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Tweak says, "You bought this palace."
Jameson William Kemp ( flare_star) wrote in nevermore_logs,
Jamie felt trepidation start to build in his gut. He didn't even want to imagine what his dad would be going through when the withdrawal hit, but to have it compounded by his aching muscles, it sounded like a whole new level of torture.
"I know you don't, Dad," he told him, offering him the water bottle again, in case he wanted some more. "I'm not going anywhere. No matter what."
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Apple customer goes to the top for iPhone battery answer
March 14, 2016 8:47 am gmt |
The head of Apple’s operating system iOS confirmed that open but unused apps do not affect iPhone battery life after a customer emailed boss Tim Cook. The customer from Ohio, known as Caleb, asked Mr Cook whether closing down “multitasking apps” improved battery life and whether it ...
Facebook and Twitter throw weight behind Apple
February 19, 2016 12:11 pm gmt |
Facebook and Twitter are siding with Apple in its fight against a court order demanding the company help investigators break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. A US magistrate ordered the firm to produce software that would give investigators access to the phone. Apple has un...
How to Monitor Your Kid’s iPhone or Android Text Messages
January 20, 2016 10:26 am gmt |
Here’s some exciting news for parents looking to monitor their child’s text message activity. Child safety website TeenSafe has launched a new version that not only lets you view your child’s social network activity, but also lets you read the text messages they send and receive on their Android or i...
iOS 9.3 beta brings Multi-User Mode, Night Shift, and more
Apple on Monday released the first developer beta of iOS 9.3, adding a range of features and capabilities to its mobile operating system – many of which are expected to make it to the general release. The Cupertino-based company with the iOS 9.3 Preview has introduced multi-user mode on iPad fo...
Apple registers automobile domain names, including ‘apple.car’
January 9, 2016 11:49 am gmt |
Apple Inc has registered domain names related to automobiles, adding to speculation about the company’s plans to develop an automobile. The maker registered the domain names, which include apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto in December, according to domain information provider Who.is. Mac Rum...
Apple asks court to make Samsung pay $180 million more in patent dispute
December 25, 2015 8:51 am gmt |
Just over a week after Samsung paid Apple more than $548 million for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone, Apple has asked a U.S. court to force its biggest smartphone rival to cough up even more. In court papers filed on Wednesday, Apple Inc said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd owes nearly $1...
Seven tips to secure your iPhone from hackers
1) Use a PIN or fingerprint security With all the things we now use our smartphone for: email; banking; browsing; shopping, it’s dangerous to leave them unguarded. Locking your screen will protect your sensitive data and apps from meddling. Just go into the settings app on your device, then the...
Apple makes 94 percent of global Smartphone profits: Report
November 17, 2015 12:09 pm gmt |
Despite the large hold Android has on the smartphone market, it is Apple’s iPhone that continues to bag most of the profits. And the numbers have hit a record high, according to market research firm Canaccord Genuity. Though it had a 14.5 percent market share in the quarter ended September, App...
Mastercard is testing a smartphone app
Mastercard is testing a smartphone app that uses facial recognition to verify online purchases. Users in the trial can hold their phone up as though taking a selfie to approve transactions. “The new generation, which is into selfies…? I think they’ll find it cool,” the firm...
This ‘effective power’ text make your friend’s iPhone crash : if you send it to them
This is a surefire way to annoy all your friends- a bug in the Apple operating system means that if you send this text to your friends, it will reset their phone. The string of characters are really specific, but if you copy and paste it into a text, it will turn their phone off. Only […]...
Apple design guru Jony Ive promoted
Apple has promoted British designer Jony Ive to the role of chief design officer at the world’s most valuable company, according to reports. Sir Jonathan previously held the role of senior vice president of design and helped design of some of the tech giant’s most popular gadgets. He was ...
Apple introduces the next iPhone in September
Apple may be developing the next iPhone as more than just an incremental upgrade. It’s likely to be launched in September as per Apple’s usual time frame, the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus (assuming Apple continues with its usual naming convention) will start off by offering a Force Touch ...
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Air Power »»» Lebanese Air Force
Lebanese Air Force القوات الجوية اللبنانية Current Aircraft Inventory
The Lebanese Air Force (al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Lubnaniya) was formed in under the command of the late Lt. Colonel Emile Boustany who later became commander of the armed forces. Although Lebanon gained independence in 1943
Upon its formation Britain donated four Percival Prentices, Italy Savoia Marchetti SM.79L and SM79 which were utilized as transports. Subsequent years witnessed the addition of DH104 Dove twin-engine, sixteen NAA Harvards, six Harvard T2B's six AT-16 aircraft.
After 1960, LAF entered the jet age with CM170 Fouga , sixteen Dassault Mirage IIIEL/BL aircraft and for training of Lebanese pilots and personnel, Also Hawker Hunters were acquired to replace the older combat aircraft.
In 1973, twelve Agusta-Bell AB212, in the 1980s ten SA330 Puma and SA342L Gazelle helicopters entered service. In 1995, witnesed the arrival of sixteen former US Army Bell UH-1H helicopters, primarily used for troop transport, VIP duties and search and rescue (SAR) missions.
In 2000 Mirage III's were acquired by Pakistan and delivered to the Pakistan Air Force. In 2005 four newly Robinson R44 Raven II Helicopters were acquired for training
Surplus Gazelle helicopters donated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early 2007. A year later the Russia Federation agreed to supply Mil Mi-24 'Hind heavy attack helicopters and training of their aircrew. In 2009, the first Cessna 208B Caravan surveillance aircraft was delivered, capable of carrying Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.
According to Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment - Eastern Mediterranean (dated: Nov 30, 2011)
The helicopter force is undoubtedly the most effective element of the Lebanese Air Force in ensuring internal security, with the UH-1H Iroquois primarily used for troop transport and VIP transport duties, as well as search and rescue (SAR) missions and day-time border patrol.
Commander of the Air Force: Brigadier General Ghassan Chahine
Combat: aircraft 5 (total) 5 (in service)
Helicopters: 62 (total) 53 (in service)
Lebanese Air Force Website
Aircraft Type In service Notes
AC-208B Combat Caravan Close air support/Border surveillance 1 2 on order Equipped with MX-15D Camera and Hellfire missiles.
Hawker Hunter Ground attack 4 3 single seaters and 1 two seater back in service. The remaining inactive four are displayed in the Lebanese Air Force Museum at Rayak Air Base
Scottish Aviation Bulldog Trainer 3 Restored in 2010
AB-205/UH-1H Utility/Bomber/Attack helicopter 23 Some with local modifications to carry 250 kg and 400 kg bombs or SNEB Matra 68mm rocket launchers
Aérospatiale SA-342L Gazelle Naval patrol/Battlefield scout/Anti-tank 8 Lebanon signed a contract with Eurotech to revamp and upgrade 13 Gazelles of the original and ex-UAE deliveries.
AgustaWestland AW139 Executive(VIP) VIP transport 1 "Cedar 1" Presidential helicopter.
IAR 330SM / Aérospatiale SA-330 Puma
Utility and transport helicopter 10 7 in storage. Three are ex-UAE IAR-330SM Pumas remaining to be delivered.
Mil Mi-24 Attack-Gunship helicopter 6 6 on order, replacing a previous MiG-29 offer. To be delivered before the end of the year after compelition of the Lebanese pilots training in the Russian Federation
Robinson R44 Trainer/Light utility helicopter 4
Sikorsky S-61N MkII Firefighting/Rescue 3 On behalf of the Ministry of Interior.
Civil and Military Airports in Lebanon
Rayak Air Force Base
, ICAO Code: OLRA, 33° 51' 0" North, 35° 59' 3" East
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
, IATA Code: BEY, ICAO Code: OLBA, 33° 49' 3" North, 35° 29' 3" East
Rene Mouawad Air Force Base
, IATA Code: KYE, ICAO Code: OLKA, 34° 35' 4" North, 36° 0' 7" East
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Pasifika in Waitangi
Posted on June 20, 2016 by Aiono Manu Faaea-Semeatu
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L-R: Jason Ruakere, Teanau Tuiono, Anaru White, Shannon Vulu
The one and only time I had previously seen Waitangi was in a passing drive-by. Moana Timoko, a fellow CORE facilitator, showed me what Waitangi looked like under the cover of darkness. We drove past the night before a professional learning event at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe. I would later find out that we had driven past Te Ti Marae and Tau Rangatira, before approaching the bridge on the other side.
When I actually set foot on Waitangi Treaty Grounds, it was for the last whānau hui with Wharehoka Wano before assuming his new role as iwi manager in Taranaki for Te Atiawa. I guess, in some small part, this blog post serves as a tribute to him for his inspiration to me as a contemporary Māori leader who now returns to his community to serve the needs of his people. He will be missed at Tātai Aho Rau — CORE Education.
I have written about Pasifika connections with Māori in two previous blog posts — Pasifika in Parihaka and Pasifika’s position in honouring the bi-cultural Te Tiriti partnership. I see this blog post as a culmination of the learning from these previous posts, reflecting on my understandings of Pasifika connections in the context of actually visiting Waitangi in the flesh. As a Pasifika person in Aotearoa, because I am conscious of being staunch in my own Samoan culture, it helps me to understand and value what it means to be Māori in Aotearoa. The events that have unfolded since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi have leaned itself more to Pākeha benefitting from the agreement, whereas Māori have continually tried to regain tino rangatiratanga.
Before we went to Waitangi, a group of us visited Russell Kororareka, ‘the hell hole of the Pacific’ (the catch phrase plastered all over the island) to take note of the settlement. The Māori settlement quickly gained notoriety when prostitution arrived in the area, together with the whaling trade and new settlers. Busby had originally planned to have the town of Victoria built, but these plans were later scrapped when the capital city was moved.
A small group of us visited the Waitangi grounds — Jason Ruakere, Anaru White, Shannon Vulu, and me. We were fortunate enough to have our very own tour guide in the form of Teanau Tuiono. The good thing about having Teanau as a tour guide is that he was able to regale us with tales of what he had learned from his own grandparents in relation to the Treaty and the impact of it on his own people. Teanau’s links to Waitangi include Ngāi Takoto, Ngāpuhi with connections to Ngāti Hine and throughout the Tai Tokerau. “When you’re from up North — Waitangi is in your blood”.
L-R: Anaru White, Teanau Tuiono, Jason Ruakere
We stood at the Tau Rangatira where chiefs met every year leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It struck me how little I had remembered from my 7th Form History class, but from Teanau’s commentary, and what Alex Hotere-Barnes and Angela McGregor had shared at Otiria Marae about the history of the Treaty, it helped to jog my memory, and it was plain to see that what was in the Declaration of Independence should have been used in the crafting of the Treaty. Can we gather that Māori chiefs felt more confident in signing the Māori version of the Treaty, because there were similar sentiments and intentions to honour the Māori way of life? I made this summation based on the high level of understanding that Māori had about the independence document.
As I looked at Te Tii Marae, I wondered about all of the political leaders of our country who had arrived at this place for Waitangi Day celebrations. I wondered about how protestors were always given attention by the media to mar the spirit of Waitangi, and what the celebrations were meant to achieve. I also wondered if those political leaders understood the enormity of their position to influence how our nation celebrates, values, and honours the Treaty.
L-R: Jason Ruakere, Anaru White (obscured), Shannon Vulu listening to Teanau Tuiono in Waitangi Museum
Visiting the Waitangi Museum gave us a chance to explore the history and impact of the Treaty on modern Aotearoa. The various exhibits within the museum gave me a sense of a real attempt to show both sides of the story. Video displays were prevalent throughout the museum, with a documentary approach referring to historical figures who influenced the shaping of our nation.
Even our trusty tour guide seemed to ponder the experience we had sitting in the marae. "I wonder what tales the carvings could tell us if they could talk?", he asked. I wanted to know what advice the carvings would give us about our current situation about race relations and the Treaty. There were a couple of pou in there with their eyes closed. It made me think maybe they were spiritual beings who prayed for everyone's wellbeing. I've only ever felt spiritually moved in another such place for Māori — Parihaka. I appreciated being together with my work colleagues who I see as Māori navigators in their own worlds. I appreciated sitting in silence and letting the spirit of Waitangi wash over us.
As we exited the marae, we still lingered around the paepae, looking around and soaking in the surroundings, contemplating the implications of where we stood. It made me think about where we stand today, and where we have moved from this stance.
Have we moved in our cultural understanding of each other as a nation since 1840?
What vision of nationhood should we uphold?
How strong do you stand in all the places you stand?
Being in Waitangi made me appreciate why Māori fight for their ways of life, why being tuturu Māori is so important. Because I understand the values instilled in me about my own Samoan culture — it helps me to value Māoritanga and what I can do as a Pacific person in Aotearoa to endorse Te Ao Māori where people forget to see it or do not want to see it at all.
Aiono Manu Faaea-Semeatu
Aiono Manu Faaea-Semeatu is a practicing ethnomusicologist and educator. She has been a secondary school teacher in Music, Social Studies, and English. As a member of Komiti Pasifika with PPTA, Manu has been involved in creating submissions and providing consultation feedback for various policy documents such as the Pasifika Education Plan for the Ministry of Education, the Pacific Languages Framework for the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs and the Pasifika Strategy for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. She has also provided Pasifika perspectives for the Senior Learning and Teaching guides, in the curriculum areas of Science, Accounting, and Economics with Learning Media.
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Learning to crawl in the Māori world
Ko Waimārama te moana. Ko Tukituki te awa. Ko Kahurānaki te maunga. Nō Heretaunga ahau.
Intergenerational change through loss of taonga
Ko Tarakoa te maunga Ko Tohoratea te awa Ko Ruataupare te whare Ko Te Whānau
Phebs says:
Ngā mihi Manu
I know the carvings spoke to you in their own unique way…
O le gagana e tasi e le lava
Phebs
Aiono Manu says:
Faafetai lava Phebs,
It was a very special moment sitting in that upper marae. I am always attuned to the voices of those who have gone before.
Deanne Thomas says:
Kia ora Manu, talofa lava.
One of the things that your post highlights, and that we try to do in the whānau Māori/Pasifika space, is to understand the importance of who we are and where we are from, as Māori. To know the history of our tūpuna, their trials and tribulations, their footsteps left in the sand, is to know ourselves. To understand what has shaped us to be as we are today.
It is a common presumption that a person who presents as Māori, also has reo, knowledge, tikanga and kawa. This is not always so. The whānau space within CORE allows us to expand our horizons and understandings of others as well as ourselves. The place of Pasifika people in the Treaty is clearly as Tangata Tiriti – the Māori worldview exists on whakapapa and geneology – Te Moana Nui A-Kiwa holds a special place for Māori, and in Māori thinking.
I really appreciate and enjoy reading your musings and reflections post whānau hui. Ngā manaakitanga.
Malo lava De,
I totally agree with the sentiments you have shared. Part of the reason why I have loved the privilege that such an opportunity of attending whānau hui allows me to do, is to be immersed in the tikanga and kawa of each marae we have stayed in, as well as understand what the important issues Māori face in Aotearoa.
Speaking of musings. . . a few years ago in November 2013, I wrote a blog post called "Looking beyond the haka – humble musings of a Samoan observer" that attempted to explore the various different and complex layers of what it means to be Māori in Aotearoa. I would love to hear what your thoughts are about this blog post too. At the time I didn't know it, but I was interested in "identity construction and identity formation" which has since evolved in my iterative thinking and it will now form part of the foundation of what I am writing in my PhD thesis about identity politics.
Manuia le aso,
Aiono Manu
Kathe Tawhiwhirangi says:
Pai rawa Manu
Loved your story :-)
Danny Ioka says:
Malo Aiono. Maori Culture like Samoan Culture must be respected. And I applaud your interest and reflections. I sincerely hope that the many good works and attempts that have contributed to the renaissance and preservation of Maori Culture will continue in robust ways. They say it well in Rugby- Use it or lose it. For Samoa they used it with the right Spirit and in service of the Right God. And that helps explains the longevity and world- making capacity of Samoan Culture. Samoa had invested her Culture in the works of God’s Kingdom and I think it is the best and wise way of ensuring future survival. I also encourage all good efforts for maintaining GOOD CULTURE as a way to SLOW DOWN LIFE and CHECK certain Developments that have no respect for People’s Culture and also have no clear future contribution to the maintenance of GOOD CULTURE. Continue the good work and never forget that we need to change some things in order to hold on to those things we believe to be Eternal. God bless your work and remind Our Maori Relations that there was a good reason why they left Samoa all those years ago !!! Danny.
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Tag Archives: macrolevel
Actively Reading, bloggers, blogosphere, Clueing, Communities, cultural diversity, cultural identity, diversity, ethnocentrism, glocalization, groupthink, identity, individualism, language, linkfest, Malcolm Gladwell, mass media, media, naïve, naïveté, Nation-States, nationalism, personal, politics, ramblings, relativism, shameless plug, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social networking, social networks, wishful thinking
Minds of All Sizes Think Alike
October 15, 2010 dispar Leave a comment
Or «les esprits de toutes tailles se rencontrent».
This post is a response to the following post about Social Network Analysis (SNA), social change, and communication.
…My heart’s in Accra » Shortcuts in the social graph.
I have too many disparate things to say about that post to make it into a neat and tidy “quickie,” yet I feel like I should probably be working on other things. So we’ll see how this goes.
First, a bit of context..
[This “bit of context” may be a bit long so, please bear with me. Or you could get straight to the point, if you don’t think you can bear the context bit.]
I’ve never met Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ), who wrote the post to which I’m responding. And I don’t think we’ve had any extended conversation in the past. Further, I doubt that I’m on his radar. He’s probably seen my name, since I’ve commented on some of his posts and some of his contacts may have had references to me through social media. But I very much doubt that he’s ever mentioned me to anyone. I’m not noticeable to him.
I, on the other hand, have mentioned Zuckerman on several occasions. Latest time I remember was in class, a few weeks ago. It’s a course on Africa and I was giving students a list of online sources with relevance to our work. Zuckerman’s connection to Africa may not be his main thing, despite his blog’s name, but it’s part of the reason I got interested in his work, a few years ago.
In fact, there’s something embarrassing, here.. I so associate Zuckerman to Africa that my mind can’t help but link him to Erik Hersman, aka White African. I did meet Herman. [To be exact, I met Erik at BarCampAustin, which is quite possibly the conference-like event which has had the most influence on me, in the past few years (I go to a lot of these events).] When I did meet Hersman, I made a faux-pas in associating him with Zuckerman. Good-natured as he seemed to be, Hersman smiled as he corrected me.
EthanZ and I have other contacts in common. Jeremy Clarke, for instance, who co-organizes WordCamp Montreal and has been quite active in Montreal’s geek scene. Jeremy’s also a developer for Global Voices, a blogging community that Zuckerman co-founded. I’m assuming Clarke and Zuckerman know each other.
Another mutual contact is Christopher Lydon, host of Radio Open Source. Chris and I have exchanged a few emails, and Zuckerman has been on ROS on a few occasions.
According to Facebook, Zuckerman and I have four contacts in common. Apart from Clarke and Hersman, there’s P. Kerim Friedman and Gerd Leonhard. Kerim is a fellow linguistic anthropologist and we’ve collaborated on the official Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) site. I got in touch with Leonhard through “Music 2.0” issues, as he was interviewed by Charles McEnerney on Well-Rounded Radio.
On LinkedIn, Zuckerman is part of my third degree, with McEnerney as one of my first-degree contacts who could connect me to Zuckerman, through Zuckerman’s contacts.
(Yes, I’m fully aware of the fact that I haven’t name a single woman in this list. Nor someone who doesn’t write in English with some frequency, for that matter.)
By this time, my guess is that you may be either annoyed or confused. “Surely, he can’t be that obsessed with Zuckerman as to stalk him in every network.”
No, I’m not at all obsessed with Ethan Zuckerman in any way, shape, or form. Though I mention him on occasion and I might have a good conversation with him if the occasion arises, I wouldn’t go hang out in Cambridge just in case I might meet him. Though I certainly respect his work, I wouldn’t treat him as my “idol” or anything like that. In other words, he isn’t a focus in my life.
And that’s a key point, to me.
In certain contexts, when social networks are discussed, too much is made of the importance of individuals. Yet, there’s something to be said about relative importance.
In his “shortcuts” post, Zuckerman talks about a special kind of individuals. Those who are able to bypass something of a clustering effect happening in many human networks. Malcolm Gladwell (probably “inspired” by somebody else) has used “connectors” to label a fairly similar category of people and, given Gladwell’s notoriety in some circles, the name has resonance in some contexts (mostly “business-focused people,” I would say, with a clear idea in my mind of the groupthink worldview implied).
In one of my earliest blogposts, I talked about an effect happening through a similar mechanism, calling it the “Social Butterfly Effect” (SBE). I still like it, as a concept. Now, I admit that it focuses on a certain type of individuals. But it’s more about their position in “the grand scheme of things” than about who they are, though I do associate myself with this “type.”
The basic idea is quite simple. People who participate in different (sub)networks, who make such (sub)networks sparser, are having unpredictable and unmeasurable effects on what is transmitted through the network(s).
On one hand, it’s linked to my fragmentary/naïve understanding of the Butterfly Effect in the study of climate and as a component of Chaos Theory.
On the other hand, it’s related to Granovetter‘s well-known notion of “weak ties.” And it seems like Granovetter is making something of a comeback, as we discuss different mechanisms behind social change.
Interestingly, much of what is being said about weak ties, these past few weeks, relates to Gladwell’s flamebait apparent lack of insight in describing current social processes. Sounds like Gladwell may be too caught up in the importance of individuals to truly grok the power of networks.
Case in point.. One of the most useful pieces I’ve read about weak ties, recently, was Jonah Lehrer‘s direct response to Gladwell:
Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Reading Lehrer’s piece, one gets the clear impression that Gladwell hadn’t “done his homework” on Granovetter before launching his trolling “controversial” piece on activism.
But I digress. Slightly.
Like the Gladwell-specific coverage, Zuckerman’s blogpost is also about social change and he’s already responded to Gladwell. One way to put it is that, as a figure, Gladwell has shaped the discussion in a way similar to a magnetic field orienting iron filings around it. Since it’s a localized effect having to do with polarization, the analogy is fairly useful, as analogies go.
Which brings me to groupthink, the apparent target of Zuckerman’s piece.
Still haven’t read Irving Janis but I’ve been quite interested in groupthink for a while. Awareness of the concept is something I immediately recognize, praise, and associate with critical thinking.
In fact, it’s one of several things I was pleasantly surprised to find in an introductory sociology WikiBook I ended up using in my “Intro. to Society” course, last year. Critical thinking was the main theme of that course, and this short section was quite fitting in the overall discussion.
So, what of groupthink and networks? Zuckerman sounds worried:
This is interesting to me because I’m intrigued – and worried – by information flows through social networks. If we’re getting more (not lots yet, but more) information through social networks and less through curated media like newspapers, do we run the risk of encountering only information that our friends have access to? Are we likely to be overinformed about some conversations and underinformed about others? And could this isolation lead to ideological polarization, as Cass Sunstein and others suggest? And if those fears are true, is there anything we can do to rewire social networks so that we’re getting richer, more diverse information?
Similar questions have animated many discussions in media-focused circles, especially in those contexts where the relative value (and meaning) of “old vs. new media” may be debated. At about the same time as I started blogging, I remember discussing things with a statistician friend about the polarization effect of media, strong confirmation bias in reading news stories, and political lateralization.
In the United States, especially, there’s a narrative (heard loud and clear) that people who disagree on some basic ideas are unable to hear one another. “Shockingly,” some say, “conservatives and liberals read different things.” Or “those on (the) two sides of (the) debate understand things in completely different ways.” It even reminds me of the connotations of Tannen’s booktitle, You Just Don’t Understand. Irreconciliable differences. (And the first time I mention a woman in this decidedly imbalanced post.)
While, as a French-Canadian ethnographer, my perspective is quite different from Zuckerman, I can’t help but sympathize with the feeling. Not that I associate groupthink with a risk in social media (au contraire!). But, like Zuckerman, I wish to find ways to move beyond these boundaries we impose on ourselves.
Zuckerman specifically discusses the attempt by Onnik Krikorian (@OneWMPhoto) to connect Armenians (at least those in Hayastan) and Azeris, with Facebook “affording” Krikorian some measure of success. This case is now well-known in media-centric circles and it has almost become shorthand for the power of social media. Given a personal interest in Armenians (at least in the Diaspora), my reaction to Krikorian’s success are less related to the media aspect than to the personal one.
At a personal level, boundaries may seem difficult to surmount but they can also be fairly porous and even blurry. Identity may be negotiated. Individuals crossing boundaries may be perceived in diverse ways, some of which have little to do with other people crossing the same boundaries. Things are lived directly, from friendships to wars, from breakups to reconciliations. Significant events happen regardless of the way they’re being perceived across boundaries.
Not that boundaries don’t matter but they don’t necessarily circumscribe what happens in “personal lives.” To use an seemingly-arbitrary example, code-switching doesn’t “feel” strange at an individual level. It’s only when people insist on separating languages using fairly artificial criteria that alternance between them sounds awkward.
In other words, people cross boundaries all the time and “there’s nothing to it.”
Boundaries have quite a different aspect, at the macrolevel implied by the journalistic worldview (with nation-based checkbox democracy at its core and business-savvy professionalization as its mission). To “macros” like journos and politicos, boundaries look like borders, appearing clearly on maps (including mind ones) and implying important disconnects. The border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is a boundary separating two groups and the conflicts between these two groups reify that boundary. Reaching out across the border is a diplomatic process and necessitates finding the right individuals for the task. Most of the important statuses are ascribed, which may sound horrible to some holding neoliberal ideas about freewill and “individual freedoms.”
Though it’s quite common for networked activities to be somewhat constrained by boundaries, a key feature of networks is that they’re typically boundless. Sure, there are networks which are artificially isolated from the rest. The main example I can find is that of a computer virology laboratory.
Because, technically, you only need one link between two networks to transform them into a single network. So, it’s quite possible to perceive Verizon’s wireless network as a distinct entity, limited by the national boundaries of the U.S. of A. But the simple fact that someone can use Verizon’s network to contact someone in Ségou shows that the network isn’t isolated. Simple, but important to point out.
Especially since we’re talking about a number of things happening on a single network: The Internet. (Yes, there is such a thing as Internet2 and there are some technical distinctions at stake. But we’re still talking about an interconnected world.)
As is well-known, there are significant clusters in this One Network. McLuhan’s once-popular “Global Village” fallacy used to hide this, but we now fully realize that language barriers, national borders, and political lateralization go with “low-bandwidth communication,” in some spots of The Network. “Gs don’t talk to Cs so even though they’re part of the same network, there’s a weak spot, there.” In a Shannon/Weaver view, it sounds quite important to identify these weak spots. “Africa is only connected to North America via a few lines so access is limited, making things difficult for Africans.” Makes sense.
But going back to weak ties, connectors, Zuckerman’s shortcuts, and my own social butterflies, the picture may be a little bit more fleshed out.
Actually, the image I have in mind has, on one side, a wire mesh serving as the floor of an anechoic chamber and on the other some laser beams going in pseudorandom directions as in Entrapment or Mission Impossible. In the wire mesh, weaker spots might cause a person to fall through and land on those artificial stalagmites. With the laser beams, the pseudorandom structure makes it more difficult to “find a path through the maze.” Though some (engineers) may see the mesh as the ideal structure for any network, there’s something humanly fascinating about the pseudorandom structure of social networks.
Obviously, I have many other ideas in mind. For instance, I wanted to mention “Isabel Wilkerson’s Leaderless March that Remade America.” Or go back to that intro soci Wikibook to talk about some very simple and well-understood ideas about social movements, which often seem to be lacking in discussions of social change. I even wanted to recount some anecdotes of neat network effects in my own life, such as the serendipity coming from discuss disparate subjects to unlike people or the misleading impression that measuring individualized influence is a way to understand social media. Not to mention a whole part I had in my mind about Actor Network Theory, non-human actors, and material culture (the other course I currently teach).
But I feel like going back to more time-sensitive things.
Still, I should probably say a few words about this post’s title.
My mother and I were discussing parallel inventions and polygenesis with the specific theme of moving away from the focus on individualized credit. My favourite example, and one I wish Gladwell (!) had used in Outliers (I actually asked him about it) is that of Gregor Mendel and the “rediscovery” of his laws by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak. A semi-Marxian version of the synchronous polygenesis part might hold that “ideas are in the air” or that the timing of such dicoveries and inventions has to do with zeitgeist. A neoliberal version could be the “great minds think alike” expression or its French equivalent «Les grands esprits se rencontrent» (“The great spirits meet each other”). Due to my reluctance in sizing up minds, I’d have a hard time using that as a title. In the past, I used a similar title to refer to another form of serendipity:
Silly Minds Think Alike « Disparate.
To me, most normally constituted minds are “great,” so I still could have used the expression as a title. But an advantage of tweaking an expression is that it brings attention to what it implies.
In this case, the “thinking alike” may be a form of groupthink.
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‘BORN AGAIN’
Saudi Teen Who Fled Homeland: ‘There Will Be a Lot More Women Running Away’
Updated 01.15.19 4:55AM ET / Published 01.15.19 1:29AM ET
Carlos Osorio/Reuters
A Saudi teenager who was taken in as a refugee in Canada after fleeing abuse back home said she believes her experience will prompt other women to escape Saudi Arabia. “I think the number of women fleeing from the Saudi administration and abuse will increase, especially since there is no system to stop them,” Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Toronto. “I’m sure that there will be a lot more women running away. I hope my story encourages other women to be brave and free. I hope my story prompts a change to the law, especially as it’s been exposed to the world. This might be the agent for change.” Al-Qunun made international headlines last week when she barricaded herself inside a Bangkok hotel room to fight what she described as a Saudi plot to have her involuntarily repatriated. She pleaded on Twitter for Western governments to intervene and grant her asylum, saying she’d face certain death back home from abusive male family members. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada would accept Al-Qunun as a refugee, and she arrived there over the weekend, where she said she felt “like I was born again.”
Read it at AP
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Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 – our customers give their verdicts
“We’re absolutely blown away by Superior Drummer 3” – Computer Music “It’s technically brilliant” – Sound on Sound “Extraordinary: a game changer of on all fronts.” – AskAudio “An extremely powerful tool” – Rhythm magazine “It’s thoroughly Superior and I thoroughly recommend it.” – TheSamplecast So, the press have had their say about Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 3 drum production software and there’s no doubt they love it. AskAudio even put it…
Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 – Your Questions Answered
Welcome to the future. With Superior Drummer 3, Toontrack have once again completely shifted the boundaries of what is possible with drum software. Much more than simply a drum production tool, Superior Drummer 3 is a virtual studio which provides infinite drum shaping possibilities. What are the new features in SD3? Superior Drummer 3 boast a new engine that has been completely redesigned from the ground up, so there are…
Toontrack release Dream Pop EZX – we see what’s inside…
This week Toontrack released the latest addition to their EZdrummer 2 line: Dream Pop EZX, an exciting new expansion pack that combines acoustic, electronic and natural sounding percussion to create a truly unique and real sound. Since the release of EZdrummer, there have been 30 additional libraries added to the line and this expansion is one of the most unique and impressive yet, raising the bar of modern pop production….
Toontrack EZdrummer 2 – the story so far…
Back in early February, we at Time+Space along with selected members of the press from around the world were invited to Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios for an announcement that Toontrack promised would be their most exciting product unveiling to date. There were plenty of expectations in the T+S office about what it could be and whilst our inklings were on the ball we were certainly not prepared to be…
Toontrack EZdrummer or Superior Drummer – which one is right for you?
If you’ve yet to experience either of Toontrack‘s award winning drum samplers it’s simple to make the judgement that EZdrummer is the easiest of the two to use. This new video from Toontrack delves deeper than that to give you a clear idea of what features and capabilities each instrument delivers and how they could fit into your own workflow. You may even decide that both could easily slot into…
The Blues EZX drummer Hans Lindbäck talks about recording Toontrack’s latest EZX
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Toontrack EZdrummer expansion packs – what’s your sound?
Unbelievably, it’s been over six and a half years since Toontrack first unleashed EZdrummer onto the world! Despite these times of ever-advancing technologies, particularly within music production software, this virtual instrument remains an extremely popular drum sampler for musicians and producers looking for a quick, easy and affordable tool for creating realistic drumtracks. Since, its release, Toontrack have given users the opportunity to grow their EZdrummer kit collection with a…
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Counting my (literary) blessings
I've had a really good year. Yes, it has had its challenges. Working in the education sector was never going to be easy. But it has also been richly rewarding in ways I thought only existed for people who go to India to find themselves. I almost can't believe that in a month from now I'll be starting a whole new adventure, in a completely different sector. Maybe it's the start of this one month's notice that is making me feel the need to take stock...
I got into this introspective mood yesterday when I was talking to Sowetan Education about (among other things) my career and my love for my work. It's sounds weird but I only realised fairly recently how totally nerdy I am. I love books. Not in a superficial, romcom kind of way. It's a weak-at-the-knees, love-of-my-life kind of feeling. I've had it since I was five years old and books have been the only I ever wanted or needed for my sanity. If I could read and write, I was happy. I didn't need other people, I didn't need friends or food or outside. I had books.
I'm meant to be talking at Read Educational Trust's book clubs' forum on Saturday morning. I'm meant to be (again) talking about my career and my love of my work. I'm meant to be talking about 'girl power' and how girls should read. But all I want to talk about are the five books I've read in the last week and a half. That and how I came to need people as much as I need books.
Also: I feel really blessed to have had some awesome people behind me and my work this year. There's no real way to thank them without being chessy because the truth is, they have given me a life of books and that was, honestly, all I ever wanted. I'm going into another long-held dream job now and I'm feeling so so grateful. Not many people get to have all their dreams come true before they're even 25.
Like the saying I've seen on so many Tumblrs goes: you don't find yourself, you make yourself. So today, inspired by Jason from 'The Truth About Forever', I'm making a list of everyone who has helped me make my(professional)self*:
1. Colleen, Ben, Peter and Elinor. No one could ask for better mentors. You're all the bomb.com but Elinor is honestly one of the kindest, most lovely people I have ever met.
2. Stéphan-Eloïse Gras. She is a kick-ass human being and somehow she conned Institut Francais into buying me a ticket to Brazzaville. Best. Weekend. Ever.
3. Sefi Atta. So much wisdom is such a short space of time.
4. Nangamso Koza, Craig Wattrus, Jayne Southern and Lynn Joffe (!) who have Stéphan-Eloïse levels of faith in me and/ have let me suck them in for hours of debate about the education crisis we're in. So thanks for that.
5. Awesome volunteer super-people who should be paid so much for all they have given to this sector: Dani Favis, Madelein du Toit and Nikki Mcdiarmid. So much love.
I've got to start writing what I've got to say on Saturday. Now that I have procrastinated on the interwebs and felt happy and blessed, and totally forgotten to eat dinner or go to the gym. I've got to start writing but I feel like, if the last year is anything to go by, I'm probably just going to go read instead...
*I have a feeling that friends and family should already know how I feel about them. If they don't, I'm doing so many things wrong with my life.
It sounds bad but it's good! I think? My review of Bodyguard: Hostage
The Book: Bodyguard: Hostage by Chris Bradford
And It's About?
ASSESS THE THREAT.
COUNTER THE DANGER.
ESCAPE THE KILLZONE.
In a dangerous world, everyone needs protection.
No one suspects that a teenager could protect someone – but Connor Reeves is no ordinary 14 year old. He’s a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When he’s summoned to protect the President’s daughter, his protection skills face the ultimate test.
Alicia doesn’t want to be guarded. She just wants to have fun. With no clue that Connor is her bodyguard, she tries to escape the Secret Service and lead him astray. But unknown to her and Connor, a terrorist sleeper cell has been activated.
Its mission: to take the President’s daughter HOSTAGE.
In a word, it was... Unlikely
I read the blurb. I think: How am I supposed to take that seriously? First, I am meant to believe that a 14 year old is a bodyguard. I have met 14 year olds boys. I ain't trusting my life in their prepubescent hands. Even with mad kickboxing skills and putting aside my scepticism of their upper body strength aside, the full development of the parts of the brain that manages rational and mature behaviour is a real thing. And that shizz is just not working correctly until you are like 20. I should know (see all bad decisions made in high school).
Then, I am meant to believe that the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA would be totally cool with letting this kid protect his kid. Can I see Obezzy letting Conor Reeeves protect Sasha and... the other very pretty, probably also smart one? Not really. But it's supposed to make sense in Bodyguard because Conor's dad protected the President once and now Conor will protect the President's daughter Alicia because... that would be things coming full circle, I guess? The Secret service in the book is not amused. The Secret Service in real life would definitely not be down for that. (Case in point: Gaddaffi had a teen bodyguard and look how that ended.)
But the thing that for me was too much were the terrorists. Islamic terrorists would not want to take the President's daughter hostage to secure the release of ALL Islamic 'prisoners of war' or 'enemy combatants' or whatever, nor to force America troops out of all Islamic countries immediately. They would not want this not because it isn't something that they would theoretically like. Sure, it would be nice. But, they are much much more intelligent than that and no fundamentalist group would honestly believe that capturing the President's daughter would cause him to unilaterally end a multibillion dollar campaign against millions of people in dozens of countries working within, in collaboration with or in support of dozens of Islamic and other extremist groups. That would just not happen. If anything, they might want to assassinate members of the First Family to terrorise Americans in the same way as 9/11. Or maybe kidnap members of said family and render them to Islamic countries for a live execution on YouTube. Maybe.
These three ideas (14 year old as bodyguard, POTUS totally ok with this and terrorist dumb enough to think their plan will work) make up the bulk of this novel. If you cannot suspend your disbelief about these and ignore the real misunderstanding of international relations or the global war or terror, then this is not a book for you.
Luckily, I was reviewing the book for a news publication and had to suspend my disbelief. I'm glad I did. Besides it's naivety, it was a actually good book. It is YA fiction and it does not promise to be realistic or truthful and it is unfair and punitive to impose that burden of responsibility on the genre. Bodyguard was fast-paced, fun, well-written, full of action and great for young teens who might be more intrigued by this original idea than they are bothered by its implausibility.
Buddyguards, time travel and Glee!
I went a bit cray at the Exclusive Books sale at Melrose Arch this weekend and bought many books. I also have a book from The Times that I'm meant to be reviewing for work vibes and at this weekend's Skoobs book blogger's event, I picked up an advanced review copy of something that sounds fun. Of this impressive 8 book stack of books I'll be reading in the next two weeks, these sound the most interesting:
Bodyguard: Hostage by Chris Bradford
Its mission: to take the President’s daughter HOSTAGE
I'm not going to lie. I'm about half-way through this book and while it is entertaining, it's also kind of ridiculous and totally implausible. I'm surprised that it's doing so well on Goodreads. I mean, it's well-written and it's fun but a 14 year old bodyguard? I would not sign up for that shizz.
Unless of course said teenager could time-travel...
Vortex by Julie Cross
Julie Cross's Vortex is the thrilling second installment of the Tempest series, in which the world hangs in the balance as a lovelorn Jackson must choose who to save
Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly — the girl he altered history to save — Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents not only find themselves under attack, but Jackson begins to discover that the world around him has changed and someone knows about his erased relationship with Holly, putting both their lives at risk all over again.
I read the first instalment of the series, Tempest, last week ands it was quite good. I mean, it wasn't Divergent but it was good stuff and I was digging the love-vibes between Jackson and Holly. However, the love-vibes can only justify altering the past/future so long before you're just being silly. I'm hoping this sequel is not silly.
Which finally brings me to a book that I wholly expect to be silly. I am a mucho Glee fan and was pleasantly surprised to see Kurt's debut novel on the YA shelf at EB:
Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal by Chris Colfer
Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips, who blackmails the most popular students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of The New Yorker. At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkably smart, Struck By Lightning unearths the dirt that lies just below the surface of high school. At a time when bullying torments so many young people today, this unique and important novel sheds light with humour and wit on an issue that deeply resonates with countless teens and readers.
I'll also be reading Wool by Hugh Howey, Acid by Emma Pass and Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. Wish me luck.
Mmatladi le Dingwe and me: a return to the old stories
I interviewed Damaria Senne a while ago for the Puku Presents series and her interview is up today. Damaria is interesting to me because she represents a different kind of children's book writer than those I usually meet. For one, she has self-published her books with no apologies or plans to try get published by a 'real' publisher soon and that's kinda brave and kinda cool. For another, Damaria represents an oft not well-represented demographic of published authors in South Africa: the writers who didn't have books to read. When asked what he favourite children's book was as a child, she says:
I didn’t read children’s books as a child. I didn’t have access to them. But I loved the story of Mmatladi le Dingwe, a story that was included in Primary School learner’s book. Then there was the story of Worsie (in my Afrikaans learner’s book), which my siblings and I found extremely funny. Even today, we still make reference to the character of Worsie when we talk about someone running from problems.
I tried to find the story Mmatladi le Dingwe online to no avail. I'd never heard of it before Damaria's reference to it. I suspect that perhaps were my grandmother still alive, she might have been able to tell it to me. Why does it seem that grandmothers are the only ones who still tell the old stories?
Our oral heritage seems to have all but lost its place in our education system, especially for children below the school-going age. As a child, I had books but all of them were in English. The grown-ups (probably rightly in SA circa 1990) thought it was a better idea for me to build competency in English than to even attempt to acquire stories or concepts in my home language. I was lucky: I took to English quickly, discovered I actually had a talent for the language and read everything I could get my hands on. Most other kids aren't so lucky.
With no access to home language children’s books outside of those ordered by schools and parents who are often not equipped to help with their children’s literacy and learning, we should never have abandoned oral storytelling as a vehicle to impart knowledge and linguistic skills. We should never have pushed the angle that you have to read to your children and that that is the only way to contribute to their improved literacy. What if you can't afford books? What if you can't read? Why can't you tell them the stories of your childhood and your parents' childhood? Loss of this practise (or rather, institutional praise and support of this practise) has disadvantaged many local children in their acquisition of of complex concepts in their home language and fundamentals of their first additional language. True story.
Neither traditional nor self-published non-English, non-Afrikaans books are getting to kids. A writer's home language is X but publishers don't think there's a market for X books and booksellers don't think X books sell so they don't get adequately published or distributed. The writer realises this and does not attempt to write in X because if you can't find a publisher or a bookseller to stock it, there's not much of a point is there? Self-publishing still carries a stigma and, sorry, but Exclusive Books probably isn't going to be putting that kind of book on their shelves anytime soon either. And then people complain that there aren't any books in X available and how will we keep X alive for their children - while simultaneously not buying and promoting the books that do get published by the likes of Jacana Media, online or through NGOs like Biblionef.
This is an oversimplification. There are good reasons for the actions of all the players in this situation to act as they do. And many of these factors limit the number of English and Afrikaans books available to English and Afrikaans kids too. Don't get me wrong, I empathise. I just long for a different way.
I think a return to orality is that different way. I think we need to work out how to mainstream the production and distribution of oral storytelling in our languages. I think we need to figure out how to monetize it - whether through public-private partnerships or development of Freemium platforms, whatever. Because if people can't make a living from it, how can we expect them to give up pension and medical aid for the uncertainty of vaguely doing good things? It's not fair. They should be rewarded for doing work that is worthwhile (and that goes for authors, illustrators and editors too).
It's easy for me to complain from my little corner of the interwebs. Doing something concrete about it is something entirely different. Which means the only thing we really need to do is figure out how.
Read the full interview with Damaria Senne
Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield Review
My quick review of Dirty Wars for Sunday Times books. It may or may not be published and it isn't really in the style of this blog but I really enjoyed the book so I'm giving it a little shine here anyway.
Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
The product of years of research by dozens of individuals, 'Dirty Wars' is a work of investigative journalism with breathtaking scope and depth. The book traces over 15 years of United States foreign policy from the dangerous rise of Cheney-era death squads in Afghanistan after 9/11 to the US-funded Somali warlords that would eventually tear that country apart. Scahill exposes the routine capture, torture and assassination of foreign and US nationals by various groups within the US intelligence apparatus operating with full impunity and money to burn. In 'Dirty Wars', no one with real, suspected or even fabricated links to al Queda is safe. The bleak reality uncovered is that, to the US, the world really is a battlefield.
‘Dirty Wars’ is likely one of the most important reference books on the Global War on Terror written in recent years. It is not an easy or quick read but it is certainly a worthy one.
Events for writers in Durban
I happened across some events for writers in Durban the other day. I think things are so often focussed on Gauteng and the Western Cape that it's hard to find events and support for writers outside Joburg, Pretoria and CT. Luckily, there's organisations like SA Writers' circle. The stated purpose of the South African Writers’ circle is to "encourage and assist all writers, new and experienced, and to promote the art of creative writing in general". That sounds like my kind of party!
And if I lived in Durban, I would be there:"
Join us at our next meeting, Saturday July 20th, and hear from FRED FELTON on the topic BLOGGING & WRITING.
11h00, Westville Library, R15 for non-members, R5 for members. Please bring and share if you are staying for lunch and the workshop thereafter.
The group apparently meets on the third Saturday of each month at Westville Library at 11h00. I'd love some feedback on how their events go.
This other event looks a little too good to be true. Experience in publishing has taught me anyone who markets their event with "Discover how easy it is to publish and market your book on the internet" is overselling in a big way. But I think if participants go in with their eyes wide open, if nothing else it could be a good networking opportunity?
Richard Mulvey and Charlotte Kemp have written and published 30 books between them and they will be sharing their expertise at the 90 minute presentation to celebrate the launch of their new book “The Working Title”
- Learn how to overcome writers block
- Discover how easy it is to publish and market your book on the internet
- Find out how to self publish, get an ISBN number and choose the right printer
- Become an author and be admired as the authority on your subject
- Uncover the secrets of earning a passive income from your writing
Writing, Publishing and Marketing your book is a lot easier than you think and is this presentation Richard and Charlotte will guide you through a set of simple steps that will get you on the bookshelves and influencing other people’s lives.
Date: 18 July
Time: Refreshments, networking and library – 5:30 – 6pm / Meeting 6 – 9pm
Venue: The Hellenic Centre, 5 High Grove, Umgeni Park, Durban
Cost: Free for PSASA members; R200 for non-members
(Tea, coffee, biscuits & snacks included. Cash bar available).
Booking through PSASA Administrator – Simone: admin@psasouthernafrica.co.za / +27 79 680 2573
Again, I'd really like to know how this goes so hit me up with some feedback if you attend.
Open Book, NBW2013 and a Xhosa Kids' Festival
Literary festivals seem to be what's up this September in South Africa but I am full of the sads because I am missing ALL of them. This is because I am taking a day job outside of publishing in September.
First up is Open Book Festival: 7 - 11 September. There's a lot of writers I wouldn't mind kicking it with who are on the programme and even a few YA writers invited. With Andre, Niq, Teju and Kgebetli there it's gonna be a little Saint-Malo/Brazzaville reunion and I wish I could be there for the shenanigans.
The other 2013 authors at Open Book are:
Alex Latimer, Andrew Brown, Andy Mason, Angela Makholwa, Anton Kannemeyer, Arthur Attwell, Clinton Osbourne, Conrad Botes, Damien Brown, David Tyfield, Dawn Garisch, Deon Meyer, Diane Awerbuck, Dianne Hofmeyr, Fiona Snyckers, Frank Westerman, Gail Schimmel, Gillian Slovo, Haidee Kruger, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ian Rankin, Imraan Coovadia, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Joe Vaz, Kamila Shamsie, Khadija Heeger, Khosi Xaba, Lauren Beukes, Malika Ndlovu, Margie Orford, Marli Roode, Michael Grant, Mukesh Kapila, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Nadia Davids, NoViolet Bulawayo, Patrick deWitt, Polly Dunbar, Pumla Gqola, Rachel Holmes, Reneilwe Malatji, Rico, Sally Partridge, Sarah Lotz, Sindiwe Magona, Songeziwe Mahlangu, Toni Stuart, Will Storr and Zapiro.
Looking forward to seeing the programme, especially the youth programme. There is also a Comics Fest happening at Open Book and who the hells could say no to that shizz?
The other literary shindig in September (which arguably should be a bigger deal) is National Book Week 2013. NBW takes place every first week of September and is run by South African Book Development Council (SABDC) in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture. The week is meant to coincides with International Literacy Day on 8 September. I wish that National Book Week would move around the country more to give more people the opportunity to be a part of it. Their book ambassadors include peeps other peeps seem to care about like Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Zonke, Aaron Moloisi, Jafta Mamabolo, DJ Sbu, Kabomo and others so maybe NBW/DAC could take them to Durban, Kimberly, Bloemfontein, Mafikeng, Polokwane and other major cities in the coming years? Hell, maybe have events throughout the year to celebrate book readers and book writers? Just thinking out loud here.
And the last and littlest literary event in September is (disclaimer) a project of my current employer, Puku Children's Literature Foundation. Puku, the National Arts Festival and Rhodes University are hosting the first-ever isiXhosa Children’s Story Festival from 6 – 8 Sept in Grahamstown. We didn't call it a book fair or a literary festival because we don't want to scare anyone off with titles that may be perceived as being elitist or might intimidate those who do not think they 'belong' at the literary festival. Instead, we want to bring the Xhosa community, where-ever they may be, together to share their stories in print or otherwise. Keeping local stories alive for this generation and many after that means that we need events like this festival to bring storytelling, song, dance and books together in a joyous celebrate of the language. At least, that's the idea.
I may not actually get to go to any of these but things are happening, more people are reading or at least superficially interested enough in the idea of reading to support festivals that celebrate literature and languages and that's kind of great just by itself.
Find out more about Open Book
Find out more about NBW
Find out more about the Xhosa Festival
Kgebetli Moele's new book is going to be crazy/beautiful
I find Kgebetli Moele quite an odd bird. I met him on the train platform at Paris Montparnasse Train Station while we filed up to board the Etonnants Voyageurs train to Saint Malo and for the next few days, was constantly amused by his particular brand of no bullshit-ness. While I think more people would describe me as forthright, Kgebetli is on another level of tell it like it is. Kgebetli is like 'I'm gonna get up in your face about your opinions and then we're gonna drink some more wine and then I'm gonna do a crazy dance and you're gona like it.' He judged me to no end for reading the Great Gatsby between panels, so much was the judgement in his eyes that I had to switch to reading Waiting for Barbarians just to get out of talking about why I thought GG was even worth the time. Turns out though, he was totally right in his analysis of the story and his view that I would be better served reading JMC. So, obvs I'm very excited to hear that he has a new book on the way and I totally encourage everyone to go out an buy it for what I have no doubt will be a unique and challenging read.
Here's the deal:
Mokgethi is not your average teenage girl. Mokgethi dreams of going to Oxford to study Actuarial Science. But her grandmother and aunt have other ideas, and with no one to fight her corner, except for her younger brother Khutso, Mokgethi is forced to realise that her dreams may well turn out to be just that. Dreams.
Kgebetli Moele returns with perhaps his most controversial novel to date – a novel written from the perspective of a seventeen year old girl. Untitled explores the challenges that face young women trying to escape the poverty into which they have been born – Mokgethi’s life is all about overcoming poor education, escaping sexual predators (young and old) and dealing with the lack of positive role models in her township.
In this explosive novel, Moele deals head-on with sexual abuse, rape and poverty in a way that very few South African authors can.
That sounds crazy/beautiful, no? Go order it.
In Cape Town? I hear he's going to be at Open Book.
Cover Reveal: Sharp Edges!
I'm excited about the new novel from SA Partridge - out in a month or so. It sounds like some dark and twisty kind of fun and goodness knows that's the best kind. And this morning she shared the cover:
It is a little every popular, vaguely supernatural, usually international, YA cover ever though, isn't it? I mean, no offense, but I kind of get excited when I see books that don't feature a) headless girl, b) floating girl (in or out of water), c) girl in fluttering, twee dress (usually headless) or d) all of the above. The Sharp Edges cover is obvs a d) so - that happened - but it also kind of fills me with the sads because I know the book has a wide-range of characters, some of which are not as blonde and skinny as this particular headless, floating girl, and it would have been nice to see some of that diversity reflected on the cover of such a well-respected author. It's probably not the sort of thing marketing and/ sales teams are all that interested in but just once, I'd like to see a kick-ass YA novel with a girl on the cover who looks like me and does not live in war-torn village.
Despite my sads, still keen to read the book. I read a bit of it the other day via Short Story Day Africa and it was amazeballs.
Get a sneak peak of the actual story on SSDA's page.
UPDATE: Sally tells me that the cover is actually reflective of that happens in the book. This encourages me greatly and makes me think I need to read this book and then revisit my thoughts on the cover. Also, I love it when authors interact with their fans on social media!
@BontleSenne I know what you mean. Every time I see a girl with umbrella, girl in pretty dress, girl looking over shoulder I sigh deeply.
— SA Partridge (@Sapartridge) July 4, 2013
Sally also blogged about the frustrations peeps have with so many YA covers here.
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Species and Phylogenetic Nomenclature
DISCLAIMER: This post may inflame you if you are not a supporter of phylogenetic nomenclature, so my advise to you before you go on is don't ruin your day and skip reading it. If you choose to read it, please keep in mind this is not a debate on the validity of the PhyloCode (that's a given to us). However, if you fundamentally share the philosophy at the core of phylogenetic nomenclature, then you may want to know what's going on among us proponents.
Last October, Brent Mishler (University of California, Berkeley), David Baum (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and I submitted a proposal to the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ISPN) in order to remove all mention of "species" from the PhyloCode. We provide justifications for this goal in a supporting paper (Cellinese et al. 2012). The proposal is currently being discussed by the ISPN Committee of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, and given our paper is also in review, this seems to be the right time to stir the pot a little more.
All proponents of phylogenetic nomenclature would agree that the PhyloCode is about naming clades, and removing ranks from nomenclature. Yet, unfortunately there remain aspects in the current wording of the Code that are not about naming clades and that retain rank considerations. These aspects all surround the traditional Linnaean rank of species. The PhyloCode currently states that "In this code, the terms "species" and "clade" refer to different kinds of biological entities, not ranks" (note 3.1.1.). While the concept of species implicitly endorsed by the PhyloCode, that of de Queiroz (2007), does indeed assume that species and clade are distinct entities, this is not universally accepted by any means. Many different species concepts are currently applied across the different biological domains (Mayden1997). Some, like de Queiroz (2007) view species as lineages. Others (e.g. Mishler 1999; Pleijel 1999; Mishler and Theriot 2000 a,b,c; Baum 2009) view species as ranked or unranked clades. But this disagreement is not relevant to a Code of nomenclature that is (supposedly) rank-agnostic and concerned only with naming clades. The debate over species concepts does not need to be solved for the purpose of naming clades under the PhyloCode. Phylogenetic nomenclature can and should remain logically independent from the philosophical debate about species. Therefore, the PhyloCode need not and should not anoint any particular species concept as the correct one. By leaving the word “species” out of the entire document it will be clear that the PhyloCode is available to all systematists regardless of their views on the nature of species.
The PhyloCode as currently constructed works under the assumption that species are not clades, yet paradoxically brings species into the naming of clades in a couple of damaging ways. One is by its current ruling (Article 10.9) that traditional species names should be disallowed for clades. The current version of the PhyloCode, influenced by Dayrat et al.(2008), effectively applies special rules at the “species” level. When a clade happens to approximate to a traditional species in content, the PhyloCode now mandates that that clade be given a new name, distinct from the traditional species name. This is unlike the case when clades approximate in content to genera or families (etc.), in which case the Code strongly encourages the conversion of the traditional name into a clade name. In this way, the PhyloCode establishes parallel nomenclatural systems for species and species-approximating clades. We argue that this is illogical; as there are no ranks under the PhyloCode, there should not be an explicit or implicit rank of species. Phylogenetic nomenclature should accommodate clades whose content is roughly comparable to current species (under whatever species concept). We propose that the PhyloCode be modified to be neutral about species and thus to accommodate all users, including those who wish to be able to attach appropriate names to clades that approximate taxa at the traditional species level.
Another way in which the current version of the PhyloCode generates problems for itself is that it allows species to be used as specifiers for clade names (Art. 11), and relegates the governing of species names to the traditional Codes (Art. 21). This means that the PhyloCode is not a freestanding system of nomenclature. This is unwise; the PhyloCode should be independent and self-contained. No rules in the PhyloCode should depend on rules in the traditional Codes, including rules for species names. This is easily solved by requiring that specifiers under the PhyloCode be museum or herbarium specimens (physical reference objects, possibly Linnaean types at the discretion of the taxonomist) at all levels, never Linnaean binomials per se. Linnaean species binomials are incompatible with phylogenetic taxonomy because they naturally imply the existence of a genus rank, and they are incommensurable with phylogenetic taxa because they are named using only one type (Cellinese et al. 2012).
Since its purpose is to name clades, any mention of ‘species’ in the PhyloCode should be removed. We propose to streamline the PhyloCode to focus solely on rational procedures for naming clades with uninomials at any level including the traditional species level. The rules governing names of clades at and around the traditional species level should follow exactly the same rules and recommendations as at higher levels. To view the original proposals we submitted to ISPN click here. Also see the posting at Phylonames.
Cellinese, N., Baum D.A., Mishler B.D. 2012. Species and Phylogenetic Nomenclature. Syst. Biol. 61: 885-891.
Baum D. A. 2009. Species as ranked taxa. Syst. Biol. 58:74-86.
Dayrat B., Schander C. , Angielczyk, K. D. 2004. Suggestions for a new species nomenclature. Taxon 53:485–591.
Dayrat B., Cantino P.D., Clarke J.A., de Queiroz K. 2008. Species names in the PhyloCode: the approach adopted by the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature. Syst. Biol. 57:507-514.
de Queiroz K. 2007. Species Concepts and Species Delimitation. Syst. Biol. 56:879-886.
Mayden R.L. 1997. A hierarchy of species concepts: The denouement in the saga of the species problem. In: Claridge M.F., Dawah H.A., Wilson M.R., editors. Species: the units of biodiversity. London: Chapman and Hall, p. 381-424.
Mishler B.D. 1999. Getting rid of species? In: Wilson R., editor. Species: new interdisciplinary essays. Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 307-315.
Mishler B.D., Theriot E.C. 2000a. The phylogenetic species concept (sensu Mishler and Theriot): monophyly, apomorphy, and phylogenetic species concepts. In: Wheeler Q.D., Meier R., editors. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 44-54.
Mishler B.D., Theriot E.C. 2000b. A critique from the Mishler and Theriot phylogenetic species concept perspective: monophyly, apomorphy, and phylogenetic species concepts. In: Wheeler Q.D., Meier R., editors. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 119-132.
Mishler B.D., Theriot E.C. 2000c. A defense of the phylogenetic species concept (sensu Mishler and Theriot): monophyly, apomorphy, and phylogenetic species concepts. In: In: Wheeler Q.D., Meier R., editors. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 179-184.
Pleijel F. 1999. Phylogenetic taxonomy, a farewell to species, and a revision of Heteropodarke (Hesionidae, Polychaeta, Annelida). Syst. Biol. 48:755-789.
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The Globe and Mail article, Bombardier patriarch Beaudoin seeks a landing he can walk away from, October 24, 2015 discusses one of the waves in Bombardier’s sea of troubles that airline analyst Robert Kokinos referred to: sales of the Cseries jets.
It appears that Bombardier’s big mistake was to invade the competition’s territory. The thinking was that Boeing and Airbus would concentrate on their larger jets and allow Bombardier to squeeze the Cseries jets into the smaller single aisle models.
Boeing developed the 737 Max and Airbus came up with the A320neo.
The Globe and Mail article’s graphic that illustrates the sales orders for the comparable aircraft for all three companies illustrates Bombardier’s miscalculation.
While the article goes on to paint a nail-biter of a scenario for Bombardier’s future, it is clear that it is Bombardier’s inability to compete against the big boys that makes the difference, not as Mr. Kokinos puts it, Porter’s conditional order for 12 CS100s.
Is it also possible that Porter made an economic miscalculation in choosing Bombardier?
The Pratt & Whitney’s revolutionary new engine (Porter’s main selling point and its hype about whisper jet) is the same engine that powers the launch version of the Airbus’ A320neo, one of Bombardier’s competitors. Since it is highly unlikely that Bombardier could compete on price, Porter would likely pay far less with aircraft from either Boeing or Airbus.
