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Sherpa Group/PMAV promotes Shayne Walker.
Sherpa Group Inc. has promoted Shayne Walker to Sales Manager for Eastern Canada in the CI Channel, effective January 4th, 2016. He will now be responsible for managing the sales of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Until now, Shayne held the role of Sales Representative, CI Channel for the Province of Quebec.
“Shayne has been a key contributor in growing the business and will continue to be an integral part of our expansion. We are confident dealers in Ontario and the Maritimes will appreciate his enthusiasm and greatly benefit from his knowledge and support.” says Philippe Rayes, President of Sherpa Group/PMAV. Sherpa Mississauga Branch Manager, Scott Bond as well as Phil Bond will work closely with Shayne in his expanded responsibilities.
Previously, Shayne was Sales Representative for Positive Marketing AV and his experience and knowledge of the PMAV product lines have been instrumental in facilitating their integration into Sherpa Group’s existing portfolio following the acquisition of PMAV’s assets back in September.
“I am excited for this opportunity and look forward to working with all our dealers across Eastern Canada while helping them reach their business goals.” says Walker.
Shayne Walker can be contacted by phone toll free at 647-797-3123 or 514-260-6440, or via e-mail at swalker@sherpa-group.net.
You can visit Sherpa Group at www.sherpa-group.net.
For more information contact Philippe Rayes, prayes@sherpa-group.net or 514-366-9822 ext 102.
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Enrique and Liza Struggle To Save Sansinukob In Final Week Of “Bagani”
The heroes of Sansinukob will face a difficult dilemma as they fight evil to protect their home from destruction in the final week of “Bagani.”
The future of Sansinukob hangs in the balance as the monster inside Ganda (Liza Soberano) gets stronger each moment she does not get the cure. That is why she and Lakas (Enrique Gil) must push on with their journey in search of the Puso ng Sinukuan despite the many obstacles in their way.
Though the people of Sansinukob have banded together against Malaya (Kristine Hermosa), who planted the monster in Ganda, they remain worried about their fate should their heroes fail to reach the cure in time and the monster overtakes Ganda to bring about the destruction of their home.
Can Lakas, Lakam (Matteo Guidicelli), Dumakulem (Makisig Morales), and Liksi (Zaijian Jaranilla) muster the courage to sacrifice their fellow Bagani to secure Sansinukob? Will Lakas & Ganda ever find the cure in time?
“Bagani” has been continuously well received by viewers since it premiered. It received an all-time high national TV rating of 36.2% last April 17, according to data from Kantar Media.
The show has also won the hearts of netizens with its hashtags trending all over the world on Twitter. It was also named as one of the most talked about teleseryes in the country in the first half of 2018, according to the Twitter Entertainment Index, a list of the most talked about topics on the social networking site.
Its online version in Bagani World, gave users the chance to be heroes of a digital Sansinukob. Although the website will close once the show bids its farewell, its stories will continue in “BAGANI: Beyond Sansinukob” on NoInk, ABS-CBN’s online reading platform.
Tune in to the last week of “Bagani” to find out what will happen to Sansinukob and its heroes. Watch it every night after “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano” on ABS-CBN.
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Stacey Copeland is…
A media producer and Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication in Vancouver, Canada. She received her Master of Arts from the Ryerson York joint Communication and Culture graduate program where she studied with a focus on radio production, sound studies, media culture and gender studies. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson University with a minor in English and a specialization in audio production for radio, music and film. It was during her Master’s work that Copeland co-founded FemRadio, a Toronto, Canada based feminist community radio collective. Some areas of scholarly interest include feminist media, oral/aural histories, sound archives, media history, phenomenology of voice, sensory ethnography, and cultural heritage.
Forging New Paths
In sound production and media culture. I am always open to new radio, sound art, film or music projects and helping to grow emerging ideas. Currently, I’m working on my PhD in Communications at Simon Fraser University. My passion and focus for both the cultural and technical aspects of media production drive my career ambitions. Learning is a continuous part of my life academically and in my professional environment.
Production Expertise include:
Field Audio Recording
Studio Engineering/Recording
Audio Post-Production
Radio Commercial Writing & Production
Audio Conversion & Restoration
Audio Hardware Troubleshooting
Pro Tools v6-v12
iMediaTouch
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
Other Research Areas of Interest:
Voice and Culture
Feminist Media Production
Feminist Phenomenology
Canadian Broadcast history
Queer Theory and Culture
If you have a research, radio, art, music or film project idea, let’s talk!
Email: sta.copeland@gmail.com
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Custom Valuation Citizen App
Customs Valuation and Internal Audit Commissionerate was established in January 2001 under National Board of Revenue (NBR), the apex authority of Government revenue administration. Before that it was working in the name of “Customs Valuation Office” under the supervision of Controller (at the rank of an Additional commissioner) in Chittagong. The then Headquarter was in Chittagong, but when it was started functioning as a separate Commissionerate, the core function was designed for the development of valuation database and other audit related works. Thus, the development wing was established in Dhaka and later on, the development wing changed his character and started functioning as the Head Office of Customs Valuation & Internal Audit Commissionerate and the Chittagong Office designed as Regional Office. The main objectives toward establishing the Customs Valuation & Internal Audit Commissionerate is to work effectively with various issues related to customs valuation as well as internal audit endeavors in this connection.
The Customs Valuation and Internal Audit Commissionerate broadly deals with the following assignments:
To play the coordinators’ role among Custom Houses and Customs Stations and work as the medium in exchanging information related to valuation,
To monitor and enforce the uniformity in valuation process done by various customs offices including basis for prices of commodities,
To audit and examine the correctness of the H.S. Code and valuation process in Bill of Entries and compliance to applicable laws and rules, and
To secure revenue starts post clearance audit (as named as Internal Audit) in importers premises/factories as well.
The App is available in the below Link. You can click and download in your phone.
Leading University Convocation
The establishment of Leading University in Sylhet, a holy place of the country, was indeed a noble idea of a distinguished personality Danobir Dr. Syed Ragib Ali, who is well-known for his philanthropic contributions to educational institutions all over the country. He established many educational institutions at different levels and of different kinds including a medical college-Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital in Sylhet. Dr. Ragib Ali is a pioneer in establishing the first private university-North-South University in Bangladesh. He was the founder Vice-Chairman of North-South University and the Chairman of The University of Asia Pacific and later on he was the Chairman of North-South University. He placed a proposal for establishing Leading University to the Ministry of Education on the 24th of August 1996 and the Ministry issued permission on the 28th of August 2001. Leading University was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 2002 and it commenced its first trimester on that day. The University at first had an enrollment with 106 students in undergraduate programs that was marked a milestone for the university and reasonably a source of inspiration to the persons those are interested in education. Currently the number of enrolled students of this university is around 5000 which is larger than other private universities in this region. Leading University is playing a leading role in providing rationalized and quality education with the support of more than 200 distinguished faculty members from home and aboard. Leading University started its all academic activities in the permanent campus which is located in a very beautiful and green landscape of more than 5 acres of area at Ragibnagar, Kamalbazar which is at the outskirts of Sylhet City. At present, students of all faculties are availing this opportunity to attend classes in two spacious building of nearly 34,000 square feet along with all supportive facilities. Another multistoried academic building of 88,000 sft.
Bangladesh Jubo Mohila League
Nazma Akhtar and Apu Ukil have been re-elected president and general secretary respectively of Jubo Mohila League, the youth women front of the ruling Awami League.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, also minister for road transport and bridges, announced the names at the 2nd national council of the women front held at Krishibid Institution, Bangladesh in Dhaka today.
Founded in 2002, Jubo Mohila League held its first council on March 5, 2004 electing Nazma Akhtar and Apu Ukil as president and general secretary respectively.
Besides names of presidents and general secretaries of Dhaka city’s North and South units were also announced in the council.
Sabina Akhtar Tuhin and Tahera Khatun Lutfa were elected president and general secretary respectively of the Dhaka City North unit while Farida Yasmin Jhuma and Nilufar Yasmin were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka City South unit.
Tabotel Users App
This App is very useful for checkin and checkout for any hotels. this app has several versions for several persons. Hotel Checkin and Checkout, Booking, Room Management, Cleaners and all. This app consists of several parts of Hotel.
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Intermission: Back In The New Year!
Due to a few issues, there's been a noticeable pause in the Strip Show. We'll be back in the New Year. Thanks for your patience dear readers!
Sunday Revue November 22nd: Les Normaux
Today, Fall In Love With Magical Paris
And The Magic Of
Ah Paris. The City of Lovers. No matter who you're looking for, you'll find them. Especially if you go looking in the magical quarter!
This beautiful, gentle tale of friendship and romance is the creation of artists penning under the names KnightJJ and Al, and can be found here.
It all begins when Sebastian, a young wizard, arrives in Paris.He came to study magic. What he ends up learning is so much more.
As soft and sweet as a spring night in Paris. A wonderful tale
There is so much to love about Les Normaux that it's hard to choose what deserves the limelight first, but I think I'll begin with the story. The tales are told as interlocking series of personal accounts as a strange and wonderful group of friends and lovers finds one another in the streets of Paris. Told in personal recounting, in letters, in diary entries, these interlocking narratives let us into the personal lives of a varied crew with gentle authenticity, sweet and funny without ever straying into syrupy sentimentality, the bane of so many romances. Les Normaux works because it is honest, both with readers and with its material. It explores all the delicate, difficult moments that define the formation of a relationship, neither over-dramatizing them nor shying away into the safe 'happy places' that most romances stay in; the meet cutes, the contrived misunderstandings that are easily solved and the non-nonsensical problems that are usually invented. Instead of these ploys, Les Normaux shines gentle light on the small, every day conflicts that go on within ourselves as we make friends and fall in love. Is this real?, the characters ask themselves. Am I good enough? Am I going to mess everything up?
It sounds angsty when I write it down, but this comic handles those real struggles with the delicate grace reminiscent of movies like 'Hugo', 'Chocolat' and 'Waking Ned Divine', so that material that would be angst in the hands of less skilled creators becomes illuminating introspection, at once humanizing characters and illuminating the inner lives of its readers, framing real-life struggles in a powerful and affirming way.
Oh and, by the way, it's not nearly as serious as I make it sound. In fact, you'll burst out laughing pretty regularly.
The story finds its perfect synergistic partner in the artwork, a style that blends the beautifully organic look of pen and ink washes with the technical expertise of good cartooning. The body language is some of the best I've seen, and the character design is delightful, giving us a wonderfully diverse cast of characters.
The grasp of the relation of color to mood is pretty stunning as well, and the understanding of light is superb.
In fact, the art's so good in this comic that, as you can see, as a reviewer I had a great deal of trouble limiting how many images I used. I hope you go and read the work for yourselves to see its beauty first hand.
Only a few things could really be improved on in Les Normaux. There are, now and again, a few tiny problems with foreshortening that need work, especially in arms and hands. Aside from that, the artist makes a stylistic choice that, while it's cute, jars me as a reader. Take a look at the image below.
Now, it's not a big deal, but the switches between chibi style and realism sometimes feel like they break the flow of the story, and can be really jarring to the reading experience.
A lovely and lyrical exploration of love in all its forms. A true masterpiece. You need to read this one.
*A Note From The Management: this review was written two weeks ago, before the terrible attacks in Paris. In the wake of such things, I considered postponing this review because I didn't want to seem insensitive or, worse, to be pandering. I did not do so, because I think that Les Normaux is beautiful work, and in dark times we need beautiful things more desperately than ever. Through works like this, we see Paris and human nature at its very best. We need that.
Hey, Look What We Got! A Backstage Pass!
Today, Let's Slip Backstage And Meet Casey J!
Casey J, or sometimes Notos, is the creator of the beautiful Flash-hybrid comic
Today, we get the treat of sitting down with them for a chat!
So Casey, where do you hail from? What got you into the biz?
Born in 1982, I showed an interest in art very early on and have been drawing for most of my life. I attended the Alberta College of Art and Design where I got my BFA. I landed my first job as a professional animator in 2007 where I started on shows like Skunk Fu and Three Delivery.
Since, I've been working as an animator and designer for broadcast shows and iPhone apps for franchises that include Strawberry Shortcake, Smurfs, Archie, Babar and Slugterra.
And your main project is?
Buying Time
http://buyingtime.webcomic.ws
Movies, video games, anime, and generally all things geeky.
I've always been interested in comics since an early age. Mostly for the art and visuals above anything else; I'd buy a random Iron Man issue because it had a cool robot enemy, or a random Shadow Hawk issue because I liked how his suit looked. At the time there wasn't any attachment to a particular character or story, it was almost entirely the visuals that attracted me. I have such a random collection of comics.
It wasn't until I was about 11 or 12 that I started to fully appreciate the story and narrative side of it as well and started to have some sort of method to my purchasing habits. By that time I started to get familiar with anime, I saw Akira when I was probably too young to see Akira and it jump started my interest in animation, it was like nothing I had ever seen before. I was interested in drawing and animation ever since, I wanted to create stuff like that.
You have a really innovative take on the webcomic format. How did you get the idea to make an animated webcomic? How did you get started on this project?
'Buying Time' was originally going to be an animated short. I had done a couple by that point, and liked the idea of doing a cyberpunk themed one. I thought up the concept and found that I really enjoyed the idea and felt it had legs, something I could expand on to be more in depth than just a 2 minute short, so I thought about doing a standard comic with it.
With a standard comic though, I felt I'd be missing the ability to show the flashing neon lights, animated holographic ads, and general 'eye catchers' that I wanted to show off in the animated short that would bring the city to life. I started to look into animated webcomics to see if I could meld to two formulas and came up with the format you see in Buying Time, it's sort of a mesh of different animated webcomic 'features' I saw others using, with some tweaks of my own to make things snappy and give it it's own unique feel.
Buying Time is produced entirely in Flash. I will rarely use Photoshop for some features that Flash (at least, the older version I prefer using) doesn't have, but generally everything you see in Buying Time is produced in Flash.
I have my script written out, with is basically a brief description of what is happening in the panel and the dialogue needed. (Vinnie is sitting on the end of his bed talking on his P-Comm. "S-sure, if you say so...")
I'll look at everything that the script calls for on that page and lay out how many panels I'll need, and very quickly and roughly sketch things out.
I'll then do a second pass on the roughs to do 'more legible' roughs.
From there I'll generally go right into cleans, generally doing the characters and all their poses first as they take more time, and backgrounds after.
Then I'll do any effects the scene calls for, animations, glows, general 'eyecatchers'.
Finally I'll go about adding the text and word bubbles. The whole process takes about a week and a half per page, depending on how complex the page is.
The nature of 'Buying' Time's format means I have to decide how characters are posed and how they move throughout and interact within the space of one frame without changing camera angles to suit what is going on. For example if the scene is of two characters talking at the dinner table, I need to consider that the whole scene will be taking place within one panel with no camera change, so I have to arrange the scene so we can see both characters expressions and gestures, I won't be able to switch camera angles back and fourth to show each character when they speak, if that makes sense. Essentially I have to more carefully compose scenes so the bulk of it can all take place within one panel.
I think my method is somewhere in between. I had the entire story for Buying Time laid out in my head, and generally pen out the concrete dialogue a chapter or two before actually getting there, so it has some time to "sit" before I get there and can give it a second look before putting it in the comic.
The more the better, in case anything comes up that would cause a delay or I find production goes through periods of sluggishness. I generally like to have 3 or 4 pages.
I had a friend in high school that was very uppity and didn't consider being an artist a "real" career path. She didn't explicitly say I wouldn't be successful, but always turned her nose up at the concept of me considering attending a Fine Arts College or wanting to pursue a career in animation. Otherwise I generally had a lot of support.
In the context of Buying Time, be aware of how things are changing around you and don't brush off gradual changes as things that can be ignored or things that won't have an effect. It's really frightening how complacent people can be under terrible circumstances if the changes that brought them to that point are small and gradual enough.
Outside of the context of Buying Time, in general, I hope people are inspired to create their own stories and art, that would be the biggest compliment to me, I want to inspire creativity in others.
The nature of a webcomic does a lot for motivation; having a large reader base and the promise of providing new content on a schedule adds a sort of obligation that helps move things along production-wise. Though ignoring that, I've always have a drive for story telling, I think that is what drew me to being an artist in the first place; I love to create, and I'm driven to do it by the things that inspire me. I thinks thats why I enjoy putting so many blatant references and homages in Buying Time; these things have been such a huge creative inspiration for me, they make me want to create, so I have to show them some love back.
Thanks so much for your time Casey! Rock on!
Saturday Revue November 14: Buying Time
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Today's Show Is One You Just Got To See!
Their Moves Are Nothing You've Ever Seen Before!
For Your Viewing Pleasure, We Introduce To You,
Have I got a treat for you, dear readers. Perusing the strange and wonderful bazaar of Comicfury, I stumbled on a gem! This pearl of genuis is called 'Buying Time', the creation of the artist Notos, and can be found here.
This story tops the charts in several categories. Gorgeous art.Wonderful dystopian world building. Great GLBT story. Kickass cyberpunk enviroment. Sweet love story. 'Buying Time' has it all. And to make it even more amazing, all of it MOVES.
You read that right. Notos has created a flash-hybrid comic that MOVES. The neon really sizzles. The rain really falls. And every single page is interactive! In a true step into the future, 'Buying Time' takes the webcomic format and the dystopian genre to a new level.
The story revolves around Vinnie, his boyfriend Galvin, and their slow and rocky road to love in a very difficult world. In the sprawling future metropolis of Hyperion City, all forms of entertainment, including your social life, are regulated by a micro-transaction monetary system called Daily Leisure Credit. Say hello, you get charged DLC. Give somebody a hug, it's going to cost you. Want to have sex? You better have a good paycheck...which Vinnie doesn't. Let's just say it's not an easy way to live or love...
The perfect package. Hands down.
To begin: The art. The ART. THE ART!!!!
*ahem* excuse me. As I was saying, the art is truly a work of genius. Its slick, stylish grasp of line, clean layers of shading and impeccable grasp of perspective, anatomy and expression draw you deep into its futuristic metropolitan depths, and before you know it you're immersed in a world of darkness and neon, hope and oppression. The Flash elements manage to integrate with perfection into the artwork, bringing tiny details such as neon signs and faulty light bulbs to life while remaining in the background, staying endlessly enriching but never intrusive. The interactive nature of the comic, once you adjust to it, is a wonder of a tool, since it allows each page to tell an entire cinematic scene that would have been impossible to squeeze into such compact spaces otherwise. It's a masterful use of scripting and space.
And then you start getting into the story. The conceptual structure of Hyperion is one that strikes a deep cord with anybody born after 1970, with its expression of a faceless, heartless system that instills a kind of pragmatic apathy in those caught up in it. People don't get up in arms in 'Buying Time', they just try to get by. Again and again, the interpersonal interactions of this characters underline this leitmotif, and yet you as the reader never feel as if you're being beaten over the head with the point. In fact, the characters speak and interact so casually and honestly with their world that you're led into accepting this world where the poor are denied even social contact and the mega-rich keep other people as expressions of their wealth as a form of normal.
I have to say that understated honesty is the greatest strength of the storytelling in this comic. Through these characters infatuation, first-date jitters, love, loss, friendship and stress are explored with some of the most earnest reality I've ever seen. You can really believe in Vinnie's nervousness and his fears, really feel for Galvin's losses. I've rarely met characters that I believed so much in. Notos has a flare for drawing you into a world and making you a part of it. In line with this creation and acceptance of new normal, the creator has also, without the reader really noticing, created an amazingly sex-positive world. It's so sex positive that the sex present in the comic doesn't even need to be remarked on. It's treated as just another part of life and love, an organic part of a whole. The simple, natural way in which romantic relationships are portrayed really floored me as a reader. (though, heads up, NSFW because things will show and there are a lot of annoying prudes around our present world) and I loved every minute of it.
Welllll...I don't have much on this one. It's too good! The navigation takes some getting used to, but Notos eases us into it with a nifty little intro note at the beginning of each chapter, and once you've adjusted to the new normal, it flows just fine. I wish the comic didn't go on regular hiatus, but considering how much work goes in, I completely understand why it does, and since these breaks are scheduled and filled with interesting behind the scenes goodies, I don't feel it denigrates the readership.
Occasionally the tone of self-conscious mockery gets a little heavy in scenes with Big Gold, but the guy is a walking joke, and it never crosses the line into 'no longer funny', so I won't complain.
This. Is. GOLD. A true must read for anyone interested in the craft of webcomics, the future of said craft, or just a really great story to read.
Sunday Revue November 8: All For A Punchline
Curtain Up!
On Stage Today, All For A Punchline!
Ever been to an improv show? Well then, you'll know what you're getting into when you grab a seat for 'All For A Punchline'.
The story behind this off beat comic is fascinating, and the finished work has its moments of true hillarity. Imbued with the spirit of the Stage, 'All For A Punchline' is the work of Daniel Anderson.
Cute, but don't count the house. You're leaving the audience cold.
'All For A Punchline' does have the power to occasionally earn an offbeat giggle, but the real fascination of it is as a new and innovative way to mesh disparate art forms into something new.Th creator produces their work by going to improv shows and taking pictures. He then sorts through the photos, picks one or two that he likes and puts them into Adobe Illustrator to hand trace, adding any props and costumes that he sees fit, thus blending stagecraft and comic craft into a symbiotic art form that creates some odd and unexpected laughs.
Unfortunately, the novelty of this idea is neither capitalized on nor realized in this work. If the creator wants to catch eyes with their innovative concept, this is what they need to think about as they improve their craft:
PURPOSE. This work would benefit hugely if the creator put a note on the main landing page detailing the purpose and process of creating the comic, e.g. SOMETHING discussing the stage improv tie-in to give a clue as to why readers should see this work as anything other than a series of very random jokes. The creator SHOULD NOT, I REPEAT NOT require the audience to read the adjunct pages to get a clue. Many readers will not bother.
ATMOSPHERE. Please please please give the work some atmosphere! Make we readers feel like we're seeing stage performance. Perhaps cash in on the whole concept of stagecraft by making the website look like a stage, a theater, posting pictures of the acts that inspired each comic with credits given, ANYTHING other than blank white backgrounds and an uninformative site design. As of now, it looks like instructional manual art; not inspired, and not inspiring.
A PUNCHLINE IS NOT ENOUGH! Despite the comic's title, readers need more than JUST the punchline! When you take out all context and setup for the joke, we as readers are left with only vague, disconnected images and awkward vignettes that leave a reader feeling that they must be missing some sort of in joke. These uninformed, uninformative oddball scenes are more off-putting than funny.
FIX YOUR SERVER!!!!!!!!!!! Half the time the site loads with the speed of glaciers or fails all together. We're in the digital age. Nobody's patient enough for long intermissions anymore, and the concession stand isn't open.
I'd like to see such an interesting meshing of art forms go big....but right now, it's playing to the haircuts. I'm afraid this act flops.
Halloween Revue: After Daylight
You Wanna See A Show?
Come See Something Fangtastic!
"For this I rose from the dead?!" That's the refrain of Cat, a seventy five year dead vampire who found out that being a master of the night isn't all it's cracked up to be. Not only does he have to mooch around goth bars in order to get a quick bite to drink, deal with girls who are Tweeting instead of falling under his spell and read completely inaccurate literature on his species at his day job, now someone's dumped definitive proof that there are vampires onto the Web. This is just not Cat's decade...
The creation of Sarah Roark, 'After Daylight' can be found here
If you're sick of sparkly and annoying/pompous, monologing and annoying/ impossibly perfect and annoying/devilishly hard to kill and annoying/MAUDLIN and self pitying and ANNOYING vampires, 'After Daylight' is the answer! It explores the ins and outs of being a modern vampire with more wit and candor than I've ever seen before.
Fangtastic!
From page 1, I was laughing and loving 'After Daylight.' It, out of all the vamp lit out there, really gets to grips with the central feature of vampire existence: the precarious nature of their power. Vampires alternate to extremes: extremely strong at one moment, totally helpless at another. And they've got the intelligence to be completely aware of it too. No wonder so many of them are twitchy!
And then you add in ethics. Being an ethical vampire is NOT a fun life. Being an ethical modern vampire is...well...
EXASPERATING.
'After Daylight' explores this to its fullest and most hilarious logical ends, with sharp, snarky social commentary, hilarious moments of 'old world meets new' and gorgeously sarcastic wit.
'After Daylight' is one of the most common sense and direct takes on the vampire genre that I've ever seen. Beyond exploring the issues of getting a bite (heh heh heh) the creator gets down to brass tacks and modern tech. It's awfully hard for vamps to stay hidden in a world full of cheap hand held laser thermometers. It's a lot harder to hide anything in the Age Of Internet, when people across the world are nattering at one another non stop. So what are vamps to do? Come out of the casket of course.
There's an element of delightful genre-mocking that I've only seen the sainted Terry Pratchett pull off as well when handling the vampire mythos, balanced with great exploration of political maneuvering and posturing, herd mentality and societal shifts,all wrapped up in a wryly funny slice-of-life package. The writing has a flare for giving characters the chance to say just enough to realize how foolish they sound, whether it be people realizing that they're more bigoted than they think, ancients realizing that for all their supernatural abilities they can't figure out their Smartphones, or daily working stiffs dealing with every day issues and finding that they need a lot of ketchup for that foot in their mouths...
but that's not the only place the writing shines. There is some really moving exploration of rhetoric and the power of public speaking as the vampires take to modernity, go on TV and speak to the people, drawing fascinating parallels with present and prior civil rights movements in America; taking the idea of 'vampires among us' out of spoof territory and into the realm of powerful social change fable, before it lets we readers back in on the joke with snarkily spot on portrayals of how the news and the social media world would go about handling this.
The art gives the smudgy, off-the-cuff impression of an underground 'zine without jeopardizing the artistic grasp of pose, anatomy and scene framing, underlining the wry noir nature of the work.
So, about the 'zine look...it's cool, but that smudgy aesthetic can be carried too far. While the line work of the comic is gorgeous, I often got the feeling that it was dragged down by the shading style, which isn't nearly as sharp or professional. Compare the two images below:
I have to say, I actually prefer the uncolored version. If the shading style used in the promotional picture that headlines this blog were used throughout the comic, the work would look a LOT sharper. It'd also help if the work was loaded a bit larger; a lot of scenes seem a touch diminished and shrunken. This comic has grown a lot since its inception, and I look forward to seeing its artistic style continue to grow and improve on its weaknesses.
This is one you definitely want to sink your teeth into. Yum!
Sunday Revue October 25th: Brave Resistance
Hang On To Your Helmets
Brave Resistance Is Going To Be A Bumpy Ride!
World War 2. Bombers and bombshells and nazis. Yeah yeah, heard it all before....but have we?
As Americans, we get a very one sided and narrow view of the war; good guys and bad guys, fighting the good fight. We still share an emotional concept of it as the last 'honorable war'.
But we forget that it was a world war. And 'Brave Resistance' makes us remember. The creation of Grecian Tantz Aerine and American Diedre Rae Crouch, 'Brave Resistance' can be found here. Set in a tiny Greek village, this is the story from the Greek perspective: a more stoic, pragmatic approach of a people who didn't go 'over there' because the war was all around them, sweeping over their homeland. Death or glory didn't come into it. In Greece, this was a desperate fight for the soul of their nation.
The story focuses around Hunter, an American pilot downed over Greece, the village who protects him and the soldiers who hunt him. It is an intimate vignette of a tale, and the gut wrenching terror and the algebra of survival are all the more powerful for being compressed into a small space.
a complex, understated and fascinating look at a war we thought we knew
Some of the most adroit examples of emotional interplay I've ever seen in a comic show up in 'Brave Resistance'. In this comic, the psychology of threat, guilt, honor and the wartime mentality are deeply plumbed, creating a powerful tension both inter-character and between characters and their environment. War isn't honorable, and 'Brave Resistance' doesn't try to trick us into thinking it is. But people have honor, and that we're shown time and time again in subtle ways that stay with you long after the page is off your browser.
There's a lot of reliance on facial expression and body language to manage this feat, and 'Brave Resistance' pulls it off wonderfully, displaying at least a quarter of its storytelling in scenic rather than expository ways. The color palette paints a tired, gaunt world and the art style lends a gritty roughness to the work in keeping with a life lived day by day, a life and a world on a knife's edge. This comic may feel so real because of the depth of research that has gone into it. And when I say deep, I mean deep. There are unobtrusive tabs on the page for cultural facts, historical information, and no end of beautifully done touches that put you there and then in the artwork itself. This creators really did their homework! Even their sites were well researched. Let me quote the author's notation of a page here: 'The church is based on an actual one in one of the villages from which this village is inspired. It’s supposed to be great in size, at the very center of the square of the village and behind it is the cemetery. The church in those types of villages is the centre of social life and also stands in for other functions if necessary such as school, gatherings and large meetings.
The church it’s based off is St. George in Negades, at Zagori in Epirus.'
Now that, dear readers, is some serious devotion to your craft!
Speaking of devotion, 'Brave Resistance' has a strong point in its devotion to honest emotional interplay between its characters. Cynical sometimes, sometimes harsh, but always genuine. There's very little of the war-movie band of brothers bravado here, but there is the quiet camaraderie of people against great odds. And the creators point out deftly that not everybody was 'on the good side' even if they were allies. Most people in the villages just wanted EVERYBODY to leave them ALONE already, and this is nicely explored in the attitudes displayed throughout the comic. The annoyed wariness with which the American pilot is treated is refreshing; it's nice to see Americans portrayed as something other than the beloved saviors in work related to World War 2 for a change. The chance to explore real emotions in a wartime setting is a novel and interesting take.
I only wish that novel, complex exploration had extended to the Nazi soldiers as well. With one or two notable exceptions, they're your classic Indiana Jones Nazis: either handsome, brainless automatons or slavering (in one case quite literally slavering) evil beasts. Honestly, when I see this
is 'Whoa, man, you over did the ugly! Dial it back!' These were people. Some of them were good and some of them were evil, but they were people. Don't make them Hollywood monsters.
I'd also like to see the color style improved. The gritty line work is great. Seeing brushstrokes is fine, but not when they give an untidy, unfinished impression and remov much of the contrast on darker surfaces. A cleaner, more nuanced color palette would really help give the work a professional appearance. As a last, tiny detail, if I were the creator I'd do a little spell checking. English is a HARD language to spell as someone not native to it, but it really helps give a professional look to the work. (that being said, the creators' grasps of my language is better than some of my countrymen, so that's only a very small complaint!)
Reminiscent of MASH 4077 and pulling no emotional punches, 'Brave Resistance' puts on a brave and powerful showing.
Monthly Mattinee October: A Recipe For Magic
Time To Mix Up A Brew!
This October, Let's Cook Up Some Laws Of Magic!
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
..............hmmm, still needs salt.....
You know, if you think about it, the laws of magic and the rules of cookery actually have a lot in common. Do it wrong, and you get a nasty mess either way. Follow the recipe, and you get what you want. It looks impressive and difficult to those who can't do it. And, of course, you very rarely do either one just for the sake of it.
Hernandez's great rendition of some
of our favorite American
demigods...
As comic readers, we see a lot of magic systems cooked up in a lot of ways, everything from the classic superheroes to the difficult and involved systems of something like Quantum Vibe, to the strange and wondrous madness that is Sandman or the vastness of Saga (note, I include sci-fi in this discussion; a wise man once said sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic, and the same rules of world design apply!) They have very different techniques, but all of them strive to mix their elements up in just the right way to give a powerful story that leaves you feeling something and wanting more.
So what are the ingredients for a powerful magical system?
Let's see, what have we got in our creative cupboard....
One Part Concept
That first spark of an idea can flare into a creative inferno...but sometimes all you do is sit there trying to light creative matches that keep going out. What to do?
For inspiration, RESEARCH! I find particularly fertile ground in science news headlines and historical anecdotes. Try this: take a short title of an article, and let your mind mull it over. See if you can get a story out of it. 'Scientists get cells to kill each other' could lead in a thousand directions: what if an army was trained to somehow make the enemy's body literally tear itself apart? What would such a power do to society? Take that idea, and RUN LIKE HELL with it. Go crazy when conceptualizing. Then, when you have a concept that makes your blood fizz, start researching. And don't stop. A concept that isn't really understood by its author is not a concept that can support a story. Research until you dream about your subject matter. Make it a part of you; only then can you tell a tale fully immersed in it. The creators of 'Fables' did this; Bill Willingham, according to legend, read nothing but folktales for a year.
Three Parts Reality
Now hang on, I hear you cry, what's reality doing in my magical brew? It'll spoil the whole thing!
Well, no, it'll make it relatable and much more readable. Your characters live in a world, and that world should feel REAL. I could go on and on about reality, but there are five key concepts to a real world with magical elements
Too often, creators take their magical concepts, plop them into some vaguely appropriate world (sword and sorcery, anyone?) and have done with it. 'Hey, it's here, it works.' But that's not how cultures or people work. People, cultures and concepts interact, clash, blend and flow. Make your cultures and concepts interact. Remember how cultures and people think when you're world building.So, you want a race that's not human? How hard is it for them to get a job? Are they restricted to menial labor, treated with respect? What cultural traits allow them to do well in society? What traits cause them them problems?
If you want a powerful example of doing this right, read 'Doomsday, My Dear,' a terrible and beautiful exploration of what happens when humanity comes up against something they have trouble coping with in their midst. I'll warn you though, human psychology under pressure isn't pretty.
A lot of writers duck this issue by going the 'magic is a secret we all have to keep' route, but that's a bit of a cop-out (sorry J.K Rowling, I still love your books, but it's true) because people don't keep secrets that well, and they don't keep secrets on the basis of the usual defense: 'if people knew it'd be too terrible'. Groups of people don't keep secrets that are hypothetically dangerous, because we're not good at hypotheticals as a species. Groups of keep secrets that are imminently dangerous or all together forgotten, and not well even then. Things come out. Look at the crypto-Jews of Isebella's Spain for a really powerful example of the point. (see, historical research again!)
'X-Men' is probably the popular comic that has best explored this, and as often as it's failed to make the point well, it's also triumphed in making the fact of humans who aren't quite normal a part of the social and political conversation in their world. 'Saga' explored this beautifully as well in its discussion of war mentality and propaganda; the pragmatic willful blindness that living in a war situation brings on in the mind.
One last note on psychology and sociology: you'll notice that all the good stories I've named have characters interacting with a living world, not a text book lesson followed by some characters doing things. The best writers build their worlds organically around their characters. THE AUTHORS know what's going on, but they don't need to tell the readers EVERYTHING in gigantic info dumps. And comic readers, to be blunt, skip text walls. Be the writer of a world, not of a lecture.
Conservation Of Mass. Euclidean Geometry. Quantum Physics. All these are names and complicated ways of saying one, very simple thing: The Material World Has Rules. You can't break them just because you want to. You can circumvent them, you can bend them, or maybe do something clever with them, but some things can't be broken. Period.
Long before we had science, we as human beings already had a strong understanding of the fact that the world was made of rules. It's an inherent pact we have with the universe as homo sapiens: I will learn your rules, I will understand them, and then I'll learn to use them to my advantage. A lot of ancient magical systems were based around this basic, instinctive tenant, and a lot of our first sciences too. Wise people then and now treat the world as an interconnected set of rules and variables that could be adjusted if you had the knack, but not without affecting the rest of the system. 'The Dresden Files' is a classic example of magic done right: no matter how much crazy crap is thrown at you, no matter how weird it gets, the story stays cohesive because Butcher plays his characters by the rules.
Make your magical systems with this as your guide, and keep three things in mind:
Constitutional Rule
The rules of your magical system are like the constitution of your story, a pact of trust between the creator, the created, and the consumer. When a government breaks the constitution, it is unconstitutional, aka illegitimate. When an author breaks their constitution, the same thing happens: they lose the trust of the people they made the pact with, and then they lose readers. This happens a lot of ways: the moth eaten comic-book revolving door deaths (I'm looking at you again X-Men, and not in a good way...), rabbit out of the hat abilities that arrive just when they're required (Yeah, not cute) conveniently ignored contradictions or 'retcon' of something for convenience's sake, or plain deus ex machina contrived endings. This is probably the greatest sin against narrative in my book: breaking the rules of the world indiscriminately. Once you've made your rules, THEY ARE MADE. Revise sure, expand on their intricacies and find loopholes, but DO NOT BREAK THE RULES. Don't break your rules because they're inconvenient, find a clever work around. Don't break your rules for shock effect: it's demeaning to you and your readers. Don't break the rules for the sake of drama: 'hey Bob look the new kid can break all the rules we just painstakingly introduced, he must be special!' is deus ex machina and damaging to your story. Because once your rules lose legitimacy, your story loses authenticity and tension. If readers have seen you pull dirty tricks before, they will not believe you when you set up a problem. They'll simply wait skeptically to see what you're going to pull this time.
As a person raised with magic, this one hits home for me. I'm a Pagan, and I grew up with magic. I was doing charms to keep the house safe with my mom at the kitchen table at the age of nine.
From right to left, a protection against bad influences, a house protection charm and a protection against violent humans.
And about the first thing you learn is that the law of conservation of mass isn't just for science. In real magic, the results you get are directly proportional to the trouble you take. My grandma told me time and again, 'you get what you put in.' which is pretty much the law of conservation of mass in plain language. And she was right. So when writing magic in your comics, think about how much energy goes into what your characters are doing. Got a character who flies without wings? What's doing it? And please, please don't just say magic. Nothing makes me roll my eyes more than stories where stuff just 'magically!' happens. This is lazy writing. Not magic. You don't have to know physics or get technical, but if your character is throwing giant boulders around, somebody's going to ask where that power comes from. Have an answer and a price. This can go all the way from the magically gentle systems of 'Avatar', Tamora Pierce's The Circle books or Diane Duane's The Young Wizard Series (by far my favorite example of a magic system out there!) that rely on channeling the dynamic powers of nature and natural law through yourself to make something happen, to the terrible price magic makes the users pay in stories like Simon R. Green's The Nightside Series and Garth Nix's spine chilling Abhorsen books. But remember that there's a price; years of study, tons of energy, even life. Energy comes from somewhere. It doesn't just appear.
In old fashioned terms, to each thing its price
Magic is a trait, a force, a gift and a responsibility. It is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. When it's used as one, the story isn't fun any more. When everything is fixed with supernatural ease, your characters are impossible to relate to and your story devolves into a series of pretty pictures instead of a gripping narrative. If magic fixes everything, there's nothing left to say. End of story.
Two parts Respect
To balance out all the ingredients of your magical world, add respect. When you respect your source material, you don't pull a Supernatural and screw over every mythological concept you get your dirty mitts on. When you respect your audience, you don't write in contradictions, conveniently 'forget' or 'find' new abilities for your characters at the drop of a hat with the thought 'eh, nobody will notice'. When you respect their intelligence, you don't create contrived situations or poor explanations. When you respect the magic you create, it will work for you.
One Part Beauty
And now that we're over the hard and heavy stuff, let's talk about making magic in comics PRETTY!
Comics are a visual medium, and it's the artist's job to get the magic across. It doesn't have to be neon red sparkles. In fact, it can be quite subtle: just one thing out of place can do it. 'K and P' is a master of this.
Sparkles are pretty useful though, and used well they can get magic across beautifully. Color is also a really useful tool. If you remember that darker colors recede and brighter colors come to the fore, you can make a lot of use of the way the human brain works. If you put bright, hot colors denoting magic over muddier colors of the real world, you can make magic seem to pop or float just above the page. Color contrasts can denote power as well, as in this example from the comic 'West':
if you prefer the more sigil-driven forms of magic, there's a LOT out there you can do. You can start with alchemist's symbols, which look mysterious but are frankly just shorthand for the periodic table. If you like glyphs, here are links to several great brush patterns:
Arcane Runes
Arcane Circles
Hand Drawn Runes
And there's a lot more hiding out there; for this purpose, Deviantart is a great resource. A character drawing or chalking arcane symbols is always exciting, and if you use an airbrush to layer such sigil brushes over an image, the sigil will have an unreal, floating look, great for magic drawn with light in the air or cast as a spell. Play with it, try it out, and you'll get some pretty great results.
A Pinch Of Wonder
As a last note now that I've railed on and on about rules and regs, remember as a creator that magic at its heart is about wonder. Have fun. Create something that delights you, that intrigues you. If you are in wonder, your readers will be too.
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Translator of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, available at the Bureau of Public Secrets website.
Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading. Brilliant but autocratic, Debord helped both unify situationist praxis and destroy its expansion into areas not explicitly in line with his own ideas. His text The Society of the Spectacle remains today one of the great theoretical works on modern-day capital, cultural imperialism, and the role of mediation in social relationships.
Debord,
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2002 translation.
The Society of the Spectacle @ Bureau of Public Secrets
Translator's Note to the 2002 translation
There have been several previous English translations of The Society of the Spectacle. I have gone through them all and have retained whatever seemed already to be adequate. In particular, I have adopted quite a few of Donald Nicholson-Smith's renderings, though I have diverged from him in many other cases. His translation (Zone Books, 1994) and the earlier one by Fredy Perlman and John Supak (Black and Red, 1977) are both in print, and both can also be found at the Situationist International Online website.
La Societé du Spectacle
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“Antisocial Media” is a remix/cut-up/utopian-plagiarism of Guy Debord’s 1967 “The Society of the Spectacle” that reflects on the role of the network and (anti)social media in political, economic, and everyday life. Ian Allen Paul, 2017.
Media, Activism and Society of the Spectacle
Our ability to move into a collectively imagined future has been trapped in an ever-present now, composed of continually transmitted images. The spectacle accompanies us throughout our lives. News, propaganda, advertising, entertainment and social media present a continuous stream of imagery, projecting a constant justification for how our culture is formulated. When Guy Debord first published The Society of the Spectacle in 1967, the digital revolution was still decades away and the technological capacity to project images into every corner of our lives was far less developed than it is today. The spectacle is no longer simply all of the time; it is also everywhere. More than ever before, Debord's words apply: "Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation."
activism,
Antisocial Media
“Antisocial Media” is a remix/cut-up/utopian-plagiarism of Guy Debord’s 1967 “The Society of the Spectacle” that reflects on the role of the network and (anti)social media in political, economic, and everyday life.
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Art and Politics
The Situationist Movement can be seen as an artistic avant-garde, as an experimental investigation of possible ways for freely constructing everyday life, and as a contribution to the theoretical and practical development of a new revolutionary contestation. From now on, any fundamental cultural creation, as well as any qualitative transformation of society, is contingent on the continued development of this sort of interrelated approach.
The Game of War - The Film
Bookfair 2010 Interview with Dr. Richard Barbrook
We Demand The Impossible:
An Interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon
Furtherfield interview with Gavin Grindon and John Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination about the User's Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible. Published by Minor Compositions.
participatory media,
The XYZ of Net Activism
It's time to create the pop stars of activism,
the idoru of communication guerrilla,
it's time to threaten and charm the
masses by the ghosts coming from the
net, to play the myth against the myth,
to be more nihilist than infoteinment!
- etoy -
What is Meme Warfare?
Unshackle the Human Spirit!
The most precious natural resource is human spirit. A close second is human imagination. Spirit and imagination will do more than oil, gold and guns to determine the fate of the human experiment on Earth, an experiment that has never been as precarious as it is today.
tactical reality,
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Tactical Media and the End of the End of History
As a playful, do-it-yourself approach to media activism and new technologies, tactical media (TM) seemed to have some critical bite when it emerged in the mid-1990s. But is it still radical today?
The revolution WILL be broadcast - at least locally
This essay provides a short and insightful overview of alternative television projects in the Italy of Berlusconi.
tactical television,
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Big fish hardly in menu EDITORIAL 10/25/2010
Big fish hardly in menu
Among Noynoy’s campaign commitments, what resounds most to many was his pledge to haul all the country’s biggest tax evaders and smugglers to jail, adding that he already has a list of those that his administration would go after once he gets to power.
He said that tax cheats would be the first target of his administration to show that it is moving through what he calls “daang matuwid” or straight path.
When he assumed power, with all braggadocio, he and his economic officials said the list of tax cheats will unravel with a big fish to be prosecuted weekly, or alternately between the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BoC).
Noynoy appears to have lost the list more than 100 days into his administration as those charged for the past many weeks since the administration’s pledge of frying a big fish each week are mostly the usual penny-ante business crooks and many other small businesses who seem to have gotten used to dealing with fixers in both the BIR and the BoC and now are being thrown into the pyre to come up with the weekly tax cheat quota..... MORE
No special treatment? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 10/25/2010
No special treatment?
Malacañang appears to be having a difficult time explaining Noynoy Aquino’s “Lacson case is not my priority” statement, which was followed by Justice Chief Leila de Lima’s announcement that she would no longer form a special task force to search for the fugitive Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, as the Palace has been reduced to saying that these two statements do not translate to signs that Noynoy is coddling Lacson.
The trouble is that Noynoy does not seem to realize, even at this late date, that which he says will be taken as a subliminal directive by his subalterns.
Therefore, when he says Lacson is not my priority, De Lima, who is perceived by most to be out of the Noynoy loop — given the fact that he ignored her hard-earned probe of the Aug. 23 hostage crisis that led to the death of eight Hong Kong tourists, and her recommended sanctions, as well as the amnesty promulgation to the rebels wherein De Lima was not even consulted — it is fairly logical for anyone to conclude that there’s no great need for the Justice department and its agency — such as the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to make the search for Lacson a priority.
And because it is not a priority for Noynoy, speculation rises that Noynoy is coddling Lacson.
The other reason there are such speculations that continue is that not too long ago, during a development in the court case against Lacson, where a witness, Glenn Dumlao, was reported to have claimed that Lacson was not aware of the plans to have publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito killed, Noynoy quickly reacted and said something to the effect that Lacson must be given due process..... MORE
Feminism, war and silence fuel domestic abuse in Finland FEATURE 10/25/2010
Feminism, war and silence fuel domestic abuse in Finland
HELSINKI — Until her husband slammed his fist into her face and knocked her to the floor, Taru never thought she would fit the particularly Finnish profile of a dominant yet battered wife.
“I opened my eyes and saw all the blood on my hands, on the floor. I don’t remember everything because I was in shock,” 33-year-old Taru, not her real name, told AFP.
It’s a scenario that underlines a Finnish paradox: in a country that is a pioneer of gender equality, with a national stereotype of iron-willed women, one in 10 females have been abused at home, according to government data.
European Union statistics show that nearly 40 percent of Finns know a friend or relative who is abused at home, nearly double the European Union average of 25 percent.
Experts explain this puzzle by piecing together a psychological profile of a society where private matters are kept private, where men have had violence drilled into them through five 20th-century wars, and where women feel like failures if they cannot rescue themselves..... MORE
Consumer revolt overdue DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 10/25/2010
Consumer revolt overdue
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
Last Sept. 29, Meralco announced the strong likelihood of its exceeding the company’s core net income target of P11 billion for 2010. Set on top of its reported P7-billion income for 2009, this is already well beyond a whopping 60-percent profit growth that’s sure to signal a lot more happier days for the power firm.
Meralco’s chief financial officer highlighted the company’s power sales volume growth of 11.7 percent in an attempt to justify its astronomical earnings. The official statement says that “volumes are much higher on an accumulative basis… (and that) today it’s greater than last year in terms of energy sold… (therefore, making it) the main driver.” But frankly, this is a load of BS.
First of all, virtually all sectors have been tightening up on power consumption. My own business, for instance, has had to shut down some huge kitchen exhaust fans and office air-conditioners to cut down on power bills. In my home, I have rationed everyone’s use of air-conditioning and replaced our old side-by-side no-frost ref with a smaller manual defrost one that saves on consumption by almost half. Secondly, neither industrial nor commercial, nor any household statistics, can buttress that alleged 11.7-percent jump — which, honestly, is still 50 percent short of the projected income growth.
Meralco’s claim is simply a big fat lie to cushion the impact of its obscene profit. It also adds: “Another reason that contributes to the growth is the mix of our customers. There is a difference to their rates.”
But then, after all these diversionary claims, the true reason for the shoot-up, which is hardly covered by media, finally surfaced when “the official also cited the rate increases granted by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) as another reason for the growth in income.” Ahh!
Meralco’s distribution charge was hiked twice since 2009 (P0.27 and P0.269/kWh) for a cumulative increase of almost 50 percent granted by the ERC under the new Performance-Based Rate (PBR) setting mechanism.
The PBR allows Meralco to charge rates based on “projected investments and operating expenses related to the distribution of electricity,” or rates based on investments and costs it has yet to make or incur years into the future.
It’s like vegetable vendors charging the prices of next year today, by citing equipment purchases yet to be made as well as fertilizer cost hikes and typhoon damages still to come. The thing is, with such mercenary vendors, we can just give them “the finger” and proceed to the next stall that prices its goods based on today’s costs.
But with the monopoly of electricity in the Meralco franchise area, we have no choice but to buy power from that company no matter how onerous, exploitative, abusive, exorbitant and oppressive its rates are — thanks to the ERC.
Last Oct. 13, Aquino III’s Energy Secretary Jose Almendras announced that government had “solved” the Mindanao power shortage. But most do not know the big “1-2-3” behind that claim:
An El Niño weather crisis was predicted by meteorologists in 2009 for the current year, which the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. was well aware of. Despite this, the National Power Corp. was given the green light to sell power barges (PB) 117 and 118 at about the same time to the Aboitiz group.
It’s as if nobody thought that Mindanao was going to be effectively deprived of some 200 megawatts of power from these PBs, especially since these were instrumental in easing the power crisis during Cory and Ramos’ time when they were acquired in 1994.
So when the El Niño drought finally fell upon Mindanao in February 2010, the depletion of water in hydro plants Agus and Polangui resulted in five- to eight-hour brownouts that led to terrible losses in business and employment.
Thereafter, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), which took control of the publicly-owned Transmission Corp. or TransCo after privatization, immediately entered into a so-called Ancillary Services Procurement Agreement (ASPA) with Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Inc. (TMI), wherein the latter, with the use of PB117 and PB118, would supply “additional” power to the Mindanao grid.
The NGCP then applied for a power rate adjustment as part of the ASPA application; afterwhich, the ERC gave it a provisional authority (PA) to raise its rates. This way, TMI will get paid as the monies will have to be collected from the electric utilities and consumers’ pockets.
But that’s not all. The capital recovery fee of $30 million calculated by TMI for the two barges when these were purchased was raised to $84.7 million — or increased threefold after being transferred from the government to the private sector, for a windfall of P3 billion!
Furthermore, the new ASPA charges were set over 10 times higher than the average 2009 NGCP monthly rates. These are aside from the fact that there was no competitive bidding at all in favor of TMI and little public consultation prior to the issuance of the PA.
A coalition of Mindanao congressmen thus reported on the real cost of this claimed “solution” by Almendras: “The electricity bills in Mindanao have virtually doubled from March to April and May this year. In 2009, we paid P49.70 per kWh/month. However, last April we paid P360 per kWh/month and P606 per kWh/month in May 2010. This had caused untold sufferings and hardships to our people in Mindanao, especially the poor.”
At about the same time as that Almendras boast, consumer advocates Pete Ilagan of Nasecore, maverick power entrepreneur Jojo Borja from Mindanao, lawyer Nelson Loyola of CCI, 89-year-old Lamp leader Mang Naro Lualhati, and writer Butch Junia, who called for the abolition of the ERC recently, were all at the hearing on ERC Case No. 2010-069-RC — on the, hold your breath… “Application for Approval of the Annual Revenue Requirement and Performance Incentive Scheme for the Third Regulatory Period” — in other words, the proposed Meralco rates for years 2011-2015.
In the proposal, four million of us ordinary consumers will be slapped with an additional P2.8564/kWh while Meralco’s large customers, including mall owners such as SM, Robinsons, Ayala and Rockwell will be charged only P0.2205/kWh, or 10 times less!
With ABS-CBN and TV5 in the power oligarchs’ hands, plus the fact that Meralco stockholders are the biggest advertisers in media, the power consuming public may never get hold of these facts. It’s time all of us realize how we are being fleeced as consumers for our revolt has long been overdue!
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; watch “Power Consumers’ Revolt Long Overdue!” with Pete Ilagan, Butz Junia, and Mang Naro on Talk News TV with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on Global News Network, Destiny Cable Channel 21; visit our blogs, http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
House to probe HGC deals BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 10/25/2010
House to probe HGC deals
BLURBAL THRUSTS
Louie Logarta
At long last, someone with the gumption to duke it out with the Home Guaranty Corp. (HGC) over several alleged questionable deals that over the years resulted in billions in taxpayers’ money uselessly going down the drain.
This distinction goes to Rep. Bernadette Herrera of the Bagong Henerasyon party-list group who had recently filed House Bill 549 calling for an honest-to-goodness probe into the activities of a slew of past and present HGC officials which had put the national government “in a highly disadvantageous position.”
In her bill, Herrera said the government sustained substantial losses amounting to several billions arising from several allegedly anomalous financial transactions entered into by HGC starting in 2002.
The HGC, she said, should have been a profitable enterprise if it had only been managed properly, thus the imperative need for the Lower House to look into, inquire and investigate its performance in light of persistent reports regarding alleged unscrupulous transactions “to ferret out the truth in the interest of justice and in aid of remedial legislation.”.... MORE
Choices are few HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 10/25/2010
Choices are few
Aldrin Cardon
Just as I did last May, I will cast my vote today as a silent declaration of my choices for the select men and women who could become leaders of my community.
Hopefully, our neighborhood would know the winners in the very first local elections under Noynoy Aquino’s watch just several hours after sunset.
I will vote because it is my obligation to my country. And I will try my best to make the right choices for my community, which is the most basic of social groupings outside of our families.
The balangay, or barangay, was the symbol of civilized communities even before Magellan’s fleet arrived on the beaches of Limasawa. And it was the balangay, led by it chieftain Lapu-Lapu, who slew the giants who would rule us for three centuries. I believe it was the last instance when the balangay proved its strength and independence.
Boholano chieftains Sikatuna and Sigala had become collaborators of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in establishing a permanent Spanish settlement in Cebu, and so began 300 years of their oppressive conquest, which, on the positive side, welded a nation that was to become the Philippines..... MORE
Barangay elections SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 10/25/2010
Dinah S. Ventura
Barangays are busy today, with the elections of barangay officials and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) finally upon us after much anticipation...er, among those running for positions, that is.
For the most part, ordinary folks have barely lifted their heads from their daily grind to blearily peer at those uber-enthusiastic individuals eager to shake their hands. These smiling faces have lately inflicted their cheer onto citizens who happen by. Some had wondered why posters suddenly defaced their landscape anew, or why their Sunday mornings were disrupted with the aural onslaught of election jingles turned full-blast...for hours!
And just when you thought you could no longer stand the noise pollution (or maybe you have started to hum the useless lyrics while walking to the bathroom to express just what you think of them), it stops. Blessed quiet...and that’s usually what happens too after these folks have been elected, smiling cheerfully into their barangay offices, never to be heard from again...
That’s not to say all barangay officials — and the SK teams, too, for that matter — are there in name only. Some of them do work hard to serve their constituents. In some cases, however, they aren’t much help to communities. In one Quezon City barangay, for example, a series of house break-ins had been bothering a local neighborhood. This area used to be so safe even though it was not a gated community, but in recent years, robberies had disturbed the residents so much that some of them consulted with each other to raise money to build some kind of common protection for their community..... MORE
Palace raises VFA review; US releases $.8M in aid By Michaela P. del Callar 10/25/2010
Palace raises VFA review; US releases $.8M in aid
With the Palace, yesterday, drumming up a review of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) the country has with the US government, US Ambassador Harry Thomas unveiled yesterday $800,000 in additional disaster relief assistance for victims of super typhoon “Juan” at the same time extolling the VFA that he said was instrumental in the quick deployment of US soldiers in responding to relief and rescue operations on typhoon victims.
Thomas said funding will come from the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), bringing the total in typhoon aid offered to $900,000. A donation of $100,000 was made by Washington last week.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said the Aquino administration is committed to a thorough review of the (VFA) so that refinements can be introduced to ensure that the country obtains the maximum benefits of the bilateral agreement.
“The VFA was envisioned to be a mutually beneficial agreement that would serve the interests of both our country and the United States,” said Ochoa, who also chairs the Presidential Commission on the VFA. “The President, however, believes that a review is necessary because we must evaluate whether we are getting the most out of the VFA,” he added..... MORE
Calls mount for Soliman probe over bonds mess By Gerry Baldo and Pat C. Santos 10/25/2010
DSWD CHIEF BREAKS DOWN AT FORUM
Calls mount for Soliman probe over bonds mess
By Gerry Baldo and Pat C. Santos 10/25/2010
Calls for the Philippine Truth Commission (PTC) to probe Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman and other members of the Aquino Cabinet who figured in the P10-billion Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificate (PEACe) bonds scam mounted yesterday as three members of the House of Representatives joined Sen. Edgardo Angara in the proposal.
The PEACe bonds are set to mature next year and for the original P10 billion bonds issued, the government will have to pay P37 billion because of interests.
Soliman used to head the group Caucus of NGO Networks (Code NGO) which earned P1.4 billion in commissions from the issue of government-guaranteed zero-coupon bonds in 2001 that were called PEACe bonds. The bond scheme was allegedly conceptualized by a group headed by Marissa Camacho-Reyes, the sister of Arroyo’s former Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho.
Lawmakers said that Soliman and other members of the Arroyo Cabinet should be among those investigated by the Truth Commission..... MORE
25 dead in run-up to village polls, 110,000 cops to man elections — PNP 10/25/2010
25 dead in run-up to village polls, 110,000 cops to man elections — PNP
At least 25 persons have been killed in violence related to upcoming village-level elections in the country, the Philippine National Police (PNP) yesterday said.
It came as police imposed tight security for today’s elections in which Filipinos will vote for barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen and council members in the nation’s 42,000 villages, police spokesman Senior Supt. Agrimero Cruz said.
Police records show 25 persons had been killed and 10 wounded in election-related violence since the campaign period began last Sept. 25, he told reporters.
“We have been on full alert since Saturday night. We will be setting up security assistance desks in all voting centres to ensure honest, orderly and peaceful elections,” Cruz said.
Also, the PNP said 85 percent of the 135,000-strong PNP will be deployed to man police assistance desks (PADs) to be established in 42,000 barangays nationwide for today’s synchronized barangay and SK elections..... MORE
Solons to Palace: Identify source, get supplement By Angie M. Rosales 10/25/2010
Solons to Palace: Identify source, get supplement
Legislators are not keen on providing Malacañang with a supplemental budget to fund rehabilitation efforts on parts of the country affected by super typhoon “Juan” unless the Palace identify the source of additional funds for the proposal.
Unless Malacañang has available funds, coming up with a supplemental budget to cover the damage brought by typhoon Juan is not feasible, senators said yesterday.
“That (proposition) is somewhat problematic. They (Malacanang) have to identify the source of present revenue to support the supplemental budget. We have no new taxes now so where will you draw up funds to support the supplemental budget? It has to be certified by the national treasury, the availability of funds,” Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said.
Sen. Edgardo Angara shared the position, adding that before any calls for a supplemental budget, the Executive Branch must first review records whether there remains some of the P11 billion additional appropriations Congress approved last year following the onslaught of typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng.”
“We rushed the approval of that supplementary budget in Nov. last year. It’s possible that it was not released. That was a standby authorization. They can make use of it because it covers other calamity (cases). Because time is of the essence, we should carefully study if we can tap that standby authorization,” Angara said..... MORE
No need to rush foreign postings for former AFP brass, Noy told By Mario J. Mallari 10/25/2010
No need to rush foreign postings for former AFP brass, Noy told
While they don’t see anything wrong with the appointment of retired military and police officials to civilian positions, concerned military sources said at least three years of retirement should be observed by the appointing au-thority to avoid speculations that such move is a political payback for loyalty.
Aside from allowing former military and police officers to adjust to civilian life, Tribune sources, who requested anonymity, said such appointment could erase doubts that such move is reward from the appoint-ing authority.
“It’s about time that we stop this practice of immediately appointing recently retired police and military officers to civilian posts… it’s hard to justify even the appointment was done in good faith,” one source said.
“They (retired police and military officers) should be allowed to retire for at least three years to adjust to civilian life and avoid speculations of being rewarded for being loyal to certain individual,” he added.
“President Aquino, with a very clear mandate… so he has the moral ascendancy to stop this malpractice,” the source noted..... MORE
Miriam falls on stage at Turkey forum 10/25/2010
Miriam falls on stage at Turkey forum
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who has been suffering from hypothyroidism, yesterday fell on stage while she was about to deliver her speech in a conference in Istanbul, Turkey.
According to a statement issued by her office, the lawmaker “fell on stage, picked herself, and proceeded to deliver a paper after a standing ovation.”
“Santiago, who was examined by doctors after her speech, was declared in stable condition,” it added.
Santiago was in Istanbul to speak before the annual forum of the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA).
The senator, in her speech, urged the Philippines and other countries represented in the PGA to become parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Santiago is the author of a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that President Aquino should send the Rome Statute to the Senate for ratification.
Santiago was invited by the forum organizers at the panel on gender justice and women’s rights..... MORE
Lawmaker’s promulgation this week ‘may be deferred’ — Enrile By Angie M. Rosales 10/25/2010
Lawmaker’s promulgation this week ‘may be deferred’ — Enrile
It will be to the best interest of all parties concerned that promulgation of the case of detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV later this week, be deferred, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday.
Enrile was quick to emphasize though that he’s not trying to dictate upon the courts, underscoring the independence of a co-equal branch.
“It’s up to the courts if they want to leave the matter, since there’s already the proclamation of the President and the support of Congress – the two branches of government, they are acting on the same subject matter – it depends upon the court if they will continue or defer and leave it to the political departments of the government to resolve the issue, instead of the issue being resolved by the judicial department,” the upper chamber chief said in an interview over at dzBB.
“But I will not say what the courts should do. It’s up to them. We must respect the independence of the court. It’s up to him to make a decision on his own, that’s why he’s the judge, he’s there.
“But if I’m in his position, well I will postpone the promulgation. What is one month, two months compared to several years of hearings?” he pointed out..... MORE
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Living in a fantasy world Written by Tribune Editorial Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:00
Written by Tribune Editorial
Noynoy’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) was, for the third time running, a rehash of his inaugural speech, using his usual meaningless “you are my boss” claim; his usual no wang-wang spiel, his Gloria and her allies corruption bashing and his mantra of change, which he now claims has already come about.
As usual, his biggest claimed achievement was his fight against corruption, which hasn’t succeeded at all.
His list of “achievements” is a big joke, considering the fact that these are expected of any administration which are no achievements to speak of, as these are what governments, locla and national are supposed to do, such as “roads are straight and level, and properly paved”; relief goods are ready even before a storm arrives, rescue services are always on stand-by; people are no longer left to fend for themselves, and all that blather that can’t be categorized as any form of presidential achievement as these are all micro projects in the scheme of governmental things.
Repairing roads is an achievement for Noynoy? People are no longer left to fend for themselves? Crime is down? Corruption is over?
Truth is, despite the figures presented by him, there was no road map presented. Where are we as a nation going? In the absence of a road map, obviously, the nation is still in the dark.
Noynoy did give specific details on certain social programs, with a spin . How is he to achieve it, funding wise?.... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/1983-living-in-a-fantasy-world
Nothing is possible under Noy Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Nothing is possible under Noy
Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Nothing — especially unity among Filipinos — is possible under a Noynoy presidency, despite his State of the Nation Address (Sona) claim that nothing is impossible if “Filipinos see that they are the only ‘bosses’ of their government; they will carry you; they will guide you; they themselves will lead you to meaningful change.”
While he speaks of united Filipinos, he continues with his way of constantly dividing the people into “them” and “us,” “us” being his allies that can do no wrong, even when they clearly have been committing too many wrongs; and “them” being his political foes, whom he blames tp hide all his failures.
How does he expect to unite the people, when he keeps harping on the past, and gauges his so-called accomplishments and achievements on charging and jailing his political foes, while quickly absolving his friends and political allies, which too many see as a contradiction of his overrated daang matuwid that has gone wayward?
His Sona harked back to ancient history, when he spoke of the martial law years that he and his family suffered under the Marcos dictatorship, even mentioning that he was a 12-year-old when martial law was imposed. He made it sound as if it was only he and his family who suffered under martial law, when many more Filipinos did — under even more tragic circumstances..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/1982-nothing-is-possible-under-noy
Iran threatens to ‘strike out’ at any intervention in Syria
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has friends in the region poised “to strike out” in the event of an intervention into Syria, says a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The warning was particularly sent to “hated” Arab countries.
“None of Syria's friends or the great front of resistance has yet entered the scene, and in the event that this happens, decisive blows will be struck at the enemy, especially the hated Arab rulers,” Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, a spokesman of the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fars news agency.
No country in particular was mentioned. Iran remains a key ally of official Damascus, while leaders of such Gulf countries as Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Qatar openly support Syrian rebels.... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/iran-strike-intervention-syria-960/
Syrian rebels’ ‘liberate Aleppo’ campaign enters fourth day
The Syrian army has had to evacuate residents from several areas in the commercial hub of Aleppo as sporadic gunfire intensified, reports RT’s Oksana Boyko. Other sources say attack helicopters were sent to deal with the rebels in the northern city.
Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, had long remained immune to the 17-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. This held true until four days ago when rebels launched a “liberate Aleppo” offensive in the city of three million.
“Sources in Aleppo report clashes in four suburbs. Residents took refuge at several university campuses,” reports RT’s correspondent in Syria, Oksana Boyko, in her Twitter microblog..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/aleppo-syria-rebels-helicopters-970/
Increasing traffic in the waters of Sri Lanka threatens blue whales
Pravda photo
Large numbers of animals have been killed by collisions with boats and propellers. Scientists fear that cetacean watching tourism is the cause...
In early April, whale watchers off the southern coast of Sri Lanka had a disturbing vision: the lifeless body of a blue whale 60 feet long floating in the water about 20 miles offshore.
The body was quickly becoming swollen and there were fish-louse sucking all the animal's skin. Even more disturbing was the condition of the tail which had been almost completely severed from the body.
"It was very clear it was caused by the propeller of a boat," said Mazdak Radjainia, structural biologist and underwater photographer, University of Auckland, New Zealand, who found the whale by chance. "It must have been a very cruel death, because the damage was enormous."..... MORE
Source: Pravda.ru
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/24-07-2012/121715-whales_alert-0/
Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos economics are the same
By IBON Features
In his upcoming third State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno Aquino III will surely attempt to highlight how the Philippine economy has improved under his watch to show how his administration is an improvement over its predecessor.
Pres. Aquino will bring to the fore supposed economic successes such as the 6.4% first quarter growth in gross domestic product (GDP), increased budgets for social services, expanded coverage of the conditional cash transfers, and progress under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program. The president may also highlight the country’s so-called creditor nation status with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The SONA may also be an occasion to boast about more Filipinos being lifted from poverty, more lands distributed to farmers, and additional living allowances for workers.
The reality behind the so-called gains must however be assessed before concluding that the Aquino administration has indeed been the much-sought change following former Pres. Arroyo’s legacy of corruption and erosion of the people’s general welfare. Nearly ten years of the Arroyo regime saw an unprecedented rise in joblessness and poverty, growing inequality, eroding domestic production and fiscal troubles all anchored on a chain of policies that catered to local and foreign business interests. Do current indicators show a reversal of trends? More importantly, have government policies done an about-face in favor of the Filipino people?
Economic direction
Like the Arroyo administration, the Aquino government has refused to reverse any of the neoliberal policies that have caused such damage to the economy. These policies have kept the Philippine economy underdeveloped and are designed to suit the needs of the domestic elite and foreign business rather than of the Filipino people.
The entrenchment of globalization policies that have made the Philippine economy up for grabs by local and transnational firms cannot be downplayed. The removal of trade barriers has resulted in the unabated importation of cheap goods including those which the country can produce. The Philippines now has among the lowest tariffs in Asia. Under Aquino’s term, quantitative restrictions on the importation of rice are set to be lifted in accordance with commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The government has also become even more liberal towards investments in agriculture, industries and services..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/23/exclusionary-economics-how-aquino-and-arroyos-economics-are-the-same/
Groups hit Senate’s ratification of military pact with Australia
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
MANILA — Solidarity Groups in Australia were quick to denounce the Philippine Senate as the latter ratified the Australia-RP Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) on July 24, 2012.The groups represent Filipino migrants in Australia, overseas Filipino workers and students, Australians of Filipino descent and citizens and residents of Australia.
“Let us not embroil peace-loving Australians in internal conflicts in the Philippines. Filipinos and Australians have never been involved in any form of hostilities. The presence of Australian troops is a potential to a shooting war. A shooting war will raise animosities between our two peoples. Ten of thousands of Filipinos in Australia, migrants and citizens, will only fall victims to indiscriminate hate that may result from any escalation of armed hostilities in the Philippines,” they said.
The Senate adopted the resolution concurring with President Benigno Aquino III’s ratification of the SOVFA through a vote of 17-1. The Senate adopted Senate Resolution 788 despite the protest of Senator Joker Arroyo. Arroyo’s position is that the SOVFA would not benefit the Philippines.
“The Senate cannot simply not concur in treaties if other contracting parties have no consideration of the country’s interests. The Aquino administration only wants this ratified because of the country’s dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea,” he was quoted as saying in earlier reports.
Arroyo questioned the Aquino’s support for the SOVFA and said that it was questionable why the Philippine government was enlisting the help of Australia when it is so far away and already an ally of the United States.
“Although the agreement is not a defense pact, its symbolism cannot be lost on China. Let us not grab at straws. We must persevere,” he said on reports in GMA-7 news.
Another senator who previously took a stand against the SOVFA is Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, but she was absent during the voting. Santiago based her opposition on her reading that the SOVFA was “vague” in its provisions and that it risks putting the Philippines at a disadvantage..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/24/groups-hit-senates-ratification-of-military-pact-with-australia/
Gov’t summons envoy over China build-up
Written by Angie M. Rosales
SENATE SIGNS NEW MILITARY TREATY WITH U.S. ALLY
China’s presence build-up in the South China Sea has raised alarms in government, prompting the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to summon yesterday the Chinese ambassador to protest against China’s plans to establish a military garrison on the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
The DFA said it summoned Ma Keqing to lodge the complaint, and also to object to the arrival of a military-escorted Chinese fishing fleet near the contested Spratly Islands.
As tension with China was again seen escalating, the Senate sealed the Palace’s ratification of another mutual partnership for the military, which some senators noting its urgency as a result of developments in the South China Sea.
Voting 17-1, senators concurred with Malacañang’s ratification of the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) with Australia, which was signed some two years ago or during the Arroyo administration.
