.
Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution
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Posted May 8, 2019 at 10:05 am | Permalink
Kimberley Love, who took medical leave because of “structural racism”.
“Structural racism” is a mental disease, a form of paranoia.
max blancke
Posted May 8, 2019 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
Structural or institutional racism is what you fall back on when your whole ethos is based on being a victim of racism, but you can’t actually find any.
great insight…thank you.
Michael Waterhouse
Posted May 8, 2019 at 11:31 pm | Permalink
Racism of the gaps.
The good news is that it is May and school should by out soon for the summer. Most universities in Georgia are having graduation this weekend. We can hope that some of the people creating the disturbances will not be back next year, and that the class of incoming freshmen will be better.
That is about the best I can hope for Williams, unless the trustees step in and take control. But does not appear to me that they are any better than the students, faculty and administration. There should be some major donors who could intervene but dies not appear likely.
does not appear likely.
Ernest Harben
scoutthecat
Sadly, there’s still a month to go at Williams. Graduation is usually the first weekend in June.
hgfhg76
I want to be concerned and sympathetic, but I can’t help but get out the popcorn when leftist wackos eat each other in a purity spiral as to who can be more holy. And I can’t help but feel colleges created their own Frankenstein monster through indoctrinating students in leftist radicalism for decades.
mayamarkov
This college was founded centuries ago and not by leftist radicals. The latter have apparently overtaken it and are now pushing it to destruction. I find this worrying and very sad.
Malgorzata Koraszews
sub.
Diana MacPherson
So the students can yell profanities but not professors? People have heated arguments. Anger is not necessarily a bad thing and sometimes people yelling at us make us feel uncomfortable but unsafe? If that’s unsafe this person has had a pretty sheltered life.
I disagree here. I think professors should control themselves and adhere to some etiquette, esp. in front of students. It would be difficult to set standards of behavior for the students if the professors themselves observe none.
I mentioned also that a student referred to a professor as her “friend”. I find this very wrong.
How is that disagreeing? My point is a student can’t act that way either and by a student storming into a meeting and screaming and dropping F-bombs and taking aggressive postures then turning around and complaining they see two professors have a disagreement so one should be fired – that’s extremely hypocritical and nowhere near a firing offence. If a student is so threatened but is not at all worried about threatening others, there is a big teachable moment here.
You are right, I didn’t understand you before.
The maintenance of civilization requires the maintenance of civility. They are really the same concept, but on different scales.
I am aware that some of us come from cultures where expletive laced screaming is an appropriate expression of one’s views. That is certainly not the case in the culture in which I was raised. If anything, I was taught to be exceedingly polite to those with whom I am angry or disagree strongly.
For those in positions of authority, it sets a poor example to lose one’s temper in public.
So you missed my point entirely. I never said that the profs weren’t culpable. But that the students are hypocrites for engaging in even worse behaviour and then chastising the professors. Moreover, the professor wrote a note of apology but there is calling for her to be fired. Losing your livelihood over losing your temper. Seems a bit extreme especially when we don’t know what the extenuating circumstances are. I’ve been exposed to much worse in the work place and never would call for destroying the person’s Livelihood.
DrBrydon
I had a different take on Mandel’s action regarding WIFI, that she was saying, Look, you guys are fine without SGA approval. . . you can use facilities, etc. My impression was that the issue with the SGA would be resolved somehow, but pending that, the lack of approval would not restrict WIFI on campus.
As for the “fight” between two professors, what was the “defensive” posture the department head adopted. Did she put her mitts up? I doubt it, or they would have said. While the public argument was unseemly, nothing about it was violent.
As I said, Mandel deserves some plaudits for sticking up for the right of WIFI to be on campus, but she could have insisted that they be given the same rights as SJP or any other registered student organization. After all, I think those SROs get $$ that WIFI won’t, and that’s not fair. There is no reason, as Stand With Us emphasized, to give WIFI second class status without all the perks. Or do you think they should?
I think Mandel is reluctant to overrule the College Council directly, at least for now. It would make the council irrelevant if the college president simply overruled it every time they disagreed with it.
Not all, I definitely think they should get the dollars, too, so I hope this is not as far as Mandel plans to go. But, as I said in another post, I doubt the basis of student government generally, especially these days. If I belonged to WIFI, I would seriously consider self-funding. With Patreon and gofundme, it’s a lot easier than it was in the days of bake sales and t-shirts. Oh, and suing to not have to pay the activity fee. Indeed, schools should consider if they want to be in the business of taxing students. As an old professor of mine once said, “Politics is the debate over the allocation of society’s resources.”
TJR
They are now using FoC as an acronym? Seriously?
I wonder why they don’t say “Comrades of Color”?
Steve Pollard
Indeed. It can only be a matter of time before someone tells them to FoC off.
“I see you, I hear you, I have helped many of you and I have been here for you.”
CSS Nancy Macualey, in her deft use of anaphora (and some other rhetorical devices later in her letter), sure seems more literate than anyone writing for the Williams Record.
She could learn these kids a thing or two about English composition. 🙂
Mark Sturtevant
It does seem to me that Professor Kent did react in an unseemly and unprofessional fashion, but of course it falls far short of anything beyond maybe a ‘tut tut’ from an Administrator.
I am pretty close to my department chair and to a couple administrators that deal with conflicts among faculty and students. By a kind of osmosis I have indirectly learned of all manner of drama that the ‘higher ups’ have to deal with involving faculty, staff, and students. This is seriously nothing.
With only the information from the article to go by I agree that Kent could have handled the encounter better but I think Wang was much more out of line. In particular I think Kent was exactly right about Wang talking shit about her to her students. Though it would have been better if she had expressed her thoughts on that in a way that didn’t leave her at a disadvantage. Given what Wang appears to have been doing, much more than just talking shit about another professor to her students which is bad enough but also undermining the authority and integrity of Williams’ administration as a whole, I think she should be disciplined.
But who knows how that interaction really went down, considering the only apparent witnesses to it are two students seemingly unsympathetic to Kent (she being white and all).
You see that the Trump administration has sent a bomber-wing equipped aircraft-carrier group into the Persian Gulf in response to unspecified “Iranian provocation”?
The announcement came not from the president, not from the Defense Secretary, not even from anyone else in the Pentagon, but from NSA John Bolton.
Tellin’ ya, Beej, the man’s dangerous and reckless, and it would be a maximally Trumpian move to give Bolton the green light to launch something against alleged Iranian training camps or alleged Iranian nuclear centrifuge facilities, in order to distract the nation from bad news — like Robert Mueller or Don McGahn testifying before congress.
I thought we’d be further into the 2020 election cycle before we saw something like this, but Trump’s unspooling faster than I expected.
At Ballon Juice, Bolton’s announcement is taken as hot air:
“Despite Bolton’s statement there is no additional Naval or Amphibious deployment.”
“Thank you for joining us for this special first Sunday in May edition of John Bolton’s mustache’s saber rattling kabuki theater.”
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/05/05/despite-john-boltons-statement-the-us-has-not-escalated-its-forces-in-the-centcom-area-of-responsibility/
Makes one wonder what the Trump policy on Iran is. Trump withdrew from the nuclear treaty with nothing to show for it, and without making any effort to negotiate a new one. And way back during Mike Flynn’s tenure as national security advisor, the Trump administration drew a red line concerning Iran’s obtaining nuclear weapons or missiles with which to launch them.
Iran is certainly seeking to develop such weapons and missiles, especially now that it’s seen how doing so has given Kim Jong-un a position of strength on the world stage. What do you suppose the Donald’s gonna do?
Eli Siegel
Some time ago two faculty members of the Tufts University English Dept almost came to blows over postmodernism. O tempers, o mores.
Jon Gallant
Sounds like a good story. Can you tell us more?
…if the meeting would discuss the recent leave of Assistant Professor of English Kimberly Love. Love had cited the College’s “violent practices” as a reason for her departure at the beginning of the spring semester. Wang had previously expressed concerns about the cancellation of recent English department meetings. For her, they were reflective of the department’s unwillingness to discuss what she sees as its longstanding history of hostility toward faculty of color (FoC)…
If a department chair is letting a professor take an unscheduled leave of absence for ‘structural racism’, then I have a hard time seeing the department as being callous or hostile towards such issues. Callous or hostile would be saying “no. Medical leave is for things like having an operation or getting measles. Teach your classes or be fired.” But as many others have pointed out, the far left seems to think “I’ve listened to you, I understand, but still disagree” is equivalent to “hostile towards.”
Having said that, there’s generally no good reason for one faculty member to yell at another in the hall. Its your workplace, be professional, and apologize in those instances when anxiety, pressure or stress causes you to temporarily lose it.
jpetts
“Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m being repressed!”
Bloody peasant!
gravelinspector-Aidan
We didn’t ask to be a part of your struggle
Ah well, there’s an admission of not being sufficiently woke there. I think the next part of the conversation is “Dead man walking!”, if they still do that.
Deodand
They are going to be in for a hard time. The greatest crime in the ‘Woke’ lexicon is disagreeing with them.
The punishment is straight out of the Scientologists ‘Fair Game’ handbook for dealing with ‘Suppressive Persons’.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has also weighed in on the recognition issue.
“WIFI first requested recognition as a registered student organization, or RSO, at the College Council’s April 16 meeting, where discussions were tabled after contentious debate about the group’s mission. Discussions picked back up on April 23, leading again to arguments about WIFI’s viewpoints and the College Council’s 13–8 anonymous vote to deny the group RSO status, making it “the first club in over a decade that complied with all CC bylaws for recognition but failed to gain RSO status.” ”
https://www.thefire.org/williams-college-council-denies-recognition-to-pro-israel-student-group/
It will probably take another great depression to straighten out the priorities of most of these these whinny babies.
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Huh. You're right. I have not heard of that last one. But that last line there does sound funny. It's one of those lines.
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Persona 5: The Animation
I'm now all caught up on Persona anime. I watched the whole series, with the concluding specials, and inserted The Day Breakers between episodes 9 and 10. By a funny coincidence, I finished watching the night that Joker was released for Super Smash Bros. I liked the series, despite knowing the general plot beforehand, which I don't think was the case with the others. In a way, it's a shame, given the plot's various twists and pseudo-twists, but I started reading about the game before a full anime was announced. People seem not to have had many nice things to say about this adaptation, and while I agree that it isn't quite as good as Persona 4's anime was, I thought it held up alright. The only negative thing I can really say about it is that at times it did feel a little rushed, probably because it's the same length as the Persona 4 anime, but there's more ground to cover in terms of plot. If you think about it, unlike in Persona 4 where the "boss fights" were with the protagonists' own Shadows, in Persona 5 both a protagonist and a villain needed to be introduced for each Palace, so there wasn't as much room for the slice-of-life kind of stuff (which Persona 4 was already a little heavy on, anyway).
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle / Godzilla: The Planet Eater
These are the second and third entries in the trilogy of animated Godzilla movies, the first of which I watched about half a year ago. I figured I'd watch them back-to-back, so as to finish the trilogy with the second film fresh in my memory. As in the first film, there were several call-backs to the live action movies. Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, and (in a manner of speaking) Mothra all make appearances, but are distinct from their usual depictions. Mechagodzilla, which we saw under construction in the first movie's opening before Godzilla wrecked its creators' facility, has evolved into the titular city of the second movie, while Ghidorah is an extradimensional being with no physical body. The two races of humanoid aliens from the first movie eventually show themselves to be less than trustworthy, which shouldn't perhaps be very surprising, since aliens in Godzilla movies almost always turn out to be bastards. It seems pretty clear that the Exif, who are revealed to worship Ghidorah, were inspired by the Xiliens. I think that, of the three movies, the last is probably the weakest, since it can drag in places, but it was still a good watch. The series ends on a somewhat pessimistic note, putting one in mind of the original Godzilla. I didn't really expect a "happy ending" anyway, since humanity was already pretty much wiped out, and the series has an interesting narrative arc.
I considered watching the third season of A Certain Magical Index next. It's been a while since I've watched either it or Railgun, however, and I'm not sure whether or not I should rewatch anything to prepare myself for it. I considered rewatching the main series and its spinoff with the episodes in roughly chronological order, but I know that the spinoff is going to be getting a third season before long, and a second spinoff is going to be getting its first season, so I'm not sure what to do. In the end I decided to kick the problem on down the road. Instead my next watch will be Death Note, a non-leadup-related series that sounds interesting (and which of course is well-known and well-liked).
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Yeah, Death Note should be good. ...Just watch the anime and nothing US based. ...Maybe some of the JPN LA stuff.
Alright, I've watched two new anime in succession. I don't think either of them needs much in the way of an introduction.
This is a somewhat unusual series. While their premises are unrelated, it struck me as having some similarities with the Netflix series House of Cards, which I caught some of when my parents were watching through it. In both series, the protagonist is the bad guy, or at least one of the bad guys, and he has to use his wits to keep his machinations a secret. Contrary to my parents' experience with the protagonist of House of Cards, though, I never found myself rooting for Light. To some extent, especially early on in the series, I didn't get terribly invested in it emotionally, because there were so few likeable characters. It was more like watching a game of chess than anything. As the show went on I did start liking the characters more, even Light, amusingly enough, when he temporarily lost his memory of the Death Note. It was weird to see how different his personality was during that period. It makes you wonder if he was always a psychopath, or if the power of the Death Note unhinged him. Ryuk was fun, even though his is often a background role. While amoral, he was honest about his motivation, without any of Light's hypocritical self-righteousness. I liked L, too, questionable though his methods sometimes were. The ending was the emotional high-spot for me, unsurprisingly. After L's death I was pretty much just watching to see Light get what was coming to him. And he did, of course, and it was cathartic, and then you almost feel a little sorry for him in the very last scene, in spite of everything. It's hinted that he regrets his lost innocence. Overall a good show, and I'm interested in looking into some of the tie-in material. In fact, just this evening I ordered two Death Note novels. The live-action stuff doesn't really appeal to me.
I thought I'd follow up Death Note with something a little lighter in tone, and went with this. Just to be clear, what I watched was the original anime adaptation that aired while the manga was still being published. The main draw for me, as will probably surprise no one, was the use of the Chinese zodiac, which of course played a role in Digimon Tamers. I've considered making use of the mythology surrounding it in some of my own work too, so I was interested in seeing how this series handled it, especially since the tardy cat of the legends was included. Entertainment-wise, the show was nice overall. I enjoyed it throughout, though in my opinion it did comedy slightly better than it did drama. The character personalities were fun, and Toru was cute but a little too perfect to be as interesting as some of the others. I was a tad disappointed that we didn't get to meet all 13 of our animals, but I suppose there's always the new adaptation to look forward to once it's finished airing.
I'm currently looking to add some new shows to my "to-watch" list, besides the various sequel series that I've yet to see or that haven't aired or finished airing yet. Two anime I've gone ahead and added are Dream Eater Merry (which I intend to watch next) and Demon Detective Nogami Neuro, both of which I know little about but which sound like the sort of thing I would enjoy. With a view to finding other shows I might want to try, I've also been looking at the old comedy fan-series AMV Hell, which I watched and enjoyed as a kid before ever being a real anime fan (it was actually AMV Hell that inspired me to give Azumanga Daioh, Excel Saga, and Death Note a try). I've been looking up the synopses of various shows on MAL, and so far I've made a very tentative list of some I may eventually give a shot, besides the ones recommended to me by fellow WtW members. Of the following anime, are there any that you guys have seen and would particularly recommend to me (or advise me not to watch)?
Battle Athletess Daiundoukai
Child's Toy
Chunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai!
Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita)
Hare & Guu
Invasion!? Squid Girl
Magical Girl Madoka Magica
Nichijou
Sayonara, Zetsubo-sensei
Twin Spica
When the Cicadas Cry
I'm going digital
Originally Posted by TMS
Of the following anime, are there any that you guys have seen and would particularly recommend to me (or advise me not to watch)?
While the Madoka anime is excellent, I would advise steering clear of the sequel movie. It ruins the tv anime's ending in order to set up sequels that ultimately never happened anyways thus rendering the film itself pointless.
Otherwise the rest of that list looks okay, a few gems but mostly mediocre (but enjoyable) shows.
Which are the gems, if you don’t mind my asking?
Granted this is my own bias, but I would say that Madoka, Paranoia Agent, Gurren Lagann and Sayonara, Zetsubo-sensei notably stand above the rest in terms of quality.
I would say When They Cry as well, but I wasn't the biggest fan of the anime adaptation. In fact, while the anime is serviceable, I would recommend playing the Visual Novel (available on Steam) instead unless you really are averse to that style of storytelling.
Theigno
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My two cents about some of the shows...
Chunibyo
I only watched the first season and felt it was pretty generic. High school boy meets weird girl, bla bla, conveniently absent parents bla bla. Doesn't help that I felt that the way the show approached its main theme and the stance it takes on it felt just utterly retarded, but that might just be me.
Thematically Paranoia Agent might just be the perfect counterpoint to Chunibyo. Since the series originated as concepts for different projects different episodes sometimes feel disconnected, and sometimes it feels almost like a compilation series. Still a very good show if you're looking for something really unique.
I guess people get kind of weird about "dark" magical girl series and some of them are pretty crappy but Madoka didn't make an entire popular for nothing, it's really good. Great plot, some very interesting visuals.
I would however claim that the sequel movie is the best part about it all and basically just really impressively shows something that the series basically implied would happen anyway.
It's an okay wacky cute girls slice of life comedy thingy. Generally differentiates itself from other series of that type by pulling out some pretty impressive animation quality for absurd visual gags.
A pretty fun series but loses much of the humor for non-japanese viewers. It's really a series that loves it's wordplay and multilayered puns which means with subtitles there'll just be times where you'll have one line of dialogue and like three other footnotes and infoboxes that explain the japanese joke that just happened (Maybe not all the time but that's how I remember it)... and at least for me getting that kind of stuff explained might still work for appreciating the cleverness but it's not truly funny in the traditional sense.
TTGL
One of the great things about ttgl is just how fast the plot escalates and every time it seems like it can't get more over the top, it somehow does. There are also two compilation movies which, while overall being just generally okay greatly extend the climactic fights even more.
Story wise definitely one of the best mystery anime out there with some very interesting storytelling choices. Some of the horror parts can get pretty nasty and unfortunately the animation quality is sometimes nasty as well, with lots of off-model shots and generally eh look outside of important moments. Visually it gets a bit better in the second season which is defintely required to watch as the first season only presents the mystery while the second seasons actually provides the solutions.
I have not read the Visual Novel, but having read the successor VN (which got a truly godawful anime adaption) it's very likely that the VN is better however if one was to read the VN it's worth noting that the translation on steam is still missing the last two chapters, so you would have to wait for the ending.
Last edited by Theigno; 05-23-2019 at 01:10 AM.
Thank you both for the information. Always good to get other people's opinions, so I know what shows to prioritize. Child's Toy I may skip just because I didn't initially realize it was like 100 episodes long. Another anime I'm considering, but forgot to list for some reason, is a rather obscure one called Phantom Thief Saint Tail. I doubt it will be all that great, probably mindless fun at best, but the premise sort of appeals to me. Reading the synopsis, it sounds like the exact same setup as Cardcaptor Sakura, but with less magic and more phantom thievery. I don't suppose anyone else here has watched it? Anyway, I finished my latest anime last night.
Dream Eater Merry
This anime was one of those manga adaptations that aired long before the manga had ended (in this case, the manga still hasn't ended), and which was considerably different as a result. I really liked this show, but it did suffer a little from the circumstances. At 13 episodes, I found it too short, and it bit off more than it could chew, in a sense, with too many subplots going on at once thanks to the addition of a number of major characters that weren't in the manga. Naturally, the focus is on these anime-exclusive characters, and their stories are more or less resolved by the end, but a lot is left hanging, and unfortunately the anime never got a continuation. I'd be interested in reading the manga whenever it finally finishes. Right now it's at about 20 volumes, so it still has a ways to go before it reaches the length of other long manga I've read like Soul Eater (25 volumes) and Excel Saga (27 volumes).
Next up for me is Demon Detective Nougami Neuro. What's everyone else been watching?
I've just catched up on Yugioh VRAINS. And totally haven't tried 3 different anime I would not like to mention here. Twitter yes. But that's just more for me to watch in December. Oh well.
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Alternativas al corsé monetario del euro
Veröffentlicht von Wolfgang Streeck
El País, 15 de marzo, 2019.
La Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM) fue un error histórico, no para Alemania –que originalmente estaba en contra pero se convirtió en su principal beneficiario— sino para los países mediterráneos, Francia incluida, que por distintas razones estaban impacientes por “europeizar” la moneda alemana. Esos países sufren, pero no por su elevada deuda, como sostiene Alemania, sino porque las distintas culturas económicas nacionales requieren distintos regímenes monetarios para permitir que sean internacionalmente competitivas sus distintas estructuras sociales e institucionales. Ya en 1992, Ralf Dahrendorf, el entonces director de la London School of Economics, señaló que algunos países, como Francia, han impulsado el crecimiento económico históricamente con deuda pública, mientras que otros, como Italia, dependían de la alta inflación para alimentar la demanda doméstica. Un país altamente dependiente de las exportaciones como Alemania requiere estabilidad monetaria. Impuesto en Europa en su conjunto, como sucedió durante los neoliberales años noventa, el régimen monetario a la alemana asegura mercados cautivos para las exportaciones alemanas e imposibilita las ocasionales devaluaciones a otros países para defender su competitividad internacional. (…)
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Review of Yanis Varoufakis (2017), Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, London: The Bodley Head.
Appeared in Inference: International Review of Science 4 (3), March 2019.
What a strange book—strange but indispensable nevertheless. From January to July 2015, Yanis Varoufakis served as the Greek government’s finance minister. Adults in the Room is an account of his battle with what he calls Europe’s deep establishment. It is often self-indulgent, sometimes sentimental. He also takes pains to show he is human. He describes his happy marriage. He takes dinner with friends. He remembers his student days, and argues with his daughters. He encounters German secret service agents who unaccountably urge him to continue fighting the good fight. His mistakes he assigns to a nature that is too trusting given the intrigues both abroad and at the court of Alexis Tsipras, his prime minister and the leader of Syriza.
And yet, the book is indispensable. For whom? For the journalists who helped the masters of Europe get rid of Varoufakis; for the armies of European functionaries, les ronds-de-cuir; and, one might hope, for teachers and students of the policy sciences. Varoufakis’s book provides an honest account of how our world is governed. It will be plausible to anyone who has tried to make sense of political life without falling victim to the charm of political power. (…)
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Reflections on Political Scale
Adam Smith Lecture in Jurisprudence, University of Glasgow, 30 May 2018. Published online on February 6, 2019, in: Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought, 10 (1), 1-14.
I start, not with Smith – he will show up near the end – but with a close friend of his, the historian Edward Gibbon. In the fourth volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in 1788, Gibbon’s narrative reaches the point when in the late fifth century the Western Roman Empire forever expired. Before he finally turns his attention to the history of Byzantium, Gibbon pauses to look back at more than four centuries of Roman imperial statehood to consider what the ‘awful revolution’ he has recounted might mean for ‘the instruction of the present age’. (…)
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Through Unending Halls
Review of Joshua B. Freeman (2018), Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Appeared in London Review of Books 41 (3), 2019, 29-31.
It was in the early 1960s, I think, that our class at a small-town Gymnasium made a trip to south-western Germany, accompanied by several teachers. We visited Heidelberg and Schwetzingen and similar places without really seeing them; 17-year-old boys have other things on their minds. But we also went to Rüsselsheim, near Frankfurt, for a tour of the Opel car factory. I had never imagined that a place like this could exist: the deafening noise, the dirt, the heat, and in the middle of it all, people stoically performing minute predefined operations on the cars-in-the-making that were slowly but relentlessly moving past their work stations. The high point of the visit was the foundry in the basement – which, as I now learn from Joshua Freeman’s marvellous book, was the standard place for foundries in car factories of that era. Here, where the heat seemed unbearable and there was almost no light, half-naked men carried the molten metal, red-hot, from the furnace to the casting stations in small buckets filled to a back-breaking weight. Trained in the classics rather than the real world, I felt I had entered the workshop of Hephaestus. Looking back, I think it was on that day I decided to study sociology, which I then believed could help me and others to improve the lives of those slaving away in the basements of factories everywhere. (…)
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Globalization and the Transformation of the International State System
Norbert Lechner Lecture, Diego Portales University, Chile, November 14, 2018.
In a globally integrated capitalist economy borders between states are supposed to become economically irrelevant. Globalization is the ultimate form of liberalization; it shields free markets, instituted on a global scale, from national state intervention, in particular of a redistributive kind. Rather than markets located in states, under globalization states become located in markets. This has momentous consequences for the nature of statehood, both domestically and internationally. States located in markets lose the capacity to protect their economies and societies from market competition; in fact their economic role, if one is left for them at all, is to deregulate their national economies in order to make them more competitive, internally first and as a consequence externally as well. (…)
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The artifice for capitalism’s survival will not work forever
Interview with the Greek online journal, Marginalia , October, 2018.
In your most recent book (How will capitalism end?, 2016) you mention that the history of capitalism has been, since the 19th century at least, a history of its crises. However, the various predictions of its end have been proven wrong until now. Today, alongside a widespread consensus on the seriousness of the ongoing crisis, there is a total disagreement on how and if it is going to have an end at all. How can one explain this “Babel”? Does it make sense anymore, after so many false predictions, to ask economists and sociologists to predict the future?
What older theories of capitalist decline, or capitalist end, did not know, and could not know, is how many different forms capitalism as a social and economic system can assume – from liberal to state-administered to neoliberal, or from merchant to industrial to financial, etc. etc. Often enough, these transformations happened in the last minute, forced by crises, powerful countermovements, or, not least, the rise of the state and global warfare in the twentieth century. Still, the basic problem of modern capitalism remains: it is a socio-economic regime that depends on endless growth – endless accumulation of capital – in a finite world. All sorts of tricks have been invented to suspend that problem provisionally and for the time being; but there is no reason to believe that this will always be successful. In any case, giving up on thinking only because the question is difficult is not a good idea. (…)
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Marx’s writing more relevant today than ever
Interview by Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M., Monthly Review Online, December 06, 2018.
Originally published in Frontline, November 09, 2018
In “How will capitalism end?”, your 2014 article for “New Left Review”, you gave a theoretical farewell to capitalism. You identified five disorders to the system, namely, declining growth, oligarchy, starvation of public sphere, corruption and international anarchy that would bring about the end of capitalism. Are you saying that such an end is impending or immediate before us?
I am not saying that. I am saying that those five trends will continue as there is nothing to be seen that can stop them. I am also saying that there is no new society waiting in the wings of history, which will only have to be instituted by the forces of capitalist opposition. Instead, I am expecting a long period of high uncertainty and disorder—an interregnum in which the old order has died while a new order cannot yet be born. Very strange things can happen in such a time, as Antonio Gramsci pointed out in a famous passage of his The Prison Notebooks.
You argue that capitalism will continue to regress and atrophy until at some point it might end. You also add that we do not need to confront capitalism but let its “natural” end come about. Will capitalism end in such a peaceful manner or will it endanger humanity? People such as John Bellamy Foster speak of either socialism or exterminism as the choice before humanity.
The interregnum will be an extremely dangerous period. It is not that we don’t need to confront capitalism. I said we don’t have the collective capacity to do away with it. I wish we did. But capitalism is now a global regime while anti-capitalist politics is inevitably local. That makes it possible to throw sand into the wheels of capitalist development but, I am afraid, not to end it. (…)
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How do you deal with collegues who think aloud?
For the last few weeks I've been sharing an office with new colleagues who think aloud all the time. I've asked them to break this habit and though they promise they'll try it starts up again after an hour or so. I remind them of it occasionally but the silence doesn't last very long.
What else can I do? Should I think aloud too to show them how disturbing this is, or or should I print some posters and hang them on each wall so that they are constantly reminded about it?
Those colleagues are from a different department and we just share the office due to the lack of other space so I don't care about good relations. I just want them to be silent... is there a way to silence them?
They're already looking for another room for two other colleagues who complained about the thinking-aloud and myself, but I don't see any improvement soon so I need to deal with them.
How can I get these colleagues to commit to stopping this behaviour? Can I discuss it with them and, if so, how can I make it clear that it's becoming a real problem for us? Or should I go straight to my manager with this?
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David Glickman
red-shieldred-shield
This question isn't really about how to stop people from "thinking aloud". It's really about how to cope in a noisy office environment. This is something that many of us both copy with and contribute to. Not many of us in an office environment can enjoy a completely silent and peaceful time of things. – Snow♦ Dec 5 '16 at 14:43
In some lines of work, this is a normal and even encouraged practice. – alroc Dec 5 '16 at 14:58
@alroc yes, for some people maybe and when your're alone. What's good in it if several people can hear you and cannot work because of you thinking? – red-shield Dec 5 '16 at 15:14
@Pete everyone talks to someone now and then and not all of the time but if you comment out loud every single email you read or a button you click or how stupid some application is or the users etc etc then it's no longer a normal situation. – red-shield Dec 5 '16 at 15:20
Related, not quite duplicates: "What can I do to overcome the distraction of my coworkers talking"; "Requesting Cubicle Change due to Noisy Coworkers"; and "What can I do about a very loud coworker?" – David K Dec 5 '16 at 15:46
I am totally amazed at how others seem to think what is going on is OK. It's not. Naturally people need to talk to each other sometimes in the office. That can be distracting sometimes too, but it's necessary for the company to function.
However, there is no excuse for someone causing gratuitous noise pollution in a place where others have to think and concentrate. It can be fine on a production line where several people are inserting tab A into slot B all day long, but not where thinking and concentration are part of the job. "It's just the way they work" isn't good enough. They are the ones causing the pollution, and frankly being rather rude.
The first step is to ask them to please be quiet, since you're trying to think and concentrate across the room. You've done that, and it didn't work.
One time I had to deal with this I stopped and engaged them every time they spoke out loud to themselves as if they had spoken to me (since they actually had). They had to keep saying, "Sorry, I was just talking to myself" enough so that they got trained not to do that.
Another time it was in my office. I used the above tactic a few times, but then told them flat out to stop talking to themselves if they want to stay here. It took way too many times, but eventually that worked.
Putting up posters is just being obnoxious with the presumed attempt to start a fight. Don't do that. That makes you as bad as them, and starts a war rather than increasing the chance of solving the problem.
You need to go to your boss and tell them that you can't concentrate since these people are talking out loud to themselves all the time, and that it's hurting your productivity and possibly the quality of the work you do get done. If it gets fixed, great. If not, there is little more you can do other than decide whether you'd rather have this job under these conditions, or find a different job under better conditions. Don't threaten the manager with this, but ultimately that's your choice if the company refuses to fix the problem.
Olin LathropOlin Lathrop
Since this is temporary, you should just put up with it on a temporary basis. Printing out posters or competing won't really solve anything.
Do the same as anyone else in a noisy office environment - either ignore/block it out or use headphones (if employee policy permits).