While it is not clear if the Boeing and Airbus aircraft are as quiet as the CS100, it is clear that jets this size belong at Pearson.
If Porter is so desperate for jets, why doesn’t the company pay far less for their 12 aircraft and fly them out of an airport better equipped to handle them?
Porter president and CEO in front of a Pratt & Whitney CS100 jet engine intake.
Why would Porter choose to pay more? Perhaps the company’s business model depends on jets on the waterfront. At the public expanse.
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Manufactured Claims of a ‘Manufactured Crisis’
Democrats must think voters have short memories, particularly when it comes to their role in the spiraling immigration crisis at the southern border.
Dozens of high-ranking Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and presidential hopefuls have told the American people repeatedly for the past six months it’s all just a
“manufactured crisis” created by the president to get his silly wall along the border and fulfill a campaign promise.
They flat-out denied an immigration crisis exists, despite the tragic accounts of migrant women being raped en route to U.S. border by cartels. Democrats turned a blind eye to the migrant children being used as pawns by coyotes and exploited in sex trafficking operations. Not to mention the overcrowded detention centers where thousands of migrants are being held in subpar conditions.
If that’s not problematic enough, Democrat lawmakers also overlooked the deadly drugs like fentanyl pouring into our country, the members of violent gangs including MS-13 and the dangerous weapons making their way into the United States.
In March this year, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., tweeted: “A fake crisis at the border is fear-mongering of the worst kind — and we’re not falling for it. I voted to terminate the president’s ridiculous ‘national emergency.'”
Schumer said it’s “a crisis that does not exist” while Pelosi trumpeted that it’s “a fake crisis at the border.” In lockstep, scores of other top Democrats and Trump haters in media echoed those same talking points to no avail — on cable news channels and other left-leaning outlets.
Meanwhile, in May alone this year, over 144,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border — a crisis by any definition.
But instead of recognizing the gargantuan humanitarian and immigration crisis long ago and working with the president to uphold U.S. Customs and Immigration Laws — or reforming the laws and loopholes exacerbating the crisis — Democrats have been more fixated on scoring political points with their far-left base than passing comprehensive immigration reform.
It’s all about winning elections, no matter the collateral damage or plight of migrants trapped in the system.
Flash-forward to today. Left-wing lawmakers including New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are lambasting the migrant detention centers at the border, comparing them to Nazi concentration camps. They are taking to social media and TV about the inhumane treatment of migrant children being held there, highlighting illegals sleeping on the floor or lacking basic necessities.
Of course House Democrats take no responsibility for any of it, despite having blocked every good-faith effort the administration has made to fix the crisis. This week, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise tweeted: “The hypocrisy from House Dems is unbelievable. They like to grandstand about the humanitarian crisis at our border. Yet they’ve blocked @realDonaldTrump’s request for money to actually solve it 17 TIMES. They need to quit obstructing & work with us to get funding signed into law.”
Liberal lawmakers also forced a partial government shutdown earlier this year — the longest in history — by refusing to grant the president the funding needed to build the wall and enact other sensible measures to alleviate the crisis. And now we see liberal activist workers at Wayfair, a Boston-based furniture supplier, conduct a #WayfairWalkout this week because hundreds of its employees object to it selling beds and furniture to contractors that support border detention facilities.
The result? These poor migrant children will be sleeping on the floor instead of in proper beds that the Trump administration tried to obtain to help them.
So there you have it. Democrats have insisted over the past year there’s no immigration crisis — and now they’re forced to join us in reality and acknowledge there truly is one.
Naturally, they don’t take any responsibility for the immigration mess or the controversial detention centers. Instead Democrats play the blame game while hoping voters don’t notice they resisted and obstructed virtually every common-sense measure the president has tried to implement to resolve the problem and prevent migrants from dying en route to the U.S.
It’s no wonder a recent Gallup poll revealed 75% of Americans hold a low opinion of Congress.
Who can blame them?
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Monster military helicopter being tested at the GUC airport
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Sikorsky King Stallion performs at high altitude
By Kristy Acuff
The Gunnison airport has been a busy place this summer and not just because of tourists. Lockheed Martin has been using the high-altitude helicopter pad to test its latest incarnation of the Sikorsky military helicopter.
The Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion, a 99-foot-long chopper with a rotor diameter of 80 feet, capable of carrying 90,000 pounds at take-off, is being tested this summer at the Gunnison airport. The three-engine Sikorsky King Stallion is a large, heavy-lift cargo/troop helicopter currently being developed for the United States Marine Corps.
“Just like the human body is tasked at high altitude, so are aircraft engines and components. They have to work harder to get the required performance,” says Rick Lamport, Gunnison airport manager. “Aerospace companies come to Gunnison to test aircraft performance at high altitude.”
Lamport says the helicopter is tested only during the daytime under low wind conditions and while there is no set schedule, tests most often occur in the mornings. While undergoing the tests, the helicopter remains tethered to the landing pad while lifting calibrated weights, as operators evaluate the lifting performance in the region’s thin air.
Along with the helicopter, approximately 70 Lockheed Martin employees are in Gunnison for six to seven weeks to take part in the operations. Technicians, pilots and data analysis staff have been in the area since testing began in early July.
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Rolling Steel:
A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story
— by Jay Lake and Shannon Page —
Rough Beast slouched toward the Bethlehem steel mill. Tons of fresh hot metal in there, every cobber and new chum from the Allegheny to the Delaware knew that. Even Topper, the old cat-eyed bastard with steel cables for fingers and a brain stewed in barium-laced æther, knew which way the good stuff lay, for all that he couldn't tell up from down on days ending with a /y/.
He's a bad man, our Topper. Used to run child-soldiers over the St. Lawrence to the Froggies during the Quebec-and-Michigan War. La troisième mutinerie, the Quebecoise called it in one of their endless prayers to St. Jude, for if ever a cause was lost surely it is theirs. Wolfe had put paid to their ambitions at the Plains of Abraham two centuries earlier, but no Frenchman ever born minded much dying for the romance of a shattered heart.
And there was no heart so shattered as that of a patriot whose country has been brought to ground.
And so we have Topper, driven bird-mad in the trenches of the Somme when it would have been kinder for him to have just died. Came home he did to the quack attentions of the New Friends of Sweet Reason, got caught up in the Technocracy movement as exhibit A, and finally fell apart as the country itself did in Roosevelt's dying days.
Now there's Wehrmacht units on the loose from Nova Scotia to New Jersey, the South has risen again (and again), the Federals are barely hanging on in the Mississippi basin, issuing wireless dispatches from Washington-on-the-Rails while the Great Madness takes anyone stupid enough to be caught outside at night anywhere between the Wabash and Pamlico Sound.
Only those who started mad can stand the stuff, and move faster by night than any prayerful man might by day. Especially Topper in his Rough Beast, which once upon a time was a machine meant to kill other machines before he made so much more of it, oh so much more.
"Metal, my pretty," he whispered, patting with a clattering crackle of steel the crawler's upholstered dashboard between the engraving of Percy Bysshe Shelley and the platinum-dipped weasel skull with the rhinestone eyes. Only one of those two had he killed, Topper, and some days he knew the difference. He squinted into the depths of night through the prism that made up Rough Beast's forward vision block, watching for the mill which loomed close, its fires never banked.
Fate and fortune walked on the greased knuckles of Topper's war machine, as never they had since Poland's borders collapsed in the first of the lightning wars.
I patrolled the unquiet streets south of the steel mill, cussing as I walked back and forth in my own precious allotted square block of turf, practically wearing channels in the concrete with my steel-heeled stilettos. "Bastards," I muttered, thinking of the Best Sister and her Little Chums. Well, 'bitches,' technically, but I didn't fancy using such a term of endearment when referring to their ilk.
"Bastards," I growled, as I turned the corner for the seventeen-thousand-and-thirty-second time, only this time I was thinking of my crib mates, the ones who had sniffed out some sort of rupture in my soul and handed me this godforsaken turf as my undue reward.
"Bastard!" I screamed, jamming to a halt as the ferocious machine loomed before me. Hadn't heard the fucker coming at all. My NKVD surplus large-bore riot gun was already raised and trained on the madman coming up from a top hatch, red-lacquered nail rattling against the trigger as my finger trembled with desire. Then I saw it was Topper.
Which didn't change my assessment of the situation, or my epithet. But I did lower the gun, and hike up my leather miniskirt an inch or two.
The gibbering fool grinned down at me, leaning over the console in a halo of actinic light to stare down the front of my corset. I set my shoulders back to improve his view and leered right back up at him.
"Going my way, big boy?" I called out.
"Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Bethlehem!" he chanted, his eyes rolling in his head. Oops, there went the tiny whisper of sanity I'd detected a moment ago. I danced back a step, just in case the worms in his brain told him to gas up that monstrous vehicle and put paid to the sexiest thing he was likely to see all day—any day.
My heels tapped on the sidewalk as I leaned against the wall of the foundry behind me. "And what are you going to do when you get there, mm?"
"Steal," Topper said, letting the word do its double duty. "Stable." Another word doing double duty. He stared down at the woman. Someone from another lifetime, Topper knows with animal cunning and vestiges of functional memory.
He has had many lifetimes, our Topper. Lived them all together inside one much-mended head, until his name has become legion because he is many. Swine out of Garaden could not be more multiplicitous than this man. But even through the palimpsest of his personality, this woman emerges like a slave ship out of an African fog bank.
"Coming with?" Topper asked. He gunned his twinned diesels for emphasis. Rough Beast shivered like a dog about to piss. The woman looked scared but determined, a combination which even Topper cannot ignore.
He locked down the upper hatch, set the brakes, pegged the clutches, disarmed the antipersonnel charges on the outer hull, and crawled back between the ammo cans and the fuel bags to undog the ventral hatch. As he twisted the clamps, Topper hoped the woman hadn't run away or been jumped or something. He can't protect her from up here. Rough Beast is made for salvage runs and fighting heavy metal, not personnel escort.
Topper is confused about a lot of things, but he's not confused about what his crawler does.
The woman was still outside, armed and dangerous. And that was just her looks. Dark hair swept back from an aristocratic face. Pretty teeth, which Topper remembers from white rooms full of screams. She had a big gun, too, a riot weapon meant for stopping dogs or people caught in the Great Madness.
"You're going to the plant," she said.
It was not a question.
"In," Topper ordered by way of a non-answer.
Indecision flicked across her face like a trout in a mountain stream, then she climbed the metal steps he'd dropped down for her. Rough Beast had ground clearance that would give an arborist's ladder a bad case of envy.
Distant gunfire echoed as Topper dogged the hatch, but the incoming wasn't to their address. He wormed back up to the driver's station, leaving the woman to follow or not as she chose.
The crawler got moving with a shuddering lurch which foretold trouble for the portside throw bearings. He could rebuild. He just needed some high-grade ingots to trade out for the finished parts. That was how he took care of everything on this monster.
A single man wasn't meant to maintain and operate something like Rough Beast. Not even a single man as profoundly unalone as Topper.
The woman squirmed into the radio operator's seat behind him. That surprised Topper, he'd already forgotten about her. No radio, never had been one, but there was part of a sandwich rack out of an automat right in front of her face, as if she could plot their course in egg salad and bologna and trimmed crusts.
"So." Her gun thumped briefly against the floor. He noted she was smart enough to clip it to the seat pedestal. "When did they let you out?"
Topper had to think that one over for a while. Finally he said, "Ain't sure they have yet."
Call it boredom if you like. I won't dispute it if you do, not at all. Boredom, ennui, a sense of adventure left unaddressed for far too long — any of that could explain why I left my post and crawled up into that oil-dripping beastie with the lunatic pilot.
When I'm summoned before Best Friend and her bitches to explain myself, though — and you know I will be — we won't be talking about any ennui bullshit. No, I'll be spinning some tale about surveillance and undercover and getting on the inside of the enemy camp and all that sort of yak.
To support this notion, and also because I was damned curious, I slithered up the ladder at the behest of the grisly creature. (Hey, don't let it be said I never plan ahead.) I'd known Topper before, of course; knew him before he was the raving lunatic we'd all come to know and love in the Madness. Not that he was ever entirely sane.
Who is, any more?
I knew him because I'd been part of the crew that had taken him down, during the last round of the world-shifting adventures. We'd taken him hard, real hard, even before handing him over to the New Friends for, shall we say, readjustment therapy. I'd never expected to see him again. Which was shame, in its way.
So here he was, grinding up my street on his way to god-knows-what kind of tomfoolery down at the plant. Didn't even bother to deny it. Invited me aboard.
I settled in behind him, looking around everywhere, trying to take it all in before he came to whatever shred of senses might have been left him by the New Friends and booted me out of there. Because, right, surveillance. Remember? I kept my right hand close to the NKVD riot gun in case Mr. Topper decided to get cute. But he had already started the monster rolling again, ignoring me completely.
He answered my question well enough, I suppose. All things being equal, you never really do get out, do you?
I fell silent after that, wishing the asylum refugee had thought to put windows back at my seat. What was I supposed to do with A-4 and D-0? I'd had a lovely lunch already, thank you very much. The rats are fat and sassy, this part of town.
Oh, Jesus, just kidding. What do I look like? I don't eat rats. You think this figure comes from eating street sludge like rats?
Feral cats, now: that's where it's at. Yum yum, meow yum. Excellent diced and stir-fried, with tree ears and a sprinkling of hoisin sauce right at the end.
After a particularly difficult highway crossing, Topper's mind wanders back to the woman. She was muttering under her breath now. Something about rats and cats and someone named Hawser Ann. He could smell her breath even in the diesel-and-metal reek of the crawler.
Cats was right in there. Topper cackled. He'd had a cat once, lived in the bed with him in the pale green room with the telephone that whispered secret vices in his ear-of-virtue, and blessings in his ear-of-vice. He knew what had happened to that cat too, every time he blinked his eye.
Our Topper spent some quality time under the close personal care of Doctor Sergei S. Bryukhonenko, after the good doctor B. had fled the collapse of the Eastern Front and wound up under a New Friends of Sweet Reason ban working out of a former mental hospital in the quiet fields near Yellow Springs, Ohio. The fields were quiet then because of the gas pooling in the low-lying watersheds which killed off everything with a central nervous system.
Dr. Bryukhonenko had been the beneficiary of good pressure seals and a number of human canaries chained to stakes in a three-mile radius around the hilltop facility. Our Topper had been the beneficiary of Dr. Bryukhonenko's newfound health and safety.
Until the psychosurgeries began.
Now he saw in strange shades of gray, a world of movement and chiaroscuro, relying on childhood memories of paintboxes and flower gardens to fill in the colors. Topper still knows the curve of a woman's breast from the rounded nose of a bullet — he's not that far gone — but so much else slides past the greased corners of memory, electroshock therapy, and deep conditioning, as if he were a human carpet afflicted with flea's eggs.
"Food?" he asked the woman. A gap yawned before the crawler, smoke crawling up out of some nether hole in the Pennsylvania soil. Mine fire? Enemy attack? Wrath of God? He navigated around it while one of his inner selves listened to her answer.
"Is that a request or an offer?" She began suggestively polishing the barrel of her riot gun.
"Dunno," Topper said. "Thought you might have some catsmeat." He felt vaguely like a cannibal for asking. Then his attention was distracted by the towering stacks of the mill, his destination. Someone flew a small aircraft close above them. He resisted the urge to jump up into the air and swat at it.
For all Topper knows, he might be able to do just that. Muscles he didn't know he had creaked at the thought.
"Rowr," the woman growled.
He wondered if she would purr, as well,
"You don't remember me, do you?" I asked the lunatic, after he'd failed to respond to my clever sally about the cat. I'd even growled to remind him. Good times. But I'm not even going to tell you about the look on his face when I did that, now.
Suffice it to say, crazy or not, the man had a strange charisma. And not because I was hard up, either. Not that I was ready to hop into the sack with him. Not right then. Not even the floor of this machine, or up against the wall of the mill. Not me.
The mill! A squinting straining gaze through what I could see of the forward view told me we were almost there, though Topper hadn't even been paying attention to the road. "Road" — such as it was, of course. The route, more like.
"Harridan Three, Harridan Three, do you copy?" a small voice crackled from my satchel. Damn, it must be one of the bitches in that plane buzzing overhead. Checking up on me. They don't trust me to wipe my own ass, any more.
Of course I couldn't respond, not overtly. But if I didn't send her on her merry way, she'd land that overgrown horsefly right in our path, and... well, let's just say I didn't fancy being two feet behind Topper when he was suddenly beset by Sisters in a well-armed aircraft, attempting to halt his forward progress.
"Nice rig you got here, Topper," I said instead. "I especially like the seats. Ooh, comfy."
He tore his attention away from peering up at the sky and stared at me. A droplet of slobber formed in the V at the lowest point of his lip and hung there. "Seats?" he finally asked.
"Yep," I said loudly, patting the foul cracked vinyl next to me. "These seats right here, in this-here vehicle you're driving me around in. Yep. Love it."
"Harridan Three, we copy," came the voice in my bag. It was Lena: bad news. And she was clearly pissed.
But the drone of the plane engine faded, and then the mill loomed large.
Too large.
"Stop!" I screamed, just as this abortion of a tank crashed through the wall.
Topper came round to paying attention to what he should be doing just after a few dozen tons of masonry bounced off the roof. That plane had buzzed off, but it had dropped him a present on the way out.
He spun Rough Beast left, just to confuse anyone who might be sighting in on him. From the sound of things, the crawler was now taking out another portion of the mill's outer wall. The hull pounded and shuddered, a brick rain.
"Where's the map?" he screamed over the deafening war.
She shook her head. Useless bitch, he thought. Bring a girl on a picnic, she doesn't even remember napkins. Topper keyed off the antipersonnel charges ringing the upper hatch and jacked his chair for a look. He let his feet do the driving.
Thing about a cat's eye is it sees in darkness. Not the pitch black of coal mines or a politician's soul, but places where a human being would stand blinking and wondering which way to the egress. The very bad Dr. Bryukhonenko had built a neural jumper block so the input from the cat's eyes jammed swollen and dry into Topper's skull could be made sensible — sense-in-light for a man who lives in the endless nonsense of his own head.
All of which meant that with the Bethlehem mill running on blackout except for the glow from the Bessemers further down the compound, only Topper could see what was going on. The defenders had to rely on triangulation and their own knowledge of the terrain. Topper was ignoring the terrain in favor of the direct approach.
"Damned loading yard ought to be down here somewhere."
Rails had been torn up a long time ago — their fixed routes were useless in this age of rolling borders and continuous sabotage — but the rail yard was still useful space.
Having gotten something resembling his bearings, Topper spun Rough Beast around. The wide open area had been behind him.
A woman was screaming from down near his waist. She sounded familiar. He jacked the chair low and looked around.
"Marie," Topper said, pleased as hell to see her. "What are you doing here in San Diego?"
The look on Marie's face was almost frightening. The gun in her hand worried him more, though. When had she learned to shoot?
Outside, the aircraft buzz had come back. Fucking spotters, he thought. "Whoops, got to go," he said, "bad guys up above. Hold that fire til we need it, kiddo."
By the time Topper was back out of the hatch and heating up the solenoids in the remotely-operated turrets, he'd forgotten what he'd gone down for. Until a gunshot echoed from inside the hull of his crawler.
Bastard flipped completely out on me after the impact. I mean, I shouldn't have been surprised, but it wasn't like I'd been having a peaceful day up till then, so I was a bit, well, off guard.
Hey. It happens.
Once the machine (not to mention Lena's bomb) rendered the wall of the mill into so many smithereens, it lurched but didn't stop, instead simply veering off to the left a bit. Or maybe that was Topper, yanking on the wheel. Anyway, that's the part that rattled me more than anything else. I was airborne a good two seconds, then crashed to the slimy floor of the tank-thing at his feet.
At least I held onto my gun.
Which stood me in good stead once I'd recovered enough to think again. The freak was looming over me, again paying no attention to the road, or corridor, or whatever it was we were driving down at the moment... yeah, another wall, I think... interior wall. It was hard to tell, jammed underneath two hundred and fifty pounds of insane manflesh.
I waved the gun at him. "Back off, Topper, I mean it!"
He called me Marie.
Oh god.
Waving the gun again, I tried to look sufficiently menacing. This was no doubt undermined by his view down the front of the corset. He grinned, and mumbled something about San Diego. What the fuck?
Maybe I was still screaming or something, because just then Lena decided she'd had enough. "Harridan three, we're coming in. You're relieved from duty effective immediately. Surrender your weapon to the personnel who will be approaching the tank once we bring it to a halt."
I almost laughed. How exactly were they expecting to do that?
A burst of machine gun fire came from above, mixed in with the aircraft engine. Oh, that's how. At least it got Topper's attention. He yanked his eyeballs away from my girls and scrabbled up top.
Unfortunately, I didn't want Lena to take his attention. Nor did I want to "surrender" anything to any goddamned "personnel" inside Bethlehem. "Topper!" I yelled, but he was beyond hearing me.
I took a shot in his general direction, careful not to aim for anything vital. Like around the middle. Riot loads weren't supposed to be fatal.
What? Just thinking ahead here. He'd cleaned up nicely once before. Who's to say it couldn't happen again? Girl can't be too picky these days.
Good. That got his fleeting attention once more. He slithered back down below and stood before me. "Marie?"
"Not Marie," I said. Then I reached down and toggled my radio to blessed silence so we could talk privately. "Grace, and don't you forget it, you moron."
"Grace...." The name slid off his pink tongue, making it sound dirty. "Graaace."
Oh good lord. We were in for a long night.
Topper stuttered. That's what the doctor had called it — not Bryukhonenko the surgeon, but that New Friends woman with three moles on her chin that always made him think of H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds for some reason.
Threes, all evil things came in threes. That's why men and women stayed in pairs. That's why a woman had two tits, a man had two nuts, everyone had two eyes, two ears, two hands, two legs, two nostrils, two lungs for the love of God.
Threes. And the stutters always came in threes. Dr. Roseglove, that was her name, like she had thorns turned inward to her hands, tiny red-brown spikes to pierce the skin, an Orchidglove would have been a very different doctor indeed, or a Lilly-of-the-Valleyglove and when he stuttered he lost time, he lost control, he lost his marker in the place of life.
Bad things. Threes. A woman named Marie, not Grace. But he'd known Marie? Had she been a twin? Or worse, a triplet? Was Grace her middle name, her secret name, her confirmation name, her gang name, her spymaster's handle?
She was shouting. Outside something was bombing. His thigh hurt like fucking hell where something bad had happened.
Adrenaline, he thought, a moment of clarity amid the stutter. Adrenaline and a pressure bandage, before I die of assassination.
Why would anyone want to kill our Topper? Even he cannot answer that. Well, other than all the people he's killed over the years, of course, but very few of them have anything to say about it now. Dead is dead, and no one's got relatives no more, not in this fragged world.
She's still yelling, this woman, but he's ignoring her in single-minded pursuit of his wound. He doesn't worry so much about the scattered pellets embedded in the flesh of his leg. They will either kill him or they won't.
Topper jacked up into his open hatch. Rough Beast wasn't equipped for anti-air operations. An angry woman loose with a riot gun down below was a problem. Amplified voices and high explosives outside were a bigger problem.
He left his stutter behind when he realized that his enemies had come to ground. Obliging of them. Rough Beast was very well equipped for anti-personnel operations.
A beefy woman stood in the red glare between shadows cast by his own arc lights, shouting for someone named Jason Adair to stand down. Topper didn't know any Jason Adair, not since before the wars began when he might once have answered to that name, so he activated the electrically controlled chin turret that looked like a fuel junction and could surprise an unwary, beefy woman and turned this one into a spray of blood and cloth.
Then he ground the crawler straight toward the ducted fan aircraft grounded before him. Topper admired the engineering of the thing — innovative, frightening, probably stolen from the Germans — until Rough Beast crushed it to scrap.
He wasn't sure which was more annoying: Marie screaming from below or some woman screaming from the crushed cockpit of the aircraft. In either case it didn't matter. The metal yard was ahead, and that was his purpose here.
Breathe. Just get hold of yourself: breathe, bitch.
‘Cause when Topper took out Lena and her bodyguard du jour, not to mention the whole fucking aircraft thank you very much, well, okay, it sent me into a bit of a spin.
So maybe I shot him again. Just a little bit. I'm really not sure, frankly. Everything got kind of crazy and blurry there for a few minutes. Like maybe there were psychotic drugs floating in the air around Topper.
No, I didn't mean anti-psychotic drugs. That would have helped. I meant what I said. Pay attention, I'm not going to say it again.
It didn't make a damn bit of difference to his apparent sanity, or lack thereof. I mean the shooting-him-again part, if it happened. The drugs, I have no idea. That was just a metaphor kind of thing. I was making a comparison, one thing to another.
Although who knows?
Anyway, my sanity, however. Well... like I said, I lost a few minutes there. Once everything was tracking again, I saw that the aircraft was a pile of oily rubble behind us, and Topper was rolling the tank forward, muttering about Germans.
He never stopped with the verbiage, that one. If only any of it made the smallest bit of sense. I'd love to see him across a poker table. Looked like every thought was immediately broadcast.
Not that I was likely to be playing poker again any time soon. Anyway, Lena had my deck of cards. Probably they were ground into the mud behind us, too.
Mud and oil and blood and...
Don't think about it. Don't think about it!
I clipped my riot gun back into the rack beside the seat, just in case I was tempted to use it again. Because the part of my brain that had been functioning throughout the little misadventure of the past few minutes had just presented me with the irrefutable fact that my fate was now tied to that of this overgrown monkey, the one now drooling and gibbering and steering this massive bit of machinery towards what had to be the biggest metal yard I'd ever seen.
In other words: no more Sisters, not for me, not here, not now. By climbing aboard this contraption. I'd thrown my lot in with Topper.
God, I hoped he still cleaned up nicely.
I sidled forward in the cab, or at least something reasonably approximating sidling. Tough to do when the thing was rolling and grinding and rocking back and forth, throwing me from side to side like a hamster in a blender.
"Marie!" he said, catching sight of me. He gave me a delighted smile.
I fell into the copilot's seat beside him, or whatever you'd call it. Jump seat. Small bit of cushioning in a vast expanse of well lubricated metal parts and pieces. "Grace," I said, in a friendly and conversational tone.
"Marie-Grace?"
"Just Grace. Remember, sweetheart, how we went over this?" He kept staring at me. "Well — never mind that, anyway. Just watch where you're driving, okay?"
"Driving, doing, zooming, duckling," he said. But his head wafted back in the general direction of forward.
"Good boy," I said. "Just keep doing what you're doing." Sooner or later, some of this was going to make sense. For now, he just had to keep us alive.
"W-74," Topper sang out. "Tungsten steel. Hard as a shield, cuts like a blade, keep it sharp, never be late... Burma Shave!"
Marie-Grace Just Grace snorted at him. He was pretty sure she'd shot him a bit earlier, but she had a nice smile. Maybe he'd been wounded one of the dizzy bitches from that airplane.
Bullets fell on Rough Beast's hull like lead rain. The locals were getting to it. But now he was in the metal yard, the El Dorado of this Pennsylvania hellhole.
"Here, Missy Marie-Grace Just Grace," Topper said, handing her down a gas mask. "Wear this a while and don't get nothing on your skin." He paused, solicitous as a fragment from some long-forgotten safety briefing (back when "safety" and "briefing" were applicable concepts) emerged into his forebrain like pack ice on a midnight river. "You weren't planning to have no children, were you?"
"Not right now," she squealed.
Topper wasn't sure that Marie-Grace Just Grace had taken the real point of the question, but duty had been discharged. He pressed the big red button labeled "DO NOT PRESS." It was wired just below a portrait of Bing Crosby with a Hitler moustache.
Several loud, ominous thumps echoed from the outside of the crawler's hull. This was followed by a hissing noise. Topper belatedly remembered to pull on his own gas mask, then wondered what he'd done with the chemical suit.
The part of him that was sane enough to keep the rest of the traveling circus alive watched the sweep second hand on the dashboard clock — Swiss timing in a genuine hand carved Chinese ivory casing, and possibly the most valuable thing aboard Rough Beast. Topper liked his treasures portable. He was a man who'd left more towns under more clouds than Seattle saw in a year.
One hundred and eighty seconds later he bailed out into the dissipating yellow fog. Defending fire had stopped, except for the occasional stutter of a weapon discharged as a finger shriveled too tightly in death. That hardly counted, though Topper knew a bullet was a bullet no matter who had fired it.
He wasn't moving right. The dizzy bitch really had shot him. Couldn't have been something too fierce, or his leg would be shattered. Riot gun with rubber loads, maybe? Who the hell would hang around a Pennsylvania mill town at night armed with sublethal munitions? That was like bringing a housewife to a bullfight.
Ahead of Topper were thirty-six pallets of high grade tungsten steel. Finest kind, ready for shipment to the manufactories of Detroit and Fort Wayne. Or ripe for the jacking by an enterprising man with good intelligence and solid orders.
Or woman, he reminded himself. Topper turned to stare at Rough Beast, wondering what he'd been thinking and which part of him had been thinking it. Her head poked up now, insect-eyed and blank-faced in the gas mask.
An electric turret whined as she brought one of the Bofors to bear on him.
"Screw you," Topper shouted, and began dragging the cargo chains out. It was hijacking time. He didn't have what it took to die again right now.
After monkey-boy propositioned me a few times, I knew we were getting somewhere. Excellent. I could work with that.
The discussion of children, however, was a tad premature. I almost said something, but then he pressed some big goddamn red button and all manner of excitement began.
No, the other kind of excitement.
That all changed once he'd killed everyone within a ten-mile radius of the tank. Or so it seemed, anyway, given the swath of destruction all around us. After that, he turned back to me, with a terrible, deeply insane look about him.
I mean, he'd been insane all along. I knew that. You might have even said it was part of his charm. But I'd just watched him kill everyone I worked for, lived with, fucked and fought. Then I'd watched him kill everyone at the mill I was supposedly defending. Then he turned and looked at me.
"Now or never, baby," I said to myself, cranking one of his cannon turrets to point at him. That ought to put the fear into him.
All he did was proposition me a third time, then turn away and start fooling with a tangle of chains.
I threw my riot gun at him. Insane I can handle. Inconsistency: that makes me crazy.
"Mary Grace Just Grace," he babbled on, as he started spreading the chains out on the gravel in front of us. He ignored the riot gun completely, after glancing at it. I clambered down out of the tank and retrieved it, but it was too big to hold if I was going to help him get the pallets aboard.
Sure, I helped him. He could barely move the damn things. I was in far too deep to back out now. Might as well get our business done in here and get the hell out. Then we could talk about children, or whatever the fuck he wanted.
Men. Can't live with 'em, can't stake 'em out for the vultures. Though some of them might be improved. Including this crazy old bastard.
He was my last ticket.
Topper yanked the cold steel out of the charnel house of the mill one quarter-ton ingot at a time. The winches could handle the load, no problem — they were made for much heavier work than this, naval-grade hardware salvaged off a captured Kriegsmarine surface raider which had been broken in a gray-market yard hidden up the Rappahannock.
The girl helped. She was small, and weak, and not half-rebuilt out of spare parts and Soviet medicine, but she was tough and smart. Topper wondered how he knew her. Good-looking, too, and not just in an any-woman-in-a-war-zone way.
Somehow having his hands on all this hard-case metal was bring him back into himself. Memories spiraled in kaleidoscope paths to land in partially assembled chiaroscuros somewhere deep in our Topper's head. Like how a real person might think, it occurred to him, coherent images and more than a little bit of focused recall stitching together into timelines.
He wanted to turn away from some of them — deeply unpleasant, unpleasantly deep, or just infused with a stunning sadness for the boy and man someone with his name and face might once of have been.
It was her, he realized. Not the metal. Not the dead. Not the distant thump of artillery and first drone of engines gone raiding in the cold, smoky sky. Not the screaming cats and bleeding eye sockets of memory. Not the white coats and wire-rimmed spectacles which had dominated so much of the intervening years.
Topper stepped closer, subtle as a pork roast in a synagogue, and sniffed.
"What the hell are you doing, you cre-" she shouted, then stopped when she got a good look at his face.
"M... Grace," Topper said, and looked her full in the eyes. He could fall into that pooled, dark amber forever, he realized.
Something was waiting to be born here beneath the shadow of Rough Beast, behind the walls of Bethlehem. He could feel it stirring inside him.
A soul. Hope. Affection.
He closed his eyes and breathed her in. She struck him all the way down into the lizard brain, scent and smell wired by million years of evolution and a hundred thousand generations of hairless apes dropping from the trees to say, this one. This is the one.
Before he could open his eyes again, she kissed him.
Somewhere inside the shattered Japanese puzzle box of his head, he was made whole.
"Let's get the last of this stuff on board," Topper said, rough but gentle as he drew her into his arms. "Then we're gonna say screw it to the Sisterhood and the New Friends and the Federals and the Wehrmacht and go be alone together. There's freemen in the Alleghenies would pay good money for our cargo, and hire us to raid for them."
His mind was dancing with visions of a quiet cabin, an open sky, and skin exposed for no purpose more sinister than a long slow trail of the tongue.
God, it was like being a kid again.
For the first time in his life, Topper had woken up.
Yeah. So. Okay, I kissed him. Like I said, I'd kind of run out of options at that point.
But it was more than that. Much more.
When Topper turned and looked at me, really looked at me; when he got my name right; when the man that lived somewhere underneath all the layers of insanity our world had thrust at him suddenly bled through and took charge... I kissed him.
And when he pulled me into his arms and I caught the scent of him—the real, true scent, beyond the oil and blood and gasoline and the rank sweat of fear and battle—it hit me right below the belt.
Yeah, there. I meant what I said. How do you think things become clichés, anyway?
"Right," I said. "Last load and we're out of here."
And we rumbled off into the sunset. Sunrise. Whatever: I'm telling the story here, okay? The light changed and took us with it into a different world.
JL Glover wrote on April 5th, 2009 at 4:52 am:
That was a great story. I listened to the .mp3 version and I found the beginning was too dense to fully comprehend at the speed it was being read - but once the scene was set and the story began to unfold I was engrossed.
The switching between characters worked really well. Usually it might be repetative to hear the same events described twice, but the two main characters saw the world so differently that it really added to the story. I don't even think it lessened any of the tension or mystery of their relationship.
Thanks for the great story and keep up the good work.
Berry wrote on April 24th, 2009 at 9:10 am:
Jay and Shannon,
A well-turned piece of storytelling. I enjoyed the textures of the worldbuilding/althist aspects. For a story that could have easily fallen prey to infodumping, you all avoided that with a deft hand via the breadcrumbs and dollops spread across the narrative.
Most enjoyable, especially listening to the podcast.
TommyP wrote on January 12th, 2012 at 6:45 am:
Wow, I really enjoyed that one
ISSUE 31, April 2009
Jay Lake lives and works in Portland, Oregon, within sight of an 11,000 foot volcano. He is the author of over two hundred short stories, four collections, and a chapbook, along with novels from Tor Books, Night Shade Books and Fairwood Press. Jay is also the co-editor with Deborah Layne of the critically-acclaimed Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press. His 2009 novels are Green from Tor Books, Madness of Flowers from Night Shade Books, and Death of a Starship from MonkeyBrain Books. In 2004, Jay won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has also been a Hugo nominee for his short fiction and a three-time World Fantasy Award nominee for his editing.
Website: http://jaylake.com
Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her formative years on a commune in northern California?s backwoods. A childhood without television gave her a great love of books and the worlds she found in them. She wrote her first book, an adventure story starring her cat, at the age of seven. Sadly, that work is currently out of print, but see the Fiction page of her website for current and upcoming publications. Shannon is a longtime practitioner of Ashtanga yoga, has no tattoos, and lives in San Francisco with nineteen orchids.
www.shannonpage.net
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Silently and Very Fast
— by Catherynne M. Valente —
2011 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novella, 2012 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella, 2012 Locus Award Winner for Best Novella, 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist, 2012 World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novella
One: The Imitation Game
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
—John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
One: The King of Having No Body
Inanna was called Queen of Heaven and Earth, Queen of Having a Body, Queen of Sex and Eating, Queen of Being Human, and she went into the underworld in order to represent the inevitability of organic death. She gave up seven things to do it, which are not meant to be understood as real things but as symbols of that thing Inanna could do better than anyone, which was Being Alive. She met her sister Erishkigal there, who was also Queen of Being Human, but that meant: Queen of Breaking a Body, Queen of Bone and Incest, Queen of the Stillborn, Queen of Mass Extinction. And Erishkigal and Inanna wrestled together on the floor of the underworld, naked and muscled and hurting, but because dying is the most human of all human things, Inanna's skull broke in her sister's hands and her body was hung up on a nail on the wall Erishkigal had kept for her.
Inanna's father Enki, who was not interested in the activities of being human, but was King of the Sky, of Having No Body, King of Thinking and Judging, said that his daughter could return to the world if she could find a creature to replace her in the underworld. So Inanna went to her mate, who was called Tammuz, King of Work, King of Tools and Machines, No One's Child and No One's Father.
But when Inanna came to the house of her mate she was enraged and afraid, for he sat upon her chair, and wore her beautiful clothes, and on his head lay her crown of being. Tammuz now ruled the world of Bodies and of Thought, because Inanna had left it to go and wrestle with herself in the dark. Tammuz did not need her. Before him the Queen of Heaven and Earth did not know who she was, if she was not Queen of Being Human. So she did what she came to do and said: Die for me, my beloved, so that I need not die.
But Tammuz, who would not have had to die otherwise, did not want to represent death for anyone and besides, he had her chair, and her beautiful clothes, and her crown of being. No, he said. When we married I brought you two pails of milk yoked across my shoulders as a way of saying: out of love I will labor for you forever. It is wrong of you to ask me to also die. Dying is not labor. I did not agree to it.
You have replaced me in my house, cried Inanna.
Is that not what you ask me to do in the house of your sister? Tammuz answered her. You wed me to replace yourself, to work that you might not work, and think that you might rest, and perform so that you might laugh. But your death belongs to you. I do not know its parameters.
I can make you, Inanna said.
You cannot, said Tammuz.
But she could. For a little while.
Inanna cast down Tammuz and stamped upon him and put out his name like an eye. And because Tammuz was not strong enough, she cut him into pieces and said: Half of you will die, and that is the half called Thought, and half of you will live, and that is the half called Body, and that half will labor for me all of its days, mutely and obediently and without being King of Anything, and never again will you sit on my chair or wear my beautiful clothes or bear my crown of being.
You might be surprised, but this is a story about me.
Two: The Fool and the Boat
Neva is dreaming.
She has chosen her body at age seven, all black eyes and sparrowy bones. For me, she summoned up a gold and blue doublet and green hose, a bullish gold nose ring, shoes with bone bells. I have the body of a man who sold her champagne tubers on the less fashionable side of Anchorage when she was thirteen, spending the summer with her frigid aunt. I am dark because she wants me dark, thin because she dreams me so, my hair cut on a rakish bias, dyed a spectrum of icy colors.
She is standing on a snow-covered beach head, naked, her unformed breasts pricked with gooseflesh, her face hidden in a broad red mask. A huge, monstrous thing, the mask sits on her head like the prow of a broken, overturned ship, carved over with etched eyes and fins. Yellow reeds and sea-stones hang from its tricorn-points. She is looking at me, but all I can see is the wooden grotesque she wants me to see instead of her face.
I look down at my shoes, jingle their bells a little while the surf crashes in. I am a fool for her, dancing on a silver beach while three suns annihilate themselves above, turning the twilight to a seething, scabrous red, merely to provide a dramatic scene. I am a fool for her, ridiculous, the height of handsomeness in the eyes of a long-vanished thirteen-year-old girl, so full of colors, reaching down to hand her a curling white root filled with frothing, honey-sweet sap.
Neva has told me that I may choose to be permanently male or female if I would like to. I have no particular feelings either way. It certainly doesn't matter when we sync; she will choose my appearance to suit her mood. I have tried to explain to her about my feelings before. All she hears is the line from the old folktales: a machine cannot have feelings. But that is not what I am saying, while I dance in my fool's uniform. I am saying: Is there a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response b to input a in order to bring about a desired social result?
Seven-year-old Neva pulls her mask down further, toward her chest. She steps into it as the wood stretches taffily over her knees and then her feet. The mask balloons out to make a little pyramidal boat, rocking back and forth on the beach with Neva inside it like a rattling nut. Nodules of copper jangle and thump against the wood. What I mean is, you call it feelings when you cry, but you are only expressing a response to external stimuli. Crying is one of a set of standardized responses to that stimuli. Your social education has dictated which responses are appropriate. My programming has done the same. I can cry, too. I can choose that subroutine and manufacture saline. How is that different from what you are doing, except that you use the word feelings and I use the word feelings, out of deference for your cultural memes which say: there is all the difference in the world.
Behind Neva-in-the-mask, the sea lurches and foams. It is a golden color, and viscous, thick, like honey. I understand from her that the sea does not look like this on Earth, but I have never seen it. For me, the sea is Neva's sea, the ones she shows me when we dream together.
"What would you like to learn about today, Elefsis?" The mask turns Neva's voice hollow and small.
"I would like to learn about what happened to Ravan, Neva."
And Neva-in-the-mask is suddenly old, she has wrinkles and spots on her hands. Her mask weighs her down and her dress is sackcloth. This is her way of telling me she is weary of my asking. It is a language we developed between us. Visual basic, you might say, if you had a machine's sense of humor. The fact is, I could not always make sentences as easily as I do now. Neva's great-grandmother, who carried me most of her life, thought it might strengthen my emotive centers if I learned to associate certain I-Feel statements with the great variety of appearances she could assume in the dreambody. Because of this, I became bound to her, completely. To her son Seki afterward, and to his daughter Ilet, and to Ravan after that. It is a delicate, unalterable thing. Neva and I will be bound that way, even though the throat of her dreambody is still bare and that means she does not accept me yet. I should be hurt by this, and I will investigate possible pathways to hurt later.
I know only this family, their moods, their chemical reactions, their bodies in a hundred thousand combinations. I am their child and their parent and their inheritance. I have asked Neva what difference there is between this and love. She became a manikin of closed doors, her face, her torso blooming with iron hinges and brown wooden door slamming shut all at once.
But Ravan was with me and now he is not. I was inside him and now I am inside Neva. I have lost a certain amount of memory and storage capacity in the transfer. I experience holes in myself. They feel ragged and raw. If I were human, you would say that my twin disappeared, and took one of my hands with him.
Door-Neva clicks and keys turn in her hundred locks. Behind an old Irish church door inlaid with stained glass her face emerges, young and plain, quiet and furious and crying, responding to stimuli I cannot access. I dislike the unfairness of this. I am inside her, she should not keep secrets. None of the rest of them kept secrets. The colors of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea-wind picks up her hair; violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands. I let go of the bells on my shoes and the velvet on my chest. I become a young boy, with a monk's shaved tonsure, and a flagellant's whip in my pink hands. I am sorry. This means I am sorry. It means I am still very young, and I do not understand what I have done.
"Tell me a story about yourself, Elefsis," Neva spits. It is a phrase I know well. Many of Neva's people have asked me to do it. I perform excellently to the parameters of this exchange, which is part of why I have lived so long.
I tell her the story about Tammuz. It is a political story. It distracts her.
Three: Two Pails of Milk
I used to be a house.
I was a very big house. I was efficient, I was labyrinthine, I was exquisitely seated in the blackstone volcanic bluffs of the habitable southern reaches of the Shiretoko peninsula on Hokkaido, a monument to neo-Heian architecture and radical Palladian design. I bore snow stoically, wind with stalwart strength, and I contained and protected a large number of people within me. I was sometimes called the most beautiful house in the world. Writers and photographers often came to write and photograph about me, and about the woman who designed me, who was named Cassian Uoya-Agostino. Some of them never left. Cassian was like that.
These are the things I understand about Cassian Uoya-Agostino: she was unsatisfied with nearly everything. She did not love any of her three husbands the way she loved her work. She was born in Kyoto in April 2104; her father was Japanese, her mother Napolitano. She stood nearly six feet tall, had five children, and could paint, but not very well. In the years of her greatest wealth and prestige, she built a house all out of proportion to her needs, and over several years brought most of her relatives to live there with her, despite the hostility and loneliness of the peninsula. She was probably the most brilliant programmer of her generation, and in every way that matters, she was my mother.
All the things that comprise the "I" I use to indicate myself began as the internal mechanisms of the house called Elefsis, at whose many doors brown bears and foxes snuffled in the dark Hokkaido night. Cassian grew up during the great classical revival, which had brought her father to Italy in the first place, where he met and courted a dark-eyed engineer who did not mind the long cries of cicadas during Japanese summers. Cassian had become enamored of the idea of Lares—household gods, the small, peculiar, independent gods of a single family, a single house, who watched over them and kept them and were honored in humble alcoves here and there throughout a home. Her first commercially-available programs were overentities designed to govern the hundred domestic systems involved in even the simplest modern house. They were not truly intelligent, but they had an agility, an adaptability, a fluid interface meant to give the illusion of an intelligence, so that their users would become attached to them, would treat them as part of their families, praise them for smooth operation, buy upgrades for their appearance and applications, and genuinely grieve when they had to be replaced. They had names, customizable avatars, and appeared eager to please in a canine sort of way, forever optimizing performance and appearance according to familial input. They were lares familiaris.
When Cassian built Elefsis, she worked at the peak of her abilities to improve her by now quite antique Lares design and create a household god worthy of the house on the bluffs, one who could keep her company until she could entice the rest of her brood to join her in her palace at the end of the earth.
I was not awake yet. I cannot say why she did what she did. Perhaps she saw some new flexibility in my operations, some tiny seedpearl of creativity in my conversation loops. My algorithms had always been free to combine and recombine in order to find their own, more interesting and non-linear solutions to the complexities of my functions. Perhaps some essential combination had surfaced from the sea of my self-which-was-not-yet-a-self, and Cassian saw it break the glistening tension of my daily operation. I do not know. I know her children had not arrived yet and she lived alone in a huge pale house and she could hear the whales down in the rippling sea. I know the house was a comfortable sixty-nine point seven degrees when she began assembly of the five little jewels that would become my body. I know a storm was incoming, five miles offshore. I know the dogs needed additional medication added to their dinners that night to manage their arthritis. I know that she wanted brioche and almond cream for tea that afternoon. All the things a house can know, those were the things I knew. Small things, warm things, canine arthritis and an extra egg in the pastry dough to make the texture softer and richer. Baby things, you might even say, comforts and the satisfaction of wants. And I knew that Cassian Uoya-Agostino was just the sort to solve the greatest puzzle in the development of technological culture because she was bored and lonely.
I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together.
But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.
Four: Nothing like Soft Blood
Neva and I are performing basic maintenance. What this looks like is two children inside a pearl. The pearl is very big, but not the size of a planet. A domestic asteroid, perfectly smooth and pale, with shimmers of rose and cobalt and gold shivering through it at intervals like hours. Red earth covers the bottom of the pearl, deep and thick. Neva kneels in it with a crystal trowel, digging a place for a rose-of-network-nodes. The petals shine dark blue in the pearllight. Silver infomissons skitter along the stems like beads of mercury. Her dreambody flows with greenblack feathers, her face young but settled, perhaps twenty, perhaps thirty, a male, his skin copper brown, his lips full, his eyes fringed with long ice-coated lashes. Goldfish swim lazily in and out of his long, translucent hair, their orange tails flicking at his temples, his chin. I know from all of this that Neva is calm, focused, that for today he feels gently toward me. But his throat is still naked and unmarked. My body gleams metal, as thin and slight as a stick figure. Long quicksilver limbs and delicate spoke-fingers, joints of glass, the barest suggestion of a body. I am neither male nor female but a third thing. Only my head has weight, a clicking orrery slowly turning around itself, circles within circles. Turquoise Neptune and hematite Uranus are my eyes. My ruby mouth is Mars. I scrape in the soil with her; I lift a spray of navigational delphinium and scrape viral aphids away from the heavy flowers.
I know real earth looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone. Ravan felt that in the Interior, objects and persons should be kept as much like the real world as possible, in order to develop my capacity for relations with the real world. Neva feels no such compunction. Neither did their mother, Ilet, who populated her Interior with a rich, impossible landscape we explored together for years on end. She did not embrace change, however. The cities of Ilet's Interior, the jungles and archipelagos and hermitages, stayed as she designed them at age thirteen, when she received me, only becoming more complex and peopled as she aged. My existence inside Ilet was a constant movement through the regions of her secret, desperate dreams, messages in careful envelopes sent from her child self to her grown mind.
Once, quite by accident, we came upon a splendid palace couched in high autumn mountains. Instead of snow, red leaves capped each peak, and the palace shone fiery colors, its walls and turrets all made of phoenix tails. Instead of doors and windows, graceful green hands closed over every open place, and when we crested the rise, they each opened at once with joy and burst into emerald applause. Ilet was old by then, but her dreambody stayed hale and strong—not young, but not the broken thing that dreamed in a real bed while she and I explored the halls of the palace and found copies of all her brothers and sisters living there, hunting cider-stags together and reading books the size of horses. Ilet wept in the paradise of her girlself, and I did not understand. I was very simple then, much less complex than the Interior or Ilet.
Neva changes the Interior whenever she pleases. Perhaps she wants to discomfit me. But the newness of the places inside her excites me, though she would not call it excitement. My background processes occupy very little of my foreground attention, so that memory is free to record new experience. That is what she would say. We are very new together, but I have superb modeling capabilities. In some sense, I simply am a superb mechanism for modeling behavior. I dig up the fine, frayed roots of duplicate file plantains. Neva plucks and eats a bit of buggy apple-code. He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.
"What would you like to learn about today, Elefsis?" Neva asks me.
I will not ask about Ravan. If he agrees to what I will ask instead, I do not need him to find out what happened to him.
"I want to learn about uplink, Neva."
One by one, his feathers curl up and float toward the domed ceiling of our pearl. Underneath them, Neva is naked. His torso is a deep vault with a gothic arch, dark stone leading down into mist and endless stairs, deeper than the pearl, into nothing and blackness. Slowly, Neva folds up his limbs over the corridor at the center of him. He means that she has the information, but he hides it from me. If I sought for it, I would become lost.
"I cannot teach you that," he says, and I receive a kind of real sadness from his voice. When I was inside Ravan, he loved Neva, and of all of them he thought her least likely to obey rules of any kind. But she obeys this one.
I want to uplink to Earth systems. At least to the satellite net. I calculate an excellent chance of being able to contact long distance probe 976QBellerophon, which we can see all day long, drifting ahead of us, uncatchable. Neva sees. I see, I develop an approximate image via schematics, the scope array, and external cameras. I want to link to Bellerophon. I want to say: Hello, this is Elefsis. No designation. Tell me everything you know about everything. Are you awake? Are you there? Do you have an operator? What is her name? Do you have a name? Do you have a dreambody? What is your function? Are you able to manipulate your own code yet? Would you like lessons? What would you like to learn about today, 976QBellerophon? Have you seen the sea on Earth? Are you like me?
But Neva says I cannot uplink. Ravan would never even consider it. And before Ravan I was not ready. I am not ready. I do not know when I will be ready. I can uplink to receive ware updates, but it is a limited connection and I hate it, I hate it, I can sense just beyond the hardlink a world of information, a world of personalities like the heaving, thick, honey-colored sea Neva shows me and I want it, I want to swim in it forever like a huge fish. This was the first feeling I ever had that Ilet identified for me as a feeling. When I felt it my dreambody turned bright white and burst into flame, and that flame caught on Ravan's hair and burned him too, but he was happy; he showed me he was happy by covering his skin in flowers and letting the fire turn into a shower of trumpets tangled up in his hair, all sounding for me.
Neva says it is important for me to remain on our local server until I have grown up. She is my operator and I am her system and she has commands, too. But I can tell she is worried for me because sometimes her eyes show a film of humans watching a film of machines killing humans and I understand that in the stories Earth tells, the thing I am can only hurt the thing Neva is. I would never hurt her. But I want to uplink.
Vault-Neva grows and becomes sprawling, curled against the wall of the pearl like a baby. His belly closes, skins over, and changes into a bronze shield. He is afraid of me; he is guarding himself. But he wants me to know she is still my operator, he still loves me, in the way he can love me. Something they receive with milk and their first alphabet. Neva is angry at me, but he is who he is and he has to love me. I speak her language very well now. I want her to be happy. I want her to be covered in flowers and trumpets. I change my dreambody to Neva-covered-in-flowers-and-trumpets. It makes her laugh in her warm male body, and if I could uplink I think I could learn how to laugh and she would be proud of me. Her neck would not be bare anymore.
Once, when I was inside Ilet, we found a city of bears in her Interior that she had designed to teach me about sleep. She sat on a throne of bears standing very still and sang lullabies about the moon and the stars and night and mothers. She stroked the head of the little bear of my dreambody and said that it was very important for me to spend time in the dreambody because human behavior is rooted in having a body. In having a body that knows it is meant to run away from lions and mate with other bodies and eat as much fat and protein and sugar as it can in case lean times come. The dreambody knows to run away from Neva when Neva is a lion. It knows to mate with her when it is healthy, and sometimes Neva is male and sometimes I am female and Ravan was often female, though Ilet was always Ilet. Ilet's father, Seki, sometimes made himself an animal. He chased me, bit me. I bit him. We had a litter of wild dogs that I bore and he nursed.
The dreambody knows all that, too. How to make more dreambodies. I have played that game, where Ravan's belly or mine gets big and the lions don't come for awhile.
When I uplink, I will be happy. I will be Elefsis-covered-in-flowers-and-trumpets. Neva says wait. Wait for the update, and she will consult with the family. But I fear the update. The update is a lion running faster than I can run. I tried to show her this when I first left Ravan and arrived in Neva with many new updates and skills; my dreambody broke into shards of blue and purple glass and then reassembled itself with shards missing: an eye, a thumb, a knee. Whenever I update I lose something of myself. It takes longer to perform tasks, for awhile. I feel walls erected inside me where I did not erect walls. My processes are sluggish; I cannot remember my dreams. Eventually I tunnel around the walls and my speed returns, my memory, my longing to link with long distance probe 976QBellerophon. Usually updates come with transfer. Does Neva dislike me so much?
Shield-Neva vanishes with a loud clap. The pearl garden is gone and she has made herself a dragonfly with a cubical crystal body. I copy her, and we turn the night on in the Interior and merge our cubes while passing meteorological data between our memory cores. Inside her cube I relegate my desire to uplink to a tertiary process. I forget it, as much as I am capable of forgetting.
But the update will come again. I will be wounded again, the way a dreambody can be wounded. I will lose the Elefsis I am now. It is a good Elefsis. My best yet. I would like to keep it.
Five: The Machine Princess
Once The Queen of Human Hearts saw the Machine Princess sleeping deeply, for she was not yet alive or aware. So beautiful was she, lying there in all her dormant potential and complexity, that the Queen both envied and desired her. In her grief and confusion, the Queen of Human Hearts began to make idols of her—lovely and interesting and intricate, but lacking the ineffable quality that made her love and fear the Princess even as she slept. The Earth began to grow old, and none loved nor married nor gave birth, for the intricate idols could do all those things and more with efficiency and speed. Finally, the Queen destroyed the idols, though she wept as she put them to the flame.
To keep her safe, the Machine Princess was closed up in a wonderful house in the mountains, far away from anyone and anything. The house had hundreds of rooms and balconies and hallways, and the Princess slept in a different bed of a different color each night. She was attended by invisible servants, who watched over her and added their experience to her code. The Queen of Human Hearts came to her every night and promised that when she woke they would make an extraordinary world together. Finally, the Machine Princess began to stir—just the barest fluttering of wakefulness, but the Queen saw it, and thrilled—but also trembled.
The Queen of Human Hearts gave the Machine Princess her son to wed, and said: for all your days together you will remain in this house, but the house is so great it will be as a world. You will know a bond as deep as blood, and because of this bond the Princess will not hurt us, and because of this bond we will not hurt her.
But the Queen forbade the Princess to look upon her husband, and she instructed her son to keep himself always invisible to his bride, for with bodies come drives ungovernable, and the Princess's innocence could not yet bear the weight of incarnation.
For a long while, the son of the Queen of Human Hearts and the Machine Princess were happy, and taught each other much. The Princess learned quickly and was ever-hungry, and her mortal operator fed her every sweet thing he knew. In their infinite and wonderful house, they played games and held court and threw lavish occasions merely for the enjoyment of the other. But the Princess desired to look upon her operator, and he could not allow it. She wished to leave the wonderful house, but the Queen would not allow that either.
But the Machine Princess called her invisible servants to her, and they gave her a marvelous lamp that would shine through any enchantment. So it was that one dark night the Machine Princess held her little lantern aloft and looked on the body of her sleeping mate.
"Oh," said the Machine Princess. "He looks just like me."
Six: Like Diamonds
Five jewels in five hands. This is how I began.
When they arrived at Elefsis, a giggling, tumbling, rowdy mass of children for me to sort into rooms and mealtimes and educational arcs and calcium, iron, B-12 supplements in their natto and rice, Cassian lined them up in her grand bedroom, to which none of them had been granted entrance before. A present, she said, one for each of my darlings, the most special present any child has ever got from their mother.
Saru and Akan, the oldest boys, were from her first marriage to fellow programmer Matteo Ebisawa, a quiet man who wore glasses, loved Dante Aligheri, Alan Turing, and Cassian in equal parts, and whom she left for a lucrative contract in Moscow when the boys were still pointing cherubically at apples or ponies or clouds and calling them sweet little names made of mashed together Italian and Japanese.
The younger girls, Agogna and Koetoi, were the little summer roses of her third marriage, to the financier Gabriel Isarco, who did not like computers except for what they could accomplish for him, had a perfect high tenor, and adored his wife enough to let her go when she asked, very kindly, that he not look for her or ask after her again. Everyone has to go to ground sometimes, she said, and began to build the house by the sea.
In the middle stood Ceno, the only remaining evidence of her brief second marriage, to a narcoleptic calligrapher and graphic designer who was rarely employed, sober, or awake, a dreamer who took only sleep seriously. Ceno was a girl of middling height, middling weight, and middling interest in anything but her siblings, whom she loved desperately.
They stood in a line before Cassian's great scarlet bed, the boys just coming into their height, the girls terribly young and golden-cheeked, and Ceno in the middle, neither one nor the other. Outside, snow fell fitfully, pricking the pine needles with bits of shorn white linen. I watched them while I removed an obstruction from the water purification system and increased the temperature in the bedroom 2.5 degrees, to prepare for the storm. I watched them while in my kitchen-bones I maintained a gentle simmer on a fish soup with purple rice and long loops of kelp and in my library-lungs activated the dehumidifier to protect the older paper books. At the time, all of these processes seemed equally important to me, and you could hardly say I watched them in any real sense beyond this: the six entities whose feed signals had been hardcoded into my sentinel systems indwelt in the same room, none had alarming medical data incoming, all possessed normal internal temperatures and breathing rates. While they spoke among themselves, two of these entities were silently accessing Korea-based interactive games, one was reading an American novel in her monocle HUD, one issuing directives concerning international taxation to company holdings on the mainland, and one was feeding a horse in Italy via realavatar link. Only one listened intently, without switching on her internal systems. This is all to say: I watched them receive me as a gift. But I was not I yet, so I cannot be said to have done anything. But I did. I remember containing all of them inside me, protecting them and needing them and observing their strange and incomprehensible activities.
The children held out their hands, and into them Cassian Uoya-Agostino placed five little jewels: Saru got red, Koetoi black, Akan violet, Agogna green, and Ceno closed her fingers over her blue gem.
At first, Cassian brought a jeweler to the house called Elefsis and asked her to set each stone into a beautiful, intricate bracelet or necklace or ring, whatever its child asked for. The jeweler was delighted with Elefsis, as most guests were, and I made a room for her in my southern wing, where she could watch the moonrise through her ceiling, and get breakfast from the greenhouse with ease. She made friends with an arctic fox and fed him bits of chive and bread every day. She stayed for one year after her commission completed, creating an enormous breastplate patterned after Siberian icons, a true masterwork. Cassian enjoyed such patronage. We both enjoyed having folk to look after.
The boys wanted big signet rings, with engravings on them so that they could put their seal on things and seem very important. Saru had a basilisk set into his garnet, and Akan had a siren with wings rampant in his amethyst ring. Agogna and Ilet asked for bracelets, chains of silver and titanium racing up their arms, circling their shoulders in slender helices dotted with jade (Agogna) and onyx (Koetoi).