The Chinese defense ministry announced plans to operate troops from Chinese-held Sansha or Woody Island in the Paracels on Monday, a month after Beijing designated the island as China’s administrative centre for both the Paracel and Spratly groups..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2006-gov%E2%80%99t-summons-envoy-over-china-build-up
Noy playing safe on RH earned mostly rebuffs
Written by Pat C. Santos
President Aquino’s ambiguous one-liner to refer to the controversial bill on population control in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) the other day earned criticisms rather than approval from the Church which he is trying to appease but it failed to impress the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which expressed regret over it.
In an official statement posted in the CBCP website, Fr. Melvin Castro said it was clear that the proposed reproductive health (RH) bill or Aquino’s version of it called responsible parenthood is not about health but about birth control.
“We are ending the backlogs in the education sector, but the potential for shortages remains as our student population continues to increase. Perhaps Responsible Parenthood can help address this,” was the only part in the Sona where Aquino referred to the bill.
Deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said the President particularly wanted a consolidated House Bill 4244 to be passed by Congress even before the electoral climate steps in.
Valte described HB 4244 as the consolidated version of six other legislative bills on the controversial reproductive health. The consolidated version has a new title too — Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and for other purposes..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2004-noy-playing-safe-on-rh-earned-mostly-rebuffs
2 AFP officers charged with plunder, torture take key military posts Written by
2 AFP officers charged with plunder, torture take key military posts
Written by Mario J. Mallari
Daily Tribune photo
Two senior military officers facing separate cases of plunder and torture took over key positions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) due to the scheduled forced retirement today of two members of the controversial Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1978.
Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, of PMA Class of 1982 and incumbent deputy commander of the Army’s 9th
Infantry Division, was elevated as acting chief of the 9th ID with the retirement of Maj. Gen. Josue Gaverza, of PMA Class of 1978.
Also taking over as acting commandant of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) was Brig. Gen. Benito de Leon, of PMA Class of 1981, replacing Rear Admiral Victor Emmanuel Martir, also of PMA Class of 1978 which became controversial for having former President and now detained Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo as honorary member..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2002-2-afp-officers-charged-with-plunder-torture-take-key-military-posts
MILF slams police raid on Lanao del Sur base
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has asked the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) to investigate the July 16 raid launched by the Philippine National Police (PNP) elite Special Action Force (SAF) at an MILF base in Lanao del Sur where they allegedly looted civilian properties.
Muhammad Ameen, chairman of the MILF secretariat, said elements of the SAF, supposedly from Region X, conducted a raid at an MILF base in Lanao del Sur purportedly in pursuit of the members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
The MILF claimed that the SAF operatives raided the vicinity of the MILF’s Camp Darussalam in Butig, Lanao del Sur without prior coordination with the secessionist group...... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2000-milf-slams-police-raid-on-lanao-del-sur-base
Supreme Court upholds JBC authority to process applicants for CJ
Written by Benjamin B. Pulta
The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a petition questioning the proceedings before the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to screen the next chief justice.
In a two-page resolution released by the high court yesterday, the SC en banc citing precedents upheld the JBC’s action in accepting applications and nominations for the position of chief justice as well as the President’s power to appoint one as the member of the SC.
Petitioners in the case are Homobono Adaza, Alan Paguia, Herman Tiu Laurel and Uriel Borja..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/1995-supreme-court-upholds-jbc-authority-to-process-applicants-for-cj
Malacañang announces new NBI director
Written by Fernan J. Angeles
Malacañang must have realized that the charter creating the National Bureau of Investigation specifically requires a lawyer for one to qualify as the agency’s director, compelling President Aquino to junk Deputy Customs Commissioner Danny Lim and instead appoint a government prosecutor as the permanent NBI director.
Appointed to the top government detective bureau is Nonnatus Caesar Rojas who, incidentally, has been the NBI officer-in-charge replacing Magtanggol Gatdula who was fired in January after he was linked to the kidnap and extortion of an over-staying Japanese sometime last year..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/1993-malaca%C3%B1ang-announces-new-nbi-director
VP Binay eggs PNP, NBI to step up hunt for Delfin Lee
Written by Tribune
Saying fugitive property developer Delfin Lee “is no Ping Lacson,” Vice President Jejomar Binay yesterday appealed to the Philippine National Police (PNP) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to redouble their efforts to capture Lee who faces arrest for syndicated estafa.
The Vice President issued the appeal after lawyer Willie Rivera, Lee’s counsel, said in a television program that his client is still in the Philippines but is in hiding. Lee’s lawyer also likened the case of his client to Sen. Ping Lacson who went into hiding during the Arroyo administration.
“Delfin Lee is no Ping Lacson. Senator Lacson was a critic of the Arroyo regime while Lee defrauded Pag-Ibig Fund of almost P6 billion by using fake borrowers and fake documents and destroyed the dreams of thousand of working Filipinos,” he said..... MORE
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Sarah Jeffs (UCL Natural Sciences MSci 2014) explains why the King of Falafel, Camden, takes the pitta.
Photograph Alun Callender
The King of Falafel is more than just a vendor of everything your heart desires… smothered in sauce and served with chips and salad
Cancel the air ticket. Unpack your bags. The humble concoction of chickpea and spice may hail from the Middle East, but in my opinion to sample the best falafel in the world you need journey no further than… Camden, and the King of Falafel.
For students, the hunger pangs on the way home at silly o’clock in the morning are a common experience. And whether you were at the halls on Camden Road, lived amongst the punks and the markets, or were simply a fan of the fact that it has a pub on virtually every corner, Camden draws in many a UCL student. The high street is a mecca for late night solutions to your desperate want for something tasty.
So why is the King of Falafel, quite simply, late-night eating establishment royalty and a UCL institution? It could be the sheer diversity of delicacies on offer, from chips and various kebabs to a whole variety of different, authentic chilli sauces. But delicious as these are, it is the falafel that really brings in the crowds. And no wonder. Perfectly crispy on the outside and soft in the middle, these chickpeas have been transformed into heavenly little balls of goodness.
But the King of Falafel, right opposite Camden Town tube station, is more than just a vendor of everything your heart desires, wrapped up, smothered in sauce and served with chips and salad. This place has a familiar and comforting atmosphere. This is in part due to very enthusiastic staff, but owes as much to the fact that, more than likely, you will bump into fellow students, someone you met by the bar or somewhere in the queue on a previous night out.
Importantly, this establishment is un-waveringly loyal. Not for its customers is the angst caused by a shattered dream of chips never eaten: the King remains open all night. By which I really mean well into the day, having visited this establishment post 6am after a very late finishing summer ball, and frequently at other rather anti-social hours.
For the combination of quality food, atmosphere and a willingness to cater to hunger pangs around the clock, the King of Falafel reigns supreme. So should you end up passing through Camden with a desire for a late-night food adventure, you know what to do.
Sarah Jeffs is a CASE intern at UCL.
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Samsung Optical Smart Hub, one to connect to all: Review & Specs
Currently a TV does more than to just watch TV. Many users opt for a digital ecosystem where high definition flat screen is only one element and connectivity has become essential to achieve a satisfactory experience. The Samsung Optical Smart Hub to analyze is presented as the key to bring content from one device to another in the simplest way possible.
At first glance, the Samsung Optical Smart Hub seems more an external optical drive. In fact, just plug it to any USB-compatible device to use it as such, but that is only a tiny part of their duties. Samsung’s proposal makes sense connected to a wireless network, becoming the gateway to our digital content.
A product designed as a center of the digital home
Samsung has opted for a functional, elegant aesthetics and without fanfare. In the back of Samsung Optical Smart Hub we see a patch panel already anticipate the potential of this little device: mini USB port, USB 2.0, making Ethernet and power port. Four small lights on the front at all times informed of their status and a physical button is used to unlock the optical drive tray.
Does it make sense to stream from a DVD if you have to get up to load the disc, like fifteen years ago?
Installing the Samsung Optical Smart Hub is very simple in Windows environment, thanks to the included disc. The software automatically creates a network ad hoc for the device and registers it, without asking the user for any data and in less than 5 minutes. Unfortunately, it is far more complicated work with Mac OS X, though that mark would indicate full compatibility. After the process, the Samsung Optical Smart Hub devices appear on a physical drive.
Once connected, you can access its functions through any device based on iOS or Android (thanks to a specific app) or using a Samsung TV (the best option). The interface is very simple and direct access to the content playback options (via USB or DVD) and the file manager, but we have had problems with certain formats and small crashes the application, we expect to be solved in future updates.
In the test, the Samsung Optical Smart Hub has shown acceptable performance. The streaming content is fluid and seamless, including direct playback from DVD. You can also do remote backups of your mobile devices, thanks to a simple utility called Smart Backup. It should be remembered that, as with any device of this type, we need a broadband wireless network (minimum 6 Mbps) for everything to work with the necessary fluidity.
The Samsung Optical Smart Hub offers mixed feelings. The idea of providing a device for distributing digital content easily seems great but, in practice, some failures hinder the user experience. A priori, we miss a more elaborate software (including mobile app), a desktop client, HDMI output and, by request, support for Blu-ray, physical standard for true HD content.
Technical Specs of Samsung Optical Smart Hub:
Model: Samsung Optical Smart Hub
USB ports, Ethernet
WiFi connectivity, DLNA
DVD Rewriter
150 x 198 x 25 mm, 430 grams of weight.
Price: 129 euros
In order to automate the installation process, Samsung has made this device in a very complicated to install when the scenario is not ideal. The software attempts to take IP addresses that already have other devices and tries to disable the DHCP network, actions that can cause a small catastrophe for users accustomed to dealing with network settings.
On the other hand, we think that the focus on the hardware increasingly less sense. Most users will already have a DVD player in your living room (or any device capable of doing) and it seems difficult to reach using the ability to record to CD or DVD with the data on your phone or tablet. Yes, it works flawlessly as external DVD drive for a laptop but this feature alone justifies a third of its price. On the other hand … is the point of doing streaming from the DVD if you have to get up to insert the disc as fifteen years ago?
The proposal made by Samsung with this product is risky and appreciated the commitment to innovate. However, the limitations mentioned it a product without competition and recommended only for a very small niche market. It’s a DVD player, a streamer, an access point and a system for performing remote backups but the whole is never run because of an immature software and connectivity constraints that should be improved in future revisions of the product.
In summary, we believe the Samsung Optical Smart Hub as an interesting idea and perhaps the first in a series of devices that will aim to liaise between different devices. Hopefully the Korean Company to bet on improving the software and see soon a second review of this idea.
September 2, 2012parimalm hardware, Reviews, Samsung Tags: Hub, Optical Smart Hub, Samsung, Samsung Optical Smart, Samsung Optical Smart Hub, Samsung Optical Smart Hub features, Samsung Optical Smart Hub price, Samsung Optical Smart Hub release date, Samsung Optical Smart Hub specs, what is Samsung Optical Smart Hub -
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General Press Release : 16 Feb 2018
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“It’s all about funk, disco and house” – Dompe drops his longplayer “Hippie Crack” on Jackfruit Recordings
Who said that da new Long player must consist by Intros, Outros and Off-Tracks – that all lies in the eye of the beholder and depends on his perspective. It must be honest and has to odd pictures in the heads. Dompe succeeded that in a perfect way. At the beginning of May, he will release his latest album named “Hippie Crack” on his own Label Jackfruit Recordings.
“Hippie Crack” – music is our drug – it makes us happy and gives us the chance to flee from the gray and ordinary daily routine. These 12 Tracks are highly addictively. Close your eyes, dance and time can be forgotten. Back to the roots – back to good old house music tunes, simple but not easy produced. The Dompe Style has not to be described on more details; Again, and again full of different facets. These tracks are as always full of summer vibes und carried by lots of samples with plenty of old-school-sounds. All tracks from the Album tell a story, can be listen to at home or also in the club. It starts with love and full of harmony, before it changes the chill mood the clubbing sounds. All in all, the complete package is very atmospheric. Like a good gig the sounds it goes harder step by step and at its best it comes to an end. From the front till the back a project with a high intention – one of DOMPES heart wishes was a cover designed by Bringmann & Kopetzki. The result is a perfect comic version of DOMPE and that’s a banger. So, “Hippie Crack” isn’t only a musically hot shit, but also a visual highlight.
trndmsk: How long did it take you to produce the album?
Dompe: I am in the studio about four days a week – so I can´t really say how long it took to produce the album. I collected lots of tracks and the idea to release an album came very spontaneously – it’s all about funk, disco and house.
How did you choose the title of the LP?
I read an article about “Hippy Crack” and then I played on words and so “Hippie Crack” was born.
Is there a special meaning behind it?
I like the pun and I think it describes my music.
What inspired you to produce the tracks and the LP?
Long rides on my bicycle listening to old Disco and Funk Tracks, after that I listened to all my old 90s house stuff – and I remembered that I really love that dirty and rough sounds. That inspired me a lot.
Where and how did you produce the tracks?
It’s real house music, because my little and cozy studio is at home.
How was the feedback so far?
It´s amazing – I was very surprised in a positive way! I have already discovered some tracks from the album played by named artists like Claptone for example.
Why did you choose Bringmann & Kopetziki for the cover artwork?
I am a really big fan of the artwork from Bringmann & Kopetziki for 20 years– I have all comic books from the boys and I collected all the flyers of the “Stammheim” – because they are so funny and unique. A cover designed by these two crazy guys was a dream of mine, so I wrote an Email and asked if they are interested. They were interested and so a dream came true. The initial sketch was a hit already.
Why did you release on your label Jackfruit?
I didn’t want to make any compromises in any kind. I wanted to choose the tracks I want to have on the album, I want to choose the cover and all that stuff – so the decision was clear, that I will release on my own label.
And I also didn’t want to do third party rights. For me it was very important that the Album is a double vinyl and just for fun I decided to do some tapes – I didn’t have to ask for, so for me it was the one and only way. And I also want that our little imprint will grow step by step- since the first release we are on a good way and the sale of all my vinyl release is fine, too. Why should I go to someone else?
What’s up next after the release?
There will be a release on the Materials Sublabel PlaymobilL and I am working on some remixes – one will be a track for Bergholder on 3000 Grad. But I have more than ten new tracks and so I can choose what to do this these ones. There is no stress.
Any plans and projects?
Producing dirty house tunes all the time!
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Report on Dukono (Indonesia) — June 2004
Dukono (Indonesia) Despite ongoing volcanism, a paucity of MODVOLC thermal alerts after 2002
Based on MODVOLC thermal alert data, Coppola and Rothery had previously reported a significant thermal event during 26 August-7 September 2002 (BGVN 28:03). This was the first sign of activity at Dukono since the inception of MODVOLC data in May 2000. Subsequent reports from the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia and the Darwin VAAC (BGVN 28:06, 28:09, and 28:11) documented ash eruptions in February and June-December 2003.
An updated analysis of MODVOLC data covering the period August 2000-April 2004 confirmed the August-September 2002 event by the addition of thermal alerts from NASA's Aqua satellite (26 August, 6 and 7 September 2002), but found very little sign of activity subsequently throughl the end of April 2004. During the whole period since September 2002 the only thermal alerts were single-pixel events, only slightly above the MODVOLC detection threshold, on 1 March and 10 November 2003. Inspection of raw MODIS data revealed an additional anomaly on 17 November 2003 with an alert ratio slightly below the MODVOLC detection threshold. The scarcity of thermal alerts at Dukono despite recurrent ash eruptions indicated the general invisibility (or small size) of any hot feature at the source, such as an incandescent vent or lava dome.
Data acquisition and analysis. Reports from Diego Coppola and David A. Rothery provided analyses of MODIS thermal alerts during 2001 and 2002 (using the MODVOLC alert-detection algorithm) extracted from the MODIS Thermal Alerts website (http://modis.hgip.hawaii.edu/) maintained by the University of Hawaii HIGP MODIS Thermal Alerts team (BGVN 28:01). Rothery and Charlotte Saunders provided updates to 31 May 2004. MODVOLC data are now routinely available from the Aqua satellite (equator crossing times 0230 and 1430 local time) in addition to the original Terra satellite (equator crossing times 1030 and 2230 local time).
Information Contacts: David A. Rothery and Charlotte Saunders, Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
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Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea) — August 2007
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 32, no. 8 (August 2007)
Manam (Papua New Guinea) Mild eruptions and subdued seismicity during August 2006-May 2007
Global Volcanism Program, 2007. Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea). In: Wunderman, R. (ed.), Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 32:8. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN200708-251020.
Our previous Manam report (BGVN 37:04) discussed activity from August 2006 into May 2007. Throughout May and into September 2007, Manam continued to show activity, but the emissions were mild and the seismicity, ever present, was very subdued. The Main Crater continued to release occasional pale gray ash clouds (table 4).
Table 4. Manam activity mid-May into September; the only data source for 17 September is the Darwin VAAC.
Month Vapor Emissions Ash Emissions Thermal Anomalies Incandescence Seismicity (events)
May 2007 25 May (diffuse) 10-16 May (pale gray) 16-23 May 8, 10, 12-13, 29 May 500-1000
Jun 2007 23 Jun -- -- -- 600-1050
Jul 2007 1-4 Jul, 12 Jul (white) 16-17, 22-23, 26-27 Jul (pale gray) -- 4, 7, 12-13, 16-20, 23, 26-27 Jul 600-1050
Aug 2007 8-9 Aug (blue), 10 Aug 21 Aug -- 2-3, 21 Aug 800-1000
Sep 2007 -- 17 Sep -- -- --
Thermal anomalies were detected at Manam by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on 16 and 23 May 2007. These anomalies were located down the NE Valley.
On 25 May the Rabaul Volcano Observatory (RVO) reported diffuse plumes from Manam. Based on satellite imagery and information from the Darwin VAAC, these plumes rose to an altitude of 3 km and drifted SW and W.
On those occasions in May where incandescence was visible, area residents heard no noises. The Southern Crater continued releasing diffuse white vapor; however, area residents noted the absence of any noise or glow.
Seismicity throughout May and into early June was low-to-moderate. Through 19 June 2007, low-frequency earthquakes occurred, but no noises were heard. On 23 June, based on satellite observations, the Darwin VAAC reported a low-level eruption that emitted a narrow plume of gas and vapor. It extended 40 km WNW and ascended to an altitude of ~ 3.4 km. The presence of ash was not discernable from the satellite data.
During 1-4 and 12 July 2007, the RVO reported that mild eruptions continued to release occasional diffuse white vapor from Main Crater. Occasional pale gray ash clouds emerged during 16-17, 22-23, and 26-27 July 2007. The ash clouds rose to less than a kilometer above the summit before being blown NW, resulting in fine ashfall. Incandescence was occasionally visible during July. The Southern Crater continued to release diffuse white vapor throughout July with an absence of glow or noise.
Throughout August, Manam continued low level activity. Visual observation of the summit was hampered by clouds most of the time; however, when clear, both craters were releasing primarily thin white vapor. Blue vapor accompanied the white vapor emission from Main Crater on 8-9 August. Based on satellite image observations and information from the RVO, the Darwin VAAC reported that an eruption plume from Manam rose to an altitude of 3 km a.s.l. on 10 August and drifted W. Seismic activity in August remained low and dominated by low-frequency earthquakes. Manam generally lacked significant activity continuing through the end of August and into September 2007. On 17 September, the Darwin VAAC reported that ash plumes from Manam rose to an altitude of 3.7 km a.s.l.
Information Contacts: Herman Patia and Steve Saunders, Rabaul Volcano Observatory (RVO), P.O. Box 386, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC), Bureau of Meteorology, Northern Territory Regional Office, PO Box 40050, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811, Australia (URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/info/vaac/); Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) Hot Spots System, University of Hawai'i, 2525 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (URL: http://modis.higp.hawaii.edu/); NASA Earth Observatory (URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/).
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Trump says he made Golan Heights decision after a quick history lesson
tags: Israel, Syria, Trump, Golan Heights
Related Link: The Golan Heights: Its History and Significance Today
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he made the controversial decision to recognize Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights after getting a quick history lesson during a conversation on a different subject.
Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition gathering in Las Vegas, Trump said he made the snap decision during a discussion with his top Middle East peace advisers, including the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“I said, ‘Fellows, do me a favor. Give me a little history, quick. Want to go fast. I got a lot of things I’m working on: China, North Korea. Give me a quickie,” Trump said to laughter from the Las Vegas crowd.
“‘How do you like the idea of me recognizing exactly what we’re discussing?’” said Trump, recounting the conversation.
Read entire article at Reuters
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Victorian Calendar
August 17, 1849 --- The Bermondsey Horror
At 3 Miniver Place, Bermondsey, police find the body of Patrick O'Connor buried in quick-lime beneath a newly-laid flagstone in the kitchen. Missing a week, the customs clerk and small-time usurer had been a frequent caller at this address, the now vacant home of Frederick and Maria Manning. O'Connor lies face down, his skull bashed in, his legs tied up to his haunches, his features decomposed. Identification is made only by his "less perishable features of an extremely prominent chin and false teeth."
According to neighbors, O'Connor had been openly romancing Mrs. Manning with her stolid husband's apparent approval. Then, the Mannings suddenly sold up and left. The discovery of O'Connor's body was called "The Bermondsey Horror" and police put out a description of the missing couple on the telegraph to all ports and railway stations. Within four days, Mrs. Manning is found in Edinburgh. The Times notes with especial glee that she was reading their account of the crime when "the messenger of justice interrupted her studies." A week later, her husband was nabbed on the isle of Jersey.
Manning is a former-railway guard sacked for theft. Mrs. Manning (pictured) was Swiss-born and a woman of "great personal beauty" who had served as a ladies maid in several aristocratic homes. At the Old Bailey, the crowded court was not cheated of excitement. Frederick's counsel made the startling claim that Maria had been the killer and he merely her "dupe and instrument." Maria's lawyer rose to condemn his fellow barrister, "God forbid that I should pursue that course." The trial is brief, the evidence strong, and the verdict certain. Frederick chose to make no final statement, but Maria - who refused to look at her husband throughout - proclaimed that O'Connor was "more to me than my husband" and Frederick had killed him in a jealous rage.
The Mannings hanged before 30,000 people in Horsemonger Lane. Frederick appeared badly shaken, while Maria walked to her fate with "firm, unfaltering step." Dickens, who watched the double hanging, wrote The Times: "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd ... could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. Thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore."
Posted by Tom Hughes at 3:10 AM
CharmedLassie August 17, 2011 at 1:44 AM
The Manning case is one of those that sends a shiver down my spine whenever I read a mere mention of it. Maria was probably the inspiration for hundreds of novels - not sure whether that's a good legacy or not!
Margaret March 31, 2018 at 8:46 AM
If Charles Dickens so despised onlookers of a hanging,why was he there?
Colin T Mercer January 13, 2019 at 5:17 AM
I very interesting story and the fact dickens witnessed the execution and so adequately describes it, adds to its horror.
September 5, 1872 --- An American Girl
September 4, 1850 --- Haynau, Go Home.
September 3, 1878 --- The Princess Alice
September 2, 1898 --- Revenge at Omdurman
September 1, 1882 --- Zulu Chieftain
August 31, 1888 --- The Whitechapel Murder
August 30, 1852 --- The Miser Nield
August 29, 1843 --- The Madman Dadd
August 28, 1839 --- The Eglinton Tournament
August 27, 1888 --- Is Marriage a Failure?
August 26, 1873 --- The Great Forgeries on the Ban...
August 25, 1857 --- Divorce
August 24, 1875 --- The First Channel Swim
August 23, 1861 --- Extraordinary Assault by a For...
August 22, 1889 --- A Reprieve for Florence Maybri...
August 21, 1843 --- The Temperance Pledge
August 20, 1890 --- The Pelican Club
August 19, 1859 --- Dr. Smethurst
August 18, 1875 --- The Wreck of the Mistletoe
August 16, 1892 --- The Double Duchess
August 15, 1894 --- Bigamy Denied
August 14, 1886 --- The Incident of the Dog in Bak...
August 13, 1891 --- Advice from the Prince of Wale...
August 12, 1875 --- A Girl on a Swing
August 11, 1885 --- A Private Collector
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Title The Political Theory of Neoliberalism
Author Thomas Biebricher
List price GBP 18.99
Original publisher Stanford University Press (Combined Academic Publishers)
“This book makes a timely and formidable intervention in current political theory, combining a meticulous analysis of the history of neoliberal thought with a compelling critique of elitist, technocratic, and undemocratic modes of economic governance in this age of austerity.”
—Yves Winter, McGill University
“Thomas Biebricher carefully demonstrates that what unites the many varieties of neoliberalism is not a unified ‘theory of politics,’ but rather that neoliberalisms share a distinctly political theory. A powerful corrective to the existing scholarship, The Political Theory of Neoliberalism shows readers that within the sweeping generalizations so often made about neoliberalism, the devil truly is in the details.”
—Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University
“This is a brilliant book—one of the most illuminating I have read in a long time. Biebricher provides an original account of the emergence of neoliberalism, tracing its development from the 1930s into the present. At once deeply scholarly and profoundly relevant, it is a model of what political theory should be.”
—Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto
“A concise, nuanced, and wide-ranging introduction to the leading theorists of neoliberalism and to the role their ideas have played in recent economic crises. Thomas Biebricher looks beyond familiar critiques of neoliberal ideology and its proponents to ask provocative, insightful questions that are rooted in deep engagement.”
—Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary for understanding the varieties of capitalism across space and time. Arguing that neoliberalism is widely misunderstood when reduced to a doctrine of markets and economics alone, this book shows that it has a political dimension that we can reconstruct and critique. Recognizing the heterogeneities within and between both neoliberal theory and practice, The Political Theory of Neoliberalism looks to distinguish between the two as well as to theorize their relationship. By examining the views of state, democracy, science, and politics in the work of six major figures—Eucken, Röpke, Rüstow, Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan—it offers the first comprehensive account of the varieties of neoliberal political thought. Ordoliberal perspectives, in particular, emerge in a new light. Turning from abstract to concrete, the book also interprets recent neoliberal reforms of the European Union to offer a diagnosis of contemporary capitalism more generally. The latest economic crises hardly brought the neoliberal era to an end. Instead, as Thomas Biebricher shows, we are witnessing an authoritarian liberalism whose reign has only just begun.
Chapter 1. What ls Neoliberalism?
PART I: The Political Theory of Neoliberalism
Chapter 2. The State
Chapter 3. Democracy
Chapter 4. Science
Chapter 5. Politics
PART II: Disciplining Europe
Chapter 6. European Crises Causes and Consequences
Chapter 7. Ideas, Uncertainty, and the Ordolibralization of Europe
Thomas Biebricher is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
People interested in political science and economics.
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As usual with every release, when finishing NetBeans 6.9 we start thinking about what performance issues to attack in next releases. This page collects performance topics that are actually most important for our users, and ideas how we could improve the IDE performance in various aspects (UI responsiveness, scalability, etc).
===Indexing and parsing infrastructure===
''A note to scale: The issues described here are visible only with large projects, i.e. projects with thousands of files.''
Scanning-related issues are still at the top of performance issues reported by our users. No performance improvements were planned for 6.9, there were some regressions solved and a few partial improvements (bug fixes). It is now important to do more in this area again.
''Ad speed:'' We have [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177274 bug 177274] to track reports of '''slow Go to Type'''. Several fixes have been made already, more are needed. The speed should be "as you type". E.g. there is the possibility to move the index into memory, which would make the access faster.
''Ad availability:'' There are significant delays when trying Go to Type during up-to-date check (e.g. after startup) or when heavy scanning happens after modifying project classpath. It looks like index for a project is not available before its up-to-date check is complete. If there are multiple projects, it may take a long time till the one interested by the user is processed. Would be great if the index availability was independent on state of project scanning (or even opening). There's an idea of a more independent "mega index" that might allow this.
''Ad availability:'' There is a significant lag when trying Go to Type during up-to-date check (e.g. after startup). Partially it is a raw performance problem (ongoing up-to-date check I/O slows down requests to the index), but it is also because the index for given project is not opened until other projects it depends on are scanned first. If the project is big with many dependencies, it may take a long time till it comes to turn. Would be great if the index availability was independent on state of project scanning, or even opening (assuming the indexes exist already). In case of the initial scan the problem is similar in that the most interesting sources are processed last, but it can't be solved just by making the index available sooner -- the index must be created first.
====Code completion, find usages, etc====
A specific case is the '''delay in populating the navigator view''' when switching between files in editor, which makes the switching feel slow. (Changing file selection in Projects explorer has much faster response in Navigator. Perhaps a too aggressive refresh or lack of caching. If the file has not been changed externally, there's hardly a difference in what to show in Navigator when it is visited next time.)
''Ad availability'': These features (that require some parsing) are often even less available than Go to Type/Go to File. They are '''not available at all if a scanning is in progress'''. (E.g. [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185696 bug 185696] is a good example.) Except the initial scan, it should just work with the latest data available, even if some scanning needs to run at the same moment. There is an idea of "transactional index" that should allow this mode.
''Ad availability'': These features (that require some parsing) are often even less available than Go to Type/Go to File. They are '''not available at all if a scanning is in progress'''. (E.g. [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185696 bug 185696] is a good example.) Except the initial scan, it should just work with the latest data available, even if some scanning needs to run at the same moment. There is an idea of "[http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182653 transactional index]" that should allow this mode.
* [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133943 Bug 133943] that collects a lot of user feedback as well as some ideas.
* [[IDEUsableWhenScanning]] for list of possibly affected operations.
====Non-blocking scanning====
Some examples of scanning that should not block availability of features:
* when opening/closing a project (while there are other projects still opened),
* when project classpath is modified (added/removed library or project),
* when a file with lots of dependencies is edited by user,
* when "external" change is detected (by external process or VCS),
* after startup, when IDE is doing its long up-to-date check,
====Scanning order based on relevance====
If scanning could run independently and not block features, then the next thing to consider is the order of indexing/parsing -- to optimize how it delivers updates. In some cases it makes sense to first process files/changes closer to the user's current context (edited file, opened project) to make them sooner available in the index than rest of the less relevant files (other projects).
This could include a rescan after editing a file in editor, or up-to-date check after startup or opening a new project to make files of this project available for Go to File and Go to Type first before processing the project dependencies that take much longer and are less relevant for the user.
====C++ projects (CND)====
====Other notes to scanning====
* Lots of slowness is also due to I/O contention. Ideally all I/O but the one serving immediate user request should be temporarily stopped in the IDE. Introducing "idle I/O" might help... Another idea was to do more in-memory caching: if everything needed is in memory, there is no issue with I/O.
* There are still many reports of scanning that happens too often, in situations when no scanning should be initiated, running unexpectedly long. These are clearly bugs, need to be fixed.
* There are known inefficiencies in the way projects and Java infrastructure work together, how the classpath is composed and updated, how queries work... Besides speed, one manifestation is the inability to fix the infamous "scanning started when project is closed" (related to GlobalPathRegistry).
* Check for up-to-date indexes is needlessly loading all providers (besides it's not working correctly for projects reopened later - [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180262 bug 180262]).
===Platform===
'''Native filesystem listeners''' - should solve problems with recursive listeners and detecting external file changes every time the IDE gains focus. There's an agreement it would improve performance and reliability, it's also the only way to recognize all changes correctly.
'''Checking for external changes''' sometimes looks like a heavy task, started anytime the user switches back to the IDE, making the IDE less responsive for a while. '''Native filesystem listeners''' might solve the problems with the recursive listeners and detecting external file changes. There's an agreement it would improve performance and reliability, it's also the only way to recognize all changes correctly.
Performance optimizations for '''Equinox''' (mainly startup).
'''Maven 3''' - quite some performance problems with maven based projects are attributed to the maven embedder. In Maven 3 it's performance should be improved, with more caching, etc, much more suitable for IDE integration.
'''Maven 3''' - quite some performance problems with maven based projects are attributed to the maven embedder. In Maven 3 it's performance should be improved, with more caching, etc, much more suitable for IDE integration. [[Maven3Embedder]]
===Diagnostics===
Changes in self-profiling that made it available for platform (without profiler) introduced some performance problems, e.g. [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185688 bug 185688], [http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186690 bug 186690]. While the sampling itself is now less intrusive, processing the snapshot at the end is somewhat problematic.
====Permanent sampling====
====More accurate slowness detector====
Improving performance has always been dependent on the ability to get relevant data or test cases to analyze. The [[FaqProfileMeNow | self profiling]] improved this a lot, in many cases it's enough to have a profiling snapshot from the user and it's not necessary to reproduce the problem (which is often very difficult). This was a real breakthrough, however, there are still many problems that are difficult to reproduce even for the users, or they simply don't want to put the effort into repeating the problem, creating and sending a snapshot. It can be seen on the fact that vast majority of snapshots we receive are from the automatic slowness detector (which detects only specific types of problems), compared to snapshots created and sent manually.
In some areas there are many reports that are not very useful, mainly those close to the 3s limit. They often contain long class loading or very slow I/O, that can't be reasonably dealt with. We need to find a way to create less "garbage" snapshots, maybe also detect suspicious ones and for such have higher time limit for automatic reporting.
It would be much easier for users to provide performance data if they could just '''create a snapshot retrospectively''' when they see a performance problem. This would require some kind of '''permanent sampling''' running all the time, keeping data for last 5 minutes (for example). So at any moment profiling data would be available for a post-mortem analysis. The sampling method introduced in 6.9 has quite low overhead to make this possible.
This would require some additional features in profiler. The user would send the complete 5 minutes NPSS snapshot that would be too large to analyze in the classic aggregated tree view. There could be some kind of time line view with possibility to select the relevant time interval and see it as the classic CPU call tree. Possibly also with labels from gesture collector to make it easier to identify the user actions on the time line.
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[[Category:Performance]] [[Category:Performance:Issues]]
Current revision as of 15:49, 20 July 2010
Note: This page is not a plan yet, it's an area for gathering ideas, some may be quite speculative. It's also more a list of problems than solutions or goals. If you have any idea or see an important problem, just throw it here. We'll finalize the content, prioritize and select specific topics as part of next release planning. See also previous PostNB68PerfTopics, PostNB67PerfTopics, PostNB65PerfTopics.
1 Indexing and parsing infrastructure
1.1 Go to Type/Go to File (navigation)
1.2 Code completion, find usages, etc
1.3 Non-blocking scanning
1.4 Scanning order based on relevance
1.5 C++ projects (CND)
1.6 Other notes to scanning
2 Editor
3 Debugger
4 Performance tab in Options
5 Platform
6 Diagnostics
6.1 Self-profiling fixes
6.2 More accurate slowness detector
6.3 Permanent sampling
6.4 Tasks: Permanent Profiling
6.5 Tasks: Timeline
6.6 Tasks: Open All
6.7 Boundary
Indexing and parsing infrastructure
A note to scale: The issues described here are visible only with large projects, i.e. projects with thousands of files.
The general complaint is still "scanning too long, scanning too often". Especially "too often" is irritating in situations with no visible reason to start scanning. It is so painful because (as says the next complaint) many features are not usable during scanning, either not available, or terribly slow.
We've been always focusing on the "too long/too often" problem, and slowly improving. There's still a lot of work there. As usual, we can continue making it faster, more efficient, fix bugs, but maybe we should also pay attention to the "not usable during scanning" side of the problem. The feeling is that some more effort might be spent to make the IDE work better for the user, be usable even during scanning, with main features always available and responsive, no matter the amount or speed of the scanning running meanwhile.
The user experience is that quite often the scanning does not find any change, or is unrelated to actual user's task (e.g. things like opening a new project, closing a project, or adding a library block navigation or code completion within already opened projects). In most cases all data seems available and the user would appreciate to be able to use the IDE even though the data may not be guaranteed as complete and correct at that moment. The issues this may cause seems minimal compared to what people face now when blocked completely by "scanning in progress". The fact that the data is not up-to-date for a moment should be easy to communicate.
Go to Type/Go to File (navigation)
Responsive navigation is essential for perceived performance of the IDE. Despite various improvements in the past, it is still not good. General requirements:
fast, not influenced by other work the IDE is doing on background,
available anytime, even during scanning, even with partial results (e.g. during up-to-date check, scanning another project, etc).
Ad speed: We have bug 177274 to track reports of slow Go to Type. Several fixes have been made already, more are needed. The speed should be "as you type". E.g. there is the possibility to move the index into memory, which would make the access faster.
Ad availability: There is a significant lag when trying Go to Type during up-to-date check (e.g. after startup). Partially it is a raw performance problem (ongoing up-to-date check I/O slows down requests to the index), but it is also because the index for given project is not opened until other projects it depends on are scanned first. If the project is big with many dependencies, it may take a long time till it comes to turn. Would be great if the index availability was independent on state of project scanning, or even opening (assuming the indexes exist already). In case of the initial scan the problem is similar in that the most interesting sources are processed last, but it can't be solved just by making the index available sooner -- the index must be created first.
Code completion, find usages, etc
Code completion, navigator view, finding usages, and other functionality not modifying sources that require java lang. infrastructure have similar general problems as navigation: speed and availability. They should not be blocked by scanning.
Ad speed: There's bug 179727 for tracking reported slow code completion. The amount of complaints and visible problems in CC is rather smaller (compared to Go to... navigation features).
A specific case is the delay in populating the navigator view when switching between files in editor, which makes the switching feel slow. (Changing file selection in Projects explorer has much faster response in Navigator. Perhaps a too aggressive refresh or lack of caching. If the file has not been changed externally, there's hardly a difference in what to show in Navigator when it is visited next time.)
Ad availability: These features (that require some parsing) are often even less available than Go to Type/Go to File. They are not available at all if a scanning is in progress. (E.g. bug 185696 is a good example.) Except the initial scan, it should just work with the latest data available, even if some scanning needs to run at the same moment. There is an idea of "transactional index" that should allow this mode.
Bug 133943 that collects a lot of user feedback as well as some ideas.
IDEUsableWhenScanning for list of possibly affected operations.
Non-blocking scanning
when opening/closing a project (while there are other projects still opened),
when project classpath is modified (added/removed library or project),
when a file with lots of dependencies is edited by user,
when "external" change is detected (by external process or VCS),
after startup, when IDE is doing its long up-to-date check,
Scanning order based on relevance
C++ projects (CND)
Indexing infrastructure does not scale to size of real C++ projects (tens of thousands of files).
CND team developed own infrastructure, specialized for C++ projects. E.g. Go to File/Go to Type is known to be faster and better available than in NB. (It's possible to turn on the NB indexing infrastructure for C++ projects, but it is too slow.)
CND infrastructure is able to scale with additional HW (memory, CPU cores), e.g. use memory for more caching, CPUs for parallel parsing.
We should investigate how to make the general indexing infrastructure usable for C++ projects, without affecting the users (in expected performance and scalability).
Other notes to scanning
Lots of slowness is also due to I/O contention. Ideally all I/O but the one serving immediate user request should be temporarily stopped in the IDE. Introducing "idle I/O" might help... Another idea was to do more in-memory caching: if everything needed is in memory, there is no issue with I/O.
There are still many reports of scanning that happens too often, in situations when no scanning should be initiated, running unexpectedly long. These are clearly bugs, need to be fixed.
There are known inefficiencies in the way projects and Java infrastructure work together, how the classpath is composed and updated, how queries work... Besides speed, one manifestation is the inability to fix the infamous "scanning started when project is closed" (related to GlobalPathRegistry).
Check for up-to-date indexes is needlessly loading all providers (besides it's not working correctly for projects reopened later - bug 180262).
Really big files are required to be editable in the IDE, e.g. C++ or XML. The IDE cannot handle well files bigger than ~1MB.
The new view hierarchy being prepared (e.g. for the word wrapping feature) is also a potentially big risk for editor performance.
Fast stepping in debugger (bug 186517). Currently stepping is slowed down by updating views after each step (thread call stacks, variables, watches), next step must wait on the updates to finish. Instead, the updates should be quickly canceled when user invokes another step.
Faster start, less I/O, e.g. bug 186808.
Performance tab in Options
There are various settings and switches that affect performance of the IDE in various ways. People often don't know about them. Would be nice to have a dedicated tab for performance in Options for that.
Some examples what could be configured here:
automatic checking for external changes (on/off),
scope of scanning after change in a file (same projects, all opened projects, etc),
memory settings (e.g. max heap or max perm. gen. size),
self profiling settings (limits when it starts and when slowness is reported),
Lucene indexes in memory (on/off),
some diagnostics (e.g. turning on/off RepositoryUpdater logging)?
Checking for external changes sometimes looks like a heavy task, started anytime the user switches back to the IDE, making the IDE less responsive for a while. Native filesystem listeners might solve the problems with the recursive listeners and detecting external file changes. There's an agreement it would improve performance and reliability, it's also the only way to recognize all changes correctly.
Performance optimizations for Equinox (mainly startup).
Maven 3 - quite some performance problems with maven based projects are attributed to the maven embedder. In Maven 3 it's performance should be improved, with more caching, etc, much more suitable for IDE integration. Maven3Embedder
Self-profiling fixes
Changes in self-profiling that made it available for platform (without profiler) introduced some performance problems, e.g. bug 185688, bug 186690. While the sampling itself is now less intrusive, processing the snapshot at the end is somewhat problematic.
More accurate slowness detector
Permanent sampling
Improving performance has always been dependent on the ability to get relevant data or test cases to analyze. The self profiling improved this a lot, in many cases it's enough to have a profiling snapshot from the user and it's not necessary to reproduce the problem (which is often very difficult). This was a real breakthrough, however, there are still many problems that are difficult to reproduce even for the users who face them. If the problem happens randomly there may be no good moment to start self-profiling, or it may not even start when the IDE is blocked on 100% CPU. Also not everyone takes the effort to start over, repeat the problem, create snapshot, send it. It can be seen on the fact that vast majority of snapshots we receive are from the automatic slowness detector (which detects only specific types of problems), compared to snapshots created and sent manually.
It would be much easier for users to provide performance data if they could just create a snapshot retrospectively when they see a performance problem. This would require some kind of permanent sampling running all the time, keeping data for last 5 minutes (for example). So at any moment profiling data would be available for a post-mortem analysis, the user would not have to reproduce the problem again with self-profiling. The sampling method introduced in 6.9 has quite low overhead to make this possible.
For analyzing the snapshots this would require some additional features in profiler. The user would send the complete 5 minutes NPSS snapshot that would be too large to analyze in the classic CPU view with aggregated call trees. The tree view can be used only for certain time period that needs to be identified first. There could be some kind of "time line" view with possibility to select the relevant time interval and see it as the call tree. Possibly also with labels from gesture collector to make it easier to identify the user actions on the time line.
Tasks: Permanent Profiling
TH: Throw away old data (older than ~5min)
Modify Self Profile Action to trigger send via UI Gestured Collector
Ensure people understand the possibility of permanent profiling (UI).
TH: Share single thread dump between all currently running samplings
Tasks: Timeline
Overlay data with java.util.logging.XMLFormater format
Special understanding for UI Gestures Collector enhancements
What data to represent for stacktraces?
Start with simplest to implement, run usability study then
Select part of timeline, generate regular snapshot from it
Tasks: Open All
http://statistics.netbeans.org needs to generate either:
descriptor with URLs
one bundle with everything (stacktraces, XML gestures)
npss file with additional URLs (to gestures XML)
Maximum acceptable performance regression when instant profiling is on must not exceed 10%
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Episode 62: Pride and Prejudice and Nerds
On this week's show Brendan and Spindles review some of the latest movie releases, feed back our experiences from OxCon, pick out the things we're looking forward to at this year's Sci Fi Weekender and more.
For more details on the Sci Fi Weekender check out their website at http://www.scifiweekender.com or their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/scifiweekender
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For more details and to book some of the last few remaining tickets then check out http://www.oxcon.xyz
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Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice: https://youtu.be/yViIi3gie2c
Captain America: Civil War: https://youtu.be/uVdV-lxRPFo
Star Trek Beyond: https://youtu.be/XRVD32rnzOw
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Episode 56: Saturday Nerd Fever
This week is all about Marvel's Jessica Jones. Well... Mostly... Brendan and Spindles have just about recovered from binge watching the entire series and talk over the events of the series itself as well as it's place in the MCU. Be warned, this show assumes you have watched the entire season and contains spoilers throughout.
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To watch the Civil War trailer, check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uVdV-lxRPFo
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Elsewhere, the Usual Suspects brought up a perennial question, and it amused me to take the counterarguments and the sed contra from what seem at first unlikely sources.
Question: Whether those who do not believe in God may act morally.
Objection 1. It would seem not, because as Jean-Paul Sartre held in "Existentialism is a Humanism, there disappears with God all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that 'the good' exists, that one must be honest or not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men.
Objection 2. Furthermore, as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in The_Twilight_of_the_Idols, "when one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident: this point has to be exhibited again and again, despite the English flatheads. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole: nothing necessary remains in one's hands."
Objection 3. In addition, the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty wrote, in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, "For liberal ironists, there is no answer to the question 'Why not be cruel?' - no noncircular theoretical backup for the belief that cruelty is horrible. ... Anyone who thinks that there are well grounded theoretical answers to this sort of question - algorithms for resolving moral dilemmas of this sort - is still, in his heart, a theologian or metaphysician. He believes in an order beyond time and change which both determines the point of human existence and establishes a hierarchy of responsibilities."
Objection 4. Also Voltaire did not believe in God but wanted his butler to believe because he thought he would then be robbed less. And Rousseau thought that a nation needed a religion if it was to accept laws and policies directed at the long term future. Without religion, people would insist on immediate gain, to their eventual cost. Clearly, they believed that without religion there would be no morality, save among the Enlightened.
Objection 5. Also Alex Rosenberg, in "The Disenchanted Naturalists Guide to Reality, asserts that naturalism denies the existence of objective moral value, of beliefs and desires, of the self, of linguistic meaning, and indeed of meaning or purpose of any sort. All attempts to evade this conclusion, to reconcile naturalism with our common sense understanding of human life, inevitably fail, and we just have to learn to live with that. A belief in meanings and purposes is what puts us on a “slippery slope” to religion.
On the Contrary, St. Paul writes in Romans 2:11-16, "There is no partiality with God. All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it. For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified. For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law unto themselves... They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus."
Respondeo. First, a distinction must be made between living morally according to a code adopted from others and developing a moral code from one's own first principles. Clearly, it is possible to behave morally by adopting the morality of others. Nietzsche was actually complaining about this:
"When the English actually believe that they know "intuitively" what is good and evil, when they therefore suppose that they no longer require Christianity as the guarantee of morality, we merely witness the effects of the dominion of the Christian value judgment and an expression of the strength and depth of this dominion: such that the origin of English morality has been forgotten, such that the very conditional character of its right to existence is no longer felt."
Nietzsche did not approve -- he was more interested in behaving immorally -- and thought it would not last.
It is more problematical to say that such standards can be derived from other, secular principle, like freedom and equality (or justice, fairness and impartiality). Once the "right answers" are found "in the back of the book," it is a simple matter to devise a just-so story deriving those answers from some favored principle.
But Stanley Fish writes in "Are There Secular Reasons?" (NY Times Opinionator Blog, February 22, 2010, 6:00 pm) that this is inherently parasitical on religion and merely smuggles in "notions about a purposive cosmos, or a teleological nature stocked with Aristotelian ‘final causes’" in secular disguise. "Fairness" et al. are empty abstractions from which nothing follows until we have answered “fairness in relation to what standard?” or “equality with respect to what measures?” That is, something prior to fairness and equality, etc. are the actual ground of morality.
But St. Paul does not say merely that atheists/gentiles can plagiarize morality from the Jews, but that they can find the law "written in their own hearts." His concept of synderesis (or "conscience") derives from Plato's Timaeus and contends that people can form correct moral conclusions through exercise of reason*
This approach is unique to Western law. Other legal codes are based strictly on simple obedience to explicitly spelled out statutes. Hence, Western morality developed doctrines like the right to disobey an immoral order or to overthrow a tyrant (Aquinas, "On kingship") and the that rights inhered in people by their nature (Fr. Domingo deSoto) that were unknown elsewhere.
Most post-modern "new atheists" go along with St. Paul and Christianity in this belief rather than Sartre and the other atheist thinkers. Old-school atheists claim this is because new atheists do not think too deeply about their atheism. Nietzsche could stare into the Abyss and find the Abyss staring back; but the post-modern stares into the abyss, says "Whatever," and goes off to watch "American Idol."
But if "the demands of the law are written in [our] hearts," it becomes necessary to learn how to read. Synderesis does not mean that every whim or passing desire is moral. The conscience must be formed by good habits. Good habits [virtues] are those which dispose us to perform acts consistent with our nature. Bad habits [vices] dispose us to perform acts not consistent with our nature. When we are clear what acts are consistent with our nature, we will be clear what constitutes good and bad.
Every voluntary act is two acts.
An interior act of the will whose object is the end; and
the exterior act whose object is the means.
The first is the formal cause while the second is the material cause of the act. Thus, materially, I might reach out and grab a baseball bat. Formally, I may intend to hit a home run or (more modestly) a base hit. Or I might pick it up with the formal intention of making some of those English flatheads flatter. Picking up the bat is the means to those ends and is good or bad only with respect to the end toward which it is employed. It is in the end that the morality lies.
Now, the nature of the human being is the rational soul.(**) Therefore, for man, what is good is what is in accordance with reason, which makes moral virtue inseparable from intellectual virtue.(***) Intellectual and moral virtue are not the same, nor can one be reduced to the other. The intellectual virtues are habits of intellect and the moral virtues are habits of appetite or will.
A. The intellectual virtues.
1. Understanding is the habit of principles;
2. Knowledge ["science" in the broad sense] is the habit of proximate causes;
3. Wisdom is the habit of ultimate causes.
The root of this triad is understanding, since without a firm grasp of principles, neither science nor wisdom is possible. Wisdom judges both understanding and its principles and also knowledge and its conclusions.
But it is not enough to think well, we must also act well; that is, act according to reason and not blind impulse or passion. The principle here is not the intellect, but the will, more specifically the end the will seeks. There must be a fourth intellectual virtue:
4. Prudence, which puts reason into a state to determine the means to that end.
As prudence is the culmination of the intellectual virtues, so is she the root of the moral ones:
B. The moral virtues.
1. Justice regulates our acts independently of our dispositions as regards what is due or not due to another.
Two sins against Justice are capitalism, which is greed rampant, and socialism, which is envy ramapant. Consumerism, which is opposed to both, is gluttony rampant, and falls into a the next category; namely, our interior dispositions at the moment of acting. These dispositions lead to the other two moral virtues.
2. If we are drawn by passion toward an act contrary to reason, we must call upon temperance.
3. If we are impeded by fear or sloth from acting as reason says we ought, we must call upon courage.
The moral virtues perfect the will just as the intellectual virtues perfect the intellect. No one is blameworthy for being a bad scientist or a bad artist; but very much so for being an extortioner, a drunkard, or a coward.
Nothing prevents an atheist from reasoning in this way. This was Paul's point while dealing with the rationalist Greeks. However, certain predispositions of modern atheism are subversive of the rationalist approach. That is because in the meantime, we have gone through the triumph of the will. This stifles cool, measured, bourgeois reflection on the moral. Instead of saying "I think that...," we now say "I feel that..."
It has become de mode to confuse the appetites with the intellect, to confuse what we want with what is good. This is why so many people today feel [note: "feel," not "think"] that morality is a "personal" matter and that there can be no objective morality. But to indulge the appetites rather than the intellect requires that we reject temperance. But to throw temperance out the window, we must first discard prudence, and prudence is the coupling between the intellect and the will.
Thus intemperance severs the linkage between what we want and what we know. Each person judges his own desires to be good, even when this contradicts the universal judgement of reason. I would like to eat whatever I want and not get fat; but reason tells me I cannot. Reason tells me that for a healthy body, I should eat this and not that, and this much but not that much.(****) We recognize the moral dimension of this when we say "That food is bad for you." On the other hand, someone who wants to eat can rationalize pigging out. So intemperance eventually becomes habituated.
The irony is that the triumph of the will leads to a lack of will power, and "freedom" results in enslavement to the passions.
In neurological language, the primitive neural patterns emerging from the brain stem become "vulcanized" and impede the higher level neural patterns originating in the cortex. ("Vulcanization of neural patterns is modern scientifical talk for "habits." Cf. Cohen, The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: A Neural Perspective on Interactions Between Cognition and Emotion. Note the emergent Aristotelianism: Cognition and Emotion here coding for Intellect and Will.) But this subordination denies our essence as rational beings in favor of a view of humans as mere bundles of appetites.
Edward Skidelsky wrote in "Words that Think for Us" (Prospect Magazine 18 Nov 2009) that modern society avoids explicit moral language. Words like "improper and indecent" have been replaced by words like “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” "An affair between a teacher and a pupil that was once improper is now inappropriate."
But improper and indecent express moral judgements, while inappropriate and unacceptable suggest the breach of some social convention. Such “non-judgemental” forms of speech are tailored to a society wary of explicit moral language. He writes that liberals "seek only adherence to rules of the game, not agreement on fundamentals. What was once an offense against decency must be recast as something akin to a faux pas."
But this new, neutralised language does not spell any increase in freedom. When I call your action indecent, I state a fact that can be controverted. When I call it inappropriate, I invoke an institutional context—one which, by implication, I know better than you. ... This is what makes the new idiom so sinister. Calling your action indecent appeals to you as a human being; calling it inappropriate asserts official power.
And note, too: "As liberal pluralists, we seek only adherence to rules of the game, not agreement on fundamentals." Note how this rejects the Western idea of conscience (synderesis) and hearkens back to the non-Western definition of good behavior as adherence to statutes promulgated by the Father-figure in the palace.
Reply to Obj. 1. Sartre seems to hold that standards of moral value presuppose that there is such a thing as human nature, but that essences or natures are divine concepts. Thus, in a Godless universe there can be no such thing as human nature, and thus no right ordering toward perfection of such a nature. Hence, in a Godless universe there can be no objective standards of moral value. However, this is contingent on the existence of God, not on the belief in God. If there is such a being, then there are human natures and hence standards of morality, and people may discover those standards by reason, as St. Paul contended, regardless of their particular beliefs.
Reply to Obj. 2. Nietzsche seems to say that moral standards depend on the belief in God more so than on his existence. It was his conscious intention to reject that morality, and he attacked the English atheists precisely because they continued to adhere to the Christian morality without the Christ. The West has been marinating in Judaeo-Christian morality for over a thousand years and it is easy to mistake long-established customs for laws of nature. Whether this is sustainable once the marinade is drained is an open question. But the objection is precisely that atheists are continuing to practice Christian morality, which answers itself.
Reply to Obj. 3. Rorty may be right that atheists who set up moral systems are themselves practicing a kind of theology, as Stanley Fish pointed out.
Reply to Obj. 4. Voltaire and Rousseau were only being hypocrites, but evidently believed firmly that without religion all those icky working class people would up and rob them blind or go on a toot with no thought for tomorrow. So clearly, they believed that religion was the source of morality. Only the Elect - I mean, the Enlightened - were somehow immune to this. The similarity of this sect of atheism to Calvinism should be obvious. But there is no reason why people otherwise to busy waiting on the Voltaires of the world cannot be taught the morality that others have had the time to work out. Voltaire need fear his butler less than the other Enlightened, once they got their hands on guillotines.
Reply to Obj. 5. Naturalism is philosophically incoherent. If Rosenberg is right about what naturalism implies, there are no beliefs or desires, nor is there any such thing as the “original intentionality” or meaning of thoughts or the intentionality exhibited by language. There is simply no "fact of the matter" about what anything means. But if this is correct, then there is in particular no "fact of the matter" about Rosenberg's naturalism and the objection can be ignored on its own terms.
(*) and by extension, btw, correct conclusions about the natural world.
(**) Soul. The medieval theologians wrote in Latin. In Latin, "soul" is anima, which means "life." To ask whether someone has a soul is to ask if he is alive. Next question.
(***) Virtue. More Latin. Virtuus means "strength," which is normally attained through exercise.
(****) More Latin: sane and healthy are the same word: sanus. This is why the virtues are explicitly parallel to good diet and exercise. "Mens sana in corpore sano"
Acknowledgments to the premier Aristo-Thomist thinkers on-line today: James Chastek at JustThomism and Ed Feser at edwardfeser.blogspot.com/ Also relied upon for this essay, Etienne Gilson, in a recently-purchased book, not yet digested, and Robert Brennan in my old college textbook, Thomistic Psychology, saved lo these many years in the hopes of one day understanding it....
Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'
Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment
Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru 's anti-kidnapping police, but the number of victims was believed to be much higher and to date back decades. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to £36,000 a gallon.
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Aldec Adds 'Bird's Eye View' Function to Growing Portfolio of ADAS FPGA-based Reference Designs
by James Hilton
Aldec, Inc. an industry leader in electronic design verification, is making available yet more support for automotive design engineers with the addition of an Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) ‘Bird’s Eye View’ reference design for its TySOM™-3-ZU7EV embedded development kit.
Bird’s Eye View is an embedded vision (EV) feature currently in high demand for ADAS as it provides a 360o surrounding view of the vehicle, as if seen from above. As a minimum the feature will assist drivers when parking but it also has the potential to play a role in obstacle detection and for providing lane departure warnings.
The reference design is available with Aldec’s TySOM™-3-ZU7EV embedded development kit and requires an FMC-ADAS daughter card and four fisheye cameras; also available from Aldec either separately or as part of Bird’s Eye View bundle.
“As with all our TySOM reference designs we’ve set out to save software and firmware engineers considerable design time and effort,” comments Radek Nawrot, Director of Operations at Aldec. “This allows them to take a building-block approach for some functions and to concentrate on integration issues and the crafting of higher-level functionality, which is where their skills are best employed and how they bring most value to their projects and companies.”
The Bird’s Eye View reference design makes the most of the Zynq device’s processing system (software) and programmable logic (firmware) parallel processing capabilities, and has six stages. These are: 1 – image capture (firmware), 2 – frame resize (software & firmware), 3 – lens distortion removal (software & firmware), 4 – perspective transformation (software & firmware), 5 – final image creation (firmware) and 6 – output to display and/or other ADAS systems (firmware).
The TySOM-3-ZU7EV features a Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC device, which provides 64-bit processor (dual-core ARM® Cortex™) scalability while combining real-time control with soft and hard engines for graphics, video, waveform, and packet processing.
Aldec provides a HW/SW co-simulation solution for Zynq-based applications in the form of Riviera-PRO™, the company’s popular functional verification tool, when used in conjunction with open-source Quick Emulation (QEMU).
A full demonstration of the Bird’s Eye View will be given on Aldec’s stand (617) at Arm TechCon 2018; October 16th to 18th, San Jose Convention Center.
About TySOM-3 Embedded Prototyping Board
TySOM-3-ZU7EV is a compact prototyping board containing a Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC device which provides 64-bit processor scalability while combining real-time control with soft and hard engines for graphics, video, waveform, and packet processing. Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU7EV-FFVC1156 MPSoC contains a Video Codec Unit which supports H.264/H.265, and also has the biggest FPGA in the UltraScale+™ MPSoC family. This chip includes a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 as an Application Processing Unit, Dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 as a Real-Time Processing Unit and ARM Mali-400 MP2 as a Graphics Processing Unit. TySOM-3-ZU7 is designed to assure flexibility in selecting peripherals because of leveraging all the features of the Zynq UltraScale+ ZU7EV-FFVC1156 MPSoC chip. This prototyping board contains 4 GB DDR4 Memory for the Programmable Logic (PL) and support DDR4 SODIMM Memory for the Processing System (PS). This board includes 2 Gb NAND Memory and supports up to 32GB of SSD storage in Micro-SD card. Communication and networking is enabled by ×2 Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, CAN, Pmod, 4× USB 3.0, USB to UART Bridge, SATA and QSFP+ connector. Multimedia interfaces are provided using DisplayPort, HDMI IN/OUT. To expand the peripherals, 2× FMC (1× HPC and 1× LPC) VITA 57.1-2010 compliant are provided on the board. Thus, additional devices can be connected as FMC Daughter Cards that are provided by Aldec and other vendors.
About Aldec
Aldec, Inc., headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, is an industry leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, SoC and ASIC Emulation/Prototyping, Design Rule Checking, CDC Verification, IP Cores, Requirements Lifecycle Management, DO-254 Functional Verification, High-Performance Computing and Military/Aerospace solutions. www.aldec.com
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The Outer Limits - A Second Season Primer
by David J. Schow
Sequels nearly always pale in comparison to their forebears, and the case of The Outer Limits’ much-maligned second season (S2) is no different. The series had survived the “renewal wars” to debut in September 1964, only to be repositioned to a Saturday evening suicide seat opposite the enormously popular Jackie Gleason Show. Classified as a “bleeder” in the ratings game, this short-lived incarnation of The Outer Limits managed a heroic showing of minor classics and game tries before its mid-season cancellation barely four months later, in mid-January 1965 (it was replaced by another variety show, The King Family). Debuting against overwhelming contrary odds, this retrofitted version of The Outer Limits suffered the relentless crises of time and money that always plague a series on the wane: truncated shooting schedules and bare minimum budgets. Yet this sophomore playbill allowed for certain aberrations otherwise impossible in the TV landscape of 1964, and still unthinkable today.
For all practical purposes, S2 was an entirely different program from that offered by the previous production regime, which had been shown the Out door by parent network ABC due to assorted clashes of personality and deficit financing. These reached a frothing head with the debacle over the shooting of The Unknown pilot film, re-edited and presented as the curtain show for the first season (S1), “The Forms of Things Unknown.” Series creator Leslie Stevens threatened to scuttle the series if his partner, writer/producer Joseph Stefano, was not permitted to make his directorial debut with The Unknown. Stefano stepped down and the show was directed by Outer Limits regular Gerd Oswald. It promptly ran over-schedule and overbudget.
“There were some pretty deadly piranhas at ABC,” said production designer Jack Poplin. “Personally, I always thought that Leslie had gotten a little too arrogant for them, and the network brass decided they were going to squash him.” Joe Stefano added, “There were people who wanted to get The Outer Limits totally away form Leslie, and once it was clear I wasn’t going to stay, a lot of stuff went down. It was like the show went up for grabs, and a lot of jockeying was done.”
The dealbreaker, for Stefano, was ABC’s proposed timeslot change. While he made it clear he would have considered staying on if the series was moved to Wednesday evenings, the network was adamant about shifting it to Saturday nights. “I just didn’t fancy putting in 18-hour days on a series that was doomed,” said Stefano. “I was furious when they wanted to use it an ammunition against Jackie Gleason. I had really worked my ass off, and I knew that Jackie Gleason was not going to be brought down by The Outer Limits.”
S2 (more properly a half-season, totaling 17 episodes against the S1’s 32) was, to an extent, a brand new series augmented by elements of the old guard, and an attempt by ABC to “uniformize” the show’s iconoclastic palette into something that network suits could more easily anticipate and comprehend.
The Outer Limits’ new producer, Ben Brady, had formerly been one of those network suits — a vice president of ABC-TV who had originally greenlit Stevens’ Please Stand By as the pilot for The Outer Limits in 1962. Like Stevens, Brady had been an independent producer prior to his network tenure, having begun as a radio writer shortly after his graduation from law school in the 1940s. He put his legal knowledge to good use during the two seasons he spent producing his greatest television success, Perry Mason, over at rival network CBS (1957-1959). When Stefano vacated his producing position on The Outer Limits, ABC agreed to renew the series if Brady replaced Stefano. This also handily used up the remainder of Brady’s contract with ABC. Brady was also behind the network’s decision to move the series to Saturday nights.
“A good deal of the first year was a banner year in terms of art and product,” Brady said. “Stefano was a great writer. But there was a violent schism between what he wanted and what ABC wanted.” Of his approach to the show, he said, “We sought out published works by established science fiction writers. We looked for a marriage between intelligent science fiction and good, sound showmanship.”
Far from being an errand boy for ABC’s creative mandates, Brady immediately found himself on the flipside, beleaguered by limitations that chopped his budgets to $100,000 per episode. That meant that any adaptation of published work had to command low (or no) royalties. “We were torn between the desire to find stories we could adapt,” he said, “and the insertion of quickly-written originals that would enable us to survive until we found the next good published story.”
Brady’s new story department was headed up by Seeleg Lester, another Perry Mason alumnus. “Along about the sixth (production) week,” said Lester, “ABC began insisting on a monster in every show, so I tried to make them as innocuous as possible, as an off-shoot of the drama.” He described Brady as a “nuts-and-bolts man, with his finger on all the physical costs of the production. He wasn’t active in story content … I think that’s why he wanted me.”
Many of the below-the-line crew returned from S1. First AD Claude Binyon, Jr. became the new production manager (after Robert Justman returned to his old AD duties) and secured the use of Paramount Studios’ production facilities, to replace the loss of The Outer Limits’ previous stomping grounds, the MGM backlot and the studios of KTTV-TV — another change which accounts for the “face lift” look between the two seasons.
ABC definitely harbored hostility toward elements of the old Stevens/Stefano guard. Some, like casting director Meryl Abeles, were fired. Although Brady acknowledged that Dominic Frontiere’s music for S1 was rich and evocative, Frontiere was a confidant of Leslie Stevens, so Brady summoned another former co-worker, Harry Lubin (of One Step Beyond) to provide another “face lift.” Lubin’s scoring came across as less progressive, more traditional, and closer to 1950s style sci-fi films than Frontiere’s heavily orchestrated tapestries of sound.
Gerd Oswald, who had done nearly 30 Perry Mason segments for Brady before becoming a mainstay of The Outer Limits, found to his surprise that he was not a shoo-in for S2. “Brady was forced to go a more prosaic route,” said Oswald. “(Director Byron) Haskin and I were both on (ABC)’s shit list, and it took Brady four or five weeks before he could say, ‘Well, I want Gerd, period. And I want ‘Bunn’ Haskin.”
Of the crewmembers who worked both seasons, production designer Jack Poplin said, “The first season was far more creative and esoteric than the second, which was more commercial. Ben Brady is a capable man, but an executive, not a creator. He was doing what he was told, and grinding them out. He was out of his depth, with the onus of the heavyweights that had preceded him.”
Production coordinator Elaine Michea said, “I had no problems with the new regime. I was involved with Ben a little more than I had been in the first series, and we got along beautifully.”
“I didn’t resent the new people,” said makeup artist Fred Philips. “But I had, in the first season, people with a sense of trust. Not so, in the second season.”
Vic Perrin, the Control Voice, said he noticed no difference between the old bosses, and the new: “Ben Brady told me, ‘Just keep on doing what you’ve been doing!’”
But the most apocalyptic overview, typically, was Byron Haskin’s: “I had heard that Ben Brady was a fair-headed boy in the top, heavy circles, the rarified air where the masochists and maiming pimps who operate networks work. They had a happy hand for Brady, who had just gotten fired from ABC and was in limbo, when along came this network decision to switch producers, and boom – we got the guy. I didn’t know who in the hell he was. The Outer Limits got into very fast company when it acquired Brady, who was known for lowering the boom on series that the networks wanted to get rid of. He didn’t impress me as too stupid a guy, and seemed to know a lot of the glib answers most producers seem to have for any questions.”
“The one guy we thought the new group was so lucky to have was Seeleg,” said Leslie Stevens. “He really cared; he had both the drama and the science concepts.”
“I must say that Seeleg Lester tried very hard,” said Binyon. “The money Ben could have used for production was curtailed. When they flubbed around with the timeslot, the show became an orphan. We could not do the things we wanted to do, and it became very frustrating.”
S1 veteran Kenneth Peach became the director of photography for the entire S2 run. The Control Voice teasers and tags became part of the individual writers’ assignments, or were appended to finished scripts by Lester. On a blind read, they are difficult to tell apart, opting for pseudo-biblical profundities, or pounding home the noble sentiment of Man’s Endless Quest for Knowledge. The Control Voice opening was also given a final pruning, having been repeatedly shortened during S1 – no longer was the viewer required to “sit quietly and…” Following the broadcast of the first four S2 episodes, it was shortened again, to its final form:
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to The Outer Limits.
Stevens, Stefano and Frontiere fell back to an executive producer slot (and new projects), and did not involve themselves with the new episodes, although they were copied on every script and memo.
Flash-Forward
Four decades after its ignominious cancellation, S2 of The Outer Limits merits a fresh perspective. The amorphous concept of a television "season" means that in present-day terms, S2 is less a truncated whole and more the "back third" of the entire Outer Limits oeuvre.
Often overlooked or underappreciated by viewers enthralled to The Outer Limits' stronger sense of identity in S1, a bald overview of S2 reveals a seemingly meager and much-compromised production slate that actually yields an abundance of surprises. Apart from the smart dynamism of the Harlan Ellison entries, other episodes at least attempted some depth of theme — "The Duplicate Man," "Wolf 359," "The Inheritors" — leaving room for the guilty pleasure of "The Invisible Enemy," or the popcorn monster folly of "Keeper of the Purple Twilight." Fans of stop-motion animation maintain a soft spot for the possessed plant which livens up the otherwise-tedious "Counterweight;" S1's "vacuum cleaner monster" (from "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork") joined an equally memorable S2 counterpart in the "killer tumbleweeds" from "Cry of Silence," and the basic plotlines of "I, Robot" and "The Premonition" seem as entrenched in public memory as that sawtooth-bladed boomerang from S1's "Fun and Games."
The tone shift between the two seasons remains jarring, but the S2 bias toward outer space as a bold frontier contradicts the bleaker prospects of S1 shows that ventured, albeit rarely, into the same territory. Even a segment as narratively dismal as "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" concludes with high hopes for humankind's future in space, whereas first season entries such as "Moonstone," "Specimen: Unknown," and "The Mutant" swat home the idea that big monster headaches await us Out There, and it is a better bet to remain determinedly Earthbound. For all its drawbacks, "The Probe" closes the series run on an up-note, with a bright, almost American optimism for the future of human/alien contact.
Brady's desire to source the series in classic science fiction also added, to the timeline of television history, early and charmingly primordial mentions of then-obscure topics like ecology ("Counterweight" and "Wolf 359"), consciousness-altering drugs ("Expanding Human"), cloning ("The Duplicate Man"), and even a veiled reference to the Viet Nam war ("The Inheritors"). The universes-within-universes concept was explored in "Wolf 359," then turned inside-out for "The Probe." Both Ellison episodes echo the paradoxes of time travel first touched upon in S1's "The Man Who Was Never Born" — and these three episodes, together, were cited in the eventual lawsuit that was brought by Ellison against The Terminator (1984), questioning that film's creative chain-of-title.
The downside of Brady's stewardship was the Dragnet syndrome seen in too many S2 episodes: A problem is introduced, and various authority figures interminably ask obvious questions until the mystery is resolved. This approach, informed by Brady's experience on Perry Mason, was easily biased toward the puzzle-solving format established by the science fiction pulps, but imposed a flattening sameness to "Cold Hands, Warm Heart," "Behold Eck!," "Expanding Human," "The Premonition," "The Probe," and especially "I, Robot," which dragged the whole show into the docket. Compare "I, Robot" to "O.B.I.T." (S1's "courtroom episode") to see the difference between a police procedural with science fiction furniture, versus a story that transcends formula by the benefit of the often-oblique noir stylings of the Stevens/Stefano regime.