As you said, the situation won't last forever. Creating confrontation won't win any friends.
Snow♦Snow
That's why I'm going to try the diplomatic way first and not the warpath. I don't see any reason why any of us should put up with this. We aren't the ones who interfere with the workflow of other people. Thinking out loud is not normal and it needs to be dealt with. – red-shield Dec 5 '16 at 13:24
@JoeStrazzere That a habit has impact on others doesn't necessarily mean it should be stopped. Different but similar example: some people fidget. They might twirl a pencil constantly, or fiddle with some knick-knack on their desk, or play with a headphone cable. That behaviour might be equally annoying to someone sat next to them. The trick, I think, is not to try to curtail people's natural behaviours, but to find a way to accommodate them. I'm not saying there's no issue here, but that responding by mandating specific behaviour isn't constructive. – Dan Puzey Dec 6 '16 at 9:45
Rather than silencing them, why not make it more difficult to hear them? Use headphones at work, listen to music while you work.
This will not be allowed in every environment (Works best in office based environments that don't require you to be on the phone a lot), however if you can speak to your boss and explain your current predicament, you could negotiate during this time you could use headphones (If you are not normally allowed).
Trying to get people to stop a habit is difficult work and you will be causing more tension than it's worth (Especially since this is a temp situation), instead try to find other ways to remove the problem.
DrakenDraken
I've always discussed such distractions with my manager.
Sometimes my manager was able to get the office to be less distracting. Other times I've had to resort to listening to my iPod when things got noisy.
WorkerDroneWorkerDrone
I got the impression that you're the first person that actually seem to understand how difficult it is to work in a noisy environment and also did something more about it then just give up without even trying out of fear of losing friends. – red-shield Dec 5 '16 at 19:54
@t3chj0b It's not about losing friends, it's about damaging professional relationships. Putting up posters and mimicing your colleague is only going to anger them and make it difficult to ever work with them in the future. Going to your manager is a good option, assuming you approach it constructively and professionally without trying to demonize your coworker. Keep in mind that if your manager says there's nothing to be done, then the decision has been made and you need to suck it up and live with it. – David K Dec 5 '16 at 20:12
@t3chj0b - in these days of "open offices" constant noise seems to be the norm. I think it's ridiculous to have to put up with it, but most companies don't seem to care much. – WorkerDrone Dec 5 '16 at 20:13
@HLG: No, talking is the hardest noise to not be distracted by. It engages something in your brain that interprets and tries to parse and react to the speech. Planes taking off, cars going by, fans kicking in are all much easier to ignore. Thinking out loud is fine when there aren't others around. When they are, it's just plain inconsiderate and rude. Don't try to blame the victim. What if I had a clock in a shared off that loudly said "The time is ..." every 5 minutes. I doubt you'd think that was OK. Or if I often left smelly cheese on my desk, etc. – Olin Lathrop Dec 5 '16 at 22:10
Extroverts often use a discussion with others to elicit and articulate their thoughts. Introverts seldom have discussions because of their internal dialogues raging their heads to work out the LOGICAL issues...sometimes at the expense of emotional and social issues attached to the problem at hand.
You are missing a golden opportunity to think outside the box of your own skull when you use your chatty colleagues as sounding boards, and as a method to expand your ability to problem-solve with feedback. Tune them into your station by changing the song of small talk into news you can use.
Dutch DriverDutch Driver
Sounds like an environment with a lot of talk. I wouldn't like that. – WorkerDrone Dec 5 '16 at 19:49
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Semi-basic 1-forms and Helmholtz conditions for the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
Ioan Bucataru and Matias F. Dahl
2009, 1(2): 159-180 doi: 10.3934/jgm.2009.1.159 +[Abstract](2258) +[PDF](318.8KB)
We use Frölicher-Nijenhuis theory to obtain global Helmholtz conditions, expressed in terms of a semi-basic 1-form, that characterize when a semispray is a Lagrangian vector field. We also discuss the relation between these Helmholtz conditions and their classic formulation written using a multiplier matrix. When the semi-basic 1-form is 1-homogeneous (0-homogeneous) we show that two (one) of the Helmholtz conditions are consequences of the other ones. These two special cases correspond to two inverse problems in the calculus of variation: Finsler metrizability for a spray, and projective metrizability for a spray.
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December 17, 2018 admin [Call for papers]
01/02/19 – London (UK). CFP "Television drama, law and national identity"
Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers for a Symposium about television drama, law and national identity.
The symposium will take place 6 September 2019 in the University of Westminster’s historic Regent Street building just metres away from BBC headquarters.
Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration. In this regard national identity’s relationship with law as its crystallisation is particularly worthy of academic attention and lends itself to interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Police, crime, justice and dystopian dramas frequently place law and social attitudes to law centre-stage in the delineation of national identity.
Television drama may be perceived as a communicative event in which history is transformed into myth through a stylised set of codes. The transmission of coded messages about national identity, and their interpretation (both hegemonic and oppositional) become particularly worthy of analysis as the nation comes under strain through patterns of globalised and regional integration coupled with acts of national resistance. Multiple genres of television drama provide scope for the expression of national identity, including the use by period dramas of creative nostalgia to represent the contemporary nation or the warnings to the nation posed by science fiction television. In all contexts the interplay between projections of national identity and television’s treatment of race, class and gender warrants critical scrutiny.
Possible subjects for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:
is national identity empirical or normative in television drama?
internet/social media amplification of debates on TV drama, law and identity
national identity on television as ideology
depictions of trials and national identity
national security dramas: ‘war against terrorism’, identity and law(lessness)
political dramas: uniform global elite or national diversity?
fan responses to the portrayal of the nation
globalisation/globalised law – depicted as threat to national identity?
feminist crime drama and national identity
science fiction or dystopian fiction, law and national identity
‘heritage’ drama: commodification of (rose-tinted) ideas of national identity for global consumption?
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Abstracts should be 250 words in length, accompanied by a 100-word biography of the author, and sent to nicold@wmin.ac.uk by the deadline of 1 February 2019.
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NP Carer of the Year Awards 2017: An Overview
AKA Case Management attended the Nottingham Post Carer of the Year Awards 2017 yesterday for the second year running.
The guest list included our EM Case Managers and office staff Donna, Dawn and Beth. As Gilly Crooks was a finalist, she should have been there with us but she was working hard as usual supporting our client Rosie in Spain. To support her (while she watched via live video!), some of her many fans came along, including her husband Adrian, her daughter (and our support worker) Alex, our client Sam Hindley with mum Julie Hindley and a fellow support worker Chris Adams.
We arrived and were greeted by Prosecco and a red carpet, which is always a nice start! We were quickly seated and after a few introductory speeches, lunch was served. Similarly to last year, the food was lovely and as chocolate fiends we definitely appreciated a chocolate brownie for dessert. There was also a Twitter board during dinner, during which Dawn and Beth furiously tweeted to make sure AKA was on the board at all times (competitive natures clearly).
The first award was the one we were most excited to hear the results for… Home Carer of the Year. We videoed the proceedings for Gilly so she could watch over in Spain, and she got a lot of support from the audience when everything she did was read out to them. Unfortunately, she didn’t win, but all the finalists were incredible and we are so proud of her for being a Finalist. Her daughter Alex went up to collect her Finalist certificate on her behalf.
As the awards went on, we heard some amazing stories about some incredible people, a lot of whom were extremely humbled by their win. None seemed to understand why they deserved the award, which is the nicest aspect as it shows that their hard work and caring natures come naturally to them. There were a lot of tears on the AKA table, so the tissues we got given at the beginning definitely came in handy.
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All in all, a great day was had by all, and it was amazing to see so many hard working carers recognised for the job they do everyday. We can’t wait to attend again next year as a sponsor and just need to decide who we can nominate next year!
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Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats
Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus
K. Yamanouchi
Daily injections of 500 μg testosterone propionate (TP) for 21 days induced mounting behavior in all of 10 castrated male rats and the mean mount frequency (MF) for 30 min was 32.4±6.6 (mean±S.E.). The same treatment with TP induced mounting behavior in 6 out of 8 ovariectomized rats (female control), but the mean MF was 2.8±0.7. Eight out of 12 ovariectomized rats who received a horizontal half-circle cut anterior to the anterior commissure (anterior roof deafferentation, ARD) with an L-shaped Halasz knife displayed mounting behavior more frequently and their MF was 14.5±5.1. The latent period between the introduction of a receptive female and the occurrence of the first mounting (mount latency, ML) in ARD rats was significantly shorter than that of the female controls. A half circle cut located posterior to the anterior commissure (posterior roof deafferentation, PRD) and sham deafferentation (SD) in the female rats had no effect on MF or ML. On the day following the last test for male behavior, all female rats were injected with 0.5 mg progesterone in order to examine female sexual behavior, The mean lordosis quotient (LQ) of the ARD group was 62.5±13.4. In the female control, SD and PRD groups, however, LQs were significantly lower than those of ARD rats, being 15.1±10.9, 37.5±14.7 and 23.8±11.8, respectively. These results suggest that the dorsal inputs to the POA and hypothalamus which pass anterior to the anterior commissure may exert an inhibitory influence not only on the female sexual behavior mediating system but also on the mounting mediating system in female rats.
Endocrinologia Japonica
Preoptic Area
Yamanouchi, K. (1980). Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats: Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus. Endocrinologia Japonica, 27(4), 499-504.
Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats : Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus. / Yamanouchi, K.
In: Endocrinologia Japonica, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1980, p. 499-504.
Yamanouchi, K 1980, 'Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats: Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus', Endocrinologia Japonica, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 499-504.
Yamanouchi K. Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats: Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus. Endocrinologia Japonica. 1980;27(4):499-504.
Yamanouchi, K. / Mounting and lordosis behavior in androgen primed ovariectomized rats : Effect of dorsal deafferentation of the preoptic area and hypothalamus. In: Endocrinologia Japonica. 1980 ; Vol. 27, No. 4. pp. 499-504.
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Florida Moves Thousands of Prisoners As Irma Nears
FEMA Chief to Florida Keys Residents: 'You're on Your Own'
By Sean Breslin
September 09 2017 04:30 PM EDT
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More Victims in Florida Nursing Home
Two more residents of a Florida nursing have died after suffering in the heat after Hurricane Irma.
As the storm bears down on Florida, the chief of FEMA has warned people still in the Keys that they would be "on their own" until help could arrive.
Tens of thousands lost power in South Florida as Hurricane Irma's outer bands arrived Saturday.
Roughly one-third of Florida's population evacuated ahead of the storm, according to officials.
More than 50,000 Floridians are in shelters, emergency managers said.
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As deadly Hurricane Irma closes in on Florida, the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has warned those still in the Keys that they will be "on their own" until emergency responders can get to them.
“You're on your own until we can actually get in there, and it's safe for our teams to support local and state efforts," FEMA chief Brock Long said in a statement obtained by the Miami Herald. "The message has been clear — the Keys are going to be impacted, there is no safe area within the Keys, and you put your life in your own hands by not evacuating.
“What we have to do is set citizen expectations. We are not going to be there right after storm passes. We need to be sure that the roadways are clear, we need to get trucks in to get stuff there," he added. "And that's why we ask people to be prepared for three days, and you know hopefully in these landmark events, citizens will start to take these preparedness measures seriously. All over the country, we're asking you to be prepared. We cannot be there right after the storm."
Another 700,000 people have evacuated in Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma, bringing the total to nearly 7 million residents – roughly one-third of the state's population – who have fled the storm.
Florida is home to some 21 million people – many of which have temporarily relocated to Georgia or other neighboring states ahead of Irma's severe impacts. At least 51,000 people have entered shelters to ride out the storm, emergency management officials said Saturday.
"This is a sobering, scary situation," Dr. Rick Knabb, hurricane expert with The Weather Channel, said Friday night.
Hurricane Irma's outer bands have reached South Florida, and tens of thousands were already in the dark Saturday morning.
Some 45,000 of 2 million Florida Power and Light customers were without power in Broward and Miami-Dade counties combined, the utility company said on its website.
(MORE: Latest Forecast for Hurricane Irma)
"The storm’s here," said Gov. Rick Scott Saturday morning. "This is a deadly storm, and our state has never seen anything like it."
As precious preparation time ticked away and Irma inched closer to Florida, officials and meteorologists couldn't be any clearer: get out of the Keys and other vulnerable areas, or risk being killed by the monster storm.
"It's going to be very difficult to survive this if you're in the Keys," Scott said Saturday morning during an interview with The Weather Channel. "I'm begging you to get out."
Scott has repeatedly warned residents to heed warnings, stressing that the "sole focus is on life safety." He evacuated with his family to the governor's mansion in Tallahassee.
"Once the storm starts, law enforcement cannot save you," Scott said.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine echoed the governor.
"Please leave Miami Beach," Levine said during an interview on The Weather Channel. "You don't want to be here. This is a barrier island. This hurricane, as I've said before, is a nuclear hurricane. ... Please leave. You have time today. ... We don't want heroes; we want living people."
Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate was even more direct in an interview with CNN: "Let me be blunt: anybody who didn't evacuate will drown; that's the risk."
Here's the Latest
• Palm Beach County has issued a mandatory curfew for all residents starting at 3 p.m. EDT Saturday. Broward County will institute a mandatory curfew at 4 p.m. Saturday. Miami Beach's mandatory curfew begins at 9 p.m. Saturday. Miami-Dade County has not issued a curfew.
• Volusia County will be in a curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday night to noon Monday.
• Entry to Key Biscayne has been closed indefinitely.
• Evacuations were underway in parts of Florida's Big Bend on Saturday. Voluntary evacuations were also issued for Leon County.
• The U.S. Coast Guard closed ports in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Manatee Saturday morning.
• Mandatory evacuations were issued for Zone A in Hillsborough County Saturday morning. Zone B was under a voluntary evacuation.
• President Donald Trump said Hurricane Irma "is a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential," adding that his administration is doing all it can to help with disaster preparations, and the U.S. "stands united" to address the storm.
• In a tweet sent Friday evening, Scott requested 1,000 volunteer nurses for the state's special-needs shelters. Those who could help were urged to email BPRCHDPreparedness@flhealth.gov. Scott repeated the request Saturday morning.
• Scott ordered evacuations in cities surrounding the southern half of Lake Okeechobee from Lake Port to Canal Point in Hendry, Palm Beach and Glades counties. The cities include Belle Glade, Canal Point, Clewiston, Lake Harbor, Moore Haven, Pahokee and South Bay.
• Tampa ordered mandatory evacuations for all residents in Zone A, effective 2 p.m. Friday.
• Mandatory evacuations are underway in Pasco County for all residents living west of U.S. 19, and in Pinellas County, residents in the Level A and B zones are also evacuating.
(MORE: Shelters Fill Up Quickly as Evacuation Orders Mount)
• In Manatee County, evacuations in the Level A evacuation zone are now mandatory.
• In Sarasota County, a mandatory evacuation order was issued Thursday for residents living in Zone A.
• All Florida public schools, state colleges and universities will remain closed through Monday. Florida State University announced it will remain closed through Friday.
• Scott asked gas stations to stay open as long as possible and said he would arrange for police escorts for employees to get out when needed.
• FEMA Director Brock Long said 8,000 workers were being deployed to Florida.
• Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price declared a public health emergency in Florida Thursday, in addition to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Scott activated 7,000 members of the Florida National Guard Thursday to help with evacuations, sheltering and the aftermath of the storm.
• Scott said school buses are available to help cities evacuate.
• Throughout the state, residents are making one last run on water, gas and other essentials ahead of the storm, with shelves quickly emptying. Scott said they are moving fuel into the state to address gas shortages. He urged residents to only take as much fuel as necessary.
