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Ha Giang is a province in the Northeast region of Vietnam, 310km north of Hanoi, bordered by Cao Bang province to the east, Yen Bai and Lao Cai provinces to the west, Tuyen Quang to the south and has 274km of common international border with China in the north.
Dong Van Karst Plateau, covering 4 districts Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Dong Van, Meo Vac, is recognized as Global Geopark by UNESCO in 2010.
Area: 7,914.9 sq.km
Population: 746,300 inhabitants composed of 22 ethnics, among which major people are Hmong, Tay Yaos, Viet and Nung ethnics.
Topography: Ha Giang's topography is quite complex and can be divided into 3 areas: the area on the south has rocky mountains separated by rivers, the west area with sloping mountains side, high pass, valleys and narrow springs, the low land area with hills, the valley of Lo River and Ha Giang Town.
Administrative units: Ha Giang is divided into 11 units: 1 city and 10 districts.
Climate: Ha Giang features a tropical monsoon climate with 2 seasons: rainy season and dry season although it tends to vary depending on altitude. The annual average temperature varies between 24 and 280C. In winter, the temperature is sometimes down to -50C. The hottest months are May and July, the coolest month is January. The difference of temperature between day and night in valleys is stronger than in flat plains.
Sights of interest
With many beautiful heritage sites and grandiose mountains along with long-standing cultural characteristics of ethnic minorities, Ha Giang has huge potential for tourism development.
Twin mountain (also named Fairy Mountain) is located along Highway 4C, at Quan Ba district, about 40 kilometers from Ha Giang town. The 2 mountains are associated with a touching love story between a Hmong young man and a fairy in heaven. Quan Ba Twin Mountain is recognized “National scenic spot “ by the Ministry of Culture Sport and Tourism of Vietnam.
Mansion of Vuong family, located in Sa Phin district, 24 kilometers from Dong Van, is a beautiful and unique architecture of upland. The structure has been classified as a relic from 1993.
The mansion was built in turtle-shaped hill, looking to the south, at 1,600 meters above sea level, with the shape of the word “Vuong” as structure. Through the time, the mansion still retains its original appearance. Vuong mansion was built by the skill craftsmen coming from China along with the best of H’Mong workers. The whole mansion, with an area of 1,120 sq.m, composed of 64 rooms including living room, office, bedrooms, family member’s room, kitchen, opium storage…, is carved sophisticatedly with dragons, phoenixes, bats… symbolizing longevity, prosperity for the family.
Dong Van old quarter is located in the middle of valley surrounded by rocks. The quarter is formed since the early 20th century, with some 40 ancient houses of 100 years old, belonging to H’mong, Tay and Chinese families. Especially, Mr Luong Huy Ngo' house built in 1860, is nearly 200 years old.
The Dong Van old quarter has Chinese’s architecture with two-story tubular houses covered with yin and yang roofs, red lantems…and still preserves the tradition and cultural intangible values of ethnic people.
Lung Cu flag pole, at Lung Cu commune, Dong Van district, about 40 kilometers from Ha Giang town, is situated on Dragon Mountain, at the foot of the pole. Lung Cu has a total area of 3,460 hectares with 9 villages and shares a 16-kilometer border with China. H’Mong and Lo Lo ethnics in Lung Cu mainly cultivate and still preserve their traditional weaving. Specially, Lung Cu preserves historical artifacts and precious cultural artifacts, thus confirms the sovereignty of Vietnam since years ago.
Ma Pi Leng Pass, at 1,200m above sea level, is located in the Dong Van Global Geopark recognized by UNESCO. Ma Pi Leng road, surnamed "Road of Happiness", 200 km long, with majestic and spectacular scenery, was built by 16 northern ethnic groups during 6 consecutive years (1959-1965).
On November 16th 2009, the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism of Vietnam has classified Ma Pi Leng area as scenic relic of country including:
+ Ma Pi Leng pass considered as the unique regional heritage about landscape and geomorphology;
+ Pass peak area as one of the most beautiful viewpoint to enjoy the panorama in Vietnam;
+ Nho Que River valley as one of the most unique tectonic valley in Vietnam.
Scenery in Ma Pi Leng pass is unique with grandiose and wild beauty. Looking to the north and northeast, thousands of gray mountains concatenate to the horizon. Next to the road is abyss, below is the Nho Que River with cool water looking like a silky fillet looming in fog.
Khau Vai fair, also called "Khau Vai love market", is held once a year in the evening of the 26th of 3rd lunar month, at Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district. The Khau Vai fair is located in the village of the Nung, in a wide valley and considered as a dating fair for young to married people; even people having children try to join this special fair just for fun as life in the mountains is often tedious.
From the previous day, canvas-tents were built throughout the valley to display local products to be sold, mostly corn wine, “thang co” dish… At sunset, many people follow the mountain roads and rush to the market on time.
At late night, the market becomes quieter, the only conversation and sound comes from “khen”, a kind of traditional bamboo ethnic flute, playing by some young men, assembling people around them.
Hoang Su Phi terraced fields, 110km west of Ha Giang city, covering 6 communes of Hoang Su Phi district, are created around 300 years ago by 17 ethnic local groups living mainly on rice cultivation and other subsidiary crops. Terrace farming helps to ensure food security for the whole district, producing 25,000-27,000 tons of rice per year. Fall is the best season to visit Hoang Su Phi as rice fields turn yellow and it is harvesting time. In September 2012, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has recognized the terraced rice fields of Hoang Su Phi district as a national heritage site.
Other sights of interest of Ha Giang province include: Quang Ngan waterfall, Suoi Tien (Fairy Stream) and Fairy Cave, Noong Lake.
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United States of America — Libertarian PartyCandidate for President
Derrick M. Reid
Attorney, Engineer, military scientist, bullion-banking-finance-market analyst, geopolitical analyst
462 votes (1.5%)Check
Eliminate national debt, wealth transfers 99% to 1%, and federal socialism
Eliminate over populated prisons, illegal immigration, government corruption
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Profession:Attorney, Engineer, military scientist, bullion-banking-finance-market analyst, geopolitical analyst
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A comprehensive view, to fix systemic problems facing the US.
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Very Truly Yours, in Liberty and Freedom,
Derrick Michael Reid B.S.E.E., J.D.,
2016 Presidential Candidate, Libertarian Party,
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U.S. House of RepresentativesCandidate for District 27
Jack Orswell
Businessman/Environmental Consultant
81,655 votes (32.6%)Check
Eliminate the threat of domestic terror attacks and keep Americans safe.
Create jobs by supporting small businesses and fixing our broken tax code.
Bring federal dollars back to Southern California to fix our roads and build a more reliable water supply system.
Profession:Snall Business Owner - Former FBI Agent
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Answer from Jack Orswell:
Water is essential to life and most of the water consumed by Southern Californians is imported from the Colorado River or Northern California. Although current federal policies are progressing towards better water management, we still need better rules defining water quality, allocation and conservation. Water rights come with responsibility and it is the role of the federal government to insure that Americans have a clean, consistent water supply that will meet the needs of a growing population.
If elected, I will support legislation that creates new systems or improves existing systems to increase water storage capacity, capture stormwater runoff, reclaim and recycle waste water and continue the cleanup of the contaminated groundwater basins.
We have always been a nation of immigrants, but with the worldwide threat of terrorism, our national security requires that we know who is in our country and why they are here. Because of the size of our international borders, we must secure our borders effectively and efficiently. By utilizing cutting-edge technology, we can provide continuous surveillance of our borders.
If elected, I will form a coalition consisting of the members of Congress from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. These four states alone represent more than 20% of the American population and certainly bear a greater share of undocumented immigrants. The group will identify the circumstances under which an undocumented immigrant will be issued a temporary permit to stay inside the United States, while he or she gets in line and applies for permanent legal status. The temporary permit may involve paying a fine or providing community service. Those who do not meet the required circumstances or fail to register after a certain time period will be subject to arrest and deportation. As Americans, we are humane and compassionate, and yet we are a nation of laws. We need laws that address the entire aspect of the immigration problem, and those laws will be enacted only with leadership, not politics.
What, if anything, does the U.S. need to do in order to address national security and terrorism? Please explain your answer in detail.
I will be an advocate to maintain a strong national defense, to protect our country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. This means we must maintain a superior military force, not only providing them with the training and equipment they need, but taking care of their families while they are gone. And when these brave warriors come home after serving their country, we are obligated to take care of them and their injuries, both physical and mental, for the rest of their lives. They answered the call to duty, and it is our duty as Americans to take care of our veterans.
I will also insure that the first responders in our communities, our law enforcement officers, firefighters and medical personnel, are provided with the training and equipment they need to detect, prevent and if necessary, respond to acts of domestic terrorism. As we know, freedom is not free, and we must never let our guard down. To maintain a strong national defense, we need to make a long term commitment to our military personnel and their families, and to our first responders. And this long term commitment will only come with leadership, not politics.
The political climate in Washington, D.C. has been extremely partisan in recent years. In that kind of atmosphere, what would you do to get things done while in office?
As a small business owner and a former FBI Agent, I believe that our government is no longer effectively serving the needs of the people. Congress is filled with career politicians who are influenced by corporate and union money, and they seem to be more concerned about getting re-elected than they are about solving problems. I believe that I can make a difference. With my leadership skills, my small business and government experience, and a strong desire to serve my community, I will work with all members of Congress to find solutions and solve the issues that have been lingering in Congress for many years. It is my desire to represent the people of the 27th District and build a better long-term future for our families and America.
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CDC is recommending all pregnant women be assessed for Zika during each prenatal visit
All pregnant women in the U.S. should be assessed for possible Zika exposure during every prenatal visit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
The advice from the CDC came as federal health officials also urged women who are pregnant or are considering becoming pregnant to avoid a Miami neighborhood that is the site of a Zika outbreak. Zika can cause catastrophic birth defects in developing fetuses, including microcephaly, which results in an abnormally small skull and, in most cases, incomplete brain development.
The CDC has warned pregnant women since January to avoid areas with Zika outbreaks. Until now, those travel warnings were limited to foreign countries and U.S. territories, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Now, the CDC warns pregnant women to avoid the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, where 14 people have been infected with Zika. That move appears to be unprecedented in CDC history.
While pregnant women don’t automatically needed to be tested for Zika, health care providers should ask women about recent travel, as well as any travel by her sexual partner. Those who should be tested include pregnant women with symptoms of Zika, which include a fever and rash, as well as pregnant women who may have been exposed through travel or sex, according to the CDC.
Pregnant women who live in or frequently travel to Wynwood to be tested for Zika in the first and second trimester, the CDC said.
Although Zika is mostly spread by mosquito bites, both men and women can transmit the virus through sex.
The CDC advises all pregnant women to avoid mosquito bites, through wearing long sleeves and insect repellent, especially if they live in an area with the main mosquito species that spreads Zika, the Aedes aegypti. These mosquitoes live in 30 states and several territories, including Puerto Rico.
The CDC also advised the sex partners of pregnant women to protect these women from Zika infection.
Sexual partners of pregnant women who have traveled to Wynwood, or other areas with Zika outbreaks, should use condoms or other barrier methods for the rest of a woman’s pregnancy, the CDC said.
Couples planning to become pregnant should also consider their risk of Zika, the CDC said.
Women and men who have traveled to Wynwood since June 15 should wait at least eight weeks before trying to conceive a child, according to the CDC. Women and men who live in Wynwood or frequently travel there should talk to their health care provider.
The new Miami-related health advice is similar to the recommendations that the CDC have given people who’ve traveled to other parts of the world with Zika infections, said Henry Wu, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
“It’s a very reasonable thing to do,” Wu said. “The number of cases that they’ve diagnosed is enough to suggest that there was a significant amount of transmission going on. We do know that about four in five cases has no symptoms, so we need to assume there could be many more.”
Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine and public health at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, also described the CDC advice as sensible, given the risks to developing fetuses.
“Deferring pregnancy or using condoms with possibly infected partners makes sense,” Klausner said. “Condom use during pregnancy will also reduce the risk of common STDs.”
Although the Zika virus can be devastating to unborn babies, it is not usually dangerous for adults. Women who are infected are believed to become immune for life. Scientists don’t believe that Zika infections can harm future pregnancies, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
To be safe, the CDC said that women who have Zika should wait at least eight weeks before trying to get pregnant.
Doctors don’t know how often sexual transmission of Zika occurs, Klausner said. Although scientists don’t know exactly how long the Zika virus can survive in semen, studies have found viral genetic material in semen for several weeks after men were infected. Based on that evidence, the CDC advises men with Zika to wait at least six months before trying to conceive.
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This site provides a forum for emerging and established poets to find a wider audience for their work, with an emphasis on writing by Canadians. This is a wonderful website to explore poems written about Alberta, by Albertans.
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Here is a short biography of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell, the writer of the classic Canadian prairie novel "Who has seen the Wind?".
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There’s A “Runaway Dinosaur” On This Week’s Episode Of The Flash
May 10, 2016 Bec Heim Refreshers, The Flash, TV Needs
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Hey Flash fans!
Last week was a rough one. Zoom continues to be a big threat. Caitlin is still his prisoner. Barry decided to try to get his speed back, but apparently vaporized. He also like went through Jesse and Wally. (Is this how they get their speed powers?)
So what are they gonna do this week with Kevin Smith behind the camera?
Nice Job, Harry: In the aftermath of Barry’s “death”, everyone is just in a state of shock. They find Jesse and Wally passed out. Wally is able to come around but Jesse’s heart stopped. Jesse comes to a few moments later. Iris tells Wally that Barry is dead, which shocks Wally and brings him home. Joe goes to get Henry, who is almost catatonic, but agrees to come look at Jesse.
The Dead Return: Cisco touches what’s left of Barry’s costume and he gets a vibe of Barry. He tells Joe and Henry that Barry’s alive. Henry, Joe, and Cisco go to confront Harry. Joe tells Henry to take care of Jesse and he’ll sit on Harry. Henry says that Jesse should be waking up, but he’s just not. Henry needs treatment records from Barry’s coma to help Jesse. This sends Iris and Cisco down the “poor man’s morgue”. As they find the files, the zombified Tony bursts down the door. Cisco is not amused. Cisco tries to protect Iris, but Iris is having none of it. Zombie Tony still has his powers. This is not good at all. Zombie Tony breaks free to go on a rampage, which starts with stealing some guy’s mom’s car. Iris and Cisco inform the others of what happened. After a kick in the ass from Joe, Harry devises away to bring their “dead” man back. Cisco is hooked up to the machine and taps the Speed Force. He tries to get Barry to return, but it doesn’t happen.
Deadly Habits: Tony’s rampage continues and trashes Jitterz. Henry remembers a cellmate who escaped but got caught with his girlfriend. Iris realizes this means he is after her. They go back to the Wells house. Joe tries to awkwardly figure out if Wally is a metahuman. Joe drops his mug to see if Wally has super speed, but nothing. Wally insists he feels fine. Instead, Tony is coming for Iris who is happy enough to play distraction. Iris leads Tony back to STAR where Cisco hopes electromagnets will short out his zombie brain. It doesn’t work. The group goes to hide in the Accelerator Room, but the door is not going to hold. They need Barry. Like now. Tony is battering down the door. Cisco realizes that Barry wasn’t ready yet, but they can try now. Henry wants to convince Barry to come back, but Iris wants to do it.
Dinosaurs: Barry wakes up in his childhood bedroom. He walks around his home in a state of confused shock. He finds Joe as a police officer kneeling in a taped off room. Joe greets him, but tells him that he’s not Joe. The Not-Joe says that “we” thought Barry would be more comfortable here in a place familiar with a face that was familiar. He has Barry sit down. Not-Joe asks what Barry knows about the Speed Force. Not-Joe is the Speed Force. Barry begs for the Speed Force to send him back. The Speed Force tells him that Barry’s not going back until he catches “that”: a blurred out figure. Barry stops in a park where the Speed Force takes Iris’ form. The Speed Force doesn’t want to upset him and asks why he rejected their gift. Barry says that he didn’t reject it. He had to save Wally. Barry then asked why he has those powers. The Speed Force says that it is because Barry is the Flash. Barry wants to go back and sees Cisco. The Speed Force informs him that if he goes with Cisco, then it will be without his powers. Barry turns his back on Cisco and resumes the chase.
Acceptance: Barry stops in the cemetery where the Speed Force takes Henry’s form. Barry begs to have his powers back because Zoom is coming. Speed Force tells Barry that they know what is at stake here. They just want to know why Barry has never return here: Nora’s grave. The Speed Force asks Barry why he hasn’t returned here. They want to know if he is at peace. Barry says that he has to live with choosing his life over his own mother’s. It’s a choice that he lives with every day. The Speed Force asks if he accepted the choice, but Barry doesn’t answer. He goes to chase the shadow instead. Barry returns “home” to find the Speed Force taking Nora’s form. Barry wants to know why the Speed Force is doing this to him. They assure Barry that this isn’t a punishment. He’s just tired. Barry admits that he never accepted his mother’s death. He doesn’t think that he ever will. The Speed Force implores him to accept Nora’s death. The Flash needs to accept tragedies that will because then he will be free. Barry starts to cry and says that he misses his mom so much. The Speed Force assures Barry that Nora is proud of him. Barry wants to know who is saying this: the real Nora or the Speed Force. The Speed Force replies that both of them are so proud. Together, the Speed Force and Barry read his favorite book when he was a boy: The Runaway Dinosaur. Barry recites it from memory and breaks from heart. The Speed Force declares that he is ready. He catches the shadow: The Flash. They become one.
The Flash Reborn: Barry hears Iris call for him from the Speed Force, begging him to come home. The Speed Force tells him to run. Barry reaches out to Iris and she pulls him out. Cisco informs him of the situation with Harry providing hand gestures. Barry promises to go turn on the power. Tony breaks down the door. Barry with Iris leads Tony to the lab. Tony and Barry fight. Barry tells Tony that he never liked him, but Tony deserves to rest in peace. Barry uses his lightening to help charge the magnets. As Tony falls to the ground, re-dead, Barry apologizes for getting lost. Barry goes to visit Jesse, saying he thinks he needs to be there. Barry wakes her up with his lightning. Everyone is confused, but Harry realizes that it’s the Speed Force. Henry checks over Barry in the lab. Barry admits that he realizes that everything happens for a reason, and that he wouldn’t change it. Even if he could. Henry tells Barry that he plans on staying. (How come I feel like Henry’s going to die now?) Barry and Iris go to visit Nora’s grave with flowers and the book. Iris admits she never liked it because there wasn’t the perfect person. Barry says that they found their perfect person. He doesn’t know where to go from here with her. Barry loves her though and the sound of her voice will always bring her home.
Not Good: Zoom gives Caitlin an ultimatum: him or not him. He gives a speech to his meta brethren from Earth-2. Zoom has certainly assembled an army.
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Heather Locklear arrested - again - for attacking cops, paramedics
by | June 26, 2018 | 06:36
Responding deputies said she was heavily intoxicated and arguing with friends and family. Locklear also allegedly kick an EMT , who was attempting to put her on a gurney, in the chest. Her bail is now set at $20,000. Heather Locklear was arrested Sunday night after attacking a police officer and a paramedic, it's been confirmed.
'Fixer Upper' stars Chip and Joanna Gaines welcome baby No. 5
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Japan vs Senegal: Stoke City stars swapped for crucial clash
In their final group games on Thursday, Senegal will face Colombia in Samara while Japan plays Poland in Volgograd. Neither side could find a victor in the final 10 minutes and had to settle for a share of the spoils, which leaves them joint top of Group H with four points each after two matches.
Previewing Day 11 of the FIFA World Cup
The team that wins will almost qualify. Southgate turned the page on England's "golden generation" in a bid to revitalize the squad . "It should have been worse", he said. FIFA World Cup 2018 England vs Panama , Japan vs Senegal and Poland vs Colombia football matches live streaming will be available on Sony Liv.
New Video Surfaces Of LiAngelo Ball’s Rough NBA Draft Workout
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Another Spider-Man Spinoff Movie Is In The Works Over At Sony
She also appears in Avengers: Infinity War briefly on the bus when Peter needs a distraction to escape. Better get your passport renewed, Pete. Spider-Man: Homecoming was Holland's second time playing Peter Parker and his first headlining film as Spider-Man.
Germany set to be without Hummels against Sweden
But Kroos also thought he made up for it in the end. "Something I did appreciate today is that we didn't lose our nerves and break out in panic after conceding a goal". "He ran and fought the whole game, it's unlucky - it's completely idiotic to subject him to hate for that", Guidetti told reporters. "This was a thriller, full of emotions and a rollercoaster ride right up to the final whistle", Low said.
'Game of Thrones' actors Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie marry in Scotland
Kit Harington and Rose Leslie play on-screen lovers Jon Snow and Ygritte in Game of Thrones . Following the nuptials, the celebration is expected to continue at the bride's family's castle. In March, Rose spoke to E! "The country is attractive. the Northern Lights are magical.it was there that I fell in love. I popped my question a bit early", he said on Britain's " The Jonathan Ross Show ".
US military to host migrant children
Permanently. They are not separated for a day or two days. A senior Trump administration official said that about 500 of the more than 2,300 children taken from their families at the border in recent weeks have been reunited since May. -Mexico border, and a number of congressional Democrats visited facilities holding children in Texas. At the somber event at the White House complex on Friday, Trump introduced the families, who delivered heartbreaking tales of their loved ones' lives and, ...
Game of Thrones co-stars Kit Harington, Rose Leslie to Wednesday
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Cynthia Nixon reveals her child has come out as transgender
But now, the Sex and the City star and NY governor candidate, 52, has shared the trans news on Instagram on Friday about her boy, known as Seph. Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has posted a heartfelt tribute to her son in honour of the 14th Annual Trans Day of Action .
'Game of Thrones' Stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Wed in Scotland
The newlyweds tied the knot at Rayne Church and they left the ceremony in a vintage Land Rover Defender 90, which had a "Just Married" sign tied to the front. It's an absolutely lovely day for us. He added: "It's a great day for Aberdeenshire". "I was going to string up some lights in some trees and do all the romantic stuff, but we were in the country and we were sort of under this attractive night sky and had a log fire burning and red wine and".
Anthony Bourdain did not have drugs or alcohol in his system
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Forsberg backs Sweden to dump Germany out of tournament
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Vela, Hernandez lift Mexico to win over South Korea at World Cup
Germany (no points) face Sweden (three) later on Saturday. It's the 50th career global goal for Hernandez, known as "Chicharito". Son Heung-Min of Korea Republic and Hwang Hee-chan of Korea Republic look dejected after losing to Mexico .
Game of betroths: Kit Harrington set to Wednesday co-star
Leslie said she had been too busy to plan the wedding, telling Town & Country magazine: "I haven't tackled it". The couple met while filming the fantasy series in 2012, in which they played Jon Snow and Ygritte. She left the show in 2014, but Harington's iconic character has appeared in every episode. "I was going to string up some lights in some trees and do all the romantic stuff, but we were in the country and we were sort of under this lovely night sky and had a log fire burning and ...
Nick Jonas just made his relationship with Priyanka Chopra official!
After stepping out of the auto outside the restaurant, they were escorted amid heavy security. Days later, Jonas and Chopra were spotted having a date night at Toca Madera in West Hollywood, where they cozied up on the garden patio and munched on guacamole, the Ceviche Verde, chicken tacos and the Japanese Wagyu Beef.
Optus to offer Optus Sport free for all Australians until 31 August
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Brazil vs. Costa Rica
Jesus's first touch took the ball away from the defender and into the path of Coutinho who raced in to poke past goalkeeper Keylor Navas from six meters out for his second goal of the tournament. The pressure he is under to succeed with the Selecao is obvious, and emotion got the better of him at the full time whistle when he broke down in tears.
Fallen Kingdom' End Credits Scene?
As expected, that's behind the $18.5 million earned in previews by Jurassic World (2015) but is still a good number on its own. Pixar's latest is on track to score $80 million in its second weekend. In this follow-up to Jurassic World , Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return to Isla Nubar in the hopes of saving the remaining dinosaurs three years after the destruction of the theme park.
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Home World Horse Racing News OSAF Renews Sponsorship Agreement with Keeneland
OSAF Renews Sponsorship Agreement with Keeneland
OSAF is proud to announce the renewal of the sponsorship agreement with Keeneland for a five-year term, from 2019 till 2023, by which the internationally renowned racecourse and the Thoroughbred industry’s leading auction house supports OSAF ́s activities.
OSAF is the Organización Sudamericana de Fomento del Pura Sangre de Carrera (South American Organization for the Promotion of Thoroughbred).
Located in Kentucky (USA) – also known as the “Horse Capital of the World” – Keeneland was founded in 1936 by a group of horsemen. Keeneland’s mission is to continually invest in the industry and to preserve the tradition of Thoroughbred racing. Today, Keeneland continues to be guided by its original mission, taking a leadership role in the industry to improve safety, promote integrity and strengthen the sport of racing.
A Global Leader in the Thoroughbred Industry, Keeneland is the world’s largest and most prominent Thoroughbred auction house and hosts world-class racing twice annually during its boutique Spring and Fall meetings. Owners, trainers, riders and fans from all over the world travel to Lexington each year to participate at Keeneland.
Keeneland’s mission to perpetuate the sport of racing continues more than eight decades after its founding, as profits from Keeneland racing and sales are returned to the industry and community through such initiatives as:
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· Global market development- Keeneland is committed to the growth of the Thoroughbred industry and the buying bench at its annual auctions and actively travels to more than 25 countries and making large investments to expand the marketplace.
· Industry initiatives – Keeneland proudly supports safety initiatives and equine organizations and is an advocate for Thoroughbred aftercare to improve the health of the industry.
· Fan development – Keeneland is committed to the growth of the industry’s fans and future participants. Each race meet creates racing fans of all ages, exemplified by the Keeneland Kids Club which exceeds 10,000 members. Record crowds and daily attendance underscore Keeneland’s commitment to fan development.
· Local community – Proudly serving as a leader in Central Kentucky, Keeneland is committed to the community it serves. Keeneland’s founders established this community activism which continues to this day, as Keeneland has donated millions to local charities, as well as health and educational programs. Intended as a gathering place for the local community, Keeneland hosts hundreds of charitable and private events annually.
MoreinformationinKeenelandofficialwebsite: www.keeneland.com
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Show Media Item - Real to face Marimoo in late Omar Sey tournament on Saturday
Real to face Marimoo in late Omar Sey tournament on Saturday
FF Cup champions, Real de Banjul will lock horns with the Manjai-based team Marimoo in the final of the late Alhaji Omar Sey Memorial Football Tournament to be played at the Independence Stadium on Saturday, at 8pm.
The Group A winner, Marimoo started their run in a fantastic form as they opened their account with a 2-0 defeat over Gamtel. They also drew with the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) and defeated the league champions Brikama United 2-0, which placed them at the top spot with 7 points to earn a place in the final.
The 2017 league champions, Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) occupied second position in the group with 6 points but missed out on the final stage.
Real de Banjul started slowly in the tournament with scoreless draws in their first two games against Hawks and Fortune, but beat the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) to finish top position in group A with 5 points.
The two sides are now set for the super Saturday clash of the Titans in a cloudy and wet natural grass of the pitch as the fresh summer air breezes within the atmosphere. Real will be hoping for a double silverware after just been crowned FF Cup champions.
According to the organisers –GFF- the winner of the final will live to retain and protect the iconic relic and legacy of the late Omar Sey.
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Ariel Quitangon is a heavily browed lady who believes in minimalism and astrology. She appreciates corny jokes, collared shirts, and animal rights. Currently, she is a fine arts student, and plays ukulele for a super wild band.
Anne Agu’s childhood dream was to be an astronaut, before it was shattered at the thought of her leaving the country. Now, she studies BS Biochemistry to be a geneticist. She’s a physicist at heart, though, and plans to get a Masters degree after college. She likes video games that involve killing an average of 500 men a day, and is currently in a love-hate relationship with bowling (Check out her Twitter and tumblr).
Anne Abeli draws most of her work from experience. She enjoys watching her surroundings and likes to immerse herself in wonder, gently listening to the epiphanies life has to offer her.
Clar Gorreon is a(n extremely) loud, nineteen year old Fine Arts student who swears a lot and takes pride in her horrible jokes and bad eyesight. No one believes her when she claims she’s shy, but she can’t really blame them – especially when she gets her foot stuck in her mouth so often. She enjoys reading angsty DHr fanfiction and talking passionately about the ASolaF universe once provoked. You can follow her on Twitter/IG: @clargorreon (WARNING: tweets in ALL CAPS 90% of the time)
Blessilde Limoso’s existence is a hole waiting to be ripped out from the very fabric of the universe. Her sense of being is anachronistic: she is simply there and not quite there. This timeline crisis is the result of a lifetime’s fascination with period films and science fiction, a deeply-rooted affinity for the fantastical and reckless infatuation with characters that do not exist (oh the blasphemy!). She is mother to two, ridiculously fussy cats, and she believes in sea monsters.
Shandra Fuerte is currently a Communication Arts student. She is interested in multiple art forms such as theater, film and photography. After college, she plans to enter the world of film and entertainment.
Daniel Castaneda’s a university sophomore with a degree in Literature who wants to continuously improve his craft. He pursues the dream of becoming a lawyer among other things… as well as a video game writer. He also enjoys playing the guitar and piano with more experience on the latter and plans to master them one day. With a “do-or-die” attitude, he is on a constant journey towards self-discovery. A gamer at heart, he enjoys playing video games whenever the opportunity opens itself; right now he’s enjoying League of Legends.
Pio Tendero is an aspiring animator and artist. A gentle giant, it's hard for him to go unnoticed anywhere, but gives him attention when he draws in public.
Ginny Julian is a self-proclaimed aesthete majoring in Advertising Arts. Aside from art, she enjoys baking, playing video games, watching animations, and getting distracted by cats. While still uncertain as to what she exactly she wants to become, she has an unwavering ambition to pursue a career in the art world.
Trianne Bamba is a girl who enjoys meeting new people but tries not to be socially-awkward. She has never ending thoughts about everything and daydreams of lying on a bed of fries. Most of the time you'll hear her passionately singing the wrong line to a song.
Ancilla (that's pronounced An-chi-la, mind you) Diamante, obviously born on the last day of the year 1996. Currently taking BS Occupational Therapy. An avid fan
of musicals and Coca-Cola. Can't whistle to save her life. Quirky. Weird. Talkative. Always curious. Most importantly, a work-in-progress. #AFJ, always. (Twitter and IG: @piedrasplatas -- after the famous fictional tree in Ibong Adarna which is filled with, you guessed it, diamonds.)
Andi Fandino would rather be behind her camera taking the photos than in front of someone else's. She enjoys capturing moments and looking back on them just as much as she enjoys living in them. Follow her on instagram: @andifandino.
Franz is an all-around crazy, fun-loving girl who hails from Saudi Arabia. Her thrill-seeking personality has led her to have a variety of interests such as art, music, dance, fashion, and food. When no one is looking, she fearlessly shows off her inner singing and dancing machine.
Pau is a photography enthusiast and has been so since her younger days. She loves capturing every little moment to showcase beauty of the world. She mostly does landscape, street, and nature photography.
You Jung, a.k.a Kate, cannot be described without art and music. She is creative in crazy way and likes to invent and make new things. Food is her second description; she likes cooking, baking and eating. She spends time doing girly hobbies. She is also the creative manager of IndiMe.
Kristine Marquez is a frustrated actor/ writer/ director who is struggling to remain sane in the crazy pulchritude that is life, with a few existential crisis thrown in for good measure. A Communication Arts student at school, a weirdo at home, and all the time lost in another fictional world.
Adela Locsin was born and raised in the Philippines, but left home at fifteen to study at a boarding school. She is mostly based out of Boston, where she is currently majoring in architecture studies. She loves the Boston Red Sox, anything design-related, and she believes a font choice can tell a lot about a person (looking at you, Comic Sans MS user). You can check out her photography at http://adelalocsin.com or follow her on twitter or instagram at @adelerz.
Mostly seen holding a pen on one hand and a camera on the other, Jelou Galang (struggles) to stand firm on her personal ground rule, "to fathom the unfathomable". She is into oozing-with-cheese pizza and late-night free verse poetry reading. Also, she works to keep up with: being a college student, living as a cheerful extraterrestrial, and staying as the chinwag buddy of her dog. You can find her attempting every possible thing at http://ajelouishnarration.tumblr.com/.
Maia Sevilla loves chocolate cake, napping, and her dog, Fender, more than most things. While she dreams of being the perfect cross between an astronaut and a pastry chef, she is willing to let that go in order to be a fully functional 19-year-old Fine Arts student out to save the world.
Elle Shivers is a 17-year old aspiring doctor who somehow found herself at art school. She loves rap music and bunnies. She still hasn't grown out of her otaku stage (which started all the way back in elementary school, thank you very much).
Presumably human (although we have our doubts), Andrea Beldua is a Padawan of art, fashion and photography, a feminist, a non-conformist and a Pastafarian. And also seems to like speaking in third person.
Sara Castañeda is an indecisive teenage girl. She likes horror films, breakfast food and summer. In the future, she wants to become a model, writer and ukulele superstar altogether. But for now, she spends her spare time reading or making crane origamis.
Sean Eidder Reynon is a 15 year old muggle-born who is proud to say that he is perfectly abnormal, thank you very much. Peculiar in many ways, he is a far cry from that common stereotyped teenager. He has a great passion for art, and would love to do nothing more than making collages and other creative thingamajigs.
Rissa Coronel writes around the place, reads in the car and bleeds caffeine. See her think aloud over at proclockwatcher.tumblr.com
Livi Villanueva has an uncanny talent of understanding everyone but herself. She’s not really sure what she is, but she thinks she’s pretty cool so I guess that’s fine. She’s really into TV, movies, chicken, skirts, nail polish and talking (usually about herself to herself). She’s loud and crazy but you wouldn’t really describe her as happy. She has inside jokes with herself, stalks her own Twitter, is forever game to have a 5-hour phone call about life, and gives pretty good hugs.
Pat Portugal is a Visual Communication student who likes to draw comics and watch cartoons. She loves cereal and can eat it for days on end as breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, merienda, dinner, and dessert.
Bea Arietta is a psychology major who also wants to be a fashion stylist and landscape architect in the future. She loves Mineshine milk tea, thrift shopping and lettering, among others. Follow her Path to CulturedxJeje on twitter and IG at @beaarrieta to get your daily dose of corny jokes, random photos and typography.
Chuu Diaz is a Visual Communication student, currently blundering her way through university. Future food illustrator. She enjoys garlic bread and things.
Jessica Olaivar likes doing calligraphy and lettering pieces, painting in watercolor, reading novels and fanfiction, and meowing and barking at street cats and dogs in an attempt to say hi in their language. She's currently waiting for fanfic updates and the new The 1975 album and Asian tour announcement.
Danielle Chuatico is a 22-year-old illustrator / comic artist / writer / director and just a girl for all seasons. She enjoys reading novels about crime and killers, learning how to cook, visiting Korean spas, and watching movies over Skype with her far away boyfriend. You can read her comics on Tapastic @bedmoss and find her all over social media as @bedmoss or @bedmosslife.
Bea Policarpio is a 21-year-old artist and creative entrepreneur based in Manila, Philippines.
If asked, most people would probably say that Jan Dabao is a puppy in a human’s body, and she thinks that’s a pretty accurate description. Armed with genuine affection and super soft cuddles 24/7, she’s pretty much always ready to be the best pet, I mean friend that she can be for you! Some of her favorite things would include museums, her pet Chihuahua, videogames, and decreasing WorldSuck.
Ysabel Yutangco is a professional procrastinator and food connoisseur who is just trying not to trip over herself. She loves to jam to the same song and watch Buzzfeed videos for hours on end. Currently aiming to become the eighth Hokage.
Pauline Batoctoy is a Communication Arts and Advertising student. She likes all things cute and pastel- colored, but has a weird habit of covering everything she owns with washi tape. When she's not drowning herself in a pool of existential crisis, she likes to spend her free time on the weird side of the internet and binge- watching anime.
Rogin Losa lives in one of the 7,107 islands that compose Philippines. She is currently 18 years of age and a film student. Her holy trinity composes of books, film, and music. Spontaneity could be her middle name but it’s Ocampo, unfortunately. This makes her sound adventurous but she’s usually just in her room. Check out her blog at honorarytenenbaum.tumblr.com.
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Gay rights champion Jeff Dudgeon awarded MBE
News that Jeff Dudgeon has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community in Northern Ireland is extremely positive, significant and symbolic.
I feel a great sense of joy that Jeff will soon become a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE). Whilst long overdue it’s a perfect end to 2011. Jeff will now be honoured by the state after previously facing criminalisation simply due to his sexual orientation.
Jeff courageously and successfully brought a case to European Court of Human Rights in 1981 and achieved decriminalisation of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland. Until the UK Government changed the law in 1982 (following Jeff’s successful case) gay men in Northern Ireland faced arrest, prosecution and imprisonment.
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Muir welcomes imaginative approach on confiscated counterfeit goods
I welcome the approach adopted by the Trading Standards service in Northern Ireland to donate counterfeit goods to charity for redistribution to homeless and vulnerable people.
I recently sent an inquisitive query to Trading Standards seeking to ascertain what they do with all the fake and illegitimate goods they regularly confiscate. In response I was delighted to learn that a scheme is now in place where counterfeit goods such as clothing, footwear, food and nappies are given to charities via a designated organisation.
With counterfeit goods seemingly increasing and one market in England recently closed because more fake goods were being sold than legitimate products I welcome this imaginative approach which ensures those in need benefit from the goods rather than those who produce the dodgy items.
Other public bodies who are in possession of confiscated goods and unclaimed lost property should explore similar opportunities to ensure that those in need benefit from the goods especially during the Christmas season of goodwill, when we should be focused on helping people pushed to the margins of society.
Alliance Councillors working to save historic Cultra Rail Station House
Sketching of Cultra Railway Station House
by Cllr Larry Thompson
My fellow Holywood Alliance Councillor Larry Thompson and I have been campaigning to save Cultra Station House. Contact has been made with the Minister for the Environment and a meeting held with top officials to work out a way to save the building. The Station House is located at Cultra Railway Halt and close to the entrance to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Commenting on the issue, Cllr Thompson stated: “Cultra Station House was designed by renowned architect Charles Lanyon, built in circa 1863 and was listed in 2007 when threated with demolition. This unique building has long been on the Built Heritage at Risk Register and is now in a very bad state of repair with the exterior covered in graffiti, doors and windows broken and the roof partially exposed. Previous plans submitted by the site owner to refurbish the building never materialised. As a consequence of the general economic downturn the building now faces a very uncertain future with ownership recently transferred to NAMA who have since put the building up for sale on the open market seeking circa £450k.”
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Muir welcomes £3.6m investment to stop pollution at Kinnegar lagoons, Holywood
Cllr Muir at Kinnegar Lagoons
I welcome news that NI Water have formally approved the Business Case authorising investment of £3.6million to address the on-going Kinnegar sewage pollution problem which has caused odours for years.
I have been campaigning for action to plug the sewage problem since early 2010 when I exposed the full extent of the problem and secured commitment by NI Water to spend £100,000 to identify the cause and then £3million investment to fix the problem.
Whilst sewage pollution has occurred for far too long at the Kinnegar Lagoons I am glad that progress to implement a solution is occurring after sustained lobbying by myself. This £3.6m initiative will hopefully eliminate the on-going smells which have made some nearby residents and workers nauseous and are often commented upon by people travelling past the location by car or train.
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Muir pleased that North Down Council supports shared schooling
I welcome the decision by North Down Borough Council to support my motion expressing support for shared schooling.
Council ratified its decision to endorse my motion at its meeting on Tuesday 22 November 2011. The motion stated: “That this Council calls upon the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive to urgently deliver an education system fit for the 21st century by developing more shared educational opportunities, where children learn and play together.”
Alliance Councillors urge investment in Holywood schools
Cllr Muir meeting Priory Integrated College
Student Council 15 December 2010
My Council colleague Larry Thompson and I have called upon the Department of Education to fund the new school building projects within Holywood. We have made the call following news that monies have become free as a result of recent developments such as recent development regarding the A5 road upgrade and news that the Education Minister has found an extra £40m.
Cllr Thompson stated: “Whilst some new school build projects are not ready to proceed, the new schools initiative in Holywood has received all the necessary approvals and just needs the commitment and cash to proceed. Priory Integrated College urgently needs a new building to replace their current crumbling structure.
Cyclists celebrate successful Yuletide Mince Pie Cycle Ride
Cyclists from across North Down enjoyed a leisurely cycle ride from Bangor to Holywood and then the RSPB Bird Reserve at Airport Road, Belfast as part of the Bicycle friendly Borough campaign on Sunday 20 November with campaigners hailing the event as an overwhelming success.
Supported by Sustrans and Friends of the Earth the ride was designed to raise awareness of the need to fully upgrade the North Down Coastal Path to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians.
Commenting on the event, Mary Lappin from the Bicycle friendly Borough campaign remarked “Over sixty people participated in our Yuletide Seaside Birdhide Mince Pie Bikeride cycling along the North Down Coastal Path from McKee Clock to Holywood and then the Bird Reserve. We were particularly grateful for the MLAs and Councillors who joined us including John Barry and Andrew Muir plus the Mayor of North Down Cllr James McKerrow who gave his best wishes before we set off.
The ride successfully helped us to highlight the need to upgrade the remaining sections of the Coastal Path whilst also demonstrating the value of investment made by North Down Borough Council and other agencies.”
Continuing, Mary stated “Cyclists found the newly upgraded section at Rockport very useful and were able to make their way to Airport Road via the newly opened gate facilitating cyclists and pedestrians between Kinnegar and the Harbour Estate.
More work is however required to create a Greenway between Bangor and Belfast allowing pedestrians and cyclists alike to make their journey on a safe traffic free route. We therefore intend to request a meeting with Senior Officers at North Down Borough Council to find out more about their plans to upgrade the remaining sections”.
I greatly enjoyed the Mulled Wine and Mince Pies kindly provided on arrival at the Bird Hide by Bikeworks Cycle Shop, Bangor and will continue to support this important campaign in the future. We urgently need to upgrade our cycling infrastructure to make it easier and safer for cyclists to travel from A to B.
Anyone interested in supporting the Bicycle friendly Borough campaign and participating in future rides should join our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/bicyclefriendlyborough
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Muir comments on Redburn Primary School closure decision delay
I welcome the decision by SEELB to defer their decision to issue proposals to close Redburn Primary School.
I understand South Eastern Education and Library Board Commissioners met last week to consider whether to issue proposals in the form of a Development Plan to close the school but decided to defer any decision until their next meeting. I welcome news that they are considering all relevant issues and hope they will make the right decision and will allow Redburn to remain open.
Any decision to close the school would be knee jerk in advance of the wide ranging review now initiated by the Education Minister and the long awaited new Schools initiative in Holywood which would involve new premises for Priory Integrated College, Holywood Nursery plus Redburn and Holywood Primary Schools.
Muir urges action to protect War Memorials
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I have called upon North Down Borough Council to take appropriate actions to protect war memorials across the Borough following a reports of thefts in other parts of the UK.
Following recent reports from other parts of the UK that metal plaques on war memorials have been stolen to be sold, I have requested that Council officers bring back a report on all possible steps which can be taken to safeguard our war memorials.
Plaques bearing the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice during past wars need to be securely marked so they can be easily traced if stolen, and photographed to allow replicas to be reproduced without delay.
I find it disgusting and abhorrent that anyone would even consider doing something like this. I am appalled at the lack of respect displayed by some people for those who lost their lives, and I cannot understand how some individuals do not appreciation that the freedom they enjoy today is because of the sacrifices made by those named on the plaques.
Hopefully North Down will not be visited by such criminals but if we are, we must be prepared.
Muir condemns plans to close Holywood Police station
Holywood Police Station
I condemn outright plans to close Holywood Police Station and urge the Chief Constable to remove Holywood from the list of stations which will be axed.
It is understood that a Policing Board subcommittee was presented with a list of 35 stations ear marked for closure on at the end of last week by the Police Service of NI and included on this list was Holywood Police Station.
Holywood Police Station is an important part of our community providing a base for local police officers. With the recent spike in burglaries I am astounded that the Police are considering removing this local station.
Cyclists plan Mince Pie Cycle Ride to Belfast Lough Bird Reserve
North Down Cyclists hope to put the wheels in motion towards an improved Coastal Path later this month by embarking upon a Cycle Ride from Bangor and Holywood to the Belfast Lough Bird Reserve at Airport Road, Belfast. Participants will be able to enjoy free coffee and mince pies upon arrival courtesy of Bikeworks Cycle Shop.
Organised by the Bicycle friendly Borough campaign and supported by Sustrans and Friends of the Earth the cycle ride will depart McKee Clock, Bangor at 10am and Café Nero, Holywood at noon on Sunday 20 November 2011 arriving at the Bird Reserve at approximately 12.30pm.
Muir welcomes pavement gritting deal
Cllr Muir in Holywood last year
during heavy snow and ice
Last year The County Down Spectator rightly described efforts by the Council and Roads Service to grit Town Centre pavements as ‘too little too late’. Town Centre pavements were left covered in snow and ice in a treacherous state for far too long whilst the Council and Roads Service bickered.
I am however glad that the Council and Roads Service have signed an agreement concerning gritting and removal of ice from Town Centre pavements after I continuously raised the issue throughout 2011.
The new agreement will hopefully provide a framework for action. Whilst it will not be possible to grit every pavement after every sprinkling of snow it provides a basis for a more co-ordinated approach focused on key areas during extreme and prolonged cold weather when snow and ice make Town Centre’s inaccessible.
I will closely monitor implementation to ensure lessons are learnt from 2010 and ratepayers receive a better response from government when temperatures fall and snow turns to ice.
Muir welcomes Holywood success at Best Kept Town awards
I am delighted after Holywood was awarded Runner Up status in the Medium Town Category at the Northern Ireland Best Kept Town 2011 Awards.
Whilst I am naturally disappointed Holywood didn't win this year achieving Runner Up status against stiff competition is an amazing achievement. I warmly congratulate and thank everyone involved in keeping Holywood tidy and attractive.
Great progress has been achieved during the last year with a number of eye sores gone, areas spruced up, graffiti removed and the scourge of litter tackled on an on-going basis. The challenge ahead is to continue this work and focus on the areas where judges felt improvement was required in order to ensure we win the award next year.
I look forward to working with everyone over the forthcoming months to deliver a tidy town which attracts even more people to live, work or visit. During these tough economic times it's especially important we have a town which attracts investors.
Muir working to stop Redburn Primary School closure
People across Holywood recently received news that the South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB) are contemplating closing Redburn Primary School from 31 August 2012. I am shocked that the Board are even considering closure after the Education Minister recently reaffirmed commitments to facilitate the new school building project in Holywood when resources allow. This scheme would involve new premises for Holywood Nursery, Holywood Primary, Priory Integrated College and Redburn Primary with Redburn and Holywood Primary Schools merging together on one new site.
Whilst I am totally opposed the proposed closure I am keen to ensure that the consultation isn’t merely a rubber stamping exercise. I have therefore contacted the Children’s Commissioner requesting that legal action is taken to halt the closure before the Education Minister completes his overarching review concerning the sustainability of all schools across Northern Ireland.
Thompson welcomes progress to save Stewart's Place, Holywood
Holywood Alliance Councillor Larry Thompson has welcomed news that a letter of offer has been issued by the NI Environment Agency for Grant Aid towards essential repairs and redecoration of 1 Stewart’s Place, Holywood with work apparently to begin on site shortly. 1 Stewart’s Place was built in 1840 and is a listed building in the Town Centre on a street named after Holywood’s first Post Master.
Commenting on the development, Cllr Thompson stated “Over the last few years 1 Stewart’s Place has unfortunately fell into disrepair and is now extremely dilapidated. Emergency repairs effected a few months ago were merely cosmetic leaving the building in a serious state and structural damage now evident.
Whilst I am disappointed that the building has been allowed to deteriorate so badly news that funding has been awarded and work will soon commence to bring the building up to a basic standard is to be welcomed. I would like to pay tribute to the Holywood Conservation Group who have worked tirelessly to bring these matters to the attention of all concerned and to achieve a successful result".
Concluding, Cllr Thompson remarked “Whilst previous attempts by NIEA to force the site owner to repair the building have failed Grant Aid and news that the building is on the market for sale will hopefully incentivise the owner to carry out the necessary work. Facing 1 Stewart’s Place is its sister building 3 Stewart’s Pace which was restored in 1993 by Hearth Housing Association. This restored building provides a clear example of how 1 Stewart’s Place could look if fully restored. I will continue to lobby and support Holywood Conservation Group and UAHS as they campaign for action to restore this historic building which acts as a gateway into Holywood”.
Stewart's Place, Holywood is thought to have been built about 1840 by William Lowry, nos. 1 and 3 Stewart's Place are named after the first post-master of Holywood, Hugh Stewart. Forming a pair of three-storey stucco houses with rounded corners, they were listed in the mid-1970s, and are located within the recently designated Holywood Conservation Area. No.3 was restored by Hearth Revolving Fund in 1993, but, its neighbour, no.1, is currently in a poor state of repair. HB Ref No: HB23/20/020 A
More info at http://freespace.virgin.net/hearth.nireland/StewartsPl.html Offers are invited in the region of £175,000 by BTW Shiells http://www.btwshiells.co.uk/Site/Property.aspx?x=1141
Muir comments on plan to dim street lights
Conscious that Local Authorities in Great Britain have started switching off street lights at night to save money I was keen to ascertain if the Roads Service also intend to flick the switch.
I therefore raised a question at a recent Council meeting seeking to ascertain if they plan to copy their counterparts across the water and was informed that no plans exist to flick the switch in Northern Ireland.
I am glad that street lights will continue to shine at night with smart solutions to be pursued instead such as dimming the lights at dusk and dawn. Keeping areas well lit at night reduces the risk of accidents, helps cut crime and the fear of crime.
Smart solutions such as dimming lights at dusk and dawn when full beam isn’t necessary makes sense but leaving neighbourhoods in darkness could result in a crime wave. With burglaries on the rise we need to ensure nothing is done which makes it easier for criminals to operate such burglars.
Thompson and Muir delighted iconic Holywood Johnny the Jig statue saved
My fellow Alliance Holywood Councillor Larry Thompson and I are delighted following the recent decision by NI Environment Agency to abandon plans to de-list the iconic Johnny the Jig statue in Holywood, Co. Down.
Commenting on the development, Cllr Thompson stated “Following extensive lobbying by Cllr Muir and I, Holywood Conservation Group, North Down Borough Council, Historic Buildings Council, Ulster Architectural Heritage Trust and many concerned residents I am delighted that the NIEA has reconsidered their proposal and abandon plans to delist the statue. Without this protection the statue may have faced an uncertain future similar to other monuments across Northern Ireland which, over time, have either been destroyed or left to rot in storage warehouses.”
Concluding, Cllr Thompson stated “Johnny the Jig is an iconic statue by Rosamond Praeger, a well loved and respected local artist, which forms part of Holywood’s identity and will thankfully remain in place, protected in law. I would like to pay tribute to the Holywood Conservation Group for all their considerable work in helping to save Johnny the Jig from delisting."
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Muir urges library cuts rethink after over £2m spent
I again call upon the Libraries Authority to abandon their plans to cut Holywood and Bangor Library Opening Hours after discovering that over £2m was spent upgrading Bangor Library and nearly £170,000 was spent last year refurbishing Holywood’s Historic library which previously served as Sullivan School.
Libraries NI recently announced plans to slash library opening hours across Northern Ireland. If plans proceed, Holywood Library opening hours will be cut from 53.5 to 40 and Bangor from 65 to 57 hours per week.
Muir calls for gritting arrangements to be sorted
Cllr Muir in Holywood with
ice covered pavements
North Down Borough Council and the Roads Service need to sort out arrangements for the gritting of town centre footpaths before the winter arrives.
Last year town centre pavements were treacherous and arguments continued concerning who was responsible for gritting them. Towards the end of the cold spell grit was spread by North Down Borough Council but this was widely viewed as too little and too late with businesses trade badly affected.
Earlier this year I raised the issue and again I am urging the Council and Roads Service to come to an arrangement which ensures that town centre pavements are gritted when snow and ice is experienced. We simply cannot afford to leave businesses inaccessible for days.
I will continue to raise this issue at Council meetings until a satisfactory solution is found.
Time for talks on the past
Tomorrow the Alliance Party will table a motion at the NI Assembly calling for the Secretary of State to convene all party talks to find a way to deal with the legacy of the past. More details can be found at this link.
The Assembly motion follows the recent call by Alliance Deputy Leader Naomi Long MP for the Secretary of State to convene all Party talks to broker agreement on how to deal with the legacy of the past.
The appointment of Mary McArdle as Special Advisor, Martin McGuinness’s Irish Presidential Bid and the recent death of Gusty Spence have yet again highlighted the need to devise an inclusive means to deal with the past.
Rather than ignoring the past, seeking to re-write history or leaving the issue with the Historical Enquiries Team, Police Ombudsman and special inquires we need to devise a comprehensive and inclusive way to address the needs of victims and survivors.
Locally, the Alliance Party in North Down recently held a Talk and Discussion entitled concerning the past with Guest Speaker Lord Eames outlining key issues to be considered.
Alliance will continue to provide leadership on this important issue until an adequate means is found to address the legacy of the past since the Shared Future we all yearn for must be built upon stable foundations.
Muir calls for improvements at Glenlyon Park
Improvements are required at one of Holywood's most scenic parks located within a steep ravine.
Glenlyon Park can be found off the Church Road in Holywood and offers visitors the opportunity to watch wildlife and roam across eleven acres of parkland which incorporates the Twistle Burn River and a picnic area. The park is an ideal venue for short walks only a few minutes' walk from Holywood Town Centre with ample car parking available on site for those who wish to travel from further afield.
This scenic park has, unfortunately, fallen into slight disrepair with some items vandalised whilst rubbish has also accumulated and steps sometimes slippy. Local people have contacted me concerned that the park seems to have been forgotten about whilst another resident has also reported that anti-social behaviour has been taking place in the car park after dusk.
Muir calls for action to tackle abandoned advertising lorries
A coordinated government response is required to tackle problem concerning advertising lorries abandoned on bridges across main roads across Northern Ireland.
I have raised the issue as a result of on-going problem with many lorries abandoned on the Holywood Exchange Flyover on the A2 Bangor to Belfast Road advertising a range of items including Pony Rides, Electrical Goods, Furniture and grass cutting for many days.
Over the last few months I have been liaising with various government agencies to resolve this matter which has caused a significant number of complaints. Many motorists fear that the distractions could cause an accident and a disabled resident has contacted me unable to travel to Sainsbury's via her electric scooter as a result of lorries parked on the pavement.
Muir condemns cut in library opening hours
I have launched a petition at http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/stoplibrarycuts against the proposed drastic cut in opening hours at Holywood and other libraries. I am concerned that the cuts could mark the end for some libraries whilst also restricting access to these vital community resources.
Holywood Library
Libraries NI recently announced plans to cut the opening hours of many libraries across Northern Ireland. Locally, Holywood Library will suffer drastic cuts with opening Hours slashed from 53.5 hours to 40 hours. Bangor Library will also have its opening hours cut from 65 to 57 hours. Whilst I recognise that Libraries NI need to balance their budget making such cuts at the behest of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure could be the death knell of some libraries reducing visitors to an unsustainable level with the next logical step closure.
Help save a man from execution
In a few days a man will be executed. Unless action is taken Troy Davis will be killed by lethal injection on Wednesday 21 September 2011 at 7pm, US time.
Troy Davis was convicted of murder in 1991 and has been on death row for 20 years despite a raft of evidence highlighting his potential innocence and a strong campaign supported by Amnesty International calling for a new trial or hearing and clemency.
Killing another human being is, I believe, fundamentally wrong for many reasons including, most importantly, the reason cited by Martin Luther King Jnr. who once said that “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind”.
Two days before Troy is due to be executed Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will hold a clemency hearing. This meeting will take place tomorrow and decide whether his execution should proceed or whether his sentence should be commuted.
His execution is therefore not inevitable. Take action now and contact the Board of Pardons and Paroles via www.amnesty.org.uk Let’s cherish and protect human life rather than extinguishing it.
Muir welcomes reprieve for Ballysallagh Reservoir
I welcome news from NI Water that planned sale of Ballysallagh Reservoirs have been put on hold. I have been lobbying NI Water to halt their plans to sell Reservoirs across North Down and beyond and serve on the joint North Down and Ards Council committee to Save Portavo Reservoir near Groomsport. I am also involved in the newly formed Portavo Preservation Group.
Whilst the main focus is currently on Portavo Reservoir which is scheduled for sale during 2012/13 I am keen to ensure that remaining redundant Reservoirs across North Down are not sold to the highest bidder. It is vitally important that these beauty spots and wildlife havens are retained and protected for future generations not lost to private developers who may drain the Reservoirs, or worse.
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Muir details plan to plug Kinnegar sewage pollution problem
I have been reassured by NI Water that plans to plug the sewage pollution problem in Holywood are on track.
After extensive lobbying I was delighted to achieve a commitment last year from NI Water to spend up to £3m to tackle the on-going sewage pollution problem occurring in the Kinnegar lagoons, Holywood after previously spending £100k to identify the source of the problem.
I have continued to lobby NI Water officials and with the malodour especially bad during the Summer months recently convened a meeting with Senior NI Water officials to urge action.
King John's Highway Radio article
BBC Radio Ulster today covered ongoing blockage of King John's Highway Right of Way path, Creighton's Green Road, Holywood during their Good Morning Ulster programme.
You can listen to the article again at http://audioboo.fm/boos/443332-king-johns-highway-radio-ulster-article-18-aug-2011
Muir comments ahead of Ward Park concerts
North Down Alliance Councillor Andrew Muir has expressed his hopes for 'warm weather, good music and cool heads' ahead of the Ward Park concerts which will take place in Bangor on Tuesday and Wednesday 23 and 24 August 2011.
With the concerts now only days away, I hope that the concerts will be characterised by warm weather, good music and cool heads. With popular artists playing at Ward Park such as The Script and Eminem the local economy is due to receive a significant boost.
Whilst the vast majority of people attending the concerts won't cause any bother whatsoever, anyone intent on causing trouble should be aware that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated. I urge the police to take a strong and robust approach to ensure everyone can safely enjoy the events.
Official Opening of Contemporary Goldsmith's Studio, Holywood
Cllr Muir with Contemporary
Goldsmith Eddie Doherty
Last Friday I attended the Official Opening of Eddie J Doherty's Studio at The Old School, Church Road, Holywood. Eddie is a Contemporary Goldsmith specialising in handmade jewellery who previously worked within business known as Gold Diggers in Holywood Town Centre.
Eddie's studio is part of Holywood Old School, a historic listed building restored a few years ago and now under the ownership of Holywood Old School Preservation Trust.
The sustainable use of this building is a fantastic example of how listed buildings in disrepair can be given a new lease of life with the hall used for many purposes such as Scout meetings, Birthday parties and Community group meetings whilst also accommodating Eddie's studio and an Apartment.
Muir welcomes Reservoir legislation
I welcome news that the Department for Agriculture and Rural Development has commenced work concerning a new Reservoirs Bill to 'ensure reservoirs are managed and operated to minimise the risk of failure thereby protecting human life, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity from flooding.'.
The lack of regulatory legislation was something I previously raised during 2010 following an Assembly Question by Alliance MLA Dr Stephen Farry. This revealed that 104 private reservoirs exist which could impact upon 36,000 people if the dam burst.
Muir urges action to sort Town Centre parking problems
I urge the Roads Minister to end the delays and broken promises and start tackling the Town Centre parking problems many residents across North Down continue to endure.
I am making this call following receipt of an official response from the Roads Service detailing that Residents Parking arrangements haven't been finalised nor trialled despite an announcement by the previous Roads Minister in 2008 heralding "Free Residents Parking Schemes for Belfast.
I am regularly contacted by local people in Holywood and Bangor Town Centre's who are unable to park near their home with many spending each evening searching for a space. With Residents Parking schemes promised back in 2008 people are now fed up and want action.
Pride not Prejudice
Another year and the Annual Pride Parade took place in Belfast today with many gay people plus friends, family and supporters dandering around Belfast City Centre.
Alliance took part with Alliance Youth plus Employment & Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry MLA, Alderman John Blair, Cllr Conrad Dixon and I present.
With the same regularity another DUP representative again condemned gay people earlier this week, this time describing the people who take part in the Pride Parade as repugnant. Another DUP MLA previously used the words “immoral, offensive and obnoxious” concerning gay people whilst an ex-DUP MP previously used words “disgusting, loathed, physical disgust, nauseous, shamefully wicked, vile, an abomination” when describing what she felt about homosexuality.
Sponsor my run for East Africa
A famine has now been declared in parts of Somalia. Over 10,000 people have already died from starvation and disease with more than six children under five per 10,000 dying each day. Over 10 million people are at risk in East Africa due to conflict and some areas being affected by the worst drought in 60 years.
Whilst I often run I rarely seek sponsorship. With such a disaster occurring I am keen to make a contribution and thus will be running Dublin Half Marathon on 17 September 2011 and am seeking sponsorship for the DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal.
You can make your donation online at http://www.justgiving.com/andrewmuirni or in person when you next see me.
Cllr Thompson continues campaign to save Johnny the Jig
North Down Alliance Councillor Larry Thompson has welcomed news that NI Environment Agency (NIEA) hasn't yet made a final decision whether to de-list Holywood's Johnny the Jig statue.
Commenting on the matter Cllr Thompson stated "Following recent enquiries it is apparent that NIEA are closely examining all matters including the signficant local opposition expressed to date before convening a formal meeting to determine whether the statue should be de-listed. I welcome this news that the de-listing is not a 'done deal' and hope that common sense will prevail.
Concluding, Cllr Thompson stated "I again urge NIEA to re-think their proposals and avoid removing this important protection. I also urge anyone interested in the matter to contact the Built Heritage section within the NI Environment Agency to make their objections to de-listing known. It's important NIEA are left in no doubt whatsoever that local people oppose their propoals and wish to Save our Statue.
Johnny the Jig is an iconic statue by Rosamond Praeger, a well loved and respected local artist, which forms part of Holywood’s identity and should remain listed."
Cashless society remains a dream
Last week I had to visit a Bank Branch to try and get my address changed. During my visit two customers requested large cash withdrawals totalling £1,000 in one instance and £1,400 in another. Each customer was unsuccessful since they needed to provide Photographic ID and only left with £500.
A few days earlier the UK Payments Council decided to abandon their plans to ban cheques after complaints from many people citing the problems these plans would have caused e.g. payment of fees and deposits to Schools by parents and donations to local charities etc. would all be inhibited. For those lucky enough to have such an item your Blankey Blank Cheque Book and Pen will continue to serve a useful purpose!
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Portavo Preservation Group established
Portavo Reservoir - Photo from Save Portavo
Reservoir Facebook profile
A new organisation, Portavo Preservation Group, has met for the first time and is drawing up a plan of action to save Portavo reservoir for future generations of anglers, walkers and environmentalists.
Speaking after the first meeting of the group last night, Alliance Councillor, Andrew Muir, said: “While Northern Ireland Water has deferred the sale of the reservoir until 2012/13, we need to look at ways to ensure it remains in permanent public ownership and is not sold off.
“Neither the Department of Environment nor Northern Ireland Water incurred any expenditure in acquiring the asset and have had minimal expenditure in its maintenance over the years. It was the ratepayers of Donaghadee who bought the reservoir in the first place, so why should we have to pay to keep it for public use?
Life as a Councillor One Year later
Last year on 8 July 2010 I was appointed as an Alliance Party Councillor on North Down Borough Council for the Holywood DEA replacing Dr David Alderdice. A year on I feel it's appropriate to look back on achievements and experiences to date and towards the future.
Since becoming a Councillor my life has been transformed, all my spare time has been zapped, sleep is a luxury and my home is now Holywood after moving from Bangor in February 2011.
Whilst demanding I still enjoy the role. Over the last year I have become more acquainted with more people, personalities, procedures and policies and think I have managed to establish myself as a credible elected representative.
Cyclists celebrate Bike Week
Mystery Ice Cream Cycle Team
Cyclists from across North Down got on their bikes and celebrated Bike Week 2011 through a variety of events.
Fifteen cyclists participated in a Mystery Ice Cream Cycle on Wednesday 22 June 2011 cycling from the McKee Clock, Bangor to Carnalea and then back to the Banana Boat for a tasty ice cream. Cyclists then cycled to Ballyholme as part of the event which was organised by Friends of the Earth and Sustrans and supported by Bike Works.
Muir calls for action to re-open Portavo Reservoir
Cllr Muir at Portavo Reservoir
The Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) should urgently progress their review concerning access to Portavo Reservoir car park following a recent decision to lock the gate and limit access.
I recently became aware that the gate at Portavo Reservoir had been locked and access was being restricted to this scenic beauty spot by DCAL. I immediately contacted the Angling section within DCAL and after lots of lobbying received an assurance that a review would be carried out concerning access arrangements to the Reservoir. Meanwhile serious Road Safety concerns continue to exist with visitors forced to park on the busy A2 Bangor to Donagadee road, often dodging cars which zoom close by.
Sorrow and Inspiration at Lisburn Half Marathon
Last Wednesday I took part in the Lisburn 10k road race, part of a series of races involving a Fun Run, Half Marathon and 10k which occur on the same day. The races are long established and increasingly popular.
Every year I take part in the 10k I am conscious of the tragedy which occurred in 1988 when six soldiers were murdered by the IRA after five took part in the Half Marathon and one in the Fun Run.
The pain, suffering and sorrow as a result of Northern Ireland’s troubled past continues today for many. As recently highlighted when Mary McArdle was appointed as a Special Advisor, the need to develop a means to address our past hasn’t gone away and should be tackled rather than dodged by the Secretary of State and our First and deputy First Ministers.
Rory Rory Rory
There is a real sense of joy and anticipation across Holywood after Rory won the US Open late on Sunday night. The topic of discussion in local coffee shops, bars and Newsagents is Rory, Rory, Rory with locals extremely proud of Rory's achievement.
Posters are displayed in shop windows and a mural of the golfing hero now adorns the subway linking the Town Centre and the Railway station, painted a few weeks ago as part of community initative which aims to build upon the good community relations which already exist in the County Down Town.
Muir welcomes funding bids to upgrade North Down Coastal Path
I welcome the decision by North Down Borough Council to seek funding to upgrade the final sections of the North Down Coastal Path. Last Tuesday Council agreed to seek funding from NI Environment Agency and Sustrans to allow walkers and cyclists to travel from Holywood to Bangor along a wider high quality path capable of accomodating bicycles and pedestrians alike.
As a local Councillor and Sustrans Ranger I warmly welcome the decision to seek funding to upgrade the remaining parts of the Coastal Path including the funding bid to tackle the tricky steps at Seahill which make it very difficult for cyclists to peddle from Holywood to Bangor.
Muir welcomes action to reclaim King John's Walk as Right of Way
Picture of path previously blocked
I welcome the decision by North Down Borough Council to take decisive action to re-open King John’s Highway which has been blocked since August 2010 until earlier this week when it was mysteriously re-opened.
Following sustained lobbying from me, local people and a substancial petition calling for action I am pleased that the Council intend to refer the matter to the Courts in the next few weeks in order to remove to blockage and have King John’s Walk asserted in law as a Public Right of Way.
Last week I handed over a petition to North Down Borough Council containing over 250 signatures calling for the obstructions to be removed forthwith and for all relevant statutory bodies to ensure that future generations can safely enjoy this Right of Way. The case for action is therefore clear.
Bike Week 2011 in North Down
Programme of Events for Bike Week 2011 in North Down have now been finalised, please see below.
I hope you will be able to come along to some of the events and help the joint Friends of the Earth North Down & Ards group / Sustrans campaign to create a Bicycle friendly Borough in North Down.
Mystery Ice Cream Cycle Ride from McKee Clock lastly one hour to a mystery destination and back to the Banana Boat, Gray’s Hill on Wednesday 22 June 2011 departing at 7pm from McKee Clock. Organised by Friends of the Earth North Down & Ards group and Sustrans and supported by Bike Works. No need to pre-register attendance. Contact Paul at Bikeworks for more details Tel 07999302672.
