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Southeast Asia: Newsmakers of 2008
Posted 26 December 2008 5:36 GMT
The big story of the year in Southeast Asia was the global economic downturn. A rice and food price crisis hit the region last summer. It was compounded by the dramatic rise of oil and gas prices. When prices of these commodities began to stabilize, Wall Street announced the crash of several banks and major financial institutions in the United States.
The recession in the U.S. was felt in Southeast Asia. It affected the real estate, financial services, and export industries in the region. Singapore was the first Asian country to experience recession this year. Because of the negative economic indicators, many began to worry that the Great Asian Depression of 1997-1998 would plague the region again.
Some of the memorable events which captured the gloomy economic outlook of the times were the following: Thousands of Filipinos queuing for a kilo of subsidized rice across the Philippines; scores of poor Indonesians in East Java who died in a stampede while waiting for alms; and the public protests of Singapore investors whose incomes were lost in the wake of the Wall Street crash.
The economic downturn has produced a few encouraging developments: It forced consumers to save money; entrepreneurs have started to look for innovative ways of doing business; and policymakers have admitted that there is a need to rethink their economic philosophies.
Distribution of cheap rice in the Philippines. Picture from Keith Bacongco's Flickr page. Political cartoon by Sacravatoons
Political upheavals
The past year was also a period of escalating domestic political upheavals in the region. Malaysia’s opposition party managed to secure several more seats in the Parliament during the elections last March. Party leaders even claimed that they were ready to form a new government.
The Philippines was rocked by a corruption scandal early this year. The First Family was implicated in the controversy. The President of East Timor survived an assassination attempt last February.
It was a chaotic year for Thailand: Two Prime Ministers were forced to step down from power; the country almost went into war with Cambodia over a border dispute; and the airport crisis a few weeks ago has weakened the dollar-earning tourism industry.
During hard and harsh times, people are more willing to express their anger in public. The year 2008 was also a year of provocative protest actions. Last June thousands of Malaysians protested in the streets against the government decision to reduce fuel subsidies and raise fuel prices. This was followed by succeeding protest activities which highlighted the opposition to the repressive laws of the government like the Internal Security Act. Fuel protests were also registered in Indonesia.
The most famous protest action of the year was organized by Thailand’s People Alliance for Democracy. The group was able to mobilize thousands of people everyday since August to December. The protesters succeeded in occupying the Government House, Parliament Building, and lastly the two major airports in Bangkok. Their determination and stubbornness were helpful in persuading the courts to rule against the interest of the ruling government. The group has vowed to return to the streets if they didn’t see reforms in government.
Protesters took over Thailand's two major airports last month. Photo from Pantip
When people are protesting in the streets, most likely governments would initiate measures to discourage these activities. In Myanmar the junta ordered the arrest of more than 60 people for participating in activities deemed subversive by the government.
The detainees were sentenced to long years of imprisonment. The prison terms were unbelievable: 2 years for reporting about the cyclone aid effort; 6 years for sending false information abroad; 20 years for keeping defaced images of national leaders in an email inbox; and 65 years for five monks and 14 members of 88 Generation Students group.
Thailand has charged several foreigners for allegedly violating a lese majeste law. Indonesia’s recently passed anti-porn law was criticized because of its possible negative impact on free speech and traditional art.
The armed conflict between Philippine government troops and Muslim separatist rebels in several areas of Mindanao Island has displaced more than half a million innocent civilians. Mindanao is located in south Philippines. The conflict escalated when the two parties failed to sign a draft peace agreement last August.
An evacuation center in south Philippines. Picture from Arkibong Bayan.
Media harassment cases have been reported in the whole region. Internet users have experienced many forms of censorship as well. Prominent bloggers and some journalists in Malaysia and Myanmar were arrested for refusing to toe the line set by the government.
Vietnam has introduced some new regulations on blogging. Thailand is blocking websites that purportedly insult the monarchy. Jakarta’s police want internet shops to record their customers’ IDs in a guest book to prevent cyber crime.
Social media websites like Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr were maximized by netizens in documenting events. In particular, they were useful in disseminating information about the cyclone aid effort in Myanmar and the airport crisis in Thailand.
Natural calamities were big news as well. A destructive cyclone hit Myanmar last May. More than 100,000 people were killed. Myanmar is still suffering as cyclone refugees continue to suffer from hunger and illnesses. The junta’s incompetence was another disaster which worsened the situation. The government relief work was too slow and inadequate. The junta even considered refusing international aid.
Myanmar was hit by a deadly cyclone last May. Picture from Salai Thang.
Floods have killed scores of people in northern and central Vietnam last November. It was the worst flooding in the country in almost 25 years. A landslide in Kuala Lumpur this month was linked to the negligence of government authorities and irresponsible hillside developers.
Who are the newsmakers of the year? Thailand’s PAD protesters for showing resoluteness. Their legacy is still under question but their bravery must be recognized. Former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra is another newsmaker. He was ousted from power two years ago but his name continues to inspire animosity, love, cynicism, and devotion among Thai citizens.
Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim scored a landslide electoral victory despite being accused of another sodomy charge. Cambodia’s Hun Sen was reelected this year; but the opposition claimed there was massive electoral fraud. The Philippine’s Gloria Arroyo has survived another impeachment attempt.
The region’s athletes who participated in the Beijing Olympics should be commended. After 12 years Malaysia won an Olympic medal. Another important victory was the silver medal of Singapore in table tennis. This was Singapore’s first Olympic medal in 48 years. Sadly, Brunei failed to participate in the games.
The Olympic Torch Relay was sometimes disrupted by groups protesting against China's human rights record. Picture from The Dainty Knife blog.
The China milk scandal was a big issue in the region too. China is the major trading partner of Southeast Asian nations. China-made milk products, and later even other food items, were scrutinized, strictly regulated and banned.
The US presidential election was closely monitored in the region. Both candidates – John McCain and Barack Obama – are popular in the region. McCain was a former Navy pilot during the Vietnam War while Obama lived in Jakarta for five years. Obama’s victory inspired many people to reflect about the need for change in their local politics.
For Southeast Asia, 2008 was a year of terrible disasters, both natural and man-made. Rice consumption was reduced, milk products were contaminated with melamine, jobs were lost, bloggers were arrested, and homes were destroyed. But the situation is not hopeless. The people expect reforms in governance. They are ready to mobilize for change, and if needed, throw shoes at politicians during press conferences.
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Rest in Pierce [INTERVIEW]
Interviewed and Written by Fatima Hasan
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A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on Jun 14, 2018 at 2:05pm PDT
If you’re into the weird and wonky, music by Rest in Pierce should definitely be in your playlists. Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Logan Pierce has been steadily making a name for himself as he emerges from the underground dubstep and experimental bass scene. He’s a member of Sugoi Collective, a supportive community of artists that also includes prominent up-and-coming talent like Mystic Grizzly, Rumblenaut, ChoppyOppy, GrymeTyme, Wreckno, MORPHICS, and more. One of my favorite aspects about Rest in Pierce is his consistent release of new, quality tracks. Each time he publicizes a new song, I am left thoroughly impressed because of the obvious passion and ear he has for his music. He releases short EPs pretty frequently, always providing his fans with unique material and something to look forward to as he continues to expand his sound and production techniques. Some fan-favorite tracks like Sludge, Turbulence, Drive-By, Squirm, and Midnight all feature Rest in Pierce’s signature sound while having a twist that is completely one-of-a-kind. In my opinion, it’s only a matter of time before Rest in Pierce is recognized as a fundamental part of the experimental bass scene since he unquestionably stands out from other artists. In 2018 alone, he has performed alongside talent like Jantsen, Toadface, Smith., Esseks, Of the Trees, kLL sMTH, and many more. He just recently reached 4k followers on SoundCloud, and to celebrate, he dropped a new track along with an exclusive merch collaboration with A 40oz Collective!
Where are you from? What is the music scene like near your hometown?
“I am from Lakeland, Florida. It’s a small Central Florida city. There is no electronic music scene where I was born and raised. I moved to Orlando when I was 18 to attend the University of Central Florida, and this is where I got into the electronic music scene. I used to listen to dubstep and trap when I was in highschool but never dove deep into anyone’s discography; I just liked how they sounded on my car’s system. Fast forward a few years – now Orlando’s bass music scene is my family. I would describe it as a tight-knit community of sharing music and pushing each other to create higher quality tunes. Nowhere I have played quite compares, the expectations are high and I think that has played a major role in my quick growth as an artist.”
Why did you choose the stage name of Rest in Pierce? Were there any other aliases that you considered or used in the past?
“My last name is Pierce, so it’s just a play on words. I have been Rest in Pierce from the first show – I started my career in April of 2016 when I submitted a mix into a mix competition to open for Space Jesus. I ended up winning a spot and that was the beginning of Rest in Pierce. From there, I played a few more shows without originals but eventually realized that I wanted to create my own content to hopefully be able to play an hour of only original music. Today I can say I have far surpassed that goal!”
What is your musical background and how did you start? How old were you when you made your first bass track?
“I have 0 musical background, I played sports my whole life and never learned an instrument. I make my music just based on what I think sounds good. I was 20 when I made my first track; my good friend Fowl Play showed me the ropes on Logic Pro X and since then I have made it my goal to learn something new every day.”
📸: @no.body.photography
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Is there anything you’ve learned about the music industry that is different than your initial expectations?
“I didn’t really have any expectations to begin with, to be honest, if you would have told me 2 years ago that I’d be getting interviewed, I would have laughed!”
Other musicians/producers who inspire you?
“Tipper, kursa, chee, TLZMN, eprom, G Jones, Yheti, Space Jesus, Ivy Lab, Nosia, Razat, Vorso, monty, fixate… could keep going for days.”
What was the best advice you’ve ever received? Did you listen to it?
“The best advice I ever received is to know and stay true to your vision. Always grow organically and just focus on making music that you resonate with, it will attract others.”
📸: @dimygod
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on Feb 25, 2018 at 11:20am PST
What’s the last sound you want to hear before you die?
“Tipper scratch solo”
What’s your favorite possession?
“Probably my computer, just because it makes what I do possible.”
What is your spirit animal?
Do you believe in the supernatural/paranormal?
“I am supernatural. lol I had to.”
When was the last time you were really happy and what made you happy?
“I am happy 95% of the time! I feel truly blessed to have been given the opportunities I have, and also to have been born in this day and age.”
to a higher zone, you are not alone.
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on May 14, 2017 at 2:51pm PDT
Up and coming talent / rising new artists we should keep an eye on?
“oh, boy… Mystic Grizzly, Eazybaked, Chark, FRQ NCY, Digital D, Mickman, DeeZ, Tsimba, Keota, Mindset, Ludge, G-Space, VCTRE, Crimbrule, Smokestax, Cut Rugs, Fowl Play, Fryar, Houman, Omnist, Prophet, Chief Kaya, lumpy, Mersiv.”
Do you play video games? If so, what is your favorite console and why?
“I play fortnite on Xbox One but that’s about it. I don’t have too much free time for video games, but they’re good for clearing your head for a bit. Add my gamertag! – WompingWooks”
chicago was incredible, massive thank you to Joe and Brian from @swampwooferproductions
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on May 7, 2018 at 7:43am PDT
Do you have a favorite childhood memory?
“No real favorites, but I had a great childhood and my parents support me and my musical journey.”
What has been your most rewarding experiencing involving music?
“My most rewarding experience is the stories of my music bringing other people happiness. Just the other day, I had a girl come up to me and say she came to a show to see me play and met her current boyfriend through my music.”
What is your favorite event/venue/festival to play at? Why?
“So far, my favorite event that I’ve played was Fractal Beach down in Miami. This festival stood out to me because of the attention to detail on things that are important to me: sound and production. They also booked a ton of my close friends, so it was awesome to watch them share their creations as well.”
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on May 26, 2018 at 12:35pm PDT
What has been a memorable performance for you?
“I was really excited to play in Chicago May 4th with Mindset and Mystic Grizzly. It was my first time playing on Funktion One sound as well as my first time visiting Chicago.”
How did you become involved with Sugoi Collective? What does the Collective mean to you?
“I heard about Sugoi Collective through my buddy, Sleep Madness, and was welcomed with open arms. To us, it’s all about creating unique music and supporting each other. We turn music into a massive collaboration rather than a competition. This is simply a group of likeminded people coming together to have a greater impact on the scene.”
stoked to move forward with this musical journey joining this group of likeminded individuals. excited for what the future holds for me and my family at Sugoi Creative Collective.
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on Mar 29, 2017 at 5:23pm PDT
Anything you’re currently working on / anticipating that you’d like to share?
“I’m always working on multiple tracks at a time and am always excited to see how people react to every single one!” *laughs*
Fun fact about you that many of your fans may not know?
“I am about to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing from UCF. I have a professional sales job selling solar panels to homeowners Monday-Friday, and have always said that no matter how successful my music becomes, I would like to continue balancing out my creativity with my business side.”
the miramar // 8.4.18
A post shared by Logan Pierce (@restinpiercebass) on Aug 9, 2018 at 8:44pm PDT
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Thoughts and wishes. Part 2
and the award goes to?????
The who would have ever thought it awards goes to…
Macko Caquatto. For not falling once at worlds. Who would have thunk it???
The I saw it coming a mile away award goes to… Mattie Larson for screwing the US out of a team gold medal. Come on we all knew it would happen. The girl is a head case in a leotard. Don’t feel bad Mattie. Oh wait you don’t.
The thank you He Kexin for being human award goes to??? Beth Tweddle for taking advantage and hitting her routine to take back the World title
The gift from the judges award goes to???? Alicia Sacramone for winning your first vault world title. Okay I don’t like the rules allowing messy difficult vaults like Nabieva’s and to a lesser extent Mustafina’s 2.5’s to win medals is wacky but the rules are the rules. Even when the rules suck.
The bad luck award goes to??? Chelsea Davis for “earning” her way on to the world team only to get injured before the competition. Maybe it’s the name?
The Thank your lucky stars award goes to Bridget Sloan If it wasn’t for Chelsea getting injured you never would have been able to prove yourself the valuable team member you are. You hit when it counted and Marta is going to have to remember that for future world teams.
The first time ever award goes to???? Lauren Mitchell for winning Australia’s first ever Gold medal at a world championships. An argument can be made for bronze but I’ll leave that up to the judges.
The tough as nails award goes to??? Rebecca Bross for competing injured. All gymnasts compete injured but this year Rebecca gets the award.
The Life sucks award goes to??? Oksana Oksana Chusovitina for not getting a shot at winning another vault medal. She was injured on her first vault and never got a chance to make a second one.
The born to early award goes to???? Viktoria Komova If it wasn’t for another stupid rule in gymnastics you could have been the AA, Beam and floor Gold medalist at the World Championships. Instead you had to settle for the Youth Olympic Games AA Champion.
The made my year award goes to??? Jiang Yuyuan. for winning the silver medal in the AA at worlds and finally living up to your potential. You should have received this award in 2008 but the judges were too busy over scoring the US AA’s to give you a chance.
The Shannon Miller and Lilia Podkopayeva award goes to???? Aliya Mustafina for making all four event finals at worlds for the first time since 1995 when Shannon and Lilia did it. (Svetlana Khorkina competed all 4 event finals in 1997 but she was put in two events over other gymnasts)
The FUCK YOU Marta award goes to??? Kyla Ross for hitting all 8 routines at the US Junior National Championships and winning her second AA title despite the fact Marta was hell bent on giving the title to Kaitlyn Ohashi even when she fell 3 times.
The FUCK YOU snobby fans award goes to??? Aly Raisman for her performance at Worlds. She was steady and consistent for the team when they needed her most. She wasn’t perfect but she did her job.
The majority does not rule and things do not end because you say so especially on a message board where having a free thought or opinion is not allowed.
Subject matter aside when you spend your life stalking the gymnasts tied with the subject matter your opinion is full of fucking holes.
I have read some amusing threads on certain message boards in my day but this one takes the cake.
Sending flowers and gifts to gymnasts to get them to like you is pathetic.
My thoughts on 2010 and wishes for 2011
Part one……..
Romania- Thoughts:
Maybe its the lack of coverage in the US. Maybe its my tendency to get bored with the sport of gymnastics to the point when watching a routine I some times daze out and forget I was in the middle of watching a video at all but do all the Romanian women gymnasts blend together for you like they do for me? I honestly do not know one from the other except for Ana Porgras.
Now I know I have watched some Romanian routines this year. I remember Chelaru’s overscored floor routine that won a medal at worlds but I couldn’t pick her out of a line up if she was the only person in it.
I have watched some of their juniors and was even impressed with one of them. I then forgot her name So my…
Wishes for Romania are as followed. A Real vault for Ana Porgras so she can stand a chance at winning an AA medal. Her bars, beam and floor are great. It makes no sense for her to be doing a full twisting yurchenko in 2010. My other wish is for the Romanians to find some way to help me remember gymnast :A from gymnast :ZBZ. Gina, Milo, Bontas and company might have been alike but they had some individual qualities that made them stand out from each other. Your current group not so much. Oh and an UB coach might be a good idea:)
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Russia- Thoughts:
You had a great year. One of your best years in a very long time. You won your first team world Gold medal ever thanks to Aliya Mustafina. You had some of the most difficult routines of all time. Your gymnasts have personality (maybe even a little too much sometimes) and un like Romania I can tell your gymnasts a part even your lesser known ones like Anna Dementyeva or Yekaterina Kurbatova (even though I did have to look up how to spell their names) but my
wishes for you are as followed, A: I want you to keep Viktoria Komova in one piece. She doesn’t need to compete 10 times a year. She needs to stay healthy because in 2012 she is the only one I want to see on the top of the Olympic podium. She also needs to improve her form. My other wish is for you to take Aliya and Tatiana and teach them the word technique. Those Amanar’s are atrocious. As much as I LOVE Tatiana’s unique personality and skill set her form is a travesty. Your the Soviet union for Christ’s sake. Act like it.
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China- Thoughts:
I still love you. Of all the Countries out there your team is still the only team that makes me smile. Sure your starting to forget that choreography matters but if I am going to watch anyone do trick after trick after trick I would rather be watching you over anyone else.
My thoughts on your 2010 is of happiness and disappointment all in one. Jiang Yuayuan getting her act together and winning the AA silver medal at Worlds was the highlight of 2010 for me. Watching her improve beam her worst event would bring me to tears if I actually cried over a sport that isn’t baseball. That being said your team bronze medal was a disappointment. You were capable of so much more. Your team imploded at the most inopportune moment and you allowed the US an opportunity to win the team gold medal and that would have been disheartening to every gym fan not from the US. Not because they wouldn’t have earned it but that they would have earned it by default, the worst way. Mackenzie and Mattie as world champions would have boggled the mind. So my
Wish for you China is to get more consistent. That is it. Oh and please re-consider having Huang Qiushuang on your team next year. Her bars are overrated and frankly, she scares me.
U.S.A- Thoughts:
If you had told me 3 months ago that the US would take Aly Raisman, Mackenzie Caquatto, Mattie Larson and an injured Rebecca Bross to worlds and come with in a front layout of a Gold medal in the team competition I would have sent you a straight jacket. Yet that is what happened. Macko never fell. Alicia stayed on beam and Becca only fell once the entire competition and the US nearly took advantage of Russia and China’s inconsistency to win the team competition. This would have been a huge WTF moment in gymnastics history if they had actually pulled it off. So my
wish for you is as followed. Find someone. ANYONE that isn’t Nastia Liukin to be your UB specialist. There has to be some hidden gem you have in your closet to save me from another year of Nastia freaking Liukin.
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Tomorrow will be award season
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I started watching Glee 3 episodes in and have a love/hate relationship with it. Personally I find the first 13 episodes to be the best and the show has steadily fallen short since then. They went from an ensemble cast to the Kurt hour and that is why I only like the show now instead of love it. (Random thought. It’s ugly shoe day in the NBA. Pau Gasol has bright yellow and Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odem have lime green. Yuck.)
My formspring has had quite a few Glee questions so I thought I would write a blog about it so here we go.
Favorite Character?- Santana until she broke up Rachel and Finn. She’s sarcastic. She’s mean. She’s me:)
Least Favorite? Kurt, Kurt, Kurt. He is whiny stalker. The stuff he pulled on Finn really made me dislike the character.
Favorite quote from the show? ” We were just taking a lesson from Major League Baseball. It’s not cheating if everyone does it.
I also ran across this quote while searching the exact working of the above quote and came across this classic line that I think I like better then the above quote.
It’s deplorable, contemptable, and it’s just plain wrong. It’s also cheating. As a matter of fact, I’m going to start calling you F-Rod!
Favorite Singer?- IMO everyone has a great voice except Quinn ( Diana) and Brittany ( Heather) but my favorite singer is of course Rachel. I also love Santana’s voice and Mercedes. I also think the kid who plays Finn doesn’t have a flashy voice but he sure can hit his notes. I bet his pitch is close to perfect if I knew anything about music.
Favorite song? – Gives you hell by Rachel. I also love Santana’s version of Valeri and pretty much anything Mercedes sings.
Favorite Guest star? Kristen Chenowith and Idina Menzel. I am totally bummed they never appeared on screen together. Rumors were that they refused to be seen on the show together and that totally ruins Wicked for me:(
Favorite part time character ?- Jesse Saint James. I LOVE Jonathon Groff. I loved him with Rachel until he threw eggs at her.
Favorite couple? Finn and Rachel. Kind of funny that I also loved Rachel with Jesse and liked her with Puck.
What drives me nuts about Glee? The bullying that goes on. What Dave Karofsky did wasn’t just bullying it was assault. He should not only be expelled he should be in jail. I don’t find any of the bullying that goes on at this school funny regardless of who it is and that includes some of the stuff Sue has pulled. The facial slushies are ridiculous.
Favorite comic relief? Brittany. Heather Morris isn’t the greatest actress but she kills the dumb blond one liners.
Favorite minor storyline? Sue’s side kick Becky. Sue is mean and a bully sometimes but she has a softer side that is n just one of my favorite parts of the show. When she does something sweet like take care of her sister or be nice to Becky I just love the character development.
Favorite Musical performance? Gives you hell. I love the looks Rachel gives Finn.
Most under used character? Santana by far. She has a great voice. Her character has a personality and now it is time that the show let her character grow.
What if ?
I do not believe in ” what if ” It isn’t fair in my opinion to give the benefit of the doubt to one gymnast and not another. If gymnast A didn’t fall then she could have been World AA champion doesn’t work if gymnast B took 2 steps on her dismount but still won. If you what if gymnast A then you have to what if gymnast B.
This case however does not apply to Chellsie Memmel. Her injuries are so much more then anyone elses that I can picture Nastia Liukin hiding in a closet with a voodoo doll poking poor Chellsie’s entire body with pins.
Chellsie had the opportunity to not only compete at the Olympics in 04 and the Worlds in 06 and 07 but she had the opportunity win Gold medals on any given event including in the AA. If she was healthy leading up to the Olympics in 08 no one knows what she could have accomplished.
A last minute alternate to the 2003 World team Chellsie led the team to their first Team Gold medal. She also tied for Gold on the UB with teammate Hollie Vise. She won the AA Gold medal at worlds in 05 along with two silver medals on bars and beam. After that Chellsie’s entire career should be pictured next to the words “what if” in the dictionary.
In 2003 Chellsie had a rough Nationals but came back to nail her routines at the National team camp only to be left off the World team anyway (so much for hitting when it counts if Marta doesn’t like you) She was named to the Pan American team instead where she won the AA and UB Gold medals. Due to injuries by multiple gymnasts Chellsie was flown directly to the World Championships where she led the US to their first World team gold medal.
In 2004 Chellsie was injured, missed Nationals and Trials and wasn’t named to the Olympic team after competing bars and beam at camp. Everyone was led to believe there was a bars/beam specialist to be chosen but that was a lie. Marta had planned for Annia Hatch and her one event being the difference maker it never was. Annia’s gift was Chellsie bad luck.
In 2005 Chellsie was finally healthy and she won the Gold medal in the AA and silver medals on bars and beam.
In 06 Chellsie led the AA in the prelims and was on her way to being only the second gymnast from the US to win back to back AA Gold medals but she got hurt in team finals and never had the chance to compete. She then had to withdraw from the event finals she made.
In 07 she was injured and not named to the team after competing floor at Nationals.
We all know what happened in 08 (Injured before prelims at the Olympics) but if you had watched Chellsie from Nationals to trials the improvement was ten fold. Who knows what she would have pulled out of her bag of tricks by the time the Olympics had come around. She fell in prelims off bars but I don’t think a healthy Chellsie would have made that mistake.
Others have had injuries at key times like Shannon in 92, 95 and 96 and Nastia in 07 and many people love to say Nastia would have passed Shannon for a world medal count if she had been healthy in 07 (if you ask me she got lucky she was put on that team in the first place for one event. This never would have been allowed for anyone else) but these people never remember Shannon’s injuries that kept her out of 3 world championships. Both of these gymnasts had a lot of success that kept impressive medal counts down but Chellsie’s injuries kept Chellsie out which is even more heart breaking in the “What if” department.
In 06 Chellsie could have easily won the AA, beam title and a medal on bars or floor. In 07 Chellsie could have won an AA medal, Bars, beam or floor medal and in 08 Chellsie might have made the podium in the AA . Nastia fell off bars in the prelims and still scored a bit higher then Chellsie in team finals but Chellsie’s floor was miles ahead of Nastia and her beam on par so it would have been very close if she had her DTY) She could have had a beam medal or a floor medal also.
That is a possible total of 12 more medals Chellsie could have had and that doesn’t even bring into consideration the 2004 Olympics. It might not be plausible she would win all those medals but it was certainly possible.
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Veronin Cup Videos
http://betweentheolympics.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/voronin-cup-videos/ has posted some.
Check them out.
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Sasha Artemevs comback attempt.
I knew about Sasha’s car accident (not to the extent of just how bad the injury was)and pretty much thought that was common knowledge. Guess it wasn’t. As much as Sasha would like to believe that was a secret you can’t keep something like that quiet for long.
Sasha was always a gymnast I couldn’t stand. He was a choker and his lack of consistency used to drive me insane as a gymnastics fan because the kid has such amazing potential. I was a true believer in the US winning a bronze medal without Paul “attention hog” Hamm so when they won it didn’t surprise me but Sasha actually hitting that routine shocked my mind. That is when my opinion on him as a gymnast changed. Lets just say he won me over.
I hope Sasha gets healthy and stays the gymnast he became that night two years ago.
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Is Chellsie Memmel in training again?
Andy Memmel
the old girl 47.7 and the proud winner of a frozen coke!
Daddy dearests latest facebook update sounds to me like an AA score for 3 events. Not sure why you would reward someone with a frozen coca cola (sounds gross) but whatever motivates you Chellsie.
The score actually is a little high for a 3 event score but….
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Learning to appreciate
(Sorry so late. It’s been a busy month for me)
Shayla Worley is one of those gymnasts I really liked as a junior but by the time she became a senior felt had lost all her spark. The injuries didn’t help matters because they contributed to her falling at least once a competition and being labeled as a headcase. Not that all her problems can be blamed on the injuries.
In 2007 Shayla finished 2nd at Nationals and made the world team where she nearly fell on her dismount in the prelims (taking at least 4 steps back). She redeemed herself in team finals scoring a 15.575. However that score would have placed her last if she had made the event finals. Pretty much proving she was no lock for the US team in 08 even if she had upgraded.
By the time 2008 came around a lot of vocal fans had her as a lock to make the Olympic team due to the lack of uneven bar stand outs. I was never one of those people. She always seemed to have a melt down at some point in a competition. She fell on bars day two of the Olympic trials which is where I felt she lost a chance at the Olympic team.
Shayla got injured at the World team selection camp and withdrew from consideration for the Olympic team.
In 2010 Shayla joined Georgia and started off slow. She finally came into her own a few meets into the season only to get injured once again and spent the second half of the season injured an unable to compete. Georgia lost regionals on a technicality (tie breaker)and didn’t make the National Championships. Shayla did not compete.
The 2011 season is un-written at the moment. You can hear coach Clark’s opinion on pre season here (Shayla can be seen at 40 seconds (ub) 2.39 (beam) 3.40 (cheering with team)
I originally started this particular blog to praise Shayla on somethings I thought I had over looked while she was competing but while doing re-search I realized I was right all along. Shayla was a gifted dancer that liked to twist. I thought she had great form on her cast to handstands and pirouettes but watching the videos again made me realize I was wrong. She was just like everyone else with the leg separations but not nearly as bad as some other people who shall remain nameless for now:) So all and all I find Shayla less of a gymnast then I remembered. So much for learning to appreciate
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Predator: 3-Movie Collection 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray review
Mark Craven | Dec 4, 2018
To coincide with the release of new movie The Predator, the series' 1987 franchise original (Predator), plus its two existing standalone sequels (Predator 2 and Predators), get the 4K boxset treatment. Watching all three in succession makes for a fun, blood-soaked night in your movie room – there's little to link the trio together beyond their alien antagonists, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Movie rating: 4/5
Picture: The presence of Fox's previous Blu-ray release of Predator (each film in the boxset is given a 1080p disc) makes it easy to see how much of an improvement this new 4K HDR iteration represents. The 2010 Full HD outing is the same DNR'd mess as it always was, with any sign of film grain replaced by a plasticky, unnatural sheen that makes for uncomfortable viewing. Here, film grain is ever present (no more so than over the opening studio logo), and with it the movie's cinematic origins return.
The image is a clear step up in terms of sharpness and clarity, bringing greater definition and sense of depth to the dense jungle foliage and battle-scarred faces of Dutch's team. It's not a showcase 4K experience, however, running up against the limitations of the original location-based cinematography.
HDR makes for welcome, subtle improvements, particularly in the rich orange fireballs during the compound attack sequence. And colours overall appear much more natural, not just the varied greens on display, but the skin tones and pools of gooey blood.
It's a similar story with Predator 2, albeit this sequel never looked quite as ropey on BD as its predecessor. Definition is moderately improved via this 4K outing, and HDR highlights and greater colour handling are obvious. But it remains a movie that offers gorgeous imagery one minute, and flat-looking sequences the next.
Predators is the cleanest, crispest experience of the trio. Lensed digitally and framed at 2.40:1, it unearths plenty of detail from its 2K-4K upscale. The palette favours dark tones over vibrant highlights, but sequences such as the meeting with Noland in his hidey-hole exhibit plenty of shadow info and strong contrast.
Audio: Each movie sports the same DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundmix on its 1080p and 4K discs – there are no object audio remixes to tempt double-dippers. Predators' track is the most lively, but that's not to say Predator or Predator 2 don't impress with their dynamic range and channel separation. Purists may want to check out Predator's 4.0 soundmix for an authentic 1987 multiplex experience.
Extras: Again there's nothing new here, but the Blu-ray versions of the trio feature generous selections of behind-the-scenes featurettes, SFX breakdowns and more. Commentaries (two in the case of Predator 2) are also carried over to the 4K platters, as is Predator's pop-up trivia track.
Extras rating: 3.5/5
We say: Extras and audio remain the same, but fans of this sci-fi action franchise will cherish the 4K update.
Predator: 3-Movie Collection, 20th Century Fox, Ultra HD Blu-ray & All-region BD, £50
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Clio Gray’s latest novel The Anatomist’s Dream
by Dangis · November 3, 2015
Nominated for this year’s Man Booker Prize,
Clio Gray’s latest novel The Anatomist’s Dream is a richly detailed historical roller coaster set in the years building up to the 1848 Revolutions. Punctuated with the violence of the times, the story follows Philbert – a boy with a misshapen head – who joins a Freakshow-come-Fair, where he finds companionship with others forced to live on the edges of society.
Here’s a taste of the story:
The screams, when they started, were only somewhat out of place, and nobody took much notice until that anger-spun woman came yelling through the mud and carts, her children’s children hanging like an overweight necklace from her thin shoulders, cursing with all her might the iniquities of the state and the scourge of taxes and the wickedness of the world that had taken so much from her and left her with only poverty and starvation for companions. There was no doubting the woman had gone mad on her trek out from Berlin, drawing that pack of soldiers behind her like hornets after honey.
The woman’s voice was hoarse as a boar’s by the time she skidded into the mud at Philbert’s feet, her throat still wobbling with all the words she could no longer get out, shaking with frustration as she tried to pick herself up, untangle her legs from her skirts and grandchildren as the soldiers came crashing along the cartways, knocking people over, upsetting stalls, sending gaming boards flying, spilling all their tiny counters and carved wooden figures into the ruck of wet grass and mud.
Philbert scooped up one of the woman’s dropped grandchildren as the hooves hove into view, the sweat and froth of the wild-eyed horses trampling the other child beneath them as they got that woman nicely caught between their flanks, her fists still flailing, hair all gone wild and getting into her mouth as she found the strength again to scream about injustice and starvation and the families that had been butchered on the streets of Berlin. It didn’t last long, those men having done all this before, and they caught her up by her hair and hauled her behind one of the horses with a rope, firing a few more shots at random into the air until her fellow Berliners came forward one by one, eking themselves out from the rest of the Fair, not wanting the people who had taken them in to hang with them. ‘I see you, woman,’ he said, no colour to his voice, no anger, nor compassion or regret. He merely took his pistol from his belt, finally bringing an end to the drama by firing a shot through the back of her neck.
Many years later, Philbert could still recall lying there beside the woman and her dead children, looking at the dappled, mud-splattered underside of that great horse, the twist at the right side of the girth-strap, the shine of the man’s boots and the neat tie of their buckles, the soft leather of his gaiters reaching from heel to knee, the harsh catch of new breath as Maulwerf hauled him by the rope to one side and sliced through the knot with his knife, the enormity of the following barrage of shots and the sudden release of the noose making his ears bleed, so that all that he could hear as the soldiers cleared out was a subdued wave of outrage, men and women weeping as they dragged the Berliners’ corpses to one side, the sharp slice and thud of spades going through grass as their collective grave was dug.
Such were the times in which they lived, and all this happened again and again before the real revolution began. Philbert couldn’t know then that he would play a small but vital part in that revolution, as the trigger is a small but vital part of a gun. And it was such a small thing he would do, such a small mistake, yet it sent other men in other towns upon his heels with their own ropes in their hands and their own pistols at the ready on their belts, pursuing him far harder and more relentlessly than ever they had done this woman from Berlin.
A single flake of snow can start an avalanche, so goes the saying, and for every deluge there must, of necessity, be a first drop of rain to set it off. Snow and rain, so was Philbert.The start of snow and rain.
For more about Clio and her books, go to www.cliogray.com
The Anatomist’s Dream is published by Myrmidon, available in hardback & ebook,
with paperback due out next year.
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Croatia: Top Honour to former Colonel in British Royal Marines – Mark Nicholas Gray
January 28, 2013 by inavukic 7 Comments
Ivo Josipovic and Mark Nicholas Gray Photo: tportal.hr
At the ceremony (26 January) marking the 20th Anniversary of operation Peruca, when the Croatian forces on 27 and 28 January 1993, took the Hydroelectric Plant at Peruce from Serb paramilitary forces, British Royal Marines Colonel Mark Nicholas Gray (now retired Brigadier) was awarded a high honour bestowed on Croatians and foreigners for exceptional courage and heroism, immediate danger and exceptional circumstances of war – the Order of Duke Domagoj with necklace.
Croatian Order of Duke Domagoj with necklace Photo: Wikimedia Commons
President Ivo Josipovic, who awarded Brigadier Gray the award said that the military operation in Peruca had an enormous importance but also a human component of solidarity shown by the member of the UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Forces) – Mark Nicholas Gray. Mark Nicholas Gray charged forth far and beyond his duties as UNPROFOR officer in that he acted swiftly in efforts to stop the collapse of the Peruca Dam and, hence, preventing a horrible catastrophe, which would have resulted, had the river Cetina flooded.
After the Serb paramilitary forces had in January 1993 placed explosives into the Peruca Dam, Gray swiftly opened the Dam’s side channels for much of the water to drain away, hence preventing the collapse of the Dam. Immediately after the explosions, members of the Croatian forces swiftly took over and were able to control the whole Dam. Had this not happened, masses of water would have reaped havoc and horror all the way to the town Omis, where river Cetina meets the Adriatic Sea.
President Josipovic stated that the Medal of Honour is presented to Gray for “demonstrated courage and heroism in the aversion of collapse of Peruca Dam, which evidences the human component and human solidarity that contributed to preventing a great catastrophe”.
Brigadier Gray said he was honoured to receive such recognition, adding: “the role I played was small when compared to the heroism of Croatian people”.
“I am, nevertheless, proud to have contributed at least a little to the history of this great nation. I shall always remember the time spent here and feel affection towards this country and her people”, said Brigadier Gray at the ceremony.
President Josipovic also stated that the Serb’s intention to blast the Peruca Dam is mentioned in Croatia’s lawsuit against Serbia at the ICJ for genocide. “That criminal intent in mentioned in our claim against Serbia for genocide because it truly serves as an example of barbarism and I hope that such an example will never be repeated again”, he said.
Keep that thought President Josipovic! The International Court of Justice (ICJ) must unveil all the horrors committed on Croatian soil during early 1990’s, for the whole world to see and for the history to record. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: barbarism, bravery, catastrophe prevented, courage, Croatia, Croatian Medals of Honour, heroism, Ivo Josipovic, Mark Nicholas Gray, Maslenica, Order of Duke Domagoj, Peruca, Serb aggression
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Marko L. says:
And to top the greatness of Brigadier Gray – he actually read what he said in the Croatian language (with British accent of course). It was simply marvelous seeing that on Croatian TV News.
jumpingpolarbear says:
Fully deserved!
Political Nomad says:
Mark Nicholas Gray MBE is a Colonel in the British Royal Marines who stopped a disaster at the hydroelectric Peruća Dam during the Croatian offensive of 27–28 January 1993 when he raised the spillway channel and reduced the level of water in the lake. This prevented collapse of the dam when the withdrawing Serbs detonated 30 tons of explosives they had placed there. In 1993 Gray defied land mines and booby traps to open a sluice gate on top of the Peruća dam in Croatia shortly before the occupying Serbs detonated explosives deep inside it. This action had been unknown to the public until described to the Science Festival in 1995 by engineering Professor Paul Back from Oxford University. He described how Serbian militia had expelled UN observers from the 65-metre-high dam in January, 1993, and set off huge explosives in a maintenance gallery that ran the dam’s length at foundation level. “This was an attempt to use the 540 million cubic metres of stored water as a weapon of mass destruction to the downstream land and population,” said Professor Back. “Some 20,000 people would have been drowned or rendered homeless had the dam failed as intended.” Severe damage was caused to three points in the dam corresponding to where the saboteurs had placed their explosives. In the central section alone it was estimated that 15 tons of explosive material had been used. At each of these three points the top of the dam, made of rock fill with a clay core, sagged by two metres, said Professor Back, who was a member of a British team dispatched by the Overseas Development Administration to inspect it and advise on repairs after the Croatians liberated it. “During the tenure of the UN observers, but while the dam was in Serb hands, Gray had visited the site and observed that the Serbs were holding the water level well above the correct full supply level, ” he said. “On his own initiative, and exceeding his authority, he opened the surface spillway gate sufficiently to slowly reduce the water level. He managed to lower the water level by some metres by the time the attempt to destroy the dam took place. Had he not been able to reduce the level, there is no doubt that the dam would have failed as water would have poured over the slumped crest after the explosions.” As it was, Professor Back said it was only a miracle that the dam had not failed. With gunfire echoing in the hills engineers had to race against time before the ongoing erosion of the dam’s clay core caused a blow-through and total collapse. Professor Back said he learned later that Major Gray could have been disciplined for exceeding his authority. “I wrote to the Ministry of Defence and told him he should be given a medal instead.”
Dignified national says:
About time too! Great stuff.
Marin S. says:
http://igi-domovinskirat.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/operacija-peruca.html
There’s a map of Operation Peruca on website where this link will lead you. Congratulations Mark Nicholas Gray. A top guy a thousand times. Thank you!
Colonel Mark Nicholas Gray deserves the medal with out doubt. However let us not forget that he was ordered by the British goverment not to get involved with the dam issue but he chose to do so on his own and saved thousands of Croatian. I really am trying to understand why the British goverment knowing that the Serbs planted these explosive and knew that many lives were to be lost if the dam collapsed ordered him not to intervene. I never liked the British goverment from the get go and not very fond of British people overall but this really angers me to know they would participate with the Serbs to kill our people.How can any Croatian say the British goverment is our friend after this? The British goverment should always be looked at with suspicion when dealing with Croatia.
UK-Croatia relations: A number of developments | Croatia Business Report says:
[…] At a ceremony on last Sunday, President Ivo Josipovic gave him the well deserved honour of the Order of Duke Domagoj. […]
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This photo illustration shows the type of needle doctors use to administer shots such as vaccines. (Nicole Tyau/inewsource)
Kindergarten vaccination rates decline in state and county; medical exemptions up
by Nicole Tyau | September 20, 2018
The vaccination rate for California kindergartners went down slightly last school year, including in San Diego County, after hitting a record high the previous year.
California requires kindergartners to be inoculated for nine diseases before they start school. The goal is to prevent the spread of contagious diseases that have been rare in recent years.
One reason for the decline: Medical exemptions are increasing. Statewide, the rate of students with medical exemptions more than tripled since the 2015-16 school year. The rate in San Diego County increased sixfold.
Although medical exemptions represented a small portion of the overall student population last school year — less than 1 percent in California and slightly more than 1 percent in San Diego County — the increase has some concerned.
Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the county’s child health medical officer, said the number of children who need medical exemptions should be small, so he questions what’s behind the increase.
“Is it truly more kids who need a medical exemption, or is it that providers are getting more permissive in giving these medical exemptions?” Sidelinger said.
To start school, kindergartners need vaccinations for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Parents can get medical exemptions for their children if they have had allergic reactions to vaccines in the past or other health conditions.
The state doesn’t specify what qualifies for a medical exemption from vaccinations. Doctors make those determinations.
Click here to search kindergarten vaccination rates in San Diego County from 2014-2018.
A spokeswoman for state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, said he may propose legislation that would change rules for medical exemptions if the upward trend continues. Pan, a physician, authored the 2015 law that banned personal belief exemptions. It’s considered one of the strictest in the nation and prohibits parents from citing religious or other non-medical objections to avoid vaccinating their children.
The senator’s 2015 legislation was prompted by a measles outbreak that infected more than 100 Californians and was traced to an unvaccinated 11-year-old visiting Disneyland.
Sidelinger said although vaccination rates dipped slightly last school year, they remain higher than when personal belief exemptions were allowed, and that is a positive.
The state rate was 95.1 percent, down half of a percentage point from the previous year, while San Diego County’s rate of 93.2 percent was down more than 1 percentage point.
But if the decline continues, Sidelinger said that could become a problem.
“If it looks like it’s a pattern, we’ll have to redouble our efforts in getting the word out, providing education and making sure that people are receiving the vaccines that they should,” he said.
We'll do the work. You just read it.
The five schools in San Diego County with the lowest vaccination rates were all charters: Valiant Academy of Southern California, Inspire Charter School South, Pathways Academy Charter, Learning Latitudes Charter and Compass Charter Schools of San Diego. More than 70 percent of the kindergartners in those schools were missing one or more of the required vaccines.
The California Charter Schools Association has no specific stance on vaccinations but wants parents “to follow the law,” said Michelle Anderson, the association’s regional manager in San Diego and Orange County.
One way parents can avoid vaccinating their children is by homeschooling them or enrolling them in independent study programs that have no classroom instructions. The number of these exemptions in the county also is on the rise.
The purpose of vaccination requirements is to protect students in classrooms interacting with each other frequently, Sidelinger said. But he is a pediatrician and said he would like to see that protection for all children.
“I would love to see all kids get vaccines, even if they’re homeschooled,” he said.
For the current school year, vaccination data must be reported to the state by Nov. 1. The results will be available next year.
“Kindergartner vaccinations rising in San Diego County after state law change”
“Record number of whooping cough cases in San Diego County despite immunization”
“California legislature passes vaccine bill”
“Fewer vaccinations threaten San Diego’s collective immunity”
We'll let you know when big things happen.
education kindergarten medical exemption vaccination 2018-09-20
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About Nicole Tyau:
Nicole Tyau was an intern at inewsource. To contact inewsource with questions, tips or corrections, email contact@inewsource.org.
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Archive | September 2014
in architecture, art deco, Bad councils, culture, Hawkesbury heritage, heritage, history, NSW coastal development, overdevelopment, Uncategorized
URGENT: GOSFORD FUNERAL PARLOUR FACES ITS OWN MORTALITY
A stunning heritage-listed funeral parlour near the waterfront in Gosford that has ushered out the lives of many local identities is itself facing the possibility of an untimely end. Creighton’s Funeral Parlour at 37 Mann Street was built in 1938 in the Art Deco style by architect F. Vanderwyck Snr. The Creighton’s family business was known in the area since 1844 and was involved in building and demolition work before becoming funeral directors in 1872. Six generations of the Creighton family practiced locally under the business name.
The building is treasured not only because of its association with the well renowned family, but because it is such a marvelous and rare example of an Art Deco purpose-built funeral parlour.
Externally, a grand central arch surrounded by decorative red brickwork heralds the main entrance. This is flanked on either side by secondary arches with quality timber framed lead glazed windows, and the theme is continued on the upper floor with a trio of balconettes showing ornate cast iron balustrades, and three magnificent streamlined parapets at roof level surging into the sky. Decorative balustrades also surround the lower windows. The construction is of textured cement rendered brick, comprising two stories at Mann Street, sloping back steeply to become one storey at the rear.
On the Georgiana Terrace side (left hand, facing) is an enclosed balcony made of locally quarried rock-faced ashlar sandstone while on the opposite wing is a sandstone garage consisting of twin Tudor arches and matching parapet. Behind the garage doors are open concrete pits to allow access for working on the funeral hearses. This has been currently re-purposed as a cocktail bar, showing clever use of a heritage asset. Rather interestingly, the roofline on the Georgiana Terrace side is scalloped while the garage side is straight-lined.
Internally, a central porch leads to the house chapel that extends below street level and is surrounded by small offices. An interesting feature are the backlit frosted glass windows obviously created due to a lack of natural light filtering into the room. Original drawings for the floorplans show that very little has been changed since 1938.
The parlour is located right in the middle of an identified heritage precinct containing several unique buildings, some of which the Creighton family were involved in constructing, including the heritage-listed 1929 former School of Arts directly opposite. According to the Australian Govt. heritage database:
‘The site is located on the main street of Gosford within a precinct of civic and commercial buildings, including Gosford Council Administration Building, the Sydney Electricity building, the Old Gosford Court House and Police Station (now a branch of the Conservatorium of Music), the School of Arts building, the Post Office, Gosford Public School and several churches including a small sandstone church designed by Blacket. This precinct is located near Gosford Wharf which served as the main transport link to the area before the railway was opened in 1887. With the opening of Gosford Railway Station, the main commercial area re-established itself about 0.5km to the north in close proximity to the station, leaving the earlier civic buildings in a group near the wharf.’
Such a beautiful, rare and significant local building that has indeed been heritage-listed because of its qualities should never come under threat. However current owners Zenith have submitted a DA to turn it into a 15 storey skyscraper with 4.51:1 floor space ratio while only retaining the façade of the original Creighton’s funeral parlour, completely overwhelming any heritage reference to the site while destroying the interiors and the structural make up of the building.
Original drawing for 37 Mann St. Note structural design changes. Source Gosford Library.
Development plans loom large, courtesy Kay Williams
This outcome is simply unacceptable. While the developers will claim they are retaining the façade, the fact is they are destroying the heritage of the building and simply paying lip service to what has stood there and served the people of Gosford since the pre-WW2 era. There is no way that sticking a façade onto the end of a 127 apartment vertical glass monster is any substitute for the genuine heritage this site commands. What’s more is that the façade of the parlour will not be able to be left standing in situ while excavation takes place all around it. Rather, it will be deconstructed and pasted back together as an afterthought using new artificially aged and recycled materials, meaning the original fabric of even the façade will be completely falsified.
While we may not be able to stop unsightly highrise development from infecting waterfront areas up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia, we certainly should be able to stop the wanton destruction of locally listed heritage assets such as this one. The DA, being rushed through council currently, only allows comments until 24 September. The controversial rezoning of the site to a 36m height limit by council has opened the door for this kind of overdevelopment. I strongly urge people to use the link on the council website to oppose the demolition of this building in any shape or form by clicking here. Even a simple comment is helpful.
Remember, September 24 is the cut-off date. Save local history Gosford City Council, do not even think about sacrificing this very unique heritage treasure. A façade is not heritage. It is only a glimpse of what was once there…
Images from 2006 by Spike Anderson.