• Prison officials in Florida have been forced to conduct the largest evacuation of prisoners in state history, moving more than 7,000 inmates from work camps and community release centers to more secure facilities.
• Walt Disney World in Orlando announced it would close for at least two days beginning Sunday.
• The U.S. Postal Service has suspended deliveries and retail operations in South Florida until further notice.
• Comcast has opened 137,000 Xfinity wifi hotspots across Florida to help people trying to evacuate.
• St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport closed at 11 a.m. Friday, airport officials announced. Orlando International Airport will shut down 5 p.m. EDT Saturday. Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport have halted all flights.
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2019 Network Security Appliance Market Size: by Application, Type, Trend, Revenue, Overview, Growth and Forecasts-2023
Globally, the network security appliance is expected to grow from USD 8.45 billion in 2018 to USD 13.97 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 10.6% during the forecast period, 2018–2023
Network Security Appliance Market - Highlights
Network security appliances has been one of the most demanding cybersecurity solutions among enterprises from almost all industry verticals. Increased cyberattacks on network infrastructure of have triggered a great demand for network security appliances, which can efficiently provide protection to the enterprises’ network and do not degrade the systems’ performance. The demand for network security appliances have been further increased with advancements in IoT, global adoption of cloud services, and inceasing BYOD trends across the globe. Furthermore, need to meet compliance requirements and ensure security and privacy of data have further contributed in the overall growth of the market. Increasing complexity of enterprises’ network will support the continous growth of network security appliances market in the upcoming years. The network security appliances market is expected to grow with the CAGR of 10.6% from 2018 to 2023 and reach USD 13.97 billion by 2023.
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Network Security Appliance Market - Key Players:
The prominent players in global network security appliance market are Cisco Systems, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Symantec Corporation, Sophos Ltd., Juniper Networks, Inc., Forcepoint LLC, and Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Network Security Appliance Market - Segmentation.
The global network security appliance market is segmented into components, industry verticals, and regions.
By component, the market is segmented into product; visibility, analytics, and management software; and services. The products covered in the study are next generation firewalls (NGFWs) and unified threat management (UTM), firewalls, intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS), distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, sandboxing, and web security. The services segment is furhter bifurcated into professional and managed services. The professional services covered in the study are consulting services, system integraton services, support and maintenance services, and training and education services.
By industry vertical, the market is segmented into BFSI, government and defense, IT and telecom, healthcare, retail, energy and utilities, manufacturing, and others.
By region, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world.
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Network Security Appliance Market - Regional Analysis
The global market for network security appliance is estimated to grow at a significant rate during the forecast period from 2018 to 2023. The geographical analysis of the market is studied for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world.
North America is expected to dominate network security appliance market during the forecast period. Presence of major players and early adoption of new solutions such as NGFWs and DDoS protection drives the network security appliance market in North America region. BFSI and government and defense are expected to support the dominance of the region as compared to other regions of the world. Healthcare industry vertical is expected to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
Asia-Pacific is expected grow at the fastest rate during the forecast period. Increasing digitalization in the region and adoption of cloud and IoT technologies in the region are expected to drive the market in this region. However, budget constraints is the major restraining factor for the market in the Asia-Pacific region.
Europe is expected to grow at a stable growth rate during forecast period. Healthcare vertical is expected to drive the network security appliance market in Europe.
Scope Of The Report
2.1. Market Definition
2.2. Scope Of The Study
2.2.1. Research Objectives
2.2.2. Assumptions & Limitations
2.3. Market Structure
Market Research Methodology
3.1. Research Process
3.2. Secondary Research
3.3. Primary Research
3.4. Forecast Model
Table1 Global Network Security Appliance Market, By Country, 2018–2023
Table2 North America: Network Security Appliance Market, By Country, 2018–2023
Table3 Europe: Network Security Appliance Market, By Country, 2018–2023
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Figure 1 Global Network Security Appliance Market Segmentation
Figure 2 Forecast Methodology
Figure 3 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Of Global Network Security Appliance Market
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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1
November 28, 2011 by Tom Pick
Sure, teenagers spend a lot of time on YouTube, but did you know that three-quarters of business executives watch work-related online videos weekly? Or that 73% of U.S. companies now use social media for marketing (though the figure varies widely based on size of company)? Or which four cities rank ahead of Seattle and San Francisco as the “most networked?” Or that49% of B2B journalists write blogs, and 84% are on Twiter? Or that a third (or more, depending on which study you believe) of all clicks go to the top result on a search engine query?
Get the details behind these stats and many, many more here in more than 40 of the best articles and blog posts about social media, search, budgeting and digital marketing research, facts and statistics of 2011 so far.
Social Media Stats, Facts and Research
Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine? by MediaPost SearchBlog
Social media sites now drive more traffic to many popular sites—including Comedy Central, NFL.com and Netflix—than Google does. Citing these and other statistics, Laurie Sullivan ponders the meaning of the term “search engine.” She quotes Wedbush Equity Analyst Lou Kerner, who has called Facebook “‘the second Internet,’ with time spent on Facebook and page views surpassing Google search.” Facebook has become the (far more successful) second coming of what AOL was back in the early 90s. As Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Executives & Online Video [CHARTS] by eStrategy After Hours
David Erickson shares eMarketer findings about the popularity of online video among business executives. Among the findings: “Three-quarters of all executives said they watched work-related videos on business websites at least once a week, and more than half did the same on YouTube.” Nearly a quarter prefer video content to text. And nearly two out of three executives have visited a vendor’s website after viewing an online video elsewhere.
Content Sharing Trends in 2010 [Infographic] by Pamorama
Pam Dyer reports on data from AddThis showing the top methods for sharing information from more than 300 options. Not too surprisingly, Facebook is the #1 method for passing along content, followed by email and then Twitter. Gmail and StumbleUpon are the fastest growing methods, however.
B2B marketers: give us inbound, social, e-mail, marketing automation and content by Conversion Marketing Forum
After pondering some of the differences between B2B and B2C marketing, J-P De Clerck shares data from MarketingSherpa showing that lead generation is (by far) the top priority for B2B marketers (with 78% saying that generating high-quality leads is their top priority) while budget increases are going overwhelmingly to inbound marketing tactics (with 60%+ spending more on content, social media and SEO).
Pew: Republicans, Democrats Use Social Media Equally by MediaPost Online Media Daily
Mark Walsh summarizes research findings from a Pew survey revealing that “22% (of) online adults used Twitter or other social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace in the months leading up to the November 2010 elections…Among social network users, 40% of Republican voters and 38% of Democratic voters used these sites to become involved politically.” At least something is bipartisan.
Social Media 2010, The Fastest Growth Ever by MyCorporateMedia
Randy Schrum supplies some interesting social media statistics, such as: Twitter users post more than 65 million tweets per day. Over 2 billion videos are viewed every day on YouTube. And 73% of U.S. companies now use social media for marketing.
16 social media statistics that might surprise you by Communications Conversations
Arik Hanson lists social media stats from various sources showing that 75% of brand ‘Likes’ on Facebook come from advertisements. 22% of Fortune 500 companies have a public-facing blog that has at least one post in the past 12 months. Fridays at 4 p.m. eastern time (U.S.) are the most retweetable day/time of the week, per Dan Zarella of HubSpot. (I don’t buy that one, as in my experience, Twitter pretty much dies between noon on Friday and early Saturday morning.) 48% of Twitter users say they rarely or never check Twitter. (That I believe.)
Report: CMOs Eager To Integrate Social Tools by MediaPost Online Media Daily
Gavin O’Malley reports that chief marketing officers have embraced social media: “From Facebook to Twitter, a full 90% of chief marketing officers now participate in an average of three or more social media activities.” And 93% planned to use some form of user-generated content in their marketing efforts this year, including customer stories, product suggestions or ideas, and customer reviews.
65 Terrific Social Media Infographics by Pamorama
Writing that “These snapshots communicate essential information to help marketers make sense of the social networking space and how people are using it in their everyday lives to communicate and share information and ideas,” Pam Dyer shares a huge collection of infographics on everything from the history of social networking to how marketers are using social media to the meteoric rise of Twitter to how people are using social media on mobile devices.
Is a Blog Still Important in 2011? by Edelman Digital
Noting that “a blog is a focal point and acts as a base of operations for communications,” Jonny Bentwood details the benefits of business blogging as well as the growth stats: 39% of U.S. companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007.
Minneapolis is 4th-Most Socially Networked City by Twin Cities Business
Congrats to my fellow Minneapolitans! According to the TCB article,”If you live or work in Minneapolis, chances are good that you have a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and/or a LinkedIn page. The city ranked fourth on Men’s Health magazine’s just-released list of the ‘most socially networked cities.’ Minnesota’s most populous city earned an A+ grade and ranked just behind Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; and Denver, Colorado.” Minneapolis ranked ahead of Seattle (#5), San Francisco (#6) and Boston (#9). Oh yeah.
Social Ads Spur Big Engagement Opportunities by iMedia Connection
According to research from social media advertising firm appssavvy, social activity ads (e.g., “an item in a social game or appear after a social network user fills out an online poll”) significantly outperform rich media ads, performing roughly twice as well. Paid search ads, however, still outperform both.
Social Media Statistics by The B2B Guide to Social Media
This is one of the most amazing and comprehensive sources of social media statistics anywhere (other than the Webbiquity blog marketing research section, of course). Among the multitude of stats you can find here about blogging, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, video, social gaming and more:
• 49% of B2B journalists have blogs. 14% of all blogs are about technology and internet marketing.
• Only 20% of blogs attract 10,000 or more unique visitors per month; 48% draw less than 1,000 readers each month.
• 70% of marketers planned to increase their social media budgets by 10% or more in 2011.
• 85% of B2B journalists are on Facebook. Almost one-third of all Facebook posts are created from mobile devices.
• The number of monthly active users on Twitter increased 82% from January to September 2011.
• 84% of journalists are on Twitter.
• 58% of people said “they unfollowed someone because their tweets appeared automated” while 34% said the same because the offenders tweeted about themselves too much.
• 66% unfollowed someone due to excessive tweeting (35 tweets per day is considered, on average, the upper limited of acceptable tweeting).
• And much more.
The Winners & Losers of Social Networking [INFOGRAPHIC] by Mashable Social Media
Observing that “social networking as a whole might be leveling off,” Jolie O’Dell explains which networks are still on the rise (e.g., Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn) and which are declining (MySpace – there’s a shock, Friendster, Ning and Hi5) as well as sharing details about the demographics of several top social networks (e.g. Habbo users are the youngest, Plaxo’s the oldest, and LinkedIn’s the wealthiest).
Under 1 Percent of Web Visits Comes from Social Media by Marketing Pilgrim
Cynthia Boris shares research findings from ForeSee Results indicating that, across a cross-section of websites, less than 1% of visits come directly from a social media URL, though an additional 17% of visits are “influenced” by social media. That sounded low to me, so I checked some of the B2B technology client sites I manage. Their social media traffic ranged from 4% to 9% of total traffic. And nearly 15% of visits to this blog come from social media sources (including other blogs). So, check your own stats; your mileage may vary.
Study: 93% of B2B Marketers Use Social Media Marketing by Social Media B2B
The always insightful Adam Holden-Bache reports that according to research from BtoB Magazine, “B2B marketers overwhelmingly favor ‘the big 3’ social media channels, with LinkedIn being the most-used channel (72%). Facebook (71%) and Twitter (67%) are close behind…Other channels used by B2B marketers include YouTube (48%), blogging (44%) and online communities (22%).” Although B2B marketers are increasingly using social media channels in their marketing and PR efforts, however, Adam notes that “75% of B2B marketers who conduct social marketing say they do not measure the ROI of their social marketing programs.”
Report: Where Marketers are Focusing in Social Media by Social Marketing Forum
Jim Ducharme demonstrates the increasing importance of social media for marketers based on the amount of time spent on such efforts. 58% of marketers devote six hours or more each week to social media, while 15% spend more than half their time with it. The amount of time spent tends to increase with experience. Preferences also shift: while Facebook is the top network of choice for those with one to three years of social media marketing experience, Twitter is the favorite tool of those who are more seasoned.
Report: Future Plans for Focus in Social Marketing by Social Marketing Forum
In a follow-up piece to the post above, Jim Ducharme discusses social media marketers’ future plans. The largest percentage (77% overall, 82% in large enterprises) plan to invest more in YouTube and online video in the coming year. 75% intend to increase efforts on Facebook and blogging, 73% on Twitter, and 71% on LinkedIn. Just 19% plan to increase efforts with GroupOn.
Social Media 2011 Just The Stats by Reciprocate
Karen Emanuelson shares research from HubSpot showing that there are 10.3 billion searches on Google each month; one-third of U.S. consumers spend at least three hours per day online; 9 out of 10 internet users visited a social networking monthly last year; more than half of all internet users read blogs at least monthly; and many more fascinating and useful statistics.
Marketers: Content Sharing Fuels Social-Media Boom by MediaPost Online Media Daily
Gavin O’Malley delves into the differing social media habits of men and women. “While women outnumber men online — 53% vs. 47% — males are more likely to share digital media content — 51% vs. 49%.” Men are more likely to share information that they feel is important and helpful to others (such as how-to tutorials) while women are slightly more likely to share information about “common interests like politics, art and parenting.” One other interesting finding: “60% of content shared on social platforms includes a link to an external site.”
Study: Marketers Reporting Social Media ROI of 100, 200, Even 1,000 Percent by Forbes
Lisa Arthur nets out research from MarketingSherpa showing that “the overall average social media ROI reported by CMOs who are measuring it is a whopping 95 percent. What’s more, nearly one-third (30 percent) of those in the survey reported a ROI of at least 150 percent!” Still, 54% of survey respondents identified “achieving or increasing measurable ROI from social marketing programs” as a top challenge, while 55% said the same for developing an effective social media strategy and 45% converting social media followers into paying customers. Most importantly, Lisa shares the study’s conclusion that “marketers who are new to social media tend to focus on “fast and easy” tactics…rather than on those that show a much higher level of effectiveness (blogger relations, SEO, e.g.). More advanced social media marketers work from a strategic plan and know that often the most difficult and time-consuming tactics are worth the extra effort because they are the most effective.”
What Marketers Can Learn from Consumers’ Sharing Habits by eMarketer
According to an AOL/Neilsen report, “93% of internet users turn to email to share content, while 89% use social networks and 82% use blogs.” Sharing habits differ based on the group being shared with, however, as “Social networks are the top method for sharing content with friends (92%)…In sharing online content with the general public, consumers prefer to use message boards (51%) or blogs (41%).” 60% of shared information contains links to published content (online publications, blogs, etc.); just 4% contains links to non-blog corporate website content.
Infographic: What the Largest Social Media Companies Are Worth by The Atlantic
Is there another tech bubble forming? Hard to say, but draw your own conclusion after taking a look at these possibly “over the top” valuations from Derek Thompson. Facebook was valued at $15 billion in 2007, but is expected to go public next year at a valuation of close to $100 billion. Valuation timelines and stats are also shown for Skype, delicious, Groupon, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Large Enterprise Social Media Research, Facts and Statistics
Inc. 500 Social Media Success by e-StratgyBlog.com
Stats guru David Erickson compiles figures for the popularity and year-over-year change of several social media marketing tactics among Inc. 500 companies. 93% now consider online message boards successful, while 86% say the same for blogging and 81% for Twitter; all figures similar to the previous year. Online video and Facebook increased in popularity while podcasting fell somewhat.