Cycle Skills & Fun Night at Bloomfield Shopping Centre (M&S Multi Story) on Thursday 23 June 2011 at 6pm to 8.30pm organised by North Down Cycle Club and North Down Borough Council Sports Development. Includes skills events, bike safety checks, prizes and open to Children in P4, P5, P6, P7 and Year 8. Participation by pre-entry only with closing date for entries £5 Cost including goodie bag £5. Registration via Tanya Fisher at Bangor Castle Leisure Centre by 10 June 2011 Telephone 028 9146 46667 or email Tanya.Fisher@northdown.gov.uk
Muir condemns fly posting for new nightclub
I condemn the appearance of stickers and posters on lampposts across North Down seeking to advertise a new Night Club. The stickers and posters are a disgrace and I am lobbying the local Council to take action and tackle the problem.
Lampposts across Bangor, Holywood and beyond recently were defaced when stickers and then posters were attached with the message "Bangor Likes This", seeking, it seems, to build interest in a new nightclub which may be opening in Bangor. Many people have contacted me about the issue, some via Facebook and Twitter, requesting action, clearly stating that “Bangor doesn’t like this.
I have contacted relevant Council officers and understand that all available avenues are being explored to get the stickers and posters removed. Anyone with information concerning individuals or company responsible for erection of the stickers and posters should pass this onto the Council in order to help them take action.
Amnesty at 50 Years, the campaigning continues
Last week Amnesty International celebrated its 50th Birthday.
Back on 28 May 1961, David Astor had an articled printed in The Observer entitled "The Forgotten Prisoners" which became part of an "Appeal For Amnesty".
Amnesty International was then born and has grown into a strong organisation fighting for Human Rights across the globe.
Yesterday I spent time writing letters to stop the Execution of Troy Davis.
I also wrote to the Government of Sri Lanka concerning the enforced disappearance of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda.
I am a member of Amnesty International for many reasons but, most importantly, because I believe that everyone across the world should be able to enjoy basic Human Rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights especially the Right to Life which Troy may soon be denied.
If you are interested in supporting Amnesty, their campaigns and specific people such as Troy and Prageeth visit www.amnesty.org.uk or contact their Belfast Office (397 Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 3GP 028 9064 3000) to find out more details about your local Amnesty group.
Muir calls for action to sort Holywood Town Centre parking problems
The Department for Regional Development need to consider introducing Resident Parking schemes and issue the long awaited Town Centre Parking Report for Holywood without any further delay.
I am often contacted by people in relation to the chronic parking problems experienced in Holywood Town Centre with streets such as Park Drive, Trevor Street, Downshire Road, Spencer Street and My Lady's Mile particularly affected. People living in these and other streets are often unable to park near their home and have to search for a space elsewhere and then walk back home sometimes with heavy bags of shopping.
After researching the issue it is however clear that the Department for Regional Development plan to introduce Residents Parking Schemes in five inner city areas of Belfast. I have therefore written to the new Regional Development Minister requesting that he includes Holywood within the list of initial Residents Parking Schemes.
Consultation should commence straight away with people living in the relevant areas across Holywood concerning whether they want their street designated as a Controlled Parking Zone which would require the display of a permit.
I have also requested that the permit should be available at a low cost and free of charge for those on low incomes rather than costing a scandalous £80 per year, as previously suggested by the Department.
Whilst keen to ensure that the needs of local residents are met, I am also eager to ensure adequate car parking provision in Holywood Town Centre for businesses, workers and visitors alike. I have therefore again contacted the Roads Service requesting a copy of their long awaited report concerning Parking in Holywood Town Centre.
This report should hopefully outline current provision and future requirements which need to be addressed to support a prosperous bustling Town Centre. Upon receipt I will actively campaign for action to ensure Holywood remains the ultimate destination for businesses and visitors alike.
Muir calls for better approach to Census reminders
I have recently been contacted by older people worried they will be fined £1,000 and are unable to speak to someone to tell them the form was sent weeks ago.
With Census Day weeks ago on 27 March some people are now receiving reminders telling them they haven’t returned their form and face a £1,000 form if they don’t hurry up and return the form.
Unfortunately, in a number of instances, the form has already been returned and these reminders are causing serious distress amongst some recipients fearful of the high fine. This is compounded by the fact that when people ring the Census Helpline they cannot speak to anyone as they face a recorded message.
Government must now act without delay and introduce a better approach. They should withdraw the reminders which have caused real concern, replacing them with a polite note and they must also ensure people can speak to someone about the issue.
Muir welcomes more planned Road Improvements in Holywood
I welcome plans to resurface Brook Street, Holywood after recently lobbying the Roads Service to take action and succeeding in persuading the Roads body to resurface Demense Road, Holywood.
Brook Street is currently in a terrible state of disrepair after the cold winter experienced in late 2010 with numerous pot holes posing a threat to motorists and cyclists alike. After lobbying the Roads Service for action I am very grateful to learn that Brook Street has been added to the resurfacing programme for 2011 / 2012.
I will continue to monitor the situation and endeavour to ensure Brook Street is resurfaced as planned from Monday 23 May to Friday 3 June 2011, delivering upon my commitment to Lead Change across Holywood whether it be via securing resurfacing of Demense Road or improving cycle routes, Alliance delivers.
North Down Council election results
On Monday 9 May 2011 six Alliance Party Councillors were elected to North Down Borough Council including Larry Thompson and I for the Holywood District Electoral Area, Anne Wilson and Tony Hill for Bangor West, Michael Bower for Abbey and Christine Bower for Ballyholme and Groomsport.
Contact details for your new Alliance Councillors can be found at http://www.northdown.gov.uk/councillor_area.asp?pid=127&area=5
Full results for all District Electoral Areas can be found at http://www.spectatornewspapers.co.uk/news-and-events.asp?id=1467
Votes 4,436
76 invalid
Total valid 4360
47.03% Turnout
John Barry, Green, 525
Gordon Dunne, DUP, 1081 (elected)
Jennifer Gilmour, DUP, 252 (elected)
Gillian McGimpsey, UUP, 250
Ellie McKay, UUP, 675 (elected)
Andrew Muir, Alliance, 991 (elected)
David O´Callaghan, Conservative and Unionist 185
Larry Thompson, Alliance, 401 (elected)
First stage, deemed elected. Dunne and Muir.
After second stage, McKay elected
After third stage, McGimpsey, O´Callaghan eliminated
After fourth stage, Thompson elected
Final stage, Gilmour elected
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Photography by Aure Studio
Ever wondered how it would be to run a design studio with your better half, a family member or your best friend? We all know it could be a recipe for disaster, but what if it works?
Johanne Aurebekk Andersen is one of the co-founders of Aure Studio—a constellation of two siblings, one couple and a best friend. It's an everyday where there's no line between work life and home life, and they're actually making it work. In fact, Aure Studio is about to launch their second collection — a clothing line built on collaboration and a shared passion for design.
First of all — congratulations on the new design! It looks delicious!
Thank you! Delicious is the right word, as the green colour has been created naturally with onion, tulasi and karisalaankanni herbs. You could almost eat it.
Johanne, co-founder of Aure Studio. The picture is a still from Bjarke Underbjerg's film for FRAMA.
Aure Studio isn’t just another design studio. How did two siblings and one couple end up starting a business together?
That is a good question, and hard to explain, as it all happened very naturally. Ever since me and my brother Filip were kids, we have been dreaming of having a brand of our own. I remember being 9 years old and Filip 12, and he was forcing me to help him move furniture around as he was restyling our mother's house. We’ve always been a great team. In 2011 we moved into an apartment in Oslo together with my boyfriend Fredrik, and one year later, Sjur came into the picture and very quickly became everyone's best friend and the perfect fourth member in our little collective. The four of us started to play with the idea of creating a studio together, but it wasn’t until we all moved to Copenhagen the idea came to life. Copenhagen became the perfect base for us to start up Aure Studio, surrounded by people willing to help, inspiring ways of living, and beautiful surroundings.
Please tell me about this constellation — who’s in charge of what and how do you usually go about a new project or design?
Sjur is mainly responsible for the garments as he is an educated fashion designer and extremely talented, while me, Filip and Fredrik collaborates on the other parts. We all have a big passion for photography, and find it very interesting how objects communicate with spaces, and how we sometimes see and feel this completely differently. We spend a lot of time on styling and moving things around in our studio and at home, and this is often how new projects or designs come to mind. When someone feels like something is missing, we start to think. The Dindi Green editions came to life when we were prepping for a photoshoot for Aure Garments, and Sjur said “we really need some colour now," and the rest of us couldn’t agree more.
Making compromise with your creative partner can be hard and I’m guessing even more of a challenge with your own brother and boyfriend? How do you make room for all the thoughts and tastes in design?
You'd think it would be difficult but I think I have a really special relationship with both Filip and Fredrik. I can’t imagine not working with them. They inspire me every day and we have so much fun together. But me and Filip are siblings after all, so we do fight and disagree sometimes, but it’s very rare. When that happens we don’t speak for an hour and then we both apologise. But we have such similar minds and style, and we'd rather laugh over showing up in the same outfit, than fight about who gets to wear it. Working together with my boyfriend, Fredrik, is also a complete dream. Combining work life and home life is a very natural way of living for us, and having a partner who shares the same interests and is committed to moving in the same direction couldn’t be more inspiring. And when you work together every day, each success is shared. We’re working towards the same goals and reaching them is a combined effort.
Filip, Sjur, Fredrik and Johanne. Photography by Joakim Heltne.
Do you think your close connection is reflected in the design?
I think our designs are familiar yet different, and also quite easy to connect to, and I guess that somehow reflects our relationships and us as people.
So — tell me about Aure Studio. What’s the universe and how did you get there?
Our studio and universe is a place for all of us to explore and test new fields. Our work spans art, object, set design and fashion design. It’s important for us that our designs are well thought through, and within our own collection we believe it is visible in both design and fabric. We spend a lot of time on these decisions, and only want to release long-lasting designs that hopefully go beyond what is considered a trend. Aure is also a place for us to collaborate with people we truly want to work with. We are not limited by any boundaries, so it’s hard to categorise Aure as a brand. Right now we can be whatever we decide to be from one day to the next.
And a few words about the latest design.
The Dindi Green editions is a new colour for our classic Painter’s Jacket and Atelier Trousers. As mentioned we felt like we needed some colour in the garment collection, and when our Indian friend told us about the natural dying processes they do in Karur, India, we were thrilled. Our green colour is specially made for us, and it’s extracted from only natural ingredients, using onion, tulasi and karisalaankanni herbs. There is something very magical, and at times frustrating, about dyeing with natural ingredients. The result is different every time and every piece of fabric is unique.
The Dindi Green collection is already available online, but is officially launching at Kollekted by in Oslo this Thursday. It's an open event.
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Timo Lenzen
From being the strange kid at school often seen with a sketchbook and a pencil in his pocket, inspired by Nina Turtles, Saber Riders and video games—to being a grownup exploring nebulous stories and scenarios. Was Timo Lenzen born to become an illustrator?
Saucy and Restrained
The grandson of a noted printer, Spanish-born, NYC-based graphic designer Alex Trochut forged his own path in the field, with little knowledge of his family pedigree. Instead, he largely relied on his own instincts and interests, a formula that has made him sought after by the world’s largest brands.
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Bogdan Anghel's Tactile Photography
Every building, in a certain moment in time, has something special to express, says Bucharest based photographer Bogdan Anghel, and he want to be there to capture it with his 35mm and translate it to the viewer in his very own way.
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The Usefulness of Useless Inventions
From the history of the Pet Rock (Gary Dahl’s invention which grew to become the most popular gift during the 1975 holiday season), to a Beer Selfie Stick and a VR doorbell, to a bunch of other reasons why being completely useless is a matter of reclaiming creativity and gaining true greatness—of sorts.
Kate Ballis' Infra Realism
In her series Infra Realism, photographer Kate Ballis transformed her artistic muse, Palm Springs, California, into something more than a desert town, and it gave her a window into a completely new world. “Perhaps, this series is a way of finally attaining the dreamland we were sold in the 80s.”
Graphic Design, Essay
Calling Back The Cult of The Ugly
Graphic Brutalism is one of the latest shifts challenging the established order in the field of graphic design and, as in the case of most emerging trends, opinions about it differ widely. Is it here to stay, or is it just another passé?
Film, Feature
“If we do not stand together, this cycle of violence will never end. I believe we stand at a crossroads, and that we have to work for our collective future and humanity.” Meet the brave and talented filmmaker Deeyah Kahn, who just received her second Emmy Award!
Kelly Anna
South-London based Kelly Anna is celebrated across the globe for her bold and colourful illustrations. “The figures are often a portrayal of how I see women. God like, very strong mentally and physically.” PREACH!
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The Great Success
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ali kenner brodsky & co.
Shura Baryshnikov
Meghan Carmichael
Ellen Oliver
Sarah Osterhus
Sasha Peterson
Jenna Pollack
past dancers
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February 18, 2019 ali kenner brodsky
2019 Dates:
January: The following dates are for Catalysts at the Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA. For tickets and additional information please click here.
Fridays, January 18 & 25, 8pm; Saturdays, January 12, 19 & 26, 8pm; Sunday, January 20, 7 pm
February 27: Wednesday @ 7 pm. Kicking & Screening at The Zeiterion Theater, New Bedford. An evening of dance films.
March 23 & 24: Saturday & Sunday 1-6 pm. between silences @ In/ Flux Art Chalo! Festival at Visages du Monde. Cergy, Paris
March 28: Thursday, 7-8 pm. between silences @ the Jacksonville Dance Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL.
April 14: Sunday, 8 pm. Kicking & Screening @ The Columbus Theater, Providence, RI. Tickets: $10
May 23-June 16: Fun Home, The Wilbury Theater Group, RI. Directed by Josh Short, Musical direction by Tom Chace, Choreography by Ali Kenner Brodsky. For tickets and more information click here.
June 13: Thursday 6 pm. Kicking & Screening at the Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark.
June 29: Saturday 7 pm. between silences will be shown at the LA Dance Shorts Film Festival at Mimoda Studio in Los Angeles, CA.
July 17: Wednesday 6 pm at the WaterFire Arts Center, PVD. Join us as we dance under the moon at WAC. Free and open to all.
July 27-August 3: akb & co will be in Residency at The Croft Residency: Ground for Art. Horton Bay, MI
September 14: Saturday, 7:30 pm. to be near you. at Salem State University. More info coming soon.
October 24: Thursday. Preview- MoMents of Nice. Jamestown Arts Center, RI. Stay tuned for more details.
November 8 & 9: Friday & Saturday. to be near you. More details coming soon.
January 26: Friday @ 8 pm. Ali will perform the most depressing piece... at The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA. Tickets are available online or at the door.
February 1: Thursday @ 5pm. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Click here for more information.
February 8: Thursday @ 6 pm & 7:30 pm. Ten Tiny Dances at The Newport Art Museum, RI.
March 1-3: Thurs-Saturday @ 7:30 pm PARt at The Wilbury Theater Group, Providence, RI. Live music by MorganEve Swain, graphics by Cyrus Highsmith.
March 4: Sunday @ 2 pm. Excerpts and New Woks at The Wilbury Theater Group. Tickets for all shows will be available online or at the door.
May 17-June 3: Thursday-Sunday @ 7:30 pm. Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty. The Wilbury Theater Group. Directed by Josh Short, music direction by Matt Requintina and choreography by Ali Kenner Brodsky. Extended thru June 17.
June 9: Saturday 12-1 pm at the corner of Westminster and Union St. PVDFest. 10 Tiny Dances! 10 choreographers 1 tiny stage. Free and open to all.
July 7: Saturday @ 5 & 5:45 pm. Tiny Dances at The New Bedford Folk Festival.
July 10-13: Tuesday-Saturday. Somatics Conference at Hobart & William Smith College. Geneva, NY. Tuesday July 10 @ 7:30 pm the most depressing piece... & Wednesday July 11 @ 7:30 pm Under the Shiny with Andy Russ.
August 3 & 4: Friday @ 8:30 pm & Saturday @ Noon. PVDFringe at The Wilbury Theater Group. A joint performance with Caitlin Trainor of Trainor Dance. I will be showing excerpts and new works.
August 9: Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City. Ali will be performing the most depressing piece... Time 4-6 pm.
September 13: Thursday @ 5:30 & 7 pm. teeny tiny danceZ at The Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford for AHA! night. Free and Family Friendly!
October 26: Friday's @ noon. Tufts University Dance Fridays at Noon. More information coming soon.
November 15: Thursday @ 7 pm. Kicking & Screening at the Jamestown Arts Center, RI. Premiere of dance film based on the most depressing piece... Tickets available at the door $10.
November 17: Saturday @ 8 pm. come together Dance Festival presented by Koresh Dance. Philidelphia, PA. Ali will be performing the most depressing piece…. Tickets are on sale now.
December 8 & 9: Saturday and Sunday. Ali will be performing with Betsy Miller Dance Projects at Movement Arts Gloucester Mass.
January 19: Ali and Meghan will be at Williams College, Williamstown, MA
January 20: Friday 10 am-12 pm. Ali will teach an advanced contemporary dance class at The School of Contemporary Dance and Thought in North Hampton, MA. An informal showing will follow at 6 pm. More information is here.
February 11 & 12: Satuday @ 8pm, Sunday at 7 pm. Tiny & Short: A Drop in the Bucket. The Dance Complex. Cambridge, MA. For more information and tickets click here.
April 15 & 19: Saturday @ 7:30 pm & Wednesday @ 7:30 pm. AS220's Modern Movement Festival. Providence, RI On Wednesday April 19 there will be a panel discussion with the artists from 4-6. Tickets for the performances will be available soon! * As part of the Modern Movement Festival Ali will be teaching at AS220 Saturday April 8, 10 am.
**April 15 Saturday 2:30-4 pm. Ali will hold a repertory workshop/audition at AS220. akb & co is looking for dancers for the upcoming 2017-2018 season. Dancers will be compensated for rehearsals and performances. Strong modern dance background and some performance experience required. Please contact Ali for additional details.
May 13 & 14: Saturday & Sunday @ 8pm. Christian Swenson & Friends play Human Jazz. AS220 Black Box Theater. Providence, RI. Ticket information will be available soon.
May 18-June 11: Spring Awakening at The Wilbury Theater, Providence, RI. Directed by Josh Short, Assistant Direction by Kate Kataja, Choreography by Ali Kenner Brodsky. For more information click here.
June 3: Saturday @ 8:30 pm. akb & co. will be performing an excerpt of PARt in Foss Park, Somerville, Mass as part of Dancing in the Streets 2017. For more information click here. Rain date June 4.
July 25 & 26: Tuesday @ 8 pm & Wednesday @ 7 pm. Ali will perform Under the Shiny with Andy Russ of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company as part of the Providence Fringe Festival. We are excited to be performing in the brand new
September 14: Thursday @ 5:30 pm & 7 pm. teeny tiny danceZ at The Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford for AHA! night.
October 30: Monday @ Noon. Brown University Ashamu Theater. Chew on This: Works-in-Progress showing. Free and open to the public.
November 4: Saturday @ 4pm & 7:30 pm, two a + b performances at The Jamestown Arts Center. akb & co will split the bill with betsy miller dance projects. Special guest: Andy Russ of Passive Aggressive Novelty Co. Tickets available online or at the door.
November 5: Sunday @ 7 pm. Under the Shiny at The Dance Complex as part of Route 95. Tickets available online or at the door.
November 17 & 18: Friday at 7:30 pm & Saturday at 2 pm. The dance students of Providence College will be performing a new work by Ali. In addition, Ali will be performing her new solo the most depressing piece accompanied by MorganEve Swain.
November 19: Sunday @ 6 pm. Meghan Carmichael will be performing, lapse, as part of the Your Move: New Jersey's Modern Dance Festival at Lowe's Theater in Jersey City.
December 9: Saturday at 7:30 pm. a+b at Movement Arts Gloucester MA. akb & co will split the bill with betsy miller dance projects. Special guest: Andy Russ of Passive Aggressive Novelty Co. Ticket information will be available soon.
March 24-25, 2016 @ 7 pm: Curtain Raiser at AS220 Blackbox Theatre for Passive Aggressive Novelty Company premiere of A Familiar Sense of Slip,
$10-$15; free for Brown and RISD students with ID
July 9, 2016 Saturday @ 7:30 pm: Ali & Meghan will be performing parT III at the Bates Dance Festival DanceNOW.
July 25, 2016 Monday 6-8 pm: akb & co. will show an excerpt from PARt at the opening party for the Providence Fringe Festival. This is a FREE event. Click here for more details.
August 23, 2016: Sneak Peak of PARt. 6 pm at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. RSVP suggested.
August 27, 2016: 2016 Season Kickoff Party at Trinity Rep, Providence, RI 12 pm-6pm. akb &co. will be performing at 12:20.
September 8, 2016 Thursday @ 5:30 & 7 pm: teeny tiny danceZ at AHA! Night, New Bedford, MA. More info coming soon...FREE!
October 3, 2016 Monday @ 7 pm : A fundraiser to support The Fight Against Cancer at The Wilbury Theater at the Southside Cultural Center 393 Broad Street Providence, RI 02907. For tickets click here.
October 21 & 22 2016 Friday & Saturday @ 7:30 pm: PARt at the Jamestown Arts Center. Tickets are on sale now and available online, at the Jamestown Art Center or at the door. There will be a Q & A with the artists following the Saturday performance. Advance purchase is encouraged.
November 6, 2015 Friday @ 7:30 pm. spoon, off to the left: a special collaboration with Andy Russ of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company. First Fridays at the Movement Exchnage, Pawtucket, RI. Tickets are $10 and available at the door only
September 11, 2015 Friday @ 7 pm. Dancenow 20th Anniversary Celebration at Joe's Pub. For ticket information click here.
September 10, 2015 Thursday 5-9 pm. Ten Tiny Dances New Bedford AHA! Night, location: In front of The Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA / TICKETS: FREE!
August 22, 2015 Saturday @ 8 pm. Near and Far: Woods Hole, MA. Ali and Meghan will be performing parT IV. For more info click here.
July 31, 2015. Franklin Arts Festival, Franklin, Mass. more info coming soon! this show has been cancelled.
June 13, 2015 Saturday @ 2 and 4 pm. The Providence International Arts Festival. Change of Location! The performance site for 10 Tiny Dances is now between Eddyand Washington St., on the back corner of City Hall, right sidewalk, as if you were walking or driving from the library towards Kennedy Plaza.
May 15-16, 2015 Friday-Saturday @ 8 pm. The Movement Exchange, Pawtucket, RI. Ali will be dancing in the work of Betsy Miller with Jamie Arnold, Shura Baryshnikov, Meghan Carmichael & Stephanie Turner. For advanced tickets click here.
April 10-12, 2015 Friday-Saturday @ 8 pm, Sunday @ 3 pm. Ali will be performing with Shura Baryshnikov, Katie McNamara & Sydney Skybetter in Zoologic the latest creation by Lostwax Multimedia Dance under the direction of Jamie Jewett. The RISD Auditorium, Providence RI. For more information: http://www.first-works.org/firstworks-pages/firstworks-festival-view-01.php?id_cat=25
March 27, 2015 Fridays @ Noon at Tufts University.
She Moves has been rescheduled for Sunday February 22 @ 6 pm with an Additional show added Saturday February 21 @ 6 pm. (A student discount will be available for the Saturday show only). Festival Ballet presents: She Moves: a dance concert to benefit the Women's Center of Rhode Island. This concert will showcase contemporary dance works by 11 women choreographers from the greater Rhode Island area, including: Shura Baryshnikov, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Meghan Carmichael, Heidi Henderson, Jessica Howard, Katie McNamara, Betsy Miller, Cathy Nicoli, Andrea Dawn Shelley and Stephanie Turner. The performance will include an intermission-reception with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres from local restaurants. For more information and to purchase tickets, please call 401.353.1129 or visitwww.festivalballetprovidence.org to purchase online. Tickets are $60 and all net proceeds from the performance will be donated to the Women’s Center of Rhode Island (www.womenscenterri.org).
Friday & Saturday November 7 & 8, 2014, 8 pm, percolate, an evening of dance at the Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA. Audiences will be voyeurs to the intimate yet sassy work of akb & co. To purchase tickets please click here.
Friday & Saturday October 24 & 25, 2014 7:30 pm, ali will be performing edit and between at the Provincetown Dance Festival. Click here for more info.
Saturday September 20, 8 pm we will be performing dot at the Massachusetts Dance Festival at UMass Amherst. http://massdancefestival.org
Wednesday and Thursday July 23 & 24, ali kenner brodsky & co. will be performing as part of Island Moving Co. Great Friends Dance Festival in Newport, RI. We will be performing dot & between. (I will be choreographing an etude for the Thursday evening show). To purchase tickets in advance and for more information: https://islandmovingco.secure.force.com/ticket
Friday June 27 I will be performing with Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp/inFluxdance as part of the Dancing in the Street series in Sommerville, Ma. I am happy to be part of such a great cast of women! it is free! and starts at 8:30 pm
May 03, 2014 ali kenner brodsky
I will be performing with LostWax Mulitmedia dance Friday & Saturday May 16-17 at Green St studios in Cambridge, Ma. 7:30 pm show.
I will also be performing Sunday May 18 with Jessica Howard at the RISD Art Museum from 1:30-3:00 pm
April 29, 2014 ali kenner brodsky
here is my new website! thanks cyrus!!
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Ko Wibowo received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia in 1994. He was amazed by the capability of Western and Japanese architects in design but found limited with his own. He had learned the technical side of architecture and was a practicing architect in Indonesia but felt the lack of understanding on how to produce great designs in architecture.
He then continued his architectural education at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas to pursue his Master of Architecture in search of understanding design and, equally important, the progress and history of architecture. It was a challenging process to go through design education where practicality and technical considerations were almost non-existence in American architecture schools.
Going through very different approaches of education in East and West equipped him with capabilities in both technical and design aspects of architecture, traditional eastern and classical western architecture understanding, eastern and western urban planning as well as the cultural impact on architecture. Being able to bring the best of two worlds has become his strength and provided wisdom in architectural design.
Understanding all sides of issues and balancing the delicate and differing design strategies become his approach to great architecture throughout his career.
In addition to practicing architecture, Ko Wibowo also teaches urban design courses at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
2019 - present American Institute of Architect (AIA) Committee on Design (COD)
2019 Tacoma Community College Humanities 101 Guest Lecturer: Elements of Architecture and Their Influences
2019 Franke Tobey Jones Senior University Guest Lecturer: A Brief History of Architecture
2017 Conversations RE: Tacoma 2017 (Immigration and The Shape of Our City) 10x10 Third Lecture Series (Creating Tacoma) Speaker: My Architectural Journey to Tacoma.
2017 University of Washington Tacoma Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Seminar Course Guest Lecturer: Survey of Architectural Influences from The Beginning to The Future
2014 - present Urban Design Program Part-time Lecturer at University of Washington Tacoma Urban Studies Department
2014 AIA Seattle (American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter) Award of Honor Winner for Stevens Addition
2014 Dwell on Design Conference June 21, 2014: The Supportive Home: Healing Spaces for a Homeowner with Alzheimer's
2013 LEED Building Design and Construction (LEED BD+C)
2012 President of AIASWW Chapter
2009 - present Conversation RE: Tacoma Lecture Series, Chair/Founder
2008 - present LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Accredited Professional
2000 - present Member of American Institute of Architects Southwest Washington (AIASWW) Chapter
2000 - present Registered Architect in WA
Pentagon Memorial (Washington, DC, USA, Competition)
Tenggarong Theological Seminary Dormitory (Tenggarong, Borneo, Indonesia)
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Anabolic steroids: the physiological effects of placebos
This study is one of three in an investigation of the short and long term effects of an anabolic steroid (Dianabol) upon human performance
Medicine and Science in Sports
Published on Tuesday, May 23, 1972 by Gideon Ariel
Discus; Favorite; Journal; Science; Sports; Steroids; Studies; Track and Field;
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 124-126. 1972
Anabolic steroids: the physiological
effects of placebos
ABSTRACT. Fifteen male varsity athletes were informed that some of them would be selected to receive an anabolic steroid (Dianabol). Instead, six selected subjects were given placebo pills. Taking the placebo apparently supplied the psychological inducement to increase strength gains above and beyond reasonable progression. Greater training gains were made during the placebo period in three out of four weight lifting exercises. The gains were statitsically significant when comparing the two regression lines for the pte-placebo and placebo periods.
The work of Kochakian and Murlin (1) provides the basis for the use of anabolic steroids. The pharmacological properties of these steroids have proved of value clinically in the treatment of conditions where protein synthesis and reduced nitrogen loss is desired. Their use has been extended b`y "power event" athletes in their attempts to develop increased muscular contractile force and is reported to be widespread (2). The dieculty of detecting these substances in the urine or blood assures their continued use despite criticism and prohibition by official rule making bodies such as the NCAA.
This study is one of three in an investigation of the short and long term effects of an anabolic steroid (Dianabol) upon human performance.
Johnson and O'Shea (3) found that strength, body weight, oxygen uptake and blood nitrogen retention were significantly increased when an anabolic steroid was administered to healthy subjects. Significant alterations in lactate dehydrogenasc, creatine phosphokinasc, urea nitrogen, and protein metabolism were reported by O'Shea and Winkler (4) in a study o�
This research was supported by a grant to Dr. Benjamin Ricci from a Public Health Service Biomedical Services Grant No. FR07048-05 awarded to the University of Massachusetts.
Submitted for publication October, 1971.
GIDEON AHIEL AND WILLIAM SAVILLE
Department of Exercise Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
competitive swimmers and weight lifters. The latter significantly increased their strength performance while the swimmers were unable to improve their competitive speed performance. Neither group displayed any toxic side effects. These same authors have emphasized the need for a "severe" exercise regimen and a protein dietary supplement to accompany the administration of the steroid. Fowler (5) reported no effects of steroids on strength. The length of time that the steroid was administered may have been responsible for these results.
The motivational effects of the administration of anabolic steroids have not been measured. Doubleblind studies have not been conducted with healthy subjects because the opinion was held "that doubleblind assays arc primarily necessary for the securing of subjective clinical data and serve little purpose in the collection of biochemical or physical measures" (4). Double-blind testing was not considered compatible with small sample sizes.
One must contend, however, that motivational factors could influence physical performance measures. A positive attitude towards the beneficial effects of an anabolic steroid by highly motivated, top class athletes, seems reasonable.
In the present study, 15 male varsity athletes ; were used. All 15 volunteers had experienced two years of hard weight training, 5 days a week, reduced to twice a week during vacation periods. For a period of four months prior to the actual experimental period all subjects trained for five days and were tested o~ , the following day in the seated, military,; and bench presses, in the curl and squat. A standard warns-up procedure was performed after which each test "consisted of a
ANABOLIC STEROIDS : PLACEBOS
maximal lift. The subjects were informed during this preliminary period that the most improved lifters would be selected and given an anabolic steroid (Dianabol ). Eight subjects were selected randomly from the initial 15 volunteers. The Director of the University Health Services explained the possible physiological effects of the anabolic steroids in a positive manner. Research studies reporting the strength gains associated with anabolic steroids were made available to the subjects.
After the pre-experimental period the 8 selected subjects were tested for maximal strength in the aforementioned exercises. The University Health Service ran screening tests appropriate for the other two phases of these experiments and excluded two of the subjects. The remaining 6 subjects were given placebo pills daily (provided by the University Health Service) with the information they contained 10 mg of Dianabol, an oral anabolic steroid.
Data were collected, as previously described, for seven weeks of the pre-placebo period (PP), and for four weeks of the placebo period (P). During the P period no dietary supplements were administered.
As strength gains are a function of training over a period of time, neither the "t-test" nor one-way-analysis of variance for "before" and "after" conditions were deemed totally adequate analysis techniques. The relationship between both the gains in strength and the effect of time for the PP period and the P period suggested a comparison of the regression lines for these two periods with regard to the psychological influences upon strength gains.
Figure 1 illustrates the regression lines of the strength test measurements for the PP and the P periods and Table 1 shows the analysis of these regression lines." A comparison of the two slopes or regression coefficient for the two periods is reported.
Figure 1-Regression lines for the PP and the P periods.
With the bench press and squat exercises (Table 1, A & D) the significant F ratios (.05 level) demonstrate strength gains made in both PP and P periods. The significant F ratios between the slopes illustrate, however, that the gains in the P period were significantly greater than those in the PP period.
The test of significance of the differences obtained in the military press (Table 1, B) clearly shows that there was no significant increase in strength by the subjects during the course of the PP period. However, during the P period there was a progress which was great enough to permit a significant difference between the two slopes and the P slope showed a greater increase in strength.
The sitting press results (Table 1, C) 'illustrate significant gains during both periods but the P period gain was not sufficiently greater than the PP period to permit a significant difference in the two slopes. This demonstrates that the strength gains as a function of time for the two periods were not significantly different.
When the total progress in all four exercises for the two periods was tested (Table 1, E), the subjects had a significant improvement (.01 level) during both periods. When these gains were compared, a significant difference was evident in favor of the P period (.01 level).
These results clearly indicate that although the subjects continued to improve during the PP period, the improvement during the P period was significantly greater. Taking the placebo apparently supplied the necessary psychological benefits to utilize strength gains above and beyond that which would be expected from a reasonable temporal progression.
In order to compare the results of the present study with those of other authors (3) a one-way analysis of variance was used to find if there was statistically significant differences between the PP and P periods. The results are presented in Table 2.
With the exception of the sitting press exercise, greater gains were made during the placebo period and these gains were statistcally significant. The absence of gains in the sitting press may have been as a result of the order of execution and the opposing effects of psychological enhancement and neuromuscular fatigue.
With this demonstration of psychological enhancement of human performance, investigators must be cautious when assessing the effects of supplemental treatments on performance. The assumption that one dependent variable has been isolated may well be erroneous, and observed differences may not be solely attributable to one such variable.
"Further details of this statistical technique are available in Statistical Methods by C. W. Snedecor and W. G. Cochran (6).
TRAINING PERIOD
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PLACEBO PERIOD
MILITARY PRESS. SITTING PRESS
2 3 4 5 6 7 TESTING PERIODS-WEEKS
TESTING PERIODS-WEEKS
126 MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS
TABLE 1. A comparison of regression lines representing strength measurements in a training and a placebo period.
d.f. Reg. Coef. Deviations from Reg. M.S. F-ratio
d.f. S.S.
(A) Exercise: Bench press
Within 6 .95 5 7.82 1.56 16.02(1, 5)*
1. Training (PP)
2. Placebo (P) 4 3.28 3 30.67 10.22 10.54(1, 3)*
3. Sum 8 38.48 4.81
4. Pooled, W. 10 .73 9 78.74 8.75 28.97(1, 9)**
5. Difference between slopes: 1 40.25 40.25 8.37(1, 8)*
(B) 6 .09 Exercise: Military press .46 .54(1, 5)
2. Placebo (P) 4 2.54 3 5.75 1.92 33.59(1, 3)*
3. Sum 8 8.05 1.01
4. Pooled, W. 10 .73 9 52.02 5.78 12.97(1-, 9)**
5. Difference between slopes: 1 43.98 43.98 43.76(1, 8)**
(C) 6 .84 Exercise: Sitting press 1.09 18.19(1, 5)**
Within 5 5.44
2. Placebo (P) 4 1.44 3 2.13 .71 29.23(1, 3)*
3. Sum 8 7.57 .95
4. Pooled, W. 10 1.00 9 10.20 1.13 81.12(1, 9)**
5. Difference between slopes: 1 2.64 2.64 2.79(1, 8)
(D) 6 1.24 Exercise: Squat 1.45 29.95(1, 5)**
2. Placebo (P) 4 2.80 3 17.65 5.88 13.35(1, 3)*
(E) 6 3.13 All exercises combined 5.93 46.10(1, 5)**
Within 5 29.67
2. Placebo (P) 4 10.06 3 72.95 24.32 41.65(1, 3)**
3. Sum 8 102.62 12.83
4. Pooled, W. 10 4.95 9 457.38 50.81 43.40(1, 9)**
5. Difference between slopes: 1 354.71 354.71 27.65(1,8)**
*F-ratio significant at the .05 level of confidence. **F-ratio significant at the .01 level of confidence.
TABLE 2. Effects of placebo (steroid) treatment on strength measured, in kilograms, by maximum weight lifting.
Exercise Training Placebo Mean
period (PP) period (P) diff.
Bench P. Before After Diff. Before After Diff. 8.74*
133.32 137.86 4.54 137.86 151.14 13.28
Military P. 88.27 89.00 .73 89.00 96.59 7.59 6.86**
Sitting P. 82.58 84.85 2.27 84.85 90.15 5.30 3.03
Squat 134.85 137.50 2.65 137.50 156.44 18.94 16.29**
*Significant at the .05 level of confidence. **Significant at the .01 level of confidence.
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Pushing back against Xi Jinping's “core leadership”
by Willy Lam
The senior China expert looks at the developing split inside the Politburo due to Xi Jinping’s heavy-handed crackdown and rising personality cult (à la Mao). Divisions are sinking financial policy and slowing down necessary reforms. Courtesy of the Jamestown Foundation.
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – “Every bush and tree is an enemy” is a Chinese proverb that describes how the timid Emperor Fu Jian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317–420 AD) was once so overawed by the superior troops of his opponent that he mistook nearby rows of neatly planted saplings to be soldiers. Chinese President Xi Jinping is no Emperor Fu Jian—he seems to be in full control of China’s military forces, the paramilitary police, the police and the spies—in addition to the labyrinthine Party-state apparatus. However, the Xi administration’s reaction to an anonymous letter calling for his resignation suggests that Xi, who is also Communist Party General Secretary and commander-in-chief, is far from secure about his powers.
On the eve of the National People’s Congress (NPC), which opened on March 5, Wujie News, an official website based in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), carried “An Open Letter Demanding That Comrade Xi Jinping Resign From His Party and State Leadership Positions.” The article, which was signed by “a group of loyal party members,” was pulled from the site within an hour. The relatively obscure news site, which is controlled by the XUAR Propaganda Bureau, later said it was the victim of hacking by an unspecified party. However, the fact that the anti-Xi missive had first appeared on Caiyu.org, a New York-based pro-democracy media group, seems to suggest that the letter was the work of overseas-based critics of the Communist Party and particularly of Xi (VOA Chinese, March 28; United Daily News [Taipei], March 6; Canyu.org, March 4). [1]
If Xi and his advisers had kept investigations low-key, the matter might not have dominated social media during the annual sessions of the NPC and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—and long afterwards. Under orders from security cadres including Politburo member in charge of the Central Political-Legal Commission Meng Jianzhu, police detained Wujie’s CEO Ouyang Hongliang, President Li Wanhui and about 15 other staff. It is likely that the website, which started operations only a year ago, will be closed down (Ming Pao [Hong Kong], March 24; RFI Chinese, March 24). More intriguing, however, was the arrest of popular columnist Jia Jia on March 15. Jia’s only involvement in the petition was that as one of the first readers of the Wujie article, he called up his good friend Ouyang to warn him of the consequences of the piece. Jia, who was released after being detained for ten days, is still under police surveillance (RFI Chinese, March 26; BBC Chinese, March 25; Apple Daily [Hong Kong], March 21).
Even more chilling, however, are Beijing’s efforts to harass and intimidate the relatives of foreign-based critics of the Xi administration. Take, for example, prominent blogger Wen Yunchao, who moved to the United States in 2012. Wen, who has 220,000 Twitter followers, is a frequent commentator on Xi’s ultra-conservative policies as well as opposition to Xi’s rule as manifested by the Wujie News letter. On March 22, Wen’s parents and brother, who live in Guangdong Province, were taken away by police. Several days earlier, the three were forced to make telephone calls to Wen asking him to reveal who the author of the anti-Xi petition was. Wen, who demanded that Guangdong police release his relatives immediately, said he had nothing to do with the incident (Amnesty International, March 25; Radio Free Asia, March 25). A similar fate befell Chang Ping, a famous journalist and regime critic who moved to Germany in 2012. After the publication of an article that blasted Beijing’s arrest of Jia Jia, two of Chang’s siblings were arrested late last month by police in his home province of Sichuan. Chang’s relatives were told they would be in trouble if Chang were to continue badmouthing the Xi administration in the Chinese language edition of Deutsche Welle and other foreign media (South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], March 28; HK01.com [Hong Kong], March 28).
Given that Xi and his publicists are feverishly constructing a Maoist-style personality cult around the supreme leader, it is easy to understand why the Wujie News event should have been taken seriously. Equally significant, however, is the fact that the Xi leadership’s supercharged reaction could betray lack of confidence. This feeling of insecurity could be prompted by strong signs of a pushback against Xi’s one-upmanship coming from power blocs in the Communist Party which have been marginalized or which are unhappy about the Fifth-Generation leader’s large-scale restitution of discredited Maoist norms.
One unmistakable signal that President Xi might no longer be having his way is that his status as “core of the leadership” is under challenge. In December of 2015, the official media began calling Xi the “core of the leadership.” And the leaders of at least 20 provinces and directly administered cities have professed allegiance to “the central party leadership with comrade Xi Jinping as the core” (See China Brief, March 7). However, during speeches in March given by NPC Chairman Zhang Dejiang, CPPCC chairman Yu Zhengsheng and Premier Li Keqiang—all of whom are members of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC)—the word “core” did not appear. In his Government Work Report delivered on March 5, Li referred to Xi five times. For example, he praised the guidance provided by the “central party leadership with comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary.” This wording was similar to the protocol accorded former president Hu Jintao, who never attained the status of “leadership core.” [By contrast, former president Jiang Zemin was called the “core of the Third-Generation leadership.”] This development shows there is still substantial resistance in the party to elevating Xi to the lofty status of “leadership core” (Hong Kong Economic Journal, March 10; Wen Wei Po [Hong Kong], March 6).
Tensions at the Top
At the same time, conflict between Xi and Premier Li—the representative of the rival Communist Youth League (CYL) faction headed by former president Hu Jintao—seems to have broken into the open. When Li finished reading the Government Work Report the morning of March 5, practically all the delegates present followed custom by giving him an enthusiastic applause. In the old days, former president Hu would shake hands with former premier Wen Jiabao. This time, however, Xi did not bother to clap his hands. There was zero communication that morning between Xi and Li, who were seated next to each other (Chinadigitaltimes.net, March 20; Ming Pao, March 15). It is hardly a secret in Beijing that Li resents the fact that despite the strong tradition of the premier being the final arbiter of economic policy, he has to subject himself to Xi’s guidance. Incongruities between Xi and Li on economic policy-making is said to be one reason behind faulty moves that have exacerbated crises associated with the stock market meltdown and the depreciation of the renminbi (South China Morning Post Chinese Edition, February 17; VOA Chinese, September 21, 2015).
Equally telling was Premier Li’s absence during a regular meeting of the Central Leading Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reforms (CLGCDR), which was a high-level decision-making body created by Xi in December 2013. It is chaired by Xi; and its three Vice-Chairmen are Li, PBSC member in charge of propaganda (and therefore most of Chinese state media) Liu Yunshan and Executive Vice-Premier and PBSC member Zhang Gaoli. Li did not show up during the CLGCDR’s 21st meeting held on March 22. The premier’s only previous absence from a CLGCDR conclave was on July 1, 2015, when he was on a European visit. This seems to confirm speculation that due to the friction between Xi and Li, the latter would probably only serve one term as premier. The possibility has increased that Li would move over to head the NPC after the 19th Party Congress in late 2017 (Ming Pao [Hong Kong], March 23; Xinhua, March 22).
Anti-Xi Faction Emerges
Moreover, the rivalry between PBSC members Liu Yunshan and Wang Qishan has also broken into the open. Liu, a protégé of former president Jiang Zemin, is in charge of the propaganda apparatus. Wang, a princeling (a reference to the offspring of party elders) and crony of Xi, heads the country’s Central Commission on Disciplinary Inspection (CCDI), the much-feared anti-corruption superagency. On the eve of the NPC, media controlled by Liu started attacking Ren Zhiqiang, a real-estate tycoon who is a popular commentator in the social media. Ren, a party member, was criticized for not following discipline by “making groundless criticism of the party leadership.” However, the website of the CCDI soon published a piece supporting party members who are sincere and forthright enough to offer constructive views about the party. It is well known that Ren is a close friend of Wang’s—and the propaganda machinery under Liu seemed to be targeting Ren so as to embarrass Wang (Theinitium.com [Hong Kong], March 2; Radio Free Asia, March 2; CCDI.gov.cn, March 1).
Apart from failing to nurture consensus and camaraderie within the PBSC, Xi’s hold over the so-called Gang of Princelings—which is considered a key power base of the president’s—seems to be less solid than before. Notable princelings have made both direct and indirect criticisms of Xi’s policies. According to Luo Yu, son of General Luo Ruiqing (1906–1978), who is a former Chief of the General Staff and vice-premier, an “anti-Xi faction” has emerged among cadres who thought the supreme leader “has not fully observed the Constitution and who are making no progress in reforms” (VOA Chinese, March 22). Zhong Shi, a columnist for Hong Kong’s Ming Pao, noted that while some princelings felt threatened by Xi’s anti-corruption moves, others who were businesspeople blamed their losses in the financial markets on the perceived failings of Xi’s economic policies. “Those princelings who still openly support Xi are those who have little influence and puny financial heft,” wrote Zhong (Ming Pao, March 22).
Zhang Lifan, an independent historian who is also the son of a minister, said Xi’s enemies were growing in numbers and ferocity because “he has moved everybody’s cheese.” Xi’s reinstatement of Maoist norms, including the reappearance of a cult of personality, said the historian, “has raised fears among people that Mao’s evil spirit has not dissipated and could make a comeback” (Canyu.org, March 22; VOA Chinese, March 21). Zhang, a well-known commentator, however, does not think that Xi is in imminent danger of losing power. “He is still the captain of a ship,” Zhang said. “While there are disgruntled interest groups on board, people are not yet ready to fire the captain for fear that sudden changes could result in a shipwreck.” What is certain, however, is that Xi is more feared than loved. And if his empire-building continues to make a dent on the welfare of disparate sectors in the polity, his enemies could coalesce and make his paranoia become reality.
1. Another “dump Xi” letter, allegedly signed by “171 Chinese Communist Party members,” appeared in the bloggers’ section of the New-York based Mingjingnews.com site on March 29. He Pin, the owner of Mingjingnews.com, said he could not verify the identity of the letter writers, who called upon Xi to resign from all his positions. Since this letter did not appear in any media within China, however, Beijing has yet to make any reactions to this second anti-Xi petition (Apple Daily, March 30; Radio Free Asia, March 29).
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Mittag-Leffler input stability of fractional differential equations and its applications
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European option valuation under the Bates PIDE in finance: A numerical implementation of the Gaussian scheme
doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020051
Inclusion of fading memory to Banister model of changes in physical condition
Mansour Shrahili 1, , Ravi Shanker Dubey 2,, and Ahmed Shafay 3,4,
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 28095, Riyadh 11437, Saudi Arabia
Department of mathematics, AMITY School of Engineering and Technology, AMITY University Rajasthan, Jaipur -302022, India
Nature Science Department, Community College of Riyadh, King Saud University, P.O. Box 28095, Riyadh 11437, Saudi Arabia
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt
* Corresponding author: Ravi Shanker Dubey
Received May 2018 Revised June 2018 Published March 2019
Fund Project: The authors would like to extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through research group No (RG-1438-086)
We introduced the fading memory effect to the model portraying the prediction in physical condition. The classical model is known as the Banister model. We presented the existence and uniqueness conditions of the exact solutions of this model using three different memory including the bad memory induces by the power law and the good memories induced by exponential decay law and the Mittag-Leffler law. We derived the exact solutions using the Laplace transform for the non-delay version.
Keywords: Power law, exponential decay law, Mittag-Leffler law, Banister model.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 92B05, 92C60.
Citation: Mansour Shrahili, Ravi Shanker Dubey, Ahmed Shafay. Inclusion of fading memory to Banister model of changes in physical condition. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020051
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Report finds emerging economies dominating airport expansion
Emerging economies dominate the list of countries with plans for airport expansion, reflecting a shift in the global economy that risks leaving the UK behind, according to a new analysis of the sector.
The analysis produced by KPMG on behalf of the Let Britain Fly campaign reveals the world’s major cities plan to have built over 50 new runways by 2036, with Asian economies chief amongst those that will provide the capacity for an extra one billion passenger journeys per year.
It compares projected runway and passenger numbers for gateways around the world and illustrates the huge scale of infrastructure projects, which will be undertaken over the next 20 years.
KPMG says nations leading the charge for global connectivity include:
- China, which will have built 17 new runways to serve its major cities by 2036, with the capacity for 400 million passenger journeys;
- Dubai, where the World Central Airport project will provide more passenger capacity than all of London’s airports combined;
- A new six-runway airport in Istanbul, which will have almost twice the passenger capacity of Heathrow;
- Others leading the drive for extra air capacity include Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Mexico City and Mumbai.
The analysis explains this contrasts this with the UK, which has not built a new full-length runway in the South East since the Second World War, and currently has no confirmed plans to increase its capacity. All of London’s main airports are predicted to be full by 2030.
The analysis also found that without expansion London could lose daily connections with up to twenty international cities that it would otherwise have had.
These missed connections could result in less trade, tourism and investment with and from some of the fastest growing regions in the world, impacting on UK jobs and economic growth.
Gavin Hayes, director of the Let Britain Fly campaign, says: “This work reaffirms the need for additional runway capacity in the South East if Britain is to remain a serious contender on the world stage.
“With all of London’s airports predicted to be at capacity by the end of the next decade, it is more important than ever that political action is taken to ensure we do not fall behind our international rivals.
“The rest of the world isn’t going to wait patiently for us to catch up.”
James Stamp, global head of aviation at KPMG, says the report shows that the debate about new runways in the UK is not just about where to lay 3000 metres of concrete, it is a debate that is “fundamentally rooted in how we secure our future economic prosperity”.
Stamp adds: “The emerging markets matter because within about a decade over half the growth in the world will come from these economies.
“The report highlights that we need to make sure we are connected to that future growth, however, as things stand, Paris, for example, has 50% more flights to China than London.
“Further delays means that London becomes less connected, and less competitive.”
Let Britain Fly is calling on politicians to publicly agree to be guided by the recommendations of the Airports Commission to ensure that London remains a global aviation hub and continues to provide connections to both new and established markets.
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Bermúdez Arquitectos is a professional structure designed to cover a wide range of needs related to architecture, landscape urbanism and landscape architecture.
Daniel Bermúdez Samper
Graduated as an Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes in 1973, studio teacher in the same university since 1975, where he today holds the position of Emeritus Professor. As a practicing architect, he has realized innumerable projects, of which stand out: the urban plan ´Ciudad Salitre´ in Bogotá. The campus master plan and several buildings for the Universidad de Los Andes, among which the Alberto Lleras Camargo and the Carlos Pacheco Devia buildings. The central library, auditorium, art gallery, postgraduate studies building and surrounding public space of the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Two of the four main municipal libraries of Bogotá; Biblioteca Pública El Tintal and Centro Cultural Biblioteca Pública Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Current projects include the Ágora Bogotá convention center, in collaboration with Spanish architect Juan Herreros, the new building for the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de Los Andes and the ET-CAN public administration building in Bogotá. His work has been widely published, awarded and reviewed. He has been an invited professor in various universities in Colombia and abroad, and a member of numerous competition juries. He presently maintains his honorary teaching position and is frequent guest lecturer at a wide range of institutions.
1985 Visiting professor to the Urban Design summer class, Pratt Institute. New York.
1975 – present Architecture and Urban Design professor for the Architecture Department of the Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá.
2013 Emeritus Professor title from the Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá.
Ramón Bermúdez Obregón
Architect of the Universidad de los Andes since 2007, with postgraduate studies in social housing strategies at the ETSAM in Madrid, 2009.
Currently he teaches Architectural Design at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá and is project director at Bermúdez Arquitectos, among which are the Agorá Bogotá convention center, in cooperation with Estudio Herreros (Madrid), recently completed and presented with the XXVI Colombian Architecture Biennial as the best architectural project.
Collectively with Daniel Bermúdez he has co-directed the CAN Building 1 and the Astronomic Hotel in Villa de Leyva competitions among others. He is the head in charge of the Uniminuto university campuses in Neiva and Villavicencio, currently under construction.
Ramón Bermúdez has produced content for architectural publications, academic work and research articles. He participated as guest judge for workshops and as guest speaker for several universities among which are the UPC Barcelona on Josep Maria Montaner “Vivienda del sXXI” housing lab, the ETSAM in Madrid for the Master of Collective Housing (MCH) under the Herreros unit, Cornell University at the Bogotá workshop with Julián Palacio and the ETH Zürich for both the ISTP Colloquium as well as a guest judge for the final projects of the semester on Marc Angelil’s workshop.
He is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Bogotá since 2015 where collectively with Sebastian Serna, they teach a vertical workshop for urban projects focused on the enclave architecture and gated communities in Bogotá.
Diego Bermúdez Obregón
Architect of the Universidad de los Andes with a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He received the first VISS prize for his graduation project in 2011, and the Nerandra Juneja Medal, awarded by the University of Pennsylvania. At Bermúdez Arquitectos, Diego directs the landscape urbanism and landscape architecture projects such as outdoor areas and rainwater drainage on the studio’s projects. In 2016 he directed the winning design for the competition ´Adaptación al cambio climático del Barrio Boston´, devising strategies to prepare a city district of Cartagena for the effects climate change. The proposal obtained first prize and was then further developed to schematic design.
Diego Bermúdez is a professor at the Universidad de los Andes since 2017 where he teaches Projects Workshop within the Intermediate Landscape Architecture Unit. In addition, he is part of the coordinator group for the Cartagena’s International Architecture workshop. Starting in January of 2019, he will be working collectively with the University of Pennsylvania developing a research centered on the conflict between urban growth and biodiversity.
Current Collaborators
Paula Sopó
Architect, Universidad de Los Andes (2013). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in August 2013.
Carlos Santamaría
Architect, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2018). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in October 2018.
Jaime Barrera
Architect, Universidad de Los Andes (2013). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in October 2013.
Architect, UPC-ETSAB Barcelona (2018). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in November 2018.
Luis Ángel Rivera
Architect, Universidad Nacional (2014). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in July 2014.
Daniela Cháves
Architect, Universidad de los Andes (2018). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in December 2018.
Daniela Almansa
Architect, Universidad de Los Andes (2017). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in November 2017.
Santiago Izquierdo
Architect, Universidad de los Andes (2018). Joined Bermúdez Arquitectos in February 2018.
Andrés Solano
Inés Obregón
Sandra Devia
Geraldine Rojas
Paola Gómez
Genaro Garzón Valbuena
Stella González
Former Collaborators
Tatihana González, Valeria Gómez, Ricardo Ariza, Juan David Herrera, Juan Antonio Olarte, Maria José Castañeda, David Caballero, Juan Camilo Ortegón, Diana Barrera, Josephine Philipsen, Stan van der Maas, Santiago Salazar, David Barbosa, Laura Dorado, Natalia Rodriguez, Sergio Jiménez, Laura Quintero, Paola Castañeda, Silvia Rueda, Juan Carlos Ardila, Juan Martínez, Ana María Noriega, Eduardo Sánchez, Alberto Roa, Juan Reyes, Julián Beltrán, Maria Catalina Venegas, David Gómez, Juan Camilo Brito, Andrés Gutiérrez, Mariana Orozco, Diego Soto, María Alejandra Carmona, Laura Cobo, Jorge Pardo, Alejandra Novoa, John Oscar Pinzón, Fredy Fortich, Mónica Hernández, Guadalupe Hernández, Viviana Gómez, Nadia Méndez, María Fernanda Pizarro, Rodrigo Dávila, Angel Esteban Rodríguez, Ricardo Schoonewolff, Julián Castro, Felipe Gómez, Juana Silva Ortíz, Evelyn Tatiana Delgado, Gabriel Castelblanco, Fabián Sellamen, Ronnie Hans Robles, Sergio Reyes, Patricia López, Adolfo Sastre, Camilo Villegas, Plinio Bernal, Paola Cáceres, Jorge Bonilla, Jaime Romero, Diego Buriticá, Andrés Rodríguez, Mauricio Medina, Henry González, Santiago Llana, Fabián Medina, Javier Ruiz, Andrés Gómez, Iván Ozuna Mota, Ricardo Montoya Ballén, Mónica Villalobos Leal, Catalina Iannini J., Alvaro Avendaño C, Héctor Gómez Iriarte, Jorge Eduardo Jones P, José Vicente Beltrán C, Pedro J. Jaramillo, José Fulop, Liliana García, Gerardo Vanegas Céspedes, Erika Cantera, Beny Tiburcio, Haydee Hurtado, Wilson León Viviana Rozo, Andrés Portillo, Pedro León Castillo, Henry Bustamante, Jaime Monroy, Javier Niebles, Maybe Melendes, Liliana González, Isabel Figueroa, Jorge Hernández, Oscar Flechas, Peter Bright, Ricardo La Rotta, Patricia Licht, Billy Cappa, Luis Hernando Supelano, José Luis Contento G, Guillermo Acuña, José Alejandro Bermúdez, Germán Preciado Achury, Miriam Rueda, Omar Cepeda Jaramillo, Camilo Hernández García, A.D.L.T., Otto Quintero, M.L.G., M.M.B.
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For that reason, Best Interior Designers decided to present you with this informative design guide where we present you with 12 Top Interior Designers whose style matches a particular month of the year!
January –Laplace Studio – Founded in 2004 in Paris by the young master designer Luis Laplace and Christophe Comoy, Laplace Studio has developed an international clientele sensitive to high-end design and execution. Through good use of space and light, design concept based on local cultures and traditions, selection of materials and color as well as the passion for art and craftsmanship, Laplace combines modern simplicity with great elegance. Since the popular design event, Maison et Objet is held in January in Paris, we decided to attribute this month to one of the main flagship design studios of Paris!
February – Philippe Starck – Internationally acclaimed French creator, designer and architect, Philippe Starck is an untiring and rebellious citizen of the world, who considers it his duty to share his ethical and subversive vision of a fairer planet, creates unconventional places and objects whose purpose is to be “good” before being beautiful. Most of Philippe Starck designs have become cult objects, and his hotels are timeless icons that have added a new dimension to the global cityscape. Found in the most prestigious locations all around the globe, Starck’s genius interior design projects are truly outstanding, breaking through the old design concepts and always surprising.
March – Stephen Shadley – The Oscars are traditionally held in March and that’s why you chose Stephen Shadley to headline this month. Why? With clients such as Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, and Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Shadley is considered one of the Top Interior Designers for the Stars. No wonder Shadley finds creative sustenance in classic motion pictures. His interiors, however, present an effortless tranquillity, a characteristic that he attributes to each project’s “limited and consistent palette of materials, used in varied ways.”
April – Nate Berkus – Famous for his amazing TV appearances on the Oprah Show, Berkus established his award-winning interior design firm at the age of 24 and, since then, he has been growing in the Interior Design Industry. His approachable and elevated philosophy has transformed countless homes around the world through his design work, home collections, books and media appearances.
May – Kelly Wearstler – The Color Queen of Design, Wearstler’s style matches Spring and, therefore, May is the best month to describe her work! She’s renowned for her distinctive designs and sophisticated soulful vibe pioneered by the celebrated interior designer. Wearstler’s breadth of influence spans from residential and commercial interior design to curated collections of furniture, lighting, rugs, fabrics and trims, wall coverings, luxe bedding, fine china, decorative home accessories, jewelry and objets d’art. With a signature style that juxtaposes raw with refined, melds color, sophistication and spirited spontaneity, and seamlessly blends diverse periods of furniture under one roof, Wearstler has revolutionized the look, feel and meaning of modern American design.
June – India Mahdavi – Mahdavi’s designs appeal to Color and Summer and that’s why we chose June as her month. It´s unusual for a Paris-base Interior Designer to love Color so much, but the truth is that you can’t find a Mahdavi’s project without bright and strong colors! It’s her statement and as she said once, color “It’s the best way to bring sunshine into space”. Mahdavi’s name is a reflection of the designer herself: exotic, feminine, dramatic. It’s a name that evokes a chic, global sensibility and one that completely captures the essence of her designs.
July – Waldo’s Designs – Waldo Fernandez was born in Cuba. His Latin Blood inspire his Strong Designs and this particular combination makes him worthy of headlining the hot month of July. For over 35 years, Fernandez has managed all elements of his own interior design practice, working on various projects all over the world. Waldo’s Designs projects include many high-end private residences, restaurants, hotels on both coasts, numerous Hawaiian estates, riding stables, executive offices, yachts and private planes.
August – Jan Showers – One of the worst places to be in the peak of Summer is Texas. It’s hot and uncomfortable, but it’s in the Texan city of Dallas that we find Jan Showers, a classical North-American designer that’s widely acknowledged as Dallas best interior designer! Shés the only reason valid you should visit Dallas in August! She came to her signature interior design style from diverse and unexpected inspirations, including movies and novels, contemporary and vintage fashion, art, architecture, fine antiques, and vintage pieces.
September – Tom Dixon – Since Britain is the Most Beautiful in September, we chose to give this month to one the best British Designers of the Year: Tom Dixon. He is known across the world, his works have been acquired by museums across the globe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. With a commitment to innovation and a mission to revive the British furniture industry, Dixon is inspired by the nation’s unique heritage and produces extraordinary objects for everyday use.
October – Peter Marino – Peter Marino‘s design contributions in the areas of commercial, cultural, residential and retail architecture have helped redefine modern luxury worldwide, emphasizing materiality, texture, scale, light and the constant dialogue between interior and exterior. The worldwide celebrated designer is widely known for his residential and retail designs for the most iconic names in the fashion and art worlds. Peter Marino is clearly an Interior Design Hall of Fame member!
November – Martyn Lawrence Bullard is a multi-award-winning Los Angeles-based Interior Designer renowned for his broad range of styles and eclectic, yet sophisticated and inviting interiors. Martyn’s impressive mastery of a broad range of styles, paired with his unrivaled attention to detail and commitment to quality has earned him significant international acclaim. His a recurrent presence on the Top Designers List in The World and recently was named one of the Top 100 Designers to Watch in 2018 for Architectural Digest!
December – Dimore Studio – The duo behind the fast-growing Milan-based Dimore Studio roots their work in tradition, even as the atmospheric spaces they create spin entirely unique worlds. Recently, they’ve branched out from under-the-radar residential work to high-profile hospitality projects in Italy and beyond. They recently worked with Fendi, for instance, in this brand’s newest store in London! They are well known for they sophisticated and elegant approach to design and that’s why the elegant and special month of December suites this studio perfectly.
Image & Material Source – Tom Dixon, Nate Berkus, Kelly Wearstler, Philippe Starck, Dimore Studio, Waldo’s Designs, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Jan Showers, Peter Marino
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Fronted by new Jon Bon Jovi impersonator Gary Williams, the band have not only toured lengthily around the UK, for clients such as Harley Davidson, Vodafone, Butlins, Chicago Rock Cafes, Yates, Walkabouts, The British Motorcycle Federation and Jack Daniels, but have also performed internationally in and around the Middle East, Russia, Slovenia, Austria, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France and Ireland to name but a few.
Bon Giovi were also the only UK tribute act to be asked to make a guest appearance on the New Jersey tribute album “Garden State Of Mind Vol. 1”, A celebration of Bon Jovi musical career to date.
Covering every aspect of Bon Jovi’s extensive career, BON GIOVI perform all the greatest hits such as ‘Living On A Prayer’, It’s My Life, Wanted Dead or Alive, as well as many others from every album ever produced in one amazing stage show which include all these hits and more, not too mention performing rare tracks that even Bon Jovi haven’t performed for many years.So if you’re ready to ‘Runaway’ on ‘One Wild Night’ down that ‘Lost Highway’ for a taste of the some of the world’s greatest Stadium Anthems, then book BON GIOVI with confidence now! For the closest you’ll get to the Real Thing.
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City denies the abuse of firefighters
Provincial secretary of the SA Municipal Workers Union in the Western Cape, Sidney Flusk raised concerns about the workload that firefighters in the Western Cape are subjected to.
According to Flusk, the fact that the Fire Service Agreement with the CoCT lapsed in 2012 has meant members are being subjected to horrific working conditions.
He says this has resulted in a rise in vacancies from 380 (in 2012) to the current level of 1200, which means members work in excess of 240 hours a month leading to firefighters collapsing on the job.
Richard Bosman, Executive director of safety and security at the City of Cape Town rubbished all these claims saying there is no truth in what Flusk is saying.
I want to unequivocally say that there are no thousand vacancies in the fire department and this is in our report which is publicly available.
— Richard Bosman, Executive director of safety and security at City of Cape Town
Bosman says fireman work 56 hours a week and for that, they get a 22.8% allowance over and above their salaries.
He says the allowance is paid to them whether they work 24 hrs or not.
When they are at the station for that 24-hour shift, they don't work for 24 hours. They work from 9 - 5 and they stop and after 5 pm they are on standby at the station. They have TV and cooking facilities and they only respond to emergencies, they are not actively firefighting for 24 hours. That is actually impossible, nobody can do that.
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Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
Written by: Bob Dylan
Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.
Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door.
They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.
They'll stone ya when you are young and able.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck.
They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone,
Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you and then say you are brave.
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.
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04-24-2008: Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – St Louis, MO
11-03-2007: Ford Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL
10-18-2007: Fillmore Auditorium – San Francisco, CA
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Bhutan, Japan sign project for HRD scholarship
June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019 businessbhutanLeave a Comment on Bhutan, Japan sign project for HRD scholarship
Ambassador of Bhutan to Japan V. Namgyel and Ambassador of Japan to Bhutan Kenji Hiramatsu signed the Exchange of Notes for the project for Human Resource Department (HRD) Scholarship in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Through this project worth 174mn Yen, the Government of Japan will support Master’s and PhD courses for 10 government officials in Japanese Universities from 2020. Candidates for the 2020 batch will be selected soon.
Meanwhile, the first Exchange of Notes for the project was signed between the two Ambassadors on June 23, 2018 in Thimphu coinciding with the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono to Bhutan. Ten government officials from various agencies will begin their courses (9 Masters’ and one PhD degrees) in Japanese Universities from this September.
According to the press release from the Royal Bhutanese Embassy in New Delhi, the project for HRD Scholarship provides full scholarship with the objective to support HRD and to enhance bilateral relations between the two countries. The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has identified four keys areas for the scholarship courses: agriculture and rural development; industrial foundation development; infrastructure development for sustainable economic growth; and counter measures for climate change and disaster risk management.
Speaking at the signing ceremony held at the Japanese Embassy, Ambassador V. Namgyel said high quality human resource is the key to economic and social development of a nation.
“As such, enhancing the knowledge and qualification of Bhutanese government officials in the four key areas identified by the RCSC will make significant contributions to Bhutan’s socio-economic development,” the Ambassador said.
Ambassador Namgyel said like all the other projects supported by the Government of Japan till date, this project too will strengthen the excellent bonds of friendship, understanding, and cooperation that exist between Bhutan and Japan.
Ambassador V. Namgyel also conveyed the deep appreciation of the Royal Government and people of Bhutan to the Government and people of Japan for their steadfast and generous support to Bhutan’s socio-economic development for many years, and for their assurances of continued support in the years ahead.
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2016 Cadillac ATS-V Sedan manual transmission
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Imagine ordering a ton of bricks. That's 400 red paving bricks weighing five pounds apiece. You know, the bricks that made Indianapolis famous. They're yours. Now, do you want your ton of bricks dumped on you all at once? Or would you rather have one brick handed to you at a time?
The manual-transmission 2016 ATS-V sedan is Cadillac's one-brick-at-a-time performance machine. Sometimes it's about feeling that kiln-hardened clay in your hand as you set the brick in place and build something magnificent with it. At other times, it's about bouncing that heft in your hand for a moment just before chucking the brick through a window and running like hell. With 464 horsepower from its 3.6-liter twin-turbocharged V-6, this is one of the world's great brick-delivery systems. And it excels at running like hell.
Three-Pedal Performance
The stir-it-yourself transmission in this ATS-V sedan is no mystery box. It's the Tremec TR-6060 six-speed, an evolution of the T-56 that has been used in various Camaros, Vipers, and Mustangs for almost a quarter-century. All the demons were chased out of this gearbox decades ago, and it has been refined to the point that its shifts are intuitive. That is, if your intuition triggers some seriously beefy muscular reflexes.
Cadillac has optimized the TR-6060 by adding both active rev-matching logic and no-lift shifting. The rev-matching feature blips the throttle when it anticipates a downshift to make the shift change smoother, while the no-lift feature facilitates upshifts without making the driver lay off the go juice. Both technologies work well, keeping the engine in the meatiest part of its torque production even if the doofus driver couldn't stab it with a steak knife.
