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How Peter Copping Discovered the Real Oscar de la Renta
by Hamish Bowles|photographed by Annie Leibovitz
“There’s a very good energy in the city, a positivity,” says Copping, at home in his West Village apartment. An 18th-century Johann Tischbein portrait rests above the fireplace.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, June 2015
As the new creative director of Oscar de la Renta, Peter Copping is taking on both a storied fashion legacy and a new American life. Hamish Bowles follows his course from France to Savannah—and to the heart of Manhattan.
Behind the soaring ocher-columned portico of the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House, an 1850s Italianate jewel of antebellum-era Charleston, South Carolina, a cocktail party is in full swing.
The effervescent hostess, Patricia Altschul, is wafting through the high-ceilinged rooms (decorated by Mario Buatta with a flotilla of plump chintz sofas and walls massed with silhouette portraits), in Ralph Rucci’s saturated-violet floor-length coat over a spangled tunic and pants—a suave foil to the Granny Smith–green walls in her double drawing room—dispensing Southern charm and deadly cocktails.
But when Peter Copping walks in, fresh from the success of his debut collection as creative director at the house of Oscar de la Renta, Altschul throws gentility to the winds, scythes through the crowd, and flings her arms around him. “I’ve been dying to meet you!” she tells him. “That peridot dress and the peridot shoe [Look 31]: When can I buy them?”
Before Copping can answer, Altschul has spirited him into a room off the entrance gallery while she retrieves a magnificent floor-length, sable-collared de la Renta coat of paprika wool crusted with embroideries as magnificent as a Persian miniature. “It would be great if you could think of doing one of these again,” she tells him as he admires its workmanship. “It’s rather . . . heavy,” says Copping sheepishly: In fact, he is having trouble lifting it.
“It’s what I tried to do with those little evening jackets,” he explains, referring to two looks in the fall collection that reimagine the famed de la Renta embroideries in a wearable—and, yes, lighter—way.
Those jewellike jackets are typical of the sort of subtle interventions that Copping introduced to ensure that his debut collection would be identifiably his own—the inventive necklines and swimsuit backs on the house’s classic ball gowns, for instance, or the bouncing, bell-shaped short skirts that appealed to Catie Marron’s gazelle-legged daughter Serena—but were nevertheless infused with the late designer’s potent legacy. They led many journalists and clients, including Taylor Swift (sitting front row at the show with her bosom buddy Karlie Kloss), to pronounce the collection “very respectful.” “Fashion moves quickly,” Copping told me at the time, “so you have to state your intentions from the word go. It couldn’t just be an homage.”
The Charlestonian interaction with Altschul is typical of the dainty minuet whose choreography the serenely unflappable Copping, 48, must master to please the legion of fans of the late and widely beloved Oscar de la Renta while at the same time introducing a new generation to the brand and its broader range of offerings—all while injecting his own sophisticated sense of contemporary global culture. His gently emphatic fashion signature, meanwhile, has been honed over a three-decade-long career that began when he sewed wine corks onto the jackets of John Galliano’s Afghanistan Repudiates Western Ideals collection in 1984 as an intern from London’s famed Central Saint Martins fashion school. (“A lot of fun, I have to say.”). After graduating from Central Saint Martins and, later, the Royal College of Art, Copping moved to Paris, where he stayed for the next 20 years, until the de la Renta job spirited him across the Atlantic.
He initially worked for Sonia Rykiel (“quite a good way into understanding a certain Parisian woman—that Left Bank intellectual”), but departed three years later to join the fledgling team that Marc Jacobs was establishing at Louis Vuitton, with Jacobs eventually putting Copping in charge of Vuitton’s pre-fall and resort collections. “I learned a great deal from Marc,” Copping recalls. “He has an incredible attention to detail and really questions what he’s doing at every single step. He’s always asking himself, ‘Can this be better?’ ” Copping left in 2009 to become the creative director at Nina Ricci, where he fast established an identity for that house, which drew heavily on its founder’s tradition of romantic, feminine, and utterly Parisienne clothes.
A look back at Peter Copping's ethereal Nina Ricci designs in Vogue:
Photographed by Craig McDean, Vogue, June 2011
Meanwhile, from his bastion on Seventh Avenue and, later, his aerie on Forty-second Street, with its spectacular gull’s-eye views of Bryant Park, the Zeitgeist-sensitive Oscar de la Renta was keen to secure the durability of the house he established in 1965. There were cautionary tales in the form of the ignoble chutes of any number of the fashion brands founded by his friends and contemporaries who had been less scrupulous in protecting their legacies. With this in mind, from 2006—when de la Renta first began his doughty battle with lymphoma—the desire to secure his succession became ever keener. He had already installed his son-in-law, the feisty Alex Bolen, a former financier, as CEO, and Bolen began radically restructuring the business to make it coherent in the contemporary global marketplace. Copping, though, was always de la Renta’s paramount choice for creative director.
In turn, Copping says, “Oscar had always been a designer I’d known and admired. It’s that sort of woman who’s always appealed to me: a very feminine woman, a very refined level of sophistication. She’s a rich woman in terms of texture, embroideries mixed with print—you just have to get the doses right. So there’s definitely scope for me to grow, which is important as a designer.”
The plan had been for Copping to work alongside de la Renta for a season or two to understand and absorb the perfume of the house and its workings. With this in mind, the understudy set off for the fabric houses of Como to do research for the fall 2015 collection—de la Renta bade him bring back anything he found inspiring.
In the brief hiatus that followed, Copping and his husband, the elegant floral designer Rambert Rigaud, went to stay in the wilds of Wales, in the medieval house of the distinguished garden designer Arne Maynard, in the hopes that Maynard, in turn, could be persuaded to visit their fifteenth-century manor house in the rolling hills of Basse Normandie, and eventually to work with them to transform its grounds. It was here that Copping awoke last October 20 to a tsunami of messages letting him know that de la Renta had passed away.
Peter Copping and husband Rambert Rigaud's home in Normandy
Photo: Pascal Chevallier (3)
Copping arrived in Manhattan forthwith and hit the ground running. “There’s a very good energy in the city, a positivity,” says Copping. “You know how it can be in Paris—I think people like to see you fail.”
He and Rigaud sold their atmospheric Parisian apartment (in a turn-of-the-century neo-Gothic town house that a Belle Époque opera singer had decked out with dark seventeenth-century Portuguese paneling) and in very short order created a harmonious, picture-perfect interior in a ravishing brownstone apartment in the desirable heart of the West Village, where they’re now stalked by their proprietorial Siamese cats, Minnie and Tino.
The parlor-floor drawing room is arranged with an eclectic assortment of furniture, pictures, and objets d’art that span the centuries and the continents. There is a Saarinen table on one side of the chimneypiece and a florid Regence giltwood console on the other (found on one of the couple’s frequent forays to the local antiquaries in Normandy)—the handsome pale-marble chimneypiece itself is artfully set with a cowrie-beaded headdress from New Guinea—along with seventeenth- and early eighteenth–century aristocratic portraits, including a ringletted Dutch beauty by Caspar Netscher, found at a Brussels antiques fair. “We both quite like portraits,” says Copping. (Small wonder, then, that when Copping was invited to the de la Rentas’ Park Avenue apartment, ostensibly to talk fashion, the two men instead spent their time discussing the Jacobean portraits of the Fitton sisters and the apartment’s magnificent Georgian chairs.)
Like de la Renta himself, whose many hats included ambassador, gardener, developer, and philanthropist, Copping has been scrupulous to carve a rich life for himself beyond the crowded fashion world—something evidenced two weeks after his inaugural collection, when I find myself standing in a field in southern Normandy admiring the house that Copping and Rigaud acquired six years ago. “I don’t think we miss Paris that much,” Copping explains. “We’ve just traded one city for another. Whereas here. . . .”
Peter copping's designs for oscar de la renta
Copping previously had a maison de maître in Brittany, but at five hours’ drive from Paris it proved too challenging for weekend jaunts, so he and Rigaud began a new search—essentially for a place within two hours of the city, location unspecific. When they visited one such trouvaille, a “baby grand” stone manse built around a fifteenth-century central core and flanked by twin towers from the seventeenth century, Rigaud pronounced it “heaven.”
It needed work. “Our first Christmas, there was ice on the inside of the windows,” says Copping. Rigaud’s mother kept her fur coat on indoors, while Copping himself tucked a hot-water bottle inside his sweater. Happily, Rigaud’s uncle Jean Michel, an architect who had worked with the distinguished decorator Alberto Pinto, lives in a nearby village. He extended the tiny existing kitchen into a nineteenth-century service wing, reinstated the structure’s handsome original windows with new oak frames and shutters, and added elegant new bathrooms in the English country-house tradition. (The warren of bedrooms on an upper floor, meanwhile, remains a work in progress.)
In the second-floor drawing room, hung with tapestries and swagger portraits, the sofa and armchairs sit on Suffolk rush matting and are upholstered in the same pale sprigged linen from Bennison that, coincidentally, Oscar and Annette chose for the George III chairs that sit beneath the Gheeraerts portraits in their Manhattan apartment. (“Great minds,” notes Copping, adding wryly that Judi Dench’s manipulative character in Notes on a Scandal has the same fabric in her sitting room.)
Arne Maynard has just been to stay and, having assessed the perspectives from each bedroom, has envisaged a ten-year plan to unite the house with the adjoining farmstead that Copping has recently acquired. “Both Rambert and I enjoy the idea of a garden,” Copping says, “but the capacity Arne has to see things—his years of knowledge—takes things to a whole new level. It will make the house feel complete.”
Oscar had always been a designer I’d known and admired. It’s that sort of woman who’s always appealed to me: very feminine, with a refıned level of sophistication
That evening, the garden-level stone-floored dining room looks like a scene Vermeer might recognize. A seventeenth-century Dutch marquetry cabinet, traditionally crowned with a five-piece garniture of blue-and-white Delft china, provides a handsome backdrop. The high-back tapestry chairs are placed around a seventeenth-century gateleg table set with Chinese export porcelain on woven rush mats. Silver water jugs reflect the candlelight, and painted wooden finches and brightly colored primulas in verdigris-washed clay pots complete the tablescape as we feast on bisque de homard with prawns, veau Orloff, and poached pears with wine (prepared by a jolly English housekeeper—found, with her handyman husband, in time-honored fashion: through an advertisement placed in The Lady).
Copping shipped 140 crates of his books from his Paris apartment to Manhattan—his country house is still heaving with them—and discovered lots more in Oscar de la Renta’s office, many of them bristling with the designer’s Post-its.
“That was quite heavy in a way,” says Copping of moving into the late designer’s office, which had been preserved exactly as he had left it. “But I think you learn a lot about someone through their library.” After accepting the plaudits for his fall show, he and his small team pivoted swiftly to a 25-piece bridal collection shown in April (“from beach wedding to full-on princess,” Copping says), which takes inspiration from the treasures in the lace museum that we visited in the nearby country town of Alençon, and then to resort 2016, which was presented on May 19. “With the resort collection I can throw myself a lot more into Oscar’s world—that whole colorful Latin side, a certain exuberance, a joie de vivre,” Copping tells me, citing combinations of vermilion with pink and Chinese yellow with almond green, and prints that run the gamut from tropical palms to the scattered blossoms suggestive of de la Renta’s Connecticut gardens. “It’s a fusion of Oscar’s two worlds—Punta Cana and New York,” Copping explains, “along with the idea of taking beach dressing to the city and vice versa.”
The office walls are also lined with the signed prints that Annie Leibovitz sent de la Renta after she had photographed a First Lady or a star of screen, stage, or runway in his clothes. The office, as Copping points out, also served double duty as a VIP changing room—“blinds down, curtains closed. So you’re sitting somewhere where Hillary Clinton has dressed.” For this year’s Costume Institute gala, Copping showed his range as he dressed cochairs Wendi Murdoch and Marissa Mayer in, respectively, a daringly cutaway gown of inky crepe garlanded with golden embroideries, and a prim spangled sheath of cherry red—while taking inspiration from Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love for Ruth Wilson’s sexy, pencil-skirted look.
André Leon Talley talks to Peter Copping at the 2015 Met Gala:
Copping has also been soaking up both information and reminiscences from de la Renta’s circle of friends and colleagues. The late designer’s premier vendeur, Boaz Mazor, has been squiring him around the country to meet faithful patrons, while the stories of Carolyne Roehm—de la Renta’s protégée, who began her career in fashion as his fit model—about Oscar’s “piled-on” costume jewelry led Copping to layer the heirloom necklaces on his fall runway looks. A debut in the de la Renta–wearing bastion of Palm Beach is on the near horizon, and Copping raves about the sophistication of the Chicago clients he’s met through his friend the cult retailer Ikram Goldman, as well as the excitement of meeting San Francisco’s techcentric women.
His fall inspiration board included an image of de la Renta and his first wife, the formidably stylish French Vogue editor Françoise de Langlade, dressed respectively in black and white kitten masks for Truman Capote’s legendary 1966 Black and White Ball. Out of necessity, most of his research into the designer’s archives has been based on images.
“Starting so quickly, I haven’t really had time to look at things and see things,” he tells me—so when I suggest a trip to Savannah, Georgia, to visit “Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style,” the exhibition that André Leon Talley curated at the SCAD Museum of Art, Copping jumps at the opportunity. It is decided that the whirlwind weekend will begin in Charleston and end in Savannah. By the end of the weekend, between antiquing forays, we have attended a fund-raising lunch for Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art, visited two more art museums and seven house museums, and been entertained in four more historic architectural masterpieces. Copping is busy with his iPhone, documenting the wooden arbor of Charleston’s Nathaniel Russell House, noting the “Buccaneer brown” in the tusk-garlanded library of the Mercer Williams House in Savannah, and the original, supposedly spirit-banishing Haint blue of the beams in the nearby Owens-Thomas mansion’s slave house. His all-seeing eye has served him well since childhood, when he could spot the flash of gold lamé in a heaped pile of dreary tweeds at the weekly jumble sale held in his village town hall. (He used it to dress his sister’s dolls.)
The more than 50 de la Renta dresses that Talley has assembled in the galleries named for him at the SCAD Museum of Art have been drawn from the wardrobes of the designer’s coterie of devoted fans, from First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush to C. Z. Guest, Diana Taylor, Mercedes Bass, Catie Marron, Patricia Altschul, and Annette de la Renta herself. Here is Taylor Swift’s blush-pink fifties-style entrance-making gown, there Beyoncé’s scarlet ruffled crinoline, the flamboyance offset by the sisal underfoot; cavorting among the hay bales, meanwhile, is Miranda Brooks’s dotted Swiss–cotton wedding dress.
“They are clothes for women with a personality,” says Copping, admiring the Gibson-girl ensemble worn by Lauren Santo Domingo to the 2012 Costume Institute gala, and coats including Altschul’s violet faille and Annette de la Renta’s sweeping almond green. “When I think about the first show that I presented, it’s nice to see that there are definite parallels.”
Then he’s photographing the neckline of Lynn Wyatt’s black taffeta evening dress, which is garlanded with roses that have been rolled and shaped from the same fabric—and, with his wedding-dress collection no doubt in his mind, scrutinizing the lace trim on Eliza Bolen’s veil and the shimmering layers on Elizabeth Shaffer’s wedding gown. (In a kind of elegant symmetry, Copping made Shaffer the dress that she changed into after the ceremony to dance the night away.)
“It’s beautiful to see everything together en masse,” Copping says. “As much as I knew it in the past, I’m still discovering the house of Oscar de la Renta. But just to see all of this is an incredible experience—it shows me what endless possibilities there are.”
Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington
Hair, Odile Gilbert; Makeup: Diane Kendal; Set Design: Mary Howard
In This Story:Peter Copping, Oscar de la Renta, Oscar de la Renta
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ATS (7-10-1)
O/U (10-7-1)
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ATS (11-7)
O/U (8-10)
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705 Kansas Jayhawks +210 Under -110 (+5.5) -110 UNDER: 134
706 Kentucky Wildcats -250 Over -110 (-5.5) -110 Cover: 2.5
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — PJ Washington and No. 8 Kentucky hit the glass hard against No. 9 Kansas.
Washington scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half, and the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks 71-63 on Saturday in the SEC-Big 12 Challenge.
Washington, Reid Travis and Keldon Johnson powered Kentucky to a 49-36 rebounding advantage. Washington grabbed 13 boards, Travis had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and Johnson also posted a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
"I just came out aggressive, and that just shows on the glass," Washington said after his fifth double-double this season. "I just tried to look for my shot, look for my teammates, just be aggressive."
Neither team reached 40 percent shooting, but the Wildcats (16-3) were much better in the second half and held the Jayhawks (16-4) in check down the stretch of the marquee matchup between college basketball's two winningest programs.
Kentucky dropped its three previous games against Kansas and trailed 33-30 at the break, but Johnson made three 3-pointers to help fuel the Wildcats' big second half.
"I knew my teammates would give me the right shots," said Johnson, who was 5 of 9 from the field. "I've worked very hard on my game, and I had confidence to come out and hit the big shots when I needed to."
Kentucky earned its sixth consecutive win, with the last three coming against Top 25 teams.
Dedric Lawson had 20 points and 15 rebounds for the Jayhawks, and Quentin Grimes added 13 points. It was Lawson's 14th double-double this season.
Kansas shot 37 percent (23 for 63) from the field in its second loss in three games.
"They didn't really pressure us, but they didn't have to," coach Bill Self said. "And then when we do get in there, you've got to score over a lot of length and big guys. We didn't do as good a job as we should have."
PERIMETER RECOVERY
Kentucky missed each of its eight 3-point attempts in the first half, and then went 4 for 10 from long range in the second half.
"That was the difference in the game," coach John Calipari said. "If we go 0 for 10 in the second half, we lose the game. This is a good 3-point shooting team. That's why I get bothered at times."
SOLID HAGANS
Kentucky guard Ashton Hagans scored 12 points on 4-for-11 shooting, but once again made his biggest impact as a defensive force and facilitator. He had eight assists and three steals.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Kentucky could rise in the AP poll after beating its third ranked opponent in a week. Kansas could tumble out of the top 10 with its recent trouble.
Kansas: Lawson had a double-double by halftime, and the Jayhawks held their own on the glass for one half. They finished 9 of 23 from behind the arc but couldn't match Kentucky's athleticism in the second half.
"We wanted to win, but it's not the end of the world," Lawson said. "They went to the glass pretty hard, but our guys competed."
Kentucky: The Wildcats still have their share of challenges ahead when Southeastern Conference play resumes next week, but they are coming along. Travis got off to a nice start, and his teammates picked up their play in the second half.
Kansas returns to Big 12 play on Tuesday at Texas, seeking a season sweep of the Longhorns. The Jayhawks won the previous meeting 80-78 on Jan. 14.
Kentucky returns to SEC competition at Vanderbilt on Tuesday after beating the Commodores 56-47 two weeks ago.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/ Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
Jayhawks Overall
W/L 16-4
ATS 7-10-1
Pts For 77.4
Pts Against 70.2
Total 10-7-1
Jayhawks Away
W/L 1-4
ATS 1-4
Total 1-3-1
5:00 PM at Kentucky L 71-63 L (5.5) U (144)
8:00 PM Iowa State W 80-76 L (-5) O (148)
1:00 PM at West Virginia L 65-64 L (-4.5) U (148)
8:00 PM Texas W 80-78 L (-7) O (138)
3:00 PM at Baylor W 73-68 W (-4.5) T (141)
8:00 PM TCU W 77-68 W (-6) U (151.5)
4:00 PM at Iowa State L 77-60 L (2.5) U (151)
8:00 PM Oklahoma W 70-63 L (-8.5) U (151.5)
1:00 PM Eastern Michigan W 87-63 W (-23) O (138.5)
8:00 PM at Arizona State L 80-76 L (-3.5) O (151.5)
Avg. Points For 73.0
Avg. Points Against 70.9
Over/Under 4-5-1
Wildcats Overall
ATS 11-7
Total 8-10
Wildcats Home
Total 6-7
5:00 PM Kansas W 71-63 W (-5.5) U (144)
6:00 PM Mississippi State W 76-55 W (-7) U (144.5)
3:00 PM at Auburn W 82-80 W (5) O (146.5)
6:00 PM at Georgia W 69-49 W (-7.5) U (147.5)
7:30 PM Vanderbilt W 56-47 L (-13) U (151.5)
6:00 PM Texas A&M W 85-74 L (-15) O (142.5)
12:00 PM at Alabama L 77-75 L (-5) O (143.5)
1:00 PM at Louisville W 71-58 W (-3) U (143)
4:30 PM at North Carolina W 80-72 W (-2.5) U (169)
4:00 PM Utah W 88-61 W (-15.5) O (138.5)
Over/Under 4-6
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Dedric Lawson (F) 39:00 7-18 38.9% 2-3 66.7% 4-4 100% 4 15 2 1 1 1 4 -8 20
Quentin Grimes (G) 29:00 5-9 55.6% 3-5 60% 0-2 0% 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 -9 13
Lagerald Vick (G) 35:00 4-9 44.4% 2-5 40% 0-0 0% 1 6 1 1 0 1 3 -14 10
Devon Dotson (G) 33:00 4-10 40% 1-4 25% 0-0 0% 0 3 4 0 0 1 5 -7 9
Ochai Agbaji (G) 21:00 2-6 33.3% 1-4 25% 2-2 100% 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 7
Marcus Garrett (G) 32:00 1-9 11.1% 0-2 0% 2-2 100% 1 5 0 2 1 3 4 -10 4
David McCormack (F) 8:00 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 0-1 0% 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 0
K.J. Lawson (G) 3:00 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Udoka Azubuike (C) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Silvio De Sousa (F) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Elijah Elliot (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mitch Lightfoot (F) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrett Luinstra (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Charlie Moore (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chris Teahan (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PJ Washington (F) 36:00 7-17 41.2% 0-4 0% 6-8 75% 3 13 1 1 2 0 1 15 20
Reid Travis (F) 28:00 7-11 63.6% 0-0 0% 4-6 66.7% 7 12 0 0 0 1 3 5 18
Keldon Johnson (F) 32:00 5-9 55.6% 3-4 75% 2-2 100% 2 10 0 0 0 0 3 7 15
Ashton Hagans (G) 35:00 4-11 36.4% 1-3 33.3% 3-5 60% 1 2 7 3 0 4 1 7 12
Tyler Herro (G) 38:00 2-9 22.2% 0-4 0% 2-2 100% 0 5 5 0 0 3 1 9 6
Immanuel Quickley (G) 11:00 0-3 0% 0-2 0% 0-0 0% 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 -2 0
Nick Richards (F) 9:00 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 1 1 0 5 1 1 -3 0
EJ Montgomery (F) 7:00 0-2 0% 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 2 2 0 0 1 0 3 -1 0
Jemarl Baker Jr. (G) 4:00 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Brad Calipari (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jonny David (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Zan Payne (G-F) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Oracle's Sun day creates new world for enterprise
Oracle's acquisition of Sun raises many questions. The most pressing is: what happens to old partners?
By Leader | April 20, 2009 -- 16:24 GMT (09:24 PDT) | Topic: Networking
Oracle's agreement to buy Sun for $7.4bn is largely unexpected and entirely game-changing. Almost every aspect of the deal creates debate: what will happen to Sun's dedication to open source? How about its work in networking, and setting standards? Will MySQL thrive or die?
Taking things at face value, Oracle's reasons for buying Sun are clear and logical. Post-acquisition, Oracle will be able to provide everything for the enterprise database from one place: storage and processing hardware; OS, middleware and apps; right through to the Java stack on the mobile phone at the edge of enterprise.
It's a popular model, for vendors. Get it right, as Apple does for consumers, and you can survive the fiercest market and the most implacable competition. Get it wrong, as Microsoft does for consumers, and you shackle yourself to a model that will keep you forever second best.
Oracle has every chance of getting it right, although like Apple and Microsoft it is likely to give lip service to 'open' but be far keener on 'proprietary'. Even more than before, customers must check that the emergency exit aisles are clear before taking off on that particular plane.
However, there are already people running for the parachutes. Until now, the job of providing a one-stop shop for Oracle has been the gainful employment of the company's hardware partners, such as Dell and HP, who have been delighted to provide that single point of contact and guarantee of integration.
No more. Oracle's statement says: "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system — applications to disk — where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves". That's a clear statement of intent — the company wants all of that market, and it doesn't mind who it upsets in getting it.
The company has made its play. What happens next depends on how its competitors organise themselves. Nobody's relationship to Oracle will be unchanged. Implacable foes such as Microsoft, prickly partners like IBM, old bosom buddies such as Dell: everyone's in a new world, and new alliances are needed.
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‘Future qualification’ on Northcote by-election candidate’s profile
Three candidates have been announced for the Northcote by-election (to be held on 9 June) – National selected Dan Bidois and Labour selected their general election candidate Shanan Halbert, and Peter Wakeman seems to have selected himself. Brief details (some from Wikipedia):
Dan Bidois – Economist, 72nd on National’s 2017 party list
Shanan Halbert – Head of Recruitment & Relationships at Te Wananga o Aotearoa, 51st on Labour’s 2017 party list
Peter Wakeman – Perennial candidate
National Party announcement: Bidois selected as National’s Northcote candidate
Mr Bidois is currently Strategy Manager for Foodstuffs. He was raised and educated in Auckland, leaving school at 15 to complete a butchery apprenticeship with Woolworth’s New Zealand. Aspirational for his future, he went on to study at the University of Auckland, and attended Harvard University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He has worked as a strategist and economist in New Zealand, the United States, and Malaysia.
Labour party announcement: Shanan Halbert selected as Labour’s candidate for Northcote
Shanan is an education professional with experience across the sector including secondary, tertiary and with the education unions. Locally he has been in leadership and governance roles at Northcote’s Hato Petera College. Currently he is head of Relationships and Recruitment at Te Wananga o Aotearoa.
“I look forward to campaigning in Northcote on the issues that matter locally – transport, decent housing, health and education,” says Shanan Halbert.
(Oddly that can’t be found on Labour’s website, had to go to Scoop for it).
I don’t recall hearing of Bidois or Wakeman before, but Halbert featured in the Labour intern issue last June – see Little and Labour MPs with interns.
Earlier in the week Labour party secretary Andrew Kirton promoted Halbert’s selection:
Pleased to announce that @tom_james_nz will be @shananhalbert’s Campaign Manager for Northcote, while by-election veteran @michaelwoodnz will be Campaign Chair. A great team!
— Andrew Kirton (@andykirton) April 15, 2018
And David Farrar dissed Halbert’s chances and promoted all National candidates in It’s Bidois vs Halbert for Northcote.
Yesterday Farrar tweeted on a Kiwiblog post What happened to Shanan’s MBA?:
He saw a MBA from AUT listed for Shanan Halbert (the Labour candidate). He checked out the AUT graduate page and they do not have Halbert as a graduate.
He then checked back Halbert’s Linked In page the next day, and the MBA mention was gone.
What happened to Shanan’s MBA? https://t.co/rfGdJRXnqt pic.twitter.com/AkbQgZJ1g4
— Kiwiblog (@KiwiblogDPF) April 20, 2018
Stating unearned qualifications on your CV looks bad, and more so if you are a head of the Recruitment & Relationships department at an educational institute.
And the misrepresentation has been confirmed by Kirton in a response to Farrar on twitter:
I see we’re in for a positive campaign…. Shanan enrolled in an MBA part time and had a timeframe of 2016-2020 included on his LinkedIn page. Life got in the way and it’s now on hold. He deleted it because he is no longer studying towards it.
That’s a remarkable explanation. The LinkedIn page says nothing about ‘a timeframe of 2016-2020’, and it is extraordinary to list under Education courses you are enrolled in and are nowhere near completing. If Halbert wins the by-election he will have less time still to study.
And Kirton goes further:
And the dirty tricks begin… https://t.co/BAb3ltqeMr
It’s not a dirty trick pointing out a candidate falsely claiming a qualification, it is holding to account, something some who are new to Government don’t seem to comprehend.
I don’t know enough about any of the candidates to rate them as potential MPs, but Halbert and Labour have not started their campaign very well.
UPDATE: I have just found Halbert’s profile on the Labour website. It includes:
As a senior manager in the education field, Shanan knows that life-long learning must be made available in our fast-changing world.
Changing so fast he got ahead of himself in claiming to have an MBA.
by Pete George on 21st April 2018 • Permalink
Tagged Andrew Kirton, by-election, Dan Bidois, David Farrar, MBA, Northcote, Peter Wakeman, Shanan Halbert
Posted by Pete George on 21st April 2018
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> Blog> The Native American Story>Navajos,Hopis & Zunis
The Native American Story
Movies and books through the life and history of the Native Americans.
Published : 02/01/2017 15:01:43
Categories : The Native American Story
The Hopis
Hopi means"peaceful people",they are living in the north center of Arizona on the Black Mesa and spreaded over in villages on three Mesas along the Highway 264 and numbered from east to west.The First Mesa with the villages of Walpi,Tewa and Sichomovi,the Second Mesa with the villages of Shongopavi,Mishongnovi and Shipaulavi and the Third Mesa with Hotevilla,Bacavi,Moencopi,Kykotsmovi and Oraibi that was build before 1150 A.D.It's the oldest village still occupied in the United States.Hopi reservation is 622 000 acres wide and landlocked because it's surrounded by the Navajos reservation.Their language is a Shoshone language from the Uto-Aztecs.The Hopi is bounded to the Pima,Ute and Paiute in the Southwest.They are farmers living on a dry soil,but they adapted themselves to this desert region,little springs at the foot of the Mesas help them irrigate their fields and when they aren't busy in farming,they are plumber,electricians,garage mechanicians or employees at public works.
The Hopis have an individualist temperament.When the Spanish tried to convert them to catholicism,they killed the priest and joined the Pueblos Indians and all the villages rallied to the mutiny.A few years later,the Spanish came back but the Hopis fought bravely and they had to give up a second time.The Hopis are gathered by their religion and that's why they could keep their ancestral way of life.
They are celebrating many ceremonies on the Plazas,some are forbidden to the foreigners,others are open to tourists like the Snakes Dance.Each village have many Kivas,that is a sacred ceremonial room.It's in these rooms away from prying eyes that the men are celebrating the secret rites.The Hopis Kivas are rectangular facing north-south.Oraibi village have 13 Kivas,and the entire reservation owns 33.No visitors will be allowed to watch a ceremony into these sacred rooms.
The Navajos
Nestled in the heart of the Great Southwest is the "World's Best Kept Secret"...A rich and vibrant American Indian Tribe who live within the Navajo Nation.The Navajo tribe is the largest American Indian tribe in North America.The Navajo reservation alone encompasses more than 27,000 square miles,which spans into southeastern Utah,northwest New-Mexico and northern Arizona.Whispering canyon walls...mystifying ancient architecture,picturesque mountains,relaxing lakes and rivers...the earthly scent of cedar and sage after a light sprinkle of mother rain,fiery sunsets,and refreshing blue skies...this is Navajoland,a myriad of awesome scenery and enchanting getaways;however,it is the Navajo people that makes the Navajo Nation unique.
Surrounded by four sacred mountains,the Navajo Nation is a great destination to retrace history and step back into time.Traditional Navajo teachings and values remain strong among the Navajo people despite hardships they endured throughout history.In 1860,more than 8,000 Navajos were forced to march to Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner,N.M. where they were incarcereted for four years before they were allowed back to their homeland.
Moreover,many young Navajos were taken from their homes to attend distant schools...they were scolded for talking Navajo.Ironically,the Navajo language was used as a secret code in World War II to defeat the Japanese.The Navajo men who were on the frontline are known today as the Navajo Code Talkers.
According to traditional Navajo teaching,the Navajo language was given to us as a gift by the creator.The soul of traditional Navajo philosophy and culture is the Navajo language.Today,many traditional Navajo prayer's,songs and ceremonies are still conducted.This spiritual lineage is passed from one generation to another to create balance and harmony.The Navajo Nation is a mecca and visual symphony for elegant art.Many Navajos are fluent in the universal language of art,which permeats their daily lives.Accomplished Navajo artists are world-renowned for their unsurpassed natural creativity as exemplified in their exquisite Navajo rugs,symbolic Navajo baskets,stunning turquoise and silver jewelry,fine handmade traditional Navajo pottery,meticulously-designed paintings,and beautiful handcrafted sculptures.See how distinguished Navajo artists savor the challenge and interpret traditional and modern-day Navajo culture.
Late summer and autumn,on the Navajo Nation is a season that celebrates the cultural pride and harvest of indigenous food.Share the creative expression of the Navajo people during a tribal Navajo fair,which are usually held from mid-July to mid-October.See Navajos adorned with traditional Navajo attire and dance to the beat of a ceremonial drum during a traditional Navajo song and dance;purchase a one-of-a-kind Navajo decor;view a colorful parade;see how young Navajo women vie to be a traditional Navajo queen;see Navajo cowboys and cowgirls test their horsemanship skills at an all-Indian Rodeo;hear mesmerizing Navajo musicians capture the spirit of Navajo culture;and don't forget to treat your taste buds with an array of traditional Navajo cuisine such as mouth-watering kneel down bread to hearty lamb stew.
Recreationists can quicken their pulse and their love for the outdoors during the Annual Narbona Pass Classic situated in the haven of the Chuska mountains.Horseback riding enthusiasts can segue their adventure into the rolling hills at Monument Valley.Maybe you want to meander off the beaten path and take in a hike at Canyon de Chelly or anchor a mild fishing excursion at Wheatfields Lake located along the Dinetah Scenic Byway.
Whatever your passion,adventure or tranquility,Navajoland is an ideal tourism destination.So mark your calendar and make plans to enhance your cultural understanding and embrace the rich legacy of the Navajo Nation.
During the Civil War,the American government wanted to integrate New-Mexico and Arizona into the Union.They thought they could stop the Mescaleros Apaches and the Navajos raids.In 1863,General Carlton asked Colonel Christopher Carson to gather the Navajos to bring them to a new reservation east of New-Mexico at Fort Sumner,also known as Bosque Redondo.In 1864 began for 8000 Navajos "The Long Walk",a dark event of their story.About 1000 prisoners died on that 310 miles trail.Those who complained about tiring or illness have been executed,even the women near to give birth.Fort Sumner have been a grave for many Navajos,in lack of food and blankets,and a lot of epidemics.In 1868 the government gave them the choice to join the Indian Territory of Oklahoma or to go back to their ancient territory in the Southwest,they went back to the Southwest.
The Navajos and Monument Valley
Monument Valley is located at 5249 feet in northern Arizona and in the south of Utah on 120 km².It is one of the most extraordinary phenomenon of the United States.The Navajos call the place "Tsé Bii ' Ndzisgaii "which means" valley of rocks ".The ocher color of the rock in massive sandstone,comes from iron oxide and manganese. Many films have been shot in this magnificent site like Stagecoach,She wore a yellow ribbon,The Comancheros or The Searchers.
The Navajo have learned to deal with visitors of the park,offering them jewelery,guided tours of the park or weaving demonstration.Their main source of income comes from tourism.For the few families living in Monument Valley,the dilemma between preservation and Economic imperatives have turned into a vicious circle.They have neither electricity nor running water,both stop at the hotel for tourists,because the tribal council wants everything to remain natural.Residents demand water,electricity,school buses and better information panels for tourists.They do not want to be photographed as they see fit.
The Zunis
45 miles south of Gallup,you find Zuni,the biggest Pueblo of New-Mexico.The Zunis are the descendants of the Anasazis.There are about 10 000 people,and the reservation is 402 287 acres wide situated on the McKinley county.Zuni is the only village remaining from the seven legendary cities of Cibola.The Pueblo haven't changed a lot since the the mid nineteen century,and many women are still baking bread in adobe owens outside the house.On the territory you find a lot of remains from 600 or 700 years ago.The Zunis are neutral,they don't care about conflicts and wars and that's why they resist to the change of time around them.
When the first Spanish came on their land in 1539,the Zunis traveled the region since 5 centuries.Estevanico with a few soldiers in armor headed towards Zuni Pueblo,but the Indians were waiting on them,and the Spanish fell in an embush.They kidnapped Estevanico and killed him next day.One year later,Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado came with one hundred men and conquered the Zunis at Hawikuh battle.When the Pueblos uprised in 1860,more than 2500 Zunis joined the rebels to chase the Spanish.
Life of Zunis people have changed since the white man arrived,but his religion didn't suffer.The Zunis existence turns entierly to the religion and the sun represents the holy god.The most spectacular ceremony is the Shalakos Kachinas Ceremony that takes place end of november.One part of the ritual is open to foreigners.The Shalakos are representing sacred Kachinas.Ancient ceremonies like that becomes rare,it's the reflection of the unconquerable faith of the Zunis.
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Kateya art amérindien
Oui Fabienne et ceci n'est qu'une infime partie de leur histoire
Merci pour ces lignes qui résument bien l'histoire et le quotidien des ces Amérindiens..
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Choke them…
Another ambush, another round of condemnations, another reprisal will not see the end of the Naxal menace in our country, the tribal areas of which have become the hotbeds of secessionist activity. If the country has to see a lasting solution to these kinds of insurgent attacks, then it has to carry out combing operations not just in the Naxal infested tribal areas but also in the varsities known to be the breeding centres for these anti-national ideologies and activities. Maoists have long before captured many of the vantage positions in varsities like JNU and media where they continue their hoodwinking and influencing neutral minds without any check. These positions not only give them access to many young and fresh minds to be brainwashed, but also provide them their sustenance from the very state which they want to liquidate. It is these breeding centres which incite innocent youngsters into fight against the Indian state. It is these breeding centres which with their contrived tales about our Ithihasas and Puranas, denigrate Hinduism, as they view it as their prime enemy. They foist tales to make Goddess Durga as a scheming, fair-skinned, upper-caste woman who seduced a dark-skinned Dalit Mahishasura into defeat in a concocted festival that was named Mahishasur Shahadat Divas (Mahishasur Martyrdom Day). The unregistered union DSU does not only call for an armed rebellion against the Indian State. It also incites Dalit students for a civil war as much as it provokes the people of regions affected by Maoist terror. A poster it pasted prominently on the walls of some JNU hostels in 2015 reads: “Build a militant resistance against the mounting atrocities on Dalits.”
Maoist sympathizers and recruiters have time and again participated in programs conducted inside the JNU campus to instigate the student community to fight against the state. The administration of the varsities have turned a blind eye to all these kinds of unlawful and anti-national activities goes to prove our suspicion that this foreign funded menace has taken deep roots in our society. Many people think that the Maoist attacks are an uprising of the poor tribal against the rich political class who exploit them. But it is far from the truth. The poor tribal are forced to take up arms against the state by the Maoists. Maoists are against any development happening in the Tribal areas, as they want to stall the progress of our country. So they goad the villagers that their livelihood is being usurped by the development projects, but in reality it actually helps them in their livelihood. They want the tribal people to remain in their present miserable plight, so that they can continue their anti-national agenda by exploiting them. When the Maoists ask a villager to join their forces the villager has no other choice. Millions of tribal who doesn’t want to side with these anti-nationals have got displaced because of that in the last decade. Not many are fighting out of their own volition. If they refuse they will either be displaced or disposed. Fearing this many of the villagers join these Maoist insurgents. It is led by those who got infected by the Maoist plague in varsities like JNU. So choking the fountain head of this degenerate ideology is of utmost importance. All student bodies which identify themselves with the Maoist ideology should be banned and all the funding from foreign bodies to these varsities should be scrutinized and banned if needed. Those who eulogize people like Yakub Memon should be dealt with a stern hand. Along with the combing operations in the Naxal infested areas, these actions are also to be initiated to stop this menace from further bleeding our Nation.
V.V.Balasubramanian
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A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
Jaime Troncoso-Palacios‡, Alvaro A. Elorza§, German I. Puas§, Edmundo Alfaro-Pardo|
‡ Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
§ Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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Corresponding author: Jaime Troncoso-Palacios ( jtroncosopalacios@gmail.com )
Academic editor: Johannes Penner
© 2016 Jaime Troncoso-Palacios, Alvaro A. Elorza, German I. Puas, Edmundo Alfaro-Pardo.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Troncoso-Palacios J, Elorza AA, Puas GI, Alfaro-Pardo E (2016) A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae). ZooKeys 555: 91-114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.555.6011
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E1446FEB-8061-42E7-9C95-2CD6E56E6E9C
The Liolaemus nigroviridis group is a clade of highland lizards endemic to Chile. These species are distributed from northern to central Chile, and currently there are no cases of sympatric distribution. This study describes a new species, Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., from this group, and provides a detailed morphological characterization and mitochondrial phylogeny using cytochrome-b. Liolaemus uniformis was found in sympatry with L. nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with L. monticola and L. bellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed.
Liolaemus nigroviridis, L. uniformis sp. n., lizard, Cyt-b, mtDNA
The Liolaemus nigroviridis group is a clade of highland lizards endemic to central and northern Chile, the species of which are allopatrically distributed (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005). Almost all species of this group have a complicated taxonomic history with several cases of synonymies (e.g. Núñez and Jaksic 1992, Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2007, Troncoso-Palacios 2013). In his book on lizards from northwest, northeast, and eastern Argentina, Cei (1993) proposed the nigroviridis group and included within it L. constanzae Donoso-Barros, 1961. Lobo (2001) performed the first cladistic analysis of this group and, based on morphological characteristics, included the following species: L. campanae Hellmich, 1950, L. lorenzmuelleri Hellmich, 1950, L. maldonadae Núñez, Navarro & Loyola, 1991, and L. nigroviridis Müller & Hellmich, 1932. Later, Lobo (2005), updating the morphological phylogeny, added to the nigroviridis group L. nigroroseus Donoso-Barros, 1966 and L. isabelae Navarro & Núñez, 1993, but excluded L. lorenzmuelleri.
Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez (2005), through phenetic analysis recovered all of the species listed by Lobo (2005) within the nigroviridis group and also reincorporated L. lorenzmuelleri and L. constanzae. Furthermore, L. constanzae was listed with two subspecies, L. c. constanzae and L. c. donosoi Ortiz, 1975. These authors also incorporated L. juanortizi Young-Downey & Moreno, 1991 and L. melanopleurus (Philippi, 1860), the latter of which was included as incertae sedis. Moreover, L. nigroroseus was considered a junior synonym of L. constanzae, as has also been proposed by other authors (Núñez and Jaksic 1992, Troncoso-Palacios 2013), while L. campanae was regarded as a junior synonym of L. nigroviridis. In fact, L. campanae was previously described as a subspecies of L. nigroviridis (Hellmich 1950) and later proposed to be a synonym of L. nigroviridis (Núñez and Jaksic 1992, Valencia et al. 1979).
Lobo et al. (2010) accepted all of the species listed by Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez (2005) as members of the nigroviridis group, except for L. donosoi which they placed into the nigromaculatus group. Finally, Troncoso-Palacios (2013) indicated that L. donosoi is a junior synonym of L. constanzae, as previously suggested (Núñez and Jaksic 1992, Veloso et al. 1982), and recognized the seven species listed by Lobo et al. (2010) as members of the nigroviridis group – L. constanzae, L. isabelae, L. juanortizi, L. lorenzmuelleri, L. maldonadae, L. melanopleurus, and L. nigroviridis.
Very few studies have used molecular data within this group. Schulte and Moreno-Roark (2010) constructed a mitochondrial phylogeny of 733 Iguanian lizards. The authors concluded that L. n. nigroviridis, and L. n. campanae are sister taxa and that L. isabelae does not belong to the nigroviridis group. Cianferoni et al. (2013) performed a cytochrome-b (Cyt-b) phylogeographic study in L. nigroviridis populations and proposed that this species could contain at least two different species-level lineages.
In a field trip to the vicinity of Piuquenes (Valparaíso Region, Chile), we believe we found some populations probably previously assigned to Liolaemus monticola Müller & Hellmich, 1932 by Núñez et al. (2010:57). Subsequent Cyt-b phylogenetic analysis and morphological comparisons determined that this population represents a new species that belongs to the nigroviridis group. This new species occurred in sympatry with L. nigroviridis, constituting the first case of sympatry within this group of lizards.
The current study describes this new species and provides a full diagnosis in regards to other species of the nigroviridis group. Although the color pattern of this new species resembles L. juanortizi and L. lorenzmuelleri, the scalation is markedly different and the distribution is allopatric (> 240 km of separation). Moreover, various taxonomical aspects of the nigroviridis group that require attention are discussed.
Morphological data and analyses
Specimens of all species currently considered within the nigroviridis group were examined. Morphological characteristics were examined according to Etheridge (1995) and Lobo (2005). Body measurements were taken with a digital Vernier caliper (0.02 mm precision) and given as the mean ± standard deviation (x ± SD). We applied a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to verify data normality, a subsequent t-test or Mann-Whitney U test was used if data passed or failed the normality test, respectively, to compare scale count (midbody, dorsal and ventral) and size (snout vent length, SVL) of the new species against some related species (Liolaemus constanzae, L. juanortizi, L. lorenzmuelleri and L. nigroviridis). Only significant results are presented. Scales were observed with different magnifying lenses. Scalation and measurements were recorded on the right side of the specimen. Dorsal scales were counted between the occiput and the anterior border of the hind limbs. Ventral scales were counted from the mental scale to the anterior margin of the cloacal opening. Stomach and intestinal contents were analyzed under a binocular stereoscope for one specimen of the new species. Data for the midbody scales of Liolaemus juanortizi were taken from one revised specimen and six reported in Young-Downey and Moreno (1991). Classification was carried out considering species currently assigned to the nigroviridis group (Troncoso-Palacios 2013). Liolaemus isabelae is included in the comparison but the relationship of this species with the nigroviridis group is uncertain (see Discussion). The examined specimens are listed in Appendix I. Some mapping data were taken from existing literature or field observations without specimen collection: 1) L. nigroviridis from Manque (Mella 2005), El Arpa and El Roble (Cianferoni et al. 2013), Riecillo (Núñez et al. 2010), Campana (Hellmich 1050), Chepical and Juncal (field observations, 32°16'S - 70°30'W and 32°53'S - 70°07'W respectively); 2) L. maldonadae from Los Molles (Núñez et al. 1991). Acronyms used are: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile (MNHNCL), Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Concepción (MZUC) and Colección de Flora y Fauna, Profesor Patricio Sánchez Reyes of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (SSUC).
DNA purification, PCR amplification, and sequencing
Samples from liver and thigh muscle were obtained from ethanol-fixed lizards which were subject to a rehydration process according to Coura (2005). Samples were washed twice in distilled water for 5 min at 55 °C to remove the fixative and then rehydrated with 1x Tris/EDTA for 5 min at 55 °C and then 1M Tris pH 7.5, at 55 °C overnight. Right after, samples were digested with proteinase K (20 mg/ml) at 55 °C overnight. Genomic DNA isolation (mitochondrial and nuclear) was done with the Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification kit (Cat # A1120, Promega, USA) following manufacturer´s instructions. The mitochondrial gene Cyt-b was amplified from total DNA through two phase conventional PCR with the primers GLUDGL (5´-TGA CTT GAA RAA CCA YCG TTG-3´) and CB3 (5´-GGC AAA TAG GAA RTA TCA TTC-3´), reported in Torres-Pérez et al. (2009), to generate a 700bp amplicon. PCR reactions were performed with the SapphireAmp® Fast PCR Master Mix (Cat # RR350A, Takara Clontech, USA) using 100 ng of total genomic DNA as a template and following the instruction manual. Two-phase PCR cycling was as follows: Phase 1, initial 98 °C denaturation for 3 min, then 5 cycles of 98 °C denaturation for 30 s, 47 °C annealing for 45 s and 72 °C extension for 45 s. The Phase 2, next 40 cycles of 98 °C denaturation for 30 s, 58 °C annealing for 45 s and 72 °C extension for 45 s. A final 72 °C extension step for 5 min was added to finish the PCR. The 700 bp PCR amplicon was checked by DNA electrophoresis on a 1% agarose gel in 1x Tris-Acetate-EDTA (TAE) buffer. The amplicons were purified with the E.Z.N.A.® Cycle-Pure Kit (Cat # D6492-02, Omega Biotek, USA) and sent for capillary sequencing to Macrogen, Korea.
Phylogenetic reconstruction
The accession numbers of the Cyt-b mitochondrial loci sequences generated in this study and the sequences obtained from GenBank are indicated in Appendix II. Forty three nucleotide sequences involved in the analysis were aligned using MUSCLE (Edgar 2004). We used the JModelTest v2.1.7 (Darriba et al. 2012, Guidon and Gascuel 2003) to select an appropriate substitution model (HKY + G + I), with a BIC index. We performed a Bayesian inference (BI) analyses with MrBayes v3.1.5 (Ronquist and Huelsenbeck 2003). Two independent analyses, each consisting of two groups of four chains that run independently, that were run for 15.0 × 106 generation and a at sample frequency = 1000. Priors were let by default. Phymaturus vociferator Pincheira-Donoso 2004, was selected as the outgroup. The 25% of samples were discarded as burnin when calculating the convergence diagnostic, assessed examining values of average standard deviation of the Potential Scale Reduction Factor (PSRF) for all parameters.
The genetic tree constructed from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (Fig. 1) placed the newly identified Liolaemus species as a sister taxon of L. nigroviridis (posterior probability pp = 1). However, no data are available for most of the species in the nigroviridis group as sample collection is hampered by the high altitudes where these species inhabit. Therefore, the discovered topology should be considered preliminary (see Discussion). Liolaemus monticola is nested with strong support (pp = 1) in the monticola group, the sister clade of the nigroviridis group. Liolaemus bellii is not closely related to the new Liolaemus or L. monticola, and is nested in a node with polytomy.
Bayesian inference of phylogeny tree using Cyt-b showing phylogenetic relationships of Liolaemus uniformis sp. n. (red) and related species (HKY+G+I model). Liolaemus bellii and L. monticola, probably confused with the new species, are also in red. Posterior probability is indicated at each node. Scale shows the number of substitutions per site. Number between parentheses indicates the number of sequences for the collapsed nodes.
Liolaemus uniformis sp. n.
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Fig. 2A, B
Liolaemus altissimus altissimus (in part?), Mella. 2005, Guía Camp. Rep. Chil. Zon. Cent., p. 38.
Liolaemus monticola?, Núñez et al. 2010, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., p. 57.
SSUC Re 674. Adult male. Collected in the west shore of the Chepical Lagoon (32°15'S – 70°30'W), approximately 30 km NE Alicahue, San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, Valparaíso Region, Chile. Collectors: J. Troncoso-Palacios and E. Alfaro. December, 2012.
Paratypes
(Fig. 2C, D, E, F). SSUC Re 675, male. SSUC Re 676–78, three females. SSUC Re 679, juvenile. The same data as the holotype.
Liolaemus uniformis sp. n. A, B Holotype, male C, D Paratype, female E Paratype, male F Paratype, juvenile (unknown sex). All from the type locality.
The species name “uniformis” (Latin) refers to the lack of dorsal pattern and uniform color found for both males and females.
Liolaemus uniformis is larger than L. constanzae (Mann–Whitney U = 0.5, P < 0.01, Table 1). Liolaemus constanzae has sexual dichromatism, a feature absent in L. uniformis. Males of L. constanzae have a black vertebral line and black spots on the paravertebral fields (Fig. 3A), whereas L. uniformis has no dorsal pattern. Additionally, the southern distributional limit of L. constanzae in Agua Verde, Antofagasta Region, Chile (Ortiz 1975), is more than 750 km north of the type locality recorded for L. uniformis.
Chilean species of the nigroviridis group (with the exception of Liolaemus nigroviridis), ordered from north to south. A Liolaemus constanzae, male from vicinity of San Pedro (picture by JTP) B L. melanopleurus, male from Atacama (picture by JTP) C L. isabelae, male from Montandón (picture by JTP) D L. juanortizi, unknown sex specimen from road to Negro Francisco (picture by F. de Grotee) E L. lorenzmuelleri, unknown sex specimen from Embalse La Laguna (picture by A. Labra) F L. maldonadae, male from vicinity of Alcohuaz (picture by JTP).
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Scalation and morphological characteristics for the species of the nigroviridis group. Juvenile specimens examined are excluded. M = males; F = females. (*) Taken from Navarro and Núñez (1993). (**) Examined specimen plus Young-Downey and Moreno (1991) data. (***) Taken from Young-Downey and Moreno (1991). (****) Counted only for one specimen.
L. constanzae (M = 14, F = 13)
L. isabelae (M = 4)
L. juanortizi (M = 1)
L. lorenzmuelleri (M = 3, F = 5)
L. maldonadae (M = 3)
L. melanopleurus (M = 2)
L. nigroviridis (M = 9, F = 4)
L. uniformis sp. n. (M = 2, F = 3)
Midbody scales 54–64 54–60 54–59** 50–62 58–64 42–56 55–64 58–62
Dorsal scales 56–67 56–67 52 44–55 48–50 40–51 45–53 56–63
Vental scales 86–96 86–97 88 86–96 83–91 91**** 85–97 91–102
Nasal-rostral contact 92.6% 25% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Sexual dichromatism Present Present* Absent*** Absent ? ? Present Absent
Vertebral line (males) Present Present/ absent Present/ absent Present Absent/ inconspicuous Absent Absent/ inconspicuous Absent
Maximum SVL (mm) 75,3 82,8 94.4*** 88.8 85.6 70.6 73,8 89.1
Liolaemus uniformis differs from L. isabelae (Fig. 3C), because in the latter the nasal and the rostral scales are in contact only in 25% of specimens, whereas in L. uniformis, these scales are always in contact. Males of L. isabelae have black ventral coloration, a yellow dorsal color with a black vertebral line, black bars in the paravertebral fields, and a black lateral band, or some males have a completely black dorsal color; all traits that are absent in L. uniformis. Additionally, the southern distributional limit of L. isabelae in Salar de Pedernales, Atacama Region, Chile (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005) is more than 650 km north of the type locality recorded for L. uniformis.
Liolaemus uniformis resembles L. lorenzmuelleri (Fig. 3E) and L. juanortizi (Fig. 3D), species suggested as conspecific (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005). However, the dorsal scales in L. lorenzmuelleri and L. juanortizi are noticeably larger than those of L. uniformis, and have a distinct “ovoid” shape. Liolaemus uniformis has more dorsal scales (60.0 ± 2.9) than L. lorenzmuelleri (48.4 ± 4.2) (t = -5.4, P < 0.01). On the other hand, while only one specimen of L. juanortizi was examined, this one has 52 dorsal scales, which is below of the range for L. uniformis (Table 1). Liolaemus uniformis has more midbody scales (60.4 ± 1.7) than L. lorenzmuelleri (54.9 ± 4.5) (t = 2.6, P < 0.05) and L. juanortizi (56.7 ± 2.1) (t = 3.2, P < 0.05). Liolaemus lorenzmuelleri has a dark vertebral line and dark transversal lines running from the paravertebral fields to the flanks, whereas L. uniformis has no dorsal pattern. The dorsal pattern of L. juanortizi is very similar to L. lorenzmuelleri, but some specimens have a black ventral coloration, a black lateral band, and the lack of a dark vertebral line, whereas L. uniformis has no black ventral color or black lateral band. Additionally, the southern distributional limit of L. lorenzmuelleri (Embalse La Laguna, Coquimbo Region, Chile) is more than 240 km north of the type locality recorded for L. uniformis; and the southern distributional limit of L. juanortizi in Quebrada Contrabando, Atacama Region, Chile (MNHNCL collection catalog, unpublished) is more than 520 km north of the type locality recorded for L. uniformis.
Liolaemus uniformis differs from L. melanopleurus (a species with only three known specimens from an undetermined location, Fig. 3B) in that the latter has a blue-gray dorsal coloration (Philippi 1860) and a black lateral band running from the axilla to the midbody, features absent in L. uniformis. Although the type locality of L. melanopleurus is undetermined, the syntypes were collected by Philippi in his journey through the Atacama Desert, between the vicinities of Copiapó (27°23'S) and San Pedro de Atacama (22°54'S), more than 530 km north of the type locality recorded for L. uniformis.
Liolaemus uniformis differs from L. maldonadae (Fig. 3F), because males of the latter have a yellowish or reddish dorsal color with black transverse dorsal and ventral bars and black lateral band, whereas L. uniformis has no dorsal pattern or black transverse ventral bars. Dorsal scales in L. maldonadae are noticeably larger than found in L. uniformis, and they have an “ovoid” shape. Dorsal and ventral scale counts in L. maldonadae do not overlap with the same scale counts in L. uniformis (Table 1). Finally, the southern distributional limit of L. maldonadae in Los Molles (Núñez et al. 1991) is more than 150 km north of the type locality of L. uniformis.
Liolaemus uniformis is found in sympatry with L. nigroviridis (Fig. 4), but is larger than L. nigroviridis (Mann–Whitney U = 8.0, P < 0.05, Table 1). Liolaemus uniformis also has more dorsal scales (60.0 ± 2.9) than L. nigroviridis (49.4 ± 2.7) (t = 7.4, P < 0.01). Liolaemus nigroviridis has strongly mucronated dorsal scales, whereas L. uniformis has no mucrons (Fig. 5). Liolaemus nigroviridis has sexual dichromatism, absent in L. uniformis. Males of L. nigroviridis have a bluish or yellowish green dorsal color with black reticulation, and females have a brown dorsal color with a black lateral band, black vertebral line, and black paravertebral spots. In contrast, L. uniformis has a brown dorsal color without any pattern.
Variation in Liolaemus nigroviridis. A Male from Farellones (picture by H. Díaz) B Male from Carpa Mountain (picture by JTP) C Male from Provincia Mountain (picture by JTP) D Female from Juncal (picture by JTP).
Dorsal scales, 8 mm width of view. A Male of Liolaemus uniformis sp. n. B Liolaemus nigroviridis.
Molecular data show that Liolaemus uniformis is not closely related to L. monticola (Fig. 1). Moreover, L. monticola is smaller (maximum SVL = 65.6 mm) than L. uniformis (max. SVL = 89.1 mm) (t = 3.9, P < 0.01) according to our samples, and although Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez (2005) recorded a max. SVL = 67.3 mm for L. monticola, the difference between both species is marked. Moreover, L. monticola exhibit a characteristic black lateral band between the axilla and midbody (diffuse in females), and males have white dots dispersed on the dorsum and a series of small black spots on the dorsum (Fig. 6). All these traits are absent in L. uniformis. The upper altitudinal limit of Liolaemus monticola distributions is 2000 m a.s.l. (Espinoza et al. 2004, Fuentes and Ipinza 1979), whereas L. uniformis has a lower altitudinal distribution limit of 2820 m a.s.l.
Variation in species probably confused with Liolaemus uniformis sp. n. A L. monticola from Salto de Apoquindo (picture by JTP) B L. monticola from La Cruz Mountain (picture by J. Abarca-Díaz) C L. monticola from Provincia Mountain (picture by JTP) D L. bellii from La Parva (JR Martini) E L. bellii from Lagunillas (picture by JTP) F L. bellii from San Ramón Mountain (picture by JTP).
Molecular data show that Liolaemus uniformis is not closely related to L. bellii (Fig. 1). Moreover, L. bellii is smaller (maximum SVL = 80.8 mm) than L. uniformis (max. SVL = 89.1 mm) (t = 2.7, P < 0.05). Liolaemus uniformis has more midbody scales (60.4 ± 1.7) than L. bellii (52.9 ± 2.6) (t = 6.1, P < 0.01); more dorsal scales (60.0 ±2.9) than L. bellii (43.3 ±3.1) (t = 10.2, P < 0.01); and more ventral scales (96.2 ±4.8) than L. bellii (89.7 ±4.6) (Mann–Whitney U = 10.5, P < 0.05). Dorsal scales in L. bellii are strongly keeled and mucronated, whereas there are no mucrons in L. uniformis. Moreover, L. bellii exhibit a characteristic series of black dorsal “W” o “V” shaped spots (Fig. 6), whereas L. uniformis has no dorsal pattern.
Description of the holotype
Adult male. SVL = 84.7 mm. Horizontal diameter of the eye: 4.3 mm. Subocular length: 4.5 mm. Length of the fourth supralabial: 4.1 mm. Head length (from the posterior border of the auditory meatus to the tip of the snout): 22.1 mm. Head height (distance between the two ear openings): 10.4 mm. Head width (at the level of ear openings): 15.8 mm. Neck width: 12.4 mm. Interorbital distance: 6.3 mm. Ear-eye distance: 7.5 mm. Internarine distance: 3.8 mm. Ear width: 2.5 mm. Ear height: 3.5 mm. Axillary-groin distance: 34.9 mm. Body width: 24.7 mm. Forelimb length: 25.7 mm. Hindlimb length: 46.1 mm. Length of the right hand: 10.4 mm. Length of the right foot: 22.4 mm. Tail length (not autotomized): 132.4 mm, with relation tail length/SVL = 1.56. Pentagonal rostral scale, wider (4.2 mm) than high (1.4 mm).
Two postrostrals. Four internasals. Heptagonal interparietal, with a central, small, and whitish central spot marking the position of the parietal eye. Interparietal smaller than the parietals, surrounded by seven scales. Seven scales between the interparietal and rostral. Thirteen scales between the occiput and the rostral. Orbital semicircle incomplete on the right side and complete on the left (formed by thirteen scales). Three supraoculars on the left side and four on the right. Six superciliary scales. Frontal area divided into three scales (1 posterior and 2 anterior). Preocular separated from the lorilabials by one loreal scale. Two scales between nasal and canthal. Nasal in contact with the rostral, surrounded by six scales. One row of lorilabials between the supralabials and subocular. Four lorilabials in contact with the subocular. Six supralabials, the fourth is curved upward without contacting the subocular. Four infralabials scales. Pentagonal mental scale, in contact with four scales. Four pairs of post-mental shields, the second is separated by two scales. Temporal scales smooth or slightly keeled, imbricated. Six temporal scales between the level of superciliary scales and the rictal level. Four scales on the anterior edge of the ear, which do not cover the auditory meatus. Poorly differentiated auricular scale, pentagonal and located at the upper part of the meatus. Thirty gulars between the auditory meatus. Lateral neck fold is “Y” shaped. Ventrolateral fold running from the neck to the groin. Dorsolateral fold slightly developed, running from the ear to the base of the tail. Midbody scales: 60. Dorsal scales are lanceolated, imbricated, keeled (without mucrons), with few interstitial granules. Dorsal smaller than the ventrals. Dorsal scales: 58. Ventrals scales are polymorphic (rounded, rhomboidal, pentagonal or hexagonal) smooth, imbricated, without interstitial granules. Ventrals: 91. Three precloacal pores. Supra-femoral scales lanceolate, imbricated, smooth or keeled. Infra-femoral scales lanceolate or rounded, smooth and imbricated. Supra-antebrachials scales are rounded or lanceolated, imbricated and smooth or keeled. Infra-antebrachials are rounded, imbricated and smooth. Dorsal scales of tail are pentagonal or rhomboidal, imbricated and keeled. Ventral tail scales are rounded or rhomboidal, smooth and imbricated. Lamellae of the fingers: I: 9, II: 13, III: 20, IV: 20 and V: 13. Lamellae of the toes: I: 11, II: 15, III: 21, VI: 27 and V: 17.
Color of the holotype in life
The specimen is notable for its lack of pattern and uniform color. The head is brown and darker than the body. There are several white dots dispersed over the head and cheeks. The dorsum is coppery brown and has a few white-spotted scales that did not form a pattern. The subocular is brown and crossed by three white, vertical lines. The dorsal surface of the tail is light brown and without a pattern. The limbs are a dorsal-brown, similar to the dorsal surface, with white dots dispersed on the forelimbs and white transversal lines on the hindlimbs. The flanks are whitish with abundant dark brown scales. Ventrally, the hands, feet, thighs, vent, and tail are yellowish. The belly is whitish with dark dispersed spots and a dark ventral stripe. The throat is whitish with a dark thick reticulation. The precloacal pores are orange.
Variation in the type series
Males are larger and more corpulent than females. In two males: SVL: 84.7–89.1 mm. Axilla-groin distance: 34.9–37.8 mm. Head length: 21.9–22.1 mm. Head width: 15.8–16.3 mm. Head height: 10.4–11.2 mm. Leg length: 45.4–46.1 mm. Arm length: 25.0–25.8 mm. Tail length: 132.4 mm in one specimen, with relation tail length/SVL = 1.56 (autotomized in the other). In three females: SVL: 67.7–73.1 mm. Axilla-groin distance: 33.1–35.7 mm. Head length: 17.8–20.0 mm. Head width: 11.8–13.3 mm. Head height: 7.5–8.3 mm. Leg length: 32.0–34.8 mm. Arm length: 19.2–21.3 mm. Tail length: 98.1 mm in one specimen, with relation tail length/SVL = 1.45 (autotomized in other).
The variation of the scalation in Liolaemus uniformis is as follows. Midbody scales: 58–62 (60.4 ±1.7). Dorsal scales: 56–63 (60.0 ±2.9). Ventral scales 91–102 (96.2 ±4.8). Fourth finger lamellae: 17–20 (19.0 ±1.4). Fourth toe lamellae: 25–27 (26.4 ±0.9). Supralabial scales: 6. Infralabial scales: 4–5 (4.4 ±0.6). Interparietal scale pentagonal, hexagonal or heptagonal, bordered by 5–7 scales (6.0 ±0.7). Nasal and rostral always in contact. Precloacal pores in males: 3. Precloacal pores are absent in females.
In general, all specimens have the pattern and color described for the holotype, with slight variations in shade. The male paratype has a dark brown throat. Two females have inconspicuous dark rings and an inconspicuous vertebral stripe on the dorsal surface of the tail. Also, two females have an olive hue on the snout. One female has a very inconspicuous series of dark crossbars on the paravertebral fields, which, while difficult to count, approximated eight. The juvenile has a similar pattern and color as the holotype, but it has an inconspicuous and fragmented dark vertebral line and inconspicuous dark spots on the paravertebral fields.
Distribution and natural history
This species is currently only known from the type locality in the surroundings of the Chepical Lagoon, approximately 30 km NE of Alicahue, in the San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, Valparaíso Region, Chile (Fig. 7). Specimens were collected on the west shore of the Chepical Lagoon (32°15'S – 70°30'W, 3050 m a.s.l.). This new species was found inhabiting rocky areas with little shrubby vegetation composed mainly of high-Andean forbs, such as Chuquiraga oppositifolia and Azorella sp. (Fig. 8). This lizard was found in abundance and was observed to have saxicolous habits. It was active between 9:00 h and 18:00 h and took refuge under rocks. Moreover, this species was found in syntopy with Phymaturus alicahuense Núñez, Veloso, Espejo, Veloso, Cortés & Araya 2010. Specimens were also observed at lower altitudes (32°16'S - 70°30'W, 2820 m a.s.l.) in similar environments, altitudes at which this species was found in sympatry with a few specimens of L. nigroviridis.
Distributional map for Liolaemus uniformis sp. n. along with geographically proximate species of the nigroviridis group. Red star: L. uniformis sp. n., Chepical Lagoon, type locality. Green circles: L. nigroviridis (1 = Manque, 2 = El Arpa, 3 = Juncal, 4 = Riecillo, 5 = La Campana, 6 = El Roble, without number = near Chepical Lagoon). Pink squares: L. maldonadae (1 = near Alcohuaz, 2 = Los Molles). Yellow triangles: L. lorenzmuelleri (1 = Baños del Toro, 2 = Embalse La Laguna).
View of the type locality of Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., a high Andean environment.
One of the collected specimens had a yellow flower inside of its mouth. An analysis of intestinal contents showed that L. uniformis is omnivorous; plant and Hymenoptera remains were found. A large quantity of nematodes from an unidentified species was found in the intestines. While the reproductive mode is yet unknown, at the time of sampling (December) no evidence of embryos was found but one female had several small oocytes. Comparisons with the reproductive modes of other species in the nigroviridis group would not be helpful as there is little available data. It is known that L. nigroviridis is viviparous (Donoso-Barros 1966) and L. lorenzmuelleri is oviparous (Cortés et al. 1995). Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez (2005) reported that L. maldonadae and L. isabelae are viviparous, but the source of this information is unclear (see Lobo et al. 2010:4) since the reproductive mode was not mentioned in the original descriptions (Navarro and Núñez 1993, Núñez et al. 1991).
Almost no molecular data are currently available for the nigroviridis group, probably due to the great difficulties of obtaining samples since all of these species inhabit high altitude mountainous areas (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005), with only L. constanzae (Ortiz 1975) and L. nigroviridis (Espinoza et al. 2004) recorded below 2000 m a.s.l. (1400 m a.s.l. and 500 m a.s.l., respectively). Moreover, most specimens from the MNHNCL and MZUC collections (the two major herpetological collections in Chile) are fixed with formaldehyde, making DNA extraction and amplification challenging (Lin et al. 2009). In regards to previous works, Torres-Pérez et al. (2009) performed three phylogenetic analysis (Bayesian inference, ML and maximum parsimony) and found that L. nigroviridis is the basalmost species of a clade also composed of L. pseudolemniscatus + L. nigromaculatus + L. platei and that this clade is closely related to L. monticola + L. nitidus clade. Our results are very similar with the nigroviridis and monticola clades as sister groups, but we did not want to include “L. nigromaculatus” from GenBank (Torres-Pérez et al. 2009) because the true identity of this species was only recently clarified (Troncoso-Palacios and Garín 2013) and although a specimen voucher is indicated (CUCH-3143), no locality data is provided. Since we have not seen this specimen we are not sure if it belongs to the true L. nigromaculatus or to L. atacamensis. We also did not include “L. platei” from GenBank (Torres-Pérez et al. 2009) because the specimen voucher (MZUC-30556) was collected in Laja Lagoon, Chile (according to MZUC Book catalog, unpublished) out of the known range for L. platei (Troncoso-Palacios and Marambio-Alfaro 2011), so it could be misidentified. In a recently mitochondrial ML phylogeny performed for a region spanning ND1-COI, Troncoso-Palacios et al. (2015b) found that the L. nigroviridis + L. fuscus clade is the sister group of the monticola clade (L. monticola + L. nitidus + L. confusus). This is also very similar to our result, but since there are not Cyt-b data for L. fuscus, it could not be included in the present analysis.
We recognize that one limitation to our work is that it is based in a phylogenetic analysis of only one mtDNA gene and that a wider phylogenetic DNA analysis (including nuclear genes) should be conducted in the future. This is also true for most of the 21 species of Liolaemus (sensu stricto) described in the last five years, which have been classified through different methodologies in regards to DNA comparisons. For example, three species (L. chavin, L. pachacutec and L. wari) include data from two mtDNA genes and shared data in GenBank (Aguilar et al. 2013). As our work, five species (L. antumalguen, L. burmeisteri, L. cyaneinotatus, L. lonquimayensis and L. ubaghsi) have been described with only Cyt-b data, and one species has been described with two mtDNA genes (L. crandalli). However, DNA data from all these have not been shared in GenBank or other online databases (Avila et al. 2010, 2012, 2015, Escobar-Huerta et al. 2015, Esquerré et al. 2014, Martínez et al. 2011) which does not allow the replication of the provided phylogenies or genetic distances. Two described species (Quinteros 2012, Troncoso-Palacios et al. 2015a), L. abdalai and L. zabalai, are supported in regards to DNA features by previously published phylogenetic works. Nine species (L. aparicioi, L. carlosgarini, L. choique, L. chungara, L. nigrocoeruleus, L. pyriphlogos, L. riodamas, L. scorialis and L. smaug) have been described without the support of molecular data (Abdala et al. 2010, Esquerré et al. 2013, Marambio-Alfaro and Troncoso-Palacios 2014, Ocampo et al. 2012, Quinteros 2012, Quinteros et al. 2014, Troncoso-Palacios et al. 2015a). Finally, one species, L. shitan, was described (Abdala et al. 2010) despite that no molecular differentiation was previously noted (Morando et al. 2003). No description in the last five year had included nuclear genes or more than two mtDNA genes and in most cases when DNA phylogeny is provided no data are shared in GenBank or other online databases. It is evident that Liolaemus researchers should put emphasis on trying to improve this situation in the future.
Although L. uniformis is strongly supported as a sister species of L. nigroviridis (pp = 1), a comprehensive phylogenetic study with more species of this group is needed. For example, L. isabelae was not placed within the nigroviridis group in a mitochondrial phylogenetic study that included one specimen (Schulte and Moreno-Roark 2010), despite that this species has been determined to be a member of this group in cladistic (Lobo 2005) and phenetic studies (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005) based on morphology. We included this species in our comparisons but for the time being, this should not be considered part of the nigroviridis group. Although the morphological cladistic analysis (Lobo 2005) found five apomorphies for the nigroviridis group (range of scale organs on postrostral scales, fourth supralabial - subocular not in contact, range of lamellae on the fourth finger, intraspecific female pattern and the relationship between the subocular length and the eye diameter), this study does not include all species currently accepted as part of the nigroviridis group and does not indicate the specific variation ranges of variation for these features in this group. On the other hand, the phenetic analysis of Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez (2005) does not provide supporting data for the features that were included in the matrix, so it cannot be replicated (see Lobo et al. 2010).
Liolaemus uniformis resembles L. lorenzmuelleri and L. juanortizi in that the three species share a similar background dorsal coloration. Although no molecular data exists to compare L. uniformis with these two species, we propose that the marked differences in scalation and the strongly allopatric distribution (> 240 km of separation), which is quiet considerable for lizards, support classifying L. uniformis as a new taxon. Liolaemus uniformis has probably been misidentified as L. monticola by Núñez et al. (2010), who noted L. monticola as the only lizard species to inhabit in syntopy with Phymaturus alicahuense (no specimen collection indicated). However, the present study found P. alicahuense residing at over 2900 m a.s.l, whereas the upper altitude limit for L. monticola is 2000 m a.s.l. (Espinoza et al. 2004, Fuentes and Ipinza 1979). Therefore, the present data indicates that the only lizards occurring in syntopy with P. alicahuense are L. uniformis and L. nigroviridis. Moreover, L. uniformis and L. monticola shows deep morphological and molecular differences. Liolaemus uniformis has probably also been confused with L. bellii (formerly L. altissimus altissimus) by Mella (2005), who found presence of the latter species in the highlands of Putaendo (no specimen collection indicated). However, a field expedition to the highlands of Putaendo by the authors of the present study found no specimens of L. bellii, and no additional records of L. bellii in this zone are known. Taking into account these details, in addition to both species having a similar background dorsal color, we think that L. uniformis might have been confused with L. bellii.
Several aspects of the nigroviridis group remain uncertain. For example, L. nigroviridis possibly contains at least two species, the nominal species from the Andean highlands and populations from Coastal highlands, formerly L. n. campanae (Cianferoni et al. 2013). Liolaemus juanortizi might be a junior synonym of L. lorenzmuelleri (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005), and although both are certainly very similar, it is difficult to carry out a study on this matter because the type series of L. juanortizi is lost (Valladares 2011) and there are very few samples of this species (Pincheira-Donoso and Núñez 2005). On the other hand, L. melanopleurus remains a problematic species in terms of identification as the type locality is imprecise and no additional specimens have been found in more than 100 years (Troncoso-Palacios 2012).
The present work contributes to the existing taxonomical knowledge, but the nigroviridis group of Liolaemus lizards remains poorly studied, and new samples are required to better investigate its challenging taxonomy.
We thank P. Zabala (Pontificia Universidad de Católica de Chile) for allowing us to review and deposit material in the collection under his care. We are grateful to H. Núñez (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural) and J. Artigas (Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Concepción) for allowing us to review specimens; K. Kelly (Field Museum of Natural History) for providing photographs of one syntype of Liolaemus melanoplaurus; A. Labra, F. Lobo, R. Díaz and C. Garín for sending literature; and A. VanCott (BioPub Ltda.) for improving the English. H. Díaz for the distribution map. J. Troncoso-Palacios thanks M. Penna and A. Labra for their support. We also thank the three anonymous reviewers that contributed to improving the manuscript. Thanks to the Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG) for the collecting permit (N°4468). Red de Observadores de Aves y Fauna de Chile (ROC) for permition to visit the type locality, with special thanks to R. Barros.
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Specimens examined. Acronyms are: Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile (MNHNCL), Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Concepción (MZUC) and Colección de Flora y Fauna, Profesor Patricio Sánchez Reyes de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (SSUC).
Liolaemus bellii. MNHNCL 1599. Sewell, O`Higgins Region, Chile. Elgueta M. coll. December 1982. SSUC 201–05. Casa de Piedra, Farellones, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Ferri F. coll. 12/10/2010. SSUC Re 206–09. El Colorado, Farellones, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Ferri F. coll. 13/11/2011. SSUC Re 398–404, 543. El Olivares, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Garín C. coll. SSUC Re 562–66. La Parva, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Opazo J. coll. December, 2003. SSUC Re 654, 656. Lagunillas, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Esquerré D. 15/02/2015.
Liolaemus constanzae. MZUC 29247, 29250–51. Toconao, Antofagasta Region. Unknown collector and date. MZUC 28763–65, 28767–69. Agua Verde (Quebrada de Taltal), Antofagasta Region. J.C. Ortiz, S. Zunino & M. Riveros colls. 10/02/1975. SSUC Re 338–347. Cuesta Barros Arana, Antofagasta Region. Ferri F. coll. 22/10/2011. SSUC Re 348. Southern Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta Region. Ferri F. coll. 24/10/2011. SSUC RE 482–83, 485, 488. El Abra, Antofagasta Region. G. Lobos & F. Torres colls. 22/11/2003. MNHNCL 1499–1500. Quebrada de Taltal, Agua Verde, 1400 m, Antofagasta Region. S. Zunino & M. Riveros colls. 10/02/1975. MNHNCL 1516–1520. Quebrada de Taltal, Agua Verde, 1480 m, Antofagasta Region. 27/09/1982. Núñez, Yáñez & Contreras colls.
Liolaemus isabelae. SSUC Re 157, 159, 160. El Cerrito, Salar de Pedernales, Atacama Region. F. Ferri & J. Troncoso-Palacios colls. 22/02/2012. SSUC Re 158. Montandón, Salar de Pedernales, Atacama Region. F. Ferri & J. Troncoso-Palacios colls. 22/02/2012.
Liolaemus juanortizi. MZUC 11782. Río Patón, Atacama Region. Cekalovic T. coll. 20/12/1963.
Liolaemus lorenzmuelleri. MNHNCL 2401, 2403, 2404, 2406–08. El Indio, Baños del Toro, Coquimbo Region. H. Núñez & J.C. Torres-Mura colls. 18-22/12/1992. MNHNCL 1708. La Laguna, Valle del Elqui, 3300 m, Coquimbo Region. L. Contreras coll. December, 1982. MZUC 37863–64. Valle de Los Helados, Copiapó, Atacama Region. Asociación de Andinistas de Atacama colls. 13/04/1984.
Liolaemus maldonadae. SSUC Re 304, 305, 560. Quebrada Los Piuquenes, Interior de Alcohuaz, Paihuano, Río Claro, Coquimbo Region. Troncoso-Palacios, J., F. Lobo, A. Laspiur & J.C. Acosta Colls. 10/02/2011.
Liolaemus melanopleurus. MNHNCL 1646 (2 specimens). Atacama. R.A. Philippi col. FMNH 9969 (only digital photographs). Atacama. R.A. Philippi coll.
Liolaemus monticola. SSUC Re 372–79. Camino a Farellones, Curva 20, Metropolitan Region, Chile. Ferri F. coll. 15/03/2012.
Liolaemus nigroviridis. MNHNCL 214–215. San Ramón, 3000 m, Metropolitan Region. H. Núñez coll. February, 1979. SSUC Re 016. El Yeso, Metropolitan Region. C. Garín coll. 01/04/2004. SSUC Re 190–200. Farellones, Casa de Piedra, Camino a Valle Nevado, Metropolitan Region. F. Ferri coll. 12/10/2010.
Liolaemus uniformis. SSUC Re 674–79. West shore of the Chepical Lagoon, approximately 30 km NE Alicahue, San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, Valparaíso Region, Chile. J. Troncoso-Palacios & E. Alfaro. December, 2012.
Specimens used for phylogenetic analysis.
mtDNA sequences obtained in this study. Liolaemus uniformis sp. n.: SSUC Re 674, KU095836. SSUC Re 677 KU095837. L. nitidus: SSUC Re 298, Dunas de Ritoqui, Valparaíso Region, Chile. KU095835. L. confusus: SSUC Re 356, Cerro Robles Riscos de Jote, O`Higgins Region, Chile. KU095832. L. curicensis: SSUC Re 253, Termas del Flaco, O`Higgins, Chile. KU095833. L. kuhlmanni: SSUC Re 285, Termas del Flaco, O`Higgins, Chile. KU095834. L. bellii: SSUC Re 208, El Colorado, Farellones, Metropolitan Region. KU095830. L. bellii: SSUC Re 209, El Colorado, Farellones, Metropolitan Region. KU095831.
mtDNA sequences obtained from GenBank. Liolaemus nigroviridis: Farellones. KC313199, KC313202, KC313203, KC313204, KC313205, KC313206, KC313208, KC313211, KC313207, KC313210, KC313209. L. monticola: Yerba Loca AY850619, Alfalfal AY850616, Maipú AY851724, Cuesta Chacabuco AY851718, Quebrada Alvarado AY851726, Colorado Norte AY851713, Cabrería AY851708, Rocín AY851710. L. tenuis: Termas de Chillán DQ989790. L. abdalai: Valle Chimehuin JN410525. L. alticolor: Huancarani KF923660. Santa Ana KF923659. L. austromendocinus: Nihuil AY173838. L. buergeri: El Planchón KJ494079, KJ494070, KJ494080. L. capillitas: Ruta Provincial AY173844. L. chiliensis: Termas de Chillan DQ989785, Las Trancas EU649245. L. cyanogaster: Tucapel DQ989786. L. dicktracy: Alto del Carrizal AY367816. L. elongatus: Esquel AY173801, Gobernador Costa AY173818, Los Manantiales AY173826, Laguna Blanca AY173855, Pampa de Lonco Luan AY173827, Las Ardillas AY173852. L. gununakuna: La Amarga AY367807, AY173859. L. incaicus: Urco KF923658, Lucre KF923657. L. kriegi: all from Río Negro Province AY173802, KJ494012, KJ494150, KJ494190, AY173814, KJ494155, KJ494191, KJ494188. L. neuquensis: Primeros Pinos AY173828. L. parvus: Quebrada Honda AY173836. L. petrophilus: El Cuy AY173796, Los Menucos JN847211, Ingeniero Jacobacci JN847103. L. pictus: San Carlos de Bariloche AY173795. L. punmahuida: Volcán Tromen AY173824. L. ramirezae: E Amaicha del Valle JN410520. L. robertmertensi: Tinogasta DQ989769. L. saxatilis: Achiras JN410553, Río Cuarto JN410527. L. smaug: Las Leñas AY173832, Mallines Colgados AY173830. L. talampaya: Las Yeguas River AY173797. L. tregenzai: all from Termas de Copahue AY367817, KJ494036, KJ494230, KJ494040, KJ494039, KJ494037, KJ494038. L. tulkas: Quebrada Las Angosturas AY367813. L. umbrifer: Quebrada de Randolfo AY367814. L. villaricensis: Volcán Villarrica AY850629, AY730671. L. zabalai: all from Biobío Region KJ494059, KJ494056, KJ494057, KJ494086, KJ494074, KJ494085. Phymaturus vociferator: Laguna del Laja JX969016. Phymaturus felixi: Paso de Indios JX969044.
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Dieter II
We met in Monday morning’s “Fundamentals of Group Dynamics” class. There was chemistry and mutual attraction from the start. Dieter II was tall and handsome with dark shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, fine features, and plump lips like a girl. We had been studying with the same professor for three semesters and discovered that we had read the same books, liked the same authors, in social sciences, psychology, and literature. On the last day of class, Dieter II announced that he was moving to Berlin. I sensed that he was too shy to make the first move; it was up to me to seduce him.
As we were leaving class I lurked about him and then managed to stand behind him on the escalator leading down to the first floor.
”Do you feel like continuing our discussion over lunch?” I asked.
“Sure, I’d like that,” he said.
At the bottom of the escalator we turned left to the cafeteria. I stood in front of the counter and could not make up my mind. Did I want the Königsberger Klopse or the noodles? I wasn’t hungry. I had no inclination to discuss Adorno, Horkheimer and the contributions of the Frankfurter Schule to the Studies of the Authoritarian Character. I needed a beer to calm my anxiety. Dieter II made his selection. I picked the noodles, he went for sausage and potato salad, and we both proceeded with our plastic orange trays to the cashier.
In a secluded corner we found a table with a view of the lake. I finished my beer in no time and picked at my food. Watching him eat, I got worried. Didn’t a man’s way of eating point to his skills in bed? Dieter did not taste, smell, or even chew his Würstchen mit Kartoffelsalat. He shoveled the food into his mouth at breakneck speed and then swallowed it. Would he be one of the guys who tore a woman’s clothes off, skipped foreplay and got right down to it? The way he inhaled his sausages, signaled he might climb on top of me for a few missionary minutes culminating in premature ejaculation.
“Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen.” Adorno is brilliant, don’t you think?”
“You really can’t say it any better way,” I agreed. “I try to live authentically, but it’s hard in this sea of pretense, among all these phony people.”
“Do you like Frank Zappa?”
“I like a lot of his lyrics. ‘Plastic People’ is one of my favorites.”
Dieter’s eyes sparkled like the decorations on a Christmas tree. He started to recite:
A fine little girl
She waits for me
She’s as plastic
As she can be
I chimed in:
Me see a neon
Moon above
I searched for years
I found no love
We finished together in perfect harmony:
I’m sure that love
Will never be
We stayed three more hours. Like me Dieter II was fond of Peter Handke .
“The man is a genius. Don’t you think he deserves the Nobel Prize for Short
Letter, Long Farewell?” I asked.
”Of course,” Dieter said. “No one else comes up with lines like ‘This is my second day in
America. I wonder if I’ve already changed.’”
We were made for each other. Soul mates, if such a thing existed. Neither of us felt like leaving, but the Turkish cleaning ladies in their light blue uniforms had started to move around noisily. Some were wiping the tables; others made a concert worthy of modern music with their buckets and mops. It was time to go.
“Let’s go to Pinkus Müller,” I said.
“Your wish is my command,” he answered.
Pinkus Müller was an old establishment dating back to 1816 and the glory days of the University of Münster. Its slogan was “Student life is not complete without Pinkus Müller.” There was a long history of dueling clubs whose members proudly exhibited their facial scars, drinking themselves into a stupor, thereby missing class the next morning. These fraternity members were punished with a few days of incarceration until they had sobered up. Tourists could take a tour of the university with the special detention cells, and admire the walls covered with graffiti and caricatures of evil professors dating back to 1902. There was plenty of evidence of mindless drinking throughout the centuries. On a regular day Dieter II and I would not be caught dead in this pub. Pinkus Müller was for conservative law students, supporters of the bishop, the right to life movement and other idiots. But that day Pinkus Müller felt right. We downed several pints of dark beer. I pulled up all the alcohol infused strawberries from the bottom of the glass and ate them one by one. Dieter II let me have his and fed them to me. He was hungry again and ordered the special Möppkes un Liärberbraut met Schmoräppelkes as Pinkus Müller insisted on regional Westphalian home cooking and would have none of the fancier nouvelle French or German dishes you could find in other restaurants. I watched with concern as he devoured his liverwurst sandwich topped with sautéed apples. Meanwhile I continued to suck dreamily on my strawberries, getting drunker by the minute. Although I was living with Dieter I, I had no inhibitions or guilt about cheating on him. I had only one concern. How could Dieter II perform after all this beer? Would he make love as fast and sloppy as he ate?
“Feel like coming over to my place for a cup of coffee?” He finally asked. I was primed. We walked along the Prinzipalmarkt, past the cages where the devout had speared and beheaded the Anabaptists, the Rathaus where in 1649 after thirty years of war they signed the peace treaty, past the fancy café where I had a part time job as a dish washer, and into Hacklenburg Street, where he shared a flat with a pal from his home town.
We never got to drink the coffee. His roommate retreated to his room as soon as we arrived. Ten minutes later we ended up on Dieter’s single bed. I was in for a pleasant surprise. Despite his greedy eating habits, Dieter II was a slow, delicate and attentive lover. He started by nibbling my neck, then covered me with kisses and very very slowly worked his way downward. I had given up bras in the 11th grade, so when he peeled off my T-shirt, he had no obstruction and started to caress my nipples with his tongue. Unable to contain my excitement any longer, I ripped off my jeans. He took his time, made me ache in anticipation of his next move.
I stayed all night. There was no point in going home. I had missed the last bus and I’d be in trouble with Dieter I whenever I got home. Why leave now? We had sex three times and must have resembled acrobats doing the impossible on a tiny bed. The most exciting moments happened in between the acts of fornication. My first orgasm. Ever. Between the second and third time Dieter got hungry again and fixed himself a Schmalzstulle. I declined a helping of the brown bread spread with goose liver fat, but accepted some of his father’s home made apricot Schnaps. After two hours of uncomfortable sleep, pressed against the wall on his hard single bed, he woke me up with a cup of coffee, the one he had promised me in Pinkus Müller.
“How did you get so good at making love?” I just had to know. Dieter II had suffered from a tight foreskin early in life. This had made erections and penetration painful. Too embarrassed to tell his parents, he waited until he moved to Tübingen for his civil service to undergo the simple procedure that liberated him from his foreskin. In the presurgery years he had become a skillful lover, experimental, adventurous, and unbelievably accomplished in the art of pleasing a woman via oral or manual stimulation. When I mentioned my good luck to my gay friend Halina she commented: “Now you understand what lesbian sex is all about.”
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Germans in American and German Films
The anticipation for the new films from Germany at the Museum of Modern Art was high. A double feature. "On the Line" (Auf der Strecke) is Reto Caffi’s graduate project from Cologne’s Academy of Media Arts. It tells the story of a shy security guard who works for a large Zürich department store. He is infatuated with the bookshop clerk who works in the same store. He spies on her and follows her to the subway. The second film, "The Other Day in Eden" (Gestern in Eden) was written by Jan Speckenbach while he was studying at Berlin’s Film and TV Academy. Speckenbach tells the story of a man who goes to a nudist colony in the former East Germany to manage his recently deceased father’s affairs. At the colony, he starts a sexual relationship with the nurse who was his father's girlfriend.
My friends and I who have lived in New York City for more than 20 years were disappointed by these films described as “stories not about those from the East or those from the West, but just Germans, grappling with life, love, and trust” (Eddie Cockrell). We knew that American film and TV portrays Germans as Nazis, deranged scientists and insane psychiatrists. The Germans in those films never talk. They bark. For a more flattering portrayal of the Krauts there are the occasional Bavarians in lederhosen doing the Schuhplattler dance.
The Germans in the new films from Germany smoke nonstop. They have trouble connecting to other human beings. They throw themselves into raw, animal sex with no foreplay, no romance. No tender words are spoken. The Germans in the new German films are people without a conscience allowing a gang of four to beat up and kill a young man in the subway.
Which version is better? The Germans portrayed by American film or the Germans portrayed by German and Swiss filmmakers?
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Anna Steegmann 2 Worlds
A FOOT IN TWO WORLDS-LIFE IN TWO LANGUAGES
Anna Steegmann
Born in Germany, I moved to New York in 1980. After working as an actress and psychotherapist, I now make writing and translating my priority. I teach writing at The City College of New York and Boricua College in the Bronx.
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Woodbury: University or Conspiracy?
by Pixeleen Mistral on 08/07/07 at 5:25 pm
by Janelle Kyomoon, former Woodbury University visitor
the lost SL campus of Woodbury University
Woodbury University, a liberal arts college located in Burbank, California, has been the heated subject of controversy since the conception of its virtual campus in March of 2007. The finger has been pointed at Woodbury for being a conspiracy and cover-up for recent griefer activity. What was the initial plan for Woodbury University in Second Life? Was it just a haven for griefers, or did legitimate educational activities ever occur?
In the spring of 2007, Woodbury’s school Media, Culture, and Design offered an experimental communications course under the title CO-3714 Virtual Worlds. This course was designed to study the culture of the internet, and interact with it via the metaverse that we all know as Second Life.
The first Woodbury campus was designed in a terracotta, Moroccan theme and housed a large auditorium, a student store, and a media culture building. The auditorium was used for several scholastic events, including a biography presentation of visionary Leo Bronstein. Students from Woodbury met at the campus twice a week to creatively collaborate on designs, and experience virtual interaction.
In order to keep the highly-stylized designs of the campus uncluttered, a student sandbox was created below the campus. The students began using this free area as more of a “cultural” sandbox rather than a technical one. Students posted different humorous images from the internet and used it as their place to hang out in the metaverse. Many of these images originated from the website 4chan.org which almost instantly attracted the attention of other 4chan fans. I am not one that openly agrees with some of the things done by the 4channers or /b/tards as they are called but they usually kept to themselves in the sandbox and in one instance where one of the few did come over to grief me and they were quickly ejected and banned from the area.
Woodbury’s open door policy had pluses and minues – like SL itself
Due to Woodbury’s open-door policy in the cultural sandbox, many users took advantage of this in a positive manner, and others abused it. The day that the Patriotic Nigra were tipped off to the existence of what they dubbed “The Shrine” is the day trouble began for the school. The sim was crashed repeatedly, which immediately drew the attention of the Lindens and anti-griefing groups such as the JLU. The first campus was deleted by the Lindens under the assumption that it was a stronghold for the PN, rather than a legitimate university.
the Justice League’s Woodbury files
The school was able to phone Linden Labs and explain the situation, but the damage to the sim was permanent. The new “downtown Los Angeles” themed campus was quickly reconstructed with the assistance of many sympathetic users from the university and 4chan. In order to prevent further griefing attacks, the “Woodbury University” group was formed with exclusive build and scripts rights being given to it.
Es wäre doch schön…
Student activities and learning did take place at Woodbury University. One only has to look so far to see so. Lynn Insoo, a metaversal visionary and immersive 3D specialist, was able to display his amazing 360 degree photos and video at the Lucid Exhibition within the Woodbury sim. His work drew high-profile users to WU, including no less than 5 Lindens. He was also included in the German publication Hello Second Life, praising his accomplishments at Woodbury. Lynn even named off many Lindens that visited the Woodbury campus to see exhibit as witnessed in chat logs I have of him speaking with Tizzers Foxchase:
Lynn Insoo: I actually remember bringing Jack to see the exhibit at Woodbury.
Tizzers Foxchase: Was it true you brought Philip Rosedale to the exhibition?
Lynn Insoo: There were several Lindens brought there. Jack, Glenn, Matthew, Which and Qarl Linden.
Lynn Insoo: All found the research interesting and were glad to see such work being done on campus.
Lynn Insoo: I never showed Philip Rosedale my work personally.
Woodbury also housed a movie studio on the campus for the students interested in film creation. The studio focused on the art of Machinima, bringing real world filming techniques into a virtual space. Several sets were constructed including a Back to the Future themed set, a green-screen sound stage, and a Soviet nuclear submarine from Hunt for Red October.
Woodbury University was an open canvas that allowed students from other schools to come and try their hand in this virtual world, I being one of them. Since my earlier years I have been fascinated by fashion and the work that goes into, specifically costumes or cosplay. Having made many of my own costumes and outfits in my First Life, I saw Second Life and Woodbury as an outlet to express ideas in fashion and costuming. Woodbury University allowed me a space to work with prims and other options to fully express myself creatively in the virtual world so that I may carry it back into my first life. My use of the prims were purely basic and simple use to obtain a style of look and clothing and still is. I started off reading blogs and looking in the beginners area of Second Life. Woodbury gave me a place to freely express my ideas without putting down a ton of money to have a place to store some of the prim objects I was using.
Woodbury was not a haven for griefers. It was not a conspiracy. Woodbury University broke the mold of traditional educational methods in Second Life. An environment such as Second Life has become an immense opportunity for small schools such as WU, allow them to compete with larger players (such as Harvard). Woodbury has continually managed to remain the #1 most visited real life educational spot in Second Life with a daily traffic average of 10,000.
76 Responses to “Woodbury: University or Conspiracy?”
>I refer you to:
Um, China blocking Google isn’t like some European countries blocking a racist and obscene site *shrugs*. Go and read at least Wikipedia, lametard.
Allana, coming from YOU as the source, this parsing has absolutely no credibility. And your parsing is completely lame, just like all the other apologists for Woodbury. It’s not a question of taking one’s head out of SL; it’s a question of taking one’s head out of one’s ass.
Where’s the course list?
Where’s the course web page?
Where’s the entire “School of Digital Arts” web page?
Where’s the reading list?
Where’s the actual student projects?
The professor himself is either a fraud, or is prototyping something not yet finished that is totally not ready for prime time and which he himself is guilty of misrepsrenting here with his idiot propaganda implying his island’s closure had to do with racism against Hispanic students (!).
Why can’t common-sense questions be asked about this?
I don’t notice even the Leninists and Dan “Zhelenyakov” Hunter even coming to the rescue of these griefing apologists.
Try to accept that it’s a scam, and one that has everything to do with sinister Internet subcultures, as much as you’d like to pretend they don’t exist.
“Try to accept that it’s a scam”
Provide real, hard line evidence dearie.
Jim Schack
good luck getting that outta her. Still waiting for proof for my involvement on crashing her sim.
Allana Dion
I’m clearly not an “apologist” for Woodbury. Hell, I had the PN and /b/tard morons on my own site sniping at me for daring to have an opinion on this.
Since you’re so blocked when it comes to comprehending anything I say simply because I’m the one saying it, I’ll make my opinion a little more clear for you.
Linden Lab was right to close the Woodbury sim and in fact, should have done it sooner.
The professor is an employee of Woodbury University, the real University, that’s easy to verify.
But the professor did not do his job as he should have, that’s easy to see. (which explains your inability to find a course list, a reading list, etc.)
The students grew increasingly out of control and increasingly involved with lower elements of the internet, with Tizzers leading the charge.
None of the above indicates a conspiracy, nor fraud. It points only to incompetence on the part of Clift and immaturity and incompetence on the part of those he put in charge.
I hope that Tizzers has been disciplined by the University, perhaps she’ll learn something from the experience. I hope that the professor gets some flak from his superiors as well, perhaps next time he’ll do his job better.
It is calling it a “conspiracy” or a “scam” that I don’t understand. A conspiracy to do what? A scam to gain what?
Which is the more rational possibility, that an associate professor of communications is more likely to be lazy and unprofessional, or more likely to be some kind of con artist?
B.S. Pointer
>>@anon/kalel
I doubt anyone cares if you “sanction” it or not, except for a 1 or 2 people complaining.
Im assuming you “sanction” it because that wiki page shows the pro JLU side of the story of when you attacked the WU sim.
Whatever Hazim. Kinda funny how that whole article was re-written and edited by a /b/tard and the end result is what you see now up there in the article. It seems pretty damn unbiased as possible with more of a /b/tard side showing through in showing how much accidental damage some of the League did by shooting off the hip. It seems to show what went on with Woodbury quite nicely in a nutshell for someone who wants to get up to speed on things quickly. It also shows how the PN pretty much barged in, covertly or not, and used Woodbury dragging the non griefing /b/tards and eventually the whole sim down by their barging in. Learn to read Hazim, nice try.
>”The professor himself is either a fraud, or is prototyping something not yet finished that is totally not ready for prime time and which he himself is guilty of misrepsrenting here with his idiot propaganda implying his island’s closure had to do with racism against Hispanic students (!).”
I agree with you that clearly this associate professor crossed a lot of lines and playing the race card sealed my opinion about him definantly. As a hispanic myself, that comment actually pissed me off. But it still only shows incompetence and idiocy, not out and out evil.
But yes, it’s easy enough to verify the man does work (for the time being at least) for Woodbury University.
There is no course information for this particular class that I was able to find either. But you can search the site for yourself if you like .. http://www.woodbury.edu/index.aspx
Jessica Holyoke
One point of reason. In the article “griefer U”, the initial investigation by Prok was due to a police blotter report;
Violation: Community Standards: Harassment, Soliciting Abuse
Region: Woodbury University
Description: Organizing abusive attacks on regions.
Action taken: Suspended 3 days (copied from original article.)
The JLU brainiac wiki entry above seems to describe the incident that lead to the police blotter entry. (Early April could mean April 12th, the fact that a number of accounts that were present at the time of intervention by the JLU were banned which would correspond with the police blotter entry.) The entry shown above was last modified April 23rd. Perhaps the JLU could enlighten people with their research into the activities of the Woodbury group since that time. Because based on that April entry, the Woodbury Sim was not guilty of anything but allowing PN’s to use their land.
Here’s what I mean by evidence.
At http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/07/woodbury-univ-1.html#comment-75282002, Tizzers Foxchase stated that she received the screenshot from the Brainiac wiki from Carigorp Matzerath.
I talked to Carigorp Matzerath and he said that he did not give permission to access his account, nor did he give out the screenshot to Tizzers. This means that Tizzer’s comment is a lie.
In talking further with Carigorp, he revealed that the heist of information was done by the PN months ago, but that the copies still existed and were passed around. So if the actual exploit was done by the PN and the copies were freely floating around, then why lie about something that was easily verifiable? Its been established that the PN hung out at Woodbury. It’s likely that if the PN invaded the brainiac wiki, they would have taken a copy of the woodbury entry because it mentioned the PN’s. So it was likely they would have shared that information. So why lie about it? That’s proof of eddie haskelling. That’s being evasive. That’s the sign of a guilty mind.
John Endwahl
Here’s the deal.
Woodbury bought a sim to use for ed purposes, to be the basis for a class, and to show off to their board/donors.
Then it fell by the wayside. There was no accountability, Tizzers got the griefing bug and has now been trying to justify it as research.
It’s not so much a conspiracy as it is arrogant and aimless people letting things get out of hand.
Tizzers Foxchase
I think out of everybody here, John Endwahl got it right. (Except for the part where I “got the griefing bug.”)
Back in March, Clift gave me control of the sim as an estate manager. While playing around with terraforming, Darthblueafro and I thought it would be fun to dig an underground hangout. It didn’t really become “The Shrine” until Darth brought Ron Graves (who then called in everybody else including the PN). I was fascinated with the fact that we had 10-15 people hanging out at the once quiet Woodbury sim.
Honestly I did not even know what a doomsday gun was until I experienced it first hand (Some PN shooting it off at WU). WU was never meant to be a place for griefers. There is no conspiracy Prokofy. Things got out of hand and I am somewhat to blame for not stopping it earlier.
Also, just to clear things up… I still have my “job” (it’s actually a work-study) at Woodbury.
[23:24] Me: We need to settle this once and for all like decent people. This whole thing is getting out of hand and it’s causing nothing both unnecessary drama for both sides. I am not the super villain you think I am. I don’t sit here plotting and planning ways to cause you pain. In fact I spend most of my SL time shooting the breeze with Intlibber at the AVIX. If you don’t believe me I will allow you to see me on the map at all times. I don’t have anything to hide. So will you lay off with the conspiracy stuff?
[23:24] Prokofy Neva: blow me
[23:24] Prokofy Neva: MUTE
Prokofy you are an unreasonable, mentally-ill, psychotic person who needs professional help.
>”In talking further with Carigorp, he revealed that the heist of information was done by the PN months ago, but that the copies still existed and were passed around. So if the actual exploit was done by the PN and the copies were freely floating around, then why lie about something that was easily verifiable? Its been established that the PN hung out at Woodbury. It’s likely that if the PN invaded the brainiac wiki, they would have taken a copy of the woodbury entry because it mentioned the PN’s. So it was likely they would have shared that information. So why lie about it? That’s proof of eddie haskelling. That’s being evasive. That’s the sign of a guilty mind.”
Oh boy. That doesn’t look good on Tizzers part. I mean why lie about it, why not just come out and say that it’s easily obtainable since it’s floating around out there. She’s been given the benefit of the doubt many many times but I have a feeling her lies are starting to catch up to her.
>>”I agree with you that clearly this associate professor crossed a lot of lines and playing the race card sealed my opinion about him definantly. As a hispanic myself, that comment actually pissed me off. But it still only shows incompetence and idiocy, not out and out evil.”
I agree with this wholeheartedly, being Hispanic myself, and not living very far from the RL Woodbury. I find these remarks made by Clift insulting. Considering that alot public schools, community colleges, and Universities are 50-70% Hispanic/and/or any other race or “minority.” Going to these schools in Southern California I can tell you that racism plays into things very little considering that most of the staff is of a “minority.” Southern California is a pretty big melting pot…these remarks trying to justify what occurred with the Woodbury sim were way out of line..and I’ve still yet to see Clift issue an apology.
>Then it fell by the wayside. There was no accountability, Tizzers got the griefing bug and has now been trying to justify it as research.
>It’s not so much a conspiracy as it is arrogant and aimless people letting things get out of hand.
>Posted by: John Endwahl | July 10, 2007 at 02:18 AM
And Tizzers is…who? Fired? Not fired?
And why is there no course record? What you fail to see is that it is indeed a conspiracy.
It’s everywhere, in your gas stations, and your Wal-Marts ROFL.
(P.S. re: Website you have — I remember a letter exactly like that in 1972, with the same prototype machine called then “telecopier,” only in another company — Xerox — in another country and city, and with more emphasis on carrier beads and magnetic fusion and the role they would play in imaging.)
Prok. Seriously.
A conspiracy? That’s giving the PN, the /B/tards from the various chans, the SA goons and Tizzers waaay too much credit.
If you look around on the 4 chan and 7 chan sites, as well as SomethingAwful.com, you will see that all of them, consist of nothing more then some kids making fun of everything they can find to make fun of on the internet. Furries, foreigners, racists (Hal Turner is a good example), eachother (fail 7chan is made of fail! NO U!), anime fans who like Japan too much (weeaboo’s anyone?), youtube movies, tubgirl, and everything else they can get a response out of. That’s basically all they do, exchange anime, manga, porn and childporn pics and poke fun at people.
If you look around on poolsclosed.com, you can easily find some RL pics of various PN members, and you will see that it’s just a group of teenagers. The recent ‘raid’ on Anthrocon shows what they can really do. 3 PN showing up at a furry con, with ‘pool’s closed’ signs…
White kids with afros hoding anti furry signs, cowering in the rain holding umbrellas that a friendly furry (yes, a FURRY) gave them.
Now, if you want to suspect those kids of conspiring against you, Prokofy, GET REAL.
They couldn’t even conspire against a wet paper bag.
Secondly, all these forementioned sites and chans and whatnot were around AGES before anyone has EVER heard of SL, let alone of you Prok.
And thirdly, yes, someone CAN easily claim they often visit 4chan for the manga images. I do. As well as 7chan. It’s a fantastic place to find your anime and manga fix.
Yes, there’s a lot of shit flying around there, raids planned, hatespeech and racism going on. A LOT. So fucking what. Great proof that they conspire against you.
Actually, the only thing all these places share, is that they dislike anything out of the usual. And gee, that includes people who rant on all sorts of things on their blog and the SLHerald, and ESPECIALLY if they so nicely respond to being poked with a stick.
Try ignoring them COMPLETELY for a while, you’ll see that they will eventually get bored and just go back to griefing furries.
Take it from a furry who’s had quite some experience being griefed by these guys. They might be a nuisance, but seriously, they’re NOTHING more then that.
In short, they’re not smart enough to conspire against you, and you’re crazy, or just have a too huge ego if you think that all of them founded the chans and SA *just* for you.
And yes, they ARE poking you JUST BECAUSE you make such a nice target by shouting bloody murder at each time. My advice? Don’t respond, don’t talk to them, don’t IM them, don’t post abnout it on your blog. Just ignore, and ban.
They’ll be back with an alt, but eventually will stop if you ignore them completely. Cause that’s all they want: attention.
Sadly their parents won’t give that to them to get them out of our hairs.
Thinks With Portals
first id like to say thank you to Janelle Kyomoon for her written word said about WU. the open door policy really does bring in all sorts of people. this brings light to something that was shown dark from people who make there first judgments on something they read from here instead of going there them selfs and experiencing it.
now this may be taken off of the herald. it might not. this may even get my account banned. but this is something i read that shows the colors of second life in its full assortment of colors.
For years, Second life and Linden labs like to paint themselfs with the brush of creative and expressive freedom.
When in reality, the world of second life is far from Free. Really, all we’re garunteed by the Community standards are a few simple basic “rights” to protection from being harassed or “assaulted” with virtual popguns.
After further examination though, what rights do we have towards freedom of expression, freedom of assembly? Could peaceful protest fall in as a breech of “Disturbing the Peace” in the ’Big six’?
Disturbing the Peace
Every Resident has a right to live their Second Life. Disrupting scheduled events, repeated transmission of undesired advertising content, the use of repetitive sounds, following or self-spawning items, or other objects that intentionally slow server performance or inhibit another Resident’s ability to enjoy Second Life are examples of Disturbing the Peace.
We really have none.
Every day I hear the excuse “Well, they own the sim, they can do what they want!” thrown around. If that’s true, then we’re simply living in a totalatarian virtual state.
Where freedom only goes so far as the social norm and if something is found “broadly offensive” by more than a few people, it can likely be construed as harassment, disturbing the peace, or some form of griefing.
There’s no standard sim owners have to follow as far as granting rights to individuals. The only people with any kind of “Rights” are the sim owners themselfs, they’re merely sharing those rights as privledges to the individuals for staying on their land if they agree with them. Noone has to put up with individuals assembling on their sims for peaceful protest or otherwise, not even the lindens. Even if the individuals in the sim are supporting the majority of the sim through donations, they can be removed if whoever has the power or ownership rights disagrees with them in any sort of way.
You’re only “free” in second life if you and your opinions fit the social norm and don’t break any taboos. We’ve gone from trying to protect individuals from harassment into an era of imprisoning our own kind in a jail made of political correctness and trying to avoid offending anyone. Nevermind that we don’t actually put any limits on what’s acceptably “offensive.”, just whatever the current “moral majority” feels like is offensive. We’ve taken the power out of the hands and voices of individuals who actually play this game day-to-day and put them into the hands of those who can manipulate the “Moral majority”.
shockwave yareach
Dear anonymous furry:
They are a mere annoyance, yes. Right up to the moment that they deploy their doomsday weapon and other simcrashing tools. And if build is turned off, as it is in most of Furnation, they’ll crash the sim other ways. This is not silly fun like the Gremlins particle gag (which is funny and temporary) – this is out and out war on the grid and everyone on it.
Trolls that do no actual harm are tolerable, if annoying. But those that repeatedly crash the network to get their LULz have no place in the metaverse and should be removed from it. The efforts a handful of people have to go through just to watch the FPS without being soundgreifed or buried in penises is considerable. (And just what is the fascination the b tards and their ilk have with doggy cocks in the first place? Are they closet bestialists or something?)
asdhvgf
“We’ve taken the power out of the hands and voices of individuals who actually play this game day-to-day and put them into the hands of those who can manipulate the “Moral majority”.”
Sounds a lot like RL. Scary.
edward.clift@woodbury.edu
This is Mr. Clift’s email address, his professional one. I will not give out his personal email address. Anyone who feels they should, please email Mr. Clift and POLITELY ask him to apologize for playing the race card when RL racism has no play in Second Life. He needs to apologize for his remarks.
Janelle Kyomoon
>>[23:24] Me: We need to settle this once and for all like decent people. This whole thing is getting out of hand and it’s causing nothing both unnecessary drama for both sides. I am not the super villain you think I am. I don’t sit here plotting and planning ways to cause you pain. In fact I spend most of my SL time shooting the breeze with Intlibber at the AVIX. If you don’t believe me I will allow you to see me on the map at all times. I don’t have anything to hide. So will you lay off with the conspiracy stuff?
This shows just exactly how childish Prokofy can be… honestly should a 50 year old who has a job in the UN and is noted for translating russian text be talking like this. You would think with that job and those translations under her belt she would at least at like a mature human being.
I agree that there were greifers that got out of hand in Woodbury but there is NO CONSPIRACY behind it. And honestly who would want to believe a 50 year old woman that uses the phrase “blow me” when someone honestly goes to here trying to bury that hatchet and make things work… do you really want to believe her conspiracy theories. Sorry I couldn’t post to this earlier. I am enjoying the rest of my vacation visiting beautiful shrines and gardens in Tokyo, Japan. Hope all of you have a wonderful week including Prokofy
This article is funny, the Woodbury University in RL said they knew nothing about a Second Life or Virtual Woodbury and so that being said the Woodbury in SL is nothing but a fake PN stonghold.