Fortune Global 100 Social-Media Savvy, Getting Savvier by MarketingProfs
According to research from Burson-Marsteller, 77% of Fortune Global 100 companies now have Twitter accounts (up from 65% in 2010), 61% are on Facebook (up from 54%), 57% have YouTube channels and 36% maintain blogs. Geographically, 83% of large companies in Europe are on Twitter, versus 72% in the U.S. and 67% in the Asia-Pacific region. However, Asic-Pac companies tend to be more engaged than their large firm counterparts elsewhere, as measured by average number of Twitter followers, Twitter @ mentions and Facebook page “likes.”
Most Fortune 50 Brands Still Hiding Their Social Media by AdAge Digital
The delightful B.L. Ochman breaks the news that “Only 44% of the Fortune 50 have any social media icons on their home pages, and 60% hide their Twitter streams. Call Inspector Clouseau if you want to find the rest. Kind of amazing considering the prevalence of social buttons of all types all over the web.” Just 30% include a Facebook icon on their home pages, and only 4% provide a blog link there. Most of these companies do include their social media links somewhere on their websites, but these are often buried on “about,” “contact” or investor pages.
10 Reasons Brands Need a Social Media AOR by iMedia Connection
Asking, “now that social has crossed the chasm, do brands need a dedicated social media agency?,” Avi Savar answers “yes” and explains why. What’s most interesting here though are the statistics showing the disconnect between why companies think consumers follow them in social media and why consumers actually interact with brands through social networks. The biggest disconnect: consumers say that discounts and purchases are their top reasons, while businesses place these at the bottom of the pecking order. 64% of businesses believe consumers follow them to “feel connected” to the brand, and 61% say it is to be part of a community. Just 33% and 22%, respectively, of consumers say they follow brands for those reasons.
Small Business Search and Social Media Statistics, Facts and Research
Small Business Owners Still Don’t Get Search Marketing by MediaPost SearchBlog
Despite findings that show “56% of small businesses that plan to allocate marketing budgets toward search or social media advertising in 2011 admit they need help with some part of their campaigns,” nearly three-quarters try to manage their search campaigns internally, and more than one in five “have a staff member handling SEM in addition to other responsibilities,” (e.g. a non-specialist) reports Laurie Sullivan. In short, while small business owners increasingly understand the importance of digital marketing, most aren’t taking advantage of tools and outside expertise that could improve their results.
Social-Media Study Teasers Unveiled by InformationWeek SMB
Michele Warren reveals that “the most widely used social media channel for small and midsize businesses are company pages on Facebook (and) SMBs are ditching e-mail marketing in favor of social media advertising.” According to research from the SMB Group, 32% of small businesses have Facebook pages though just 18% use free tools like TweetDeck and only 3% are utilizing fee-based social media tools.
Small Businesses Online Marketing [CHART] by eStrategy After Hours
The prolific David Erickson passes along stats from eMarketer showing that “More than a third (35%) of US small businesses reported using online social networking for marketing, up from 15% in fall 2009. In addition, 12% of respondents were using blogs as a social tactic, nearly double the figure from fall 2009.” Somewhat surprisingly, just 36% of small businesses said they are doing SEO on their websites, and only 17% are using paid search advertising. Over half (56%) say they don’t use social media.
Search and SEO Facts, Statistics and Research
20+ stats you might not know about user search behaviour by Econsultancy
Jake Hird shares some interesting findings about web searchers, such as: 37% of people don’t know the difference between paid and organic search results (including 20% of 20-somethings). 20% of people say they click on paid search results “always” or “frequently;” 37% said “rarely” or “never.” 6% said they rarely or never click on organic search results (so why are they searching?!). 48% said that they click on a company or brand if it appears multiple times in the SERPs (which is why web presence optimization is so important) while 28% are more likely to click on results that include a video.” And contrary to results you may have seen elsewhere, “79% will go through multiple pages of results, if their query isn’t answered in the first page.”
The Value Of SEO [CHART] by eStrategy After Hours
How important is a (very) high ranking in the search results? Rounding these numbers from David Erickson, roughly one-third of clicks go to the top result in search; another third go to results two through five; and most of the remaining third click on results six through 20.
Google Click Distribution – How Important is Number One? by Internet Marketing Blog
A study from Cornell University found results different from David’s in the post above. According to this study, more than half of all clicks go to the top link on Google, and almost 90% go to the first five spots. Interestingly, being at #8 or #10 generates slightly more clicks than showing up at #7 or #9.
Search Behavior Shines Spotlight on Organic Results by eMarketer
eMarketer reports several interesting statistics from recent eye-tracking and click studies on Google and Bing. First, paid ads are 3-4 times as likely to be seen if they appear at the top of the organic results as opposed to the right side. Second, 81% of searches on Bing result in a click, versus just 66% on Google (Bing results are more relevant?). And third, “internet users were 22 percentage points less likely in 2010 to rely on search engines to find websites than they were in 2004,” due to both increasing sophistication of internet users as well as greater reliance on social media.
SERPs: The Benefits of Being No. 1 by MarketingProfs
Yet another study on clicks-by-search-rank, this one from Optify, concludes that the top spot in search generates 36% of all clicks, and the top three places combined account for 60%; but appearing at the top of page 2 is actually slightly more productive than being at the bottom of page 1. What’s most notable in these results, however, is the difference in performance of multi-word long-tail terms versus shorter head terms: for long-tail terms, being in the top spot in much less important, as click-throughs are higher in the lower spots on page 1. And in SEM, relatively low-cost long-tail terms (being more specific than head terms) generate significantly higher CTRs than expensive head terms.
SEMPO: Social PPC is Giving Google Adwords a Run for Its Money by MediaPost Search Insider
Rob Garner reports that “Facebook has rapidly become a top PPC advertising vehicle,” and that advertising on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube–while still small compared with search advertising–is growing rapidly. In addition, “Three-quarters (74%) of North American agencies say their clients run PPC campaigns on Facebook. Three-fourths of companies (75%) use Twitter for brand promotion, and more than a quarter (27%) of companies now use LinkedIn specifically for PPC campaigns.” Note that these results are skewed toward larger enterprises and B2C advertisers. Social media advertising is still a relatively rare tactic among B2B vendors and in the SMB space.
Marketing Budget Trends, Statistics and Figures
Online gets bulk of increased marketing budgets by BtoB Magazine
Kate Maddox reports that after two years of budget cutting, 52% of marketers planned increased spending for this year. Customer acquisition is the top goal (69%) followed distantly by increasing brand awareness (18%). 79% of marketers planned increased spending on online marketing this year, far more than for any other tactical area. Breaking that out, 71% planned higher spending on their websites, followed by 68% on email, 63% on social media, 57% on search and 51% on web video. 69% of b2b companies now say they are using social media for marketing.
Social Media Marketing Budgets by e-StrategyBlog.com
“In 2010, 53% of social media marketing budgets were spent on Facebook,” according to statistics compiled by David Erickson, while 8% was spent on games and apps and just 3% on Twitter. However, among the Global Fortune 100 firms, 65% use Twitter compared to 54% maintaining Facebook fan pages, 50% having YouTube channels and 33% writing blogs.
B2B Inbound Marketing: Top tactics for social media, SEO, PPC and optimization by MarketingSherpa Blog
Adam T. Sutton summarizes MarketingSherpa survey results showing that website design and optimization is the top budget priority this year, cited by 69% of respondents as an area of increasing investment. Social media is a very close second, followed by virtual events / webinars, SEO, email marketing and paid search. The post also identifies the most effective tactic in each area: for example, the top tactic in SEO is on-page content optimization, while blogging is the most effective social media tactic.
‘Advanced’ Companies’ Spend On Social Media, Nets by MediaPost Online Media Daily
What separates the cutting-edge companies in social media use from other businesses? According to Mark Walsh, reporting on research from Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group, “they have formalized programs, dedicated teams, line-item budgets, and have been at it for more than two-and-a-half years,” among other characteristics. Budgets are a major factor: advanced companies spend nearly twice as much as their more average counterparts on social media generally, and almost 70% more on social-marketing teams specifically.
Other Marketing Research and Statistics
Who Do You Trust? Industry Analysts Reign Supreme by IT Marketing World
Tom Pisello shares findings from SiriusDecisions research showing that industry analysts are viewed as the most trusted source of information by buyers during the B2B IT buying cycle, followed closely by peers. Vendors are viewed as the least credible source (ouch!). However, the “most-trusted sources” vary by stage of the buying cycle. In addition, the study found that “The most favored sources of content during the early stages of IT decision-making are white papers (64.4%), peer referrals (51.1%), webinars (48.9%), trials or demos (42.2%) and analyst reports (37.8%).”
12 Mind-Blowing Statistics Every Marketer Should Know by HubSpot
Marta Kagan shares a dozen interesting marketing stats, among them: “78% of Internet users conduct product research online,” (seems low). A similar number check email on their mobile devices. Blogging is really important–57% of businesses have acquired a customer through their company blog, and businesses with blogs generate 55% higher web traffic. And my favorite: “200 Million Americans have registered on the FTC’s “Do Not Call” list. That’s 2/3 of the country’s citizens. The other 1/3, I’m guessing, probably don’t have a home phone anymore.”
Is Working From Home Becoming the Norm? [SURVEY] by Mashable Business
Jolie O’Dell brings to light some interesting findings on the state of working from home today, such as: 62% of businesses now allow at least part-time remote work (this varies by business size, with 77% of the largest organizations permitting this). The ability to work from home is rated by employees as the third-most important determinant of job satisfaction. And 56% of decision makers believe that remote workers are more productive.
Filed Under: Marketing Research, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing Tagged With: Adam Holden-Bache, Adam T. Sutton, Altimeter Group, Arik Hanson, Avi Savar, BL Ochman, Cynthia Boris, David Erickson, Derek Thompson, Gavin O'Malley, J-P De Clerck, Jake Hird, Jeremiah Owyang, Jim Ducharme, Jolie O'Dell, Jonny Bentwood, Karen Emanuelson, Kate Maddox, large enterprise social media, Laurie Sullivan, Lisa Arthur, Marta Kagan, Michele Warren, Pam Dyer, Rob Garner, SEO research, SEO statistics, small business social media, social media facts, social media research, social media statisitics, Tom Pisello
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Serbian tycoons eagerly await dismantling of Agrokor
Adriatic Journal 21 February 2019
In yesterday’s Delo, Novica Mihajlovič looks at the Balkan tycoons eyeing the sale of Agrokor. In contrast to Slovenia, where the government is coordinating activities regarding the possible purchase of Mercator, it is the entrepreneurs who have the initiative in Serbia.
Serbian candidates interested in purchasing reconstructed parts of Agrokor, are the well-known names in business circles: Miroslav Mišković from Delta Holding and the owner of the Gorenjska bank Miodrag Kostić are the first in line. Serbian government ministers seem to observe them passively at least in appearance, says Mihajlovič.
Croatian concern Agrokor is the final phase of reconstruction. After last year’s lending agreement, solvent Agrokor companies will be transferred to new companies, while the insolvent companies will transfer its assets to a newly formed company. How this transfer twill take place and how a new company will be named, will be announced soon. Since Agrokor was one of the largest employers in the entire region, the focus is also on the important players outside Croatia.
While Slovenia sees the final phase of Agrokor’s reconstruction as an opportunity to pull Mercator from the Croatian hold, and thus ensure that Slovene food makers have more space on its shelves, there are similar desires in Serbia, but they are going about it in a different way.
After last week’s meeting of the management of Serbian Mercator-S with Serbian suppliers, attended by two ministers of the Serbian government, the participants talked about the ideal scenario whereby the consortium of regional companies would buy the entire Agrokor or part of it, because they understand the local market better than the international investment funds.
According to the Serbian media, Rasim Ljajić, the trade minister, talked about this type of scenario. In the daily Danas, however, the editorial drew a parallel between this “ideal scenario” and the failed project of combining regional retail chains Mercator, Konzum and Delta. The project, named Herkul, was going to create a commercial chain that would be able to compete with retail chains from western Europe. It was jointly designed by Miroslav Mišković as the owner of the Serbian Delta, Ivica Todorić, then the owner of the Croatian Agrokor, and Ljubljana’s current mayor Zoran Janković as the then president of Mercator’s management board.
What will be for sale?
After two years of restructuring, representatives of Agrokor’s creditors led by the Russian state bank Sberbank are expected to try and sell all their shares in in the group or individual companies. In Serbia, it’s possible that Marcator-S and food companies Diamond, Frikom, Mivela and Kikinda mill would find themselves on the sales list.
Miodrag Kostić, who owns stakes in Slovenia’s tourism and banking through his MK group, is often mentioned as one of the potential buyers of Serbian companies.
Another potential buyer is Rodoljub Drašković, owner of Swisslion from Takovo that makes popular chocolate spread Eurocrem. He is tipped as a possible bidder for one of the food companies, Dijamant or Frikom. Serbian economists, polled by Serbia’s daily Danas, agree that Serbian buyers would be a good choice for Agrokor’s companies in the country. However, they doubt the buyers would be willing to pay the full asking price set by the sellers.
The original article was published in the Slovenian language by daily Delo and can be read here.
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HOT TOPICS IN APRIL: Croatia’s unemployment drops further; Serbia’s press freedom continues to decline; Russia and Serbia to abolish roaming charges
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Asset Management & Investment Funds: Irish Practice Developments - July 2018
Some approaching compliance deadlines
31 August 2018. Fund Profile Return - The first Central Bank Fund Profile return is to be prepared for the period up to 30 June 2018, with a submission deadline (via ONR) of 31 August 2018. This 30 June 2018 return applies to all sub-funds authorised by the Central Bank at 30 June 2018 whether they are dormant, have assets or have not launched. The Fund Profile return replaces the IF Annual Sub-Fund Profile return.
All sub-funds, regardless of whether the IF Annual Sub-Fund Profile return to 31 December 2017 has already been submitted to the ONR, will be required to submit the new updated return for the period up to 30 June 2018. Subsequent Fund Profile returns are to be prepared for the period to 31 December. These Fund Profile returns will also carry a submission deadline of 28 February. In 2018 alone, in addition to the 30 June 2018 return, a Fund Profile return will be required, made up to 31 December 2018. This additional return will have a submission deadline of 28 February 2019.
The Central Bank does not anticipate that the Fund Profile will change from year to year, as changes would most probably reflect changes within the Fund's offering documents. Therefore, year-to-year updates to the Fund Profile are expected to be minimal and reflect significant changes to a Fund's profile. The Central Bank has issued guidance and a template here.
1 September 2018. Money Market Funds - Money Market Funds which are availing of a transitional period have been advised by the Central Bank to submit all documents requiring review to the Central Bank no later than 1 September 2018.
5 October 2018. UCITS investing in a non-UCITS investment fund- Irish UCITS which currently invest in non-UCITS investment funds must review their holdings (of non- UCITS investment funds) to ensure compliance with the new requirements detailed below and may need to disinvest where compliance cannot be achieved by 5 October 2018.
30 November 2018. Filing Annual accounts of Variable Capital Companies in CRO - The Companies (Accounting) Act 2017 obliges UCITS investment companies and AIF investment companies to file annual accounts for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2017 with the CRO within eleven months of the relevant financial year end. By 30 November 2018 we will see the first such accounts being filed. Form FS1 is the form which will accompany the filing. It is available from the following webpage and will incur a filing fee of €15.
1 January 2019. Securitisation Regime - Due diligence and disclosures on securitisations will need to be applied (in the case of UCITS) or updated and refreshed (in the case of AIFMs). Where AIFMs and UCITS are exposed to securitisation positions which do not meet the requirements, they must, acting in the best interest of the investors, take corrective action.