A pair of switches, located aft of the shifter, control the three modes in which the ATS-V will operate: Touring, Sport, and Track. One switch has an arrow pointing up, the other an arrow pointing down. Why one switch couldn't handle this task is a mystery, but whatever.
In Touring mode, the engine idles almost silently and rises into a slight vibrating contralto as it runs through the gears. It's never loud, but there is an engaging resonant note to the exhaust. The ride is compliant without being mushy, and the steering is easygoing. In Sport and Track modes, the steering takes deliberate effort, the suspension stiffens significantly, and the exhaust is louder and more vivid but still falls well short of our aural expectations (both the C63's bombastic V-8 and the M3/M4's ripping inline-six are far better). Sport mode is fun. Track mode makes the ATS-V feel as if it's in hot pursuit of a Trans-Am title.
The ATS-V's twin-turbo V-6 is a sibling to the normally aspirated 3.6-liter V-6 that General Motors uses in everything from the Chevrolet Colorado pickup to the livery-spec Cadillac XTS that picked you up at the airport. But its closest relative is the twin-turbo 3.6 in the larger CTS Vsport sedan. In the CTS Vsport, it's rated at 420 horsepower, but in the ATS-V it gets titanium connecting rods and new turbos, among other changes, and is tuned to deliver 464 horses. That's 39 horsepower more than a BMW M3's 3.0-liter twin-turbo straight-six but 39 hp behind the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 in the Mercedes-AMG C63 S. That's a nicely symmetrical splitting of differences.
High-Level Mechanical Intimacy
Most ATS-Vs will be delivered with the eight-speed automatic, as was the ATS-V in our most recent comparison test against the BMW M3 and the Mercedes-AMG C63 S. But while the manual has two fewer gears, it uses an aggressive 3.73:1 final-drive ratio compared with the automatic's set of 2.85:1 gears. Both fifth and sixth in the manual are overdrive ratios, but second, third, and fourth (a direct 1:1 ratio) thrive with this short gearset-not so much in absolute performance but in being almost ludicrously entertaining.
The manual transmission creates a more direct connection between driver and car. You can feel torque surging up through the shifter in your hand, and you know the precise moment when the clutch engages through the pedal as your toes rise with it. This is high-level mechanical intimacy.
So we asked it to dance. On the right California mountain road, second gear alone could earn a Golden Globe nomination. Even in the calm Touring mode, the tail will drift a bit and then tuck in before the traction- and stability-control systems abruptly engage. In Sport mode, the traction control is moderated a bit and is less intrusive. The most fun in cornering is to be had in Sport mode with the traction control turned off, when the rear 275/35ZR-18 Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires will sweep out heroically, bite down at the apex, and slingshot the ATS-V onward.
Watch out for the rev limiter. Lose sight of the tach and run out to the 6500-rpm fuel cutoff, and the V-6 snaps off emphatically. And it will spin the needle up there quickly, delivering fresh gobs of torque right up until the computer sends out its self-preservation S.O.S. If you stay mindful of the revs, however-after all, the torque peak of 445 lb-ft arrives at 3500 rpm-it's all Six Flags over Cadillac.
Keeping this in mind, know that our testing shows that the ATS-V is quicker with the automatic transmission. Using its paddle shifters, the automatic ATS-V sedan ran to 60 mph in only 3.9 seconds and slaughtered the quarter-mile in 12.1 at a ripping 122 mph. This manual model needed 4.2 seconds to reach 60 mph and 12.5 to complete the quarter-mile at 117 mph. If absolute performance is the ultimate decider, go for the trigger-shifted automatic. Aside from the styling and interior volume, there's nothing here that distinguishes the sedan from the ATS-V manual coupe we tested; it, too, hit 60 mph in 4.2 seconds.
While the stick brings additional amusement, what's best about the ATS-V remains its spectacularly well-tuned chassis, which is enhanced with magnetorheological dampers. With the best initial turn-in bite of any sports sedan, it's great when hustling at speed and a blast on a tight, narrow road, where one-quarter throttle is enough to entertain. The steering is so good and so satisfying in its feedback that merely commuting can be the highlight of your day.
CUE the Piper and Pay the Price
The EPA rates the ATS-V manual at 17 mpg in the city (1 mpg better than the automatic) and 23 mpg on the highway (1 mpg worse). Driven aggressively to extract maximum yuks, the Caddy slurped premium fuel at a rate of 15 mpg in our care.
What holds back the ATS-V, no matter what the transmission, is its dinky rear seat, the often frustrating CUE infotainment interface, and some lack of cohesion in design elements (for instance, switchgear and gauges that we associate with family sedans more than a luxury-brand sports model). The ATS-V's performance puts it tantalizingly close to the best in class, but the manual transmission likely isn't enough to get it past both the M3 and the C63 S AMG in another comparison test. For those who'd prefer to shift for themselves, though, the only other choice is the BMW (Alfa Romeo's Giulia Quadrifoglio also will offer a manual when it goes on sale).
The brilliant Recaro front seats are a deal at their $2300 option price, but the $5000 carbon-fiber package might better be skipped, considering the vulnerability of the front splitter. Maybe after some acclimation it would become an ingrained habit to use the forward-facing camera to avoid scrapes, but the ATS-V would be just as entertaining without the worry. As it is, our Vector Blue Metallic test car's option load inflated the total chit from its $61,460 base price to $75,900. Cadillacs have never been cheap, and neither is this one, although it should be noted that the German alternatives are easily optioned into the mid-$80K range and even beyond $90,000 if you lack self-discipline.
The ATS-V's seamless performance is in stark contrast to the seam-busting slamfest that is its radical big brother, the CTS-V, which starts at $84,990. With its 640-hp 6.2-liter supercharged V-8, the CTS-V is the Cadillac for those who prefer getting their ton of bricks delivered all at once. The choice is yours.
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The Paterno’s will be hiring their own investigators
The family of Joe Paterno denied the findings of a special investigator who concluded the fact that Paterno covered up for Jerry Sandusky and knew about him sexually abusing children. For fourteen years, the late Penn State football coach remained silent about Sandusky’s sexual assault.
Apparently, Paterno was much more concerned with keeping a good reputation for the university and the football program, and did not want the negative attention to reflect badly on the university. Leaving Paterno’s name on buildings and his statue up, will cause people in the future to not only forget about how he covered up for Sandusky, but worse, it will cause people to remain to hail him for his contributions to college football.
However, shouldn’t football only go so far? According to Louis Freeh, Paterno knew about how Sandusky sexual abused ten different boys, that we know about, over the course of fourteen years. In new findings, Freeh states that Paterno knew about the abuse and could have stopped it if he wanted to. In response to this report, Nike decided to change the name of the Joe Paterno Child Development center as its Oregon headquarters.
Now, the Paterno family has released a statement refuting Freeh’s report, and will be hiring their own lawyers and investigators to review and analyze Free’s findings.
“Our interest has been and remains the uncovering of the truth,” the statement read.”We are dismayed by, and vehemently disagree with, some of the conclusions and assertions and the process by which they were developed. Freeh presented his opinions and interpretations as if they were absolute facts.”
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” 1 The Brit is now 19 points adrift of Rosberg with just two races remaining Lewis Hamilton kept his slim world championship hopes alive with a crushing victory over his rival Nico Rosberg in the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday. Hamilton, who recorded his second triumph in seven days following his masterclass in the United States, is now 19 points adrift of Rosberg with just two races remaining.
The championship battle remains out of the Briton’s control, however, after Rosberg survived a lunge from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to cross the line in second place. Indeed Rosberg will now secure his maiden title if he wins the Brazilian Grand Prix in a fortnight’s time. The German can even afford to finish second and third at the remaining two races to clinch the crown.
Verstappen finished third ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, but the former was given a five-second elapsed penalty for leaving the track at turn one and refusing to give the place to Vettel. The German was subsequently bumped up to third. Hamilton, 31, revealed earlier this week that he is relishing the challenge of usurping his Mercedes team-mate Rosberg at the top of the championship standings.
And the Briton has been in inspired form from the get-go here, comfortably faster than Rosberg in practice and qualifying before claiming the 51st victory of his career with a dominant display in front of 135,000 fans on Sunday.https://1xbet.footballresultstoday.org/ Hamilton’s season has been plagued by engine troubles and slow starts but, for the second race in succession, the triple world champion got the perfect getaway to retain the lead on the near 1,000-metre run down to turn one.
But perhaps preoccupied with keeping Rosberg behind, Hamilton locked his front-right tyre and ran on to the grass. He essentially missed out the opening four turns before rejoining the track but, as Rosberg and Verstappen banged wheels behind him – a coming together which was declared a racing incident following an investigation by the stewards – he remained in the lead. Despite being bumped on to the grass, Rosberg retained second ahead of Verstappen.
Esteban Gutierrez, Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein then tripped over one another with the latter sustaining significant damage to the front of his Manor. His race was over, and the safety car was deployed with debris scattered across the track. When the race restarted on lap four, Rosberg failed to threaten Hamilton, and from there the show was all but over.
Vettel, on a longer first stint, led for 12 laps but, after he pitted at the end of lap 32, and Hamilton was released back into the lead, it was only a matter of the world champion nursing his Mercedes home, which he did to fine effect. Hamilton took the chequered flag a distant eight seconds ahead of Rosberg to move alongside four-time world champion Alain Prost, into second on the all-time winners’ list.
Only Michael Schumacher has tasted more victories in Formula One’s long history than the man from Stevenage. For Rosberg, second could yet be enough as he bids to emulate his father Keke, the 1982 world champion, and win the title. In a race of little drama, Verstappen attempted to pass Rosberg on lap 50 after the German came unstuck while lapping Carlos Sainz, but Verstappen failed to make his move stick.
There was controversy late on, too, after Verstappen was stripped of his podium place following a timed penalty which promoted Vettel to third and Daniel Ricciardo to fourth. Verstappen, who only discovered he had been penalised as he prepared to step on to the podium, was adjudged to have left the track and gained an advantage.
Jenson Button, the 2009 world champion, crossed the line in 12th with British rookie Jolyon Palmer 14th. “This is honestly the best crowd,” said Hamilton. “They turn up and they have such great passion for the sport. It is great to see. “Nico has done a great job. I am really gratfeul for the team.
It is great for us to have a one-two.” Rosberg added: “Lewis was a bit too fast this weekend so I will have to accept second place. It is okay to be second.” ” ” The Birmingham fan who punched Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish during Sunday’s Second City derby is to be banned from St Andrew’s for life. The incident occurred less than 10 minutes into the match when Grealish was in the Birmingham penalty area.
A spectator in a flat cap dashed on to the field and threw a punch from behind the visiting captain, striking him on the side of the head. 3 The shock attack happened in the ninth minute The intruder was quickly restrained by stewards as several other Villa players rushed in to confront him. He was led away by police, blowing kisses to the crowd as he left.
Aston Villa have since released a statement, branding the attack ‘disgraceful’ and ‘cowardly’. “Aston Villa Football Club is appalled by the disgraceful attack on Jack Grealish during today’s game,” the statement read.https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Watford LATEST FOOTBALL NEWS gossip Man United news live: Dutch ace wanted as new right-back, West Ham star on radar gossip Liverpool news live: Salah ‘rejects ?150million exit’, Ajax set Ziyech price latest Man United target Dutch defender, Spurs to sell Rose and sign Sessegnon review Women’s World Cup: Netherlands breeze past Cameroon, Canada beat hapless New Zealand gesture Amazing reason Marta pointed to her boots after scoring opener for Brazil royal return AC Milan appoint club legends Boban and Maldini in new roles at the club ‘i was fed up’ The reason why Chelsea midfielder Jorginho nearly quit football latest Arsenal transfer news live: Top target ‘not for sale’, Ziyech to cost just ?30m GOING NOWHERE Bournemouth send firm response to Arsenal over Ryan Fraser interest London bound?
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Further details to follow.” ARREST: Following the incident on the pitch involving an attack on an Aston Villa player; a man has been arrested and en route to a custody block. Further details to follow. pic.twitter.com/fed9KrHBgl — West Midlands Police (@WMPolice) March 10, 2019 /**/ /**/ Grealish thankfully appeared unhurt and was comforted by team-mates and opponents.
He went on to open the scoring with a low, angled shot in the second half, leaping jubilantly in to the Villa supporters to celebrate. Birmingham condemned the attack as ‘deplorable and disgusting and apologised to Grealish and Aston Villa after the match – which the visitors won – ended. ‘His family should be ashamed’ – Must listen talkSPORT rant about Grealish assault Listen to talkSPORT’s live commentary of shocking Grealish punching incident Blues also confirmed they will ban the individual from St Andrew’s for life.
A club statement read: “Birmingham City Football Club would like to apologise to Jack Grealish and Aston Villa Football Club for an incident in this afternoon’s derby match. “We deplore the behaviour of the individual who committed this act and rest assured he will be banned from St. Andrew’s for life. The Club will also support any further punishment this individual may face in the eyes of the law.
CLUB STATEMENT: Birmingham City Football Club would like to apologise to Jack Grealish and Aston Villa Football Club for an incident in this afternoon’s derby match. More ?? https://t.co/RKGbVLLO7a #BCFC pic.twitter.com/gSUqxe1WbD — Birmingham City FC (@BCFC) March 10, 2019 /**/ /**/ “The Club will be working with the relevant authorities to investigate all the circumstances and we will be reviewing our stadium safety procedures. “What happened has no place in football or society.
Jack is a Birmingham lad and regardless of club allegiance should not have been subjected to this – there are no excuses. “Again, we apologise to Jack and all at Aston Villa Football Club.” The English Football League condemned “the mindless actions of the individual” involved and pledged to work with the Football Association to “ensure the appropriate action is taken”. An EFL spokesman said: “It’s a situation no player should ever be faced with.
3 Jack Grealish was knocked to the floor “In all circumstances the playing surface is for players, not supporters and those playing in the game must be able to do so safe in the knowledge they will not be subjected to this type of behaviour. “Whilst this incident falls within the remit of the Football Association, we will work with all the relevant parties to address the issue of player and match officials safety on the pitch and ensure the appropriate action is taken.” There also appeared to be angry clashes between fans before the game at St Andrew’s. 3 The man was led away by the authorities The attack on Grealish followed a number of recent high-profile incidents of crowd trouble in Scottish football.
In Friday night’s 1-1 draw between Rangers and Hibernian at Easter Road, Gers captain James Tavernier found himself face to face with a fan who had jumped out of the home support before being led away. Police later confirmed a 21-year-old man had been arrested. That incident came six days after a glass bottle was thrown from the same section of the stadium as Celtic’s Scott Sinclair prepared to take a corner in a William Hill Scottish Cup game and on top of a series of missile-throwing incidents this season. “
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December 21, 2012 March 1, 2013 by Edward Champion
More Bedbug Hysteria in Canadian Libraries
As the bedbug hysteria spreads to Canada, we continue our efforts to clear up the misinformation.
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Two weeks ago, we revealed how a New York Times story relied on fear and misinformation to spread needless hysteria about bedbugs in public libraries. We spoke with many of the sources that reporter Catherine Saint Louis had relied on, including entomology professor Michael Potter, and discovered that the odds of getting a bedbug from a book in a library were “so low that it’s not even worth talking about.” Professor Potter was kind enough to provide us with a report which revealed that while bedbug incidents have increased holistically, the threat they pose to public libraries is well behind hotels, motels, college dorms, nursing homes, office buildings, public transportation, and movie theaters.
Yet in the past week, Saint Louis’s irresponsible reporting has inspired Canadian news outlets to engage in crass sensationalism. On December 13th, CBC News claimed that bedbugs were infesting multiple branches of the Vancouver Public Library. But the story relied upon hearsay from library patron Gail Meredith, who conveyed to the CBC that “the pest control people came to the conclusion that the only thing that was going on in my life that was likely to bring them in is my library books.” The article doesn’t confirm this with the pest control people, nor does it attempt to corroborate this incident with the VPL. (Robert Zimmerman, the only reporter listed in the article, did not reply to our request for comment.)
Reluctant Habits made several efforts to contact the Vancouver Public Library to determine the details of the 41 bedbug incidents cited by CBC News. There were phone calls and emails with VPL spokesman Stephen Barrington, who claimed that he was “between meetings.” By Friday morning, Barrington had fled his office for the rest of the year, as hard-working Canadians are wont to do. A helpful VPL employee named James Gemmill passed along a message to VPL chief librarian Sandra Singh. As of Friday afternoon, Reluctant Habits has not heard back from the VPL.
Fortunately, there were more explicit details from Toronto.
On Wednesday, the Toronto Star waded into these murky alarmist waters. Star photographer David Cooper claimed that his wife Peggi-jean had discovered three bedbugs in a checked out copy of Peter Robinson’s Watching the Dark. But Reluctant Habits has learned that the Coopers preferred breaking an attention-grabbing story to one of their employers rather than resolving their problem directly with the library. According to Toronto Public Library spokesperson Ana-Maria Critchley, the Coopers went straight to the Star rather than the Toronto Public Library.
“I’m not even sure if she returned the book,” said Critchley by telephone on Friday morning.
Critchley confirmed that the Toronto Public Library has indeed experienced its share of bedbug problems. In the past twelve months, there have been 24 bedbug incidents in thirteen branches. But the Star‘s Alyshah Hasham fudged the facts to fill in the sensationalist sudoku. Aside from the fact that these 24 bedbug incidents in the past year represented a drop from 30 incidents during the preceding year, it’s worth pointing out that thirteen of these incidents originated from chairs. The remaining eleven were located in books. This slight majority towards furniture is not the even split that Hasham claims it is. Additionally, the Star undercounted the items borrowed by Toronto Public Library patrons. I confirmed with Critchley by telephone and email that 33 million items were borrowed last year, not the 31 million claimed by Hasham.
With only eleven reported incidents in 33 million books, your chance of getting a bedbug from an item checked out from the Toronto Public Library is 1 in 3,000,000. According to the National Weather Service, you stand a better chance of being struck by lightning three times during any given year. According to the National Safety Council, you are more likely to die from a dog attack, a flood, contact from hornets, wasps, and bees, a legal execution, or a fireworks discharge, or a flood.
I was able to reach Hasham on her cell phone on Friday afternoon to give her an opportunity to respond to this story. She told me that she could say nothing on the record until she had cleared it with her superiors. I also asked her how any person calling herself a journalist could spread alarmism like this, misrepresenting a minor problem. She responded off the record. I told her that she was doing tabloid journalism, not real journalism.
I left a voicemail with New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan on Friday morning to see if she could remark upon publishing a news story predicated upon a vastly overstated issue. Surely the Times bears some responsibility for inspiring other news outlets to generate attention over an overwrought problem. Much as Sullivan rebuffed my emails and my tweets, she did not return my call. She has, in fact, refused to address Saint Louis’s story. And while Sullivan and Saint Louis continue to remain silent about the Times‘s reportorial incompetence, other outlets continue to take their cues. Because a good yarn playing on a readership’s fears is more important than being accurate.
“I hear stories all the time about bedbugs in libraries,” said Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann by telephone on Friday morning. The entomology professor at Cornell had been quoted in the Star story. I asked Gangloff-Kaufmann if we could ever know from the Star story just how the Coopers contracted the bedbugs in Toronto.
“I don’t think we know,” she said. “I don’t know what his daily life is like. I don’t know what his neighbor does.”
Gangloff-Kaufmann said that it was likely that the Coopers’ bedbugs came to their home through the book, but pointed out that bedbugs are more likely to be found in furniture. “That goes for any place.”
When I asked Gangloff-Kaufmann if she felt that the recent spate of bedbug stories were founded on hysteria or misinformation, she didn’t wish to answer. But she did concede that the risk of contracting bedbugs from a library was out of proportion with certain responses.
“What is the risk? Fairly low. But the tolerance is zero.”
12/22 UPDATE: I asked entomologist Michael Potter for his thoughts on how bedbugs might have found their way into books in Toronto and Vancouver libraries. He informed me that there was a slight possibility of bedbugs congregating and laying eggs in the bindings and edges of hardcovers and paperbacks.
“If you had a heavily infested dwelling,” says Potter, “there’s always the likelihood that, with time, some bugs could move from former hiding sites and begin residing in books. How often this happens with books taken out from the library is anybody’s guess — infrequently for sure, although it can happen — just as you can pick up a stray bug here and there in any number of other activities.”
Potter told me that if books are situated near a permanent infestation (such as a nightstand next to a bed), the odds, despite being exceptionally minute, do increase. But he reports that worrying about contracting bugs from the library is “certainly no more than obsessing over picking them up from the dry cleaner, cozy upholstered booth of your favorite restaurant, taxi cab or bus seat, or your kids coming home from school for the holidays.”
He was kind enough to provide the following picture, showing books that were permanently stored in a heavily infested apartment:
“For people who remain concerned about the prospects of bed bugs being transported into their homes on library books,” says Potter, “they can do a quick spot check for signs of the little black fecal spots. Do I do this when I check out books? No. Nor do I go to the trouble of storing my suitcase in the bathtub when I stay in hotels, opting instead for a cursory inspection of the bed and headboard area.”
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Richard Pollack, PhD December 22, 2012 at 10:05 am
Kudos on this series of reality checks. You might also consider what’s behind the epidemic of reports of bed bug sightings in businesses, hospitals, schools, etc. Some (perhaps many) are undoubtedly genuine, but others seem more like a marketing ploy. Indeed, many reports lack any objective confirmation of a bona fide bed bug. Those who believe they might have discovered a bed bug (whether on the bed, a library book or elsewhere) might find it instructive and helpful to learn a bit about these creatures and to ensure they’ve correctly identified the creature. See: https://identify.us.com/idmybug/bed-bugs/index.html
One might ask who has released the reports of bed bug infestations to the media? It is doubtful that the managers of major businesses would contact the press to air dirty laundry. Might they be real or conjured reports by business competitors, unhappy employees or customers… or folks who might profit by providing pest control services? It doesn’t take a bed bug sniffing dog to confirm that something doesn’t smell good.
Dahai December 23, 2012 at 1:18 pm
It is difficult to kill bed bugs behind wall and under carpet because legal chemical residue is not active and steam can’t penetrate wall. That is why all of well-known products feed blood to bed bugs and why you need repeated efforts to kill bugs faster than they lay up to 300 eggs per bug. Only a bed sized bed bug trap does not feed bed bugs because you sleep in center of the trap as an inaccessible lure. This conclusion is as simple as a common sense which does not need a test for confirming.
Don’t seek and kill bed bugs; Let bed bugs seek you and suicide. Don’t apply multiple efforts and still let bed bugs lay eggs; Apply one-time effort and not allow bed bugs lay eggs. Don’t suffer failure after months of hard work. Celebrate having solved the problem on the first day of your easy effort. To know how to stop bed bug bites immediately, search :Bed Sized Bed Bug Trap”.
David Cain December 24, 2012 at 10:06 am
Have bedbugs been found in libraries? Answer: Yes
Will bedbugs in libraries reduce as a result of action being taken to stop them becoming transfer points? Answer: Yes
Will bedbugs in libraries be resolved without some media attention? Answer: well media attention will help as from what we see there is not a great deal of joined up thinking going on until its hits the headlines.
If there were headlines without bedbugs being confirmed them yes it would appear to be scare tactics but since they are being confirmed its a debate that needs to be opened up not deflected by those with a vested interest in bedbugs spreading.
Some of this debate seems to conveniently forget that bedbugs have actually be found in these locations and therefore steps need to be taken to stop it happening.
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MacDean Whiprod December 24, 2012 at 12:44 pm
I had a most enthralling idea, Edward, reading your communique from this sensationalistic arena of propaganda. Two things leap to mind in fact. Firstly, is it feasible that these librarians are acting to cover up The Truth about bedbugs in their respective dominions? It is not undreamed of, is it, for governmental officialdom to shroud the veracity from us vis a vis the perilous undertakings in which they participate. Nor is it a scarce event for that to transpire in the corporate sphere and as droves of us are alert to, the public library bureaucracy here and abroad progressively has been coopted by commercial interests. So there is one hypothesis: the possibility that this is all one colossal camouflage in which the interests of the libraries and their partial backers, the international economy as represented by Starbucks and Tim Horton, are being advanced to the detriment of public health. I find this terrifying. Moreover, what of the possibility that this isn’t an unfortunate accident? Libraries are so inextricably associated with innocent irreproachability that one could tenably use them as the incubator of a mass plague. It is a popularly known reality that children are a kind of canary in a coalmine when it comes to ascertaining the virulence of the biopestilential events such as those that will be dominating global news in the lustrums to come. I hate to be a scaremonger like those news articles, but I don’t think anybody–certainly not the so called paper of record and not even you–quite knows the full dimension of bedbugs here. Very possibly library books are being infested with bedbugs in minute quantities so as to test their (the bedbugs’) ability to reproduce under bibliotechnical conditions, their ability to incubate once removed from the library to what for the sake of argument we shall refer to as home conditions, or “domestic” conditions. Whether in the “library” or in the “home” these are significant insects whose breeding habits are well documented and have often been compared to those of other insects more well known as the vectors of menacing afflictions that likewise have a propensity for breeding in decaying organic matter such as popular books. I mightily urge you, Edward, given your intrepid and undaunted investigative bent, to consider these alternatives to the oh this isn’t a real crisis scenario that you very convincingly, but perhaps prematurely dismissively, put forward.
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2 Indian police deserters among 4 killed in Kashmir
Published at 08:02 pm June 7th, 2019
India's Border Security Force soldiers patrol along the fenced border with Pakistan in the Ranbir Singh Pura sector near Jammu February 26, 2019 Reuters
The officers had deserted, taking their automatic rifles, a day earlier to join the rebel ranks
Two low-ranking police deserters were among four rebels killed overnight in a firefight with government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, the police and army said Friday.
The former Himalayan kingdom is divided between Pakistan and India. For decades, rebel groups have been fighting for independence from Indian rule or a merger of Kashmir with Pakistan.
The fighting has left tens of thousands dead, mostly civilians.
Soldiers laid siege to a residential area in southern Pulwama district, triggering an exchange of fire with armed militants hiding in a house late Thursday evening.
"One militant was killed in the initial encounter that went on through the night. Three more were killed during early hours today," a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP on Friday.
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An Indian army spokesman, based in the main city of Srinagar, also confirmed four "terrorists" were killed in the fighting.
"Two were local militants from Jaish-e-Mohammad group and the other two were identified as SPOs who had gone missing," the police officer said, referring to the two Special Police Officers.
The officers had deserted, taking their automatic rifles, a day earlier to join the rebel ranks.
SPOs are the lowest-ranked officers in the state police.
Paid $85 a month, they are mostly deployed for counterinsurgency duties and providing personal security for dignitaries.
Another police officer said the two killed former SPOs had gone for a day of leave to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid, but did not report back to duty on Thursday morning.
Many SPOs have deserted the police force in the past to join the rebels in the restive region, including three who were deployed to protect a minister in the local government.
Indian forces kill four rebels in Kashmir: Two police deserters among fighters killed during a gun battle in Indian-administered Kahmir's Pulwama district. https://t.co/X3Hxr7qzXf
— Ultrascan HUMINT (@ultrascanhumint) June 7, 2019
Pakistan-based JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammad) and rebel groups have been fighting some 500,000 Indian soldiers deployed in the disputed territory for decades.
Rivals India and Pakistan have separately administered Kashmir since the end of British colonial rule and Partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
The nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours both claim the entire region in full.
Gun battles between anti-India rebels and government forces are frequent in parts of the territory controlled by New Delhi.
This year more than 100 militants have been killed so far and fighters rarely last a few months after joining militant groups.
In recent years New Delhi has repeatedly said soldiers have a free hand in wiping out militancy from Kashmir, but new rebels have been joining in the fight almost as fast as they are killed by Indian forces.
India regularly accuses Pakistan of supporting the rebels, an allegation Islamabad denies.
Pakistan says it only provides moral and diplomatic support to a Kashmiri struggle for the right to self-determination.
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Filming “Farewell to Manzanar” at Tule Lake: Seeing One Camp in Another ~ Part 3
Por Martha Bridegam, Laurie Shigekuni / 21 Mai 2015
Filming for a closing scene in which the Wakatsuki family, as they prepare to leave the camp after their release, take a joy ride across nearby fields in a newly purchased car. Some criticized the scene as an overly positive depiction of a departure experience that, for many newly freed inmates, imposed new forms of hardship and uncertainty. (Photo courtesy of Barbara Parker Narita)
(Photo courtesy of Barbara Parker Narita)
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More than a job for the extras
The 1975 production used crowds of Japanese American extras, many of whom had themselves been imprisoned in Manzanar, Tule Lake, or other camps.
Korty said, “In most movie situations, the extras are there for only one reason, and that’s money… This was a totally different situation because all these extras were emotionally involved in the project. And they wanted to help and they wanted to do these things. It made all the difference in the world.”
“I have to tell you, this was a loyal group of people,” Yap said of the extras who came to Tule Lake to be part of Farewell to Manzanar. The motel rooms where they stayed were bare-bones when available at all. He said “I think actually some people camped” in things like motor homes. Some had traveled long distances to take part. The Houstons wrote in their memoir, “one man planned his summer vacation so that he could drive out from New York City with his family.”
Yap said “We’ve always had a picnic or something” to thank extras, but this was different. Families would stay on the set after their parts in the filming were done. They would help with the equipment or bring beer—he remembered worrying about the beer on the set with the crew still working—but all went well.
He said, “If they didn’t know before, they knew after, that this was historical, what they were doing. The story that we were telling, but also the story that you’d be living for 3 to 5 days or in my case, 12 weeks.”
Parker said the extras would offer suggestions about wardrobe and other details, and some of them made props for the film by the same methods they had used during the war: flowers made from tissue paper, geta clogs made from scrap wood with braided rags for the toe thongs. She remembered how some of the elders among the extras created a distinct social center around a picnic table in one of the bungalows, where they would sit with a jug of water or coffee available, playing cards or working on props.
Korty recalled that Kinoshita, the set designer, distributed getas to all the members of the cast and crew, in their correct shoe sizes, to serve as mementos at the end of the production. He also remembers Kinoshita making mochi with a mallet in traditional style.
Breaking local ice
It’s difficult to know what attitudes may have been changed in the Tule Lake Basin by the film production. But the arrival of free-spending, charm-dispensing Hollywood producers making a film about the incarceration experience may well have helped future Tule Lake Pilgrimages.
The Tule Lake Basin has a history of political conservatism that follows partly from the circumstances of its settlement. Much of the Basin was opened to agriculture when the Bureau of Reclamation drained and irrigated lands that had formerly been part of broad, shallow Tule Lake. It distributed much of the new farmland in the form of homestead grants to white veterans of World Wars I and II. Because of the Tule Lake Basin’s remote location, the Tulelake post of the American Legion veterans’ group took on some functions of local government through the middle of the 20th century. The area’s leading citizens as of the 1970s were especially likely to be military veterans, some of whom had been in combat overseas.
The year of the film production, 1975, was also the year of an early Tule Lake Pilgrimage (either second or third depending how prior events are counted). One participant has said that during the April 1975 Pilgrimage—which would have been just months before the film was made—some local people in a pickup truck with a shotgun circled menacingly late at night outside the high school gym where pilgrimage members were sleeping; the sheriff arrived and calmed a situation that could have turned worse. (Since then, occasional threats have surfaced around Pilgrimages. There was a veiled threat to an organizer in the 1990s; windows of an empty Pilgrimage tour bus were shot out in Klamath Falls during the 2006 Pilgrimage’s cultural program.)
In summer 1975, Lope Yap, Jr. walked into the bar of the Sportsman Lodge in Tulelake and rented a room for seven dollars a night. He downplays the quiet courage that took. The Sportsman of the 1970s is remembered unfondly in some local quarters as a bastion of Tulelake’s conservative and frequently racist old guard.
Yap did say that at the Sportsman, “you could never let down your hair down and relax about racial issues. You had to just be, kind of, aware. Particularly when you’re talking about people who were kind of raised in a very bigoted environment. And then the whole World War II thing is—is a big deal.” Regarding the incarceration: “There are still people there who probably still feel like, ‘what was wrong with that, they were trying to kill us.’” He said the Sportsman was the scene of a few incidents during the first week of filming between extras and locals: it “got kind of touchy once in a while but never got to blows.” Tensions eased after a while but “The first night I got there was kind of weird.”
(This was a time and place where the incarceration of Japanese Americans was not necessarily remembered as a wrong. Yap’s own father, who spent World War II as a fugitive from Japanese occupying forces in the Philippines, disapproved of his son’s part in the production. Yap said he told his father, “Society’s got to grow,” and went to work.)
By Yap’s account he soon was getting help in his hunts for supplies, catering, props, and locations from important local figures: owners and staff of the Sportsman, and Bill McBride, butcher at the nearby small supermarket, and the area’s only Highway Patrol officer (“he was his own sergeant”).
As Yap and Korty recount it, nothing at Tule Lake rose to the level of trouble that Korty had faced the previous year in filming The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in the deep South. There, Korty said, one adjacent property owner showed his dislike for the production by revving a motorcycle during filming, and then by ostentatiously wearing a gun on his hip.
Yap describes the main production difficulties as similar to those of any filming location: disruption, dirt, telling people not to park where they normally did—the hassles when “Hollywood just came to town.” Complaints, he said, were mainly at the level of annoyance. Korty noted there were no fires or loud noises in the production. And Yap said, “We dropped a lot of money,” for example, by buying hardware for the set. And by filling every motel and trailer park in the area with cast and crew and extras.
Revisiting the film
After its first release as a TV movie, the Manzanar film had a difficult journey back to prominence.
It was first re-released to California public schools in a project begun during the politically tense last months of 2001 and partly funded by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Project. According to Korty, the major mover of that re-release was Carole Hayashino, then a professor at San Francisco State University and politically active in Marin County. Korty said Hayashino heard him complain that Universal wouldn’t spend the money to release the film and was “just sitting on it.” Hayashino took the problem to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, who intervened with Universal. He helped arrange a distribution of 10,000 copies of the film to California schools.
A more recent general re-release of the film was welcomed in 2011 and 2012 by interviews, events, and public conversations. Too late for some of the film participants to join in, but in time for a lot of important memories to emerge.
As of 2012, Barbara Parker was saying she hoped to turn her notes and photos from the Manzanar set into a published work. Unfortunately, she was unable to prepare them for publication before her death. By the kind permission of Mr. Narita some of her pictures are included with this article. All of the photos from the location filming are now being digitized at Densho.org with plans to make them available online towards the end of the summer.
It’s likely as the National Park Service and others begin to work more formally on curation regarding Tule Lake’s history that more stories and images from the Manzanar filming will emerge. Viewed from a greater distance in time than the 30 years between the war and the film, the Manzanar production is already recognizable as a landmark in Tule Lake’s continuing story.
* Farewell to Manzanar is available on DVD at the Japanese American National Museum Store >>
© 2015 Martha Bridegam and Laurie Shigekuni
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Martha Bridegam
Martha Bridegam is a lawyer and freelance writer in San Francisco. For several years she was a part-time estate planning attorney with the law office of Laurie Shigekuni & Associates. She first visited the Tule Lake Segregation Center site in 1993 as an intern with a legal aid office and has returned since then to research the history and context of the site. Her Web site is at marthabridegam.com.
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Laurie Shigekuni is the principal attorney at the law office of Laurie Shigekuni & Associates, a firm that practices estate planning, trust administration, probate, elder law and Medi-Cal long term care law. (See www.calestateplanning.com.) Her lifelong interest in Nikkei issues has been influenced by the activism of her father, Phillip Shigekuni, who was instrumental in the redress movement, and the community leadership of her aunt, Akemi Kikumura Yano, a founder of Discover Nikkei and the former executive director of the Japanese American National Museum. She is a guest writer for the “Senior Moments” column in The Rafu Shimpo and a former contributing columnist for the Hokubei Mainichi.
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A foreigner’s view on Scottish independence
Not that anyone in Scotland should give a damn about it...
I’m not British so in theory there is no reason why I should be bothering giving an opinion on whether a foreign country splits into two or not. To my benefit, I am completely unbiased and ambivalent about the matter, not least because my own country (Mexico) thankfully does not have a simmering secessionist movement. On one hand, I sympathize with the desire of many Scots to see their country independent; they are, after all a distinct ethnicity and some of them (particularly the Glaswegian sort) speak in a language that at least to these Mexican ears sounds completely unlike English. On the other hand, I truly wonder whether the differences between Scots and Englishmen are truly irreconcilable, and that separation is the only solution to this 300 year Union which, to be fair, has mostly worked out quite well for both sides: England has benefited enormously from Scottish ingenuity and industriousness while Scotland has profited from its attachment to a former imperial power, which to this day remains one of the world’s largest, richest and most sophisticated economies.
I don’t have a particularly structured idea of how to proceed with this piece so I’ll just dish out some of my thoughts on the matter at random.
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The economic argument is pure fearmongering. The No campaign is fundamentally based on the economic arguments and these in turn, are based on fear. Fear that a newly independent Scotland will collapse like a deck of cards amid all the unanswered questions over its economic viability. What currency will it adopt? Will it turn into a fiscal disaster? How ill oil revenues be shared? How many companies will end up relocating? These are not questions to be taken lightly. But although Scotland’s economic problems are real, they are not at all insurmountable. Certainly the economic argument has not stopped any other recently independent country from taking the plunge, despite most of these countries having a fraction of the government efficiency and institutional strength that Scotland would boast. I mean seriously, if East Timor and Kosovo can pull it off, it is absolutely ludicrous to think that Scotland can’t, especially considering that this is a country with no shortage of capable economists, bureaucrats and thinkers. These people invented modern economics, for fuck’s sake.
The No campaign has been incredibly patronizing. Where to even begin. Perhaps with the “No Thanks” that is emblazoned on the No vote’s propaganda. No thanks? That somehow suggests that you don’t want something that by reasonable assumption you should. Want dessert? “No thanks”. Want a kick in the bollocks? Nobody with any sort of self respect would say “no thanks“ to that. The funny thing is that no other reply could possibly be more, ehem, English: exaggerated politeness that hides smug condescension. More pathetic is the way that the leaders of the main political parties (ehem, English political parties) have recently gone north of the border to fill buckets with their crocodile tears, and cave in to the plan B that should have been plan A all along: maximum devolution into a quasi-federalist state whereby Scotland would mostly be able to run their own affairs. I truly doubt the Yes vote would be neck and neck at such a late stage of the game if this had been on the menu from the start. As it is, it is an incredibly insulting gesture that is more a sign of last-minute desperation that anything else.
Scotland is not bound to Britain the way England is. Ask most people around the world, and the terms English and British are interchangeable. Many people are actually surprised that England has its own flag. Call this geographical and cultural ignorance but it does reveal the inability of England to create a distinct identity to that of Britain, mostly because dominant groups inevitably end up monopolizing the identity of the larger whole they belong to. In this recent debate about “Britishness” and quintessential British values, I struggle to identify one which couldn’t be used to describe England alone which is why I find it hilarious when I read about people demanding an English parliament: this idea is as asinine as having fashion magazines for white people, or a straight pride parade. As such, Scottish identity is powerful enough that it has a case for deserving its sovereignty. After all, if British people can’t even come to terms on what are the fundamental values of “Britishness” that separate it from “Englishness”, then it clear that there is absolutely nothing British about being Scottish aside from a shared history as a nation-state.
The idea that England has screwed over Scotland is misleading. The Yes campaign seems to suggest that Scotland has somehow been economically screwed over by England, particularly in the last 35 years from the onset of Thatcherism. True, the structural change in the UK economy since has led to a decline in those industries that had previously been Scotland’s strengths such as manufacturing and shipbuilding. But those have also been decimated south of the border so at least the pain has been shared. Then, the claim that Scotland has somehow lost out to the financial primacy of London and south-east England also doesn’t hold strength. Scotland did pretty darned well at beefing up and then mismanaging its own banks in the years before the financial crisis, as is the case of RBS and HBOS. Let’s not conveniently forget how HBOS was actually merged in a government-sponsored shotgun wedding to an English bank (Lloyds TSB) in order to save itself – and almost ended ruining the latter. Surely Scots themselves deserve some share of the blame for the UK’s 2007-08 banking meltdown.
You can’t judge the last 30 years without thinking of the last 300 years. The Union which brought Scotland and England together took place in 1706, not in 1979. It has mostly worked quite well for both peoples. Scotland was not conquered through strength of the sword (although it did have some elements of a hostile merger). Nor was it a poor, peasant Catholic country controlled by a foreign landed gentry that leeched its resources for the profit of the crown, an arrangement that led to a borderline-genocidal famine (in other words, it is not Ireland). For the most part, the Union has been one of near-equals despite the gross disparity in population and military power which favors England. If Scots feel that their natural liberal values are fundamentally at odds with the “Tory toffs” in Whitehall, does this justify suddenly breaking away? This would be akin to California or Massachusetts demanding independence whenever the Republicans control the White House. That is, unless you believe that Whitehall’s politics and economic policy-making are broken beyond repair…
… and on this last point lies my verdict. The nationalist in me leans towards independence if only because I have such a pessimistic view on the UK’s future that I’d rather risk sinking in my own ship. Forging a new country is a daunting yet exciting challenge that could well end up being surprisingly successful if the newly Scottish government puts pragmatism at the fore and works constructively to solve the many economic questions that it has so far failed to convincingly address. After all, the Tories may be kicked out of office next year but if the other options are “New Old” Labour and UKIP, then we still have a problem. You can’t blame the Scots for preferring to deal with their own mess.
That said, my preference would not be a strong one and I do not fundamentally disagree with those who believe that the two peoples are better together. In fact, I genuinely feel that the federalism option is the best one: to use the oft repeated relationship analogy, it would neither be a broken marriage nor an ugly divorce but more like some form of cohabitation with both sides open to shagging other people to let off steam (does this make any sense at all???). I guess in the end, I’ll abstain. Which is convenient since my Mexican ass can’t vote in the first place…
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WalkMe acquires DeepUI to go deeper into user behavior
When WalkMe started out, theirs was a simple kind of a proposition: they helped drive software adoption by offering contextual guidance within applications. Instead of having to refer to an instruction manual or some other third-party offering, for example, users would have WalkMe-generated advice pop up within the application itself.
Increasingly, however, the art (or, perhaps, science) of refining user interfaces and software design has become ever more complex and, in turn, WalkMe has built out the complexity of its offering to meet these more complex demands. An acquisition being announced today takes the company further on this journey. WalkMe is acquiring DeepUI, a startup company that has, until now, been operating in stealth.
DeepUI has patented some technologies that allow it to understand user interactions at the user interface level. DeepUI then aggregates this data across the many different users a piece of software might have and applies some smarts to that data in order to intuit individual user’s needs, create step-by-step guidance and generally complete required tasks faster.
DeepUI seems to be a similar proposition to HotJar, another company that delivers scary levels of insights into website visitor behavior. It is almost terrifying to watch companies like these display, in real time, where users to a website are clicking, scrolling and generally consuming content – it is the ultimate in the realization of George Orwell’s Big brother prognostications.
Outside of the 1984 references, the utility of this sort of offering makes total sense – it allows organizations to tailor their applications and user interfaces to the real-world tendencies of their users, in doing so, they can assure the highest levels of adoption and uptake.
DeepUI was actually founded back in 2014 by Dr. Ron Zohar and Moran Shemer, who together have over 35 years’ combined experience in the design and development of advanced algorithmic systems. According to WalkMe, the DeepUI team will join the broader team to help automate other parts of the digital user experience.
DeepUI is actually WalkMe’s third acquisition since the company was founded in 2011. WalkMe acquired native mobile AI startup Abbi in January 2017, and visual analytics startup Jaco in April 2017. Both technologies have been integrated into WalkMe’s digital adoption platform – and a similar fate is intended for DeepUI
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Technology like that provided by DeepUI is actually pretty scary on some levels, but outside of the anxiety, the value proposition is very clear. DeepUI will help WalkMe deliver what its customers want: a more finely customized, dynamic and responsive offering. This acquisition makes lots of sense to me.
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Chi-Raq & Spike Lee's Accidental Misogynoir
February 21, 2016 Danielle Scott-Haughton
Spike Lee is to Woke what Wiley is to Grime; The Godfather. What is “woke”? Well, it can be used as a noun or an adjective. To be woke is to be conscious or enlightened specifically about socio-political current affairs and history. At the end of School Daze [1988] Spike Lee has Morpheus shouting “Wake-Up!” as a call to action not only for the other characters, but for the audience as well. Throughout his films and documentaries Lee’s desire to encourage viewers to be conscious of the effects of colonialism, racism, segregation and police brutality, to name a few of society’s ills, have been both artistic and effective. Chi-Raq is no different. It is a beautiful, powerful, heart breaking retelling of Lysistrata, the Greek satire by Aristophanes. In all his hyperconsciousness, one subject slipped past him in creating Chi-Raq- misogynoir.
Trudy (@TheTrudz on Twitter) developed the lexical definition of misogynoir for GradientLair.com, in it she explains that misogynoir describes how racism and anti-blackness alter the experience of misogyny for black women, specifically. Chi-Raq is the story of how Lysistrata, played by Teyonah Parris, encourages the women in relationships with members of rival gangs to go on a sex strike in order to bring about peace to the South Side of Chicago. The film is also inspired by Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize winner whose work with the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace brought Liberia’s second Civil War to an end. Gbowee’s story is chronicled in the Tribeca Film Festival winning Pray The Devil Back To Hell . You can also watch Watch Errol Morris’ insightful piece for The New York Times.
As well as an indictment of the gun control problem in Chicago, Chi-Raq at its core is a feminist statement. It is about the power women, but in this case black women specifically, have to end violence using non-violent means. Yet, of the 2 writers and 4 producers there are no women writers or producers on this film. To be a feminist you do not need to be a woman, but feminism is about the equal rights of women and the fact that no women hold positions of storytelling power in this film helps me understand how the triggering language "you little black bitch" etc made it to film.
The most talented, capable actresses perform with commanding power and presence in this film. Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson are faultless in their portrayals of mothers negatively affected by the gang violence ripping their city apart. And it is because of the ingenious casting by Kim Coleman (a black woman) that I believe Spike Lee’s misogynoir is accidental.
In the first act, Lysistrata is walking through her neighbourhood while Dolmedes [Samuel L Jackson] narrates. Dolmedes describes Teyonah Parris’ character as a “gorgeous Nubian sister. Baby so fine she made George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson wanna kiss her.” Words mean things and what i understood from Dolmedes' monologue is Lysistrata is so sexually desirable that both George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson, racist white men who murdered African American teenage boys, would ignore their racism once they lay eyes on her because of an overriding lust towards this woman. In the words of R.S – overdoing it. On EverydayFeminism.com Keseina Boom lists 4 Tired Tropes That Perfectly Identify What Misogynoir Is Boom explains that The Hypersexual Jezebel trope originates from the era of slavery. In order for white men to justify their rape of enslaved Black women, they spread the idea that Black women were sexually insatiable. In this way, any instances of sexual assault were actually just “giving them what they wanted.” Chi-Raq writers Kevin Wilmott and Spike Lee unconsciously feed into and perpetuate this dangerous stereotype about black women and our sexuality. The second act sees Lysistrata called a “nappy headed hoe” by a confederate flag boxer short wearing General and the men of the film chant “women, you need us! Do your duty and give up that booty!” It is in the third act of the film that we truly see the mastery of Wilmott and Lee’s craft fully unfold. I did not know I was watching a mystery until the reveal. We didn’t have to take the constant detours down Misogynoir Boulevard to get there. These examples of problematic language are superfluous and do nothing to add to what is an important, poignant and necessary story.
Spike Lee’s portrayal of black womanhood in this movie range from the authoritative to the broken. It is commendable especially because along with others I have long preached that black women are not a monolith. Alas it is not enough. If Quentin Tarantino is ill equipped to discuss black masculinity, Spike Lee and Kevin Wilmott are equally ill equipped discuss black feminism and sexuality; the exclusion of black women from the creative process is evidence. I am grateful to have seen black women presented in this film. But it is not enough to feature us in your conversation- let black women speak and allow us the freedom to join in the discourse especially when it pertains to us. It is possible to represent black women while also unwittingly denigrating us. With Chi-Raq we are presented with what Wilmott and Lee think black women would say while not giving us an opportunity to express the experiences of what it is like to be a black woman. Yes it is just a film but this film especially is an opportunity for activism and intersectionality. In Spike Lee’s perpetual state of wokeness somehow he missed an opportunity to include black women in the writing and producing of Chi-Raq thus missed an opportunity to authenticate his portrayal of black womanhood.
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Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Console Version Heroic Challenges
There are 32 Heroic Challenges in total, one for each Skylander.
Dark Spyro, Spyro, and Legendary Spyro all share the same challenge. Bash and Legendary Bash also share the same challenge as each other. As do Chop Chop and Legendary Chop Chop. Legendary Trigger Happy and Trigger Happy are the same too. So if you had all nine of those Skylanders you would only have four different Heroic Challenges.
The individual stat increases are as follows:
Speed +8 (6 challenges = +48)
Armor +3 (10 challenges = +30)
Crit +5 (10 challenges = +50)
Elemental +9 (6 challenges = +54)
And here is a table listing the challenges with the character that unlocks them and the type of reward.
1 Chompy Chomp-Down Warnado Elemental
2 This Bomb's for You Ghost Roaster Armor
3 Jump For It! Wrecking Ball Speed
4 Where Art Thou, Paintings Spyro Crit
5 Lair of the Giant Spiders Prism Break Crit
6 Fight, Teleport, Fight Some More! Lightning Rod Armor
7 The Three Teleporters Hex Armor
8 Stop, Sheep Thieves! Dino-Rang Armor
9 Mining for Charms Bash Crit
10 Dungeoness Creeps Cynder Crit
11 Mining is the Key Ignitor Speed
12 Mission Achomplished Stump Smash Armor
13 Pod Gauntlet Chop Chop Elemental
14 Time's A-Wastin' Sonic Boom Crit
15 Save the Purple Chompies! Drobot Speed
16 Spawner Cave Terrafin Crit
17 Arachnid Antechamber Sunburn Armor
18 Hobson's Choice Trigger Happy Speed
19 Isle of the Automatons Eruptor Elemental
20 You Break It, You Buy It! Double Trouble Speed
21 Minefield Mishap Stealth Elf Speed
22 Lobs O' Fun Whirlwind Crit
23 Spell Punked! Voodood Armor
24 Charm Hunt Wham-Shell Crit
25 Flip the Script Camo Armor
26 You've Stolen My Hearts! Zook Crit
27 Bombs to the Walls Flameslinger Elemental
28 Operation: Sheep Freedom Boomer Crit
29 Jailbreak! Gill Grunt Armor
30 Environmentally Unfriendly Drill Sergeant Elemental
31 Chemical Cleanup Slam Bam Elemental
32 Break the Cats Zap Armor
Please note that the following guides are written for the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360/PC versions of the game and so may be inaccurate for the Wii versions of the challenges.
1: Chompy Chomp-Down
Race around the mine and kill 100 enemies, the only snag being there are pretty much only two or three spare enemies in the entire level so you can't afford to miss any. Luckily they don't appear to be randomly placed so you can easily plot a consistent path through the level to get them all in time without fruitless searching.
First kill the enemies near the start, then head down the ramp and up the square slope at the other end. Drop off to the left and make your way up to the largest room of the level. Make your way to the far corner and use the teleporter in the little room there. Go north and then left, north past the single square pillar to below the large room. Then go right and attack the enemies near the second teleporter. Go through, drop down and then go up the slope before going left into the final room with three pillars in.
2: This Bomb's for You
Roam the dungeon searching for the five Singing Gems, you'll need to use a lot of bombs to blow up the walls. The teleporters in this level are essential as two of the gems are on small circular platforms that are otherwise unreachable. You'll need to double back for bombs in a few spots and cover some of the same ground a few times, but there's plenty of time on the clock so you shouldn't find it too difficult. Unless you get lost.
3: Jump for It!
The mines are filled with bounce pads, the tokens you're looking for are floating in the air above them. The game only suggests getting the key but it is actually mandatory as there aren't quite enough of the tokens outside of the locked room to finish otherwise (there are 17 in the room). The teleporters are fairly useful and are perfectly positioned to help you clear the level quickly. If you're having a bit of trouble jumping over the fences remember that you can just smash through them.
From the start go up to the right, along the corridor and then up to the top of a ramp that spirals down. In that room grab the three charms above the extra large bounce pad, head up the ramp and grab the three on the next one as well as in the air between the two. Use the teleporter and then bounce up to the key in the alcove. Turn around and go up the slope, go right at the top and get the charms from the large bounce pad before turning around again and going down to the left into the three pillar room. Take the teleporter in there and then immediately take the teleporter where you appear. Go up the slope into the large room and open the locked door. That should be exactly enough charms to finish.
4: Where Art Thou, Paintings
Unlocked by Spyro, Dark Spyro, or Legendary Spyro. This gives you +5 Critical Hit if you manage to complete it in time.
Your task here is to destroy six paintings that are dotted around a slightly modified Cadaverous Crypt. To do that you'll need to work your way through unlocking gates and defeating/avoiding enemies in your way, if you don't have a fire attack the Zombies can get quite overwhelming if you're not careful.
Some of the doors you can open from the wrong side, but the door to the small section with a teleporter and a painting inside can only be opened from the inside. To get in there you have to use the other teleporter.
You can do this several ways but here's a route that will definitely work. At the start go forwards and pick up the key at the junction, continue straight on past a Goliath and smash the first paiting that's on the wall. It's next to a locked gate, do not go through that locked gate. Instead go back to the junction and go up the steps, unlock that gate and go left along the tracks. On the top wall is a second painting, there's a key in the room south of it, continue left then down and at the locked gate (do not open) go left and into a teleporter.
Smash the painting at the northern end of this room and open the gate on the left, move forwards and next to the steps is the fourth painting. Go up the steps and then south to an area with two Gargantulas at either side, smash the paiting behind the one on the left. Go north to a crossroads with two locked gates to the right and up, to the left is the last painting.
5: Lair of the Giant Spiders
Unlocked by Prism Break. This gives you +5 Critical Hit if you manage to complete it in time.
The mine is filled with rocks and blocks and crystals that are in your way. An Earth Skylander will be well suited to this level as it will be able to simply smash through the rocks wihtout a pickaxe and Prism Break will as well be able to go through the crystals that are permanent blockages for everybody else. Here's a path for those Skylanders without that ability.
Push the bottom block once to the right, the upper one up twice. At the top push the one on the right to the right twice, then the block below that down once. Push the block to its right right twice and then the block above it up once. Simple. Go right and you'll find the first of the Gargantulas sitting on a wooden section. Walk on top of the blocks to its right and push one down into a gap.
Continue straight along the blocks and drop off to where there's another block you can push to the right, push it twice and then go up around it to the second Gargantula. From there go to the right past some rocks and go north down a slope to some water, there's the third Gargantula on the right. Bounce up to a teleporter and then push the northern block to the right twice. Push the next block down once, then the next one once as well, and finally that fourth block down twice to reach the fourth Gargantula.
Walk around the blocks to a teleporter and then go down the wooden slope to the left, in the top left corner is the fifth Gargantula. In the bottom left is a bounce pad that will take you up onto a wooden section with two rocks, smash through those rocks to reach that sixth and final Gargantula.
6: Fight, Teleport, Fight Some More!
There is a glitch with this challenge on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions where the end item does not appear leaving you unable to win. To solve it you will need to start a new game (no need to delete your old one unless you're out of room), advance through the story until you rescue Cali, claim ownership of Lightning Rod on that save and then you should be able to complete it with any character.
The challenge itself is in the dungeon, you need to kill all of the enemies in the room before a teleporter appears, certain rooms have two teleporters so you must choose which to go through. For the first choice take the left teleporter, for the second take the south one. The Tiki should be down some steps after the second choice, you don't need to kill the enemies to make it appear.
Another potential issue is how the game decides whether you've killed all the enemies in the room, sometimes it counts things outside the room, which can obviously be difficult to get. If that happens and you don't have an attack that can damage the enemy through the wall then you'll just have to restart the challenge and hope no Fire Imps annoy you next time.
7: The Three Teleporters
The key to this is simply to work out which order to use the three teleporters in. And that order is the top one, then the bottom one, then the middle one (or right, left, middle depending on your viewpoint).
8: Stop, Sheep Thieves!
To gather the sheep all you need do is kill the Rocket Imp carrying it. This can be achieved either through long-range attacks or simply bumping into it. For the slower short-range characters you may need to make use of the blocks that you find, even if it doesn't look like it'll block the entire path the Imps don't much like variation in their path and will run straight into a block that has been moved in its usual way.
The first sheep is down the slope in the watery section, if you're slow he'll get a fair distance away and have to be taken care of a little later on. Go up the next slope and then down the wooden bits to the second sheep. He'll run off to the right but not really get very far. Go up the slope to the large room with loads of blocks in, the third sheep is over the far side, you can trap him down by the rocks. After getting that jump off near the bounce pad and you'll find the fourth sheep next to a block, push that block once in the direction you can push it and then chase the sheep carrying imp around the pillar nearby.
The other block nearby is for catching the first sheep thief if you missed him earlier, push it down once and then walk around the wall that it's now touching to get the thief to bang into it.
After that use teleporter to the right which will take you down to a room with the fifth sheep in. Push the lone block twice to block off the path. The bomb in here lets you destroy the rocks, take the path down towards the water and you should find the final imp near the bounce pad.
9: Mining for Charms
Unlocked by Bash or Legendary Bash. This gives you +5 Critical Hit if you manage to complete it in time.
It's that Molekin Mine again, the place is filled with smashable rocks that you'll need to smash. Obviously Earth Skylanders will have the advantage here being able to smash through them much quicker. The ore that you're looking for is randomly placed within five of the 25 rocks in the level, they change place each time so the only tricks to the level are smashing faster, noticing when there's not an ore in there before you waste time finishing the smash, and going on an efficient route around the level.
10: Dungeoness Creeps
Another trek through the dungeon, there's very little to this one, just kill all of the enemies in the current room to move to the next and pick up the next bit of amber. The decision with the key at the start is meaningless, go whichever way you like. At the end of whichever section you choose will be a teleporter that takes you back to the start and causes the key to reappear allowing you to open the other door. And at the end of that path is a teleporter that will take you to the final piece of amber.
11: Mining is the Key
Unlocked by Ignitor. This gives you +8 Speed if you manage to complete it in time.
In each closed off section of the mines you'll find a load of rocks to break, in one of those rocks (random on each go) is a key that will open the door to the next section. The next key will be in the next section so there's no need to scour rocks once you've found the key for the nearest door. The final door requires two keys, these can be anywhere in the final room. There's plenty of time in this one.
12: Mission Achomplished
Unlocked by Stump Smash. This gives you +3 Armor if you manage to complete it in time.
Pretty straight forward, kill 100 of the Chompies in the time given. Made slightly tougher by the need to find a key in a barrel to move on past each spot. You can go either way really but once you get to the place where you have a choice in doors go through the left one, through the gate in there and then up to that massive open room that had a couple of cannons in it in the real level. There's about 68 Chompies in there which should easily finish the challenge if you've cleared the previous rooms.
The other direction also has just about enough to complete the challenge without using the teleporter that gives you the key to the other path, so it's really up to you.
13: Pod Gauntlet
Unlocked by Chop Chop. This gives you +9 Elemental Power if you manage to complete it in time.
Slow and steady wins the day here, walk carefully between the pods and try to pace yourself, there's no rush. The exploding pods can be passed by either attacking it once or twice or waiting for a couple of explosions until it pauses leaving the spot clear for a few seconds. You have plenty of time, just stand back a bit so as to not get hit when it explodes each time.
The teleporter at the end of the first section will take you down to a much easier section with just spikes to not walk over when they're coming up. When you reach some steps you'll be shown a triple locked gate, the first key is dead ahead next to one of those skeleton archers. The others are up near the gate but to the sides, behind small mazes of pods. Same procedure as earlier except even more simple as there are no exploding pods this time.
Once you've got all three keys go through the gate, the first of the next set of keys is to the left (or north when the camera rotates) next to a few enemies. Follow the track down on the right and go into each alcove on the left through another series of bouncy pods to pick up the keys there.
The last gate is at the bottom of the track, go through, past the spikes and the enemies and, once you've killed all of the enemies in the room, approach the wooden door to step into a whirlwind and finish.
14: Time's A-Wastin'
Unlocked by Sonic Boom. This gives you +5 Critical Hit if you manage to complete it in time.
In Cadaverous Crypt once again, this time you've got to find a single key in one of the many barrels strewn around the entire place. You're not given much time to start with but each enemy you kill will add a bit on. The only struggle here would be if you got lost somehow and couldn't find the end gate, which is down where the Tech Gate would be in the normal level.
15: Save the Purple Chompies!
Unlocked by Drobot. This gives you +8 Speed if you manage to complete it in time.
A fairly difficult challenge, you'll be going through Molekin Mine killing green chompies while avoiding killing purple chompies.
Unfortunately some Skylanders' upgraded attacks will make this even more difficult thanks to certain side effects, like leaving behind lava. You'll just have to be really really careful.
Don't shake off any purple chompies that bite you, this kills them. You can however use this to your advantage since the green ones don't clamp on, if there's a load of greens and or two purples surrounding you let them all attack and you'll be able to kill the rest with ease once the purples are stuck on you. You've just then got to watch your health and pick up all the food that drops as they'll continue to do damage.
The target of 100 is just about every single green chompy in there so don't leave more than one or two behind if you can help it.
First cross the large room through the middle, you'll probably wake up the three Purple Chompies in the corners as you go, try not to hit them as you kill the green ones up here. Don't leave any green ones as you cannot get back up here once you drop down (although you can lure ones near the edge). Once off the ledge try to lure the green chompies off to the left without getting close enough to annoy the purple ones a bit further left, continue straight - there's a single green down the gap to the right but three purples behind it.
Round the corner you'll now want to go down to the water and kill the chompies at the bottom, there's some purple chompies on the ledge that will probably get attracted to you as you go past so watch out in the spot where the wall blocks your vision. Back at the top of the ramp you should be able to lure the four green chompies to the right - do not go any further as the entire three pillar room is full of purple chompies and nothing else. Go left and go through the the big ramp room, there's just two more purple chompies in there before you head up the ramp and clear out the remaining passageways.
16: Spawner Cave
Unlocked by Terrafin. This gives you +5 Critical Hit if you manage to complete it in time.
There are a few spots that you can use, one is where you found Diggs standing next to a locked door. There are six Chompy Pods there, just make sure not to smash the Pods themselves and you should easily make it to 100.
Another is up where you moved two cannons along smashing crystals, there's a eight Pods there so it'll be even quicker than the other spot.
The teleporter in the level is completely useless, it just takes you back to the room where you start.
17: Arachnid Antechamber
If you know the layout of the dungeon then this should be pretty straightforward, there's no barriers or locks just enemies and the eight spiders. The teleporters are not essential, all the spiders are reachable just by running around. They might be useful for speed runs though.
18: Hobson's Choice
Unlocked by Trigger Happy. This gives you +8 Speed if you manage to complete it in time.
Here you'll be made to choose between two teleporters, choose wrong and you'll end up at a dead end with just a teleporter back to the last choice. Choose correctly and you get to choose between another two. You have to kill all the enemies in each spot before the teleporters appear, naturally. Here's the correct order to get through as quickly as possible:
Left, Left, Right, Left, Left, Right, Bottom.
The last area is much bigger than the rest and has a tank driving about, once you destroy the tank the mirror you're looking for will appear on the ground north of where you teleport in.
19: Isle of the Automatons
Unlocked by Eruptor. This gives you +9 Elemental Power if you manage to complete it in time.
The Automatons are worth 15 points each, the other types of enemies are only worth 1. In total there are three Automatons, each one has a nearby bomb that you will need to use to defeat it. The Automaton down to your left at the start requires you to push the nearby turtles so that you can reach the bomb on the block. The Automaton up on a high platform is defeated by a bomb hidden behind some trees just before the ramp up. And the third Automaton is blown up with a bomb on an island that you may need to teleport to (unless you can cross water).
You will need to kill at least one Automaton as the level only provides enough small enemies to reach a score of 63.
20: You Break It, You Buy It!
Only tough for Skylanders that have imprecise wide area of effect attacks and those with upgrades that attack things automatically. Everybody else shouldn't have too much of a problem here unless you're being a bit reckless.
There are exactly 40 enemies in the level so you are unable to skip the more dangerously situated ones. There are no teleporters, the path is simply to start at the beginning and work your way through to the end, parts of the path has been blocked off to make it so there's no loops and the main minefield is closed off completely.
21: Minefield Mishap
There's a reason you might get all confused in here, it changes around when you make certain decisions. You first have a choice to exit the main minefield by the north exit or the south exit (or the crazy east exit), whichever you choose decides where the two teleporters go to. Go north and the northern teleporter will send you down to where you'd have been if you'd gone south, the middle teleporter will then take you to teh section with the final teleporter.
Go south and the middle teleporter will take you up to the northern exit, then the northern teleporter will take you to the section with the final teleporter.
Using the third teleporter will take you back to the main minefield except now it's changed around and the Sceptre is there.
Of course there is a third more dangerous way, head east out of the main minefield over some mines and you'll find that the first two teleporters don't work. You'll have to go straight to the final teleporter over some more mines if you want to finish.
22: Lobs O' Fun
Another trip to the lagoon, this one is a lot easier for Skylanders that can attack things on a ledge above them, everyone else will need to use the bombs provided.
First off go a little down the bridge to the left, you'll see a couple of the enemy locations. Turn around and go along the bridge to the north, grab the bomb behind the tree on the next island and then return to the start and head left again. If you didn't already activate the scene your bomb will continue to count down during it (although the challenge timer pauses) and explode, go back and pick up another one. Throw the bomb at the pirate at the end and go grab another of that same bomb again.
This time from the bomb go north to another island with the second pirate, go back and grab the bomb and continue to the left of the second pirate to the third on the next island. If your Skylander isn't fast enough to make that trip don't worry, there's another bomb a bit closer on the larger island to the north. Head south to the large island where there's usually a block/turtle puzzle and go down the ramp (or just off the ledge) to the left. There you'll find a bomb and a fourth pirate. Take the bomb again and head back up the ramp and then up the ramp on the northern edge to blow up your fifth pirate.
Now head north twice to another large island, there's a bomb to the right to blow up the pirate standing on the platform directly in front of the bridge you just crossed. Go right over the bridge, pick up the bomb to the north behind the large palm tree and blow up the pirate to your right. Grab the bomb again and head further right where there's the eighth pirate at the end. There's also a bomb on the small island over the water behind him, not all that essential. Anyway this opens up the last pirate up on the final island, go left all the way to the end where you'll be able to grab a bomb behind the palm trees at the bottom of the bridge to the last pirate.
23: Spell Punked!
There isn't much choice here, you get directed to each one. For the first Spell Punk the bomb is right at the bottom of the bridge. Once you've killed all the nearby enemies the Monster Gate will open up allowing you to the right. The bomb for the Water Spell Punk is at the very end of the island. Once you've killed that return to the location of the first punk to find the third. Bomb is in the same place. Although it may not look like a Monster Gate from this angle, you do need to kill all of the enemies.
Go up the bridge and you'll be ambushed, kill them to move on to the right where the Air Spell Punk is sitting, the bomb is right next to it. As the Fire and Earth Spell Punks are on the ground you don't need to take the bomb with you when you go up the rest of the bridges. Once you've killed the Punks and the enemies on the Earth Punk's island, the monster gate will open and allow you onto the final large island. Drop down and go further down to the beach where you'll find a bomb and a bounce pad back up. Kill all of the enemies and the final Spell Punk will appear, grab the bomb and throw it at it. And then, for some reason, pick up the book yourself.
24: Charm Hunt
There are loads of tokens here, there's around about 40 extra for those that can swim so plenty off leeway in how tidy you are. Or, if you can't swim/fly, there's still 10 more tokens than you need that you can reach. If you are next to a cannon, fire it. Swimmers can still just about make it without using any of the cannons though.
For those who can't swim here's a path. Grab the one on the island, teleport off. Bounce up onto the blocks and grab the tokens on them, jump down, cross the bridge, push the block and use the bounce pad beneath. Continue along to the end and up the bridge, fire the cannon, double back and up the bridge you just opened. Cross directly over the island and then up the ramp to the left to another cannon. Turn around and go off the other exit on the last island, follow that all the way around to the large island with the cannon on you just fired and mop up the few remaining tokens.