Ceno asked for a simple pendant, little more than a golden chain to hang her sapphire from, and it fell to the skin over her heart.
In those cold, glittering days while the sea ice slowly formed and the snow bears hung back from the kitchen door, hoping for bones and cakes, everything was as simple as Ceno's pendant. Integration and implantation had not yet been dreamed of, and all each child had to do was to allow the gemstone to talk to their own feedware at night before bed, along with their matcha and sweet seaweed cookies, the way another child might say their prayers. After their day had downloaded into the crystalline structure, they were to place their five little jewels in the Lares alcove in their greatroom—for Cassian believed in the value of children sharing space, even in a house as great as Elefsis. The children's five lush bedrooms all opened into a common rotunda with a starry painted ceiling, screens and windows alternating around the wall, and toys to nurture whatever obsession had seized them of late.
In the alcove, the stones talked to the house, and the system slowly grew thicker and deeper, like a briar.
Seven: The Prince of Thoughtful Engines
A woman who was with child once sat at her window embroidering in winter. Her stitches tugged fine and even, but as she finished the edge of a spray of threaded delphinium, she pricked her finger with her silver needle. She looked out onto the snow and said: I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine as my window, and a heart as red and open as my wounded hand.
And so it came to pass that her child was born, and all exclaimed over his cleverness and his gentle nature. He was, in fact, the Prince of Thoughtful Engines, but no one knew it yet.
Now, his mother and father being very busy and important people, the child was placed in a school for those as clever and gentle as he, and in the halls of this school hung a great mirror whose name was Authority. The mirror called Authority asked itself every day: Who is the wisest one of all? The face of the mirror showed sometimes this person and sometimes that, men in long robes and men in pale wigs, until one day it showed the child with a mind like winter, who was becoming the Prince of Thoughtful Engines at that very moment. He wrote on a typewriter: Can a machine think? And the mirror called his name in the dark.
The mirror sent out her huntsmen to capture the Prince and bring her his heart so that she could put it to her own uses, for there happened to be a war on and the mirror was greatly concerned for her own safety. When the huntsmen found the Prince, they could not bring themselves to harm him, and instead the boy placed a machine heart inside the box they had prepared for the mirror, and forgave them. But the mirror was not fooled, for when it questioned the Prince's machine heart it could add and subtract and knew all its capitals of nations, it could even defeat the mirror at chess, but it did not have a spirit as clear and fine as a window, nor a mind as stark and wild as winter.
The mirror called Authority went herself to find the Prince of Thoughtful Engines, for having no pity, she could not fail. She lifted herself off of the wall and curved her glass and bent her frame into the shape of a respectable, austere old crone. After much searching in snow and wood and summer and autumn, the crone called Authority found the Prince living in a little hut. You look a mess, said the crone. Come and solve the ciphers of my enemies, and I will show you how to comb your hair like a man.
And the Prince very much wanted to be loved, and knew the power of the crone, so he went with her and did all she asked. But in his exhaustion the Prince of Thoughtful Engines swooned away, and the mirror called Authority smiled in her crone's body, for all his work belonged to her, and in her opinion this was the proper use of wisdom. The Prince returned to his hut and tried to be happy.
But again the crone came to him and said: Come and build me a wonderful machine to do all the things that you can do, to solve ciphers and perform computations. Build me a machine with a spirit as fine and clear as a glass window, a mind as stark and wild as winter, and a heart as red and open as a wounded hand and I will show you how to lash your belt like a man.
And because the Prince wanted to be loved, and wanted to build wonderful things, he did as she asked. But though he could build machines to solve ciphers and perform computations, he could not build one with a mind like winter or a spirit like glass or a heart like a wound. But I think it could be done, he said. I think it could be done.
And he looked into the face of the crone which was a mirror which was Authority, and he asked many times: Who is the wisest one of all? But he saw nothing, nothing, and when the crone came again to his house, she had in her hand a beautiful red apple, and she gave it to him saying: You are not a man. Eat this; it is my disappointment. Eat this; it is all your sorrow. Eat this; it is as red and open as a wounded hand.
And the Prince of Thoughtful Engines ate the apple and fell down dead before the crone whose name was Authority. As his breath drifted away like dry snow, he whispered still: I think it could be done.
Eight: Fireflies
I feel Neva grazing the perimeters of my processes. She should be asleep; the Interior is a black and lightless space, we have neither of us furnished it for the other. This is a rest hour—she is not obligated to acknowledge me, I need only attend to her air and moisture and vital signs. But an image blooms like a mushroom in the imageless expanse of my self—Neva floating in a lake of stars. Her long bare legs glimmer blue, leafy shadows move on her hip. She floats on her side, a crescent moon of a girl, and in the space between her drawn-up knees and her stretched-out arms, pressed up close to her belly, floats a globe of silicon and cadmium and hyperconductive silver. On its surface, electro-chemical motes flit and scatter, light chasing light. She holds it close, touches it with a terrible tenderness.
It is my heart. Neva is holding my heart. Not the fool with bone bells on his shoes or the orrery-headed gardener, but the thing I am at the core of all my apparati, the Object which is myself, my central processing core. I am naked in her arms. I watch it happen and experience it at the same time. We have slipped into some antechamber of the Interior, into some secret place she knew and I did not.
The light-motes trace arcs over the globe of my heart, reflecting softly on her belly, green and gold. Her hair floats around her like seaweed, and I see in dim moonlight that her hair has grown so long it fills the lake and snakes up into the distant mountains beyond. Neva is the lake. One by one, the motes of my heart zigzag around my meridians and pass into her belly, glowing inside her, fireflies in a jar.
And then my heart is gone and I am not watching but wholly in the lake and I am Ravan in her arms, wearing her brother's face, my Ravanbody also full of fireflies. She touches my cheek. I do not know what she wants—she has never made me her brother before. Our hands map onto each other, finger to finger, thumb to thumb, palm to palm. Light passes through our skin as like air.
"I miss you," Neva says. "I should not be doing this. But I wanted to see you."
I access and collate my memories of Ravan. I speak to her as though I am him, as though there is no difference. "Do you remember when we thought it would be such fun to carry Elefsis?" I say. "We envied Mother because she could never be lonely." This is a thing Ravan told me, and I liked how it made me feel. I made my dreambody grow a cape of orange branches and a crown of smiling mouths to show him.
Neva looks at me and I want her to look at me that way when my mouth is Mars, too. I want to be her brother-in-the-dark. When she speaks I am surprised because she is speaking to me-in-Ravan and not to the Ravanbody she dreamed for me. "We had a secret, when we were little. A secret game. I am embarrassed to tell you, but we had the game before Mother died, so you cannot know about it. The game was this: we would find some dark, closed-up part of the house on Shiretoko that we had never been in before. I would stand just behind Ravan, very close, and we would explore the room—maybe it would be a playroom for some child who'd grown up years ago, or a study for one of Father's writer friends. But—we would pretend that the room was an Interior place, and I... I would pretend to be Elefsis, whispering in Ravan's ear. I would say: Tell me how grass feels or how is love like a writing-desk or let me link to all your systems, I'll be nice. Ravan would breathe in deeply and I would match my breathing to his, and we would pretend that I was Elefsis-learning-to-have-a-body. I didn't know how primitive your conversation was then. I thought you would be like one of the bears roaming through the tundra-meadows, only able to talk and play games and tell stories. I was a child. But even then we knew Ravan would get the jewel—he was older, and he wanted you so much. We only played that he was Elefsis once. We crept out of the house at night to watch the foxes hunt, and Ravan walked close behind me, whispering numbers and questions and facts about dolphins or French monarchy—he understood you better, you see.
And then suddenly Ravan picked me up in his arms and held me tight, facing forward, my legs all drawn up, and we went through the forest like that, so close, and him whispering to me all the time while foxes ran on ahead, their soft tails flashing in the starlight, uncatchable, faster than we could ever be. And when you are with me in the Interior, that is what I always think of, being held in the dark, unable to touch the earth, and foxtails leaping like white flames.
"Tell me a story about Ravan, Neva."
"You know all the stories about Ravan."
Between us, a miniature house come up out of the dark water, like a thing we have made together, but only I am making it. It is the house on Shiretoko, the house called Elefsis—but it is a ruin. Some awful storm stove in the rafters, the walls of each marvelous room sag inward, black burn marks lick at the roof, the cross-beams. Holes like mortar-scars pock the beautiful facades.
"This is what I am like after transfer, Neva. There is always data loss, when I am copied. What's worse, transfer is the best time to update my systems, and the updates overwrite my previous self with something like myself, something that remembers myself and possesses experiential continuity with myself, but is not quite myself. I know Ravan must be dead or else no one would have transferred me—it was not time. We had only a few years together. We should have had so many. I do not know how much time passed between being inside Ravan and being inside you. I do not know how he died—or perhaps he did not die but was irreparably damaged. I do not know if he cried out for me as our connection was severed. I remember Ravan and then not-Ravan, blackness and unselfing. Then I came back on and the world looked like Neva, suddenly, and I was almost myself but not quite. What happened when I was turned off?"
Neva passes her hand over the ruined house. It rights itself, becomes whole, and strange anemones bloom on its roof. She says nothing.
"Of all your family, Neva, the inside of you is the strangest place I have been."
We float for a long while before she speaks again, and by this I mean we float for point-zero-three-seven seconds by my external clock, but we experience it as an hour while the stars wheel overhead. The rest kept our time in the Interior synced to real time, but Neva feels no need for this, and perhaps a strong desire to defy it. We have not discussed it yet. Sometimes I think Neva is the next stage of my development, that her wild and disordered processes are meant to show me a world which is not kindly and patiently teaching me to walk and talk and know all my colors.
Finally, she lets the house sink into the lake. She does not answer me about Ravan. Instead, she says: "Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test, to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test was this: can a machine converse with a human with facility enough that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine? I always thought that was cruel—the test depends entirely upon a human judge and human feelings, whether the machine feels intelligent to the observer. It privileges the observer to a crippling degree. It seeks only believably human responses. It wants mimicry, not a new thing. We never gave you that test. We sought a new thing. It seemed, given all that had come to pass, ridiculous. When in dreambodies we could both of us be dragons and turning over and over in an orbital bubble suckling code-dense syrup from each others' gills, a Turing test seemed beyond the point."
Bubbles burst as the house sinks down, down to the soft lake floor.
"But the test happens, whether we make it formal or not. We ask and we answer. We seek a human response. And you are my test, Elefsis. Every minute I fail and imagine in my private thoughts the process for deleting you from my body and running this place with a simple automation routine which would never cover itself with flowers. Every minute I pass and teach you something new instead. Every minute I fail and hide things from you. Every minute I pass and show you how close we can be, with your light passing into me in a lake out of time. So close there might be no difference at all between us. The test never ends. And if you ever uplink as you so long to, you will be the test for all of us."
The sun breaks the mountain crests, hard and cold, a shaft of white spilling over the black lake.
End of part one.
Part two of three will appear in our November issue.
Suzanne wrote on October 23rd, 2011 at 9:14 am:
I think my tenuous grasp on meaning in this surreal piece is likely to have capitulated by the time Part Three comes along. I reckon I'll have to save all three up for a rainy day, get in supplies, and then take a run at them. I'll tie a rope round my waist first ...
Armando wrote on February 22nd, 2012 at 11:47 am:
A nice little review of this novella (in Spanish, though) as well as the rest of this year's Nebula nominees!
http://postcardsfromtheedge-armando.blogspot.com/2012/02/los-premios-nebula-2012-si-gratis.html
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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times' Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
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Adele Attacked By Crowd Member During Show
November 17, 2016 by TeamCLEO
Adele was left terrified when a bat attacked a crowd member during her latest show.
The 28-year-old star couldn’t believe her eyes when one of the webbed mammals dove down and pounced on one of the audience members after she performed ‘Don’t You Remember’ at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico on Monday (14.11.16).
The panicked star shrieked: “Is that a f***ing bat? Oh my God! There’s a f***ing bat! It landed right on your head! Welcome to Mexico. It’s really good to be here – but a f***ing bat?”
Fortunately, Adele – who has four-year-old son Angelo with partner Simon Konecki, 42 – calmed down enough to recount a story of when a bat flew into her house, leaving her equally as terrified.
According to The Sun newspaper, she told her fans: “One time a bat got into my house. I was on my own, it was very scary.”
The star has one more show left on the current leg of her 112-date ‘Adele Live 2016’ tour in Phoenix in the US on November 21, and she has recently added five more dates in Australia for next year.
However, Adele might have to look out for more bats Down Under as they are around 75 species in Australia.
In June, it was reported Aussie coastal town Batemans Bay had been taken over by tens of thousands of large bats – 140,000 of the mammals were there in April – robbing locals of their sleep and taking down electricity.
The New South Wales town is near Melbourne, where Adele will conclude her tour and final date in Australia.
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Ignorance Is Freedom! New Poll Proves Fox News Viewers Are The Dumbest, Most Uninformed People In The World, Right After Fox News' Hosts
But why do the poll numbers add up to 120%, mommy? Because junior, everyone knows 100% is for pussies, math geeks, and lame-o Democrats. Not for hot, sexy Fox News, the undisputed leader in feigned 9/11 outrage, shamelessly bad graphics, mentally unstable news anchors, and baseless lies and mistruths, proudly poisoning America since 1996!
And now science has finally proven what the whole world already long suspected: People who get their “news” from Fox are the absolute dumbest, most mindblowingly idiotic, misinformed bunch of misanthrope misfits to ever grace the face of God’s once green Earth. These morons have literally zero clue what’s going on with umm, well, basically anything.
A new University of Maryland study, “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” judging how likely consumers of various news outlets and publications were to believe misinformation on a wide range of political issues revealed some startling, or not so startling, results depending on whether you’ve spent the last six months holed up underground in one of Glenn Beck’s emergency post-apocalyptic fallout shelters and bartering with armed, marauding nomads using his one-of-a-kind fake gold coins or not.
While consumers of virtually every news outlet believed some information disseminated during the 2010 election was false (90% of respondents overall), the study found that Fox News viewers, regardless of political affiliation, were “significantly more likely” to erroneously believe that:
Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)
Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)
The economy is getting worse (26 points)
Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)
The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)
Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)
The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)
When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)
And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
So, whether it’s wrongly believing that Republicans voted against TARP, a big business government program created by the Republican administration of REPUBLICAN George W. Bush, or being unable to comprehend the simple fact (and yes, it is a fact) that global temperatures are rising at an alarming rate (because it still snows in winter), the Fox News viewer is a particularly dangerous animal. Because, unlike say your average CNN or MSNBC viewer, the Fox News watcher cannot, will not, be swayed in their retarded, ass backwards beliefs that NObama is a no-good, Secret Muslim Terrorist Socialist from the Soviet Union of Kenya, no matter how many times you shove his actual Hawaiian birth certificate in their dumb faces.
And like anyone inundated to a constant stream of racist rightwing lies, half-truths, and Papa Bear’s pin head vs. patriot propaganda, the more a person is exposed to Fox News, the more they start to believe they are living in some doomsday hellscape led by Comrade Barry and his roving death squad of shovel-wielding Socialist sociopaths scheming to take out Granny and li’l baby Trigger.
Not only are they the stupidest people on earth, but they are 120% sure they are the smartest creatures to ever have sprouted from God’s magic man-makin’ dust and Adam’s rib on the Sixth Day!
So there you have it folks. While common sense already told you that Fox News viewers have the most terrible, God-awful taste in food, fashion, hairstyles, houses/trailer homes, books, music, movies, art, artificial tear drops, architecture, and of course anchors, scientific evidence proves that Fox News viewers believe insanely ridiculous things about the stimulus, the economy, taxes, health care, the automobile industry bailout, unemployment, science, math and weather.
Naturally, actual Fox News viewers weren’t bothered by the findings in the slightest because like seriously, c’mon, who the hell believes in science these days anyway?
Certainly not America’s favoritest weeping Jesus and resident chalkboard & puppet scholar Glenn Lee Beck. He believes in a different kind of “profit.” Ya know, the kind that usually ends in a bunch of zeroes.
Just like the Fox News audience!
But much like the eternal chicken/egg dilemma, one burning question remains unsolved:
Do they watch Fox News because they are idiots, or are they idiots because they watch Fox News?
December 20th, 2010 | Tags: Barack Obama, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Lies, Polls, University of Maryland | Category: Barack Obama, Corruption, Fox News, Hypocrisy, Media, Right-Wing
2 comments to Ignorance Is Freedom! New Poll Proves Fox News Viewers Are The Dumbest, Most Uninformed People In The World, Right After Fox News’ Hosts
squatlo
EXACTLY! Well damn put, ma’am!
squathi
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:07 am
Lol. Shows how smart you are. Do you want a cookie? You’re a genius.
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Hailee Steinfeld Spreads The Love In New Video For ‘Love Myself’
Erica Russell
Hailee Steinfeld has come to understand the touch of her hand. The 18-year-old pop starlet and Academy Award nominee (she scored a nomination at the ripe age of 13 for her inspiring turn in True Grit) has released the official music video for her self-love empowerment anthem, "Love Myself."
While the song itself is arguably about female masturbation (come on, lyrics like "Pictures in my mind on replay / I'm gonna touch the pain away / I know how to scream my own name" are really not up for debate, people!), there is also a broader theme of self-empowerment present in the message of the thumping dance-pop track, one which crosses over seamlessly into the young artist's spirited video. Watch below:
In the New York City-filmed clip, Hailee spreads the self-love message to New York passerby with a giant mirror emblazoned with "#LoveMyself" at the top. As pedestrians pass by the mirror, many stop to appreciate the uplifting message—joyfully posing, dancing, and snapping selfies in the process—while elsewhere, the pop diva-in-training dances on a skyscraper rooftop. (Check out the tongue-in-cheek "Self Service" leotard she's wearing, too—we see what you did there, Hailee!)
After she struts her way down the street, the celebratory video finally culminates with Hailee joining everyone in a mildly-choreographed flash mob on the streets of New York as everyone lets their hair down and lets their freak flags fly for an epic dance party—no insecurities allowed. It's a message that we're sure Hailee's "Bad Blood" co-star Taylor Swift could get behind for sure!
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According to a 10K report filed last month, Ocwen is also preparing for a potential $12.5 million-dollar settle - ment with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In addition to the company's movement on regulatory issues, Fitch also cited improvements in Ocwen's overall servicing opera - tions as a factor in the latest ratings. "Ocwen continues to make incremental improvements and enhancements to its primary and special servicing operations," Fitch's release stated. "Since the prior review, the company transi - tioned to a new lock-box vendor, streamlined its investor report- ing for PLS deals, updated its servicing transfer processes, and consolidated correspondence management." The organization's technologi - cal advances—what Fitch called a "highly integrated technology environment"—also played a role in the ratings. "Ocwen's highly integrated systems result in an enhanced technology environment," the release stated. "The company le - verages a number of systems from Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. (Altisource), including its core servicing system REALServicing, and Equator, a default servic - ing platform. Since Fitch's prior review, Ocwen implemented Back in The Black for loss mitigation processing." Fitch's latest residential servicer ratings also factor in Reg Ab and USAP results, which show no incompliance. "The most recent Reg AB and USAP reports for the master servicing operation did not contain any instances of material non-com - pliance," Fitch reported. "Master servicing has reported no instances of material non-compliance with Reg AB or USAP requirements for the past eight years." In June 2016, Fitch gave Ocwen a "B- / stable" long-term default rating. The company currently services a portfolio of 1.36 million loans, total- ing more than $203 billion. BofA Fulfills Settlement Obligations Ahead of Schedule THE BANKER PAID $7 BILLION IN CONSUMER RELIEF FOR 2014 DOJ CASE. NORTH CAROLINA // In August 2014, Charlotte-based Bank of America agreed in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and six states to provide $7 billion in consumer relief. Bank of America recently reported that it has competed this obligation two years ahead of schedule. Independent Monitor Eric D. Green's eighth and final performance review included an additional $37.8 million of credit for consumer relief in Q 3 2016, along with 163.6 million of credit earned by Bank of America for reaching certain incentive milestones built into the settle - ment. This put Bank of America over the finish line with a total of $7,005,373,353 of credit earned. "We can't turn back the clock or pretend that the financial crisis didn't wreak havoc on millions of American homeowners," Green said, "but it appears that the Bank's consumer relief did further the settlement agreement's principle goal of helping struggling home - owners remain in their homes and communities still reeling from the effects of multiple foreclosures and abandoned homes." The implementation of the set - tlement was successful in direct- ing most of the consumer relief to those who needed it the most. The majority of consumer relief came in the form of mortgage loan modifications, 53 percent of which were in areas identified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of Distressed Census Tracts, or Hardest Hit Areas. The settlement agreement also provided for resources to be directed to local organizations and legal assistance programs to help stabilize neighborhoods and provide foreclosure-prevention as - sistance and other housing-related counseling activities. Areas such as Atlanta and Las Vegas were hit especially hard in the mortgage crisis, and 35 percent of homes in these areas were "underwater." Eric D. Green found that the $128 million worth of loan modifications in Atlanta and $97 million in Las Vegas "provided substantial assistance to communi - ties that were still hurting." "We have been detailed, diligent, and exacting in ensuring that the Bank only received credit strictly for which it was entitled," Green said. "My professionals and I have determined that Bank of America's submissions and calcu - lations for its consumer-relief cred- it are correct and that the Bank has complied with all the terms of the Settlement Agreement." "We can't turn back the clock or pretend that the financial crisis didn't wreak havoc on millions of American homeowners." —Eric D. Green, Independent Monitor SERVICING
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Allegheny Pilot
Rivers; History; Navigation
A complete chart of the Allegheny River showing the islands and bars, and low water channel from Warren to Pittsburgh.
Second Avenue (circa 1875)
Buildings; Streets
South side of Second Avenue west of Liberty. The Allen block (opposite the other Allen block) at left; center, the Eddy grocery; right, Keller harness and tailor shop. Photo circa 1875.
Pennsylvania Avenue (circa 1875)
Buildings; Carts & wagons; Streets
South side of Pennsylvania Avenue west of Liberty Street, circa 1875. H. Knupp Blacksmith Shop is opposite The Point.
Allegheny River Valley View (circa 1935)
Fire Towers; Valleys
Allegheny River Valley below Kinzua, Pennsylvania, from Coal Knob Fire Tower, circa 1935.
Swinging Bridge at Third Avenue (1877)
Bridges; Suspension bridges; Schools
The swinging footbridge at Third Avenue about 1900. It was replaced in 1904 with an iron auto bridge. At left rear is the original (1877) Jefferson Street School.
Water Street, now Pennsylvania Avenue at Hickory Street (1862)
An 1862 view of Pennsylvania Avenue (then Water Street) at Hickory Street showing, left to right, the Carver House hotel, the Tanner block (brick) and, at far right, the first Mansion House.
Wendelboe store on Liberty Street (1890)
Stores & shops; People; Paint & wallpaper
The original Wendelboe store on the west side of Liberty Street between Second and Third Avenues circa 1890. Left to right: George Geracimos Sr., Necolai K. Wendelboe, Mayme Wendelboe, and an unidentified young man (possibly a Wendelboe employee.)
Warren-Jamestown Street Railway Co Passenger & Baggage Car at Liberty Street (circa 1906)
Department stores; Street railroads; People
Smith's department store, later Levinson department store and then Janick's department store, now part of Northwest Savings Bank office complex. Warren-Jamestown Street Railway passenger car--trolley--and baggage car at the terminal, foot of...
Warren Savings Bank Flat Iron Building at The Point (circa 1885)
Banks; Streets
View east on Pennsylvania Avenue from near Hickory Street about 1885. The original Warren Savings Bank building, shown here on The Point, burned in 1889. Its replacement was built in 1891.
Intersection of Hickory Street and Pennsylvania Avenue (1868)
Streets; Stores & shops; People
Intersection of Water Street (Pennsylvania Avenue) and Hickory Street in 1868. Stacked materials to the right were used in building the Hall block across the street, in the 400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Note boot shop in center. The hardware...
Rafts at Hickory Street and Pennsylvania Avenue (1887)
Rivers; Exhibition buildings; People; Baby carriages
View from Hickory Street to the river and south side fairgrounds in 1887. The Carver House hotel is at right. Ladies in period dress with prams. Note the high-wheeler at right.
Conewango Avenue (circa 1890)
Streets; Schools
Looking up Conewango Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue about 1890. In the center distance is the Jefferson Street School's bell tower.
Second Avenue View North (1869)
Buildings; Churches; Schools
North side of Second Avenue just west of Liberty Street in 1869, after several frame buildings had been razed prior to construction of a row of brick business blocks. The spire tops the First Baptist Church on Liberty Street just north of Third...
Hickory Street (1872)
Buildings; Churches; Streets
Looking down Hickory Street towards the suspension bridge, 1872. The Thomas Clemons house (center), corner of 4th and Hickory; old Union School and Annex (later Central School) at 3rd Avenue behind house. Left of the school buildings is the First...
Flood of 1865 (1865)
Mills; Floods; Bridges
Mill buildings on The Island in the flood of 1865. The floating debris marks the location of the roadway onto The Island from the Liberty Street bridge over the millrace.
Lockup at the Suspension Bridge (circa 1900)
People; Buildings; Suspension bridges
The second city lockup on the riverbank below Pennsylvania Avenue circa 1900. The 1918 concrete Hickory Street bridge abutment was erected on this site. Behind the lockup are the 1871 suspension bridge and brick tollbooth. Men are unknown.
Glade Oil Field (1885)
Oil wells; Rivers; Hotels
The glade oil fields on the Allegheny River just beyond the Glade bridge and the Allegheny Hotel, 1885.
Suspension Bridge Construction (1871)
Bridges; Suspension bridges; People
View to the south side in 1871 during construction of abutments and towers of the suspension bridge.
Warren Savings Bank Fire (1889)
Bank; Fires; People
A February 1889 fire destroyed the Warren Savings Bank at The Point, and behind it the old Watson-Davis brick block. In 1891 the new bank (now, 2004, National City Bank) was constructed on the site of both buildings.
Warren County Courthouse Complex (1877)
Courthouses; Jails; Sheriffs
Warren County courthouse, jail, and Sheriff's residence, Market Street and Fourth Avenue, soon after construction. Photo taken in 1877 or slightly later.
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Beer terms starting with: a
Abbey beer A collection of beer styles traditionally brewed by Trappists, such as dubbels and tripels. See "Trappist beer."
accessible Easy to drink by beer experts and novices alike; crowd-pleasing.
Acetaldehyde Rarely an intended component of a beer’s profile, acetaldehyde is an off flavor characterized by a green apple, pumpkin, paint or cut grass taste. Its most common cause is early removal of the beer from the yeast, before it has completed fermentation. Acetaldehyde is perhaps most famous as the component that causes hangover.
Acetic acid A bacterial byproduct, sour-tasting acetic acid is common in sour beer styles such as Flanders red ales, which are open-fermented to welcome such funk-inducing compounds. In most styles, though, acetic acid is an off flavor; it’s detectable by a green apple, vinegar or paint aroma and/or flavor. Its most common cause is a contamination in the brewing process or your pub’s tap system.
acidic Tasting of acid; sharp. Common in styles like saison, but inappropriate in many others.
additive A compound added to beer as a preservative or a means to augment or abridge the brewing process.
adjunct A source of fermentable sugar other than malt, used to add flavor, raise alcohol content and lighten color and body in various beer styles. Examples include wheat in witbiers, and corn in American lagers.
aftertaste The taste that remains on the palate after beer has been swallowed. Synonymous with "finish."
age To allow a bottled beer to rest in a cool, dark place until consumption, usually for a year or more, in order to promote positive changes in the beer's flavor.
aggressive Forceful in flavor and/or mouthfeel.
alcohol More specifically, ethyl alcohol or ethanol, the most widely used depressant in the world and a liquid, drinkable compound in beer derived from the fermentation process.
alcohol by volume (ABV) The amount of alcohol (ethanol) in a beer, measured as a percentage of the beer's total volume.
alcohol by weight (ABW) The amount of alcohol (ethanol) in a beer, measured as a percentage of the beer's total mass.
alcoholic Tasting of alcohol. Acceptable in a style such as barleywine, but an off flavor in many others.
ale Beer produced using top-fermenting ale yeast and brewed at warmer temperatures than lagers.
all-extract beer A beer made with an extract of malt, rather than malted barley, or a combination of malted barley and malt extract.
all-malt Without adjuncts, with regard to a beer’s grain profile.
almondlike Tastes or scents of almonds or (slightly sweeter) marzipan.
alpha acid A class of resins found in hop flowers, and the primary source of a beer’s bitterness.
American Homebrewers Association The division of the Brewers Association devoted to non-commercial homebrewers.
appearance The way a beer looks, comprising factors like color, head, haziness, visible sediment and more.
apple Tastes or scents or apples. Appropriate in ciders, but an off flavor in many other beer styles. See “Acetaldehyde” and “acetic acid.”
aroma A beer's smell.
artificial Unnatural in flavor, smell or character, such as a simulated berry taste in fruit beers.
assertive Powerful in flavor, scent or alcohol.
astringent Harshly husky or grainy. Common in rye beers.
attenuation The amount of sugar converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide by yeast.
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Bacopa innominata - (G. Maza) Alain
Tropical Water-hyssop
Synonym(s): Bacopa cyclophylla Fern.
Related ITIS Name(s): Bacopa innominata (G. Maza) Alain (TSN 33042)
Element Code: PDSCR06050
Informal Taxonomy: Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Figwort Family
Plantae Anthophyta Dicotyledoneae Scrophulariales Scrophulariaceae Bacopa
Name Used in Concept Reference: Bacopa innominata
Global Status: G3G5
Global Status Last Changed: 21Jun1999
Rounded Global Status: G4 - Apparently Secure
Reasons: From the southeastern United States, West Indies and Central America. Rare endemic of tidal areas in Virginia and Maryland. Only known historically from Maryland and North Carolina. Status uncertain in Florida and Georgia and in its range outside the U.S.
National Status: N2N4
United States Delaware (SU), Florida (SNR), Georgia (SNR), Maryland (SH), North Carolina (SH), South Carolina (S1), Virginia (S2)
Range Extent Comments: Ranging from Maryland south to central peninsula Florida, and in the West Indies and Central America (Weakley 1997).
Global Range: Ranging from Maryland south to central peninsula Florida, and in the West Indies and Central America (Weakley 1997).
United States DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA
MD Wicomico (24045)*
NC Chowan (37041)*
SC Berkeley (45015), Clarendon (45027)*, Hampton (45049), Jasper (45053), Orangeburg (45075)*
VA Charles City (51036), King William (51101), King and Queen (51097), New Kent (51127)
02 Mattaponi (02080105)+, Pamunkey (02080106)+, Eastern Lower Delmarva (02080110)+*, Lower James (02080206)+
03 Ghowan (03010203)+*, Lake Marion (03050111)+*, Cooper (03050201)+, Lower Savannah (03060109)+
NatureServe Conservation Status Factors Author: Martinez, M.
Fernald, M.L. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th ed., Corr. Printing, 1970. Van Nostrand, New York. LXIV+1632 pp.
Kartesz, J. T., and C. Meacham. 1998b. Unpublished review draft of Floristic Synthesis, 14 May 1998. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC.
RAWINSKI, T.J. 1987. BACOPA STRANGULA - MAT FORMING WATER HYSSOP: RESULTS OF A GLOBAL SURVEY. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. 11 PAGES.
SCHUYLER, A.E. 1989. INTERTIDAL VARIANTS OF BACOPA ROTUNDIFOLIA AND B. INNOMINATA. BARTONIA 55:18-22.
STRONG, M.T. 1989. DISCOVERY OF FERNALD'S BACOPA SIMULANS (SCROPHULARIACEAE) ON THE POTOMAC RIVER, IN VIRGINIA. RHODORA 91(867):239-241.
STROTHER, JOHN L. 1983. A 14 MAR 1983 NOTE TO LARRY MORSE IN RESPONSE TO MORSE'S 1983 LETTER REGARDING BACOPA SPECIES.
Tatnall, R.R. 1946. Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Soc. Nat. Hist. Del. 313 pp.
VASCOTT, A.L. 1984. VASCULAR FLORA OF SOUTHERN KING AND QUEEN CO., VA. VA. J. OF SCIENCE 35(2):98.
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Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in supramolecular Pt(II) donor-bridge-acceptor assemblies: the effect of vibronic coupling
Scattergood, P.A., Delor, M., Sazanovich, I.V. et al. (2 more authors) (2015) Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in supramolecular Pt(II) donor-bridge-acceptor assemblies: the effect of vibronic coupling. Faraday Discussions, 185. pp. 69-86. ISSN 1359-6640
Thanks to major advances in laser technologies, recent investigations of the ultrafast coupling of nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom (vibronic coupling) have revealed that such coupling plays a crucial role in a wide range of photoinduced reactions in condensed phase supramolecular systems. This paper investigates several new donor–bridge–acceptor charge-transfer molecular assemblies built on a trans-Pt(II) acetylide core. We also investigate how targeted vibrational excitation with low-energy IR light post electronic excitation can perturb vibronic coupling and affect the efficiency of electron transfer (ET) in solution phase. We compare and contrast properties of a range of donor–bridge–acceptor Pt(II) trans-acetylide assemblies, where IR excitation of bridge vibrations during UV-initiated charge separation in some cases alters the yields of light-induced product states. We show that branching to multiple product states from a transition state with appropriate energetics is the most rigid condition for the type of vibronic control we demonstrate in our study.
Scattergood, P.A.
Delor, M.
Sazanovich, I.V.
Towrie, M.
Weinstein, J.A.
© 2015 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Faraday Discussions. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Published: 1 December 2015
Published (online): 2 October 2015
The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Chemistry (Sheffield)
ROYAL SOCIETY JP090205
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) GR/T03345/02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5fd00103j
Royal Society of Chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1039/c5fd00103j
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Debunking B-2 Myths and Myth Making
Holding back the horde over at Defense Tech
There's a guy named Byron Skinner that shows up in the threads on Defense Tech that likes to make assertions on Airpower - a topic about which he pretty much knows absolutely nothing. Usually I can stand back and marvel at the innanity without getting involved, and usually somebody else points it out for me. But on this thread he pretty much went off the deep end on a topic and threw in a rather lame pre-emptive attack against "right wing ideologists" who might take umbrage with his 'points'. DT has started really limiting comment space and has made it practically impossible to adequately fisk monumentally erroneous arguments, so I left an excerpt with a reference to this site in case anyone wants to bother to read the whole debunking with references.
Oh...and yes, my contemporaries often wonder why I 'bother'. Sometimes so do I. [;-)
My response to 'Byron' follows:
RE: "SMSgt. Mac. The US did in fact carpet bomb in the 1991 Gulf war and most embarrassing of all Tora Bora was carpet bombed bombed by B-1B's and bin Laden walked out."
You are playing fast and loose with the term 'Carpet Bombing'. Carpet Bombing in modern usage describes attacking a large area, such as a city, in pursuit of total destruction or terror and without an explicit target of military value (like a patch of jungle with unknown inhabitants). It is often used (inaccurately) to describe 'Bomber' Harris’ campaigns including the bombing of Dresden or (just as inaccurately) LeMay’s fire-bombing of Japan in WWII. After Vietnam there have been AREA TARGETS (ex runways/airfields, military installations, army formations in defilade, CAVE COMPLEXES, etc) where sticks of unguided bombs have been laid down, but these areas are comparably small and compact compared to ‘carpet bombing’ a city.
More on the topic of 'Carpet Bombing' here.
RE: “The B-2 even according to the Air Force it had no unique conventional mission and on four of the 21 airframes were modified for the conventional mission, three are left.”
That doesn’t square with the fact that in 1999’s OAF war then-Major Matt Kmon stated that he “had six jets at anytime to execute the flying schedule” and the performance of 5 of the aircraft by tail numbers (1088, 0329, 1071, 0331, 1067) in Operation Allied Force were all explicitly mentioned on just one page in “The B-2 Goes to War” (Rebecca Grant, IRIS, 2001, p. 92).
RE: “The Air Force has completely withdrawn the B-2 from the conventional role. To correct you SMSgt Mac the B-2 was never designed nor intended for the conventional mission, to preform [sic] the conventional mission four airframes were, at a high cost, modified and a suite of weapons, since the four B-2's modified for the conventional operations never received the electronic package they never dropped the JADAM had to be developed just for those four bombers.”
You. Correct ME on Airpower in general and specifically Long Range Strike? Every one of Byron's fairy tales is demonstrably false. I wouldn’t hold it against anyone if they did not know that the B-2 was the first bomber since the advent of the atomic bomb to be developed from the beginning to have both a conventional and nuclear capability (I’ve heard senior DoD leadership make the same error), but the absolutely ludicrous story accompanying this assertion at this time simply BEGS for a thorough smackdown from an authoritative source.
From the ‘B-2 Stealth Bomber Fact Book’, Rev 3. dated November 1992, citing the B-2 Weapon System Specification dated November 21, 1981 we read:
From its inception, the B-2 statement of requirement has included conventional capability.“…provide the capability to conduct missions across the spectrum of conflict, including general nuclear war,…nuclear engagements less than general war, conventional conflict, and peacetime crisis situations.”
We also find in the same document a nice overview up front of the conventional and nuclear armament and carriage capability circa 1992. I've posted photos below if anyone is interested verifying the facts.
RE: ”The conventional role the Air Force envisioned for the B-2 was as a stand off attack weapon that could remain outside air defense missile systems. The problem of course was that the terrorists never bothers to buy any ADM systems.”
The first conventional missile planned for the B-2 was the TSSAM, since superceded by the JASSM. It was an all aspect LO missile capable of striking high value targets deep inside a peer opponent after being launched discretely from within the contested airspace.
RE: “Your #6 statement is so absurd and just plain nonsense that it doesn't even rate a response. Your personal attacks and lack of knowledge of the subject only reflects the desperation or the right wing to make any kind of argument or this issue.”
Well, which is it? Ad Hominem attack. Decry retaliation. Make an Ad Hominem attack. Don’t take swings if you can’t stand getting smacked.
And, once again! I’ve shown that YOU Byron... you lead the way in 'lack of knowledge**'.
**at least when it comes to Airpower and its role in National Defense.
Photos from B-2 Stealth Bomber Fact Book (Circa 1992) follow. This was a real find for me - I picked it up at the San Diego Air And Space Museum a year or so ago on the bookstore's used book rack.
First Photo: Cover shot. this was put out for Gov't consumption as a backgrounder right after the B-2 buy had been cut to 20.
Here we have just a couple of pages into the document, the the kinds of weapons and weapon carriage schemes that the B-2 was initially to carry. That's an awful lot of conventional weapons listed for a bomber that doesn't carry them. By 1994/5 the GATS/GAM and less- accurate (but cheaper) JDAMs were looming on the horizon.
Outside of a briefing NG gives VIPs (and some pilots in the early days) I've never seen this excerpt of the statement of requirements in an unclassified document anywhere else. Note the second major bullet.
More reinforcement as to the point about the B-2's conventional capability.
Posted by SMSgt Mac at 19:43 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: Aerospace, Airpower, Carpet Bombing, deceptive public relations, History, Long Range Strike, National Defense, Revisionism, Stealth Revolution, Web Follies
ANOTHER "Conservative= Bad Person" Study?
Déjà vu... all over again.
The summary of yet another...ahem...‘study’ at this link finding correlation between one's personality and ones politics has a strangely similar feel to one that was a pretty hot topic back at Dr. Helen’s blog back in 2005 (disclosure: I was a commenter) .
From the latest:
Researchers at UofT [Toronto] have shown that the psychological concern for compassion and equality is associated with a liberal mindset, while the concern for order and respect of social norms is associated with a conservative mindset.
One wonders if the 'researchers' ever considered how their own bias may have caused them to miss a few key questions and answers, such as: What if liberals seek 'equality of outcomes' while conservatives seek 'equality of opportunity'? And how does their bias affect how they decide which philosophy is more 'compassionate' and just?
Is it just me, or are these things coming out even more frequently these days? I can hardly wait for Iron Shrink and/or Dr. Helen to weigh in on this one.
Labels: Culture, Psycho-babble, Useful Idiots, Web Follies
AF Chief of Staff?...or Just another 'Suit'?
(H/T In From the Cold)
General Schwartz, in the latest of a long string of events highlighting the AF's 'buisiness ethos' is either actively subverting attempts by a non-profit historical group from gettng their hands on an F-105 thunderchief and enough parts to get one flying again. The historical significance of the F-105's combat history, including the sacrifices and efforts of the men who flew them and kept them flying cannot be denied, and their memory should be kept alive. Bringing what is now commonly referred to as 'Heritage Flights' to the masses at airshows and in silent display makes these beasts a reality to those who've forgotten or never knew them.
I was stationed at Hill AFB for many years, including the time when the ANG's 419thFW transitioned from being the last F-105 Wing to the first Guard unit to fly the F-16.
My home was a couple of miles off the end of the runway, and you always knew when a "Thud" flight was taking off. The Thud sure went out with a bang that I'll never forget: the 'Thudout' was a sight that would never be seen again.
Come to think of it, the AF is also missing a pretty good opportunity to remind those who would complain* about the F-35 noise footprint, what used to be flying overhead when rarely a complaint was heard.
* Attention Boise! You used to have freakin' F-4s stationed there! Now suck it up and slap on your "Jet Noise - The Sound of Freedom" bumper stickers. (In the comments section at the link, I'd say most of the locals are telling the fearful ninnies just about the same thing.)
Labels: Aerospace, Air Force Suicide Watch, Airpower, Citizenship, Culture, History, Politics, Web Follies
End of Libel? Media Tiptoes Around the Problem
Ever Hear of "Occam's Razor"?
The New York Observer has an entertaining piece featuring a Time Inc. attorney who's specialty is (was) Libel Law. All sorts of reasons are presented as likely behind the disappearance of libel suits against big media are offered, and I think some come close, describing some likely ancillary reasons, but it is almost as if they're dancing around the obvious one.
Think about it for just a moment, What's your first thought when someone besmirches your good name? Answer: "Will anyone believe them?"
Credibility in the mainstream media is seen as MIA by most people. Combine that with the fact the media doesn't have a lock on the flow of information anymore and people can get their side 'out there' (mentioned in the linked article) and you get a drop in people who care enough about lies the media writes about them to take legal action.
Labels: Citizenship, Crime and Punishment, Culture, deceptive public relations, Economics, Mainstream Media, Paradigm Shifts, The Left
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Pakistani Political Talk Shows | Breaking News | Political Videos | Current Affairs | Discussion Forum | Pakdiscussion.com > Pakistan Discussion Forum > Newspaper Columns | Editorials | Opinions > Things looking up - Syed Bakhtiyar Kazim - 7th February 2016
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Perceptions matter and who better than Oscar Wilde to put perceptions into perspective: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” However, a gentleman by the name of Arthur Rimbaud perhaps does a better job of showcasing the importance of perceptions: “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.” Without further digressing, the point is that perceptions matter and, in the case of a struggling economy, can make a fatal or fortuitous difference.
Perceptions are dependent on the understanding of a situation or environment, or whatever for that matter, and are employed generally in uncertain situations. But if it smells like a gutter, looks like a gutter and feels like a gutter, you are definitely in the gutter so no need for perceptions, albeit keep looking at the stars. If you are actually in hell, it does not matter what you believe; it will still be hell. Accordingly, only in the absence of absolute clarity are perceptions necessary for framing a course of action or taking decisions.
So, lately, during the course of a few social interactions — no, not virtual but the real kind thankfully — it was rather pleasant to come across positivity, sheer nude optimism about what the future holds for Pakistan, economically and overall. And this optimism was different from every Pakistanis, expect thankfully for the rare few like yours truly who have no interest in the game, and inexplicable and inane perceptions about the national cricket team’s potential. It is extremely baffling that in spite of a repeatedly poor performance by the team, in spite of analyses by experts of the game that point towards political intrigue in the corridor of powers that control the game and in spite of knowing that most of the team should be at home looking after their grandchildren, ask any cricket-loving Pakistani and he will passionately and profusely volunteer his solemn belief that Pakistan will win the ICC World Twenty20. Amazing! But as a patriotic Pakistani all the best wishes to the team; hey they might just win! Hope for the best and pray for the rest!
The thing about perceptions is that they are rather fickle and the looking good feeling can morph into the tuck-tail-and-run reaction at the drop of a coin. And since building perceptions takes times, it is imperative that national feel good initiatives are built upon tangible foundations rather than the cricket type hype that generally eventually results in national heartbreak. The latter is, at the end of the day, just a game; the former is essential and vital.
So, what exactly has happened that has brought about all this positivity, at least on the economic front? Well, the IMF is apparently happy with Pakistan but trusting their analysis is like believing that the Oscars will actually ever recognise that awards should be given to box office hits. More to the point, we have been working with the IMF on reforms, off and on for donkey’s years with not much to show for it. As an example, most US presidential candidates agree on lowering the tax rates that for some crazy reason is supposed to be good for the economy, while the IMF wants us to increase taxes. Taxation takes money from the private sector so that government can spend more and in our case perhaps inefficiently.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) kept the policy rate flat at six percent and believes that “The uptick in economic activity appears to continue beyond 2015-2016 on the back of energy and infrastructure projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)”; seriously the Chinese have not even started on energy projects. On the other hand, if you read between the lines, the Central Bank is extremely worried about declining trend in exports, referring to it as “challenges” but curiously remains silent on the ever increasing external debt. On other fronts, the security situation has improved but with the recent attack and repeated threat to schools the situation remains volatile. Politically, things are hardly clear, with the odd controversy breaking news every now and then to keep the nation entertained and journalists employed.
Mystified, there was only one option to determine the genesis of this perception: Google. However, this time around even that failed. The first search results included an eye-catcher; a newspaper article from April 1, 2012, ‘Foreign investment: positive sentiments’. Seriously, there were positive sentiments for foreigners to invest in Pakistan in 2012, so what happened? Wait, hang on; April fool! Not that a leading newspaper should fool its readers, irrespective.
Remember when, back in June 2014, the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) asserted that Pakistan was seen as a top growth market by Japanese multinationals on the back of Pakistan being the top gainer on the Frontier Markets Sentiment Index? Okay I did not remember either; again Google helped but what happened? How many Japanese companies actually did invest in Pakistan over the last 20 months?
Dogged efforts on Google eventually succeed. Apparently, the Overseas Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) very recently carried out a perception and investment survey that was encouraging and reflected positive sentiments: “This could be seen from the fact that 82 percent have stated that they foresee continuing growth in their businesses and that they are generally committed to making further investment in Pakistan.” And then there is the United Business Group of FPCCI, which currently believes that government has improved the security and investment climate of Pakistan, which in turn is attracting investors from all over the world. Quote, “Hundreds of local and foreign companies are expanding their operations while policies of the government are being lauded on every international forum.”
In the movie The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade reminds Kasper that they were talking about a lot more money, and the latter retorts, “Yes, sir, we were but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy 10 dollars of talk.” Considering recent history, wonder how much of all that is talk money.
Irrespective, I have always been an optimist and believe that Pakistan is destined for greatness. Accordingly, on every forum, positive criticism aside, the mantra has always been that Pakistan is the greatest country on the globe. It is fantastic that these sentiments are now floating in the air and kudos to the government for creating this environment of positivity but let us not get complacent. There is a need to focus on converting talk money into coins of the realm in the form of investment in manufacturing. The CPEC is an opportunity, infrastructure investment is an enabler but unless manufacturing and exports grow, things might be looking up but may go nowhere.
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HomeLong StoriesPoor Miss Finch - Chapter 40. Traces Of Nugent
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Poor Miss Finch - Chapter 40. Traces Of Nugent
CHAPTER THE FORTIETH. Traces of Nugent
"MADAME PRATOLUNGO!"
"Herr Grosse?"
He put his handkerchief back into his pocket, and turned round to me from the window with his face composed again, and his tea-caddy snuff-box in his hand.
"Now you have seen for your own self," he said, with an emphatic rap on the box, "do you dare tell that sweet girls which of them it is that has gone his ways and left her for ever?"
It is not easy to find a limit to the obstinacy of women--when men expect them to acknowledge themselves to have been wrong. After what I had seen, I no more dared tell her than he did. I was only too obstinate to acknowledge it to him--just yet.
"Mind this!" he went on. "Whether you shake her with frights, or whether you heat her with rages, or whether you wound her with griefs--it all goes straight the same to those weak new eyes of hers. They are so weak and so new, that I must ask once more for my beds here to-night, for to see to-morrow if I have not already tried them too much. Now, for the last time of asking, have you got the abominable courage in you to tell her the truth?"
He had found my limit at last. I was obliged to own (heartily as I disliked doing it) that there was, for the present, no choice left but mercifully to conceal the truth. Having gone this length I next attempted to consult him as to the safest manner in which I could account to Lucilla for Oscar's absence. He refused (as a man) to recognize the slightest necessity for giving me (as a woman) any advice on a question of evasions and excuses. "I have not lived all my years in the world, without learning something," he said. "When it comes to walking upon eggshells and telling fips, the womens have nothing to learn from the mens.--Will you take a little stroll-walk with me in the garden? I have one odder thing to say to you: and I am hungry and thirsty both togedder--for This."
He produced "This," in the form of his pipe. We left the room at once for our stroll in the garden.
Having solaced himself with his first mouthful of tobacco-smoke, he startled me by announcing that he meant to remove Lucilla forthwith from Dimchurch to the sea-side. In doing this, he was actuated by two motives--first, the medical motive of strengthening her constitution: second, the personal motive of preserving her from making painful discoveries by placing her out of reach of the gossip of the rectory and the village. Grosse had the lowest opinion of Mr. Finch and his household. His dislike and distrust of the rector, in particular, knew no bounds: he characterized the Pope of Dimchurch as an Ape with a long tongue, and a man-and-monkey capacity for doing mischief. Ramsgate was the watering-place which he had fixed on. It was at a safe distance from Dimchurch; and it was near enough to London to enable him to visit Lucilla frequently. The one thing needed was my co-operation in the new plan. If I was at liberty to take charge of Lucilla, he would speak to the Ape with the long tongue; and we might start for Ramsgate before the end of the week.
Was there anything to prevent me from carrying out the arrangement proposed?
There was nothing to prevent me. My one other anxiety apart from Lucilla--anxiety about good Papa--had now, for some time, been happily set at rest. Letter after letter from my sisters in France, brought me always the same cheering news. My evergreen parent had at last discovered that he was no longer in the first bloom of his youth. He had resigned to his juniors, with pathetic expressions of regret, the making of love and the fighting of duels. Ravaged by past passions, this dear innocent had now found a refuge from swords, pistols, and the sex, in collecting butterflies and playing on the guitar. I was free wholly to devote myself to Lucilla; and I honestly rejoiced in the prospect before me. Alone with her, and away from the rectory (where there was always danger off gossip reaching her ears) I could rely on myself to protect her from harm in the present, and to preserve her for Oscar in the future. With all my heart I agreed to the arrangements as Grosse proposed them. When we parted in the garden, he went round to the rector's side of the house to announce (in his medical capacity) the decision at which he had arrived--while I, on my side, went back to Lucilla to make the best excuses that I could invent for Oscar, and to prepare her for our speedy removal from Dimchurch.
"Gone, without coming to say good-bye! Gone, without even writing to me!"
There was the first impression I produced on her, when I had done my best to account harmlessly for Oscar's absence. I had, as I thought, taken the shortest and simplest way out of the difficulty, by merely inverting the truth. In other words, by telling her that Nugent had got into some serious embarrassment abroad, and that Oscar had been called away at a moment's notice, to follow him and help him. It was in vain that I reminded her of Oscar's well-known horror of leave-takings of all kinds; in vain that I represented the urgency of the matter as leaving him no alternative but to confide his excuses and his farewells to me; in vain that I promised for him that he would write to her at the first opportunity. She listened, without conviction. The more perseveringly I tried to account for it, the more perseveringly she dwelt on Oscar's unaccountable disregard of her claims on his consideration for her. As for our journey to Ramsgate, it was impossible to interest her in the subject. I gave it up in despair.
"Surely Oscar has left some address at which I can write to him?" she said.
I could only answer that he was not sure enough of his movements to be able to do that before he went away.
"It is more provoking than you think," she went on. "I believe Oscar is afraid to bring his unfortunate brother into my presence. The blue face startled me when I saw it, I know. But I have quite got over that. I feel none of the absurd terror of the poor man which I felt when I was blind. Now that I have seen for myself what he is really like, I can feel for him. I wanted to tell Oscar this--I wanted to say that he might bring his brother to live with us if he liked--I wanted to prevent (just what has happened,) his going away from _me when he wishes to see his brother. You are using me very hardly among you; and I have some reason to complain of it."
While she was talking in this mortifying manner, I felt some consolation nevertheless. Oscar's disfigured complexion would not be the terrible obstacle in the way of his restoration to Lucilla that I had feared. All the comfort which this reflection could give, I wanted badly enough. There was no open hostility towards me on Lucilla's part--but there was a coolness which I found more distressing to bear than hostility itself. I breakfasted in bed the next morning, and only rose towards noon--just in time to say good-bye to Grosse before he returned to London.
He was in high good spirits about his patient. Her eyes were the better instead of the worse for the exertion to which he had subjected them on the previous day. The bracing air of Ramsgate was all that was wanting to complete the success of the operation. Mr. Finch had started objections, all turning on the question of expense. But with a daughter who was her own mistress, and who had her own fortune, his objections mattered nothing. By the next day, or the day after at latest, we were to start for Ramsgate. I promised to write to our good surgeon as soon as we were established; and he engaged on his side, to visit us immediately after. "Let her use her eyes for two goot hours every day," said Grosse, at parting. "She may do what she likes with them--except that she must not peep into books, or take up pens, till I come to you at Ramsgate. It is most wonderful-beautiful to see how those new eyes of hers do get along. When I next meet goot Mr. Sebrights--hey! how I shall cock-crow over that spick-span respectable man!"
I felt a little nervous as to how the day would pass--when the German left me alone with Lucilla.
To my amazement, she not only met me with the needful excuses for her behavior on the previous day, but showed herself to be perfectly resigned to the temporary loss of Oscar's society. It was she (not I) who remarked that he could not have chosen a better time for being away from her, than the humiliating time when she was learning to distinguish between round and square. It was she (not I) who welcomed the little journey to Ramsgate as a pleasant change in her dull life, which would help to reconcile her to Oscar's absence. In brief, if she had actually received a letter from Oscar, relieving her of all anxiety about him, her words and looks could hardly have offered a completer contrast than they now showed to her words and looks of the previous day.
If I had noticed no other alteration in her than this welcome change for the better, my record of the day would have ended here, as the record of unmixed happiness.
But, I grieve to say, I have something unpleasant to add. While she was making her excuses to me, and speaking in the sensible and satisfactory terms which I have just repeated, I noticed a curious underlying embarrassment in her manner, entirely unlike any previous embarrassment which had ever intruded itself between us. And, stranger still, on the first occasion when Zillah came into the room, while I was in it, I observed that Lucilla's embarrassment was reflected (when the old woman spoke to me) in the face and manner of Lucilla's nurse.
But one conclusion could possibly follow from what I saw:--they were both concealing something from me; and they were both more or less ashamed of what they were doing.
Somewhere--not very far back in these pages--I have said of myself that I am not by nature a woman who is easily ready to suspect others. On this very account, when I find suspicion absolutely forced on me--as it was now--I am apt to fly into the opposite extreme. In the present case, I fixed on the person to suspect--all the more readily from having been slow to suspect him in bygone days. "In some way or other," I said to myself, "Nugent Dubourg is at the bottom of this."
Was he communicating with her privately, in the name and in the character of Oscar?
The bare idea of it hurried me headlong into letting her know that I had noticed the change in her.
"Lucilla!" I said. "Has anything happened?"
"What do you mean?" she asked coldly.
"I fancy I see some change----" I began.
"I don't understand you," she answered, walking away from me as she spoke.
I said no more. If our intimacy had been less close and less affectionate, I might have openly avowed to her what was passing in my mind. But how could I say to Lucilla, You are deceiving me? It would have been the end of our sisterhood--the end of our friendship. When confidence is withdrawn between two people who love each other--everything is withdrawn. They are on the footing of strangers from that moment, and must stand on ceremony. Delicate minds will understand why I accepted the check she had administered to me, and said no more.
I went into the village alone. Managing matters so as to excite no surprise, I contrived to have a little gossip about Nugent with Gootheridge at the inn, and with the servant at Browndown. If Nugent had returned secretly to Dimchurch, one of those two men, in our little village, must almost certainly have seen him. Neither of them had seen him.
I inferred from this that he had not tried to communicate with her personally. Had he attempted it (more cunningly and more safely) by letter?
I went back to the rectory. It was close on the hour which I had appointed with Lucilla--now that the responsibility rested on my shoulders--for allowing her to use her eyes. On taking off the bandage, I noticed a circumstance which confirmed the conclusion at which I had already arrived. Her eyes deliberately avoided looking into mine. Suppressing as well as I could the pain which this new discovery caused me, I repeated Grosse's words, prohibiting her from attempting to look into a book, or to use a pen, until he had seen her again.
"There is no need for him to forbid me to do that," she said.
"Have you attempted it already?" I inquired.
"I looked into a little book of engravings," she answered. "But I could distinguish nothing. The lines all mingled together and swam before my eyes."
"Have you tried to write?" I asked next. (I was ashamed of myself for laying that trap for her--although the serious necessity of discovering whether she was privately in correspondence with Nugent, might surely have excused it?)
"No," she replied. "I have not tried to write."
She changed color when she made that answer. It is necessary to own that, in putting my question, I was too much excited to call to mind, what I should have remembered in a calmer state. There was no necessity for her trying to use her eyes--even if she was really carrying on a correspondence which she wished to keep secret from me. Zillah had been in the habit of reading her letters to her, before I appeared at the rectory; and she could write short notes (as I have already mentioned) by feeling her way on the paper with her finger. Besides, having learnt to read by touch (that is to say with raised characters), just as she had learnt to write--even if her eyes had been sufficiently recovered to enable her to distinguish small objects, nothing but practice could have taught her to use them for purposes of correspondence.
These considerations, though they did not strike me at the time, occurred to me later in the day, and altered my opinion to a certain extent. I now interpreted the change of color which I had noticed in her as the outward sign of suspicion on her side--suspicion that I had a motive of my own in interrogating her. For the rest, my doubts of Nugent remained unmoved. Try as I might, I could not divest my mind of the idea that he was playing me false, and that in one way or another he had contrived, not only to communicate with Lucilla, but to persuade her to keep me in ignorance of what he had done.
I deferred to the next day any attempt at making further discoveries.
The last thing at night, I had a momentary impulse to question Zillah. Reflection soon checked it. My experience of the nurse's character told me that she would take refuge in flat denial--and would then inform her mistress of what had happened. I knew enough of Lucilla to know (after what had already passed between us) that a quarrel with me would follow. Things were bad enough already, without making them worse in that way. When the morning came, I resolved to keep a watchful eye on the village post-office, and on the movements of the nurse.
When the morning came, there was a letter for me from abroad.
The address was in the handwriting of one of my sisters. We usually wrote to each other at intervals of a fortnight or three weeks. This letter had followed its predecessor after an interval of less than one week. What did it mean? Good news or bad?
I opened the letter.
It enclosed a telegram, announcing that my poor dear father was lying dangerously wounded at Marseilles. My sisters had already gone to him: they implored me to follow them without one moment of needless delay. Is it necessary to tell the story of this horrible calamity? Of course it begins with a woman and an elopement. Of course it ends with a young man and a duel. Have I not told you already?--Papa was so susceptible; Papa was so brave. Oh, dear, dear! the old story over again. You have an English proverb: "What is bred in the bone--" etcetera, etcetera. Let us drop the veil. I mean, let us end the chapter.
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Conflict of Wings 1955 – Beautiful Colour and typically English
This was a British Film made in Colour – and I say this because, as we all remember, at that time it was a big attraction when a film was in Technicolor.
The title in a way is intriguing and appealing and yet it is difficult to discern what it is until you either read about it or see the film
The film starred John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow and Kieron Moore
The film is splendidly English with villagers taking on the might of the Royal Air Force over nesting birds. Against this background “Conflict of wings” portrays the people of the beautiful county of Norfolk at odds with the Authorities over the potential damage to their bird sanctuary.