1 January 2019. Benchmarks Regulation - Prospectuses of UCITS and of funds which are subject to the Prospectus Directive, which reference a benchmark and which have been approved prior to 1 January 2018, will need to be updated at the next update and in any event by no later than 1 January 2019 to include information on the benchmark.
21 January 2019. Money Market Funds - The MMF Regulation introduces new requirements for MMFs in particular, portfolio composition, valuation of assets, diversification, liquidity management and credit quality of investment instruments. Existing UCITS and AIF MMFs must comply with the new rules by 21 January 2019.
The above list does not cover tax, FATCA or CRS filings, ad hoc filings (such as regulatory reports) or filings of annual accounts (and related documents which include any annual FDI Return) and semi-annual accounts or other similar returns which deadlines will vary to reflect the particular entity's year end.
Central Bank requirements for UCITS investing in a non-UCITS investment fund
On 5 July 2018, the Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) updated its UCITS Q&A to clarify its requirements relating to investment by a UCITS in a non-UCITS investment fund. UCITS investing in non-UCITS investment fund must ensure compliance with specific requirements.
These include that
the constitutional document of the non-UCITS investment fund must include a prohibition on investing more than 10% of its net assets in other investment funds
and either
the non-UCITS investment fund is also subject to requirements in its jurisdiction of domicile which are equivalent to UCITS investor protections
the non-UCITS fund has requirements which are equivalent to UCITS investor protections in its constitutional document or offering document. A statement of the intended investment approach does not constitute a rule for this purpose. (The Central Bank had previously allowed scope for a UCITS to satisfy itself that a non UCITS investment fund was in practical compliance where the constitutional document did not contain the conforming provisions).
UCITS Funds which currently invest in non-UCITS investment funds must review their holdings (of non- UCITS investment funds) to ensure compliance with the new requirements detailed above and may need to disinvest where compliance cannot be achieved by 5 October 2018.
Non UCITS Funds with UCITS investors may wish to consider whether they can amend their constitutional or offering document to meet the requirements.
Central Bank highlights key relevance of the work of the organisational effectiveness director
The Central Bank issued a notice to fund ManCos (which includes self managed investment funds). The notice advises Fund ManCos that from 1 July 2018 the Central Bank will be assessing how they have implemented and embedded the Central Bank requirements in respect of the organisation of Fund Management Companies within their organisations.
These requirements came into full effect on 1 July 2018. The requirements are detailed in the Central Bank UCITS Regulations and the Central Bank's AIF Rulebook supported by the Central Bank's Fund Management Companies – Guidance. The Guidance sets out that the board of the Fund Management Company should design its governance practices so as to be appropriate and commensurate to the business of the relevant company and, where applicable, the investment funds it manages.
The Central Bank will be considering the appropriateness of firms' resources and organisational structures, with the work carried out by the organisational effectiveness director being of key relevance. All fund ManCos must have this organisational effectiveness role in place.
The role requires an independent director to keep the fund management company's organisational effectiveness, including the appropriateness of resources and board composition, under review, and to regularly submit reports to the board for discussion and decision making. Through supervisory engagement with relevant firms, the Bank will evaluate this work, placing a particular emphasis on whether the board of the particular fund ManCo has implemented any proposals to improve its organisational effectiveness.
Central Bank Markets Updates
The Central Bank published issue 10 of its Markets Update on 15 June 2018. Some key developments are detailed below.
Central Bank of Ireland
Central Bank publishes Twenty-third Edition of UCITS Q&A (discussed above)
The Central Bank published a notice regarding Fund Management Companies Guidance (discussed above)
The provision of financial services in Ireland and from Ireland after Brexit - Deputy Governor Ed Sibley
Remarks by Derville Rowland, Director General Financial Conduct at Irish Funds Global Annual Conference
Transforming Culture in Regulated Financial Services in Ireland - Martin Moloney, Special Advisor, Regulatory Policy
Conduct Risk, Culture and RegTech - Colm Kincaid, Director of Securities and Markets Supervision
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
ESMA publishes responses to its Consultation on amendments to the EMIR Clearing Obligation under the Securitisation Regulation
European Banking Authority (EBA)
EBA assesses risks and opportunities from Fintech and its impact on incumbents business models
The Central Bank published issue 11 of its Markets Update. Some key developments are detailed below:
Enhancements to the Regulated Disclosures Submission Process - Update
ESMA updates UCITS and AIFMD Q&As
ESMA fines five banks €2.48 million for issuing credit ratings without authorisation
ESMA writes to European Commission on share cancellation under MMFR
ESMA clarifies endorsement regime for non-EU credit ratings
ESMA finalises standards for the implementation of the Prospectus Regulation
ESMA updates Q&As on Benchmarks Regulation
ESMA defines standards for the implementation of the Securitisation Regulation
Prospectuses: ESMA consults on risk factors and exemptions for takeovers, mergers and divisions
ESMA updates Q&A on EMIR data reporting
ESMA updates Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection and intermediaries
ESMA updates Q&As on temporary product intervention measures
ESMA consults on the Clearing Obligation under EMIR
ESMA statement at ECON scrutiny session on Benchmarks Regulation
ESMA seeks candidates for its stakeholder group
European Supervisory Authorities publish further guidance on the Key Information Document for PRIIPs. On 20th July 2018, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published further guidance on the Key Information Document (KID) requirements for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). The guidance consists of additional questions and answers and updates to the flow diagrams for the risk and reward calculations (new calculation example for Category 3 PRIIPs stress performance scenario).
Irish Funds GDPR Bulletin
The Irish Funds GDPR Working Group has published its fifth GDPR bulletin. The bulletin is an accountability checklist which outlines the key documents that form part of every data protection framework and should be available for inspection by Data Protection Authorities or other relevant stakeholders. Please speak with your usual contact on the Asset Management & Investment Funds team if you would like a copy of the checklist.
Ten new platforms and 82 new funds (including sub-funds) were authorised by the Central Bank in June 2018.
For more information please contact a member of the Asset Management & Investment Funds Team.
Date publised: 27 July 2018
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England win as Windies waste tons
Kevin Pietersen led England to a three wicket win over the West Indies after Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo both scored centuries for the Caribbean side in their Champions Trophy clash in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
Kevin Pietersen secured victory for England scoring 90 not-out
Gayle, 101 off 128 deliveries and Bravo, 112 not-out off 124, gave the West Indies a great platform for a huge score, but they only managed 272 for the loss of four wickets after Brian Lara had won the toss and elected to bat.
The Windies' failure to capitalise on the twin hundreds was exploited by England as they raced to 82 off their first 11 overs before they lost their first wicket, with Andrew Strauss being the early destroyer.
Strauss, opening the batting with Ian Bell, scored 50 off 47 deliveries before he was bowled by Gayle, while Bell was also eventually dismissed for 50 when he was run out.
England captain Andrew Flintoff chipped in with 25 from 27 batting at number three, before Paul Collingwood was dismissed for a golden duck, caught Bravo bowled Gayle, to set up a thrilling run chase.
But it was Pietersen who would steal the show after Bravo and Gayle had starred earlier, with the England middle order batsman belting a superb 90 not-out off 86 balls, including nine fours and a six to win the match for his side.
With wickets falling around him, the 26-year-old held things together with good support from fast bowler Sajid Mahmood (14 off 12) in the dying stages.
Master blasters
Earlier, Gayle scored his 14th one-day international hundred while Bravo notched up his first as the pair put on 174 for the second wicket in an impressive batting display by the West Indies.
Bravo!: Dwayne scores his first
one-day international century
23-year-old Bravo came in with the score at 35 for 1 after opener Shivnarine Chanderpaul was dismissed LBW by Jon Lewis for 13, racing to 50 off 60 deliveries including 10 fours.
Gayle was slightly slower in the early stages, reaching his half century off 80 deliveries, after which he cut loose to be finally run out for 101 off 128 balls, including ten fours and a six.
Bravo was given a life on 79 when England keeper Chris Read missed a stumping chance off the bowling of spinner Jamie Dalrymple when he failed to gather the ball with Bravo well out of his ground.
Ramnaresh Sarwan joined Bravo after Gayle's dismissal and put on a quick-fire 29 off 19 balls with three fours and a six, while the only lowlight of the West Indies innings was Lara's continued poor form, getting bowled by Mahmood for three.
Flintoff made his return with the ball after six months off through injury, bowling five overs for the figures of 0-27.
The West Indies must now wait for the outcome of the final match of the round-robin series between India and Australia on Sunday to see who tops Group A.
The Windies will definitely qualify for the semi-finals, however the winner of the India-Australia match is likely to surpass them at the top of the table on net run-rate.
The winner of Group A will play New Zealand in one semi-final on November 1 while the runner-up will play South Africa in the other semi on November 2.
SOURCE: Aljazeera
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Ethiopia steps up arrests as shockwaves from coup bid continue
More than 250 people in Amhara and Addis Ababa held over suspected links to recent failed power-grab attempt.
by Elias Gebreselassie
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopian authorities have arrested hundreds of people in different parts of the country, stepping up a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed regional coup attempt over the weekend.
The office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday on Twitter that 212 suspects had been apprehended in connection with the June 22 coup bid in the region of Amhara, with 43 others held in the capital, Addis Ababa.
The investigations were "still ongoing with potential for more arrests", it added.
The statement came amid reports that Christian Tadele, spokesman of the National Movement of Amhara (NAMA), an ethnocentric opposition party that has become increasingly popular with many Amhara people, was also arrested.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Thursday, Christian had accused authorities of engaging in mass arrests of the party's supporters and sympathisers.
"Fifty-six NAMA members have been arrested in Addis Ababa with dozens of other members and supporters arrested in other parts of Ethiopia, in an orchestrated attack not only on NAMA, but the Amhara nation as a whole," Christian had said.
Ethiopians have been in shock since two separate attacks on Saturday in Amhara's regional capital of Bahir Dar and Addis Ababa killed the region's president, the national army chief of staff and several other senior officials.
The government referred to the attack in Bahir Dar as a coup attempt orchestrated by former General Asamnew Tsige. Asamnew was killed by security forces on Monday.
Ethiopia bids farewell to army generals killed in coup attempt
Jailed in 2009, Asamnew was released from prison last year as part of an amnesty granted by Abiy, who has overseen a series of reforms since coming to office in April last year.
In September 2018, officials in Amhara hired Asamnew as a regional security chief.
After assuming his duties, Asamnew, a strident Amhara nationalist, promised to protect the Amhara people, who make up around 28 percent of Ethiopia's population.
Earlier this month, he was caught on video telling a regional religious elder to prepare for martyrdom to protect the Amhara people from persecution.
Ethiopian government officials have also accused Asamnew of training militias and police forces with the intention of attacking neighbouring regional states and challenging the power of the federal government.
More than 50 people, including children, were killed on Monday in the Metekel zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Abera Bayeta, the region's peace and security bureau chief, told Al Jazeera on Thursday, blaming the attack on suspected militia members linked to Asamnew.
Unprecedented challenge
Despite the apparent failure of the coup attempt, analysts say Abiy's government will likely find it difficult to control ethnonational forces in the country ahead of national elections next year.
Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, an Ethiopian adviser to international organisations including the African Union, said the country was at a critical juncture.
Sudan's military rejects Ethiopia's transition proposal
"If the 2020 elections go ahead as planned, ethnonationalist parties are likely to be dominant," he told Al Jazeera, calling for broad nationwide discussions in a bid to harmonise the intense ethnonational sentiment across the country and maintain Ethiopia's national character.
"With pan-Ethiopian parties seemingly having weak support, Ethiopia needs to have a debate on the broader meaning of democracy and tolerance of differing opinions - that has deeper meaning than holding elections," Costantinos said.
Earlier this week, the Crisis Group think thank said in a statement that Ethiopia's ruling coalition, which is mainly divided along ethnic lines, was facing an unprecedented challenge from ethnonationalist parties.
"The June 22 killings confirm the dangers in handing security portfolios to hardliners like Asamnew who are ready to pander to extreme ethnonationalists, from whichever of Ethiopia's ethnicities," the statement said.
For now, life appears to be returning to normal in the unrest-hit parts of Ethiopia, including in Bahir Dar.
Ethiopia government says rebellion quashed after arrests made
The federal government also seems to be slowly ending its days-long internet blackout which came into force in the wake of Saturday's coup attempt.
The government has so far refrained from commenting on the latest internet blackout.
Costantinos said the killings of senior officials and army generals warranted a robust government response to deter any power-grab attempts in the future, but warned against using the arrests as score-settling mechanisms.
"Ethiopia had lost around one million people through purges and civil wars in the 1970s to early 1990s during the period of the military regime that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991," he said.
"The country can't afford any repeat of past turbulence."
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By Sam Bridge
Fri 07 Sep 2018 10:17 AM
Bahrain FDI grows 114% as reforms boost investment
Expo 2020, reforms key to 1% GDP boost to UAE economy
Most Saudi CEOs see economic reforms working
Oman reforms vital to spur private sector growth, says IMF
Video: Saudi Arabia's social reforms
Arab world must accelerate reforms, says World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum says the Arab World continues to struggle to innovate and create broad-based opportunities for its youth
(FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
The Arab world must accelerate progress toward an innovation-driven economic model that creates productive jobs and widespread opportunities, according to the World Economic Forum.
Its Arab World Competitiveness Report 2018 said that in spite of unprecedented improvements in technological readiness, the Arab World continues to struggle to innovate and create broad-based opportunities for its youth.
It said government-led investment alone in the region will not suffice to channel the energies of society toward more private sector initiative, better education and ultimately more productive jobs and increased social mobility.
The report ranked the UAE as the most competitive country in the region and 17th globally, with Saudi Arabia ranked 30th.
The rankings are based on 12 factors, from education to infrastructure, that are critical for productivity and economic growth.
The report added that the gap between the competitiveness of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and of the other economies of the region, especially the ones affected by conflict and violence, has further increased over the last decade.
"However, similarities exist as the drop in oil prices of the past few years has forced even the most affluent countries in the region to question their existing social and economic models," the report noted.
The World Economic Forum said that across the region, education is currently not rewarded with better opportunities to the point where the more educated the Arab youth is, the more likely they are to remain unemployed.
It added that financial resources, while available through banks, are rarely distributed out of a small circle of large and established companies and a complex legal system limits access to resources locked in place and distorts private initiative.
At the same time, the report said a number of countries in the region are trying out new solutions to previously existing barriers to competitiveness.
The UAE was highlighted for increasing equity investment in technology firms from $100 million to $1.7 billion in just two years while Bahrain is piloting a new flexi-permit for foreign workers to go beyond the usual sponsorship system that has created inefficiencies in the labour market of most GCC countries.
It also praises Saudi Arabia for committing to significant changes to its economy and society as part of its Vision 2030 reform plan.
“We hope that the 2018 Arab World Competitiveness Report will stimulate discussions resulting in government reforms that could unlock the entrepreneurial potential of the region and its youth,” said Philippe Le Houérou, CEO of the International Finance Corporation, which partnered to produce the report.
“We must accelerate progress toward an innovation-driven economic model that creates productive jobs and widespread opportunities.”
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Foster Responds to Kimmelman’s “Offensive” Diatribe Regarding the New York Public Library
by Karissa Rosenfield
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The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) main building on Fifth Avenue, is a Beaux-Arts masterpiece designed by architects Carrère & Hastings. Image via Flickr User CC wallyg.. Used under Creative Commons
When applying “major surgery” to a beloved, 20th century “masterpiece”, you’re going to face some harsh criticism. Such is the case for Norman Foster, as the legendary British architect has been receiving intense backlash from New York’s toughest critics for his proposed renovation to the New York Public Library. First, the late Ada Louise Huxtable exclaimed, “You don’t “update” a masterpiece.” Now, the New York Time’s architecture critic Michael Kimmelman claims the design is “not worthy” of Foster and believes the rising budget to be suspect.