If you can swim then head left off the initial island, following the path of tokens obviously, and head to the right as you reach land. Fly off to an island with seven bounce pads on before turning back around and using the bounce pad on that previous island to get up and then up to a cannon at the top of a ramp. Follow the bridges around to go through where you exploded and gather your remaining tokens.
25: Flip the Script
The order that you should go through the teleporters is random each time. The only way to know which is first is to just jump right in, once you've found the correct one to start it off you should be able to work out which one to go through next. The left teleporter takes you left, the top teleporter goes south, and the right teleporter goes to the right. Don't waste too much time killing enemies, at least not on the first button, as they respawn each time you teleport.
You can just about see the barrier to one of the buttons if you go to the top corner, you'll either see a gate going up to the right off the screen or just the ground. If there's no gate then that's the first button. If there is then it's a 50/50 choice between the other two teleporters. So if you then take the left teleporter you should be able to tell immediately if you've chosen correctly as the button to the south should be blocked off to its left.
26: You've Stolen My Hearts
Now to catch some thieves. If you're slow you'll get trapped on the first island, once you kill the residents the gate should open to let you through. Push the turtle so that it blocks the bridge and then go futher left to chase the thief. He'll double back and run into the turtle. The gate at the far left will open upon grabbing the heart. Up the slope, warning you can get stuck up here if you mess up getting the thief first time. Go around the left edge to bump into it while it's still on the island (it should get stuck), the gate doesn't reopen once it closes and there's no other way off.
After grabbing the second heart the middle path opens, go up it and you'll see the thief. It'll head off to the right, follow along the bridges and you'll get it. It may double back if you miss it on the last platform but it'll then double back again along a bridge you're walking on. I think the idea is to push the turtle into place and go all the way around but that's kind of unnecessary. Go onto the final large island and kill all of the enemies there. This will open up the ramp to the fourth Heart, a thief will take it. Chase him around and down onto the bounce pads where you should easily catch him.
27: Bombs to the Walls
There are a few extra tokens about the place, but only a few. To get started head up to the left and grab a bomb, throw it at the wall nearest and use the teleporter in there. Use the bomb you pick up to blow up the wall to the south, then bounce off the platform and stand on the button to open up the gate to the right. Grab the tokens in there and then head back out and go left all the way to a teleporter.
Go up the steps and grab the bomb, throw it at the wall directly beneath you and go through to collect the tokens in there. Go back out and use the teleporter next to the bomb. Grab the tokens and take the teleporter, then immediately take the teleporter you end up next to again. Bounce off and then head down to the right to pick up your final few tokens.
28: Operation: Sheep Freedom
Time to rescue a few sheep. Go up to the left from the start and you'll see the first of the sheep behind a fence. Although there are several sheep they only count as one of your seven. Go back down the to the right and then head up to the right from where you started. Take the first left and make your way up the stone steps to the second sheep pen. Go down to the right, the third lot are on the left side before the end. Continue right and then up where the fourth set is stuck. Go left and then take the first left where the fifth lot of sheep are.
Continue on up to the left, the first right will be where the sixth sheep are. And then go a fair distance left to reach the last herd. To finish off all you need to do is enter the minefield section of the level, from where you are that's just to your right.
29: Jailbreak
The first key is found inside a barrel at the top of the bridge, head down it and you'll find the first cage to the right next to another bridge. If you push the nearby turtle up one space you will reveal a bounce pad, use it to get up onto the platform and open up a barrel with another key inside. The corresponding cage (although they do all fit any cage) is down to the right.
Head right over the bridge and push the turtles to get the key hidden at the back. Go through them to get to the cage on the other side. After freeing the third Mabu jump into the teleporter to the right. That'll whisk you back to the central bridge. Go up it and straight across to the larger island. Drop down the left side and push the bottom turtle to the left once, this will reveal a bounce pad that you can use to get up onto the other turtles to walk along to a key at the end. Open the cage next to you.
Go back up the slope and head to the right. Push the right turtle once down, then the left turtle to the left. Beneath it is a bounce pad that will let you get up to the Chucker on the block. Kill it for a key. Push the remaining turtle to the right to reveal another bounce pad. Bounce up to the fifth cage. Walk along the bridge and onto a smaller island, head north pushing the turtles out of the way. In one of the barrels to the right of the next bridge is your last key. Take it down to the final island where the last cage is.
Flyers/swimmers can also find a seventh cage and key on the two islands you never went to. From the third head south over the water instead of taking the teleporter. There you'll find the cage and a teleporter. Push the end turtle out of the way to find a bounce pad that'll let you reach the key on the middle turtle. If you then push the left turtle you'll find a teleporter back to the cage. From there head north over the water and into the teleporter you passed earlier. It might save you a little bit of time getting that sixth cage.
30: Environmentally Unfriendly
Smash the pipes next to you as you start. Then head up to the left where there's a key on the floor. Continue going left and attack a Gun Snout, behind it is the second pipe. Turn and go down to the left, unlock the gate to head onto the minefield. Go around the mines and smash the pipes to the left of the door you just used. Down from there is a key and a teleporter to use. From the teleporter destination smash the pipes to the right before going down to smash the fifth one at the bottom of the map. Use your key on the locked door up to the right and then head up the first left all the way to a Tech Spell Punk and a Gun Snout guarding the final two pipes (one of which may have been accidentally shot by the Gun Snout earlier).
31: Chemical Cleanup
There are many many more barrels than you will need in this level and there are plenty of ways through. Here's the basics; you can only smash the small barrels or travel through a teleporter if you are the same colour as them, and to get doused in a colour you smash a large barrel. Large barrels also each count as 5 of your target 150, the smaller ones (indestrucible if you're not the matching colour) count for one.
There are many ways to do this but here's one that I like. Go through the blue teleporter after smashing the nearby barrel and then smash the large green barrel to let you smash the small green barrels surrounding the green teleporter. This will take you back to the first island but with a different layout. Now there are four teleporters, a green, a yellow and two blues (the two blues both go to the same spot for some reason but that's not important for this path). Go through the yellow teleporter and then up the bridge to an island. Smash all the yellow barrels, then hit the large blue one and continue south to another small island filled with blue barrels. Use the blue teleporter and go left along the bridge and then down off the ledge.
Make sure to hit the large blue barrel at the top edge (despite already being blue) before smashing the large green barrel on the beach to the left behind the blue barrels. Go back up and wipe out all the greens up here, head over the bridge to the north where the blue barrel was previously and go to the right ignoring the yellow barrels. Go through the teleporter and smash up the green barrels before going back into the teleporter and cleaning that previous island of yellow barrels by hitting the large one at the top of it. That should bring you to 150.
32: Break the Cats
Breaking a vase simply takes 10 seconds away from your time, you won't get a failure unless you really go nuts smashing them. The first cat statue is directly ahead right in front of a teleporter. The teleporter just takes you across the water, go along to the left and you'll find cat number two next to the bridge off the island behind a Goliath. Cross the bridge and the third is just at the end of it. Past that is a bomb that you can use to throw at the fourth cat up on the platform. Smash through a Chompy Pod to go up the bridge at the far end, the other one is filled with vases. At the top you'll find a teleporter.
On the left side of the island is the cat right behind a pair of vases, once you've got that use the teleporter to the south-east. Use the bounce pad to pick up a bomb behind a wall of vases and drop back down, go up the slope and throw (or just stand next to) a cat up on a ledge to the right. Once that's blown up go up the ramp through a load of vases to another cat at the top. Jump back off and cross the bridge headed north, another cat waits next to the tree. Go through the vases to the right following the bridge to another island, then again to one last one with the final cat hiding behind the tree on the right.
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#15 spyro1691 13:36:17 21/01/2013
VV I completed that one even with zaps upgrades, that my friends, is SKILL!
#14 TK-949 07:14:04 19/01/2013
I'm currently trying to do all heroic challenges with all 37 characters. As of now, I have to reset Eruptor (he can't do "Save the Purple Chompies!", because the suicidal purple ones always run into the fire he leaves) and Lightning Rod (because of the clouds surrounding him he breaks almost every vase in "Break the Cats". Stupid Cali, why is she using the islands as a warehouse for her vases anyway?).
But this is an awesome guide, thanks Dark.
#13 mega spyro 16:45:53 15/11/2012
WANING: if you do 's challange before you pick a path you can make it but after you do the bouncing lightning upgrade you will always brake a vase!!!
#12 Dragonaut 12:05:34 05/11/2012
I think with Lighting Rod's challenge complete with all the characters before completing the Quicksliver Vault chapter and with the tough challenges Drobot's complete them before getting any upgrades than it shouldn't be a problem.
#11 Spygiltrig4356 20:15:33 14/10/2012
Uhhhhh.... I think when I do a certain challenge I don't kow which, my wii starts to glitch its like zzzzzzttttttttttt. Maybe I've been playing paper mario to much.
#10 whirlwind fan 11:28:20 30/08/2012
wow! awesome page it really helps and shows a lot :)
#9 bash fan 13:12:21 29/08/2012
Wow! I just noticed this page today, great effort dark52!
#8 Giants wanter 16:49:41 07/08/2012
when i play isle of the automatons my game freezes does enyone know why.
#7 GigaCamo 01:42:09 02/08/2012
Dark52 rules with the site
#6 madizy22 13:48:16 30/07/2012
Where was this when i needed it for the Heroic challenges?!?!?!
#5 sonic boom1 19:57:14 21/07/2012
#4 t7gga 23:05:25 19/07/2012
big thanks for taking the time to do these
#3 sykotek 22:53:59 19/07/2012
Wow, when did this page go up? That's a lot of work put into this! Map and suggested route for every challenge...keep up the good work dark52!
#2 Iganagor 06:23:42 12/07/2012
s challenge is hard when you ghost roaster because the ghost attack all chompies (including purple)
#1 warnado745 13:59:01 09/07/2012
awesome a heroic challenge page, this will help
Thanks Dark
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PeopleArtistsA First Time in Montreal for Mura Masa
A First Time in Montreal for Mura Masa
August 4, 2017 • Artists, Music, Shows
Last night at the Corona Theater was the first Montreal concert by newcomer Mura Masa. The young artist, who is barely 21 years old and whose album came out a mere two weeks ago, managed to draw in quite the crowd. The excitement was palpable as people waited restlessly for the show to begin.
The opening act was provided by Kucka, a little-known Australian artist, whose music is reminiscent of Lykke Li, Zella Day and Aluna George. Although she was dealing with some visible technical issues, her music was catchy and her voice was sensual. Unfortunately her stage presence still needs work; her oversize clothes seemed to be swallowing her whole and her at-times nervous dance moves clashed with the feel of her music. It will be interesting to catch her in concert a few years from now, once her act will be a little bit more polished with experience.
After an hour of opening act, the patient crowd was finally rewarded with the arrival of Mura Masa, sliding discreetly unto the stage and going straight for his computer and instruments, notably his beloved steel drums, propped on a clear acrylic booth. He doesn’t say a word but instead starts layering a beat that everybody recognizes immediately: the incredibly well-received Love$ick. The singer steps on stage and completely captivates the audience’s attention with her energy, her stage presence and the sway of her body. If he’s reserved, she’s explosive: we want nothing more than to keep watching her.
Opening with your biggest hit is a gamble; there’s a chance it’s all downhill from here. The gamble pays off though: people dance with energy, smiles stamped on their faces, for the rest of the show, which goes on for a little over an hour and ends with What If I Go. When they exit the stage, with a soft “Thank you guys so much”, the crowd goes wild, crying out for an encore. They quickly come back onstage, offering one last song. The singer exits the stage, then it’s Alex’s turn, picking up his water bottle and his towel, catching one last glimpse of the crowd and disappearing backstage.
All in all a very enjoyable show, especially from an artist who is just starting out. The singer has a lot to do with it, as she carries the energy of the music throughout the performance, letting loose on stage and seducing the crowd, arms wide open and hair dancing in the air, while Mura Masa remains behind his instruments, seemingly satisfied just to get people vibing. The duality works; I’m already excited for the next tour.
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Posted on September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Nikkei: This year, the country released a first of its kind national survey that highlighted the extent of housing discrimination foreigners face. According to the study, released by the Ministry of Justice in March, out of 2,044 foreign residents who had sought housing within the past five years, 39.3% reported being turned down because they were not Japanese.
The impact is now being felt by employers. In recent years, numerous Japanese manufacturers and services have been trying to make up for the country’s shrinking labor force by looking elsewhere for workers. They want to create an inflow of talent, but housing discrimination could become a dam. As of last October, Japan had 1.08 million foreign workers, up 58% from five years earlier, accounting for around 2% of the total workforce, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. […]
The IT industry is suffering from a significant labor shortage, and the consultancy was acutely aware of the discrimination problem last year when it welcomed a systems engineer from the Philippines. To dodge any hassles, the company consulted a property agent that caters to foreigners, whom industry players describe as an “underwhelming minority” in Tokyo. Even real estate agencies with experience helping foreigners run into the same problem: “Almost nine of 10 private housing units in Tokyo do not allow foreign tenants,” according to Masao Ogino, CEO of the Ichii Group. “It is still an extremely exclusive market.”
Tsuyoshi Yamada, a human resources manager at Total OA Systems, said a lack of sufficient support for non-Japanese employees, including in regard to housing, could throw a hurdle up in front of the company’s plan to bring in overseas talent. This concern is particularly strong for smaller IT companies like Yamada’s. “Even if we finally find a promising engineer,” he said, “retention could become a problem.”
"Embedded Racism", Anti-discrimination templates/meetings, Bad Business Practices, Gaiatsu, Human Rights, Japanese Government, Labor issues, Problematic Foreign Treatment, SITYS
Kyodo: Ryukoku U exchange student denied “No Foreigner” Kyoto apartment in 2013; MOJ in 2015 decides it’s not a violation of human rights!
Posted on April 12, 2015 April 12, 2015 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
47News.jp (article below) reports that the Ministry of Justice Legal Affairs Bureau has refused to acknowledge “No Foreigners” apartments as a violation of human rights. This is the outcome of a case back in 2013, where an exchange student at Ryuukoku University was denied a flat despite going through the Student Union, and he took it to the Bureau of Human Rights for the official word on the subject. More than two years later (presumably the poor chap wasn’t living on the street in the interim), the MOJ determined that the foreigner-averse landlord had not violated anyone’s human rights, refusing to elaborate further. Great. Job well done and great precedent set, BOHR.
Two things of note: One is a media bias. Note how once again the 47News.jp article portrays the issue incorrectly in this scan of the sidebar illustration: It’s not “Foreigner Discrimination” (gaikokujin sabetsu no jirei). It’s racial discrimination, because the first case they cite (the Otaru Onsens Case in 1999) eventually has a Japanese being refused too. Yet the Japanese media will almost always refuse to undermine the incorrect narrative that racial discrimination never happens in Japan.
Second thing is that Japan’s generally ineffective Potemkin Bureau of Human Rights (jinken yougobu) has a long history of blind-eyeing the very thing it’s charged with protecting against. As further evidence of its ineffectuality – even complicity with discriminators – here is an example where the Sapporo BOHR advised a local government (Otaru) that it has no legal obligation to pass ordinance against racial discrimination, only suggesting that the city make such an ordinance if it considers it necessary. This is a scan of a BOHR document from my book “Japanese Only: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan” (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten) , pg. 347 in the English version:
Further, the BOHR has denied information to claimants on the pretext of protecting claimants from their own privacy, so I wholeheartedly agree with the exchange student’s complaints about the lack of transparency. So this latest event of saying a blanket exclusionary policy as not a violation of human rights is but one more example to record on Debito.org for posterity.
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PS on Gaijin Card Checkpoint at his apartment — Immigration doing door-to-door checks, using physical force (photos included)
Posted on January 27, 2012 January 27, 2012 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Something I’ve noticed about Japan’s anti-crime campaigns: 1) These campaigns are not temporary (as in, “the campaign expires on this date”), meaning inevitable future crackdowns are cumulative (see for example here and here), 2) they quickly take on a racist bent (as NJ are officially depicted as more likely to commit crime, or even just be criminals by existing, as potential “illegal visa overstayers”) and encourage racial profiling in practice (see here and here), and 3) a general lack of legal oversight over the Japanese police means the cops go too far, bending laws (see for example here and here) and in this case targeting politically-disenfranchised people (NJ) who can’t fight back through the system or the media, or even through their political representative (who are basically in on the gaijin bashing for political capital and budgetary gain).
These are all elements of a police state, and the systematic mistrust of foreigners in Japan enables the bureaucracy to carry out in microcosm what Submitter PS (a pseudonym) reports below. Fortunately this time, PS had the presence of mind to take photographs of these toughs from Immigration, who clearly felt their need to police gaijin overrode their need to treat people with respect and dignity (not to mention without resorting to physical force and with due process under the law).
Submitter PS: My name is PS. I’m a 45-year-old American living and working in Tokyo, where I’ve resided for the last 8 and a half years. I have a valid working visa, pay my Japanese taxes (both national and local), and have never had any unpleasant encounters with the authorities; that is, until last Thursday, Jan. 19. It’s something that I think you should know about.
That morning, an Immigration official showed up at the door of my apartment, unannounced, and demanded to see my passport. I was very suspicious that Immigration (not the police) would make a sudden home visit to do a spot-check, especially since I’ve lived in the same apartment since 2003, and since my address has been registered with the Shinagawa Ward office for over 8 years. Anyway, I asked this gentleman to show me his badge so that I could write down his name and badge number. He quickly flashed me some ID, but I pointed out that I didn’t have the opportunity to see, much less write down, the details. In a belligerent tone, he said in English, “Passport first!” I refused, bid him a good day, and started to close my door. It was at this point that things got out of hand.
The aforementioned gentleman physically blocked my door from closing, and we got into a shoving match that led to my door getting knocked off its tracks. Then, suddenly, four of his associates (2 men and 2 women), who’d apparently been hiding in the stairwell, appeared en masse. Things continued to verbally escalate, though with no further physicality, until one of them finally relented and let me take a photo of his badge. I took the further liberty of photographing the three “men” who were harassing me. The photos are attached. The person wearing the surgical mask in Photos #2 and 3 is the one with whom I tussled. The name stitched on his uniform was “S. Maeda.”…
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Way cool Coldwell Banker SAPPORO SOURCE advertisement offering assistance with NJ apartment searches
Posted on December 2, 2009 December 7, 2009 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
I found a really open-minded real estate agent in Sapporo advertising on the back cover of the latest SAPPORO SOURCE magazine. They promise bilinguality in negotiations and paperwork, full explanations, full disclosure of properties on offer, and full service. They’ll even help with guarantorship, regardless of nationality. Excellent. Give this place some business and let it be a template for how realtors should behave in Japan. Scan of the advertisement enclosed.
Anti-discrimination templates/meetings, Good News, Media, Practical advice
“Tokyo Reader” on odd rental contracts for apartments: “lease” vs. “loan for use”? Plus Kyoutaku escrow for disputes
Tokyo Reader: I am currently in a dialogue with company HT. Over the winter, HT looks to have lowered rents on the 1K apartments. What used to be advertised as 150,000 yen a month is now 135,000 yen. (I say “used to be advertised” because there is some evidence that different parties are paying different rents, having nothing to do with a discount system.)
Since I had been paying the higher rent, I proposed paying the new advertised price. According to the Land & House Lease Law (“LHLL”), Article 32, a tenant can propose a rent reduction when there is evidence that rents in a given neighborhood have declined. The landlord may disagree and then a mandatory arbitration panel is supposed to decide the matter.
Company HT insists that my 1K is somehow special that it requires the higher price (150,000 yen). Funny is that when I moved into the building, there was no such tiered pricing. Further, Company HT claims that my lease is not covered by the Land & House Lease Law, but rather is a “Loan for use” under Civil Code, Article 593…
Michael Fox: Can anything be done if your rent is increased unfairly? Or what if people moving into your building are paying less? Good news, there is a designated process for alleviating overcharges…
If negotiation fails, the next step is to deposit the money into escrow (kyoutaku 供託）with the local government. The papers for such procedure can be obtained from the Legal Affairs Department (Houmukyoku法務局) of your city/town office.
Anti-discrimination templates/meetings, Bad Business Practices, Japanese Government
Chosun Ilbo: Korean sues for apartment refusal, wins in Kyoto Court
Posted on October 10, 2007 June 5, 2008 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Chosun Ilbo: A Kyoto court ruled partially in favor of a Korean woman who sued a Japanese landlord for refusing to rent a room to her. A Kyoto district court ruled that refusing to rent a room to a person due to her nationality is illegal and ordered the landlord to pay the woman W8.65 million (US$1=W916) [about 110 man en, pretty much the average award in these lawsuits] in compensation.
Human Rights, Lawsuits, Problematic Foreign Treatment
Posted on June 29, 2019 June 29, 2019 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
VISA ISSUES, SOME LETHAL
1) SCMP: “Japan: now open to foreign workers, but still just as racist?” Quotes Debito.
2) Mainichi: New “open door” visa programs violate basic NJ human rights (now including marriage and children), don’t resolve cruel detention centers, and still curb actual immigration and assimilation
3) Reuters: Yet another NJ detainee dies after hunger strike after 3 years in Japan “detention center”; time for a change in labeling
4) SCMP: Japan needs thousands of foreign workers to decommission Fukushima nuclear site. High irony alert: First blame NJ, then have them clean up your deadly messes.
VISAS BEING MADE AN ISSUE
5) Yomiuri: GOJ now requiring hospitals (unlawfully) demand Gaijin Cards from NJ as a precondition for medical treatment
6) Mark: New Discriminatory Policy by Rakuten Mobile Inc., now “stricter with foreigners”, refusing even Todai MEXT Scholarship Students cellphones
7) Anonymous on Ethical Issues/Discriminatory practices being carried out by Todai and Kyodai against MEXT scholars
8 ) Kyodo: Half of foreigners in Tokyo experienced discrimination: ARIC survey
9) My Japan Times JBC 115: “Know your rights when checking in at an Airbnb” (Apr 17, 2019)
… and finally…
10) Foreign Minister Kouno Taro asks world media to use Japanese ordering of names (Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe) in overseas reportage. Actually, I agree.
Posted on June 20, 2019 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
The Mainichi updates us on how Japan’s oft-toted “wider open door” new visa regimes make sure any actual immigration is held in check, with continuing draconian and deadly treatment for detained NJ. The Mainichi calls them “haphazard immigration policies”, but that’s inaccurate. Japan still has no policy in place to encourage newcomers become immigrants (imin, i.e., firmly-established taxpaying residents and citizens). Au contraire, they’re still part of what Debito.org has called a “revolving-door” visa policy that has been in place for nearly thirty years now (what with the “Trainee” and “Technical Intern” programs that won’t even call NJ laborers “workers” (roudousha) in order to avoid granting them some legal protections), to make sure we take them in young, fresh and cheap, and spit them out when they’re too expensive or past their working prime.
For those who fall afoul of this exploitative system, they face being made an example of within cruel “gaijin tank” detention centers (which don’t fall under minimum standards covering prisons), which in effect send a deterrent message. It’s similar to what’s happening in the concentration camps now being run by the US Customs and Border Patrol (which, given that 45’s supporters are in thrall to Japan’s putative ethnostate, should not be too surprising).
As an interesting aside, the Mainichi below mentions how Japan even ethnically cleansed itself of Iranians in the 1990s, which can and will happen again. Now public policy is going one step further — trying to nip any possibility of marriage and children with Japanese. There are even bans on NJ on certain work visas having international liaisons, marriage, and children! For all the new “open-door” visas being advertised, it’s clear that NJ are still seen more as work units than human beings.
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What follows are more travails of foreign and exchange students (not to mention foreign academics employed under this system) who think that studying in Japan is like studying or working at universities in other developed countries.
Debito.org has talked about this flawed system before, as in about a decade ago, when it comes to lack of institutional support for foreign scholarships (to the point where students just give up and leave) or even having sufficient university support when being systematically rejected for an apartment for being a foreigner! Even when the GOJ signals that it wants a more “open-door policy” for more foreign students and staff, what with the Global 30 Project funding from the Ministry of Education (MEXT), the Times Higher Education reported that Japan’s “entrenched ideas hinder” that from happening. And the THE wrote that article back in 2010, meaning that nearly a decade later things still aren’t getting much better. Read on for Anonymous’s report below on the Kafkaesque ordeal he/she had just trying to transfer schools, even those anointed under MEXT’s Global 30 Project.
Forewarned is forearmed, prospective students considering Japan as a destination. Know what you’re getting into or suffer an enormous bump in the road on your way to a terminal degree in your field.
Anonymous: When I applied for an extension to transfer to the University of Kyoto, the University of Tokyo’s rival university, the University of Tokyo had full control of whether to recommend or not recommend me to MEXT. This obviously poses ethical problems, and I was pretty quick to complain to the international office. Why on earth, I asked, am I being evaluated for a scholarship selection by a university who could potentially favor its own scholarship extension applicants, and who I will not be going to next year? At the very least, the University of Kyoto should be evaluating me as it is their university that I passed and would be going to. Lo and behold, I was mysteriously rejected – mid January, and two and a half months before I was about to enter graduate school. This permanently messed up any chance I had of pursuing my graduate studies, and consequently caused numerous other problems. I was forced to scramble to find a job last minute, in order to avoid financial ruin and being deported.
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Posted on May 19, 2019 May 19, 2019 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
SCMP: Activists point out, however, that the Japanese government’s new regulations that relax visa requirements for workers from abroad mean that there will soon be tens of thousands of additional foreigners living in Japanese communities.
“It’s a net positive that Japan is bringing over more people, since that may help normalise the fact that non-Japanese are contributing to Japanese society,” said Debito Arudou, author of Embedded Racism: Japan’s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination.“ But it is disappointing that Japan still is not doing the groundwork necessary to make these newcomers want to stay and contribute permanently,” he said.
“The new visa regime still treats these non-Japanese entrants as ‘revolving-door’ workers, with no clear path to permanent residency or citizenship.“ And – as the surveys seem to indicate – one fundamental flaw in these plans is that non-Japanese are insufficiently protected from the bigotry found in all societies,” Arudou said.
“Japan still has no national law against racial discrimination, remaining the only major industrialised society without one. Even government mechanisms ostensibly charged with redressing discrimination have no enforcement power. Tokyo needs to pass the laws that make racial discrimination illegal, empower oversight organisations and create an actual immigration policy instead of a “stop-gap labour shortage visa regime”, he said.
“At the very least, tell the public that non-Japanese workers are workers like everyone else, filling a valuable role, contributing to Japanese society and are residents, taxpayers, neighbours and potential future Japanese citizens,” he added.
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Posted on May 4, 2019 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
MARK: I would like to make public a New Discriminatory Policy being implemented systematically in Rakuten Mobile. It seems that the company recently decided to deny the service to foreign customers. I have living in Japan for 2 years. When I arrived, I applied online for their service and they accepted my application immediately. This week, I tried to make a contract online for 2 friends that just came to Japan. Their online application was rejected 3 times without providing the reason. I checked everything in their application and was correct. They uploaded their scanned residence card and the quality of the image was perfect. Also the contents of the application were correct.
Hence, we went to a Rakuten Mobile Store in Ikebukuro on the afternoon of April 23. They asked for their residence cards: after seeing the residence card they denied the service arguing that the company just established new rules and are now stricter with foreigners.The 2 persons that were denied the service have a valid visa until April 2021 (2 years). They are graduate students at the University of Tokyo as me. They didn’t ask anything about the applicants. They just turned down the request based on being foreigners. I asked the reason and the lady was ashamed and said that recently the Company has began to be stricter with foreigners. I replied back saying that 2 years ago my application was accepted under the same conditions and the lady was ashamed. It seems to be a new a discriminatory policy set by a well-known company.
COMMENT: Here’s another example of how unequal treatment in customer service, when predicated upon things such as visa status (which is in fact none of the company’s business), leaves NJ open to discrimination. According to Submitter “Mark”, this is affecting people on Student Visas, where denial of service is apparently new and arbitrary. He describes his experience at Rakuten Mobile below. It’s tough enough for NJ to do the basics for life in Japan, such as open a bank account or rent an apartment. Now NJ students can’t even get a cellphone from Rakuten. Alas, this is in fact nothing new (I’ve written about NTT DoCoMo’s unequal policies before, which were so silly that they eventually abandoned them after the information came out in one of my Japan Times columns). But it still should be known about, so people can take their business elsewhere, if possible. Anyone know of an alternative cellphone company with less discriminatory policies?
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Kyodo: TOKYO (Kyodo) — Nearly half of the foreigners living in Tokyo have experienced racial discrimination, according to a survey released Tuesday by a civic group. In the survey conducted by the Anti Racism Information Center, a group organized by scholars, activists and university students, 167 of 340 respondents including students said that they have suffered discriminatory treatment such as being told not to talk in a language other than Japanese. Some working as retail shop cashiers said customers asked for Japanese cashiers, according to the face-to-face questionnaire survey conducted in February and March in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. Among them, a Nepalese man who works at a drugstore said one customer told him that he or she does not like to see a foreigner working as a cashier and asked for someone else. A Chinese respondent who works at a convenience store said that a colleague told the respondent not to speak Chinese when the respondent was asked for directions by a Chinese-speaking customer. There were also cases where foreigners had apartment rental applications rejected. Some said they were denied entry into stores, but none of the respondents took their case to a public office dealing with such issues.
COMMENT: This survey is not quite on the scale or scope of the previous Ministry of Justice one Debito.org covered (and I wrote two Japan Times columns about) in 2017, since it has a smaller sample size, has a more targeted surveyed group, and is confined to the Tokyo area. But it’s nevertheless better than the very biased one the GOJ did twelve years ago. It also deserves a mention on Debito.org as it quantifies the degree and patterns of discriminatory behavior out there. ARIC, the group doing the survey, is on the right track recording issues of domestic racism and hate speech. Let’s have more surveys in other places, and get data quantified and triangulated nationwide. Enough of these, and recorded isolated incidents eventually merge into patterns, and ultimately concretely-measured trends that justify public policy fixes.
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Now that the clicks have died down on my latest Japan Times JBC column of January 28, 2019 (thanks for putting it in the Top Ten trending articles once again), what follows is the first final draft I submitted to the Japan Times for editing on December 29, 2018. I blog this version because a lot of information is lost (inevitably) as we cut the word count from 2800 to 1600 words. (I generally put everything in the first final draft, then cut it down to fit the page; that way we don’t overlook anything and have to backtrack.)
People have been asking what got cut (and yes, the original version mentions Michael Woodford and Jeff Kingston), so the piece below is quite a bit different from what appeared in the Japan Times here (meaning it shouldn’t draw away any readers from the JT version; in fact, it will probably spur more views from readers wanting to compare). Also, having links to sources matter, so here it all is, including my regular acerbic tone.
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THE FAULTY DYNAMIC OF “NIPPON CLAIMING”
1) Japan Times JBC Col 113: “Warning to Naomi Osaka: Playing tennis for Japan can seriously shorten your career” (Sep. 19, 2018)
2) SCMP: “Tennis queen Naomi Osaka a role model, says ‘Indian’ Miss Japan Priyanka Yoshikawa”. A little more complex than that.
3) “Nippon Claimed” multiethnic tennis star Osaka Naomi gets “whitewashed” by her sponsor. Without consulting her. Compare with singer Crystal Kay.
4) Fuji TV’s “Taikyo no Shunkan”: Reality TV targeting NJ as sport. Again.
5) Japan Times officially sanitizes WWII “comfort women” and “forced laborers”. Pressure on my JT Just Be Cause column too.
6) Excellent Japan Times feature on dual citizenship in Japan: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy leaves many in the dark
GOOD NEWS?
7) Nikkei: Japanese-Brazilians snub Tokyo’s diaspora residency program, attracting exactly ZERO applications after starting 3 months ago
8 ) BBC: Fukuoka Hilton Hotel refuses entry to Cuban Ambassador due to “US sanctions”. J authorities call action “illegal”. How quaint.
HOT DISCUSSIONS ON DEBITO.ORG
9) Nikkei Asian Review: “In rural Japan, immigrants spark a rebirth”. An optimistic antidote to the regular media Gaijin Bashing
10) Senaiho on criminal complaint against Jr High School “Hair Police” in Yamanashi
11) SendaiBen on “Anytime Fitness” Sports Gym Gaijin Carding him, and how he got them to stoppit
12) JT: GOJ Cabinet approves new NJ worker visa categories. Small print: Don’t bring your families. Or try to escape.
13) Surprising survey results from Pew Research Center: Japan supportive of “immigration”
14) Pop Matters.com: Interview with Activist and Writer Debito Arudou on Foreigners’ Rights in Japan
Posted on November 10, 2018 November 10, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
JT: The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. “Creating a new residence status to accept foreign workers is of utmost importance as the nation’s population declines and businesses suffer from lack of personnel,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference on the day.
Although details remain hazy, the new bill marks a departure from previous policy in allowing foreign individuals to work in blue-collar industries for a potentially indefinite amount of time if certain conditions, such as holding a valid employment contract, are met. Yet amid concerns over whether the nation has the infrastructure and environment to accommodate an inflow of foreign workers, the government has categorically denied that the overhaul will open the doors to immigrants. “We are not adopting a policy on people who will settle permanently in the country, or so-called immigrants,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the Lower House Budget Committee on Thursday. “The new system we are creating is based on the premise that the workers will work in sectors suffering labor shortages, for a limited time, in certain cases without bringing their families.”…
COMMENT: As the JT notes, the next wave of NJ temp labor has been officially approved by the Abe Cabinet. The new statuses mostly still have the caveat of being temp, unrooted labor (bringing over families is expressly verboten). And you can qualify for something better if you manage to last, oh, ten years — around one-fifth of a person’s total productive working life. Because, as the JT reported in a follow-up article days later, time spent working under these visa statuses in particular does NOT count towards their required “working period” when applying for Permanent Residency.
Another interesting part of this article is the bit about how many Indentured “Trainee” NJ workers had “gone missing” from their generally harsh modern-slavery working conditions (4,279) so far this year, and how it might even exceed last year’s record total of 7,089. Anyway, with the news above, the GOJ looks set to invite in even more people, in even more work sectors, and with the regular “revolving-door” work status (i.e., not make immigrants out of them). Some people have gotten wise to this practice and are staying away from Japan, but I bet many won’t. Unless we let them know in venues like Debito.org.
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Posted on October 12, 2018 October 13, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Thompson: As Japan predicts a rise in the number of immigrants and foreign tourists in the coming years, a new television show has turned migrant deportations into entertainment. The program provoked some outraged viewer reactions and insights about the plight faced by visa overstayers and undocumented migrants in Japan. Taikyo no Shunkan (タイキョの瞬間) (English translation: “At the Very Moment They Were Deported”) premiered on Fuji Television in a Saturday evening prime time slot on October 6, 2018.
Using a typical reality show format, the two-hour program follows a group of so-called “G-Men”, or immigration officers, employed by the Tokyo regional office of the National Immigration Bureau as they hunt down visa overstayers and so-called “illegal aliens” (fuhotaizaisha, 不法滞在者) and squatters (fuhosenshu, 不法占有) on camera. In one segment, the immigration officers stake out the apartment of a Vietnamese man suspected of violating the conditions of his trainee visa. He and two others are arrested and interrogated on camera before being deported 24 hours later.
COMMENT: Debito.org has focussed on this kind of programming before. Consider this segment from a larger archive of broadcast media bashing NJ as terrorists and criminals, a phenomenon that gained political traction as former Tokyo Gov. Ishihara fanned the flames of xenophobia starting from around 2000. Not to mention the racist and propagandistic “Gaijin Hanzai” magazine (2007) that also seemed to be made with the cooperation of the Japanese authorities.
In the end, will there be any retractions, apologies for stereotyping, or even acknowledgments and caveats that NJ do good things in Japan too? As book Embedded Racism points out in Ch. 7, not likely. After all, NJ have so little right-of-reply in Japan’s media that bashing and blaming NJ for just about anything has long been normalized in Japan’s media. It’s simply part of standard operating practice — at the level of entertainment. Even a sport. It’s a foxhunt for gaijin.
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Posted on July 30, 2018 July 30, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
People in Japan are still accepting the antiquated notion of “race” as an abstract, biological concept. As opposed to a socially-constructed one that differs from society to society in its definitions and enforcement, or as a performative one that is created through the process of “differentiation”, “othering”, and subordination. So strong is this centuries-old belief that even Mali-born naturalized Japanese Dr. Oussouby Sacko, recently-elected president of Kyoto Seika University (congratulations!), made the bold statement in the New York Times that his differential treatment in Japan is not due to racism: “Dr. Sacko, a citizen of Japan for 16 years, says he is treated differently because he does not look Japanese. But he distinguished that from racism. ‘It’s not because you’re black,’ he said.”
Sorry, that’s not now modern definitions of racism work anymore, Dr. Sacko. Differential treatment of Visible Minorities in Japan is still a racialization process. But I guess anyone can succumb to the predominant “Japan is not racist” groupthink if it is that strong. Read the NYT article below for fuller context. But the questions remain: Is this a form of Stockholm Syndrome? A cynical attempt to parrot the narrative for the sake of professional advancement? A lack of awareness and social-science training on the part of a person, despite fluency in several languages, with a doctorate in a non-social science (engineering/architecture)? I’m open to suggestion. Especially from Dr. Sacko himself, if he’s reading.
In any case, congratulations, Dr. Sacko. But I would suggest you utilize your position also to raise awareness about the very real issues of racism in Japan, not attempt a mitigating or denialist approach.
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CHANGES IN POLICY
1) Japan lowering age of adulthood to from age 20 to 18 in 2022: Also means Japan’s dual nationals now must declare by age 20, not 22.
2) Japan Times: Preferential visa system extended to foreign 4th-generation Japanese [sic]: Allowing even NJ minors to build Olympic facilities!
3) Reuters/Asahi: New “minpaku” law stifles homesharing with tourists, on grounds insinuating foreigners are “unsafe” for children walking to school! (or ISIS terrorists)
4) JT/JIJI: Japan plans new surveillance system to centralize NJ residents’ data. (Actually, it’s to justify police budgets as crime overall continues to drop.)
POLICY NEEDED
5) NHK World: Japan’s social media “rife” with fake rumors after recent Osaka quake, including foreigner “thefts and burglaries”, “looting convenience stores”. Again.
6) Tangent: What I Learned Today #1: Hitler showed a documentary to Scandinavia, and got them to surrender in 1940.
Posted on June 30, 2018 July 24, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Reuters/Asahi: Japan’s new home-sharing law was meant to ease a shortage of hotel rooms, bring order to an unregulated market and offer more lodging options for foreign visitors ahead of next year’s Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Instead, the law is likely to stifle Airbnb Inc. and other home-sharing businesses when it is enacted in June and force many homeowners to stop offering their services, renters and experts say…
Local governments, which have final authority to regulate services in their areas, are imposing even more severe restrictions, citing security or noise concerns. For example, Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, home to the tony Ginza shopping district, has banned weekday rentals on grounds that allowing strangers into apartment buildings during the week could be unsafe… Similarly, Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya Ward will permit home-sharing services in residential areas only during school holidays, with certain exceptions, so children won’t meet strangers on their way to class… “Restricting home rental due to vague concerns that foreigners are unsafe or that it is a strange practice goes against the concept of the new law,” said Soichi Taguchi, an official at the government’s Tourism Agency.
COMMENT: Here’s a new twist to the “Blame Game” often played whenever there’s a foreigner involved with any economy in Japan. I started talking about this in earnest in my Japan Times column of August 28, 2007, where I pointed out how NJ were being falsely blamed for crime, SDF security breaches, unfair advantages in sports, education disruptions, shipping disruptions, and even labor shortages (!!). That soon expanded to false accusations of workplace desertion (remember the fictitious “flyjin” phenomenon of 2011?) and looting, despoiling sumo and fish markets, and even for crime committed by Japanese!
Now we have recycled claims of disruptive NJ tourism. But as submitter JDG points out, this time it’s getting mean. In the same vein of a World Cup 2002 Miyagi Prefectural Assemblyman’s claim that visiting foreigners would rape Japanese women and sire children, we have official insinuations at the local government level that renting your apartment or room out to NJ would be “unsafe” — not only for Japanese in the neighborhood, but for children walking to school in Shibuya! (Or, according to the JT update below, NJ might be ISIS terrorists.) At this point, this is hate speech.
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JIJI: Japan plans to set up a system to centrally manage information on foreign residents to prevent overstayers from growing as the national labor crunch worsens, officials said. The Justice Ministry will play a key role in handling the information, which will include records on employment, tax payments and marriage that is currently being separately managed by central and local government agencies. The system is intended to strengthen government surveillance of overstayers as the nation imports more foreign labor to ease a severe nationwide labor shortage. As part of the effort, a new organization might be set up within the ministry to collect and analyze information on foreign residents.
DEBITO.ORG READER JDG: Government plans to take responsibility for ‘managing’ NJ away from city halls and ‘centralize’ the management of all NJ by the Justice Ministry in order to ‘increase surveillance’. To this end, the police will have access to all NJ info; addresses, employment, tax, marital status, visa information, etc. Imagine that the police will now demand to see your residence card so that they can radio the office and check all your details. ‘Increased surveillance’? Why are NJ being surveilled at all to start with? Here’s a top tip for the police; detect crime, and then investigate it.
[Yet according to this Irish Times article, there may in fact be too many cops in Japan vis-a-vis the ever-decreasing amount of crime.] With fewer crimes, and more police than ever before, Japanese police are getting ‘inventive’ in order to look busy; investigating crimes way beyond the level of resources that the crime warrants, and setting up intensive sting operations for minor offenses. The police are looking to criminalize people in order to defend their budgets. I guess the Japanese won’t mind hundreds of officers and millions of yen being squandered in operations that end up with NJ being harassed until the police can charge them with any petty crimes. Given Japan’s huge national debt, not enough crime, too many police, should equal some lay offs. But TIJ!
Also, if they’re so overstaffed, how come it takes them six months to raid big companies like Kobe steel who admitted defrauding their customers for years with sub-standard product data manipulation? How come they didn’t send a truck load of cops straight round to the finance ministry to investigate dodgy land sales and public document falsification? Nah, got to collar that guy who overstayed his visa!
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Posted on March 21, 2018 March 21, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Asahi: Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward has drafted an ordinance designed to protect racial, ethnic and sexual minorities from discriminatory practices, a move hailed by human rights experts as an “advanced measure.” The ward was one of the first local governments in Japan to recognize same-sex marriages, and the draft ordinance covers sexual minorities.
However, the draft specifically notes that its target also includes discrimination based on nationality and race. Under the plan, the ward will establish a committee that will handle public complaints about discrimination and advise the mayor on what measures to take. A standing committee of the Setagaya Ward assembly approved the draft on Feb. 26. The assembly is expected to adopt the ordinance at a plenary session on March 2, and it will likely take effect in April.
COMMENT: Setagaya-ku is trying to do what Tottori Prefecture tried to do in 2005 (which was, pass Japan’s first ordinance specifically against racial discrimination, which is still NOT illegal in Japan; alas, Tottori UNpassed it months later). To be sure, Setagaya-ku’s goals are obscured behind the typical slogans of “discrimination due to differences in culture”, and there isn’t even a mention of “racial discrimination” (rendered as jinshu sabetsu) in this Setagaya-ku pamphlet briefing on the issue from last September. But baby steps, and the issue of “racial discrimination” (which has long been denied even as existing in Japan) has had domestic media traction as an actual, existing problem because of Setagaya-ku. Let’s hope this serves as a template for other legislative bodies this time.
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Posted on February 21, 2018 February 21, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
WaPo: In a bid to upgrade its hockey program in fast-forward, one of the world’s most homogenous countries has created one of the most foreign-heavy Olympic teams of all time. Among 25 players on the South Korean men’s hockey team in PyeongChang, seven were born in other countries, including six in Canada. South Korea has 19 foreign-born athletes competing for it in these Olympics, most of any country, with hockey accounting for the largest share. […] The imported men’s players are less mercenaries than converts, granted naturalized Korean citizenship even though they have no Korean blood. To get that opportunity, they had to play at least two seasons for Korean clubs in a pan-Asian hockey league. And then meet with national hockey officials. And then national Olympic officials. And then the country’s Ministry of Justice.
Oh, and then they had to take a test and sing the national anthem. “Then, you find out if you pass or not,” said Eric Regan, a defenseman from Ontario, who naturalized in 2016. “I was with Matt Dalton, the goalie, at the time. We went through the process together and we both passed along with, I think, two other biathletes that day — both Russians. A month later we’re playing in the world championships for Team Korea. It was wild.”
COMMENT: Although breaking down blood-determined national borders in the name of sports participation is a positive development, it is unclear at this point how much of a dent these naturalized athletes will make on the national self-image of what it means “to be a Korean”. If they don’t win (which, sadly, they won’t), then it’s doubtful they will be anything more than an unsuccessful means to an end, an asterisk in the annals of Korean sports.
But if they are accepted nevertheless as “true Koreans” (as opposed to mercenaries; and there is a positive precedent with naturalized citizen Lee Charm/Bernhard Quandt becoming South Korea’s National Tourism Organization leader in 2009) Debito.org will be among the first to cheer.
Japan too has made “instant Japanese” for the purpose of strengthening Japan’s international sports showings, and the fielding of athletes of international roots who didn’t make teams overseas. And there have been some wins on their part. But the outlook is not good: Beyond someone like the (legendary but nasty) baseball player Oh Sadaharu, and some famous Sumo wrestlers (who nowadays aren’t even officially counted as “Japanese” anyway), who remembers them?
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The Otaru Onsens Case, one of the most prominent lawsuits against racial discrimination in Japan’s history, continues to live on both in law and social-science academic journals. The most recent, “Discrimination Against Foreigners in Japan”, came out last July in the “Journal of Law and Policy Transformation”. It cites a lot of online sources (but not the definitive book on the case, “Japanese Only: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan”).
However, if this paper was from a student in my Research Methods class, I would dock points for a number of things here, not least the lack of peer-reviewed sources cited. It’s essentially taking all the work from Debito.org and rehashing it as a show-and-tell for academic credit, moreover without reading the most recent books and analyses on cases since then; plus it has a number of typos and a rather glib final conclusion that: “[A]s it correctly noted [sic] by Yoshio Sugimoto[,] ‘contemporary Japanese society is caught between the contradictory forces of narrow ethnocentrism and open internalization [sic]’. This proves the fact [sic] that passing laws at all levels of government outlawing discrimination in Japan is just a matter of time.” As written, I don’t logically follow.
(I have the feeling even the article title was readjusted by the gatekeepers to revert the issue back to “foreigner discrimination”, making it once again an issue of nationality, and glossing over the fact that one of the excluded plaintiffs in the Otaru Onsens Case was in fact NOT foreign. Moreover, reading the Abstract below, I note how even the summary must include a disclaimer that the “foreigners” are partially to blame for their being discriminated against “due to differences in language, religion, custom and appearance as well”.)
Anyway, congrats I guess on keeping the issue and the information in circulation, and for getting this into the research canon past the academic gatekeepers who would rather not see discrimination in Japan as racial in nature.
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HOPEFUL SIGNS?
1) New Japanese “Party of Hope” remains unhopeful for Japan’s NJ residents, requiring new party entrants to deny all NJ voting rights
2) “Japanese Only” signs come down in Monbetsu, Hokkaido. Finally. It only took 22 years.
3) Nikkei: Japan’s “Japanese Only” apartment rental market may adversely affect NJ worker retention during labor shortage
4) “Japanese Only” rules mutate: Hagoromo-yu, a bathhouse excluding LGBT in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, in reaction to local same-sex-partner ordinance
5) Positive book review of “Embedded Racism” in “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity” journal (American Sociological Association)
MORE ON YENER CASE
6) NJ Osakan Ibrahim Yener wins lawsuit against “Japanese only” car dealer
7) Plaintiff Ibrahim Yener provides Debito.org with details on his successful lawsuit against “Japanese Only” Nihon Autoplaza car company
8 ) My Japan Times JBC 108: “In wake of Charlottesville, U.S. should follow Japan and outlaw hate speech”, Aug 24, 2017
Nikkei: ‘No foreigners allowed’: Survey shows heavy discrimination in Japan (which editorializing Nikkei Asian Review tries to excuse and dismiss)
Posted on May 3, 2017 May 3, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Following my most recent JBC column on the MOJ Foreign Residents Survey (which showed significant and substantial rates of “foreigner discrimination” in Japan, particularly in housing), we have the right-of-center Nihon Keizai Shinbun (roughly equivalent to the Wall Street Journal in stature and tone) offering their interpretation of Survey results. Note the article’s editorializing (which I will point out within the article below [in square brackets]) to try to be discounting or dismissive of the report — trying to pass it off as somehow “worries” about mere cultural misunderstandings, or issues not serious enough to seek help for.
NIKKEI: Nearly 27% of the 2,044 foreign respondents who had sought new housing within the past five years reported giving up on a potential residence after discovering a notice saying “no foreigners allowed.” […] These rejections, however, are not necessarily motivated by racism.
[But that’s not what the survey says. This is the Nikkei offering their interpretation. And look at their reasoning:]
Many landlords fear they may not be able to communicate easily with foreign tenants. Other reasons for refusal to rent include worries that foreign tenants will not follow Japanese customs, such as taking off their shoes inside the house.
[And that’s not racism? Presuming that foreign tenants cannot communicate? And justifying the denial of housing due to unfounded “worries” that people allegedly WON’T TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES!? On what planet would this not be interpreted as a normalization of prejudice expressed performatively as racism? I guess Planet Nikkei.]
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IT’S A HARD KNOCK LIFE FOR NJ
1) Fukushima Pref Police HQ online poster asking for public vigilantism against “illegal foreign workers, overstayers”
2) Mainichi: 80% believed fake rumors of crime by foreigners in Japan after 3/11 quake: poll
3) Cautionary tale: Bern on how no protections against harassment in Japan’s universities targets NJ regardless of Japan savviness and skill level
4) Reuters: Japan’s foreign asylum seekers tricked into Fukushima radiation clean-up
PROVABLY SO
5) Unprecedented Ministry of Justice survey of NJ discrimination results out, officially quantifies significantly high rates of unequal treatment
6) Japan Times JBC 106: “Government, survey thyself”, on unprecedented nationwide poll of NJ on discrimination, with one big blind spot (March 5, 2017)
AND OFFICIALLY SO
7) Kyodo: “Russian’s conviction for handgun possession dismissed”, due to bent J-cops’ “arrest quotas” that illegally entrap NJ
8 ) Yomiuri on “Sharp decline in tourist spending”, with GOJ measures to certify NJ in “Cool Japan” for preferential visas
9) NHK repeatedly racially profiles prototypical criminal (the only NJ person in a crowd) on TV program Close-Up Gendai, Apr 5, 2017
10) Irish Times: Abe Admin in trouble due to ultranationalistic kindergarten Moritomo Gakuen, its perks, and its anti-Korean/Chinese racism
11) Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 105: “Media, stop normalizing sumo as an ethno-sport”, Monday, Feb 20, 2017
Unprecedented Ministry of Justice survey of NJ discrimination results out, officially quantifies significantly high rates of unequal treatment
Posted on April 5, 2017 April 5, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Japan Times: “Rent application denials, Japanese-only recruitment and racist taunts are among the most rampant forms of discrimination faced by foreign residents in Japan, according to the results of the country’s first nationwide survey on the issue, released Friday. The unprecedented survey of 18,500 expats of varying nationalities at the end of last year paints a comprehensive picture of deeply rooted discrimination in Japan as the nation struggles to acclimate to a recent surge in foreign residents and braces for an even greater surge in tourists in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It also represents the latest in a series of fledgling steps taken by Japan to curb racism, following last year’s first-ever video analysis by the Justice Ministry of anti-Korea demonstrations and the enactment of a law to eradicate hate speech.[…]
The study found that 39.3 percent of 2,044 respondents who applied to rent apartments over the past five years got dismissed because they are not Japanese. In addition, 41.2 percent said they were turned down because they couldn’t secure a Japanese guarantor, while 26.8 percent said they quit their pursuit of a new domicile after being discouraged by a “Japanese-only” prerequisite. Workplace discrimination appears rife, too. Of the 4,252 respondents, 2,788 said they had either worked or sought employment in Japan over the past five years. Of them, 25.0 percent said they had experienced being brushed off by potential employers because they are non-Japanese, while 19.6 percent said they were paid lower than their Japanese co-workers…
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEB 19, 2017
Posted on February 19, 2017 December 6, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
MEDIA NORMALIZING DISCRIMINATION
1) JT: “Japan’s shared dwellings are evolving to meet diverse needs of tenants”: Basically NJ tenants on same level as pets
2) Reuters: Japan’s NJ workers reach record 1 million; but fine print overlooked, e.g., conflating “Trainees” with “Workers”
3) Kyodo: Trainee program, small firms drive rise in Japan’s foreign worker numbers. More data, same misleading gloss.
4) Wash Post & BBC: “Japan gets first sumo champion in 19 years”. Really? What oddly racist triumphalism from foreign press!
5) Ueno Chizuko, fabled feminist Sociology Prof. Emeritus at Tokyo U, argues in newspaper column that Japan will never accept foreigners, and Japanese should just decline into poverty together. Geriatrically rigid rigor.
6) Japan Times: Group drawing on long-term NJ residents to help newcomers navigate life in Japan
7) Problematic Fukuoka Pref. Police sign warning against “Foreign Travelers in Rental Cars”
8 ) Pacific Affairs journal book review of “Embedded Racism”: “a timely and important contribution to social and scholarly debates about racial discrimination in Japan”
9) Japan Times JBC Column 104: The Top Ten Human Rights Events of 2016
JT: “Japan’s shared dwellings are evolving to meet diverse needs of tenants”: Basically NJ tenants on same level as pets
Posted on January 18, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
This is an unintentionally hilarious article written by a Japanese reporter for a Japanese audience. It subconsciously depicts the attitudes of Japanese renters trying to profit from commonplace racist landlords excluding foreign clients: Build a communal household where foreign residents entertain the Japanese and the Japanese residents enjoy themselves. Especially telling is how the reporter contextualizes the issue in terms of more pet-friendly accommodations in Japan — putting foreigners on the same level as pets (with apparently as much power as a pet to be left alone).
Let’s consider this in terms of all the tokenism found in Japanese companies (especially during the Kokusaika Era, which I experienced first-hand) hiring young, genki gaijin to “internationalize” their company, and then putting them to work in temporary, trite, and expendable jobs so that they could give the company smiles but never get promoted to a post with any power. It’s clear that the unequal relationship is so normalized that making NJ into your house pet is unproblematized by the Japanese media. Finally, the reporter completely ignores the fact that racist landlords (not the lack of a guarantor) are the primary reason why “no pets, no foreigners” apartments exist.
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Japan Times JBC Column 104: The Top Ten Human Rights Events of 2016
Posted on January 8, 2017 February 5, 2017 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Japan’s human rights issues fared better in 2016
BY DEBITO ARUDOU
The Japan Times, Jan 8, 2017, Column 104 for the Community Page
Welcome back to JBC’s annual countdown of the top issues as they affected Non-Japanese (NJ) residents of Japan. We had some brighter spots this year than in previous years, because Japan’s government has been so embarrassed by hate speech toward Japan’s minorities that they did something about it. Read on:
No. 10) Government “snitch sites” close down after nearly 12 years…
Rest of the article at
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/01/08/issues/japans-human-rights-issues-fared-better-2016/
Version with links to sources now up on Debito.org
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TIME Magazine and Japan Times on how online trolls (particularly Reddit) are ruining the Internet and media in general
Posted on August 30, 2016 August 31, 2016 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
TIME: This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit–these several thousand words–is like leaving bears a pan of baklava.
It would be smarter to be cautious, because the Internet’s personality has changed. Once it was a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now, if you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you’re struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself. Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. And it’s seeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives.
The people who relish this online freedom are called trolls, a term that originally came from a fishing method online thieves use to find victims. It quickly morphed to refer to the monsters who hide in darkness and threaten people. Internet trolls have a manifesto of sorts, which states they are doing it for the “lulz,” or laughs. What trolls do for the lulz ranges from clever pranks to harassment to violent threats. There’s also doxxing–publishing personal data, such as Social Security numbers and bank accounts–and swatting, calling in an emergency to a victim’s house so the SWAT team busts in. When victims do not experience lulz, trolls tell them they have no sense of humor. Trolls are turning social media and comment boards into a giant locker room in a teen movie, with towel-snapping racial epithets and misogyny. They’ve been steadily upping their game…
Japan Times: This sort of behavior is not new. Trolls — individuals who purposely send insulting and threatening messages to comments sections and social media sites — may be an Internet-specific phenomenon, but the impulses that drive them are general and eternal. Some say the difference is less ideological than psychological: serial harassers hide behind masks to express their grievances with the world, regardless of political leanings. But ideology, or at least the presumption of a “position,” is always the delivery device for the grievance. […] Media outlets should prevent intimidation any way they can, but they’re failing their mission if they don’t stand up to it.
COMMENT: This is dangerous stuff. As the veteran of many years of online death threats myself, Cyberstalking is still stalking, and Japan no longer tolerates it like it used to outside of the Internet. Debito.org reiterates its stance that something should be done to make these anonyms into real people taking responsibility for their statements. To me, that means registering real names under traceable conditions, as has happened (abortively) in South Korea. Short of that, the trolls will continue to sour and soil the online environment, depriving others of the freedom of speech the trolls themselves allegedly cherish (and use as their excuse for abuse) by remaining anonymous, immune to the same critique and exposure they mete out to others.
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The 2nd Great Gaijin Massacre in Japan’s education system, with 5-year contracts coming due in 2018 (2023 for uni profs).
This is an update to the Ninkisei Issue within Japan’s Academic Apartheid Education System, where foreign educators are given perpetual contracts. A contracted position may not sound bad to Western ears, but Japan’s tertiary education system (the second largest in the world) generally does not contract full-time Japanese educators. Since most full-time Japanese enjoy permanent tenure from day one of hiring, a contract becomes a term limit only for foreigners. Abuses of the system include “The Great Gaijin Massacre” of 1992-1994, where most foreign faculty above the age of 35 in National Universities (kokuritsu daigaku) found their contracts were not being renewed — in a successful attempt by the Ministry of Education to bring in younger, cheaper foreigners. Since these veteran teachers had not paid into overseas pension plans (and decades of Japanese pension payments are nonrefundable), they could not simply “go home”. They got stuck with part-time work with no benefits to pay house loans, kids’ college tuition, or fulfill pension plans. According to Ivan Hall’s CARTELS OF THE MIND (WW Norton, 1998), there are more full-time foreign faculty with permanent tenure in one American university than in all of Japan! Not to mention a systemwide disdain (“academic apartheid”) towards foreign educators regardless of qualification, seeing them merely as cheap disposable labor. See the Blacklist of Japanese Universities, a list of institutions with breathtakingly unequal employment policies, at www.debito.org/blacklist.html
Now for the update. Let’s see what happened to the survivors a quarter century on. The upshot is that their turn to be fired is now coming. According to labor union expert CF:
“I have given it a nickname – the “2018 Cliff” If you have been working from (April) 2013 continually on renewable contracts, then (March) 2018 will be 5 years of employment, therefore on April 1 2018, if you demand permanent employment, the company must keep you on as permanent – until retirement (albeit on the pre-2018 conditions) from April 2019. To avoid this, companies will be dumping staff before the end of March 2018 to avoid the transfer to permanent status （無期転換）. For better or worse, universities and research facilities deadline is 2023, so employees have an extra 5 years’ grace. The Cliff is coming, and many will be pushed off.
COMMENT: So this is what NJ who persevered and contributed the bulk of their working lives to Japanese society, get at the end: An unceremonious dumping onto the job market, with no new place to go, and skills that will not easily transfer to their country of origin. And often before their MINIMUM 25 years (yes!) of required Japan-pension contributions are fulfilled. People seeking to make a life in Japan: Beware!
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Reuters: Death toll mounts in Japanese Detention Centers (aka “Gaijin Tanks”) as NJ seek asylum and are indefinitely detained and drugged
Reuters : Niculas Fernando died at a Tokyo immigration detention center sometime between 9:33 a.m. and 10:44 a.m. on November 22, 2014, according to the coroner. But it wasn’t until shortly after 1 p.m. that day that guards realized something was badly wrong – even though Fernando had been moved to an observation cell monitored via closed-circuit television after complaining of sharp chest pain. An inmate had to alert the guards before they rushed into Fernando’s cell and tried to revive him. […] He was the fourth person to die in Japan’s immigration detention system in 13 months. In total, 12 people have died in immigration detention since 2006, including four suicides. In 2015, 14 detainees tried to kill or harm themselves at the detention center where Fernando died, according to data from the facility.
A Reuters investigation into the circumstances surrounding Fernando’s death, including dozens of interviews with detainees, immigration officials and doctors, revealed serious deficiencies in the medical treatment and monitoring of Japan’s immigration detention centers. Guards with scant medical training make critical decisions about detainees’ health. Doctors visit some of the country’s main detention centers as infrequently as twice a week. And on weekends there are no medical professionals on duty at any of the immigration detention facilities, which held more than 13,600 people in 2014. Three of the four deaths in detention between October 2013 and November 2014, including Fernando’s, occurred when there were no doctors on duty. Like Fernando, another one of the detainees died while in an observation cell.
Japan’s immigration system is under increasing strain. As a torrent of refugees pours into Europe, Japan also has record numbers of people landing on its shores in search of refuge. As of June last year, it had 10,830 asylum applications under review – small by Europe’s standards, but a new high for Japan, a nation that has long been reluctant to take in outsiders. In February, more than 40 detainees went on hunger strike at a facility in Osaka to protest their conditions [As they did in 2010, to little change — Ed.]. Their main complaint: Poor medical care. […]
The Justice Ministry has not made public the findings of the investigation into the case nor released them to Fernando’s family. In response to a public disclosure request, Reuters received a copy of the national Immigration Bureau’s report from March last year. It was heavily redacted. Under a section titled “Problems,” every line had been blacked out.
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Posted on March 1, 2016 March 2, 2016 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON DOMESTIC DISSENT
1) ABC News Australia: Video on PM Abe’s secretive and ultra-conservative organization “Nippon Kaigi”
2) Sankei column by Okabe Noburu suggesting Japanese language tests for foreign correspondent visas, to weed out their “anti-Japan” biases
3) JT on corporate threats to student activists’ futures (SEALDs in particular); this is probably why they suddenly turned craven
4) O’Day in APJ: Japan Focus: “Differentiating SEALDs from Freeters, and Precariats: the politics of youth movements in contemporary Japan”
TRAGIC UPDATES
5) Suraj Case: Tokyo High Court rules Immigration Bureau not responsible for killing him during deportation
6) ALTs (“outsourced” English teachers) earning slave wages (or less) working for Japanese public schools
7) JT: Sakanaka argues success of ‘Abenomics’ hinges on immigration policy (old article from May 2014; not much has changed)
8 ) JT: Japan’s public baths hope foreign tourists and residents will keep taps running; oh, the irony!
TERRORISTIC XENOPHOBIA
9) Nagoya anonymous neighborhood poster warning of crime that “may have been committed by foreigners”: vigilantism that should be officially discouraged, but no.
10) Tangent: McNeill in No.1 Shimbun: “Into the Valley of the Trolls”: Is ignoring them really an effective strategy?
TRYING TO HELP
11) Asahi: Survey: Discrimination encountered by 42% of foreign residents in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward; Asahi wants NJ resident opinions
12) Asahi and JT: Osaka adopts Japan’s first anti-hate-speech ordinance
13) HJ on Mainichi article on “Preventing Illegal Hires of Foreigners”; what about campaigns to prevent illegal ABUSES of foreign workers?
14) Ben Shearon on RetireJapan, helping people living in Japan learn more about personal finance, investing, readying for retirement
15) My Japan Times JBC 95, “Osaka’s move on hate speech should be just the first step” Feb. 1, 2016
Nagoya anonymous neighborhood poster warning of crime that “may have been committed by foreigners”: vigilantism that should be officially discouraged, but no.
Submitter PC: “This notification was in my mailbox this morning… It says that there were a number of burglaries in my neighborhood the other day & it is believed that the criminal is a foreigner and to be careful about taking precautions… My first thought: how do they know it was a foreigner?!? My second thought was: what kind of message does this give to the children who live here? Is it only me that thinks this smacks of discrimination?”
The flyer reads (translation by Debito):
!! URGENT MESSAGE !!
! BREAK-INS WHEN YOU’RE NOT HOME ! (akisuu)
!! BE ON CLOSE GUARD !!
Today (January 29, 2016), there were several break-ins at our apartment complex.
It is thought that the culprits were foreigners, and there is a danger of them returning to commit more crimes.
Anti-crime measures by each family are a matter of course, but it is also very important for residents to watch out for each other and ask around.
Be on guard at all times.
COMMENT: I’m not sure which is worse: The thefts themselves, the anonymous warning, or the accusation that foreigners are behind it. Especially given that theft is the most common crime in Japan by far and it is almost always committed by Japanese. Again, these sorts of vigilante moves without anyone taking responsibility for spreading rumors are precisely what stir up passions and target people (sometimes with fatal consequences). This should be discouraged by the authorities, but unfortunately it isn’t. In fact, it’s precisely the same tactics the Japanese police use (see Arudou “Embedded Racism” Ch. 7).
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The Year in Quotes: “Much jaw-jaw about war-war” (my latest for the JT), Foreign Element column, Dec. 23, 2015
Posted on December 23, 2015 January 3, 2016 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
I love year-end roundups, and this year I was given the privilege of compiling the year in quotes. Fuller version follows with more quotes that didn’t make the cut and links to sources:
JT: The past year has seen a number of tensions and tugs-of-war, as conservatives promoted past glories and preservation of the status quo while liberals lobbied for unprecedented levels of tolerance. This year’s Community quotes of the year column will break with tradition by not giving a guided tour of the year through quotations, but rather letting the words stand alone as capsule testaments to the zeitgeist. Quotes follow:
“I cannot think of a strategic partnership that can exercise a more profound influence on shaping the course of Asia and our interlinked ocean regions more than ours. In a world of intense international engagements, few visits are truly historic or change the course of a relationship. Your visit, Mr. Prime Minister, is one.”
— Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe’s December trip to India, where agreements were reached on infrastructure investment (including a much-feted high-speed train), nuclear energy cooperation, classified intelligence sharing and military hardware sales to deter China from encroaching upon the Indian Ocean.
“Since taking office, I’ve worked to rebalance American foreign policy to ensure that we’re playing a larger and lasting role in the Asia Pacific — a policy grounded in our treaty alliances, including our treaty with Japan. And I’m grateful to Shinzo for his deep commitment to that alliance. He is pursuing a vision of Japan where the Japanese economy is reinvigorated and where Japan makes greater contributions to security and peace in the region and around the world.”
— U.S. President Barack Obama, during a joint press conference marking Abe’s visit to the United States in April, during which he became the first Japanese leader to address both houses of Congress.
“If Japan gets attacked, we have to immediately go to their aid. If we get attacked, Japan doesn’t have to help us.”
— Donald Trump, U.S. Republican presidential candidate, on the stump.
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 8, 2015
Posted on December 9, 2015 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
WEIRD INCENTIVE SYSTEMS
1) WSJ: PM Abe Shinzo First Non-American to Win Conservative Hudson Institute Award — and other American neocons egging on Japan’s remilitarization
2) 20th Standard Charted Hong Kong Marathon Japan tour registration is “Japanese Only”: “Applications from non-Japanese runners ‘invalid’, deposit payment not refunded.”
3) UPDATE: Standard Charted Hong Kong Marathon Japan tour “Japanese Only” registration is sanitized to include NJ residents, but “Japanese Citizenship” remains requirement on actual registration page
4) Mainichi: Miss Universe Japan Ariana Miyamoto spurns ‘half Japanese’ label, seeks end to prejudice. Good, but article in English only, not for Japanese-reading audience.
BETTER INCENTIVE SYSTEMS
5) Asahi & Mainichi: “No Hate” “No Racism”, “Refugees Welcome” say protesters at Tokyo anti-discrimination rally. Bravo.
6) JT: Court orders NHK to compensate NJ Anchorwoman who fled Japan during Fukushima crisis for lost salary: So much for “Flyjin” myth.
7) Eleven touristy articles of mine about touring Sapporo, Hokkaido, and environs, published by Netmobius
… and finally …
8 ) My Japan Times JBC Col 93: “Tackle embedded racism before it chokes Japan”, summarizing my new book “Embedded Racism”
My latest Japan Times JBC Col 93: “Tackle embedded racism before it chokes Japan”, summarizing my new book “Embedded Racism”
Posted on November 1, 2015 November 1, 2015 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
JBC: Japan has a dire problem it must address immediately: its embedded racism.