In 1994, Ben Brady wrote:
Long ago I started out as a New York attorney specializing in theatrical law. It was my destiny, after ten years of practice, to transfer my entire attention to the artistic rather than the legal aspects of my clients’ affairs. I spent the next 25 years as a writer, director, producer, and finally, in Hollywood, vice-president in charge of programming at ABC. Along the way, I founded and was president of the Television Producers Guild.
The programs that I produced were among the leading shows of their time. Perhaps you remember some of them: Perry Mason, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Red Skelton Show, The Johnny Carson Show, Rawhide, and Outer Limits.
All chips cashed, Brady remained proud of “his version” of The Outer Limits. He kept leatherbound hardcover copies of all the scripts in his office.
There are few legitimate industries that play for higher stakes than this business of broadcasting, and the mood swings that accompany the business are equally high. So periodically you think to yourself: “I gotta get away from this … I gotta take a clean breath … I gotta …”
Well, I did. About 20 years ago I was approached by James Cleary, president of California State University, Northridge. He asked me if I would introduce a screenwriting emphasis at the university. Flattered, I accepted a full professorship and put my television career on hold. I would return to it, I thought, after a year or two at the most.
It didn’t work out that way.
Brady’s television curriculum grew exponentially, and he kept at it through tenure and retirement, authoring two quite good books along the way: The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television (with Lance Lee; University of Texas Press, 1988) and Principals of Adaptation for Film and Television (U of T Press, 1994), from which the above excerpts are drawn. The latter book also contains Brady’s complete screenplay for his adaptation of the 1959 Ida Alexa Ross Wylie novel, Claire Serrat — in case you like to investigate Brady’s writing chops, which may surprise you.
After heading the screenwriting department at Northridge for 18 years, Ben Brady died in 2003 at age 94.
DVD NOTE
The DVD issue of The Outer Limits (basically the same crappy DVD-18s, triple-dipped through three packaging incarnations) redresses a longstanding omission in the history of the series.
One triumph of the S2 set is the presentation, for the first time since broadcast, of "The Inheritors" in its complete two-part form. When mastered for VHS release, both episodes were edited together to form what was promoted as The Outer Limits' "only feature-length episode," losing the end credits and Control Voice epilogue from Part One, the opening credits and Control Voice prologue to Part Two, and 1 minute, 47 seconds of interstitial footage from the story itself. These have all been restored and the episodes are presented separately, albeit infuriatingly — because they are on two different sides of the same disc! Given the unwieldy mathematics of distributing 17 shows over six disc sides, both parts of "The Inheritors" could easily have been installed on Side B of Disc 2, where they would share space with one additional show ("Keeper of the Purple Twilight"), instead of packing Part One onto Side A of the same disc, alongside three other episodes. Only the Region 2 iteration of the set provides both parts of “The Inheritors” on the same side of the same disc so they may be viewed sequentially.
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Larry Blamire February 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Thanks, David, for a rather generous look at S2 (or S1.5 as you indicate). Slightly revisionist perhaps, but what the hey--that's exactly what this is all about; a fresh assessment of a block of shows that suffers by comparison more so than any sophomore season in TV history.
I promise to look at tumbleweeds with newly opened eyes. Behold Eck? Hell, I'll take the bastard to lunch.
Larry Rapchak February 18, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Thanks, Dave....
I needed that.
Ted Rypel February 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Thanks for setting up the game board for the overly maligned Season Two, Dave. Fans tend to heap scorn on its more homogenized look and standardized commercial approach, while declining to examine the mini-season for diamonds-in-the-rough, of which there are ample nuggets strewn amidst the scree.
It's natural for viewers intoxicated with the heady brew of the first season's relative Camelot of creative forces to feel betrayed by the network's new regime for the show. It's easy to view the change of reins as a case of the dreamers and visionaries being supplanted by journeymen and pedagogues: We had grown accustomed to such experimental richness of both form and content.
But to dismiss the entire season as a disposable Cracker Jack prize with only the crunchy sweetness of the two Ellisons to support it is to ignore more than a few solid sf moments that earn their keep on their own.
We learned the wisdom and fairness of shouting out the admirable points in even the worst episodes Season One had to offer. It's wise, I think, to apply that courtesy to Season Two rather than approach it like spoiled, jaded children.
What do we have to be spoiled about? We were graced with one fabulous season of one landmark sf anthology series. How many others have we even seen attempted?
And if we look honestly enough, shucking those one-of-a-kind, serendipitous First-Season lenses, we might see, at the very least, some decent, if more prosaically mounted, sf storytelling in TOL's last stand; an idea or two, a bear here and there, a performance or three---to throw a blanket of dismissal over most of Season Two is to side with the mainstreamers.
And we all know what they believe: that science fiction has no value beyond "spacey" entertainment. And the only way that can be obtained is via cartoony aliens in "living" color zapping their way across anything-goes, kaleidoscopic CGI starscapes.
You know...films with all the cerebral/emotional nutritional substance of a candy-coated pinwheel.
David Horne February 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Well done! A nicely balanced and thorough introduction to a season that deserves some appreciation despite the letdown some may feel. For the most part, the gothic-science environment that made season 1 stick so firmly to your imagination is gone, along with the creative camera setups and triple entendre scripts, but to my mind, I think season 2 actually is a little more (just a LITTLE, not a lot) respectful to the "science" in the science fiction. Stefano was openly disdainful of the SF side of things, and we forgive him that because he was on the track of something very innovative and unusual. Stevens disappointed me a little, because he was the acknowledged science fiction fan of the partnership, yet his scripts barely rose above the uninformed "reverse the polarity," "it's going above the red line" level. Season two has a more "science fiction" feel to it, and some of the situations and scientists portrayed are much more credible (again, not ALL).
If nothing else, remember that it's still Outer Limits--at that particular time, the only real other option was Irwin Allen. I'll take the sand sharks and the Megasoid any day over The Dr. Smith and the Robot Comedy Hour!
Hollywoodaholic February 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM
As a kid watching the show, I never differentiated between the two seasons - it was "The Outer Limits;" it was science fiction and horror on television - and I loved it all.
Only later, after film school, life experiences, and peeking behind the curtains of the business, did the discrimination set in.
I will try to screen these episodes with a newfound degree of innocence, and dismiss the cynical attitude that life is too short to spend seventeen hours on these. I will try.
David Schow left out in his second season assessment "Demon With A Glass Hand", widely considered the best episode of all Outer Limits, both seasons. I also prefer Harry Lubin's score to Dominic Frontiere's. It's forceful, dynamic, creepy and the closing theme is particularly haunting.
Larry Blamire February 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM
David mentioned "Demon" first in his quick-sketch breakdown ("the smart dynamism of the Harlan Ellison entries").
I think Lubin's work is/was great for ONE STEP BEYOND, but often seems out of place here.
Thinking out loud, it's kinda fun to "what if" S2. Like say for music, what if Brady had had the budget to bring Fred Steiner or Bernard Herrmann over from CBS? The colors would be different from Frontiere for sure, but dynamic in their own right. Steiner wrote some powerful and chilling stuff for TZ (like "King Nine Will Not Return").
Then there's the tag team of Goldsmith and Stevens from that old THRILLER show. Would have been interesting.
And what if Peach had had more time per episode for some of the care and feeding of more inspired setups, a la his S1 work (not to mention more time for creative creative lighting)?
bobby josson February 18, 2011 at 3:41 PM
Thank you for that, I can never get enough OL.
As for the second season being more SF, I think the first season had episodes such as 'The Sixth Finger', 'The Man Who was Never Born' and others, that show the influence of SF (Olaf Stapledon, Bradbury, ect), without being based on actual stories. It's the kind of back and forth dialogue on the ideas and themes that goes on between writers in the genre all the time. The most important document for the unleasing of the sophisticated SF concepts unleashed by the writers was Stefano's writers guide, "The Cannons". A brilliantly articulated, highly elegant and literate guide for writers that is full of the Stefano ambition to high art in substance and style. I, personally, think that the first season is more science fictional, especially the first half or two thirds. The last third seems Stefano self-expression.
There is a bias in the SF reference books, partly due to the cult of Ellison and partly because SF is a relatively specialised field in which outsiders usually produce "sci-fi" (Glen Larson, Irwin Allan, Gene Roddenberry, ect, ect). TOL is one of the few
exceptions, along with a small strand of films.
Djs, coming after the fight for 'The Unknown', do you think that ABC's decision to move the time-slot was a deliberate attempt to kill the show? It doesn't seem, to me, like they wanted to kill it - but used it to pay-off Brady's contract time. If they had wanted it to succeed - I don't think they would have reduced the budgets for the second season.
It may have had a better chance at NBC...ABC was always the most clueless, even killing off the imported 'The Avengers' by starting to make the creative decisions.
I've wondered whether it would have been able to jump ship to NBC, had it been offered to them. They did allow for the 2nd pilot of 'Star Trek' and it's renewal, which seems to have had very little to do with the letter writing campaign that went on. Mind you, they were intent upon on being the first "All Colour" network.
Does anyone know what it's ratings were in comparison to 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Star Trek'?
Mark Holcomb February 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM
After a 30-hour romp in the playground of Stefano's raw psyche and Stevens's boundless enthusiasm for all creation, getting tossed into the windowless cubicle of a bean-counter's bean-counter feels downright sadistic. But Brady -- as much a soul-barer as anybody else who takes up a creative trade -- faced the same enemy as his first-season counterparts, and in a few cases his regime exceeded the challenge of ABC's budget-smothering foolishness with similar aplomb.
And Hollywoodaholic makes an excellent point -- as a kid I dug it all, and I'll even confess that Lubin's unsubtle theme and cues were way grabbier to me then than Frontiere's. The images that lodged in my head from that time, though, are all from season one, from the shuffling Helosian to the shifty Empyrian to Bruce Dern's agony and terror. I'm weird that way. Even the pushy tumbleweeds and Efferdent toads and slow-steamed Shat in season two didn't stick with me long.
But I'm middle-aged now, and game for surprises wherever and whenever I can find them. So --
Deep breath...
Ted Rypel February 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM
That's the way I've always felt, Mark, as most of us probably have. The poignant memories are generally from the first year. There's no comparing the two seasons, so it's pointless horse-whipping to try. But after the ensuing decades, which have given us so much trash in expensive packaging, I'm willing to be a bit more generous than I used to be about TOL Season Two.
I'm not saying we're going to re-evaluate and raise the pedestrian into classic status---ain't no Zantis crawlin' in THAT woodwork. But I have a feeling we'll find a scary or moving scene here and there, an admirable acting turn (well...maybe not by Skip Homeier), that might evoke some of the nostalgic warmth that was all over the blog while we were extolling Season One.
The second season is OUTER LIMITS with an uninspired, unflattering cosmetic makeover, in many ways, but still OUTER LIMITS; still aspiring, as best it could, to court our imaginations. (Though lusting after ratings victories, "by which sin the angels fell")
And still surpassing most other sf TV we've seen, which won't amount to (and here I go, paraphrasing Skip Homeier) "the faintest echo of the tiniest whisper in the thunder of time."
Let's see what expanding humans we can manage to be...
David C. Holcomb February 18, 2011 at 7:23 PM
Thanks for the call to tolerance and reappraisal, DJS - seems, at the very least, prudent.
I await S2 with bated breath (it just happens to look exactly like a burgeoning yawn).
Peter Enfantino February 18, 2011 at 7:27 PM
I, for one, just simply can...not...wait!
DJS February 18, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Pete — you're Shatnering again, aren't you. Deep breaths. Calm. Zen. OMMMMMMMMMM ....
Was it Joe Stefano or Rod Serling who said "I have seen the future of science fiction and his name is Bill Shatner"?
Ok, ok, I admit, I couldn't wait and snuck a peak at Cold Meatloaf, Warm Meatloaf. The man does not disappoint, I'll say that.
Jim Barwise February 19, 2011 at 12:00 AM
It would have been interesting to see how season two would have fared by it's own standards, if the threat of imminent cancellation wasn't rearing it's head and we had 32 episodes to view here too. I'm not against the idea of adapting written sci-fi into TOL; perhaps the biggest problem with that is just that many written sci-fi works demand a high budget to realize their potential. For me too, as a kid, I liked season 2 almost as much as 1. Harry Lubin's music is very memorable too, especially the end theme song, some of the Demon/Duplicate Man and Inheritors pieces. I guess what I miss most in season 2 is the way Joe Stefano's voice could be heard in the depth and neurosis of the characters. At very least, the huge differences in seasons makes one fresh to go back to the other. This should be fun!!
DJS February 19, 2011 at 3:06 AM
In my darker moments I like to imagine the S2 was actually S1, the series got renewed by the skin of its teeth ... and then Joe Stefano took over for S2.
I'LL SEE YER COLD MEATLOAF AND RAISE YE ...
Pete has generously and irrevocably raised the specter of parody titles.
God, did we ever have them, from the very first:
THE HUNDRED DAZE THAT DRAG ON
THE HUMAN FUCKED HER
COLD GLANDS WARM FART
DEMON WITH A BRASS GLAND
DEMON WITH A CRYSTAL PISTOL
THE INVISI-BALLS
THE ZANTI FUCKWITS
THE INVIZ-EYEBALLS
O.B.I.T.E.
THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF OUTER LIMITS EPISODES WITH OVERLONG PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC VERBOSE TITLES THAT BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES THANKS TO THEIR STRANGE PRODUCER WHICH DEGENERATED BETWEEN COMMERCIALS INTO MEANINGLESS PARTICLES.
Warning: Too many research hours may have adverse effects on your sanity.
(Apologies to all. Long week. Spiritually crushing. Forgive a cheap laugh.)
Lisa February 19, 2011 at 8:21 AM
Hey, no shots at Skip Homeier, guys! He's a marvelous, unique actor and I *love* "Expanding Human", which my sister and I simply referred to as "Roy and Peter".
Some fun performances in Season 2, also! I'm looking at the series from a general TV aficionado POV, I guess, rather than strictly Science Fiction. You guys are pretty tough on things, sometimes. As someone who worked the "suit" side of TV but had my heart in the "fan" category, I've always said that we are lucky to get anything but complete crap on TV -- it's not there to enlighten or induce wonderment, (ad-supported) TV's supposed to sell toilet paper and toothpaste, THE END. TOL came out pretty well, considering what it was up against.
What I really find depressing is that out of the vast audience available on the internet, we've only managed to find maybe a couple dozen who care enough about TOL to come here and comment! And you guys mostly know each other from the good old days! Maybe it does just boil down to a bunch of fans in a basement watching old episodes, maybe a couple of pods of them here and there, but we're in this together, folks, at least.
Great website and I can't wait for the snark about to be heaped upon Season 2! :-) I will have to defend my favorites vigorously!
Wonderful job, everybody! xoxoxoxo
Ted Rypel February 19, 2011 at 9:10 AM
OK, Lisa, as I've already pledged to view Season Two, this time around, as more of an ally in the hostile territory of TV Wasteland, I'll even try to give Skip less lip!
May I also say that the most ignominious bit of info is that TOL was replaced on the ABC schedule by "The King Family"! Yikes! What a 180 degree shift for the network -- going from a young adult demo to grandma and grandpa, in one swift move...
whitsbrain February 20, 2011 at 2:36 PM
@Lisa
I am one of the lurkers here. I had posted a bit to this blog early on, but once I realized the caliber of the commenters here, I was overcome with self-doubt about my classic TV and overall grammatical chops...a sort of dysfunction that modern medicine doesn't have a pill for. C'mon! I'm an IT guy! What the Hell do I know about writing?!?
I do believe that I will be attempting to comment a bit more as this blog guides us into the generally more lowbrow Season Two. My lack of critical skills will likely be more acceptable now. I can say things like "Did you see the strings on the Venusian puppet?!" or "Did you guys check out Geraldine Brooks in that hot little one-piece!?" with total confidence.
And I DO watch the Outer Limits in my basement...On a 50" big screen streamed through my home theater from my two terabytes of networked storage via my Gigabit Ethernet wired house!
IT guy FTW!!!
By the way, pages 168 - 182 of my "Outer Limits Companion" (GNP/Crescendo First Edition!) have now completely separated from the rest of the book, forming a "Mice/Zzzzz/Don't Open Till Doomsday" TOL-pamphlet of sorts.
CURSE THIS BLOG!!!!! How am I gonna get $900 for this thing on Ebay now!?!
Robert H. February 21, 2011 at 9:45 AM
My first good look at S2 was when the first DVD set was released; up 'til then, my memories of Year 2 were pretty dim & dour, excepting for "Demon", "Wolf 359" and "The Inheritors". Getting a good look at the entire season, one finds that overall, it's a pretty solid season of straight Science Fiction. Year 1 is anything BUT straight sci-fi (for the most part, excepting MOONSTONE and SPECIMEN:UNKNOWN) - it's a strange almagamation of sci-fi, gothic horror, noir, character study and psychology that shouldn't have worked as well as it did - but it left a strong impression.
Gerd Oswald signed 4 episodes of PERRY MASON, not 30. Are there episodes that he directed without credit?
There are probably a few reasons you don't find a lot of different folks commenting here. Just off the top of my head (from which many things slip now that there's no hair to for them to latch on to)...
1) Demographics: Many of us who were youngsters when we witnessed the initial broadcasts, are getting along in years and responsibilities. We probably spend more time rewatching episodes in our boxed sets than we do surfing the web for discussion groups.
2) Other outlets: IMDB has quite a few audience contributions that include reviews of the entire series, reviews of individual episodes (full disclosure, my lone review in the whole IMDB is on The Bellero Shield) and numerous discussion threads.
As a long timer fan of the OL, who grew up with the series, I really enjoyed reading this. I just happened to be passing by, for no particular reason and saw this post; many thanks. The OL was one of the most radical and interesting examples of TV at its best that I have or will ever see in my life time. The Outer Limits was, as was the music of its time, light years ahead of anything in today's current sorry state of affairs. I tried to watch the new "Godzilla" movie last week; God it was AWFUL.
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The car had not quite skidded to a halt when Woolie jumped out of the driver’s seat and ran round to get the passenger door. He held it open for her until she was seated. He closed her door and went back and settled himself behind the wheel. He selected drive, eased the handbrake and drove slowly down the short drive to rejoin the Mbeki Road where traffic was nose-to-tail in both directions
“We’ll be so late…” she sighed, staring straight ahead.
“Sorry Rubina”,Woolie replied. He glanced at her. “It couldn’t be helped. There’s a huge hole that’s opened up in the middle of the road, hapa mbele……you’ll see it. It is taking a long time for everyone to get past. That’s what’s causing the delay.”
“You should have come a different way….or left earlier. Have you forgotten we are giving Binu Prakash a lift to the restaurant? I reminded you jana”, said Rubina.
“Nkt! Why do we have to give this Binu chap a lift anyway, can’t he drive himself? Woolie asked. “I don’t even know why he was invited to your farewell dinner. Was it not supposed to be just work-mates and close friends?” Woolie said this with a pained expression on his face.
“Woolie, Prakash was invited by Commander Ruby as you well know. That is why you are being so hostile. You know that Ruby introduced us when she learned that Prakash now lives in Toronto. At least she’s making sure that I will have someone to help me settle in when I arrive. Someone I can go to for help, directions, information. It was nice of her to do that for me.” Rubina was looking at the road ahead as she said this, hoping she had not stung him too deep.
“She’ll probably want you to marry him and have his tois and ef’thing, knowing the commander”, Woolie retorted in a scornful tone.
“Stop being petty, Kondoo. It doesn’t suit you.” was her reply.
These heated discussions were nothing new. Ever since Rubina had dropped the bombshell – her imminent departure to take up a teaching post in Toronto – things between her and Woolie had not been the same. Rubina was young, bright, unattached and without the burdens (as she put it) of close family ties. Woolie, now single, was settled, working for Babu in the investigations and security industry and he could not countenance emigrating and starting anew. They had agreed that this in itself should not mean the end of the world and somehow despite or perhaps because of these limitations their relationship had continued to blossom to a point where they were now quite cheerfully having rows.
They were now driving down the street where Binu Prakash’s mother lived. They stopped at door No 77 and Rubina went up to ring the doorbell. A short lady in a bright green sari came to the door. A moment later Rubina was ushered into the house. The lady stepped out and looked at Woolie’s car for a moment before following Rubina inside and shutting the door behind her.
Rubina’s boss at the law firm sat next to Babu at the head of the table and was as proud as the father of the bride. He made the introductions and went on to tell the rest of the party that they had opted for an informal dinner, a chance for them all to say kwaheri to the brightest star of the firm. He had a tear in his eye when he proclaimed in true wedding fashion that he was losing a daughter as Toronto was gaining a bright and articulate young woman with a fantastic career ahead of her. He explained to those gathered that recent geopolitical events were having a profound impact on so many aspects of our lives. The university where Rubina would be working had set up a new study on the Impact of Recent Migration on the delivery of Law and Justice. Exciting times ahead.
Woolie nodded and clapped with the others. He had already accepted that Rubina had made the right choice in taking up the 3-year appointment. He had spoken to Babu about it and the old man had merely confirmed his own thoughts. One must be allowed to follow one’s dreams and aspirations, for better or worse. The alternative is always worse, ha! Far better to grab the chance, the opportunity than to taste the bitter waters of wondering what ifs and could-have-beens, and the inevitable resentments in relationships.
The party was in full swing now. The drinks were flowing and the music was getting louder. Woolie snapped out of his reverie to find to his surprise that Commander Ruby Mwekundu was speaking to him.
“I wanted to introduce you to Binu”, she was saying. “He tells me his mother thought you were shy earlier this evening. Hahahahahahaha…” She had pulled Binu by the hand and so that he was now facing Woolie, smiling. Binu Prakash took off his spectacles and untucked the front of his shirt to polish them.
Ruby Mwekundu addressed Binu saying, “Tell mbuzi here how I almost killed you when we first met…hahahahahahahaha.”
Binu liked the attention. He waited till everyone was quiet. They had gathered round, their glasses full, waiting for him to begin.
He took a long sip of his beer and said, “It’s such a long time ago, but I remember the events like it was yesterday. I think this is something I will remember to my dying day”.
And so the gathered party heard how it came to pass that seven years before young Binu Prakash had walked into a small bank in Westlands with his naani, (grandmother) They were waiting in the queue to deposit some money. Suddenly the front doors were kicked open and six armed robbers burst into the banking hall, their weapons drawn. Three of the gangsters went up to the cashiers and demanded money. The other three stood guard forcing the customers to lie on the floor.
The impatient thugs were threatening to shoot the customers if the cashiers did not accede to their demands. When the old watchman pleaded for mercy the thugs shot him in the chest, leaving him to lie bleeding in the centre of the hall.
Now Naani was carrying a large cotton bag with Ksh2000 worth of one-shilling pieces. When one of the thugs turned his back to her she smashed the bag over his head with such force that it split open, spilling hundreds of shillings all over the floor. The thug collapsed in a heap. Binu snatched his pistol and turned it on the other thieves shooting two of them dead. He shot and injured a third one who escaped with the other two colleagues.
There is no way the crooks would have known that the Flying Squad had been lying in wait for their gang following a tip off. Led by a young commander by the name of Mwekundu they had stormed the bank to find a triumphant Binu strutting around waving a loaded pistol and looking for more crooks to shoot. Mwekundu had tackled him to the ground and snapped on the handcuffs before he could explain that he was an innocent bank customer.
After lengthy interviews, witness statements and bank cctv evidence Binu was found to be completely innocent. He assisted the police with ID Parades and in due course the remaining robbers were apprehended. Ruby and Binu’s friendship had continued to develop out of a mutual respect that each held for the other. When Binu went away to Toronto he had used the Commander’s reference letter to land his first job as a fraud officer in a small Canadian bank.
Woolie was now looking at Binu in a different light. This man was his kind of hero! A man of Action. It is a good thing that Rubina would be able to count him as a friend. When he got a chance he would tell her that he now realised why Ruby had introduced them. That should smooth the waves, he thought.
Binu was still speaking. He deplored the silly gun laws in the country and found it strange that decent good people found it difficult to obtain legal weapons whereas illegal arms proliferated the towns and cities. The guns were with the bad guys. Binu declared that if the GOK was serious about fighting the threat from the black-flag extremists then they would need to look again at gun laws. Arm the communities to defend their families and their property! Armed robbers and car-jackers operate with impunity because the law forbids decent law-abiding people from carrying weapons.
Woolie could sense disquiet from the legal fraternity and members of law enforcement gathered. Even Babu did not seen convinced by these ideas. Meanwhile Binu was now speculating what the outcome would have been if say security and maintenance staff in places like Westgate or Garissa had been armed….
Binu sensed the mood and changed direction. He smiled at Rubina who had come back to sit next to Woolie. It was quite cold. Without thinking, Woolie had taken his coat from the back of the chair and placed it over Rubina’s shoulders and she was pulling it closer to lock in the warmth.
“Awwwww you two are so sweet. Woolie you should see how she looks at you.” Binu said. Woolie asked him if he was married. Binu nodded saying he would be married 3 years in March. It was commander Ruby who asked him, “ What does your other half do for a living?” To which Binu had replied “Linda is a physicist. Works at the same university that Rubina is going to.
Woolie was impressed. This guy was so cool. A security official type dude working in boring old banks and married to a physicist. He asked, “Is she Canadian or…
Woolie looked at Binu and was surprised to find that his eyes had softened. Gone was the hard-line cynic speaking with an edge to his voice. Gone too, the worries of an unsure, unsafe, insecure world. Even today Woolie says that what he saw in Binu’s eyes was immense joy. He was speaking softly now and Woolie strained to hear what he was saying. Woolie glanced at Rubina and found that she too was trying to catch what Binu was saying.
“My other half is not Canadian. His name is Linda Sokhwebula and he is from South Africa”, he said.
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I always look forward to your stories. You never disappoint. They say never judge a book by its cover; Woolie misjudged poor Binu in so many levels. I have a feeling that Rubina will have a good friend in him.
And can we talk about what a bad-ass Naani is!! I love her.
woolie
Hi Cess – It’s clear how initially Woolie just saw Binu as another of the commander’s projects. Turns out he’s a chap with strong views and stuff. Taking a leaf from Naani, perhaps?
Thanks for your lovely comment 🙂
True as Cess says, you never disappoint. I was already beginning to dislike Binu but he won me over too!
You have to respect a guy who shot and killed two armed robbers using one of their own weapons. No nonsense.
Thanks Savvy 🙂
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AUCTION NAPA VALLEY THIS WEEKEND - Shannon Staglin is President at Staglin Family Vineyard. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Cultural Anthropology she moved back to Napa to work as a harvest intern in 2001 where she learned the details of production and viticultural practices. In 2002 she moved from the winery into the office where she honed her skills in marketing, hospitality, consumer and trade sales. After earning her MBA from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management she chose to work for several years outside of the wine business to gain insight, a different perspective and valuable experience that she could one day share with Staglin Family Vineyard. She was recruited to create the marketing program for Wells Fargo Family Wealth, providing multifamily office solutions to ultra-high net worth client families. In 2011 Shannon returned to Staglin Family Vineyard where she oversees all aspects of the business. Her educational and professional experiences provide a new perspective and a fresh outlook that will enhance the family business.
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Soda, a four ingredient, all natural, less sweet soda has been setting a new national standard for soda with unique flavors including Cucumber, Lavender, Rhubarb, Vanilla Bean, Juniper Berry, Blood Orange and Wild Lime. Simply put, the independent, Seattle-based company is on a mission to change the way America thinks about sodas. Soda ingredients have been in the news in California lately, from the negative effects of caramel coloring to high fructose corn syrup and childhood obesity. DRY is simple, refreshing and delicious, while avoiding artificial colors, sweeteners and flavors. With 45-70 calories per bottle and 11-19 grams of pure cane sugar – as opposed to traditional sodas 140-180 calories and 39+ grams of sugar – DRY is clearly a better-for-you choice.
05/30 RON SALERNO, FERRARELLE USA, JUSTIN SILVER, DOGS IN THE CITY, CHEF PIERO BIONDI
RON SALERNO - FERRARELLE USA
Ron Salerno’s career path to the specialty food business was a circuitous one. After successfully selling his technology business in 2000, Ron took some time to see what he would do next. Truly passionate about his Italian heritage and Italian food, he decided to pursue a job in the Italian food importing and distribution business which would lead him to Roma Foods. With his resume pasted on a bottle of his homemade wine, Ron reached out to founder Luigi Piancone and mailed off his credentials. As soon as Mr. Piancone received the wine / resume, he called Ron who in quick succession became the Sales & Marketing Director for Roma Foods. In 2005 Mr. Piancone sold Roma Foods to Vistar merging the two companies into their existing food service operation. The new company, called Roma Foods, was now worth roughly $3 billion with 28 operating companies around the U.S. With an MBA in International Business, experience working for a publicly traded company and his familiarity with corporate structure, Ron was invaluable in helping to evolve the Roma ‘family style’ of business into a formal, more traditional corporate business model. Vistar/Roma Foods was eventually purchased by Blackstone Capital and then acquired the Performance Food Group creating what is now the third largest food service company in the world. After the merger, Ron left Roma and started Salerno Imports. The company imported Brava-Italia energy drinks; Izzi brand Limoncello, Sambuca & Amaros and VerdeOro olive oil. In 2009, Ron was named Director of Ferrarelle USA (www.ferrarelleusa.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of the number one brand of mineral water in Italy. Ferrarelle USA is responsible for importing, distributing and building the Ferrarelle brand in America. To date, Ron has built a thriving organization and established a national distribution infrastructure with two dedicated product distribution centers. The Ferrarelle brand is sold in restaurants around the U.S., leading supermarket chains and in many specialty retailers. Volume has already reached into the hundreds of containers per year and has been growing at a rapid rate. Ron has excelled in combining his American business education and experience with his passion for Italian food and heritage to transform an old-world style business model for the US market. Ron has found professional and personal satisfaction working with Italian companies and continues to expand his portfolio with Ferrarelle , a career path his grandfather, who emigrated from Avellino, would definitely have been very proud he chose.
JUSTIN SILVER - “DOGS IN THE CITY"
In Manhattan, Justin Silver is known as the “go-to guy” for all things dog-related. He has a
creative and instinctive ability to connect with his canine customers while solving dilemmas for their two-legged masters. In each episode, he meets with clients who present a range of relationship problems, lifestyle changes or domestic issues – from a couple looking to move in together, but she’s terrified of his golden retriever, to a recently divorced couple whose dog is having a rough time adjusting to joint custody. Justin gets as imaginative as necessary to reach a satisfying resolution, often finding that the owners can be a special breed themselves. “Dogs are at the center of the story here, but this is a show that reveals as much about human nature as man’s best friend,” said Executive Producer Carol Mendelsohn. “Dogs are often a lightning rod for their owners’ emotions and dysfunction at home. Justin has an amazing gift to break down these complex issues with incredible heart, humor and, sometimes, much-needed candor.” Justin Silver has been taking care of dogs and their owners for more than a decade. A dog trainer, behaviorist and owner of a pet care company, Silver is also a comedian and founder of Funny for Fido, a nonprofit that raises money for homeless animals by producing a yearly stand-up comedy event. Silver firmly believes that every dog can be trained to be a wonderful companion by working on issues calmly and confidently with both his four- and two-legged clients. The series will premiere Wednesday, May 30 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
CHEF PIERO BIONDI - RECIPES and "SIMPLICITY" IN COOKING
FORMER CRN HOST AND CO-FOUNDER OF "WHAT'S COOKIN" RETURNS TO TALK RECIPES AND "SIMPLICTY" IN COOKING , A FACTOR IN BEING A GREAT CHEF - RECIPES ON WEBSITE
05/29 ANDY SCHWEIGER, GM CARLOS ESCOBOSA "MABELLA SUITES, GEORGE JARKESY!
05/29 ANDY SCHWEIGER, GM CARLOS ESCOBOSA "MABELLA SUITES,GEORGE JARKESY!
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ANDY SCHWEIGER - SCHWEIGER VINEYARDS
Andy Schweiger—owner and winemaker at Schweiger Vineyards is the chair of the Auction Napa Valley global e-auction. Andrew Schweiger spent his early years in Sonoma County, California. He attended Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa where he was an accomplished musician, often performing with the Santa Rosa Symphony, Sonoma County Junior Symphony and numerous other musical groups. Andrew gained a passion for winemaking early in life being surrounding by vineyards on the family property on Spring Mountain, high above St. Helena. While in high school, he spent summers working in a variety of capacities at local wineries including Gloria Ferrer and ZD. In 1988, Andrew started his formal training in winemaking at the University of California, Davis. While keeping a full schedule at school, he expanded his winemaking bag of tricks by working at various wineries, including Joseph Phelps and Trefethen Vineyards. Upon graduating with a bachelor's degree in fermentation science and a minor in viticulture, Schweiger set right to work at Chateau St. Jean, and a few years later at Cain Cellars. When the time came in 1994 for Schweiger Vineyards to begin wine production, Andrew was able to balance his work load and oversee all the winemaking operations at Schweiger in addition to his full time obligations. Finally, the big step forward came in 1999, when Schweiger Vineyards chose to stop selling fruit to other wineries, and Andrew took the leap to Schweiger Vineyards full time. Andrew resides in St. Helena with his wife Paula and two children, Jerry and Megan.
GM CARLOS ESCOBOSA - MABELLA SUITES
Since its purchase, Marbella Suites en la Playa has been continuously improved and upgraded to accommodate the growing public audience of travelers looking for a unique hotel experience, in a breathtaking beachfront location, for a moderate price. We’ve worked to bring back the feel of a traditional hacienda hotel, but also adding the important modern touches guests need, such as WI-if Internet throughout the property.
GEORGE JARKESY - CRN TALK HOST
Chairman of the National Eagles and Angels Association and CEO of Jarkesy & Company. He also owns and operates a winery. A successful money manager and professional investor, respected financial and corporate adviser and a dynamic public speaker, George has founded, invested in and helped to build companies engaged in a broad range of industry sectors, including financial consulting, media, real estate investing, real estate management, employee leasing, light steel manufacturing, livestock management, high technology, natural resources, healthcare and biotechnology.
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05/25 LARRY HYDE, HYDE VINEYARDS, CHEF DREW DECKMAN, DECKMAN'S, STEVE EVANS!
05/25 LARRY HYDE, HYDE VINEYARDS, CHEF DREW DECKMAN, DECKMAN'S,
STEVE EVANS!
LARRY HYDE - HYDE VINEYARDS
Larry Hyde is the founderowner and viticulturist of both Hyde Vineyards and Larry Hyde & Sons Vineyards and winerylocated in Carneros (Napa Valley). He was born and raised in WoodsideCA. One year he applied for a harvest job at nearby Ridge wineryand because Larry was fluent in Spanish he ended up working in the vineyard and supervising the workers. That was the beginning of his great passion for viticulture. Larry's educational background includes UC Berkeley and Davis. His work experience includesCuvaisonMondaviStag's Leap Wine Cellars and Phelps winery. In 1979Larry's father purchased his first hundred acres of pasture land in Carneroswhich became Hyde Vineyards. Todayit's a "Grand Cru" of California and Larry is a highly respected grape growerknown for clonal experiments. High quality fruit from Hyde Vineyards finds its way to some of the best wineries in California. In 2000Larry became a partner of Aubert de Villaineforming a wine ventureHdVand in 2009another projectinvolving Larry's sonsPeter and Christophergiven an appropriate nameLarry Hyde & Sons.
CHEF DREW DECKMAN - DECKMAN'S
Chef Drew Deckman, after growing up in Peachtree City, GA and completing a degree in Philosophy from Rhodes College, embarked on a culinary journey that has brought him to San Jose del Cabo in what is now "DECKMAN'S San Jose." Chef Drew spent 10 years in France, Switzerland and Germany cooking with Gastro-Masters such as Paul Bocuse, Jacques Maximin, Gilles DuPont and Tommy Byrne. Drew was awarded a coveted Michelin Star for his work in Restaurant Vitus in Germany as well as Rising-Star Chef in Berlin in 2003 during his tenure as Executive Chef at the Four Seasons Berlin. After mentoring under star-teacher and cookbook author Madeleine Kamman, Chef Drew was part of the final class of the School for American Chefs at Beringer Vineyards. He has worked in Kona Hawaii, Cancun, Mx, Rome, Italy, Shanghai, China and spent time as a private Chef to an entertainer in Los Angeles. Chef Drew has finally found a permanent home in Baja California Sur where he enjoys blue-water sport fishing, scuba diving and golf. Drew is dedicated to local, sustainable ingredients, is Convivium Leader for Slow Food BCS, and is the culinary consultant for Casa de Piedra Winery, Paralelo Winery, Estacion por Venir Winery and La Contra Vinos.
STEVE EVANS - THE MOVIE GUY
Latest box office info and news from the world of movies and films. Steve talks about the good, the bad and the ugly. His extensive theatrical experience makes him the right guy to talk about movies and their affect on popular cultures
05/24 RICHARD PINK, "PINKS", CHEF G.GARVIN!
RICHARD PINK - PRESIDENT "PINKS" HOLLYWOOD, CA
HOT DOG TO THE STARS! It's our 72nd year in Los Angeles, at the same location. A family-owned hot dog stand since 1939. Yes, we've been in business at the same location since 1939 and now that we're on the Internet, too, we invite you to browse our site, learn about our great hot dog stand, and then come on down for lunch, dinner, or a late night snack. Pink's Hot Dogs are now available at other locations: Cedar Point Amusement Park (Sandusky, Ohio), Harrah's Rincon Hotel & Casino (near San Diego), Hollywood Park Casino, Knott's Berry Farm, LAX Bradley International Terminal, Planet Hollywood Hotel (Las Vegas), Universal City Walk, the Greek Theater (summer season), L.A. County Fair (September), San Diego County Fair (June), Ventura County Fair, Orange County Fair (August), and Southern California Fair, Perris (October).
CHEF G.GARVIN - 'ROAD TRIP WITH G. GARVIN'
Acclaimed cookbook author, host and larger-than-life personality, Chef Gerry Garvin, aka ‘G.’, takes viewers on a culinary expedition to taste the most delicious Southern-inspired cuisine the country has to offer in Roadtrip with G. Garvin, premiering Tuesday, May 29th at 9pm ET/6pm PT. Traveling to Atlanta, North Carolina and South Carolina, New York, Houston and more, G. Visits a different city each episode to discover the hidden gems and the people behind the magic. From traditional ethnic food and urban farms to barbecue pit masters Extraordinaire, G. Garvin leaves no stones unturned in his quest to find the hottest, most delicious spots in the country. In the season premiere, G. Travels to Charleston, S.C., a city with a passion for quality and tradition. G.’s first stop is The Glass Onion, a restaurant that believes in the importance of eating naturally and locally, as G. Creates a fresh and sophisticated pork belly sandwich beloved by locals. After trying all the fixings, G. Hits the road for his next destination, Cakes by Kasarda, who specialize in fine and unique cakes. G. Receives a lesson from the owner as he prepares from scratch a groomsmen cake shaped like a beer bucket and topped with sugared “ice”. G.’s last stop takes him to meet the owner of Barrier Island Eco Tours, as he explores Charleston’s undeveloped barrier islands and back creek salt marshes, all before enjoying a traditional Charleston feast before the sunset.
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Better Band, a source of unity through music – BBR
Gesel Hodge 2017-05-25
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“We want more Better! We want more Better!” One can only imagine that these lyrics have been enshrined in the hearts of many who have witnessed the legacy of Better Band – the Band of the late 90s and early 2000s! Better Band… a band that united the hearts of many and empowered the masses with words of encouragement that resonate that “we must live as one” and “sing a song of love, peace and harmony” – positivity that traversed not only villages but also, islands… Their music is simply ageless and still as infectious as when it was first released! They were musicians and entertainers at heart who knew how to get the crowd engaged and moving! Flash forward to 2017, these lyrics are more than just a chant. They epitomize the desire to relive or be a part of the delightful experience of being entertained by Better Band. With the combination of lively delivery; the creative fusion of varying styles and genres; and the meaningful, thought-provoking lyrics, it is little surprise that the public ardently received the news that “Our Better Band” was reuniting for a ‘walk down memory lane’ concert.
We want more Better! We want more Better!”
— Better Band, Hip Hip
To say the least, the cries of many have been answered by the young and talented two-man team behind AXA BOY Entertainment who aided in making the Reunion a dream turned reality. The two sons of the soil, Inderan “Indy” Bailey and Shervaun “Young Diction” Hughes-Edwards, are forces to be reckoned with!
Inderan “Indy” Bailey (left) & Shervaun “Young Diction” Hughes-Edwards (right)
There’s no doubt that Young Diction, the lyrically smooth rapper in the 2008 hit, “Island Girls” turned music producer and promoter; along with Indy, music engineer for the prestigious Universal Records’ studios in Miami, will deliver a high-caliber event on Friday, 26th May 2017 at 10 pm at the Caribbean Commercial Complex.
A brief history about Better Band’s legacy
Due to a certain turn of events in the late 90s, another band emerged after the separation of the previously known Vito band. However, unknown to many, the name, “Better Band”, was only meant to be a temporary name which nevertheless stuck. The original members of Better Band included Terrence “Hodgie” Hodge-Carty; Corwin “Bookie” Carty, Lanvol “Pantha” Carty; Bevon “Sonney King” Niles; “Fudi” and the late, “Bassie”. Hit after hit, this band delivered – even with the change in dynamics of the band like the addition of Sherma “DeBabe” Hughes; Dwight “Dwytea” Carty; and Allan A “Pipe” Carty, to name a few, paired with the exit of some members. Nonetheless, one thing for sure remained the same – the admiration of the band by its fans! Throughout their legacy they earned road march titles in 1998-2000 and 2004 – 2007, for their songs: Raise the Roof, Soggy, Misbehave, Toss Up, Imagine, Jam Aerobics and Keep Moving.
We’re having a party and we want everyone to join in. It’s an open invitation and … its guaranteed to be a big one!”
— Better Band, Join In
Besides their road march titles, they also delivered some of the best love tunes that has the unchanging emotional evocation which makes singing and/or dancing along irresistible. Not to mention, the songs “Reach for the stars” and “The Road You Walk” which are very much relatable to this day with the wise advice as conveyed by Bookie that we must “reach for the stars. The sky is the limit” and that “in life, if you want to achieve your goals, you have to go about it in a positive way”. We all are anxious to know what all AXA BOY Entertainment has in store for us as Hodgie, Bookie, Pantha, Pipe, Sonney King and Dwytea with Junie of Poizon Band set the stage ablaze. If you’re not already excited to attend, there will be giveaways to the first 200 persons to arrive who will receive a complimentary Better Band Reunion rag and a lucky ticket holder will get the opportunity to play mas with the Majestic Gem troupe. Other entertainment include: BDJ & DJATC, DJ Jeanie & DJ Bless PCS. Leading up to the observation of the 50th year after the Anguilla Revolution, this Reunion is fitting because of the underlining themes of some of the band’s songs which goes hand-in-hand Anguilla’s motto – Unity, Strength and Endurance.
Hip Hip! Hooray Hooray! Jump up leh we celebrate!”
You don’t want to miss out on the Better Band experience! It’s an event for the persons who know every lyric to every song ever produced by Better Band; the ones who partied at Ground Zero and Round Rock and the newcomers who did not get their ‘healthy dose’ of Better! Soca Relapse, today, might be your last chance for the year (or, even years) that you will see Better Band performing LIVE! If you missed them at the Better Band Reunion, you need to be at Soca Relapse.
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Secret Santa and The Christmas Wedding Book Spotlights & Book Tour Giveaway
By Angela Thompson on 12/09/2018 04:25:00 PM
Today, I have two contemporary romance novels in my book spotlight! Check out Secret Santa and The Christmas Wedding, learn about the authors and enter the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.
by Keren Hughes
Being born and raised in the town of Snowflake has its perks for Aneurin Mackenzie, she’s seen it all; businesses booming and the town flourishing. Sadly, she’s also seen it torn to shreds by a previous mayor.
Then, in comes cocky, arrogant, filthy rich Preston Wolfric III with his “fresh ideas” to bring business back to this small town. He wants to turn Snowflake around, bringing it to the 21st century.
However, Nye will not let her town be changed without a fight.
He’s a big city alpha male, she’s a small town girl with no desire to change. She plans to run him out of town but what she doesn’t count on is that cocky jerk making his way under her skin, seeping into her veins.
She didn’t realise how devastatingly handsome he is. He didn’t realise what he needed was right in front of him.
What will happen when Preston and Nye’s worlds collide? Will there be sparks or will it become a fire that lays waste to everything they thought they knew?
Do opposites really attract?
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Keren Hughes lives in the UK and is an avid bookworm. She fondly remembers the days where she would lie in her bedroom away from distraction and get lost in the world of make believe. Her first real memory of reading something she fell in love with was The Hobbit. In her teenage years, she became addicted to Point Horror books like RL Stine's The Boyfriend, but she also enjoyed light Summer reads like What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next.
Over the years she has come to realise that she is a bit of an OCD freak about books. They have to be in perfect condition without the slightest bit of damage.
She has been a book reviewer for the last few years and a book hoarder for a LOT longer. You can NEVER have too many books! Her shelves are bulging and overflowing but she always wants "just one more book".
Keren had her first book published by Limitless Publishing in November 2013. It's a YA Paranormal Romance novel called Stolen. Her second book was published with LP in May 2014. This time, an NA Contemporary Romance called Nothing Like The First Time.
She couldn't have been more surprised when NLTFT appeared on the Amazon Best Seller list. That was a dream come true.
Keren is currently working on more NA Contemporary Romances for you to fall in love with.
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The Christmas Wedding
The Harvest Ridge Series Book 1.5
by K.L. Ramsey
Lorna Sanders stepped up to raise her niece, after her sister and brother-in-law’s tragic deaths. She never allowed herself to dream that someday she would have a family of her own, but meeting Jonathan Sawyer changes all of that. He teaches Lorna that age is just a number and dreams can come true, especially at Christmas.
Jonathan Sawyer’s job is to keep Lorna’s family safe, he never imagined that job would also include protecting her heart. He just needs to convince Lorna that wishing for her heart’s desire and Christmas miracles are both possible. Can Sawyer’s plan, for a Christmas wedding be enough to show her that it’s never too late to find happily ever after?
K. L. Ramsey was born and raised in Maryland. As a child she struggled in school, having to attend speech and reading therapy. Her teacher told her that she would never be a very good reader; that English was just not her thing. She continued to struggle until eleventh grade, when she signed up for a Creative Writing class. Her high school teacher saw her potential and submitted a short story, that K. L. had written for class, to a local literary publication. The story was not only published but won an award for best short story. Knowing that someday she wanted to become a writer, K. L. received her BA in English from Salisbury State University.
K. L. Ramsey currently resides in West Virginia (Go Mountaineers!). She lives with hunky scientist, two now not so little people, and six fur babies. In her spare time, she likes to read romance novels, attend WVU football games and drink wine with girlfriends.
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Joseph Wallace December 10, 2018 at 7:28 AM
Congrats on the release. I like the girl on the cover of the Christmas Wedding. Bernie Wallace BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com
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Why I voted for Congress in Delhi Elections 2013
By Ankur Banerjee on Dec 4, 2013 in Personal | 4 comments
My newsfeed on Facebook and Twitter is filled today with millenials, like me, who voted in an Indian election for the first time posting pictures of their fingers marked with indelible ink. Without any concrete demographic information, but based on what I saw anecdotally, the eventual 66% voter turnout probably comprised a significant portion of millenials. For me, it feels weird that the first time I’ve ever voted in elections was in the UK, not these Delhi Elections. I’d have taken my phone along to take pictures, had I known it was allowed. I saw many people at my polling station with phones, although I’ve heard other reports that people had to leave their phones outside. (The Election Commission of India’s website, unfortunately, has no FAQ for voters. For some reason, they also keep two designs for the website live.) My newsfeed is filled with ink-stained finger pics. I think Election Commission of India should tie-up with Instagram to verify voter count. — Ankur Banerjee (@ankurb) December 4, 2013 The process was surprisingly painless. I only had to wait for fifteen minutes before I got my turn to vote, with the usual procedure of checking electoral rolls and inking of my finger. And it was at that point I headed to an electronic voting machine, behind a bewildered old couple who’d never seen the contraption, and cast my vote for Congress. *** Ever since I’ve been back in Delhi, I’ve been trying to decide which party to vote for. I’m not particularly in touch with Indian politics these days (I don’t even read newspapers here) but it’s hard to escape the constant cacophony of various parties conducting rallies and advertisements everywhere. Every day on my daily run, I would hear at least one ad on the radio from BJP, with an annoying jingle about how they will reduce prices of vegetables and remove corruption. There are hoardings at bus stops talking about prices of onions and the number of rapes in Delhi. While both are sad in their own right, I can’t see myself supporting a political party which bases its entire campaign on ad hominem attacks trying to play on the anti-incumbency factor. Reducing the debate to prices of vegetables is a joke, given that it’s a lot to do with inflation in the Indian and global economy at large, rather than a local factor. More importantly, it isn’t as if BJP is particularly spotless when it comes to a track record in combating corruption. But perhaps my biggest reason for not supporting a Hindu fundamentalist, right-wing party like the BJP is because of its prime ministerial candidate for the general elections next year: Narendra Modi, who features prominently in their advertising campaigns across Delhi. I believe it’s a matter of national shame for India that a person who sat by and watched as one of the worst communal riots happened in India got off scot-free, and is in the running for the Prime Minister of India. For his face Perhaps the same argument could be lobbed towards Congress politicians for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. My grandfather himself sheltered Sikh families in his house when those riots took place and risked his life to turn away mobs who were going house-to-house looking to murder people. Yet, as far as I know, none of those perpetrators are running for the post of running the entire country, even though they may or may not have been convicted. I don’t care for argument that go along the lines of “Gujarat has advanced a lot under Narendra Modi”. That sounds just like the argument supported Adolf Hilter’s rise to power in Nazi Germany. I cannot support a politician who is so morally bankrupt and who has never apologised for the 2002 Gujarat riots. My second choice was the Aam Aadmi Party. Started by political activist Arvind Kejriwal, the party has built its credentials on an anti-corruption platform. When I first saw their logo (on a McDonald’s TV screen, no less), I actually thought “Aam Aadmi Party” was a tagline Congress was using, because of AAP’s use of tricolours in their logo. AAP certainly has been loud and vocal about what they want to do, and because of the pedigree of their leader, I wanted to check out their manifesto (summary in English, entire manifesto in Hindi). They make quite a few lofty promises: reducing electricity bills, 700 litres of free water per day, schools and hospitals in every neighbourhood, et al. All very noble goals, but nowhere does their manifesto do they mention where they will find the money to do all of their stated goals. Higher taxes? Surely that’s not going to be better for the “common man”. For instance, take their promise of providing 700 litres of free water per day, per household. According to a paper published in 2008, the average daily household consumption of water in most Indian cities is 400 litres, so 700 litres is vastly generous. But why should this be provided for free? Access to clean water is a right worth fighting for and there are many parts of Delhi which go without it, and eliminating a revenue source completely (because it’s unlikely most households would ever exceed their free quota) isn’t generate revenue to expand water coverage across Delhi households. Similarly, they claim to have 20% of Delhi’s power needs generated by solar energy...
The Pot Belly / What A Comic Show reviews
By Ankur Banerjee on Nov 28, 2013 in Reviews | 0 comments
My trip to The Pot Belly Cafe was mildly adventurous. Since I got a new Nokia Lumia phone, I decided to check out how accurate its HERE Transit app is with Delhi transport. I started off from my house near Moti Bagh and took a bus to AIIMS. At this point, the app kept telling me either to take a 465EXT route bus – which never arrived despite being listed multiple times – or to take route 540 from South Extension, 500 metres away. I thought, “500 metres ain’t too bad” so I started walking towards South Ex from AIIMS. At first there was a usable (in Delhi!) footpath, which soon narrowed down to a single-brick wide pathway alongside a busy highway. It was at this point that two guys on a motorcycle alighted next me. Now, it was dark – around 8pm – and I expected they’d either mug me or ask for directions. The mystery was soon resolved when one of the guys approached me and asked me whether I wanted to buy a Nokia Lumia 920 for “a reasonable price”. I politely declined and reached my destination eventually by bus. I learned later that it’s a common scam in Delhi to be approached by people pretending to sell you a phone at a seemingly bargain price, and then swap the phone with a dummy when the transaction takes place. I was headed to Shahpur Jat – a “ghetto version of Hauz Khas Village”, as a friend described it. I was little prepared for the shock when I entered the “village” from the incorrect entrance and had to navigate narrow alley after another to get to my destination. (Directions on Zomato or Google Maps weren’t helpful.) Karmanya may have been scared to get shanked in HKV, but on this occasion I felt that was an actual possibility. The closest parallel I can draw to what the general vibe is when I’ve had to visit relatives in Katwaria Sarai. Anyway, I finally did reach my destination, The Pot Belly Cafe. Not a particularly upscale option as it specialises in Bihari cuisine, which was part of the attraction to me since it would be something different. This place had been picked on Prateek‘s recommendation (a foodie who runs an amazing food blog over at Belly Centric); I was also meeting up with other Twitter-friends – Souvik, Apoorv, and Karan. The interiors look like a fancy dhaba. We started off with baskets of meat and vegetable pakoras for starters. Pakoras are fairly typical and our group was still hungry so we decided to order more starters. The next set of starters we ordered were “phish phingers” – cylindrical fish sticks with crispy potatoes of the kind you get at Yo! China – along with the Bihari staple of litti chokha. Litti is basically roasted chickpea which is stuffed into a fried jacket, like a jacket potato, served with (on this occasion) with chana dal. My impression of litti chokha from litti juices that I’ve drunk earlier wasn’t particularly amazing, so I was quite surprised that this was tasty! Bihari burger with mutton Maithili Thali Champaran-style mutton For the main course, we chose three dishes. Bihari burger turned out to be a cross between a normal burger and a pav bhaaji, with a mutton patty and filling in super-sized pav bhaaji buns – enough for two people if you aren’t feeling peckish. Champaran-style mutton was boneless, tender mutton served with paranthas and raita. And lastly, Maithili thali was a puri dish with diced paneer. The portions were good enough for sharing among the five of us. Somewhat out-of-the-way, The Pot Belly Cafe is an excellent choice if you want to try out Indian cuisine that’s typically not classified as “sexy” among eating-out choices or easily available. Make sure you figure out where it is first though! It’s very easy to miss. (Slice of Italy / The Coffee Garage are good landmarks in case you need to seek directions.) Rating: 8 / 10 *** SDA Market (opposite IIT Delhi) isn’t my usual choice for venue for a meal due to the lack of choice in cuisines. Not much space in such a tiny market anyway. However, I had noticed signs for a new establishment called What A Comic Show, and I was intrigued by it because I assumed it would be a comedy club. I wanted to give an Indian comedy club that supported local comedians a shot. It wasn’t until I met up with Bhavika for dinner yesterday there that I realised that What A Comic Show is a restaurant – hence the name, rather than a comedy club. The restaurant is stocked with comic book memorabilia (with scary “no touching!” signs) on all shelves, with custom comic book graphic art poster for each table top. The menu, too, is a cardboard slab with comic book action font. What A Comic Show primarily serves Asian and Continental cuisine. The Asian section, to be honest, is quite disappointing serving what passes off as Chinese cuisine in India. The Continental menu, on the other hand, is loaded with many interesting choices. We ordered the mix bell pepper bruschetta and mushroom toast for starters. The quantity was overkill for a starer, since each portion is quite large for two people with four pieces each. For mains, I ate their signature “All Flavour Burger” – a delicious...
Garage, Inc (Hauz Khas Village) / The Blue Door (Khan Market) reviews
My friend Karmanya and I have been searching for a good burger in Delhi the past week. With that in mind, I went to two places to see how the burgers were. *** Garage, Inc in Hauz Khas Village bills itself as an American diner. Naturally, the bare minimum expectation of an American diner is it should serve good burgers. A flight of stairs through the cacophony of construction that seem to be perpetually going on HKV leads to this restaurant. (Karmanya thought he was about to shanked because of how shady the construction site looked.) A heavy iron door – the kind you’d expect for a bank vault, but not really – opens into the restaurant which seems to be aiming for the biker look on everything except for its menu. To be honest, nothing stands out in the decor except for a seemingly-unused foosball table right in front of the door. For starters we ordered cheesy fries with pork, which had some description of shredded meat similar to beef chilli (but supposedly pork). Oh well. I had better hope from their burgers, so I ordered a chicken grease burger with bacon while Karmanya ordered a bacon and beef burger. Now, the concept of “rare” or “medium rare” seems to be non-existent in India, despite specifically making a request for a medium rare burger, the patty in the one Karmanya got was charred. Mine was slightly better, but that’s not saying much since the buns seemed to be too cheap / badly stored and fell apart within seconds. The coleslaw, too, was stale (and upset my stomach later in the day). I was looking forward to dessert since I’d looked up on Zomato that they did deep-fried Mars bar, a Scottish abomination that I haven’t eaten for a while. It’s a standard Mars bar, deep-fried in batter to create a Frankensteinian calorie monster that makes you regret eating it the moment you do. BUT IT IS SO WORTH IT. Now, the thing about a deep-fried Mars bar is that isn’t supposed to be a fine dining experience – because that’s not what the deep-fried Southern American cuisine style is about. It’s supposed to greasy, dirty, sweet, and loaded on calories. Yet the dessert that was presented was dainty, with chocolate sauce dressing, a scoop of ice cream, and to make it worse a “fun” size Mars bar rather than a normal one. The ambience and food at Garage, Inc is terrible. Give this place a miss. Rating: 3 / 10 *** I’ve walked passed the sign for The Blue Door Cafe in Khan Market many times, always giving it a miss because the sign looks. so. shit. The sign is tacky as fuck, more along the line of an upscale dhaba that attempts to do European cuisine. Still, on Karmanya’s recommendation – and since my choice of Garage, Inc had been so crap – we decided to give this place a go. We went in for lunch, although they seem to specialise in breakfasts and crepes. I ordered a burger again with a brownie shake – the latter of which they promptly forgot until I prompted them for it an hour later. Apart from that hitch, the service was on the ball. Speaking of the burger itself, it was done medium rare-ish without even asking for it, showing that the place cares about its meat. The salad was fresh, the chips were chunky, and buns too tasted fresh without falling apart. The shake, well, shakes are good in their own right but given enough whipped cream anything tastes good, to the point that anyone who claims a milkshake they had was “heavenly” now just gets a shrug from me. I need to go back to this place another day to try their breakfast, because properly-cooked bacon is hard to get in Delhi. The Blue Door Cafe is an excellent place for the price you pay. Rating: 7.5 /...
Gung The Palace review
I used to fret whether searching for “authentic” cuisine in non-native countries was a pretentious thing to do. Now, I’ve reconciled to the fact that people who try out a fake version of a foreign cuisine and gush about it are far more pretentious, and hence I have my own right to be more smug than them. IT HELPS ME SLEEP AT NIGHT, OKAY. Anyway. I’m back in Delhi while I’m waiting for my visa to be sorted out. During this time, I’ve gone around meeting friends and I’ve quite often been disappointed with what is passed off as foreign cuisine in Delhi. The other day I went to Boombox Cafe, much-beloved among the Delhi crowd for its variety of cuisine as evidenced by online reviews. I haven’t eaten Mexican food for ages now, so I ordered a chicken quesedilla…and got a random mix of diced chicken inside a paratha. Another day, at Cafe Morrison, I ordered nachos with cheese only to get a hardened, dried nachos with “cheese” that was yellow-coloured running water. Such is the state of eating out in Delhi, with many popular restaurants trying to serve dishes from multiple cuisines to customers who wouldn’t know better, as long as they have an illusion of choice. It was in this context that, you must realise, when one of my friends suggested a place in Green Park that served “really authentic Korean food” I wanted to reserve my judgement until I saw it with my own eyes. Tucked away in a side road from Green Park Main Market is Gung The Palace. The lobby that greets you when you walk in is littered with Korean pamphlets and memorabilia, with private rooms where you sit down on the floor in front of low tables for your dining experience. My friend (Karmanya) and I walked in today asked for a table for two, and the hostess who greeted us at the door asked us if we had a reservation. We didn’t. She gave a look as if that never happened in this establishment. I was almost about to blurt out “Look here lady, I don’t know how they do it in False Korea, but in True Korea we would have been greeted warmly” when we were ushered upstairs to a standard seating area with normal dining tables and chairs. The decor in this section of the restaurant was somewhat incongruous. There was a TV, much like in a dhaba, playing a Korean TV channel showing a Korean version of Takeshi’s Castle where competitors were running around over giant inflatable pools and eating noodles. (I presume on their breaks from running on top of giant inflatable pools.) In another corner was a disco ball on the ceiling for…I don’t know. Impromptu karaoke parties? We got served cold tea right away – I assume it was barley tea, or hell may rain wrath upon them – along with a selection of appetisers such as soft, sweet peanuts (my favourite), kimchi, fried chicken pieces (kinda similar to Japanese chicken karaage), brussels sprouts, spinach, et al while we perused the menu. The menu is cute in how words in the story of the restaurant are randomly missing spaces to make breathlessrunonwordsthatmakenosense. Helpful pictures guide first-timers to Korean cuisine on what the dishes look like, and it took us a while to decide on dishes because there are around 70-80 items on the menu. (Options available for vegetarians too, asthemenubreathlesslyinformsyou.) I was salivating at pictures of prime sirloin and prime jowls already. Perhaps the only item that looked out-of-place were the California rolls. Ultimately, I ordered marinated chicken – dak bulgogi – with glass noodles (it’s been a while since I’ve eaten glass noodles) while Karmanya ordered sour pork with rice. Part of hesitation with the menu came from the eye-watering prices (by Delhi standards) with most dishes in the range of Rs 700-1800. We also ordered sweet plum soju, which came in a teapot for multiple servings. We’d seriously underestimated the quantity of food we’d get. Unlike other expensive places, Gung doesn’t skimp on portions at all! My noodles were served hotpot-style with a burner on the table a huge plate with a generous serving of bulgogi with noodles. In fact, to anyone who goes there I’d recommend being restrained with how many dishes to order since each can easily feed 2-3 people. (It was the same with the portions Karmanya got.) The bulgogi was done just right – with deliciously tender pieces of chicken. A superb meal in all! The total for two people came to Rs 3000 – exactly as predicted on Zomato – and neither of us wanted dessert because the only option was ice shavings with red bean. I’m not a big fan of desserts with beans in them. To me, that’s the antithesis of what dessert should be – sweet! Especially when paired with something cold like ice, the resulting taste is bland. Overall, I’d say Gung The Palace is an excellent place to go for a meal. It’s pricey, but totally worth the money if you’re looking for authentic Korean food, and the portions are huge. The decor’s nice too, as long as you don’t get shunted into the ghetto dining area on tables on the first floor. Would definitely recommend. Rating: 7.5 / 10 *** One thing I noticed at Gung was that all the waitresses were Nepalese...
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Igbo, Non-Igbo Relive Civil War Experience
By Ikenna Emewu, Sun News Online
How minutes fly into hours and days and later years is amazing. Many who saw and took part in the internecine and sanguinary war that tore the nation in shreds and still leaves its scars in the minds of a particular part of the country feel amazed that it is already 40 years since it wound to close.
Children born immediately after the war are already parents and have advanced into great minds and characters. But as the years add, the pains of the war fade because time is a healing balm.
Saturday Sun reasoned that 40 years is like a landmark on the war taking cognizance of the impacts it made in the history of the nation. From our interview sources, the history of Nigeria so far is one pivoted on that war of 30 months that cost the nation about two million lives and inflicted on its psyche an enduring gorge that has remained a borderline of disintegration of forces that should have united into a strong nation.
A participant on the Biafran side said: “A sh…
How We Saw Civil War As Kids
The class of Biafrans affected most by the brutish war was the children. “The children lived at the mercy of the federal soldiers who defied the rules of warfare to drop bombs in refugee camps, markets and other places where the civilians and children hid”, a source told Saturday Sun.
In one of such occasions, Red Cross accounts of the war noted that its airplane conveying relief materials to the civilians in Biafra was shot down by the Nigerian troops who had proclaimed that the territory be shut out from supply of basic necessities as part of the warfare.
Saturday Sun, therefore, spoke with Nigerians who were children during the war to find out what their young memories registered of what they went through in the three-year hostility 40 years after the civil war.
Maggots lived inside children’s bodies
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As a child during the civil war, we were raised up in a very horrible condition. The memory I have of the war is that of…
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Berkeley Square Gin’s ‘Gintessential’
By Toby L. White on September 21, 2018 Tipples
In the highly competitive world of craft gins, it’s no longer enough that a new boutique distillery can impress with increasingly baffling botanicals and the legacy of its name. Though, saying that, there’s a lot to be said for Berkeley Square gin on both those counts.
Its botanicals – simply, lavender, sage, kaffir lime and basil – are infused through a bouquet garni during its distillation rather than introduced layer-on-layer in a traditional still. It’s designed to preserve the herbs’ essential oils giving a smoothness to the characteristic bitterness of a London dry.
But botanicals and distillation aside, you’d be hard pressed to think that a gin called Berkeley Square were anything other than ultra-premium. And for that very reason, the new battleground of boutique gins – that of events and pop-ups – means that with its new residency at Morton’s it can leave most competition in its wake. There are few places you would want to go for a martini than a private members’ club in the heart of Mayfair.
Throughout September, they’ve taken over the club’s ground floor with ‘Gintessential’ (see what they did there?), transforming the space into a sleek botanical Mayfair haven, overlooking the square, oozing elegance and style as effortlessly as the cocktails they’re serving.
Morton’s own mixologist, Constantino Armocida, has concocted a menu that adds an innovative spin on all the gin-based classics, from the martini to the negroni, and each named with a nod to its new neighbourhood. There’s The Nightingale, Benji the Bentley Boy, the Jeeves, and the dashing Le Mans Negroni – an inspired take given a twist with Aperol and Amaro Averna.
Feeling rakish for a Friday, I couldn’t refuse the Harry Flashman, a pimped version of the martinez (itself a precursor to the martini), with the Berkeley gin given a complimentary spin with Punt e Mes vermouth, Maraschino and rhubarb bitters. Settling back in a taught black leather armchair, staring out across the square at the Bentley showroom across the way, thoughts turned to what colour I might elect for my new Continental GT. Perchance to dream, eh?
As venues go for a post-office libation, for that pinnacle of elegance and sophistication, there are few alternatives to compete with a martini in Berkeley Square. One might even say that Gintessential is the…now, what’s the word…? It’ll come to me.
GINTESSENTIAL will be open to club members and the general public from the 5th September – 28th September, Monday to Friday from 5.30pm onwards at Morton’s, 28 Berkeley Square. Guests are encouraged to make table reservations by contacting Morton’s on 020 7499 0363.
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Uncategories DSEI 2017: SubSea high-speed submersible begins underwater trials
DSEI 2017: SubSea high-speed submersible begins underwater trials
SubSea Craft has confirmed to Jane’s that its innovative special forces Diver Delivery Unit (DDU) vehicle has begun submerged testing ahead of display at the DSEI defence exhibition in London.
The DDU resembles an offshore racing catamaran and demonstrated its stability at high speeds in mid-2017, but that area of technology and boat design is relatively well established and there is already a wide range of fast insertion craft available on the market. SubSea Craft’s operational concept envisages the DDU travelling over the horizon at high speed and then submerging for the final miles of a mission to covertly insert or extract combat swimmers, so the current phase of underwater testing is key to proving the free-flooding craft’s potential.
The prototype vessel was constructed at the company’s Northshore facility near Chichester in southern England in 2016 and then underwent significant systems and software integration trials alongside at Portland, Dorset, toward the end of that year, before returning to its yard in early 2017. Remedying software issues identified by that testing meant that the boat could not return to Portland for mobility testing until the UK summer of 2017.
However, successful testing then enabled the team behind the project to build sufficient confidence in the robustness of the craft’s systems – some taken offtheshelf and modified, but also with many bespoke elements including large systems such as enclosures for the air-breathing propulsion systems and small ones like new pressure-resistant connectors for the data cables – that the boat could be submerged for the first time.
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Hemingway-Pfeiffer To Hold “Celebration of Quilting”
The Pfeiffer-Janes House at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum.
PIGGOTT — Quilts will be displayed in the Pfeiffer-Janes House at the “Celebration of Quilting” set for Friday, May 19, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center (HPMEC). Admission to the show is free.
The quilt show honors the legacy of Paul Pfeiffer and his family. During the Great Depression, Pfeiffer would buy quilts from the ladies in the community, even though the family had no need for them. No matter the quality of the quilt, he would pay the same price.
His wife Mary would give these quilts to those in need in the community. In this way, the Pfeiffers provided for the community in two ways, by creating work and by charitable contributions to those who could not work.
Visitors’ choice ribbons will be awarded in multiple categories, with divisions for hand-quilted and machine quilted items. Anyone may enter quilts and quilt-based creations with no entry fees. Quilts may be brought to the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Educational Center Monday, May 15, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For additional information or to pre-register a quilted article, call (870) 598-3487.
The Clay County and Randolph County Extension Homemakers Council are co-sponsors of the show. HPMEC is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site located at 1021 W. Cherry Street, in Piggott. Tours are on the hour Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Saturday, 1-3 p.m.
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Book: The Big Smoke
The Big Smoke: Poems
Adrian Matejka
2013 NBA–Poetry finalist
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.
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The Info List - Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple and its sequel 30 years later, The Odd Couple II, (and other frequent collaborations with Odd Couple co-star Walter Matthau), Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won Best Actor at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Tuesdays with Morrie, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men.