More on Kimmelman's critique and Foster’s response after the break...
In a lengthy critique on Foster’s New York Public Library renovation plans, Kimmelman declared, “I’m not buying it.”
He describes: “The designs have all the elegance and distinction of a suburban mall. I was reminded that Mr. Foster is also responsible for the canopied enclosure of the inner court at the British Museum, a pompous waste of public space that inserts a shopping gallery into the heart of a sublime cultural institution.”
Rendering by dbox, Courtesy of Foster + Partners
Foster’s proposal, now four year’s into the making, promises to preserve the building’s legacy while integrating a new, state-of-the-art Circulating Library into its flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street. The “library within a library” will transform seven floors of stacks, currently occupying the back of the building, into an aesthetically, technologically and environmentally advanced public space that hopes to meet the demands of our 21st century society. By consolidating two deteriorating nearby branches and relocating underused research stacks nearby in a humidity-controlled chamber beneath Bryant Park, the proposal hopes to save the public library system money and create a new,“inspiring”, and more usable public space.
But Kimmelman concludes: “To me, what results is an awkward, cramped, banal pastiche of tiers facing claustrophobia-inducing windows, built around a space-wasting atrium with a curved staircase more suited to a Las Vegas hotel.”
In a letter to the New York Times, accompanied by a second letter from library president Tony Marx, Norman Foster responded to Kimmelman by stating, there is “no inherent risk of cost overruns” and that the design team is still working on the detailed proposals making Kimmelman’s “diatribe about our design… both offensive and premature”.
Foster continued: “We seek to protect the library’s historic legacy. It was founded as both a research and a circulating library, and we are returning the circulating collection to its rightful location. In the process not only are we equipping the building for the digital age, but we are also creating additional spaces for research readers.
“The option of doing nothing with the book stacks does not exist; they do not comply with current fire safety codes or book conservation standards. They cannot be adapted to comply, and therefore there is an opportunity to create a major public space for New Yorkers. The structural solution for removing the stacks uses tried-and-tested techniques, so there is no inherent risk of cost overruns.”
Library president Tony Marx seconds Foster’s points, stating: “The Central Library Plan has been the subject of public discussion for five years. It will provide a world-class branch library, double the public space in our main building (without changing any of its current historic spaces), bring financial stability throughout the New York Public Library system, and will help preserve the research collection.
“Supported by the neighborhood community board, financially prudent and as wonderfully ambitious as the library users we serve, the Central Library Plan fulfills New Yorkers’ aspirations.”
Are you a New Yorker or familiar to the New York Public Library? Let us know your thoughts on Foster’s proposal in the comment section below.
You can review the design in greater detail here on ArchDaily.
via The New York Times, BDOnline
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Movers & Shakers: Affinitas and New Empire Join Forces, Name CEO
Affinitas, New Empire Corp. Join Forces, Name CEO
New-England-based senior living management company Affinitas Life has joined forces with New Empire Corp., a family-owned real estate group founded in 1997.
Bentley Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of New Empire Corp., will lead the new company under the banner Affinitas Life, a Division of New Empire Corp. and its Vertically Integrated Real Estate Development Platform. Anthony Santiago, who founded Affinitas Life and served as its CEO, was appointed COO of New Empire and all of its affiliated divisions and subsidiaries.
Affinitas Life has also tapped Solvere Senior Living as its community operating partner. Collectively, Affinitas, New Empire, and Solvere have more than 200 years of combined professional experience and a staff in excess of 340 people.
New Perspective Hires Vice President of Sales
New Perspective Senior Living announced that it has hired David Kieffer as its new vice president of sales.
Kieffer has more than 20 years of experience in the senior living industry. In his new role, he will reunite with one of his former mentors, Chris Hyatt, who joined New Perspective as an investor, partner and COO last January.
Most recently, Kieffer held the position of vice president of sales with Lifesprk.
Erickson Living CCRC Gets New Sales Director
George Mishraky was recently promoted to sales director at Riderwood, an Erickson Living retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Mishraky joined Erickson Living in 2008 as part of the operations associate program. The next year, he was named sales associate, and was then promoted to senior sales associate in 2011, sales manager in 2013 and again to associate sales director in 2017.
Minnesota Life Plan Community Names Sales and Marketing Director
Trillium Woods, a Life Care Services life plan community based in Plymouth, Minnesota, has promoted Christina Marshall to sales and marketing director.
Marshall has worked in marketing and sales for various senior living communities since 2015. Before joining Trillium Woods, Marshall was a member of the team that opened an assisted living and memory care community in Maplewood, Minnesota, and also served as the marketing and sales director for a senior living community in River Falls, Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania Community Names New Executive Director
The Residence at Logan, a 130-unit senior living community in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, has named Gregory Gramm as its new executive director.
Gramm previously served in several leadership positions with Sunrise Senior Living, including as executive director of two senior living communities. He also served as a senior float executive director for Sunrise in the eastern region and covered vacancies from New York to North Carolina.
The Residence at Logan is operated by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Sweetbay Senior Living.
JCH Hires Senior Housing, Health Care Expert
Senior housing investment brokerage JCH has added Michael Mooney to the group. In his new role, Mooney will help originate new business and execute transactions.
Mooney arrives at JCH with more than 16 years of experience in the senior housing and health care industry. He previously spent 13 years at the national senior housing and health care valuation and consulting firm Tellatin, Short and Hansen, where he worked on more than 500 appraisal and market study assignments in 36 states.
Hunt Mortgage Taps RED Capital Alumni for Senior Housing Platform
Hunt Mortgage Group is expanding its senior housing and health care lending platform with the addition of several alumni of RED Capital Group.
Under the leadership of one-time RED Capital senior managing director Kathryn Burton Gray, the new dedicated senior housing unit will target expansion into the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac space. Hunt’s other new hires from RED Capital Group include James Scribner and Jason Smeck as managing directors and Brady Johnson as director.
Read the rest of this story on Senior Housing News.
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Millions Of People Will Suddenly Find Themselves Eligible To Buy Guns
Ammoland Inc. Posted on August 5, 2013 April 5, 2016 by Alan Korwin
There's Lead In The Amnesty Ointment
By Alan Korwin
Gunlaws.com
PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- Immigration reform being debated in Congress will have a major unintended consequence on gun rights in America.
Neither political party has anticipated the effect. With the stroke of a pen, millions of people will suddenly find themselves eligible to buy guns.
The law that currently bans them from gun ownership or possession only affects them as illegal aliens. With citizenship that disability evaporates. The freedom to keep and bear arms, which the Bill of Rights guarantees the rest of us, will instantly be theirs. This will cause a reordering of the political landscape beyond anything Congress has imagined.
When the Minutemen brought the illegal-alien problem to our attention in 2004, we were led to believe their numbers exceeded 20 million. They were members of a class, one of nine groups of federally prohibited possessors, banned under 18 USC §922(g) from owning or using firearms.
Illegal aliens are the largest single class of people banned from exercising the Second Amendment right to arms, with mental cases and convicted felons in second and third place.
The 20 million illegal aliens somehow became 11 million as fluidly as the “news” media changed watermelon juice (what Trayvon Martin bought one fateful night last year) into ice tea, a politically correct beverage that had absolutely nothing to do with that case. The media has become unapologetic and unconstrained by reality when dealing with facts.
Whatever the actual number, democrats, with media in tow, presume the illegals are theirs, and are salivating at the prospect of acquiring this massive voting bloc. That would deliver an impenetrable hold on Congress for, well, forever. Have they jumped the gun?
Republicans are stressed out, awash in fear that democrats have locked up the Hispanic newcomers' loyalties, as champions of amnesty, which is a main reason republicans can't get behind immigration reform — their base won't stand for it. But the hidden hole card is this gun thing. Democrats can't lay a hand on that deadly third rail without alienating their essentially anti-gun-rights base.
Suddenly, these teeming masses yearning to be free will discover the awesome power of personal sovereignty and with it, the ability to enter licensed dealerships and purchase liberty's teeth.
Whatever postures politicians and the media take, free markets will be sprouting signs in Spanish to encourage… shopping. The NRA — and every local gun-rights group — will suddenly discover a need for entire Spanish-language divisions.
Gun ownership and the shooting sports are decidedly conservative right-of-center pursuits, anathema to the left and democrats, generally speaking of course. When voting on gun issues, party-line votes are the norm, that's just a fact. Republicans will discover a driver's seat they didn't know they had.
How far these newcomers to American liberty will be swayed by the physical artifact of freedom in hand remains to be seen. After all, while gun ownership is a horrible ugly thing to many on the left –– just ask the Sharpton-Jackson cheerleaders — the opposite is true for the gun-owning public.
Basically its, game on. Illegal aliens come largely from a culture where gun ownership is controlled by two privileged elites, the ruling government class and the lawless criminal class, sort of what our own left wing (unknowingly perhaps) seeks here. Those are not groups most illegals hold in high esteem, or to be blunt, they are reviled. Now emancipated, 20 million newly freed citizens may turn away from those in power who counsel them against the freedoms the Second Amendment represents. Certainly, some of them will. A strong gun culture is not unknown south of the border, or for Latinos up north for that matter. At American shooting ranges, Hispanics share the lanes with a rainbow of citizens, and while we may not be singing Kumbaya (pretty hard with hearing protectors on), we don't shoot each other either, and marksmen are famous for sharing guns, ammo and knowledge in a cooperative spirit that is a decidedly beautiful multicultural lesson that the hoplophobic (gun fearing) don't get to see.
Steel-silhouette target shooting, one of the most demanding and thrilling sports, actually has Mexican roots, and siluetas metalicas competition uses Spanish commands: Listo! (ready) Fuego! (fire) Alto! (cease fire). The anti-gunners have their work cut out for them.
This may encourage democrats and amnesty supporters to suggest some form of limitation on gun rights for new citizens, preventing these amnestizos full access to all the guns and ammo their hearts desire, in an effort to (canard alert!) protect the children and increase public safety. It's only reasonable, we will hear, since they are unaccustomed to the dangers of so-called assault weapons and the madness we crazy Americans pursue, defying the rest of the civilized world.
But this is a dreadful Dred Scott solution, granting partial citizenship to newly freed Americans. Making them three-fifths of a person, with only some of the Bill of Rights “for their own good” is not a position even the Sharpton-Jackson takings coalitions can successfully defend.
These people have already been virtual slaves in their home countries. They walked across miles and miles of blazing snake-infested desert seeking freedom to get here. They deserve better.
Old wisdom says you can't arm slaves and expect them to remain slaves.
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27 thoughts on “Millions Of People Will Suddenly Find Themselves Eligible To Buy Guns”
johnnylee says:
The 3/5 compromise had nothing to do with Dred Scott. The compromise dates from 1787. Dred Scott was decreed in 1857, 70 years later.
The 3/5 compromise did not deny full citizenship to slaves. It required the census to tally slaves separately. The total in each state was then multiplied by 3/5. But each individual slave was counted as one, not 3/5.
It was the Dred Scott decree that not only denied citizenship to slaves but to all of African origin whose ancestors were brought to America as slaves.
Further the SCt. said that as such were not citizens they had no standing to sue in the US courts.
Citizenship has never had anything to do with whether one has legal recourse. Foreigners sued in the courts back then just as now.
BobT says:
“Old wisdom says you can’t arm slaves and expect them to remain slaves.”
Conscripts are slaves despite being paid. Slave troops can be held under strict discipline. Some rulers have had armies of slaves in the tens of thousands. Often they were eunuchs.
Some Union troops were astounded to be confronted by plantation slaves who shot at them – it wasn’t that the slaves supported the institution; the slaves didn’t want to have their homes looted and burned, and their women raped. Many of the slaves had it better materially than the po’ white trash.
Dred Scott didn’t make Black Americans “3/5” of a citizen. Black Americans were individually full citizens, just as women and children were. Voting and full individual rights are not correlated with citizenship. Women and children couldn’t vote. Women’s rights were less than those of free men. Children couldn’t (and below 18 still can’t) control property. All were citizens anyway.
Dred Scott turned the law on its head by suddenly, out of nowhere, denying citizenship not only to slaves but to ALL Blacks whose ancestors were brought from Africa as slaves. Up until then Blacks, slave and free, were full citizens.
It was the South, the slave states, including Maryland and Delaware, that wanted all, whether slave or not, counted as citizens.
It was the North, the non-slave states, that did not want to count slaves as citizens. Counting slaves as citizens would have allowed more representatives in Congress for the slave states, so the free states were opposed to it. The slave states threatened not to ratify the proposed constitution, so the 3/5 compromise was arrived at in order to get the new constitution ratified.
NRA should be at every swearing in of new citizens in every major city, and inform them of the right to bear arms as U.S. citizens…hell invite them to a free volunteer run self defense class just for new citizens. We need to get the hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants equating citizenship with the right to keep and bear arms.
Bill Baker says:
@Mark: So you’re saying the three hundred you speak off were all kidnapped and smuggled into America against their wills? Oh, thats right, the immigration law is the law they have broken, amongst others I’m sure such as: Identity theft etc to get jobs. Go back to huffington post where they like you in the forums.
Ok seriously have sing of you spoken to any illegal immigrant? I know of about 300.hard working “illegal aliens” and key me tell you they broke no law. They were brought here, and to say that they all break the law is fallacious and wrong. That being said, most of them are pro second amendment
PavePusher says:
Oy vey, where to start on these comments…
1. Rosech on August 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM said:
“Lived in Mexico and they love guns and knives so expect the crime rate to rise even further.” Huh? Just because they “love guns and knives”, the crime rate will rise? Please point out where this has happened amognst Citizens and Legal Residents? There are plenty of good reasons to oppose “amnesty”, but that isn’t one, unless you can cite to evidence. Good luck with that, the available evidence has gun ownership increasing, and crime dropping.
2. Ted R. Weiland on August 5, 2013 at 6:54 PM said: “What a mess and all because the framers failed to establish government on Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His perfect law and altogether righteous judgments (Psalm 19:7-11)and because they forfeited God-expected (non-optional) responsibilities for optional rights:” Bub, you obviously don’t understand the First Amendment. Start studying.
3. thestorm on August 5, 2013 at 7:21 PM said:
“The majority of them have guns already 85% of all gun crimes in America are committed by Illegal Alien Mexican Drug Cartel Members.This was a 2009 report,imagine how bad it is now!” We’re going to need some citations for that, friend. Otherwise, please join the congregation of Sharpton/Jackson with the silly claims.
4. LarryC on August 6, 2013 at 12:13 AM said:
“Those south of the border don’t even give a dam about following any laws down there. So they won’t do it up here. With amnesty gun violence will escalate to incredible numbers. For whites, now we will have to tend with the blacks and mexicans that will continue to run amok with their continued violence and crime.” Yeah, nothing boggoted there, folks, move along, nothing to see here…. Sheesh.
5. R J Souray on August 6, 2013 at 7:48 AM said: “Someone missed the facts here. Aliens of any status, until becoming a Citizen and not merely a resident is bared from owning a firearm.” Not true, sir. This varies by State. Many states allow Legal Resident non-Citizens to buy, own, use and carry firearms.
http://www.handgunlaw.us
R J Souray says:
Someone missed the facts here. Aliens of any status, until becoming a Citizen and not merely a resident is bared from owning a firearm. With that said illegal is illegal and control and ownership of firearms by illegals is commonplace.
Anyone who would share his gun with you is your brother. The Dream Act is not about equality. It is about creating a new servant class. I like the line about not giving them “all the rights….for their own good.”