The country’s society and government are permeated by a narrative that says people must “look Japanese” before they can expect equal treatment in society.
That must stop. It’s a matter of Japan’s very survival.
We’ve talked about Japan’s overt racism in previous Just Be Cause columns: the “Japanese only” signs and rules that refuse entry and service to “foreigners” on sight (also excluding Japanese citizens who don’t “look Japanese”); the employers and landlords who refuse employment and apartments — necessities of life — to people they see as “foreign”; the legislators, administrators, police forces and other authorities and prominent figures that portray “foreigners” as a national security threat and call for their monitoring, segregation or expulsion.
But this exclusionism goes beyond a few isolated bigots in positions of power, who can be found in every society. It is so embedded that it becomes an indictment of the entire system. In fact, embedded racism is key to how the system “works.” Or rather, as we shall see below, how it doesn’t…
Read the rest at http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/11/01/issues/tackle-embedded-racism-chokes-japan/
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2, 2015
1) Japan Times JBC 93 Nov 2, 2015: “Tackle embedded racism before it chokes Japan”, summarizing my new book out this week
2) Asahi TV: Police training drill in Tokyo on how to deal with jewelry thieves brandishing knives. Oh, and they’re “foreign” thieves.
3) “Foreign Driver” stickers appearing on Okinawan rental cars
4) Japan Times: Japan sanctioning mass ‘slave labor’ by duping foreign trainees, observers say
5) Japan moving on to the next sucker societies for cheap or slave labor: Cambodia and Vietnam
6) Paul Toland Case Update: Japan as a “black hole” for parental child abductions — Family Court lawsuit & press conference to raise awareness of issue
7) “Onsen-Ken Shinfuro Video”: Japan Synchro Swim Team promotes Oita Pref. Onsens — and breaks most bathhouse rules doing so. Historically insensitive.
8 ) My Japan Times JBC 92 Oct. 5, 2015: “Conveyor belt of death shudders back to live”, on how Abe’s new security policy will revive Prewar martial Japan
… and in case you thought I was being alarmist with JBC 92…
9) CSM: Reviving Shinto: Prime Minister Abe tends special place in Japan’s soul for mythology
Honolulu Civil Beat: Cultural Exchange Program or a Ticket to Sweatshop Labor? Contrast US with J example of exploitative visa conditions
Posted on September 27, 2015 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Contrast this situation with the situation of “Trainees” and other visa statuses in Japan:
HCB: It didn’t take long for the 30-year-old Japanese pastry chef to realize that she was getting the raw end of the deal. She had arrived in Hawaii only days before, lured by a promise of pastry training as part of a cultural exchange program run by the U.S. State Department. The terms of her stay, under a visa known as J-1, were to spend the next 18 months working in the kitchen of a Waikiki restaurant — six days a week on 8-hour shifts beginning at 6:30 a.m. But she found herself toiling inside the kitchen in a shift that began at 5:30 a.m. and stretched to 12 hours — without any breaks or overtime pay.
In 2012, a Japanese pastry chef arrived in Hawaii on a J-1 visa, only to find herself working at a Waikiki restaurant in sweatshop conditions. She requested her name and the name of the restaurant not be used. When she complained, she said no one lent a sympathetic ear. Initially, she said she was told that none of the restaurants in Hawaii offered any breaks. And, if she were to work on a shorter shift, her salary would have to be reduced accordingly. Unsatisfied, she went to her American sponsor organization and its Japanese contractors that had matched her up with the restaurant, but she said her pleas for their intervention were met with threats that her visa could be taken away. Soon, it dawned on her that she faced a Faustian choice: endure the grueling conditions at the restaurant or risk being deported for not showing up to work…
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“The problem I have with David Aldwinkle [sic] is…” A stock criticism of me and my methods, then my answer.
April 6, 2014, by “Billy” (name changed): The problem I always have with David Aldwinkle [sic] comes in his suggestion at the end. Asking people to start harassing the restaurant owner with phone calls? Way to reinforce the 迷惑 stereotype of foreigners that this restaurant owner already has. Aldwinkle often seems to want to head up some kind of gaijin mafia hit squad that goes around naming, shaming, hounding, and publicly humiliating anyone suspected of mistreating foreigners in Japan. It’s ugly mob tactics, and it makes him look just as ugly, if not uglier, than the people with the “Japanese Only” signs. In many cases, Aldwinkle’s attitude and tactics earn some sympathy for those signs.
Aldwinkle’s crude approach especially comes to light in the fifth comment on that blog post. Someone suggests a sensible, conciliatory approach with the restaurant owner, offering to translate menus for him and to resolve other problems. Aldwinkle won’t let this comment go up on his blog without attaching to it a snarky, bolded response that aims to humiliate the comment’s author. Maybe Aldwinkle [sic] would be proven right in the end that this restaurant owner wouldn’t budge, but Aldwinkle isn’t particularly interested in finding out. His first pass in these situations is to accuse and attack, immediately putting anyone in his path on the defensive. He tosses hand grenades in situations where gentle words might have more effect.
Arudou Debito…the guy who took Japanese citizenship so that he could try to force Japanese people to behave more like Americans.
This is a common criticism leveled against me. Since the author has a doctorate (in English), I decided to take him up on his claims and show the shortcomings in his social science and research methods in an informative exhange.
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER MAY 4, 2015
Posted on May 4, 2015 May 10, 2015 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
1) Debito.org Post #2500: Dr. M.G. “Bucky” Sheftall’s speeches at the opening of “Kamikaze” suicide pilots exhibit aboard USS Missouri, Apr 10 and 11, 2015
2) Kyodo: Summary Court overturns fine levied on Filipino-Japanese man after Osaka police botch assault probe — that punished him for defending himself against drunk Japanese assailants!
3) Tokyo sushi shop Mizutani, with 2 Michelin stars, refuses NJ customers; awaiting Michelin Guides’ response
4) Kyodo: Ryukoku U exchange student denied “No Foreigner” Kyoto apartment in 2013; MOJ in 2015 decides it’s not a violation of human rights!
5) FCCJ’s Number One Shimbun on how GOJ is leaning on critical foreign correspondents (incl. accusing them of being on Chinese payroll!)
AN INTERESTING TANGENT
6) 1912 essay: “Japanese Children are no Menace in Hawaii” (from a “Prosperity-Sharing System for Plantation Laborers” handbook), with surprisingly inclusive arguments
7) My Japan Times JBC Column 86 April 6, 2015: “Japan makes more sense through a religious lens”
Debito.org quoted in South China Morning Post about Sankei Shinbun’s Sono Ayako advocating Japartheid
SCMP: [Sono’s] comments have provoked anger among human-rights activists. “It’s a stunning cognitive dissonance. After calling the apartheid system ‘racial discrimination’ in her column, she advocates it,” said Debito Arudou, a naturalised Japanese who was born in the United States and has become a leading rights activist after being refused access to a public bath in Hokkaido because he is foreign.
“Is it no longer racial discrimination in a Japanese context?” he asked. “Or does she think racial discrimination is not a bad thing? I hope – and I stress hope – this will be dismissed as the wistful musings of a very old lady who is way out of touch,” he added. “But she occupies a position of authority, and I fear her attitudes are but the tip of the iceberg in Japan’s ultra-conservative ruling elite.”…
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Ministry of Justice Bureau of Human Rights 2014 on raising public awareness of NJ human rights (full site scanned with analysis: it’s underwhelming business as usual)
Posted on November 29, 2014 December 1, 2014 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
DEBITO.ORG READER AM: Debito, I saw an internet banner ad on the asahi.com website that along with a cartoon figure, posed the question “gaikokujin no jinken mamotteru?” [Are you protecting the human rights of NJ?] I thought I must have been seeing things, but clicking through I landed on a Japan Ministry of Justice page offering advice on how to protect the rights of non-Japanese.
http://www.moj.go.jp/JINKEN/jinken04_00101.html
It seems that this is a campaign is part of Japan’s push to ready the country for the 2020 Olympics, addressing issues such as ryokan denying service to non Japanese. Definitely a nice change from the focus on hooliganism leading up to the World Cup in 2002.
DEBITO: I would agree. It’s much better to see Non-Japanese as people with rights than as rapacious and devious criminals who deserve no rights because, according to the Ministry of Justice’s own surveys, NJ aren’t as equally human as Japanese. And this is not the first antidiscrimination campaign by the Japanese Government, in the guise of the mostly-potemkin Bureau of Human Rights (jinken yougobu, or BOHR) nominally assigned to protect human rights in Japan (which, as Debito.org has pointed out before, have put out some pretty biased and insensitive campaigns specifically regarding NJ residents in Japan). And did I mention the Japanese Government in general has a habit of portraying important international issues in very biased ways if there’s ever a chance of NJ anywhere getting equal treatment or having any alleged power over Japanese people? It’s rarely a level playing field or a fair fight in Japan’s debate arenas or awareness campaigns.
So now that it’s 2014, and another influential Olympics looms, how does the BOHR do this time? (And I bother with this periodic evaluation because the Japanese Government DOES watch what we do here at Debito.org, and makes modifications after sufficient embarrassments…) I’ll take screen captures of the whole site, since they have a habit of disappearing after appearing here. Here’s the top page:
CONCLUSION: Again, much talk about NJ and their lives here with minimized involvement of the NJ themselves. As my friend noted, it’s better this than having NJ openly denigrated or treated as a social threat. However, having them being treated as visitors, or as animals that need pacifying through Wajin interlocutors, is not exactly what I’d call terribly progressive steps, or even good social science. But that’s what the BOHR, as I mentioned above, keeps doing year after year, and it keeps their line items funded and their underwhelming claims of progressive action to the United Nations window-dressed.
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 9, 2014
Posted on October 9, 2014 October 12, 2014 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
HATE SPEECH AND THE BLAME GAME
1) Blame Game #433: JT on “Rumors of Foreign Looters in Hiroshima Unfounded”, “Social Media Rehashes Historical Hate”, and Economist on unoptimistic outcomes re hate speech law
2) Asahi Editorial: PM Abe and his Cabinet picks must clarify stance on Zaitokukai, racism
3) JT on hate speech and GOJ’s connections to organized crime: “Yakuza do what Abe Cabinet’s Yamatani can’t”
4) Blame Game #432: J-Cast.com reports Mt. Fuji is covered in human poop, speculates due to increase in foreign tourists
OUTRIGHT MEANNESS AND DECEPTION
5) JT: Ishihara and Hiranuma’s conservative party to submit bill halting welfare for needy NJ a la July Supreme Court decision
6) 2014 MOFA pamphlet explaining Hague Treaty on Child Abductions to J citizens (full text with synopsis, including child-beating NJ father on cover & victimized J mothers throughout)
7) SCMP (Hong Kong) on MOFA Hague Pamphlet: “‘Racist’ cartoon issued by Japanese ministry angers rights activists”, cites Debito.org (UPDATE: Also makes Huffington Post Japan in Japanese & Al Jazeera)
8 ) Quoted in BBC Brasil (original Portuguese & machine E translation): “Japan receives criticism from the UN after wave of xenophobia in the streets”
9) Debito receives his Ph.D. Sept. 18, 2014, at Meiji Gakuin University ceremony. Photo included.
… AND FINALLY… (I forgot to append my column to the Newsletter last month, so here are two of them this month)
10) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 78, August 14, 2014, “Past victimhood blinds Japan to present-day racial discrimination”
11) Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 79, on Japan’s Visible Minorities, Sept. 4, 2014 (version with links to sources)
Blame Game #433: JT on “Rumors of Foreign Looters in Hiroshima Unfounded”, “Social Media Rehashes Historical Hate”, and Economist on unoptimistic outcomes re hate speech law
Posted on September 27, 2014 July 24, 2018 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Continuing on with the theme of Japan’s Blame Game (as in, blame foreigners for any social ill that you don’t want to take responsibility for), this blog entry talks about the phenomenon of blame speech morphing into hate speech (not that far of a stretch, given the irresponsible nature of anonymous social media). We have people conjuring up fake stories of foreigners looting after natural disasters that got so bad that even the Japanese police (who are not positively predisposed to foreign residents in the first place — they’re usually on the front lines of blaming them for foreign crime and the undermining of Japanese society) are stepping in to defend them (article included).
This is ironic, since NHK has recently reported there have been 1200 burglaries in post-disaster Fukushima and perps are Japanese (article). And it’s not the first time that the authorities have had to step in and dispel rumors targeting NJ residents. Consider what happened weeks after the 2011 Fukushima disasters. Rumors were circulating about foreign crime all over again and had to be tamped down upon (article). Despite the fact that crime was occurring and probably not due to NJ (article). Note how J crime naturally causes considerably less media panic. But since there are no legal restrictions on hate speech in Japan, if you can’t say something nice about people, say it about foreigners. And there is in fact a long history of this sort of thing going on (article), what with the massacre of Korean residents back in 1923.
To be sure, hate speech has finally become an issue in Japan. A recent NHK survey has shown that a vast majority of the Japanese public think hate speech is a problem, and a near-majority think that legislation is needed (article). That said, I remain unoptimistic about how things will turn out, especially given the bent of the current administration. The Economist (London) appears to share that view, even hinting that it may be used to stifle pertinent criticisms of the government (as opposed to nasty speculation about minorities and disenfranchised peoples) (article).
So what to do? I still remain in support of a law against hate speech (as is the United Nations), i.e., speech that foments fear, hatred, and related intolerance towards disenfranchised peoples and minorities in Japan. Those are the people who need protection against the powerful precisely because they are largely powerless to defend themselves as minorities in an unequal social milieu. The Japanese government’s proposed definition of hate speech (taken from the NHK article above) of 「人種や国籍、ジェンダーなどの特定の属性を有する集団をおとしめたり、差別や暴力行為をあおったりする言動や表現行為」(behavior or expressive activity that foments discrimination or violence toward, or disparages people belonging to groups distinguished by race, citizenship, gender etc.) is a decent one, and a good start. Where it will go from here, given the abovementioned extremities of Japan’s current right-wing political climate, remains to be seen.
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Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 79, on Japan’s Visible Minorities, Sept. 4, 2014 (version with links to sources)
Posted on September 4, 2014 September 8, 2014 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
“VISIBLE MINORITIES” ARE BEING CAUGHT IN THE DRAGNET
By Dr. ARUDOU, Debito
Column 79 for the Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Community Page, September 4, 2014
Around noon on Aug. 13, in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, a local apartment manager notified the police that a “suspicious foreigner” was hanging around the nearby JR train station.
Cops duly descended upon someone described by the Asahi as a “20-year-old male who came from the Philippines with a Japanese passport” (sic).
When asked what he was doing, he said he was meeting friends. When asked his nationality, he mentioned his dual citizenship. Unfortunately, he carried no proof of that.
So far, nothing illegal here: Carrying ID at all times is not legally required for Japanese citizens.
But it is for foreigners. So the cops, convinced that he was really a foreigner, took him in for questioning — for five hours. Then they arrested him under the Immigration Control Act for, according to a Nikkei report, not carrying his passport, and interrogated him for another seven.
In the wee hours of Aug. 14, after ascertaining that his father is Japanese and mother foreign, he was released with verbal apologies. That hardly suffices. If any of you have ever undergone Japan’s “voluntary questioning” and/or 23 days of interrogation after arrest, you know how harrowing it can be. And this isn’t the first instance…
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My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 78, August 14, 2014, “Past victimhood blinds Japan to present-day racial discrimination”
Opening paragraphs: Readers may be expecting this column to have something to say about the Supreme Court decision of July 18, which decreed that non-Japanese (NJ) residents are not guaranteed social welfare benefits.
But many have already expressed shock and outrage on these pages, pointing out the injustice of paying into a system that may choose to exclude them in their time of need. After all, no explicit law means no absolute guarantee of legal protection, no matter what court or bureaucratic precedents may establish.
I’m more surprised by the lack of outrage at a similar legal regime running parallel to this: Japan’s lack of a law protecting against racial discrimination (RD). It affects people on a daily basis, yet is accepted as part of “normal” unequal treatment in Japan — and not just of non-citizens, either.
This brings me to an argument I wanted to round off from last month’s column, about how Japan has a hard time admitting RD ever happens in Japan. Some argue it’s because RD does not befit Japan’s self-image as a “civilized” society. But I would go one step further (natch) and say: RD makes people go crazy….
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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 3, 2014
Posted on June 4, 2014 June 6, 2014 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
1) Asahi: ‘Japanese Only’ banner at soccer stadium a microcosm of discrimination in Japan (E&J)
2) Asahi & Kyodo: Japan’s soccer leagues taking anti-discrimination courses, meting out punishments for racism
3) Saitama’s Konsho Gakuen school, “Japanese Only” since 1976, repeals rule only after media pressure, despite prefecture knowing about it since 2012
4) Counterdemos against racist rally by Zaitokukai in Osaka Nanba May 11, 2014: Brief on emerging narratives fighting fire with fire
NEGATIVE STEPS
5) Reuters: Abe Admin seeks to expand, not contract, the deadly exploitative NJ “Trainee” program
6) SAPIO Mag features special on Immigration to Japan: Note odd media narratives microaggressing NJ (particularly the Visible Minorities) into voiceless role
STEPS OF UNKNOWN VALUE
7) Scholar Majima Ayu on how the racial discrimination inherent in America’s Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924 caused all manner of Japanese craziness
8 ) Economist: China to become world’s largest economy by end-2014. Will USA react to being overtaken similar to Japan?
9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 75, May 1, 2014: “Tackling Japan’s ‘Empathy Deficit’ Towards Outsiders”
Saitama’s Konsho Gakuen school, “Japanese Only” since 1976, repeals rule only after media pressure, despite prefecture knowing about it since 2012
Significant news: In addition to the bars, bathhouses, internet cafes, stores, restaurants, apartment rental agencies, schools, and even hospitals, etc. that have “Japanese Only” policies in Japan, the media has now publicized a longstanding case of a tertiary education institution doing the same. A place called Konsho Gakuen in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, offering instruction in cooking, nutrition, and confections, has since it opened in 1976 never accepted NJ into their student body. This exclusion was even written in their recruitment material as a “policy” (houshin): (scan)
People knew about this. A Peruvian student denied entry complained to the authorities in 2012. But after some perfunctory scolding from Saitama Prefecture, everyone realized that nothing could be done about it. Racial discrimination is not illegal in Japan. Nobody could be penalized, and it was unclear if anyone could lose a license as an educational institution.
So finally it hits the media. And after some defiance by the school (claiming to NHK below that they don’t want to be responsible for NJ getting jobs in Japan; how conscientious), they caved in after about a week and said that the policy would be reversed (suck on the excuses they offered the media for why they had been doing it up to now — including the standard, “we didn’t know it was wrong” and “it’s no big deal”).
Debito.org would normally cheer for this. But the school is just taking their sign down. Whether they will actually ALLOW foreigners to join their student body is something that remains to be seen (and the J-media is remarkably untenacious when it comes to following up on stories of racial discrimination). When we see enrollments that are beyond token acceptances (or happen at all, actually) over the course of a few years, then we’ll cheer.
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Sunflower storage proteins are transported in dense vesicles that contain proteins homologous to the pumpkin vacuolar sorting receptor PV 72 | Molina | Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Full Text - Sunflower storage proteins are transported in dense vesicles that contain proteins homologous to the pumpkin vacuolar sorting receptor PV 72
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology ISSN: 0717-3458 Vol. 9 No. 3, Issue of April 15, 2006
DOI: 10.2225/vol9-issue3-fulltext-21
Sunflower storage proteins are transported in dense vesicles that contain proteins homologous to the pumpkin vacuolar sorting receptor PV 72
María Isabel Molina
Department of Plant Biology
East Lansing, MI 48824-1312 USA
E-mail: molinam3@msu.edu
Marisa Otegui
224 Birge Hall- 430, Lincoln Drive
WI 53706-. USA
Fax: 608263 7509
E-mail: otegui@wisc.edu
Silvana Petruccelli*
Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Criotecnología de Alimentos
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Calle 47 y 116 (1900)
Tel/Fax: 54 221 4249287/4254853
E-mail: silvana@biol.unlp.edu.ar
Financial support: ANPCyT (Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica)-ASAGIR (PICTO-13156). SP is member of the research career of CONICET (Argentina).
Keywords: developing sunflower seeds, storage proteins, transport pathway, vacuolar sorting, vacuolar sorting receptor.
BiP: chaperone of the heat shock protein family HSP70
CCV: clathrin-coated vesicle
DV: dense vesicles
ER: endoplasmic reticulum
M: microsomes
MVB: mutivesicular bodies
NPIRL: asparagine-proline-isoleucine-arginine-leucine
PAC: precursor accumulating vesicles
PSV: protein storage vacuoles
PV: percoll vesicles
R5.5: development stage of sunflower head, I2 and I3 immature sunflower embryos in different stages of develop
TIP: tonoplast intrinsic protein
VSR: vacuolar sorting receptor
BP-80: pea VSR
Storage proteins are transported to a special storage compartments in seeds by Golgi dependent or independent pathways depending on the plant species. The aim of this work was to study the sunflower storage protein transport pathway and identified component of the sorting machinery. Immature sunflower seeds were analyzed by subcellular fractionation (using percoll and sucrose gradients) and electron microscopy. The vesicles isolated with percoll, have precursors of 11S globulins, α-TIP, δ-TIP, BiP, and two proteins that have homology to the pumpkin vacuolar sorting receptor PV72. Sucrose isolated vesicles have the same composition than percoll ones, except for the lack of BiP and the presence of only one protein that has reactivity with pea VSR BP80. Electronic micrographies of developing seeds show that the formation of electron dense aggregates starts in the endoplasmic reticulum, and that these aggregates are very abundant in the trans-Golgi apparatus, where release of dense vesicles happens. These vesicles contain a homolog of PV72 in their membranes. Storage proteins are also detected in multivesicular bodies whose membranes have reactivity with PV72 serum. All these results indicated that sunflower storage proteins are transported to protein storage vacuoles by a Golgi dependent pathway in a process in which homologous of PV72 are involved.
Seed storage proteins accumulate in a special compartment that has not equivalent in yeast and mammalians and that is called Protein Storage Vacuoles (PSV). Study of the transport pathway to this compartment is very important not only for the role of storage proteins in human and animal nutrition and also for the possibility of accumulate, in this compartment, recombinant proteins which applications in diagnostic or therapeutic. The transport pathway to PSV has been well characterized only in pea and pumpkin (Hara-Nishimura et al. 1998; Hinz et al. 1999). Storage proteins in peas are transported in electron dense vesicles (DV) that start to bud off in the cis-Golgi apparatus and that lack the vacuolar sorting receptor (VSR) BP-80 that is found only in clathrin coated vesicles (CCV) (Hinz et al. 1999; Hillmer et al. 2001). In pea, this receptor has been involved only in the transport to lytic vacuoles (LV) (Hillmer et al. 2001). In contrast, in pumpkin storage protein accumulates in large vesicles termed precursor accumulating vesicles (PAC) whose origin in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and that have an homologous of the pea VSR BP-80, called PV72 (Hara-Nishimura et al. 1998). This family of VSR has been related to several processes and it is not clear if they are really involved in storage proteins transport. In Arabidopsis seeds in which this VSR (termed AtELP1) has been knock-out, a partial secretion of storage proteins is observed but some proteins accumulate in PSV, nevertheless the introduction of this gene re-establish the normal phenotype (Shimada et al. 2003). In addition, this receptor interacts with NPIRL motif that is typical of proteins sorted to lytic vacuoles (Ahmed et al. 2000), is a marker of multivesicular bodies (Tse et al. 2004) and have a role in mobilization of storage proteins (Laval et al. 2003).
The aim of this work was to study the storage proteins transport pathway in developing sunflower seeds and analyze the role of homologous of the VSR BP-80 in the sorting process.
Developing sunflower Helianthus annuus L, TC 3003.
Subcelullar fraccionation
Transport vesicles carrying storage proteins were separated from microsomes (M) and lytic vesicles (CCV) using two different subcellular fractionation procedures: percoll gradients essentially as described Hara-Nishimura et al. (1998) and sucrose gradients (Hinz et al. 1999); as it is presented in Figure 1.
The fractions were analyzed by Western Blot with sera against sunflower 11S globulins, α-TIP (PSV marker), δ-TIP (vegetative vacuoles marker), BiP (ER marker), AtELP1 (Arabidopsis VSR), PV72 (pumpkin VSR) and BP-80 (pea VSR) both to identify components of the transport machinery and to check the purity of the different fractions.
Protein Storage Vacuoles (PSV) were isolated from mature sunflower seeds with glycerol (Hara-Nishimura et al. 1998).
Electronic microscopy
Developing cotyledons were loaded in sample holders filled with a solution of 0.1 M Suc, frozen in a Baltec HPM 010 high-pressure freezer (Technotrade, NH), and then transferred to liquid nitrogen for storage. Substitution was performed in 0.2% (w/v) uranyl acetate plus 0.2% (v/v) glutaraldehyde in acetone at -90ºC for 120 hrs and warmed to -50ºC for 24 hrs. After several rinses with acetone, samples were infiltrated with Lowicryl HM20 (Electron Microscopy Sciences, PA) during 48 hrs and polymerized at -50ºC under UV light for 72 hrs. Ultrathin sections were mounted placed on formvar coated nickel grids and immunolabeling was performed with the sera described above followed by incubation with a 15nm gold-labeled secondary antibody.
Sunflower seeds storage mainly 11S globulins, whose precursor subunits or proglobulins suffer a proteolytic cleavage being transformed into acidic and basic polypeptides as appear in mature PSV. Seeds in different stages of develop were analyzed by Western blot to establish the reproductive stage with maximum amount of 11S proglobulins. To this end flowers at bud stage R5:5 (R5.5 means that 50 percent of the head has bloomed or is blooming) were chosen and the embryos separated and classified according to their size in immature 1 (I1; < 5 mg), I2 (5 - 15 mg), I3 (15 - 30 mg) and I4 (> 30 mg). The maximum amount of precursors of storage proteins were detected in I2 and I3 embryos, therefore these sizes were chosen to isolate transport vesicles using percoll (Percoll vesicles, PV) and sucrose (SV) gradients (Figure 1). The different fractions obtained using these methods were analyzed by Western blot. Both PV and SV fractions have 11S proglobulins and the tonoplast intrinsic proteins: α-TIP y δ-TIP that are usually found in storage vacuoles (Figure 2a and Figure 2b). PV has also BiP (Figure 2a), similar to pumpkin PAC (Hara-Nishimura et al. 1998) that can be the result of BiP association with partially folded or unfolded proteins; although ER contamination can not be excluded. In contrast, SV fraction lacks BiP (Figure 2b). Processing of proteins (α-TIP) start to be detected at embryos at stage I3 (Figure 2a). Both PV and SV have two bands that are recognized by the pumpkin VSR PV72, sera while only one of them is recognized by AtELP serum (Figure 2c). The pea VSR serum has a weak reactivity with PV, but strongly recognized sucrose fractions SV1 and SV2 (Figure 2c); the last result is different from that obtained for pea DV (Hinz et al. 1999). Percoll vesicles do not have reactivity with the last serum therefore from the biochemical point of view are different from sucrose fraction (Figure 2c). These results suggest the presence of VSRs in sunflower storage proteins transport vesicles that have homology with both pumpkin PV72 and At-ELP. In contrast pea transport vesicles lack these receptors.
Storage protein transport pathway was also analyzed by electronic microscopy. In immature cotyledons, formation of electron dense aggregates starts to be observed in the ER (Figure 3a, arrows). This phenomenon has not been observed in other developing seeds such as soybean and can be related to the highest hydrophobicity and lower water solubility of sunflower 11S globulins (Molina et al. 2004). In developing soybean cotyledons, in which expression of 7S globulins, that are highly soluble, is suppressed; unusual aggregation of 11S globulin is observed also in the ER (Mori et al. 2004). Presence of large vesicles coated by ribosome as pumpkin PAC vesicles was not observed (Hara-Nishimura et al. 1998). Aggregation of storage proteins becomes more intense in the Golgi apparatus; especially in the trans-Golgi where a large number of aggregates come out (Figure 3b) and are released forming DV. In contrast in pea, formation of dense vesicles start at the cis-Golgi (Hillmer et al. 2001). Two kinds of vesicles containing storage proteins are observed: dense vesicles that have electron dense area surrounded by a membrane and multivesicular bodies that have a clear region between the electron dense core and the membrane (Figure 3c and Figure 3d). The last one can be the results of fusion of DV to lytic compartments that have the proteases involved in storage protein processing. The membranes of DV and MVB had reactivity with anti-PV72 (Figure 3d), what support the role of this receptor in the sorting process of storage proteins. The biochemical data shown above was confirmed by the immunogold electron micrographies that shown that the electron dense regions has storage proteins (Figure 3c) and that membrane of both DV and MVB have reactivity to anti-PV72 serum (Figure 3d). Taking into account the size of MVB, the presence of VSRs, particularly BP-80 that in pea has been observed only in lytic compartment, and partially processed proteins, the fraction isolated with sucrose gradients could be MVB.
In conclusion, sunflower storage proteins are transported in dense vesicles that bud off from the Golgi apparatus and contain homologous of pumpkin PV 72.
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LAVAL, V.; MASCLAUX, F.; SERIN, A.; CARRIERE, M.; ROLDAN, C.; DEVIC, M.; PONT-LEZICA, R.F. and GALAUD, J.-P. Seed germination is blocked in Arabidopsis putative vacuolar sorting receptor (atbp80) antisense transformants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2003, vol. 54, no. 381, p. 213-221.
MOLINA, M.I.; PETRUCCELLI, S. and AÑÓN, M.C. Effect of pH and ionic strength modifications on thermal denaturation of the 11S globulin of sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2004, vol. 5, no. 20, p. 6023-6029.
MORI, T.; MARUYAMA, N.; NISHIZAWA, K.; HIGASA, T.; YAGASAKI, K.; ISHIMOTO, M. and UTSUMI, S. The composition of newly synthesized proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum determines the transport pathways of soybean seed storage proteins. The Plant Journal, 2004, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 238-249. [CrossRef]
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9th Circuit Prop 8 Decision: Equal Protection NOT At The End Of The Rainbow
February 7, 2012 /32 Comments/in Culture, Ideas and Ideology, Law, prop 8 /by bmaz
Liberty & Justice by Mirko Ilic
The highly anticipated Ninth Circuit decision on the appeal from Judge Vaughn Walker’s groundbreaking opinion in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now captioned “Perry v. Brown“) has arrived! IT IS A VICTORY for supporters of marriage equality and constitutional protection of sexual identity interests!
The full text of the decision is here. Authored by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, it is a long opinion discussing several key issues of law. Generally, they break down into three areas: 1) whether Vaughn Walker was qualified to sit as the trial judge in light of the fact he is an acknowledged homosexual, 2) whether or not the proponents of Proposition 8 (referred to in the trial court as “Defendant-Intervenors” or “D-I’s”) have standing to bring the appeal, and 3) whether or not the merits of Judge Walker’s decision trial court decision to grant constitutional due process and equal protection status to the plaintiffs Perry, and thus find that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, should be upheld. We will take those in order.
Vaughn Walker’s Qualification
The new Chief Judge in the Northern District of California, James Ware, wrote a very strong opinion finding it completely proper for Walker to sit as the trial judge in Perry. And the 9th Circuit had already slapped down an attempt by the Prop 8 Proponents (hereinafter “Proponents”) to disqualify Panel Judge Stephen Reinhardt because his wife worked for the ACLU. So, it would have been shocking for the 9th to bite off on the nonsense that Vaughn Walker could not impartially serve as trial judge for the case. There is no shock delivered today, the 9th has joined Ware in blasting this craven argument, in fact the court states that it adopts Ware’s basis effectively in full.
Standing To Appeal
The issue of standing is arguably the most critical in the appellate case. Since the State of California made the calculated decision not to appeal and give the nominal cover their participation would provide to Proponents, if the Proponents do not have individual standing, there is effectively no appeal. There are actually two parties that have sought standing, the Proponents, and Imperial County of California through its court clerk.
As to Imperial County, I, along with others on the ECF mailing list got accidental notice of the court’s ruling yesterday when the 9th Circuit slipped up and transmitted the separate ruling on their motion to intervene in the appeal. It is denied as being untimely brought.
The Proponent’s intervention was certainly not untimely though, and it was unanimously certified by the California Supreme Court as being proper on the merits. In light of the strong decision finding standing for proponents by the California Supremes, after the 9th Circuit had asked them to make the determination, it would be pretty hard for the 9th to not follow the certified advice and grant standing. And they have done exactly that:
It is for the State of California to decide who may assert its interests in litigation, and we respect its decision in holding that Proposition 8’s Proponents have standing to bring this appeal on behalf of the state.
Constitutional Merits Issues
The big kahuna, of course, is whether or not Vaughn Walker’s meticulously laid out and reasoned decision granting protection to plaintiffs Perry under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses would be upheld. And, as I have consistently predicted would occur, the 9th has indeed upheld Judge Walker’s ruling. WAHOOOO!
It is a narrower and shallower victory than I had hoped and predicted though.
All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolizes state legitimization and social recognition of their committed relationships. Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those opposite-sex couples. the Constitution simply does not allow for “laws of this sort.” Romer v. Evans, 517 US 620, 633 (1996).
As I said, this is much narrower than hoped for. By basing on Romer instead of the full constitutional protections of due process and equal protection, the court has likely increased the odds the decision stands up to further appeal, but has done a disservice to those seeking true equality, both as to marriage and otherwise, for gays and lesbians. In short, it does not move the ball nearly as much as it should have, and was hoped for. The decision of the 9th does not go nearly as far as Vaughn Walker did, and wastes much of the meticulous taking of evidence, making of findings of facts and law, and crafting of his decision. It was hand tailored to go MUCH further, and that now appears at least significantly squandered.
Also of note, it is a split decision, with Reinhardt and Mike Hawkins joining the majority, and N. Randy Smith dissenting. Although Smith is a Mormon, and reasonably conservative, the strength of his dissent is somewhat surprising compared to his seeming attitude at oral argument of the appeal.
So, where does that leave us? With a good decision for those same sex couples wanting to marry in California, and one more likely than a broader decision to stand up to appeal. But, it is by no means certain that even this narrow ruling will maintain; if the case was going to go to SCOTUS, it should go with all the gusto and Constitutional protection afforded that it can muster for all the same sex couples, in all the states, not just California. Today’s decision falls shamefully short of that. It is somewhat of an embarrassment for one of the last great liberal lions like Steve Reinhardt actually. I have to believe he was choked somewhat by Mike Hawkins, but, frankly, such is surprising to me based on my knowledge of Hawkins, even though he is not nearly the wild eyed liberal Reinhardt is.
Not only is the decision disappointing, but it will likely also be stayed pending further review as well. so not even relief for those in California is in the offing anytime soon. Sigh.
[As always on these Prop 8 posts, the absolutely incredible graphic, perfect for the significance and emotion of the Perry Prop 8 case, and the decision to grant marriage equality to all citizens without bias or discrimination, is by Mirko Ilić. Please visit Mirko and check out his stock of work.]
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Teddy Partridge says:
I don’t see how this decision can be applied to any state that didn’t first grant same-sex couples full marriage rights and then stripped them away. The court rules, very narrowly, not on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, but on the constitutionality of taking away a right already granted to people.
So I wonder: is it possible for the winners to appeal this decision for having been decided on too-narrow grounds? Can it be appealed for not having ruled on the broad constitutional question of the validity of same-sex marriages?
cbl says:
thanks so much bmaz ! invaluable insight for us lay people
@Teddy Partridge: Yes, it is possible, but it will go nowhere. There was always a chance SCOTUS would narrow down to Romer as was done today; but they should have been placed in the position of having to affirmatively doing so and punting on broader constitutional protection. I think, as you know, that Kennedy would have had a hard time doing so.
Nobody at SCOTUS will want to go further than this if they are not on the hook intellectually for it though. I almost doubt that they even will take cert now. Which means that a whole lot of what Walker set up has been wasted.
@bmaz: So if this is the end of the road for Perry, the battle then shifts to the Full Faith and Credit clause and DOMA.
Specifically: do other states and the federal government have to honor the marriage license granted by California, if it was granted to two people of the same gender?
@Peterr: As of now, presumably no, at least under DOMA.
DWBartoo says:
Thank you, bmaz, for keeping us informed.
Walker’s effort was, calculatedly, “wasted”.
Might other judges, in other federal jurisdictions, use aspects of Walker’s “blueprint”?
Clearly a “national” decision is unlikely unless another state finds a similar or different potential pathway to a SCOTUS decision.
Doubtless, most, at SCOTUS are happy to be left off, “…the hook intellectually …”.
@bmaz:
Right — as of now. I was laying out what I see as the “next question” that would be the vehicle for getting marriage equality to SCOTUS.
Assuming that cert is not granted here, then CA will start issuing marriage licenses again to same-sex couples, and it’s only a matter of time before one or more of them demand that other states and the federal government recognize that license. The more marriage licenses CA grants, the more likely that court fight becomes.
Is there any reason to think that there was a bit of eleventy dimensional chess here to preserve at least of the concept of the right to marry but to narrow things down to the point that even Roberts, Scalia and Thomas couldn’t reverse any aspect of it? In other words, could there have been a genuine fear that an opinion rendered on the wide basis that was deserved would have been struck down in full by the final, prejudiced arbiters, moving things significantly backwards?
@Peterr: and @DWBartoo:
The problem is, none are going to have the structural framework and factual trial findings Vaughn Walker had fashioned. That is simply of critical importance to consideration of these issues. The issue will get to SCOTUS, but it is hard to see it getting there in nearly as good of a package as Walker had created. Not anytime soon, that is for sure.
It could have been, and should have been, now.
Petrocelli says:
@bmaz: I know I speak for everyone when I say how grateful I am for your insights on this and all matters.
You too Marcy … dollar for dollar, the best blog !
Let’s hit the donate button, folks and show our gratitude !
I was afraid you would say something like that, bmaz.
Nonetheless, I thank you for your characteristic frankness, legal acumen, and prescient wisdom.
@Jim White: Who knows. I find that to be questionable though, because the decision could have been framed on both grounds, with no loss of having this narrow fallback posture behind the greater constitutional grant.
rosalind says:
thanks, bmaz, for providing context and clarity as to what the ruling does and does not mean.
(ot: yesterday began in tears over Mary’s death and ended with a truly inspiring talk by Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian man who started a facebook page that became a spark for last year’s revolution. he was in London on his book tour when the latest violence broke out and was torn about continuing to the U.S., but the feedback from home was “go, and spread the message”. while he was signing my book i thanked him for coming to the U.S. and he said in return i need to spread the word to 50 people.
so: i encourage anyone on his itinerary to go see him (couldn’t find any links w/specific info), and all to consider buying his book, “Revolution 2.0 – The Power of the People is Greater than the People in Power”, or encourage your local library to add it to their collection.)
@bmaz: Could it be that Reinhart might have been trying to keep it narrow, in an effort to get a unanimous opinion, but Smith wouldn’t go along with it in the end?
True. But before the trial started in this case, could you have imagined that the end result of the trial would have been the framework and findings that Walker assembled?
@Peterr: Yes, that is precisely what I thought he was doing when he set it for an evidentiary trial.
rugger9 says:
While Walker’s work is essentially wasted with respect to the appeal, maybe, I would argue that it isn’t. Unless the SCOTUS strikes down the ruling, the trial record still stands, as does the 14th Amendment. It’s harder to argue against equal protection framed that way as a matter of fairness, and I really don’t see anything [correct me if I’m wrong] to say Walker misapplied his precedents and analysis. Did the 9th explicitly say “don’t go there”? At the very least the transcript remains for citation and stipulation. Walker really did give the D-Is every chance to prove their case and they chickened out or were exposed. He also didn’t press on the involvement of the Mormon and Roman Catholic churches using tax-exempt money to involve themselves in political activity in clear violation of the Tax Code. Someone else will need to do that.
The problem is that the Bu$hie judges and ideologues packing the federal courts now have no problem overturning centuries of precedent on the flimsiest of ideological grounds [i.e. Citizen’s United], and maybe the 9th knew this will be a 5-4 and needed to keep Kennedy on board.
As far as Full Faith and Credit, we have the examples from Jim Crow times, and we now have several states with full marriage rights [Loving wasn’t that long ago, nor the one-drop rule], which ought to make it clear that teh gays are less of a threat to marriage than Kim Kardashian, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, or a raised toilet seat. But the redneck Foxbots will need convincing, just like when the “blahs” wanted to marry or vote. That took decades and is still not finished.
I read the whole thing again. Page 80 clearly states that Prop 8 violated the Equal Protection Clause, and the earlier discussion was about drawing the constitutional lines as narrowly as possible, but I did not see [again, correct me if I’m wrong] anything that Walker misapplied his precedent or selected improper arguments. The 9th made it clear those were viable arguments to make, but they were selecting what they considered was the most appropriate case, Romer, which they then used to Ginzu the haters on every point.
As noted before, however, it’s a politically motivated SCOTUS with no respect for precedent or stare decisis where this is going next, I’d say certiorari is definite since the GOP needs this to rally their base. Don’t think the Gang of Four Dummies isn’t already in discussion with Rove on this.
Fractal says:
@Jim White: Yes. Exactly. Even though I barely followed this case during the trial (read a few of the transcripts, that’s all), the DI’s must have seen the risk of exposing themselves to the crazies on the U.S. Supreme Court, and must have worried about that risk. So, if bmaz & Toobin & others are correct, they dodged those crazies.
In fact, Supreme Court litigators always know the federal courts will seek to adjudicate on the narrowest grounds possible, avoiding constitutional issues wherever possible, and where a constitutional right is directly at stake, issuing a decision that upholds that right on the narrowest grounds possible and only for the actual persons whose rights were violated. That’s just how it’s done. That’s what it means for a decision to have a “holding” and when a decision is based on a prior Supreme Court precedent, that is following the doctrine of “stare decisis.” Which is what federal courts should always do.
I do not mean this as a criticism of bmaz’s or Teddy’s disappointment and I am sure that Judge Vaughn is disappointed. But the lawyers for the DI’s had only one ethical duty: win the case for their clients. They fulfilled that duty. They also had a very specific target: force repeal of Prop 8 through the courts. They hit that target.
@rugger9: It is how and what was done under EP and DP that is the issue. and, yes it is a Grand Canyon sized difference between what they did and what should have been done. No, the Supreme Court justices are most certainly not getting marching orders from Rove or anyone else on this. they really do not do that. The haters were not “ginzsued” in the least. I would quite imagine they, at least their attorneys, are turning cartwheels of joy over the fact this opinion is as narrow as it is and that there is a dissent, even if somewhat weak in a couple of aspects, from Smith. Scotus may grant cert, may not; hard to tell, but it is by no means definite. If I had to guess right now, I would bet they do not unless Ginsburg or Sotomayor votes for it to expand the ruling basis – which I find unlikely.
@Fractal: That is a load of crap. First off, the “D-I’s are the Proponents of Proposition 8, NOT the people seeking marriage equality. Secondly, while there is often a preference for making decisions only on narrow grounds, that most often gives way when there are constitutional issues that have no direct controlling precedent. In short, cases just like this one. Now it may be that SCOTUS pared this down to the narrow grounds decided on today, arguing that the 9th Circuit had some obligation to do that is bullshit.
masaccio says:
The dissenter says that Prop 8 only bars the designation of marriage for same-sex couples, but does not affect their rights to all of the core legal rights and privileges of the status of marriage. Is that right?
@masaccio: Eh, I am not sure it is 100% right in every regard, but within the state of California itself, yes it is arguably pretty close. California has had very liberal domestic partner rights since early 2000’s. This view, however, does not account for the fact that having it be recognized as a state sanctioned “marriage” may give stronger rights to California citizen same-sex couples when they travel out of state – or at least a more sound legal basis for arguing for the same.
jo6pac says:
Thanks bmz and all commenter’s for the Great impute and how sad from an old straight white guy we just can’t come to grips with others loving one another no matter sex, religion, or race. It seems at this time in Amerika we are moving backwards at in creditable pace on all accounts on the human race:(
it’s a start. Again.
There was a Facebook commenter at the LA Times who kept trying the slippery-slope argument that this will make marriage legal between two close relatives. I saw him bring it up three times, and each time he was told that it was a slippery-slope argument and that incest is already covered by law. Someone else in another set of comments was arguing that it’s a states’ rights issue and states should be allowed to make their own laws. (I hope someone hit that commenter with the Full Faith and credit clause, as well as the other amendments on civil rights.)
@jo6pac: Never.Give.Up.
@jo6pac: Well, I think it is still a step forward; just a lot smaller one that should have occurred. Baby steps.
Bob Schacht says:
@bmaz: BMAZ, did you catch Ted Olson on Rachel Maddow tonight? He was claiming that the decision today was *broad,* not narrow. Also, he predicted that it will go to the Supremes.
Maddow also had Dahlia Lithwick on, discussing the same case. She saw some linkage with the DOMA cases moving through the courts. They also discussed the extent to which Vaughn Walker’s decision, and this one, are letters to Judge Kennedy.
I’d appreciate if you’d review the segment and let us know what you thought of his perspective.
Bob in AZ
@rosalind: (for anyone interested, a video of the Wael Ghonim talk is here)
burnt says:
Hey, at bmaz’s request I have made a searchable version of the Prop 8 decision. I’m old school and a closet Luddite so the document is sitting in here:
https://public.me.com/seanburns
It’s named Prop8searchable.pdf
You’ll find it nestled among a bunch of searchable torture-related docs from back in the Firedoglake days. Marcy found gold in one of them (long ago replaced with a sanitized version) when she found the un-redacted name of the guy running the Salt Pit. What was his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue. Let me see it was Mr. …
marblex says:
The 9ths decision was based solely on whether the state, once having recognized a right, can then repeal or eliminate it. In accordance with Romer the 9th held that the answer is “no.”
Though Vaugh’s opinion was directed toward the substantive issue of whether same gender couples should have the right to marry under the EP clause of the 14th amendment, the 9th’s decision did not reach the merits of that issue.
It was enough for the court of appeal to seize on the fact that both in the language of Prop 8 itself as well as on the California Supreme Court’s reading of Prop 8, the initiative was designed to take away a right.
Rights, by definition and nature are inalienable and inviolate. Accordingly they cannot be “granted” so much as “acknowledged” and once acknowledged by the state, cannot be removed by legislative or judicial fiat or popular vote.
It seems unlikely that SCOTUS will bother to take the matter up as it already issued its opinion in Romer. Thus, unless SCOTUS finds that the 9th circuit misread or misapplied Romer a successful appeal is unlikely.
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Project Minaret 2.0: Now, with 58% More Illegal Targeting!
January 22, 2014 /6 Comments/in FISA, PATRIOT /by emptywheel
For weeks, I have been trying to figure out why the NSA, in a training program it created in August 2009, likened one of its “present abuses” to Project Minaret. What “unauthorized targeting of suspected terrorists in the US” had they been doing, I wondered, that was like “watch-listing U.S. people for evidence of foreign influence.”
Until, in a fit of only marginally related geekdom, I re-read the following passage in Keith Alexander’s declaration accompanying the End-to-End review submitted to the FISA Court on August 19, 2009 (that is, around the same time as the training program).
Between 24 May 2006 and 2 February 2009, NSA Homeland Mission Coordinators (HMCs) or their predecessors concluded that approximately 3,000 domestic telephone identifiers reported to Intelligence Community agencies satisfied the RAS standard and could be used as seed identifiers. However, at the time these domestic telephone identifiers were designated as RAS-approved, NSA’s OGC had not reviewed and approved their use as “seeds” as required by the Court’s Orders. NSA remedied this compliance incident by re-designating all such telephone identifiers as non RAS-approved for use as seed identifiers in early February 2009. NSA verified that although some of the 3,000 domestic identifiers generated alerts as a result of the Telephony Activity Detection Process discussed above, none of those alerts resulted in reports to Intelligence Community agencies. 7
7 The alerts generated by the Telephony Activity Detection Process did not then and does not now, feed the NSA counterterrorism target knowledge database described in Part I.A.3 below. [my emphasis]
As I’ll explain below, this passage means 3,000 US persons were watch-listed without the NSA confirming that they hadn’t been watch-listed because of their speech, religion, or political activity.
Here’s the explanation.
The passage actually appears in an entirely different part (PDF 37, document 81) of Alexander’s declaration from his discussion of the alert list violations (PDF 30, document 74) that started the review of the phone dragnet program. But given the February (2009) timing and the discussion of Telephony Activity Detection alerts, this passage clearly addresses alerts violations.
Before I parse the passage, a few reminders about the NSA’s multiple metadata dragnets and the alert system.
The NSA has an interlocking system of metadata query interfaces which we now know mix EO 12333 collected data with data collected under the US based phone and Internet dragnet programs. Data collected overseas is dumped in with data collected directly from Verizon.
The interlocking system apparently does a lot of nifty things, one of which is to alert NSA if any of a watch-list of numbers have had certain kinds of phone activity in the previous day (the NSA has not explained what it does when it receives such alerts, which is part of the issue here). There were over 17,000 people on that list when the NSA first started cleaning up its phone dragnet problem.
The problem with having all that data mixed up in one system is that the standards for access are different based on where the data came from. For EO 12333 collected data (the data collected overseas) there’s a foreign intelligence assumption that requires only a valid foreign intelligence purpose; this data can be accessed fairly broadly.
Whereas both the phone (BR) and Internet (PR/TT) dragnets — in which the data was collected by legal process in the United States — require “Homeland [ack!] Mission Coordinators” within the NSA to sign off on a claim that there is Reasonable Articulable Suspicion that the identifier belongs to someone with a tie to certain approved terror (and Iran) groups — it’s basically a digital stop-and-frisk standard signed off by a manager.
That difference between EO 12333 and domestic dragnets created the first problem with the alert list: 90% of the people on the alert list had not had that bureaucratic sign-off, and so should not have been used with the BR phone dragnet data at all. That’s the part of the alert problem we hear most about.
But in addition to the “RAS approval” step for the BR phone dragnet, there’s an additional bureaucratic step for US persons.
The statute only permits Section 215 to be used against Americans,
provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution.
The FISC orders (here’s the one in place when NSA first started admitting the problem) accomplished that by reiterating that restriction (7-8) and mandating that,
NSA’s OGC shall review and must approve proposed queries of archived metadata based on “seed” telephone identifiers reasonably believed to be used by U.S. persons before any query is conducted. (8-9)
Note the “archived metadata” language. The NSA maintained that since the alert process happened as the data came into the database, that didn’t count as a query of archived metadata. Judge Walton was not impressed.
The NSA had to get its lawyers to sign off on an assertion that the US person identifiers they were using to query the database had not been selected based solely on their religion, their speech, or political activity.
In other words, before NSA could use that US person’s identifier either to query the dragnet (which produces a three-degrees of Osama bin Laden report) or to generate alerts, they should have had it RAS-approved by a Homeland [sic] Mission Coordinator and undergo a First Amendment review at OGC.
When I was first learning how to write effective bureaucratic documents 20 years ago, I learned that “shall” is the only magic word that can make people do what they’re supposed to do; it’s the only thing that conveys legal obligation. Apparently it didn’t work out that way in this case, because 3,000 US persons — 58% more people than were on the Project Minaret watchlist, which extended over 3 more years — were on (at a minimum) the alert list without that First Amendment review.
3,000 US persons (that is, either permanent residents or American citizens) were having their communications tracked because of a stop-and-frisk standard suspected tie to terrorism, without NSA affirming that they weren’t being tracked because they were politically active Muslims or similar protected behavior.
Retrospectively, it’s now clear that this exposure of Americans without First Amendment review was chief among Reggie Walton’s concerns when he first responded to the dragnet. It’s equally clear that Walton was just learning about the EO 12333 data on the alert list, including that US persons might be included on it.
The preliminary notice from DOJ states that the alert list includes telephone identifiers that have been tasked for collection in accordance with NSA’s SIGINT authority. What standard is applied for tasking telephone identifiers under NSA’s SIGINT authority? Does NSA, pursuant to its SIGINT authority, task telephone identifiers associated with United States persons? If so, does NSA limit such identifiers to those that were not selected solely upon the basis of First Amendment protected activities?
DOJ and Keith Alexander were in no rush to answer Walton’s question — the only unredacted response to his question about what happened with US persons The NSA explained,
Additionally, NSA determined that in all instances where a U.S. identifier served as the initial seed identifier for a report (22 of the 275 reports), the initial U.S. seed identifier was either already the subject of FISC-approved surveillance under the FISA or had been reviewed by NSA’s OGC to ensure that the RAS determination was not based solely on a U.S. person’s first amendment-protected activities.
That response was dated February 12, 2009, so Walton’s response may have been to point out that alerts were effectively queries and a bunch of Americans were being tracked illegally. Note, too, that they’re only telling Walton about queries that resulted in report to the FBI or some other agency; they’re not denying that these identifiers were used for queries, which would have resulted in the numbers of their contacts being dumped into the corporate store forever.
But there are a few more details from Alexander’s declaration, above, that should cause us concern:
Rather than review these selectors to see if they had been selected based on their speech, religion, or politics, NSA’s OGC simply moved them into a category — non-RAS approved — where such restrictions no longer applied. I would suggest their unwillingness to do such a review is rather striking.
“Some of the 3,000 domestic identifiers generated alerts as a result of the Telephony Activity Detection Process.” They shouldn’t have been matched up against the incoming phone dragnet data, but it appears they were, and did produce those kinds of alerts, though NSA rather conspicuously declines to tell us how many people that happened to and how often. We don’t know what happened to these 3,000 US person or the people they communicated with after NSA discovered these daily contacts.
The footnote notes that being on the alert list does not automatically put one in the “counterterrorism target knowledge database,” NSA’s tracker for suspected terrorists. But the footnote doesn’t say that they weren’t put in that database, potentially in part because of the alerts. Moreover, these “approximately 3,000 domestic telephone identifiers” had already gotten “reported to Intelligence Community agencies.” While NSA makes much out of the fact that no query reports got sent on to the FBI and other agencies, that’s sort of moot, because the identifiers, if not the names, already had been.
Mind you, to get disseminated to other agencies, these US person identities (if they were treated as such) would need to get sign-off for their intelligence value. Which is why I find OGC’s solution — to avoid doing a First Amendment review on them at all — so suspicious. Because high ranking NSA personnel had already done a review, and for some reason were unwilling to do further scrutiny.
3,000 US persons were on a watchlist, potentially because of their religion, politics, or speech. The NSA itself appears to have seen the similarities with Project Minaret, decades earlier.
But we keep hearing there were no abuses.
Updated erroneous link to Keith Alexander declaration.
Update, March 11: The NSA actually did provide more response on EO 12333 collection to Walton, which I hope to return to.
Tags: EO 12333, Keith Alexander, Project Minaret, Reggie Walton
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it should be clear by now that evasion of legal limits is the primary focus of the nsa.
there is no law or regulation these spying executives and their lawyer-advisors will not evade.
there is no lie they will not tell.
their deceptive behavior is feed by the fact that there is no penalty for any lie a nsa officials tells, whether that official is
– lying to a federal court,
– lying to the corporate media,
– lying to the congress,
– lying to the whitehouse, or
– lying to the ametican people.
on the surface, the nsa appears to operate on a web of “legal authorizations” by congress and the president.
as it has evolved, however, many of the nsa’s “authorizations” were self- generated either thru
– deceit and lies to the court and congress (and probably the executive)
– self-authorizing, self-serving, intetpretations of existing law and rules.
it is this latter category, nsa self-authorization thru logical/semantic manipulation of existing authority, that has given the nsa the hundreds of outlaw opportunities the it has exploited.
there is no way to regulate a spying organization that lies publicly with impunity and that issues with impunity its own authorizations for its illegal undertakings.
Nice piece of sleuthing Marcy. You’re amazing. A Minaret turned into a Maxaret. They knew what they’d done wrong. Interesting that all vestiges of renunciation of domestic spying abuses have not been stamped out, yet. It seems this fish really has rotted from the head.
“Homeland Mission Coordinator” indeed. As in the Homeland Mission Coordinator after listening to your conversations will arrange for the middle of the night knock on the door and your transportation to an unknown site for indefinite secret detention. Or, the HMC will arrange targeting for your own personal drone sortie. Orwell would approve.
CTuttle says:
Charlie Savage… Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End
A doctor friend of mine with ER experience once pointed me to Samuel Shem’s book “” — a biting satirical take on medical education. As a part of the book, a senior resident provides his wisdom to the newbies in a series of Laws, number 10 of which is this: If you don’t take a temperature, you can’t find a fever.
The background to this law, per the book, is simple (and also ugly, but that’s another story). If an ER patient has a temp above X, the hospital has to admit the patient which is expensive, especially if they don’t have insurance. If you (the doc) know in your gut (says the law) that the patient has a condition which can be treated with pills and the patient sent home, just do it. Don’t take their temp to confirm your diagnosis, because then we might have to admit them.
If you don’t take a temperature, you can’t find a fever.
Something tells me that Alexander’s General Counsel has this framed and hung on the wall in his office.
Dredd says:
The states of Washington & Tennessee might be on to something very American, and a solution to the problem.
Nightstalker says:
Well a 2009 abuse wouldn’t have involved Doug Hagmann or Larry Klayman’s clients the gold star family of Michael Strange. Presumably even journalists critical of the NSA haven’t followed up on those documented, sworn (either in federal court or in an affidavit) testimony about OpMinaret-style abuses in the present.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55649
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/politics/larry-klayman-plaintiff-in-nsa-case-savors-victory.html?pagewanted=2
NYT reports Judge Leon’s refusal to debate whether NSA had ‘messed with’ Klayman and his clients via electronic harassment, bogus text messages and emails
Admittedly, the fact that Hagmann as an outspoken Christian conservative also doubts the the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate and is big on the whole ‘New World Order’ thing probably doesn’t help him much with the New York Times…hopefully if there’s another Snowden out there he’ll know how to look up the names Hagmann/Rosen/Risen/Klayman/Strange and not get immediately blackbagged before getting out the door with the hard document proof that NSA has in fact targeted the individuals who’ve sworn as eyewitnesses that they were targeted. Ditto for those files Dick Cheney’s contacts at NSA supposedly were compiling that Russ Tice saw back in 2004 that included then newly elected Senator Barack Obama…
My guess is the reason the Establishment has been so desperate to discredit Snowden as a Russian or ChiCom spy is because Booz Allen and other outside contractors have been key to waging OpMinaret 2.0 with plausible deniability. If they’d ever been caught the NSA would simply insist it was instituting new procedural checks on contractors to ensure it wouldn’t happen again, and blame it on outside contractors rather than the folks at the top. Snowden again reiterated that point in his question time today and I’m glad he emphasized that we needn’t fear lower level NSA employees who actually do face periodic audits, but the people at the top who know how to bypass them and work off the books, using BAH or other proxies.
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What Michael Flynn’s DIA Imputes to Facts We Know How NSA Spies on First Amendment Protected Speech: The EO 12333 Loophole
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The Final 3 in the Home Stretch
I can just SMELL the unity in this last few days before the vote... the blogosphere is practically overheating with the vitriol that's being bandied about between Dinning and Morton supporters. Stelmach supporters are conspicuous by their good behaviour.
Thought I'd look at the Final 3, profile their typical supporter, and then break down exactly what, in my view, they need to do in the next 4 days to become Alberta's next Premier. Last point on each candidate is what kind of Alberta you'll likely see a year from now, should they win.
Jim Dinning
Typical supporter: Lives in or near a big city. Either does well, or does EXTREMELY well, come pay-day. Is a moderate socially, believing that government shouldn’t be swayed by religious groups into wading into social and values issues. Is a fiscal conservative, believing that spending has gotten out of hand, and will support cuts in the name of efficiency.
In order to win – must go on the offensive against Morton’s past positions and policy, and not get personal - remember the lessons you learned from Nancy Betkowski's personal attacks against Ralph, Jimbo. Needs to paint himself as the last line of defence against “Morton’s Agenda”, and encourage Stelmach voters to make him their 2nd choice, so that Stelmach supporters “still have a chance at the Alberta that Ed Stelmach wants to see” if Ed finishes 3rd in the 2nd ballot.
In 1 year… we'll have had a budget come out that starts to form a picture for us of the actual policy of the Dinning administration. Premier Dinning will have just completed an exhaustive routine of advisory board meetings, and we'll nearly be done a full audit of the government books. We'll be a year or less from a general election, and still wondering EXACTLY where we stand as a Party. Ted Morton will be working for the PMO or will be leading a hungry-for-blood Alberta Alliance. Ed Stelmach will be a big-portfolio minister, and the head of the Northern Caucus.
Ted Morton
Typical supporter is a person of faith, living in the suburbs or on an acreage. Has significantly higher-than-average income, is near retirement or a parent in a young family. Is married, and heavily favours "traditional values", which they feel the rest of the province should share. Has voted Reform, Canadian Alliance, and Conservative as long as any of them has been an option. A gun lives at their home. Registry papers have never lived with it.
In order to win, Ted needs to continue selling memberships like he's trying to get into heaven. He also needs to hammer home his "big tent conservatism" message, and rely heavily on his supporters in the federal Tory caucus and their organization to recruit, sign up, and deliver votes come Saturday. He also needs to reach out to Stelmach supporters, and continue to paint Dinning's policies as liberal, without being quite so negative towards the man himself.
In 1 year… we'll be in a constitutional quagmire about Same-Sex Marriage, and fighting our idealogical cousins in Ottawa over the imminent, gigantic middle finger we're about to flip them over the Canada Health Act. Quebec will hate us, and by proxy hate the Federal Tories, which will likely leave Alberta on the outside after the smoke clears on the next Federal Election and the Liberals ride Quebec's disgust with Alberta back to power. The PC Party and caucus will split, with the Red Tories and Dinning faithful MLA's forming something like the "Alberta Progressive Party", and the resulting vote split may result in Alberta's first minority legislature in... well... ever, I think. We'll know exactly when the next provincial election will be. Jim Dinning will be working in the energy sector, and Ed Stelmach will be a big-name member of the Alberta Progressives.
Typical supporter lives on a farm or in Edmonton (yes, Calgarians, there's a difference). Is happily married, older children or empty nesters. Makes an average wage, and works long hours to make it. Believes that government should collect taxes, supply neccesary services, and otherwise leave citizens the hell alone. Is generally happy with their life, but distrusts the power elite.
In order to win – must continue painting himself as the common man, and the underdog. Has to drive home the logic of his positions, rather than sounding like the ideologue that his opponents are painting each other as. Stay away from mud-slinging the other 2 camps are doing. Appeal to Edmonton and rural voters, without coming across as hostile to southern Alberta or Calgary (so as not to cost himself any previous votes from down South). Absolutely MUST have those who endorsed him get the vote out for him – it’s his only shot at covering the ground (11,000 voters PLUS) between himself and the leaders, who are both selling memberships, and extending that lead, like mad.
In 1 year… the oil patch will be slowing minutely, and with it Alberta's economy. Roads will be mid-construction, and the health care system will be reviewing operations to see how to streamline delivery of services. The agricultural sector will be ecstatic, with new production capacity on-line for cattle producers. Jim Dinning will be an executive working out of Calgary or, more likely, Toronto. Ted Morton will be leading the Alberta Alliance, screaming for democratic reform and organizing to prepare for the first outcome-unsure provincial election in almost 40 years.
kevin from the country said...
Marvellous commentary. Bang on, all of it. I've appreciated your evenhanded insight since I began following your blog. Lends me perspective as I work from a more partisan stance.
Nov. 29, 2006, 7:17:00 a.m.
Ken Chapman said...
Great analysis yet again...and we can sure use the levity too.
How did you research this? Did you read the tea leaves and tarot cards of a focus group of each candidate supoprters...or do you just make it up? :-}
Nov. 30, 2006, 1:12:00 p.m.
Ken: Personal observation. Plus, some of my friends read tarot. ;)
Let’s get ready to RUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMBLE!
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Review - Leadership Candidates
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Obamacare not in 'death spiral' because people value it
Lesley Russell
Obamacare, although imperfect, was soundly constructed and thoughtfully implemented. It has withstood constitutional challenges and survived endless Congressional votes to repeal and amend it. Republicans talk only about its problems and the Trump Administration has worked hard to sabotage it further, but the fact is that Obamacare is not in a 'death spiral'. It is working surprisingly well.
No minister is an island
Three Commonwealth ministers faced the Victorian Court of Appeal on 16 June to make submissions as to why they shouldn't be charged with contempt of court. This extraordinary occurrence arose because the ministers made public comments about a sentencing matter still under deliberation. Andrew Hamilton has in these pages looked at how the ministers' comments might offend the presumption of innocence. However, there is a further issue at stake - a question of good government.
Unsocial budget fails health test
Amy Coopes
Next year marks four decades since promulgation of the seminal Declaration of Alma Ata, which declared health to be a fundamental human right and laid the foundations for what are now widely championed as the social determinants of health. Without action on the social determinants, health policy can be a little like that joke about the cyclopean orthopod who, when confronted with a patient suffering fatal internal bleeding, is interested only in fixing their broken leg. So it is with last week's Budget.
Environment groups face fight for their lives
By the time polls close Saturday, tens of thousands of voters in marginal seats will have received 'election scorecards' from environment groups. Almost all will rate the Liberal Party worse than Labor or the Greens on a range of issues, from protecting the Great Barrier Reef to encouraging investment in clean energy. Privately, some Liberal candidates will be seething - and, if the Coalition wins, they'll have the means for brutal revenge.
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Pub test is a kangaroo court for victims of racial hate
Arguments for repealing 18C ignore the symbolic force of law in an imperfect society in which we live. In public life the One Nation Party, which is able to exert some influence on legislation in a fragmented parliament, regularly criticises Muslims. These views are also retailed by commentators in some mainstream media. They increase the anxiety of immigrants from Muslim nations. In such a context any weakening of 18C will be seen as the declaration of open season against such groups.
What the sharia is all the fuss about?
Once upon a time, a proud dad in Dandenong could name his son Jihad, with its ancient meaning of 'striving' in the path of God. Now he might choose a different name to avoid future discrimination. 'Shari'a' has come to mean the forced imposition of medieval punishments on cowering populations, while 'halal' is the torture of sheep and cows. These words have been stolen from ordinary Muslims, the vast majority of the world's second largest religion. I blame three groups for this.
Hansonism is normal and everything is not fine
This is not the beginning of the normalisation of Hanson and One Nation: it's the end. In a piece for The Monthly, Dominic Kelly highlighted how large swaths of the rightwing commentariat have embraced the 'more mature', 'disciplined' and 'principled' Hanson 2.0. Despite this rhetoric, for the Right, appeasing One Nation has always been a balancing act. They're guided by one question: How much racism is permissible before it has to be condemned?
We all benefit from having migrant workers
There's not enough jobs because foreigners are stealing them. Wages aren't going up because foreigners drag them down. Graduates aren't finding positions because skilled worker visas are being given out too easily. Such answers are potent in pockets of Australian society that would rather blame outsiders than demand their government create new jobs, lift the minimum wage, improve work conditions and training, and mediate skills transfers from industries that are contracting, such as mining.
Uprooting toxic inequality
In itself inequality is not harmful. It is part of the diversity proper in any human society. But the inequality that is now in question is toxic because it is extreme when measured by any scale, and because it is programmed to increase. It is self-perpetuating and self-intensifying. The increase of wealth of the few entails the marginalisation and impoverishment of others. Inequality is the enduring root and not the transient blossom of the plant of social division.
Obama built the foundations for Trump's Muslim ban
The right wingers who support stripping people of their visas, and separating families in the process, have a point when they say that the US government is not beginning a new persecution, but merely continuing and deepening the persecutions of their predecessors. While previous administrations were more subtle in their actions than Trump's, it is undoubtedly true that the nationals now picked for sanction were those who were already targeted for visa penalties in the Obama years.
Sifting the scat of Trump's first ten days
The shape Trump's presidency is beginning to be discernible. The likely deepening of inequality, the disregard for universal human rights and for the international and national responsibilities that flow from them, the contempt for the environment and for evidence based research, and the debasement of political speech promise a more divided society in a more divided world. In such a noisy and staccato atmosphere the beginnings of an appropriate response lie in not responding to every tweet.