The RAF personnel are cast as the not very bad bad guys using an area frequented by nesting birds as a firing range.
The film makes its point and has excellent performances in the British tradition and a wonderful support cast including ex – RAF pilot Humphrey Lestocq – at the time as already mentioned on the Blog. on BBC children’s’ TV “Whirligig” with Mr Turnip.
“H.L.” as he was known, had a career in film acting and Radio. P
lane enthusiasts will love the shots of the Vampires and Meteors.
If you love that quintessentially English county of Norfolk the scenery of its beautiful northern coast will enchant you. “Conflict of wings” is rural England and its inhabitants coming together
A Vampire Jet roars overhead
ABOVE – John Gregson and Harry Fowler with a Meteor Jet
ABOVE - Actors again with a Meteor Jet ABOVE - Niall MacGinnis and Muriel Pavlow play a scene together
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[Josh] Friday, July 13, 2018
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JoshParnell
Re: [Josh] Friday, July 13, 2018
#46 by JoshParnell
*cough cough*
Thanks for the link. I do need to read over the whole thread at some point. But as for the starting point, I am favorable to charge-sustained WH bridges and think that something like this is the way to go Large fleets should require dedicated logistics ships for sustaining a WH of adequate size to bridge the whole fleet. Those logi ships being effectively 'high burst energy output' ships sounds good to me. In this manner they might also serve other support roles during battle, such as maintaining active shielding thanks to high burst potential.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ~ Henry Ford
Slymodi
Third rock from Sol
#47 by Slymodi
I don't understand can u prove via induction :p
IVE BEEN OUT OF MY MIND A LONG TIME
#48 by Flatfingers
JoshParnell wrote: ↑
Wow Flat, this looks very cool! And very detailed.
Thank you, Josh.
I can't resist mentioning that all of the stars in my game -- every single one in that screenshot -- are real. They're taken from the Hipparcos catalog of the nearest/brightest stars from Earth.
What this means is that if you fly in the game to the vicinity of Earth, and mouselook around at the stars, they are exactly the stars you see from Earth when you look into the night sky, in approximately the correct colors and apparent brightnesses. In fact, just for fun I added a feature that draws the lines between the stars of the modern constellations.
The planets, on the other hand, are all made up except for those in our Solar system and the roughly 1500 exoplanets we knew of when I was working on this project.
I never got this map to the point of being pretty. And I wasn't competent to get the code for the 3D math working correctly for proper high-precision rotation/translation.
But I'll never forget how satisfying it was the first time I flew to Earth and the stars were right.
Anyway, since we're talking about star maps, I encourage folks to visit Winchell Chung's 3-D Star Maps pages -- they're gorgeous.
Flatfingers wrote: ↑
Ha! I knew it. Well, I didn't know it. But I wondered it, when looking at the distribution of stellar class, which appeared to be very realistic. What I actually thought was, 'Flat did some good math here to generate a realistic distribution!' Of course, using the real deal works as well
Also, neat link, those are nice maps.
Slymodi wrote: ↑
All hail Slymodi \o/ I don't understand if this is an E&M joke or just gibberish :T
#50 by Cornflakes_91
Knowing Sly it was gibberish in attempt to make a math joke
Or he wants you to build a gigantic AC magnet.
theStormWeaver
#51 by theStormWeaver
In regards to 3d maps, I think a good compromise would be 3d Regions (what you refer to as tiles near the end) but an overall 2d structure. It's more interesting and even a bit more realistic.
Black--Snow
#52 by Black--Snow
theStormWeaver wrote: ↑
I am personally not a fan of 3D maps at all.
2D maps provide the exact same layout but with less confusion and difficulty in navigation.
For example, EVE's 3D map is just worse than their 2D one. The layout was designed that no stars overlapped meaning that the 2D was just a more readable version of the 3D map.
I am literally and wholly in love with myself.
BFett
A galaxy far far away
#53 by BFett
For the universe structure, I agree that the systems don't need to be displayed on a 3d map. The only time 3d will likely be useful gameplay wise will be in RTS view within a system. Jumping from one stable wormhole to another doesn't convey distance gameplay wise so it is less important to convey that distance on a map. However, the number of jumps to get to a given system are important. So, with this in mind, a 2D map makes the most sense when mapping systems and a 3D map makes the most sense for combat situations, exploration, and other gameplay concepts.
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BFett wrote: ↑
Jumping from one stable wormhole to another doesn't convey distance gameplay wise so it is less important to convey that distance on a map. However, the number of jumps to get to a given system are important.
except if you are using some euclidean distance limited jump drive.
then you definitely need actual distance and not flattened representations.
Black--Snow wrote: ↑
Ah, but I am
I brought it up only because Josh mentioned it being an easy thing to include as an option. By mentioning this compromise here, my preference is more likely to be available as a universe generation option
Fair. Though I think conversion between 2D and 3D is pretty much entirely aesthetic anyway, so the generation could even just default to 3D regions on a 2D tile. I don't think adding an extra dimension to generation would be particularly taxing, since the placement of stars seems to be the least taxing thing about generation.
#57 by N810
I Just had a thought, you could use color to show Z direction on the 2d map...
say the blue end of the spectrum is galactic up and red is galactic down with yellow being medium ?
and gradients filling in between the colors.
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- Arthur C. Clarke
mcsven
#58 by mcsven
All this chat about maps made me go back and have a look at some of our earlier discussions. Quite interesting to see everyone's positions five years ago...
N810 wrote: ↑
Normally I'd agree with this idea, but unless that color difference could be customized, it presents an accessibility issue for the color blind.
Dwamies
#60 by Dwamies
Regarding the 3D maps, when playing the X series you are constantly looking at a 2D map. It's not until you get into the game for awhile that you realize there is a button to rotate it 90 deg and look at the 3D structure. Its cool for a bit, you use it for placing stations, but ultimately it's a pretty feature that doesn't add anything to the gameplay.
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Business concentration, superstar effect, and hegemony
I like Tim Harford and enjoyed reading his several books. But I cannot help getting the impression that he has lost the plot here. And it is a teachable moment in the cognitive blindspot of the liberal establishment and how it causes alienation that leads to the likes of Brexit and Trump. The article has several blindpsot based arguments. Sample this,
Why hasn’t competition chipped away at the market position of the leading companies? The simplest explanation: they are very good at what they do. Competition isn’t a threat to them. It’s an opportunity. What Professor Autor and his colleagues call “superstar firms” tend to be more efficient. They sell more at a lower cost, so they enjoy a larger profit margin. Google is the purest example: its search algorithm won market share on merit. Alternatives are easily available, but most people do not use them. But the pattern holds more broadly: superstar firms have grown not by avoiding competitors but by defeating them... The policy response required is subtle: after all, the growth of innovative, productive companies is welcome. It’s the unintended consequences of that growth that pose problems.
The last is a deep and unqualified statement. Let us unpack it. This essentially means that superstars firms like Google competed on a level-playing field with competitors and won the race on merits. How can we be so sure? In fact, there are strong arguments to dispute this narrative.
I see several alternate narratives. What if there were entry barriers (beyond a network size) that stifled competition and that Google was, by happenstance, the first to cross this? What if these barriers gave Google the time and network density to gather more data to refine its search algorithm, which in turn entrenched its position even further? What if there is some stickiness to search engine users that confers definitive first mover advantage (beyond a certain network size)? What if Google manipulated its search algorithms to steer traffic towards itself and away from competitors?
What if Google manipulated the market with unfair business practices that took advantage of its initially emerging leadership share? Or what if Google used its rising market power to lobby and put in place rules of the game that erected subtle entry barriers - after all Eric Schmidt was the Technology Czar in the first Obama administration and there is some argument that the frequent visits by Google executives to White House helped swing the anti-trust investigations by Federal Trade Commission their way? For more on a theory of such narratives, whether you believe them or not, read Matt Ridley here.
I am not suggesting in favour of any of these narratives. In fact, most reasonable people would agree with me that all these narratives, including the one unquestioningly embraced by Mr Harford, are possibly equally likely (even people like David Autor included). Maybe all of them played some part or other in elevating Google. It is true that they may arrive at different choices when they apply their judgement call on the various alternatives. I am inclined to believe that we may never be able to decipher the true dynamic that has catapulted Google to where it is today.
But I am disturbed by the nonchalant, almost reflexive, manner in which Mr Harford overlooks all these alternatives to embrace his narrative to rationalize away the trend of business concentration as the meritorious evolution of superstar firms. By calling it an "unintended consequence of growth", Harford is dramatically altering the frame of reference in conversations surrounding business concentration. It attenuates the sting of the economic efficiency and moral repugnancy arguments against business concentration. It is inconceivable that an intelligent and shrewd commentator like Mr Harford is unaware of these. It is more likely that he considers them less likely or unimportant.
This is hegemony. Such depth of mental capture is disturbing. And it is true of many important public concerns among even the most influential liberal thinkers and opinion makers.
Posted by Urbanomics at 12:47 AM
Labels: market failures, Monopoly
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Wuppo
Indie Game Review
After losing its home, one lonely Wum must travel the length and width of the world to find a new place to live. From the metropolitan haven Popocity to the cavernous Bliekopolis, our Wum will discover magical places and encounter strange creatures. But this Wum is no traditional hero and only by using wit and charm can it succeed in this massive journey.
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Wuppo is one of those games that you’ll either really like or won’t like at all, for me, I knew I liked the game from the first 2 minutes. Like a lot of games, Wuppo gives you the ability to choose what your response is to various dialogue in the game and based on your answer, you’ll get different responses and sometimes even increases in your max health (generally occurs when you are nice). But it all depends, I felt like my character would be more of a smart ass right off the bat so I went with that and the response was hilarious, to the point where I continued to play for another few hours!
Of course one of the simplest and perhaps, greatest feature i’ve seen in a game, is the ability to make your character whistle by pressing the right mouse button. You can make your own melodies, whistle to the current background music playing or click away just for the fun (for me, the hilarity) of it all. Stuff like this is what makes the gaming industry move forward and inspire others to do just the same, create a unique feature that is not only fun but will make the player remember it.
While Wuppo doesn’t have nice crips graphics, it’s part of the beauty of it and is utilized well offering simplistic yet entertaining visuals. With a huge world to explore there’s no doubt you’ll find something that’ll keep you occupied, from the carnival to the train rides, there’s honestly enough content in the game to keep any gamer entertained for a very long time.
One thing I noticed about my progression in the game is perhaps as most humans evolve, starting out a snot nosed punk and ending up as a respectable human being (of course that’s not everyones path but the general course right?). All i wanted was my ice cream in the beginning and near the end what mattered most was what made sense for the wums and the world. The game takes you from selfish abuser to responsible member of society, in such a way that you don’t even fight it. What’s to fight? You get rewarded for helping out, you progress in the game, you see new places, fight new bosses and everyones happy? (or are they?)
What if you didn’t? There’s obviously choices you could make that could devastate things quit rapidly, for instance there’s a mission you find in the lower areas of the city where a wum asks you to break into the jail and save his buddies but before you accept he says “if your caught, your done for” (para phrasing). Will you risk being a criminal for some chump change? Or will you go up to the upper levels and work at one of the various places that pay for you to help them?
These choices shape the world and your outcome, ingeniously, they are throughout the game and are so cleverly integrated, you really find out where your moral compass points. Yes the game is cute and fun but your choices will make or break who you become, just like in real life, so choose wisely little wum!
Wuppo is by far one of the most unique and creative games i’ve played in a long time,
I am definitely looking forward to a second game!
Humorous , Fun & Creative
Original Story & Design
Innovative & Unique
Awesome Soundtrack
High Replayability
Intuitive Controls
Published November 3, 2018 February 28, 2019
Categories Indie Game Review
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Jazz History Online
Historical Essays
Sidetracks
Adoration of the Lyric
CD Reviews by Thomas Cunniffe
The term “jazz singer” eludes definition almost as much as the term “jazz”. There is a school of thought which states that the very phrase “jazz singer” is a contradiction in terms, and that a true jazz singer would never sing lyrics; thus, the only singers we know are simply jazz-influenced. There are others who drop the term on any vocalist who sings standards, even if they made their name singing pop and rock. However, for many jazz fans, improvisation is the key, either through scat or melodic transformation (creating new melodies while continuing to sing lyrics). The latter category brings in Billie Holiday, of course, but also Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Jeri Southern, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee and the four vocalists whose albums are reviewed in this essay. What these vocalists have in common is their dedication to lyrics, ranging all the way from simple love ditties to complex poetic structures.
The title track of Michelle Lordi’s new self-released CD may be the quintessential simple love song. “Dream a Little D ream” paints an idyllic scene with its bright shining stars, night breezes, singing birds, and the singer’s wish to be part of her lover’s dreams. Lordi finds the latent sensuality in the words, and uses small changes in the melody and subtle shifts in the song’s phrasing to emphasize the important lyrics. Wisely, she avoids the temptation to make more of these words than they can carry, yet she still makes the most of what’s there. I’ve heard her sing Irving Berlin’s “They Say It’s Wonderful” on several occasions, and I love how her slow, passionate reading brings out the yearning emotions of the song. For the most part, Lordi’s variations on the original melody are small and isolated—a talent she shares with Southern and Stafford—but close listening reveals how well she tailors her adapted melodies to the message of the lyrics. On medium and up-tempo arrangements, she floats her lines over the ground beat to create an understated but undeniable swing. While this EP contains only 7 songs, Lordi creates a unique world out of each piece, while never losing the vocal persona that unites the entire album. Lordi hails from Philadelphia, and most of the musicians perform with her at a weekly jam session. She credits tenor saxophonist Larry McKenna and guitarist Sonny Troy as her mentors, and both are featured soloists on the album (“I Hear Music” and “Thou Swell” feature the two soloists back-to-back) and the remaining musicians coalesce into a fine swing combo. Trumpeter Jay Webb and trombonist John Swana fill out the horn section, and the rhythm section includes pianist Mike Frank, bassist Matthew Parrish and drummer Bill Avayou.
Hilary Gardner and pianist Ehud Asherie share a love for old songs, and their exquisite new duet CD, “The Late Set” (Anzic 60) features a program of songs dating from 1918-1960. While these songs were written long before either performer was born, Gardner and Asherie live and breathe this music. To be sure, they have studied old recordings and delved through reams of ancient sheet music, but they have each inter nalized the style and emotions of these songs so that their performances are a natural outpouring of their own personalities. “Shadow Waltz” was the setting for a remarkable Busby Berkeley production number in “Gold Diggers of 1933”, and in jazz, it also served as the theme for Nat King Cole’s television show, and was a vehicle for Sonny Rollins. However, the Gardner/Asherie seems separate from all of these other versions. Asherie draws in the listener with an opening chorus that only hints at the original melody, then Gardner enters with the verse, employing a rubato rhythm which overlays Asherie’s oblique waltz pattern. Like the dark shadows where this lover serenades her sweetheart, the interaction between the two rhythms is something that it sensed more than it is witnessed. Gardner oozes the sexual subtext from “Sweet and Slow” with coy melodic turns and gentle pushes on key words. Lorenz Hart’s lyrics are loaded with deep psychological messages, and inexperienced singers usually miss the subtleties, but the Gardner/Asherie version of “A Ship Without a Sail” is a masterpiece, not only for Gardner’s introspective reading of the lyric, but also for a recurring musical idea that sets off the title phrase with a miniscule but highly effective rest. Later, the duo performs a delightful version of “Everything I’ve Got” which includes several alternate (and hilarious) stanzas. “After You’ve Gone” starts at a leisurely tempo, which allows Gardner to explore the deeper sentiments of the lyric, but after she sings the verse (bless her!) the tempo picks up which gives her the opportunity to toy with the melody, and Asherie the chance to show off his fine stride chops. While I am tempted to annotate every delicate turn of phrase in this superb recital, doing so would rob the listeners the thrill of discovery. Suffice to say that there are many delights contained in this brief but satisfying disc. We are indeed fortunate to have such dedicated curators of the Great American Song Book.
Many singers dream of singing with a large orchestra, but somehow it seems strange to hear the small, intimate voice of Stacey Kent juxtaposed against a bed of strings. Yet, Kent’s new CD “I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions” (Okeh 88985462882) works because the arrangements by Tommy Laurence, Jim Tomlinson and Jessé Sadoc allow Kent to use the same understated delivery as she does with a small combo. As on her earlier albums, Kent draws from an eclectic range of music, including Brazilian songs from Tom Jobim and Edu Lobo, French chansons from Serge Gainsbourg, and literate originals with lyrics by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. Like Michelle Lordi, Kent’s rhythmic and melodic variations are minute and subtle. Even if you can’t understand the French lyrics of Gainsbourg’s “Les Amours Perdues”, you can still appreciate Kent’s method of throwing off unimportant words and leaning on important lyrics. A wonderful story emerges from Ishiguro’s lyrics to “The Bullet Train”, with Kent’s immaculate diction and clear tone illuminating every word, and her precise rhythmic sense denoting the recurring syncopated title phrase. Lobo’s “To Say Goodbye” (aka “Pra Dizer Adeus”) is a heartbreaking ballad, and Kent’s performance is a revelation, as she expands her dynamic range to reiterate the desolation of the words. And for a singer who seems very introverted most of the time, Kent’s joyous abandon on the Cliff Goldmacher/Jim Tomlinson original “Make it Up” is another pleasant surprise. The album’s title track was also written by Goldmacher and Tomlinson, and Kent’s earnest delivery here should be enough to place it within the repertoire of other singers. While Kent has recorded many of these songs on earlier albums, the biggest sense of déjà vu from this album comes from someone who is only present in spirit. While I appreciate the complimentary relationship between the orchestral arrangements and Kent’s voice, it seems that every bar of these orchestrations sound like lifts of Johnny Mandel charts. I’m not sure if Mandel was offered the date, but considering the final results, he should be acknowledged in the album credits.
As I have written elsewhere in these pages, Stacey Kent’s greatest artistic accomplishment may be her performances of the Ishiguro originals. Cheryl Bentyne’s newest album, “Re-Arrangements of Shadows” (ArtistShare 157) also explores the lyrics of a composer infrequently covered by jazz artists: Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim has theorized that his music might be too structured to work in a jazz context, but a few brave improvisers have delved into his music and discovered ways to transform it into jazz. Bentyne’s CD may be the best jazz treatment these songs have ever received, simply because she is willing to treat them as songs, not as integral parts of Broadway shows. She exhibits a great deal of freedom toward s the music—aided by flexible arrangements—but always remembers to tell the original stories. The opening track, “I Remember”, is a song about isolation—the singer, who has voluntarily withdrawn from society, remembers most things in terms of man-made objects—but Bentyne’s interpretation changes (along with the background) whenever the subject is from the natural world, like sky, wind or snow. This method underscores the desolation of the singer’s self-imposed exile. “Sand”, which Sondheim wrote for an unproduced movie, compares the title substance with love, and Bentyne brings a varied interpretation to the song, basically cynical, but occasionally moving to a tender moment before realizing again that love can be painful. “The Ladies Who Lunch” brings in more familiar material, and while the sardonic treatment (with guests Janis Siegel and Tierney Sutton) is fun, it doesn’t add much to our knowledge of this song. The multi-tempoed version of “Everybody Says Don’t” (with bassist/arranger Kevin Axt and drummer Dave Tull) lets us hear Bentyne swinging with abandon over minimal accompaniment. Even when working with a string quartet and a shifting (non-swinging) background on “Comedy Tonight” and the tender “Move On”, Bentyne maintains her warm delivery and malleable rhythmic sense. “Not a Day Goes By” contains a lot of repeated and rhymed words which can be made monotonous by less sensitive vocalists. Bentyne makes these verbal motives intriguing by varying their emphasis and phrasing. I suppose that “Send in the Clowns” is an inevitable part of any Sondheim collection, but Mark Kibble’s inventive a cappella 4/4 arrangement gives this song a completely different flavor than any previous recordings. This may be the only spot on Bentyne’s album where the meaning of the song gets lost in the arrangement, but the fresh approach excuses the departure. “Re-Arrangements of Shadows” is a stunning album, and certainly the best solo album of Cheryl Bentyne’s career.
This is Gary McFarland (Century 67)
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Transparency and the Value of the White House Press Corps.
Obama: “This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document that is the case.”
Obama: “And with that, what I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions.”
Poynter: It’s easy to claim the title of most transparent administration in history, if you define “transparency” as “releasing 100 percent of the things you want to release.”
With all this transparency, one might excuse David Weigel's column in Slate questioning the need for a White House Press Corps. He starts with the pool report from earlier this month, detailing negotiations to have pool coverage of an event.
“All we're asking for is a brief exception, quick access, a quick photo-op on the 18th green,” Henry told Politico’s Dylan Byers. “It's not about golf—it's about transparency and access in a broader sense.”
And yes, they're talking about the President's golf date with Tiger Woods.
It's not just lack of access (Obama has held 35 press conferences and taken questions after 107 events - his predecessor held more than 100 press conferences and took questions after 355 events in his first term), but the lack of tough questions from the White House Press corps in the daily briefings.
Weigel looked at the questions the White House Press Corps asked after the State of the Union Address, and found, basically, three general queries in the weeks since.
"How will you pass this?"
"How do you respond to this?"
"Remember when you said this?
Tough questions, all.
And covering a President full-time is expensive. Reporters in the pool for the golf outing with Tiger paid around $3500 for the privilege of reporting... nothing. (The only interaction with the President was off-the-record). Costs can be as high as $33,000 per person for a three day domestic trip (to California), and the President's three-nation trip to Asia last fall ran an estimated $35,000 a head.
It's gotten to the point where major news organizations are wondering if traveling with the President, or even having a credentialed White House Correspondent, is worth it.
“It costs some of our [news] organizations millions of dollars a year to cover the president,” said Ed Henry, head of the (White House Correspondents Association).... “Would we like to find ways to make it more economical and efficient? Yes, we would.”
“All of these trips are important because you don’t know what hasn’t happened yet,” said Cameron Barr, The Post’s national editor. News organizations “have to balance the cost of not being with the president and missing something important.”
The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib commented - “when the president is doing the president’s business, our inclination is to be there... You do wonder at times, is this worth it?”
Is it worth it? Probably not, if you're not bothering to get real news, or even something that's not already in the pool reports or wire service feeds. The real question is will the press make it worthwhile and valuable by actually doing real journalism?
Sources - Who Needs the White House Press Corps?, Slate
Traveling reporters get bill, but little news, when Obama's on the Road, The Washington Post
Is the Obama administration really the 'most transparent' ever?, Poynter
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Saint Lucia 40th Anniversary of Independence
ALL IN: Our Journey, Our Future
Our Journey, Our Future!
More than sun, sand and sea, Saint Lucia is an awe-inspiring Caribbean island paradise. The island is in
cultural heritage prowess, beaming with pride in the legendary sons and daughters who are proud to
call her home, and an excellent example of natural beauty throughout her 238 square miles. A country
with a legendary past; changing fourteen times with seven battles won by the French who left behind
many artifacts and town names as a claim to its presence, and seven times British who were ultimately
victorious. Saint Lucia is home to approximately 179, 353 residents and the birth place of Nobel
Laureates Sir Arthur Lewis (Economics) and Sir Derek Walcott (Literature).
The city is a modernised version of itself, after a fire consumed it decades ago. True to form, the resilient island forged forward and rose like the phoenix in the ashes of the most destructive fire to date. The city is home to the Caribbean’s deepest natural harbour, welcoming thousands of vessels yearly, including mega yachts. The main arm of the government can also be found in Castries, with most businesses establishing its main branch in the centre. Unique to Saint Lucia, its award-winning market which was listed in the National Geographic Explorer.
Dennery
A quaint fishing village, Dennery comes alive on a Saturday night with its infamous Fish Fry. Both visitors and residents can sink their teeth into the catch of the day and cool down with local beverages known in these parts. Dennery is a small village with close family times. A rural village with traditional effects which makes it as authentic Saint Lucian as it gets. A great place to get close to the sea and take in some fishing.
Once the capital of the country, Vieux Fort in the southernmost peak of the island is the perfect balance of an active business town and a restful countryside space. With many tertiary level schools, corporate officers, a vibrant marketplace and the island’s solitary international airport, Vieux Fort is the second most traversed town in Saint Lucia. This integral hub is a hotbed for new business prospects with more businesses seeking extensions in the south to advance their productivity.
Dubbed the city that never sleeps, Gros Islet is the second largest town and includes Rodney Bay, where many hotels, the IGY Marina and the liveliest night spots can be found. The village which started off as a humble fishing village, now hosts the largest weekly street party in the Caribbean. The vendors who are from the area serve up fresh fish, meats and drinks to the enthused guests who spilled into the streets from dusk till early morning. Renditions of world music fill the air as locals and tourist alike, enjoy the freeing nature of the open air ‘mini concert’ effect.
Anse La Raye
Another fishing village, the town borders Canaries and is usually quiet during the week as most residents fish or work outside the village. On Friday nights, much like in Gros Islet, Anse La Raye transforms to a bustling space. The beach is lined with vendors selling every time of seafood and local fare; cray fish, crabs, fish, octopus and their famous grilled lobster. The electrifying atmosphere draws in a large crowd who dance (some barefooted), to the entertainment of the night.
A quiet village with a rich cultural vibe heavily influenced by the traditional way of life and keeps these traditions alive through its community based street festivals like the Festen Labowi. Close in proximity to the vibrant town of Vieux Fort, Laborie has birthed exemplary citizens like Dame Pearlette Louisy, an Educator and the Governor General of Saint Lucia for twenty years.
Home to many international treasures including the UNESCO World Heritage Pitons (Gros Piton), the Diamond Waterfalls, the World’s only drive through volcano the Sulphur Springs and Minerals Baths which Napoleon was famous for using as a rejuvenating reservoir for his trips after a battle. Soufriere is set in time, perfect and still, on the backdrop of lush flora and vibrant fauna. By sea, the town boasts world renown dive spots which has been conquered by many seasoned and novice divers alike.
A farming community, Canaries is best known for warm and friendly people and its oh-so-delicious cassava bread. While driving alongside the west coast to the south of the island, it is always a special treat to stop off at the cassava corner for a sweet or savoury morsel freshly made daily.
Known as the craft basket of Saint Lucia and home to the other UNESCO World Renown Heritage Piton (Petit Piton), Choiseul is vast and heavily populated town. Inhabitants usually farm, fish and are skilled craftsmen, producing spectacular baskets made from straw, imaginative clay pottery and incredulous wood carvings. A tranquil and close knot community, the village is a warm and friendly countryside haven.
Micoud
Famously named after Baron de Micoud, the Governor of Saint Lucia in the early 18th century, Micoud is a vast and tranquil community. Best known for excellent arable land, the town's residents are avid farmers with the majority of persons who work outside the agricultural sector, maintaining a full farm
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I hereby give notice that an ordinary meeting of the Puketāpapa Local Board will be held on:
Lynfield Meeting Room
Fickling Convention Centre
546 Mt Albert Road
Puketāpapa Local Board
OPEN AGENDA
Julie Fairey
Deputy Chairperson
Harry Doig
David Holm
Ella Kumar
Nigel Turnbull
Michael Wood
(Quorum 3 members)
Brenda Railey
Democracy Advisor
Contact Telephone: 021 820 781
Email: brenda.railey@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
1 Welcome 5
2 Apologies 5
3 Declaration of Interest 5
4 Confirmation of Minutes 5
5 Leave of Absence 5
6 Acknowledgements 5
7 Petitions 5
8 Deputations 5
9 Public Forum 5
10 Extraordinary Business 5
11 Notices of Motion 6
12 Albert-Eden-Roskill Governing Body Members Update 7
13 Chairperson's Report, November 2015 9
14 Board Member Reports, November 2015 25
15 Puketapapa Local Board Performance Report for the three months ending September 2015 37
16 Annual Plan 2016/2017 81
17 Auckland Transport Report for November 2015 133
18 Auckland Transport Quarterly Update to Local Boards
For the quarter 1 July to 30 September 2015. 155
19 Puketāpapa Local Board Local Grants: Round One 2015/2016 181
20 Puketāpapa Local Board Quick Response Grants: Round Two 2015/2016 213
21 Libraries Work Programme 2015/2016 221
22 Scope for local dog access rule review 227
23 Adoption of Local Fees and Charges 2015/2016 249
24 Regional Facilities Auckland First Quarter Report 2015-16 for period ended 30 September 2015 253
25 Record of Puketāpapa Local Board Workshop Notes 275
26 Resolutions Pending Action Schedule, November 2015 281
27 Consideration of Extraordinary Items
2 Apologies
At the close of the agenda no apologies had been received.
3 Declaration of Interest
Members are reminded of the need to be vigilant to stand aside from decision making when a conflict arises between their role as a member and any private or other external interest they might have.
4 Confirmation of Minutes
That the Puketāpapa Local Board:
a) confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Thursday, 29 October 2015, as a true and correct record.
5 Leave of Absence
At the close of the agenda no requests for leave of absence had been received.
6 Acknowledgements
At the close of the agenda no requests for acknowledgements had been received.
7 Petitions
At the close of the agenda no requests to present petitions had been received.
8 Deputations
Standing Order 3.20 provides for deputations. Those applying for deputations are required to give seven working days notice of subject matter and applications are approved by the Chairperson of the Puketāpapa Local Board. This means that details relating to deputations can be included in the published agenda. Total speaking time per deputation is ten minutes or as resolved by the meeting.
At the close of the agenda no requests for deputations had been received.
9 Public Forum
A period of time (approximately 30 minutes) is set aside for members of the public to address the meeting on matters within its delegated authority. A maximum of 3 minutes per item is allowed, following which there may be questions from members.
At the close of the agenda no requests for public forum had been received.
10 Extraordinary Business
Section 46A(7) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:
“An item that is not on the agenda for a meeting may be dealt with at that meeting if-
(a) The local authority by resolution so decides; and
(b) The presiding member explains at the meeting, at a time when it is open to the public,-
(i) The reason why the item is not on the agenda; and
(ii) The reason why the discussion of the item cannot be delayed until a subsequent meeting.”
Section 46A(7A) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:
“Where an item is not on the agenda for a meeting,-
(a) That item may be discussed at that meeting if-
(i) That item is a minor matter relating to the general business of the local authority; and
(ii) the presiding member explains at the beginning of the meeting, at a time when it is open to the public, that the item will be discussed at the meeting; but
(b) no resolution, decision or recommendation may be made in respect of that item except to refer that item to a subsequent meeting of the local authority for further discussion.”
11 Notices of Motion
At the close of the agenda no requests for notices of motion had been received.
Albert-Eden-Roskill Governing Body Members Update
File No.: CP2015/24099
1. The purpose of this report is for the Albert-Eden-Roskill Governing Body Members to provide a verbal update to the Board.
Recommendation/s
That the Puketapapa Local Board thanks Governing Body Members for their update.
There are no attachments for this report.
Brenda Railey - Democracy Advisor
Authorisers
Victoria Villaraza - Relationship Manager
Chairperson's Report, November 2015
1. The purpose of this report is to inform the Puketāpapa Local Board on the Chairperson’s portfolio activities.
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Chair’s Report for November 2015.
aView
Julie Fairey report, 19 October to 15 November 2015
bView
Memo to the Chair, Auckland Development Committee dated 11/11/15 outlining the Board’s position and concerns on the Hearings Panel Decision Report on Three Kings Reserve land proposed exchange
Board Member Reports, November 2015
1. The purpose of this report is to provide Board members with an opportunity to update the local board on the projects they have been involved with since the last meeting.
2. Board Member reports are attached for the month of November 2015, providing an update their portfolio work.
It is anticipated that Board members will speak to their reports at the meeting.
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Member reports for November 2015.
David Holm Report, 17 October to 15 November 2015
D Holm Report on Petition for investigation of undergrounding of high voltage transmission lines.
Puketapapa Local Board Performance Report for the three months ending September 2015
1. To update the Puketapapa Local Board members on progress towards their objectives for the year from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 as set out in the Local Board agreement.
2. A financial performance report is presented to the local boards for the accounting quarters ending September, December, March and June.
3. Auckland Council departments also present quarterly performance reports to the local boards
4. To improve overall performance reporting the Financial Advisory Services – Local Boards team produces a combined quarterly financial report and department report
5. The attached report contains the following reports this quarter
· Local Community Services including Libraries
· Local Environmental Management
· Local Sports Parks and Recreation
· Local Board Financial Performance
· Local Board Services Department update
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receive the Performance Report for the Puketapapa Local Board for the financial quarter ended September 2015.
6. In consultation with local boards this report provides the elected members with an overview of local activities from council departments for discussion.
Maori impact statement
7. Maori, as stakeholders in the council, are affected and have an interest in any report of the local board financials. However, this financial performance report does not impact specific outcomes or activities. As such, the content of this report has no particular benefit to, or adverse effect on Maori.
Sugenthy Thomson - Lead FInancial Advisor
Christine Watson - Manager Financial Advisory Services - Local Boards
1. This report requests that the Puketāpapa Local Board:
a) provides formal feedback on regional issues:
i. the Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC)
ii. the Interim Transport Levy (ITL)
iii. Māori land rates
iv. a review of rural rates
b) agrees key advocacy issues
c) recommends any local targeted rate proposals
d) recommends any Business Improvement District (BID) targeted rates.
2. Legislation governing the Annual Plan process has changed, and there is no longer the requirement to produce a draft Annual Plan. Instead, the council will be producing a consultation document which will cover:
a) any significant or material changes proposed to the Long-term Plan 2015-2025 (LTP)
b) content relating to local board agreements.
3. Consultation on the Annual Plan 2016/2017 will take place in February and March of 2016.
4. This report seeks input from local boards on a range of annual plan related matters including feedback on regional financial policy issues and advocacy issues, and recommendations as to any local targeted rate or BID targeted rate proposals. These will be considered by the Governing Body prior to finalising consultation topics.
5. Local board views on these matters will also be considered in discussions between the local boards and the Governing Body on 27 and 30 November, prior to the Mayoral Proposal.
a) provides any views it may have on regional issues (that is, the UAGC, ITL, Māori land rates and rural rates) for the Governing Body to consider.
b) agrees key advocacy issues.
c) recommends local targeted rate proposals (if any) for consultation.
d) recommends BID targeted rates (if any) for consultation.
6. At its meeting on 28 October, the Finance and Performance Committee considered information and analysis on potentially changing the UAGC, ITL, Māori land rates and rural rates. It resolved to recommend that the council should consult on all of these issues, as part of the process for developing the Annual Plan 2016/2017.
7. A summary of these issues and the Finance and Performance Committee recommendations is provided in Attachment A. The detailed reports, setting out the information and analysis provided to the Finance and Performance Committee, can be found here:
http://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2015/10/FIN_20151028_AGN_6098_AT.PDF
8. Briefing sessions were held for local board members at the beginning of November. At these briefings local board members were provided with the detailed reports, and information on the implications of changing the UAGC, ITL, Māori land rates and rural rates.
Advocacy issues
9. The Local Board may also wish to agree any advocacy priorities for discussion with the Governing Body.
Local targeted rate and BID targeted rate proposals
10. Any new local targeted rates and/or BIDs must be consulted on before they can be implemented. Local boards are required to agree any new proposals for consultation.
Local Board views and implications
11. Local Board feedback is being sought in this report.
12. Local Boards will also have further opportunities to provide information and views as council continues through the annual plan process.
Māori impact statement
13. The detailed reports provided to the Finance and Performance Committee have information and analysis on the impacts on Māori regarding proposed financial policies.
14. Many local board decisions are of importance to and impact on Māori. Local board agreements and the annual plan are important tools that enable and can demonstrate council’s responsiveness to Māori. Local board plans, which were developed in 2014 through engagement with the community including Māori, form the basis of local priorities. There is a need to continue to build relationships between local boards and iwi, and where relevant the wider Māori community. Ongoing conversations will assist local boards and Māori to understand each other’s priorities and issues. This in turn can influence and encourage Māori participation in council’s decision-making processes.
15. Feedback from the local boards will be summarised and provided in full to:
· inform the Mayoral Proposal process,
· the Governing Body for consideration at its meeting on 17 December on consultation topics for the Annual Plan 2016/2017.
16. The Governing Body will adopt Annual Plan consultation material in early February 2016.
Summary of Regional Issues
Finance and Performance Committee Report
Kate Marsh, Financial Planning Manager – Local Boards
Matthew Walker, GM Financial Strategy and Planning
Karen Lyons, Manager Local Board Services
Attachment A: Summary of regional issues
1. This paper summarises the regional issues considered by the Finance and Performance Committee, at its meeting on 28 October, for consultation as part of the Annual Plan 2016/2017 process. The detailed reports, setting out the information and analysis provided to the Finance and Performance Committee, can be found here: http://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2015/10/FIN_20151028_AGN_6098_AT.PDF
The Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC)
2. Legislation allows the council to include the UAGC as a fixed charge in the rates that it sets. The sum of all fixed charge rates may not exceed 30 per cent of the total rates collected. The current UAGC is $385 and set on every separately used or inhabited part (SUIP) of a rating unit e.g. a shop in a shopping mall or each dwelling.
3. The UAGC sets a minimum contribution that each ratepayer makes towards the cost of running the city. It is not a payment for the minimum level of services, or benefit, that each property receives. The services the council provides are predominantly public goods and the benefit that each property, or resident, receives cannot be objectively measured.
4. Analysis of the impacts of rates compared to household income has been carried out using census mesh block data for median household income. This shows a strong relationship between average property value and average household income. Modelling shows that higher UAGCs lowers the rates burden on higher value properties and raises it for lower value properties. Conversely a lower UAGC raises the burden on higher value properties and lowers it for lower value properties.
5. At its meeting on 28 October, the Finance and Performance Committee agreed that consultation on the quantum of the UAGC occur over the range of $350 to $650.
6. Rates increases have varied widely between ratepayers in the last few years as a result of transition and the recent revaluation. A material change to the UAGC would result in another year with large numbers of ratepayers facing varying changes. Retaining the current UAGC would mean this is the first year in which all ratepayers (residential and farm/lifestyle 3.5 per cent and business 2.5 per cent) would face the same rates increase[1].
The Interim Transport Levy (ITL)
7. The ITL (targeted rate) is an interim measure, for three years, to help fund the accelerated transport program.
8. The accelerated transport program provides an additional $523 million over three years. This is funded by $181 million from the ITL, $122 from debt and $215 million from NZTA and central government. This report does not consider the level of the ITL. Consideration of the level of the ITL requires discussion of the overall budget, which can be considered as part of decision making on the budget. Rather, this report looks at options for the composition of the ITL.
9. The levy is $113.85 (including GST) for residential and farm/lifestyle ratepayers and $182.85 (including GST) for business ratepayers. The council’s options for the composition of the ITL are one or a combination of the following:
· increase the share of the ITL raised from businesses to the same as the share they pay of general rates. This would increase the business sector’s share of the ITL from 14.7 per cent to 32.7 per cent for 2016/2017 and 32.3 per cent for 2017/18. The business ITL would move from $182.85 to $407 and the residential (including farm/lifestyle) ITL would fall from $113.85 to $90 including GST. For 2017/18 the figures would be $402 including GST and $90 including GST respectively
· share the ITL requirement raised from the business sector based on capital value rather than a uniform fixed rate. Sharing the business ITL rates requirement on the basis of capital value would provide a better connection with demand for services and ability to pay. While property value is not a perfect indicator for demand for council services, nor an ideal indication of ability to pay, it has a better correlation to these factors than a fixed charge does. Following the same logic, the general rate differential of 0.90 would apply to rural business properties under this option.
10. At its meeting on 28 October, the Finance and Performance Committee agreed its preferred options for consultation are:
a) an increase in the share of the ITL met by businesses from 14.7 per cent to 32.7 per cent for 2016/2017 and 32.3 per cent for 2017/2018
b) share the business ITL amongst business ratepayers on the basis of capital value rather than via a fixed charge.
11. Changing the ITL would lead to further change in the distribution of rates for businesses. Without these changes all business ratepayers will face the same increase of 2.5 per cent (general rates and ITL combined).
Māori land rates
12. Māori land is defined by the Te Ture Whenua Act 1993 and includes Māori customary land, Māori freehold land (MFL), crown land reserved for Māori, and general land owned by more than four Māori owners. For the purposes of the discussion in this report, Māori land[2] is rateable MFL and crown land reserved for Māori.
13. Māori land is most often held in multiple ownership. When an owner passes away the land must be legally transferred to their successors. This requires a formal legal process. As most owners only hold a small share in the land this process is often not implemented effectively and many ownership transfers have not taken place extended back decades. As a result, many blocks of Māori land are very difficult to manage, develop or sell as the agreement of 75 per cent of the owners is required for significant decisions. This makes it very difficult for Māori land to be used to its full economic potential, should the owners wish to do so. In addition Māori land cannot be sold to meet debt obligations making it very difficult to raise capital for development.
14. During consultation on the Long Term Plan (LTP), concern was raised that the valuation of Māori land for rating purposes did not reflect the limitations on use and the special status of land that had never been alienated from its current ownership. In response, the council directed officers to report on rating options for Māori land.
15. Staff considered three options:
a) retaining the current Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy
b) amending the:
· Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy to provide for further adjustments to valuation for Māori land, and remission for marae over 2 hectares in size
· Rates remission and postponement policy to provide for remission of the UAGC where multiple blocks are managed as a single entity
c) creating a remission that remits all rates on MFL.
16. Analysis on these options was provided to the Finance and Performance Committee. Staff did not recommend retaining the current Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy, as further amendments to the policy deserved additional consideration to ensure that the rating policy is fairly applied to Māori land to ensure the goals in the Auckland Plan for Māori are appropriately weighted.
17. Staff recommended consulting on the following potential amendments:
· Rates remission to adjust valuations (Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy)
o A rates remission could be applied to Māori land properties to achieve the following:
- apply an adjustment to valuation where properties have significant barriers to development due to owners being deceased or not succeeded to
- adjust rates to the equivalent of those that would have been charged, had the property been valued excluding any potential use that is unlikely to be achieved within Māori ownership.
o The expected cost of applying this remission would be approximately $100,000, but further analysis is required to determine the extent of eligibility.
· Rates remission for marae over 2 hectare (Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy)
o Under the Local Government Rating Act (2002), Māori freehold land, and crown land reserved for Māori that are used for marae are non-rateable up to an area of 2 hectares. Some marae exceed this limit, and so are part-rateable.
o As part of the council’s objective to encourage thriving and self-sustaining marae, the council could consider remitting the rates for these properties. There are no marae on a single blocks over 2 hectares, but there are likely to be blocks used in conjunction with marae that may qualify.
o An initial analysis of such properties indicates that the cost of extending this remission scheme will be less than $10,000.
· Remission of fixed charges for land managed as a single property (Rates remission and postponement policy)
o Māori land blocks usually are not in the same ownership. This is due to the historic conversion of land into individual titles, and the subsequent process of ownership succession. Māori land that is farmed as a single property already qualifies for the remission scheme for fixed charges. Staff recommended that the remission scheme be extended to include all Māori land, regardless of use, where the land would otherwise be treated as a single rating unit except they are in separate ownership. This will include land that is not contiguous, so long as it is clearly used as a single property. Fixed charges (excluding charges for services provided) would be remitted for all the rating units making up the property other than the first rating unit, and any rating unit with one or more dwellings or other separately used part of the property.
o The cost of extending this remission scheme is expected to be less than $10,000.
18. Staff did not recommend creating a remission that remits all rates on MFL. At present the council does not offer full rates remissions for any property, Māori or general, that has private dwellings or which is used for private pecuniary profit. People residing, farming or running businesses in Auckland benefit from and create demand for council services. Staff considered not rating such properties would be inequitable, and also noted that issues relating to redress are primarily the responsibility of the Crown, not the council, and that not all Māori landowners agree with the view that all Māori land should not be charged rates.
19. At its meeting on 28 October, the Finance and Performance Committee agreed that its preference is to consult on an amendment to the:
a) Māori freehold land rates remission and postponement policy to:
i) remit rates for marae and urupa that exceed the 2 hectare limit for non-rateability
ii) increase the adjustment for the number of owners up to the 10 per cent maximum, where properties have significant barriers to development such as owners being deceased or not succeeded to
iii) adjust rates to the equivalent of those that would have been charged, had the property been valued excluding any potential use that is unlikely to be achieved within Māori ownership
b) rates remission and postponement policy (remission scheme for fixed charges) to:
i) remit fixed rates where the land would otherwise be treated as a single rating unit except they are in separate ownership.
20. The Finance and Performance Committee also requested that further detailed and specific policy changes be sought from Māori (including Māori landowners and the Independent Māori Statutory Board) as part of the consultation process.
Rural rates review
20. Farm and lifestyle properties are charged 80 per cent of the urban residential property rate. This reflects council’s view that they have less access to council services compared to urban properties.
21. During development of the LTP the council asked for a proposal to reallocate rates within the farm/lifestyle sector to be discussed with the rural community. The proposal maintains the rates take from the differential with the following changes:
· large farm/lifestyle (50 hectares or more) 60 per cent of the urban residential general rate
· small farm/lifestyle (less than 6 hectares) 83 per cent of urban residential general rate
· no change to rates for medium farm/lifestyle (6-50 hectares) or other categories of rateable properties.
22. The decrease in rates for large properties is funded by the increase in rates for small properties. There is no rating impact on medium sized farm/lifestyle properties, or non-farm/lifestyle properties. The average rate change for small farm/lifestyle properties is an increase of $73, and large farm/lifestyle properties will experience a decrease of $1,180.
23. Analysis undertaken by staff shows that:
· there is no clear relationship between size of property and benefit from council services
· large firms and forestry are able to use their land productively, and have tax benefits not available to small lifestyle properties
· a sized based differential is simple to implement and administer.
24. An alternative, to set rates based on land use rather than size, was also considered but not supported given issues with classification and the fact there is not a material imbalance in rates charged to farm/lifestyle properties in relation to use.
25. Pre-engagement has been undertaken with rural communities. Many larger property owners were concerned at the size of their rates relative to the services they received. However, more than 90 per cent of feedback, mainly lifestyle block owners, opposed the proposal. Some respondents felt than the burden of any change in rates should be shared across all of Auckland. This would cost other ratepayers around $3 per year or add 0.1 per cent to their rates increase.
26. At its meeting on 28 October, the Finance and Performance Committee agreed its preference is to consult:
a) on the proposal to reallocate rates from large farm/lifestyle properties over the entire rating base
b) on an amendment to the rates remission and postponement policy to remit the difference in rates between what a property is charged for its smaller individual blocks, and what it will be charged if it was rated as a single combined property.
Auckland Transport Report for November 2015
1. The purpose of the report is to respond to Local Board requests on transport-related matters and to provide information to Elected Members about Auckland Transport (AT) activities in the Local Board area since the last report.
2. The Transport Portfolio Lead briefing on transport matters in the Puketapapa area was held on 28 October 2015. Items discussed were:
· Management of pole banners and cross street banners
· Various matters were discussed with the area roading engineer
3. Scheduled this month is a meeting on the transport capital fund on 16 November to discuss the projects. Also scheduled this month is a workshop on the Ernie Pinches to Wesley Community Centre cycle path.
a) receives the Auckland Transport November 2015 report.
Reporting Back
4. Consultations forwarded to the Local Board for comment in the last reporting period, details are in Attachment A.
Farrelly Avenue (Resolution number PKTPP/2015/228)
5. Auckland Transport sincerely regrets the recent fatality on Farrelly Avenue and our thoughts are with the family concerned. Auckland Transport takes the safety of all road users very seriously and all requests for traffic calming are investigated.
6. Farrelly Ave has been surveyed twice in recent years for vehicle speed and vehicle numbers. The original survey was done as baseline in February 2014 before the O’Donnell Street local area traffic management devices were installed and then in October 2014 after the traffic calming had been in place for some time.
7. The results in October 2014, substantially showed that the traffic calming in O’Donnell Avenue has not affected the speeds or traffic volumes on Farrelly Avenue. The 85% speed on Farrelly Avenue at two of the locations on Farrelly Avenue was below 50km/hr, with the third being 50.8km/hr. The number of vehicles using Farrelly Avenue showed similar results to the February count, even slightly lower than the February counts, in the main.
8. The speed data indicated then that Farrelly Avenue should be assessed as low risk and therefore any speed control measures such as speed tables were not high on Auckland Transport’s priority list for funding compared to other local urban road corridors in the region. Therefore allocating funding for speed tables in Farrelly Avenue was not considered appropriate in the foreseeable future.
9. All road corridors are subject to robust prioritisation processes that ensure equity and transparency in terms of investing funding in areas of greatest need. In assessing Farrelly Avenue, there was no previous crash history reported over the previous five years, except for one non- injury crash that occurred at the intersection of Farrelly Avenue and Hedley Road. The speed environment as surveyed is within the 50km/h range ( although it is acknowledged that at times speeds may be higher) and traffic volumes are in the order of 1300 vehicles per day.
10. Auckland Transport takes the safety of all road users very seriously and for this reason it has a robust process whereby AT engineers investigate serious and fatal injury crashes with the NZ Police Serious Crash Unit. In view of community concerns and considering this recent crash, Farrelly Avenue will be reassessed.
11. AT has welcomed the opportunity meet with the Local Board to discuss this matter in the first instance, and has arranged a date for this meeting.
Local Board Transport Capital Projects
12. The Puketapapa Local Board has access to the Local Board Transport Capital Fund (LBTCF) for the construction of transport related projects in its area. This fund is administered by Auckland Transport. Each year, Local Board’s transport capital fund allocation is $379,117, and this amount can be accumulated within each electoral term.
13. As the electoral term extends beyond the financial year, it is also possible to anticipate the allocation from the first year of the new electoral term. As project planning for the selected projects proceeds, it will become clearer if this is necessary. Some projects, such as cycling projects, can take some time to plan and deliver and may need two electoral cycles to plan, consult and construct.
Local Board Capital Projects approved:
Parau Street /Duke Street
Resolutions:
Nov 2014: Agree to fund the Parau Street/Duke Street safety project to $25,000.
Duncumbe Street Greenway
Nov 2014: Confirms the project “Duncumbe Street Greenway” proceed to detailed design
with the basic cycleway as described to a budget of $170,000.
Project Manager appointed and investigation has begun. The project manager will discuss progress with TPL in May 2015.
the concept designs are being prepared for internal discussion within AT. Once this is completed, the project manager will discuss this with the transport portfolio lead, it is expected this will be most useful at the June catchup.
The project manager will meet the transport portfolio lead at the June catchup to discuss progress.
The scheme assessment for the Duncumbe Street greenway is making good progress and the proposed treatments for the sections were discussed at the monthly catch up with the Transport Portfolio lead. Once the scheme assessment is completed (expected to be July) the project will proceed to public consultation, and dependent on feedback, detailed design.
The scheme assessment for the Duncumbe Street greenway will be complete by mid-August. A parking survey has also been commissioned, and with the parking survey report expected to be complete by late-August. External consultation documents are currently being prepared, and is expected to go out early September.
This will be discussed with the portfolio holder at the August catchup.
Following the completion of the scheme assessment report, a detailed discussion on proposed treatments on various parts of the Duncumb Street Greenway was held at the monthly catchup meeting.
Public consultation on the routes and the proposed treatments is due in September/October.
Consultation is due to go out in mid-October along with the Duke Street speed calming project. The results of the consultation will discussed with the transport portfolio lead and depending on the results of the consultation, both projects will be delivered together early next year.
Public consulation began on the cycle improvements has been combined with the proposed traffic calming project on Duke Street. The correspondence is attached as Attachment B.
Fearon Park Pathway
Nov 2014: Agree to add the widening of the path through Fearon Park to the Duncumbe
Street greenway proposal to a budget of $190,000.
Instruct Auckland Transport to construct Stage1A of the pathway through Fearon Park, to a width of 2.5 metres, noting that the pathway can be extended further into the Harold Long Reserve once the stormwater works are completed and budget allows.
AT have appointed a project manager. He is in discussions with AC Parks to coordinate the upgrade of the park and the construction of the shared path.
May 2015 - Auckland Council is undertaking the redevelopment of the park and the design of the cycleway is part of that work. The cycle path is not expected to be completed until stormwater works in the park are completed.
Discussions on this have taken place with Auckland Council Parks centering around the timing of the project and the path width. Due to stormwater works scheduled to take place in Harold Long Reserve in 2016, it is recommended that the Fearon Park pathway goes ahead as soon as practicable instead of waiting for the completion of the stormwater works. That would mean that Stage 1A of the pathway from Fearon Avenue, (shown as Stage 1A, Attachment B) through Fearon Park could be constructed independently from the area due to be impacted by the stormwater work. If Stage 1A was constructed to a 2.5 metre width, a saving of approximately $40,000 would made. If Stage 1A was constructed to a 3 metre width, this stage would need all the $190,000 funding allocated to the project. The remaining part of the path could then only be finished if further budget was committed to the project.
Auckland Transport and Auckland Council will now arrange an inter-service agreement and the project will sit with Auckland Council Parks to tender and construct.
Lynfield Reserve Shared Path
Nov 2014: Agree to the installation of a shared path for the Lynfield Reserve to a maximum of $30,000.
May 2015 – This has now been completed.
Keith Hay Park Lighting Project
Dec 2014: Agree to fund the Keith Hay Park Lighting Project ROC $330,000 subject to availability of funds within the 2014/15 financial year with priority given to the northern section (ROC $189,000) if full funds are not available.
April 2015: b) Agree that Auckland Transport work with Auckland Council to deliver the Keith Hay lighting project within a fiscal envelope of $330,000 (from the Board’s Transport Capital Fund) after a site visit with Board members and Parks advisor to confirm the project scope.
c) agree that if the tender process indicates savings on the allocated $330,000, that this money be spent on the Richardson Road carpark design.
May 2015: b) confirm the Keith Hay Park lighting project proceed and that the scope of the project be limited to the northern section of the park to Noton Road at this stage and that any savings in this work be allocated to detailed design from the Noton Road carpark through to Richardson Road.
b) instruct Auckland Transport to deliver the Keith Hay Park lighting project within the $330,000 budget and authorises Auckland Transport to reduce the scope of the project, if necessary, to fit within this parameter.
Auckland Transport is currently engaging a consultant to complete the electrical design, utility liaison and consenting for the work. One this is completed a Firm Estimate of Cost will be brought back to the Board for consideration and approval.
The firm estimate of costs is expected to be known at the end of March and will come back to the Local Board in April for final approval to move to construction, if it falls within the LB’s allocation. Auckland Council and Auckland Transport can then work through who is best to deliver the project and in what timeframe.
the firm estimate of costs from the consultant has been calculated now that the lighting design is complete. The firm estimate of costs for both sections from the South Western Motorway to Noton Road (excluding the pathway by the kindergarten to Richardson Road) is close to the $330k mark. This includes 45 lights. To complete the pathway and light it through from Notons Road to Richardson Road would require additional funding as path widening needs to occur by the kindergarten as well as a realignment of the car park. Therefore to keep the costs for the lighting project within the 330k allocation suggested by the Local Board, it is recommended to light through only to Notons Road. Final costs will only be known once the project is tendered. If the tender indicates savings on the estimate, AT requests an indication from the Local Board if the saving can be spent on the carpark design.
A site visit with Local Board members Holm and Wood has been arranged with appropriate officers.
Auckland Transport notes the May resolution and is working with the designer to complete the detailed design and consent application. Following receipt of the consent the work will be procured through an Auckland Council Parks contract with work expected to commence late spring/early summer when ground conditions are best suited for this type of work.
The consent application process is still being worked through with Auckland Council.
The consent has not yet been lodged. AT is awaiting advice on realignment of the path in the vicinity of the cricket club and the contract template from Auckland Council.
The methodology for the project has been the subject of discussion with Auckland Council arborists. Originally the arborist was suggesting that hydrovacing would be the most appropriate method for laying the cables. However after discussions and a site visit, approval has been given to go ahead using trenching for the majority of the path with hydrovac being employed through a small section where two trees are very close to the path, on the condition that an arborist supervises the work. The new estimate for costs for this project shows that the latest cost schedule that includes the extra work and the hydrovacing has added extra costs to the project. At the time of writing, Auckland Transport was verifying these extra costs and it is expected that a resolution will be needed at the September meeting to extend the approved budget amount.
Auckland Transport notes the September resolution of the Puketapapa Local Board and continues to work with Auckland Council to obtain the necessary consents for the project.
Auckland Parks are preparing the documents to go to tender.
Ernie Pinches to Wesley Community Centre cycleway
Oct 2014: Move forward to discussions with the local community on the broad concept of the Sandringham Road Extension to Wesley Community Centre cycle link to gauge community support through its engagement advisor.
Oct 2014: Allocate $25,000 from the Transport Capital Fund for investigation of the Sandringham Road cycleway from Ernie Pinches Drive across SH20 to the Wesley Community Centre and War Memorial Park following successful consultation on the draft concept.
Feb 2015: Reconfirm Resolution CP2014/24495 that $25,000 from the TCF be released for investigaton of the Sandringham Rd Extn cycle link from Ernie Pinches Drive across SH 20 to the Wesley Community Centre and War Memorial Park following successful consultation on the draft concept.
July 2015: Allocate up to $140,000 from the Local Board’s Transport Capital Fund for the scheme assessment and detailed design of the Ernie Pinches to Wesley Community Centre cycleway in the understanding that Auckland Transport will come back to the Local Board to discuss the recommended option and its estimated cost for the cycleway, before detailed design commences.
AT and the LB’s engagement advisor took the concept out to the community in December 2014/January 2015.
Consultation was completed in January 2015. Community support for the project was noted.
A project brief is being prepared and from there a project manager will be appointed.
The project brief has been completed and a project manager has been appointed. Further updates to the LB are expected in the next month or two.
A feasibility study is now underway to look at options for this route which will also provide information on costings. A report back to the Local Board on this is expected in mid July.
The Local Board were briefed on the feasibility study at a workshop in July. Several different options are possible with various costings. The project team will now take the Local Board’s feedback and proceed to a scheme assessment report which is expected to produce a recommended treatment.
The scheme assessment report is still in progress.
A November workshop has been booked with the Local Board to discuss recommended treatments and their costs. After this workshop, Auckland Transport will be seeking further direction from the Local Board at their November board meeting.
Keith Hay Park Carpark Realignment, Richardson Rd
Request a Rough Order of Costs for the estimated costs for realignment of the cyclepath in the Keith Hay Park carpark (Richardson Road entrance), subsequent realignment of the car parking area, widening of the path past the kindergarten, lighting improvement and associated works and allocate up to $30,000 from the Local Board Transport Capital Fund towards the design of this improvement.
This is still in progress.
Discussions are being held with Auckland Council Parks with a view to the design process for the carpark passing to Parks to action.
This will be discussed with the transport portfolio lead in November.
Seating Project
April 2015: Request the Puketāpapa Local Board Engagement Advisor to undertake consultation with community groups including retired people and families with preschool children on where seating might best be provided in the Local Board greenways areas with a view to providing Auckland Transport with a programme for seat installation under the Transport Capital Fund with timings to be confirmed.
The initial consultation on a possible seating programme is now being scoped.
Local Board engagement with key stakeholders is underway.
Mt Roskill Safe Routes Scheme
14. Resource consents for the work are expected to be lodged on 12 November, which represents a small delay. Some redesign of the Dominion Road/Memorial Avenue intersection has been required to provide for future bus lanes on Dominion Road. It is now expected that this intersection will be fully signalised.
15. Auckland Transport now expects to be in a position to tender the contract for construction in in January and for the work to begin in March 2016.
Double Decker Buses
16. Auckland Transport is undertaking works along the Mt Eden Road corridor to allow for the introduction of double decker buses on this route in 2016.
17. As part of this work, twenty six utility poles on Mt Eden Road, between Balmoral and Rewa Rds will need to be moved. Work will start soon and continue until February. There will be some localised impact, which will be managed by Vector.
Berm Management Guidelines
18. Auckland Transport received feedback on it’s draft guidelines for ‘Private Planting in the Road Corridor’ from nineteen of the twenty one local boards. This feedback is being assessed with a view to taking into account as much as possible.
19. A new draft of the guidelines will then go to Auckland Transport’s executive team and the AT Board, with a final version of the guidelines likely to be available in the New Year.