1 Early life 2 Career 3 Singing and piano playing 4 Awards and favorite films 5 Personal life 6 Death 7 Filmography
7.1 Film 7.2 Television 7.3 Discography
8 References 9 Sources 10 External links
Early life[edit] Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925, in an elevator[2] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company.[3][4] Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. During his acceptance of his lifetime achievement award, he stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard College
Harvard College (Class of 1947), where he lived in Eliot House[5] and was an active member of several Drama Clubs – and president of the Hasty Pudding Club[6] – as well as a member of the Delphic Club
Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. At Harvard, Lemmon was a member of the V-12 Navy College Training Program and was commissioned by the United States
United States Navy,[6] serving briefly as an ensign on an aircraft carrier during World War II
World War II before returning to Harvard after completing his military service.[7] After graduation with a degree in War Service Sciences[8] in 1947,[9] Lemmon took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway.[6] He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen.[6] He was enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, guitar, organ, and the double bass. Career[edit]
Jack Lemmon, attending an awards ceremony in 1988
Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer/painter in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he went unnoticed until his debut, opposite Judy Holliday, in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You.[6] Lemmon worked with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Remick, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret and Sophia Loren. He was close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau and Kevin Spacey. He made two films with Curtis, and fifteen with Matthau. Early in Lemmon's career he met comedian Ernie Kovacs
Ernie Kovacs while co-starring with him in Operation Mad Ball. Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films, Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane. In 1977, PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series. Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius. He was a favorite of director Billy Wilder, starring in the films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti!, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy. Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered; the Wilder biography Nobody's Perfect quotes the director as saying, "Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat". The biography quotes Lemmon as saying, "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play... If my character was having a nervous breakdown, I started to have one". He enjoyed longtime working relationships with both Blake Edwards, starring in Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Great Race
The Great Race (1965) and That's Life! (1986), and Richard Quine, starring in My Sister Eileen, Operation Mad Ball., Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane
It Happened to Jane and How to Murder Your Wife
How to Murder Your Wife (1965). Quine also directed Lemmon's screen test when the actor was signed by Columbia. Singing and piano playing[edit] Lemmon's singing voice was first heard on two film soundtracks in 1955, Three for the Show
Three for the Show with Betty Grable
Betty Grable and My Sister Eileen. He also performed songs in the 1956 film You Can't Run Away from It
You Can't Run Away from It with Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye and June Allyson. His first solo album A Twist of Lemmon was released in 1958 on Epic Records. While filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe in 1959, Lemmon released a second album, Some Like It Hot. Both featured Lemmon's singing and piano solos. The two Epic albums were later released as A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot, a single cd on Collector's Choice Music, in 2001. Two singles, Daphne/Sleepy Lagoon (released in 1959) and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles/I Cover the Waterfront (released in 1960) did not appear on either album. Epic released a third single in 1960, Lemmon's piano solo of the theme to the film The Apartment, backed with his own composition Lemmon Blues. In 1963, Lemmon released a third album, this time on Capitol Records, entitled Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon Plays Piano Selections from Irma La Douce. Awards and favorite films[edit] Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts (1955) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to achieve this are: Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington).[6] He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment
The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The China Syndrome (1979), and Tribute (1980). He won another Cannes award for his performance in Missing (which received the Palme d'Or). In 1986, the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures gave Lemmon a "Career Achievement" award;[10] two years later, the American Film Institute gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Days of Wine and Roses (1962) was a favorite role. He portrayed Joe Clay, a young, fun-loving alcoholic businessman. In that film, Lemmon delivered the line, "My name is Joe Clay ... I'm an alcoholic." Three and a half decades later, he stated on the television program Inside the Actors Studio that he was a recovering alcoholic.[6] Lemmon's production company JML produced Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke in 1967. Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sundance Kid, later played by Robert Redford
Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down. He did not like riding horses and he felt he'd already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before.[11]
Charlie Chaplin (right) receiving an Honorary Academy Award from Lemmon at the 44th Academy Awards
Academy Awards in 1972
Lemmon appeared in many films partnered with actor Walter Matthau. Among their pairings was 1968's The Odd Couple, as Felix Ungar (Lemmon) and Oscar Madison (Matthau). The first film they starred in together was The Fortune Cookie
The Fortune Cookie (for which Matthau won the 1966 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), The Front Page and Buddy Buddy. In 1971, Lemmon directed Matthau in the comedy Kotch. It was the only movie that Lemmon directed and Matthau was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which both appeared without sharing screen time). In 1993, the duo teamed again to star in Grumpy Old Men. The film was a surprise hit, earning the two actors a new generation of young fans. During the rest of the decade, they would star together in Grumpier Old Men, Out to Sea, and the widely panned The Odd Couple II. In 1996, Lemmon was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear
Golden Bear award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[12] In 1997, Lemmon was a guest voice on The Simpsons
The Simpsons episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," playing the character Frank Ormand, owner of the pretzel business that Marge Simpson
Marge Simpson franchised. The recurring character Gil Gunderson, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, is an ongoing parody of Lemmon's character in Glengarry Glen Ross. At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for "Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie" for his role in Twelve Angry Men losing to Ving Rhames. After accepting the award, Rhames asked Lemmon to come on stage and, in a move that stunned the audience, gave his award to him. (The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, had a second award made and sent to Rhames.).[13] He received the AFI Life Achievement Award
AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988. Lemmon won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role as Morrie Schwartz in his final television role, Tuesdays with Morrie. His final film role was an uncredited one: the narrator in Robert Redford's film The Legend of Bagger Vance. Actor Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey recalled that Lemmon is remembered for always making time for other people. Already regarded as a legend, he met teenage Spacey backstage after a theater performance and spoke to him about pursuing an acting career.[14] Spacey would later work with Lemmon in The Murder of Mary Phagan (1987), Dad (1989), the critically acclaimed film Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and on stage in a revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. Lemmon was Spacey's mentor, and taught Spacey that people who do well in a business have an obligation to "send the elevator back down" to help lift people starting out on the ground floor.[15]
Lemmon's Star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California, USA July 19, 2012
In his autobiography, My Life, Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anyone, even if they deserved it. This kindness backfired for Reynolds: prior to accepting the lead in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), directed by John G. Avildsen, Reynolds asked Lemmon, whom Avildsen had directed in Save the Tiger (1973) for an opinion of Avildsen as a director. Lemmon told Reynolds that Avildsen was "okay", and Reynolds accepted the role. After the film was released and his experiences in production proved unhappy, Reynolds complained to Lemmon and described Avildsen as an "asshole", whereupon Lemmon replied, "I guess you could say that."[16] Personal life[edit] Lemmon was married twice. His first wife was actress Cynthia Stone, with whom he had a son, Chris Lemmon
Chris Lemmon (born 1954). His second wife was actress Felicia Farr, with whom he had a daughter, Courtney (born 1966). Farr had a daughter from a previous relationship (her marriage to Lee Farr) named Denise. Lemmon was a Catholic.[17] He publicly announced his alcoholism during a 1998 interview on Inside the Actors Studio.[18]
Jack Lemmon's grave in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
To golfers everywhere Lemmon was known as the "star" of the celebrity-packed third round telecast of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, held at Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach Golf Links each February. Lemmon's packed gallery was there not only for his humor but also to root him on in his lifelong quest to "make the cut" to round 4, something he was not able to achieve. The amateur who helps his team most in the Pro-Am portion is annually awarded the Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon Award. During the 1980s and 1990s Lemmon served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.[19][20] Lemmon was a registered Democrat.[21] Death[edit] Lemmon died of metastatic cancer of the bladder on June 27, 2001.[22] He had been fighting the disease privately for two years before his death. His body was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. (The grave of Walter Matthau, a close friend of Lemmon's who acted with him in multiple cinematic productions, lies in the same cemetery). Lemmon's gravestone reads like a title screen from a film: "JACK LEMMON in"[23] Filmography[edit] Film[edit]
1950 Once Too Often[24] Mike Unknown Uncredited
1953 It Should Happen to You Pete Sheppard George Cukor
1954 Phffft Robert Tracey Mark Robson
1955 Three for the Show Martin "Marty" Stewart H. C. Potter
1955 Mister Roberts Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver John Ford
John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1955 My Sister Eileen Robert "Bob" Baker Richard Quine
1955 Hollywood Bronc Busters Himself
1956 You Can't Run Away from It Peter Warne Dick Powell
1957 Fire Down Below Tony Robert Parrish
1957 Operation Mad Ball Private Hogan Richard Quine Nominated — Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1958 Cowboy Frank Harris Delmer Daves
1958 Bell, Book and Candle Nicky Holroyd Richard Quine
1959 Some Like It Hot Jerry "Gerald" / "Daphne" Billy Wilder BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1959 It Happened to Jane George Denham Richard Quine
1960 The Apartment C. C. Baxter Billy Wilder BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1960 Stowaway in the Sky Narrator Albert Lamorisse Voice
1960 Pepe Daphne George Sidney Cameo
1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army Lt. Rip Crandall Richard Murphy
1962 The Notorious Landlady William "Bill" Gridley Richard Quine
1962 Days of Wine and Roses Joe Clay Blake Edwards Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Performer San Sebastián International Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Sant Jordi Award for Best Performance in a Foreign Film Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1963 Irma la Douce Nestor Patou / Lord X Billy Wilder Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree Hogan David Swift Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1964 Good Neighbor Sam Sam Bissel David Swift Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965 How to Murder Your Wife Stanley Ford Richard Quine Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965 The Great Race Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick Blake Edwards Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1966 The Fortune Cookie Harry Hinkle Billy Wilder
1967 Luv Harry Berlin Clive Donner
1968 There Comes a Day
1968 The Odd Couple Felix Ungar Gene Saks Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1969 The April Fools Howard Brubaker Stuart Rosenberg Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1970 The Out-of-Towners George Kellerman Arthur Hiller Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Uncredited
1971 Kotch Sleeping bus passenger Jack Lemmon Uncredited
1972 The War Between Men and Women Peter Edward Wilson Melville Shavelson
1972 Avanti! Wendell Armbruster, Jr. Billy Wilder Golden Globe Award
1973 Save the Tiger Harry Stoner John G. Avildsen Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1974 La polizia ha le mani legate Narrator Luciano Ercoli Voice
1974 The Front Page Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson Billy Wilder David di Donatello for Best Actor (shared with Walter Matthau) Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1975 Wednesday Jerry Murphy
1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue Mel Edison Melvin Frank
1975 The Gentleman Tramp Narrator
1976 Alex & the Gypsy Alexander Main John Korty
1977 Airport '77 Captain Don Gallagher Jerry Jameson
1979 The China Syndrome Jack Godell James Bridges Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor David di Donatello for Best Actor (tied with Dustin Hoffman) BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1980 Tribute Scottie Templeton Bob Clark Silver Bear for Best Actor[25] Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1981 Buddy Buddy Victor Clooney Billy Wilder
1982 Missing Ed Horman Costa-Gavras Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — David di Donatello
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1984 Mass Appeal Father Tim Farley Glenn Jordan
1985 Macaroni Robert Traven Ettore Scola
1986 That's Life! Harvey Fairchild Blake Edwards Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1989 Dad Jake Tremont Gary David Goldberg Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1991 JFK Jack Martin Oliver Stone
1992 Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy Himself
1992 The Player Himself Robert Altman
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross Shelley Levene James Foley National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor
1993 Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman
Robert Altman In Carver County Himself
1993 Short Cuts Paul Finnigan Robert Altman Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble Cast Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast
1993 Grumpy Old Men John Gustafson Donald Petrie
1995 The Grass Harp Dr. Morris Ritz Charles Matthau
1995 Grumpier Old Men John Gustafson Howard Deutch Nominated — American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture
1996 Getting Away with Murder Max Mueller / Karl Luger Harvey Miller
1996 My Fellow Americans President Russell P. Kramer Peter Segal
1996 Hamlet Marcellus Kenneth Branagh
1997 Out to Sea Herb Sullivan Martha Coolidge
1997 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's Himself
1998 Puppies for Sale Pet shop owner
1998 The Odd Couple II Felix Ungar Howard Deutch
1999 Tuesdays With Morrie Morrie Schwartz Mick Jackson
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance Narrator / Hardy Greaves Robert Redford Uncredited, (final film role)
Television[edit]
Year Title Role Notes
1949–1950 That Wonderful Guy Harold
1950 Toni Twin Time Host Episode dated May 31, 1950
1951 Ad-Libbers, TheThe Ad-Libbers Celebrity panelist 5 episodes
1951–1952 Frances Langford- Don Ameche
Don Ameche Show, TheThe Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show Newlywed "The Couple Next Door" sketches
1952 Heaven for Betsy Pete Bell
1954 Road of Life, TheThe Road of Life Surgeon
1956 Day Lincoln Was Shot, TheThe Day Lincoln Was Shot John Wilkes Booth
1957 What's My Line? Mystery Guest Season 9, Episode 10
1957–1958 Alcoa Theatre Henry Coyle Steve Tyler Wally Mall Lieutenant Tony Crawford Edward King Episode: "Disappearance" Episode: "Most Likely to Succeed" Episode: "Loudmouth" Episode: "The Days of November" Episode: "Souvenir"
1972 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin Host Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
1976 Entertainer, TheThe Entertainer Archie Rice Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1987 Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone, Sr. Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1988 Murder of Mary Phagan, TheThe Murder of Mary Phagan Gov. John Slaton Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1990 The Earth Day Special Coach Stewart
1992 For Richer, for Poorer Aram Katourian Nominated — CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
1993 A Life in the Theater Robert Nominated — CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries Nominated — Golden Globe Award
1994 Wild West Host
1996 Weekend in the Country, AA Weekend in the Country Bud Bailey
1997 Simpsons, TheThe Simpsons Frank Ormand Voice Episode: "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
1997 12 Angry Men Juror No. 8 Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1998 Long Way Home, TheThe Long Way Home Thomas Gerrin
1999 Inherit the Wind Henry Drummond Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1999 Tuesdays with Morrie Morrie Schwartz Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award
A Twist of Lemmon (1958) Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot (1959) Piano Selections from Irma La Douce (1963) Piano and Vocals (1990) Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf (1991) Songs and music from Some Like It Hot
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Jack Nicholson (1976) Peter Finch
Richard Dreyfuss (1978) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1979) John Hurt
John Hurt (1980) Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster (1981) Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (1982) Michael Caine
Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1983) Haing S. Ngor
Haing S. Ngor (1984) William Hurt
William Hurt (1985) Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins (1986) Sean Connery
Sean Connery (1987) John Cleese
John Cleese (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1990) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1991) Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. (1992) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1993) Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant (1994) Nigel Hawthorne (1995) Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush (1996) Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle (1997) Roberto Benigni
Kevin Spacey (1999) Jamie Bell
Jamie Bell (2000) Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe (2001) Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis (2002) Bill Murray
Bill Murray (2003) Jamie Foxx
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke (2008) Colin Firth
Colin Firth (2009) Colin Firth
Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013) Eddie Redmayne
Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award
Ray Milland (1946) Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (1949) Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave (1951) Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando (1952) Charles Vanel
Charles Vanel (1953) Spencer Tracy/cast of Bolshaya Semya (1955) John Kitzmiller
John Kitzmiller (1957) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1958) Bradford Dillman/Dean Stockwell/ Orson Welles
Orson Welles (1959) Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (1961) Dean Stockwell/Jason Robards/Ralph Richardson/ Murray Melvin
Murray Melvin (1962) Richard Harris
Richard Harris (1963) Antal Páger/ Saro Urzì
Saro Urzì (1964) Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp (1965) Per Oscarsson
Per Oscarsson (1966) Oded Kotler
Oded Kotler (1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (1969) Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni (1970) Riccardo Cucciolla
Riccardo Cucciolla (1971) Jean Yanne (1972) Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini (1973) Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (1974) Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (1975)
José Luis Gómez
José Luis Gómez (1976) Fernando Rey
Fernando Rey (1977) Jon Voight
Jon Voight (1978) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1979) Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli (1980) Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi (1981) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1982) Gian Maria Volontè
Gian Maria Volontè (1983) Alfredo Landa/ Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal (1984) William Hurt
William Hurt (1985) Michel Blanc/ Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins (1986) Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni (1987) Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker (1988) James Spader
James Spader (1989) Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu (1990) John Turturro
John Turturro (1991) Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins (1992) David Thewlis
David Thewlis (1993) Ge You (1994) Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce (1995) Pascal Duquenne/ Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (1996) Sean Penn
Sean Penn (1997) Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan (1998) Emmanuel Schotte (1999) Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2000)
Benoît Magimel (2001) Olivier Gourmet
Olivier Gourmet (2002) Muzaffer Ozdemir/Emin Toprak (2003) Yūya Yagira (2004) Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (2005) Jamel Debbouze/Samy Naceri/Roschdy Zem/Sami Bouajila/Bernard Blancan (2006) Konstantin Lavronenko (2007) Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro (2008) Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz (2009) Javier Bardem/ Elio Germano
Elio Germano (2010) Jean Dujardin
Jean Dujardin (2011) Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen (2012) Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern (2013) Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall (2014) Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon (2015) Shahab Hosseini
Shahab Hosseini (2016) Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix (2017)
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Cecil B. DeMille (1952) Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1953) Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck (1954) Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt (1955) Jack L. Warner
Jack L. Warner (1956) Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy (1957) Buddy Adler (1958) Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier (1959) Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby (1960) Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (1961) Judy Garland
Judy Garland (1962) Bob Hope
Bob Hope (1963) Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine (1964) James Stewart
James Stewart (1965) John Wayne
John Wayne (1966) Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (1967) Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (1968) Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (1969) Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (1970) Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra (1971) Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock (1972) Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (1973) Bette Davis
Bette Davis (1974) Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (1975) Walter Mirisch (1977) Red Skelton
Red Skelton (1978) Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball (1979) Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda (1980) Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly (1981) Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (1982) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1983) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1984) Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1985) Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (1986) Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn (1987) Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1988) Doris Day
Doris Day (1989) Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (1990) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1991) Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum (1992) Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (1993) Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1994) Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren (1995) Sean Connery
Sean Connery (1996) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1997) Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (1998) Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (1999) Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand (2000) Al Pacino
Al Pacino (2001) Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (2002) Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (2003) Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas (2004) Robin Williams
Robin Williams (2005) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (2006) Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (2007) Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (2009) Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2010) Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (2011) Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (2012) Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (2013) Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2014) George Clooney
George Clooney (2015) Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington (2016) Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep (2017) Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (2018)
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor
Laurence Olivier (1957) Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando / Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton (1958) Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin (1959) Cary Grant
Cary Grant (1960) Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (1961) Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins / Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (1962) Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (1963) Fredric March
Fredric March / Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1964) Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison (1965) Richard Burton
Richard Burton (1966) Richard Burton
Richard Burton / Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1967) Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty / Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (1968) Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger (1969) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman / Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1970) Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal (1971) Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol (1972) Yves Montand
Yves Montand / Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1973) Al Pacino
Al Pacino / Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1974) Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster / Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau
Jack Nicholson / Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1976) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman / Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone (1977) Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss (1978) Richard Gere
Richard Gere / Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault (1979) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman / Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1980) Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster (1981) Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (1982) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1983) Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1984) Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce (1985) William Hurt
William Hurt (1986) Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon (1987) Michael Douglas
Dustin Hoffman (1989) Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1990) Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons (1991) John Turturro
John Turturro (1992) Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (1993) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1994) John Travolta
John Travolta (1995) Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (1996)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings (1955) Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan (1956) Jack Palance
Jack Palance (1957) Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov (1958) Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (1959) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1960) Maurice Evans (1961) Peter Falk
Peter Falk (1962) Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard (1963) Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman (1964) Alfred Lunt
Alfred Lunt (1965) Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson (1966) Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov (1967) Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas (1968) Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (1969) Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov (1970) George C. Scott
George C. Scott (1971) Keith Michell
Keith Michell (1972) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1973) Anthony Murphy (1973) Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook (1974) William Holden
William Holden (1974) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1975) Peter Falk
Peter Falk (1975) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1976) Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook (1976) Ed Flanders
Ed Flanders (1977) Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer (1977) Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (1978) Michael Moriarty (1978) Peter Strauss (1979) Powers Boothe
Powers Boothe (1980) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1981) Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (1982) Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (1983) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1984) Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna (1985) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1986) James Woods
James Woods (1987) Jason Robards
Jason Robards (1988) James Woods
James Woods (1989) Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn (1990) John Gielgud
John Gielgud (1991) Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges (1992) Robert Morse
Robert Morse (1993) Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn (1994) Raúl Juliá
Raúl Juliá (1995) Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman (1996) Armand Assante
Armand Assante (1997) Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise (1998) Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci (1999) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (2000) Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh (2001) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (2002) William H. Macy
William H. Macy (2003) Al Pacino
Al Pacino (2004) Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush (2005) Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher (2006) Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall (2007) Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (2008) Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (2009) Al Pacino
Al Pacino (2010) Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper (2011) Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (2012) Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas (2013) Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch (2014) Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (2015) Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance (2016) Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed (2017)
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees
Charlie Chaplin (1972) Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (1973) Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock (1974) Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1975) George Cukor
George Cukor (1978) Bob Hope
Bob Hope (1979) John Huston
John Huston (1980) Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (1981) Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1982) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1983) Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (1984) Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (1985) Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1986) Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (1987) Yves Montand
Yves Montand (1988) Bette Davis
Bette Davis (1989) James Stewart
James Stewart (1990) Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (1991) Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (1992) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1993) Robert Altman
Robert Altman (1994) Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (1995) Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1996) Sean Connery
Sean Connery (1997) Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (1998) Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (1999) Al Pacino
Al Pacino (2000) Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (2001) Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (2002) Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon (2003) Michael Caine
Michael Caine (2004) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (2005) Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange (2006) Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (2007) Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep (2008) Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (2009) Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas (2010) Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (2011) Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (2012) Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand (2013) Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner (2014) Robert Redford
Robert Redford (2015) Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (2016) Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (2017) Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren (2018)
Fred Astaire (1950) Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (1951) Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor (1952) David Niven
David Niven (1953) James Mason
James Mason (1954) Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (1955) Mario Moreno (1956) Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra (1957) Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (1958) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1959) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1960) Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford (1961) Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni (1962) Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (1963) Rex Harrison
Lee Marvin (1965) Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin (1966) Richard Harris
Richard Harris (1967) Ron Moody
Ron Moody (1968) Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1969) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1970) Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol (1971) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1972) George Segal
George Segal (1973) Art Carney
Art Carney (1974) Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau / George Burns
Kris Kristofferson (1976) Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1978) Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (1979) Ray Sharkey
Ray Sharkey (1980) Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore (1981) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1982) Michael Caine
Michael Caine (1983) Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore (1984) Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (1985) Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan (1986) Robin Williams
Robin Williams (1987) Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (1988) Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (1989) Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu (1990) Robin Williams
Robin Williams (1991) Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins (1992) Robin Williams
Robin Williams (1993) Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant (1994) John Travolta
John Travolta (1995) Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (1997) Michael Caine
Michael Caine (1998) Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey (1999) George Clooney
Gene Hackman (2001) Richard Gere
Richard Gere (2002) Bill Murray
Jamie Foxx (2004) Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix (2005) Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen (2006) Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp (2007) Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell (2008) Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. (2009) Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (2010) Jean Dujardin
Jean Dujardin (2011) Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman (2012) Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio (2013) Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton (2014) Matt Damon
Matt Damon (2015) Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling (2016) James Franco
James Franco (2017)
Mickey Rooney (1981) Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews (1982) Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain (1983) Ted Danson
Ted Danson (1984) Dustin Hoffman
James Woods (1986) Randy Quaid
Randy Quaid (1987) Michael Caine/ Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach (1988) Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall (1989) James Garner
James Garner (1990) Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges (1991) Robert Duvall
James Garner (1993) Raúl Juliá
Raúl Juliá (1994) Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise (1995) Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman (1996) Ving Rhames (1997) Stanley Tucci
Jack Lemmon (1999) Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy (2000) James Franco
James Franco (2001) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (2002) Al Pacino
Geoffrey Rush (2004) Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005) Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy (2006) Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent (2007) Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (2008) Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon (2009) Al Pacino
Al Pacino (2010) Idris Elba
Idris Elba (2011) Kevin Costner
Michael Douglas (2013) Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (2014) Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac (2015) Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston (2016) Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor (2017)
Hasty Pudding Men of the Year
Bob Hope (1967) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1968) Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby (1969) Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1970) James Stewart
James Stewart (1971) Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1972) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1973) Peter Falk
Peter Falk (1974) Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1975) Robert Blake (1976) Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson (1977) Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss (1978) Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (1979) Alan Alda
Alan Alda (1980) John Travolta
John Travolta (1981) James Cagney
James Cagney (1982) Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1983) Sean Connery
Sean Connery (1984) Bill Murray
Bill Murray (1985) Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone (1986) Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1987) Steve Martin
Steve Martin (1988) Robin Williams
Robin Williams (1989) Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (1990) Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1991) Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas (1992) Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase (1993) Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise (1994) Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (1995) Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (1996) Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson (1997) Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline (1998) Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson (1999) Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (2000) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (2001) Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis (2002) Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2003) Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. (2004) Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins (2005) Richard Gere
Richard Gere (2006) Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller (2007) Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (2008) James Franco
James Franco (2009) Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake (2010) Jay Leno
Jay Leno (2011) Jason Segel
Jason Segel (2012) Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland (2013) Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (2014) Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt (2015) Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2016) Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds (2017) Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd (2018)
Kennedy Center Honorees (1990s)
Dizzy Gillespie Katharine Hepburn Risë Stevens Jule Styne Billy Wilder
Roy Acuff Betty Comden
Betty Comden and Adolph Green Fayard and Harold Nicholas Gregory Peck Robert Shaw
Lionel Hampton Paul Newman
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Ginger Rogers Mstislav Rostropovich Paul Taylor
Johnny Carson Arthur Mitchell Sir Georg Solti Stephen Sondheim Marion Williams
Kirk Douglas Aretha Franklin Morton Gould Harold Prince Pete Seeger
Jacques d'Amboise Marilyn Horne B.B. King Sidney Poitier Neil Simon
Edward Albee Benny Carter Johnny Cash Jack Lemmon Maria Tallchief
Lauren Bacall Bob Dylan Charlton Heston Jessye Norman Edward Villella
Bill Cosby Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb and John Kander Willie Nelson André Previn Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black
Victor Borge Sean Connery Judith Jamison Jason Robards Stevie Wonder
Complete list 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1946) Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave (1947) Walter Huston
Walter Huston (1948) Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson (1949) Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (1950) Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart (1951) Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson (1952) James Mason
James Mason (1953) Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby (1954) Ernest Borgnine
Alec Guinness (1957) Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (1958) Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström (1959) Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum (1960) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1961) Jason Robards
Jason Robards (1962) Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison (1963) Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn (1964) Lee Marvin
Paul Scofield (1966) Peter Finch
Peter Finch (1967) Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson (1968) Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1969) George C. Scott
George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (1971) Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (1972) Al Pacino
Al Pacino / Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (1973) Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (1974) Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (1975) David Carradine
David Carradine (1976) John Travolta
John Travolta (1977) Jon Voight
Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1978) Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (1979) Robert De Niro
Ben Kingsley (1982) Tom Conti
Tom Conti (1983) Victor Banerjee
Victor Banerjee (1984) William Hurt
William Hurt / Raúl Juliá
Raúl Juliá (1985) Paul Newman
Michael Douglas (1987) Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (1988) Morgan Freeman
Robert De Niro / Robin Williams
Robin Williams (1990) Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1991) Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1992) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1993) Tom Hanks
Nicolas Cage (1995) Tom Cruise
Jack Nicholson (1997) Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (1998) Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe (1999) Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem (2000) Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (2001) Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott (2002) Sean Penn
Forest Whitaker (2006) George Clooney
George Clooney (2007) Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2008) George Clooney
George Clooney / Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (2009) Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg (2010) George Clooney
George Clooney (2011) Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (2012) Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern (2013) Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton / Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac (2014) Matt Damon
Matt Damon (2015) Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck (2016) Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (2017)
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
1962: Eddie Cantor 1963: Stan Laurel 1965: Bob Hope 1966: Barbara Stanwyck 1967: William Gargan 1968: James Stewart 1969: Edward G. Robinson 1970: Gregory Peck 1971: Charlton Heston 1972: Frank Sinatra 1973: Martha Raye 1974: Walter Pidgeon 1975: Rosalind Russell 1976: Pearl Bailey 1977: James Cagney 1978: Edgar Bergen 1979: Katharine Hepburn 1980: Leon Ames 1982: Danny Kaye 1983: Ralph Bellamy 1984: Iggie Wolfington 1985: Paul Newman
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward 1986: Nanette Fabray 1987: Red Skelton 1988: Gene Kelly 1989: Jack Lemmon 1990: Brock Peters 1991: Burt Lancaster 1992: Audrey Hepburn 1993: Ricardo Montalbán 1994: George Burns 1995: Robert Redford 1996: Angela Lansbury 1997: Elizabeth Taylor 1998: Kirk Douglas 1999: Sidney Poitier 2000: Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 2001: Ed Asner 2002: Clint Eastwood 2003: Karl Malden 2004: James Garner 2005: Shirley Temple 2006: Julie Andrews 2007: Charles Durning 2008: James Earl Jones 2009: Betty White 2010: Ernest Borgnine 2011: Mary Tyler Moore 2012: Dick Van Dyke 2013: Rita Moreno 2014: Debbie Reynolds 2015: Carol Burnett 2016: Lily Tomlin 2017: Morgan Freeman
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Alan Rickman (1996) Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise (1997) Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve (1998) Jack Lemmon
Brian Dennehy (2000) Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (2001) William H. Macy
Geoffrey Rush (2004) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (2005) Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons (2006) Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline (2007) Paul Giamatti
Al Pacino (2010) Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (2011) Kevin Costner
Michael Douglas (2013) Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo (2014) Idris Elba
Idris Elba (2015) Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston (2016) Alexander Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård (2017)
Silver Bear for Best Actor
Burt Lancaster (1956) Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante (1957) Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (1958) Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin (1959) Fredric March
Fredric March (1960) Peter Finch
Peter Finch (1961) James Stewart
James Stewart (1962) Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (1963) Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger (1964) Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (1965) Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud (1966) Michel Simon
Michel Simon (1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (1968) Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin (1971) Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (1972) Vlastimil Brodský (1975) Gerhard Olschewski (1976) Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1977) Craig Russell (1978) Michele Placido
Michele Placido (1979) Andrzej Seweryn
Andrzej Seweryn (1980) Anatoly Solonitsyn
Anatoly Solonitsyn / Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon (1981) Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård / Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli (1982) Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern (1983) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1984) Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1985) Tuncel Kurtiz (1986) Gian Maria Volontè
Gian Maria Volontè (1987) Jörg Pose / Manfred Möck (1988) Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (1989) Iain Glen
Iain Glen (1990) Maynard Eziashi (1991) Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl (1992) Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington (1993) Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (1994) Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1995) Sean Penn
Sean Penn (1996) Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio (1997) Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson (1998) Michael Gwisdek
Michael Gwisdek (1999) Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington (2000) Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro (2001) Jacques Gamblin
Jacques Gamblin (2002) Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell (2003) Daniel Hendler
Daniel Hendler (2004) Lou Taylor Pucci
Lou Taylor Pucci (2005) Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu (2006) Julio Chávez (2007) Reza Naji
Reza Naji (2008) Sotigui Kouyaté (2009) Grigoriy Dobrygin
Grigoriy Dobrygin / Sergei Puskepalis
Sergei Puskepalis (2010) Peyman Moaadi
Peyman Moaadi / Shahab Hosseini
Shahab Hosseini / Ali-Asghar Shahbazi / Babak Karimi (2011) Mikkel Følsgaard
Mikkel Følsgaard (2012) Nazif Mujić (2013) Liao Fan
Liao Fan (2014) Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay (2015) Majd Mastoura (2016) Georg Friedrich (2017)
Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Wallace Beery (1934) Pierre Blanchar
Pierre Blanchar (1935) Paul Muni
Paul Muni (1936) Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings (1937) Leslie Howard (1938) Ermete Zacconi
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Ripon b&b, guesthouse and hotel accommodation
Ripon in North Yorkshire
Visit Ripon and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:
Ripon, West Riding, is a small market town with a great cathedral and a Horn-blower in three-corner hat who nightly sounds a horn at the market cross and in front of the Mayor's house, carrying out a tradition said to be 1,000 years old.
An Anglo-Saxon church destroyed in 950 stood where the relatively small but impressive cathedral now stands. Building took place mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries but important changes were made in later centuries, including a 19th-century restoration. The oldest part, and one of the oldest Christian shrines in England, is the crypt, all that remains of the original Church of St Wilfrid and very like the crypt from his church of the same period at Hexham. It lies below the central tower. The west front is exceptionally beautiful Early English work. Among notable furnishings are a late l5th-century screen and misencords of the same period by the local carvers' guild, among them delightful versions of Samson, Jonah, a pelican, fox and geese, pigs, an owl and an angel.
The heart of the town is the rectangular market place with its dominating 90-ft obelisk raised in 1781 to William Aislabie of Studley Royal, the M.P. for 60 years. The Town Hall, designed by James Wyatt in 1801, faces the square, and the medieval Wakeman's House is near one corner. The house was built in the 13th century and the Wakeman, or night watchman, lived there. If householders who had paid for his services were robbed, the Wakeman paid the loss. Under a 1604 charter, Wakemen were replaced by mayors. Hugh Ripley was last Wakeman and first Mayor.
Ripon was a clothmaking centre in the Middle Ages, but by the 16th century the trade was moving to towns in the West of Yorkshire. This also was a lacemaking centre, the only one in the county. Probably the craft was started by refugee monks or nuns. By 1862, only one lacemaker was left. Ripon was also famous for its spurs.
The city motto is inscribed on the Town Hall in glittering letters: “Except ye Lord keep ye cittie, ye Wakeman waketh in vain.”
Nearby towns: Bedale, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Masham, Pateley Bridge, Thirsk
Nearby villages: Azerley, Baldersby, Birstwith, Bishop Monkton, Boroughbridge, Burton Leonard, Copgrove, Copt Hewick, Cundall, Darley, Dishforth, Fearby, Ferrensby, Grantley, Grewelthorpe, Ingerthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Kirklington, Melmerby, Mickley, Nidd, Ripley, Roecliffe, Sinderby, Stainley, Studley Roger, Summer Bridge, Topcliffe, Winksley
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Thirty-five of the cases were suicide, which managed to get and cardiovascular disease both main factors behind death. The researchers found that when taking bensodiazepines, the individuals ran a 91 percent higher threat of early death than at times when these drugs weren’t used. The most common cause of death was suicide, & most deaths occurred with sufferers who had been acquiring their bensodiazepines for much longer than four weeks. The elevated suicide risk for sufferers with long-standing benzodiazepine make use of may be partly attributable to the possible development of withdrawal symptoms when the medications go out, says Professor Tiihonen. These symptoms, which may be severe severe insomnia and anxiety, might have affected some of the patients’ decisions to commit suicide.Acnes. 2.) Benzoyl peroxide in the mildest fixation you can get, around 2.5 percent in a gel or cream structure. For irritation: 1.) Vitamin supplements E, C, and B3 as tocopheryl acetic acid derivation, ascorbyl niacinamide and palmitate, separately, to diminish irritation. 2.) Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 and palmitoyl oligopeptide.. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota reviews $9 billion revenue in 2010 2010 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and its own family of businesses today announced audited financial results in 2010 2010. The non-profit health organization reported full-season 2010 revenues of $9 billion and an operating margin of just one 1.4 percent, which led to a net operating income of $127 million.
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The iconic Darrell Lea brand. Featured
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR LIFE SAVERS DEAL
Darrell Lea on a rescue mission
TWO lifesavers rescued a floundering 92-year-old Australian company and a Kiwi-manufactured confection could lead to its survival.
The iconic Darrell Lea chocolate firm went into voluntary administration in 2012 but vigorously administered CPR has kept the entity alive and thriving since then.
Following an extensive review of offers PPB Advisory sold the company for a reported $25M to the Queensland entrepreneurs Tony and Cristina Quinn, who embarked on a significant restructure of the brand – retail outlets across Australia closed and hundreds of employees were laid off.
The family, subsequently, sold an 80-90 per cent stake in Darrell Lea to its current owners Sydney-based Quadrant Private Equity for about $200M, in 2018.
Tony Quinn said at the time he felt his family had "done their job" in taking over Darrell Lea and making it a profitable business again.
"In business, you must always be looking at what's best for the future. I'm more a build-it and move-on kind of guy," he said.
With the survival of the iconic Darrell Lea brand now in the hands of Quadrant Private Equity, the confectionary company looked to buying a product manufactured in New Zealand – Life Savers – to help its revival.
Darrell Lea CEO, Tim York, said Life Savers had “significant growth potential” with a bright future in Australia; Darrell Lea has the rights from Nestle NZ to Life Savers in Australia and New Zealand.
James Byrne, Life Savers marketing manager, said the company's balance sheet had turned around “completely” and he hoped the acquisition of the could turn into a similar success story.
The company took the manufacturing equipment apart and shipped it to its state-of-the-art factory, at Ingleburn, in south-west Sydney where it expects to launch the “revitalised” product in September this year.
In the meantime the Quinn family will bring, and maintain, the Darrell Lea brand along with their purchase last year of Melbourne-based Heritage Fine Chocolates, under the new banner of RiteBite
"There are wonderful synergies between Darrell Lea and Heritage which present exciting opportunities for us to expand our footprint into new categories and with more products," said Mr York, CEO.
James Byrne, Life Savers marketing manager, said the company's balance sheet had turned around “completely” since the rescue attempt and he hoped the acquisition of Life Savers could turn into a similar success story.
Purchases of its Easter products are indicative of the once floundering Darrell Lea thriving since its resuscitation and restructuring – sales went up 20 per cent versus those in 2018.
Revenue of the new group is expected to exceed $200M in 2020.
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Lucky Luke's Cheltenham Notebook: Part Four
It’s been a strange old week in the world of horse racing.
Last weekend we were treated to a whole host of Cheltenham clues from Sandown and the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown, with seemingly, National Hunt racing cantering towards the main meeting in March.
The excitement was building, and life was good.
Fast forward to Thursday and our flying equine stars were grounded to a halt after an equine flu outbreak was brought to light after racing on Wednesday.
It is news that has sent shockwaves throughout the sport, with over 100 yards across the county currently in lockdown while further testing takes place. Racing has even been cancelled in the UK till at least Wednesday 13th February.
As ever, our resident racing fan ‘Lucky Luke’ has been following all the latest as he gets back in the saddle for part four of his Cheltenham Notebook.
Hold Your Horses
I normally kick off my blog with a look back at last weekend’s action, but it only seems appropriate that I start with the recent breaking news.
Racing is quite simply on shutdown. Following racing at Ayr, Kempton, Ludlow and Wolverhampton on Wednesday, a statement was released by the BHA later that evening to confirm that racing on Thursday would be cancelled due to cases of equine influenza being found.
The announcement stated, “The British Horseracing Authority (BHA), with unanimous support of the BHA’s industry veterinary committee, has taken the decision to cancel racing at all British racecourses on Thursday 7 February 2019.
“This is following the BHA being informed this evening by the Animal Health Trust of three confirmed Equine Influenza positives from vaccinated horses in an active racing yard.
“Horses from the infected yard have raced today at Ayr and Ludlow, potentially exposing a significant number of horses from yards across the country and in Ireland.
“The fact that the cases have been identified in vaccinated horses presents a cause for significant concern over welfare and the potential spread of the disease and the action to cancel racing has been viewed as necessary in order to restrict, as far as possible, the risk of further spread of the disease.”
Those comments led many, including me, to fear what the immediate future held for racing in the UK, with many fans expressing their concerns over whether the outbreak could affect Cheltenham in March, or even beyond.
The BHA is hoping that isn’t the case, despite racing been called off until the middle of next week at the earliest. That is so testing can continue to take place, however, if more horses come back as testing positive, then it could be weeks and months rather than days, that we are without racing. Another three from Donald McCain's yard have already tested positive.
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Friday, the BHA’s chief executive Nick Rust said, “By Monday we’ll be in a strong position to make a definitive decision about when racing will return. I don’t know whether we’ll need a few more days or not but I strongly believe this will be for a few weeks at most because we’ve acted quickly.”
A few weeks at most doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. Of course, the horse’s welfare comes first, quite rightly. You can’t help but think about the trainers, jockeys, owners and stable staff who could be affected financially by an extended break without racing.
Cheltenham is now under five weeks away and if there’s a chance that this could go on for say three weeks, that’s cutting it fine to have all the horses prepped for the biggest jumps meeting on the planet.
As racing fans, we can only hope that a positive outcome is concluded quickly and our great sport can continue with everybody happy and healthy. Without horses, there is no sport.
McManus At The Sandown Double
Back to the actual racing for now though, because we saw some cracking action last weekend, starting at Sandown.
I was looking forward to seeing Defi Du Seuil back in business and with the weights in his favour over Lostintranslation this time around, I was hoping he’d reverse the result from Cheltenham. As you can imagine, I was delighted when he did just that on Saturday, winning by ¾ of a length.
That should set him up nicely for the JLT, and with Festival form already in the bag after winning the Triumph Hurdle in 2017, I wouldn’t put you off backing him again.
That victory came after Buveur D’Air had already got back to winning ways earlier on the card, landing a nice double for owner JP McManus. The dual Cheltenham winner has used the Contenders Hurdle at Sandown as his prep race for his last two Champion Hurdle victories, so connections will be hoping that the plan can work again. At 7/4 in the NRNB market at Betfred, I’d say he’s a good bet to do just that.
Apple’s Jade Fires Herself Into Champion Hurdle Contention
Talking of the Champion Hurdle, super mare Apple’s Jade fired herself into the Champion Hurdle picture by winning the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.
Winning over two miles for the first time since switching to Gordon Elliot’s yard in 2016, the Gigginstown star had the Mares’ Hurdle in her sights at Cheltenham, but after bolting up by 16 lengths, connections soon changed their minds.
That saw her shorten into the second favourite for the opening day’s feature race, and with the mares’ allowance benefitting the likes of Annie Power in the past, you can see why the punters are rushing to back her.
For me though, I’m yet to see a horse quicken up in the same style as Buveur D’Air and considering he’s twice a winner of the Champion Hurdle, I’m sticking with him for now.
Cross Country Clues At Punchestown
Seeing as though there’s very little to talk about on the track this weekend in the UK, it’s all about the Irish this Saturday and Sunday.
Naas is first up on Saturday, with ITV taking the majority of their races, but for me, Punchestown is more appealing on the Sunday.
The first race on the card is a cross-country event over the famous banks' course. The likes of Josies Orders and Ballycasey are in contention, so it should be an interesting watch.
I think Tiger Roll will take some stopping when it comes to cross-country at Cheltenham, but I think Ballycasey could be a danger. He was slowly away at Prestbury Park in December but started to get the hang of things in the closing stages to grab 5th.
He’s been back to Cheltenham for a gallop on the cross-country course since, and I have a feeling that this could be a last sighter before really challenging in March. I’d expect him to go close.
See you at the races!
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Relapse on dropping Tau Cross: band’s liner notes “prominently thanked” Holocaust denier Gerard Menuhin
By Andrew Sacher July 3, 2019 11:29 AM
UPDATE: Rob Miller’s bandmates have responded with their own statement.
UPDATE 2: Rob Miller doubles down, defends his support of Holocaust denier Gerard Menuhin.
Yesterday, Tau Cross — the metal/punk supergroup with frontman Rob “The Baron” Miller of Amebix, drummer Michel Langevin of Voivod, and members of Misery and Provoked — posted a statement saying that they were “parting company” with Relapse Records because “circumstances have arisen that must put an end to our relationship.” Their new album Messengers of Deception was supposed to come out August 9 via the label, but the band now says they are “looking into other avenues to release the album,” and its lead single “Burn With Me” was removed from streaming services and Relapse’s Bandcamp and YouTube pages, along with the rest of Tau Cross’ discography. Relapse label manager Rennie Jaffe has now given an official statement on why they cut ties with the band, saying that it stemmed from the liner notes of Messengers of Deception thanking Gerard Menuhin, a writer and Holocaust denier who published the 2015 book Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil, which calls the Holocaust the “biggest lie in history.”
Relapse’s full statement reads:
Over the weekend the German magazine Ox brought it to our attention that a person named Gerard Menuhin was prominently thanked in the new Tau Cross album, and specifically credited in the liner notes for inspiring Rob Miller. All Relapse records go through a vigorous proofing process–checking for spelling and punctuation mistakes, mostly. We all read this name, but didn’t recognize it or think that it was anything other than a personal friend of the band’s, that we did not know. Ox however recognized the name as a far right conspiracy theorist, focused specifically on Holocaust denial. Suddenly the lyrics and themes of the new record were cast in a new light, for me. I spoke with Rob Miller, who is the individual in the band who Ox was interviewing, and while he denied being a Holocaust denier, I cannot comfortably work on or sell a record that dabbles in ideologies such as these. There are certain issues that rise above mere political differences and this is one of them. I spoke with the rest of the band on Monday, and NONE of them had any idea who Gerard Menuhin was, and were as shocked by these references in the record, as we at the label were. I firmly believe that these references and mentions in the record do not represent the band as a whole. but rather just Rob Miller’s. In light of all this, Relapse swiftly decided we cannot move forward with this album–we gave the masters back to the band, together with the rest of their catalog.
Stay tuned for any further updates on this story.
UPDATE 3: Miller says that Michel Langevin (also of Voivod) and Andy Lefton are no longer in Tau Cross, and that he will continue the band on his own.
Filed Under: Amebix | Gerard Menuhin | Relapse Records | Rob Miller | Tau Cross Category: Heavy Metal News | Music News
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Home Latest News Sheikh Hasina-Modi agree to work together for peoples benefits
Sheikh Hasina-Modi agree to work together for peoples benefits
KATHMANDU, Aug 30, 2018 (BSS) – Bangladesh and India today agreed to continue their joint endevours to better the lives of their two peoples as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 4th BIMSTEC Summit.
“The two premiers said they want to carry on their joint endevours for changing the fate of the people of the two countries,” Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told a media briefing after the talks at Kathmandu’s Hotel Soaltee Crowne Plaza this afternoon.
The meeting took place after the opening session of the 4th Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).
Karim said the Bangladesh prime minister expressed gratitude to India for its support to Bangladesh’s liberation war and as well as development of the country.
“We want to carry forward this friendship to a new height,” she said.
The two leaders, the press secretary said, expressed optimism about the future of the seven-nation BIMSTEC.
“Both the premier’s said they want to continue the mutual cooperation which they expected will benefit the other BIMSTEC member nations as well,” the press secretary said.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali, PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman and Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque were present at the meeting.
Later, the Bangladesh prime minister and other BIMSTEC leaders attended a gala dinner hosted by Nepalese Premier KP Sharma Oli at Hyatt Regency Hotel here this evening.
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REVIEW: Post Animal Right at Home at Valley Bar 7-23-17
July 25, 2017 Mckayla Hull Leave a comment
PHOENIX — Valley Bar’s retro interior design was the perfect setting for psychedelic rock band Post Animal’s entrancing show on Sunday, July 23. Their music and the atmosphere of the rain outside were the perfect combination for a show that made the crowd exude happiness and dance throughout the entire set.
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The show was opened by Femny and Stef Chura. Stef Chura had a female lead singer /guitarist, as well as a female bassist. Their music echoed underground vibes, and it had a reminiscent sound of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
When Post Animal came on stage, they began their set with an electrifying new song. The crowd was quickly out of their seats to dance, and filled up the previously barren space by the stage. “Swamp Fruit”, the next song, brought ambiance that made for the perfect transition.
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Jake Hirshland (Guitarist/Keyboardist/Vocalist) bolstered the crowd as he complimented their presence saying, “Beautiful, Phoenix, Arizona!”. There’s always something special about hearing a band say the name of your hometown.
Jake Hirshland (Guitarist/Keyboardist/Vocalist), Post Animal
The entrancing guitar in the following song, “Alabaster”, took you somewhere else; it’s truly a psychedelic must-hear! The crowd was feeling the band’s energy, and head banging was in full swing.
Dalton Allison (Vocalist/Bassist), Post Animal
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The band played fan favorites, including “When I Get Home”. After Hirshland let the crowd know they had nowhere to sleep that night and were looking to crash at someone’s place, Javi Reyes (Guitarist) said, “Let’s talk!”.
Javi Reyes (Guitarist), Post Animal
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They ended their set with another new song. You could feel the high energy of the crowd the from beginning to the end of Post Animal’s set.
Wes Toledo (Drums), Post Animal
Post Animal brings a modern touch to classic psychedelic rock with heavy drums and powerful guitar solos. Each member plays their role perfectly as they synchronize with each other. Their music is just as good live as it is on their records, with the added bonus of an impressive energy worth the experience. Undeniably, they are a band you will want to listen to and make sure to come out to see next time they are in Phoenix!
Check out our interview with Vocalist/Bassist, Dalton Allison, for interesting facts and trivia about Post Animal and their background!
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INTERVIEW: Special Moments with Post Animal, Coming Soon to Phoenix!
June 21, 2017 Mckayla Hull 1 Comment
Upcoming Post Animal Concert
Phoenix, AZ 7-23-17
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Post Animal burst onto the scene in 2015 with their album Perform the Most Curious Water Activities . Ever since then, they have been working hard releasing more music including their psychedelic hit, “When I Get Home”. “Special Moment” is their latest release. The psychedelic-rock band hails from Chicago and consists of Dalton Allison, Jake Hirshland, Joe Keery, Javi Reyes, Wesley Toledo and Matt Williams.
Post Animal are currently on their headlining tour across North America. They are bringing their tour to Phoenix, Arizona, July 23 at Valley Bar. They are definitely a band you will want to see!
Dalton Allison (Vocalist/Bassist) tells us more about the band, music, tour, influences and more in their email interview below…
What brought Post Animal together, and how long has the band existed?
Originally Matt, Jake and I all met in Chicago through mutual friends back in 2015. We were lucky enough to have all ended up being in Chicago at the right place and the right time and just kept adding onto ourselves when we found somebody who we loved playing with.
What influenced the band name? Were there other choices before ‘Post Animal’ became the final one?
I’m sure we had a bunch of names being thrown around before but Jake used ‘Post Animal’ to describe an idea that came out of a book a friend was reading while we were hanging at his family’s farm house and we never felt a need to change it since.
If you could describe your music in one word, what would it be?
You just started your current headlining tour on June 1st. What aspect of the tour are you most excited about?
I think we’re all excited to travel across the USA and into parts of Canada. There are a lot of places on this tour that none of us have ever been.
What are your favorite songs to perform? Is there a certain lyric from any of your songs that is especially meaningful to you?
I think we all really like to play the newer songs because the writing has been much more collaborative, but a lot of the lyrics are more individually specific in a vague way, if that makes sense, so I’m not sure if there are any choice lyrics. We all love to back each other up though so even if it doesn’t mean much to us individually the connection is still there as a group.
Having played in Tucson, was playing in Arizona different than playing anywhere else?
At this point in time we’ve only played in Tucson but from what we’ve seen people are very nice and hospitable. We’re very lucky to get the opportunity to come back and are ready to rock with everyone again.
Is there anything about working in the music industry that caught you by surprise?
We still have a lot to learn about all this so pretty much everything at this point is a surprise. There are a lot of things that are going on behind the scenes that we never really knew about so we’re very lucky to have friends that are guiding us along the way.
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Photo Credit: Kristina Pedersen
With your guitarist Joe Keery playing the role of Steve Harrington in Stranger Things, how did the success of the TV series affect the band?
The series has affected the band in a very positive way and we’re thankful for all the support we have gotten from people who were introduced to our music by his role in the show.
What past and current artists/bands inspire you?
Between all of us there are a lot of different influences but I think some of the shared are: The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Stevie Wonder, Ty Segall/Fuzz, Pond, King Gizz, Oh Sees, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Heart,
Olivia Oyamada created the artwork for Perform The Most Curious Water Activities , Lonely Jones/You Were Not There and When I Get Home/Big Boy Smack; what about her art made it the best fit for Post Animal?
She’s been a best friend of ours even before the band and we’ve always been wowed by her art. She has a real unique art style and we can just throw an idea at her and it comes out as a masterpiece. She’s done all of our album and merch artwork so far and we couldn’t be happier with her work.
What aspects of life influence your music the most?
I think emotions are definitely the cornerstone of music. The way that feelings evolve depending on your current state and the way that they change with personal growth and experimentation has been the biggest influence on most of our music. That being said, we definitely aren’t trying to take ourselves too seriously and are glad that we get to use our band as an outlet.
What is your favorite part of the music process and why? (i.e songwriting, recording, touring, performing, etc.)
We all love writing and recording but I don’t think anything quite tops performing live to a responsive crowd. There is something special about all standing on a stage together and plucking, yelling, and banging at the same time while people watch.
What would the ultimate success for Post Animal look like to you?
I think all we really want out of the band is the opportunity to travel and perform for people. We are humbled by the opportunities we’ve had so far, so if we could make a living out of it on any scale that would be more than we could have ever hoped for. Playing the festival circuit would be a dream.
What do you plan to do after the tour is over?
We have a new album we’re trying to get released sometime this fall and then we have some new ideas we’re ready to try out for some new material after that. I think we’ll take a small break at the end of the summer to cool off but we’re definitely excited to keep things going and try to make the most of the opportunities we’re getting.
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1.1 Objectives of this book
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2 Analysing hazards
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3 Flood hazards
3.2 Scales of analysis
3.3 Flash flood modelling
3.4 Fluvial flood modelling
4 Landslide hazards
4.3 Landslide susceptibility at the national scale
5 Risk assessment
5.2 Characterization of assets
5.3 Vulnerability
5.4 Multi-hazards risk
5.5 Risk assessment methods
6 Risk reduction planning
6.1 Cost-benefit analysis
6.2 Spatial Multi-Criteria Evaluation
7 land use planning
7.1 Spatial planning
7.2 Comparing legislation and planning frameworks
7.3 Building control
7.4 Conclusions
8 Critical infrastructure
8.1 (re)location planning
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9 Preparedness planning
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10 Requirements for TORs
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2.3 Building construction
2.4 Relocation planning
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3A. Critical infrastructure
3.1 Planning (re)location
3.1.1 Buildings
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3.2 Design guidelines
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4.2 Analyze current risk
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7.3 Using land use maps
7.4 Mapping buildings from satellite images
7.5 Census data for elements-at-risk
8. Hazard assessment
8.1 Analysing historical data of hazard events
8.2 Analysing rainfall
8.3 National scale landslide susceptibility
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8.5 National flood hazard assessment
9. Data management
9.1 Homogenize data
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10. Super Use Case: St Lucia Flood modelling
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The Caribbean islands are frequently plagued by floods as a result of heavy rainfall during tropical storms and hurricanes. These floods are termed “flash floods”, from their rapid onset and relatively short duration, and are directly caused by runoff produced during a rainfall event. The islands mostly consist of a central mountain range, with small catchments ranging from the center part of the island to the sea. These catchments can be anything from 5 to 50 km2 in size. Hydrologically speaking, each island is made up of up to 50 larger catchments, with various types of land cover and soils, determining the hydrological behavior.
In tranquil conditions the rivers have a low baseflow level, fed by local groundwater bodies constrained to the valleys. During a tropical storm, the soils on the slopes quickly saturate and literally overflow, or the rainfall intensity can be so high that the infiltration capacity of the soil is not sufficient. Hence severe overland flow and erosion may take place, leading to flooding along the river channels. The water level can rise from 0.5m to more than 4 m at given locations, within 2 hours’ time (sometimes much less) from the start of the rainfall. Since many valleys are inhabited, especially near the coastline, these flash floods can cause great damage and casualties. The shape and condition of the river channel has a large influence of the flood behavior: small and narrow channels quickly overflow, or channels that have a decreased size because of sediment may overflow much more quickly.
Flooding circumstances can be aggravated by man-made decisions or behavior such as:
channels that are blocked by debris (e.g. at bridge locations) and are not regularly cleaned;
channels that are diverted to circumvent habitation, leading to unnatural bends and flow paths that cannot handle extreme discharges;
culverts and bridges at road crossings may be under-dimensioned, leading to backflow and rising water levels;
Individuals extend their property into the river channel flood plain, thus narrowing the potential flow path.
It is a mistake to think that only the lowest areas in a catchment, i.e. the villages on the coastline, are subject to flooding. Also in the upstream valleys in the hills flooding occurs, which are often inhabited and the major valleys have important transport corridors that allow you to cross over the island. Moreover, upstream flooding may actually be considered positive if a valley is uninhabited, as the temporary retained flood water would otherwise contribute to the hazard downstream. It is therefore important to consider flood hazard as part of an integrated catchment analysis, and not focus on single isolated occurrences.
Given these conditions where the flood hazard is directly related to the rainfall-runoff processes in the catchments, a national flood hazard map for the islands should be based on a flood hazard model that takes these into account.
National-scale flash flood modelling
The national flood hazard map shows the potential flood hazard of all the catchments and locations on the island where flooding may take place. The information shown is flood extent only, water depth information is not included in this map. At this scale and resolution, water depth information is not accurate enough to make a hazard classification combining depth and extent. The map is produced on a scale of 1:50,000 based on GIS raster data layers used in the flood model with a gridcell resolution of 20x20m.
This effectively means that the map can only be used as an indication of where flood may occur, and be used to check which settlements and areas are exposed to floods. The infrastructure and buildings are deliberately shown in a generalized way, as is common with 1:50000 scale maps.
In chapter 6 of this report, a quality analysis is done based on a visual inspection and evaluation by the stakeholders in this project. Also the results are compared to two detailed flood hazard analysis projects that were done before.
As such, the national flood hazard map is a tool to gain more understanding on flood hazard on an island level, as an input for national planning, risk reduction and disaster preparedness. The map gives an indication of exposure of built up areas and infrastructure to flood hazard. It can be used to judge which communities should prepare themselves for a given hazard magnitude.
However, at this scale it has an inherent uncertainty: the map and associated information is indicative and cannot be used to provide details for individual properties or engineering design. It can be used as a first approximation, and serve as guidance to locate where a more detailed site investigation should be done to reduce local risk.
The methodology is based on the following considerations:
Rainfall: the frequency and magnitude of the floods is assumed to be the same as the frequency and magnitude of the rainfall that causes it. In the model simulations, the island is subjected to a rainfall event that covers the entire island at the same time, without spatial differences. These are statistically derived artificial rainfall events (so called design storms), that do not resemble the dynamics of a real storm with a moving weather front and erratic variations in intensity. Therefore this map does not show what will happen exactly during a real event of a comparable magnitude. The return periods used are 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 and 1:50 years.
Land use and soils: the differences in flooding between the catchments for a given rainfall are caused by differences in relief, land use/land cover and soils. Especially soil moisture storage capacity and infiltration rates determine how a catchment reacts to rainfall). The initial moisture content on the entire island is set to 85% of the porosity, which is generally half way between field capacity and saturation. These conditions apply in the wet season when most hurricanes and tropical storms occur.
Buildings and infrastructure: on a national scale, certain details cannot be simulated, such as the effect of bridges and culverts, the presence of debris and excessive sediment from previous storms in the river channel, or the fact that some roads are elevated and may act as temporary barriers. The effect of buildings is included to a certain extent (explained below). In part this is because the exact dimensions of the infrastructure is not known, and in part this is because at the national scale certain details are generalized. The only known flood barrier included is the barrier that protects the Hewanorra international airport in the south of the island.
Spatial data quality: the quality of the model results depends to a large extent on the quality of the input data. Care has been taken to use the existing data as much as possible, so that the results are close to the island circumstances. Where needed literature values are used, or values measured on the other islands in the CHARIM project.
Based on the physiography and topography of the Windward Islands, the following terms of reference for the flood hazard assessment were used:
There is no viable discharge data, do rainfall is used to simulate the flash flood process. This means that a flood model has to be able to simulate the surface hydrology of entire catchments, both upstream and downstream areas. Since settlements are also spread out over the islands, flooding occurs not only near the coast (where the largest villages are) but also in higher valleys.
The flood model has to be able to use the existing national spatial datasets, so that when better data becomes available, simulations can be done again relatively easily. Formats used are standard GeoTIFF. Data gaps are filled by knowledge and data pooled from the islands and from literature. Thereby we rely as little as possible on variables/constants/assumptions from general worldwide datasets, acquired in environments that are very different.
Based on the specific requirements related to the situation in the Caribbean islands we selected the integrated flood model LISEM (freeware and open source developed at the Utrecht University (1992-2006) and subsequently by the ITC (2006-current), in the Netherlands. LISEM is a model that was initially developed to simulate the effect of land use changes at farm level for sustainable land management, to combat erosion and desertification. Recently a 2D flood module was added to enable integrated flood management. It is an spatial event based model that operates at timescale of < 1 minute and spatial resolutions of < 100m grid cells. It does not model groundwater and evapotranspiration because ift focusses on the consequences of single rainfall events.
Flashflood modelling methodology
Figure 1 shows the framework that is used to create the flood hazard (each step is explained in detail in subsequent sections):
A frequency magnitude analysis of daily maximum rainfall of all stations that had 20 years or more of daily rainfall data. Generalized Extreme Value distributions were fitted to these datasets to determine the daily rainfall with return periods of 5, 10, 20 and 50 years.
Design events were created using the network of 8 tipping bucket rainfall stations on Saint Lucia, which have datasets between 5 and 11 years. Using the rainfall depth from the maximum daily values, and duration and intensity data form the tipping bucket stations, design curves were created using a Johnson Probability Density Function.
The DEM was created from existing elevation isolines in the national GIS database. From the these lines a continuous surface was interpolated using block kriging, for a 10m grid. This was then resampled (averaged) to a 20m resolution for the modelling. The DEM boundary was used as coastline and very small islands and peninsulas were eliminated. The DEM was used directly in the modelling but also to correct the vector based river network.
The land use map and soil class map were used to derive a number of soil physical and vegetation parameters used for the surface water balance of the model.
The infrastructure, i.e. the road network and buildings were taken from the shape files in the national database.
The model output consists of the maximum flood level reached during the event, the maximum water velocity the duration of the flood, the time since the start of the rainfall when a pixel is first inundated, and statistics about the total surface of buildings in different flood depth classes. From this data the extent was used for the flood hazard map. Note that pixels with less than 10 cm of water were not counted as flood pixels. The 4 flood extent maps were combined into a hazard map with 4 zones (corresponding to areas flooded with the 4 design events).
Figure 1. National scale flood hazard assessment methodology: basic information layers to the left are used for hydrological information that is given to the model. Rainfall for different return periods results in different flood simulation results. These are combined in hazard information databases, and also reproduced as cartographic products.
The method is based on the open source integrated watershed model LISEM. This model is based on the well-known LISEM erosion/runoff model (see e.g. Baartmans et al., 2012, Hessel et al., 2003, Sánchez-Moreno et al., 2014), combined with the FullSWOF2D open source 2D flood package from the University of Orleans (Delestre et al., 2014). As a runoff model LISEM has been used in many environments, European humid and semi-arid areas, islands (Cape Verde), East Africa (cities of Kampala and Kigali), India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Brazil.
LISEM is a hydrological model based on the surface water and sediment balance (see fig 1). In CHARIM only the water processes are used, erosion and sedimentation is not simulated. It uses spatial data of the DEM, soils, land use and man-made elements (buildings, roads, channels) to simulate the effect of a rainfall event on a landscape. Above ground processes are interception by vegetation and roofs, surface ponding and infiltration. The resulting runoff is derived from a Green and Ampt infiltration calculation for each gridcell, and routed as overland flow to the river channels with a 1D kinematic wave. The routing takes surface resistance to flow into account. The water in the channels is also routed with a kinematic wave (1D) but when the channels overflow the water is spread out using the full St Venant equations for shallow water flow. Runoff can then directly add to the flooded zone. Figure 2 shows schematically the steps in the model from runoff to flooding. Since it is an event based model, LISEM does not calculate evapotranspiration or groundwater flow.
Figure 2. Flowchart of the water and sediment processes in LISEM. In dashed lines the main parameters are given. In CHARIM only the water processes are used (in blue).
Figure 3 shows how LISEM deals with sub gridcell information. Layers with objects smaller than a gridcell can be added, which are then defined as a fraction (buildings and vegetation) or by their width (roads and channels). Roads, houses and hard surfaces (e.g. airports runway) are considered impermeable, smooth and have no vegetation interception. Houses are impermeable but have roof interception and to some extent obstruct the flow. LISEM ‘looks’ vertically along all the information layers to determine the hydrological response of each gridcell.
Figure 3. Schematic representation of flow processes from 1D kinematic wave runoff and channel flow (1), to overflow of channels (2), spreading out of water from the channels outward using 2D full Saint-Venant equations (3), and flowing back into the channel when water levels drop, most likely the runoff has stopped by now (4). Runoff continues to flow into the flood zone for a short distance.
Flood Modelling requires a lot of data, because in a raster GIS, that is essentially what LISEM uses, each property is defined in a new map layer. For instance the channel is characterized by 7 maps, for width, depth, angle of the channel sides, bed slope, flow resistance, and areas with imposed maximum flows (for bridges and culverts). The total number of input maps for LISEM looks daunting at a first instance, but they are all derived from 6 basic maps and several tables with soil and vegetation properties. This is explained in detail below. In the CHARIM project, a GIS script is created to do this automatically. The GIS used is the freeware GIS PCRaster developed at the Utrecht University, the Netherlands (pcraster.geo.uu.nl). This is just for convenience, in principle LISEM can use data from other GIS systems if it is in GeoTIFF format.
Figure 4. Different information layers are combined into one set of information per gridcell. Vegetation and building information is given as a fraction per cell, roads and channels are given as width in m. The soil layer is the base layer so that we always know what for instance the infiltration beside a road or house is. Infiltration and flow resistance are determined as a gridcell weighted average response.
More information on data requirements for flood modelling, with examples from Saint Lucia, can be found in the Data Management Book, Section on Flood data requirements.
Model outputs and Hazard maps
The hydrological response of the model with respect to the rainfall is such that the areas that are built up (roads, paved surfaces) generate runoff first, then the soils with a high clay content under non-natural vegetation, and finally the forested areas contribute (see fig 5). The overall runoff fraction (average of the island) of a 1:5 year event is 15% and increases to 20% for a 1:50 year event.
All major valley have flooding effects upstream in the hills. While this is of course dangerous for locations where there are settlements, there is also a hydrological effect of these flooded areas. Flooding upstream generally decreases and slows down the streamflow decreasing the flood hazard downstream near the coast. Site investigations that are based on models that need an incoming discharge to operate, should take this into account. Catchment models that generate a discharge as input for flood models overestimate the discharge when this is not taken into account.
Figure 5. Example of the hydrological response: cumulative infiltration approx. 2 hours after the start of the 1:5 year design rainfall event (legend units are in mm). To the north is Castries, south west is the Oil terminal. Built up area and roads show little infiltration, forested areas have an infiltration above 200mm at this moment. Flooded areas have increased infiltration because of the flood water pressure, in spite of the clay rich soils.
The national hazard maps are based on flood extent only. The extent of the floods is calculated for water depths > 0.05 meter, to avoid excessive areas that are only “wet” but not really pose a hazard. Below a number of locations are highlighted, and compared to known flood areas. Figure 6 shows the summary statistics for the flood hazard for 4 return periods. In total the area flooded increases from 11.5 to 34 km2, while the flood volume increases from 4.8 to 26.7 million m3. Note that for these statistics, areas inundated by less than 10 cm were not flooded. The level of accuracy of the modeling system and the database were not considered sufficient for that level of detail.
The average building size in the national flood database is approximately 75 m2, LISEM does not deal with individual buildings, only with built up area per grid cell area. Based on this average number, the approximate number of buildings flooded is 3200 for 1:5 years and rises to 9800 for 1:50 years. This analysis gives no indication of the flood depth at the location of these buildings, which can be anything from 0.1 to over 3 meters.
Figure 6. Summary statistics of the national flood hazard map for the 4 return periods. Note that the building nr affected is an approximate number based on an average building size of 75 m2.
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Poetry Publishers and their Mortgages
The poetry world often displays an implicit ambivalence around publishing: it would consider poetry to be above the petty concerns of money whilst simultaneously bewailing the fact that no one will pay for it. Whilst poets continue to see traditional publication as the only legitimation of their work they will continue to willingly ignore that publishing is capitalism and little else, and we will continue to blunder about in our strange relationship with the literary culture industry. (Blackwell’s Oxford shop recently tweeted “Buy book. Read book. Feel good. Repeat.”, which would be considerably more unsettling if referring to, say, bubble bath or toasters.) Publishers, who otherwise exist (as publishers) entirely in the logic of capitalism, would frame their lack of sales as a symptom of a cultural decline. And poets, who otherwise exist precariously outside the logic of capitalism, seem unwilling to disseminate their work any other way.
This isn’t to say that publishers are Bad or capitalism is Bad; this is not necessarily to portray all poetry publishers as Harold Skimpole; this is to say that a lot of the attitudes which have reappeared following the news of the end of Salt’s single author collections are weird.
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Sadcore Dadwave: Albion Beatnik, Oxford
I went to the Albion Beatnik in Oxford on Wednesday night for Sadcore Dadwave and heard poems by: Sian S Rathore, Diane Marie, Paul Askew, Emily Harrison and Luke Kennard, then Dan Holloway, Lucy Ayrton, Joe Briggs, someone whose name I regretfully forget, and a chap called Lysander, and someone called Molly. In honesty it was mostly Luke Kennard who I wanted to hear but the others were entertaining. I’ve only ever been to the Albion Beatnik for music before (or, you know, books), but it’s a great venue.
Representations in Skyfall
Skyfall as a film about British national identity and the empire. (The bulldog.)
Skyfall as a frank assumption of the implications of the Daniel Craig reboot of the Bondverse: the acceptance of something like third-order simulacra: the Bondverse rejecting the burden of representation of the ‘real’ world for representation of the Bondverse.
The Aston Martin as the symbol of this assumption.
M as the main character.
The ‘Skyfall’ manor as James Bond’s ‘unresolved childhood trauma’ (he “always hated this place”); the ‘Skyfall’ manor as Balmoral; the ‘Skyfall’ manor as imperial guilt. (Silva was handed over, or betrayed, with Hong Kong.)
Scotland (but only here, for its other symbolic richness) as Bondverse, as “back in time”.
Skyfall as a defense of Baddies. Baddies as a legitimate mythologising of terror in the post-9/11 world. Skyfall as a rejection of complex fears. Skyfall as an admission that in the ‘real’ world the threat is too much (fight it in Scotland instead).
M as the Queen; Skyfall as a rehearsal for her death.
The Olympics Opening Ceremony is important for a lot of this. (i.e., parachuting Queen and UK’s ‘post-imperial’ acceptance.)
China as a rehabilitated location: China as more modern than the west, blue lighting, the “brave new world”, as Bond says before it cuts to Shanghai. (The security guard confronts the assassin, rather than confronting Bond.)
Also, what is this trope of the captured nemesis who, we later discover, wanted to be captured.
Poetry and Power
I recently went on a residential writing course in Christchurch, and at one point we decided to recreate the ‘Team Photo’ of the Bullingdon Club on the stairs:
Go forth and legislate.
A startled and apologetic builder came out of the door behind us and it felt like something significant. But anyhow, I have been thinking about POETRY and POWER.
Interview with Tony Williams in Stride Magazine
My interview with Tony Williams, on his pamphlet All the Rooms of Uncle’s Head and Outsider Art and lots of other things, is now up in Stride Magazine.
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Poet-Critic/Critic-Poet
c.f. ‘Why Critics Praise Bad Poetry‘
Editors (either in the mainstream media, or as far mainstream as these things get, or in small journals) generally (and understandably) take publication as a poet as a requisite qualification for publication as a critic; poets generally (and understandably) write criticism to promote their new book of poems and to take part in the community. This situation leads to issues which I have been thinking about.
Few published poets write good criticism, as they are often prone to comfort criticism which is either affective or overly and comfortably formal. Of course, a sizeable number of talented poets are talented critics, but it doesn’t always correlate. This is because criticism is a separate skill, and although there is the best chance of finding this skill amongst ‘published poets’ than amongst any other demographic, it isn’t certain. Additionally, few poets wish to damn rather than praise, as in the small poetry world any target is a possible future reviewer of one’s own work (if they are not a friend already). And furthermore, few editors of small magazines want to either intimidate readers with ‘hard’ criticism — in the sense of negative, or in the sense of difficult — or to alienate poets (who make up the majority of their readership). Whilst these are all sensible reasons, it still seems a shame that so few published reviews seem willing to embrace a little danger.