>You’re only “free” in second life if you and your opinions fit the social norm and don’t break any taboos. We’ve gone from trying to protect individuals from harassment into an era of imprisoning our own kind in a jail made of political correctness and trying to avoid offending anyone. Nevermind that we don’t actually put any limits on what’s acceptably “offensive.”, just whatever the current “moral majority” feels like is offensive. We’ve taken the power out of the hands and voices of individuals who actually play this game day-to-day and put them into the hands of those who can manipulate the “Moral majority”.
Thinks With Portals thinks up his ass.
I’m um baffled why I need to make available servers I pay LL rent for to you for your infantile ventings and “expressions”.
Buy or rent your own goddamn server and see if you can get away with the kinds of things you think are “art”. So far, it hasn’t always impressed the Lindens that crashing servers, testing weapons, rezzing racist crap all qualifies as “art”.
I’ve yet to find any moral majority — or frankly, even minority! — in Second Life.
What I have found is a determined minority of nihilist totalitarian assholes masquerading their licentiousness with infantile screams about their “rights” and “freedom”.
>I agree that there were greifers that got out of hand in Woodbury but there is NO CONSPIRACY behind it. And honestly who would want to believe a 50 year old woman that uses the phrase “blow me” when someone honestly goes to here trying to bury that hatchet and make things work… do you really want to believe her conspiracy theories. Sorry I couldn’t post to this earlier. I am enjoying the rest of my vacation visiting beautiful shrines and gardens in Tokyo, Japan. Hope all of you have a wonderful week including Prokofy
Blow me.
That’s about the only appropriate thing I can think to say to someone who is a serial griefer and liar.
And here again we see Prokofy yelling her childish high school mentality again. Spouting names and obscenities instead of facts.
Alyx Stoklitsky
Prok, I find you conduct and words towards Janelle to be utterly repulsive. Janelle is not even a /b/tard, but rather just someone who found herself a home in the Woodbury sim.
Also, lets have a fucking rest with the 20th century Russian politics, shall we? I’m sick of hearing your stream of cold-war buzz-words. Sounds to me like you’ve been brainwashed by your government.
GODLESS COMMUNISM!1!1!11
jaster
Real nice! Many thanks, Cheers!
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Abbreviated Title: Acta Zool. Mex
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Date received: 01 September 2017
Date accepted: 15 March 2018
Publication date (electronic): 29 October 2018
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DOI: 10.21829/azm.2018.3412120
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Mechanical characterization of the Amazonian Pomacea dolioides (Reeve, 1856) shell
Translated Title (es): Caracterización mecánica de conchas amazónicas de Pomacea dolioides (Reeve, 1856)
Ariana Freire Andrade[1][*]
Rodrigo Bíscaro Nogueira[1]
[1] Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologias - ICET, Universidade Federal do Amazonas -UFAM, Rua Nossa Senhora do Rosário, 3863, Tiradentes. CEP: 69103-128, Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil. <rodrigobiscaro@gmail.com> Universidade Federal do Amazonas Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologias - ICET Universidade Federal do Amazonas -UFAM 69103-128 Itacoatiara Amazonas Brazil rodrigobiscaro@gmail.com
Correspondence to: [*] Corresponding author: arianaandrade01@hotmail.com
Editor responsable: Alfonso Correa Sandoval
We investigated the mechanical behavior of freshwater mollusk shells, Pomacea dolioides, collected from a floodplain area located in Amazonas, Brazil. With the purpose of characterizing the mechanical properties of the shells, bending, hardness and roughness tests were carried out. To determine the shell flexural strength, a new methodology was proposed for the calculation of it, considering the curved geometry of the specimens taken from the shells. It was also described the mechanical properties as a function of shell position and thickness, variation of the surface hardness along the shell and the low level of superficial irregularity in the inner layer of the shells. Shell presented a mean flexural rupture modulus (MOR) of 128.0 MPa, Rockwell HR15N hardness = 50 ± 8.3 and a low level of irregularities in the inner layer, roughness Ra = 0.160 μm.
Investigamos el comportamiento mecánico de las conchas de moluscos de agua dulce, Pomacea dolioides, recolectados en un área de llanuras aluviales en Amazonas, Brasil. Con el fin de caracterizar las propiedades mecánicas de éstas, se utilizaron ensayos de flexión, dureza y rugosidad. Para determinar la resistencia a la flexión del material, se propuso una nueva metodología para el cálculo de la resistencia a la flexión, considerando la geometría curva de los cuerpos de prueba retirados de las conchas. También se describieron las propiedades mecánicas analizados en función de la posición y de la espesura de la concha, la variación de la superficie de la rigidez con el concha y el nivel bajo de irregularidad superficial en la superficie interna de las conchas. La concha presentó el Módulo de Ruptura a la Flexión (MOR) medio de 128.0 MPa, dureza superficial Rockwell HR15N = 50 ± 8.3 y un bajo nivel de irregularidades en la capa interna, con rugosidad Ra = 0.160 μm.
Several biological materials attract attention due to the unique mechanical resistance properties and singular structures that they present, even though they are constituted for the most part by minerals, which when considered in isolation, can present great fragility (Chen et al., 2008). However, when associated with organic matrices, they form hybrid composites of a ceramic and a biopolymer with microarchitecturally different sections and structures highly organized with extraordinary mechanical properties as those found in mollusks shells (Sarikaya & Aksay, 1992; Graham & Sarikaya, 2000; Lin et al., 2006; Chen et al., 2008; Heinemann, 2011).
Shells are remarkable structures of biological origin, with unique shapes and designs, and for some mollusks, properties such as superior fracture resistance, flexural strength and hardness (Currey & Taylor, 1974; Cortie et al., 2006; Shojaei et al., 2012). Such hard exoskeleton has great importance for animals living in tropical and humid environments, even though they are made up of thin structures, provide support and protection against predators, mechanical damage, dehydration and hydrostatic pressure (Furuhashi et al., 2009; Francis, 2012; Watanabe et al., 2015; Morii et al., 2016).
Many organisms, among them mollusks, have developed sophisticated strategies to direct the growth of the inorganic constituents of their mineralized matter, resulting in improvements in mechanical properties. Many researchers study this characteristic in order to apply the same biomineralization strategies in synthetic materials development as composite materials and materials for medical applications (Volkmer, 2000; dePaula et al., 2010; Putro et al., 2014; Yao et al., 2015). In this context, the genus Pomacea Perry, 1810, considered the largest group of freshwater gastropods, with approximately 20 species registered for the Amazon Region, among them Pomacea dolioides (Reeve, 1856) (Simone, 2006), is considered important in the development of new composite materials.
The gastropods of the genus Pomacea have already been studied for various aspects, antipredator behavior (Ueshima & Yusa, 2014), temperature effects on the shells (Yoshida et al., 2013; Bae & Park, 2015) the environment effects on shell shapes (Estebenet & Martín, 2003) effects of its introduction into other environments (Rawlings et al., 2007; Horgan et al., 2014) reproduction (Estoy Jr et al., 2002; Barnes et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2011) and its behavior in Amazon floodplain areas (Watanabe et al., 2015; Fonseca et al., 2017). However, even a shell being a structure of extreme importance for maintaining the animal life in its natural habitat, it was not found information regarding the behavior of this genus shells when subjected to mechanical stresses resulting from natural impacts, predator attacks and other abrasive effects of the environment.
The present study aimed to analyze the mechanical behavior of P. dolioides (Reeve, 1856), seeking to characterize the mechanical properties that confer protection to the mollusk. The resistance to the three-point bending is directly related to the load supported by the shell until the fracture, while the hardness may be related to the shell resistance to the wear provided by the environment and may present variations in the different shell layers due to the porosity, presence of organic phase and microstructural characteristics. The surface roughness of the shell, can provide information of the capacity of sliding of the animal in the shell and also of the inter-lamellar sliding of the microstructure, due to the nano-asperities present in the crystals microconstituents (Graham & Sarikaya, 2000; Evans et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2001; Liang et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2011; Lv et al., 2015; Liang et al., 2016).
Shells used. In order to perform all the experiments described, one hundred empty shells of P. dolioides of different sizes were collected from a floodplain area located in Itacoatiara (AM), Brazil (03°08’24.50” S, 58°27’24.60” W), in the mid Amazon region, between June and August 2016. The shells were washed in running water with detergent, dried and kept at room temperature during the experiments. The Mollusca Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CMIOC) carried out the specie identification, with the register number CMIOC 10552: Pomacea dolioides (Reeve, 1856).
Bending test
In order to analyze the strength of P. dolioides shells, a three-point bending test was carried out with some shells specimens. The method consists of applying a load (P) in the central area of a standardized specimen supported at its ends, thus generating flexion, as shown in Figure 1 a) and b).
a) Illustration showing the specimen with two points of support and a load application point. b) Representation of the curved specimen, showing its center of curvature (C) Neutral surface (NS), applied load (P) and distances: R, r 1 , r 2 , y, h e x. c) Shell of P. dolioides, showing positions A, T and B from where the specimens were withdrawn.
Tests were carried out in compliance with the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) C1161-13 for ceramic materials; however, some adjustments in the test were necessary due to the impossibility to withdraw specimens in straight prism format rectangles. The test was performed at room temperature, with a distance between supports of x = 40.0 mm (x = 20.00 mm).
Only shells larger than 40 mm could be used in bending tests, since the small shells were not large enough for the extraction of test specimens with adequate dimensions for the test.
Specimens for the bending test were taken from three different shell positions: next to the open and transversal direction (ID: A), central area and longitudinal direction (ID: T) and opposite area and cross direction (ID: B), as shown in Figure 1 c). The specimens were cut from the shell using a disc and measured using a caliper rule Digimess. The mean width (W m ) and the mean thickness (h m ) were obtained by the arithmetic mean of five points measured along the specimen.
The calculation of the flexural strength of the shell material was performed using two methods: the first one calculates the Flexural Rupture Module (MOR) using Equation 1, where (P) is the maximum load applied to the specimen until its rupture and (x) is the arm of the bending moment, distance from the application of the load to the bearing, as described in Technical Standard ASTM C1161-13. The second method used to calculate the flexural strength sought to correct the effects of the shell curvature in the calculation of the MOR described by Technical Standard ASTM C1161-13, since the specimens of the P. dolioides should be treated as a curved beam, not as a prism recto rectangle.
The second method proposed in this work aims to obtain the tensile stress (σ t ), maximum stress on the lower surface of the specimen in the region of load application, and the compression stress (σ c ), minimum (negative) stress on the upper surface of the specimens in the region of load application, using Equations 2 and 3, respectively, in which the specimen curvature is considered. In Equations 2 and 3, the bending moment (M) was obtained through Equation 4, the mean radius (r m ) was calculated by means of the arithmetic mean of the internal (r 1 ) and external (r 2 ) rays, Equation 5, the radius (R) from the Center of Curvature (C) to the Neutral Surface (NS) was obtained using Equation 6, where (A) is the cross-sectional area of the specimen. And for the calculation of (r 2 ), we used Equation 7.
The geometric relationship between parameters (x), (y) and (r 1 ) shown in Figure 1 (b) was necessary and it was obtained through the Pythagorean Theorem, as shown in Equation 8.
MOR= 3P.2x2wmhm2
σt= M(r2-R)Arm-Rr2
σc=M(r1-R)A(rm-R)r1
M=P.x
rm=1A∫r1r2rdA=r1+r22
R= A∫dAr=hlnr1r2
r2- r1=hm
r1=y2+x22y
Rockwell Surface Hardness Test. The hardness test was carried out using a Digimess Rockwell durometer, model 400.001 (MSM). The Rockwell Superficial hardness scale 15N (HR15N) was used with a diamond indenter with 3.00 kgf preloading and a 15.00 kgf main load. Forty (40) tests on shells with four (4) different sizes were performed. The specimens analyzed were cut with a circular cutting disc.
Roughness Test. In order to assess the roughness level of the inner layer of the P. dolioides shells, the test was carried out using an Instrutherm Digital Surface Roughness Tester RP-200. The parameters calculated through this mechanical test followed the standard method of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard ISO 4287, considering a 0.25 mm Cut off and a Cut off number equal to 5; an RC ripple filter, a ± 40 µm Range, a 5 µm diamond needle tip radius, and a 4 mN applied force. To perform the roughness test and optical microscopy (Lumen NIM-100), samples whose internal surface was fairly flat were chosen. The samples used did not undergo any kind of surface treatment, were only washed, dried and kept at room temperature.
Due to the sensitivity of the rugosimeter, it was only possible to perform the test on the inner surface of the shell with no apparent signs of wear since the surfaces that were heavily worn by the environment or the external surface of the shell presented roughness levels outside the scale of the equipment.
Bending test. The results of the bending test of P. dolioides shells are presented in Figure 2, showing the flexural rupture modulus (MOR) according to ASTM C1161-13 (black columns) and maximum tensile strength (σt) on the lower surface of the specimen following a proposed methodology correcting the effects of the curved geometry (blank columns). A slight difference between two methodologies is observed, in which the effect of the curved geometry provides a slight increase in the flexural strength of specimens extracted from the shell.
Flexural rupture modulus (MOR) for different test specimens taken from positions A, T and B, following the ASTM C1161-13 (black columns) and maximum tensile strength (σt) on the lower surface of the specimen considering the influence of curved geometry (blank columns).
The behavior of MOR as a function of the shell thickness is shown in Figure 3, which shows that the flexural strength of the specimens extracted from P. dolioides shells does not have a clear dependence on the shell thickness.
Flexural strength in function of the specimen thickness of P. dolioides shells.
The variation between averages of the results obtained from the bending tests performed on nine specimens drawn from three different shells, considering the positions T, A and B (as shown in Figure 1 c) are presented in Figure 4, the standard deviation in relation to the mean is presented as an error bar. It was possible to verify a strong influence on the mechanical properties as a function of the direction and position in which the specimens were removed from the shells.
MOR for nine specimens drawn from three different shells, showing the influence of the specimen removal position (T, A and B positions) on flexural strength.
Rockwell surface hardness test. The tests were carried out only in the shell inner layer, since it was impossible to assess the shell outer layer, due to the difficulty to obtain specimens with suitable plans and sizes for the tests. All tests performed on outer layer shell resulted in specimen fracture. For the inner layer of shells with a thickness greater than 1.0 mm, of all samples analyzed, the mean hardness of HR15N = 50 and standard deviation 8.3 were obtained.
Figure 5 shows the Rockwell 15N surface hardness behavior of the analyzed shells for three different regions of the shell (close to the suture, center and opposite) and two shell sizes (82.45 mm and 78.05 mm), where the standard deviation from the mean is presented as an error bar, showing a tendency of the region close to the suture in presenting greater hardness HR15N.
Hardness HR15N of shells with average sizes of 82.45 mm (white) and 78.05 mm (black) in three different regions of the shell (close to the suture, central and opposite) for tests performed in triplicate.
Roughness Test. Roughness is a surface property of the material that characterizes surface irregularity. P. dolioides has great irregularity on its external surface, due to the characteristics of the growth rings added to the effect of environmental factors that can generate imperfections on the external surface, which can be clearly seen.
In relation to the shell inner layer, its surface shows a very low roughness index, as long as it has not undergone environmental damage after the death of the mollusk, as can be seen in Table 1, which shows roughness parameters such as the average roughness and the mean roughness amplitude, respectively 0.160 μm and 0.779 μm.
Roughness parameters found in the test performed on the inner layer of a shell without signs of environmental wear: average roughness (Ra), square root of the arithmetic mean of squared deviations (Rq), average roughness of five points of the distances between the maximum peaks and deepest valleys (Rz), total roughness depth (Rt), maximum depth of the highest peak relative to the midline (Rp), maximum depth of the deepest valley over the midline (Rv) and maximum roughness (Ry).
Roughness parameters
Measure (µm)
Ra 0.160
Rq 0.182
Rz 0.779
Rt 0.779
Rv 0.479
Ry 0.779
The roughness of the inner layer of P. dolioides is greatly affected by the action of the environment. Degraded shells show great roughness on the inner surface, as can be seen in the optical microscopy image of the inner layer of the shell Figure 6, with and without apparent signs of environmentally induced surface wear, Figure 6 a and b, respectively.
Optical microscopy image of the inner layer surface of P. dolioides shells. a) No apparent signs of wear caused by the environment. b) Signs of surface wear caused by the environment.
The mechanical behavior analysis and discussion of P. dolioides shells is somewhat complex due to two main factors: the geometric shape and the heterogeneity of the natural shell material (Shojaei et al., 2012). The non-uniformity of the curvatures and the variations in the thickness of the shell make it difficult to remove standardized specimens. The heterogeneity of the shell forming composite due to differences in thickness and composition of the constituent layers of the shell generates anisotropy in the material (Liang et al., 2008). Added to these factors are the presence of defects, imperfections and even cracks in the shell, as well as genetic and environmental factors that may contribute to the variations in the mechanical resistance of the shell.
Bending test. The methodology used to obtain the flexural strength considering the curved shell geometry effect was successful, allowing to accomplish corrections in relation to ASTM C1161-13 standard, and permitting a new manner of flexural behavior analysis of P. dolioides specimens, as shown in Figure 2. The analysis of the curved geometry effect on the shell mechanical properties is very important because it directly affects the results of the mechanical tests as discussed in Neves & Mano (2005).
The mean value of MOR = 128.0 MPa, with values varying in range of 60 - 205 MPa, can be compared to the values presented for mollusks such as Conus striatus with flexural strength values ranging from 70-200 MPa (Curry & Kohn, 1976) and maximum flexual strength obtained for S. purpuratus shells (128 MPa), Tridacna gigas shells (87.1 MPa) and Tridacna maxima shells (117 MPa) (Liang et al., 2016). Currey & Taylor (1974) also found approximate values as 125 MPa for Conus Prometheus, 129.8 MPa for Hyriu ligutus and 123.6 MPa for Etisis siquillu.
Although large shells withstand higher loads, Figure 3 shows that MOR, the intrinsic property of the material, does not increase with thickness, instead, it presents a tendency of decrease the flexural strength with the increase of shell thickness.
Figure 4 shows a higher flexural strength (MOR) for specimens taken from positions A and B, where the specimens showed growth rings in the transverse direction with respect to their length, and lower MOR for position T, wherein the growth rings were in the direction along the length of the specimen. This result exposes the great anisotropy of the shell forming material, showing that the microstructural composite of CaCO3 constituent of the shell has great directional effect on the mechanical properties (Liang et al., 2008; Jiao et al., 2016).
The inner layer hardness of P. dolioides shells, HR15N = 50 ± 8.3, can even be compared to mollusks that have nacre in the inner layer, such as Pinctada maxima (Jameson 1901), Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804), presenting a micro-hardness Vickers (HV) value near to 230 kgf / mm2 (≈ HR15N = 68) (Taylor and Layman, 1972). Values similar to natural calcite 2.27 GPa (231 kgf / mm2 ≈ HR15N = 68) (Lv et al., 2015). While Saxidomus purpuratus presented higher Vickers hardness values for the inner layer, 2.7 GPa (275 kgf / mm2 ≈ HR15N = 71) and central layer, 2.4 GPa (244 kgf / mm2 ≈ HR15N = 69) and lower for the outer layer 1.2 GPa (122 kgf / mm2 ≈ HR15N = 58) (Yang et al., 2011).
The dispersion of the internal layer HR15N values when analyzed in the same region of the shell can be attributed to shell heterogeneity and anisotropy, as well as to the influence of the irregularity of the outer layer (caused by the growth rings) and the shell curvature (Jiao et al., 2016). However, when the shell inner surface hardness is analyzed in relation to the regions of the mechanical tests, there is a tendency of the region close to the suture in presenting greater hardness HR15N, as shown in Figure 5.
The shell abrasion resistance characteristics, which contribute to the protection of the mollusk, are directly related to the shell surface hardness, therefore, it concludes that despite of its organic protective layer, the P. dolioides shell is very susceptible to the natural detrition from abrasive materials, such as sand or stones, due to its low surface hardness. This result shows the importance of the shell’s regeneration process and reconstitution for the mollusks protection.
Roughness. With the surface roughness test, it was possible to verify that the inner layer shell has a low average surface roughness, Ra = 0.160 μm (Table 1), comparable to a surface with fine grinding or fine polishing. This feature, the low roughness of the shell inner surface, can contribute to the sliding effect of the live animal inside the shell.
The surface roughness data of P. dolioides attained can be compared to the variation results of the surface roughness obtained using the technique of atomic force microscopy of growing edge of the mollusk (Graham & Sarikaya, 2000) estimated a rough value, Zrms = (0.71 ± 0.13) μm of the Haliotis rufescens inner layer shell, which can be compared to the maximum amplitude value, Rz = 0.779 μm, obtained using the rugosimeter.
The roughness test was performed on shell inner surface with no signs of environmental wear, as shown in Figure 6 (a), showing a fairly smooth surface, which is compatible with the roughness parameters found. However, for shells that have already undergone environmental action and showed signs of surface wear, valleys and depressions can be identified on the surface, as can be seen in Figure 6 (b).
Roughness analysis using the rugosimeter was a simple technique to obtain important information about the shell, since the internal surface roughness can be related to the size and distribution of the shell-forming crystalline CaCO3 microconstituents, which in turn can be related to the mechanical resistance of the shell (Graham & Sarikaya, 2000).
The methodology applied for the flexural test proved adequate for characterization of the mechanical flexural behavior of this type of material, in which the specimen resembles a curved beam, and it is possible to consider the curved geometry effect in the flexural strength calculations of the shell biocomposite.
The shells microstructural composite presents great anisotropy, with directional effect in the mechanical properties, in which the parallel direction to the growth rings presents less flexural strength. In this context, the superficial hardness results also show a tendency of the inner region close to the suture to present higher values of HR15N.
The results obtained in surface roughness test indicate that the shell inner layer has a low level of roughness, in addition, the roughness analysis using a rugosimeter represents a simple technique to obtain important information about the shell, since the surface roughness may be related to the size and distribution of the shell-forming CaCO3 crystalline microconstituents, which in turn may be related to the mechanical strength of the shell.
The mechanical behavior analyzed in this work can be used as a parameter for a better understanding of how the shell provides mollusk protection in relation to predator attack, animal defense mechanisms, abrasion and wear provided by the environment.
The authors would like to thank the ICET/UFAM’S PET Engineering group for the support regarding experiments, the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Amazonas - FAPEAM and Professor Bruno Sant’Anna for orientation and discussion for the study on P. dolioides.
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From the executive producers of Riverdale, ‘Katy Keene‘ is coming soon to The CW! Check out the official first look at the series in the video above!
Per the official logline, ‘Katy Keene‘ is set “in a timeless New York City, as enchanting as Riverdale is moody, as aspiring fashion designer Katy Keene (Lucy Hale) meets Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), fresh off the bus to chase her musical dreams. Their world is populated with kindred-spirit starving artists, including mysterious socialite Pepper Smith (Julie Chan) and Broadway-bound performer Jorge Lopez – and his drag queen alter ego, Ginger (Jonny Beauchamp). While their climb to the top is rife with obstacles, this found family will stop at nothing to see their names in lights.”
A spin-off of The CW’s Riverdale, the new series is executive produced and written by Roberto Aguirre–Sacasa (Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and Michael Grassi. ‘Katy Keene’ will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV in association with CBS Television Studios. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Archie Comics CEO/Publisher Jon Goldwater serve as executive producers. Maggie Kiley will serve as director and executive producer.
Katy’s comic origins date back to 1945, when she was introduced in Wilbur Comics #5 by Bill Woggon. The model, actress and singer is known for her impeccable taste in fashion. The ‘Katy Keene’ comics were well-liked for including fan-submitted fashion designs and fun reader activities.
A new graphic novel collection reprinting the best Katy Keene comic book stories is set for release this summer in comic book shops and book stores, with plans for more Katy Keene content to be announced at a later date.
Archie Comics Presents: Katy Keene Cover Art by Bill Woggon & Rosario “Tito” Peña
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Karzai blames Pakistan for rocket attacks across border
36 are killed in the east, officials say; Afghan artillery fired in retaliation
Karzai indicated Pakistani government forces were responsible, and the attacks “should be stopped immediately.”
By Rahim Faiez
Associated Press / June 27, 2011
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai accused Pakistan yesterday of firing 470 rockets into two eastern Afghan provinces over the past three weeks, a deadly rain of artillery that Afghan officials said killed 36 people, including 12 children.
The attacks came in areas of Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, where NATO forces have withdrawn and where Pakistani Taliban moved in behind fleeing civilians, Afghan border officials said.
Karzai indicated Pakistani government forces are responsible for the bombardment, and “they should be stopped immediately.’’
In response to the Pakistani barrage, Afghan security forces in the eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika fired artillery across the border at least twice on Friday, spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi said.
And “if they are not being carried out by Pakistan, Pakistan should make it clear who is behind the attacks,’’ he said in a statement issued by the presidential palace.
Meanwhile, NATO reported that five service members were killed in at least three insurgent attacks in western, southern, and eastern Afghanistan.
The international coalition gave no other details.
But the Spanish Defense Ministry said two of the dead were Spanish soldiers who were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated in Badghis Province in western Afghanistan.
The deaths bring to at least 53 the number of NATO service members killed in June and to more than 200 this year.
Karzai said he discussed the rocket barrage with the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zadari, during an antiterrorism conference in Tehran on Saturday, the same day the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman spoke of the attacks and warned that Afghanistan would defend itself.
“The government of Pakistan should understand that there will be a reaction for killing Afghan citizens,’’ said Azimi, the spokesman.
Afghan security officials said NATO also fired into Pakistan on June 17. NATO and Pakistani military officials earlier denied any knowledge of such border fire from the Afghan side.
The Afghan president said he also discussed the border attack with the NATO commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, and US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry during his regular national security council meeting yesterday.
US and Afghan officials have pressured Pakistan to end its security forces’ long-standing relationship with the Taliban movement, viewed as a tool for Pakistani influence over strategically placed Afghanistan.
Such major artillery support for a Taliban operation, however, would be one of the most blatant recent examples of Pakistani support and bodes ill for the testy relationship among the three countries.
Afghan border police spokesman Edris Mohmand, who reported 36 Afghans killed by the rockets, including 12 children, said 2,000 families have fled districts threatened by the barrage, including Asmar and Nangalam in Kunar, and Goshta district in Nangahar.
“All these attacks have been from Pakistan’s side and for sure they are Pakistani weapons being used against innocent Afghans,’’ Mohmand said. “The border police in the eastern region have been equipped with heavy artillery, but we are waiting for orders from the interior minister.’’
NATO has recently withdrawn many of its combat troops from forward operating bases and combat outposts in Kunar and Nangarhar. Both provinces continue to be heavily contested by Taliban fighters.
Azimi said the Afghan Defense Ministry “asks the president of Pakistan to stop the artillery firing and compensate the losses caused.’’
Violence has been on the rise across Afghanistan since the country’s Taliban launched a spring offensive and promised retaliation for the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a US raid in Pakistan on May 2.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber blew up his sport utility vehicle at a health clinic in eastern Afghanistan while women and children lined up for maternity care and vaccinations. At least 35 were killed.
The vehicle smashed through a wall at the Akbarkhail Public Medical Center before anyone could shoot the driver or blow out the tires, local officials said. The force of the blast caused the building to collapse.
Survivors frantically dug through the rubble with shovels and bare hands.
At least 53 other people were wounded, said the provincial public health director, Dr. Mohammad Zaref Nayebkhail.
“The casualties are actually way higher than that, but the local villagers rushed to the hospital right after the explosion and took the bodies of their relatives to their own villages,’’ Nayebkhail said.
The Taliban denied it was behind the bombing in the Azra district in Logar Province.
Material from The New York Times was used in this report.
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Click to Enlarge Photo: Steven Coursolle (KNSI)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KNSI) - The Stearns County Sheriff's Office has a new tool to keep people safe and to bring criminals to justice.
The sheriff's office showed off its newly purchased drone at Quarry Park and Nature Preserve on Friday.
Lt. Robert Dickhaus was at the controls as the drone took off, its legs retracted and it flew high into the sky.
He says while the drone will be used for things like searching for fleeing suspects and assisting SWAT in serving high risk warrants, the thermal imaging capibilities will really come in handy in other areas as well.
"With the FLIR (forward looking infrared radiometer) camera, we can look for missing persons, or a child, or maybe someone was injured in an accident and sustained a head injury and wandered off."
The infrared camera will also be used to assist firefighters in looking for hot spots when responding to a structure fire.
The drone and FLIR camera cost $12,500.
It was paid for out of the county budget.
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Diocese Holding Blue Mass To Honor Emergency Responders
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>>> this morning on "meet the press," mitt romney needs a game-change, is the first presidential debate it? romney is behind in all of our battleground polls. the candidate presses for rebound. >> we do not want four more years of where we've been. a represent a very different path. >>> president obama, meantime, tries to seize the moment as elly voting begins around the country. offering a closing argument. >> when i took office, we were losing nearly 800,000 jobs a month and we were mired in iraq, today i believe that as a nation we are moving forward again. >> this morning, the state of the race, a debate preview and a look at the issues that will sway undecided voters. with us, republican governor of new jersey, the keynoter at the gop convention, chris christie. and for the obama campaign. the architect of his 2008 run. now, white house senior adviser, david plum. finally insights and analysis if our political roundtable, plus the latest from the battleground map. joining us, founder of the faith and freedom coalition, ralph reed. >>> former democratic governor of pennsylvan
>>> this morning on "meet the press," mitt romney needs a game-change, is the first presidential debate it? romney is behind in all of our battleground polls. the candidate presses for rebound. >> we do not want four more years of where we've been. a represent a very different path. >>> president obama, meantime, tries to seize the moment as elly voting begins around the country. offering a closing argument. >> when i took office, we were losing nearly...
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romney. president piled on, turning his own gaffes into laugh lines. >> i want to see us export more jobs. export more products. excuse me. ( laughter ) i was-- i-- i was channeling my opponent there for a second. ( laughter ) >> schieffer: and advice and constellations. >> there are 40 days left until the election. obama cowl make a gaffe. mitt would win the debates, go could send a flood to destroy all mankind. ( laughter ) so there's hope. >> schieffer: short of building an ark, what is romney's best chance. we'll ask new jersey governor chris christie, and one-time adversary, newt gingrich. so far romney is sticking to a familiar theme, but does he need to do more? >> i will lower the tax rate. he wants to creat to raise them. i'll create jobs and he'll kill them. also marsha blackburn, bob shrum, and larry sabato from the university of virginia center for politics. as we head into first presidential debate, we'll talk about the state of america at home and abroad with the distinguished panel. michelle rhee, former head of the washington, d.c. school system and founder of student
romney. president piled on, turning his own gaffes into laugh lines. >> i want to see us export more jobs. export more products. excuse me. ( laughter ) i was-- i-- i was channeling my opponent there for a second. ( laughter ) >> schieffer: and advice and constellations. >> there are 40 days left until the election. obama cowl make a gaffe. mitt would win the debates, go could send a flood to destroy all mankind. ( laughter ) so there's hope. >> schieffer: short of...
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road through wednesday's presidential debate. >>> mitt romney is keeping a low profile this weekend. he went to church outside boston. he had no public events yesterday or today. he heads to colorado tomorrow where he'll hold a rally and continue his preparations for wednesday's showdown debate in denver. >>> meantime republican party officials cut ties with the consulting firm that florida election officials say turned in suspicious voter application forms. cnn's david mattingly has been investigating. what have you learned? >> this is florida. it's always close there. hugely important to both sides. we know it's going to be close this time. any time the topic of voter registration fraud comes up, it's going to get a lot of attention. strategic allied consulting was hired to register people to vote. that sounds pretty denine, like it wouldn't be a big problem. here is what happened. that company was fired last week by the republican national committee after one of the employees of that company, just one, may have provided false signatures on some of the documents that he was fillin
road through wednesday's presidential debate. >>> mitt romney is keeping a low profile this weekend. he went to church outside boston. he had no public events yesterday or today. he heads to colorado tomorrow where he'll hold a rally and continue his preparations for wednesday's showdown debate in denver. >>> meantime republican party officials cut ties with the consulting firm that florida election officials say turned in suspicious voter application forms. cnn's david...
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up the issue, issue by issue and how barack obama and mitt romney plan to tackle these key american challenges. before we get to that, here's a look at some of the top stories making news today. >>> a desperate search for two tennessee children today, their home burned down a week ago but police say still no trace of the children. suzannesan candiotti is joining. >> reporter: at this hour, state investigators are using teams of people using dogs to search a wider area of the...
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. the first big showdown just three days away and both president obama and mitt romney are busy preparing. cnn takes a look at what's at stake. >> reporter: both obama and romney are looking to lower the stakes at this week's debate. >> mitt romney has prepared more than any other candidate in history. >> president obama is a very gifted speaker. the man has been on the national stage for many years. he's an experienced debater. he's done these kinds of debates before. this is mitt's first time on this kind of stage. >> beth myers said president obama is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history. the obama camp likes to remind voters that the president hasn't had as much time to prepare for the debates because he's busy being commander in chief. when it comes to just how much debates matter, it depends. >> most often debates don't make that big a difference. very few candidates ever win an election with a debate, but quite a few have lost an election with a debate. so it can matter. >> these match-ups can produce some memorable lines.
. the first big showdown just three days away and both president obama and mitt romney are busy preparing. cnn takes a look at what's at stake. >> reporter: both obama and romney are looking to lower the stakes at this week's debate. >> mitt romney has prepared more than any other candidate in history. >> president obama is a very gifted speaker. the man has been on the national stage for many years. he's an experienced debater. he's done these kinds of debates before. this is...
while ago where he's going to hold a rally later this evening. mitt romney is keeping a low profile this weekend. he went to church this morning outside boston but heads to colorado tomorrow where he will hold a rally and, of course, continue his preparations for wednesday's debate. >>> key decision makers from across washington attended today's annual red mass. they include six of the nine supreme court justices. what is the red mass? it's an annual event that aims to bring people tok to pray for members of the judiciary before the court begins hearing cases. it's called the red mass because, well, you can see, the clergy there are wearing red garments. some people criticize the service and see it too much of a mix of religion and government. >>> police in middle, tennessee, have a real mystery on their hand. they're searching for a 9-year-old girl and her 7-year-old half brother. they were thought to have sdid in a house fire that killed their grandparents. investigators have found no sign of the children. here is the urgent part, the house fire happened a week ago. the kids have
while ago where he's going to hold a rally later this evening. mitt romney is keeping a low profile this weekend. he went to church this morning outside boston but heads to colorado tomorrow where he will hold a rally and, of course, continue his preparations for wednesday's debate. >>> key decision makers from across washington attended today's annual red mass. they include six of the nine supreme court justices. what is the red mass? it's an annual event that aims to bring people...
the presidential candidate, president obama and mitt romney only have three days to prepare for their first debate. president obama will prepay in nevada. he already arrived there, he'll be holding an evening rally and then concentrate on preparing for wednesday night's showdown. so what is at stake in this first debate? athena jones takes a look. >> reporter: both the obama and romney campaigns are doing their best to lower expectations ahead of wednesday's debate. >> we have expected all along that governor romney will have a good night, he's prepared more than any candidate in history. >> president obama is a very gifted speaker. the man's been on the national stage for many years, he's an experienced debater, he's done these kinds of debates before, this is mitt's first time on this kind of a stage. >> romney -- the president was widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history. myers even pointed to a cnbc poll. the obama camp likes to remind volters that the president hasn't had as much time to prepare for the debates because he's busy
the presidential candidate, president obama and mitt romney only have three days to prepare for their first debate. president obama will prepay in nevada. he already arrived there, he'll be holding an evening rally and then concentrate on preparing for wednesday night's showdown. so what is at stake in this first debate? athena jones takes a look. >> reporter: both the obama and romney campaigns are doing their best to lower expectations ahead of wednesday's debate. >> we have...
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. president obama and mitt romney keeping a low profile today. they are prepping for wednesday's first presidential debate. we have learned that senator john kerry is going to play the role of mitt romney in the president's practice sessions. ohio senator rob portman is portraying the president in mitt romney's debate preps. >>> general motors is recalling more than 40,000 cars. it is concerned about fuel pump modules that could crack and cause a fire. the recall affects the 2007 to 2009 chevrolet cobalt and pontiac g5. gm will replace the fuel part for free. >>> yes, it is over officially. regular nfl refs will be back on the field tomorrow. the refs union formally ratify a new contract today. the nfl agreed to a deal with the union earlier this week which allowed those refs to return on thursday to a standing "o." critics said the performance of the replacement refs hurt the integrity of the game. >>> and winds ripping through the japanese island of okinawa is all from typhoon jelawat. at least 50 people suffered injuries while more than 270,000 homes have no power. the storm is expe
. president obama and mitt romney keeping a low profile today. they are prepping for wednesday's first presidential debate. we have learned that senator john kerry is going to play the role of mitt romney in the president's practice sessions. ohio senator rob portman is portraying the president in mitt romney's debate preps. >>> general motors is recalling more than 40,000 cars. it is concerned about fuel pump modules that could crack and cause a fire. the recall affects the 2007 to...
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Home Reviews Bridget Jones’s Baby – REVIEW
Bridget Jones’s Baby – REVIEW
....it was getting increasingly difficult to ignore their problem with haemorrhoids......
Despite evidence to the contrary the Editor is convinced that in his younger days he was always being mistaken for George Clooney and in fairness he’s probably right if George Clooney was ever a pot bellied, balding drunk wearing a bag on his head then yes the Editor was his double. We’d agree that, yes, the Editor does indeed look like a Hollywood star unfortunately it’s Predator (‘You’re Fired!’ – Ed) Truth is that everyone looks change over the years and Renee Zellweger is no different on that front as the recent photos show and clearly she has had no surgery whatsoever. Definitely not. However despite somehow looking younger she is back to play the dippy journalist Bridget Jones and celebrating her 43rd birthday on her own with a cup cake remonstrating with herself on losing the two big loves of her life. It’s whilst at a brilliantly funny funeral that she bumps into a former flame the strait laced human rights barrister played by Colin Firth except any chance to reignite a flame is extinguished as she find him now married.
With the accident prone gaffe-meister now in the unlikely position of a senior TV news producer she draws comfort from her surrogate family especially a feisty female newscaster with a sparky performance by Sarah Solemani and the pair up sticks and go to a music festival in a muddy field with Jones as ever inappropriately dressed in all white trousers, top and shoes – what could possibly happen next? In fairness there are some brilliant one liner jokes here only occasionally let down by some obvious pratfalls but it’s at the festivals with a self deprecating cameo from Ed Sheeran that she bumps into American millionaire internet love guru Patrick Dempsey where they get it on. It’s not long after this that at a children’s party which features a criminally wasted Jessica Hynes, who is little more than a background extra and presumably must have had her scene chopped or just turned up to visit friends on the set, that Bridget bumps into Firth again discovering that he’s now divorced and admitting that he always loved her and, whoops! there she goes again she ‘falls’ into bed with him again. Finding herself pregnant , again it’s a cliché in the script that this has all cum..um…come about due to out of date vegan condoms that this has occurred and she has the quandary of not only finding out who the father is but also trying to keep them apart. Inevitably both Firth and Dempsey find out about each other and begin a competitive prospective dad bout.
It’s been 12 years since the last Bridget Jones film, The Edge of Reason which was definitely the weakest of the three films and this latest film does suffer from the loss of High Grant who, despite his doubts about his ability, is a brilliant light comedian as seen in the recent Meryl Streep starrer ‘Florence Jenkins’ and Dempsey, though decent enough in the role, pales in comparison. Firth is as good as ever and at times is immensely sympathetic in the less obvious role. It’s an almost universally great cast with everyone good in their roles though to would have been good to see more of the always good Sally Phillips as Shazzer but stand out support is undoubtedly Emma Thompson as the splendidly waspish obstetrician although this may well owe much to her being one of the film’s three writers along with Helen Fielding and Dan Mazar, whose own comic highlights include Borat & Bruno and makes amends with this after the truly awful career low ‘Dirty Grandpa’. The script does suffer at times from what are rapidly becoming comedy tropes, the pratfalls, the swearing child and even uses a well publicised real life TV news cock up as its own and the plot is formulaic and obvious in its outcome but there are enough laugh out loud lines and endearing performances to make this a highly enjoyable experience even for the boyfriends who may be reluctantly dragged along to this.
Those expecting a film of the novel will be disappointed as this is a different story and a much lighter affair altogether although some may object to the Bridget Jones character is inability to find completeness without a man and that the hard nosed hatchet man at the news channel is a stereotyped plain speaking Northern woman assisted by 2 moustachioed, top knot wearing, hipster tosspots. Add into the mix that both Bridget’s suitors are both very wealthy males in high paying jobs it’s a removal from reality when there s a wonder if it would be quite so compelling if both men were low paid with run of the mill jobs struggling to pay the mortgage or rent like anyone else. But perhaps that’s taking it too seriously as this is a light fluffy comedy which is as good as the original film with some very, very funny scenes.
Here’s the trailer:
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Best Farm System of the Year
2014 Chicago Cubs
The Astros had all six of their domestic Minor League teams make the playoffs while continuing to produce top prospect talent en route to capturing the fans' and staff's vote for the MiLBY for Best Farm System. Full story »
Correa's graduation, Reed's breakout highlight big year for Houston
Houston led all organizations with a collective .553 winning percentage among its affiliates. In addition, six of its teams made the playoffs with Fresno and Greeneville capturing championships. A.J. Reed was the Minors' best power hitter while Michael Feliz, Francis Martes, Derek Fisher, Joe Musgrove and Tony Kemp also stood out -- not to mention the graduation of Carlos Correa and addition of first-rounders Alex Bregman, Daz Cameron and Kyle Tucker to the fold.
One of game's best systems continues to shine across multiple levels
The Pirates entered the season with one of the strongest systems and little happened to dispel that notion. Tyler Glasnow and Josh Bell continued to show their high ceilings at the top levels and look ready for the bigs, while 2013 first-rounder Austin Meadows proved to be healthy and a legit multi-tool threat in his second full season. Class A Short Season West Virginia won the New York-Penn League title in its first season.
Rise of Severino, Bird stick out while Mateo, Judge show skills
Yankee fans have gotten to know and love Luis Severino and Greg Bird since their graduations to the Majors. Beyond those two, shortstop Jorge Mateo was the Minors' stolen-base king with 82 thefts, Aaron Judge showed big-time power (20 homers) to make himself a top-20 prospect and Gary Sanchez (18 homers, .815 OPS) showed signs he might be back as the top prospect he was once considered to be.
Parent club's run to postseason fueled by addition of big-time prospects
Chicago earned a postseason berth for the first time since 2008 thanks to graduated prospects Kris Bryant, Addison Russell and Kyle Schwarber and saw big seasons from MiLBY nominees Gleyber Torres, Willson Contreras and Ryan Williams. On the team side, Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach won the Carolina League title in its first season as a Cubs affiliate.
Snell, Honeywell, Shaffer become need-to-know names with big seasons
Any organization that produced breakout MiLBY candidate Blake Snell would have to be considered for Best Farm System, but Tampa Bay's ranks go deeper than the left-hander. Brent Honeywell screwballed his way into the top 100, while Richie Shaffer homered 26 times in 108 games before sticking in the Majors. Class A Advanced Charlotte captured its first Florida State League championship as well.
Buxton, Sano show off skills in Majors, while Kepler, Berrios make leaps
Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano grabbed plenty of headlines for the way they worked from Double-A Chattanooga to the Majors, but MiLBY nominees Jose Berrios and Max Kepler were standouts in a stacked system that also saw impressive years from Adam Brett Walker II and Stephen Gonsalves. On the team side, Chattanooga went 43-25 (.632) in the first half and won the Southern League championship.
Seager, Urias continue to show top form while others show plenty of potential
Any talk of the Dodgers system has to start with wunderkinds Corey Seager and Julio Urias as the former has worked himself into the Los Angeles infield for the near- and long-term future. With 163 strikeouts in 114 1/3 innings, Jose De Leon showed he could be the next big thing, too. Cody Bellinger hit 30 homers and drove in 103 for Cal League champs Rancho Cucamonga.
In down year for top club, plenty of promise in Minors with help from trade
The Phillies already had a noteworthy system with J.P. Crawford flashing big potential at Double-A Reading and Aaron Nola making the move to the Majors in his first full season. But the Cole Hamels trade with the Rangers in July brought along the likes of Jake Thompson, Nick Williams and Jorge Alfaro to strengthen the club's rebuilding process.
Prospect trio thrives in Queens while others jump in rankings
The 2014 fans' choice for best system enjoyed another impressive campaign as Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Michael Conforto each started the season in the Minors and ended as big parts of the team's run to an NL East title. Gavin Cecchini and Dominic Smith also used breakout seasons to work their way into MLB.com's top 100 prospect rankings.
Multiple trophies, addition of Swanson stick out in successful season
The D-backs joined the Astros as the only organizations with multiple Minor League champions as Rookie-level Missoula and Class A Advanced Hillsboro took home titles. Some of the best performances in the system came at the higher levels, however, with Aaron Blair, Brandon Drury and Peter O'Brien standing out. Top overall Draft pick Dansby Swanson also gave Arizona a top-10 overall prospect.
Which player made the most strides this season?
Breakout Prospect of the Year
2014 Daniel Norris
2013 Maikel Franco
2012 Dan Straily
Top Brewers prospect Orlando Arcia showed an improved bat and Gold Glove-caliber defense to take the MiLB.com staff vote as this year's MiLBY Breakout Prospect. Oakland's Jacob Nottingham, who did much of his breaking out as a member of the Astros organization before being traded to the A's, was the fans' choice. Full story »
Jacob Nottingham, C
.316/.372/.505, 119 G, 17 HR, 2 3B, 33 2B, 82 RBI
MLB Organization: Athletics
Entering the season, the 2013 sixth-round pick's highest average had been .247 in the Gulf Coast League. Two years later he hit .326 in 59 games at Class A Quad Cities and continued to produce in the Cal League. The 20-year-old slugger, whose 17 homers and .877 OPS crush previous career highs, increased his stock so much that he was included in the A's return package for All-Star southpaw Scott Kazmir.
Michael Fulmer, RHP
10-3, 2.24 ERA, 124 2/3 IP, 125 K, 30 BB, 1.07 WHIP
MLB Organization: Tigers
The 22-year-old right-hander, who hadn't previously thrown more than 108 1/3 innings in a season, entered the year as the No. 17 prospect in the Mets system after a rough 2014 (6-11, 4.38 ERA). Thanks to an impressive four-pitch mix, he ended this season as Eastern League Pitcher of the Year and is now considered the top prospect in the Tigers organization (and No. 99 overall) after being acquired in the Yoenis Cespedes trade.
Amir Garrett, LHP
9-7, 2.44 ERA, 140 1/3 IP, 133 K, 55 BB, 1.23 WHIP
MLB Organization: Reds
After spending his first three seasons splitting time between the Minors and college basketball, Garrett thrived in his second campaign as a full-time hurler and captured Florida State League Most Valuable Pitcher honors. He also pitched in the Futures Game, held in the home of his parent club at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park, and is now considered the No. 71 overall prospect in the game after beginning the year unranked.
Orlando Arcia, SS
.307/.347/.453, 129 G, 8 HR, 7 3B, 37 2B, 25 SB
MLB Organization: Brewers
Playing mostly as a 20-year-old at Double-A this season, Arcia set full-season career highs in all three slash-line categories and doubled his home run output from 2014. Between that offensive profile and his Gold Glove work on defense, he moved from No. 88 in MLB.com's preseason prospect rankings all the way to No. 12 by season's end.
A.J. Reed, 1B
.340/.432/.612, 135 G, 34 HR, 5 3B, 30 2B, 127 RBI, 113 R
MLB Organization: Astros
The Astros' second-rounder was the Golden Spikes Award winner for the University of Kentucky in 2014, but few expected him to take to the pro game as easily as he did in 2015. The left-handed hitter led the Minors in homers, RBIs, slugging and OPS while splitting time between Class A Advanced Lancaster and Double-A Corpus Christi. After starting the season as the Astros' No. 12 prospect, he now sits at No. 5 in a stacked system and No. 92 overall.
Lewis Brinson, OF
.332/.403/.601, 100 G, 20 HR, 8 3B, 31 2B, 69 RBI, 74 R, 18 SB
MLB Organization: Rangers
The 2012 first-rounder hit .337/.416/.628 with 13 homers in 64 games at Class A Advanced High Desert and showed he could thrive outside the homer-friendly Cal League with impressive stints at Frisco and Round Rock. Two years removed from a 191-strikeout season, MLB.com's No. 66 prospect has positioned himself for a big league look in 2016.
Michael Conforto, OF
.297/.372/.482, 91 G, 12 HR, 3 3B, 24 2B, 54 RBI
MLB Organization: Mets
Conforto is known now as a cog that helped the Mets clinch their first NL East title since 2006, but to get there the 2014 first-rounder had to prove himself at Class A Advanced St. Lucie and Double-A Binghamton. The 22-year-old actually performed better at the higher level, hitting .312/.396/.503 in 45 games with the B-Mets before being promoted to the Majors on Aug. 2.
Blake Snell, LHP
15-4, 1.41 ERA, 134 IP, 163 K, 53 BB, 1.02 WHIP
MLB Organization: Rays
Snell's season started with 46 straight scoreless innings at Class A Advanced Charlotte and Double-A Montgomery and ended at Triple-A Durham with the 22-year-old southpaw leading all full-season Minor Leaguers in ERA and average against (.182) while placing among the top five in strikeouts and wins. As such, he moved up from No. 12 in the Rays system to No. 2 and is considered the fifth-best left-handed pitching prospect in the game.
Brett Phillips, OF
.309/.374/.527, 120 G, 16 HR, 14 3B, 34 2B, 77 RBI, 104 R, 17 SB
For Phillips, the big question was whether he could carry a big 2014 to the higher levels. Given the numbers he put up at Class A Advanced Lancaster and Double-A Corpus Christi/Biloxi this season, the answer was an emphatic yes. The 21-year-old outfielder, dealt to the Brewers in the Carlos Gomez deal, is now MLB.com's No. 32 prospect after starting the season outside the top 100.
Jose De Leon, RHP
MLB Organization: Dodgers
A 24th-round pick in 2013, De Leon is now the No. 23 prospect in baseball. The right-hander's rise is brought to you by the letter "K" as he averaged 12.8 strikeouts per nine innings between Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga and Double-A Tulsa. Armed with three plus, his fastball, slider and changeup, the 23-year-old has become the second-best pitching prospect in the Dodgers system behind only wunderkind Julio Urias.
The one player you have to have in your lineup
Top Offensive Player of the Year
2014 Kris Bryant
2013 George Springer
2012 Wil Myers
2011 Bryan LaHair
It was the Year of the Astros in the Minors. So it's appropriate that a pair of Astros prospects sweep this category. A.J. Reed clubbed his way to the Minor League home run crown a year after winning the Golden Spikes Award. to earn the staff vote. Tyler White helped lead Fresno to the Triple-A Championship with a .442 on-base percentage and 40 extra-base hits. Full story »
Tyler White, 1B/3B
.325/.442/.496, 116 G, 25 2B, 1 3B, 14 HR, 99 RBI
A late pick in the 2013 Draft, White spent this year mashing between the Minors' top two levels. A .415 on-base percentage in the Texas League put him in the PCL for the second half. With the Triple-A National Champion Grizzlies, he collected 20 extra-base hits while batting .362.
A.J. Reed, OF
.340/.432/.612, 135 G, 30 2B, 5 3B, 34 HR, 127 RBI
Winner of the Joe Bauman Award for most homers in the Minors, Reed also led the Minors in RBIs. In his first full-length professional season, the 22-year-old first baseman demonstrated power to all fields, and he also paced the Cal League with a .346 batting average.
Trey Mancini, 1B
MLB Organization: Orioles
Mancini was promoted out of the Carolina League in early June but hit even better during his first crack at Double-A. He collected 117 hits, including 13 homers and 29 doubles, over 84 games for Bowie. The 23-year-old first baseman's 21 total homers are a career high.
Max Kepler, OF
.318/.410/.520, 118 G, 34 2B, 13 3B, 9 HR, 71 RBI, 19 SB
MLB Organization: Twins
Playing Double-A ball for the first time, Kepler was second in the Southern League with a .322 batting average over 112 games there and led the loop with a .947 OPS. The 22-year-old, German-born outfielder logged 56 extra-base hits and helped Chattanooga win a championship, hitting three postseason homers.
.302/.374/.527, 120 G, 34 2B, 14 3B, 16 HR, 77 RBI, 17 SB
Phillips couldn't be fazed this year -- he put up at least one four-hit game for each of the three teams he played for across two organizations. After bashing 15 California League homers, he showed a continual ability to get on base and find gaps the rest of the season. He was dealt from the Astros to the Brewers on July 31.
.332/.403/.601, 100 G, 31 2B, 8 3B, 20 HR, 69 RBI, 18 SB
A 2012 first-rounder, Brinson rocketed through the Texas system over the course of a few months. He missed May with a hamstring issue but earned a promotion from the California League to the Texas League by July. His performance there pushed him to the PCL, where he kept rolling.
Corey Seager, SS
The 21-year-old shortstop seems to hit better with every step he takes, including the jump he made to the Majors in September. Seager started the season at Double-A, but after 20 games in the Texas League got a bump to the PCL, where he batted .278 with 30 doubles.
Jose Martinez, OF
MLB Organization: Royals
Nobody in full-season ball hit for a higher average or got on base at a higher rate than Martinez. The 27-year-old outfielder also showed some power, tallying 38 extra-base hits over 98 games in the PCL to lead the circuit with a 1.024 OPS. This was his first season at Triple-A.
Jorge Mateo, SS
MLB Organization: Yankees
Mateo led affiliated pro ball in stolen bases this season. He made 99 theft attempts and was caught just 17 times, and the 71 bags he ripped off in the South Atlantic League were unsurpassed, even though he was promoted out of the circuit in early August.
Domingo Santana, OF
.333/.426/.573, 95 G, 23 2B, 4 3B, 18 HR, 77 RBI
Santana finished the season in the Majors, which surprised nobody who paid attention to the Pacific Coast League this year. Before being traded from Houston to Milwaukee, he raked to the tune of .320/.426/.582 with 16 homers for Fresno, then hit even better over 20 games with Colorado Springs.
The pitcher who most dominated the Minors
Top Starting Pitcher of the Year
2014 Tyler Glasnow
2013 C.J. Edwards
2012 Jose Fernandez
2011 Matt Moore
Tampa Bay's No. 2 prospect Blake Snell rocketed through three Minor League levels to post a combined 1.41 ERA and earn MiLB.com staff honors as 2015's top starting pitcher. Matt Boyd, dealt from the Blue Jays to the Tigers at the trade deadline, was the fans' choice. Full story »
Matt Boyd, LHP
9-2, 1.65 ERA, 114 2/3 IP, 108 K
Shipped to the Tigers as part of the package that sent David Price to Toronto, Boyd ascended all the way to the big leagues thanks to his work with three affiliates in two organizations. The lefty dominated the Double-A Eastern League, going 6-1 with a 1.10 ERA in 12 starts before moving up.
Luke Weaver, RHP
8-5, 1.62 ERA, 105 1/3 IP, 88 K
MLB Organization: Cardinals
Paired with Reyes for part of the season, Weaver spent the entirety of his first full pro season at Class A Advanced and dazzled. The right-hander's command was among his strongest assets with 88 strikeouts against just 19 walks through his 105 1/3 innings pitched for Palm Beach.
Jacob Faria, RHP
17-4, 1.92 ERA, 149 2/3 IP, 159 K
Though Blake Snell may garner the biggest headlines, Faria may be the Rays' next unheralded pitching prodigy. Unranked in his own system, the righty led the Minor Leagues in wins -- 10 for Class A Advanced Charlotte and seven more with Double-A Montgomery after a late-June call-up.
Part of the trade deadline deal that sent Yoenis Cespedes to the Mets, Fulmer assumed the mantle of the Tigers' top prospect and made a good impression with his new club, going 4-1 with a 2.84 ERA and 33 K's in 31 2/3 innings for Double-A Erie after the trade.
Observers were anxious to see whether De Leon could follow up his brilliant 2014 with a strong third professional season, and the righty didn't disappoint. After putting up a 1.67 ERA in seven California League starts, the 23-year-old jumped to Double-A and registered a 3.64 mark in 16 outings.
Ryan Williams, RHP
14-3, 2.16 ERA, 141 2/3 IP, 98 K
MLB Organization: Cubs
The Cubs' Minor League Pitcher of the Year rode his strong start at Class A South Bend -- 4-1 with a 1.17 ERA through nine outings -- to a jump to Double-A. There, the East Carolina product won 10 of his 17 appearances and limited hitters to a .227 average over 88 innings.
Tyler Glasnow, RHP
MLB Organization: Pirates
The Pirates' top overall prospect and last year's MiLBY winner as Top Starter was at it again in 2015, enjoying a strong debut at Double-A Altoona to start the year and then posting equally impressive numbers following an early-August promotion to Triple-A Indianapolis.
Jose Berrios, RHP
The Minor League strikeout champion followed up a masterful 2014 with an arguably better 2015 campaign. After beginning the year with a 3.08 ERA in 15 Double-A starts, Berrios was even more impressive in 12 Triple-A outings, posting a 2.85 mark and fanning 4.6 batters for every walk.
15-5, 1.41 ERA, 134 IP, 163 K
Unranked entering the year, Snell vaulted to No. 41 among MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects and No. 2 within his organization on the back of a breakout 2015. The lefty started his season with 49 straight scoreless innings and rocketed through three levels to finish with Triple-A Durham.
Alex Reyes, RHP
The fireballer Reyes possesses one of the most electric fastballs in the game and a plus curveball to complement it. With a heater that touched triple digits this season, the righty dominated Class A Advanced hitters to earn a Futures Game selection and a July promotion to Double-A.
Give him the ball; he'll shut it down
Top Relief Pitcher of the Year
2014 Cam Bedrosian
2013 Nick Wittgren
2012 Ben Rowen
2011 Addison Reed
Orioles relief pitcher Oliver Drake overcame shoulder surgery and a transition to the bullpen en route to his best season and a subsequent Major League debut. He's the winner of the staff vote as the Minors' top reliever. San Jose righty Jake Smith dominated the Cal League to earn the fans' vote. Full story »
Jake Smith, RHP
4-4, 2.35 ERA, 84 1/3 IP, 118 K, 0.84 WHIP, 16 SV, 19 SVO
MLB Organization: Giants
Smith more than surpassed his 2014 strikeout total of 85 while issuing 21 walks in 56 games for Class A Advanced San Jose. Though a brief injury kept him from finishing out the regular season, the 25-year-old returned for the playoffs and helped the Giants reach the California League Finals.
Kyle Grana, RHP
2-2, 0.78 ERA, 57 1/3 IP, 69 K, 1.17 WHIP, 24 SV, 26 SVO
Grana broke out in his first full season with a scoreless April for Peoria, converting his first 15 save opportunities. The Wildwood, Missouri, native then rebounded from two blown saves at the end of July with a strong August and finished the year with a career-low 0.78 ERA while topping all Cardinals Minor Leaguers with 24 saves.
Zac Curtis, LHP
4-4, 1.33 ERA, 53 IP, 75 K, 0.83 WHIP, 33 SV, 36 SVO
MLB Organization: D-backs
In just his first full season, Curtis took control of Class A Kane County's bullpen and led the Minor Leagues with 33 saves. The 23-year-old finished the year particularly strong, holding Midwest League foes to seven hits and two walks over his last 15 appearances for the Cougars.
Paul Fry, LHP
4-5, 2.03 ERA, 80 IP, 113 K, 1.15 WHIP, 9 SV, 16 SVO
MLB Organization: Mariners
After a slow start in the hitter-friendly California League, Fry worked his way to a midseason promotion to Double-A. With the Generals, the southpaw posted a 1.80 ERA and went on to lead all Mariners Minor League relievers in punchouts.
Ryan Kelly, RHP
MLB Organization: Braves
With a dominant April and May, Kelly advanced from Double-A to the Majors with a brief stint in Triple-A. Despite bouncing between Gwinnett and Atlanta seven times, the 27-year-old found time to lead Braves farmhands in saves while allowing just four earned runs in 41 Minor League appearances.
Shawn Armstrong, RHP
MLB Organization: Indians
In his second season since moving to the bullpen, Armstrong posted a career-high 80 strikeouts while walking 26 for Triple-A Columbus. The 25-year-old blew a save in May but was perfect in every opportunity thereafter, earning two callups to Cleveland, where he did not allow a run over his first six outings.
Zack Weiss, RHP
After starting the year with 11 2/3 scoreless innings for Daytona, Weiss got the call to Double-A, where he would take the Southern League saves crown. With a dominant campaign there, the UCLA product became the first Pensacola pitcher to earn a spot on the circuit's end-of-season All-Star team.
Oliver Drake, RHP
Drake proved he could handle the International League after spending parts of the last four seasons in Double-A. Amid two callups to Baltimore -- which included three scoreless innings in his debut May 23 at Miami -- the 28-year-old yielded just four runs on 23 hits over 42 Minor League appearances.
Jeff Johnson, RHP
Coming off Tommy John surgery, which sidelined him for all of 2014, Johnson posted his best season statistically. Aside from back-to-back June outings in which he yielded four total earned runs, the 25-year-old held Eastern league hitters to just two earned runs over his other 49 appearances en route to a postseason callup to Columbus.
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Silvino Bracho, RHP
After advancing two levels in his first three seasons, Bracho began 2015 in Class A Advanced and finished it in the Majors. The 23-year-old yielded one hit over six outings before moving to Double-A, where he continued to shut down batters before heading to Arizona for his big league debut.
The most dominant club in the Minors
Best Team of the Year
2014 Kane County Cougars
2013 GCL Nationals
2012 Asheville Tourists
2011 San Antonio Missions
The Fresno Grizzlies brought home the first Pacific Coast League title and Triple-A National Championship in franchise history behind a roster that included many of Houston's top prospects. That was more than enough to earn both the fans' and staff's vote for best team. Full story »
Fresno captures franchise's first PCL, Triple-A crowns
MLB Affiliation: Astros
Dominant pitching performances from 2013 first overall pick Mark Appel and Double-A call-up Chris Devenski, along with the red-hot playoff bats of Tony Kemp and Tyler White, helped Fresno win the franchise's first PCL Championship and Triple-A National Championship.
Columbus Clippers
Clippers battle to Governors' Cup victory
MLB Affiliation: Indians
Columbus fought Indianapolis to a deadlock for the West Division crown and the International League's best regular-season record (83-61). In the Finals, the Clippers outlasted their division rival one last time to win the series in five games and claim the franchise's third championship in four years.
Biloxi Shuckers
Road-warrior Shuckers pace Southern League
MLB Affiliation: Brewers
The Shuckers opened the season with a 54-game road trip, but that didn't stop them from winning the South Division's first-half title. The wins kept coming after moving into MGM Park as the Shuckers finished with the Southern League's best regular-season record (78-59) and team ERA (3.25).
Midland RockHounds
RockHounds repeat as Texas League's finest
MLB Affiliation: Athletics
Stocked with top prospects such as Matt Olson, Renato Nunez, Chad Pinder, Ryon Healy and Jaycob Brugman, the RockHounds slugged their way to a Texas League championship victory over Northwest Arkansas, becoming the circuit's first repeat champion since San Antonio in 2002-03.
Chattanooga Lookouts
Prospect-laden Lookouts win Southern League
MLB Affiliation: Twins
Despite graduating top prospects Byron Buxton, Miguel Sano and Jose Berrios by midseason, the Lookouts made the playoffs by winning the North Division first-half title. Once in the tourney, they turned it on, storming to the championship behind Max Kepler, Jorge Polanco and Adam Brett Walker II.
Baysox win first-ever Eastern League championship
MLB Affiliation: Orioles
Led by Eastern League batting champion Trey Mancini and a deep supporting cast of veterans and prospects, the BaySox secured the Western Division title and fought back from a 2-1 series deficit against Reading in the Finals to capture the first EL title in Bowie's 23-year history.
Corpus Christi Hooks
Hooks notch most wins in Minors
Corpus Christi compiled the most regular-season victories in all of Minor Leagues Baseball, taking the first-half Texas League South Division title by 13 games and tacking on a strong second half for an impressive 89-51 overall record with a roster that at times included Mark Appel, A.J. Reed, Tony Kemp and Michael Feliz.
Savannah Sand Gnats
Streaking Gnats capture dual titles in Sally League
MLB Affiliation: Mets
Savannah won the Southern Dvision's first-half title, then made headlines by winning 18 straight games in the second half. Though the streak ended unceremoniously with a rain-shortened tie, that didn't stop the Sand Gnats from rallying to capture the division's second-half title as well.
Quad Cities River Bandits
Bandits arms place them among Minors' best
Quad Cities finished with the MWL's best record (88-50) thanks to a league-best 2.65 ERA, despite starting 20 different pitchers over the course of the season. As an added bonus, the River Bandits had the opportunity to be the first team to showcase the talents of second overall pick Alex Bregman.
GCL Red Sox
Red Sox repeat in Gulf Coast League
MLB Affiliation: Red Sox
Boston's Class A affiliate in Greenville may have had the flashier prospects, but it was the GCL Red Sox who not only won their second consecutive Gulf Coast League championship with a clean sweep of the Blue Jays. The Sox finished with the Minor League's highest winning percentage among all domestic-based teams (.707).
The most exciting game of the season
Game of the Year of the Year
2014 Clinton's 16-run comeback
Biloxi spent 54 games on the road to open the season. When the Shuckers finally got to open their ballpark, they did so in style with a walk-off win in 14 innings to win the fans and staff vote as Game of the Year. Full story »
Shuckers script perfect homecoming
After long road trip to start year, Biloxi comes home with win
Double-A Biloxi spent the first two months -- 54 total games -- of its existence on the road while waiting for MGM Park to be ready for baseball. On their first night in their beautiful new digs, the Shuckers wrote the perfect script, rallying from a run down to walk off in the 14th. More »
Reds trio combines for Bats' first no-no
Rehabbing Cincinnati starter Cingrani starts; Holmberg, LeCure finish feat
With a big leaguer setting the tone, Triple-A Louisville followed his lead. Cincinnati's Tony Cingrani threw four hitless innings in a rehab start, and David Holmberg and Sam LeCure followed by spinning five of their own to secure the Bats' first nine-inning no-hitter in franchise history. More »
Travelers make history with 14-run inning
Behind Texas League-record 10 walks, Arkansas romps
Patience at the plate led to an inning like none other in the Minor Leagues in 2015. Earning a league-record 10 free passes, Double-A Arkansas throttled visiting Springfield pitchers for 14 runs in the fifth inning but still had to hang on in a wild 15-12 win. More »
Hessman slams Minors home run record
Tigers farmhand mashes 433rd home run to claim American title
In his 19th professional season, Detroit's Mike Hessman put his name atop all others. The third baseman blasted his 433rd Minor League home run to break a 79-year-old record as the most in history. "The King" blasted through the mark in style: his record-breaker was a go-ahead grand slam. More »
Gwynn walks off on memorable Father's Day
Washington farmhand plays hero one year after legendary father's passing
Just more than a year after his Hall of Fame father died, Tony Gwynn Jr. ripped a 10th-inning single to lead his Triple-A Syracuse club to a win over Buffalo. "For me, it's a gift to my dad or from my dad -- both, really," Gwynn said after his big moment. More »
Eugene tosses no-no wearing stadium jerseys
In special uniforms, Ems throw first no-hitter in 47 years
The city of Eugene lost its venerable old Minor League home when Civic Stadium burned down June 30. Six weeks later, the Emeralds wore special uniforms paying tribute to the facility and did its memory proud as four pitchers combined on the club's first no-hitter since 1968. More »
Chen, Pelicans walk off with Mills Cup
Myrtle Beach earns first Carolina League title in 15 years
In their first season as a Cubs affiliate, the Pelicans rolled through the Carolina League's Mills Cup Championship Series. Myrtle Beach's Pin-Chieh Chen poked a walk-off single in the ninth inning to sink Wilmington and secure a three-game sweep to the league title. More »
Sand Gnats' record win streak ends in tie
Rain forces finish to 18 straight Savannah victories
Hours after winning a doubleheader opener to extend the Minors' longest winning streak in more than a decade to 18 games, Savannah saw it close in unsatisfying fashion. A rainstorm forced umpires to call their nightcap with Kannapolis while tied at 1-1, bringing a close to the remarkable run. More »
Pointer wins 'crazy' EL All-Star shootout
Slugger blasts game-clinching dinger in 11th round of decisive Derby
Not many games head to a shootout to name a winner, but the Eastern League All-Star Game isn't just any contest. Tied 4-4 after nine innings, the Eastern Division downed the Western on a sudden-death home run by Philadelphia prospect Brian Pointer More »
GreenJackets survive in wild walk-off win
Delmarva's Leyva misses plate; Augusta rallies for win
It looked as if Delmarva's Elier Leyva had belted a go-ahead homer in the ninth inning of his club's July 26 game at Augusta, but the outfielder missed home plate in his celebration. That led to the hit being deemed a game-tying triple and kept the GreenJackets alive for an eventual walk-off win. More »
Best Individual Performance
The best single day by any player
Best Performance of the Year
2014 Griffin hits four home runs
2013 Baez's four-homer game
2012 Hicks gives Twins storybook ending
2011 Germano's perfecto
Two grand slams, 12 RBIs and a new California League record were all it took for Derek Fisher to secure the 2015 staff vote and MiLBY award for best single-game performance. James Dykstra's dominant pitching effort for Winston-Salem earned the fans vote. Full story »
Dykstra gives outfielders a day off
Dash righty tosses no-no without ball ever leaving the infield
James Dykstra's seven-inning gem for Winston-Salem on April 15 seems even more impressive when you consider his outfielders could have spent the game on social media rather than fielding their position as all 21 outs were recorded without the ball ever leaving the infield. More »
Suns' Brice raises the bar
Right-hander records 13 strikeouts over eight dominant innings
In a year full of strong pitching performances, Austin Brice's June 29 gem for the Jacksonville Suns really stands out as the right-hander allowed just a walk and a single while fanning a career-high 13 batters over eight scoreless innings against Biloxi. More »
Fisher scripts recordbreaking debut
Astros prospect drives in 12 runs in first Cal League game
Records are made to be broken, but in your first game in a new league? That's what Derek Fisher did May 30 as three homers and a double for Lancaster led to 12 RBIs, putting Fisher's name in the California League record book by snapping an RBI mark that had stood for 61 years. More »
Devenski dominates under spotlight
Astros prospect leads Fresno to title with terrific Triple-A debut
With all eyes on El Paso, Fresno's Chris Devenski twirled a gem in his Pacific Coast League debut as the right-hander gave up just one hit and struck out nine over seven innings to help the Grizzlies defeat the Columbus Clippers for the Triple-A National Championship. More »
Garrett dominates in playoff opener
Reds prospect nearly unhittable in FSL postseason start
Despite having to wait out a rain delay, Amir Garrett was incredibly sharp in the opening game of the Florida State League playoffs, taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning while tying a career-high with 12 strikeouts for Daytona. More »
Sixes are wild for Dodgers' Seager
Top Dodgers prospect goes 6-for-6 with a homer, six RBIs
Corey Seager was already having a nice game after his fourth at-bat. By the time his final May 28 plate appearance was in the books, it was special since the shortstop had racked up six hits, including two doubles and a homer and knocked in six runs against Salt Lake. More »
Reed kicks stellar season into high gear
Astros prospect clubs three homers, drives in nine runs
When you want to make a statement, a three-homer game is a good way to do it. A.J. Reed's first career home run hat trick came May 7 for the Lancaster JetHawks, included nine RBIs and helped launch a breakout 2015 season in which he led the Minors in both of those offensive categories. More »
Rays' Moore turns back the clock
Rehabbing left-hander fans team-record 16 for Bulls
Working his way back from Tommy John surgery, Rays lefty Matt Moore turned back the clock on Aug. 22 with a stellar performance for the Triple-A Durham Bulls that included a team-record 16 strikeouts over just six innings. More »
Bulls' Shaffer notches home run hat trick
Rays prospect records club's first three-homer game since 2009
After putting Southern League pitchers through the wringer over the first two months of the season, Shaffer quickly put his mark on Triple-A by posting the International League's first three-homer game of 2015 and the first by a Durham Bulls hurler in six years. More »
Biscuits' Rickard walks into record books
Rays prospect breaks league mark with six bases on balls
Usually when you get six trips to the plate and don't make contact, you've had a rough day. Not the case for Joey Rickard, who walked right into the Southern League record books by drawing six base on balls for Montgomery on July 7. More »
The Minors' most creative and best executed promotion
Promo of the Year of the Year
2014 Bark in the Park in El Paso
2013 Chase the Bat Dog retirement
2012 Home Run Derby aboard USS Yorktown
2011 Dallas Braden bobblehead
By forging a groundbreaking partnership with George R.R. Martin, HBO and Random House, the Staten Island Yankees' tribute to "Game of Thrones" earned the 2015 MiLBY for Promo of the Year. Full story »
'Game of Thrones' Night
Yankees honor Staten Island native George R.R. Martin
When he was a kid, growing up in New Jersey, George R.R. Martin would look across the water at Staten Island and dream of a world he would later create. That world became Game of Thrones. The Staten Island Yankees hosted Martin at the ballpark on an evening in which they renamed themselves the "Direwolves." More »
Taco Truck Throwdown, featuring the Fresno Tacos
To worldwide acclaim, the Grizzlies are what they eat
On the night of their fifth annual Taco Truck Throwdown, the Fresno Grizzlies took the field as the "Tacos" with in-house designed logos and uniforms honoring the culinary delight of the night. The redesign garnered international attention, and Fresno did their new moniker proud, beating arch rival Sacramento, 7-4. More »
Miracle on Ice Night
In honor of an upset, a promo that was ice cold and pure gold
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the "Miracle On Ice," when the USA hockey team beat the USSR during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The Rochester Red Wings celebrated by having both themselves and visiting Syracuse don USA hockey jerseys. "Relive the Miracle" pucks were distributed, while team alumni were on hand to "shoot" a first pitch. More »
'Back to the Future' Doubleheader
Paying tribute to the past and predicting the future, all in one night
Back to the Future turned 30 this season, and the Toledo Mud Hens paid homage via a time-traveling twinbill. The "Back" game featured '80s-themed throwback jerseys; for the "Future" nightcap, the team wore their best guess as to what a Mud Hens uniform will look like in 2045. More »
'Full House' Night
Nostalgia for a beloved 1980s sitcom results in a full house at the ballpark
The Frisco RoughRiders' tribute to Full House featured a visit from Dave Coulier, Uncle Joey himself. The players were introduced via a Full House-referencing video, before taking the field in colorful jerseys packed with references to the show's San Francisco locale. More »
Women in Sports Night
The heroes of the AAGPBL and others inspire new generations
Two weeks after the United States Women's National Team captured the World Cup, the Bowie Baysox welcomed pioneers to the ballpark for their annual Women in Sports event. Members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were in attendance, signing autographs and greeting the next great generation of female stars and Baysox fans.
Willie Nelson Bobblehead
Red Headed Stranger, in miniature, dons the jersey of hometown team
Country music legend Willie Nelson has done a lot in his life, but until this season he'd never authorized production of a Willie Nelson bobblehead. The Round Rock Express, located just outside of Willie's Austin stomping grounds, gave away 2,500 during a game in June. More »
Remembering Civic Stadium
After loss of a hallowed venue, Emeralds bid farewell in style
The Eugene Emeralds lost Civic Stadium, the city's longtime Minor League epicenter, in a tragic fire June 30. Just over six weeks later, the club sported special jerseys to remember their former home. There was magic in the air: the Emeralds tossed their first no-hitter in 47 years, a 3-0 win over Everett. More »
Sidd Finch Night
Legendary prank 'prospect' finally arrives in short-season ball
There really was no Sidd Finch, despite a 30-year-old Sports Illustrated article to the contrary. But the man photographed as Finch, retired art teacher Joe Berton, was on-hand for the Brooklyn Cyclones' Sidd Finch bobblehead giveaway. The team took a look back at this elaborate hoax, which centered around a 168-mph fastball that never was.
Deflate Cancer Night
A great combination: Topical humor in a tropical environment
When the "Deflategate" scandal erupted, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans' response was swift and satiric. They quickly announced "Deflate Cancer Night," which aimed to "tighten the grip on testicular cancer." The evening included a ball inflation station, communal balloon deflation ceremony and general manager Andy Milovich participating in a "rocky mountain oyster" eating contest. More »
The one snapshot that exceeds all others
Photo of the Year of the Year
David Wegiel's timely image of Indianapolis first baseman's Josh Bell's icy walk-off celebration was voted by fans as the best photo of the 2015 season, earning the MiLBY Award for Photo of the Year. Full story »
Bell's icy debut
Dave Wegiel/Pinola Photography
Indianapolis Indians catcher Elias Diaz dumps ice on Josh Bell after the Pirates prospect won a 13-inning game with a walk-off single in his Triple-A debut Aug. 1.
Buxton meets Silver
Joe Territo/Rochester Red Wings
Rochester's Byron Buxton, baseball's No. 1 prospect, slams into the outfield wall and loses his cap and sunglasses while trying to catch a fly ball Aug. 16. The Twins prospect, now in the Majors, was able to finish the game. The wall pays tribute to late Red Wings owner Morrie Silver.
Pink skies in Colorado Springs
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A sold-out crowd on Military Appreciation Night enjoyed a vibrant sunset over Security Service Field in Colorado Springs when the hometown Sky Sox hosted Nashville on July 23.
Bishop eyes a ball
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Everett outfielder Braden Bishop keeps his eyes on a sinking line drive to center during a Northwest League game on June 28.
Gallas loses his bat
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Akron's Anthony Gallas watched his bat follow after the ball after taking a swing against Reading on July 10.
A walk-off geyser
Josh Holmberg
A player's beverage appears to erupt at home plate as Las Vegas' Danny Muno is swarmed by teammates after hitting a walk-off home run to beat Iowa on Aug. 17.
Coppola's diving grab
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Williamsport's Zach Coppola dives for a sinking fly ball during a New York-Penn League game in Auburn on Aug. 8.
Sunset in Coney Island
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The Brooklyn Cyclones and Tri-City ValleyCats enjoyed a warm summer sunset over the ocean and boardwalk in historic Coney Island on June 23.
Fireworks over 'Cuse
Fans packed into Syracuse's NBT Bank Stadium on July 4 for a fireworks show after watching the Triple-A Chiefs rout Pawtucket, 12-4.
An outfield visitor
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Hagerstown right fielder Jeff Gardner slides to catch a fly ball while a nearby bird -- perhaps a Dark-Eyed Junco -- flies by June 14. Gardner did not make the catch.
The floating tag
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Visalia's George Roberts goes up in the air to avoid a tag from High Desert catcher David Lyon during a play at the plate on April 12. Roberts was called out on the play by home plate umpire Reid Gibbs (left).
Bat-shattering swing
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New Britain outfielder Noel Cuevas shattered his bat on this swing during an Eastern League doubleheader against Trenton on Aug. 12.
The single best highlight of 2015
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Top Play of the Year
2014 Simon reaches into 'pen for catch
2013 Toledo ends game with triple play
2012 Mike Trout scores from first on a single
2011 Nick Ciolli's over-the-fence catch
An extra-inning, home run-robbing grab by Beau Amaral in an eventual extra-inning win from his Pensacola Blue Wahoos wowed his teammates and eanred the fans' vote for the best play of the Minor League season. Full story »
Amaral steals extra-inning homer
After entering in the eighth inning, Pensacola center fielder Beau Amaral had plenty left in the tank in the 11th as he leaped high at the fence to rob Mobile's Gabby Guerrero of a homer in a Sept. 4 game the Blue Wahoos would win four frames later.
Heathcott commits highway robbery
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's Slade Heathcott showed impressive athleticism Aug. 15 when he tracked a deep fly to left field, planted his spike halfway up the wall and gained an extra second of hang time to take away a potential go-ahead homer by Indy's Xavier Avery.
Chasers' Coleman lunges over tarp
With playoff hopes waning, Omaha third baseman Dusty Coleman disregarded personal safety in favor of spectacular defense during an Aug. 30 game against the Grizzlies, leaping over the rolled-up tarp in foul territory and crashing headlong into the stands to catch a pop-up.
Aguilar pulls off hidden-ball trick
Columbus first baseman Jesus Aguilar enjoyed a stellar offensive season, but his most memorable moment may have come on defense. After Indy's Gustavo Nunez slapped a single, a cunning Aguilar signaled for the ball and tagged an unsuspecting Nunez as he briefly strayed from the bag.
Gwynn Jr. walks off on Father's Day
One year and five days after the passing of his Hall of Fame father, Tony Gwynn Jr. honored his memory with his biggest at-bat of the season. In the 10th inning of a scoreless tie, Gwynn lifted host Syracuse to a Father's Day triumph with a clutch one-out single.
Hooks orchestrate triple steal
Corpus Christi ran away with first place during the first half of the Texas League season and capped that feat on the final game before the All-Star break by running wild on the bases as Teoscar Hernandez and two of his teammates each stole a bag at the same time.
RoughRiders record two-run sac fly
Being down 10 runs in the final frame didn't stop Frisco's Luis Marte from showing some heads-up hustle. Standing on second base with one out, the 21-year-old shortstop capped a rare two-run sacrifice fly on a ball hit to the deepest part of Dr Pepper Ballpark.
Long makes no-look snag for Sounds
Though he'd suffer his first loss at the Triple-A level, Nashville right-hander Nate Long opened his July 12 start with some lightning-fast reflexes, robbing Redbirds lead-off man Rafael Ortega with an impressive behind-the-back grab in the bottom of the first inning.
Rohlinger preserves no-no from his knees
With a no-hitter on the line, Akron shortstop Ryan Rohlinger rose to the occasion by diving to his right, climbing to his knees and firing to first to nab Reading's Harold Martinez by a hair -- helping to preserve Ryan Merritt's eventual seven-inning gem.
Legends pitcher starts unlikely DP
A scorching drive up the middle turned into an improbable 1-6-3 double play as Lexington shortstop Luis Valenzuela secured a hard carom off his pitcher -- left-hander Brennan Henry -- and then fired to first to also retire an overly aggressive Greenville baserunner.
Cards' Caldwell, Ohlman join forces
It's not entirely clear which part of Springfield's Aug. 23 double play against Frisco was most impressive -- was it Bruce Caldwell's sparkling over-the-shoulder catch, how the infielder reoriented quickly to fire the ball home, or was it catcher Mike Ohlman's lunging tag in a nick of time?
Vigil performs juggling act
What appeared to be a routine pop-up in foul territory turned into quite an adventure for Greensboro backstop Rodrigo Vigil, who collided with first baseman K.J. Woods, fell to the ground and made a juggling catch from his backside -- then nearly capped it off with a double play.
The most exciting long ball of 2015
Top Home Run of the Year
2014 Refsnyder brings July 4th fireworks
2013 Kevin Keyes hits light tower
2012 Billy Hamilton hits inside-the-park homer
2011 Christian Yelich bashes postseason walk-off homer
Before there was Daniel Murphy's postseason hot streak, there was Jaycob Brugman of the Midland RockHounds. His big home run in the Texas League Finals continued his streak and earned him the fans' vote for Best Home Run. Full story »
Brugman continues playoff dominance
The Midland RockHounds secured the Texas League championship for the second straight season in 2015, and a big reason why was the postseason prowess of Jaycob Brugman, who homered in his fourth consecutive playoff game Sept. 16 to propel his club within one win of a repeat.
Hessman slams way into record books
The King's crowning achievement came Aug. 3 as longtime slugger Mike Hessman recorded his 433rd Minor League home run with a go-ahead grand slam, clearing the bases for the Mud Hens and erasing Buzz Arlett's 79-year record with one more mighty swing.
RailRiders walk off on inside-the-park homer
The Minor League season is littered with walk-off homers followed by wild celebrations, but Ben Gamel and the RailRiders may have the best of the bunch in 2015 as the outfielder drove the ball into right field and then raced all the way around the bases to beat the PawSox on Aug. 10.
Winker extends streak to five games
Top Reds prospect Jesse Winker turned his season around in the second half, and his finest moment may have come Aug. 15 when he homered in his fifth straight game. One shy of a Southern League record, the blast came two days before his 22nd birthday in the heat of Pensacola's playoff chase.
Aces' O'Brien laces homer for PCL
After showcasing his power a day earlier during the Triple-A Home Run Derby, Reno's Peter O'Brien thrilled the Omaha crowd once again in the eighth inning of the All-Star Game, breaking a 1-1 tie with a two-run bomb for the Pacific Coast League.
Barons' Hawkins belts moving train
Birmingham's Courtney Hawkins may not have had a season to remember, missing substantial time due to injury, but his home run May 10 would be difficult to forget as it cleared the left-field fence at Montgomery's Riverwalk Stadium and bounded off the roof of a passing freight train.
RubberDucks' Myles homers for cycle
Though he didn't realize it when he stepped to the plate in the eighth inning of a 6-6 tie on Aug. 25, Akron's Bryson Myles sat a homer shy of the cycle. Despite getting to the park shortly before game time and missing batting practice, the outfielder indeed went yard to complete the feat.
I-Cubs' Baez touches light tower
Javier Baez's power potential has never been a question mark for the Chicago Cubs, and on June 6 the 22-year-old infielder put his impressive home run stroke on full display for the fans at Iowa's Principal Park, blasting one high and far off the left-field light tower.
Gallo gets all of it for Express
A Joey Gallo homer is typically marked by two characteristics: They begin with a violent left-handed power stroke and end with the ball landing a great distance from home plate. His July 8 blast offers a perfect example of each -- much to the delight of the Round Rock announcers.
New Britain finale ends on high note
Playing their final game in New Britain before moving to Hartford and becoming the Yard Goats, the Rock Cats gave their fans a farewell they won't soon forget -- not only providing 15 innings of baseball but also winning the marathon contest on Jordan Patterson's walk-off two-run blast.
The moment that made you take notice and at times laugh
Best Blooper of the Year
2014 Barons' Earley crashes through fence
In a video too bizarre to describe in words -- though MiLB.com's Kelsie Heneghan tries -- a race of appliances made fans laugh and then cry and then vote for it as the Best Blooper of the season. Full story »
Whitecaps race comes down to wire
In a video that went viral in July, youngsters dressed as a dryer, a stove and a water heater collide and fall head over feet before the finish line during a comical between-innings promotion.
Catcher, manager undress after ejections
Pensacola catcher Kyle Skipworth and manager Pat Kelly both get partially undressed after being ejected in the ninth inning during a July game against Biloxi. Kelly, who attempts to eject the umpires himself, also uses the pitcher's rosin bag as deodorant.
Wiener Dog takes victory lap
In another video that quickly went viral, eight dachshunds race to become "El Paso's Fastest Wiener." But one pooch takes a victory lap around the park, visiting the bullpen, dugout, some infielders, an umpire as well as the mound after the race.
Dad catches ball while holding baby
A slick-fielding father in Round Rock catches Kyle Wren's foul ball with his bare left hand while holding his baby in his right during a Triple-A game against Colorado Springs in August.
'Jackets win after Leyva misses plate
Delmarva's Elier Leyva appears to hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the ninth inning but misses touching home plate. Augusta then wins on a walk-off hit in the 10th.
Catcher's throw hits batter in belly
Pawtucket Red Sox veteran catcher Humberto Quintero hits Durham Bulls batter Luke Maile in the gut in a bizarre moment while attempting to throw a ball to third base.
Manager, coach toss, kick helmets
Myrtle Beach manager Mark Johnson kicks his helmet before coach Chris Gutierrez throws his own in frustration after getting ejected on the same play.
Coach Chicken lets runner get picked off
The Famous Chicken, coaching first base for the Triple-A Iowa Cubs during a nationally televised game, is left speechless after Matt Szczur gets picked off first base against Memphis.
Mastroianni finds himself under fence
Syracuse center fielder Darin Mastroianni knocks down part of the outfield wall while trying to catch a double by Charlotte's Matt Tuiasosopo during a late-June contest at NBT Bank Stadium.
Castillo plays catch with Bulls
Pawtucket's Rusney Castillo, standing on first as the runner, catches a pickoff throw from Durham pitcher Jordan Norberto when Bulls first baseman J.P. Arencibia wasn't paying attention. Castillo then tosses the ball back.
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35mm film- W3471/ss/F13 (series title missing) WEEKLY REVIEW No. 416 See Prelude to Aspiring
B&W 7 mins. 35mm 635 ft. VICE-REGAL.... BRITISH FILM PREMIERE 145 ft. LAKE TEKAPO.... ICE SKATING 199 ft. AUCKLAND.... FLYING BOAT for PACIFIC SERVICE 235 ft. Film Censor's Certificate No. U19649 (19 August 1949) Release Date: 19.8.49 Cat. Ref. 1951 p.17. REVIEW No. 415 B&W 7 mins. 35mm 635 ft. BRITISH FILM PREMIERE. 145 ft. Crowds attend opening of Britain's new colour film of Scott's fatal last journey to the South Pole. ICE SKATING. 199 ft. New Zealand Ice Skating Championships at Lake Tekapo. FLYING-BOAT FOR PACIFIC SERVICE. 235 ft. Finishing touches to and test flight of Royal Mail Auxiliary 'Takitimu' for flying service from New Zealand to Chatham Islands and Fiji. Viewing copies : 35mm film- W3471/ss/F13 (series title missing) WEEKLY REVIEW No. 416 See Prelude to Aspiring
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Green Buildings: Saving The World Through Smart Construction
Administrator | February 19, 2014 | Green Home | No Comments
Let’s face it – whether you’re a global warming believer, a refusenik, or somewhere in between with the rest of the world, the earth is in some trouble. There are too many humans and not enough resources. In fact, the 7 billion of us are sucking up the natural resources at a fairly terrifying rate. Because of this, it’s urgent that developers and builders begin observing greener building habits – sooner rather than later.
What exactly do we mean when we talk about green buildings? That’s not as simple as it sounds, but the short answer is exactly what you’d expect. Green buildings conserve resources. This can take a few shapes in reality; buildings that use less operational energy, buildings that use ecologically sourced building materials, or some combination of the two.
Integrating environmental issues into building planning should be the norm, not the exception, and the growing global trend suggests that others are waking up to this as well. Let’s explore what green construction may look like.
Why is green building so crucial?
We have limited supplies for a whole lot of demand. Studies suggest that of the earth’s natural resources, several them are uncomfortably near failing to meet that demand. This includes:
Fresh water, which could conceivably leave billions thirsting by 2025, if statistics are to be believed.
Oil, which may not last the next fifty years if we don’t alter our current practices (the linked report suggests less than 44 years at existing usages).
Coal, which should last another 200 years – an eyeblink in history.
Natural gas, with reserves similar to those of the oil industry.
“Green” Buildings Through Conservation of Energy
One of the most important and common ways to make a building green is to control operating costs through the deliberate lowering of utility and energy costs. This is a hugely growing trend in places like Dubai, where the government has actually mandated green building practices. This can include:
The use of solar heating systems or rainwater collectors.
Use of “greywater” for non-potable applications, such as toilets or car washes.
Hydro, solar, wind, or biomass systems to reduce dependence on traditional power.
Optimization techniques to ensure responsible operation of the building.
Waste reduction – reducing the amount of material that goes to landfills, composting on-site.
Green Buildings Through Sustainable Architecture
Speaking to experts like environmental building materials supplier Mark Bouri will lead to discussion of sustainable materials. Materials like dimension stone, recycled or repurposed stone or metal, and other non-toxic or renewable materials can reduce the carbon footprint of a building from the beginning.
Buildings that are designed to be green will make waste reduction and other operational considerations a great deal easier. Even at the demolition stage, such buildings may be designed for conscious deconstruction to allow reclamation of the materials.
One argument against green buildings is the cost, but it’s an argument that doesn’t – pardon the pun – hold water. While these buildings may cost an average 2% more to construct, they yield much more than that in returns during the life of the building.
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About the author: Michael Newsham is a columnist, author, and musician who works in marketing and has long been committed to ecological concerns.
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Life History of the Chocolate Pansy
Life History of the Chocolate Pansy (Junonia hedonia ida)
Butterfly Biodata:
Genus: Junonia Hübner, 1819
Species: hedonia Linnaeus, 1764
Subspecies: ida Cramer, 1775
Wingspan of Adult Butterfly: 55-60mm
Caterpillar Local Host Plants: Ruellia repens (Acanthaceae), Hemigraphis reptans (Acanthaceae)
A Chocolate Pansy displaying its upperside.
A Chocolate Pansy giving us a view of its underside.
Physical Description of Adult Butterfly:
Above, the wings are orangy brown with several indistinct but darker brown bands traversing from the costa towards the dorsum. There are two cell spots on the forewing and a prominent series of reddish brown post-discal ocelli on the hindwing. A much less prominent series of post-discal ocelli is also present on the forewing. Underneath, both fore- and hindwings are in duller brown but each has a dark stripe traversing from the costa to the dorsum. The stripes appear to be continuous across the two wings. A large white spot is present next to the stripe in space 7 of the hindwing. A post-discal series of ocelli is present on both wings, and these ocelli are yellowish brown on pristine specimens.
A Chocolate Pansy visiting flowers.
An adult Chocolate Pansy taking up its position on a leaf.
Field Observations of Butterfly Behaviour:
This species is rather common across multiple habitats in Singapore, with ubiquitous presence in nature reserves as well as urban and suburban areas. It flies in the usual gliding manner of the Junonia spp. and typically several individuals can be seen together in one location. Under sunny conditions, they have a habit of opening their wings wide to sunbathe while resting on a perch.
Early Stages:
The caterpillars of the Chocolate Pansy feed mainly on leaves of the two recorded local host plants, Ruellia repens and Hemigraphis reptans. Both plants belong to the Acanthaceae family, and occur as widespread weeds in Singapore. It is likely that more members of this family serve as the larval food plants for Chocolate Pansy.
Local host plant #1: Hemigraphis reptans.
Local host plant #2: Ruellia repens.
A mating pair of the Chocolate Pansy.
A mother Chocolate Pansy laying an egg on the underside of a leaf of Hemigraphis reptans.
The eggs of the Chocolate Pansy are laid singly on the young leaves or shoots of the host plants. The greenish egg is somewhat globular in shape but with a blunt top. Twelve raised ridges run from this top end to the base of the egg. Each egg has a diameter of about 0.75mm.
Two views of an egg of the Chocolate Pansy. Diameter: 0.75mm.
Two views of a mature egg of the Chocolate Pansy.
The egg takes about 3 days to hatch. The young caterpillar emerges by eating away part of the egg shell, and then proceeds to eat the rest of the egg shell from the outside. The initial length of the newly hatched is about 1.5mm. The cylindrical and pale yellowish body is covered with many small tubercles. Long dark setae emanate from those tubercles occurring dorso-laterally, and long whitish setae occur sub-spiracularly. The head capsule is pale yellowish with two large lateral dark patches.
Two views of a newly hatched caterpillar, length: 1.5mm.
The 1st instar caterpillar feeds on the lamina of young leaves and grows rapidly. After reaching about 3mm in 1.5 days, the caterpillar moults to the 2nd instar.
Two views of a 1st instar caterpillar, length: 2.8mm.
Two views of a 1st instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 3mm.
The body of the 2nd instar caterpillar is yellowish brown mainly and is darker brown on the dorsum. Moderately long and branched brownish processes run along the length of the body. Fine setae emanate from these processes and from other small tubercles on the body surface. The head capsule is yellowish to orangy brown and featuring two small dark brown lateral patches. This instar lasts about 2 days with the body length reaching about 5mm.
Two views of a 2nd instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 2.5mm
Two views of a 2nd instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 4.5mm
The 3rd instar caterpillar has proportionately longer dorso-lateral and lateral processes. The body is mostly dark brown to black, except for the posterior end which is yellowish to orangy brown. This instar takes about 2 days to complete with body length reaching about 8.5mm.
Two views of a 3rd instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 4.5mm.
Two views of a 3rd instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 8mm.
Two views of a 3rd instar caterpillar, about to moult. Inset: head capsule.
The 4th instar caterpillar closely resembles the 3rd instar caterpillar, except for the proportionately longer processes and the change to an orange base color for the head capsule. The body color is almost entirely black except for a short section of yellowish brown at the posterior end. A fair number of small white specks appear on the body surface. The 4th instar lasts 2-2.5 days with the body length reaching about 12mm.
Two views of a 4th instar caterpillar, early in this stage, length: 9mm.
Two views of a 4th instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 11mm.
Two views of a 4th instar caterpillar, about to moult, length: 11.5mm.
The 5th (and penultimate) instar caterpillar is similar to the 4th instar caterpillar.One discernible difference is the presence of a dense set of moderately long fine setae covering the entire body surface. This instar lasts for 2.5-3 days, and the body length increases rather dramatically and reaches up to 23.5mm.
A 5th instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 11mm.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, early in this stage, length: 12.5mm. Inset: head capsule.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, about to moult, length: 22mm.
The 6th (and final) instar caterpillar is similar to the 5th instar caterpillar but has an even denser carpet of whitish fine setae on the body surface. Upon closer examination, pitch black triangular patches, one to each body segment, can be discerned against a lighter shade of black for the body base colour. The head capsule is bright orange and has two black patches on both sides of the "face".
Two views of a 6th instar caterpillar, early in this stage, length: 23mm.
Two views of a 6th instar caterpillar, length: 36mm.
The 6th instar lasts for 4-4.5 days, and the body length reaches up to 40mm. The caterpillar ceases feeding and wanders around. Eventually it stops at a spot on the underside of a leaf, young shoot/stem and spins a silk pad from which it hangs vertically to take on the pre-pupatory pose.
A pre-pupa of the Chocolate Pansy.
The pupation event of a Chocolate Pansy caterpillar.
Pupation takes place about 0.5 days later. The pupa suspends itself from the silk pad with no supporting silk girdle. It is entirely greyish brown with a series of dorso-lateral pairs of short and pointed processes, one pair to each segment. The dorsum is sharply raised at the mesothorax. Black markings are also featured in the wing pads. Length of pupae: 18-19mm.
Three views of a pupa of the Chocolate Pansy.
Three views of a mature pupa of the Chocolate Pansy.
After about 5 days of development, the pupal skin of the mature pupa turns translucent and the pupa turns dark brown as a result. Patches of orangy brown can also be noticed in the wing pad. The adult butterfly emerges from the pupa the next day.
The eclosion event of a Chocolate Pansy caterpillar.
A newly eclosed Chocolate Pansy resting on its pupal case.
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Text by Horace Tan, Photos by Simon Sng, Federick Ho, Sunny Chir and Horace Tan
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Activism shapes our collections
16 February 2017 by Mitty
Taking a closer look at our activism timeline at the Sankofa project launch event.
As part of the Sankofa Project we have started to explore Black activism in Liverpool. An activist is a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change. These words can definitely be used to describe Chief Bassey Duke Ephraim (also known as Bassey Orok Edem). I first became aware of him when speaking to the Zachary Kingdon , curator of African Collections. Zachary tells us more about Chief Bassey and his connections to Liverpool.
“The World Museum’s important African collection contains artefacts from a great many sources and from across the African continent. Among the most interesting items are those that were donated by West Africans at the beginning of the 20th century through the steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard.
Wooden box decorated with poker-work designs made by an Efik carpenter at Old Calabar, southeast Nigeria. Donated to the World Museum through Arnold Ridyard in 1909 by Bassey Duke Ephraim.
About one hundred West Africans are known to have donated items to the collection and among these many were activists against colonial legislation that threatened to strip African authorities of control over their traditional lands and resources. In 1913 Chief Bassey formed part of a delegation of chiefs and dignitaries from southern Nigeria who travelled to London to oppose British colonial land legislation. Chief Bassey was a member of the ‘native council of Calabar’ which sought to represent the interests of the Efik people and other groups in the Cross River region of southeast Nigeria.
On 6 June 1913 he gave evidence on Efik land tenure customs before the then Colonial Secretary and various MPs. Chief Ephraim partly owed his literary skills to his early education in Liverpool. As a child he had attended Waterloo College on Crosby Road South. There he excelled, with the Bootle Times listing him as a prize-winner in mathematics in both 1890 and 1891.
1913 was also the year in which the National Congress of British West Africa was formed. Bassey Duke Ephraim joined its first meeting in March 1920 at Accra in the Gold Coast. The congress aimed to use constitutional means to achieve political reforms and called for better health and educational services. Other West Africans who attended the 1920 Congress meeting in Accra, who were also donors to the African collections at World Museum, included Henry Van Hein of Cape Coast, the Alata Manche (‘King’) Kojo Ababio IV of James Town Accra, and Christian Josiah Reindorf of Accra.”
Group photograph of members of the National Congress of British West Africa at Accra on the occasion of their first meeting in March 1920.
We will be continuing to add to our activism timeline, so if there’s someone that you think should be featured let us know. Have a look at the Sankofa project page on the website if you’d like to find out more about the project and get involved.
Tags: activism, activist, African collections, arnold ridyard, black history, calabar, Campaign, collections, donors, international slavery museum, museum of liverpool, Nigeria, representation matters, sankofa, West Africa, world museum
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Consumers Embrace IoT but Harbor Security Worries
By: Nathan Eddy | August 15, 2016
Almost half of the respondents of a Vormetric poll are using internet-connected devices, with millennials outpacing boomers in use 56 percent to 46 percent.
Although still considered an emerging area, internet of things is steadily becoming more popular as a technology, according to a Vormetric survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers.
Almost half of the respondents polled are using internet-connected devices, with millennials (56 percent) outnumbering boomers (46 percent).
The most popular devices already in use are autos (24 percent), wearable fitness trackers (18 percent), home security cameras or similar devices (9 percent), thermostats (8 percent), lightbulbs (7 percent) and smartwatches (7 percent).
The survey revealed participants most fear the hacking of their cars (61 percent) and home security cameras (also 61 percent), while 52 percent said they thought a virtual personal assistant such as Amazon Echo would be vulnerable to hacking and 45 percent were concerned about the potential to hack smartwatches.
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"What would go a long way toward helping consumers to feel confidence about these devices and the personal data they create is strong, simply worded information about how they protect their devices and the data that they produce," Sol Cates, vice president of technical strategy at Vormetric, told eWEEK. "Ideally, this would be showcased in a prominent location on the physical device or accompanying materials, and on related web properties."
As IoT devices now cross over into the physical world, Cates said IoT vendors should consider the same kinds of standards that have been in place had for years in aviation and car manufacturing—standards that detail explicitly how devices and data are secured and used.
"Transparency is also critical. As the use of IoT devices becomes increasingly common, we believe regulatory bodies and consumer protection groups will advocate more and more for transparency," Cates said. "Although the concept of transparency may seem frightening to IoT manufacturers, the short pain is worth the long-term benefit. We believe the winners here are manufacturers that started thinking about this issue years ago, as they’ll be in a stronger compliance position."
The report noted a smart thermostat or lightbulb, for instance, can tell when people are at home—thereby opening up the possibility of theft when absent.
A hacked medical monitoring device could become life-threatening, and any inadequately secured IoT device has the potential to compromise home computer systems through a home network connection.
"As with smartphone security, consumer awareness is generally low—at least until people are put in a situation where they have to think about it," Cates said. "Once reminded, the overwhelming reaction is, 'There’s really nothing I can do about it,' and a tendency to just move on. Or we hear, 'I’d rather not know.' There certainly is a degree of inertia around the topic."
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The Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in STEM Education is designed for professionals and recent college graduates who already hold a degree in science, mathematics, or information technology/business discipline and who wish to teach science in either a middle school or high school. Completion of the program will result in both a master's degree and teacher certification through the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Students will complete a sequence of six courses that are grounded in research-based principles and focus on teaching instructional best practices in the STEM fields followed by a seventh class which is comprised of a twelve-week student teaching practicum. Students will also design, complete, and present a research project and comprehensive teaching portfolio.
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EDMUND PURDOM — He Came… And Went. Our Quiz
July 1, 2019Written by Joe Morella and Frank Segers
In the early 1950s everyone who went to the movies knew about Edmund Purdom. Here he is looking stern in the 1955 MGM Biblical epic, The Prodigal, with Lana Turner.
Hollywood considered Purdom perfect for the big and brassy extravaganzas it was churning out. He was blandly handsome, had Shakespeare on his resume, was well spoken — and British.
Remember, this was a time when Hollywood was convinced that English actors with stage backrounds could best pull off the histrionics required of leading actors in “prestige” box office pictures.
And like a few of these imports — somewhat like Michael Rennie, and Michael Wilding, although both had longer careers — Purdom pretty much came and went. While he was no Richard Burton, Purdom did manage to achieve top billing.
And an added bonus: his superactive love life kept Hollywood tongues wagging. (After all, how many actors could claim to have cuckholded Tyrone Power, for heavens sakes.)
Ok, let’s see how much you came recall about Purdom’s abrupt ascent and departure, As usual, questions today and answers tomorrow. Here we go:
1) Question: Purdom was for a time known as ‘the replacement star’ because he more than once took over for other leading actors in big pictures. Who did he replace in the 1954 production of The Student Prince? a) Bing Crosby; b) Errol Flynn; c) Tyrone Power; or d) Mario Lanza.
2) Question: Who did Purdom replace in perhaps his most famous film role as The Egyptian? a) John Derek; b) John Cassavetes; c) Cameron Mitchell; or d) Marlon Brando.
3) Question: Purdom did not receive a warm reception in Hollywood initially, and his auditions at which of these studios went over like a wet blanket? a) MGM; b) Universal; c) Warner Bros.; or d) 20th Century Fox.
4) Question: Purdom’s tangled personal life led to multiple marriages. Who was the most famous of his four spouses, and what has this to do with Tyrone Power? (Hint: She was a notorious playgirl.)
5) Question: Before he landed a big studio contract in Hollywood, Purdom claimed that despite his glittering stage resume he was dead broke and couldn’t afford to go back to his native England. a) True; or b) False.
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I look forward to reading the answers to this quiz tomorrow, as I know none of the answers, just as I know nothing about Edmund Purdom, except that his agent or Louis B. Mayer should have picked him a different stage name.
However, as often happens, an element in today’s posting has sent me down a wonderful rabbit hole.
The lobby card for The Prodigal is just fantastic…
“Two Years in the Making! A Fortune to Produce!” Totally Forgotten!
Hieronymus Bosch had nothing on the creator of this fabulous piece of art for “MGM’s Magnificent Cinemascope and Color Spectacle.” A wonderful depiction of earthly titillation and Biblical punishment, skirting the confines of the Production Code. The lobby card is far more exciting than the movie itself. But that was the point, wasn’t it? Are there coffee table books of great lobby card art? There should be. There must be.
Then there’s the suppoorting cast. What a marvelous list– Audrey Dalton, Neville Brand, James Mitchell (long time soap opera performer), Walter Hampden (who presented the Sarah Siddons Award to Anne Baxter in Three Face of Eve), the great screen villain Joseph Wiseman, and Sandra (Sandy) Descher, the traumatized girl in “Them.” Wow. Last but certainly not least, the formidable Louis Calhern. Yes, he always played himself, but he played himself better than anyone. I never miss a chance to catch him in any film he made. He was a stupendous contract player, character actor, and quasi-leading man. A Magnificent Yankee–from Brooklyn. And married for 10 years to Mrs. Thurston Howell III.
Thanks gentlemen, for another entertaining start to the day.
JoeMorella
And Graham Hill notes
D Is this a Joe & Frank TRICK question?
Because Purdom didn’t REPLACE Marlon Brando, he turned it down first.
B, C, D
Tyrone Power and Linda Christian would later become husband and wife in 1949, but within two years they were on the rocks. In her 1962 memoirs Linda blamed her husband’s extramarital affairs, but admitted to having an affair herself with actor Edmund Purdom in 1955, despite the fact that his wife, Anita, was a childhood friend of hers. After divorcing Power in 1956, Linda announced that she and Purdom would marry. And they did – in 1963!
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On Saturday, July 13, 2019 beloved mother of Leann, Eric, Jennifer, Matthew Spiker, and the late Michelle Ann Wolfe; daughter of the late Raymond and Anna Mary Ploof; sister of Connie Rohal, Janet (Steve) Kacin, James (Terri) Ploof, Peggy Ploof, and the late Daniel... More
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LOUIS W. MEASSICK
Age 92, of Bridgeville, passed away July 13, 2019. He was born August 13, 1926. Husband of the late Delores (Dee Miller) Meassick; brother of the late James Meassick, Stella Mutschler and Gail Abraham; favorite uncle of many loving nieces and nephews. Lou was a sweet... More
FRANK D. FERGUSON Age 84, of U...
FRANK D. FERGUSON
Age 84, of Upper St. Clair, PA passed away on Friday, July 12, 2019. He was born on June 3, 1935, in Fayette, Alabama. Frank is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Judith (Nelson) Ferguson; loving father of Dawneen (William) Suriano, Keith (Stacey) Ferguson and... More
NANCY J. GREEN Age 63, of Pit...
NANCY J. GREEN
Age 63, of Pittsburgh formerly of the McKeesport area, on July 13, 2019. Services and Interment will be private. Arrangements entrusted to SCHELLHAAS FUNERAL HOME, INC. Nancy loved to read and enjoyed listening to country music. In lieu of flowers, donations to Wounded... More
ALLEN G. CSUK, SR. Age 78, of...
ALLEN G. CSUK, SR.
Age 78, of Crafton, on Sunday, July 14, 2019. Beloved father of Allen Csuk, Jr., Karen (Ed) Zahn and Darlene (Joe) Burke; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; brother of Sr. Eileen O.P. and the late Kenneth Csuk. Al was an active member of Chartiers Council... More
LILLIAN J. (RICCI) ADAMS Of Oa...
LILLIAN J. (RICCI) ADAMS
Of Oakmont, peacefully passed on July 11, 2019, at the age of 89. Beloved wife of 41 years to the late James V. Adams; loving mother of Kenneth (Darlene) Adams of Homosassa, FL, Jim (Cathie) Adams of Richland Township; devoted grandmother of Jeffrey (Melissa)... More
STAN A. HEBDA Age 101, of Duqu...
STAN A. HEBDA
Age 101, of Duquesne, on July 13, 2019, at home. A son of the late Vincent and Blanche (Fularz) Hebda, he was a retired Steelworker and former member of the former St. Stephen's R.C. Church in McKeesport where he was an usher, member of the choir and their dart team. He loved... More
JOY E. (EISAMAN) MARTZ Age 82,...
JOY E. (EISAMAN) MARTZ
Age 82, of McCandless Twp., on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Beloved wife for 60 years of Russell Martz; loving mother of Beth Soergel (Randy), Diane Martz, and Amy Peluso (Jeff); proud grandmother of Pete Soergel (Sara), Amy Foster (Doug), Cameron Soergel, Nina Donnelly... More
BRIAN K. LEWIS Of Squirrel Hil...
BRIAN K. LEWIS
Of Squirrel Hill, died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday, July 14, 2019, age 59, of complications due to sepsis. Beloved son of the late Howard J. Lewis and is survived by his mother, Betty Lewis-Kaiserman. Brian was a loving brother to his sister, Debra Michelle Lomis (Tom)... More
DONALD W. MILLER Age 73, of Be...