Oozing Deco charm… Images from 2006 by Spike Anderson.
Balconette with balustrade. Images from 2006 by Spike Anderson.
Lovely rounded corners. Images from 2006 by Spike Anderson.
A more current image, with eccentric colour scheme. Image: Then and now.com
Internal chapel. All this would be lost under the DA. Image Rappoport Pty Ltd.
Internal chapel ceiling plaster detail. All this would be lost under the DA. Image Rappoport Pty Ltd.
Plan for the Town of Gosford 1839. Source: Gosford District Historical Research Association.
Mann Street plan, c1884. Source NSW State Library
Plan for the Town of Gosford 1886. Source: Gosford City Library
Certificate of Title dated 19 November 1935, 37 Mann St Gosford. Source: Land and Property Management Authority
Original ground floor plans, showing nothing has changed. Source: Gosford Library.
Original second floor plans, showing nothing has changed. Source: Gosford Library.
Heritage precinct map. Source: Gosford Local Environmental Plan 2014
Rappoport Study image, 2014.
Western elevation render. DA image. Note the amount of freely available parking on the street. With only 218 car spaces servicing 127 units I doubt this will be the case.
South Eastern view render. DA image.
Former School of Arts opposite. Source: Rappoport Pty Ltd.
Nearby Conservatorium of Music, Former Courthouse and Police Station. Source: Rappoport Pty Ltd.
Nearby Former Brisbane Water City Council building, 50 Mann Street. Source: Rappoport Pty Ltd.
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[Right-Up] Revisiting 1 Year of tyranny and social insufficiency in Mindanao -PNFSP
Human Rights Online Philippines / May 23, 2018
Revisiting 1 year of tyranny and social insufficiency in Mindanao
WE DEMAND the immediate lifting of Martial Law to end military rule that further oppressed the toiling people of Mindanao. As we observe, said year of military rule in Mindanao brought widespread human rights violations and intense militarization over the island. We would like to restate all the atrocities committed by the Duterte Administration against its own people, especially the national minorities (Lumad and Moro) and the farmers. We believe that through this mean, it will help us understand the real intention and effect/s of Martial Law.
It is very unjust to use the ghost or specter of Marawi sieged and issue in putting the whole island under Martial Law. In fact, the main reason why the President declared ML is to give and make leeway for foreign and giant corporations to mine and convert the remaining ancestral lands of the toiling Lumad and Moro’s.
History teaches us that there is no such mining operation nor aid from foreign entity in the past who respected the traditional way of life of our ancestors neither brought genuine social development. It is very sad that indigenous livelihood and food security processes is always at risk at the expense of so-called modernization. Alarmingly, said proclamation of the President served corporate interest, to control land and resources, of the exploiting class.
Instead of protecting the people’s basic universal right to healthy, sustainable and safe food, communities were heavily bombarded and militarized by the State. Massive cases of human rights violations like killings, vilifications, forced disappearances, red-tagging and other kinds of threat to their life and livelihood are experienced daily. All these are clear manifestation that the government wants to curtail people’s right to development. A pure evidence of rigid dictatorship and tyranny.
During a press conference after his SONA in July, he vowed to bombard all Lumad schools being operated by non-government organizations like the Alternative Learning Center for Livelihood and Development (ALCADEV), Center for Lumad Advocacy and Services, Inc. (CLANS), Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI) and the Tribal Filipino Program for Surigao del Sur (TRIFPSS). It is alarming, because these institutions carry out socio-economic projects and livelihood programs and reforms in support to the Lumad’s struggle for their right to life and health, right to food and right to development which the government cannot do.
The President has been true to his words and without hesitation, after declaring ML, communities had been subjected to aerial bombardment and militarization that caused massive evacuation of Lumad communities. One highlighting incident was in November 26, 2017, wherein about 1,688 Lumad of at least 345 families in the town of Lianga, Surigao del Sur, had need to evacuate due to intense military operations in their area. The operation affected the realization of humanitarian aid and programs on livelihood and food security. Worst of all, the 75th IBPA checkpoint refused the entry of various food aid brought by national and international humanitarian groups at Simowao Community Learning Center where the Lumad had evacuated to avoid military operations.
Schools being heavily bombarded and militarized are Salugpongan Ta’Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning Center (SALUGPONGAN), Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc. Academy (MISFI Academy), Father Fausto Tentorio Memorial School (FFTMS), Tri-Farmers Program for Community Development (TFPCDI), Tribal Filipino Program in Surigao del Sur (TRIFPSS), Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (ALCADEV), Center for Lumad Advocacy and Networking, Inc. Learning Center (CLANS) and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines-Lumad School Project (RMP). Said schools are active in promoting organic and sustainable agriculture in support to their community. But, because of aerial bombardment and intensified militarization, the school can no longer perform its task like providing education to actual practicum. Thus, it affects the capacity and potential building of their own community when in terms of agricultural production.
From July 2016 to March 2018, there are 8 extra-judicial killings, 6 frustrated extra-judicial killings, 36 military encampment in school and community, 49 forcible school closure, 207 threat, harassment and intimidation, 29 forcible evacuation, 13 indiscriminate firing, 4 aerial bombing, 61 vilification/ red tagging, 28 illegal arrest and detention/ filling of trump-up charges, 18 destruction/divestment of school and community property, 16 forced/fake surrender, 22 coercion, 7 torture, 15 violation of domicile, 5 physical assault/injury, 10 food blockade/ denial to humanitarian access and 1enforced disappearance incidents are recorded. Number of community, schools, teachers and students being targeted and victimized of said incidents are ranging from tens to thousands.
To sum-up, there are 535 incidents of different forms of State-sponsored human rights violations and attacks on Lumad schools and communities in four regions of Mindanao. They were committed by the State under the Duterte administration and 385 of which or 72% were committed during the reign of Martial Law in Mindanao.
These only shows that Martial Law brought extreme threat, poverty and terrorism in the context of systematic attack against people’s basic human rights, food and shelter. Under said proclamation, people can no longer do their social function like planting of crops, feeding animals, learning in schools and other social related task that provides basis for them to eat safe, healthy and sustainable food. Martial Law promoted the very contrary of progress like fear, hunger, poverty, death and suffering. If not stop, heavy destruction to life, property and economy are possible results.
We believe that each party must return to the negotiating table and talk about how to address the roots of domestic misunderstanding. The GRP must perform its duty and mandate of its own people. Promote peace, development, justice and prosperity. It must listen to the voice and cry of its farmers feeding the whole nation, to its workers building the economy, students and teachers, national minority and other oppressed sector of the Philippine society. It must show sincere passion to solve domestic crisis by peaceful means and not on the expense of democracy. For in the past, without substantial political, economic and social responses to these historic social problems, resistance will continue in various forms and way.
THERFORE, we call to all peace loving people and organization to please work hand-in-hand to lift Martial Law in Mindanao. We strongly believe to collective action and Martial Law is not the concrete nor sole answer to both poverty and social unrest. To address said problem means to start resolving food and job insufficiency in the vast countryside. The government should play its role in promoting sustainable and mechanized agriculture with pro-people orientation. At the same time, it should maximize its resources in creating more opportunities for local farmers and producers for them to be able to establish their own network and marketing. Creation of secured livelihood like just and descent work may help our countrymen to have access to right to food. On the other hand, Genuine Agrarian Reform must push into Congress so that all farmers and the country as a whole can have food security not only today but for coming years. It is a mean to alleviate the country from poverty and hunger.
Renmin Vizconde
http://www.pnfsp.org
pnfsp_inc@yahoo..com.ph
May 23, 2018 in Right-Up. Tags: Human Rights, Martial Law, Mindanao, philippines, PNFSP
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Hudson Valley Heroin Dealer Found With Retired Cop’s Gun
UCDA/UCSO
A Hudson Valley man was caught with a lot of heroin and stolen property from a former Hudson Valley police chief.
On Friday, an Ulster County jury found 31-year-old Willie Rodriguez of Kingston guilty of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
On Dec. 22, 2017, police learned the location of two reported stolen handguns. Days earlier, Town of Saugerties Police reported that two handguns, ammunition, a police shield, police identification and other items were stolen from a vehicle belonging to a former Saugerties Police Chief.
UCSO
Following an undercover investigation at a home on Livingston Street in Saugerties, police recovered the stolen handguns and arrested three people, Rodriguez, Skylar Eichert and Gina Julian.
Eichert pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in April and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Julian pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance. Her sentence is pending.
The jury found that Rodriguez purchased one of the stolen weapons and possessed 120 bags of heroin with the intent to sell.
Rodriguez is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
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First as Sociology, Then as Geography: review essay on Steven Sutcliffe and Ingvild Saelid Gilhus’s New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion
On February 19, 2016 February 19, 2016 By jkhtseIn Academic Publication, Book Review, Religion and Social Theory
At the beginning of 2015, I wrote a review essay for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion entitled ‘First as Sociology, Then as Geography.’ It’s an essay on Steven Sutcliffe and Ingvild Saelid Gilhus’s 2014 edited volume, New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion. As a 2000-word essay, it’s a bit longer than the average book review.
I had received the book during a coffee session with the Bulletin‘s editor Philip Tite. Among Tite’s many accomplishments, he has taught quite a number of courses at universities in Seattle, including at the University of Washington, and having met at a faculty meeting, we had coffee. He suggested that I review the book for the Bulletin, and as time passed, the book review became expanded into a ‘review essay,’ a long-form essay inspired by the book that simultaneously reviews it and expands on some of my thinking based on the book.
As the review essay will show, I learned quite a bit from the book about the shape of religious studies as a discipline. In fact, I found that one of the greatest insights from the book was that ‘religious studies,’ a field of study often disparaged as a hodgepodge collage of disciplines that takes as its focus a topic of study that is under crisis (‘what is religion?’ and increasingly ‘what is the secular?’), actually has a unitary disciplinary core that inquires into what ‘religion’ is and how it is constituted, with a disciplinary canon to boot. This ambitious edited volume attempts to recast that disciplinary canon away from the founding fathers of religious studies (who happen also to be the usual suspects in terms of the founders of social science writ large) in a New Age key.
It is this second move with which I take some issue. It’s not that I have some commitment to the original founding texts of modern religious studies. However, one of the points of agreement in this diverse volume was that at a sociological level, New Age spiritualities could be seen as becoming the new normal of how to do religion. This basic sociological point about new institutional religions fails to take seriously how this is also a geographical point – that this new sociology often is spatially exhibited by a certain class of middle-class workers trying to find inner peace through New Age spiritualities (a geography about which the authors themselves talk explicitly), and that reframing religion in this social geographic key would reinforce the stereotype that the entire discipline of religious studies is a factory for liberal bourgeois ideology.
It’s funny that I came to this while reading this book and writing this essay prior to taking the work of Slavoj Žižek seriously, even though the essay’s title certainly takes its inspiration from the title of Žižek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (but if you read the essay, you’ll find that there isn’t really a serious engagement with Žižek, not even with First as Tragedy – there’s only a very, very brief reference to Žižek on ideology). By the end of the review essay, I found myself appealing to Marx to suggest that ‘New Age spiritualities’ may well be the new opiate of the masses. However, this is the same point that Žižek makes about ‘Buddhism,’ especially in The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. You could say that I’m thankful to the authors of this book, as well as to Tite and the Bulletin, for the chance to get these new thoughts going through pondering such new moves in religious studies as a discipline, though I suspect that it was never anyone’s intention for me to become so critical. I think it’s safe to say that you can expect me to follow this line of thought in my upcoming work.
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Trump leaves lawmakers hanging on gun priorities
President Donald J. Trump meets with state an local officials to discuss school safety. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Catherine Lucey
Originally Published: March 4, 2018 6 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) – In his quest to tackle gun violence, President Donald Trump has ricocheted between calling for tougher laws and declaring his fealty to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, leaving a trail of befuddled lawmakers and advocates in his wake.
One thing he still has not done: clearly outline his legislative priorities.
Washington's week closed Friday without further explanation from the president, the White House indicating that for now, at least, he is backing an incremental proposal on background checks and a bill that would provide new federal dollars to stem school violence.
Just what Trump would like to see in the "beautiful" and "comprehensive" bill he called for earlier in the week remained unclear. That comment came at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday, which was quickly followed by a private session with the National Rifle Association on Thursday.
"Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!" Trump tweeted Thursday night.
He had outlined some of his preferences via Twitter earlier Thursday, saying that both good and bad ideas had come out of the bipartisan meeting. He said: "Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!"
Amid the confusion, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shelved the gun debate for now, saying the Senate will turn next week to other measures.
Disagreement continues among legislators over the appropriate response after the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead. Republicans have largely backed away from stricter gun limits, while Democrats emboldened by Trump's rhetoric are pushing for ambitious action, including expanded background checks and even a politically risky ban on assault weapons.
As is often the case, the president has been an unreliable negotiator.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who is a leading advocate of tougher gun laws, predicted on Twitter: "The White House is going to bob and weave on guns. Accept it."
Still, he added, "Trump's instinct on this issue is not wrong – if his party doesn't get behind background checks soon, they're cooked in 2018 and 2020." And he argued that Trump's "willingness to buck the gun lobby in public, rule out the NRA agenda and talk up background checks, has changed this debate nationally."
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that Trump supports a limited proposal from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Murphy that would boost participation in the existing federal background check program, as well as a bill that would provide new federal grant funding to stem school violence.
Sanders said Trump had not signed on to a more sweeping background check bill that would require the review of firearm purchases online and at gun shows. The measure, from Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has found new momentum since it was first introduced after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 20 children dead.
Sanders sought to clarify Trump's comments earlier in the week expressing support for tougher background checks and interest in raising the minimum age to buy certain weapons. She said he was interested in improving background checks, but "not necessarily universal background checks." And she said that while Trump "conceptually" supports higher age requirements to purchase certain weapons, "he also knows there's not a lot of broad support for that."
The president also wants to use an executive order to bar the use of bump-stock devices that enable guns to fire like automatic weapons.
After Republican anxiety about Trump's comments seeming to express openness to tougher gun controls, the executive director of the NRA, Chris Cox, was positive about their Thursday night meeting. He tweeted that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence "support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don't want gun control."
As part of Trump's efforts to consider various responses to gun violence, next week he plans to host members of the video game industry. He has repeatedly referenced the violence in movies and video games during conversations about guns and school safety since the Florida shooting.
Sanders said invitations started going out Thursday, and event details were being finalized. The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group that represents the video game industry, said Friday the group and its members had not been invited.
Nicole Hockley, who lost a child at Sandy Hook, has attended two White House meetings with Trump and said she remained optimistic.
"By listening to President Trump's words I do feel he is committed to finding a way forward and he is committed to putting a plan together," she said. "I don't know what the content will be."
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REVIEW: “Captain Phillips”
October 15, 2013 by Keith
It has been praised by critics as a thrilling movie and berated by former crew members as grossly inaccurate. “Captain Phillips” has hit the theaters and there has been no shortage of fun things to read about it. Prior to seeing it, several things about the movie attracted my interest. First, I was interested in seeing what director Paul Greengrass would bring to the story. He’s a director that I have a love/hate relationship with. Second, this looked like a role that could equal a comeback of sorts for Tom Hanks.
“Captain Phillips” is a biopic taken from the book “A Captain’s Duty”. It follows the story of Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama which was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. Tom Hanks plays the title character who tries to get himself and his crew to safety after pirates board his container ship while crossing the Indian Ocean. The film doesn’t waste much time in terms of setup. It quickly gets to the meat and potatoes of the story which is the boarding of the Alabama by pirates and the attempted rescue of Captain Phillips and his crew.
This story seems perfect for the conventional Hollywood big budget treatment. But to my surprise “Captain Phillips” steers clear of those trappings. Billy Ray’s smart and calculated script focuses on what’s important. While Greengrass’ direction ratchets up the intensity and always maintains a sense of urgency, it’s Ray’s writing that keeps us thoroughly invested in Captain Phillips and his plight. There is a time just past the midway point where I felt a sequence was drawing out further than necessary, but as a whole this is real ‘edge of your seat’ stuff.
But make no mistake, Tom Hanks is the real driving force. Hanks was once the king of the Hollywood hill but it could be said that he hasn’t had a great attention-grabbing performance since 2002 and “Road to Perdition”. His work in “Captain Phillips” clearly ends that streak. His performance here is in line with some of the best work of his career. He captures the bravery and heroism of the character while also grounding him by showing the sheer terror he experiences. And his final scene moved me so much and it alone may have cemented this as my favorite performance of the year.
I also have to mention the performance of Barkhad Abdi. This first time Somali-born actor plays Muse, the leader of the Somali hijackers. We first see Muse at his village where he and other fishermen are ordered by soldiers of a local warlord to hijack some passing ships. There is clearly an intent to evoke a thread of sympathy for Muse and his circumstances. Overall it worked dramatically although it was never that convincing. But back to Abdi, it’s clear he’s not a seasoned actor but he’s exactly what his role called for. His demeanor, his expressions, his broken English – it all works to make his character completely convincing. It’s a really good performance.
There are so many things I enjoyed about this film. Watching Captain Phillips and Muse as they try to read and measure each other is fascinating. The two share so many fantastic scenes. The direction from Paul Greengrass is very effective despite his patented hyperactive camera. He keeps your heart racing and leaves you emotionally spent. The military’s arrival adds a whole new dynamic to the story. It’s exhilarating and never devolves into an action movie cliché. And then of course there is the towering performance from Tom Hanks. He’s back to his finest form and this is clearly Oscar worthy work.
In a movie year filled with mediocrity, it’s great to see a film like “Captain Phillips”. Yes Greengrass makes his usual political points that are too on the nose and the slightly sympathetic portrayal of the pirates does feel a bit contrived. But these things aren’t nearly as blatant or distracting as in some of his past efforts. It’s a smart and effective thriller that keeps itself within reasonable bounds. I don’t know how much truth is in the movie, but I do know it really works on a cinematic level. I also know it’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year.
VERDICT – 4.5 STARS
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Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop says: October 15, 2013 at 8:14 am
Superb work Keith. This hits this week so I shall be checking it out soon hopefully. I’ve not seen anything in a while that has had me really tense, so hopefully this can do just that.
keith7198 says: October 15, 2013 at 8:16 am
Oh I think it will keep you tense. Anxious to hear your take on it. Have you had a chance to see “Gravity”? Has it opened there yet?
Nah we don’t get it until 8th November I think. It’s been difficult seeing everyone’s positive reviews of that knowing it’s still a way off here.
Well for me “Gravity” and “Captain Phillips” have helped get the movie year back on track. It’s been fairly mediocre thus far.
cindybruchman says: October 15, 2013 at 9:18 am
Loved your review, Keith. I couldn’t agree with you more and I’m relieved we are back in the fall season so more interesting choices are out there for viewing. Did I miss your list of films you are looking forward to? Can’t wait for ‘Knight of Cups’.
Thanks Cindy! Yes I did my goofy titled Flaunt it or Flush it post for the Fall season a few weeks back. This was definitely one I was excited for.
I always check my reader, but sometimes don’t see your post. I’ll have to go over to your site and check out the list.
Yes that happens to me too. I’m like you, I’m glad the fall season is here.
CMrok93 says: October 15, 2013 at 9:24 am
Good review Keith. Very gripping and compelling, but also very emotional within those final minutes. All thanks to Hanks, no surprise.
Thanks man. Appreciate the comments. I agree. Hanks is the big driving force. It’s so good to see him back in top form. Great performance.
Joseph@thecinemamonster says: October 15, 2013 at 10:04 am
Oh man, is this thing really that good? I definitely have to see it! Great review Keith!!
keith7198 says: October 15, 2013 at 11:44 am
Thanks man. This is really a good movie and just an incredible performance from Hanks. You definitely need to try and see it.
ruth says: October 15, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Glad we’re on the same page on this one, same w/ Gravity 😉
keith7198 says: October 15, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Definitely on the same page. Fine movie.
GaryLee828 says: October 16, 2013 at 5:03 am
I didn’t read past the first paragraph as to avoid any potential spoilers as I plan to see this this weekend, but I saw you gave it a 4.5; I see you gave Gravity a “5” and I plan to see that today. I will have to revisit your reviews after viewing and let you know what I think.
Sounds great. Please come back by and tell me what you think. The 2013 movie year really needed these two films. It’s been a really mediocre year so far.
Gravity was the first 5 star review I gave this year. I did go back and forth between a 4.5 and 5. Ultimately it came down to the breathtaking experience I had on the big screen. Anxious to hear if you felt the same.
GaryLee828 says: October 19, 2013 at 11:58 pm
Okay, I went to see this today, and thought it was pretty good; i don’t think i liked it quite as much as you and Mark Hobin, but I thought it was good. I think the main reason I didn’t feel as strongly about it as you guys was b/c it started to all feel a bit redundant to me about halfway through, and I started to feel like I was just watching another hostage movie that I’ve seen before. I know this is based off a true story, but I’m never sure just how much of the actual facts are scrambled up, so I’ve learned not to put too much emphasis on the truth in a “true” story.
But the highlight of the film was exactly as you pointed out, watching Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi. Abdi did a tremendous job leading with his eyes more than a bunch of empty threats, and yelling. Hanks does deserve an Oscar nod, but you know what, I think Abdi’s performance may warrant a supporting nod. 🙂
Also, on another note pertaining to Hanks, he was excellent in last year’s “Cloud Atlas”.
I really didn’t care for “Cloud Atlas”. To be completely honest I found it laborious to sit through. Hanks was okay but he could never rise above the mediocre material. For me it was just a movie that was never as profound as it thought it was. One interesting thing about it, it definitely spawned a wide range of reactions.
GaryLee828 says: October 20, 2013 at 12:23 am
I loved the Hugo Weaving monologue at the end when threatening his son to stay, and the way the son left anyway in attempt to find the righteous path. That’s what I took away from it, anyway. It’s a movie full of ideals. I think Ben Whishaw is the next big actor. He is just phenomenal.
It is full of ideals. I found some of it heavy-handed and some parts just completely out of sync with the others. It’s a very particular film and I can honestly see some loving it and some hating it.
Yeah, you’re exactly right. 🙂
Victor De Leon says: October 16, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Nice review, Keith. I’m looking forward to this one. I like Greengrass and Hanks is always at his best with gripping and tense material. Have you seen “A Hijacking?” Good flick with a similar story. Once again, good job. Thanks!
keith7198 says: October 16, 2013 at 7:59 pm
Thanks bro. I appreciate it. I haven’t seen “A Hijacking”. Sounds like I need to look it up.
It’s a good film. From Denmark. From Tobias Lindholm who wrote The Hunt with Mads Mikkelsen.
Jaina says: October 17, 2013 at 8:19 am
Wholeheartedly agree. Just caught the film last night (only released in the UK tomorrow!) and really enjoyed it. I’m a fan of Greengrass. Sure, he does like to go a bit political, but if you can just ignore that a little, it’s fine. I like his direction and he definitely has the ability to ratchet up the tension.
Tom Hanks was excellent. It feels like it’s been ages since we’ve seen him on the big screen.
Exactly! This is a real comeback performance for Tom Hanks. I thought he was fabulous and that final scene was simply amazing. It really got to me.
I think he started crying b/c that lady was annoying as hell. lol.
You missed “Cloud Atlas” last year! He was excellent in that, as well. The whole cast was; even Halle Berry. 🙂
Jaina says: November 1, 2013 at 11:08 am
Did not get a chance to see that 😦
sati says: October 18, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Great review! I’ll wait for DVD to see this one, I saw a trailer for it before Gravity and Hanks looks great in it, but I’m not that big of a fan of Greengrass, he is a good director but his films are hit and miss for me.
movierevolt says: October 22, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Awesome review. Though I didn’t see the political subtext all that heavy handed. Sure it’s there, but just the right touch to provide context to the situation while not trying to hammer home a message. Never did I feel Greengrass was forgiving the pirates for their actions by any means, nor was he providing severe reprimanding. It’s a tight rope to walk, and I thought he did it well.
I was curious to hear your thoughts on our discussion of Captain Phillips. Myself and a few others recently retooled a podcast and I’m always looking to hear what film fans have to say about it. You can check it out here if you have any interest. http://www.geekcastradio.com/featured/mwire-weekly-10142013-captain-phillips
Thanks for the great comments. I’ll also definitely check out your link. Obviously by my score I didn’t think that Greengrass was too brutal in his messaging. But I do think it’s there. But it’s certainly done with a lot more thought than something like “The Green Zone”.
Also, I don’t think he’s forgiving the Pirates for their actions. I just think there is a thread of sympathy that he puts in there. He portrayed them as men forced to do what they’re doing. He also wants to show their circumstances compared to ours in America. There are a few other little touches too but I don’t want to spoil things.
Most importantly, I think it’s all done well. It didn’t ruin the experience for me at all. Still a great movie.
movierevolt says: October 22, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Agreed that it is much better than Green Zone, as the movie felt like more of an excuse to make a political message than an actual movie.
Yea I agree he’s not forgiving them by any means. More so providing context.
Again. I did enjoy your insights. Its fun to see different takes away from movies. 🙂
Thank you. I love reading your reviews as well. I’ve always found it interesting and fun to see how one single movie could effect or impact so many different people in different ways. That’s one of the things that makes this so much fun.
Yes, very true. Makes movie watching even a better experience. I’m curious to hear what you have to say about the podcast, because hearing what other movie fans think is cool to see.
Nostra says: December 5, 2013 at 8:06 am
Finally managed to catch this one and it really is a great movie, lots of tense moments and have to agree that the final scene with Hanks is really a powerful performance.
keith7198 says: December 5, 2013 at 8:08 am
Isn’t that final scene great? Hanks really sells it and I couldn’t help but get caught up in the emotion of it.
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Posted 1:13 pm, April 11, 2018, by Associated Press and KFOR-TV and K. Querry
TULSA, Okla. – A judge has ruled that an Oklahoma prosecutor won’t be recused from a quintuple death case.
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KILKENNY could have a new millionaire after one lucky Lotto player scooped the €1,000,000 jackpot in Friday’s Daily Million draw.
The winning ticket was sold in the Londis Callan Co-Op shop.
The numbers, which have made this winner the third to take the Daily Million jackpot prize of €1,000,000 in 2019, were 10, 11, 17, 29, 30, 31. The bonus number was 36.
The ticket has yet to be claimed has yet to be claimed. The manager of the Londis Callan Co-Op, Stephen Walsh, said they are hoping the winner is a local.
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‘SCIENCE SHATTERED’: HAND OF GOD SUDDENLY REVEALED ?
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‘Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong’
DREW ZAHN
In the late 1800s, Albert A. Michelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the sciences, devised an experiment to prove the Earth is moving through space, through a medium for bearing light called the “aether.”
If he could show that light was slowed down by being fired into an aether headwind, like a swimmer swimming against a stream, Michelson reasoned, it would prove the Earth’s motion through space.
But the experiment didn’t work the way he expected. In fact, it proved the opposite.
The world of science was baffled. Was the Earth not moving?
Eventually, however, another Albert, with the last name of Einstein, developed a theory called special relativity to explain Michelson’s results.
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Increasingly, bizarre and unproven theories such as the mysterious “dark matter,” “dark energy,” “multiverses” and the creation of “everything from nothing,” the moviemakers claim, have been thought up to try to make the hard data fit with an underlying assumption science has accepted since the 16th century.
But what if instead of dreaming up wild theories to explain away inconsistencies, the moviemakers suggest, scientists allowed the facts to challenge the underlying assumption itself? What if everything science believes about space … is wrong?
“The Principle,” which is opening now in select cities around the U.S., boldly challenges the widely accepted Copernican Principle, named after Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. He famously argued Earth revolves around the sun and went further to suggest Earth is in no central or favored place in the universe.
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“Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong,” the movie’s trailer asserts.
Citing Isaac Newton, various current astronomers, Einstein himself and even defenders of the Copernican Principle, the documentary makes the case that the data science is discovering indicate the entire known universe is pointing directly at Earth.
“We are in a special place,” argues one of the voices quoted in the documentary. “I do believe that the universe was created by God.”
Rick DeLano, writer and producer of “The Principle,” declares the “question of our place in the cosmos is the greatest scientific detective story in all of history.”
“The world has been shaped by two great assertions: One places us in the center of it all, and the other one relegates us to utter insignificance. Amazingly, ‘The Principle’ is the first documentary to examine this persistent puzzle at the heart of modern science.”
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Substitution in position 3 of cyclosporin A abolishes the cyclophilin-mediated gain-of-function mechanism but not immunosuppression
Baumgrass R, Zhang Y, Erdmann F, Thiel A, Weiwad M, Radbruch A and Fischer G
Issue: 279(4): 2470-2479
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The immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A (CsA) is believed to inhibit antigen-specific activation of lymphocytes by blocking T cell receptor signaling cascades through targeting the Ca2+/calmodulin dependent Ser/Thr phosphatase calcineurin. CsA binds to and inhibits calcineurin only after interaction with cyclophilin 18 through a gain of function mechanism. The authors describe CsA derivatives, in which a single hydrogen atom of sarcosine at position 3 (Sar3) has been replaced by either alkyl or alkylthio groups, bypassing the requirement for Cyp18 binding in calcineurin inhibition. NFAT is a substrate of calcineurin and directly dephosphorylated at multiple sites. To further reveal the role of NFAT in this mechanism T cells were preincubated with a CsA derivative ([Dat Sar]3 CsA) or normal CsA at different concentrations and nucleofected with a NFAT-luciferase reporter plasmid. Cells were then stimulated and luciferase activity was determined. In both cases, luciferase activity was dose dependent to CsA treatment indicating that like CsA, [Dat Sar]3 CsA targets the NFAT pathway.
Binary complex formation between the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A (CsA) and cyclophilin 18 is the prerequisite for the ability of CsA to inhibit the protein phosphatase activity of calcineurin, a central mediator of antigen-receptor signaling. We show here that several CsA derivatives substituted in position 3 can inhibit calcineurin without prior formation of a complex with cyclophilin 18. [Methylsarcosine(3)]CsA was shown to inhibit calcineurin, either in its free form with an IC(50) value of 10 microm, or in its complex form with cyclophilin 18 with an IC(50) of 500 nm. [Dimethylaminoethylthiosarcosine(3)]CsA ([Dat-Sar(3)]CsA) was found to inhibit calcineurin on its own, with an IC(50) value of 1.0 microm, but was not able to inhibit calcineurin after forming the [Dat-Sar(3)]CsA-cyclophilin 18 binary complex. Despite their different inhibitory properties, both CsA and [Dat-Sar(3)]CsA suppressed T cell proliferation and cytokine production mainly through blocking NFAT activation and interleukin-2 gene expression. Furthermore, to demonstrate that [Dat-Sar(3)]CsA can inhibit calcineurin in a cyclophilin-independent manner in vivo, we tested its effect in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain (Delta12), in which all the 12 cyclophilins and FKBPs were deleted. [Dat-Sar(3)]CsA, but not CsA, bypassed the requirement for cellular cyclophilins and caused growth inhibition in the salt-stressed Delta12 strain.
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Retail and Hospitality Employers Convene To Address Retention of Front-Line Workers
Reimagine Retail Chicagoland's Innovation Lab will help improve the livelihood of underemployed populations while delivering a return on investment for employers
CHICAGO - April 29, 2019 - illiNews -- Reimagine Retail Chicagoland, in partnership with Talent Rewire, announces the launch of the inaugural Chicago Innovation Lab for employers. The first cohort of eight retail, hospitality and food service employers will come together on Tuesday, April 30th and Wednesday, May 1st at The Hatchery Chicago (https://thehatcherychicago.org/), to share ideas and pilot new approaches to hiring, supporting, and retaining frontline employees over the next nine months. The pilots will address each employer's most pressing frontline talent challenge.
The retail industry spends approximately $9B annually (https://www.fsg.org/publications/investing-entr...) on turnover among frontline staff. Investments made by employers to retain individuals in these critical customer-support roles result in real business value.
"We are excited by the prospect of engaging with employers in Chicago and creating the space for them to learn from each other, create a pilot, and consider the business case for investing in their workers," said Cyndi Solitro, Program Director of Reimagine Retail Chicagoland.
"Partnering with Reimagine Retail will provide an opportunity for Chicago-area Human Resources and Operations professionals to apply systems and design-thinking to assess barriers and opportunities in their approaches to talent," said Nicole Trimble, Executive Director, Talent Rewire. "As a result of engaging employers in the Innovation Lab, Reimagine Retail will encourage meaningful practice change that leads to better employment outcomes for individual workers and employers."
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Reimagine Retail Chicagoland (https://www.reimagineretailchicago.org/) is a workforce initiative funded by the Aspen Institute with support from the Walmart Foundation. A collaborative of the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance (https://chicagoworkforcefunders.org/), Reimagine Retail Chicagoland helps to improve the quality of jobs for workers in entry-level positions, creating pathways for advancement in retail and related sectors, and increasing retention for employers.
About Talent Rewire
Talent Rewire (https://talentrewire.org/), an initiative of FSG, is cultivating a network of employers who want to create lasting change for their workforce and their business. Talent Rewire has worked with over 25 employers in the U.S. across industries to demonstrate the business value of rewiring talent practices to improve outcomes for underemployed populations.
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Ampulla of Vater
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Ampullary adenocarcinoma
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Ampullary tumor
The term ampullary tumor generally refers to either benign or malignant neoplasms that arise from the glandular epithelium of the ampulla of Vater, including 1: ampullary adenoma (adenoma of ampulla of Vater) ampullary carcinoma (carcinoma of ampulla of Vater) According to some authors, ampul...
Amylase is widely employed as a marker of acute pancreatitis and a significant elevation is diagnostic. Physiology α-amylase is a digestive enzyme that is predominantly secreted by the acinar cells of the exocrine pancreas. It is also secreted by the salivary glands. Pancreatic amylase is enco...
Anatomy curriculum
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Anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction
An anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction describes the abnormal junction of the pancreatic duct and common bile duct that occurs outside the duodenal wall to form a long common channel (> 15 mm). The anomalous junction is often associated with a choledochal cyst or a biliary tract carcinoma and...
Ansa pancreatica
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Ascaris-induced pancreatitis
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Ascites (hydroperitoneum is a rare synonym) is defined as an abnormal amount of intraperitoneal fluid. Clinical presentation Patients with a large volume of ascites can present with abdominal distension (which may be painful), nausea, vomiting, dyspnea and peripheral edema 7,9. Pathology Asc...
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Autoimmune pancreatitis (diagnostic criteria)
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Balthazar score
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Beaver tail liver
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Benign tumors and tumor-like lesions of the gallbladder
The gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts play host to a surprisingly large number of benign tumors and tumor-like lesions which may be visible on imaging. In the gallbladder, most of them are detected incidentally, whereas in the bile ducts they are usually found in symptomatic patients (obst...
Benign vs malignant features of gallbladder polyps
In most instances predicting histology of a gallbladder polyp based purely on imaging is not possible. A number of features are however helpful in helping to decide management of a polypoid lesion of the gallbladder. Benign features size polyps that are less than 5 mm in size are almost alway...
Beta catenin mutated hepatic adenoma
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Bile duct dilatation (differential)
Bile duct dilatation can be due to several etiologies. Clinical presentation Variable, depending on underlying cause, but usually: right upper quadrant pain jaundice Radiographic features Ultrasound Harmonic imaging is useful when assessing the biliary system, as it improves the clarity o...
Bile duct stricture
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Thickening of the bile duct wall can stem from a variety of etiologies. Radiographic features Ultrasound bile duct wall thickening bile duct walls are typically not visible when normal possible narrowing of the ducts with obstruction possible secondary signs of cholangitis, including debri...
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Biliary cast syndrome is a complication that occurs after liver transplantation, where dark solid bilirubin casts develop in the biliary tree, causing biliary obstruction. Terminology This should be differentiated from biliary sludge, which represents thickened bile that has not precipitated. ...
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Biliary intraepithelial neoplasia
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Biloma
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Bismuth-Corlette classification
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Bright dot sign (atypical liver hemangioma)
The bright dot sign refers to the presence of a bright dot within a lesion which remains hyperattenuating on arterial and portal venous phase CT, corresponding to early nodular enhancement seen on dynamic MRI of liver hemangioma. This can be used as an indicator that the lesion in question is ...
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The caput medusae sign, refers to developmental venous anomalies of the brain, where a number of veins drain centrally towards a single drain vein. The appearance is reminiscent of Medusa, a gorgon of Greek mythology, who was encountered and defeated by Perseus. The sign is seen on both CT and ...
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The caput medusae sign is seen in patients with severe portal hypertension. It describes the appearance of distended and engorged paraumbilical veins, which are seen radiating from the umbilicus across the abdomen to join the systemic veins. History and etymology The appearance is reminiscent...
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Caroli disease is a congenital disorder comprising of multifocal cystic dilatation of segmental intrahepatic bile ducts. However, some series show that extrahepatic duct involvement may exist 2. It is also classified as a type V choledochal cyst, according to the Todani classification. Epidemio...
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Cavernous transformation of the portal vein
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Child-Pugh score
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Cholangiohepatoma
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Young Thug’s New Album, Produced by Drake
Attendees of Coachella’s Weekend 2 gathered together to participate in the festival’s own March For Science, an international series of walks and protests regarding the lack of government action toward combating pollution and climate change.
The march was led by band Downtown Boys after performing a 3:10 p.m. set atop the newly added Sonora Stage. According to the Desert Sun, the march began at the Sonora Stage and made its way to the Chiaozza Garden. The crowd was speckled with hand-drawn signage, including the words “Science is real” and “evidence over ignorance.”
Joe DeGeorge, the band’s saxophonist and synth player, explained the group’s reasoning for spearheading Coachella’s iteration of the Science March.
ll over the country, people are marching for science, and we’re doing our march here at Coachella. It’s not just about marching for a fact-based ideology; it’s about power and how the institution and structure that runs this country really value private wealth and capital above things like our health, our environment. We are marching because we value those things and we have to shout in this capitalist structure to make our values heard.
Coachella attendees joined hundreds of organized marches across the nation in the name of science and governmental responsibility.
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Go ghost with four action-packed episodes of Danny Phantom! Danny hosts a killer garage sale, selling some of his parent’s ghost hunting stuff for money to buy a new outfit. But the objects take on a life of their own and go on the attack! Then, when Sam tries to convert the school cafeteria to an all-vegetarian menu, it ignites the fury of the Lunch Lady, a ghost that looks like a humongous pile of mystery meat! In Control Freaks, Sam wants to attend a circus, not knowing all the performers are ghosts out to rob Amity Park. When she finds out, she realizes Danny is under the spell of one of the ghosts, Freakshow, and he’s taking part in the robbery spree! Can she break the spell and rescue Danny? In Public Enemies, the town is invaded by a mass of ghosts, all part of a plan by the Ghost Zone’s top sheriff, Walker, to capture Danny! It’s 4 ghostly good adventures with Danny and pals as they battle otherworldly beings and still get home in time for dinner.
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Family gives Lincoln Presidential Library a Bible that once belonged to the 16th president
ABC News: Getting Porn Out of Hotels
A new law in Winona County, Minnesota says county workers can’t stay at hotels offering adult movies.
According to ABC News,”Winona County, Minnesota, has declared war on hotel room pornography, prohibiting any of its employees from staying at hotels that offer adult movies.
“The Winona County Commissioners just approved a new “clean hotel” policy that forbids employees from staying at such properties. The commissioners said pornography leads to sexual and domestic violence and that they hope to pressure hotels to drop these services.
“The county commissioners believe Winona is the first county in the country to pass such a regulation.”
ABC reports that the county is doing it to send a message and they hope it is “one small step in getting the conversation started.”
Family Leader www.familyleader.net is working with a number of groups nationwide to reduce the availability of porn, particularly in hotel rooms. Phil Burress, who leads our companion organization, Citizens for Community Values, has surveyed the 45,000 hotels nationwide and found that at least 25,000 did not carry porn. The website www.Cleanhotels.com lists those safe hotels.
Among them are Omni Hotels www.omnihotels.com who removed porn from their hotel rooms in 1999 based on the owner’s desire not to derive revenue from “this type of offering.” They lost money because of the decision, according to ABC News, but they didn’t track it.
Another is Best Western https://www.bestwestern.com/ whose 2200 rooms in the U.S. are porn free, and though many of them are independently owned, this was a stipulation in signing the licensure agreement.
Ritz Carlton https://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Default.htm owned by Marriott doesn’t offer pornography in any of its U.S. hotels.
However, Phil Burress, said that many of the major hotels that have the greatest number of rooms across the nation, do offer adult pay-per-view programs including Marriott Hotels and Hilton.
In 2008, Family Leader was part of a coalition of 47 groups that met with Marriott to try to persuade the hotel chain to stop offering adult movies. In response, Marriott did not remove films, but added two pop-up warnings on TV screens, stating the material is adult-oriented and only those who are at least 18 years old can view it.
ABC reported that Jeff Flaherty, Marriott spokesman said, “Changing technology and how guests access entertainment has reduced the revenue hotels and their owners derive from in-room movies, including adult content” and that Marriott is working on “a new Internet-based video-on-demand which will “provide guests greater choice and control over what they watch” and “there won’t be a menu category directly offering adult videos in the new Internet-based system.”
Phil Burress and his coalition remain unsatisfied with this solution and seek to find a way to end adult-entertainment availability in these major, national hotel chains.
Read entire ABC News article. https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hotel-porn-ban-county-votes-hotels-adult-movies/story?id=11587257
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Athletic training degree programs cannot be completed totally online, but some of the required courses may be available through distance learning. This article describes the curriculum of many athletic training bachelor's degree programs. Schools offering Fitness Trainer degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
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Since athletic training degree programs require students to conduct extensive hands-on work in clinical settings, it isn't possible to obtain the degree solely through online work. Athletic training curricula commonly require two years of upper-division coursework that includes an in-depth study of chemistry, physics and kinesiology. A few of the classes that are essential parts of an athletic training bachelor's degree program curriculum are described below.
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Common Courses Psychology, health issues, and kinesiology
Online availability Online programs available
Possible Careers Fitness centers, physicians' offices, and professional sports athletic trainer
Degree/Certificate Levels Associate, bachelor and master degree programs available
Median Salary (2018) $47,510
Job Growth (2016-2026) 23%
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Students must take an introductory class covering the basics of athletic training in order to earn their degree. Students learn about the various job duties expected of athletic trainers and emerging issues in the field of athletic training. Introductory athletic training courses also usually offer students limited hands-on training for some elementary techniques used in the job.
Students earning a bachelor's degree in athletic training need to take a course on human anatomy to learn about the structure and function of the human body. Human anatomy courses explain how parts of the body like the circulatory and respiratory systems work. Students also learn important information about the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems.
Emergency Care and First Aid
Degree programs in athletic training usually require students to take courses that teach ways to treat athletic injuries. These courses cover basic first aid techniques as well as advanced practices used to immediately treat more severe injuries such as sprained ankles and dislocated shoulders. Many injuries covered in these classes ultimately require medical care, but athletic trainers need to be able to provide treatment at the time of the injury.
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The brain tumor refers to a growth or mass of irregular cells in one’s brain. Brain tumors are of various types; some are malignant or cancerous while some are benign or non-cancerous. The benign tumors are also called primary cancer of a brain. They originate into the brain by itself or the nearby tissues such as cranial nerves, pineal gland or pituitary gland, and meninges (membranes that covered brain). The malignant tumors are also called secondary cancer of a brain. These metastatic tumors spread from other parts of a body towards the brain or these usually occur in people who have a history of tumors in other parts of the body. Secondary tumors of a brain are more common in adults than primary tumors.
Brain tumors provide several warning signs but it’s unlikely to appear all in one person. The warning signs of brain tumors are also categorized according to its types which are specific or general.
The general warning sign occurred by a pressure of tumor or involvement of the spinal cord or brain. The specific warning signs happened when a particular portion of a brain does not work properly due to the tumor. Most of the people who suffered from brain tumor went to doctor when they experienced some problem like a headache, seizures or some other changes. The brain tumors occur in all sizes and shapes and the same is with their signs.
A neurosurgeon in Weil Cornell Spine and Brain center named Theodore Schwartz told that a basic key regarding warning sign of brain tumor depends upon its location. For instance, if an individual has a tumor close to the portion of a brain which controls the eyesight or arm, then his/her symptoms or signs include blurry vision or limb weakness. Thus, the warning signs can vary depending upon the tumor of where it is growing and how big the size it has.
Brain Tumors Warning Signs
As described above, the warning signs of the brain tumors differ according to their size, type, and location within a brain. Some of the most common warning signs are described in following:
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The motor seizures, commonly known as convulsions are involuntary, sudden movements in the muscles of a person. Seizures are one of the most important warning signs of a brain tumor. It is particularly important for people who do not have any earlier history of it.
Motor seizures are usually regarded as the first sign of a brain tumor yet it may occur at any phase of cancer. The brain tumors push forward nerve cells within the brain and interfere with the electric signals that result in a seizure. Nearly fifty percent of people who suffer from a brain tumor experience a minimum of one seizure. People can experience different kinds of seizures which include tonic-clonic and myoclonic. Differences between different kinds of seizures are as follows:
a) Tonic-clonic
Loss of body tone and consciousness, followed by relaxing and twitching muscles.
Loose control over functions of a body
Hypoxia; a short-term period (not more than 30 seconds) without breathing, which turns the color of an individual into a blue shade
When experience this kind of seizures, an individual may feel sleepy or get a headache, weakness, confusion, sore muscles and numbness.
b) Myoclonic
One or more than one muscle twitches, spasms, and jerks
c) Complex partial seizure
It is linked with unintentional, repetitive movements like twitching
May happen in the form of awareness’ loss or total or partial consciousness’ loss
d) Sensory seizure
Changes in vision, smell, hearing and sensation without losing control of consciousness.
Irrespective of tumor type, seizures are often found to be the first warning sign of trouble. A patient of brain tumor feels convulsions and get unusual or abnormal movements because tumor causes irritations of the brain coverings and neurons of the brain fire uncontrollably. One may experience convulsions of the whole body or flexing jerking may confine to only one portion of a face or one limb.
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Exclusive Film Leonard Maltin Movie Reviews May 1, 2017
When I heard that a new documentary on the subject of movie posters was called 24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters I’ll admit I was confused. All collectors know that traditional one-sheets measure 27×41. Now that I’ve seen the picture I understand the title. Kevin Burke’s entertaining film is primarily about the renaissance of posters and its artists who don’t restrict themselves to standard sizes. They are as individual as the images they design.
Fortunately, Burke doesn’t ignore the past, and his film opens with a brief overview of movie poster history—what one might call the 27×41 era—and some of its leading lights. Following that primer, he explores the new era of poster art ushered in by the folks at Mondo of Austin, Texas, who not only create images for new movies but reinvent the “key art” of classics. (If you’re unfamiliar with Mondo’s work, you owe yourself the experience of seeing their work—even though their limited editions sell out almost as soon as they’re announced. Check out their archive HERE)
Mondo’s success inspired others to get in on the act and 24×36 introduces us to a number of other artists and entrepreneurs. Some of them follow the practice of licensing properties from studios and filmmakers, while others are freer in their interpretation of an artist’s rights. And while some people believe in high-priced limited editions, others want to sell as many posters as they possibly can. Every artist follows his or her own path.
24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters is enjoyable and informative, especially if you have a yen for the subject as I do. Following its debut at this past year’s Fantastic Fest, the film is now available on Blu-ray and DVD, iTunes, and other online sources; you can also rent it from Amazon. For more information click HERE
Tagged Andrea AlvinDavid ByrdDocumentaryFantastic FestJoe DanteKevin BurkeLaurent DurieuxLeslie CombermaleMatthew ChojnackiMondoPaul AinsworthTom WhalenTracie Ching
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Film In Theaters Leonard Maltin Movie Reviews August 4, 2017
Having scripted Sicario and Hell and High Water, Taylor Sheridan has taken on directorial duties as well with his new film Wind River and scored a solid hit. Jeremy Renner plays a man who works for the government fish and game department on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. He’s an expert marksman, but more important, he understands the territory he patrols and the people who live there, because he is one of them.
Into this wintry and insular community comes an FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who is tasked with investigating the rape and murder of a teenage girl who was left for dead in the snow. She is a fish out of water and must lean on Renner to help her make headway in talking to the locals and gathering evidence. The job is all the more difficult for Renner because he knew the victim and is friendly with her parents (Gil Birmingham and Tantoo Cardinal). What’s more, he and his ex-wife, a Native American, suffered a similar loss several years ago.
Renner has never been better. Olsen holds her own in what could have been a one-dimensional role. And Graham Greene is a welcome presence as the local sheriff with a permanently wry expression on his face.