WTMontgomery says:
The United States has been invaded by an “army” measuring 11-20 million, depending on who you ask. Quietly and effectively. Nationwide. And amnesty will make a majority of them citizens. Yes, they’ll be armed. Probably before amnesty would allow them to buy firearms legally. Quite likely once amnesty lets them. What exactly do you call it when the “invasion” comes from within? Revolution? Rebellion? A Coup? A “Citizen’s Security Force”? 11-20 million “grateful new citizens” … grateful for the Administration, to the “one man that made it all possible”.
LarryC says:
Those south of the border don’t even give a dam about following any laws down there. So they won’t do it up here. With amnesty gun violence will escalate to incredible numbers. For whites, now we will have to tend with the blacks and mexicans that will continue to run amok with their continued violence and crime. And we have every dumb damocrat from one end of this country to the other continuing to strip away our rights to keep and bear arms. And of course, just like the martin case, every dam one of them will be looking to file lawsuits for every one of them killed while assaulting a white person. But where’s the justice for us? NO WHERE! NO AMNESTY! NO RIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS! Round them up, ship them back and mine the border!
Well if the government wants to let law brake illegal aliens become legal AMERICAN CITIZENS then they need to realize that this will give them all the rights of legal AMERICAN CITIZENS.
So if they are going to give them amnesty then this is what they are going to get.more citizens with guns.
They don’t need to be legal to get a gun.
This will be used by the liberals to scare the crap out of the fence riders and get them to vote for gun control.
This is dumb article. so people are worried that they will be able to legally buy a gun and fill out paperwork with their name address and ss#. wow this is horrible. I’d be more worried about the illegal street guns that they could obtain.
roughman says:
This is not a good thing…
FSHNT21 says:
The premise of this article is good, but some of the statistics are flawed.
The article states the Democrats assume they are going to own this new bloc of voters and that they would become the largest single bloc with 20 million voters, followed by mental cases and felons. That is incorrect…
The reason being, there are a lot more than 20 million Democrats and as everyone knows, simply registering as a Democrat confirms that an individual is mentally unstable and therefore should not possess a firearm. that, statistically, would make the Mental cases the largest voting bloc….
DURABO says:
Before the invaders decide to take us on, they should consider that, 1) We are defending our home turf (“The Territorial Imperative”); 2) We are better trained than they (millions of us are veterans and NRA members); 3)We are well prepared, since we stocked up on ammo when Obozo was first elected in 2008, and topped off when the inept Repugnican lost in 2012, knowing that sooner or later, we would experience civil war; and, 4) When TSHTF, as it will, the majority of those in the military and law-enforcement will fight alongside us patriots.
Chuy says:
Darn! Now we gotta buy guns instead of eric holder giving them to us! At least erics gifts were not accountable! These laws suck! Good thing I’m here illegally and they don’t apply to me!
thestorm says:
The majority of them have guns already 85% of all gun crimes in America are committed by Illegal Alien Mexican Drug Cartel Members.This was a 2009 report,imagine how bad it is now!
Ted R. Weiland says:
What a mess and all because the framers failed to establish government on Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His perfect law and altogether righteous judgments (Psalm 19:7-11)and because they forfeited God-expected (non-optional) responsibilities for optional rights:
“But if any provide not for his own, and pecially for those of his own house [including spiritual and physical protection], he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
Think about it: the Amendment with the wording “shall not be infringed” is the most infringed, licensed, and controlled Amendment of the entire twenty seven. Furthermore, a future generation of our posterity will likely see it repealed. This is the inherent nature of option rights versus non-optional responsibilities.
For more, listen to “The Second Amendment: A Knife in a Gunfight” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.com/#FeaturedMessages.
At this same location, you’ll also find a radio interview Larry Pratt (Executive Director of Gun Owners of America) conducted with me on this same issue. I think you’ll find Mr. Pratt’s remarks especially interesting.
For those who prefer to read, see our Blog Article “You Can’t Win Bringing a Knife to A Gunfight.”
Rosech says:
Lived in Mexico and they love guns and knives so expect the crime rate to rise even further. Talk about stupid. We do NOT want the amnesty crap and yet they ignore the Americans who are legal in this. Recall and non-re-election in their future, if we will even have one.
Jim Mattix says:
Do you really think this will make a difference to them ? They are already lawbreakers, what does “ILLEGAL” mean but the against law? They laugh at the existing laws they are breaking. Do you really think they might be concerned about this ? GET SERIOUS!!!!
If true, this would also guarantee the ammo shortage would get horrendous for quite some time…
“That would deliver an impenetrable hold on Congress for, well, forever.”
You’d be astonished at all the things a 7.62×39 can penetrate.
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Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP
What I don't get about the series is how they will have various angels be physically male but use male pronouns or descriptions about them.
I really enjoyed Alexis Tipton's Maria. A few reasons why:
-First, she has played experience playing fan service-type characters and her voice kind of is appropriate for that.
-Given how Jerry Jewell played the ball-less incubus, ironically named Priapos, and her were in Haganai (where she played a character opposite to Maria's persona), I find it appropriate that they reunited.
Sahmbahdeh
I watched this series as it was airing, and thought it was really good. It was so refreshing to see an anime that was as convincingly and reasonably feminist as this one, without being bogged down in it, and incredibly entertaining to boot. I really liked the well-researched historical setting as well as the fantastical lore. I also liked how the show throughout understood the difference between sexual and sexy, which no other series I can think of right now has demonstrated. The well-handled rape scene and the priest's breakdown were two of the standout moments in the show for me.
I wouldn't give this series an A, though. I felt that Joseph was never really a believable character, and the ending was underwhelming. The whole thing about Cernunnos was underutilized, I think, and the background and purpose of the witches was hazily explained at best.
Otherwise, though, I thought it was definitely a good show, and one which unfortunately falls victim to Princess Tutu Syndrome, as I call it, wherein the title and plot synopsis is completely misleading as to the actual nature and quality of the show overall. Oh well, maybe more people will pick it up eventually.
Animegomaniac
My biggest complaint with the series and probably the only one that matters: The show wasn't long enough to make it as epic as it could have been.
In fact, I think there were only about three main plot points- fine for a 12 episode series with a good amount of comedy to balance it out but not for what was probably the fantasy ending to the Hundred Year War. Maria could have instigated a movement, a revolution, a magical war between the nobles, the witches and the peasants or simply been caught up in some royal court antics but the whole series stopped at the local French level.
Which is odd as some of the enemies she made during the series is higher level than those kings.
Maria is a great character but I can't help but look at the series failed potential in fully using her, not to forget that she's mostly used as a victim of her own sexual status. Not sexuality but... I'll go with the word "purity"; Her sleeping in the woods nude reminds me more of the moon Goddess Artemis than any teenage girl from any time period and she loses that status once any man catches up to her.
But that's not enough for this series as this bothered me when I saw the ending: Heaven spoiler[not just effectively bribed her into a sexual relationship with Joseph but they killed an angel to do so. Not completely but did any holy agents consider the survival rate for infants and children at that time?] And the most the lowest class humans could do as a response? "We're not going to die from a war or plague, hurrah."
A fickle god that actually exists is never the best conclusion for stories. I still lean towards my initial feeling that Michael had everything worked out to reach that conclusion, spoiler[cementing the foundation of religion while eliminating the threat of magical forces] but that last move of his shows little faith in humanity.
Seriously, apart from Maria's magical warfare, she's more a doctor of medicine. Ok, spoiler[he didn't stop that and in fact, he may actually reinforce her role in spreading knowledge of healing rather than the Church's way of dispensing healing at the price of following and preaching their virtues.]
Yeah, either way, the show still should have been longer. Great show, looking forward to a home release.
zztop
Garfa the mercenary and Father Bernard were anime-original characters, most likely to provide more tangible vehicles for their respective viewpoints. The priests of the manga were more faceless, nameless characters.
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Animegomaniac wrote:
That would have required the series to be something other than what it was, however, and Maria to be a different character than she was. Throughout the series Maria was never interested in overthrowing anything; she just wanted to be able to operate independently of the system, as she saw fit. In fact, that seems to have been pretty true of witches in general, the way they're portrayed in the series. Hence getting involved in revolutionary activities would have been totally contrary to the way they wanted to live. Being involved in high political-level antics would have been contrary to the setting (witches were dealt with through the Church and/or on a local level, almost never on a national level) and something that a character like Maria would never have an interest in.
The Church was far from the only body dealing with medicine at the time. In fact, you generally didn't go to the Church if you needed medicine. You went to an apothecary (if you lived in a town/city), a doctor (if one was around), or (more commonly) someone knowledgeable about herablism if you had an illness. And the latter category was one of the most frequent targets for witchcraft accusations.
Great show, looking forward to a home release.
The same! It's one that I'll definitely be picking up.
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Videogamep
I might check this out sometime. When I first heard about it, I dismissed it as just another fanservice show, but it actually sounds pretty interesting.
Jose Cruz
Location: Serra Gaucha/Minnesota
It is so far my favorite from series from the 2015 vintage.
SilverSpades
This anime sounded pretty interesting to me, and I'm liking the appeal of a 12 episode series (Just finished Noragami)... Dunno how I'll watch it though.
SailorTralfamadore
Location: Keep Austin Weeb
For those who are interested, I also wrote more on my thoughts on Maria the Virgin Witch and how it deals with feminist themes on my personal blog (the one that's linked in my episode reviews):
https://rosesturnblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/maria-the-virgin-witch-and-compulsory-sexuality/
There are some spoilers here, for Maria and possibly for Revolutionary Girl Utena.
dtm42
Location: currently stalking my waifu
If you liked the period-accurate costuming and well-choreographed fighting, then here's a good video about the show that will interest you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U
justsomeaccount
^ Damn you, when I saw this review when at first hour I said "well, I have to put Skallagrim's video"
I agree with Key, those suggestions would go against the show's framing and take on wars, which goes with the overall tone of the show, very... low key, would be the word? The show's take makes sense.
However, it's also true that this is what probably made it unpopular and made it bomb in Japan: Its quirkiness full of really weird things, very explicit raunchy humor played with almost all the characters (usually more mainstream shows reserve it for some specific savage ones, and the more innocent main character usually far from it) and inusual dramatic peaks and constant anticlimaxes with this low key tone for most of the run makes it very hard for people to get invested, and so many people said "eh, not my thing, too weird, I'll pass". It's a pity since I like this show a lot too, but I kind of knew that was going to happen.
One thing I really appreciated about this show is its framing of characters, more especifically Galfa. The framing wasn't defined to judge him as sympathetic or despicable in many scenes, just show how he is as a real human being, and as such he could do actions by simple specific reasons or because many motivations at once (for example, spoiler[when he says that the woman he slept with also had part into it, or when he kills his boss and his several reactions with his partner who saw him]), sometimes questioned by the same characters (spoiler[why he didn't go full on Maria's assault]), or seeing some motivations in different ways depending of the moment (spoiler[when he says he will smash anyone in order to step up on his poor life, first drunk with Joseph seen as cute, and later with a mercenary who wanted to kill him in a more fearful way]), and yet still feeling like a believable and easy-to-understand character; it's a kind of framing you usually don't see in animated shows and that made him feel very realistic. Also, the tiny historic references about his backstory are really cool if you are spanish (spoiler[he's actually a moor/mudejar who was almogavar in Aragon but exiled, and still paying for that racism even in France as a mercenary christian]).
P.S.: The best penis joke is still when Maria after watching one escapes summoning a gigant snake and Artemis notices that fact. Four hundred years too early but still hilarious.
dtm42 wrote:
Nice video. It's natural that anime might get more historically accurate than movies because there are not budget restrictions in making stuff accurate (as opposed as using cheaper inaccurate props) and also given the cost of making an anime series is very small compared to a live action film, many anime series depicting historical events get made so there is a higher probability that one of them will be accurate.
justsomeaccount wrote:
Oh, you also watch Skall's videos? Good to hear that. I've been a subscriber of his for almost a year now and I love the content he puts out (even the non-HEMA stuff).
Jose Cruz wrote:
I know, right? If you're interested in historical weapons and armour (and how they were actually used in battle) then he's worth checking out. He certainly opened my eyes to what proper sword-fight choreography should look like.
meiam
I'm one of the people who skipped it, and I'd say the main reason is a spectacularly bad first impression. I tried to make it past the first episode twice (once when it came out and a second time after hearing all the praise it was getting) but couldn't make it to the end both time.
The humor felt really flat as someone who really like sexual joke. It felt more like someone who's never heard a sex joke idea of one. From what I remember the joke punchline were all either "HA! Maria is a virgin" or along the line of "HA! Blow job are a thing people do" (usually followed by a comment that Maria doesn't know what a blow job is). And everything about the 1st episode and even the title just reinforced the idea that the most important point about this series is that Maria is a virgin, over the fact that she has magic and live in a time of near constant conflict where hundreds people die constantly. Even from what I heard happen later on it seems make it sounds like there going for symbolism over substance. spoiler[Apparently at some point some people try to rape Maria so she lose her magic, but if they're in a position where they can rape her, why not just kill her?]
Maybe I'll actually watch it one day, but I'll do so probably by skipping over the 1st and most likely 2nd episode.
enurtsol
meiam wrote:
The humor felt really flat as someone who really like sexual joke. It felt more like someone who's never heard a sex joke idea of one. From what I remember the joke punchline were all either "HA! Maria is a virgin" or along the line of "HA! Blow job are a thing people do" (usually followed by a comment that Maria doesn't know what a blow job is). And everything about the 1st episode and even the title just reinforced the idea that the most important point about this series is that Maria is a virgin, over the fact that she has magic and live in a time of near constant conflict where hundreds people die constantly.
Well, a girl's greatest asset is her purity
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Remains Discovered at Park Where Ebby Steppach's Car Found
BlogBy Maggie McNeary May 22, 2018 1 Comment
The Little Rock Police Department is investigating after human remains were found at Chalamont Park, according to Arkansas Online. Missing teen Ebby Steppach’s silver Volkswagen was found in the park after she vanished in 2015. The car was out of gas and had a dead battery when it was discovered in 2015, about a week…
It's Showtime: Maxwell Blade and More Arkansas Entertainers
Zoie Clift, travel writer Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Catching a live show is an experience the whole family can enjoy. Below are some intriguing options to check out across the state! Illusionist Maxwell Blade is a well-known Hot Springs entertainer. He became interested in magic as a kid and started practicing the craft…
Don’t Miss CARTI’s Tour de Rock
Blog, HealthBy Maggie McNeary May 21, 2018
Calling all Central Arkansas cyclists! CARTI’s Tour de Rock is set for Saturday, June 2 in North Little Rock. The charity cycling event will take place from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 2 at the North Shore River Walk, 140 Riverfront Drive in North Little Rock. This event features the fastest century ride…
Lunching in Little Rock: Raduno Brick Oven & Barroom
Blog, FoodBy Michael Kirkpatrick May 21, 2018 1 Comment
In our Lunching in Little Rock blog series, Michael Kirkpatrick will explore and review the best restaurants in Little Rock and its surrounding area – all in time to get back to the office. This week, Michael ate lunch at Raduno Brick Oven & Barroom. Little Rock is a beautiful town with tons of character. Regrettably, some…
Chelsea Clinton – 'She Persisted Around the World'
BlogBy Maggie McNeary May 18, 2018
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton will visit Little Rock for a Clinton School Speaker Series event focused on her new book She Persisted Around the World. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Wally Allen Ballroom of the Statehouse Convention Center, located at 101 E. Markham St. in Little Rock, Clinton and moderator Jill Santopolo will discuss…
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