DONALD W. MILLER
Age 73, of Beaver County, passed away Fri., July 12, 2019, at the V.A. Hospital, Aspinwall. Don was a proud Vietnam veteran having served with the U. S. Marine Corps and was a retired Railroader. Don leaves a daughter, Kerri (Joseph) Acierno of McCandless Twp.; a son, Don... More
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W. DOUGLAS FLETCHER
Age 90, formerly of Pleasant Hills and Oakmont, passed away on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Beloved Husband of the late Margaret T. "Peggy" Fletcher; loving father of Douglas (Isabella) Fletcher and Megan Fletcher; grandfather of Douglas (Oriana) Fletcher, Joseph (Alexa)... More
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WILLIAM MATTHEW "BILL" SLABE
Age 86, of Concordia, Monroeville passed on July 10, 2019. Son of Andrew and Angela Slabe; brother of Robert and the late Donald (Dorothy survives) Slabe; uncle of Donald Slabe, Sandy Foster; and dearest friend of Jim Crossey and Ed Cloonan. Bill graduated from... More
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VIRGINIA LEE HEINZ LESLIE
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October 30, 1935 - July 6, 2019. Ginger, 83, of Fox Chapel, PA died suddenly, but peacefully, Saturday, July 6, 2019 in her favorite chair on the porch overlooking Chautauqua Lake within Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY. Ginger... More
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Interview with ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES director Dominic Brunt and actor Joanne Mitchell
Ahead of the Horror Channel’s UK TV premiere of Attack of the Adult Babies, on Jan 5, 9pm, director Dominic Brunt and actor / producer partner Joanne Mitchell unpin the nappies…
On the 5th of January, ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES will receive its UK TV premiere on Horror Channel. Are you both excited?
DOMINIC: I’m over the moon. As a fan of horror, I’m also a fan of the Horror Channel. It’s an honour to have our work premiered with one of our favourite channels. The Horror Channel (along with Fright Fest and Metrodome) took Before Dawn under its wing when that was released as our debut feature film. It marked our transition from horror fen geeks to horror film makers and we were well looked after indeed.
JOANNE: We’re delighted and incredibly excited that the film will get its TV premiere with the brilliant Horror Channel. We’ve always been massive fans and the channel has always been incredibly supportive of us and our movies as well as so many other film makers.
What would you like TV viewers to take away from the film?
DOMINIC: We’d like viewers to watch it first and foremost as entertainment but to hopefully take time to reflect on any wider meanings and intentions. We’ve really enjoyed the fact that the film has been embraced as a roller coaster of gore and insanity!
JOANNE: Primarily I’d like viewers to just enjoy themselves and give in to the crazy ride. We dared to make something totally different from anything else we’ve ever made and are proud that it has been called a stand out horror movie. It’s a lot of fun, and was to make too!
Dominic, do you think your Emmerdale fans will be surprised / shocked to find you’re directing full-bloodied horror films?
I think they’ll either ignore what I’m up to, in regards to horror films, or they go along with the idea and support what we have “out there” on Netflix and Amazon etc. I’ve been involved in genre festivals in Leeds for over a decade and Before Dawn was made almost eight years ago. We’ve had clips shown on day time TV from a couple of the films so I’m not sure there’s any shock at what we do any more (although hopefully the content of our films is willfully so). Before Dawn and Adult Babies are pure fantasy without any spite, and you can’t argue that we weren’t sincere with our intentions regarding Bait.
Joanne, you’ve played four characters in Emmerdale and you’ve recently appeared in a lead role In Coronation Street. How does soapland compare with splatterland?
Oh my goodness, they couldn’t be more polarised! However, each genre is a great platform for stories and characters, just that soaps are much quicker and very slick. With indie horror films though you can take more risks!
AOTAB, underneath all the satirical fun and gore, deals with some pretty dark issues. Was it always your intention to make a politically-motivated horror comedy?
DOMINIC: I do believe you can make an allegorical, political point without being dull or boring or preachy. Bait is incredibly political but it is clothed and presented as a thriller and (hopefully) a gripping story first and foremost. I don’t think we’ll ever make a film that isn’t a metaphor or allegorical of something other than the surface story.
JOANNE: Yes, it was our intention – the idea of big adult babies making important decisions within our society tickled us – such a great terrifying image. We wanted to see how far we could take it – and I think we succeeded in taking it pretty bloody far!
Class issues rear their ugly head. Dominic, do you feel they are just as embedded in UK society as they were in the past – hence just as topical?
DOMINIC: Always were and always will be. For one single instance, look at the laws on hunting as a microcosm of the whole of society and the laws imposed on the working classes. Who adheres to what, and who carries on regardless? Who turns a blind eye, and in some cases actively supports the breaking of the laws passed in the same parliament supposedly enforced by the same police force created for “all of us”? The anger is hidden but it is there. I’m 48 so I’ve seen the unions crushed, raves stopped, films banned, ancient monuments cordoned off and football monetised to the maximum, traveler friends assaulted and stigmatised for living an alternative lifestyle.
The movie certainly caught the attention of reviewers, Hey You Guys called it “…the sort of deranged, balls-to-the-wall grossness that only ever seems to show up once in a generation”. How confident were you that you that the film could chime with audiences?
JOANNE: To be honest, you just never ever know. Audiences can be so different. The FrightFest audience, for example, are always very supportive, but then it went down a storm with the regional festivals too, as well as abroad. The French audience for example (Paris) was a surprise – the film had subtitles and I really wasn’t sure if it would translate well, but they had a great time watching it and really got it. We knew it would work well within the genre festivals though as I think horror fans are open to seeking and watching something different, it is a wonderful exciting platform to keep telling stories. So hopefully the fans of the Horror Channel will enjoy it too.
DOMINIC: Well it’s hardly the new Star Wars but within its own little niche, I’m absolutely delighted. We have to be thankful for a good release in the form of distribution through Nucleus and AMP supporting us, and then people like FrightFest and The Horror Channel being there to broadcast our ideas and stories. Otherwise you’re shouting at a wall.
Its chaotic sexual anarchy made it felt quite Orton-esque in some media corners. Was Joe Orton an inspiration? Who did inspire you? Were there any films that were particularly influential?
DOMINIC: I LOVE Joe Orton but he wasn’t on our minds at all I don’t think. It’s more a visual representation of the old EC horror comics from the 50’s which I like reading. We tried to make them flesh around Jo’s story and Paul Shrimpton’s script.
JOANNE: There was a mass of influences really, both from myself and Dominic, especially regarding political figures, exploitative male bosses and various scandals from the society we live in, with movie influences including the Blob, the stuff, all the saucy Carry On and Benny Hill farcical kinky humour too
Joanne, it was your idea to centre the film around the world of infantilism. How did you first discover this clandestine world?
It was an amalgamation of things really. I’d spent talking to a very intelligent and articulate young woman who was a dominatrix. She ran her own dungeon and was very successful doing so. She fascinated me. She spoke fairly discreetly about what her job entailed – from
what I could glimpse of that world it was pretty bizarre and interesting: Businessmen who wanted nothing more than to spend the day regressing as an infant or baby, relinquishing all the pressures and stresses of their high powered jobs. It piqued my interest and my imagination.
Dominic, the acting was very strong and the casting of cult TV comedian Charlie Chuck particularly stands out. Was it difficult to get the actors you wanted?
I think at our level you have to cast and audition for the part rather than fill your film with faces and names. We were lucky to have Kate Coogan, Sally Dexter, Jo, Andy Dunn, Nicky Evans, Thaila Zucchi, Seamus O’Neil, Laurence Harvey, Charlie Chuck etc who are all character actors of much experience, but we are limited by a budget so you have to cast smart. They liked the script first and foremost (fortunately) and not necessarily the budget.
Your production company Mitchell-Brunt Films has been going for seven years and you must be proud of what you’ve achieved so far (feature films BEFORE DAWN & BAIT) What plans do you have for the future?
DOMINIC: Several folders FULL of stuff. Also, 101 films are looking to re-release Before Dawn and Bait on BluRay, with lots of new extras. They’ve only been previously released on DVD, so we’re very pleased and flattered about that.
JOANNE: We’ve more ideas for films in the future and currently have one film in development, Lost Dogs by Jeff Lemire. I’ve also just directed my first short film, SYBIL, which is currently doing the rounds on the festival circuit.
Following the success of the LE Blu-ray edition, Nucleus Films is releasing a standard edition Blu-ray on Jan 28, 2019. https://amzn.to/2BIAbgO
Horror Channel goes nuts in January with a BLOODY CRAZY SEASON
Interview with IBIZA UNDEAD’s Marcia Do Vales
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economy cutting candy production
The Record Courier
by Scott Neuffer
Even a nearly 90-year tradition of volunteers making candy is not immune to economic uncertainties. “We’re making about 4,000 pounds of candy this year instead of 4,500,” said Genoa resident Marian Vassar, who has been organizing the Genoa Candy Dance candy-making sessions since 2000. “Because of high gas prices, we suspect not as many people from great distances will come to the event.”
Held the last weekend in September every year, Candy Dance is the Town of Genoa’s main revenue source. Candy sales and the dinner-dance were the original fundraisers when the event was established in 1919 as a way to pay for the town’s electric street lights. Residents started making candy to sell at the dance from which the festival derives its name. Vassar said the sale of candy generates about $40,000 for the town each year. “Expenses are higher this year,” she said.
“Some products, like chocolate, have gone up.”Despite the economic crunch, dozens of volunteers from around the Valley have come to the Genoa Town Kitchen to help produce and package 16 varieties of sweets. And the quality of the candies has not diminished. “Our mainstay is still the fudge, rocky road and divinity,” Vassar said. “We are also making some chocolate-dipped, soft center mints and may try some English toffee.”Other candies include dragon eye mints, haystacks, peanut brittle, cappuccino cups and Genoa Gems, truffle-like fudge confections.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Vassar said. “People really do enjoy coming in here to do this.”Early Aug. 26, eight people were in the town kitchen getting their hands sugary.“My arm is getting tired,” said Johnson Lane resident John Slattery after stirring a batch of boiling fudge base for 25 minutes. It was is Slattery’s second year volunteering.“He’s become our fudge expert,” Vassar said. Gardnerville resident Sandy Cypert was enthralled by the idea of candy-making.“I just started this year and it’s very neat,” she said, while loading peanut butter cups into plastic bags. Genoa resident Betty Bourne has been volunteering her confectionery skills for 29 years.
“This is a way I support my town and make a contribution,” she said. More volunteers are welcome. Candy operations will continue in the town kitchen until Sept. 22. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Those interested in volunteering to help sell candy during Candy Dance, Sept. 27 to 28, may call Vassar at 782-4584.
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By Matt Barresi
Women's Soccer: Devastating injuries bring two teammates together with one common goal
The Huskies fall 3-2 to Long Beach State University in double overtime on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at Morrone Stadium. UConn's two goals were scored by Yamilee Eveillard (3) and Vivien Beil (21). File Photo/The Daily Campus
It is tough being a first-year head coach. It is even harder when you lose two of your most formidable players to the same injury, the despoiling ACL tear. When those two players account for 40 percent of your scoring last year (45 percent when you only include those expected to return), you can see how things may get dicey.
UConn women’s soccer has unquestionably struggled this season. At 2-11, they have already set the record for losses in program history and it is the first time they have reached double-digit defeats since 2010. The team is combatting many woes, including scoring, in which the Huskies rank second to last in the American Conference with 15 goals, or 1.15 per game. That puts them on pace for just less than 21 goals after scoring 26 a season ago. The Huskies are also last in the conference in shots.
That’s what happens without two of your preeminent playmakers. The Huskies greatest losses this year may have come before the games even started.
“On the field, they have personality out there. They have the leadership qualities that we’re missing. You get the ball to them and they can make things happen single handedly,” head coach Margaret Rodriguez said. She is speaking about Kess Elmore and Vivien Beil, whose offseason injuries have become an unfortunate hindrance in both their careers and UConn’s pursuit of success.
Sophomore forward Kess Elmore was first. In the Huskies’ very first practice session last semester, the Liverpool, England, native was dribbling the ball, tackled from behind, and as she went down, the ball, still under her foot, forced her knee to shift inwards. The tear quickly wrapped up her spring practice and fall season.
Senior Vivien Beil was next. In a cruel turn of fate, Beil, who actually drove Elmore to get her MRI after the initial injury, would suffer her own torn ligament while home in Germany for the summer. She was playing some fun small sided games with a local team.
“I was dribbling with a lot of speed inside and I just planted and played the ball over to my left leg,” Beil said. “It just made a weird noise.” Beil was able to walk off under her own volition, but she knew something was wrong immediately.
After she got her diagnosis, Elmore was one of the first people Beil called.
“Obviously, I tore mine first but she (Beil) was my basically my backbone,” Elmore said. “She helped me through all of it. So when she called me from Germany and told me she had done the same to hers, it was heartbreaking.”
I was dribbling with a lot of speed inside and I just planted and played the ball over to my left leg. It just made a weird noise.
— Senior Vivien Bell
Despite the distance between them, the pair FaceTimed consistently and now that they’re back together at UConn, they continue to build each other up. Talking to each other helps, but so does tagging each other in motivational things they see or post on Instagram, Elmore said. Beil remembers commiserating about the awful first couple weeks that come post-surgery.
The duo both began rehab and they have used this shared experience to bond. While Beil was in Germany, Elmore was in Storrs for summer sessions working out and getting her strength back. Skills that seem basic, such as jumping or being able to turn, had to be regained.
To understand the Huskies’ deficiency in offensive output, you must understand what was taken from them in Beil and Elmore.
Beil led the way last year with six goals and six assists after starting all 19 games for the Huskies. A former Maine Black Bear, she transferred to Storrs after two years in Orono, including being the America East rookie of the year in 2015 and two first team All-Conference appearances. Unaware of her injury, the cadre of coaches in the American selected her to the Pre-season All-Conference team this fall.
Elmore trails Beil in accolades to be certain, but in only one year was second team All-Conference, first team All-Rookie in only 16 matches; starting 10. Her four goals and assist gave her nine points.
“They’re great players; they’re quality. Kess is dynamic out there with her runs on the ball and off the ball. She can finish,” Rodriguez said. “Vivien is our engine. We can put her anywhere on the field and she’s going to be one of the best players out there. She’s the glue.”
Rodriguez looks at her squad and can see a lacking that not-so-coincidentally matches what they bring to the table. “Both their leadership qualities and their abilities on the ball and off the ball are huge and that’s what we’re missing right now,” she said.
However, all is not lost in 2018. At this stage of her rehab, Elmore is back into soccer activities in a non-contact capacity but will still redshirt the season.
Beil is further behind. She has only started running again within the past two weeks which was a big step. She can get a couple touches in by juggling or other little things but is rehabbing every single day. Conditioning on the exercise bike or in the pool make up a big portion of her rehabilitation. Strengthening the quads and hamstrings is a focus as well.
They still are in the weight room with the team; their workouts just take longer meaning they get to spend extra time together.
On top of practicing, Rodriguez has the tandem doing opponent scouting during the games and trying to impart wisdom to their teammates, collectively and individually. Elmore says she tries to give as much advice as she can off the field.
“The coaches have us look at the opponents,” Beil said. “What formation are they playing, what are their strengths and weaknesses, how can we play better against them.”
“It’s just been a really good learning experience,” Elmore said. “Actually, being able to step back and not being so involved in the game.”
To salvage something from their injuries, the couple needs this learning to benefit them in the future.
“Kess needed to learn a little bit and I think she is learning a lot,” Rodriguez said. “They’re both learning how we can connect better out of the midfield and helping being leaders on the bench to individual players.”
“I’m really close to DK on the team and I’ll talk her through stuff or we’ll just practice repeated shooting,” Elmore said. DK is sophomore midfielder Sophia Danyko-Kulchycky, who is tied with Elena Santos at four goals as the main source of output for UConn. “The strikers completely have the ability. It’s just finding the moments and combining with each other in those moments.”
“You just got to take chances,” Beil said. “We don’t have that many chances, so we have to capitalize on them, which is easier said than done obviously, but I feel like sometimes we are not opportunistic enough in the final third. People don’t have that joy anymore because we are afraid of losing it (possession) again and having to run all the way back.”
The team sorely misses them on the field and the feeling is mutual. The duo has no plans of relenting, however. They have chosen to make the most of the situation they are in together. Recovering from an ACL tear takes time and strength and the plan is for them to be better for it. Come next fall, when Beil and Elmore return, the Huskies will again be a force to be reckoned with.
Matt Barresi is a staff writer for The Daily Campus. He can be reached via email at matthew.barresi@uconn.edu.
Tagged: UConn Women's Soccer, Sports Featured, Vivien Beil, Kess Elmore, Margaret Rodriguez
Column: My favorite athletes of all-time who are no one else’s favorite athletes of all-time.
My body, my culture’s choice
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Noto et al., 2015
Talk/Poster
Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory using airborne LiDAR data
Noto, L.; Bastola, S.; Dialynas, Y.; Bras, R. (2015)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA
Valerio Noto
Calhoun, COLLABORATOR
Satish Bastola
Calhoun, Luquillo, INVESTIGATOR, COLLABORATOR
Yannis Dialynas
Calhoun, Luquillo, INVESTIGATOR
Rafael Bras
GIS / Remote Sensing
The entire Piedmont of the Southeastern United States, where the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory (CCZO) is located, experienced one of the most severe erosive events in the United States during last two centuries. Forested areas were cleared to cultivate cotton, tobacco and other crops during the nineteenth and early twentieth century and these land use change, together with intense rainfalls, initiated deep gullying. An accurate mapping of these landforms is important since, despite some gully stabilization and reforestation efforts, gullies are still major contributors of sediment to streams. Mapping gullies in the CCZO area is hindered by the presence of dense canopy which precludes the identification through aerial photogrammetry and other traditional remote sensing methods. Moreover, the wide spatial extent of the gullies makes detailed field surveys, for the identification and characterization of entire gullies, a very large and expensive proposition.
This work aims to develop and assess an automated set of algorithms to detect and map gullies using morphological characteristics retrieved by very high resolution imagery (VHRI). A one-meter resolution LiDAR DEM is used to derive different morphometric indices whose combination, carried out using spatial analysis methods and fuzzy logic rules, are a tool to identify gullies. This spatial model has been calibrated using the reference perimeters of two gullies that we measured during a recent field survey. The entire procedure attempts to provide estimates of gully erosion patterns, which characterize the entire Calhoun CZO area and to develop and evaluate a method to measure characteristic features of gullies (i.e. depth and volume).
Noto, L.; Bastola, S.; Dialynas, Y.; Bras, R. (2015): Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory using airborne LiDAR data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA.
This Paper/Book acknowledges NSF CZO grant support.
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On-the-spot cyclist fines could be higher than €50
July 18, 2013 Cian Ginty Uncategorized 3
Department of Transport has just released this statement re on-the-spot fines for cyclists:
Fixed charge notices for cyclists to be introduced in line with Road Safety Strategy
The Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport has confirmed that fixed charge notices will be extended to include cyclists from 2014, in line with the current Road Safety Strategy.
This measure is being brought in to promote safe cycling practices, discourage dangerous cycling, and as part of a broader strategy to encourage more people to cycle on a more regular basis. Cycling has many benefits including reduced congestion on the roads, benefits to health and fitness, and is a much more sustainable form of travel than the motor car.
Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar said: ‘This is not about targeting cyclists. It’s about ensuring that our roads are safe for all of us. Roads are a shared public space and belong to everyone: drivers, cyclists, pedestrian and heavy vehicles. We all have to use them responsibly and obey the rules that protect us all’.
Gardaí have informed the Department of an increased success rate in prosecuting cyclists in court. Following discussions with Gardaí, the Department has decided to extend the fixed-charge system to cycling offences. This would give cyclists the option of paying a fixed-charge penalty within 56 days instead of having the matter dealt with by the Courts.
Fixed charge notices for cyclists are included in the Road Safety Strategy 2013-2020 and do not require primary legislation. Action 92 of the Road Safety Strategy states that: “Legislate for the extension of fixed charge notices to other offences including those related to cyclists and drivers’ hours.”
The Department has already held preliminary discussions with Gardaí and the RSA on this issue, and will now hold further discussions to determine which penalties will have fixed charge notices applied to them. The final list of offences has not yet been determined, but these are likely to include:
• Going through a red light;
• Cycling on a footpath;
• Failure to yield right of way at a ‘Yield’ sign.
No decision has been taken on the fines but they are likely to be €50 or higher – lower than equivalent motoring fines, but sufficiently high to act as a deterrent. The measure will free up Gardaí for other policing duties and free up court time.
The target for the introduction of fixed charge notices, as set out in the Road Safety Strategy, is the second quarter of 2014. However, they will be introduced at an earlier stage if possible, in conjunction with An Garda Síochána.
Gardaí already have a range of powers to enforce safe cycling practices under existing legislation, including the power – in extreme cases – to impound bicycles under Section 108 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 as amended by Section 80 of the Road Traffic Act 2010.
Unlike mechanically propelled vehicles, bicycles are not required to be registered, and an alternative approach is required when prosecuting offenders in the interests of road safety. Cyclists who commit an offence under the Road Traffic Acts are therefore currently dealt with by the courts system.
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Waldorf Astoria DIFC is both classy and contemporary!
Gear up for the world of luxury in hospitality—Waldorf Astoria DIFC gets ready for a summer 2019 opening. The interiors are inspired by the iconic architecture, lifestyle and mid-modern style of the 1960s. The hotel exudes a contemporary elegance and understated luxury, shaping up to be a destination of ultimate comfort and style.
The lead interior design company for the property, the first Waldorf Astoria city hotel in the UAE, is SRSS (Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart), while design firm— LW handled the design for the two main dining and social venues in the hotel; Bull & Bear and St Trop. Noted local Lebanese artist, Imad Bechara was also commissioned to dress the hotel with his stunning artwork.
Victor Chalfoun, general manager for Waldorf Astoria DIFC, commented: “The hotel’s design has been heavily influenced by the 1960s – a revolutionary movement, pioneered in New York, when new ideas flourished and people dared to experiment. We wanted to honour this decade with every line, shape, colour, and form, with the hope that our guests will have the opportunity to experience an era gone by.”
Madison Avenue in the 1960s
Waldorf Astoria Hotel DIFC is unlike anywhere in Dubai. The elegant interior designs will take guests back to the 196’s “Mad Men” era – when New York city brimmed with a unique energy, and bustled with ambitious movers & shakers. As a destination within the destination of the prestigious Dubai International Financial Centre, Waldorf Astoria DIFC is perfectly primed to host connoisseurs from around the world. Set across the 18th to 55th floors of the Burj Daman development, the building style is reminiscent of Madison and 5th Avenue in New York during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Complementing the minimalist furniture and multifunctional design is the clever mix of materials handpicked to ensure a slick, contemporary look. Marble, ebony, walnut, brass, and bronze have all been generously used to add to the luxurious feel of the hotel.
Lavish yet unpretentious guestrooms and suites
In the guestrooms, volakas marble has been used to give a practical yet premium look. In addition, light oak timber finishes are prevalent together with ebony trims. The dark colour scheme in the executive and junior suites includes brown oak, walnut, and metal bronze to give an executive, formidable identity. The presidential suite and three-bedroom apartments are resplendent with marble finishes that have been upgraded using black forest, magma black, corteccia, travertine, and ash blue to add a touch of intensity. The flexible spaces, enhanced by the floor to ceiling windows, make the rooms comfortable and liveable. The walls are a mix of wood panels and textured material that enrich the rooms’ contemporary aesthetic.
18th floor takes centre stage
The 18th floor is the heartbeat and social hub of the hotel. Comparisons can be made with Via Veneto – which was the centre of Roman social life throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Its alluring bars and restaurants were a favourite haunt for Hollywood stars as well as the elite from Italy and beyond.
At Waldorf Astoria DIFC, the reception, restaurants, lounges, swimming pool, and spa are all located across one stretch of floor, however SRSS’s clever design layout ensures plenty of open space to mingle and discover.
Bull & Bear is the hotel’s signature restaurant, which uses a rich colour palette incorporating a mix of timber, metal, and leather paired with contemporary classic furniture for a masculine look and feel.
The rooftop lounge, St Trop has been influenced by the essence of St Tropez. Timber decking inspired by luxury yachts sets the tone for a natural colour palette accented with aquatic colour. The chic, contemporary, and versatile furniture helps to seamlessly transform St Trop from a place to catch some afternoon sun to a space to socialise at night.
Making an impression
The clever use of statement pieces throughout the hotel adds to the sense of allure and nostalgia associated with one of the most popular design eras. The iconic Waldorf Astoria clock was custom-made by Smiths of Derby, clockmakers established in Derbyshire, UK since 1856, and took one year to manufacture. The design intent was loosely based on art deco with stylised peacock feathers featuring in the design as a nod to the Peacock Alley in which it resides.
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Cadillac has finally taken the wraps off its first three-row crossover, the 2020 Cadillac XT6. The XT6 is being shown off for the first time at the 2019 Detroit Auto Show.
The 2020 Cadillac XT6 finally gives Cadillac a rival to other luxury three-row crossovers, like the Acura MDX, Infiniti QX60 and the new Lincoln Aviator. The XT6 joins the recently introduced XT4 and the XT5 in Cadillac’s growing crossover lineup, while it still slots below the flagship Escalade SUV.
The overall look of the 2020 XT6 is close to the XT4 and XT5 models. It will be offered in two trim levels: Premium Luxury and Sport. Both versions will be powered by a 3.6L V6 engine with 310 horsepower and 271 lb-ft. of torque, that’s mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission. The V6 also features Active Fuel Management to shut off two of the cylinders when they aren’t needed to save fuel. All-wheel drive is available on the Premium Luxury trim level, but standard on the Sport.
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Production of the 2020 Cadillac XT6 begins this spring.
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Epson Opens Textile Solutions Center in Japan
Global electronics manufacturer Seiko Epson Corp. opens a new textile solutions center dubbed “TSC Asia.” The facility is located at the company’s Fujimi Plant in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Like Epson’s Textile Solution Center in Como, Italy, the company says the new location “supports digital textile printing by conducting research and development and by using actual textile printers,” to generate samples for customers throughout Asia.
“I am pleased that we can now fully support the introduction and use of digital textile printing by an even larger audience thanks to the establishment of TSC Asia,” says Koichi Kubota, representative director, senior managing executive officer and chief operating officer of Seiko Epson’s Printing Solutions Operations Division. “We will contribute to the development of digitization in the textile field with Epson’s inkjet technology and will make Epson indispensable for the textile world.”
The company is currently growing its production and sales organizations in an effort to provide goods worldwide from its Como hub and the new Nagano location. Epson says it will expand its prototyping and volume production operations for large industrial printers, such as the Monna Lisa series, with the completion of a new facility in Hirooka, Innovation Center Building B, at the end of March 2020. The company states it will also begin selling these products through its global sales network.
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ODESA, JULY 19th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― The active phase of the US―Ukrainian naval exercises “Sea Breeze 2013” has been completed, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.
The media centre “Pivden’” of Security Service of Ukraine reported today, 19 July.
According to the media centre, during the active phase of the Ukrainian-American exercises “Sea Breeze 2013” with the participation of the representatives of the fleets of other countries, the participants of maneuvers worked out almost all the scheduled items are in close interaction of sea, land and air components and units, forces and facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Border Service and State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
The head of the joint press centre of the exercises, Third Rank Commander Sergiy Bogdanov noted that, during the active phase, the tactical group of ships carried out a series of tasks according to subject of trainings.
In particular, the exercises were held on the universal defence of ships, defeating of the attacks of high-speed powerboats and aircrafts, providing assistance to the damaged ship, searching in the area and rescue of the vessel and the human, a control of shipping in a certain area, the interception, inspection of the vessel in normal conditions, patrolling in a certain area, amphibious landing and ensure action on the bank, etc.
Also, the crews, taking part in the maneuvers, conducted exercises to stop a suspicious vessel that attempted to illegally bring weapons into the area, its examination with the air support of helicopter “Ka-27”.
The actions of the multinational force of the sea and land actively were supported by the military aviators of Ukraine, the US and Germany. They provided trainings on air defence of ships with helicopters “L-39”, the exploration of surface situation, the evacuation of the victims of the disaster area and the ship, moving of units to the field of operations to identify and neutralize illegal armed groups.
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[BBC] 【整理】BBC 2019-05-29
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BBC news with Julie Candler.
A landmark trial linked to the opioid epidemic that's killing nearly 1000 Americans in each week has begun in Oklahoma. State authorities are suing the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing it deceit in its marketing of highly addicted pain killers. The company denies wrongdoing. About 2000 lawsuits have been brought against opioid manufacturers by states, cities and native American territories.
The U.S supreme court has sidestepped an appeal case that is thought to reinstate a state of abortion law in the state of Indiana. The law signed by vice president Mike Pence could have prohibited all abortions carried out on the basis of fiddle characteristics, including gender and disability.
Difference has emerged between France and Germany over the selection of the new president of the European commission after the selection last week shifted the political balance in the block's parliament. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants fellow German Manfred Weber in the role but the French president Emmanuel Marcon has not even mentioned him as a possible candidate.
Senior U.N officials have warned that a humanitarian catastrophe's developing in northwest of Syria, where millions people are threatened by fierce fighting. Ursula Mueller and Lowcock have urged the U.N security council to protect civilians in the region.
Police has carried out a number of raids in the mainly ethnic Serb areas of northern Kosovo. Among those arrested were 19 police officers and two U.N employees. The police said there were suspected smuggling, organized crime, taking bribes or abuse of power.
Residents in northwest Nigeria say dozens gunmen on motorbikes have killed 20 people in raids on two villages in Zamfara states. It's understood the attacks were in retaliation for the recent killing of wife and son of a well-known bandit by local self-defense militia.
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A landmark trial linked to the opioid epidemic that’s killing nearly 1,000 Americans each week has begun in Oklahoma. State authorities are suing the pharmaceutical giant Johnson&Johnson, accusing it of deceiving its marketing of highly addictive pain killers. The company denies wrongdoing. About 2,000 lawsuits have been brought against opioid manufacturers by states, cities and native American territories.
The US Supreme Court has sidestepped in an appeal case sought to reinstate a strict abortion law in the state of Indiana. The law signed by Vice President Mike Pence would have prohibited all abortions carried out on the basis of fetal characteristics including gender and disability.
Differences have emerged between France and Germany over the selection of the new president of the European commission after elections last week shifted the political balance in the blocs parliament. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants fellow German man Weber in the role, but the French President Macron has not even mentioned him as a possible candidate.
Senior UN officials have warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is developing in northwest Syria where millions of people are threatened by fierce fighting. Muller and Mike have urged the UN Security Council to protect civilians in the region.
Police have carried out a number of raids in the mainly ethnic Serb areas of northern Kosovo, among those arrested were 19 police officers and two UN employees. A police said they were suspected of smuggling, organized crime, taking bribes and abuse of power.
Residents in northwest Nigeria say dozens of gunmen on motorbikes have killed 20 people in raids on two villages in Zamfara state. It’s understood the attacks were in retaliation for the recent killing of the wife and son of a well-known bandit by local self-defense militia.
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BBC news with Julie Candler
A landmark trial linked to the opioid epidemic that is killing nearly a thousand Americans each week has begun in Oklahoma. State authorities are suing the Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson, accusing it of deceit in its marketing of highly additive pain killers. The Company denies wrongdoing. About 2,000 lawsuits have been brought against opioid manufacturers by states, cities and native American territories.
The US supreme court has sidestepped in an appeal case thought to reinstate a strict abortion law in the State of Indiana. The law signed by Vice President Mike Pence would have prohibited all abortions carried out on the basis of fetal characteristics including gender and disability.
Differences have emerged between France and Germany over the selection of the new president of the European Commission after elections last week shifted the political balance in the block’s parliament. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants fellow German Manfred Weber in the role. But the French President Emmanuel Macron has not even mentioned him as a possible candidate.
Senior UN officials have warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is developing in northwest Syria where millions of people are threatened by fierce fighting. Ursula Mueller and Mark Lowcock have urged the UN Security Council to protect civilians in the region.
Police have carried out a number of raids in the mainly ethnic Serbia of northern Kosovo. Among those arrested, there were 90 police officers and two UN employees. The police said they were suspected of smuggling organised crime, taking bribes and abuse of power.
Residents in Northwest Nigeria say dozens of gunmen on motorbikes have killed 20 people in raids on two villages in Zamfara state. It’s understood the attacks were in retaliation for the recent killing of the wife and son of a well-known bandit by local self-defence militia.
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1. A landmark trial link to the opiod epidemic that's killing nearly a thousand Americans each week has begun in Oklahoma. State authority is suing the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing it of deceit in its marketing of highly addictive painkillers. The company denies wrongdoing. About 2000 lawsuits have been brought againt opioid manufactories by state cities and native American torriteries.
2. The US Supreme Court has sidestepped an appeal case that thought to reinstate the strict abortion law in the state of Indiana. The law signed by vice-president Mike Pence whould prohibited all abortions carried out on bases of fetal characteristics, including gender and disability.
3. Differences have merged between France and Germany over the selection of the new president of the European commission after elections last week shifted the political balance in the Prague's parliament. The German chancellor Angela Merkel wants fellow German M.W. in the role, but French presidnet Emannuel Macron has not even mentioned him as a possible candidate.
4. Senior UN officials have warned that humanitarian catastrophe is developing in northwest Syria where millions of people are threaten by fierce fighting. A.M.and Mark L. have urged the UN security council to protect civilians in the region.
5. Police have carried out numbers of raids in the mainly ethnic Serb areas in northern Kosovo, among those arrested were 19 police officers and 2 UN employees. The police said they were suspected of smuggling, organized crime, taking bribe and abuse of power.
6. Residents in northwest Nigeria say dozens of gunmen on motorbike have killed 20 people in raids on 2 villages in Zamfara state. It's understood the attacks were retaliation for the recent killing of the wife and son of a well-know bandit by local self-defence militia.
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A landmark trial linked to the opioid epidemic that's killing nearly 1000 Americans each week has begun in Oklahoma. State authorities are suing the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing it of deceit in its marketing of highly addicted pain killers. The company denies wrongdoing. About 2000 lawsuits have been brought against opioid manufacturers by states, cities and native American territories.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sidestepped an appeal case that sought to reinstate a strict abortion law in state of Indiana. The law signed by vice president Mike Pence would have prohibited all abortions carried out on the basis of fatal characteristics, including gender and disability.
Differences have emerged between France and Germany over the selection of the new president of the European Commission after elections last week shifted the political balance in the block's parliament. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants fellow German * in the role but the French president Emmanuel Marcon has not even mentioned him as a possible candidate.
Senior UN officials have warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is developing in northwest of Syria, where millions of people are threatened by fierce fighting. * and * have urged the U.N Security Council to protect civilians in the region.
Police has carried out a number of raids in the mainly ethnic Serb areas of northern Kosovo. Among those arrested were 19 police officers and 2 UN employees. The police said they were suspected of smuggling, organized crime, taking bribes and abuse of power.
Residents in northwest Nigeria say dozens of gunmen on motorbikes have killed 20 people in raids on two villages in * state. It's understood the attacks were in retaliation for the recent killing of a wife and son of a well-known bandit by local self-defense militia.
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1387: "Clumsy Foreshadowing"
Postby Mambrino » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:54 am UTC
title: '... hosts were unexpectedly fired from ABC's 'The View' today. ABC will likely announce new ...'
To continue with the theme, with the help of BBC:
"Suarez handed four-month ban for bite"
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Postby rhomboidal » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:14 am UTC
I'd be both thrilled and terrified to hear the headline: "Shark populations testing nuclear explosions off East coast."
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Postby Eternal Density » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:18 am UTC
This is the opening to Sharknado 2: The Second One, right?
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Postby Djehutynakht » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:30 am UTC
I like to think that when the time comes the East Coast will use the mastery of our shark population to take on North Korea... using SpaceX's rocketry, of course.
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Postby KeithM » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:38 am UTC
Djehutynakht wrote: I like to think that when the time comes the East Coast will use the mastery of our shark population to take on North Korea... using SpaceX's rocketry, of course.
Why use rockets when you can use helium balloons?
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Postby cellocgw » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:14 am UTC
KeithM wrote:
Why use balloons when you can use trained pigeons?
It's "Why use... when you can use..." all the way down
I've been paying absolutely no attention: just what is it about whatever movie that has North Korea all whiney (this time)?
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Postby Thorbard9 » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:22 am UTC
I would guess that North Korea aren't too happy about a comedy about journalists assassinating their dear leader.
On the other hand, maybe they just disagree with the casting?
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Postby Brian-M » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:27 am UTC
Back To The Future takes this one step further. Not only is there a TV in Doc's house with a news report talking about stolen uranium (or was it plutonium?), but you also get to see a metal box with a radiation symbol on it that Marty doesn't notice.
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Postby AverageWriter » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:11 pm UTC
"Why use rockets when you can use helium balloons?"
Why did you think a big balloon would stop people?
Postby orthogon » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:17 pm UTC
The top story on the radio news this morning was about the near-certain appointment of Juncker as President of the European Commission. Unlike the sharks, North Korea etc., this story is almost certain to affect my life significantly, and yet I have no idea how.
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Postby Whizbang » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:23 pm UTC
"... A little boy rescued a litter of kittens from a drain pipe in the capital building..."
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Postby mathmannix » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:28 pm UTC
Why use balloons when you can use trained turtles?
Why use turtles when you can use trained turtles?
Why use turtles when turtles can use trained turtles?
Turtles use turtles when turtles can turtle turtled turtles?
Turtle turtle turtle turtle turtle?
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This is [DANGER! TVTROPES LINK AHEAD] Chekhov's News, is it not? And yet, we are told that [ANOTHER ONE!] Chekhov's Gun is not the same as foreshadowing, though it doesn't quite explain to my satisfaction what the difference is.
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Postby JustDoug » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:20 pm UTC
orthogon wrote: This is [DANGER! TVTROPES LINK AHEAD] Chekhov's News, is it not? And yet, we are told that [ANOTHER ONE!] Chekhov's Gun is not the same as foreshadowing, though it doesn't quite explain to my satisfaction what the difference is.
Checkov's Gun differs from outright foreshadowing in that you're simply "shown" the gun as part of the background along with all the rest. The narrative gives it no more import than the fireplace- or whatever - it's carefully hung above along with all the rest of the furninshings and accessories describing the room. All it tells you is that there's a gun in the room so later on there's no cry of deux ex machina when it is used. Foreshadowing would mention it more explicitly, verbally nudging you and pointing it out, albeit subtly if the writing is good, with Alfred Hitchcock exempted. He'd show you the gun, feature it in closeup, show that it was loaded and working, tell you it's going to be used in a while and then still surprise the hell out of you when it was.
Postby Brian-M » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:23 pm UTC
Here's a quote from the Chekov's News link...
This does not include news items that are purely Foreshadowing; to be Chekhov's News, the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.
So if you can tell it's going to be significant to the story straight away, its foreshadowing. If it doesn't appear to have any significance until later in the story, its a Chekhov.
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Postby dzamie » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:25 pm UTC
Whizbang wrote: "... A little boy rescued a litter of baby velociraptors from a drain pipe in the capital building..."
I assume you wrote "kittens," but it's nice to know my userscript is still making things better.
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Postby Whizbang » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:30 pm UTC
dzamie wrote:
Postby speising » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:31 pm UTC
Brian-M wrote:
the problem with that is that Chekhov's original quote explicitly says that everything has to be significant. if it isn't, it shouldn't be there in the first place.
which is quite restricting, in my opinion. it shouldn't be immediately clear to the reader/viewer that any weapon mentioned will in fact be used later. where's the suspense in that? (except in the mentioned Hitchcock example, where a clever twist manages to still surprise us.)
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Postby Coyoty » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:51 pm UTC
When the gun is emphasized and implied sinister right away, that's "lampshading".
Postby SlyReaper » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:00 pm UTC
Can I just say how awesome a rocket-propelled battleshark sounds?
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:22 pm UTC
mathmannix wrote: Why use balloons when you can use trained turtles?
Go home, Dana Carvey. Nobody liked that movie.
cephalopod9 wrote: Only on Xkcd can you start a topic involving Hitler and people spend the better part of half a dozen pages arguing about the quality of Operating Systems.
Baige.
Postby cellocgw » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:48 pm UTC
Whizbang wrote:
Shouldn't that be "Brillant," Ms. Bean?
JustDoug wrote: Checkov's Gun differs from outright foreshadowing in that you're simply "shown" the gun as part of the background along with all the rest.
Not to dredge more horrors from the OTT, but you gotta include taking out Occam with his own razor.
Postby SecondTalon » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:52 pm UTC
speising wrote: the problem with that is that Chekhov's original quote explicitly says that everything has to be significant. if it isn't, it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Hm. I need to re-read the quote then, as I always took it to be that anything that was particularly noteworthy or that stuck out needs to be significant. Introducing a character in his home as being a bit of a gun enthusiast and then showing a wall safe full of rifles and handguns is not remarkable - you'd expect the guns.
The Chekhov's Gun in that situation might be simply that the character is a gun enthusiast and is later able to identify the caliber of weapon being fired at the group based on the sound.
Whereas showing a business mogul's home with a single rifle over the fireplace is not unexpected, but it's an extraneous detail that doesn't need to exist... unless someone's shooting the gun later.
You wouldn't expect a stock ticker in the gun enthusiast 's pre-1960 place, though, so having one there means you later reveal the enthusiast's vast fortune through stock trades, or that the enthusiast is a majority shareholder in the company in question or some other fact that makes the stock ticker make sense. Enthusiasm for outdated technology, maybe.
That's what I always thought, at least - not deliberate foreshadowing, but something that makes more sense upon reflection.
Kittens and velociraptors are often indistinguishable.
Coyoty wrote: Kittens and velociraptors are often indistinguishable.
If that's true, they're the largest bosons in existence!
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Postby Klear » Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:20 pm UTC
Re: Chekhov's Whatever - you do realize those things are a kind of foreshadowing, right?
Postby orthogon » Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:45 pm UTC
Klear wrote: Re: Chekhov's Whatever - you do realize those things are a kind of foreshadowing, right?
It seems that way to me, but tvtropes insists there's a difference and one isn't a subtrope of the other. My problem is: if it happens near the start, then it can only be a Chekhov, since the audience doesn't yet have any context in which to identify a foreshadowing. But if it happens far enough in for the audience to have a chance of identifying it, then it's surely just a normal plot development. And if they can't identify it, it's back to being a late Chekhov. I'm confused.
it's chekhovs gun if it hangs on the wall and the camera pans across.
it's foreshadowing if the soundtrack goes "dum dum dummm"
The "Chekhov's Gun" article says only that they are not synonymous, "Foreshadowing" article says "Chekhov's Gun is often used as a foreshadowing tool." There might be some inconsistencies elsewhere though.
BTW, this TVTropes page is hilarious:
Chekov's Gun
Postby da Doctah » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:47 pm UTC
Brian-M wrote: Back To The Future takes this one step further. Not only is there a TV in Doc's house with a news report talking about stolen uranium (or was it plutonium?), but you also get to see a metal box with a radiation symbol on it that Marty doesn't notice.
And that TV reporter, the first person seen or heard in the entire BTTF trilogy, reappears thirty years later to sell Marty the Sports Almanac!
StClair
Postby StClair » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:01 pm UTC
Klear wrote:
TV Tropes is, first and foremost, a wiki. That means that it was crafted by many hands, some of whom may (nay, will) disagree. Especially considering how much of the content, and how it is labeled and sub-divided, is ultimately subjective and/or arbitrary.
As with any wiki, it should be considered a guide, not an authority.
Postby Klear » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:14 pm UTC
StClair wrote: TV Tropes is, first and foremost, a wiki. That means that it was crafted by many hands, some of whom may (nay, will) disagree. Especially considering how much of the content, and how it is labeled and sub-divided, is ultimately subjective and/or arbitrary.
Agreed. When I first mentioned that Chekhov's Gun is a kind of foreshadowing, I was speaking for myself, not TVTropes (though I'm definitely very much influenced by the website). I haven't seen anything on the site that would disagree with me on that one though, so that's a plus.
rhhardin
Postby rhhardin » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:45 pm UTC
"A rifle over the mantel in act I goes off in act III."
Postby rmsgrey » Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:32 am UTC
Chekhov's gun could be rephrased as "anything that looks like it's going to be significant should be" which is kinda the reverse of foreshadowing, where something that is going to be significant is shown to be in advance (even if the way it's significant isn't made clear).
Postby Pfhorrest » Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:46 am UTC
I wouldn't say the reverse, but more a corollary.
Foreshadowing is the technique of showing in advance some detail that's going to be significant.
Chekhov's adage about guns says essentially not to falsely foreshadow; don't show some detail early on that turns out not to be significant. Rather, it tells us that any detail shown in advance is going to turn out to be significant, with the implication that that's pattern of normal or good writing, and that doing otherwise would be bad writing or at least abnormal.
A Chekhov's Gun is the detail which is shown in advance, to become significant later.
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Postby Biliboy » Sat Jun 28, 2014 1:05 am UTC
Every time... every time I see the tvtropes warning and click anyway...
Two hours later...
Postby StClair » Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:27 am UTC
also, on the strip itself:
Yes. That's just what I need. Something to make reading/watching the news an even more anxiety-inducing experience.
Postby Various Varieties » Sun Jun 29, 2014 12:20 pm UTC
You can also pretend that you're flicking through the news channels Shaun of the Dead style, only seeing a bit of each headline, so that you get:
"North Korea threatens... East Coast... [with] new rocket launch today..."
"Movie shark populations attempt new rocket launch today"
"Upcoming movie shark launch today..."
Postby Neil_Boekend » Mon Jun 30, 2014 8:50 am UTC
Pfhorrest wrote: I wouldn't say the reverse, but more a corollary.
Chekhov's guns are not as clear in movies as they are in books. If the writer takes time to describe a paperweight on the desk then it is probably a checkhov's gun. If paperweight stands on a desk in a movie then it can either be just to fill in the blank spot OR it can be a Chekhov's gun.
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The big break in computer languages
My last post (The long goodbye to C) elicited a comment from a C++ expert I was friends with long ago, recommending C++ as the language to replace C. Which ain’t gonna happen; if that were a viable future, Go and Rust would never have been conceived.
But my readers deserve more than a bald assertion. So here, for the record, is the story of why I don’t touch C++ any more. This is a launch point for a disquisition on the economics of computer-language design, why some truly unfortunate choices got made and baked into our infrastructure, and how we’re probably going to fix them.
Along the way I will draw aside the veil from a rather basic mistake that people trying to see into the future of programming languages (including me) have been making since the 1980s. Only very recently do we have the field evidence to notice where we went wrong.
I think I first picked up C++ because I needed GNU eqn to be able to output MathXML, and eqn was written in C++. That project succeeded. Then I was a senior dev on Battle For Wesnoth for a number of years in the 2000s and got comfortable with the language.
Then came the day we discovered that a person we incautiously gave commit privileges to had fucked up the games’s AI core. It became apparent that I was the only dev on the team not too frightened of that code to go in. And I fixed it all right – took me two weeks of struggle. After which I swore a mighty oath never to go near C++ again.
My problem with the language, starkly revealed by that adventure, is that it piles complexity on complexity upon chrome upon gingerbread in an attempt to address problems that cannot actually be solved because the foundational abstractions are leaky. It’s all very well to say “well, don’t do that” about things like bare pointers, and for small-scale single-developer projects (like my eqn upgrade) it is realistic to expect the discipline can be enforced.
Not so on projects with larger scale or multiple devs at varying skill levels (the case I normally deal with). With probability asymptotically approaching one over time and increasing LOC, someone is inadvertently going to poke through one of the leaks. At which point you have a bug which, because of over-layers of gnarly complexity such as STL, is much more difficult to characterize and fix than the equivalent defect in C. My Battle For Wesnoth experience rubbed my nose in this problem pretty hard.
What works for a Steve Heller (my old friend and C++ advocate) doesn’t scale up when I’m dealing with multiple non-Steve-Hellers and might end up having to clean up their mess. So I just don’t go there any more. Not worth the aggravation. C is flawed, but it does have one immensely valuable property that C++ didn’t keep – if you can mentally model the hardware it’s running on, you can easily see all the way down. If C++ had actually eliminated C’s flaws (that it, been type-safe and memory-safe) giving away that transparency might be a trade worth making. As it is, nope.
One way we can tell that C++ is not sufficient is to imagine an alternate world in which it is. In that world, older C projects would routinely up-migrate to C++. Major OS kernels would be written in C++, and existing kernel implementations like Linux would be upgrading to it. In the real world, this ain’t happening. Not only has C++ failed to present enough of a value proposition to keep language designers uninterested in imagining languages like D, Go, and Rust, it has failed to displace its own ancestor. There’s no path forward from C++ without breaching its core assumptions; thus, the abstraction leaks won’t go away.
Since I’ve mentioned D, I suppose this is also the point at which I should explain why I don’t see it as a serious contender to replace C. Yes, it was spun up eight years before Rust and nine years before Go – props to Walter Bright for having the vision. But in 2001 the example of Perl and Python had already been set – the window when a proprietary language could compete seriously with open source was already closing. The wrestling match between the official D library/runtime and Tango hurt it, too. It has never recovered from those mistakes.
So now there’s Go (I’d say “…and Rust”, but for reasons I’ve discussed before I think it will be years before Rust is fully competitive). It is type-safe and memory-safe (well, almost; you can partway escape using interfaces, but it’s not normal to have to go to the unsafe places). One of my regulars, Mark Atwood, has correctly pointed out that Go is a language made of grumpy-old-man rage, specifically rage by one of the designers of C (Ken Thompson) at the bloated mess that C++ became.
I can relate to Ken’s grumpiness; I’ve been muttering for decades that C++ attacked the wrong problem. There were two directions a successor language to C might have gone. One was to do what C++ did – accept C’s leaky abstractions, bare pointers and all, for backward compatibility, than try to build a state-of-the-art language on top of them. The other would have been to attack C’s problems at their root – fix the leaky abstractions. That would break backward compatibility, but it would foreclose the class of problems that dominate C/C++ defects.
The first serious attempt at the second path was Java in 1995. It wasn’t a bad try, but the choice to build it over a j-code interpreter mode it unsuitable for systems programming. That left a huge hole in the options for systems programming that wouldn’t be properly addressed for another 15 years, until Rust and Go. In particular, it’s why software like my GPSD and NTPsec projects is still predominantly written in C in 2017 despite C’s manifest problems.
This is in many ways a bad situation. It was hard to really see this because of the lack of viable alternatives, but C/C++ has not scaled well. Most of us take for granted the escalating rate of defects and security compromises in infrastructure software without really thinking about how much of that is due to really fundamental language problems like buffer-overrun vulnerabilities.
So, why did it take so long to address that? It was 37 years from C (1972) to Go (2009); Rust only launched a year sooner. I think the underlying reasons are economic.
Ever since the very earliest computer languages it’s been understood that every language design embodies an assertion about the relative value of programmer time vs. machine resources. At one end of that spectrum you have languages like assembler and (later) C that are designed to extract maximum performance at the cost of also pessimizing developer time and costs; at the other, languages like Lisp and (later) Python that try to automate away as much housekeeping detail as possible, at the cost of pessimizing machine performance.
In broadest terms, the most important discriminator between the ends of this spectrum is the presence or absence of automatic memory management. This corresponds exactly to the empirical observation that memory-management bugs are by far the most common class of defects in machine-centric languages that require programmers to manage that resource by hand.
A language becomes economically viable where and when its relative-value assertion matches the actual cost drivers of some particular area of software development. Language designers respond to the conditions around them by inventing languages that are a better fit for present or near-future conditions than the languages they have available to use.
Over time, there’s been a gradual shift from languages that require manual memory management to languages with automatic memory management and garbage collection (GC). This shift corresponds to the Moore’s Law effect of decreasing hardware costs making programmer time relatively more expensive. But there are at least two other relevant dimensions.
One is distance from the bare metal. Inefficiency low in the software stack (kernels and service code) ripples multiplicatively up the stack. This, we see machine-centric languages down low and programmer-centric languages higher up, most often in user-facing software that only has to respond at human speed (time scale 0.1 sec).
Another is project scale. Every language also has an expected rate of induced defects per thousand lines of code due to programmers tripping over leaks and flaws in its abstractions. This rate runs higher in machine-centric languages, much lower in programmer-centric ones with GC. As project scale goes up, therefore, languages with GC become more and more important as a strategy against unacceptable defect rates.
When we view language deployments along these three dimensions, the observed pattern today – C down below, an increasing gallimaufry of languages with GC above – almost makes sense. Almost. But there is something else going on. C is stickier than it ought to be, and used way further up the stack than actually makes sense.
Why do I say this? Consider the classic Unix command-line utilities. These are generally pretty small programs that would run acceptably fast implemented in a scripting language with a full POSIX binding. Re-coded that way they would be vastly easier to debug, maintain and extend.
Why are these still in C (or, in unusual exceptions like eqn, in C++)? Transition costs. It’s difficult to translate even small, simple programs between languages and verify that you have faithfully preserved all non-error behaviors. More generally, any area of applications or systems programming can stay stuck to a language well after the tradeoff that language embodies is actually obsolete.
Here’s where I get to the big mistake I and other prognosticators made. We thought falling machine-resource costs – increasing the relative cost of programmer-hours – would be enough by themselves to displace C (and non-GC languages generally). In this we were not entirely or even mostly wrong – the rise of scripting languages, Java, and things like Node.js since the early 1990s was pretty obviously driven that way.
Not so the new wave of contending systems-programming languages, though. Rust and Go are both explicitly responses to increasing project scale. Where scripting languages got started as an effective way to write small programs and gradually scaled up, Rust and Go were positioned from the start as ways to reduce defect rates in really large projects. Like, Google’s search service and Facebook’s real-time-chat multiplexer.
I think this is the answer to the “why not sooner” question. Rust and Go aren’t actually late at all, they’re relatively prompt responses to a cost driver that was underweighted until recently.
OK, so much for theory. What predictions does this one generate? What does it tell us about what comes after C?
Here’s the big one. The largest trend driving development towards GC languages haven’t reversed, and there’s no reason to expect it will. Therefore: eventually we will have GC techniques with low enough latency overhead to be usable in kernels and low-level firmware, and those will ship in language implementations. Those are the languages that will truly end C’s long reign.
There are broad hints in the working papers from the Go development group that they’re headed in this direction – references to academic work on concurrent garbage collectors that never have stop-the-world pauses. If Go itself doesn’t pick up this option, other language designers will. But I think they will – the business case for Google to push them there is obvious (can you say “Android development”?).
Well before we get to GC that good, I’m putting my bet on Go to replace C anywhere that the GC it has now is affordable – which means not just applications but most systems work outside of kernels and embedded. The reason is simple: there is no path out of C’s defect rates with lower transition costs.
I’ve been experimenting with moving C code to Go over the last week, and I’m noticing two things. One is that it’s easy to do – C’s idioms map over pretty well. The other is that the resulting code is much simpler. One would expect that, with GC in the language and maps as a first-class data type, but I’m seeing larger reductions in code volume than initially expected – about 2:1, similar to what I see when moving C code to Python.
Sorry, Rustaceans – you’ve got a plausible future in kernels and deep firmware, but too many strikes against you to beat Go over most of C’s range. No GC, plus Rust is a harder transition from C because of the borrow checker, plus the standardized part of the API is still seriously incomplete (where’s my select(2), again?).
The only consolation you get, if it is one, is that the C++ fans are screwed worse than you are. At least Rust has a real prospect of dramatically lowering downstream defect rates relative to C anywhere it’s not crowded out by Go; C++ doesn’t have that.
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231 thoughts on “The big break in computer languages”
David Collier-Brown on 2017-11-13 at 18:01:22 said:
An orthogonal problem is the type system: in most object-derived systems, there is a complex type system with at least single inheritance. This leads to an error a former customer made: we /completely/ modelled a tournament in the form of a type hierarchy.
Net result? When you wanted to change it, you had to change everything. When you wanted to add something new, you had to apply it to everything. We re-invented spagetti code, only this time it was spagetti data structures.
Instead of abstracting and simplifying, we made it more complex. Bummer!
>Instead of abstracting and simplifying, we made it more complex. Bummer!
Yeah, this is why Rust and Go don’t have class inheritance. Good call by both design teams.
Flyes on 2017-11-14 at 18:23:15 said:
Absolutely, inheritance in large projects tend to cause so many problems and makes it difficult to understand and follow! OOP with composition and interfaces is all you need.
Except for the lack of Sum types and Generics :D
TheDividualist on 2017-11-15 at 09:46:20 said:
At that point I am not even sure what is the point of OOP. Since SQL tables as a single “type” are useful for a tremendous range of purposes, while I never tried systems programming, if I would try I would probably use any “list of thingies with named properties” idiom that comes my way, be that a hash table or a struct.
OOP was pretty much *invented* for inheritance, at least the ways I was taught at school, these awesome chains of concepts that a BMW inherits from Car and Car from Vehicle, i.e. basically what David described was taught as good design at my school… but if it is not, then why even bother? I take an SQL table or the language equivalent thereof, hashtable, struct, whatever, name it Car, some of the fields will be Make and Model and call it a day.
Essentially I have to find the sweet spot in the conceptual category-subcategory tree, which in this case is car. Inheritance was meant to be able to move up and down on this tree, but the tree is not cast in stone because the Chevrolet company can acquire Daewoo and next week the Daewoo Matiz is called Chevrolet Matiz, then I am sure as hell not having any object class called BMW: that will be data, easily changed not part of the data structure!
Encapsulation is a better idea but unless I have massive, database-like data structures (which in real life I always do but system programmers maybe not), how am I going to automatically test any function that works not only with its own parameters but pretty much everything else it can find inside the same object? I mean great, objects cut down global variable hell to a protected variable minihell that is far easier to eyeball but is it good enough for automated testing? I think not.
I am afraid to write things like this, because only a narrow subset of my profession involves writing code and as such I am not a very experienced programmer so I should not really argue with major CS concepts. Still… for example Steve Yegge had precisely this beef with OOP: you are writing software yet OOP really seems to want you make you want to make something like unchangeable, fixed, cast in stone hardware.
Michael Aaron Murphy on 2017-11-15 at 10:59:20 said:
OOP was hugely hyped, especially in the corporate world by Java marketers, whom extolled the virtues of how OOP and Java would solve all their business problems.
As it turns out, POP (protocol-oriented programming) is the better design, and so all modern languages are using it. POP’s critical feature is generics, so it’s baffling as to why Go does not have generics.
Basically, rather than separating structures into class hierarchies, you assign shared traits to structures in a flat hierarchy. You can then pull out trait-based generics to execute some rather fantastical solutions that would otherwise require an incredible degree of copying and pasting (a la Go).
This then allows you to interchangeably use a wide variety of types as inputs and fields into these generic functions and structures, in a manner that’s very efficient due to adhering to data-oriented design practices.
It’s incredibly useful when designing entity-component system architectures, where components are individual pieces of data that are stored in a map elsewhere; entities consist of multiple components (but rather than owning their components directly, they hold ID’s to their components), and are able to communicate with other entities; and systems, which are the traits that are implemented on each entity that is within the world map. Enables for some incredible flexibility and massively parallel solutions, from UIs to game engines.
Entities can have completely different types, but the programmer does not need to be aware of that, because they all implement the same traits, and so they can interact with each other via their trait impls. And in structuring your software architecture in this way, you ensure that specific components are only ever mutably borrowed when it is needed, and thus you can borrow many components and apply systems to them in parallel.
sdfsdfsdf on 2017-12-09 at 11:10:14 said:
> POP’s critical feature is generics, so it’s baffling as to why Go does not have generics.
translation: I don’t know anything but will take a word anyway
Ian Bruene on 2017-11-13 at 19:00:41 said:
Ah! Trying to directly mimic your prototype in the class structure. So tempting: it feels like you are encapsulating Reality, and saving lines of code all at the same time. Infinite wins For Great Justice!
Right up until you slam into one of the many brick walls that litter the path (as I did earlier today).
Paul on 2017-11-13 at 23:01:18 said:
> An orthogonal problem is the type system: in most object-derived systems, there is a complex type system with at least single inheritance.
Other language like python also provide multiple inheritance.
Either way, C++ moved past class hierarchies two decades ago. The standard algorithms and containers are built around regular types instead of class hierarchies. See “Inheritance Is The Base Class of Evil”:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Inheritance-Is-The-Base-Class-of-Evil
Laeeth Isharc on 2017-11-13 at 23:36:13 said:
Have you seen design by introspection? A new paradigm outlined by Andrei Alexandrescu.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724&cpage=1#comment-1912717
https://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges
Code reuse with plasticity.
Charles Harris on 2017-11-16 at 13:35:45 said:
> Instead of abstracting and simplifying, we made it more complex.
Yep. Plus, not reusable. You can’t just snip out a useful bit of code for reuse because everything is dependent on something else. Effectively, every project is written in its own unique language.
uran on 2017-11-13 at 18:12:05 said:
@Eric, nice article, still you haven’t said a thing about Nim lang that is both high level, extensible like lisp, and has a GC suitable for embedded systems and kernels.
>still you haven’t said a thing about Nim lang
If you show me a Nim deployment that is more than a toy I might get interested.
There are some proprietary/internal services used in production as far as I’m aware. As for the publicly seen deployments – there’s a game on Facebook (mobiles are coming soon) which I happen to be a developer of. More info – https://yglukhov.github.io/Making-ReelValley-Overview
DocMerlin on 2017-11-28 at 00:10:32 said:
We use Nim in a data science deployment. We like it, because it shares a lot of go’s nice features but has much better c interoperability.
I prefer go, but Nim is pretty neat.
>I prefer go, but Nim is pretty neat.
Huh. And now it turns out that a guy who tried writing a Unix kernel in Rust bailed out to Nim.
This surprises me. I had bought into the pro-Rust argument that, once it matured, would be a good match for kernel development on theoretical grounds related to the tradeoff between the benefits of type safety versus the additional friction costs of Rust. Now someone actually working at that coal face says “Nope.”
More detail here.
I suppose it’s possible that sticking to Rust would have been a better choice and that the guy is just incompetent, but his discussion of the issues seems pretty thoughtful.
Alfie on 2017-12-02 at 01:31:38 said:
There are plenty of working Rust kernels, and fully fledged OSes
Sag0Sag0 on 2017-12-12 at 06:37:52 said:
If anyone is interested Redox OS is an OS coded in rust.
tz on 2017-11-13 at 18:28:41 said:
C nonplussed is less nonplussed than C++.
There may be a wound, but the C++ band-aid over it obscures whether it is superficial or infected with gangrene.
One problem is that there are no non-manual mappers. One ought to be able to put the entire set of Posix commands with GNU extensions like grep or find, and have them pop out in Python, even if not terribly efficient (see below), but that doesn’t happen. Everything is recoding even when not trying to duplicate undocumented behavior.
But the performance is NOT trivial. Python will not be as effecient, so a “find . -… -exec grep … {}” can be interminably slow. Note we CAN do a Python COMPILER after the interpretave version passes all tests. But we don’t do that either.
Go looks nice, but I think it is chicken-egg. Only when a good portion is moved to Go and doesn’t merely duplicate C (at average equal LoC, efficency, etc.) will it be adopted. I can’t do linux kernel stuff in go.
This is something like the failing and flailing transitions to electric cars. The nearest “supercharger” is about 100 miles away – half a battery charge for a Tesla. But gasoline and diesel are easily available. There are worse locations even more impractical for electric cars near where I live.
Malcolm Gladwell discribes “The Tipping Point”. It has not occurred yet with C. Any bare metal programming is easier in that – go and rust aren’t alternatives to my knowledge, only assembler. Perhaps they can be but I won’t hold my breath until the Arduino IDE – the ultimate bare-metal IDE using C to create non-OS but very functional things – changes into Go or Rust.
Fortran isn’t even dead yet, nor Cobol, yet neither are at all versatile, and at best extensions are added so legacy defecations can be updated. At least I don’t have to use the keypunch machine.
But this is the universal problem. NO ONE will do a complete and verified auto-port so any arbitray ForTran or Cobol program can be translated – perfectly (even with legacy libraries) – in any other language. Y2K is 17 years old, but it was a serious problem. So is 2038 32 bit time in secs since 1970. No matter how much easier it might be to address in non-legacy languages, it won’t happen.
Another bit is the unix/posix call set – open/close/read/write/ioctl – reinvented badly many times. Never improved.
“I won’t hold my breath until the Arduino IDE – the ultimate bare-metal IDE using C to create non-OS but very functional things – changes into Go or Rust.”
Good heavens, no, at least not Rust. The target audience for Arduino is exactly the audience who Rust would send screaming off into the night, never to return.
Rust has an unofficial AVR target suitable for use with Arduino, and libraries to support that board.
The target audience for Arduino — young hardware hackers — is one of the most likely to appreciate the benefits of Rust, and they are tentatively embracing it.
The target audience for Arduino is people who are not experienced in low-level programming, perhaps not experienced at programming at all. Dropping those folks in the deep end with a language like Rust is more likely to scare them off than to induce them to learn.
Not actually. I have read many success stories from newcomers to programming. Even some which had tried to pick up programming several times in the past with C++ and C. Rust was able to take the cake because of it’s superior degree of documentation; a better, explicit syntax; an informative compiler that points out the mistakes, including the borrow checker, which helpfully points out memory unsafety; and a very vibrant and friendly community that’s always standing by to help newcomers get started and to demonstrate idiomatic Rust.
The problem with ESR, on the other hand, is that he never attempted to reach for any of these resources when he tried out Rust. I never saw him make a post in Reddit, the Rust users forum, or visit any IRC/Mattermost channels. He simply wrote a post a misinformed post about Rust because he was doing something he didn’t understand, and wasn’t aware that what he thought was missing in the standard library was actually there.
Even I, myself, come from a background of never having programmed anything before Rust. And yet Rust was the perfect entry into programming. I can now write quality C, C++, etc. because the rules enforced by Rust are the best practices in those languages. And I can now do everything from writing kernels and system shells to full stack web development and desktop GUI applications — all with Rust. All the rules in Rust are intuitive and instinctual for me today.
“All the rules in Rust are intuitive and instinctual for me today.”
Three years in. How instinctive were they the first time you tried it?How many times did you get frustrated and want to throw that damned computer out the window?
Honestly, I never got frustrated. I have a general philosophy that if you struggle with something, it’s probably because you’re going about it the wrong way, and that you should instead take a step back and review.
In addition, if you are having difficulty changing your perspective to figure out what you’re doing wrong, you’re free to reach out to the greater online community, where armies of other developers ahead of you are eager to answer your questions.
As it turns out, Rust’s borrow checker is like a Chinese finger trap — the more you resist it, the more you will struggle. If you instead go with the flow and internalize the rules, the struggles disappear, and the solutions become apparent. Everything suddenly makes sense when you simply accept the rules, rather than trying to fight the rules.
I initially struggled to wrap my mind around all the new concepts during the first week, but by the end of the second week, all of the concepts were well in-grained within my mind: what move semantics are and how they work, the borrowing and ownership model, sum types and pattern matching, traits and generics, mutexes and atomics, iterators and map/fold/filter/etc.
And that’s talking about the state of documentation that was really poor when I initially picked up Rust. Rust of today has significantly enhanced documentation that covers every area, and does so better than any other language I’ve ever seen. If I had that to reference when I started, then I’m sure that I could have mastered it within a week.
After learning Rust, I found that I could easily write C and C++ as well, because they were more or less ancient history in terms of systems language concepts. The rules enforced by the Rust compiler are best practices in C/C++. It’s just annoying how much boiler plate you need in those languages to achieve simple tasks that Rust’s standard library already encompasses, and how the core language is so critically lacking that you have to attempt to emulate sum types by hand.
Alessandro Pellizzari on 2017-12-01 at 06:00:47 said:
Honestly, after 2 years of Rust, I often get frustrated at Go not providing the same safety and convenience.
I may be spending hours trying to make the borrow checker happy with my data usage, by I regularly spend days trying to debug segmentation faults in Go…
My point is that “instinctive” depends heavily on what you are used to use.
Go might be “instinctive” when you come form C, and Rust might be too different from common languages to be instinctive at all, but once you get used to it, you wish you never have to turn back.
>I may be spending hours trying to make the borrow checker happy with my data usage, by I regularly spend days trying to debug segmentation faults in Go…
Odd. How does that even happen without bare pointers in the language?
I’ve never seen one myself.
Lacking generics, many libraries accept interface{} to simulate them, then type-assert or just try to access the data counting on the fact that you will pass the correct type.
Sometimes they take a reference but don’t check if it’s nil.
Many just panic, because it’s simpler than trying to return the correct errors, counting on the fact that you will use goroutines and your main will keep running, so you have to handle the panic yourself, which may be easy if you are using http from the std lib, a little less if you’re writing your own process pool.
Maybe it’s not technically a segfault, but the effect is the same.
“All the rules in Rust are intuitive”
I call bullshit on anyone who says anything other than the nipple is intuitive (and some babies actually have to be taught how to use one of those).
What people really mean when they say “intuitive” is “I didn’t have to learn anything new to do this”. That’s a very good thing, but it isn’t really “intuitive”.
Manny Corpus on 2018-07-28 at 07:05:11 said:
Perhaps you should look up the meaning of the word, rather than assume that everyone else is wrong.
Kazriko on 2017-11-13 at 20:13:58 said:
I was highly disappointed when I found out that Google’s new microkernel, Magenta/Zircon, was written in C++ instead of Go.
What Google found, from developing and dogfooding Go, was that Go made a better Python replacement than it did a C++ or C replacement.
Go is not a systems programming language.
Oh, and fun fact: crosvm, Google’s virtualization layer for ChromeOS, is written in Rust.
Well, more specifically my disappointment was “Another C based operating system? When will we ever learn.” I kind of wrote off the whole project at that point. I didn’t care that they specifically didn’t use Go aside from that they had it on hand. I’d love to see them make a Zircon replacement in Rust.
John Doe on 2017-11-27 at 12:56:28 said:
Microkernels like Zircon are *exactly* the place where C/C++ will likely remain a reasonable choice, if not the best choice, for years to come. The primary requirements are performance and complete access to the bare metal. A true microkernel has a small code base (or it isn’t a *micro* kernel!), so it isn’t a “programming in the large” situation. A small team working on a small code base *can* maintain the discipline to use C++ effectively and avoid its pitfalls.
On the other hand, the various services built on top of Zircon are free to use other languages. Many are in C++ now, but they don’t have to be. The FAT filesystem service is written in go.
>Microkernels like Zircon are *exactly* the place where C/C++ will likely remain a reasonable choice, if not the best choice, for years to come […] On the other hand, the various services built on top of Zircon are free to use other languages. Many are in C++ now, but they don’t have to be. The FAT filesystem service is written in go.
This is what I think the relatively near-term future will look like, yes. Go pushing down the stack towards kernels, but not displacing C there.
Bwahaha. Where is the support for overlapped (asynchronous) I/O in the base POSIX call set? Answer: There is none. Sure, there’s an AIO extension to POSIX that no one uses, that is completely inadequate when compared to a kernel such as Windows that has support for async I/O with sophisticated control features like I/O completion ports designed in, and that is implemented under Linux by spinning off user-space worker threads. Since completion-based AIO is a first-class citizen under Windows, you can set up overlapped I/O operations — to network, devices, or disk — to notify you upon their completion and then busy your CPU cores with other tasks, rather than the POSIX model of spinning in select loops and interleaving “are we there yet? are we there yet?” polling with other processing.
So yes, the POSIX model has been improved on. You know that old Dilbert cartoon where the Unix guy says “Here’s a quarter, get yourself a real operating system”? Dave Cutler — lead designer of VMS and Windows NT — does that to Unix guys.
Stephan on 2017-11-14 at 13:32:22 said:
There have been entire papers written on that.
It’s not that “UNIXy OSes” are inferior to Windows, it’s that the standards organizations are derelict in their duty to provide a portable API in the style that everyone actually wants to use.
Be it Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, or what have you, there ARE heavily-used equivalents to the Windows APIs you mention in POSIXy OSes… they’re just all different.
(I say UNIXy and POSIXy because it’s intentional that Linux aims to be “certifiable but not officially certified” due to its rapid release cycle.)
Robert O'Callahan on 2017-11-27 at 05:55:25 said:
There is no usable Linux-only async file I/O API.
Do you see anything replacing C in the small embedded systems (bare metal, 1MB flash, 256 KB RAM) space? I don’t. Possibly Rust for new development, but I just don’t see anything displacing C for a very long time.
And there are lots and lots of controllers out there that aren’t beefy enough to run a Linux, even if you could get real-time performance out of it…
>Do you see anything replacing C in the small embedded systems (bare metal, 1MB flash, 256 KB RAM) space? I don’t. Possibly Rust for new development, but I just don’t see anything displacing C for a very long time.
No argument. That’s pretty much the niche I foresee C holding longest, analogous to the persistence of assembler on small systems 30 years ago.
Jeremy on 2017-11-17 at 21:13:20 said:
I find myself thinking that said small embedded systems are, in a way, echoes of the minicomputers that C was originally made to run on. I say echoes, because while I’m pretty sure a PDP-11 had more raw compute power and I/O throughput due to its architecture, the memory numbers seem similar. While I read that a PDP-11 could be configured with up to 4 MiB of core and multiple disks, I doubt a majority of them were delivered or later configured to be fully maxed out. And when I look up the PDP-11, I read that a great many of them were employed in the same job that today’s embedded systems are: as real-time automated control systems. Being a whippersnapper who wasn’t born until at least a decade later, I may well be overgeneralizing, but I don’t think I’m completely wrong either.
So, when considering that, it makes sense that the aforementioned niche is where C is likely to hold out the longest. It’s a similar environment to the one it was originally adapted to.
>I find myself thinking that said small embedded systems are, in a way, echoes of the minicomputers that C was originally made to run on.
Oh hell yeah. Dead obvious to those of us who remember the old days. Your conclusion “the aforementioned niche is where C is likely to hold out the longest” is also obviously correct.
I’m pretty sure a PDP-11 had more raw compute power and I/O throughput due to its architecture, the memory numbers seem similar.
While today’s proficient embedded programmer would be right at home with the PDP-11, and while this statement holds true for some embedded systems, it’s certainly not true for all.
Moore’s law has done some interesting things for us. Package pins are costly, so for a lot of small embedded systems, it may make more sense to have all the memory on-chip. Once you have all the memory on-chip, you don’t want too much of it, or your cost goes up again because of the die size. Performance costs are somewhat orthogonal to memory costs: performance increases by adding more transistors and by reducing feature size. Both of these are expensive, but not always as expensive as adding memory.
One cool thing about on-chip memory is that since you’re not constrained by pins for an external bus, you can have a really wide bus to memory. Another cool thing is that you can have interleaved buses if you want, simply by splitting memories up in odd ways. Interleaving buses allows for simultaneous access from a CPU to one word with DMA to an adjacent word.
So there are a lot of niche devices that fit in this C niche, in fact that are small enough to not even want to run an OS on, never mind an interpreter or garbage collector — that are nonetheless performant enough to, for example, saturate a few full-duplex gigabit ethernet links while doing complex DSP calculations. In other words, a $5.00 chip might very well exceed a PDP-11 by orders of magnitude in memory bandwidth, CPU power, and I/O bandwidth.
http://micropython.org/
That at least fits the memory requirements you’ve laid out.
Personally, I’d love to write Oberon-2 code for micro controllers. Much cleaner than C++, but just as fast. Unfortunately that language never really caught on outside of ethz.ch.
Gregory Gelfond on 2017-11-14 at 13:14:37 said:
Which is a shame because Wirth essentially showed it to be capable systems programming language by developing the Oberon operating system.
It’s an excellent and small garbage collected language that could have supplanted efforts like Java. I suspect the only thing that actively prevented it from doing so was: promulgation, and the fact that it wasn’t a C-family language.
oberonfan on 2017-11-15 at 04:24:14 said:
Oberon-07 did.
http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm
You can target ARM Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M7 Microcontrollers and Xilinx FPGA Systems with Oberon-07.
Jeff on 2017-11-17 at 10:52:28 said:
The interpreter will fit, but how much functionality also fits? With C, you can fit an application plus complete zigbee and bluetooth stacks in a 512k part.
I’m curious about Rust for new development, but C won’t get displaced in this space for a long time. There’s some value to a very limited subset of C++ to pick up things like namespaces and compiler enforced encapsulation, but that doesn’t fundamentally change things.
guest on 2017-11-14 at 11:07:55 said:
FORTH? It seems to be a good fit for small embedded, and it is nonetheless “high-level” in a sense, in that it trades off machine time for ease-of-development time. But I’m a bit skeptical about Moore’s law being relevant to small embedded systems these days – it seems to have stalled early there, so something closer to the metal ala Rust will also find plenty of use.
John Moore on 2017-11-19 at 22:29:51 said:
I agree about Moore’s law on small embedded systems, or more narrowly, on their CPU’s. I sometimes write code for these things – in C – because a customer uses them for their very low cost. The processors are a little faster than in the 1980’s, and they’ve added a few instructions, but basically, a PIC18 is still a tiny little machine with a horrible machine model, just like its 1980’s progenitor. A 68HC05 is still a 6805 which is just a bit more than a 6800, from the 1970’s.
However, Moore’s law does appear – the greatly increased chip density leads to very chap SoC’s – a dollar for a machine with RAM, Flash, EEPROM, and a whole bucket of built in peripherals and peripheral controllers.
The good news is that you can indeed use C on these things, rather than assembly (which is true torture on a PIC). And, the C optimizes pretty well.
Not all sub-$1 microcontrollers are PICs, thankfully. Some are 8051s (meh)…and some are ARM Cortex systems, on which C does very well, thank you. Microchip even has a PIC32 series that’s MIPS-based.
Check out this article that surveys 21 different microcontrollers, all under $1 each.
The embedded Rust community has been able to get Rust cross-compiled for targets like that. Pretty much the only thing you need is compiler support, and a language that doesn’t require a runtime. All systems languages get compiled down to the same machine code in the end (especially when they all use the same compiler backend).
Phil R. on 2017-11-13 at 18:39:41 said:
…languages like Lisp abd (later) Python…
…due to programmers trepping over leaks and flaws in its abstractions…
(At least, I assume this is a typo, but the E and I keys are nowhere near each other… Does your dialect smush those vowels together, or is trep a jargonic verb I’m not familiar with?)
…or, in uunusual exceptions like eqn,…
I’ve never come close enough to the bare metal to have anything more substantial to add!
Duncan Bayne on 2017-11-13 at 20:48:09 said:
https://xkcd.com/1530/
Yuri Khan on 2017-11-14 at 00:37:22 said:
the E and I keys are nowhere near each other
They are, in Colemak. Home row: arstd hneio.
DMcCunney on 2017-11-13 at 18:43:47 said:
@esr: The first serious attempt at the second path was Java in 1995. It wasn’t a bad try, but the choice to build it over a j-code interpreter mode it unsuitable for systems programming.
I agree Java was a poor choice for systems programming, but I don’t think it was ever intended to be a systems programming language. The goal of Java was “Write once, run anywhere”. Java code compiled to bytecode targeting a virtual CPU, and the code would actually be executed by the JRE. If your hardware could run a full JRE, the JRE handled the abstraction away from the underlying hardware and your code could run. The goal was cross-platform, because the bytecode was the same regardless of what system it was compiled on. (I have IBM’s open source Eclipse IDE here. The same binary runs on both Windows and Linux.) For applications programming, that was a major win. (And unless I’m completely out of touch, the same comments apply to Python.)
More generally, any area of applications or systems programming can stay stuck to a language well after the tradeoff that language embodies is actually obsolete.
Which is why there are probably billions of lines of COBOL still in production. It’s just too expensive to replace, regardless of how attractive the idea is.
But I think they will – the business case for Google to push them there is obvious (can you say “Android development”?).
Maybe. Android has a Linux kernel, but most stuff running on Android is written in Java and executed by the Dalvik JRE. The really disruptive change might be if Google either rewrote the Linux kernel in Go, or wrote a completely new kernel intended to look and act like Linux in Go. The question is whether Linux’s days are numbered in consequence.
>Dennis
We have an existence proof of a kernel in Rust. Has anyone written one exclusively in Go?
>We have an existence proof of a kernel in Rust. Has anyone written one exclusively in Go?
No, That would be a silly thing to try until the next major advance in GC technology. If then.
I won’t disagree with you that it’s a silly thing to try, but there is Gopher-OS.
François-René Rideau on 2017-11-14 at 01:04:33 said:
The major advances in GC already exist, they are just only available in proprietary software: the Azul C4 Garbage Collector (Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector) for their variant of the JVM, Zing. You pay the price of the GC read-barrier, but then you enjoy the benefits of a massively scalable concurrent GC with no pause.
Like a Lisp machine, on steroids. (And yes, the Lisp Machines had the entire OS in Lisp, and there was a variant with a guaranteed real-time collector.)
@esr Why is it silly? Honestly curious given that Niklaus Wirth developed the Oberon operating system back in the 80’s using a garbage collected descendant of the Modula-2 programming language (also named Oberon).
>@esr Why is it silly?
Latency overhead from the GC is still too high. This may change in the future.
If you’ve seen this recent post from Cloudflare regarding their usage of Go and how it’s GC kills performance majorly, I don’t think so.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-dont-collect-my-garbage/
I’m still curious as to how much the overhead is an issue. Wirth showed that one could develop an OS with a garbage collected language. Is this an issue with particular kinds of operating systems (real-time for example, I can see this being an issue)? For a general purpose system however, how much of an issue it?
OS’s with garbage-collected languages used to build their kernels and user space are often designed with serious tuning of the garbage collection cycles. Problem is, the more load you put onto these kernels, the more GC cycles are required, and thus they seriously buckle under stress.
Would you like a desktop OS with high-latency audio, video, and input responses? I’d think not.
Active Oberon, the last variantion of the Native Oberon OS, had multimedia support.
http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/WindowManager
Nice audio and video support running on a managed OS.
Michael on 2017-11-14 at 23:15:38 said:
You evidently didn’t read the whole article. By tuning the Go GC he got the performance he desired. He also states that “… this type of benchmarking is definitely an edge case for garbage collection.”
Such tuning would not be required at all with a proper language that does not require a runtime garbage collector, a la Rust.
I really don’t understand the obsession with GC languages. Even with Go, you end up writing far more boiler plate code and overly-convoluted solutions in comparison to GC-free Rust. Why pay for GC when you don’t even need it?
Such tuning would not be required…
It’s an “edge case”.
I really don’t understand the obsession with GC languages. … in comparison to GC-free Rust.
Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust. Rust.
You’re an odd one to speak of obsessions.
Why pay for GC when you don’t even need it?
Why pay for manual memory management when you don’t even need it? See how it is to write un-proveable assertions. Even I can do it.
Rust appears to have a lot to offer. It behooves all of us to get to know it.
The biggest impediment to Rust’s adoption is the people promoting it.
Amen. I’m about to quit following this post because of the monomaniacal Rust fanboyism. I’m not learning a damned thing about the language except that it incites Scientology-level cultism in its adherents.
> I’m not learning a damned thing about the language except that it incites Scientology-level cultism in its adherents.
Not all of them. I’ve had rational conversations with core Rust people on their fora. I cited some in my second Rust post.
The funny part is that Michael Aaron Murphy doubtless believes “I am an effective Rust advocate” when the reality is “I make people run screaming from the thought of having anything to do with Rust.” With friends like him the language doesn’t need enemies.
> It’s an “edge case”.
I spent two years experimenting with Go, and I can tell you that tuning the GC is not an edge case. It’s very common.
> Why pay for manual memory management when you don’t even need it? See how it is to write un-proveable assertions. Even I can do it.
You aren’t paying for manual memory management. Rust’s compiler and language does all of that for you. You’re trying to argue against an absolute. What a shame. Either you pay hardware costs to implement a solution, or you create a simpler solution that doesn’t need to pay those costs. It’s obvious which of the two are better options!
> The biggest impediment to Rust’s adoption is the people promoting it.
Purely false. Rust has a healthy adoption rate. It arrived at precisely the right time when it did, to take advantage of all the concepts and theories that had been developed at the time it started development, and has been adopted at precisely the correct rate, to enable the Crates ecosystem to catch up to the needs of the developers adopting it. Rust’s community is growing exponentially, regardless of how much you snarl your nose at it. It doesn’t matter what you or I say. Any publicity, is good publicity!
> Rust appears to have a lot to offer. It behooves all of us to get to know it.
It does nothing of the sort. It is simply the correct tool for the biggest problem in the software industry. Either you choose to use it of your own volition, or you fall behind into obscurity, and a new generation of software developers replaces you.
Michael Aaron Murphy:
Help is available. There are many new medications that show great promise. Support groups are nearby for you in your time of need. You don’t have to suffer alone.
In all fairness, the advantages of Rust’s approach to memory allocation and deallocation predate Rust itself, with antecedents in C++ and even Objective-C. Rust merely builds on and enhances these things.
But there is an inherent cost to runtime garbage collection that simply is not paid when your language determines object lifetime at compile time. Tracing GCs are, in a word, obsolete: 1960s technology does not fare well in the face of 2010s problems of scalability and performance.
Rust earned its position as the prime candidate to replace C as the default systems language in two ways: by not adopting a GC and not sucking as bad as C++. Three ways, actually, if you count being hipster-compliant (which Ada is not).
emily on 2017-11-29 at 23:19:53 said:
Why? People wrote kernels in Lisp 40 years ago.
Luca Barbato on 2017-11-13 at 20:19:30 said:
Rust has tools such as corrode that makes transitioning from C relatively painless.
Regarding your question about select(), things are moving lately:
https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/rfcs/pull/22
But I agree that it will take another round or two of refinement (so about 2 years) to make the language painless for gps or ntp purposes.
Although it should be noted that it’s often times faster to rewrite something from scratch than to use tools like corrode and manually rewrite the converted code into something idiomatic to best practices.
Adam Thornton on 2017-11-13 at 21:26:30 said:
You might enjoy the talk I gave as the interview presentation for my current job:
https://athornton.github.io/go-it-mostly-doesnt-suck/
I saw that when you posted it on G+. Mostly agreed with it, except that I thought the “training wheels” crack about Python was unjustified and I miss #ifdef more than you – my stuff wants to have code conditionalization for stripped-down builds.
You were right on about one thing, especially. Go is static typing done right – the compiler error messages are genuinely helpful to extent that after C and C++ is rather startling.
Ada and Rust also provide helpful compiler error messages.
If Go is “static typing done right”, why is the number one complaint among Go users about the weakness of Go’s type system?
I can make a good case that Go is the local optima (or the “done right”) of that type of manifest typing.
The problem is that the next local optima that we as a community know about is a fairly significant step up on the complexity curve. A lot of the nice type features really need other nice type features to make them work, which then need support from other nice features, which need support from other features… this is not an infinite regress and you end up somewhere where you can do things that you really, really wouldn’t want to do in Go (Servo would be a nightmare in Go), but I tend to agree that Go is going to have a niche for a long, long time.
>The problem is that the next local optima that we as a community know about is a fairly significant step up on the complexity curve.
Quite, and see “low transition costs out of C”. Ken Thompson is the single most brilliant systems engineer in the history of computing; where he drove this language wasn’t towards an optimum in theoretical design space but an optimum in terms of the economics of actual existing computing.
You know what? This doesn’t want to be a comment. It needs to be another blog post.
…Circa 1970. It’s reasonable to assert that the kinds of sophisticated type checking and static verification required in languages like Rust and Haskell would have been too costly on the hardware Thompson and Ritchie had to hand (and anyway, the type theory hadn’t even been developed yet). Besides which, they weren’t building software for flight avionics or radiation dosing machines, they were building more or less a sandbox for them and their fellow hackers to mess around in. At the time they designed C’s type system, they weren’t expecting their language to bear the full weight of the internet, including all its malicious actors; they could reasonably expect the average C program to be small, short-lived, and only used by persons within the same computing facility as the author. They didn’t even have to deal with today’s new normal: people carrying always-on internet machines in their pockets, Russian hackers swinging major elections, the Internet of Things. All of which swing the requisite standards of reliability, performance, and security far towards the “flight avionics and radiation dosing machines” end of the scale.
Unix was a reasonable system design in its time, far less so today. And there’s no need to provide a comfortable transition from what C hackers know because by 2017 standards, what C hackers know is broken. And most of today’s developers have spent their larval stages working in C++, Java, or C# anyway.
A lot of the nice type features really need other nice type features to make them work, which then need support from other nice features, which need support from other features…
Exactly, which is why once you’re exposed to Haskell you tend not to take type systems weaker than Haskell’s seriously. You simply cannot do monads very well without Hindley-Milner, higher-kinded types, and type classes.
The difference between you and me is I see the added type complexity as essential complexity whereas you see it as accidental complexity. It’s complexity inherent in the system you’d have to deal with one way or another. Whatever you don’t pay for at compile time accrues interest at run time — and the APR is a bitch. So the more invariants that can be asserted by the type system (like Rust encoding object lifetimes directly within its types) at compile time before the program even runs, the less you’ll have to sweat about at run time. And, ultimately, the more money you’ll save in the long run.
Go’s littered with reflections and reflection-based errors. That’s a far cry from static typing.
Mike on 2017-11-13 at 21:37:58 said:
What about OCaml as a systems language?
>What about OCaml as a systems language?
OK, what about it? Are there any deployments outside academia?
How about the finance industry?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1924367/why-do-hedge-funds-and-financial-services-often-use-ocaml
– Citrix uses it in XenServer.
– MirageOS unikernel is developed in it.
Sriram Srinivasan on 2017-11-16 at 12:40:48 said:
Facebook uses it. They have a new “friendly” syntactic front-end to OCaml called Reason: https://reasonml.github.io
A.D. Corlan on 2017-11-13 at 23:09:17 said:
What about Ada and its recent offspring Spark? They seem to me to address your issues with C++, technically speaking, they also do have (very) large deployments, are mature and well supported. However, they did not and do not seem to replace C because of the vast mass of systems C programmers and code. There will continue to be a lot of job openings in C, making it worth learning, and maintaining the size of the programmers body. One will keep being more likely to easily find systems programmers that know C than ones mastering any other language. This should keep C going even if technically better options appear (they already exist, in fact).
One thing Eric’s been looking for that Ada has and Rust lacks, is standard POSIX bindings. And when I say “standard”, I mean IEEE Standard 1003.5b-1996 — Ada bindings are part of POSIX. An open source library that implements this standard, called Florist, is readily available for the GNAT compiler and there’s even an Ubuntu package for it.
Insightful post.
After a long break from programming it was seeing what they had done with UB that ruined C for me.
However, don’t you think that there is unlikely to be a single successor to C? That was a product of very different times and the size of the market was much smaller then.
I agree with you about the merits of Go for many purposes. But one gives back modelling power, and there are times when you need it.
When was the last time you checked out D? You sound like you are doing nothing more than repeating talking points. Languages develop at different rates and D is much more ambitious… Unsurprisingly then it wasn’t ready till quite recently for broader adoption – libraries, tooling, documentation.
Its taken off quite sharply since 2014. Have you seen the stats?
http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
And there’s a growing need for it because when your logs hit 30 GB a day Python is no longer quite fast enough.
Here are some commercial users:
https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html
I’m one of them (at a 3.6bn hedge fund).
Jon Brase on 2017-11-13 at 23:43:06 said:
> Therefore: eventually we will have GC techniques with low enough latency overhead to be usable in kernels and low-level firmware, and those will ship in language implementations. Those are the languages that will truly end C’s long reign.
I don’t know. As I haven’t managed to write anything more than toy code at any level yet, I’ll defer to anyone that has shipped production code at that level of the stack, but the OS/firmware level is what is most interesting to me, and if I ever do manage to get off the ground, something in that regime is likely to be the kind of stuff I’ll be writing. And my gut feeling is this: people working at that level are going to be reluctant to use garbage collection that they did not write themselves. So low-latency garbage collection needs to be developed, and then it needs to be distilled into something that people whose expertise isn’t necessarily language development can implement. Because at the kernel level, while it isn’t very far to the bottom, you absolutely *have* to be able to see all the way down, and a GC implementation you didn’t write is a potential impediment to that.
d5xtgr on 2017-11-14 at 01:59:55 said:
One point that might be refined from your machine-centric/programmer-centric distinction is the asymmetry in adaptability, not just the asymmetric cost trends. Modifying the machine to better accommodate a programmer-centric language doesn’t often pan out well; you wind up with odd artifacts like Lisp machines. On the other hand, programmers self-modify; they adapt to such things as pointer semantics and registers as part of learning low-level languages.
I find Forth seems to live at a knee in the machine-efficiency/programmer-friendliness curve. Its RPN stack is fairly easy to wrap ones head around, and it’s close enough to the metal for use in low-level code like bootloaders. But that knee is pretty close to the machine-efficient end of the spectrum because of the asymmetry between how well programmers can mentally model a machine executing their code and how poorly computers emulate a human mind.
Rust and C are both explicitly responses
Rust and Go?
Ola Fosheim Grøstad on 2017-11-14 at 05:45:39 said:
C++ will keep taking over for C until we get verification that scales. I’m betting on a language like Whiley (whiley.org) or Dafny/Boogie (Microsoft) in the long term.
For higher level server-oriented programming, most likely something based on actors such as Pony (ponylang.org), but with verification.
Such languages are in the works, so maybe a language like Creol (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304397506004804) which appears to provide verification for high level concurrency mechanisms could be a starting point for real change.
Go has a nice runtime, but needs semantic improvements and a significant cleanup regarding how error handling and abstractions are done. Won’t happen with the current team. So it is a dead end… unfortunately. D is the same category. Necessary changes won’t happen with the current team.
Rust doesn’t really solve C++’s issues, except maybe the learning-curve. Lifetime management is not a big problem for proficient C++ programmers (i.e. C++11/17). C++98 is essentially a different language than C++17/20 in terms of idiomatic source code. So new idiomatic code bases would be incomparable to old code bases in terms of maintenance. (Assuming you have proficient people to do code review.)
> Lifetime management is not a big problem for proficient C++ programmers
Try telling that to the Firefox developers who’ve posted a review of their Project Quantum Stylo integration in the new release of Firefox today. They replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 85,000 lines of Rust. And memory safety was the single-most reason for the project succeeding where all previous attempts in C++ failed. These are incredibly-experienced veteran C++ developers.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-In-Firefox-Quantum.html
Incredibly experienced might mean that they are stuck in a C++98 mentality. Anyway, no team is better than the process it is managed by… And Mozilla are hardly neutral when it comes to Rust.
That a rewrite leads to better code, well, hardly surprising. Is it?
Now, simple substructural subtyping like Rust provides can prevent you from doing some mistakes, but it might also ban valid code which introduces inefficiencies because you are forced to choose a particular structure.
I don’t mind it, but it doesn’t help much on the hard to find bugs I run into. Only more advanced behavioural typing and program verification is sufficient for preventing typically expensive low level bugs.
> Incredibly experienced might mean that they are stuck in a C++98 mentality. Anyway, no team is better than the process it is managed by…
Actually, Mozilla are well known for having some of the best C++ programmers in the field. They are among the first to adopt newer standards of C++. They are also quite versed in the latest research in computer science, especially given that they have around 30 people in the core Rust team with PhD’s in computer science.
These are both highly educated recent grads that are up to date with all the latest research, and highly experienced veterans of C++ that have been developing the most complex software in the world — web browsers. They can’t afford to not up to date with the latest strategies and techniques.
For example, Servo is actually constructed using an entity-component system architecture, rather than an OOP architecture. Servo’s been built with the latest techniques that modern game developers are using to build their AAA games. If these were people trapped in C++98 days, they’d have no knowledge of such concepts, or be able to create something as advanced as Rust.
> And Mozilla are hardly neutral when it comes to Rust.
No organization would support a product that isn’t giving them a benefit. You have to also realize that they are among the best-suited to represent Rust. Not only did they kickstart, orchestrate, and develop the language (with the help of three other companies), but they have managed to create very complex production-grade solutions with it, and it’s shipping today in one of the most widely used applications on the planet.
> Now, simple substructural subtyping like Rust provides can prevent you from doing some mistakes
Luckily, Rust does more than simple substructural subtyping.
> but it might also ban valid code which introduces inefficiencies because you are forced to choose a particular structure.
Nothing is banned in Rust (except undefined behavior) — you are not forced to choose a particular structure. You are heavily encouraged to choose the correct structure, on the other hand. Have any examples to provide?
> Only more advanced behavioural typing and program verification is sufficient for preventing typically expensive low level bugs.
Luckily, we have very well-educated experts on these topics that have gone about implementing formal verification techniques within Rust. Ticki comes to mind when he began talks about implementing a Hoare Logic in Rust within the MIR.
C++/Rust/browsers are mostly atheoretical, so not sure how phds would be relevant? Also not sure why people keep claiming that browsers are the most complicated… The complexity in browsers arise from being big and implementing big standards while having to work with existing web sites. But that domain isn’t particularly hard in terms of theory…
Typesystems are filters. They typically filter out both valid and invalid programs. Of course, you can get around it by writing more code, you only ned a TM to do that. But it isn’t convenient… C++ is currently more convenient than Rust as Rust still is quite immature with a limited eco system.
You probably meant to say that they are going to add asserts with quantifiers to MIR. Hoare logic is just a set of deduction rules.
> C++/Rust/browsers are mostly atheoretical, so not sure how phds would be relevant
You don’t understand why the well-educated would be interested in using their knowledge to develop new solutions and solve real problems that we are facing today? Or that Rust & Servo were research projects by Mozilla that have been ongoing for five years? The heck.
You should serious read some Rust RFCs[1]. Case in point is the generic associated traits RFC (HKTs)[2]. Each file there is basically a paper describing the specifications of that feature and it’s implementation. You’ll quickly realize why we have PhD’s on board helping to shape the future of Rust and it’s language design.
> Typesystems are filters. They typically filter out both valid and invalid programs. Of course, you can get around it by writing more code, you only ned a TM to do that.
I don’t think you understand what you think you understand, regarding Rust. Rust’s type system isn’t acting as a filter to filter out ‘valid programs’. The only thing that comes to mind that you seem to be referencing are Non-Lexical Lifetimes, whose RFC is almost fully implemented.
Yet the lack of NLL being fully implemented yet only serves catch newcomers to the language whom have yet to internalize the rules, and have no baring for the rest of us who never write software that falls into that trap (because we understand how lifetimes work, and how to properly use scopes to ensure that those lifetimes don’t conflict).
> But it isn’t convenient… C++ is currently more convenient than Rust
I think you’ll find many here and elsewhere who disagree with that. Otherwise, there would be no point in using Rust, and Mozilla would not have succeeded in their Project Quantum efforts to integrate components of Servo within Firefox. There’s a serious contradiction between what you’re stating here, and what people and companies are actually doing today with Rust.
From Patrick Walton: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/929065687632330753
> Rust still is quite immature with a limited eco system
Not true. Have you seen how many crates that we have today? And the quality of the top crates, and associated blessed crates by the community? We have a lot of top-notch solutions for everything under the sun. I’ve had major success developing all kinds of different software with Rust because of how powerful a lot of these solutions are, which C++ has no parallel to.
Can you automatically deserialize raw text of any given format into a native hierarchy of data structures, and vice versa serialize native data structures into a string without having to write any code? That’s what serde does. The following is how you can automatically GET JSON from a web server and deserialize it into a native data structure.
let data: Data = reqwest::get(URL).json()?;
Any type that has the #[Deserialize] attribute above the structure definition can be used in the above. That’s just one of many examples of how powerful Rust is at achieving complex tasks, simply.
[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/tree/master/text
[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1598-generic_associated_types.md
And here we go with the educational elitism. You come off like a Brie-eating bicoastal elite, CS subtype, who is bound, damned, and determined to tell us all how to think and work, just like the Brie-eating bicoastal elites are bound, damned, and determined to tell us all how to live.
Here’s a free clue: A PhD does not guarantee a damned thing except that the person who’s entitled to call himself one has put up with the leftist bullshit of academia for longer, with greater intensity, than those who merely have a bachelor’s, and has played the academic politics game – which inevitably involves hewing closely to the current SJW line of crap – better than the average student.
I don’t care about academic credentials. I care about getting work done. Period.
“Brie-eating”
Tastes differ, but real brie (from raw milk) is a good cheese. I do enjoy it regularly. But I am neither a member of the elite nor a CS programming language designer.
“A PhD does not guarantee a damned thing except …. than those who merely have a bachelor’s”
Do I sense some envy?
Anyhow, you got it totally wrong. A PhD is proof you can perform independent research and write it down, that is, you are a qualified scientist (or the equivalent in other academic disciplines). Nothing more, nothing less.
If you want to incorporate the latest progress in research, it often helps to hire relevant PhDs, as they generally have been exposed to the latest advances. Because that is their job.
If you try to create cutting edge technology, you are a fool if you discriminate against PhDs in particular, and people with different political ideas in general.
To be clear: I like Brie. I use it as an example of what the bicoastal elites do as opposed to the folks in America’s heartland, who rarely encounter it.
And no, you don’t sense envy. I’ve been out earning my way in the world, instead of sponging off others in academia and getting a good thorough Marxist indoctrination.
Computing doesn’t need esoteric scientists who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. It needs people who care about getting the work done, and have been there and done that.
I’ve been out earning my way in the world, instead of sponging off others in academia
Research is productive work. All technology is based on scientific research, so your livelihood is depended on past research. Scientific research is built on PhD students. No PhDs, no science and no technological progress.
and getting a good thorough Marxist indoctrination.”
Science and technology are agnostic towards politics an religion. If you are not, you would indeed not be suited to do science.
Moreover, you are so far to the right of the political spectrum that almost all of humanity is far out to the left of you. You cannot fault them for that.
Computing doesn’t need esoteric scientists who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
You mean people like Turing and Shannon? Or Knuth? Or the guys at Bell Labs and Parc?
These people also had PhD’s. And they lived in the coastal regions of the US.
It needs people who care about getting the work done,
But these people you talk about use the legacy of those “esotheric scientists” all the way back to Shannon, Turing, Schrodinger, Maxwell, Herz,
Faraday, Ampere , and Volta.
Rejecting PhDs is rejecting future progress.
William O. B'Livion on 2017-11-15 at 19:31:46 said:
You missed *entirely* what he was getting at.
And were you an American you would identify more with the “costal elites” (they aren’t always on the coast, and they’re only elite in their own minds).
What Jay is complaining about is the Rustifarian’s attitude.
“And were you an American you would identify more with the “costal elites” ”
Indeed. I have been in the US several times and I can feel quite at home in the “coastal” areas. I particularly liked Portland and Boston. San Fransisco is nice too. I must admit that my experiences of inland US have been limited.
Could be. But he is attacking PhDs and science to do so. Therefore, I think his beef is with science more than with Rust.
Congratulations. You made no effort to refute any of my counter-arguments. You merely went into an off-topic tirade about people with PhDs. I definitely see some serious anger, denial, and envy in there.
A phd is usually a very narrow research project and typically has nothing to do with C++, you would usually be better off using a more powerful high level language for phd work. As far as programming goes a well rounded bachelor in either comp sci or software engineering covers most of what you need, from thereon it is all about your own exploration and desire to expand your horizons. A phd is just one way to do that, in a very narrow way.
All typesystems are filters. The formal definition of a languge is that it is a set of strings (programs). A type system will reduce that to a subset.
You’re going to need more than a bachelor’s degree to be capable of leading bleeding edge language research, and employing it successfully in practice at scale…
A bachelor’s degree only guarantees that you can write software using a language that’s already been constructed for you, by the people who have PhD’s!
Degrees are completely orthogonal to capability.
You’re completely missing the point…
> A bachelor’s degree only guarantees that you can
> write software using a language
No, no it doesn’t.
Very few books on advanced topics assume much more than a bachelor, if they did they wouldnt be able to use them in higher level courses. You usually also find whitepapers and surveys that can help. So, for an attentive person a bachelor opens the doors you need open if you have the interest.
“Modern C++” is nowhere near eliminating pernicious memory safety issues, such as use after free bugs. In some ways, it’s making things worse. Here’s an example: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/1038
References are semantically equivalent to bare pointers, modern C++ uses them pervasively, and they create lots of opportunities for use-after-free whether or not you use smart pointers.
Beyond memory safety, Rust solves lots of other problems that C++ doesn’t, like preventing data races, proper type bounds for generic types (concepts will only solve half the problem), easy management of library dependencies, powerful metaprogramming facilities like “custom derive”, …
Keith A. Lewis on 2017-11-14 at 07:28:07 said:
Sounds like somebody is not up to speed with modern C++. The issues you raise have been addressed.
Steven on 2017-11-15 at 18:53:36 said:
The core issue ESR raised was C++’s backwards compatibility. How can you possibly claim that’s been addressed?
Until C++ is reformed into a brand new language with zero backwards compatibility, none of it’s issues have been address. All of the C++ developments have merely been adding lipstick on a pig, and by that I mean that each new major feature that should be the default behavior, requires a major degree of boiler plate to use, making the language incredibly verbose to use, while still providing zero guarantees about any of the code. How do you ensure that every usage of code in your own code base, and all dependent code bases, are using best practices? You can’t.
Mark on 2017-11-14 at 11:23:59 said:
You’re talking about the past as if it were still the future, and you’re wrong about it. C++ is a massively successful language and isn’t going away anytime in the next 30 years.
– Every major browser is written in (mostly) C++
– Many major language implementations are written in C++ (LLVM/CLANG, GCC, V8, many or most JVM implementations, including Android’s Dalvik and ART which are installed on billions of devices)
– All of the big internet/software companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) have hundreds of millions of lines of C++ in their backends and consumer products.
– Every big AAA game / game-engine includes C++ as a significant, if not majority component.
In addition, it is trending up. The number of C++ repos on github grew faster than the github average between 2012 and 2016: http://githut.info/
Lastly, on GC: It will never be cheap enough to be used in areas like games and kernels. It isn’t about the cost, it’s about the ability to reason locally and attribute the cost to the code that incurred it. If you have a latency problem in C++, its either the fault of the OS (true for all languages), or its the fault of the code that isn’t running fast enough. If you have a latency problem caused by GC pauses, its the fault of the entire system, and fixing it becomes a boil-the-ocean problem.
@Mark: You’re talking about the past as if it were still the future, and you’re wrong about it. C++ is a massively successful language and isn’t going away anytime in the next 30 years.
I agree, but I’ve been watching the progression with interest. I think of the problem in linguistics in when a dialect of an existing language diverges enough to be a whole new language. The joke tends to be “A language is a dialect that has an army and navy.”
A chunk of the issues I’ve seen with C++ are precisely that sort of thing. Programmers were treating it as a dialect of standard C, and not properly comprehending the differences. They’d have been better served to think of it as a whole new language.
Another problem is that all compilers are not created equal. There’s a grimly amusing Mozilla Developers document on writing portable C++ code, and what you must do for your code to be portable. A lot of it reduces to “Just because it works in Microsoft Visual C++, don’t assume it will work elsewhere!” Mozilla was trying to be very portable in the early days, and the problem child was the C++ compiler shipped with HP-UX which choke on constructs everything else would compile. (These days, they support Windows, Linux, and OS/X, and if you run something else, getting the code to build and run is your problem.)
Every major browser is written in (mostly) C++
Yes. And they all stink.
Memory leaks, excessive cpu consumption, an endless stream of security exploits, unexplained crashes … the usual complaints.
Having been on the receiving end of these applications for quite a long time, my cynical conclusion is that writing bug-free C++ code at scale, on deadlines, and with sizeable teams of skillset-diverse coders is testing the limits of what humans can do.
Aye. “AAA game studios do it” is a good way to find yourself sailing off a cliff with all the other lemmings.
How much of that is inertia though? I’d wager a lot, if not most of it.
Every major browser has a code base older than any of the up and coming systems languages. All the major language implementations listed were started before any of the upcomers were mature. All of major internet/software companies product lines and codebases are older than any of the upcommers. And new games continue to be written in C++ because once again, the tooling for making games is older than the upcommers. It makes sense; when you start a project, you reach for the best tools you can get, and for a while, C++ was that tool.
But the times, they are a changin’. C++ may well have been good enough for larger systems, compared to C, but that doesn’t mean wasn’t or is no longer without its flaws. As I understand, Rust was born because Mozilla knew they needed to move Firefox to a multi-thread/process model to make things faster, but also knew that attempting such in C++ was a recipe for Firefox having as many bugs as a AAA game does when first released. And now, the newest versions of Firefox running on the newer multi-thread/process design are incorporating components written in Rust.
I also have my doubts on GC becoming good enough for (some kinds of) games and OS kernels. But, how things have been and are they now does not mean they will forever be that way in the future. I may well be wrong about GC.
> Every major browser is written in (mostly) C++
Times are changing. Firefox just replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 85,000 lines of Rust[1] — and that’s just the Stylo component. That’s not counting the upcoming WebRender and Pathfinder components that are about land in subsequent Firefox releases.
> All of the big internet/software companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft)
All of these (minus Apple) have been posting jobs looking for Rust software developers, so times are changing here too.
> Every big AAA game / game-engine includes C++ as a significant, if not majority component.
Maybe so today, but DICE and many other AAA and indie studios are highly interested in, or already are using Rust. DICE uses Rust extensively internally. I know that Chucklefish are creating a new game that will be available on consoles, written entirely in Rust.
[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-In-Firefox-Quantum.html
Now, simple substuctural subtyping like Rust provides can prevent you from doing some mistakes, but it might also ban valid code which introduce inefficiencies because you are forced to choose a particular structure.
(ack, my reply appeared on the wrong message)
Benny on 2018-09-20 at 18:57:00 said:
> Times are changing. Firefox just replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 85,000 lines of Rust[1] — and that’s just the Stylo component.
I rewrote a system with a base code being 20000 lines of PHP and another 80.000 lines of PHP in the framework, to a system that now uses 3000 lines of code in total that does a better job then the original.
The magic language with was called R … no, just simply PHP… So by your logic PHP is going to replace PHP because i reduced the code by 33 times and reduced the bugs and issues to almost zero. Good to know …
Those Rust number mean nothing. Any project will build up crud over the year and when you rewrite the entire code base, with the new knowledge of what it needs to look like, you will reduce your code by massive amounts. That is just basic knowledge that most programmers know.
Its not a argument to use how good Rust is… So please stick more to facts that are not # code lines on a project rewrite. I know few project when rewritten that will have the same or a increase in code lines.
To all the prior replies: Great points, all. I certainly wouldn’t claim that C++ is the pinnacle of language design or the evolutionary endgame of programming. Hopefully rust and others will replace C++ in areas where they are better suited. My only point was that ESR seems to be laying out an argument for why C++ can’t succeed, and my reply was intended to point out that it already has, in spades.
>ESR seems to be laying out an argument for why C++ can’t succeed,
Not exactly. I’m claiming it will not replace C and lower post-C defect rates, because it has C’s leaky-abstraction problem baked in.
I love C++ and am highly productive in it, and I particularly love C++11, because it supports garbage collection.
But because of backwards compatibility, all abstractions leak, and sometimes making them not leak is subtle and tricky, and worse, much worse, sometimes the very clever, nonobvious, and subtle things you do to prevent leakage fail on C++98, and work on C++11.
Having a program that crashes horribly because g++ defaults to C++98, and C++11 is an option, is really bad. “Gee, it works when I run it on my machine”
(Always put the following in CMakeLists.txt:
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
Or else mystery bugs ensue between one man’s compile and another man’s compile. Because abstractions leak differently between C++98 and C++11!
If someone else’s abstractions leak badly and surprisingly, then you have bugs that are hard to track down.
I am unfamiliar with rust, but according to several commenters, Rust enforces C++ best practices – and is therefore backwards incompatible. It is C++ with backwards compatibility thrown overboard.
And, as I have discovered, C++11 is not perfectly backwards compatible with C++98
Transition costs. It’s difficult to translate even small, simple programs between languages and verify that you have faithfully preserved all non-error behaviors.
I think the value of debugged code has always been severely underestimated. Hence the periodical insanity of trying to re-start projects from scratch that only rarely succeed.
It seems to me that you’re giving short shrift to the value users place on very fast response times. The idea that 0.1 second response times ought to be fast enough for anyone has a Gatesian smell about it. Delays accumulate. Delays get magnified on old or limited systems, or when a system is under heavy load. There was a comment in the previous thread noting that Python can’t always be counted on to respond at human speeds.
Even when response times to the human-facing part of a system are reliably 100ms, there is still value in making the response even faster. 100ms shouldn’t be thought of as “ideal” but rather as “minimally acceptable.”
Acceptable response in a web browser for the reload button, not acceptable in a reflex-based videogame. Maybe barely acceptable for head tracking VR, maybe, but for eye tracking that is finally coming (attack helicopters had that decades ago!) surely not.
Budge Frankly on 2017-11-14 at 12:33:27 said:
This video gives a good run-down of how C++’s recent efforts to retrofit modern features complicate rather than simplify the language: https://youtu.be/VSlBhAOLtFA?t=1411 . C++’s time is drawing to a close, it’s just a matter of which language replaces it.