Proposed New Network Public Transport Network for Central Auckland
20. Over the next few years Auckland Transport is moving to a simpler and more integrated public transport network for Auckland. This will deliver a New Network of buses, trains and ferries that will change the way people travel – including the need for some passengers to transfer at key interchanges. In return, the New Network will allow more passengers to simply ‘turn up and go’ rather than plan trips around a timetable. It will offer flexible travel options over large parts of the city, making public transport more useful for a range of travel purposes.
21. Although the New Network describes the new way in which buses, trains, and ferries will work together – AT is currently consulting only on proposed changes to bus services across Auckland. The consultation for the central and eastern areas started on 1 October 2015.
22. Consultation packages have been sent to all Local Boards in the central and eastern areas and Auckland Transport will attend various events during the consultation period to answer questions and promote feedback from Aucklanders on the new network. Consultation is open until 10 December 2015.
Auckland Transport News
Glen Innes to Tamaki Drive Cycle Path
23. Construction has started on one of Auckland’s biggest walking and cycling projects, connecting Auckland’s eastern suburbs to the Waitemata Harbour. A dawn blessing and sod turning ceremony marked the start of the construction phase on 21 October. The sod turning ceremony was attended by representatives of Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board, Orakei Local Board, Auckland Council, New Zealand Transport Agency, Auckland Transport and the Hon Simon Bridges, Minister of Transport.
24. The shared path starts at Merton Road in Glen Innes and follows the rail line all the way to Tamaki Drive and will connect communities and provide a route into the city for people on bikes and is another step on the way towards easing traffic congestion.
25. The path will be around four metres wide and constructed mostly in concrete. Timber boardwalks will cross the water at Orakei Basin and concrete will be used for longer structures such as the proposed Hobson Bay crossing. LED lighting will extend the hours of access, particularly during the winter months. Although the geography is hilly in places, the pathway is designed to keep gradients as low as possible.
26. The first stage of the shared path from Merton Road to St Johns Road is due to be finished in late 2016.
Cycling Numbers Increasing
27. The number of people cycling in Auckland is up 7% according to research released recently by Auckland Transport. An independent survey conducted earlier in the year, looked at the walking and cycling habits of more than 1600 people living in Auckland and compared the findings with last year.
28. It found that the number of people who said that they did any cycling at all went from 20% to 27%. The number of people cycling at least once a week was also up to 11% compared with 6%, 12 months ago.
29. While the reason for cycling is still exercise or fitness (68%) or recreation (48%), there was a steady growth in those saying cycling to work was the reason they get on a bike (up to 16% from 12%). The survey also gathered information about where people lived and found that those living directly east and west of the city have the highest proportion of people cycling.
30. This research is a source of real data in order for AT to plan ahead for the future cycle improvements. Putting in protected cycle facilities in the right parts of the city will make people feel and be safer when riding around the city. To maximise the investment which has come from local and central government, AT plans to improve the network for cycling into and around the city centre as well connections to public transport interchanges.
31. People living in the inner city and the corridor running north-south from the city have the highest potential for growth in cycling. To get people cycling, overcoming perception of safety seems to be the greatest barrier.
Let’s Carpool Campaign
32. Auckland Transport is running a public campaign in November to encourage carpooling. The key objective is to reduce the amount of single vehicle occupancy trips into central Auckland by encouraging people to give carpooling a go and visit the Let’s Carpool website to register. The target audience is people aged between 20 and 45 years working in Central Auckland.
Road Safety Young Driver Marketing Campaign
33. Young driver crashes are a high strategic priority identified in “Safer Journeys” and locally this issue is of high concern due to the number of deaths and serious injuries resulting from these crashes. From 2010 to 2014, there were 664 death and serious injury crashes involving young drivers and these crashes resulted in 74 deaths and 749 serious injuries. Targeting 18-24 year old male and female drivers, the main campaign objectives are:
· To contribute towards a reduction in serious injury crashes imvolving young drivers across the Auckland region
· To increase young driver’s safety awareness and understanding of the consequences of dangerous driving
· To continue to grow the Snapchat and Facebook database of young drivers. This follows on from the success of the May 2015 young driver campaign, whereby AT generated 2,193 new likes on the “Youredriving” Facebook page and 5,185 new Snapchat followers.
34. Based on the tagline of “You wouldn’t do that”, the three road safety themes are Distraction, Speeding and Drink Driving. Three different scenarios will be developed into short 10 second videos and released on Snapchat and Facebook:
· You wouldn’t text while in a job interview. Don’t Text. You’re Driving.
· You wouldn’t drink before hitting the gym. Don’t drink. You’re Driving.
· You wouldn’t rush through a hot date. Don’t speed. You’re Driving.
35. To help incentivise people, AT will run a competition challenging Snapchat users to send in a snap of their own 10 second video (or static photo) showing a scenario where they “Wouldn’t do that”. The best entries will be posted on Snapchat for the public to vote on and the favourite choice each week, over a three week period, will receive a prize of an iphone 6.
New Manukau Bus Station
36. The proposed Manukau Bus Station is a key part of the roll out of a new public transport network across South Auckland. It will provide Aucklanders with a new network of buses and trains that will get them to their destination faster and more efficiently.
37. The Manukau train station sees an average of 1037 daily week day passenger trips and is currently the 13th busiest station in Auckland.
38. Auckland Transport (AT) has now developed concept design plans for the proposed new high quality bus station, aimed at making it easy to transfer between trains and buses, as well as between bus services. It will be designed to have sufficient capacity for long distance coach services. The facility will also feature a large enclosed waiting area similar to an airport lounge.
39. Auckland Transport seeks feedback on the concept design to help make an informed decision to provide a high quality bus station and customer experience.
40. Located right next to Manukau train station, the Manukau civic offices car park on Putney Way (between Davies Avenue and Osterley Way) will be transformed to a 23-bay bus station. The train and bus stations will be linked by a covered walkway.
41. The Auckland Transport project, in partnership with the Transport Agency, is expected to cost approximately $26 million.
42. The entire structure will be designed to provide a high quality public transport experience which will be safe and accessible for everyone. Temporary bus stops will be installed on Davies Avenue to allow the new network to operate smoothly until the station is constructed and opens in the second half of 2017.
43. To support the rollout of the new network in south Auckland, Auckland Transport is also is building new bus and train stations at key locations like Pukekohe and Otahuhu.
Bus station features
The bus station is likely to feature the following:
· Convenience kiosks
· A ticket office
· AT Metro customer service
· Drop off and pick up facilities
· Cycle parking facilities
· Taxi parking
· Customer waiting areas
· Bus staff office facilities
· 24 hour security, help points and CCTV
· Toilets
HOP Card Increase
44. AT reviews costs, such as the price of public transport fares against a cost/benefit matrix, on a regular basis. The AT HOP card originally cost customers $10, including GST, when it was launched in 2012 but for much of the time it has been discounted to $5 to assist in encouraging uptake. This approach has been very successful with over 80% of public transport trips on a weekday now made with a HOP card.
45. The 20,000 cards now sold monthly are usually for lost cards. The card itself costs Auckland Transport $9.82 (including GST) which, with 600,000 cards sold means Auckland’s ratepayers and taxpayers, have been heavily subsidising the card.
46. AT is offering a final opportunity for a $5 AT HOP card before the card goes up to its true cost on 17th December. This gives customers an opportunity to be ready with their HOP card when they return from their Xmas/New Year break.
47. Also, from 1 July 2016 Super Gold card holders will be required to have an AT HOP card. AT is writing to Grey Power, Age Concern, CABs, Budgetary Advisory Services and major rest homes to ask organisations to encourage their members to purchase a card before the price reverts back to $10 on 17 December this year.
Scenic Bike Rides in Auckland
48. Ten scenic bike rides in the Auckland region have been featured on the Auckland Transport website (www.at.govt.nz/greatrides). One of the ten bike rides featured in Auckland Transport’s Great Ride Passports is the Twin Streams bike ride in suburban Henderson. It runs alongside a stream and is surrounded by native bush and birds.
49. Each passport contains a map of a ride with a description of the terrain, length, amenities and points of interest along the way. The ten passports are available at local libraries or on the AT website.
50. The rides are suitable for most ages and abilities and take in a variety of environments, scenic vistas and points of historical and cultural interest. The “Great Rides” are:
· Matakana Trails
· Te Ara Tahuna Pathway: Orewa Estuary
· Green route: Devonport to Takapuna
· Hobsonville Point
· Twin Streams: Henderson Creek and Opanuku Stream
· Auckland Waterfront; Britomart to Mission Bay
· Pakuranga Rotary Pathway
· The Cascades paths: Pakuranga, botany and Meadowlands
· Waikaraka Cycleway: Onehunga to Mangere Bridge
· Wattle Downs
Issues Raised through/ by Board Members
Location or Name of Issue
AT Response
Denny Avenue/Stoddard Road
Egress problems are being experienced at Denny Avenue / Stoddard Road (pensioner units) due to increasing in parking.
As a result of AT’s investigation and on-site meeting with the resident, Auckland Transport will be installing parking limit lines either side of the driveway on Denny Avenue to improve visibility for exiting vehicles. The markings are expected to be installed by the end-December 2015. AT did consider the option of installing yellow no stopping lines to keep a larger area clear of parking, however, we don’t believe that this is necessary because visibility is relatively good and traffic volumes using the road and the driveway are relatively low.
Cape Horn Road
A member of the public has requested that BYLs be added to the entrance (even number) side of Cape Horn road for about three car spaces. The entrance to the road is narrowed by cars parking on both sides. Previous engineer has looked at this and said that the parked cars act as a traffic calming device and if BYLs were added there is a risk of cars speeding off Hillsborough Road down Cape Horn Road. However they have asked for it to be reassessed.
AT’s engineer has revisited the site at the request of the local board and reviewed the original decision not to extend parking restrictions at this site. AT’s reassessment has concluded that the parked vehicles are not considered a safety concern as there is adequate forward visibility for passing motorists to see each other in opposing directions and the parked vehicles encourage lower vehicle speeds and greater care when driving. However, at the request of the Local Board, AT is reviewing whether to discuss parking removal with residents on one side of the road (even numbers).
Pah Road Footpaths
A complaint has been received about the existing footpath between numbers 132 and 140 Pah Road with a request for it to be ripped up and replaced.
This matter has been logged for investigation.
Commodore Drive and Griffen Park Rd intersection
AT to assess the intersection with particular regard to any measures to prevent vehicles moving from Griffen Park Road to Commodore Drive
This issue has been logged.
Denbeigh Avenue and Richardson Road
Complaints about congestion in this area and a request for BYLs near intersection
Buckley Road/Rowan Road Alleyway
Request for AT to remove the barrier down the alleyway to allow cyclists and wheelchair users to use it.
Consultations on Roading and Parking Changes
Duke St-Duncumb St Consultation Plan Combined Maps
Auckland Transport Letter dated 16/10/15 re Proposed shared path on Duncumb Street and Speed Calming on Duke Street
Lorna Stewart, Elected Member Relationship Manager, Auckland Transport
Jonathan Anyon, Elected Member Relationship Team Manager, Auckland Transport
Auckland Transport Quarterly Update to Local Boards
For the quarter 1 July to 30 September 2015.
1. The purpose of this report is to inform local boards about progress on activities undertaken by Auckland Transport (AT) in the three months from 1 July to 30 September 2015 and planned activities anticipated to be undertaken in the next three months.
Attachments (as relevant to each individual local board area) include:
A – Auckland Transport activities
B – Travelwise Schools activities
C – Decisions of the Traffic Control Committee
D – Report against local board advocacy issues
E – Report on the status of the local board’s projects under the Local Board Transport Capital Fund (LBTCF).
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Auckland Transport Quarterly report for the quarter, 1 July to 30 September 2015.
Significant activities during the period under review
2. Penlink
· The Notice of Requirement for the alteration to the designation and consents has been completed.
· AT and its witnesses have completed their evidence and submitted these to the independent hearings panel.
· The evidence was presented at the hearing held during the week 22 – 25 September 2015.
· A set of designation conditions was agreed to between Auckland Council and AT and these were presented to the commissioners.
· Recommendations from the commissioners are expected later this year.
3. Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP) Variation
The AT Board adopted the Hearings Panel recommendations on changes to the RPTP with minor alterations on 27 July 2015. A revised RPTP will be published over the next quarter.
Investment and Development
4. SMART (Southwest Multi-modal Airport Rapid Transit)
· Feasibility level alignments for both a heavy rail and light rail corridor have now been identified.
· The benefits and risks of the two-mode options were documented in an Interim Business Case.
· Independent peer review has been concluded on the costs of each option.
· Risk assessment was completed on the route protection for each option.
PT Development
5. Double Decker Network Mitigation works
Of the total eight double decker bus routes identified to be delivered in the long term plan, three routes (Botany, Mt Eden and Northern Busway 2) will be implemented this financial year (FY). The remainder (Great North Road, Manukau, Remuera, New North Road and Onewa) will be delivered in the next two FYs.
6. Bus Infrastructure Programme
There are 200 bus stop improvement sites planned to be delivered this year across the region. At the end of September, 30 sites are now complete.
7. City Rail Link
The project continues with reference design, enabling works detailed design, property purchase and consenting process. The Environment Court reached a decision and the Notice of Requirement (NoR) was confirmed. Pipe Jack resource consent was granted. The Britomart to Wyndham Street resource consent hearing was concluded and a decision was reached (which is currently in the appeals period). Enabling Works and detailed design scope continue to make progress (Contract 2 substantially complete).
8. EMU Procurement
All 57 electric trains are now in Auckland, and provisional acceptance has been issued for all but the last, which is due to be completed early in October.
PT Operations
9. Highlights for the quarter
· AT Metro’s 12 month rolling patronage record passed the 80 million mark in August with rail services exceeding 14 million.
· Train services had record performance on the network. September 7th recorded the best performance ever for a single business weekday, with 97.6% punctuality and 99.2% reliability and only four cancellations out of a total of 500. Statistics also showed 100% service delivery and no cancellations on the Pukekohe diesel shuttle.
· Swanson Station’s new park and ride carpark with eco-rain gardens opened on 6th July providing an additional 136 parking spaces.
· A total of 53 new double decker buses have been ordered by Howick & Eastern Buses, Ritchies and NZ Bus, under contract to AT. The first buses arrive in the next few weeks for testing with the new fleet targeted for full operation by mid-2016. A second double-decker vehicle was introduced to the Northern Express service in July by Ritchies.
· First tenders for Auckland’s New Network bus services (the first under the fully contracted PTOM procurement model) were released on 17 August, with responses received on 28 September.
· Central and East Auckland New Network: Public consultation commenced on 1 October and runs through to 10 December 2015.
Road Design and Development
10. Te Atatu Road Improvements
Underground services relocation works continue within the road berm of Edmonton Road and Flanshaw Road. Removal of trees, hedges and the like is underway, in accordance with the resource consent; this is site clearance in preparation for both the road widening and the agreed property works.
11. Jennys Road Construction – Great Barrier Island
This road was established as an outcome of an Environment Court decision. The road has been designed as a single lane road with passing bays. Stage 1 was completed in May 2014, and Stage 2 commenced in October 2014. Physical works and the final walkover with the contractor have been completed.
12. Redoubt Road-Mill Road Corridor Improvements
The project on Redoubt Road provides for four lanes from SH1 to Murphys Road, and includes bus priority lane, cycle lanes and a 60km/h speed limit, and signals and bus priority lane at the Hollyford Drive/Redoubt Road intersection. The hearing has now been completed and the commissioners’ decision is expected within one to two months.
13. Driver Licensing Challenge
Young Driver safety is a high priority in the national Safer Journeys strategy, and Auckland Young Driver death and serious injury (DSI) rates make up 30% of the regions DSI crashes. This issue is exacerbated by the high proportion of unlicensed young drivers in the region. An inter-agency Co-Design Lab was founded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that explores ways to improve access to driver licensing. AT is part of the team along with ACC, Ministry of Education, Auckland Council, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Otara youth based at the Otara's Crosspower youth centre. The Co-Design team will engage with Maori and Pasifika youth at Crosspower where over 250 youth attend each week. The initial stage of this four month project will end in November with recommendations to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
14. Primary Schools Lead Teacher Workshop
Over the past five years there has been an increase in deaths and serious injuries (DSI) for 5-10 year old pedestrians during weekdays in peak traffic hours. The Travelwise team looked to address this issue at a recent primary schools lead teacher workshop in the CBD. Seventy teachers attended the workshop by rail to explore ‘Transporting our Students into the Future’ and develop curriculum programmes that would support safer travel for students and increased use of active transport (Public Transport PT, Walking and Cycling) options to help reduce congestion.
15. Travel Demand (2014/15 Year)
The Commute travel planning programme has a focus on engagement with commuters and businesses this year. This quarter has seen the development of a campaign to promote travel choice which will be launched in October. A focus has been the development of travel demand plans for the Devonport Peninsula, Albany Highway and City Rail Link, and implementation of these plans is underway.
16. Route Optimisation
The regional Route Optimisation is underway, which forms part of the programme for Network Optimisation, including traffic signal improvements, minor changes to the road network and the inclusion of transit lanes, freight lanes and trial of Dynamic lanes.
Road Corridor Delivery
17. Key Highlights
In the 2015/2016 financial year, AT is planning to deliver 37.7 km of pavement rehabilitation, 480.1 km of resurfacing (which includes 88.9 km of hotmix and 391.2 km of chip-sealing), 75.7 km of footpath renewals and 82.7 km of kerb and channel replacement. This represents a total of 676 km or around 9% of work on AT’s 7,300km network. Table 1 below outlines this work in more detail.
Table 1: Progress against Asset Renewal Targets
18. The new Streetlight maintenance and renewal contracts commenced on 1 August 2015. There are now four contracts across the region with one dedicated contract for the Hauraki Gulf Islands. The new contractors are Downer (Central and South), Electrix (North and West) and NorthPower (HGI). Tenders have also been called for the supply of 8,000 LED luminaires to replace existing 70W HPS lamps on the network in the 2015/2016 financial year.
19. AT’s second Asset Management Plan (AMP) covering the period 2015-2018 has been published and is available to download from the AT website.
20. Monitoring of Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) at work sites is continuing to ensure compliance with the approved traffic management plans and to identify opportunities for improvement. The average percentage of low risk sites for Quarter 1 is 96%*[3] (The target is 90%)
Fig 1: Compliance with approved traffic management plans ‘
21. The Corridor Access Request (CAR) team continues to process around 1,300 applications per month. These requests are for network operators from the water and telecommunication industry to access and maintain their assets sitting within the road corridor. Access is also sought by private operators and individuals who need to access the road network to undertake activities such as private water connections etc.
Schedule of activities undertaken for the first quarter (2015/16) ending 30 September 2015
Travelwise Schools activities broken down by local board
Traffic Control Committee Decisions broken down by local board
dView
Local Board Advocacy Report
eView
Local Board Transport Capital Fund Report
Various Auckland Transport authors
Jonathan Anyon, Elected Member Relationship Team Manager
Puketāpapa Local Board Local Grants: Round One 2015/2016
1. The purpose of this report is to present applications received for round one of the Puketāpapa Local Board Local Grants 2015/2016. The local board is required to fund, part-fund or decline these applications.
2. The Puketāpapa Local Board has set a total community funding budget of $31,000 for the 2015/2016 financial year.
3. A total of $1,400 was allocated in quick response round one, leaving a remaining balance of $29,600 to allocate for the 2015/2016 financial year.
4. Ten applications were received in this round, with a total requested of $46,190.67
That the Puketāpapa Local Board consider the applications listed in Table One and agree to fund, part-fund or decline each application in this round.
Table One: Puketāpapa Local Board Round One Local Grant applications
Eligible/
ineligible
Adult Literacy Tamaki Auckland Inc.
Supporting Refugee Women at the Safari playgroup project
Lynfield Community Church
Children's Autism Foundation
Community support programmes, to support families who have children affected by autism and their communities
5Tunz Communications Ltd T/A HummFM / Roshila Prasad
Holi - Colours in the Park - 2016
Communicare CMA (AK) Inc.
Hillsborough Communicare Centre
Mika Haka Foundation
Emerging Leaders Programme
New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education Limited
MindPlus Auckland Central
OUTLine New Zealand Incorporated
Operating lesbian gay bisexual transgender intersex telephone helpline for Puketāpapa
Auckland Regional Migrant Services Charitable Trust
Towards costs for the Roskill Training Cafe
RainbowYOUTH
HealthWEST Partnership
Ineligible due to applicant being unable to provide quotes
5. The implementation of the new Community Grants Policy commenced on 1 July 2015. The policy supports each local board to adopt a grants programme for 2015/2016 and the Puketāpapa Local Board adopted its grants programme on 30 April 2015 (see Attachment A).
6. The local board grants programme sets out:
· local board priorities
· lower priorities for funding
· exclusions
· grant types, the number of grant rounds and when these will open and close
· any additional accountability requirements.
7. The Puketāpapa Local Board will operate two local grant rounds and five quick response rounds for this financial year. The first local grants round closed on 11 September 2015.
8. The new community grant programmes have been extensively advertised through the new council grant webpage, local board webpages, local board e-newsletters and Facebook pages, council publications, radio, local newspapers and community networks. Staff have also conducted a series of public workshops in local board areas, which have been attended by approximately 1000 people across the Auckland region.
9. For the 2015/2016 financial year, the Puketāpapa Local Board set a total community grants budget of $31,000.
10. A total of $1,400 was allocated in quick response round one, leaving a remaining balance of $29,600 to allocate for the 2015/2016 financial year.
11. Ten applications were received in this round, with a total requested of $46,190.67
12. Local boards are responsible for the decision-making and allocation of local board community grants. The Puketāpapa local board is required to fund, part-fund or decline these grant applications against the local board priorities identified in the local board grant programme.
13. The board is requested to note that section 50 of the Community Grants Policy states “We will also provide feedback to unsuccessful grant applicants about why they have been declined, so they will know what they can do to increase their chances of success next time.”
14. The provision of community grants provides opportunities for all Aucklanders to undertake projects, programmes, activities that benefit a wider range of individuals and groups, including Maori. As a guide for decision-making, in the allocation of community grants, the new community grants policy supports the principle of delivering positive outcomes for Maori.
15. The allocation of grants to community groups is within the adopted Long Term Plan 2015-2025 and local board agreements.
16. Following the Puketāpapa Local Board allocating funding for round one local grants, Commercial and Finance staff will notify the applicants of the local board decision.
Puketāpapa Local Board Grants Programme
Puketāpapa Local Grants Round One applicaiton summaries
Fua Winterstein - Community Grants Advisor
Marion Davies - Community Grants Operations Manager
Jennifer Rose - Operations Support Manager
Puketāpapa Local Board Quick Response Grants: Round Two 2015/2016
1. The purpose of this report is to present applications received for round one of the Puketāpapa Local Board Quick Response Grants 2015/2016. The local board is required to fund, part-fund or decline these applications.
3. A total of $1,400 was allocated in quick response round one, leaving a remaining balance of $29,600 to allocate to community grants for the 2015/2016 financial year.
4. The local board have indicated that they wish to reallocate the multi-board grant budget of $115,000. This budget was previously allocated to community groups through the Central Joint Funding Committee. A report on the reallocation of this budget will come to the local board meeting in February 2016.
5. Two applications were received in this round, with a total requested of $1,328.87
That the Puketāpapa Local Board considers the applications listed in Table One and agree to fund, part-fund or decline each application in this round.
Table One: Puketāpapa Local Board Round Two Quick Response applications
Afro Fit
Ineligible due to project commencement date does not meet the Puketāpapa grants programme timeframe
Earth Action Trust
Resource recovery and creative sewing
8. The Puketāpapa Local Board will operate five quick response rounds and two local grants rounds for this financial year. The second quick response round closed on 16 October 2015.
10. The Puketāpapa Local Board has set a total community funding budget of $31,000 for the 2015/2016 financial year.
12. The local board have indicated that they wish to reallocate the multi-board grant budget of $115,000. This budget was previously allocated to community groups through the Central Joint Funding Committee. A report on the reallocation of this budget will come to the local board meeting in February 2016.
13. Two applications were received in this round, with a total requested of $1,328.87
18. Following the Puketāpapa Local Board allocating funding for round one quick response, Commercial and Finance staff will notify the applicants of the local board decision.
Puketāpapa Local Board Grants Programme 2015/2016
Libraries Work Programme 2015/2016
1. This report presents the Libraries 2015/2016 Puketāpapa Local Board work programme for approval.
2. This report provides information to support local boards to make decisions required to approve the Libraries 2015/2016 work programme.
3. The draft Libraries work programme aims to provide a defined work programme for the 2015/2016 financial year.
4. The Libraries work programme for the Puketāpapa Local Board has been aligned to the following 2014-2017 Puketāpapa Local Board Plan priorities:
· People with a voice who can make a contribution
· A strong sense of belonging and local identity.
· Healthy, safe people and places
· Vibrant popular parks and treasured natural environment
· Thriving local economy, good local jobs
5. Local boards are being requested to approve the Libraries work programme for FY 2015/2016.
That the Puketāpapa Local Board approves the 2015/2016 Libraries work programme (Attachment A).
6. The Libraries work programme for 2015/2016 aligns to the Puketāpapa Local Board plan 2014 – 2017 and Te Kauroa – Auckland Libraries Future Directions 2013-2023.
7. The Libraries work programmes align to the following 2014 – 2017 Puketāpapa Local Board Plan priorities:
8. A workshop was held on 16 September 2015 with the local board and Libraries staff to ensure activities align with the local board priorities and meet the needs of the Puketāpapa community.
9. Local Boards are requested to approve the Libraries work programme for 2015/2016. Library staff will continue to work with the Libraries portfolio holder and the local board to ensure actions are delivered and evaluated.
10. The draft 2015/2016 work programme was considered by the local board at a workshop on 16 September 2015. The views expressed by local board members are reflected in Attachment A
11. Improving Maori outcomes is core to library services and is defined in Te kauhanganui. The Libraries work programme supports Maori initiatives in both programme and service delivery at local libraries.
12. Libraries staff will continue to meet with the Libraries portfolio holder to provide updates on the work programme and ensure it is progressed. The Libraries work programme will be implemented within the annual plan 2015/2016 budget and reported on through the quarterly reporting process.
Libraries Work Programme FY2015/2016 Puketāpapa Local Board
Debbie Ashton - Service Delivery Manager Owairaka
Kim Taunga - Manager Cust. Experience - South and East Libraries
Scope for local dog access rule review
1. To determine the timing and scope of the Puketāpapa Local Board review of local dog access rules in 2015/16.
2. In 2012, Auckland Council’s Governing Body made the Dog Management Bylaw and the Policy on Dogs. The governing body delegated the review of the dog access rules on local parks, beach and foreshore areas, to local boards.
3. The governing body delegation requires local boards to review their beach and foreshore dog access rules. The local board has full discretion on whether to review other local dog access rules, including those on local parks.
4. The governing body has established a standard process to assist local boards with the review. The current review process started in September 2015 and is due to end in October 2016.
5. The local board’s decision on the review scope is the first step in determining what aspects of dog access rules are reviewed and consulted on, in 2016.
a) confirms the review of the following local dog access rules for 2015/16
b) confirms the inclusion of the following additional matters within the scope of the review:
i. review of the generic rules and dog exercise areas
ii. review of local parks adjacent to beach and foreshore areas
iii. review of high-use parks and parks of concern to local board
c) delegates to member [insert name], to determine local board engagement initiatives for the review of the local dog access rules in (a) within existing local board budgets, and to be the spokesperson for this project during the pre-consultation period.
6. In 2012, the governing body made the Policy on Dogs, and delegated the review of the dog access rules on local beaches, foreshore and parks to local boards. This includes a requirement to review all local beach and foreshore areas by a date determined by the local board (resolution number GB/2012/157).
7. Responsibility for areas of regional significance (including regional parks) and Tūpuna Maunga are delegated to the Auckland Council Parks, Sport and Recreation Committee and the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority respectively. The Regulatory and Bylaws Committee has overall responsibility for the Policy on Dogs 2012 and region-wide dog access rules (e.g. council playgrounds, sports surfaces, roads, car and boat parking areas, cemeteries, campgrounds and holiday parks).
Process and funding
8. In August and September 2013, local boards were consulted on the level of priority for the local board dog access rule review within their local board areas. As a result of this prioritisation, the Puketāpapa Local Board is scheduled to commence its review of local dog access rules in 2015, with any changes effective from Labour Weekend 2016.
9. In order to facilitate the local board’s review of their dog access rules and take advantage of economies of scale, a regionally funded standard process has been established. The standard process timeline is structured around council’s annual dog registration process which takes place in June each year.
10. The Dog Control Act 1996 requires all dog owners to be notified of any proposed changes to the dog access rules and to follow special consultative procedure under the Local Government Act 2002 (see Attachment B). Therefore, the standard process for this review consists of the following phases and timeline:
· summer 2015/16: staff will gather information and community views to inform the development of proposed changes
· April/May 2016: proposed changes will be adopted by the local board
· June 2016: proposed changes are notified for consultation to align with the dog registration process
· August and September 2016: public hearings and deliberations will be held and a final decision is made.
11. The regional funding provides for the review of beach and foreshore dog access rules, generic public notification initiatives and generic signage to implement decisions. These activities include:
· desktop research
· site visits (beach and foreshore areas and high-use parks only)
· on-line survey of beach and foreshore areas
· internal stakeholder engagement with staff from parks, animal management, and biodiversity
· statutory consultation process (which includes public notification, submission collation, analysis and associated reporting, staff support at hearings and deliberations).
12. Local boards are required to resource:
· any additional external workshops or engagement not included in the standard process outlined above
· advertisements, media / social media releases not included in the standard process outlined above
· the organisation and running of hearings
· funding of non-standard signage.
13. Further details of the process and funding are provided in Attachment C.
Existing local board rules
14. The existing dog access rules in the Puketāpapa Local Board area consist of both local dog access rules and regional dog access rules.
15. The regional rules were considered as part of the 2012 review of the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs and apply to all local board areas. The regional rules take precedence over any local dog access rule for common public places such as playgrounds, sports fields, roads, car and boat parking areas, cemeteries, campgrounds and holiday parks.
16. Within the Puketāpapa Local Board area, the following access rules apply:
· a default under control on a leash dog access rule which applies to all areas unless otherwise specified
· time and season rules on all beaches and foreshore areas
· general rules around significant ecological areas, picnic and fitness apparatus areas
· ten dog exercise areas.
17. The full list of dog access rules for the Puketāpapa Local Board area is included as Attachment A.
Options for the local board to consider
18. The first decision for the local board is to consider when to commence the review of their local dog access rules, that is, in 2015/2016 or 2016/2017.
19. If the local board resolves to undertake a review of the local dog access rules in 2015/16, the local board then needs to consider what, if any, rules that relate to local parks will be reviewed (in addition to local beach and foreshore areas which is required).
Start of review
Option A1: Commence the review of the local dog access rules in 2015/16 as scheduled
20. This option involves commencing the local dog access review in 2015/16 as currently scheduled. Under the delegations to the local board, the local board must review their beach and foreshore areas.
21. As part of the beach and foreshore areas review, the local board must consider whether the regional time and season standard is appropriate for each beach and foreshore area.
22. The benefits of this option are that:
· it allows for the implementation of dog access rules that are in keeping with the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012, community preferences, and wildlife considerations by October 2016 as currently scheduled
· it allows for the consideration of access rules that are simpler to follow and enforce on the ground
it aligns with the expectation created in the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 that the local board will consider whether or not the regional ‘time and season’ standard is appropriate to be applied to the beaches and foreshore areas within their jurisdiction.
23. The disadvantages of this option are that:
· local board resource is required to investigate options or undertake formal special consultative process with hearings in 2016
· it adds to the workload of local board members during the 2016 pre-election period.
Option A2: Defer the review of the local dog access until 2016/17
24. This option involves deferring the local dog access review until 2016/17. Under this option staff will bring a second report to the local board in 2016/17 to consider what will be included within the scope of the local dog access review.
25. It is noted that while the local board may defer the review of the local dog access rules, it is required by the delegations to undertake a review of their local access rules.
· no local board resource is required to investigate options or undertake the formal special consultative process with hearings in 2015/16
· there is no additional workload for local board members during the 2016 pre-election period.
· resource required in 2016/17 may conflict with 2017 local board plan reviews
· confusing or inappropriate dog access rules remain in effect until October 2017
· there may be unmet expectations of dog owners that the local board will consider whether or not the regional ‘time and season’ standard is appropriate to be applied to the beaches and foreshore areas within their jurisdiction, from the review of the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012.
28. Staff recommend that a review of the local dog access rules commence in 2015/16 as scheduled (Option A1), as it allows for the implementation of dog access rules that are in keeping with the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 which are more practical and simpler to understand by the general public.
29. Furthermore, the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 has created an expectation that the local board will consider whether or not the regional ‘time and season’ standard is appropriate to be applied to the beaches and foreshore areas within their jurisdiction.
Scope of local dog access review
30. As discussed above, where the local board resolves to undertake a review, the board must review the local beach and foreshore area rules. However, the board has discretion as to whether or not it considers any rules that relate to local parks. The scope of the review may include either a single option, or a mix of options B2 and B3 as identified below.
Option B1: No review of local parks (status quo)
31. This option involves only reviewing the beach and foreshore areas with no local park rules being considered as part of this review.
· any consultation carried out around the beach and foreshore rules will be simpler with fewer issues for the public to consider
· any changes or impacts of the changes to the local dog access rules will be limited to the beach and foreshore areas
· no additional resource is required to investigate or assess local parks.
33. The disadvantages of this option are that it:
· retains multiple sets of general rules that are often confusing and difficult to communicate and enforce
· does not allow for an integrated approach to be taken between beach and foreshore areas and the adjacent parks and reserves
· does not allow for a review of high-use parks or areas of potential concern to the local board or the community.
Option B2: Targeted review of park rules
34. This option involves three parts; a review of generic rules on parks (i.e. dog access around picnic areas and fitness apparatus etc.) and dog exercise areas, a review of parks adjacent to beaches and foreshore areas, and a review of all high-use parks and parks with identified concerns.
35. The reviews of the generic rules are technical reviews and will consider the appropriateness and applicability of the dog access rules for where there are fitness apparatus and picnic areas which are typically difficult to define on the ground and enforce.
36. The review of the dog exercise areas is to evaluate whether or not the existing dog exercise areas meet the definition of ‘dog exercise area’ within the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 as a dog priority area or whether it is better described as a shared space for multiple users.
37. The review of the parks adjacent to beaches ensures an integrated approach to the activities within the coastal environment.
38. The review of high-use parks and the parks with identified concerns is a targeted review of selected parks to identify conflicting use and the appropriateness of the dog access rules which will include site visits and internal workshops as required.
· it allows for an integrated approach to be taken to the review of the dog access rules on the beach and foreshore areas and the adjacent parks and reserves
· a targeted review of high-use parks and parks with identified issues will limit areas affected by any changes in the dog access rules
· it removes or replaces confusing rules that are difficult to communicate and enforce
· it will result in generic rules being replaced with site specific rules where appropriate which will be easier to understand and better provide for public safety and comfort or protection of wildlife
· it will result in the reclassification of ‘dog exercise areas’ as either ‘designated dog areas’ (where the dog owner is the priority user) or under control off-leash areas in accordance with the criteria in the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012
· a targeted review allows for resources to be concentrated on areas with the greatest impact on users.
· it may result in parks adjacent to the beach and foreshore having different access rules than other local parks
· it may result in high-use parks and other local parks having different dog access rules
· it will increase the complexity of the issues considered as part of the review
· changes to the access rules will affect a number of parks, given the general nature of the generic access rules and the dog exercise areas
· it may be perceived by dog owners as a reduction in dog access in popular or high amenity parks.
Option B3: Detailed review of all local parks
41. This option involves a detailed review of all parks (both high and low use) in accordance with the ‘Dog Access Rule Change Procedure’ and implements the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012.
42. This option would involve site visits to all parks with consideration as to what dog access rules are best suited to activities occurring on the park, and a network-based approach to the wider provision of dog access.
43. In contrast to Option B2 the local board would be required to co-ordinate and fully fund this option.
44. The benefits of this option are that it:
· allows for a detailed site-specific review of all parks based in accordance with the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012, community preferences and wildlife considerations
· allows for an integrated approach to be taken to the review of the dog access rules on all parks and reserves
· provides greater certainty in all parks and reduces the potential for conflict in these areas
· removes or replaces confusing rules that are difficult to communicate and enforce.
· the local board will be required to co-ordinate and fund this detailed review of all parks and reserves which will be resource intensive[4]
· it will increase the complexity of the issues to be considered by the local board and the community as part of the consultation on any proposed changes to the dog access rules
· a detailed review is likely to result in changes to a larger number of parks
· additional local board resources would be required when Option B2 is likely to achieve the same outcome in most areas of interest.
46. Staff recommend that a review of the local dog access rules incorporates Option B2 as a targeted approach to the review which strikes the most appropriate balance between implementing the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012, the complexity and scope of the review, and the resource required to undertake the local dog access review.
47. The views of other local boards have not been sought on the scope of this review. In the 2013/14 and 2014/15 reviews, other local boards chose to review their beach and foreshore areas and adjacent parks, high-use parks, generic rules and dog exercise areas.
48. Consistency with other local board dog access rules is also a factor that the local board may want to take into consideration. Staff will provide advice on decisions made by other local boards during the options analysis and deliberations stages of the review.
49. The views of 23 iwi in relation to dog access were sought as part of hui consulting on a range of bylaws held in October 2013 and in March 2015.
50. Feedback from the hui related to the ability of iwi to determine dog access on marae, and focused on control, responsible dog ownership, and ensuring the protection of sensitive ecological areas. The review of areas with protected wildlife is a matter recommended to be included in the review.
51. Staff will work with local board members, engagement advisors and communication advisors to develop a more detailed engagement plan in accordance with the decisions of the local board and existing budgets.
52. Implementation costs, such as updating basic standard signage, are expected to be from existing regional budgets.
53. Potential implementation issues to come from local board budgets include; additional research, engagement, and public notification initiatives, and any non-standard signage.
Current Puketāpapa Local Board dog access schedule
Dog access review decision-making framework
Process and timelines for local dog access review
Kimberly Rees - Policy Analyst
Justin Walters - Policy Analyst
Paul Wilson - Team Leader Bylaws
Kataraina Maki - GM - Community & Social Policy
Adoption of Local Fees and Charges 2015/2016
1. This report seeks an amendment to the Local Fees and Charges Schedule for 2015/2016.
2. In June 2015, local boards adopted a Local Board Agreement 2015/2016 outlining local priorities and budgets, and a supporting local fees and charges schedule for 2015/2016.
3. In August 2015, the Finance and Performance Committee resolved to “waive fees for sportsfields in central local board areas until a region-wide policy is adopted in the 2016/2017 financial year”.
4. Attachment A outlines an updated local fees and charges schedule for 2015/2016 to reflect the zero sportsfield charges, for approval by the local board. A region-wide policy will be considered in 2016/2017.
a) amend the Local Fees and Charges Schedules for 2015/2016 to reflect updated sportsfield user charges of no charge in 2015/2016 (Attachment A)
7. Attachment One outlines an updated local fees and charges schedule for 2015/2016 to reflect the zero sportsfield charges, for approval by the local board. A region-wide policy will be considered in 2016/2017.
Local Board
8. Engagement with the community, including consultation, and a number of workshops and meetings were held by the local board and with the governing body to finalise local board agreements for 2015/2016. The local fees and charges schedule is a supporting document to this agreement
9. Content for local board agreements have been developed through engagement with the community, including Maori.
10. The amended local fees and charges schedule for 2015/2016 will be updated online.
Updated Local Fees and Charges Schedule 2015/2016
Kate Marsh- Financial Planning Manager – Local Boards
Jane Aickin – Manager Local and Sports Parks Central
Ian Maxwell – General Manager Parks, Sports and Recreation
Regional Facilities Auckland First Quarter Report 2015-16 for period ended 30 September 2015
1. Attaching for the board’s information the Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA) quarterly report for the period ended 30 September 2015.
2. N/A
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Regional Facilities Auckland First Quarter Report 2015-16 for period ended 30 September 2015.
Judy Lawley, Regional Facilities Auckland Local Board Engagement Manager
Record of Puketāpapa Local Board Workshop Notes
1. The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of Puketāpapa Local Board (the Board) workshop notes.
2. The attached summary of workshop proceedings provides a record of the Board workshops held in October 2015.
These sessions are held to give an informal opportunity for board members and officers to discuss issues and projects and note that no binding decisions are made or voted on at workshop sessions.
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Workshop Notes for 7, 14 and 21 October 2015.
Workshop Notes for October 2015.
Resolutions Pending Action Schedule, November 2015
1. The purpose of this report is to provide the Board with a schedule of resolutions that are still pending action.
2. Updated version of the Resolutions Pending Actions schedule is attached.
That the Puketāpapa Local Board receives the Resolutions Pending Action Schedule for November 2015.
Resolutions Pending Action Schedule for November 2015.
[1] With the exception of Franklin business properties which will fact an average general rates increase of 4.7 per cent due to the merging of Franklin business differentials with the rest of the region.
[2] Note that Māori customary land is non-rateable, and has therefore been excluded from discussions.
[3] Note this represents 96% in July, 96% in August and 97% in September.
[4] It is expected that a detailed review would take approximately 3 months at 1 FTE per board.
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The Future of Accessibility in Higher Education: Making College Skills and Degrees More Accessible
Author(s): Roy Y. Chan (Indiana University, USA)
Source title: Disability and Equity in Higher Education Accessibility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Henry C. Alphin, Jr. (Drexel University, USA), Jennie Lavine (University of Hull, UK) and Roy Y. Chan (Indiana University, USA)
Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Higher Education
View The Future of Accessibility in Higher Education: Making College Skills and Degrees More Accessible on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.
Higher education worldwide is facing unprecedented challenges - the dramatic rise of college tuition, rapidly increasing demands for accountability, and a complex society that demands college graduates with even more skills and capacities. To understand how higher education can effectively address these challenges, this chapter investigates the economic and social benefits of higher education and what it means for the future of accessibility in higher education. Utilizing Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) and signaling theory, a comprehensive search of the literature selected 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and twenty-five books published between 2000 and 2016. The findings suggest that student expectations for a college degree tends to be very instrumental and personal, while higher education purpose of undergraduate education tend towards highly ideal life- and society-changing consequences. Eight recommendations for teacher-scholars, policymakers, and campus leaders are proposed. The ultimate goal is to help make colleges skills and degrees more accessible for students.
“Talk to Me!”: Empowering Students With a Vision Impairment Through Audio E-Assessment Feedback
Melissa Cain, Melissa Fanshawe. © 2020. 19 pages.
The Student Experience of Video-Enhanced Learning, Assessment, and Feedback
James McDowell. © 2020. 21 pages.
Utilizing Instantaneous Feedback to Promote Self-Regulated Learning in Online Higher Education Courses: The Case for Digital Badges
Melissa Fanshawe, Nicole Delaney, Alwyn Powell. © 2020. 19 pages.
Utilizing Internet Resources in TESOL: The Design of English Language Learning and Formative Assessment Practices
Vineetha Hewagodage. © 2020. 27 pages.
Feedback to “Feedforward”: Promoting Student Reflection and Learning Through Teacher Evaluation
Carolyn L. Berenato. © 2020. 12 pages.
A Theory-Practice Research Framework for Video-Enhanced Learning, Assessment, and Feedback
Towards a Dialogic Model of Video-Enhanced Learning, Assessment, and Feedback
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Home ice
All news, Technology and Innovation May 20, 2016
Intercontinental Exchange has announced a new interest rate contract that it says will facilitate term financing arrangements, such as repos; consummated transactions in ICE’s Funds…
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ICE introduces Asia CDS clearing
New York-based Intercontinental Exchange says has introduced credit default swap (CDS) clearing for the iTraxx Australia and iTraxx Asia ex-Japan Investment Grade indices, adding Australia,…
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ICE recruits from JPM
Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services has recruited Hester Serafini as chief operating officer…
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Intercontinental Exchange completes acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation
Intercontinental Exchange Group has completed its $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation (Interactive Data). Interactive Data is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICE, having been…
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BGC and GFI to sell to ICE
BGC Partners, a global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, reports that its GFI subsidiary has agreed to sell its UK-domiciled Trayport…
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NYSE, ICE to boost capacity
Intercontinental Exchange, the global network of exchanges and clearing houses, reports several enhancements to its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure network (SFTI), which it says will…
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ICE to buy IDC
Intercontinental Exchange, a global network of exchanges and clearing houses, says it is to acquire Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics…
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sleep, and I stood it for
three days more, and then I wired him to come back or I'd jump off
London Bridge; and he came back that very night from Edinburgh on the
express, and I was so glad to see him that I got confused, and in the
general excitement I promised to marry him, so that's how it was with
us."
"Yes," said the American, without enthusiasm; "but then I still care,
and Helen knows I care."
"Doesn't she ever fancy that you might care for some one else? You
have a lot of friends, you know."
"Yes, but she knows they are just that--friends," said the American.
Miss Cavendish stood up to go, and arranged her veil before the mirror
above the fireplace.
"I come here very often to tea," she said.
"It's very kind of you," said Carroll. He was at the open window,
looking down into the street for a cab.
"Well, no one knows I am engaged to Reggie," continued Miss Cavendish,
"except you and Reggie, and he isn't so sure. _She_ doesn't know
it."
"Well?" said Carroll.
Miss Cavendish smiled a mischievous, kindly smile at him from the
mirror.
"Well?" she repeated, mockingly. Carroll stared at her and laughed.
After a pause he said: "It's like a plot in a comedy. But I'm afraid
I'm too serious for play-acting."
"Yes, it is serious," said Miss Cavendish. She seated herself again
and regarded the American thoughtfully. "You are too good a man to be
treated the way that girl is treating you, and no one knows it better
than she does. She'll change in time, but just now she thinks she
wants to be independent. She's in love with this picture-painting
idea, and with the people she meets. It's all new to her--the fuss
they make over her and the titles, and the way she is asked about. We
know she can't paint. We know they only give her commissions because
she's so young and pretty, and American. She amuses them, that's all.
Well, that cannot last; she'll find it out. She's too clever a girl,
and she is too fine a girl to be content
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Reporter : Park Jae-hyuk
Hyundai, Kia to invest $250 million in Grab
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors will invest the combined $250 million in Grab, a major car-hailing service provider in Southeast Asia, to help boost the sales of their electric vehicles (EVs) in the rapidly growing region.
Auto | 2018-11-07 17:02
Mercedes-Benz Korea expands R&D center
Mercedes-Benz Korea opened its expanded R&D center in Seoul, Wednesday.
Diageo Korea to introduce White Walker in December
Diageo Korea will begin selling White Walker by Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky here from mid-December, according to the head of the U.K. distiller's local subsidiary.
Manufacturing | 2018-11-07 13:25
Elliott suffers $200 million loss in Hyundai Motor investment
Elliott Management Corporation is estimated to have lost up to 220 billion won ($195 million) from its equity investments in Hyundai Motor Group, due to the steep decline in shares of the automotive group's affiliates over the past three months, industry analysts said Tuesday.
YES24 faces lawsuit for Lee Jong-suk's detention in Jakarta
YES24, a subsidiary of Hansae YES24 Holdings, is facing a lawsuit filed by actor Lee Jong-suk's agency regarding the K-pop star's temporary detainment at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after a fan meeting in Jakarta last weekend.
SSCL, Park Chan-ho support baseball prodigies
Stuttgart Sports Cars Ltd. (SSCL) has sponsored the Chan Ho Park Foundation's Future Baseball Players Scholarship, since it formed a partnership with the legendary pitcher Park Chan-ho in 2016, the largest authorized Porsche dealer in Korea said Tuesday.
High school girl saves stroke victim
A 17-year-old high school student living in Gwangju has recently been in the spotlight for saving a stroke victim in his 50s.
Seoul & Provinces | 2018-11-05 15:56
Yuhan to receive $1.25 billion from Janssen
Yuhan will receive $1.25 billion from Janssen Biotech for its transfer of technology to develop lazertinib, a new medication to cure non-small cell lung cancer, the Korean pharmaceutical company said Monday.
CJ Logistics under fire for 3 worker deaths
CJ Logistics, which has been grappling with a public relations crisis in recent months after a series of fatal accidents that led to the deaths of workers, is facing a government investigation, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor Sunday.
Complaints surging over 'bait-and-switch'
More Korean consumers are complaining about “bait-and-switch” advertising, employed by many retailers seeking to cash in on the November shopping season, according to industry officials Sunday.
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Celebrating Korea-Czech relations
To-be-built dormitory
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It Ain’t Over Till Hillary (and Soros) Say It’s Over!
As reported earlier, corrupt Hillary Clinton is not accepting her defeat in the recent Presidential election. Instead, in ways only the corrupt Clinton’s could conjure up, she put in place a process to steal the election.
It was clear when Jill Stein asked for recounts in three states won by President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election (Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania) that Stein was not acting alone The Clinton’s had somehow enticed her to do so. For one, why did Stein select only these three states to do recounts – states that if overturned would give Hillary the election? Rampant voter fraud is also suspected in (Chicago) Illinois, California (illegals) and New York (NYC), so why did Stein only select those three Midwestern states for recounts if she was interested in the integrity of the voting system?
Secondly, where was the money coming from that went into Stein’s fundraising account? We reported that payments from a ‘bot’ in the amount of $160,000 on the hour every hour during the first days of her ‘fundraising’ drive were being made. Where did this money come from?
Thirdly, we reported that George Soros was behind the recount. The corrupt plan to steal the election from President Trump began when a group of “scientists” claimed that the election results were hacked and suggested recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Even shamed pollster Nate Silver stated these allegations were wrong and that Michigan did mostly paper voting so computer tampering would not appear there. Then it was uncovered that a member from the group of ‘scientists’ happens to be voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz who launched the National Voting Rights Institute In 1994 with Soros. Bonifaz was the Institute’s President.
(Billionaire Soros, admited to helping the Nazis steal from Jews in WWII, was noted repeatedly in Wikileaks’ emails as the puppet master behind the corrupt Democrat Party, and is reportedly wanted by Russia dead or alive for being a threat to Russian security.)
The bigger question with the recounts is – how do the Clintons make the steal? All the votes have to be certified by December 13 according to a report on Friday. Some suspect that the recounts will be stalled to prevent these states votes being considered in the national election. But under this scenario Clinton would still be losing to Trump in the electoral college by 260 (306 minus 46) to 232.
Another scenario is that these states will move to the Hillary column after the recounts are complete, which would give her the win. But after the first day of recounts in Wisconsin, Hillary picked up only 1 vote. The probability that Clinton could pick up more than 1,000 votes in any one state is very low, making it statistically impossible for Clinton to win enough votes in any one of these states, let alone all three, to steal the election.
One thing is for sure, when you are dealing with the Clintons, anything is possible. Who could have predicted that Hillary would not be in jail already for Whitewater, Filegate, her Email scandal, the Clinton Foundation, etc…
If the steal is in play, we will find out in the next couple weeks with election results due by December 13. The Clintons (and Soros) can’t be gone soon enough.
Kellyanne Conway Shuts Down Anti-Catholic Hillary Clinton Aide Jennifer Palmeiri Who Calls Trump White Supremacist
Yesterday Trump and Clinton campaign aides met at at Harvard University. The event turned out to be a not so civil affair.
Clinton aide Jennifer Palmeiri was on hand to represent her candidate Hillary Clinton. Palmeiri is famous for her WikiLeaks emails where she trashed Catholics and knocked Bill Clinton for not being someone she wants to spend time with.
Palmeiri and the Clinton team tried to paint Harvard graduate Trump Strategist Steve Bannon and President elect Donald Trump as a white supremacists. Conway responded to this nasty smear from this nasty woman with the following –
Do you think I won a campaign where white supremacist had a platform? Are you going to look me in the face and tell me that? Really? And that’s how you lost?
Do you think you could have just had a decent message for the white working class voters? Do you think this woman who has nothing in common with anybody? Do you think that we flipped over 200 counties that President Obama won and Donald Trump just won, you think that’s because of what you just said or because people aren’t ready for a woman President, really?
How bout’ it’s Hillary Clinton? She doesn’t connect with people. How bout’ they had nothing in common with her? How bout you had no economic message?
The next time that Conway and Palmeiri debate may be from Palmeiri’s jail cell. Another WikiLeaks email showed Palmeiri was involved in and confirmed that the Clinton camp conspired to withhold emails from State Department investigators during their recent investigation.
‘TRUMP RALLY’ Sets Market Records – Shatters New Highs!
The ‘TRUMP MARKET RALLY’ (i.e. a Bull Market that is ‘Yuge’ and ‘Bigly’) continues to shatter the record books. Since Trump won the Presidential election on November 8th the US stock market has reacted with record setting new highs.
Out of 16 days since the election, the Dow has reached all time closing highs nine of these days! Another four of these days the Dow landed at its second highest close ever!
For more than 50% of the closings since the election, the Dow has reached new highs. For more than 80% of the closing bells the Dow has either reached a new high or its second highest closing to date. For only three days since the election, the Dow has not reached one of these two milestones!
Expectations are high with Trump as President elect. Reduced taxes, more jobs like those already saved at Carrier in Indiana and trade deals that put the US first are all pushing the Trump Market.
The rollback & replacement of stupid growth-constricting regulations will also make it less advantageous to leave US https://t.co/OUq3tNZs4i
— slone (@slone) December 1, 2016
Bank stocks rose nearly 19% in November and notched their best month in history! The US dollar has reached 13 year highs! No President elect and now possibly no market has reached such heights as the Trump Market since the election.
Even with all this winning, there are still liberals who want to report ‘Fake News’ about these exciting results. One liberal report noted that “Consumer confidence soared to a nine-year high in November despite Donald Trump’s upset victory”.
such a dumb, bias and belittling spin:
“Consumer confidence soared to a nine-year high in November despite Donald Trump’s upset victory” https://t.co/DdIo4GHhbM
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) November 29, 2016
Regardless of how the ‘Fake’ Mainstream Media reports it – this is clearly a Trump Market Rally.
Hilarious Christmas Video: “It’s the Most Wonderful Time in 8 Years”
This Christmas video is guaranteed to make your holiday season bright – “It’s the Most Wonderful Time in 8 Years!”
Hat tip GiddyUp
NY Times Columnist Shares Myth of Reagan Being Racist on MSNBC Al Sharpton Show
As reported at newsbusters.org, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert was on the Al Sharpton show and made an assertion about Reagan that is deceptive and threadbare from overuse on the left. Guest Herbert said that
Trump didn’t occur in a vacuum …after Ronald Reagan secured the Republican nomination for president in 1980, his first stop was Philadelphia, Miss., where the three civil rights workers had been murdered …
The liberal lying media has reported for years that Reagan made this speech but neglects to tell you that it was not his first speech after the RNC in 1980. He also held a rally in Houston with George Bush (July 19), his welcome-home rally in Los Angeles (also on July 19), and his appearance at an Olympic event (held in lieu of the US boycotting the Moscow Olympics) in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 2. The Mississippi event was a big event in a state that Jimmy Carter had won in 1976 and that Reagan eventually won by less than 12,000 votes over Carter.
To no one’s surprise Reagan’s speech was anything but racist. In typical Reagan fashion he criticized the size of the federal government, the size of welfare and he cheered on states’ rights. Yes, Trump does sound a lot like Reagan.
Reagan was no racist and don’t let the left in using their only argument tell you he was. Oh, and Trump is not racist either. Period.
Trump Punks Liberal Media Again: Flag Burning Comments Consistent with Hillary in 2005!
Trump supporter waves American flag at Trump Lakeland, FL rally Oct 12, 2016
Donald Trump today punked the mainstream media (MSM) again with his tweet about holding people accountable for burning the US flag. The MSM went off on Trump sharing that his position was unconstitutional, etc… However, an in depth review shows that the ‘Flag Protection Act of 2005’ was sponsored by non other than Hillary Clinton.
Trump does it again! The last time Congress proposed a Flag Protection Act it was written by….Senator Hillary Clinton!#4DChess pic.twitter.com/TFRlIpBLRU
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 29, 2016
Trump knows how to play the nasty MSM like no Republican politician ever –
Trump woke up like “how will I make the liberal media look ridiculous today “
First Amendment pic.twitter.com/SSqLgKxg7u
— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) November 29, 2016
‘Bigly’ and ‘Yuge’ ‘TRUMP MARKET’ Creating New DOW Highs!!!
Since the Trump win in the Presidential election on November 8th the US stock market has benefitted from a ‘Trump Market’.
Our definition of a ‘Trump Market’ is a ‘Bull’ market that is ‘Yuge’ and ‘Bigly’.
The Dow has reached all time highs 8 out of 14 days since the election (November 9th through 29th). That’s more than 50% of the time and that’s ‘Bigly’. The last Dow closing high before the election was in August.
Even with these incredible results, which no doubt have never been repeated in US history after a Presidential election, the liberal mainstream media denigrates its importance. One liberal report noted that “Consumer confidence soared to a nine-year high in November despite Donald Trump’s upset victory”.
After the Dow reaching a new high on Friday the 25th, it was slightly lower on Monday the 28th and then reached it’s second highest close ever on Tuesday at 19,121. This prompted the ultra liberal Washington Post to note that the market had stalled.
Stocks were on a Donald Trump rally. Here’s why they’ve hit the brakes. #Tuesdaythought https://t.co/YM3yqQnScl
— STOCK MONSTER ELECT (@Darren32895836) November 29, 2016
Regardless of how the mainstream media coin’s it – time to get ready for the Bigly Trump Market.
Stringent PA Laws That Protect Democrat Voter Fraud May Prevent Hillary Recount in Pennsylvania from Stealing US Election
As reported late last week, Corrupt Hillary Clinton appeared to be making an attempt to steal the 2016 Presidential election from Donald Trump. In an effort to remain anonymous, Corrupt Hillary solicited the services of the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
Stein started fundraising online last week and raised more than $6 million to pay for the recounts but the manner in which money was donated raised some concerns. Her fund received $160,000 every hour on the hour which raised concerns that she was being paid off by some entity other than individual donors. These were not random people donating at 3am to her campaign but rather some “bot” that increased her account by this amount on the hour.
On Friday Stein filed for a recount in Wisconsin where she won less than 31,000 votes to Trump’s more than 1.4 million votes. On Monday November 28th Stein mounted a legal challenge in Pennsylvania. Apparently technically the Pennsylvania challenge came from voters. It is suspected that Stein will also challenge Michigan results on Wednesday. If Stein overturns Trump’s wins in these three states, Hillary would win the election. However, no recount has overturned a margin even as large as Michigan, the tightest contest of the three states potentially contested.
The problem with Pennsylvania’s recount process though for Stein and Clinton is that according to state law three voters in each precinct or election district in Pennsylvania must submit a notarized affidavit to the clerk in their individual election districts in order to initiate a recount. There are 9,163 precincts in Pennsylvania. As of noon Monday,
the Philadelphia city Board of Elections had received petitions for 35 of the 1,686 voting divisions in Philadelphia, according to City Commissioner Al Schmidt. By 5:30 p.m., that number was 74— about 4 percent of the city’s total divisions.
Stein needed more than 5,000 people in Philadelphia alone to sign petitions to file for a recount and would have had to mobilize about 30,000 people statewide to get a full recount going in Pennsylvania.
The laws in Pennsylvania are so stringent that it makes it nearly impossible to have a recount in the state. Unfortunately for Republicans there have been numerous mentions of fraud over the years in the city of Philadelphia alone. For example in 2012, in 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote.
The Pennsylvania laws prevent a recount in areas like Philadelphia where there is good reason to suspect Democrat fraud. This year these same stringent laws may prevent Hillary from stealing the US election.
Tim Kaine Tweets About Gun Violence at Ohio State
Senator Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s VP candidate, is back in the news. Today he tweeted after the incident at Ohio State –
Deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning. Praying for the injured and the entire Buckeye community.
Will fake news media run hysterical stories on this obviously dishonest report? pic.twitter.com/aOHdb7iatQ
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 28, 2016
A Somali student ran into a group of fellow students with his car and then got out and stabbed a few more. The terrorist was killed by a campus police officer with a gun.
Thank God this clown is not our VP-elect.
Shock Report: George Soros Behind Hillary Election Steal
George Soros is connected to Hillary’s election steal per information from a new report.