As he did in Hell and High Water, Sheridan manages to weave elements of social commentary into a gripping crime story without being heavy-handed. The environment is a crucial and organic part of the narrative.
Tense, violent, well-staged, and suspenseful, Wind River is that rare bird nowadays: a good story well told.
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Case of the Day: Shanghai Commercial Bank v. Chang
Ted Folkman
The case of the day is Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd. v. Chang (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). The bank had a Hong Kong judgment against Chang on account of an unpaid debt. The bank sought recognition and enforcement of the Hong Kong judgment in Washington, where Chang and his wife, Chen, had lived for many years. They were married long before Chang incurred the debt to the bank, though Chen herself had not incurred the debt and didn’t know about it at the time. The trial court held previously held that the Hong Kong judgment was entitled to recognition, and in today’s case it held that the judgment could be enforced against the marital property of Chang and Chen (Washington is a community property state). Chang appealed.
Under the UFCMJRA, the Hong Kong judgment that has been recognized can be enforced just like a Washington judgment. And a Washington judgment based on a debt incurred outside the state can be enforced against the non-debtor spouse if the law determined using the “most significant relationship” test of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws permits such a recovery. Here, the court held that Hong Kong had the most significant relationship to the underlying judgment, for somewhat obvious reasons. And Hong Kong law (according to the bank, and with no opposition from Chang) would permit the Bank to look to the marital assets.
I wonder whether the result would be the same in a state that applies the common law system of marital property, where there is no such thing as marital community property. In Massachusetts, for example, while I don’t know of a similar case, I imagine the analysis would be somewhat different. A foreign judgment that has been recognized is entitled to recognition on the same basis as a Massachusetts judgment. But I think the Massachusetts courts would be loath to look to the substantive law of the foreign state to determine whether the judgment creditor could reach the assets of the non-debtor spouse, which are not community property. Wouldn’t enforcement against the non-debtor spouse be a deprivation of property without due process of law? In short, I think the concept of a conflict of laws analysis to decide this issue only works in a community property state, since in a common law state, I don’t see that it’s ever permissible (absent a fraudulent transfer, a claim for necessaries, or whatever) to take the property of the non-debtor to satisfy the judgment debt, where the non-debtor was not a party to the underlying case.
Tagged: China, conflict of laws, Hong Kong, Recognition and Enforcement
Stephen Woodruff says:
I question the Washington court’s conflict of law analysis. Hong Kong may have the most significant relationship to the judgment but not to marital status and community property of Chang and his wife. It is that relationship that should govern the extent to which community property can be reached to satisfy the judgment. Hence, the judgment creditor should be able to reach the community property only if a Washington judgment creditor could reach the community property.
Ted Folkman says:
Stephen, I think that’s right. Maybe the key sentence is this: “We look to the underlying transaction in performing [the Restatement] analysis.” Why should that be? I wrote that the reasons for holding that Hong Kong had the most significant relationship with the underlying judgment were obvious, which is so, but I didn’t address whether that was the right question to ask. My main interest was whether this entire way of thinking would have any purchase beyond the West and the Southwest, where community property is the rule.
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The Six Fix: Ways to Keep Happiness in Line with Success, According to Denise, Gretchen, and Sam
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How do you define the ultimate girl peg? Is it by of her looks? Her personality? Her brains? Or the overall aura she exudes? If you ask us, three words are enough—smart, strong, and empowered.
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Searching for these girl pegs are not as hard as you think it might be. During Lifestyle TV and Working Mom Magazine's Mother's Day Picnic event, we found three ladies who embody those characteristics and more: Actress and singer Denise Laurel, volleyball heroine and host Gretchen Ho, and radio and TV personality Sam Oh.
But being superwomen does not entitle them to a flawless fate. While stellar stars in their respective fields, each also encountered her share of mishaps and triumphs before they reached their status. But thankfully, they have a set of guidelines to keep their sanity in check—abide by their get-happy list, especially when the going gets tough:
1. Don't box yourself into the norm. "You don’t necessarily have follow what society tells you to be at a certain age," Sam shares. We're all in different stages at different points in our lives, and just because everyone's a multi-hypenate at 25 doesn't mean you should be, too. You'll get where you want and need to be, in your own terms.
2. Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers. Always think positively and take time to breathe and relax. Maintain a sunny disposition despite the challenges that come your way.
3. Be comfortably confident. As Denise enthuses, "Embrace who you are and make it work." Get rid of your insecurities, be open to your strengths and weaknesses, and have an open mind towards learning everything. When you accept who you are, you stop comparing yourself with others, thus, making you happier. "Don’t compete with everybody. Compete with yourself," she adds. [related: Daily Diaries: What's Wrong with Being (Over)Confident?]
4. Stay active. Gretchen, an Ateneo Lady Eagles alumna, is always on the move. Motion is key to a great well-being; aside from the happy hormones you release when you stretch those muscles, you give yourself an excuse to a retail therapy for a nice pair of rubber shoes. "With a pair of rubber shoes, you can be ready with anything that life will throw at you," she justifies. Indeed!
5. Always strike a balance. Modern ladies tend to go overboard—their careers, their love life, their family and everything else on their priority list. Denise, who juggles being an actress and a mom, relates to this very much. "I try to make everyone happy that I forget that I'm falling apart," she narrates. "But I figured that I can make everyone happy, but I can be happier. You gravitate the world towards you; they'll love hanging out with you and you bless them with laughter and glee. So don’t forget about that."
6. Take your heart wherever you go. No matter what you do, never face your battles half-hearted. Gretchen advises to give your 110%, and always keep a kind heart.
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In Focus: Cebuano-Irish Eye Candy Daniel Marsh On Producing Vlogs That Have 'Soul'
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For this vlogger, consistency is the key to success. Daniel Marsh lives the example of really absorbing and listening to other people's stories and bringing them to life through video. Through cinematography, he hopes to bridge cultural gaps.
The dapper gent started on the road to fame as a part-time model and TV talent before eventually joining the Vlog Squad YouTube team. Being born in the Philippines but raised in Ireland, Daniel's return to the Philippines is but a mere whirlwind opening of his narrative.
"When Youtube came about, it created a platform for amateurs—people who just couldn’t do it the normal way. So, of course when I came to the Philippines I discovered it because I would travel across the Philippines a lot and see amazing sights and sounds. So, that’s what got me into vlogging in the first place."
Fear of heights. Thanks for ze shot mr @lostleblanc
A post shared by Daniel Marsh (@danielcmarsh) on Nov 17, 2017 at 3:59pm PST
Daniel's mother was from Cebu, and his hometown of Argao is his favorite retreat away from the busy city life in Manila. He's still familiar with his hometown dialect and every now and then, it does surprise people he meets while traveling.
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On the subject of passion projects, Daniel cherishes the art of feature filmmaking. Currently he is still at work on what is now a five-year in the making documentary about a rather unexpected subject for a lifestyle vlogger—cancer. Daniel lost his mother in 2014 to ovarian cancer which revealed itself at Stage 4 and cut her life short just over a year later.
I love you and miss you so much Mom.
A post shared by Daniel Marsh (@danielcmarsh) on May 14, 2017 at 4:53am PDT
He then confesses that like everyone else, fellow vlogger and friend Wil Dasovich's revelation of his battle with cancer was something unforeseen. "That’s another situation that just happened," Dan relates. "It’s an unfortunate situation. It’s just one of those things that you never see coming."
It was quite ironic that Dan was already working on a documentary with the aim of encouraging people to be vigilant with early diagnosis and detection. "However I can showcase stories out there and tell people that it’s very important to be aware early and get treatment early. Even if you see the slightest hint of certain symptoms, you should see a doctor. With my mom, it was way too late when she found out."
HAPPY BDAY @wil_dasovich. I know right now you are facing a massive challenge my friend and amidst the rollercoaster of emotions and hurdles that you will face, step by step always know we are here for you, we are here cheering you along the way, we are here in good times and bad, we are here always and we are all here because of you, you have brought so many people together from creators to viewers and you have, through sheer hard work and positive spirit created a wonderful world for many. You will overcome this buddy, I look forward to that, love you man and miss you. #fuckcancer #1milforwil
A post shared by Daniel Marsh (@danielcmarsh) on Aug 25, 2017 at 11:44pm PDT
When asked what it is he likes to focus on in video if not himself, Daniel answers culture. It's all about capturing the essence of who they are, what makes them unique, and where they're at, he says.
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He doesn't spare in using the word "soul" when it comes to the richness of what people's lives and cultures carry in his flicks. "Even now, a lot of people say 'Congratulations, Daniel!' and all that, you know. It’s great, yes, but I feel like I still have much of a long way to go, because it’s a ladder you need to keep climbing—the soul, there’s always a soul, real stories."
Is #wilodia real?? #explorejapan @wil_dasovich @alodiaalmira
A post shared by Daniel Marsh (@danielcmarsh) on Jul 28, 2017 at 2:14am PDT
The somewhat off-center documentary style filming of real cultural encounters has always been Daniel's personal penchant, especially as an avid backpacker and geographical explorer. He shares his dream docu, "That could be going to climb another mountain. I climbed up near Mt. Everest just to the basecamp once. I would like to do that again on a different mountain, a little higher maybe 6000 meters. I’d like travel across South America. I want to do stuff that’s challenging like bike from Manila to Cebu. Do stuff that tests me as an individual, but of course I have to plan those sorts of things because time is of the essence." Still, Daniel wants to capture more about his own roots, "I still want to create good stories about other people. There’s so much good stuff here in the Philippines to show."
Daniel's cinematic style of speed-ups, reverses, and zoom as part of multiple video transitions has given some of his videos a specific feel, a certain vibe that moves you forward in the story or narration. Using active scenes and dynamic cinematography to propel his viewers towards his message, Daniel achieves something unique and different with every shot and edited sequence he showcases.
He relates, "My most popular video right now is entitled the Philippine Red Light district. However, going back to what I said about the soul, I showcase it in a very different treatment. It was nothing to do with what you would expect. It was about the different characters and people there in the location of Angeles and my trip there." Through the video, Daniel manages to feature what is essentially still just a community living from day to day despite the reputation of the area given its name.
Nowadays, new upcoming vloggers often mistakenly feel they don't know left from right when it comes to filming or starting a vlog. But Daniel has some advice, "Don’t worry if it’s a cellphone, just get content out there, grow, grow, grow, learn, learn, learn, but consistency is key. Don’t worry about what other people think, that’s also important. Of course, take constructive criticism, learn from other people, learn from inspirational people. Be self aware, know what you want for yourself, your passions, and work bloody hard. You can succeed, but like everyone else you must work hard to do it.”
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Desert Sun 15 October 1983
Famed star of silent films Lillian Gish still favorite dish
By MARILYN AUGUST Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) France’s cultural elite is shining the spotlight this week on American actress Lillian Gish who turned 87 Friday and gained fame on the silent screen when the French were embroiled in World War I. “I really don’t know what I’ve done to warrant all this generosity and goodness,” said Miss Gish, the uncontested grande dame of silent movies who is being honored during week long festivities in Paris.
Miss Gish charmed generations of movie-goers as the heroine in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Civil War classic “Birth of a Nation,” as the sad mother in “Intolerance,” and the luckless damsel in “Broken Blossoms.” Miss Gish, who Thursday received the prestigious Commander of Arts and Letters Award from French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, made her stage debut at age 4.
AP Wire Press Photo Lillian Gish, Jack Lang, Arts Letters Commandeur Medal 83
She has been working almost non-stop ever since, winning honors for performances in 102 movies and 50 plays that included works of Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. French film director Francois Truffaut says her career of 83 years “follows cinema history as closely as two parallel tracks of the Union Pacific.”
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Miss Gish and her sister, Dorothy, are the subject of a television documentary by Jeanne Moreau to be aired soon, along with a song-and-dance tribute to their careers. Her soft face set off by curls the color of champagne, Miss Gish showed no trace of fatigue after a whirlwind week in the French capital that included newspaper interviews, dinners, receptions and television appearances.
Lillian Gish with Jeanne Moreau at the premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 1984
“I suppose silent film did speak to the world in a way you don’t have today,” she said, pressing the arm of a reporter. “You had to write the words so you remember them longer. Nowadays, everything’s done for you so you can just sit there and eat popcorn.” Although she had a major role recently in Robert Altman’s “Marriage,” and believes cinema is the major art of the century, she says going to the movies today “hurts my pride.” “We used to play to packed houses in theaters that held 6,424 people,” she said. “I go to the movies today, and there are only six people in the audience and they don’t react.” Miss Gish’s love affair with France began in 1917 when she, her mother and Dorothy came to film a “movie to make America make up its mind to go to war for France and England.”
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Dorothy Gish in The Hearts of The World
Lillian Gish in Hearts of The World
“I bet there aren’t many people here who saw Paris for the first time with not one light burning only a full moon,” she said. “We weren’t afraid because we had just come from London where they were having air raids without warning. At 11 o’clock one night a bomb hit a tramway right under our windows at the Savoy and 11 people were killed. We couldn’t stay in our rooms for the screams of the wounded.” Paris was a veritable haven, except that “we got thin and nervous, and mother got shell-shocked at the front.”
Place Clichy Paris
Le Panthéon
Esplanade des Invalides
Avenue de l’Opéra
Her voice dropped as she recalled the mud, the rats and an epidemic “that came like a reminder that we were all doing something very bad.” But it was “dear Mr. Griffith,” the man who discovered her in 1912 and cast her in a movie with Mary Pickford, who determined the course of her long and brilliant career. Miss Gish never married, and many say Griffith was the unspoken love of her life. “He was older than my real father, so much more serious and fatherly. He was a genius, a poet with a beautiful baritone voice,” she said, smiling. They disagreed only over her name. “What kind of name is Gish for an actress,” she quotes Griffith as saying. “Gish, pish, fish, dish.” “Well, said sister Dorothy, if Gish was good enough for mother, it’s good enough for us.”
MARILYN AUGUST Associated Press Writer – 1983
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Lillian Gish Stars in Play “Grass Harp” On TV (1960)
Desert Sun, Volume XXXIII, Number 262, 18 June 1960
Lillian Gish Stars in Play “Grass Harp” On TV
National Telefilm Associates’ “The Play of the Week” celebrates its twenty-fifth week in television with a performance of Truman Capote s romantic fantasy, “The Grass Harp,” starring Lillian Gish in the role of Dolly Talbo. The play will be televised Thursday, June 23. over KCOP – Channel 131 Los Angeles at 8 p. m. IN ADDITION to Miss Gish, who makes one of her rare television appearances, Russell Collins will be starred as Judge Charlie Cool and Carmen Mathews as Verena Talbo.
The Grass Harp
Capote’s drama is an idyll of the pure in heart who, like the meek, inherit the earth. The story spotlights two aging sisters with different concepts of life The gentle one, harassed by the more boisterous sister joins an aimless youth and an outspoken Negro mammy, to take refuge in a tree-house in the woods—openly defying convention. They are joined by a philosophical ex-judge, all four thumbing their noses at society THE TOWN IS shocked by this display of defiance, and an armed posse invades the woods to march the “traitors” to society back to civilization The final curtain finds everyone making adjustments and looking at life with new understanding. Featured are Jonathan Harris, as Dr. Morris Ritz, and Enid Mackey. as the baker s wife. Others in the past include Georgia Burke, Nick Hyams. Katherine Raht, Woodrow Parfrey, Edward Asner, Barbara Dana and Jane Connell.
LILLIAN GISH and Carmen Mathews – The Grass Harp
LILLIAN GISH and Carmen Mathews are shown in a scene from Truman Capote’s romantic-fantasy. The Grass Harp.” KCOP’s presentation of the Play of the Week at 8 p.m., Thursday.
Lillian Gish tops playing roles in silent movies – By Mike Hughes (1988)
Desert Sun, 11 July 1988
Lillian Gish tops playing roles in silent movies
By MIKE HUGHES Ganett News Service
She was born in a quieter century, in a cozier part of the world. Risks were rare, expectations low. “We were from Ohio,” Lillian Gish says in a film to be broadcast Monday. “Ladies had their name in print when they were born, when they got married and when they died but NEVER for anything else.” But fate intervened and her career has embraced most of the history of movies. Now it’s recalled in a masterful opener for the “American Masters” season.
Lillian Gish Host of TV Silent Series 1975 PBS New-York, USA
In recent summers, PBS’ Monday lineup has come as a vibrant surprise. “Masters” crafts portraits with intelligence and detail; “Alive From Off Center” is both deft and daft. And now both start their new seasons in appropriate style. “Off Center” (10 p.m. locally) has two mismatched films a witty and stylish satire of a high-tech ad agency and a pointless and (almost) endless segment from the movie “Aria.” And “Masters” (9 p.m.) is at its very best with the Gish profile. Here is a life that can be illustrated through 106 movies spread over 75 years. And here is someone interviewed at just the right time; at 93, Gish overflows with rich memories. Her quiet Ohio life was disrupted because her father couldn’t keep work. Her mother “the most perfect human being I ever knew” told him not to come back until he could. “He would follow us around and beg Mother to take him back,” she says in the film. “But he didn’t have a job.” So the Gishes turned to the stage for money. At the ages of 5 and 4; Lillian and sister Dorothy became touring actresses. They were quite haughty about it,’ feeling sorry for their friend; Gladys Smith, who “had to go to the movies to make a living.”
Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (center ) has a party to celebrate Lillian Gish (right) signing to appear in COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN for producer Lester Cowan (right), 1942
Mary Pickford, Mildred Harris Chaplin, Mary, Dorothy, and Lillian Gish
But Gladys did well, after changing her name to Mary Pickford. Pickford also introduced them to D.W. Griffith, Hollywood’s first great director. “He said, ‘Can you act?’ And Dorothy pulled herself up and said. “We are of the legitimate theater. And he said, ‘I don’t mean reading lines. Can you act?’ ” (Mike Hughes – 1988)
LEADING LADIES – 1976 (Electa Clark)
July 9, 2019 .Reading time 15 minutes.
An Affectionate Look at American Women of the Twentieth Century
ELECTA CLARK
Horse drawn float declares National American Woman Suffrage Association’s support for Bristow-Mondell amendment
THE DEAR LITTLE WOMAN
“Humanity marches on into the new and glorious 20th century!” exults a daily paper in its first issue of 1901. “Come, oh century, child of hope!” begins a long poem on page one. Another column trills, “We are 20th century women … with the dower of privilege and responsibility which enriches women in this wonderful era!”
Philadelphia Journal 1900
The quotations are from the Republican, of Columbus, Indiana, then the center of population of the United States. All across the country, journalists, preachers, and ordinary folk rejoiced with the same exuberance. The nation was rich and would grow richer! Railroads were faster and better every day, factories were busier, cities were larger, people were cleverer, life was more stimulating than ever before!
Of course a few evils remained to be righted: child labor, sweat- shops, epidemics—but the greatest country in the world would quickly set those right.
Americans believed in America.
Women were pleased with themselves. “Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers,” boasts the Republican, “were handicapped in girlhood by a thousand prejudices and cast-iron traditional rules from which we are emancipated.”
Sanger On Court Steps
Among the new freedoms was the freedom to join clubs, if their papas or husbands permitted. Most of these were self-improvement clubs in which the ladies read works of Browning or Dante, enjoyed the hostess’s tea and cookies, and returned refreshed to their family duties.
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The 1920s – CALL IT A SPADE
‘Behind a Veil of Silver Chiffon”
In a grim World War I story. Company K, author William March has a soldier in the muck and misery of the trenches draw a framed magazine picture of Lillian Gish from a pocket every night and every morning to study the sweet pictured face. Knowing that something pure and good still existed in the world was the talisman that preserved his sanity through the war.
Lillian Gish had a similar effect on millions who saw her in the movies. She was not only talented, she had a unique quality: pure, ethereal, elusive. As if she acted in whispers. As if in her hands, the definite blurred into the indefinite. It was drama critic George Jean Nathan who described her as being “behind a veil of silver chiffon.” He courted Lillian for years, but she eluded marriage.
Lillian Gish, Dorothy and Mary Robinson McConnell (Mother)
She had two great loves: her sister Dorothy and her mother. Her father had deserted his family when the girls were babies. Mrs. Gish, a loving, gentle, sympathetic woman, was not the stereotype mother of actresses; she did not storm her way into producers’ offices or manage her children as if they were properties. She was simply there, warm- hearted and protective.
Lillian Gish and The Little Disturber (Dorothy) – Hearts of The World
The bond between Lillian and Dorothy Gish never weakened. How different they were! Dorothy was mischievous, fun-loving, and irresponsible. She never reached such heights of stardom as Lillian, but she had her followers, who delighted in her gift of comedy. At the same time, she suffered agonies of self-doubt. “Miss Apprehension,’’ her sister and mother called her. Again and again she played major roles in successful plays, and at rehearsals was always her rowdy self, and the cast never guessed her hidden fears; but by each opening night her conviction of failure was so acute that she was nearly ill.
Lillian, who never had Dorothy’s skylarking, slapstick moods, was always grave and dignified. Fans often wrote asking why she smiled so seldom in her movies; yet she had a serenity denied the mercurial Dorothy. In early years, the three Gishes lived together whenever the girls’ engagements were in the same city; but in later life they gave up this practice. Dorothy was too riotously untidy for the fastidious Lillian.
Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Girl seated with book on lap]; nitrate negative; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; P1990.47.3479
Miriam Cooper, an actress who later married director Raoul Walsh, tells the story of an evening when she, Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, and other young members of a “Hens’ Club” held a meeting in Dorothy’s room. Lillian was not one of the group. Aloof and studious, she was considered too standoffish. On this evening, as the party became more and more high-spirited, the Hens acted on an impulse, ran across the hall to Lillian’s room, and threw open the door shouting, “Surprise!”
Then they stopped, abashed. Lillian lay on her bed in a filmy negligee, golden hair outspread on a pillow. She looked up from the Shakespeare she was reading, and annoyance flashed across her face. But with instant good manners she stood up, welcomed her guests, and talked cordially as long as they stayed—which wasn’t long. They backed out, discomforted by the difference between this room, which only Dorothy had seen before, and her sister’s room.
Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Lillian Gish standing and brushing her hair]; nitrate negative; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; P1990.47.3506
Dorothy’s room contained only three or four pieces of shabby Mission oak furniture, but Lillian’s had velvet draperies, gilt-framed mirrors, and lace-trimmed pillows. They were astonished too at the difference between this seductive woman and the sexless girl who walked around the studio with a book under her arm and was ignored by the men on the set.
Lillian was known as “Mr. Griffith’s girl,” because they often had dinner together—in public, of course. But as Mr. G. had prim, Victorian standards of behavior; and as his young ladies were strictly supervised; and as everyone on the lot watched everyone else closely, there was no chance for hanky-panky, and no evidence that the Gish-Griffith affair was other than platonic.
Like Maude Adams and other fine actresses, she was sternly disciplined, and no amount of rehearsal was too much to achieve perfection. She never spared herself hardships, be they heat, desert wind, or around-the-clock labor.
“Way Down East” – Richard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish and Lowell Sherman
One of her early movies, made under D. W. Griffith’s direction, was the melodrama Way Down East The height of the action comes when Lillian’s inconsiderate employer, believing her to be a fallen woman, orders her out of the house into a blizzard. The silly girl doesn’t stop for hat or coat, but heads for the nearest river and begins walking the ice floes. By and by she faints and is carried downriver toward the neighborhood waterfall. Richard Barthelmess, the farmer’s son, likes the girl better than the old man does, and thinks it would be well to rescue her.
Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess (Way Down East)
This was a genuine Vermont blizzard, for which the cast waited a month or more, because no flimsy studio snowstorm would satisfy Griffith. Rehearsing and shooting the river scene took three weeks.
Nobody had it easy. Mr. Griffith’s face froze. Several cameramen came down with pneumonia. To keep the camera upright during the gale, three men had to lie flat in the snow, gripping the tripod legs, and a small fire was kept going directly under the camera to keep its oil from freezing.
“Way Down East” – Lillian Gish and D.W. Griffith on set (Vermont)
For her scene lying on the ice, Lillian Gish had thought up a piece of business that she was foolish enough to suggest to the director and then had to act upon. She let a few locks of hair and one hand trail through the water as she rocked her way downstream. It certainly added to the woe of the scene, but it also froze her hand, which forever after ached in cold weather. She lay on the ice about twenty times a day for those three weeks of rehearsal before the job was finished.
“Way Down East” – Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
Lillian Gish on the ice floe – Way Down East
Way Down East – filming the “Ice Floe Scene” (Lillian Gish)
Way Down East – Vermont
In the final take of the rescue scene, Richard Barthelmess got his. He wore a heavy raccoon coat, and in his cavorting from one ice floe to another he floundered onto one that was too small and tipped him into the water. He clambered out and that soggy coat must have weighed a ton, give or take a few pounds, but there was no time for a retake because now the rescue was for real. While he had fooled around under water, Lillian’s ice floe had jogged on, dangerously near the edge of that too-genuine waterfall. But he slogged on, scooped her up, and wrestled to shore with the poor girl pressed to that icy fur bosom.
Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish – ice floe scenes (Way Down East)
Among the many fine movies that Lillian Gish made during the twenties was Orphans of the Storm, in which Dorothy Gish played the blind sister. To heighten the drama, Griffith had transposed a well-tried old plot to the time of the French Revolution. When the film was shown in France, it raised storms of fury. French pride was outraged because an American producer dared portray French history without its best dress on.
Orphans of the Storm – Lillian Gish and Monte Blue
Orphans of the Storm – the trial
Orphans of the Storm – La Guillotine …
Orphans of the Storm
Orphans of the Storm – Jacques Forget Not and Henriette
Orphans of the Storm – Filming team on the set
La fete from Orphans of The Storm – Henriette kidnapped by Marquise De Liniers …
Next Lillian played in The White Sister. The whole cast went to Italy to film the story, the first American company ever to do so. Opposite Lillian Gish was a handsome new actor, Ronald Colman. When her lover is believed killed, the heroine becomes a nun, but after she has taken her solemn vows he returns, and a love scene of great power follows. An unhappy ending is arranged, however, that solves the girl’s dilemma, as he presently drowns in a flood. The White Sister was one of the great successes of the twenties.
Lillian Gish in The White Sister (Angela Chiaromonte)
After that Lillian Gish played in Romola also filmed in Italy; in La Boheme, opposite John Gilbert, and in The Scarlet Letter. To speak again of France, audiences there were mystified by all that fuss over the birth of an illegitimate baby.
Lillian Gish (promo – before Uncle Vanya)
Lillian Gish – Romola
Romola – Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish and William Powell – Romola
La Boheme – Lillian Gish, Gino Corrado and John Gilbert
Hester Prynne worried for her ill daughter – Lillian Gish – Scarlet Letter
THE SCARLET LETTER, Lars Hanson, Lillian Gish, 1926
In 1930 Lillian left Hollywood for Broadway and later appeared on TV. In that medium she played with Helen Hayes in the wonderfully funny Arsenic and Old Lace.
Even in old age, Lillian Gish never lost her special quality, that elusive enchantment of being afloat behind a veil of silver chiffon.
— ELECTA CLARK —
In Search of Happier Times: Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful (1986) – Glenn D. Novak
July 2, 2019 .Reading time 6 minutes.
In Search of Happier Times: Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful
by Glenn D. Novak – Assistant Professor of Mass Communication West Georgia College
The NBC Playhouse had tradition of casting competent but relatively unknown stage actors into the roles of its television plays. Through moving performances in one or more of the better dramas produced by Coe, these actors began to make names for themselves, later broadening their careers into motion pictures. Actors and actresses like Joanne Woodward, Rod Steiger, Kim Stanley, and others were thrust from relative obscurity into national popularity through fine performances in live television drama. Big Hollywood names were avoided, for reasons discussed by Associate Producer Gordon Duff in an interview in April, 1953:”If you have an expensive Hollywood name, more people would tune in, but I’m not sure more people would like the show. A name’s great, but we’re not in the business to keep the press agent happy” (“Grownups ‘Playhouse”).
Jo Van Fleet, Gene Lyons and Lillian Gish (The Trip To Bountiful)
The Trip to Bountiful represented a break with this tradition. The part of Mrs. Watts was played by Lillian Gish, 57 years old at the time. Her performance was hailed by many critics as one of the finest, if not the finest, of her entire dramatic career. Foote dedicated the play to Ms. Gish, and it is so noted on the title page to the play as it appears in the anthology, Harrison, Texas.
Gene Lyons and Lillian Gish – The Trip To Bountiful 1953
A complete list of the cast of The Trip to Bountiful, presented on the Goodyear Television Playhouse at 9:00 PM, EST, onMarch 1, 1953, follows:
Mrs. Watts: Lillian Gish
Jessie Mae Watts: Eileen Heckert
Ludie Watts: John Beal
Thelma: Eva Marie Saint
Ticket Man_(railroad station): Dennis CrossBus
Driver: Charles Sladen
Ticket Man (bus station):Will Hare
Attendant: Larry Bolton
Sheriff: Frank Overton
Ticket Man (second bus station):William Hansen
The director of the production was Vincent Donehue. Fred Coe was producer and Gordon Duff was associate producer.
Lillian Gish – The Trip To Bountiful (1953)
Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful is especially significant because it marked a reversal of the common trend during the earliest days of live television drama, the reliance on successful Broadway plays as material for television. Not only was The Trip to Bountiful an original play specifically written for television (a common practice by 1953), but it became the first television play ever produced on Broadway. Time magazine commented on this unusual situation soon after the play opened: “While seeming to throttle stage and screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other”(“Friend and Foe”).The stage play opened on November 3, 1953, at the Henry Miller Theatre, and enjoyed a run of about a month. The producer and director were unchanged from the television broadcast, and Ms. Gish continued in her role as Mrs. Watts.
Ludie was played by Gene Lyons, and Jo Van Fleet (who would turn in a powerful performance two years later in East of Eden) replaced Eileen Heckart as Jessie Mae. The play marked Eva Marie Saint’s first appearance on Broadway, as she re-created the role of Thelma (“Trip to Bountiful” Theatre Arts). The reviews of the stage play were mixed, but the majority of negative comments seemed to concentrate more on acting and sets than on the situations or dialogue. Eric Bentley’s criticism in the New Republic, however, did raise an in teresting question regarding Foote’s characterization of Ludie Watts:”The plot, the theme, the exigencies of theatre all demand that he speak, that he explain himself, but he is maddeningly and fatally silent, pleading some fifth amendment of the dramatic constitution.”Critics were in general agreement, though, concerning the moving performances of Gish, Van Fleet, and Saint, and more than one expressed surprise and sadness at the fact that the play had such a brief run.
Playbill – the trip to bountiful – Miss Lillian Gish
The television writing of Horton Foote can best be described as the careful and sensitive exploration of the human mind and spirit. In The Trip to Bountiful he endeavors to portray that quality in all of us which spurs us on to an important goal, the attainment of which will satisfy an intense longing.
Lillian Gish is Carrie Watts (The Trip To Bountiful)
Miss Lillian Gish (Mrs. Carrie Watts) – The Trip To Bountiful
Lillian Gish by Forbes, Advertising the new version of “The Trip To Bountiful” play – Stars in Goodyear Television Playhouse …
Lillian Gish – A tribute to a Trouper (Anita Loos – 1984)
June 28, 2019 .Reading time 20 minutes.
FATE KEEPS ON HAPPENING (1984) by ANITA LOOS
Lillian Gish – A tribute to a Trouper
Now that Lillian Gish is to be honored with a formal tribute by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it might be well to update the account of her extraordinary career in motion pictures.
Lillian’s entrance into films was through a stage door. The family base was Massillon, a small city in Ohio, but Lillian and her sister, Dorothy (younger by two years), had spent much of their childhood touring with theatrical troupes through the Eastern states and the Middle West. At that time, motion pictures were shown in converted store buildings called nickelodeons. They lacked the dignity of show business, but when the girls received an offer to work in movies, their mother welcomed it. They would have to give up their native Massillon to live in New York, but it meant an end of touring and the advantage of a permanent home. Mamma Gish, an attractive young widow, could easily have had a life of her own. But her main concern was the children: to bring them up in that strange new environment to have the ideals, integrity and common sense that were a heritage from their Midwestern forebears.
Keeping pace with an industry that was gradually becoming an art, Lillian’s progress never faltered. She has given unforgettable performances in films that are landmarks in the history of motion pictures. In D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Lillian plays the Southern belle who reveals the gallantry of the South during our Civil War; she is the Mother who endlessly rocks the cradle in Intolerance, a performance that took only a half hour to film but will remain forever in the memories of its audience.
THE SCARLET LETTER, Lillian Gish (hands clasped front left), Victor Sjostrom (aka Victor Seastrom) (hand in pocket front right) with the crew on-set, 1926
Lillian Gish – Birth of a Nation
Lillian Gish – Lucy, the girl (Broken Blossoms)
Broken Blossoms – Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp in Broken Blossoms
Orphans of the Storm – Henriette and Chevalier de Vaudrey
Lillian played the pathetic adulteress of The Scarlet Letter, the wayward Mimi of La Boheme; the helpless waif of Broken Blossoms; and she co-starred with her sister, Dorothy, in “Orphans of the Storm.” These films are occasionally shown today, and largely due to Lillian’s performances they still retain their freshness and vitality.
The list of Lillian’s films goes on and on. Her latest major release, and incidentally her 100th movie, was Robert Altman’s A Wedding, filmed in the late 1970’s. And today, as the most elegant and youthful of grande dames, she is at work on a television feature being filmed in California.
Lillian and I have been friends for almost 50 years. Our first encounter was by remote control. I had just mailed my first scenario to the Biograph Company in New York from my home in San Diego. With beginner’s luck, it was directed by D.W. Griffith himself, with Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore playing the leads. In those days, D.W. used his entire troupe when extras were required, and in a crowd entering a church are Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
DW Griffith and Lillian Gish
D.w. Griffith (1875-1948) Painting; D.w. Griffith (1875-1948) Art Print for sale
Later on, the Biograph Company moved to Hollywood and D.W. asked me to join them as permanent scenarist. When I first arrived at the studio, Lillian was away on location, but I met Dorothy. She was a bit of a clown, both on screen and off, and we became cronies, but it was some time before I really got to know Lillian. I never worked on her pictures. My stories were largely satires in which Lillian would have been out of place. Satire requires a touch of malice and of this Lillian has none. Dorothy and I loved to tease her by pretending she was “stuffy,” which wasn’t true. But she has a delightful sense of the ridiculous. There was no lack of fun in Lillian’s whereabouts; we became good friends. Lillian’s beauty; the benevolence in her smile; the wide blue eyes and golden hair, have always suggested an angel that belongs at the top of the Christmas tree. But of late, listening to Lillian on the trends that films have taken is to invite an Angel of Wrath into your parlor. Her viewpoint on films has been unique; she considers themas Power; a power that generates energy as great as that of Arab oil or the nuclear stations. “There’s no question,” she says, “that films influence the entire world as nothing has since the invention of the printing press. But the impact of the printed word is nowhere near as strong as a visual experience. And the ‘entertainment’ foisted on our young people today is terribly disturbing. “It is hard to understand the prevalence of degrading movies in view of the fact that they are far out grossed at the box office by such legitimate entertainment as The Turning Point or Kramer vs. Kramer. It seems that they must be the product of some evil intention.”
1980 Lillian Gish and Anita Loos – Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
One day Lillian and I sat in my New York living room, discussing the changing viewpoints since we were teenagers at the old Biograph Company in Hollywood. She recalled with a sense of pride that her sister, Dorothy, had once turned down a contract from Paramount of a million dollars to make eight comedy films. It was an offer that would have forever banished the ghost of poverty that haunts every actor, but Dorothy turned Paramount down.
“Oh, no,” said she, “to have a million dollars at my age might ruin my character.”
Mother Gish’s training in common sense had taken root. Looking back on those early days I remembered that Lillian had a premonition about the importance of films that few of us shared. It was Lillian alone who took those silent flickers seriously. We others looked on them as a fad that would soon lose public interest, as did those projectors of snapshots that were gathering dust on every parlor table. Even the fact that we were working with D.W. Griffith, who would one day be acclaimed a genius, failed to impress us; as it did Griffith himself for a time.
D.W. Griffith, internationally known movie director and producer, greets the press in this 1922 photo before sailing for Europe. (AP Photo)
As a young actor he had dreamed of becoming a playwright; a modern Shakespeare who would bring poetry to the Broadway stage. His first play was so dismal a failure that D.W. realized the theater was not for him. He returned to picture making with a resigned bitterness that seemed to mark the end of his career. But Lillian had a remarkable vision of a future toward which D.W. might be heading. Watching him direct, she began to sense that D.W. was viewing his effects with the eyes of a poet.
It took Lillian a long time and thousands of feet of film to build up D.W.’s satisfaction in his work or to recognize his own unmatched talent. It was Lillian’s delight in watching rushes in their projection room and her appreciation of certain subtleties of direction that raised D.W.’s opinion of films and, little by little, released his inspiration.
Judith from Bethulia
Lillian grew to be sort of an all-purpose collaborator to D.W.; she acted roles of every type and even coached other actresses when D.W. felt a need of female intuition. Which brings to mind an episode in which a certain star playing “Judith of Bethulia” had a torrid love scene. To D.W. it was a touchy situation, for Judith’s costume was scant and D.W. didn’t want to flaunt verity by adding to it. So he ordered a placard to be propped against the Babylonian setting which stated, viz, “During Judith’s love scenes the actress was chaperoned, off-screen, by her mother.” I may have had some part in the removal of that placard, but as I remember both Lillian and I giggled over D.W. ‘s prudery. Such was the “porno” of that innocent day. But on reflection, it now appears that much of the sensitivity in D.W.’s work may have been rooted in what was to my irreverent view a lack of sophistication.
D.W. grew to consult with Lillian more and more, even on lighting and the cutting and editing of scenes. He told her, “You know more about films than I do.” And once when D.W. was forced to go on a trip to raise money, he turned over an entire production to Lillian.
Lillian Gish (film director) 3 – Remodeling Her Husband
Dorothy Gish and James Rennie (Dorothy and Lillian Gish by Lillian Gish) – Remodeling Her Husband
Dorothy Gish and James Rennie (3) – Remodeling Her Husband
Dorothy Gish and James Rennie – Remodeling Her Husband
Her experience served to increase her awe of the medium and her respect for its infinite capabilities, “which,” says Lillian, “we haven’t yet even begun to realize.”
Absorption in work kept D.W. and Lillian as close as if they were sweethearts, which the public, always ready to jump to wrong conclusions, decided they were. But D.W., in spite of his sensitivity to all human emotions, gave little thought to his personal affairs. Early in his career he had married an actress from whom he was divorced several years before he even met Lillian; she never even met D.W.’s wife. At any rate, she had no time for romance, unless it was taking place on screen.
Lillian Gish, Mrs. Robinson (Gish) and Dorothy after Mother had a stroke – press photo taken on the roof top of their apartment in NY
Lillian’s devotion to her mother required much of her time and energy. Mother Gish had suffered from a stroke that confined her to a life of inactivity. And, with disarming pride, she seemed to think that nobody but the girls could manipulate a wheelchair.
Meanwhile Dorothy had married the film actor James Rennie, and her husband required most of her attention. So for years it was Lillian’s chore (and her delight) to take Mother Gish window shopping whenever duties at the studio permitted. While other film stars were indulging in a succession of husbands, fiances, and love affairs, Lillian has kept aloof from all such involvements. And this is not due to any lack of opportunity. Suitors have pursued Lillian all her life, and in her fan mail, the love letters outnumber all the rest. I recall a comment on Lillian’s sex appeal made by Cedric Gibbons, our set designer at MGM. One day he happened to overhear a group of girls discussing sex appeal, of which MGM had a corner on the market, viz. Garbo, Crawford, Del Rio, Shearer, Loy, et al. Cedric interrupted the discussion. “What does any girl know about the things that excite men?” he chided. “There’s more sex appeal in Lillian Gish’s fingertips than in all you flamboyant sex pots rolled together.”
Lillian Gish in Within The Gates
Lillian Gish Photoplay February 1919
Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Lillian Gish wearing tight long dress]; nitrate negative; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; P1990.47.3511
Lillian Gish Close Up – Mimi in La Boheme
Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Lillian Gish seated at dressing table]; nitrate negative; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; P1990.47.3507
Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Lillian Gish seated on arm of chair]; nitrate negative; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; P1990.47.3531
They subsided and gave Cedric the decision. After all, he was married to Dolores Del Rio and knew whereof he spoke. A time finally came in the association of Lillian and Griffith when her box-office value reached astronomical proportions. And D.W., all of whose earnings were poured back into his films, persuaded Lillian to accept one of her many offers. To be separated after their three years of idyllic collaboration was heartbreaking. After their parting, when Lillian’s career was at that high plateau from which it has never descended, D.W. made a confession to a writer, which she later quoted in a memoir.
The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me (03 1969) With D.W.Griffith and his wife Evelyn in their West Coast home — with Lillian Gish and D. W. Griffith.
“I never had a day’s luck after Lillian left me,” said D.W. “But D.W.,” gasped the writer, “Lillian didn’t leave you . . . you chucked her out!” “I ‘chucked her out’ because I was cheating her of the fortune she could earn with another producer. I allowed money to come between us.” “But you were only thinking of her” “I was thinking of my own ego. Lillian never thought of money. I did!”
1939-LILLIAN-GISH-David-Griffith-Meet-On-set
The friendship between D.W. and Lillian remained as strong as ever. And when D.W. in his later years married a childish little bride, Lillian assumed a sort of guardianship that included both bride and groom. D.W. needed Lillian in yet another capacity. He had become an alcoholic.
Lillian Gish and DW Griffith on set – candid, duel in the sun
Anita Loos and Lillian Gish – Griffith Stamp ceremony
Foremost among the heritage of Lillian’s pioneer ancestry is her pride and devotion to her country. “The time was,” she explains, “when I used to visit Europe every year to see my foreign friends and study their work. Those days are over. Now all my friends visit America because they know it to be the best and freest place on earth. I need go no further than the Algonquin to visit them.
The Birth of a Nation (1915) Directed by D.W. Griffith Shown: Mae Marsh
Lillian Gish as Elsie Stoneman (Birth of A Nation)
“As to the future of films, I take heart that the theme of D.W.’s Birth of a Nation is just as vital today as when it was filmed. Only recently there was an active demonstration in a San Francisco theater where the Birth was shown. And there are other issues of American life just as dramatic as our Civil War. Hollywood has never filmed the dramatic story of Thomas Jefferson, which culminated in our Constitution.
“If Americans must be materialistic, we possess resources, opportunities, luxuries, comforts and gadgetry of which our pioneers never dreamed. But we’ve lost our self-esteem. Let’s strive to get it back.”
“We don’t need to be ‘born again’ with infantile thinking that has brought about the sorry state we’re in today. We need to regain the pioneer spirit of our beginnings … a respect of our ideals that will bring a measure of hope, appreciation and joy to our moving picture screens once more.”
Anita Loos wrote during almost all of her ninety-three years and enchanted the civilized world with her glittering and irreverent classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, introducing the deceptively naive innocence or its observant heroine Lorelei Lee, who, The New York Times commented, like Twain’s Tom Sawyer is an American original, and will surely live as long as they. Fate Keeps on Happening includes Anita Loos’s best short writings never before collected and twelve new pieces never previously in print, all written over a span or nearly sixty years.
Fate keeps on happening : Anita Loos (1984)
An Interview with LILLIAN GISH – MAGILL’S CINEMA ANNUAL 1983
An Interview with LILLIAN GISH
By Ronald Bowers
MAGILL’S CINEMA ANNUAL 1983
A Survey of 1982 Films Edited by FRANK N. MAGILL
There is simply one “First Lady” of American cinema, and she is Miss Lillian Gish. Her career in motion pictures is without equal. Along with her mentor, D. W. Griffith, she was a pioneer who created her own art form. Imitated by generations of performers, she has herself always been a pioneer, never an imitator. “D. W. Griffith was the father of film form and grammar,” she explains. “The French had hinted at the possibilities of film before him, but he put it all together first.” The same could be said of Lillian Gish and her self-evolved style of screen acting.
Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1896, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was a traveling salesman from the Pennsylvania Dutch country, and her mother, Mary Robinson McConnell Gish, numbered among her ancestors the poet Emily Ward and President Zachary Taylor. Gish’s father’s work required the family to live in various cities before the turn of the century, and it was in Dayton, Ohio, that her sister, Dorothy, was born on March 11, 1898. Eventually, Mrs. Gish separated from her husband and took her two daughters to New York City to look for work. As Dorothy once explained in an interview: “We were practically destitute. [Mother] rented one of the old fashioned railroad apartments, and advertised for ‘genteel lady roomers. One of the genteel ladies who rented a room was an actress [Dolores Lome], and after she had been with us a few weeks, she had an offer for a part in a road company production of East Lynne, provided she could find a small child of either sex to play the part of Little Willie. She asked Mother if she could borrow me for the role, and Mother was willing, and so, at four, I became Little Willie. Then Lillian got parts too, and so did Mother, and there we were, all three of us, actresses.”
Officially, Gish made her stage debut when she was five years old, in Rising Sun, Ohio, in a play called In Convict’s Stripes; as she recalls, “I took my first curtain call on the shoulders of the handsome leading man, Walter Huston.”
On rare occasions, the three Gishes were able to act together in the same play, but for the most part, they worked separately, with Mrs. Gish accompanying her younger daughter and Lillian being chaperoned by a family friend. During one period of unemployment, the Gishes worked at a candy concession in Brooklyn’s Fort George Amusement Park, where they were joined by another temporarily out-of-work family, the Smiths, consisting of mother Charlotte and three youngsters named Gladys, Lottie, and Jack. Gladys eventually became known as Mary Pickford.
In 1905, nine-year-old Lillian was employed as a dancer with the Sarah Bernhardt stage company, then on tour in New York City, and Gish recalls that the divine Sarah “was kind, . . . but discipline was rigid in that company.” The Gishes continued to act in road-company productions, and 1912 found both Lillian and Dorothy in Baltimore. Gish remembers: “We weren’t children, but we weren’t grown-up either. Whenever we had saved up a nickel, we would go see Biograph pictures. They were the only ones we liked. So when we saw that our friend Gladys Smith was in a movie called Lena and the Geese (1912), we went to see it. However, we thought she must be in some kind of trouble if she was in the movies instead of acting in the theater, because we didn’t think movie acting was quite legitimate then. But later we learned that Lionel Barrymore worked there, and Mother said. ‘Well, if there’s a Barrymore there, it can’t be all that bad.'” Leaving Baltimore, the Gishes returned to New York City and paid a visit to the Biograph Studio at 11 East 14th Street to see their friend Mary Pickford who by then had appeared in more than one hundred motion pictures (mostly one-reelers) and had become Biograph’s most popular actress. Pickford introduced her two friends to the formidable D. W. Griffith, and that same afternoon, Gish says, he hired them at five dollars a day and began rehearsing them. “His rehearsal consisted of chasing us around the room and firing a gun filled with blanks at the ceiling to see how we could express fright. We thought we were in an insane asylum.”
The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me (03 1969) The Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912 — with Lillian Gish.
An Unseen Enemy – Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish
An Unseen Enemy – Lillian Gish
Both Gish sisters worked as extras with Griffith’s stock company, and soon they were cast as sisters in leading roles in a melodrama entitled An Unseen Enemy (1912). Griffith then chose Lillian to play the sweatshop worker who is harrassed by hoodlums in The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) important as an early example of Griffith’s expert directorial technique.
While the family welcomed the money—often their weekly salary in theater had been only ten dollars—Gish’s aspirations were always for the theater. Late in 1912, she signed with David Belasco to appear with Pickford in A Good Little Devil. The play opened in January, 1913, but shortly thereafter Lillian fell ill with ‘pernicious anemia.’ As was his practice during the winters. Griffith took his Biograph players, including Dorothy, to California. Before leaving. Griffith offered Lillian fifty dollars a week to join them upon her recuperation. Gish did giving up her theater ambitions for the time being to participate in a revolutionary era in motion-picture history.
DW Griffith directing Lillian Gish – background Robert Harron
From the very beginning of their association. Griffith never told Gish, or any of his performers, how to act. Gish says, “He never taught us how to act. He simply said study the human race. And he was right. That’s the best way to learn. And also one should play ever) game, like tennis, that one can. I took fencing lessons and all kinds of dancing lessons so that I learned to control the way my body moved. But nobody can teach acting. Just speak loud and clear and learn to have absolute control over your body and voice.”