However I’m not sure I share your pessimism about Rust’s future, for one simple reason: Rust is _extremely_ similar to Apple’s Swift, both in syntax and semantics. Rust has even inspired features in Swift, such as its error-model, and Apple has hired Rust compiler & library developers to work on its Swift team.
Consequently Rust benefits from association by Apple’s promotion efforts. For a Swift developer Rust is a lot easier to learn than Go, and Rust has support for features absent from Swift such as compile-time memory-management and race-detection.
I agree Rust needs another five years to be a solid platform, however I think its foundations and trajectory is such that in five years it will surpass Go. Python was released in 1992 after all, and trailed Perl for a decade, yet now, twenty years later, it has completely replaced it.
Jacob Kiesel on 2017-11-14 at 13:04:24 said:
I think you make a lot of interesting points and generally characterize the current situation pretty well. Of course I do disagree with your last paragraph, as I do write rather a lot of Rust :P Personally garbage collection conceptually bothers me enough that I still prefer the borrow checker, even if it’s slightly harder to use. Why should I burn CPU cycles on memory management when I have the choice to just write code that doesn’t need GC?
> Rustaceans
Given the…passion of some of them, shouldn’t it be “Rustifarians”?
Ah, you’ve met the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce, I see. :)
How many times have we seen this movie?
New platform/framework/protocol emerges, young puppies get all excited about teh new hotness, and run around yipping until they get the attention they crave.
Look at what I can do, daddy!
What’s the quote about 2 types of languages – the ones people bitch about, and the ones nobody uses.
Personally, I don’t give a shit about the endless language pissing contest…they’re just tools in the toolbox.
>Personally, I don’t give a shit about the endless language pissing contest…they’re just tools in the toolbox.
Sadly. I think I have to give a shit. C isn’t good enough at scale, and C++ isn’t either for the same reasons. We’ve all been dancing around the problems for decades now but as LOC goes up we are entering a regime where they can no longer be evaded.
We’ve dealt with some pretty obnoxious Rust puppies, but I give them credit for being obnoxious about a real problem. This is not the classic My Favorite Toy Language scenario where it’s just “Look at what I can do, daddy!”. If they’d been five years sooner and hadn’t had Ken fscking Thompson competing, I’d be sucking up the horrifying C to Rust transition costs now. As it is, I’m deeply grateful that I won’t need to.
> If they’d been five years sooner and hadn’t had Ken fscking Thompson competing, I’d be sucking up the horrifying C to Rust transition costs now.
I really don’t understand why Go puppies like yourself would have a view like this. I mean, you’ve yet to come up with a rational argument to use as pro for Go over Rust — yet you have no problem talking down about Rust and championing Go religiously.
I picked up and experimented with Go for two years before I converted to Rust when it achieved the 1.0 status. If that’s the best Ken Thompson can do, then he’s clearly out of touch with best practices, and the last 40 years of progress in PLT. Well, here’s my rationale, again, for where Go has failed to the point that it’s basically a joke.
Go has made so many fatal mistakes that the language is simply non-redeemable. It’s not a replacement for C, and it’s not even a better replacement than Rust for rewriting Python scripts. Go solutions continually require more LOC and boiler plate to do the same job as a Rust solution, and this only serves to increase the incidences of logic errors.
Go should have had a trait system backed by generics, rather than this bizarre interface system with runtime pseudo-generics via reflections. This would have opened the door to major zero-cost abstractions, code flexibility, and would have eliminated a significant degree of boiler plate. As it stands, you can’t even implement a generic writer or iterator — both of which are critical in all software.
It also should have focused on making it safe to write multi-threaded applications, but instead it’s only equipped for the same jobs as you’d use Elixir and Erlang for (and honestly, Elixir may even be better than Go!). Channels are nice and all, but they aren’t revolutionary at all. Most modern languages feature channels, in addition to other mechanisms. Yet Go is basically choosing to use a hammer for every task, whereas Rust allows you choose to the correct tool for each scenario.
Rust provides channels too, but it also did not neglect taking advantage of generics to create Arc / Mutex / RwLock wrapper types, and utilize the borrowing and ownership model and traits (Send/Sync) to ensure thread safety; and easily-installed third party crates provide access to a wide range of lock and lock-free data structures. Maybe you want an atomic hashmap, or a lock-free stack.
Then there’s the issue of the double return types for error handling. This is beyond incredible stupidity. It is simply bizarre. Not only do you have to allocate the Ok type, but you also have to allocate the Err type too! In what world does that make sense!?
Decades ago, a better solution was created, and that solution is often referred to as sum types, which are backed by pattern matching. Rather than allocating for two types, you only allocate for one (typically an 8-bit tag + the size of the largest variant). This then allows you to beautifully handle errors using methods, and Rust’s early return operator was simply genius for eliminating the boiler plate of error handling entirely, which is empowered by the From/Into traits.
Then there’s the anemic Go standard library. You’ve touted it as being more complete than Rust’s, but I just don’t see how that’s possible. I’ve memorized by Go and Rust’s standard library, so I have a good inkling that you’re simply full of it with that remark. Go’s standard library is a complete catastrophe in a number of different ways.
Firstly, it’s incredibly anemic. It doesn’t ship with very many useful primitives. Those that it does provide are not equipped for a large number of use cases, Try comparing a primitive type in Go and all of it’s methods, to the same type in Rust and it’s methods too. Sorry to say, but Rust’s standard library is very comprehensive.
It covers significantly more use cases, and therefore enables Rust developers to get away with not having to re-invent the wheel and bloat the complexity of their code. It’s one reason why Rust implementations always use less lines of code than Go implementations.
Then there’s the issue of the complete lack of a good majority of higher level data structures that are commonly used across all kinds of software. Obvious sign that Go is half-baked and incomplete? I think so.
Then there’s the issue that, for some reason, Go includes some libraries within the standard library that don’t belong in the standard library! These implementations are quite awful, and have lead to many in the Go community to recommend to avoid using the libraries in the standard library, and to use superior alternatives from third party libraries. Another sign that Go is half-baked and incomplete? Definitely!
Go faces the same issue as Python, only it’s doing so right out of the box. Here you have a standard library that ships some libraries that should never have been included in the first place, but that Go will have to continue to support for the rest of it’s life. Third party libraries instead offer better libraries than what the standard library is providing, so a decent Go programmer will avoid using anything in the standard library.
And Go’s designers are already talking about a Go 2, so good luck porting all of your Go 1 software to Go 2! Go was not carefully designed or geared to be used in public, whereas Rust is. That’s why you have Go 2 now in development, whilst Rust’s designers will state that they have zero reasons to consider a Rust 2, because there are no critical issues to address that can’t already be addressed in a forward-compatible manner.
Then there’s the whole packaging issue. Go does not have an official package manager, nor does it handle semantic versioning. The best you get is directly embedding git URLs in your source code. This is inexcusable.
Joshua Brule on 2017-11-14 at 13:59:23 said:
Tangentially related:
We all know Greenspun’s 10th rule. In that vein, I’m looking forward to the ‘return of the lisp machine’ – presumably, all we need is an open-source, high performance, concurrent GC with guaranteed low enough latency, and then you could write the entire stack from kernel to userland in a suitable lisp.
I’ve been playing with a theory that I call “Greenspun’s 10th dual”: any sufficiently complicated static type system is an ad-hoc, inelegant, more difficult to use version of something from the ML family. So while I don’t agree, I think I understand why Go doesn’t have generics: they’re trying to avoid adding cruft to make sure Go’s type system doesn’t turn into something resembling C++ templates or Java 8.
As garbage collectors get better and better, I think there’s an opportunity for a high-performance language that no one (as far as I know) is seriously looking at: a systems-level ML language. Something with good concurrency primitives (probably CSP style), a straightforward module system, eager evaluation by default and enough of a ‘safety hatch’ to do the functionally-impure things that are necessary for low level programming.
Haskell’s lazy evaluation rules this out right away and I don’t think OCaml can be adapted either – the entire standard library is not thread safe (I think the reference implementation has a global interpreter lock). I think a problem is that a lot of academic work focuses on making 100% functionally pure programming languages; I don’t think 100% functional languages work too well in practice, but “85% purity” is pretty great.
(I know, I know. If I were serious about this idea, I should write some code instead of just talking about it.)
Garbage collectors are getting «better» at having shorter pauses, but in terms of efficiency you would need a major change at the CPU level… Might happen over time, just like CPU designs for decades adapted to existing C code. An oddity today is that C doesn’t match up so well to the hardware as it once did. So something new ought to come along at some point… but a more drastic change than Rust or Go.
Academic work focus on publishing papers, so such languages tend die from a lack of funding… but:
ML -> DependentML -> ATS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language)
You also have examples of refinement from Haskell to C:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kleing/papers/sosp09.pdf
Today you have to be an expert in formal methods to get it right, the tricky part is getting this into a form where it can be done by non-experts in reasonable time.
Emanuel Rylke on 2017-11-14 at 15:08:33 said:
The mill cpu will have some features to support the implementation of GCs. I expect that they will give a talk describing them somewhere in the next two years or so.
Sounds interesting! Hiding the cost of memory barriers is nontrivial, but probably doable if you choose a less intuitive memory model and architecture than x86. Might make low level programming harder, but that sounds like the right tradeoff when we look ahead…
spiralofhope on 2017-11-19 at 05:52:27 said:
a systems-level ML language
I really wish mythryl hadn’t died (literally)
This seems relevant:
A wider goal is to foster the development of a complete mostly-functional software ecology to eventually replace the current C-based open source software ecology, which is starting to smell distinctly “past pull date”. — Mythryx
.. the things I would do if the project was resurrected and I had a mentor (for a couple of decades). Alas, it’s not even 64bit-capable.
dak180 on 2017-11-14 at 14:26:17 said:
While Swift is not yet ready to be used as a system language now; since that is one of its stated goals, I would be interested in any thoughts both on where it is now and and where it might go in the future in this respect.
chuckbass on 2017-11-14 at 14:43:11 said:
> eventually we will have GC techniques with low enough latency overhead to be usable in kernels and low-level firmware, and those will ship in language implementations.
This hypothetical GC has been coming “real soon” since the LISP machines. I know of people that has been saying this for 20 years, and the only thing that has changed is that nowadays they can’t hold their poker face when I teld them “that’s exactly what you told me in 1995, what do you mean with _real soon_ ? In another 30 years? I’ll probably be dead by then” :D
> but too many strikes against you to beat Go over most of C’s range. No GC,
Wait what? If one could use a GC why would one be using C or C++ in the first place?
But from your article it seems that we cannot use a GC, or at least not one that introduce a cost.
So IIUC your assumption that Go is the right choice completely hangs from the hypothesis that the 40 year old promise of a zero-cost GC will become true “eventually”.
IMO your logic is then flawed. Go might be the right choice (or not) once its garbage collector becomes zero-cost. Until then, it is not even a language to consider for applications that cannot have a GC.
If right now I’ll had to spearhead a new boringly-coded high-erish performance large-scale application that can tolerate a GC, would I chose Go? I don’t know. There way to many boring languages with good GCs to choose from: Java, Kotlin, C#, Go, …
Cleverson on 2017-11-14 at 14:51:41 said:
So far, one thing that was never questioned is the von Neuman’s architecture itself. It’s already demonstrated that there can exist chips which execute high-level instructions without performance prejudice, contrary to the c-machines we have today. For an example of inspiring ideas on the topic, see:
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1361
as well as other posts at the same blog.
I suppose we could arrive at inspiring ideas by questioning the roundness or solidity of the Earth as well, but they won’t get anywhere. Those “inspiring ideas” sound like quite a bit of wanking without reference to real systems doing actual work. Show me a working general dataflow CPU architecture that doesn’t get mired in the sheer size and complexity of its own dependency graph, and I’ll start paying attention.
In the meantime, “C machines” won because they started trouncing Lisp machines in performance even while Lisp machines were commercially available. And CPU architectures and compiler technology have advanced to the point where Lisp code on a conventional arcitecture runs as fast as or faster than it would on a Lisp machine, even if you had a multi-gigahertz Lisp machine.
Another thing about “C machines” is that their instruction sets can encode assumptions and implement control structures that cannot be encoded or implemented in plain C. So “C machine” is a misnomer. You may as well call today’s computers “JavaScript machines”, since it seems that language will in due course dominate all others in terms of what gets run.
Nevertheless. Von Neumann is a Chesterton’s fence of computing: you will have to show us a good reason (as in real hardware doing actual work offering clear advantages) to remove it — and even then the economics may not favor displacing Von Neumann in all cases.
When discussing tools to get actual work done, mental masturbation about what could or might be is just hastening the heat death of the universe.
@Gregory Gelfond Is this an issue with particular kinds of operating systems (real-time for example, I can see this being an issue)?
I think there’s a fair bit of misunderstanding of “real-time”. This is generally parsed as “instantaneous response”, when the apparently correct definition is “guaranteed to respond within X period of time”, where X doesn’t have to be “instantaneously”. (It does still have to be a lot faster than acceptable response time for human operator.)
So whether the overhead of GC rules out a language for real time use may depend on the hardware it runs on and the number you need X to be. I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all answer to the question, though you can probably argue that you would like to avoid needing to do GC.
In DSP-land, “realtime” means only that you ensure that your output keeps pace with your input – even if there’s a buffer of seconds in between.
Well, I don’t know what the technical definition of “realtime” is. What I care about is that, when I see a scale reading cross a specific threshold, I am able to close the gate or valve to stop product flow in a short and repeatable time period. It needs to be significantly shorter than the fraction of a second an air-powered gate takes to close. The idea is that we need to be able to set an anticipation value – how much before the product’s desired quantity do we need to start stopping the flow – and when that value is set right, have the delivered product consistently be within tolerance of the requested amount.
A PC running Windows can’t do this. The response time is just too unpredictable. But we don’t have to be exact down to the microsecond, either.
My favorite example of hard real-time is hourly worker payroll.
Walter Bright on 2017-11-14 at 21:02:31 said:
The D programming language, with betterC, is now an excellent step up from C. It’s 100% open source and Boost licensed. It only needs the C runtime library. Program files can be mixed and matched C and D code. It’s easy to translate C code to betterC. And then you’ve got modules, nested functions, compile time function execution, purity, templates, array bounds checking, scoped pointers, and RAII (next release).
Lance Berc on 2017-11-14 at 22:31:47 said:
(A bit long – please bear with me)
A computer language (plus its runtime) is supposed to help translate our thoughts on an algorithm or process into something a computer can actually accomplish via its instruction set. C comes close to mimicking an LSI-11 instruction set, so it was great for low-level programming on DEC machines and later, with adequate compiler support, not so bad with other architectures.
As esr points out, it breaks at scale in two main areas, memory management (because it has none) and abstraction (because what it has is too low-level). The discipline needed to make it work in large projects requires either very good programmers that place cooperation above egotism or people management that enforces project members’ continued paychecks over egotism. Otherwise the egos win and one ends up with an inconsistent convoluted mess.
C++ tried to address these areas but did it in such a way that it became hard to reason about program behavior. It’s possible to write systems in C++ that would be much more difficult in C, but they tend to have even more obscure bugs that are even harder to find. The existence of large programs doesn’t mean the language was good, it just shows that with enough time, energy, and money Frankenstein can be debugged into existence – warts, bolts, jumper cables, and all. Look at the comments of the previous post: there’s still new production Fortran code being written in the weather forecasting biz and all it takes is a fat Government contract administered by a sleek, low-overhead outfit like Raytheon. That doesn’t make Fortran the future.
Kernels still do pretty much what they did in the 70s and 80s so C is still an ok answer there. Same for many near-kernel system services and apps. Go might be incrementally better, but is it worth the effort to replace existing debugged code? Duh.
But what apps do and the environment they run in have changed quite a bit, at least on servers. Everything is bigger (needs automated memory management), extensibile (needs a type system that prevents interface mis-match), and is concurrent; single threaded apps on multi-processor 2U boxes (native or in VMs/containers) can’t scale to use available resources and services that don’t run across multiple boxes don’t scale much further in addition to missing modern availability requirements. C and C++ fail spectacularly here – add locking and distributed RPC faults to poor error handling and you have a recipe for buggy software and long-term job security. Java hasn’t really moved the needle very far.
I don’t know if Go does enough to really help here but I don’t think so. It’s incremental improvement at best in an area that’s just fine to all but the cognoscenti. esr and you guys reading this are cognoscenti; the NCGs assigned to maintain large code bases as immigration projects are hoi polloi.
Rust and Scala seem to have help for objects and local concurrency as do functional languages like the ML family (including OCAML) and Forth (the assembly language of functional programming) but isn’t quite ready for prime time and I don’t think functional languages have passed the test of long-term maintenance at scale yet. Erlang is a stab at distribution and has certainly met some scale and maintenance tests but hasn’t been picked up by the community at large.
Some may claim that the programming language isn’t the place to look for help, but I disagree. If it can prevent language errors in the first place (memory management, type systems) and help me use available resources (concurrency), and deal with expected failure (distribution) then I want it in the flow of the program (my description of what should happen), not in some box bolted onto the side. And it has to be efficient, because I’ve only a few cycles to waste and no IO or memory.
So that’s where I’d look for action in the programming language field – not to improve C, an imperfect solution to yesterday’s problems; I want something that helps with apps that are big, distributed, concurrent, and efficient because those are the more important problems people are solving today and in the future.
bauss on 2017-11-14 at 23:56:52 said:
>The wrestling match between the official D library/runtime and Tango hurt it, too. It has never recovered from those mistakes.
Do you actually know what you’re talking about? The split was way too many years ago and has been recovered from since. In fact nobody is using Tango anymore, unless you’re stuck with D1, which barely anyone is.
Paul R on 2017-11-15 at 19:33:02 said:
Two points that are worth nothing, because I have no standing…
1. A language that requires precision about the entities you are handling and the methods you are calling, otherwise the build fails, seems incongruent with the whole concept of garbage collection. JavaScript, OK. Different assumption.
2. If you’re looking at future engineering of high performance applications do you create a new perfect language or do you go with the evolutionary approach. With multiple implementations across multiple platforms and a cross-industry committee that now seems on top of progress. Who wouldn’t want to be part of a new idealism? Yet Google just open-sourced millions of lines of C++ library code. Brave New World? Or standing on the shoulders of giants?
I like C++, but I wouldn’t go into battle for it. But I don’t see any actual need for anything else in the area from the metal up to Python or JavaScript. Go and similar overlap the junction, but without obviously justifying GC..
(Not sure it’s millions of lines, but certainly loads.)
Anything that involves maintaining a mutating graph justifies a GC from a maintenance POV. Without a GC you have to be careful which introduce design overhead that doesn’t really pay off. What C++ needs is some kind of local GC.
Go is a language with flaws, but having a tuned low latency GC is a big selling point that offsets its shortcomings.
I think can be reasonably straightforward within the language. Depending on the detail of course and especially if your structure has a lifetime and you can afford to wait until the end before cleaning up everything it has ever used. And whether those bits need actual destruction rather than simply returning resources to the OS.
And I see C++ has a garbage collector interface, but doesn’t supply an implementation as standard. Didn’t know that…. I guess this is because the people who would routinely use it would simply dig themselves into deeper holes than they do already, but there is a practical use case, especially in a typically crufty code base that is already leaking.
Yes, you can write your own reference type and keep tabs on them and use that for pointer tracing, with some overhead.
But a language solution would be more efficient if it at compile time can statically reduce the memory regions it has to go through to find pointers into a specific heap. So it needs type system support and maybe complicated pointer analysis to cover the general case. And some runtime support. But it would involve some possibly draconian constraints on where pointers to a specific heap can be stored… Reasonable for C++, but not for a high level language.
Kirk Hawley on 2017-11-30 at 16:43:26 said:
C++ HAS some kind of local GC – local variables on the stack. If you can’t do most of your allocations on the stack, you have design issues.
Research is productive work.
Bahaha… you obviously haven’t seen most computer-science research. Sturgeon’s Law applies without question, and it’s not hard to identify 80% of the “crap” portion. A large part of my reason for dropping CS grad school was the “infosec” professor who spent two weeks going through SET, insisting that this was how you actually bought things online. Similar detachment from reality was rampant.
On the other hand, open-source collaborations, groups like Sun’s Java team, and (as much as it pains me to say it) Microsoft Research have been making major strides in solving real problems relating to both computing and programming.
Garrett on 2017-11-16 at 12:38:21 said:
Oh. Oh, dear.
Software engineering is an engineering discipline. Just because people are allowed to attempt to build a doghouse without education doesn’t mean that we let the untrained free with I-beams to build sky-scrapers. Complaining that it’s possible to screw up with C++ is like complaining that it’s possible to screw up with dynamite. Lots of power, but nobody uses picks any more to carve through mountains when building freeways, either. Another example: it’s like writing off all firearms owners because of the sample shown on TV.
C++ provides a whole host of options available that C just doesn’t work for. It allows for the compiler to handle all sorts of validations automatically which aren’t really possible with naked C. For example, the STL iterator model makes it very easy for safe data access to different containers, all of which have been independently tested, and which concurrently provide bare-metal performance.
Another is the ability to use virtual classes to provide mocks and fakes for writing unit tests. It’s very hard to be able to write methods/modules/libraries in C which are supposed to operate against external I/O (whether it be network RPCs or worse, databases) which can be easily substituted for validation. But subclassing an interface allows you to use eg. an Oracle database for production but a lightweight in-memory database for unit tests just by changing the database object you pass in. Error injection is also made much easier. As exemplified in GoogleMock
My 10+ year career has mostly involved codebases with 1000+ people working on them. C++ makes using, and more importantly, re-using and testing them much easier. It’s the raw C code where I find the worst hacks, trying to get some of the features provided for with C++ without having the compiler to actually do the work reliably/safely for you. I find that it’s the larger codebases where the better interface design/description/clarity starts to outpace the initial overhead of understanding the additional overhead introduced by C++. For small projects, it’s probably irrelevant (until you need something which can easily be provided by an STL container at which point you should just use that).
I suspect that many of the C projects haven’t converted to C++ purely out of bigotry. The C++98 standard (from 19 years ago) required a fair bit more verbosity of scoping to be used which some might consider ugly, though this has been substantially reduced. The Linux kernel went out of its way to prevent any C++ from being used.
That’s all good, but C++ as it stands makes incremental learning difficult. In meta programming there are like 10 different ways to do the same thing, of which 1 or 2 are commendable. Slashdot is nearly useless because most of the advice there is either outdated, wrong or nonidiomatic. So that leaves us with cppreference.com as the only reliable source… And the insanely long list of C++ Core Guidelines… C++ is the better upgrade path from C, but it sure still is in need of a make over.
Complaining that it’s possible to screw up with C++ is like complaining that it’s possible to screw up with dynamite.
Rust is existence proof that a language that can get down to C++ levels of nitty-gritty can also be approached safely by n00bs. “If you don’t know how to use the language properly, you deserve to have your totin’ chip taken away” doesn’t hold water as an argument. Requiring conscientious use not to blow up spectacularly in your face is a language design fail.
Of course, it could then be argued that the absence of conscientiousness is evidence of a poor engineering mindset ;P
Bad code monkey blame toolz
Alpheus on 2018-06-26 at 16:14:09 said:
I’m actually kindof tired of this statement. Sure, it’s true that a good craftsman can do anything with any tool, and sometimes a craftsman doesn’t get to choose the tools available to use. However, a good craftsman also understands that you use the right tool for the job — and that if you have to use a lesser tool, it’s going to make the task that much more difficult.
And some tools are no longer used, because not only are they inherently dangerous, but there are better tools available now: they can be safer to use, or perhaps allow you to do more — or both. A modern carpenter would be silly not to use power tools nowadays — both because most of them make the work a lot easier, and some of them (despite the dangers they present, being powered) are ultimately safer to use as well.
And thus it is with computer languages. After all, how many of us elect to use INTERCAL or Br**nfudge for production code? These tools are useful, but only in showing just how mind-bendingly painful “Turing complete” can be.
And it’s perfectly fine make the case that languages like C++, Perl, and PHP have their place, which places being niches in a museum with shiny brass plaques explaining their historical importance.
Zygo on 2017-11-17 at 11:25:15 said:
The Linux kernel started with C++, but by 1993 Linus gave up on seriously trying to use it. In 1998 ksymoops stopped being a C++ program.
There was once a time when every few thousand lines of C++ code routinely tripped over a crash-the-compiler bug in GCC (or worse–it might have produced a binary, and then run into all the runtime library’s problems). I remember struggling through that myself in the mid to late 1990’s. It was possible to write C++ programs that worked, but you wouldn’t want to bet money on them working across multiple compiler versions or runtime environments.
C++ has finally caught up (at least to the point where the runtime or compiler aren’t the first things that are going to crash any more), but in the Linux kernel there is a different situation now: having two languages (and two–or at least N+1–toolchains) for kernel development is a serious maintenance challenge, one that is arguably even worse than using C as the only language.
> Sorry, Rustaceans – you’ve got a plausible future in kernels and deep firmware, but too many strikes against you to beat Go over most of C’s range. No GC …. Where’s my select(2) again?
“No GC”. Of course there is. It is decided at compile time for 95% of the objects or more, because the type system tracks ownership and lifetime of objects. Most data structures tend not to be complicated, and are in-fact tree-shaped, not graphs. For the few cases (relatively) speaking (such as compilers) where DAGs are required, the shared nodes can be under the aegis of a ref-counted node; the count management is _managed by the compiler_. In all cases, the compiler is aware of memory and where it needs to be deallocated.
Have you seen the Rayon library? It uses the facit that the compiler is aware of lifetimes to work with pointers to stack allocated objects in other threads. Fearless concurrency is now the new watchword.
select(2). Why? epoll is so much better. Have you seen mio, a Rustified libev?
https://github.com/carllerche/mio
Go is primitive but fun,and its libraries and tooling are excellent. However, their shared memory concurrency behaviour is no better than Java. Miss a mutex lock and wonder what went wrong.
No, ref-counting does not catch cycles. That’s why people developed GCs over 50 years ago in the first place! ;-)
Sounds like you are pretty well behind on the capabilities of reference counting if you think that they can’t be used for cyclic data structures. Rust uses both lifetime annotations, as well as the generic Rc/RefCell/Arc wrapper types to solve this problem. See The Book[1]. There’s also the Learing Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists[2] tutorial series.
With an advanced understanding of lifetimes, you can construct graph data structures that contain fields with differing lifetime annotations, to signal to the compiler that the lifetime of each reference is different from the lifetime of the structure as a whole, and other references.
Yet you can also easily avoid writing these kinds of data structures if you take a step back and look at techniques like ECS.
[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html
[2] http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/README.html
Sigh. No. There are (academic) solutions for catching cycles with refcounting, but they have been benchmarked as slower than using rc + tracing gc. And Rust doesnt provide them either…
[GC] is decided at compile time for 95% of the objects or more, because the type system tracks ownership and lifetime of objects. Most data structures tend not to be complicated, and are in-fact tree-shaped, not graphs.
I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. Yet you erroneously think you can speak for me and the programs I write. This is bullshit.
Yes, most application models are graphs, even tree stuctures like the HTML DOM is a graph…
>Most data structures tend not to be complicated, and are in-fact tree-shaped, not graphs. For the few cases (relatively) speaking (such as compilers) where DAGs are required, the shared nodes can be under the aegis of a ref-counted node; the count management is _managed by the compiler_.
I missed this silly claim earlier.
My code manipulates DAGs routinely – reposurgeon is only the best known example. I’m actually drawn to that kind of work by my math background; I like thinking about graph-structure transformations.
So what you’re telling me is that the Rust ownership model is inadequate for one of the kinds of programming I’m most interested in. I’m guessing this is not the information you intended to convey.
I’ve heard warning about trying to do code with graphs in Rust before, and a search turned up this. I’ve only scanned it thus far, but if I understand what I’ve read so far correctly, Rust’s ownership model isn’t easily compatible with graphs, because graphs have properties that are in conflict with it. I’ve not read all the way through yet, so I don’t understand the suggested remedy.
I don’t think that I’m into graph programming natively, but graphs struck me as the best way to model part of a project idea I’d had — routing data between sources and sinks in a real-time audio system. I was kinda excited about Rust, and was considering using it when I attempted to tackle said project, as I learn better when I have a thing I want to make. But if Rust isn’t suitable for dealing with graphs, well, damnit. Back to attempting to build everything myself from scratch with nothing but C’s raw pointers, and all the footguns that entails.
I am also into a bit of audio programming. Dataflow graphs are very common. Just look at Apple’s AudioUnit system or good old CSound’s internals. While you don’t necessarily need a cyclic graph, you usually want back pointers even in acyclic graphs for various reasons (either convenience or performance). Also if you do something feedback-like with wave-guides cycles will arise… The Rust people in this thread has already suggested a component model as a solution. Component based modelling was a business-oriented decoupling/reuse buzzword 15 years ago. So what they essentially want you to do is to replace your pointers with integers… and some indirections… Rust people: yes, we know that we can use array indices instead of pointers… but that just means that we have bypassed the type system and essentially have switched from a well-typed referential type to an essentially untyped referential type. Which you of course can remedy by wrapping the array indexes/integer identities in yet another nominal type… but geez… A language is supposed to support the implementation of a natural model for a program, not force an unnatural structure with arbitrary indirections onto your model just to satisfy a type system…
Here’s an example of a cyclic graph with pointers and _semantic_ cycles.
https://gist.github.com/sriram-srinivasan/05e781ef5f015bf6758222eebdf35824
Here’s an example of a cyclic graph with direct pointers, and ref counting. Note that one doesn’t have to worry about collecting the memory, the point that started this thread.
https://gist.github.com/sriram-srinivasan/517fe37c607099f6ae0c5d1cedde3556
The graph is readonly for the most part, but allows key-hole surgery. Again, there’s no issue of forgetting to decr the ref count or incrementing the ref count. The compiler will handle the former, and remind you about the latter.
(Also, see my reply to esr elsewhere).
The graph is readonly for the most part, but allows key-hole surgery.
Talking about semantics…
“readonly for the most part” is either meaningless, or needs to be parsed so finely that thinking about it would give me a headache, and having to program to that model — well, I’m sure I’ve done worse, but why would I subject myself to that if I didn’t have to?
I mean that by default it is readonly, and the values can be safely accessed without further ado as if it were a direct pointer.
But if you wish to mutate some internal value, you have to write some extra code to borrow it for writing purposes (requesting a write capability), and make that change. If you consider mutation and alienability to be a dangerous combination (as I do), this keeps a tight rein on things. You’ll be able to make a change only if the pointer is not shared with other consumers.
> The Rust people in this thread has already suggested a component model as a solution. Component based modelling was a business-oriented decoupling/reuse buzzword 15 years ago. So what they essentially want you to do is to replace your pointers with integers… and some indirections…
I would have hoped that you would have realized that pointers are also integers… and therefore pointer dereferencing is also…. an indirection!
Now imagine that you have your cyclic data structure where you need to derefence 10 pointers to get to the data you need, whereas an ECS model with components only needs 1 level of indirection!
> A language is supposed to support the implementation of a natural model for a program, not force an unnatural structure with arbitrary indirections onto your model just to satisfy a type system…
Well guess what? Graph data structures are entirely unnatural structures for hardware to work with, and they are incredibly inefficient. They are littered with arbitrary hierarchy of indirections.
There’s good reason why basically all AAA games today are being created with ECS models, instead of OOP models with graph data structures. Graph data structures are incredibly dangerous, and highly inflexible. It’s why most complex software written in C and C++ has remained to be single-threaded. Newer software and games written with ECS models, on the other hand, lead to incredibly flexible architectures that can be made massively parallel.
Games isn’t really the right place to look for wisdom. 1. They don’t have the life expectancy of real world application. 2. They can change the design spec to fit the hardware limits. 3. Failure is inconsequential.
90% of the development of a real world application happens AFTER deployment. So you better be prepared for change.
No, direct pointers are not indirections as such and more importantly they are usually statically typed which is very useful in a graph with many heterogeneous nodes like the high level audio data-flow graphs we are talking about here. These are big nodes that basically carry the equivalent of an oscillator or filter each. And each node has a different size so goodbye to your array of nodes. You need indirections if you use an array.
You’d be surprised. Most games these days are backed by the same game engines, which have had to adopt techniques like ECS because they have to support thousands of games and game developers, and to keep up the pace with hardware improvements and graphics API changes. That’s not an easy feat.
Rust’s ownership model is certainly compatible with graphs — you just have to model them in such a way to avoid pointer cycles. For example, have a vector of nodes and a vector of edges that reference the nodes by index. This complicates and slows down inserting or removing a node or edge, but those operations are usually less frequent than traversing the graph anyway. You can get some simplicity back by using a hashmap of nodes, each with a unique name, and having the edges reference the nodes by name rather than by index.
I assume you are talking about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_list
That’s all fine for a very limited set of usecases where you deal with very uniform mathematical graph and a fixed requirement spec. It is no good when you want to support the implementation of a model that match the hardware.
The main challenge is to come up with a model that match the hardware and cachelines, if you also have to match the programming language then you have one ball to many to juggle. Substructural type systems and recursive structures are all good, for high level coding, but it predominantly forces you down the lane of a structure that suggest a functional implementation strategy, not iterative imperative programming.
>Rust’s ownership model is certainly compatible with graphs — you just have to model them in such a way to avoid pointer cycles
What Ola Fosheim Grøstad said. You’re telling me I have to use an overcomplicated, unnatural data representation that is going raise my expected downstream rare and like it because Rust is orgasms and rainbows. Nope.
Unnatural to whom? On modern CPUs, linked data structures are unnatural and you will suffer a huge slowdown by using them. It is a pearl of C++ wisdom to always prefer vectors to linked lists, because the latter force more accesses to main memory. The benefits to be had by keeping everything in cache as much as possible far exceed even the losses from having to copy every element from n+1 to the end of the list to insert an element at index n, for realistic list sizes.
If you’re going to be working at that level, you will have to choose your data representations carefully anyway — and the obvious choice may not be the right one. Game programmers learned this the hard way in the 90s.
But realistically, you would be using a crate that provides graphs as an abstract type and not have to worry about the implementation at the data-representation level at all.
If you’re going to be working at that level,
A big assumption. The programs that esr are talking about don’t necessarily need to work at that level.
Game programmers in the 90s were predominantly young and selfeducated… Eventually game programmers rediscovered some basic strategies from array processing and HPC… Good for them, but their ignorance doesnt mean that rest of us are… Your “advice” is wasted without a context.
Of course you can do DAGs. The Rust compiler needs it, so we need look no further for examples.
My point with the “95%” is two fold.
Look at the large number of programs that work with simple values, hash tables and arrays (pretty much all enterprise apps, web apps, data analyses, etc) … that’s what I mean by tree-shaped. It is not to say that 95% of _your_ apps are like that; mine aren’t either.
Where we do need DAGs or graphs with cycles, there are a large number of graph representations possible that play with memory differently. For example, here’s one example (in Rust) of a graph that has cycles. Nodes don’t point to each other; edges contain pointers to nodes. But the cycles are semantic. All one needs to do is to convince the compiler that the nodes will not be deallocated before the edges (that’s what the lifetime annotation ‘a is for). The Rust compiler emits code to automatically deallocate all objects at the end of scope. Here the objects are on the stack, but with a little change, could be heap allocated as well. No matter.
If we wish to represent a graph with mutability and direct pointers the way one is used to in C++/Java, we must suffer additional syntactic burden, where instead of ‘Node’ you’d pass around Rc, which wraps a node with a refcount. Note that the compiler still emits code for automatically decrementing the refcount.
The point is there are many “container types” (such as Rc) that give you different levels of static and runtime guarantees. In all cases, the compiler takes care of deallocation. It is true that Rc _can_ create cycles, but there are standard patterns to avoid it, and a number of other Rust-specific mechanisms as well (weakref, for example). It doesn’t seem to be a worry in practice.
That said, one does have to expend the mental energy for lifetimes, which is not something one ordinarily does in Go and Java. Or so it seems. The underlying problem — that of aliasing combined with mutability — is a fundamental one, particularly with concurrency, and especially so for library writers — who owns the objects returned by a library function, or by an iterator. You have to do the same lifetime and mutability thinking with ordinary GC’d languages as well. Except you get no compiler support, so you resort to conservative approaches like cloning objects (“just in case”)
I think we have different ideas about what low level programming is. Java isn’t it. Go isn’t it either, but Go is useful for writing smaller services that benefit from a GC and doesn’t need in memory caching. Maybe there is a 10-20% penalty in time and up to 100% overhead in space by using Go over C, but that’s ok if you do caching in another process. C++ is not great for writing full applications, but is currently the best alternative for the computational engine of an application. Rust currently seems to be best suited for things where I’ll gladly take a 30-40% penalty in time an 100% penalty in space to get a GC and high level semantics.
I agree with you, believe it or not. If Nim had its concurrency story straight, I’d prefer it to C/C++. For all IO-related stuff, I’d rather deal with Go or Python.
I think Rust’s core competence is in building concurrency-heavy applications that require fine-grained parallelism and complicated data structures — operating systems, browsers, databases and possibly games. That’s low-level _and_ error-prone.
For databases distribution seems to be more important than local performance.
For OS full verification and refinement seems like the only viable future.
For high level concurrency and protocols, again verification is around the corner.
So maybe Rust has something going for low level concurrency, but there no overhead is acceptable and lock free strategies are the ideal, so not sure how Rust will fare there either in the long run, but we’ll see. Rust is an interesting language, but one of many interesting languages.
Distribution is important no doubt, but performance is still non-negotiable.
Verification depends on all kinds of assumptions; the wider the assumptions, the worse the post-hoc verification gets. I have the scars from working with Coq and separation logic, where there are no aliasing guarantees in the code.
Given a constraint from the Rust compiler on separating aliasing and mutation, the job of a verifier is considerably simplified on that count. So I’d much prefer a verifier, or a process like IronFleet, but on Rust code. For some systems, of course. Otherwise, it is all a bit too much :)
Responsiveness is apparently more important than absolute performance when people are willing to write distributed databases in Erlang… It is basically a trade off between correctness, development cost, maintenance costs and running costs… You need a very large deployment to justify optimizing for the hardware, the hardware also changes every 2-4 years or so. So “optimal performance” isn’t a one time investment it is an expensive long term commitment. Are you willing to implement your indexes on GPUs or FPGAs? Because that is what you have to do to get performance out of contemporary hardware… So performance is very much negotiable. Always have been, always will be.
For operating systems I think refinement is the most obvious verification solution. You can have specialists on both the high level, the verification work (proving correspondence between the high level spec and the low level implementation) and the low level concrete code. Actually, OS development is one of the few areas of software development where it makes sense to let experts in formal methods run the process.
Let me expand a bit on this. I grew up with the C64. The 6510 is a very simple and predictable CPU. In the late 80s we thought we had seen the limits of this machine and what could be achieved with it in machine language. Turned out we were wrong. People have since then continued to explore how to get the most out of it for decades and some of the current demonstrations blows what was done in the 80s out of the water. So much for performance not being negotiable… We are nowhere near the limits of current hardware… Getting there is waaay to expensive and time consuming.
In every era, maximum performance is what has been widely accepted. It may not have endured, but slow stuff doesn’t get out of the gate.
There are exactly two databases written in/for Erlang: mnesia and Riak. They are negligibly used in production. Riak wrapped up months ago.
For low-level stuff, you want tight control over memory layout and usage. ;that’s where the performance gains are.
Sriram Srinivasan. No, not really. Performance should always be viewed in relation to a baseline. But acceptance is a psychological dimension related to customer expectations. For many end users performance is evaluated in terms of PERCEIVED latency, not in terms of throughput. And for many businesses firing up a few more instances is a negliable cost compared to paying someone to optimize the software… So easy scaling and latency are the more important dimensions IMO… Absolute performance, not so much.
I agree that there is a level of “good enough” performance, at which point attention goes to other aspects … maintainability, hirability, scalability, energy usage etc. When I say performance, I mean it as the 99.xx percentile user experience.
Of course, people turn to adding more instances when there’s more work than compute capacity. But given a choice of two products/approaches where one runs faster and hence requires fewer servers, people go for that. This is the exact reason people are moving from Python/Ruby to Go, not because Go is more fun to program in, and why Dropbox moved a lot of performance-critical work from Go to Rust. Performance is the reason why although cockroachdb has most of its upper level code in Go, its storage engine is RocksDB (C++).
Perhaps you have read the “Scalability! At what COST!” paper, for why “scalability” for large-scale graph analyses is a false metric. There are some published algorithms of analyses done on 100s of cores that this paper handles with a sequential algorithm on a single core. The latter is faster _and simpler_, because it avoids coordination. The message of the paper, as we both agree, is quickness of user-perceived result.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/mcsherry
(The implementation of this and other papers of frank mcsherry (in Rust) is on his GitHub repo.)
I wouldn’t use Rust for most of my work (networked servers, applications), but where it is a mixture of high performance and concurrency, it would be my choice.
Yes, one doesnt pick the slower alternative if they otherwise have similar qualities. But I’ll take the one with slow writes as long as it has nippy and solid queues (eventual consistency). Anyway, most regular databases now fit in RAM, so I think programmer culture is lagging behind hardware in their preferences and how they think about storage…
I think Go isn’t so much replacing Python as it is used in addition to it, taking over in areas where performance got more important. Python is a more productive environment than Go, but dynamic typing is an issue… But then you have gravity. Python is the only language where I always find an existing solution/library to a problem I encounter,,,
Michael Aaron Murphy, while I can admire and often respect ardent passion, you’re starting to grate on me. Your posts here were reminding me of xkcd #386 even a couple days ago. If Rust truly is the ne plus ultra of modern systems programming languages, wouldn’t your time be more enjoyable and better spent using it to get shit done, rather than preaching at the unenlighted heathen barbarians?
>wouldn’t your time be more enjoyable and better spent using it to get shit done, rather than preaching at the unenlighted heathen barbarians?
You don’t understand the personality type you’re dealing with. Santayana: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
I think it mostly is youngsters… They are trying to teach others stuff that they have recently discovered, but that we have internalized and take for granted… (As if anyone interested in low level programming needs a schooling in prefetching, keeping caches warm etc)
Who says one cannot have time to comment here and write a lot of software? I have made major strides with Rust in a number of different areas, from systems-level software in developing a next-generation system shell with superior performance to Dash[1], to a variety of GTK desktop applications[2], a GTK Rust tutorial series that’s currently a WIP[3], distributed computing client/servers[4][5], full stack web development stuff, a handful of random crates, and contributions to several projects (such as parallel command execution in fd[6]). All open source, and largely within the span of the last year. What have you been doing with your time?
[1] https://github.com/redox-os/ion/
[2] https://github.com/mmstick?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=GTK&type=public&language=
[3] https://mmstick.github.io/gtkrs-tutorials/
[4] https://github.com/mmstick/concurr
[5] https://github.com/mmstick/parallel
[6] https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/
Rod Chapman on 2017-11-20 at 12:17:31 said:
Have you (or your Cx-designing friend) come across SPARK – the Ada subset? it’s statically type-safe, and has the runtime performance of C. It’s used on some seriously critical stuff like air-traffic control, and the EuroFighter Typhoon. See http://www.spark-2014.org/about
Uristqwerty on 2017-11-26 at 18:10:13 said:
I wonder is one reason for C’s lingering use might be the distant possibility of bootstrapping. Most higher-level languages have some sort of dependency on C, so it could be imagined that if your tool didn’t need anything more advanced, it might be ported early on, so later tools can rely on its existence. That might also explain a significant chunk of build script cruft. Too much dreaming of unlikely just-in-cases to trim code paths that will never be needed anymore.
I can tell you that this is not the reason for C’s lingering use. C is not required to bootstrap an OS. Rust on Redox, for example, has zero dependency on C. Only itself. You’ll find C on Linux systems simply because Linux is written in C. Whereas C on Redox has to go through Rust, so the tables are turned.
I was thinking less about creating a new OS and more about porting Linux to a new platform. Unless you were going to cross-compile everything, keeping most of the classic Unix tools in C would make it that much easier to have a basic working system to build everything else on. I don’t think many people do that sort of thing anymore, if ever, but I think that the mere possibility that it might happen is one of the factors making it less likely for those classic tools to upgrade to a non-C language.
Increasing processing power and gradually improving tools make it a mostly irrelevant point now, outside of the rare occasion that someone chooses the inconvenience deliberately. But I think “this is a basic Unix tool, I want to keep dependencies (and especially dependency loops) low” will keep the default implementations on C for more decades to come.
> I was thinking less about creating a new OS and more about porting Linux to a new platform.
I’m not sure I understand the point. Rather than porting an existing monolithic kernel, why not do as Redox and create a next-gen microkernel to compete against Linux?
> Unless you were going to cross-compile everything, keeping most of the classic Unix tools in C would make it that much easier to have a basic working system to build everything else on.
We already have all of the ‘classic UNIX tools’ written in Rust from scratch, so there’s no need for C there. You can use them on Linux and Redox[1].
> I don’t think many people do that sort of thing anymore, if ever, but I think that the mere possibility that it might happen is one of the factors making it less likely for those classic tools to upgrade to a non-C language.
You’d be surprised.
> Increasing processing power and gradually improving tools make it a mostly irrelevant point now
Processors actually haven’t been getting much faster for some time now. It used to be that processors were getting major performance improvements every two years. Now they are basically stagnating with the same IPC, and increasing core counts instead. C is ill-equipped for writing highly parallel software architectures, and so that’s where Rust comes in. What was impossible to scale to multiple cores by human hands in C & C++ is now being done successfully with Rust in practice today[2].
> But I think “this is a basic Unix tool, I want to keep dependencies (and especially dependency loops) low” will keep the default implementations on C for more decades to come.
See [1]. There’s no reason for C to continue it’s existence from this point on. It’s up to you on whether or not you want to stick with a dying language though.
[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C - R- Pakistan Daily Roznama
Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C – JeffPerales.com
All general-purpose tracing GCs force you to make tradeoffs between latency, throughput, and memory overhead. Go has focused on minimizing latency at the expense of the rest; in particular, with the default value of GOGC, your heap memory usage will be about double the size of your live objects — i.e. about double the memory that a C or Rust version would use. There is no reason to believe any breakthrough is looming which allows these tradeoffs to be avoided; we haven’t seen one in the 40+ years of GC research so far.
But GC isn’t just a performance issue. One of the great things about C is that you can write a library that people can use from other languages via FFI. Go and other GC languages are not suitable for this because if the other language can’t use the same GC, at best someone has to write complex rooting logic at the boundaries, but more likely they just can’t use your library. On other other hand Rust can be used for these libraries; for example, see Federico Mena Quintero’s work on incrementally improving librsvg using Rust.
It’s also worth pointing out that Rust offers important safety benefits that Go doesn’t — data-race freedom, prevention of “single-threaded races” like iterator invalidation bugs, catching integer overflows in debug builds, stronger static typechecking with generics, etc.
Go certainly has a large niche. If you’re writing an application and you don’t need top-of-the-line performance or safety, it’s a fine choice. Rust’s niche is also quite large though, and it’s getting larger as the language and libraries evolve.
>Go has focused on minimizing latency at the expense of the rest; in particular, with the default value of GOGC, your heap memory usage will be about double the size of your live objects — i.e. about double the memory that a C or Rust version would use.
I think this is an excellent trade. It uses more of a resource that is cheap and still getting cheaper to minimize use of a resource that has stopped getting cheaper.
>Go and other GC languages are not suitable for this because if the other language can’t use the same GC, at best someone has to write complex rooting logic at the boundaries, but more likely they just can’t use your library
That is true, and a real problem. It remains to be seen whether it weighs heavily enough against the advantages of GC and low inward transition costs to scupper Go-like approaches.
Whether it’s a good trade-off depends on the project. For projects where you don’t have a huge number of users and you don’t face competition from alternative implementations which avoid GC overhead — or if memory pressure is insignificant enough to be a non-issue — it’s often a good trade-off. But for commodity software like a Web browser, saying “we use double the memory of the competition — but our development was quicker and RAM is cheap!” doesn’t go well.
> It remains to be seen whether it weighs heavily enough against the advantages of GC and low inward transition costs to scupper Go-like approaches.
AFAICT it weighs heavily enough for now that no-one is even trying to introduce GC languages in libraries to be used from other languages.
>but our development was quicker
That wouldn’t be the pitch. Lower defect rate due to no manual memory management errors would be the pitch.
Unfortunately it’s hard to get users to care about that. And if you’re competing against Rust, it won’t be true.
>Unfortunately it’s hard to get users to care about that. And if you’re competing against Rust, it won’t be true.
But normal users don’t give a shit about memory usage either, not on 2017 hardware.
Michael Brazier on 2017-11-27 at 19:44:30 said:
Well, they care about memory leaks, because those will eventually crash the app. But memory leaks are the problem garbage collection is designed to solve.
Except a large number of users do care about memory usage in a world that’s now littered with bloated desktop applications consuming gobs of memory, and where not even 8GB of RAM is enough for basic desktop usage.
> not on 2017 hardware
Most people aren’t buying desktops with 16-64 GB of RAM. A lot of us are also purchasing simple, energy-efficient laptops with 4GB of RAM. I even develop from a budget laptop even though I have a much more powerful desktop, and memory usage is quite important to keep my dev environment running.
steve heller on 2017-11-28 at 08:53:20 said:
I have 32 GB of RAM on this machine that I built a month or two ago.
I care about memory usage because Mozilla’s memory use grows continuously, to the point that I have to restart it every few hours if I have a lot of tabs open.
I know how to fix that. All they have to do is to use a variable-length-string-capable virtual memory library like the one I have written in (of course) C++.
Then all of their data could be paged to and from backing store as necessary, without their having to manage it manually.
“What works for a Steve Heller (my old friend and C++ advocate) doesn’t scale up when I’m dealing with multiple non-Steve-Hellers and might end up having to clean up their mess. ”
Application programmers often don’t understand how to create reusable abstractions.
Fortunately in C++ that isn’t necessary, because library designers like myself can (and should) do the heavy lifting.
Let me design and implement the classes needed by the application programmers, and they won’t have to worry about misusing memory and other resources.
Of course this is not possible in C because it is impossible to create abstractions that take care of these issues.
(Note that I’m referring to applications, not system programming, which is a different beast that I haven’t spent much time doing.)
>(Note that I’m referring to applications, not system programming, which is a different beast that I haven’t spent much time doing.)
OK, Steve, trust me on this, you already thought like a pretty damn good systems programmer in 1980. :-)
Thanks, I appreciate that!
On a somewhat related note, I have a C++ library that I have been working on since before we met that allows access to an enormous amount of data, whether fixed- or variable-size.
If you are accessing fixed-size data sequentially or nearly sequentially, it can read or write at speeds of 1 GB/second with an NVMe SSD with “get/put” functions. If you are doing random access, or aren’t concerned about maximum speed in the sequential case, you can just say “x[i] = y;” and the library takes care of the rest.
(BTW, earlier versions of this library have been written in several other languages, C being the previous one.)
>Thanks, I appreciate that!
Actually, in 1980 you already had most of the mental habits of a good systems programmer and I didn’t yet – you just weren’t very conscious or articulate about them. Over the next decade I had a couple of “Oh, so that’s what Steve meant!” moments as I was growing into the role.
The list of people who taught me important things (whether they intended to or not) when I was a progamming n00b is not a long one. You’re on it.
Anthony Williams on 2017-11-28 at 11:29:53 said:
Like a good number of C developers who may have used C++ in the past, and haven’t kept up with the latest developments, you are underestimating the benefits of C++.
One of the key benefits as a systems programming language is the performance — the performance if well-written C++ code is hard to match in other languages, and it can even edge out C in many cases, due to the additional information available to the compiler for optimizations, including guaranteed compile-time constant expression evaluation. constexpr functions provide a lot of scope for evaluating things at compile time that would otherwise have required a separate configuration process to be run at compile time, or runtime evaluation.
Secondly, C++ has the many ways to express zero-overhead abstractions. This eliminates a lot of errors, because the code can force compilation errors on incorrect uses, and libraries can take care of things like managing memory and non-memory resources such as sockets and file handles. You don’t need a general-purpose GC when you have deterministic destruction and guaranteed resource cleanup. Many bugs that are commonplace in C code just can’t happen in well-written C++, and the source code is shorter and clearer to boot.
There is an increasingly powerful set of tools for analyzing C++, and migrating code to use more modern (and better) replacements for older error-prone constructs. e.g. clang-tidy
The C++ Core Guidelines (http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines) also provide a lot of guidance on how to write good C++, and the guideline support library (https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL) provides a set of useful library facilities to make this easier. Compilers and code analysis tools are adding automated checks to confirm adherence to the Core Guidelines.
C++ is an evolving language. When new languages come with useful facilities, we look at how those facilities can be incorporated into C++ in a clean fashion.
The upgrade path from C is almost non-existent — most C can be recompiled as C++ with only minor changes (e.g. adding casts to malloc calls). Then you can use the tool support to migrate your code to better C++, e.g replacing malloc and free calls with use of containers such as std::vector or std::string, or std::unique_ptr or std::shared_ptr for single objects.
There is a fairly long learning curve for programmers to get up to speed on C++, as it is a large and complicated language that has more than one way to do many things.
But if you do learn how to use it properly, it is unmatched in versatility and performance.
>But if you do learn how to use it properly, it is unmatched in versatility and performance.
Yeah, the problem is still that “if”. In the hands of people less competent and dedicated than you, C++ becomes a defect horror-show – I learned this the hard way by having to clean up one of the resulting messes. If that weren’t so, Google wouldn’t have had to fund Go development.
I’m glad you showed up to represent, though. Where are you living these days?
vasko on 2017-11-28 at 11:36:03 said:
“At which point you have a bug which, because of over-layers of gnarly complexity such as STL, is much more difficult to characterize and fix than the equivalent defect in C.”
finally someone to admit it.
Nirav Faldu on 2017-11-29 at 13:48:09 said:
Hmm.. Good point. But you are missing 1 thing. Go and Rust are made to and specifically made to replace C and not C++. They are very similar with C with of course no Mem management (with GC) and other excellent inbuilt networking libs. Bravo. But but but, they can’t possible replace C++ as they are not meant to be.
If you look at Go and Rust performance wise, they are even slower then C# and Java, let aside C or C++. So if you have a security critical program or a legacy program written in C, they are best candidate to be switched over to Go or Rust.
How can you dream of getting 60+ FPS using Go or Rust in a games like Assassins creed Origins on a finite hardware like PS4/X1, that is impossible except C/C++.
So again for real time applications/games, C++ is not going to go anywhere. And probably Linus will not allow to write Linux kernel using Go, Neither MSFT will think of picking up poorly performing Go to write their Windows kernel, nor JVM will ever be written anything other then C.
But yes, we can still keep dreaming of a better and a secure language.
Also, in language charts all over the world, C/C++ has consistently been on top and improving(only after Java) and at the same time once Go seemed to pick up but it is falling again.
Some links :
https://jabroo.blogspot.in/2012/08/c-plus-plus-applications-list.html
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=go&lang2=gcc
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=go&lang2=gpp
https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=csharpcore&lang2=go
Chris Dodd on 2017-11-29 at 13:50:34 said:
I find it interesting that your critique of C++ matches up precisely with my own experiences … with Python.
Python is great for short programs of a few hundred lines all written and maintained by one person. Where it runs into problems is with larger programs with multiple contributors. While easy to write, python code is hard to read and understand in isolation, because everything tends to depend on everything else, including what versions of which packages are installed. Debugging is a particular nightmare, as its easy to get objects of unexpected types in unexpected places, running through code apparently ok, but actually causing obscure problems that show up in some other completely unrelated part of the system.
John Cena on 2017-12-09 at 14:39:30 said:
Every time someone criticizes Rust, all their zealots, their devs and their minions close their code editors and start writing a wall of text rebuttal.
Please stop writing about how shitty Rust is otherwise they will never have time to improve it!
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In celebration of the chorus’s 55th anniversary, GNHCC has
commissioned CT-based composer Dr. Jessica Rudman to write a piece to
commemorate the milestone. The Beauty You Have Begotten seeks to
reflect “pillars of the human experience,” as described by GNHCC
director Noah Blocker-Glynn, GNHCC’s Artistic Director. Dr. Rudman visited rehearsal on February 21 to both discuss her composing process with the chorus and listen to our progress in preparing it.
“For me, the text always comes first,” she explained, in describing
the choice of poems that forms the lyrics to the 6-piece movement: “I
try to take the emotions and images of the text and try to find ways
to evoke them in the music.” Furthermore, “sometimes the sounds of the
words suggests instrumental sounds to accompany them.” Together, the
poems, all written by poets born in the 1800s, may portray some
“moments of doubt and conflict,” but paint “a largely celebratory
mood, to appreciate life” and our shared connections.
Dr. Rudman stayed to listen to the rehearsal of her work, and also to
answer questions from the singers, who were very interested to learn
more about particular details in the composition, like the choice of
voice parts used in the solos, and her own inspirations and musical
influences. The choice of the saxophone quartet, however, came from
Noah, who was recently stopped in his tracks by the sounds of a
rehearsal at The Hartt School. It turned out to be a saxophone
quartet, and inspired his choice: “the marrying between high, middle,
middle-low, and low voicing just seemed to pair itself very well with
a chorus,” he explained.
GNHCC will present the premiere performance of The Beauty You Have
Begotten, for SATB chorus and Saxophone Quartet, on Saturday June 8,
at Battell Chapel in New Haven. Both the GNHCC singers and Artistic
Director Noah Blocker-Glynn are excited to present it to our audience:
“It’s ours; we will be giving it its first flight.” We hope you will
be there to join us as we perform this marvelous composition!
Stay tuned to this space for further details on concert ticket availability.
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THE BEACH AT PAINTER’S COVE: A Pretty Picture of Family Dysfunction
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: artist's colony, faily saga, painters, Romance
The Beach at Painter’s Cove
Author Shelley Noble
Narrated by Erin Bennett
Published by Tantor Audio
Publication date Jun 13, 2017
Running time 12 hrs 4 min
I voluntarily reviewed an advance readers copy of this book. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.
The Whitaker family’s Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitakers supported strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at the Muses.
Leo, the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion. She plans to stay there until she joins her husband, Wes, on the knoll overlooking the cove and meadow where they first met.
Jillian is a jet-setting actress, down on her luck. She thinks selling the Muses will make life easier for her mother, Leo, by moving her into assisted living.
Issy, Jillian’s daughter, has a successful life as a museum exhibit designer that takes her around the world. But the Muses and her grandmother are the only family she’s known, and when her sister leaves her own children with Leo, Issy knows she has to step in to help.
Steph is only twelve years old and desperately needs someone to fire her imagination and bring her out of her shell. What she begins to discover at the Muses could change the course of her future.
https://tantor.com/the-beach-at-painters-cove-shelley-noble.html
This reminded me of a the kind of play where someone young throws themselves onto the stage in a tantrum, but it also has comic relief: think ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, meets ALL ABOUT EVE with a little MOMMIE DEAREST thrown in from the world of cinema.
The four generations of this family must be loosely called that until the end as one generation has hardly seen their mother and the next has never met their grandmother, Jillian. She’s a famous, but aging, actress down on her luck and out of cash. The oldest generation here is from the hippy era of the sixties, but it often feels more like the Gatsbys. I found the family situation somewhat contrived – a Hollywood star dumping her kids on their grandparents would have gotten a lot of publicity, and I can’t recall hearing, nor can I find more than a few lines about their actor father. The family saga is a little overextended with generations of messy romance, marriage and money mismanagement.
I almost put the story down because at the start it is all over the place and time with these women and their children, but it eventually gelled. As a “museum” person and artist I stuck it out for the sake of the topic. But, I did find it confusing as it jumped around.
The narration is very good, the voices are age appropriate but the one Italian accent is a bit over done since the guy has been in the US since his teens and he says things like goodnight instead of “buona notte.” He often calls Isabel, “Cara” but that is part of his art-museum-world affectation. If I can only find one flaw that’s amazing.
If you like a family drama, covering every age from 8 to 80, with romance but not a lot of steam, then this is for you. What’s more romantic than a bunch of artsy types, an old mansion, and the beach?!
TANTOR: https://tantor.com/the-beach-at-painters-cove-shelley-noble.html
AUTHOR: http://www.shelleynoble.com/
AUDIBLE: https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Beach-at-Painters-Cove-Audiobook/B072JV7VS3?source_code=TANP0005WS071408
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Painters-Cove-Novel/dp/0062439073
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ratmom
Probably not my type of book but thank you for the great review.
Thanks! I am somewhat delayed but thank you for commenting on the review.
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NBA Week 18 Tips
The NBA season is gradually reaching its culmination as we enter into Week 18. Playoff races are tightening, and some teams are fighting for their postseason lives. Others have already given up and settled on lottery picks in the hopes that young talent could help them ascend to the top in the near future. Regardless of what the standings look like, fantasy basketball betting has been more tricky than ever before. Injuries, wacky lineups, and trade-deadline acquisitions have shaken up the DFS world and many players are still struggling to keep up. Don’t worry about any of that- this article will give you the guys you need to pick in NBA Week 18 so that you can cash out no matter what the playing conditions are like.
Klay Thompson has been shooting the ball ridiculously well. The Warriors shooting guard has scored at least 23 points in his last five games, including two 30+ point performances. His most impressive outing came against the Miami Heat, which boasted the best defense the Warriors have faced in a while. Thompson torched Miami, scoring 33 points on 13-25 from the field and 4-8 from three. Though his fantasy value does rely solely on his jump shot, when he’s got it going like he does now there aren’t many reasons to pick a different guard for your lineup. He costs $7,200 on FanDuel and $7,500 on DraftKings, not terribly cheap but also not expensive enough to handicap the rest of your team. As long as Klay keeps shooting like this, keep him in your roster.
Jabari Parker continues to impress us with his unbelievable athleticism and superior basketball I.Q. He seems to have mastered the Milwaukee Bucks’ system and fits right in with their culture of players who like to score in the paint. Parker rarely shoots threes, but has a deadly mid-range jumper and is constantly throwing down dunks from the baseline. He has scored at least 30 DFS points in his last four games and it doesn’t look like he will be slowing down anytime soon. Parker gets great minutes at the small forward spot from head coach Jason Kidd, and regularly contributes to the team’s scoring efforts, unlike some other young players. He’s one of the best bargains on the market today at just $5,600 on FanDuel and $6,200 on DraftKings. Snatch him up to balance out your lineup and plug in a consistent forward with a high ceiling.
Alex Len is yet another Phoenix Sun who should keep benefiting from his team’s injury woes and glaring lack of talent. Without the presence of guards Brandon Knight and Eric Bledsoe, the Suns have almost no consistency on offense. However, Len has provided at least some stability for this floundering squad and will look to keep that up as their season winds down and the lottery beckons. The 22-year old Ukrainian center out of the University of Maryland scored 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday, one of his best games of the year. He bullied the Spurs’ gritty defenders and showed off his polished high-post jumper.
He costs only $4,900 on FanDuel and $5,000 on DraftKings, which will allow you to overspend on other positions while still feeling confident about your center. Even with former defensive player of the year Tyson Chandler back in the rotation, Len should lead the Suns from his post position for the next two months.
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The Boxster and the Cayman are the sequel that continues the 718 era. At their heart, a turbocharged...
The Boxster and the Cayman are the sequel that continues the 718 era. At their heart, a turbocharged flat-four engine beats with the same fighting spirit that delivered countless podium finishes. In them lives the will to break with standards. And to inspire conviction. So it is entirely appropriate that they, too, should bear these three digits in their name and carry the 718 legend forward.
The 718 models were made for the sport of it. They are mid-engined roadsters that unite the sporting spirit of the legendary Porsche 718 with the sports car of tomorrow – and transfer it to the roads of today’s world. With one goal: to take the everyday out of every day.
Compared with the previous models, the result is a decidedly more striking design, an even sportier chassis setup and a whole host of performance, comfort and assistance systems. And, of course, up to 350 units of turbocharged horsepower (257 kW) – despite a considerable reduction in fuel consumption. Only one question remains unanswered: what are you still waiting for?
The 718 Boxster and the 718 Cayman. For the sport of it.
The principle of the mid-engined sports car
Could have, should have, would have. Life’s too short for ‘what ifs’. Too short for unfulfilled dayd...
Could have, should have, would have. Life’s too short for ‘what ifs’. Too short for unfulfilled daydreams. The 718 Boxster makes a clear statement: let’s go!
It interprets the 718 legend by embracing the concept of freedom characteristic of a pure-bred roadster: plenty of twists and turns, plenty of headwind, and plenty of adrenaline. In short, a direct and open driving experience. Ideal prerequisites, then, for the most exciting workout of all: life itself.
The 718 Cayman lets its actions do the talking. Sporty actions, of course. As a corner-devouring coupé, it follows a line of its own far removed from fashion trends and four-lane arterials. In the city certainly. On the racetrack definitely. But always for the sport of it.
It’s no wonder that the 718 Cayman doesn’t simply carry on from where the 718 GTR Coupé left off in 1963, but seeks instead to piece together a legend of its own. With its own mind. With sporty fighting spirit. And with every twist and turn.
Character 718 Boxster
Precise, not fanciful. Self-assured, not restrained. Low, wide and sleek. The exterior design of the...
Precise, not fanciful. Self-assured, not restrained. Low, wide and sleek. The exterior design of the 718 models ushers in a new era for the Boxster and Cayman with sporty, distinctive edges and clearly defined formal contours.
The horizontal geometry of the air intakes makes the front end appear even wider – and lends it added bite. The wings? Unmistakably Porsche. Higher than the front lid, they have been styled to give prominence to the new design of the headlight units, which lay bare their inner workings and incorporate the LED daytime running lights.
The side profile emphasises the midengine layout. The wheel arches are large, designed for wheels up to 20 inches in size. One thing is clear: the 718 models were not intended for the shelter of the garage, but for the pleasure of driving. That’s precisely why the contouring on the doors purposefully directs headwind into the large air intakes on either side of the car. This provides the optimum supply of air to the new turbocharged engines, a basis for their powerful forward thrust.
Another sporty detail: new exterior mirrors with v-shaped mirror base.
When closed, the fabric hood of the 718 Boxster completes the sleek silhouette typical of a sports car. At the push of a button, it opens and closes fully automatically in 9 seconds – even on the move, up to a speed of 50 km/h.
The rear of the 718 models is an expression of superlative sporty performance – and of the superlative performance of our designers. It is more cleanly defined, more pared back.
And yet it’s anything but conformist. The taillights are slimline, their inner workings fashioned three-dimensionally. Four LED brake spot lights are incorporated into each of the horizontal rear light units. Between the two taillights, an accent trim makes the rear end look even wider.
The wing above extends automatically at a speed of 120 km/h, reducing lift to provide even better roadholding performance.
Intuitive handling, performance-oriented ergonomics, a clean design. The interior of the 718 models ...
Intuitive handling, performance-oriented ergonomics, a clean design. The interior of the 718 models is also fully geared for sporty performance.
A strong emphasis on the horizontal gives the dashboard design of the 718 models a striking appearance. And that’s without sacrificing the excellent ergonomics for which Porsche is renowned: the ascending centre console shortens the reach between the steering wheel and the gear lever/selector, while the clear arrangement of function buttons saves time.
Motorsport in pure form: the Sports steering wheel is derived from the 918 Spyder. The optional GT sports steering wheel with its smaller diameter further enhances the cockpit feel.
The cluster of three round instruments, with the rev counter positioned in the centre and flanked by a 4.6-inch colour screen, is a characteristic feature.
Porsche Communication Management (PCM) features a 7-inch touchscreen display. With its high-quality glass surface, it is the aesthetically perfect addition to the centre console.
All ideal prerequisites for a sporty, active lifestyle. The details? They’re down to you. Choose from a comprehensive selection of personalisation options and a broad range of materials and colours.
Standard specification
Selected key features of the standard specifications: the 718 models.
The 718 Boxster and the 718 Cayman
2.0-litre turbocharged boxer engine producing 220 kW (300 hp) and 380 Nm
18-inch Boxster and Cayman wheels
Four-piston aluminium monobloc fixed brake calipers in black, front and rear
Bi-Xenon main headlights
Centrally positioned single-tube tailpipe
SPORT button
Porsche Communication Management (PCM) including mobile phone preparation and Sound Package Plus
Net-type wind deflector
The 718 Boxster S and the 718 Cayman S
Variable turbine geometry (VTG)
19-inch Boxster S or Cayman S wheels
Four-piston aluminium monobloc fixed brake calipers in red, front and rear
Centrally positioned twin tailpipe
Sports-look pedals and footrest
Creating more power is still no challenge. Not unless it’s done the Porsche way – by seeking to achi...
Creating more power is still no challenge. Not unless it’s done the Porsche way – by seeking to achieve a noticeable reduction in fuel consumption at the same time. The result is an increase of up to 25 kW (35 hp) and 100 Nm – together with a decrease of up to 14 % (NEDC) in fuel consumption and emissions. And the fun is only just beginning.
The turbocharged flat-four engines with the customary Porsche horizontally opposed piston arrangement demonstrate responsibility not only for the environment, but also for the adrenaline level of the driver. Acceleration is tremendous – even in the low rpm range.
This quality is supplemented by an engine map configured to offer the high rev limits typical of a sports car. This means high compression and a high engine speed combined with good modulation of power output. Every drive becomes a sporting event – no matter how fast you go.
What hasn’t changed is the vehicle’s characteristically low and central centre of gravity – the very reason why Porsche mid-mounted engines have always been so agile. The typically resonant Porsche sound is also an intrinsic feature of the 718 models, providing the fitting soundtrack on the way to ever new heights of performance.
The 2.0-litre turbocharged horizontally opposed engine
The base models are equipped with a 2.0-litre turbocharged and horizontally opposed engine with direct fuel injection (DFI), VarioCam Plus and integrated drysump lubrication. The unit develops 220 kW (300 hp) at 6,500 rpm. Maximum torque is 380 Nm. Thanks to turbocharged induction, it is available as low as 1,950 rpm and prevails until 4,500 rpm. With Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in a mere 4.9 seconds, reaching a top speed of 275 km/h.
The S models draw their power from a capacity of 2.5 litres. The result is 257 kW (350 hp) at 6,500 rpm. The maximum torque of 420 Nm is available across an impressively wide range from 1,950 to 4,500 rpm. This engine – like the unit in the 911 Turbo – also comes equipped with variable turbine geometry (VTG). VTG provides an even more consistent delivery of power and, in turn, greater driving pleasure. Propulsive potential? Top speed is 285 km/h. With PDK and Launch Control, the S models sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in just 4.2 seconds.
The displacement of the 718 Boxster and Cayman models has been considerably reduced with the aim of ...
The displacement of the 718 Boxster and Cayman models has been considerably reduced with the aim of lowering fuel consumption. Nevertheless, the power output of the engines has been significantly increased, thanks to the turbochargers developed for the 718 range. The respective turbocharger is compact and has been optimally adapted to the displacement and power output of the engine.
The result could not deliver a clearer message. The extraordinarily wide torque plateau makes itself felt with each demand for throttle – barely 30 cm behind your back. And that’s despite a considerable reduction in fuel consumption and emission values. After all, what is performance without intelligence?
The 718 Boxster S and 718 Cayman S come equipped with variable turbine geometry (VTG). Adjustable gu...
The 718 Boxster S and 718 Cayman S come equipped with variable turbine geometry (VTG). Adjustable guide vanes on the turbine act to combine the benefits of a ‘small’ and a ‘large’ exhaust turbocharger. Derived from the proven 911 Turbo and adapted specifically for the 718 S models, this technology helps to deliver excellent responsiveness at low engine speeds and provide a high maximum power output.
Efficiency-enhancing technologies
Auto start/stop switches off the engine when the driving speed falls below 7 km/h, such as when you ...
Auto start/stop switches off the engine when the driving speed falls below 7 km/h, such as when you are approaching a red light. As soon as you release the clutch or depress the accelerator pedal, the engine restarts – swiftly and smoothly.
In conjunction with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), a coasting function becomes available where the situation allows. The engine is decoupled from the transmission to avoid deceleration caused by engine braking. In this way, optimum use is made of the vehicle’s momentum, enabling it to coast for longer distances.
Sports exhaust system
With the optional sports exhaust system, the already powerful sound of the midmounted engine becomes...
With the optional sports exhaust system, the already powerful sound of the midmounted engine becomes even more intense – at the push of a button. Having caught the ear, the sports exhaust system also catches the eye: with centrally positioned sports tailpipes in stainless steel with a high-gloss look in a choice of black or silver colour.
The 718 models are equipped with a smooth-shifting 6-speed manual transmission optimally matched to ...
The 718 models are equipped with a smooth-shifting 6-speed manual transmission optimally matched to the respective engine map. The shift throws are sporty and short – shift effort is low. This means short shift times for a sporty and directly engaging driving experience. The drive becomes even more dynamic in conjunction with the optional Sport Chrono Package: in SPORT and SPORT PLUS mode, the dynamic throttle-blip function ensures the optimum engine speed for every downshift, a more emotional driving experience and an impressive sound.
Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK)
7-speed PDK, featuring both a manual and an automatic mode, is available as an option and offers ext...
7-speed PDK, featuring both a manual and an automatic mode, is available as an option and offers extremely fast gear changes with no interruption in the flow of power. Not to mention even faster acceleration performance and a further reduction in fuel consumption.
In manual mode, the shift direction simulates that of racing cars – to the rear to shift up, forwards to shift down. For a racetrack driving experience wherever you are.
Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV)
PTV is an optional system for enhancing driving dynamics and stability. Operating in conjunction wit...
PTV is an optional system for enhancing driving dynamics and stability. Operating in conjunction with a mechanical rear differential lock, it works by varying the amount of torque transmitted to the rear wheels. When the car is driven assertively into a corner, moderate brake pressure is applied to the inside rear wheel.
When the car is driven assertively into a corner, moderate brake pressure is applied to the inside rear wheel. Consequently, a greater amount of drive force is distributed to the outside rear wheel, inducing an additional rotational pulse (yaw movement) around the vehicle’s vertical axis. This results in a direct and sporty steering action from the turn-in point.
At low and medium vehicle speeds, PTV significantly increases agility and steering precision. At high speeds and under acceleration out of corners, the mechanically controlled rear differential lock also acts to provide greater driving stability and traction.
For the driver, this means strong resistance to destabilising side forces, outstanding traction and great agility at every speed – with precise turn-in and well-balanced load transfer characteristics. What else? Tremendous fun in the corners.
Anyone can follow the straight and narrow. Only the corner is the true test of mettle. Only in the c...
Anyone can follow the straight and narrow. Only the corner is the true test of mettle. Only in the corner does a sports car really become a sports car. So it’s all the more important to have a chassis that can master any sporting challenge. And be a match for the high power output of the engine.
The axle components are for the most part made of aluminium, which keeps the vehicle weight and unsprung masses low. The wide track, long wheelbase and specific chassis construction help to deliver particularly precise and agile handling.
Electromechanical power steering
The direct steering system of the 718 models has a perceptibly more immediate ratio than that of the previous models. The results are agile turn-in and an even sportier driving experience – with a customarily high level of comfort.
Power steering Plus
The comfort-oriented Power steering Plus is available as an option. At high speeds, the steering is as firm as you would expect. At low speeds, the steering ratio adjusts for much easier manoeuvring and parking.
Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM)
Optional PASM, the electronic damping control system, continuously adjusts the damping force on each...
Optional PASM, the electronic damping control system, continuously adjusts the damping force on each wheel, based on current road conditions and driving style. In addition, the body sits 10 mm lower.
PASM has two modes, which can be selected using a separate button on the center console: ‘Normal’, which is a blend of performance and comfort, and ‘Sport’ where the setup is much firmer.
The results are tangible: increased driving stability, improved comfort and enhanced performance.
Porsche Stability Management (PSM)
The 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman models are equipped with enhanced Porsche Stability Management (PSM) ...
The 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman models are equipped with enhanced Porsche Stability Management (PSM) – an automatic control system for maintaining stability at the limits of dynamic driving performance.
PSM improves traction under acceleration on inconsistent road surfaces. The result is a high level of driving stability and safety – and extraordinary agility at the same time.
PSM Sport
In conjunction with the optional Sport Chrono Package, PSM is supplemented by a ‘Sport’ mode. It allows a significantly more sporty driving style, with PSM remaining active in the background. For a further enhancement to your driving experience.
The 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman models each come equipped with distinctively styled 18-inch wheels. T...
The 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman models each come equipped with distinctively styled 18-inch wheels. The S models are fitted with 19-inch wheels.
On all 718 models, the wheels are alloys – a sports car hallmark. An extra half an inch has been added to the width of the rear wheels. This provides greater stability and overall enhanced cornering performance.
Rolling resistance and tyre weight are comparatively low, which helps to reduce fuel consumption. Tyre Pressure Monitoring (TPM) improves safety.
A selection of 20-inch wheels is available in our range of options.
The SPORT button enables you to select a suspension setup where the emphasis is on either comfort or...
The SPORT button enables you to select a suspension setup where the emphasis is on either comfort or sporty performance. At the push of a button, the engine dynamics become even more direct. In addition, the optional sports exhaust system is activated automatically.
In vehicles with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), upshifts take place at higher engine speeds and downshifts happen sooner.
Sport Chrono Package
The Sport Chrono Package enables an even sportier tuning of the chassis, engine and transmission. An...
The Sport Chrono Package enables an even sportier tuning of the chassis, engine and transmission. And launches you to unprecedented sporty heights. The key component is the mode switch on the steering wheel, derived from the 918 Spyder. Without your hand having to leave the steering wheel, you can choose any of four settings: Normal, SPORT, SPORT PLUS and Individual. In this way, you can adapt the vehicle even more to the way you want to drive.
In combination with PDK, you benefit from three additional functions. The first is Launch Control, which can be used to achieve the best possible standing start.
The second function is the motorsportderived gearshift strategy. In this mode, PDK is geared up for extremely short shift times and optimum shift points for the maximum acceleration available.
The third function: SPORT Response. Pressing the button in the centre of the mode switch primes the engine and transmission for the fastest possible unleashing of power.
In other words, maximum responsiveness for a period of approximately 20 seconds – useful when overtaking, for example. A timer graphic in the instrument cluster tells you how long is left.
Dynamic transmission mounts are also part of the Sport Chrono Package. This electronically controlled system minimises the perceptible oscillations and vibrations of the entire drivetrain, particularly the engine, and combines the benefits of a hard or soft transmission mounting arrangement. In short, it enhances both driving stability and driving comfort.
The Sport Chrono Package now also includes the Porsche Track Precision App. This enables you to clock lap times and collate driving stats, record and manage the results on your smartphone and share them with other drivers for comparison. The app makes use of GPS and highprecision data from the on-board computer, and helps you to better your driving performance. Graphical and video analyses display every millisecond of your potential for improvement. Lap after lap.
PASM sports suspension
The body sits 20 mm lower. The springs are harder and shorter, and the anti-roll bars on the front a...
The body sits 20 mm lower. The springs are harder and shorter, and the anti-roll bars on the front and rear axles are stiffer. The result is another plus for performance – combined with a surprisingly high level of comfort.
In sport, performance counts. It applies to the engine and it also applies to the brakes. The 718 mo...
In sport, performance counts. It applies to the engine and it also applies to the brakes. The 718 models are therefore equipped with four-piston aluminium monobloc fixed calipers.
On the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman, the brake calipers come with a black finish – red on the S models. Brake disc diameters are 330 mm at the front and 299 mm at the rear.
To make them tougher yet lighter and enable a more rapid response – even under extreme loads – the brake calipers have an enclosed monobloc construction.
The pedal travel is short and the biting point precise. The brake discs are crossdrilled and internally vented, which helps to provide improved wet braking and optimum cooling.
Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB)
Proven in motorsport, the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) is available as an option. On the 718 models, the cross-drilled ceramic brake discs of PCCB have a diameter of 350 mm at the front and rear – for even more formidable braking performance.
PCCB features six-piston monobloc aluminium fixed brake calipers on the front axle and four-piston units at the rear – all painted in yellow – to provide braking forces that are considerably more powerful and, crucially, are exceptionally consistent.
PCCB enables shorter braking distances in even the toughest road and race conditions. Safety under high-speed braking is also improved thanks to its excellent fading stability.
Another advantage of PCCB is the extremely low weight of the ceramic brake discs, which are approximately 50 % lighter than standard discs of a similar design and size. This results in better roadholding and increased comfort, particularly on uneven roads, as well as greater agility and a further improvement in handling.
Airbags and Porsche Side Impact Protection System (POSIP)
The 718 models offer advanced airbag technology in the form of full-size driver and front passenger ...
The 718 models offer advanced airbag technology in the form of full-size driver and front passenger airbags, which are inflated in two stages depending on the severity and type of accident.
All 718 models are also equipped with the Porsche Side Impact Protection System (POSIP). It comprises side impact protection elements in the doors and two airbags on each side. An integral thorax airbag is located in each seat side bolster, while the door panels each contain an upwards-inflating head airbag.
Roll-over protection
In the open-top 718 Boxster models, dual roll-over protection creates survival space in the event of...
In the open-top 718 Boxster models, dual roll-over protection creates survival space in the event of a roll-over or side impact. The front roll-over protection element is made from super-high-strength steel. The rear roll-over bars located behind the seats are made from an aluminium and steel composite. These come fully trimmed and provide a high degree of safety.
Rain. Fog. Darkness. Nothing that would faze a genuine athlete. That’s why all 718 models are equipp...
Rain. Fog. Darkness. Nothing that would faze a genuine athlete. That’s why all 718 models are equipped with Bi-Xenon headlights with integrated LED daytime running lights.
At the rear, the three-dimensional design of the taillights incorporating four-spot brake lights leaves a lasting impression. For powerful illumination, all functions are implemented by LED technology.
Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS)
The Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS), which includes expressive four-spot daytime running lights, headlight cleaning system and dynamic range control, is available as an option. The dynamic cornering light function swivels the main headlights towards the inside of a bend, based on steering angle and road speed, so as to light up more of the road at tight bends and turns. Put simply, the road ahead is illuminated the moment you start to corner.
LED main headlights including Porsche Dynamic Light System Plus (PDLS Plus)
Superior safety meets sporty design in the form of optional LED main headlights including PDLS Plus. In addition to being efficient and long-lasting, LED technology also creates a light very similar to daylight and thus helps to reduce driver fatigue. Optimum visibility is assured by integrated four-spot daytime running lights, the headlight cleaning system and dynamic range control.
One special feature of PDLS Plus is the dynamic main beam function. A camera detects the lights of vehicles ahead as well as those of oncoming traffic. Based on the data from the camera, the dynamic main beam function then adapts the headlight range accordingly. This continuous, seamless control means that you are able to see the course of the road, pedestrians and potential hazards earlier without hindering other road users.
Sound Package Plus delivers excellent sound. It comprises six loudspeakers and a total output of 110...
Sound Package Plus
Sound Package Plus delivers excellent sound. It comprises six loudspeakers and a total output of 110 watts in the 718 Boxster, and eight loudspeakers with 150 watts in the 718 Cayman. The amplifier integrated into PCM optimally adapts the acoustic pattern in the vehicle interior to the driver and front passenger.
BOSE® Surround Sound System
Specially developed for Porsche, the optional BOSE® Surround Sound System is optimally tuned to the specific interior acoustics of the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman. The audio system features 10 amplifier channels and 10 loudspeakers including a patented 100-watt active subwoofer integral to the vehicle bodyshell and produces a total output of 505 watts. This fully active system setup enables each individual loudspeaker to be optimally adapted to the vehicle interior. In short: in the 718 models, you’re always centre stage.
Burmester® High-End Surround Sound System
The road is perhaps the only place in the world in which you can still listen to music without disturbance. And when it’s done, it should be done right – together with the most important manufacturer of premium quality sound systems in Germany. The result is a sound performance of the highest level, specially matched to your 718 Boxster or 718 Cayman.
The system has 12 amplifier channels with a total output of 821 watts, 12 loudspeakers including an active subwoofer with 300-watt class D amplifier, a total diaphragm surface area of more than 1,340 cm², and a frequency response of 35 Hz to 20 kHz.
The Burmester® system uses the patented body-integral subwoofer solution. Analogue and digital filters have been optimally defined for their specific installation location.
Ribbon tweeters (air motion transformers, AMT) have been used for unmistakably fine, clear and undistorted high-frequency sound reproduction with excellent level stability.
All loudspeaker housings are perfectly matched and deliver a natural and richly textured spatial sound, even at top volume.
The new Porsche Communication Management (PCM)
The enhanced Porsche Communication Management (PCM) is your central control unit for all infotainmen...
The enhanced Porsche Communication Management (PCM) is your central control unit for all infotainment applications and is standard equipment in all models. The PCM features a high-resolution touch display with integrated proximity sensor which allows simple and convenient operation.
Infotainment already starts when you charge and connect your iPhone® or any other audio source. You can connect your device easily using either the USB port or AUX input. An internal hard drive (Jukebox) and two SD card readers are provided in addition to the CD/DVD drive for playback of your personal music. After inserting the SD cards, you can simply play your music with the music player in the PCM.
The mobile phone preparation makes it easy for you to establish a Bluetooth® connection to a mobile phone that supports the hands-free profile (HFP). The mobile phone can remain in your pocket or bag.
Further information on the availability of the functions and services described here and under "Porsche Connect" in your country and for your Porsche model is available in the Porsche Car Configurator and from your Porsche Centre.
Due to country-specific legislation and requirements, not all models and equipment features are available in certain countries. For more information about the exact equipment specifications, please consult your Porsche Centre.
The optional Connect module makes the optimum connection between your smartphone and your Porsche. T...
The optional Connect module makes the optimum connection between your smartphone and your Porsche. The centre console contains a special smartphone storage tray, which forwards the signal of your mobile phone to the external aerial of the car, sparing the mobile phone battery and providing optimum reception.
At www.porsche.com/connect, you can find further information about the Connect module.
The Connect Plus module ensures maximum connectivity in your Porsche.
It features an LTE telephone module – with SIM card reader – for convenience, excellent reception and optimised voice quality. A wireless Internet access point gives you in-car online access from WLAN-enabled client devices (e.g. laptops, tablets or smartphones), simultaneously if necessary.
A smartphone compartment in the centre console transfers the signal of your mobile phone to the external aerial of the car – conserving phone charge and providing optimum reception. In addition, you can connect your smartphone for recharging or to play its media content.
What’s more, the Connect Plus module enables use of the wide range of Porsche Connect services. Get more day out of your everyday and delegate the multitasking to your sports car – so you can spend more time driving your Porsche.
At www.porsche.com/connect, you can find further information about the apps and services available.
With Porsche Connect and the Connect Plus module, you have access to a range of helpful services, su...
With Porsche Connect and the Connect Plus module, you have access to a range of helpful services, such as real-time traffic information. Thanks to this visual aid, you can be sure that you’re on the fastest route to your destination even before you set off. Throughout the journey, the real-time traffic information is regularly updated – keeping you on the recalculated optimum route.
Connect Apps
In addition to its range of smart services, Porsche Connect offers two smartphone apps. The first, P...
In addition to its range of smart services, Porsche Connect offers two smartphone apps. The first, Porsche Car Connect, lets you use your smartphone or Apple Watch® to retrieve vehicle data and remotely control selected vehicle functions. Another feature is the Porsche Vehicle Tracking System (PVTS) including theft detection, enabling the remote location of a stolen vehicle across most of Europe.
The second app is the Porsche Connect app. This allows you to send chosen destinations to your Porsche before you start your journey. As soon as your smartphone has connected to PCM, you will be able to display them in the vehicle and transfer them directly to the navigation system. Even your smartphone calendar can be viewed directly on PCM and stored addresses used for route guidance. What’s more, the Porsche Connect app gives you access to millions of music tracks thanks to its built-in music streaming function.
The Sports steering wheel with its puristic design, the ascending centre console, the three round in...
The Sports steering wheel with its puristic design, the ascending centre console, the three round instruments with the rev counter positioned in the centre: everything in the interior is intended to put the driver first. All buttons and functions are intuitive to operate, all information is always ready to hand.
It’s an ergonomics concept that not only saves time, but looks good, too. At Porsche, function and design are inextricably linked.
Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with 7-inch touchscreen display and optional navigation module enhances form and function with a further component: near-boundless possibilities. The optional Connect or Connect Plus module is the driver’s gateway to the digital world.
The instrument cluster with 4.6-inch colour screen provides you with a continuous stream of data from the on-board computer. It also displays the map of the optional navigation system, delivers various warnings and reminds you of your chosen communication and audio settings.
The materials are no less suited to the sporty challenge. Leather and Alcantara® are easy to grip, while the firmly padded Sports seats provide support during dynamic cornering manoeuvres.
The Sport-Tex leather interior is available in puristic black or the stylish two-tone combination of Graphite Blue and Crayon. Sport-Tex offers excellent breathability, good support and an expressive appearance. A sporty detail is added in the seam pattern of the Sports seats Plus with selected decorative stitching in a contrasting colour.
So, what does it actually look like? That’s down to you, and you alone. Choose from a variety of interior options, materials and colours and turn your 718 model into the 718 you always believed it could be.
Sports steering wheel
The Sports steering wheel with threespoke design is lightweight and functional. The small centre pad...
The Sports steering wheel with threespoke design is lightweight and functional. The small centre pad and the decorative ring encircling the Porsche Crest – both derived from the steering wheel of the 918 Spyder – reinforce its sporty character.
In conjunction with PDK, the Sports steering wheel features two alloyed gearshift paddles offering particularly short shift throws.
GT sports steering wheel
The optional GT sports steering wheel has a smaller diameter. The spokes are finished in black, the silver-coloured inlays are screw-fastened. For a motorsportderived design? Definitely. Above all, though, to emulate a motorsport driving feel.
Heating and multifunction controls are optionally available for all steering wheels. These give you fingertip access to the 4.6-inch colour display and therefore the on-board computer as well as many audio, telephone and navigation functions.
Light design package
The optional light design package is both practical and aesthetically appealing. It comprises dimmab...
The optional light design package is both practical and aesthetically appealing. It comprises dimmable LEDs in various parts of the interior.
Porsche Entry & Drive*
With the optional Porsche Entry & Drive, you can leave your car key in your pocket. As soon as you g...
With the optional Porsche Entry & Drive, you can leave your car key in your pocket. As soon as you grab the door handle, or your hand nears the Porsche Crest on the front luggage compartment lid or the logos on the rear, the system automatically checks the encrypted access code on the key. Once the key is validated, the door or the luggage compartment lid unlocks. The engine can then be started and switched off using the electronic ignition switch.
* The Porsche Entry & Drive System uses state of the art technology. However, it cannot be completely ruled out that the key´s wireless encryption code is intercepted and used to open or steal the vehicle.
The Sports seats are comfortable and provide support even during performance driving. They come equi...
The Sports seats are comfortable and provide support even during performance driving. They come equipped with electric backrest adjustment and mechanical height and fore/aft adjustment. The seat centres are lined with Alcantara®.
Fully electric Sports seats
Comfort doesn’t have to be sacrificed. Neither does a sporty driving feel. The optional fully electric Sports seats offer power adjustment of seat height, backrest angle, squab angle and squab depth. Also electrically operated are the fore/aft adjustment, four-way lumbar support and even the steering column. The included memory package stores a range of settings, including the positions of both exterior mirrors and all driver’s seat and steering wheel positions.
Sports seats Plus
Available as an option are Sports seats Plus in leather with electric backrest adjustment as well as mechanical height and fore/aft adjustment. The side bolsters on the squab and backrest have a firmer, sportier padding and provide even better lateral support.
Adaptive Sports seats Plus
Available on request, adaptive Sports seats Plus reinforce the connection between sport and comfort. As an upgraded version of the Sports seats Plus, they combine all the features of the fully electric Sports seats and add power adjustment of the side bolsters on the squab and backrest.
Sports bucket seats*
Sports bucket seats featuring a folding backrest, integral thorax airbag and manual fore/aft adjustment are available as optional equipment. The seat shells are made from glass- and carbon-fibre reinforced plastic with a carbon surface finish.
Seat heating and ventilation
Seat heating is available as an option for all seats. Seat ventilation is also available on request (not for Sports bucket seats or seats with seat centres in Alcantara® or Sport-Tex) – for a pleasant and dry seating environment, even in hot weather.
Child seat preparation*
ISOFIX child seat preparation for the front passenger seat is available as an option and includes a deactivation function for the front passenger airbag. The Porsche Tequipment range of genuine accessories offers a selection of Porsche child seats specially tested and approved for Porsche cars.
* Child seats are not compatible with the Sports bucket seats.
An optional alternative to the air conditioning system, two-zone automatic climate control has separ...
An optional alternative to the air conditioning system, two-zone automatic climate control has separate temperature controls for the driver and passenger and offers a choice of three climate setting profiles. An active carbon fine dust filter traps particles, pollen and odours and thoroughly filters fine dust out of the outside air before it can reach the interior.
Luggage compartments and storage solutions
A lot can be expected of a genuine sports car. The mid-engine concept of the 718 models impresses no...
A lot can be expected of a genuine sports car. The mid-engine concept of the 718 models impresses not only by delivering superbly agile driving dynamics, but also by affording two luggage compartments.
On both models, the front luggage compartment holds 150 litres. At the rear of the 718 Boxster, there is space for 125 litres – hood up or down. The 718 Cayman boasts a rear luggage compartment capacity of 275 litres. Thanks to the shelf above the engine cover, there is even enough room to accommodate the longer items of your belongings.
In the interior, too, clever storage solutions offer plenty of space. The compartment under the armrest – when combined with the optional Connect or Connect Plus module and the included reception-optimising smartphone compartment – becomes the ideal interface between your smartphone and your 718 model. Further convenience is provided, for example, in the form of two compartments in the doors, clothes hooks on the seat backrests and two practical cupholders above the glove compartment.
Available as an option in conjunction with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), this system regulates the s...
Adaptive cruise control including Porsche Active Safe (PAS)
Available as an option in conjunction with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), this system regulates the speed of your 718 fully independently in line with the speed of the vehicle in front. Radar sensors inside the front end scan the road ahead. Let’s imagine you’ve selected a cruising speed but have begun to gain on the vehicle in front because it is driving more slowly – the system reduces the speed of your vehicle by restricting throttle or gently applying the brakes until your chosen distance from the vehicle in front is restored.
Your 718 now continues to maintain this distance from the vehicle ahead. If it brakes even more, adaptive cruise control will reduce your speed accordingly – even down to a halt. The system also increases the state of readiness of the brakes the moment it detects that your car is beginning to gain on the vehicle in front. On detecting a risk of collision, the system issues an audible and visual warning, and this is accompanied by a brief jolt of the brakes. If panic braking by the driver is detected, the brake pressure applied is boosted to achieve the maximum braking force that the system is able to provide.
Lane Change Assist
Optional Lane Change Assist uses radar sensors to monitor the areas to the rear of the vehicle and the blind spots on either side. Above a speed of 15 km/h, the system issues a visual warning signal in the window triangle trim whenever a vehicle rapidly approaches your vehicle from behind or enters one of your blind spots. In this way, Lane Change Assist improves comfort and safety, particularly on motorways. However, the system does not actively intervene to control the vehicle and can be deactivated at any time.
ParkAssist and reversing camera
Featuring four inconspicuous sensors in the rear end, optional ParkAssist audibly alerts the driver to the presence of obstacles detected behind the vehicle. An intermittent warning tone increases in rapidity as the obstacle is approached.
ParkAssist can be optionally upgraded to include monitoring of the front end with four additional sensors. The audible alert is supplemented by a visual warning in the central display screen, which shows a graphical representation of the vehicle from overhead.
The optional reversing camera facilitates precise reverse parking and manoeuvring. Help is provided in the form of the camera image and the dynamic, superimposed guidelines on the PCM screen, which illustrate the predicted course of the vehicle given the current position of the steering wheel.
Speed limit indicator
The optional camera-based speed limit indicator informs you of speed restrictions and ‘no overtaking’ zones (start and end). Notifications appear on the display in the instrument cluster and on the screen of PCM.
Our wealth of experience goes back a long way. Since the very beginning, we at Porsche have been ded...
Our wealth of experience goes back a long way. Since the very beginning, we at Porsche have been dedicated to realising customer wishes as part of our special request service. Known until 1986 as the Porsche ‘Sonderwunschprogramm’, today we call it Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur. The philosophy has remained the same. Hand on heart.
We love what we do. We love our work. Every seam, every square inch of leather, and every single other fine detail receives the same devotion. It’s how we bring dreams to life. And how we create something unique. Directly from the Manufaktur.
None of this would be possible without originality, inspiration and enthusiasm, beginning as early as the consultation stage. That’s because we keep in mind one thing above all else: your particular wishes and requirements. We fulfil them with composure and meticulous care, through precision handcrafting and the use of exquisite materials such as leather, Alcantara®, carbon, mahogany or aluminium.
Added value is achieved through dedication and finesse. In other words, we handcraft a product that blends sporty performance, comfort and style and reflects your own personal taste. A Porsche with your signature touch.
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With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for the 718 models, you can ...
With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for the 718 models, you can style your 718 entirely to your own preference. From the start, the same rules that apply to our vehicles also apply to the products of Porsche Tequipment: developed, tested and proven at the Development Centre in Weissach. By the same Porsche engineers and designers who made your car. Designed with the complete vehicle in mind and precisely tailored to your Porsche.
And your original car warranty? It will remain completely intact, whichever Tequipment products you ask your Porsche Centre to fit.
All Tequipment products can be found using our ‘Tequipment accessories finder’.
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Green levies and the cost of energy.................................... the Energy Companies Obligation, the warm homes discount scheme and the Green Deal
The controversy over so-called green levies
Futures Forum: "Levies, Damned Levies, and Statistics": Green levies and energy bills: What are the figures and what do people think?
has become even more political of late:
'Get rid of all this green crap'
- report claimed Prime Minister David Cameron told aides
By Western Daily Press
Downing Street has denied that David Cameron is ditching his commitment to the environment, after a report claimed he had told aides to “get rid of all this green crap”. The Sun reported that the Prime Minister was making a major U-turn on environmental issues, and ordering aides to strip out green levies which push up energy bills. It quoted an unnamed senior Tory source as saying: “The Prime Minister is going round Number 10 saying ’We have got to get rid of all this green crap’. He is totally focussed on it. “We used to say ’Vote Blue, Go Green’, now it’s ’Vote Blue, Get Real’.” But a senior Downing Street source told the Press Association: “We do not recognise this phrase that they are using on their front page.”
Ahead of the 2010 general election, Mr Cameron highlighted his commitment to the environment with a trip to the Arctic Circle to view the impact of global warming, and told voters they could “Vote Blue, Go Green”. He has regularly stated his determination to lead the “greenest government ever”.
But he dismayed some environmentalists by telling the House of Commons last month that he wanted to “roll back” the green levies which add an average £112 a year to households’ energy bills to fund renewable power subsidies and programmes to insulate homes.
Downing Street told PA that this did not mean the PM had abandoned his commitment to the environment. “He has been quite clear about rolling back the impact of levies on energy bills, but only last week in Sri Lanka he was talking about the importance of tackling climate change,” said the Number 10 source.
Mr Cameron made clear during that Sri Lanka visit that he believed the evidence of global warming was “growing” and thought it was right to take “preventative and mitigating steps” in response. Responding to speculation that man-made climate change may be to blame for the devastating typhoon in the Philippines, the PM said then: “I’ll leave the scientists to speak for themselves about the link between severe weather events and climate change. But the evidence seems to me to be growing. As a practical politician, I think the sensible thing is to say let’s take preventative and mitigating steps given the chances this might be the case.“
'Get rid of all this green crap' - report claimed Prime Minister David Cameron told aides | Western Daily Press
Cut the green c**p! Cameron's private view of energy taxation will horrify environmental campaigners | Mail Online
David Cameron orders aides to cut green taxes | The Sun |News|Politics
Video: Clegg: Green levies are not all crap - Telegraph
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And the politics continues. But how to interpret the latest measures proposed by the government. It's all a bit confusing...
Ministers to keep green levies in energy bill cut plan
28 November 2013 Last updated at 09:11
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A free home insulation scheme for poorer households will be kept but implemented more slowly as part of a package of measures to cut fuel bills, the BBC has learned.
Ministers hope this move - and others - will cut annual bills by £50.
It comes in the wake of Labour's promise to freeze energy bills. The Tories and Lib Dems have yet to agree all the details but expect to have a deal before the chancellor's autumn financial statement next week.
Ministers want to implement the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) scheme that gives free home insulation to low income households more slowly, over four years instead of two. This would cut the annual cost by half.
They plan to fund another levy, the warm homes discount, out of tax rather than customers' energy bills.
Regulations could also be changed so the the cost of transmitting energy, which makes up about 20% of an average bill, could be cut.
Sources say they hope a reduction in bills will show that the government has made a substantial cut to the element of energy bills over which they have some control. Officials say this figure is not designed to match Labour's planned saving from its pledge to freeze energy prices for 20 months if it is elected in 2015, which is about £72 per year. They say they will not make the comparison because they do not accept that Labour's price freeze would save this amount of money.
Sources also expect the big energy firms to say how much they will be cutting their bills on the same day that the government announces the changes.
The average price of gas and electricity paid by UK households has risen by about 18% and 9% in real terms since 2010 and by about 41% and 20% in real terms since 2007. A series of recent energy price hikes by the major suppliers has continued to put the issue at the centre of political debate.
'Defensive measure'
The Conservatives and the Lib Dems have been keen to avoid their discussions becoming a big coalition row. Both sides describe the plans as a "defensive measure" designed to take the heat out of the cost of living debate. One Conservative source said: "Nick Clegg realises that he doesn't want the Lib Dems to be the party on the side of high bills." But there are some outstanding areas of disagreement. The Lib Dems are pushing to ensure that there is no watering down of the government's carbon targets and are pushing for some kind of compensation for slowing down ECO.
One area being looked at is whether new incentives could be offered to encourage people to take up the Green Deal scheme, under which the government lends householders money to pay for energy saving improvements.that he doesn't want the Lib Dems to be the party on the side of high bills." But there are some outstanding areas of disagreement. The Lib Dems are pushing to ensure that there is no watering down of the government's carbon targets and are pushing for some kind of compensation for slowing down ECO.
The householder pays the money back over many years through their energy bill during which, in theory, the consequent lower energy costs help offset the loan.
On Wednesday, the Climate Change Minister Greg Barker told BBC Newsnight he wanted to "marry up" ECO and the Green Deal which has thus far had a very poor take up.
State aid?
The ECO scheme began this year and obliges energy firms to pay for low income households to make their homes more energy efficient. The cost of this is transferred directly to everyone's energy bills. ECO is a two year project that will expire in March 2015. But under the government plans, it would be extended until 2017. This would halve the amount that energy firms have to spend each year and that saving would then be passed on to consumers.
Further savings are expected to come by reducing the cost of ECO, which vary wildly from company to company.
The Department of Energy estimates it adds an average £47 a year to the average household bill. The government is expected to act to bear down on the costs of the scheme so that the cheaper forms of insulation are used - such as lagging - rather than more expensive forms of solid wall insulation.
The warm homes discount helps people in the most vulnerable, low income households by taking £135 off their annual energy bills. The costs are borne by the energy firms who pass them onto their customers. The energy department estimates that the warm homes discount adds £11 a year to the average fuel bill and the government is planning to transfer the cost of this away from bills to general taxation.
There are questions about whether this would amount to a state aid to energy firms - something that is banned under EU law - and about how the government would choose to distribute the money. But sources say that transferring the warm homes discount to taxation is far easier than doing the same with ECO.
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Green levies face being watered down as ministers move to cut consumer bills | Environment | The Guardian
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In tomorrow's Sun on Sunday the Prime Minister and his Deputy will be outlining their proposals - and the politics is over whose proposals will benefit the poor better:
Government outlines plans to reduce energy bills
The coalition government has outlined its plans to reduce energy bills in the wake of rising costs.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg said their proposals would reduce bills by an average of £50, in an article in the Sun on Sunday. They said the government would pay for some measures currently included in bills and the cost of insulating homes would be spread over a longer period.
Labour has called the government's energy policy a "shambles". Its leader Ed Miliband has said that should his party win the next election, it would freeze gas and electricity bills for 20 months.
Discounts for poorest
But in the Sun on Sunday article, Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg also attacked Labour's energy plans, saying they would reduce energy bills "without taking any help away from poor families or sacrificing our green commitments." They said that the "two million poorest families who currently receive a discount on gas and electricity will continue to do so", but the government would pay for the discount, instead of it being included on energy bills.
That will reduce annual bills by approximately £12, the BBC understands.
Roger HarrabinEnvironment analyst
The news from the prime minister that the government's energy efficiency programme will now concentrate on schemes that offer best value for money will be broadly welcomed.
But there is anger among green groups that the overall budget for saving energy and bills is being cut, whilst other capital schemes which increase CO2 emissions - like new roads - will still go ahead.
Energy experts have been aghast at the recent turmoil over policy.
A government green business adviser, Peter Young from the Aldersgate Group, has written to the PM warning that in their attempt to drive bills down, politicians may be forcing bills up.
This is because investors needed to supply £100bn to renew the UK's electricity network may face higher interest rates because of lack of a stable policy.
The money to pay for the discount would be paid for from extra tax money brought in from cracking down on tax avoidance, they wrote.
And they confirmed a BBC report from earlier this week, that the cost to energy firms of insulating homes - "apart from in the worst off homes" - will be spread over a longer time period - thought to now be increased from two years to four, up to 2017.
They said the proposal would reduce people's bills, but did not specify by how much.
Representatives of the insulation industry have told the BBC that they fear this will mean significant job losses. The Association for the Conservation of Energy said from what it has seen of the government plans it anticipates around 10,000 jobs will be lost because they believe the change represents a halving of the budget for the work they carry out.
Government 'hoodwinked'
Andrew Warren from the Association for Conservation of Energy told the BBC: "It beggars belief that the government is trying to cut energy bills by delaying a scheme that itself cuts energy bills. The government has been hoodwinked by the Big Six energy firms who don't want to insulate people's homes because it means less profits for them."
Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg said the government would also pay for new incentives for people to insulate their homes. They wrote: "Alongside the Green Deal, when you buy a new home, you could get up to £1000 from Government to spend on important energy-saving measures - equivalent to half the stamp duty on the average house - or even more for particularly expensive measures. It's an all-round win: better insulation means cheaper bills; it's how we cut carbon emissions; and it will boost British businesses who provide these services."
In addition, landlords will be offered cash incentives to insulate their least energy-efficient properties between old tenants leaving and new ones moving in.
Government sources have not given a detailed breakdown of the figures, saying specific details will be announced by the chancellor in his Autumn Statement in Parliament on Thursday.
Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg also strongly criticised Labour in the article, saying the opposition's plan to freeze energy bills is "taking people for fools. Energy companies would hike up prices both before and after the freeze - so families would end up paying more. Not only that - by cutting investment in green energy, their freeze would threaten thousands of jobs," they wrote.
BBC News - Government outlines plans to reduce energy bills
But what are other countries doing about the soaring cost of energy and keeping warm? For example:
Futures Forum: Norway's price structuring for energy bills... no standing charges and higher price-bands for higher use
And another example, from today's Telegraph:
The Swedes don’t feel the cold like we do in Britain
It's not the price of energy that is the problem in Britain but the poor insulation of our homes - which means we use more fuel to heat them
It’s all in the insulation: Sweden is much colder, but we have four times their percentage of people in fuel poverty, though our gas is half the price
By Geoffrey Lean
9:02PM GMT 29 Nov 2013
Energy bills escalate. More and more people struggle to heat their homes, and increasing numbers of the neediest die of cold. So let’s slash the one programme that enables poor people permanently to reduce their heating costs.
Spot the logical flaw? If so, could you point it out to the Chancellor? For that counterproductive cut is precisely what he seems likely to announce in next week’s Autumn Statement.
That would be the craziest move yet in a topsy-turvy couple of months, when the once dull domain of energy policy has commanded the peak of the political agenda. It began of course, with Ed Miliband’s populist pledge to freeze energy prices. He piled on the pressure again yesterday, announcing proposals designed to break the companies’ hold on the energy market.
The Government has responded, as we report today, with a series of bill-cutting wheezes of its own. But it seems alarmingly clear that it has the wrong targets in mind.
Taking on the big energy firms is certainly something the public will cheer to the rafters – not least given recent accounts of how they have greatly exaggerated rises in the wholesale price of gas, amassed £2 billion through overpayments of direct debits, and – according to a competitor – overcharged customers by a staggering £3.7 billion a year.
The most scandalous statistic came last week, just two days after the revelation that the companies’ profits had risen fivefold in just four years. Some 31,000 people, the Office for National Statistics announced, died unnecessarily from the cold last winter, 29 per cent up on the year before, a third through lack of heating at home. More than five million households live in fuel poverty; by one comparison, a higher proportion of Britons have to spend too much of their income on energy than in any EU country except Estonia.
And yet, despite all the furore, energy prices are not the principal problem. Even though they have soared, EC figures show British gas prices to be the lowest in Europe. But our bills are among the highest, because we use a lot of fuel – since our homes are among the least energy efficient.
Compare us to Sweden, with an almost identical per capita income, but a much colder climate. We have four times their percentage of people in fuel poverty, though we pay only half as much for gas. As our homes are poorly insulated, they lose three times as much heat through their walls.
The answer should be a no-brainer – insulate. And there have been a series of, admittedly inadequate, programmes to help the poor to do so, culminating in the current Energy Company Obligation (ECO), under which suppliers are required to carry out efficiency measures. It is this that Mr Osborne is intent on cutting, by spreading its two-year programme over four. If he does so, spending on energy efficiency in England will have dropped by 62 per cent since the Coalition took office.
More than 140 organisations – ranging from Barnardo’s to confused.com, from AgeUK to the TUC – have written to him in ECO’s defence. Insulating houses saves families an average £400 a year. It is job-intensive, now employing some 136,000 people. It provides one of the highest returns on investment; £350 million spent under ECO will save a total of £4.2 billion. And it helps avoid energy shortages. No wonder David Cameron this year hailed it as “right for the economy”, pledging “to make Britain the most energy efficient country in Europe”.
Who could possibly be against it? Most energy companies, because it depresses their sales.
Energy-saving measures carried out since 2005 have cut household consumption by a quarter. The companies have long campaigned against ECO, falsely claiming that it and other “green taxes” were behind their steep price rises, and fingering it as the main culprit. Now the Chancellor looks like capitulating. If he cuts the programme as expected, calculates the Association for the Conservation of Energy, the Big Six will avoid spending £1.3 billion on ECO measures, and sell £360 million worth of extra fuel to the uninsulated houses. Six hundred thousand families will pay hundreds of pounds extra annually, and at least 10,000 jobs will be lost. All for some £50 off the average bill of nearly £1,300.
If Mr Osborne wants to cut “green taxes”, he should axe the expensive carbon floor price, which hugely disadvantages British industry. If he must keep it, he could use its revenue to super-insulate housing, creating more jobs and growth – studies show – than any almost any other way. He won’t, because the Treasury milks it as a cash cow.
The “most energy efficient country in Europe”? Dream on.
The Swedes don’t feel the cold like we do in Britain - Telegraph
And an article in today's Guardian makes similar comparisons:
Britain's damp, leaky homes among Europe's most costly to heat
Spiralling levels of fuel poverty make government plans to cut home insulation programme perverse, says adviser
UK homes are some of the most expensive to heat in Europe because of poor maintenance and insulation, according to new figures from the EU compiled for the Guardian.
The analysis of official EU data also found that the UK has the highest levels of fuel poverty of a dozen comparable EU nations, as well as one of the worst proportions of homes in a poor state of repair. Over 10m British families live in a home with a leaking roof, damp walls or rotting windows.
The expense of heating leaky homes means government plans to cut a programme that insulates properties in an attempt to trim energy bills is "unforgivably perverse", according to the government's fuel poverty adviser, Derek Lickorish. He condemned the intention signalled by ministers to cut the energy company obligation (ECO) in George Osborne's autumn statement next Thursday. "ECO is a life-saving measure for some and we should be actually doing more. No one should be dying because they cannot afford to heat their home."