I was talking with someone last week about how anti-establishment, if it is successful, becomes establishment, and how once one is inside the building one feels less inclined to throw stones at the windows. Most discussions of contemporary poetry overstate the presence of a mainstream, or of an inside and an outside; however, I do think there is a need for sufficient distance between poet and critic which is not being served at present.
Review of Sue Butler’s Arson
My review of Sue Butler’s pamphlet Arson is up in Sphinx 20, alongside perceptive reviews by Helen Evans and Anna Crowe. I’ve some more to write about at least one of the poems in the pamphlet, which will probably appear here soon.
Formatting Poetry for Kindle (with OEBPS Template)
n.b. The possibilities for Kindle formatting have been increased with the introduction of KF8, although at present these options are only available on the Kindle Fire. It is uncertain how this will affect e-ink Kindle devices. Fixed layout would (in theory) remove the problem of Kindle-broken lines, but we are not quite there yet. This guide works on the assumption of reflowable lines, with as much consistency across Kindle devices (Kindle Fire, Kindle readers, & Kindle for iPad & iPhone) as possible. Different screen sizes/resolutions causes some problems here, but we shall do the best we can. I will work on a post on what the new KF8 formatting options could do for poetry, & how we can work with better html markup & css media queries to improve backwards compatibility.
Contact me if you have any suggestions or comments. (Thanks to @tadaja & @cdcasey for some proof-reading & suggestions.)
The Kindle is not kind to poetry. For those who want to self-publish their poetry on Kindle, formatting your poems is a gloomy prospect, & one that requires reducing your expectations. If you want your poetry ebook to look at least acceptable, the best chance is by doing the conversion to mobi yourself. The workflow which allows the most hands-on control is to create your ebook in oebps format (a predecessor of epub), & use Kindlegen to convert & package your files into a mobi ebook. This is not as difficult as it sounds, & this guide will go through the process step-by-step, along with code examples and a full sample ebook of some of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Teaching you about basic html, css & xml is not a part of this guide, as you can find enough about this elsewhere. The knowledge required for putting together an ebook is very small, & you should be able to see most of what you need from the example code.
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Best friends, volleyball partners and entrepreneurs Ben and Chon run a marijuana business on Laguna Beach in California together with their mutual girlfriend Ophelia. Ben takes nearly all of the violence out of the cannabis industry, however, ex-Navy SEAL and mercenary Chon is on hand whenever force is necessary. The tight-knit trio aim to work together to produce the best home-grown weed in the world. It doesn't take long for the ruthless Mexican Baja Cartel to discover them and request a business partnership. On the friends' refusal, the cold-blooded head of the Cartel Elena and her enforcer Lado kidnap Ophelia, knowing she is the friends' weakness, which causes Ben and Chon to wage war against the brutal gang. With the help of an unwilling dirty DEA agent, the friends are prepared to do absolutely anything to get their lover back.
This heart-stopping crime thriller is jam-packed with the most controversial of issues and seems to attempt to present a different opinion on themes such as love, business and the drug industry. Directed and co-written by controversy king Oliver Stone ('Natural Born Killers', 'Platoon', 'JFK'), 'Savages' is a dramatic story based on the novel of the same name by Don Winslow who also co-wrote the screenplay.
This tale of money, romance and peril is set for release on September 28th 2012 in the UK.
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Trevor Donovan, John Travolta, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch, Benicio Del Toro, Gillian Zinser and Shea Whigham.
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Black Sea - Trailer And Clips
With jobs for submarine operators steadily beginning to dwindle, an entire sea crew find themselves without jobs. Captain Robinson (Jude Law) has been so committed to the job for so long, that the rest of the world has moved on without him. With his family gone, Robison is turned on to the reports of a Nazi U-boat abandoned at the bottom of the Black Sea. After assembling a crew of half British and half Russian sailors, they set of in search of the gold stash - a stash which will be shared equally amongst them, making them all multi-millionaires. But when the idea starts to circulate that fewer men mean larger shares, the bleak isolation leads to horror and greed, with no possibility of escape.
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'Black Sea' Takes Its Place In The Sub Genre
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 05 December 2014
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Submarines have been the subject and setting of movies since 1907, yet this small and distinctive genre has a new addition in the form of 'Black Sea'.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has taken on one of cinema's trickiest genres with his new thriller 'Black Sea', a submarine movie starring Jude Law as a unemployed ship-builder who hires a mercenary crew to salvage a stash of Nazi gold lost in Russian waters.
Jude Law uncovers a stash of hidden Nazi gold
Submarine movies are a tricky proposition mainly because of the necessity of working within seriously claustrophobic sets that provide little help for audiences who haven't a clue what all these dials and gauges mean. Not to mention the fact that there is so little scope for a change of scenery. So Macdonald's film centres on the growing tension between the shifty crewmates as they create a mini Cold War in the deep, dark recesses of the 'Black Sea'.
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Wait, Is Jude Law's 'Black Sea' The Best British Movie Of 2014?
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 04 December 2014
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Jude Law's 'Black Sea' currently boasts a perfect score of 100% on review site Rotten Tomatoes.
Do we have a late entrant for best British movie of 2014? We're not actually running a competition - the BAFTA's sort of are, and Black Sea might win. On the face of it (of from the trailer), Kevin Macdonald's movie appears to be a formulaic adventure thriller. Sort of Das Boot-lite. And the makers managed to club together to pay Jude Law, for the posters.
Jude Law plays an Aberdeenshire submarine captain in Black Sea
Law plays a rogue submarine captain who pulls together a misfit crew to go after Nazi treasure on-board a sunken U-Boat at the depths of the Black Sea. However, as greed and desperation begins to set in on the team's claustrophobic vessel, the men turn on each other and begin fighting for their own survival. It's brilliant.
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Black Sea Review
By Rich Cline
While this submarine adventure starts out as a brainy thriller with superior production design, it eventually gives in to the demands of the genre: silly plotting and corny melodrama. Screenwriter Dennis Kelly never remotely tries to sell the two big events that cause considerable mayhem for everyone on-screen, so both feel sudden and contrived. At least the cast is sharp enough that the audience is willing to go with it.
It opens in recession-gripped Scotland. After being sacked from the steelworks, Robinson (Jude Law) teams up with fellow unemployed pal Blackie (Konstantin Khabenskiy) to reclaim their dignity by salvaging Nazi gold from a sunken sub in the Black Sea. With finance arranged by Daniels (Scoot McNairy), they assemble a team of Brits and Russians who immediately start re-enacting the Cold War in the rusty Soviet-vintage submarine they'll be using for their heist. Crewmates include a psycho diver (Ben Mendelsohn), a wheezy veteran (David Threlfall) and an 18-year-old (Bobby Schofield) with nothing better to do. But as they skulk along beneath the Russian Fleet, tempers flare and threaten to undermine their mission. Getting their hands on the gold is one thing; making it home alive might be even trickier.
Director Kevin Macdonald keeps the film fast-paced and tense, as the biggest peril this crew faces is in the fiery interaction between themselves. Arguments, paranoia and mistrust lead to violence, which in turn causes a series of problems that threaten the lives of everyone on board the submarine. Frankly, this seems rather far-fetched for a team of supposedly elite mercenaries who know that they need to look out for each other if they have any hope of accomplishing the mission. And with some major plot twists along the way, the story begins to feel like a collection of increasingly implausible obstacles these resourceful men need to overcome.
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Jude Law and Kevin Macdonald - Celebrities at the BBC Radio 2 Studios at BBC Portland Place - London, United Kingdom - Friday 21st November 2014
'How I Live Now': Saoirse Ronan's Dystopian Movie Is Too Dark For America [Trailer]
By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 October 2013
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The story of teen lovers separated by nuclear war is "too dark" for US viewers.
We've been teased by trailers, posters, promo shots and Bat For Lashes soundtrack songs for some months but now it's time to ratchet up the excitement for new Kevin Macdonald movie How I Live Now one last time before it's UK release in just two days (4th October).
Saoirse Ronan Plays Daisy, A Teenager Visiting From New York.
One glance of the trailer and it's immediately apparent that this isn't your average teen romance but what the trailer doesn't accurately convey is how dark the movie becomes. A jangly indie soundtrack, a moody American Saorsie Ronan rocking up in the English countryside, some teens smooching in a barn; the trailer barely skims the surface of the war-torn desolation the sun-streaked meadows dissolve into.
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Saoirse Ronan Stars In World War III Adaptation 'How I Live Now' [Trailer]
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 August 2013
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Check out the brand new trailer below
Meg Rosoff's Printz Award-winning book, ‘How I Live Now’ has all the ingredients for a great film adaptation: romance, war, an academy award nominated leading actress (Saoirse Ronan) and The Last King of Scotland‘s Kevin Macdonald directing.
Watch the How I Live Now trailer
What’s more, the book has a dedicated fan base; in addition to the 2005 Printz Award, it also attracted attention in England, winning the 2004 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and being shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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How I Live Now Trailer
Saoirse Ronan stars in 'How I Live Now', a gripping adaptation of the prize winning novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff. Despite being defined as a children's or young adult's book, the adaptation portrays the horrific and damaging effect war causes on human relationships and the effect it has on an individual, captivating a much wider demographic.
What starts out as a romanticised coming-of-age, feel good film between two lovers takes a dramatic turn when war breaks out in a remote country village in England where lead character Daisy is visiting. Her recently found love with Edmond is unexpectedly tested when they are forced to part. The couple love is put to the test as they are unsure if they will ever be reunited.
The film stars Saoirse (The Lovely Bones, Hanna) as Daisy and George MacKay (Defiance, Peter Pan) as Edmond and is directed by Academy Award winning Director: Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, One Day in September).
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Kevin Macdonald - BAFTA arrivals London United Kingdom Sunday 10th February 2013
Marley Trailer
Acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald presents a documentary about Bob Marley, through the eyes of his close friends and family, which is sure to interest both fans and non-fans alike.
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Life In A Day Trailer
Life In A Day is a new take on the docu-film, though the film was directed by Kevin Macdonald, the footage was shot by thousands of different people from all over the world, who all wanted to contribute their personal stories to make it part of this film. All of the chosen recorders of footage are credited as co-directors.
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Kevin Macdonald - Wednesday 9th March 2011 at Empire Leicester Square London, England
Eagle Trailer
Marcus Aquila has always believed his father - the commander of the Ninth legion - was a great warrior yet he's never truly been at peace with his disappearance, 20 years might have passed but the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Marcus' father and his troop have left many questions unanswered. Wishing to reinstate his father's reputation in the legion, Marcus embarks on a mission to find out what really happened.
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With jobs for submarine operators steadily beginning to dwindle, an entire sea crew find themselves...
Black Sea Movie Review
While this submarine adventure starts out as a brainy thriller with superior production design, it...
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As someone who has been a reader of Vanguard and a contributor for many years I can’t help feeling a twinge of sadness that this is the last print edition of Vanguard.
I understand the issues with finances and human and other resources that have necessitated the change to a solely on-line version of Vanguard.
One benefit of the on-line format is that Vanguard will be able to react quicker to the fast-changing world situation, instead of being overtaken by events.
I still have a copy of the very first Vanguard published over fifty-one years ago in September 1963. It is interesting to read the editorial of the first Vanguard.
Under the heading “Why Vanguard is Published”, the editorial says, “The publication of Vanguard is an historic event. It is now the only paper which upholds the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism. The paper has a big and noble job to do. Its main task will be to give a Marxist-Leninist analysis of the major events of our time.”
Vanguard has continued to give this Marxist-Leninist analysis of world and Australian events since 1963.
The editorial of the second Vanguard, published in October 1963, elaborated on the role of Vanguard. It said, “In essence, the task before Vanguard and its supporters is to make Marxism-Leninism the property of the masses so that the people can distinguish what is right and wrong for themselves.
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“In the process of generalising experience theoretically the people will learn, from life and in struggle, the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism and how to apply it to particular, concrete situations.”
This is as true today as it was when written back in 1963. Vanguard has tried very hard since then to help the Australian people to learn the truth of Marxism-Leninism. In its on-line format Vanguard will continue the “big and noble job” it started in 1963.
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One of the most controversial aspects of Star Trek is the idea touted in many episodes that there is no money in the 24th century. Somewhat surprisingly, fans who have no problem accepting the idea of faster than light travel, time travel, phaser weapons and subspace anomalies find that the idea of a society operating without money is 'unbelievable'!
As with many aspects of Star Trek, the creators of the show have been less than consistent in their approach to the use of money. Some episodes have statements that there is no money, whilst others have characters talking about how they have bought a particular item or service. This purpose of this article is to list the canon statements made regarding money and its use within the various incarnations of Star Trek and suggest possible interpretations which would paint a consistent picture of this aspect of the show. It is not my intention to explain how a future society could function without any form of currency; I do believe that this would be possible, but it's not what this is about.
In the original Star Trek series there are few comments concerning money, but there are occasional mentions. The first comes in the episode 'Mudd's Women'. At the beginning of this episode Harry Mudd is beamed aboard the Enterprise with three beautiful women. Whilst riding in a turbolift with Spock, asks if the First Officer is 'part Vulcanian' and when Spock replies in the affirmative the following conversation ensues :
Mudd : "Ah well then a pretty face doesn't affect you at all does it! That is not unless you want it to. You can save it girls, this type can turn himself off from any emotion."
Evie : "I apologise for what he said sir, he's so used to buying and selling people-"
It later transpires that Mudd is shipping the three women to Ophiuchus III in order to become wives for the settlers. It is not completely certain that Mudd is a Human being, but he certainly does appear to be. It's also not completely certain that Eve is being literal - it's hard to believe that Mudd buys people as such, rather he seems to charge some kind of commission for getting the miners together with wives. The ship heads for Rigel XII to get some lithium crystals. On hearing about this, Mudd reacts ecstatically :
Mudd : "Oh, you beautiful galaxy! Oh that heavenly universe! Well girls, lithium miners! Don't you understand? Lonely, isolated overworked, rich lithium miners! Do you still want husbands? Hmm? Evie, you were going to be satisfied with a ship's captain? I'll get you a man who can buy you a whole planet!"
So the miners on Rigel XII posses great individual wealth, and this wealth is rare enough that Mudd is delighted with the prospect of getting his hands on some of it. Again, the miners appear to be Humans although we cannot be certain of this.
In 'Arena', Kirk is stranded on an asteroid by an advanced species calling themselves the Metrones. He finds various gemstones on the surface, and picking a large one up he declares :
Kirk : "A large deposit of diamonds on the surface; perhaps the hardest substance known in the universe. Beautifully crystallised and pointed, but they are too small to be useful as a weapon. An incredible fortune in stones, yet I would trade them all for a hand phaser, or a good solid club!"
Kirk will later state in 'Catspaw' that the Federation has the technology to manufacture diamonds at will. It seems that this ability will be developed between 'Arena' and 'Catspaw'; nevertheless, the fact that he believes the stones to be valuable during the former episode does indicate that the Federation continues to use some form of capitalistic system involving money.
In 'The Devil In The Dark' the Enterprise visits Janus VI. This is an important mining planet which could supply the mineral needs of a thousand worlds, if only mining conditions were not so severe. The head of the miners there describes it thus :
Vanderburg : "About three months ago we opened up a new level. Sensors gave us an unusually rich pergium reading. Not only pergium, anything you want. Uranium, cerium, platinum. The whole planet's like that - it's a treasure house!"
The use of the word 'treasure house' implies the existence on money. It is possible that Vanderburg is just using a figure of speech, that he means the planet is very important in a resources sense, but later in the episode Kirk gives a more definitive statement :
Vanderburg : "Just wanted to tell you the eggs have started to hatch, Captain. First thing the little devils do is start to tunnel! We've already hit huge new pergium deposit. I'm afraid to tell you how much gold and platinum and rare earths we've uncovered."
Kirk : "I'm delighted to hear that chief. Once mother Horta tells her children what to look for, you people are going to be embarrassingly rich!"
As with the lithium miners in 'Mudd's Women' the inhabitants of Janus VI are expected to amass considerable personal fortunes from their work on the planet. Interestingly, this episode also establishes that gold is a metal in short supply at this time. As we will see later, this will not always be so.
In 'Errand of Mercy', a war breaks out between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Kirk and Spock are stranded on an apparently primitive planet which is occupied by Klingon forces. When Kirk decides to launch an attack on the Klingons he turns to Spock and says :
Kirk : "The Federation has invested a great deal of money in our training, they're about due for a small return. We have two hours in which to do it."
This is an important quote because it is the clearest possible statement that the Federation itself does indeed use money.
In the episode 'The Trouble With Tribbles', there is a scene in a bar on deep space station K-7 in which trader Cyrano Jones attempts to sell some small furry animals to the bartender as Uhura and Chekov look on. The following dialogue takes place :
Uhura : "Are you selling them?"
Bartender : "That's what we're trying to decide right now."
Jones : "My friend, ten credits a piece is a very reasonable price, now you can see for yourself how much the lovely little lady appreciates the finer things."
Bartender : "One credit a piece."
Chekov : "He won't bite will he?"
Jones : "Sir, transporting harmful animals from one planet to another is against regulations, or weren't you aware of that? Besides, Tribbles have no teeth!"
Bartender : "All right, I'll double my offer; two credits."
Jones : "Twice nothing is still nothing."
Uhura : "Well if you're not going to take him I'm going to take him, I think he's cute."
Bartender : "Four credits."
Jones : "Is that an offer or a joke?"
Bartender : "That's my offer."
Jones : "That's a joke."
Bartender : "Five?"
Jones : "I can see you're an honest man, I can tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to lessen my price to eight and a half credits."
Bartender : "You're talking yourself out of a deal friend. Six credits, not a credit more."
Jones : "Seven and a half! Seven? All right you robber, six credits."
Bartender : "Done, when can I have them?"
Jones : "Right away."
Uhura : "All right, what are you selling them for?"
Bartender : "Well let me see little lady, six credits. I figure a reasonable mark-up for a reasonable profit, say ten percent mark-up, ten credits."
Jones : "Thief!"
Surely naked capitalism at it's very finest! Station K-7 certainly appears to be run under the auspices of the Federation; Uhura is certainly Human, and although we cannot be completely certain, both the bartender and Jones appear to be also. Certainly all those present are dealing with some form of money called 'credits', and certainly both Jones and the Bartender are motivated by profit. More, Spock later describes Jones as having scratched out a 'marginal living' buying and selling merchandise, so this sale is not an isolated incident, and and the implication is that Jones is not doing this for fun, but rather because he has to.
In 'The Gamsters of Triskelion' the disembodied alien brains known as 'Providers' are clearly highly into money, betting 'quatloos' on the outcome of combat matches. I will not go into detail as it isn't very relevant, since the Providers are clearly neither Human nor Federation members.
Star Trek IV
Later on during the evolution of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry apparently decided that in the post-TOS era the Federation had progressed to a point at which most of the everyday problems of life had been solved. He projected a time in which people only worked to improve themselves and the rest of humanity. The first sign of this in terms of the Star Trek timeline came in Star Trek IV. During this movie, Kirk and his crew go back in time to late 1980s Earth in order to retrieve a pair of humpback whales. Shortly after his arrival, Kirk notes :
Kirk : "They're still using money, we gotta find some."
Later on, in a restaurant with Dr. Taylor, Kirk reveals that he is from the future. She is naturally sceptical, and when the bill arrives the following exchange occurs :
Taylor : "Don't tell me, they don't use money in the twenty third century."
Kirk : "Well we don't."
Strictly speaking this only proves that money is not in use. It does not preclude some form of wireless economy in which all payments are made through computer transfers.
Star Trek VI
At the beginning of the conference scene, Scotty declares that he has 'just bought a boat'. No details are given regarding whom he purchased it from or what mode of payment were employed.
Unfortunately, it is here that the contradictions started. The such came in the first season's final episode 'The Neutral Zone'. The Enterprise-D rescues three Humans who have been frozen in time for several hundred years. One of them is a stockbroker who is eager to check out how his accounts have been doing whilst he has been gone. Picard has some bad news for him :
Picard : "A lot has changed in the last three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed by the accumulation of things. We have eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy."
This philosophy is later contradicted in 'Captain's Holiday'. In this episode Picard goes on holiday to Risa (hence the title), where he becomes encounters a Human woman named Vash. Vash was the personal assistant to an archaeologist who died whilst looking for the mysterious Tox Utat. A Ferengi named Sovak is seeking to purchase a disk from Vash which contains the research notes which will reveal the device's position. Sovak attempts to buy the disk from Vash at one point :
Sovak : "I have a proposal I believe you'll find most interesting."
Vash : "Save your breath!"
Sovak : "I'm willing to pay you your weight in gold in exchange for the disk. Is that not a generous offer?"
To this Vash simply snorts and walks away. Later, Sovak confronts Vash and Picard :
Sovak : "Do you know how she acquired the disk in the first place?"
Vash : "Sovak!"
Sovak : "I paid her to steal it! But instead she betrayed me and used my money to make her way here."
Vash : "It didn't happen that way."
Sovak : "She's a greedy and unscrupulous woman. A perfect mate for a Ferengi!"
On it's own this is not entirely convincing, because Vash denies that Sovak's version of events is true. But later she confesses to Picard :
Vash : "Jean Luc, I'm afraid I haven't been entirely honest with you."
Picard : "Forgive me if I don't act surprised."
Vash : "Sovak did pay me to hand over the disk."
Picard : "So you did steal it."
Vash : "It wasn't stealing. The Professor had died; I had spent five years of my life tracking down the Utat!"
Picard : "But you took Sovak's money?"
Vash : "It was the only way I could afford to get to Risa! As for Sovak, he got exactly what he deserved."
So this confirms Sovak's version of events. Vash did indeed accept payment from him because she had no other way to pay for passage to Risa.
Another, more minor, reference to money comes from the episode 'Brothers'. Here Data meets with Dr. Soong, his creator. Soong asks Data why people are fascinated with old things and Data replies that it is an attempt to tie themselves to the past. In reply Soong says :
Soong : "Well what's so important about the past? People got sick, they needed money. Why tie yourself to that?"
So we're back to the idea that people no longer need money.
Another thing to note is that throughout the whole run of TNG, the senior officers play a regular game of poker in which they bet chips. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, though; it's difficult to play poker properly without using chips, and many people play friendly games where the chips are just a way of keeping score. We have never seen or heard any reference to buying chips at the beginning of a game or cashing them in at the end.
Star Trek First Contact
Another statement is made regarding future Economics in this movie. Picard is wandering the Borg-infested Enterprise-E accompanied by Lilly, a Human from the year 2063. Lily is mightily impressed by the size of the ship, and the following dialogue takes place :
Lilly : "It took me six months to scrounge up enough titanium just to build a four metre cockpit! How much did this thing cost?"
Picard : "The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century."
Lilly : "No money? You mean you don't get paid?"
Picard : "The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity."
When Picard makes this statement it's technically 2063 but the statement refers to the time he travelled back from, i.e. 2373. Unlike most TNG quotes this one is a solid statement that no money exists in the 24th century.
Deep Space Nine makes an interesting set of contributions to the issue. There is frequent mention throughout the series of 'gold pressed latinum' as a valuable resource. So frequent, in fact, that I will not even attempt to list all mentions of it here - see 'Who Mourns For Morn?' for an episode which involves extensive use of latinum.
Latinum comes in at least five denominations - isiks, slips, strips, bars and bricks. In "Body Parts" we find out the exchange rate :
Quark : "Five hundred bars of latinum, for the entire set. Come on Nog!"
Rom : "That's ten thousand strips!"
Quark : "Or one million slips."
So from this we know that 1 bar equals 20 slips, and one slip equals one hundred strips. Now if only we knew how many bars to the brick...
Latinum appears to be the standard Ferengi unit of exchange, although many other species also appear to use it - in that respect, latinum seems to be the 'US dollar' of the alpha quadrant. The above mentioned 'Who Mourns For Morn?' establishes that the latinum part of gold pressed latinum is a valuable liquid which is contained within the actual physical strips and bars themselves. The gold part of the currency is described as valueless. Oddly enough we see Quark break one of the bars and it is full of dust, implying that the gold part of the currency is gold dust contained within some sort of brittle shell, an alloy of gold perhaps. It seems strange that the currency would be so fragile - you'd expect bricks to be breaking all over the place. Or perhaps removing the latinum weakens the casing somehow?
On present day Earth, they type of money used by most nations is called 'fiat money'. Fiat money is, in and of itself, almost wholly valueless. Modern notes are actually not payment in themselves, but rather a promise to pay - this is why notes in the UK all have the words 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of...' printed on them. The note is essentially a cheque which can be easily transferred from one person to another.
Latinum seems to hark back to 'commodity money', where the value of the money lies in the cost of the material which makes it up. This makes a kind of sense - fiat money's only value lies in the backing of the government which issued it, and so it is only useful within that government's sphere of influence - an area which often, though not always, ends at the border. Commodity money, on the other hand, is valuable wherever the substance it is made of it rare. Given that the alpha quadrant seems to contain large numbers of governments who have little trust with one another, or even knowledge of one another, commodity money may well prove much more useful as an interstellar exchange medium.
Almost every single example of people using gold pressed latinum on DS9 involves Quark. As a Ferengi, Quark is largely obsessed with the gathering of money which he then keeps in a personal safe rather than a bank. Strangely, while people do gamble gold pressed latinum at Quark's dabo table, it is extremely rare to see anybody actually paying for food or drink in the bar. Indeed, I cannot find any specific example of anybody paying for anything in Quark's. Quark is not a part of the Federation and so most of the examples of money being used on DS9 have little relevance to this article.
There are, however, some occasions when Quark deals with humans using money. In 'Defiant', Riker comments that he won all of Quark's Latinum the last time he passed through DS9. And in 'Q-Less', Vash reappears and sells various Gamma Quadrant artefacts she has brought back using Quark as an agent.
However, the episode in which the issue of money is addressed most emphatically is 'In The Cards'. In this episode the station's crew is feeling somewhat miserable because of the worsening political situation. Jake Sisko decides to cheer up his father by obtaining a rare baseball card for him, and must go through a convoluted series of deals in order to do this. The overall effect is that he cheers up virtually the entire senior staff, but the telling point is that he has to go through all this because, as a Human, he is unable to simply buy the card. This is stated explicitly in a scene between Jake and Nog :
Jake : "Come on Nog!"
Nog : "No!"
Jake : "Why not?"
Nog : "It's my money Jake. If you want to bid at the auction, use your own money."
Jake : "I'm Human, I don't have any money."
Nog : "It's not my fault your species decided to abandon currency based economics in favour of some philosophy of self enhancement."
Jake : "Hey, watch it! There's nothing wrong with our philosophy. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity."
Nog : "What does that mean, exactly?"
Jake : "It means... it means we don't need money."
Nog : "Well if you don't need money then you certainly don't need mine."
Voyager has made a couple of interesting contributions to this issue. The first comes in 'The Gift', where the Janeway says the following to Kes :
Janeway : "Ah! Tuvok's meditation lamp! I was with him when he got it, six years ago, from a Vulcan master - who doubled the price when he saw our Starfleet insignias."
This is an important quote, because it establishes that money is indeed in use on Federation planets during the TNG era. It could also be taken to indicate that Starfleet officers are considered to be highly paid, or gullible enough to pay over the normal price.
The next quote comes in 'Dark Frontier'. Janeway compares raiding a Borg sphere to attacking Fort Knox, and Tom Paris provides this description :
Paris : "Fort Knox--the largest repository of gold bullion in Earth's history. Over 50 metric tons, worth over $9 trillion U.S. dollars... When the New World Economy took shape in the late 22nd-century and money went the way of the dinosaur, Fort Knox was turned into a museum."
This would seem to contradict the idea of a Federation without money; more on that later. The most interesting thing about it is that it gives a time frame for the move away from money - the late 22nd century. There are various examples throughout Voyager of the ship buying supplies of one kind or another from local civilisations. These rarely involve any form of currency - more usually the crew engage in some form of barter, swapping isolinear chips for weapons as in 'Retrospect', or Zeolitic ore for deuterium injectors as in 'Nightingale'. This makes sense given that Voyager is travelling through unknown space, and so would not have currency even if such exists in these places. In any case, these examples are not terribly relevant for the purposes of this article since they involve non-Federation members.
To summarise some of our data points :
By 2200 :
Money goes 'the way of the dinosaur'.
Credits in use within the Federation.
Kirk states that 'we' do not use money in his time.
Scotty buys a boat.
Picard states that greed has been eliminated.
The Ferengi offer bribes to Enterprise-D personnel, state that gold is precious.
Vash takes payment from a Ferengi, is later offered a further payment in gold.
Humans on DS9 use money when dealing with Ferengi or other aliens.
Jake states that it is Humans who do not have money.
Picard states that money does not exist in the 24th century.
Quark states that gold is worthless.
One of the first conclusions here is that, contrary to popular belief, it was not actually during TNG that the fact that there was no money in the future was established. Picard says in 'The Neutral Zone' that people are no longer obsessed by the need to accumulate possessions, and that want has been eliminated, but he does not claim that there is no such thing as money. 'Captain's Holiday' shows that money does indeed still exist and is in use within the Federation else Vash would not have needed some to travel to Risa, a Federation planet.
During the series Soong comes closest to stating that there is no money by stating that it was something people needed in the past, but even he stops short. It's quite possible to interpret his words as meaning that all basic needs are supplied for free so you don't need money, but that it still exists for buying luxuries.
So the first definitive statement that 'we don't have money', in both the real and Trek timeline, actually comes from Kirk in Star Trek IV. This movie was produced in 1986, about a year before TNG debuted, so it seems that the move towards showing the future as a less capitalistic society came around this time. Roddenberry had relatively little creative input to the movies after 'Star Trek : The Motion Picture', but he did have a big influence on early TNG and so it seems at the very least that he was happy to endorse the idea that money played a much reduced part in the future.
The no money philosophy takes its first knocks during 'Captain's Holiday'. Vash is not positively stated to be Human in this episode, but Worf identifies her as such in 'Qpid'. Yet she is clearly motivated at least partially by greed. Further, the fact that she was unable to travel within the Federation without funds to buy passage destroys the idea that there is a Federation-wide no money policy.
Deep Space Nine has many examples of money being used, but as mentioned most of these are not a problem because they take place with Quark, who is not a Federation citizen. There are one or two examples of Humans wanting to acquire money, principally Tom Riker in 'Defiant' and Vash in 'Q Less', but Deep Space Nine contains no example of Humans buying or selling items between one another.
Deep Space Nine does have what is certainly the most pivotal episode in this whole debate, i.e. 'In The Cards'. Up to this episode the idea that the future has no money rests almost solely on Kirk's ST IV quote. It would be more than a little tempting to remove the whole problem by a creative 'reinterpretation' of this single quote. However, 'In The Cards' makes the most positive statement ever on the matter. It is not possible to interpret Jake as meaning that physical currency has been eliminated in favour of wireless transfers or some such, for Jake would still be able to bid on the baseball card no matter what form his money was in.
Voyager then makes another strong statement on the subject, not only confirming that money has become extinct but giving us an approximate date for this. Yet in 'The Gift', Voyager confirms that money is indeed still in use within the Federation.
First Contact complicates matters somewhat. It gives a strong "no money" statement, but it is a very general one; Picard doesn't limit his claim in any way, so he could be interpreted to mean that there is no money anywhere in the 24th century. Yet he can't mean this, because it's been shown many times that there are many non-Federation powers that still use money.
This apparently tangled web becomes a whole lot simpler to unravel when we consider Jake's 'In The Cards' statement more carefully. He does not state Federation citizenship as the reason he does not have money; rather it is specifically that he is a Human being. We can therefore make the assumption that Humans do not use money with one another, but only when dealing with aliens. This requires some creative interpretation of Picard's "First Contact" statement, but as mentioned we already have to assume that Picard was being somewhat over-general in claiming that there is no money in the 24th century. It's not so great a leap to say that his statement applied only to Humans rather than the Federation as a whole. In this light many of the apparent contradictions vanish. For instance, we can assume that Scotty bought his boat from an alien. Vash's dealings with the Ferengi, Riker winning money from Quark, the Vulcan merchant mentioned in 'The Gift', all cease to be a problem.
Indeed, after several years of talking about this issue I have yet to find a single example of one Human being using money in dealings with another Human being in any post-TOS episode of Star Trek.
Ironically, then, the biggest fly in the ointment then becomes TOS - the series that was the most consistent in its use of money! Paris's 'Dark Frontier' date of 'the late 22nd century' puts the abandonment of money at no later than 2199, which is still at least sixty years prior to TOS. So we have to find some way to reconcile this.
The simplest and neatest way is to say that Paris got his dates slightly mixed up, and actually the transition happened some time between 2267 and 2286. All the TOS references to money being used between Humans fall before this range and all the no money statements fall after it. However, this is not an ideal solution because it involves disregarding a canon statement.
Secondly, we could say that the move to no money happened in stages. Perhaps Paris was referring to the abandonment of physical cash in favour of payment via computer. This would still allow payments via computer 'credits' to exist during TOS. Then in the post-TOS era currency was abandoned altogether. One problem with this is explaining why the move to a computer-money society made the gold in Fort Knox worthless. So long as money of any form exists and gold remains rare, then the metal should retain its value. It's possible that the move to a computerised currency society happened concurrently with some advance which made gold valueless - cheap transmutation, for example. Perhaps the advent of replicators or some other method of manufacturing gold artificially could account for this. But this seems like a clumsy explanation; Paris certainly implied that it was the New World Economy's abandonment of money which made gold valueless, so it seems that this scenario is flawed.
Another way around the problem is to assume that Paris was talking only about Earth. We have already established that the no money thing only applies to Humans. Possibly it was a gradual conversion, with Earth changing over to a no-money economy prior to 2200. Paris does, after all, call it the 'New World Economy' rather than the 'New Human Economy'. If we go with this assumption then during TOS most Human planets may still have used money, including whichever ones Harry Mudd and Vanderburg came from. The difference between Earth Humans and others then mirrors the later difference between all Humans and other Federation citizens; Earth Humans would not use money when dealing with one another, but would do so when dealing with their non-Terran cousins. The rest of Humanity would eventually see the wisdom of the no money system and convert to it sometime between TOS and TNG.
Our final option is to assume that Paris was completely correct. Under this assumption Humanity as a whole would have abandoned money circa 2200. But since this does only apply to Humans, there would still be some motivation for a Humans to enrich his or her self in order to function on non-Human worlds. It's possible that Humans who work for Starfleet would be paid; Lilly asks Picard if he is paid in "First Contact" and although the implication of the scene is that he is not, he actually makes no direct answer to the question.
Since Starfleet is a Federation rather than a Human organisation it is possible that everybody in it is paid, or that only the Humans are not. Either way, in a Federation in which Humans do not use money with one another, they may still engage in commerce so as to better their lot within a Federation-wide context.
As an analogy, imagine if Texas came up with a way to function internally entirely without money while the rest of the US remained capitalist. A Texan might choose to stay within the state for the rest of their life and never trouble themselves with money at all, but those who wanted to visit other states would still need some way to pay for things whilst there. Texans who wanted a better time while out of Texas may still choose to engage in commerce with one another to improve their lot.
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Healthy Eating 101
Fresh vs. Canned vs. Frozen: Which Is Better?
By: Hilary Meyer, EatingWell Recipe Contributor
Canned or frozen produce can be more convenient—but are you giving up nutrition for convenience or is that a myth? Find out what the science says.
Photo: Getty/Studio
Nothing beats fresh produce. Still, in the kitchen, using canned or frozen fruits and vegetables can be a lot more convenient—but is it worth it? Are you giving up nutrition or taste for convenience?
Frozen and canned fruits and vegetables have an undeserved "bad" reputation. You'll want to check the labels to make sure there isn't any (or a lot of) added sugar and salt. Frozen produce is picked and frozen at peak season, so they're actually surprisingly fresh and always in season. Canned vegetables are budget-friendly and keep for a long time so you'll likely cut down on food waste and save money if you choose them. Sometimes, fresh beats them out in terms of taste and quality, but not always. Frozen fruit is unbeatable in smoothies and soups are a forgiving base for vegetables of all kinds.
Although a fresh fruit or vegetable would never be considered unhealthy, surprisingly there are a few circumstances where frozen and even canned could offer you more health benefits than fresh. Here's a closer look at a few examples of fresh foods vs. their canned or frozen counterparts and when to choose each type.
Pictured Recipe: Lasagna-Stuffed Meatloaf
Fresh Tomatoes vs. Canned Tomatoes
If you've ever eaten a tomato in February, then you are well aware of the challenges that a fresh tomato faces. It's a seasonal food. But even in season, canned tomatoes offer something that fresh can't. Tomatoes are preserved using heat, which releases lycopene—a carotenoid that may help prevent prostate and breast cancer. And canned tomatoes are super-easy: they're already peeled, chopped and ready to cook with! Choose organic and BPA-free canned tomatoes when possible.
Canned tomatoes are now available in glass jars or aseptic boxes in addition to "BPA-free" cans. That's good news, because many cans, especially those used for acidic foods like tomatoes, are manufactured with BPA (bisphenol A). Why worry about BPA? Studies have linked BPA to infertility, heart disease and diabetes. In March 2012, the FDA ruled against a proposed ban of BPA use in food and drink packaging, based on "insufficient evidence" that BPA from these sources causes any ill effects. However, the FDA is encouraging packagers to find alternatives to BPA, and studies on its effects are ongoing.
Winner: Canned tomatoes!
Pictured Recipe: Brown Butter Pea Amandine
Fresh Peas vs. Frozen Peas
Unless you have a garden or are shopping the farmers' market, frozen peas are the way to go. Why? Peas' sugars turn into starch as soon as they are picked. After 24 hours, those sweet little green gems can be grainy and dull-tasting.
Frozen peas, on the other hand, are picked and frozen at the peak of ripeness, halting the process of sugars turning to starch, so it's a better bet that frozen peas will have the sweet taste you're looking for. Plus, you don't have to do any shucking! Look for frozen peas with no added sauces, salt or sugar and dress them up on your own at home.
Winner: Frozen peas!
Pictured Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Shrimp over Orzo with Zucchini
Fresh Lemon Juice vs. Bottled Lemon Juice
Do you squeeze the juice from a fresh lemon when you need it or do you just reach into your fridge and use the bottled stuff? If it's the latter, then you might want to reconsider putting in the effort to use fresh lemon juice. Bottled lemon juice may have additives—like citric acid, sugar and water. And if you've ever tasted bottled lemon juice, you'll notice that the flavor is a little off—not bright and lemony like the real stuff.
Stick with squeezing fresh lemons. To have lemon juice on hand without always buying fresh lemons, squeeze a bunch of lemons and freeze the juice in ice cube trays to use as needed.
Winner: Fresh lemon juice!
Pictured Recipe: Balsamic & Parmesan Broccoli
Fresh Broccoli vs. Frozen Broccoli
Yes, it's true that frozen vegetables may be even better than fresh vegetables, nutritionally speaking (depending on their season and how long the fresh stuff has been on the shelf). But there are circumstances where frozen vegetables can't beat fresh vegetables. Take broccoli, for example. Frozen broccoli can be watery and often mushy when it's cooked.
Add it to anything in its frozen state and you'll end up with a watery mess. It is convenient that it comes in prechopped florets, but you're better sticking with fresh. If it's convenience you're after, look for bags of fresh florets instead of crowns to cut down on prep time.
Winner: Fresh broccoli!
Pictured Recipe: Grilled Salmon with Tomatoes & Basil
Fresh Salmon vs. Canned Salmon
Tuna isn't the only fish that comes in a can! Salmon does, too, but should you use it over fresh? The answer is, it depends. The pros of canned salmon are that it's inexpensive ($2.50 for a can compared to $13 a pound for fresh), it has a long shelf life and it's cooked and ready to use.
The cons are that it's higher in sodium than fresh and some cans come with skin and bones (some people find that off-putting). And you can't substitute a can of salmon for a pretty fillet in a recipe. Stick with canned salmon if you want a quick sandwich filling or use it to top a salad. If it's a fillet you're after, stick with fresh.
Winner: It's a tie!
Pictured Recipe: Florentine Ravioli
Fresh Spinach vs. Frozen Spinach
There's a reason Popeye reached for a can of spinach rather than a fresh bunch. He knew that he could get more bang for his buck. You can squeeze a lot of spinach into a can or a box, delivering more spinach in less volume. (You would have to eat a mountain of fresh to get what you can in a 10-ounce box of frozen.) We prefer frozen spinach over canned—it's got better flavor and is lower in sodium—but the same principle applies.
One cup of frozen spinach has more than four times the amount of nutrients, such as fiber, folate, iron and calcium, than a cup of fresh spinach, so if you want to power up, do it with frozen spinach.
Winner: Frozen spinach!
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June 6, 2011 June 24, 2012 by Edward Champion
Jennifer Schuessler: “Literary Occupation: Housewife”
Why does Jennifer Schuessler and The New York Times believe that any women who speaks her mind is engaging in a feud? Or little more than a happy housewife heroine?
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On September 21, 1832, Maria W. Stewart became the first African-American woman to lecture on women’s rights. She was jeered at by male crowds, who pelted her with tomatoes. A few years later in Philadelphia, Lucretia Mott received a similar reception when she pointed out that it was “not Christianity, but priestcraft” that had subjected women. Mott’s remarks, along with those of other women, were widely ridiculed by the press. On November 5, 1855, The New York Times would write of Mott:
The evident sincerity of feeling and intensity of thought produce a strong impression on the mind, but the utter absence of imaginative power stripped the impression of those almost higher attractions which beauty of illustration lends. Still, though the absence of this quality may neutralize the effect as far as popularity with a general audience is concerned, the effect on those who came with a preconceived sympathy with the ideas of a preacher, is likely to be more powerful, in proportion as the enunciation is simple and unaided by the poetical assistance of sensuous flights of imagination or classical touches of cultivated intellect.
In other words, Mott was merely some sincere country bumpkin who could only preach to the already converted. As far as The New York Times was concerned, Mott’s rhetorical approach, despite “a large and eager congregation,” could never reach the higher plains of cultivated intellect.
These ugly and prejudicial avenues were revisited on June 4, 2011, when The New York Times published a baffling article by Jennifer Schuessler. Schuessler suggested that, any time a woman author tweets a 140 character message, she is engaging in a literary feud. Was Schuessler longing for a presuffrage America? Or a continuation of the complacent and sexist approach from 150 years before? It certainly felt that way. Despite claiming that feud watchers “question whether Twitter feuds really qualify” (and who is a feud watcher anyway? Jonathan Franzen when he’s not watching birds?), Schuessler condemned numerous women for speaking their minds. By criticizing the establishment, numerous bestselling authors were somehow transformed into a mindless mob. And if Schuessler has possessed the linguistic and argumentative facilities of her 1855 counterpart, she might very well have claimed that these women carried an “utter absence of imaginative power.”
After serving up a laundry list of all-male literary “feuds” (Theroux v. Naipaul, Vargas Llosa v. Garcia Marquez, Moody v. Peck), with the feud defined as “a willingness to throw actual punches along with verbal jabs,” Schuessler writes:
If the literary feud has lost its old-school bluster, it might be tempting to lay the blame with what Nathaniel Hawthorne might have called “the mob of damn Twittering women.” These days, in America at least, it’s women authors who seem to start the splashiest literary fights, and you don’t need a stool at the White Horse Tavern to witness it.
The problem with this logic is that it assumes that those who have tweeted critical comments (the names cited in the article are Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult, Ayelet Waldman, and Roseanne Cash) wish to engage in physically and verbally aggressive behavior, or that they have little more than barbaric contributions to offer to public discourse. In Schuessler’s defense, there is a modest case that Waldman, in defending her husband, was engaging in ongoing ressentiment towards Katie Roiphe. But the other women cited in Schuessler’s piece were not. If Weiner and Picoult “led a Twitter campaign against what they saw as the male-dominated literary establishment’s excessive fawning over Jonathan Franzen,” one must ask whether a campaign constitutes a feud.
The feud, as described by Schuessler, is one predicated upon hatred for another person. When an author receives a black eye or a knockout, this is little more than an ignoble pissing match revolving around egos. When Paul Theroux writes a poison-pen memoir condemning his former friend Naipaul, does this stand for any corresponding set of virtues?
Yet when a group of women is trying to raise serious questions about the manner in which books are covered by the media, can one really call it a feud? The evidence suggests nobler intentions. In an August 30, 2010 NPR article, Jennifer Weiner stated that the establishment is “ignoring a lot of other worthy writers and, in the case of The New York Times, entire genres of books.” On August 26, 2010, both Weiner and Picoult were interviewed at length by The Huffington Post‘s Jason Pinter about their positions. And it becomes clear from Pinter’s piece that the purported “mob of damn Twittering women” isn’t just “a Twitter campaign,” but an attempt to start a discussion.
Schuessler also condemns “a similar crew” who “took aim at Jennifer Egan” after Egan declared chick lit as “very derivative, banal stuff.” But in refusing to identify the “crew” in question (and only getting a quote from Katie Roiphe, who had little to do with the “feud”), Schuessler proved herself to be an irresponsible journalist. The conversation about Egan’s remarks extended well beyond Twitter, with detailed essays appearing for and against in such outlets as The Frisky and The Millions. Does such a debate really constitute a feud?
When Roiphe says, “The nature of Twitter is you don’t need to think about what you’re saying. Most of us need to think more about what we’re saying, not less,” she demonstrates her total ignorance of the way in which Twitter works. As seen by the Egan remarks and the Franzenfreude statements, there was an initial emotional outcry on Twitter that became dwarfed by a more serious discussion. People formulated their thoughts and wrote lengthy online essays. If the comments to those essays were somewhat heated, there remained numerous efforts by thoughtful people to maintain a civil debate.
So when Schuessler gets Waldman on the record to speculate about how Jane Austen might have engaged in a Twitter debate over Naipaul’s recent comments, Waldman (perhaps unwittingly) upholds the status quo: “Only those of us with impulse control issues take our snits into the ether.” But this falsely suggests that Twitter encourages nothing less than our worst impulses and that one’s initial outburst can’t be tamed into a more rational discussion. It also upholds a dangerous double standard: a man is permitted to speak his mind and punch somebody out (presumably for the amusement of “feud watchers”); but if a woman does anything close to this, she’s little more than “a damn Twittering woman.” If the purported paper of record — an outlet that suggested a few months ago that a gang-raped schoolgirl had it coming — is seriously equating today’s talented female authors with Freidan’s “happy housewife heroines,” then it is clear that The New York Times is ill-equipped to operate in the 21st century.
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Friends of Isles of Scilly Transport
FRIST Statement of Objectives Agreed
FRIST is a community and business group which has come together to campaign for an affordable and reliable year-round lifeline service between the Isles of Scilly and the mainland, comparable to that enjoyed by the Scottish Isles.
At the first meeting of the FRIST Advisory Group (31 August 2012), the objectives of FRIST were agreed as follows:
PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE
To achieve a lifeline service for passengers and freight between the Isles of Scilly and the mainland which is reliable, regular (at least a daily service on weekdays all year round) and affordable on a similar basis to that provided for the Scottish Isles.
SHORT-TO-MEDIUM TERM AIMS
FRIST urges Ministers to adopt a pragmatic approach to ERDF funding and give the immediate go-ahead for the improvement works at St. Mary’s harbour to improve the quay facilities and extension, together with those works at Penzance Harbour which can be achieved within the timetable for existing European funding allocation.
FRIST also urges Ministers to ensure a reliable daily service throughout the coming winter months if the helicopter service ceases as announced from 1st November 2012. This is necessary because the Skybus fixed-wing service is more susceptible than the helicopter service to crosswinds, fog, and (for Land’s End airport) to a waterlogged runway. Improvements at Land’s End airport will not satisfy FRIST’s overarching objective. The Scillonian III is booked for its annual refit this winter. Also, although a side issue, the freight ship, Gry Maritha, is due for a refit for two weeks in October 2012.
Until such time as these objectives are achieved, FRIST will focus its attention on the major challenges posed by the lifeline link with the mainland rather than inter-island and on-island transport issues. The pressing issues are maintaining lifeline services in the winter months and finding a long term sustainable solution for lifeline services that allows both Scilly and West Cornwall to maximise their economic potential. FRIST intends to pursue solutions to these issues through discussions with the affected local Councils, Cornwall Council, Government and the European Union and to do so with the support of the wider community of individuals and businesses concerned about the future of the Isles of Scilly.
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Ukrainian Gambit by Putin Stings Economy as Allies Lose Billions
Ukrainian Gambit by Putin Stings Economy as Allies Lose Billions by David Fuller
Here are two brief sections from this interesting and informative article from Bloomberg:
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin’s brinkmanship in Ukraine has already cost some of his closest comrades billions of dollars. The other 144 million Russians may also pay a price.
Putin’s troop buildup in Crimea triggered the biggest stock selloff in five years March 3 and pulled the ruble to a record low, prompting the central bank to raise interest rates the most since 1998, when a cash-strapped government stumbled toward default. Longtime Putin ally Gennady Timchenko and his partner Leonid Mikhelson lost a combined $3.2 billion of their wealth after their gas producer OAO Novatek tumbled 18 percent.
“Russia will be the big loser of the crisis in Ukraine,” said Timothy Ash, chief emerging-market economist at Standard Bank Group Ltd. in London. “There’ll be a big hit to domestic and foreign confidence, less investment and likely increased outflows, likely losses for Russian banks with exposure in Ukraine, a weaker ruble and weaker growth and recovery.”
The tensest standoff with the West since the end of the Cold War is exposing the weakness of an economy rebuilt on the back of the energy industry. With oil and gas accounting for more than half of all exports and energy prices stagnant, the growth potential is all but exhausted, prompting officials in Moscow to sound the recession alarm even as the country’s main trading partners recover.
Vital Pipelines
Russian companies also have investments in Ukraine’s energy, defense and agricultural industries. The country is Russia’s fifth-largest trading partner, with turnover of $39.6 billion last year, according to data from the Federal Customs Service in Moscow. Exports to Ukraine were $23.8 billion, while imports totaled $15.8 billion.
More vital to Putin is Ukraine’s network of pipelines, through which state-run OAO Gazprom sends more than half of its exports to Europe, where it has a quarter of the market.
Even so, Putin is prepared to do whatever it takes to stop Ukraine from aligning with the West, said Michael Ganske, head of emerging markets at Rogge Global Partners Plc in London.
Putin considers Ukraine and its 45 million people key to his goal of building a trading bloc to rival the EU, according to Ganske. His customs union, which Yanukovych planned closer ties with, is currently comprised of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, though Armenia has also agreed to join.
“Putin cares for the economy, but he cares more for the greatness of Russia and regional influence,” Ganske said. “As a former spy, Putin has this grand-Russia idea in his head and he just doesn’t accept that Russia’s importance in the geopolitical context has decreased. Putin doesn’t like the idea of Ukraine moving further away from Russia and becoming part of the EU at some stage, let alone NATO.”
This article is informative and supplies both names and numbers, fleshing out my comments in the lead article above. It also provides some reasons for why both institutional and private investors will leave a country where risks appear to be increasing.
We are living in an era in which corporate Autonomies, including some of the biggest multinational investment institutions have emerged, as I have often discussed in recent years. These Autonomies are infinitely larger, more prosperous and therefore more powerful and influential than ever before. They are already wealthier than some frontier economies. Their growth rates are stronger than most economies because they are often better managed and have far fewer liabilities.
Is this good for investors?
I maintain that corporate Autonomies are a bonanza for long-term investors, who can participate in their wealth and market success. They are easy to monitor on price charts and you will know that you are onto a good thing while they outperform on a relative basis. You will also be able to spot recoveries when relative strength improves after a long period of underperformance.
Are Autonomies also good for the governance of countries?
Yes, more often than not because board members of Autonomies will also view nations with the perspective of judges at an international beauty contest. They will prefer to do business in countries where the trend of governance is favourable and citizens are both contributing to and benefiting from GDP growth. The potential presence of Autonomies in countries provides an incentive for leaders of developing countries, in particular, to improve their economic governance.
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Home Features Opinion Amok Mama: Understanding your German friends
Amok Mama: Understanding your German friends
by Jacinta Nandi
Photo courtesy of CDU-Fraktion im Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtag
I don't understand my German friends. I actually don't understand them. I don't understand the things they think and say and do. Sometimes I wonder: how long will I have to live in this country before I understand these people? How long will it take? When will it start happening? Or, even: will it ever actually happen?
Let's talk about this Christian von Boetticher dude. Now, I'm NOT saying he shouldn't have resigned. He probably should have resigned. Probably. But I can't understand the vitriol all my German friends are hurling at him, especially after the whole DSK affair, when basically, on the day he got released from prison, most German people I know started celebrating like it was 1989 again, only harder.
I mean, maybe DSK was innocent you know. Maybe he was innocent, maybe he was guilty. Who knows? He did tear her shoulder ligament, though. He tore her shoulder ligament. Well, anyways, most of my German friends couldn't stock up on champagne and bunting fast enough. I'm surprised half of them didn't move to Paris and start tying yellow ribbons around every available tree in the city – they were that delighted. I mean, maybe he is innocent, you know? But he did tear her shoulder ligament, and they don't know. They don't fucking know. It didn't stop them celebrating like fuck, though.
And what I don't understand is: in comparison to their pro-DSK stance, there's been this real JUDGEMENT heaped on Boetticher. Is it really just coz he's CDU, and all my mates are lefties? I can't believe it. I can't believe my friends would be so shallow. But, whatever's causing it, the moral outrage my German friends feel towards this guy is really, basically, incomprehensible to me:
"I think it's disgusting, to be honest," a friend told me on Saturday night. "I think what he did is disgusting. It disgusts me."
"Yeah," I said, half-heartedly.
"Don't you think it's disgusting? Your first time should be so special. It should be with a kid your own age, holding hands, nervous, giggling, discovering your own bodies, Blümchen-Sex. That's such an important experience for a person to have."
I just looked at her, and I thought: what fucking planet are you fucking living on? Everyone's first time is unbearably unbearable. Isn't it? You're making it sound almost romantic.
"Look, he probably had to resign," I said. "In fact, he definitely did. You can't have politicians walking around with these 16-year-old girlfriends. It's undignified and a bit weird and slightly awkward. But still. He didn't rape her and he didn't break any laws and they both said it was love. And he didn't rape her. There's a limit to how much we can hate him. Isn't there?"
The German girl looked at me and the expression on her face can only be described as gobsmacked.
"But aren't you appalled by what he's done?" She asked.
"Oh, come on," I said. "Everybody wants to fuck 16-year-olds. We all want to fuck 16-year-olds. That's a basic truth of human existence: we want to fuck 16-year-olds."
"Jacinta. Do you want to fuck 16-year-olds?"
"Well, yeah. I mean, I wouldn't do it. But some of them. They're beautiful. Especially the Turks and the Arabs. Sometimes I ache for them. Sometimes I get on the U-Bahn and I see a Turkish teenager in a tracksuit and I just ache for him. I want to touch his body, like, his waist and his arms. Sometimes those Turkish teenagers, they're just so achingly perfect, you know? I mean, I wouldn't do it. But, still. I can't hate him that much. He didn't rape her."
We had a moment of eye-contact then. I noticed her eyes were not really judgemental, just slightly cold and distant.
"You know what, Jacinta?" She said, shaking her head disapprovingly. "The fact of the matter is that I don't understand you. I don't understand you at all."
Amok Mama German politics Sex
you'll understand them once they have turned you into them. The German zombies are out for your brains!
S. more than 7 years ago
columnist Harald Martenstein had a good comment on the whole affair on Sunday: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kein-fall-fuer-romantiker-/4523834.html
He's German, by the way.
Änne more than 7 years ago
I don't think...
I don't think that's a purely German condition, Nancy.
Walter Crasshole more than 7 years ago
No big surprise
that so many German men don't have a problem with rape, statutory or otherwise. Women in the workplace piss them off, too.
Nancy more than 7 years ago
Is it maybe a sense or lack of 'authenticity' that triggers Empörung? Is Germanic (or maybe, maaaaaybeeee also international @Jacinta) indignation triggered when the gap between what-you-see and what-you-get just gets too large to leap? Take Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg; the bulk of the scorn was not poured over him because of plagiarism - a mortal sin in the scientific community - but because he did so and claimed to be the knight in shining armour at the same time. (Cat-walking girl-friends half or even a third of their age by the way is perfectly acceptable for Greens and SPD politicians, by the way. Still under-age is a teeny-weeny bit different, non?)
Mike more than 7 years ago
I agree. Big fuss over nothing. It was consensual, legal, both apparently in love, what's the problem? Why should he resign over it? And why are the press overreacting- shortage of good stories over summer? So silly!
Ellisa more than 7 years ago
ja?
Maybe u have just crazy friends :)
Florian more than 7 years ago
Insane...
Maybe some 16 year-olds actually fancy 40 year-olds, oder? I mean, most 16-year-olds are just pimply faced, hormonal gits. And she's got no gripe whatsoever with him! So WTF did he resign? Idiotic and cowardly. Just shows how backward the CDU still is.
DSK more than 7 years ago
Your friends celebrated when DSK was released?
How, might I ask, does one end up with friends such as these?
Appalled more than 7 years ago
ok...I wouldn't want my daughter to be that 16year old...but, I also don't understand.
I asked my husband whether that was illegal or not and he said it is not. So...where is the problem?they were "in love", whatever it means. Just...I don't find 16 year olds that interesting. some are beautiful, but...they are so...well, you know childish.
Mari more than 7 years ago
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Jump to: Board index » Military Aviation » Military Aircraft of the Cold War
The MiG-25 and MiG-31 in combat
Cold war, Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm - up to and including for example the A-10, F-15, Mirage 200, MiG-29, and F-18.
Boy I miss these two in combat. Now I know the -25 got waxed in Desert Storm by F-15's and such, and even an F-16CJ took one down over Bosnia. But reading the accounts the put up a hell of a fight, and caused alot of mayhem given breaking up strike packages.
I tend to think the Mig-31 would have been a whole different ball of wax, properly flown if the Iraqi's had them. It's apparently held in high regard by the RAF pilots who've encountered it, and the onboard avionics coupled with the raw, Foxbat like performance would have been a tough customer.
Nobody wants war, but the prospect of F-15's meeting up with Foxhounds is enticing. I suppose much would depend upon AWAC's support etc, but from what I can see it'd be a toss up, particularly BVR...
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I have to agree. I almost wonder if the MiG-31 would be more threatening than the Su-30 family. Aircraft employing hit-and-run tactics tend to be far more effective than those that stand and fight, in experience over Syria and Iraq.
My thoughts exactly. The ability to engage/disengage from even the Eagle is concerning...
By one account, Mig-25's eluded an absurd # of F-15's/sparrow shots during Gulf War I. Not sure how AMRAAM would change that equation, but the raw kinematic performance of the Mig-31 coupled with its improved range could be a game changer. One wonders if the Israeli's were thinking the same, when Mig-31's were set to be delivered to Iran/Syria (can't remember which)...
sprstdlyscottsmn
I agree, a MiG-31BM would be a potent addition to any airforce. Powerful radar, datalinking, unparalleled physical performance, payload.
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Mig 31 and Go-Pro....those Russians and their dash cams....enjoy...
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southernphantom wrote: I have to agree. I almost wonder if the MiG-31 would be more threatening than the Su-30 family.
Agreed... the most-ballyhooed Russian types (including the PAK-FA) are Western style with little Western substance; but Mig-31s actually scare me, true examples of what Russia does best. All these small air-forces buying Flankers will be disappointed in their deterrent/military value should the US and its allies come knocking, but a Foxhound equipped force might get its licks in, especially if it can be somehow protected on the ground.
lookieloo wrote:
Incredibly insightful, thank you.
If ever I'd like to see an airshow demo, the Foxhound is it. Someone once said it was like 2 F-14's, welded together. Supposedly, they're held in very high regard by the Brits and others. I wonder if they've been dismissed out of hand, due to our Desert Storm/Mig-25 experience.
To do so IMO, would be a grave mistake...
old.iraqi.air.force
mixelflick wrote: Now I know the -25 got waxed in Desert Storm by F-15's and suc.
The two MIG-25s that shot down in Desert Storm on January 19-1991 was MiG-25RB wasn't PD or PDS the interceptor version, They were on mission to drag the coalition aircraft to the SAM areas not to engage, however on January 30-1991 there is two Iraqi MIG-25PDs piloted by formation leader Capt Mahmoud Awad from 97th squadron of Al-Habbaniyah AB and Capt Mohammed Al-Samarrai from 96th squadron Al-Qadisiyah AB, surprised and ambushed two U.S F-15 was in patrol to terminate the Iraqi aircraft trying to fly to Iran, the U.S F-15s were almost bingo fuel and the MIGs knows about that...
Briefly the Iraqi MIG-25PD piloted by Capt Mohammed Al-Samarrai hit the U.S F-15 with R-40RD missile.
This was called (Operation Samarra) in Iraqi air force.
If you are interested to knowing the details feel free..
lamoey
mixelflick wrote: My thoughts exactly. The ability to engage/disengage from even the Eagle is concerning...
The Mig-31 is an interceptor, not a dog fighter, so I t would most likely use the same hit and run tactics as the Mig-25.
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old.iraqi.air.force wrote:
And what happened, it bounced off?
I keep hearing all these "F-15 was shot down" stories. The problem I have with that is that if true, there'd be some kind of absurb celebration in anti-western countries. OK maybe not absurd, but you know what I mean. The Eagle is touted as undefeated in air to air.
Where's the wreckage/video?
to be fair, o.i.a.f. said hit, not shot down. There are records of damaged F-15s that were repaired. he is also forgetting the F-16 shooting down the MiG-25 though.
Prinz_Eugn
sprstdlyscottsmn wrote: to be fair, o.i.a.f. said hit, not shot down. There are records of damaged F-15s that were repaired. he is also forgetting the F-16 shooting down the MiG-25 though.
Can you imagine how discouraging that would have been?
"Hit! Hit! We finally got one!!"
...nevermind."
"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."
How the Mig-31 repelled the SR-71 Blackbird from Soviet skies
Myagkiy and its Weapons System Officer (WSO) were able to achieve a SR-71 lock on at 52,000 feet and at a distance of 120 Km from the target.
The Foxhound climbed at 65,676 feet where the crew had the Blackbird in sight and according to Myagkiy:
“Had the spy plane violated Soviet airspace, a live missile launch would have been carried out. There was no practically chance the aircraft could avoid an R-33 missile.”
After this interception Blackbirds reportedly began to fly their reconnaissance missions from outside the borders of the Soviet Union.
But the MiG-31s intercepted the SR-71 at least another time.
On Sept. 3, 2012 an article written by Rakesh Krishman Simha for Indrus.in explains how the Foxhound was able to stop Blackbirds spy missions over Soviet Union on Jun. 3, 1986.
That day, no less than six MiG-31s intercepted an SR-71 over the Barents Sea by performing a coordinated interception that subjected the Blackbird to a possible all angle air-to-air missiles attack.
Full article: http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/11/sr-71-vs-mig-31/
huggy
This pilot claims he got a visual on the SR-71 at over 120km? In a head on merge?
bouliult
huggy wrote: This pilot claims he got a visual on the SR-71 at over 120km? In a head on merge?
No, not a visual, but a lock with his radar!
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Time： 2018-12-30 13:00 (UTC)
Over the last six years, SK Telecom T1 has fielded some of the most star-studded rosters in League history. Built around star mid laner Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, the team has won international tournaments all over the world. Next year should be no different: the team signed a bevy of talented players to surround Faker with, and in the new roster’s first showing, it looked pretty good.
While we salivate over how good the new-look SKT could be, with we thought it would be cool to look back at the best players Faker has teamed up with on SKT over the last six years. Sure, 2018 was a disappointing season, but that shouldn’t detract from the team’s unprecedented run at the top of the game.
So here are the five best players Faker’s ever played with, ranked.
5) Wolf
We start the list with someone who’s been with Faker for a long time and helped him win numerous championships. Support Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan has often clinched big games for SKT through his ability to initiate for the team in the late game. Wolf’s play has never been that mechanically intensive and the duo lane with him has always lacked early pressure. But when SKT won back-to-back titles in 2016-2017, Wolf was a key component in helping the team figure out how to play.
But as the game shifted to a more aggressive style in 2018, Wolf’s game fell off and the team started to look for a replacement. For now, he’s moved to Turkey to play for SuperMassive eSports. But SKT fans will always remember him for keeping the team’s atmosphere light during the championship seasons.
4) Impact
Lots of players have left SKT over the years for bigger paychecks and more exposure elsewhere. But not many have found success doing so. It seems like sharing the stage with Faker has made some players look better than they really are.
One of the biggest outliers from that pattern is top laner Jeong “Impact” Eon-yeong. Impact moved to North America following SKT’s first Worlds victory in 2013, and has established himself as a star. Even today, he seems like he’d be a great fit next to Faker: A top laner who knows how to absorb pressure and also deal with aggressively-minded opponents. Since Impact left, SKT’s top lane has been a virtual revolving door. One of the biggest “What Ifs?” of Faker’s career is what could have been if Impact never left.
3) MaRin
One of the top laners that came after Impact that worked out the best was 2015 Worlds final MVP Jang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan. Impact was a fearsome split pusher, but MaRin took things to another level by becoming the team’s primary shot caller.
On the surface, it looked like MaRin just called for the jungler to gank his lane all the time. But that belies his deeper understanding of where the team had to pressure in the lane phase. And it doesn’t touch on how fearsome MaRin’s teleport flanks and teamfights were.
At the end of the day, SKT almost went undefeated in Worlds 2015 with MaRin helming the attack. Surely the team will be hoping for more of the same from new top laner Kim “Khan” Dong-ha.
2) Bang
SKT’s inability to settle on a top laner over the last few years has put a lot of pressure on Faker and the team’s bot lane to play consistently. And for years, Bae “Bang” Jun-sik was an absolute rock in the bot lane.
Bang’s lane has never been flashy. He grinds out CS leads one creep wave at a time. Sometimes he’s susceptible to more aggressive opponents and junglers that camp his lane. But when SKT are able to keep him clean, he usually scales into a teamfighting monster.
There’s a reason why SKT’s style slowly transitioned into one focused on late-game teamfights. That’s because Bang’s positioning is phenomenal. He has a great feel for how to get the most damage out of a fight and take smart chances that lesser marksman don’t see. You don’t get to 1,000 kills in the LCK by playing meekly. Bang always loved to carry, and usually, he did.
1) Bengi
There’s only one player who can compete for first place on this list. And that would have to be the player that has won just as many World Championships as Faker: jungler Bae “Bengi” Seong-Woong. That’s why, when Bengi retired a couple years ago, we wrote a tribute to Bengi and called him the “Right Hand of God.”
If you want to know why Bengi is first, read that article. Think of all the times he’s saved the team in their most crucial moments on the biggest stage. Remember his effervescent smile, self-deprecating manner, and the “sleeping Bengi” memes near the end of his career.
Bengi was never the flashiest player. His champion pool was questioned from the very beginning. And yet he managed to teach a generation of junglers how to influence the map without being the primary carry, how to ward and think about vision, and how to work with a once-in-a-lifetime mid laner like Faker.
Faker was at his best when Bengi was beside him. That’s why Bengi is first on this list. Hopefully we get to see that again with Kim “Clid” Tae-min and Kang “Haru Min-seung.
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Review: Agony
Posted by Jay George | Jul 4, 2018 | 0 |
The Agonising gameplay ruins the gruesome representation of Hell
Title: Agony
Platform: PC, Xbox One, PS4 (reviewed)
Developer: Madmind Studio
Publisher: PlayWay
tl;dr: Hell’s representation is sublime, but the gameplay truly is Agony.
Price: Console – £35/$40
PC – £24/$30
In November 2016, developers Madmind Studio set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund their project; what looked like a super promising first-person horror fantasy game, that takes you through the depths of a disgusting and terrifying rendition of Hell – Agony. Unfortunately, this rendition of Hell wasn’t enough to save the game from its poor, repetitive gameplay and awful voice acting, so let me give you a rundown on the “Agony,” this game put me through.
Unfortunately, Agony is a slow-paced and repetitive horror title that’s wrapped in a tormented and horrifying representation of Hell; probably the best version of Hell I’ve ever seen in video game history. With its flesh, bone, and blood-ridden walls, massive corpses impaled with expressions of pain and regret mixed with the endless lakes of blood you wade through, Hell is one F’ed up place. This Hell leaves me with conflicting thoughts – it’s making it hard to decide whether or not this game sucks… From an artistic standpoint, I thoroughly enjoyed Agony, as it makes me regret all the terrible jokes I’ve laughed at in my life due to Hell’s terrifying design. But, from the standpoint of a gamer, the game is incredibly slow, and puzzles are super repetitive when they’re having you collect various symbols or body parts to open doors to progress onto another labyrinth.
Agony has you follow one of the Martyrs condemned to Hell, Amraphel, who is tasked with meeting the Red Goddess, one of the creators of Hell, in order to escape and return to the land of the living. Unlike other the spirits, the player has the unique ability to possess both other Martyrs and, later on, various demons, giving them access to special abilities. Using different gameplay mechanics such as holding your breath, crouching, or squeezing into tight alcoves, the player can avoid demons. It’s somewhat similar to Outlast, which does make it unnerving, but due to game suffering pacing issues, the horror is few and far between. Besides hiding, you need to solve the repetitive puzzles I mentioned earlier, in order to unlock new areas which mostly consist of mazes; at the beginning of the game, you have three back-to-back. You can also level yourself up using forbidden fruit found throughout, which can only be described as an apple, with – wait for it – a vagina… You read correctly, check out the image below.
The story of Agony is told mostly through the various NPCs scattered about Hell, as well as various documents which can be found delicately placed on altars that glow with a radiant purple aura. You get informed about the Red Goddess by cowering denizens of the underworld, like how she has a unique appearance for each person who arrives in the fiery underworld. You also get various snippets about your past from other NPCs; you both ended up in Hell due to our protagonist’s cock… All this would be interesting if the terrible voice acting didn’t make the dialogue laughable… Needless to say, this takes the tension out of more nerve-wracking sections.
The game is poorly developed, from the atrocious screen tear, to not displaying at a full 1080p resolution (rather around 810p) and cut-scenes having horrible pixelation issues. Not only that, but the game crapped out on more times than I can count, as well save corruption, which put me off from playing one evening as I lost about two hours worth of progress. Finally, the game data corrupted on me, so I had to reinstall the game; I had to keep pushing forward to give this game a good go, but this, unfortunately, left a sour taste in my mouth. Agony seems to have adopted the curse of Kickstarter games such as Mighty No. 9, where the game held so much promise during the concept stages but that seemed to get lost somewhere along the way during development.