Fine Arts – Griffith Stars Back Row: Dorothy Gish, Seena Owen, Norma Talmadge Middle Row: Robert Harron, Harry Aitken (producer), Sir Beerbohm-Tree, Owen Moore, Wilfred Lucas Front Row: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Constance Talmadge, Constance Collier, Lillian Gish (Marfa in Sold For Marriage), Fay Tincher, DeWolfe Hopper Photograph – Raymond Lee of Roy George Association
From the outset, Gish took her responsibility to this new medium very seriously, and as early as 1913, she was quoted as saying: “To play for thepictures is mostly a matter of the face and of learning to think inside.” Griffith himself, in 1914, stated modestly: “I did not ‘teach’ the players with whom my name is linked. We developed together; we found ourselves in a new art, and, as we discovered the possibilities of that art, we learned together.”
Gish perfected her craft in picture after picture, and in 1912 alone she appeared in three films with Pickford and Lionel Barrymore, most notably The New York Hat, which was based on the first screenplay written by the inimitable Anita Loos. Gish and Loos remained lifelong friends, and Gish recalls: “We called her Mrs. Spinoza’ because she was so wise; we didn’t open our mouths around her. She wrote stories and subtitles and was a talented, beautiful, and funny lady.”
Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish
Pickford soon left Griffith to establish her unique place in silent films, but she and Gish remained lifelong friends. “Mary always credited me with her successful career playing a child,” says Gish, “I told her to play a child. I had seen her play Essex the child in Little Lord Fauntleroy and I suggested she do a full-length film about a child. At the time, Marguerite Clark was successful playing children on the screen because she was tiny four feet, ten inches] and weighed only about ninety pounds. But Marguerite was dark and a different type, so I told Mary she should try it also. And she did.”
Many years later, the mature, retired Mary Pickford announced that she was going to burn the prints of all of her old films. Gish heard about it and intervened: “I told her she had no right to destroy her films. They don’t belong to you,’ I said. They belong to the world.’ And thank heavens she listened.” In 1913, Griffith starred Gish in a picture developed expressly for her talents — The Mothering Heart—then cast her as the young mother in his four reel epic, Judith of Betluilia ( 1913). When he left Biograph at the end of 1913, Lillian and Dorothy followed him to the Mutual Company. Gish quickly grew in popularity with the American public, and consequently Griffith cast her as Elsie Stoneman in The Birth of a Nation (1915), a part originally intended for Blanche Sweet. The film remains a hallmark in American motion-picture history and in Gish’s career. “We shot that picture in nine weeks. We rehearsed it extensively and then shot it—every scene but one— in one take. We had to shoot Mae Marsh’s death scene twice because she forgot to wrap the Confederate flag around her waist.”
It had become Griffith’s practice to rehearse his actors repeatedly to save both money and film when shooting time came. “We rehearsed extensively and never with a script,” remembers Gish. “Nothing was written down. He called the part out to us, and it was up to us to find the character. During those nine weeks on The Birth of a Nation, we stopped only here and there so he could go out and get some more money. That film cost sixty-one thousand dollars, and he had only fifty thousand dollars, so he would borrow from anyone he could. One day Mother offered him three hundred dollars, andhe asked how much money she had in all. She said just that three hundred, and he refused to accept it. He always considered others before himself. And when he died, even though he was broke, he owed no one a penny. He was a true Southern gentleman.”
Thereupon followed Gish’s star years with Griffith: Intolerance (1916); Hearts of the World (1918), with her sister, Dorothy; Broken Blossoms (1919); Way Down East (1920) ; and Orphans of the Storm (1921). again with Dorothy.
Lillian Gish in Intolerance (1916) – The Cradle Endlessly Rocking
In Intolerance, Gish’s part was a small but pivotal one. Swathed in white, she was the mother rocking the cradle in the scene which linked the four part story together. Hearts of the World was a popular and important film, but Gish’s favorite among her films is Broken Blossoms, in which she starred to great acclaim with Richard Barthelmess. It was in this film that she gave her highly personal lyrical style its fullest expression. By this time in their association, Griffith had complete confidence in Gish’s talent; “I give her an outline of what I hope to accomplish and let her work it out her own way. When she gets it, she has something of her own. Of course she is imitated. A dozen actresses copy whatever she does and even get themselves up to look like her, which obliges her to change her methods.”
DW Griffith filming team – Mamaroneck NY – Way Down East
“Way Down East” – Lillian Gish and D.W. Griffith on set
Actress Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Kate Bruce, D.W. Griffith, Mrs. David Landau, Burr McIntosh, Lowell Sherman in a scene from the movie Way Down East
Gish worked in two more Griffith films, Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm, and then, by mutual consent, she struck out on her own. It was simply a matter of economics. She was worth more than Griffith could pay her, and as he had done with other actresses before her who had gained stardom under his aegis—Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, and Mae Marsh — he suggested that Gish should seek the fortune and acclaim she so richly deserved. “Thus,” she says, “in the most friendly way, an artistic and business association of many years was broken off as casually as it had begun.” In 1922, Gish signed an eight-year contract with Inspiration Pictures for $1,250 a week plus fifteen percent of the profits and story approval. Her first Inspiration film was The White Sister (1923), directed by Henry King. Gish played a nun, and the picture was shot in Italy during a period of seven months.
White Sister Lobby Card (Inspiration Pictures)
Shortly before the cast and crew were scheduled to sail for Europe, there was still no leading man. Gish recalls: “Ronald Colman was appearing on Broadway in La Tendresse, with Ruth Chatterton. The photographer James Abbe, who was going to photograph the stills for The White Sister, saw him in the play and told me about him. and so Henry and I went to see him. I thought he would be an excellent choice for the part of the Italian Captain Severi, and so we went to talk with the play’s producer, Henry Miller. That was on a Thursday. Miller graciously released Colman, and we sailed on Saturday.
The White Sister
“Colman was a charming man, but there was one scene which caused him difficulty. He was British to the core, and the scene called for him to lose his temper like an Italian. He was too British to unbend. So one night at dinner. I suggested to Henry that we give him too much to drink and shoot the scene that night. We did,” she laughs, “and he finally did unbend.”
Lillian Gish – Romola (detail)
Romola (1924), also with Colman, was Gish’s second and final picture for Inspiration; she had experienced contractual difficulties with Charles H. Duell, the company’s president, from the beginning. She signed an $800,000, six picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; the films were to be made during a two-year period, and she was to have approval of both story and director.
At M-G-M, Lillian worked closely with Irving G. Thalberg. Her first picture for them was La Boheme (1926), about which she says, “I adored Irving from the beginning. Next to Griffith, I respected him the most. Louis B. Mayer was the businessman, but it was Irving who was so sensitive and artistic. And he was greatly overworked. When I went to M-G-M, I asked him to screen The Big Parade (1925) for me, and after seeing it, I asked him to get me the director [King Vidor] and the leading man [John Gilbert] for La Boheme. I also requested photographer Hendrick Sartov, who had photographed a number of my Griffith films and who had invented a soft-focus lens which he called the ‘Lillian Gish lens.’ Irving agreed, and he let me do it my own way.
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Houston Chronicle/HCN staff | August 30, 2018
Westfield 31, Lamar 14
Westfield running back Joshua Adams (19) is tackled at the line of scrimmage by Lamar defensive back Mike Davis (15) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
Westfield running back Joshua Adams (19) is tackled at the line of scrimmage by Lamar defensive back Mike Davis (15) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30,
Photo: Joe Buvid/Houston Chronicle
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Westfield wide receiver Rayshawn James (1) catches a pass and runs for a first down before being shoved out of bounds by Lamar defensive back Jalen Emery (7) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
Westfield wide receiver Rayshawn James (1) catches a pass and runs for a first down before being shoved out of bounds by Lamar defensive back Jalen Emery (7) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on
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Westfield wide receiver Makes Thomas (8) catches a pass before being tackled by Lamar defensive back Jalen Emery (7) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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The Lamar High dance team stands at attention for the national anthem before a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar defensive lineman Travon Johnson (90) sacks Westfield quarterback Terrance Gibson (10) for a loss in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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The Lamar High School football team runs onto the field before a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield quarterback in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar quarterback Drew Woodcox goes through pregame warmups before a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar defensive lineman Travon Johnson (90) goes through pregame warmups before a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar head coach Michael Lindsey is shown on the sidelines during a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield wide receiver Nakeo Thomas (8) tries to spin away from Lamar defensive back Alex Hogan (9) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar quarterback Troy Tisdale (6) scrambles out of the pocket in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield head coach Matt Meekins is shown durinng a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar running back Joe Wilson (red) is tackled by Westfield defensive back Marcus Moore (white) near the line of scrimmage in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar quarterback Drew Woodcox (8) is tackled near the line of scrimmage by Westfield defensive lineman William Hatter (90) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
Lamar quarterback Drew Woodcox (8) is tackled near the line of scrimmage by Westfield defensive lineman William Hatter (90) in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in
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Lamar quarterback Troy Tisdale (6) throws a short pass for a touchdown in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield running back Dexter Johnson (21) cuts back against the Lamar defense to gain extra yardage in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield quarterback Terrance Gipson (10) scrambles for positive yardage in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield running back Dexter Johnson (21) is tackled near the goal line in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield wide receiver Rayshawn James (1) dives into the end zone for Westfield's first touchdown of a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar returner Alex Hogan (9) returns a kickoff and is tackled near the 30-yard line by a Westfield defender in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield wide receiver Rayshawn James carries the ball down near the end zone in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield running back Joshua Adams (19) carries the ball for positive yardage in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Lamar quarterback Troy Tisdale warms-up before a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Westfield running back Rayshawn James (1) carries the ball for a touchdown in a high school football game at Delmar Stadium on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018, in Houston.
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Memorial 17, Seven Lakes 14
The Mustangs take the field for the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
The Mustangs take the field for the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully
Photo: Craig Moseley/Staff Photographer
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Quarterback Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial dives for a touchdown in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Quarterback Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial dives for a touchdown in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at
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Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial tries to pull in a wayward hike in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial tries to pull in a wayward hike in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at
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Jax Rawlinson (43) of Memorial carries the ball in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Jax Rawlinson (43) of Memorial carries the ball in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium,
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Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes takes a hand off from Michael Batton (7) in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes takes a hand off from Michael Batton (7) in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30,
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Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial drops back for a pass in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial drops back for a pass in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium,
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Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial rolls out to pass for a two point conversion in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Wilson Carrell (9) of Memorial rolls out to pass for a two point conversion in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30,
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Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial hauls in a pass for a two point converssion in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial hauls in a pass for a two point converssion in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August
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Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial is tackled by multiple Spartans in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial is tackled by multiple Spartans in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at
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Davis Koskie (2) of Memorial hauls in a 21 yard pass for a touchdown in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Davis Koskie (2) of Memorial hauls in a 21 yard pass for a touchdown in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018
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Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes is tackled by Cameron Justice (87) of Memorial in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes is tackled by Cameron Justice (87) of Memorial in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August
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John Harrington (10) of Seven Lakes is tackled by Zach Reynolds (20) of Memorial in the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
John Harrington (10) of Seven Lakes is tackled by Zach Reynolds (20) of Memorial in the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August
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The Spartans take the field for the start of the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
The Spartans take the field for the start of the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston,
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Quarterback Michael Batton (7) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Quarterback Michael Batton (7) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the third quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully
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Rasheen Green (2) of Seven Lakes dives for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Rasheen Green (2) of Seven Lakes dives for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully
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Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Milton Jones (27) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the second quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium,
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Quarterback Michael Batton (7) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Quarterback Michael Batton (7) of Seven Lakes carries the ball in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully
Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial takes a hand off from Wilson Carrell (9) in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Nicholas Pilegge (4) of Memorial takes a hand off from Wilson Carrell (9) in the first quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30,
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Jake Bartley (40) of Memorial is tackled by multiple Spartan defenders in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Jake Bartley (40) of Memorial is tackled by multiple Spartan defenders in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018
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Jaden Embra(13) of Seven Lakes celebrates his touchdown with Resheen Green (2) and Cole Graves (55) in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial Mustangs on Thursday August 30, 2018 at Tully Stadium, Houston, TX.
Jaden Embra(13) of Seven Lakes celebrates his touchdown with Resheen Green (2) and Cole Graves (55) in the fourth quarter of a high school football game between the Seven Lakes Spartans and the Memorial
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Grand Oaks 62, KIPP Houston 6
Grand Oaks players are seen after the school's first win in a 62-6 victory over KIPP Houston at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks players are seen after the school's first win in a 62-6 victory over KIPP Houston at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks
Photo: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) looks to pass to tight end Garett Steele (10) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) looks to pass to tight end Garett Steele (10) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in
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Grand Oaks tight end Garett Steele (10) turns up field after catching a pass from quarterbackJames Holmon during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks tight end Garett Steele (10) turns up field after catching a pass from quarterbackJames Holmon during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug.
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during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) runs a play during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game. Grand Oaks defeated KIPP Houston 62-6.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) runs a play during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston
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Members of the Grand Oaks band cheer during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game. Grand Oaks defeated KIPP Houston 62-6.
Members of the Grand Oaks band cheer during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) avoids pressure from KIPP Houston defensive end David Padilla (50) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) avoids pressure from KIPP Houston defensive end David Padilla (50) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug.
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Grand Oaks defensive back David Wilkins (24) pressures KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game. Grand Oaks defeated KIPP Houston 62-6.
Grand Oaks defensive back David Wilkins (24) pressures KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) cheers with teammates before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) cheers with teammates before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the
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The Grand Oaks offensive line is seen during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game. Grand Oaks defeated KIPP Houston 62-6.
The Grand Oaks offensive line is seen during the fourth quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the
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Grand Oaks players are seen after the school's first win in a 62-6 victory over KIPP Houston at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools
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Grand Oaks players warm up before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
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Grand Oaks High School flag line members prepare before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks High School flag line members prepare before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) warms up before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) warms up before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first
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A rainbow is seen before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
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Grand Oaks wide receiver Chris Carlock (14) runs for a 38-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks wide receiver Chris Carlock (14) runs for a 38-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks
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Grand Oaks running back Micah Cooper (8) fields a kickoff during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks running back Micah Cooper (8) fields a kickoff during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP
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Grand Oaks High School trombone player Christopher Hernandez reaches toward Emma Butler for his instrument before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks High School trombone player Christopher Hernandez reaches toward Emma Butler for his instrument before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in
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Grand Oaks head coach Mike Jackson is seen before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks head coach Mike Jackson is seen before a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football
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Grand Oaks wide receiver David Wilkins (24) recovers a fumbled kickoff return during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks wide receiver David Wilkins (24) recovers a fumbled kickoff return during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand
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Grand Oaks wide receiver Tyler Dale (88) runs for an 18-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks wide receiver Tyler Dale (88) runs for an 18-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks
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Grand Oaks defensive linemen Giancarlo Vitela (52) reacts with teammates after recovering a fumble by KIPP Houston running back Myles Hunter (3) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive linemen Giancarlo Vitela (52) reacts with teammates after recovering a fumble by KIPP Houston running back Myles Hunter (3) during the first quarter of a high school football game at
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Grand Oaks defensive linemen Giancarlo Vitela (52) recovers a fumble by KIPP Houston running back Myles Hunter (3) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive linemen Giancarlo Vitela (52) recovers a fumble by KIPP Houston running back Myles Hunter (3) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday,
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Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) reacts after sacking KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) reacts after sacking KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday,
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Grand Oaks defensive Luke Lendvai (55) pressures KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive Luke Lendvai (55) pressures KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in
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Grand Oaks running back Kendre Jackson (6) returns a kickoff for a 49-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks running back Kendre Jackson (6) returns a kickoff for a 49-yard touchdown during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah.
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The Grand Oaks defense pressure KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
The Grand Oaks defense pressure KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks
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Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) sacks KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) sacks KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in
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Grand Oaks linebacker Hiram Myers (4) jumps into the air after hitting KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) in the backfield during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks linebacker Hiram Myers (4) jumps into the air after hitting KIPP Houston quarterback Sammy Lopez (2) in the backfield during the first quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank
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Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) tackles KIPP Houston kicker Todd Watson (1) on a field goal attempt during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks defensive linemen Martrell Harris (42) tackles KIPP Houston kicker Todd Watson (1) on a field goal attempt during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9 makes a pass during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9 makes a pass during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston
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Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) looks to control a high snap during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks quarterback James Holmon (9) looks to control a high snap during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks
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Grand Oaks wide receiver Chris Vanderberg (3) runs after catching a pass from quarterback James Holmon during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks wide receiver Chris Vanderberg (3) runs after catching a pass from quarterback James Holmon during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30,
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KIPP Houston cornerback Todd Watson (1) breaks up a pass intended for Grand Oaks wide receiver Cade Hogelin (11) in the endzone during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
KIPP Houston cornerback Todd Watson (1) breaks up a pass intended for Grand Oaks wide receiver Cade Hogelin (11) in the endzone during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank
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Grand Oaks running back Alexander Lopez (21) runs the ball during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks running back Alexander Lopez (21) runs the ball during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP
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Grand Oaks head coach Mike Jackson is seen during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the schools first football game.
Grand Oaks head coach Mike Jackson is seen during the second quarter of a high school football game at Woodforest Bank Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Shenandoah. Grand Oaks played KIPP Houston in the
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DC Secret Files
Learn the secrets behind the greatest heroes and villains of the DC Universe with these special issues that delve into all aspects of their lives--from enemies and allies to caves and fortresses and everything in between! These issues also tie in to some of the DC Universe's biggest events, including the return of the JSA and INFINITE CRISIS!
Our Worlds At War
Tying into the "Our Worlds at War" event erupting from the Superman titles throughout the DCU! Heroes and villains must work together to face a threat that spells doom for the entire planet. But as in all wars, victory will come at a price and great sacrifices will be made.
Meet the Fastest Kid Alive--and quite arguably the most reckless! Bart Allen takes center stage in his very own series exploring the everyday aspects of superhero life--from secret identities to super-villains--and the everyday aspects of being a kid in a small suburban town.
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Following the Death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday, new heroes appear in Metropolis claiming to be the Man of Steel reborn! Who is the Superboy and what is his connection to one of the greatest villains in the DCU?
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Columns » Voice of Reason
Stop playing with parks ownership
by Indy editorial board
Something stinks worse than the detritus festering in the trash at America the Beautiful Park. It’s wafting from the direction of City Hall. It’s warm, kind of smoky, and fetid with the transfer of power from the people to the select few.
It’s City Councilor Wayne Williams’ 11th-hour proposal to silence voters’ voices on major sales of parklands, and place the decision solely in the hands of Council. Granted, the idea would require a super-majority of the board — six (or seven, as some suggest) votes from nine members — but it would also mean taxpayers wouldn’t have a say when Council considers the sale or swap of major tracts of publicly owned land.
Here’s a hypothetical that Council President Richard Skorman presented to the Indy’s Pam Zubeck in this week’s cover story about Protect Our Parks (POPs, see p. 20): “Down the road, during a bad economy, maybe we’ll ask if we should sell some part of Garden of the Gods to a zip-line company.”
Under Williams’ proposal, if just 66 percent of Council signed off, buh-bye public park, hello commercial enterprise.
It’s really wresting the decision from the people who own the land. click to tweet
There is precedent. Remember Strawberry Fields, the 189 acres of breathtaking land adjacent to North Cheyenne Cañon that the city handed over to The Broadmoor and billionaire owner Philip Anschutz in 2016?
Yeah. You didn’t get to vote on that, did you?
Back in March, we asked Williams — then a candidate for Council, after serving as a county commissioner, county clerk and recorder, then secretary of state — where he stood on POPs. At the time, Save Cheyenne had proposed a ballot measure giving voters the right to decide on big land swaps.
This is exactly what Williams wrote in our questionnaire: “As an El Paso County Commissioner I worked to add more than a thousand acres of park land and open space. I’ve reviewed both the POPs Ballot Research & Analysis and the City Attorney’s Legal Analysis. I do believe the present ballot language is overbroad and should be both clearer and more narrowly focused.
“There are times when a private nonprofit or other government might appropriately take on a long-term agreement. For example, El Pomar’s World Arena took over the management of the Pikes Peak Center and added a number of significant improvements. Norris Penrose is another example of a transfer that resulted in significant improvements for the public. POPs limits such agreements to ‘short-term’ which would preclude investment. City parks are often adjacent to similarly used school district recreation property like Lulu Pollard. The present language appears to forbid or limit consolidation and long-term joint efforts.”
For the record, we didn’t endorse, but we did recommend Williams for one of three at-large Council seats.
That initial, “overbroad” proposal was scrapped, and a committee of some of the city’s heaviest hitters — including the League of Women Voters, Aiken Audubon Society, Palmer Land Trust, Parks Advisory Board, Councilors Skorman and Bill Murray, Parks Director Karen Palus and mayoral Chief of Staff Jeff Greene — came up with a compromise measure that gives Council the authority on smaller exchanges but requires voter approval for major transfers.
Still, apparently Williams knows best.
While a super-majority vote may appear to be protecting parklands, it’s really wresting the decision from the people who own the land. We taxpayers control the purse strings; our parks, our call. Council must put the kibosh on Williams’ idea and respect the long, inclusive process that yielded a compromise serving the land and the people. For major transactions, the people should be consulted.
Councilors are term-limited at eight years. Parks and open space, on the other hand, are part of the city forever. Let the community decide whether they are worth keeping.
See related PDF Williams_2019_council_endorsement_questionnaire.pdf
Voice of Reason Web Tags City Council Wayne Williams Richard Skorman Protect Our Parks editorial
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Harte, Amanda
It's the fall of 1917, and the people in Canela, Texas are shocked when Carolyn Wentworth, believed to be nothing more than a beautiful social butterfly, volunteers to go to France as a nurse's aid. She'll be back in a month, they predict. But there's more to Carolyn than anyone realizes. Though she's appalled by the conditions in the hospital, she will not admit that her impulsive decision may have been the biggest mistake of her life. Instead, she sets out to prove that humor can heal. To the patients' amusement, she even resorts to wearing a clothespin on her nose when she empties bedpans, and she sees nothing wrong with dancing in the rain.Clothespin Carolyn, as she's soon named, is a hit with the soldiers, much to the annoyance of Dwight Hollins, a brilliant physician who the nurses are convinced has never learned to smile. Doesn't Carolyn understand that war is serious? Someone needs to tell her that, and that someone is Dwight.Carolyn and Dwight's sparring soon becomes the talk of the hospital - causing the patients to accuse them of being like an old married couple. They're wrong, of course. "Love" is not a word that applies to them until the day Carolyn impulsively promises that she and Dwight will dance on Christmas Day to entertain the patients. Though it's the last thing either of them intends, soon they're learning much more than the latest dance steps.
Publisher: New York : Avalon Books, c2003.
Read more reviews of Dancing in the Rain at iDreamBooks.com
Tayntor, Christine B.
Nurses' Aides — Fiction.
War Brides — Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 — Fiction.
France — Fiction
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ChargePoint’s host site sales pitch, and the charging station infrastructure that doesn’t quite serve us
David Herron December 10, 2015 December 10, 2015 EV Charging, Uncategorized
With the recent embrace of DC Fast Charging, as well as Home Charging solutions, ChargePoint has positioned itself as a full service electric car charging station network. Today, ChargePoint held a Webinar targeted at “property owners” who would be a charging station host site. The goal of course is to persuade new host sites to join the ChargePoint network.
To the extent that ChargePoint is the leading charging station network operator, it’s worthwhile to think about CP’s sales pitch. Is CP doing a good job or not of getting new host sites? And how does ChargePoint assure us, the EV drivers, that the resulting network will “work” as the charging infrastructure we need for travels around town and beyond?
Why should a host site adopt ChargePoint’s solution? Why not just install 120 volt outdoors-capable power outlets? Why not go with cheaper dumb stations? In other words, the ChargePoint approach is a networked station, with a variety of authentication methods, for which CP charges a yearly service fee. I hear that some balk at the service fee. The justification CP gave during the call included these points:
Networked charging station means:
Remote monitoring for both utilization reporting, and detecting outages
Over the air updates of software for new revisions
Several capabilities for the drivers which require data communication
Authentication and control of who can consume your electricity
The ability to charge for, and account for, electricity
Customizable fee structure to suit business purposes
Electricity consumed as vehicle fuel needs to be separated from other electricity consumption, so that businesses can properly document their green building credits
Driver services include:
Knowledge about station status before driving to station
Potential to reserve a charging station
Text messaging from the network operator – such as a warning when the charge cable was detached
Simple level 1 outlets are unsafe and insufficient
No control over usage
Charge rate is too low to be of use to drivers
No capability for power sharing between outlets
Safety hazard
ChargePoint is a mature charging station provider, with several well designed EVSE products
Over the last few months, ChargePoint has added both charging stations for Home and DC Fast Charging to its existing portfolio of level 2 charging stations. These are welcome, and I’m eagerly awaiting DC Fast Charging installation in the West Coast and East Coast charging corridor’s which were promised almost a year ago. That joint venture between CP, VW and BMW was a strong positive sign of cooperation between the DC Fast Charging camps. ChargePoint brought on-board two types of DC Fast Charging equipment over the summer, one a 25 kW CCS station from BMW, and the other a 50 kW CCS/CHAdeMO station from Veefil. And CP has promised me we’ll see significant progress on the two DC Fast Charging corridors over the next couple months.
Evade blocked charging stations with one of these handy J1772 extension cords.
I didn’t cover their Home charging station when it came out, but the unit is designed to be extremely easy to install. It’s basically, get your electrician to install a NEMA 240 volt 50 amp outlet, bolt the thing to the wall, and plug it in.
Let’s go over some of the points above, because I have a quibble to discuss.
The value of Level 1 charging
Are simple level 1 (120 volt) power outlets as useless as ChargePoint suggested? Remember that CP’s goal here was to get host sites to join the ChargePoint network. That means presenting their solution as better than the alternatives.
I’ve used simple level 1 outlets for charging while away from home. While they’re suboptimal, it’s better than no charging at all. As the CP person said on the call, via level 1 your car gains about 4 miles of range per hour of charging, and on level 2 charging it gains about 20-25 miles range per hour of charging. Generally speaking that makes level 2 or faster charging desirable in the public, but at the same time level 1 can play a significant role.
The key consideration is the “dwell time” at a given location. Places with a short dwell time, like a grocery store, or highway rest stop, are very suitable fast charging. Places with long dwell times are suitable for level 2 or even level 1 charging. For example, charging during an 8 hour workday on a level 1 outlet gives 30-35 miles of range. That’s more than enough for a typical commute. Therefore a typical workplace could install a row of 120 volt outlets as their charging solution, offer many more charging points to employees than if they had 240 volt level 2 charging stations, at a lower cost, while avoiding the administrative overhead of managing complex charging stations, while giving their employees enough range to drive home.
The host site needs to decide for themselves what they want. They might or might not care enough about the electricity cost to spend thousands of dollars on charging stations. Certainly those who want to control all costs will want to control who can and cannot charge their cars.
The value of network-connected charging stations
If it’s cheaper to install dumb charging stations – no network connection, for simple low-cost hardware design – then why not encourage host sites to install those? Clipper Creek is a fine maker of high quality reliable charging stations at a reasonable cost.
The value to EV drivers isn’t just having enough charging ports in the world. It’s also knowing whether the station is available. The last thing someone on their last electron wants it to spend that electron driving to a station that’s broken, occupied, or has even been removed.
Network-connected charging stations can report status to the network operator, who then displays that status on the smart phone app. A quick check of the smart phone app is what EV drivers need.
What’s best for the drivers?
At the end of the day who is ChargePoint serving? The EV drivers? Or the host sites? And, is the result what we need?
Since ChargePoint collects money from both EV drivers and host sites, in theory both camps are CP’s customer. But I suspect the primary customer might be the host sites. CP does need to satisfy the host sites so that they remain host sites, and not abandon CP for some other charging network.
The shape of ChargePoint’s charging network isn’t necessarily designed purposefully with the optimum spread of charging stations. Instead, the locations are determined by the host sites who agree to install stations.
Therefore the resulting network is not optimal, which is readily seen any time we plan a trip involving public charging. How many times have you been able to implement that golden combination of destinations with public charging? For example, I’m contemplating a trip to the grocery store later today, and there’s no convenient charging anywhere near any nearby grocery much less the one I want to visit.
While I’ve focused on ChargePoint, the same issue exists for the other charging station network operators. Except for Tesla Motors, none of them are purposefully planning the network but are instead dependent on which host sites to pop up.
ChargePoint. Bookmark.
ChargePoint Places promoting win-win for both electric car drivers and destination sites
Ford’s new electrification plans are both exciting and yawn-inducing at the same time – hurry up, Ford!
Jason_Jungreis
Can the ChargePoint EVSEs, directly of through back-office communications, be set so that each knows what the others are doing in a facility, and can ratchet up or down the KW going to each? In other words, if no one is charging, then the 1 used EVSE will give full power (say, 10KW), but if there are 4 EVSEs on the same circuit box and it can only yield a limited amount of total power, then each EVSE will provide limited power (say, 2.5KW). For that matter, it would also be interesting if the EVSEs can be programmed to start charging when electricity is inexpensive, but allow the user to plug in and override that programming.
David Herron
ChargePoint is working on advanced power sharing. The CT4000 can share one circuit to two charging cords now. The EAASV had a meeting at ChargePoint recently, and they said they’re working on power sharing between separate stations.
Interesting, good information, thanks.
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Listen My Heart… Curators’ Statement
January 24, 2013 · by nadalex · in Uncategorized · 2 Comments
LISTEN, my heart takes place in a cinema—a room with no windows, a room dedicated to a magic screen. Tonight, these screens are dark, and we bring to you the sounds of the world outside. This is a cinema for the ear.
STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. – Rabindranath Tagore 1
The history of art and architecture is intimately tied to a history of windows. The earliest windows were simply holes in the wall or ceiling, which permitted light, smoke, and air to pass between inside and outside. In the Classical Age, windows became screens; the translucent alabaster windows of the Mediterranean and paper windows of the East illuminated a new private realm indoors. While the lattice-work Shanasheels of medieval Mesopotamia permitted women to peek out onto the street without being seen themselves, it was the invention of transparent plate glass that transformed the window into a vantage point.
In the 14th century, Leon Battista Alberti codified his theory of perspective, suggesting that painters could transfer a scene to the canvas by imagining it framed within a grid as if through a paneled window;2 this “window” became the standard for perspectival composition. In the 20th century, René Magritte’s The Human Condition (1933) used the device of Alberti’s window to confuse the boundaries between inside and outside, painted and real, visible and invisible:
“In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room. For the spectator, it was both inside the room within the painting and outside in the real landscape.”3
Magritte’s “painting of a painting” represents the window not only as a vantage point, but as a point of transition, bringing Alberti’s window to its logical conclusion.
By contrast, in Open Window, Collioure (1914) by Henri Matisse, vantage is abandoned altogether: there is nothing to see at allbut the blackness of night. The viewer can only imagine the sights and sounds outside. Like the window in Tagore’s poem, it becomes a place for listening—to songs, rustles, noises, silence.
PUT out the lamp when thou wishest.
I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.
Listen my heart… reaches back to the roots of the modern cinema in the music hall. In 1894, when the Manhattan Opera House built by Oscar Hammerstein failed, it was reopened as Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, under the direction of John Koster and Adam Bial, a pair of German brewers who had run a racy vaudeville tavern. In 1896, a few months after the Lumière Brothers presented their first public screening of the cinématographe at Le Salon Indien in Paris, Koster and Bial installed an Edison Vitascope motion picture projector in their hall. Short films were projected between vaudeville acts, and used as scenery for plays or musical numbers in the manner of the old “magic lanterns.”
A decade later, the Nickelodeon opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: the first theater that exclusively presented motion pictures. It played short films for a “nickel” (five cents) and was soon replicated throughout the United States. The cinema hall was born. Early cinemas had a simple layout, with central corridors and seats facing a frontal screen, and the films they played were silent and short. Cinema architecture—what little there was—aimed to bring as many people as possible in to see the screen.The development of sound films or “talkies” in the 1920s transformed this place for seeing into a place for experiencing. Massive theaters featuring elaborate modern designs, luxurious interiors, giant screens and theater boxes—epitomized by the 6200 seat Roxy Theater in Manhattan—were built in cities around the world. Major motion picture studios financed and built these early movie palaces, such as the Metro Cinema, built by MGM in Bombay, which opened in 1933 and became the famous “Red Carpet Cinema” of Bollywood.
In traditional European opera houses and music halls, rooms were resonant: architecture magnified the voices of singers, instruments, and the audience. The cinema hall required new acoustics: architecture would now cancel sounds, so that audiences could cleanly hear the recorded soundtrack. The adoption of standards for film-sound recording and playback in the 1930s and developments in sound recording and transmission during World War II spurred further acoustic distillation. Beginning with Disney’s Fantasia, released at the outbreak of the war in 1940, which required its own custom sound system developed specifically for the movie, cinema sound would develop both new dynamic range and depth of immersion. The development of Dolby Stereo in the 1970s introduced a degree of control for directors and sound designers from the studio to playback in the cinema hall. Dolby Stereo’s four-channels of Left, Right, Center (dialogue) and Rear (effects, ambiance) would be quickly adopted around the world following the box-office success of George Lucas’s Star Wars in 1977. In the 1990s, Dolby Digital enabled encoding of 5.1 surround sound, or Left, Left Surround, Right, Right Surround, Center (dialogue) and Low Frequency Effects (bass). This arrangement provided full spatialization and even broader dynamic range. 1942: A Love Story (1994) was the first Bollywood production with Dolby Digital sound, which soon became the world standard.
As the French theorist of film sound, Michel Chion, has written:
Whoever goes to a modern theater… will find… stable sound, extremely well defined in high frequencies, powerful in volume, with superb dynamic contrasts, and also, despite its strength and the probably large theater space, a sound that does not sound very reverberant at all. One finds… a great “dry” strength.4
Modern cinemas have become exquisite places to not only watch, but to also listen. They have become the perfect concert halls for this century of electronic instruments and synthesis, digital sound recording and telepresence.
Sound recording, or phonography, has advanced tremendously since its twin invention by Thomas Edison and Charles Cros in 1877. In 1969, Alvin Lucier produced I am sitting a room, a recording equal in significance to Magritte’s The Human Condition, a “recording of recording,” exposing the nature of recording itself and transcending sound as representation. While tremendous technical advances have been made in recording and signal processing, recording has opened up a theoretical abyss: we do not yet know what recordings are and have not digested how recording has transformed music and memory.
Prior to the invention of recording, the repetition of music depended upon the embodied memory of the musician or upon the reduction of all sound into scales of tones and notation of tones. Recording altered the status of sound, turning ephemeral impressions into a thing—an artistic material released from both disappearance and from the requirements of tonality. Recording made possible the emergence of a sound art.
‘Sound art’ is a term for a variety of art practices that focus on sound, hearing and listening. The English term originates in 1983, but ‘sound art’ as such blossomed in fits and starts throughout the 20th century, in text-sound and sound poetry, in sound sculpture and klangkunst, in the German experimental neue hörspiel (new radioplays), and in the public art works of Max Neuhaus. From the intermedia revolution of the 1960s until the new media revolution of the 1990s, these traditions developed as separate branches with distinct histories and concerns. In the 1990s, computer processing power increased to the point where artists and musicians could digitally edit recordings at equal or higher quality to tape. The “bedroom musicians” of the digital recording revolution created new genres of music with densely layered, multi-track recordings. After 1995, inexpensive digital recorders, made for recording sounds outside the studio, appeared on the market. Thousands of enthusiastic phonographers set upon the world, with an instrument much smaller and lighter than previous devices, capturing sounds free of the hiss of tape and the noise of the recording apparatus. During this explosion of new sonic work, it became convenient to speak of any work which was not strictly musical in its concern as ‘sound art.’
A collection of seminal sound themed art exhibitions at the turn of the millennium drew the branches of this tradition together as sound art, beginning with Sound as Media at the ICC Tokyo and Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery in London, both in 2000. These were quickly followed by Sonic Process at the MACBA and Centre Pompidou in 2002; the sound-focused 2002 Whitney Biennial; and Sounding Spaces at the ICC Tokyo in 2003. From Sound Art at ART Cologne in 2004 to Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art at ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2012, foundations and genealogies for a new art have been laid.
Listen, my heart…, a collection of soundscapes presented as cinema for the ear, integrates two important trajectories of this new art: acoustic ecology and cinema pour l’oreille. For this exhibition, we sought works which represent the unique soundscapes—urban, rural and media-based—of the Indian subcontinent, and which also demonstrate high-quality spatialization (diffusion) and play with the conventional experience of movie-going.
“Soundscape” is a double-term, like landscape, that means both the world of sound around us and a composition that represents that audible world. It is both the subject, and the compositional form, of acoustic ecology. Acoustic ecology is the study of the relationship between living beings and their environment mediated through sound. Acoustic ecology emerged in Canada from the work of R. Murray Schafer and his collaborators at the World Soundscape Project.
The concept of soundscape composition may have emerged in 1930 when German film-maker Walter Ruttman produced a recording called Weekend, a collage of words, musical fragments and ambient recordings which tells the story of a weekend trip to the countryside. This “movie without images” produced a “narrative based on the mental images projected by the sounds alone”5 and was, in other words, the first cinema for the ear. Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov followed the next year with Enthusiasm, the most ambitious field-recordingwork of its time. In the 1990s, cinema pour l’oreille emerged as a Francophone tradition rooted in the work of Pierre Schaeffer and the Groupe de recherches musicales; the pioneering tape-compositions of Luc Ferrari; the acousmatic music of Francis Dhomont and Robert Normandeau; and the audio work of Michel Chion. Prioritizing multi-channel audiodiffusion and Pierre Schaeffer’s concept of reduced listening, cinema pour l’oreille has, with the notable exception of Ferrari, avoided or rejected representation. The attitude of reduced listening focuses on sound itself independent of the source or meaning of the recording.
THE mystery of creation is like the darkness of night–it is great.
Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.
As Brandon LaBelle wrote in Background Noise, the soundscapes of Hildegard Westerkamp bridge the “Schafer-Schaeffer Divide” between representation and independence, “harnessing the real while getting closer to its submerged sonority”:
Westerkamp and other soundscape composers may operate along the lines of Chion’s reduced listening though in a way that disavows the aim of such reduction, for soundscape composition returns to the source with renewed and vigorous attention. It pulls us away and then pushes us back in. Westerkamp’s work seems to suggest that such reality may only be heard through entering into a shift in listening consciousness whereby dreamlike states open the way toward active listening and ultimate participation. Her musical transformations function to transform consciousness—to drop it just below the line of awareness so as to awaken the ear to “original contours and meanings.”6
The cinema screen is a window for shared dreams. Our soundscape program begins high in the Himalayas, at the sacred shrine of Muktinath, with its one hundred springs of water.7 From Himalayan peaks, the water of the Yamuna flows to the plains. Listeners can slowly follow the waters in Iain Armstrong’s recording, or hop on a train in Ujjwal Utkarsh’s Yatra, jumping off at the RAQS‘ New Delhi Junction. If they are stuck in Delhi traffic, Michael Northam‘s AGGREGATES will transform the noise. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s Sonic City transports listeners to an abstracted city of sound. And diFfuSed Beats folds the sounds of Delhi into the streets of Zurich over a rhythmic beat in search of the ur-sound of an ur-city without border guards or police. Finally, Kamal Swaroop provides a whole new experience of movie-going, a chance for the audience to remember the pictures of his masterpiece Om Dar-Ba-Dar, or to imagine a new film in their mind.
THE noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.
1 Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916). Translated from Bengali to English by the author. All quotes are from this source unless otherwise attributed.
2 See Joseph Masheck, “Alberti’s ‘Window’: Art-Historiographic Notes on an Antimodernist Misprision,” Art Journal 50, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 34-41.
3 René Magritte, letter to A. Chavee, September 30, 1960.
4 Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, ed. and trans. by Claudia Gorbman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 100.
5 Eduardo Kac, “Aspects of the Aesthetics of Telecommunications,” in Siggraph Visual Preceedings, ed. John Grimes and Gray Lorig (New York: ACM, 1992).
6 Brandon La Belle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum: New York , 2006)
7 As Murray Schafer has written, the first sound heard is “the caress of the waters.” R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1993).
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[Cyber Security 2015] Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Posted: August 19, 2015 in IT Security News
Tags: critical vulnerability, Cyber Security 2015, Cybersecurity threats 2015, dangerous vulnerability, Internet Explorer Vulnerability, Microsoft Security Bulletin, Zero-day vulnerability
Microsoft has corrected zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer
The flaw allows an attacker to gain complete control over the target device.
Microsoft has released an update that corrects zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer of versions 7-11 (this flaw does not appear to be present in new Microsoft Edge). The Critical Hole CVE-2015-2502 allows an attacker to remotely execute code on the target device.
According to Microsoft, the remote user can use a specially created a web-site to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a memory corruption error when handling certain objects. (more…)
New Dangerous Critical Vulnerability in CMS Drupal
Posted: June 19, 2015 in Vulnerability News
Tags: CMS Drupal, critical vulnerability, Cyber Security 2015, dangerous vulnerability, Drupal Security Alert, Drupal vulnerabilities
Dangerous vulnerability has been fixed in Drupal. The most serious issue outlined in the advisory (CVE-2015-3234) allows a malicious user to log in as other users on the site, including administrators, and hijack their accounts.
The victim must have an account in a certain OpenID-providers for a successful attack.
Vulnerabilities identified in the module OpenID, allows a potential attacker to log in as an administrator. However, for a successful attack the victim must have an account associated with the OpenID-providers (for example: Verisign, LiveJournal, StackExchange, and some other). (more…)
A critical remote vulnerability in Samba, which provides root-access to the server
Posted: February 24, 2015 in Vulnerability News
Tags: critical vulnerability, Cyber Security 2015, remote vulnerability, Samba daemon
CVE-2015-0240: A critical remote vulnerability in Samba
Employees MSVR (Microsoft Vulnerability Research) discovered a critical vulnerability the Samba daemon (smbd).
In unplanned releases of Samba 4.1.17, 4.0.25 and 3.6.25 fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240), which can be used to initiate the execution of code on the server side.
Danger problem compounded by the fact that the vulnerability can be exploited without an authentication – to carry out the attack enough send a few specially designed anonymous netlogon-packets on the network port SMB / CIFS of the server. Since by default, smbd daemon runs under root privileges, in the case of a successful attack the attacker can gain root-access to the server. (more…)
The Misfortune Cookie critical Vulnerability can affect millions of home routers
Posted: December 24, 2014 in Vulnerability News
Tags: critical vulnerability, home routers, Misfortune Cookie
The flaw allows a remote user to gain full control over the router and attack all devices connected to the home network.
The company Check Point Software Technologies has found a critical vulnerability Misfortune Cookie, which able to hit tens of millions of home routers worldwide (mostly residential gateways / SOHO – small office/home office routers). The CVE-2014-9222 flaw allows attackers to gain control of network devices, and administrative privileges, and then carry out an attack on all devices in the home network. (more…)
Cyber threats 2014: Serious vulnerability in Sony PlayStation Network
Posted: November 2, 2014 in Vulnerability News
Tags: critical vulnerability, Cyber threats 2014, Sony PlayStation Network
A serious vulnerability in the PlayStation Network service
A critical vulnerability (SQL-injection) revealed in PlayStation Network. The flaw allows an attacker to gain access to Sony’s customer data.
Experts in the field of cyber security have warned that in the Sony PlayStation Network was discovered a serious vulnerability. As reported at Golem.de, service from Sony is vulnerable to SQL-injection, which allows an attacker to gain data from PSN users.
The error was detected by the expert Aria Akhavan. A hacker can visit the Sony’s support site and using a modified parameter in the URL of the resource, view the contents of a database in a browser window. The expert reported the results of their work in Sony, but never received a response. (more…)
Drupal Core – Highly Critical: Each Drupal 7 website may be compromised
Tags: critical vulnerability, Cyber threats 2014, Drupal, Drupal vulnerabilities
Due to the critical vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) that allows an attacker to gain access to the administrator account, developers are advised to roll back to a backup or recreate the site from scratch.
According to the developers of the popular CMS (content management system) Drupal, all web-sites based on Drupal 7.x can be compromised. The problem is related to a critical vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to execute arbitrary SQL-queries to the database resource and uncover the administrator password.
According to the developers, attacks using this breach began immediately after after the announcement October 15 this year. Even those web-sites, which administrators have enough time to apply the update may still be compromised. (more…)
CVE-2014-6352: Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
Posted: October 22, 2014 in Vulnerabilities
Tags: critical vulnerability, Cyber threats 2014, Microsoft Windows, Zero-day vulnerability
Critical Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Windows
Microsoft warns users about 0-day attacks via PowerPoint OLE objects. Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Windows.
Vulnerability in Microsoft OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution and affecting all supported releases of Microsoft Windows, excluding Windows Server 2003.
Today, Microsoft has released Security Advisory 3010060 as well as the “Fix It” temporary patch. A new ID, CVE-2014-6352, has been assigned to track this issue. (more…)
The critical vulnerability in the web content management system Drupal
Tags: critical vulnerability, Drupal, Drupal vulnerabilities, SQL-injection
The critical vulnerability in Drupal (CVE-2014-3704)
In the release of web content management system Drupal 7.32 fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704), which allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in arbitrary SQL execution. The vulnerability assigned the highest level of danger (Highly critical), what indicates the possibility of the remote attacks that can lead to gaining access to the system.
The vulnerability is caused by a bug in the implementation of the method “prepared statement” in thedatabase abstraction API and can be exploited by anonymous users. A vulnerability in this API allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in arbitrary SQL execution. (more…)
Information security: latest news of the week April 14, 2014
Posted: April 15, 2014 in IT Security News
Tags: Android security, CloudFlare, critical vulnerability, FireEye, Mobile Security, OpenSSL
A critical vulnerability in Google allows access to the Google’s production servers
A Team of researchers discovered a critical XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability on Google server that allows users to customize their toolbars with new buttons by uploading XML files containing layout properties. Sounds ridiculous but has been proven by the security researchers from Detectify.
Curious that the researchers used Google dorking to search for vulnerabilities within unpopular applications managed by Google, The Google Toolbar button gallery was the application that most of all attracted their attention.
The vulnerability resides in the Toolbar Button Gallery (as shown). The team of researchers found a loophole after they noticed that Google Toolbar Button Gallery allows users to customize their toolbars with new buttons. (more…)
Overview of security patches from Microsoft for April 2013
Posted: April 10, 2013 in Vulnerability News
Tags: bulletin MS13-036, critical vulnerability, Microsoft, Security Bulletin, security patches, update MS13-036
In March 2013, Microsoft released seven security bulletins that fixed 20 vulnerabilities.
In April 2013, Microsoft released nine security bulletins that were fixed three vulnerability high level and 11 low level risk vulnerabilities. (more…)
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Namewee 黄明志 4896 World Tour
by Maria | Feb 9, 2018 | Content Writing, Music & Dance, Publishers, The Star Performing Arts Centre | 0 comments
The after effects of Namewee’s recent 4896 concert remain indelible in my mind.
As a self-confessed ang moh pai who often listens to English music, 黄明志 or Namewee as he’s known, is one artiste that will perk your head up. I’m no fan, but he has gotten me so curious that I was actually excited to attend his concert at The Star Performing Arts Centre.
After the opening performance by cutesy Malaysian girl group, Amoi Amoi, the Star Theatre dimmed as multiple large digital screens illuminated, broadcasting a video compilation of Namewee’s fledgling struggles, his numerous controversies and his arrests – a badge of honour he carries about to remind the world of how he started.
Finally, the moment everyone was waiting for.
Clad in loose rapper outfit and funny-shaped sunglasses, Namewee rapped to the hearty rhythms of his live band, garnering a cacophony of applause and hollers that made the entire atmosphere vibrate with electrifying exhilaration. His female backup dancers added to the dynamism of his performances, which were catchy, upbeat and amusing, despite the lewd connotations in many of his songs that carry a generous twist of light-hearted wit in their lyrics.
After his first song, Namewee faked a collapse and was dragged away from stage, causing guffaws to erupt. It was the first of his many comedic skits that filled in between his songs.
The 5000-strong crowd interacted to every song he performed – singing, clapping, cheering, screaming, waving, middle finger flashing — you name it. Despite his meteoritic star status, Namewee proved to be pretty down-to-earth. During his entertaining skits, he shared anecdotes of his personal life and spoke to the audience as if they were his friends and they laughed along heartily.