Andrew Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, who speaks frequently to ministers, said: "It is absolutely disgraceful that the big energy companies have orchestrated this unscrupulous campaign, that appears to be succeeding in blackmailing the UK government into cutting by half its established policy to help customers stop wasting money by wasting fuel."
Ed Matthew, director of campaign group Energy Bill Revolution, an alliance of over 160 organisations including the TUC, IKEA, Asda and Shelter, said: "It is a national disgrace that thousands of people are dying unnecessarily every year, lives that could be saved by something as simple as better insulation. If Osborne cuts the total energy efficiency budget, as many fear, he will be condemning people to death."
The new figures, compiled by the Association for the Conservation of Energy from official EU data, compares the UK with other EU states with similar climates and income levels, including Germany, France and the Benelux countries. The UK ranks bottom of the 12 for fuel poverty, 11th for the proportion of income spent on energy bills and 9th for homes in a poor state of repair.
Other data, from the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, shows that UK has the oldest houses in the EU, with over half built before 1960 and just over 10% built since 1991. Older UK homes require at least double the energy to stay warm compared with many countries, even those with colder climates such as Sweden.
The political row over energy bills and the ECO levy has intensified ahead of the autumn statement, which will reveal the changes promised when David Cameron pledged to "roll back" green and social levies. The proposed changes to ECO would mean spending to help people insulate their homes was at the lowest level in over a decade. In February the prime minister said: "We are putting energy efficiency where it should be, at the heart of our energy policy. I want … to make Britain the most energy efficient country in Europe."
Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, said: "We have some of the oldest and leakiest houses in western Europe, that is for sure. We have been very complacent about energy use for a very long time." King also criticised the government's plans for ECO, which comprises 3.7% or £47 a year of the average bill: "Ministers have been spending too much time finding something that works for the energy companies, not consumers."
Warren said: "There has simply never been a concerted effort to tackle energy efficiency. The government's green deal programme was supposed to do it but that has failed for many reasons." The green deal, a loan scheme for retrofitting homes was intended to tackle 14m homes by 2020 but has managed just 219 in its first year. "Any home built before the mid-1980s was built without any requirements at all for insulation, windows and so on," said Warren. Building standards are better now, he said. "But even now, most homes built do not comply with the standards and government proposals to tackle that have been kicked into the long grass."
Lickorish, who chairs the government's fuel poverty advisory group, said: "It is unforgivably perverse that ECO – the only thing that can reduce the bills of consumers permanently – is the only thing the government is focusing on."
On Tuesday, the Office for National Statistics reported 31,100 excess winter deaths in England and Wales in 2012, up by almost a third on the previous winter. "Not all winter deaths are due to fuel poverty but we understand very clearly the links between cardiovascular and other diseases and cold, damp homes," said Lickorish, calling the level of deaths "morally unforgiveable". He said: "The chancellor is prepared to insulate big business from [green levies] but not to insulate the homes of the fuel poor. The government is not protecting the vulnerable."
On Thursday the energy secretary, Ed Davey, told the political magazine House he would not agree to cuts in ECO. "There's no way as a Liberal Democrat, as a minister, I can cut the average person's bills on the back of the poorest. [I'm] just not going there."
Britain's damp, leaky homes among Europe's most costly to heat | Environment | The Guardian
Labels: energy, environment, finance
"Community energy offers a long-lasting solution that protects against ‘big six’ price rises and pumps money back into local areas.”
There have been several proposals on how energy can be generated by local people. These are postings from the last six months:
Futures Forum: Tidal Reef at Port Royal
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Futures Forum: "Support communities who want to install renewable energy systems"
With the latest being the launch of the SidEnergy project this month:
Futures Forum: SidEnergy launch... at the Observatory... Thursday 14th November
Futures Forum: SidEnergy launch: event report
Futures Forum: SidEnergy launch: more event reports
Following on from the latest about energy price hikes and the politics around it
Big Six urged to freeze energy prices - Telegraph
Government denies asking Big Six for energy price freeze - Telegraph
the Telegraph posted a story today from the West Country - focussing on the most controversial form of renewable energy:
Desperate villagers turn to wind to cut energy bills
Sick of paying too much for power, locals banded together to generate their own
The residents of St Briavels in Gloucestershire put up a wind turbine to cut their energy costs. Photo: PA
By Kyle Caldwell
Industrial-scale wind farms have aroused the anger of millions of people up and down the country. But a single turbine, built on the initiative of local people and sited on their own land, is a different story. The residents of one English village decided to put their own money into such a scheme to cut their bills, liberate themselves from the big power companies – and generate a decent 8pc return on their investment.
Their action came as millions of British households feel the chill this winter after being hit with above-inflation rises in their energy bills. Five of the “big six” gas and electricity suppliers have increased their energy charges in recent months, by an average of 8.1pc. The likelihood is that the only provider that has not raised bills, E.On, will make it a clean sweep in January.
The price rises, which have become a common feature every winter in recent years, sparked both public and political anger. More than 150,000 people have already started to act by switching to smaller energy firms, but the villagers of St Briavels in Gloucestershire have gone a step further.
Hundreds of locals were so keen to cut their costs for the long term that they paid for their local wind turbine earlier this year. The towering structure, a mile from their village, generates enough electricity to power 300 homes, a fifth of the local parish. Some residents invested £5, while others parted with as much as £50,000. In total £1.4m was raised to build the turbine via a crowdfunding website, Abundance Generation.
The residents benefit in two ways. The investment they have made in the wind turbine, which is situated on a farm in the village, has been put into a 20-year “community bond”. Under the terms of the bond the residents receive an 8pc annual dividend each year. In some years the dividend payment could be lower or higher, depending on how much electricity the turbine generates and sells. In addition, around £15,000 to £20,000 of the profits are put back into the community to fund local projects. The money has already been used to pay for new laptops at the village school.
The villagers also pay less for their energy. The turbine sells the power it generates to the local grid, qualifying it for payments under the Government’s “feed-in tariff” scheme. These “green taxes” inflate bills for customers across the country. The energy generated is sold to Co‑operative Energy, which gives the residents £50 off their electricity bills.
In total 427 residents have put money into the wind turbine, with the average resident investing £3,300. The average resident is therefore netting £266 a year from the 8pc return on their investment and a further £50 from their reduced energy bills, making an overall saving of more than £300. Some residents have saved even more. Anthony Cooke, the farmer on whose land the 74m turbine stands, receives free electricity worth around £9,000 a year.
Andrew Clarke and his wife Sue the village residents who set up the project, have both worked in the energy industry for more than two decades. Mr Clarke said the wind turbine had proved to be so successful because people felt they were being “ripped off” by high energy costs. “Everyone wants to cut down their energy bills, which rise year after year. By creating our own power the whole village is being more energy efficient and at the same time are saving a lot of money,” said Mr Clarke.
A recent report from Zipcar found that by putting aside money to offset food and energy bills the average Britain saves £531 a year. “Today with even more goods and services that can be consumed ‘on demand’, or shared, consumers are showing that saving money and being efficient is not just a fad,” said the firm.
Anna Watson of Friends of the Earth added: “People shouldn’t have to repeatedly switch energy supplier to stop themselves being ripped off – community energy offers a long-lasting solution that protects against ‘big six’ price rises and pumps money back into local areas.”
In recent weeks the big six energy firms have pledged to drop their fuel price rises if the Government agrees to cut “green taxes” in the Autumn Statement next month. These subsidise energy-efficient projects.
Mr Clarke said any change in the Autumn Statement would not affect the wind turbine in St Briavels. “Any changes will only have an impact on new energy projects, but I am confident that the Government will continue to support schemes that benefit both the environment and the community,” he said.
Desperate villagers turn to wind to cut energy bills - Telegraph
Labels: alternative technology, energy, environment, finance, south-west
"Over-representing parties through the voting system" ...some figures
Following on from the correspondence posted from the Herald
Futures Forum: "Over-representing parties through the voting system"
this set of statistics has just been sent to the FF blog:
Its interesting how [Cllr Twiss] assumes those who didn’t vote would have voted Tory, yet even in his own ward the vast majority didn’t.
In the 2011 local elections there were 5238 electors in Honiton St Pauls, with up to 15714 votes available, there being three candidates.
With a relatively low turnout of 41%, Cllr Twiss received 813 votes and was elected with a very low threshold of 5.2%.
The three Tory Cllrs managed a total 2774 votes, i.e. 17.7%, so the vast majority of the remaining 12914 elector’s votes in the pool didn’t vote Tory.
Compare this with Independent Cllr Giles who received a resounding 20% of the total vote pool in Ottery St Mary Town Ward.
Honiton St Michaels (7) turnout = 41% = 5238 electors
x3 candidates = 15714 total possible votes to be cast
Mike Allen Conservatives 963 6.1%
Peter Halse Conservatives 998 6.4%
Phil Twiss Conservatives 813 5.2%
Tories 2774 17.7% of total votes
Others: electors who did not vote Conservative = remaining 12940 = 82.3%
Ottery St Mary Town Ward (3) turnout = 50.4% = 3781 electors
x2 candidates = 7562 total votes
Roger Giles Independent 1546 20%
David Cox Conservatives 628 8.3%
See also these figures from 2009:
Honiton St Michaels By-Election 26 February 2009
Liberal Democrat Marion Olive 636 51.1 +51.1
Conservative Phillip Twiss 609 48.9 -20.9
Majority 27 2.2
Turnout 1,245 23.7
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative Swing
East Devon local elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lib Dems take by-election - the Devon Week
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Third of Northern Ireland adults in despair over body image
by Vinfrido Dina - at May 15, 2019
Tomorrow, she will be at the headquarters of Girlguiding Scotland to launch an advisory group on body image.
"Our survey has shown that millions of young people in Britain are worrying about their body image".
Earlier this week, the Mental Health Foundation released a report that revealed one in eight United Kingdom adults have experienced suicidal thoughts or feelings due to concerns about their body image.
Responding to the figures, Emma Mamo, Head of Workplace Wellbeing at Mind, said: "With mental health problems so common among employees, it's important that every workplace - no matter the size - makes staff wellbeing a priority".
Worryingly, more than a third (35%) said they have stopped eating or restricted their diets as a result of their worry about their body image.
The announcement was made to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, which is organised by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), and this year focuses on the theme of body image.
"The majority of workers have felt stressed or anxious about work over the past year."
For the younger generation, Griffin said concerns consisted of paying school fees, mortgages and saving for retirement, and advisers should work to help their clients create a financial plan that was suitable to their needs and, as such, should help improve their mental health.
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The foundation calls on the Government and relevant industries to take action, including regulation of social media and more powers for the Advertising Standards Authority.
New data about the impact of body image on young people's mental health will be published by MHF later this week. "Social media companies should urgently up their game in taking practical steps to ensure that the content they promote does not exacerbate body image concerns".
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A human neuron/oligodendrocyte co-culture model to study myelination
Shafit-Zagardo, Bridget
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
See 34 grants from Bridget Shafit-Zagardo
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Regulation of CD8+ T cell immunity to tuberculosis
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
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MRI Progression Markers of Cognitive Decline in the Elderly
Ghana Cancer Registry - from Hospital to Population: a Pilot Study
Defining clinical and sterile immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection using systems biology approaches
Generalizability and Spread of an Evidenced-based Fall Prevention Toolkit: Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety)
A pivotal issue for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is the long-term survival and integrity of neurons and oligodendrocytes, and maintenance of the myelin sheath. Over time, the progressive nature of MS results in a chronic disease course with permanent axonal damage, neuronal and oligodendrocyte loss, demyelination, and diminished re-myelination. Studies in animal models have proved useful in exploring disease mechanisms and in testing therapeutic paradigms, however model systems using cells of human origin are clearly essential for the identification of proteins required to maintain and enhance myelination in humans. In this proposal, our goal is to use our human co-culture system of dorsal root ganglia and oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPC) to determine the extent to which factors proposed to enhance myelination in rodents function similarly in the human system. We will expand upon our preliminary data that show that growth-arrest specific protein 6 (gas6) enhances OPC maturation and axon ensheathment, and test whether in combination with gas6, the activation of cannabinoid receptors, or the retinoid X receptor (RXR) can promote further the maturation and myelinating activity of human OPC in vitro.
In Specific Aim 1, we will continue to examine the ability of gas6 to enhance axonal ensheathment, and examine by immunofluorescent microscopy and electron microscopy the extent to which myelin proteins are expressed in the developing myelin sheath, whether compact myelin is achieved over time, and the correlation between axonal diameter and myelin sheath formation.
In Specific Aim 2 A, we will examine the contribution of agonists and antagonists of cannabinoid (CB) receptors plus and minus gas6 to determine whether CB2 agonists enhance myelination and aid in myelin compaction.
In Specific Aim 2 B, we will determine whether 9-cis-retinoic acid signaling through the RXR? receptor enhances myelination. These studies will help to define factors required for human myelination. Analysis of growth factors, receptor agonists and signaling molecules will determine the potential role of these factors in enhancing human myelination with a focus on the factors required for compact myelin formation in a human model system.
We propose to use a novel human neuronal/oligodendrocyte co-culture model to study factors required by human OLs to form myelin. A particular focus of these studies will be to examine the contribution of growth-arrest specific protein 6 (gas6) to oligodendrocyte maturation and myelin protein expression. In addition, we will examine the role of cannabinoid receptors and retinoid X receptors on myelin protein expression and the role of specific agonists and antagonists in enhancing myelination. To our knowledge, our system is the only completely human co-culture model in which mature myelin synthesizing proteins are expressed, and in which OLs are shown to wrap axons by electron microscopy.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
5R21NS079144-02
Cellular and Molecular Biology of Glia Study Section (CMBG)
Utz, Ursula
Schools of Medicine
R21 NS A human neuron/oligodendrocyte co-culture model to study myelination
Shafit-Zagardo, Bridget / Albert Einstein College of Medicine $201,444
O'Guin, Kathleen N; Gruber, Ross C; Raine, Cedric S et al. (2014) Gas6 enhances axonal ensheathment by MBP+ membranous processes in human DRG/OL promyelinating co-cultures. ASN Neuro 6:e00135
Gruber, Ross C; Ray, Alex K; Johndrow, Christopher T et al. (2014) Targeted GAS6 delivery to the CNS protects axons from damage during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neurosci 34:16320-35
Tsiperson, Vladislav; Gruber, Ross C; Goldberg, Michael F et al. (2013) Suppression of inflammatory responses during myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is regulated by AKT3 signaling. J Immunol 190:1528-39
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Mac’s Midget Tournament Back for 40th Year
By Neil Hilts on December 29, 2017
From Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, Midget AAA hockey teams from around the world come to Calgary to compete in the Mac's Midget AAA World Invitational. With 25 teams on the men's side and eight on the women's, it's an action-packed week in rinks around the city. (Courtesy of Mac's Midget AAA Tournament)
Shortly after Christmas, Calgary made headlines as being colder than the North Pole and Mars, among other places, as an arctic spell swept through the city.
The cold weather wasn’t the only visitor, as the yearly Mac’s Midget AAA World Invitational brought in teams from California, Carolina, New York, Hungary and Belarus, among other places. Even the Hungarians and Belarusians must’ve been shocked by the -20 C weather in Cowtown, as their home countries were above freezing at the tournament’s start.
Kicking off on Boxing Day in several rinks around Calgary, the Mac’s is a tradition for not only several local AAA Midget teams, but many visiting teams as well.
The men’s side has 25 teams with one local team as a host in each division: Calgary Royals, Calgary Flames, Calgary Buffaloes, Okotoks Bow Mark Oilers and Calgary Bisons.
There are just eight teams in the female tournament, highlighted by local teams Calgary Fire and Rocky Mountain Raiders.
Female Division
Each year, the Raiders continue to send out one of the tournament’s strongest teams and have once again done so this year. As of Friday morning, the defending champions are 3-0 with 17 goals for and two against and have one game remaining against Prince Albert on Saturday.
With the Raiders on clear control of their pool (Regina, Swift Current and Fraser Valley each have one win), the other group is wide open.
Prince Albert and Calgary both have a win and a tie, sitting at three points, with Delta at one win and two points. Delta and PA both have two games remaining in the round robin, while Calgary has one. The 0-3 Vancouver Island Seals are hoping for a win in their final game to end the tournament on a high note.
As one might expect, the Raiders also dominate the scoring race, having the top five scorers on their squad. Mary McDonald leads the way with eight points, and is tied for the lead in goals (three) with teammates Kara Kondrat and Breanne Trotter.
Five goalies have turned in shutouts, including Kayla Munro of Fraser Valley who stopped all 36 shots against the Calgary Fire
Male Division
Returning as defending champions, the Belarus U-17 National Team have got off to a good start a 2-1 with an average of nearly six goals per game and have one more contest before the knockout stage. Red Deer leads the pool at 2-0 with two games to play.
In Pool 1, the Calgary Royals and St. Albert Raiders are deadlocked with 2-1 records and one game remaining, although the Royals have a slight goal differential lead. Tisdale and Fraser Valley each have one win and two games left, so they could jump into the top two. The Mac’s has not been kind to the Hungarians, who started 0-2.
The hottest team in the tournament is the local Calgary Buffaloes, who are 2-0 and have 9-1 win over Swift Current and 15-1 win over Carolina. They’ll face a tougher test against the Knights of Columbus (Edmonton), also 2-0, on Saturday. Carolina is having a tough time, having allowed 35 goals in three contests.
Pool 4 is waiting for a team to breakout, as four teams sit with one win. Games have been much closer than other divisions, so it looks like the maker of the groups got this one right. The Lethbridge Hurricanes at 1-0-1 are first in their division in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League and could claim this Pool with a strong final two games.
Similar to Pool 4, as of Friday morning it was unclear who would win Pool 5. Again, four teams have one win, and the 0-2 Ontario Jr. Reign out of California haven’t looked out of place. The Valley West Hawks, with one win and two ties, have a one point advantage, but the Calgary Northstars and Regina Pat Canadians have a game in hand.
With 24 goals in just two games, it comes as no shock the Buffaloes have three of the top four scorers so far. Liam Fraser has six goals and 10 points, while teammate Layne Sniher has seven assists and eight points. Cariboo’s Brennan Malgunas has three goals and seven points for third in scoring. Second in goals behind Fraser is Brett Rylance of the Knights of Columbus Pats with five goals in two games.
Braeden Stephen of Knights of Columbus has two wins and has stopped 34 of 35 shots to highlight goaltender leaders. Five other goalies have recorded shutouts.
Round robin play continues Friday and Saturday before the knockout stage comes in Sunday.
The finals will be played at the Scotiabank Saddledome, home of the Calgary Flames, on New Year’s Day, with the women playing at noon and men at 4 p.m. Check back on HockeyNow.ca for a full recap.
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Andrew Crawford
Tim Haddow
Ann MacNeill
Julie McKinlay
Graham Middleton
Safeena Rashid
Katerina Stein
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After practising as a solicitor in both the public and private sectors, Julie called to the Bar in 2013. As a solicitor in private practice Julie specialised in commercial litigation with an emphasis on property litigation. She has experience as a solicitor in a wide range of property related disputes in both the sheriff court and the Court of Session. In the public sector Julie advised Council committees on a range of legal issues and was the Legal Advisor to East Ayrshire's Adoption and Fostering Panel. Julie also represented the Council in the sheriff court and at tribunal and in other forums in respect of a range of Council interests including planning; education; social work; housing and employment. Julie is a legal assessor to the General Teaching Council for Scotland and a Legally Qualified Chair of the Scottish Social Services Council. In 2018 Julie was appointed as a Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government and has been appointed to the new panel of Scottish counsel for EHRC Scotland.
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Dip.L.P University of Glasgow
Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test 1996
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#StreamingScene by Calum Reed Film
I See You | Andrew Schuth
It’s been 20 years since game-changer The Blair Witch Project hit cinemas, and yet the found-footage horror sub-genre is going strong. Just last year, both the well-regarded horror sequel Unfriended: Dark Web and the missing-persons thriller Searching pulled off novel formal feats, weaving together action from webcams, video files, and CCTV systems to conjure deliciously clever spins on found-footage concepts. By contrast, Andrew Schuth’s I See You is an endlessly tawdry and entirely uncreative iteration of this specific brand of scary movie. It begins with the purchase of a video camera at a yard sale, and then quickly shifts its diegesis to footage recorded on said camera, ten years earlier — footage of a video blogger named Steve (Aaron Perilo), who documents his mundane life while the people around him are gruesomely murdered by an unknown assailant. Throughout, I See You requires the viewer to allay a certain amount of skepticism for the sake of entertainment, like most found-footage films — yet even by the standards of its contemporaries, this film stretches its logic to seriously dubious ends. Schuth simply doesn’t provide much justification for how the recording of certain scenes became necessary, or permissible — and so I See You asks us to just accept on faith that a boss would conduct a performance review within listening distance of his employees, and that a commercial strip club would be perfectly OK with patrons shooting close-ups of its dancers.
While the film is also actively critical of hypermasculinity, its lack of interest in providing any kind of female perspective makes those intentions feel disingenuous.
More problematic in I See You is Schuth’s representation of women: they are constantly sexualized, exhibit no discerning personalities, and are all eventually rendered helpless victims. Given that the majority of the violence is perpetrated towards these characters, I See You can feel quite distasteful; and while the film is also actively critical of hypermasculinity, its lack of interest in providing any kind of female perspective makes those intentions feel disingenuous. Similarly, while Shuth frames his film as a kind of whodunit, he seems more interested in delivering a comment on the narcissism of criminals who document, and create ‘artifacts,’ of their crimes, particularly in the tech-friendly era of the 21st century. The director maintains some level of suspense as to the identity of the killer, and as to their motive, but his orchestration of the murders themselves is chaotic and mindless, compounded by frantic editing which telegraphs Shuth’s own lack of faith in an audience’s attention span. A twist in the denouement actually veers towards the thought-provoking politics of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, linking psychosis with legacy-seeking and celebrity, but by then, it’s hard to muster much enthusiasm. For too long, I See You squanders opportunities to expand on its concept and lacks the sort of creative ingenuity required for us to remotely invest in its grisly, misbegotten spectacle.
You can currently stream Andrew Schuth’s I See You on Amazon Prime.
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Preparation and Characterization of Nanoencapsulated Fucoxanthin: Release Kinetics and Bioavailability.
Dhevya, R. M. (2014) Preparation and Characterization of Nanoencapsulated Fucoxanthin: Release Kinetics and Bioavailability. [Student Project Report] (Submitted)
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Seaweeds belong to a group of plants known as algae, they are considered as a source of bioactive compounds as they are able to produce a great variety of secondary metabolites characterized by a broad spectrum of biological activities. Seaweeds are of nutritional interest as they contain low calorie but rich in vitamins, minerals and dietary fibers. Seaweed is a rich source of carotenoids. Carotenoids are yellow to red isoprenoid polyene pigments; approximately 650 carotenoids are known from bacteria, fungi, plants and animals. Carotenoids, in general, classified as carotenes or provitamin A carotenoids and xanthophylls or non-provitamin A carotenoids. Among the xanthophyll carotenoid, fucoxanthin (FUCO), a marine carotenoid, in specific, affords various physiological effects such as anti-obesity and diabetes, combat cancer, anti-oxidation. FUCO is mainly found in brown algae (brown seaweeds) such as kelp, hijiki, and wakame. The present study focused on the development of lipid based hybrid nanocapsules with FUCO has an increased bioavailability; FUCO was extracted from the brown algae with organic solvent and purified by Open Column Chromatography. The extracted FUCO was checked for purity by UV Spectrophotometer and HPLC, and then the purified FUCO was used for the development of nanocapsules by ionic- gelation method. The developed nanocapsulse were characterized by particle size analyzer, scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform-infrared spectrometer. Further, the encapsulation efficiency, release kinetics and in vitro digestion of nanocapsule FUCO were analyzed. From the structural analysis, it was found that, the size of the nanocapsules was shape in spherical. The encapsulation efficiency of lipid based nanocapsules is found to be higher than that of the non-lipid based nanocapsules. The encapsulated FUCO was analyzed for its release kinetics by in vitro release kinetics and biological availability by in vitro digestion method, which showed that the stability of lipid based nanocapsulated FUCO was higher than that of the non-lipid based ones. From this work, thus it can be concluded that lipid based nano-encapsulation of FUCO not only helps in increasing the stability but also render higher biological availability.
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Seaweeds, fucoxanthin, hybrid nanocapsules
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DCP Midstream Partners Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2008 Results
- Signed Acquisition Agreement to Acquire Additional 25.1 Percent Interest in East Texas Joint Venture from DCP Midstream
- Discovery and Wyoming Systems Returning to Full Service
DENVER, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM), or the Partnership, today reported financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2008.
FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR END HIGHLIGHTS
Three Months Ended Year Ended
December 31, December 31,
2008 2007 2008 2007
(Millions, except per unit amounts)
Net income (loss) $141.3 $(39.9) $128.2 $(15.8)
Net income (loss) per unit $2.77 $(1.69) $3.29 $(1.05)
Adjusted EBITDA $13.6 $37.7 $90.4 $110.3
Adjusted net (loss) income $(4.3) $21.3 $27.2 $65.3
Adjusted net (loss) income per
unit $(0.25) $0.81 $0.61 $2.86
Distributable cash flow $12.9 $24.9 $80.3 $86.4
Adjusted EBITDA was $13.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008, as compared to $37.7 million for the same period in 2007. The decrease for the fourth quarter was primarily due to the impact of hurricane Ike, a non-cash write down of inventory for our wholesale propane business and lower commodity prices, partially offset by earnings from our Michigan acquisition. Adjusted EBITDA for 2008 was $90.4 million compared to $110.3 million for 2007. The decrease for the year is primarily due to the impact of hurricanes Gustav and Ike and non-cash write downs of inventory for our wholesale propane business, partially offset by acquisitions closed during 2007 and 2008.
Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income or loss and adjusted net income or loss per unit, which are non-generally accepted accounting principles ("non-GAAP") financial measures, eliminate the impact of non-cash mark-to-market gains and losses which arise from valuing certain of the Partnership's derivative transactions. Each are explained in greater detail under "Non-GAAP Financial Information" below and are reconciled to their most comparable GAAP financial measures, in "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures" below.
DISTRIBUTION AND DISTRIBUTABLE CASH FLOW
On February 13, 2009, the Partnership paid a quarterly distribution of $0.60 per limited partner unit. Distributable cash flow was $12.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2008, our distributable cash flow of $80.3 million provided 1.0 times the amount required to cover our total distribution. In addition to the impacts affecting adjusted EBITDA from the hurricanes, non-cash write down of propane inventory and lower commodity prices, distributable cash flow was impacted by the maintenance capital related to the pipeline integrity and system enhancements on our Wyoming system. Distributions for our 40 percent interest in Discovery are paid one quarter in arrears. As a result, distributable cash flow for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2008, was only impacted by third quarter operating results related to the hurricanes.
Distributable cash flow, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is explained in greater detail under "Non-GAAP Financial Information" below and is reconciled from net income or loss and from net cash provided by or used in operating activities, its most comparable GAAP financial measures, in "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures" below. Non-cash gains or losses associated with the mark-to-market accounting treatment of our commodity derivative instruments do not affect our distributable cash flow.
"We remain focused on the fundamentals of our business," said Mark Borer, president and CEO of the Partnership. "During the fourth quarter we laid out a plan to support our distribution, reinforced by the strength of our diverse portfolio of assets, our multi-year commodity hedging program, and strong commitment to our long term success by the owner of our general partner, DCP Midstream. As part of our plan, DCP Midstream will drop down an additional 25.1 percent interest in our East Texas joint venture in April."
"Operationally, we are pleased to report our new Michigan gas gathering, treating and transportation assets are performing according to our expectations, contributing fee-based revenues to our cash flow," continued Borer. "The majority of volumes on our Discovery offshore pipeline and Wyoming system are currently flowing and we expect the remainder to return upon completion of all repairs in early March."
ACQUISITION AGREEMENT FOR 25.1 PERCENT INTEREST IN EAST TEXAS JOINT VENTURE FROM DCP MIDSTREAM
The Partnership announced today it has signed an acquisition agreement to acquire an additional 25.1 percent interest in DCP East Texas Holdings, LLC from DCP Midstream. The transaction, which is expected to close in April, will be fully financed through the issuance of Partnership units to DCP Midstream. Upon closing, the Partnership will own 50.1 percent of the joint venture, with DCP Midstream owning the remaining interest.
-- DCP Midstream will contribute a 25.1 percent interest in exchange for
3.5 million Class D units. The Class D units will automatically convert
into Common Units in August 2009 and will not be eligible to receive a
distribution until the second quarter distribution payable in August
-- DCP Midstream has agreed to provide a fixed price natural gas liquids
(NGL) hedge by NGL component for the period of April 2009 to March 2010
for the acquired interest.
-- The additional interest, including the NGL hedge, is expected to
generate approximately $15 million of adjusted EBITDA during the first
twelve months.
"This transaction will be immediately accretive and provides us with an attractive source of long term cash flows in a dynamic area where we see promise for continued growth from the emerging Haynesville Shale play," said Mark Borer. "Moreover, this transaction underscores DCP Midstream's long term commitment to the Partnership."
ASSETS RETURNING TO FULL SERVICE
Remaining volumes on our Discovery offshore gathering system are expected to be returned in early March. Discovery's offshore gathering system had been damaged by hurricane Ike in September 2008 when an 18-inch lateral was severed from its connection to the 30-inch mainline in 250 feet of water. Repairs were completed on the 30-inch mainline in January, restoring approximately 150 MMcfd to the system. With the completion of the 18-inch lateral repairs, the remaining approximately 30 MMcfd of volume will be restored.
The final phase of the pipeline integrity and system enhancement project on our Wyoming gas gathering system is on schedule to be completed in early March, returning the system to full service. As previously announced, volumes were curtailed in the second quarter of 2008 following pipeline integrity testing. The second phase of the project was completed in early January, returning approximately 80 percent of the system capacity to service. The system upgrade project was conducted to assure pipeline integrity, improve system reliability and reduce operating costs.
OPERATING RESULTS BY BUSINESS SEGMENT
Natural Gas Services -- Adjusted segment gross margin increased $5.2 million to $34.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008, from $28.8 million for the same period in 2007, primarily due to growth from our Michigan acquisition and at our Collbran asset, partially offset by lower commodity prices.
Adjusted segment gross margin increased $12.8 million to $107.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, from $94.5 million for the same period in 2007, primarily due to growth from acquisitions closed in 2007 and 2008, partially offset by hedge settlements for East Texas and Discovery for the first nine months of 2008 and curtailed volumes on our Douglas system in Wyoming during pipeline integrity and system enhancement work.
Equity earnings representing our 25 percent interest in East Texas and 40 percent interest in Discovery represented a loss of $4.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008, as compared to earnings of $16.1 million for the same period in 2007. Decreased earnings were primarily due to Discovery's hurricane-related outage and the impact of decreased commodity prices on our margins. Hedge settlements related to our commodity derivatives on our equity investments are included in adjusted segment gross margin.
Equity earnings were $33.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, as compared to $38.7 million for the same period in 2007. Decreased earnings were primarily the result of Discovery's hurricane-related outage.
Wholesale Propane Logistics -- Adjusted segment gross margin was a loss of $0.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008 as compared to adjusted segment gross margin of $10.3 million for the same period in 2007. Adjusted segment gross margin was $8.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2008 and $28.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. For the three months and year ended December 31, 2008, we recorded non-cash adjustments reducing adjusted segment gross margin by approximately $11.9 million and $15.1 million, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2007, to reflect inventory carrying costs at the lower of cost or market price. The inventory write downs are generally recovered at the time of the sale of the inventory. We estimate approximately half of the 2008 write downs were recovered through the sale of inventory in 2008.
NGL Logistics -- Segment gross margin was $1.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008, as compared to segment gross margin of $1.2 million for the same period in 2007, primarily due to increased throughput volumes on the Wilbreeze pipeline, partially offset by lower throughput volumes on the Seabreeze pipeline. Segment gross margin was $7.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, and $4.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2007, primarily due to increased throughput volumes.
Segment gross margin and adjusted segment gross margin, which are non-GAAP financial measures, are explained in greater detail under "Non-GAAP Financial Information" below and are reconciled from segment net (loss) income, their most comparable GAAP financial measure, in "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures" below.
CORPORATE AND OTHER
General and administrative expense decreased by $2.3 million for the three months and $2.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, primarily due to decreased compensation and benefits expenses and acquisition related costs.
Depreciation and amortization expense increased for the three months and year ended December 31, 2008, as compared to the same periods in 2007, primarily as a result of acquisitions in 2007 and 2008.
Net interest expense increased for the three months and year ended December 31, 2008, as compared to the same periods in 2007, primarily due to acquisitions in 2007 and 2008, partially offset by lower average interest rates.
COMMODITY DERIVATIVE ACTIVITY
We utilize mark-to-market accounting treatment for our commodity derivative instruments. Mark-to-market accounting rules require companies to record currently in earnings the difference between their contracted future derivative settlement prices and the forward prices of the underlying commodities at the end of the accounting period. Revaluing our commodity derivative instruments based on futures pricing at the end of the period creates an asset or liability and associated non-cash gain or loss. Realized gains or losses from cash settlement of the derivative contracts occur monthly as our physical commodity sales are realized or when we rebalance our portfolio.
Due primarily to a large decrease in forward crude oil and natural gas prices in the fourth quarter of 2008, we recorded a non-cash gain associated with our commodity derivative instruments of $146.0 million, as compared to a non-cash loss of $61.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2007. For the year ended December 31, 2008, we recorded a non-cash gain of $101.6 million, as compared to a non-cash loss of $81.1 million for same period in 2007. While our earnings will continue to fluctuate as a result of the volatility in the commodity markets, our derivative contracts help to stabilize distributable cash flows.
Our credit facility of $825 million is comprised of a revolver and term loan that mature in June 2012. At December 31, 2008, we had $596.5 million outstanding under our revolver. We also had $60 million of term loan outstanding, fully secured by $60 million of restricted investments serving as collateral. Due to the fully secured status of the term loan, balances outstanding are netted from total long-term debt to calculate our leverage ratio. Our leverage ratio pursuant to our credit facility for the quarter ended December 31, 2008, was approximately 3.9x.
Our liquidity is comprised of available capacity under our revolver and the collateral securing our term loan that may be used to fund organic capital expenditures or acquisitions. Our available liquidity at December 31, 2008, was $228 million.
We mitigate a substantial portion of our interest rate risk with interest rate swaps which reduce our exposure to market rate fluctuations by converting variable interest rates to fixed interest rates. As of December 31, 2008, we had $575 million of our revolver debt converted to fixed rates through June 2012. Our weighted average cost of debt under our revolving credit facility as of December 31, 2008, was 4.5 percent.
We are currently in litigation with El Paso E&P Company concerning a commercial dispute involving our Minden, Louisiana processing plant. Some of El Paso's claims date back to a time period which is prior to our ownership. This litigation is currently in trial before a jury in Harris County, Texas. The outcome of this trial may occur soon and we will provide an update upon that occurrence. Nevertheless, we dispute El Paso's claim and we will continue to vigorously defend ourselves in this action.
DCP Midstream Partners will hold a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and year end results on Thursday, February 26, 2009, at 11 a.m. ET. The dial-in number for the call is 800-860-2442 in the United States or 412-858-4600 outside the United States. A live Webcast of the call can be accessed on the investor information page of DCP Midstream Partners' Web site at http://www.dcppartners.com. The call will be available for replay until April 24, 2009, by dialing 877-344-7529, in the United States or 412-317-0088 outside the United States. The passcode is 426824. A replay and transcript of the broadcast will also be available on the Partnership's Web site.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION
This press release and the accompanying financial schedules include the non-GAAP financial measures of distributable cash flow, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income or loss, adjusted net income or loss per unit, gross margin, segment gross margin and adjusted segment gross margin. The accompanying schedules provide reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income or loss, operating income, cash flows from operating activities or any other measure of liquidity or financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance, liquidity or ability to service debt obligations and make cash distributions to unitholders. Our distributable cash flow, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income or loss, adjusted net income or loss per unit, gross margin, segment gross margin and adjusted segment gross margin may not be comparable to a similarly titled measure of another company because other entities may not calculate these measures in the same manner.
We define distributable cash flow as net cash provided by or used in operating activities, less maintenance capital expenditures, net of reimbursable projects, plus or minus adjustments for non-cash mark-to-market of derivative instruments, proceeds from divestiture of assets, non-controlling interest on depreciation, net changes in operating assets and liabilities, and other adjustments to reconcile net cash provided by or used in operating activities. Maintenance capital expenditures are capital expenditures made where we add on to or improve capital assets owned, or acquire or construct new capital assets, if such expenditures are made to maintain, including over the long term, our operating capacity. Non-cash mark-to-market of derivative instruments is considered to be non-cash for the purpose of computing distributable cash flow because settlement will not occur until future periods, and will be impacted by future changes in commodity prices. Distributable cash flow is used as a supplemental liquidity measure by our management and by external users of our financial statements, such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, to assess our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders and our general partner.
We define EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) as net income or loss less interest income, plus interest expense, income tax expense and depreciation and amortization expense. We define adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA plus non-cash commodity derivative losses, less non-cash commodity derivative gains. These non-cash losses and gains result from the marking to market of certain financial derivatives used by the Partnership for risk management purposes that we do not account for under the hedge method of accounting. These non-cash losses or gains may or may not be realized in future periods when the derivative contracts are settled, due to fluctuating commodity prices.
EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are used as supplemental liquidity and performance measures by our management and by external users of our financial statements, such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, to assess:
-- the ability of our assets to generate cash sufficient to pay interest
costs, support our indebtedness, make cash distributions to our
unitholders and general partner, and finance maintenance expenditures;
-- financial performance of our assets without regard to financing methods,
capital structure or historical cost basis;
-- our operating performance and return on capital as compared to those of
other companies in the midstream energy industry, without regard to
financing methods or capital structure; and
-- viability of acquisitions and capital expenditure projects and the
overall rates of return on alternative investment opportunities.
We define adjusted net income or loss as net income or loss, plus non-cash derivative losses, less non-cash derivative gains. These non-cash derivative losses and gains result from the marking to market of certain financial derivatives used by the Partnership for risk management purposes that we do not account for under the hedge method of accounting. Adjusted net income or loss is provided to illustrate trends in income excluding these non-cash derivative losses or gains, which may or may not be realized in future periods when derivative contracts are settled, due to fluctuating commodity prices.
We define gross margin as total operating revenues less purchases of natural gas, propane and NGLs, and we define segment gross margin for each segment as total operating revenues for that segment less commodity purchases for that segment. Our gross margin equals the sum of our segment gross margins. We define adjusted segment gross margin as segment gross margin plus non-cash derivative losses, less non-cash derivative gains for that segment. Gross margin, segment gross margin and adjusted segment gross margin are primary performance measures used by management, as these measures represent the results of product sales and purchases, a key component of our operations.
DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) is a midstream master limited partnership that gathers, processes, transports and markets natural gas and natural gas liquids and is a leading wholesale distributor of propane. DCP Midstream Partners, LP is managed by its general partner, DCP Midstream GP, LLC, which is wholly owned by DCP Midstream, LLC, a joint venture between Spectra Energy and ConocoPhillips. For more information, visit the DCP Midstream Partners, LP Web site at http://www.dcppartners.com.
DCP MIDSTREAM PARTNERS, LP
FINANCIAL RESULTS AND
SUMMARY BALANCE SHEET DATA
December 31, December 31,
2008 2007 2008 2007
---- ---- ---- ----
Sales of natural gas,
propane, NGLs and
condensate $203.9 $321.5 $1,156.3 $925.8
processing and other 17.5 11.4 57.2 35.1
Gains (losses) from
commodity derivative
activity, net 154.0 (66.5) 72.3 (87.6)
----- ------ ---- ------
Total operating revenues 375.4 266.4 1,285.8 873.3
Purchases of natural gas,
propane and NGLs 194.3 287.3 1,061.2 826.7
----- ----- ------- -----
Gross margin 181.1 (20.9) 224.6 46.6
Operating and maintenance
expense (11.2) (11.1) (43.0) (32.1)
expense (4.7) (7.0) (21.5) (24.1)
Other - - 1.5 -
(Losses) earnings from
equity method
investments (4.4) 15.7 34.3 39.3
Non-controlling interest
in income (1.2) (0.2) (3.9) (0.5)
----- ----- ----- -----
EBITDA 159.6 (23.5) 192.0 29.2
Depreciation and
amortization expense (10.2) (8.6) (36.5) (24.4)
Interest income 0.5 1.6 5.6 5.3
Interest expense (8.5) (9.3) (32.8) (25.8)
Income tax expense (0.1) (0.1) (0.1) (0.1)
Net income (loss) $141.3 $(39.9) $128.2 $(15.8)
Net income attributable
to predecessor
operations - - - (3.6)
General partner interest
in net income or net
loss (4.8) (0.7) (11.9) (2.2)
----- ----- ------ -----
allocable to limited
partners $136.5 $(40.6) $116.3 $(21.6)
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Net income (loss) per
limited partner
unit-basic and diluted $2.77 $(1.69) $3.29 $(1.05)
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Weighted-average limited
partner units
outstanding-basic and
diluted 28.2 24.0 27.4 20.5
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December 31, December 31,
2008 2007
(Millions)
Cash and cash equivalents $48.0 $24.5
Other current assets 117.2 194.0
Restricted investments (a) 60.2 100.5
Property, plant and equipment, net 629.3 500.7
Other assets 325.3 301.0
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Total assets $1,180.0 $1,120.7
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Current liabilities $122.3 $219.6
Long-term debt (a) 656.5 630.0
Other liabilities 34.9 75.8
Non-controlling interests 34.7 26.9
Total partners' equity 331.6 168.4
Total liabilities and partners'
equity $1,180.0 $1,120.7
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(a) Long-term debt includes $60.0 million and $100.0 million
outstanding on the term loan portion of our credit
facility as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively. These
amounts are fully secured by restricted investments.
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES
December 31, December 31,
2008 2007 2008 2007
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Reconciliation of
Non-GAAP Measures:
Net income (loss) $141.3 $(39.9) $128.2 $(15.8)
Interest income (0.5) (1.6) (5.6) (5.3)
Interest expense 8.5 9.3 32.8 25.8
amortization expense 10.2 8.6 36.5 24.4
Income tax expense 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
--- --- --- ---
EBITDA 159.6 (23.5) 192.0 29.2
Non-cash commodity
mark-to-market (146.0) 61.2 (101.6) 81.1
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Adjusted EBITDA 13.6 37.7 90.4 110.3
Interest income 0.5 1.6 5.6 5.3
Interest expense (8.5) (9.3) (32.8) (25.8)
amortization expense (10.2) (8.6) (36.5) (24.4)
Income tax expense (0.1) (0.1) (0.1) (0.1)
Non-cash interest rate
mark-to-market 0.4 - 0.6 -
--- - --- -
Adjusted net (loss)
income (4.3) 21.3 27.2 65.3
Maintenance capital
expenditures, net of
reimbursable projects (7.5) (0.9) (11.0) (2.6)
Earnings from equity
method investments, net
of distributions 14.4 (3.9) 25.6 (0.4)
Proceeds from divestiture
of assets 0.4 - 2.9 -
on depreciation (0.3) (0.2) (0.9) (0.3)
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Distributable cash flow $12.9 $24.9 $80.3 $86.4
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income $(4.3) $21.3 $27.2 $65.3
operations - - - (3.6)
loss (2.8) (1.7) (10.6) (3.1)
----- ----- ------ -----
income allocable to
limited partners $(7.1) $19.6 $16.6 $58.6
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income per unit $(0.25) $0.81 $0.61 $2.86
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Net cash provided by
(used in) operating
activities $46.8 $(0.7) $101.5 $65.4
of distributions (14.4) 3.9 (25.6) 0.4
Net changes in operating
assets and liabilities 120.5 (33.8) 92.3 (56.9)
Other, net (1.4) (0.7) (3.5) (0.3)
EBITDA 159.6 (23.5) 192.0 29.2
SEGMENT FINANCIAL RESULTS AND OPERATING DATA
AND RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES
Three Months Ended Year Ended
December 31, December 31,
2008 2007 2008 2007
---- ---- ---- ----
(Millions, except as indicated)
Natural Gas Services
Financial results:
Segment net income (loss) $156.9 $(31.3) $170.2 $11.6
expense 8.4 8.3 32.1 20.9
amortization expense 9.5 7.8 33.8 21.9
Losses (earnings) from
investments 4.3 (16.1) (33.5) (38.7)
in income 1.2 0.2 3.9 0.5
--- --- --- ---
Segment gross margin 180.3 (31.1) 206.5 16.2
Non-cash derivative
mark-to-market (146.3) 59.9 (99.2) 78.3
------- ---- ------ ----
Adjusted segment gross
margin $34.0 $28.8 $107.3 $94.5
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Natural gas throughput
(MMcf/d) 954 820 838 756
NGL gross production
(Bbls/d) 15,911 25,237 20,659 22,122
Wholesale Propane
Logistics Segment:
Segment net (loss) income $(3.9) $6.0 $1.3 $14.0
expense 2.6 2.6 9.9 10.4
amortization expense 0.4 0.4 1.3 1.1
Other - - (1.5) -
--- --- ----- ---
Segment gross margin (0.9) 9.0 11.0 25.5
mark-to-market 0.3 1.3 (2.4) 2.8
margin $(0.6) $10.3 $8.6 $28.3
Propane sales volume
NGL Logistics Segment:
Segment net income $1.1 $0.2 $5.5 $3.3
expense 0.2 0.2 1.0 0.8
investments 0.1 0.4 (0.8) (0.6)
--- --- ----- -----
Segment gross margin $1.7 $1.2 $7.1 $4.9
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NGL pipelines throughput
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Journeys Unscripted
Prodigal Child
Karol Prado
Listens as Karol Prado shares how she learned where her true identity is found. She walked away from homosexuality and found love and redemption, forgiveness and grace.
My Story, His Faithfulness
Dafne Moretta
Dafne Moretta had a dream to become a doctor, but after her initial attempt it seemed her dream would not come true. Along with her engagement being called off it appeared as though everything else was falling apart as well. Through many years of pain, joy, failures, and achievements her dream to serve others as a doctor remained. Listen as Dafne relates her story of God's faithfulness through it all!
Seeking Truth, Discovering Love
Anthony Bosman
Anthony Bosman shares his journey through various worldviews. Join Anthony on his quest to discover truth!
Reasoning with God: How a Post-Modern Thinker Began to Believe
Clifford Goldstein grew up in a very secular home and had a post-modern mentality. Interestingly, little did he know that his life would change forever while sitting in a pizza parlor one day. At the age of 20, he learned that absolute truth must exist which led to a search for truth--for God. An avid novel writer, God had other plans for him. Cliff now writes for Jesus.
From Sikhism-Hinduism to Seeking Him
Anil Kanda
Anil Kanda is a former Hindu with a Sikh background. As a young adult, someone shared end-time prophecies with him, and he was transformed by the beautiful truths of God's Word. His testimony demonstrates how God can reveal Himself to someone who had no Christian upbringing. Anil is now a full-time evangelist, sharing the love of Jesus with people around the world.
The Cross-Eyed Christian
Julian Archer
Julian Archer grew up under the watch care and protection of parents who were serial entrepreneurs. As a result of his parents being successful, wealth was essentially handed down to Julian. In his success, God led Julian to find the answers to two questions: Does wealth have an impact on the spiritual life of individuals, congregations, and entire nations? Is it possible to be financially secure without becoming spiritually bankrupt? Join Julian as he relates his story and reveals the answers he received!
When God Knows Best
Maria Kennedy
Sometimes it takes a dramatic experience for God to get our attention! Listen as Maria Kennedy shares her story of a rebelious teenager being transformed by the circumstances God placed her in. Thailand wasn't on her longterm goals but 7 years later she found herself a wife and mother of three in a country she now calls home.
Butcher Shares Life
James Hartley
Join James as he tells his riveting life story. Listen as he tells how God brought a young man, son of a butcher shop owner, through the hippie experience and many travels to the knowledge of the truth. Find out what a vegetarian restaurant, an organic farm in Italy and a Spanish missionary in Tennessee have in common!
What I've Learned About God
Patsy Arrabito
Throughout Patsy Arrabito's life, God has revealed Himself to her in marvelous ways. The biggest test of her faith occurred when she lost her husband and two sons in a plane accident. Patsy learned several important lessons through her experiences that she shares in an effort to encourage you in your walk with God!
A Journey of Faith
Steve Kasperbauer
Steve Kasperbauer and his business partner decided to start a tourist business in Guam. As the business boomed, Steve and his wife decided to buy his partner's share. When unexpected crisis hit Guam there was no where to turn and everything seemed to be headed to complete loss. His once thriving business looked like it was about to colapse until Steve decided to do something radical. To everyone around him, his plan seemed like a sure fail, but when the creator of heavne and earth intervenes there are no limits!
From Hip-Hop to God at Top
Sean Myers
Sean Myers' love and passion for dancing and hip hop consumed his life. His group, The Boogie Monsters, was signed to EMI Records which only propelled his desire to devote his whole life to dancing. Listen as Sean tells his story that follows a series of events that led him and his group to come in contact with Bible truth.
When Loss is Gain
Various Presenters
Stephen and Katie share their experience through sickness and disappointed hopes! An experience that taught them to trust in God's faithfulness as they walked through the valley of the shadow of death.
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The effects of Cu on the adenylate energy charge of open ocean phytoplankton,
The effects of short-term, acute Cu exposure (6 h) on the adenylate energy charge (EC A) of open-ocean phytoplankton populations (northeastern equatorial Pacific) were investigated. Energy charge remained at ̃0.77 over the range of Cu additions (0.025 - 5.μg l -1), even though 14C uptake and total adenylate levels (ATP + ADP + AMP) were reduced by as much as 60%. These findings suggest that EC A alone is not a sensitive indicator of acute sublethal metal effects on phytoplankton. © 1983 IRL Press Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):1, Oceanography, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Fitzwater, Knauer, Martin
Age and growth determination of the bat ray, Myliobatis californica Gill, in central California,
Martin, Cailliet
Downward flux of particulate organic matter in the Ocean,
Oceanographers now recognize two distinct classes of particles in seawater, broadly categorized as suspended and sinking. The former class dominates the standing stock of particulate matter in the ocean and the latter class dominates the exchange between the surface waters and greater ocean depths 1. The downward vertical flux of particulate organic matter (POM) in the open ocean exhibits a non-linear decrease with increasing water depth 2-6, and greater than 75% of the net POM loss occurs in the upper 500 m of the water column 6. Because sinking particles contain viable, metabolically active microorganisms 7-12, the process of microbial decomposition is considered to be an important mechanism controlling POM flux. This model is consistent with the observed correspondence between POM flux and dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations 13, and with the reported selective loss of biochemically labile compounds from sinking particles 14-17. From our experiments, however, we conclude that the large sinking particles are, in general, poor habitats for bacterial growth and therefore unlikely sites for the active remineralization of organic matter. Our results require a shift in the emphasis of current ideas of particle decomposition from microbes attached to rapidly sinking particles to the microbial populations which are either free-living in the water column or attached to suspended (non-sinking) particulate matter. © 1988 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):108, Oceanography, ,
Karl, Knauer, Martin
Iron, primary production and carbon-nitrogen flux studies during the JGOFS North Atlantic bloom experiment,
Primary production was measured every other day towards the end (18-31 May) of the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom. Rates varied with light and averaged 90.4 mmol C m -2 day -1 at the 47°N, 20°W station. Productivities measured south of Iceland (59°30′N, 20°45′W) were somewhat lower, averaging 83.6 mmol C m -2 day -1. Carbon and nitrogen fluxes were estimated using free-floating, VERTEX type particle trap arrays. To obtain mean rates representative of the North Atlantic spring bloom, flux data from three trap deployments were combined and fitted to normalized power functions:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 14.35 (z/100) -0.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 2.34(z/100) -1.02, with depth z in meters. Regeneration rates were:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 0.136(z/100) -1.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 0.0239(z/100) -2.02. The carbon export rate from the upper 35 m for the entire NABE study period (24 April to 1 June) was 39 mmol m -2 day -1. This value divided by the averaged productivity for the entire study (86 mmol N m -2 day -1) gave an F-ratio of 0.45. Concentrations of Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in water samples provided by JGOFS NABE scientists involved with primary productivity measurements. Although little contamination was observed for Cu, Ni and Pb, relatively large amounts of Zn (10 nmol kg -1) were found in some cases. In subsequent studies it was learned that this quantity of Zn can depress productivity rates by 25%. North Atlantic dissolved Fe concentrations were similar to those occurring in the Pacific (surface = 0.07; deep = 0.5-0.6 nmol kg -1). Although no evidence of Fe deficiency was found in enrichment experiments, the addition of nmol amounts of Fe did increase CO 2 uptake and POC formation by factors of 1.3-1.7. In this region, most of the phytoplankton's Fe requirement is probably met via the lateral transport of Fe from distant continental margins., Cited By (since 1996):170, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Martin, Fitzwater, Michael Gordon, Hunter, Tanner
Iron in north-east Pacific waters,
Although Fe is an element of great biological 1 and geochemical 2 importance, little is known about its distribution in the sea. The reasons for this are: (1) contamination is extremely difficult to avoid during sampling and laboratory procedures, not only because of man's wide use of this element, but also because it is fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust (5.63%) 3; (2) the chemistry of Fe is very complex, and its form (or forms) in seawater is poorly known, hence whether one preconcentration technique will work for existing species is questionable. Iron also appears to be very insoluble 4 in oxygenated ocean water, and most (90%) 5 precipitates out in association with dissolved organics during estuarine mixing processes 5-8. Indeed, some argue that truly dissolved Fe does not exist in seawater and that the fraction found in filtrates is totally colloidal 9. We have been attempting oceanic dissolved Fe measurements for the past four years and report here three vertical Fe profiles (Fig. 1) that have the following features in common: Fe is severely depleted (0.15-0.30 nmol kg -1) in surface waters; Fe maxima (up to 2.6 nmol kg -1) occur in association with oxygen minima; and, Fe levels appear to vary little in mid-depth waters (0.5-1.0 nmol kg -1)., Cited By (since 1996):33, ,
Gordon, Martin, Knauer
Elevated concentrations of mercury in mussels (Mytilus californianus) associated with pinniped colonies,
The geographic distribution of mercury concentrations in the California mussel Mytilus californianus, collected from 1977-1978 at 43 sites along the western coastline of the continental United States is marked by consistently elevated levels at two locations. These two sites, which are relatively isolated from anthropogenic inputs and mercury-rich minerals, both contain large pinniped and marine bird populations. The relatively elevated mercury levels measured in the excrement of a pinniped from one of those locales indicate that the concentrated discharge of mercury-rich waste products from the marine ecosystem's top carnivores is contaminating lower trophic levels., Cited By (since 1996):1, Ecology, CODEN: MBIOA, ,
Flegal, Stephenson, Martin, Martin
Notes on the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment-dissolved organic carbon intercomparison,
Using high temperature catalytic oxidation (HTCO), personnel from four laboratories analyzed water samples collected during the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom study for their dissolved organic carbon (DOC) content. In general, good agreement was obtained. Values obtained on samples filtered and frozen compared well with those analyzed immediately after collection. DON analyses of the same frozen samples did not co-vary with DOC; thus far, DON results have only been reported by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. © 1993., Cited By (since 1996):7, CODEN: MRCHB, ,
Fitzwater, Martin
Mercury-selenium-bromine imbalance in premature parturient California sea lions,
High premature birth rates have been observed in the rookeries of the California sea lion Zalophus californianus since 1968. The reasons for the premature pupping are complex and, hence, not well understood, although leptospirosis infection and elevated PCB and DDT residues have been implicated. We were interested in determining what role trace and major elements played in these events. Livers and kidneys from 10 normal parturient and 10 premature parturient mothers and their pups were analyzed for Hg, Se, Br, Cd, Ag, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mn, K, Na, Ca, and Mg in order to detect differences that might exist between the two groups. A further objective was to establish how these elements varied in relation to each other in the normal and abnormal sea lions. Our results revealed that Hg, Se, Cd, and Br levels were significantly higher in the livers of the normal mothers and that these elements were all in balance (highly correlated) with each other. This was especially true for Hg, Se, and Br. In mothers with high concentrations of these elements (e.g. Hg greater than 800 μg/g dry weight), atomic ratios of approximately 1Hg:1Se:1Br were observed. Atomic Se:Hg ratios were also near unity in the abnormal mothers; however, Br concentrations were always severely depressed in these individuals. Normal full-term pups had higher hepatic levels of Hg and Se, and near-perfect 1:1 Se:Hg atomic ratios were almost always observed. In contrast, the livers of the premature pups appeared to be deficient in Hg, and, consequently, elevated Se:Hg ratios were always found. In almost all cases, the premature pups had increased concentrations of Na, Ca, and Br. Levels of these elements were correlated with their Se:Hg ratios. Amounts of Mn and Cu were reduced in the premature pups and negatively correlated with Se:Hg ratios. The results suggest that balance between elements is of more importance than absolute concentration when the possible effects of toxic elements are considered. It also appears that bromine may be important in the detoxification process involving Se and Hg and perhaps Cd as well; i.e., every mother that had Br in balance with Hg, Cd, and Se had a normal pup, while every mother that lacked sufficient Br had a premature pup. The question of whether Hg detoxifies Se is also raised. All the normal pups had Se:Hg atomic ratios of less than 2.2, while all the premature pups had reduced Hg amounts and Se:Hg ratios above 3.4. © 1976 Springer-Verlag., Cited By (since 1996):11, CODEN: MBIOA, ,
Martin, Elliott, Anderlini, Girvin, Jacobs, Risebrough, Delong, Gilmartin
Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in Antarctic waters,
Enrichment experiments were performed in the Ross Sea to test the hypothesis that iron deficiency is responsible for the phytoplankton's failure to use up the luxuriant major nutrient supplies found in these and all other offshore Antarctic ocean waters. The results suggest that Fe deficiency is the primary reason that the present-day southern ocean biological pump is shut off. In contrast, iron was 50 times more abundant during the last glacial maximum; greater Fe availability may have stimulated the biological pump and contributed to the ice age drawdown of atmospheric CO 2. These results also imply that large-scale southern ocean Fe fertilization is feasible, at least in terms of the total amounts of Fe required; i.e., 100 000 to 500 000 tons yr -1., Cited By (since 1996):277, , , Downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/GB004i001p00005/pdf (9 June 2014).
Martin, Fitzwater, Gordon
Validation of ultrasound as a noninvasive tool to measure subcutaneous fat depth in leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)
Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) undergo substantial cyclical changes in body condition between foraging and nesting. Ultrasonography has been used to measure subcutaneous fat as an indicator of body condition in many species but has not been applied in sea turtles. To validate this technique in leatherback turtles, ultrasound images were obtained from 36 live-captured and dead-stranded immature and adult turtles from foraging and nesting areas in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Ultrasound measurements were compared with direct measurements from surgical biopsy or necropsy. Tissue architecture was confirmed histologically in a subset of turtles. The dorsal shoulder region provided the best site for differentiation of tissues. Maximum fat depth values with the front flipper in a neutral (45–90°) position demonstrated good correlation with direct measurements. Ultrasound-derived fat measurements may be used in the future for quantitative assessment of body condition as an index of health in this critically endangered species.
Harris, Benson, James, Martin, Stacy, Daoust, Rist, Work, Balazs, Seminoff
The case for iron,
Excess major nutrients occur in offshore areas ranging from the tropical equatorial Pacific to the polar Antarctic. In spite of the great ecological differences in these environments, they share a common trait: iron deficiency. All of these areas are far from Fe-rich terrestrial sources and atmospheric dust loads in these regions are amongst the lowest in the world. Experiments were performed in three nutrient-rich areas: The Gulf of Alaska, the Ross Sea, and the equatorial Pacific. In general, populations without added Fe doubled at rates 11-40% of the expected maxima at various temperatures. The addition of nanomole quantities of Fe increased these doubling rates by factors of 2-3. In spite of the lack of Fe, tightly coupled phytoplankton/zooplankton communities seem to inhabit these major nutrient-rich areas. -from Authors, Cited By (since 1996):341, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_36/issue_8/1793.pdf (16 June 2014).
Martin, Gordon, Fitzwater
Cobalt in north-east Pacific waters,
Significant understanding has been gained recently about the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the ocean. This knowledge has mostly resulted from the accurate measurement of dissolved species in oceanic water columns. We report here that cobalt's vertical distribution is similar to that exhibited 1-3 by Mn; that is, its surface enrichment/deep depletion (Fig. 1). However, amounts of Co (1-7 ng 1 -1) are ∼10-20 times less than those for Mn (Table 1), as might be expected from crustal abundance estimates 4 for these elements (Mn=950; Co=25 μg per g). The similarity between Mn and Co profiles implies the same biogeochemical pathways. The Co excess in nearshore surface waters probably results from continental weathering input processes, as suggested by the remarkable Co-salinity mirror-image relationship shown in Fig. 1, and the Co-salinity scatter diagram in Fig. 2a. The steady decrease in Co concentrations also indicates that Co is usually scavenged rather than regenerated at depth, as is the case with Mn (Fig. 1; Table 1). © 1982 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):47 Oceanography, ,
Knauer, Martin, Gordon
VERTEX manganese transport: Manganese transport through oxygen minima,
Manganese transport through a well-developed oxygen minimum was studied off central Mexico (18°N, 108°W) in October-November 1981 as part of the VERTEX (Vertical Transport and Exchange) research program. Refractory, leachable and dissolved Mn fractions associated with particulates caught in traps set at eight depths (120-1950 m) were analyzed. Particles entering the oxygen minimum had relatively large Mn loads; however, as the particulates sank further into the minimum, total Mn fluxes steadily decreased from 190 nmol m -2 day -1 at 120 m to 36 nmol m -2 day -1 at 400 m. Manganese fluxes then steadily increased in the remaining 800-1950 m, reaching rates of up to 230 nmol m -2 day -1 at 1950 m. Manganese concentrations were also measured in the water column. Dissolved Mn levels < 3.0 nmol kg -1 were consistently observed within the 150-600 m depth interval. In contrast, suspended particulate leachable Mn amounts were especially low at those depths, and never exceeded 0.04 nmol kg -1. The combined water column and particle trap data clearly indicate that Mn is released from particles as they sink through the oxygen minimum. Rate-of-change estimates based on trap flux data yield regeneration rates of up to 0.44 nmol kg -1 yr -1 in the upper oxygen minimum (120-200 m). However, only 30% of the dissolved Mn in the oxygen minimum appears to be from sinking particulate regeneration; the other 70% probably results from continental-slope-release-horizontal-transport processes. Dissolved Mn scavenges back onto particles as oxygen levels begin to increase with depth. Scavenging rates ranging from -0.03 to -0.09 nmol kg -1 yr -1 were observed at depths from 700 to 1950 m. These scavenging rates result in Mn residence times of 16-19 years, and scavenging rate constants on the order of 0.057 yr -1. Manganese removal via scavenging on sinking particles below the oxygen minimum is balanced by Mn released along continental boundaries and transported horizontally via advective-diffusive processes. Manganese appears to be very weakly associated with particulates. Nevertheless, the amounts of Mn involved with sinking biogenic particles are large, and the resulting fluxes are on the same order of magnitude as those necessary to explain the excess Mn accumulating on the sea floor. The overall behavior of Mn observed in this, and other, studies strongly suggests some type of equilibrium occurring between dissolved and particulate phases. This equilibrium appears to shift in direct or indirect response to dissolved oxygen levels. © 1984., Cited By (since 1996):29, Oceanography, ,
Martin, Knauer
Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north-east Pacific subarctic,
An interesting oceanographic problem concerns the excess major plant nutrients (PO 4, NO 3, SiO 3) occurring in offshore surface waters of the Antarctic 1-3 and north-east Pacific subarctic Oceans 4. In a previous study 5, we presented indirect evidence suggesting that inadequate Fe input was responsible for this limitation of growth; recently we had the opportunity to seek direct evidence for this hypothesis in the north-east Pacific subarctic. We report here that the addition of nmol amounts of dissolved iron resulted in the nearly complete utilization of excess NO 3, whereas in the controls-without added Fe-only 25% of the available NO 3 was used. We also observed that the amounts of chlorophyll in the phytoplankton increased in proportion to the Fe added. We conclude that Fe deficiency is limiting phytoplankton growth in these major-nutrient-rich waters., Cited By (since 1996):854, ,
Martin, Fitzwater
Glacial-interglacial CO2 change: The iron hypothesis,
Several explanations for the 200 to 280 ppm glacial/interglacial change in atmospheric CO2 concentrations deal with variations in southern ocean phytoplankton productivity and the related use or nonuse of major plant nutrients. An hypothesis is presented herein in which arguments are made that new productivity in today's southern ocean (7.4 × 1013 g yr-1) is limited by iron deficiency, and hence the phytoplankton are unable to take advantage of the excess surface nitrate/phosphate that, if used, could result in total southern ocean new production of 2.3 × 1015 g C yr-1. As a consequence of Fe-limited new productivity, Holocene interglacial CO2 levels (preindustrial) are as high as they were during the last interglacial (~ 280 ppm). -from Author, Cited By (since 1996):759, ,
This paper presents current information concerning the formation, make-up, distribution and transport of biogenic particles in the belief that this knowledge will provide greater understanding of the role of these particles in the cycling of trace elements., Oceanography, CODEN: NCSFD, ,
Knauer, Martin
Long-term trends in DDT, polychlorinated biphenyls, and chlordane in California mussels,
The California State Mussel Watch program is a long-term monitoring program conducted by the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Fish and Game. In a fifteen year time span, from 1977-1992, mussels were collected at 378 stations. From these stations, 47 were chosen to conduct statistical analysis based on the criteria that they had been sampled at least 6 times for total DDTs, total polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and total chlordanes. Declines of total DDTs and chlordanes were noted at approximately half of the stations. Declines of total PCBs were noted at approximately one-quarter of the stations. Declines of PCBs but not DDTs in mussels near Los Angeles County's sewer discharge corresponded to declines of these contaminants in treated effluent., Cited By (since 1996):29, Invertebrates, Ecology, CODEN: AECTC, ,
Stephenson, Martin, Tjeerdema
Trace elements and primary production: Problems, effects and solutions,
The measurement of primary production in the ocean is basic to biological oceanographic processes. Factors which control primary production are varied, but include micronutrients (i. e. , N and P) in sufficient supply, as well as many nanonutrients such as Cu, Mn and Zn. High levels of many of these trace constituents are toxic. Recent studies have shown that ambient concentrations of a number of nanonutrients in sea water are lower by an order of magnitude than previously believed., Cited By (since 1996):1, Oceanography, CODEN: NCSFD, ,
Iron still comes from above,
Cited By (since 1996):19, , ,
Mytilus californianus as a bioindicator of trace metal pollution: Variability and statistical considerations,
Trace metal variability was evaluated in two populations of Mytilus californianus through the analysis of individual specimens. Samples were collected for two areas in the Southern California Bight and analysed for their Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn content. Analysis of the data revealed that population variability was not the same between the two sites, indicating that variability may need to be evaluated for each population (site) studied. In general, the analysis of 10 to 30 individuals was necessary to yield maximum resolution in terms of trace metal concentrations between population means while maintaining cost effectiveness., Cited By (since 1996):29, CODEN: MPNBA, ,
Gordon, Knauer, Martin
Bacterial chemolithotrophy in the ocean is associated with sinking particles,
The oceanic carbon cycle has traditionally been viewed as a reversible, one step reduction-oxidation reaction (CO 2CH 2O). Principle pathways were thought to involve eukaryotic photoautotrophy and oxygen-dependent bacterial respiration, respectively. However, prokaryotic (cyanobacterial) photoautotrophy is now well documented and has even been proposed as a major carbon pathway 1-6. In a previous study of the mesopelagic zone in the North Pacific Ocean 7, the observed downward fluxes of organic carbon, nitrogen, ATP and RNA suggested production in situ of new particulate organic carbon at 700-900 m. Here we present evidence that this is indeed the case and that it is mediated by bacterial chemolithotrophy. Energy for this process may be in part provided by detrital NH + 4 derived from the downward flux of large particles. © 1984 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):33, Oceanography, ,
Karl, Knauer, Martin, Ward
Chronic oiling of marine birds in California by natural petroleum seeps, shipwrecks, and other sources
We assessed temporal and spatial patterns of chronic oiling of seabirds in California during 2005-2010, using data on: (1) live oiled birds reported to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) from throughout the state, and (2) dead oiled birds found during systematic monthly beached-bird surveys in central California. A mean of 245 (±141 SD) live miscellaneous oiled birds (not associated with known oil spills) were reported to the OWCN per year, and 0.1 oiled dead birds km-1 per month were found on beach surveys in central California. Chemical fingerprinting of oiled feathers from a subset of these birds (n = 101) indicated that 89% of samples tested were likely from natural petroleum seeps off southern and central California. There was a pronounced peak during late winter in the number of oiled birds reported in southern California, which we theorize may be related to large storm waves disturbing underwater seeps. © 2013., Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, Article in Press
Henkel, Nevins, Martin, Sugarman, Harvey, Ziccardi
Trace metals in large agglomerates (marine snow),
Marine agglomerates were collected by SCUBA from surface waters of Monterey Bay, California and one coastal site 100 km off Point Sur, California using trace metal clean techniques. Concentrations of Al, Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Zn, Cd and Pb were measured for both weak acid soluble and refractory metals and compared to suspend material collected in water bottles at the same locations. Gravimetric analysis of agglomerate and surrounding suspended particulate matter indicated that although agglomerates represented <0.1% of total water sample volume (determined photographically), they contained up to 50% of the total particulate dry weight; trace metal concentrations in the agglomerate fraction were also disproportionately high. Agglomerates collected within Monterey Bay contained large quantitites of inorganic material (>40% dry weight), with most of the associated metals contained primarily within the refractory fraction. In contrast, the offshore station agglomerates contained <0.3% inorganic material with metals primarily associated with the weak acid soluble fraction. Both the metal concentrations and leach characteristics of the offshore station suggest that these agglomerates were comprised of an active phytoplankton assemblage highly enriched in Cd. Metal concentrations in the offshore samples in conjunction with agglomerate abundance indicate that agglomerates may be a major transporter of trace metals out of the euphotic zone. © 1986 IRL Press Limited., Cited By (since 1996):14, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Hebel, Knauer, Martin
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Biologic and geologic characteristics of cold seeps in Monterey Bay, California,
Cold seep communities discovered at three previously unknown sites between 600 and 1000 m in Monterey Bay, California, are dominated by chemoautotrophic bacteria (Beggiatoa sp.) and vesicomyid clams (5 sp.). Other seep-associated fauna included galatheid crabs (Munidopsis sp.), vestimentiferan worms (Lamellibrachia barhami?), solemyid clams (Solemya sp.), columbellid snails (Mitrella permodesta, Amphissa sp.), and pyropeltid limpets (Pyropelta sp.). More than 50 species of regional (i.e. non-seep) benthic fauna were also observed at seeps. Ratios of stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) in clam tissues near -36‰ indicate sulfur-oxidizing chemosynthetic production, rather than non-seep food sources, as their principal trophic pathway. The 'Mt Crushmore' cold seep site is located in a vertically faulted and fractured region of the Pliocene Purisima Formation along the walls of Monterey Canyon (~635 m), where seepage appears to derive from sulfide-rich fluids within the Purisima Formation. The 'Clam Field' cold seep site, also in Monterey Canyon (~900 m) is located near outcrops in the hydrocarbon-bearing Monterey Formation. Chemosynthetic communities were also found at an accretionary-like prism on the continental slope near 1000 m depth (Clam Flat site). Fluid flow at the 'Clam Flat' site is thought to represent dewatering of accretionary sediments by tectonic compression, or hydrocarbon formation at depth, or both. Sulfide levels in pore waters were low at Mt Crushmore (ca 0.2 mM), and high at the two deeper sites (ca 7.011.0 mM). Methane was not detected at the Mt Crushmore site, but ranged from 0.06 to 2.0 mM at the other sites., Cited By (since 1996):108, Invertebrates, CODEN: DRORE, ,
Barry, Greene, Orange, Baxter, Robison, Kochevar, Nybakken, Reed, McHugh
DSDP leg 55-the cold war and a test of the Hawaiian hot spot hypothesis,
Impacts of bay floor disturbances on benthic habitats in San Francisco Bay,
Approximately 120 km2 of San Francisco Bay were mapped using archived multibeam bathymetry data and another ∼40.5 km2 were mapped using recently acquired sidescan sonar data. Imagery was collected in several parts of San Francisco Bay, typically between 10 and 30 m. These data were interpreted into potential habitat types and further evaluated for natural (normally-) and human-induced disturbances. Ninety-one distinct potential habitats were identified, of which 74 were composed of soft, 12 of mixed, and 5 of hard, substrates. Bay floor sediment samples, collected by the US Geological Survey and the National Ocean Survey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were used to document substrate composition and document ("ground-truth") habitat interpretations. The sedimentological history of the region extends back to approximately 10 Ma with the initiation of a major sediment depocentre in the tectonic graben formed between the Hayward-Calaveras and San Andreas fault zones. Modern sedimentation from fluvial input and tidal scouring and deposition has resulted in a dynamic and complex bay floor. Strong currents have produced large sediment waves and dune fields, rippled sediment patches, and scoured channel floors and walls. Soft habitats composed primarily of mud and/or sand dominate the region, whereas hard rocky and mixed habitats are relatively rare and occur mainly in shallow areas adjacent to peninsulas and islands. Anthropogenic effects such as dredge material and debris-fields, borrow pits, dredged channels, and blasted bedrock knolls and normal disturbances such as sand waves are distinctly displayed in the data covering ∼63.5 km2 of area and delineated on the habitat maps. With the increasing demand for construction aggregate and development in the greater San Francisco Bay area, and the need to maintain and expand dredged channels and lower bedrock knolls to allow the safe passage of deeper draft vessels, many potential habitats will be impacted., , ,
Greene, Vallier, Bizzarro, Watt, Dieter
Tracking California seafloor seeps with bathymetry, backscatter and ROVs,
The California (USA) margin includes two different tectonic regimes: subduction north of the Mendocino Triple Junction and translation south. Both margins include seeps, and their distribution can be inferred using seafloor bathymetry and backscatter as well as subsurface seismic data. Anomalous bathymetric and backscatter features related to fluid expulsion include headless submarine canyons, fault zones, anticlines, pockmarks, and mud volcanoes. Anomalous backscatter may be caused by authigenic carbonate (related to the bacterial oxidation of methane) or cold seep clams - both have an impedance and roughness that may be higher than the surrounding seafloor. Remote-operated vehicle (ROV) dives to such suspect seep sites document the presence of extensive authigenic carbonate, a really restricted cold seep communities, carpets of chemoautotrophic bacteria, and bubbling gas. Our operations in the Monterey Bay, on the translational California margin, and the Eel River basin, on the convergent margin, indicate that bathymetric and backscatter maps of the seafloor, if sufficiently high resolution, can be used to map seep sites, and that the distribution of such seeps can be used to constrain subsurface conduits of fluid flow. ROVs, due to their combination of visualization, propulsion, manipulation, sonar, and navigation, provide an excellent platform for ground-truthing, mapping, and sampling seafloor seeps. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):31, Rocks and cores, CODEN: CSHRD, ,
Orange, Yun, Maher, Barry, Greene
Interpretation of side-scan sonar records for rockfish habitat analysis: Examples from Monterey Bay
Yoklavich, Cailliet, Greene, Sullivan
Applying marine habitat data to fishery management on the US west coast,
Recent experience in implementing legal requirements to designate and protect Essential Fish Habitat for groundfish off the US west coast is providing an opportunity to develop a feedback loop between science and policy for habitat- and ecosystem-based management that mirrors the traditional stock assessment/harvest management paradigm. The stock assessment/harvest management feedback loop dates back to the 1940s and has strongly influenced the development of the marine fishery management in frastructure and associated research programs. Assessment of marine habitat and the related establishment of regulatory policies by west coast fishery managers offer the potential for a similar feedback loop and the tailoring of research and infrastructure to improve the information available for decision-making., Cited By (since 1996):2, Fish and Fisheries, ,
Copps, Yoklavich, Parkes, Wakefield, Bailey, Greene, Goldfinger, Burn
Gas geochemistry of a shallow submarine hydrothermal vent associated with the El Requesón fault zone, Bahía Concepción, Baja California Sur, México,
We investigated hydrothermal gas venting associated with a coastal fault zone along the western margin of Bahía Concepción, B.C.S., México. Copious discharge of geothermal liquid (≈ 90 °C) and gas is occurring in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zones (to a depth of 13 m) through soft sediments and fractures in rocks along a ∼750 m linear trend generally sub-parallel to an onshore fault near Punta Santa Barbara. Hydrothermal activity shows negative correlation with tidal height; temperatures in the area of hydrothermal activity were up to 11.3 °C higher at low tide than at high tide (measured tidal range ≈ 120 cm). Gas samples were collected using SCUBA and analyzed for chemical composition and stable isotope values. The main components of the gas are N2 (≈ 53%; 534 mmol/mol), CO2 (≈ 43%; 435 mmol/mol), and CH4 (≈ 2.2%; 22 mmol/mol). The δ13C values of the CH4 (mean = - 34.3%), and the ratios of CH4 to C2H6 (mean = 89), indicate that the gas is thermogenic in origin. The carbon stable isotopes and the δ15N of the N2 in the gas (mean = 1.7%) suggest it may be partially derived from the thermal alteration of algal material in immature sedimentary organic matter. The He isotope ratios (3He/4He = 1.32 RA) indicate a significant mantle component (16.3%) in the gas. Here, we suggest the name El Requesón fault zone for the faults that likely formed as a result of extension in the region during the late Miocene, and are currently serving as conduits for the observed hydrothermal activity. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):14, ,
Forrest, Ledesma-Vázquez, Ussler III, Kulongoski, Hilton, Greene
Neotectonics of the offshore Oak Ridge fault near Ventura, southern California,
The Oak Ridge fault is a large-offset, south-dipping reverse fault that forms the south boundary of the Ventura Basin in southern California. Previous research indicates that the Oak Ridge fault south of the town of Ventura has been inactive since 200-400 ka ago and that the fault tip is buried by ∼ 1 km of Quaternary sediment. However, very high-resolution and medium-resolution seismic reflection data presented here show a south-dipping fault, on strike with the Oak Ridge fault, that is truncated at 80 m depth by an unconformity that is probably at the base of late Pleistocene and Holocene sediment. Furthermore, if vertically aligned features in seismic reflection data are eroded remnants of fault scarps, then a subsidiary fault within the Oak Ridge system deforms the shallowest imaged sediment layers. We propose that this subsidiary fault has mainly left-slip offset. These observations of Holocene slip on the Oak Ridge fault system suggest that revision of the earthquake hazard for the densely populated Santa Clara River valley and the Oxnard coastal plain may be needed., Cited By (since 1996):6, CODEN: BSSAA, ,
Fisher, Greene, Normark, Sliter
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Greene, Todd
Neogene folding and faulting in southern Monterey Bay, Central California, USA,
The goal of this study was to determine the Neogene structural history of southern Monterey Bay by mapping and correlating the shallow tectonic structures with previously identified deeper occurring structures. Side scan sonographs and Uniboom seismic reflection profiles collected in the region suggest that deformation associated with both compressional and transcurrent movement is occurring. Strike-slip movement between the North American and Pacific plates started as subduction ceased 21 Ma, creating the San Andreas fault system. Clockwise rotation of the Pacific plate occurred between 3.4 and 3.9 Ma causing orthogonal convergence between the two plates. This plate rotation is responsible for compressional Neogene structures along the central California coast. Structures exhibit transpressional tectonic characteristics such as thrust faulting, reverse faulting and asymmetrical folding. Folding and faulting are confined to middle Miocene and younger strata. Shallow Mesozoic granitic basement rocks either crop out or lie near the surface in most of the region and form a possible décollement along which the Miocene Monterey Formation has decoupled and been folded. Over 50% of the shallow faults strike normal (NE-SW) to the previously identified faults. Wrench fault tectonics complicated by compression, gradual uplift of the basement rocks, and a change in plate convergence direction are responsible for the observed structures in southern Monterey Bay. © 1993., Cited By (since 1996):3, CODEN: MAGEA, ,
Gardner-Taggart, Greene, Ledbetter
High-resolution offshore 3D seismic geophysical studies of infrastructure geohazards
As global earthquake activity continues to impact Communities, infrastructure, and lives, the necessity of better identification and characterization of seismic hazards becomes ever clearer. The tragic 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake and tsunami increased the attention on critical coastal infrastructure projects exposed to earthquake hazards. Offshore faults are more difficult to identify and characterize than onshore faults. While multibeam bathymetric surveys can reveal surface geomorphologic expression of faults, seismic source characterization studies also require investigations of fault geometry in the subsurface. High-resolution offshore geophysical surveys can be a highly valuable tool for these tasks. Specifically, the use of high-resolution three-dimensional seismic reflection investigations can provide some of the most precise information about fault location, activity, and geometry. This work will discuss how the latest generation of ultra-high-resolution/high-fidelity marine seismic systems can be used to investigate sub-sea faults, and how it applies to complex geologic hazards to coastal infrastructure.
Ebuna, Mitchell, Hogan, Nishenko, Greene
The offshore Edgecumbe lava field, southeast Alaska: Geologic and habitat characterization of a commercial fishing ground,
The application of geological and geophysical techniques in characterizing marine benthic habitats is increasing among fisheries biologists, marine geologists and fisheries managers. In this paper the results of a comprehensive sidescan sonar survey and seafloor observation/sampling program are applied to characterize fish habitats in a geologically complex volcanic region. Sidescan sonographs, interferometric bathymetric data, and in situ observations using the submersible Delta were used to identify and describe rockfish (Scorpaenidae, genus Sebastes) habitats of the continental shelf seaward of Kruzof Island in southeast Alaska. A major feature of this part of the continental shelf is the offshore Edgecumbe lava field. Mount Edgecumbe, a Holocene shield volcano, last erupted ca. 7000 years ago when it spread lava upon aflat glaciated surface and covered at least 600 km2 of seafloor and coastal plain west of Kruzof Island. The lava surface exhibits well-defined and little-eroded aa and pahoehoe lava, lobate lava fronts, compression ridges, collapsed lava tubes and volcanic cones that mark the distal end of Mount Edgecumbe's southwest rift. The presence of these features, along with the recovered vesicular basalt samplesftom the seafloor and the absence of pillow lava, suggests that the lava field was formed either terrestrially or in a shallow marine environment and, based on the depth of the outer limits of the field, has subsided at least 300 m. The offshore Edgecumbe lava field is defined as a marine benthic megahabitat that contains a variety of mesohabitats conducive to the habitation of rockfishes. The geologic features within this megahabilat give rise to mesohabitats that consist of pinnacles, caves, boulders, cobbles and pebbles, cracks and crevices, and ridges. The diversity and distribution of rockfish species appear to be related to mesohabitat type and depth, with the presence of suitably-sized refuge spaces a key to the occurrence of demersal rockfish. In boulder and ledge areas, such as those that occur around the pinnacles (volcanic cones), yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus), tiger rockfish (S. nigrocinctus), lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), prowfish (Zaprora silenus) and sharpchin (S. zacentrus) are frequently present. On the pinnacles' crests where broken rock, ledges and platforms exist, the fish assemblage includes lingcod, quillback (S. maliger), Puget Sound (S. emphaeus) and young-of-the-year rockfishes. Similar assemblages of fish inhabit the caves and rubble-strewn floors of collapsed lava tubes. Elsewhere on the lavafield, rosethorn (S. helvomaculatus) and pygmy (S. wilsoni) rockfishes inhabit cracks and crevices in the lava flows and also occur in small boulder, cobble andpebble terranes. Compressional ridges with broken and angular boulders and slabs are frequented by yelloweye and tiger rockfishes. Pelagic rockfishes such as dusky (S. ciliattis), black (S. melanops) and yellowtail (S. flavidus) are found in schools and individually in areas of high relief, such as ridges and angular outcrops of rocks, and schools of pygmy rockfish and unidentified juvenile rockfishes inhabit most mesohabitats from pinnacles to cobble fields., Rocks & Cores, ,
Greene, O'Connell, Wakefield, Brylinsky
Submarine landslides in the Santa Barbara Channel as potential tsunami sources,
Recent investigations using the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institutes (MBARI) Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) "Ventana" and "Tiburon" and interpretation of MBARI's EM 300 30 kHz multibeam bathymetric data show that the northern flank of the Santa Barbara Basin has experienced massive slope failures. Of particular concern is the large (130 km2) Goleta landslide complex located off Coal Oil Point near the town of Goleta, that measures 14.6-km long extending from a depth of 90 m to nearly 574 m deep and is 10.5 km wide. We estimate that approximately 1.75 km3 has been displaced by this slide during the Holocene. This feature is a complex compound submarine landslide that contains both surfical slump blocks and mud flows in three distinct segments. Each segment is composed of a distinct head scarp, down-dropped head block and a slide debris lobe. The debris lobes exhibit hummocky topography in the central areas that appear to result from compression during down slope movement. The toes of the western and eastern lobes are well defined in the multibeam image, whereas the toe of the central lobe is less distinct. Continuous seismic reflection profiles show that many buried slide debris lobes exist and comparison of the deformed reflectors with ODP Drill Site 149, Hole 893 suggest that at least 200 000 years of failure have occurred in the area (Fisher et al., 2005a). Based on our interpretation of the multibeam bathymetry and seismic reflection profiles we modeled the potential tsunami that may have been produced from one of the three surfical lobes of the Goleta slide. This model shows that a 10 m high wave could have run ashore along the cliffs of the Goleta shoreline. Several other smaller (2 km2 and 4 km2) slides are located on the northern flank of the Santa Barbara Basin, both to the west and east of Goleta slide and on the Concepcion fan along the western flank of the basin. One slide, named the Gaviota slide, is 3.8 km2, 2.6 km long and 1.7 km wide. A distinct narrow scar extends from near the eastern head wall of this slide for over 2 km eastward toward the Goleta slide and may represent either an incipient failure or a remnant of a previous failure. Push cores collected within the main head scar of this slide consisted of hydrogen sulfide bearing mud, possibly suggesting active fluid seepage and a vibra-core penetrated ∼50 cm of recent sediment overlying colluvium or landslide debris confirming the age of ∼300 years as proposed by Lee et al. (2004). However, no seeps or indications of recent movement were observed during our ROV investigation within this narrow head scar indicating that seafloor in the scar is draped with mud. © 2006 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License., Cited By (since 1996):19, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/6/63/2006/nhess-6-63-2006.pdf (16 June 2014).
Greene, Murai, Watts, Maher, Fisher, Paull, Eichhubl
Estimating rocky seafloor extent on the Southern California continental shelf,
High-resolution sonar data are necessary to map bottom substrate for habitat studies but are lacking over much of the continental shelf. With such data, areas covered by sediment can be distinguished from bedrock areas with an accuracy of ̃90%. Without these data, the extent of sediment as thick as 10 m cannot be resolved, and estimates of the extent of rocky seafloor are exaggerated. A study area north of Anacapa Island in Southern California interpreted as a large rocky area after mapping with low-resolution seismic systems was found to have exposed rocky bottom in only 10% of the area when mapped with high-resolution, side-scan sonar. The area of rock was estimated using video-supervised, sonar-image classification of textural derivatives of the data calculated from gray-level co-occurrence matrices. The classification of soft bottom was found to be ̃90% accurate using an independent data set, derived from seafloor sampling records. Two general types of rock exposure are observed-sparse linear outcrops of layered sedimentary rocks and more massive, rounded outcrop areas of volcanic rocks. The percentage of exposed rock in volcanic areas exceeded that in sedimentary rock areas by a factor of 5 in the study area north of Anacapa Island. South of Point Arguello, 80% of the shelf seafloor is underlain by sedimentary rock units. The percentage of area that is exposed, rocky-reef habitat may be greater in other areas of coastal seafloor if the bedrock is predominantly volcanic. © 2009 The Geological Society of America., Oceanography, Rocks and Cores, ,
Cochrane, Greene
Physiography of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and implications about continental margin development,
Combined EM-300 multibeam bathymetric data and satellite photography reveal the physiography of the continental margin between 35°50′ and 37°03′N and from the shoreline west of 122°40′ and 122°37′W, which includes Monterey Bay, in a previously unprecedented detail. Patterns in these images clearly reveal the processes that are actively influencing the current geomorphology of the Monterey Bay region, including the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). Our data indicates that seafloor physiography within the MBNMS results from plate margin tectonic deformation, including uplift and erosion along structural lineaments, and from fluid flow. Mass wasting is the dominant process active within the Ascension-Monterey and Sur-Partington submarine canyon systems and along the lower slopes. Meanders, slump dams, and constricted channels within the submarine canyons, especially within Monterey Canyon, slow and interrupt down-canyon sediment transport. We have identified for the first time thin sediment flows, rotational slumps, rills, depressions that may be associated with pipes, and other fluid-induced features we call 'scallops' off the Ascension slope, and suggest that fluid flow has sculptured the seafloor morphologies here. These unusual seafloor morphologies are similar to morphologies found in terrestrial areas modified by groundwater flow. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):57, CODEN: MAGEA, ,
Greene, Maher, Paull
The effects of dredge material disposal on marine benthic habitats of the Santa Cruz Bight, California,
In March, 2001, the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor was permitted to dredge some mixed sand and mud (silt and clay) from the upper harbour onto the surf zone at Twin Lakes Beach. A monitoring program was conducted to determine if any sedimentary changes occurred in nearshore benthic habitats of the Santa Cruz Bight during the experimental dredging period. To map the spatial distribution of benthic habitats at risk, and to determine if sedimentary changes occurred due to harbour dredging, multibeam bathymetry surveys and sediment sample data were collected before, during and after the dredging. These data were analyzed and interpreted into two benthic habitat maps and compared using a new GIS mapping technique to quantify areas of sediment erosion and deposition on the Santa Cruz Bight seafloor. The integration and analyses of the data collected over the monitoring period indicates that the muddy upper harbour sediment did not significantly disturb or change the grainsize characteristics of nearshore marine benthic habitats in the Santa Cruz Bight., Cited By (since 1996):1, Rocks & Cores, ,
Watt, Greene
Mapping marine habitats with high resolution sidescan sonar,
The application of marine geophysics and GIS techniques to the characterization of benthic habitats has increased the ability of fisheries managers to assess distribution and habitat types beyond common practices. We report upon a 150 kHz sidescan sonar survey offshore of Kruzof Island, Alaska undertaken to characterize rockfish (Sebastes) habitat. Using GIS, MapGrafix and Map*Factory we determined the percentage of seafloor cover that exists in our survey area. Bathymetry in the study area was determined with sidescan interferometry. All XYZ data were gridded using Surfer and plotted in shaded relief, bathymetric contour, and 3-dimensional formats. Contoured bathymetry was used as an overlay in MapGrafix. Small sub-areas were extracted from the bathymetric data for closer study, and gridded in Surfer. Areas of the mosaic where backscatter patterns were not distinct were verified with hand samples and video collected with the submersible Delta. The use of submersibles for verification of interpreted lithologies and surface textures enables a high degree of accuracy for the interpretations. Lithotypes were lumped into larger groups based on morphology and fish associations with different morphologies verified using the submersible. The accuracy of digital maps from high-resolution sidescan sonar data allows a close quantification of the areal extents of these important features, directing the application of management strategies to critical areas., Cited By (since 1996):24, Oceanography, CODEN: OCACD, ,
McRea Jr., Greene, O'Connell, Wakefield
A geophysical approach to classifying marine benthic habitats: Monterey Bay as a model
Greene, Yoklavich, Sullivan, Cailliet
A classification scheme for deep seafloor habitats,
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Greene, Yoklavich, Starr, O'Connell, Wakefield, Sullivan, McRea Jr., Cailliet
Construction of digital potential marine benthic habitat maps using a coded classification scheme and its application,
Recent advancements in remote-sensing geophysical technology have enabled the imaging of deep seafloor regions, and the construction of detailed maps depicting potential marine benthic habitats. The recent and severe declines in many groundfish stocks, and the degradation of associated seafloor habitats make these maps of critical importance to the identification of essential fish habitat, and the facilitation of habitat-based management, through the establishment of marine protected areas. However no standard approach to mapping deep-water (>30 m) marine benthic habitats has been established and endorsed by the scientific community, even though several different deep-water habitat characterization schemes exist or are evolving. In this paper, a classification scheme, including an attribute code, for mapping potential marine benthic habitats is presented in an attempt to establish a standard technique to facilitate reproducibility of habitat designations and comparisons of deep-water marine benthic habitats worldwide. This scheme has been developed over more than 15 years of mapping seafloor habitats. One of the main strengths of the scheme is versatility and ease of use because it can be applied to any seafloor environment and is directly adaptable to use with Geographic Information System (GIS) programs. The habitat-mapping scheme presented here is based on physiography and scale, induration (hardness of substrate), and geomorphology. The attribute code associated with this scheme consists of seven primary characters that can be used to represent: 1) physiography and depth (i.e., megahabitat), 2) substrate induration, 3) geomorphology (i.e., meso- and macrohabitat), 4) modifiers for texture, lithology, bedform and biology, 5) seafloor slope or inclination, 6) seafloor rugosity, and 7) geological unit, represented by standard geological symbols. The latter three characters are optional and are included only when slope and rugosity can be calculated and when the geology is known. Further an additional attribute code is presented for use in distinguishing potential habitat types from video and photographic data that consists of two primary characters: 1) geologic or substrate attributes, and 2) biological attributes., Cited By (since 1996):2 Fish and Fisheries, ,
Greene, Bizzarro, O'Connell, Brylinsky
The use of geophysical survey data in fisheries management: A case history from southeast Alaska,
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has been conducting a habitat-based stock assessment of yellow-eye rockfish (Sebastes niberrimus) in the eastern Gutf of Alaska since 1989. Yelloweye rockfish occur in rugged rocky terrain on the continental shelf, and are an important commercial species taken in directed, and by-catch bottom-long-line fisheries. The biomass of yelloweye rockfish is derived as the product of density, average weight, and area of habitat. Density is based on line-transect surveys conducted from an occupied submersible. Area estimates of yelloweye habitat are based on the probable distribution of rocky habitat inshore of the 200 m bathymetric contour. Information used to identify rocky habitat include sidescan and multibeam sonar data (ground-truthed using direct observation from the submersible) and commercial logbook data from the directed fishery. In areas with multibeam or sidescan sonar data, the area of rockfish habitat is delineated based on defined substrate types within the mapped area. For areas without these geophysical datasets, position data from commercial fishery logbooks is used. In areas with both logbook and geophysical data, areas of habitat generally overlap but are not identical. Logbook data is mandatory, but self-reported, and may not always be accurate. Geophysical surveys reveal the extent of all rocky habitats, while fishermen target areas of prime habitat. Limiting of surveys to prime habitat may result in inaccurate stock assessments because density may remain stable in the prime habitat, while declining in surrounding habitats. By assessing fish densities in all rockfish habitats, as delineated by geophysical surveys, a better indicator of stock condition is possible. Further unlike logbook data, multibeam data allows us to clearly define boundaries of prime habitats, relevant to management decisions regarding marine reserves or to definition of management units., , ,
O'Connell, Brylinsky, Greene
A standard, universally useful classification scheme for deepwater habitats needs to be established so that descriptions of these habitats can be accurately and efficiently applied among scientific disciplines In recent years many marine benthic habitats in deep water have been described using geophysical and biological data. These descriptions can vary from one investigator to another, which makes it difficult to compare habitats and associated biological assemblages among geographic regions. Using geophysical data collected with a variety of remote sensor systems and in situ biological and geologic observations, we have constructed a classification scheme that can be used in describing marine benthic habitats in deep water., Cited By (since 1996):117, Rocks and Cores, CODEN: OCACD, ,
Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean,
The idea that iron might limit phytoplankton growth in large regions of the ocean has been tested by enriching an area of 64 km 2 in the open equatorial Pacific Ocean with iron. This resulted in a doubling of plant biomass, a threefold increase in chlorophyll and a fourfold increase in plant production. Similar increases were found in a chlorophyll-rich plume down-stream of the Galapagos Islands, which was naturaly enriched in iron. These findings indicate that iron limitation can control rates of phytoplankton productivity and biomass in the ocean., Cited By (since 1996):749, Oceanography, CODEN: NATUA, ,
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Pelodera strongyloides infection in Pacific Harbor seals (Phoca Vitulina Richardii) from California
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McHuron, Miller, Gardiner, Batac, Harvey
The state of the California current, 2006-2007: Regional and local processes dominate,
The state of the California Current System (CCS) between Oregon and Baja California is summarized in this report, covering spring 2006 to spring 2007. Observations reported here are based on contributions from various ocean observing programs along the West Coast of North America. Basin-scale indicators were variable or neutral over the last year. This indeterminate forcing was reflected in conditions in the CCS where no coherent patterns emerged, i.e., no single "state" could be ascribed to the system. Rather, regional or local processes dominated observed patterns. Similar to last year, delayed upwelling off Oregon and central California dramatically affected higher trophic levels: euphausiid recruitment was delayed and as a likely consequence seabird productivity off Central California was extremely depressed. For example, Cassin's auklet had a complete reproductive failure, similar to 2006. Observations during the spring of 2007 demonstrate that these patterns were ephemeral since upwelling was normal and seabird productivity improved. Off southern and Baja California, upwelling-favorable winds were also weak or delayed during 2006, but biological consequences appear to have been relatively minor., Cited By (since 1996):24, Ecology, ,
Goericke, Venrick, Koslow, Sydeman, Schwing, Bograd, Emmett, Peterson, Rubén Lara Lara, Castro, José, Hyrenbach, Bradley, Weise, Harvey, Collins, Lo
An in situ study of recruitment, growth and survival of subtidal marine algae,
Neushul, Foster, Coon, Woessner, Harger
Impact of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) on salmon fisheries in Monterey Bay, California,
To assess the impact of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) on salmon fisheries in the Monterey Bay region of California, the percentages of hooked fish taken by sea lions in commercial and recreational salmon fisheries were estimated from 1997 to 1999. Onboard surveys of sea lion interactions with the commercial and recreational fisheries and dockside interviews with fishermen after their return to port were conducted in the ports of Santa Cruz, Moss Landing, and Monterey. Approximately 1745 hours of onboard and dockside surveys were conducted - 924 hours in the commercial fishery and 821 hours in the recreational fishery (commercial passenger fishing vessels [CPFVs] and personal skiffs combined). Adult male California sea lions were responsible for 98.4% of the observed depredations of hooked salmon in the commercial and recreational fisheries in Monterey Bay. Mean annual percentages of hooked salmon taken by sea lions ranged from 8.5% to 28.6% in the commercial fishery, 2.2% to 18.36% in the CPFVs, and 4.0% to 17.5% in the personal skiff fishery. Depredation levels in the commercial and recreational salmon fisheries were greatest in 1998 - likely a result of the large El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event that occurred from 1997 to 1998 that reduced natural prey resources. Commercial fishermen lost an estimated $18,031-$60,570 of gear and $225,833-$498,076 worth of salmon as a result of interactions with sea lions. Approximately 1.4-6.2% of the available salmon population was removed from the system as a result of sea lion interactions with the fishery. Assessing the impact of a growing sea lion population on fisheries stocks is difficult, but may be necessary for effective fisheries management., Cited By (since 1996):9, CODEN: FSYBA, ,
Weise, Harvey
Statistical significance of sediment toxicity test results: Threshold values derived by the detectable significance approach
A number of methods have been employed to determine the statistical significance of sediment toxicity test results. To allow consistency among comparisons, regardless of among-replicate variability, a protocol-specific approach has been used that considers protocol performance over a large number of comparisons. Ninetieth-percentile minimum significant difference (MSD) values were calculated to determine a critical threshold for statistically significant sample toxicity. Significant toxicity threshold values (as a percentage of laboratory control values) are presented for six species and nine endpoints based on data from as many as 720 stations. These threshold values are useful for interpreting sediment toxicity data from large studies and in eliminating cases where statistical significance is assigned in individual cases because among-replicate variability is small.
Phillips, Hunt, Anderson, Puckett, Fairey, Wilson, Tjeerdema
Deep-sea sedimentary processes in the Argentine Basin revealed by high-resolution seismic records (3.5 kHz echograms),
The regional distribution of nine 3.5 kHz seismic echo types reveals the areal extent of deep-sea sedimentary processes in the Argentine Basin. Correlation between four echo types (IB, IIA, IIB, IIIF) and the relative abundance of sand and silt layers in piston cores shows that the majority of coarse sediment bypasses the continental slope and rise. This coarse sediment is deposited on the proximal abyssal plain with progressively lower amounts reaching basinward across the distal plain. Scarps, irregular and blocky hyperbolic zones, and transparent layers along the Argentine continental margin indicate the widespread occurrence of mass-flow deposits. One large area of mass-flow deposits covers at least 5 × 104 km2 of the continental rise and adjacent abyssal plain east of the Rio de la Plata. A field of large migrating mud waves, approximately 1.0 × 106 km2 in extent, occurs on sediment drifts in the central basin. The mud waves range in amplitude up to 137 m and average 26 m; wavelengths are about 3-7 km. The migrating mud waves are current-controlled features which form in areas of relatively weak Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) benthic circulation. A variety of hyperbolic echo types on the abyssal plain adjacent to the Argentine continental margin, south of the Rio Grande Rise, and in the Georgia Basin, are also interpreted as AABW current-produced erosional/depositional bedforms, although downslope sedimentary processes may also produce similar hyperbolic echoes. The distribution of bedforms inferred from 3.5 kHz echo character suggests that sediments is supplied to the basin principally by gravity-controlled mass flows. Sediment transported by AABW from higher latitudes is a secondary source. Sediments from both sources is winnowed by strong AABW flow along the Argentine continental rise. The fine-grained component is transported to the central basin where it is deposited as migrating mud waves in regions of relatively weaker AABW flow. © 1988., Cited By (since 1996):25, ,
Klaus, Ledbetter
Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in Massachusetts Bay,
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stocks in northeastern US waters are depleted and stock recovery has been slow; research into the spawning behaviour of this species can help inform conservation and management measures. Male cod produce low-frequency grunts during courtship and spawning. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) offers a different perspective from which to investigate the occurrence, spatial extent and duration of spawning cod aggregations. A marine autonomous recording unit was deployed in the "Spring Cod Conservation Zone" (SCCZ) located in Massachusetts Bay, western Atlantic, to record cod grunts from April-June 2011. Cod grunts were present on 98.67% of the recording days (n = 75 days). They occurred across all 24 h, although significantly more grunts were found during the day than night-time (p = 0.0065). Grunt durations ranged from 57-360 ms, and the fundamental frequency and second harmonic had mean peak frequencies of 49.7 ± 5.6 and 102.9 Hz ± 10.9 sd, respectively. Cod grunt rates were low compared with those reported for other spawning fish, and may be indicative of diel movement patterns. Next steps will focus on expanding PAM coverage within the SCCZ, alongside prospecting for unknown spawning grounds within existing archival data. © 2013 © United States Government [NOAA] 2013. Published by Oxford University Press., Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: ICESE, ,
Hernandez, Risch, Cholewiak, Dean, Hatch, Hoffman, Rice, Zemeckis, Van Parijs
Ozone depletion: Ultraviolet radiation and phytoplankton biology in Antarctic waters,
The springtime stratospheric ozone (O 3) layer over the Antarctic is thinning by as much as 50 percent, resulting in increased midultraviolet (UVB) radiation reaching the surface of the Southern Ocean. There is concern that phytoplankton communities confined to near-surface waters of the marginal ice zone will be harmed by increased UVB irradiance penetrating the ocean surface, thereby altering the dynamics of Antarctic marine ecosystems. Results from a 6-week cruise (Icecolors) in the marginal ice zone of the Bellingshausen Sea in austral spring of 1990 indicated that as the O 3 layer thinned: (i) sea surface- and depth-dependent ratios of UVB irradiance (280 to 320 nanometers) to total irradiance (280 to 700 nanometers) increased and (ii) UVB inhibition of photosynthesis increased. These and other Icecolors findings suggest that O 3-dependent shifts of in-water spectral irradiances alter the balance of spectrally dependent phytoplankton processes, including photoinhibition, photoreactivation, photoprotection, and photosynthesis. A minimum 6 to 12 percent reduction in primary production associated with O 3 depletion was estimated for the duration of the cruise., Cited By (since 1996):544, CODEN: SCIEA, ,
Smith, Prézelin, Baker, Bidigare, Boucher, Coley, Karentz, Macintyre, Matlick, Menzies, Ondrusek, Wan, Waters
Patterns of growth, energy utilization and reproduction in some meso- and bathypelagic fishes off Southern California,
We have studied growth, energy use and reproduction in 4 mesopelagic fishes and 5 bathypelagic fishes living off Southern California (USA). All of the mesopelagic species underwent diurnal vertical migrations, while none of the bathypelagic species did so. The life histories of these pelagic fishes were compared among themselves and with epipelagic sardines and anchovies studied by others. The epipelagic species had the highest growth rates (estimated from otoliths, expressed in standard length or kilocalories), the mesopelagic species had the lowest growth rates and the bathypelagic species had intermediate growth rates. The relatively rapid growth rates of the bathypelagic fishes were achieved by high relative growth efficiencies made possible by low metabolic rates. Of the species studied, the lifespans of the epipelagic and bathypelagic species ranged from 4 to 8 yr and the lifespans of mesopelagic species from 5 to 8 yr. Data on egg diameters suggest that the mesopelagic species first reproduce in their 3rd yr, while the bathypelagic species do so in their last year. Epipelagic fishes generally have a large size, rapid growth, long life and early, repeated reproduction. Mesopelagic fishes are characterized by small size, slow growth, long life and early, repeated reproduction. Bathypelagic fishes generally have large size, rapid growth, somewhat shorter lives and late reproduction, which is possible a single event. The latter pattern is evidently feasible only in a rather stable environment where juvenile survivorship would always display relatively low variability. Many unusual characteristics of deep-living animals have possibly been selected by factors peculiar to the environment; however, such characteristics are just as likely to have been selected by factors equally present in many other environments, but not expressed there due to masking selective forces. In particular, we have in mind the darkness, stability and homogeneity of the bathypelagic realm as phenomena which represent the effective absence of many selective forces. © 1980 Springer-Verlag., Cited By (since 1996):48, CODEN: MBIOA, ,
Childress, Taylor, Cailliet, Price
Growth rates, grazing, sinking, and iron limitation of equatorial Pacific phytoplankton,
, , , Concentrations of phytoplankton and NO, are consistently low (0.2-0.4 μg Chl a liter-1) and high (4-12 μM) in surface waters of the oceanic eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and phytoplankton populations are dominated by small solitary phytoplankton (< 10 μm). Growth rates of natural phytoplankton populations, needed to assess the relative importance of many of the processes considered important in maintaining the high-nutrient, low-phytoplankton biomass condition observed in the equatorial Pacific, were estimated by several methods. The growth rates of natural phytoplankton populations were found to be -0.7 d-1 or biomass doubling d-1 and were similar for all methods. To keep this system in its observed balance requires that loss rates approximate observed growth rates. Grazing rates, measured with a dilution grazing experiment, were high (-0.5 d-1), accounting for a large fraction of the daily production. Additions of various forms of Fe to 5-7-d incubations utilizing ultraclean techniques resulted in significant shifts in autotrophic (from picoplankton to diatom dominated) and heterotrophic assemblages between initial samples, controls, and Fe enrichments, which were presumably due to Fe, grazing by both protistan and metazoan components, and incubation artifacts. Estimated growth rates of small pennate diatoms (2 x 10 μm) showed increases in Fe enrichments (mean ± SD = 1.60 ± 0.04 d-1) with respect to controls (mean ± SD = 1.21 ± 0.33 d-1). The growth rates of the pennate diatoms were similar to those estimated for the larger (~5 μm) size fraction of the natural populations (mean = 1.42 d-1). We hypothesize that biomass regulation of the larger size fraction of phytoplankton is by a combination of grazing, Fe limitation, and sinking and that understanding the controls over the larger phytoplankton is fundamental to unraveling the high-nutrient, low-biomass paradigm., ,
The behaviour of iron and other trace elements during the IronEx-I and PlumEx experiments in the Equatorial Pacific,
Dissolved (< 0.4 μm) and particulate (0.4-5 μm and > 5 μm, leachable and refractory) trace elements were measured during the IronEx I and PlumEx experiments in October and November 1993 near the Galapagos Islands. Iron was measured in the enriched patch and at control stations over a 9 day period following fertilization. The dissolved iron was initially depleted at a rate that gave an iron half-life of 28-40 h. The loss rate gradually decreased, and dissolved iron concentrations did not decrease below about 0.25 nmol kg-1 throughout the experiment. These results were most consistent with a kinetic model that was second order in iron concentration for the scavenging removal of each iron fraction. Other trace elements measured did not change significantly either in concentration or partitioning during the IronEx I experiment. Biological production tracked iron concentrations over time, which suggests that productivity within the fertilized patch was regulated by the availability of iron. The PlumEx study consisted primarily of two transects, a meridional course to the east of the Galapagos Islands and a zonal section to the west. Surface dissolved iron was very low at all stations except those near the Galapagos Islands. Sections of trace metal and other properties distinctly confirm the upwelling of the Equatorial Undercurrent as it intersects the islands. This upwelling has a great effect on the surface distributions of the trace metals on the west side of the islands. Productivity within the mixed layer of this region is highly correlated with iron and nitrate. West of the islands highest productivity is found at stations with the highest iron. North of the Equatorial front, in nitrate-depleted waters, elevated iron concentrations do not enhance productivity., Cited By (since 1996):58, Oceanography, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Gordon, Johnson, Coale
Characterizing dispersal patterns in a threatened seabird with limited genetic structure,
Genetic assignment methods provide an appealing approach for characterizing dispersal patterns on ecological time scales, but require sufficient genetic differentiation to accurately identify migrants and a large enough sample size of migrants to, for example, compare dispersal between sexes or age classes. We demonstrate that assignment methods can be rigorously used to characterize dispersal patterns in a marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) population from central California that numbers approximately 600 individuals and is only moderately differentiated (FST∼ 0.03) from larger populations to the north. We used coalescent simulations to select a significance level that resulted in a low and approximately equal expected number of type I and II errors and then used this significance level to identify a population of origin for 589 individuals genotyped at 13 microsatellite loci. The proportion of migrants in central California was greatest during winter when 83% of individuals were classified as migrants compared to lower proportions during the breeding (6%) and post-breeding (8%) seasons. Dispersal was also biased toward young and female individuals, as is typical in birds. Migrants were rarely members of parent-offspring pairs, suggesting that they contributed few young to the central California population. A greater number of migrants than expected under equilibrium conditions, a lack of individuals with mixed ancestry, and a small number of potential source populations (two), likely allowed us to use assignment methods to rigorously characterize dispersal patterns for a population that was larger and less differentiated than typically thought required for the identification of migrants. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):11, Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, CODEN: MOECE, ,
Hall, Palsbøll, Beissinger, Harvey, Bérubé, Raphael, Nelson, Golightly, McFarlane-Tranquilla, Newman, Peery
Dr. Michael Neushul,
Reed, Norris, Foster
The Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) radiometric calibration and uncertainty budget for ocean color satellite sensor vicarious calibration,
For the past decade, the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY), an autonomous radiometric buoy stationed in the waters off Lanai, Hawaii, has been the primary in-water oceanic observatory for the vicarious calibration of U. S. satellite ocean color sensors, including the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instruments on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Terra and Aqua satellites. The MOBY vicarious calibration of these sensors supports international efforts to develop a global, multi-year time series of consistently calibrated ocean color data products. A critical component of the MOBY program is establishing radiometric traceability to the International System of Units (SI) through standards provided by the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A detailed uncertainty budget is a core component of traceable metrology. We present the MOBY uncertainty budget for up-welling radiance and discuss approaches in new instrumentation to reduce the uncertainties in in situ water-leaving radiance measurements., Cited By (since 1996):10, Oceanography, Art. No.: 67441M, CODEN: PSISD, ,
Brown, Flora, Feinholz, Yarbrough, Houlihan, Peters, Yong, Mueller, Johnson, Clark
What sharks can tell us about the evolution of MHC genes,
Similarity in structural features would argue that sharks possess class I, class IIA and class IIB genes, coding for classical peptide-presenting molecules, as well as non-classical class I genes. Some aspects of shark major histocompatibility complex genes are similar to teleost genes and others are similar to tetrapod genes. Shark class I genes form a monophyletic group, as also seen for tetrapods, but the classical and nonclassical genes form two orthologous clades, as seen for teleosts. Teleost class I genes arose independently at least four different times with the nonclassical genes of ray-finned fishes and all the shark and lobe-finned fish class I genes forming 1 clade. The ray-finned fish classical class I genes arose separately. In phylogenetic trees of class II α2 and β2 domains, the shark and tetrapod genes cluster more closely than the teleost genes and, unlike the teleost sequences, the class II α1 domains of sharks and tetrapods lack cysteines. On the other hand, both shark and teleost genes display sequence motifs in the antigen-binding cleft that have persisted over very long time periods. The similarities may reflect common selective pressures on species in aqueous environments while differences may be due to different evolutionary rates., Cited By (since 1996):19, CODEN: IMRED, ,
The flux of iron from continental shelf sediments,
The flux of dissolved iron from sediments to the water column was measured with flux chambers along the California coast over a five-year period. High fluxes were observed from sediments on the continental shelf. The measured fluxes were an average of 75 times larger than flux values derived from pore-water iron gradients. The iron flux was significantly correlated with the oxidation of organic matter, which allows an extrapolation to the global shelf. The input from shelf sediments is at least as significant as the global input of dissolved iron from aerosols, which has been presumed to be the dominant external iron source. Evidence of this input is seen 100's of kilometers offshore where it can enable the high productivity of broad coastal regions seen in satellite images. Copyright 2004 by the American Geophysical Union., Cited By (since 1996):125, Oceanography, CODEN: GPRLA, ,
Elrod, Berelson, Coale, Johnson
Settlement, growth and reproduction of benthic algae within Macrocystis forests in California,
Harger, Coon, Foster, Neushul, Woessner
Erratum to Functional significance of intramandibular bending in Poeciliid fishes,
Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: EBFID, , ,
Gibb, Ferry-Graham, Hernandez, Romasco, Blanton
The validity of using morphological characteristics as predictors of age in the kelp, Pterygophora californica (Laminariales, Phaeophyta),
Previous studies have used stipe ring counts to estimate the age of several species in the Laminariales. Although this method is widely accepted, it has rarely been validated. To test the validity of aging Pterygophora californica by counting rings formed in the stipe, we sampled plants of known age between 1.0 and 4.4 yr old and plants with a calculated age of 12 yr. For a given cohort, the number of complete rings closely approximated the known age in years. indicating ring counts are a reliable method for estimating the age structure of P califomica populations. However, ring counts from individual plants of known age can vary by ± 2 yr (95 % CI), and among readers counting the same plants by ± 1 yr (95 % CI). Single plants, there fore, could not be reliably aged by ring counts Linear relationships between 2 morphometric measures (stipe length and stipe diameter) and number of rings varied both within and between stands and sites, suggesting these measures are not reliable for estimating the age of this alga in the areas sampled. Stand density may be an important factor contributing to the variation in these morphome tric measures. Short-term (22 wk) field manipulations of stand density showed that plants at high density (30 plants m^-2) grew faster in stipe length and slower in stipe diameter than those at medium (6 plants m^-2) and low (2 plants m^-2) densities. Plants collected in a multi-site survey, however, showed no relationship between stand density and stipe morphology, indicating factors other than density also influence stipe growth Short-term (22 wk) field manipulations, which reduced ambient light levels by up to 58 %. had no significant effects on stipe morphology., , ,
Hymanson, Reed, Foster, Carter
Radiometric age validation of Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus,
An improved radiometric aging technique was used to examine annulus-derived age estimates from otoliths of the Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus. Whole otoliths from juvenile fish and otolith cores, representing the first 2 years of growth, from adult fish were used to determine 210Pb and 226Ra activity; six age groups consisting of pooled otoliths and nine individual otolith cores were aged. This unprecedented use of individual otolith cores to determine age was possible because of improvements made to the 226Ra determination technique. The disequilibria of 210Pb:226Ra for these samples were used to determine radiometric age. Annulus-derived age estimates did not agree closely with radiometric age determinations. In most cases, the precision (CV≤12%) among the otolith readings could not explain the differences. The greatest radiometric age was 78.0 yr for a 2045-mm-FL female, where the radiometric error encompassed the annulus-derived age estimate of 55 yr by about 4 yr. The greatest radiometric age for males was 41.0 yr for a 1588-mm-FL tarpon, where the radiometric error encompassed the annulus-derived age estimate of 32 yr by 1 yr. Radiometric age determinations in this study indicated that the interpretation of growth zones in Atlantic tarpon otoliths can be difficult, and in some cases may be inaccurate. This study provides conclusive evidence that the longevity of the Atlantic tarpon is greater than 30 years for males and greater than 50 years for females., Cited By (since 1996):9, CODEN: FSYBA, ,
Andrews, Burton, Coale, Cailliet, Crabtree
Reply to "Robust estimates of decline for pelagic shark populations in the northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico",
Cited By (since 1996):20, , , ,
Burgess, Beerkircher, Cailliet, Carlson, Cortés, Goldman, Grubbs, Musick, Musyl, Simpfendorfer
Brittle star distribution patterns and population densities on the continental slope off central California (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea),
The ophiuroid communities on the continental slope off central California were examined using box cores and trawls. Box cores were taken between 550 and 3085 m at sites southwest of the Farallon Islands, and otter and beam trawls were used below 2300 m at three sites between the Farallon Islands and Point Sur. Eighteen ophiuroid species from six families were identified. Eighty percent of the individuals collected with box cores belonged to two species, Ophiura leptoctenia and Ophiacantha normani, which were dominant between 1000 and 2000 m. The largest ophiuroid faunal break occurred at around 2000 m and was associated with elevated dissolved oxygen levels, decreasing sediment grain size, and increasing sediment organic content. A comparison of box-core and trawl data from below 2300 m showed that box cores undersampled the ophiuroid community on the continental slope, missing almost 50% of the species collected by trawls within the same area, whereas trawls underestimated ophiuroid densities, reporting on average 243 times fewer ophiuroids per m2 than did box cores. There was a change in species relative abundance patterns between sampling locations. Ophiuroids exhibited patchy spatial distribution patterns on both a small scale of around 0.1 m2 and a large scale on the order of 100-1000 s of square meters. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):14, Invertebrates, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Summers, Nybakken
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Jack & Jill Politics In The New York Times For #DNC08 Coverage
31 Aug 2008 Author: Jack Turner
They just can’t get enough of us :)
The NY Times has a media post-mortem of DNC coverage and mentions us pretty high up:
During the convention, Google had hosted the Big Tent which housed 500 bloggers, vloggers and other nontraditional media types. Google also made sure that these journalistic insurgents were invited to the after-party, people like James Kotecki from Politico, Baratunde Thurston of Jack & Jill Politics, Chuck Olsen of Blogumentary and Noah Kunin of Blanked-Out.