The year our leaders doubled down on doubling down
Mark Hearn
2016 was a bumper year for the political double down. Journalist Mark Kenny witnessed a dramatic manifestation: 'Mr Abbott was seen to double down on his recent indirect messaging to Mr Turnbull about a possible return to the frontbench.' A combined 'double down with indirect messaging': perhaps a uniquely Abbott adaptation. Doubling down - otherwise known as repeating yourself - is the public language of aggressive redundancy, drowning out alternative voices and ideas.
The Australian bureaucratic Mean Virus is epidemic
'Take that out of your mouth, I have to touch that,' barked the Border Protection officer, glaring at me. I'd been juggling bags, boarding tickets, and a passenger exit card, so my passport was positioned precariously between my lips. I wondered if there was a class for teaching them how to be that special mix of forcefully domineering and nasty. It's not just at airports that ordinary people are increasingly feeling a sense of helplessness in the face of bureaucratic antagonism.
The problem of privilege in Australia Day billboard furore
Tseen Khoo
The removal of an Australia Day billboard featuring two girls in hijabs prompted a swell of support against Islamophobia. Alongside this was a backlash from those who read the action as forcing Muslim Australians to be complicit in the oppression of Indigenous peoples. My unease came from seeing intra-community tension manifest as dismissal and denigration of those who were considered not 'woke' enough to the politics and embedded racism surrounding invocations of Australian identity.
My mother's burqa: an irreverent history
Some of my South Asian 'aunties' are very much opposed to wearing any religious head covering. Mum has only recently started wearing a tiny Egyptian number she picked up during her last Haj. Like many South Asians, she has become a bit more religiously observant as she gets older. She grew up in the Indian university town of Aligarh, some 140km South East of Delhi. Aligarh was a very conservative town, and her father, a professor at the local university, was a rather conservative chap.
When we give ourselves permission
It is hard to overstate the sort of things that become permissible when the dominant political culture appeals to our darker nature. Take the cascade of brutality in the Philippines, or the stream of hateful incidents in the US. In Australia, white supremacist groups staged 'victory rallies' after the US election, and posters appeared last weekend at Melbourne University telling 'dunecoons, shitskins, niggers, chinks' to get out. This permissiveness isn't just about Trump, though he is a catalyst.
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Home Features Opinion John Riceburg: Holiday fun at Ikea
John Riceburg: Holiday fun at Ikea
by John Riceburg
On the scene. Photo by John Riceburg
Ikea protests
There is so much to do at Ikea! You can grab a new lamp for the living room. Or pick up a whisk for that colleague you don’t know well. And there’s a playroom for the kids. Plus, don’t forget the bistro! But what if you were drinking your coffee and you heard a loud whistle? What if more than 50 people in black t-shirts stood up and began to demonstrate through the store? What would you do?!?
Well, that’s one form of alternative Xmas entertainment: strike!
The strikes in the retail sector continue. Agreements between the trade unions and the business associations have been reached in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. But Berlin retailers are insisting on maintaining unequal pay between the outlets in the former West and East. That’s right, 24 years after the fall of the Wall, you still earn less money if you work at the Thalia bookshop at Schönhauser Allee (in the East) than at the Thalia bookshop at Gesundbrunnen (in the West). That one stop on the Ringbahn will cost you €1 per hour in wages.
Yesterday, about 50 people – workers from Ikea and H&M as well as student supporters – paid a visit to Ikea in Tempelhof during a strike day. They all sat down in the restaurant for coffee. After the whistle, they opened jackets to show t-shirts with a heart logo of the trade union ver.di. They were asked to leave, but – you know how Ikea is set up – that involves following a long, snaking path through the entire store. They handed out fliers to customers and distributed door hangers informing customers that “this business is on strike”. A small herd of yellow-shirted employees followed behind to remove everything again.
German law makes it possible for a trade union to enter a business that is officially on strike. So while the security asked the strikers to leave – sometimes with a smile, sometimes with rudeness one wouldn’t expect inside the "Ikea family" – they couldn’t do much more. When one got out his phone and threatened to call the police, his colleague whispered: “As long as they’re not bothering anyone, we really can’t do anything.” The customers assured them that the information on the strike was interesting: “I work at the supermarket Netto and they’re not bothering me,” one woman said of the activists. It seems that low wages in the retail sector affect more than just Ikea employees.
If you happen to see a strike while doing your Xmas shopping, whether it’s at a clothing shop, a supermarket, or a giant blue and yellow furniture store, remember to say hi to the strikers, help them hand out fliers, and leave your goods at the register. You can get that cheap whisk on any other day. But you can only stand up for decent wages in the retail sector on a strike day!
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Review: Dreams of Gods and Monsters - Laini Taylor
By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.
Common enemy, common cause.
When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.
And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.
But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.
What power can bruise the sky?
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?
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I absolutely adore Laini Taylor's writing style and I have devoured loved all of the books in this series like they were made of the most delicious, decadent chocolate. So it'll come as no surprise when I say that I had high expectations for the final book in the trilogy, in fact my expectations were so high that I was almost scared to start reading Dreams of Gods and Monsters because I was worried that there was no way it would be able to live up to them. I can't even begin to tell you how much it pains me to say this but unfortunately my fears did kind of come true.
I don't want to say that this was a horrible novel because it really, really wasn't BUT it didn't quite manage to reach the highs of the earlier books. It still has Laini Taylor's beautiful, descriptive writing and it still has the characters we've come to know and love so much but I did find the story dragged in places and there were actually times when I wanted to put the book down and walk away which is unheard of for me with this series. I was torn between giving this book a 3 and 4 star rating but the parts I loved I REALLY loved so I've been generous and gone with the higher number.
I have been rooting for Karou & Akiva since the very beginning but I was nervous that there was no way they would be able to find their way back to each other after everything they had both seen and done. There has been betrayal and hurt on both sides and it isn't going to be easy for either of them to get past that. Not to mention the fact that they're both on opposite sides of a war that has been raging for centuries. Even if they want to be together they would have to leave everyone else that they love and care about for that to happen, unless they can find a way to make the chimaera and angels work together. Now that both sides have a common enemy and both stand little chance of surviving unless they put their differences aside they are closer to a truce than they have ever been in the past but that doesn't mean putting aside over a thousand years of hatred is going to be easy and it's going to take a lot of patience on both sides if they are going to have a chance of success.
I absolutely loved the way the author brings the two sides together, it isn't an easy truce and there are times when I feared it wouldn't be successful but it is so cleverly written that it was believable that these enemies would be able to put the past behind them even if it is only temporarily. I loved seeing Karou and Akiva working together to achieve their goals, this is something they have dreamed of since they first met a whole lifetime ago and now it is finally within reach. The story contains heart-stopping action, some unexpected twists and moments that absolutely broke my heart. I was a sobbing, hysterical mess during some scenes and towards the end I was crying tears of happiness. Laini Taylor pulled on my heart strings for sure and it's the fact that she can make me so invested in the lives of her characters that made me go with the higher rating for this story.
It isn't only Karou and Akiva that I'm invested in though, I also absolutely adore Zuzana, Mik, Ziri, Issa and Liraz and was just as keen to see how things would play out for them too. It's unusual for a series to have so many side characters that I become attached to and I desperately wanted all of my favourites to get a happy ending. I fell more in love with these characters throughout this book seeing their loyalty to Karou, Akiva and each other. They are all willing to risk everything in the hope of achieving peace in Eretz and risks like that aren't always rewarded so I was incredibly nervous about how things would play out.
As you can see there was a lot to love about Dreams of Gods and Monsters so you're probably wondering why I was disappointed. I don't really want to dwell on the negative but I hated that so much of the story was told from the point of view of a complete stranger. Eliza's character seems to have been included here as a convenient way of tying certain plot threads together and it felt like she had been added on as an afterthought. I had no connection to her because I've not spent the previous two books getting to know her. Quite frankly I couldn't care less about her and the chapters that were from her point of view left me feeling bored and irritated. I wasn't interested in the pointless drama between her and a work colleague and I could have done without learning her family history. I just wanted to get back to Karou & Akiva or any of the other characters I love.
Towards the end of the book I also found myself getting incredibly irritated at the way things kept contriving to keep Karou and Akiva apart. The will they / won't they pull between them has kept me hooked throughout the whole series but there comes a point when it starts to get a little ridiculous and overdone. I just think there was a point at about three quarters of the way into the book where it would have been nice for things to come together for them. Then you add in the fact that the series doesn't really have an absolute resolution, although a lot of lose threads have been tied up to me it definitely felt that things have been left open for a sequel and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. I just think if we hadn't had Eliza added to the mix we could have trimmed a good hundred or more (boring) pages from the story and also had a more resolved ending. If the story had been tightened up like that it would have been a much more gripping and addictive read and I think I'd probably have finished it in one sitting.
Like I said I don't want to dwell on the negative though because even though Dreams of Gods and Monsters wasn't my favourite book this is still one of my favourite series and Laini Taylor is definitely an amazing author. A not so good book from her is still better than most of the other books out there so when I rate this a 3.5 star read by her standards that's probably still the equivalent of 5 star books by many other authors. If you haven't started the series yet then I honestly can't recommend Daughter of Smoke and Bone highly enough, I reread the previous books before starting this one and I loved them even more the second time around. There is no doubt that I will buy anything Laini Taylor writes in the future, I can't think of another author who writes so beautifully and I'm excited to see what she comes up with next.
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AutoDuel becomes MotorGun, picks up Gears of War’s Lee Perry, launches Kickstarter
July 16, 2013 — by AJ Glasser
Indie developer Pixelbionic has a lot going on this week: Its game gets a name change, a new designer behind the wheel, and a just-launched Kickstarter campaign seeking $650,000 in funding in the next 31 days.
Pixelbionic’s game started life earlier this year as Autoduel, an online combat car game that sounds like a cross between Twisted Metal, Interstate ’76, and Guild Wars. Players customize cars and form teams to do battle and complete other objectives to earn more customization options and materials. Co-founders Mike Arkin and Maxx Kaufman were later joined by Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe and Interstate ’76 creator Zack Norman, for an extra dose of authentic car battle game DNA.
Now renamed MotorGun, Pixelbionic’s team picks up Gears of War and Unreal Tournament Lead Designer Lee Perry to uphold the creative direction of the game and bolster its battlegrounds. Perry plans to design an exclusive battleground for backers as part of the campaign’s stretch goals.
Navigating Kickstarter for a first-time developer isn’t easy, but Pixelbionic has a wealth of successful games campaigns to learn from. Co-founder Arkin (pictured, right) told Gamesauce that the team even received personal mentoring from Wasteland 2‘s Brian Fargo (which closed with over $2.9 million in funding on a $900,000 goal) and HEX’s Cory Jones (closed at over $2.2 million on a $300,000 goal).
“We are very lucky that there have been some great Kickstarters before us,” Arkin said. “We’re trying very hard to take all the lessons that those people have communicated to us and use the advice wisely.”
Over the last eight months, Arkin and his team have planned out goals and rewards for its Kickstarter campaign. Aside from Perry’s exclusive battlegrounds for backers, the upper tiers of funding grant backers exclusive cars as well as access to the beta and even the alpha version of MotorGun. Lower tiers get access to the game when it launches and an MP3 of the game’s soundtrack.
The stumbling block many first-timers encounter is pledging more than they can deliver either in content or physical rewards. Arkin says the team is aware of this obstacle and that he and Kaufman have done the math to avoid it.
“Max and I are experienced developers and we’ve planned the project and budgeted very carefully,” he said. “We’ve been conservative about the features that we’re promising and the stretch goals where we can announce new features we’ve already planned.”
MotorGun is targeting an October 2014 release. After the Kickstarter campaign closes, players can still pay for the game or make donations on Pixelbionic’s site.
“Once it launches, we plan to add content – more battlegrounds, more vehicles, more parts, more game modes,” Arkin said. “We plan to keep adding things… until we stop.”
Look for Arkin at Casual Connect this month during the Day 3 Free 2 Play track and on the floor of the Indie Prize Showcase.
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Love at first sight is such a wonderful idea. However, how many of us have experienced it in real life? The answer is “rarely”. If anything, we have mostly seen those occurrences in dramas. Why bother making another drama where a man and a woman cross paths coincidentally and suddenly fall in love? Therefore, this drama plans to show the viewers something more relatable – love that blooms in our everyday lives. This drama shows how a familiar relationship turns into a fluttering relationship, how a friendship suddenly turns into love, and how a once dull life suddenly becomes blinding due to love. This drama is about a man and a woman who have nothing more to share thanks to their completely different personalities. However, they have no idea whom they are in love with. Gradually, they rediscover themselves and reach out for love one step at a time.
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The prohibition of age discrimination: a “cultural revolution”?
by Elise Muir
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The prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age constitutes a “cultural revolution” for the French society. Employers and public authorities, accustomed to relying upon age criteria to articulate their employment and policy choices for years, now have to modify their approach. What is the specificity of “age” by comparison with other “suspect” criteria? How does French law tackle this type of discrimination? Who is better placed to decide on the legitimacy of differences of treatment on grounds of age?In this working paper, Elise Muir provides a legal analysis of the issues raised by the fight against discrimination on grounds of age in employment, as identified in the round table that took place at the Fondation on November 19.
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French citizens are increasingly dissatisfied with the representative system, whether in terms of election procedures or of the relatively stagnant choice of candidates from a professionalized political class. How can France manage to better represent society through its elective system? What would it take to turn grassroot protest movements into constructive influence on public policies?This […]
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The 5s Framework
The 5 - S Framework of Site Conservation Planning, a structured Conservation Project Management process conceptual model developed by the Nature Conservancy (TNC), was adopted by the MPT in developing the Conservation Plan for FMU 10.
The 5 - S framework helps to systematically focus conservation action on priority biodiversity and critical threats in a dynamic, adaptive process involving setting the geographic and threat priorities, developing strategies, taking action, and measuring the conservation impact (TNC 2000).
This framework allows for a participatory planning process involving partners and stakeholders. The dynamics in the subsequent planning process using the 5 - S Framework could be summarised as follows:
Stresses
Sources of Stress
Success Measures
Systems are the conservation targets and supporting ecological processes that will be the focus for site conservation planning and measuring conservation success. Targets include species that are endangered, declining, rare or of special concern, major groupings of species, ecological communities or groupings of co-occurring species, and ecological systems (TNC 2000).
The selection process typically starts with ecological systems and communities, and then the process adds species that have a particular value in representing biodiversity or sensitivity to threats at the project, such as wide-ranging, indicator, keystone, or umbrella species. The viability assessment begins with identifying key ecological attributes for each element, that is, the critical component of its life history, physical or biological processes, composition, structure, or the spatial and temporal scales of distribution.
Next, viability indicators are selected; these are measurable entities used to assess the status of key ecological attributes. Finally, indicator-rating categories are developed. These are criteria that objectively define an indicator as one of four categories corresponding to poor, fair, good, and very good viability status.
Once targets are identified, viability of each target occurrence is assessed according to three criteria: size, condition, and landscape context. Size reflects the area or abundance of the occurrence. Condition is a measure that integrates composition, structure and biotic interactions of a particular target. Landscape context is an integrated measure of the dominant environmental regimes (e.g. fire, flood) and the availability of the habitats and resources necessary for long-term sustainability of the conservation target.
Adopting the above guidelines, the MPCT decided to select eight (8) conservation targets. These targets comprised of three (3) ecological systems, viz, the Hill mixed Dipterocarp Forest (HMDF), the Lower Montane Forest (LMF) and the summit scrub (SS); and five (5) species of which two (2) were floral species (Rafflesia keithii and Nepenthes x trusmadiensis), one (1) each from the insect species (Rajah Brooke Birdwings), the avian fauna species (Hornbills) and the aquatic fauna species (serawi fish). This selection took some three (3) months to be finalised.
Stresses and their Sources
Stresses are the types of destruction or degradation affecting conservation targets and reducing their viability (TNC 2000). The damage may occur directly to a target, or indirectly to an ecological process important to sustaining the target.
Sources of stress are the causes or agents of destruction or degradation (TNC 2000).
These are the human activities, typically uses of land, water or other natural resources, which cause stresses. Each stress has at least one source and stresses often have multiple sources. The logical approach is to focus upon those proximate sources of stress that can be abated with practical strategies. Some sources of stress are ongoing or "active"; others may be historical. The assessment of systems, stresses, and sources of stress leads to a listing of critical threats for a conservation area (TNC 2003).These threats are therefore a combination of a source and the stress it causes to a system.
Critical threats are those with the greatest impact upon the system. The most critical threats are identified through a process of identifying and ranking the extent and severity of the stresses and the sources of stress. In using this method to identify and rank critical threats, the highest-ranked threats to a particular focal biodiversity element could be determined and the highest-ranked threats at a conservation area across all elements could also be identified. Identification of stresses and their sources by the planning teams resulted in finalising five (5) major threats for FMU 10. These are forest fires, encroachments, rubbish dumping by visitors along the climbing trials and the summit, illegal poaching of flora and fauna and illegal logging.
Based on the identified critical threats, the MPCT had developed 12 relevant conservation strategies for FMU 10. These strategies were the broad action paths necessary to abate critical threats and enhance the viability of conservation targets. These strategies had two broad objectives as follows (TNC 2001):
Threat abatement: These strategies would eliminate active sources of stress thereby reducing subsequent stress in the conserving the targets and increasing their conservation viability.
Ecological Management and Restoration: These strategies would directly eliminate stress affecting the targets and thereby enhancing the viability of conserving these targets.
The chosen strategies, therefore, were conservation activities deployed to abate on-going sources of stress (threat abatement) and persistent historical stresses (restoration). This step involved setting objectives, selecting strategic actions, and implementing an action plan for the conservation area (TNC 2003). In selecting the 18 conservation strategies, the MPCT had hoped they would fulfil the objectives of either abating or eliminating the conservation threats in FMU 10. Developing these strategies alone took more than three (3) months of the efforts of the MPCT and RP during the planning sessions.
The conservation success at a conservation area is defines as the long-term abatement of critical threats and the sustained maintenance or enhancement of biodiversity health (TNC 2000). Two (2) success measures were used in FMU 10. These were the monitoring of the biodiversity health and the threat level for FMU 10. The biodiversity health monitoring would quantify the impact of implementing the strategies on the overall viability of the various conservation targets at FMU 10.
The threat status monitoring on the other hand would quantify the impact in reducing or eliminating the magnitude of the critical threats.
Tracking changes in the status of threats and focal biological elements through careful measurements of conservation progress allows for the assessment of the effectiveness of individual conservation strategies and maintains the adaptive management of the conservation actions (TNC 2000).
After deliberations that also took some three (3) months of efforts from various planning teams efforts, a total of 33 monitoring activities were developed for FMU 10.
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Poll: Biden, Bernie, Beto top choices of Democratic voters for 2020
Posted Nov 13 2018 03:14PM CST
Updated Nov 13 2018 04:22PM CST
Exit poll: Native-Texans voted for O'Rourke
Close Texas loss may not dim O'Rourke''s career
Ted Cruz holds on to U.S. Senate seat
A new poll of Democratic voters finds former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders among the top two preferences for the party’s candidate for president in 2020, with Rep. Beto O’Rourke in third.
The Morning Consult-Politico poll released on Monday showed Biden with 26 percent among Democrats and Sanders with 19. O’Rourke, who ran a competitive campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz and lost by less than three points last week, ranked third among Democrats at eight percent.
In addition to a historically strong showing for a Democratic candidate in Texas, O’Rourke also gained fans outside of the state. Some Democrats in Texas and outside are now calling for O’Rourke to run for president.
Other potential contenders: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren got five percent, California Sen. Kamala Harris got four percent and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker received three percent.
The poll found 21 percent of Democrats who didn’t have an opinion on who the nominee should be at this time, nearly two years away from the 2020 election.
Pollsters spoke with 733 Democratic voters across the United States from Nov. 7-9 and the poll was +/- four points.
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally Wednesday into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out.
"Tonight I have a suggestion for the hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down," Trump told the crowd in North Carolina, a swing state he won in 2016 and wants to claim again in 2020. "They never have anything good to say. That's why I say, 'Hey if you don't like it, let 'em leave, let 'em leave.'"
Eager to rile up his base with the some of the same kind of rhetoric he targeted at minorities and women in 2016, Trump declared, "I think in some cases they hate our country."
House block maverick Democrat's Trump impeachment effort
By ALAN FRAM and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House easily killed a maverick Democrat's effort Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for his recent racial insults against lawmakers of color , in a vote that provided an early snapshot of just how divided Democrats are over trying to oust him in the shadow of the 2020 elections.
Democrats leaned against the resolution by Texas Rep. Al Green by about a 3-2 margin as the chamber killed the measure 332-95. The vote showed that so far, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been successful in her effort to prevent a Democratic stampede toward impeachment before additional evidence is developed that could win over a public that has so far been skeptical about ousting Trump.
Even so, the numbers also showed that the number of Democrats open to impeachment remains substantial. About two dozen more conversions would split the party's caucus in half over an issue that could potentially dominate next year's presidential and congressional campaigns.
Sanders defends 'Medicare for All' after criticism by Biden
By JUANA SUMMERS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders vigorously defended his signature "Medicare for All" proposal Wednesday after criticism from his 2020 rival Joe Biden and called on his fellow Democratic presidential candidates to join him in refusing to accept contributions from the health care industry.
Saying he wanted to address "some of the half-truths" and "outright lies" about his single-payer health care plan, Sanders insisted that coverage for seniors would increase and that Americans would be able to choose their own doctors and clinics without worrying whether their health care provider is in network. He also tried to ease fears that his proposal was too radical and said a big change was needed to improve health care in the country.
"Now is not the time for tinkering around the edges," the Vermont senator said in an apparent swipe at Biden's plan to expand the Affordable Care Act.
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Studio 41 - Play Along »
Host Your Own! (Moderators: PriceFanArmadillo, Roadgeek Adam, PayingTheRent) »
Weekly Pricing Game: Week 5
Author Topic: Weekly Pricing Game: Week 5 (Read 17017 times)
therealcu2010
That's right, I'm talking to you.
Welcome back to the Weekly Pricing Game! Mr. Announcer, what's the next item up for bids?
Why, cu, it's going to be...wait a minute, there's no name here! How am I supposed to call down a player if you haven't given me a name?
No, no, no, that's not how this works! You give us an item to bid on, they bid on it, then someone comes up and plays a pricing game. It's not hard! I know you've been out of work for a while, but come on, now's not the time to screw up! Can't you do anything right?
Oh, an item up for bids, you say? Okay, let's see here...there's gotta be something...oh, here we go, just in time, it's the obligatory refrigerator.
*S-40*
From GE, this beverage center features upfront electronic controls and can be installed under a counter, just like I've got it set up under my podium. This center can hold up to 109 cans or 31 bottles of your favorite alcoholic beverage...I know, because I counted them all as I drank them. In fact, I even made a song about it! "31 bottles of beer in the fridge, 31 bottles of beer..."
...thank you for promptly cutting that drunken idiot off, sound robot. Dunno why we can't ever hire competent people to do these things, but when you're broke, you make do with what you have.
Anyways, the next pricing game will start Tuesday afternoon; get your bids in!
« Last Edit: August 30, 2016, 06:13:49 PM by Roadgeek Adam »
"Nobody cares about the guest stars." - Roger Dobkowitz
"Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake." - Bob Barker
Quote from: thepriceis_J on January 13, 2016, 08:32:42 PM
People are tired of the f**kery and drama, but if we'd actually talk to each other sometimes instead of a whole bunch of private conversations with other people, it'd go a long way to perhaps fixing the problems most seem to see in the site.
TPIRFan2000
Taking a Bonus Spin
Re: Weekly Pricing Game - Week Five
Didn't cheat.
PayingTheRent
Glory days.
Ooh, a glorified mini fridge! Just what I've never had a reason to own!
Quote from: GuyWithFace on December 16, 2015, 02:51:32 PM
Pardon my language, but I do believe we all need to calm the f*** down.
sideshowPA
I'll say $899
Google-free, that is me
"I don't want to hear disorganized beeping." - Bob Barker
$1,515 please
That showcase was HOW MUCH?
$1200.
I didn't cheat.
2nd place, 2011 CSS playoffs. QSW, 3/27/17, 1/15/18.
"Four cents cost you 10,000 dollars."
Archviler
In Contestant's Row
No google for me.
18-29 and female? Target demographic GET!
CU hosting, it's been a looong time. Awesome. Sadly I am barred from playing his Price hostings since we collab on too much, albeit not here. Good luck everyone, and enjoy the descriptions.
“Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
vadernader
Do The Harlem Shake.
I cheated.
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." - Sydney J. Harris
“For the premiere of season 30, CBS wanted to do a special primetime show. However, they asked that we also add a gimmick or a twist to make it truly special. I came up with the suggestion of taking the show on the road for the first time in its history." - Roger Dobkowitz
$799, didn't cheat
wpghi5
$800. Sorry JayC! Lol.
Flerbert419
Sad that we have to say we didn't cheat instead of just trusting each other.
"Drew is the greatest at the show that Drew does...how do we make Bob's show Drew's show?"
~ Mike Richards, Cover Story: The Price is Right, aired June 17, 2018
All right, bids are in. Actual retail price of that fridge is...four hundred ninety-nine dollars ($499)! Renty, it's you! Come up here and play a pricing game with me.
*dingdingdingdingdingdingdingding!* *Walking '07*
Now, Renty, in the four games we've played thus far, two of them have been for a car, while the other two have been for cash. However, I think it's time to break that trend, and we're going to break that trend when you win this!
*200A*
It's fantastic trips to Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, and Africa!
First, you and a guest will fly round trip from Rochester, NY to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, where you'll enjoy six nights at the Arctic Islands Lodge. Hike a glacier, swim in the Arctic Ocean, converse with the locals, and try to not get eaten by a polar bear...just remember, when the two of you are being chased by a bear, you don't need to outrun the bear, you only need to outrun your friend.
Next, you and a guest will fly round trip from Rochester to Ixtapa, Mexico, and then on to some town I cannot pronounce...Zia...Ziha...Zihuatanejo... someone needs to give that town a name I can actually read. Anyways, you'll spend six nights in La Villa Luz, and you can enjoy the beach and all of the other attractions this randomass city has to offer...just steer clear of the cartels.
Moving along, you and a guest will fly round trip from Rochester to Montevideo, Uruguay, and enjoy six nights in the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel, close to such attractions as the 19th century Solís Theater. Explore the city, and perhaps run into some Uruguayan politicians, as you visit this vibrant, diverse city! You know, of these trips, this seems like the most normal one...
And finally, you and a guest will fly round trip from Rochester to Laayoune, Western Sahara...in the middle of the damn desert in a disputed territory...wait a minute, why would we offer a trip there? Hrmph...anyways, you'll spend six nights in the Hotel Parador. Explore the sights...actually, don't do that, it's the desert, it's too damn hot. Just stay inside, they have a bar. If you must go outside, stick to the pool. After all, bar + pool = instant fun! And there they are!
...can someone please take away all of the alcohol from the announce podium, please?
Anyways, Renty, you can win those four...errm, lovely...trips playing Take Two. All you have to do is to take two of those trips whose prices add up to $5845. You do that, you're taking all four...though I could fully understand if you chose to refuse at least some of them, they don't look that appealing to me either. Anyways, which two of those add up to $5845?
*peanut gallery*
Canada and Mexico!
Re: Weekly Pricing Game: Week 5
*Insert obligatory "I didn't cheat" here*
Holy hell, I get to play a second pricing game? S&P may have some serious issues with this!
But damn though, it's for four trips -- three of which I may very well die on... Hmm.
If I have to take two, then I'll go with the peanut gallary and choose Canada and Mexico, only because I can make it back home that much quicker in the event I lie about a drunken incident at a convenience store and cause an international uproar.
Something tells me I may very well be wrong in my assessment of these prices, and I'm not entirely sure I'll be disappointed if that's the case.
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【藝評筆陣】Contemporaneity of East Asian Dance in Asia’s World City
文︰Pawit Mahasarinand | 上載日期︰2017年12月27日 | 文章類別︰月旦舞台
NINA—materialize sacrifice（攝影：篠山紀信）
主題︰東亞
主辦︰城市當代舞蹈團
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In the second-to-last morning of the six-day inaugural “City Contemporary Dance Festival” (CCDF), organized by the 38-year-old City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), a major issue was raised at the “ChatBox: Re-Imagine Dance in Asia”, co-organized by the International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) [IATC-HK].
Having already watched, by that morning, 19 contemporary dance works of various lengths, scales and subject matters by independent choreographers and well-established dance companies from Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and China, a European producer questioned the contemporaneity of East Asian dance and how it differs—or whether it should—from the European counterpart.
An evening before at the main entrance of Kwai Tsing Theatre, a Hong Kong dance teacher asked a question I personally have not heard addressed to me: “Is this your first time to Hong Kong?” My answer—the fact that I visit Hong Kong at least twice a year for the past 10 years—surprised her. Once inside the proscenium theatre before the start of NINA—materialize sacrifice by Japan’s Noism1, another European producer seated one row behind me was heard complaining to her compatriot, “Why don't we get to watch TAO Dance Theatre?” To that my answer was a silent whisper to myself and thus would not have surprised her, “Because they're busy touring Europe, perhaps.”
It is evident here that many dance festivals in Europe have been performing the role of gatekeepers—rather than gateways—in such a way that when it comes to contemporary Asian dance, many European audiences are expecting certain amount of interaction between modernity and tradition. And without the latter they may deem the work insignificant or old-fashioned. This is despite the fact that most contemporary Asian choreographers, given their training background, are neither trained nor interested in traditional arts—and most contemporary dance works that Asian audiences are watching have little, or nothing, to do with tradition as well. But the bottom line is: We cannot simply assume that all Asian choreographers think and work like Lin Hwai-min, Pichet Klunchun and Eko Supriyanto, can’t we?
It is widely known, and generally agreed, that, as the amount of artistic possibility rises, the scope of contemporary dance, like that of contemporary arts in general, is ever expanding. With this in mind, one has to wonder whether the aforementioned point of view towards contemporary Asian dance, in this day and age when many Asian countries’ technological advance far exceeds that of European counterparts, can be regarded as a kind of neo-colonialism. And so let our debate continue.
Every performing arts festival has a curatorial scheme, and so did CCDF. A month has already passed and yet the image of the opening scene of NINA—materialize sacrifice is still fresh in my mind. The discipline instilled in Noism1’s female dancers’ bodies was so high that it took me many seconds before I realized that they were humans, not mannequins, and I do not need to see my optometrist anytime soon. As obvious as it might sound—and of course contemporary dance does not need to be abstract—the contrast between the manipulating male dancers’ movements and the manipulated female counterparts’ throughout this full-length work was proof of strong dramaturgy which also reflected the technologically advanced and highly patriarchal society.
Works that premiered more than a decade ago like Cold Arrow—Game of Go (Weiqi) by China’s BeijingDance/LDTX’s and Moon-Looking Dog by Korea’s Daegu Contemporary Dance Company did not look dated either. With their firm places in the history of contemporary dance in both countries, if not East Asia in general, the two works, respectively by choreographers Li Han-zhong and Ma Bo, and Hong Seung-yup, serve as links, or references, to what and how the younger generations of artists are working today. As the former was presented at the multi-purpose auditorium of Yuen Long Theatre where the audience in the stalls could not see the stage floor though, most of us could not see the squares of the game board and missed some important Chinese images and how they were connected to the dancers’ movement.
Apart from the dancers’ technical prowess and the choreographers’ insight, music and production design play important roles in contemporary dance. Some choreographers take as their inspiration existing music scores, either famous or lesser-known ones, and, accompanied by one complete number after another, their works may sound and look familiar for some audiences, especially those with European gaze. Meanwhile, others, with more resources, have composers or sound designers create the soundscapes that are more specific to their works—and three noteworthy examples are France-born Vietnamese composer An Tôn Thât’s for NINA, his Korean counterpart Kim Te-kn’s for Moon-Looking Dog and Japanese colleague Chikako Ezawa’s for Co. Un Yamada’s one◆piece.
At our ChatBox, my IATC Swedish colleague Cecilia Djurberg made another poignant note on the lack of conceptual dance works in this festival. This also reflects the current situation in East and Southeast Asia in general. In these regions, the number of dance students far exceeds that of professional dancers and that of dance schools and studios and that of dance companies. Besides in many dance curriculums, like their counterparts in other performing arts genres, the focus is on the perfection of the movement skills, and rarely on choreography. There is also little to no connection to other performing arts genres even though they are in the same institution. This is clearly the opposite to the situation in Europe where many choreography programs put forth the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary arts and are now even admitting students without dance background.
It should also be noted that CCDF’s evening programs, with large-scale works by renowned companies and post-show discussions, attracted a considerable number of local audiences. However, the early-to-mid-afternoon counterparts, with Hotpot and Hong Kong Focus programs, featuring shorter and smaller-scaled works by smaller companies and independent artists, were attended mostly by the festival’s international guest artists, presenters, producers and programmers. Venue location and weekday schedule might be reasons but many local audiences missed this rare opportunity to expand their view on contemporary dance having missed these works.
Another area CCDF, and other performing arts festivals in East and Southeast Asia, should consider paying more attention to is the audience development. Contemporary dance deals with a vast range of subject matters and as a result should relate to a much wider group than the typical dance audience, which in these regions comprises a number of former and current dance students. Hence, it should never be discussed as an art form, but also, in accordance with each audience’s interest, socially, culturally and politically as well. This can begin simply by providing more information on each work and related artists—such as excerpts from their interviews and previous works—in the festival’s program book and website. List of, or links to, related materials and pre- or post-show discussions with scholars in other fields can also be added to make sure that the impact of each contemporary dance work last longer in the audience’s everyday life, as it should be.
In the end, my experience of CCDF is similar to that of Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater’s annual “International Exposure”, plus the bus rides when I had time to discuss with international colleagues and make more professional connection. It also makes me look back at myself having attended Hong Kong Arts Festival on an annual basis since 2008 and yet scarcely watched contemporary dance and theatre works from Hong Kong and East Asia here. I can also think back to when I visited Hong Kong for the first time—also the first time I was in a foreign country—in the late 1970s when my enthusiasm was in Japanese toys and McDonald’s Fillet-o-Fish, which was not yet available in my home country. Recently, that has changed to made-in-Hong Kong clothes and some new dim sum creations which are not available elsewhere. That is to say: The Asia’s World City still has plenty more of the local contemporaneity for me, and any foreign visitor, to discover.
That said, CCDF, for its first edition, is already highly commendable for presenting exclusively contemporary dance works from East Asia, and nowhere else—notwithstanding our different notions on what contemporary dance is, and can be.
These next two paragraphs were added after my EVA Air flight, from Taipei to Paris a month after CCDF, the new safety demonstration video of which is a dance film, a collaboration between Golden Horse-winning film director Robin Lee and indigenous Paiwan choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava. Owing in part to the subject matter which needs to be understood by international audiences, or passengers, and the accompaniment of 3D projection onto the studio set, the work does not contain any folkloric quality. In the immigration queue at Charles de Gaulle airport, I had a discussion with a fellow passenger, a Taipei-based French businessman, who did not enjoy the video as much as I did. We both agreed though that unlike the safety video by another Asian airline which puts in elements of traditional culture here and there in an attempt to attract the audiences to stop over, instead of transiting, this exemplary work projects the image of contemporary Taiwan as it is, without yelling “Welcome to Taiwan!” And more importantly, it had the full attention of us, frequent travelers, who know the content of this video by heart.
That is also to say: the artistic freedom in contemporary dance has also blurred the line among national identities and asked the audience to shift their attention to the individual artist’s unique style and dramaturgy. And if we have an agreement on this, then it is about time we stop the debate on whether or not Tsai Ming-liang’s, Wong Kar-wai’s, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s works are more like European arthouse than Asian films.
Pawit Mahasarinand
國際演藝評論家協會（泰國分會）主席，曼谷藝術文化中心總監。25年來，他在朱拉隆功大學教授戲劇和電影評論，同時擔任松柴藝術中心劇場的藝術總監。
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Kansas education association urges boards of education to increase teacher salaries
Thursday, June 13, 2019 3:31 PM EDT
Students at Maize South Elementary School learn the word "essential" in class Tuesday afternoon, March 19, 2019. They discuss things that are essential at school, like teachers and classrooms, pencils and doing their homework.
TOPEKA, Kan. (KAKE) -
Members of the Kansas National Education Association are urging state boards of education to increase teacher salaries.
KTKA reports the requests from the more than 200,000 KNEA members is in response to lawmakers' recent approval of funding for the state's 286 districts.
"We're calling on every district to invest in teachers and those staff members who work most closely with our students," said KNEA President Mark Farr. "We have funding certainty, and our educators deserve to be compensated for their dedication to our students and the profession. Teachers are professionals who shouldn't need to work two, and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet."
Kansas fell from 40th in 2016-2017 to 41st in 2017-2018 for average teacher salary, according to the National Education Association's annual Ranking and Estimates Reports.
Neighboring states, such as Oklahoma, are investing in teacher's salaries with the 2018-2019 estimates placing every state above Kansas. Oklahoma ranked 50th in 2016-2017, and is now estimated to rank above Kansas.
For 2018-2019, the average teacher salary is estimated to be $49,800 in Kansas, $50,064 in Missouri, $52,412 in Oklahoma, $53,301 in Colorado and $54,506 in Nebraska, the Topeka ABC affiliate reports.
"If Kansas does not prioritize teacher salaries, we will remain behind all four of our surrounding states," Farr said. "If we respect teachers and the dedication these professionals have shown during the last decade, then let us invest in our students by investing in our teachers who are the one resource that impacts learning and achievement the most."
Weekend shooting suspect's father speaks out
The father of the suspect in last weekend's officer-involved shooting is speaking out.
ON YOUR SIDE GETS ANSWERS: School lunches & immunizations
It's back to school time again! For parents of children in Wichita Public Schools, we noticed some confusion on social media about managing your children's school lunch accounts since there have been changes.
Sedgwick County adds lights to stop signs at 183rd and MacArthur
Neighbors have been fighting for the change for more than a year, hoping it will save lives.
SchoolsMore>>
Kansas superintendent says he didn't know nurse in sex case was fired before
De Soto, Kansas, Superintendent Frank Harwood said Tuesday that Richard Finazzo wouldn't have been hired if the district "had any idea" of the suspicions.
Aftershocks start preparations for the TBT
The WSU alumni team tips off against Iowa United on July 25th at 8 pm inside Koch Arena.
Alex Delton impressing at TCU
Alex Delton is one of 6 players vying for the starting quarterback position at TCU.
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Manu Chao-Desaparecido & Rumba De Barcelona
First off want to thank everyone for being such loyal readers this year...This blog is just a little way for Moose and I to talk about the music we love and have a little fun, and we appreciate all the love that we've gotten...Merry Xmas to all
For long time readers of this blog (all of the past couple months hehe), this next artist will be very familiar. Manu Chao comes back around one mo gin, bringing you the funky sound of when cultures intertwine, borders drop, and people come together; I mean, we all like to get a little groovy every now and then, right? And how can you not get groovy to a band that has a dedicated sound effect man? (brrrrrrrrrr, whoooo, weeeee, ayyyyyy, shhhshhhshhh, heyyyy, siiii)
For this jamandahalf, I'm taking a little something off of Manu's newest live album, Bainoarena. Recorded in France at the very tail end of his epic 2008 world tour, Manu and his crew provide nothing but pure energy over the course of the two and a half hour concert. With tens of thousands of young French singing along with each word, and making sure that Manu never stops, the songs sizzle with soul and beat with an infectious pounding. Two of his livliest songs, Desaparecido and Rumba de Barceona, are that much better live. It definitely helps that this guitarrist absolutely shreds, beating out Jimi and the kid on the uke to take the annual "realest shredder this side of teenage mutant ninja turtles" award on jamandahalf.com. congrats chief. Over 33 of his best songs from his varied past, Manu shows us why he really is one of the world's greatest musicians. Enjoy
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Labels: Desapareciedo, download, Leks, Manu Chao, punk, Rumba
Outkast - Player's Ball
Ahhh I would like to welcome all of you fine folk to a special christmas edition of JamandaHalf, and in the spirit of the holiday season I wanted to grant you all some musical knowledge that some may already know. Not all christmas music blows!! I know for some this is a shocking development, and in the past I didnt think it was possible, but music comes in more shapes and styles than you can dream up and thus I was introduced to my first christmas song JamandaHalf.
Now many of you Im sure have come to appreciate Player's Ball for the fire that it truly is. The 1994 release of the single marked Outkast's maiden voyage into the hip hop mainstream and the rest is history. However, while it is common knowledge that the easy rolling flows and infectious chorus can get any party movin, it is not as widely known that the track was originally recorded for the LaFace Records Christmas album. At first glance the song is a jam in any season, but as you look deeper the references are clear. Jingling bells, snow boots, egg nog, and the rest of a chritmas feast (minus the ham hocks of course). Check the lyrics as you listen for a more spherical perspective.
And thus one of my all time favorite tracks was really a christmas jam in disguise making my hipocritical hatred of christmas music both ignorant and unintelligent. So now that Ive learned my lesson teach it back to me a few times over, post up any of your favorite holiday songs, or anything else for that matter...
Labels: Moose, outkast, southern rap
Steel Pulse - Man No Sober
Yooooooooooooooo its been too long since I reached out to all you good people through the blogosphere, but this is the beginning of a new season and a fresh start. One of the things that I believe JamandaHalf stands for is diversity. The more types of music you listen to the bigger your world becomes and that is why I am so upset. There is not a single reggae song on these pages...and it makes me sick. Which is the reason I turn to an all time classic roots group and SD favorite: Steel Pulse.
The legendary band out of Birmingham, England has been an inspirational force in the reggae world since they formed in 1975 known best for their politically intelligent subject matter and super irie-funky flavor. Powered by lead singer David Hinds the Pulse simply puts on one of he greatest shows music has to offer, as a large portion of San Diego and I know from experience many times over. While not one of their most famous jams, Man No Sober is a track that embodies the spirit of Steel Pulse. To construct a critical piece of social commentary while laying down some of the thickest licks around is an everyday thang to a group that has been doin it for decades. The band paints a window of connection to the world in which they live and let the rest of us get up and dance to it. This is what it takes to truly harness the power of music allowing people a glimpse into faraway lands. So crank it up and enjoy!!
That being said diversity is all the more reason to get involved, send us your favorite tunes and expand all of our minds no matter who you are. Send us something that makes a difference in your life and we will get to see your world too
Labels: Moose, Reggae, Steel Pulse
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes-Home
Sometimes a song is so unexpected, so original, that it locks you in its grip; an iron claw that wont let you go until its play count is ridiculously high. My man Moose and I are always on the lookout for new music, always on the search for jams, and friends have shown us the light throughout college, with our Colombian buddy passing on Rodrigo y Gabriela to us, and this jam and a half here was also passed along by a friend. And what a Jam and a Half it is. “Home” mixes traditional call and response and country western, but spices it up with a high cheese factor and bounces along with infectious energy.
A stark departure from most music out there, Ed Sharpe and his merry band created a jam that begs to be listened to over and over again. Born in LA, the band was founded by Alex Ebert, who created Edward Sharpe as a character who "was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind...but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love." Jade and Alexander, through their story about falling out of windows and last cigarettes, remind us of what’s important, and what home really is. Home is not a fancy hotel, home is about being around the people you love, the one you love, and not having a care in the world. Hopefully we all get to go home soon.
Labels: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Home, Leks
Jam Behind the Jam #3-Shark Bite Luv Frog
And we're back! After a brutal couple weeks, we have made our triumphant return to keep the jams coming. We got some great ones on the way, and a design change or two, so keep checking back for only the best of jams. Love, Moose and Leks
This first decade of the 21st century was one of turmoil and excess: excessive profits on Wall Street, excessive body counts in aimless wars, and most relevant to this blog, excessive music. What we saw this decade was an emphasis on mega-producers, altered vocals, and beats which either wanted to dazzle you with their intricacies, or purposefully lose you in their muck. This is changing. With the recession hopefully reining in Wall Street and all the CMC grads making crazy bank to a more realistic and legitimate level, we also have seen a backlash against some of recent trends in music. Jay Z announced that autotune was dead, and there seems to be a reawakening of music with an importance on the music itself.
Bon Iver is a perfect example of this new sound. Over a simple but haunting acoustic riff, he sings about the loss of losing his love, his pain and sadness; but nothing in the song is overdone. All the excess has been cut away, and we are left with a stirring moment of time. Bon Iver’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, is a staggering album, and has jams for days. It’s statement lies in its understatement, its beauty in its simplicity, and re: stacks is a ideal introduction to his music.
Bon Iver made a classic jam and half, and this song provides the perfect backdrop for our good buddy AMitch’s video project for a class of his. Composed of over 2,000 pictures in stop motion, Shark Bite Luv Frog tells a story that we will never forget. While I will let the video speak for itself, it is clear that Amitch’s creativity has no bounds, and this guy is going places. I am proud to call him one of my closest friends, and although cancer might have taken away some of his hair and slowed his first step down a little, nothing can take away the strength and soul of this guy. While we miss seeing him balling on the court, we're looking forward to seeing even bigger things that will, and have, come off of it. Enjoy.
Labels: Amitch, Bon Iver, Leks
Nothing else has worked so far...
DEA Recruits Lil Wayne To Use Up All Drugs In Mexico
wearitweek
To our faithful readers:
Have no fear. Jamandahalf is not in the least bit done, we're simply resting our brains, formulating our thoughts, and experiencing what is known as "finals weeks." Yea, "weeks," because unlike in the past, finals (and final projects, and final papers, and final ____) now seem to have creeped from one week to at first a week and a half, to now completely dominating the last two weeks of school. Once we emerge victorious, we will have jams for days for you guys, guarantee. Big news around here, I bought a ukulele and am starting to figure it out, so who knows, maybe one day the jamandahalf will be me strumming away hahahaha...So to hold you guys through, I thought you would like this video of a kid who has far more talent and cuteness than I will ever have. Keep checking back, new jams to come...
Devin The Dude - Write and Wrong
Honesty is something that resides in all good music, and I think that this is especially true about hip hop. Nothing can kill a rapper quicker than being fake or unbelievable or phony or wack or a poser or whatever you call it, but when you hear it you know. Im not tryin to say that everything you hear has to come straight from reality, one of the beauties of music is that it allows you to escape and create, but what I am sayin is that its always the best when it comes from the heart.
Miles Davis-It Never Entered My Mind
Music is used to convey emotions, tell stories, brag, lie, proclaim one’s love, express anger, and on and on. Lyrics express how a person is feeling at a specific time or what message they want the world to know. That message might be as simple as T-Pain letting you know that he wants to buy you a drink (oooweeee), or it could be as deep as our old friend Sam Cooke letting the world know that a change is coming.
The universality of music, and the emotions that can be conveyed through music, transcends languages and cultures. The hope and joy that is found in Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” is identical to the version song by the big Hawaiian, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, despite the very different histories and backgrounds of the two men. But sometimes words aren’t enough; sometimes the truest of feelings can only be rightly expressed with only instruments.
Miles Davis, one of the preeminent jazz musicians of all time, sings his soul in this jam and a half without saying a single world. Conveying power, confusion. strength, and passion, all at the same time, “It Never Entered My Mind” combines an easy piano backing up a powerful trumpet. The interplay is at the heart of what makes “It Never Entered My Mind” so amazing. The coolness of the piano melds perfectly with the strength of the trumpet, both making up for the weaknesses of the other, creating a jam and a half that is as close to perfect as any out there. Lacking words, but speaking a language that all of us can understand, this jam is a cover of an old show tune. You would never know. Miles and his quintet make this song their own, and give it something that can never be truly replicated again.
Labels: Jazz, Leks, Miles Davis
Introducing a new member of the jamandahalf family (but an old member of my family) Griffin "Crime-Dogg" Halpern, or simply Griffdogg. An all time chiller and world renowned positive vibration distributer, Griffdogg has been doling out knowledge to the people of the planet for years and has blessed us with his wisdom. Thanks brother.
Oftentimes when I play DJ for an eclectic group of individuals, I throw on some Sublime. Not only is it great music, I do it to please the masses. Regardless of the type of music people may fancy, everyone can relate to the energy, passion, and soul that lace every Sublime track. Bottom line, it makes the booties shake. So next time you are kicking it and want to please the heads, do yourself a favor and bump some Sublime.
Sublime, the prominent So-Cal collective, spawned jamandahalfs like it was their job. Fusing punk rock, roots reggae, dub, acoustic, hip-hop, and ska, they forged a defining sound. Sublime’s music characterized their fun-loving, substance abusing, police despising, ganja toking, Dalmatian worshiping, 40 ounce pounding, surf riding, tattooed existence.
This Jamandahalf, Badfish, was featured on the band’s 1991 demo tape Jah Wont Pay the Bills and later released on their 1992 studio debut 40 oz to Freedom. Badfish combines a light dub rhythm, soulful guitar solo, and classic Nowell vocals that please the ears and stimulate the senses. Like much of Sublime’s work the song’s playful sound and surfer lyrics disguise its true context. Most people recognize Badfish as the Jamandahalf it is, while ignoring its metaphors that tell the common story of addiction.
Tragically, Nowell’s ways as a “bad fish” (or heroine user) precipitated his death and the end of Sublime. Symbolic of his struggle with addiction, Nowell tattooed the skeleton of a fish on the inside of his right arm in an attempt to disguise his track marks.
“Lord knows I’m weak, Wont somebody get me off of this reef”
Justice-Phantom Part 1.5 (live)
There's not much more Euro than techno music. For some reasons, most Americans don't get it. We need guitar riffs and lyrics about hard living and our dog leaving us. On the whole, we look for that perceived realness, and love those sing-a-long ballads that everyone knows the words too. Doesn't have to be the best music, but we like those catchy tunes, songs that we can feel good singing at the top of our lungs. And you sure daggone it can't sing along to no euro techo!
Other than techno (and by techno I mean trance, electronica, house etc), what else does europe have that the US hasn't adopted in some way? Great espressos and mixed coffee drinks? I can go to the Mickey D's around the corner for a uber french McCafé any time of the day. Tight jeans and skinny shirts? Have you seen a hipster lately? Even our health care will soon (hopefully) be a couple of shades more Euro soon. But one trend that has never truly caught on is music that I will fit under the giant umbrella of "techno." Despite some artists like Tiesto, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, etc, getting some festival love and larger tours, I would say that American society as a whole just hasn't accepted this music yet, hasn't made it their own. I mean, shoot, I've been trying to convert moose for years; no luck. And he's more american than corn bread and miley cyrus.
But listening to this jam and a half, one wonders when will people start realizing the energy, the emotion, the rawness of a lot of the techno music out there. Constantly evolving, changing, and reaching higher heights, today's scene could be compared to what happened to hip hop in the late 80s and early 90s: DJs who pushed boundaries, the infusion of new sounds, the reawakening and revitalization of a style of music. Justice, the french duo, are among the leaders of this current wave, and have a distinct sound, harder than other djs, but without missing any creativity or complexity. Phantom Part 1.5 stands out because no matter whether the beat is building up or dying down, whether it's using a sample of their own song or whether they're just using a pounding bassline, it's pure, unfiltered, energy. The crowd is living for each new movement, each subtle change, and the fusing of their noise and the music of two musicians who after only one album are among the masters of their craft, combines to make a jam and a half.
Labels: energy, Europe, house, Justice, Leks
Tweedy Covers Dylan
We got to keep the jams coming and have a lot of buddies who got some serious musical knowledge. Our good buddy Amitch will be providing you guys with a slightly different taste in music along with a generous side of biting wit. See his hilarious Dear Amitch column at www.cmcforum.com
The Legendary Bob Dylan has had countless numbers of people cover his original music, ranging from the crisp cutting vinyl of Joan Baez to the eerily familiar rasp Jeff Tweedy gives A Simple Twist of Fate. Tweedy covers A Simple Twist of Fate for the original soundrack of the Dylan documentary I’m Not There. In Tweedy’s version, deep bass fills the empty hallway of Dylan’s old recording and violins fit eloquently in place of his rustic harmonica. Tweedy pumps Dylan’s lyrics with epic soul, fit for a tremendous score.
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Cat Stevens - Here Comes My Baby
Im talking about Cat Stevens, or Yusuf Islam as he goes by these days. The British singer songwriter turned Islamic warrior for peace has certainly had one of the strangest runs of any musician I have ever come across. After coming up quickly in the British music scene at the age of 18, he got knocked back to reality by a serious bout with tuberculous, and credits it with shifting his ideology and opening his eyes to the real importance of life. His songs got more introspective and in this period he wrote a lot of the songs that would make him the cult figure he is today.
Cat Stevens is one of my personal favorite artists (yeah I know thats kinda embarrassing), Im all about his classic easy listening tunes; the ones filled with whispered wisdomisms and soulful croons. Great joints like Trouble, The Wind, Hard Headed Woman, and I Want to Live in a Wigwam (thats not a joke...its a jam). But this track aint those, not even close, this is more bubblegum pop than folk; but that doesnt make it bad. Contrarily, it may make it even better. To hear Cat Stevens playing as a youth before his stand against popular culture is a bright glimpse of ignorance's bliss.
Here Comes My Baby is a classic pop hit, easy on the ears, long on the chorus, and catchy on the beat. Its the same tale of heartache that has echoed throughout the annals of music ever since people started singing or falling in love, one of the two. But rather than being discredited by these plastic qualities, instead it rises above them and shows that music can be great regardless of the style or subject. So please sit back and enjoy the uplifting pop stylings of the one and only Cat Stevens.
Labels: Cat Stevens, Moose, Pop
Jam Behind the Jam #2: Labi Siffre-My Song
In the second of our ongoing "Jam behind the Jam" series, we bring you Labi Siffre's epic jam, "My Song," a tale of being confident in oneself no matter what the circumstances. Labi, an openly gay British singer, songwriter, and poet, was born in England to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father. Throughout his life, he performed across the world and worked with a host of musicians ranging from Ike and Tina to the Supremes, released 10 solo albums, and was an activist for a whole host of social causes and issues including the apartheid, gay's rights, and civil rights. Labi was not only covered by Jay-Z in his song Streets Iz Watching, but Eminem used part of his song "I Got The" to create his breakthrough single, "My Name Is."
Wait, wait, wait. What? An openly gay singer/songwriter was covered by Eminem? The same Eminem equally likely to drop a fire freestyle and diss gays? Yea. That Eminem. This Labi. Labi's music is timeless and despite a soft piano melody and smooth vocals, "My Song" is about the hardest thing that someone can probably ever do, stand up for who they are despite haters telling them that they're wrong. I first heard Labi's song hidden behind Kanye West's song "I Wonder" and immediately I wondered (hehe) where Kanye dug his sample up. Luckily, "My Song" surpassed all expectations. A true Jam Behind the Jam, Labi's spits incredible knowledge and strength over the easiest of grooves. Take it to heart when he says:
"I may not always sing in tune
And sometime you don't hear me
But you don't have to be near me
To know that I'm singing."
And keep singing. We sure do.
Labels: inspirational, Labi Siffre, Leks, piano
Big L - Put It On
Introducing Adam "Grilled Cheese" Johnson, hip hop connoisseur and renowned funky knowledge dropper. Thanks for the post Johnson hopefully this will be the first of many!
50 Cent was shot 9 times, and he survived. He later went on to boast in a song, “Got shot 9 times real n****s don’t die.” Big L was shot 9 times, and he died right there on the spot. I guess he wasn’t as hard as 50 Cent.
But he was definitely more talented. In the mid-90s he was on his way up, breaking onto the scene as part of the D.I.T.C. Crew with artists like Fat Joe and Lord Finesse. His 1995 disc Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous was chalk-full of jams and featured collaborations with names like Kid Capri, Cam’ron, and Jay-Z. It had little commercial success but industry figures couldn’t deny his talent, and he transformed into one of the most sought-after MCs on the east coast. His forthcoming album, The Big Picture, saw him working with legends like Big Daddy Kane & Kool G Rap, and even featured a collabo with the late, great 2pac Shakur. He was slated to sign with Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records in early 1999. The sky was the limit—his upcoming record deal would have netted him millions, allowed him to work with the best producers around, and solidified his status as a household name. Then he got shot in the face. Game over.
Fortunately, before his death, he gave us this jam-and-a-half. Lord Finesse’s beat is simple drum-and-bass with a nice xylophone loop thrown in to boot, and it is the perfect canvas for a rapper like Big L to tell us how good he is at stuff. What exactly is he good at? Rhyming, shooting people, and making money, to name a few. But when you can string words together the way he does, it doesn’t matter what your subject matter is because it just sounds dope. People will undoubtedly frown on the lyrical content, but compare this video to other rap videos you have seen—no fancy cars, no jewelry, no shiny suits, no women degrading themselves—just a rapper showing off his skills in the neighborhood where he grew up. It’s quintessential golden-era hip hop—an MC who is making music for the art and not for the money, and a producer who lets his drums do the talking without any special effects. In today’s world of T-Pain & the Black Eyed Peas it’s just plain refreshing.
This jamandahalf (new word, call up Webster have him add it to his book) embodies lyricism like no other. Big L doesn’t have anything profound to say, he just wants to shoot the gift. “I’m known to gas a hottie and blast a shottie//got more cash than Gotti, you don’t know? Betta ask somebody.” Kind of reminds me why I liked hip hop in the first place. Enjoy.
Miles T. Bird-Riding Trains
From time to time, when we get a little scorched from providing only the hottest jams, we'll drop a dope video or two, with a musical tie-in, clearly. We already brought you one of the hottest cyphers around, so here's something a little more mellow, something to warm your bones on a chilly Cali desert night like this.
I interned in Hyderabad, India this summer, working for a microfinance organization called APMAS. Learned a lot, had a great field visit, and got to travel around India, so overall a pretty good summer, despite what shall forever be known as the "Great Curry Flu of 2009." One thing that impressed me about India are the trains. I took a couple overnight trains, and in some ways they are everything that India is not: usually on time, orderly, efficient, with surprisingly minimal hassle. On the other hand, its hard to think of anything more India than its trains: a sprawling network connecting the biggest of metropolises and rural towns like the backwater Guntakal (try finding that on a map). Entire families offering you food on overnight journeys, chai wallahs walking down the aisles, hollering, beggars haunting the aisles, looking for change. Although my 6'6'' frame must have been a sight, squishing into sleeping compartments made for men a little shorter and squatter than I am, I enjoyed the rides immensely.
But this post isn't about me. A sophomore buddy of mine was in Bangladesh this summer, working for the most famous of all microfinance organizations, the Grameen Bank, and had a little train ride of his own, something that I wanted to try, but never dared. Him and some friends climbed to the top of the car after it had started and rode for an hour and a half chilling on top with some little kids, kicking it hard (read the full story here). He made an awesome video about it featuring the ubiquitous "Paper Planes" (but still jam and a half worthy) by MIA. If you're wondering why he put that song to a video about riding the top of a train; stop what you're doing, rent slumdogg millionaire, then come chill with us here again. Enjoy the video, because I definitely did. I also added a video of my own where I rented a little motorcyle for a day in central India and rode around. Excuse the poor quality and the weird purple shade, and the lack of cute kids...
Labels: India, Leks
Jimi Hendrix - Red House
It has been brought to the attention of myself and the big man that while we are postin dope songs there has been a serious under representation of the electric guitar. So what better way to rep the most recognizable instrument in modern music than with an all time classic. Widely (though certainly not universally) regarded as the greatest guitar player to ever live, Jimi had not only one of the most unique sounds but also styles ever played. Growing up in Seattle the lefty simply took his Supro Ozark, flipped it upside down, started wailing, and never stopped. As Hendrix taught himself to play he developed an unprecedented style nearly impossible to duplicate.
While Jimi's tale took a number of incredible twists on its way to an all too early end, that is a story unto itself. This is simply about a song. A song thats sings the soul of the man himself. Its a blues song and as Jimi sings, lord mercy does that guitar weep. The slow and heavy rythms just set James up to spark the guitar and let the fire speak for itself. It builds, and builds, just pourin on the sauce until Jimi lets you know whats comin, and then lights it. And that my friends is like watching lightning strike, like watching a falling star streak the sky. He tells a story with his solos that doesnt need words, each note is so descriptive that it fills you with emotion. And every string comes off so clean that you understand his meaning just by listening to how he bends each note. So, sit back, turn up the volume as loud as youre comfortable with, and enjoy. I threw in a live clip so you could see the man in action (not to mention one of the funnier hippies of all time on the bongos).
Labels: electric guitar, jimi hendrix, Moose, rock
Ben Harper-Fool for a Lonesome Train
If you were to take a short walk south-west from CMC, walking along shady, tree-lined avenues and passing quiet houses, one would find themselves in "The Village," the oddly named "downtown" of Claremont, filled with restaurants, boutique stores, and the latest yogurt hot spot, Yogurtland. Although the Village is a great place to grab dinner or a drink, a gem is the Folk Music Center, owned by Ben Harper's parents (Ben himself is a Claremont native and his brother is a big fan of our archrival Pomona's soccer team). Although his suburban roots don't quite account for the soul and power of his music, one gets a better sense of his breadth and depth upon entering the store. Filled with guitars, sitars, banjoes, ukeleles, among others, the influence of growing up to parents who constantly had musicians of all backgrounds and styles come through for shows and new instruments clearly shows in Ben's music. Whether playing a gnarly slide guitar solo or singing gospel, Ben Harper is one of the most talented and unique artists out there now.
This Jam and a Half is a bittersweet tune of regrets, past loves, and mistakes. Ben sings as someone who can't quite settle, whether it be with someone or somewhere, and is a fool for a lonesome train, is a fool for leaving situations and people behind. He does so because he does not know better, that is who he is, and who he always will be. He recognizes who he is and the pain he causes (so far away, but I still feel your pain), but is satisfied with the live he lives. Struck with wanderlust and a yearning to go, this person might seem crazy but is "painfully sane." Sung with raw emotion and a perhaps even a vulnerability that few artists can convey, Ben sings as a travelling artist, here one day, gone the next, but gradually making his mark on the world...
Labels: Ben Harper, guitar, Leks, rock
Goldfish-Hold Tight
While the Bat Signal might let the Caped Crusader know that something's afoot, there's nothing like knowing that people are living well, knocking back a couple of beers, chilling with good folk around them, loving life. And chances are if they're playing this newest Jam and a Half, they're having a helluva time.
Straight out of the host of the 2010 World Cup (we're going!), Goldfish brings a unique sound, one that is immediately recognizable, but at the same time is a little edgier, has a little extra funk, a little more Africa. On a beat with the funkiest sax since the days of Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton in office, the duo from Cape Town give "Hold Tight" an infectious energy which makes you realize that you don't want the song to stop, ever.
The two members of Goldfish, David Poole and Dominic Peters, met in school and are quietly blowing up. Recently opening up for the likes of Paul Van Dyk and Basement Jaxxx, among others, the two are creating a sound that mixes the rave culture of Europe and infuses it with jazz, live instruments, and African undertones. Not content to simply stick to their macs, their lives shows have them playing the sax, drums, flutes, all sorts of crazyness, bringing a layer of inventiveness to an already flourishing music scene. "Hold Tight" is a jam and a half for all the right reasons, and it doesn't matter if you're looking for a song to let some energy off before an exam, or get a party going, this is it. Goldfish are aiming to up the funk a little, and from what I hear, I wouldn't bet against them. I added the original song and a live version with some instruments. Check out YouTube for some other sick shows.
Labels: electronica, Goldfish, Leks
Music is all about feeling free to express yourself as you truly are, and here at JamandaHalf we feel as though respect is deserved for stickin your neck out. Whether its Andre 3K singin about vampire love or Willy Nelson puttin out a reggae album (yeah those actually happened) these are the people pushing music forward. Don't be fooled, not all of them turn out to be jams, let alone Jam and a Halfs, but the ones who do need to be recognized.
While some people may feel as though anything related to the Beatles is as mainstream as music can get, they are forgetting the criticism that the four faced after their acid soaked departure from classical pop music in the middle 60's. John Lennon, the real song writer, not to mention spiritual leader and front man of the group, faced the most criticism from the yuppies of the world. Furthermore, as he and his relationship with Yoko Ono received more and more of the blame for breaking up the Beatles, even some of his fans started to turn on the man. It's no wonder he might have been feelin a bit estranged, but in this condition he put together a classic track for all the world's misunderstood.
Watching the Wheels is a celebration of individualism , of doin your own thing, a classy F*** Off to anyone who is mindin your business instead of their own. Lennon wrote the song for what would be his final album released just three weeks before his death in 1980. While the album version is nice, my favorite is the acoustic cut where Johnny pours some real genuine soul into the vocals. Watching the Wheels is a stand for individuality...as well as a certified Jam and a Half.
Labels: acoustic, classic, John Lennon, Moose
Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Straight from the slums of Shoalin, a force so cryptic and mystical that a single title fails to encompass all it represents. Im talkin about Raekwon, the Chef, Lex Diamonds, Louie Diamonds, Shallah Raekwon, the Black Stallion, or simply Rae. The master of slang forms one ninth of the original Wu Tang Clan, but it is off his debut solo album Only Built for Cuban Linx that the Chef cooked up a track that would become an all time rap classic. "Incarcerated Scarfaces" is simply the definition of what Rae is all about: (1) kickin the hardest, grimiest, most thuggish raps around, lettin everyone know how it happens in Staten; and (2) spittin one of the most frenetic rhyme styles around.
Few cats have the dexterity of lexicon to include so many rhymes and keep the flow fresh, but Rae relishes each line, fillin em up to the brim. The RZA cuts one of his vintage beats to accompany the chef mixing influence from the far east with the simple and rugged style that he has become so well known for. The combination is an explosion of street flavor and fly rhymin that left a mark on the rap game, that still hasnt faded for those who know where to look. I did hear that you could catch it in Ceaser's Palace eatin salads...
(For best results listen with the lyrics)
Labels: hard, lyrics, Moose, New York, rap
Juan Luis Guerra-Ojala Que Llueva Cafe
People often say it's the small things in life that count. That it's about the smiles, the winks. That it's about sitting around a room with your best friends, talking about nothing, but having a helluva time. That it's knowing that no matter how far someone is, that they can still feel like they're right next door. I feel that a lot of times, big city living has people forgetting about the little things, pushed aside in favor of long run benefits. What I love most about going to the country; whether it be rural Alachua County, Florida, or in the middleofnowhere Andhra Pradesh, India, is that people still focus on the small things, those bits of sunshine, instead of the cloudy day.
Juan Luis Guerra has got some serious jams, but none more so than this true jam and a half, Ojala Que Llueva Cafe. I first heard this song in my junior year of high school, when my Spanish professor played this song as part of his weekly song quiz. Each week we were given a new song in Spanish that we had to memorize, and even though my taste in music wasn't very eclectic back then, I knew this was a jam and a half....
Juan sings as a poor Dominican campesino, living in the countryside, working to make a meager but decent living. "Ojala" says Juan over and over again. May it. Ojala. But what this farmer hopes for isn't a fatty benz, or a mansion next to hansen, he wishes for little things like less suffering on the farm, being able to plant sweet potatoes and strawberries, and to plow the fields with his loved one. This farmer has it figured out. Even though he lives a life that many of us would consider impossible, he's living with dignity, he's happy, and the only thing he wants are a couple of things that we consider everyday goods. He's got it good.
Labels: hispanic, Juan Luis Guerra, Leks, spanish, uplifting
The Jam Behind the Jam: James Brown-The Funky Drummer
This is the first manifestation of a segment me and the Big man like to call "The Jam Behind the Jam." Its a spot where we pay tribute to the legendary roots of music, the artists whose own jams are so powerful and awe inspiring that they in turn spark the creation of other jams. That being said there is truly only one place to start.
Hip hop is a culture that was born out of an oceans worth of musical influences: jazz, funk, soul, blues, and so many more that were woven into the breaks of early hip hop. As both technology and rap stylings progressed, the art of sampling parts of songs to be included cohesively on the track became a staple of the hip hop genre. While rap tracks have sampled everything from Enya to Earth, Wind, and Fire, no artist has been sampled as much as the Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown. But beyond this, one key song was laid down in that fateful summer of 1969 that would become the most recognized beat in all of hip hop: The Funky Drummer. It was that day that drummer Clyde Stubblefield dropped a beat that was so funky, they had to name the entire track after it. So funky they had to throw in a "bonus beat reprise" of the track at the end of the side. So funky that it has become the most sampled track in rap history.
Check the stats: http://www.xampled.com/blog/sampled-from/funky-drummer-james-brown/ its not even close. You want a chart?