In one instance, he donned a red blazer with multiple flags on it to prove his love for his fans from around the world. This also tied in to his series of light-hearted songs that have whimsical references to the cultures of Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. And he made sure his Singapore audience felt at home with him when he performed “击败人 (Geebai People)”, and “搞笑快行动 (Funny Action)” with local artiste, Jack Neo. The congregation reacted with a high-pitch roar.
The grand momentum was building up. The theatre darkened once again as the screens showed YouTube videos of various fans from around the globe performing covers of his globally acclaimed “漂向北方 (Stranger in the North)”. Namewee performed the popular hit with famous local singer and songwriter, Boon Hui Lu, much to the audience’s delight.
Namewee later revealed his softer, filial side as he admitted the heartaches and the rebellion that he caused to his parents who were on stage with him, and thanking them for their support. I could literally feel his heart and his past when he sang with his mother “老母 (Mother)”, a touching duet about his mother’s enduring love throughout his life journey. He later invited his father to sing, which he remarked was a ‘gift’ to his dad who always dreamed of singing in front of a crowd. Namewee’s parents expressed gratitude for the fans’ support, reigning in another round of applause.
When the concert ended with what was supposedly the last song, the audience refused to leave. The cry for an encore grew louder as voices gathered in unison. Suddenly, the singer-rapper appeared in a video and triggered an exhilarating welcome applause. In the playful video, he asked the audience to scream out loud for their next song request. Namewee and his dancers returned to the stage once more and gave their best to their finale, “泰国情歌 (Thai Love Song)”, followed by splashes of shiny confetti exploding in the air with more cheers and screams.
At his request, Namewee posed for candid photo-taking with the crowd in the background.
Lastly, the audience gave a standing ovation for every performer and stage crew as they joined hands with Namewee and bowed to the crowd with their heartfelt thanks and goodbye.
I expected a chaotic exit, but leaving was surprisingly convenient and fast as everyone emptied the theatre with ease and in a civilised manner (thanks to the multiple exit points!).
Even as I reached the MRT station which was just next door, I could still hear the excitement and nostalgia in the remarks of the passing crowd who continued reminiscing the concert experience.
Although I could not appreciate his controversial actions and often flippant lyrics, I cannot deny that Namewee is as real as he gets. He is unabashed in his honesty and in his opinions, and he addresses social ills with satirical humour in both his songs and in his personality.
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NASA Houston Apollo 17 Displayed Text
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Houston is a very amazing place. The city can be an amazing place to enjoy a vacations with family. One can enjoy and chill during the day, one can either visit a museum and can even go for shopping. At night the foodie scene and many district are very famous and popular, Houston has week long rodeo and barbecue cook off which are an amazing things to enjoy. Here oil and gas contributes a lot to the city's wealth Apollo 16 was made with an objective. The fundamental target of Apollo 16 was to examine, review and test materials and a surface components at a chose landing site. Another objective of Apollo 16 was to emplace and activate surface experiments and the third one of Apollo 16 was to conduct flight experiments and photographic tasks Apollo 16 was a huge success, Apollo 16 went on moon and helped in conducting various experiments and researches which will help in the evolution of mankind. NASA Space Center helps us to know more about Apollo 16 and to know different various facts about Apollo 16 which may be not known to us. Apollo 16 was the 5th mission to land men on the moon and return them to Earth. It was likewise the second flight of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Apollo 16 arrived in a good countries territory, a district not yet explored on the Moon. Space travelers gathered examples, took photos and led tests that incorporated the first utilization of a bright camera/spectrograph on the Moon. The effective Apollo 16 kept an eye on lunar landing mission was the second in a progression of three science-situated J series missions got ready for the Apollo program. The real target of the mission was to examine the lunar surface in the Descartes good countries zone in light of the fact that it was thought to be illustrative of a significant part of the Moon's surface, and a zone of this sort had not been beforehand gone by. Apollo 16 dispatch The Apollo 16 space vehicle was propelled from the Kennedy Space Center (Launch Complex 39A) at 12:55:00 p.m. EST on April 16, 1972.
The Apollo 10 mission was a finished organizing of the Apollo 11 mission without really arriving on the Moon. The mission was the second to circle the Moon and the first to go to the Moon with the whole Apollo shuttle setup. Space travelers Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan plummeted inside the Lunar Module to inside of 14 kilometers of the lunar surface accomplishing the nearest way to deal with the Moon before Apollo 11 handled two months after the fact. NASA Space Center has such a variety of stunning things .This sprawling city is extremely enthusiastic and free soul that transformed it from swampland into the fourth-biggest city in the U.S. Everything is huge, from the towering high rises to the city's noticeable quality in aviation, oil, sending and account. Indeed, even the construction modeling puts forth huge, striking expressions, similar to the restorative focus towers that look like two monster syringes. A flourishing business focus, the city has turned out to be progressively cosmopolitan, with a deluge of different ethnic gatherings and an in number accentuation on expressions of the human experience. They were additionally the main Apollo team the greater part of whose individuals went ahead to fly ensuing missions on board Apollo rocket: Young later told Apollo 16, Cernan directed Apollo 17 and Stafford charged the US vehicle on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. The Apollo 10 team holds the refinement of being the people who have made a trip to the most distant point far from home, somewhere in the range of 408,950 kilometers from their homes and families in Houston. While most Apollo missions circled the Moon at the same 111 kilometers from the lunar surface, timing makes this qualification conceivable as the separation between the Earth and Moon changes by give or take 43,000 kilometers (in the middle of perigee and apogee) consistently, and the Earth's pivot make the separation to Houston fluctuate by another 12,000 kilometers every day. The Apollo 10 group came to the most remote point in their circle around the furthest side of the Moon at more or less the same time Earth had turned around putting Houston almost a full Earth measurement away.
Apollo 12 mission
Houston is a very astounding place .The city can be a marvelous place to enjoy a vacations with family. One can enjoy and chill during the day, one can either visit a museum and can even go for shopping. At night the foodie scene and theater district are very famous and popular, Houston has week long rodeo and barbecue cook off which are an amazing things to enjoy Mission 12 of the Apollo is a very famous and well known experiment made by the scientists and the astronauts. The Apollo 12 mission was the second kept an eye on lunar landing mission. Its goal was to perform definite experimental lunar investigation. The Primary target of the Apollo 12 mission. The principal goal was that to perform review, overview and inspecting in lunar female horse region at first the primary target of Apollo 12 mission was to create strategies for a point arrival capacity. Another target was to create capacity to work in the lunar environment. Auxiliary target of Mission 12 of the Apollo was to the recover parts of the Surveyor III shuttle which had been presented to the lunar environment since the unmanned rocket delicate arrived on the internal slant of a cavity on April 20, 1967. NASA's offices are examination, improvement and correspondence centers to help its missions. A couple of workplaces serve more than one application for significant or administrative reasons. NASA furthermore lives up to expectations a short-line railroad at the Kennedy Space Center and own remarkable flying machine, for case two Boeing 747 that vehicle Space Shuttle orbiter. John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), is one of the best-known NASA workplaces. It has been the dispatch site for each United States human space flight subsequent to 1968. Albeit such flights are presently on interruption, KSC keeps on overseeing and work unmanned rocket dispatch offices for America's nonmilitary personnel space program from three cushions at the abutting Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston is home to the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, where all flight control is overseen for kept an eye on space missions.
NASA Airplane
NASA Space Center is an amazing place to take out family on a trip. It has so many space shuttles and so many activities to do that a day can be so much fun. The Space Center trip can be so informative that people can learn so much. While visiting NASA one can look at the Huge Shuttle with Labels. NASA Airplane are for the people who are very interested in the planes. Labels have details on it which help the tourists to learn more about the shuttle. All the huge shuttle have a label on it. NASA space center has many huge shuttles with labels in it which describes the innovation and intelligence a human can possess NASA Airplane for the tourists and even the NASA Airplane are very much liked and applauded by the adults. It gives a clear picture of the plane and the type of technology used. NASA Airplane can be a great way for the people to learn about planes and technology. Thus NASA has many huge shuttles which have labels on it. Northrop Grumman's idea depends on to a great degree streamlined "flying wing" outline. The four Rolls Royce motors are installed in the upper surface of the wing to accomplish most extreme clamor protecting. The organization utilized its skill as a part of building military planes without a balancing out tail to propose this outline for the business aeronautics market. The "Symbol II" future air ship plan idea for supersonic flight over area originates from the group drove by The Boeing Company. A plan that accomplishes fuel smolder lessening and airplane terminal clamor objectives, it additionally accomplishes extensive diminishments in sonic blast commotion levels that will meet the objective level needed to make supersonic flight over area conceivable. This idea is one of two plans displayed in April 2010 to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate for its NASA Research Announcement-supported studies into cutting edge supersonic voyage flying machine that could enter administration in the 2030-2035 time period. Northrop Grumman's idea depends on the greatly streamlined "flying wing" configuration. The four Rolls Royce motors are installed in the upper surface of the wing to accomplish most extreme clamor protecting. The organization utilized its skill as a part of building military planes without a balancing out tail to propose this outline for the business flight market.
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No corruption in GMR airport deal, concludes ACC
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has ruled out corruption in the awarding of a concession agreement in June 2010 to a consortium of Indian infrastructure giant GMR and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhard (MAHB) to develop and manage the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA).
In a 61-page investigative report (Dhivehi) made public yesterday (June 17), the ACC concluded that the bidding process was conducted fairly by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and that the GMR-MAHB consortium won the contract by proposing the highest net present value of the concession fee.
The ACC further concluded that the awarding of the contract did not contravene amendments brought to the Public Finance Act requiring parliamentary approval for such agreements.
The amendments were published in the government gazette after the concession agreement was signed, the ACC noted.
The concession agreement was signed on June 28, 2010, while the amendments were gazetted on December 13, 2010, following a Supreme Court ruling. The amendments were voted through for a second time in August 2010 following a presidential veto.
On the previous administration’s decision to replace the board of directors at the 100 percent government-owned Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL) – after they refused to sign the concession agreement claiming insufficient information – the ACC observed that there was “no legal obstacle” for the move.
The ACC report also concluded that the government would benefit more from privatising the airport.
“Considering the situation (2008, 2009 and 2010) when the decision was made to privatise the Male’ International Airport,” the ACC’s calculations showed that MACL would make a profit of about US$254 million in 25 years if the airport was operated by the government-owned company.
Conversely, the government would receive about US$534 million in the same period from the GMR consortium if the airport was privatised, the ACC found.
The privatisation of the airport by the ousted Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) government in June 2010 was strongly condemned by opposition parties on nationalistic grounds.
The Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), Peoples Alliance (PA), Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) and Jumhooree Party (JP) signed an agreement to work against the privatisation process and launched a media offensive alleging “massive corruption” in the awarding of the contract.
The ACC report this week meanwhile followed a special audit conducted by the Auditor General’s Office with the assistance of a British consultant concerning the airport privatisation deal.
The AG’s report stated that evidence to back allegations of “improper interference” during the technical bidding process “is not conclusive on this point” and deferred the matter to the ACC.
The AG’s report also noted that the IFC’s terms of reference involved “securing the best deal for the government in terms of the concession fee paid to the government and MACL, and did not consider impacts on the Maldivian economy.”
Government stance
In November 2012, the current government – made up of a coalition of parties opposed to the MDP government’s privatisation policy – declared the concession agreement with the GMR-led consortium “void ab initio” (invalid from the outset) and abruptly terminated the contract.
In April this year, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that arbitration proceedings resulting from the contract cancellation would begin by mid-2014.
Responding to the ACC’s findings yesterday, the government insisted that the report would have no impact on its legal position to declare the GMR concession agreement void, contending that President Dr Mohamed Waheed’s decision had nothing to do with corruption allegations levelled by “some people”.
President’s Office Media Secretary Masood Imad told Minivan News that the contract was declared void from the beginning due to the negative impact on state finances in 2012.
“Back before the government took back control of the airport from GMR, the reason we gave was that the deal was bleeding the country’s economy. We were paying GMR to keep them here,” he explained.
Masood said that despite “speculation from some people” concerning corruption by the former administration in signing the deal, the present government was not responsible for filing a case with the ACC.
He added that the government’s concerns over the deal had been in relation to the imposition of a US$25 Airport Development Charge (ADC) by GMR that was blocked by the Civil Court in 2011 after the then-opposition DQP filed a case on the matter.
The DQP, now part of President Waheed’s coalition government, attempted to block payment of the charge on the grounds that it was effectively a tax not approved by parliament.
In response, the MDP government agreed to deduct the ADC from the concession fees payable, while GMR later offered to exempt Maldives nationals from paying the ADC as it moved to appeal the verdict.
However, former President Mohamed Nasheed resigned under controversial circumstances on February 7, 2012 amidst a violent mutiny by elements of the police and military before the Civil Court verdict was appealed at the High Court.
Consequently, in the first quarter of 2012, Dr Waheed’s government received US$525,355 of an expected US$8.7 million, after the deduction of the ADC. That was followed by a US$1.5 million bill for the second quarter, after the ADC payable eclipsed the revenue due the government.
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Posted on June 18, 2013 June 18, 2013 Author Ahmed NaishCategories PoliticsTags acc, auditor general, bidding process, concession agreement, corruption, GMR, IFC, Malaysia Airports Berhard, maldives news, MDP, President Nasheed, world bank
25 thoughts on “No corruption in GMR airport deal, concludes ACC”
Where is Mody / Kuribee / Tsk Tsk now?
I said it then and I'll say it now. You are more stupid than a retarded donkey.
Reap what you sow f*ckwits.
now who is going to bay to GMR only we poor tex payers. where is gayoom and gasim
Ahmed Bin Addu Bin Suvadheeb says:
In later news, goat herding Mullahs have been jumping up and down promising hell fire to members of the ACC.
This is the nail in the coffin of the Mullahs, I'd say. There was never any doubt about corruption regarding the GMR deal. However, it was not a good deal for the country. Even now, MDP and Nasheed is touting the fact that GMR brought in more revenue.
They don't mention exactly how that extra revenue was coming. The ugly truth is that the extra revenue stream GMR generated was sourced from punitive taxation of the airlines (fuel and landing charges) as well passengers using the airport! These had long term negative consequences. Some long haul airlines cancelled direct flights to the Maldives as a result of these strong arm tactics by GMR.
In summary, there was no corruption, but the deal was a poison pill for the Maldives.
Shamed to be Maldivian says:
The whole point was to get control of the funds so corruption can take place. The bottom line never mattered because it doesn't reach the people.
To the multi millionaires the difference was 500 mil to the country or 200mil in their pocket.
Anthu says:
No corruption involved... but illegal according to the constitution
Virendra says:
@Anthu May be it was deemed illegal because there was no corruption involved.
Report just talks about two situations - when airport is run by Government agency and when it is run by GMR consortium. Where are the calculations when airport is run by some "prospected" Chinese firm and when it is run by Gayoom's family.
pigs fart says:
Prime example of a dog licking its own balls!
Patriot says:
It was not the deal with GMR that was corrupt!
Sovereignty was being lost! Now the airport is in sovereign hands!
All flights to INIA can be routed to Maamigili and Gan!
Hulhule should grow imported grass to feed camels who can be left to eat and fart freely!
The elder ones can be slaughtered for the Mullahs while the young can be used to defend!
Camels, when their dalls are whacked with a mallet can send their scud missiles up anywhere!
CIC Waheed will give the orders and Mullas Imran, Ilyas, Shaheem and their likes will obediently execute!
This should be a better deal than the one had with GMR!
peasant says:
The fact of the matter is that it was not just finances which was holding the airport development back, it was that management expertise, lack of management expertise rather. Besides no institution was or will ever lend credit to a wholly owned government company of a country synonymous with corruption. Especially since the airport operator has consistently proven its incompetence over the decades.
For the detractors who are caught up in the zero sum calculations - please consider the added value and revenue generation potential of retail facilities, spas, restaurants and other services.
Millions of dollars of taxable revenue was possible with the swanky new facilities. Airlines which were dropping out due to increasing prices would be forced to return to where the superior facilities were, where the customers were.
The airport had the potential of serving more than the local and tourist needs, with over crowding in Mumbai or Delhi, Hyderabad, Male had the potential to ease congestion by serving as a connection hub between Mid East/Africa and East Asia/Australia. It is not far fetched, some of the bigger airports are GMR operated, would have been a win win for every body.
The only reason GMR was tossed out was to create the ad hoc "management" where the revenues flowed to public coffers only after the kleptocrats had their share.
GMRs only folly was to underestimate the determination of these crooks. Cannot blame them, their management thought rationally, little did they expect the government to make such an irrational decision.
What a complete disaster. Well done coup dictatorship and Waheed!!!
Hussein Ali says:
Anthu, your constitution legalizes child abuse and state-sponsored rape.
Andrew Andreas says:
ACC needs to investigate corruption and deception that started religions.
For better or worse, people must know the truth. The wars are fought for money. Hunger and poverty can be reduced if people love each other as humans, and not religions.
@Patriot on Tue, 18th Jun 2013 11:05 PM
"All flights to INIA can be routed to Maamigili and Gan!"
Actually, you've got a very good point there. Leave Hulhule to Imran and other fake Mullahs to wage their wars over.
In the meantime, Maamigili and Gan will prosper as world class airports away from the headlines. A very good solution indeed. Gasim and Champa will share their wealth with the local population; well a bit of that wealth will treacle down to the masses. Hey, can we ask for more?
rees says:
fcu
IT IS SHAMEFUL..THESE POLITICIANS FOR THEIR PERSONAL PROFITS...SELL THE ECONOMY OF A WHOLE COUNTRY..DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTY IT EFFECTS TO LOCAL PEOPLE..NOT TO THESE...GREEDY POLITICIANS....ALL THESE POLITICIANS IN MALDIVES WHO PRETEND TO BE MUSLIMS AND FOLLOWING ALL RULES OF ISLAM...THEY DON'T KNOW THE MENAING OF ISLAM..ISLAM NEVER TEACHES TO CHEAT PEOPLE..ON TOP OF IT THESE MALDIVIAN POLITICIANS GOING TO RESORT TO HAVE FUN AND ALCHOL..AND IN FRONT OF PUBLIC PRETEND TO BE VERY GOOD.
Ga Sia says:
ACC's report is based on outdated data when all duty free shops were operated by cronies of Gayyoom. Now after the take-over, all duty free shops are operated by MACL which has nearly doubled its income. Now MACL should sell equity shares of upto 51% to the Resorts who can collect $25PP to back their equity share. As it is the Tourism Industry which will be effected with any changes in the traffic to INIA, it should be them who who should put up the equity funds required to develop INIA and they do not require the majlis approval to charge $25 from every tourist not as a tax but transfer surcharge or similar charge. Balance shares could be sold to expert airport operators like FRAPORT of Germany and 25% should be held by Airports authority so that policy decisions of INIA could be made only with their involvement. All airports managed by GMR in India ie Hyderabad and Delhi airport, the Indian airports authority hold 26% share for this reason
@Ahmed Bin Addu Bin Suvadheeb on Wed, 19th Jun 2013 5:44 AM
"Gasim and Champa will share their wealth with the local population; well a bit of that wealth will treacle down to the masses."
True, bits and pieces of that wealth will treacle down to the masses. But that would only for a selected mass who perhaps sign on to JP just to wet their beaks I guess!
Indguy says:
As an Indian, it is pretty disheartening that the local people will have to suffer the consequences.
As far as I see it, you guys dont trust the system at all...institutions that are supposed to be neutral is bred with politics and distrust. Your media secretary told Indian media that ACC is biased and has a political agenda.
Unless you people can differentiate between politics and investment and not mix it all the time Maldives will never become an investor destination.
What we are not happy about is the lack of professionalism and trust on the part of the government when it kicked out GMR- Malaysia holdings. An international contract that was sealed and signed was torn apart without a second thought.
Until you understand the difference between a private company, its government, your government and domestic politics and not mix up everything will things proceed.
Nationalism is an Archaic concept. In todays day and age business, prosperity and welfare of the people should be considered over nationalistic pride. OPEN MARKET people! Let the most efficient firms run the business so the consumers can reap the benefits!
Yeah you can let an inefficient Maldivian firm run it at higher cost and be proud to call it "Maldivian" but who gets the short end of the stick? The people using the service.
Kuribee says:
Yes no corruption ? what a joke is this ?
ACC is saying that some of the people who had involved in the bid evaluation was saying that they can not remember how things had happened ? For ACC , the report concluded that the process went without any corruption when people involved were saying that they can not remember how things had gone during bidding process ?
GMR was disqualified in the first round and then they were asked from the back door to go and get someone who are qualified to join with them and that is why Malaysian company joined with GMR.
In the first round Malaysian company was not there and they appeared in the second pause ?
Still ACC can not find this truth ?
If ACC investigation is just based on just the feedback that they get while doing an interview without using the proper investigation techniques, then i doubt that they can find anything wrong doing here.
Who is going to tell or commit thier crimes just because someone asked whether they had committed or not ? No one will say yes just because ACC guys just questioned ?
Nasheed and his associates had taken huge bribes in the process to award the contract and GMR is still financing Nasheed .
ACC itself is being corrupted .
Nasheed says that he believes ACC and audit reports ?
What about the audit report where it has shown over 450 million s raffia corrupt deals that were mentioned in recent past reports ?
I guess those reports can not agreed since it is against Nasheed and his cronies .
As usual anything in favor of Nasheed is correct and credible and anything against Nasheed and cronies are illegal.
What a double standards these idiots have ?
MissIndia NewDelhi says:
Ha ha bloody ha ha.....this is a great result!!
I hope the GMR episode will be a salutory lesson for Indian companies to stay clear of the Maldives and not invest another rupee in this corrupt, politically unstable and very tiny country.
Hey, why don't you retards get your sunni mates in Pakistan to build your airports, schools, hospitals, roads and drug dens eh?
You guys have so much in common, you are like twins separated at birth.....the Pakis even share your fantasies of believing you are descendents of arabs which you clearly are not.
The Indian embassy should also close down the visa section in Male and hang a sign on the gate saying FOR MEDICAL AND STUDY VISAS PLEASE GO TO THE PAKISTAN EMBASSY.
Where indeed is that ponce Kuribee?
Shimy says:
@MissIndia
Why don't you go and solve the flood problems in your own country area where half of it's population is under water, without food and transport instead of putting your head in to our problems!
The ACC itself has said the report will not affect the arbitration process concluding this will really affect Nasheed and his party into wining the elections! This shows how corrupt the whole of Maldives is with it's greedy politicians where the public just do not have a clue on who's telling the truth and who is lying!!The public is fed up of this!!What in the world is going on!
@Miss India,
Lol...And i hope you try to find a solution into those rape cases of children and tourists in your civilized country where the most successful movie stars are Muslims contributing to charity!
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Tampa-based Metro Development Group celebrated its 15th anniversary this past December. This pivotal moment for the developer is marked by its unveiling of the nation’s first Crystal Lagoons amenity, one of its many notable and innovative achievements that are helping to put Tampa Bay’s real estate market on the map. Known for its popular Metro Places communities, exclusive UTRAFi technology and its multiple Metro Lagoon projects, Metro Development Group has cemented its role as an industry leader with no plans of slowing down.
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Fan Who Ran Onto Court At Heat Game Banned From Arena
Filed Under:American Airlines Arena, Banned From Arena, Marsel Imer, Miami Heat, NBA
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Ever wonder what happens to the brilliant people who interrupt sports games by running onto the field?
A pair of misdemeanor charges against a fan who ran onto the court in the final moments of a Miami Heat game have been dropped, though he has been ordered to stay away from American Airlines Arena.
Court records show Marsel Imer, 19, was facing one charge each of disorderly conduct and trespassing.
Imer ran onto the court after a made free throw by Denver’s Jamal Murray with 0.9 seconds remaining in Miami’s game Tuesday night, and was quickly apprehended by police and arena security.
Imer grabbed the basketball, but did not appear to make contact with any players and was on the court for only a few seconds.
Imer was represented by an attorney from the public defender’s office.
Attempts to reach him for comment were not successful.
(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Chinese pirates have taken downloading cracked iPhone and iPad apps to the next new level. A new desktop software called “KuaiYong” (literally means “use quickly” in Chinese) will allows pirated iOS apps to be installed on non-jailbroken devices. It has been around on Chinese internet world since June 2012, being only in Chinese seems to have caused the software to go under Apple’s radar for so long. KuaiYong is basically using bulk enterprise licensing to bypass Apple’s safeguards.
So the Chinese service is essentially distributing the exact same app – with the same license ID – over and over again. And now the same team has launched a web version of its pirate iOS app store. The online store is full of pirated iOS apps and games available for free. It makes the service more accessible to potential new users who can browse the available apps in their web browser. To download one of the iOS apps or games from the site, it’s actually downloading the “KuaiYong” PC software …
The pirate iOS app store over at 7659.com seem to be using a geolocation detect to hide itself from those outside of China. So, only user within China will see the store. For those outside of the nation, you’ll either see an error message or it’ll just redirect to the KuaiYong official homepage. So far we can access the site over here in Hong Kong. Aside from this new web store, KuaiYong is planning to launch its piracy-pimped iTunes alternative app internationally, a English version only for Windows user will be available soon. The team behind the pirate service claimed that they have five million users, and listed some righteous notice on their website. They indicate that most Chinese Apple users are not familiar with iTunes system and how to effectively manage it. So they developed its own method of giving users access to thousands of free apps without having to jailbreak their devices. They further pointed out the number of jailbreak in China has started to decline is because of the introduction of their KuaiYong software. In the mean time, English-speaking user can find some instructions guide (link removed) in order to use the Chinese service.
The KuaiYong software doesn’t support Mac OS. A game page on the new pirate store.Actually this might be a good way for KuaiYong to distribute malware to iOS devices. Specialized malware could be developed for certain popular apps that collected information and logged activity on to the device. The Android eco-systems in China are working in this way. And there’s a strong likelihood that whatever the pirate team is doing is using illegally obtained licenses at the least, and credit-card fraud at the worst. It remains to be seen whether KuaiYong will be hit with a lawsuit from Apple.
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The Topic: The movie “A MAN OF CONSCIENCE”
Directed and produced by: Jason A. Schmidt
Writer: Roberta Morris
Duration of the movie: 24 minutes
Review written by Yohannes Nega Shita (MPT Intern)
After watching “A Man of Conscience,” I have been inspired by its message. The movie, produced by the Catholic Church in 2008, is based on the true life story of a man named Franz Jagerstatter. Franz was a farmer in Austria who lived during the Second World War. The movie revolves around the issue of family disintegration during war and its effects on family members, particularly children. The other major point the movie makes is Franz’s dedication to the value of prayer and faith to make strong decisions, helping him to say no to the unjust war calls of public authorities.
During 1938, Germany invaded Austria, and Franz was called to enlist in military training service of the Nazi government. As a result of this order, Franz would be required to leave his loved ones, including his four beautiful daughters, behind. After completion of the training, he had been called to the war in Austria. Franz refused to leave, although at the time he had faced strong pressure from his family and even the Catholic priests to fulfill the calling of the Nazi government and leave for the war. Franz remained insistent on his opposition of unjust war and death.
In the 1930‘s Franz had lived peacefully with his family supporting and taking care of his wife and daughters. But had eventually been unwillingly called to the military service training in which he stayed for eight weeks hoping to be back to his family. During the training, he tried to maintain his paternal role to his daughters from distance through writing letters back and forth with his spouse. He had disclosed his love to the family through sweet words in his consistent love letters. He also had prayed consistently to all his families’ members though he lived far away.
Franz was also unique in his strong personal decision. During 1930, Europe was led by the influence of the public majority and religious leaders. He said no to the order of the public authorities, to the unjust war, and moved forward in his personal belief of justice and peace. Because of his strong belief in peace and justice, leading him to say no to the call for war and invasion, he was executed in public by Nazi public authorities in 1943.
I enjoyed watching this movie for the following reasons. I was very delighted to see the affectionate letters between Franz and his spouse while they were living so far apart and his consistent prayer and faith in his God. Moreover, I have been inspired by his consistent and determined decision to say no to the order of war and invasion and by his martyr-like act. Finally I recommend everyone to watch this movie, and to be part of the peace-building initiative. I would like to thank Michigan Peace Team for inviting me to watch this inspiring movie.
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Celebrations of Scholarship captures pulse of Millikin's Campus
Millikin event showcases breadth and depth of Student Research and Creativity
Dane Lisser
It's a day when no classes are held, but it doesn't mean the learning stops.
Millikin University's Celebrations of Scholarship is the culmination of the academic year; an all-day event that puts the outstanding achievements of students from all majors front and center for the entire campus community to witness. It's a forum that not only recognizes academics, it honors personal success.
Celebrations of Scholarship gives students a day to present a years' worth of research, scholarship and creative efforts to the campus community. Multiple sessions were held across campus highlighting explorations and discoveries.
"Millikin students are going to be involved in the field in doing the real work that professionals do," said Millikin Provost Dr. Jeff Aper. "We believe that students have the best opportunities to learn and develop their skills when they do the work. It's great to showcase the students and all of the hard work they do throughout the year."
Aper: "From session to session, the event is a time for students to talk about their active involvement in the life of their study."
The campus-wide event on Friday, April 26 covered all academic backgrounds, from behavioral sciences, fine arts and modern languages, to exercise science and sport, entrepreneurship and nursing. Sessions began in the morning, including one from a group of students in Shilling Hall who shared their immersive cultural experience engaging with the Pawnee Native American Tribe over spring break.
"One of the neat things we saw was how deeply rooted they are in tradition," said Blake Carmichael, a senior human services major from Taylorville, Ill. "We learned right away that men are supposed to pray over meals. You can apply some sort of element of culture in nearly everything you do. They were very generous people."
Not far from Shilling Hall, a large audience in Pilling Chapel saw several theatre students from Dr. Tom Robson's playwriting course present public readings of their works. Each reading was followed by a short feedback session, providing an opportunity for the audience to engage in the work.
Three scenes were presented from three different works: "In This Room" by Sophie Kibiger, a junior theatre major from Ramsey, Minn.; "Recovery" by Rachel Pevehouse, a sophomore theatre major from St. Louis, Mo.; and "The Waiting Room" by Chris Cunningham, a senior theatre major from Cary, Ill.
"The way these pieces were selected is students in the classroom were interested in having their work shared. We had a secret ballot where everyone in the class voted for the best pieces that represented the entire class," said Dr. Robson, associate professor of theatre and dance. "The feedback session was modeled after the same process we used in class."
Over in the Perkinson Music Center, Cellist Becca Husar, a junior commercial music major from Yorkville, Ill., was playing to an audience of fellow students and School of Music faculty, performing "Julie-O," a cello piece by Mark Summers.
The performance was part of Husar's research of Bach's Cello Suites to explore the art of interpretation and its influence on music throughout history and today. Husar offered insight into how musicians must determine the boundaries that they are willing to push when performing a composition.
"Interpretation is a particular version of a work, method or style, and the keyword for this study is method," said Husar. "The line between compositional integrity and the artistic freedom to stray from the notated music is blurred when time, instrumentation and personal style become an element of the performance."
In the afternoon, the Bob and Debi Johnston Banquet Room of the University Commons was busy with activity as the 26th Annual Research Poster Symposium took place. The Poster Symposium, in honor of Judith and Dr. G. Richard Locke, provided students with an opportunity to share their scholarly activities and practice communication skills essential for professional success. The event has also become an excellent means of encouraging students to explore and participate in research opportunities at Millikin.
Judges, selected from Millikin retirees, alumni and friends, were on hand to observe over 50 poster presentations and to cast their votes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes.
Among the presenters were Matthew Vangunten, a senior chemistry major from East Peoria, Ill., and Jacob Hamilton, a senior chemistry major from Swansea, Ill. Vangunten and Hamilton worked with Dr. Kyle Knust, assistant professor of chemistry, to construct a home-built capillary electrophoresis instrument. Capillary electrophoresis is a technique that allows extremely efficient separation of peptides, oligonucleotides and steroid hormones.
"Our instrument separates everything by size and charge," said Hamilton. "We wanted to prove that it was functional and we wanted to make the separation happen." After graduation, Hamilton will be attending Washington University in St. Louis to pursue a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, and Vangunten will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Senior nursing majors Alice Bernard, of Bensenville, Ill., and Cody Gray, of Washburn, Ill., teamed up to research how accurately the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) can be used to assess the severity of patient symptoms in the acute setting to promote a plan of care.
"This project is all focused on bettering patient outcomes," said Bernard. "Both Cody and I are interested in becoming critical care nurses, and we will be using instruments like this in our daily lives moving forward."
As seen throughout the day, Celebrations of Scholarship is an exciting time for students who are proud to present their work firsthand.
Congratulations to the following award winners of the 26th Research Poster Symposium.
1st Place Awards
Anthony Bryan, a senior biology major from Plainfield, Ill.
"Enhanced hematological condition in birds of prey undergoing rehabilitation is independent of vitamin supplementation"
Dalton Glasco, a senior chemistry major from Decatur, Ill.
"Simple method for preparing customizable pyrolyzed resin carbon electrodes using 3-D printing"
Kelsey Pierson, a senior nursing major from Orland Park, Ill.; and Carly Kirk, a senior nursing major from Danville, Ill.
"Effects of Kangaroo care on the neonate"
Alisha Larrison, a master’s entry into nursing practice student from Mt. Zion, Ill.
"Patient's perception of the appearance of nurses"
2nd Place Awards
Allyson Isenhower, a senior biology major from Trenton, Ill.
"Agglutinin-like sequence genes in Meyerozyma Guilliermondii"
Julia Taraszewski, a senior biology major from Decatur
"Siblings vs. Strangers: Cooperation or Competition in Abutilon Theophrasti (F. Malvaceae)"
Kaia Ball, a senior biology molecular cell track major from Bolingbrook, Ill.
"Conferral of streptomycin resistance via crispr/cas9 genome editing in escherichia coli"
Doug Sherrill, a senior biology major from West Union, Ill.
"Effect of partial blindness on hunting behavior in salticus scenicus (araneae: salticidae) in a controlled environment"
Raisa Zamacona-Gonzalez, a senior biology major from Getxo, Spain
"Isotype switching and spleen development in Rana Catesbeiana"
Angelina Thomas, a senior nursing major from Decatur
"An evidenced-based clinical guide for sugammadex: a quality improvement & cost reduction strategy"
3rd Place Awards
Erin Lukens, a senior biology major from Johnston City, Ill.
"Effects of elevated salinity on cuban treefrog (osteopilus septentrionalis) tadpole aldosterone levels, growth, and development"
Blaine Traylor, a junior chemistry major from Mt. Zion
"Investigation of gcgns sequence derivatives for anti-cancer properties"
Rachel Munyembabazi, a senior chemistry major from Decatur
"Exploring the viability of metal nanoparticles as cancer-killing agents"
Angela Thunder, a senior nursing major from Mt. Zion; and Katlyn Niepoetter, a senior nursing major from Decatur
"Anti-vaccination Movement"
Yvette Musanganya, a senior nursing major from Goma, Congo; and Cali Melton, a senior nursing major from Oreana, Ill.
"Epidural Analgesia: Risks to mother and baby during labor"
Julisa Sierra, a senior political science major from Chicago
"Human Trafficking task forces in the U.S.: Overlapping Jurisdictions and Criminal Justice Approaches"
Phi Kappa Phi Award
Anthony Bryan
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Frequently Asked Questions Multiplexx - Mobile Computing Solutions And Accessories
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28 Big Ones (Original King Records Recordings) Bull Moose Jackson
I Love You, Yes I Do (Original King Records Recording)
I Can't Go On Without You (Original King Records Recording)
Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me (Original King Records Recording)
I Know Who Threw the Whiskey In the Well (Original King Records Recording)
Sneaky Pete (Original King Records Recording)
Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style (Original King Records Recording)
Big Ten Inch Record (Original King Records Recording)
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Meet Me With Your Black Dress On (Original King Records Recording)
Nosey Joe (Original King Records Recording)
Honey Dripper (Original King Records Recording)
Is That All I Mean To You (Original King Records Recording)
(Let Me Love You) All Night Long (Original King Records Recording)
Little Girl, Don't Cry (Original King Records Recording)
All My Love Belongs To You (Original King Records Recording)
I Want a Bowlegged Woman (Original King Records Recording)
If You Ain't Lovin' (Original King Records Recording)
Don't Ask Me Why (Original King Records Recording)
There Is No Greater Love (Original King Records Recording)
A Fool In Love (Original King Records Recording)
Have You No Mercy (Original King Records Recording)
End This Misery (Original King Records Recording)
Cherokee Boogie (Original King Records Recording)
Just In Case You Change Your Mind (Original King Records Recording)
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The Founding Fathers Would Be Ashamed…
Public Spectacle
For years, we lived in Paris, near the house in Passy where Benjamin Franklin lived when he was representing the “terrorists” in the American colonies and seeking French aid.
Each week we commuted to London. Up on Tuesday, back on Friday.
At the station, we raced up the steps to the Eurostar. Something new: Our ticket was on our cellphone. We just held it against the sensor; the turnstile opened. Then we got in line at passport control. The whole thing took about five minutes, just like it always did.
It’s been at least five years since we made the trip. The Eurostar has upgraded its cars. But some of the faces looked familiar.
We settle down to wait for the train in the business lounge. Again, we needn’t think about it: Grab copies of theFinancial Times, Le Figaro, and Libération. Get a cup of coffee. Sit down and get to work.
“Trump vs. Clinton,” said a big headline in Le Figaro.
“Clinton, Trump square off in historic debate,” says another.
Newspapers – in Paris and London – led off the week with big headlines on the U.S. presidential election.
The whole world is captivated… enthralled… on the edge of its seat, watching two Americans make public spectacles of themselves.
“The big debate will be watched by 100 million Americans,” says a typical story.
Ms. Clinton is “nervous,” we are told. She has the better grip on the details, but Mr. Trump is “unpredictable.”
Will he be calm and presidential? Or will he go on the attack, trying to destabilize the Democratic standard bearer?
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Ms. Clinton should be able to “put him away,” says one pundit. “Don’t be too sure,” says another; Newt Gingrich claims Trump is the best debater in the world.
The candidates try for a “gotcha”… a “zinger”… a knockout blow to their opponents. Our favorite was President Reagan’s reply (in his contest in 1984 against Walter Mondale) to an interviewer’s question about his age.
Reagan was 73. Mondale 56. The moderator asked, “Would Reagan have the stamina to stay alert, as Kennedy did during the Cuban Missile Crisis, for days on end?”
“I’m not going to make an issue of the age problem,” Reagan replied, smiling. “I won’t exploit the youth and inexperience of my adversary for political gain.”
Even Mondale laughed.
Appalled and Disheartened
“I am appalled and disheartened,” said a French friend last night.
She recently wrote a book about Lafayette and the American Revolution.
“To think that this is what has become of the great country founded by Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and Washington. Neither of the candidates is worthy to even shine their shoes.”
Her views are shared by millions of Americans. And by us, too, of course. Jefferson and Franklin were geniuses.
Franklin “invented” electricity and the Franklin stove. He set up the first public libraries. He was a colorful writer… a self-made man… an accomplished diplomat.
Jefferson introduced Palladian architecture to the colonies. He founded the University of Virginia and designed its campus. He wrote and spoke several European languages, studied Native American culture and languages, and created his own version of the Bible.
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He was a scholar, a statesman, the author of the Declaration of Independence, a scientist… the list goes on and on.
Better put away the guns and lock the ammunition before comparing Trump or Clinton to the Founding Fathers; you are just inviting serious depression.
Rollicking Scam
But long-term Diary sufferers know the whole thing is a rollicking, entertaining scam.
The U.S. in not controlled by the president or by Congress. Voters merely flatter themselves in believing they elect the people who run the country. The important decisions are made by the profiteers, the insiders, the Parasitocrats – that is, by the Deep State.
It doesn’t matter what you call the government – a monarchy, a theocracy, or a dictatorship; they all function in more or less the same way.
The insiders get control and use the government’s monopoly on violence to suppress their enemies and rob their fellow citizens. Unaccountable and unelected, these insiders include cronies, chiselers, anglers, and hangers-on.
It didn’t happen overnight. As we told our French friend last night, it took more than 200 years for these “foxes” (the name Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto gave to the finagling insiders) to get where they are – nested comfortably in Washington and crony industries.
And what would they think of it, the Founding Fathers?
Thomas Jefferson… Benjamin Franklin… George Washington – would any of them recognize in the United States of America any trace of the country they tried to establish?
Washington warned against “foreign entanglements.” But now the U.S. is tangled up all over the world.
Jefferson charged that British king George III had “sent forth a swarm of agents to harass the viagrasansordonnancefr.com people and eat out their substance.” But the tax rate then was less than 5%. Today, for residents of California or Maryland, it is about 50%.
Then, the “swarm” of agents was so thin on the ground that an American – especially one on the frontier – might live his entire life without ever meeting an employee of His Majesty’s government.
Today, he can hardly go a single day without running into a bureaucrat who is giving him orders:
“Take off your shoes… put your laptops, tablets, and smartphones on the belt… You must fill out this 1022-X form… You must have a permit… You could face a fine of up to $10,000 and six months in jail…”
Imagine Jefferson standing in front of 100 million Americans tonight.
Imagine his ghost standing awkwardly in his breeches and buckled shoes. Pausing… hesitating… thinking deeply.
What would he say?
What zinger would he come up with?
Further Reading: You won’t read about it on the news. But behind the scenes, the Deep State has been scrambling to avoid an even bigger crisis than the one that hit in 2008. It has nothing to do with stocks… or bonds… or international currency markets. And when it strikes, it could bring down the entire monetary system. To learn more about the coming monetary catastrophe… and the steps you can take to protect yourself, follow this link, click here.
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Organic cropland taking root in Illinois
By Jody Padgham, MOSES
Of the 20 million acres of cropland in Illinois, only 0.15 percent (41,000 acres) are certified organic (USDA 2014 Organic Agriculture Census). But, the trend toward organic is growing, with 2,471 acres listed in transition in the 2014 census. And, attitudes around the state are slowly changing.
“There seem to be a lot of farmers just waiting to see what happens,” said John Reeder, who is guiding a transition to organic on his family’s 250-acre farm in Clinton, Ill. “I have a cousin that will try it if we succeed.”
Extension agent Bill Davison, University of Illinois-Bloomington, sees peer pressure and a steep learning curve as the biggest hurdles to organic transition. Davison also sees a generational shift among Illinois farmers.
“Younger farmers are coming back to the farms, and bringing change,” he said. “An increasing number see where things are heading (with consumer support for organic) and are willing to reconsider.”
Reeder, a resident of Arlington, Va., inherited the management of his grandfather’s crop farm along with his five sisters about 10 years ago when their father passed away. Following common practice in the area, his forbears created a family trust to hold the farm. While it meant that this productive land would be available to grow crops into the foreseeable future, it created responsibilities for the current generation of Reeders, none of whom live in the state.
Reeder is a committed environmentalist, who is steady in his belief of the benefits to land and water of organic production. But, before he could transition the family farm to organic, he needed to convince his sisters that this was the best course for the farm—a process that took more than four years. A few thought organic was too risky—“chasing after moonbeams…not a viable business proposition,” the sisters argued. He did a lot of homework and sent them educational materials, including those from MOSES and ATTRA, to make his case.
In May 2012, students in a soil class taught by Michelle Wander at the University of Illinois projected that the 5-year average net return at the Reeder farm could move from $47.21 per acre for the traditional corn-soy rotation to $291.95 per acre for an organic rotation of corn, soybeans, oats and alfalfa. Reeder used the report to help convince his sisters that a conversion to organic was the way to go.
With his family in agreement, Reeder faced another hurdle: finding a company willing to manage a farm going through organic transition.
“I’d say that about half the land in this part of Illinois is held by absentee owners,” Reeder claimed. He went on to explain that most of these farms are held in trusts like his family has, and that they are managed by farm management companies through local banks.
With so many farms in the area operated through trusts, there are numerous management companies that oversee the farm businesses for absentee landowners. Reeder had to talk to several before he found one that was willing to take on an organic transition.
“Banks don’t want to manage organic. They think it’s too risky, too suspicious,” Reeder explained. “But I told the fourth banker I talked to that, if he wanted our business, he’d have to take on organic. And, he said ‘yes.’” The bank currently manages 30 properties; the Reeder farm is the only one that is an organic operation.
On Reeder’s advice, his banker attended the MOSES Organic Farming Conference a few years ago. Reeder continues to send him materials to support the validity of organic production, knowing that the farm’s successful transition will bring more organic business to this banker’s door.
Finding a farmer to work the land was the next big hurdle for the Reeder farm transition. The farmer who had managed the farm since the father passed on was not at all interested in organic. Reeder explored many options, but had little success finding anyone for several years until the Extension agent who’d been advising him decided to retire. The agent, Pat Toohill, agreed to take on the management of the Reeder Farm with the help of his brother. “Pat sells natural beef, and though their land isn’t organic, they were willing to learn how to manage ours,” Reeder said.
Reeder found that figuring out a fair compensation package for organic management was challenging as well. For now, he and Toohill have agreed on 50/50, but there is some talk of bringing on livestock to contribute manure, and that would change the equation. “Livestock work is more complex, and so harder to value,” Reeder explained.
Organic crop production requires dedicated or cleaned equipment, and so distance matters. It is open and isolated land in central Illinois, and there is no housing on the Reeder farm. Hired organic farmers must travel and bring equipment potentially long distances. While there is a concentration of organic farms about an hour south of Clinton, the Reeder farm is a pioneer in the area. Reeder hopes that his groundwork, and expected success with organic transition, will encourage and support others nearby.
“I want to create better income opportunities for tenant farmers,” he said. “The higher incomes from organic will help this.”
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Reeder feels confident about markets for his organic grain through a good network of commodity dealers. About an hour north of the Reeder farm, Davison, the Extension agent, is working on projects that support locally developed varieties and local markets for small grains in Illinois and beyond. He is excited about his grain breeding work and making connections between breeders, farmers, millers, chefs, bakers and consumers.
“Farmers think you can’t grow wheat in Illinois, and make good bread from it,” Davison said. “But, we are showing that you can grow hard wheat, and make really good local bread.” Davison facilitated the development of the Grand Prairie Grain Guild, based on east and west coast models, where everyone from breeders to chefs and bakers exchange ideas, discuss industry updates, plan research and explore alternatives to commodity markets. Davison is thrilled by the exchanges in the first year of the project, and invites anyone interested to join the 165-member private discussion group on Facebook.
“There is a huge opportunity for farmers to market regional grain varieties to chefs and bakers in Chicago, and in smaller communities across the state,” Davison exclaimed. “We have famous Chicago chefs trialing products made from locally produced grains.” He sees this link between Illinois grain farmers and restaurants and bakeries as a win-win, and very profitable for the farmers, especially those with smaller-scale operations.
“I ran a diversified vegetable farm, and know how much work it is,” he said. “Putting a few, or 20 acres, into a local grain variety that you can sell direct to chefs or consumers can be the core, money-making part of your business. It is easy to custom hire the field work. Then you can diversify your operation by adding vegetables and other value-added enterprises.”
With numerous interesting projects in the works, Davison is working on a plan to get 15 percent of the flour used by farmers’ market vendors in Chicago to be local, following New York City’s model. He is also exploring the possibilities of a local Illinois malting facility for local grains used in local breweries, and is percolating ideas about starting a “Bread Lab” at the University of Illinois, which would support the breeding of local wheat for flavor, and develop and analyze regional bread dough and recipes. Along with advocating the purchase of small-scale mills, Davison also is working on the development of open-pollinated corn varieties, and has done work on ancient grains, including spelt, emmer, einkorn and Chapalote corn.
He sees organic grain production as a growing opportunity in central Illinois—“It is getting easier for farmers here to add organic to their operations.” However, he cautions that competition from imported European organic grain has become a challenge. “They can buy imported for less than we can produce it here,” he said.
“My impression of the situation in Illinois right now is that we are in the midst of rapid changes in awareness and acceptance of organic farming,” Davison continued. He thinks low conventional commodity prices are going to make more farmers look for ways to add value to their operation, and believes that organic is one of the best ways to do it.
“I think from this point forward fewer people will have to work as hard and as long as John did to facilitate a transition to organic farming,” Davison noted.
There are numerous resources available to those interested in organic production in Illinois. Davison recommends that a good first point of contact for anyone in Reeder’s position would be the nearest local food system educator with University of Illinois Extension.
“There are 14 of us across the state, so there should be someone, with the knowledge and connections that John developed, in place to help out,” he explained. The Extension website lists local food system educators and the counties served. Davison can be reached at wdavison@illinois.edu.