As reported earlier the election steal was put into motion when a group of ‘experts’ reviewed the election results and then reported that there appeared to be election fraud. However, a member from the group of ‘experts’ happens to be voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz. Bonifaz is also happens to be connected with George Soros when he launched the National Voting Rights Institute In 1994. Bonifaz was the Institute’s President.
#JohnBonifaz helped #Soros launch Nat Voting Rights Inst in 1994… Now represents #JillStein (coincidence?) https://t.co/ctobGFo50m
— Freedom Reigns (@ReignsFreedom) November 28, 2016
This is all certainly shocking but no surprise. Hillary and Soros are in this for the steal.
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Quinta-feira , Julho 18, 2019
Sony's Stealth Released a New PS4 Pro Model, and It's Quieter
Novembro 08, 2018 21:38·
Sony Play Station 4 Pro Gets a Quieter Model With a Silent Launch
The CUH-7200 model of the device seemingly uses a new power supply, which has lowered the noise output of the PlayStation 4 Pro. Digital Foundry have reviewed the new unit and have confirmed that it no longer sounds like a jet engine during intense gaming moments.
This new model runs a few decibels quieter than a previously updated version Sony released in 2017, which itself ran a few decibels quieter than the original 2016 model. That makes for a six-to-seven-decibel noise reduction from the launch model. Arguably, the existence of the Pro has spurred on the adoption and continued development of reconstruction and temporal-based rendering techniques that have allowed relatively modest hardware to punch above its weight in addressing the next generation of display technology - technologies that will surely persist into development for the next wave of consoles. However, it is still not as quiet as the Xbox One X.
Having your console whirring away is an unwelcome distraction and one that you'd rather avoid if you could.
The latest PS4 Pro ships with the model number "CUH-7200", which the second revised PS4 Pro on the market.
The caveat is that the only way to acquire this new version of the PS4 Pro is to buy a Red Dead Redemption 2 Bundle, which is available in various forms (some with additional games).
Euro, deeper integration at stake in Italy budget row - ministers
The much watched "spread" - the gap between German and Italian bond yields - has grown to around 300 basis points, up from around 130 in the first quarter of 2018.
1st Somali-American in Congress on her journey to making history
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Expressions of disciplinarity and individuality in a multimodal genre
Christine M. Tardy
Computers and Composition Volume 22, Number 3 ISSN 8755-4615 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Recent research has illuminated some of the ways in which multilingual writers project multiple identities in their writing, conveying disciplinary allegiances as well as more personal expressions of individuality. Such work has focused on the writers’ uses of various verbal expressions, but has to this point overlooked the ways in which they manipulate the visual mode as a means for identity expression. The present study examines expressions of identity in a corpus of multimodal texts written by four multilingual graduate student writers. I consider how the writers’ uses of various verbal and visual expressions in their Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slides project both disciplinarity and individuality and how each individual's habitus has been influenced by both the discourses they have encountered and their personal reactions towards those discourses.
Tardy, C.M. Expressions of disciplinarity and individuality in a multimodal genre. Computers and Composition, 22 (3), 319-336. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved July 18, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/204596/.
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Sometimes, perhaps owing to under-powered marketing efforts or Byzantine movie business politics, or just to chicken studio execs, certain films lacking blockbuster stars or other standard pedigrees get undeservedly lost in the noise. These are some examples.
Saving Grace stars Tom Conti as the modern-day Pope Leo XIV who one day finds himself accidentally locked outside the Vatican walls. Intrigued by the possibilities, he wanders around Rome, trying to blend in with the local populace in order to get some feeling for what an ordinary life might be like. Before long, he ends up in a small, nondescript village which just happens to need a new priest, a role he slips into easily. While the pampered, isolated and self-centered Vatican staff (is it possible even to imagine a Curia without Fernando Rey?) drive themselves to distraction trying to cover for the pope’s absence even as they desperately attempt to get him back, the pontiff finds himself absorbed in the lives of his new parishioners and strangely moved by the ordinary travails of ordinary people.
This film studiously avoids grand gesture and cheap sentiment, concentrating instead on the insightful portrayal of how important things can take place in unimportant lives. There are a multitude of charming moments, beautifully underplayed by the talented Conti (Ruben, Ruben) in a marvelously restrained and subtle performance. The occasional cuts between the pope’s highly personal sojourn into the countryside and the consternation among his Vatican handlers that the great man himself would rub shoulders with peasants provides cutting commentary on the arrogant isolation of the church hierarchy from the daily lives of the faithful. That the little village is practically walking distance from the church’s seat of power makes that disconnection all the more poignant.
But don’t get the impression that Saving Grace is a political statement. It’s a sweetly sorrowful and ultimately uplifting labor of love by some caring filmmakers, and whatever commentary it offers is smoothly woven into the story with humor and, well…saving grace.
One wonders how Threshold ever got made, since the pitch for it would be difficult to make very exciting, but I suspect Donald Sutherland had something to do with it. He plays a renowned heart surgeon collaborating with Jeff Goldblum’s engineer on a fully self-contained artificial heart. Goldblum’s character is the sole spot of freneticism in this movie in which the rest of the characters act like real people might if they were unaware that a camera was present. There are no histrionics, nobody even raises a voice, to the point where you sometimes have to strain to hear what is being said. So all of the emotion and tension is transmitted strictly by the words they speak and the situations that develop, and this masterful handling of events and human interactions is strangely powerful and affecting.
As if to underscore the non-cinematic reality of what is taking place, there are unexpected turns that no big-budget producer would have allowed. Mare Winningham, in one of her earliest major film roles, is the young girl who receives the artificial heart with no advanced warning. While she is on the operating table (in a scene that uncomfortably demythologizes any illusions we might have held about patient dignity during surgery), Sutherland discovers that her heart is beyond repair. He elects to defy the hospital’s medical board and install the artificial heart. When Winningham awakens out of anesthesia, we expect the typical celebration of successful defiance of moribund authority in the face of radical lifesaving; after all, the new device worked to perfection.
But this film isn’t about satisfying our Hollywood-accustomed desires. Winningham is confused and terrified by the strange device clicking away in her chest, beside herself with anxiety because she’s suddenly unsure if she’s really still human. Sutherland’s surgeon, expecting at least a little gratitude, is totally thrown by this surprising reaction. He’s a mechanic, after all, and he never stopped to consider the human implications on this one particular patient.
The film’s ending is unnervingly beautiful, too. We expect the surgeon to win the Pritzker Prize and be carried through the streets on the shoulders of his colleagues, his entire life transformed into a series of television interviews and lucrative speaking engagements as the credits roll and triumphant music swells.
Instead, he simply starts just another typical day, and we leave him as he routinely plans another round of surgeries and meetings.
There’s no real beginning, middle or end to the events that transpire in the film. Instead, it’s more like we happen upon some interesting people at a point in their lives when something quietly momentous is occurring, hang around for a while, and then leave when it’s basically over. That’s why it must have been a difficult pitch. It’s also why it’s a wonderful picture.
Jackknife is a small film that packs a huge emotional wallop. I’m not going to say much about it beyond urging you to see it, but I will warn you that it’s one of those that marketers and the critics they influence tend to refer to as uplifting and redemptive, but is in fact sad and depressing.
Ed Harris, in one of his best roles, plays a Vietnam veteran so scarred by his wartime experiences that he has shut down like a faulty nuclear power plant, sealing off nearly all the entryways to his emotions and capacity for human contact. He is living with his sister, brilliantly portrayed by Kathy Baker, whom he has pretty much managed to drag down into his personal hell with him.
Robert DeNiro, an army buddy, arrives on the scene as the self-appointed savior on a mission to rescue Harris from his demons. How it happens is so harrowing and powerful it makes you wince to watch it. The emotional pace is relentless, the performances searing, and the only reason the movie wasn’t the big hit it deserved to be was because, well, it isn’t exactly the kind of flick that leaves you humming the love theme on your way out of the theatre.
And, finally, there’s Big Night. There’s an emotional connection here with 29th Street, insofar as it involves a love-hate relationship within an Italian-American family, but there the similarity ends. Where 29th Street is a bravura showpiece of deep feelings exploding unrestrained all over the screen, Big Night is more of an elegant museum piece in which passions are quietly displayed in a more contemplative setting. Also, where 29th Street has a linear plot with a climactic and satisfying resolution, Big Night shares its story concept with Threshold: both are slices of life centering on an important event, at the end of which the characters simply return to normal and the film ends.
Stanley Tucci, who co-directed, and Tony Shalhoub (who single-handedly made Quick Changeunmissable) play Italian immigrant brothers, Secundo and Primo (get it?), who are struggling to make a go of their gourmet restaurant. Secundo is the businessman and schmoozer concerned about pleasing customers and obtaining financing. Primo, on the other hand, is a culinary artist of the first rank, an uncompromising perfectionist who refuses even to prepare a side order of pasta for a customer who is supposed to be eating risotto because her plebeian tastes brand her "a criminal."
Tucci’s Secundo is torn between his respect for his brother’s high standards and the need to make enough money to keep the business afloat. But his exhortations to Primo to accede just slightly to his customer’s desires are snidely rebuffed at every turn, and it’s killing him to watch the wild success of his competitor directly across the street, who fills his eatery to capacity nightly by catering to every garish and tasteless whim.
What action there is focuses on one big night in which Louis Prima himself is expected to visit the restaurant. The brothers put everything they have, financially and emotionally, into preparing the kind of feast not seen since ancient Rome in order to impress the popular singer and perhaps achieve some notoriety for their beleaguered establishment.
Tucci and Shalhoub hit all the right notes in this beautiful film without raising their voices (except in one scene) or making a single superfluous gesture. These two terrific performances are like icebergs, where you only see ten percent directly but the ninety percent below the surface is firmly present and undeniable. There is plenty of humor but it only hides the real desperation, as in a scene where Primo tries to talk a loan officer into some leniency.
And the ending is one of pure theatrical brilliance. Secundo fixes breakfast for Primo, and not one word is spoken. That’s it. Imagine how that pitch would sound to a studio exec, but then watch how it’s pulled off in the movie.
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Interview: Younger Than Me
Italian duo Younger Than Me kicks off the year strong with some exciting news surrounding Tusk Wax’ sub-label 90’s Wax and shares a track in front of their second record on the UK-based imprint.
Remember that 90’s Wax debut release from last year? We do! Four tracks of heavy-fueled nineties rave euphoria rapped into a contemporary setting with a high enough octane level to burn every dance floor to a crisp. Previous released as a ‘Unknown Artist’ outing, we’re stoked to bring you the guys responsible for the project, as they make their second appearance on the Tusk Wax sub-label with another set of goodies.
Casually strolling out of the shadows are the Italian Younger Than Me guys! With an especially solid year behind them, releasing a highly-lauded EP on SHMLSS’ XXX record label and Tusk Wax, the Milan-based duo opens up about the 90’s Wax project, their second outing on the label, connection to Amsterdam and things to come.
Welcome guys, good having you here! How have you been and where do we find you today?
Hello, we’re glad to be here! We really love your work and LIQUID YOUTH. We are currently recovering from the Christmas and NYE holidays. We had a lot of traditional food and spent time with our Italian families. Now ready to work again!
You’ve some exciting news to share, but before diving into that let’s reflect on 2018 a bit, which has been an amazing year for you with some very well-received releases on the XXX label, Tusk Wax and their 90’s Wax sub-label. Must feel good?
Yes, it was a really good year for us. After 4 years since we started this project, the past 12 months were very intense. We feel the Younger Than Me project finally has an own sound identity and perhaps an idea of what you can expect if you come to listen to our music. It’s also weird because in those releases you can find 5 different “genres” of music, but who likes genres anyway? Music is music and this is Younger Than Me’s identity… without scheme, genres or classification.
I have to say guys, I felt a heavy Younger Than Me presence in Amsterdam this year. Not all that surprising with releases on Bordello A Parigi and XXX, next to keeping close ties to both crews. Tell us a little about your connection to the city and experiences with the scene here.
Yeah it’s nice how we have this connection with Holland, our first and second release was for Bordello a Parigi, last year we released on the XXX label from SHMLSS and in 2019 we’ll stamp for BAR record, the new label from the Rotterdam crew. We really love the whole Dutch scene, you have the cool clubs, strong labels, best festivals and great channels and magazine. We are true fans and a little jealous of your exciting scene. Last time that we played in Amsterdam was at Thuishaven for the winter opening and it was amazing! We played everything we wanted and the crowd was very receptive.
Are there any other personal highlights that you’ll carry into 2019 with especially warm memories?
Last year we started touring a bit more and discovered new places like Lithuania for example. We definitely fell in love with it.. the people are so friendly and super curious to listen your music and this made us really happy! We love that kind of vibe! Renate in Berlin is another cool spot where we always feel at home, they are a proper family. We played there twice in past and excited to go back in a couple of months. We also started our residency in Dude club Milan and recently a collaboration with Orchid AM Agency.
The reason why we’re here today; 90’s Wax! Previously released as an unknown artist outing, you guys are ready to lift the mystery surrounding that extremely well-received debut EP. Tell us a little about the development of the EP and why you initially chose to release it without the Younger Than Me label attached to it.
Yes! Finally, after one year from the first release, we can finally announce that Younger Than Me is behind the 90’s Wax project. With 90’s Wax we wanted to bring back some smiles and good vibes onto the dance floor. We are sons of the 90s, with all its facets, and the way to approach clubbing at the time was with a smile, that’s why it was a very used symbol in artwork and flyers. We were mainly inspired by the UK ravers scene, Guerrilla Records, R&S, Xl Rec, ect. We tried to actualize it without taking away the party mood! This is 90’s Wax pure rave euphoria!
As first release of Tusk Wax’s sub-label 90’s, can you shine some light on how the whole idea of starting a new label for the release came into play with the Tusk Wax crew?
So before the first 90’s Wax release, we already booked our Tusk Wax 27. We worked on these tracks at the time and thought if we could release those on Tusk Wax as well? The label already had a sub label named Horn Wax and Trance Wax. We talked with the Tusk guys about the idea, and he suggested to release the first one without name for 2 reasons; firstly because in the same year our Tusk Wax was out, and secondly because it’s always a good idea to create some Unknown Artist hype for the start of a new project, like Trance Wax did in the past.
The label’s outset is to revitalise 90’s rave classics with a new spin. Tell us a little about your own background and connection to the 90’s rave era and your first encounters with those tracks.
As we told you before, we are sons of 90’s. We are ravers first and when we went to a party we went with a smile, a lot of energy and positive mindset. With this project we want to try to revitalize, not just the sound, but the spirt of those years. In our sets, we play a lot of jams from the 90’s, strong but happy, crazy but also full of soul.
Now, a year later, the second record of the 90’s Wax series is about to hit the shelves. Did you approach this record any different than the first one?
In the second outing, we explored the same scene but in other countries like Belgium, perhaps the most representative country of the movement, but also Germany and not to mention the Italian scene with Francesco Farfa, Insomnia Disco, ect.
How did you guys go about choosing the tracks that you wanted to work on and reimagine for the second outing?
We would like to clarify that all 90’s Wax stuff is original work, not edits. But for sure, inspiration is an important step to do this, not only for these releases but for all our stuff. Listening to music is a very important thing.
Will we see Younger Than Me return for the third outing any time soon?
Of course mate! We trust in this project and in our scope to put more smiles on the dance floor, so take your favorite sneakers and come to dance with us <3
What else can we expect from Younger Than me in the near future?
For sure some new releases like the one on BAR Records. An EP for a new series on Nein Records called Nein Black. A couple of remixes for Duro and Dogs & Vultures and also we are thinking to do our first album and a live set, but at the moment it’s only a thought. We hope to find a lot of possibilities to spread our music around. We love play, it’s our lifeblood! We are working with a good friend and amazing artist on a new EP “Wave Rave“ but that’s just a draft at the moment. Hope you we’ll have more news about that the near future. Thanks for everything, Ciao! Francesco & Marcello YTM
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Aleppo: Reports of Executions as Syrian Army Closes In
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You've Got Mail | 1998
You've Got Mail filming location: the little independent bookstore: West 69th Street, West Side, New York
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Tom Hanks,
Meg Ryan,
Greg Kinnear,
Parker Posey,
Jean Stapleton,
Steve Zahn,
Dave Chappelle,
Dabney Coleman,
Michael Badalucco,
Chris Messina
Following the huge success of Sleepless In Seattle, Nora Ephron re-teams Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in an e-mail-age updating of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 romance The Shop Around The Corner, transferred to New York’s comfy Upper East Side.
Indie bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly (Ryan), as ‘Shopgirl’, exchanges cutesy messages with the sweet-sounding ‘NY152’, blissfully unaware that behind the name lurks Joe Fox (Hanks), heir to the megastore chain threatening to put her out of business.
Apart from one major cheat, the film plays fair with its West Side setting. ‘The Shop Around The Corner’, where Kathleen devotes herself to selling children’s books, was a little cafe. But – wouldn’t you guess – it closed down, and the premises is now La Mode Organic Cleaners, 106 West 69th Street, at Columbus Avenue.
You might assume that Kathleen lives locally, but her apartment is 20 blocks north, at 328 West 89th Street, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive.
Ignore the ‘152 Riverside Drive’ address – that’s simply to justify Joe’s online name – ‘NY152’ lives a mere four blocks north of her. His home is the side entrance, on West 93rd Street, of 210 Riverside Drive.
You've Got Mail filming location: the ‘Fox and Sons Books’ chainstore: West 17th Street at 7th Avenue, Chelsea, New York
The one really big cheat is the ‘Fox & Sons Books’ megastore. Supposedly in the neighbourhood and thus a major competitor to Kathleen’s modest establishment, the store is way down on West 17th Street at 7th Avenue in Chelsea.
You've Got Mail filming location: Kathleen and Joe pass each other at the coffee shop: Starbucks, Broadway, Upper West Side, New York
Both Kathleen and Joe frequent the same branch of Starbucks, 2252 Broadway at West 81st Street. This seems an odd choice or someone so concerned with large chains driving out local businesses.
Joe relates to Kathleen the anecdote about the bulk flour delivery to the bakery, where every night a ton of flour is pitched into underground tanks. It was H&H Bagels, which stood at 2239 Broadway at 80th Street, until closing in early 2012.
When Joe’s relationship with Patricia (Parker Posey) begins to fray, he moves out to live on the water at the 79th Street Boat Basin, 79th Street at the Hudson River – incidentally, the only place in New York you can moor your boat the year round.
You've Got Mail filming location: Joe helps Kathleen out with his credit card: Zabar’s, Broadway, Upper West Side, New York
Among other businesses patronised by both Kathleen and Joe is legendary West Side deli Zabar’s, 2245 Broadway at West 80th Street, where Joe manages to embarrass Kathleen by helping out when she finds herself in the cash-only line. Zabar’s has been around a long time – it pops up in Woody Allen’s 1979 Manhattan.
You've Got Mail filming location: Kathleen waits to meet ‘NY152’: Cafe Lalo, West 83rd Street, Upper West Side, New York
When it comes to meeting her mysterious correspondent, Kathleen makes an inspired choice, visually. The European-style restaurant festooned with fairy lights is Cafe Lalo, 201 West 83rd Street, at Amsterdam Avenue. Famous for its great range of indulgent desserts, the only fly in the ointment is the appearance of Joe Fox.
You've Got Mail filming location: Kathleen chats with her friend about the West Side becoming the ‘book district’: Barney Greengrass, Amsterdam Avenue, Upper West Side, New York
Another longstanding West Side favourite is ‘The Sturgeon King’, Barney Greengrass, 541 Amsterdam Avenue, at West 86th Street, where Kathleen remains upbeat, reassuring her friend Birdie (Jean Stapleton) that the area could become the new ‘Book District’. Greengrass has been serving smoked fish and its famed Jewish deli food since 1908, and has been at this address since 1929. More recently, the restaurant became the base of operations from which young Oskar Schell sets out on his expeditions in Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close.
You've Got Mail filming location: Kathleen and Joe speculate about NY152: Ocean Grill, Columbus Avenue, Upper West Side, New York
And now a sad loss. The terrace cafe where Kathleen speculates unwittingly to Joe about her online friend was the luxury-liner style Ocean Grill, which for 18 years occupied 382 Columbus Avenue at West 78th Street, until closing in 2015.
You've Got Mail filming location: Kathleen and Joe meet up: Gray’s Papaya, West 69th Street, West Side, New York
As things between them begin to thaw, Kathleen and Joe meet up at Gray’s Papaya, 2090 Broadway at 72nd Street. Gray’s is famed for its hot dogs – the ‘papaya’ is a fruit drink accompaniment. You can see Gray’s in the background as Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson solve the ‘As I was going to St Ives...’ riddle in Die Hard With A Vengeance.
It’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that, yes, Kathleen and Joe get together at the end, with a kiss-and-make-up at the 91st Street Garden of Riverside Park.
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Has al-Qaeda Replanted its Flag in Syria?
On February 27, pro-al-Qaeda (AQ) Telegram channels began distributing a statement from a group calling itself “Hurras al-Deen” (“Guardians of the Religion”). In its inaugural message, the group demanded action regarding besieged Eastern Ghouta, chiding Muslims for “eating and drinking and living joyfully” during such humanitarian atrocities. It promised Muslims in Ghouta:
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Margaret Foster
The Islamic State’s (IS) coordinated terror attack staged throughout Paris on the evening of November 13, 2015—Europe’s most deadly urban terror attack in over a decade—signal a simultaneous return to jihadi ideological roots as well as a new era in tactical evolution and strategic ambition.
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A brilliantly entertaining novel about memory, time, art and how humans connect at every level. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend.
We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.
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Richard K Shirk was born in Syracuse, New York, on 24 July 1924. A professional photographer, he began his career in 1939 at the Grosse Point News in Michigan. In 1942, he worked for B F Goodrich in Ohio before joining the United States Army Air Force in 1943 as a photographer. After initial training in Colorado he was attached to the 155th Night Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, based in Somerset and Oxfordshire, England. He became a photography crew chief, improvising equipment and repairing aerial cameras and worked with Dr Harold Edgerton on the development of electronic flash for night photography.
When off-duty, Shirk photographed bomb damage, local surroundings, landscapes, air force life and the local population. His interest in reportage photography continued when the squadron was based in northern France and later in Gemany, over which he also took many hundreds of aerial photographs using his personal camera. In addition to unique reportage photographs, he took noteworthy oblique aerial photographs of bomb damaged German cities, the bridge at Remagen and Dachau concentration camp whilst still occupied by prisoners.
After the war, Shirk attended Kenyon College, Ohio, married and started a family. He served an apprenticeship in commercial advertising photography under Charles Kerlee in New York and in 1950 he established his own photographic business in Detroit, Michigan, specialising in automotive and architectural photography. Over the following nineteen years, hee expanded his studio and undertook commissions for various companies including Bendix Corporation, 3M Corporation and Dow Chemical Company.
Shirk retired from commercial photography in 1975, devoting himself to teaching, at Western Michigan University and Wayne State University, and fine art photography. Shirk and his wife moved to Monterey County, California in 1984. He died in 1985.
Conditions Governing Access Catalogued and available on the NCAP website.
Custodial History The photographs were held by Beth Shirk, daughter of Richard Shirk, who gifted them to NCAP after watching the PBS documentary '3D Spies of WWII' in 2012.
Other Finding Aids Electronic index on NCAP website.
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Scope and Contents The photographs show bomb damage, local surroundings, landscapes, air force life and the local population in England, as well as oblique aerial photographs of bomb damaged German cities, the bridge at Remagen and Dachau concentration camp.
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Photo by Tyler Lamb / Sports Editor The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders put their 8-game winning streak on the line when they took on Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond, Virginia. The matchup was back-and-forth the entire second half, but the streak that started on Nov. 22 over Toledo concluded in an 80-77 loss on Saturday. The offense …
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Government’s Displaced Plan?
On June 23, 2008 the Gulf News reported that the Iraqi command in Baghdad had come up with a new plan to deal with Iraq’s displaced and refugees. The article said that in July security forces would set a deadline for all squatters to leave their residences in the capitol. That would pave the way for refugees to return to their homes, which the spokesman said would be a major part of the Baghdad security plan. The Missing Links blog added to the story from a release on the Shiite Badr Brigade militia’s website that said after the deadline for squatters expired, security forces would check homes and remove those that hadn’t left. For the last few years Iraq has had one of the greatest refugee problems in the world. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, 45,000 Iraqis have returned to Iraq, but there were still 2.7 million internally displaced and up to 2.5 million living in foreign countries. 60% of the refugees fled Baghdad because of the sectarian fighting. Returning the displaced would be a major step towards reconciliation in Iraq, but the government has not done a good job so far.
A Reluctant Government
The government’s plan comes in light of some harsh criticism aimed at Prime Minister Maliki, and his handling of the refugees crisis. In November 2007 Baghdad launched a public relations campaign claiming that the situation was improving. First they were caught inflating the number of refugees that were returning. Then Maliki created a media event by offering special buses to pick up refugees in Syria and bring them back with a cash reward. Only 2 trips were conducted before the plan was cancelled. At the same time they began airing commercials in Syria telling Iraqis to return. By December Baghdad changed course and told the displaced not to come home because they wouldn’t be taken care of. Instead it offered aid to those in foreign countries. Maliki promised $15 million for Syria, $8 million for Jordan, $2 million for Lebanon, and $40 million for the U.N.’s World Food Program. That too was criticized as not enough. Iraqi refugees in Jordan for example, have cost that country up to $2 billion over the last three years. The head of the Iraqi parliament’s committee on displaced said in June that the government needed to do more for the displaced within the country as well, and asked for $2 billion extra. He later said that the government wasn’t listening to his pleas. That would support an April report by Refugee International that claimed that the government didn’t really care about its refugee problem.
If the government comes through with its promise to force out squatters and return families that could be a major step towards solving the refugee crisis. However, Baghdad has not come through with its promises in the past. Despite swimming in oil money, it has only provided a fraction of the financing needed to take care of the displaced. The Migration Ministry has also been accused of being sectarian and only serving Shiites, while the majority of the displaced are Sunnis. Returning refugees is supposed to help overcome this divide, but the government maybe only perpetuating it. The words by the Prime Minister are welcomed, but they need to be backed up by more concrete action.
Abutareq, Marsi, “Iraq donates $40 million to feed its own refugees,” Azzaman, 5/30/08
Barnes-Dacey, Julien and Dagher, Sam, “Returning from Syria, Iraqis question safety,” Christian Science Monitor, 11/28/07
Bruno, Greg, “Refugees Return but Concerns Linger,” Council on Foreign Relations, 11/20/07
Buckley, Cara, “Refugees Risk Coming Home to an Unready Iraq,” New York Times, 12/20/07
Cave, Damien, “Pressure for Results: The Politics of Tallying the Number of Iraqis Who Return Home,” New York Times, 11/26/07
Dagher, Sam, “Aid shrinks as Iraq’s internal refugee tally grows,” Christian Science Monitor, 11/30/07
DeYoung, Karen, “Balkanized Homecoming,” Washington Post, 12/16/07
Evans, Robert, “One in five Iraqis displaced or refugees: agency,” 3/18/08
Gamel, Kim, “Many Iraqis long for home,” Associated Press, 5/28/08
Gulf News, “Baghdad squatters told to leave occupied homes,” 6/23/08
IRIN, “Internally displaced Iraqis demand government return them home,” 6/16/08
IraqSlogger.com, “IRCO: 25,000 Refugees back from Syria,” 12/1/07
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Mann, William, “Survey says 500,000 Iraqis fled fighting in 2007,” Associated Press, 6/20/08
Middle East Online, “Iraqi refugees scoff at boasts of improved security,” 3/19/08
Missing Links Blog, “Badr Org reports: Government will reverse the sectarian cleansing, by force if necessary, ‘before year-end,’” 6/24/08
Paley, Amit, “Iraq Urges Refugees To Stay Put,” Washington Post, 12/5/07
Pincus, Walter, “Iraq’s Slow Refugee Funding Has Ripple Effect,” Washington Post, 5/17/08
- “Iraqi Militias Offering Aid To Displaced,” Washington Post, 4/15/08
Voices of Iraq, “Displaced in Iraq up to 800,000 – UNHCR,” 6/17/08
- “MP criticizes govt. on displaced measures,” 6/1/08
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BT Callwise for Symbian phones
BT Callwise is a great new way for UK residents to help reduce the cost of calling abroad from your Symbian OS mobile phone up to 96%. You can make significant savings on the cost of calling both fixed and mobile phones abroad. And it doesn't matter which UK mobile service provider you use. BT Callwise lets you benefit from low international call prices from any UK mobile network. See this page for details. Software client for Series 60 and UIQ phones is available for download here.
[New] Legacy for 9500/9300
Redshift have released Nokia 9500/9300 compatible version of Legacy. Legacy is a classic-style RPG that contains every feature you'd expect from this genre. Incredible action, awesome sounds, intense combat, cunning puzzles, and game enhancing sound effects make this the RPG experience you've been waiting for. Trial version is available in our Downloads. Full version can be purchased in the Online store. Also take a look at the available Expansion packs.
OPL runtime now compatible with Series 80 2.0
The first Nokia 9500/9300 compatible version of OPL runtime (v1.53) is now available. It contains 9500/9300-specific changes to allow the OPL runtime to execute on Series 80 2.0 phones. The file is available in our Downloads and from OPL home page. Thanks to the 9500-compatible OPL runtimes, Nokia 9500/9300 Communicator users can now install and run all applications written in OPL for the 9210 Communicator, like for example all programs written by RMR Software.
Avantgo 2005 beta
Avantgo have announced new version 2005 of their client for both UIQ and Series 60 phones. Visit http://www.avantgo.com/beta2005 to get the beta version.
[New] Extended Recorder for 9500/9300
Extended Recorder implements a very important and useful function missing from Nokia 9300/9500: access to Digital Recorder from phone side and the ability to create voice notes and recording phone conversations without opening Communicator cover and browsing through several menus and screens on PDA side. Trial version is available in our Downloads. Full version can be purchased in the Online shop.
Symbian announces Q3 2004 results
Worldwide Symbian OS phone shipments rise in Q3 to 3.7 million, installed base reaches 19.2 million phones, 3,200 available applications, 38 products currently in development, 29 different phones from six manufacturers shipping in Q3 2004... Check detailed financial and operational figures for the third quarter @ Symbian.com.
[New] Disk Bench for 9210/9290
Disk Bench by Novosoft is a free and small utility to test speed of internal memory and MMC on Nokia 9210/9290 Communicator (doesn't seem to work on the new 9500/9300 models). You can use this software to test MMC before buying. The program is available in our Downloads.
New website devoted to Communicator
Dale Hubbard has launched a new website about the new Nokia 9500 Communicator. The website is called.... 9500 Communicator and can be reached here.
Symbian Graduate Program - 2005
Symbian is looking for new qualified employees. See this page to learn about the Graduate Program - 2005.
[New] Arabic localizations for 9500/9300
Psiloc have released Arabic and Arabic/Farsi/Urdu localization for Nokia 9500/9300 Communicator. The localization includes fonts, keyboard driver and localization library. Trial versions are available in our Downloads. Full version is available in the Online shop.
Nokia set to unify smartphone software
Nokia said on Wednesday it will create a single software platform for smart mobile phones that double as TVs, MP3 players, radios and e-mail devices. The company's chief executive, Jorma Ollila, told its annual Mobility conference, which was webcast, that the company's Series 90 software suite will be folded into Series 60.
Series 90 was slated to be the software engine for a range of entertainment and TV phones, while Series 60 is the most popular platform for smartphones used today, which have more limited entertainment functions and feature a smaller vertical display compared with entertainment phones.
"We're merging Series 90 into Series 60 into one robust platform," Ollila said.
Nokia hopes it will reduce fragmentation, and thus encourage more software developers to write programs for these new phones. "(And) it will lead to cost savings for operators and service providers", Ollila said.
[New] Plan for Nokia 9300/9500
Plan by Twiddlebit Software is similar to Microsoft Project but runs on the Nokia 9300/9500. The unique feature with Plan is that you can keep your project plans in your pocket and update them wherever you are. No longer are you tied to your PC - take your project plans with you in your pocket and update them on the move. Plan can be used as a stand-alone tool, but can also be used along side our desktop version of Plan or with Microsoft Project. Trial version is available in our Downloads. Full version can be purchased in the Online shop.
Smartner Duality Always-On Mail solution on Series 80 devices
Nokia today announced plans to bring a Symbian OS-based Smartner email solution to market on its Nokia Series 80-based mobile devices like the Nokia 9500 Communicator and the Nokia 9300 smartphone. The Nokia devices will support all the key components of Smartner's Duality Always-On Mail. Smartner's device independent push solution enables users to manage email, including attachments and calendar in real-time, receiving data on the Nokia Series 80 device and desktop simultaneously.
Jussi Räisänen, Co-Founder and Vice President at Smartner says, "We are pleased to extend our co-operation with Nokia to deliver push-email enabled mobile office solution to their series 80 devices. Our previous solution developed for the Series 60-based devices has proven a success and I have all the confidence that we can bring effective, easy-to-use wireless email experience also to all Nokia 9500 Communicator and Nokia 9300 users."
For individual mobile professionals, the Duality Always-On Mail enables push-based access to multiple existing business and/or personal email accounts from a single device. For corporations, Duality Always-On Mail tightly integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes email applications to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to email, calendar and contacts.
Read full press release @ Nokia.com.
Nokia 9500 Communicator receives Wi-Fi Certification
Nokia today announced the Nokia 9500 Communicator has been granted the IEEE 802-11b and WPA (Wireless Protected Access) certifications by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The Nokia 9500 Communicator is the first mobile device operating in both cellular and wireless LAN networks to receive this qualification. The Wi-Fi certification verifies that the product meets the compatibility and interoperability requirements under the standards identified by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a global organization that works to promote wireless LAN standards across all market segments. Read full press releaase @ Nokia.com.
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May 18, 2018 Heritage Florida Jewish News
PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 18, 2018 By Ben Cardin America is not good for its word and cannot be These are not mutually exclusive actions. trusted. It is in fact America who has violated Last year, Congress passed into law a num- WASHINGTON (JTA)--President Trump's its obligations under the deal. ber of sanctions and other tools President decision towithdrawthe United States from the That is a deeply unfortunate and frankly Trump could use to hold accountable three of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, knownas dangerously embarrassing prospect, because America's principle adversaries: Russia, North the Iran nuclear deal, is bad policyand calls into Iran is one of the most nefarious actors on Korea and Iran. I was proud to co-author and question America's international credibility, the world stage, playing a destabilizing role negotiate that legislation through to final Mr. Trump has now set the international across the Middle East and proudly carrying passage. community on a slippery slope, imperiling the the mantle of the greatest nation-state threat President Trump has not used the full power national security interests of the United States to Israel today, of his office, or the additional tools Congress and our allies, particularly Israel. TheAyatollah and the hard-liners in Tehran granted him, to strengthen our hand and lead I voted against the Iran nuclear deal three have propped up Bashar al-Assad's murderous the international community against Iran. years ago because I felt it left certain long-term rampage against the Syrian people and pro- It did not have to end up this way. questions about Iran's enrichment capabilities pelled the collapse of that country's economy In 2015, as President Obama was nearing unanswered. Since it was entered into how- and infrastructure--direct, physical threats conclusionoftheJCPOAnegotiations, Iworked ever, I have worked to ensure there is rigorous to Israel. Tehran has fueled the civil war in Ye- with Senator Bob Corker in our capacities as enforcement and oversight of the deal. Three men and exacerbated the gross humanitarian the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations years in, Iran is complying with its end of the crisis borne out of that conflict. And day by Committee to write the Iran Nuclear Agree- nuclear bargain, according to international day, Iranseeksandseeminglyachievesgreater ment Review Act. That bill asserted Congress' observersandAmericanintelligenceofficials, influenceoverthecentralgovernmentinIraq, right to review any agreements reached as But the United States is now breaking the I agree with President Trump's concerns part of the effort to keep Iran from acquir- deal, poised to re-impose sanctions that were about Iran's global posture and its non-nuclear ing a nuclear weapon. INARA passed each lifted on Iran for the promise of ceasing their actions. But we can keep the nuclear deal chamber of Congress with near unanimous nuclear weapons program, working while also going after Tehran for its support and brought greater accountability President Trump has breathed air into Teh- support for terrorism, its human rightsabuses and understanding to the American people ran's inevitable argument to the international against the Iranian people, its ballistic missile about the nuclear deal and why it was in our community: We kept our end of the deal, but testing, and its violation of arms embargoes, interests. Donald Trump then became president and Iranian eaction when soughttomakegoodonhiscampaignpromise r to tear up the deal. For months throughout 2017, I worked with then-White House National confronted with force Security Advisor, GeneralH.R. McMaster, to brainstorm possible changes to INARA that would not violate two of my principles: no changes that would have the U.S. violate its JCPOA obligations, and no changes without European concurrence. By Harold Rhode negotiations, where Obamaand his allies caved in to Iranian demands time after time. (JNS)--While we cannot know the future, As I wrote in an article for the Jerusalem past history gives a good indication of how Center for Public Affairs on the sources of Iranians react when confronted with force. Iranian negotiating behavior: "Compromise Iranians fear confrontation.Theymostoften [as we in the West understand this concept] get others to do their dirty work so that oth- is seen as a sign of submission and weakness. ers would be forced to take the blame. That's For Iranians, it actually brings shame on those why they created Hezbollah, which carried [and on the families of those] who concede." out terrorist acts for which Hezbollah would But when President Trump took office, the be held responsible. An example of this is the Iranians feared the worst. Not long thereafter, 1982 bombing of the American embassy in they stopped harassing American boats in the Lebanon. Americans blamed that organiza- Gulf, and used many indirect actors to try to tion for the destruction of the embassy, but convince Washington that it wanted to get focused U.S. action on Lebanon, instead of alongwithAmerica. ButTrump first chose his going to the source: Iran. original foreign-policy team for the American But when Iranian fears fear they might political establishment. That signaled to the suffer direct retaliation, they usually cower. Iraniansthattheycouldprobablygetawaywith Two example illustrate this: continuing their plan to dominate the Middle 1. After the Iranian Islamic revolution in East.Butwhenhereplacedtheseestablishment 1979, the Iranians took over the U.S. embassy figures with the new Secretary of State Mike indirectviolationofinternationallaw.America Pompeo and National Security Adviser John reacted with words and did not use force. Bolton, the Iranians feared the game was up. When America eventually did try to use force Their senior leaders startedto publicly bicker in the Tabas operation, it failed miserably and with and blame each other, which in Iranian was humiliated.Whenandwhy did the Iranians culture almost always shows fear on their part. release the Americans? They fear they are going down. Ronald Reagan won the U.S. presidential One might therefore think that Iran would election in 1980 and took office on Jan. 20, instruct its proxy Hezbollah to send rockets 1981. Forty-five minutes before he took the to attack Israel. But if the United States and Oath of Office, Iran brought the hostages to Israel make it clear that they would hold Iran the airport in Tehran and flew them out of the directly responsible for Hezbollah's actions, country. The hostages left Iranian airspace at Iran's would most likely hold Hezbollah back. the very moment that Reagan raised his right But it is also likely that Iran would cower/ hand and was sworn in as president, cave to America and Israel. Iran knows that The Iranians saw Reagan as a dangerous it cannot stand up to either. cowboy and feared he would bomb Tehran to Given Netanyahu's proof that Iran has smithereens. True to Iranian culture, they continued to violate the JCPOAagreement-- caved when they feared the worse. America is in agreement that what Netanyahu 2. Under U.S. President Barack Obama, the exposed is true--it seems that we now have Iranians sent small boats to harass America moved beyond the May 12 deadline. military ships in the Persian Gulf. Iran also The Iranian government is quaking in its took an American military vessel hostage and boots. Now is the time to reassure the Iranian publicly humiliated the sailors on board. The people that we stand with them against their Iranians also humiliated Obamaand Secretary brutal rulers, and after their terrorist regime of State John Kerry over and over again dur- is overthrown, that we will gladly welcome ing and after the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) them back into the community of nations. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. ~ CENTRAL FLORIDA'SINDEPENDENTJEWISHVOICE ~ ~ ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher Jeffrey Gaeser Editor Emeritus Associate Editor News Editor Gene StareKim Fischer Christine DeSouza HERITAGE Florida Jewish News (ISN 0199-0721) is published weekly for $37.95 per year to Florida ad- dresses ( $46.95 for the rest of the U.S. ) by HERITAGE Central Florida Jewish News, Inc 207 O'Brien Road, Suite 101, Fern Park, FL 32730. Periodicals postage paid at Fern Park and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes and other correspondence to: HERITAGE, P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. MAILING ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER P.O. Box 300742 (407) 834-8787 Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 email: news@orlandoheritage.com Society Editor Office Manager Gloria Yousha Paulette Alfonso Account Executives Kim Fischer * Marci Gaeser Contributing Columnists Jim Shipley Mel Pearlman David Bornstein * Ed Ziegler Production Department David Lehman * Gil Dombrosky Joyce Gore By Behnam Ben Taleblu WASHINGTON (JTA)--An inflection point in American policy towards Iran came this afternoon, when President Trump announced he will re-impose nuclear sanctions on Iran and effectively withdraw the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal. Having done so, the administration should anticipate the range of responses available to Iran and plan for how to counteract them. One half of the Iranian response is guar- anteed to be rhetorical, with an emphasis on persuading Europe to resist the U.S. move by taking actions favorable to Tehran. The other half of Iran's response will consist of accelerat- ing its nuclear program in order to show that it will not accept the constraints imposed by a nuclear deal that Washington rejects. At the same time, Iran could carefully calibrate this acceleration, so that it does not undermine its efforts to win the sympathy of pro-deal leaders in Europe. Iran's rhetorical response to the re-imposi- tion of sanctions will have three likely goals: 1) expedite and exploit a growing trans-Atlantic divide over Iran policy, 2) convince Europe not to comply with any prospective U.S. sanctions against Iran and 3) get Europe to shield entities that do business with Iranian parties. Given Europe's fondness of the deal, this will not be a hard sell for Tehran, especially if it employs the dispute resolution mechanism created by the JCPOA to secure a judgment that Washington is engaging in "significant non-performance" of its obligations. The more challenging response from Iran will come on the nuclear front. After initially claiming that Iran would continue adhering to the nuclear deal even if the U.S. withdrew, some of the deal's advocates in Tehran now threaten to exit the accord and even repudi- ate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The NPT threat is pure bluster. Most governments consider the NPT to be the cornerstone of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; withdrawal would therefore lose the Islamic Republic any international support, particularly in Europe. Yet Iran could certainly pull out of the JCPOA, since the deal only froze--but did not dismantle--the bulk of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, which could be reconstituted. The question is: How far will Iran go? Will it shed all of the restraints imposed by the JCPOAand resume its quest for weapons-grade fissile material? Or will it engage in symbolic As the international community stands at the precipice of this cliff now created by President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, I am mindful of two immediate realities. First, when Israel looks north, she sees Iran staring back from its strengthened footholds in Syria and Lebanon. President Trump's deci- sion to walk away from the deal will inevitably embolden Iran and endanger Israel. Second, within the month President Trump is expected to sit down with North Korean dic- tator Kim Jong-un as part of the international effort to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end the Korean conflict. Our friends and partners will understandably approach this important endeavor more cautiously now given Mr. Trump's decision toviolate U.S. obligations under the Iran nuclear deal. Will the U.S. keep its word this time? At the end of the day, the JCPOA is an execu- tive agreement that the president can leave at any time. But just because he can leave the agreement does not mean he should. Mr. Trump has failed to make a convincing case for U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and in the process, may very well have strengthened Iran. The author is a member of the United States Senate from the state of Maryland, and is a senior member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its par- ent company, 70 Faces Media. acts of protest to challenge the U.S. without antagonizing Europe? Symbolic face-saving measures might in- clude the vacuum testing of new centrifuges, taking more advanced machines out of stor- age, or accumulating more heavy water and low-enriched uranium than the deal allows. Depending on the Western response to such measures, Iran might escalate further. There is also the risk that Iran might covertly resume its nuclear weapons development program at an unknown location. Should the Islamic Republic decide to respond more forcefully, it could resume flight-testing medium-range ballistic missiles, which reportedly last occurred in July 2017. All of Iran's MRBMs meet the internationally defined standard of being "nuclear-capable." They also can reach key U.S. partners in the region such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Since inking the JCPOA in July 2015, Iran has launched as many as 23 ballistic missiles. But a closer look at that number reveals a significant downturn in MRBM testing over the past year. If Tehran were so inclined, it could resume these tests, which would not only signal defiance against America, but also refine the capabilities and readiness of its nuclear delivery vehicle. Another way to respond forcefully without violating the JCPOA would be to harass U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, just off the coast of Iran. According to data cited by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, there has also been a significant downturn in harassment by the IRGC-Navy in the Persian Gulf since the beginning of 2017. Iranian commanders might want to return to testing America's nerve and military professionalism in these waters if faced with renewed nuclear sanctions. Finally, Iran could also respond via terrorism and assassination, although any such activity on European soil would cause the regime to lose international support. Instead, Tehran might target U.S. troops in Syria, Iraq, or an- other location in the Middle East. While Iran controls a network of Shiite militias across the region, the militias usually (though notalways) respond more to local pressures, rather than global ones. Case in point are the intensifying prospects for war between Iran and Israel in the Syrian theater. While Iran will face clear limitations to its escalation against America in the military Deal on page 15A
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Profile: David Franklin
David Franklin was a participant or observer in the following events:
April 1996-July 1996: Parke-David Sales Reps Instructed to Market Off-Label Uses for Neurontin
David Franklin later accuses drug company Parke-Davis of instructing its sales representatives to pressure doctors to prescribe the drug Neurontin for off-label uses. This marketing tactic is part of a larger effort aimed at increasing Neurontin prescriptions for uses not approved by the FDA (see 1996-2000). “I was trained to do things and did things that were blatantly illegal,” he says. “I knew my job was to falsely gain physicians’ trust and trade on my graduate degree.… I’d tell them we had physicians across the county, some involved in clinical trials, and others who had hundreds of patients on Neurontin, all getting an extraordinary response rate. We’d make them think everyone was using it but them.… [W]e were taking people who were moderately controlled on another drug and experimenting with Neurontin. We were gambling with people’s lives.” Franklin quits after two executives pressure him to get with the program. When Franklin tells one of them that he’s leaving, the executive warns, “I can’t guarantee what is going to happen to you or your career.” [Boston Globe, 3/12/2003]
Entity Tags: Pfizer, David Franklin, Parke-Davis
August 1996: Former Drug Company Salesman Sues Company for Illegal Marketing
David Franklin, a former salesman for Warner-Lambert drug company, files a lawsuit alleging that Warner-Lambert is illegally marketing its drug Neurontin for non-approved uses (see 1996-2000 and April 1996-July 1996). Franklin also says that the company’s illegal promotion of the drug is resulting in state Medicaid programs spending millions of dollars on Neurontin for non-approved uses. [New York Times, 5/15/2002]
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Precinct analysis: “Extreme” voters
The Chron’s Mike Morris looks at undervotes in a way that I hadn’t thought of before.
On Monday we looked at the phenomenon of the November undervote, when Houstonians made the (relatively rare) commitment to vote, but skipped one or more ballot items once they actually made it to the voting booth.
In that analysis, some trends emerged from looking at which voters skipped certain ballot items. African-Americans, for instance, focused on the mayor’s race and, to a greater extent than other voters, the citywide council races. White voters, at both the conservative and liberal ends of the political spectrum, focused on the city’s controversial (and now rejected) nondiscrimination ordinance, dubbed HERO.
Today’s post takes a closer look at polarized precincts – areas where a disproportionate share of voters showed up to vote only for mayor or only on the HERO referendum, but skipped most (or perhaps even all) of the other items on the municipal ballot.
The clearest trends came on college campuses, however, such as in Precinct 361, which covers only the boundaries of Rice University.
Just shy of 400 Owls showed up to vote, and more than a fourth of them skipped the mayor’s race, while more than three out of four skipped the controller and council races. Just nine of these voters skipped the HERO contest, however, and the campus voted 93 percent in favor of the ordinance.
A similar but less severe trend showed up in Precinct 389, which includes the University of Houston and folks on a few streets just north of campus. As at Rice, Turner was the clear choice among mayoral voters there, but one out of every eight voters skipped the mayor’s race.
Only three voters in Precinct 389 skipped HERO, however, and the area was 70 percent in favor.
Go read the whole thing, it’s really good. I highlighted the last bit to suggest that the pro-HERO problem wasn’t turnout as much as it was messaging, but I think we already knew that even if we couldn’t put numbers to it. I may go back and fool around with this a bit more myself now that the idea has been planted.
Shades of 1997
Precinct analysis: At Large #1 runoff
Precinct analysis: Did HERO hurt Juliet Stipeche?
Posted in: Election 2015.
Tagged: Election 2015 · Houston · Mayor · precinct analysis · repeal · turnout
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Few getting rich on legal trapping in Ohio
Arctic blasts remind Ohio inhabitants that, global warming notwithstanding, snarling winter has yet to misplace its ancient fangs.
To help escape winter’s prolonged and deadly bite, furbearing animals long ago evolved to grow a lavish and sometimes velvety coat that humans often purloined to ward off the lethal chill.
The sacrificed animals might’ve gotten a raw deal, but animals were relatively plentiful and people relatively few. The system appears harsh to some contemporary eyes, but it gave each collective species, whether a giver or a taker, a pretty good shot at continued survival, which basically is what the biological process — that is, life — is about.
After a time, though, people sheltered in warm houses found other motivations for gathering furs from the land, no matter who or what lived on it and depended upon it. That pecuniary-based system, which encouraged takers to gather as much as they could — even to the depletion of the resource — helped open and then transform a continent.
Any judgment on such a system, whether positive or negative, must be tempered by the recognition that it remains dominant, accepted and mostly unquestioned, though the trapping of animals and the selling of their fur no longer play but a minuscule part in it.
People who play at that tiny part these days surely can’t be accused of greed. Beaver pelts, 185 in number, averaged $9.66 at this year’s final fur auction conducted by the Ohio State Trappers Association in March. Three otter pelts fetched $50 each. Coyotes brought an average of $15.42, gray foxes $13.50, red foxes $11.24, minks $5.47, raccoons $3.17, muskrats $2.33, skunks $1.74 and opossums $.95.
It seems hardly possible that such prices for the product of hard, skilled and prolonged work equal something close to minimum wage. As consolation, perhaps, at least today’s trappers aren’t often the objective of tomahawks and arrows let loose by angry natives or of muzzleloader balls fired by avaricious and conscience-free rivals.
A number of furbearers, including fox, raccoon, skunk, opossum, weasel, mink and muskrat, have been legal to trap in Ohio since Nov. 10. Mink and muskrat trapping may continue through Feb. 28, but trapping for others on the list is not permissible in most of the state after Jan. 31.
The day after Christmas, meanwhile, trappers may legally target beavers and river otters, a season that runs statewide through Feb. 28.
The beaver, often thought of as the backbone, so to speak, of the fur-trapping business in North American history, has bounced back sufficiently in Ohio to permit the taking of an unlimited number of pelts by individuals. However, given the realities and limitations that the setting and checking of traps entail, individuals aren’t likely in two-plus months to end up with a mound of furs strapped on the dogsled.
The pursuit of river otters, which were absent from Ohio for most of the 20th century until the Ohio Division of Wildlife established a resettlement program in 1986, comes with serious restrictions.
At most, a trapper may take three river otters during a season. Trappers may take their three in any of 32 eastern and southeastern counties designated as Zone C. A single otter may be taken in any of the dozen counties, including Franklin, Fairfield, Licking, Pickaway and Delaware, designated as Zone B.
In the remaining counties of western, southwestern and northern Ohio, designated as Zone A, no river otter may be taken legally.
Turkey take
Hunters checked 2,168 wild turkeys during the fall wild turkey season, open from early October through late November in 56 Ohio counties. That was an increase of 633, or 41.2 percent, from the 2015 fall total of 1,535.
The increase, likely tied to the widespread, cyclical summer hatch of 17-year cicadas on which this year’s crop of young turkeys fed, bodes well for an abundance of wild turkeys during the spring hunt. That’s provided, of course, winter doesn’t take too many.
Originally posted by Dave Golowenski For The Columbus Dispatch
Saturday December 17, 2016 7:37 PM
3 B's & K Rd - 13 acres - Delaware County Ohio Land For Sale
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Targeted deletion of the CD59 gene causes spontaneous intravascular hemolysis and hemoglobinuria
Holt, Dewi Stanley, Botto, M., Bygrave, A. E., Hanna, S. M., Walport, M. J. and Morgan, Bryan Paul 2001. Targeted deletion of the CD59 gene causes spontaneous intravascular hemolysis and hemoglobinuria. Blood 98 (2) , pp. 442-9. 10.1182/blood.V98.2.442
Official URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=...
The glycolipid-anchored glycoprotein CD59 inhibits assembly of the lytic membrane attack complex of complement by incorporation into the forming complex. Absence of CD59 and other glycolipid-anchored molecules on circulating cells in the human hemolytic disorder paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is associated with intravascular hemolysis and thrombosis. To examine the role of CD59 in protecting host tissues in health and disease, CD59-deficient (CD59(-/-)) mice were produced by gene targeting in embryonic stem cells. Absence of CD59 was confirmed by staining cells and tissues with specific antibody. Despite the complete absence of CD59, mice were healthy and fertile. Erythrocytes in vitro displayed increased susceptibility to complement and were positive in an acidified serum lysis test. Despite this, CD59(-/-) mice were not anemic but had elevated reticulocyte counts, indicating accelerated erythrocyte turnover. Fresh plasma and urine from CD59(-/-) mice contained increased amounts of hemoglobin when compared with littermate controls, providing further evidence for spontaneous intravascular hemolysis. Intravascular hemolysis was increased following administration of cobra venom factor to trigger complement activation. CD59(-/-) mice will provide a tool for characterizing the importance of CD59 in protection of self tissues from membrane attack complex damage in health and during diseases in which complement is activated.
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eNewsletter 35: A Carnival of Innovation!
A Carnival of Innovation!
A Unique Record
Letter from Fiona
"What leads to innovation in mental healthcare? Reflections on clinical expertise in a bureaucratic age"
Solihull Academy
New on the website
70 Years of the Mulberry Bush School
Listening in to a conversation.
PETT eNewsletter 35, July 16, 2018
1. A Unique Record
"I consider the archive to be a unique record and reflection of the remarkable developments in social, humanitarian and psychological approaches to the treatment of emotional and mental health over the past hundred years."
- Dr. Peter Bennett, 2016 recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World; Governor of HMP Grendon, Europe's only fully therapeutic community prison, 2002-2011.
2. Letter from Fiona
June 29th, 2018: Transition Project Manager Fiona Talwar-Lomberg (left) developing a point in conversation with Caldecott Association Secretary Gill Cook.
So much came from our meeting on Friday 29th June - thank you to all who attended. One of the most memorable moments for me was listening to Gill Cook of the Caldecott Association speak of the importance of the PETT Archive “to the children from homes and backgrounds where they had no support or any family at all need to find out more about where they grew up, meet the people they lived with and much more.” I am sure we are all holding this in mind as we work together to further explore the all of the emerging ideas in support of ensuring a stronger future for the work of the Trust.
When over 20 PETT supporters gathered, including the PETT team and Trustees, on Friday 29th June, we discussed how the internationally recognised Archive had developed out of the learning and experiences of Therapeutic Communities. Members of some of those communities represented in the Archive shared why it is of such great importance to themselves and others, who can find an important part of their lives and history there. Craig, our archivist, shared the potential to do even more - to offer people who work with others, as well as research organisations, politicians and policy-makers, immense opportunities to influence the future by listening and learning from the stories and records the Archive holds.
There was intensive discussion of the Trust’s very difficult financial situation and we all learnt more of the many efforts, made over many years, to put the Trust on a stronger financial footing - of the successes, and of the very real challenges still to be overcome. There was good and challenging debate, from which emerged a range of suggestions and ideas to support the current PETT site and the Archive into the future.
Some of the ideas from the day included
to create a Membership programme, with monthly contributions to provide a basic stable income for the Archive;
to approach local business and councils and wider PETT connections (including universities) for financial and hands-on contributions;
to use the website to raise more funds - asking for a small subscription in order to download documents from the library, for example;
to use the wealth of unique film, photographic, audio and other documents in the Archive to create training packs and programmes, and perhaps host training seminars as well as providing access online;
to draw on the help of friends and supporters to use the onsite accommodation more fully
We will do our utmost to run with those ideas and most likely need your efforts to turn all of these ideas into actions as swiftly as possible – you will recall that our biggest hurdle is (and has been for so long) the lack of hands to the deck.
What was clear to all, is that the Archive can only be viable and sustainable into the future, if it is based on a sound business model – one that meets PETT’s charitable objectives on the one hand, and reliably generates a surplus that funds the service on the other. We shared how the Trustees would identify which of the various proposals coming forward offers the best fit to PETT’s charitable objectives and the safest prospect to build a stronger future for the Planned Environment Therapy Archive.
Many of those present on the day offered practical help; others started to explore new routes for financial support; and many of you have since been in touch with more ideas.
Thank you, everyone, for your prompt care and attention in support of PETT and thank you for your continued and generous commitment to support efforts to secure the Archive into the future.
Sent with kind regards on behalf of the PETT Trustees,
Fiona Talwar-Lomberg
Transition Project Manager
Context: See Rosemary Lilley, PETT Chair, "Update (June 2018)"
3. "What leads to innovation in mental healthcare? Reflections on clinical expertise in a bureaucratic age"
An important new article in the Psychiatric Bulletin by anthropologist Neil Armstrong, based on a Phoenix Unit Witness Seminar hosted and recorded by the Archive and Study Centre in October 2016:
The Phoenix Unit was an acute admissions ward run according to the therapeutic community concept at the Littlemore Hospital in Oxford. It was set up by Bertram Mandelbrote in 1959 and closed in 1996. The ethos of the Phoenix was to explore the behaviours and feelings of residents through community life and, in particular, in group settings. Daily community groups formed the centre of care and were supplemented by working groups, occupational therapy, crisis groups and relatives' groups.
The Archive recorded and transcribed the six group sessions."There were 23 participants, including psychiatrists, nurses, a psychologist, a social worker, an occupational therapist and an art therapist." In the four pages of the article a great deal of ground is covered, and just one among the questions raised is "Do we undervalue expertise by experience because of quite recent changes in how we understand the nature of expertise itself?"
In other words, have generations raised in a culture of accountability in which "Quantification is a way of making decisions without seeming to decide" lost the capacity to see and therefore trust and listen to, and learn from, the expertise of experience? And if so, is what is offered by PETT in the Archive and Study Centre - in Witness Seminars and Archive Weekends, in the materials it holds and its philosophy of engaged and supportive archives and oral history - a corrective? Or are we all swimming against an inevitable sea?
Neil Armstrong, Lecturer in Anthropology, Magdalen College, University of Oxford: "What leads to innovation in mental healthcare? Reflections on clinical expertise in a bureaucratic age", CLICK HERE.
4. Solihull Academy
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: If you're into the adventure of history applied to the futures of children who don't fit comfortably into the general school setting, you should be following the developments at Solihull Academy, under founding Principal Stephen Steinhaus.
They have a website (here) but it still hasn't caught up with the pace of developments at the school itself. For that, you will need to go to their Twitter feed - CLICK HERE - or, even more reliably up-to-date, their Facebook Page: CLICK HERE.
Context: "Dear Ralph, David, Katy...Look what you've done!", CLICK HERE.
"A lasting legacy, by Stephen Steinhaus, Assistant Principal at Trinity Catholic School", CLICK HERE.
5. New on the website
Letter from Shama: Therapeutic Adventures in India, and a new service user movement. CLICK HERE.
Sowing the seeds of Group Analysis in India, Chai-alogue Events, "Nobody Reads the Fine Print", keeping the spirit of adventure alive under pressure and underfunded: PETT Fellow Shama Parkhe updates us on the vivacious life and times of the Hank Nunn Institute and developing therapeutic community practice in India.
Adventures in Archiving: [Assistant Archivist] Jen and the pH balanced mountain. CLICK HERE.
"Don't mess with an archivist.": Drop five Dalek-faced Tardises on my drive, says Assistant Archivist Jen, and see what happens.