Overall, Agony is horribly paced with the same puzzles playing out over and over again with a slightly different item or symbol being used to progress. The element of horror isn’t especially scary, which as a horror game is a big dent in the appeal factor. The game is poorly developed, leading to poor quality and data corruption, which puts you off revisiting the already repetitive puzzles again for the second or even third time. All of these flaws are disappointing, as the representation of Hell is, as mentioned, disgusting and terrifying, making you want to repent for any sins you’ve committed due to the endless suffering you see. I’d advise against purchasing this game at its current price, but if you’re curious, just wait for a sale or watch a Let’s Play on YouTube.
Hell’s representation is horrifying, gory, and gut-wrenching.
The Red Goddess is feral and disgusting.
Hiding and holding you breath to get past the creatures of Hell can be unnerving.
Gameplay is incredibly slow paced.
Corruption of save data can be frustrating.
Puzzles are repetitive; collecting various body parts scattered about similar bloody mazes.
Agony is rated M for Mature by ESRB and PEGI 18, as it contains some bad language, fruits with vaginas, and violence.
Disclaimer: This review is based on a physical copy of the game provided by the publishers for the purposes of this review.
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Graeme Macrae Burnet – Glasgow Writer
Graeme Macrae Burnet and Rupert Thomson in conversation at Waterstones Glasgow 28 February, 2019
Graeme Macrae Burnet at GOMA Book Week Scotland – 22 November, 2018
The Art of Words – 7 June, 2018 – Thistle Gallery, Park Road, Glasgow
Appearing at Aye Write! 2018 25 March,
The Accident on the A35 – new book by Graeme, to be launched Waterstones Argyle Street, 26 October, 2017
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The Saltire Fiction Book of the Year and is due to published in over 20 countries.
Graeme Macrae Burnet will be reading at Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow Chapel, 1 p.m Monday 12 December, 2016.
Graeme Macrae Burnet comes from Kilmarnock. He studied English Literature at Glasgow University before spending some years teaching in France, the Czech Republic and Portugal. He then took an M.Litt in International Security Studies at St Andrews University and fell into a series of jobs in television. In July 2014 his first book The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau was published by Saraband.
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
The other day I had a leisurely chat with Graeme at Booly Mardi’s in Glasgow’s West End, not too far from where he lives. I’ve been meaning to pin him down since I went along to the launch of his first book, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau.
I thoroughly enjoyed this very different, stylish psychological thriller set in Saint-Louis, a provincial French town. Graeme definitely delivers on the sense of place, no doubt benefiting from having lived and worked in France, he’s produced what many have described as ‘an authentic ambience’ into which the reader is swiftly absorbed. We also encounter an intriguing set of characters, including, Manfred Baumann, the local bank manager, an awkward outsider, who is a regular at the Restaurant de la Cloche, where Adèle Bedeau was a waitress. When he tells a lie he falls under the suspicion of Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by past failure.
Extracts from The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
How stupid it had been to lie. The policeman had disconcerted him. It would have been a simple matter to tell him what he had seen on Thursday evening … Now he had withheld evidence from the investigation. What was more, when his omission came to light, as it inevitably would, he would be sure to fall under suspicion.
Adèle:
Adèle was wearing a short black skirt and white blouse. Around her waist was a little apron with a pocket in which she kept a notebook for taking orders and the cloth she used for wiping tables. She was a dark, heavy-set girl with a wide behind and large, weighty breasts. She had full lips, an olive complexion and brown eyes, which she habitually kept trained on the floor. Her features were too heavy to be described as pretty, but there was an earthy magnetism about her, a magnetism no doubt amplified by the drabness of the surroundings.
Manfred:
Manfred Baumann was thirty-six years old. He was dressed tonight, as he was every night, in a black suit and white shirt with a tie loosened at the neck. His dark hair was neatly cut and parted to one side. He was a good-looking man, but his eyes shifted nervously as if he was trying to avoid eye contact. Consequently, people often felt ill at ease in his company and this served to reinforce his own awkwardness.
The Town:
Yet for three hundred years Saint-Louis has sustained a population. It is a population somewhat less educated, less well-off and more inclined to the political right than the majority of their countrymen, but this mediocre tribe still requires, now and then, a new pair of shoes or an outfit of clothing, they need their hair cut, their teeth attended to and their ailments cured. They must withdraw and borrow money. They require places to eat, drink, gossip or simply postpone returning home. Their streets must be cleaned, refuse collected, law and order must be kept. Their houses require the attention of plumbers, electricians, joiners and decorators. Their children must be schooled, the aged nursed and the dead buried.
Saraband
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau was very well received with excellent reviews and was included in The List’s top Scottish Books of 2014 and unsurprisingly the author has plans for Detective Gorski to feature in a sequel. This will also be published by Saraband – with whom Graeme feels that ‘he has found his perfect home.’ Prior to this they will publish his next book, also a literary crime novel set in 1869 in Wester Ross, where Graeme’s mother comes from. The book, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae is due to be published in November 2015.
Perhaps his publisher’s encouragement has been instrumental as one thing’s for sure – Graeme is very industrious. Since he won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award 2012/2013 , he has established the habit of writing almost daily and has his ‘own spot’ at The Mitchell Library. That is unless he’s off immersing himself in research in the locations where his books are set. His commitment and creativity certainly appear to be paying off. However, apart from writing literary crime novels, he has more going on.
His Bloody Project Book Launch 5 November 2015
Simenon
Graeme’s writing has been inspired by his knowledge and admiration for the work of George Simenon. This seems to be true not only of his writing but also with regard to his role as a musician, with the very ‘noir’ The Dirt. Graeme was actually first known to me through his band The Dirt, and I’ve been at a number of gigs including the launch of their album Bury Me Tomorrow, back in 2010.
On his website he has also compiled a very impressive section Notes on Simenon where he has reviewed a number of books by the writer. The reviews are very well written and absorbing and I’ve been enjoying reading them. Anyone with a yen to read this author of some 185 novels should definitely check out what Graeme has to say:
‘The remarkable thing about Simenon’s output is less the huge number of novels and the speed at which they were written, than the consistently high quality of his prose and his seemingly inexhaustible well of characters and observations. Nevertheless, among 185 novels there is bound to be the odd dud and The Brothers Rico is one of those.‘
So having read most of Graeme’s brilliant critiques, I’ve decided to go for Belle – I really love how the book is described.
‘Belle represents Simenon at close to his best. It is meticulous in its dissection of Ashby’s character; the minimal narrative unfolds with consummate skill, and the portrait of a small town community too buttoned up to do anything other than subtlety shun a suspected murderer is flawlessly observed.‘
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Another fascinating project that Graeme is involved in Matchbox Cineclub who will be screening Wedding in Blood at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on 20 August, 2015. Graeme will introduce Claude Chabrol’s ‘classic portrait of an amour fou with deadly consequences in provincial France’. It sounds right up Graeme’s street – I hope to make it along.
Pat Byrne, August, 2015.
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Birmingham Conservatoire jazz department / Photo: William Ellis
John is as devoted and passionate about music education as he is about performance and composition. He holds teaching posts at Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Holloway University and has led workshops and individual lessons at the Dartington International Summer School in Devon and the Saarwellingen Jazz Summer School in Germany. His ears are periodically put to use in auditions for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and Collective and as an external examiner at Trinity Laban in London.
Mark Pringle / Photo: Robin French
Many students have gone on to have notable careers of their own in recent years, including the Peter Whittingham award-winner and Yamaha Jazz Scholar Mark Pringle, Toby Boalch, Andrew Woodhead, David Ferris, Harry Bolt, Jacky Naylor, Stella Roberts, Oliver Chalk, and Elliott Sansom – one of the six finalists of the BBC Young Jazz Musician Award 2016 and a nominee for the Worshipful Company of Musicians Jazz Award.
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5th July 2019 Insert-Disk Action, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 (C64), Sinclair Spectrum 0
Insert Disk collects Dandy and Dark Chambers for the C64, Spectrum and Atari 2600.
Today’s retro game review is Dandy and Dark Chambers for the C64, Spectrum and Atari 2600. This retro gaming classic is the focus of part 10 of the 10 part Insert-Disk Gauntlet Mini Series Where we will take a look back at Gauntlet, Gauntlet The Deeper Dungeons, Gauntlet 2, Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, Gauntlet 3, Gauntlet 4, Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, Gauntlet: Slayer Edition as well as a bonus look at the Gauntlet origin story in Dandy and Dark Chambers.
Welcome to the Gauntlet retrospective part 10 of 10.
Greetings collectors and welcome to today’s retro game review. It’s part 10 of this Gauntlet Mini series. Welcome to the Gauntlet! This series has explored the classic era, the Legends era and the modern era. You join us at the very end of our quest together which ironically looks to understand the very origins of Gauntlet.
Now, strictly speaking what I told you in part one of the series was correct. Gauntlet did first originate in arcades back in 1985 from Atari but there was a piece of the story that I intentionally left out. It is now time to go deeper than ever in to the Gauntlet origins story. It’s a story that spans all the way back to 1982 and a university thesis of all things.
In 1982 John Palevich was studying at MIT, preparing his “Thesis Of Terror”. His thesis regarded an experimental idea for a five-player game computer game. Four players would use Atari 800 computers acting as graphical terminals, and the fifth player acting as dungeon master on a second linked machine.The fifth player was never fully realised so the concept was dialled back to 4 players on one machine.
It’s said that the concept of the game was heavily influenced by Palevich’s experience of watching his fellow dorm mates play Dungeons and Dragons. Indeed you can see the influence flow through to most of the early Gauntlet games. After graduating from MIT, Palevich went on to work for Atari’s Research division, mostly on graphics and sound chips. However, he continues to work on the “Thesis of Terror” concept to develop it further. By May 1983, the original code was reworked for release. During this time the game also finally became to be known as Dandy. A near phononyme of D&D. D&D, D&D, Dandy. Atari Program Exchange advertised Dandy as “the great new team game … Bring up to three friends! Work as a team to battle monsters!”
Dandy was a decent game and clear to anyone watching this video that many of the major elements of a Gauntlet game can be seen in here. It’s worth remembering that Dandy followed the formula of collecting keys to open locked doors, treasure, bombs, health and dungeons. In the original release print you also play as, believe it or not “Thor”, the Norwegian mother that you don’t mess with. However, just two year later in 1985 Atari themselves went on to release the smash hit Gauntlet. A project led by Ed Loggand said to have been “directly inspired” by Dandy. A project that Palevich was not directly involved in. With Ed Loggand credited for the creation of Gauntlet there was controversy brewing at Atari even in these early years. After Gauntlets release, Palevich threatened a lawsuit, insisting that the original concept for Gauntlet was based on Dandy, written by himself in 1983. The dispute was eventually settled without a suit being filed, with Atari Games doing business as Tengen allegedly awarding Palevich a Gauntlet game machine. However, Palevich’s original concept for the game could have made him millions had history been a little different.
Here I have the original Spectrum and Commodore 64 releases of Dandy.
The C64 version credits software by the RamJam Corporation and based on an original design by John H. Palevich. The spectrum edition only credits Palevich. It’s clear from playing the games that Dandy was not just the pre-cursor to Gauntlet, by any other name it is Gauntlet. It may not be so fluid but there is a clear injustice that Palevich’s name is often left out of conversations when Gauntlet is discussed. However you may feel about this turn of events it’s worth knowing that Palevich did see some redemption as he continued to refine Dandy. By 1987 a reworked concept was released as Dark Chambers which was available on the Atari 2600 and 7800. This time with Palevich appropriately credited with all rights reserved.
And here is an original pressing of Dark Chambers for the 2600. I have to say that the artwork is really special. The treasure, the heroes the ghosts and death. It’s just a really well-crafted piece. The back of the box explains the main idea of the game and promises about as much as a 2600 game could at the time. The game comes with the all-important cartridge and a rather excellent manual. It explains the potions, keys, bombs as well as several other pickups not found in the Gauntlet series. Looking at the character list though you see. Skeletons, wizards, spawners, poisons and grim reapers. For all the world this could be the prototype documents for the Gauntlet formula. The 2600 edition of the game is rather decent. It’s basic but for an Atari 2600 game still remarkably playable. The 7800 version is perhaps even better due to the levels of detail and definitely fulfills all of the prerequisites to the classic era of Gauntlet game.
So, what can we take away from all of this? On one hand it’s a shame that Palevich doesn’t always receive the credit he deserves when the subject of Gauntlet arises. Let’s face it, Atari may have put out the Gauntlet series but the original implementation of the idea was clearly his. With Dandy and Dark Chambers being published it’s clear that Palevich had the right concepts and skills for most to credit him with the underlying mechanics of the franchise. Financially he must have felt hard done by and there’s probably not a lot that anyone can do at this point in time. However, we can admire his creativity and vision which hopefully goes some way to giving him the credit he deserves.
As for the Gauntlet series itself, it has a fascinating line up of entries, has spanned several decades and managed to engage with several generations of gamer. The classic games now appear regularly in compilations and modern studious still see reap the benefits from its legacy.
Gauntlet helps tell the historical battles of game licencing between Atari and Nintendo, the creation of Tengen and helps plot the fortunes of Atari itself over time. Its licence may have been passed around over the years but Gauntlet is such a string concept that it has managed to weather the bad times and continues to delight us.
No matter whether you collect Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Commodore, PC or other, at some point the dark dungeons of the Gauntlet are sure to have been part of your gaming journey at some point in time.
On a personal level Gauntlet 2 will always be my favourite in the series as it was so ground-breaking but other entries such as Gauntlet 4 really did go all out to thrill fans of the hack and slash genre.
I’d like to thank you all for sticking with this special ten part series of Gauntlet and hopefully you’ve enjoyed the journey in to the dungeons with me. Let me know in the comments your favourite Gauntlet game and why, there’s a lot to choose from.
Until next time, happy gaming.
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22nd June 2019 Insert-Disk Action, PS2 0
Insert Disk collects Gauntlet Seven Sorrows for the PS2.
Today’s retro game review is Gauntlet Seven Sorrows for the PS2. This retro gaming classic is the focus of part 8 of the 10 part Insert-Disk Gauntlet Mini Series Where we will take a look back at Gauntlet, Gauntlet The Deeper Dungeons, Gauntlet 2, Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, Gauntlet 3, Gauntlet 4, Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, Gauntlet: Slayer Edition as well as a bonus look at the Gauntlet origin story in Dandy and Dark Chambers.
Welcome to the Gauntlet retrospective part 8 of 10.
Greetings collectors and welcome to today’s retro game review. It’s part 8 of this Gauntlet Mini series. Welcome to the Gauntlet! You join us at the beginning of the last Gauntlet era today, the modern era. Today we are looking at Gauntlet: The Seven Sorrows for the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox. The modern era of gauntlet begins in 2005 with yet another reboot of the franchise. The Seven Sorrows looked to improve once more on the formula of its 3D predecessors. As is now standard for the series the wizard, elf, warrior, and Valkyrie all make a welcome return. Dark Legacy had been somewhat cartoon like in stylisation. Seven Sorrows looked to bring a more mature feel to the series through a much grittier aesthetic.
I have to say, you look at the cover and do think, yes, this is something that we haven’t seen before in the series. Online multiplayer and some really decent graphics. The Atari logo now nowhere to be seen although Midway adding some continuity to the franchise. Notice now we also have a PG rating here for the UK edition. This is our Parental Guidance rating. In essence there’s going to be a bit of violence and possibly some minor bad language and dark themes. Overall the physical presentation work well. There is a clear disconnect in style from the Classic and Legends eras but then again this is perhaps a reflection of the times and the platforms it was released on.
There is a plot to the game which is really well realised by several cut scenes with some decent narration. Long ago, four immortal heroes gathered to serve the emperor. The emperor wanted their immortality. His six advisors trick him into crucifying the heroes on a great tree at the bottom of the world. Shortly after killing his six advisers too. Before his death the emperor released the heroes from the tree with a mission set for them to destroy the now twisted advisors in order to regain their powers and undo all seven sorrows. The plot actually works well for an action hack and slash, its simple yet deep enough to go further than your average back story. With the returning cast of Wizard, Warrior, Elf and Valkyrie you must set about destroying the corrupt advisers. From here the classic formula kicks in, albeit in a more aesthetically pleasing way than the last gen consoles. Fight off the hordes, mash those buttons, open chests, find keys and generally run rampant against the armies of monster. Overall this reimagining is not a bad game at all.
Reviews of Seven Sorrows tend to be quite average and I can see why. There’s nothing ground-breaking here to shout about but I do feel that the back story, the decent graphics and some new additions to the combat system do make this a decent enough title. Your character has a combat skill progression system as well as their class specific skills. This then blends nicely with a rather satisfying combo system. Now, I lean to the rather purist view of what a Gauntlet game should be. However, I was pleased to say that I was won over by Seven Sorrows where quite a few other gamers weren’t. Could you remove the Gauntlet title and market this at a generic action game. Well, yes and no. The action may be 100% generic but the format of the chests, spawners, narration and sound effects do tie this one back to the classic era in a way that games such as Gauntlet Legends failed to. My verdict on this one is to give it a go, its cheap and if nothing else a well presented button basher to invest a few hours in. The PC edition was scrapped and it was clear that this was yet another short lived revival for the franchise.
2005 had appeared to once more seal the dungeon doors on the Gauntlet franchise. Seven Sorrows never saw a sequel in the same style and the game rather came and went. Meanwhile, retro game compilations including classic Gauntlet titles did arguably better as the new generation rediscovered the magic that had first fuelled our love of the series. It wouldn’t be until almost another decade passed when in 2014 we would see Gauntlet back on our monitors again. This time though things were different. Gauntlet would turn back to its core game play roots. A team of developers known as Arrow Head Game Studios would ask the question… if Gauntlet had been made today, what would it look like?
Join me in the next episode as we look at the last entry in the modern era of Gauntlet games. Gauntlet: Slayer Edition.
The quest continues…
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Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law
Location: Stanford, CA, United States
Date Posted: August 23, 2018
Contact: Phil Malone
Company\Firm: Stanford Law School
Email: aarroyo@stanford.edu
Job Description: The Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic of Stanford Law School seeks an enthusiastic and passionate attorney to join its teaching and practice team as a Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law. The supervising attorney will be an integral part of all aspects of the Clinic’s mission to train outstanding law students and represent clients in a rich and exciting variety of significant matters focusing on technology and intellectual property policy, appellate and agency advocacy, IP strategy, and client advising and counseling.
This is a rare opportunity to teach in one of the preeminent technology and IP clinics in the nation and at one of the country’s leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. The supervising attorney will work hand-in-hand with students in the Clinic as they represent real clients in important and challenging real-world cases and matters across fields that include internet and information technology, media and content creation, telecom, AI and machine learning, biotech, pharmaceuticals, and many more. Our students handle cases involving significant patent, copyright, and trademark issues as well as areas such as net neutrality, antitrust, FDA regulation, online speech and Section 230, CFAA, privacy, surveillance, and others.
In the last several years, Clinic students have:
• drafted and submitted almost a dozen amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court; numerous amicus briefs to the Federal Circuit and other federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, and state supreme courts; and even an amicus-like third-party intervention submission to the European Court of Human Rights;
• drafted and submitted comments and provided live testimony in several rulemaking and regulatory proceedings before entities including the Copyright Office, FDA, PTO, and FTC;
• engaged in pre-litigation counseling and occasional limited litigation, including a net neutrality challenge in the DC Circuit, a trademark opposition before the TTAB, and a motion to quash in CA state court;
• prepared and submitted comments on proposed legislation;
• drafted policy papers, whitepapers, and other “best practices” documents advocating for balanced approaches to innovation and creativity; and
• advised clients on a wide range of tech policy, IP, and other innovation-related issues and occasionally registered copyrights and trademarks.
The legal and policy work of the clinic is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. The clients served by our students and supervising attorney include a variety of non-profit organizations and associations of innovators, entrepreneurs, artists and other content creators, technology users, consumers, economists, technologists, legal academics, and others. The Clinic occasionally represents individual innovators, start-ups, journalists, and researchers.
Reporting to, and working closely with the Clinic’s director, Professor Phil Malone, the supervising attorney will be an integral part of all the Clinic’s work, including:
• providing extensive supervision of Clinic students and their legal work, particularly small-group and one-on-one supervision and review of their case and policy analysis and development, client interactions, written work, oral advocacy, and professionalism;
• giving regular, detailed oral and written feedback to students on their performance;
• delivering instruction in and modeling core lawyering and practice skills;
• ensuring professional, high-quality representation of Clinic clients;
• engaging in area-of-expertise development, including monitoring of IP- and innovation-related legal, business, and technical developments; reaching out to potential collaborators; and maintaining relationships with partners such as advocacy organizations, industry groups, and government agencies;
• pursuing (often with students) client development, including maintaining relationships with ongoing clients, conducting client intake, and identifying and reaching out to potential new clients;
• partnering with the director to shape the overall vision and operation of the Clinic, design its curriculum, develop teaching materials, co-teach the twice-weekly clinic seminar, and ensure best-practice Clinic administration and operations; and
• providing direct client representation during student breaks or when otherwise necessary.
Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.
The Juelsgaard IP and Innovation Clinic is one of ten clinics comprising the Mills Legal Clinic, one of the nation’s leading law school clinical programs. The Stanford program is unique in that students participate in a clinic on a full-time basis for an entire academic quarter: they do not take any other courses during that quarter, they work in the clinic space each business day, and they focus exclusively and intensively on their clients and cases. This model allows for highly intentional, reflective, and iterative case work and the ability to provide deep, nuanced supervision and mentoring to students.
Mills Legal Clinic supervising attorneys are part of the vibrant intellectual community within the Law School and Stanford University at large. The supervising attorney will be invited to attend weekly faculty workshops at which scholars from Stanford and throughout the world present research and works in progress, and may attend similar talks elsewhere in the university. The clinic also provides resources for its supervising attorneys to participate in conferences, continuing education, and other professional development activities. The supervising attorney will have considerable time during summers and one “quiet” quarter per year, subject to ongoing case needs, to pursue their own academic research and writing projects if they choose.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants for the Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law position must have:
• At least three to five years experience in patent, copyright, trademark, and/or other innovation-related legal policy development and advocacy, appellate or trial-level litigation, and/or client counseling;
• superior writing, editing and verbal skills;
• outstanding academic credentials;
• sound judgment and exceptional ethical standards;
• excellent teamwork, collaboration, and teambuilding skills;
• strong interest in and demonstrated potential for successful teaching and student supervision, including previous experience in a clinical legal setting, the direct supervision and mentoring of junior attorneys, or similar experience;
• strong organizational / management skills, attention to detail and self-motivation, and an aptitude for law practice and clinic management; and
• admission to practice in California or eligibility and willingness to sit for the next California Bar exam.
• A background in patent policy, strategy, litigation and/or counseling; appellate advocacy; or open source / open access issues, and a technical or scientific background, is desirable but not required.
Applicants should be energetic and passionate about working with students on a variety of important and highly visible cases and projects that go to the heart of the relationship between law and innovation. The position is a great opportunity for current or former law school clinic fellows or instructors, or for experienced patent, IP, or technology policy practitioners or litigators who want to work in a cutting-edge and intellectually invigorating environment, transition to an academic setting, and serve the public interest.
The salary is based on a formula that is competitive with similar positions. We provide retirement plans, generous time-off, and family care resources, which can be read about in detail here https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards.
The position is for an initial one-year fixed term with the possibility of renewal.
Applicants should submit resumes through http://m.rfer.us/STANFORDHnR2PV, (job number 80187). Applications should be submitted as soon as possible and will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled, with a preferred start date of late September or October, 2018.
In addition, applicants should send the following materials to Judy Gielniak, the Mills Legal Clinic associate director, at jgielniak@law.stanford.edu, and Ana Villanueva, the Clinic legal assistant, at anamv@law.stanford.edu.
• a statement no longer than four pages describing: (i) prior experience in IP or other technology policy, agency or appellate advocacy, litigation, and/or client advising and counseling; (ii) any relevant technical training or experience; (iii) any other relevant experience; (iv) information relevant to the applicant's experience with, interest in, and potential for clinical supervision and teaching;
• a current CV or resume;
• at least three references; and
• a complete law school transcript.
Questions about the position, the Clinic, or the job requirements can be sent to Professor Phil Malone at pmalone@law.stanford.edu.
Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Friday , Apr , 16 , 2010 Hoopsvibe
Michael Jordan Rejected Allen Iverson Signing
What Larry wants, Larry gets?
Not automatically. Sure, coach Larry Brown holds great sway in sculpting the Charlotte Bobcats’ roster. But he’s not the only voice or the most powerful one.
And he’s been told no. Case in point: Allen Iverson.
“We had a short conversation about him,’’ recalled Bobcats owner Michael Jordan of the high-talent/high-maintenance shooting guard.
Jordan said that for all of Iverson’s ability, he wasn’t the right fit on a young team still establishing an identity. Jordan expressed that to Brown, who accepted Jordan’s judgment. And they all moved on.
Thursday , Apr , 15 , 2010 Oly Sandor
Can the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, and San Antonio Spurs play Cinderella?
Every year, a few teams are capable of knocking off a contender. They are often slept-on and overlooked. Throw in a condensed, do-or-die seven game series and these Cinderella candidates need signs saying ‘proceed with caution’.
Wednesday , Apr , 14 , 2010 Hoopsvibe
Dell Curry Not Allowed to Vote in RoY Ballot
The NBA has taken away Charlotte Bobcats broadcaster Dell Curry's rookie of the year vote because his son is among the leading candidates for the award.
Curry's son, Stephen Curry, is averaging 17.2 points and 5.9 assists per game for Golden State. He and Kings guard Tyreke Evans, who is averaging 20.3 points and 5.8 assists, are considered the front-runners to be top rookie.
"Oh, he's voting for Tyreke," Stephen Curry joked after his team's 103-94 loss to the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night. "That's good for me then. ... Just to be in that conversation is great for me."
NBA spokesman Tim Frank says Dell Curry will be allowed to vote for all the other postseason awards, but the league did not want to put him in an awkward position with the rookie award.
Friday , Mar , 19 , 2010 Hoopsvibe
Michael Jordan Will Use His Name to Hype Bobcats
“Now that I have invested in this process, I assume his responsibility in terms of putting my face on this organization and obviously trying to move to the next level,” said Jordan, who will buy a home here but remain a resident of Chicago.
“I understand the expectations of the city,” he said. “I understand what they endured obviously when the team left.
“They want to win again. They want to feel good about their basketball team. I’m on board with that. I’m trying to get that feeling back here again.”
Jordan added: “I want this place to be like when we used to come to play, it was the loudest thing. You’d hear that buzzing and all that crazy stuff. I want that same feeling to come back here. And it’s going to take some time. Obviously, it starts on the basketball court. And at the same time, building that relationship back with the community. That’s what I want to do.”
Wednesday , Mar , 17 , 2010 Jesse Andrews
In Praise of Cap’n Jack
It was during Charlotte's crafty ambush of the Magic on Sunday—the second quarter, maybe the third quarter—that Stephen Jackson had A Moment. He made a shot and thought he was fouled on the elbow. He backpedaled, jutting his elbow away from him and patting it with his left hand. The camera followed him. His expression did not change. "Jackson wanted the call," droned Mike Breen, or whoever. Stephen Jackson continued patting himself on the elbow. The announcers fell into an inky pool of silence. The producer did not, could not cut away. No one seemed capable of saying or doing anything. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Seconds of time peeled away from our lives, and each one seemed eternal.
Wednesday , Jun , 14 , 2006 C.Y. Ellis
MJ becomes part owner of Bobcats
Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - NBA legend and record book rewriter Michael Jordan became a part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats on Thursday. Read More
Monday , Jul , 19 , 2004 C.Y. Ellis
Nelly becomes part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats
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Aims Community College to receive new planes at Greeley-Weld County Airport (KGXY)
Aims Community College will receive most of its five newly leased 2017 Piper Archer III TX Aircraft Trainers at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Greeley-Weld County Airport Terminal. The state-of-the-art Piper Archer TX will replace the college's single-engine Cessna 172s. Beginning in January, the new aircraft will provide aviation students the technical skills and modern proficiencies needed to be competitive in the technologically advanced aviation industry, according to a news release.
The Piper Archer TX is a fuel injected, 180 horsepower, four-seat, single engine trainer manufactured by Piper Aircraft, Inc., headquartered in Vero Beach, Fla. Aims is leasing the five new aircraft from Christiansen Aviation in Tulsa, Okla. The flight station features an all-glass advanced Garmin G1000 Avionics Suite, which prepares Aims pilots for the advancements in commercial flight stations.
"Aims aviation has been well known in the industry since 1968, and Saturday will be a great milestone for Aims as we continue to prepare students for a growing, demanding and rewarding industry for the years to come by providing relevant and innovative education to the communities we serve and beyond," said Aims CEO and President Leah L. Bornstein, in the release.
"Through significant modernization efforts, quality instruction and a growing market demand, Aims is striving to become the first choice and recognized leader in aviation education for Colorado as we build a stronger community."
Additionally, Aims is modernizing the Air Traffic Control Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Lab with an Adacel Tower Simulator. Adacel is a company headquartered in Orlando, Fla., that produces simulation and training solutions, advanced speech recognition applications and operational air traffic management systems. The new Adacel Tower Simulator features a 270-degree visual system that uses five 55-inch ultra-narrow bezel displays and speech recognition technology that simulates ATC tower operations and ultimately prepares Aims student controllers for the demanding training and careers in Air Traffic Control. The new Adacel Tower Simulator will simulate varying weather scenarios, multiple airfields, multiple type aircraft and markings, as well as day/night operations, the release stated. It should be ready for student training beginning in spring 2018.
Original article ➤ https://www.mywindsornow.com
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (KSBA) remains open during Thomas Fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Airport and the airspace surrounding Santa Barbara remains open Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017.
United Airlines has canceled its remaining flights for the day, according to Santa Barbara Airport officials. American Airlines and Alaska Airlines flights have continued to arrive as scheduled.
However airport officials say, both American Airlines and Alaska Airlines want travelers to check their flight status as that can change as the Thomas Fire continues to threaten Santa Barbara.
Class C airspace is unavailable, which applies to commercial planes like United Airlines.
Class E airspace is available but without tower communication, which means pilots need to talk to each other.
The Santa Barbara Airport tower is closed due to staffing issues due to the Thomas Fire.
Original article can be found here ➤ http://www.keyt.com
First Responders Learn To Fly Drones For Emergency Situations
Haw River, NC (WFMY) - Drones are one of the hottest toys of the Christmas season but they're also a tool first responders use to save lives.
Firefighters, police officers, and emergency management officials in Alamance County spent the week learning about drones and how to fly them in emergency situations.
Slowly but surely, Gibsonville Police Officer Josh Taylor is getting the hang of flying a drone.
“I can go left, right, up, down,” said Taylor.
But he has made some mistakes along the way.
"It's definitely a learning curve," said Taylor.
Taylor is part of a group of first responders from across the region learning how they can use the technology in their jobs to keep people safer.
"This machine could in fact save lives and keep us safe out in the field as well,” said Taylor. “It takes some of the risk factor out of it."
Haw River Police, Elon University Police, Elon Fire, and Chatham County Emergency Management each had a representative in the class.
The class spent Thursday and Friday practicing how to maneuver the drones at the Burlington Police Training Center in Haw River.
But before they could take flight, they had to learn the ground rules.
Participants spent a week in the classroom with commercial drone pilots Ralph Newcomb and Mike Sheron with the Public Safety UAS Institute.
Students not only learned the basics of flying a drone, but they also learned the rules and regulations necessary to earn their FAA licenses.
“There's a lot of responsibility with flying these,” said Newcomb. “They need to know where it is and what direction is flying in at all times.”
Outside, the class learned how drones can help them in all different types of emergencies -- like hostage situations or missing persons cases.
In Friday’s training scenario, instructors placed a suspicious looking package next to a building to simulate a bomb threat.
The students took turns maneuvering the drone close enough to get a good look.
“This is just another tool in their toolbox to be able to save time, save money, and save lives,” said Newcomb.
Drones have proven to be an effective tool for law enforcement in the past.
In November, investigators used a drone to track down a missing woman in a cornfield in Randolph County.
None of the agencies who participated in the class actually have their own drones yet.
But participants say they’re exciting about the possibility of being able to use one in the future to improve public safety.
“I'm always looking to grow as an officer and we're also looking for ways to grow as a department,” said Taylor. “Keeping track and keeping up-to-date with technology and the advancements of machinery and incorporating it into our police field is really going to revolutionize the Public Safety industry.”
Alamance County Community College teamed up with Public Safety UAS Institute to teach the class.
Instructors are offering two classes in January for anyone interested in learning how to fly a drone safely.
For more details, click here.
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Bombardier Challenger 605, 9H-VFA: Murtala Muhammed International Airport Police Command assures travelers of adequate security
The Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State Police Command has assured travellers and other airport users of adequate security before, during and after the Christmas and New Year festivities.
The command spokesman, DSP Joseph Alabi, gave the assurance while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday.
Alabi said: “I want to assure travelers and other airport users that police are on ground to guarantee their safety and security during this yuletide.
“Our men have been put on red alert.
“Some of them have been posted to strategic areas at the airport to prevent any unforeseen situation.
“Also, our patrol team is working round the clock to weed out miscreants who may want to capitalise on the season to perpetrate criminal activities.”
He also warned hoodlums to stay away from the airport during the period, saying that police would not hesitate to prosecute them when apprehended.
Alabi, however, advised travelers to go about their business with confidence, promising that police would guarantee security of people and property.
The command’s spokesman also confirmed that investigations had begun into the case of a burgled aircraft, which allegedly occurred recently at the airport.
According to him, the incident was reported to have occurred on a Vista Jet aircraft with Call Sign VJT 584, while taxiing at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.
Alabi said the command was working with the Aviation Security of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and other relevant security agencies to unravel how the incident occurred.
Original article can be found here ➤ https://theeagleonline.com.ng
Less than 24 hours after SaharaReporters broke the news of how airport bandits of attacked and burgled VistaJet aircraft that was taxiing to apron after landing, the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has set up an investigation team to unravel the cause of the incident.
FAAN said that it has set up a combined team of Aviation Security (AVSEC) Department, Airport Police Command and other relevant security agencies to immediately get to the root cause of the incident.
A statement by Henrietta Yakubu, the spokesman of the agency said that the investigative team would immediately commence an investigation into the incident, which took place while the aircraft, a Vistajet with the registration number 9H-VFA was taxiing to the hangar of Evergreen Apple Nigeria (EAN) Ltd.
Yakubu in a three-paragraph statement said that the authority set up the panel in order to investigate if the incident truly occurred and to prevent a recurrence of such incident in the future.
But, SaharaReporters can confirm that the incident actually occurred on the night of Tuesday, December 12, 2017, when the jet with the registration number 9H-VFA operated by EAN was taxiing to the apron from the runway.
The statement said “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has commenced investigations into the case of a burgled aircraft, alleged to have occurred on the night of December 12th, 2017.
“The incident was reported to have occurred on a VistaJet aircraft with Call Sign VJT 584 while taxiing on the night the said date.
“A combined team of Faan's Aviation Security Department, Airport Police Command and other relevant security agencies have swung into action to reveal the perpetrators of this act and to prevent future reoccurrence of such.”
It would be recalled that SaharaReporters had exclusively reported on Friday how a private jet owned by VistaJet was attacked on the runway of the airport.
Information gathered by SaharaReporters had revealed that the jet was taxiing on the 18Right of the runway before the incident.
A source close to EAN had confided in our correspondent that one of a crewmember of the jet discovered that the rear door of the aircraft was opened while taxing to the hangar of EAN.
After an investigation, it was discovered that a big black bag belonging to the air hostess, named Francesca Louis was missing from the jet.
The source told our correspondent that it was not the first time such an incident would be happening at the airport.
Earlier in the year, some bandits allegedly opened a small aircraft door from the rear that was taxiing on the runway and escaped with some belongings of some of the occupants.
Original article can be found here ➤ http://saharareporters.com
Fixed Base Operators of the private terminals at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and Aviation Security officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have thrown more light on the alleged burgle of baggage compartment of a private jet while taxiing on the runway.
The sources, who spoke to THISDAY, expressed doubt over the possibility of anybody stealing from a taxiing aircraft.
Earlier reports indicated that the aircraft was attacked on the runway 18R of the airport by unknown bandits when taxiing to the hangar of Evergreen Apple Nigeria (EAN) Ltd. The jet was said to be arriving from Istanbul between 2110 and 2130 hrs after landing in Lagos.
The pilot of the flight was Captain Emma Heering who reportedly discovered that the rear door of the aircraft was opened while taxiing to the hangar of EAN.
A senior official of Aviation Security of FAAN disclosed to THISDAY that when the pilot of the Vista Jet aircraft with call sign VJT 584 called the Control Tower over the alleged incident, security operatives inspected the aircraft and found out that the baggage compartment was not open.
Original article can be found here ➤ https://www.thisdaylive.com
VistaJet 9H-VFA
The security apparatus at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos was on Tuesday once again called to question as a private jet owned by VistaJet was attacked on the runway of the airport.
Information gathered by SaharaReporters revealed that the jet with the registration number 9H-VFA operated by EAN on December 12, 2017 was attacked on the runway 18R of the airport by unknown bandits when taxiing to the hangar of Evergreen Apple Nigeria (EAN) Ltd. The jet was arriving from Istanbul between 2110-2130 hrs after landing in Lagos.
A source close to EAN confided in our correspondent that the pilot of the jet Captain Emma Heering discovered that the rear door of the aircraft was opened while taxiing to the hangar of EAN.
After an investigation, it was discovered that a big black bag belonging to the air hostess, Francesca Louis was missing from the jet.
Earlier in the year, some bandits allegedly opened the door of a small aircraft from the rear that was taxiing on the runway and escaped with some belongings of some of the occupants.
The investigation further revealed that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) responsible for airport security has only one operational vehicle escorting aircraft that lands on the runway, but at times, there might not be any operational vehicle on the ground to monitor aircraft that is taxiing to the apron for arriving aircraft.
It was reported that this particular jet with call sign VT584 was not escorted by any operational vehicle as at the time of the incident due to lack of any operational vehicles at the airside of the airport, a situation, which made the criminal act to be perpetrated with ease on the said day.
An airline source speaking anonymously with SaharaReporters said: “What actually happened was that when the aircraft was taxiing to the hangar of EAN, the cabin crew discovered that the rear door was opened. So, when the jet taxied to the hangar, it was discovered that one big black bag belonging to their air hostesses was missing. An alarm was raised, but no one could trace the bandit who had forced the door open while taxiing.
“It is bad that this is happening in an airport, which was recently certified by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has scaling security and safety hurdle. The government should look at the incident and several others that have been happening in the airside because this is not the first time such a thing would be happening at the airport and several others across the country.”
Besides, a similar incident had occurred on Med-View Airline when a stowaway passenger scaled the fence of the airport to enter the wheel well of the Boeing 777 aircraft of the airline to London. The stowaway told security agencies that he had scaled the fence of the airport and spent days waiting to board the aircraft ostensibly with the aid of unscrupulous airport officials.
The stowaway could not, however, disembark from the plane in London and had to be brought back to Lagos before he was discovered by one of the security personnel at the airport.
Till date, FAAN could not explain how the stowaway successfully gained entrance into the aircraft.
Lagos Airport
It would be recalled that the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos was certified in September this year by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority of Nigeria (NCAA) after 38 years of opening the airport.
The safety and security certification awarded the airport by NCAA had however received some scepticisms from stakeholders and security experts in the sector.
Security analysts have repeatedly stated that the airport may not have met all the safety requirements to ensure its certification especially in the area of insurance cover and security.
Experts had said that for any airport to be certified, according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) minimal standard, such an airport must have adequate maintenance and security programmes in place.
The security expert insisted that airport certification was not about the terminal building, but the facilities installed at such airport, including navigational aids provided by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
With the Tuesday incident, the certification of the airport by NCAA has further raised questions about its authenticity.
After neighborhood fights, Walter J. Koladza Airport (KGBR) adds unleaded gas to fuel options
After a year of fights with neighbors who said leaded fuel from the Walter J. Koladza Airport in Great Barrington might be contaminating the aquifer, the airport is supplementing its mainstay leaded fuel with Swift Fuels' UL94, a 94-octane, unleaded product. About half of the roughly 50 planes that fuel up at Koladza will be able to use the unleaded fuel, the airport's business manager said. The airport's maintenance shed, left, and its self-serve fueling.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Walter J. Koladza Airport is gradually taking off into a new, unleaded aviation world.
After a year of fights with neighbors who said leaded fuel from the airport might be contaminating the aquifer, the airport is offering a new fuel.
Joining a Federal Aviation Administration program, it is supplementing its mainstay leaded fuel with Swift Fuels' UL94, a 94-octane, unleaded product.
About half of the roughly 50 planes that fuel up at Koladza will be able to use the unleaded fuel, said Mark Roggen, the airport's business manager.
Koladza is the second airport in the state to sell UL94, a relatively new product created by Swift. The company made the gas for interim use until an FAA testing program for an unleaded gas suitable to all small planes is completed in the next few years.
While most commercial planes already use unleaded fuel, a large number of the country's smaller planes have high-performance engines that can't run without the lead additive, Roggen said.
Roggen said unleaded fuel is better for airplane engines anyway, since it prevents other problems.
An underground, single-wall fuel tank was recently removed to make way for a new fiberglass double-walled split tank to hold the UL94 and 100LL, Shell's more commonly used leaded variety, Roggen said.
The state Department of Environmental Protection requires replacement of fuel tanks every 20 years. Last week, the town Planning Board approved the removal of the old tank.
Roggen said the new tank will be installed in the next week or so. Until then, Swift and Shell fuel trucks are dispensing the gas, something that nearby residents say should require more local oversight.
One resident is also concerned about having underground tanks in what is now zoned as a Water Quality Protection Overlay District, since the aquifer below ground feeds the local water supply. The town is weighing whether this requires a special permit in addition to the state's permit.
An earlier inclination to install an above-ground tank was scrapped for safety reasons related, in part, to its location, Roggen added.
"We had some incidents that made us think an above-ground tank would be more vulnerable," he said, noting that gas stations have underground tanks.
He said the decision was made for cosmetic reasons, too.
"Who wants to be looking at a tank?" he asked.
Roggen said the main reason to carry unleaded gas is to be "responsive" to neighbors, "even though we didn't think lead was an issue."
While some neighbors' water tested well above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency action level for lead, test results from soil and water at the airport's property was in a range that the EPA considers low.
Neighbor Marc Fasteau, whose well water tested at the EPA action level, said he's still concerned about airborne lead coming from planes that still use it.
And neighbor Holly Hamer said that, while she is happy about the new fuel, she is also worried about it being dispensed from tankers.
The issue arose when Berkshire Aviation Enterprises filed for a special permit to build new hangars. The buildings were to be located in what the town designated as a residential/agricultural zone and a Water Quality Protection District, decades after the airport began operating off Route 71 and Seekonk Cross Road.
Many nearby residents objected to the buildings, saying they might result in an expansion of the airport, and more air traffic and safety risks.
Soon, well and faucet water were tested, research was done and residents learned that the EPA and FAA consider lead emissions from aviation fuel to be an environmental and potential health risk.
That's why the agency, in concert with the EPA, is testing unleaded fuels, and one of Swift's products is in the running.
For now, the hangar plans appear to be on hold, Roggen said. The controversy about the airport's building plans grew so contentious that its owners dropped a special-permit application last summer.
At the time, Koladza attorney Lori Robbins said Berkshire Aviation would instead file for a permit with the town's Zoning Board of Appeals.
Roggen said carrying the Swift fuel puts the airport on a path to an unleaded future in anticipation of the new gas the FAA will eventually unveil.
Story and photo: http://www.berkshireeagle.com
Cessna 150C, owned and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91, N7929Z: Fatal accident occurred December 16, 2017 in Castalia, Nash County, North Carolina
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http://registry.faa.gov/N7929Z
Location: Castalia, NC
Registration: N7929Z
Aircraft: CESSNA 150
Defining Event: Aerodynamic stall/spin
Injuries: 1 Fatal
On December 16, 2017, at 1440 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150C, N7929Z, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain after takeoff from a farm field in Castalia, North Carolina. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was owned and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed in the area, and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight, which was destined for Triangle North Executive Airport (LHZ), Louisburg, North Carolina.
The purpose of the flight was to recover the airplane from the field after a student pilot performed a precautionary landing there the previous day. The student reported that he had reduced engine power and airspeed after encountering turbulence; the engine subsequently became unresponsive to throttle inputs, and the student performed a successful landing to the field.
The student pilot accompanied his father (who was an airline transport pilot), a mechanic, and the accident pilot (who was the owner of the airplane) to the field to retrieve the airplane. The accident pilot and the mechanic sampled the fuel, examined and test ran the engine, during which no anomalies were observed, and subsequently determined that the airplane was ready for flight. The field was oriented east/west and was about 1,000 ft long and 500 ft wide. The eastern and southern borders of the field were bisected diagonally by high-tension power lines that were oriented northeast/southwest, and an estimated 40 ft above the ground at their lowest point. The southern border consisted of a small pond and a creek bed (see figure 1).
Figure 1: Overhead View of Accident Site (Google Earth)
The student pilot and his father reported that the pilot "walked the field" and stated his takeoff/departure plan, which was to begin the takeoff roll to the west along the northern border of the field and arc the airplane's takeoff path 90° to the south. Once airborne, the pilot would fly the airplane beneath the powerlines, over the creek, and then climb to cruise altitude.
The property owner also witnessed the accident and recorded the takeoff with his cell phone. Review of the video and measurements taken by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector revealed that, 300 ft after the airplane began its takeoff roll, the airplane turned sharply left toward the powerlines. After 400 ft, the airplane pitched up sharply and banked steeply left as it lifted off. The airplane neared the apex of its climb about 50 ft above the ground in about a 60° left bank, when the camera panned down and the airplane was no longer in frame. Shortly thereafter, the camera panned back up in time to capture the airplane's collision with terrain. Throughout the takeoff roll, initial climb, and the flight to ground contact, the engine was heard accelerating smoothly and running continuously at high power without interruption.
Certificate: Flight Instructor; Commercial
Airplane Rating(s): Multi-engine Land; Single-engine Land
Restraint Used: Unknown
Instructor Rating(s): Airplane Single-engine
Medical Certification: Class 2 With Waivers/Limitations
Occupational Pilot: Yes
Flight Time: 8400 hours (Total, all aircraft), 100 hours (Total, this make and model)
The pilot held a commercial pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single-engine land, multiengine land, and instrument airplane. His most recent FAA second-class medical certificate was issued January 11, 2017. He declared 8,400 total hours of flight experience on that date.
Aircraft Make: CESSNA
Model/Series: 150 C
Landing Gear Type: Tricycle
Date/Type of Last Inspection: 10/20/2017, Annual
Airframe Total Time: 2068 Hours as of last inspection
Engine Manufacturer: Lycoming
Engine Model/Series:
Rated Power: 150 hp
According to FAA records, the airplane was manufactured in 1963. Its most recent annual inspection was completed on October 20, 2017, at 2,068 total aircraft hours.
Observation Facility, Elevation: KLHZ, 369 ft msl
Distance from Accident Site: 10 Nautical Miles
Direction from Accident Site: 248°
Lowest Cloud Condition: Clear
Lowest Ceiling: None
Wind Speed/Gusts: Calm /
Turbulence Type Forecast/Actual: /
Turbulence Severity Forecast/Actual: /
Altimeter Setting: 30.21 inches Hg
Temperature/Dew Point: 8°C / -5°C
Departure Point: Castalia, NC
Destination: LOUISBURG, NC (LHZ)
Departure Time: EST
At 1440, the weather reported at LHZ, 10 miles west of the accident site, included clear skies, 10 miles visibility, and calm winds. The temperature was 8°C, the dew point was -5°C, and the altimeter setting was 30.21 inches of mercury.
Crew Injuries: 1 Fatal
Aircraft Fire: On-Ground
Total Injuries: 1 Fatal
The wreckage was examined at the accident site by two FAA inspectors and all major components were accounted for at the scene. The instrument panel and engine compartments were separated from the cockpit but remained attached by wires, cables, and floor structure. The propeller was partially buried, and the engine and instrument panel displayed thermal damage from a small postcrash fire.
Control continuity was established from the flight controls to the flight control surfaces. One aileron control cable displayed fractures consistent with overstress.
A detailed examination was performed on the airframe and engine at a recovery facility in Griffin, Georgia. The examination revealed no pre-impact mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Medical And Pathological Information
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Raleigh, North Carolina, submitted a Report of Investigation on the pilot. No autopsy was performed because the pilot died in a physician's care on December 17, 2017. The probable cause of death was "multiple blunt force injuries."
The FAA Forensic Sciences Laboratory did not perform toxicological testing on the pilot as no samples were submitted.
Steve Merritt
RALEIGH — Stephen Ward Merritt, 70, passed away Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, surrounded by his family and friends.
Steve was born Dec. 14, 1947, in Rose Hill, N.C. He graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington in 1966, earning the distinction of Eagle Scout during this time. Steve graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970.
After one tour in the U.S. Navy, Steve went to work for the Sea Pines Company in Hilton Head Island, running the aviation assets of the company and managing the Hilton Head Airport. This began Steve’s lifelong association with and passion for flight. As an avid aviator, he worked for the North Carolina DOT Aeronautical Division for several years before founding Capital Printing Corporation of Raleigh. Steve served as the lead technical advisor for NCDOT during the centennial celebration of the Wright Brothers First Flight at Kill Devil Hills. Most recently, Steve was the Airport Manager for Franklin County, N.C., where he promoted the economic development importance of a quality airport for Franklin County.
Steve used aviation as the means through which he gave back to the world. Among other volunteer flight missions, he served as a volunteer coordinator for pilots across America to join together to fly medical supplies into Haiti just days after the earthquake. Steve also founded and was the president of Bahamas Habitat which helped with relief efforts in the Caribbean via the use of private aircraft and volunteer pilots which included, among many other projects, building Zion Children’s Home on Current Island, Bahamas, to provide a safe home for children in need.
He was also founder of the One Eleuthera Foundation. An animal lover, he was involved in several rescue efforts flying dogs and cats from disaster areas in the Bahamas and Cuba to safety elsewhere. He was very proud to serve on the board of directors of Able Flight, which provides flight and aviation career training to those with disabilities.
As a flight instructor in both regular aircraft and gliders, one of the things Steve loved most was watching the young pilots he had trained take their first solo flights. He was also passionate about introducing Civil Air Patrol cadets to glider flying and training them. Steve was a longtime member of Rotary and a Paul Harris Fellow.
Although he was passionate about flying and volunteerism, Steve valued family first. Whether it was helping his daughter, Sarah, prepare for her next basketball game or helping his son, Holmes, earn his own Eagle Scout, Steve was a devoted father while raising his children along with his loving wife, Jane, with whom he shared 45 years of marriage. He and Jane had the great joy of celebrating the marriages of both Sarah and Holmes during the past year.
Steve was preceded in death by his parents, Eugene Worth Merritt and Rosa Farrior Merritt of Wilmington.
He is survived by his wife, Jane Godwin Merritt; daughter, Sarah Merritt Ryan, and her husband, William J. Ryan, of Raleigh; son, Wellington Holmes Merritt II, and his wife, Brittany Young Merritt, of Decatur, Ga.; sister, Sandra Merritt Brown, and her husband, Larry Richard Brown, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; brothers, Eugene Worth Merritt Jr. and John Douglas Merritt, and his wife, Felicia Huffman Merritt, all of Wilmington; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
A visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 21, at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 200 Southeast Maynard Road, Cary. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 22, at First United Methodist Church, 117 South Academy Street.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to Bahamas Habitat; Able Flight; or to provide scholarships to train Civil Air Patrol cadets by mailing a check made out to the Steve Merritt Scholarship Fund, 103 Dumbarton St., Cary, NC 27511.
Louisburg, N.C. — The single-engine plane that crashed in a Nash County field on Saturday, killing the pilot, had experienced engine trouble the previous day, according to fellow pilots.
Steve Merritt, 70, a flight instructor and the manager of the Triangle North Executive Airport in Louisburg, went to retrieve the Cessna 150C plane, which a teenage pilot landed in a field off N.C. Highway 56 on Friday, fellow pilots said Monday. After a mechanic performed some work on the engine, Merritt took off, planning to return the plane to the airport, but it crashed shortly after takeoff, they said.
"What they were doing was very simple – just flying it off a rough field. It wasn’t a problem. He was a very experienced pilot," pilot John Styers said Monday.
"For some reason, he got off the ground, but he didn’t make it back," pilot Ben Cason said. "It's tragic, just tragic."
Merritt, who was from Cary, was the only person aboard when it crashed, authorities said. He died Sunday at WakeMed in Raleigh, according to his family.
"Steve was a huge personality here, and he's the glue that held a lot of us together," aircraft broker Ernesto Ibbott said. "We're all very much deeply feeling his loss today as a friend, as a professional."
Wellington Merritt said his father grew up in Wilmington, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in Vietnam as a radioman for the Navy. He had various government jobs and owned a printing company before his work as a flight instructor and manager took off, his son said.
Steve Merritt also was heavily involved in various causes in the Bahamas, from animal rescues to building a home for orphan children, and he organized relief flights to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake there, family and friends said.
"Everybody loved him. Everybody loved Steve," Cason said.
"He loved flying very much. That rubbed off on many people," Ibbott said. "(He was) one of the most knowledgeable instructors you can find. He instilled a lot of confidence in a lot of student pilots."
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.
Story and video: http://www.wral.com
FRANKLIN COUNTY (WTVD) -- According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the pilot involved in a plane crash Saturday afternoon has died.
The pilot was identified as Stephen Merritt, manager of the Triangle North Executive Airport.
The crash happened near N.C. Highway 56 and Walter Collins Road, east of Louisburg just after 2:30 p.m.
According to the FAA, a Cessna 150C aircraft crashed in a field in Franklin County.
They said there was a small fire on the plane when it went down, but fire crews were on scene to put out the flames.
The FAA is investigating the incident; they have yet to comment how the incident occurred.
Original article can be found here ➤ http://abc11.com
LOUISBURG, N.C. (WNCN) — The pilot of a small plane crashed Saturday afternoon in Franklin County is in critical condition after surgery, officials said.
The plane went down off Highway 56 just north of Walter Collins Road outside Louisburg, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The Federal Aviation Administration responded to the scene.
FAA officials later said that a Cessna 150C aircraft crashed around 2:40 p.m. in a field near the town of Castalia.
The pilot, who was the only person on board, was injured and taken to WakeMed for treatment.
After surgery on Saturday, the pilot was listed in critical condition, according to Franklin County Sheriff Kent Winstead.
Story and video: http://wncn.com
FRANKLIN COUNTY (WTVD) -- According to the NC State Highway Patrol, Franklin County authorities responded to a plane crash near N.C. Highway 56 and Walter Collins Road, east of Louisburg.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a Cessna 150C aircraft crashed in a field in Franklin County just after 2:30 Saturday afternoon.
The FAA said only the pilot was on board and he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Officials with the FAA will be investigating.
Story and video: http://abc11.com
LOUISBURG, N.C. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed Saturday afternoon is listed in critical condition after surgery at Wake Med.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office responded to a Cessna 150C crash in a field east of Louisburg near N.C. Highway 56.
Multiple agencies, including Highway Patrol and the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, responded to the crash that occurred around 2:45 p.m.
Authorities have not identified the pilot.
Louisburg, N.C. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed Saturday afternoon has been identified by officials as a Franklin County Airport Director.
Steve Merritt, a flight instructor and the manager of the Triangle North Executive Airport in Louisburg, is listed in critical condition Sunday after surgery at WakeMed.
On Saturday, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office responded to a two-seater plane crash in a field east of Louisburg near N.C. Highway 56 around 2:45 p.m.
A witness said Merritt appeared to be conscious while being taken from the scene.
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New Alpena County Regional Airport (KAPN) terminal closer to becoming a reality
ALPENA –With each passing day the Alpena County Regional Airport is getting closer to getting its new terminal, according to officials.
At the moment, the airport’s consultant and architect firm RS&H is in the process of putting the design of the terminal together and after that is complete the required application, blueprints and legal paperwork will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for consideration.
Airport Manager Steve Smigelski said the required information will be submitted to the FAA before July 1 and then it will begin to rate the project against others that are seeking discretionary funds. He said if the terminal project is approved groundbreaking could be as soon as October 2018.
Smigelski said he believes RS&H is probably about 50 percent done in the project’s design phase. He said meetings with Delta Properties and the Transportation Safety Administration need to be scheduled to iron out design details for the areas in the airport they will lease from the county. Then, he said, the finishing touches such as locations and designs of parking lots and how utilities will be moved will be put into the design before being sent to the FAA.
Smigelski said all indications point to the project being selected and if it is, the FAA will fund 95 percent of the cost while Michigan Department of Transportation and the county will each pay 2.5 percent. He said there are a lot of things about the current terminal, which was built in 1952 and updated in 1989, the FAA would like to see corrected and that bolsters the county’s odds of getting the funding.
“The age of it is definitely working in our favor, as well as the fact that the service areas for TSA are inadequate,” Smigelski said. “There is very little room in the security holding area and no bathrooms in it, so people don’t want to go in there until the last minute and then there is a big rush though the checkpoints and to the plane.”
Smigelski said rising enplanements also will be viewed favorably as well as how quickly the airport has utilized and closed out previous grants. He said there haven’t been any reprimands from the FAA and those are things that will work in Alpena’s favor.
“I have been told that we stack up very favorably and that with the needs we have we stand a great chance of getting the discretionary funds,” he said.
The FAA already has paid nearly $1 million to have the new terminal design plans made. It approved the airports request in 2016 for money for the design project and awarded it.
Smigelski said it is likely there will be two large projects going on next to one another at or near the airport. He said the construction of the new jail on the east side of the airport could overlap in part with building the terminal. He said it is likely the terminal project will begin first and it is unlikely any contractors or consultants will be affected by the work at two locations.
“The county doesn’t have to hire, the construction company will do it,’ Smigelski said. “It will post the jobs on its website and any contractors who want to bid on it can.”
The county will issue a bid for qualifications and request for proposals for the construction of the new jail, which also is still in the design stage.
Original article can be found here ➤ http://www.thealpenanews.com
Beechcraft A36 Bonanza,N61WB, registered to and operated by Indigo Air LLC: Fatal accident occurred February 18, 2016 in Marshville, Union County, North Carolina
Aviation Accident Final Report - National Transportation Safety Board: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdf
Investigation Docket - National Transportation Safety Board: https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms
The airline transport pilot departed on the instrument flight rules cross-country flight in night visual meteorological conditions with about 45 gallons of fuel, which, based on fuel burn rates, was sufficient for about 3 hours of flight. About 3 hours after departure and 50 miles from the destination airport, the pilot told air traffic control he was having engine problems and requested a vector to the nearest airport. A witness near the accident site heard the airplane descending and described the sound of an engine being re-started several times. The airplane came to rest in wooded terrain. Postaccident examination revealed the wing bladder tanks were intact, and no visible fuel was observed in either tank. When the wings were removed, a total of less than 2 quarts of fuel was drained from both the left and right fuel tanks. Examination of the airplane and engine revealed no pre-accident mechanical deficiencies that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot was aware that the left and right fuel tank bladders were bulging prior to the accident flight. The bulging fuel bladders may have resulted in erroneous fuel quantity readings during the flight. Given the absence of fuel in the airplane's fuel tanks and the length of flight that corresponded to the fuel available, the pilot likely departed without sufficient fuel to complete the flight to the intended destination and the loss of engine power was likely the result of fuel exhaustion.
The pilot was found deceased, slumped over in the left seat, still wearing his lap belt. Although the airplane was equipped with a single shoulder harness (across the left shoulder), it was not secured to the lap belt at the time of the accident. The pilot's failure to have properly secured the shoulder harness at the time of the accident likely contributed to the severity of his injuries. Examination of the pilot's seatbelt and shoulder harness assembly revealed that the seat belt shoulder harness attachment post elastic grommet was not installed, nor was it found in the wreckage. When manually assembled, the shoulder harness attachment buckle would not seat securely to the seatbelt attachment post.
Probable Cause and Findings
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
The pilot's improper preflight fuel planning, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the severity of the pilot's injuries was his failure to have a properly secured shoulder harness at the time of the accident.
Fuel - Fluid level (Cause)
Fuel system - Damaged/degraded
Flight compartment equipment - Incorrect use/operation (Factor)
Fuel planning - Pilot (Cause)
Prior to flight
Preflight or dispatch event
Fuel exhaustion (Defining event)
Emergency descent
Off-field or emergency landing
Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
The National Transportation Safety Board traveled to the scene of this accident.
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Charlotte, North Carolina
Textron Aviation; Wichita, Kansas
Continental Motors Inc; Lucedale, Mississippi
http://registry.faa.gov/N61WB
Location: Marshville, NC
Accident Number: ERA16FA108
Registration: N61WB
Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General Aviation - Business
On February 18, 2016, about 1910 eastern standard time, a Beech A36, N61WB, made a forced landing after a total loss of engine power near Marshville, North Carolina. The airline transport rated pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was registered to and operated by Indigo Air LLC as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 business flight. Night visual meteorological conditions existed near the accident site at the time of the accident, and the flight was operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan. The flight originated at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), Daytona Beach, Florida, about 1554, and was destined for Davidson County Airport (EXX), Lexington, North Carolina.
According to a representative of the operator, the pilot flew part-time for Indigo Air LLC. The flight originated earlier that day from EXX, where the airplane was based, and departed with full fuel (80 gallons total, 74 usable). The pilot flew to Piedmont-Triad International Airport (GSO), Greensboro, North Carolina, picked up the company's owner and a passenger, then flew direct to DAB. No fuel was purchased at GSO. At DAB, the pilot parked the airplane at a fixed-base operator (FBO). According to the owner, the pilot told him he was "going to put 15 [gallons of fuel] in a side." The owner went inside the FBO, paid for the fuel, and left because he "was in a rush." The lineman that fueled the airplane stated that the bladder tanks were "bulging" out of the fuel port on each tank. When the lineman, along with the FBO's safety director, pointed out the bulging tanks to the pilot, the pilot touched the bladder, then told the lineman it was okay to fuel. The FBO fueling records indicated that 30 gallons of 100LL fuel were purchased and distributed evenly between the two tanks. The flight then departed for EXX.
About 3 hours into the flight, while at a cruise altitude of 5,000 ft mean sea level, about 50 miles south of EXX, the pilot reported a loss of engine power to air traffic control and requested vectors to the nearest airport. The pilot subsequently made a forced landing about 10.5 miles east-northeast of Charlotte Executive Airport (EQY), Monroe, North Carolina. A witness, who was located about 3.5 miles east of the accident site, stated that he was in his shop when he heard the airplane. He said the engine was cutting in and out like it "ran out of gas." The witness went outside and saw the airplane in level flight about 1,000 to 1,500 ft above the ground. The airplane's landing light and navigation lights were turned on. He said the pilot tried to start the engine 4 or 5 times, but the engine would only start and run for a few seconds, then quit. On the last attempt, the engine started, and it sounded like the pilot pulled the throttle to idle. The witness watched as the airplane descended "in a gradual glide" before it disappeared from view.
Certificate: Airline Transport; Commercial
Restraint Used: Lap Only
Flight Time: 17000 hours (Total, all aircraft)
The pilot held an airline transport pilot certificate with a rating for airplane multiengine land, and a commercial pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single-engine land and instrument airplane. He also held numerous corporate jet type ratings. His last Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) second-class medical certificate was issued on October 13, 2015, with a restriction to wear corrective lenses. At that time, he reported a total of 17,000 flight hours. The pilot's logbooks were not located.
Aircraft Manufacturer: BEECH
Time Since Last Inspection: 41 Hours
Airframe Total Time: 1884.28 Hours at time of accident
Engine Manufacturer: Continental Motors Inc
ELT: C91 installed, activated, did not aid in locating accident
Engine Model/Series: IO-520-BB
The airplane was a single-engine, 6-seat, low-wing airplane, equipped with a Continental Motors Inc. IO-520-BB, 6-cylinder engine. The engine was equipped with a three-blade Hartzell constant-speed propeller.
The most recent annual inspection was conducted on May 15, 2015, at a total tachometer time of 1,843.60 hours.
A review of the airplane's flight and refueling history revealed that the pilot landed in DAB with about 15 gallons of total of fuel. With the fuel added at DAB about 45 gallons was onboard at the time of departure. According to the airplane's Pilot Operating Handbook, the IO-520-BB engine burned about 15.2 gallons per hour, not including taxi, takeoff and climb.
Condition of Light: Night
Observation Facility, Elevation: EQY, 679 ft msl
Wind Speed/Gusts, Direction: 5 knots, 30°
Visibility (RVV):
Departure Point: Daytona Beach, FL (DAB)
Type of Flight Plan Filed: IFR
Destination: Lexington, NC (EXX)
Type of Clearance: IFR
Type of Airspace: Unknown
The 1853 weather observation at Charlotte Executive Airport (EQY), Monroe, North Carolina, included clear skies, visibility 10 miles, and wind 030° at 5 knots. The temperature was 9°C, dewpoint -2°C, and the altimeter setting was 30.43 inches of mercury.
The airplane came to rest upright in wooded area behind a private residence on a heading of 180° magnetic. There was no postimpact fire. Examination of the wreckage revealed that the airplane initially collided with a stand of about 60-ft-tall trees in a left-wing-low attitude and traveled about 134 ft to where it came to rest in a nose low, slightly tail-high attitude. The landing gear and flaps were fully retracted. The firewall, leading edges of both wings, a propeller blade, and the leading edge of the right horizontal stabilizer were damaged. Pieces of the windscreen were dispersed just forward of the engine. The throttle, mixture, and propeller controls were all full forward.
Examination of the airplane's fuel system revealed the fuel selector handle was set to the right tank. A visual examination inside each fuel tank revealed there was a small amount of fuel in each bladder. When electrical power was applied to the airplane, the left and right fuel gauges each indicated about 1/8 full. The remaining fuel was then drained from each fuel tank; just under 1 quart of fuel was drained from each. The fuel was absent of debris and water. The bladder tanks were inspected, and no breaches were observed; however, neither bladder tank was properly seated and they were pushing up on their respective fuel sensor.
There was no fuel staining observed on the airplane. The main fuel line to the fuel pump was removed, and no fuel was found in the line. Air was blown back through the line into each fuel tank and no obstructions were noted. The fuel pump was removed and rotated and no fuel was observed in the pump. The top of the fuel manifold was disassembled, and a small amount of fuel was noted in the manifold chamber. About 2 ounces of 100LL fuel was drained from the airframe fuel filter and the fuel was absent of debris and water. The fuel strainer screen exhibited some light corrosion, but no debris was observed.
Flight control continuity was established for all flight control surfaces. Examination of the airframe revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
The propeller remained attached to the engine crankshaft propeller flange. The crankshaft flange appeared to be undamaged and no ladder cracking was noted. Two of the three propeller blades were undamaged, and the third propeller blade was bent rearward about 90°.
The engine was removed from the airframe and an initial examination was performed. The top spark plugs were removed and inspected. When compared to a Champion Spark Plug "Check A Plug" chart, the spark plugs appeared to be "normal" with light coloration signatures. The engine was rotated manually via the propeller; thumb compression was verified for each cylinder and spark was produced to each spark plug ignition lead. A lighted borescope inspection on each cylinder revealed that all valves were intact and exhibited normal combustion signatures.
The engine was placed on a test stand for an operational check. The engine ran through all power settings with no abnormalities. There were no mechanical discrepancies that would have precluded normal operation before the accident.
A handheld Garmin 496 GPS unit was found in the wreckage; however, the accident flight was not captured.
Examination of the pilot's lap belt and shoulder harness assembly revealed that it remained intact, but was found unbuckled with the shoulder harness not attached. The pilot's lap belt shoulder harness attachment post elastic grommet was not installed (or found in the wreckage), and, when manually assembled, the shoulder harness attachment buckle would not seat securely to the lap belt attachment post.
According to the death investigator's notes, the pilot was found deceased, slumped over in the left seat, still wearing his seatbelt. Although the airplane was equipped with a single shoulder harness (across the left shoulder), injuries sustained by the pilot were consistent with the pilot not being restrained by the shoulder harness at the time of the impact.
According to the autopsy performed by the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner's Office, the cause of death was blunt force injuries due to airplane crash and the manner of death was accident. No significant natural disease was identified. The pilot's injuries included contusions and abrasions of the face, fractured teeth, contusions, abrasions, and fractures of the torso, disruption of the proximal descending aorta with massive left hemothorax.
At his last FAA medical, the pilot reported hypertension and high cholesterol and was being treated with doxazosin (also called Cardura) and simvastatin (also called Zocor), respectively. Toxicological analysis was conducted by the FAA's Bioaeronautical Sciences Research Laboratory, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The tests were positive for doxazosin in blood and urine. Doxazosin is not considered to be an impairing medication.
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A seismic hazard map for the Metropolitan Area of San Jose has been elaborated, based on local tectonic and seismic information. The area for the hazard computation covers an area of 20 x 15 km2 and includes the zone where the most population and socioeconomic activities are concentrated. The computation analysis are based on areas zones and faults, each one characterized by recurrence parameters, geometry, minimum and maximum magnitude and source depth. A recent local spectral attenuation model, which includes relations for shallow crustal sources and subduction zone earthquakes, has been applied in this study. The seismic hazard results are presented in terms of contour plots of estimated peak ground acceleration (PGA) for bedrock conditions for return period of 50, 100 and 500 years. In the Central Park of San Jose City the following PGA values were found: 0.29g for 50 years, 0.36g for 100 years, and 0.53g for 500 years.
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Jack in the Land of Nod by Sharon Hulm
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include two pantomime dames, a fairy, and a whole range of cameos, including pirates, rats and a dog!
Music The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to 20 songs, including original lyrics for two of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-length British pantomime with an original story (a comic collision of lots of fairytale themes).
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Jack's Amazing Beanstalk Rocket by Cheryl Barrett
Music 14 songs are suggested at appropriate places during the script, with opportunity to reprise one at the finale. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-length British pantomime adding a sci-fi twist to the classic fairy tale.
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Marine Corps - USMC Community > Marine Corps Forum > Open Squad Bay > Building blocks of urban warfare
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Building blocks of urban warfare
CHRIS MAZZOLINI
DAILY NEWS STAFF
The new Military Operations in Urban Terrain facility resembles a giant set of beige Legos.
And that description of the so-called "Mobile" MOUT is accurate on more than one level. Because not only do the 40-foot containers resemble the popular plastic building blocks that occupied many a childhood, they can also be disassembled and rearranged.