...there you go. The song has been used so many times that it is ingrained in what hip hop is and will continue to be. The beat creates a standoff: energy, emotion, and intensity; you could see Muhammad Ali steppin into the ring to the beat, ready to square off. In this same way hip hop tracks have been using it to tip off battles or kick off any track since day 1. The whole song is in fact a jam and a half, but if you want to kick right to the beat you can skip to 5:30 or just check out the reprise. Enjoy.
Labels: beats, drums, funky, jam behind the jam, James Brown, Moose, RnB, sample
Big Boi-Shine Blockas
We all got them....They creep up on us...sneankily weaving their way into our headphones...coming on at a party after we've had a couple drinks, playing across your dorm hall...They are there, and no matter how hard you try to deny it, they are jams....jams and a halfs.....maybe even a couple jam and three quarters...naw, that aint even possible.
No matter how much of a music purist/snob you are, everyone's got their guilty pleasures. Those songs/artists that you don't like telling people about. The ones that you listen to with the windows closed and the blinds drawn. But here at Jam and a Half, we're advocating a revolution in music. Sing the music you love. Dance to the songs that everyone else hates. Hype jams even when the world questions...Because in the end, being a jam and a half is not about what Frank your local pizza delivery guy is jamming to, its about what you're feeling in that moment. I'll be the first one to announce that I do, in fact, sometimes like listening to Enya...Moose has an affliction for the sappiest of John Denver songs. There. We said it. That feels good.
This new Jam and a Half comes off of Big Boi's often often delayed solo album, the geniusly titled "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty." On the first listen, Shine Blockas was a disappointment; Big Boi's lyrics don't bite too hard and Gucci Mane continues to sound mediocre....but don't stop there! Give it another run through....feels a little better huh....I've been jamming to this now for about two weeks, and it feels goooodd. Over a Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "I Miss You" sample turned into a beat that drips with soul and swag, Big Boi and Gucci both kill this song. Big Boi, who still has the same mean flow that he did back in the day, is out to show that he deserves his spot as one of the best rappers alive....This jam definitely has it. It has the cool confidence of a rapper who's made it, but is still testing the limits of his talent. It's got a hot new rapper showing that he can keep up with the old guns, and maybe one day be able to teach a young gun the ropes. It's got everything needed to be one of the hottest rap songs of 2009, and could very well take the crown. While I didn't want to admit it at first, "Shine Blockas" is the jam and a half. (Hit read more for a picture that's guaranteed to make you laugh)
01 Shine Blockas f. Gucci Mane by jamandahalf
Labels: big boi, funky, gucci mane, Leks, rap
Sam Cooke-A Change is Gonna Come
This blog is all about jams...great songs, songs that have that special something that after your precious 3 minutes and 14 seconds spent listening to it, you decide, you know what? I'd listen to that jam again, right now! Right now! Songs so good, you could have them on repeat over and over, and maybe over again. Just cuz they're that good. We're not looking for a certain genre, or style, we're looking for songs that will make ya tell your momma, hey momma, listen to this!
Sam Cooke made one of the best songs of the 20th century in "A Change is Gonna Come." Soulful lyrics, a powerful message, and a timely plead, make "A Change is Gonna Come" an untouchable jam and a half. The jam set the standard for many songs to come...Not only hoping for a change, but knowing that a change is coming, Sam Cooke wrote a socially conscious song that has everything that it needs to be a jam and a half. Covered by and referred to by everyone from Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, to our president, Mr. Obama himself, ("It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America."). Mr. Cooke wrote this timeless piece in response to two events: his 18th month old son dying in an accidental drowning, and Mr. Cooke and his band being arrested after trying to check into a "white-only" motel. Sam soon realized that his pop career up to then wouldn't be enough.
Something more was needed. Sam Cooke's song, inspired by Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind," soon became an anthem for the civil right's movement, and poetically illustrates the difficulties that we need to overcome to make us a truly united nation. While it's been a long time coming, and many powers that be hope to keep it from coming, the promise of tomorrow is too great to not be seized by us today. This jam and a half is too pure, too strong, to make it deserve anything less than the "Jam and a Half'' title. Applicable to anything from the civil rights movement to the current health care promise, Cooke insists that a change is coming. You'll see. A Change is coming.
I included the original jam and a half, and a Fugees acoustic version. Enjoy
Download Here (original)
Fugees Version
Labels: change, Leks, RnB, Sam Cooke, Soul, stirring
The Impossible Cypher
The hollows and crevices of the internet are the place my man Big Leks calls home, and on his last trip to the pad he stumbled across this diamond. This impossible cipher, the product of modern day science which solely has the technology to bring rap slingers of this type and quality together, is brought to you by the mad doctors at BET for their award show. Now Im not sure how genuine the set up is, but I can tell you that the product is nothin but the realest. So for your enjoyment, the likes of Mos Def, Black Thought, and Eminem brought to you by the chiefs in white coats at BET. But beware, this is that FIRE, like liquid hot lava fire, check it at your own risk, you have been warned.
Labels: BET, Cypher, Moose
Manu Chao-Clandestino
They say that we are a product of our upbringing...that who we are today is based on both our nature and our nurture. The experiences we have all had make us unique, and this reflects on every part of our personality and our character. Manu Chao's upbringing reflects a new Europe, one that has changed remarkably in recent decades. Born in Paris to a Galician father and a Basque mother, Manu's music is a fusion of the many cultures and people that have radically altered European cities. Singing in a mixture of Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, Arabic, among others, Manu truly is a child of the new Europe.
One can immediately pick up various influences from Manu's music. An African drum here, a caribbean horn there. Melding together the music of the streets of different cultures, Manu's music is unique and alive. "Clandestino," the first song of his first solo album, Clandestino, is a story about immigrants coming to Spain. Clandestino, translating to underground, refers to immigrants in Spain who are there without papers, those living each day illegally, not sure when they will be caught and sent home. In the song, Manu talks about the Africans who try each day to boat across the Mediterranean, from the Spanish "colony" of Ceuta in Northern Africa through the straits of Gibralter. If they do make it, they become "ghosts in the city," wandering the streets with no identity.
This is a jam and a half because it is classic Manu. Over a simple guitar riff and maracas, its almost as if we hear Manu singing on the side of a street, lamenting over the hardships in his life. Manu takes a strong poke at governments, when saying that his life is prohibited, says the authorities. A perfect introduction to the rest of his brilliant album, musically the song is what a new Europe could be, a cohesive harmony of differing sounds and influences. Manu's family left Spain to escape Franco, but his songs reflect a new Spain, a proud and unique mixture of backgrounds and people.
Download Here (We did have a link here, but got a take-down notice. wear it.....)
Labels: alternative, immigration, Leks, Manu Chao, punk, spanish
Michael Jackson - Human Nature
Normally this aint my style...I swear, but really I feel compelled to throw it down for Mike J. The king of everything from pedophile jokes to pop is the all time leader in controversial conversational topics, but Im tryin to look beyond the social criticisms. Mike J has been keepin it real musically since he was rockin training wheels and that is why, in his death, I feel like its time to take a stand against the destruction of his rep. We all know the background, and we all know the jams, but it seems like over time we've forgotten some of the hidden classic joints that speckled nearly every album he put out.
The first time I heard this track Im sure I had the same reaction as you all, "What the hell is this?! Oh shit its straight Illmatic, It Aint Hard to Tell!!!" And thus I respected the track enough to listen to it. From there I discovered that, in fact, this goofy love tune is a certified R&B Jam and A Half!! Mikey has always known how to take it down right, but he captures that raw emotion and vulnerabilty in a truly specicial way. The last lick to be included on Thriller has been sampled by Nas, Blackstreet, SWV, BoyzIIMen, and has been covered by the likes of Miles Davis. So if you cant take my word for it trust my dogg Nasir. The hook just makes you wanna get your easy grind on with that special lady, and for its truly magnetic qualities Human Nature earns a spot as a jam and a half.
Labels: funky, Michael Jackson, Moose, motown, RnB
The Roots - Game Theory
Whats up to all you cats out there in the blogosphere. My name's Moose and Im gonna be helpin out Big Leks droppin only the choicest of jams for the good people of the world. To me, what the Jam and a Half blog is all about is allowing other people to share the connection that we feel with music. We´ve got the blessing to throw our favorite tracks up here of all different styles and genres to help people hear what they want to be hearin, or what they´ve never heard before. I love music but I aint no doctor so please if you have any comments or jams that you want us to posterize holler at us.
That said, for my first jam I wanted to go with something that Ive been feelin real heavy right now, and that's Game Theory, the title track off The Roots seventh album circa 2006. The Roots have been blowin up for a cool minute now, and Game Theory was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. For a mainstream audience the album takes up a more serious tone than most of today´s current beats, and Game Theory sticks with this theme keepin the tone heavy and the lyrics real to their roots. This jam walks that fine line of casting some social commentary without getting on the political soapbox and soundin phony. In his first verse Black Thought explodes out the gates using a thumpin rythm to spark the track, and lets everyone know what Philly is really all about.
Using a real classy Sly and the Family sample (Life of Fortune and Fame), and the irreplaceable flavor of The Roots band, the track builds an intensity that carries into each verse forcing the power of the rhymes on you. After a second rock solid verse from Black Thought, Malik B comes in smokin for the closer. Hittin rhymes within lines and spinnin street stories, the jam closes out as hard as it opens. Game Theory sets the tone for the rest of the album with a force that carries you through until the end, but this Jam and a Half has got everything it needs to stand alone as a classic track.
Labels: hard, Moose, Philly, rap, Roots
Outkast-ATLiens
There was a time when Outkast really was “Outkast.” Not too long ago actually. That was before this whole “Put out a double cd, break up, get back together, make a bs period piece, break up, come back and put out a classic jam and a half (Art of Storytelling Part IV), break up, supposedly work on single album and a joint album” phase they’ve been on since after Stankonia. Big Boi’s been around; but Andre 3000’s been missing, on the reg. But god dern, when Outkast was really “Outkast,” they were the greatest musical duo of all time…
Outkast’s second album, also called ATLiens, was a bridge between their insanely promising debut, and their polished masterpiece, Aquemini. With a general theme of outer space and extraterrestrials among us, Outkast included, jams such as Elevators, 13th floor, Two Dope Boyz define and highlight ATLiens. The breadth and depth of ATLiens is unparalleled in rap history, and the ease that Big Boi and Andre are able to completely switch sounds, content, and style on individual tracks shows their unreal musical versatility. While the whole album is one giant jam and a half, and many song could have higher lyrical merit, or a sicker beat, none of them are more a jam of a half than the album’s title song.
Outkast is what Southern Rap could be…no, Outkast is what Rap should be. Over a pounding Outkast/Earthtone Ideas beat, both Dre and Big Boi lay down lyrical magma. Big Boi starts off, laser beams blazing. Did he just say he was cooler than a polar bear’s toenail? Yeaaa he did. Did he say it tickles to see you try to be like Mr. Pickles? Uh huuu…Did Dre tell you that he put his glock away because his lyrics are “a stronger weapon that never runs out of ammunition”? Si chaval. ATLiens (the jam, not the album) may not be the most introspective, otherworldly Outkast jam of all time, but play it a couple times. It's two rappers, who on only their second album, are asking the world, who better? ATLiens is the jam and a half.
Labels: aliens, Atlanta, beats, hard, Leks, lyrics, outkast, southern rap
Isley Brothers-Voyage to Atlantis
What’s the last place you took a trip to? Vegas? The Bay? For the brave, or foolish, of heart, TJ? I’m sitting in Charles de Gaulle Airport right now, on my way to see a very special someone in Budapest, but even this has a hard time comparing to the epic journey that the Brothers Isley bring you in their epic jam and a half, Voyage to Atlantis.
Probably the funkiest creation since the sinking of Atlantis, the Isley Brothers made something so groovy and pure that even Midas would have a hard touching it. With a warbled guitar taking you down to the very depths of the deep blue, to a place where only mermaids and old guys with tridents dwell, Voyage to Atlantis tells about a man leaving his lady behind, but promising that he’ll always come back to her…but only if they go all the way together. To where? Atlantis of course, the paradise out beyond the sea.
Why is this a jam and a half? If the first listen hasn’t convinced you, and if hearing this crooned from apt 661L hasn’t either, then you probably should stop reading this blog. Not only is this something even Poseidon would have a hard time not jamming to in his watery palace, Big Boi sampled it in his recent jam Royal Flush (off of his oft delayed solo debut) with Andre 3000 and Raekwon.
The Isley Bros rank up there with the Mario and Luigi. the Halpern lair, and Big Leks and Oscar as far as all time brothers go. Let them take you on a voyage.
Labels: funky, guitar, isley brothers, Leks, motown, trip
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Holly Starr: Tapestry Review
Holly Starr's second studio release Tapestry is one definitely worth the listen. Through this project, the 21-year-old brings a refreshing sound of both upbeat, contemporary tracks and slower worshipful tracks full of honesty and truth.
The radio single "Undertow" gets things started off on a very enjoyable upbeat sound, speaking of the undertows we all face, and is a prayer to God asking Him to rescue us from them. The equally as upbeat track, "Surrender" contains encouraging lyrics in a prayer to God to take our broken lives that we surrender and make them new: "I wanna give my whole life to the One who traded all His crowns/ let our broken lives be found/ I surrender."
"Take Me As I Am," on the slower side of things, speaks of the paradox that many Christians face: "I'm supposed to be in love with You/ why do I fail You all the time?/ I'm supposed to be in love with You/ but I'm afraid that it's a lie." This track definitely showed off Holly's amazing lyrics and refreshing worship sound, as "What Is Love" showed off Holly's exceptional soaring vocals, in a song about the uselessness of love, if not acted upon.
"Come Close" had rythymic singing and brought back the enjoyable upbeat sound, making "Come Close," about drawing nearer to God very enjoyable. "I'll Watch You Dance" was a sweet love song on the slower side of things, as "My Cry" was a gorgeous worship track, speaking of the cry of our heart -- for Jesus to be glorified in all we do.
"Holding On to You" gets things rolling again, packed with encouraging lyrics about holding on to God during everything, because "if I fall tonight/ I'll be alright." "I Will Love You Anyway" again features soaring lyrics in this heart-breaking song, as Holly sings to someone who hurt her deeply, but she chooses to love them anyway. Finally, Tapestry ends with "Psalm 23," practically the beloved Psalm put to beautiful music, and the addition of a magnificent chorus. Honestly, "Psalm 23" was one of my favorites from her Tapestry project, and one that I found on repeat.
I thoroughly enjoyed Holly Starr's sophomore project Tapestry. Full of honest lyrics, a mix of both upbeat and slower music, and amazing vocals, Tapestry was outstanding. I am very glad I had the chance to check out this project, and I highly recommend that fans of slower Rebecca St. James music check out Holly's new album as soon as possible.
1. Undertow
2. Surrender
3. Take Me As I Am
4. What Is Love
5. Come Close
6. I'll Watch You Dance
7. My Cry
8. Holding Onto You
9. I Love You Anyway
10. Psalm 23
Miss Bleah Briann March 21, 2011 at 8:20 PM
ooh, it's really pretty. :)
You know what I'm kind of obssessed with right now? That song "I love what you hold me" featuring Toby Mac...
aaah, it's so good! Everytime it comes on the radio I turn it up and do this little... side to side in the carseat, thing. :P
What is my disfunction?! I meant "I love the way you hold me."
I must have been thinking about something when I was commenting...
Sorry. :P
Josh March 22, 2011 at 1:46 AM
Good album review for this new album from Holly Starr. I am looking forward to hearing this album from her.
Mike March 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM
Sounds like a great album!
Barbara May 3, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Thanks, Jay, for this thoughtful and personal response to Tapestry. I got to experience Holly and her band live, and they were amazing! The professional studio work on this album makes it an enduring treasure.
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Below is the Calendar showing Chapter events for the Railway Interest Group.
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Rail Interest Group AGM to be followed by The State of (Rail) Systems Engineering
London Underground’s offices at Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NU
INCOSE Year Planner
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There was a considerable rail contingent at the INCOSE international symposium in Rome in July 2012, including several RIG members. Rhianne, David and Bruce will present some considered reflections on the event. It won’t be a trip report. Instead they will analyse their experience to propose conclusions about:
Where SE is, in the rail sector and more generally;
Where it seems to be going; and
What this means for those interested in embedding SE ideas within rail organisations.
Audience participation will be encouraged so that we can pool our experience and form the most accurate picture of the state of rail SE. The conclusions will be refined in the light of contributions from the floor.
There are 2 Documents for this event, click here to view
Deep Left Shift – SE and the Future Tube Upgrades
London Underground has already engaged in significant upgrades to the Victoria Line, Jubilee Line and the Sub-surface Lines, which commenced under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreements. Work does not stop there however and LU is now exploring programmes for possible upgrades of other deep tube lines; an opportunity for ‘left shifting’ and engaging system engineering right at the front of the lifecycle according to all the text books and SE protagonists.
Those deep tube lines yet to undergo a major upgrade (the Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Northern Lines, and, later, the Central Line) offer a variety of unique challenges. The desire for ever increasing levels of capacity, reliability and automation beyond anything ever undertaken on any previous line upgrade, within the constraints of topography, heat and the need for continuous service operation, makes it paramount to get the system design (assets, processes and people) right.......
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view
1700H for 1730H
Parsons Brinckerhoff’s offices in 6 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YE
Experience of System Engineering in Rolling Stock Development (A Manufacturer’s View)
Bombardier has been employing System Engineering techniques for a number of years to bring improvements in the integrity of the design and ensure timely product approval.
This has been undertaken in an industry environment where customer needs and the regulatory framework have been subject to significant changes. This presentation will focus on some of SE techniques employed and challenges faced in their implementation. Charles and Paul will describe their practical experience of:
Performing SE within short product design and build cycles
Managing stakeholders: Customers, Infrastructure Managers, Regulators
Implementing Requirement Management techniques
What is going on in UK rail systems engineering?
A useful side benefit of regular attendance at RIG events is building up a picture of what is going on in UK rail systems engineering but it does take a little while for the picture to emerge. This session is focussed on building that picture in one hour. We invite you to come along and talk for no more than 3 minutes about what your organisation is doing in rail SE. You are encouraged to send me one slide in advance which we will have ready for you to speak to but you can talk without a slide if you want to. (And you can just listen as well.)
If the RIG membership doesn’t let us down (and it never has in the past), participants will leave the session with a more comprehensive overview of who is doing what in UK rail systems engineering than anyone else on the planet.
One Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ
Has 3rd Rail Had its Day? The Conversion of the SR 3rd Rail Network to 25kV Overhead.
This event is organised by the Railway Engineer's Forum, not INCOSE, but tackles a very system-oriented topic and may be of interest to INCOSE members.
For further details please click the link below to see the event flyer.
Integrating Systems Engineering and Systems Safety Engineering
Dr Robert Davis and Paul Cheeseman, TPD, 1730H, Wednesday, 1st May 2013, LU's offices in Holborn, London. A review of experience in preparing systems safety handbooks for the rail industry and a look at the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating good practice in Systems Safety Engineering with good practice in Systems Engineering.
The changing face of London and Southeast Railway Architecture
Tony Ramanathan, Network Rail, 1730H, Tuesday, 21st May 2013, RSSB's offices at the Angel, London. Tony will discuss GRIP and Network Rail's approach to railway scheme design in the context of schemes that are under way and planned.
Network Rail's offices in 1 Eversholt Street, Euston
Keeping London Moving During the London 2012 Games
Having seen how well London's tube, DLR, buses, trams and so on functioned as a joined-up system during last Summer's Games, I have been hugely curious to know to what extent that success was the product of good systems thinking and to what extent it was the product of good thinking of other varieties. I am therefore truly delighted that Mark Evers, who was TfL's Director of Games Transport at the time, has agreed to talk to us. Mark will speak on the topic of Keeping London Moving During the London 2012 Games at Network Rail's offices in 1 Eversholt Street, Euston at 1730H on Tuesday, 16th July 2013. You will find a few more details in the attached flyer.
Qinetiq's offices at 53 Chandos Place, London WC2N 4HS.
The Great Western Electrification Programme - Collaborating for Success
A a collaborative approach to applying systems engineering presented by a collaborative team comprising Nassar Majothi of Parsons Brinckerhoff and Joe Silmon of Atkins.
CH2M Hill's offices in Elms House, 43 Brook Green, LONDON W6 7EF
MBSE - is there any substance behind the hype?
To book for this event please contact Bruce Elliott bruce.elliott@arbutus-tc.co.uk
The offices of BAE Systems Detica in the Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 OTA
How the rail industry is working together to drive down the cost of managing the infrastructure
A terrific opportunity to see how system-thinking is being applied at the highest level - the level of the entire national network. For more details see the flyer attached. Booking is now open.
Arup’s offices in 13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ
Systems Engineering: Railway Operators get it too!
Systems Engineering techniques are increasingly applied with success in rail engineering design. Rail operating professionals, seeing the advantages, have grasped the essentials with alacrity.
Nigel Murphy and Steve Roberts set out some examples of such applications, illustrating how time, cost and risk have been reduced and performance and operability improved, in ‘softer’ operational design of the rules, methods of working and competence management systems necessary to deliver the railway for customers. They will draw upon examples over the last 12 years in the UK, and reference global examples for further illustration. They will argue that SE practitioners should view railway operations professionals as advocates, champions and co-practitioners and that System Engineering must embrace operational design in a systematic way rather than as an afterthought. The presentation will show that use of SE approaches by operators is a successful model for others to adopt and provoke debate on practical steps that SE practitioners should consider when developing new projects.
Transportation Working Group
Atkins's offices in Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AT
UK Railway System Reliability - Modelling the future - a case study
Nigel Best of Network Rail has agreed to talk to us on the topic above on Wednesday 7th March 2012, 1730H-1830H. The presentation will take place at Atkins's offices in Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AT.
Network Rail’s Offices, Square One, 4 Travis Street, Manchester, M1 2NY
Managing Complexity in the North West and Integrating the Northern Hub
The Northern Hub Programme comprises a collection of infrastructure projects which come together to increase the capability of the railway system in the north-west of England. The purpose of the Northern Hub is to provide the network capability for train service enhancements necessary to facilitate economic growth across the north of England. The Northern Hub Programme is set against a backdrop of significant rail investment in the North, including major electrification programmes, significant re-signalling and re-control works and journey time improvement schemes.
Network Rail’s offices at 40 Melton Street, London, NW1 2EE
Crossrail: making the right decisions, picking the right technologies
Crossrail will run from Maidenhead and Heathrow, through 21 kilometres of new twin-bore tunnels under central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. It will bring an additional 1.5 million people within 45 minutes commuting distance of London's key business districts. When Crossrail opens it will increase London's rail-based transport network capacity by 10%, supporting regeneration across the capital, helping to secure London's position as a world leading financial centre, and cutting journey times across the city.
1730H - 1830H
London Underground's offices in 55 Broadway, London SW1H 0BD
Defence in Depth - Identify Defence Elements within a Railway Transport System
The RIG is honoured and delighted to be able to announce that Alain Cointet of RATP has agreed to talk to us on the topic of "Defence in Depth: Identify Defence Elements within a Railway Transport System" on Tuesday 29th November 2011, 1730H-1830H. The presentation will take place at London Underground's offices in 55 Broadway, London SW1H 0BD.
London Underground, 55 Broadway, London SW1H 0BD
Decision Making from Data: Causes and Uncertainty
This talk describes a case study in the use of data and probabilistic modelling for decision making and the wider applications of the principles to other problems in Systems Engineering.
The case study, an on-going collaboration between Queen Mary University of London and RSSB, concerns the safety of rail passengers using stations. RSSB co-ordinates the Rail Industry's collection of passenger incident data and this data is used to track the risk of different categories of accidents. However, rather than 'what is the current risk?' what if we want to know 'How can the risk be reduced?'. For this, we need to model causally: how far would the risk be reduced by feasible safety improvements. We show that incident data alone is not sufficient for this: we need to integrate other sources of data and use probabilistic modelling to approximate complex relationships.
Finmeccanica, 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU
A Duffer's Guide to TRAK
You may be heartily sick of hearing people bang on about systems architecture. Why should the RIG be any different...
TRAK's mission is to make doing systems architecting simple. Even I can do it!
In this 30 minute, fun-filled session Colin Wood, co-creator of TRAK (he doesn’t speak highly of the other one), will explain how the least amongst us can quickly get up to speed and produce some quite natty models that the MD will fall over backwards for, at least if he's in a good mood. Bring him along if you can.
1000H to 1600H
How can systems engineers and asset managers work together better?
Traditionally, Systems Engineering (SE) and Asset Management (AM) have been separate disciplines: SE has focussed on building optimal systems while AM has focussed on delivering business objectives throughout the asset lifecycle.
The aim of the workshop is to help practitioners of the two disciplines work together better. At the end of this workshop, participants will have developed a shared understanding of:
The overlaps between SE and AM
How the two disciplines (processes, standards and tools) relate to each other
How SE supports AM throughout the asset’s lifecycle
The workshop is also an opportunity for participants to network and broaden their horizons.
The workshop will start with scene-setting presentations and participants will then work together to identify opportunities for SE and AM practitioners to work together better and to formulate actions to exploit these opportunities.
UCL, London
As Crossrail transforms from development to delivery, the time has come to make the big decisions that will either make or break the project. This presentation examines some of those big decisions, the issues surrounding them and why they are so important to get right at this point.
International Working Group
Enterprise Systems Engineering
Committee / Contacts
Agile Systems Engineering
Human Centric Systems Engineering
Service Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering and Project Management
SE and Quality Management
Functional Groups
Dormant Groups
Capability Working Group
In-Service Systems Working Group
SE Competencies Working Group
Technology Life Cycle Working Group
INCOSE UK Ltd
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INCOSE International Website
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CFP – Sites of Memory in Children’s Literature
CFP: Sites of Memory in Children’s Literature
MLA 2015 (Vancouver, BC)
Remembering, remembrance, memory, and forgetting shapes children’s literature: authors’ personal memories of childhood that inform their texts or are preserved in cross-written texts or memoirs; larger cultural memories adults wish to pass down to future generations; and events, incidents, and topics elided or “forgotten” in the canon. Indeed, the genre of children’s literature relies on the remembrance, reinterpretation, or revision of past works. This panel invites papers considering all aspects of memory in children’s and young adult literature (historical, literary, nostalgic, patriotic, personal, repressed, traumatic, etc.) as well as papers that explore how literary memory shapes the canon of children’s and YA literature through intertextuality, another site of memory.
Topics prospective panelists might wish to address include, but are not limited to:
Adult memories of childhood mined from archives, letters, diaries, memoirs, libraries, school classrooms, or childhood reading practices
Cultural and historical events remembered, forgotten, elided, or revised in works of children’s and young adult literature
The role of remembrance and nostalgia in canon formation: forgotten texts that are making a comeback (e.g., Henty’s novels in the homeschooling community) or texts that should be remembered
How intertextuality functions to challenge, negotiate, or reinterpret ideas of youth, children’s literature, and/or YA literature
Genre: historical, theoretical, or institutional practices of remembering and forgetting what constitutes children’s literature
Traumatic memories: how they’re represented in individual works as well as how they’re presented to younger readers
Iconic texts about remembrance: anything to do with war, but also “holiday” books and texts about important historical events
Please send 500-word proposals by March 15 to Karin Westman at westmank@ksu.edu.
CFP – Special Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly: The Child
Call for Papers, Poetry and Prose
WSQ Special Issue, Spring 2015: CHILD
Guest Editors: Sarah Chinn and Anna Mae Duane
Children have always been fraught subjects for feminist scholarship. Women are alternately infantilized and subsumed in service of children. Indeed, nowhere are women’s rights more assiduously attacked than around the question of their biological capacity to bear and raise children. Our concerns in this issue of WSQ, though, are children and childhood themselves: representations of children, children’s experiences, and children’s place in the world.
Recent scholarship in childhood studies has taken on core assumptions around children, especially children’s innocence and their removal from the realm of work and financial gain. And yet children play a crucial role in the global economy. As consumers, children represent an immense market. As producers and workers, children manufacture goods of every kind. Children constitute a significant stream of bodies for trafficking networks of domestic and other kinds of labor, including sex work. And children tried as adults populate prison systems around the world, especially in the United States.
Children’s identification with potentiality and futurity has reached proportions unimaginable only decades ago. Developments in prenatal imaging technology has solidified the “fetal child” as a subject, and trends in neuroscience have renaturalized the concept of binary gender in newborns and young children. At the same time, children are identifying as queer and transgender at earlier ages. How do we understand children’s gendered and erotic desires? How is childhood gender expression made to stand in for or retrospectively understood as sexuality, and how are childhood sexual desires precursors to and divergences from adult sexual identities?
Finally, what is the affective work that children do? They are supposed to give adult lives meaning and pleasure, to represent a world larger than the one at hand, to be the source and recipients of love. How is this affective work inflected by nation, race, class, and gender? Which children have affective value and which ones are outside the ecology of care and love?
Some of the topics we’re interested in exploring from a feminist/gender perspective include, but are not limited to:
Children and the Nation
The Child as a Consumer
Children as Economic Actors
The Child and Memory
The Child and Trauma
The Gendered Child
The Racialization of Children
Children in the Carceral State
Gendering Childhood Disability
Immigration and Childhood
Childhood and Sexuality
Children and Social/Digital Media
Adoption: Transnational and Domestic, Transracial
Rights of the Child and Human Rights
Scholarly articles should be sent to guest issue editors Sarah Chinn and Anna Mae Duane at WSQChildIssue@gmail.com by April 7, 2014. Please send complete articles, not abstracts. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words (including un-embedded notes and works cited) and should comply with the formatting guidelines at http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission-guidelines.
Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ’s poetry editor at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by April 7, 2014. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information.
Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ’s fiction/nonfiction editor at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com by April 7, 2014. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.
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By Lock Magazine
‘Talking Truth’ is the latest release from Swedish artist LUNE and it is a vibrant pop gem with brilliant production and relatable lyricism.
As a song-writer who is an “extremely emotional” person, LUNE has been able to express herself in a care free and passionate manner in ‘Talking Truth’. In this particular instance, she is filled with feelings of intense intimacy. Every aspect of this song is a statement of intent, she doesn’t care who knows that she is in love, it has to be shouted from the top of the world.
The pounding drums, euphoric chorus, and emotive vocals makes this song a melodic earworm that you won’t be able to get out of your head.
Released on her own label Play Human, ‘Talking Truth’ is another summer hit from an artist who can only get bigger and bigger. Keep an eye out for more tracks from this talented artist.
Listen to ‘Talking Truth’ below.
Read our Q&A with LUNE by clicking here.
Related Items:Lune, New Single, Pop, Review, Talking Truth
Deep Tan unveil visually striking music video for debut single ‘Air’
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Afternoon Tea at Jesmond Dene House
Afternoon Tea is often thought of as a ‘London tradition’ – from The Ritz to The Savoy, if you visit the capital, it’s often a must-do. How wonderful then, to see an exceptional Afternoon Tea being served a good 200 miles from the smoke, at the beautiful Grade II listed boutique hotel and restaurant – Jesmond Dene House.
Afternoon Tea was invented by Queen Victoria’s lifelong friend Anna the 7th Duchess of Bedford who used it to bridge the long gap between breakfast and late dinner in the early 19th Century. How fitting then, that Jesmond Dene House, a 19th Century mansion house, and now an independent boutique hotel, is serving up such a beautiful offering, carefully curated by their new Head Pastry Chef Cal Byerley.
Cal – formerly of the Michelin starred Forest Side, has created a stunning three course serving of Afternoon Tea which can be enjoyed in the conservatory of this beautifully grand Georgian house, overlooking the mansion’s al fresco terrace and surrounded by greenery, plants, trees and nature.
With the last rays of late summer shining through the glass and reflecting off the cutlery which had been laid on crisp linen table cloths, the perfect start to Afternoon Tea was with a glass of beautifully cold and bubbly Collet Brut Reserve Champagne. With tea and coffee poured, we didn’t have to wait long before our pretty tiered cake stand landed, loaded with layers of tasty treats.
We dug in to savouries on the bottom layer first – with turkey, black truffle and lettuce on white bread, refreshing oak smoked salmon with cucumber and dill cream cheese on wholemeal and the lightest of spring onion and goat’s cheese quiche. We loved the mild flavour, the light texture and the perfect pastry which encased it. There were also hearty chunks of sausage roll with fennel and black onion seed which were extremely filling! At this point, we did wonder how we might fit in the next couple of courses!
On to the middle tier and an absolute delight of sweet and savoury scones. The scones were beautifully light and fluffy, with the cheese being my favourite, Whipped butter and sweet onion marmalade was the perfect accompaniment to the cheese. We smothered the fruit scone, which was equally delicious with lashings of clotted cream and punchy home made jam, feeling very guilty at the decadence of it all…
At this point, we had to take a break! Defeated at the first two hurdles, but adamant that we’d make it to the top layer – the most beautifully presented layer consisting of eclairs, carrot cake, macarons and brownie.
We took more tea – and there’s plenty of it! The loose tea selection includes the traditional English Breakfast, through to Lapsang Souchong, Himalayan Darjeeling, and Birds of Paradise to name just a few. There’s something wonderfully calming and relaxing about the ritual of Afternoon Tea – especially when you’re pouring the tea straight from the teapot, through the tea strainer which catches all of the loose leaves and into the quaint little tea cup.
Around an hour after we’d started digging into our first sandwich, I felt ready to tackle the top layer. We started with the spiced carrot cake, an idyllic balance of flavours with the tiniest of spice, mille-feuilled with rich cream cheese and topped with a quiff of Sea Buckthorn – very ‘on trend’!
Once the mm’s, ooh’s and aah’s had subsided, we moved on to chocolate and orange macaron – that wonderful texture, with a shiny as velvet coating and a sweet centre.
My favourite was our next choice – the caramelised white chocolate eclair which was simply divine. We karate chopped the eclair into two, along with the most amazing layer of fudge which ran the length of the eclair and also provided the base for the prettiest raspberry, cream and fresh flower decoration. The layered dark chocolate and pistachio was the perfect, lavish finish to a wonderful selection of cakes and pastries.
With covers reaching the hundreds, now that Cal has breathed new life into Afternoon Tea at Jesmond Dene House, it’s advisable that you book. Get ready for the ultimate Afternoon Tea experience, whether you decide to go for the cocktail, prosecco or champagne offering, you’re in very, very good hands. (Priced from £25pp to £37.50pp)
Written by Luxuria Lifestyle UK’s Ashleigh Whitfield
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Hello Friends and Colleagues!
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Typical Teenager
A 15-year-old girl with a history of cerebral palsy and severe spasticity is brought in by her family because she has been having difficulty awakening in time for school over the past week. She feels inordinately tired and “groggy”, but as the day progresses she feels more awake and attentive. She has been progressing well in advanced courses in high school; she is afraid she will get behind and be held back a grade. The family brings her in because she wasn’t able to get out of bed until well after Noon.
She has no other past medical history; her past surgical history is significant only for an appendectomy at age 5 and an intrathecal baclofen pump last year for her spasticity. Her vital signs are normal; it is 8 pm in a busy ED, and the girl is bright, interactive, and attentive. Her physical exam is normal, with her baseline motor compromise; there is no evidence of trauma, infection, or toxidrome.
Regarding her management, which of the following is the single BEST answer:
A. Admit the patient for observation and caregiver holiday
B. Keep the patient in the ED in a relaxed, supine position for a brief observation
C. Send the patient home with a short PO course of baclofen to prevent evening
D. Discharge the patient with referral to psychiatry to evaluate coping skills
In the meantime, a quote –
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
– Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
A tired mother brings two of her children, a boy age 6, and a girl, age 11 to the ED for cough and rhinorrhea over the past 2 days. Their vital signs are normal, and their examinations are reassuring. During the visit, she asks that her 3-month-old boy also be registered and evaluated for a “check up”.
The boy was born at 35 weeks without complications. He has not received his two-month vaccinations because “he was sick that day”. She explains that he always seems fussy, and never eats enough. During a family party last night, she was upset that he wasn’t “awake enough” for relatives to visit him. There has been no fever, vomiting, or diarrhea. She has not noticed a rash. There are no dominant illnesses in the family that she can recall.
On examination, the child does not track with his eyes and is lethargic. He has decreased tone, but holds his head up appropriately when mother sits him up in her lap after his formula feeds.
His vitals show T 36.9 HR 152 BP 78/50 RR 36 SpO2 99% RA. He appears volume depleted, with slightly sunken eyes and capillary refill of 2-3 seconds. His pulses are not bounding; his breathing is slightly tachypneic, but appears effortless. His abdomen is soft, non-tender, without organomegaly; the boy’s scrotum appears slightly darker than his general skin tone. You do not appreciate a rash; there is no evidence of trauma.
At this point, what are your management priorities?
What ancillary studies would be helpful?
What is your differential diagnosis based on what you know now?
You recognize that this infant is in compensated shock, with an elevated heart rate and ill appearance, and begin volume resuscitation with 20 mL/kg 0.9% sodium chloride. A point-of-care blood analyzer reports: pH 7.34 Na+ 97 K+ 7.5 Ca2+ 10 Glucose 66.
Does this help to hone your differential diagnosis?
You decide that this child is at risk for sepsis (among other things), and perform a full workup including chest radiograph, urinalysis with culture, blood cultures, blood work, and a lumbar puncture. Luckily, you have the presence of mind to send an additional set of blood vials to the laboratory to freeze and send out for specialized analysis.
Based on the information you have at this point, you treat for sepsis while you consider other etiologies.
What metabolic pattern can you recognize from the bedside blood analysis?
A sick infant with hyponatremia and hyperkalemia suggests congenital adrenal hyperplasia or pseudohypoaldosteronism.
Classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) involves a salt-wasting syndrome, most commonly due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. Since 21 hydroxylase is not available to convert 17-hydroxyprogesterone to 11-deoxycortisol, there is a decreased synthesis of cortisol and therefore an increased secretion of corticotropin (ACTH). Decreased cortisol results in salt wasting while increased ACTH results in increased androgen synthesis. Both baby boys and girls experience salt wasting, but baby girls present virilized or with ambiguous genitalia. This is often diagnosed in the newborn nursery. Baby boys, however, appear normal, and may present in the first few weeks of life (typically) on the spectrum from vague symptoms of failure to thrive to an adrenal crisis.
Bottom line: a young sick infant who may fit this pattern should receive a stress dose of steroid: give 25 mg hydrocortisone IV (same dose during the first year of life).
What other etiologies are possible here?
Failure to thrive may be due to a long list of illnesses that are rarely clarified in the ED. (Formula mishaps, non-accidental trauma, poisoning, and other etiologies should be considered in the differential diagnosis in the ED.)
Renal tubular acidosis, type IV presents with hyperkalemia and often no salt wasting in adults; children may present with a metabolic acidosis, hyperkalemia, and hyponatremia – similarly to CAH.
Pseudohypoaldosteronism (type 1, transient) is an acquired form, most commonly in pediatrics from a urinary tract infection. Other causes in other populations include nephritis, amyloidosis, ACE inhibitors, and beta-blockers. Presumably, parenchymal inflammation leads to tubular resistance to aldosterone. The treatment is to address the underlying cause and offer supportive care. In the case where there is uncertainty between CAH and pseudohypoaldosteronism, always investigate and treat for sepsis, and give hydrocortisone. It can be discontinued if/when an alternative diagnosis (such as pseudohypoaldosteronism) is made.
What happened in this case?
The boy was treated for possible sepsis and presumed CAH with antibiotics, IV fluids, and hydrocortisone. Samples taken when blood was first drawn were sent for cortisol, 17OHP, aldosterone, and renin (and other genetic testing) which ruled out CAH. The urine culture grew E. coli, and the child was investigated for urethral valves with a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), renal anomalies with renal ultrasound, and parenchymal disease with a DMSA scan. His posterior urethral valves were ablated with cystoscopy, and his vesicoureteral reflux has begun to resolve. This was a case of transient pseudohypoaldosteronism, secondary to urinary tract infection (secondary to posterior urethral valves and vesiculoureteral reflux).
Take home messages
Newborn screening is generally an effective public health measure, but relies on prompt processing of samples in hospital (institutions have been known to send samples in batches) and good contact information for the family. Any break in the chain can lead to a delay in diagnosis and treatment, with subsequent decompensation. A recent study in Colorado found that their screening missed up to 30% of cases of CAH. Vigilance is essential.
An ill appearing child is septic until proven otherwise, regardless of the atypical presentation. In this case, had he presented with CAH, an infection may have tipped the balance, precipitating this crisis in the context of sepsis.
Be careful not to hypercorrect serum sodium. In general, in matters of volume versus osmoles, volume typically wins. That is, resuscitate those in shock to euvolemia (remember that normal saline is already “hypertonic” in relation to most hyponatremia). Do not directly treat the hyponatremia unless the child is profoundly altered acutely or seizing (i.e. treat acute, severely symptomatic hyponatremia). At that point, an easy remedy to remember is: 3 mL/kg of 3% saline over 30 minutes. Stop giving the 3% as soon as the seizure stops.
In this case, our child may have had a smoldering urinary tract infection or recurrent mild infections that led to parenchymal insult and pseudohypoaldosteronism that resolved after resolution of his urinary tract infection/pyelonephritis.
Chan CL, McFann K, Taylor L, Wright D, Zeitler PS, Barker JM. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia and the second newborn screen. J Pediatr. 2013; 163(1):109-113.
Kaye CI, Committee on Genetics, Accurso F, et al. Newborn screening fact sheets. Pediatrics. 2006; 118:e934.
Manikam L, Cornes P, Kalra D, Ford C, Gama R. Transient pseudohypoaldosteronism masquerading as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Ann Clin Biochem. 2011; 48: 380-382.
Merke DP, Bornstein SR. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Lancet. 2005; 365:2125.
Nandagopal R, Vaidyanathan P, Kaplowitz P. Transient Pseudohypoaldosteronism due to Urinary Tract Infection in Infancy: A Report of 4 Cases. Int J Pediatr Endocrinol. 2009;2009:195728. doi: 10.1155/2009/195728
Speiser PW, Azziz R, Baskin LS, et al. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010; 95:4133.
Make-or-Break
A 27-year-old woman with no past medical history was riding her mountain bike
downhill when she encountered “gnarly terrain”, lost control, and over-corrected
her handlebars to the right. Arms locked, she fell with full force to her left and her handlebar impacted her chest at the terminus of her fall. Winded but resilient, she rode several miles to her car and drove herself to the ED after she noticed a painful “popping” and transient deformity each time she coughed.
In the ED, T 37.8 HR 52 118/72 RR 14 98% RA. In general, she is tired but in no apparent distress. Her lungs are clear bilaterally with a somewhat diminished tidal volume, due to painful splinting. Her total body check reveals no other trauma.
The visual inspection of her chest reveals:
Her bedside ultrasound and chest radiograph show no evidence of hemothorax,
pneumothorax, pericardial effusion, or opacity. Her electrocardiogram shows no evidence of dysrhythmia or conduction delay. She is feeling somewhat better after an
NSAID.
Based on her presentation, which of the following is the MOST likely etiology?
A. Sternalis syndrome
B. Tietze syndrome
C. Arthroidal subluxation
D. Slipping rib syndrome
In the meantime, a few quotes –
“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”
– Publilius Syrus, Latin writer, 1st century BC
"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
– Euripides, tragedian of classical Athens, 480–406 BC
We Got Your Back
A 13-year-old boy was riding his bicycle two days ago when he began to have sharp, pleuritic pain in his right chest. He has no shortness of breath or fevers. He has no past medical history, but on a review of systems he reports a two-month history of back pain with “good days and bad days”. Although he had mentioned it to his parents in passing some time ago, there appear to be some distracting social stressors in the family.
His vital signs are normal, and when you examine him you see this:
As you consider your differential diagnosis, you try to ask the correct screening questions.
Which of the following has NOT been validated as a screening measure in US children?
A. Has a family member or contact had tuberculosis disease?
B. Has a family member had a positive tuberculin skin test result?
C. Has your child complained of a prolonged cough (longer than you thought to
be normal) or a cough with bloody sputum?
D. Was your child born in a high-risk country (countries other than the United
States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or Western and North European
countries)?
“Man ought to be man and master of his fate; but children are at the mercy of those around them.”
– Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), English educationalist and reformer
..and..
“I prefer to be called a fool for asking the question, rather than to remain in ignorance.”
– John Homans (1836-1903), US professor of surgery
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 87:1 (1872)
In For A Penny, In For A Pound
A 58-year-old woman presents to the ED altered, hypotensive, and tachycardic. While you assess the possible etiology of her undifferentiated shock, you gain peripheral intravenous access, start crystalloid resuscitation, and mentally prepare for what seems to be the inevitability of vasopressor use.
Given her current intravenous access, which of the following vasopressors may be the MOST problematic:
A. Dopamine
B. Norepinephrine
C. Epinephrine
D. Vasopressin
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
– Maimonides
"[In the end] 'M.D.' stands for: 'Make a Decision'."
– John Rose
Incidental or Consequential
A 12-year-old boy complains of right leg pain “on and off” for the past several weeks without alleviating or exacerbating features or history of trauma. He has no systemic complaints, otherwise feels well, and is active in sports. The boy has no past medical history and is not taking medications or supplements. The family comes to the ED at 3 am because the boy woke up his parents complaining of worse pain. He has not tried to take anything for this prior to his ED visit.
On examination, the boy has normal vital signs and a reassuring physical exam. Due to the indolent nature of his complaints, you perform plain films:
Something unexpected catches your eye, and you magnify the image:
Based on his presentation and plain films, which is the MOST likely diagnosis?
A. Osteoid osteoma
B. Osteochondroma
C. Unicameral bone cyst
D. Aneurysmal bone cyst
“Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.”
– Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German Philosopher
“More is missed by not looking than by not knowing.”
– Thomas McCrae (1870-1935), physician and student of William Osler
It's Not You
A 27-year-old woman with no past medical history complains of dizziness, palpitations, nausea, and sweating intermittently over the past few months. She worked as a receptionist for the past two years for a real estate agency while she studied to be an agent. A few weeks ago, she began to work as a realtor and she relates that her symptoms are more frequent and intense; she now feels mentally “cloudy” and is exhausted at the end of her work day. The woman comes to the ED today because she is afraid that this is affecting her performance and that she will lose her job.
In the ED, she is comfortable if not slightly anxious. T 99.9 HR 89 BP 118/70 RR
12 SpO2 98% on ambient air. She is a thin woman with normal heart, lung, and neurologic examinations. After ordering an electrocardiogram and select auxiliary laboratories, you expect to reassess and discharge her, but when you return to the bedside you see her nervously pacing. You notice that bilateral legs are ruborous without evidence of edema. Her repeat vital signs are significant for BP 124/80 HR 124. She has an otherwise normal repeat examination. She feels “cloudy” again.
After IV fluids, a normal investigation, and an unremarkable brief observation period, your patient feels well and wants to go home.
What is your best advice for her until a diagnosis can be established?
A. Follow a low-sodium diet
B. Rest as much as possible until you see your primary care physician
C. Avoid hot environments
D. Wear loose-fitting clothes when at all possible
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.
– Giorgio Baglivi (1669-1707), Professor of Anatomy at Sapienza, Papal University, Rome
Introduction to De Praxi Medica
Simmer Down Now
A 9-year-old boy is brought in by his foster mother because “I can’t handle him anymore”. She describes his screaming, cursing, and refusing to do anything she asks. Today he burst into rage, kicking her and throwing objects: “I hate you!”, “I just want to die!”, and “My head is gonna explode!”.
The child has been living with this foster mother for the past month, and she knows little of his past medical history, other than “he is bipolar, has ADHD, and has obsessive-compulsive disorder”. The child is on risperidone, depakote, and methylphenidate. His foster mother leaves briefly to recover an item in her car.
In the ED, the child is sitting quietly eating a snack. His vital signs are normal,
and his head-to-toe physical examination is normal.
During the ED course the child becomes agitated, attempting to leave, cursing, kicking, and is unresponsive to a concerted effort in verbal and situational de-escalation. A decision to restrain the child chemically is made.
Of the following medications, which is the best first-line treatment in this agitated child?
A. Antihistamine
B. Typical antipsychotic
C. Atypical antipsychotic
D. Benzodiazepine
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy
is the noise before defeat.”
― Sun Tzu (544–496 BC), Zhou dynasty general and philosopher
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato (428–347 BC), Classical Greek philosopher
A 64-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus and hypertension complains of slow
onset shortness of breath, weight gain, orthopnea, and bilateral leg swelling.
In the ED, HR 90 BP 200/100 RR 22 SpO2 91% RA. She is in mild respiratory distress, and has rales up to half of her lung fields and bilateral pitting edema. Her chest radiograph shows pulmonary congestion and her electrocardiogram demonstrates an R wave of 13 mm in aVL. You decide to perform a bedside ultrasound which reveals a thickened concentric left ventricular wall, no pericardial effusion, and what appears to be a grossly normal ejection fraction.
Regarding her presentation, which of the following is the MOST likely?
A. Left ventricular failure from systolic dysfunction
B. Left ventricular failure from diastolic dysfunction
C. Right heart strain from pulmonary hypertension
D. Right heart strain from tamponade physiology
“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.”
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.”
– Martin H. Fischer (1879 – 1962), German-born American physician and author
Timothy Horeczko, MD, MSCR, FACEP, FAAP
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Twitter: @EMtogether
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Home > World > Israel vows to counter Palestinian bid to join ICC
Israel vows to counter Palestinian bid to join ICC
Agencies5 Jan 2015 11:46 PM GMT
Vowing to protect Israeli soldiers from facing international war crimes charges, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today said that the Jewish state would vigorously defend its soldiers in response to a Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court.
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) move to join the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) two days ago can lead to potential legal action against Israel for war crimes, a step designed to pressure the country to pull out of territories demanded by the Palestinians.
In a sharp rebuke, Israel has decided to freeze the transfer of about USD 127 million in tax revenues to the PA in the first of a promised series of punitive measures to deter the Palestinians.
“IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers will continue to defend the State of Israel with determination and might,” Netanyahu told his cabinet at its weekly meeting adding, “Just as they defend us, we will protect them with that same determination and the same might”.
“We will not let IDF soldiers and officers be dragged to the International Criminal Court in the Hague,” the Israeli premier asserted reacting to the PA’s controversial application made to the court.
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Juventus, the temptation of Conte: Matri and Borriello together
Well … Marco as I said before you will have to work your ass out to prove all of us that you’re not just a pretty face
VINOVO (Turin), January 12, 2012 – Welcome to the intensive course. Yesterday Marco Borriello has witnessed the first tactic lesson of Antonio Conte, but he has not left from Vinovo with the headaches. On the enthusiasm with which he is facing the adventure with Juve, the desire for revenge and also the need to learn quickly to recover the months of lagging behind the other teammates. Under a almost sun… Roman, Borriello has participated in the exercises divided by departments. The strikers and midfielders have focused on the rapid exchange and shots on goal before working on a long offensive schemes.
Borriello for Marchisio. It is these patterns are the basis for the choice of Juventus in buying Borriello. The Conte’s game asks a lot of work especially for the striker: not just the goal (of course) and search for depth, but also movements to raise up the team and especially to accommodate the entries with a horizontal inseritons of Marchisio and Vidal.
The ways of scoring. Juventus comes to scoring following streets which are always different. The figures show: 28 goals (less than Milan and Naples), 11 different scorers (Matri, Vucinic, Quagliarella, Marchisio, Pepe, Vidal, but also Bonucci, Chiellini, Krasic, Lichsteiner and Estigarribia) the midfielders (including Pepe) more prolific of the strikers (15 goals to 10). No matter who scores, the team cames first of individuality, but all players move to release the shot of a teammate and the variety of patterns allows that.
Matri on the left. For this work Borriello is ideal because he is technical and physical and over the years has developed a good tactical sense . It’s clear that for Marco the goal is a priority, otherwise he would not be a striker. Borriello, however, does not live only for personal satisfaction and is the classic striker who can be helpful even when he hasn’t a chance to shoot. Alessandro Matri, whose performance in the area has been confirmed, has different characteristics: looks for more depth, has great acceleration and ease of race that allow him to play even as a outer forward. It’s already happened at Cagliari, where in the middle played Acquafresca (or Nene) and Matri widened on the left.
Together. This means that if necessary Matri and Borriello could also play together, but whereas in the 4-3-3 of Conte the outer forwards must sacrifice a lot, as evidenced by the tremendous commitment of Vucinic on the coverage. But for now, Alessandro and Marco are in alternative.
Space for everyone. Sunday against Cagliari, in the penultimate day of the first half of the season, the starter will be Matri, while Borriello will be on the bench. Then will begin an intense period (with the Italian Cup quarterfinals and the midweek round of the championship) and there will be room for both. Matri and Borriello have the same goal: to play from beginning at the San Siro on February 26. Milan-Juventus, the evening of the championship.
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Nashik: ‘Maatritva’ app to reduce maternal mortality
By Aarti Jadhav on January 8, 2018
There are a range of adverse health effects associated with maternal under-nutrition (malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency), anaemia and lack of facilities which can lead to the death of the pregnant women. To curb it, four youngsters for Nashik have developed ‘Maatritva’ app. As if now, only Nashik people will have access. The Assam government and NITI Aayog has taken a note of it
In Maharashtra, in the year 2016 to 2017, 61 pregnant women lost their lives. The figures are alarming. So, the ‘Maatritva’ app has been developed to curb the number of deaths. Before developing this app, a survey was conducted to understand the reason of death amongst the pregnant women was done for 8 months in 15 talukas and rural areas.
The pregnant women in the tribal and rural areas were asked the following questions:
Are they suffering from any disease?
Do family members have any hereditary problems?
Have the doctors’ informed about the complications during delivery?
Do you eat nutritional food?
The app has been developed by Sandeep Shinde, Abhishek Verma, Garima Dosar and Pritsh Agarwal. The health issues of the pregnant ladies were assessed by the gynaecologists. The maximum number of pregnant women lost their lives due to inadequate nutrition and the lack of facilities.
Speaking about the app, Sandeep Shinde said, “Through this app, it is not possible to provide treatment to the pregnant women. But, information about how a pregnant women should take care of herself, what should she eat and what not, reminder about the doctor’s appointment and medicines will be provided.”
Abhishek Verma said, “This app is for the women who will undergo delivery in the Nashik government or municipal hospitals. The app will be useful for tracking pregnant women. Currently, this app is being used on experimental basis at 105 primary health centres and 30 municipal hospitals in the district.”
Dr Sushil Waghchaure District Health Officer (DHO) Nashik said, “In Maharashtra, many pregnant women lose their lives during deliveries. Owing to which, a survey was done to evaluate the cause of their death. The app was started after the consent of the district health officials. The Assam government and NITI Aayog, have taken a note of it and a plan regarding the app has been sent to them as well.”
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Let’s slow down and get legal marijuana right
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Captain Munnerlyn: Panthers can be NFL's top defense
Updated: June 25, 2013 at 02:09 p.m.
When Around The League's "32 in 32" series set its sights on the Carolina Panthers, we acknowledged that Ron Rivera's defense had a chance to improve on its 10th overall ranking from a season ago.
The thinking goes like this: The Panthers' talented front seven will have enough manpower to mask what might be the league's worst secondary. Then there's cornerback Captain Munnerlyn, who sees no weakness at all.
"Nobody (is) really giving us a chance in the secondary, you know, to be great, or having any talent in the secondary. For me, being a leader in the secondary, it's my opportunity to step up and be that guy," Munnerlyn told WFNZ-AM on Tuesday. "... It's going to be scary how good (this team) can be. And I'm excited about this year. I feel like we can be the top defense in (the NFL)."
Munnerlyn pointed to the return of linebacker Jon Beason, the ascendant play of edge rusher Greg Hardy and the drafting of big uglies Star Lotulelei and Kawann Short. Solid arguments for improved results, but the back of this defense -- where Charles Godfrey and the unproven Haruki Nakamura are penciled in at safety -- could cancel this party before it begins.
That 10th overall ranking is based on yardage allowed per game. ProFootballFocus charted the Panthers as the 28th overall unit, sunk by a disastrous run defense and below average pass coverage. Bolstering the front four with youth will help, and there's reason for hope, but make no mistake: This remains a work in progress.
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Kalahari Constituency is an electoral constituency in Omaheke Region. It has 7,611 inhabitants according to the 2011 Population and Housing Census report. The constituency office was inaugurated in 2009 and is located in Tsjaka/Ben-Hur which is 50 kilometers away from Gobabis.
The Regional Councillor for Kalahari Constituency is Honourable Ignatius Kariseb of the Swapo Party. Hon. Kariseb is also the Chairperson of the Omaheke Regional Council.
The Kalahari Constituency borders Gobabis (the regional capital) to the west, Okorukambe to the north, Aminuis to the south and the neighbouring country of Botswana to the east. The constituency has one proclaimed settlement which is Buitepos and two growth points; Tsjaka/Ben-Hur and Drimiopsis.
Kalahari Homeless Shelter
About 11 per cent of households in Kalahari Constituency in Omaheke Region live in improvised housing or shacks. This, according to the 2011 Population and Housing Census, is a total of 190 households, the second highest percentage in the entire region, following Okorukambe (19 per cent) and Gobabis (37 per cent).
An assessment conducted by the Constituency Office further discovered that about 300 households in the entire Constituency are in need of decent housing. Blouberg, a small community close to the Trans-Kalahari border settlement of Buitepos, is the most affected by poor housing the Constituency. Other communities in need are Tsjaka, Vergenoeg and Drimiopsis.
The need for decent housing in the Kalahari Constituency has, therefore, necessitated the Kalahari Homeless Shelter (previously known as the Kalahari Homeless Indaba), an initiative of the Regional Councillor of that Constituency.
Read more about the Kalahari Homeless Shelter here.
Tsjaka/Ben-Hur
Tsjaka/Ben-Hur has a population of 1,100 inhabitants and is 50 kilometres from Gobabis, mostly on tarred road. Tsjaka/Ben-Hur has one school. Possible areas of investments are tourism, skills development, livestock farming and horticulture. Most residents of Tsjaka/Ben-Hur are employed in commercial farms surrounding the area. Other sources of employment and income include Ben-Hur Rural Development Centre, communal farming and small business activities. Besides the Kalahari Constituency Office, the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry also has an office here.
Drimiopsis
Drimiopsis is a growth point located on the C22 road, 40 kilometres from Gobabis, branching from the Trans-Kalahari Highway joining the Trans-Caprivi Highway at Grootfontein. It has a population of 1,600 inhabitants.
There is one primary school and one high school in Drimiopsis. Businesses that exist here are a bakery, retail shop and a vegetable garden at the resettlement camp. Property development is a possible area of investment here. There is a boarding school in Drimiopsis where most of the residents of Drimiopsis are employed. The Ministry of Land Reform has also established a garden which creates seasonal employment to the residents of Drimiopsis farm. The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture and the Ministry of Land Reform have offices here.
Economic Development and Investment
Trans-Kalahari Highway
Since the Trans-Kalahari Highway connects Namibia to Botswana and the Port of Walvis Bay as well as Trans-Caprivi via Buitepos Settlement, there is potential for the Kalahari Constituency to benefit in terms of logistics development that includes the construction of a truck port and storage facilities to support local and international trading. The landlocked countries such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Democratic Republic of Congo will be able to access their goods and services from facilities established in the Omaheke region along the Trans-Kalahari Highway. The weighbridge on the Trans-Kalahari Highway not only serves as a measure to control overloading but also provides the opportunity for any interested investors in the construction of a truck port.
High level discussions are underway to extend the railway line from Gobabis up to Gaborone which will improve regional trade relations between Namibia and other SADC countries. This will allow Namibia and SADC countries to engage in bulk business dealings, increase their economies in all perspectives ranging from employment, economic growth and balance of payment.
Tourism and accommodation
Given the fact that Buitepos is the border post, there is potential for tourists entering the country through Botswana. Therefore, there is a need to develop tourism enterprises and services.
Bush encroachment
Bush encroachment is a challenge that affects grazing, as well as free mobility of people and animals and availability of underground water in the Kalahari Constituency. This challenge can be turned into various opportunities such as producing wood and charcoal for energy. Projects such as this potentially reduce bush encroachment while simultaneously creating employment, and furthermore can serve as a source of energy.
In terms of cattle farming, there is the economic possibility of improving on the current livestock auction pens that market cattle in the constituency to potential buyers. These auction pens market cattle in terms of weight, quality and health of the cattle.
There are currently three auction pens, namely Tsjaka/Ben-Hur, Karoo at Gobabis and Windhoek Livestock Auction.
Ben-Hur Rural Development Centre
This development centre is already in operation and is situated at Tsjaka/Ben-Hur. It specializes in accommodation, catering services, conferencing, woodwork and carpentry. Learn more about Ben-Hur Rural Development Centre here
The following projects in the constituency need to be strengthened and supported in order to create employment opportunities for the inhabitants and render required services:
Boitshoko Bread Making Project (Tsjaka/Ben-Hur);
Selma Leather Project (Drimiopsis);
Dantangos Chicken Project (Tsjaka/Ben-Hur);
Stumbelbloc Brick Making Project (Nossobville);
Community Goats Project (Netso & Vergenoeg);
Kandovazu Bread and Shopping Center (Drimiopsis);
Welding and Tyre repairs (Vaasdraai).
Sandveld Research Station
The research station is situated 92 km from Gobabis. The Agricultural research station researches adaptability of different livestock breeds and other as per request.
Pius Joseph Kaundu Training Center
The Pius Joseph Kaundu Training Centre is located at Houmoed. It is a police college responsible for conducting basic police training and its current intake capacity is at 500 students.
Vasdraai Agricultural Training Centre
Vasdraai Agricultural Training Centre is vocational training centre located at a resettlement farm (Vasdraai), 60 kilometres from Gobabis. The Centre was developed by Komeho Namibia Development Agency with funding by the Japanese Government through its grant assistance to the Grassroots Human Security Projects Programme.
The Centre offers a National Vocational Certificate in Horticulture & Crop Husbandry Level 2.
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Oregon contains four schools that offer psychiatry programs. Lewis & Clark College, the highest-ranking psychiatry school in OR, has a total student population of 3,523 and is the 127th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 4 psychiatry schools in Oregon, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lewis & Clark College comes out as the most expensive ($28,753/yr), with Mt Hood Community College as the lowest recorded at only $5,174/yr.
Psychiatry students from Oregon schools who go on to become psychiatric aides, psychiatrists, educational psychologists, psychiatristss, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 22,210 people working as psychiatrists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $163,660. Also, Psychiatric aides make on average $27,430 per year and there are about 62,610 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Oregon alone, there are 650 employed psychiatric aides earning an average yearly salary of $28,420. Psychiatrists in this state earn $219,450/yr and there are 170 employed.
Also, within the psychiatry schools in Oregon, the average student population is 2,645 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from psychiatry, there are 2428 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,810 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,147, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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It is salubrious to stretch oneself and regularly attend a conference in a related field. At the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, one can bask in the wisdom of experts who are truly interdisciplinary (as opposed to people like me, who is simply undisciplined). Their Tenth Anniversary Conference drew about 120 participants. The many topics–which included effects of the Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act and other cases, reasons that accountable care and other efforts haven’t lowered costs, stresses on the pharmaceutical industry, and directions in FDA regulation–contained several insights for health IT professionals...
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In spite of being very involved in the field of Health Informatics I only recently became aware of VistA for Education (VFE), which has all of the aforementioned attributes of an excellent solution for EHR education purposes. VFE was developed as a result of a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) to supplement the ONC Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum. Electronic health records (EHRs) are more than just the electronic equivalent of paper-based health records. Electronic health data is easier to search, share and archive, compared to paper records. Additionally, EHRs can be embedded with clinical decision support to alert and remind physicians of patient safety and preventive medicine measures.
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Protest - Meaning from English-Bangla Dictionary
Protest: English to Bangla
Protest: English to English
Protest (v. i.) To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.
Protest (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.
Protest (v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
Protest (v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.
Protest (v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.
Protest (v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the ve
Protest (v.) A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill,
Protest (v.) A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.
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WEEK 28 Phil Mickelson 25 consecutive years inside the World Top 50
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22ND APRIL 2019 07:05 PM
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PAN JUMPS TO A CAREER BEST WORLD NO.55
PGA Tour – RBC Heritage
C.T. Pan took advantage of Dustin Johnson's back-nine struggles to win the RBC Heritage for his first PGA TOUR victory jumping to a career best of World No.55 from World No.113.
The 27-year-old Pan, from Taiwan, closed with a 4-under 67 on Sunday at Harbour Town Golf Links for a one-stroke victory over Matt Kuchar. Pan finished at 12-under 272.
"It's still really hard for me to believe," he said. "I'm processing. My phone has been vibrating the last 10 minutes. I'm so happy I finally got it done."
Johnson, the third-round leader in his home-state event, had a 77 to tie for 28th at 4 under. He played a five-hole stretch in 7 over, making bogeys on Nos. 11-13 and double bogeys on Nos. 14-15.
Pan took the lead for good with a 9-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th.
Kuchar closed with a 67.
Patrick Cantlay, Scott Piercy and Shane Lowry tied for third at 10 under. Cantlay and Piercy shot 69, and Lowry had a 70.
Pan headed to the practice range after the round to keep ready in case of a playoff, then raised his arms in triumph when told he'd won. He earned 500 FedExCup points, $1,242,000, and a PGA TOUR exemption through the 2020-21 season.
Pan won twice on the PGA TOUR Canada-Mackenzie Tour in 2015 when he turned professional. He's finished second twice in PGA TOUR events, once at the Farmers Insurance Open in 2017 and last year at the Wyndham Championship.
Japan Golf Tour
Brendan Jones won his 15th Japan Golf Tour title at the opening event of the 2019 Japan Tour season, the Token Homemate Cup, in Nagoya by one shot over Matthew Griffin.
Jones moved from World No.153 to World No.98.
Professional Golf Tour India
Chikkarangappa won his 4th OWGR Eligible Tournament at the TATA Steel PGTI’s Delhi-NCR Open 2019 played at the Noida Golf Course (NGC).
Chikkarangappa (67-69-67-69) triumphed over Muniyappa (66-69-68-69) on the fourth playoff hole after both the golfers ended the regulation 72 holes with identical totals of 16-under-272.
Chikkarangappa thus bagged his third title on the PGTI in the last six months and moved up from second to first position in the PGTI Order of Merit. The 25-year-old Chikka has now won all of his five playoff encounters on the PGTI.
Chikkarangappa earned 5 Ranking points and moves to a career best of World No.274.
Abema TV Tour
Thailand’s Danthai Boonma won the Japan Abema TV Tour’s i Golf Shaper Challenge in Tsukushigaoka.
The Thai earned 7 Ranking points jumping from 358 to World No. 281.
Web.com Tour - Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship
Trailing by a stroke on the 72nd hole of the tournament, Lanto Griffin stuck it to five feet before converting a tying birdie and reach a playoff with Robby Shelton at 15-under 273. After both players made pars on the first three holes of the playoff (18-18-9), Griffin stuck it to two feet for a tap-in birdie and his second career Web.com Tour title.
“You put so much work in and there’s so many days and weeks that things don’t click,” said Griffin. “You wonder if you’re going to get back into that situation to have a chance. Just being in contention, I texted my coach last night that I hit it terrible yesterday and my swing felt awful, but my putting came back…I made all of the putts I needed to.”
Griffin posted four front-nine birdies at The Senator Course and led by two at one point early, but seven pars and a bogey on the back nine led up to Griffin’s dramatic closing birdie to tie. His final-round 68 was his fourth round in the 60s all week, the only player to accomplish the feat at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship.
The 30-year-old credited legend Vijay Singh with a putting tip last week on the practice green at TPC Sawgrass to his improved play around the greens.
“I was putting on the back green and Vijay yells out to me from 20 yards away and said ‘get your right elbow in tighter and bend over more,’” said Griffin. “Of course I said ‘yes sir,’ and he came over and helped me for a couple of minutes…He told me after that to go win this week, so big shout out to him. That was cool. Especially from a legend. I don’t think people realize how good Vijay was. He won nine times in 2004. When a legend like that tells you something, you have to pay attention.”
China Tour – Bo Ao Open
Australian Maverick Antcliff won his first title as a pro at the Bo Ao Open finishing four shots ahead of LIN Yung-Lung.
Antcliff moves to a career best of World No. 354.
Asian Development Tour - PGM ADT Penang Championship
Japan’s Naoki Sekito captured his first Asian Development Tour (ADT) victory with a four-under-par 68 in the final round of the PGM ADT Penang Championship on Saturday.