The article was about a lot more than the party and is worth a read. I think the author captured the essence of what it meant to have 15,000 media descend on a single event coming from a wide range of media outlets and types
The cable television blabbers still put a frame around the event, and the morning analysis pieces in The Washington Post and The New York Times continue to generate pickup and chatter, but the picture that emerged from this convention was also rendered in a thousand other pixels of coverage. (Most of us were so busy making media that we had little time to consume it — when I checked out of my Denver hotel, I left behind a stack of newspapers and bookmarks that I had set aside to read.) At this convention, depending on where you looked, the Clintons were still fighting from the hills or totally on board; big money got stiffed at the convention or was in full cry; and Senator Joe Biden was a brilliant choice as a vice president or a complete fiasco.
But back to that Google party. It was actually pretty hot. I met Chuck Schumer, saw Rahm Emmanuel getting busy on the dance floor and had a brief dance myself with Ashley Judd. The most relevant occurence, however, was talking with a reporter froma major outlet who was frustrated that so much of the mainstream press entered the convention with the same story in mind and insisted on pushing it, despite evidence to the contrary. That story, of course, was of Obama vs. Clinton delegates.
Here’s a video walkthrough I did of the party in two parts.
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Top Gear Lexus LFA Test
Posted on January 5, 2010 by Ben Hsu
In typical Top Gear fashion, they give the Lexus LFA a resounding review and then forcibly use some ridiculous yardstick by which to measure its worth. Minds are not budged when the LFA yields the fastest wet lap on the leader board. In fact, for those who are keeping score, subtract Top Gear‘s regulation four seconds from the lap time for dampness and the LFA actually beats every Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche in the show’s history.
The review serves its goal of entertaining the masses, even if the sole negatives seem to stem from the “but it’s a Lexus” school of thought. Perhaps the producers would reconsider its prestige if they stopped claiming that the company which made the LFA has never built a supercar before, hmmmm?
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tagged: gt-r, lexus, lfa, nissan, richard hammond, skyline, top gear, toyota.
35 Responses to Top Gear Lexus LFA Test
Jim-Bob said:
I did find their convenient ignorance of the 2000GT irritating too. However, the point about the price is a valid one considering the similarity in performance to cars costing half as much. I am in no way deriding the car as a technical achievement. It is a technology demonstrator for Toyota, much like the Bugatti Veyron is for Volkswagen. For the price though, it should have more power and be faster and quicker than it is. 3.7 seconds to 60 is blisteringly quick when compared to a normal car, but only average when compared to other exotics from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani, etc. It is also slower to 60 than the Ariel Atom, and maybe even the Caterham 500. For this sort of money, that simply should not be.
on January 5, 2010 at 1:02 am
I second the anger at Top Gears lack of classic JDM knowledge, however I felt I had to say something in response to your comment Jim-Bob. 3.7 seconds to sixty in the LFA basically matches all the best Italian offerings; the F430 Scuderia does a 3.6, the LP560-4 does a 3.7, and a Zonda F does a 3.6. Now as far as matching the Atom or R500 on any standing start goes, that means you have what those cars have which is nothing. Stick an engine on a bare frame and glue a seat to it and you’ll have an Atom or a Caterham, but for what the LFA is it is one of the best. You get to be as fast as any other name brand supercar and you get to sit in a comfier, much more well appointed cabin with more creature comforts. Just my 2 cents.
E-AT_me said:
well, technically “lexus” never has. Toyota has, and considering there wasn’t one mention of toyota in that entire clip, i have a feeling they are considered “seperate” companies and that’s how the public views them. i can’t honestly say that someone shopping for a Lexus would also be shopping for a Toyota. it just makes more sense for a car that expensive to have a “lexus” badge. i mean, who would pay that much for a Toyota when you could buy a lexus? hehe. kind of like why in the US we had the “Acura” NSX instead of the Honda. well, not really, but you get the point.
Nigel said:
Another car for the “haves”. I would like to see what Smokey from “Top Secret” does with it however.
Kev said:
Interesting how they deride the LFA for being too expensive at 350,000, then later in the same episode, Clarkson says that they can’t wait for the 1 million pound Aston One-77 to come out 🙂
Mr.L.J. Nordvik said:
This kind of complete ignorance and chauvinism regarding Japanese cars and their alleged lack of personality and heritage used to anger me.Now I just find it comically pathetic. Their loss.Their embarrassment.Their never ending display of “emperor’s new clothes” syndrome going all gooey over some profoundly over-rated european car whose flaws,faults, clumsy engineering and dodgy build quality is what gives it “character”. Bah,humbug!
bert said:
Whoa! Jeremy Clarkson calm down dude! The LFA is not about price, and they dont care about prestige. It’s about showing the world the japanese can beat the worlds best! Besides, I seem to remember another overpriced japanese super car breaking records in the rain!
Sr-FairladyZ said:
I watched this last night on the big screen. I will say they did a wonderful job with the editing and style of the test. I was blown away, but then quickly angered with the whole “It’s only a lexus crap.” Mr.L.J. Nordvik said it perfectly here. It’s an ignorant standpoint that many still cannot get around. WHEN will Japanese cars finally own some respect in the average peoples minds? The proven R35 still wasn’t enough? It smashed a lot of records and its priced at a reasonable $70K, but “its no Z06” is what an average American will say. “It’s no bloody BMW” is what Europeans will say. GTR’s have just about as much heritage as a Corvette or M3 does, it’s just not likely that many outside of Japan witnessed any of it. Therefore because they didn’t witness it, it doesn’t exist? It’s blatant ignorance in my eyes. There is all the respect for Japanese cars on a cult or underground level still it seems. what will it take for this to change? The LFA perhaps? Maybe the Honda HSV-10 or maybe its not the cars at all that need to change, it’s the people.
TheToyotaBlog said:
Lexus / Toyota has just built an amazing car, it’s as simple as that. No, it’s not cheap but then if you have the money to buy private jets and yachts, the £350k price isn’t much of a worry either. It’s not built for the masses, it’s built to showcase what the company can do and will be bought by very rich people.
It is history in the making, a real Japanese supercar. I’m glad it exists, but of course I’m still hoping that a new mass-market Supra is produced soon.
TheToyotaBlog,
Tru THAT! It’s been said, Toyota is not even making a profit with this car at $350K. It’s purely a showcase in automotive technology and performance. If you only see a price tag, then your not a true car enthusiast.
on January 5, 2010 at 12:00 pm
People, people – we’re all missing the point here bickering about provenance and snobism and so forth. Just LISTEN to it, sure sounds like half a million to me!
“If you only see a price tag, then your not a true car enthusiast.”
“Just LISTEN to it, sure sounds like half a million to me!”
Extremely well put! 🙂
GEN2TWINCAM said:
They’ve got to have a 12 year old script writer. What a rubbish program.
I’m surprised TOYOTA even let them drive the car.
With regards to price, I guess the final position is this. Value for money is in the eye of the beholder. As long as there are enough people to sign on the dotted line and be happy with their purchase, then that’s all that matters.
Will Lexus find 500 people happy to sign over a cheque? Yes, I think so. And those people will be very happy with their purchase.
Everyone else be damned (…or jealous, as the case may be!)
xs10shl said:
Well, I for one think they should have priced it lower. Here’s my reasoning – if they’re losing money on it anyways, why not price it at $175K and take the issue of price out of the discussion, and allow writers to focus on just the car itself.
I think they’ll sell all of them at $350K, but to my publicity sense it would make more sense to lose another $10-20 million and sell them cheaper. Especially if it creates a buzz in the aftermarket.
No, I think it’s priced correctly. It’s more than a Lambo Murcielago (then again with an all-carbon body, it should cost more). In terms of tech & materials, it’s more like a Pagani Zonda, which is the same price.
(let’s face it, xs210shl….no matter how cheap they make it, we can’t afford it anyway) 🙂
I find it interesting that they managed to omit reference to the LFA’s 10 INDIVIDUAL THROTTLE BODIES!!!! from the show. What a sound those baby’s make!! As for the price, the LFA actually lands square in the middle of the supercar spectrum. We’ve got to remember that a lot of the limited numbers supercars today price significantly higher(1.6 million dollar Enzo for example!) Toyota has made an extremly capable car that I think will beat the snot out of anything they throw at it.
bwadsworth87 said:
the full review is awesome. and better quality. this car just pi$$es excellence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxII5cwvsc
Moises said:
i loved that segment. yeah they arer not the most educated when it comes to japanese cars, case in point, richard hammond called the GTR “Just a Daatsun”. but honestly, how many people know of the 2000gt’s existence? how many people know the datsun 1200, or the yota crown existed? or they just look at an ae86, 200sx, 810/910 and say “why would they bother puting money into THAT!” and they are Top Gear. i would have been surprised it they didnt bash it for something
Someone should remind the TG team that Jaaaaaguars are “just a Tata” 🙂
Kev, it’s pronounced “jag-YOU-are,” as in, “Jeremy, we won’t take your criticism of the LFA too seriously considering the jag you are.” 😛
Oyaji Gaijin said:
Wasn’t the Miura declared to be the original Super Car? The point being that the Toyota 2000GT was built before there was an established definition of what a Super Car was, and the 2000GT was a Grand Touring car, raced in Grand Touring car class races.
Toyota has been dragging the LFA along for something like ten years now. Prior to this, they discontinued the Supra, yet always seemed to have new Supra chassis available for their own racing efforts in JGTC and Super GT. Now, Super GT has changed their format to FR chassis only, Toyota needs a new chassis for the new rules, the LFA seems to have been built almost specifically to match the Super GT rules, they have done years of track testing in race trim instead of on the street, they will have a limited production run of 500 cars, and I know I’ve heard that they already pre sold all of the available vehicles, so there isn’t even a list to get onto or a deposit to put down. All of that points to the fact that this is not a car intended for mass market sales or even use on public roads, it’s a limited production run of race cars and they expect the majority to be used in professional racing by teams in Super GT, Le Mans, International GT Open, whatever.
If they are selling these things at or slightly below cost, it’s to get them into the hands of racing teams because they will return many times what their profit margin should be in advertising by having the Toyota/Lexus name appear on the track.
It makes no sense to say “If they are already loosing money, why not sell them for half or a third of what they are now selling them for?” Ferrari could sell lots of cars for a dollar a piece, but they would be bankrupt in a week. They have to pay workers, subcontractors, and materials suppliers with something more than a smile. And they are all pre sold anyway, they aren’t looking for a market segment. If you aren’t a professional driver working for a Toyota sponsored team, or a prince in Dubai, the price is totally irrelevant anyway because you’re never going to even sit inside one.
The price cited by Top Gear was 300,000 UK Pounds, not dollars. That would be 500,000 US Dollars.
N/Aontherun said:
I think the LFA is a beauty. Just look at it or forget looking. Just hearing her scream makes me all tingly in the pants.
I know I’ll never own one, but to me its the Bugati of Toyota. Built because they CAN and they are not making money on any of them.
Jag-whar. WHAR. Whar-Whar-Whar-Whar-Whar 🙂
Who’s side are you on anyway? It’s YOUR government that did this to the E-type 😀
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m255/MX5_Dorifto/jaguar-frontlarge.jpg
Our government has done many things, but making the XK-E ugly is not one of them. Oh yes, I went there. 😀
dwlee said:
I would not be surprised if one of the conditions for having the LFA on TopGear was that they weren’t allowed to call it a Toyota
@xs10shl: at $175k, they’d be taking an additional $200k loss on each vehicle. Multiply that by 500 cars and you get 100 million dollars, nothing to scoff at, even if you are Toyota.
@kev’s Tata comment: zing! =D
“Someone should remind the TG team that Jaaaaaguars are “just a Tata”” I’m cross-eyed with laughter!
Hugh said:
I worked on the Lexus during conception and prototype. I have never seen such a desire for achieving perfection in both engineering and styling. It goes with the finest watches and wines.
It is difficult to create “pure class” in a new product but this has it.
OK, I give up! Bad idea on the discounting. I take it all back. ;^) I guess I was figuring they’d already spent 10 years and perhaps way more than that developing it, so, like F1, it could be put up to a branding exercise.
I wish somebody would do a TV show on japanese cars only.I volounteer to host. 😉
If there is anything I learned from Winnie-the-Pooh, it is that the proper pronunciation of that word is [jag-yoo-lar].
Jaaaaaaag.
Whaaaaaar.
I believe the correct pronounciation of Jaguar XF is “My,that looks an awful lot like a Lexus GS.”
You say tomato, I say tomah-to,
You say potato, I say pa-TATA…
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Danzig Announces Last Forseeable Tour
By Sefany Jones, Contributing Editor
Friday, July 9, 2004 @ 3:30 PM
Danzig Announces 'Blackest of
“BLACKEST OF THE BLACK” TOUR 2004 Announces Fall Line Up and Last DANZIG Tour
HOLLYWOOD – The Fall bill for "Blackest Of The Black" 2004 Tour has been announced. It will be Danzig with ex-Misfits bandmate Doyle in a guest set, original Black Metal Legends Mayhem, DevilDriver, featuring former Coal Chamber frontman Dez Farfara, Death Angel reunion (S.F. Death Metal Legends) and dark newcomers Eyes of Fire.
“Blackest of the Black” organizer Glenn Danzig had this comment: "At least in the foreseeable future... this will be my last tour. It seems like I have been touring my whole life and I want to take some time for myself and do many of the things I've always wanted to do, like direct my first feature film, which I will be doing this next year.”
As this may be the last show for Glenn Danzig to tour as Danzig, he explains about the show and line-up with former band-mate Doyle. “So, to do this right, I invited Doyle to join Danzig on stage at "Blackest Of The Black" for a ‘Special Guest’ Misfits set. This is the first time we will be performing on stage together in 20 years. It's the closest thing to a Misfits reunion anyone is ever going to see!” Danzig will be supporting their new album Circle Of Snakes, on sale August 31st, 2004. This year’s "Blackest Of The Black" looks to be an Epic and Darkly monumental event. Tickets will go on sale July 25.
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Bremont Released to Live Near Portland
Posted: 2012-02-29 22:30:00 by julia2
Michael Bremont, 39, the Redmond Proficiency Academy former Director accused of rape and sex abuse involving a student, was arraigned on Wednesday and granted permission to leave jail and live with relatives near Portland.
On Monday, a Grand Jury returned a 14 count indictment against the Bremont, according to our news partner- News Channel 21.
Circuit Court Judge Steven Forte approved Bremont's new release conditions: he will be under house arrest in a relatives house in West Linn and be strictly watched with a GPS monitoring device. With the new conditions, Bremont still cannot leave the state, is forbidden to contact the alleged victim, any minors, other than his own children or any employees of the Academy.
Bremont's plea hearing is set for April ninth.
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Winter Storm Means Bad Roads
The big winter storm caused several accidents today throughout Central Oregon. Highway 97 near Chemult was closed for several hours because of crashes and near Warm Springs. Highway 26 was closed for about an hour due to an accident involving a semi. There were several minor accidents around Bend as well. Deschutes County Sheriff Larry Blanton says many crashes can be avoided if drivers would just slow down. "Driving too fast for conditions and having too much faith and confidence in your own driving on slicker icy roads and just because you have a four wheel drive doesn't mean that you'll be able to avoid something in front of you, or an evasive move. So everyone has to be more patient on the slick roads. Drive well enough ahead of yourself, and help someone else if they need help; and drive in the 'good stuff'.” Sheriff Blanton says that means you need to stay off of the "slick" polished off areas of highway and avoid ruts. He says you should also try to stay away from piled up snow between lanes, as lane changes on snow can often pitch people sideways or into the oncoming lanes.
Whisnant on Legislative Session
Lawmakers will continue to meet tomorrow, going past their goal of ending February 29th. State Representative Gene Whisnant of Sunriver says he says its tough to get everything accomplished in such a short time frame. "This short session, which I opposed, annual session. But if we're going to have annual sessions, 35 days is not enough time to adequately address difficult policy issues. I am going to propose for next session that there be no individual bills, just Committee bills, because a lot of bills that were introduced were for political campaigns and not for helping Oregonians.” Whisnant says he likes the bi-partisan budget plan lawmakers came up with. He's especially glad they kept an emergency fund intact to help weather another economic storm in Oregon.
Whisnant on Occupy
State Representative Gene Whisnant of Sunriver is being targeted by "Occupy" members for his association with the American Legislative Exchange Council; a well-known free-market non-profit group. Whisnant calls the criticism of ALEC a smear campaign from the left. He says in a very public process the non-profit group suggests what they call "model" legislation to promote economic development and other "free-market" principals: "One of their charges is that corporations are sneaking this legislation through, but all of their task forces are made up of public and private members. Some I've voted for and some I've voted against." He says the non-profit group is a conservative organization that has members from both parties.
Snowstorm Warning Until Wednesday Night
If you thought the weekend's storm was bad; hold on to your hats. Mark Thibodeau with the Weather Channel says the snow that's falling now is going to get heavier. "Winter storm warning continues until 10 o'clock on Wednesday [evening]. And I really think the worst of the weather is going to be during the; starting up in the wee morning hours and then lasting through the daytime on Wednesday; and then improving into tomorrow night. But then, snow accumulations could be heavy, anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of snow, the way it looks out of this one. The heaviest amounts of course are going to be in the typical spots." Thibodeau says the temperatures won't warm up much either, and that means roads will be icy. "The winds are kind of going to be gusty too with this one. They’re kind of wound up on the weather map, with the pressure gradients, the winds are going to be gusting maybe 25-30 mph; that could create some blowing and drifting. And the roads are going to get hazardous with this one, as temperatures go below freezing, I do think that we could be talking about some slick roadways. Now we are going to make the upper 30's for the high Wednesday, so we'll see some melting. as we plummet down to 20 degrees Wednesday night, again, as we always say, and liquid spots are up for a refreeze." Thibodeau says the winter storm warning is in effect until 10 o'clock Wednesday night. The good news is: we should dry out by Saturday and have a pretty warm weekend.
Dog Control Board to Have Hearings
Posted: 2012-02-28 09:53:00 by eli
The Deschutes County Dog Control Board will hold hearings on Wednesday at 5:30 PM, to discuss the incidents of two killings of livestock by dogs. The first incident happened in Bend near Sisemore Road on February 23rd, where a yellow dog and brown dog chased and killed chickens. The second incident happened in La Pine also on the 23rd near Union Road, where two boxer dogs chase and killed chickens as well. If you are interested in these cases anyone can appear at the hearings and offer testimony regarding the allegations.
It's National Pancake Day, and IHOP is offering a free short stack to its guests. In return for the buttermilk flapjacks, you'll be asked to consider leaving a donation for Children's Miracle Network hospitals and other designated local charities. National Pancake Day has raised nearly $8 million for charity since 2006. The offer is good from 7 am to 10 pm. For details, visit ihoppancakeday.com.
La Pine Civil Case Settled
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission approved a settlement yesterday in an ethics case in La Pine. Former La Pine Water District Commissioner Barbe Ann Nelson-Dodson admitted she broke state laws when she used district employees and equipment for personal gain. An article in The Bulletin says she took advantage of her position to bury her dog in 2009 and participated in several official discussions about her daughter's job at the district. The settlement calls for Nelson-Dodson to pay a $400 civil penalty, much less than the $20,000 fine allowed by state law.
Changes for Downtown Parking
The Executive Director of the Downtown Bend Business Association says some changes in how downtown parking spots are managed are coming soon. Chuck Arnold says its important that the best on-street parking is properly managed. "On street parking spaces are worth $30,000 a year in sales and its crucial that we keep that turnover." For more details on parking in downtown Bend, you can go to this website www.downtownbend.org.
Plans for the City of La Pine
La Pine has only been a city for a couple years, and they're continuing to experience growing pains. The city's new City Manager Steve Hasson started last week. He sees several challenges ahead. “The City hasn't been a City before; and it now has a lot of power, but doesn't have a lot of revenue sources, no experience, no institutional memory. We’ve got to cautiously decide what we need to take on. And we should take them on to our ability in terms of resources and wherewithal.” Hasson says he would like the City to take over land use processes from Deschutes County and Code Enforcement to start.
You Can Weigh in On Badlands Management
Outdoors recreationists have a chance to weigh in on how the Oregon Badlands wilderness could be managed. Lisa Clark with the Bureau of Land Management says the popular wilderness site draws a lot of locals and visitors to the beauty of the area, but keeping it in the best shape; they need a plan. "Well, with the designation of a Wilderness, we've removed the option of allowing motorized use out there, so that's an option that's off the table. However, we are looking at different ways that people can hike, ride horses, where should we be doing restoration to improve the wilderness character, where should those trails or trailheads be? So we need more or less? So that's the kind of information that we're looking for from people." Clark says there will still be access off of Highway 20, but only to a point. You will need to travel on foot or horseback through most of the area. The "public scoping" meeting is March first at the Riverbend Community Room at the Bend Parks and Rec office, from 6-30 to 8 p.m.
Redmond Fire Burns Barn
An owners' attempt to burn some weeds and grass got out of hand Friday, burning a single story barn in Redmond. Around 4 p.m., Redmond Fire is called to a fire on southwest McVey Avenue, where embers from the fire had apparently ignited the base of an exterior wall of the barn. The Redmond Fire report states that the wind contributed to the spread of the fire. There was an estimated $7,000 lost to the building and contents. No one was injured.
Suspect Arrested in Schools Lockdown Occurrence
Updating you on a story we brought to you Friday afternoon; a suspect was apprehended in the apparent burglary and subsequent school lock down. Police received information linking John Brady Vance, 30, of Bend to the stolen property. Students at Sky View Middle and Lava Ridge Schools in northeast Bend were under a lock down for about 45 minutes Friday afternoon. School Resource Officer Kecia Weaver explains what happened: "There was a vehicle located in the parking lot of Sky View Middle School that had been reported as having been taken from a burglary in a nearby area this afternoon. And so, as a precaution, Deschutes County Sheriffs Office and Bend PD, while investigating that crime, decided to lockdown both schools while we looked for the suspect in the area of the school." Around 12:20 p.m., with guns drawn, officers swarmed the area looking for the burglary suspect, causing some excitement with the students.
Weaver says the kids do go through drills and knew exactly what to do.
Meanwhile, Vance is charged with burglary, unlawful use of a vehicle and theft and is lodged in the Deschutes County Jail.
Iif you have any information - contact the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. (541-693-6911)
Two School Experience Lockdown
Students at Sky View Middle and Lava Ridge Schools in northeast Bend were under a lock down for about 45 minutes this afternoon. School Resource Officer Kecia Weaver explains what happened. "There was a vehicle located in the parking lot of Sky View Middle School that had been reported as having been taken from a burglary in a nearby area this afternoon. And so as a precaution, Deschutes County Sheriffs Office and Bend PD, while investigating that crime, decided to lockdown both schools while we looked for the suspect in the area of the school." Around 12:20 p.m., with guns drawn, officers swarmed the area looking for the burglary suspect; causing some excitement with the students. Weaver says the kids do go through drills and knew exactly what to do. The suspect is still at large. He's described as 6’1”, 160 pounds and heavily tattooed. If you have any information, contact the Deschutes County Sheriff. (541-693-6911).
Hundreds Attend Real Estate Forecast Breakfast
Bend financial advisor Troy Reinhart was one of about 300 local business leaders and others who attended the Bend Chamber 2012 Real Estate Forecast Breakfast this morning. He says he left the meeting encouraged and feeling bullish about the local real estate market. One topic that was raised was the impression that more people are leaving Central Oregon than coming in: “One of the questions was: a realtor in the audience asked when is the mass exodus of people leaving going to end. And both the speakers were puzzled because really even during the worst of this we having had a loss of population here in Central Oregon, but what people are feeling is that the rate of growth has slowed. You don't feel a decline out there.” Reinhart says the data shows that we clearly went through a big bubble and appear to be coming out the other side. Going forward, experts are predicting slower, more normal and healthy growth in Central Oregon.
“Ochoco†High Desert Museum’s Bobcat Dies
Sad news from the High Desert Museum today. Ochoco, the Museum's beloved bobcat, died Thursday at the age of 20, apparently from liver cancer. He had been a resident at the museum since 2005. Dana Whitelaw, the Museum’s Vice President for Programs, says he was a huge draw for all visitors and there will be a real void with his passing. "He’s been with the museum since 2005, and he's been a wonderful educational ambassador here at the museum, and will be greatly missed by staff, volunteers, of course our visitors. And really was loved by thousands, who met him through the museum's Educational Wildlife Program." Whitelaw says Ochoco was one of the oldest living bobcats in captivity, and had twice as long a life span compared to cats "in the wild." She says there is no plans to obtain another bobcat; but they work closely with wildlife officials, and should an opportunity come up, they could find another bobcat.
Jobs for Vets Program
Central Oregon Veterans Outreach has started a new program that is helping struggling veterans get jobs. The program is funded through a federal grant. The veterans reintegration program is currently working with fifty area veterans who are homeless or couch surfing. Steve Wilkes is the program's manager. “We are concentrating on getting veterans into proper mindset to go out and get a jobs and retain it. We're not interested in just surviving, but helping them retain in and stay employed for they can get a new place and become a regular member of American Society.” The program has already placed eleven area veterans in jobs, in computers, cab and restaurant work. To learn more, call Central Oregon Veterans Outreach. 541-383-2793.
Guts and Stuff Gutted
A bill that helps Redmond have the largest block of industrial lands in the State has passed in the House and is now on its way to the Governor's desk. Earlier this week, we told you the bill was in jeopardy because of what's known as a 'gut and stuff' in political jargon. Democratic Representative Dave Hunt was trying to stuff one of his bills into it, which could've killed the whole thing. State Representative Jason Conger of Bend says he was glad to see the "gut and stuff" attempt blocked: “In my opinion, it was a very overtly political maneuver. It wasn't a question of policy or what's best for Oregon, I was very glad that the attempt by Dave Hunt to hijack this thing failed." The bill allows Redmond to put 465 acres of land back into its inventory of industrial lands. Supporters call it a great jobs bill for Central Oregon.
St. Charles Medical Center Caregiver to Vote on Union Soon
Many service employees at St. Charles are frustrated at the lack of movement on reaching a contract over the last year. Some workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to help a decertification vote to remove the union. These workers voted to unionize last year, but during the last year have been unable to reach a contract agreement with the hospital. Mel James is a nursing assistant at St. Charles. He's confident the decertification vote will go down to defeat, just as nurses at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville rejected removing their union. “I think you can draw parallels between the two. As far as a decertification vote, I’m confident the vote will fail and then like in Prineville, I hope we will see some movement on a contract like the ONA [Oregon Nurses Association] went through in Prineville. I think that's fair to say.” To go forward, 30% of union employees must want to hold a decertification vote.
Kitzhaber’s News Conference
The Oregon House approved the Governor's initiative to redesign the health care delivery and finance system for Oregon Health Plan patients in hopes of improving care and lowering costs. The measure allows the State to implement a plan to create coordinated care organizations that would be responsible for mental, physical and dental health of patients in their area. Right before the important vote: Kitzhaber held a news conference: "Last year this Legislature took on one of the largest budget deficits in the nation, and erased that with civility and integrity. A remarkable feat in this divided nation. Took the first steps of transforming are system of public education and health care this year we have the opportunity to move that important work forward, with the same spirit of bi-partisanship. I think at the end of the day, these are not Democratic issues or Republican issues; these are Oregon issues." Proponents hope they can stem rapidly rising health care costs by managing chronic illnesses and mental health conditions so that patients can avoid expensive emergency room visits. Opponents say they're concerned the idea isn't thoroughly vetted.
Gut & Stuff in Oregon Legislature
A bill that allows Redmond to put 465 acres back into their industrial inventory is in jeopardy in Salem. State Senator Chris Telfer says SB 1544 passed unanimously in the Senate and that made it attractive in the House for what is called a "Gut and Stuff" in political slang. House member Dave Hunt wants to stuff his more controversial bill into Senate Bill 1544, and Telfer says that could kill the whole thing. "So this is where you've got a good bill, job creation, it would allow Central Oregon to have the biggest inventories of industrial sites in the state, and it could get killed because of a bill that one individual wants to have, that can't even get a hearing on its own.” The land is near the Redmond Airport and many economic development leaders believe it would be very attractive to manufacturing companies to locate there.
Summit High Principal Finalists
The four finalists for Summit High School Principal met Tuesday with about four dozen students, parents and staff in a public forum. An article in the Bulletin says the finalists are Jeff Bullock, Current Principal at Klamath Union High School; Alice Dewittie, Assistant Principal at Reynolds High School; Steven Marshall, Principal at Camas High School; and Jason Wold, Vice Principal of Lakeridge High School. Officials with Bend La Pine Schools say the District expects to reach a hiring decision in the next few weeks.
Three Arrested in CODE Bust at Indian Head Casino
Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team
Time of Incident: 1:00 pm
Type of Incident: Methamphetamine Investigation
Location of Incident: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Warm Springs, OR
Suspect Information:
Christian Alvarez-Rodriguez, Age 27, Beaverton, Oregon
Jose Juan Jimenez, Age 21, Beaverton, Oregon
Lacie Lee Strable, Age 30, Beaverton, Oregon
On 02/17/2012 at about 1:00 pm, Narcotics Detectives from the Warm Springs Tribal Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, both affiliated with the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team (CODE), and agents with the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force, arrested three individuals on various narcotics charges in the Indian Head Casino parking lot, which resulted in the seizure of one ounce of methamphetamine. The search of a vehicle related to those arrested revealed digital scales, additional methamphetamine and packaging materials.
Alvarez-Rodriguez and his passengers were booked into Jefferson County Jail where they face charges of Unlawful Possession, Delivery and Manufacture of Methamphetamine, and Conspiracy to Unlawfully Deliver Methamphetamine.
The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team is a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force supported by the Oregon High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program and the following Central Oregon law enforcement agencies: Bend Police Department, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Redmond Police Department, Prineville Police Department, Crook County Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Madras Police Department, Oregon State Police, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Warm Springs Tribal Police Department, Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson County District Attorney’s, and the Oregon National Guard.
The Oregon HIDTA program is an Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) sponsored counterdrug grant program that coordinates and provides funding resources to multi-agency drug enforcement task forces to disrupt or dismantle local, multi-state and international drug trafficking organizations.
Redmond Proficiency Academy Expansion Could Be Stalled
The arrest of the Director of the Redmond Proficiency Academy will change some of the school's plans. The school was to expand to Salem; has this changed things? Board Chairman Patrick McKelvie: “In some ways, I think it does. Obviously, the nature of this situation causes everyone to take a step back and reassess what's going on.” So, the Salem school plans could be put on hold, but McKelvie says plans to expand the Redmond school to include middle school grades, is going forward. It will add grades 6 through 8 by next school year. The school's Director, Michael Bremont, was arrested on Saturday on charges he had sexual contact with a female student.
An Apple for Prineville
It appears tech giant apple is joining Facebook in Prineville. Apple just paid $5.6 million for a 160 acre parcel of land near Facebook. No local leaders would confirm it, because of non disclosure agreements, but the Prineville newspaper, the Central Oregonian, was the first to break the story. Journalist Jason Chaney wrote the story. “I kind of get a feeling of excitement about this. Regardless what happens, the County got a big chunk of money for land. Facebook has done a lot of things as a data center. And Facebook is very involved in the community and the residual economic impact. There’s an expectation about this same sort of thing.” The deed on the sale of the land was signed by Crook County Commissioners on February 15th; the very day the Oregon Senate passed legislation that removed any "surprise" taxes on those who build in enterprise zones, and are promised tax breaks.
South Deschutes County Open House Tonight
Deschutes County Officials are beginning the process of developing a land use plan for South County, and the first step is getting residents involved. Deschutes County Senior Planner Terri Hansen Payne says they are encouraging a lot of input. "Well, South County has some unique issues, because there are so many small lots that were platted before platted before land use came to the state. And there are a lot of them are along rivers are wildlife corridors and people love it down there. We want to make sure we protect what people love." There is an open house tonight at La Pine High School at 5:30 p.m. where county officials are all ears for your suggestions and comments. Hansen Payne says they are going to have several meetings over the next few months to gather the information.
Moon Mountain Snowmobile Crash
A Sherwood man was injured after crashing his snowmobile on Moon Mountain late Sunday afternoon. Wesley Montgomery, 46 of Sherwood was taken to St. Charles Bend with non-life threatening injuries. The Bulletin reports that he was trying to perform a trick when he crashed into a tree. Two US Forest Service Rangers were nearby and assisted Montgomery at the crash site.
Bend Fire
The Bend Fire Department says a lantern caused Monday’s structure fire in a shop just north of Tumalo Junction. Fire investigators say the lantern was placed too close to combustibles in the shop. Officials say the building owner was letting a transient stay in the building and the lantern was inside a tent used for sleeping. An article in The Bulletin says the fire caused an estimated $6,000 in damage. No one was hurt in the blaze.
Redmond Airport Eyes Expansion
Officials say the Redmond Airport may soon hire a lobbyist or a consultant to help expand service. The hire could also help raise money for airport projects. The move would be part of the city’s long-term plan that includes an extension of the main runway in order to accommodate larger aircraft. An article in The Bulletin says Redmond would also like to attract more flights to and from the airport. Redmond mayor George Endicott says they’re not sure yet just what the final position description will look like.
Car Sales Pretty Good in Central Oregon
Many automakers are showing good car sales so far in 2012. 1110 KBND’s Kelly Bleyer talked with some local car dealers if the same is true here. Chrysler and Ford both saw increases during the first month of 2012. Honda and Toyota are also on the rise. Because the average American is hanging on to their vehicles for ten to eleven years, many people are in the market. Used cars sales are doing a brisk business. Bruce Klouda is the General Manager of Lithia Motors in Bend. “With the highest demand for used cars, because people are hanging on to their cars longer, it is impacting the availability. You get supply from trade, street or action, 60% to 70% from auction. So it's highly impacted, causing a shortage of used vehicles.” Nationally, auto dealers say vehicles are staying in their lots fewer than 50 days is a good sign: demand is returning to the market.
Walden Angry Over Mercedes-Benz Snafu
U.S. Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon is still angry over a permit snag that prevented a Mercedes Benz commercial being filmed in Central Oregon. The ad was to be shot along the Cascades Lakes Highway with Mount Bachelor in the background. But, the Forest Service failed to issue a permit in time. “This caused us to lose $150,000, at least, in a depressed economy. Central Oregon has always been open for business and make sure the forest service gets its act together so this sot of problem doesn't happen in the future. Because of the permitting problem, the Mercedes commercial will now be shot in California.
Deschutes Brewery Highlighted in Forbes
Deschutes Brewery is getting some national attention. Forbes Magazine has compiled a list of the top ten American breweries worth a visit, and the Deschutes Brewery is number five. Owner Gary Fish is thrilled with the recognition: “Well, I think it's terrific. I haven't read the article yet, but anytime you're recognized by a national publication like that, with that kind of reach, it's great. It’s very important, very flattering, but we're not going to get carried away, still have a lot of work to do ourselves so …” The number one brewery listed was Samuel Adams in Boston, followed by Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales in Delaware.
Kitzhaber’s Plan Cuts into State Reserves
Governor Kitzhaber's budget plan calls for tapping into state reserves to avoid cutting some state jobs and programs. State Representative Jason Conger believes the Governor needs to agree to an earlier bi-partisan proposal that cuts $28 million, mostly by laying off middle managers and other state employees. The Governor doesn't want the state worker layoffs to be as deep and says agencies could make cuts in other ways. "I was a little disappointed in the Governor's reaction. And I'm inclined to go back and say: We have to make these cuts; we need this money. We don't want to make further cuts in other programs, so lets find a way to do it." Kitzhaber wants to spend $13 million from the reserves to prevent the closures of a Salem area prison and other cuts to social programs. Yesterday the Governor made it clear he wants to spend down reserves to balance the budget rather than rely solely on cuts.
Students Shiver & Shake for One of Their Own
Organizers expect about 175 Cascade Middle School kids to brave some icy waters today; all out of love for a fellow student. Kaheawai Kaonoki - or "KK" - is a Sparrow at Cascade Middle School and kids have been raising donations to get the chance to “Shiver and Shake” and help KK pay some medical expenses.
Organizer Karen Hobbs says a Sparrow is a sick child who is supported financially by their peers.
She says some of the jumpers came from unlikely sources: "Very often you get the girls that want to be popular, and don't want to spoil their hair or their make up spoiling. And I’d say 'do you know KK?' 'Oh yeah, we love KK' 'Then why aren't you jumping? Come on, this is all about KK.' There was a table of 14 girls. One girl said 'Oh, well, give me a form.' Seven others said, 'I’ll have a form.' So you know what? This is bigger than them. It’s just a wonderful thing to do."
The Shiver and Shake begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Athletic Club of Bend and it is open to the public, if you want to go and watch and donate to a very worthy cause.
A Bird, A Plane or Batman?
Male Walks Down Brookswood Blvd In His Underwear
Brookswood Blvd near Lone Cow Dr Bend, 02/16/2012 2:45 pm
By: Lt. Deron McMaster
Contacted Person:
Name withheld in accordance with federal law (HIPPA)
On 02/16/2012 at approximately 2:45 pm deputies from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Brookswood Blvd and Baker Rd for a report of a male walking northbound in the travel lanes of Brookswood Blvd wearing only his underwear. The male was further described as being bloody and carrying a knife.
Deputies encountered the male walking in the middle of Brookswood near Lone Cow Dr. Deputies ordered the male to stop and he eventually complied with the commands. The male was taken into custody without further incident. The male was found to be in possession of a cigarette and a lighter at the time the deputies stopped the male. The blood was determined to be the male’s own blood.
Elk Meadow Elementary School was locked down at the request of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office as a precaution based on the initial information given to deputies responding to the call. The school was in lock down for approximately ten minutes.
No charges have been filed against the male.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Bend Police Department, the Oregon State Police and the Bend Fire Department.
No other information will be released regarding this incident.
Help of Children In Sex Trafficking
Children forced into the sex trafficking trade could soon have a way to "wipe the slate clean." House Bill 4146, co-sponsored by Jason Conger, provides for juveniles who have been convicted of prostitution or other sex trafficking crimes to have their records expunged when they turn 18. "Once they are adults and they are out of the sex trade, they can start over. They can get rid of that record in their history. Obviously they can't get rid of the mental anguish and the other issues that come with that. But at least their criminal record will be clean. And then when they try to start over and get a job as an adult, they don't have a criminal record hanging over them." Conger says most Oregonians don't realize how big, and what a problem sex trafficking is. The bill passed the House today and now goes on to the Senate.
Lead Poisoning Bill Easily Passes House
A bill that creates a new clearinghouse for information relating to lead poisoning has cleared one hurdle in the Oregon Legislature. Representative Jason Conger of Bend co-carried House Bill 4105 that passed in the House on Monday. Conger says the bill requires the Oregon Health Authority to unify and make available on their website, information about and preventative measures when building or remodeling K-12 structures. "To particularly schools, to help the schools, especially maintenance staff or people who are doing renovations in schools, again, know what to look for, understand what the consequences lead poisoning can be and have some information about what to do about it if they have a problem." Conger says he is passionate about this bill because he knows first hand what can happen when a child is exposed to lead poisoning. When his daughter was a baby; she had a false-positive test for lead poisoning, and Conger did extensive research into the problem and the solutions. The bill goes to the Senate next week.
Local Winery Garners Six Medals
Central Oregon’s Maragas Winery wins six medals at this year’s San Francisco Chronicle wine competition. That event was held last month in Cloverdale, California. Winery owner Doug Maragas says they submitted all of their current releases, and they all medaled. An article in the Bulletin says, for the second consecutive year, the dessert wine "Central Oregon Tootsie", won a silver medal.
Religious University Eyes Oregon
Northwest Nazarene University wants to expand to Central Oregon. According to the Bulletin, leaders of the Idaho-based religious university say they have, on multiple occasions, visited sites in Bend and Redmond. Bill Russell, the University’s Executive Director of Community Relations, says they’re now looking for local partnerships to help offset the cost of setting up in the region. Russell says they think Central Oregon needs a private, four-year university with graduate programs.
John Huddle to Challenge McLane
A familiar name in Central Oregon has declared his candidacy for Oregon House District 55, currently held by Mike McLane. La Pine resident John Huddle says he believes that too many legislators are swayed by big corporations and lobbyists. "We don't need the legislators in there that are going around the established laws to craft bills. They need to be out talking to the people. They need to be dealing with issues that are important to the local people. And not catering to big corporations that want to come in with their special interests."Huddle says he wants to restore communication and leadership of the people, by the people and for the people. Huddle previously ran against Gene Whisnant for District 53 back in 2012, but the new district boundary puts him in McLane's district now. District 55 is one of Oregon's largest, geographically, that includes all of Crook, Eastern and Southern Deschutes, North Lake and Klamath and northeast Jackson counties.
Deschutes National Forest Reaction to Wanoga Sno-Park Re-name
A popular snow park southwest of Bend will gain it's original name, Wanoga Sno-Park, after learning it's new name, Frank Ellis Sno-Park, celebrated a convicted sex offender. Frank Ellis, a founding member of the Oregon State Snowmobile Association, spent about 40 year volunteering as a snowmobile trial groomer for about 40 years and was very active in the community. Jean Nelson-Dean, a spokesperson for the Deschutes National Forest says when they decided to rename the park after Ellis' death, they had no idea he was convicted of sexually abusing his granddaughter in 1986. “We found out information that we didn't have about his previous conviction as a sex offender, and some of the circumstances surrounding that. And so out of respect for his victims family, we just immediately are moving forward with having the name Wanoga restated for that area. So that whole area will become Wanoga again." Nelson-Dean says they have removed all signage and anything that refers to Frank Ellis. She says in the future, they will carefully consider all requests to dedicate forest areas to any one individual.
Redmond to Add more Industrial Space
Posted: 2012-02-13 20:07:00 by kelly
Senators in Salem on Monday voted 30 to 0 in favor of a bill that allows Redmond to re-zone a 465 acre parcel back to its original "industrial" zone.
The zoning was changed when leaders were considering the spot for the County Fairgrounds. State Seantor Chris Telfer says this zone change will mean that Redmond will have the most industrial inventory in the state. The bill is expected to easily pass in the House.
John Rexford to Head Up High Desert ESD
Rexford was just selected to head up the High Desert Education Service District. Rexford says he's excited about the new challenge, but will miss the people he works with on a daily basis. He is repalcing Dr. Dennis Dempsey who is retiring. He'll take over on July 1st.
Pot Bust Gained From Traffic Stop
62 pounds of processed marijuana is seized after the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office make a traffic stop that led them to the pot. The arrest of Mark Joseph Wirges, Junior, 34, of Bend began Thursday afternoon on Highway 97, just south of Deschutes Junction. The Sheriffs report says the investigation during the stop led police to a storage unit containing large bags of the pot, worth about $180,000. Wirges is held in the Deschutes County jail on $50,000 bail.
Man Stabbed During Fight
Male stabbed during fight
BLM land north of Coyner (Redmond)
BY: Sergeant Troy Gotchy
Victim: Frisbee, Kevin Anthony 20 years of age
Redmond, Oregon
Arrested: Mitchell, Tyler Shane 18 years of age
Sisters, Oregon
Assault II
Unlawful Use of a Weapon
On 02/11/12 at approximately 0026 hours, Deputies were dispatched to St. Charles Medical Center in Redmond for a stabbing. Staff at the hospital advised a male, later identified as Kevin Frisbee, had been brought into their facility with stab wounds. Frisbee was contacted at the hospital, and identified the suspect as Tyler Mitchell.
Mitchell later met Deputies south of the hospital, and was taken into custody without incident. During the course of the investigation, it was learned there had been a physical fight between Mitchell and Frisbee on BLM land north of Coyner Avenue. Frisbee was stabbed during the fight, and taken to the hospital by friends. The reason for the fight is still under investigation.
Mitchell was lodged at the Deschutes County Jail for the above listed charges. Frisbee was treated at St. Charles in Redmond and later released. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in this investigation by the Redmond Police Department.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 541-693-6911.
Tara Goad Remembered Today
Tara Goad's Youth Pastor says she'll be remembered as a vibrant and loving teenager, who had a special love for young children. Tara was killed in a tragic car crash on Monday morning, her service is at 4 p.m. this afternoon in Redmond at the Highland Baptist Church.
Hundreds of friends and family are expected to attend the service. Many will share memories and celebrate Tara Goad's life. “She’s so vibrant, and so fun, and just so full of life.” Kyle Heinze was her youth pastor for several years. He's giving the main message: “I know she had talked to one of her friends that one of the main things she wanted to be life, was a mom, and she was just phenomenal with kids.”
He says he’s never had to preside over a service for s young teen. “It’s a sad first for me. I’ve preached funeral services before, but they were for older people, and death’s that people see coming.” Heinze says he’ll talk about her life and will remind people that she’s now in a better place. “How she’s finally Home- with a capital “H.” Tomorrow in Prineville there's a service for Tirisa Tucker, 15, who also died in Monday’s tragic crash.
Greeces’ Austerity Plan Doesn’t Draw Much Reaction
A Bend financial advisor says there isn't much of a reaction in the markets to an austerity plan unveiled in Greece. Fox News is reporting today that Germany's Finance Minister questioned whether the deal goes far enough to earn a crucial $130 billion bailout. Tyler Simones with Northwest Quadrant Wealth Management in Bend says the situation with Greece seems to already be priced into the market, but Greece will probably continue to make financial headlines for much of 2012: "We are now very interconnected and so nobody really knows where everything lies and there's worry that some of our banks have exposure to that Greek debt and that could be a problem to them.” Simones agrees with Chase Bank President Jamie Dimon who believes the impact from big problems in Greece will be minimal.
Warm Springs Receives Huge Grant
Its a huge grant headed to Warm Springs...The Warm Springs housing authority has received a grant of more than 1.5 million dollars from the US dept of Housing and Urban Development. The money will go toward housing development, housing services, crime prevention and safety. The funds hope to promote affordable housing in the area. Seven other tribes in Oregon received grants, of which totaled almost 14 million dollars.
Poly Sci Professor Weighs in on Primaries
The Republican race continues its surprises. When Rick Santorum won in all three state contests on Tuesday. OSU Cascades Political Science Professor Jim Foster feels its become a two man race between Romney and Santorum. “Fairly clearly, the Republican Party is not happy with Mitt Romney. They may be happier with Rick Santorum on ideological and political grounds, but their overriding concern is beating Obama in the fall. You could call it their obsession. So the Republican Party has a real dilemma on its hands.” Foster believes Gingrich is out of the running, and Republicans have to decide which candidate a majority of them will throw their support behind. The next races are three weeks away in Michigan and Arizona, where Romney is expected to do well.
Unger Comments on Triathlons
Deschutes County Commissioner Alan Unger says it would've been nice to have both the Leadman and the Ironman come to Central Oregon. But last week, supporters who want to bring the Ironman Triathlon to Central Oregon backed off, after Leadman organizers objected to an event on or near the same weekend of their event. Commissioner Unger says the County played more of a supportive role rather than pushing for either race. "But I think the biggest thing was the groups that were organizing both of these needed to work better together. Visit Bend, COVA, those kind of groups would’ve worked it out before it came to us.” KBND: “So, what did we learn? Better communication?” Unger: “Yes. And I think we need to realize there are Bend centric events and Central Oregon events and we all need to understand that they are both out there and they are both important.” The Leadman attracts about 250 athletes; and the Ironman draws in ten times that amount. Unger was a guest this morning on 1110 KBND's “Your Town.”
ODOT Says Staying Put Makes More Sense
After a 16 month long search, the DMV says they are staying put in their facility on the north side of Bend. ODOT spokesman Dave Thompson says they did a lot of math and realized that doing an upgrade to the building will be cheaper in the long run, compared to signing a 10 to 15 year lease at another location. “I freely admit this took us a long time. And I'm sure many people in Bend are wondering why it took us so long to reach what they think was a foregone conclusion, but to make it a foregone conclusion we had to do the home-work and we had to do it right to be fair to everybody." Thompson says it will cost about $1.5 million to renovate the current building and parking lot. Bend's DMV Field Offices moved to the former Visitors Center several years ago after their lease ran out in a building on SW Emkay Drive.
This Val-O-Gram is for You
Are you struggling about what to get your loved one for Valentines Day? It's that time of year when you can do something very unique: send them a Val-O-Gram from the Bend High Choir. Spokesperson Kamari Otto says you have until Monday to make your reservation for a small group of singers to visit your Valentine with a song, flower and candy. “It’s really fun because the people that get them don't actually know about it. And sometimes people really get into it. It’s really fun and Valentine's Day is always such a happy, nice holiday too." Otto says the Val-O-Grams are $20, and you can make your reservation at their website: www.Bendhighchoir.com, call Bend High. (541-355-3700).
Bend Is One Of the Best Ski Town in the World â€" But We Knew That
National Geographic Adventure says Bend is one of the best ski towns in the world. The National Geographic website just included Bend on the list of the world’s 25 best; ranking them with international sites such as Kitzbuhel, Austria and Banff, Canada , and domestic destinations like Park City, Utah and Aspen, Colorado. The article includes tips on where to stay, where to eat and so on. Hall-of fame surfer and 20-year Bend resident Gerry Lopez did the write up for National Geographic.
Transferring In to Bend La Pine Schools Could Be Easier
Students from outside the Bend La Pine School District could soon have an easier time transferring in. The School Board Tuesday unanimously approved a new district transfer policy. A new state law requires each of the state’s school districts to decide by March 1st how many student transfers it will accept. Deputy Superintendent John Rexford says preference will be given to transfer students already attending a district school and their siblings. He says Bend La Pine, Sisters and Redmond will all have similar policies and have generally allowed students to easily transfer between districts.
Redmond Mourns Teen Deaths
People in Redmond mourn the loss of two teenage girls who died Monday in a three-car crash on Highway 97. Police say that Tara Goad, 16, and Tirisa Tucker, 15, were killed in the accident. Both girls had been students at the Redmond Proficiency Academy, Tucker had recently transferred from the Academy to Redmond High School. District spokesman Jon Bullock says grief counselors will be at both schools today. "First and foremost, our hearts go out to the families of these 2 girls and we wish them all the peace and comfort possible at a time like this.” Redmond Police say freezing fog may have played a role. Captain Brian McNaughton says the scene of the crash was a tough place to be. “It’s always traumatic when a young person loses their life like that; and with two its doubly so.” McNaughton says the investigation will probably take about a week.
Statement from Redmond High School
"Our community experienced a great loss today as two Redmond School District students ; Tara Goad, a junior at the Redmond Proficiency Academy, and Tirisa Tucker, a freshman who recently transferred to Redmond High School from the Redmond Proficiency Academy, died from injuries sustained in a multiple vehicle accident this morning on Highway 97 in north Redmond. Three other Redmond High School Students in a separate vehicle were also involved in the three-car accident and were transported to St. Charles Medical Center for treatment for non-life threatening injuries. This crash is still under investigation. Road conditions included freezing fog and may have played a role in this crash."
Bend Commercial Real Estate Doing Very Well
There are signs of life in the local real estate market. Darren Powderly with Compass Commercial Real Estate says retail space in the Bend area is doing especially well. “The vacancy rate for the retail sector is 8.2% and that is a healthy range. Anything between 6% to 8%.” While Bend is doing better, Redmond still has room for improvement. Redmond's industrial vacancy rate is nearly 28%. Powderly says bank owned properties continue to drag down local housing prices, but admits you can get some great deals right now.
Deschutes Commissioners Hoping for “Shovel Ready†Jobs Legislation
Deschutes County Commissioners are watching lawmakers to see if they'll pass legislation that will bring "shovel ready" jobs to the area. Senate Bill 1544 would exempt 465 acres of industrial land near the Redmond Airport from certain transportation requirements and access standards. Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney explains: “This allows us to apply different standards that give certainty to that process, versus the current standards where they are on the ground today. So it helps give certainty versus going through a process that may not allow for that at the end of the day." Baney says two other bills they are monitoring would reform health care and streamline agencies that govern early learning programs in Oregon.
Candidate Buehler in Madras Tonight
Dr. Knute Buehler, who is running for Secretary of State will be in Madras tonight, talking with voters on his priorities for the office. Dr. Buehler will be speaking to the Jefferson County Republicans. “Yeah, we're really talking about getting Oregon to work. We need our politics and government services to be more accountable and in solving some people's problems. That's long overdue.” Dr. Buehler will be speaking at the Rodriquez Library Annex in Madras tonight, starting at 7 p.m.
A Weak But Moving Housing Market
We’re starting to see some more encouraging local numbers in the real estate market. Foreclosures are going down, but we're not out of the woods yet. Kip Lohr with Lohr Real Estate specializes in short sales, gives us his take on the upcoming year. “Well, I'd love to tell you I see good news on the horizon. But in the short term, the next year or so, there is still downward pressure on home prices and there are still a lot of depressed and distressed properties out there, that are pushing prices down.” Lohr says his firm handles about 800 to 900 short sales a year, and he expects that same number again this year.
Theater Community Mourns Passing of Pat Kmiec
The Central Oregon theater community is mourning the loss of a great director and actor. Pat Kmiec died of a massive heart attack Wednesday night. He was directing the upcoming production of "Gina Galdi and Guest" at Second Street Theatre. The playwright of the show, Cricket Daniel says Pat will be missed: “He was just almost childlike. He just loved the theater; he loved actors. He was an actor. We were in a show together at Second Street called "Tuna Christmas." He was just a wonderful, sweet man who loved the theater; it was his life.” Kmiec was born and raised in Chicago, and had lived in Bend for about 14 years. His latest show will go on, in his honor. One of the actors will direct the show.
Walden Takes Issue with Proposed FAA Changes
Congressman Greg Walden is taking issue with the Federal Aviation Administrations' proposed budget change what could cost taxpayers more. In a letter to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Walden objects to a proposed elimination of the Contract Tower Program. The program used at many smaller airports like Redmond, Klamath Falls and Medford uses contracted licensed private air traffic controllers instead of government employees at about half the cost. Walden says with all Americans learning to do more with less it does not make sense to eliminate the contract tower program and employ FAA employees costing substantially more. Currently, there are 246 airports nationwide, including six in Oregon that will be affected by the change. Those 246 towers handle about 27% of all domestic tower operations while accounting for just 9% of the FAA's overall budget.
Indianhead Casino Opens Tomorrow
The Indianhead Casino will open its doors to the public Saturday at 6 p.m. The new casino that sits on Highway 26 in Warm Springs is expected to be a real economic boon to the area. Warm Springs Economic Director Jeff Anspaugh says they have high hopes about its economic impact. “It's kind of like that a rising tide lifts all boats concept. If we can leverage the location on Highway 26 in term of revenue and jobs. It’s casino is from KahNeeTa. It’s going to have a tremendous impact on the Reservation but also in Central Oregon. Anspaugh says the casino will be have 500 slot machines and 8 blackjack tables.
Walden to Hold Another Telephone Town Hall
Greg Walden announces Telephone Town Hall for Wednesday, February 8
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today announced that he will hold a Telephone Town Hall discussion on Wednesday, February 8, from 5:30-6:30 pm PST.
Rep. Walden will answer questions from residents of Oregon’s Second District on a variety of topics, including ways to get job creation going in southern, central, and eastern Oregon. He held a Telephone Town Hall on January 22; one of many ways he keeps in close touch with the residents of Oregon’s Second District.
Constituents who would like to ensure that they receive a call may RSVP for the Telephone Town Hall by contacting Rep. Walden’s office toll-free at (800) 533-3303 or by sending a note through his website here.
WHO: U.S. Rep. Greg Walden
WHAT: Telephone Town Hall discussion with Oregon’s Second District residents
WHEN: 5:30-6:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012
WHERE: To RSVP to ensure that you receive a phone call, contact Rep. Walden’s office toll-free at (800) 533-3303 or send a note through his website here.
Pursuit Ends with Arrest of One
Hwy 20W Sisters
ARRESTED:
Tadjiki, Darius Jamshid, 36, Sisters
On 02/02/2012 at approximately 11:55 pm the deputies from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of a fight in front of Hardtails located at 175 N. Larch St in Sisters. The suspect in the fight, Tadjiki, left the scene in a red Nissan pickup prior to the arrival of the deputies. Deputies made an initial search of the area and did not locate Tadjiki. Approximately 25 minutes later, the Sheriff’s Office received an additional call from Hardtails that Tadjiki was back. Tadjiki then left the bar again, this time stealing two pool balls from a table.
Deputies responded back to Hardtails looking for Tadjiki. The first deputy to arrive in the area spotted Tadjiki driving the red Nissan pickup southbound on Larch St in front of Hardtails without any lights on. The deputy turned on his overhead lights attempting to get Tadjiki to pull over and stop. Tadjiki accelerated away from the deputy running the stop sign at Larch St and Cascade almost causing a collision with a vehicle travelling eastbound of Cascade.
Tadjiki led deputies on a pursuit eastbound out of the City of Sisters on Hwy 20W that reached speeds of 90 to 100 mph. The pursuit covered approximately 6 miles and ended when Tadjiki stopped his vehicle in the middle of Hwy 20 near Cascade Estates Dr. Tadjiki exited his pickup with his hands up and gave himself up to deputies. Deputies took Tadjiki into custody at that time. When Tadjiki exited his vehicle, he did not put the transmission in park and the vehicle rolled forward onto the north shoulder where the vehicle struck a barbed wire fence.
Tadjiki was arrested and lodged in the Deschutes County Adult Jail on the following charges. Attempt to Elude, Felony, Reckless Driving, Theft 3, Assault on a Public Safety Officer, DUII, and Assault 4.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in this incident by the Black Butte Police Department, the Oregon State Police and the Bend Police Department.
Economic Improvement District Proposed Rate Increase
How to bring more visitors into downtown Bend is just one of the objectives that the Downtown Bend Business Association wants to address this year. Executive Director, Chuck Arnold says they are proposing a new rate of $.18 per square foot in every business to help pay for improvements, maintenance and promoting in the downtown area. "Our goal, going into 2012 & 2013 fiscal year, is to really work to market and brand downtown with locals. And really invite locals to come back down and enjoy and experience downtown, especially those that have not been coming downtown. So we're really looking at doing a comprehensive marketing campaign, and that's what the adjustment of the rate really seeks to accomplish." Arnold says many of the 375 businesses are clearly on board with the proposed new rate that would only add about $3, on average, each month. He says there will be a public hearing in the March and May City Council meetings; and upon approval will take effect in June.
Commissioner Baney on DA’s Office
Several investigations surrounding Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty continue. He's under investigation for misconduct by the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon State Police. Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney admits the last year has been a tumultuous one, but thinks the office is functioning well regardless. “Right now, I don't see where that is causing a bottleneck. But on our side, there is hope for a resolution to the myriad of issues facing the District Attorney. But right now, the office is function quite well.” Investigators hope to decide in the next couple of weeks whether to proceed with a criminal case of misconduct against Flaherty.
Snow Pack Numbers Are In
New snowpack numbers are in: the USDA relieved to see Oregon’s numbers have nearly doubled over the past couple weeks. Statewide, Oregon is now 70% of average; 95% on Mount Hood. Regional Snow Survey Director Jon Lea says Washington State is just above average, but Nevada is below average. Lea says he hopes to see more precipitation in Oregon’s southern counties.
Cornilles Concedes
Rob Cornilles took opponents and the media to task for what he calls an unfair portrayal of how he supports women. Cornilles also says he is disappointed his job creating record was criticized for alleged exaggerations. But during his concession speech, he also asked supporters to congratulate Bonimici on her win.
Officials Expect Lower Homeless Vets Numbers
It will be several months before we know the results of the homeless count taken in Central Oregon last week. One segment of the homeless population local organizers expect will be down, is homeless veterans. A Housing Voucher Program through the Veterans Administration is helping put a dent in the numbers. Kenny LaPoint with Housing Works helps administer the vouchers. “I had spoken with some service providers who had gone out to the camps and they say they've seen quite a few less veterans at the homeless camps. And they attribute it to the Veteran’s Affairs supporting housing vouchers program. We've received 50 of those within the last twelve months.” Last year the homeless count included about 100 homeless vets. The Voucher Program help take about half of them off the streets.
Facebook Shares? Good Luck!
A Bend financial advisor says he's been getting calls from people who want to get in on the Facebook Initaial Public Offering (IPO). Facebook is announcing its intentions to do an initial public offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and put the company's total value at around $100 billion. Troy Reinhart with Northwest Quadrant Wealth Management says there is often a lot of hype surrounding IPO's so sometimes the shares are quickly overvalued. “Buyer beware. I know we’ve gotten lots of clients out there wanting to know how to get in touch with Facebook. And the answer is: you’re not going to get a hold of Facebook shares, until they are in the after-market. And then you, as an investor have to be careful that you’re not just trading on emotion.” This will mark the sixth largest U.S. IPO ever, and the 15th largest IPO in global history.
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Google: 503 status code should not be applied for weeks
Google’s spokesman John Mueller said that the server's 503 response code should be used within a few hours, but not weeks.
503 error means that the server is temporarily unable to process requests for technical reasons (this may be a maintenance, overload, etc.). This is a good method to help Google understand that the website will be unavailable for a limited period of time.
However, it is not recommended to use it for longer than a few hours. According to Mueller, "weeks" does not mean temporary. He also added that the webmasters are misleading Google in this case.
If it's not accessible for weeks, it would be misleading to include it in search, imo. It's an error page, essentially.
- John ☆ .o (▽ ≦ ≦) o. ☆ (@JohnMu) June 8, 2017
We should remind you that John Mueller previously told how not to lose the position in the search engine, if there is a need to temporarily suspend the website (for a day or more) either due to technical maintenance or for other reasons.
Google updates the guidelines for assessors third time this year
It's third time this year that Google has updated the guidelines for assessors (experts assessing the quality of search results and the pages displayed in it). This time, the changes are even smaller than in the previous version of the document, which was published in May 2017.
The latest innovations will mainly be interested to SEO specialists who work with non-English pages.
For instance, the pseudoscientific and fake content details have been clarified, comments displaying pornographic ads on websites that do not contain adult content have been removed, new examples of pages with the lowest quality have been introduced, as well as a completely new section on the display of results in English for non-English-speaking locales.
There are changes that are purely of a natural style: for example, the selection of some words in italics has been removed. The section on using the Foreign Language label for pages in a foreign language like Ukrainian and Russian is replaced with an example of Catalan and Spanish.
A complete guide for assessors Google is a 160 pages book.
It should be recalled that the Google assessors guide has already been updated in March and May this year. The main changes aimed at combating dubious content in search results took place this March. The largest May updates affected the assessment of the quality of news websites, in particular the use of the "Upsetting-Offensive" label that was introduced in March.
Cyber attack that took place on May 12 affected 200,000 users from 150 countries
The victims of the mass cyberattack that occurred on May 12 were 200 thousand users from 150 countries. This information was stated by the press-secretary of the European police department (Europol) Jen Ohn Jen Hurt.
According to him, there are many affected companies, including large corporations. He also noted that the cyber attack may continue on May 15, when people come to work and turn on their computers.
The virus, called WannaCry blocks access to files and requires affected users to pay $ 300 ransom in bitcoins. Unless the price is paid in three days, hackers threaten to double this amount, and after 7 they remove all files from the computer.
The first reports of cyber attacks appeared in the media and social networks on Friday, May 12. According to Europol, the malware was launched from the National Health Service of England. Then it affected networks in other countries. The virus infected computer networks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Megafon and other organizations in Russia.
Proofpoint specialist Darien Hass and author of the MalwareTech blog managed to stop the spread of the virus using code to access a meaningless domain on May 13. However, the WannaCry creators released a new version of the virus, which no longer refers to this domain name.
It is noted in Europol that the motivation of hackers is not fully understood. Typically, this type of attack is revenue-oriented. However, in this case, the amount of the repurchase is small. According to the ministry, only a few companies and individuals agreed to pay $ 300 to attackers, following the recommendations of law enforcement agencies. According to The Guardian, the accounts of the creators of the extortion virus received $ 42,000 from approximately 100 people.
The intruders have not been revealed yet.
For the full 2015 holiday weekend (Thanksgiving day through Cyber Monday), revenue growth over 2014 came in strong at 16.4%. (Source: Custora)
35% of U.S. smartphone users check their phones more than 50 times each day. (Source: AdWeek)
Mobile Shopping (e-commerce orders made on mobile phones and tablets) accounted for 26.9% of orders on Cyber Monday 2015, a jump from only 23% on Cyber Monday 2014. (Source: Custora)
69% of marketers say they plan to increase their use of blogging this year. (Source: Social Media Examiner)
As of September 2015, the greatest share of traffic to Instagram was from the United States with 23.9% percent of traffic, while traffic from the United Kingdom accounted for 3.57% of site visits. (Source: Statista)
43% of consumers do online research while in the store. (Source: Wordstream)
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Android tablet mimics iPad display specs
Nov 17, 2011 — by Eric Brown — from the LinuxDevices Archive
Archos announced an Android 2.3 tablet with an iPad-like display: 9.7 inches, 1024 x 768 pixels, and IPS (in-plane switching). The Arnova 9 G2 is equipped with a single-core 1GHz processor, 8GB of storage, a front-facing videocam, plus micro-USB, USB, and microSD connections — but so far, no price tag.
Archos' mainstream Archos-brand Android tablets are so reasonably priced, we haven't had much cause to pay attention to the company's budget Arnova line of Android slates. In addition to the Arnova 7 and Arnova 10, the company has released a 3G version of the Arnova 7 called the Arnova 7 G2, and released an eight-inch Arnova 8G2, as well. Meanwhile, the original seven- and 10-inch tablets have also been upgraded to G2 versions.
Now comes the Arnova 9 G2 , which is notable for matching the iPad 2's display spec for spec. The 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display features five-point multitouch support, a 4:3 aspect ratio, and the IPS technology noted for offering extra wide viewing angles. The display improves upon the 10.1-inch, 1024 x 600 display found on the Arnova 10 G2, which starts at about $200 with 4GB of storage.
For a budget tablet, the Arnova 9 G2 is also relatively thin and light, measuring 0.49 inches (12.5mm) thick and weighing only 22.2 ounces (630 grams). The Arnova 10 G2 bests it, however at 0.47 inches and 19 ounces.
Beyond that, the tablet appears somewhat less compelling, although at the right price, it could be a primo deal. Like the Arnova 10 G2, the tablet offers a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor. That can't match the iPad 2, let alone any "Honeycomb" Android tablet, but the Arnova 9 G2 can play back 1080p quality video, according to Archos.
Arnova 9 G2 keyboard (left) and video playback
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Archos did not list the RAM allotment, but says the tablet is equipped with 8GB of flash memory and offers a 32GB-ready microSD slot. In addition to providing 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, the tablet offers a front-facing camera of unknown quality, dual speakers, a microphone, and a 3.5mm audio jack.
The Arnova 9 G2 also supplies both a micro-USB port and a full-sized USB 2.0 host port. This is relatively rare on a budget tablet, but a fairly standard feature on Archos models. In addition to Android 2.3, the tablet offers Archos' AppsLib applications store instead of Android Market.
While the tablet appears to lack a rear-facing camera, GPS, HDMI, Bluetooth, and other extras, the IPS screen, thin profile, and USB port are all pluses that could make the Arnova 9 G2 a winner. We certainly plan to keep an eye on the pricing announcement.
No pricing or availability information was listed by Archos for the Arnova 9 G2 . More information may be found at the Arnova 9 G2 product page.
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Liberals have allowed Conservatives to own free speech
By Jamie Bartlett
Isn’t it annoying when someone you don’t like steals all your best ideas? Due to a combination of cowardice and indifference, that's what's happening to free expression. That mighty cornerstone of democratic life is becoming the preserve of the populists. It’s time for liberals to wrestle it back.
The contours of this seem, prima facie, pretty straight forward. Free speech, with a few tightly defined exceptions, is vital in a liberal democracy. Upsetting or offending religious sentiment is not, and should not, be one of those exceptions. We should cherish and defend the right to free expression, and realise that democracies are noisy, chaotic places to live, where good and bad ideas clash. Its health depends on all citizens feeling they can present their views and argue them out fairly, otherwise disillusion and disengagement result.
Yet this is where liberals are losing. Free expression, in any meaningful sense, is more than the laws that uphold it. It frames attitudes and behaviours. Rights can be enshrined, but without exercise they atrophy. For free expression to produce its full personal and societal yield, differing opinions – especially those that are uncomfortable or difficult – should be constantly encouraged, warmly welcomed, sought out, and treated with respectful seriousness. In modern Britain it increasingly feels like we have the law (which is relatively good, a few bits of the Communication Act notwithstanding) but not the spirit of the thing. The liberals point to the law, but the spirit and vigorous practice has been ceded to the populists.
Free expression has both a moral and purposive value. Of course it’s vital to be able to express oneself, to realise the human need and right to speak one’s mind. But it is also a technical means for individuals or society to arrive at a clearer perception of the truth. The patron saint of this idea, and its best exponent, is John Stuart Mill. If we don’t allow our opinions to be “fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed” he wrote in On Liberty, then that opinion will be “held as a dead dogma, not a living truth”.
For Mill it wasn’t enough to express an opinion: the true liberal had an obligation to test it, to actively seek out the alternative view, to grill it, interrogate it, to argue it out. And that is where today’s liberal falls short, preferring to close alternatives off rather than open them up. Freedom of expression is chaotic and dynamic – not easy and timid.
The conditions for free expression
There are two conditions beyond the statute book that are necessary for this full free expression to flourish.
First, there can be no possibility of self-censorship. Whether it is fear of retaliation by gun-wielding radicals or fear of offending established opinion on a matter, self-censorship is the anathema of free speech. Citizens must be encouraged to say what they truly think. More: citizens should be encouraged to dissent. If opinion on a subject is set, disagreement should be sought out. Second – and related – citizens need to feel their opinion, once stated, will be listened to seriously and fairly. Not patronised or sneered at: but a welcome part of a debate or discussion even if others strongly disagree.
Self-censorship as a moral imperative
It’s pretty simple, really. But for all the recent JeSuisCharlie-ing and well-crafted legislation, we are some distance from anything approaching this, and drifting further away, becoming trapped in the suffocating grip of self-imposed censorship. As the on-point Kenan Malik recently argued, many liberals believe in self-censorship as moral commitment: "a belief that because we live in a plural society, so we must police public discourse about different cultures and beliefs, and constrain speech so as not to give offence’. Self-censorship as a moral imperative is a very dangerous thing indeed."
Worse, this moral commitment appears to have infected much of our cultural, political and educational life, the parts of society where free expression is most valuable. The idea has taken hold that slippery concepts like "appropriateness", "understanding", or even just "feelings", are legitimate limits on another’s liberty. Brendan O’Neil, in a recent article for the Spectator, wrote of the "Stepford Students" who "robotically utter the same stuff about being offended", their "eyes glazed with moral certainty" shutting down debates ranging from abortion to nationalism, because they think it offensive: "They insulate themselves from anything that might dent their self-esteem and, crime of crimes, make them feel ‘uncomfortable." (This all being then forced on nervous administrators with some manufactured outrage on social media).
Of course, most of us like to say we defend free expression even in its most aggressive form. After the Paris attacks, everyone was exclaiming how much they loved Charlie Hebdo. But est-ce que tu es Charlie, really? Because a lot of the people tweeting #JeSuisCharlie would never for a moment dare to criticise religion – especially Islam – for fear of offending, for fear of professional opprobrium from polite society, for fear of being thought "uncivil" or "inappropriate". And that’s become a problem. As David Aaronovitch argued in the Times following the murders, hardly any other newspapers were Charlie either: never publishing outrageous cartoons or criticising religion, which turned Charlie Hebdo into a blazing and lonely target. The real Charlies get it, while the rest of us, safely at home and comfortably non-controversial, get to feel like we are doing something by posting the thing on our timelines, demanding others take the risks we wouldn't ourselves. (And I include myself in that).
This is all made worse by the considerable efforts some people will go to be offended and be seen to be offended. Last year, “Twitter commentator” Mo Ansar campaigned to have Lib Dem PPC Maajid Nawaz de-selected for retweeting a picture of the prophet. Not because he (Ansar) was offended personally by the pics, mind you. Of course not! Mo is a liberal kind of guy. But he was offended that Nawaz didn’t think other people would be offended.
A lot of people appear to be desperate to be offended, because it gives them a nice feeling of righteous indignation, and, since victimhood seems to be increasingly a lazy proxy for desert, a shortcut to get your way. And each time we give into it, we’re further incentivizing it victimhood politics, like paying a hostage ransom.
I understand, of course, that free speech should, in a perfect world, be exercised with some respect for other people’s beliefs. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and Mill also explained why offensiveness should not be determined and protected by the law. Any vigorous criticism of one’s most cherished beliefs or convictions will, said Mill, always feel offensive and unfair to its target. Laws against it, therefore, would always be too restrictive. More interestingly, and rarely mentioned now, Mill feared that any effort by government to limiting offensiveness would always harm "marginal" groups – because anyone who vilified established orthodoxies will risk prosecution; while he who vilifies the marginal would be lionised.
Anyway, this all this leads in the same direction. It could be murders with knifes, or liberals with a weak constitution – the result it the same. As argued by Jonathan Chait, "The Muslim radical argues that the ban on blasphemy is morally right and should be followed; the Western liberal insists it is morally wrong but should be followed. Theoretical distinctions aside, both positions yield an identical outcome." This is why liberals have lost their position as free expression’s protector, because they quote the famous old maxim, but prefer to live by an inversion of it: If I broadly agree with what you say (considering it to be appropriate and generally inoffensive) I will defend (although only as far as the potentially embarrassing social media campaign against you) your right to say it.
Free speech: Theory versus practice
And so who are today’s defenders of the more vivid idea of free expression, that chaotic, dangerous, and exciting free expression as imaged by Mill? It’s the populist right wing. Across Europe the populist right has been growing over the last 20 years or so: the Front National in France, UKIP, Pegida in Germany, Geert Wilder, you know the roll call of familiar names. Each has their own bugbears and idiosyncrasies but consistent across them all is an aggressive and often articulate defence of free expression.
Why is that? Because they are the groups and individuals that most often butt up against the soft and hard limits of free speech. It is UKIP supporters that are most often sneered at; it is the Pegida marchers who are dismissed as racists with hatred in their hearts. This is not to agree with their views, simply to acknowledge it is they who practically exercise freedom of expression, who feel most acutely its legal and social edges, and who subsequently come to value and fight for it. Liberals, by contrast, know what it means in theory: but without regular exercise, they have forgotten the practice.
“Fear has paralysed the police… if the police can take away my freedom, they can do it to you.” That’s Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League. "We must uncap our pens; we must speak words of truth. We are facing a determined enemy who is striving through all means to destroy the West and snuff out our traditions of free thought, free speech, and freedom of religion... we must not let the violent fanatics dictate what we draw, what we say, and what we read. We must rebel against their suffocating rules and thuggish demands at every turn.” That’s Geert Wilders leader of the PVV.
Take UK political parties’ webpages. On its front page, UKIP lists a handful of principles it believe in. One is “free speech and democracy”. It reads: “No to Political Correctness – it stifles free speech.” What simplicity!
Now take a look at Labour, where, after some digging, you'll find them restricted to repealing “The Tories Gagging Bill” because it “hits charities and campaigners hard, limiting their right to fight for important causes, while allowing professional lobbyists to escape scrutiny. And it has left expert organisations who have a vital contribution to make to public debate unsure about whether they are allowed to speak out. Governments should not be afraid of criticism or lively debate.”
Nor do the Tories say anything much, majoring instead on benefit cuts, EU referendum, immigration and the deficit.
For the Lib Dems, it’s “freedom and equality”. Nothing on free expression: rather Lib Dem achievements on equal marriage, ID cards, and the DNA database.
My point is not to say who is the more trustworthy, but rather who appears most willing to make free expression a point of principle. And that’s the great danger. According to research by the think-tank Counterpoint, many populist leaders use freedom of expression as a “frame”, as a useful way of demonising enemies and presenting themselves as courageous and outspoken, even if they don’t really believe it – and carrying with it policies and ideas that are really do not defend free expression at all; for example rank and aggressive xenophobia.
That’s why liberals need to wrestle back free expression. To do that means viewing the idea as far more than an abstract principle; but rather as something that is lived, demanding and defending free expression in principle as well as practice: welcoming to UKIP or Pegida or Islamists or whoever. To encourage their involvement in debate, to listening to them seriously without sneering even while disagreeing with them fervently. To create a society where people feel more than technically free to express their view, but where those views are actively sought. None of this means giving in to hate or bigotry or xenophobia either. Quite the reverse in fact. Free expression allows us to sharpen and re-inforce our views. In the very best lines of On Liberty, Mill reminds us why censorship works for no-one: “If a forbidden opinion is true, we lose the opportunity to learn of its truth. If a forbidden opinion is false, we lose the opportunity to remind ourselves why it is false.” So what are we afraid of?
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, which is a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex. The Centre combines computer and social sciences for policy research. Jamie’s work focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical politics. Jamie is author of The Dark Net, (William Heinemann, 2013), and Radicals (Penguin, 2017)
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After a weekend in which Lake Superior looked as though they may shock the college hockey world in Denver, the Lakers fell flat against their former Central Collegiate Hockey Association foe Michigan State down in East Lansing. The Lakers (1-5-2, 0-1-1 WCHA) put together a third period rally that fell just short on Friday night, before the Spartans (4-2-0, 0-0-0 Big Ten) shut out the Lakers 6-0 on Saturday.
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A third period rally fell just short, as the Lakers scored 3 goals in the third period to cut the Spartan lead to one. Lake Superior could not find that crucial fourth goal, however, in a 4-3 Friday loss to Michigan State.
Lake State started off on the wrong foot in the first period, when Sam Saliba put the puck behind Laker goaltender Nick Kossoff. Saliba had one of 15 shots for the Spartans in the first period, making the game begin to feel like the series against Denver, where Kossoff and Mareks Mitens were peppered with shots on both nights. The Lakers only mustered 4 shots of their own against Spartan netminder John Lethemon.
The second period was more of the same, as Michigan State continued to badly outshoot Lake Superior. Patrick Khodorenko gave his team a 2-0 lead just before the midway point of the game. The Spartans made it 3-0 when Jake Smith scored unassisted with 3:08 remaining in the period.
Early in the third period, Michigan State made the Lakers’ hole even deeper when Logan Lambdin beat Kossoff to give his team a 4-0 lead. Shortly afterwards, however, Lambdin was whistled for tripping and on the ensuing delayed penalty, Brayden Gelsinger got his team on the board with this third goal of the year.
With Lambdin serving his tripping penalty, Lake Superior’s power play went to work. With 0:06 remaining on the power play, Bryan Basilico earned his first of the season at the 3:49 mark of the third period, with assists from Gelsinger and J.T. Henke.
After killing off a cross-checking penalty by Gelsinger, Matt McArdle was sent to the sin bin for the same infraction. Luckily, Michigan State’s Cody Milan took a tripping penalty to shorten the man advantage for the Spartans. With Milan still in the box, Max Humitz scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season.
With the Lakers on the verge of tying the game, Michigan State played tight defensively, holding the puck along the boards to prevent any more Laker chances. The Spartans were successful in that endeavor, as they survived the Lake Superior rally to win the game 4-3.
For the Lakers, Gelsinger factored into each goal scored by his team, while Humitz had a goal and an assist and Henke had two assists. For the Spartans, Logan Lambdin had a goal (the game winner) and an assist on the opening goal by Saliba.
In special teams, the Lakers converted on 2 of their 4 power play opportunities. Michigan State, meanwhile, went 0 for 3 on theirs.
In net, Kossoff made 37 saves on 41 shots, while Lethemon stopped 19 of 22.
After nearly coming from behind to win the previous night, the Lakers essentially fell flat on Saturday, as the Spartans scored four goals in the second period to thump Lake Superior 6-0.
Mareks Mitens got the call to start from Lakers head coach Damon Whitten, while Spartans’ head coach Danton Cole sent John Lethemon back out.
While shots in the first period were much closer than the 15-4 margin the night before, Michigan State still outshot the Lakers 8-7, including the shot that mattered, as Mitch Lewandowski scored a power play goal with 1:27 to go in the opening frame.
The second period was a period to forget for Lake Superior, as they managed one shot on Lethemon the entire period. Michigan State, meanwhile, had 16 shots, including four that found the back of the net.
Brennan Sanford made the score 2-0 Spartans on a delayed penalty to Brendan McKay for hooking. After killing 1:13 of the Michigan State power play, Carson Gatt of the Spartans went off for interference. On the ensuing 4 on 4, Mitch Eliot scored his first goal of the season.
Michigan State added two more goals before the period was over, as Jake Smith scored his second goal of the season (and of the series) and Lewandowski earned another power play tally – this time with only 0:22 seconds left in the period.
To start the third period, Mitens was relieved in net by Nick Kossoff. Mitens made 19 stops on 24 shots.
The Spartans added one more goal when David Keefer – on the power play – scored his first goal of the season, making the score 6-0. That score stood the rest of the way, going down as the biggest defeat of the season for Lake Superior.
The Spartans converted on 3 of their 8 power play opportunities. Lake Superior was denied on all 4 of theirs.
Kossoff stopped 9 of 10 shots. Lethemon earned his first shutout of the year by stopping all 16 shots by Lake Superior.
Two notable absences from the lineup were defensemen Collin Saccoman and Lukas Kaelble. Both are believed to have sustained undisclosed injuries during the series against Denver.
Lake Superior returns to the confines of the Taffy Abel Arena this weekend, when they take on the University of Alaska-Anchorage. The Seawolves (0-5-1, 0-0-0 WCHA) were idle this past weekend. Although they have not started league play yet, they did play a non-conference set against league foe (and interstate rival) Alaska-Fairbanks. The Nanooks swept the Seawolves 6-2 and 3-2. Puck drop is at 7:07 p.m. on Friday, November 4th.
Series Preview: Lake Superior State @ Michigan State
Made by Lakers video assistant Jim Howie, this display board shows pucks from the various schools in the now defunct Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The Lakers and Spartans were conference foes from 1981 until the dissolving of the league in 2013.
Michigan State’s Brennan Sanford (13) attempts to screen LSSU netminder Gordie Defiel (31) in a meeting between the clubs last season. The Lakers swept the Spartans, outscoring them 13-4 in the two games.
Michigan State: 2016: 7-24-4, 2017: 2-2-0
LSSU: 2016: 11-18-7, 2017: 1-3-2
I Ain’t Afraid of no Coles
Another week, and another mention of major changes within college hockey. After six years of being the bench boss for the Spartans, Tom Anastos (71-98-20) stepped down as head coach with former NHL veteran Danton Cole (318 GP).
This year’s Michigan State team looks much different than the team the Lakers faced off against last year during GLSW, where they clobbered the Spartans 6-1 & 7-3. They’ve split the last two weekends, both home-and-homes with Bowling Green and Western Michigan, making their home record perfect for the year.
Leading the scoring are a pair of sophomores and a freshman. In four games sophomore forwards Patrick Khodorenko has posted a 3-3-6, Taro Hirose a 2-4-6 and freshman forward Mitchell Lewandowski has a 1-5-6. Goaltending is led by sophomore John Lethemon who has a 2-1-0 in four games (Ed Minney looks to have started a game with 3 goals against in 10 minutes). Lethemon has a 2.36 GAA and a .917 save percentage.
Don’t Hassel the (Koss)off
Last weekend was a mixed bag of emotions for Laker fans. The boys in blue faced off against the reigning national champions, Denver, for a two game series. Junior goaltender Nick Kossoff broke a school record facing 66 shots, and saving 63 of those on the way to a 3-3 tie. Denver tied the game up at the 16:26 mark of the third. The tie did put a bit of a hamper on the Pioneer’s night as they raised their championship banner Friday night.
Saturday night was a different story. Mareks Mitens faced 54 shots, saving 49 on the way to a 5-1 loss. One thing did remain the same, however: seemingly a lack of offense and defense. Both nights the Laker goaltenders were peppered with shots, and they only recorded 17 shots (Fri) and 16 shots (Sat). While these numbers were kind of expected, going against the number 1 team in the nation, they are also quite shocking to see on a box score. We also lost two defensemen in Colin Saccoman and Lukas Kaelble to injury. No timetable has been announced as of this release.
But I think the Lakers did send a message to the college hockey nation. I’m not sure there are any other teams in the nation that could lead Denver for 5 of 6 periods. On the surface, this seems like a very good thing, and in many ways it is, but I’ve already seen one scout at Abel Arena, and I would fully expect to see more after this past weekend. The players know this, and I hope that the leadership group on the team, along with the coaching staff, keep them focused on team play & not individual play. It was readily apparent at the end of last season that many players were playing for themselves and not the team – that cannot happen if we hope to succeed.
The Lakers will need at least a split on the weekend to gain some momentum going into the month of November. They will have one WCHA series to start the month against Alaska Anchorage before going on the road for two weeks against Bowling Green and Alabama-Huntsville before wrapping up against the US U18 team. It doesn’t get much easier from there.
This weekend looks to be a fun one as a former CCHA rivalry is renewed again. Each year that the two teams have played since realignment has been very physical, almost as if they still play each other four times a year and this year does not look to be any different. The Spartans are playing tougher than they did last season, and the Lakers have gained some size in the offseason.
Without knowing how Danton Cole coaches, it is hard to say what the keys to success will be for this weekend. With former coach Anastos, you kind of knew his coaching style and what to expect from his teams. My gut feeling is that the Cole era will force a power shift within the B1G, with this being his first step.
Locally the game will be broadcast on 99.5 YesFM where Bill Crawford will be calling the game from Munn Ice Arena. It looks to be streamed on BTN Plus. As always, the Laker Legion will be hosting viewing parties for both games – Friday night at Peacock Cove in the Cisler Center and Saturday night in the Library lecture hall just outside the doors to the library – completely free of charge.
Lakers tie top ranked Denver on Friday before falling Saturday
Going into their series against the University of Denver, few people gave Lake Superior a chance. After all, their opponent was the defending national champions, a team that brought back most of the essential pieces from the title run seven months ago. The Pioneers’ broadcast media showed no respect for the Lakers, boastfully predicting that Denver would see no trouble from their opponent in the two game set.
And yet, despite the odds against them, Lake Superior showed grit, resolve and determination, forcing the Pioneers to come from behind on both nights. While shots on goal were incredibly lopsided (66-17 on Friday, 54-16 on Saturday), goaltenders Nick Kossoff and Mareks Mitens held the nation’s top-ranked team in check for five periods over the weekend, as Lake Superior tied the Pioneers 3-3 on Friday, before falling 5-1 on Saturday.
Friday – Lake Superior 3, Denver 3 (Denver scores in exhibition overtime session)
The story Friday night was Nick Kossoff. Kossoff, with 63 saves on 66 shots (.955 SV %), set the school record for saves in a game, breaking Matt Violin’s 60 save record against Alaska in January, 2003. In addition, Kossoff bested the 57 saves made by Gordie Defiel against Minnesota State-Mankato in the 2016 WCHA Tournament for the best mark in the Damon Whitten era.
Lake State drew first blood when Max Humitz passed the puck to Brayden Gelsinger, who one-timed it past Pioneers netminder Tanner Jaillet. Jaillet, the reigning Mike Richter Award winner, allowed 3 goals on 17 shots – a .824 save percentage on the evening.
Early in the second period, the Lakers went up 2-0 when Gelsinger dug a puck out from behind the net, where Denver’s Henrik Borgstrom was waiting. Borgstrom was unable to control the puck in front of the net, where Humitz collected it and buried it behind Jaillet.
Just past the midway point of the game, Borgstrom got Denver on the scoreboard. His goal sent the teams back to the dressing rooms with the score 2-1 Lakers after 40 minutes.
With about 8 minutes remaining in the game, Borgstrom managed to hit Dylan Gambrell with a long pass, who got in alone on Kossoff and scored, tying the game.
The Lakers answered back 2:30 later, when Jake Hand notched his second goal of the season on a turnover behind the Denver net. The Pios came right back, however, as Liam Finley retied the game exactly two minutes after Hand untied it.
As the game wore on, Kossoff continued to see more and more rubber each period. Denver’s shot total increased from 17 in the first period, to 19 in the second, to 28 in the third. Nevertheless, Kossoff kept his team in the game in spite of the mounting offensive pressure.
With the game tied at the end of regulation, the standard five minute 5-on-5 overtime was played. Neither team could score, and both had difficulty getting shots on net, as the Lakers managed only one and the Pioneers only mustered two.
Since both leagues play 3-on-3 overtime, a five minute session was played, solely as an exhibition. Denver scored a goal in the session to unofficially win the game; the NCAA still recognizes the game as a tie.
Early in the third period, Lakers defenseman Collin Saccoman took a hit and fell to the ice. He did not return to the game.
Saturday – Denver 5, Lake Superior 1
Both clubs opted for a change in net, as Lake State started Mareks Mitens in his second collegiate game. Making his college debut for the Pioneers was Dayton Rasmussen.
A 3 goal third period made the game look less of one, but Mitens still made 49 saves – a respectable .907 save percentage on the night. Much like Kossoff the night before, Mitens was peppered with shots all through the night.
As they did on Friday, the Lakers struck first when Josh Nenadal deflected a William Reidell shot under the crossbar and behind Rasmussen. Denver tied the game later in the period, when Troy Terry beat Mitens. That made the score 1-1 after 20 minutes.
In the second period, the Lakers hung tight with the Pioneers, even outshooting them 8-7 at one point. A critical turning point in the game came when Jake Hand and Diego Cuglietta were both called for penalties, giving Denver a full two minutes of 5-on-3 hockey (Hand drew the initial penalty while Cuglietta’s came while the Lakers were attempting to touch up the puck). On the man advantage, Terry netted his second of the night.
Denver set the tone for the third period early, as Michael Davies scored on Mitens with under a minute gone. The Pioneers took a 4-1 lead just before the 9:00 mark on a goal from Griffin Mendel.
The Lakers had an opportunity to climb back into the game when Denver’s Blake Hillman received a 5 minute major and game misconduct for contact to the head. The Pios’ penalty kill kept Lake Superior off of the board.
Denver nearly made it 5-1 when Logan O’Connor got in on Mitens while shorthanded. O’Connor received a slash from Tyler Anderson on the play, causing him to be awarded a penalty shot. Mitens turned O’Connor away.
The Pioneers added a late goal by Jaakko Heikkinen on their way to a 5-1 victory.
Lake State takes on former CCHA foe Michigan State in non-conference action this Friday and Saturday. Both games will be at the Munn Ice Arena, starting at 7p.m. both nights. Last year, Michigan State travelled to the Soo, falling 6-1 and 7-3 on Great Lake State Weekend.
Series Preview: Lake Superior State at #1 Denver
Denver: 2016 33-7-4 2017: 1-0-1
LSSU 2016 11-18-7 2017 1-2-1
Crimson and Golder, Over and Over….
The Denver Pioneers are coming off an outstanding 2016-2017 season having won their eighth national championship, their first since back to back wins in 2004 & 2005, and this weekend will be their first weekend back at Magness Arena this season.
The clear-cut #1 team did take a big hit after the tournament, losing 9 seniors, including their captain Will Butcher (New Jersey Devils). They are, however, returning Jarid Lukosevicius, who was the first player since his own head coach to record a hat trick in a championship game. His coach, Jim Montgomery, played for Maine in college, and recorded his hat trick against the team they will be facing this weekend: the Lake Superior State Lakers in 1993. Maine won that game & their first championship in school history.
After splitting with Notre Dame on the weekend, the Pioneers will be looking for a sweep of the Lakers when they hang their banner this weekend.
Upper Peninsula of Mitens-igan
There is some good news going into this weekend: The Lakers and the Pioneers both have the same amount of wins this season.
Joking aside, last Saturday we had our first real look at who could be our starting goaltender for the rest of the year (and hopefully more) – Mareks Mitens. Mitens is coming off a record setting year in the NAHL, but when we first saw him during the blue-gold scrimmage, he didn’t look great. I don’t know what happened in the last few weeks, but he stopped 40 of 42 shots on net against a good Michigan Tech team, forcing a tie with an eventual loss in the shootout.
JT Henke was named the WCHA Offensive Player of the Week after a 5 point weekend (1-4=5), being in on each one of the 5 goals the Lakers had last weekend.
Being able to keep pace with a really good Michigan Tech team bodes well for boys in blue, as Tech has been the preverbial monkey on the Lakers back since joining the WCHA, having only won once, under former coach Jim Roque, and forcing a 1-1 tie back in 2015. One game was a 4-2 loss, with the others being blowouts.
This bodes well for the Lakers. Despite taking only one point last weekend, they are closing the gap on their rivals. That should be the message in the locker room this weekend. They are improving, and to this author, the team, nearly as a whole, has been passing the eye test. They have solid goaltending in Kossoff and Mitens (we have not seen Lukenda or Bengert in net since the scrimmage – or Bengert in uniform since), the blue line has been tightened, and the offense is clicking. Their Power Play is third in the nation for goals.
The Lakers, in all honesty, don’t have much to lose this weekend. Yes, the WCHA non-conference record would suffer, but I doubt many people are expecting the Lakers to win this weekend; even the most optimistic fan would likely say they just hope they play a good game, and keep the score close. But the Lakers have everything to gain this weekend. Coming out with a win on Friday may put doubts into the Pioneers heads, allowing them to make mistakes Saturday night. A win this weekend would force the rest of the league to take notice of Lake State again.
A win would give the team confidence that they can win despite the last twenty years that says the contrary.
Games this weekend start at 9:05pm eastern time. They can be heard locally on 99.5 YesFM, or online at http://1043thefan.com/. Please note that YesFM will not be streaming it online.
Game can also be streamed through NCHC.tv (15.95/day for just Denver).
Henke receives WCHA Offensive Player of the Week accolades
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) announced the recipients of its Players of the Week honors for games during the week of October 8th. Among the honorees was Lake Superior senior forward J.T. Henke, who earned Offensive Player of the Week.
J.T. Henke (far right) celebrates a goal against Michigan State in October, 2016. Henke was selected as WCHA Offensive Player of the Week for his performance against Michigan Tech on Oct. 13 &14, 2017.
Henke scored one goal and four assists in the weekend series against Michigan Tech. On Friday, Henke had three assists in a close 4-3 loss to the Huskies, who came in ranked 13th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Poll and 15th in the USCHO.com Poll.
On Saturday, Henke scored the first goal of the game and later assisted on the game tying goal in the third period from Anthony Nellis.
With his assist on the Nellis goal Saturday, Henke had an assist on every Laker goal on the weekend that he didn’t score himself.
Henke currently is tied for 11th nationally in scoring with six points. In the WCHA, his five points in conference games – all coming this past weekend – have him at the top of the league in scoring.
This is the first time Henke has received weekly WCHA accolades in his Laker career. Among the other nominees he beat out for the honors was one of his opponents from the weekend – Gavin Gould of the Huskies.
Among the nominees for other Player of the Week positions was freshman goaltender Mareks Mitens. Mitens, who officially made 40 saves in his college hockey debut, was nominated for Rookie of the Week. Mitens also made seven saves in the 3 on 3 overtime, including a stop on a Mark Auk penalty shot, but those saves ultimately do not count in his overall stats.
Huskies claim 5 of 6 points from Lakers on Great Lake State Weekend
The Lake Superior State hockey team played their annual Great Lake State Weekend series on Friday, October 13th and Saturday, October 14th. This year’s opponent was Michigan Tech, the same team who eliminated Lake Superior from the WCHA Tournament at the end of last season.
While the Lakers have had a historically rough track record against the Huskies, promise was shown in two very tight, very close games. The Huskies held off a late rally on Friday night to win 4-3, before skating to a 2-2 tie on Saturday. Michigan Tech claimed two points on Saturday on virtue of a shootout victory.
Friday – Huskies 4, Lakers 3
The Lakers started off Friday night on the wrong foot, when Tech’s Gavin Gould scored 1:05 into the game. The Huskies got a late goal from Jake Jackson to go back to the locker room up 2-0.
In the second period, the Lakers got one back thanks to Max Humitz. Humitz beat Huskies goaltender Patrick Munson while on the power play to make it 2-1 in favor of Michigan Tech.
Early in the third period, the Lakers’ Anthony Nellis tied the game with his second goal of the season.
With the game tied, the Lakers came out in full force, pressuring the Huskies while looking for the go ahead goal. The Huskies, however, kept the Lakers off of the board, and Tech’s Gould squeaked a puck past Kossoff for his second of the night. Less than a minute later, Greyson Reitmeier put a puck behind Kossoff to make the score 4-2 in favor of the visitors.
A power play goal from Brayden Gelsinger with 2:22 left in regulation put the Lakers within reach. Despite pulling goaltender Nick Kossoff, however, the Lakers were unable to solve Munson again.
In net, Kossoff made 26 saves on 30 shots, while Munson made 21 saves on 24 shots.
Saturday – Lakers 2, Huskies 2 (Huskies win shootout)
A change in net occurred for the Lakers, as freshman Mareks Mitens received the start in lieu of Nick Kossoff. A native of Ventspils, Latvia, Mitens played for Aston in the NAHL last season, where he was named goaltender of the year and league MVP.
Lake Superior drew first blood on Saturday, when senior J.T. Henke put the puck behind goaltender Munson in a scramble in front of the net. With the goal, plus an assist later in the game, Henke leads the Lakers with 6 points on the year.
The Huskies struck back on the power play, as Joel L’Esperance scored on Mitens while LSSU’s Gage Torrel was off for cross checking. Tech added another goal about a minute and a half later when Alex Gillies made it 2-1 Tech.
After outshooting the Lakers 17-5 in the first period, the Huskies continued their barrage on Mitens in the second period, outshooting Lake State 9-5. Mitens stood up to the challenge, however, keeping Tech off of the board in the period.
Early in the third period, Anthony Nellis briefly appeared to tie the game for Lake Superior while on the power play. A video review showed the puck hit the corner of the crossbar.
Nonetheless, the Lakers ramped up their offensive pressure on the Huskies in the third period, outshooting them 13-10 in the period.
Only a few minutes after appearing to tie things up, Nellis scored his third goal of the year, tying the game for real this time.
While both teams had their chances to end the game in regulation, Mitens and Munson did not allow a goal the rest of the way, sending the teams to overtime.
After nobody scored in the 5 on 5 overtime, a 3 on 3 overtime was played. Again, the goaltenders kept their opponents off the scoreboard, necessitating a shootout. Mitens had a bit of extra work to get his team to the shootout, as Tech’s Mark Auk was awarded a penalty shot with under a minute remaining in the 3 on 3.
In the shootout, Mitens and Munson matched zeros trough three rounds. In the fourth round, Tech’s Jake Lucchini got the puck over the right pad of Mitens. Munson then stopped Max Humitz to end the shootout.
With the shootout win, the Huskies took 5 of a possible 6 points against the Lakers in WCHA play. The teams meet again in Houghton on December 15th and 16th.
Mitens finished with 40 saves on 42 shots. Munson made 22 saves on 24 shots.
Next week, the Lakers are off to Denver to face the defending national champions. The Pioneers (1-0-1, 0-0-0 NCHC) are coming off a win and tie against Notre Dame. Puck drop on Friday is 9:35 p.m. eastern, while Saturday’s contest starts at 9:05 p.m.
The Taffy Abel Gets A Facelift
Not only did the Lakers debut brand new home jerseys tonight (see previous post), a brand new item of wall decor was added to the northern wall of the Taffy Abel. This new wall highlights all of the Laker Hockey Alumni who have gone on to play one or more game in the NHL. A smaller version of this wall currently is displayed in the Laker locker room. To view the new wall, check out the video below!
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FIRST LOOK! LSSU Debuts new jersey!
Here is your first look at Lake States new jersey. As of the time of this posting, it remains unclear if they are one offs or not. We will have to wait and see.
Rumor: LSSU to debut new jerseys for GLSW?
Update 10/13 @ 7:31pm: It looks like there will be no new jersey debuted tonight.
A rumor has been making it’s way through the ranks that the Lakers will be debuting a new jersey tonight for GLSW.
This is supported by the fact that last year the same happened. Players hit the ice in throwbacks to the 1970s with their stylized ‘Soo Lakers’ on an offwhite base. These were later used during Pink in the Rink weekend and auctioned off.
If this rumor does prove true, then I would expect the same to happen this year. Although there is no information about what the jerseys will look like, I feel like it will be another throwback. I doubt it will be a set of the goods that were used in the 2010-2011 season as they are recent, though the goods used in the late 90’s could be a possibility.
However, this writer would love to see a throwback to the 1980s-1990s uniforms, when the Lakers won their three championships.
Possible throwbacks?
I do doubt it will be a pink uniform. But we will have to wait and see until either warmups or when the teams hit the ice before the first.
Game 1 against Michigan Tech starts tonight, 10/13, at 7:37pm
Series Preview: Michigan Tech at Lake Superior State
Michigan Tech: 2017 record: 2-1-0. 2016: 23-15-7
Lake Superior State: 2017 Record: 1-1-0. 2016: 11-18-7
Shawhan Mushing the Huskies
After an outstanding 2016-2017 campaign, a number of changes happened in Houghton, MI during the offseason that lead many to believe that dark days were coming for the Huskies. Outstanding goaltender Angus Redmond, who led the Huskies to a #2 WCHA & #19 NCAA finish last season left the team to go pro with the Aniheim Ducks organization (and is currently assigned to the San Diego Gulls of the AHL).
In addition to Redmond, Michigan Tech also lost their Head Coach, Mel Pearson, to take over for long-time Michigan head coach Red Berenson who retired after 33 years of coaching the Wolverines, ending with an outstanding 848-429-92 record. The Tech vacancy was filled by former assistant coach, and Sault Sainte Marie native Joe Shawhan who played for the Lakers from 1982-1987 & was a volunteer coach for their 1992 & 1994 national championships.
Last week, however, critics were silenced as Tech doubled up #16 Union and beat #6 Minnesota-Duluth to win the annual Ice Breaker tournament. The huskies hope to continue that streak this weekend against the Lakers.
Rough Seas Ahead
Those of us who were at Abel Arena on Friday last week for game 1 against NMU would think that this year was the year, much the same was as we did last year against Michigan State during GLSW. The Lakers beat the Wildcats 5-3 in the first game of a home-and-home series. Diego Cuglietta scored two goals for the Lakers, with the others coming from Max Humitz, J.T Henke and Anthony Nellis. Freshman Lukas Kaelble assisted on 3 of the 5 goals.
Saturday night was a different story, however, as NMU outscored the Lakers 4-1 with the final 3 goals coming late in their respective periods. Philip Beaulieu scored the game winning goal at 19:20 of the second, with goals 3 & 4 coming at 18:01 and 18:28 of the third.
The Lakers know firsthand just how dominant Michigan Tech can be after being trounced in the first round of the WCHA playoffs last year, losing 6-4 and 8-0. They also have not won a game against Tech since bench boss Damon Whitten took over.
The keys for the Lakers this weekend is to close out periods & not to give their top scorers in Joel L’Esperance and Mark Auk any good looks at the goal. Whitten also has to not be gun shy in pulling a goalie or shortening the bench if a player does not perform. The Huskies are a team that will take advantage of anything you give them. On paper, they have it all: goal scorers, a solid blueline & a barn full of goalies, but all of that is for naught if you can’t finish a game as strong as you started it.
The games start Friday night at 7:37pm and Saturday at 7:07pm, and will be part of the GLSW celebration.
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ROGER WATERS - THE WALL LIVE
Bercy - Paris, France
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This was the end of the late-may concert marathon, wiith 4 legendary concerts in four days: Iron Maiden, Rush in Frankfurt, and Roger Waters in Paris two nights in a row!
This time I had a seating ticket and watched the show from the right side.
As this is a very visual tour and I'm attending several dates, this one will be a special track by track review following the setlist.... but only from the first part of the show!
It all started with some military folks holding a puppet of Pink, the main character of The Wall.
They let him fall down and the show starts with In The Flesh?.
There were fireworks, hammer flags are projected on the sides of the wall, and a platform rises with 8 soldiers holding the flag.
By the end of the song there is a huge roar of a plane. Suddenly, a World War I airplane comes down the roof and crashes into the wall.
This is the plane that dropped the bomb that killed Pink's father.
The next song is The Thin Ice, where several portraits of fallen paople appear in the wall... the first one being the one of Roger Water's father himself, who fell during World War II.
This is followed by Another Brick In The Wall Part 1, where the face of a child, probably from the Middle East, is shown on the central circle screen.
The next tune was one of the hightlights of the show: The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, where we felt a helicopter roar while a light spot was pointing the audience.
Then came Another Brick In The Wall Part II, during which a huge puppet of the schoolmaster appears on the right side of the stage.
On the central corcle screen, there is a wall with a fence with the inscription "I Believe".
For the second verse, several kids from different origins get on stage to sing the words while dancing. They all wear the same black shirt which reads "Fear Builds Walls".
Mother was the next song, and Roger said they were going to try a time travel experiment: The central circle screen was projecting video footage from Waters performing the song in London 30 years earlier with Pink Floyd.
The aim was to match it exactly, with the same tempo, and he did it great. It was strange to see Roger Waters performing the same song, with a difference of 30 years, at the same time...