Clarkson Grain Company, Cerro Gordo, Ill.
www.clarksongrain.com
Illinois Organic Growers Association
illinoisorganicgrowers.org
University of Illinois Extension Organic Resources
web.extension.illinois.edu/smallfarm/organic.html
The Land Connection
thelandconnection.org
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance
www.ilstewards.org
Illinois Specialty Growers Conference
www.specialtygrowers.org
MOSES website on field crops includes fact sheets on marketing organic grains and transitioning to organic crop production:
mosesorganic.org/farming/farming-topics/field-crops
Jody Padgham is the financial director for MOSES.
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What was the motivation to have the Plan B in Interstellar
Spoilers coming, please keep that in mind if you haven't see the movie yet.
So the Plan B in Interstellar is to save mankind from extinction by making a new population from embryos. What is the point of that? All the people on Earth will die, (except for the staff of the Endurance), and babies born on the alien habitable planet never actually lived in mankind. So in fact, mankind, as we know, will become extinct and a new mankind will rise.
Considering the fact that we polluted our planet and the space around it caused many species to go extinct and do a big damage to nature. Why would anyone be motivated to save this self-destructing mankind?
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Tamás JuhászTamás Juhász
Mankind is a culture. Homo Sapiens are a species. Slight but important difference. – cde Sep 28 '15 at 7:25
Well, you're adressing the same problem the humans in this movie are aware of, too. As you said, all the people on earth would die and there would simply be a new mankind. "That is why Plan A is much more fun" and why everyone involved is so desperate to get Plan A working and so devastated when they learn it's supposedly impossible. The whole point of Plan B is to look far inferior to Plan A.
However, it at least helps to preserve humanity as a species, even if not the individual persons you and I know. In this hopeless time it is just the last straw to preserve at least something from us and to not go extinct. It is not so much about individual survival, but survival of our significance to the universe. Mankind just tries to not vanish from this universe without a sign left, but to still take part in it. If all the humans on earth have to die, then we at least want our genome and part of our spirit to remain. Sure, it's only the last straw, surviving ourselves would definitely be better. But at some point
We must think not as individuals, but as a species.
It is actually interesting that you ask this, since it is also mentioned in the movie that there is a psychological barrier in us humans that doesn't let us care about the future of mankind if we're not directly involved and that we have yet to overcome. If we ourselves or our beloved ones don't have any hope for survival, we don't have much inclination to save those after us either. That is the reason why Plan B is so hard to do and why Dr. Brand and Dr. Mann kept it unknown from the team that Plan A won't work at all. Or as Dr. Mann puts it (though, he might have a little cynical attitude towards that, as he's himself by far not a prime example of mankind in this regard):
He knew how much harder it would be for people to come together to save the species, instead of themselves, or their children...Would you have left if you hadn't believed you were trying to save them? Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier -- we can care deeply, selflessly for people we know, but our empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.
And I think this closes the circle very well to you asking that exact same question, why care about Plan B and any new mankind at all? You're supposed to ask this. And maybe the only way to answer it would be to transcend into that understanding of humanity not just as you and me but more than that. But fortunately at the moment we don't have to do that (and the crew ultimately didn't either).
But as to your last point about polluting our planet and destroying nature. That is an angle that the movie clearly and deliberately does not explore at all. At no point does the movie ask the question if the whole situation is actually our fault and it doesn't want to ask this question, since it is a story about the progress of humanity to new directions and higher levels, not about looking back and asking what we did wrong. This is also reinforced by screenwriter Jonathan Nolan in an interview with Jordan Goldberg (quoted from the book Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards):
We're sort of in this moment in which humans are obsessed that we'll prove our own undoing -- that we'll poison the planet, we'll destroy ourselves, and all these things. But I thought it would be more interesting to find a slightly less personal Armageddon, or the idea that the universe obliterates you or the planet turned itself toxic because it doesn't care about you and me because we're an accident in outer space. The blight and dust provided what I thought was a great, impersonal way for the planet to sort of gently suggest that our time here was over. That it was the moment to move on, rather than being something that we had brought on ourselves which, in its own way, feels anthropocentric.
Napoleon Wilson♦Napoleon Wilson
I realized that in this movie not the mankind caused the problem. But the creators was trying to make it as realistic as they can. So the problems with mankind still probable. I see this is an expectation, but with a reason strong enough I guess. – Tamás Juhász Dec 19 '14 at 12:46
The only problem I had with the movie is that the Dr. Brand(knowing Plan A is impossible) wanted to play God in the sense he wanted to create a human species without evolution, the theory, supposedly, he doesnt believe in(being from science). If the planet is habitable, the evolution should take its course & give rise to a true new mankind. But that is a totally different debate to get into altogether, possible without any conclusion. – KharoBangdo Dec 20 '14 at 4:25
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Mr. and Mrs. Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristopherson. But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox's wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers -- Boggis, Bunce and Bean -- who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr. Fox at any cost.
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Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. General Sternwood's daughters came in both the colours of trouble - blonde and brunette - and they had all the usual vices. With four million dollars behind them, blackmail was only a matter of time ...
Publisher: Bath : BBC Audiobooks LTD, [2009]
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–The Balance Sheet Boogie. Don’t you wish you could do it? Thursday, Jan 19 2012
Uncategorized cut deficits, cut medicaid, cut medicare, cut social security, cut spending, cut taxes, cut the budget, fiscal austerity, g fund, income gap, MMT, modern monetary theory, monetarily non-sovereign, monetarily sovereign, monetary sovereignty Rodger Malcolm Mitchell 10:24 am
Mitchell’s laws: Reduced money growth never stimulates economic growth. To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments. Austerity = poverty and leads to civil disorder. Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
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Readers of this blog know dollars do not exist in a material form. You cannot see, touch or hold a dollar. It strictly is an accounting function — a number on a balance sheet — which the federal government has the unlimited ability to change.
This seems alien to the average person, who works his or whole life to obtain these ethereal numbers. But when dollars are viewed properly, it becomes easier to see why the federal debt is of so little import. It is under the total control of the federal government, which can change the debt simply by changing numbers in its balance sheets.
Treasury’s Thrift Savings Plan maneuver aims to keep government under debt cap
By Eric Yoder, Published: January 17
The federal government resorted to a favorite accounting maneuver Tuesday to stay under its debt limit, suspending the issuance of securities in a retirement savings program for federal and postal employees.
The Treasury Department announced the maneuver involving the Thrift Savings Plan’s government securities fund to keep the government below the $15.2 trillion debt ceiling, pending approval of a higher limit.
The fund, commonly called the G fund, consists of special-issue securities available only through the TSP. It operates much like a mutual fund for employees saving through the 401(k)-style program.
By not issuing new securities for the fund, the Treasury in effect frees up money on investment in the fund to stay below the debt limit. However, the G fund money remains on account with the Treasury, and investors “are guaranteed interest when Treasury securities are issued to the fund, and they are guaranteed interest when securities are not issued to the fund,” TSP spokesman Tom Trabucco said.
A statement from TSP Executive Director Greg T. Long posted at http://www.tsp.gov said the guarantee “has effectively protected G fund investors many times over the past 25 years. That protection, which was established by the Thrift Savings Plan Investment Act of 1987, will again work to ensure that G fund investors are completely unaffected by the limitation on securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. G fund account balances will continue to accrue earnings and be updated each business day, and loans and withdrawals will be unaffected.”
Trabucco said that the 1987 legislation “was enacted to protect investors in just this situation and keep them insulated from the politics of the debt limit.”
The Treasury has resorted to similar maneuvers about a dozen times during the TSP’s two-decade existence with no effect on investors, he said. The most recent occurrence was last spring and summer, when Congress and the White House deadlocked over raising the debt ceiling. An agreement was reached in August.
Imagine you own a business. You look at your balance sheet and find your liabilities exceed your assets. You have a negative net worth and can’t pay your bills. What do you do? If you’re our Monetarily Sovereign, federal government, you have the power to change the numbers and voila! You now have a positive net worth, and can pay all your bills.
This is why the federal government (unlike state and local governments and unlike the euro nations) never can run short of dollars, never needs to tax, never needs to borrow and never can be “broke” as so many uninformed politicians like to claim.
It’s the federal Balance Sheet Boogie. Don’t you wish you could do it?
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No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia. Two key equations in economics:
Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption + Net exports
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A man, who claims to be a close friend of Garba Abubakar, Atiku’s late father, alleged that neither of his parents was a Nigerian.
The unnamed family friend, in fresh documents filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, also gave details of Atiku’s early years and how his father died.
But, Atiku declined to comment last night, saying he had earlier responded to the issue.
The deponent’s claim varies from that of Atiku, who insists that his parents were Nigerians.
It all started when the APC, in its response to Atiku’s petition at the tribunal, argued that he was not a Nigerian by birth.
Claiming that it possessed evidence to support its claim, the party alleged that because Atiku is not a Nigerian by birth, he was not qualified, under Section 131(a) of the Constitution to contest for the office of President.
Responding, Atiku said he was a Nigerian by birth because his parents were Nigerians.
“The parents of the 1st petitioner (Atiku) are both Fulani, a community/tribe indigenous to Nigeria.
“The 1st petitioner was born on 25th November, 1946 in Jada, Adamawa State by Nigerian parents and he is therefore a citizen of Nigeria by birth.
“The 1st petitioner’s mother, Aisha Kande was the grand-daughter of Inuwa Dutse who came to Jada as an itinerant trader too from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.
“The 1st petitioner’s father, Garba Atiku Abubakar was a Nigerian by birth who hailed from Wumo in present day Sokoto State while the mother, Aisha Kande was also a Nigerian who hailed from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.
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But, in a statement filed by an APC witness, simply identified with the initials – ADM – the party repudiate Atiku’s claim.
The witness said: “l, ADM, adult, Nigerian citizen of Adamawa State do hereby make oath and say as follows:
“That I was a close family friend to the 1st petitioner’s late father. I know the family and I am familiar with the 1st petitioner’s background: who was born on the 25th day of November, 1946 to a Fulani trader and farmer by name Garba Abubakar, from his second wife, Aisha Kande, in Jada village of Northern Cameroon.
“I know the 1st petitioner was named after his paternal grandfather, Atiku Abdulkadir and became the only child of his parents after his only sister died at infancy.
“I also know about the unfortunate incidence of the death of the 1st petitioner’s father in 1957, who drowned while crossing a river to Toungo. a neighbouring village to Jada in Northern Cameroon.
“I do know that the 1st petitioner has, in all his documentations that are made public in national dailies or official gazettes, stated that he hails from Jada town in Adamawa State, from Ganye Local Government Area, regarded as the mother of the whole Chamba ethnic group (Chamba tribe).
“I know as a fact that, as at the time the 1st petitioner was born on the 25th day of November, 1946 to a FulanI trader and farmer, Garba Abubakar, Jada village and other parts of Chamba land in the then Northern Cameroon, were still part of the British Cameroons and not Nigeria.
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“None of the 1st petitioner’s parents or grandparents was born in Nigeria.
“The 1st petitioner‘s father died as a citizen of Northern Cameroon in 1957 prior to the referendum of 1st June, 1961 which made Northern Cameroon to become part of Nigeria.
“The 1st petitioner’s ancestral origin is deeply rooted in the then Northern Cameroon, not Nigeria and I know as a fact that the 1st petitioner is not a Nigerian citizen by birth
“I know that Ganye which incorporates the 1st petitioner’s birth place of Jada, was the headquarters of British Cameroons, but it joined Nigeria after the plebiscite.
“I know that Ganye was not part of Nigeria as at the time of the birth of the 1st petitioner; on 25th November 1946.“I am familiar with the historical antecedents of the birth place of the 1st petitioner.
“Ganye area had been entrusted to Britain by a League of Nations Mandate in 1919 and later as Trust Territory by the United Nations in 1946.
“With the defeat of Germany in World War I. Kamerun (as it was known at the time) became a League of Nations Mandate Territory and was split into French Cameroons and British Cameroons in 1919
“While France integrated the economy of its part of the Cameroons with that of the mother colonial France, the British on the other hand, administered its part (British Cameroons) from neighbouring Nigeria, making Jada, the 1st petitioner’s place of birth, a British franchise.
“I know that a plebiscite was held in British Cameroons to determine whether the people in that territory preferred to stay in Cameroon or unite with Nigeria.
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“While Northern Cameroon preferred a union with Nigeria, the Southern Cameroon chose to align with the mother country.
“I know that on the 1st of June 1961, Northern Cameroon became a part of Nigeria and on the 1st of October 1961 the Southern Cameroonian territory dissolved and merged into the Republic of Cameroon.”
An aide to Atiku told The Nation last night that his principal would not respond to the issue.
According to the aide, the PDP president candidate had responded to the controversies stirred by the APC on his nationality.
Faulting the APC claim that he is not a Nigerian by birth and, therefore, not fit to be President, the former vice president, said he is a Nigerian by birth and was born on November 25, 1946 in Jada, Adamawa State by Nigerian parents.
He made the assertion in a joint reply he filed with his party to the APC’s response against their petition before the tribunal.
Atiku, who gave details of his early life, also spoke about his working life and political career to support his claim that he is a Nigerian by birth.
Atiku and the PDP argued that it was late in the day for the APC to query his qualification for the election, having not done so at the pre-election stage.
Source; The Nation
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Posts Tagged 'physiology'
Dynamics of benthic metabolism, O2, and pCO2 in a temperate seagrass meadow
Published 3 July 2019 Science Leave a Comment
Tags: abundance, algae, biogeochemistry, biological response, chemistry, field, North Atlantic, otherprocess, physiology, primary production
Seagrass meadows play an important role in “blue carbon” sequestration and storage, but their dynamic metabolism is not fully understood. In a dense Zostera marina meadow, we measured benthic O2 fluxes by aquatic eddy covariance, water column concentrations of O2, and partial pressures of CO2 (pCO2) over 21 full days during peak growing season in April and June. Seagrass metabolism, derived from the O2 flux, varied markedly between the 2 months as biomass accumulated and water temperature increased from 16°C to 28°C, triggering a twofold increase in respiration and a trophic shift of the seagrass meadow from being a carbon sink to a carbon source. Seagrass metabolism was the major driver of diurnal fluctuations in water column O2 concentration and pCO2, ranging from 173 to 377 μmol L−1 and 193 to 859 ppmv, respectively. This 4.5‐fold variation in pCO2 was observed despite buffering by the carbonate system. Hysteresis in diurnal water column pCO2 vs. O2 concentration was attributed to storage of O2 and CO2 in seagrass tissue, air–water exchange of O2 and CO2, and CO2 storage in surface sediment. There was a ~ 1:1 mol‐to‐mol stoichiometric relationship between diurnal fluctuations in concentrations of O2 and dissolved inorganic carbon. Our measurements showed no stimulation of photosynthesis at high CO2 and low O2 concentrations, even though CO2 reached levels used in IPCC ocean acidification scenarios. This field study does not support the notion that seagrass meadows may be “winners” in future oceans with elevated CO2 concentrations and more frequent temperature extremes.
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pH affects growth, physiology and agar properties of agarophyte Gracilaria changii (Rhodophyta) under low light intensity from Morib, Malaysia
Tags: algae, biological response, growth, laboratory, mortality, photosynthesis, physiology
• The highest and the lowest growth rates of G. changii was at pH 6.61 and pH 9.30, respectively.
• G. changii survived poorly under high pH with partial thallus degradation.
• Photosynthetic pigments and agar production were significantly affected by pH.
Changes in coastal water pH alter inorganic carbon chemistry and impose abiotic stress on photosynthetic marine organisms. The red algal cell wall contains sulfated agar which protects them against environmental stresses. In this study, we investigated the effects of three different pHs (6.61, 8.04 and 9.30) on Gracilaria changii cultured in artificial seawater for 3 and 6 days, respectively. The growth rate of G. changii was the highest and the lowest at pH 6.61 and pH 9.30, respectively. Partial thallus degradation was observed in seaweeds treated at pH 9.30. Upon a 3-day treatment, the levels of allophycocyanin, total phycobilins in G. changii cultured at pH 6.61, and all photosynthetic pigments in G. changii cultured at pH 9.30, were significantly lower than those cultured at pH 8.04. G. changii exposed to pH 9.30 for 6 days also had significantly lower levels of chlorophyll a and allophycocyanin than those treated at pH 8.04. A six-day treatment at pH 6.61 caused a decline in the content of chlorophyll a and carotenoids, but an increase in the levels of phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, and total phycobilins, compared to those treated at pH 8.04. G. changii samples treated at pH 6.61 and pH 9.30 have a higher agar content compared to those cultured at 8.04. Gel strength was significantly lower in seaweed cultured at pH 9.30, compared to those cultured at pH 8.04. Gelling temperature and 3,6-anhydrogalactose content of agar were significantly affected by different pHs, but no significant changes were found in the melting temperature, gel syneresis and sulfate content of agar upon treatments. These information enhance our knowledge on physiological response and agar production in G. changii at different pHs, and useful for optimization of seaweed cultivation system in future.
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Species-specific calcification response of Caribbean corals after 2-year transplantation to a low aragonite saturation submarine spring
Published 27 June 2019 Science Leave a Comment
Tags: biological response, calcification, corals, field, mesocosms, morphology, mortality, North Atlantic, physiology
Coral calcification is expected to decline as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration increases. We assessed the potential of Porites astreoides, Siderastrea siderea and Porites porites to survive and calcify under acidified conditions in a 2-year field transplant experiment around low pH, low aragonite saturation (Ωarag) submarine springs. Slow-growing S. siderea had the highest post-transplantation survival and showed increases in concentrations of Symbiodiniaceae, chlorophyll a and protein at the low Ωarag site. Nubbins of P. astreoides had 20% lower survival and higher chlorophyll a concentration at the low Ωarag site. Only 33% of P. porites nubbins survived at low Ωarag and their linear extension and calcification rates were reduced. The density of skeletons deposited after transplantation at the low Ωarag spring was 15–30% lower for all species. These results suggest that corals with slow calcification rates and high Symbiodiniaceae, chlorophyll a and protein concentrations may be less susceptible to ocean acidification, albeit with reduced skeletal density. We postulate that corals in the springs are responding to greater energy demands for overcoming larger differences in carbonate chemistry between the calcifying medium and the external environment. The differential mortality, growth rates and physiological changes may impact future coral species assemblages and the reef framework robustness.
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Marine mass mortality in a global change context: impacts on individuals, populations and communities
Tags: biological response, echinoderms, laboratory, morphology, multiple factors, North Pacific, nutrients, performance, physiology, respiration, temperature
Human actions are pushing natural systems into states that have no historical precedent. In response, empirical and theoretical researchers are increasingly focused on developing ways to predict the responses of ecological systems to change. However, significant knowledge gaps remain, often leading to “ecological surprises” where observed impacts of global change do not align with existing theory or hypotheses. In this dissertation, I study the response to perturbations of a well-characterized system for ecological research, the Northeast Pacific rocky intertidal, to advance our understanding of and ability to predict the impacts of global change on individuals, populations and communities. In 2013 and 2014, sea star species along the west coast of North America were affected by an outbreak of Sea Star Wasting Syndrome (SSWS), resulting in an epidemic of mass mortality that spanned unprecedented geographic and temporal scales and resulted in the near extirpation of multiple sea star species from many locations along the coast. One of the species that was most strongly affected in the intertidal zone was Pisaster ochraceus, an iconic predatory sea star that has the ability to play a keystone role in its community through foraging on and ultimately controlling the lower boundary of mussel prey populations. The first two chapters of this dissertation take advantage of SSWS as a “natural” form of top predator removal to assess the consequences of this type of perturbation on ecosystem resilience. In Chapter 2, I tested the hypotheses that P. ochraceus loss would facilitate a population expansion of a smaller, mesopredator sea star, Leptasterias sp., and that this expansion would have negative effects on P. ochraceus population recovery. This result would follow expectations of competitive release and aligns with existing research on the competitive relationship between these species from the Northeast Pacific intertidal. I used field surveys to track Leptasterias populations just before the onset of and up to three years after SSWS. Contrary to expectation, I did not see an increase in the distribution or density of Leptasterias, and instead saw a decrease in individual size post-SSWS. Further, I found no evidence of competition between P. ochraceus recruits and Leptasterias for resources. Thus, although my hypotheses were grounded in theory and previous research, they were not supported by data. These results suggest that Leptasterias will not provide a bottleneck for P. ochraceus population recovery from SSWS, nor compensate for lowered P. ochraceus predation. The dynamics of P. ochraceus at the recruit (early benthic juvenile) life-history stage has long been considered a gap in our understanding of the species, as recruits have been historically rare in the intertidal and hard to study. Post-SSWS, however, many sites along the coast experienced unprecedented recruitment of P. ochraceus into intertidal ecosystems. In Chapter 3, I used a field experiment to test the hypothesis that this pulse of recruitment was facilitated by SSWS-related adult loss, the consequent decrease in predation by adult P. ochraceus, and increase in prey availability for recruits. Instead of finding evidence that adults dominate recruits in food competition and inhibit recruit success, I found that recruits have a negative effect on P. ochraceus adult densities. Further, treatments where recruits were excluded and only adults had access to prey communities showed the highest control of sessile invertebrate prey populations at the end of the year-long experiment. Thus, these results suggest that adult P. ochraceus will not hinder recruit recovery, but propose a mechanism whereby high recruit densities may increase vulnerability to SSWS-induced shifts in community structure. Outbreaks of mass mortality, particularly those as widespread as SSWS, are one of many ecological challenges driven by anthropogenic environmental changes such as warming and ocean acidification. However, predicting the vulnerability of species and populations to global change is an ongoing and significant challenge for researchers and managers. In Chapter 4 I assessed whether intraspecific physiological variability could help predict P. ochraceus recruit response to ocean acidification and warming. I found that individual metabolic rate interacted with ocean acidification and food availability to drive sea star growth, and that an interaction between metabolic rate and temperature also predicted sea star predation on Mytilus spp. mussels. Thus, these results have implications not only for P. ochraceus but also for its food web interactions. Incorporating these results into predictive frameworks may improve our ability to anticipate and scale up responses to global change across levels of ecological organization. In summary, my dissertation, although chock-full of surprises, presents several paths forward for improving predictive ability in the face of accelerating anthropogenic global changes. Further, we reinforce the notion that management strategies should be cautious and anticipate ecological surprises. Predicting the future is challenging even when predictions are well-informed, particularly in environmental contexts that have never been encountered before.
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Increased intestinal carbonate precipitate abundance in the sea bream (Sparus aurata L.) in response to ocean acidification
Tags: biological response, fish, laboratory, molecular biology, physiology
Marine fish contribute to the carbon cycle by producing mineralized intestinal precipitates generated as by-products of their osmoregulation. Here we aimed at characterizing the control of epithelial bicarbonate secretion and intestinal precipitate presence in the gilthead sea bream in response to predicted near future increases of environmental CO2. Our results demonstrate that hypercapnia (950 and 1800 μatm CO2) elicits higher intestine epithelial HCO3- secretion ex vivo and a subsequent parallel increase of intestinal precipitate presence in vivo when compared to present values (440 μatm CO2). Intestinal gene expression analysis in response to environmental hypercapnia revealed the up-regulation of transporters involved in the intestinal bicarbonate secretion cascade such as the basolateral sodium bicarbonate co-transporter slc4a4, and the apical anion transporters slc26a3 and slc26a6 of sea bream. In addition, other genes involved in intestinal ion uptake linked to water absorption such as the apical nkcc2 and aquaporin 1b expression, indicating that hypercapnia influences different levels of intestinal physiology. Taken together the current results are consistent with an intestinal physiological response leading to higher bicarbonate secretion in the intestine of the sea bream paralleled by increased luminal carbonate precipitate abundance and the main related transporters in response to ocean acidification.
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Long-term acclimation to near-future ocean acidification has negligible effects on energetic attributes in a juvenile coral reef fish
Tags: biological response, fish, growth, laboratory, morphology, multiple factors, performance, physiology, South Pacific, toxicants
Increased levels of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) drive ocean acidification and have been predicted to increase the energy use of marine fishes via physiological and behavioural mechanisms. This notion is based on a theoretical framework suggesting that detrimental effects on energy use are caused by plasma acid–base disruption in response to hypercapnic acidosis, potentially in combination with a malfunction of the gamma aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors in the brain. However, the existing empirical evidence testing these effects primarily stems from studies that exposed fish to elevated CO2 for a few days and measured a small number of traits. We investigated a range of energetic traits in juvenile spiny chromis damselfish (Acanthochromis polyacanthus) over 3 months of acclimation to projected end-of-century CO2 levels (~ 1000 µatm). Somatic growth and otolith size and shape were unaffected by the CO2 treatment across 3 months of development in comparison with control fish (~ 420 µatm). Swimming activity during behavioural assays was initially higher in the elevated CO2 group, but this effect dissipated within ~ 25 min following handling. The transient higher activity of fish under elevated CO2 was not associated with a detectable difference in the rate of oxygen uptake nor was it mediated by GABAA neurotransmitter interference because treatment with a GABAA antagonist (gabazine) did not abolish the CO2 treatment effect. These findings contrast with several short-term studies by suggesting that end-of-century levels of CO2 may have negligible direct effects on the energetics of at least some species of fish.
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Impact of climate change on the American lobster (Homarus americanus): Physiological responses to combined exposure of elevated temperature and pCO2
Tags: biological response, crustaceans, laboratory, physiology
• Climate Change (2300 scenario) has a significant impact on the acid-base status in H. americanus.
• Climate Change causes retention of ammonia in hemolymph.
• Under Climate Change conditions hemolymph pCO2 does NOT exceed environmental pCO2.
• Climate Change causes increase in MO2 and ammonia excretion.
• Climate Change causes decrease in citrate synthase in tail muscle.
The physiological consequences of exposing marine organisms to predicted future ocean scenarios, i.e. simultaneous increase in temperature and pCO2, have only recently begun to be investigated. Adult American lobster (Homarus americanus) were exposed to either current (16 °C, 47 Pa pCO2, pH 8.10) or predicted year 2300 (20 °C, 948 Pa pCO2, pH 7.10) ocean parameters for 14–16 days prior to assessing physiological changes in their hemolymph parameters as well as whole animal ammonia excretion and resting metabolic rate. Acclimation of lobster simultaneously to elevated pCO2 and temperature induced a prolonged respiratory acidosis that was only partially compensated for via accumulation of extracellular HCO3– and ammonia. Furthermore, acclimated animals possessed significantly higher ammonia excretion and oxygen consumption rates suggesting that future ocean scenarios may increase basal energetic demands on H. americanus. Enzyme activity related to protein metabolism (glutamine dehydrogenase, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase) in hepatopancreas and muscle tissue were unaltered in future ocean scenario exposed animals; however, muscular citrate synthase activity was reduced suggesting that, while protein catabolism may be unchanged, the net energetic output of muscle may be compromised in future scenarios. Overall, H. americanus acclimated to ocean conditions predicted for the year 2300 appear to be incapable of fully compensating against climate change-related acid-base challenges and experience an increase in metabolic waste excretion and oxygen consumption. Combining our study with past literature on H. americanus suggests that the whole lifecycle from larvae to adult stages is at risk of severe growth, survival and reproductive consequences due to climate change.
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Awards, Campus & community, Campus news, People, Research, Science & environment
CalCAP wins clean-air leadership award
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley| April 19, 2012 July 9, 2015
April 19, 2012 July 9, 2015 Public Affairs
UC Berkeley’s Cal Climate Action Partnership was honored Thursday with a clean air award from Breathe California.
At its awards lunch in San Francisco, the volunteer health organization recognized Berkeley, through its CalCAP initiative, for “significantly reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and demonstrating climate leadership through its student activism, broad organizational partnerships, climate action planning and financial commitment to reducing climate change.”
Berkeley was one of seven institutions, businesses and individuals to win 2012 Clean Air Awards. The Cal Climate Action Partnership, formed in 2006, is a collaboration of faculty, administration, staff and students working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus. Its initial work led Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to commit the campus to reducing emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2014. More information is available on CalCAP’s website.
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SilkAir drums up services in Davao
Subscribe Now February 18, 2017 at 08:58am
SILKAIR, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, vowed to help the country, especially Mindanao, increase tourism arrivals for this year.
In its 20th anniversary celebration in Davao City, the airline will fan its airline operations in the city by offering excellent travel services and great deals.
SilkAir is one of the major sponsors of this year’s Davao Mega Travel Sale which opened yesterday and will run until February 19 at the Abreeza Ayala Mall, Davao City.
“We’ve been flying to (and from) Davao City for 20 years now, and we have been doing so well here in terms of passengers load especially now that Davao City’s profile has been raised following the election of President Rodrigo Duterte who is from here,” SilkAir Mindanao manager Sherwin Lim said in an interview with SunStar Davao.
The Department of Tourism’s target foreign tourist arrivals in 2017 is at two million.
The airline started operating here with only three times a week flights to Singapore, now, it reached 10 times weekly.
Though he said that increasing flights is not their focus this year, the company is keen on drumming up services here as tourism industry in Davao continues to boom.
“No commitment yet but we are hopeful that we can increase our number of flights to Singapore. We will see first if the situation further improves,” Lim said.
He added that evaluation of the general travel sentiments, the economy and the competition are some of the concerns they need to look at first before increasing flights.
Lim stressed that bright prospects await here as Davao’s profile have been raised over the year through hosting various international activities which generated interest and awareness among foreign tourists.
“Before, people only consider Manila, Cebu, Boracay (when coming in the Philippines) but now people are starting to discover Davao and hope this increase profile of Davao will continue,” he said.
During the launching of its 20th anniversary here, SilkAir’s new logo was unveiled.
SilkAir, flies to Cebu, Davao, and Kalibo from its hub in Singapore. SilkAir’s network operates 407 weekly flights to over 50 destinations in 13 countries.
In a previous report, the airline is keen on increasing its passenger traffic both ways.
Source: sunstar.com
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Under Armour : Expects to Distribute Class C Shares
Cash and Cash Equivalents declined from $593 million to $129 million from FY2014 to FY2015, a 78% decline.
Under Armour disclosed today it found an accounting error 2015 filings.
"The Company identified a prior period error in the classification of available-for-sale securities (“AFS”) for the first and second quarters of 2015. The Company concluded that the error was not material to any of its previously issued financial statements. The Company included purchases and sales of AFS for the first six months of 2015 of $41.5 million and $19.4 million, respectively, in its cash flows from investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2015. Additionally, the Company intends to revise the affected periods when they are presented on a comparable basis to reflect the correct accounting. The revision will result in a reclassification from "Cash and cash equivalents" to "Prepaid expenses and other current assets" on the 2015 first and second quarter balance sheets of $7.1 million and $22.1 million, respectively. Correspondingly, the revision will result in the presentation of purchases and sales of AFS for the three months ended March 31, 2015 of $10.4 million and $3.3 million,respectively, in addition to the six months 2015 cash flow activities described above."
"400,000,000 Class C shares authorized as of December 31,2015."
"if the shares of our new class of non-voting Class C common stock are distributed as expected, the trading price of that class may experience volatility and may impact the trading price for our Class A common stock."
CEO ready to Sell Class C shares
"The trading plan further provides for the sale of up to 1,350,000 shares of the Issuer’s Class C Common Stock held by the Reporting Person personally and up to 150,000 shares of the Issuer’s Class C Common Stock held by his charitable foundation. Any sales of Class C Common Stock under the trading plan will begin only following the initial distribution of one share of the Class C Common Stock for each outstanding share of Class A and Class B Common Stock (the “Initial Class C Issuance”) and the listing of the Class C Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Sales of the Class C Common Stock may extend through August 2016."
SPORTS AUTHORITY BANKRUPTCY "Subsequent to December 31, 2015, we became aware of the deteriorating financial condition of one of our wholesale customers, The Sports Authority. Our recorded reserve as of year-end materially reflects our best estimate, based on currently available information, of the ultimate recoverability of amounts due from this customer at December 31, 2015.As of December 31, 2015, the amount of this receivable totaled $32.5 million. However, we do not currently believe that the exposure to our receivables as of December 31, 2015 is materially impacted by the developments related to The Sports Authority"
FY2015 10K filed this morning
NEGATIVE OPERATIONAL CASH FLOW (click to enlarge)
Equities Research WARNING @ $85.50
(6 Days later shares traded at $70 )
Under Armour Cash Flow Should Have Investors Running Away
Marc Faber Warns of World Bankruptcy
" Wall Street guys and the banking lunatics have essentially cheated the people." --Marc Faber
MarketOracle
Marc Faber Warns “They Will Bankrupt the World!”
Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2016Feb 19, 2016 - 10:14 AM GMT
By: Gordon_T_Long
"Dr. Marc Faber joins FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long in an exciting discussion of monetary malpractice, negative interest rates, the influence of current geopolitical risk and much more. "
"In my view it will not end well. This era of artificially low and market distorting interest rate structure will end terribly. There is a popular notion now of ‘sell everything’ but this is a flawed idea. You sell everything and you have all this money now, what will you do? Deposit it in banks? What happens when the bank goes bankrupt? In practise it is very dangerous to have all your money with one bank."---- Marc Faber
Carl Icahn ...... danger ahead
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BARRONs: Herb Greenberg and Donn Vickrey
Alibaba: Digging Into the Numbers
Vickrey: I like to say that I’m an accountant in recovery. I went to get a Ph.D. in accounting, and by chance I ran across the Thornton O’glove book, Quality of Earnings,in my dissertation research. Where O’glove was reading through [10-]Qs and [10-]Ks, I applied a statistical model to the data from the Qs and Ks—basically using the computers to crunch through a lot of financials—to figure out which companies were more conservative, which were less conservative, and which ones might be cooking the books.
Bob Olstein: Earnings vs.Cash Flow
The first step to becoming an investor is to identify the right Master. Robert Olstein of the Olstein Funds is one of the most sophisticated investors on all of Wall Street. Today I am sharing historical articles written about Olstein that investors should examine and learn from.
OLSTEIN: Earnings vs. Cash Flow
New York Times 7/18/1999
INVESTING, When a Rosy Picture Should Raise a Red Flag by Gretchen Morgenson
"EARNINGS VS. CASH FLOW -- Mr. Olstein first examines what a company generates in cash flow from its operations. A company with excess cash flow can raise dividends and survive tough times without being forced to borrow or sell assets.
To calculate a company's cash flow, start with net income. Add back what it has taken in depreciation expenses and accounts payable. Then subtract capital expenditures, inventories and accounts receivable.
Watch out, Mr. Olstein said, if net income is much higher than cash flow. The company may be speeding or slowing its booking of income or costs, perhaps to meet analysts' earnings forecasts."
Fortune Magazine 6/26/2000
Eight Warnings You Want to See by Herb Greenberg
"Positive free cash flow. Olstein looks at a company's financials, specifically the 10-Qs and 10-K, and makes a beeline for the statement of cash flows. We're not talking about the stated cash flow from operations, investing activities or financings. We're talking about cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures--the amount of usable cash the company actually generates, which can be used to buy back stock, pay dividends, make acquisitions, and grow the business."
TheStreet.com 6/25/01
Fund Junkie by Ian MacDonald
" Our main defense against risk is only buying companies that either are currently generating excess cash flow, or will in the next three years."
Financial Advisor Magazine August 2001
Staying Alert Pays Off by Maria Brill
"To Olstein, being right means finding companies with excess cash flow that are selling at inexpensive levels because investors are tuning them out. "Cash flow is the oil that lubricates the corporate engine," he observes."
The Washington Post 2/17/2002
To Avoid an Enron, Look at Cash Flow by James K. Glassman
"By concentrating on cash, investors can learn enough about a company to eliminate it as a possible investment. FOr example, if you want to get a quick-and-dirty reading, look not at a firm's "income statement" but at a more obscure tables of numbers called its "statement of cash flows".
New York Times 11/14/2004
Sometimes It Takes a Sherlock by Gretchen Morgenson
""Everyone looks at conventional price-earnings ratios but that doesn't tell you anything about the deviation between cash flow and reported earnings," Mr. Olstein said."
Financial Advisor Magazine June 2006
Forensic Accounting by Jeff Schlegel
"Olstein believes that cash--particularly free cash flow--is king because he thinks it's a truer measure of a company's underlying performance. He and his staff analysts look for companies trading at a discount to free cash flow. Lack of free cash flow is one reason why he doesn't like (a sector) ..."
CFA Institute 12/4/2007
Free Cash Flow & Quality of Earnings by Fred H. Speece, Jr. CFA
BloombergBusinessweek 8/17/2009
Behind Bob Olstein's Comeback by Karyn McCormack
"....buy quality companies that have "wide moats" (in other words, "hard to compete with out of the box"), have been generating free cash flow throughout the financial crisis, and have a great balance sheet to withstand any issues."
New York Times 1/9/2010
Fair Game:Why All Earnings Are Not Equal by Gretchen Morgenson
As the market goes higher, it becomes more important to measure the quality of corporate earnings, he said. You have to look behind the numbers.
Adjustments that investors need to make now, in Mr. Olstein's view, are a result of disparities between a company's reported earnings and its excess cash flow. Earnings are what investors focus on, but because these figures include noncash items, based on management estimates, the bottom line may not tell the whole story.
Cash flow, on the other hand, is actual money that a company generates and that its managers can use to invest in the business or pay out to shareholders.
SOME of the widest gulfs between earnings and cash flows, Mr. Olstein said, are showing up the ways companies account for capital expenditures."
A Wealth of Choices for a Value Investor by Jeff Sommer
Cash is king, he says. He spends a lot of time crunching numbers in a search for strong cash flow, and his winnowing process goes something like this:
First, he scrutinizes a company's financial reports in an effort to determine whether they paint an accurate picture. In this work, he has considerable expertise: he was an auditor with the old Arthur Andersen & Company, and then, in the 1970s, was co-author of The Quality of Earnings, a financial newsletter that, in its day, was perhaps the foremost authority on spotting the gray areas of corporate accounting.
If you're analyzing a company, he says, you first have to understand what they're really earning, as opposed to what they say they're earning.
American Association of Individual Investors October 2010
What You Can Learn from Shareholder Letters by Eric R. Heyman
"the forensic analysis we undertake
to analyze a company's results and the quality of its
earnings for valuation purposes.
1. Using the company's cash fl ow statements, we begin by
reconciling the difference between free cash fl ow and
reported earnings under accrual accounting. (Accrual
accounting records revenues, expenses and income
when the transaction occurs, as opposed to when
the cash is actually received or spent.) The smaller
the difference between free cash fl ow and reported
earnings, the higher the quality of earnings."
Barron's 4/30/2011
Depreciation, An Appreciation by Lawrence C. Strauss
"He grows more concerned when a company's reported earnings significantly exceed its cash flow,..."
Value Investor 4/30/2012
Strengthin Numbers
"Describe where you look first in researching
a company's financials.
RO: We begin by reconciling the difference
between free cash flow and reported
earnings under accrual accounting. The
smaller the difference, the higher the
quality of earnings. The bigger the difference,
the more work we have to do to
understand the makeup and sustainability
of free cash flow."
OlsteinShareholder Letters
Olstein Funds Recommended Reading
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Titan Machinery Note Hits New All Time Low $51 yield 27.62%
Titan Machinery (NASDAQ: $8.41) continues to struggle as the common stock trades within a dollar of its all time low, while this morning the $150 million Convertible Indenture with Wells Fargo (2019) traded at a New All time low of $51.25 with a 27.62% yield.
(source: Morningstar)
Equities Research continues to be Bearish Titan Machinery
Titan Machinery: New 6 Year Low and Conditions are Getting Worse
DISNEY Up 1100% Since Being Added to Dow
On May 6, 1991 the Dow Jones Industrial Index added The Walt Disney Company (DIS) , Caterpillar (CAT) and J.P. Morgan.
May 6,1991 vs February 9,2016
DJIA 2,941.64 16,014 444% 7.1% annually
DIS $7.77 $92.32 1088% 10.5% annually
CAT $3.50 $63.93 1726% 12.4% annually
JPM $3.06 $56.20 1736% 12.5% annually
February 9,2006
DJIA 10,883 16,014 47% 3.9% annually
DIS $22.70 $92.32 306% 15.1% annually
Since Stockdiagnostics Upgrade February 14,2005 , Disney has gained 269% (12.6% annual) in 11 years vs a 50% (3.8% annual)gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the same time frame.
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Citron Research Bear Case : WayFair
Andrew Left of Citron Research appeared on Bloomberg today to explain his Bear thesis on Wayfair (NYSE: $35.53 down 12% -$4.79 on day)
On August 31,2015 Citron published this report:
Wayfair is the Most Mispriced Stock Citron Research has seen in Years — Fair Value Under $10
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LinkedIn Hit $122 on Day of IPO
CONN's IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1223389/000119312503085880/d424b4.htm#toc57554_13
On November 24, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared our registration statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-109046), effective. Pursuant to the registration statement and accompanying prospectus, we registered a total of 4,772,500 shares of our common stock, including 622,500 shares to cover underwriter over-allotments. As of the date hereof, the underwriters have not exercised their option to purchase up to an additional 622,500 shares from us at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discount, to cover over-allotments. This option expires December 24, 2003.
We sold a total of 4,000,000 shares of our common stock, and one selling stockholder sold a total of 150,000 shares of our common stock, at $14.00 per share, for an aggregate price of approximately $58.1 million. We commenced our initial public offering on November 25, 2003 and initially closed the offering on December 1, 2003, generating total gross proceeds to us of approximately $52.1 million and total gross proceeds to the selling stockholder of approximately $2.0 million (in each case, net of the underwriting discount). Stephens Inc. acted as lead manager of the offering and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey acted as co-manager. The net offering proceeds to us of approximately $50.3 million, after payment of expenses, was, or will be, used to reduce a portion of our outstanding debt, to redeem a portion of our outstanding preferred stock and for general corporate purposes.
Because our registration statement was not declared effective until November 24, 2003, we did not receive net proceeds from the offering nor did we incur expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of our common stock during the fiscal period ended October 31, 2003.
Ophir Gottlieb is Bullish Starbucks
Check out this chart from StockCharts.com for SBUX
The Genius of Starbucks - Ophir Gottlieb founder of Capital Market Laboratories
Equities Research
Long Pick Starbucks New All Time High $63.43
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Starbucks, Crocs, HealthStream, 3D Systems, Stanley Black & Decker,
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Time To Factor 30 Million Class C Shares Into Under Armour Valuation
On October 7,2015 Under Armour authorized an additional 30 million Class C shares have been issued.
According to the most recent 8K filing on January 28,2016, Under Armour had 221 million shares outstanding.
At any time, the company can convert the 30 million shares of Class C shares into Class A common stock which would bring the total outstanding shares immediately to 251 million, a 14% increase.
The Class C shares were initially disclosed in a June to authorize 30 million shares of our Class C Stock to be issued
SEC Approves FINRA Equity Crowdfunding Portal Rules
On Friday, January 29, 2016, the Securities & Exchange commission approved the FINRA Crowdfunding Portal rules in preparation for the launch of Equity Crowdfunding in the United States on May 16,2016.
Georgia P. Quinn, the CEO and co-founder of iDisclose, an adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade private placement documents contributed an article @ Crowdfundinside.com.
"Crowdfunding Portals Prepare for Title III Retail Crowdfunding"
"Title III ... method for small companies to easily raise capital, ended up being 686 pages of (SEC )rules requiring both issuer and platform to adhere to strict standards."
"Title II has no funding limit under Regulation D".
"Title IV, a mini-IPO type offer, allows a company raise up to $50 million and once capital is raised may choose to list its shares on an exchange such as OTC Markets."
FINRA (website) FUNDING PORTAL RULES
FEDERAL REGISTRY
SEC Rules TITLE III of JOBSACT
Finra Fp Rules_final Fed Reg Jan 28 2016 (00420230xa9c08)
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Labels: Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Federal Registry, FINRA, SEC, United States
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Home / World News / 4 killed in Swiss Alps Plane crash
July 28, 2018 World News Leave a comment
Four people died when their light aircraft crashed into the summit of a glacier in the Swiss Alps, police said Saturday, in the latest fatal accident to hit the popular tourist region.
The plane went down 3,300 metres (10,800 feet) above sea level at 4:45 pm (1445 GMT) on Friday in an area known as the Dunand Pass, police in southern Valais canton said in a statement.
They identified the plane as a four-seater made by the French firm Robin and which had taken off from Sion airport for “a pleasure flight”.
After receiving an alert, authorities dispatched rescue teams to the summit but found the pilot and three passengers dead at the scene.
“The circumstances of the accident have not yet been determined,” police added. The victims have not yet been formally identified.
The accident comes after an unusually deadly winter season in the Swiss Alps that saw multiple hikers killed in a series of avalanches.
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Elon Musk takes swipe at SEC, claims agency is ‘broken’
By Nicolas Vega and Kevin Dugan
February 26, 2019 | 11:33am | Updated February 26, 2019 | 1:05pm
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Elon Musk lashed out at the Securities and Exchange Commission, claiming the watchdog is “broken” for demanding he be held in “contempt of court” over a second misleading Tesla tweet.
“Something is broken with SEC oversight,” Musk tweeted early Tuesday after the regulatory agency said in a court filing that Musk was in violation of his October promise to rein in his tweets.
But Manhattan federal Judge Alison Nathan is taking the SEC’s complaint seriously and ordered the billionaire head of Tesla to explain himself by March 11.
“Defendant Elon Musk shall submit to this court by March 11, 2019, briefing to show cause, if any, why he should not be found in contempt of the court’s final judgement,” Nathan wrote on Tuesday.
The judge was responding to the SEC’s filing late Monday calling for Musk to explain himself to the judge — causing the stock to drop in late trading, down 4.6 percent to $285 a share.
The agency’s gripe was over a Feb. 19 tweet by Musk saying Tesla expects to produce around 500,000 Model 3s in 2019. Four hours later, the billionaire updated the tweet to explain that the 500,000 figure was actually an annualized production rate.
The SEC said Musk’s tweet was a violation of his October agreement with them to stop “disseminating misleading or inaccurate information via Twitter or other means in the future.”
As part of the deal, Musk was supposed to stop tweeting about Tesla’s business without a lawyer’s approval. But his top lawyer bolted shortly after his Feb. 19 tweet about production.
“Musk did not seek or receive pre-approval prior to publishing this tweet, which was inaccurate and disseminated to over 24 million people,” the agency said in demanding the judge call on him to explain himself.
The SEC cracked down on him initially after he tweeted in August that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 a share. The SEC said the claim was fraudulent and noted that it appeared to be an attempt to impress his then-girlfriend, the pop singer Grimes, with a marijuana joke.
The most extreme punishment that the judge could impose is barring Musk from being the officer of a public company — but it’s more likely he’ll get a “slap on the wrist” from the regulators, Sam P. Israel, a securities lawyer, told The Post.
“Contempt is a serious thing, but that’s really a radical response,” Israel said. “A fine and a warning that if he does it again, then there would be an officer and director bar” is more likely, he said.
While Musk’s tweets taunting the regulator aren’t going to help him, his earlier comments on an investor call that Tesla could produce 350,000 to 500,000 cars weigh in his favor, Israel said.
“He does have a point. The problem is that everything he’s doing right now is being scrutinized very carefully,” he added.
Musk called the SEC “broken” in response to a follower who complained that Musk’s latest misleading tweet didn’t move Tesla stock — the SEC did when it complained.
“Exactly. This has now happened several times,” Musk wrote.
Musk also “liked” that tweet, which called for an “enforcement committee that protects the small investor from the SEC enforcement committee.”
Tesla shares were down 1.1 percent Tuesday morning, to $295.39.
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March Madness is all about Zion Williamson and those he knows best
By Howie Kussoy
March 17, 2019 | 7:52pm
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Virginia tops Texas Tech in OT thriller to win its first NCAA Tournament title
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'Unbelievable, crazy': How Texas Tech's long-shot recruit became its star
The NCAA Tournament has it all.
Magic. Mayhem. Buzzer-beaters. Busted brackets. Cinderellas. Legends. Triumph. Heartbreak.
There is nothing like the Big Dance — but even it has never seen the likes of Zion Williamson.
As a running, jumping, shoe-exploding YouTube clip, Duke’s 6-foot-7, 285-pound superstar freshman accomplished the rare feat of turning regular-season games into must-see events. Now, the soon-to-be No. 1 pick in the NBA draft brings his historically unique blend of strength, speed, athleticism and finesse to college basketball’s biggest stage for the first and only time, making the No. 1 overall seed Blue Devils the clear favorite — and biggest favorite since Kentucky entered undefeated in 2015 — to cut down the nets at the Final Four in Minneapolis.