And the Marine Corps, which is building the new MOUT at Camp Lejeune, believes that's the perfect training tool to teach Marines to fight in dense and hostile urban environments where everything is unfamiliar and anything could be deadly.
Compared with the wide boulevards and faux European décor of the current MOUT facility, the mobile MOUT is stripped down to utilitarian purity. But that has benefits in functionality and flexibility, said Mark Maloney, the range development program manager.
"The mobile MOUT is a more randomly dense and packed location," he said. "You don't have alleys and avenues to follow. They are not laid out in that nice suburban model."
And that chaotic mish mash of structures is a better simulation for the conflicts of the 21st century: the sprawling Third World cities, like Mogadishu or Baghdad, or the secluded village somewhere in the middle of Anbar province, Iraq.
Thus the mobile MOUT plunges a Marine unit into a variety of simulations that reflect this. The building sizes don't match. In other words, all the buildings in one section won't have the same number of stories. Tall buildings will surround shorter ones, obstructing views and presenting opportune places for an enemy ambush. Courtyard walls will provide obstacles Marines must navigate through and over.
Interiors will have a variety of stairways, some spiraling, others straight and all offering different tactical challenges. Trap doors and secret rooms will offer enemies a place to hide or a secret vault for weapon caches. Marines must contend with doors they can kick open like the real thing, and windows provide enemy firing positions.
When the Marines get used to the design and set-up, the whole thing can be rearranged. Because each building consists of one or more containers, the buildings and their insides can be shifted around and connected to different containers. From as little as a few buildings to the entire town can be altered, Maloney said.
"It allows us to reconfigure the buildings," he said. "We can actually pick it up and move it."
The base is hoping to start sending Marines through the new MOUT sometime this fall, and construction continues in earnest. As it's being initially designed, the MOUT will have 69 buildings and almost 7,000 feet of courtyard walls. A tank-capable road will run through the city, so ambushes and other convoy training can be taught.
Military officials will also build two areas that are particularly applicable to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. One, dubbed "The Farm," is a farmhouse and a barn made of containers that are also connected via an underground tunnel complex.
The other is an outdoor marketplace that will simulate a densely packed Middle Eastern bazaar.
"Our intent is to add tables and baskets where people sell their wares, the kind you would see in 90 percent of the world," Maloney said.
Five of the buildings in the facility will also be live-fire capable, allowing Marines the most realistic scenario for clearing rooms.
In addition to a new training environment, Maloney said the MOUT will also double the training capacity. With the current situation, the old MOUT often splits time between basic MOUT courses and the desire for unit commanders to take their Marines through it. The new MOUT can fit a battalion, and allows more training opportunities.
"If they had a course, then captain can't go train his guys," Maloney said. "What this will allow is instead of either-or, we can do both."
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I have conducted research using economic statistics, such as energy statistics, labor statistics and the Economic Census data, in addition to the work I was doing as a civil servant, which included planning and drafting the National Development Plan, macroeconomic policies and gender equality policies. I not only use statistical data but also conduct surveys. For example, I was involved in planning and sample design when the Energy Consumption Survey was being launched. I became interested in empirical analysis and policy evaluation based on micro-level data when I was working in government on matters related to gender equality. In recent years, I have contributed to the planning and drafting of economic and industrial policies by analyzing the economic impacts by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the productivity of workers and firms. I have been in my current position at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, since April 2013.
My field of study concerns the effects of socioeconomic change, such as population aging, women's economic participation, and globalization, on employment in Japan from the standpoint of firm activities. My current focus is on issues involving wages and labor productivity, the relationship between diversity and globalization, and female entrepreneurship.
◎Keywords
Productivity, Entrepreneur, Diversity, Globalization, Japanese economy
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8603, JAPAN
tel +81 42 580 8327 / fax +81 42 580 8333
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New Slipways Complete
posted 21 Sep 2013, 06:07 by Graham Morley [ updated 21 Sep 2013, 06:16 ]
A significant milestone in Minima Yacht Club’s rejuvenation programme was reached on 19 September 2013, when the rebuilt upstream slip of Minima’s dinghy park landing stage was completed by a small working party led by Hon. Bosun Brian Cheetham. Our landing stages are among the club’s chief amenities.
The volunteers who also worked on the project since before this year’s Regatta are members Ron Sexton, Alan Jales, Ali Banks, John Forbes and Andy Cuckson. Ron, Brian, Alan and John in fact spent the majority of their time anything up to chest deep in the river, while removing and replacing steel bracketry and the seemingly endless amounts of timber which goes into these ramps.
Plans to complete both slips in time for the Regatta were scuppered only by a shortage of man-hours. The downstream slip was finished in time, and when asked, our visitors from Tamesis Club said they were very happy with the new non-slip treads. This stuff is like really thick, coarse sandpaper, made into stiff boards ready for screwing down. Grip is great on rubber boots. It’s also guaranteed to take the skin off your knees, but now you should do less falling over! Brian Cheetham was hoping the non-slip treads would be so uncomfortable to walk on that the geese and swans would be dissuaded from using and fouling the ramps. They weren’t – and they quickly moved back in. New ‘swan gates’ will be fitted as soon as possible.
I must admit I really liked ripping up the old decking with a crowbar the best!
Andy Cuckson
(Photos by the author and Brian Cheetham)
The downstream slip, as used at the Regatta, but now with an extension fitted to cope with low water. Both slips are considerably longer than before. Some non-slip treads were left over, so we put some on the level sections.
Brian waits patiently for the next power boat wash.
The first and last battens were nailed in place...
...and the rest positioned by parallax.
A street pigeon inspects the work.
Andy and Brian demonstrate how to screw things onto pine boards.
1. You mostly use a hammer ... it’s easier.
2. Hammer it about ¾ of the way in, then use the screwdriver.
The finished upstream slip. Note the dark timber ‘block’ at the water’s edge. This is a guard rail, mostly submerged, intended to stop trolley wheels jamming in the gap next to the concrete bank.
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Gartner: IoT to transform the data centre
Internet of things to bring in severe challenges for data centre managers.
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Gartner estimates that the internet of things will include 26 billion units installed by 2020
By Tom Paye Published March 18, 2014
The internet of things (IoT) could potentially transform the data centre market, its customers, technology providers, and technologies, according to Gartner.
By Gartner's definition, the IoT connects remote assets and provides a data stream between the asset and centralised management systems. These assets can then be integrated into new and existing organisational processes to provide information on status, location, functionality and so on.
In a statement, Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner, said that uptake of IoT technologies will fundamentally change the way that people think about their infrastructures.
"IoT deployments will generate large quantities of data that need to be processed and analysed in real time," he said.
"Processing large quantities of IoT data in real time will increase as a proportion of workloads of data centres, leaving providers facing new security, capacity and analytics challenges."
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Real-time information is a key trait of the IoT wave, Gartner said, as it enables more accurate understanding of status, and it enhances utilisation and productivity through optimised usage and more accurate decision support.
However, organisations face severe challenges in the data centre when it comes to the amount of data that will be created and transmitted by IoT assets.
"The enormous number of devices, coupled with the sheer volume, velocity and structure of IoT data, creates challenges, particularly in the areas of security, data, storage management, servers and the data centre network, as real-time business processes are at stake," said Joe Skorupa, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
"Data centre managers will need to deploy more forward-looking capacity management in these areas to be able to proactively meet the business priorities associated with IoT."
Despite the challenges ahead, Gartner predicts that the IoT trend is certainly on the up. The research house estimated that the IoT will include 26 billion units installed by 2020. By that time, Gartner added, IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion, mostly in services.
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Browsing: Kalpa-sūtra (Or. 12744)
Image: R̥ṣabha as an infant
Title: R̥ṣabha as an infant
Ardhamāgadhī Prākrit in Devanāgarī script
opaque watercolour on paper with gold
33 x 12 cms
The Kalpa-sūtra is the most frequently illustrated Jain text of the Śvetāmbara sect. It is read and recited by monks in the festival of Paryuṣaṇ, which takes place in August to September each year.
The first part of the Kalpa-sūtra deals with the lives of the Jinas, especially Mahāvīra, Pārśva, Nemi and Ṛṣabha. It features almost identical stories of their births, lives as princes, renunciation, enlightenment and emancipation.
The second part – Sthavirāvali – is a praise of the early teachers of Jainism. The third part – Sāmācārī – deals with particular monastic rules to be followed during the rainy season.
'Kalpa Sûtra'
translated and edited by Hermann Jacobi
Jaina Sutras: Âkârâṅga Sûtra and Kalpa Sûtra
Sacred Books of the East series; series editor F. Max Müller; volume 22: 1
Clarendon Press; Oxford, England UK; 1884
Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadrabāhu Svāmī
Bhadrabāhu
translated by Kastur Chand Lalwani
Motilal Banarsidass; New Delhi, India; 1979
'The Kalpa Sûtra of Bhadrabâhu'
Bhadrabāhu
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft series; series editor Otto Loth; volume VII: 1
F. A. Brockhaus; Leipzig, Saxony, Germany; 1879
A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of Miniature Paintings of the Jaina Kalpasūtra as executed in the Early Western Indian Style
W. Norman Brown
Freer Gallery of Art – Oriental Studies series; volume 2
The Lord Baltimore Press / Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC, USA; 1934
Catalogue of the Jain manuscripts at the British Library: including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Nalini Balbir, Kanhaiyalal Sheth, Kalpana Sheth and C. B. Tripathi
British Library & the Institute of Jainology; London, UK; 2006
Pārśva meditating
The National Gallery of Australia offers an elaborately illustrated page from a 15th-century manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra. The 23rd Jina Pārśva sits in the lotus posture of meditation. He is easily identifiable from his seven-headed snake headdress.
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=177853&View=LRG
Kalpa-sūtra of Bhadrabāhu - Gallica Bibliothèque numérique
This manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra is fully digitised on the Gallica Bibliothèque numérique website, part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris. Though the website is available in English, the information about the artefact is in French.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000521k/f1
Mahāvīra renounces
This illustration is from a page of the Śvetāmbara scripture of the Kalpa-sūtra in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It shows the last Jina, Mahāvīra, performing the rite of keśa-loca – ‘pulling out of the hair’ – which indicates indifference to the body. It is part of the initiation ceremony of dīkṣā, in which an initiate renounces the world and becomes a mendicant. He is watched by Śakra, king of the gods, who takes an active role in the lives of the 24 Jinas.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/105108.html?mulR=656|9
A Jina renounces
This highly decorated page from a 15th-century manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra is provided by the National Gallery of Australia. A young man performs the rite of keśa-loca – ‘pulling out of the hair’ – which indicates indifference to the body. It is part of the initiation ceremony of dīkṣā, in which an initiate renounces the world and becomes a mendicant. He is watched by Śakra, king of the gods who takes an active role in the lives of the 24 Jinas.
Nemi decides to renounce
This illustrated page from a 15th-century manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra is provided by the National Gallery of Australia. At the beginning of the section dealing with the 22nd Jina, Ariṣṭanemi, also called Nemi, the painting shows the famous episode of Prince Nemi's decision to renounce worldly life just before his wedding. He is so appalled by the distress of the animals due to be killed for his wedding feast that he decides to become a monk.
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?View=LRG&IRN=147981&PICTAUS=TRUE
Hariṇaigameṣin transfers the embryo
This rare palm-leaf page in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art comes from an early 14th-century manuscript of the Śvetāmbara scripture of the Kalpa-sūtra. The picture illustrates the episode where the antelope-headed god Hariṇaigameṣin transfers the embryo of the Jina-to-be Mahāvīra from the brahmin lady Devānandā to the kṣatriya queen Triśalā.
Kevala-jñāna
Omniscience, enlightenment or perfect knowledge – the highest of the five types of knowledge , where one knows everything wherever and whenever it is. It is extremely difficult to attain, equivalent to the 13th stage of spiritual purity in the guṇa-sthāna. Digambaras believe only men can achieve it whereas Śvetāmbaras believe that both men and women can become enlightened.
The annual four-month rainy period in India, lasting roughly from June / July to October / November. Heavy rain, strong storms and gale-force winds are very common during this period. Mendicants cannot travel around and must stay in one place to avoid breaking their vow of non-violence and because the monsoon makes travelling on foot difficult and dangerous. It is known as cāturmāsa in Sanskrit, comāsa in Hindi and comāsu in Gujarati.
Pārśva
Mahāvīra
Related Manuscripts
British Library. Or. 11921. Unknown author. 1488
Victoria and Albert Museum. IS 46-1959. Unknown author. Late 15th to 16th centuries
British Library. Or. 13701. Sukha-sāgara for the commentary. 17th to 18th centuries
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Dapchi Girls: People, Politics And Death
March 26, 2018 Poet Government, People 0
We were still suffering the prints and remnants of the hazard in 2014 when the boys revisited. As is the custom, the other boys in the military were commanded by a Big Man to make way and this made us think they had a common goal. They said they didn’t work together, but it seemed like they worked together. They said they had no prior knowledge of the exercise but they acted like they had prior knowledge. By the time the boys against Western Education came for oversight in Dapchi, the road was full of the bodies of human beings who have refused to die. Human bodies dismembered by flatulent leadership. We are the victims of a system kept homeostatic by creating imbalance in the mitochondria pool—the masses. We are like zombies, except that to the visible eye, we appeared human. We are the potpourri of all the gloomy songs of antiquity. We had eyes that can see but we couldn’t see the picture seven blind men painted.
Just like what we had in Chibok four years ago, the Dapchi girls were loaded into trucks like Sardines, driven round town, passed military checkpoints but there was no one to rescue them. This time, their vehicle broke down as they toured the city, a mechanic was called to do a fix, they spent hours but still there was no challenge. There was no chase or an attempt to pursue and recover all. There was no intelligence or an attempt to be intelligent. In fairness to the God of logic and commonsense, the scene wouldn’t have played out if it wasn’t an Inside Job, a case of teammates or to put safe, sheer incompetence. This republic has shown that anything is possible and human nature is not inherently good either. The consistency of human beings in showcasing inconsistency and the certainty of Nigeria(n) (Politicians) to disappoint embraced the inside-job-teammates storyline. If you can’t help the poor, you leave them alone but politicians who won’t help have refused to let us be. If you can’t help a drowning man, just let him be but they wrap stones around our waists as we drown and let us be.
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So, after they toured the city with the girls for hours, after their trucks had a flat tire and they spent hours repairing it, after they passed several checkpoints without military or security confrontation, they finally used a plane to carry them to the other side where Shekau’s archenemy, Mus’ab al-Barnawi, was waiting to receive the package. They were 110 human beings. The school said 110, the government said just 105 were missing. Earlier the school said some girls were abducted but the government said nobody was abducted in Dapchi. The state Governor lied to the people, the locals pelted him stones. Anger was mixed with the long term hunger and smiling or listening to foolish talk provoked the spirit. We have been here before. Actually, we are here now but because of our collective amnesia, we forget the root of evil, the scourge of evil, we become evil and when it happens again the process restores reality. Hash tag Bring Back Dapchi Girls was trending. Buhari is playing games, we said. The northerners are playing games again, we said. We’ve been here before. The terrain looks familiar. Truth is, the terrain has always been there. I only wish this was fictional.
Instantly, activists were born. Men who couldn’t manage the events at Chibok or listen to the human voices that spoke, borrowed the tactics of the opposition in the last leap year. Men who proposed calm, care and tact made hypocrisy very proud. Men and women who used Hash tags to grow their twitter followers capitalised but the Dapchi girls were still nowhere to be found. Shekau didn’t show up for a broadcast to show off his new assets like he normally does and what was deduced seemed right. Boko Haram has broken into factions and Shekau’s power divided. That was what it looked like. On the air waves, ridicule poured in and On-Air-Personalities worked tirelessly teaching morals. Ridicule for the ridiculous statement by the President and Army that Boko Haram has been defeated. It was a poorly thought declaration and people asked why and the motive. Wars end only when we feel an atmosphere of peace not when a man says it has ended.
On the streets, anguish was noticeable again. In Dapchi, the soldiers patrolled the place. They were returned after the deed has been done and were told to guard the place against further attack. The checkpoints worked again and there were soldiers ready to prevent abductions by any terrorist sect. The mothers of the girls and the boy kidnapped were in tears. Their hearts opened, a dagger went in. They sent their kids to learn, to be better than they are, to bless the society with their education but now it seems like they killed their babies. Boko Haram, like most terrorist groups, had argued that the girl child is not built for (western) education and are trying to drive that message in. They are only good as housewives and workers. Not just any housewife but the second, third, fourth wife, routinely satisfying the men as their preference go. The mothers were in pains and the fathers reacted violently to the men in charge from a place of pain. This shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Negotiations shouldn’t have been allowed to start by providing adequate security and a little honesty.
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The search that could have been prevented had begun and someone might get hurt. We hoped, prayed for the best, but even though we aren’t natural pessimists, we’ve found out we are safer expecting the worst. Whose child will die like we saw in Chibok? What if they don’t make it? What if the terrorists had them brainwashed and the girls called their abductors lovers? What if the boy is recruited and used as bait for more bloodshed? What if they had an argument superior to the defense the kids were equipped with and they fall? Their families and Nigerians only prayed that God be with them. The government also used the same line even though they knew what should be done. They knew what needs to be done to get them and when they did, their antecedents, the modus operandi and many other loopholes, made it difficult for same people who prayed and wished for their release, to buy the story. It looked like something you will find in Alaba International Market. The people lost trust and like a relationship without trust, it became easier to agree that what looks like a lie is actually a lie.
The girls returned two weeks after and the mixed feelings it generated wasn’t surprising. The terror gang moved into Dapchi in the morning to drop the girls and the sight was horrifying. On sighting the group, the people fled but were told by the terrorists to return as they came in peace. They dropped the girls and the only boy among them before proceeding to give a lecture on good behaviour and true principles of Islam. They returned 104. Five had died, unfortunately, and one girl, a Christian, Leah Sharibu, was held back for refusing to drop the Bible and pick the Holy Koran. They said the 5 died of heart attack and stress and it was news even before Boko Haram returned to Dapchi with the other 104. It was terrible. While other parents were celebrating a reunion, the parents of the five were in mourning. While the mothers and fathers of the other five were still in deep grief, the Federal Government was hosting the others and celebrating victory.
The family of Leah was in a mixed grief too. They received the message of the strength displayed by their daughter and they were full of sweet and pain. She is strong for standing for what she believes in, she is her mother’s daughter for sticking with the Christian religion even when surrounded by guns and ugly looking monsters, she is what every Christian and child of God should aspire to. They took comfort in her faith and resilience and the belief that she is going to a better place irrespective of whatever happens, massages their wounds. They have a strong belief that her life, the way it is, is already in safe hands. They are hurting and their mortal bodies are giving way but the spiritual aspect of their beings strengthen their almost atrophied bodies. A reasonable government would have mourned the five but what we have, what we’ve had, is nothing close to the government of the sane.
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An empathic government wouldn’t have created a language of victory when one is not back or acted as if the five that died are just mere chickens. No apology but blames for irresponsibility. No sympathy for the families of the dead. No sympathy or word to the parents of Leah. The sight the Boko Haram team left was horrific. As they dropped the abducted and made their way back they were cheered by the same masses that cursed the day their paths crossed. Two weeks ago, the story was brutal, there was no happiness in the same place and anyone involved by incompetence and kidnap was cursed. But as the abducted were returned and the people served a terrorist’s version of Islam and the abduction of Leah, kidnap and death of the five justified, they saw good in the demons who have killed thousands across the country. They were infected with hero worship and a cocktail effect was observed. They worshipped the same people who killed their brothers, their sisters, fathers and mothers. They worshipped and hailed a terrorist group. Is this madness, cowardice or subtle allegiance? The truth is, this is Nigeria and it can be all of the above.
The entire picture is sickening. The deal struck allowed the group to return the girls without military confrontation. They stayed back for about twenty minutes giving lectures on morality after returning the abductees. Basically, Nigeria’s and West Africa’s deadliest terrorist group was in Dapchi preaching of salvation and nothing was done about it. There are many loopholes to be ignored in a logical class. Some girls and a boy is back and we appreciate it, but if we don’t ask why, or know why, or find how, it will keep repeating itself. The reason same things keep happening is because the mechanism of actions and mechanics behind the actions were poorly understood and left unterminated. First, who commanded soldiers to leave the town before the girls were abducted? Where did the order come from? Immediately the soldiers left, the boys entered Dapchi and did damage.
Where were the Nigerian soldiers or security team when the terrorists’ truck(s) broke down and they had to change tires? Acting like they are in control when they are not in control will make escape difficult but what they displayed suggested control and trouble. Why were the terrorists so confident and seem, from what was narrated, not to be in a hurry? Even a petty thief who steals biscuits is in a hurry to leave the enemy zone. Could it be that our army is compromised and Boko Haram now have representatives in high positions? Is Boko Haram a religious terrorist group, a political terrorist group or an ideological terrorist group? Soldiers had had so many revolts in the war and recruits have been punished for uprisings against cunny commanders. Does the unfortunate statement by former President Goodluck Jonathan that Boko Haram are in his government still holds true? That could explain the intelligence gathering level of the group and we are doomed if that cannot only be logically explained but also practically proved.
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Could it be that some men in the military, top men I mean, who benefit from this war don’t want it to end? Generally in war, men at the top siphon and steal any nickel they can get their hands on. Could it be that the current government is trying to play to the gallery to make the reelection of Buhari possible? The President once spoke of Amnesty for these terrorists who have murdered many Nigerians and days back, gave orders for the release of arrested Boko Haram members who repented. The law court said Justice but he didn’t see any need for that and accorded them rehabilitation instead. He also said an attack on Boko Haram is an attack against the north and wondered why Amnesty given to the Niger Delta militants cannot be given to the Boko Haram terrorists. He was also appointed by the group to lead the dialogue for peace which he turned down but there are many likely scenarios and all are possible in the logical world.
Could it be that the terrorists simply needed money and had to do the kidnap? Most terrorist organizations kidnap to raise money for more weapons and to help with leverage. We learned nothing from the abduction of the Chibok girls four years ago. We didn’t ask why, how or what happened and it happened again in Dapchi. The President has promised to deal with those responsible if he finds out it is all arranged. That would be nice but considering that the President admitted in Benue that he didn’t know the IG he sent to Benue only visited for a day two months after he gave the order, makes it more of lip service. Are we playing games with human lives or this is just plain stupidity and incompetence? To be frank, I don’t know but anything is possible.
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Little Mix Score First Triple Platinum Album with 'Glory Days'
It is officially their biggest LP to date...
It's no secret that 2017 was an incredible year for Little Mix. Not only did they dominate the charts with four massive hits ('Touch', 'No More Sad Songs', 'Power', 'Reggaetón Lento (Remix)') but they also went on the fifth highest grossing girl group tour ever.
Now their Number 1 album Glory Days has just become their first LP to be certified Triple Platinum in the UK.
WATCH LITTLE MIX'S AMAZING 'REGGAETÓN LENTO (REMIX)' VIDEO BELOW
Boy, I can see the way you dancing, move that body
I know it's crazy, but I feel like you could be
The one that I've been chasing in my dreams
Boy, I can see you're looking at me like you want it
Oh, usually I'm like, "Whatever," but tonight
The way you moving got me, "Where am I?"
It started when I looked in her eyes
I got close and I'm like "Bailemos" (hey)
La noche está para un reggaetón lento (ehe)
De esos que no se bailan hace tiempo (ooh)
Yo sólo la miré y me gustó
Me pegué y la invité: "Bailemos?" (hey)
So now we dancing un reggaetón lento
Just get a little closer, baby, let go
Excuse me baby boy, just had to dance with you now
See there's nobody in here that comes close to you, no
Your hands are on my waist, my lips you wanna taste
Come muévete, muévete, muévete
Our bodies on fire, with full of desire
If you feel what I feel, throw your hands up higher
And to all the ladies around the world
Go ahead and muévete, muévete, muévete
Do you know I like you when I take you to the floor (the floor)
I know you like this reggaetón lento (lento)
This ain't stopping, baby, 'til I say so
Come get, come get some more
Boy, I wish that this could last forever
'Cause every second by your side is heaven
Oh, come give me that, give me that boom, boom, boom, oh
I tell you, baby, you, baby, you get me hotter
Loving made me sick, made me sick, you're my doctor
Don't you know you're playing with fire tonight
Can we get it right here one more time
Closer, baby, let go
Me pegué y la invité: "Bailemos, eh?"
La noche está para un reggaetón lento
De esos que no se bailan hace tiempo
I got close and I'm like, "Bailemos" (eh)
Muévete, muévete
Báilalo, báilalo
Let's get a little closer, slow the tempo
Muévete, muévete (just dance with me now)
Drop it low, drop it low
Just get a little closer, baby, let's go
Writer(s): ANDINO JADAN, CAMACHO YASHUA Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
NO. WE'RE NOT JOKING MIXERS. 'GLORY DAYS' HAS NOW SOLD OVER 900,000 UK CHART COPIES.
'Glory Days' became Little Mix's best-selling album in 2017 after it overtook Get Weird and now it joins legendary albums by iconic acts, including Destiny's Child and the Spice Girls, as the only girl group albums to sell more than 900,000 copies in the UK.
And considering that the album is still Top 10 in the UK, it could potentially go Quadruple Platinum as well.
UK certifications (@bpi_music): @LittleMix, Glory Days 3x Platinum (900,000).
— chart data (@chartdata) January 20, 2018
That's not the only milestone that Little Mix have just achieved though. After spending an incredible 91 weeks on the UK albums chart, Get Weird is now tied with the Spice Girls debut LP Spice as the longest charting album by a girl group in the UK ever.
If it stays on the chart this Friday, it will overtake it and set a brand new record in its own right.
What's more, with Glory Days still so popular, it could go on to outchart Get Weird eventually.
Get Weird has now spent 91 weeks in the Official Album Chart and is now tied with the Spice Girls for the longest charting girl group album in the U.K! pic.twitter.com/iIyACTzTWw
— Little Mix Updates (@Mixers_Army) January 19, 2018
With a new album due this year, Little Mix will no doubt break even more records this year.
We couldn't be happier for the four of them and we can't wait to see what they do in 2018.
Words: Sam Prance
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Myanmar Internet Users 2015
Internet users in Myanmar 2015
Proportion of Myanmar's population: 2.5 % (penetration) Total population: 54,363,426. Proportion of worldwide Internet users: 9 percent by mid-2014 to 68 percent by the end of 2015, Roy said. Myanmar Mozilla's research analysed two zero rating offers. About 13 percent of the millennia in Myanmar listened to music on the Internet.
The number of Internet users in Myanmar missiles
The Myanmar Times reports that Myanmar has more than 39 million Internet users, compared to 2 million in 2014, and Myanmar's four telecommunications providers have signed up for 43.72 million subscribers by May 2016. High sales of UMTS means that the nation has reached 89.38% wireless coverage, which represents a significant 6.99% growth at the end of the 2011-12 financial year," said U Soe Thein, CEO of Myanmar's Postal and Telecommunications Division.
Its four operating companies comprise foreign-owned Telenor and Ooredoo, state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications and MECtel, which belong to the military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation. But the amount of UMTS smartphones that are being resold may not be the real permeation of portability, as wireless users typically have more than one as well. It has also been said that the number of Internet users has also increased rapidly, with many using 3G wireless internet as well.
According to Vivek Roy, Research Asia-Pacific Research Engineer at Ovum, Myanmar is experiencing the rapidest increase in wireless subscription sales in Asia-Pacific. "Myanmar wireless subscription increased year-on-year by 127% to 41.4 million at the end of the first quarter of 2016," Roy said. First and foremost, Myanmar's wireless networks are driving the roll-out of wireless access to Myanmar, where the cost of solid bandwidth is relatively prohibitive.
Ooredoo Myanmar initially began as a pure 3G device and 4G was released in May 2016. There was another gamer named Telenor who took 4G up in July, Roy said. In Myanmar, he added that a key issue for Myanmar's mobile industry in the near term will be the government's unblocking of frequencies in the 1800 MHz frequency range, which will be crucial for carriers to allow the expansion of 4G wireless service in the area.
The speedy increase in the number of people moving is also due to the government's liberalisation of the telecommunications industry, which in 2014 granted cell phone licences to the privately owned companies Ooredoo and Telenor. In two years, wireless coverage increased from 15.9% in mid-2014 to 68% by the end of 2015, Roy said. On the other hand, solid wideband is prohibitively expensive with a domestic coverage of less than 0.1%.
MPT, Telenor and Ooredoo remain competing for marketshare with competitively priced information and speech, expanded reach and cutting-edge value. Fifth telecom operator is scheduled to launch wireless telephony in early 2017 as Myanmar's regulatory authority, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), announces the results of its recent call for a new National Telecom License (NTL) by the end of the year.
Nonetheless, the winning tenderer is likely to face strong competitors from those already operating in Myanmar's growing overcrowded MNOs.
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DHS Announces Proposals to Attract and Retain Highly Skilled Immigrants
By Bill at May 07, 2014 01:22
Filed Under: Immigration News
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WASHINGTON — As part of the Administration’s continuing commitment to attract and retain highly skilled immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the publication of two proposed rules, including a rule to extend employment authorization to spouses of certain H-1B workers, and a proposal to enhance opportunities for certain groups of highly-skilled workers by removing obstacles to their remaining in the United States.
Together these actions will help attract new businesses and new investment to the U.S. and ensure that the U.S. has the most skilled workforce in the world.
“The proposed rules announced today provide important support to U.S. businesses while also supporting economic growth here in the U.S.,” said Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “These steps will help the U.S. maintain competitiveness with other countries in our efforts to attract the best and the brightest high-skilled workers from around the world to support companies here at home. Businesses continue to need these high-skilled workers, and these rules ensure we do not cede the upper hand to other countries competing for the same talent.”
“These two proposed rule changes are an integral part of the Administration’s efforts to strengthen entrepreneurship and innovation, and to help the United States attract and retain highly skilled immigrants,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. “The fact is, we must do more to retain and attract world-class talent to the United States and these regulations put us on a path to doing that. These actions promise to unleash more of the extraordinary contributions that immigrants have always made to America’s innovation economy.”
Both Notices of Proposed Rulemaking will soon publish in the Federal Register. DHS encourages the public to comment on the proposed rules through www.regulations.gov. All public comments will be considered before the final rules are published and go into effect.
Proposed Rule to Extend Employment Authorization to Spouses of Certain H-1B Workers
This proposed rule will amend existing regulations to allow H-4 dependent spouses of certain principal H-1B workers to request employment authorization.
U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as science, engineering or computer programming. Frequently, employers will petition for an immigrant visa for an H-1B worker, which enables individuals to become lawful permanent residents. Lawful permanent residents are generally eligible to become naturalized U.S. citizens after five years.
Under existing regulations, DHS does not extend employment authorization to dependents (also known as H-4 nonimmigrants) of H-1B nonimmigrant workers. The change proposed by DHS, would allow H-4 dependent spouses of certain H-1B nonimmigrant workers to request employment authorization, as long as the H-1B worker has already started the process of seeking lawful permanent residence through employment.
Eligible individuals would include H-4 dependent spouses of principal H-1B workers who:
Are the beneficiaries of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker; or
Have been granted an extension of their authorized period of stay in the United States under the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (AC21) as amended by the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act. AC21 permits H-1B workers seeking lawful permanent residence to work and remain in the United States beyond the six-year limit.
Proposal to Enhance Opportunities for Highly-Skilled Workers
This proposed regulatory change would enhance opportunities for certain groups of highly-skilled and transitional workers by removing obstacles to their remaining in the United States.
Specifically, the change to the regulation would:
Update the regulations to include nonimmigrant high-skilled specialty occupation professionals from Chile and Singapore (H-1B1) and from Australia (E-3) in the list of classes of aliens authorized for employment incident to status with a specific employer,
Clarify that H-1B1 and principal E-3 nonimmigrants are allowed to work without having to separately apply to DHS for employment authorization.
Allow E-3, H-1B1 and CW-1 nonimmigrant workers up to 240 days of continued work authorization beyond the expiration date noted on their Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record, while the extension request is pending.
It would affect workers in specialty occupation nonimmigrant classifications for professionals from Chile and Singapore (H-1B1) and Australia (E-3), as well as Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island (CNMI)-Only Transitional Workers (CW-1).
Under current regulations, employers of workers in E-3, H-1B1, or CW-1 status must generally file a petition requesting the extension of the employee’s status well before the initial authorized duration of status expires.
Finally, this proposal would also expand the current list of evidentiary criteria for employment-based first preference (EB-1) outstanding professors and researchers to allow the submission of evidence comparable to the other forms of evidence already listed in the regulations. This proposal would harmonize the regulations for EB-1 outstanding professors and researchers with other employment-based immigrant categories that already allow for submission of comparable evidence.
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Published on January 23rd, 2015 | by Michael
From the minds that gave you Kick-Ass comes Kingsman: The Secret Service, the story of a organisation of British spies descended from the tailors of Kings. Yes, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn team up once again to adapt a Mark Millar comic, and while it may be a facile argument, it’s fair to say that this film does for superspies what Kick-Ass did for superheroes. As in its predecessor, Kingsman sees a young man plucked from mediocrity to live out the childhood fantasies of millions. But where Dave Lizewski took it upon himself to become a superhero, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is a tearaway council estate kid, brimming with potential but lacking direction. Working for a government agency of any type couldn’t be further from his mind but he reckons without Harry Hart, agent extraordinaire, who happens to owe Eggsy’s family a favour…
But I’m getting ahead of myself. The film opens in the Middle East in 1997 and amidst the chaos is Harry Hart, codename Galahad (Colin Firth), interrogating a prisoner. Unfortunately Harry has made a mistake, one that proves fatal for his young protégé, who dies saving Hart. Hart visits the dead man’s family, promising them a favour should the man’s wife or young son get themselves into bother.
Master and pupil
Seventeen years later and the man who became the new Lancelot at the expense of the dead man is attempting a rescue mission – his target is James Arnold (Mark Hamill), but unfortunately for Lancelot he reckoned without the razor limbed Gazelle (Sofia Boutella). Lancelot’s death leaves a spot open once again in the Kingmen, as well as a mystery for them to solve – If Arnold was kidnapped, why has he turned up back at his job as a University lecturer? This sounds like a job for Harry Hart! Hart is tasked by codenames Arthur (Michael Caine) and Merlin (Mark Strong) with both investigating Arnold and finding a candidate to replace Lancelot.
Readers will be unsurprised to learn that Hart’s candidate as Lancelot’s replacement is Eggsy, who had finally called in that favour when arrested for a carjacking. Hart recognises the promise that Eggsy doesn’t – he was a top student who packed schooling in, a champion gymnast shamed into giving it up and a very promising marine who quit at the behest of his mother. Hart decides to help train up Eggsy, not just as an operative but as a Gentleman. James Bond is the obvious example of the Gentleman spy of course, but Hart perhaps more closely resembles the wonderful John Steed (not least because of a gadget laden umbrella) while the front as tailors that the Kingsmen maintain is pure Man From UNCLE. It’s worth pointing out that Matthew Vaughn takes him surname for the star of The Man From UNCLE, Robert Vaughn. The film maintains a neat balancing act between the perceived snobbery of such Gentlemen (Firth is the epitome of refinement, as Steed was) and the belief that anybody can be one, regardless of background, or indeed gender, much in the same way that The Winter Soldier showed us that Captain America had good old fashioned values without being a throwback or deeply conservative. Eggsy’s fellow candidates for the role of Kingsman appear to be universally Oxbridge bluebloods, with only female candidates Roxy and Amelia not openly hostile to the little oik. The politics of the film are strange given the source, Vaughn graduated from Stowe after all, and contain some less than veiled digs at the one percent generally, not just the British upper crust.
Spot the odd one out
The rest of the film is pure wish fulfilment stuff. Eggsy excels in his training, often getting the upper hand over his toff tormentors, meanwhile Hart investigates internet billionaire Richmond Valentine, whom the Kingsmen believe to be behind the disappearance of Arnold and other dignitaries and celebrities around the world. As you might imagine in a Millar/Vaughn/Goldman story, the story blends humour with strong violence and a fair amount of crudity, which goes against the grain of most comic book adaptions. Of course, your individual tolerance to such things is subject to taste but for my money the film gets the balance about right. Taron Egerton excels as Eggsy, convincing both as a troubled youth and as a debonair spy while newcomer Sophie Cookson also adds good value as Roxy, although I feel the character perhaps merited more screen time. The older cast is awash with espionage experience, of course. Mark Strong and Colin Firth both starred in Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, Michael Caine played Harry Palmer three times, including in perhaps the best British spy film of all, The Ipcress File, and Samuel L Jackson will be known chiefly as Nick Fury to an entire generation of movie goers. Mark Hamill is also a good sport for taking part, as it is the actor himself who is the subject of a failed rescue attempt in the comic book upon which the film is based. It is Firth though that carries much of the film and his is utterly convincing as a man of impeccable taste but also of action. Give John Steed the gruff demeanour of Mr Darcy and you have Harry Hart.
Gentleman of Action
As you might expect, the film is awash with cultural references. Songs with could appear hokey, such as Freebird, Money For Nothing and Give It Up are used superbly in context. When attempting to draw Eggsy into the world of Kingsmen, Hart cites Trading Places and Nikita, and is astonished when Eggsy correctly asserts that the situation is like My Fair Lady. Later on, allusions are made to the plethora of spies with the initials JB, while Hart and Valentine has a discussion about gentleman spies and megalomoniacal villains in the spy films of yesteryear. Hart says he thinks those films were only as good as the villains and Kingsman has a corker in Valentine, a lisping, apparently philanthropic billionaire with a penchant for Big Macs and a deadly henchwoman. His plot is brilliantly deranged in a Russell T Davis era Doctor Who sort of way.
A word too about the action sequences, which are as strong as they are varied. Vaughn’s action pieces have a distinctive style (think Big Daddy cleaning house in Kick-Ass), one that is evoked here strongly both in Hart’s scrap in a London boozer and in a tremendously violent sequence in a Southern Baptist hate church. There’s also a thriller parachute sequence, a detour to the edge of space and of course a showdown inside a mountain, amongst others. As with Kick-Ass, the sudden extreme violence can feel a little jarring with the tone of the piece but ultimately I think it works here. It must be said however that I loved Kick-Ass on first viewing but cooled on it considerably the second time.
For all that I enjoyed the acting, the action, the soundtrack and even the ludicrous plot, the overwhelming feeling I got from the film is that I really, really want to be a Kingsman and surely there can be no higher praise than that.
Michael comes from the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. He will write on comics, TV and film, plus anything else that might occur to him.
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Mind-boggling stats for 2018 Week 14
Patrick Mahomes is outperforming entire teams, the Patriots could clinched the AFC East, and Drew Brees is on track to break even more records this season. See what the numbers have to say with these mind-boggling stats for Week 14.
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Rams in primetime
Good news for Jared Goff and the Rams heading into Sunday Night Football against the Bears' fourth-ranked scoring defense: Goff is 4-0 in primetime games since 2017, with 14 TD passes, 0 interceptions, and a 132.1 passer rating. The bad news: Goff is 2-3 in his career against Top 5 scoring defenses, averaging 192.6 passing yards per game in those contests and leading the Rams to just 16.6 points per game.
Clashing styles
Styles will clash on Monday Night in the Emerald City. The Seahawks run the ball on 51.1 percent of offensive plays, the highest rate in the NFL this season. Meanwhile, the Vikings have a 67.3 pass play percentage this season, the highest in the NFL. Despite attempting 165 fewer passes this season, Russell Wilson (29 pass TD) has 6 more TD passes than Kirk Cousins (23).
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Outperforming entire teams
Patrick Mahomes leads the NFL with 41 passing touchdowns this season, 14 shy of Peyton Manning's single-season record of 55 in 2013. Mahomes has more pass TD in 12 games this season (41) than the Ravens do in their last two seasons-worth of games (39 pass TD in their last 32 games.) Mahomes has 43 total touchdowns this season (41 passing, 2 rushing), which is more than 29 NFL offenses (all but the Chiefs, Saints, and Rams).
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Better with Amari
What a difference a...trade makes? Since the Cowboys added Amari Cooper, Dak Prescott's passer rating is up to 105.9 from 87.4, and his TD-INT ratio is 6-1 compared to 8-4 prior to the trade. However, since the Eagles added Golden Tate, Carson Wentz's passer rating has dipped from 109.6 to 86.5, while his TD-INT ratio went from 13-2 before Tate to 5-5 with him.
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Brees breaking records
Drew Brees is on pace to set single-season records for completion percentage (75.5) and passer rating (123.2) this season. There is no more advantageous opponent for him than the Buccaneers, who have allowed a 72.4 completion percentage and 113.7 passer rating to opponents this season, both last in the NFL and the 2nd-worst in each metric since the 1970 merger.
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Path to playoffs
The Patriots can clinch the AFC East and a playoff spot for an NFL-record 10th consecutive season with a win this week. A win would also tie the 1983- 1998 49ers' record 16 straight seasons with 10+ wins. How different was the world in 2002, the last time the Patriots failed to win 10+ games? The #1 song on the Billboard charts was "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, Michael Jordan was in the midst of his final NBA season while LeBron James was enjoying his senior year of high school, and the NFL Network had not yet launched to cover Jon Gruden's first season as the Buccaneers' head coach.
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Pagan Natural Uprightness and the Extravagance of Apostates
For eight centuries, the Cross and Islam were engaged in a fight to the death in Spain that ended only when the troops of the Catholic Kings seized Granada and expelled the last Moslem ruler from the peninsula.
The Capitulation of Granada, Painting by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. Boabdil gives the keys of the city to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
The reasons for this mortal opposition were multiple. On the religious plane, it was explained by an unyielding difference of doctrines, by the violent contrast between the morality of the Gospel and Mohammedan depravation and by the twofold purpose which the followers of Mohammed had of impeding the preaching of Christianity in the lands they dominated and subjugating the Catholic nations by force, extinguishing our holy Religion in them.
The long epic of the Christian Reconquest was inspired by an ardent faith and a sublime intransigence. This intransigence did not exclude, however, an attitude of intelligent discernment regarding the values of the Arab civilization. Because of this, having exterminated Mohammedanism, the conquerors conserved numerous monuments raised by the vanquished, even consecrating various mosques to the worship of the true God.
Religious syncretism? Who could accuse the heroes of the Reconquest of this repulsive error?
No, the reason for this is another. Mohammedanism, like so many other false religions, was not able to influence so profoundly its faithful as to extinguish in them all love for the truth, moral sense, and consequently, artistic inspiration. On the contrary, these values, nourished by a natural uprightness that persisted to a good extent and, by precious cultural traditions, continued to develop, gave rise to cultures and artistic systems that are admirable under several aspects. The conquerors of Islam — moved by the spirit of the Church, which neither despises nor rejects man’s upright and good works — prudently mobilized the vigilance of the Inquisition against the remnants of Mohammed while lovingly conserving the marvels of Arabian art and legitimately consecrating them to divine worship.
An outstanding expression of this is found in the interior of the former mosque of Cordoba, today a Catholic cathedral. Numerous arches, ingeniously superimposed over one another, bestow dignity, lightness and undeniable enchantment to the ambience. The soul naturally feels inclined to leave the commonplace and elevate itself to noble and serene thoughts. Of course, in this work there can be nothing of the breath of faith that makes the Sainte Chapelle of Paris, or Assisi, as it were, antechambers of heaven. All in all, it lacks the supernatural, but no one could say that the sacred ceremonies of our liturgy could not properly develop in this naturally harmonious and dignified ambience.
Could one say the same of any of these three buildings? For what are they destined? A gymnasium? A cinema? A club? A theater?A warehouse? A factory? These inelegant, heavy and brutally simple forms have about them something gloomy, proletariat (in the worst meaning of the word) and vulgar. An immanent mystery seems to act within them like the law of gravity so that their walls and roofs tend to sink to the ground. It is a movement quite opposed to that by which souls tend to raise themselves toward heaven. How this differs from the noble lightness of an Arabian minaret, to say nothing of a Gothic tower.
These are three ultra-modern churches, one Protestant, another Jewish, and the last, Catholic, on an American university campus. None of them bears any trace of their respective traditions or spirit. Placed thus side by side, they seem to be three equally legitimate species of one same genus, the religion genus. A like spirit gives them all a like physiognomy.
One has the impression that they have just one soul, that the force which fastens them to the ground is an immanent, sinister and cold mystery, giving them an aspect of three drops of the same liquid, three boxes filled with the same substance, three factories producing the same product.
It is, in our way of seeing, the very soul of contemporary neopaganism, the archetype of the worst of everything that ancient paganism had, corroding all the cultural manifestations in which it is nestled much more efficaciously than did ancient paganism and reducing everything to desolating uniformity.
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PCDU Episode 117: Holler for a Marshall, an AIR Marshal
By Grant (Falcon124), on February 26th, 2014%
With the RAAF’s Centenary of Military Aviation air show only a couple of days away, we thought we’d mix up some content that promotes the event as well as some chats Grant recorded with a number of past & present members of the RAAF at the Temora Aviation Museum’s “Warbirds Down Under” event back in November. To round the whole thing off, we’ve also got Steve’s chat with Tammy Augostin about the Women of Aviation Worldwide Week event that will be running from March 3rd to 9th around the world.
From top to bottom: AVM (ret) Skidmore, AIRMSHL Binskin & AVM Davies (and, of course, a P40 :) )
The episode’s content run is:
Steve & Grant give an overview of what to expect in the episode
0:09:42 – Grant catches up with Air Marshal Mark Binskin at the Temora Aviation Museum to discuss his career, the role of Vice Chief of the Defence Force and flying his Cessna O-1 Birddog
0:15:57 – Air Vice Marshal (retired) Mark Skidmore talks to us about flying the Bristol Boxkite replica
0:20:33 – Air Vice Marshal Leo Davies (Deputy Chief of Air Force) tells us about the Centenary of Military Aviation air show, his career and the type of work he does in his role
0:28:17 – Keith Webb explains the Temora Aviation Museum‘s “Unsung Heroes” project and the work involved in collecting the reminiscences of veterans
0:34:42 – Grant catches up with Captain Jack Curtis, DC3 pilot extraordinaire and perhaps the only pilot flying DC3s who’s actually older than the aircraft he’s flying :)
0:43:01 –
F/A-18 flying over the Bristol Boxkite replica at Pt Cook
(Photo by James Kightly)
Dick Simms talks about being an Officer Cadet in the RAAF & flying Mustangs, Vampires & Meteors then his career selling aircraft and his restoration of a 1930’s Ryan STM that can now be found at the Temora Aviation Museum
0:58:10 – Mick Haxel (DFC) chats with Grant about his career in the military and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) at the time that it became the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) before winding up with his current position with Flight Safety Pty Ltd. He also talks about how he was awarded DFC for his flying in Vietnam (Audio courtesy of the Australian War Memorial)
1:16:50 – Steve talks with Tammy Augostin about the Women of Aviation Worldwide Week event and her involvement with CCT Racing, one of the Australian jet racing teams at the Reno Air Races
1:47:44 – Steve & Grant wrap up the episode
GPCAPT (ret) Ron Gretton AM & WGCDR (ret) Geoff Matthews talk with AVM (ret) Mark Skidmore in front of the Bristol Boxkite replica they built
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CLIPPERS SCORE NEW DYNAMIC DUO
Oddsmakers all across the country had to rush back to their calculators and crystal balls when this years’ NBA Playoffs MVP announced that he had just made a deal to play for Doc Richards and the Los Angeles Clippers for the foreseeable future. Ex-Raptor Kawhi Leonard is moving to Los Angeles after signing at 4 year, $142,000,000 contract with the ecstatic Clips.
Just factoring that move into the calculations for the odds to win the NBA Championship next year caused the predictions to go haywire, then it was announced that veteran All-Star Paul George would also be joining Kawhi Leonard in LA and the numbers went into a scramble once again, finally leaving the Clippers as odds on favorites to win the NBA title in 2020 at some venues.
Los Angeles is once again looking like the center of the basketball world after the Clippers latest moves and the acquisition by the LA Lakers of Anthony Davis from New Orleans to partner up with LeBron James, and yes, that is an awesome duo of highly skilled opponents on any basketball court. However, looking at the rest of the Lakers depth chart, the LA Clippers seem to have a significant edge in both front line and bench players. The NBA season is long and endurance will become a key factor before it’s all over.
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George are both seasoned professional players in their prime. Both are in their late 20’s and free from significant injuries, although George is nursing a sore shoulder at this time. Both have displayed greatness on the court individually, together they should be a formidable force to reckon with. Doc Richards must be laughing.
So the Clippers have moved from 10-1 all the way up to 11-4 overnight! The Lakers, who were listed at 7-5 after signing Anthony Davis, dropped to 4-1 after they failed to also sign up Kawhi Leonard. However, bettors are still coming down heavily on the Lakers to win the NBA Championship for 2020. Las Vegas sports books took wagers up to $10,000 on the Lakers in June. In fact, wagers on the Lakers to win the title have totaled almost 5 times the amount wagered on all other teams combined.
Now those numbers have already started moving with the announcement that the Clippers were obtaining the services of both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Thus far however, more money has been wagered on the New Orleans Pelicans to win the title than on the Los Angeles Clippers.
Funny how the balance of power seems to be working out in the NBA. For a long time the Celtics and the Lakers were the dominant teams, then came the era of the Golden State Warriors. Now, just as some of the air goes out of the Warriors franchise, here come the LA Clippers to pick up the slack and have their run at being NBA royalty for a while. They have the coach, and now they have the players to make a real run at the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy for 2020.
Did the Lakers big moves inspire the Clippers to respond with Leonard and George? Probably so, but it doesn’t matter who went first anymore because now the race is on, and it’s going to be a good one!
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National Grid warns fracking firm to stay away from its pylons and pipelines
May 2, 2014 rowland
The National Grid has warned fracking firm Cuadrilla it will take legal action if its drilling operation for shale gas threatens to disturb its underground pipelines or overhead transmission lines, ClickGreen can reveal. The organisation has lodged a “formal objection” to a preliminary application by Cuadrilla to extend its search for shale gas in the Bowland Basin. The company has submitted an initial bid seeking to open up four exploratory boreholes near the Lancashire town of Kirkham, midway between Blackpool and Preston. But in a strongly worded letter to County Council planning chiefs, the National Grid has taken an unprecedented stance and warned of legal action should the drilling affect a nearby high-pressure gas pipeline as well as its high-voltage transmission overhead lines Continue reading National Grid warns fracking firm to stay away from its pylons and pipelines →
Shale gas safety put to the test
Fracking health concerns
A health probe into the effects of shale gas exploration in Lancashire has been dismissed as a “tick box exercise” by anti-frackers.
The county council is to spend £30,000 on examining the likely impact on residents should the controversial drilling process get the go-ahead.
But Eve McNamara, from the pressure group Ribble Estuary Against Fracking, accused the authority of “just paying lip service” to safety concerns.
“In the past we have found that these Health Impact Assessments are just tick box exercises to appease the community. This is not an industry we want onshore in the UK because, if they did a proper impact survey, they would realise the impact is substantial. Data from Australia and the United States suggests this is not safe.”
Cabinet members will be asked to approve a Health Impact Assessment of two proposed fracking sites near Kirkham – Roseacre Wood and Little Plumpton. The investigation will look at possible contamination of land, water and air quality.
A report from the Lancashire’s director of public health, Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, to be presented to the cabinet meeting, says: “It is proposed that work is undertaken to identify information about the full range of potential health impacts.
“It is an opportunity for LCC to demonstrate its role to improve the health and wellbeing of its residents in relation to the ahle gas industry and highlight any potential risks at an early stage.”
“Law change planned over fracking”
The government is poised to announce that energy firms will be given the right to “frack” under private land without the owner’s permission, according to reports today.
It is understood the move will be included in the Queen’s Speech in June – paving the way to avoid any legal block by protesters if shale gas exploration is approved.
The legal move would change trespass laws.
According to national media reports, energy minister Michael Fallon is set to give more details at a shale gas supply chain conference in Blackpool on Thursday.
Gas exploration company Cuadrilla is planning to “frack” for shale gas at two sites in Lancashire – Rosecare Wood and near Little Plumpton near Preston.
In the North West the number of residents backing a Greenpeace petition to launch a mass legal block against fracking has reached nearly 7,000, with almost 2,000 in Lancashire alone.
A spokesman for the Department of Energy was unable to comment on the reports this morning.
Local authorities have ‘conflict of interest’ on fracking investments
Councils that will play a key role in deciding the future of fracking in Britain have investments worth millions of pounds in companies behind the energy extraction method, The Independent can reveal.
Local authorities in areas identified as potential sources of gas have holdings via their pension funds in firms seeking to drill within their boundaries. One of the most significant investments is £1.9m held by Lincolnshire County Council’s pension fund in Total, the French company that earlier this year became the first oil major to enter Britain’s dash for shale gas, with a £30m stake in two exploration projects in the county.
West Sussex County Council also has indirect holdings in Cuadrilla, which was at the centre of controversial tests in the village of Balcombe last summer. The council also has substantial investments, currently worth £3.5m, in Centrica, the parent company of British Gas – which last year took a 25 per cent stake in a Lancashire shale-gas project operated by Cuadrilla, albeit not directly.
The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), which invests on behalf of Salford and Trafford councils, holds shares in Henderson Group, a major investor in IGas, another fracking exploration company that is conducting shale-gas tests in the Salford area.
All the councils insisted there was no conflict of interest between their pension-fund investments and past or future planning decisions on fracking projects. They pointed out that shares had been bought in all cases except Lincolnshire via investment funds, and councillors involved with pension fund-related decisions did not sit on their planning committees.
But campaigners said it sent the wrong signal and called on the local authorities to sell their holdings.
Simon Clydesdale, energy campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said: “It’s a worrying discovery. Fracking is already a dirty enough industry without getting mired in the murky waters of conflicts of interest. Councils must disinvest and show local voters that they can be trusted to put the interests of their constituents first when making crucial decisions on fracking applications.”
With assets worth about £120bn, local authority pension funds are among Britain’s largest investors.
David Forbes, Lincolnshire’s assistant director of resources, said: “The pension scheme operates within a set of clear investment principles and is overseen by the pension committee, which makes its decisions independently from the county council.”
West Sussex County Council said its investment in Cuadrilla, worth some £26,000, was minimal and equated to some 0.001 per cent of the total value of its £2.45bn pension fund. In a statement, the council said: “Any indirect investments made by the pension fund’s investment managers would not have any influence at all in determining a planning application.”
Salford City Council said its planning panel members had no role in deciding where GMPF invested its funds. GMPF acknowledged its holding in Henderson Group but said it had no investment, direct or indirect, in IGas.
Government to make 40 per cent of Britain available for fracking
The vast disruption that could be caused across the country by fracking has been laid bare, with the Government announcing it would make 40 per cent of Britain available to companies to explore for oil and gas.
Local communities could be subjected to thousands of wells being dug every year in the search for fossil fuels – requiring billions of litres of water, with dozens of lorries passing by every day – after the Coalition said it would put oil and gas licences covering 100,000 square kilometres up for auction.
The auction, which would give the licence-winners exclusive rights to explore an area for oil and gas, but would require additional permits for fracking, would add to the 19,000 square kilometres of licences that have already been sold to hydrocarbon producers.
Opponents of the drilling technique were quick to criticise the plans. Friends of the Earth energy campaigner Tony Bosworth said: “These plans cast a dark shadow over many communities across Britain who could now face the threat of fracking in their backyard.”
Harry Huyton, head of energy and climate policy at the RSPB, added: “We asked that the most ecologically sensitive parts of the country, such as protected areas, be excluded from licensing. Sadly, this scenario is not even considered in the documents released by the Government because it might have the ‘unintended consequence’ of restricting fracking activity.”
Britain’s first fracking site, near Blackpool, was forced to suspend operations in 2011 after being found to have caused two earth tremors.
But the Government sought to boost its chances of widespread fracking by saying that next year’s licences, together with those already awarded, could generate almost £1bn for local communities, according to a new environmental assessment of fracking by the engineering firm AMEC.
The money would come from a £100,000-per-well payment, irrespective of whether it contains gas or oil, and 1 per cent of any revenue generated – which could be between £2.4m to £4.8m a site.
But the Government also revealed that HGV trucks could pass near homes as many as 51 times a day as they travelled to and from the wells.
The ferrying of people and materials could continue for up to 145 weeks, or nearly three years, during which time trucks could pass by a given property more than 50,000 times.
Launching an environment assessment of the forthcoming licensing round, Energy Minister Michael Fallon said he was “stepping up the search for shale gas” – although he declined to say whether he would allow fracking under his own house. “There could be large amounts of shale gas available in the UK, but we won’t know for sure the scale of this prize until further exploration takes place. It is an exciting prospect, which could bring growth, jobs and energy security,” he said.
The Government talked up the economic potential of next year’s licensing round, predicting 150 new licences would create between 16,000 and 32,000 jobs, and produce as much as 8.64 trillion cubic feet of gas during the 2020s
Doubts cast on claims of Lancashire fracking jobs boom
TOWER OF PEOPLE POWER: Protesters gathered Outside the conference
Published on the 29 April
Anti-fracking protesters have hit back at claims of a multi-billion pound boom for Lancashire if shale gas gets the go-ahead.
Greenpeace UK chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said of the UK Onshore Operators Group report compiled by Ernst and Young: “This report is a rehash of rose-tinted industry guesstimates about the economic potential of fracking in the UK.
“Paying accountants to tally up hypothetical jobs won’t change the fact that executives still have no idea whether they’ll actually be able to get gas out of the ground on a commercial scale in the UK.
“Scratch beneath the hype and this report is actually a veiled plea for government and taxpayer support for an industry that has stalled before even taking off. It’s less about what fracking can do for your country, and more about what your country should do for fracking.
“The low-carbon energy sector is already giving work to tens of thousands of people across the UK, with the potential to create many more. This is where ministers should concentrate their efforts if they are serious about making Britain’s energy supply cleaner and safer.”
Friends of the Earth North West Campaigner Helen Rimmer said: “This report should be viewed with caution – US studies have shown that the fracking industry has exaggerated jobs claims in the past.
“Supporters of fracking have form on over-hyping shale gas. Claims that it will cut UK energy bills have been dismissed by most experts.
“The North West has some of the best offshore wind and tidal resources in Europe and already over 10,000 are employed in the sector.
“The Government should abandon its reckless pursuit of fracking – which is dirty, unpopular and will not deliver for years – and make the North West the heart of a renewables revolution to power the country.”
She said the renewables sector already amounts to £1.2 billion and 10,000 jobs in the North West, with predictions that 400,000 jobs could be created by 2020.
4 Wells Planned for Roseacre Wood & Little Plumpton
Four wells planned for each of Roseacre and Little Plumpton sites
Cuadrilla has announced that it intends to apply for planning permission to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells at each of the Roseacre Wood and Preston New Road sites. Following submission of its planning application, residents will also be able to make further comments during the statutory consultation period, which will be organised by Lancashire County Council (LCC). Please keep checking back to the RAFF site, as once the applications are received by LCC we will be providing advice on how best to object.
Cuadrilla also states that a works programme is also underway to restore the exploration sites at Anna’s Road and Preese Hall. Site restoration plans for these two sites were approved by Lancashire County Council at a planning committee earlier this year. Readers will remember that both of these wells failed – Preese Hall was damaged by induced seismicity caused by the drilling, and Anna’s Road because Cuadrilla messed up the process by getting a packer stuck down the well.
As part of Cuadrilla’s review of sites, the company will also be applying for planning permission to carry out seismic and pressure monitoring at its Grange Hill site. The company says that the well will not be hydraulically fractured.
Hostile landowners could derail Cuadrilla’s fracking plans
Shale gas explorer offers community benefits of up to £6,000 per household for those nearest the drilling sites, but admits it is yet to secure the right to frack beneath dozens of homes up to 5,000ft away
Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla Photo: WARREN SMITH
Cuadrilla’s plans to frack in Lancashire could be blocked by hostile landowners – despite the offer of benefits that could exceed £6,000 a household for communities living near two proposed drilling sites.
The shale gas explorer on Tuesday unveiled plans to frack at two sites near the villages of Roseacre and Little Plumpton, both between Blackpool and Preston, scaling back previous plans to do so at up to seven sites in the region.
Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive, told the Telegraph it hopes to commence drilling towards the end of this year and frack as soon as the first quarter of 2015, if it gets planning permission.
The two sites could be the first to be fracked since the lifting in December 2012 of an 18-month ban on the practice, imposed after Cuadrilla caused earth tremors by drilling at Preese Hall, just a few miles from Little Plumpton.
But Cuadrilla faced immediate threats from campaigners Greenpeace that its plans could be blocked by hostile landowners using trespass laws to deny permission for fracking under their land.
Mr Egan said wells for fracking could extend up to 5,000ft horizontally from the proposed drilling sites and admitted that it was yet to secure access agreement from potentially dozens of homeowners under whose land fracking could take place.
Under current trespass law, if Cuadrilla were unable to negotiate access with any landowners in its drilling path, it would need to take them to court to overrule them. However, ministers are considering changing the law.
“Clearly its an issue,” Mr Egan said. “We will have to cross that bridge when we come to it.”
Greenpeace said that more than 100 homes in the area had signed up to its “legal block” to deny permission.
Shale gas companies have pledged a series of community benefits, including £100,000 for every exploratory well that is fracked, in an attempt to win support.
Cuadrilla said that as few as 130 households could receive the “lion’s share” of £800,000 in benefitsthat would be paid if it fracks four wells per site as planned.
The Community Foundation for Lancashire has been tasked with distributing the benefits in consultation with local communities. Payments to individual households have not been ruled out, although the cash may be spent on wider community projects. “It’s up to communities to decide that,” Mr Egan said.
Cuadrilla began consultation with residents on Tuesday and hopes to submit its planning applications in May.
An artist’s impression of the fracking site at Preston New Road
Villagers in Roseacre appeared divided over the plans. Heather Speak, 53, spoke of her “shock” at the plans and said people were “frightened”.
Rowland and Marie Taylor, both 70, said they feared they would not be able to sell their bungalow in the village as a result of the plans. Mr Taylor dismissed the benefits, saying: “I don’t want it and I don’t want fracking.”
But Chris Noad, 73, said: “I am in favour. It’s an energy resource and the country needs it.”
Cuadrilla said in July it would seek to frack at up to seven sites across Lancashire, though had not begun the planning process at any of them.
Mr Egan said it had instead opted to frack multiple wells at the two sites to “reduce the potential impact on the local area”. It could drill wells at different depths “because the shale is so thick”.
Cuadrilla encountered fierce protests while attempting to drill for oil in Balcombe in the summer, leading to suggestions from a Tory peer that fracking should take place in the “desolate” north.
Mr Egan said the company had “learned from the experience of Balcombe” but denied it had sought more desolate locations.
“We looked at a range of issues: closeness to infrastructure, transport, ecology. We assessed a number of possible sites across a whole range of criteria,” he said. “I don’t think ‘desolation’ was one that we included – or the lack thereof.”
“A case of David and Goliath”
April 25, 2014 rowland
Anti-fracking campaigners say they have “not even started fighting yet” in their campaign against Cuadrilla.
Blackpool Gazette (04/04/2014)
Barry Warner, from Roseacre Awareness Group, at Cuadrilla’s event at Elswick Village Hall
The newly-formed Roseacre Awareness Group (RAG) has made the claim after energy company Cuadrilla held a public information event to discuss its plans for the village with residents.
The energy firm is looking to explore sites in Roseacre and Little Plumpton.
Barry Warner, from RAG, said: “What we’ve got at the moment is a classic case of David and Goliath.
“We’ve got a very rich organisation which I think is trying to steamroller their planning application through and I think what they’re hoping is people sleepwalk into it, but we have not yet begun to fight.”
Continue reading “A case of David and Goliath” →
Fracking Conference: Industry could be worth £33bn
Michael Fallon, MP
A shale gas supply chain report, revealed at a conference on the Fylde coast, estimates the industry could be worth £33bn to the UK.
The report was unveiled, and measures to minimise the environmental impacts of shale gas have been announced, by the Government.
Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon, speaking at a supply chain conference in Blackpool, welcomed the EY Shale Gas Supply Chain report that estimates a potential £33bn benefit to the UK economy and more than 64,000 jobs. Continue reading Fracking Conference: Industry could be worth £33bn →
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Mighty Buildings
He whose soul does not soar in the wide expanses, he who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual devastation. But neither does he acquire mighty buildings. He takes shelter in the shade of natural havens, like the hares who take shelter in the clefts of the rock.
But when a person has a robust soul, his soul can shelter only in structures that he erects with his spiritual toil, never ceasing from his vigorous labor.
Orot Hakodesh II, p. 314
The Inclination for Spiritual Greatness When you want to learn, but in every topic you approach your spirit is not at rest and it seems to you that you must choose another topic, this is because of the profusion of thought that desires to embrace everything and does not want to leave anything isolated and limited.
It is necessary to overcome this imperfection, a lack whose cause is overfulness. But you cannot act to attain this victory as you would in overcoming an imperfection that comes from baseness. Ultimately, we must know that it is impossible to uproot from the soul the inclination for spiritual greatness and breadth that it has already attained.
Arpelei Torah, p. 57
Constant Self-Revelation Do not oppose the essential soul when it reveals itself. That self-revelation is constant. Even when the thickest clouds mask the soul’s brilliant light, it shines with all its power. It carries the world and every human being to the goal of his fulfillment—a goal that transcends all definitions.
The soul speaks without speaking. It acts without acting. With it alone do we ascend those steps to which we are impelled by the impulse of that which is truly life, in its most profound mysteries. “Then shall you rejoice in God.”
This is the secret of thirst and the mystery of its quenching.
Orot Hakodesh I, p. 173
The Inner Spark The very essence of the soul, which expresses and experiences the true, spiritual life, requires complete inner freedom. This freedom is its life.
This freedom comes to the soul from the midst of its essential thought, its inner spark. Our learning and contemplation cause this spark to continually flame. But really, this independent spark is the basis of idea and thought. If room is not provided for the independent spark with its light to appear, then whatever comes to it from without will be of no avail.
This spark must be guarded in its purity. Then the inner thought—in the depth of its truth, in its greatness and exaltedness—will awaken.
Then this holy spark will not be extinguished because of any learning and any contemplation.
The internal unity of the soul in its core represents the supernal greatness of the illuminated, Divine seed—”light is sown for the righteous.” From this seed, the fruit of the tree of life shall sprout and blossom.
Consolation for Every Monstrous Vision At times, your soul is revealed to you in all its naked ugliness—and you are repulsed by the vision. But only in this way can you calm your spirit: for corresponding to the ugliness of the soul and its impurity, so will its beauty and purity grow. “One corresponding to the other did God create them.”
After you strengthen yourself and rise beyond the shocking vision of that aspect of ugliness—so that the aspect of purity shines before your eyes, the aspect of the beauty within your soul, and your eyes, seeing, are illumined—then you will gain consolation for every monstrous vision that had terrified you. AThe humble will increase their joy in God, and the most impoverished will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 29:19).
The Inner, Essential “I” “I am in the midst of the exile” (Ezekiel 1:1).
The inner, essential “I”—whether individual or communal—does not appear by itself. Rather, it appears in relation to our holiness and purity. It appears in relation to the amount of supernal power that, with the pure light of an elevated illumination, burns within us.
“Both we and our forefathers sinned” (Psalms 106:6).
This refers to the sin of Adam, who was alienated from his essential being. He turned to the consciousness of the serpent, and thus he lost himself. He could not clearly answer the question, “Where are you?”, because he did not know himself, because he had lost his true “I.”
He had bowed to a strange god.
And that was the sin of Israel, who “ran after foreign gods” (Deuteronomy 31:16). We abandoned our essential “I” “Israel rejected goodness” (Hosea 8:3).
In the days of creation, the earth itself sinned. It denied its own essence.
It constricted its power and went after limited goals and purposes. It did not give all of its hidden power so that the taste of the tree could be equal to the taste of its fruit.
Instead, it raised its eyes to look outside of itself. It considered a trivial future and way of being.
At that time as well, the moon complained. As a result, it lost its internal orbit, the joy of its portion. It was dreaming of a superficial beauty of royalty.
Thus does the world continue, sinking into the destruction of every “I”—of the individual and of the whole.
Learned educators come and focus on the superficial. They too remove their consciousness from the “I.”
They add straw to the fire, give vinegar to the thirsty, and fatten minds and hearts with everything that is external to them.
And the “I” gets progressively forgotten.
And when there is no “I,” there is no “He,” and how much more is there no “You.”
The Messiah is called “the breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of God” (Lamentations 4:20).
This is his might, the beauty of his greatness: that he is not outside of us. He is the breath of our nostrils.
Let us seek Hashem our God and David our king.
Let us tremble before God and His goodness.
Let us seek our “I.”
Let us seek ourselves—and find.
Remove all foreign gods, remove every stranger and illegitimate one.
Then “you will know that I am Hashem your God, Who takes you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am Hashem.”
Orot Hakodesh III, pp. 140-41
Your Independent Intuition It is not the intent of any influence that comes from outside yourself and into your inner being—whether from secular or holy sources—to silence your spirit and mute your independent intuition.
Rather, its intent is to bathe you with a flow of light, so that you will absorb it into the essence of who you are.
In this way, and from the midst of this, your independent sense will grow ever stronger.
When you are desolated by internal shoddiness, you think that the intention of everything that comes from outside yourself is to abrade your independent sense of reality, to make you crumple, and you totter. You become short-tempered and you cease to grow.
Together, the holy and the secular influence your spirit. When you integrate them, you are enriched.
You must take what is fitting from each of them.
From the holy, take the light of life and an inner character.
From the secular, take the container, the superficial understanding that provides a basis for grasping the content. The secular provides material for analogies and explanations, for contexts in which to understand the ways of the world and good character traits.
There is a spirit of abundance that is the awareness of division between the holy and the secular.
That abundance becomes ever more clear when you gather the wealth of these various sources. It strengthens and illumines your spirit.
At last, you come to the innermost circle of Torah. The diseased cloud within you that hides the Torah begins to glow more and more with the light of Torah. Out of the mist, lights are revealed in their full beauty.
Orot Hakodesh I, pp. 67-68
Even a Pleasant Conversation If we imagine we are rectifying universes with our service of God, but we don’t know the worth of our soul—or, in general, the make-up of spirituality—we will be filled with fantasies and delusions.
But we may know the following. With every moral improvement, every good trait we attain, every worthy teaching we learn, and every good deed we perform—even the very smallest, even a pleasant conversation—we lift the spirituality within ourselves, that spirituality which is the foundation of our entire being.
And so by lifting that spirituality within ourselves, an entire being is lifted. Each one of us is a piece of reality that is powerfully linked to all of existence. And so one part of existence has been elevated. And that in turn raises all of existence.
In this way, with every bit of goodness, we rectify endless worlds.