During this song there was also the puppet of the mother. During the solo there was a projection of a security camera watching us all... and at the and an inscription on the wall readed Big Brother is watching You... except that that the Br was crossed off and replaced with an M... so it's Big Mother that was watching you!
That wasn't all, during the line "Mother Should I Trust The Government", two inscrptions appeared on the wall:
On the left side one could read "Jamais de la vie", and on the right side "No Fu**ing way"
Goodbye Blue Sky came next and the projections on the wall showed B-52 airplane bombers throwing some special kind of bombs:
- religious signs such as Latin crosses, star and crescents and Stars of David
- Political signs like the hammer and sickles
- dollar signs
- Corporation signs: the Shell logo, the Mercedes-Benz logo.... plus some discrete McDonalds logos only shown on the sides of the wall.
During Empty Spaces a well known animated sequence was shown, during which two loving flowers began to fight, and one becames an evil bird eating the other.
During What Shall We Do Now a sequence of the movie was projected. Especially impressive was Pink's face was screaming out of the wall.
The romantic meeting of Pink starts with Young Lust, where stripper girls are shown on the almost completed wall.
Roger sings One Of My Turns alone in front of the wall, while images from the girl at Pink's appartment are shown.
After their fight, there's Don't Leave Me Now: on the left side there's the face of the girl, who starts to cry green tears. Then she appears as a praying mantis puppet on the right side.
Excerpts from French TV are shown on the wall, with a guy taking about inflatable dools made in France... This sequence was shown on the whole tour, not only at the Paris gigs!
Pink hits the screen and breaks the TV, as we get into Another Brick In The Wall Part III.
The wall becomes red during The Last Few Bricks, while some images of people are projected on reorganized bricks.
Only one brick is left to complete the wall. Roger Waters sings Goodbye Cruel World from this space... to be filled by a brick as soon as the song ends!
There was a 20 minute intermission during which faces of fallen loved ones, people killed in different wars around the world, were shown.
OK, I have only written about the first part of the concert. There's still half of the show left, you'll know about it after the next Roger Waters concert in Paris, in late June.
Don't be mad at me, but this review is already quite long.
Anyway, if you live in Europe it's still time to see the show by yourself, as Roger Waters is currentlyon tour.
You can't be disapointed!
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Setlist Roger Waters – Bercy - Paris, France – May 31 2011
———— Act 1 ————
01. In the Flesh?
02. The Thin Ice
03. Another Brick in the Wall Part 1
04. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
06. Mother
07. Goodbye Blue Sky
08. Empty Spaces
09. What Shall We Do Now?
10. Young Lust
11. One of My Turns
12. Don't Leave Me Now
14. The Last Few Bricks
15. Goodbye Cruel World
16. Hey You
17. Is There Anybody Out There?
18. Nobody Home
19. Vera
20. Bring the Boys Back Home
21. Comfortably Numb
22. The Show Must Go On
23. In the Flesh
24. Run Like Hell
25. Waiting for the Worms
26. Stop
27. The Trial
28. Outside the Wall
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What ‘Making Partner’ Means at a Startup
(originally published on the [first round review]([http://firstround.com/article/What-making-partner-means-at-a-startup]))
“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission.”
— Grace Hopper
When he led the Netscape Browser team, Tom Paquin used to repeat this quote all the time. I was right there with him, on a large team of very smart people operating autonomously. This was Tom’s hands-off way of saying, “I trust you to figure stuff out, and if you blow it, I’ll forgive you.” And other leaders I’ve admired shared this confident, laissez-faire approach, too — and it worked.
When I left Netscape for LiveOps, then-CEO Bill Trenchard started introducing me as his ‘partner.’ And immediately that moniker felt right. Even though the company was organized as a traditional corporation, the driving force among management was partnership — partners who valued and trusted each other. Bill labeling me as a ‘partner’ was both inspiring and motivating.
Based on this experience, when I helped found data modeling startup Looker, we decided to build the company’s culture on the principle of partnership.
What is a Partner? #
Partner (n.) A person who takes part in an undertaking with another or others, especially in a business or company with shared risks and profits.
In theory, a healthy partnership has these attributes:
We’re all in it together. If one person wins, we all win.
We only hire people we can respect as peers.
Everyone who joins the team shares the commitment everyone else feels.
We trust our partners’ decisions implicitly.
But this can be a tall order.
That’s why, at Looker, we work hard to avoid titles. They’re something the outside world wants in order to categorize people, to get a sense of who’s who. But inside, we have ‘Looker names.’ I’m ‘First Looker,’ while my co-founder Ben is ‘Second Looker.’ We have ‘Out Looker,’ ‘Looker Afterer,’ ‘Dirty Looker’ and more. But the point is that our titles have nothing to do with rank. We’re egalitarian. No one has an office. We all share a space, a strategy and a goal. I sit smack in the middle.
Most importantly, we treat new hires as new partners. This changes the recruiting process — it’s a littler slower, more careful, a bit more like dating. We ask a lot of questions like: “What would you do in your first week on the job? The first month? Your first day?” Successful candidates have strong opinions. They know our business already. And very quickly, even during interviews, we learn a lot from them. They come to us, wanting in.
All of this helps us create a culture of ownership. People own the problems they work on. Others can lend a hand or give advice, but if you’re in charge of solving a problem, you own all of the decisions that get made.
This is where partnership structure comes in. When everyone’s a partner, they’re all potential resources and there’s no reason to keep secrets. Everyone knows what’s going on. And, ultimately, everyone feels like the company is theirs. There’s nothing more galvanizing.
Investors as Partners #
At Looker, we chose our VCs for partnership not price. We probably could have raised more money from other firms, but this wouldn’t have mattered without solid working relationships.
We chose VC partners we knew very well — Bill Trenchard and Tim Connors — so we could and can have very frank and very productive conversations. When things get tough, as they often do in the startup business, these are the guys we want in our corner. We picked them because we respect their abilities.
Making our investors as successful as possible is just as — if not more — important to us as making our partners at Looker successful. Our investors are our partners. They give us their time, tackle major problems, take chances, and trust us to do the right thing.
The Most Important Partner of All #
It might sound trite, but Looker’s most important job is to help our customers win. Really. If that doesn’t happen, nothing else matters.
We’re deeply invested in our customers’ success. That’s the only way we will survive and thrive. When you look at your customer relationships as partnerships, everything clicks into focus. You see the value of a strong feedback loop, of innovating fast to meet their needs, of pushing the envelope on features, and admitting fault when need be.
We trust our customers to give us good, honest constructive criticism, and we share their commitment to great software. This is why Looker provides unlimited support and consulting services for clients. We don’t turn on a timer when someone needs help, or charge by the minute when a customer is struggling. That would be creating unnecessary tension in a relationship that should be all about mutual benefit.
A lot of companies out there call themselves client- or customer-centric. But in order for this to be true, a partnership approach needs to be taken inside and out. It’s the only way to rally many people — on all sides of the equation — behind a single goal: the success of your business.
Partners all around, and everyone wins.
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Moonta Progress > History
The name Moonta is derived from the aboriginal word Moonta-Monterra meaning impenetrable scrub. Walter Watson Hughes occupied the area as part of his sheep run and it was one of his shepherds, Patrick Ryan, who discovered copper on the mouth of a wombat burrow in 1861.
The Moonta field consisted of several mines, the main ones being Moonta, Yelta, Paramatta, Hamley and Mid Moonta. The Moonta Mining Company was the first in Australia to pay one million pounds in dividends to its shareholders. Moonta Mines Tailings Heaps The Moonta Mining Co and the Wallaroo Mining Co amalgamated in 1889 and formed the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining Smelting Co. The mines worked until 1923 when the company went into liquidation. During the 1930’s small syndicates worked several leases, subsidised by the Commonwealth and State Governments. Since 1960 exploration companies have located many zones of copper mineralisation, several of which have proved economic. Small ore bodies near Poona Mine and Wheal Hughes Mine, just north of Moonta, have been mined by open cut and underground methods since 1989.
The district became known as “Australia’s little Cornwall” because the early miners who emigrated to the district were of Cornish descent, most coming directly from Cornwall or via the earlier mining areas of the state. Headstones in the Moonta Cemetery indicate the Cornish birthplaces of many early Moonta residents.
The Moonta Mines produced about 170,000 tonnes of copper metal and, along with the Wallaroo Mine, were the longest worked in South Australia’s mining history. The mechanical workshops were the largest in the southern hemisphere. Moonta was the first mine in Australia to have a Cementation Works ( a process of further copper extraction from previously treated ore ). The first Gas Works and School of Mines outside the metropolitan area were established at Moonta in 1872 and 1890 respectively.
The closure of the mines in 1923 led to a rapid decline in population particularly in the mine area, but Moonta survived as an agricultural and service centre. Since the 1970’s this has been supported by a fast growing tourism industry and now, interest and investment in Moonta and its surrounding district is escalating with many looking to visit and retire to the area to relax, have fun and enjoy its rich heritage, beautiful beaches, seaside activities and friendly people.
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Writing in Books and Other Marginal Activities
H.J. Jackson
University of Toronto Press
Volume 62, Number 2, Winter 1992/93
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H.J. JACKSON Writing in Books and Other Marginal Activities Margins and the marginal are, as we paradoxically say, so central to academic writing these days that we are liable to forget that when we use these words we are trading in metaphors. There can be no doubt that bringing forward the socially or historically neglected and disadvantaged has been a welcome development in literary criticism. It gratifies the liberal politics of most academic readers and at the same time it enlarges their field of study; it is worthy and interesting, or as tradition puts it, useful and pleasing. It is therefore surely peculiar that there should have been no public discussion of texts that are literally marginal, those words that readers write on the edges of the pages of manuscripts or printed books.1 This essay aims to initiate such discussion. The first section proposes a description of the typical features of marginalia, drawing on examples from the last two centuries or so and distinguishing marginalia from related kinds of writing; the second considers the specific case of the best known of literary marginalists, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the third tries to cope with the collision of the general and the particular. I 'NORMAL' MARGINALIZING On planes and trains and buses, when the sympathetic stranger whose conversation I've been enjoying for miles makes the mistake of asking me what I do, and I make the mistake of telling the truth, I sometimes manage to recover lost ground by telling the (true) story of my great discovery , how I went to an ancient library for the clergy in London and identified two of their books as having marginal notes by Coleridge in them - notes that pushed the market value of the books up probably above the annual salary of the librarian. The librarian herself, when I / shared my triumph with her, said, 'People aren't supposed to write in our books.' When it's told under the circumstances I've described, this story has the usual effect of successful jokes: besides releasing social tensions with a laugh, it makes my listener an ally again, in league with me against our common enemy, the stereotyped pedantic librarian. I'm telling it again now because I think the librarian's reaction exposes one of the most intriguing qualities of marginalia, the attitude of defiance in which they are UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY, VOLUME 62, NUMBER 2, WINTER 1992/3 218 H.J. JACKSON often produced. This is an elusive but important quality, one that I will not have time to say much more about, and therefore one that I want to give prominence to here at the start. An excellent modern specimen came my way recently, when I borrowed a library book containing an article by Geoffrey Hartman and found that a grumpy student had had it out before me.2 When Hartman, tracing the incidence of in, un, and urn sounds in a short poem about yew-trees, wrote, 'The in and un struggle to come together as one intense meaning, while urn presents itself as a stronger or heavier un,' the marginal comment was a sarcastic 'Long live the Professor of English!' When Hartman proposed the idea that the word 'united' was perceived at the same time as 'Yew-nited/ he got a pithy 'Fuck yew.,3 The satisfaction and comradeship that every reader except Hartman must feel at such a moment arise partly from appreciation of the student's skill in this unpublicized medium and partly from a kind of complicity peculiar to the genre. In allowing our attention to stray from the text to the notes, we become accessories in a seditious act, a crude challenge to the authority of the original writer. Thackeray ruefully acknowledges the risk of encountering this kind of challenge in the reader whom he imagines - and depicts in an engraving - as reacting to the account of Amelia's leaving her boarding-school at the beginning of Vanity Fair: All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Yes; I can see Jones at this minute (rather...
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The North Dakota State men’s basketball team played two games this past week. On Monday, Nov. 13, the Bison traveled to California to take on No. 10 USC Trojans.
It was the sixth straight season the Bison played a top-10 ranked opponent.
The Bison led for more than 20 minutes in the game and led by as many as 10 points with a 29-19 lead in the first half.
The Bison were up 56-51 with 9:28 left in the game, following back-to-back dunks from Deng Geu. NDSU was down 62-60 in the final four minutes before the Trojans went on an 8-0 run. The game ended with the Trojans winning, 75-65.
Cameron Hunter scored 24 points on 8-of-11 shooting to lead the Bison. Hunter drained 4-of-5 shots from behind the arc.
Bison sophomore Tyson Ward scored 7 points and matched his career-high with 8 rebounds. Jared Samuelson added 9 points with three three-pointers.
Friday, Nov. 17, the Bison traveled to Missouri State, the preseason favorite to win the Missouri Valley conference.
The game saw seven lead changes. The Bears were up 51-48 with 3:50 remaining, before the Bison tied it up at 52 following buckets from A.J. Jacobson and Ward. NDSU scored their final five points at the free throw line.
The Bison defense was rock solid at the end of the game, not allowing Missouri State to score in the final 3 minutes and 50 seconds, missing eight shots during that period.
Jacobson led the team with 14 points and Paul Miller added 13, as Ward recorded his first double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bison are set to return to Fargo for their home opener against Florida A&M Wednesday, Nov. 22.
The NDSU women’s basketball team defeated NJIT 105-58 Nov. 12. The 105 points scored were the most since the 2013-2014 season when the Bison scored 112 points against Mayville State.
Seven Bison scored in double digits with Michelle Gaislerova leading all scorers with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and 3-of-4 behind the three-point arc. Sarah Jacobson and Autumn Ogden each recorded double-doubles. Jacobson scored 13 points and dished out a career-high 10 assists, as Ogden scored a career-best 12 points and grabbed a game-high 10 boards.
Macey Kvilvang added 12 points, as Taylor Thunstedt and Danneka Voegeli each scored 11. Kennedy Childers finished the game with 10 points.
NDSU shot 59 percent overall and 44 percent from three-point range. The Bison scored 27 points off 15 turnovers.
NDSU defeated University of Massachusetts Friday, Nov. 17, 82-70. Jacobson led the Bison with a career-high 25 points. Jacobson went 8-for-14 from the field, 7-of-9 from three-point land, and finished with six assists. Thunstedt added 18 points on 6-of-13 shooting.
Rylee Nudell and Gaislerova added 11 and 10 points, with Nudell grabbing 7 rebounds. Ogden added a career-best 4 blocks.
NDSU is scheduled to close out its four-game home stand with a contest against Valley City State Sunday, Nov. 19 before hitting the road against Navy on Saturday in Annapolis, Maryland.
NDSU fell to No. 8 Iowa, 38-6, Friday, Nov. 17.
NDSU’s lone win came in the afternoon’s first match when 125-pounder Paul Bianchi recorded a pin at 1:53 over Iowa’s Justin Stickley. Bianchi improved to 4-1 on the season with a pair of pins.
NDSU dropped three close decisions. Andrew Fogarty lost 3-2 at 165 pounds, 184-pounder Tyler McNutt lost 5-4 and Cordell Eaton lost with a 5-3 loss to No. 11 197-pounder Cash Wilcke.
NDSU is scheduled to square off with No. 13 Northern Iowa Sunday, Nov. 19.
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Search underway to fill up one vacancy in J&K PSC
on: July 13, 2019 In: Kashmir, Top J&K News, Top StoriesTags: No Comments
Govt examining panel of four retired IAS officers
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR: Search is underway to fill up one existing vacancy in Jammu and Kashmir State Public Service Commission (PSC) even as the General Administration Department (GAD) has recommended a panel of four retired IAS officers to the Government.
One slot of Member had fallen vacant in PSC due to the retirement of Prof. Mushtaq Ahmad Wani on April 30 this year. Prior to that, the vacancy created by retirement of the former IFS officer Lal Chand was filled by the Governor’s administration with the appointment of the retired IPS officer and former IGP Jagjit Kumar on February 8, 2019.
In addition to Chairman Lateef-uz-Zamaan Deva, PSC currently comprises of seven Members namely Jaipal Singh, Ali Asghar Choudhary, Prof Posh Charak, Er Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, Suresh Kumar Sharma, Tsering Angchok and Jagjit Kumar. All of them, including Chairman Deva but excluding Member Jagjit Kumar, had been appointed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s PDP-BJP Government in July 2015.
While as Lal Chand and Prof Wani have already retired due to crossing the age bar of 65 years, PSC is scheduled to be reconstituted with the appointment of new Chairman and six Members in July 2020.
Currently, PSC has Chairman and two Members, Er Mushtaq Ahmed Lone and Jaipal Singh from Kashmir. Jaipal Singh belongs to district Baramulla of Kashmir division. J & K PSC has four Members, namely Ali Asghar Choudhary, Prof Posh Charak, Suresh Kumar Sharma and Jagjit Kumar from Jammu. One Member, Tsering Anhchok is from Leh, Ladakh.
For the vacancy that has emerged out of the retirement of Prof Wani, Chairman Deva, according to well-placed authoritative sources, had recommended a panel of four retired officers-a Kashmir Administrative Service officer of 1984 batch who was subsequently inducted into IAS and has retired in 2018 and three retired academics. One of three has retired after serving as Principal of a Government Degree College and Director of the North Campus of the University of Kashmir. Another is a retired professor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Kashmir.
However, GAD turned down the recommendation in favour of the three academics. It retained the recommendation in favour of the retired IAS officer.
GAD is understood to have added three more names of retired IAS officers to the panel which is now under consideration of the top echelons of the Government. Sources revealed to STATE TIMES that all the three were likely to be dropped as each one of them had unenviable integrity issues. They include a female officer of 1984 KAS batch who was also inducted into IAS before her retirement in 2017.
One of the retired IAS officers recommended in the GAD panel hails from Rajouri district of Jammu. He has among other positions, served as Custodian General and Excise Commissioner. He had entered KAS through Technical Quota but he has been involved in cases of corruption and misappropriation during his tenure as CEO of Rajouri Development Authority. Another officer recommended by the GAD has retired after serving as Commissioner-Secretary Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution. He hails originally from Kulgam district of Kashmir division and is known for his reputation for not succumbing to political and other unwarranted pulls and pressures. He had taken a stand in not allotting Industrial land in favour of a Jammu based businessman on the instructions of the than Industries Minister in the Omar Abdullah Government when he was serving as Director Industries and Commerce Jammu division.
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Home News Goa Cong to move court seeking disqualification of rebel MLAs
Cong to move court seeking disqualification of rebel MLAs
Posted By: newson: July 11, 2019 In: GoaNo Comments
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Margao: Stating that the Congress party would move court seeking disqualification of the ten rebel Congress MLAs who have joined BJP, All-India Congress Committee secretary and Goa desk in-charge Dr A Chella Kumar Thursday said that giving party ticket to Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate to contest the Panaji bypoll was the biggest blunder by his party.
Chella Kumar arrived in Goa Wednesday evening and met senior Congress party leaders on Thursday morning in order to ‘restructure’ the party. He said that legal action would be taken against the rebel MLAs.
Speaking to media persons after meeting Margao MLA Digambar Kamat, Chella Kumar said discussions would continue over the next couple of days to decide on a new leader of opposition ahead of the assembly session, which is set to begin next week.
“We have had our internal discussions to decide who will be leader of opposition now. But at the same time, we will challenge decision of the ten MLAs to switch loyalty. We will go to the court as well as move for disqualification before the Speaker,” said Chella Kumar.
He said, “Giving Babush the ticket was the biggest blunder. Now, we will have to restructure the Congress party. Our five MLAs will represent the opposition in the assembly and we will decide on leadership soon.”
Kamat, on the other hand, called for changing the anti-defection law. “Congress as a party has sizeable support across the state and has fixed voters. It is the leaders who have ditched the voters. You are elected for five years but if this is the way things go on, the anti-defection law will have to be redefined. We will meet everybody and see what we can do,” he said.
In the backdrop of the political drama that began on Wednesday evening, the Goa desk in-charge said the Congress party would stay true to its principles. “In the 120 years since the party was formed, we have come across this sort of occasion many times. We have seen that when MLAs have left Congress they have been eliminated from politics. For certain people, it is about their own personal gains without political ethics and principles and such behaviour will not damage the party. The party doesn’t compromise on its principles. As long as Congress exists, no one can touch the secular fabric of this country,” said Chella Kumar.
He said the BJP was out to murder democracy and that the party did not want to face political opponents. “The BJP is playing with money. Those that have left have told me that they have been approached with a lot of money. The BJP does not want democracy to continue, they want dictatorship and are trying their best. They are doing it everywhere in the country,” he said.
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Utah evacuees watched flames draw closer, smoke get thicker
The smoke plume caused by the Brian Head Fire, seen just north of Cedar City, Utah on Thursday, June 22, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A wildfire menacing a southern Utah ski town for nearly a week flared again, doubling in size for the second night in a row and torching more homes after residents fled the flames, officials said Friday.
The blaze was one of several burning in the U.S. West as extreme heat challenges firefighters.
The Utah fire that’s charred 43 square miles (112 square kilometers) near the town of Brian Head has destroyed a total of 13 homes, Forest Service spokeswoman Cigi Burton said.
No one was injured because the houses were among 400 evacuated a day earlier from the alpine community that is home to the Brian Head Resort and near several national monuments and parks in Utah’s red rock country.
Mountain bike and hiking trails, zip line courses and a water tubing hill that lure visitors to the resort in the summer were closed as firefighters try to hem in the flames.
At least 700 people have been out of their homes since Saturday, when the blaze was ignited by someone using a torch to burn weeds, authorities said.
High winds and hot weather have intensified the fire, driving it toward Panguitch Lake, a fishing and recreation spot with more homes.
Brian Head and eight other communities and campgrounds were under evacuation orders, fire spokeswoman Erin Darboven said. She did not know the total number of homes or residents affected.
Jim Moore said the flames were about a mile from his home in the community of Beaver Dam Village when he packed up his car and his dog early Thursday. At that point, the evacuations were not yet mandatory.
“At 2 o’clock in the morning, I could stand on my deck and see the flames,” Moore said. “It was pretty scary.”
Moore, who drove about four hours to Las Vegas where his girlfriend lives, said Beaver Dam Village is almost entirely made up of second homes and cabins and is largely a weekend getaway for Vegas residents.
LaRue Billings, who spends summers with her husband in their recreational vehicle near Panguitch Lake, said the couple could spot flames from their campsite Wednesday before they packed up and left Thursday.
“By the time we left, the fire had gotten quite a bit closer. We didn’t realize that because the smoke was so dense,” Billings said.
She said beetles have killed off trees in the surrounding forest, leaving lots of dried wood on the ground.
“I’m sure that had a lot to do with fueling the fire,” Billings said.
The couple, who live in Hurricane, said they were camping Friday in a city about 20 miles away until they figure out where to go next.
The unidentified person accused of starting the blaze could face charges, officials said. Firefighting costs could rise to more than $1 million, said Jason Curry of the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
In Arizona, astronomers fear a nearly 46-square-mile (74-square-kilometer) wildfire may have caused heat damage to a research telescope on a mountain northeast of Tucson. Paul Gabor, vice director of the Vatican Observatory, says the blaze came within probably 30 feet of the building but didn’t cause it to catch fire.
Fire conditions are preventing telescope operators from examining the inside of the building. But Gabor suspects the heat damaged metal on the exterior and is concerned smoke could have damaged electronic equipment and mirrors on the telescope.
On the nation’s largest American Indian reservation, which spans parts of New Mexico, Arizona and southeastern Utah, increasing fire danger led officials to ban fireworks and campfires outside developed sites. Ceremonial fires are allowed if a tribal burn registration is obtained.
In Southern California, firefighters made progress on a 5-day-old forest fire in the San Bernardino Mountains that has burned about 2½ square miles (625 hectares).
Associated Press writers Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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Home Uncategorized NBA Condemns the Assassination of Promise Frank Igwe, Esq.
NBA Condemns the Assassination of Promise Frank Igwe, Esq.
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The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, SAN has condemned the dastardly murder of a Port Harcourt based lawyer, Promise Frank Igwe Esq. on Friday by persons suspected to be assassins.
Immediately the sad news broke out, the NBA reached out to the leadership of the Port Harcourt Branch of the NBA and it is pleasing to note that the Chairman and officers of the Branch are presently working with officers of the Nigerian Police to apprehend the criminals.
Mr. Promise Frank Igwe was shot dead at a bar in Ozuobu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State in the morning of Friday, the 12th of April, 2019.
While the NBA President assures members that the Bar will not relent in its efforts at ensuring that lives and properties of Nigerians are safe and the culprits of the murder of our member are found and prosecuted, the NBA President, unfortunately, laments the increasing surge in violent crimes all over the country. Kidnapping, armed robbery and murder of Nigerians are now rife and the culprits are hardly arrested.
The NBA President calls upon the Federal Government to re-jig its security apparatus and modus operandi with a view to making it more proactive, instead of being reactive. A situation where Nigerians can no longer freely move around without fear of attack should be of great concern to the government. The primary duty of government is to protect lives and properties of its citizens and residents, and every resources must be deployed to achieve this task without fail.
While the NBA President assures members that the Bar will continue to monitor the investigation of the case by the Police, he prays that God Almighty gives the family of Promise Igwe Frank Esq the fortitude to bear this sad loss, and for his soul to rest in peace in the bossom of our Lord.
Kunle Edun
National Publicity Secretary, NBA.
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[Eye Plus] Sinpo-dong, where old meets new
Dubbed Incheon’s “Myeongdong,” one of the busiest shopping districts in Seoul, Sinpo Market in the port city Sinpo-dong is blooming with new energy. (Photographed by Park Hyun-koo/The Korea Herald) ...
[Trending] TVXQ’s Yunho rises as icon of relentless passion
K-pop idol Yunho of TVXQ has become an icon of positive energy and can-do spirit, inspiring many of the nation’s frustrated young people. (JTBC) The veteran singer, who made his debut more than 15 ...
Sharing life with furry friends through ‘PetTube’
After spending a hard day at work or school, many hit YouTube in search for pet-related videos. In Korea, these furry creatures can be referred to as “LAN cable pets,” or “online pets.” Those who wa...
Changgyeong Palace to stay open at night starting next year
Changgyeong Palace, one of the four main Korean palaces, will stay open till 9 p.m. all year round, starting next year, for those who love to enjoy its night views, the head of the government office ...
Koreas to resume Manwoldae dig around next week
South and North Korea are presumed to resume the joint excavation of an ancient palace site in North Korea as early as next week, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The joint ...
Hanbok designer to receive top culture honors post-death
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Monday announced that it will present the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest honor of its kind, to late designer Lee Young-hee, who specializ...
[Photo News] ‘We Dance’ at Han River
“We Dance Festival” took place at Yeouido Hangang Park on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. The festival comprised of ballet, urban, jazz, tango, salsa and swing dance, flash mobs and open dance lesso...
[Weekender] Rapidly-expanding universe of BTS merchandise sweeping global market
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After renovation, JW Marriott Seoul aims for high-end luxury with fewer but bigger rooms
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Seoul International Writers’ Festival to examine where literature stands today
Local and foreign writers are set to gather in Seoul to discuss literature later this month, when the Literature Translation Institute of Korea hosts the Seoul International Writers’ Festival. The b...
Typhoon Kong-rey jeopardizes Saturday’s fireworks festival
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Seoul invites citizens to share ideas on digital city
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Poet Heo Su-Kyoung dies of cancer in Germany
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'''A Tribute''': January 31st was the public memorial service for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wolpert Ann J. Wolpert] who directed the MIT Libraries from 1996-2013. Ann was a leader in bringing open access to where it is today with too many accomplishments to list here, but highlights include leading the MIT Libraries collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to develop DSpace. In her essay, "For the Sake of Inquiry and Knowledge-Inevitability of Open Access", published in the February 2013 issue of the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' she wrote , "There is no doubt that public interests vested in funding agencies, universities, libraries, and authors together with the power and reach of the Internet, have created a compelling and necessary momentum for open access. It won't be easy, and it won't be inexpensive, but it is only a matter of time." Thank you Ann, you will be missed. Robin Peek, Editor, the ''Open Access Directory''.
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Evers, Medgar Wiley 25
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963 21
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Lewis, John 19
Discrimination in public accomodations 44
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Interviews 35
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Allen, Alexander J.
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Gragg, Rosa Lee Slade
McDew, Charles
Morsell, John A. [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
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Thompson, Allen C. [Jackson (Miss.). Office of the Mayor]
Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard)
Lee, James Arthur
Newman, Paul
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Victoria Theater (New York, N.Y.)
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Jackson (Miss.). Office of the Mayor
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, District 65 (New York, N.Y.)
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance files
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Stanley Levison FBI File, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Bureau File 100-111180-9-185a
''The Meaning of Birmingham,'' Address delivered at the Gandhi Society for Human Rights
Kheel, Theodore Woodrow
Parker, Mack Charles
Quill, Mike [Transportation Workers Union of America]
Transportation Workers Union of America
Masonic Temple (Jackson, Miss.)
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Proposed plans for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Indiana. Civil Rights Commission
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''Marshals' Manual: Informational Guidelines for Bus, Plane, and Train Captains''
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home > preview > Shadow Hearts 3: A Whole New World...Sort Of
Shadow Hearts 3: A Whole New World...Sort Of
game: Shadow Hearts 3: From The New World
posted by: Amanda Bateman
publisher: XSEED
developer: Nautilus
genre: rpg adventure fantasy
keywords: 1920 historical anime
date posted: 11:00 AM Fri Jan 20th, 2006
last revision: 11:00 AM Fri Jan 20th, 2006
Right now I will get it off my chest and say that I haven\'t played anything in the Shadow Hearts series. My friends and colleagues have constantly urged me to pick up the game, and they say that I will love it. But despite the peer pressure these past months (and maybe years), I\'ve yet to even see it in action. But such is the life of a college student who has only enough to support her main fandom. But we\'ll save that talk for another time.
This year I\'d like to change the fact that I haven\'t played Shadow Hearts by playing the third installment of the franchise. Shadow Hearts: From The New World is the newest in the series, and to my relief I\'ve been told that you don\'t have to play the first two to understand what\'s going on in the third game.
Shadow Hearts: From the New World obviously takes place in the new world, which history buffs know is America. 1920\'s New York, more specifically, is the setting of this game. This time period could be the hotspot this year in RPGs, as Atlus\' Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou Versus The Super Army also takes place around the same time, but in Japan. Of course, like the new Devil Summoner game, Shadow Hearts will obviously twist history around and add fantasy elements to it. The story centers on main character Johnny Garland, who is out to seek answers about his family and his mysterious past.
The Judgement Ring battle system also makes a return; from what I\'ve heard about it in the past, this may both please and disgust fans of the game. Screenshots of video clips in the game look very nice and will be a visual treat.
For the import gaming crowd, Shadow Hearts 3 has already been released, so check your favorite import store to pick up a copy. For those who cannot read Japanese, be relieved to know that the localized game is expected to be out in early 2006. However, an official release date is not available, and the official website only teases us with a trailer for now. Despite the little translated media, I\'m still excited. And maybe in that time I\'ll pick up one of the first two. Maybe.
Serious Sam Interviews (interview) (11/13/02)
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Home Venezuela Venezuela: Learning to Play the Cuatro on the Web 2.0
Venezuela: Learning to Play the Cuatro on the Web 2.0
Laura Vidal
Image of a cuatro by Flickr user LCoronelP (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The cuatro is the principal icon of traditional Venezuelan music. It is often learned at an early age and accompanies the majority of songs that recount the country’s folklore. The cuatro is present in almost all forms of musical expression, from the coastal drums to the calypso music of the south. Traditional choirs are often joined by a cuatro, and cantors also base their songs on the instrument. A love for the cuatro has also reached citizen media: songs of the joropo and gaita styles of music are shared here, and its history, musicians and even how to play the instrument, are widely discussed.
The blog Recreateoficial [es] relates part of its history
«It has very remote origins. Similar instruments appear in recordings from Iran and Crete in ovoid and square shapes (…) The four-stringed Arab lute or thimphle arrived in Spain at the start of the 16th century via the Moorish invasions. Here a new, less oval form was adapted, more similar to the current form of the “eight-stringed guitar” (…) The lute made its way to the Canary Islands, until it transformed into the timple. The timple would be exported to America and the Caribbean with the American Conquest, making many years later for the versions known today throughout South America. The Puerto Rican cuatro, however, maintains a closer resemblance to its ancestor, the lute, than the Canaries’ timple.»
The blogs micuatro.com [es] and tucuatro.com [es] share chords and songs through scores, adaptations and examples.
YouTube has a place for fans as well, thanks to video accounts from those like CuatroCriollo [es], who posts classes that make introductory courses easy:
Much like this user, many others also share what they have learned. Simply by entering “Venezuelan cuatro” into a keyword search, the results are endless. There are ample and generous possibilities to discover distinct types of music. The cuatro, vastly popular amongst Venezuelan bloggers, has numerous demonstrations available not only for enjoyment, but also for learning more about the art.
Source: globalvoices.com
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Village of Orland Park » News » What's New » Orland Park Railroad Crossings Designated Quiet Zones
Orland Park Railroad Crossings Designated Quiet Zones
Railroad crossings in the Village of Orland Park are now designated quiet zones with passing trains no longer allowed to sound their horns when passing through. Engineers will, however, sound horns if they feel a danger is ahead.
"Responding to residents' concerns, the village worked with the railroad to make the necessary safety improvements to allow for the quiet zones," said Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin.
Signs have been posted at railroad crossings in the village reading "Train horns not sounded." Affected at-grade crossings in Orland Park include 135th Street, 143rd Street, West Avenue, 153rd Street, 159th Street, 108th Avenue, 167th Street, Wolf Road and 179th Street. The Village of Palos Park funded the improvements at its crossing at 86th Avenue in Palos Township.
"The village works closely with the railroad because of the number of crossings in town and to ensure everyone's safety," said Trustee Ed Schussler, chair of the village's Public Works Committee. "It is imperative that all motorists pay close attention whenever approaching a railroad crossing," he added.
"Drivers and pedestrians must always use caution and make a point to look both ways when approaching every rail crossing even if it has protective flashers and drop gates," said Orland Park Public Works Director Ed Wilmes.
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Introduction to Buddhism
The Path of Awakening
Prince Siddhartha: Renouncing the World
Becoming the “Buddha”: The Way of Meditation
The Dharma: The Teachings of the Buddha
The Sangha: The Buddhist Community
The Three Treasures
The Expansion of Buddhism
Theravada: The Way of the Elders
Mahayana: The Great Vehicle
Vajrayana: The Diamond Vehicle
Buddhism in America
Buddhists in the American West
Discrimination and Exclusion
East Coast Buddhists
At the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions
Internment Crisis
Zen Boom
Building “American Buddhism”
New Asian Immigration and the Temple Boom
Popularizing Buddhism
The Buddhist Experience
The Image of the Buddha
One Hand Clapping?
Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat
Chanting the Sutras
Creating a Mandala
Becoming a Monk
From Street Gangs to Temple
Devotion to Guanyin
Buddha’s Birthday
Remembering the Ancestors
Celebrating the New Year
Building a Pure Land on Earth
Monastery in the Hudson Valley
Issues for Buddhists in America
One Buddhism? or Multiple Buddhisms?
The Difficulties of a Monk
Changing Patterns of Authority
Women in American Buddhism
Buddhism and Social Action: Engaged Buddhism
Ecumenical and Interfaith Buddhism: Coming Together in America
Teaching the Love of Buddha: The Next Generation
The 1893 Parliament included a number of Buddhist delegates, among them Zen Master Soyen Shaku, the Japanese layman Hirai Kinzo, and the Sri Lankan Buddhist reformer Anagarika Dharmapala. The Parliament was organized by a wide spectrum of Protestant and Unitarian leaders, many of whom sought to demonstrate that the world’s religions affirmed the unity of humankind and that Christianity, ultimately, had the unique capacity to embrace this unity.
The Buddhists present were eager not only to participate, but to challenge the Western Christian tradition in a debate over what the true characteristics of a “world religion” might be. For example, Soyen Shaku’s major speech sharply contrasted Buddhist notions of karma as the principle of causation with Christian notions of God as “prime mover.” With arguments he purposely constructed to appear “rational” and “nontheistic” to his Western audience, he suggested that Buddhist principles of karma were completely compatible with modern science. Although Shaku himself insisted that he did not intend to antagonize Christians with his speech, both its content and style challenged many Christians’ ideas about what constitutes “religion.”
Dharmapala also challenged the organizers’ understanding of Christianity as the great “universal religion” by pointing to the “universal” teachings of the Buddha, who taught long before the time of Christ. He emphasized the Buddhist ideals of tolerance and gentleness as crucial for the world’s religions in modern times. Many in the audience were apparently very impressed with Dharmapala. Several days after the Parliament, at a meeting of the Theosophical Society of Chicago, he presided over the initiation of the first person to become a Buddhist on American soil, Charles T. Strauss, a New York businessman.
Finally, the Parliament elicited some sharp criticism from Japanese Buddhists such as Hirai Kinzo, who pointed explicitly to the anti-Japanese feeling in America. He deplored the signs he had encountered in California that read “No Japanese is allowed to enter here” and said, “If such be the Christian ethics—well, we are perfectly satisfied to be heathen.” The Japanese were not so concerned with whether someone is called a Buddhist, a Shintōist, or a Christian. Instead, Kinzo explained, “the consistency of doctrine and conduct is the point on which we put the greatest importance.”
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First on CNN: Outside group defends vulnerable Democratic Senator
(CNN) - A group supporting Democratic senators and Senate candidates says it's going up with a new television commercial defending Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who's considered vulnerable as she runs for re-election next year.
The theme of the Senate Majority PAC's 30-second spot is that Hagan is fighting to make health care more affordable and accessible to North Carolina voters.
"She protects my Medicare and Social Security; she took on drug companies to lower the cost of prescriptions for seniors; voted to cut waste and fraud in Medicare; force insurance companies to cover cancer and other pre-existing conditions," say four different voters who speak in support of Hagan in the ad.
Senate Majority PAC says it's spending around $750,000 to run the spot for two weeks across the state. It's the second commercial the PAC has run in support of Hagan, who won 53% of the vote in her 2008 election to the Senate.
The voters in the spot then criticize North Carolina Speaker Tom Tillis, who many consider the leading Republican challenger to Hagan in next year's midterm elections, for allegedly siding with insurance companies and letting them deny people coverage.
"It's evident that Kay Hagan and her liberal allies have seen her campaign completely implode because of her unwavering support for Obamacare, and now they are desperately trying to do damage control to save her Senate seat," said North Carolina Republican Party spokesman Daniel Keylin, in responding to the ad.
"No amount of political spin and sugar-coating over the airwaves will change the fact that Kay Hagan repeatedly misled the public to justify casting the deciding vote for this train wreck. North Carolinians know that Kay Hagan owns Obamacare," Keylin added.
Hagan has been targeted over her support of the health care law in ads from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and from pro-GOP outside groups. Americans for Prosperity has spent big bucks to run ads against the Senator.
While she has been a supporter of Obamacare, she was also part of a small group of Senate Democrats who wanted to hold President Barack Obama accountable on his proposal to extend health insurance plans that got canceled because of Obamacare regulations.
Last month Vice President Joe Biden traveled to North Carolina to support Hagan at a private fundraiser. Biden didn't mention Obamacare during his remarks.
The President won the state in his 2008 victory for the White House, but 2012 GOP challenger Mitt Romney carried the state in last year's presidential election. Republicans currently control the governor's office and both houses of the North Carolina state legislature.
CNN's Ashley Killough contributed to this report
Filed under: 2014 • Health care • Kay Hagan • North Carolina • Obamacare
Tampa Tim
If you want a corporate slug, vote republican. Republicans aren't much, but they are the best the Kochs can buy.
December 5, 2013 12:22 pm at 12:22 pm |
A True Conservative
Running on Obamacare.....this should work out well for her! Perhaps she simply didn't get the memo......or the people who didn't tell Obama the whole thing is a mess also didn't tell her.....
biden didn't mention obamacare. i wonder why
What is being overlooked in this entire nontroversey is that with or without the President's statements, with or without the Affordable Care Act, private insurers would have dropped or modified their policies, anyway. I know of no health insurance policy that lasts for more than a year. Most policies make you re-enroll every year, and most of the time there are changes in premiums, deductibles, and coverages.
....while destroying the healthcare insurance of most of the people of North Carolina and driving UP the cost.
Clueless Deomcrats think the American people are complete fools and will once again believe their lies.
I didn't think there were any vulnerable democrats. I thought that the democrats were going to increase their majority in the senate and retake the house in a republican train wreck. I thought DNC chairwoman Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz is instructing all democrats to campaign on Obamacare. Did I miss something?
it is great to see the lefties wasting their money on a seat that they have no hope of keeping. hagan was a mistake that will soon be corrected, especially after she voted for obamacare. bye bye hagan! bye bye senate democrats!!
CryBabies
She put her signature on Obamacare, period. Now she wants to walk it back. As this episode gets worse, and it will, she will increase the "double talk". Fighting the losing fight.
I like Kay Hagen. Get rid off GOP thugs, NC. Pat McRory got NC as third world junk, already. DHHS need not
Explain to memo, read, Sunday observer. Karma!!!
anthony ta
Go vote the same people back in two parties so they can destroy the country more. I have a good idea since no one including thr president follow the constitution , why not scrap thrm so they write their own
I don't know Because he used the phrase "affordable care act", instead? 🙂
why is she even bothering to run? she already knows the outcome. she should have her next job lined up by now. when millions more americans lose their employer based healthcare plans, as the obama administration has already predicted, hagan's poll numbers will plummet, no matter what lies she and her lying supporters spew.
If she wants to keep her seat in the Senate then she needs to come out in suport of the total repeal of Obamacare. It is her one and only hope to keep her seat.
Hector Slagg
If she is doing such a good job why does any one say she is vulnerable ? Ignoring the U.S. Constitution can ruin your whole day. You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
If you want a union slug, vote democrat. Democrats aren`t much, but they are the best George Soros can buy. As Rudy would say, "Nice try, but we got ya".
ARMYCSM
HEADLINE: THE ACA IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. The chance of it being repeal is zero. The probability of it's success
is about 95%. So, at the ened of the day, Democrats and Republicants alike will run their campaign flying the ACA banner of success. I am tired of seeing little children in red states with rottening teeth and scarred impetigo infected legs.
The REAL Truth...
@smith – As Rudy would say, "Nice try, but we got ya".
That response is living proof that Bobby Jindal was so-o-o-o right!
Rick McDaniel
I am fairly certain, she will be defeated. She has been bad for NC.
Boomer in Mo
Sigh. Don't you all see what is wrong with this country. It's us. The ACA could have, should have had some of its worst problems fixed before now. Democracy requires compromise, not constant playground fights. We are doomed.
Go Donna time for a change. throw the bums out
Vic of New York
It about time. Count me in for a donation. Let's not "defend" Democrats... Let's fight to dump Mitch McConnell and that ineffective useless TEA Party puppet: John Boehner in 2014. America – do you want a congress that works? Do you want fair paying jobs? Do you want fair elections? VOTE for a Democratic SUPER MAJORITY come November 2014. Send the CONS packing to Somalia – thier model country for a place with "small government", few taxes, and where you can open-carry all the guns you want!
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TICKER MORNING EDITION: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Potomac Primaries
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Call it the political Battle of the Potomac: today is primary day in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia - an unaccustomed star turn for a region defined by national politics but rarely courted by presidential hopefuls.
Coming off of his clean sweep of Hillary Clinton in the five Democratic contests this weekend, Barack Obama will be aiming for a political hat trick Tuesday. The area is home to large populations of African-Americans, affluent and well-educated voters – all voting blocs that have turned out at the polls in huge numbers for Obama so far this year. And Virginia allows independents – who have also gone for the Illinois senator by significant margins this cycle – to vote the state's Democrat contest.
In short: today's Potomac Primary seems demographically tailor-made for the Illinois senator.
Yesterday, Clinton downplayed Obama's weekend victories. And in conference calls and campaign memos, her team was still looking past the miserable month of February, which has so far delivered a string of losses, the revelation of short-term fund-raising headaches, and a headline-grabbing leadership shuffle. March 4 seems to feature some friendlier demographic terrain, at least, with a significant union and blue collar voting electorate in Ohio, and a heavy Latino presence in Texas – though the fact that both states allow independents to participate in the Democratic contest makes for a potential wild card.
(Still, the CNN delegate count – at least for the next few hours - gives the edge to Clinton: 1,148 to 1,121 over Obama due to her support from superdelegates).
On the Republican side, John McCain may be, statistically, the likely GOP winner - although he lost two contests this past weekend. The Arizona senator lost to underdog Mike Huckabee Saturday - by double digits in the Kansas caucuses, and in a squeaker in Louisiana. Even his lone victory came with a question mark, since 13 percent of the votes in the Washington state caucuses weren't counted – a decision Huckabee is challenging.
McCain may find some solace in results along the Chesapeake today, but the conservative unrest apparent in the weekend's Republican results would seem to raise major questions about his viability in the general election.
- CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Filed under: Ticker Morning Edition
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Monday, February 11, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Barack Obama won two battles with a Clinton yesterday.
He pulled out a victory over Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses, a result that defied the most recent polling. And he beat out former President Bill Clinton in a slightly less snowy contest: the Grammy Awards.
Obama's win in the spoken word category for the audio book version of his book "The Audacity of Hope" - his second Grammy - ties him with President Clinton, who's also won two. Hillary Clinton has also taken top honors in that category, for "It Takes a Village."
The latest CNN count now finds Clinton holds a narrow 27-delegate lead over Obama, 1,148 to 1,121, ahead of Tuesday's votes in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. - but there are enough delegates at stake in tomorrow's Potomac primary to shift the balance.
(Obama has won 986 delegates in voting so far this year - compared to 924 for Clinton - but she maintains a lead thanks to greater support among "superdelegates," an elite group of almost 800 Democratic Party officials and leaders who also will cast votes at the nomination convention this summer. CNN Political Research Director Robert Yoon and CNN Polling Director Keating Holland will lay out the latest in the hunt for delegates in a new story later today at http://www.CNNPolitics.com)
Meanwhile, Republican Mike Huckabee's campaign - fresh off of two stunning weekend wins - is "exploring all available legal options regarding the dubious final results" in the one state the former Arkansas governor didn't come out on top, Washington State. (Hours earlier, Huckabee had complained to reporters that the vote in Louisiana was "a weird deal" and "kind of cooked" in favor of John McCain. He ended up taking the top prize in that state's GOP primary, 43 to 42 percent over likely Republican nominee McCain - though that won't mean he gets the delegates at stake, because he failed to meet the 50 percent threshold required under state party rules.)
Weekend results aside, the GOP nomination may be just about out of statistical reach for the former governor - but reports of his campaign's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
- CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Friday, February 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Yesterday, the first day of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, was about the movement's present and future. Today, it's all about the past, as President Bush makes his first – and final – visit to the conference as commander-in-chief.
President Bush was absent from last year's CPAC gathering in more ways than one. Not only did the president himself not make an appearance – his would-be successors barely mentioned his name. (For the record: a year ago, the five major GOP presidential candidates mentioned the current White House occupant roughly half a dozen times between them, mostly in passing. Ronald Reagan's name came up more than four times as often.)
The president's speech early this morning is a valedictory – the conservative version of his final State of the Union address. It's his account for the history books, with a focus on how he has been the movement's standard-bearer on tax cuts, stem cells and national security – and a familiar, defiant apologia of his administration's Iraq war policy: "We refused to yield when the going got tough. And when the history of our actions is written, it will show that we were right."
As for the race to succeed him: Mitt Romney is out – but the candidate who may gain the most from his exit isn't Mike Huckabee (the beneficiary of a sudden endorsement from a James Dobson) or even John McCain (whose path to the Republican nomination now seems secure). That distinction actually goes to Barack Obama, who no longer has to compete with McCain for independents in suddenly-competitive primary states like Virginia, Texas and Ohio, where independent voters are eligible to vote in upcoming Democratic contests.
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Thursday, February 7, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Looking back, last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll provided a pretty good preview of the Republican race so far. The contest is a reliably headline-grabbing test of the conservative base’s preferred candidates -– and with hundreds of activists gathered in Washington for the final CPAC vote before the primary season, Mitt Romney’s team poured thousands of dollars into the event. Scores of Romney volunteers sporting identical campaign T-shirts, bused in at the campaign’s expense, stumped hard in the halls of the Omni Shoreham.
In the end, his campaign bankrolled one of the most ambitious and well-funded grassroots efforts in CPAC straw poll history -– only to come away with just 21 percent of the vote, and a costly, underwhelming victory over runner-up Rudy Giuliani, who essentially spent nothing at all. (When both first- and second-place votes were weighed, Romney did even worse - coming in third behind both Giuliani and Newt Gingrich.)
Mike Huckabee was a sentimental hit at the 2007 conference, drawing an enthusiastic reception from the conservative crowd –- then, as now, battling the idea that his relatively low-profile, cash-poor campaign was doomed from the start. ("My dear friends,” he said, “may I say to you that if celebrity and money are the criteria to be President of the United States, then Paris Hilton might be our next president.")
Finally, John McCain, who tended to avoid the annual gathering, was in the midst of a campaign to thaw his frosty relationship with many of the conservative power brokers in attendance. Last year, he weighed a last-minute CPAC appearance - before a rumored logistical showdown with organizers short-circuited the plan.
Today –- fresh off his strong Super Tuesday showing - McCain’s speaking on the first day of this year’s CPAC, just a few hours after Romney. Huckabee and Ron Paul will also address the conference - along with the man they’re trying to replace, President Bush.
Hillary Clinton’s team might have raised eyebrows yesterday as they tried to tag Barack Obama as the new “establishment candidate” – but as news of her campaign’s shrinking war chest continues to mount, it may be growing just a bit easier to imagine her in the role of Democratic underdog. Today, she stumps in newly-competitive Virginia, where Obama has dispatched his South Carolina turnout squad in advance of next Tuesday’s vote. Meanwhile, Obama continues to mine for delegates in red state territory with a stop in Nebraska, where Democrats weigh in this weekend.
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Wednesday, February 5, 2008
The race goes on...
NEW YORK (CNN) - Months ago, “Super Tuesday” was supposed to be the finish line in the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. With the dust still settling, it looks more like the halfway point for Democrats – and the Republican contest may not have entered the home stretch either.
Most of the candidates have reason to wake up with smiles on their faces this morning. John McCain, who won California and New York, cemented his status as the GOP frontrunner; Mike Huckabee swept four Southern states on a shoestring budget; Hillary Clinton strung together wins from the Northeast to the South and capped it off with a win in California; Barack Obama walked away with more than a dozen wins. Only Mitt Romney found little consolation in last night’s results.
For full coverage of the biggest primary night in U.S. history, check out the CNN Political Ticker and CNNPolitics.com.
Here’s a few highlights from the night that was:
How Clinton and McCain won California
Obama runs strong in caucus states
Democrats shatter turnout records
Huckabee: Don’t count me out
Bill Schneider: How trends played out nationally
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
NEW YORK (CNN) - Super Tuesday’s here, and with it the mandatory – and competing - lowball predictions from the deadlocked Democratic field.
First came the memo from Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe, which highlighted the senator’s worst recent poll showing in every Super Tuesday state, and made conservative delegate projections that seemed to bear little relation to the last-minute poll numbers pouring in from February 5 states.
But that bid to lower expectations was dwarfed by the afternoon conference call with Hillary Clinton campaign advisers Howard Wolfson and Mark Penn, who tried to dismiss today’s results altogether - along with those of the contests to follow in March and April – hours before polls opened, pointing instead to relative readiness for convention fights.
Over to a race with a clear frontrunner: John McCain faced a negative radio spot from Republican rival Mitt Romney yesterday – and launched a last-minute TV attack ad in return.
Romney’s spot aired during Rush Limbaugh’s show, in a bid to reach listeners as disaffected with the Arizona senator as the talk show host himself. Limbaugh faced a hard sell of his own yesterday, in the form of a personal letter testifying to McCain’s conservative bona fides, from none other than former GOP presidential candidate Robert Dole.
At the start of the race, the Super Tuesday contests figured to be the likely finish line. Now, February 5 feels more like the half-way mark – and today a grueling marathon. West Virginia’s GOP convention will wrap up sometime this afternoon, but official results won’t start pouring in until American Samoa’s Democratic caucuses end at 6:30 p.m. ET, and keep coming until California’s polls close at 11 p.m. ET (although the outcome in that race may not be known until well after midnight).
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Monday, February 4, 2008
NEW YORK (CNN) - The weather, oddly enough, may be the most dependable element of the primary day equation heading into Super Tuesday: so far this year, mostly-localized, turnout-dampening storms have reliably hit on Election Day – and tomorrow is looking likely to fit that pattern, with miserable winter weather predicted to reach areas of some primary states from Illinois to Alabama. Another predictable primary eve arrival: the barrage of negative campaign e-mails flooding our inboxes - this time from Barack Obama's team, slamming Hillary Clinton on everything from health care mandates to the Iraq war.
(Some other pre-vote developments were a bit more unexpected. In a stunning display of confidence, or hubris - we’ll tell you which on February 6 - the Obama campaign unloaded a chunk of its $32 million January haul on a Super Bowl ad buys last night, airing local spots in states voting February 5-12.)
Weather aside, there's just one remotely safe guess as the week begins: short of an unprecedented last-minute shift - and this year, we’re not ruling anything out - neither of the Democratic candidates is likely to emerge from tomorrow's vote with the ability to claim a decisive advantage.
Granted, some of the polls in our rearview mirrors today may not be quite as close as they appear. The narrowing margin between the two Democratic frontrunners in most California surveys would mean a lot more if Clinton didn’t have a double-digit lead among votes cast via early balloting – meaning Obama would have to boast a record-breaking turnout operation just to keep that race close.
Of course, this year it’s not about states - it’s about reaching the nomination, one district and delegate at a time. Today, Hillary Clinton is looking to nail down her advantage in the Northeast, with stops in Connecticut, Massachusetts and a national town hall hosted live from New York City. Obama is spending the day taking her on on her home turf, with stops of his own in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and a Meadowlands rally in the shadow of the Big Apple.
On the Republican side, Mitt Romney isn’t ready to concede John McCain’s inevitability just yet. The former Massachusetts governor’s recent ad buys may be in the low range (for him). And for the third week in a row, he hasn’t pulled the trigger on any hard-hitting contrast spots. But post-Florida, Romney has picked up a few high-profile base-pleasing nods as the anybody-but-McCain forces coalesce around him, with Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Rick Santorum rallying to his side. Some recent California polls show the GOP race there tightening to a virtual dead heat. And the Maine caucuses may not make for much momentum, but it looks like Romney will pull in another 18 delegates in that state – meaning he and McCain are still, technically, just about neck-and-neck in the all-important delegate count ahead of Tuesday’s contests.
Schneider: The bottom line
The audience response at last night’s debate was the same as that of Democrats across the country: they’re happy with their choice this year, but they don’t want to have to make it.
I thought overall Barack Obama’s position was still that of the challenger, and Hillary Clinton was effectively the incumbent. He needed to peel votes away from her - and he did make some progress on the Iraq issue. But how many Democrats are still so concerned about the war than about anything else?
Six months ago, being right on Iraq would have been enough. Now? I’m not so sure. It took a while for the issue to take center stage last night, and that’s no accident: other concerns have come to the forefront.
The debate doesn’t kill momentum for either one. But does it help build any? Obama’s strong showing could very well help him. But how much - enough to overtake Clinton? I just didn’t see that.
To the extent that the debate was a draw, it helps Clinton.
Why? Because holding his own wasn’t enough. Obama’s task was to make the case that there were huge differences between them. Just holding his own and looking presidential was not enough: He had to convince Democrats who like Clinton that there’s a reason she shouldn’t be the party’s nominee.
In all, it was an unhelpful debate. They minimized their differences. Last night’s showdown will rally Democrats, no question – but won’t help them make a decision. The biggest applause line of the evening came for the idea of the two of them together on the same ticket.
- CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Thursday, January 31, 2008
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) - Mike Huckabee, I think, stood out in this debate as the one who made sense, talked as ordinary people do, and rose above politics. They may have scored. He connected.
And that’s a problem for Romney, who would like to become the alternative to John McCain among conservatives who oppose the Arizona senator. But he has very tough competition from Huckabee, who’s forcing people to re-think his run at a time when he was supposed to be out of the game.
But this has always been the way he’s worked: Romney uses money to stay competitive. Huckabee has debates.
I don’t think McCain made many gains – and I think he may have caused people to re-think the race. I don’t think this was his strongest night, not because he was under attack, but because he wasn’t a straight talker. He sounded very much like a typical politician. He was aiming a lot of attacks at Romney – some of which, like the charge that he had set a strict timetable for Iraq withdrawal, seemed very questionable.
A couple of Romney’s answers were quite good, particularly when he struck back at McCain over the Iraq timetables issue. I don’t think he did himself any harm. But to the extent that Huckabee may have made any gains from his performance, Romney’s got bigger worries out of tonight than the Arizona senator.
All in all: Huckabee gained ground, McCain probably lost ground, and Romney didn’t help or hurt himself – although he did effectively defend himself. McCain sounded petty – and that’s not the McCain voters know and like.
TICKER MORNING EDITION: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Some observers view the current Democratic contest as a dizzying multi-state brawl.
If only it were that simple.
Take New York City. Recent surveys have shown Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a stiff fight for the Big Apple - whose huge numbers of young people, educated professionals and black voters have formed the Illinois senator’s base in each of the presidential contests to date.
If we are to believe the New York polls, if Obama simply holds on to his current standings - and fails to gain a single vote in the week ahead - he’d still capture, at a bare minimum, at least a third of the state’s pledged delegates. Not a bad haul in a state that’s supposed to serve as a Clinton firewall.
(Another Clinton bloc being eyed by the Obama team this week: Hispanic voters. Yesterday, his campaign released a brand new Spanish-language spot that featured Ted Kennedy’s image, and a new appeal based on a shared outsider status. "We know what it feels like being used as a scapegoat just because of our origin and last name,” says the announcer in the radio ad, which will run in California and Arizona. “And no one understands this better than Barack Obama.")
So in a presidential contest that’s rapidly turning into a district-by-district delegate hunt, Clinton’s Florida win - which resulted in zero delegates – might not be quite the springboard to Super Tuesday she’d hoped. (One more slightly uncomfortable thought for the Clinton team to ponder: if the Florida fight hadn’t been the Democratic story of the evening, the Obama campaign’s late-night revelation that it had decided to jettison tends of thousands in additional Rezko cash might have gotten just a bit more play.)
A dwindling Republican field meets tonight in what could potentially turn into a John McCain-Mike Huckabee tag team bout with Florida runner-up Mitt Romney.
The McCain campaign pulled its tough anti-Romney social issues robo-call late yesterday – but the former governor’s concession speech last night managed to work in just enough veiled anti-McCain references to keep the duo’s relations somewhere on the emotional spectrum between strong dislike and pure distilled hatred.
Fresh off his Florida win, McCain is now surveying a fresh Super Tuesday landscape, with Rudy Giuliani – whose concession last night, possibly his last of the race, was interrupted mid-speech by Romney’s - as a motivated new campaign surrogate.
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PlanGreen Principal, Mary Vogel, has over 20 years experience in bringing sustainability concepts into urban planning and design.
Mary works with the Portland Downtown Neighborhood Association, Oregon Walks and Bike LoudPdx to help make Portland’s downtown more resilient, climate smart and livable. Mary helped found a regional chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism in the Pacific Northwest (OR, WA & BC). At the national level, she has been involved in CNU’s Light Imprint New Urbanism Initiative and its Transportation Task Force helping to develop a context sensitive manual for transportation engineers in partnership with the Institute for Transportation Engineers. As a member of the Correspondence Committee for LEED ND (Neighborhood Development), Mary helped to develop that rating system.
PlanGreen’s recent successes include:
Mary Vogel, Founder, PlanGreen
Helping Clark County, WA to take a comprehensive sustainable development approach in its Hwy 99 Sub-Area Plan
Helping Stormwater Partners and Montgomery County, MD’s Council to craft the first code in the nation to combine a “Complete and Green Streets” approach to future roads and major reconstruction
Initiating and stewarding passage of the the DC Green Building Act of 2006 that helped Washington, DC become the first major city to mandate green building for the private sector
Developing high performance infrastructure guidance for the New Urbanist Smart Code
Portland Downtown Neighborhood Association – Land Use & Transportation Committee
Mary has also been active in Native Plant Societies and Mycological Societies on both the East and West Coasts and has an in-depth knowledge of native plants and their habitats. In addition, she leads field trips to educate participants about the services provided by nature for free.
When appropriate she teams with other firms and organizations to meet the needs of her customers.
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Currently (June 2017) working with City Club of Portland and Open: Housing on systemic path to housing affordability
Write insightful articles, testimonies and opeds on systemic changes re: housing affordability and share them with policymakers
Work to claim a place for the African American community in Portland through developing relationships with Black developers and entrepreneurs forming The SOUL District
Administer Portland Urban Planning and Architecture Book Club via two Meetup sites and Facebook page. Requires a good deal of outreach to professional and advocacy groups.
Co-administer Portland, OR Small Developers Alliance Facebook page–stimulating discussion via posting news articles related to small developers
Helping to found Missing Middle Real Estate Fund – helped recruit others to Board of Advisors; acted as consultant to the founder
Follow public policy related to pedestrians, write testimony and sit on advisory committees on behalf of Oregon Walks
Search out local investment opportunities that most closely fit my beliefs about sustainability/resiliency
Mary lives in downtown Portland where she walks or bikes nearly everywhere she goes. On weekends she carpools to the mountains to hike or cross-country ski.
In working with Mary as an intern during a very difficult period for planning consulting firms, I witnessed her enduring commitment to a sustainable future. Her strategy was to work for the people and the issues that would lead to the policies that would put her skills—and those of her colleagues—in demand for many years ahead. I learned a great deal about how to shape good public policy—and to take a stand for the world I want to live in in the future.
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Common Ground: Malaysia’s Premier Co-working Space Opens Their First Branch in the PH
Setting its first branch at the penthouse of Arthaland in Bonifacio Global City, Common Ground, the premier Malaysian co-working space imposes the idea of flexibility, productivity, and opportunities for a wider network collaboration in a workplace setting—best for small scale businesses, freelancers, and among others.
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Common Ground team PH
The first impression of anyone visiting the Common Ground is its aesthetically-pleasing vibe and structure. Not to mention that Common Ground is known as one of the most Instagrammable co-working spot and Malaysia’s largest co-working space.
Common Ground is equipped with a cafe area, high headroom lounges, pantries, business class printers, cozy offices, and more! It is also strategically located for easy access to different establishments around BGC.
Ground is used for Yoga sessions, CEO talks, events and more
Common Ground’s Philippine branch covers the 2,300-sqm penthouse of the recently launched Arthaland Tower in BGC.
Its space would be ideal for various businesses, SMEs, entrepreneurs, start-up companies, and such to verge with one another, while establishing connections.
Common Ground second Lounge
“At Common Ground, co-working means more than a desk and internet connection in a communal work space but building an engaged community and vibrant ecosystem to help ambitious, fast-growing companies take business to the next level,” expressed Ana Lucia Aguila, Common Ground Community Manager, in a press release.
Every office space in Common Ground has a fantastic view of the high-rising land scrapers in BGC, providing an adequate and balanced set of work desks and work areas.
Common Ground office spaces
One of the exciting perks mentioned in the launch was the Common Ground membership, which enables members to gain the same access with the different branches in other locations, such as the one situated in Kuala Lumpur.
If a member has an appointment in other branches, they could use their phone for hassle-free access to book rooms, top-speed WiFi, weekly events, and lifestyle perks, such as discounts to gym membership and so on.
Common Ground office areas and hall way
The first flagship co-working space of Common Ground was built at Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2017. Up-to-date, Common Ground has a record of 2,000 members around the globe.
According to Common Ground, customers can ask their designers and architects for additional layout ticks or designs to their offices. This includes furnishing, brand identity, and business specifications. They also have a well-experienced staff to secure that all office operations will run at their best status.
Currently, Common Ground is planning to expand their offices in Makati and Ortigas, which are set to launch within the following the years.
Also read: LIST: Flexible Workspaces in Manila You Need to Know About
For more information, you may contact Common Ground through their official Facebook page. Or you may also direct your inquiries via their website at https://ph.commonground.work/. Also, you can email them at alexa.calingo@commonground.work.
This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.
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Google to shut down Google
This bug allowed apps that had access to Profile fields that were shared with the user but not marked as public. No developer exploited the vulnerability or misused data, the company's review found.
Google says it found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and it found no evidence that any Profile data was misused.
Although the bug was discovered many months ago, Google didn't disclose it right away.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news of the software bug, reporting that Google chose to not disclose the problem "because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage".
Google's attempt at a social network was never particularly popular - and became even less so when it admitted that 500,000 users may have had their data exposed.
Google+ API's log data is only for kept two weeks, so it can not confirm which users were impacted by this bug.
Parent company Alphabet Inc responded by announcing it would shut down Google+, a largely defunct social network launched in 2011 to compete with Facebook.
"We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API's log data for only two weeks", according to Smith.
The security flaw existed for three years. Users have to provide "explicit permission" in order for them to gain access to it.
Google reveals on a support page that the Google+ app can't be deleted on some Android devices, but they can be disabled on all Android devices.
"Going forward, consumers will get more fine-grained control over what account data they choose to share with each app", Google said.
Such apps include email clients, backup and productivity services, Smith said. To make sure something like this Google+ leak doesn't happen again, this new initiative is set out to protect user's privacy and limit the amount of data developers have access to across the web and Android.
The closure isn't because people are happier using Facebook and Twitter instead of Google's service.
Google will continue to operate Google+ as an enterprise product for companies.
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Latin Texts & Translations
Cicero, pro S. Roscio Amerino (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [Cic. S. Rosc.].
<<Cic. S. Rosc. 28 Cic. S. Rosc. 35 (Latin) >>Cic. S. Rosc. 45
We lately had a most audacious man in this city, Caius Fimbria, a man, as is well known among all except among those who are mad themselves, utterly insane. He, when at the funeral of Caius Marius, had contrived that Quintus Scaevola, the most venerable and accomplished man in our city, should be wounded;—(a man in whose praise there is neither room to say much here, nor indeed is it possible to say more than the Roman people preserves in its recollection)—he, I say, brought an accusation against Scaevola, when he found that he might possibly live. When the question was asked him, what he was going to accuse that man of, whom no one could praise in a manner sufficiently suitable to his worth, they say that the man, like a madman as he was, answered, for not having received the whole weapon in his body. A more lamentable thing was never seen by the Roman people, unless it were the death of that same man, which was so important that it crushed and broke the hearts of all his fellow-citizens; for endeavouring to save whom by an arrangement, he was destroyed by them. [Note]
34 Is not this case very like that speech and action of Fimbria? You are accusing Sextus Roscius. Why so? Because he escaped out of your hands; because he did not allow himself to be murdered. The one action, because it was done against Scaevola, appears scandalous; this one, because it is done by Chrysogonus, is intolerable. For, in the name of the immortal gods, what is there in this cause that requires a defence? What topic is there requiring the ability of an advocate, or even very much needing eloquence of speech? Let us, O judges, unfold the whole case, and when it is set before our eyes, let us consider it; by this means you will easily understand on what the whole case turns, and on what matters I ought to dwell, and what decision you ought to come to.
ch. 13
There are three things, as I think, which are at the present time hindrances to Sextus Roscius:—the charge brought by his adversaries, their audacity, and their power. Erucius has taken on himself the pressing of this false charge as accuser; the Roscii have claimed for themselves that part which is to be executed by audacity; but Chrysogonus, as being the person of the greatest influence, employs his influence in the contest. On all these points I am aware that I must speak.
36 What then am I to say? I must not speak in the same manner on them all; because the first topic indeed belongs to my duty, but the two others the Roman people have imposed on you. I must efface the accusations; you ought both to resist the audacity, and at the earliest possible opportunity to extinguish and put down the pernicious and intolerable influence of men of that sort.
37 Sextus Roscius is accused of having murdered his father. O ye immortal gods! a wicked and nefarious action, in which one crime every sort of wickedness appears to be contained. In truth, if, as is well said by wise men, affection is often injured by a look, what sufficiently severe punishment can be devised against him who has inflicted death on his parent, for whom all divine and human laws bound him to be willing to die himself, if occasion required?
38 In the case of so enormous, so atrocious, so singular a crime, as this one which has been committed so rarely, that, if it is ever heard of, it is accounted like a portent and prodigy—what arguments do you think, O Caius Erucius, you as the accuser ought to use? Ought you not to prove the singular audacity of him who is accused of it? and his savage manners, and brutal nature, and his life devoted to every sort of vice and crime, his whole character, in short, given up to profligacy and abandoned? None of which things have you alleged against Sextus Roscius, not even for the sake of making the imputation.
Sextus Roscius has murdered his father. What sort of man is he? is he a young man, corrupted, and led on by worthless men? He is more than forty years old. Is he forsooth an old assassin, a bold man, and one well practised in murder? You have not heard this so much as mentioned by the accuser. To be sure; then, luxury, and the magnitude of his debts, and the ungovernable desires of his disposition, have urged the man to this wickedness? Erucius acquitted him of luxury, when he said that he was scarcely ever present at any banquet. But he never owed anything Further what evil desires could exist in that man who as his accuser himself objected to him has always lived in the country and spent his time in cultivating his land, a mode of life which is utterly removed from covetousness, and inseparably allied to virtue?
40 What was it then which inspired Sextus Roscius with such madness as that? Oh, says he, he did not please his father. He did not please his father? For what reason? for it must have been both a just and an important and a notorious reason. For as this is incredible, that death should be inflicted on a father by a son, without many and most weighty reasons; so this, too, is not probable, that a son should be hated by his father, without many and important and necessary causes.
41 Let us return again to the same point, and ask what vices existed in this his only son of such importance as to make him incur the displeasure of his father. But it is notorious he had no vices. His father then was mad to bate him whom he had begotten, without any cause. But he was the most reasonable and sensible of men. This, then, is evident, that, if the father was not crazy, nor his son profligate, the father had no cause for displeasure, nor the son for crime.
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Home The American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History and Arts Register Tonnage and its Measurement, Page 234
Volume V. No. 3 July 1945
Register Tonnage and its Measurement, Page 234
234 REGISTER TONNAGE AND MEASUREMENT
sidered before leaving the subject. In 1879 the London & Northwestern
Ry. Co., owners of the steamer Isabella, obtained a court decision ruling
that although the engine-room skylight space above the upper deck was
not included in the gross tonnage, it should be counted as part of the engine-
room in determining the space eligible for deduction. This verdict
resulted in an amendment to the Merchant Shipping Act in 1889 prohibiting
deduction from the gross tonnage of any space not included in
finding the gross tonnage, but allowing any part of the skylight space
above the engine-room to be included in the gross as part of the machinery
space at the owner's option.25 In practice, most medium-powered steamers
measured under the Board of Trade Rule are designed to have an engineroom
just over 13 per cent of the gross, in order to qualify for the full 32
per cent deduction, and it is often convenient to include all or part of the
engine-room skylight in the gross to bring the total engine-room space
over 13 per cent.
The only deduction from gross tonnage to obtain the net register provided
in the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 was the engine-room. Therefore
for some years the gross and net tonnages of a British sailing ship
were identical. Exemptions26 from gross tonnage were allowed for abovedeck
accommodation of the crew up to one-twentieth of the remaining
tonnage, and for any shelter for deck passengers that was approved by the
Board of Trade. In 1867 a new Merchant Shipping Act deducted from gross
tonnage all spaces occupied by the crew, wherever located. The decision
in the Isabella case in 1879 required the Board of Trade both to exempt
the crew space up to one-twenty-first of the total, and to deduct the total
crew space from the remaining gross. In 1889 Parliament repealed the
crew space clause of the 1854 act. The effect of the 1867 law was to bring
the crew's quarters below decks, particularly in vessels habitually carrying
heavy cargoes, such as copper ore and coal, freeing the shipowner
from charges he would otherwise have to pay on space needed for buoyancy.
Other spaces not available for cargo and passengers have been added
from time to time to the list of deductions, such as master's accommodations,
chart house, water ballast not in double bottoms, sail locker, radio
shack, etc. Exemptions have also multiplied: double bottoms not used for
fuel or cargo, hatches up to one-half per cent of the gross tonnage, and
various other enclosures above the upper deck.27
25 Johnson, p. 134.
26 There is an analogy in many respects between deductions and exemptions from gross tonnage.
and deductions and exemptions from gross income under United States income-tax laws.
27 Blocksidge, pp. 29-47; Johnson, p. 172.
Title Volume V. No. 3 July 1945
Description Articles include: 'The Fleet' by Sidney G. Morse; Voyage of the Brig Nabob from Boston to Batavia, Java, in 1833 From a letter by Captain George W. Putnam, of Salem, to his sisters Edited by Ralph Newell Thompson; The Dismal Swamp Canal by Alexander Crosby Brown; Register Tonnage and its Measurement by John Lyman; and Mutton Spankers and Ringtail Topsails by Captain P. A. McDonald. Documents, News, and Book Reviews are also included.
Date 1945, July
Subjects Amphibious warfare; Brigantines; Brown, Alexander Crosby, 1905-; Canals; Dismal Swamp Canal (N.C. and Va.)—History; Dugout canoes; Lake Drummond (Va.); Letter writing; Letters; Lyman, John, Dr., 1915-1977; Marine canvas work; Masts and rigging; McDonald, P. A., Captain; Morse, Sidney G. (Sidney Gilbert), 1903-1982 ; Naval architecture; Naval history; Privateering; Putnam, George W.; Sailing ships; Seafaring life; Ships – Measurement; Thompson, Ralph Newell; Tilden, Bryant P. (Bryant Parrot), 1781-1851; Tonnage – Measurement – Law and legislation; United States. Continental Navy; United States. Navy – History; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations; Voyages and travels; Washington, George, 1732-1799
Title Register Tonnage and its Measurement, Page 234
Author John Lyman
Description 234 REGISTER TONNAGE AND MEASUREMENT sidered before leaving the subject. In 1879 the London & Northwestern Ry. Co., owners of the steamer Isabella, obtained a court decision ruling that although the engine-room skylight space above the upper deck was not included in the gross tonnage, it should be counted as part of the engine- room in determining the space eligible for deduction. This verdict resulted in an amendment to the Merchant Shipping Act in 1889 prohibiting deduction from the gross tonnage of any space not included in finding the gross tonnage, but allowing any part of the skylight space above the engine-room to be included in the gross as part of the machinery space at the owner's option.25 In practice, most medium-powered steamers measured under the Board of Trade Rule are designed to have an engineroom just over 13 per cent of the gross, in order to qualify for the full 32 per cent deduction, and it is often convenient to include all or part of the engine-room skylight in the gross to bring the total engine-room space over 13 per cent. The only deduction from gross tonnage to obtain the net register provided in the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 was the engine-room. Therefore for some years the gross and net tonnages of a British sailing ship were identical. Exemptions26 from gross tonnage were allowed for abovedeck accommodation of the crew up to one-twentieth of the remaining tonnage, and for any shelter for deck passengers that was approved by the Board of Trade. In 1867 a new Merchant Shipping Act deducted from gross tonnage all spaces occupied by the crew, wherever located. The decision in the Isabella case in 1879 required the Board of Trade both to exempt the crew space up to one-twenty-first of the total, and to deduct the total crew space from the remaining gross. In 1889 Parliament repealed the crew space clause of the 1854 act. The effect of the 1867 law was to bring the crew's quarters below decks, particularly in vessels habitually carrying heavy cargoes, such as copper ore and coal, freeing the shipowner from charges he would otherwise have to pay on space needed for buoyancy. Other spaces not available for cargo and passengers have been added from time to time to the list of deductions, such as master's accommodations, chart house, water ballast not in double bottoms, sail locker, radio shack, etc. Exemptions have also multiplied: double bottoms not used for fuel or cargo, hatches up to one-half per cent of the gross tonnage, and various other enclosures above the upper deck.27 25 Johnson, p. 134. 26 There is an analogy in many respects between deductions and exemptions from gross tonnage. and deductions and exemptions from gross income under United States income-tax laws. 27 Blocksidge, pp. 29-47; Johnson, p. 172. (To be continued)
Front Matter Pg 173
The Fleet Pg 177
Voyage of Brig Nabob Pg 194
Dismal Swamp Canal Pg 203
Dismal Swamp Canal P 13
Register Tonnage Pg 223
Mutton Spankers Pg 235
Notes Pg 240
Documents Pg 243
Queries and Answers Pg 245
News Pg 247
Book Reviews Pg 248
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Since 1999, Rabbi Shawn Zevit has offered Spiritual Direction/Hashpa’ah for individuals, groups, communities and organizations in private practice, as an organizational consultant for spirituality in the workplace, and through numerous clergy training programs:
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction is a process for exploring our connection with what we experience as God, Spirit, Truth, Ultimate Values, however we express and understand the sacred in our lives.
Unlike Psychotherapy, which may focus on a problem needing a solution, Spiritual Direction attends to the experiences of connection to or distance from God/Holiness/Truth/Core Values during times we feel whole as well as times we feel shattered.
The Practice of Holy Listening is the process, used by spiritual directors to attend to the experiences shared by those who come for Spiritual Direction. Holy listening brings the sensibilities of prayer and meditation to the act of listening. While hearing the concerns of their directees, spiritual directors, facilitate spiritual development, as they take note of the way in which what is expressed reveals alignment or distance from the sacred and balanced life as each person, community or organization experiences this Force or Energy in the world.
Spiritual Direction Sessions may take place one-to-one, in a group relationship, faith community or organization as a whole. In one-to-one Spiritual Direction, a trained spiritual director, meets with a directee or group to explore life issues through a lens that seeks to reveal the unfolding presence of Holiness in the life of the Directee. The subject matter discussed may be the simple activities of every day or a significant or challenging event in the life of the directee. Through these explorations, those engaged in Spiritual Direction, try to discern the presence of the Sacred, in their everyday lives, work, celebrations, and struggles. Rabbi Zevit also integrates this work in areas of mission, planning, creative visioning and even financial organization of congregations, organizations and a variety of workplace settings.
A Typical Spiritual Direction Session is likely to begin with a shared meditation or with a prayer. From that contemplative space, the directee and the spiritual director reflect on issues of concern to the directee in an effort to invoke or reveal the presence of the Sacred in the current journey. For example, an individual may seek spiritual direction following a loss, which has caused him or her to question God’s role or a sense of ultimate purpose and meaning in the situation, as well as the nature of and the existence of God. The director will enable the directee to articulate, his or her questions and find a healing path through them that represents the directee’s unique experience. In addition, the director may share wisdom of a tradition, spiritual practices, or personal or traditional stories with the directee, bringing them to bear on the situation under discussion. Together they may study a relevant text or reflect on the Directee’s expressions through prayer, journal keeping, art, dance, or dreamwork. The session often ends with a blessing formulated in response to the sessions’ content, recognizing and deepening the sacred dimension of individual or communal life.
See: ALEPH Hashpa’ah/Jewish Spiritual Director’s Training Program.
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42 days: government loses the argument
Hurrah for the House of Lords who threw out 42 days last night. Resoundingly, and thumpingly, in one of the biggest votes against the government ever. Normally this would be big news, especially after all the political capital invested in it by Gordon Brown but Bankmageddon drew the fire.
UPDATE: Great piece from Shami who has done more than perhaps anyone else to nail this.
I was up in Leeds with Kate Allen and the campaign team from Amnesty when I heard, at the launch of their new film. On the train back, Davide from Blairwatch filled me in on Jacqui Smith's live reaction, holding the phone close to the TV so I could hear her.
It sounded like a lot of petulant squawking to me. We toasted the 42 days demise with relief.
On closer examination, the Home Secretary's speech was even more awful than it sounded.
It is ludicrous to say that people like Eliza Manningham Buller, recently-retired head of M15, the director of public prosecutions Ken McDonald and the former Labour attourney general Lord Goldsmith are people who are 'prepared to ignore the terrorist threat'. In fact it was their extremely detailed knowledge of the terrorist threat that led them to point out that the bill was dangerous and counter-productive.
And to prove that this is all about using fear to play politics, now there's a one-pager to be whipped out if there's another terrorist attack, described by the shadow home secretary as 'one of the most bizarre things I have ever read'.
42 days won't go through when people are calm and rational and have time to think about it, so we'll stuff it away for now only to shove it through when everyone's in a highly emotional state instead. Classy.
Guardian's timeline of 42 days detention and editorial
BBC 'have your say' reaction (most recommended)
BBC - Campaigners hail 42 days defeat
Spectator - 'a good day to bury bad legislation'
Chicken Yogurt '42 days: Stick a fork in it'
However, 42 days is not the only dodgy and disturbing part of the counter terrorism bill.
See Marcel Berlins on secret inquests.
When I enquired about this, I was told by an insider that the motivation for this part of the bill is so that wiretap evidence or evidence which could not be used in public court because it would endanger, or identify, say, a security services officer working undercover could be shown to the family of the deceased, privately.
I can see the point of this, but unfortunately good intentions are no excuse for bad law. The Lords will debate the rest of the bill on 15th and 21st October.
I was against 28 days, by the way. Hopefully we can get some traction to repeal that next.
Labels: 42 days, 42 days civil liberties, good news, good riddance to bad rubbish
Richard said...
Great work - and thanks also for the link!
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WMLO's Co-Workers
WMLO-FM 106.3 Sarasota – Three-thousand watt WSPB-FM, owned by Robert Weeks Broadcasting, became Sarasota’s WMLO (mellow) in 1982. Studios and transmitter/tower were located on City Island in Sarasota Bay. In the beginning, the station aired a lite adult contemporary music format, but switched to oldies in 1984.
Weeks sold the FM (and sister station WSPB-AM) in 1986 to Sarasota Radio Partners (Hank Kestenbaum, managing partner). The new owners put the oldies on the shelf and brought in another adult contemporary format, changed the calls to WSRZ, and eventually bumped the station’s dial position from its 106.3 to 106.5.
Other names in WMLO-FM history include Gary James (continuity director 1982-84), Dick Reynolds (GM-1982), Jay Hamilton (on-air personality-1982), Lynn Propes (office manager), Debbie Levens (traffic), Craig Kuckens (local sales manager 1983-86), Shaun Miesenhiemer (sales), Ron Chapman (sales), Jerry McGoogin (engineering), Jim Genovese (PD), Bob Barnes (mid 80’s), Gary Reeder (PD-1986), Phil Berry (music director-1986), Linda Ward (promotions-1986), and Gil Gross (news director-1986).
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Next: Digital Totalitarianism
The Conspiracy to Abolish Cash
For many years figures on the political fringe, especially on the right, have claimed that the government and its corporate owners want to transform us into a cashless society. Their warnings about the conspiracy against paper money fell on deaf ears, primarily because the digitalization of financial transactions seemed more like the result of organic business trends than the manifestation of some sinister conspiracy.
Now, however, those who want to do away with liquid currency are stepping out of the shadows. They talk about increased efficiency and profit potential, but their real agenda is nothing less than enslavement of the human race.
“Physical currency is a bulky, germ-smeared, carbon-intensive, expensive medium of exchange. Let’s dump it,” argued David Wolman in Wired.
Citing a 2002 study for the Organization for Economic Development that states “money’s destiny is to become digital, ” a Defense Department-affiliated economics professor has authored an Op/Ed for The New York Times that asks: “Why not eliminate the use of physical cash worldwide?” Jonathan Lipow urges President Obama to “push for an international agreement to eliminate the largest-denomination bills” and urges the replacement of bills and coins by “smart cards with biometric security features.”
Lipow’s justification for calling for the most radical change to the fundamental nature of commerce since industrialization is, of all things, fighting terrorism. “In a cashless economy, insurgents’ and terrorists’ electronic payments would generate audit trails that could be screened by data mining software; every payment and transfer would yield a treasure trove of information about their agents, their locations and their intentions,” Lipow writes. “This would pose similar challenges for criminals.”
Terrorism is a mere fig leaf. According to the annual “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report compiled by the U.S. State Department, the highest total death toll attributed to terrorism in the last 20 years occurred in—surprise—2001. Including 9/11, only 3,547 people were killed in 346 acts of violence worldwide. Tragic. Obviously. But, in the overall scheme of things, terrorism is not a big deal.
Measured in terms of loss of life and economic disruption, terrorism is a trivial problem, hardly worth mentioning. According to the UN, 36 million people die annually from hunger and malnutrition. Over half a million die in car wrecks—but you don’t hear people like Lipow demanding that we get rid of cars. A more legitimate concern is the “loss” of taxes upon the underground economy, estimated by the IMF at 15 percent of transactions in developed nations.
What the anti-cash movement really wants is digital totalitarianism: a dystopian nightmare in which the entire human race is enslaved by international corporations and their pet governments. An anti-establishment gadfly like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be instantly deprived of money—and thus freedom of movement—with a couple of keystrokes. (We saw a preview of this when PayPal and Amazon shut down WikiLeaks donation mechanism and web server, respectively.) The high-tech hell depicted by the film “Enemy of the State” would become reality.
It is true that, in a society where every good and service has to be paid for with a debit or credit card, terrorist groups would find it much harder to operate. Don’t forget, however, that today’s terrorists often become tomorrow’s liberators. Anti-British terrorists George Washington and Thomas Jefferson wouldn’t have stood a chance if the Brits had been able to intercept wire transfers from France.
Decashification would establish digital totalitarianism, a form of corporo-government control so rigid, thorough and all-encompassing that by comparison it would make Hitler and Stalin look like easygoing surfer dudes. The abolition of unregulated financial transactions would freeze the political configuration of the world, making it impossible for opposition movements—much less revolutionary ones—to challenge the status quo.
A society without dissent has no hope. Even if we lived in a perfect world where everyone was ruled by wildly popular, benevolent, scrupulously honest regimes—ha!—eliminating the slightest possibility of opposition would lead to barbarism.
We’re already more than halfway to a cashless society. In the U.S. few young adults still use checks. In many countries debit and credit card transactions now exceed those made via cash and checks combined. In 2007 the chairman of Visa Europe predicted the abolition of cash by 2012. Obviously he was wrong. But that’s where we’re headed. The U.K. plans to abolish checking accounts by 2018.
Even if you love your government, don’t want it to change, and think political opponents belong in prison, you ought to worry. As things currently stand, we know the big banks can’t be trusted. Remember when they introduced ATM cards? Banks wanted us to use them so they could lay off tellers. Then they instituted “convenience fees.” Which they have raised, and raised, to the point that taking $20 out of an out-of-town ATM could cost you $5 in fees ($2 for their bank, $3 for yours).
Imagine what your life will look like under digital totalitarianism. Your pay is direct-deposited into your bank account. You’ll pay for small purchases with your cellphone; if you owe a few bucks to a friend you’ll be able to bump your phone against your friend’s to settle up. Nowadays, some corporations allow you to control when your bills get deducted; in the future they’ll demand that you authorize them to do it automatically. What if you have a disputed charge? They’ll already have your dollars, or work credits, or whatever they’ll call them. Good luck trying to get it back from the Indian call-center guy.
As corporate ownership becomes increasingly monopolized and intertwined, your overdue phone bill might be owned by the same outfit as your bank, which would simply take what it says you owe.
The law of unintended consequences is getting a serious workout thanks to digitalization. Motorists in New York were thrilled when the EZPass system allowed them to breeze past lines at toll bridges—at a discount, no less. Then divorce lawyers began subpoenaing EZPass records to prove that a spouse was cheating. Next police set up EZPass scanners on the bridges; if you pass two of them too fast, a speeding ticket is automatically generated. The next step is to eliminate cash lanes entirely; non-EZPass tag holders will soon have their license plates scanned and receive a bill by mail—plus a $2 to $3 “handling” fee.
Think there are too many fees now? If you think you can’t trust banks now, imagine how badly they’ll gouge you when they control every single commercial transaction down to the purchase of a pack of gum. Angry about taxes? When tax agencies can take the money out of your account without asking, they will. Unlike cash, that phone bump to pay your friend will be a trackable, data mineable, fully taxable commercial transaction.
As if the post-2008 economic collapse hadn’t proven that no one is looking out for We the People but ourselves—and then barely so—the digivangelists tell us not to worry, that Big Brother, Inc. will smooth out the rough patches on the road to techno-fascist domination. From Wolman in Wired: “Opponents used to argue that killing cash would hurt low-income workers—for instance, by eliminating cash tips. But a modest increase in the minimum wage would offset that loss; government savings from not printing money could go toward lower taxes for employers.” Sure. The same way banks passed on the savings they earned by replacing tellers with ATMs to their customers.
Americans are skipping into the digital inferno wearing a smile and relishing the smell of their own burning flesh. Countless friends and acquaintances pay all their bills online. “I’m all about using my checking account in place of cash and would love to be able to eliminate cash entirely from my life,” gushed PCWorld’s Tony Bradley recently.
“Give me convenience or give me death” was the title of an album by the punk band Dead Kennedys.
We’ll get both.
(Ted Rall is the author of “The Anti-American Manifesto.” His website is tedrall.com.)
COPYRIGHT 2010 TED RALL
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Delaware General Assembly : Delaware Regulations : Monthly Register of Regulations : August 2015
Division of Transportation Solutions
Statutory Authority: 21 Delaware Code, Section 4504 (21 Del.C. §4504)
2 DE Admin. Code 2405
2405 Oversize/Overweight Hauling Permit Policy and Procedures Manual
The Delaware Division of Transportation Solutions gives notice of intent to change the fees relating to Oversize/Overweight Hauling Permits within Title 2 Division of Transportation Solutions Regulation 2405. Statutory Authority: 21 Del.C. §4504.
This proposal is in conjunction with House Bill 140 of the 148th General Assembly, which increased specific Division of Motor Vehicles fees relating to driving authority and vehicle registrations. The Division of Transportation Solutions has not raised its fees since 1983.
Any person who wishes to make written suggestions, briefs or other written materials concerning this proposed new regulation must submit the same to Kenneth Shock, Chief of Fraud Investigation Unit, Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, P.O. Box 698, Dover, Delaware 19903, or by fax to (302) 736-7993 Attn: Kenneth Shock by September 1, 2015.
The following table is a list of proposed fee changes by section for the use of the public to easily locate the proposed changes:
Sec/Fig
DelDOT Comment/Proposed Change
Changed fee from $10.00 to $30.00
Changed fees from $10.00 to $30.00; $5.00 to $10.00
3.2.1.11.4.2.1
Changed fee from $5.00 to $10.00
Changed fees from $5.00 to $10.00; $10.00 to $20.00; $520 to $1,040.00; $3,020 to $3,540.00
1.0 General Provisions
The intent of the Oversize/Overweight Hauling Permit Program is to promote public safety, minimize impacts to the traveling public, minimize impacts/damage to public facilities, and to assign equitable fees to the movement of oversize/overweight goods. The purpose of this manual is to state the policy and procedures of the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles, regarding the issuance of Hauling Permits, hereinafter called "permit", for oversize and/or overweight vehicles. The guidelines contained in this Manual should provide guidance for the majority of all oversized and overweight vehicle moves. However, the Department reserves the right to modify the requirements on a case-by-case basis based on engineering judgment and public safety requirements.
1.2 Legal Authorization
1.2.1 Chapter 45, Section 4504 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code delegate's authority to the Delaware Department of Transportation to establish such rules and regulations including the setting of fees as may be needed to comply with the laws of the State of Delaware and the laws of the Federal Government.
1.2.2 As authorized in Chapter 45, Section 4504 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code, local authorities may issue a special permit that may have different requirements from those set forth herein. Every such permit shall be laid only upon highways under the jurisdiction of and for which the maintenance thereof is the sole responsibility of the governing body issuing the permit.
1.2.3 In the establishment of this policy, it is not intended, and no section of this policy shall be so interpreted, as to require the violation of any legal statute, State or Federal.
1.2.4 A permit shall be required for movement on the highways of the State of Delaware when any vehicle, vehicle combination, vehicle and load combination, and/or equipment or machinery being moved under its own power exceeds the dimensional and/or weight limits set forth in Chapter 45, Title 21 of the Delaware Code. The limitations are described in Part 2 of this Manual.
1.3 Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this manual, have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
“Axle” means load-bearing wheels in a transverse line across the full width of a vehicle.
“Axle Group” means a group of axles in which every axle is located within 8 feet of another axle.
“Combination” means two or more vehicles physically interconnected in tandem.
“Commercial Vehicle” means a vehicle of a type designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of persons or property for hire, compensation, or profit, except taxicabs.
“Crane” means any self-propelled vehicle to which has been permanently mounted or attached any crane, whether or not such vehicle was originally a truck, tractor, or other type of motor vehicle or was designed and built as a complete crane unit. However, the word "crane," as herein defined, shall not be construed to mean any truck or other vehicle equipped with or to which has been affixed any device used for the purpose of providing a means for towing other vehicles.
“Department” means the Department of Transportation of this State (DelDOT) acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.
“Escort” means a single unit non-permitted vehicle, no smaller than a compact car that is used to accompany a permitted vehicle. An escort vehicle can be a vehicle provided by the permittee, the Delaware State Police, or any other entity defined by the Department.
“Farm Tractor” means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry.
“Gross Weight” means the combined weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles and its load and driver.
“Highway” means the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel, but does not include a road or driveway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities or other institutions.
“Implement of Husbandry” means a vehicle designed or adapted and determined by the Department to be used exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock operations and only incidentally operated or moved upon highways.
“Local Authorities” means every county, municipal, and other local board or body having authority to adopt local police regulations under the Constitution and laws of this State.
“Mobile Home” means a trailer designed and used exclusively for living quarters or commercial purposes that exceeds the maximum size limitations prescribed by the act for operation on a highway and is only incidentally operated on a highway.
“Nondivisible Load” means a load that is incapable of being divided into parts or dismembered without substantially damaging its usefulness or value.
“Oversize” means the length, width, or height of a vehicle or combination of vehicles, including the load or loads carried thereon, excluding mirrors or sunshades, which exceed the applicable maximum length, width, or height specified in Section 2 of this Manual.
“Overweight Vehicle” means any vehicle having a gross weight, including load thereon, in excess of that permitted by law; including, but not limited to, a gross weight in excess of the weight for which a valid registration has been issued.
“Semitrailer” means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle, such that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. Piling and pole trailers are to be considered to fall within the meaning of this definition.
“Ship Permit” means a permit that is issued for oversize and/or overweight vehicles engaged in ship offloading operations conducted at the Port of Wilmington to designated locations on designated state-maintained routes exclusive of Interstate routes within two (2) miles from the property limits of the Port of Wilmington.
“Shoulder” means the portion of the highway, contiguous to the roadway, for accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use and for lateral support of the roadway.
“Single Axle” means an axle located over eight (8) feet from another axle.
“Special Construction Equipment” means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited to: Ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus, road construction or maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, air compressors and drills, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, leveling graders, finishing machines, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving scrapers and carryalls, welders, power shovels and drag lines, self-propelled cranes, earth-moving equipment and construction box storage trailers (except when such trailers are used for transporting merchandise). The term does not apply to dump trucks, truck mounted transit mixers, tow trucks, or shovels or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
“STAA” means the Surface Transportation Assistance Act.
“Structure” means a bridge or culvert including supports, which spans or provides passage over or under a waterway, a railroad or other obstruction, or any other physical device designed to carry traffic control devices, including, but not limited to, overhead signs, light fixtures and traffic signals.
“Sunrise” means the time designated by the National Weather Service at which the sun can first be seen on the horizon.
“Sunset” means the time designated by the National Weather Service at which the sun can last be seen on the horizon.
“Superload” means any vehicle and/or load is considered a SUPERLOAD when any one of the following conditions exist: fifteen (15) feet or more in width; fifteen (15) feet or more in height; one hundred twenty (120) feet or more in length; has a gross weight in excess of 120,000 pounds.
“Supporting Documentation” means documents that are required to be submitted as part of the permit application process.
“Trailer” means a mobile home, park trailer, travel trailer, house trailer, office trailer, camping trailer or any vehicle without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
“Truck Tractor” means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
“Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks except electric trackless trolley coaches, electric personal assistive mobility devices and excepting Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs).
2.0 Legal Vehicle Sizes and Weights
2.1 Length. If the overall length of any vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeds the legal length limits contained herein, a permit shall be required.
2.1.1 Single motor vehicles, including any load thereon, shall not exceed 40 feet in length, except as otherwise provided in this section.
2.1.2 On Interstate and U. S. Routes not otherwise posted:
2.1.2.1 The maximum length of a semitrailer, including any load thereon, exclusive of truck tractor size shall be 53 feet.
2.1.2.2 Buses shall not exceed 45 feet in length.
2.1.2.3 The maximum length of a trailer or semi-trailer in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination, including any load thereon, exclusive of tractor size shall be 29 feet.
2.1.3 On all other highways:
2.1.3.1 Single motor vehicles, including any load thereon, shall not exceed 40 feet in length, and no combination of vehicle, including the load thereon, shall exceed 60 feet in length, except as otherwise provided in this section
2.1.3.1.1 A truck and semitrailer combination engaged in the transportation of motor vehicles shall not exceed a length of 65 feet exclusive of the overhang of the transported vehicle.
2.1.3.1.2 Buses shall not exceed 45 feet in length.
2.1.3.1.3 Piling and pole trailers and vehicles or combinations of vehicles engaged in the transportation of steel beams, pipes, angles, channels and other lengths of steel, or other metals, or other articles impossible of dismemberment, shall not exceed 70 feet. When carrying long logs, poles, piling, and etc. a pole trailer shall be required.
2.1.3.2 The limitations as to the length of load shall not apply in the case of a vehicle or combination of vehicles transporting boats commonly known as crew or rowing shells for use in interscholastic or intercollegiate rowing contests provided that such boats shall not exceed 70 feet in length.
2.1.4 The maximum overhang shall not exceed 6 feet beyond the rear of the vehicle and no load shall be permitted to touch or drag upon the roadway regardless of permissible overhang. No vehicle or combination of vehicles shall carry any load extending more than 3 feet beyond the front thereof.
2.1.5 Pilings and/or poles or mill logs, or nursery stock, or rowing shells, or steel beams, pipes, angles, channels and other length or steel, or other metal, or other articles impossible of dismemberment shall not extend more than 10 feet beyond the rear of the bed or body of such vehicle.
2.2 Width
2.2.1 If the overall width of any vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeds 8 feet - 6 inches measured as defined below, a permit shall be required.
2.2.2 On Interstate and U.S. Routes the outside width of 8 feet - 6 inches is exclusive of safety equipment, which may extend not more than 3 inches more on each side of the vehicle.
2.2.3 On all other highways, no vehicle including any load thereon shall exceed a total outside width of 8 feet - 6 inches inclusive of safety devices.
2.3 Height. On any Interstate, U.S. Route, or highway if the maximum height of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, including load thereon, exceeds 13 feet - 6 inches a permit shall be required.
2.4 Weight. A permit is required if the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) exceeds the limits imposed by statute as shown in Table 2.1. Vehicles that do not exceed GVW but do exceed individual axle weight(s) show in Table 2.1 will require a permit. DelDOT Bridge Management Section and Materials and Research Section will automatically review permits with an individual axle weight at or greater than 25,000 pounds. Analysis may occur at a lower weight on a case-by-case basis. The permittee is responsible to effectively distribute a load or reduce the overall weight below this axle limit, as necessary, to lessen the higher live load forces overstressing state structures.
Table 2.1
Table of Maximum Gross Weights
ALL ROADS EXCEPT THE INTERSTATE
THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM
22,400 lbs. per single axle
40,000 lbs. per tandem axle
2 axle vehicle: 40,000 lbs. maximum
3 axle vehicle: 65,000 lbs. maximum(1)
Bridge Formula applies to all axle configurations
1) A vehicle equipped with 3 axles, having each of the 3 axles equipped with 2 hubs, with a power brake on each hub, shall not exceed a total gross weight of 65,000 lbs.; provided, however, that it shall also be lawful to operate such a vehicle to and from any construction site in this State when the total gross weight does not exceed 70,000 lbs.; and it shall also be lawful to operate such a vehicle containing agricultural products when the gross weight, including vehicle and load does not exceed 70,000 lbs.; provided further that an annual fee of $100 per vehicle be levied for the use of this extra weight capacity.
2) Refer to Part 3. PERMIT DESCRIPTION & PROCEDURES, 3.2 Types of Permits 3.2.1.9 and 3.2.1.10 for overweight hauling permit details.
2.5 Penalties
2.5.1 Based on the Authority provided under Delaware State Code Chapter 45, Section 4508, of Title 21, relating to Penalties, any person who violates any requirements of this section relating to the size or weight of a vehicle or a combination of vehicles or restrictions regarding parking in residence districts shall be punished as follows:
2.5.2 A first offense shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $28.75 nor more than $230.00 or by a term of imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both.
2.5.3 A subsequent like offense shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $115.00 nor more than $575.00 or by a term of imprisonment of not more than 60 days or both.
2.5.4 Any person who violates any requirement of this section, specifically relating to the weight of a vehicle or a combination of vehicles, such that said vehicle shall be classified as an "overweight vehicle," shall in addition to whatever other penalties may be allowed by law be punished as follows:
2.5.4.1 A first offense shall be punishable by a fine for all excess weight exceeding the vehicles registered weight or Federal Bridge Formula, if operating on the interstate, for the first 5,000 pounds in the amount of 2.3 cents per pound and a fine for all excess weight over the first 5,000 pounds in the amount of 5.75 cents per pound or by a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days or both.
2.5.4.2 Each subsequent offense shall be punishable by a fine for all excess weight exceeding the vehicles registered weight or Federal Bridge Formula, if operating on the interstate, for the first 5,000 pounds in the amount of 5.75 cents per pound and a fine for all excess weight over the first 5,000 pounds in the amount of 11.5 cents per pound or by a term of imprisonment not to exceed 60 days or both.
2.5.5 For purposes of this section a first offense shall be defined as one not previously committed by the person charged within the previous 24 months prior to the date of the offense. A subsequent like offense shall be deemed to have occurred if the person charged has previously been convicted or charged and subsequently convicted of the same offense within the previous 24 months prior to the date of this offense.
3.0 Permit Descriptions and Procedures
3.1 Who Must Apply for Permits
3.1.1 A permit is required for movement on the highways of the State of Delaware when any vehicle and/or load exceed the limits described in Part 2.
3.1.2 All motor vehicles, combination of vehicles, self propelled equipment, and machinery shall be licensed prior to an application being made for a permit.
3.1.3 Farm tractors and other implements of husbandry, which are being temporarily operated, moved or transported upon State maintained highways except Interstate and U.S. Routes are not required to obtain a hauling permit. A permit is not required on the Interstate and U.S. Routes when the equipment is being used by farmers engaged in their agricultural related practices. Farm tractors and other implements of husbandry being moved or transported by a manufacturer, dealer, business or commercial transport company would not be considered transported by a farmer engaged in their agricultural related practices, therefore, a hauling permit is required.
3.1.4 A permit is not required for any vehicle, including special construction equipment, crossing or entering upon State maintained highways while engaged in construction or maintenance operations, provided such moves are made within the limits of a Federal, State, County, or Municipal Contract.
3.1.5 A permit is not required for federally defined Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) vehicles on the defined STAA routes. The Federal Register, Volume 55, Number 83, dated Monday, April 30, 1990, page 17952, lists the following roads, as well as the Interstates 95, 495 and 295, as the designated STAA routes in Delaware:
U.S. Route 13, from the Maryland State Line, to the I-495 South Interchange in Wilmington.
U.S. Route 40, from the Maryland State Line, to I-295, U.S. Route 13, in Wilmington.
U.S. Route 113, from the Maryland State Line, to U.S. Route 13, in Dover.
U.S. Route 301, from the Maryland State Line, to U.S. Route 40, in Glasgow.
Separately, Delaware has designated U.S. Route 202, from U.S. Route 13, to the Pennsylvania State Line; and State Route 1, from I-95, to U.S. 113, in Dover as routes open to STAA vehicles.
3.2 Types of Permits
3.2.1 Permits by Load Codes & Associated Fees
3.2.1.1 Load Code 1 Oversize
3.2.1.1.1 A load that is Oversize but less than SUPERLOAD criteria. Exception - Certain types of vehicles may have over legal limit individual axle weight(s) but meet GVW. These vehicles will be Oversize with overweight axle data noted on the hauling permit.
3.2.1.1.2 Type - Single Trip
3.2.1.1.3 Fee - $10.00 $30.00
3.2.1.1.4 Duration - Five (5) days. See 4.2.1 for details.
3.2.1.1.5 Time of Travel - Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset during the permit Effective and Expiration Dates.
3.2.1.2 Load Code 2 Overweight
3.2.1.2.1 A load that is over legal weight: (Legal GVW for 2 axles = 40K lbs.; 3 axles = 65K lbs.; 4 axles = 73280 lbs.; 5 or more axles = 80K lbs) but less than SUPERLOAD criteria. Load may be oversize but under limits of SUPERLOAD
3.2.1.2.3 Fee - $10.00 $30.00 plus weight fee of $5.00 $10.00 for each 8,000 pounds or portion thereof over legal weight
3.2.1.3 Load Code 3 SUPERLOAD
3.2.1.3.1 A SUPERLOAD is defined as any vehicle and/or load that has any one of the following conditions: fifteen (15) feet or more in width; fifteen (15) feet or more in height; one hundred twenty (120) feet or more in length; has a gross weight in excess of 120,000 pounds. Part 5 of this Manual provides detailed processing requirements for Superload permits.
3.2.1.3.3 Fee - $30.00 $60.00 plus weight fee of $5.00 $10.00 for each 8,000 pounds or portion thereof over legal weight. Additional fees may apply as described in Part 5.
3.2.1.3.4 Duration - One (1) to Five (5) business days Monday - Saturday, Duration may be limited to actual move time frame based on route conditions as determined by DelDOT Traffic and Safety Engineers and noted in Special Provisions portion of permit.
3.2.1.3.5 Time of Travel - Refer to Part 5 under specific Types of Superload.
3.2.1.4 Load Code 4 Manufactured Housing
3.2.1.4.1 A load that is Oversize and normally legal weight but less than SUPERLOAD criteria. Permit used for movement of Manufactured Housing (Mobile Home, Modular Housing, or Office Trailer).
3.2.1.5 Load Code 5 Sealed Container
3.2.1.5.1 All ocean going ship containers packed with product which carry a federal inspectors seal as to purity or customs requirements, and which results in a GVW of 100,000 pounds or less, shall be considered non-divisible loads when moving between a port and the facility where the seal is placed, or where the contents of the container are released from the seal.
3.2.1.5.4 Duration - Five (5) days
3.2.1.6 Load Code 6 Ship
3.2.1.6.1 This permit allows for vehicle w/load less than 85 ft overall length w/rear overhang not to exceed 1/3 length of load, 12 ft in width and gross weight up to 120000 lb. on 5 or more axles irrespective of number of pieces being hauled. Moves are restricted to state maintained roads within 2 miles of the Port of Wilmington (excluding I495). Permit is not truck/trailer specific.
3.2.1.6.2 Type - Multi Trip
3.2.1.6.3 Fee - $900.00
3.2.1.7 Load Code 7 Pole & Piling
3.2.1.7.1 Permit allows for movement of Pole, Piling, and Mill Stock. Permit shall be valid for an individual tractor only.
3.2.1.7.3 Fee - $30.00
3.2.1.7.4 Duration - Thirty (30) days
3.2.1.8 Load Code 8 Annual Weight Registration
3.2.1.8.1 Permit allows a 3 axle single vehicle w/GVW of 65K lbs to move with 70K GWV when hauling construction or agricultural loads.
3.2.1.8.4 Duration - One (1) Year
3.2.1.9 Load Code 9 Single-trip Interstate
3.2.1.9.1 Permit allows movement of 3 or 4 axle single vehicles (65000 and 73280 pounds respectively) that exceed the Federal Bridge Formula when on the Interstate road system.
3.2.1.9.3 Fee - $1.00
3.2.1.9.4 Duration - One (1) Single trip in a Five (5) calendar day period.
3.2.1.10 Load Code 10 Multi-trip Interstate
3.2.1.10.1 Permit allows movement of 3 or 4 axle single vehicles (65000 and 73280 pounds respectively) that exceed the Federal Bridge Formula when on the Interstate road system.
3.2.1.10.2 Type - Referred to as Multi Trip; however, permit actually allows 60 single trips in a 1 year period on 1 permit application form.
3.2.1.10.3 Fee - $60.00
3.2.1.10.4 Duration - Sixty (60) trips in a 1 year period. Movement is exempt from times of travel otherwise stated in this manual.
3.2.1.10.5 Time of Travel - Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset during the permit Effective and Expiration Dates.
3.2.1.11 Load Code 11 Blanket Crane
3.2.1.11.1 An annual crane permit allows movement of cranes, not used in combination with any other vehicle, as defined by 21 Del.C. c. 1, §101 (10), on designated or all unrestricted routes, or both, unless posted. In accordance with 21 Del.C. c. 45, §4504, this permit can be obtained only by operators of self-propelled cranes. Separate permits are required for each power unit, and are not transferable.
3.2.1.11.2 The following provisions apply:
3.2.1.11.2.1 Permit shall have duration of one year from the effective date.
3.2.1.11.2.2 Movement will be in compliance with Part 4 - Provisional Permit Requirements of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) Oversize Overweight (OSOW) Hauling Permit Policy and Procedures Manual, with the following exceptions:
3.2.1.11.2.2.1 Self-propelled cranes with an annual blanket permit may move 24 hours a day. Monday-Sunday except during restricted Holiday periods.
3.2.1.11.2.2.2 Self-propelled cranes with an annual blanket permit moving at night will have warning lights in accordance with Part 4 - Provisional Permit Requirements of the DelDOT OSOW Hauling Permit Policy and Procedures Manual.]
3.2.1.11.2.2.3 During Holiday restricted periods movement of self-propelled cranes with Blanket Permits must follow procedures stated in Part 6 - Extreme Emergency Permit Procedures.
3.2.1.11.2.2.4 In designated congested areas, DelDOT may restrict movement during AM and PM commuter travel periods.
3.2.1.11.2.2.5 The Blanket Permit holder is required and responsible for obtaining current travel restrictions prior to movement with blanket permits.
3.2.1.11.3 Size of crane must not exceed:
Length - 70 feet
Width - 12 feet
Height -13 feet 6 inches
Weight -
2 axles - 56,000 pounds
4 axles - 112,000 pounds
5 axles or more - 120,000 pounds
Maximum single axle weight should be 28,000 lbs in any axle configuration.
3.2.1.11.4 The following fee structure shall apply:
3.2.1.11.4.1 The base cost of a one-year Blanket Permit is:
$1,500 for Self-Propelled Cranes up to and including 24,000 lbs
$2,500 for Self-Propelled Cranes over 24,000 lbs
3.2.1.11.4.2 There is also a weight fee, which is calculated as follows:
3.2.1.11.4.2.1 A $5 $10.00 per-trip charge is assessed per each 8,000 lbs (or fraction thereof) over the licensed weight (legal limit based on the number of axles: 2 axles - 40,000 lbs.; 3 axles - 65,000 lbs.; 4 axles - 73,280 lbs; 5 or more axles - 80,000 lbs).
3.2.1.11.4.2.2 The difference between the actual weight and the legal weight is divided by 8,000 lbs to arrive at a computation factor, which is rounded to the nearest whole number. This factor is then multiplied by $5 $10.00 to determine the additional weight fee.
3.2.1.11.4.2.3 Once the per-trip weight fee is computed, it is multiplied by 52 (based upon a reasonable determination that a Blanket Permit holder will travel at least once a week over the entire year of the permit).
3.2.1.11.4.2.4 Example - The weight fee for a 3 axle self-propelled crane at 84,000 lbs would be computed as follows: 84,000 lbs minus 65,000 lbs equals 19,000 lbs over legal licensed weight. 19,000 lbs divided by 8,000 lbs = 2.37, rounded down to 2. Two multiplied by $5 $10.00 = $10 $20.00, which is then multiplied by 52 to arrive at a yearly weight fee of $520 $1,040.00. With the base cost, the total Blanket Permit fee in this example is $3,020 $3,540.00.