Following his infamous late-season knee sprain and six-game absence — during which Duke went 3-3 — Williamson erased any concern with his electric, record-setting return in the Blue Devils’ (29-5) run to the ACC Tournament title, and managed to create even more anticipation for the NCAA Tournament’s main attraction.
When Williamson went down, some argued the imminent multi-millionaire should sit until NBA commissioner Adam Silver calls his name. Clearly, some forgot that there is nothing like the NCAA Tournament.
“When you’re a little kid watching Duke on TV cut down championship nets, and you say you want to be a part of it, you say it as a little kid, but when you actually grow up and get to be a part of it, I mean that’s why we come to Duke, win championships and try to get banners,” Williamson said Saturday night. “Why would I pass up on this experience?”
Why would anyone pass up playing on the most talented team in the nation, part of a phenomenal freshmen-led group — also featuring the projected No. 2 pick (RJ Barrett), plus another top-five prospect (Cam Reddish) — and perhaps the best defense Mike Krzyzewski has sported in four decades at Duke?
Should the Blue Devils win their sixth national championship — and first since 2015 — Krzyzewski, 72, would become the oldest coach in history to win the title, besting Jim Calhoun’s 2011 run, at 68.
If Duke falls short — like 11 of the past 14 top overall seeds, and each of the past five — the ACC could still be kings of college basketball again. Virginia (29-3) and North Carolina (27-6) also earned 1-seeds, marking the second time in the NCAA Tournament history that one conference claimed three top seeds. The Big East did it in 2009, with a trio of teams no longer part of the league (UConn, Pittsburgh and Louisville), none of which advanced to the national title game.
Kyle Guy and Virginia were stunned by UMBC last season.Getty Images
While Roy Williams hopes to take the high-powered Tar Heels offense to a third national championship game in four years — setting up a potential first-ever NCAA Tournament meeting between Duke and North Carolina — the Cavaliers will attempt to avenge the biggest upset the event has ever witnessed, and reach the Final Four for the first time since 1984.
Backed again by the nation’s top defense — and the best offense of the unbelievably successful, and unbelievably disappointing Tony Bennett era — Virginia is a top seed for the fourth time in six years, but forever stained with the humiliation of being the first 1-seed ever to lose to a 16-seed (UMBC) last year.
“I think we know what we have to do to be successful,” Bennett said this weekend. “But we also realize that we’re susceptible as every team is in this tournament and sometimes that’s as valuable to know instead of thinking you’re invincible.”
Top-seed Gonzaga (30-3) — the lone team to beat Duke at full strength — learned it wasn’t invincible, entering with its 21-game win streak snapped. No. 2 seed Michigan State (28-6) looks the part after winning the Big Ten regular-season and postseason titles, while fellow 2-seed Kentucky (27-6) is a contender again. Houston (31-3), a 3-seed and AAC regular-season champ, has to prove it isn’t a pretender.
And after losing four stars to the NBA, defending national champion and 6-seed, Villanova (25-9) follows its latest Big East title, and could become the first back-to-back champion in a dozen years. A third title in four years would also make the Wildcats the first to do so since John Wooden’s UCLA dynasty.
Crazier things have happened. UMBC and Loyola-Chicago — the sixth straight year a seven-seed or lower reached the Final Four — are reminders.
No matter that neither is back. The NCAA Tournament has it all.
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The Duke University Health System (DUHS) Diversity Education for Staff course helps health care workers become aware of unconscious biases and stereotypes that may influence their ability to provide patient-centered care. Through this course, they recognize how diversity and inclusion, cultural competence, and implicit bias affect their view of patients and colleagues.
This training has been developed using evidence-based research integrating The Joint Commission standards that directly affect patient safety and quality of care. It also uses several adult learning paradigms to encourage self-reflection and group exchanges that align with the health system’s values.
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Staff will be provided with a new and timely awareness and understanding of diversity and inclusion and belonging, cultural competence, implicit bias, microaggressions, and the utility of the CultureVision™ tool to deliver patient-centered, culturally competent and safe care.
In support of improving patient In support of improving patient care, the Duke University Health System Department of Clinical Education and Professional Development is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
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New Approaches Result in Rash of New Polls – and Concerns
In the 2016 election, a blizzard of new polls and polling methods will give reporters an unprecedented look into the minds of the American voter.
And when deciding what to do with all that information, polling expert G. Evans Witt suggested reporters “take a deep breath.”
“There are good polls out there and bad polls,” he said.
Witt is CEO of Princeton Survey Research Associates International and before that was a longtime pollster for The Associated Press and other media organizations. In a session for NPF Paul Miller Fellows, he was joined by Jennifer Agiesta, the polling director for CNN, to explain the many ways more is not necessarily better as polling proliferates.
“Caution really is the most important thing you can exercise when you are reading a poll,” Agiesta said.
Among the specifics reporters need to tease out before they can understand – and therefore report on – political polls:
The margin of error – and not just of the overall poll, but also of any subgroup being reported (a poll of 1,000 registered voters will have one margin, but the margin for likely voters will be larger, and the margin for likely Republican voters larger still);
The timing of the poll, and particularly whether pollsters were in the field before, during or after a major news event such as a presidential debate;
The polling methodology, including the use of cell phones, landline phones, or online-only technology.
As an example of how the landscape has radically changed, Witt asked the 21 Paul Miller Fellows – all young Washington journalists – whether they used a landline phone at home; not a single hand went up.
The two experts also gave a run-down of Election Night, with information on when voting will end in each of the states and when and how reporters can access exit poll data.
Other resources for journalists to better understand political polling:
“20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results,” a tip sheet by Witt and Sheldon R. Gawiser.
A collection of reports on polling techniques from the American Association for Public Opinion Research, including access to articles from the group’s journal, Public Opinion Quarterly.
2016 campaigns elections polling
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Travel Log: Washington, D.C.
Sister Betsy Van Deusen, CSJ
The last day of the third leg was six days, saw us in six states, and held 15 events (with some stops on Capitol Hill)!
We ended our time together with a really delicious dinner in the rectory hosted by Father Patrick Smith, the Pastor of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. Ernesto was the chef and he told me he also cooks for the school and uses fresh fruits and vegetables. He told me once the children got used to it, they really love it. Dessert was sweet potato and pecan pie!
We went next door to the school for our Town Hall for Justice. This event was unique in that the staff traveling on the Bus with us, as well as three of the nine sisters who live in D.C. During the discussion time, it was interesting being with residents of the District because they talked about “taxation without representation.” On the road we heard from many constituents who did not feel represented, and these people are in fact not!
After the presentation people were invited to sign the Bus. It was raining so everyone had to wipe their spot before signing. Earlier in the day the NETWORK staff had attached the names of the 887 people who had sent a donation for Nuns on the Bus. The sister with whom I live and I had signed a sticker, and I thought it would be neat to see it on the Bus. On that rainy night in D.C. I got to see our sticker and was so grateful to the community support that made the “Tax Justice Truth Tour” possible.
We said our goodbyes and “ubered” off to the Stuart Center where we spent the night before making connections home.
I would like to extend a huge thank you to the staff and supporting players for a very enjoyable, inspiring and passion filled experience.
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Rebecca Buck
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Some of the participants at the opening of the ‘Yma a Nawr Sculpture’, the culmination of a 2 year, multi-artist, Arts Care Gofal Celf project working with school children, people with dementia and the staff at Gwalia Mynydd Mawr Home. 2014
The process of commissioned sculpture is deeply satisfying. Joining forces with the people that will live with the sculpture, I listen carefully to why the sculpture is needed and I pride myself in bringing out the commissioner’s voice. Public monuments, memorials and sculptures for your home should hold something of you and it is my job to put it there.
The Sirhowy Wyvern, designed and made with local people of all ages and abilities to tell Sirhowy’s story. 2m h x 2m w x 3m l, Brick Sculpture, Tredegar, South Wales.
For Public Sculpture to genuinely have a sense of place they are best made collaboratively. I have become very skilled at drawing together many disparate ideas into narrative Monuments that radiate sincerity. Opportunities for people of all abilities, levels of experience and availability are designed into the piece. The building method allows community members to join in and, with guidance, add their own art-work that will be a point of pride for generations. The materials and designs are very durable and that, coupled with local connection with the work means that no harm will come to it.
Marking Time, Bronllys Hospital Woodland Walk, Powys, UK.
Marking Time, Bronllys Hospital.
Marking Time, Bronllys Hospital, Powys, UK.
Parc Calon Lan. The Community Council of Blaengarw and the Creation Development Trust transformed the ruined land of a huge Coal Washery into a beautiful, serene Park for the Village to share. We worked together for a year to make the Calon Lan sculpture that tells the history of the Village and celebrates the famous hymn, Calon Lan, being written and first performed there.
Getting a sculpture made is very straight forward. Whatever stage you are at with your idea simply phone or e-mail me and we can chat generally about the possibilities and piece together all the out-comes you need from the project such as involving the whole family in a Memorial, creating a sense of place or a Community of Practice.
A lovely private commission ,’The River’ was a birthday present for someone very special.
The Memorial Garden Sculpture in Bryncynon is all about creating a focal point to bring the community together after a series of tragic deaths so it was built in shipping containers in the Community Centre’s car park so that the wonderful Volunteers could get to it easily to add carvings like this lovely Angel.
Ocean Colliery Pit Marker, 2m h x 5m l, Blaengarw, South Wales. Many of the Volunteers had worked under-ground and this sculpture expressed parts of the story of Coal that are often glossed over.
Ocean Colliery Pit Marker. I do the tricky bits that require a lot of training under the close guidance of local people who really know the story being told.
The Balarat Pit Marker Gateway, Blaengarw, was made mostly by the local Volunteers getting back together and using the skills from making the big sculptures. It has enlivened a dreary wall as you come to the centre of the Village.
To make best use of our budget we built Ocean and Balarat Pit Markers together in an empty shop on the main street of the next village. Passers-by could drop in and share their feed-back, which was invaluable and added to the Community-building remit of the project on several levels.
Volunteer Sharon put in countless hours and took on all sorts of tasks. Here she’s building the structure of a dram on Ocean Colliery Pit Marker.
Jim is an ex-miner and a very good painter. He over-saw most of the details specific to Mining so that the record was accurate.
When you are ready I will draw up a Budget and Program of Work for your approval. I stick religiously to my Budgets! Clay gives excellent value for money; it is quicker to shape and longer lasting than any other material. Payments are made in 3 stages unless we agree other wise. Workshops with anyone participating (a community group or your family for example) will lead to Scale Models and once these are agreed on the full build can begin. A Sculpture around 1 metre high will take 4 months. The huge ones as much as a year. A lot of that time is taken up with drying the clay. Prices start at £700, with the largest to date at 6 metres long costing around £30,000 (half that going on the Installation by a Builder).
A beautifully carved plaque, done with the late Haydn Evans, for the British Legion was part of the Memorial Garden project for the Feelgood Factory in Brycynon, South Wales.
Designed with the Cefn Pennar Youth Club for their football field and built with Groundwork Aberdare in their Poly-tunnels.
These Coleford Brick Sculptures were made with big Community groups to commemorate their heritage. They were built in the Villages so that local people of all ages and experience were able to get involved at every stage of the process, from developing the Themes, researching the images, building the structures and putting on the carved Art-work. It is a wonderful way to draw people together and promote local pride. The results have a resonant beauty no individual could have made.
The Pupils at Maesydderwen High School in Ystradgynlais, building their Sculpture.
Ysgol Maesydderwen, Ystradgynlais, S.Wales.
Jamie Kenwood, the first class Tiler from WPC Ceramics putting on the Tiles made and carved by Pupils to show images from their school life and local history.
The Sculpture’s installation was under-taken by Wilmot Dixon as part of their finishing touches to the new extension.
In other projects I run Workshops to develop the ideas and perhaps make some sections of the Sculpture, and then I build the piece here at Osprey Studios.
Yma a Nawr was built in Osprey Studios and photographed by Stephen Foote here while it dried.
This keeps the costs down and speeds up the time-line. I have space to go up to 6m long. Small pieces are taken just as seriously as the Monumental ones. All these Art-works will last for centuries and they all need to be wonderful so that the people involved will feel proud of the legacy that they contributed to.
A single Workshop with a very creative group of people with serious Mental Health disabilities lead to this Sculpture for the entrance of the beautiful modern building at The ARC in Bridgend, Wales.
The words ‘It’s the wings of experience that let you fly.’ from an Eric Bibb song are impressed in the rendered plinth which was then painted to match the building.
Requiem in progress, 65cm h
Having collected my Sculpture for years this Client gave me a clear budget and a very open brief.
Llys Caradog Story Telling Chair and Sensory Garden, 2013. I made the colourful Panel in memory of a beautiful girl who had been a regular visitor at this very special Respite Centre.
Ystradgynlaid Library sculpture.
The extraordinary Headmistress, Ms Hanson and some of her very proud pupils.
9 thoughts on “Commissions, Community Projects and Collaborative Public Sculptures.”
Trev Stringer says: December 11, 2012 at 10:06 am
Just lovely!!
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Rebecca Buck says: November 8, 2018 at 11:10 am
Many thanks! I am very pleased you liked this post. I have worked with a lot of amazing people on some extraordinary projects.
I volunteered for 15 years. I know how important it is, how valuable it is. I applaud each and every one of you, sincerely! 🙂
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Camp Tweaks? Or Cause for Concern?
Posted on August 3, 2017 by unca_chuck
Guys are dropping like flies in camp, and we haven’t even reached the one-week milestone. 3rd string LB Jimmie Gilbert is out for the year with a torn ACL, Jaquiski Tartt is day-to-day with a rib injury, DeForest Buckner is day-to-day with an ankle injury, but apparently it is not as bad as initially thought, TE George Kittle is being held out of practice for individual drills, and Keith Reaser will miss practice entirely for a 2nd day. Eli Harold is being held out of practice for a concussion suffered a few days ago.
Good news is that Eric Reid is back to full practice status after tweaking his ankle. Other than that, the latest casualty if the new regime is Bruce Ellington, the speedster who never got untracked.
Camp sleeper, according to Adam Schefter is matt Breida, UDFA RB out of Georgia Southern, who ran a blistering 4.38 in the 40 is making headway to make the team. He also had the highest vertical leap, 42 inches, and pumped out 23 repetitions of 225 pounds on the bench press. He also seems to be meshing very well with what Kyle Shanahan and RB coach Bobby Turner are looking for in a fast powerful guy who can catch the occasional pass.
That’s about all the news that’s out there Niner-wise. Ryan Tannehill is out for a while, so the Colin Kaepernick death march to the NFL continues.
71 Responses to Camp Tweaks? Or Cause for Concern?
I gotta laugh about the Ravens owner about Kap. The guy should just keep his mouth shut. Don’t act like you want him when you don’t. I think Miami is the perfect place for kap since Seattle didn’t want him. We have had lots of injuries but so have a bunch of teams. Makes you wonder what these fucking physical trainers are doing. I bet Ellington didn’t show the desire to be on the team as the others have. I mean he does have the skills but he’s also missing something. Someone will pick him up. Probably Seattle just for the playbook.
Lurker John says:
With that 40 time and shiftiness, I have to wonder why Breida was overlooked in the draft. I don’t know how big he is, but he looks muscular as hell in photos, with huge arms. If he pans out, we’d have a nice trio in Hyde, Williams and Breida. I’m really champing at the bit for the first preseason game.
As for injuries, I just hope Shanahan isn’t pushing the players too hard. As a first-time head coach, it’s possible that he’s so gung ho that he doesn’t know when to rein it in.
Kap is a dipshit. He made his bed. Now he gets to sleep in it. I wouldn’t mind not hearing his name for the rest of the preseason.
Flavor’s blog is entertaining in their frustration with the Giants losing ways. Those Matt Moore starts are especially pathetic. The bodies keep changing but the results are the same….players that can’t field, hit or pitch much.
Flavor says:
thanks Nip. You should get some IT help so you could post there again. You were one of the originals at the Splash. Flap would welcome you back with open arms.
Brieda had a crappy senior season as Ga Southern retooled their offensive scheme. It screwed him up. He also played pretty small at like 180 and has since put on some weight.
As for Kappy, I hope he gets a shot.
Anyone think Smelter makes the team? He remains, to me, an interesting prospect. He’s big and tough, supposed to be a good blocker and has those legendary hands. Given that the Niners are still thin at wideout, I’m sure he’s getting his chance, I just haven’t heard much. The preseason games will be telling I’d imagine.
I see Breida has some experience returning kicks. At the end of the day, that may be his path to making the team. Hightower is 31 and has never really done all that much, but he has experience. I haven’t heard much about Williams this camp either.
The yearly “your team suks article” . . . ! Make mine a double . . .
http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2017-san-francisco-49ers-1797328541
Bruce Ellington waived…
another one of TB’s head scratcher moves. TB loved guys who were hurt who he would draft who would end up doing exactly squat.
Driving home from Reno today, got to listen to the Eric Reed interview on KNBR. He sounds genuinely excited about the new regime and that’s enough for me. We are thin at almost every position so I’m assuming that as the season unfolds and more and more guys get injured we’re going to be totally fucked like last year. But unlike last year, we don’t have buffoons making the decisions. I’m cautiously optimistic right now.
oh, and fuck Kap. He’s not good enough to be worth the hassle that he brings with him.
I’m very curious to see how the defense fares. We have a bit of talent on the line and a lot of questions in the d backfield. Our DC last year was absolutely clueless so I think better coaching will go a long way to improving the defense.
The o has to carry their side of things though. We have a ton of players and a lot of hope but more unknowns across the board. Smelter looks like the real deal but at least we have an OC that appears to have a plan.
I thought we’d do more for the o line but there’s still time I guess.
Say what you will about Kappy but his numbers Weren’t bad but for the clown show built by Baalke. Not our headache anymore but whatevs. I think he deserves a shot.
It sounds like Tannehill may need season-ending knee surgery. If that’s the case, Miami may be where Kap gets his shot. I’d certainly take him over an over-the-hill Jay Cutler. My main beef with Kap now is that he’s no longer a 49er but gets constantly talked about on the the various 49er sites and elsewhere. Since he’s gone, I’m way more concerned with how the Niner offense will do with the QB’s they do have.
I’m with Flavor, Fuck Kap. He was a distraction last year and he will be one again.
Miami will go the pussy route and take Cutler. The hooraw around Kaepernick is akin to all unwritten rules in baseball. In that the Latin players shouldn’t be so demonstrative and the minority players should know their place. It ain’t all about that but there’s a large element of it in these situations.
Look at all the shit Harper got for calling baseball ‘boring’.
Kap did what he did for what he thought were valid but unpopular reasons. He’s better than at least half of the 96 QBs on NFL rosters. But yeah fuck him. Let the rich white owners dictate the actions of its players.
Its the fans as much as the owners. Backlash is a real concern for them, alienating a large portion of a fan base, as pig socks Krapadick did, is expensive.
If Kaepernick came in and won games for some team, he’d be a Goddamn hero. Perception is reality.
Beyond that, the game is hurting due to stupid and inane penalties, the tons of shitty teams, shoddy QB play, corporate takeover, billions of ads, and the abject greed of the league. The owners would have you believe that Karpernick is solely responsible for the downturn in attendance and ratings. As if he kneels for All 128 games a season, not just the 16 with SF.
Eighteen years ago, Warner came out of nowhere to lead the Rams from a 4-12 season to a Super Bowl championship
It can be done, just saying!
It could be done. Just not with a Brian Hoyer. Cousins would give us a chance.
Didn’t Kap win a game at Miami last year? Last second stuff? Maybe they’d give him a shot. I could see picking him up to PLAY but not to sit on the bench and cause distractions. If he played and he was good, you keep playing him. My opinion is that Kap is a shell of who he once was and he won’t be able to win consistently but I wouldn’t mind watching it all play itself out. Entertainment.
They came close but lost, I believe by getting stuffed near the goal line as time ran out:
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201611270mia.htm
Kap would likely walk into the starting job in Miami. No one would be signing him at this point to sit on the bench. Good bad or indifferent he would be a distraction.
The thing about Kap is he got fucked hard by Jed. Kap took a very team-friendly deal, one he and his yokel agent got shit for, to help keep the talent on the team. They didn’t, and he suffered for it. As the talent around him got worse, so did he. Jed promised to keep the talent here and then let everyone go. Baalke didn’t do anything to fix the roster problems, and their response was to whisper about Kaepernick’s ineffectiveness. Of course Gabbert came in and played like a duller turd than Colin, so there you have it.
Shell of himself? No one could have won with that team the last couple years. If he was on Denver last year, Denver makes the playoffs. They made a mistake by not taking him. Denver is going to suck again this year as their defense ages and their QB hole continues to gape.
Besides LOOKING much smaller over the last couple of years, to me, he seems to have totally lost his confidence on his throws. Here’s a pass that Kap would have thrown but check out Taylor hauling it in. AWESOME, really looking forward to this guy in the slot
Taylor consistently demonstrates ELITE ball skills. Keeper https://t.co/7ZKDkiGQXi
— Larry Krueger (@sportslarryknbr) August 4, 2017
Speaking of small, Taylor is 5’8″. Dude is tiny. He might make the team based on the dogshit WRs we have, and that we desperately NEED a punt returner.
he can be tiny and play out of the slot. Lots of good small slot guys–esp with Shanny utilizing him to the fullest. Really excited to see what this offense is gonna look like .
I think our WR’s are pretty good right now and since we have a QB not named Kap maybe we can get the ball to em. I like Taylor because he plays way bigger than he is. He has heart and he makes plays.
He’s been making plays in camp, great plays. The dude may be small but he’s the real deal. Great hands and athletic ability, fearless over the middle and tough as nails. Don’t sell short because of his size, the Niners aren’t. Small or not, he’s a football player.
He’s making the team regardless.
Not sure how quick this offense turns it around, but I’m worried about the O line more than anything. Of all the moves we’ve made this offseason, we didn’t do much for them. And Hoyer?
Uhhh, yeah. We’ll see.
chuck- it’s smart to be a little pessimistic about our offense, so am I. Just listening to what others have said about Hoyer I honestly think he could be a great stop-gap until we get our guy. He moves around in the pocket pretty well, he can read defenses also well from what I have read. and he has a competent arm. The Oline is my concern also but I think it’s gonna be ok barring injuries. I think the term guarded optimism is where I am at right now.
Yeah every season is the same……..one starts with optimism and then as time passes reality takes over. Can this O line do the job? Are there enough weapons to support this QB? Are the WRs up to standards? Without depth injuries will cripple this roster? Just comparing last seasons pre-season to this seasons is a cause for hope.
Hoyer’s biggest advantage over Kap: he’s a pocket passer, something Kap never got comfortable with. That and his familiarity with the offense are what drew him to Shanahan. Shanny wants pocket passers.
One of the things that really killed me last year was Chip Kelley running the Counter Trey out of a spread formation. It worked the first week but not after that. Other teams just sent the weak side contain to tackle the RB from behind, often in the backfield. College offenses get tested mightily in the NFL. With better talent all around Kelley’s college offense did not pass muster.
Harbaugh and Kelley ran college offenses. Kaepernick is probably the perfect QB for that. In pro offenses there are hot reads, sight adjustments and timing plays. Kap did none of those well, if at all. He went back to pass and looked deep. If that wasn’t there he would maybe look for a secondary receiver but that was it at best. At that point too much time was taken because of the time always looking deep first. Either scramble or get sacked.
Kap is like Tebow, a distraction. If you are a great QB who can make a team win you get signed. If you are a possible starter but really a back up at best who comes with a distraction, good luck getting signed.
Yeah Kap’s shortcomings as a player is not mentioned by the NFL critics. Even the local sports media types seldom mention his playing shortcomings as a QB. Greg Papa mentioned it on the “Happy Hour” on NBC while the woman host was spouting what an injustice it is not having signed Kap to a back-up role. Kap is not the player he once was that’s for sure.
Camp injuries to starters piling up. Big signing Malcolm Smith with a chest injury likely out for a protracted period and penciled in LG Garnett needs a knee procedure to “clean some things up”.
Smith was a sure starter, tough loss.
Smith done for year.
Torn pectoral, sweet.
This guys are getting killed in camp, especially defensively. It’s not much good having a punishing camp when the resulting injuries mean a diminished squad. They haven’t been able to go 3 days without someone going down.
These guys…
almost all of these guys come into camp in fabulous shape. It’s stupid to have pre season last this long. I know a shorter PS wouldn’t have saved all these guys but I’d rather they get hurt during something real than something that doesn’t mean anything.
They’ve already cut way back on hitting in preseason and 2-a-day practices per the NFLPA deal from the strike in 2011. I don’t think it’s the camps, it’s the game itself.
Flav, the problem with shortening the preseason is that the owners want to add games to the regular season if they do. An 18 game season would be a disaster.
I think it’s all the weight room shit they do. They hit it so hard that their muscles are taxed to the limit. They move the wrong way and shit happens. I knew some guys that weight lifting was their religon, they spent all their free time working out. I used to laugh at em because a few of em couldn’t even walk right. I feel there has to be some give and take with all that. I don’t believe that the old timers spent near as much time fucking around with the weights.
It’s rough out there……especially in 49ers camp.
Weight training has been the standard for a long time now. The training is balanced by these professional strength coaches, players have access to top flight professional massage and recovery activities. They have to lift just to stay competitive. As long as it’s combined with flexibility training it’s a benefit.
I was watching some old 49ers championship tapes last year and looked up some of those rosters on NFL-Reference. It’s mind-boggling how much smaller linemen on both sides of the ball were then and that was only the 80’s and 90’s. Much has changed. Now you have massive, fast men slamming into each other. Injuries will happen.
Lurker- I agree about the benefits of weight lifting. I am pretty sure the players don’t get much one on one training there is just not that many trainers to go around. Stretching and ice baths help. I know the players who spend a lot of time in the weight room are always competing with themselves it’s just the nature of weight lifting. I think most torn pect muscles like Smiths are caused by bench pressing to much.
Is this anything like the jinx associated with the cover of Madden?
http://tinyurl.com/yanytsaq
The most entertaining part of that link is the jackass commenters that can’t let go of the bash-Jed-York-no-matter-what mantra. Yeah, it’s been rough, everyone here knows that, but some really good moves have been made. Even if a guy has sucked, you have to give credit where credit is due. He’s put some good pieces in place, now it’s time to get behind them and see where it goes.
I’m probably off on the camp thing. Shanahan has said a couple of times that while hard hitting is encouraged, no wrapping and taking to the ground, or rolling guys. I just get frustrated because the Niners don’t have a ton of depth. Losing Smith sucks big time. He was going to be one of the main guys on D. I’ve been holding my breath hoping the team can get to the regular season without any more significant injuries.
Fish sign Cutler. Kap fucked again.
You really have to not want someone if you sign Cutler instead.
I can see Gase wanting a familiar option.
Much the same as Shanny with Hoyer.
Less ‘Coaching’ involved, with the short notice situation they found themselves in after Tannehill went down.
Yeah, I just saw on SC about Cutler’s history with Gase. Makes more sense.
After a 2-14 Season Lurker John I can’t see it going anywhere but up.
Sure, losing MSmith sucks but, that’s the nature of the business.
Probably puts Bow in a better position as well.
As for Kaep? I think it’s pretty damn obvious that he’s nothing but a system fit or, a last ditch option, for a team in desperate straits?
He did himself no favors by bringing his soapbox to the job.
Absolutely, NJ. I’m excited about this upcoming season. Should be fun.
NFL hired former 49ers GM Trent Baalke as Football Operations Consultant, per sources. Will handle a variety of roles for the NFL.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 6, 2017
Holy Moly –
http://tinyurl.com/yc992dku
Kaep is probably holding a loaded revolver, with one in the chamber, spinning it wildly and, wondering what he has to do to get a job right about now I’d think?
Kap is firmly entrenched in the new civil rights movement and probably has more followers than he’s ever had. It seems obvious that football is second fiddle at this point.
Running QBs are not popular anymore. If Kap stays in the pocket he’s not worth much with his inaccurate arm.
I figured Miami would winp out and they did. Cutler is a piece of dried shit. Didn’t Gase get enough of Cutler in Chi town? apparently not.
Too funny. Don’t see how Kappy could do worse than Cutler but they are toast.
“Hey Jay, want to make 10 mill for sucking balls?”
yeah, if the choice was Cutler or Kap to START I would have picked Kap 10/10 times just because his ceiling is possibly so much higher. I haven’t followed it too closely but did Kap try out for the Dolphins? Is Kap even actively seeking employment? Serious question. I’ve been out of town/out of loop on NFL news till recently.
Don’t really know but all I read about his activities are in the vain of charities and civil rights. I don’t even know if he’s working out to stay in shape and I truly don’t give a shit either way. Although I think Miami would have been an interesting place for him to land.
Kap tried out for the Squawks not Fins. He hasn’t made any public effort to show he is committed to football but has shown plenty of commitment to his causes. Cutler was the smarter choice because he worked with Ease before and time is very short before the start of the season. Not a big fan of Cutler but he played well for Game before, makes sense.
Gase.
Still and all, Cutler? 4-12 in their future.
The Baalke hiring is a direct result of the Peter Principle n action.
Kappy himself isn’t talking about football or making any kind of statement at all so it’s hard to even know if he’s trying to get a job in the NFL. At this point he’d be drawing more fans than he’d turn away.
You know the NFL loves the chatter as they disavow everything.
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Racist font? NJ Republican leader defends anti-Kim mailer
Flier about Democrat candidate Andy Kim issued by the NJ Republican State Committee (Matt Friedman via Twitter)
TRENTON — The head of the state Republican Party defended a campaign mailer that used a font sometimes associated with Chinese restaurants to attack Congressional candidate Andy Kim.
The mailer, paid for by the New Jersey Republican State Committee, was headlined "Something is real fishy about Andy Kim" across a row of dead fish at a market. The mailer uses the exotic red font to spell Kim's name and phrase "real fishy."
Kim, who is of Korean descent, is challenging Republican incumbent Tom MacArthur in the state's 3rd Congressional District. MacArthur was leading his challenger by just a point, according to a Monmouth University poll in August. This is one of the districts that Democrats are trying to wrest from the GOP in order to take control of the House.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the executive director of the Democratic State Committee, told the New Jersey Globe news site that the mailer was a "despicable" tactic that represented "racist, dog whistle politics."
Interestingly, MacArthur is the father of two Korean children.
New Jersey Republican State Committee Chairman Doug Steinhardt told New Jersey 101.5 morning host Bill Spadea on Wednesday that bringing attention to Kim's nationality was not the intention of the mailer.
"We vet our messages for content and try to fact check everything so we don't say anything we're not supposed to. It's the first time we've been called out on the way something looks or appears. It's good to put on our radar screen," Steinhardt said.
Steinhardt said that a public relations firm designed the advertisement and it was reviewed by their legal team "so that we're not accused of falsely misrepresenting someone's record."
The flier first started to get attention after it was tweeted by Matt Friedman, a reporter for Politico NJ.
Writing in the New Jersey Globe, critic Amy Wilson says the lettering in the mailer is similar to fonts called "Wonton" or "Chop Suey," which she says been used to "depict Asians since at least the time of the Yellow Peril."
"Is This Racist? Verdict: Oh god, yes – absolutely," she writes. "This is a horrifying use of a font to exoticize and Orientalize an Asian candidate."
The race between Kim and MacArthur had turned ugly before this mailer. Kim has been criticized for inflating his resume and MacArthur's campaign has accused Kim of lying about being in the military.
Kim is running on a platform on expanding affordable health care access. MacArthur is running as a champion of President Donald Trump's signature tax law. MacArthur was the only congressman from New Jersey who voted for the tax bill.
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Albinoni: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
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Voorluisteren Albinoni: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata I in D Minor, Talm I,1: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata I in D Minor, Talm I,1: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata I in D Minor, Talm I,1: III. Largo
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12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata II in F Major, Talm I, 2: III. Largo, Adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata II in F Major, Talm I, 2: IV. Vivace
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata III in C Major, Talm I, 3: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata III in C Major, Talm I, 3: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata III in C Major, Talm I, 3: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata III in C Major, Talm I, 3:: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IV in G Minor, Talm I, 4: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IV in G Minor, Talm I, 4: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IV in G Minor, Talm I, 4: III. Adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IV in G Minor, Talm I, 4: IV. Allegro e Presto, Adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata V in C Major, Talm I, 5: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata V in C Major, Talm I, 5: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata V in C Major, Talm I, 5: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata V in C Major, Talm I, 5: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VI in A Minor Talm I,6: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VI in A Minor Talm I,6: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VI in A Minor Talm I,6: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VI in A Minor Talm I,6: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VII in G Major, Talm I, 7: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VII in G Major, Talm I, 7: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VII in G Major, Talm I, 7: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VII in G Major, Talm I, 7: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VIII in B Minor Talm I, 8: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VIII in B Minor Talm I, 8: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VIII in B Minor Talm I, 8: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata VIII in B Minor Talm I, 8: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IX in D Major, Talm I, 9: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IX in D Major, Talm I, 9: II. Allegro assai, adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IX in D Major, Talm I, 9: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata IX in D Major, Talm I, 9: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata X in F Minor, Talm I, 10: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata X in F Minor, Talm I, 10: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata X in F Minor, Talm I, 10: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata X in F Minor, Talm I, 10: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XI in E Minor, Tal M I, 11: I. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XI in E Minor, Tal M I, 11: II. Allegro, adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XI in E Minor, Tal M I, 11: III. Grave
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XI in E Minor, Tal M I, 11: IV. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XII in B-Flat Major, Tal M I, 12: I. Grave, adagio
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XII in B-Flat Major, Tal M I, 12: II. Allegro
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Sonata XII in B-Flat Major, Tal M I, 12: III. Grave
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Users typically take this product to relax, combat feelings of stress and nervousness, enhance mood and boost focus. Research shows that it can inhibit anxiousness and restlessness at low doses without causing a decline in mental performance.
According to user reviews, the effects can kick in within 1 – 4 hours of oral consumption. Because this anxiolytic has a long half-life, it is important to use it responsible to reduce the risk of side effects.
Individual responses to Phenibut supplementation vary. The onset of effects and half-life can also be affected by how you take this product, what form you take it in, other substances used and differences in metabolism.
This article reviews the pharmacokinetics of phenibut,, its duration of effects in the CNS (central nervous system) and how to take it safely.
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Phenibut was developed by Soviet scientists in the 1960s to treat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), insomnia, stuttering, depression and various other disorders.
It was initially used in Russian cosmonauts to help them deal with the stresses of space missions without impairing cognition. Studies found it to promote feelings of well-being and calm while also supporting concentration, attention span and memory.
Phenibut (Noofen, Anvifen) is used by some people as a “smart drug” and is commonly included in Nootropic Stacks designed for reducing social anxiety, distractions, inhibitions and enhancing mood.
The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database states that people use phenibut powder and capsules for improving learning capacity, memory, and general cognition. [3]
This nootropic has also been studied and used clinically for the following:
Insomnia and other sleeping disorders;
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder);
Fear, tension, anxiety, and stress;
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Alcoholism;
Depression;
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It is sold as an over-the-counter medicine in Russia and certain European nations. Phenibut is sold under several brand names – including Noofen, Citrocard, Fenibut, and Phenybut.
Phenibut is a synthetic derivative of a chemical the body produces endogenously called GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is responsible for regulating anxiety and over-excitation in times of stress.
GABA is very important for balancing the effects of a stimulatory neurotransmitter called Glutamate. These two nerve-signaling chemicals work together to mediate numerous CNS functions.
When taken as an oral dietary supplement, GABA has a difficult time crossing the BBB (blood-brain barrier). [1] There is on-going debate about whether it is effective if consumed orally.
Phenibut was designed as a phenylated analog of GABA, capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier and acting as a direct agonist of GABA (B) receptors. By binding to GABA receptor sites, it causes similar inhibitory effects as this neurotransmitter.
Some other compounds with similar effects include GABA, Lyrica, Picamilon, Gabapentin, and Baclofen.
Double-blind, placebo-controlled human research on phenibut is lacking. Much of the research was conducted in Russian in the 1960s and 1960s and is not available in English. However, in animal studies, this compound has been shown to: [3]
Decrease alcohol-induced behavioral disorders;
Decrease desire to consume alcohol;
Decrease respiratory rate;
Increase heart rate;
Reduce anxiety;
Cause sedation;
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How Long Does Phenibut Take to Work?
Each user will have a different experience with this nootropic supplement. Numerous individual factors control how long it takes phenibut to become active in the CNS.
According to a report by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substances Abuse Services, Phenibut has an onset of effects of 60 – 90 minutes.
Some users say that they feel it working within one hour of taking a dose while others say it can take up to two hours for the benefits to kick in. These differences may be explained by individual tolerance and sensitivity, whether it is being consumed with a meal and other factors related to metabolism.
According to PsychonautWiki, this compound has a “come up” time of 1.5 – 3 hours. This refers to the amount of time between when effects are first observed and peak efficacy. This source reports that peak effects occur between 3 – 4 hours with an offset period of 4 – 6 hours.
According to Nootrohacker, “Many users find that it takes quite a while for the effects to take hold. It is common to feel nothing for 4-6 hours after taking Phenibut, then experiencing a nice calming effect.” [2]
Phenibut is sometimes administered via insufflation (through the nose) or rectally. It may work faster if taken via different methods of administration. According to an article in the Drug and Alcohol Review, this nootropic has an onset of action between 20 – 30 minutes when taken rectally.
Phenibut capsules and powder have a longer half-life than some other nootropic drugs. Most users find they only need to take a single dose of this calming nootropic daily.
Although the reported half-life of this smart drug is about 5 hours, the duration of its effects varies significantly between users.
Some user reviews state that the noticeable effects are short-lived and begin to fade after 4-6 hours. Others state that they feel effects for up to 24 hours after a single dose.
PsychonautWiki reports a total duration of effects of 10 – 16 hours and states that after-effects may be felt for between 6 – 24 hours.
Some factors that affect how long you will feel phenibut’s effects after taking it include:
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Phenibut may not be safe for everyone. Using this substance in high dosages could lead to serious adverse effects.
As a result of the long period of time it takes for this nootropic to start working in the body, users should avoid re-dosing the substance multiple times a day. If taking as a sleep aid, it may be recommended to use one to two hours before bedtime.
The common phenibut dosage ranges between 250-1000 milligrams (mg) daily. [1] Be careful with high doses (more than 1 gram daily).
Consult with a doctor before taking this product to determine whether it is appropriate for you. Begin at the low end of the recommended dosage range until you observe how it affects you.
Some users take more than is commonly recommended to experience the Phenibut High. Some users report a euphoric experience after taking larger doses.
The effects are said to be similar to those of other GABA agonists – like alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines.
Be aware that using phenibut in doses of more than 1000 mg daily can increase the risk of developing tolerance, and some dangerous adverse side effects.
Using Long-Term
Using phenibut long-term might lead to tolerance and GABA receptor downregulation. Because of this, its use should be cycled on and off.
Some nootropics begin to work better as you take them for long periods of time. This is not the case with GABAergic drugs. The more you use these substances, the less effective they will become.
This nootropic drug affects the same receptors in the brain as alcohol. Just as users can become less sensitive to the effects of alcohol with regular use, so too can sensitivity decrease with ongoing use of Phenibut.
Individuals who take this substance sometimes report feeling a need to increase the dose to continue to experience the benefits. This is strongly advised against as it could lead to serious negative reactions.
One common approach to cycling phenibut is to use it 2-3 days each week and take the other 3-4 days off.
Some users take it daily for 2 weeks, and then stop taking it for 2 weeks so that they keep noticing its effects and minimize their risks for developing tolerance.
Most users who take it responsibly do not experience withdrawal symptoms, but they are possible. If you have a history of drug abuse or consuming large amounts of alcohol, you may be at greater risk for developing signs of withdrawal when you stop taking it.
What should you do if you do not feel any effects after taking this substance or notice the effects beginning to taper off?
Many phenibut users report positive experiences with this nootropic. Reviewers commonly cite the following effects: [4]
Noticeable decrease in anxiety;
Improved sexual performance;
Feelings of extreme calmness;
Increased prosocial behavior;
Increased overall well-being;
Increased motivation;
Increased alertness;
Phenibut seems to work in most people who try it, but not all of them. Some people experience no noticeable effects from taking this smart drug and are non-responders.
To maximize its effectiveness, it is recommended to be taken on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning. Some users claim that taking the powder or capsules with 80-160 mg of caffeine helps to “kick in” its effects.
Other users claim that it is more effective if administered intranasally. Some report feeling little to no effects with the Phenibut HCL crystals but experiencing positive benefits with the Free Amino Acid (FAA) form.
According to some sources, if you weigh more than 210 pounds, higher dosages of up to 1.5 grams (1500 mg) daily may be necessary to experience effects.
Those who have a tolerance to drugs like Valium (diazepam), Xanax (alprazolam), or Klonopin (clonazepam) might not notice any effects.
If you stop noticing the effects after using it for a while, then cycling off for 2 weeks will normally restore your sensitivity.
Most users seem to have positive experiences with phenibut when they use it appropriately. However, there are some possible side effects to be aware of, including: [2]
Stomach discomfort;
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In rare and severe cases, extremely high doses can cause memory loss or loss of consciousness. Mixing this product with alcohol or other GABA agonists to make it work better is not recommended.
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Bunny Girl Senpai: Characters and the Pain of Reality
4th November 2018 14th April 2019
Bunny Girl Senpai, or it’s awfully long Japanese title…
Is one of – if not the – best shows of the Fall/Autumn 2018 anime season. Its studio Cloverworks is more or less new, splitting from its parent studio of A1-Pictures earlier this year. Cloverworks wants to bring a “renewed focus on being a unique animation studio in response to diversifying animation” And, it shows. Bunny Girl Senpai’s animation is on point, as is its chill, laid-back soundtrack. Though, more than anything else, the true value shows in its writing, and in the depiction of its characters. There’s also a large element of nostalgia to the show, considering that it gives me major vibes of both Haruhi and Toradora – which of course can never be a bad thing.
Bunny Girl Senpai’s Characters
Characters are by far the ultimate metric by which I judge a show, or any piece of media. I need the characters to be fleshed out – to have stories that make sense on an emotional and physical level. For them to be a part of something in which the stakes are never certain nor predetermined. I want characters to be believable, that if they were stood beside me, I would have no trouble in affirming their existence as real people, as people who I can have conversations with, laugh with, cry with. I have to believe that there’s something about them that can have a lasting impact on me.
Characters are everything.
Bunny Girl Senpai just gets its characters right. In a sense, they’re decidedly un-anime. There are no moments of huge drama, spanning episodes and episodes. There are no situations where I think “oh god, anime, of course.” Instead, the character rely upon ‘real’ moments of interaction between each other. Conversations which – for the most part – could be a believable aspect of teenage relationships. Bunny Girl Senpai isn’t oversexualised just for the sake of it, either. Sure, it’s cheeky (as Sakuta is), but teenage kids are cheeky, and they do think about sex – things which are lewd and maybe better left unsaid. But in saying them, there’s comedy. Sakuta’s off-the-cuff remarks about Mai are playful and sarcastic, and more often than not, hilarious. It’s these things that connect me so tightly to the characters, in a way that is completely endearing. Not many other shows manage this, those that come to mind: Welcome to the N.H.K, Anohana, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Koi Kaze, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 are my immediate mentions.
Koga, representing Best Girl!
I love how deadpan Sakuta is, seemingly shrugging off any pressing situation. It might be taken for nihilism. I’m sure to those who don’t know him, it must seem that way. In reality, he cares about everything: His sister, Mai, Koga, Futaba. Sakuta cares so much about all of them, he’s more than a good person, he’s a great one.
Adolescence Syndrome
Bunny Girl Senpai lumps together a number of teenage issues and places them under the moniker of ‘Adolescence Syndrome’ a fictional illness which can cause a slew of ‘problems’ for adolescents. Key amongst these being Mai Sakurajima’s semi-disappearance/invisibility. She’s a star, a celebrity, and yet very few people but Sakuta are able to see her, are able to remember she even exists.
At some point in our teenage years, we all feel invisible. We know we aren’t, yet everyone seems to pay more attention to everyone else – we’re just stuck there, having to take it all in, without actually being a part of it. It’s worse for Mai – people see her all the time, or at least they did in the past. Still, the people she wants to notice her… don’t, essentially – despite her success – she’s totally alone. Sakuta knows what this feels like. In part, he’s vicariously experienced it through his sister, Kaede. It’s crushing, and he wants to help, that’s all he can do. Not to mention the mysterious scar which spans his chest. This is Adolescence Syndrome – a culmination of all the things we hate about being young, all the things that we say were our “worst times.” Adolescence Syndrome is a visualisation of them, putting the invisible under a microscope, examining what makes these particular things so painful…
It’s both alive and dead…
Futaba’s great. A mad science woman who appears to perpetually boiling something in a flask. It took me a few episodes to realise she wasn’t a teacher… but a student. Essentially, Futaba acts as a narrative device, offering exposition that might otherwise come from a narrator – vital considering we’re experiencing the story through the eyes of Sakuta. Information is always better revealed through character interaction rather than a floaty voice in the sky. Still Futaba slots into the dynamic, falling for people, just as other characters do. Also she’s your go-to for information regarding quantum mechanics if you’re into that kind of thing!
I doubt anyone managed to get through their School Days without falling for someone, be it a simple crush, or something more substantial. We’re ignorant in those times, though… We think we know what love is, we think we’re the only one to feel that specific way – when in fact, we’re the very opposite of special… Does Sakuta love Mei, and vice versa?
I don’t know, is love that simple?
Mai instructs Sakuta to wait for thirty days, before asking her to date again – if she says yes. Is that how love works, does it build up, towards some ambiguous crescendo? Sakuta of course feels something towards Mai, his reaction and ‘confession’ show that much, as does his dedication to her. And yet, he shows these same values towards other characters, especially Koga. It’s this all-round ‘Sakuta Affect’ which has me so in love with his character, so in love with how his character is presented, and the idea of love that is conveyed through him. The things the characters feel are never exaggerated to a point where they become caricatures of themselves… Everything feels just right. And this is how Bunny Girl Senpai presents itself as a whole, as a show.
Real but with just the correct amount of fantasy.
Oy! you little Rascal!
Bunny Girl Senpai caught me off-guard. I thought it was going to be “just another one of those shows.” It’s not necessarily what it is which impresses me so much, but in how well done it is. The animation in particular stands out, not necessarily in a ‘flashy’ way – because it’s not that kind of show – but in the depth of it, the movement and motion that didn’t have to be there, but is. It makes the show, and therefore its characters, feel more alive. In the slight movement of the eye, or an expression that shows the exact emotion for the exact situation. There’s life bursting from it, and that’s the hightest praise I can give it! So… watch it!!
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How Mick Mulvaney Consolidates His Own Power
July 15, 2019 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Washington Post: “Mulvaney spends considerably less time with Trump than his two previous chiefs of staff, Reince Priebus and John F. Kelly. And the president has sometimes kept him out of the loop when making contentious foreign policy decisions, advisers say. At a recent donor retreat in Chicago, Mulvaney told attendees that he does not seek to control the president’s tweeting, time or family.”
“Instead, Mulvaney has focused much of his energy on creating a new White House power center revolving around the long-dormant Domestic Policy Council and encompassing broad swaths of the administration. One White House official described Mulvaney as ‘building an empire for the right wing.’ He has helped install more than a dozen ideologically aligned advisers in the West Wing since his December hiring. Cabinet members are pressed weekly on what regulations they can strip from the books and have been told their performance will be judged on how many they remove. Policy and spending decisions are now made by the White House and dictated to Cabinet agencies, instead of vice versa.”
Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Mick Mulvaney
Mulvaney Pushed Judicial Nominee Over Objections
June 13, 2019 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The nomination on Tuesday of Halil Suleyman ‘Sul’ Ozerden to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals offers the latest glimpse of how acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is exercising his power inside the White House — in this instance, pushing a nominee whose views rankled some of the president’s most important supporters,” Politico reports.
“Mulvaney, who was a groomsman in Ozerden’s 2003 wedding, supported the 53-year-old district court judge’s nomination long before he joined the White House this winter.”
Mulvaney Says It’s Too Early to Talk About Gun Politics
June 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney cautioned against focusing too heavily on politics “too soon” after a gunman on Friday killed 12 people at a city government building in Virginia Beach, Politico reports.
Said Mulvaney: “We have too many of these shootings, and every time the first thing we talk about is politics.”
He added: “The mourning period hasn’t even stopped yet, let alone the healing process. So, let’s not get too deep into politics too soon. Let’s think about the families.”