The 21-year-old Japanese compiled a four-day total of 17-under-par 271 to win by one shot over Malaysia’s Danny Chia (66) and American Sam Gillis (68) who were tied for second at the RM225,000 (approximately US$54,000) event.
American Trevor Simsby and Malaysia’s Amir Nazrin carded matching 69s to take the fourth and fifth spots respectively at the Bukit Jawi Golf Resort.
Sekito entered the final round with a one-shot lead, but relinquishes that lead when he dropped a shot on his very first hole.
“I bogeyed my first hole after I pushed my tee shot to the right and had to chip out from behind the trees. But after that bogey, I was less nervous because I wasn’t the sole leader so I knew I could keep chasing,” said Sekito.
With the pressure of his spirited rivals off his back, he held his nerves to stay bogey-free for the rest of the round, notching birdies on holes two, seven, 10, 12, and 15.
“Right after that hole, I made a birdie putt from six feet which gave me that extra boost. I wasn’t hitting the ball very well but I was very lucky on my back nine. I chipped in on hole 12 from 20 yards for birdie and had another good birdie putt from 10 metres on hole 15,” said the young Japanese.
With his victory, Sekito took home a winner’s purse of US$9,529.28 and received six Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) points while the other top six players and ties earned points based on a sliding scale.
PGA Tour – LatinoAmerica
John Somers won The Abierto de Chile presented by Volvo title two shots ahead of Alex Weiss.
Somers began the final round two strokes behind Weiss as the two battled all day. When they moved to the back nine, the duo was tied at 17-under after Somers made birdie on No. 9 to turn in 31.
The final threesome of Somers, Weiss and Matt Ryan were a combined 10-under on the front nine under a sunny sky and ideal scoring conditions. While Weiss and Ryan couldn’t keep that momentum going on the back nine, Somers was able to minimize his mistakes, his only bogey coming at No. 14. He immediately recovered with a birdie at 15, and that birdie gave him a one-shot lead that he carried to the 18th hole where his heroics happened.
“To be honest, this is my third event this year. The first two events I did not play well. I just wanted something to get me started. Making a cut would have been some momentum. This is more than I could have asked for. This is unbelievable,” said the lefthanded Somers, who graduated from Elon University in North Carolina in 2014.
Alps Tour Golf - Abruzzo Open Dailies Total 1
Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez defeated compatriot Adria Arnaus in a playoff for the Abruzzo Open title.
Garcia Rodriguez, 30, started the competition with a 65 (-6) and a tied second place after the first day on beautiful Miglianico Golf & CC, but was leading solo in the following round at -11, and was able to keep those 2-strokes margin also at the end of the third and final day with another 66 and a total -16, in spite of the « attacks » of other in-form players, like Italian Edoardo Lipparelli who eventually settled for a second place at -14.
“I’m very proud and happy I could finally win here in Italy”, said Garcia Rodriguez, “I feel I’m on the right track that hopefully will lead me to the European Tour in the end, and in order to reach this goal I’m going to train and work as hard as ever. There’s no secret, I think that only hard work gets you where you wish to be, and that’s what I’ve been doing to finally win again; but there’s always space for improving, you never have to be content”.
Big Easy Tour - Big Easy Challenge 1 – Centurion
Matt Spacey overcame a determined challenge from Clayton Mansfield to win the season-opener of the 2019/2020 Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour series on Wednesday.
The Dainfern golfer prevailed in a fascinating back nine battle with the Sunshine Tour rookie at Centurion Country Club to claim his fourth professional title with a final round 69 and a winning total of 16 under par.
Spacey had started the week as one of the tournament favourites after winning the first event of the IGT Challenge Tour season a fortnight ago at Wingate Park Country Park.
He lived up to that billing when he came from behind with a brilliant 10-under-par 62 to catapult to the top of the second round leaderboard.
Spacey led by three shots from Mansfield, local favourite Eric Nel and former Sunshine Tour winner Ruan de Smidt, another favoured player at the start of the week, and stayed well ahead of the field when he birdied all three par fives on the front nine.
Mansfield stayed in touch, though, with a trio of birdies around the turn.
“I knew I would have to play well to win because if someone got hot, the lead could evaporate quickly,” said 28-year-old Spacey. “My goal at the start of the day was to try and birdie all the par fives, and to keep it simple: fairways and greens. Clay was really solid off the tee and he was putting well and I knew he could get hot over the last nine holes.
“I stuck to my game plan going down the back. I made a good up-and-down for birdie at the par five 12th, and hit a good drive down the 13th fairway, a lob-wedge from 104 metres to four feet and holed the birdie putt to go five shots clear.
LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
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Bernd Wiesberger Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open 48
Dylan Frittelli John Deere Classic 24
Nelson Ledesma TPC Colorado Championship at Heron Lakes 14
Steven Tiley Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge 12
Paul Barjon Osprey Valley Open 6
Hubert Tisserand Broekpolder International Open 4
Gonzalo Vicente Elena Fred Olsen Alps de La Gomera 4
Gudmundur Kristjansson Svea Leasing Open 4
Richard Mansell The COBRA PUMA Championship 4
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The Professor and the Madman Unabridged Audio
Author: Simon Winchester
When the editors of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY put out a call during the late 19th century for "men of letters" to contribute entries, hundreds of responses came forth. One contributor, Dr. W. C. Minor, an expatriate and Civil War veteran was remarkably prolific sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home near Oxford. Prof... more »essor James Murray, the distinguished editor of the OED project invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but the offer was regularly and mysteriously refused. For two decades the two men maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896 a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane and locked up in England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. « less
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Althea M. (althea) reviewed The Professor and the Madman {Unabridged Audio} on 9/15/2008 + 774 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 16
The pretext for this book is rather slight one of the significant volunteer contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary was, although an intelligent and educated man, also an inmate of an insane asylum, confined for a murder committed while in the throes of a schizophrenic paranoid delusion.
While, as a revelation, this fact may be less than earth-shattering, Winchester uses this story of the inmate, Dr. W.C. Minor, the man he killed, George Merrett, and the main editor of the OED, Dr. James Murray, as a vehicle for all kinds of interesting details he goes on quite a number of tangents, but theyre always immensely well-written and fascinating! Winchester isnt afraid to stray from dry, historical writing he definitely makes guesses, fleshes things out for colorful effect but his research is also obviously thoroughly done, and he also stops short of fictifying (ok, thats not a word, but I think it should be) his topic its always made clear when his scenarios are theoretical.
Id highly recommend this book not only for those interested in dictionaries and lexicography, but for anyone interested in Victorian England, the Civil War, treatment of the mentally ill, or any of a number of other topics...
Karina S. reviewed The Professor and the Madman {Unabridged Audio} on 2/28/2007 + 20 more book reviews
Really engaging - you'd never think that the creation of the Oxford English dictionary would have such crazy history, but reads like a really great detective novel, even though it's completely factual. Couldn't put it down, amazed by what I learned from reading it.
Susan P. reviewed The Professor and the Madman {Unabridged Audio} on 1/28/2007 + 40 more book reviews
An absolutely fascinating history mingling two stories: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its leading contributors, a brilliant, but insane American confined in a British asylum. Full of fascinating facts and quirky personalities, it reads more like a novel.
Heather reviewed The Professor and the Madman {Unabridged Audio} on 9/19/2007
This is a great story if you like murder books that incorporate a lot of history of the peoriod and also combines two very diffrent stories into one. I loved that this book teaches you such interesting history and teaches you about the great undertaking of the compiling of the first edition of the Oxford dictionary. If you love language you will love the passion it shows towards it and the part a man in the hospital for the criminally insane played a large roll in the compiling of quotes.Not a breezy read but a good one.
Alisha G. reviewed The Professor and the Madman {Unabridged Audio} on 7/1/2006 + 11 more book reviews
This is a wonderful, and slightly twisted, book on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's full of history and all sorts of interesting linguistic tidbits for other geeks like me.
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Published Oct 16, 2007 by Peachpit Press.
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Scott Kelby, the world's #1 bestselling Photoshop author, and the man who changed the Photoshop and digital photography world with his ground-breaking, award-winning "Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" unveils a exciting, brand new way of thinking, and working in Adobe Photoshop that will not only change the industry again, but it will change the way we all work in Photoshop forever, so we can finally spend less time fixing our images, and more time finishing them.
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This is the book you've been waiting for, the industry's been waiting for, and Scott's "Adobe Photoshop Seven Point System" is so revolutionary that he's officially applied for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and this new system is only found in this amazing, ground breaking new book. Once you learn these techniques, and start applying them yourself, you'll be the next one to say—"You can't beat 'The System!'
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In Paradisum - Private View Tues 18 Sept from 6-9pm
I am so pleased with the exhibition In Paradisum that starts at Richmix next week, and I am proud to be curating it together with Stella Norris from DAF.
East London arts centre Rich Mix will host an exhibition, In Paradisum (in English: Into Paradise), to compliment the London Requiem on The Space, a brand new classical composition, by Benjamin Till, written in tribute to those who rest in the capital’s cemeteries and graveyards. This group of artists respond to the phrase In Paradisum through a range of media including installation, sound, painting and lens-based works. Drawing on a wealth of cultural backgrounds - spiritual and worldly they probe what Paradise means in our modern world.
Artists include Fine art Photographer Liz Rideal with her composition Disappearing Act: Marthe Callet (née Bailleul) 1896-1993, a documentary work recording her grandmother aging; German artist Ina Wudtke with her celebratory Parade for Carl Crack featuring decorated umbrellas calling to mind the Jazz funerals of New Orleans; and performance/installation/body adornment artist and writer Rosanna Raymond who presents new work. Her digital print Passport to Pulotu challenges the old-fashioned Western world’s impression of Polynesia being ‘Paradise’, with her modern interpretation of traditional beliefs.
Diversity Arts Forum (DAF) has been working with Rich Mix to realise this exhibition and their Director Pauline de Souza has a long-standing relationship with Rich Mix, as well as lecturing in Visual Theories subjects at UEL (University of East London).
Curator Philippa Edwards studied Fine Art at UEL. She graduated last year and has curated various exhibitions including The World in Our Eyes series. Pauline de Souza arranged her appointment to curate the show together with Stella Norris from DAF. Philippa explained they had an excellent response by artists originating from all over the world, including many from UEL. The final selection includes three artists who are studying, or have studied at UEL. She says “The title has resulted in a broad cultural mix of inspiration behind the works which include secular and religious themes, including multi-faith and spiritual interpretations of the phrase.”
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Watered Down Standards at the TRUMP CAFÉ
by Daniel Farber | August 06, 2018
Cross-posted from LegalPlanet.
Trump is proposing to gut CO2 standards for cars, freezing 2020 CAFE fuel-efficiency standards in place for years to come. Without the freeze, the standards would automatically ramp up. He also wants to eliminate California's ability to set its own standards, which many other states have opted to adopt. Here are seven key questions about Trump's proposed rollback and some answers.
Do the car companies really want this?
A: Not so much. It's not that they love being regulated. But the big downside for the car companies is regulatory uncertainty. Putting out a new car model costs $1-6 billion and takes 2½ to 3 years. Trump's rollback is going to be tied up in court for at least a year, maybe two, even assuming it's ultimately upheld. In the meantime, manufacturers won't be able to plan for post-2020 models. The manufacturers don't need this headache.
What about the economics? Will the rollback benefit society?
A: Not likely. Here, the best evidence is the analysis of the costs and benefits of eliminating the Obama rule by researchers at Resources for the Future, which specializes in environmental economics. They concluded that there was unlikely to be a net benefit to society. The Institute for Policy Integrity, an economics-oriented center at NYU, agrees. According to The New York Times, even Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who now heads EPA, considers the evidence ...
Procedural Maze Continues for Vehicle Efficiency Regulation
by Lena Pons | December 01, 2010
Update: EPA and NHTSA have issued the Supplemental Notice of Intent. The regulatory process is often complex: agencies must balance opportunities for public comment, complex scientific information, and economic analysis, all while trying to craft a program that fulfills a legal mandate. But when it comes to crafting proposals for vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards, the process has become an administrative nightmare. In May, President Obama announced plans for the EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to ...
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Farmstays in Karjat are the New Monsoon Getaway Hotspot for the People of Mumbai
Source: NewsVoir | Published on 30th June 2017, 3:00 PM | NewsVoir |
Mumbai got relief from the record breaking summer temperature with the arrival of monsoon recently. As the city gears up to have a good shower this full season, the citizens of Mumbai have started planning their holidays. An independent survey conducted with travel enthusiast and travel bloggers from Mumbai revealed that Karjat is the top choice for people planning weekend getaways this monsoon. The results of the survey also showed that people chose farmstays and homestays over spending time in a luxurious hotel.
Farmstays in Karjat
Karjat is a beautiful and a picturesque village in the Raigad district near Navi Mumbai and is dotted with lush green agricultural fields and farm houses. This small and unexplored destination is gaining popularity among adventure seekers as well as people who wish to spend a laid-back time closer to nature. Mr. Miten Saraiya, CEO of Attra’s Holiday and Camping Farms in Karjat said, “Life in cities like Mumbai and Pune are moving at a very rapid pace. Therefore it has become more essential for people to spend some quality time closer to the nature. At Attra’s Holiday and Camping Farms, you get a chance to get back to the natural state of mind. Our property is spread across 10 acres of lush green land with over 450 mango trees and we have activities like horse riding, rifle shooting, cricket and a football turf in the farm itself. People can simply walk around the farm and see tress like mango, guava, chickoo and many other vegetable plantations. We have 3 huge well-maintained bungalows ideal for big groups and families and provide freshly cooked home-made food to our visitors.”
“Traditionally hill stations like Lonavala, Matheran and Mahabhaleshwar have been popular among tourist from Mumbai and Pune. But with the huge popularity and overcrowding of these places, people are now looking for newer options much closer to the city. Karjat has been a clear winner when it comes to offering something new for tourist. There is also a rise in the number of people preferring local and home-made food over ordering from the restaurants of the hotels”, said an author from Musafir Hoon Yaaron. “In the last couple of years, there has been a surge in the number of inquiries we have got. For adventure enthusiasts, we organize treks to the nearby hills, while the nature lovers can spend some time at the nearby Morbe dam. Attra’s is also a perfect destination for corporates who are keen on conducting team bonding exercises. Our qualified and well-trained staff ensure that our visitors get the best experience and learn a few things that they may not have known before”, adds Miten Saraiya.
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Made by the masters behind Project Gotham Racing and Metropolis Street Racer, Blur is a racing project by Bizarre Creations that aims to take arcade-style action and realistic driving physics to a whole new level. The game drops players into heart-pumping, electrified racing action with 20 cars on a track all targeting the finish line and battling each other as they trade paint and collect intense power-ups, including the ability to blast other cars out of the way with huge bursts of energy, boost their speed, and more.
While controlling photo-realistic cars, gamers can use offensive and defensive attacks as they battle for the lead and careen through real-world track locations ranging from L.A. and San Francisco to the streets of Hackney, UK and the treacherous roads of Barcelona, Spain.
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Potential Of Trifolium Subterraneum Ssp. Brachycalycinum For N...
K.A. Archer
Agricultural Research Centre, Tamworth NSW, 2340
Subterranean clovers contribute significantly to winter pasture production and quality in Northern New South Wales, and should persist under the summer dominant rainfall conditions if adequate seed reserves are maintained (1). Clare, which is the only available cultivar of Trifolium subterraneum L. ssp. brachycalycinum is highly productive and suited to the heavier textured red and black self-mulching soils with slightly acid to neutral pH, but lacks high levels of hardseed. This study was undertaken to examine the potential of a range of ssp. brachycalycinum lines for use in Northern New South Wales.
Seed of twenty advanced lines of ssp. brachycalycinum were compared with Clare and four T. subterraneum cultivars (Nungarin, Dalkeith, Seaton Park and Woog-enellup). Twenty five seedlings of each were planted into plots measuring 1 m x 1 m in autumn, 1983. The trial design was a randomised complete block with three replications. Dry matter yields were visually estimated in late winter and spring and seeds from each plot were recovered from soil (0.05 m2 in area and 5 cm deep) in December and August over a three year period. Plots were usually grazed following yield estimations in late winter.
In the first year most lines flowered within the flowering period of Seaton Park and Clare or approximately 108-131 days after germination on May 23. Lines with the best overall growth and seed production all flowered within a few days of Clare (126 d) and Woogenellup (124 d).
Seed yields of the lines in 1983 were between 9000 and 27000 seeds/m2, compared with 15000 for Clare and 22000 for the highest yielding T. subterraneum cultivar, Seaton Park (P<0.05). In the second year, Dalkeith and Nungarin plots contained the highest seed numbers but 5 lines of ssp. brachycalycinum were higher than Seaton Park and most exceeded that of Clare. By year three, eight lines had higher seed yields than Seaton Park, with the best lines containing around 30000 seeds/m2 compared with 18000 seeds/m2 for Seaton Park (P<0.05) and 11000 for Clare. Residual hardseed levels of most lines generally exceeded those of Woogenellup, Clare and Seaton Park (100- 2000 seeds/m2). Four lines had residual hardseed numbers within the range of the highest cultivars, Dalkeith and Nungarin in both years (2800-9800 seeds/ m2). The proportion of buried burrs was generally lower for the ssp. brachycalycinum lines with a mean of 69% compared with 88% for the T. subterraneum cultivars.
Dry matter yields of the ssp. brachycalycinum lines also compared favourably with the T. subterraneum cultivars. For example, during winter 1984, Clare produced significantly higher yield (2180 kg DM/ha) than Woogenellup (1310 kg DM/ha, P<0.05) which was the most productive T. subterraneum cultivar but was only ranked 13th overall. Spring production was also high in some lines of ssp. brachycalycinum. In 1985 for example, the highest yielding line produced 2890 kg DM/ha compared with 2330 kg DM/ha for Clare (ranked 10th, P<0.05) and 1970 kg DM/ha for Woogenellup (ranked 16th).
Some lines of T. subterraneum ssp. brachycalycinum such as 70114A, 14711B and 70056B had both high growth and seed production characteristics indicating their excellent potential for Northern New South Wales. However, further evaluations necessary, especially for oversowing into a competitive sward of native perennial grasses.
1. Hagon, M.W. 1974. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. Anim. Husb. 14 57-64.
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Adam Mesnick’s Deli Board Spinoff Is Open and Serving New York Bagels
The former Fénix space at 1077 Mission St. is now The Board, a luncheonette-style offshoot of Mesnick's East Coast deli with West Coast sensibilities.
Thu Feb 1st, 2018 3:19pm
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Look closely. It’s not a hog dog, it’s The Board’s cheesesteak. (Grace Sager Photography)
The sometimes valid, sometimes tedious debate about the validity of San Francisco bagels threatens to erupt anew now that Adam Mesnick’s Deli Board spinoff The Board is up and running at 1077 Mission St. Open weekdays from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., The Board has a frequently changing menu of breakfast sandwiches, cheesesteaks, and more.
Early morning means bacon-egg-and-cheese breakwiches with the option of one of Mesnick’s three proprietary hot sauces — the Haba Reaper is hotter than the Haba Impaler, FYI — along with avocado and Board sauce. You can get it all on a good old English muffin, and Mesnick expects muffin business to be brisk, but the bagels themselves have been sourced from a wholesaler in New York whose exact identity Mesnick won’t reveal.
Spicy Hummus (Grace Sager Photography)
Lunch means a Board cheesesteak ($12) consisting of “a little onion,” white American cheese, cherry peppers, Board sauce, and an Amoroso roll, Philadelphia’s bready pride and joy. If you have a hunger for nitrates, consider the #1 (Genoa salami, capicola, mortadella, provolone, cherry peppers, “shredduce,” salt-and-pepper onion, and an Italian dressing, $12). But if you want something marginally more nutritious, there’s a falafel full of pico and hot peppers mixed into the hummus plus muenster cheese melted all over it and pillowy slices of pita from the nearby kosher Israeli Frena (132 Sixth St.). A native of Cleveland, Mesnick’s heart is with the delis of his Ohio youth, and nobody in San Francisco makes pita like Frena.
(Peter Lawrence Kane)
There’s also a grilled hot dog with “habakraut,” onion, and brown mustard ($7), as well as waffle fries with a rotating sauce, and there are both veggie and meaty salads — the latter being similar to the #1 sandwich but in a bowl full of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber. But this is something of an experimental offshoot of Mesnick’s nine-year-old Deli Board, so he’s open to playing and tinkering.
Lots of items and their components might jostle the memories of fans of his former spots 1058 Hoagie and Rye Project. The notably lower price point indicates a slightly different approach than Deli Board’s more labor-intensive, artisanal sandwiches, although the former Fénix space is looking pretty spiffy and inviting with its, um, cheeky signs.
The Board, 1077 Mission St., 415-678-7151 or theboardsf.com
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posted Friday, September 21, 2012 - Volume 40 Issue 38
The book of Ezra
Breakthrough actor Ezra Miller discusses his Gay teen role, why he's Queer, and his childhood drag experience
by Chris Azzopardi - SGN Contributing Writer
Twenty is a young age to have already played two characters who couldn't be any more different. But Ezra Miller's done it - as Tilda Swinton's evil son in We Need to Talk About Kevin and as Patrick, the lovable outsider with swagger and fearlessness in the film adaptation of the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The young actor talked about not being that kid in high school, breaking label barriers, and coming from a "whole Queer-ass family" who dressed him in drag.
Azzopardi: What was your high school experience? Were you out then?
Miller: Yeah, definitely. But I wasn't shouting it out. I was unabashedly me. I was always having to leave high school, though, because I started working, so that was pulling me out of school. When I'd come back, there was a certain resentment: "You are no longer one of us. You have betrayed our pack." And I dropped out of high school when I was 16 years old because, first of all, the form and function of the schooling system never made any sense to me in the context of education, but also there was some ostracizing at play. At that point in my youth experience, I knew that feeling all too well. I immediately realized that I had just turned 16 and that it was best, and technically legal, for me to flee.
Azzopardi: How was it playing a character that you wished you could've been in school?
Miller: I came out of the movie feeling like I had a bunch to learn from the character I just played, and then I came to the unfortunate conclusion that he was a fictional character and he didn't exist. I mean, to be able to hold your dignity and your pride, and to be able to empower yourself and love yourself in high school, is a feat.
Azzopardi: That scene where you stand up for yourself in the lunchroom was probably something that hit close to home.
Miller: Yeah. You picture that moment where you effectively fight back, but then of course Patrick does, in that situation, end up getting held and pummeled and sort of relentlessly beaten on - that's a reality, too. You can cultivate all of the courage and pride and power to stand up for yourself and still get beat to a pulp. I had that experience a few times. That scene was so important to everyone - to [director] Stephen [Chbosky] but really to [co-star] Johnny [Simmons] and myself. Having experienced things like that in our lives, we were really determined to get some bruises to make that fight brutal, the way that sort of peer-inflicted violence is - just horribly brutal.
Azzopardi: Bullying is brutal, and it's obviously become an epidemic in the last few years. What do you think young people who are victims of bullying might find empowering about Patrick?
Miller: I'm hoping that there could be a theoretical audience member who could watch Patrick in this fearless state of self-preservation and rebellion and come to the thought that anyone who dares to cultivate the courage to stand up for themselves has immediately already won the battle. The second you endow yourself to be your own best protector - your own best friend, your own best lover - you've already won. People can put you through a lot of horrific psychological, emotional, and physical conditions, but if you have that for a support system for yourself, by yourself, there's only so much anyone can ever do.
Azzopardi: In the movie, Charlie is a troubled loner, but you open your world up to him and affect his life immensely. Who were your Queer role models growing up?
Miller: My sisters, who were really strong and really empowered and who just were constantly making sure that I felt the love and that I was thinking for myself, but at the same time had my back. They were, for me as a younger person, the only role models I ever needed. My flesh and blood consumed almost my whole frame of perception from when I was a younger child.
Azzopardi: So your sisters are Queer too?
Miller: Yeah. It's a whole Queer-ass family! [laughs] You know, it's pretty much the most ridiculously happy and lucky situation a boy like me could ask for. I really thank all sorts of illusive deities for the family that I have every day.
Azzopardi: After seeing you as Frank N. Furter during the Rocky Horror Picture Show scene, something tells me this wasn't your first time doing drag. You were that good.
Miller: Thanks, darling! I've definitely dabbled from a young age. Those older sisters of mine actually started putting me through drag school when I was, like, 3. I remember running a lemonade stand and I was all made-up: My hair got did, I was in a dress, and I remember getting it going so hard even then that people would come up to one of my sisters and say, "I saw you and your sister selling lemonade today." [laughs]
Yeah, I've definitely served some time in the mighty and honorable school of drag. When I was in middle school - it was combined with a high school, and the theater department was the same and it was the year that high schools were allowed to do Rent - I jumped on Angel really fast, so I even got to dance in drag and rock some pumps. So, I've definitely had some informative experiences.
Azzopardi: You owe your sisters some gratitude for giving you drag training.
Miller: Really, man! I was such a goofily happy kid when we were doing that. It was such, like, a ridiculous dream come true.
Azzopardi: You sound like the polar opposite of your character in We Need to Talk About Kevin. You were so not Kevin as a child.
Miller: Yeah, that's true. But it's good to stretch in many different directions. I'm still convinced I can go much darker than anywhere I've gone so far, and I'm pretty sure there are greater possibilities. I really feel like I've only just scratched a really minute surface.
Azzopardi: The media obviously aren't sure how to interpret your Queer identity - I've seen you called Gay by many news outlets. Why do you prefer Queer? And what do you think of just abandoning labels all together?
Miller: I think Queer is that doorway into the L, G, B, and T. Queer is the doorway to where we should all be at. In a perfect Garden of Eden world, we are all pretty damn - I don't know if you'd say genderless or omni-gendered - but we're all omnisexual, we're all balanced, and none of us are participating in a binary. But until that day comes, these labels and these ways that we can identify ourselves to ourselves are all useful, and it's really important that people figure out how to be inclusive and supportive of each and every one of them. That's my feeling on it.
I'm Queer because I think the way society splits the human being in half is kind of tragic, and I think we should all be as open a book as possible when it comes to loving another human.
Chris Azzopardi is the editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service. Reach him via his website, www.chris-azzopardi.com.
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posted Friday, October 2, 2015 - Volume 43 Issue 40
Mercilessly tense Sicario a descent into drug-fueled darkness
In director Denis Villeneuve's world, hope and happiness are difficult to find. From Incendies to Prisoners to Enemy, the talented Canadian filmmaker looks straight into the darkest heart of the human condition and refuses to blink, going places few are comfortable hinting at let alone dealing with on an intimately personal level. He makes the viewer uncomfortable while also challenging their intellect, producing thought-provoking pieces of dramatic entertainment that blur every single moral and humanistic line they come into contact with.
Working with actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, Villeneuve has turned in his most unnervingly emotional cinematic effort yet with Sicario. Mercilessly tense, the film is a look at the dark side of the drug war, chronicling a driven, battle-hardened FBI Agent name Kate Mercer (Emily Blunt) who for all her experience is wholly unprepared for the moral and legal ambiguities she's about to face. Urged to volunteer for a covert project by mysterious government operative Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), she and her partner Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya) are suddenly so deep inside the rabbit hole 'up' instantaneously becomes impossible to differentiate from 'down.'
Then there is the item that's truly throwing the two for a loop. It's a man, a secretive gentleman in a suit calling himself Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) that everyone, including the very much in-charge Graver, keeps deferring to seemingly at every turn. He's not a U.S. citizen, that much Kate can tell. But he's also by all accounts on their side, body and soul, ready and willing to do whatever it takes to see a downtick in violence permeating throughout the Texas/New Mexico/Arizona border area with Mexico no matter what the cost.
There are no heroes in Villeneuve and Sheridan's Sicario. There are, however, plenty of victims, and not all of them end up dead. Some have only the best of intentions, driven to do what it takes to see justice done as long as it follows the rule of law. But when those rules do not, cannot apply? When the villains doing the evil are beyond it? When they are protected in ways lawyers and courts can never penetrate? What happens then? And, for those who refuse to believe no one is above the law, what happens to them when their illusions are shattered and the wolves come braying at their door thirsting for blood?
Villeneuve pushes right into the middle of the carnage straightaway, Kate and Reggie leading an FBI tactical unit on a raid inside a cartel safe house in Arizona reportedly containing a handful of helpless hostages. But there are no hostages, and what they find inside the walls is beyond unspeakable. It is this discovery that leads Kate to accept Graver's offer. It is this discovery that allows her not to flinch when she finds herself part of a military convoy heading across the border to bring back a high-ranking cartel boss. It is this discovery that makes her force Graver into putting Reggie on the team, too, knowing he'll hopefully be a voice of reason as darkness descends.
And does it do just that.
Things get progressively murky, Villeneuve and Sheridan allowing the grey areas to wash away all the black and white so only indecision, chaos and mayhem remain. At the center, propelling things forward, is Alejandro, and even if events are not seen exclusively through his eyes, make no mistake, it is he that knows best what is happening and why. Del Toro inhabits this wounded, psychologically scarred man living in the shadows down to the marrow, his pain permeating every pore as he quietly longs for a justice he knows does not exist. It's a towering, deeply complicated performance, surpassing even his Oscar-winning turn in another drug drama, Steven Soderbergh's modern classic Traffic, that left me wowed by the depth and breadth of his magnificence.
At barely over two hours, the movie was over before I even knew it, in such constant motion, heading deeper and deeper into the gloomy waters of the subconscious, revealing answers to personal questions those who must grapple with them only thought they wanted to know, before finding themselves gob-smacked by the truth. Triumphantly shot by the great Roger Deakins (Skyfall, Unbroken), magnificently edited by Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave) and kinetically scored by Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything), every piece fits together perfectly. It's a relentless exercise in suspense. The anxiety throbbing through my veins was almost overwhelming as events ran their course, the emotional shock of the final moments so all-encompassing they overtook me completely.
Orchestrating all of this brilliantly is Villeneuve. The avenues left unexplored are few, far between and all by choice, the questions left dangling entirely by design. He allows Kate's growing uncertainty and despair to insidiously feed into every second of the proceedings, so even when we stop seeing things as she does and begin to look at events coldly, unsympathetically anew through Del Toro, the overall effect is shattering. Sicario lives up to its title, this Mexican slang for a hitman aiming its gunsights at the viewer, leaving those of us who watch broken and battered into a reinforced shell of regret and understanding we might not be able to emerge from anytime soon.
SLGFF OPENING NIGHT FILM: An interview with Freeheld co-star Ellen Page
Seattle Women's Chorus presents
'Hallows in the Cathedral: Spirits Rising'
with Guest Star Rebekah Del Rio (10/23 & 24 ONLY)
Pacific Northwest Ballet: 'See the Music'
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival celebrates 20th Anniversary October 8-18
An interview with Audra McDonald
The Art of Bad Men an unusual story brought to life with verve
Glyndebourne La Traviata with Michael Fabiano
'Queen: It's a Kinda Magic' recreates the Queen sensation
October 2015 brings another month of exciting theater openings
Philadelphia lives op to its name: City of Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love
Horror Fest 2015 showcases radio thrillers
Puget Sound FM celebrates Halloween with a free collection and a month of programming specials.
Reflections on the county clerk in Kentucky
Visually thrilling Walk an emotional coup
Roth's Inferno a horrific descent into inhuman madness
Emotion and nature walk hand-in-hand in Wildlike
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Construction Equipment Market Estimated to Record Highest CAGR by 2019 to 2027
The concrete mixer market was estimated upwards of US$ 5,100 Mn in 2018, and record a CAGR of over 4% through 2029.
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The concrete mixer market registered a CAGR of over 3% during the period 2014 to 2028. Gains in the concrete mixer industry have been sustained by the traditionally pervasive trend of flexibility in the development of mixing technologies.
Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) remains the leading market for concrete mixer, underpinned by growing government efforts to improve the public infrastructure, alongside resurgent rise in the construction activities.
APEJ is also expected to be a high-growth market for concrete mixers, with sales estimated to record a Y-o-Y of nearly 6% in 2019 over 2018.
The advent and growing presence of hybrid mixers is an emerging trend in the concrete mixer industry, as these equipment possess eco-sustainable attributes.
What are Key Growth Determinants of the Concrete Mixer Market?
Emphasis on cost-effectiveness and ergonomics vis-à-vis safety has grown unabated in the construction equipment industry, leading to the development of new generation concrete truck mixer that facilitate end-users realize smooth handling, low cleaning cost, and higher payload.
The concept of innovative accessories has propelled developments that enable flexible installations of attachment parts, thereby increasing the operational efficiency of concrete mixers, and in turn complementing their sales.
Connected technologies have already permeated the banks of the construction equipment industry, and recent years have witnessed the development of IoT-enabled and GPS-powered concrete mixers. Higher fuel efficiency, smart operations, and lower cost of ownership, are key features that have been advocating the effectiveness of smart concrete mixers recently.
Concrete mixer developments and sales are also significantly undergird by rising customer requirement for higher technical standards, and fast navigation & movement ability of these equipment around construction sites.
The trend of self-loading concrete mixer has a significant contribution to Gains from the concrete mixer market, in light of their application versatility, optimal productivity and reliability. Key attributes of self-loading concrete mixer that attract end-user interest include low cost of operation as well as the product, self-loaded water supply, and elimination of the requirement for transporting prepared concrete mixture.
Concrete Mixer Market: Competitive Overview
Schwing Stetter, in collaboration with Mahindra Powerol, introduced 4 new models of transit concrete mixer under the theme – "Super Six." These premium concrete mixers leverage the IoT to assure highly efficient and productive operations.
AJAX has recently unveiled three concrete mixers designed to aid operators with enhanced quality, greater flexibility, and increased speed. Key attributes of these new concrete mixers from AJAX include more throughput, workability, and productivity at real-time, along with auto-cleansing system, and non-directional tires with a puncture-proof solution.
Caterpillar Inc. has contributed to sustainable progress, driving positive transformations over the years. Customers look to Caterpillar for helping them develop robust infrastructures and energy & natural resource assets. The world's leading construction & mining equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar principally operates via 3 primary segments – energy & transportation, resource industries, and construction industries. The company recorded revenues over US$ 45 Bn in 2017.
Liebherr-International AG has been a leading heavy construction equipment manufacturer, including products that range from crawler and mobile cranes, to mining trucks and concrete mixers. Revenues from overall product & equipment sales of Liebherr in 2017 closed in on 9845 Mn. The company has recently introduced an entirely redeveloped truck-mounted concrete pump, with its proprietary Powerbloc drive unit.
Sany Group Co., Ltd., is an established manufacturer and distributor of construction equipment & machinery, and is well-known to produce concrete managing machineries, road construction machineries, wind turbines and port machineries. Revenues of the company in 2017 closed in on US$ 3.5 Bn. Concrete mixers developed and launched by Sany Group feature HBT S-Valve technology, and advanced spiral design that enables superior concrete mixing with lesser discharge residual.
Sinotruk Hong Kong Ltd., continues to remain a leading company in the development, production, and sales of heavy and light duty vehicles and their assembly parts. The company operates in key segments, namely, trucks, engines and finance. Concrete mixers and relevant equipment parts are one of the key offerings in the portfolio of Sinotruk Hong Kong Ltd.
The study profiles key players operating in the concrete mixers market, which include Akona Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Henan Sanq Group Machinery Co., Ltd., Shantui Construction Machinery Co. Ltd., Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co. Ltd., Metalgalante SPA, Altrad Investment Authority SAS, ATIKA GmbH, Jaypee India Limited, Universal Construction Machinery & Equipment, Yiwu Shanghong Hardware Factory, and Safari Construction Equipments Pvt. Ltd.
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Sooners Release Non-Conference Slate
By Tyler Pigg
Get ready for ⭕️.#Sooners announce full non-conference schedule for the 2018-19 season.
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— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_WBBall) August 23, 2018
NORMAN – University of Oklahoma women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale and Vice President and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione announced the Sooners’ 2018-19 non-conference schedule on Thursday.
OU will once again face one of the nation’s toughest non-conference slates during the upcoming season. The Sooners will have eight matchups against teams that appeared in the postseason a year ago with five potential contests against NCAA Tournament teams: Connecticut, DePaul, South Florida, Tennessee and Western Kentucky.
The Sooners will also host five home non-conference contests prior to the start of Big 12 play, including games against NCAA Tournament squads DePaul, UConn and Western Kentucky.
"This season's non-conference schedule allows our team to be challenged early and often, while preparing this squad for the rigors of Big 12 play,” Coale said. “With three home games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season our fans will have the opportunity to watch our team's development against elite competition. I'm excited about the opportunity this non-conference slate gives us to learn and grow."
OU begins its home slate on Nov. 5 with an exhibition matchup against Northeastern State inside Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners begin the regular season with back-to-back home games against Western Kentucky (23-9, NCAA First Round) on Nov. 9 before hosting Northwestern State (7-22) on Nov. 15.
The Sooners will play five straight games away from home starting on Nov. 18 with a trip to South Florida (26-8, NCAA First Round). OU topped USF, 76-71, in Norman last season. Next up, OU will head to Bimini, Bahamas for the Junkanoo Jam where it will open play against UAB (25-7, WNIT) on Nov. 22. The Sooners will face either Clemson (11-19) or Tennessee (25-8, NCAA Second Round) in their following game at the Junkanoo Jam on Nov. 23 or Nov. 24.
Three NCAA Tournament opponents will visit OU's home court during non-conference play: UConn, DePaul and Western Kentucky.
Fans will have six opportunities to watch the Sooners inside Lloyd Noble Center, starting with an exhibition contest on Nov. 5 vs. Northeastern State.
Eight potential matchups with teams that appeared in the postseason a year ago.
Secure your season tickets today with just a $50 deposit.
On Nov. 28, OU will travel to New Mexico for a rematch with the Lobos. Last season, the Sooners defeated New Mexico (24-11, WNIT), 105-63, inside Lloyd Noble Center. The SEC/Big 12 Challenge will take on place on Dec. 2 as Oklahoma makes its first-ever trip to Auburn (14-15).
The Sooners return to Norman and open a three-game homestand on Dec. 5 with Central Arkansas (21-10, WNIT). OU will see a familiar foe on Dec. 9 as DePaul (27-8, NCAA Second Round) makes the trip to Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners and Blue Demons squared off twice during the 2017-18 season, including a matchup in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
OU wraps up its home non-conference slate on Dec. 19 as the Sooners take on UConn (36-1, NCAA Final Four). It will be the first matchup between the two teams in Norman since 2012.
The Sooners close out their non-conference slate on Dec. 22 at SMU (10-20). OU defeated the Mustangs, 87-75, last season at home.
Oklahoma appeared in its 19th consecutive NCAA Tournament during the 2017-18 season and finished tied for third in the Big 12 with an 11-7 mark. OU returns the 2018 Big 12 Freshman of the Year Shaina Pellington, along with All-Big 12 Freshman and All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection Ana Llanusa. The Sooners’ recruiting class was also ranked No. 9 nationally by Prospect Nation.
Tip-off times and TV information will be announced at a later date.
Season tickets for 2018-19 Oklahoma women's basketball can be reserved today with a $50 deposit. For more information, contact the OU Athletics Ticket Office at (800) 456-4668.
OU's 18-game Big 12 Conference schedule is expected to be announced at a later date. The 2019 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship returns to Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, March 1-4.
For more information on Oklahoma women’s basketball, follow the Sooners on Twitter (@OU_WBBall) or like Oklahoma Sooners Women’s Basketball on Facebook.
2018-19 Oklahoma Women's Basketball Non-Conference Schedule
Date Opponent Site Time (CT)
Nov. 5 Northeastern State (Exh.) Lloyd Noble Cener TBD
Nov. 9 Western Kentucky Lloyd Noble Center TBD
Nov. 15 Northwestern State Lloyd Noble Center TBD
Nov. 18 at South Florida Tampa, Fla. 1 p.m.
Nov. 22 vs. UAB ! Bimini, Bahamas 4:15 p.m.
Nov. 23/24 vs. Clemson/Tennessee ! Bimini, Bahamas TBD
Nov. 28 at New Mexico Albuquerque, N.M. TBD
Dec. 2 at Auburn $ Auburn, Ala. TBD
Dec. 5 Central Arkansas Lloyd Noble Center TBD
Dec. 9 DePaul Lloyd Noble Center TBD
Dec. 19 Connecticut Lloyd Noble Center TBD
Dec. 22 at SMU Dallas, Texas 2 p.m.
! – Junkanoo Jam – Bimini, Bahamas
$ – SEC/Big 12 Challenge – Auburn, Ala.
Dates and times subject to change
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ESG: Sustainability Tag
07 Apr SDSWR2017 Media Coverage: South Sumatra governor vows to keep haze away
The Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) held our 4th Singapore Dialogue on Sustainable World Resources on 6 April 2017 at the St. Regis Singapore, on the theme of "Inclusive Collaboration: Working Together for Sustainable Value Chains". This year's dialogue emphasised the need for collaboration,...
06 Apr 4th Singapore Dialogue on Sustainable World Resources
The resource sector in ASEAN – the source of many raw materials for global supply chains – faces rising pressure to balance environmental and social concerns alongside economic needs. Governments are stepping up law enforcement to combat long-standing problems such as slash-and-burn practices. Various large...
03 Apr Why sustainability is key to keeping the haze away
By Simon Tay and Chen Chen Lee The skies over Singapore in the past 12 months have mostly been free of haze pollution. This is a relief from the prolonged bouts of haze and extensive fires in 2015, and the record-high 400PSI that hit Singapore in...
16 Mar Moving to Green Finance Means Turning Risk into Opportunity
In recent years, the global movement towards green finance – finance that takes into consideration the impacts of business and capital flows on the environment – has been gathering pace. According to UN Environment estimates, over 200 policy measures to “green” the financial system have...
08 Mar What a greener budget means for business, society
BY LAU XIN YI Singapore’s Budget 2017 will be remembered for its strong emphasis on the environment. The recent announcement of measures such as the proposed carbon tax and the diesel duty has caused concern among businesses and the public about higher costs. Yet, these steps are...
26 Jan Why developing nations are the unlikely leaders of green finance
On 10 Jan 2017, the Singapore Management University (SMU), United Nations Environment (UNEP), and the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) jointly organised a public event on ‘Singapore, Green Finance and the Collaborative Challenge’. In addition to our own summary of the session, the event...
25 Jan SMU, UNEP and SIIA jointly hosted ‘Singapore, Green Finance and the Collaborative Challenge’ event
The Singapore Management University (SMU), United Nations Environment (UNEP) and SIIA jointly hosted a public event on green finance in January 2017. SMU has published a summary of the event on their website. The event was also covered by Eco-Business and Climate Action. Our own...
10 Jan Singapore, Green Finance and the Collaborative Challenge
The Singapore Management University (SMU), United Nations Environment (UNEP), and the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) jointly organised a public event on ‘Singapore, Green Finance and the Collaborative Challenge’, on 10 Jan 2017. The session was attended by some 120 participants. This event was...
23 Dec How Indonesia is stepping up fight against climate change
United States President-elect Donald Trump may have labelled climate change a hoax, but that has not stalled the momentum behind last month’s United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Less than one year after its adoption, the Paris climate agreement has entered into force, with...
02 Dec Towards a Regional Nuclear Energy Safety Regime in Southeast Asia
SIIA Executive Director Nicholas Fang wrote a chapter for a new book, "Mapping State and Non-State Actors' Responses to Nuclear Energy in Southeast Asia", edited by Mr. Nur Azha Putra of the Energy Studies Institute and Dr. Mely Caballero-Anthony of NTU. The book discusses policy issues...
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Iowa Republicans Threaten to Cut Salaries of Judges Who Backed Marriage Equality
By Miranda Blue | April 24, 2013 9:55 am
Iowa Republicans are determined to remove the nine state supreme court justices who ruled unanimously in 2009 to allow same-sex marriage in the state, and they’ll try just about anything. In 2010, anti-gay groups funded a successful campaign to oust three justices in retention elections. Then Iowa anti-gay leader Bob Vander Plaats called for the remaining justices to resign. When that didn’t work, state Republicans then tried to impeach them. Last year, an effort to remove a fourth justice failed at the ballot box. So now Iowa Republicans are trying a different strategy, proposing to dramatically lower the salaries of the remaining judges who were involved in the marriage equality decision. The Iowa City Gazette reports:
A handful of House conservatives want to reduce the pay of Iowa Supreme Court justices involved in a 2009 decision striking down a ban on same-sex marriages as part of an effort to maintain the balance of power in state government.
“It’s our responsibility to maintain the balance of power” between the three co-equal branches of government, Rep. Tom Shaw, R-Laurens, said Tuesday.
The justices “trashed the separation of powers” with their unanimous Varnum v. Brien decision and implementation of same-sex marriage without a change in state law banning any marriages expect between one man and one woman, added Rep. Dwayne Alons, R-Hull.
Their amendment to House File 120, the judicial branch budget bill, would lower the salaries of the four justices on the seven-member court who were part of the unanimous Varnum v. Brein decision to $25,000 – the same as a state legislator.
It’s not meant to be punitive, Alons and Shaw said Tuesday.
“We’re just holding them responsible for their decision, for going beyond their bounds,” Shaw said.
“It’s not the merits of what they said in that decision,” added Alons. He’s trying to stop “an encroaching wave” of judicial activity including decisions on nude dancing and landowner liability – decisions the Legislature also is trying to correct through legislation this session.
The chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee tells Gazette “that a plan to pay justices differently based on their role in one case would be unlikely to withstand a court challenge.”
Tags: Bob Vander Plaats judicial nominations
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Ben Carson: Congress Should Oust Judges Who Rule For Marriage Equality
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Initiativtagare
Initiativtagare (Citizens' Committee)
André Ménache (United Kingdom). Zoologist and veterinary surgeon, director of Antidote Europe, former President of Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine, André gave his contribution to the Helsinki declaration (milestone in the history of ethic in Research), amending it in favour of the use of substitutive methods. Consultant for Animal Aid, he authored the report "Victims of Charity".
Gianni Tamino (Italy). Biology Professor, he is also responsible for the specialization course in Bioethics at the University of Padua. He was member of the Italian Parliament (Low Chamber) and the European Parliament where he has been engaged in environment, animals, energy and biotechnologies. He authored several scientific and cultural books and articles; he is the President of Evita scientific committee, dealing with transgenesis and animal experimentation.
Claude Reiss (France). Physician and cellular biologist, he has been Laboratory Director for 30 years at CNRS of Paris and at Jacques Monod Institute; ancient Biochemistry Professor at University of Lille, he is founder of Antidote Europe, an association predominantly constituted by physicians and researchers, fighting for a responsible, biomedical, safe and scientifically based research.
Organisers committee
Adriano Varrica (Italy). Responsible of Mrs. Alfano's parliamentary activity.
Fabrizia Pratesi de Ferrariis (Italy). Coordinator of Equivita scientific committee.
Sonia Alfano (Italy). Member of the European Parliament (2009/ 2014).
Vanna Brocca (Italy). Coordinator of LEAL Magazine "La voce senza voce" (The voice of those without a voice).
Övriga undertecknare: Ingegerd Elvers (Sweden), Núria Querol i Viñas (Spain), Daniel Flies (Belgium), Robert Molenaar (Netherland).
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We give you the lowdown on this year's Liverpool Sound City
Published on April 30,2014 by Review from old page
North by Northwest scratches the 7 year itch. Liverpool Sound City - various venues...
We venture down to Bristol for this year's HIT THE DECK
Growing steadily from year to year, Hit The Deck has become one of the UK’s premiere...
Frightened Rabbit, Blood Red Shoes and more announced for 2000trees Festival 2014
10-12 July 2014 – plus Early Entry tickets available for Thursday 10 July at Upcote Farm,...
Jabberwocky festival announces after party line-ups for Friday, Saturday & Frabjous Sunday
The Jabberwocky after party will be held across the weekend at Shapes in Hackney Wick and...
Festival Update 23rd April 2014
We give you the latest news for Jabberwocky, Lovebox, Sonisphere, Wilderness, Calling...
The Sun Is Set To Shine On Primavera Sound
Primavera Sound, as an eclectic festival as one could hope to attend, is bringing its...
Nozstock 2014 goes mammoth with FUN LOVIN’ CRIMINALS, CHARLI XCX and SONIC BOOM SIX added to lineup
DJ/producer Eddy Temple-Morris and techno collaborators Dense & Pika cement Nozstock’s...
Hit The Deck 2014 arrives this weekend - which bands should you check out?
Our guide to the weekend's festivities... Hit The Deck 2014 is finally here....
Our guide to the weekend's festivities... Hit The Deck 2014 is finally here. Hijacking...
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WO/2019/137780A1 METERING VALVE AND JET PUMP UNIT FOR CONTROLLING A GASEOUS MEDIUM
The invention relates to a metering valve (100) for controlling a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, comprising a valve housing (12) in which an interior (26) is formed. A movable closing element (2) is arranged in the interior (26)...
WO/2019/138612A1 CONTROL VALVE
This control valve (60) is provided with a housing (70) in which a first and a second supply port (71d, 71e), a first and a second actuator port (71h, 71i) and a pilot port (71j) are formed, and a spool (80) which is slidably housed in t...
WO/2019/134832A1 HYDRAULIC VALVE ASSEMBLY
The invention relates to a hydraulic valve assembly for use within a hydraulic control block, i.e. a valve disc with a common housing for different valves. A disc-like valve housing has two parallel running contact surfaces as outer surf...
WO/2019/134108A1 IMPROVED SPOOL VALVE
A static sealing spool valve (210) comprising a valve body (220,230) having a first valve body part (220) and a second valve body part (230), a spool (240) and a seal structure (250). The seal structure (250) comprises a first end seal (...
WO/2019/136431A1 VACUUM DIVERTER ASSEMBLY
A vacuum diverter defined by a housing or hollow body having a first end, a second end, a plurality of sides, and an opening formed in one of the plurality of sides. A valve flap is disposed within the hollow body and moveable between a ...
WO/2019/130335A1 COMPOSITE MANIFOLD FOR STEAM AND WATER ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
The present invention relates to composite manifold for steam and water analysis systems which is mainly used for conditioning the sample (water and/or steam) in the intermediate part of SWAS to analysis, mainly used in power plants. The...
WO/2019/131430A1 PIPE ALIGNING MECHANISM FOR BUTTERFLY VALVE
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pipe aligning mechanism for a butterfly valve, which is easy to use and with which aligning work in pipe construction can be carried out in a simple manner. In the present invention, a...
WO/2019/131038A1 VALVE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
[Problem] To provide a valve device comprising a resin valve seat which enables a reduction in manufacturing man-hours. [Solution] This valve device has: a metal valve body 40 provided with a support surface 43 formed around an opening 4...
WO/2019/130647A1 VALVE DEVICE
This valve device is provided with: a body (10) defining a passage (11) through which fluid flows; a valve shaft (20) supported by the body so that the valve shaft (20) can pivot; a butterfly valve (30) affixed to the valve shaft so as t...
WO/2019/122462A1 FLOW CONTROL VALVE
Flow control valve, comprising a housing (1) forming a number of internal passages (8) and an internal cavity (2) in fluid communication with each of the internal passages, each of the internal passages comprising an orifice (15) opening...
The invention relates to a valve comprising a housing and a solenoid which is arranged in the housing. The solenoid comprises a coil, an armature, an upper stator, and a lower stator, and the stators are designed such that the armature m...
WO/2019/126167A1 POPPET VALVE FOR FLUID PUMP
The present disclosure relates to a pneumatically driven fluid pump apparatus having an outer pump housing for collecting liquid to be pumped, and a valve assembly in communication with liquid admitted through an inlet end of the outer p...
The invention relates to a valve with a housing (1), which comprises three valve chambers (2) that lie one behind the other, wherein two valve chambers are connected together by an opening which has a valve seat (3); a tappet (5); two be...
WO/2019/119093A1 SUBSEA SEPARATOR VESSEL
The present invention relates to subsea separator vessels (20, 30, 40, 50) comprising single machined blocks (21, 22, 31, 41, 51) integrated into the hull (23, 32, 42, 52) so as to conjugate in the interior of said blocks all the valves ...
WO/2019/120998A1 CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
The invention relates to a control device (10,10') for an internal combustion engine, comprising an intake channel (14) having an inlet (16) and an outlet (18), an exhaust gas return channel (20) that leads into the intake channel (14), ...
WO/2019/125412A1 ENHANCED DESIGN FOR PLUG VALVE
Provided is a plug valve. The plug valve, in one example, includes a valve body having inlet and outlet seal inserts disposed within a central chamber thereof, a plug member disposed, in the central chamber, and a bonnet disposed at leas...
The invention relates to a valve comprising a housing (1), a solenoid (5) arranged in the housing (1), a pin (7) that can be moved by the solenoid (5), a cup-shaped piston (8) which is connected to the pin (7), and a seal (14) arranged i...
WO/2019/123426A1 VALVE GEARBOX COVER SYSTEMS AND METHODS
A valve includes a cover that is transparent and configured to allow a valve orientation to be visible through the valve cover. The cover may couple to existing mounting bolts of the valve operator housing such that the cover may be retr...
WO/2019/124697A1 RUBBER-SEATED BUTTERFLY VALVE
A rubber-seated butterfly valve is disclosed. A rubber-seated butterfly valve according to the present invention has sloping portions formed on both sides of a wall surface of the inner peripheral surface of a rubber seat so as to slope ...
WO/2019/121412A1 SUCTION VALVE
A suction valve (100) for sucking liquid from a vessel. The suction valve (100) comprises an outer body (102) comprising a suction inlet (111), an inner body (104) movably arranged within the outer body (102), and a spring (106) arranged...
WO/2019/115824A1 ELECTROMAGNETIC SLEEVE FOR HYDROGEN VALVE
A sleeve (8.1) for an electromagnetic device (2, 4) comprises a cylindrical wall forming a cavity for receiving a magnetic plunger (16, 30), and configured for being surrounded by an electromagnet (10), wherein the cylindrical wall is ma...
WO/2019/117157A1 COOLING WATER CONTROL VALVE DEVICE
According to the present invention, a housing (30) has: an inner space (300); a mounting surface formed capable of contacting an outer wall of an engine (10); an inlet port (301) and an inlet port (302) which are formed so as to open to ...
WO/2019/115555A1 VALVE ARRANGEMENT FOR AN OPERATION MODE SELECTOR
A valve arrangement (1) for an operation mode selector is described, the valve arrangement comprising at least two valve modules (2), each of the valve modules comprising a housing section (3), a first mode selector valve (9) connecting ...
WO/2019/116617A1 METHOD OF REMOVING VALVE IN FLUID PIPE LINE STRUCTURE, FLUID PIPE LINE STRUCTURE, AND VALVE DEVICE
The purpose of the present invention is to remove, through a rational improvement utilizing a part of a valve device, an unwanted valve constituent member of the valve device from a connecting opening portion of a pipe portion efficientl...
WO/2019/112512A1 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND JOINT FOR FLUID CONTROL DEVICE
The present invention relates to a fluid control device and a joint for the fluid control device. The joint comprises a first unit and a second unit for forming a joint of a specific shape. The first unit has an upper surface and a lower...
WO/2019/110522A1 PLUG VALVE FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
The present invention relates to a connection system, in particular with a plug valve, as is used for example in medicine and/or medical technology. A connection system according to the invention for components through which a fluid is p...
WO/2019/107123A1 VALVE DEVICE, AND FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE USING THIS VALVE DEVICE
[Problem] To provide a valve device in which an orifice is installed and which can be manufactured at low cost. [Solution] A valve body 20 defines: a housing recess 22 which is opened at the surface of the valve body 20 and which receive...
WO/2019/104402A1 EQUIPMENT FOR CONNECTING UNDERSEA LINES
The present invention relates to undersea equipment including two manifolds (1a) and (1b) for importing and exporting fluids from oil wells. The manifolds (1a) and (1b) are arranged in parallel and are connected together by a jumper (8)....
WO/2019/106075A1 SOLENOID VALVE
The invention relates to a solenoid valve (1) comprising: a hollow fixed core (10) made of a ferromagnetic material, extending along an axis (X); a coil mounted around the fixed core; and a plunger core (41) movable along the axis (X) of...
WO/2019/107858A1 AUTOMATIC LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
The present invention relates to an improved automatic liquid discharge apparatus which operates precisely without causing a malfunction so that liquid may be discharged automatically. Accordingly, the present invention is configured suc...
WO/2019/107139A1 VALVE DEVICE, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE USING SAID VALVE DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE
[Problem] To provide a valve device for which size and cost can be reduced, and which has a bleed function. [Solution] A valve body (20) is divided into: an accommodation recessed section (22) that opens on the surface of the valve body ...
WO/2019/102089A1 AIRCRAFT ONE-PIECE FLUID NONRETURN DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A DEVICE
The invention relates to a fluid nonreturn device (1) comprising a body (2) defining a chamber (5) intended to receive a fluid and having at least one opening (3), the chamber (5) has an internal wall (6) extended by an elastic return me...
WO/2019/104066A1 COMPACT CIRCULAR LINKAGE FOR A PUSHING ACTUATOR
A compact unitized mechanical linkage, which can be handled as a single piece within a valve top works, transmits force and motion of a piezoelectric actuator stack to a moveable element in a control valve. The linkage has few parts and ...
WO/2019/103814A1 BALL VALVE WITH IMPROVED ASSEMBLY CONFIGURATION
A ball valve configured for reduced-time assembly for use with hoses and watering devices typically connected to city water supplies. In particular, the valve is configured to improve the ease of assembly by providing a one-piece snap in...
WO/2019/103298A1 POWDER PROTECTING THREE-WAY VALVE
The present invention relates to a powder protecting three-way valve for an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor or a flat panel display, and the valve supplies, in an air curtain form, nitrogen gas heated in an exhaust line of eq...
WO/2019/101473A1 SLEEVE FOR A FLUID VALVE AND FLUID VALVE THROUGH WHICH FLUID CAN FLOW AXIALLY
The invention relates to a sleeve for a fluid valve having a sleeve body (25) which has a first cylindrical portion (75) in which at least one core (26) and an armature (28) are to be arranged as parts of an electromagnet (10) to be prod...
WO/2019/101477A1 EXHAUST GAS VALVE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
The invention relates to an exhaust gas valve (10) for an internal combustion engine, comprising an actuator (20), a valve shaft (26), which can be moved by means of the actuator (20), a valve body (36), which is fastened to the valve sh...
WO/2019/100849A1 TWO-WAY REVERSING VALVE AND BATTERY PACK THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A two-way reversing valve (100) comprises a valve casing (110) and a cylindrical cavity therein and is provided with first and second medium source end channels (111a, 112a) to connect the inner wall to the outer wall and first and secon...
WO/2019/091563A1 GATE VALVE
The invention relates to a gate valve (20) comprising a valve disk (32) which can move in a valve guide (29) in a valve housing (26) between a closing position and an open position, the valve guide (29) being provided with a valve seal f...
The present invention provides a valve that: forms a backseat structure at a height at which fluid is easily and highly precisely prevented from infiltrating from outside a bonnet; and reliably prevents internal pressure increases. Accor...
Provided is a valve device in which a plurality of fluids having flowed in a primary side flow path can be divided, at a secondary side, into multiple flows, while the size of the device is kept compact. Valve elements (2A, 2B) each comp...
WO/2019/087879A1 FLOW CHANNEL ASSEMBLY AND VALVE DEVICE
Provided is a flow channel assembly having a functional component such as an orifice or a filter incorporated therein, such that a portion between the functional component and a flow channel component defining a flow channel is assuredly...
WO/2019/086663A1 SELF-SEALING COVER CLOSURE
The invention describes a fitting having a spindle for actuating the valve actuating member, wherein the valve comprises a housing (1), wherein a hood holder (2) for holding a hood (3) is provided on the housing, wherein the hood holder ...
Provided is a downsized valve device in which the degree of freedom in flow path arrangement in a valve body can be significantly enhanced while a necessary flow rate is ensured. The valve device comprises: a valve seat support (50) that...
WO/2019/081505A1 INTERNAL ASSEMBLY FOR A MIXER
An internal assembly comprising: a primary module comprising a primary inlet (21) for liquid, as an auxiliary inlet (23) for liquid, a primary outlet (25) for liquid and a mixer (17); and a secondary module, comprising a secondary inlet ...
WO/2019/083942A1 UNIVERSAL ROUGH-IN VALVE
A universal rough-in valve (20) includes a valve chamber (34) configured to receive a valve manifold (72). The universal rough-in valve includes a first valve inlet (22) configured to provide a pathway for fluid from a first supply line ...
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5 Things you should know: Directors Lab Fellows “Daniels” on Crass Humor
Daniel Scheinert (middle) and Daniel Kwan (right) at the 2014 Directors Lab. Photo by Ryan Johnson.
Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Manager
It’s gonna’ be our Apocalypse Now, where we disappear into the forest for weeks and lose our minds and discover who we are as men,” says Daniels, the lone directing duo at this year’s Sundance Institute Directors Lab where they’re joined by seven other nascent writer-directors and their projects. But Daniels (never to be preceded by ‘the,’ they assure me), made up of longtime music video collaborators Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have developed a symbiosis that renders them more operative together than apart. And while yes, it is a testament to Aristotle’s “sum of its parts” philosophy, it has also yielded dividends in the form of countless industry accolades, from their “Best Music Video” Grammy nomination for Foster the People’s “Houdini” to an MTV VMA nomination and countless Vimeo Staff Picks. Their most recent work on DJ Snake and Lil John's music video for "Turn Down For What" has received more than 70 million views on YouTube, and can be viewed below.
But conquering one artistic terrain has done little to satiate Daniels, whose screenplay Swiss Army Man marks their first go at a feature-length film. As they embark on their most ambitious film project to date, the pair took some time to chat about their crass brand of humor, the benefit of experimenting, and learning to say “I don’t know.”
Can you share a bit about Swiss Army Man? It seems consistent with some of the absurdist, sometimes satirical humor in your past work.
Swiss Army Man started out as a silly short film idea years ago involving a stranded guy riding a dead body’s farts off of an island like a jet ski. That was it. Then we started trying to come up with some sort of story that would give us an excuse to do that in a movie and we accidentally wrote a really deeply personal story. Now it’s become this puzzle of a story that still fascinates us. And it’s sort of the ultimate feature-sized example of the narrative and visual roller coaster movies we’ve been working on the past few years together. It’s gonna’ be our Apocalypse Now, where we disappear into the forest for weeks and lose our minds and discover who we are as men.
This is the first feature-length project for both of you. Having built such a working dynamic amongst yourselves on other projects, what kinds of new challenges have emerged with this screenplay?
Holy crap, every problem. We’re making a movie where one guy is dead but has a disembodied voice and the other guy is in drag half the movie and then we’re trying to mix drama, crass comedy, sincere nostalgia, and survival thriller moments all into the same scenes. So this process of testing and exploring is absolutely essential for our movie.
The most important part of this process has been working with our actors Ted Tremper and Beck Bennett to discover the right process for this unconventional film–how to value their work despite all the contrived conventions we’re juggling.
Writing new material is not necessarily the focus while at the Directors Lab. Is there a temptation to rework some aspects of the script, or have you been very focused on the scenes you’re shooting?
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve been writing. This is our favorite time to write. When we can use the production challenges that come up to rewrite each scene and renegotiate each creative decision on a daily basis. The writer’s lab in January was a great time to absorb ideas and not write. But this June has been a non stop work fest. Finding problems, fixing problems, finding new problems, moving onto the next scene!
What are some of the more notable creative strides that you feel you’ve made while at the Lab–or maybe a special insight from a Creative Advisor?
Joan Darling is an acting coach/director/superhero here at the Labs and she reminded us a few weeks ago that actors love to hear a director say “I don’t know the answer to that yet.” Her special brand of positive reinforcement has been a huge inspiration.
Also, I learned how to say ‘You look beautiful this morning’ in Portuguese. I wanted to give Gabriela (our Fellow from Brazil) a boost in the mornings.
How do you absorb this experience so that its not just a finite creative moment, but informs your work moving forward?
It’s easy. I’ve met the most inspiring, talented people of my life here. And they keep telling me they are excited to see my movie and to see what else I make. So that pressure to never suck will stay with me for the rest of my life. Joan, Joan #2, Quentin, Johnny, Geramy, Oorlagh, Sofia, Gabriela, Jeremiah, Patty, Jeff, Pam, Beck, Ted, Athina, Bobby, or Bob might be watching!
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Ain’t That Amercia
Politics Technology
grammar cop
Oh, Mitt. You’re trying so hard. Yet you continue to fail. You continue to look completely disingenuous.
Now, you also look illiterate. At least, your technology is illiterate. Here’s a screenshot from your iPhone app:
Really. You can’t even get the name of the country right?
Wait a minute. What if you’re trying to appeal to illiterate voters, like that tea party crowd with the misspelled signs? It’s crazy but it JUST … MIGHT … WORK!!!!
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Our So-Called “National Security” Candidate
McCain, politics, technology
It’s been widely reported that John McCain has exhibited no interest in technology. The Republicans have attempted to characterize him as a lovable latter-day Luddite whose failure even to embrace e-mail is somehow a component of his cute and curmudgeonly personality.
If McCain were a plumbing and heating contractor or even a senior partner in a small-town law firm, this characterization might sit just fine. It might even be charming.
But John McCain is running for President of the United States. His lack of knowledge of and interest in technology is not cute. It’s dangerous.
Let’s face facts. The likelihood that another set of terrorists will fly planes into buildings has been limited by international efforts in the past seven years to tighten security. It’s not impossible, but it’s considerably less likely.
So what else remains vulnerable? Our ports? Our infrastructure? Yes, of course. But what would give terrorists the most bang for the buck? Our technology.
It’s hard to imagine the kind of impact that bringing down the internet or our other telecommunications assets would have. Our businesses all rely on it, our communications depend on it, and it’s one of the primary ways people get their information.
So do we really want to put the oversight of anti-terrorism efforts in the hands of someone who doesn’t know an IP address from a Zip code? Sorry. That’s not cute or quaint. It’s a huge security risk.
And, while we’re on the subject, what about our economy? Our banking industry wouldn’t exist without technology. The case can easily be made that many of our current problems have been exacerbated by the speed at which transactions can be made and the complexity that can be managed by computers. Again, how can we put a technophobe in a position of oversight of something as critical as our economy? And, again, a faltering economy leaves us in a much more vulnerable security position in the world.
What it boils down to is this: To have a clear understanding of how the world works, you kind of have to have at least some understanding of how technology works.
These are not issues that can be overlooked, as McCain seems to want us to overlook them, because he’s hailed as a war hero. You can’t play that card in this game, John.
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Ladies, to Your Corners
Patty Schynder and Agnes Szavay began the week on the same side of the court, paired in doubles at the GDF SUEZ Grand Prix in Budapest. But I'm not sure either thought they'd end the week on opposite sides of the net. It's been a rough couple months for both ladies on the singles Tour, and since they last met in the finals here in 2009, neither has advanced deep into their brackets.
Szavay had beaten Venus Williams in the third round of the French Open last year, but hadn't progressed past a quarterfinal in 2010. She lost in the first round of three tournaments, including Wimbledon and saw her ranking drop to #49 -- she'd been thirteenth in the world only two years ago. Veteran Schnyder has fallen even farther. Once in the top ten she's now in the low fifties and hasn't made it past the second round of a Major in two years.
But when they returned to Budapest, they once again looked like their old selves. The championship round last year was the only full match they'd ever contested -- Szavay had to retire while trailing in the first set in Madrid this past May -- and the Hungarian had rallied from a set down to beat Schnyder for her third career title. But this year after dismissing top seeded Alisa Kleybanova in the second round, Patty looked good to get revenge on her vanquisher's home turf. She dropped a couple sets -- one to up-and-comer Polona Hercog and qualifier Zuzana Ondraskova -- but was playing solid tennis. Szavay had also been doing well on her side of the draw though, staying perfect until she dropped the second set to Alexandra Dulgheru in the semis, but holding strong to take the match in three and earning the right to defend her title.
Agnes might have learned a thing or two during her court time with Patty -- she didn't need time to get her bearings this go-around and rolled through the first set, 6-2. Schnyder picked up her game in the second set, trading breaks with the seventh seed early. But ultimately she just couldn't make much impact on Szavay's serve, winning less than a third of the points on return. After less than ninety minutes the hometown girl was able to clinch her second straight title in Budapest and add one more trophy to the mantle.
But it was a good showing from the ladies, both of whom had lost a bit of their punch recently. And if they can keep up the momentum, it could make for an interesting summer!
Labels: Agnes Szavay, Budapest, Patty Schnyder
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