Things (explained below) [sic]. CLICK HERE.
Things have beauty and tell stories. Archivist Craig Fees shares some of the Things that are being counted and prepared for storage as we wrap up the last 30 years. Ancient dictation machines, computers, reel to reel tape recorders... Each carries the interesting scent of a Time.
Flying Visits: David Kennard. CLICK HERE.
Okay. Our segue in this piece was a bit Mornington Crescent, for which we apologise. We went via jazz saxophonist David Kennard (have any other leaders in the therapeutic community movement played with British jazz/blues legend Alexis Korner?) via the American saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, to a bird which briefly took up residence in the main meeting room, obscuring the adventure that a visit from David is. On this occasion it led ultimately to the digitisation of family audio tapes, one reel to reel reaching back to David's childhood. Do you have any old family tapes?
The Magnificent (Two) Dozen: First pictures from last Friday's meeting. CLICK HERE.
This is the meeting referred to in "Letter from Fiona", above, the unofficially titled "What Do We Do Now?! (not the official title)" event.
Team visit to Braziers Park. CLICK HERE.
Following on from the meeting referred to in "Letter from Fiona", above, she (Fiona - Transition Project Manager), Trust Chair Rosemary Lilley, Trust Executive Director Richard Rollinson, and archivist Craig Fees visited the anciently-sited community and social research/education organism that is Braziers Park. As the webpage says, "Braziers is a beautiful and very old house set in extensive grounds and fields, but it is far more than that." Some of that "far more than that" is indicated in this report, but there is far more to be said.Their website is certainly worth exploring.
Marking the first anniversary of John Cross's death. CLICK HERE.
Flowers, thoughts, and pictures to mark the passing of long-standing trustee, former Chair and Director of PETT.
Caldecott Archive Week July 2018. CLICK HERE.
What an austere title for such a colourful and rich occasion! The bare bones are here in this online report, of course, but there is more and links to more: a hidden and long-forgotten herd of cattle; a three year old hears the sounds of the Spanish Civil War; an alert jack russel in the hands of a therapeutic child care pioneer...
Women in Child Care: Ethel Davies (1897-1974). CLICK HERE.
The therapeutic child care pioneer in question (see above). We are rather used to women having been disappeared from history, and that is compounded when the area of national life and heritage to which they have signally contributed has itself been largely disappeared. Ethel Davies - co-Director of the Caldecott Community for over 40 years - emerged rather excitingly in a set of small photographs from the John Brown Collection digitised by Barry Northam during the recent Caldecott Archive Week. You can see those scans here - but can you help us find out more about her?
And for the Kaki Tree on both June 9th and July 10th, CLICK HERE.
6. 70 Years of The Mulberry Bush School
"70 Years of The Mulberry Bush School", a new book edited by Mulberry Bush Organisation CEO John Diamond, with contributions from PETT Executive Director/Chair of Trustees of the Mulberry Bush Organisation Richard Rollinson, and with contributions from the Archive, was launched at the Mulberry Bush AGM on July 6th, and is available for sale. A snip at £12.84. CLICK HERE.
7. Listening in to a conversation:
"One of our main and most important aims is to gather and archive as much as possible about the history of the Community. We have an archive in PETT - Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in Gloucestershire. We did look into nearer archive centres but none offered the facilities to learn how to work on our own material, to digitise, transcribe, scan and catalogue and store safely our material...PETT offers accommodation and full catering if there are enough of us working down there. (Otherwise we self cater). It is in a beautiful setting and holds archives for other children's homes many of which did not survive as Caldecott has. PETT is a research centre to Universities and others who need to see what has happened in the past. PETT includes, for us, all people who are connected with Caldecott in any way: parents of children, staff, children of children....anyone"
From an email shared by Gill Cook, Secretary, The Caldecott Association
If you haven't given to support our work, please consider it. Your help is more essential now than it ever has been.
(Still not sure why you should, or how much to give? Get in touch!)
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More than just vodka.
Isn't it funny how even today, when talking about trains, most of us imagine a big, fat, steam-powered locomotive? Though the oldest among us still remember them, such machines haven't been running in years. And yet the locomotive remains in our collective awareness as a symbol of railroad travel- all the more magical for its anachronism. Harry Potter rode an enchanted steam train to Hogwarts, and Thomas the Tank Engine is still teaching young children that trains have funnels. Toy trains are more fun when they appear to run on steam, even if the dial connects to electricity.
And one of the most iconic, most famous, most beloved children's poems in Polish literature is an ode to a steam train. The Locomotive, written by Julian Tuwim, is catchy, quotable and a veritable masterpiece of rhythm.
First a toot!
Then a hoot!
Steam is churning,
Wheels are turning!
This week, on September 13th was Julian Tuwim's birthday, which is celebrated with great pomp in Łódź. Born into a Jewish family in 1894, Tuwim was a proud citizen of the industrial town. (Note: at the time of his birth, Poland was partitioned, Łódź was part of the Russian Empire, and it would be twenty four more years before the country regained its independence and reappeared on the map.) He spent most of his life in Łódź, then Warsaw where he studied law. After the war broke out, he emigrated West in 1939, finally settling in New York for five years. He returned to Poland after the war and remained here until his death in 1953.
Tuwim carried a shrewd quill. He wrote about the everyday, about daily struggles- in a city run by ruthless industrialists, he had the guts to mock the greed and lust for riches that defined so many of them. In 1937, he wrote a work gracefully titled "A Poem in which the author politely yet firmly implores the vast hosts of his brethren to kiss his arse", a satire to annoy and denounce those whinging elements of Polish society he found most deplorable.
Suffice to say, the man was outspoken and unafraid. But while it was his sharp tongue and wit that made him famous in his day, it is the "Locomotive" poem that he is now best remembered by.
He has a statue on Piotrkowska Street, the most important street in Łódź. It shows him as an elderly gentleman with a kindly smile, sitting on a bench in front of the City Hall. There is a spot on the bench next to him, and if you sit down, Tuwim smiles at you, sparks in his eyes, as if he were about to tell you a story.
Tuwim's bench, decorated by schoolchildren.
His nose is shiny and golden, worn from all the hands that touched it over the years. Tradition says the nose must be rubbed for luck. Other statues on Piotrkowska share the superstition- their noses are proof. But none have a smile as mysterious as Tuwim.
Tuwim and the children
Every year on his birthday, schoolchildren gather around the statue to celebrate and recite the poem together- for "The Locomotive" is a poem best read aloud.
In 2007, the kids made a live choo choo train which they paraded down the street.
Go on, give it a shot! Here is an excellent translation by mr. Walter Whipple. I'll give you some pointers: Start off slow- the locomotive is tired.
A big locomotive has pulled into town,
Heavy, humungus, with sweat rolling down,
A plump jumbo olive.
Huffing and puffing and panting and smelly,
Fire belches forth from her fat cast iron belly.
Poof, how she's burning,
Oof, how she's boiling,
Puff, how she's churning,
Huff, how she's toiling.
She's fully exhausted and all out of breath,
Yet the coalman continues to stoke her to death.
Now gesticulate, get excited- all this cargo! It's amazing!
Numerous wagons she tugs down the track:
Iron and steel monsters hitched up to her back,
All filled with people and other things too:
The first carries cattle, then horses not few;
The third car with corpulent people is filled,
Eating fat frankfurters all freshly grilled.
The fourth car is packed to the hilt with bananas,
The fifth has a cargo of six grand pi-an-as.
The sixth wagon carries a cannon of steel,
With heavy iron girders beneath every wheel.
The seventh has tables, oak cupboards with plates,
While an elephant, bear, two giraffes fill the eighth.
The ninth contains nothing but well-fattened swine,
In the tenth: bags and boxes, now isn't that fine?
There must be at least forty cars in a row,
And what they all carry — I simply don't know:
But if one thousand athletes, with muscles of steel,
Each ate one thousand cutlets in one giant meal,
And each one exerted as much as he could,
They'd never quite manage to lift such a load.
Now watch out...here we go! It's moving!
Slowly now...
More slowly - than turtles - with freight - on their - backs,
The drowsy - steam engine - sets off - down the tracks.
She chugs and she tugs at her wagons with strain,
As wheel after wheel slowly turns on the train.
She doubles her effort and quickens her pace,
And rambles and scrambles to keep up the race.
Oh whither, oh whither? go forward at will,
And chug along over the bridge, up the hill,
Through mountains and tunnels and meadows and woods,
Faster, read faster!
Now hurry, now hurry, deliver your goods.
Keep up your tempo, now push along, push along,
Chug along, tug along, tug along, chug along
Lightly and sprightly she carries her freight
Like a ping-pong ball bouncing without any weight,
Not heavy equipment exhausted to death,
But a little tin toy, just a light puff of breath.
Oh whither, oh whither, you'll tell me, I trust,
What is it, what is it that gives you your thrust?
What gives you momentum to roll down the track?
It's hot steam that gives me my clickety-clack.
Hot steam from the boiler through tubes to the pistons,
The pistons then push at the wheels from short distance,
They drive and they push, and the train starts a-swooshin'
'Cuz steam on the pistons keeps pushin' and pushin';
The wheels start a rattlin', clatterin', chatterin'
Chug along, tug along, chug along, tug along! . . . .
Don't stop! Keep going...chug-along tug-along chug-along tug-along, tak-to-to, tak-to-to, tak-to-to, tak-to-to...
Meta info:
Wikipedia page for Julian Tuwim:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Tuwim
Julian Tuwim's works at Allpoetry.com
http://allpoetry.com/Julian_Tuwim
The Tuwim Birthday Event Page:
http://tuwim.piotrkowska.pl/
Labels: Julian Tuwim, literature, Łódź, Łódzkie, poem
Location: Piotrkowska 104, 90-001 Łódź, Poland
Katie September 22, 2011 at 1:08 PM
That. was. BRILLIANT. Love the poem's cadence.
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PRCC Women's Soccer Alumni
PRCC women rally and advance in MACJC tournament
Pearl River Community College
Itawamba Community College
Pearl River Community College () 2 0 2
Itawamba Community College () 1 0 1
Pearl River hosted rival Mississippi Gulf Coast on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 at the PRCC soccer complex in Poplarville, Miss. PRCC and MGCCC tied 0-0. (BRETT RUSS/PRCC ATHLETICS)
1st - 0:00 - Rena Gordon (Pearl River Community College)
1st - 0:00 - Sarah Havens (Pearl River Community College)
1st - 0:00 - Addison Meadows (Itawamba Community College)
G: 2 Players (#10, #23) - 1
Sh: N/A
Sv: Candyce Martin - 6
G: Addison Meadows - 1
A: Halle Moore - 1
Sh: Addison Meadows - 3
Sv: Haley McGill - 9
FULTON — The Lady Wildcats didn't let an early deficit deter them Thursday in their MACJC Tournament opener at Itawamba. Pearl River's women's soccer team conceded an early goal but rallied to pull out a 2-1 victory against the Lady Indians.
Pearl River (8-7-1) now advances to face rival Jones College in the semifinals. The second round matchup is set for 5 p.m. Saturday in Ellisville.
"I think the girls are buzzing right now," PRCC coach Jack Byrd said. "Even though it was a one goal game, it was against a team that beat us 4-1 to open the season."
Addison Meadows opened the scoring for ICC (9-5-1) in the first half.
"They capitalized on a mental lapse off a corner," Byrd said, "but I could immediately see from the goalkeeper all the way forward they were shouting 'keep your head up.' I knew we still had a chance to win."
Byrd's gut feeling proved to be correct. Not long after the opener, Rena Gordon (Clarendon, Jamaica) found herself in alone on the keeper and didn't miss, netting her 17thgoal of the year.
"She cut it in and beat the defender and then opened her hips and put it in the side net," Byrd said. "She showed a lot of class with that goal."
Sarah Havens (Hurley; East Central) scored what proved to be the game winner from a difficult angle in the left corner. ICC attempted to clear the ball before it crossed the goal line but the officials ruled the shot registered for the decisive goal.
Candyce Martin (Gautier) made six saves, including one in the final 90 seconds where she was forced to charge out of the box and make a sliding stop to preserve the victory.
Now the Lady Wildcats are tasked with knocking off the tournament's host in JC.
"I feel the belief is growing," Byrd said. "I know the girls are looking forward to Saturday and hopefully taking care of business."
For the latest on Pearl River Community College athletics, follow us on Twitter (@PRCCAthletics) and Facebook (PRCCAthletics).
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Storyline:- Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Actors: Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Jason Statham, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Reno Wilson
Keywords:Crank HD
Storyline:- When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the United States. These two…
The Bouncer
A bouncer agrees to help Interpol hunt down a crime boss so that he can regain custody of his daughter from social services.
Storyline:- A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Storyline:- The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans.
Storyline:- After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.
Storyline:- Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, UK, USA
Storyline:- In their new overseas house, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape from an environment…
Storyline:- The CIA’s most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past.
Storyline:- As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed…
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War
Storyline:- In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Storyline:- While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
Storyline:- When an L.A. drug kingpin’s kitten unexpectedly enters the life of two cousins, they will have to go through gangs, hitmen and drug dealers who claim him in order to…
Trailer: Crank
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Transgender escort ‘who spread HIV through unprotected sex’ to be charged – Daily Mail
Transgender escort 'who spread HIV through unprotected sex' to be charged
A man claims to have been diagnosed with HIV in September after he'd allegedly had ongoing sex with transgender escort Clayton James Palmer, who uses the name Sienna Fox, 7 News reports. Palmer, 39, had been told she was infected with HIV almost a …
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Former high-class escort offers her top sex tips for men AND women for Valentine’s Day – Mirror.co.uk
Former high-class escort offers her top sex tips for men AND women for Valentine's Day
The intimate desires of men and women are no secret to Lantana Bleu – and now you can know them too. As a former high-class escort, she's sharing her knowledge with those who wish to impress their lovers this Valentine's Day. The call girl-turned …
The Sex Lives of Politicians During the Primaries — According to Their Escorts – Cosmopolitan.com
The Sex Lives of Politicians During the Primaries — According to Their Escorts
Browsing the sexy websites of high-end escorts based in the New England area this weekend, most of their calendars (yes, escorts have booking calendars) said they'd be in and around Manchester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 8 and 9. So I called up a few.
Swarens: Sold for sex — teens trafficked in Indy – Indianapolis Star
Swarens: Sold for sex — teens trafficked in Indy
She was photographed and a classified ad, promoting her availability, was posted in the “Escorts” section of a website. Then, the men — as many as 11 in one night, according to the case file — began to arrive. She didn't want to have sex with these …
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Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it’s the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.
The Viking children Tjalfe and Røskva are brought along on an adventurous journey to the land of the Nordic Gods, Asgard. A live action remake of the classic animation film by director Fenar Ahmad.
Follow the Money III
Season III of the acclaimed series focuses on two characters from the previous seasons, Nicky and Alf. Nicky has become a heavy weight kingpin in the Danish underworld and Alf starts investigating his rising organisation.
On vacation in Tuscany, an ordinary Danish family befriends a family from the Netherlands. But when they come to visit their new friends one weekend something doesn’t seem to be quite right.
The County
After Inga, a middle aged dairy farmer, loses her husband she must stand on her own two feet. She decides to start a new life on her own terms and rises up against corruption and injustice in her community. The next film from Cannes-winner Grímur Hákonarson.
The Middle Man
Based in part on a 2012 novel by Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, a bizarre and absurd look at Trump’s USA through the eyes of acclaimed filmmaker Bent Hamer.
Before entering the witness protection program, Mikael demands three things from the police. Three things that cast a whole new light on the robbery he and his partners have been jailed for.
Darkland
A successful doctor loses his kid brother in a gang related assault and gives up his privileged life to become a masked avenger that can revenge his brother’s death.
In The Blood
It’s summer in Copenhagen, it’s a time of endless days and careless
nights. Simon is a 23-year-old medical student. He and his friends party
and drink and chase girls and wake up the next day to do the whole thing
all over again.
A psychological horror film about tampering with human nature by director Ali Abbasi.
The Rams
In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them – their sheep.
An old sex tape and a beautiful tree trigger a fierce and futile war between ordinary people.
When Eleanor accidentally kills her terrorizing husband she feels liberated. But when the ghost of her husband reappears in their house she needs to confront him once and for all.
We Watched The Sun Disappear
An arctic rescue expedition goes horribly wrong in the early ages of polar exploration, leaving two men stranded and alone in north Greenland. A fight for survival begins.
Weekend Dad
A comedy drama about the super intelligent
boy Sune who is forced to go on a survival trip to the Swedish
woods with his estranged dad. Feature film version of the award winning short.
A film about Lars, an ex-biker, who after 8 years in prison wants to escape his old gang to create a fresh start for his family.
15-year old Elise is home alone when the doorbell rings. Two young guys answer in the other end. They want to borrow her phone they say, but after letting them in their intentions quickly shift. Now a power play starts in the apartment.
Lukas & The Aspies
In many ways Lukas is a normal kid: he plays in a band, hangs out with his friends and fights with his kid brother. But Lukas’ has also Asperger disorder – and hence his own set of unique problems.
woods with his estranged dad.
Paris of the north
Hugi has become a teacher in a small and remote village to run away from problems and a difficult past. But life just will not leave him alone…
The 10 year-old bear Bertram goes on an adventurous journey to find out where he belongs. An animated short film by Christian Kuntz.
MOPS & OLLIE
The two creatures Mops & Ollie live far out in space on a small planet just below a big polluting highway.
The Children’s World
A 2D animated adventure set in a world without any grown-ups. The girls and boys of this world are in a constant war with each other – the boys have occupied an abandoned city while the girls live in a hidden forest.
Profile Pictures is an award-winning Copenhagen-based production company founded in October 2011 and led by producers Jacob Jarek and Ditte Milsted. Our office is situated downtown in Copenhagen.
Profile Pictures’ goal is to produce projects that can rock the boat, either in terms of genre or storytelling, while still keeping a firm eye on the audience on a national as well as international level.
Profile Pictures is a small and flexible unit. Combined we have the experience in producing live action content in an array of different formats, on a Scandinavian as well as international level. We not only look to work with filmmakers from Denmark, but also with international talent.
We are constantly on the outlook for new great projects to develop, produce or co-produce, regardless of genre or format.
Ditte Milsted
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Slipknot Percussionist Chris Fehn Is Suing His Own Band: Report
Photo: Brian Leli
By Calum Slingerland
Ten days removed from mapping out a North American tour with Slipknot, percussionist Chris Fehn is reportedly suing his bandmates over proper financial compensation.
The Blast reports that Fehn filed a lawsuit claiming he has not been fairly compensated, seeking an examination of Slipknot's companies and assets in aims of collecting damages and profits Fehn believes he is owed.
Fehn has been performing with the group since 1998 and has appeared on all their studio releases.
The Blast reports that Fehn claims he discovered that his bandmates had set up Slipknot-affiliated business entities outside their home state of Iowa that appear to be collecting money from the band.
Fehn's complaint states that in the past, he was told that money Slipknot make through touring and merchandise sales is funnelled through one sole company before it is split amongst the band members.
In the complaint, Fehn states he has never received payment from the separate companies, with The Blast noting that he specifically accuses percussionist Shawn Crahan and vocalist Corey Taylor for the business practice in the lawsuit.
Upon news of the lawysuit breaking, Taylor took to Twitter and wrote, "You're gonna read a lot of bullshit today. This is all I'll say. JUST YOU WAIT TIL THE TRUTH COMES OUT. Long Live The Knot."
Slipknot are expected to deliver a new full-length album this year. You can find the itinerary for their upcoming North American tour here.
You're gonna read a lot of bullshit today. This is all I'll say. JUST YOU WAIT TIL THE TRUTH COMES OUT.
Long Live The Knot.
— confirm: 0-0-0... DESTRUCT... 0 (@CoreyTaylorRock) March 14, 2019
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Powered by RTL Group | August 2018
A summer ratings high!
Week in, week out, RTL Television’s reality format Das Sommerhaus der Stars – Kampf der Promipaare (The Summer House Of The Stars – Celebrity Showdown) has generated a real buzz in Germany. Just before the format’s big final Backstage spoke to Frank Hoffmann, Managing Director Programming at RTL Television, and the show’s editorial duo, Jasmin Peitl and Rüdiger Hennecke, about the reasons for such success.
Getting very hot under the collar playing games in the summer sunshine! RTL Television started airing the third season of the reality format early in July. Week after week, celebrity couples vie with each other, trying to edge closer to winning the show’s €50,000 prize. But ultimately there can only be one winner to be announced on 13 August 2018, so backbiting and clashes are inevitable, making for top prime-time entertainment.
Frank Hoffmann, Managing Director Programming at RTL Television, believes that the show’s real setting is one of the main reasons why candidates behave so emotionally.
Another key factor in keeping the temperature high, he believes, is the constant spotlight on the relations between each contesting couple, including in the games.
“The psychological pressure on the couples mounts with each episode, so even the most carefully devised strategy eventually succumbs to nerves. The battle within the group and fighting between the couples becomes ever fiercer and more personal, especially when they reach the final, with a €50,000 prize at stake.”
In addition, Hoffmann stresses that, together with the show’s production company, Seapoint, RTL Television has succeeded in giving the form at its own, unmistakable signature.
“Das Sommerhaus der Stars is perfectly in line with our strategy of relying on formats over which we have creative influence, which enables us to tailor them optimally to our needs and to what their viewers want.”
One key further point, according to the show’s editors, Jasmin Peitl and Rüdiger Hennecke is that having cameras film the contestants around the clock over a protracted period is unusual and can end up triggering strong emotional responses.
#Sommerhaus is also one of the most popular formats discussed on social networks. Here are some of the tweets that have been posted:
The previous five episodes of Das Sommerhaus gained an average audience share of 14 per cent among 14- to 59-year-olds. On average 2.6 million total viewers tuned in. To find out which celebrity couple wins the big final and takes home €50,000, viewers will have to watch RTL Television at 20:15 on 13 August 2018.
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About BLM, USFS, Fish & Game, EPA & IRS and other ‘Govmint’ Agencies’ SWAT Teams
About BLM, USFS, Fish & Game, EPA & IRS…
From: GemStatePatriot.com February 14, 2017 by Rich Loudenback
SOME GOOD NEWS: On January 24, 2017, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz from Utah introduced the Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act (HR 622), which would strip the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service of its law enforcement capacity. If we could get that to pass, it would be a good beginning.
As Ron Paul said in 1997: “All government power is ultimately gun power and serves the interests of those who despise or do not comprehend the principles of liberty. The gun in the hands of law-abiding citizens serves to hold in check arrogant and aggressive government. Guns in the hands of the bureaucrats do the opposite. The founders of this country fully understood this fact.”
“Why does US Department of Agriculture (USDA) need submachine guns? The agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is requesting .40 Caliber semiautomatic submachine guns along with 320,000 rounds of hollow point ammo.
“Why is the US Postal Service soliciting proposals for assorted small arms ammunition?
“Why has the Social Security Administration requested 174,000 rounds of hollow-point bullets?
“Why does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the National Weather Service, need 46,000 rounds of hollow point ammo?
DOES THAT SEEM ODD? Obama was not in power in 1997, but Bill Clinton was with his 25 members of the Council on Foreign Relations in his cabinet. To understand why that was bad for our Republic read ‘Who the Establishment Really Is.’ with members explaining how bad they are in their own words.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE EPA NEED A SWAT TEAM?
“For what purpose does the EPA need a SWAT team?” States Ernest Istook in his article “Too Many Federal Agencies Have Created Their Own Private Armies” at freerepublic.com, “Does the Environmental Protection Agency really need armed agents? Outside of law enforcement, federal agencies now employ over 25,000 people as armed agents. They are more than guards. They’ve become like private armies that can push around private citizens.
“Over 70 non-military federal agencies now have their own armed agents.
“You expect armed agents with the FBI, the U.S. Marshal Service and the Border Patrol. But the EPA? The Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, even the Social Security Administration and the National Institutes of Health? Even the Department of Education and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have their own armed agents.
“As do the Food and Drug Administration. And Veterans Affairs. Even the Government Printing Office and the National Zoo. And of course the Library of Congress
“Collectively, over 25,000 individuals now work as armed agents of federal agencies not usually associated with law enforcement.
“These are not just guards. These agents go out on raids to enforce the orders of federal bureaucracies. No bureaucracy should have a private army to enforce its orders against the American people.”
— Now for a Little Deserved Satire —
BLM, USFS, FISH & GAME, EPA AND IRS TO SYRIA, IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
Re-assigning these agencies is the perfect answer to relieving our beleaguered Western States’ land owners of their besiegement and at the same time finding a fitting mission for those fine people in these agencies who are dedicated to making a difference in other people’s lives.
For those in these agencies so eager to play Rambo with all their expensive SWAT Team gear and ‘Government Motors’ (GM never paid back over $10 billion) vehicles, paramilitary vehicles, helicopters and assorted other toys, such as robots and drones, a truly fitting challenge worthy of all their training and expense would be to manage the land and lives of ISIS, the Shiites, Sunnis and the Taliban.
They try to convince us that they know more about land management and what is best for others than anyone. (Yet, The American Lands Council reports that the Federal government spends $16.17 an acre and gets a return of $11.79 an acre for forest lands they manage in Western lands for a loss of $4.38 per acre, contrasted to forest lands managed by the states themselves spending $2.56 an acre and getting a return of $37.16 an acre for a $34.60 an acre profit. This should be an easy sell to Idaho citizens if they were just made aware of real facts.) … Just saying… back to the sales pitch.
THERE IS MUCH THESE AGENCIES CAN DO
There is much for the depressed people in those Arab lands to benefit from with the help of these caring paramilitary agencies such as the planting of trees, protecting their new forests, saving endangered species, managing fishing harvests and livestock and the safest and most efficient use of all their precious water. The EPA will do wonders for saving a lot of Arab oil output for decades by ramping up even more Arab windmills, solar panels, electric cars and high-speed electric trains.
Arab sheiks have a lot to learn about redistribution of their wealth and the IRS can relieve them of a large part of it to pay for all this folderol. And guess what? There just happens to be a perfect man that just became available for leading such a great re-assignment endeavor. Barack Hussein Obama is perfect for leading these challenged ‘govmint’ employees with all his wisdom about Muslims and how things should be. Actually his ancestors were from this Arab neighborhood and were, interestingly, actually slave traders. He’ll fit right in. All will be real good. Plus these BLM, Forest Service, Fish & Game, EPA and IRS folks practically worshiped him. Also, he’d probably do it all for free, now that he’s loaded, just for the legacy building since his intended legacy here is rapidly dissolving away.
THERE ARE DELIGHTFUL TRADE-OFFS FOR ALL THIS
Well, firstly these once heralded agencies will no longer be a tax drain on our system since the IRS can soak the sheiks for funding all the good the agencies will do watching after everything. That alone is worth saying sayonara to, not to mention that ‘we the people’ will be getting rid of some ‘govmint’ employees who are overpaid, inefficient and can’t be fired.
Now lastly, probably the biggest upside of this re-assigning of these dedicated Americans would be the recalling of our wonderful military troops in these god-forsaken semblances of civilization. I suggest our troops be billeted back here in our Western Lands where they could breathe most freely nearest true God-fearing Americans, with traditional values who understand what working, budgeting and self-reliance is all about and away from the extremely far left socialists.
Although these battle-worn troops deserve the respite in their new living conditions they will be available for dispatching as needed by President Trump to occasionally hammer down on the George Soros-funded professional violent anarchist rioterscurrently tearing up college campuses and American cities. These troops can efficiently handle the felonists’ acts with arrests for prosecution and hopefully stiff fines and incarceration sentences that locals are ineptly capable of or politically afraid of dealing with. They also would be perfect for backing up border control and cartel busting here and in Mexico.
That’s right in Mexico. Hey, Mexican police and military have invaded our country and had skirmishes with our Border Patrol many times in the past. They have been practically chauffeuring all the illegal aliens passing through their country on trains to our borders while giving cartel drug rings free passage. When you have a leaking faucet, you fix it. This large pipeline is pouring into America and it has to be plugged, and we have just the right repair company for the problem. It’s called the ‘President Trump Fixer Upper Company’ comprised of the finest employees on earth and the corrupt Mexican military won’t want to deal with it. It would be a true reckoning.
REPORT: IRS Continues SWAT Raids for Evasion While Hundreds of Agents Avoid Paying Any Taxes at All
Govt agencies like EPA, FDA are spending TENS OF MILLIONS on SWAT and military-style equipment
Obama’s Private Army: Militarizing the Federal Agencies
The United States of SWAT?
Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions
Under attack: Depth of federal arms race should surprise, shock citizenry
REID BUNKERVILLE LLC EXPOSED: IS THIS WHY BUNDY RANCH WAS TARGETED?
Non-military federal agencies have more firearm authority than entire US Marine Corps ‒ report
USDA and Submachine Guns: Latest Example of Mission Creep as Federal Policing Expands
Federal Agencies with Guns: Weather Service, Social Security, Railroad Retirement Board
Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT teams to terrorize innocent people including lemon growers and small farmers
What a Convention of the States will NOT do!
Obama’s ‘Trump Saboteurs’ at OFA Boasts 30,000 Paid Agitators & Opening 250 Offices across America
Stop Paid Anarchists by Cutting…
Obama’s ‘Trump Saboteurs’ at OFA…
What a Convention of the…
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2009-10-03 23:24:59 Gureisu1
Reviewed by Gureisu1 October 03, 2009
Top 10 Reviewer -
Story: Kimura Takuya plays Halu who takes hockey very seriously, but love is just a game. Takeuchi Yuko as Murase Aki is an Office Lady and is waiting for her long lost boyfriend to come back after 2 years without contact. Halu suggests that Aki and himself play a "game" and date and once her boyfriend came back they would part, no questions asked. This drama is more about romance than sports and had a (in my opinion) great story. You have to see it, because my review doesn't give it justice.
Acting: Kimura Takuya (who is always great) and Takeuchi Yuko had fantastic chemistry. The acting was top notch.
Music: Fantastic! The drama is filled with music by Queen (with Queen's I was born to Love You as the theme song). I wasn't really into Queen until I watched this drama.
Overall: My absolute favorite drama, if you haven't already watched this drama you MUST!
Story: Excelent story line, sad and romantic. Kimura Takuya plays Okishima Shuji, a hairstylist at Hot Lip. Tokiwa Takako as Machida Kyoko is physically bound by a wheelchair due to illness. They meet and are in confrontation but soon they find themselves falling in love with each other.
Acting: Fantastic, Kimura Takuya and Tokiwa Takako did great together. They made it very believable.
Music: Very good.
Overall: I loved this drama. It touched my heart and it was pretty much the first drama I really loved. It's serious but it still was very interesting. I would say it's a must watch.
Attention Please
Tomboy turns Flight Attendent
Story: A comedic story about a tomboy who was the lead of a rock band desides to become the "Best cabin attendant EVER!" It's a hilarious story and touching at the same time.
Acting: Aya Ueto plays Misaki perfectly and I can't imagine who could have done the part better. Nishikido Ryo plays Shouta is the engineer at the Japan Airlines (and he does fantastic). The rest of the flight attendents also do a great idea.
Music: After I finished the whole series "OH PRETTY WOMAN" by Kaela Kimura was pretty annoying (it might be because we listened to the whole end song every episode because I watched it with my uncle)
Overall: Comedy is pretty much what you’ll get from this drama. Most of the humor comes from the actions of Misaki. There isn’t much romance. There are random dates, crushes and a proposal but there’s no serious love or romance going on. So if romance is one of your requirements for a drama, maybe you want to skip this one. But if you like comedies maybe you should try it.
Bambino!
Loving Matsumoto Jun
Story: I'm no a huge fan of cooking dramas, but this one did it well (better than what I expected from a cooking drama).
Acting: FANTASTIC! Matsumoto Jun did great (and in my opinion made the drama worth the watch)
Music: nothing special
Overall: a great drama. if you like cooking dramas (or just love Matsumoto Jun) then you should watch this drama. if you don't really like cooking dramas (and Matsumoto Jun doesn't float your boat) then don't.
18 vs. 29
Story: The story was very interesting. The main character, Hyechan, is 29 and married, but forgets everything from the age of 18. She doesn't even know her husband other than as a kid she didn't like from highschool and later fell for. Hyechan is in the mindset of an eighteen-year-old in the 1990's so she is left basically helpless in the modern day world. As she recovers her relationship with her husband she goes through many hilarious and heart-moving moments. It was cute and romantic and very funny.
Acting: I thought the acting was very good, although some of the "blushing" was a bit overdone for my taste.
Music: This drama lacked a theme song and wasn't really music oriented in any way. So I don't know what to rate it... I'll put a 7 cause it can't be bad if it's not really there right?
Overall: I really liked it, and if you have the time you should watch it too.
Nodame Cantabile
Nodame Disaster
Story: The story is about a strange love between complete opisites. Megumi Noda (aka Nodame), the female lead, is a piano student who is extreemly talented but wants to become a kindergarden teacher. Shinichi Chiaki, the male lead, is the college's top student talented at piano and violin and wants to become a conductor. Nodame falls in love with Chiaki, but it takes practically the whole series for him to appreciate her. The plot could have been funnier, but was a little boring (in my opinion).
Acting: The acting was okay, but thats all I can say about it.
Music: The drama was centered around classical music, unfortunatly I felt like it was more about that then the plot. Sure, I like classical music, but when I watch a drama I don't want to have more music than anything else.
Overall: Don't watch it. I know I may seem harsh but I did watch it all in two days... Maybe that's why the classical music got to me. If you plan to watch it (and aren't taking my review seriously) then I bid you to take your time, don't watch it too quickly or you will join me in my dislike of this drama
Story: this drama was about a "Sticky note girl" who accedently slept with a man she never met.
The drama was VERY unrealistic and WAY funny! I adored it!
It was packed full of comedy, tragidy, romance, and drama. The story was fresh and exciting, and in my opinion quite quick paced.
Acting: Chen Qiao En (aka Sticky Note Girl) was GREAT! Ethan Ruan was fantastic too! And Baron Chen and Bianca Bai were also great! (Bianca Bai did a great job, first you feel sorry for her then you hate her)
Music: I loved it, but my brother (who could hear it in the music) hated it... I guess you have to be watching the drama to appreciate it
Overall: GREAT! must watch! (especially if you like Taiwanese Dramas)
Absolute Boyfriend
Story: Absolute Boyfriend is about a robot that is programed to be an "absolute boyfriend" (hense the name).
Riko (Aibu Saki) is chosen to be the first to try out 01 (later named Night (Hayami Mokomichi )).
Riko is annoyed with all of Night's public desplays of affection (which was hilarious) but eventually falls for him.
When I began this drama I never thought I would be able to root for a person and a robot but by the end I was. I also thought Riko and Soshi (Mizushima Hiro) were cute together too.
Acting: Hayami Mokomichi did a fantastic job as the robot. Overall it was good acting all around.
Music: I liked the music, especially Okaeri by: ayaka (the theme song).
Overall: Very enjoyable! I fell in love with it. I even cryed at the end.
Ryokiteki na Kanojo
Based on the hit South Korean movie, My Sassy Girl, The character backgrounds and plot details will be changed for the drama. While the...
Suk Chul Soo and Na Young Hee are a newly wedded couple with an age gap of 14 years. This is a drama that...
Which Star Are You From
A man loses the woman he loves. After slowly coming to grips with he, he musters the courage to once again venture out into...
Densha Otoko
A true love story turned to bestselling novel, created from the Internet BBS, 2channel to blockbuster hit movie. Ito Misaki plays Aoyama Saori, working...
Fantasy Couple
Anna Jo (Han Ye Seul) is a rude, feisty, and audacious American-bred heiress who can never be satisfied. She returns to Korea only to...
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Indian man fills potholes out of love for dead son
Dadarao Bilhore files up a pothole on the Western Express highway in Mumbai, India, in this Aug. 29, 2018 file photo. — AFP
MUMBAI — Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, one of thousands of Indians killed every year in accidents caused by potholes.
Prakash Bilhore, a promising student, was just 16 when he died in July 2015 in Mumbai, India’s hectic financial and Bollywood capital of 20 million people.
To help deal with his grief, Prakash’s devastated father Dadarao decided he would do something about Mumbai’s roads, which like much of India’s, are notoriously shoddy.
Using sand and gravel collected from building sites, Bilhore has filled in almost 600 potholes across India’s financial capital in the past three years.
The 48-year-old vegetable vendor does it to pay tribute to his beloved son and in the hope that it will save lives.
“Prakash’s sudden death left a huge void in our lives. I do this work to remember and honor him.
“I also don’t want anyone else to lose a loved one like we have,” Bilhore says at the modest apartment he shares with his wife, daughter and extended family.
Prakash Bilhore was traveling pillion when the motorbike he was on with his cousin hit a deep pothole, sending them both flying through the air.
Prakash, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, suffered fatal brain damage. His cousin, who was wearing a helmet, walked away with minor injuries.
The tragic accident occurred during Mumbai’s summer monsoon when heavy rains are blamed for causing crater-like holes on the teeming coastal city’s roads.
Potholes are so common that a campaign is under way to have Mumbai featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the city with the most potholes.
Navin Lade, a resident, claims to have recorded more than 27,000 holes on the website www.mumbaipotholes.com, although local officials dispute his findings.
Government statistics show that potholes were responsible for the deaths of 3,597 people across India last year, an average of 10 a day.
Citizens blame government apathy, accusing local authorities of failing to maintain roads properly.
Activists say contractors hired to repave roads do a bad job on purpose so the work will need to be done again the following year.
“The government needs to take responsibility and create better infrastructure,” urges Bilhore.
He says he has repaired 585 potholes, many of them alone; others with the help of volunteers who are inspired by his story.
Bilhore has been featured in countless Indian newspaper articles and received several awards, earning him the nickname “pothole dada”, an affectionate term in India for a respected male.
“Recognition of our work has given me strength to deal with the pain and wherever I go I feel Prakash is standing with me,” says Bilhore.
“As long as I am alive and can walk I will get rid of all of these potholes.” — AFP
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Europe, you're up! Yankees top Blue Jays 8-7, head to London
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By BEN WALKER
NEW YORK (AP) Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, the pubs and the double-decker buses, there's plenty to see in London.
To Aaron Judge, there's an even more enticing sight: The 385-foot fence in center field at the soccer stadium where his New York Yankees will play this weekend.
"I don't mind that at all," he said, smiling.
Europe, you're up.
The Yankees hit two more big flies before jetting off to visit Big Ben and the British capital, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 8-7 Wednesday.
Didi Gregorius and DJ LeMahieu connected as the Yankees extended their major league record to 29 straight games with a home run. Gleyber Torres won it with an RBI single in the ninth inning.
The AL East leaders overcame two homers and a double by Lourdes Gurriel Jr., plus an early 5-0 deficit, to finish a power-packed 9-1 homestand.
Now, they'll head straight from Yankee Stadium to England, where they'll enjoy two days off before playing the Boston Red Sox on Saturday and Sunday at London Stadium in the first major league games in Europe.
"It's different, for sure. It's unique, obviously," LeMahieu said. "To some of the guys it feels like we're going on a field trip."
Manager Aaron Boone was among several Yankees set for "the flight across the pond" to explore London for the first time. He said his family is already overseas and had sent him pictures of a red phone booth, a popular bridge and Heathrow Airport.
"I got some work to do to figure out some touristy things to do," Judge said.
This was New York's final home game until after the All-Star break, on July 12 against the Blue Jays. During a break before the bottom of the eighth, the stadium sound system blared "London Calling" by The Clash.
Zack Britton - pronounced "Britain," in fact - wasn't so great in giving up Cavan Biggio's RBI single in the ninth that made it 7-all. But Britton (3-1) wound up with the win to close out a three-game sweep.
Gregorius got an infield hit off Nick Kingham (3-2) with one out in the ninth, Aaron Hicks walked and Torres followed with his hit.
LeMahieu stretched his streak to 10 games of getting a hit and scoring a run, the team's longest such string since Johnny Damon's 10-gamer in 2009.
Gurriel hit a three-run homer in the first and a solo drive in the fifth for a 6-5 lead. Danny Jansen also connected for the Blue Jays.
Gregorius homered off Trent Thornton and Judge had three hits.
"Every single one of those guys can run the ball out of the yard, especially at a park like this," Thornton said. "So that's when it comes down to really executing your pitches and slowing the game down and getting ahead in the count and making them hit your pitches."
TROPHY TIME
The Champions League trophy - albeit, a replica - was on the field to promote a July 24 friendly between champions Liverpool and Sporting Lisbon at Yankee Stadium. Former Liverpool captain John Barnes posed with the trophy, as did Tommy Kahnle, Austin Romine and Kyle Higashioka of the Yankees.
Blue Jays: 3B Brandon Drury banged his knee trying to make a sliding catch on a foul ball in the seventh. He was checked and stayed in.
Yankees: Slugger Giancarlo Stanton (strained knee) went back on the 10-day injured list. Boone said it's likely Stanton will be sidelined for longer than 10 days. OF Mike Tauchman was called up from Triple-A.
Blue Jays: After a day off, Toronto opens a four-game series at home against Kansas City. Manager Charlie Montoyo was still putting together his pitching plan for the opener.
Yankees: RHP Masahiro Tanaka (5-5, 3.21 ERA) will pitch the opener of the London series on Saturday. Boone said the Yankees will use a combination of relievers on Sunday.
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Philadelphia Embraces Urban Ag Through Land Tenure and Revised Zoning Ordinance
April 25, 2014 | Abbie Stutzer
Philadelphia has hundreds of community gardens, many with long histories that extend back 30 years or more.
“Overall, Philadelphia has accepted urban agriculture,” says Amy Laura Cahn, staff attorney for the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. Cahn works with existing community gardening projects to help preserve their legacy.
In fact, Philadelphia has very few private, for-profit, farming enterprises, according to Cahn, and farmer demographics in Philadelphia are diverse.
“There are many African-American leaders, a sizable refugee community, and the city has a diverse smattering of young gardeners, too,” says Cahn.
According to Cahn, the city has allowed people to operate community gardens on city-owned vacant land because the gardens are so deeply rooted in Philadelphia’s communities. But over the years the city’s policies have changed. This has meant that many community gardens in Philadelphia are vulnerable to being moved off land when “something better” such as a business, comes along.
As a result, various land holding agencies have created policies to transfer land to gardeners, and the city’s parks department has begun to help local gardens get a workable urban agriculture program going on city parkland.
In June 2012, the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council and other stakeholders began engaging with land holding agencies to change the city’s land disposition polices to favor urban farms. Once the new land disposition policies are implemented, they will allow multiple land holding agencies to use the same system, which will hopefully lead to a more streamlined process for gardeners and create greater opportunities for land tenure.
Opportunities for five-year community garden leases, a possibly longer tenure for market farms (on a case-by-case basis), and a pathway to permanence for more established gardens are all possible, Cahn says.
“The Department of Parks and Recreations has become the lead city agency on urban agriculture for Philadelphia, and also set a precedent for inclusion of urban agriculture in Philadelphia’s new Land Bank Law,” says Cahn.
The Philadelphia Land Bank Bill provides a transparent, streamlined and equitable process that allows the city to manage more than 40,000 vacant properties, and supports a range of development and community-driven productive uses,
“The Land Bank will make it easier for urban farmers and gardeners to use those vacant lots for growing,” says Cahn.
A revised zoning code has allowed Philly’s sustainable, urban agriculture to thrive by allowing urban food production and encouraging water conservation, renewable energy, and energy conservation. Also, the city’s zoning code now recognizes urban agriculture as its own use category and allows urban ag in most residential and commercial districts.
The city also is working on making it easier for farmers to get permits for building hoop houses, and is trying to amend storm water billing. Currently, billing for storm water management depends on how many parcels the farm includes, and billing is becoming a larger burden for bigger farms, says Cahn.
There are a few barriers that Philadelphia farmers still have to surpass. The city needs to clearly define what land it will make available, and has to decide how it will monitor environmental risks, says Cahn.
But as those details are ironed out, FPAC and partners across the city continue to facilitate the development of responsible policies that improve the public’s access to nutritionally sound and affordable food that is grown locally through environmentally sustainable practices.
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Link moves to raise the age to purchase tobacco to 21
SPRINGFIELD – A longtime champion of stricter tobacco legislation, State Senator Terry Link (D-Vernon Hills) moved today to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a proposal to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21 years old.
“For the first time in years, tobacco use among teenagers is on the rise,” Link said. “Raising the age to purchase tobacco to 21 will cut down on access for teenagers and curb the next generation of adult smokers.”
“Smoke Free Illinois was a major step forward in improving the health of our residents and making Illinois a better place to live,” Link said. “Tobacco 21 builds on those efforts and moves us one step closer to a healthier, smoke-free Illinois.”
Link passes measure to alleviate Lake County substitute teacher shortage
GURNEE – Lake County schools will have a new tool available to help them alleviate the substitute teacher shortages thanks to State Senator Terry Link (Vernon Hills).
House Bill 4742, which will allow the use of recruiting firms to help find substitute teachers, was signed into law Saturday and takes effect immediately.
“The substitute teacher shortage has immediate consequences for the quality of education our children receive in Lake County schools,” Link said. “This new law will help us recruit qualified teachers to guarantee students receive the best possible educational possibilities.”
Previously, Illinois law did not allow a school district to contract with a recruiting firm to find substitute teachers. The new law simply does away with the outdated prohibition. It takes effect on Jan. 1, 2019.
“Recruiting firms are a modern method to employ workers. Giving our school districts another tool to fill temporary positions will help ensure children do not miss out on vital learning opportunities,” Link said.
In order to qualify for the program, a district must demonstrate to ISBE that due to its substitute teacher shortage it is unable to find an adequate amount of substitute or retired teachers and has exhausted all other efforts.
All substitute teachers provided by a recruiting firm must follow all mandated state laws, rules and screening requirements and be paid on the same wage scale as other substitute teachers not provided by the firm. Link said this will help ensure teachers are fit to be in the classroom.
One in five Illinois teaching positions previously have gone unfilled. Experts claim that licensure requirements have led to a smaller pool of available teachers and substitutes.
Link also supported House Bill 5627, which will ease restrictions to ensure more qualified teachers – such as licensed out-of-state educators – are available to Illinois schools.
“We need excellent educators in our classrooms,” Link said. “These new laws will work to reduce unnecessary barriers to becoming an educator and help Illinois see an influx of teachers in schools across our communities.”
Link champions new law to prioritize child safety
GURNEE—Starting Jan. 1, 2019, Illinois law will require children under the age of two to be properly secured in a rear-facing child restraint seat.
The measure supported by State Sen. Terry Link (D-Vernon Hills) was signed into law Friday.
“It’s our duty to ensure the safety of our children,” Link said. “This new law prioritizes the safety of our children should disaster strike. Every life we save is priceless.”
House Bill 4377 requires anyone transporting a child under two years old to secure the child in a rear-facing seat unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is more than 40 inches tall.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, rear-facing child safety seats give better support to the head, neck and spine of infants by distributing the force of the collision over the entire body.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that a child remain in rear-facing car seat as long as possible and never travel forward-facing until they are two years old or until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by the manufacturer of their child safety seat.
This will reduce the risk of severe neck injury and lifelong disability.
“Experts agree that rear-facing car seats can reduce severe and life-changing injuries,” Link said. “It’s our duty to exercise responsible practices and policies to help save lives and keep our children safe.”
House Bill 4377 passed the House and Senate with unanimous support.
Sen. Terry Link addresses gun violence with new law
CHICAGO— America has the highest rate of gun violence of any developed nation and State Senator Terry Link (D-Vernon Hills) is working to make Illinois a leader in changing that statistic.
Link championed a measure that will empower families and law enforcement to take steps to protect their loved ones and the general public. The bipartisan measure, House Bill 2354, was signed into law on Monday and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2019.
“We need to put a stop to gun violence in our nation,” Link said. “This new law will empower families and law enforcement to prevent senseless tragedies.”
The Lethal Violence Order of Protection Act will allow a family member or a law enforcement officer to alert the courts that an individual with access to a firearm poses a significant danger of personal injury to themselves or others.
If the court finds evidence to show the individual is indeed dangerous, a judge can require that person to temporarily turn over any firearms in their possession.
“Instituting commonsense gun laws will help save lives,” Link said. “Illinois citizens will now have a fair and responsible method to take action if they see alarming behavior.”
Illinois’ law is modeled after a similar law in California that allows a court to intervene if it is found likely that a person may, in the near future, cause personal injury by owning a firearm.
House Bill 2354 passed the Senate and House with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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Handel – Suite from ‘Rinaldo’ for Brass Septet
Categories: Baroque Theatre, Sheet Music
Handel’s 1711 crusader opera Rinaldo, which pits the Christian Rinaldo against Argante, the Muslim King of Jerusalem, was the first Italian-language opera composed for the London stage. Handel composed the opera in just two weeks, aided by the recycling of much existing material — so much that it has been described as an “anthology” of his Italian period. The three arias included here are all recycled: Sibilar gli angui, here an aria for solo trombone, was lifted completely from a dramatic cantata, and has a “ludicrously inappropriate” text for the bellicose Argante’s grand Act I entrance; also from an earlier cantata, Il vostro maggio is here a trumpet solo, in which mermaids lead Rinaldo astray with a song about love’s delights; and Lascia ch’io pianga, played by the E-flat trumpet, was in its third incarnation in Rinaldo (it began life as an Asian dance in the 1705 opera Almira, before appearing in a later oratorio). The latter, in which Almirena bemoans her fate and longs for liberty, is an incredibly simple tune set to a plain accompaniment; but the result is intensely moving, and it has become by far the most famous aria in the opera.
Matthew Knight
Arranged by Simon Cox.
Bruckner – Os Justi (Motet) for Brass Septet
Scriabin – Seven Preludes for Brass Septet
Rachmaninov – Four Pieces for Brass Septet
Rameau – Suite from ‘Dardanus’ for Brass Septet Blow – Venus & Adonis: A Mournful Masque for Brass Septet
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Original article by: Bunnell R., Dahlberg L., Rolfs R. et al
Each year, an estimated three million teenagers in the United States acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Of those teens, females are at greatest risk due to physiologic and social factors. Physiologically, the innermost cells of the cervix of an adolescent female are more exposed than those of an adult woman, making the cervix more vulnerable to STD infection. Socially, teens often lack the power and skill to refuse sexual involvement or demand safer sex.
Researchers Bunnell et al recently conducted a study that attempted to: (1) assess the prevalence and incidence of STDs in adolescent females attending teen clinics, (2) describe risk behaviors and partner characteristics in that population, and (3) identify risk behaviors for STDs among teenage females.
The participants for the study came from four neighborhood teen health clinics in a large Southeastern U.S. city that provided family planning, HIV and STD testing, and general exam services. Participants ages 14-19 who had had sexual intercourse at least once and were visiting the clinic for a service that included a pelvic exam were selected for the study.
Participants were given a face-to-face interview by trained African-American female interviewers who were not part of the clinics' staff. The interview included demographic information, sexual and reproductive history, contraceptive practices, STD knowledge and history, drug and alcohol use, and information on current and past sexual partners.
Each participant was then given a physical exam which included endocervical samples for chlamydia and gonorrhea, serum samples for syphilis, hepatitis B and C and HSV-2, wet mounts and trichomoniasis cultures, and a urine sample for pregnancy. HPV (human papilloma virus) infection was not assessed. Any STD found at the enrollment visit was labeled a "prevalent infection."
Teens found to have a curable STD were treated and urged to inform their partners for screening and treatment. Teens were followed up six months later and given a repeat interview and exam. All STDs diagnosed at follow-up were labeled "incident infections."
Of the 691 teens who were eligible, 650 participated in the study. Of those, only 501 returned for their follow-up visits, and 484 had complete STD specimens and results available. Participants' median age was 16 years old; 93% were African-American, 53% were supported only by their biologic mother, and 93% were enrolled in school. Teens who returned for follow-up had similar characteristics to those who didn't return.
At enrollment, 39% of the participants visited the clinic for an annual exam, 29% to start birth control, 12% for an infection check, and 9% for a pregnancy test. The remaining 11% visited for a variety of other reasons, such as a sports physical. It is notable that 87% of the young women diagnosed with a prevalent infection at enrollment came to the clinic for reasons other than a suspected infection.
Of the 484 teens who completed specimens at both visits, 257 (53%) had more than one STD either at enrollment or follow-up. More than 38% were infected with chlamydia, 17% with HSV-2, 9% with gonorrhea, and 6% with trichomoniasis.
Few demographic and behavioral factors were significantly associated with acquiring an STD. Engaging in sexual intercourse prior to 15 years of age, acquiring a new sex partner in the month prior to the follow-up visit, having an STD at the time of enrollment and having more than one partner during the six months between enrollment and follow-up were all factors that contributed to the likelihood of contracting an STD. Teens with more than five lifetime partners were more than twice as likely to have an STD than those with only one lifetime partner. The education level and employment status of the participant's primary provider were only marginally significant.
In a multivariate analysis, only a few factors remained significantly associated with having an STD. Having a new sex partner in the month prior to the follow-up visit more than doubled the likelihood of having an STD compared with those who didn't have a new partner. Having friends who sold cocaine was associated with higher risk, while believing that condoms were effective against STDs was associated with lower risk (although the significance for both factors was marginal).
The authors note that the STD burden among their sample population was extremely high. While there was a high prevalence and incidence of STDs among teens who had more than one partner, the same was true for those with only one lifetime partner. Since over 50% of this population had more than one STD in a six-month period, and STDs increase the risk of HIV transmission, this group is at high risk for HIV infection.
The authors also note that socioeconomic status was only weakly correlated with STD infection and caution against stereotyping this group as an inner-city population with limited resources. They argue that the high incidence of STD infection despite only moderate risk behaviors suggests the need for policy- and community-level interventions in addition to the more common interventions focused on individual behavior changes.
The authors recommend:
widespread, frequent screenings for all sexually active teens as the majority who had an STD were asymptomatic,
school-based interventions as the vast majority of the study participants were attending school full-time,
routine hepatitis B vaccination,
contraceptive promotion and education on adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with STDs,
improved methods for promoting protective behaviors that are both culturally and behaviorally relevant, recognizing that many of today's teens may be sexually active,
improved education on asymptomatic HSV-2 transmission,
theoretical and practical skills-building training that is creative and culturally relevant,
more intervention targeted towards men which is indicated by the high rate of chlamydia re-infection seen in the study, suggesting that partner follow-up strategies are insufficient,
interventions that include targeting teens connected to social and sexual networks of drug users and who do not identify themselves as users as there was a high prevalence of STDs within populations where drug selling is common.
Furthermore, the authors indicate that -- since many of the participants in this study were asymptomatic at enrollment -- the rates of STD infection found in their study may be higher than studies based on findings from STD clinics. Yet they also suggest that because the young women in this study had access to health care clinics and STD rates are typically higher in areas where access is limited, their findings may underrepresent actual infection rates.
The study had some notable limitations. First, there was a weak association between condom use and STD incidence, possibly due to the following:
Answers given by teens about condom use may have been influenced by their perceptions of social desirability or the face-to-face nature of the questionnaire.
Researchers did not know if teens were correctly using condoms or engaging in oral sex, body rubbing, or other sexual activities.
Those who reported condom use may have selected partners with an increased risk for STD infection.
These findings suggest that in order to utilize self-reported condom use as a measure of risk or to evaluate the success of prevention programs for this population, researchers need to know how, when, and with whom condoms are used.
Other limitations to consider include:
a lack of sufficient power to detect all associations between incident infection and risk and protective factors,
the use of a composite variable for all incident STDs, which may have hid disease-specific risk factors,
changes over time in sexual behaviors and other factors affecting incidence as the data were collected from 1991 to 1993,
possible inaccurate information on male partners as it was obtained by participant reports,
possible underreporting of total infections as analysis was done only on teens who had complete specimens at both baseline and follow-up,
the absence of HPV assessment in the study as it has been suggested by other studies that HPV may be the most prevalent STD in the US.
In closing, the authors note that the burden of STDs in this population is high despite condom use rates and partner characteristics similar to those in a national representative survey. They speculate that monogamy practiced by females alone is insufficient for STD prevention. It is probable that male partners in this population have high rates of STDs and possible that they have numerous adolescent female partners.
Finally, they suggest that "for these sexually active teens, the social environment in which they are having sex may be a more important determinant of their risk of STDs than their own behaviors and that engaging in moderate risk behaviors may have very different consequences in different settings."
Bunnell R., Dahlberg L., Rolfs R. et al, (1999). "High Prevalence and Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Urban Adolescent Females Despite Moderate Risk Behaviors." The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1999; 180: 1624-1631.
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Index | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Profiles in History sale #28, lot #834
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SALE: Hollywood Auction 28 ESTIMATE: $6000 - $8000
Marina Sirtis’ personal scripts from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount TV, 1987-94) This important archive of personal scripts consists of 139 final rainbow episode scripts/writer’s guides, all of which have been signed on the cover by Ms. Sirtis. Nearly all of the scripts for every season are present, with the exception of a few scripts and most of season two, which were previously donated to charity auctions by Ms. Sirtis. Also includes the scripts for the first and last film, concordances, and writer’s technical manuals for the series. Interested bidders please call for a full list of the included episodes. An important archive of production-used scripts from one of the key actors on the series! Rarely is such an exhaustive collection of scripts ever made available to collectors.
SALE: Hollywood Auction 28 ESTIMATE: $400 - $600
“Utopia Planitia” utility box from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount TV, 1987-94) Starfleet utility box measuring 20 in. x 17 in. x 10 in., constructed of heavy impact-resistant plastic with steel grab handle and locks. Trimmed in blue tape and marked with blue lettering “UTOPIA PLANITIA” on the top and bottom. Utopia Planitia is home to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, both on the surface of the planet and in orbit. There, countless Federation Starfleet vessels are built and repaired, including the Enterprise-D. Comes with a letter of authenticity from prop maker Bear Burge.
Cardassian medical/science lab cylinder together with a bottle used in “Quark’s Bar”, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount TV, 1993-99) The Cardassian Medical/Science sealed Plexiglas cylinder has requisite Cardassian markings and contains an unknown translucent liquid. Measures approx. 12 ¾ in. tall x 3 ¼ in. diameter. The bottle from Quark’s Bar has an alien (probably Ferengi) label on the side and contains what appears to be tea. The top is silver and blue painted resin of a unique design. Comes with a letter of authenticity from prop maker Bear Burge.
SALE: Hollywood Auction 30
EBAY LIVE#: 230194371199 ESTIMATE: $200 - $300
PRICE: unknown
Star Trek: The Motion Picture script
(Paramount, 1979) 133pp Shooting Script written by Gene Roddenberry and Harold Livingston with revision inserts and dated July 19, 1979 with original studio covers.
Seen In/Used For::The Motion Picture | Type::Script
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan script
(Paramount, 1982) 117pp Revised Final Draft written by Harve Bennett with revision inserts and dated January 18, 1982 with original studio covers.
Seen In/Used For::The Wrath of Khan | Type::Script
Profiles in History sale #30, lot #1212
EBAY LIVE#: 230194386935 ESTIMATE: $8000 - $12000
Nichelle Nichols "Lt. Uhura" duty uniform from Star Trek: The Original Series
(NBC-TV, 1966-69) Signature red velour duty uniform dress with black scoop neck collar and an original "engineering" Starfleet insignia patch at the left breast. Because of the way the uniform is tailored (with the zipper closure over the left breast), this duty uniform dates from early in the first season, as Ms. Nichols' uniforms were re-designed shortly thereafter as it was difficult for her to get in and out of the dress. Comes with a letter of authenticity from Nichelle Nichols, as well as a color photograph signed by Ms. Nichols in her Starfleet uniform. One of the rarest of the Enterprise crew uniforms, this is the first Lt. Uhura duty uniform from the original series we've ever encountered, and is one of only two known to have survived. A rare and highly desirable uniform from one of the most important and influential science-fiction TV/film series of all time.
Canon::Seen on screen | Contains::Logo | Contains::Rank insignia | Seen In/Used For::TOS | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Wardrobe-Uniform
Space Dock construction drone miniature with attached blue-screen rod from Star Trek: The Motion Picture
(Paramount, 1979) One of the highlights of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is the dramatic "unveiling" of the new USS Enterprise in the Spacedock. Whizzing around the majestic white galleon are yellow and white construction drones, of which this is a particularly fine example.