When this awareness is part of our consciousness, our mind broadens. Our illusions diminish and come ever closer to truth.
Midot Harayah, p. 93
Great Qualities That We Do Not Possess At times we may grow distressed, hearing of some great quality that we ourselves do not possess. We may become as nothing in our eyes.
Then depression starts to tarnish the luster of our soul. In the presence of that quality of greatness that we cannot attain, our spirituality grows dull.
At such times, we must fortify ourselves not to envy another’s fortune. We must use our feeling of insignificance only to an appropriate degree: to overcome ego, so as not to grow proud. But we should be satisfied and joyful with our lot. We should cling ever more forcefully to our strong points.
Then our light will break forth like the dawn, and our healed spirit will swiftly blossom.
Recognize Your Nature There are people who have left the path of traditional Judaism because they betrayed their personal, unique approach in Torah learning and spiritual self-perfection.
Let us take the example of a person who is suited for aggadah. His constitution is not fit for spending the bulk of his time learning halachah. But since he does not appreciate his distinctive character, he follows the general practice and steeps himself in the study of halachah. In his spirit, however, he feels an opposition to what he is doing, because such in-depth learning is not in accord with the nature of his essential capabilities.
If he were to recognize his proclivity and nurture it, immersing himself regularly in the area of Torah that suits the character of his spirit, he would recognize immediately that the feeling of opposition he had experienced when learning halachic matters did not come about because of any essential lack of these holy and necessary topics, but rather because he had been seeking another area of Torah on which to concentrate. Realizing this, he would remain faithful in an elevated manner to the holiness of the Torah. He would succeed in Torah in the area that is suited for him. And he would help those whose strong point is halachah, by giving them a taste of the pleasure of aggadah.
However, if he does not recognize the reason for his feeling of opposition to learning and continues to battle against his nature, as soon as a non-Torah path opens before him, he breaks out onto it. He becomes an enemy and rebel against Torah and faith, growing ever more alienated.
It is from such people that the wild ones of our nation have come forth, people who claim to present a vision, yet who blind the eyes of the world.
Orot Hatorah 9:6
The Soul of a Jew Must Grow Broad A Jew’s soul must grow broad. It must be aflame and grow mighty.
We must remove all obstacles upon its path, everything that does not help it proceed on its way.
Moreover, we must help it so that spiritual content will be available to it, and so that every mixture of temperament will help it blossom. [?]
This is the secret of Torah in this world, and of all the paths of life of faith and holiness.
Spiritual Confidence An upright person must believe in his life.
We must believe that our lives and that our feelings come directly from the foundation of our spirit are good and straight, and that they lead upon a straight path.
The Torah must be a lamp to our feet, by means of which we will see where error is likely—for at times our spirit will go astray upon a pathless wasteland.
But our constant attitude must be one of spiritual confidence. A Jew is obligated to believe that a divine soul, in essence one letter of the Torah, dwells within him. And a letter of the Torah is a complete world, constantly and infinitely growing.
Even the spiritual ramifications [?] of a grain of sand have no measure or limitation. And all the years of our lives will not suffice to explain the entire wealth of laws founded in wisdom and interwoven with knowledge and awesome might that lie within us.
And how much more must the entire Jewish people believe clearly and fervently in its life, in its predilections, [?] and proceed confidently. Then it will know how to use the light of the living Torah.
Orot Hatorah 11:2
The Withholding of Tranquility In essence, spiritual toil and the withholding of inner tranquility are the result of distancing ourselves from what our soul’s capabilities have made us fit for.
The Relationship Between All Souls The flash of light that unveils the relationship between all souls of all generations with the soul of an adept as he engages in visualization is the beginning of the holy spirit.
When you develop this holy ability with regular practice, and connect it to wisdom and good deeds, you will rise level by level, and come to a number of realizations. “Open the gates of justice for me; I will enter them, I will thank God.”
Arpelei Torah, p. 108
A Torn Soul Whoever has said that my soul is torn spoke well. It is certainly torn. I cannot imagine a person whose soul is not torn. Only a lifeless object is whole, but a human being is filled with conflicting desires, and an inner war rages within him continuously.
The purpose of all my work is to mend the rents within my spirit by means of an all-inclusive viewpoint in whose greatness and exaltedness everything is embraced and comes to complete harmony.
Hamachshavah Hayisraelit, p. 13
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Govt opts for PPP model to achieve PMAY target
The State govt recently included all the urban planning agencies, including PMRDA, in the PMAY scheme.
PUNE: The Maharashtra Housing Department on Tuesday released a Government Resolution (GR) which states that the prices of 50 per cent houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) project will be fixed on the lines of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) rates. The remaining 50 per cent houses can be sold by the developer as per the Ready Reckoner rates.
To achieve the target of government’s flagship scheme PMAY, government authorities have come up with the public-private partnership (PPP) model and have invited developers to propose schemes for affordable housing.
The State government recently included all the urban planning agencies, including PMRDA, in the PMAY scheme. To achieve the target of PMAY scheme, the State government took the decision to allow PPP model for affordable housing. The government has kept a target to build 2 lakh affordable homes by 2022.
PMRDA Chief Kiran Gitte said that PMRDA has three options available for providing affordable housing to homebuyers.
“There are various private developers providing affordable housing, so PMRDA can coordinate with homebuyers, banks and such developers so that the homebuyer is benefited under the PMAY scheme. Similarly, a partnership project between PMRDA and private developers can work on joint affordable housing projects along with homebuyers,” said Gitte.
“In the third option, we have our own land, which can be used for developing affordable housing. In Mahalunge, we have 700 acres of land, of which 5 per cent (35 acres) has to be reserved for PMAY. Around 3,500 houses can be constructed on this 35 acre of land.” added Gitte.
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HighWire Doctoral Training Centre
Julia Carradus
Technology, Systems and Organisation
http://www.ifipwg94.org/files/IFIPWG94_2015_PROCEEDINGS.pdf
Brazil, Foucault, ICT, Informal work, control and surveillance, formalisation, regimes of truth, ICT4D
The formalising regime and its formalising technology: the case of informal trade in Recife, Brazil
Rui R. Ramos
Niall Hayes
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (IFIP 9.4) Negombo, Sri Lanka, May 2015 (2015) : Openness in ICT4D: Critical Reflections on Future Directions
Petter Nielsen
Department of Informatics, University of Olso
IFIP 9.4: 13th International Conference Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries - Sri Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka
IFIP 9.4: 13th International Conference Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of ICT within the formalisation programme put forward by Recife's City Council to regulate the informal trade that pervades the city's popular squares and streets. This formalisation takes shape by issuing formal licenses to give informal workers 'permission' to sell pre-determined items at specific sites. Drawing on Foucault we will argue that ICT is a formalising technology, which serves this formalising regime to control, discipline and survey informal traders. We will argue that the technology's disciplinary intent was shaped by: a) the ways by which the socio-political context, rather than a technical rationality, affected how both control and surveillance were performed and disciplinary decisions were enacted; b) how its appropriation by licensed workers facilitated the reach of the regime's surveillance but in some cases also sabotaged the programme's disciplinary intents, c) how the information system reinforced the marginalization of informal workers and strengthened the position of the municipality.
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Employers Generating Jobs at Strong Pace
By Toni Vranjes
The latest government jobs report shows strong employment growth, with payrolls up by a whopping 248,000.
In September, job growth topped economists’ predictions. The consensus estimate for payrolls was 213,000, according to IHS Global Insight.
“This report is a relief following the disappointing August figures,” said Sophia Koropeckyj, managing director of Moody’s Analytics.
Also, the nation’s jobless rate fell from 6.1 percent to 5.9 percent, reaching the lowest level in six years. Meanwhile, the labor force shrank by 97,000, but this decline isn’t statistically different from no change in the size of the labor force, noted Tara Sinclair, chief economist at Indeed.com.
Another positive development: employment growth for July and August combined was revised upward by 69,000. The Labor Department revised the payroll figure from 212,000 to 243,000 for July, and from 142,000 to 180,000 for August.
“I think overall this was a good jobs report – the unemployment rate fell for generally good reasons and payrolls solidly beat expectations,” Sinclair said in an e-mail. “In addition, the previous two months were revised upwards, so end of summer employment looks better than initially thought.”
Last month, the professional and business services industry performed especially well, creating 81,000 jobs. Another strong performer was retail trade, with employment growth of 35,000. One factor that boosted retail trade was the return of New England grocery-store workers to their jobs, following worker protests earlier in the year.
Nevertheless, there are some areas of concern. In an analysis, IHS Chief U.S. Economist Doug Handler wrote that the labor force has increased by just 389,000 since September 2013.
Handler and Sinclair say that low wage growth seems to be discouraging people from returning to the labor force. In September, average hourly earnings declined by one cent.
“With the one penny decline in average hourly earnings, average hourly earnings stand at only 2.0 percent ahead of year-ago levels – a rate that persisted since 2011,” Handler wrote. “Large declines in the unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma and among high school graduates suggests that a sizable share of this month’s new jobs occurred in low-paying sectors, depressing growth in average hourly earnings.”
Sinclair observed: “Employers may need to start raising wages to attract non-participants back into the labor force. Hopefully the strong numbers on job creation indicate to people who have given up looking for work that now might be the time to start looking again.”
In Koropeckyj’s view, the declining labor-force participation is a major worry – but it’s unclear if low wage growth is keeping people away.
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Sheffield Metals Offers New Color Visualizer
April 29, 2019 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Sheffield Metals International (SMI) announced the launch of its new and improved Color Visualizer. The user-friendly tool allows home or property owners, contractors, architects, manufacturers, and other members of the industry to create detailed digital mock-ups of their projects.
Users can choose from one of the sample pictures provided in the tool, or they can upload a photo of their actual home or property. From there, they can select between a wide variety of Sheffield Metals’ product options, including seam types, profiles, thicknesses, and colors, and apply each one to the defined metal roof, wall, and trim areas of the photo.
Not only does the Color Visualizer protect a consumer’s investment, but it provides a realistic representation of the finished project. “We heard feedback from customers and others within the industry that they wanted a more advanced and interactive styling tool beyond small paint samples and color cards,” said Adam Mazzella, Vice President of Sheffield Metals. “With the new Color Visualizer, you can get a much clearer idea of what the roof, wall, or trim will look like as a specific color, rather than just imagining the result.”
Users have the option to save, download, share, and print their project choices to help when comparing amongst different styles. Plus, unlike other color visualizing services, the Sheffield Metals Color Visualizer is entirely free to use.
For more information and a walk-through tutorial, visit https://www.sheffieldmetals.com/Resources/Color-Visualizer.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: color visualizer, metal roofing, metal wall panels, sheffield metals, Sheffield Metals International
RCI Canadian Building Envelope Technology Symposium Call for Abstracts
February 6, 2018 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
RCI, Inc. is excited to announce the first ever RCI Canadian Building Envelope Technology Symposium. The symposium will take place September 13-14, 2018, at the Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale, Mississauga, ON.
We are now accepting abstracts for papers to be presented at the Canadian Building Envelope Technology Symposium. Abstracts of each paper (200 words) should be received at RCI headquarters by April 13, 2018. The RCI Canadian Building Envelope Technology Symposium Committee will review abstracts, and authors will be notified regarding acceptance of abstracts by April 20, 2018. If accepted, papers should be received by May 25, 2018, for peer review.
Potential authors should contact Tina Hughes at RCI headquarters for a copy of the Abstract Submittal Form and RCI Guidelines for Presentations, complete directions on formatting, and acceptable formats for abstracts and papers. A topic description must be provided addressing the speaker’s subject knowledge and the level of knowledge that will be presented to the attendee (i.e., beginner, intermediate or advanced). Six RCI CEHs will be granted for an accepted paper. Additionally, presenters will earn triple credit for the length of the program (one presentation hour yields three CEHs).
Download the 2018 RCI CBES Call for Abstracts PDF for more details.
Suggested topics include:
Innovative Technologies & Practices
Façade Systems & Technologies
Unique Façade Design Solutions
The Building Envelope as a Design Statement
Energy Conservation Design
Designing Façades That Will Improve Indoor Air Quality
Economics & Life Cycle Analysis
Panelized Stone or Masonry Systems
Sealants – Design & Selection / Appropriate Specifications / Quality Assurance
Hygrothermal Analysis in Façade Designs
Façades Designed to Achieve Sustainability
Unique Detail Design Work
Curtainwalls
Double-Wall Façades
Air-Barrier Systems
Testing Wall Systems
Construction Processes
For more information, visit http://rci-online.org.
Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: building envelope, Canadian Building Envelope Technology Symposium, design, energy conservation design, metal wall panels, RCI, technologies, waterproofing
ATAS Now Offers Online Continuing Education Courses
January 26, 2018 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
ATAS International, Inc. offers three continuing education courses online. All three are approved for health, safety, and welfare learning units by the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (AIA CES).
The three online courses are:
Demystifying Rainscreen Systems Utilizing Metal Wall Panels
Designing for the Effects of Wind on Metal Roofs: Tests and Reality
Sustainable Building Envelopes
The course on Sustainable Building Envelopes is also approved by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). All three of these courses, in addition to five others, are available as in-person live learning sessions. As a registered AIA CES Passport Provider of education for many years, ATAS can also offer continuing education credit for two live plant tours: a facility which manufactures building envelope components from metal, and a metal coil coating facility.
Lee Ann M. Slattery, Sales Support Manager, stated, “ATAS is pleased that we are able to offer continuing education in a variety of ways. We understand that online learning opportunities are desirable, and we are now able to meet those needs. ATAS will continue to offer all eight of our courses in-person for those located across the country who are seeking to bring education into their firms.”
For more information, visit www.atas.com/education/aia-ces-seminars.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: AIA CES, american institute of architects, ATAS International Inc., Continuing Education System, metal roofs, metal wall panels, Sustainable Building Envelopes
ATAS Names the Winners of its Project of the Year Awards
May 24, 2017 by RoofingAdmin 1 Comment
ATAS International Inc. honored its 2016 Project of the Year winners at a recent awards banquet. This annual competition recognizes projects in which ATAS products have been incorporated into the design of the building.
An independent panel of judges reviewed photos of all the projects submitted throughout the year and chose several winners for each of the four categories: commercial roofs, commercial walls, residential roofs and residential walls.
Receiving first-place honors for commercial roofs was the Made in America flagship retail store in Elma, N.Y. Black Dutch Seam panels were used on this building, which was designed by Lydon Architectural Services. Panels were purchased and installed by Bayford Construction.
In the commercial walls category, the Cedar Point Valravn Roller Coaster project in Sandusky, Ohio, took first place. CastleTop panels in Charcoal Grey, Slate Grey and Champagne were installed, as well as Belvedere Wave Panel and Belvedere 7.2-inch Rib in Charcoal Grey, and Opaline in Champagne. The panels were installed by Lews Construction and purchased through Gordon Lumber. The building was designed by TRA.
Taking the first-place award in the residential roofs category was a private residence located in Fletcher, N.C. Classic Bronze PC System was used on the roof of this home, designed by Platt Architecture. The panels were purchased through ABC Supply and were installed by Joe Chapman Roofing.
The residential walls category first place winner was a private residence located in Pikeville, Ky. Designed by Hubbard Architecture, Rigid Wall panels in Silversmith were installed on the walls by JBK. The panels were purchased through Roofing Supply Group.
Jim Bush, vice president of sales and marketing for ATAS, stated, “We had a record number of entries submitted for the 2016 project of the year competition. The design creativity and aesthetics achieved through an architect’s vision, as well as the quality installation by the contractors, resulted in many showcase structures. Each year we look forward to honoring the architects, contractors and distributors who were involved in the award-winning projects.”
The Made in America flagship retail store in Elma, N.Y., won top honors in the commercial roof category. Photo: ATAS International.
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New Siding Panels Provide More Options for Metal Walls
May 18, 2017 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Petersen Aluminum expands its Precision Series line of metal wall panels with the addition of seven new Highline products. The Precision Series Highline siding panels feature varying rib patterns and widths for creative architectural effects in residential, commercial, institutional or many other applications. The Highline panels are 1 3/8 inches deep and showcase a range of rib patterns for visual interest and architectural creativity. Options include either 12-inch or 16-inch widths, a no-clip panel, or a clip-fastened panel to accommodate thermal expansion and contraction.
Filed Under: Latest Products, Metal Tagged With: metal wall panels, pac-clad petersen aluminum corp.
ATAS Products Are Found in BSD SpecLink-E Program
February 24, 2017 by RoofingAdmin2 Leave a Comment
ATAS is pleased to announce that their products can be found in the BSD SpecLink-E program. Sections include metal shingles, metal roof tiles, metal roof panels, metal wall panels, insulated metal wall panels and roof specialties, along with other sections.
BSD SpecLink-E combines the industry’s content with software. The master guide specification writing, management, and production system with built-in intelligence is designed to help specifiers speed up editing tasks and reduce specification production time while minimizing errors and omissions.
SpecLink-E is used to produce documentation for all types of projects and for all phases of a project, from programming all the way through construction administration. The database of over 783 sections can be expanded or collapsed to provide outline, short form, and full construction specs, without the need to start over at each phase of a project.
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Petersen Aluminum Celebrates 50 Years of Serving the Construction Industry
March 3, 2015 by RoofingAdmin2 Leave a Comment
Petersen Aluminum Corp. is celebrating its 50th anniversary by honoring the first five decades of company history as it prepares for a bright future. Maurice “Maury” Petersen founded the company on Feb. 15, 1965 as an aluminum distributor in Chicago, then worked with his son Mike as the company grew to become one of the construction industry’s architectural metals manufacturers.
“Fifty years in business is a noteworthy milestone, and we’re thrilled to not only still be in business, but to be thriving,” says Mike Petersen, CEO. “Our ability to identify, plan for and adapt to a myriad of market opportunities has been a big reason for our success. I am proud to have taken the reins from my father and help build on the foundation he laid 50 years ago. This is an exciting time for Petersen Aluminum, and I think we’re in good position to tackle the next 50 years.”
The main key to the company’s success is the hard work of dedicated employees in every position at Petersen Aluminum. Petersen notes the importance of the company’s vast supply of institutional knowledge, with a management team that averages 34 years of employment and includes many who worked with Maury, who passed away in 1996.
Dedication and longevity can be found at the company’s five locations, too, where it is common to meet people who have worked for the company for 15, 20 and 30 years or more. Providing employees with a corporate culture that fosters professional development, personal accountability and an enjoyable environment is important at Petersen Aluminum. “We take pride in giving our personnel a chance to develop their skills in an entrepreneurial environment. I am proud of how many people have chosen to devote their careers to PAC,” he adds.
Customers, partners and industry friends wanting to acknowledge Petersen Aluminum’s 50th anniversary are encouraged to leave a message on Petersen Aluminum’s Facebook page.
Management’s Perspective
Members of Petersen Aluminum’s executive management team average more than 30 years working at the company, and all are deeply invested in its success. President John Palesny has the longest tenure at 45 years, and cites several reasons for the company’s endurance.
“The financial strength of the company is a prime reason for our longevity,” says Palesny. “Maury Petersen, the founder of our company, had a mantra that he repeated often: pay down your debt. Maury grew up during the Depression and it had a life-long impact on his thinking about financial responsibility. While he was a risk taker when it came to business opportunities, he also believed in paying down debt whenever the opportunity arose. That attitude has been a part of PAC’s culture throughout the years.
“PAC has always given its people wide latitude in pursuing their objectives. We believe in local initiative and give managers free rein as to how they meet their goals,” Palesny continues. “We have excellent internal communications that are focused on how we can better serve our customers. Our people are confident in their abilities while keeping their egos well in check. Among my colleagues at Petersen Aluminum there is a closeness that few other organizations can match. Most of us have been here for a number of years and wouldn’t dream of working anywhere else. I think that says a lot about the management philosophy of Maury and Mike Petersen.”
Jon Snyder, vice president, also believes in the value of good people and their contribution to the success of Petersen Aluminum. “Maury believed that every employee is a salesperson for the company, and to keep your employees and customers happy. Maury always preached, ‘have fun, work hard and no politics,’” Snyder remembers. “Our company was built on a strong, professional sales-minded approach. We have found our niches along the way and worked hard to succeed within them, but have always been willing to change when necessary.”
Snyder adds that while Petersen Aluminum can be conservative and strives to operate without debt, the company isn’t afraid to take necessary risks, and when those efforts are financially rewarded, “We pour the rewards back into our business and our people.”
Vice President Mike Palesny recalls the company’s respect for and attention to the customer. “We may not be the lowest price in the marketplace, but we are always competitive in terms of customer service levels. And we pay attention to what the market wants. For example, at our early stages in the architectural marketplace, our focus was on anodized finishes. We recognized in the late ’70s that Kynar was the future and successfully made that tack. In the late ’80s and early ’90s we recognized the call for factory-formed roofing panels and dove in. Now we’re seeing the company focus on the entire building envelope, and of particular interest the exterior walls. I think our wall panel business will be a source of real growth for the company in the next 10 years,” Palesny says.
Mike Palesny hopes to see the business continue to grow and diversify both geographically and possibly through additional product lines. “We are a conservatively managed company and I think our future is bright. We’ve adapted to market shifts by paying attention to our balance sheet, paying off our debts and listening to our customers, which we will continue to do,” he notes.
Tom Bell, vice president, adds, “Of all the things that make Petersen Aluminum such a great company, none is more important than the talent and dedication of our employees day after day, for after all this is the only truly sustainable competitive advantage any company can process in this marketplace.”
Adapting, Investing in Quality
Adaptation is a critical skill for any business to possess, as Petersen Aluminum has demonstrated for 50 years. As technology changes the way construction professionals communicate and process information to meet critical project timelines, Petersen Aluminum continues to adapt to meet the needs of those professionals. For example, the company’s website provides e-tools that include everything required to shop for, specify, bid, purchase and install its metal products, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones that accomplish the same goals on whichever operating platform a professional might need.
Petersen Aluminum also is committed to quality products and service, and can prove it. In 2006, along with its corporate partners Valspar and Precoat Metals, a formal quality control program was initiated. The QC program that was developed has greatly enhanced the quality and consistency of the product Petersen Aluminum brings to market. “As a result of this ongoing program, the product that goes out the door is as good or better than anything available in the commercial market, and field issues with our product have become practically nonexistent,” Mike Petersen says.
Petersen Aluminum keeps its focus on the future, including how to address external market forces that are sure to include sustainable construction, material supplies and prices, competition for materials, construction workforce shifts, regulation, consolidation and others. “We’ve been successfully navigating market shifts and challenges through our history and we will continue to do so,” Petersen says.
In February 1965, Maurice Petersen began operation of Petersen Aluminum as an aluminum distributor in Chicago. The concept was to distribute aluminum mill products for aluminum producers not having a distributor organization or outlets for their products. Two manufacturers of truck cabs and printing plates promised support in the new venture.
Business began in a pie-shaped office rented for $75 a month. The lists of partners and customers grew as did revenue. Early on, the company moved frequently as business grew. By 1967, the company owned a truck, a 60-inch cut-to-length line, a shear and a saw. An unofficial company motto evolved: work hard, have fun, no politics.
In July 1972, Petersen Aluminum relocated to Schiller Park, Ill., and acquired an aluminum anodizing line, a decision that launched the company into the architectural metals arena. The company continues to maintain an anodizing line today. During that period, the company developed its PAC-CLAD product line beginning with prefinished Kynar 500 aluminum and later adding prefinished PAC-CLAD steel. During the next two and a half decades, Petersen Aluminum grew its revenue and product line while expanding geographically, until 1994 when the company constructed and moved into its headquarters in Elk Grove Village, Ill., where it remains today. The architectural metals manufacturer also operates facilities in four branch locations including Acworth, Ga.; Tyler, Texas; Annapolis Junction, Md.; and Fridley, Minn.
Petersen Aluminum strives to provide high-quality products within reliable, dependable lead times. Its strong national sales base allows it to maintain large inventories and provide cost economies to its customers. The product line now includes architectural and structural roofing, metal wall panels, soffit, composite panels, edge metals, aluminum and steel coil, and flat sheet in painted, anodized and mill finish.
Long-recognized as an industry manufacturer of metal standing seam roofing products, Petersen also offers exposed fastener panels, flush panels, composite wall panels and column covers. All provide the well-known Petersen quality and are available in PAC-CLAD Kynar 500 finish in 38 standard colors on steel and 37 aluminum. Most colors meet LEED, ENERGY STAR and Cool Roof Rating Council certification requirements.
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Metal Sales Expands Manufacturing Capabilities in Temple, Texas
November 17, 2014 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. has expanded its manufacturing of metal roof and wall panels in its Temple, Texas, facility.
New equipment at the facility allows Metal Sales to bring additional high performing products to customers in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
“We are excited to offer our customers in the south central United States more solutions to grow their businesses,” says Linda Kerechek, Director of Marketing. “Metal Sales continues its commitment to add resources to provide the widest selection of superior-quality roof and wall panels available today.”
Added to the production lines in Temple are: Magna-Loc flat pan standing seam roof panels, Vertical Seam standing seam snap-together roof panels, 7/8-inch Corrugated exposed direct fastened roof and wall panels, and Concealed direct-fastened Soffit Panels for wall, soffit, fascia and liner applications.
Metal Sales panels are materially efficient, durable, 100 percent recyclable, and virtually maintenance free. They contain up to 30% recycled material and include ENERGY STAR cool roof compliant colors that contribute to sustainability goals and green building certifications, such as Net-Zero and LEED. Metal Sales also offers industry-leading warranties and boasts more than 50 years of outstanding customer service
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Learn More about Metal from Various Exhibitors at METALCON International
July 24, 2014 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Attendees at this year’s METALCON will be pleasantly surprised by the growing variety of exhibitors.
METALCON, scheduled for Oct. 1-3 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, annually attracts thousands of attendees looking to learn more about metal: contractors, architects, specifiers, roofers, designers, developers and suppliers from more than 50 countries. One of the reasons for the show’s popularity is the variety of exhibitors, offering everything from brakes and benders to wall panels and windows.
“The show floor has more diversity than in recent years,” said Paulo Gomes da Costa, Sales Manager of METALCON. “The show is changing. There will be some exhibitors at the show with products never seen before at METALCON and that’s a good thing. (As of mid-July) we’ve got 48 new exhibitors and they all do something different.”
Gomes da Costa said there are more rollforming companies, including Metis Machines and Xiamen Liming Machinery Co. Ltd., as well as business software companies like CompuPlus Corporation and CAD Methods Ltd. Other categories with a growing number of exhibitors are tools, underlayments and business management companies offering to help small and medium size business owners handle payroll and other office needs.
“The growing variety of exhibitors is a direct result of our attendees,” says Claire Kilcoyne, METALCON Show Producer. “We attract contractors who run large operations building multi-story commercial and institutional buildings as well as contractors who have one or two crews, installing residential metal roofing. Architects are on the trade show floor searching for innovative, durable and sustainable products and metal has plenty to offer. Exhibitors and potential exhibitors recognize that their customers are attending METALCON, so the number of exhibitors as well as the variety of exhibitors, continues to grow.”
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Spending on AI to skyrocket
One of the biggest buzzwords in security today is AI, or artificial intelligence, as one of the challenges today is determining if the technology is being overpromised and under-delivered. Security Systems News’ News Poll this month addresses these very questions, as we try to figure out where the industry stands on this topic.
Although the technology is still in its early adoption phase within security, a new study finds that spending on AI systems will continue to skyrocket within the next five years.
Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI) systems is forecast to reach $35.8 billion in 2019, an increase of 44.0 percent over the amount spent in 2018, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). With industries investing aggressively in projects that utilize AI software capabilities, the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide expects spending on AI systems will more than double to $79.2 billion in 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.0 percent over the 2018-2022 forecast period.
Global spending on AI systems will be led by the retail industry where companies will invest $5.9 billion this year on solutions such as automated customer service agents and expert shopping advisors & product recommendations. Banking will be the second largest industry with $5.6 billion going toward AI-enabled solutions including automated threat intelligence & prevention systems and fraud analysis & investigation systems. Discrete manufacturing, healthcare providers, and process manufacturing will complete the top 5 industries for AI systems spending this year. The industries that will experience the fastest growth in AI systems spending over the 2018-2022 forecast are federal/central government (44.3 percent CAGR), personal and consumer services (43.3 percent CAGR), and education (42.9 percent CAGR).
"Significant worldwide artificial intelligence systems spend can now be seen within every industry as AI initiatives continue to optimize operations, transform the customer experience, and create new products and services," Marianne Daquila, research manager, Customer Insights & Analysis at IDC, said in the announcement. "This is evidenced by use cases, such as intelligent process automation, expert shopping advisors & product recommendations, and pharmaceutical research and discovery exceeding the average five-year compound annual growth of 38%. The continued advancement of AI-related technologies will drive double-digit year-over-year spend into the next decade."
The AI use cases that will see the most investment this year are automated customer service agents ($4.5 billion worldwide), sales process recommendation and automation ($2.7 billion), and automated threat intelligence and prevention systems ($2.7 billion). Five other use cases will see spending levels greater than $2 billion in 2019: automated preventative maintenance, diagnosis and treatment systems, fraud analysis and investigation, intelligent process automation, and program advisors and recommendation systems.
Software will be the largest area of AI systems spending in 2019 with nearly $13.5 billion going toward AI applications and AI software platforms. AI applications will be the fastest growing category of AI spending with a five-year CAGR of 47.3%. Hardware spending, dominated by servers, will be $12.7 billion this year as companies continue to build out the infrastructure necessary to support AI systems. Companies will also invest in IT services to help with the development and implementation of their AI systems and business services such as consulting and horizontal business process outsourcing related to these systems. By the end of the forecast, AI-related services spending will nearly equal hardware spending.
"IDC is seeing that spending on both AI software platforms and AI applications are continuing to trend upwards and the types and varieties of use cases are also expanding," David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems at IDC, added. "While organizations see continuing challenges with staffing, data, and other issues deploying AI solutions, they are finding that they can help to significantly improve the bottom line of their enterprises by reducing costs, improving revenue, and providing better, faster access to information thereby improving decision making."
On a geographic basis, the United States will deliver nearly two thirds of all spending on AI systems in 2019, led by the retail and banking industries. Western Europe will be the second largest region in 2018, led by banking, retail, and discrete manufacturing. The strongest spending growth over the five-year forecast will be in Japan (58.9% CAGR) and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China) (51.4% CAGR). China will also experience strong spending growth throughout the forecast (49.6% CAGR).
"AI is a big topic in Europe, it's here and it's set to stay. Both AI adoption and spending are picking up fast. European businesses are hands-on AI and have moved from an explorative phase to the implementation stage,” said Andrea Minonne, senior research analyst, IDC Customer Insight & Analysis in Europe, said in the announcement. “AI is the game changer in a highly competitive environment, especially across customer-facing industries such as retail and finance, where AI has the power to push customer experience to the next level with virtual assistants, product recommendations, or visual searches. Many European retailers such as Sephora, ASOS, and Zara or banks such as NatWest and HSBC are already experiencing the benefits of AI, including increased store visits, higher revenues, reduced costs, and more pleasant and personalized customer journeys. Industry-specific use cases related to automation of processes are becoming mainstream and the focus is set to shift towards next-generation use of AI for personalization or predictive purposes,"
The Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide sizes spending for technologies that analyze, organize, access, and provide advisory services based on a range of unstructured information. The spending guide quantifies the AI opportunity by providing data for 25 use cases across 19 industries in nine regions. Data is also available for the related hardware, software, and services categories. Unlike any other research in the industry, the detailed segmentation and timely, global data is designed to help suppliers targeting the market to identify market opportunities and execute an effective strategy.
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AI coming to the aid of security-related applications
Our May 2019 News Poll got me really thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and the possibilities. My previous AI-related thoughts have been around Watson, the IBM-created, question-answering computer system that answers in natural language, and robots, and how AI can take over the world one day, according to some! Spooky! But, I wanted to know if AI is a legit, practical application for security-related functions, so I scoured the internet and found some exciting and unique, currently deployed uses.
According the to China Morning Post, AI is revolutionizing physical security in Asia. It can detect people acting out of the ordinary and flag them, and then transmit that information to a command center, where human operators can make an informed decision. Additionally, AI and high-definition cameras can work together to first communicate to a human that a smoke detector, for example, has been activated, with the cameras identifying the exact location of the fire.
Shoplifting literally costs billions of dollars here in the United States, which trickles down to honest consumers who end up paying more for goods and services. Vaak, a Tokyo-based company, spent more than 100 hours showing their AI system closed-circuit television footage of honest shoppers and shoplifters. The system can now identify suspicious activity based on more than 100 aspects of shoppers’ behavior including gait, hand movements, facial expressions, clothing choices and even “restless” and “sneaking” behaviors. Store employees are alerted of suspiciousness via an app and they can decide what to do.
Life Security
Paris-based startup, Pharnext, was founded by Daniel Cohen, who “mapped” the human genome and demonstrated it is possible to use Big Data and automation to speed up the processing of DNA samples. Today, Cohen is using AI to analyze and map the chain of reactions of disease in the body. With this information, he and his team are combining existing drugs, known as “repurposing,” to create therapeutic effects that each drug lacks on its own. His overall goal is to use existing medicines to treat all disease, preventing the design of new medicines.
Post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University, Dr. Srijan Kuman, is developing an AI method — REV2 — to identify online conflict using data and machine learning to predict internet trolling before it happens. (Trolling is an action by a person who posts inflammatory and often deceptive and disinformation online to provoke others to respond on pure emotion.) Kuman uses statistical analysis, graph mining, embedding and deep learning to determine normal and malicious behaviors. His method is currently being used by Flipkart, an online store, to identify fake reviews and reviewers, and he was able to accurately predict when one Reddit community will troll another.
Be sure to check out our editor’s blog that talks about worldwide spending on AI systems to reach $35.8 billion in 2019, according to International Data Corporation.
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PSA TEC 2019 opens in Denver
Excited to be here in Denver, Colo. this week for PSA TEC 2019, a conference hosted by PSA, a global systems integration consortium made up of progressive security and audio-visual systems integrators in North America.
Approximately 1,200 security professionals converged on Denver — ahead of a blizzard, yes blizzard, that is coming — to learn, network and explore the many opportunities and challenges facing system integrators and the security industry as a whole.
What is unique about this conference is that it brings together an incredible array of security professionals all focused on the same goal: Improving security for their customers while pushing the industry forward during a highly volatile and quickly changing security landscape.
Interestingly, PSA members combined boast over 400 branch locations, employ over 7,500 industry professionals and are responsible for over $4.5 billion annually in security, fire, life safety and pro audio-visual installations.
Some of the bigger themes for the conference this year — and for the industry overall as well — are:
• Cybersecurity and the physical and data convergence;
• How integrators are adapting to and adopting more of a managed services, RMR model;
• The continued rise and adoption of cloud-based solutions;
• Hiring, training and retaining good people;
• Adapting to the increasing role of IT within security
• The benefits and challenges of open architecture systems and platforms vs. end to end systems;
• Compliance and regulations, including GDPR; and
• Data privacy
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Congress introduces legislation to establish security standards for government devices
Based on analyst firm Gartner’s research, 20.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be deployed by 2020; that’s more than double the world’s population! Hackers tend to gravitate toward the weakest link in the security chain, and because more and more IoT devices have questionable defenses, they make easy targets. This has caused the U.S. government to take notice.
To date, there is no national standard for IoT security, leaving it up to each company to decide how they want to security their connected devices. So, on Monday, March 11th, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives members introduced the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act. If passed, this legislation would set minimum security standards for connected devices used by the government in an effort to prevent the federal government from purchasing hacker friendly devices.
While the legislation won’t set security standards for all IoT companies—just the ones wanting to win federal contracts— it could provide a baseline of best practices for all connected device manufacturers to consider.
Should the bill pass, here’s what would happen:
Security standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), such as secure development, identity management, patching and configuration management, would be required;
NIST would review every five years;
All IoT venders selling to the U.S. government would have a vulnerability disclosure policy, allowing government officials to learn when the devices are open to cyberattacks.
Do you think this legislation would compel all connected device makers to adopt these security requirements or just the ones wanting to do business with the government?
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TMA, ESA dispute Google’s claim
The Monitoring Association (TMA) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA) are calling out Google on its recent statement — “security systems often use microphones” — noting that such statements “misrepresent the vast majority of today’s residential security systems installed throughout the country.”
The dispute follows recent reporting by Business Insider, CNN Business and many other publications that have highlighted the undisclosed, on-board microphone discovered in Google’s Nest Guard Security Device — raising serious privacy concerns among consumers.
Since audio recording includes privacy and legal complexities, it’s not extremely common in residential installations, the associations noted, pointing out that security professionals and integrators consult with customers and ensure all federal and state laws are abided by.
“Adding audio surveillance can certainly make for a more robust system,” ESA President Chris Mosley said in a prepared statement. “We’re seeing exciting advancements in the audio surveillance category, such as acoustic sensors and microphones that can help us detect gunfire or when voices become elevated that could indicate potential violence. However, sweeping statements to infer that residential systems commonly have this feature are simply not accurate.”
Richard Brent, CEO, Louroe Electronics, an ESA Member company and 40-year-old manufacturer of audio-based technologies, agrees, noting, “Sound-based technology in security systems is common in law enforcement, institutional, and smart city installations. However, the use of microphones for surveillance in residences is extremely rare on account of heightened expectations of privacy.”
According to both associations, adding microphones and audio capabilities to security systems adds another level of precaution that must be taken to install the system in a way that protects the privacy of the consumer.
“Security systems are now an important part of the customer home experience in that we can integrate with audio assistance,” TMA President Ivan Spector said. “However professionally installed and monitored security systems are not designed to record data and conversations unbeknownst to our customers.”
Professionally installed systems have the backing of technology experts who know the full capability of the system and its components and can appropriately safeguard these systems, so as not to compromise privacy.
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MercTech 5 reveals trends, educates attendees, provides networking opportunities and more
Venturing off to Coronado Island, right outside of San Diego for MercTech 5 was an exciting adventure into the open architecture world of physical security. Various trends were identified, company announcements made, valuable networking with security companies was experienced as well as education and fun.
To kick off the conference, Matt Barnette, president, Mercury Security, announced that this year, the company will be formally converting to HID Global and they are always looking for new partners. (HID Global purchased Mercury Security, an OEM supplier of controllers for physical access control, in 2017.) Thus far, Mercury Security has kept their original logo, with the added phrase: “part of HID Global.”
Serra Luck, VP end user and consultant business, HID Global followed with three major trends in the physical access control market: the evolution of identity; service oriented and convergence of video, biometrics, access control, lighting and more to be controlled by a single device. Luck identified what she termed “BIMruption,” building information modeling in which a wholistic view of a building, including its vulnerabilities, can be seen before the structure is actually built. This enables the simulation of possible terror attacks, physical breaches, structural integrity and more so that security consultants, integrators and end-users can become even more proactive in preventing security-related issues.
Donna Chapman, consultant relations business development manager, ASSA ABLOY compared how she “talks up” security consultants to their partners. She likens it to doing taxes.
“Can I do taxes,” she asked the audience, hypothetically. To which she answered, “yes, but am I up-to-date on all the tax regulations…no, and that’s ‘ok’ unless I get audited. So, it’s easier and safer to have my taxes done by a professional…same with security consultants.”
The two full days of the conference continued on with valuable education as well as meetings with various Mercury Security partners, followed by amazing dinners and networking events. Partners were available in various suites in a “speed dating” type of format, 45 minutes in length, where security consultants learned about their solutions as well as got their questions answered.
A consultant roundtable took place, in which hot topics were discussed, one of which was the adoption of Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP), a communication standard developed by the Security Industry Association (SIA) to improve interoperability among access control and security devices. Security consultants were also concerned with specifying manufacturer’s certifications, asking if companies could possibly add certification numbers or some sort of identification so each certification is easier to “spec.”
As the event concluded and I began to reflect, one of the most valuable takeaways from the whole conference emerged. Steve Wagner, president of Open Options, said the following during a speed dating session: “Everyone employed with Open Options is empowered to make decisions on behalf of customers; if a mistake is made with any such decisions, it will be to the benefit of the client.” This customer/client-first mentality, in my opinion, is a big piece of the pie that security companies must incorporate into their culture for maximum success.
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Live from MIPS 2019
This week, I’m spending time in the Country Music Capital of the World, Nashville, hanging out with everyone at MIPS 2019, a conference organized by Milestone. After quite an eventful experience at the DFW airport — maintenance issues, delays and arriving a bit late to the conference — I’m happy to report it was all worth it!
Yesterday was jam-packed full of amazing speakers, new announcements from Milestone and their partners, and of course, hand claps and “yee-haws” to celebrate. Today promises even more highly beneficial content and a one-on-one interview to discuss the new Milestone Marketplace, an online experience to explore proven applications, hardware, and services that work with XProtect; connect with technology partners; and find the solution to deploy.
Be on the lookout for my MIPS 2019 roundup piece and follow me on Twitter @SSN_Ginger for live updates. To get caught up on yesterday’s Tweets, search with SSN’s new hashtag #SSNTalks.
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TechSec Solutions brings best and brightest together
TechSec Solutions, which wrapped up this week here in Delray Beach, Fla., brought together thought leaders from across all areas of the security industry to discuss the current state of the industry, key trends and technologies impacting and shaping security, and what the more successful companies are doing to stay relevant and profitable.
PSA’s Bill Bozeman … SIA’s Don Erickson … Securitas’ Jim Henry … ESIConvergent’s Pierre Bourgeix … DICE Corp’s Cliff Dice — the list of speakers at this year’s event represented the who’s who of security. Together with many other great speakers they provided a stellar day and a half of learning and networking. Moving outside the education room, attendees were able to check out some of the newest technology and services from this year’s sponsors, which included DICE Corp., Hikvision, ISC West, Lifesafety Power, Secure Utility and simPRO.
In addition to the incredible lineup of speakers and sponsors, the “20 under 40” award reception on the evening of day one provided a great capper to a tremendous day that included an “Integrator State of the Union” from Bozeman, a killer session from Bourgeix that featured Peter Rung from NCODED Communications and Samuel Trotman from KLJ, a consulting firm. Gretchen Gordon from Braveheart Sales Performance was another highlight on day one, as she tackled one of the greatest challenges for everyone in security today — finding, hiring, training AND retaining good people.
Day Two started with the highly anticipated Security Mega Panel featuring Bozeman, Erickson, ESA CEO Merlin Guilbeau and Michael Gips from ASIS International. The session exceeded expectations, as this group that has more than 100 combined years of experience in the industry riffed on the key issues, challenges and opportunities facing the industry today.
The second day also featured former “20 under 40” winner Rob Simopoulos, co-founder of Defendify, whose presentation on the importance of cybersecurity struck a nice balance between showing the audience the real threats that are out there (and many times in a humorous way), while providing tangible solutions and strategies to build a better “cyber posture.”
Closing out the conference was the session, Protecting Critical Infrastructure, which featured two of this year’s “20 under 40” end user winners — Colby Meshey, Deputy Director, Security Services, Pentagon Force Protection Agency and Kevin Didden, Senior Manager, Security Programs and Administration, MTA Bridges and Tunnels — as well as Meshey’s colleague James Ell, Electronic Security Services Branch Chief, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, and Joe Morgan, Business Development Manager for Critical Infrastructure, Axis Communications. Moderator Mike Lavway, Senior Manager, Enterprise Security Risk Group (eSRG), Aronson Security Group (ASG), was able to cover a lot of ground with this talented group, looking at specific examples from each on how they are using new technologies and strategies to improve security.
Many of the conversations sparked within the sessions spilled out into the exhibit room and lunches, and audience participation added some great energy to the sessions and discussions.
Getting back to the “20 under 40” reception. The fun-filled event, which was sponsored by SIA, brought 10 of our winners together by the pool to receive their award in person, network with their peers and celebrate a well-earned recognition as one of the rising stars in the industry.
Speaking of “rising stars,” SIA sponsored the event because they understand how important it is to recognize and support young professionals in the industry as they become the thought leaders of tomorrow. SIA’s RISE program does just that and there is great synergy between the “20 under 40” and RISE program’s goals. SIA also just announced its AcceleRISE conference, which is Aug. 16-18 in Minneapolis, Minn.
Keep checking back to the website for more coverage from TechSec 2019 — including some live video footage from sessions — as well as more information on the big announcement that Cloud+ will be joining TechSec Solutions in early 2020! Stay tuned for more exciting news about that two great shows finally coming together.
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In the home, voice is king
The success of smart home assistants such as Amazon Alexa has spurred the growth of smart speakers within the home, as voice control in the home seems to be a trend that is not going away any time soon.
In fact, the adoption of these devices increased by 800 percent from 2016 to 2018, reaching nearly one-third of U.S. broadband households by the end of 2018, according to research by Parks Associates.
In the firm’s “Strategies for Integrating Voice in the Smart Home,” report, it estimates U.S. households will buy more than 64 million smart speakers with voice assistants in 2022. The research profiles key technology partners that can help companies integrate voice and evaluates different strategies for implementation.
“Voice is emerging as a key complement to smart home device adoption and ownership, as it provides a simple method of interaction and creates opportunities for a centralized user interface and interoperability among multiple devices,” Dina Abdelrazik, research analyst, Parks Associates, said in the announcement. “The next step will be integration of voice among multiple device categories, which will help to alleviate smart home fragmentation.”
Use of voice in conjunction with smart home devices is increasing. The report finds 21 percent of smart homeowners have used voice to turn their devices on/off, while 18 percent have used voice to check a device’s status. With voice popularity and use cases expanding, device makers and service providers are looking to capitalize on the current market opportunity by integrating a voice experience with their current offerings. The first decision a company must make before doing so is to decide whether to create its own proprietary solution or to integrate with a readily available solution.
“Major tech giants have entered the voice-first market providing companies with the opportunity to leverage their voice-based solutions, with Amazon and Google leading the market,” Abdelrazik said. “They have made it easier for companies to enable voice-based solutions while creating competition for consumer mindshare, with Apple, Samsung and Harman Kardon promoting their own solutions in an increasingly crowded market. This diversity gives companies more choices when considering partnerships or whether to develop their own proprietary in-house solution.”
Parks Associates will host CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference on May 21-23, 2019, in San Francisco, where analysts and IoT executives will examine the impact of voice along with other solutions in shaping demand, adoption, and new business strategies within the smart home ecosystem.
Further validating the growth of smart speakers, IHS Markit recently released its report on this growing trend.
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For the love of smart speakers
The love of smart speakers is permeating the world, as more and more people are introducing these devices into their homes for various reasons—to listen to their favorite tunes, search for real-time and factual information, listen to news, chat with the voice assistant for fun (I mean, it’s pretty cool to play trivia with Alexa!), and use alarms and timers, and more. So, to do all these activities, what are people looking for in a smart speaker?
After surveying more than 13 percent of Internet users with smart speakers in their households in November 2018, from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, IHS Markit found:
• 27 percent said the most important feature is “integration with services and devices;
• 25 percent said a “questions and answers” feature; and
• 24 percent indicated “sound quality.”
Of the respondents with access to smart speakers powered by Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, they were more likely to rate integration as the most important feature because they positioned their digital assistants as smart home hubs, primarily because both platforms leverage their own entertainment offerings, such as audiobooks and streaming music.
Fateha Begum, associate director, IHS Markit, revealed the following information from the survey in an announcement:
• Sound quality and integration is usually equally important among consumers, especially for those with Bose, JBL, Link, Panasonic, Sony and other traditional audio brands.
• Smart speaker households in India and Brazil selected sound quality as the most important factor.
• Amazon Echo and Google Home owners said answering questions was top of their list.
Across all markets surveyed, it seems Amazon Echo is making a bigger splash among households. Those owning Amazon Echo devices were more likely to have multiple devices and on average, 21 percent accessed two Echo speakers with 15 percent accessing three or more speakers. Only 15 percent of Google Home owners had access to two Google speakers with an additional 15 percent accessing three or more speakers.
In my opinion, the key takeaway from this survey was stated by Maria Rua Aguete, executive director, IHS Markit, “Operators now understand the importance of having their own digital assistants, to maintain and control the customer experience and network usage.”
As the semi-proud new owner of an Echo Show, 2nd Generation, I enjoy Alexa for the little things—playing games and listening to music, and I appreciate the concept and lure of smart speakers and AI, but for me, and maybe it’s my undeniably strong Texas accent, Alexa just doesn’t understand me!
For more research on the smart speaker craze, click here.
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Trailblazers; The Goldsmiths Fashion Society
The vision; to build a community of passionate students who have the desire to fully engage in fashion. Vicki Shadbolt talks to the Goldsmiths Fashion Society.
The vision; to build a community of passionate students who have the desire to fully engage in fashion – whatever their background or skill-set. The Goldsmiths Fashion Society is already blazing a trail, and the term has only just started.
“We started the society with the aim of bringing students with the same interests together; people with different talents that are willing to share their skills and learn new ones.
“GFS gives members access to a group of students who they can then contact to participate in projects, while building a valuable network that will transfer to the professional sphere,” says Adriana Lopez the Creative Director studying Media and Communications.
Following their success at the Freshers Fair, the team organised their first social. What was thought to be a quiet little gathering actually amassed more than 70 students avid to get involved in this brand new society. With socials now being held every Wednesday, the GFS are creating a social space for members to mingle and get to know each-other, building the foundations of a network. The president, Sixtine Sulaski, a third year Management and Entrepreneurship student says that she wants to build a progressive and engaging society that can live on after her time at Goldsmiths has finished.
(Image; Goldsmiths Fashion Society logo)
The Goldsmiths Fashion Society is particularly refreshing in their approach – they want to dig into the side of fashion that is more characteristically ‘Goldsmiths’. Fashion houses and magazines dominate the industry and our high streets – but so little of it is affordable or even accessible for students.
Nikos Akritidis, the Treasurer and Head of Projects says “I am interested in fashion as an artistic expression; interdisciplinary and inherently creative. These are both qualities that can be overshadowed by the connotations of the industry.”
By all means taking inspiration from these iconic brands and publications is a fantastic creative exercise, but Sulaski and the team want to get into the close knit groups that really explore their style as a form of expression. GFS wants to meet the bands that use fashion as a way of constructing a brand image; the students who are making the clothes that high street stores just don’t stock. Those challenging the norms and conventions of fashion. The president used the phrase “Outsiders on the inside,” to describe their ideology.
Already seeking out potential collaborators, GFS has joined forces with two English Literature students who have launched a blog on vintage and thrift shopping in London. Reviewing individual stores, the pair will do a tour and document their findings and opinions on their Instagram and blog.
Additionally, the team want to invite speakers from the fashion industry to engage in topical and pressing debates as well as host at least two workshops a term. The first of which will be after reading week, and covering up-cycling, which the team hopes will motivate members to participate in future projects. The guest speaker at this workshop is local women’s knitwear designer, Christine Kinson.
Other guest speakers include the creative talent behind @storiesbehindthings , the blogging duo Jemma and Ella who are inspiring figures in the move towards a more sustainable and conscious culture.
Their project was born out of a feeling of disconnectedness from the material things around them and wanting to create a space where it is easy and accessible to implement sustainable living into your life.
As we return to Goldsmiths post-break, you can also look forward to a Stories Behind Things and GFS hosted clothes switch that will be open to the public. Priced at £2 for non-members, the event will be a great place to rift through some amazing clothes, giving unwanted garments a new home – as well as mingle with the team and members. More details to follow!
Addressing the environmental impact fashion has on the world is a top priority for GFS. Though dressing and living sustainably is something that many think is unachievable, Sulaski wants to promote the idea of a ‘mindful youth’. The premise is all about making small changes in the way we engage with fashion in order to minimise our environmental impact. As second to oil, fashion is the largest pollutant in the world.
“I think it is crucial for our generation to be actively thinking of what we consume and how that affects the environment around us. This is why we are aiming to carry out projects throughout the year which will raise awareness on mindful consumption and positively impact the wider community,” says Sulaski.
By summer 2018, GFS want to host their very first Sustainable Fashion Show. Designers will be invited to collaborate and produce repurposed, recycled and ethical fashion items. Projects such as this are a brilliant creative exercise, but also highlight the ways in which we, as students, can get involved in a movement that is still gaining momentum in the wider fashion industry. The team hope by hosting workshops that teach members skills such as up-cycling, their fashion show will be an all-inclusive expression of creativity, regardless of the past design experience of those who would like to get involved.
“My aim is to capture and display this creativity that is thriving at Goldsmiths,” says Akritidis.
You can keep track of GFS on Instagram and Facebook with the handle @goldsmithsfashionsociety
Words, Vicki Shadbolt – @vshadders
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Sierra Zulu’s Electronic Intelligentsia: Dmytri Kleiner and Sean Bonner
Posted on May 24, 2012 by johannes
Comradettes! Comrades!
Long live the Soviet electronic intelligentsia — active builders of the New Communism!
Welcome Dmytri Kleiner and Sean Bonner, our digital politics consultants and co-ideologists!
Glorious is their work and support! They create quickly, durably, economically, and on the basis of contemporary technology!
Dmytri Kleiner?
Dmytri Kleiner is the author of The Telekommunist Manifesto, a founder of the Telekommunisten Collective and contributing artist to the Collective’s Miscommunication Technologies continuing series of artworks, such as Thimbl and deadSwap. Miscommunication Technologies address the social relations embedded in communications technologies by creating platforms that don’t quite work as expected, or work in unexpected ways. In The Telekommunist Manifesto, Kleiner has published the Peer-Production licence, a commons-friendly Copyleft/Non-Commercial license the author has described as CopyFarLeft, and proposed Venture Communism, a mode of worker-controlled production modelled on peer networks and the pastoral commons. He can be followed at http://dmytri.info
Sean Bonner?
Sean Bonner is a Los Angeles based entrepreneur, journalist, activist and enthusiast. Bonner has co-founded hackerspaces and blog networks, an art gallery, design firm and record label. He is a board member of Coffee Common, works closely with Neoteny Labs and has been a regular contributor to BoingBoing. He is a co-founder and director of Safecast.
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Sierra Zulu presents: Ben Rock and Tore Schmidt
Posted on October 14, 2011 by johannes
(Above: consultants, directors, sticky rice)
What does a movie production really need? Experts. At least a few.
Our wonderful script & production consultants Ben Rock and Tore Schmidt live and work in Los Angeles — and that’s why monochrom’s Johannes Grenzfurthner met them for a decadent Thai dinner to talk about business and perversions.
Let us introduce our friends…
Ben Rock began his career as a production designer, breaking out with the blockbuster 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project. As one of the creators of the mythology of the film (as well as creating the infamous “stickman”), Ben moved into directing in 2000 in the budding “viral marketing” industry. Following that, Rock wrote, directed, and produced the mock-documentary The BPRD Declassified to market the release of Hellboy, directed a series of award-winning shorts produced for Audi, directed 29 viral videos for USA Network’s The 4400 and 56 viral videos for HBO’s series True Blood. Rock directed his first feature, Alien Raiders, for Warner Brothers’ signature genre label Raw Feed. The film, which was shot in fifteen days with a modest budget, took the film festival world by storm, winning numerous awards and playing to packed houses across the country.
Tore Schmidt studied Film and Communication Sciences at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany. He began his career working as a producer and production manager on narrative and documentary features in his native Germany; he then returned to Los Angeles to join Venice-based Menemsha Films as VP Acquisitions and Marketing where he was involved in the distribution of foreign art house films for the American market. Mr. Schmidt then moved to Gail Mutrux’ Pretty Pictures (Kinsey, Quiz Show, Nurse Betty) where he served as Story Editor and CE and was actively involved in the development and production of all company projects. He is currently the Head of Development at Pretty Pictures at Universal Studios.
They are currently giving us feedback on version 3.6 of our script. Let’s hope they will soon be able to help us with hands-on aspects of our production… but that’s another story.
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Asset manager cautious about Apple’s suppliers
After doing well out of Apple Inc suppliers for several years, a top fund manager says it is time to take money off the table.
Geoffrey Wong (黃義旗), head of emerging markets and Asia-Pacific equities at UBS Asset Management in Singapore, has reduced his holdings of the suppliers as he doubts consumer demand for high-end mobile phones will keep rising.
Wong has sold out of Largan Precision Co (大立光), a stock which he held since at least 2011.
The handset lens maker’s shares soared 610 percent in Taipei in the six years through last year. This year, they are down 14 percent.
“We are a bit more cautious,” said Wong, who oversees a team that manages about US$30 billion, including one of the best-performing emerging market equities funds.
“Have we reached a price point where consumers are fighting back and saying I’m not going to pay $1,000 for a phone,” he said.
Consumers are also buying cheaper phones with simpler features, Wong said.
Apple reported lower-than-expected handset sales for the fourth quarter of last year, after the launch of the pricey flagship iPhone X.
Only Xiaomi Corp (小米) and Motorola, which produce less expensive models, shipped more smartphones during the period, according to market researcher IHS Markit Ltd.
While shares of Taiwanese component makers have largely fallen in the past year, Chinese producers such as Sunny Optical Technology Group Co (舜宇光學) and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc (瑞聲科技) are among the best performing stocks in Hong Kong, as investors bet on growing demand in China.
That is not tempting Wong though, who said his portfolio now has very little exposure to phone makers.
Wong is bullish on Asian memory chipmakers, such as Samsung Electronics Co and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電), as the development of artificial intelligence bodes well for the sector in the next decade.
He is also holding on to Tencent Holdings Ltd (騰訊) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) despite recent volatility, encouraged by their expansion into finance and services.
Banks in emerging markets are also a good investment, Wong said.
Non-performing loans are starting to come down as corporate profits improve, while top companies are likely to borrow more as they increase capital expenditure in the coming three years, he said.
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EAOC Rejects Taichung's Appeal Against Cancellation of Youth Games
Region：(Taiwan)
Issue：(Cross-Strait Issues),(Chinese Politics)
(CNA, By Su Mu-chun and Evelyn Kao) Taichung city's Mayor Lin Chia-lung announced that the East Asian Olympic Committee (EAOC) has rejected Taichung city government's petition to change the Committee's decision to revoke Taichung's rights to host the East Asian Youth Games in 2019. Lin stated that EAOC has refused to change its decision due to China's pressure. However, Lin informed the public that the government is not giving up and is planning to file a lawsuit against EAOC, as well as trying to garner support from the global community. <Accessed 2018-08-14>
參考連結：http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201808130020.aspx
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AIDS Since the 1980’s:
It's been nearly 40 years since AIDS came on the scene in the 80's. You don't hear a lot about the community of AIDS survivors.
The AIDS project has been interview and following the progress of many people whose lives have been touched by AIDS.
Back in the 1980's there was so much panic and prejudice around the world towards AIDS patients. Thanks to medical professionals and scientist hundreds of AIDS survivors have lived healthy lives for decades. The survivors living with HIV are not your basic sick people but they represent a multitude of people who have been infected.
There is an organization that has dedicated the last 30 years to interviewing and videoing AIDS patients and are preparing to produce a documentary on the subject. The project is expected to show what it is to live on beyond this traumatic experience. This would include what it is like to live into the older ages alongside elderly hearlth problems.
The interviews expose the ignorance and prejudice of the early 80s, a point when sufferers couldn't disclose their status for horror of losing their jobs or health insurance, when death certificates had been doctored and funerals hushed and undersized.
"All of life is in these interviews." "Take the homosexual community, it was teeming with clubs then this horrible thing happens. You can merely understand how horrible if you comprehend the world in which it happened. London's gay community wasn't huge and many lost their entire social circle, people had been horrified. Your lover unexpectedly falling ill, the outrageous homophobia in the media, visiting friends in hospital, what does that do to your sense of self?"
"Many were dear friends, some colleagues, what struck us was there were no funerals. People at work were suddenly gone. You'd discover out they'd died and the family had a little private ceremony with no way of saying goodbye. There was such extraordinary fear of contamination they'd be buried in concrete coffins."
Interviewees tell of being "given a certificate saying you are going to be deceased in six months", or getting the physician to sign any cause of death but AIDS. "Society are busy moving on and don't want to talk about it, but we realised a community of people had never gone on record."
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BBC (1 x 60 mins)
RTS & Scottish BAFTA nominee 2006
Award winning documentary maker, David Peat, tackles the last taboo - dying.
The Marie Curie Hospice in North Glasgow is pioneering care at home for the dying. 75% of us would like to die at home, very few of us do.
David follows key staff who are working to make it possible for terminally ill people not just to die at home, but to live life to the full to the very end. They provide not just medical care but emotional support, working with families and friends to nurture relationships and make this tender moment as happy as possible.
Please Leave the Light On Award-winning doc portraying the Cape Wrath lighthouse, the last manned lighthouse, before it undergoes automation. READ MORE >
Gutted This BAFTA winning film tells the story of fishermen and their families when the white fish industry collapses. READ MORE >
Teacher Teacher Follows 6 of the 240 graduates at Aberdeen University over the course of their training year, facing the reality of classroom life. READ MORE >
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Journal 2017, January 2017
January 2017 - Empowering Yourself, Empowering the 'Other'
Empowering Yourself, Empowering the 'Other'
Huston Smith – The Passing of a Giant in Our Midst
by Paul Chaffee
If Swami Vivekananda’s clarion voice at the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions introduced us to the challenge of living happily in an interfaith world, it was Huston Smith’s voice in The Religions of Man (1958) which taught us what that meant.
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by Philip Goldberg
A dispute at a small evangelical college; the death of a Supreme Court Justice; the presidential election campaign – these and other recent events remind me, yet again, that our religious attitudes and spiritual orientations are almost infinitely diverse. Not only are there vast differences among adherents of every tradition, but also diversity within the diversity within the diversity.
Interfaith's Role in Empowerment
by Vicki Garlock
Empowerment comes in a dizzying array of forms. It might involve building a water well, playing in a rock band, practicing martial arts, or owning a scooter. But what happens when one person’s empowerment triggers another’s moral outrage?
They Found Faith in Interfaith Lives
by Lucy Gellman
Sitting in a drafty, castle-like Presbyterian church on Easter Sunday with my partner’s family, I could feel anxiety bubbling up with each hymn I didn’t know. Around us, the white walls of his church stretched out toward the ceiling like long, sinister fingers. The organ struck a round note. A light wind pressed at the side door, rattling its heavy handles.
Ethics in the Swamp: the Rot of Corruption
by Katherine Marshall
Corruption is a live topic today. Since 2005, international anti-corruption day has been “celebrated” on December 9, in hopes that a visible day marking the topic can raise awareness about corruption and bolster a sense that something can be done to combat and prevent it.
Michael Servetus – the Martyred Interfaith Prophet
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Michael Servetus, who wrote for Jews and Muslims as well as Christians, has been called by Jerome Friedman, “a prophet of interfaith dialogue.” He was a man of prodigious intellect, a scientist and a free-thinking theologian
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Most college students have at one time or another asked, ‘If there is only one God why are there so many religions?’ This is a good question that I as a Rabbi have often been asked.This is my answer. The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but didn’t in order to test our commitment to the religion that each of us have been given by God.
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The conference Words Matter (Stop Hate) was held on Friday, November 18, 2016, at City College in Coventry, UK. This conference was initiated for a reason; following the UK EU referendum to leave the EU, there has been an increase in hate speech and crime. Especially amongst young people, there has been an increase of online hate speech and an increase of tension in and between communities, thus harming the region’s harmony and prosperity.
"Policing in Today's Multi-Faith New York"
by Henry Goldschmidt
Imagine you’re an officer in the New York City Police Department. It’s Friday night, and you’re working on a block that’s closed for police activity. A young woman wearing a long, modest skirt and full-sleeved blouse says she lives on the block and needs to get past the police line. You ask for identification to check her address, and she tells you bluntly, “I can’t carry ID on Shabbos – it’s against the Torah.” Is she for real, or maybe up to something?
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by Frederica Helmiere
After my second child was born, I found myself yearning for a hearty dose of vocational discernment. Perhaps it was the presence of this new little life in our home that compelled me to reassess my own life’s calling, or perhaps it was a general growing dissatisfaction with my work that I could no longer ignore.
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Who could have predicted that a Muslim immigrant, Khizr Kahn, known by family and friends as a gentle, soft-spoken man, would make history on the fourth and final night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention or that he would become one of the most sought-after speakers in the country – especially on the Interfaith circuit?
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by Noorjehan Asim
The moment I sat down at the dinner table, a little voice in my head began to scream. My instincts told me to run, but my body ignored them. I remained glued to the posh furniture that lined the hallway. Dining with Mr. Richard Olson, the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, was bound to be harrowing for any 15-year-old looking to make a lasting impression.
Empowerment for Goodness Sake
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A URI Perspective on the U.S. Presidential Election
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London Supper Club Review - Catalan Cooking
I have been following Rachel McCormack's progress with her Catalan Cooking School with great interest from its very beginning, and was pleased to hear that she had decided to start a series of supper club nights at various venues. I was lucky to have been invited along to one of these events at Bea's of Bloomsbury in Holborn in association with Codorníu.
Rachel will be hosting these evenings at various locations across London, including Bea's of Bloomsbury in Holborn's Theobald Road. Her next event will be as part of our London Cooking Club series at my home in Islington on 26th February 2011, where she will be doing a cookery demonstration of several of her Catalan dishes.
To start the evening, we had a selection of Tapas dishes, including olives, Iberico ham and cheese, potato tortilla among other items, served with a delicious chunky bread. A good start to the evening as these tasted authentic and of high quality.
To follow, we had an intensely flavoured "Sopa de Carn d'Olla" - a lovely chicken broth served with fresh parsley.
Rachel served a selection of main courses buffet-style. In my opinion, the stand-out dishes were the "Calamar farcit de Alberginia" (squid stuffed with aubergine), and the delicious "Conill amb Ceba" (rabbit cooked with onion).
Also very good were the "Escalivada" (roast peppers, aubergines and onions), and "Arròs al forn amb bolets" (rice cooked in the oven with wild mushrooms).
I would not claim to be an expert on Catalan cooking, but the dishes were flavoursome and hearty, and I enjoyed them a great deal. This was an introduction to a cuisine I look forward to learning more about from Rachel.
For dessert, we had "Crema Catalana" (Catalan cream) which was a delicious vanilla custard with a burnt sugar crust, followed by Bunyols del Emporda" (Catalan doughnuts) similar to Spanish Churros, and "Sopa d'avelianes amb el seu Cruixent" (hazelnut soup with crocanti and ice-cream) which was rich and nutty. The best hazelnuts in the world are said to come from Tarragona, the southern province of Catalunya.
One of the interesting areas we learned about at the WSET Advanced Certificate Course was the various methods of production of sparkling wine. For example, the traditional method perfected in Champagne is also used by some other good quality sparkling wines in France (the Crémants), and also by law in Spain for the production of Cava.
Other well known sparkling wines such as Prosecco and Asti Spumante, while often delicious, are produced by a completely different method and are not a substitute for Champagne or Cava as they present other flavour characteristics. Traditionally, Cava is made from three indigenous Catalunyan grape varieties - Parrellada, Xarel-lo and Macabeo. More recently, Champagne grape varieties are being incorporated into the blend such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir for extra complexity and elegance.
All the wines for this supper club were provided by Codorníu. I was surprised to learn that Codorníu has been making wine since 1551, and for Rachel's supper club evening, we were offered four sparkling wines from its range.
On arrival, we were served a glass of "Anna de Codorníu Brut" @ £9.99. This was a delicate and fruity wine and the first in Spain to have Chardonnnay as a varietal in its blend. This was a good accompaniment to our selection of tapas.
The "Codorníu Selección Raventós Brut" @ £9.99 was served next with the "Sopa de Carn d'Olla". Coming from selected vineyards, this wine had slightly more intense fruit aromas than the first offering, with hints of citrus and stone fruit.
For our main courses, we had the "Codorníu Reina Maria Cristina Blanc de Noirs 2008" @ £17.99. Just released in 2011, this is Spain's first ever Blanc de Noirs (a white sparkling wine made from black grapes). By far the star of the evening, this wine had unmistakeable Pinot Noir characteristics including red fruit with excellent structure and length, as well as some toasty notes akin to Champagne.
"Codorníu Pinot Noir Rosé" @ £10.99 was served with desserts. Also made entirely from Pinot Noir, this wine had an attractive pale pink colour and good fruit intensity.
Originally from Scotland, Rachel McCormack spent most of her 20s living in Spain, mostly Barcelona. She runs fortnightly Catalan Cooking classes at Bea's of Bloomsbury on Theobald's Road.
For the supper club, Rachel works with Franz Schinagl the former executive chef of Asia de Cuba who also runs his own Austrian supper club at Bea's.
In addition to her participation in our forthcoming London Cooking Club in Islington on the 26th February 2011, Rachel's next Supper Club Evening will be on the 20th March 2011. Her next Catalan Cooking Classes will be on the 8th and 22nd March 2011. For more information on her classes, visit the Catalan Cooking blog here.
Cost: The London Foodie was a guest of Catalan Cooking and Codorníu. Prices for Rachel's supper clubs vary between £30 and £35 depending on the menu offered.
Likes: introduction to an exciting regional Spanish cuisine which is novel to London, flavoursome and hearty dishes, great wine matches.
Dislikes: in my opinion, the elongated café setting made the evening feel more like a pop-up restaurant than a homely, more intimate supper club.
Verdict: Homely and very delicious Catalunyan cooking by Rachel, expertly partnered with a range of Cavas by Codorníu. The evening was a great introduction to a cuisine I would like to learn more about, and the wines (especially the Blanc de Noirs) opened my eyes to a whole new range of exciting Cavas to be enjoyed. Highly recommended.
Labels: By Area - Holborn, London Cooking Club, London Supper Club Review, London Underground Restaurant Review, London's Best Cookery Schools, Restaurant - Catalan, Restaurant - Spanish
Gourmet Chick 23 February 2011 at 21:35
Loving the extra knowledge you are able to bring to these posts with your WSET study Luiz. Sounds like an excellent evening.
Gail 23 February 2011 at 22:07
Beautiful, beautiful photographs! Hope to get a chance to try Rachel's food soon, sounds amazing.
London Lady 24 February 2011 at 11:40
I am beyond excited for this weekend. I can't wait to sample everything she has in store for us! And, the "Bunyols del Emporda" have me craving a churro. Food quest time....
Ταχυδρόμος! 24 February 2011 at 14:03
Milly 25 February 2011 at 11:16
I'm loving your blog, I'm following!
Would love you to enter my amazing GIVEAWAY- to win a pasta making course and meal with wine for two:
http://thoroughlymodernmilly5.blogspot.com/2011/02/best-gievaway-yet-ida-restaurant-pasta.html
To Ταχυδρόμος: I think you probably meant Visca Catalunya! as the event was on Catalan cooking, with Catalan dishes on the Menu. Please watch your comments, some expressions are quite frankly insulting to Catalan culture. You wouldn't go around certain parts of Scotland shouting "long live the Queen!". Rosa, a Catalan
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