3.2.1.11.4.2.4.1 Toll fees will NOT be computed as part of the Blanket Permit. It shall be the responsibility of the Blanket Permit holder to remit all toll fees at the time of toll road travel.
3.2.1.11.5 To qualify for an annual blanket permit:
3.2.1.11.5.1 Insurance must be in force for the effective duration of the permit.
3.2.1.11.5.2 A copy of current State of Delaware Business License must be available for verification.
3.2.1.11.5.3 All drivers of the affected self-propelled cranes must be properly licensed.
3.2.1.11.6 The following documentation must be forwarded to the Hauling Permit Office prior to the submission of the online hauling permit application:
3.2.1.11.6.1 Copy of Vehicle registration.
3.2.1.11.6.2 Original weight certification signed by the Delaware State Police Truck Enforcement Unit individual performing the certification. Certified weight of each self-propelled crane. Certification of crane (with full tank of fuel and driver) will be performed, by appointment, at the Smyrna (Blackbird) or 301 (Middletown) Weigh Station by personnel of the Delaware State Police Truck Enforcement Unit. Crane must be presented in a reduced load configuration (Required removal of component items, using appropriate equipment, in no more than 8 work hours). The applicant for a non-divisible load permit has the burden of proof as to the number of work hours required to dismantle the load. Contact to set up an appointment by calling 302-378-5230 (Blackbird) or 302-378-5714 (Middletown).
3.2.1.11.6.3 Crane manufacturer dimensional drawing.
3.2.1.11.6.4 Pictures of each self-propelled crane - sides, front, and rear.
3.2.1.11.6.5 A full description of the roadway lighting system. A self-propelled crane that does not meet the prescribed lighting requirements will not be issued a blanket permit.
3.2.1.11.7 Violation of any established rules and regulations during the time a blanket permit is held shall be cause for suspension of the current blanket permit for a time period determined by DelDOT (according to the severity of the violation). Subsequent violations could result in the loss of the permit for the remainder of the permit term, and/or the ability to obtain future blanket permits.
3.2.1.11.8 Movement from origin to destination must be by the most feasible direct route. Under all conditions, the permit holder must comply with safety considerations, bridge loading and clearance postings, and roadway restrictions and postings.
3.2.1.11.9 Blanket permit applications will be processed within two (2) weeks of submission of all required documents. All blanket permits will be re-evaluated prior to renewal.
3.2.1.11.10 RESTRICTIONS:
3.2.1.11.10.1 A Superload will not be permitted under a blanket permit.
3.2.1.11.10.2 Travel on Interstate highways will not be permitted under a blanket permit. In accordance with Federal Truck Weight Limit Laws, Oversize/Overweight vehicles must use the Federal Bridge Formula each time that travel is desired on Interstate highways. In order to properly do this, a single-trip permit must be processed.
3.2.1.12 Load Code 12 Twin Trailer
3.2.1.12.1 Permit allows movement of a truck tractor - twin trailer combination when off the STAA road network. Permit is issued for a specific route as when exceeding reasonable access between the national network and terminal points of loading and unloading. Vehicle must be legal weight with a width of not more than 102 inches. Route must not have a posted speed limit over 30 m.p.h. and have travel lanes less than 11 feet wide as measured from face of curb or edge of travel way.
3.2.1.12.2 Type - Multi Trip
3.2.1.12.3 Fee - $300.00
3.2.1.12.4 Duration - Thirty (30) Days
3.2.1.12.5 Times of Travel - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement.
3.2.2 Government No Charge Permits
The Department may issue no charge hauling permits to government agencies (Federal, State, County & Local) for the movement of their over-dimensional and/or overweight equipment.
Note: Additional information concerning the formulation of such an agreement can be obtained by contacting the Hauling Permit Office at (302) 744-2700.
3.2.3 Extreme Emergency Permits
An extreme emergency hauling permit is defined as authorization to move OSOW equipment in response to a calamity, existing or imminent, man-made or natural causes, or other situations which requires immediate remedial action to protect life or property. An example of an emergency move would be movement of equipment in response to a train derailment, flood, explosion, etc. See PART 6 - EXTREME EMERGENCY PERMIT PROCEDURES for detailed processing instructions.
3.3 Where / How to Apply
3.3.1 Electronically. Application of permits can be completed electronically directly by the permittee on the World Wide Web at:
https://www.deldot.gov/osow/application/login.
To use the DelDOT web based Oversize Overweight Permit System customer must establish an online account. 'Click' on the Don't have an outline account? Register now link located beneath the Login box to self register.
This direct entry process is described in detail in the State of Delaware Oversize/Overweight Permit System User's Guide for the On-Line Customer. To view guide 'Click' on User Guide located under Information group.
Electronic applications are preferred and provide the fastest method for customers to obtain approved hauling permits.
3.3.2 In Person. Permits may be obtained by appearing in person at:
Delaware Department of Transportation
Division of Motor Vehicles
303 Transportation Circle
Dover, Delaware 19901
NOTE: Walk-n customer to the Dover Office must complete and accurate information to process the permit application. An OSOW permit application with instructions can be downloaded and printed using the Forms link on the OSOW Permit System web site www.osow.deldot.gov
3.3.3 Third Party. Permits may also be obtained by contacting any one of the several communications redistribution firms (Permit Services) authorized by the State to perform such work.
3.4 Rules of Issuance
3.4.1 Any person making application for a permit shall provide accurate information concerning the granting of the permit. Any permit obtained on the basis of false or misleading data is null and void. Any fee levied for it shall not be transferred or returned.
3.4.2 No person shall violate any of the terms, conditions, restrictions, rules, or regulations published as a part of this policy or stated on the permit. Failure by the applicant to comply with and agree to all provisions stated within this policy and stated on the face of the permit shall render the permit null and void. Such violations may also be the basis for denying future permits.
3.4.3 All permit applications will be considered on an individual basis. The safety devices, rules, and regulations required of each move are described in Part 4 and Appendix A of this Manual. The Department reserves the right to require flaggers, additional signs, additional lighting, additional company escort vehicles, and/or Delaware State Police escorts, along with any other safety devices deemed necessary by DelDOT to ensure the safety of the traveling public.
3.4.4 The issuance of a hauling permit by the State in no way guarantees any roadway or structure to be capable of carrying or passing the vehicle or load described. The permit does not supersede any lesser load limit posted on a bridge or highway unless so noted.
3.4.5 The permittee shall assume all responsibility for any damages to road surface, traffic control devices, bridges, above ground utilities, or other structures and all liability in case of injury to person or property, public or private that may result from such movement. Liability and property damage insurance in sufficient amounts to cover any and all claims that may arise shall be carried by the permittee, and under the coverage, the State of Delaware shall be saved harmless from any such claim.
3.4.6 Every permit granted shall be electronically generated. Each permit shall contain a description of the vehicle and/or load, a complete routing schedule, with exceptions, and a statement of fee levied.
3.4.7 Permits may be granted only for vehicles or trailers complying with Title 21, Chapter 21, of the Delaware Code. Every permit, including supporting documentation, shall be carried in the vehicle to which it refers during the movement it authorizes and it shall be open to inspection by any police officer or DelDOT employee. Copies of multi-trip permits issued to utility companies may be carried by their vehicles in lieu of the original. Copies of multi-trip permits issued for bus operation may be carried in the buses in lieu of the original. Copies of multi-trip permits issued for the movement of double-bottom vehicles may be carried in the vehicle in lieu of the original or they may be posted at the destination point of the route or they may be retained at the nearest office of the permittee. Copies of multi-trip route permits shall be posted at the destination point or the main office of the company. Copies of a ship permit may be carried by the movers of the loads associated with the ship permit.
3.4.8 Permits shall not be issued for a reducible load, with the exception of 3 and 4 single axle vehicles and ship permits described herein.
3.4.9 Delaware law allows for 3-axle vehicles to carry up to 65,000 lbs., 70,000lbs. with an annual weight registration fee permit, and 4-axle vehicles the GVW permitted is 73,280 lbs. These vehicles are legal on all roads in Delaware with the exception of the Interstate system where the Bridge Formula prevails. The State of Delaware, under grandfather clauses, allows for single trip permits to be issued for these vehicles to run on the Interstate system in Delaware up to their registered and/or permitted weight.
3.4.10 Delaware acknowledges being pre-exempted for reasonable access to be in compliance with 23FR658.19. With the exception of the Interstate system, all designated routes have full facilities on route and do not require additional access. On the Interstate system, reasonable access shall be as defined in 23CFR658.19 except at those interchanges where no facilities are available and are so signed.
3.4.11 A permit may be denied or revoked in order to preserve the safety of the traveling public and/or to protect the structural integrity of highways and/or bridges or as otherwise authorized by the Department.
3.4.12 Permitted loads not exceeding 75 feet in Length, 12 feet in Width, 14 feet 6 inches in Height, and 120,000 pounds will be allowed to move from 9pm to 5am Monday through Friday with prior approval. When applying for an oversize load permit, the night time travel must be requested and approval indicated in the Special Provisions portion on the approved permit. DelDOT reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
3.4.13 If load cannot be moved at posted speed the permittee shall note the travel speed of the load along the intended route on the permit application. DelDOT reserves the right to restrict moves on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
3.5 Amending a Validated Permit. Only a DelDOT Permit Agent can amend a Validated permit. The Customer must telephonically notify the Hauling Permit office on or before the expiration date to request an amendment of a Validated permit.
3.5.1 Only the following data fields may be amended on a Validated (Purchased) permit due to a breakdown of the piece of equipment:
Power Unit License Number
Trailer License Number
Note: Both Power Unit and Trailer License Numbers cannot be amended on the same permit unless it is prior to effective date of permit.
3.5.2 Route may be amended due to limitations of roadways as determined by DelDOT. Beginning and ending route (other than a beginning or terminal point within Delaware) may be amended if confirmed by bordering state DOT Highway Official.
3.5.3 Extension of Expiration Date. On a Validated (Purchased) permit the expiration date may be extended 3 days due to a breakdown of the piece of equipment.
3.5.4 Weather conditions or other natural causes - The expiration date may be amended to the next business day after expiration date that roadways are clear of weather conditions or other natural causes as determined by DelDOT.
3.5.5 Fee - A fee of $2.00 $10.00 may be charged to amend a Validated permit.
4.0 Provisional Permit Requirements (Common Safety Standards)
4.1 Introduction. The Delaware Department of Transportation has adopted the following general permit requirements set forth in this section as well as the supplemental safety requirements that are set forth in Appendix A of this Manual for use by permittees when in transit within Delaware. These requirements have been adopted in part from the Guide for Vehicle Weights and Dimensions prepared by the Subcommittee on Highway Transport and officially adopted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (Revised April 2001). These requirements are set forth, in order to promote public safety, minimize impacts to the traveling public, and minimize impacts/damage to public facilities.
4.2 Times of Travel
4.2.1 Permitted vehicles may move during the permit Effective and Expiration Dates as indicated below unless otherwise authorized or prohibited by other requirements in this section. DelDOT also reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
4.2.1.1 Load Code 1 Oversized - Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset
4.2.1.2 Load Code 2 Overweight - Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset.
4.2.1.3 Load Code 3 Superload - Refer to PART 5, specifically 5.3.
4.2.1.4 Load Code 4 Manufactured Housing - Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset.
4.2.1.5 Load Code 5 Sealed Container - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement.
4.2.1.6 Load Code 6 Ship - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement.
4.2.1.7 Load Code 7 Pole & Piling - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement.
4.2.1.8 Load Code 9 Single Trip Interstate - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement. Movement is exempt from holiday restriction periods.
4.2.1.9 Load Code 10 Multi Trip Interstate - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement. Movement is exempt from holiday restriction periods.
4.2.1.10 Load Code 11 Annual Crane - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement. Movement during holiday restriction periods must follow emergency procedures in PART 6 of this manual.
4.2.1.11 Load Code 12 Twin Trailer - Monday through Sunday 24 hour continuous movement.
4.2.2 Permitted loads not exceeding 75 feet in Length, 12 feet in Width, 14 feet 6 inches in Height, and 120,000 pounds will be allowed to move from 9pm to 5am Monday through Friday with prior approval. DelDOT also reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety. Haulers requesting night movement must set the After Hour Move box on the permit application and enter "Request night movement of envelope vehicle/load" in the Comments section of the online permit application.
4.2.3 If the Department authorized permitted vehicles, other than those designated in 4.2.2 above, to move during designated times between sunset and sunrise special lighting requirements as identified in this section of the Manual must be incorporated with move. If a night move is authorized, the Department may also require additional lights, company escort vehicles and/or Delaware State Police escort vehicles on a case-by-case basis as identified in the Special Provisions portion of the hauling permit.
4.2.4 Due to the amount of highway traffic on holidays, vehicles and loads requiring oversize and/or overweight permits shall be prohibited from traveling on those days. Prohibited holidays include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Movement of such vehicles and loads may also be prohibited on any other days or hours when such movements may substantially affect the safety of the motoring public. For specific movement days and times refer to the Holiday Restrictions link on the DelDOT OSOW Permit System www.osow.deldot.gov
4.3 Inclement Weather. When road conditions, visibility or unfavorable weather conditions make traveling hazardous to the operator or the traveling public, permitted vehicles are not authorized to operate, unless responding to an emergency. Vehicles, which are underway when inclement weather occurs, shall exit the road at the first available safe location and park in a safe place until the weather clears or until road conditions improve to allow safe travel conditions. Law enforcement judgment shall prevail in all circumstances.
4.4 Speed Limits
4.4.1 Vehicles and loads requiring permits may travel at the posted maximum speed limits unless specifically prohibited by the permit. Oversized/overweight moves that must operate at speeds lower than the posted speed limit shall be subject to additional time restrictions as determined by DelDOT Traffic.
4.4.2 If load cannot be moved at posted speed the permittee shall note the travel speed of the load along the intended route on the permit application and may be subject to additional requirements based on the information provided by the permittee at time of permit application.
4.5 Routing
4.5.1 To the greatest extent possible, permittees and users shall limit travel to the shortest practical route using Interstate and State routes to reduce travel on secondary and local highways. The most direct route shall be used for all oversize/overweight moves. Deviation from the route specified on the permit is not permitted and is cause for revocation of the permit. Intermediate stopping points and round trips are not permitted under a single trip hauling permit.
4.5.2 The permit shall authorize movement only on the pavement portion of those highways specified in the permit. The permit does not authorize movement upon shoulders unless so noted.
4.5.3 The permit is only for route designated. The permit is only issued for movement on state maintained roadways.
4.5.4 DelDOT publishes a list of permanently and temporarily restricted routes in which vehicles possessing a valid oversize/overweight vehicle permit are not authorized to travel upon. During the application process, it will be the permitee's responsibility to make sure that the route they will be traveling does not include any permanently and/or temporarily restricted routes. The lists of permanently and temporarily restricted routes can be found on DelDOT's website at the following locations:
Permanently Restricted Routes
https://www.deldot.gov/osow/application/permrestrictions
Temporarily Restricted Routes
https://www.deldot.gov/osow/application/temprestrictions
The Department reserves the right to route vehicles to a permanently or temporarily restricted route on a case-by-case basis. The Department also reserves the right to change the list of permanently and/or temporarily restricted routes at any time without notice to the permittee.
4.6 Safety Requirements. The Delaware Department of Transportation has adopted the supplemental safety requirements as outlined below in addition to any other requirements that are set forth in this Manual and the Delaware Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The requirements that are presented below shall be adhered to for all oversized/overweight moves, including standard (non-superload) moves and superload moves.
4.6.1 Escort vehicles shall be provided for oversize/overweight moves in order to enhance the safety of the traveling public, enhance the safety of the people involved in the movement of the over dimensional load and to prevent damage to the State's highway system. Individual escort vehicle requirements are outlined below and are summarized in Table 4.2 at the end of this Section:
4.6.1.1 Escort vehicle(s) shall be a single unit non-permitted vehicle, no smaller than a compact car. The escort vehicle shall not be attached to any other vehicle.
4.6.1.2 Escort vehicle(s) shall escort only one oversize vehicle or load. More restrictive conditions may be required on high volume highways or when the lane width is less than twelve (12) feet.
4.6.1.3 One (1) escort vehicle is required for vehicles and loads more than thirteen (13) feet in width but not exceeding fourteen (14) feet. The escort vehicle shall be behind an over width vehicle or load on a multilane highway, and in front of an over width vehicle or load on a two-lane highway.
4.6.1.4 Two (2) escort vehicles are required for vehicles and loads more than fourteen (14) feet in width. One (1) escort vehicle shall be in front of the over width vehicle or load and one (1) behind. A separate state police escort (third escort) is required for vehicles and loads more than fifteen (15) feet in width.
4.6.1.5 Vehicles and loads ninety (90) feet or more in overall length are required to have one (1) rear escort vehicle. Vehicles and loads one hundred (100) feet or more in overall length are required to have two (2) escorts, one (1) in front, and one (1) in the rear. Vehicles and loads one hundred twenty (120) feet or more in length are required to have a separate state police escort (third escort).
4.6.1.6 Two (2) escort vehicles are required for vehicles and loads fifteen feet (15') or more in height. One (1) escort vehicle shall be in front of the over height vehicle or load and one (1) behind. A separate state police escort (third escort) is required for vehicles and loads seventeen feet - six inches (17' 6") or more in height.
4.6.1.7 Vehicles and loads with a rear overhang of fifteen (15) feet or more shall have one (1) rear escort unless the permit specifies otherwise.
4.6.1.8 Two (2) escort vehicles, one (1) in front and one (1) behind the oversize vehicle, are required when previous paragraphs separately require one (1) escort in the front and one (1) behind for multiple conditions.
4.6.1.9 Two (2) escort vehicles are required for vehicles and loads over 120,000 lbs. weight. One (1) escort vehicle shall be in front of the overweight vehicle or load and one (1) behind. A separate state police escort (third escort) is also required.
4.6.1.10 A single Delaware State Police escort can escort up to a maximum of two loads in a single move if the loads are moved at the same time, other required escorts are available as stated above, and communication is present between the loads.
4.6.1.11 Vehicles and loads that are only overweight or are twelve (12) feet or less in width and that cannot move freely with the flow of traffic may be subject to escort requirements.
4.6.1.12 Escort vehicles shall have visual contact with the permitted vehicle and have two-way radio communication with the driver of the permitted vehicle.
4.6.2 Warning Flags
4.6.2.1 Required warning flags shall be in evidence during daylight hours. Red or orange fluorescent warning flags are required and shall be at least eighteen (18) inches square. Flags shall be securely fastened to the vehicle or load by at least one corner of the flag or securely mounted on a staff.
4.6.2.2 Warning flags are required on vehicles and loads, which exceed legal width. These vehicles and loads are required to bear flags at the extremities of the vehicle or load as shown in Figure 4.1.
Figure 4.1: Warning Flags on Overwidth Loads
Source: AASHTO Guide for Vehicle Weights and Dimensions
4.6.2.3 Flags are also required on vehicles and loads which exceed legal length or which have a rear overhang in excess of four (4) feet. There shall be a single flag at the extreme rear if the over length or projecting portion is two (2) feet wide or less. Two (2) flags are required if the over length or projecting portion is wider than two (2) feet and shall be located to indicate maximum width. (See Figure 4.2)
Figure 4.2: Warning Flags on Overlength Loads or Loads With a Rear-End Overhang
4.6.3 Warning Lights. General Lighting Requirements
4.6.3.1 Load hauling vehicles and escort vehicles shall travel with low beam headlights on at all times.
4.6.3.2 While not required in Delaware, load-hauling vehicles may display a flashing 360-degree yellow (amber) light at an elevation above the highest point of the vehicle. A second flashing 360-degree light may be at the rear of the load if the load obstructs the visibility of the 360-degree light on the load-hauling vehicle. The 360-degree light shall be visible in all directions from a distance of 1,000 feet during daylight hours with a flash rate of 60 to 90 flashes per minute (FPM). The 360-degree light lens shall be at least 4 inches high whose minimum width or diameter at that height is 4 3/4 inches.
4.6.3.3 While not required in Delaware, warning lights for escort vehicles shall be located on the roof of the vehicle perpendicular to the length of the escort vehicle. The warning light bar shall be a minimum of 43 inches and a maximum of 52 inches long, a minimum of 10 inches and a maximum of 13 inches wide, and a minimum of 4 inches and a maximum of 8 inches high, consisting of flashing or strobe lights. Each warning light bar shall consist of a minimum of four lights. If flashing lights are used, they shall consist of at least two 95 and two 150 minimum FPM rotators; mirrors shall be placed diagonally between lights (mirrors to be reflective on both sides). All lights shall be visible on a 360-degree basis from the vehicle for a distance of 1,000 feet and arranged with at least two lights in each end of the bar light. The dome cover color shall be amber. The warning lights may be displayed while escorting the load in Delaware.
4.6.3.4 Whenever the rear running lights, stop lights, turn signals, or hazard-warning lights are obstructed by the load on a vehicle, lighting equipment shall be displayed on the rear of the load equivalent to the obstructed lights or signals.
4.6.4 Load Warning Lights
4.6.4.1 Warning lights shall be used for authorized night operations as shown in Figures 4.3 and 4.4. The lights must be visible from a minimum of 500 feet in all directions. The lights shall be steady burning. The color of the lights shall be as follows:
4.6.4.1.1 Amber: Lights on extremities visible from the front of the vehicle and/or load and lights on extremities in the middle or near the front of the vehicle and/or load.
4.6.4.1.2 Red: Lights on extremities visible at the rear or near the rear of the vehicle and/or load.
4.6.4.2 For overwidth loads uniform in width, place amber lights on the forward corners of the load and red lights on the rear corners of the load as shown in Figure 4.3.
4.6.4.3 If the load is overwidth for its entire length with a wider portion near the middle of the load, place red and amber lights at the rear and front corners of the load, respectively, with amber lights on the sides at the extreme limits of the load as shown in Figure 4.3.
4.6.4.4 If the load is nonuniform in width with the overwidth portion at the rear extremity of the load, place red lights on the side of the load at its extreme width as shown in Figure 4.3.
4.6.4.5 If the load is nonuniform in width with the overwidth portion to the front, place amber lights on the side at the load extremities as shown in Figure 4.3.
Figure 4.3: Warning Lights on Overwidth Loads
4.6.4.6 For loads of legal width that are over length with a rear overhang exceeding four (4) feet, place four red lights on the rear and sides of the overhanging portion of the load as shown in Figure A.4. Amber lights are required at least every six (6) feet on both sides of the overhang as shown below.
Figure 4.4: Warning Lights on Overlength Load or Loads With a Rear-End Overhang
4.6.5 Warning Signs
4.6.5.1 Warning signs shall be displayed during all oversize movements. Load hauling vehicle warning signs shall be at least seven (7) feet long and eighteen (18) inches high. The sign's background shall be yellow with black lettering, and for night moves, constructed of a high-intensity reflective material. Letters shall be at least ten (10) inches high with a 1.41-inch brush stroke. Note: If Series E Modified text is used, the brush stroke shall be two (2) inches.
4.6.5.2 Vehicles and loads exceeding legal width shall display two signs with the wording "OVERSIZE LOAD". One sign shall be on the front of the vehicle. The other shall be on the rear of the load; however, if the sign cannot be attached to, or is not legible on the load, then the sign shall be attached to the rear of the vehicle itself. Refer to Figure 4.5.
Figure 4.5: Warning Signs on Oversize Loads
4.6.5.3 Vehicle and loads exceeding legal length or legal rear overhang shall be required to display two signs with the wording "OVERSIZE LOAD". One sign shall be on the rear of the over length or overhanging part of the load; however, if the sign cannot be attached or is not legible here, then the sign shall be attached to the rear of the vehicle itself. The other sign shall be attached to the front of the vehicle. Refer to Figure 4.6.
Figure 4.6: Warning Signs on Overlength Loads or Loads With a Rear-End Overhang
4.6.5.4 Escort vehicles shall display a sign on the roof or front and rear of the escort vehicle that is at least five (5) feet long and twelve (12) inches high with eight (8) inch high letters. For roof-mounted signs, the sign shall be legible on both sides with the wording "OVERSIZE LOAD". The sign shall be mounted on the roof perpendicular to the length of the escort vehicle. For front and rear mounted signs the legend shall read "OVERSIZE LOAD".
4.6.5.5 Warning signs shall not obstruct lights and other safety devices on the vehicle with load or on the escort vehicle.
5.0 Additional Requirements for Superload Permits
5.1 Definition
5.1.1 A superload is defined as a vehicle and/or load having any one of the following physical characteristics:
Length - One Hundred Twenty (120) feet or greater;
Width - Fifteen (15) feet or greater;
Height - Fifteen (15) feet or greater;
Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) - 120,000 pounds or greater.
Examples of superloads include house moves, overweight reactors, generators, cranes, etc. For superload permit application information refer to Part 3 of this Manual.
Superload permits and moves must adhere to the general permit requirements as described previously in Part 4, and the following additional requirements, as well as the requirements set forth in Appendix A of this Manual:
5.1.2 A superload is further defined by type of physical characteristics.
Type 1 - Length only
Type 2 - Width only
Type 3 - Height only
Type 4 - GVW only
Type 5 - Combination of two or more physical characteristics
5.2 General
5.2.1 Superload moves will be considered on a case by case basis.
5.2.2 Requirement for permit application submission and review lead time will vary depending on, but not limited to, superload type, proposed route, size of vehicle/load, and number of DelDOT sections involved with review process.
5.2.3 Permittee will enter a realistic Start Date on the permit application that will take into account the stated application review time below.
5.2.4 When Planning for Move
5.2.4.1 Review escort, sign, and flag requirements are outlined in PART 4 of this Manual.
5.2.4.2 Be prepared to complete and submit a Route Survey (HP Form 16). Refer to section 5.4 Route Survey Requirement and Appendix A for form and instruction.
5.2.4.3 Be prepared to complete and submit a State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Gate-Keeping Checklist (HP Form 17). Refer to Appendix A for Form and instruction.
5.2.4.4 Refer to Contact Us on OSOW Permit System web site for contact information (https://www.deldot.gov/osow/application/contactus).
5.2.4.5 The Delaware State Police shall be notified a minimum of 48 hours in advance of a superload move. To schedule a DSP escort view the DSP Escort Information link on the OSOW Permit System web site (www.osow.deldot.gov).
5.2.4.6 Be prepared to submit a dimensioned cross-sectional view of the vehicle and/or load.
5.3 Superload Permit Application Review Lead Time, Supporting Documentation and Special Provisions
5.3.1 Type 1 - Length only
5.3.1.1 Application Review Time - Application will typically be processed within five (5) business days of submission. Additional review time may be necessary based on complexity of move, timely submission of supporting documentation and availability of Department staff The Department will accept no liability or other claim due to processing delay or the refusal to permit the move at all.
5.3.1.2 Supporting Documentation
5.3.1.2.1 Permit application normally will not require supporting documentation, however, for a move of extreme length, as determined by DelDOT a route survey (See Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements) shall be requested to guarantee that a single movement can occur along the intended route. If the permitted load is forced to conduct multiple movements to maneuver through a specific location of the route, the route survey must note the impacts. Additional arrangements or data may be required to accommodate these maneuvers. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.3.1.3 Times of Travel - Type 1 superload moves will be authorized to move from sunrise to sunset Monday - Sunday during the period between the permit Effective and Expiration Dates.
5.3.1.3.1 DelDOT reserves the right to restrict moves within time periods noted above on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
5.3.1.3.2 To request movement during hours other than those noted above, the permittee must provide the following three (3) specific items in the Comments section of the permit application: 1. JUSTIFICATION (explain why move is necessary); 2. DATE OF MOVE / DATES OF MOVE; 3. INCLUSIVE TIMES OF MOVE in DELAWARE (Start Time of move in Delaware or at state line and End Time at destination in Delaware or state line). The review process may take up to fourteen (14) business days.
5.3.1.4 Special Provisions
5.3.1.4.1 Hauler will have 1 Front Escort, 1 Rear Escort and contract 1 Delaware State Police Trooper and Patrol Car. The permitted load may require additional Delaware State Police Troopers and Patrol Cars based on the physical characteristics of the load.
5.3.1.4.2 Additional Special Provisions may apply and will display in the Special Provisions portion of the final permit.
5.3.2 Type 2 - Width only
5.3.2.1 Application Review Time - Application will typically be processed within ten (10) business days of submission. Additional review time may be necessary based on complexity of move, timely submission of supporting documentation and availability of Department staff. The Department will accept no liability or other claim due to processing delay or the refusal to permit the move at all.
5.3.2.2.1 Permit application may not require supporting documentation, however, for a move of extreme width, as determined by DelDOT a route survey (See Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements) shall be requested to guarantee that a single movement can occur along the intended route. If the permitted load is forced to conduct multiple movements to maneuver through a specific location of the route, the route survey must note the impacts. Additional arrangements or data may be required to accommodate these maneuvers. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.3.2.2.2 For width clearance, the route survey shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall be within three or six inches on each side of any lateral object. Lateral objects may include utility poles, cables, signs, limbs of trees, or structures. If the permitted vehicle is forced to leave the right lane of travel to avoid a lateral obstruction, maneuver through a work zone, or arrangements need to be made to move any object, the route survey must note the necessary impacts. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.3.2.2.3 If the load is so wide that passage by it cannot occur to clear queued traffic, the escort requirement shall include sufficient Police Officers to provide diverting of traffic at reasonable points.
5.3.2.2.4 If the load cannot allow vehicle passage, maintenance of traffic may be required. Please refer to Section 5.5 entitled Detour/Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) Requirements. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.3.2.3 Times of Travel - Type 2 superload moves will be authorized to move from sunrise to sunset Monday - Sunday during the period between the permit Effective and Expiration Dates. Movement should be avoided from 6:00 a.m. through 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. through 7:00 p.m.
5.3.3 Type 3 - Height only
5.3.3.2.1 Permit application may not require supporting documentation, however, for a move of extreme height, as determined by DelDOT a route survey (See Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements) shall be requested to guarantee that a single movement can occur along the intended route.
5.3.3.2.2 If a Route Survey (HP Form 16) is required it shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall be within three or six inches, dependent on overall width, of any overhead object. If the permitted vehicle is forced to leave the right lane of travel to avoid an overhead obstruction, maneuver through a work zone, or arrangements need to be made to move any overhead object, the route survey must note the necessary impacts. Please refer to Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work. DelDOT Traffic must receive a copy of the route survey prior to the approval of the permit.
5.3.3.2.3 Depending upon the height of the superload, a DelDOT Traffic approved electrical contractor may be required to perform the adjustment/removal and/or repair/replacement of any traffic signal equipment along the route during the move. The work performed by DelDOT Traffic's electrical contractor will be under the supervision of DelDOT Traffic Signal Maintenance. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work and any repairs that are a result of the move. DelDOT Traffic must receive written confirmation prior to the approval of the permit, that the approved contractor will be available with adequate resources. Skidding of traffic signal equipment is not permitted.
5.3.3.2.4 Clearance shall be obtained from the appropriate utility company(s) serving the intended route. DelDOT must receive written confirmation from utility company(s) prior to the approval of the permit. Hauler needs to determine and provide DelDOT detail as to the work that will be required by the utility companies along the proposed route (adjustment up or taking down of lines) as this may create the need for additional traffic control measures. Hauler is responsible for all associated costs with this requirement.
5.3.3.2.5 Vegetation clearing shall be obtained from a Delaware certified arborist along the intended route. DelDOT must receive written confirmation from the arborist performing the work prior to the approval of the permit. Hauler needs to determine and provide DelDOT details as to the work that will be required by the arborist along the proposed route (description and location of vegetation removal) as this may create the need for additional traffic control measures. Hauler is responsible to obtain approval from the property owner(s) prior to removal of the vegetation. Hauler is responsible for all associated costs with this requirement.
5.3.3.2.6 Overhead wires, cables, signal or traffic lights, limbs of trees or overhead structures shall not be disturbed without first obtaining permission from the owners thereof and movements shall not be commenced until after such consents are obtained in writing. Permittee must notify and make arrangements with all utility companies and owners.
5.3.4 Type 4 - GVW only
5.3.4.1 Application Review Time - Application will typically be processed within 5 business days of submission. Additional review time may be necessary based on complexity of move, timely submission of supporting documentation and availability of Department staff. The Department will accept no liability or other claim due to processing delay or the refusal to permit the move at all.
5.3.4.2.1 Permit application normally will not require supporting documentation, however, may be requested upon initial review of load and route.
5.3.4.2.2 Applications for permits which exceed a gross weight of 120,000 pounds, or which involve a route across any structure which is posted with a load limit below the gross weight of the proposed movement, must be processed and approved by the DelDOT Bridge Management Section.
5.3.4.2.3 For weight impacts, the permittee shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall not exceed posted roadway or bridge weight limits. If the permitted vehicle is forced to structural enhance the roadway or structure to travel along the proposed route, a route survey is required noting the necessary enhancements at the structure. All enhancements must be approved by DelDOT prior to permit approval. Please refer to Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements. Hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.3.4.3 Times of Travel - Type 4 superload moves will be authorized to move from sunrise to sunset Monday - Sunday during the period between the permit Effective and Expiration Dates as long as they can maintain a continuous travel speed greater than or equal to 10 miles per hour below the posted speed limit. If the continuous travel speed is less than 10 miles per hour below the posted speed limit, superload moves should avoid moving from 6:00 AM through 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM through 7:00 PM Monday – Friday.
5.3.5 Type 5 - Combination of two or more physical characteristics
5.3.5.1 Permittee shall adhere to all requirements set forth for Superload Type 1 to Type 4 as well as the requirements set forth in this specific type.
5.3.5.2 Application Review Time - Application will typically be processed within fourteen (14) business days of submission. Additional review time may be necessary based on complexity of move, timely submission of supporting documentation and availability of Department staff. The Department will accept no liability or other claim due to processing delay or the refusal to permit the move at all.
5.3.5.3.1 This type of move normally will require a Route Survey (HP Form 16). Please refer to Section 5.4 entitled Route Survey Requirements.
5.3.5.3.2 This type move normally will require State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Gate-Keeping Checklist (HP Form 17). Please refer to Appendix A for forms and samples.
5.3.5.4 Times of Travel - Type 5 superload moves will be authorized to move from sunrise to sunset Monday - Sunday during the period between the permit Effective and Expiration Dates but shall adhere to all additional requirements set forth in this section. Movement should be avoided from 6:00 AM through 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM through 7:00 PM Monday - Friday.
5.3.5.4.1 DelDOT reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
5.3.5.4.2 Permitted Type 5 superload moves should avoid moving, from 6:00 AM through 9:00AM and from 3:00PM through 7:00PM. DelDOT also reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
5.3.5.4.3 Permitted Type 5 superload moves are recommended to move Tuesday through Thursday, except during the hours of 6:00 AM through 9:00 AM and from 3:00 PM through 7:00 PM, along routes located in beach resort areas from May 15 through October 1. Permitted vehicles should not be moved along routes located in beach resort areas on Mondays, Fridays, and weekends from May 15 through October 1. DelDOT also reserves the right to restrict moves within this time period on a case-by-case basis in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public and to ensure public safety.
5.3.5.4.4 The Department, at its discretion, may authorize permitted vehicles to move during designated times between sunset and sunrise, however, they may be subject to special lighting requirements identified in this Manual. If a night move is authorized, the Department may also require additional lights, company escort vehicles, Delaware State Police Trooper and Patrol Car, and/or Local Police Officer and Patrol Car on a case-by-case basis.
5.3.5.4.5 SUPERLOAD moves are not allowed to travel during Holidays and/or Events without special permission being obtained from the Department. Requests to travel on a restricted Holiday and/or during an Event must be submitted in writing detailing the reasoning for the move to occur. The holiday and event restriction schedule can be found in Table 5.1 below.
5.3.5.5.3 HP Form 17 State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Gate-Keeping Checklist Documentation required (Circled Yes) on the State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Gate-Keeping Checklist. NOTE: Required document(s) may be submitted after the initial permit application submission, however, review time may be increased.
5.4 Route Survey Requirements
5.4.1 When a Route Survey is required
5.4.1.1 It is the responsibility of the permittee to supply a completed Form displaying the required data prior to permit review. Please see Appendix A for forms and samples.
5.4.1.2 The survey shall be completed within fourteen (14) business days prior to the date of the move. The Department, at its discretion, may authorize the use of an older route survey should the physical conditions not change along the route.
5.4.1.3 The survey assures that sufficient clearance of all physical objects along the route(s) exists for the movement to be made and that no roadway or bridge weight limits will be exceeded.
5.4.1.4 For height clearance, the survey shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall be within three or six inches, dependent on overall width, of any overhead object. If the permitted vehicle is forced to leave the right lane of travel to avoid an overhead obstruction, maneuver through a work zone, or arrangements need to be made to move any overhead object, the route survey must note the necessary impacts.
5.4.1.5 Overhead wires, cables, signal or traffic lights, limbs of trees or overhead structures shall not be disturbed without first obtaining permission from the owners thereof and movements shall not be commenced until after such consents are obtained in writing. Permittee must notify and make arrangements with all utility companies and owners.
5.4.1.6 For width clearance, the survey shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall be within three or six inches on each side of any lateral object. Lateral objects may include utility poles, cables, signs, limbs of trees or structures. If the permitted vehicle is forced to leave the right lane of travel to avoid a lateral obstruction, maneuver through a work zone, or arrangements need to be made to move any object, the route survey must note the necessary impacts.
5.4.1.7 For length clearance, the survey shall guarantee that a single movement can occur along the intended route. If the permitted load is forced to conduct multiple movements to maneuver through a specific location of the route, the route survey shall note the impacts. Additional arrangements or data may be required to accommodate these maneuvers.
5.4.1.8 For weight impacts, the survey shall guarantee that no portion of the movement shall not exceed posted roadway or bridge weight limits. If the permitted vehicle is forced to structural enhance the roadway or structure to travel along the proposed route, the route survey must note the necessary enhancements. All enhancements must be approved by DelDOT prior to permit approval.
5.4.1.9 Submission of or operation of a route survey found not to be legitimate by any Law Enforcement Officer or DelDOT employee or a survey not actually performed on the date shown above, may result in revocation of the existing special hauling permit and may result in sanctions against the company/person that has certified the route survey as signed.
5.5 Detour/Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) Requirements
5.5.1 Applications for permits which involve temporary or permanent road closures along the intended route may require additional temporary traffic control determined by DelDOT Traffic. The hauler is responsible for all costs associated with this work.
5.5.2 A traffic control vendor, approved by DelDOT Traffic, may be required to provide temporary traffic control, such as signage, pavement markings, channelizing devices, message boards, barriers, attenuators, and personnel, to be on-site throughout the duration of the move. Any equipment and/or manpower provided shall comply with the Delaware Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (DE MUTCD) Part 6, most current edition available at the time of the move. DelDOT Traffic must receive written confirmation prior to the approval of the permit, that the traffic control vendor will be available with adequate resources. The hauler is responsible for all associated costs with this requirement.
5.5.3 Variable message boards will be placed at the locations directed by the DelDOT Traffic. Message boards shall be placed one (1) day prior to the movement with the approved message provided by DelDOT Traffic. Upon placement of the variable message boards, the vendor shall notify our Transportation Management Center (TMC) (302-659-2400) with necessary contact/emergency information. Failure to have the required variable message boards placed and operational during the specified time period will result in the delay of the move(s).
5.5.4 Failure on the part of the hauler or the vendor to provide sufficient traffic control devices described on the approved plans, personnel, resources, and/or equipment may result in the cancellation, delay, or termination of the move until the deficiencies are corrected to the satisfaction of DelDOT Traffic.
5.6 Additional Requirements During Move (One or more items below may apply)
5.6.1 Any oversize and/or overweight vehicles that cannot move at normal posted highway speeds (within 10 mph) are restricted from moves in the State of Delaware between 12 Noon on Friday and 12 Noon on Monday during the timeframe from May 15 through October 1. This restriction applies to the following roads which can be modified by the Department on a case-by-case basis:
New Castle County: I-95, I-295, I-495, US 13, and SR 1
Kent / Sussex Counties: US 9, US 13, US 113, SR 1, SR 18, SR 24, SR 26, SR 54, and SR 404.
5.6.2 Superload haulers are required to give notice of a Superload move to the local 911 office (using their non-emergency phone number) and the Department's Traffic Management Center (TMC) in Smyrna, Delaware. These offices can be reached at the following numbers:
New Castle County 911 Office Non Emergency: (302) 573-2800
Kent County 911 Office Non Emergency: (302) 739-4525
Sussex County 911 Office Non Emergency: (302) 855-2980
Traffic Management Center (TMC): (302) 659-4600
5.6.3 The local 911 offices and the TMC shall be given notice of a SUPERLOAD move a minimum of 1-hour before the move takes place and at final destination or has cleared State of Delaware.
5.6.4 Superload haulers may be required to give written notice to any incorporated area on the route of a Superload movement through that area. The incorporated area shall provide written acknowledgment of the movement of the Superload. DelDOT shall be provided a copy of the written notice prior to permit approval.
5.6.5 Superloads and moves involving a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) under the Superload classification will be subject to individual axle weight analysis by the DelDOT Bridge Management Section and Materials and Research Section. The Sections will automatically review permits with an individual axle weight at or greater than 25,000 pounds, however, analysis may occur at a lower weight on a case-by-case basis. The permittee is responsible to effectively distribute a load or reduce the overall weight below this axle limit, as necessary, to lessen the higher live load forces overstressing state structures.
5.6.6 The Hauler agrees to and shall reimburse DelDOT for any labor, equipment, material, and evaluation costs required to support the move. Prior to the move, DelDOT shall furnish to the hauler an estimate of these services, which shall be signed and returned to DelDOT a minimum of 48 hours prior to the services. An invoice reflecting actual costs shall then be provided to the Hauler and the Hauler shall submit payment for the services rendered within 30 days of the date of the invoice. Failure to pay the invoice in a timely fashion may result in the suspension of future hauling permits being processed/ issued.
6.0 Extreme Emergency Permit Procedures
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 An extreme emergency hauling permit is defined as authorization to move OSOW equipment in response to a calamity, existing or imminent, man-made or natural causes, or other situations which requires immediate remedial action to protect life or property. An example of an emergency move would be movement of equipment in response to a train derailment, flood, explosion, etc.
6.2 General Requirements
6.2.1 An emergency situation is one that can be confirmed by a police agency.
6.2.2 Customer requesting hauling permit must have an online DelDOT OSOW Permit System Fund Account.
6.2.3 Loads must be well marked for daylight hours and well lighted for nighttime moves in accordance with the Part 4 defined in of this manual.
6.2.4 Loads in excess of 9 feet wide or those unable to maintain posted speed limits must be accompanied by a rear escort on divided highways and both front and rear on undivided highways.
6.2.5 Emergency permits will be limited to the movement of loads and vehicles not exceeding 14 feet in width or 100,000 lbs. in weight on four axles, 108,000 lbs. on five axles or 120,000 lbs. on six or more axles. Since the Department may not be consulted in advance concerning the route, the Permittee accepts all responsibility for any accidents, damage, or other claims of any type or nature whatsoever. The issuance of an emergency permit does not authorize the movement of the permitted vehicle over a weight-restricted bridge.
6.3 Procedure
6.3.1 During business hours (8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p. m.)
6.3.1.1 Hauler will contact the DelDOT Hauling Permit Office (302) 744-2700 to alert DelDOT Permit Agent of the emergency. Additionally, Hauler will transmit a completed HP Form 8 (Extreme Emergency Hauling Permit Notification) to the HP Office via email to haulpermit@state.de.us or fax to (302) 739-7808.
6.3.1.2 Customer will be given instructions to enter the permit using the online DELDOT OSOW Permit System or provided verbal instructions for the move.
6.3.1.3 The DelDOT Permit Agent will:
6.3.1.3.1 Contact DelDOT Transportation Management Center (TMC) and advise TMC personnel of the emergency move.
6.3.1.3.2 Transmit a completed HP Form 8 to TMC via fax to (302) 659-6128.
6.3.1.3.3 When permit is received on the OSOW Permit System process as an Emergency Move with After Hour movement authorized if applicable, Example of a Special Provision (enter type of emergency hauler is responding):
EMERGENCY MOVE RESPONDING TO A TRAIN DERAILMENT. CONTINUOUS AND/OR AFTER HOUR MOVEMENT IS AUTHORIZED. NIGHT MOVES OF VEHICLES OR LOADS 9 FEET OR GREATER IN WIDTH OR THOSE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN POSTED SPEED LIMITS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A REAR ESCORT ON DIVIDED HIGHWAYS AND BOTH FRONT AND REAR ON UNDIVIDED HIGHWAYS.
6.3.2 Nonbusiness hours:
6.3.2.1 Hauler will transmit a completed HP Form 8 (Extreme Emergency Hauling Permit Notification) to TMC via fax to (302) 659-6128.
6.3.2.2 Hauler will follow up with a call the DelDOT TMC, (302) 659-4600 to confirm receipt of fax transmission and discuss details.
6.3.2.3 TMC personnel will contact with the on call DelDOT Permit Agent who will contact the hauler, discuss the emergency move request, and provide instructions for the move.
Figure A.1: HP Form 17 State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Gate-keeping Checklist
A.2 HP Form 16 State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Route Survey
Figure A.2: HP Form 16 State of Delaware SUPERLOAD Route Survey Form
A.3 Permit Format
Figure A.3: Oversized/Overweight Hauling Permit
A.4 HP Form 8 Extreme Emergency Hauling Permit Notification
Figure A.4: HP Form 8 Extreme Emergency Hauling Permit Notification
19 DE Reg. 134 (08/01/15) (Prop.)
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DUNCAN MARTIN RETIRES FROM STIGA UK
Stepping down after 44 years in the industry
Duncan Martin, managing director of STIGA UK Limited, has announced that after 44 years in the industry he is taking time out in order to develop his other interests.
Georg Metz, STIGA Chairman and Group CEO, has announced that the role of managing director of STIGA in the UK will pass into the capable hands of Gary Whitney whose experience within the industry and at STIGA Limited will ensure continuity and a seamless senior management transition.
Gary will be supported by the team in Plymouth as he continues to develop the STIGA business.
Duncan said, “I am pleased Georg has decided to hand the management of STIGA Limited to Gary. I have known and worked with Gary for more years than I care to remember. He has the ethos and commitment necessary to continue developing our business for the future.
"I can honestly say I’ve had fabulous time during my tenure with this company and the industry as a whole. I’ve been lucky enough to work with great colleagues and develop our business. The current team at STIGA Limited are in my opinion the best team I have had the pleasure to work with. I have also met numerous great customers many of whom have become good friends.
"As I shift my focus onto new ventures, I wish Gary, as well as the staff and customers of STIGA Limited, continued success in the future.”
Georg Metz said, “I would like to acknowledge the tremendous contribution that Duncan has made to our UK business, guiding the company over many years of continuous growth. He has an enviable reputation and success record which is something we know he is justifiably extremely proud of.”
Gary Whitney will take up his new position on 1 September 2018.
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Beverage Entrepreneurship, Female Entrepreneurship
Rochester's Newest Taproom, Little Thistle Brewing, Opens Today
Steve and Dawn Finnie have been crafting unique microbrews for the past decade. Now, the husband and wife team are set to open their own family-run taproom, Little Thistle Brewing, bringing a distinctive, modern feel and approachable beer menu to this city.
For Finnie, brewing began as a hobby. After getting introduced to the craft from a friend, he began creating experimental batches for others to enjoy while gathering at the Finnies’ home.
“We would just have people come to our house and make beer. We’d have parties and it was great to meet people from all over the world,” he explained. “And then we just kept doing that and then I think the hobby got a bit more serious.”
The brewing evolved onto such a scale that Finnie created a beer club, where friends would pay him $100 a year to help cover the cost of raw ingredients, allowing him to create even more beers. Many of these creations inspired the brews currently housed in Little Thistle’s 10-barrel (or 310 gallon) brewing system.
Little Thistle Brewing- named in homage to the national flower of Finnie’s native Scotland- is not the couple’s first professional brewing endeavor. A few years ago, Finnie, a trained physical therapist, left a fifteen-year career at Mayo Clinic to help create another brewery in Rochester. Finnie exited that business about two years ago.
“I’m glad we had the opportunity. We did it and we showed that we could brew beer,” he explained. “Now, this is exactly what we’ve wanted to do.”
Even before opening that first brewery, Finnie was crafting a business plan to create something as small as a nanobrewery, Dawn explained. Today, the Finnies’ vision is finally coming to fruition as they open the doors to Little Thistle.
While the process of launching the new brewery has been challenging, the largest hurdle, the Finnies explained, was finding a location for the business.
“We would get in the car every night with the kids and drive around for months until we found something,” Finnie said.
The family traveled all over town knocking on doors to buildings, even buildings that were not for sale, Dawn joked, trying to find the ideal spot for their vision. The Finnies finally found the perfect location- a 5,000 square foot warehouse on two acres of land- in northwest Rochester nestled right next to the Douglas Trail.
Little Thistle Brewing is a taproom; no food will be served at the location without outside partnering.
“There is no confusion here. It’s all about beer, beer education, community, family, kids, dogs,” Finnie explained.
The taproom even has a motto: “Be humble, drink local.”
“We want [potential staff and employees] to work with us, not for us. And we really want to build that community from the ground up,” Dawn explained.
The business aims to appeal to everyone from the craft beer nerd to the light beer drinker.
“The beer is going to be the vehicle that brings people together. We want it to be unpretentious,” Dawn said.
Little Thistle will brew traditional beers, light lagers, experimental beers, barrel-aged beers, and cask ales, a traditional style beer in the United Kingdom with lower carbonation that’s served from a hand pump at a slightly warmer temperature. The brewery aims for quality versus quantity with the beers on tap, with most beers being served from more than one line to facilitate guest flow and enhance service at the bar area.
As the motto dictates, Little Thistle strives to support local businesses. The brewery looks forward to partnering with other Rochester establishments to provide different food options at the taproom. This “support local” approach extends to other breweries in the area as well, which Finnie does not view as competition.
“If someone goes to LTS or another brewery in town and they like the craft beer or never tried craft beer before, they are more likely to come to our place. …It just helps everyone,” he explained.
After years of working towards this point, Little Thistle Brewing is set to open up to the public for the first time today at noon. In the weeks leading up to this unveiling, the Finnies have alternated between excitement, sheer terror, and feeling like they’re just staying afloat.
“We’re on the final lap of this long marathon, I think,” Finnie laughed, “I’m just looking forward to being open and sitting on this deck and having a cold beer and watching people enjoy.”
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Pastor Weldon McWilliams honored with 2017 Buffalo Soldier Award
Ed Day, Rockland County Executive
Contact: Jane Lerner, Director of Strategic Communications
Office of the County Executive (845) 638-5645
NEW CITY, NY – County Executive Ed Day today presented the 2017 Buffalo Soldier Award to Spring Valley pastor and U.S. Army veteran Weldon McWilliams.
Pastor McWilliams served his country proudly in the US Army in the 1960s. It was then that he received his calling to serve God through the ministry.
For almost 50 years, Pastor McWilliams has served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Spring Valley. He organized the Rockland County Ministers Alliance, which will be celebrating its 34th anniversary this year, and was one of the first recipients of the Rockland County NAACP Image Awards.
"Pastor McWilliams joins a distinguished group of African-American men and women who have served our nation," said County Executive Day. "We thank him for his dedication to his country and his community. We are proud to recognize him with this great honor."
The County Executive was joined by Jerry Donnellan, director of Rockland County Veterans Service Agency.
The term, "Buffalo Soldier" comes from the name that Native Americans of the Great Plains gave to black soldiers in the 1800s.
The name Buffalo Soldiers conveys great respect. The Native Americans claimed that the black troopers were powerful like the buffalo, and, when cornered, would fight to the death taking wound after wound, like the powerful buffalo.
For many years this history was lost only known by a few – until 25 years ago when Rockland County awarded its first Buffalo Soldier Award.
A panel of past Buffalo Soldier awardees helped select Pastor McWilliams for this year's award.
Previous recipients include:
Grady Anderson; Walter C. Blount; John Boykin; Joe Brown; William Bullock; Charles H. Butler; Harry B. Dunbar, Jesse Duncan, Hezekiah Easter; Wilbur Foulkes; William M. Holt; Fletcher Johnson, MD; Mattie Moore; Benjamin W. Lawson; Weldon McWilliam; Irwin Murfree; the Honorable Judge William Nelson; Kerney Oby; Richard Charles Royster; Rev. Louis Sanders; David C. Smith; Jimmie D. Sullivan; Everett Swann, Joseph Thaxton; Willie Trotman; John P. Vasser; Thomas Lee Watson; Robert Young
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Eleanor Harkstead & Catherine Curzon: The Gay Romance Market – A Woman's Perspective
Today we welcome Eleanor Harkstead and her writing partner, Catherine Curzon, to the blog to talk about writing for the gay romance market and their recent and forthcoming publications. Over to Eleanor first...
When it comes to romance, or in fact any fiction, I love a story which has cracking characters in an interesting scenario. I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to perch on the edge of my seat in suspense. And it doesn’t bother me if the protagonists are straight or otherwise.
As a genre, gay romance is dominated by stories about same-sex male couples (known as m/m). And although plenty of gay men read and write it, a huge number of women are both fans and authors of m/m romance too. Is that an anomaly? Why should women be so interested in what gay men get up to?
Maybe, being attracted to men, straight and bi women simply want to read a story where not one but two men get saucy – and there’s nowt wrong with that. But there are gay women who enjoy m/m fiction as well. I think it’s the relationships and the characters which attract women to the genre, just as much as they might be attracted by the muscly chaps on the covers. In fiction, a woman can see an emotional moment between men but might be unlikely to in real life.
Readers of genre fiction have certain expectations, and while sweet romance with a gorgeous kiss will please some, many readers of m/m want raunch. But how can a woman write a convincing love scene between two men?
Well, if one might be frank (though not actually Frank), quite a few women writers of m/m romance have been to bed with a man at least once and have a vague idea of the male anatomy. Even so, if I’m rooting for the characters and want them to get together, I don’t really need eye-popping detail. As long as there’s enough for me to picture what’s happening, I’m happy to be taken into the minds of the lovers as they enjoy and explore their emotional connection with each other.
Bedroom action isn’t the only place where women authors of m/m might struggle with realism. When writing a character who’s a gay man, it’s best to avoid him coming across as either a shallow stereotype or, basically, a woman. Whatever sort of fiction you write, you need to be conscious of stereotyping. Making your characters living, breathing individuals is part of your job when you create realistic characters who your readers will embrace.
The gay romance market is more niche than straight romance, with fewer publishers. It has certain sub-genres, such as male pregnancy, which you either don’t find in straight romance, or are more popular with fans of m/m romance than straight. But if you’ve even been curious about reading gay romance, there are all sorts of stories out there waiting for you. And if you’re tempted to write gay romance, then why shouldn’t 2018 be the year you give it a whirl?
Thank you, Eleanor for your interesting insight into writing for this genre. Now over to you and Catherine for our interview:
Your short story, An Actor’s Guide to Romance, has just been released, congratulations and the cover is gorgeous. Where did the inspiration for using actors and the theatre come from?
Catherine: Theatre is a passion of mine and has been for as long as I can remember, so using the theatre as a setting was something I’d wanted to do for a long time. There is such a rich tradition of rivalry in the theatre too that the idea of feuding actors forced to share top billing and a love scene was irresistible. The story pretty much told itself once Adam and Thomas started bickering.
Eleanor: Pride’s covers are gorgeous, and the one for the Actors brilliantly conveys the story's atmosphere. As for writing about Thomas and Adam, during my time in Little Theatre am-dram, I overheard – and, I am sorry to say, participated in – the occasional luvvie spat. Few performances are quite as spectacular as those staged by arguing theatricals.
In April, you have the first in a series of ‘Captivating Captains’ due out: The Captain and the Cavalry Trooper. Each book will be a stand-alone novel with new characters, set in a different time period. Does this add another element to the dynamic of co-writing or is it a challenge you both relish?
Catherine: Because each book is a completely standalone novel with a new setting and a cast of brand new characters, it’s a treat rather than a challenge. We can’t wait to introduce readers to captains of all sorts, from cricket to cavalry and beyond, from a huge range of eras. The joy of the series that we’re working on with Pride is the sheer scope it offers. We really hope readers enjoy meeting the captains as much as we have!
Eleanor: One of the great things about writing together is that we can pool our ideas and bounce them off each other. As soon as we start to discuss time period, location, what type of captain he'll be and who he'll be paired with, we're shaping ideas about character, setting and plot. We write stories together that we wouldn't come up with by writing on our own. And when you see characters talking in our stories, it really is two people talking - Catherine and me!
An Actor’s Guide to Romance is out now and available from Pride, Amazon Kindle and Kobo (and every other ebook platform known to humankind as well…!)
The Captain and the Cavalry Trooper
Captain Robert Thorne is the fiercest officer in the regiment. Awaiting the command to go to the front, he has no time for simpering, comely lads. That’s until one summer day in 1917 when his dark, flashing eye falls upon the newest recruit at Chateau de Desgravier, a fresh-faced farmer’s boy with little experience of life and a wealth of poetry in his heart.
Trooper Jack Woodvine has a way with strong, difficult stallions, and whispers them to his gentle will. Yet even he has never tamed a creature like Captain Thorne.
With the shadow of the Great War and the scheming of enemies closer to home threatening their fleeting chance at happiness, can the Captain and the Cavalry Trooper make it home safely? More importantly, will they see peacetime together?
Available to pre-order from 20th February.
Catherine Curzon is a royal historian of the 18th century. She has written extensively for publications including HistoryExtra.com, the official website of BBC History Magazine, Explore History, All About History, History of Royals and Jane Austen’s Regency World.
Catherine holds a Master’s degree in Film and when not dodging the furies of the guillotine, she lives in Yorkshire atop a ludicrously steep hill.
Eleanor Harkstead likes to dash about in nineteenth-century costume, in bonnet or cravat as the mood takes her. She knows rather a lot about poisons, and can occasionally be found wandering old graveyards. Eleanor is very fond of chocolate, wine, tweed waistcoats and nice pens. Her large collection of vintage hats would rival Hedda Hopper's.
Originally from the south-east of England, Eleanor now lives somewhere in the Midlands with a large ginger cat who resembles a Viking.
Lisa writes contemporary romance with a light-hearted tone. What interests her most is people, their interactions, emotions and relationships. It’s probably why her career to date has been based in property; she confesses herself that she is ‘naturally curious’. Her first encounter with a romance author was chats over the garden wall between her father, Godfrey, and Mrs Cooper from the neighbouring village of Bisley. It came as quite a surprise in later life to find that Mrs Cooper was in fact Jilly Cooper! Lisa’s writing inspiration now comes from other Cotswolds' authors including Jill Mansell and Katie Fforde.
Lisa is a graduate of the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers’ Scheme and attributes this supportive and informative scheme to her winning the Choc Lit Search for a Star competition 2016 with her debut novel Meet Me at Number Five.
www.lisahillwriter.wordpress.com
Labels: Catherine Curzon, gay romance; Eleanor Harkstead
The Romantic Novelists' Association has announced the judges who will decide the Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year, and the celebrity guest presenter for the 2018 Awards ceremony.
The judging panel comprises: Matt Bates, the Fiction Buyer for WH Smith Travel, editor Alex Hammond, writer Elizabeth Buchan and Liz Robinson, book reviewer for Lovereading.co.uk.
The Reverend Richard Coles will present the winner of the award with a trophy and a cheque for £5,000 on Monday 5th March at The Gladstone Library in London. Richard Coles first found fame in the 80s with chart-topping bands Bronski Beat and The Communards, before becoming a Church of England priest. He is a popular media figure, and recently enjoyed a stint on Strictly Come Dancing.
RNA Chair Nicola Cornick said: ‘We are thrilled to have such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable panel of judges with such a commitment to the romantic fiction genre, and a guest presenter who will ensure the evening is enormous fun.”
There are seven Romantic Novel Awards: Contemporary, Epic, Historical, Paranormal or Speculative Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Young Adult and the RoNA Rose for a shorter romantic novel. The winners of these categories are chosen by a panel of readers.
The four independent judges read each of the category winners to decide the overall winner of the Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year award.
Matt Bates is the Fiction Buyer for WH Smith Travel. He has been rated in the Evening Standard as one of the Top 1000 most influential Londoners, and has contributed to book-related articles in The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, and The Bookseller. In 2013 he judged the Historical Novelists' Society International Award, in 2015 he was named Bookseller of the Year by the RNA and in 2016 was one of the judges for both The Costa Book Prize (Novel) and The Booksellers' Association Debut Fiction Category Prize. In 2017 he was named as one of The Bookseller's 100 list.
Elizabeth Buchan worked in publishing before she became a full time writer. Her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1994, and a subsequent novel, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, became an international bestseller and was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. She is a former Chair of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes and was a judge for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the 2014 Costa Novel Award. She is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival.
Alex Hammond holds a BA (Hons) in American Literature with Creative Writing, an MA in Creative Writing, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for the literary agency Rogers, Coleridge & White, with authors such as Zadie Smith, Philip Hensher, Nick Hornby, Sandi Toksvig and Joe Dunthorne. He joined Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in 2014, and is now an editor, mentor, and scout. He works directly with authors at the Romantic Novelists’ Association Summer Conferences, and the A Chapter Away writers’ retreats.
Liz Robinson has been on the editorial team writing expert reviews for Lovereading.co.uk since the beginning of 2014. Reading is her passion, and she enjoys all genres, from crime, mysteries and thrillers to romance, family drama and relationship tales.
A total of 300 books were entered for this year’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. The shortlisted books will be announced on 8th February, 2018 and the RoNA Awards will be
presented in London on 5th March, 2018.
For more information about the awards, please go to our website.
Labels: Alex Hammond, Elizabeth Buchan, Liz Robinson, Matt Bates, Nicola Cornick, Reverend Richard Coles, Romantic Novel Awards, The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year
January's Competition Monthly
A new year, a new start. Francesca hopes you'll find something familiar, or even better, something outside your comfort zone in this latest selection of competitions.
When I first attended Adult Education creative writing classes I'd written several short stories and poems, but not a lot else. Our tutor (author Elaine Everest), encouraged us to try our hand at all sorts of different writing. We had a go at scripts, several forms of poetry, articles, flash fiction, tips and fillers, leaflets, non-fiction books, novels and a few more things besides.
One of the most valuable aspects of these classes was that we were also encouraged to submit to all sorts of markets. Between us, we've ended up with a whole heap of different genres and types of writing published in different arenas. This success is largely due to us being pushed to write and submit outside of our comfort zone. Today, now running her own classes, Elaine still encourages us to try new things, giving us challenges that we might not normally tackle.
It's a new year, so why not try a competition outside of your comfort zone? Or dig out work you've abandoned in order to write something else. The selection this month includes short stories, novels for adults and children, script writing, poetry, flash fiction and two humour competitions. Perhaps you fancy yourself as a Ben Elton or Carla Lane? Perhaps the new Mike Leigh? Have a go and see what new doors you can open.
Good luck to you all, and don't forget to let us know of any successes you have.
Kelpies Prize 2018
Theme: Children's novel set in Scotland for either 8-10 or 12-15 year olds.
Prize: Winning author, £2,000
Bridgend Writers' Circle Short Story Competition
Theme: Open. 1,500 – 1,800 words
Prize: £200 / £50 / £30
Closing date: 1st March 2018
Entry: £5 / £7.50 for 2
The International Windsor Fringe Award for New Drama Writing
Theme: Plays of 30 minutes max, 6 actors max. Only amateur playwrights.
Prize: 3 winners selected for stage performance.
Closing date: 5 March 2018
Brittle Star Short Story Fiction Competition (also poetry)
Prize: £250 per genre / £50 pg / £25 pg
Entry: £5 / £3.50 each subsequent
Writing Magazine Humour Short Story Competition
Theme: Humorous short story, 1,500 – 1,700 words.
Prize: £200 plus publication in magazine / £50 plus publication online
Entry: £5 / £3 for subscriberss
Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Theme: Single author collection of short stories, published between 1st Jan & 31 Dec 2017 (not self published)
Prize: £10,000 / £1,000 reader's choice.
Retreat West Flash Fiction
Theme: 'Forgetting'. 500 words max. No children's stories
Prize: £200 / 2 x £75
The International Rubery Book Award
Theme: For international and self published books.
Prize: £1,500 plus read by top literary agent. Catergory winners £150 each. No publication date restriction. All genres.
Twisted Mysteries Writing Competition
Theme: Read the brief, but basically what lies beneath the surface in 1933.
Prize: £100 / £50 / £25 plus all winners published in an eBook anthology.
Scottish Arts Club Short Story Award
Theme: Open. Max 1,500 words. Unpublished writers only (novel and short story)
Prize: £1,000 / 2 x 100 / Scottish prize £500
Writers Bureau Short Story Competition
Theme: Open. 2,000 words max.
Prize: £300 / £200 / £100 / £50 plus a WB course for all winners
Writers' Forum Fiction Competition (also poetry)
Closing date: Rolling.
Entry: £6 / £3 for subscribers
(Writers' Forum also have a flash fiction competition each month, but the duration for each is short and you'll need to look for the current theme)
Bristol Poetry Prize
Theme: Open. Up to 100 lines.
Details (scroll down)
Wergel Flump Humor Poetry Contest
Theme: Humorous poem up to 250 lines
Prize: £1,000 / £250 / 10 x £100
Closing date: 1st April 2018
Looking Ahead:
First Novel Prize
Theme: Novels over 50,000 words
Prize: £1,000 / £250 / £100
Closing date: Open February 1st - 31 May 2018
Francesca Capaldi Burgess has been placed or shortlisted in a number of competitions including Winchester Writers' Conference, Twyford Writers, Chorley & District Writer's Circle, Retreat West, Cordelia.net, Meridian Writing, Flash a Famous Phrase, Wells Festival and Writing Magazine. She's had stories and a serial published in magazines worldwide and in three anthologies, including Diamonds and Pearls and 100 Stories for Haiti plus a few articles and a poem. She is a member of the RNA New Writers' Scheme and the Society for Women Writers and Journalists. Francesca runs a writing blog along with RNA member Elaine Roberts called Write Minds.
Labels: Adult Education, competition monthly, Creative Writing, Elaine Everest, flash fiction, Francesca Capaldi Burgess, non-fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, short stories
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I saw the DRAGON BALL Z MOVIE in theaters!!!! My inspiration
funBy roxyfighter April 6, 2013 2 Comments
The 13-year old girl changed channels after her favorite cartoon ended, and another one was starting. “Hey,” she thought. “It looks like one of those Japanese anime shows, like Ronin Warriors. I wonder if it’s any good.”
She watched. This alien flew down from the sky, kidnapped the main character’s kid, the main character tried to fight him, but the alien guy flew away. The main character teamed up with this other strong looking alien guy and they flew after him. “Cool!” she thought.
What are the chances to turn on the TV at the first moment of the first episode of a long TV series?
The girl had been inspired to start Karate because she admired the do-gooders “The Power Rangers,” but found a new inspiration: the desire to become stronger.
A few weeks later…
“Mom, can you buy me dumbbells?”
“I want to lift weights.”
“I want to get stronger!”
“Um….okay…”
So a few times a week, the girl, having no idea what to do, did bicep curls and shoulder raises over and over. “Some day,” she thought, “I want muscular arms like Piccolo. He looks really strong.”
That girl was me. Dragon Ball Z continued to be an inspiration for me for years and years to come. The grit and determination of the characters, not only in the fights, but also in training. Always getting back up. Training, training, training. Obsession with becoming stronger. I shared it. I reveled in it. Just wanting to fight strong people. Luckily I don’t have to protect the earth.
(Shayna and I posing at weight-ins before our Bodog fight in 2006).
How funny would it be for me to go back now, to that 13 year old girl listening to music in her living room, doing countless bicep curls? Say, “Hey, honey, you keep working hard and never look back. You’re not only going to live in Japan, but you’re going to be fluent in Japanese! Some day, you’re going to watch Dragon Ball Z in it’s original language! WITHOUT SUBTITLES! And you’re going to be a professional fighter. You’re really going to battle people! You just can’t shoot Ki. You have to train so hard. Never stop training.”
How excited would that little girl be? Could she even comprehend her potential? I remember it so clearly. That little girl is still me. That feeling of excitement for training and getting stronger, learning new moves, has not changed one little bit. Katsumura-san showed us this new way to hold the mount and IT WASS SO FREAKING COOL OMG I CAN’T WAIT TO TRY IT OUT IN SPARINGGGGGGGGGGG someone spar with me right now! XD
FUUUUSHION! HA!
Hahah Goku freaking provoked the god of destruction, in that movie!
Toriyama did a magical job of giving the protagonist a personality, and made me LIKE HIM, in such a short time! I love that god of destruction. He’s so funny. XD
I want to write a fan letter to Akira Torimaya telling him how much he inspired me. He really did a fantastic job on that movie. You might not understand, but he hasn’t done Dragon Ball in like 17 years. He didn’t do GT and quit on the series, but they brought him back for this movie!
It wasn’t all fighting, but it had plenty of fan service. We want to see characters interacting, and he knew that. He didn’t just make continual battles. That would have been cliché. I loved seeing Vegeta get pissed off when the god hit Bulma, and then he denied it later. HAH So many fabulous things happened I can’t begin to describe. AND I could UNDERSTAND IT IN JAPANESE. I studied so hard for that ability! Maybe 95% I understood. 😀
AND I got a free gift ! A Dragon Radar, for when I lose track of the Dragon Balls. ANDDDDDD My favorite thing ever! A PEN! It’s a dragon ball pen! But I can’t write with it at all! LOL WTF Least functional pen EVER. But IT IS A PEN and it is MINE and I’m going to show it off to EVERYONE TOMORROWWWWWWWWWW! XD
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Little Switch
Young, J., 2022, (In preparation) Cinnamon Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Shakespeare and Japan
Holderness, G., 1 Aug 2020, (In preparation) Berghahn Books. 250 p.
The Running Lie
Young, J., May 2020, (Accepted/In press) Cinnamon Press.
De-gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Communicative Practices in the Workplace
11 authors, Joanne McDowell author and editor & McDowell, J., 28 Feb 2020, (In preparation) Routledge. (Gender, Language and Sexuality)
The Hand Book
Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2020, (In preparation) MIT Press.
A Critical Analysis of Weight Loss Surgeries: Choice or Assent?
Murray, S., 2020, (In preparation) London: Routledge.
Being a Teacher Educator: Improving Teacher Education from Within
Swennen, A. (ed.) & White, E. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) Taylor & Francis.
Economic Disorder and Crisis
Karimzadi, S., 2020, (In preparation) Routledge.
Emerging Economies and the Global Financial System: Post-Keynesian Analysis
Bonizzi, B. (ed.), Kaltenbrunner, A. (ed.) & Ramos, R. (ed.), 2020, (In preparation) Routledge.
Love's Forgiveness
Lippitt, J., 2020, (In preparation)
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Evans, J., 2020, (In preparation) Amsterdam University Press. (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World)
Teaching Marketing
Brennan, D. (ed.) & Vos, L. (ed.), 2020, (In preparation) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Meat, Murder, Malfeasance, Medicine and Martyrdom: Smithfield Stories
Holderness, G., 1 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) Edward Everett Root. 250 p.
Fundamental Rights and Mutual Recognition in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: A Role for Proportionality?
Xanthopoulou, E., Jun 2019, (In preparation) Hart Publishing : Bloomsbury Publishing. (Modern Studies in European Law)
The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies
Payne, H., Koch, S. (ed.), Tantia, J. (ed.) & Fuchs, T., 26 Apr 2019, 1 ed. London/New York: Routledge. 440 p. (Routledge International Handbook)
Marketing: An Introduction (4th edition)
Armstrong, G., Kotler, P., Harker, M. & Brennan, D., 16 Apr 2019, Harlow: Pearson Education. 672 p.
Page, S. J., 3 Apr 2019, 6th ed. London: Routledge. 510 p.
Introduction to Bilingualism
Schelletter, C., 11 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) Palgrave Macmillan. (Macmillan Modern Linguistics series)
TV antiquity: Sword, sandals, blood and sand
Magerstaedt, S., Mar 2019, Manchester University Press. 264 p. (The Television Series)
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N., 7 Feb 2019, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 230 p.
Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
Pritchard, P., 1 Feb 2019, New York: Routledge. 178 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature)
Events and Marginalisation
Walters, T. & Jepson, A., 10 Jan 2019, 1 ed. Abingdon: Routledge. 252 p. (Advances in Event Research Series)
Becoming Beauvoir
Kirkpatrick, K., 2019, (In preparation) London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Art
Jelinek, A., 2019, (Submitted) Bloomsbury Academic.
Big Data, Code and the Discrete City: Shaping Public Realms (1ed)
Carta, S., 2019, Routledge. (urban studies)
Business to Business Marketing 5th edition
Brennan, D., Canning, L. & McDowell, R., 2019, (In preparation) SAGE Publications Ltd.
Language in the Workplace: Does Gender really Matter?
McDowell, J., 2019, (In preparation) Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake
Mee, L., 2019, (In preparation) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
A Philosophy of the Essay: Scepticism, Experience, and Style
Plunkett, E., 27 Dec 2018, 1st ed. Great Britain: Bloomsbury Academic. 192 p.
Coffee. A Global History
Morris, J., 17 Dec 2018, London: Reaktion Books. 208 p. (Edible Histories)
Tales of Brexits Past and Present: Understanding the Choices, Threats and Opportunities in Our Separation From the EU
Culkin, N. & Simmons, R., 11 Dec 2018, First ed. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 246 p.
In the Company of Wolves- Werewolves, Wolves, and Wild Children – Narratives of Sociality and Animality
Bill Hughes & George, S., Dec 2018, (Submitted) University of Manchester Press. 300 p.
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability Volume 3
Barling, D. (ed.) & Fanzo, J. (ed.), 16 Nov 2018, 1st ed. London: Academic Press. 345 p.
Once Upon A Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who
Phillips, I., Nov 2018, (Accepted/In press) London: Bloomsbury Academic. 256 p. (Who Watching)
History, Historians and the Immigration Debate: Going Back to Where We Came From
Henrich, E. (ed.) & Simpson, J. M. (ed.), 30 Oct 2018, 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 242 p.
Handbook on Novel Psychoactive Substances. What clinicians should know about NPS
Corazza, O. (ed.) & Roman-Urrestarazu, A. (ed.), 17 Oct 2018, 1 ed. New York: Routledge. 386 p.
Corporeal Legacies in the U.S. South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture
Lloyd, C., 23 Sep 2018, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
I Can't Wait For The Wending
Smith, W., 18 Sep 2018, London: Test Centre. 24 p.
New Queer Horror Film and Television
Elliott-Smith, D. & Edgar Browning, J., Sep 2018, (In preparation) University of Wales Press.
The Worlds of the Jeake family of Rye, 1640-1736
Murphy, A. L., Sep 2018, Oxford University Press.
Supporting shared decision making for older people with multiple health and social care needs: a realist synthesis
Bunn, F., Goodman, C., Russell, B., Wilson, P., Manthorpe, J., Durand, M-A. & Rait, G., 22 Aug 2018, 28 ed. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). 114 p. (Health Services and Delivery Research)
TB STIGMA – MEASUREMENT GUIDANCE
Craig, G., Meershoek, A., Zwerling, A., Daftary, A., Citro, B., Smyth, C., Lewis, D., Ni Cheallaigh, D., Byrne, E., Mitchell, E. M. H., Leimane, I., Malar, J., Levy, J., van der Land, J., Macintyre, K., Johnston, L. G., Ferris France, N., Engel, N., Mumba, O., Bhavaraju, R. & 5 othersConroy, R. R., van de Berg, S., Macdonald, S. H-F., Abdullaev, T. & Nair, T., 30 Jul 2018, CHALLENGE TB. 380 p.
Spacewear: Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion
Brownie, B., 12 Jul 2018, Bloomsbury Academic.
The creators of inside money: A new monetary theory
Thomas, D. G., 26 Jun 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. 167 p.
The Science of Judo
Callan, M., 14 Jun 2018, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 173 p. (Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science)
Honour Killings and Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Challenges in Turkey
Tas Cifci, F., 1 Jun 2018, (In preparation) Routledge.
Mastering Brexits Through The Ages: Entrepreneurial Innovators and Small Firms -The Catalysts for Success: Brexit, Entrepreneurial Innovators and Small Firms
Culkin, N. & Simmons, R., 8 May 2018, First ed. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 240 p.
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Battell Lowman, E. & Tarlow, S., 15 Apr 2018, Palgrave. 318 p.
Agri-environmental management in Europe: Sustainable challenges and solutions – from policy interventions to practical farm management
Lewis, K., Tzilivakis, J., Green, A. & Warner, D., 4 Apr 2018, 5m Publishing. 472 p.
Bleay, S. M., Croxton, R. S. & De Puit, M., 27 Mar 2018, Wiley. 500 p.
Leadership Development: A Complexity Approach
Flinn, K., 13 Mar 2018, 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 206 p.
Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance
Gormley-Fleming, L. (ed.), 1 Mar 2018, 1 ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 225 p.
The Roots of a Ritual: The magic of coin-trees from religion to recreation
Houlbrook, C., Mar 2018, (Submitted) Palgrave Macmillan. (Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
Governance, social control and legal reform in China: Community sanctions and measures
Chen, Q., 21 Feb 2018, 1 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 272 p. (Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia)
Dance Psychology: The science of dance and dancers
Lovatt, P., 12 Feb 2018, Norfolk, UK: Dr Dance Presents. 240 p.
Collaborative School Leadership: A critical guide
Woods, P. & Roberts, A., Feb 2018, London: Sage. 168 p.
Hallucinating Cinema: Visual Effects in Psychedelic Films
Broughton, M., 2018, (In preparation) I hope Black Dog will publish this book.
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War
Davies, O., 2018, OUP.
Character and Causation: Hume's Philosophy of Action
Sandis, C., 2018, (Accepted/In press) Routledge. 160 p.
Corporate Personality and the Theory of the Firm
Gindis, D., 2018, (In preparation) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Creative Movement and Dance in Groupwork
Payne, H., 2018, (In preparation) Taylor & Francis. 290 p.
Managing People in Dynamic Organizations
Smith, P., 2018, (In preparation) Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.
Model Design, A Practitioner Handbook (due 2018)
Lansdown, H., 2018, (In preparation)
Molecular Analysis & Genome Discovery
Rapley, R. & Harbron, S., 2018, (In preparation) 3rd ed. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Mollecular and Cellular Therapeutics
Rapley, R. & Whitehouse, D., 2018, (In preparation) 2nd ed. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (Chinese Translation)
Holderness, G., 2018, Beijing: Heilongjiang Educational Publishing House. 272 p.
Notes from Deep Time
Gordon, H., 2018, (Accepted/In press) Profile Books.
Pacific Presences (Volume 1): Oceanic Art and European Museums
Carreau, L. (ed.), Clarke, A. (ed.), Jelinek, A. (ed.), Lilja, E. (ed.) & Thomas, N. (ed.), 2018, Leiden: Sidestone Press. 254 p. (Pacific Presences)
Science Meets English
Allen, D. & Hiscock, N., 2018, (In preparation) Millgate House.
Sovereign debt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bonizzi, B. & Toporowski, J., 2018
Torture as State Crime - A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer
Collard, M., 2018, Routledge. (Crimes of the Powerful )
Wittgenstein and Lacan at the limit: meaning and astonishment
Balaska, M., 2018, (In preparation) Palgrave Macmillan.
The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations: Fighting for Energy
Batzella, F., 12 Dec 2017, Taylor & Francis. 162 p. (Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies)
Combining biology and chemistry to target the flu virus
Kukol, A., 8 Dec 2017, Beau Bassin: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 104 p.
Power, Construction, and Meaning in Festivals
Jepson, A. & Clarke, A., 13 Nov 2017, Routledge. 214 p. (Advances in Event Research Series)
Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness
Kirkpatrick, K., 2 Nov 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 288 p.
Cold Crash
Young, J., 1 Nov 2017, Gwynedd: Cinnamon Press. 244 p.
Barling, D. (ed.), 30 Oct 2017, London: Academic Press. 204 p. (Advances in Food Security and Sustainability)
Neighbourhood sport facility: Improving physical activities at local arenas - IMPALA - EU-Financed research and developing project 2015–2016 in Finland
Suomi, K. (ed.) & Kotthaus, D. (ed.), 13 Oct 2017, Jyväskyylä: LIKES Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health. 112 p. (LIKES Research Reports on Physical Activity and Health ; vol. 327)
Pocket Book for Simulation Debriefing in Healthcare
Oriot, D. & Alinier, G., 6 Oct 2017, Springer. 108 p.
Autism: the Movement Sensing Perspective
Torres, E. B. & Whyatt, C., 3 Oct 2017, 1 ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. 398 p.
The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change
Dalcher, D., Oct 2017, Routledge. 226 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Devil's Advocates: The Shining
Mee, L., 28 Sep 2017, Leighton Buzzard: Auteur. 112 p. (Devil's Advocates)
Social Networks in China
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The Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: Child. An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students
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Economics For Business
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Necessary Monsters Volume 2: Murderbox
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The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction
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Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future 2016. Proceedings of a conference held at Birmingham City University, 8-9 September 2016.
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The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology
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The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
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Necessary Monsters
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Bedside Guide for Neonatal Care: Learning tools to support practice
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Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter
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Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battlefield, Second Edition
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Enzyme Kinetics Lecture Notes
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British Theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919: New Perspectives
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Conceptualizing Capitalism: Institutions, Evolution, Future
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From Here to Maternity: Motherhood in the Media
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Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction
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Molecular Modeling of Proteins
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Fundamentals of Children's Anatomy and Physiology. A textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students.
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Rip It Up: Forget positive thinking, it's time for positive action
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David Hare: Writers and Their Work
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Exploring Community Festivals and Events
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Personal Styles in Neurosis: Implications for Small Group Psychotherapy and Behaviour Therapy
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Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions
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The Materiality of Magic: An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs
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The Tulip: A Cultural History
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White Cloud Worlds Volume 3: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artwork From New Zealand
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Seeing Through Race: Tottenham Photography Project
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Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film
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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film
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Labor in the global digital economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age
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Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary
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Robot-Mediated Interviews: A robotic intermediary for facilitating communication with children
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Towards a Radical Redefinition of Psychology: The selected works of Miller Mair
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The Early Wittgenstein on Metaphysics, Natural Science, Language and Value
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Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Virtual Worlds and Ethical Problems
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Control Protocol for Optical Packet Switched Local Area Network
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Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions
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Continuity: From Garden Cities to New Towns
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National Theatre Connections 2014: Tomorrow
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Inside the Unions: A Comparative Analysis of Policy-Making in Australian and British Printing and Telecommunications Trade Unions
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Brutalist Connections: a refreshed approach to debates and buildings
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Data Modeling and Forecasting Using Artificial Intelligence
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Essentials of Multivariate Data Analysis
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Geography of Tourism and Recreation
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Girlhood's Tender Shoots: Education, Sexuality and Natural Science in Juvenile Literature for Girls 1760-1840
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In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States
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Night School: The Life-Changing Science of Sleep
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Routledge Handbook of Events: (Paperback Edition)
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Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies
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The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki: Volume 1 of Essays in Honour of Tadeusz Kowalik
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Tourism: A Modern Synthesis
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Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future. Proceedings of a conference held at Birmingham City University, 11-12 September 2014.
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Development&Validation of the Family Reported Outcome Measure (FROM-16): The conceptualisation, development and validation of a generic health-related family quality of life measure
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Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945
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Vinnicombe, S., 4 Dec 2013, 1 ed. UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. 63 p.
Lakatos: An introduction
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Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day
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Self-piercing riveting: Properties, processing and applications
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Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
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Television Aesthetics and Style
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Identity, Segregation and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland: A social psychological perspective
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Smith and Keenan's English Law
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Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love
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Legal Risk Management, Governance and Compliance: A Guide to Best Practice from Leading Experts
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Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law
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Internal Game Theory
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Teachers' Legal Rights and Responsibilities
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Beginning Criminal Law
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Course Notes: Medical Law and Ethics
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The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard
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American Bewitched: the Story of Witchcraft after Salem
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Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa: The ‘Northern Problem’ and Ethno-Futures
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Patient Centred Care in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy
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Hutto, D. & Myin, E., 2013, MIT Press. 240 p.
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Budge, G., 2013, Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.
School Based Teacher Training: A Handbook for Tutors and Mentors
White, E. (ed.) & Jarvis, J. (ed.), 2013, London: Sage. 88 p.
Social Theory and Outdoor Adventure
Pike, E. & Beames, S., 2013, London: Routledge.
The Nomadic Studio: Art, Life and the Colonisation of Meanwhile Space
Heilgemeir, M., 2013, 1st ed. Stuttgart: Edition Taube. 292 p.
Transitions in the Early Years: Working with Children and Families
Trodd, L. (ed.), 2013, London: Sage. 178 p.
While you were approaching the spectacle but before you were transformed by it
Smith, L., 2013, Nightboat Books. 88 p.
Working with Parents in the Early Years
Ward, U., 2013, 2nd ed. London: Learning Matters. 142 p.
Market Place: Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London
Parham, S., Dec 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 332 p.
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nordic Noir on Page and Screen
Peacock, S. (ed.), Nov 2012, Palgrave Macmillan. 184 p.
TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
Akass, K. (ed.) & McCabe, J. (ed.), 1 Oct 2012, I.B. Tauris. 272 p. (Reading Contemporary Television Series)
A Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services: Learning to Work Together
Littlechild, B. (ed.) & Smith, R. (ed.), Sep 2012, Pearson Education. 352 p.
An Agency of their Own: sex workers union organising
Gall, G., 27 Jul 2012, London: Zero. 97 p.
Redefining Business Models: Strategies for a Financialized World
Haslam, C., Andersson, T., Tsitsianis, N. & Yin, Y., 5 Jul 2012, Routledge. 264 p.
Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Joll, N. (ed.), Jul 2012, Palgrave Macmillan. 324 p.
Money and its Origins
Karimzadi, S., 28 Jun 2012, London and New York : Routledge. 268 p.
Criminal Law Directions
Monaghan, N., May 2012, 2nd ed. OUP. 448 p.
Rehabilitation of Muscle Dysfunction in Hemophilia
Beeton, K., Rodriguez-Merchan, E. C., Alltree, J. & Cornwall, J., Apr 2012, rev. ed. World Federation of Hemophilia. 12 p. (Treatment of Hemophilia; no. 24)
Urban Presences, Maurice Nio 2000-2011
Carta, S. & Lan, Q. B. (ed.), Mar 2012, BEIJING: AADCU Publication - HUST Press. 288 p.
Global Environmental Issues, Second Edition
Harris, F., 17 Feb 2012, John Wiley and Sons.
Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Political Biography
Gall, G., 26 Jan 2012, Welsh Academic Press. 384 p.
Law Express Question and Answer: Evidence
D'Alton-Harrison, R., 6 Jan 2012, Pearson Education. 288 p. (Law Express Question & Answer)
Rethinking Software Development: The case for dynamic life cycle models
Dalcher, D., Jan 2012, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 344 p.
CEBRA, From Drawing to Building, Selected Work 2001-2012
Carta, S. & Lan, B. Q. (ed.), 2012, BEIJING: AADCU Publication - HUST Press. 316 p.
Case Study Research in Software Engineering: Guidelines and Examples
Runeson, P., Host, M., Rainer, A. & Regnell, B., 2012, Wiley Blackwell. 256 p.
Customer-Centric Project Management
Dalcher, D. (ed.), Harrin, E. & Peplow, P., 2012, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 140 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Smeeton, N. C., 2012, 2nd ed. Radcliffe. 180 p.
Designing zero carbon buildings using dynamic simulation methods: (First Edition)
Jankovic, L., 2012, 1 ed. Routledge.
Developmental Psychopathology
Kerig, P., Ludlow, A. & Wenar, C., 2012, 6th ed. McGraw-Hill.
Dissenting Judgments in the Law
Geach, N. (ed.) & Monaghan, C. (ed.), 2012, 1st ed. Wildy, Simmons and Hill. 390 p.
FLEX - do something different: how to use the other 9/10ths of your personality
Fletcher, B. & Pine, K., 2012, UH Press. 184 p.
Feature Weighting for Clustering: Using K-Means and the Minkowski Metric
Cordeiro De Amorim, R., 2012, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 176 p.
Furthering environmental impact assessment: towards a seamless connection between EIA and EMS
Perdicoúlis, A. (ed.), Durning, B. (ed.) & Palframan, L. (ed.), 2012, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 264 p.
Hollywood and intimacy: Style, moments, magnificence
Peacock, S., 2012, 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 184 p.
Judo – Prirucnik za Trenere
Callan, M. & Lascau, F. D., 2012, Hrvatska Olympijska Akademija.
Law Express Question and Answer: Company Law (Revision Guide)
Ma, F. F., 2012, Pearson Education. 280 p.
Law Express Question and Answer: Company Law (website materials)
Magic: A Very Short Introduction
Managing Quality in Projects
Dalcher, D. (ed.) & Basu, R., 2012, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 254 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Armstrong, G., Kotler, P., Harker, M. & Brennan, R., 2012, 2nd ed. Pearson Education. 640 p.
Whitehouse, D. (ed.) & Rapley, R. (ed.), 2012, Wiley Blackwell. 330 p.
Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research
Odena, O. (ed.), 2012, 1st ed. Ashgate Publishing. 244 p. (SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music)
Organizational Behaviour: 360 Series
Smith, P., Yellowley, W. & Farmer, M., 2012, 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge. 211 p.
Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
Purcell, K. W. (ed.), 2012, Phaidon Press. 1000 p.
Gallagher, S., 2012, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 249 p.
Routledge Handbook of Events
Page, S. J. (ed.) & Connell, J. (ed.), 2012, Abingdon: Routledge. 592 p.
Second Order Project Management
Dalcher, D. (ed.) & Cavanagh, M., 2012, Gower Publishing. 128 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Self, Value and Narrative: a Kierkegaardian Approach
Rudd, A., 2012, OUP. 288 p.
Sustainability in Project Management
Dalcher, D. (ed.) & Silvius, G., 2012, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 166 p. (Advances in Project Management)
The Phenomenological Mind
Gallagher, S. & Zahavi, D., 2012, 2nd ed. Routledge. 271 p.
The Spirit of Project Management
Dalcher, D. (ed.), Neal, J. & Harpham, A., 2012, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 184 p. (Advances in Project Management)
The Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management: Meeting the challenge of complexity
Stacey, R., 2012, Routledge. 192 p.
The University of Hertfordshire: Sixty Years of Innovation
Davies, O. (ed.), 2012, UH Press.
Victoria, F., 2012, Harper Collins Publishers . 147 p.
Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics
Webster-Gandy, J. (ed.), Madden, A. (ed.) & Michelle, H. (ed.), 22 Dec 2011, 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP. 840 p.
Milligan, T., 23 Nov 2011, Basingstoke: Acumen Publishing. 176 p. (The Art of Living)
Botanising Women: Transmission, Translation and European Exchange
George, S. & Martyn, A., Oct 2011, 1 ed. Journal of Literature and Science.
Interprofessional Working in Practice: Learning and working together for children and families
Trodd, L. & Chivers, L., Oct 2011, Open University Press. 183 p.
Marketing Strategies in the UK Classical Music Business: An examination into changes in the classical music business since 1989
Carboni, M., 1 Sep 2011, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 212 p.
Good Practice in Undergraduate Peer Support: A Guide for Those Interested in the Establishment and Development of Undergraduate Mathematics Peer Support in Higher Education Institutions
Kane, S. & Sinka, I., 17 Aug 2011, Birmingham: The Maths, Stats & OR Network. 74 p.
Selected Material from the Oxford Handbooks in Nursing series: Nursing: Study and Placement learning skills sclinical nursing skills: Core and Advanced
Hart, S. (ed.) & Gates, R. (ed.), 1 Aug 2011, OUP. 281 p.
Law Express Question and Answer: Tort Law
Geach, N., Aug 2011, 1st Edition ed. Pearson Education. 276 p.
The Law and the Internet
Rogers, K. M., 11 Jul 2011, Palgrave Macmillan. 320 p.
Transforming education policy: Shaping a democratic future
Woods, P., Jul 2011, 1st ed. Policy Press. 224 p.
Animal Cell Culture: Essential Methods
Davis, J., Mar 2011, Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell. 346 p.
White Cloud Worlds: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artwork from Aotearoa New Zealand
Victoria, F., 1 Jan 2011, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand). 128 p.
An Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire
Goose, N., 2011, UH Press.
Electronic and mobile commerce law : an analysis of trade, finance, media and cybercrime in the digital age
Wild, C., Weinstein, S., MacEwan, N. & Geach, N., 2011, UH Press.
How Different is Different? Visual Perception of the Designed Object
Buchler, D., 2011, Saarbrücken: VDM.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nursing
Whayman, K. (ed.), Duncan, J. (ed.) & O'Connor, M. (ed.), 2011, London: Quay Books. 443 p.
Gordon, H., 2011, London: Penguin Books Ltd. 213 p.
Law express question and answer : contract law (revision guide)
Hamilton, M., 2011, 1st ed. Longman. 264 p.
Law express question and answer : criminal law (revision guide)
Haralambous, N., 2011, 1st ed. Longman. 264 p.
Leading Practice in Early Years Settings
Whalley, M. E., Trodd, L. (ed.) & Goodliff, G. (ed.), 2011, 2nd ed. Exeter: Learning Matters. 162 p. (Achieving EYPS)
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Norwood, J. (ed.), 2011, Pickering and Chatto. (Lives of Shakespearian Actors; vol. 4)
Managing Project Supply Chains
Basu, R. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2011, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 144 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Mid-Victorian Britain
Garwood, C., 2011, Shire. 80 p. (Shire Living Histories)
Molecular Analysis and Genome Discovery
Rapley, R. (ed.) & Harbron, S. (ed.), 2011, 2nd ed. Wiley Blackwell. 316 p.
Holderness, G., 2011, London and New York: Continuum. 215 p.
Nineteenth Century American Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections
Hughes, R., 2011, 1st ed. Longman. 376 p. (York Notes Companions)
Paganism : a very short introduction
Paranormality: why we see what isn't there
Wiseman, R., 2011, Macmillan.
Policy and Practice for Global Tourism
Page, S. & Consulting, T. T., 2011, World Tourism Organization. 300 p.
Principles and Applications of Radiological Physics, 6th Edition
Graham, D., Cloke, P. & Vosper, M., 2011, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. 416 p.
Re-Reading Pat Barker
Wheeler, P. (ed.), 2011, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 167 p.
Rethinking Management: Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences
Mowles, C., 2011, Gower Publishing. 288 p.
Security Protocols XIX: 19th International Workshop
Christianson, B. (ed.), Crispo, B. (ed.), Malcolm, J. (ed.) & Stajano, F. (ed.), 2011, Heidelberg: Springer. 383 p.
Security Protocols XVI: 16th International Workshop
Christianson, B. (ed.), Malcolm, J. (ed.), Matyas, V. (ed.) & Roe, M. (ed.), 2011, Heidelberg: Springer. 257 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6615)
Starting with Wittgenstein
Tejedor, C., 2011, London & New York: Continuum. 194 p. (BOOK)
Stephens' Detection and Evaluation of Adverse Drug Reactions: Principles and Practice
Talbot, J. & Aronson, J., 2011, 6th ed. John Wiley & Sons. 750 p.
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: the Challenge of Complexity
Stacey, R., 2011, 6th ed. F T Press. 560 p.
The Mediterranean Diet: Health and Science
Hoffman, R. & Gerber, M., 2011, Wiley Blackwell. 414 p.
The Philosophy of Information
Floridi, L., 2011, Hardback ed. Oxford: OUP. 405 p.
The Practice of Non-Suicidal Self_Injury: A sociological enquiry
Mayrhofer, A., 2011, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. 208 p.
Tourism Management: An Introduction
Page, S. J., 2011, 3rd ed. Abingdon: Elsevier. 400 p.
Turismo E Empreendedorismo
Ateljevic, J. (ed.) & Page, S. J. (ed.), 2011, Sao Paolo: Elsevier. 256 p.
Brownie, B., 2011, Gingko Press. 224 p.
Understanding Yor Eating: How to Eat and Not Worry About It
Buckroyd, J., 2011, Open University Press. 264 p.
Update on polymers for oral drug delivery
Liu, F., McConnell, E. L. & Pygall, S., 2011, Shrewsbury, UK: iSmithers. 172 p.
You, Me and It
St.James, M., 2011, Cornerhouse Publications.
Η οικονομική κρίση στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη το 2011
Varoufakis, Y., Patokos, T., Koutsopetros, C. & Tserkezis, L., 2011, Labour Institute Publications / General Confederation of Greek Workers.
Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Shaw, T. & Youngblood, D., Nov 2010, University Press Kansas. 312 p.
Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics
Milligan, T., 7 Oct 2010, London & New York: Continuum. 180 p. (Think Now)
Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770
Styles, J., Oct 2010, The Foundling Museum. 72 p.
Forensic psychology: Concepts, debates and practice: Second edition
Adler, J. R. & Gray, J. M., 12 Jul 2010, 2 ed. Willan Publishing. 560 p.
Supporting Pedagogy and Practice in Early Years Settings
Allen, S., Whalley, M. E., Goodliff, G. (ed.) & Trodd, L. (ed.), Jul 2010, Exeter: Learning Matters. 166 p. (Achieving EYPS)
Positive and Trusting Relationships with Children in Early Years Settings
Johnson, J., Trodd, L. (ed.) & Goodliff, G. (ed.), Jun 2010, Exeter: Learning Matters. 134 p. (Achieving EYPS)
59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot
Wiseman, R., Apr 2010, London: Macmillan. 368 p.
Benefit-Risk Appraisal of Medicines: A Systematic Approach to Decision-making
Salek, M-S. S., Walker, S. & Mussen, F., 2 Feb 2010, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
A History of Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, 1687-2009
Goose, N. & Moden, L., 2010, UH Press. 288 p.
Applications Of Automata Theory And Algebra: Via The Mathematical Theory of Complexity to Biology, Physics, Psychology, Philosophy, and Games
Nehaniv, C. L. (ed.) & Rhodes, J., 2010, World Scientific Publishing. 292 p.
Bilingual Preschools Vol 2: Best Practices
Kersten, K. (ed.), Rohde, A. (ed.), Schelletter, C. (ed.) & Steinlen, A. (ed.), 2010, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 172 p.
Bilingual Preschools, Volume 1: Learning and Development
Kersten, K. (ed.), Rohde, A. (ed.), Schelletter, C. (ed.) & Steinlen, A. (ed.), 2010, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Brennan, R., Canning, L. & McDowell, R., 2010, 2nd ed. Sage. 408 p. (The Advanced Marketing Series)
Peacock, S., 2010, 1st ed. University of Manchester Press. 112 p. (Cinema aesthetics)
Complexity and Organizational Reality: Uncertainty and the need to rethink management after the collapse of investment capitalism
Haralambous, N., 2010, 1st ed. OUP. 420 p.
Dash 17+. Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting 17+. Manual
Barnett, A., Henderson, S. E., Scheib, B. & Schulz, J., 2010, Pearson Education. 110 p.
Developing a Healthcare Research Proposal: An Interactive Student Guide
Offredy, M., 2010, Wiley Blackwell. 262 p.
Ethics and Socially Responsible Investment: A Philosophical Approach
Ransome, W. & Sampford, C., 2010, Ashgate Publishing. 179 p. (Law, Ethics and Governance Series)
Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700
Wootton, D. (ed.) & Holderness, G. (ed.), 2010, London : Palgrave Macmillan. 256 p.
Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics
Floridi, L. (ed.), 2010, Cambridge University Press. 344 p.
Information: A Very Short Introduction
Floridi, L., 2010, OUP. 130 p. (Very Short Introductions; vol. 225)
International and Comparative Human Resource Management
Hollinshead, G., 2010, McGraw-Hill. 247 p.
Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self and Moral Vision
Stokes, P., 2010, Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.
Leisure: An Introduction
Page, S. J. & Connell, J., 2010, Harlow: Pearson. 518 p.
Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Research -Skills and Strategies
Ramlaul, A. (ed.), 2010, London: Churchill Livingstone. 287 p.
Nowy Polski Kapitalizm
Hardy, J., 2010, Warsaw: Le Monde Diplomatique. 356 p.
PCR mutation detection protocols
Theophilus, B. D. M. & Rapley, R., 2010, 2nd ed. Humana Press. 305 p.
Thiry, M. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2010, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 206 p. (Fundamentals of Project Management)
Project-Oriented Leadership
Müller, R., Turner, R. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2010, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 100 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Shakespeare and Venice
Holderness, G., 2010, Farnham and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing. 155 p.
Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership
Dalcher, D. (ed.) & Hancock, D., 2010, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 101 p. (Advances in Project Management)
The British Short Story
Maunder, A., Liggins, E. & Robbins, R., 2010, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 320 p. (Outlining Literature)
The Cosgrave Party: a History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33
Meehan, C., 2010, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 311 p.
The Design History Reader
Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.) & Houze, R. (ed.), 2010, Berg Publishers. 544 p.
The Long Eighteenth Century: Literature from 1660 to 1790
Pritchard, P., 2010, York Press. 373 p. (York Notes Companions)
The Making of a Cybertariat
Huws, U., 2010, Beijing: University of Beijing Press.
The Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Learning: Implications for the foreign language classroom
Kersten, S., 2010, Tübingen: Narr. 197 p. (Language in Performance (LiP); vol. 43)
‘A Little Britain on the Continent’: British Perceptions of Belgium, 1830-1870
Francois, P., 2010, Pisa: Pisa University Press.
Why we kill: Understanding violence across cultures and disciplines
Loucks, N., Holt, S. S. & Adler, J. R., 1 Dec 2009, Willan Publishing. 216 p.
The Translation of Advertising Texts: a Study of English-Language Advertisements and their Translations in Russian
Smith, K., Dec 2009, Saarbruecken: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller. 296 p.
Charity and Poverty in England, c.1680-1820: Wild and Visionary Schemes
Lloyd, S., 30 Nov 2009, University of Manchester Press. 352 p.
Transport and Tourism: Global Perspectives.
Page, S. J., 5 Aug 2009, Prentice Hall. 426 p.
Basics Typography 01: Virtual Typography
Hillner, M., 1 Jun 2009, AVA Publishing . 183 p.
Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy
Vuolo, J., 1 Jun 2009, 2nd ed. London: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
Teamwork and Collaboration in Early Years Settings
Stacey, M., Goodliff, G. (ed.) & Trodd, L. (ed.), Jun 2009, Exeter: Learning Matters. 132 p. (Achieving EYPS)
Working with Parents in Early Years Settings
Ward, U., Trodd, L. (ed.) & Goodliff, G. (ed.), Jun 2009, Exeter: Learning Matters. 126 p. (Achieving EYPS)
Tourism and entrepreneurship: International perspectives
Ateljevic, J. & Page, S. J., 18 May 2009, Oxford: Elsevier. 456 p.
The Validation Process for EYPS
Colloby, J., Trodd, L. (ed.) & Goodliff, G. (ed.), Apr 2009, 2nd ed. Exeter: Learning Matters. 100 p. (Achieving EYPS)
Tourism Management: Managing for Change
Page, S. J., 21 Feb 2009, 3rd ed. UK: Routledge. 578 p.
Firma Değerlemesi
Chambers, N., 10 Jan 2009, 2 ed. Istanbul: Avcıol Publications. 374 p.
Alternative education for the 21st Century: Philosophies, approaches, visions
Woods, P. & Woods, G. J., 2009, 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.
Connecting science KS3 in 2 years: Teacher's guide
Chapman, L. & Quinn, D., 2009, 1st ed. Hodder Education. 288 p.
Counselling and Psychotherapy for the Prevention of Suicide: a Systematic Review of the Evidence
Winter, D., Bradshaw, S., Bunn, F. & Wellsted, D., 2009, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. 140 p.
Do Grandparents matter? The impact of grandparenting on the well being of children: Summary report
Brooks, F. & Hill, C., 2009, University of Hertfordshire / Family Matters Institute. 4 p.
Do Something Different: The Journal - 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life
Fletcher, B. & Pine, K., 2009, b-Flex Publishing Group. 130 p.
Doing Your Undergraduate Social Sciences Dissertation
Smith, K., Todd, M. & Waldman, J., 2009, Abingdon: Routledge.
Electrotherapia Practica Baseada Em Evidencia
Watson, T., 2009, Elsevier. 347 p.
Electrotherapia Practica basada en la evidencia
Event Tourism: Critical Concepts in Tourism: Four Volume Set
Connell, J. (ed.) & Page, S. J. (ed.), 2009, London: Routledge. 1610 p.
Find Meaning in Your Life: Do Something Different
Fletcher, B. & Pine, K., 2009, b-Flex Publishing Group.
Food Policy: Integrating Health Environment and Society
Lang, T., Barling, D. & Caraher, M., 2009, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 313 p.
Getting Things Done: Do Something Different
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
How to Write a Zotero Translator: A Practical Beginners Guide for Humanists
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Inside Track, Succeeding in Exams and Assessments
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Interactions Between Short-term and Long-term Memory in the Verbal Domain
Thorn, A. & Page, M. P. A., 2009, Taylor & Francis. 336 p.
Keeping Things OK at Home: Do Something Different
Lighten Up Your Life: Do Something Different
Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815
Navickas, K., 2009, Oxford: OUP. 288 p. (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Managing Project Uncertainty
Cleden, D. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2009, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 132 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Managing Risk in Projects
Hillson, D. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2009, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 110 p. (Fundamentals of Project Management)
Armstrong, G., Kotler, P., Harker, M. & Brennan, R., 2009, Pearson Education. 648 p.
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Walker, J. (ed.) & Rapley, R. (ed.), 2009, 5th ed. Royal Society of Chemistry. 604 p.
Mood Control: Do Something DIfferent
Fletcher, B., Pine, K. & Kupshik, G., 2009, b-Flex Publishing Group.
Moral Reflection
Ransome, W., 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. 208 p.
Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Practice
Senior, J. M. & Jamro, M. Y., 2009, 3rd ed. Pearson Education. 1128 p.
Poland's New Capitalism
Hardy, J., 2009, Pluto. 272 p.
Procs of the 4th Int Blended Learning Conference
Jefferies, A. (ed.), Terry, E. (ed.) & Bracq, A. (ed.), 2009, University of Hertfordshire.
Müller, R. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2009, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing. 112 p. (Fundamentals of Project Management)
Psychological Contract: Development and Management of Professional Workers
George, C., 2009, Open University Press. 168 p. (Work and Organizational Psychology)
Skin conditions in the UK: a health care needs assessment
Schofield, J., Grindlay, D. & Williams, H., 2009, Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham.
Wild, C. & Weinstein, S., 2009, Longman.
Strategic Risk Appraisal and Management
Harris, E. & Dalcher, D. (ed.), 2009, Farnham, Sirrey: Gower Publishing. 112 p. (Advances in Project Management)
Stress Less: Do Something Different
The All-Purpose Magical Tent
Smith, L., 2009, New York: Nightboat Books. 68 p.
The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability Nursing
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The origins of the English financial markets: investment and speculation before the south sea bubble
Murphy, A., 2009, Cambridge University Press. 258 p. (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)
Tourism: A 6 Volume Reference Collection
Page, S. J. (ed.) & Connell, J. (ed.), 2009, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. 2376 p. (Sage Library of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure )
Page, S. J. & Connell, J., 2009, 3rd ed. UK: Cengage Learning. 650 p.
មូលដ្ឋានគ្រឹះនៃភូមិសណ្ឋានវិទ្យា
Curry, A. & Nuon, H., 2009, Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh. 700 p.
វចនានុក្រមភូមិសណ្ឋានវិទ្យា (អង់គ្លេស - ខ្មែរ ; អង់គ្លេស - ខ្មែរ)
Curry, A. & Nuon, H., 2009, Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh. 68 p.
Labour Unionism in the Financial Services Sector: Fighting for Rights and Representation
Gall, G., 1 Dec 2008, Ashgate Publishing. 222 p.
Building a Digital Forensic Laboratory: Establishing and Managing a Successful Facility
Jones, A. & Valli, C., 2 Oct 2008, 1 st ed. USA: Syngress. 312 p.
Cradle Me
Vinnicombe, S., 30 Sep 2008, 1 ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. 83 p.
Supervision of dance movement psychotherapy: A practitioner's guide
Payne, H., 5 Aug 2008, Routledge. 186 p.
Childhood Observation
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Catalogue: All the Things Between: Exhibition catalogue
Dalwood, A. & Ferris, M., 13 Jun 2008, Beijing, China: University of Hertfordshire. 48 p.
Pharmaceutical Systems: Global Perspectives
Hamilton, D., Salek, M-S. S. & Alvarez, A., 21 Apr 2008, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
Suburban regeneration: The real challenges
Parham, S., Feb 2008, British Urban Regeneration Association.
Test and diagnosis of analogue, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits: The system on chip approach
Sun, Y., 1 Jan 2008, Institution of Engineering and Technology. 390 p.
Complexity and the Experience of Values, Conflict and Compromise in Organizations
Stacey, R. & Griffin, D. (ed.), 2008, Routledge. 160 p. (Routledge Studies in Complexity in Management; vol. 2)
Electrotherapy Evidence Based Practice
Watson, T., 2008, 12th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier. 401 p.
Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food
Coff, C. (ed.), Barling, D. (ed.), Korthals, M. (ed.) & Nielson, T. (ed.), 2008, Dordrecht: Springer. 318 p.
Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea
Garwood, C., 2008, Macmillan. 436 p.
Folk psychological narratives: The sociocultural basis of understanding reasons
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Mercy Street || Book Review
Title: Mercy Street
Author: Tess Evans
Release Date: 1st January, 2016
Publisher: Harper Collins Australia
Source: Proof copy for Review
Buy the book: Book Depository
Mercy Street tells the heartwarming story of curmudgeonly old widowed pensioner, George - who for the most part lives in a world of memories of his dead wife, Pen, and dreams of the family they could have had - and Rory, the very real 'grubby little brat' who is dumped on him, much to his displeasure, by her unreliable mother, Angie. In his own inept way, George valiantly tries to rise to the challenge of caring for the tear-sodden, sullen little girl, but it's only when his bossy sister Shirl, his old mate Redgum, and his neighbours, the Nguyens, get involved, that gradually, little by little, an accidental family of sorts takes shape.
But then, years later, Angie reappears, and wants her daughter back, George, determined not to lose Rory, hatches an audacious plan and they take to the road ... But is it too late? Does anything trump a mother's need? And is love enough to make a family?
Oh man, I wish I could read this for the first time again.
Tess Evans' latest release, Mercy Street, is a story that is as heartfelt as it is sweet. The most appropriate word for this book really is simply charming. It was just such a beautifully written story of an elderly man who takes on the father-role to a boisterous young girl. Tess has a really easy-to-read writing style; I never felt like things were over explained (which is one of my greatest pet peeves in a novel) but I was confident that I understood the characters and how they were living.
I have a massive soft spot for George. Maybe it's because I am so close to my own grandfather, but I really empathised with him. Having a five year old dumped on you can't be as easy as he often made it seem. George was more than happy to continue his own retirement, but his unconditional love for Rory was definitely the highlight of this book - even though it took a while for them to bond. Their story is one that will make you appreciate your grandparents all the more. And maybe crave some ice cream.
I have mixed feelings towards Rory's mum, Angie. On the one hand, she was obviously ill-equipped to be a mother at all and I absolutely wanted her to be a great one. However some of her decisions, especially leaving a relative stranger to care for her daughter, were mind boggling. I truly believe that she is a good person, but it was hard to like her when I spent the entire novel rooting for a happy ending for George. I feel like this is a character that everyone will have their own opinion on, but that, in my mind, is 100% a positive thing.
Mercy Street is just one of those feel good novels. One of those books that you could read again and again and still love just as much as the first time. George and Rory were the unlikely dynamic duo and I loved reading about their life together. Tess Evans' is now an author that is firmly on my radar and I can't wait for more.
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