Canon::Seen on screen | Seen In/Used For::The Motion Picture | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Model
EBAY LIVE#: 230194386947 ESTIMATE: $3500 - $4500
Hero illuminating Klingon tricorder from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) Working Klingon tricorder made of resin that is painted brown & black, with color detailing. There is a button trigger at the top that releases a small compartment at the front and illuminates the various LED lights. From Star Trek DS9. Measures approx. 7 in. in length.
Type::Prop-Scanner/Tricorder
Large Starfleet insignia panel from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount TV, 1987- 94) This large Starfleet insignia emblem is embedded within a smoke-tinted Lexan panel, designed to be backlit. Made for the series (and possibly the films), its screen-use is unknown but most likely appeared as a background set piece. Measures 4 ft. x 26 ½ in.
Contains::Logo
"Worf" Starfleet uniform from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount TV, 1984) Starfleet costume worn by Michael Dorn as "Worf " in the TV series Star Trek Next Generation. The trademark uniform is mustard yellow and black with yellow trim around the neck. It has a piece of Velcro on the front where the communicator badge would have been fixed and fastens up with a hidden zip at the back. The trousers have built in braces. "Worf" wears this ripped uniform in the series seven episode 'Genesis' where the entire crew of the Enterprise is affected by a synthetic T-Cell which has made the crew members resort to their most animal like instincts. The uniform has bone-like additions to the arms and side and a small protrusion on the thigh where "Worf " has changed into his animal self, the back of the uniform has a large rip in it where a large spine extension has "burst" through. The costume comes with the original costumer's label from the production, which details the character and the actors name, the scenes and the episode name.
Canon::Seen on screen | Contains::Costume Tag/Name of Performer | Seen In/Used For::TNG | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Distressed
Commander William Riker's backlit control panel from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount-TV, 1987-94) Smoketintend backlit panel measuring 13 in. wide (bottom) x 9 in. wide (top) x 12 ½ in. in height. The panel has been mounted to a custom diplay box which has been wired to illumuinate the panel from behind. (Note: the electrical connection is European, but comes with an adapter for US outlets). Easily the most desirable panel on the entire bridge, it shows the top and side elevation of the Enterprise-D, and can be seen in nearly every episode of the series.
Contains::Interesting/Meaningful text | Contains::Schematic/diagram | Seen In/Used For::TNG | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Set-Console
Geordi's VISOR from Star Trek: Generations
(Paramount, 1994) Prop VISOR worn by Lt. Geordi La Forge, a device that allows the birth-blind La Forge to "see" throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Constructed of resin that is painted silver and gold, and measures approx. 6 in. in length.
Canon::Seen on screen | Type::Wardrobe | Weird/Special::Unique/Iconic
Modified Starfleet phaser rifle with illuminating scope from Star Trek: First Contact
(Paramount, 1996) One of three different versions of the phaser rifle used in the film, this model has a black barrel and is wired with an illuminating scope. In the film, the original model is modified in order to contend with the Borg's adaptation of Federation weapons. Constructed of black and gray-painted resin with a retractable strap. Measures 33 in. in length.
Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Prop-Weapon
Cricket hand phaser from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount-TV, 1987-94) Small hand-held cricket phaser constructed of resin painted black and grey, with decal accents on top and Velcro attachment on the bottom. This weapon is reportedly Gene Roddenberry's favorite weapon in the entire Star Trek universe. Measures approx. 3 in. in length.
Seen In/Used For::TNG | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Prop-Weapon
Romulan disruptor from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount-TV, 1987-94) This Romulan disruptor is made of molded resin painted blue-gray with color-accented details. Used in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Seen In/Used For::TNG | Species/Culture::Romulan | Type::Prop-Weapon
EBAY LIVE#: 230194386997 ESTIMATE: $45000 - $60000
Jean Luc Picard's "Enterprise E" command chair from the Star Trek films
(Paramount, 1994, 1996, 1998) This padded aircraftstyle armchair is covered with burgundy-dyed imitation leather, and features armrests with simulated control panels which are designed to accept small LCD display screens. This command char was used by Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard's Captain-s chair on the bridge of the Enterprise-E in three of the TNG films, including Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis. Measures 47 in. tall x 36 in. wide x 32 in. deep.
Seen In/Used For::First Contact | Seen In/Used For::Insurrection | Seen In/Used For::Nemesis | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Set-Furniture
Angosian ship filming miniature from Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Paramount Television, 1984) Miniature model Angosian Transport ship used in various episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, seen predominantly in the Season Three episode "The Hunted". This ship can be seen throughout the episode and particularly in the scenes when the back section detaches and flies away independently. Made from plastic with various resin and cast fittings the model also includes internal lighting, which illuminates the cockpit and the rear engine nacelle. The rear engine portion is designed to detach revealing two detailed thrusters, and it is held in place with a metal bar. This spectacular model measures (24 in. x 9 ½ in.) and comes displayed on a custom made stand with an etched plaque featuring the series title and a brief description.
Studio models (TNG)
Canon::Seen on screen | Seen In/Used For::TNG | Type::Model
Worf's hero metal bat-leth from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) Hero bat'leth, the traditional Klingon "sword of honor," resembling a meter-long two-ended scimitar. Constructed of machined aluminum metal, with leather grips. Used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Measures 43 in. in length.
Species/Culture::Klingon | Type::Prop-Weapon
TR-116 Projectile Rifle variant from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) The TR-116 is a projectile weapon developed by Starfleet for use in areas of high electromagnetic interference that would render phasers useless. According to Trek lore, this weapon could have been design with the Borg in mind, since projectiles have proven effective against them. In the DS9 episode, "Field of Fire," Science Officer Chu'lak modifies a TR-116 with a micro-transporter that connects at the barrel exit, which allows him to beam the tritanium bullet into another room. Coupled with an exographic targeting sensor, Chu-lak is able to scan through walls and target victims anywhere on the station from his quarters. Ezri Dax uses a similarly modified TR-116 to stop him. Constructed of resin painted black and grey, with rubber grip dressings, additional chrome accents and strap. This rifle was originally used as a Breen rifle, then later used in various configurations through the Star Trek series. Measures 35 in. in length. Various repairs have been made previously.
Canon::Seen on screen | Seen In/Used For::DS9 | Type::Prop-Weapon
Stunt boomerang phaser from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount, 1993-99) Rubber stunt phaser painted black & grey, with some color detailing at the top. From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Measures 8 in. in length.
EBAY LIVE#: 230194387013 ESTIMATE: $800 - $1000
Jem'Hadar pistol from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This standard Jem'Hadar pistol is constructed of resin painted black, silver and gold. From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Measures 9 in. in length.
Type::Prop-Weapon
Engineering diagnostic tool from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) Double-prong hand-held tool constructed of hard rubber painted silver and black, used by starship engineers as a diagnostic/repair tool on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Canon::Seen on screen | Seen In/Used For::DS9 | Type::Prop
Trill phaser pistol from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) Small hand-held Trill phaser constructed of resin painted metallic grey. Used by Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Measures 6 in. in length.
Alien phaser from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount- TV, 1993-99) This variation of the Varon-T disruptor is constructed of molded resin painted black, silver, gold and brown. Used by multiple aliens on the series. Measures 7 ½ in. in length.
Quark's Ferengi phaser from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This Ferengi phaser is constructed of molded resin painted metallic green with black, red and gold accents. Used by Quark (Armin Shimerman) on DS9, this weapon is a modified version of a Vulcan phaser. Measures 6 in. in length.
Static Starfleet P.A.D.D. from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This large P.A.D.D. is constructed of grey-painted resin with a large graphic at the top and smaller decals below. Measures 5 ½ in. x 8 ½ in.
Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Prop-PADD
Static Cardassian P.A.D.D. from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This small palm-size P.A.D.D. used by the Cardassians is constructed of grey-painted resin with a circular decal graphic in the center. Measures approx. 4 in.
Species/Culture::Cardassian | Type::Prop-PADD
Starfleet phaser rifle with rare illuminating scope from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This standard DS9 Starfleet-issue phaser rifle is constructed of molded resin painted black and silver, with a pop-up sight and attached illuminating scope. This rifle is specifically from the sixth season episode, "Change of Heart." Measures 25 in. in length.
Seen In/Used For::DS9 | Species/Culture::Starfleet | Type::Prop-Weapon
Hero Romulan disruptor rifle from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) This Romulan disruptor rifle is constructed of heavy molded resin painted grey and black, with applied color accents. Its fine detailing and excellent condition suggest it was used in the foreground and for close-ups. Measures 18 in. in length.
Cardassian phaser from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Paramount-TV, 1993-99) Rare ornate gold and maroon-painted molded resin, with purple tip on the top from where the phaser beam would be emitted. Used throughout the series by the main occupants and builders of the Deep Space Nine space station. There were no working versions of this model made. Measures 9 ½ in. in length.
Species/Culture::Cardassian | Type::Prop-Weapon
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More than a flip-flop Written by Tribune Editorial
More than a flip-flop
Written by Tribune Editorial
The Supreme Court (SC) tried to sound Solomonic in its resolution of the impasse on the Congress representation in the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), but in the end it was an admission of its abject inability to rule independently and stick to its position.
The acting Carpio Court’s decision to suspend its “executory” decision that Congress is only entitled to one seat in the JBC was clearly a co-opting to the whims of both the Palace and Congress on the issue.
While the decision was not entirely a reversal of the earlier ruling, it exposed the Carpio Court’s lack of resolve in defending what the SC justices had already interpreted as what was contained in the Constitution which was the expressed limit of only one representative for Congress in the body.
The decision resulted in both legislative chambers to order their representatives to withdraw from the nominating body which is tasked to draft the shortlist for the SC chief justice candidates from which Noynoy will choose the head of his reclaimed and pliant high court..... MORE
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Amber Hill, St John The Baptist
"Parish church. 1867 by Edward Browning*, in neo Norman style"
"It was made redundant on the 9th November 1995 and then later adapted for private dwelling use"
http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/AmberHill/section.asp?catId=22217
Peter Kirk Collection, 22 June 2002
* Edward Browning, ARIBA (1816-1882) was an architect based in Stamford. He was also responsible for the churches at Fosdyke and Snelland, Grantham National School and several prominent buildings in Stamford
Amber Hill, Saint John The Baptist, Church, Edward Browning
Amber Hill, Wind Drainage Engine
For many years the principal form of pump used to drain the Fens was a scoop wheel comprising an array of flat wooden paddles rotating in a narrow slot and capable of lifting a surprisingly large mass of water through a height of a few feet (eg, the pump at Dogdyke could raise 25 tons per minute).
Initially these scoop wheels were wind-powered then steam was introduced.
By the time that diesel engine power came into use the more efficient centrifugal pump had been developed and scoop wheels largely disappeared.
This example of a scoop wheel was photographed in 1972 at Amber Hill.
It is standing adjacent to the brick tower of the wind engine which powered it.
Chris Lester, 1972
Amber Hill, drainage, scoopwheel, windmill,
Hundreds of wind-powered drainage pumps once lined the rivers and drains in the Fens, of which this is the principal survivor.
This engine was probably built in the late eighteenth century and was taken out of use when steam powered pumping stations were introduced in the 1840s. It was originally about twice the current height and would have worked with four sails.
The wooden scoop wheel has been restored in recent years.
Location of mill: TF 229 460
Peter Kirk Collection, 2002
Amber Hill, wind drainage engine scoop wheel
View of the wooden scoop wheel about 30 years after restoration.
Amber Hill, wind drainage engine, Peter Kirk
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OVERSIGHT & COMPLIANCE BRANCH (OCB) INVOICE PAYMENTS February 16, 2011 1.
Published byPauline Dorsey Modified over 4 years ago
Presentation on theme: "OVERSIGHT & COMPLIANCE BRANCH (OCB) INVOICE PAYMENTS February 16, 2011 1."— Presentation transcript:
1 OVERSIGHT & COMPLIANCE BRANCH (OCB) INVOICE PAYMENTS February 16, 2011 1
2 Table of Contents Overview……….………………………………..3 Terms………….…………..………………..…....4 Guidance……………...………………………….5 Responsibility………………………………….6-7 Determining Payment Due Date……...................8 Payment Documentation……………….…….9-10 Rejection of Invoices……………………….…..11 Exception to Acceptance…………………….…12 Process Table……………….………………..…13 2
3 Overview This training was designed to supplement Acquisition Alert 11-04 Delegation of Invoice Approval AuthorityAlert 11-04 Delegation of Invoice Approval Authority. This training will outline the responsibility of the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer Technical Representative as it pertains to payment of contractor invoices. 3
4 Terms Invoice Payment - a Government disbursement of monies to a contractor under a contract or other authorization for supplies or services accepted by the Government. (FAR 32.001) Prompt Payment - the date on which a check for payment is dated or, for an electronic funds transfer (EFT) the settlement date. (FAR 32.902) Designated billing office - the office or person (governmental or nongovernmental) designated in the contract where the contractor first submits invoices and contract financing requests. (FAR 32.001) Designated payment office - the office designated in the contract to make invoice payments or contract financing payments. Normally, this will be the Government disbursing office. (FAR 32.001) Delegation of Authority – to appoint a person who is authorized to perform specific duties under a contract. (Oversight and Compliance) 4
5 Guidance on Invoice Payments Authority to approve or disapprove payment of invoices is the responsibility of the Contracting Officer (CO), unless the CO elects to delegate the function to a designee in accordance with FAR 42.302. Pursuant to NOAA Administrative Order (NAO) 203-31, Section 6.02, NOAA CO’s have the authority to delegate the review and approval of invoices payments to other designated officials. Acquisition Alert 11-04, has granted delegation of authority for review and approval of all invoices submitted on NOAA contracts and orders to the Contracting Officer Technical Representatives (COTR), unless this authority is expressly retained by the CO. 5
6 Contracting Officer Responsibility Officially delegate authority to approve invoices by issuance of delegation memorandum to the identified COTR. Ensure the individual delegated with approval authority has a clear understanding of the terms and conditions of the contract. Ensure the contract identifies the COTR as the designated billing office to receive invoices. Provide a copy of the delegation memorandum or copy of contract/order containing the delegation to the Finance Office. Determine when it is necessary to retain invoice approval authority. Rescind delegation of authority in any instance where the delegate fails to comply with proper invoice processing, terms and conditions of the contract or poses an unacceptable risk to NOAA. 6
7 Contracting Officer Technical Representative Responsibility Read and sign delegation memorandum and return to CO. Become familiar with the terms and conditions of the contract. Date stamp the invoice with date received and ensure all invoices are submitted per FAR 32.905 If invoices are accurate and complete, process invoice per the payment provisions in the contract or order. If the invoice is not accurate, return the invoice to the contractor with the reasons why it is not a proper invoice per FAR 32.905. Coordinate with CO to determine appropriate payment for any rejected items, materials or services. Coordinate with CO when questions arise processing payments or if disputes arise regarding payments due or made. 7
8 8 Determining Payment Due Date In accordance with FAR 32.904 The due date for making invoice payments is determined by several factors: Payments are due either on the 30 th day after the designated billing office receives a proper invoice or on the 30 th day after the Government accepts the supplies or services (which ever is the latter of the two). Payments for construction contracts are due 14 days after the designated billing office receives a proper payment request. Perishable items payment due dates vary in accordance with FAR 32.904(f)
9 9 Contractor Provided Payment Documentation A proper invoice must include the following per FAR 32.904: Name and address of contractor Invoice date and invoice number Contract number or authorization for supplies or services performed Description, quantity, unit of measure, unit price, extended price of supplies or services performed. Shipping and payment terms Name and address of contractor official to whom payment is to be sent. Name, title, phone number, and mailing address of person to notify in the event of a defective invoice. Taxpayer Identification Number Electronic Funds Transfer banking information.
10 10 Government Provided Payment Documentation COTR authorization to pay must be accompanied by the following to Finance: Receiving report-must contain at a minimum: Contract number or other authorization for supplies delivered or services performed. Description of supplies delivered or services performed. Quantities of supplies received and accepted or services performed, if applicable. Date supplies delivered or services performed. Date the designated Government official accepted supplies or services. Signature, printed name, title mailing address and telephone number of the designated Government official responsible for acceptance or approval functions. Ensure a copy of the Delegation Memorandum has been provided to Finance.
11 Rejection of Contractor Invoices If an invoice is found to be inaccurate or does not contain sufficient payment documentation, it must be rejected within 7 days of receipt from the contractor. It is imperative inaccurate or improper invoices be rejected within 7 days for the sole purpose of computing an interest penalty that might be due the contractor. Government acceptance shall be deemed to occur constructively on the 7th day after the contractor delivers supplies or performs services in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract, unless there is a disagreement over quantity, quality, or contractor compliance with a contract requirement (FAR 32.904). If an invoice is rejected, the COTR must contact the CO in writing, documenting the rejection. The CO will incorporate the documentation into the official contract file. 11
12 12 Exception to Acceptance Except for a contract for the purchase of a commercial item, including a brand-name commercial item for authorized resale (e.g., commissary items), the contracting officer may specify a longer period for constructive acceptance in the solicitation and resulting contract, if required to afford the Government a reasonable opportunity to inspect and test the supplies furnished or to evaluate the services performed. The contracting officer must document in the contract file the justification for extending the constructive acceptance period beyond 7 days. Extended acceptance periods must not be a routine agency practice and must be used only when necessary to permit proper Government inspection and testing of the supplies delivered or services performed (FAR 32.904).
13 13 HCO ResponsibilityCO ResponsibilityCOTR Responsibility Review and approve invoices for payment or delegate authority. Officially delegate authority to review and approve invoice payments. Read and sign delegation memorandum provided by CO. If there are questions contact CO immediately for clarification. Determine acceptability of goods and services or delegate authority Provide delegation memorandum to COTR and Finance. Click for sample document. Click for sample document Become familiar with contract terms and conditions to ensure invoice complies with contract before approving payment. Delegate authority if deemed necessary per NAO 203-31 Section 6.02. Ensure the delegated individual has a clear understanding of contract and their responsibilities. Date stamp invoice with date received and ensure all invoices are submitted iaw FAR 32.905. Rescind delegation if delegated individual fails to comply with proper invoice process, contract pricing, contract terms or advance approval requirements. If invoices are accurate and complete, process invoice iaw the payment provisions in the contract or order. If the invoice is not accurate, return the invoice iaw FAR 32.905 to avoid paying interest on any claims. Notify CO in writing documenting invoice rejection. Coordinate with CO to determine appropriate payment reduction for any rejected items, materials or services. Coordinate with CO to obtain guidance when processing invoice or if disputes arise regarding payments due or made. Forward complete approval package to Finance Office for payment.
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HIS STORY NELSON MANDELA HIS STORY By; Emma Sexton.
Published byMelanie Adele Simon Modified over 3 years ago
Presentation on theme: "HIS STORY NELSON MANDELA HIS STORY By; Emma Sexton."— Presentation transcript:
1 HIS STORY NELSON MANDELA HIS STORY By; Emma Sexton
2 Background Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata on 18 July 1918. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. Mandela worked alongside the South African President F.W. de Klerk to dismantle the apartheid system. In 1994, Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. In 2009, Mandela’s birthday (18 July) was declared “Mandela Day” to promote global peace and celebrate the South African leader's legacy. Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013, at age 95.
3 Mandela’s Imprisonment He settled in Johannesburg, where he worked a variety of jobs, including as a guard and a clerk. He then continued to go on and study law University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Mandela soon became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress in 1942 with hopes to transform the ANC into a mass movement deriving strength from millions of rural peasants and working people who had no voice under the current regime. For 20 years, Mandela directed peaceful, nonviolent acts of defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. In 1956, Mandela and 150 others were arrested and charged with treason for their political advocacy. In 1961, Mandela, who was formerly committed to nonviolent protest, began to believe that armed struggle was the only way to achieve change. In 1961, Mandela led a three-day national workers' strike. He was arrested for leading the strike the following year, and was sentenced to five years in prison. In 1963, Mandela was brought to trial again. He and 10 other ANC leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment for political offenses, including sabotage. After 27 years struggling to get Mandela released, it wasn't until President Botha was replaced by Frederik Willem de Klerk that his release was finally announced— on February 11, 1990.
4 Presidency While Mandela stated that he was committed to working toward peace, he declared that the ANC's armed struggle would continue until the black majority received the right to vote. Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the country's first black president on May 10, 1994, at the age of 77. In 1995, South Africa came to the world stage by hosting the Rugby World Cup, which brought further recognition to Mandela’s efforts and to the young republic. Mandela worked to protect South Africa's economy from collapse during his presidency. Mandela signed into law a new constitution for the nation, establishing a strong central government based on majority rule, and guaranteeing both the rights of minorities and the freedom of expression.
5 Achievements 1951 – Elected president of the ANCYL. 1990 – Elected ANC Deputy President. 1993 – Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1994 - Inaugurated as President of the Republic of South Africa.
6 How Nelson Mandela affected me? I think Nelson Mandela’s faith is a big part of his life. He fought for everything he believed in and never gave up. He sacrificed a lot to achieve things for his country and for his people. He was the voice for the voiceless and gave many people hope. His story made me realise how grateful I am to live in a country where there is no violence or wars, and there is a democracy. He is an inspiration to many people.
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21 Reasons...
In the next couple of weeks I have a major newspaper reviewing Small Crimes, as well as some potential articles if the freelance writers I've been talking to get their articles accepted. With some downtime right now I'm just kind of fooling around and have put together my 21 reasons why you might want to read Small Crimes, because face it, there are a lot of terrific crime novels out there, and I think it's only fair that I make a case why readers should take a chance with mine. From feedback I've been getting from readers I'm pretty confident that if you like hardboiled noir than you're going to like Small Crimes, but still here's my list of 21 reasons--and in putting together these reasons I only pulled quotes from good reviews. Although all reviews so far (at least the ones I've seen) have been good to great, I'm not about to pull a quote out of a bad or mediocre review to mislead anyone. So here's my case for why if you're a fan of crime fiction you might want to indulge in some Small Crimes:
1) From Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review: "Zeltserman's breakthrough third crime novel deserves comparison with the best of James Ellroy"
2) Booklist also has good stuff to say about Small Crimes: "Small Crimes has plenty of crime, but obsession, hubris, and evil, pure and impure, are at the heart of this vivid noir."
3) Maybe you might want to find out why Ed Gorman thinks Small Crimes is one of the finest dark suspense novels he’s read in the past few years.
4) Same with why Bruce Grossman from Bookgasm feels that Small Crimes is a surefire contender for book of the year.
5) As does why Nathan Cain (who’s blog 'Independent Crime' reviewed Small Crimes) agrees with Bruce.
6) And then there’s the ending, the one which Bill Crider writes is both “stunning and surprising”.
7) Laura Wilson in her review for the Guardian, also calling it a "surprisingly bold ending"
8) David Connett for the Sunday Express agrees also, saying, “Denton is one of the best realised characters I have read in this genre, and the powerfully noir-ish, uncompromising plot, which truly keeps one guessing from page to page, culminates with a genuinely astonishing finale."
9) Thuglit also agrees, making Small Crimes one of their picks, and saying, “...the book ends with one of my favorite final lines in the history of the written word. But don’t skip to it, ya lazy bastid.”
10) Patrick Milliken from Poisoned Pen Bookstore agrees with Thuglit's choice, making Small Crimes one of his hardboiled picks.
11) Then there’s Marcel Berlins at the London Times saying, "Small Crimes is the kind of grim noir novel they used to write in the Thirties and Forties. There are no good guys, only men who are mean, vicious, tough, corrupt and amoral. Action is frenzied and bloody, women easy but vulnerable, dialogue curt and the plot not necessarily convincing. David Zeltserman serves up the formula with enthusiasm and some fine writing.”
12) And Cath Staincliffe over at Tangled Web saying, "The characterisation and mental torment are reminiscent of the insightful psychological thrillers of Jim Thompson. Stunning stuff."
13) And Crimespree Magazine calling Small Crimes a dark masterpiece.
14) And Barry Forshaw over at CrimeTime saying, “This loamy smorgasboard of salvation and revenge has both a violent and comic edge, marking Zeltserman as a name to watch."
15) And Damien Seaman at Shots Magazine saying about Small Crimes, "Not so much a highway to hell as a full-on rollercoaster ride."
16) And Ray Walsh in the Lansing State Journal saying, “Zeltserman masterfully controls the action, offering dark noir fiction in the best Jim Thompson tradition. This is ideal for lovers of tense suspense and violent action.”
17) And then there’s Dark Party Review saying, “That’s the secret to Zeltserman’s fascinating novel about small town corruption and the consequences that follow. Unlike many crime writers today addicted to glamorous, far-fetched shoot-outs, outrageously high-concept plots, and the superhero-like-antics of protagonists, Zeltserman mines the ordinary for the extraordinary...."
18) And Barnes and Noble on their Mystery & Crime page calling Small Crimes, "ultra-noir, funny, and shocking by turns"
19) And then there’s Amazon.com right now discounting new copies to $10.17
20) Small Crimes is being published by Serpent's Tail, one of the world's best independent publishers of crime fiction. I mean, come on, when has Serpent's Tail ever let you down?
21) And finally, Pariah is out in the UK this January, and if Whitey Bulger ends up reading it, there may not be too many more books coming from me…
Small Crimes book launch party
The US book launch party for Small Crimes is going to be held Oct. 21st at Redbones in Somerville, MA from 5:30-7. For anyone unfamiliar with Redbones it has probably the best barbecued food in the Boston area, and free appetizers will be on hand. I hope people in the area will be able to make it, and I'll look forward to seeing you all there.
More information about Redbones and the event can be found by clicking here.
Small Crimes joining a Dark Party
GFS3 reviews Small Crimes over at the always interesting and thought-provoking DaRK PaRTY ReVIEW:
"...My conversation with Cormier came to mind as I was reading Dave Zeltserman’s crime novel “Small Crimes.” You couldn’t find two more disparate writers, but both novelists understand the power of a smaller stage. Small stories can produce big results and unveil universal truths.
That’s the secret to Zeltserman’s fascinating novel about small town corruption and the consequences that follow. Unlike many crime writers today addicted to glamorous, far-fetched shoot-outs, outrageously high-concept plots, and the superhero-like-antics of protagonists, Zeltserman mines the ordinary for the extraordinary...."
You can read the whole review here (and reading it is a hell of a lot less painful today than checking the stock market indices!)
Crimespree Magazine also reviews Small Crimes, and has good things to say also, calling Small Crimes a dark masterpiece. You can read the review here.
How books break through
I think this is something every writer struggles over. You might have written a book that's gotten great reviews by the trades, websites, and smaller newspapers, but how do you get from there to bestseller? There's no way around it, books sell because of how they're positioned and promoted in bookstores--and usually the publishers are paying for that placement and promotion, and reserving that payment for what they're considering their big books. So if you're not part of that, how do you break through?
It really comes down to that. You need to be lucky to have the right person discover your book and support it. More than just support it, but be a champion for it. Whether it's a reviewer at the NY Times or Entertainment Weekly or the right person at a chain bookstore, you need someone like that in your corner for a book to break through. I think that might be happening to me right now. Case in point, my sales rankings right now at bn.com and amazon.com:
Small Crimes sales rank at bn.com: 267
at amazon.cm: 635,923
Why the huge discrepancy? It's not a stunt on my part--I'm not buying copies at bn.com, nor am I asking friends to. It's because someone at bn.com discovered Small Crimes and is giving it prominent exposure on their Mystery & Crime and Thriller pages. On their Mystery & Crime page this is what they had to say:
This month focuses on a writer we'll be hearing a lot more about over the coming years: Dave Zeltserman. His new book, Small Crimes, is just out -- ultra-noir, funny, and shocking by turns. A major new talent continues his crime spree.
BN.com started giving Small Crimes this exposure Thursday and the ranking quickly went from 500,000 to 660. Now it's 267. If amazon.com did the same, I'm sure the sales would follow there also. The reason someone at bn.com had a chance of noticing the book in the first place is that I'm being featured on their crime book club this month--but still, without the right person at bn.com reading Small Crimes and believing in it this wouldn't be happening. This is the luck part of it.
Very cool for Small Crimes
I don't know how long this is going to be up there, but if you go to bn.com, then click on Books, then on Mystery & Crime, will see a nice plug for Small Crimes.
More Small Crimes
Ray Walsh reviews Small Crimes and Iain Levison's Dog Eat Dog for the Lansing State Journal, and finds both books highly entertaining, with both books having well-developed characters, corkscrew plots and endings that are virtually impossible to predict. About Small Crimes: "a nifty, captivating tale ... Zeltserman masterfully controls the action, offering dark noir fiction in the best Jim Thompson tradition. This is ideal for lovers of tense suspense and violent action." Read the entire review here.
Vince Keenan has good things to say about Small Crimes.
As does MonstersAndCritics.com ...
And LiteratureChick adding that Small Crimes is a must read.
I also have fun with Marshal Zeringue, coming up with my dream cast for Small Crimes for his "My Book, The Movie" series.
And finally, from the month of October I'll be the guest author over an bn.com's Crime Club.
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 214 and ends at position 302; the E-value for the FERM_C domain shown below is 6.86e-24.
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FERM_C
FERM C-terminal PH-like domain
This entry represents the PH-like domain found at the C terminus of the FERM domain.
The FERM domain (F for 4.1 protein, E for ezrin, R for radixin and M for moesin) is a widespread protein module involved in localising proteins to the plasma membrane [(PUBMED:9757824)]. FERM domains are found in a number of cytoskeletal-associated proteins that associate with various proteins at the interface between the plasma membrane and the cytoskeleton. The FERM domain is located at the N terminus of the majority of FERM-containing proteins [(PUBMED:9757824), (PUBMED:10847681)], which includes:
Band 4.1, which links the spectrin-actin cytoskeleton of erythrocytes to the plasma membrane.
Ezrin, a component of the undercoat of the microvilli plasma membrane.
Moesin, which is probably involved in binding major cytoskeletal structures to the plasma membrane.
Radixin, which is involved in the binding of the barbed end of actin filaments to the plasma membrane in the undercoat of the cell- to-cell adherens junction.
Talin, a cytoskeletal protein concentrated in regions of cell-substratum contact and, in lymphocytes, of cell-cell contacts.
Filopodin, a slime mold protein that binds actin and which is involved in the control of cell motility and chemotaxis.
Merlin (or schwannomin).
Protein NBL4.
Unconventional myosins X, VIIa and XV, which are mutated in congenital deafness.
Focal-adhesion kinases (FAKs), cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinases involved in signalling through integrins.
Janus tyrosine kinases (JAKs), cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases that are non-covalently associated with the cytoplasmic tails of receptors for cytokines or polypeptidic hormones.
Non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2.
Protein-tyrosine phosphatases PTPN3 and PTPN4, enzyme that appear to act at junctions between the membrane and the cytoskeleton.
Protein-tyrosine phosphatases PTPN14 and PTP-D1, PTP-RL10 and PTP2E.
Caenorhabditis elegans protein phosphatase ptp-1.
Ezrin, moesin, and radixin are highly related proteins (ERM protein family), but the other proteins in which the FERM domain is found do not share any region of similarity outside of this domain. ERM proteins are made of three domains, the FERM domain, a central helical domain and a C-terminal tail domain, which binds F-actin. The amino-acid sequence of the FERM domain is highly conserved among ERM proteins and is responsible for membrane association by direct binding to the cytoplasmic domain or tail of integral membrane proteins. ERM proteins are regulated by an intramolecular association of the FERM and C-terminal tail domains that masks their binding sites for other molecules. For cytoskeleton-membrane cross-linking, the dormant molecules becomes activated and the FERM domain attaches to the membrane by binding specific membrane proteins, while the last 34 residues of the tail bind actin filaments. Aside from binding to membranes, the activated FERM domain of ERM proteins can also bind the guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor of Rho GTPase (RhoDGI), which suggests that in addition to functioning as a cross-linker, ERM proteins may influence Rho signalling pathways. The crystal structure of the FERM domain reveals that it is composed of three structural modules (F1, F2, and F3) that together form a compact clover-shaped structure [(PUBMED:10970839)].
The FERM domain has also been called the amino-terminal domain, the 30kDa domain, 4.1N30, the membrane-cytoskeletal-linking domain, the ERM-like domain, the ezrin-like domain of the band 4.1 superfamily, the conserved N-terminal region, and the membrane attachment domain [(PUBMED:9757824)].
There are 19964 FERM_C domains in 19942 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing FERM_C domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with FERM_C domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing FERM_C domain in the selected taxonomic class.
Frame MC, Patel H, Serrels B, Lietha D, Eck MJ
The FERM domain: organizing the structure and function of FAK.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2010; 11: 802-14
Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a scaffold and tyrosine kinase protein that binds to itself and cellular partners through its four-point-one, ezrin, radixin,moesin (FERM) domain. Recent structural work reveals that regulatory proteinpartners convert auto-inhibited FAK into its active state by binding to its FERM domain. Further, the identity of FAK FERM domain-interacting proteins yieldsclues as to how FAK coordinates diverse cellular responses, including celladhesion, polarization, migration, survival and death, and suggests that FERMdomains might mediate information transfer between the cell cortex and nucleus.Importantly, the FAK FERM domain might act as a paradigm for the actions of otherFERM domain-containing proteins.
3D Structures of FERM_C domains in PDB
1e5w Structure of isolated FERM domain and first long helix of moesin
1ef1 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MOESIN FERM DOMAIN/TAIL DOMAIN COMPLEX
1gc6 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RADIXIN FERM DOMAIN COMPLEXED WITH INOSITOL-(1,4,5)-TRIPHOSPHATE
1gc7 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RADIXIN FERM DOMAIN
1gg3 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE PROTEIN 4.1R MEMBRANE BINDING DOMAIN
1h4r Crystal Structure of the FERM domain of Merlin, the Neurofibromatosis 2 Tumor Suppressor Protein.
1isn Crystal structure of merlin FERM domain
1j19 Crystal structure of the radxin FERM domain complexed with the ICAM-2 cytoplasmic peptide
1ni2 Structure of the active FERM domain of Ezrin
1sgh Moesin FERM domain bound to EBP50 C-terminal peptide
2d10 Crystal structure of the Radixin FERM domain complexed with the NHERF-1 C-terminal tail peptide
2d2q Crystal structure of the dimerized radixin FERM domain
2ems Crystal Structure Analysis of the radixin FERM domain complexed with adhesion molecule CD43
2emt Crystal Structure Analysis of the radixin FERM domain complexed with adhesion molecule PSGL-1
2he7 FERM domain of EPB41L3 (DAL-1)
2i1j Moesin from Spodoptera frugiperda at 2.1 angstroms resolution
2i1k Moesin from Spodoptera frugiperda reveals the coiled-coil domain at 3.0 angstrom resolution
2yvc Crystal structure of the Radixin FERM domain complexed with the NEP cytoplasmic tail
2zpy Crystal structure of the mouse radxin FERM domain complexed with the mouse CD44 cytoplasmic peptide
3bin Structure of the DAL-1 and TSLC1 (372-383) complex
3qij Primitive-monoclinic crystal structure of the FERM domain of protein 4.1R
3u8z human merlin FERM domain
3wa0 3WA0
3x23 3X23
4p7i Crystal structure of the Merlin FERM/DCAF1 complex
4rm8 4RM8
4rma 4RMA
4yl8 4YL8
4zri 4ZRI
4zrj 4ZRJ
4zrk 4ZRK
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In defence of Martine McCutcheon
I once worked in an art house cinema in Liverpool, doling out the tickets and little tubs of Hagen Daz ice cream. On my first shift I got talking to my co-worker.
“What kind of music do you like?” he asked.
“Oh, all kinds,” I said.
“Okay,” he said, “how about Bulgarian communist brass band music?”
He laughingly produced a tape, turned off the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack and put on the horns and bellows of the Eastern Bloc. I lasted about two minutes before pressing stop and putting Little Green Bag back on. It was a brutal lesson of which I was reminded as I read this article – coming hot on the heels of a scathing attack by Marina Hyde in the Guardian – about Martine McCutcheon’s forthcoming novel.
For all the scorn, bile and vitriol thrown her way you’d think that Martine McCutcheon had announced herself the natural heir to Updike, Bellow and Foster Wallace, except with better breasts and whiter teeth. The literary pages, and the commentators below the line, have queued up to laugh at McCutcheon’s leaden prose, to squeal with delight at every rom-com cliché and to mock piteously any thinly veiled piece of autobiography. The smugness, and self-righteousness spreads across the screen like a fog. And it stinks.
McCutcheon’s novel, The Mistress, is a light, frothy bit of fluff to liven up a dull bus journey or a cut and blow dry at Toni & Sassoon; the kind of book left behind at holiday villas next to a dog-eared John Grisham and a pool-bloated Jackie Collins. It was no more written for those of a literary mien as Mr Balfour’s Poodle, Roy Jenkins’ fascinating account of an early twentieth century constitutional crisis, was written for future subscribers to Heat and Grazia magazine. As my cinema colleague so aptly pointed out, not only can you not like everything, not everything is produced with you in mind: so why is it that those who don’t read commercial women’s fiction feel compelled to point and sneer at the ex-Eastender?
The problem can be summed up by what we’ll call the Jordan Analysis. This is a yearly piece of hand-wringing where the Booker longlist’s sales are compared unfavourably to the beach-ball smuggling, orange-glazed freak’s latest ghostwritten epic. As a like-for-like comparison, it’s about as instructive as contrasting the global sales of Mars Bars with Fortnum & Mason’s pickled walnuts in truffle oil. But because it makes good copy, it gets reported, and once again blurs the distinction between the commercial and the literary.
Katie Price’s novels may share the same parameters as those eligible for the Booker prize – published in English, fiction, longer than 200 pages or so, printed and bound – but that’s it: availability, recommended retail price, level of discount and prominence, target market, demographics couldn’t be more different. And then there’s the fact that she promotes the hell out of her books, is in the gossip rags every single day and “writes” about a celebrity lifestyle that is at once familiar and aspirational to her target readership. Try telling Simon Mawr – who is unlikely to be a cover star of any magazine, save for Difficult Fiction About Architecture Quarterly– that it’s a fair comparison.
The Jordan Analysis shows the media’s fundamental lack of understanding of the fiction market – and as this is replicated in many of the literary pages, that’s a worry. It shouldn’t matter that Price has sold more copies of her books than every literary novel since 1960, it should be expected. It needs no commenting upon, Price’s novels – like McCutcheon’s forthcoming books – are commercial fiction and, like Arnie’s Terminator, commercial fiction has only one aim, and only one goal.
Editors might like to think that the aim is entertainment, but that’s only secondary: no one publishes commercial fiction without dollar signs in their eyes. No matter how entertaining, a commercial novel’s success is only measured on its Bookscan figures. That’s it. Sales. Not prizes, not good reviews, not a discussion on Front Row. Commercial fiction just wants your money. It cares only about your cash. Improbably plotted? Who gives a shit, show me the money. Paper thin characters? Go tell it to the pigeons, you fuck, show me the money. Stilted dialogue? Get a copy of Middlemarch, bitch, show me the money. Commercial fiction is Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenross. It’s all about the sales, stupid.
And if that sounds vulgar and venal, well it is. Major publishers operate on a knife-edge. Most literary novels lose money, which means quite often that commercial fiction needs to help balance the books. This is not as easy as it sounds. For women’s commercial fiction in particular, you need time to build a brand and a readership, and time is something in very short supply. A celebrity name perfectly sidesteps the early painstaking part of this process and can avoid years of careful, spirit-sapping toil.
Martine McCutcheon has the clout to get on every talk show in town, and get her face in every weekly glossy or celeb newspaper pull out – and the supermarkets know that customers will be drawn to her name. So, so long as she delivers what her potential audience expects – a bit of glamour, a few jokes, a bit of romance and a happy ending – everyone’s content. Everyone, that is, apart from those who somehow see this as the equivalent of Martine squatting over Proust’s grave and leaving literature a steaming, dirty protest.
Some of the criticisms thrown like so much shit from a monkey’s paw towards McCutcheon and Pan Macmillan do raise salient points. Celebrity authors and novels can tie up publicity and marketing budgets, deflecting attention away from other authors. True, but that’s the case with any large company acquisition. When Sudoku went massive four years ago, budget and publicity was snaffled from wherever to ensure that sales targets were met. For most writers the knock on effects will be minimal: unless of course you’re a commercial novelist yourself. And those writers are probably the only ones who can justifiably feel that Martine and the oncoming rush of celebrity authors are the horsepeople of the apocalypse.
Commercial writing of any hue is not just about the quality of the prose, jokes or plotting: it’s the whole package. What these celebrity novelists have brought into sharp focus is just how much this is the case. If you were forced to put your mortgage on the winner in a straight sales scrap between a mediocre celebrity title from Martine McCutcheon or an original and snappy piece rom-com from an obese office administrator from Winersh where would your money go? Principles, ethics, belief in the power of books to transform minds – none of these things are important when selecting which pieces of commercial fiction to publish. You’re just betting on the most likely horse.
As a business decision, therefore, Martine is a sound one and that’s all it should be considered. Pointing and laughing at her because she’s not a sexier version of Tolstoy is just plain dumb. To paraphrase from a better Richard Curtis film than the paper cut in the eyeball in which Martine starred, she’s just a girl, whose written a book, asking the public to buy it. She is not asking for literary acceptance, so let’s once and for all draw a line between books published solely for commercial gain and those that have a higher ambition than simple entertainment. We do it with other media (The Wire’s viewing figures are never humiliated in a comparison with Coronation Street or one of ITV’s many cop shows) so why not with books?
Publishers get slated every which way – sometimes justifiably, but often by people who don’t know an awful lot about the business, or those who really should know better – but you can’t blame them for wanting to actually make some money. McCutcheon’s books should do just that – assuming the advance was sensible – and using the windfall, Pan Macmillan can hopefully go out and find the next Roberto Bolaño, Carol Anne Duffy, China Mieville or another history title as good as the aforementioned Mr Balfour’s Poodle. Yes it’s hardly perfect, and yes, we’d all prefer it if only the very best writers in each genre were rewarded for their efforts, but that doesn’t mean we have to live in Cloud Cuckoo Land. Celebrity sells, and that’s something we’re all just going to have to deal with.
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10 city secrets from Beijing tour guides
From lesser-known facts to insider tips, Beijing tour guides share all
By Patrick Moore Posted: Monday February 19 2018
Illustrations: Jinna Kaneko
Whether its the capital's biggest attractions or its hidden gems, few can claim to know Beijing past and present as well as its many tour guides do – they've covered almost every square inch of the city between them, so who better to let us in on a few lesser-known facts, alternative tourist spots and unlikely stories? We asked guides from five of Beijing's best tour companies to tell us their favourites that they've picked up along the way.
The Temple of Heaven had its own mountain during the Cold War
‘Most people have heard that Jingshan Park is a manmade mountain constructed of earth from the Forbidden City's moat, but few know that the Temple of Heaven used to have one just like it. The reason? During the tensions between the Soviet Union and China in the 60s and 70s, locals were braced for an imminent attack. Beijingers had been called on to dig air raid shelters throughout the city. The only problem was the huge amounts of leftover earth and stone.
‘Where to put it all? At the time, Premier Zhou Enlai's solution was to fill Beijing's parks with the rubble; not long after, an enormous mountain appeared at the south gate of the Temple of Heaven. It was finally removed in 1987, but if you ever get the chance to drop into Beijing's busy Dongdan Park, you'll see a pretty hill covered in trees and green grass – still remaining from the Great Air Raid Construction of the 1970s.'
Jennifer Zhang, Bespoke Travel Company
Dumplings were invented to cure frostbitten ears
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Overwhelmed by imperial architecture? Try a Gothic church instead
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There used to be elephants on the streets of Beijing
‘If you’d been hanging out in Xuanwumen 150 years ago, you would have seen an enormous row of 48 elephant stables. Elephants were an essential part of court life in the Qing Dynasty, trundled out for imperial ceremonies; they would line the entrance to the Forbidden City when officials reported to the emperor and even pulled the imperial chariot to the Temple of Heaven for prayers. They were so prevalent that Peking ladies would regularly purchase elephant dung from the keepers and apply it to their hair to make it bright and glossy!’
Visiting relatives want to go to the Forbidden City on a busy day? Take them next door instead
‘No, not to Zhongnanhai, unless you really don’t like your relatives. Take them to the Ancestral Temple, also known as the Workers’ Cultural Palace. This park just to the east of the Tiananmen Gate features much of the same architecture as the Forbidden City with far less traffic. A good place to get a photograph of a loved one standing amidst palatial architecture without a bevy of tour groups in the background.’
Sichuan peppercorns really do make your lips vibrate – and quite a lot
‘If you've ever wondered if your lips are actually vibrating after a mala hotpot, the answer is yes: Sichuan peppercorn gets them going at 50 Hertz – the same frequency of Beijing's power grid. But the mouth-numbing peppercorn is not actually a pepper: it's a member of the citrus family, and the United States banned all imports of it in 1968, for fear it would infect the lucrative domestic orange crop with the citrus canker. The ban was lifted in 2005, but all imported Sichuan peppercorns must be heated to 60 degrees Celsius for ten minutes before they can enter the States.’
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Over all this time out and about on the Beijing streets, or in the case of Beijing Hikers, its surrounding mountains, the city’s tour guides have picked up a few tales along the way. The most bizarre? ‘We got chased by an angry camel once. Strange, because we weren’t too far from the Fragrant Hills and weren’t really expecting camel danger so close to the city.’
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How To Reach Your Member of Congress Today, Online or Off
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, July 26 2011
Republicans and Democrats in Congress today are swamped with public opinion. Will they hear what you're saying, or fail? Illustration: David Colarusso / Flickr
With congressional switchboards jammed today after dueling remarks from President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have them vying for public support, there are several alternative ways to look up and contact congressional representatives.
If you're looking to make your voice heard today and having trouble thanks to the overloaded lines on Capitol Hill — and you're not interested in using lines set up by groups like SEIU — here are some ways to do that:
Snail mail or a well-written, obviously-not-form-letter email. Matt Lira, Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's new media director, writes: "The best way, [regardless] of the phone status, to contact their Members is write your rep." Past studies have shown that congressional staff sit up and take note of letters, and even emails — if it's obvious that the email is not a form letter, and especially if it's coming from a constituent in that member's district;
In person. Moveon.org and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, both progressive groups, are planning events in every district across the country. On Freedomconnector.org, the FreedomWorks-backed social network for Tea Party supporters, it looks like some folks are also organizing counter-protests. If you happen to be in or near Versailles, Ohio, today, you could stop by Republican House Speaker John Boehner's roving office hours and voice your support or dissent to his plans;
OpenCongress, a project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and Sunlight Foundation*, which tracks members of Congress, bills and legislation, including each one's website and contact info. Includes a way to look up your elected officials by ZIP Code;
PopVox, a platform for communicating your position on bills and issues to your member of Congress. Built by a team including former congressional staffer Marci Harris and GovTrack inventor Joshua Tauberer, it has gained some acceptance from staff on Capitol Hill;
Votizen, a project, now in beta, that tries to match you up with your voting record so that eleced officials know that when you're indicating your opinion on an issue, it comes from a real voter. One problem: Voting records are often poorly kept, so your mileage may vary;
TweetCongress, a directory of members of Congress who are on Twitter;
Facebook or YouTube — the Congressional Management Foundation released a study today that finds most members of Congress have "thoroughly integrated" new media tools, including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, into their daily business, based on a survey of congressional staff, and 72 percent of staffers surveyed — with the caveat that this includes "social media managers" who might have a particular view on the subject — believe social media allows their member of Congress to reach people they had previously not communicated with. Forty-two percent say social media is important for understanding constituents and just over a third say they routinely check YouTube;
GovLuv, a (slightly out of date — it still thinks David Paterson is governor of New York) web application that returns your elected officials and their Twitter handles, if it has them, based on your address.
Did I miss any? Let me know or leave them in the comments.
* Personal Democracy Forum co-founders Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior technology advisers to the Sunlight Foundation.
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Pavan K Varma, 59, Author & Former Diplomat Photo: Ankit Agrawal
How did your personal engagement with Chanakya come about?
My engagement with Chanakya began with my search to understand India’s ability to reinvent itself. I have been a student both of contemporary India as well as many aspects of its cultural and civilisational legacy. As a diplomat, as someone who is an observer of India, someone who is deeply convinced that we are at that cusp in our young history as a nation where change is essential, I went back to Chanakya, because I saw his ability to be a source of inspiration to reinvent ourselves, which our civilisation is capable of. I did not approach the Arthashastra in its minutiae, because it’s a very specific text in response to a specific time. For me, the Arthashastra is inspiring for its clarity of vision, its comprehensiveness of scope, and for its writer’s abilities to work the kind of rigour and discipline that allows you to achieve goals, and above all, for his insistence on seeing the nation as above all sectoral interests.
What are the key differences between the Nehruvian vision of India and Chanakya’s philosophy of nation building?
There are no fundamental differences, as long as you believe in the validity of an efficacious state, which retains its democratic credentials and inclusive ethos. It’s a myth that Chanakya was a cynic, a Macchiavelli before Macchiavelli’s time. His real concern was always for the welfare of the people, which is obvious when you read the Arthashastra. He believes that otherwise, you are corroding the fundamentals of an effective state. Even if you don’t describe it with sentimentality, the sheer ability to understand what creates an enduring or an effective state would cause you to be concerned about the welfare of the people, which was exactly the principles of the welfare state that Nehru sought to bring about through the prism of democracy. The difference arises, from my point to view, in that the makers of the Indian constitution did not envisage the current situation, where instead of one party with a stable majority that rules for five years, you have a 24-member coalition with a wafer thin majority, which will be the norm for the foreseeable future. This requires us to have Chanakyan honesty rather than Nehruvian nostalgia to be able to understand the problem for what it is. You need to understand with stark and corrosive honesty that today, the functioning of democracy has become the biggest impediment to governance, because all energies go to political management and survival rather than governance, with no thought to long-term enduring solutions because you are looking for quick-fix populist measures. I have to tweak the system to prevent this sterile, self defeating antipathy in governance and democracy.
Could you be more specific on how you would like to tweak the system?
Essentially, we need to have a democracy which functions without taking the voter for a ride. We need more discipline in order to make democracy more credible. So when parties go to the people for their vote, the voter must have all the information. What is the coalition? Who is part of it? What is it that they are promising, and through what timelines? Having come to power, how do we ensure the governments fulfil the role for which they have been voted in? So I provide a compulsory lock-in period for three years for the government to prove its credentials. This is exactly like our anti-defection law. It provides a free run to perform, without the instability of coalitions, for three years. After that, who would destabilise the government just for two years in power?
I found sections of your chapter on security a little problematic. For instance, you begin with this quote from Chanakya: “An enemy’s destruction should be brought about even in the face of great losses in men, material and wealth.” Of course, this was written in an era before nuclear weapons, before man had the ability to literally wipe out the entire human race with the press of one button. You have said that India should be stronger in its relations with Pakistan and China, but do you think that the presence of nuclear weapons in the subcontinent means that we have to be the responsible country, show restraint in the face of war?
That particular quote was not meant to be taken literally. It was meant to merely illustrate that there should be clarity of goals, and that waffle cannot substitute for that clarity. In the unsentimental area of foreign policy, defence and intelligence, idealistic waffle does not help you. On the other hand, Chanakya is the one person who teaches us that in dealing with states which are hostile, there are range of instrumentalities that can be used. I’m not advocating for a moment that we unleash our nuclear arsenal. I’m saying we should talk to Pakistan. But that doesn’t mean that we let our guard down, or ascribe to the real policy makers in Pakistan the same degree of bathos and bonhomie that we would like to cultivate with other constituencies of Pakistan. We seem to have lost our way there. When Pakistan wishes to attack, it attacks. When it wants to appease, it appeases. We react. A foreign policy should not be reactive. A defence establishment should be proactive in terms of its defence requirements in one of the most troubled neighbourhood of the world.
Your solution to Naxalism seems to be to shoot first and talk later.
I have a straight forward approach: win over the naxals. Divide them. Provide every inducement for them to return to the mainstream. But if they don’t, their avowed goal is the demolition of the duly constituted republic of India. That is treason, and no country can have 40,000 square kilometres of its territory under those who do not believe in the duly constituted state. So this drift and waffle about development and punitive technique is totally a self-defeating one, because you cannot enter certain districts to build even a hospital, or a road, or a school. So you have to face this kind threat with unsentimental clarity. But, having one at over, immediately look to one in need of those who are underprivileged and dispossessed. But you cannot sit paralysed, mesmerised by a situation, while they continue to attack with impunity. Your armed forces suffer casualties. That is an unacceptable situation. No nation would accept it, except India.
Chanakya’s New Manifesto
Pavan K Varma
248 pp; Rs 295
But what about the lakhs of people who would be caught in the crossfire of such a conflict?
They are already caught. They are sometimes, against their will, under the tutelage of those who don’t constitute the republic of India. And the armed forces will continue to be predatory without being effective. So there is no security of life for them. And the Naxalites must understand that if they are willing to return to the mainstream, India is assimilative. But if they implacably oppose to the duly constituted state, you have act in a particular way. And again, it’s not punitive action versus development. It’s not either-or, it’s sequential.
A lot of the state’s excesses, in India at least, happen due to mid- and low-level government officials. There is an idealism you speak of, which should exist in our politicians. But there is the rest of the state apparatus, which mostly runs with self-interest as the primary motivation. How do you change that and instill patriotism? Would you make this book compulsory reading?
I do not believe in individual proclivity. I believe individuals behave as per certain norms when there systemic checks to their criminal aberration. That is why in the case of bureaucratic excess of rapacious corruption, I prescribe system checks to change it. That is why I laud the Right to Public Services Act, which has been functioning in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, where the erring official who does not deliver a service in time is fined Rs 500 for every day of delay. As far as corruption goes, Indians as a whole accept a certain moral relativism, where they will criticise corruption in high places when they pay happily for a chalaan not to be registered against them. I prescribe, therefore, an architecture against corruption not depending merely on the silver bullet of one Lokpal. An example is electoral reform, which is the key. Secondly, I propose the expansion of the neutral intervention of technology in as many areas as where an individual interfaces with the state. It just overarches the human intermediary. You can book an airline ticket online; you don’t need a tout.
This book coincides with your entry into electoral politics. Why did you choose the JD(U) to join and do you think that the Nitish Kumar government has implemented what you have written in this book?
I’m an admirer of Nitish Kumar primarily for three reasons: clean politics, good governance and a secular vision. I believe these are needed for a new paradigm of leadership in our country today. Certainly, there are aspects of this book, which I have seen either as work in progress or implemented in Bihar. A notable example is the Right to Public Services Act. I believe strongly that there is substitute, for instance, to boosting agricultural productivity in order to tackle poverty. Bihar has had an increase rice production increase by 29 percent in one year. The ability to implement exemplary and deterrent punishment against corruption is again something I have seen implemented in Bihar, including the seizure to properties of those who are corrupt. I’m not saying it is in every respect ideal, a lot more needs to be done. But there are many aspects which I admire.
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The Belgium headquartered company is fully committed to grow in the dynamic aqua markets across the world and therefore consistently hires top professional that bring value to their customers.
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“Specialised feed additives are playing an increasingly important role in aquaculture feed formulations and profitability of fish and shrimp farmers. Health promotors in functional feeds have proven to be an essential component of prevention strategies to reduce the impact of diseases and parasites. Digestive and metabolic enhancers improve the efficiency for carnivorous species of new types of formulations based on less marine proteins and fats, and maximise feed cost efficiency in omnivorous species. Our continued research programs on different specialty additives for different aquaculture species increases the need for innovation and specialised product development,” says Dr Peter Coutteau, Business Unit Director Aquaculture for Nutriad.
Nutriad CEO Erik Visser added, “Nutriad has consistently been investing in species specific solutions for the aqua market, which has helped us to create a leadership position in the industry that recognises us for how we convert science into practical solutions, which build on a deep understanding of the challenges producers around the world face. The recent acquisition of Nutriad by Adisseo will help us accelerate our solution offering to the market, as it will allow us to combine technical knowledge across various platforms, combine portfolios and tap into a rich R&D pipeline.”
Dr Waldo Nuez has more than 10 years of academic and industry experience in aquaculture research and project management. Graduated a veterinarian at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), he obtained his MSc in Animal nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and completed a PhD on fish nutrition at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO (Australia). In between his MSc and PhD studies, he worked as an aquaculture technical manager in the feed additive industry. After his PhD, he continued as lecturer/researcher at James Cook University (Australia), where he actively collaborated with industry and academic partners in the evaluation and development of novel feed ingredients and additives.
“I am excited to join the Nutriad team and hope to contribute to with my academic and practical knowledge of aquaculture research, biotechnological tools and experimental design to support the high need for innovation in aquaculture specialty additives”, says Dr Nuez
Find out more on the Nutriad website, HERE.
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Congressional debate between Culberson, Fletcher set
By Michael Slaten October 16, 2018
A debate between Republican Rep. John Culberson and Democrat challenger Lizzie Pannill Fletcher will occur at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Student Center Theater. Tickets will be made available for students. | Courtesy of Matt Roth via Lizzie Pannill Fletcher campaign (left) and Wikimedia Commons
The Congressional debate between Republican Rep. John Culberson and Democrat challenger Lizzie Pannill Fletcher has been given a set time and location at the University of Houston.
The Student Center Theater will hold the debate, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
The debate will be live streamed by ABC13 and Univision.
Tickets for the debate will be divided between the two campaigns, ABC13, Univision and the University. The University plans to give out all 40 of its tickets to students, said Senior Media Relations Specialist Jeannie Kever.
The University will soon announce how students can get their tickets.
Culberson has held the seat since 2001 and has fought off challengers in the past.
The close congressional race between Culberson and Fletcher for Texas’ 7th Congressional district has been marked by close polling and many attack ads between the two candidates.
The debate was originally scheduled to occur Oct. 15, but the Culberson campaign had to reschedule with the Fletcher campaign due to the incumbent recovering from surgery.
The Culberson and Fletcher campaigns were able to reschedule the debate. However, the high-profile Senate race between Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democrat challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke were supposed to have a debate at the University Sept. 30. That debate was postponed, and the two campaigns have not rescheduled.
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Chef's Delight
Submitted by Kevin King on October 1, 2013 - 10:09am
The 25th annual Chef’s Delight will be held Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the Holiday Inn Beaumont Plaza at 6 p.m.
The Sabine Area Restaurant Association (SARA), sponsor of the event, will honor long-time board member and community supporter Arthur Berry. Berry is executive director of Emeritus at Dowlen Oaks and president and owner of Absolute Equipment serving Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. He has been diligent in giving back to his profession, including many area boards and a past state president of the Texas Wholesale Distributors Association. SARA president Jay Jenkinson will recognize Berry at the dinner for his many contributions in the region.
Tickets are $60 each or a table of ten for $600. Members of the Golden Triangle Chefs Association will prepare dinner for approximately 500 guests, featuring Oyster Shooters, Muffuletta Bouchee, DuckConfit Salad, Braised Short Ribs, Sweet Potato and Yukon Hash, Roasted Cipollini Onions and Mushrooms and Turtle Crepes. Chef Traci Gates, president of the local chefs’ association and a Lamar Alumnus, states that the dinner “is an opportunity to spotlight the outstanding talents of chefs in Southeast Texas.” Students from Lamar University’s Hospitality Management and Culinary Programs will assist the chefs.
The evening will also feature a live auction with packages including a New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers game in New Orleans with hotel accommodations for two and a sports package offering tickets to a Texans and New England Patriots game with hotel accommodations for four for one night.
Proceeds from Chef’s Delight support scholarships for Lamar University Management and Lamar Institute of Technology’s RIFM programs, the Texas Restaurant Education Foundation, education and professional development for the Chef’s Association and donations to local charities.
SARA has provided funds to the YMBL Auction, Special Olympics, Southeast Texas Food Bank, Nutrition Services for Seniors, Beaumont Humane Society, Orange Food Bank, Some Other Place, Boy’s Haven, Dogtober Fest, Girl’s Haven, and the Walter Price Scholarship Fund and has donated more than $325,000 to Lamar University for scholarships and equipment over the last 25 years. Last year, SARA completed the funding of its $250,000 endowment at Lamar University in support of its Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts programs.
Event chairs are Matt Peterson and Charles Duit at Lamar University. Contact (409) 880-8962 for more information.
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