Filed Under: Gun Control Tagged With: Mick Mulvaney
Mulvaney Tightens Grip on Labor Chief
May 28, 2019 at 1:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Bloomberg Law: “Upon arriving at the West Wing in January, Mulvaney instituted a formalized system for settling regulatory policy and timeline disputes between White House assistants and Acosta’s top aides, said people with direct knowledge of the process. Conflicts are elevated to Mulvaney for a final decision.”
“Acosta and his staff have been losing these decisions so often that they’ve stopped bothering to appeal.”
Mulvaney Didn’t Know About Trump Jr. Subpoena
May 9, 2019 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told CBS News that he was blindsided by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena for Donald Trump Jr to appear.
Said Mulvaney: ‘To subpoena the President of the United States’ son and not at least get a heads up I thought was, let’s say, bad form.”
The Hill: Senate GOP grows frustrated with Trump chief of staff.
Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Donald Trump Jr., Mick Mulvaney
Trump’s Two-Part Campaign Message
April 25, 2019 at 4:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told The Atlantic that he is confident that President Trump has a winning message ahead of the 2020 election.
Explained Mulvaney: “The economy is still really, really good, and I’ve told him many, many times that, you know, people vote their pocketbooks. What does Clinton say? ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’ I still think that’s the case.”
He added: “So I think that’s our A argument. And ‘We’re not socialists’ would be our B argument.”
Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Mick Mulvaney
Eating with Trump
In an interview with The Atlantic, acting White House chief of staff “cheerfully extolled his relationship with Trump, joking that he’d gained 10 pounds since becoming chief.”
Said Mulvaney: “I eat more with the president now. He eats hamburgers all the time.”
Mulvaney Denies Downplaying Election Security
April 24, 2019 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney issued a statement saying he didn’t recall instructing aides to keep discussions about election security off President Trump’s radar, after the New York Times reported Mulvaney said the topic “should be kept below his level,” Politico reports.
Said Mulvaney: “I don’t recall anything along those lines happening in any meeting.”
How Mulvaney Is Destroying the Government From Within
New York Times: “Mulvaney’s careful campaign of deconstruction offers a case study in the Trump administration’s approach to transforming Washington, one in which strategic neglect and bureaucratic self-sabotage create versions of agencies that seem to run contrary to their basic premises. According to one person who speaks with Mulvaney often, his smooth subdual of the C.F.P.B. was part of his pitch to Trump for his promotion to White House chief of staff — long one of the most powerful jobs in Washington.”
“Mulvaney’s slow-rolling attack on the bureau’s enforcement and regulatory powers wasn’t just one of the Trump era’s most emblematic assaults on the so-called administrative state. It was also, in part, an audition.”
President Mulvaney
April 1, 2019 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
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Mulvaney Develops Triangulation Plan
March 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Jonathan Swan: “The plan — which acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and policy staff are developing, and which is in its early stages — would have Trump sign a series of executive orders on issues including education, drug pricing, the opioid epidemic and veterans affairs. Aides say the moves would appeal to Democrats and Republicans.”
“White House officials have already drafted some of these executive orders, and the White House Counsel’s office has started vetting them. Officials familiar with the planning say they think most Americans will back them, as was the case with criminal justice reform.”
“White House officials have been tight-lipped about the content of the orders, so it’s way too early to say if they will be substantive or just political theater.”
Mulvaney Expects Schedule Leaker to Be Caught Soon
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox News that he expects to know who leaked three months of President Trump‘s daily schedule by as early as the end of this week. But that doesn’t mean anybody will be fired.
Said Mulvaney: “When we find that person or persons, and it’s likely to be a career staffer, you’re going learn a lot about how hard it is to fire federal workers.”
Mulvaney Says Wall Will Be Built Regardless of Congress
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that, whatever Congress may or may not propose in a border security compromise, President Trump will get his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, USA Today reports.
Said Mulvaney: “The president is going to build the wall… this is going to get built with or without Congress.”
The congressional negotiations on border security are currently stalled as another government shutdown looms.
Filed Under: Immigration Tagged With: Mick Mulvaney
Mulvaney Empowers Jared and Ivanka
January 16, 2019 at 10:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
New York Times: “Unlike his predecessors… Mr. Mulvaney is not interested in challenging what has revealed itself to be the one constant in the Trump White House: the special status reserved for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s family members and senior advisers, in the West Wing.”
“Mr. Mulvaney’s more hands-off approach to the family members has allowed Mr. Kushner to position himself among lawmakers on Capitol Hill as the person who can deliver to Mr. Trump what he wants. The dynamic… is similar to the opening days of the administration, when the staff to the new president was just beginning to meet with Washington officials and Mr. Kushner often told people that ‘everything runs through me.’”
“This time, however, Mr. Mulvaney is doing nothing to curb his influence. In fact, he is treating Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump as assets, rather than rivals. And they are seeing a new ally. On Sunday night they hosted Mr. Mulvaney and his wife at their Kalorama mansion for a social dinner.”
Trump Dressed Down Mulvaney In Front of Lawmakers
January 13, 2019 at 6:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“President Trump chastised his new chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, over his handling of shutdown talks, creating an awkward scene in front of congressional leaders of both parties,” Axios reports.
“Mulvaney inserted himself into the conversation and tried to negotiate a compromise sum of money… Mulvaney said ‘that if Dems weren’t OK with $5.7 [billion] and the president wasn’t OK with $1.3 [the Democratic offer] … he was trying to say we should find a middle ground,’ one of the sources said, paraphrasing Mulvaney’s remarks.”
Said the source: “Trump cut him off … ‘You just fucked it all up, Mick.’ It was kind of weird.”
Mulvaney Discussed Leaving Trump Administration
January 7, 2019 at 4:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, as recently as late last year explored the possibility of becoming president of the University of South Carolina,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Mulvaney, a congressman from South Carolina for six years before joining the Trump administration, initiated a discussion with a senior official at the university late last year about the position, which is going to become open this summer.”
Trump Already Souring on Mulvaney
December 21, 2018 at 8:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“As a sign of the mood inside, officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue tell us that Trump is complaining about his incoming chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, in conversations inside the West Wing and with Capitol Hill,” Axios reports.
Trump asked one trusted adviser: “Did you know he called me a terrible human being?”
“We’re told that Trump was furious when the slight surfaced in a two-year-old video right after he promoted Mulvaney.”
Mulvaney Will Let Trump Be Trump
“Outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly tried and failed to bring a military discipline to the West Wing. Mick Mulvaney doesn’t plan to try. Mulvaney will approach the job far differently than Kelly… Most notably, he intends to give Trump more leeway to act as he chooses — a recognition that trying to control Trump is a futile approach,” Politico reports.
“Mulvaney will adopt a much larger role in politics and messaging, and plans to take a more laissez faire approach to some quirks of the Trump White House that irked Kelly — like non-essential staffers attending meetings, or the president frequently reaching out to longtime friends, Republican lawmakers and advisers for advice or dinners in the White House residence.”
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DES MOINES — For the third time, the Legislature has approved a resolution that would give voters the opportunity to adopt an amendment to the Iowa Constitution providing Iowans with the right to keep and bear arms.
Senate Joint Resolution 18 was approved Wednesday 33-16 in the Senate and 53-46 in the House, putting it on course to eventually be submitted to voters.
Before then, the resolution must be approved by the next General Assembly, which convenes in 2021, and then would be submitted to voters as early as 2022.
Legislators took up the issue again because the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office failed to meet a notification requirement, forcing the amendment process to start over.
If adopted by voters, the state constitution would be amended by adding: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.”
Like the outcome, there was little new in the debate.
In the House, Rep. Matt Windschitl, R-Missouri Valley, framed it as a simple question: “Do you like freedom?”
The amendment would protect that freedom against potential future laws or executive orders from the federal government, said Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale. U.S. Constitution Second Amendment rights “have been eroded through many years,” he added.
However, Democrats didn’t think it was that simple. They argued the amendment would not only make passage of future gun regulations difficult, but also could make current regulations vulnerable.
“This creates a lot of unknown possibilities,” said Sen. Tony Bisignano, D-Des Moines.
Democrats warned of the potential for legal challenges to current state regulations like prohibiting felons and domestic abusers from owning guns. They said, under the amendment, someone could challenge any of those regulations already on the books, and the courts may strike them down because of the strict scrutiny requirement.
Windschitl rejected the concerns, pointing out such challenges could be made today.
In both chambers, attempts to replace the wording of the state amendment with the actual language of the Second Amendment failed — on a party-line vote in the Senate, but in the House with Rep. Andy McKean, R-Anamosa, joining Democrats.
“I, too, revere the Second Amendment,” McKean said. Although he supported joining 44 states that have Second Amendment language in their constitutions, he strongly opposed the inclusion of the “strict scrutiny” language.
“I have strong reservations about forcing judges to apply strict scrutiny to any and all gun laws,” he said.
Only three states have that language. In recent years, eight states — six red states and two blue states, McKean said — have rejected it.
He also warned voters might reject the amendment because of the strict scrutiny standard.
“Iowans won’t stand for that,” said Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City. And if voters reject the amendment because of the strict scrutiny clause, she asserted, Windschitl will have endangered Iowans’ gun rights.
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These little fellas are springing up all over town and all over my instagram feed. I saw my first yesterday. They have names. I don't know why. I thought there would be a huge community or fan base online. I thought that Sorrel would have his own page, amazon.co.uk/sorrel or something but ...
That's ace, spot on... people keep asking for social case studies, but each company and situation is pretty unique, so there's only so many things you can learn from looking at someone else's bonfire. Say hello tonight, and definitely bear the above in mind for what I've got planned :)
Commented Nov 9, 2010 on Bonfire of the Metaphwoars at Feeding the Puppy
Bonfire of the Metaphwoars
Are you sitting comfortably? Good-oh. A lot of this might be familiar to you, but if you’re going to Metaphwoar on the 9th November, please do read to the end… I need your help. Last summer, whilst sitting on the train up from Brighton one morning, I was writing a short piece for the IPA...
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The warmongering kick-ass consumer killing GriefTank III
Neil Perkin, all round clever and lovely fella, has written this article for New Media Age on the language of marketing... well worth reading (as all of Neil's things are, as you'll know). Anyway, it reminded me of my favourite slide I've never used. I can't remember why I never used it. But I...
Cheers Andy. That's very true, it's hard to work out where it started a lot of the time. But what's more important is who joins in.
Thanks Mel :) I totally agree with the quality of material thing... some people presume any old crap will burn. "People will take part because they will, because it's fun..." Sigh. There's a someone from another place I work with on something who's very fond of saying that. He's never right.
Yes! Or indeed, the artificial accelerants used to start a bonfire too quickly in the first place (like talking about a Flash Mob that hasn't happened yet on the news and telling people how many actors will be there?!?) Funnily enough, talking about taste... someone the other day was talking about ad agencies stretching in to other areas... and how they made things that had 'the outward appearance' of what it was they were trying to do, but none of the inner qualities. The example used was that if you imagined an ad agency making a chocolate bar, they'd make something that for the first 30 seconds LOOKED like a great chocolate bar, and maybe even FELT like a great chocolate bar... but when you ate it, it'd be pretty horrible.
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Thanks Tim. I'm increasing thinking you're right about the PR/Media thing too. I was an interviewee for a media owner qual project the other week, and the researcher had been talking to Media, Ad & PR agency folk. I asked him generally if he was seeing any difference in what we were saying, and he said that whilst the ad agency is still fixated by the 'brand' idea, media & PR agency folk are thinking about the 'relationship' between company and customer. And I think in the future the relationship is much more important than what the fictitious 'brand' is or isn't.
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"Because we are increasingly producing and sharing media, we have to relearn what that word can mean" Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus I talked a couple of days ago about writing this post, prompted by the PSFK badges. Well, on the morning we present our wares for the Media Week agency of the ye...
That's really interesting... planning and programming the game well enough so that unplans and unprograms itself.
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I was in a fascinating workshop on games today with Mark, the Hide & Seek guys, Tassos (who it was lovely to meet for the first time), Johnnie (likewise) and the Brainjuicer peeps (indeed, again). And as happens occasionally, there was a brief lingual slip by Alex when he said "game ecology' rat...
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Ahhh, Giep Franzen... Thank you everyone who's commented so far. Faris has posted up something too, and went and ended it with some John Stuart Mill... as you do :) http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2010/09/the-impact-of-education.html
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Why would you want to come up with anything new? It just gets in the way of doing the same things that your boss did before you, and his before that. Nothing's changing, not really, it's all the same game... write a powerpoint presentation, make a telly ad, put it on telly, repeat every year a...
Good question fella, very valid. I can only speak for what I got out of it, which I guess I can boil down to two things Firstly, the breadth what's covered is far wider than you'd perhaps imagine. I'm sitting here with a library behind me of everything from the heaviest marketing metrics to a collection of reviews by the New Yorker film critic. Godin & Gladwell to Franzen & Mitchell. But then the requisite part of the course is to build in your own references into each module then dissertation. You broaden it out as far as you wish. It's a great course for a generalist who wants more specialist skills, or a specialist who wants to really stretch their legs. Secondly, it's the camaraderie. I made some amazing friends across the industry, from a variety of different companies, backgrounds, roles... and we still regularly hook up to agree (or disagree) about the things that make the industry great (or shit). I may chase some of them onto here now so they can also help answer your question...
Now, to Tom's point - "can you encourage people to socially engage with an expression of your purpose, when your purpose is itself not appealing?" I'm going to say 'no'. It used to be the case that a strong brand could override any negative stuff you really got up to, because all it took was some good ads and decent media spend and everyone thought you stood for what you told them you did. But nowadays, we are heading towards a much more transparent world, because of the tools available to everyone to share 'the truth' (or the version of truth they want to spread). Wikileaks is a great example of the increasingly transparent world I think. I think if your company's purpose is not appealing socially, the answer isn't to stay away from doing anything social, it's to think about why your purpose is so appealing, and start off internally to change it. And it can't just be a tagline... calling yourself 'Beyond Petroleum' is all well and good, but the reality behind it soon comes out for all to see in the transparent world.
Commented Aug 26, 2010 on Thinking about the MacLeod-Earls MacGuffin at Feeding the Puppy
Thinking about the MacLeod-Earls MacGuffin
For the past couple of days, I've been trying to iron out some wrinkly thoughts that were started off by Hugh MacLeod's post on 'Object-Ideas'. I'm working on various diverse client things that will benefit if I get to an answer, but for now it's just some thoughts aired in the open to see where...
Hello both... it's never too late to keep a conversation going... First off, Marie's point, specifically the Sainsbury's thing - we work with Sainsbury's, so I know a fair bit about 'Try Something New'. I'd agree with your point about it being a social idea, and in hindsight I'd even suggest it would push nicely into MacGuffin territory. Why? Well, it's central to Sainsbury's business. If people try a wider variety of things at Sainsbury's, they're more likely to expand the range of things they like to buy, which means broadening the scope of what goes in the basket. So Sainsbury's like this, obviously. And to your point, it benefits the customer too. Not only does a a variety in diet lead to better health, but it's a more interesting shopping & eating experience for people if they feel that they're encouraged to discover and enjoy more different foods. But to play devil's advocate, 'Try Something New' is not playing into the same 'social object' territory as other brands are (though it's something we're working towards). Perhaps though there's a good point in this; to do the MacGuffin properly takes time, whereas a Social Object fits much more snuggly in the timescale expectations of agencies & clients used to 'campaignable ideas'.
Mornin' Squire Well put... it is indeed the dangers of social-object-as-tactic that I think is important to recognise. And I think it's rooted in that most modern of issues we have - when clients ask '...but how many people will it reach'? By defaulting to something as a social-object that 'everyone can do/get involved in', what you actually end up with more often than not I would suggest is something that's of such mass interest that... a) Anyone could do it... and not even just in your sector, ANY company at all. Which means it's hard for people to remember who actually did it. b) When it finishes, it doesn't leave any sort of lasting legacy for your business. It's just an attention tactic like the old 'gorilla-in-a-jockstrap' adage. For 'gorilla-in-a-jockstrap', read 'kitten-with-a-caption'...
Commented Aug 23, 2010 on Purpose ideas, Social Objects: Lolcats or changing the world at Herd - the hidden truth about who we are
Purpose ideas, Social Objects: Lolcats or changing the world
Pic (probably my all time fave of Hugh's cartoons) c/o Gapingvoid.com There's been a great conversation stimulated over the last couple of days by the ever thoughtful Hugh who's being trying to explain the connection between Purpose Ideas and Social Objects and why it needs to be tight. I love...
hey hey I'm in an all-day session today, following this with great interest where I can... just to pick up on John's point here: "My problem with that as with much of the social object bandwagon is that marketers will not take the time to digest the intelligence behind it and will miss the point and just default to "build me a social object" mentality i.e something tangible." There two interesting things in this; firstly, yes, a lot of marketers won't take the time to digest properly... but it doesn't mean we should we stop thinking about it as a result. It's then our job to take the thinking, and turn it into something usable/effective/buyable etc. Secondly, I've been thinking about the physical object thing too... nicking form my twitter stream earlier: i) social objects & real objects. If you create the latter as a manifestation of your purpose-idea, it helps the former. ii) Of course, the central product you make is one object. But I'm thinking about the creation of other objects that achieve the same purpose. iii) It doesn't have to be mass produced; the knowledge that they exist is the idea you want to spread. Like nukes, but in a nice way. ...need to think more about this, but kicking off with meeting again :)
Thanks for this Mark... it's still all being ironed out in my head, to be honest, but taking the points one by one... "not all Social Objects should be about the Purpose-Idea" No, absolutely not. The thrust of Hugh's post, and this one, is that there is something more powerful than Meerkat style social objects, not to insist that therefore everything must move on. The idea of the MacGuffin is that these things that can live on, thrive, contribute to a better company, better customer relationships, better products, even a better world. Meerkat is great, but it's nothing to do with the Purpose-Idea behind the company; at some stage, it will be retired as the joke will wear thin. Meerkat did the job asked of it in spades, it's great advertising. "The Purpose-Idea at the heart of a company is usually to make money" I'm afraid I must disagree; the Purpose-Idea at the heart of a company, as Mark says, should be rooted in what exists in the world to change or protect. In order to achieve your Purpose-Idea, you need to make money to keep at it. But the pursuit of money in itself is not a Purpose-Idea. It's a shortcut to cost cutting & commoditisation. "if the company has to change rather than the marketing - what happens when the company has changed - do we still need marketing?" Phhhheuuughh... tough one. Let me dwell on that... :)
Hear hear. If anything more need be said, it's that we need to get better at repeating projects. The advertising age convinced us all that if something didn't work brilliantly the first time, it should be replaced with something that would. Yet so many projects today that could deliver great things in v.3, once we learn what to do and not to do, are canned after v.1... ...arguably it's as bad as the music industry expecting Beatles-standard masterpieces from bands recording their first albums, and dropping them when they don't deliver.
Commented Jul 29, 2010 on Go Slow at @markcridge \ muck and brass
I came across a blog the other day entitled the Slow Media Manifesto and after an appropriate period of contemplation it left me with a warm glow. This modest fourteen point agenda from a group of German academics, argues that after a decade of intense consumption of ever speedier and i...
That's a good idea, Graeme, I may do a 'wrap-up' post for each playlist, with the story of why from the contributors. And yep, Sam, so it is... Maybe I can but one of those 'tape to digital' machines and use it in reverse :)
Commented Jun 16, 2010 on The #commutebox playlist principles at Feeding the Puppy
The #commutebox playlist principles
While we're talking about #commutebox... ...the playlists are being successful enough (eg lots of people adding lots of songs, which is ace) that I thought I'd post up some principles to shape the playlist: So, without further ado... The commutebox playlist principles. i) Whatever the playl...
No, you're right, the FT audience is different - most notably, the paywall initiative for them works, as they have valued, timely, specialist content which the readers will buy (or more likely have their employer buy for them). Comparing that to the proposed paywall for The Times... I don't know what the timely, specialist content they have that people would pay for, but people have to pay for it themselves. I may be proved wrong, but I can't see it being a success. Which is a roundabout way of saying that yes, the FT might be closer to the sunset than other titles. I do disagree with the Sun comment though... a typical Sun reader in 2010 is a lot more web savvy than you give 'em credit for. I think the consolidation point right, but that it's a medium term cost-saving exercise... the Mail could buy the Express, for instance, and make one paper for both audiences. But the audiences will continue to decline, so the long term picture of the 'vanishing point' would come into view again.
Commented May 31, 2010 on The vanishing point for print moves closer... at Feeding the Puppy
The vanishing point for print moves closer...
There's an interesting piece from Robert Andrews on paidcontent.org (HT Gerd Leonhard) rounding up some predictions from the newspaper industry themselves on when they'll be winding up their print runs... ...the 'sunset of print' as Madi Solomon of the FT referred to it as: Solomon says the FT ...
Yes, exactly. Much, much more like it.
Commented May 24, 2010 on Social TV yes. But a Social TV remote? Oh FFS... at Feeding the Puppy
Social TV yes. But a Social TV remote? Oh FFS...
There's a great piece on Social TV in the MIT Technology Review, which talks a lot of sense (HT @graemewood). But there's a barrier at the top that makes you initially want to skip over it... and it's this stupid picture... See, the article features an idea that makes a lot of sense; prov...
I wonder if Peter Andre can make a proper flat white? There are some RUBBISH ones out there that I've had in the last few weeks... then he can be my favourite Aussie too :)
Commented May 21, 2010 on Starting the day with a post about coffee... at Feeding the Puppy
Starting the day with a post about coffee...
Mmmm, coffee. Just the thing to wake up on a Monday morning... But whilst I've been trying to keep my morning coffee habits in check (it all adds up, after a while... £2 here, £2.40 there...), over the last few months I've become increasingly interested in a growing coffee phenomenon... ...
I think it was in the Daniel Young piece that he talked about the 'journey' from latte, tio flat white, to something else and so on to black... people are 'educated' in that direction by a great barista. Funnily enough, I started by drinking all coffee black; didn't like it at all with milk in. Though it was bog standard filter (even instant) I was drinking. But it was only with the wider arrival of coffee chains that I started having milk in coffee.
My thoughts exactly... just because you're no obliged to legally doesn't mean you shouldn't say 'please' and 'thank you'...
Commented May 17, 2010 on Want a good review for Four Lions? Ask twitter... at Feeding the Puppy
Want a good review for Four Lions? Ask twitter...
This is interesting... ...the honourable Rupert Britton, Dark Lord of Content Strategy here at PHD, has had a tweet picked up of his thoughts on the new Chris Morris film Four Lions, and it's been used in an ad. It's the second one down... He's not the only one though... they've used abo...
Ha, sarky bastard :) That's the point though... I've been taught the only way to make things happen on a screen is to type (and I can only do that by looking at the keys, not the screen... yeah, shit I know). But I kinda refuse to believe there's not a better way than something laid out in the 1870s like QWERTY was. With gesture interfaces (touch, motion etc), and voice control improving all the time, it's surely going to happen one day.
Commented May 6, 2010 on Obsolescence, dusty keyboards and shining screens at Feeding the Puppy
Obsolescence, dusty keyboards and shining screens
Now, I'm not overly proud of this picture... it's of the keyboard of our home computer, and it would appear to be a bit... errmm, dusty... It's probably very fair to say that since we moved in to our new place at the beginning of February, neither Helen nor I have been near the computer tha...
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Super Lawyers → Lawyer Directory → Civil Litigation Attorneys → Wisconsin → Madison → Christopher E. Rogers
Christopher E. Rogers
Top Rated Civil Litigation Attorney in Madison, WI
Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.
| 150 East Gilman Street, Suite 2000
Visit: www.habush.com
Email: Christopher E. Rogers
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2010 - 2019
Education: University of Wisconsin Law School
Civil Litigation: Plaintiff (30%),
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff (40%),
Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff (30%)
Chris Rogers is a shareholder with the firm. He initially practiced predominately in the firm’s Lake Geneva office, where he tried cases in Walworth, Kenosha, and Racine counties. In 2004, he moved to the firm’s Madison office, where he continues to practice today. His focus is on cases involving injuries from product defects, automobile accidents, and general negligence. He has clients throughout the State of Wisconsin.
In 2017, Chris served a one year term as President – Elect for the State Bar of Wisconsin. He became State Bar President on July 1, 2018. Chris has been named a Wisconsin Super Lawyer since 2010 and was named a Top 25 Madison Super Lawyer in 2012 and then again in 2015-2017. In 2016 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Wisconsin Bar Foundation, which recognizes members of the profession in Wisconsin who are known by their peers for high achievements in their profession and outstanding contributions for the advancement and improvement of the administration of justice in the State of Wisconsin.
In 2018 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor less than one percent of all U.S. practicing lawyers receive. Additionally, in 2018, he was elected as a Best Lawyer in America.
Chris graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1995 where he was a note and comment editor for the Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal. After graduation, he worked for firms in Milwaukee and Madison, practicing insurance defense and defense litigation, before joining Habush Habush & Rottier.
On the personal side, Chris has worked extensively with individuals with disabilities, specifically in the areas of community integration, employment and job training. He has coached girls basketball, boys middle school football, and has participated as a mock trial judge. He also volunteers for the Waunakee Football Club and chaired last year’s fundraiser. He lives in Waunakee with his wife Corina and their three children,and their dog, Charley.
Top 25: 2019 Madison Super Lawyers
About Christopher Rogers
Admitted: 1995, Wisconsin
Professional Webpage: www.habush.com/attorneys/christopher-rogers.aspx
Honors/Awards:
Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers in America, 2018
Wisconsin Super Lawyer, 2012
Top 25 Madison Super Lawyer, 2012
Special Licenses/Certifications:
Admitted to practice law in the Federal Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin.
Bar/Professional Activity:
Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2018
Fellow of Wisconsin Bar Foundation , 2016
State Bar of Wisconsin President-Elect; State Bar of Wisconsin Board of Governors, 2012 - Present; Elected, Board of Governors Executive Committee, 2013 - Present; Named, State Bar Liaison, Litigation Committee, 2013 - Present; Named, State Bar Liaison, Bench Bar Committee, 2013 - Present; Member, State Bar Strategic Planning Committee, 2013 - Present; Member, Continuing Legal Education Committe, 2011 - Present; Board of Directors, Wisconsin Association For Justice; American Association For Justice.
Court Commissioner, Branch 9 of the Dane County District Court
Current member of the Dane County Bar Association. Past member of the Miwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Walworth County Bar Associations.
Pro bono/Community Service:
Past participant in Habush, Habush & Rottier bike helmet donation program. Active in Village of Waunakee community school district and athletics; 5th and 6th Grade volunteer foootball coach, Village of Waunakee. Active volunteer for the Waunakee Edible School Yard Community Garden., 2010
Worked as a Badger High School Mentor and a mock trial judge
Has spoken to rotary and other community based clubs about the law.
Verdicts/Settlements:
2012: Buol et al V. American Family et al, 11 CV 0075: Successful jury verdict and finding of insurance coverage. Pustina V. Summit Treestands, LLC, et al, 11 CV 0337: $700,000.00 product liability settlement involving a defective tree stand. Rusch-Hallanger et al V. Russ Darrow-Madison LLC, et al: $375,000.00 product liability settlement involving a defective automobile air bag. Wehmeyer V. BGHA, Inc, et al 10 CV 441: $125,000 settlement involving a defective tree stand. Poulter V. Zurich American et al, 10 CV 586: $700,000 settlement involving a motor vehicle collision with disputed liability and damages. Schultz V. Cincinatti Casualty et al, 11 CV 145: $150,000.00 settlement involving a client with severe preexisting conditins, and disputed liability and damages., 2012
2011: Stello v. State Farm et al 10 CV 801: $700,000.00 settlment involving an auto collision with disputed damages regarding kidney failure and wrongful death. Wallace v. State Farm Fire and Casualty et al 11 CV 059: $250,000.00 settlement involving an auto collision with disputed liability and punitive damages. Magnuson v. 1st Auto Casualty et al 10 CV 4555: $250,000.00 settlement involving an auto collision with disputed liability and damages. Johnson v. State Farm et al 10 CV 4500: $180,000.00 settlement involving an auto collision with disputed liability and damages. Lazar v. American Family et al 11 CV 025: $175,000.00 settlement involving an auto collision with disputed liability and the necessity for surgery. Wehmeyer v. B.G.H.A. Inc. et al 10 CV 441: $122,400 product liability settlement involving a defective tree stand. , 2011
2010: Houtakker v. Wilderness Resort 08 CV 802: $514,000.00 settlement involving the drowning of a minor at an indoor waterpark. Bilberry v. Black Hawk Machinery Sales 08CV5181: $200,00.00 product liability settlement involving a rip saw. Curtis v. Allstate 09 CV 0530: $205,000 settlement involving an automobile accident. , 2010
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2017 President-Elect
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Augmented and Mixed Reality Future
Why two recent short films, Sight and Hyper-Reality, are so important for the entertaining industry.
AR BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT MR
The future is hard a thing to grasp and the potential of emerging technologies are hard to conceptualize of before they are in our hands. Science fiction, however, when done well, can offer a window into a not so distant future. Two recent short films, Sight and Hyper-Reality, go a long way in giving laymen a glimpse of what lies in store for us with augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR).
Both of them have a decidedly Luddite and dystopian take on how these technologies will affect society. In many ways, their fears are grounded in a logical continuation of how current regimes of power and influence use existing technologies to this end. But for most people (re: consumers) the political nature isn’t as important as how cool they will make life. And in terms of visual thrills and further virtual immersion, AR/MR has a lot to deliver.
To give a glimpse into the future, we examine the two sci-fi films and offer an analysis of what particular aspects are already in the works and how they could change our lives sooner rather than later.
Sight (2012)
The sci-fi short-film Sight was produced by Israeli students Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo as a project for the Bezaleal Academy of Arts. Starring Ori Golad and Deborah Aroshas, it is set in the very near future and portends one in which eye-contact implants offer users comprehensive augmented/mixed reality experiences. The plot of the film is oriented around Ori Golad’s character, who is an engineer at the AR development company Sight, and Deborah Aroshas’ character, with whom he goes on a date.
The short film features sharp cinematography that contrasts sterile real-life scenes with eye-grabbing over-layed virtual content, produced by their Sight contacts. This contrast attains a dimension of mounting dread as the film develops, thanks to the score, eeriness of the characters’ irises and the impressive acting from Golad. His performance, in general, stands out due to the unshakeable uncanniness that defines his characters slick, dislocated, and ultimately corrupted charm. The film, which lasts just under eight minutes, is succinct and masterly builds apprehension within an atmosphere of indefinable uneasiness.
Real World Applications: Smart Contacts and the Gamification of Life
Sight imagines a future in which the logical conclusion of AR/MR technology is delivered through something similar to contact lens. The appeal is obvious — it’s unobtrusive. The failure of Google Glasses, which appeared on the market after Sight was released, was the result of several factors. Foremost in many people’s initial reactions, though, were a disinterest in wearing such unfashionable and attention-grabbing devices. Something to the effect of ‘smart’ contacts are still far away but how they exist within the short film clearly outlines the long-term end-goal of current AR/MR projects.
Perhaps more interesting, however, is the emphasis put upon how AR/VR can gamify seemingly banal or obligatory activities. In Sight, chopping cucumbers becomes a game in which there a several levels (varying difficulties of chopping thinness) and frying an egg involves directing the yolk toward several goals on the pan as it cooks. The short film also makes reference to a running app, which could easily be imagined as a sort of Mario Kart like replica in which runners can chase the ‘ghost’ of their previous times.
Similar gamifying techniques have been implemented into current mobile apps and have succeeded to varying degrees. The best feel intuitive and natural, the worst contrived and pointless. In many ways Sight, though delivering a distinctly different message, provides a key example of the potential for AR/MR to deliver fun, simple and engaging gamified elements to everyday life.
Hyper-Reality (2016)
In many ways, it very easy to imagine Sight and Hyper-Reality taking place in the same theoretical future. They both feature a world that very much resembles the current day, barring the implementation of contact lens-based AR/MR technology. But whereas Sight places it gaze upon social interactions and gamification, Hyper-Reality focuses upon how the new technologies will affect advertisement, consumption and individuals’ existential role within this modality.
The short film follows a middle-aged woman as she rides public transport to a shopping center whereupon her account — her identity — comes under attack. The cinematography in it is much more frenetic and “digital” than in Sight. Visually, it is intentionally a disorienting flood of advertisements and virtually augmented interiors: the walls of the bus pop with ads for football clubs, the supermarket is turned into a gaudy flash of lights and her heads-up display looks like a cross between a casino and the game Candy Crush Saga. It is very effective and lends itself well to the overwhelming air of disempowerment and co-option that director Keiichi Matsuda supposes AR/MR technology will usher in.
Real World Applications: Advertisement
After wading through the not-so-subtle warnings of technological oppression at the hands of corporate quantification and sensorial blitzes, Hyper-Reality offers a peek into how AR/MR will revolutionize the nature of advertising.
For the most part, the internet and the physical world exist in separate realms. These new technologies, however, will allow physical goods to be augmented with data and visuals that inform and attract potential customers. In the same way that internet ads target the user’s preferences, this film imagines how goods themselves — like yogurt — will be able to do the same. For customers, this could mean picking up a can of tomatoes and clicking on it to see a list of possible recipes, expanded nutritional information or even games for the kids. As of now, technology such as this already exists in its infant forms.
A Brave New Brand World?
Both films depart from the assumption that AR/MR technology is going to drive us into a future in which users are further disconnected, more technologically-dependent, and controlled by corporate, technological apparatuses. A depressing dystopian future, for sure. Among and between this vision, however, is a look into theoretical advancements that are far closer than many users imagine. Everything depicted in both films is, at this point in time, imaginable and possible. If the dour forecast abates, we will shortly be enjoying the reign of a wonderfully immersive and connected new technological age.
Program-Ace Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Program-Ace shares the story of how we become one of the most respectful Ukrainian IT company worldwide. In this article, we talk about our history, main principles and core differences that allow us to be one of the best.
Program-Ace Webinar Announcement: The Future of XR in Business
Program-Ace will speak at the webinar hosted by ASQ RRD on March 14, 2019.
With the release of two short films, Sight and Hyper-Reality, that use AR/MR technologies, the industry guesses how they can change the things out. Program-Ace shares their thoughts.
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Giant Food Investing $175M in Expansion, Store Improvement
The new Giant Food store in Herndon, Va.
Giant Food will invest $175 million capital in expansion and improvement of its store base over the next two years. The investment, which will cover one new store and 24 store remodels across the banner’s market area, is in addition to its recently revealed $21 million investment in a new store set to open this spring in Olney, Md.
“As the region’s leading grocer, this announcement is part of our long-term commitment to deliver a consistently exceptional experience for our shoppers,” noted Gordon Reid, president of Landover, Md.-based Giant Food. “We look forward to updating and enhancing our existing stores and constructing both new and replacement locations to give our shoppers a fresh and imaginative selection, unique in-store experiences, and superior customer service.”
Giant will build the ground-up store in Fairfax Circle, Va., following two new stores the chain opened in Herndon and Alexandria, Va., last month.
In addition, Giant Food will remodel 24 locations to feature such new amenities as improved perishable, produce, beer, wine and spirits offerings; full-service florists; bigger natural and organic departments; hot Asian food bars; fresh-squeezed juice bars; better checkout zones; and full-service pharmacies.
The new projects will create around 500 new full- and part-time jobs in the communities where the stores will be built and renovated, according to the grocer.
Giant Food operates 164 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia, employing about 20,000 associates. The chain’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize USA, is No. 4 on Progressive Grocer’s 2018 Super 50 list of the top grocers in the United States.
Giant Food Introduces Taste of Inspirations Premium Product Line
‘Everyday indulgences' found throughout the store
Giant Food Debuts Marketing Campaign for the Holidays and Beyond
‘The Little Things are Giant’ celebrates connections over food
New Products & Promotions
H-E-B, Giant Food Partner With Esports Teams
Giant Food Stores Makes Local Products Easy to Find on Store Shelves
Peapod Opens 4th PA Wareroom
Giant Food is 1st Grocer to Sponsor E-Sports Team
Independent Grocers
Darrenkamp’s Closing 3 Stores, Selling 1 to Giant Food Stores
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Portia Valley Wines is owned and operated by the Grigoriou family. With company owned vineyards nestled at the top of the Monash Valley and on the fertile soils of Loveday in the Riverland, Portia Valley Wines have encapsulated the traditional taste of South Australia for local, and travelling wine enthusiasts to indulge.
Chris is a third generation viticulturist and wine producer with over 40 years’ experience in the industry. After several decades working in Riverland wineries, Chris started Portia Valley Wines along with his wife, Teresa, in 2006. Chris’s passion was always to establish a wine company to continue both his father’s and grandfather’s family legacy.
Portia Valley Wines’ long-standing reputation has been built by consistently sourcing and producing the highest-quality products. We achieve this by utilising produce from some of Australia’s most renowned grape-growing regions, and refining our proficiencies. Our holistic process encompasses every stage–from harvest, right through to bottling and export. Alongisde our dedicated sales and export team, a member of the Grigoriou family is present every step of the way to ensure the finished product is made and packaged to our standards, and delivered efficiently. Our customers can trust that every bottle of wine they purchase is worth it’s weight in value, because we sell more than just wine—we sell an unrivalled experience.
The naming of Portia Valley is representative of Chris Grigoriou’s family history in wine making. It’s a combination of his mother’s name, Portia, and the location of the first vineyard where she spent long days working at the top of Monash Valley—which overlooked the region and township. The viticulture skills and processes originated from the Peloponnese wine region of Sparta, where Chris’s Grandfather taught his family how to grow and maintain grapes. Chris’s father owned and operated a winery in Monash, which is where Chris spent his formative years learning the wine business. The skills and passion he accrued from his grandfather continue to run down the family line to bring a taste of tradition that tells the family story.
Our Grapes are carefully picked and selected to maximise quality and flavour.
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Our dedicated head winemaker oversees the transformation of grape juice into it’s alcoholic state.
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All About Middle School Explorations
January 30, 2015 | Filed under: Latest News
Last Friday’s Exposition was a beautiful celebration of the incredible independent thinking and group experiences of all three middle school grades’ Explorations. There was a wonderful turnout of students, parents and family members.
The 6th grade studied the question, “Can Art Change the World?”
It was a really beautiful two weeks to be a teacher! Our students consistently exceeded our expectations and we had a great time.
We were honored to host an extraordinary group of guest artists including Madeline Schwartzmann, students from Lyons Community School, Oasa DuVerney, Nicole Goodwin, Jamie Hector, Sammy Miller, Keomi Tarver, Julia Nason and Jenner Fursh. We saw the Sebastiao Salgado show Genesis at the International Center of Photography, Zero Tolerance at PS1/MoMA, an IllStyles Production and dance performance called IMpossible IZpossible at BAM, made stop-motion animation videos at the Children’s Museum of the Arts of New York. We also learned through readings, film viewings, discussions, music classes and workshops while at MS8.
Finally, 6th graders completed two independent projects that they presented at the Exposition of final work from last week’s exploration. First, they made a creative project with an accompanying artist statement exploring one issue they seek to change in the world through the medium of their choice and second, they wrote an editorial argumentative essay responding to the essential question.
Want to see more? We have been asked by Oasa DuVerney to share student work in the SmackMellon Gallery exhibition, “Respond” recently written up in the New York Times.
The 7th grade studied the question, “Is Our Relationship to Animals Ethical?”
7th graders spent the first few days in workshops, thinking about various ways in which we relate to animals — animals as food, animals as pets, animals as test subjects, animals as entertainment, and more. They were joined by NYU’s Assistant Professor of Animal Studies Nicholas Delon and graduate Christopher Salley – visiting speakers for an amazing presentation and discussion. They watched films and visited the New York Aquarium at Coney Island, the Bronx Zoo and the American Museum of Natural History to make observations in the field to help answer the essential question. They ultimately wrote and filmed original public service announcements educating the public about an area of concern and created Prezis, interactive digital presentations responding to the question from their own perspective.
The 8th grade studied the question, “Whose Dreams Are Made in NYC?”
The 8th graders have spent the second half of the trimester learning about the history of immigration in America in both English Language Arts and Social Studies. For their exploration, they focused on contemporary experiences of immigrants to our fair borough of Brooklyn. After learning how to do “Vox Populi” – or “man on the street” – interviews with NPR Radio Reporters Chana Joffe-Walt and Zoe Chace, they went out. In Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Crown Heights, 8th graders did their own neighborhood ethnography work, studying the diverse experiences of newcomers through observation and interviews. They also went to the Tenement Museum and the Museum of the Chinese in America to ground their accounts in history. Finally, Moth founders Sheri Holman and Judy Stone taught the students how to adapt their written memoirs about their family’s immigration experiences into Moth-style stories to be read aloud and recorded on video. They also created websites for newcomers with resources and information about the neighborhoods in Brooklyn that they studied.
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Neural Mechanisms of Accumulation and Triggering
What is the mechanism by which the brain/mind 'accumulates' a felt-sense to a point of 'triggering' an action?
For example, if unable to complete a task (e.g. opening packaging), a person can feel increased frustration for each attempt at the task. Eventually, the level of frustration will reach a 'trigger-point' and a compensatory action ('will you open it for me?') can occur.
I see this in many areas of human life (though frustration is the most common/obvious example), so I would suspect that it's a general principle of neural action than a specific mechanism of tracking sensory perceptions.
Also, apologies for any unclear language or concepts. I will happily rewrite if necessary.
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For clarity, I'm more curious about the 'accumulation' and less about the 'triggering'. Also, with regards to accumulation, I'm particularly curious about accumulation over longer time periods. So, not just task-specific frustration (as an example), but also things such as life skills.
So, another example: talking to a specific person, you notice that they have some behavioral quirk that irks you. Over time, you feel more and more irked by this quirk. (Hrmm.. irk, quirk, maybe I need different words...), to the point where you avoid interacting with this person due to their irksome quirk.
I am semi-assuming that the mechanism involves an increase in conscious or subliminal attention to the offending perception, thus creating a sensation of increased salience of the stimulus. But...I don't want to assume too far, and I'm curious if the subject has been formally explored.
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$\begingroup$ This is an interesting question--most reserch on action initiation that I've seen regards it as a binary switch and not something that is "accumulated." Would love to see some research with this more nuanced view. . . $\endgroup$ – Krysta Jul 18 '13 at 16:51
$\begingroup$ I would guess that, at a certain point, a threshold is passed and what looks like a binary switch is triggered. But at what point is 'the switch flipped'? $\endgroup$ – BenCole Jul 18 '13 at 17:16
There is a model of neural mechanisms of accumulation and triggering in the domain of perceptual choice called the leaky competing accumulator (Usher and McClelland, 2001) model. It uses decision units that fire when sufficient evidence has accumulated. Ratcliff and McKoon (2008) pointed out that LCA associated with their Diffusion model accurately modeled the neural firing rates observed in monkeys before a decision was made (see section 10 of the article, a monkey moving his eyes to a target that competed with a non-target stimulus).
The processes described in LCA are also found in different theoretical account of decision making. You may find some models in this wikipedia page summarizing the decision field theory of Busemeyer & Townsend (1993).
Your question mentioned a longer time scale than the one addressed by the above references. I don't know a model of accumulation/decisions that span over hours/days/years. For example, the one here, despite its promising title ('From perception to action: an economic model of brain processes'), is not interested in the temporal aspect of the decision (i.e. accumulation phase).
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Formation, Silurian, Spain, slide 71053/A1 (F46), FHC collection. 4 Ovnia desertica Cramer & Díez 1977, Silurian, Saudi Arabia, ALH collection. 5 Hoegklintia corallina (Eisenack 1959) Le Hérissé 1989 , Silurian, Gotland, Sweden, ALH collection. 6 Tyrannus giganteus ( Jardiné et al. 1974
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... Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists – The Palynology Society Annual Meeting, Abstracts and Program; p. 138. 1998 Wood GD, Mello, JHG. New occurrences of the acritarch Tyrannus giganteus (Jardiné et al.) Wood & Tekbali 1987 and their bearing on Malvinokaffric realm Silurian paleogeography...
Biogeography of early to mid Palaeozoic (Cambrian–Devonian) marine phytoplankton
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DOI: 10.1144/M38.23
... , Perforella perforata , Tyrannus giganteus , Visbysphaera bonita and V . jardinei to be typical of Ludlow successions in North Africa and adjacent regions (Fig. 23.8 ). Subsequent work, however, has shown that species previously considered to be endemic to high palaeolatitudes have wider distribution...
Abstract Early to mid Palaeozoic marine phytoplankton are represented by acritarchs and associated forms, which had a global distribution from the early Cambrian to the early Carboniferous (Mississippian). Palaeozoic phytoplankton assemblages show varying degrees of cosmopolitanism and endemism through time. A high degree of cosmopolitanism was evidently characteristic of the Cambrian and much of the Late Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian, but provincialism was more marked in the Early Ordovician and Hirnantian (latest Ordovician), the latter at a time of major palaeoenvironmental perturbations. Distribution patterns of Palaeozoic phytoplankton are attributed to a number of interacting factors, including palaeolatitude, palaeotemperature, oceanic circulation patterns, the disposition of continents, differentiation between oceanic and cratonic (distal–proximal) assemblages, and sedimentary environments and facies. There are indications that biogeographical ranges of taxa shift over time. Moving our understanding of Palaeozoic phytoplankton biogeography forward requires (1) targeted investigation of regions and time periods for which no or little data exist, (2) quantitative analysis of data to investigate how similarity between regions varies through time and how this might correlate with other datasets such as carbon isotope stratigraphy or sea-level, and (3) rigorous application of well-defined time slices to compare coeval assemblages, at least within the limits of resolution.
GLOBAL PATTERNS OF ORGANIC-WALLED PHYTOPLANKTON BIODIVERSITY DURING THE LATE SILURIAN TO EARLIEST DEVONIAN
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... Formation, Silurian, Spain, slide 71053/A1 (F46), FHC collection. 4 Ovnia desertica Cramer & Díez 1977, Silurian, Saudi Arabia, ALH collection. 5 Hoegklintia corallina (Eisenack 1959) Le Hérissé 1989 , Silurian, Gotland, Sweden, ALH collection. 6 Tyrannus giganteus ( Jardiné et al. 1974...
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Lateral trends in carbon isotope ratios reveal a Miocene vegetation gradient in the Siwaliks of Pakistan
Michèle E. Morgan, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Catherine Badgley, John C. Barry, Sherry Nelson, David Pilbeam
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Geology (2009) 37 (2): 103-106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G25359A.1
The structure and rate of late Miocene expansion of C 4 plants: Evidence from lateral variation in stable isotopes in paleosols of the Siwalik Group, northern Pakistan
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Jay Quade, Thure E. Cerling, John Kappelman, Imran A. Khan, Peter Copeland, Lois Roe, Jason Hicks, Phoebe Stubblefield, Brian J. Willis, Claudio Latorre
Journal: GSA Bulletin
GSA Bulletin (2007) 119 (11-12): 1486-1505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B26064.1
Numerical precision and triangle filter antialiasing in Kirchhoff migrations
Ray Abma
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The Leading Edge (2006) 25 (1): 20-23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.2164748
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Interpretation and visualization of thrust sheets in a triangle zone in eastern Potwar, Pakistan
Muhammad Aamir, Muhammad Maas Siddiqui
Advances in Hydrocarbon Fluid-inclusion Microanalysis and Pressure-volume-temperature Modeling: Diagenetic History, Pressure-temperature, and Fluid-flow Reconstruction—A Case Study in the North Potwar Basin, Pakistan
Rudy Swennen, Nicole Guilhaumou, François Roure, Lakhdar Benchilla, James W. Granath, Pascal Mougin, Paul Dumas
Book: Deformation, Fluid Flow, and Reservoir Appraisal in Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts
Series: AAPG Hedberg Series
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
DOI: 10.1306/1025683H13110
Abstract Several advances have been made for the reconstruction of fluid circulations and diagenetic history in subthrusted petroleum reservoirs because of the combination of the in-situ microanalysis of hydrocarbon fluid inclusions by Synchrotron Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and PVTX modeling coupled to diagenetic history and tectonic setting. Integrated study has been made in the Eocene Chorgali formation (North Potwar Basin, Pakistan), where the shallow-marine carbonates formed important fractured reservoirs. Hydrocarbon fluid inclusions recognized in authigenic quartz and calcite from hydroveins show atypical association of CO 2 -rich light oil depleted in H 2 O in sulfates-quartz-calcite along simultaneous dissolution recrystallization processes at micrometer scale. Synchrotron Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analyses, microthermometry, and pressure-volume-temperature modeling led to the beginning of quartz and calcite recrystallization at no more than 75–85°C and 150–180 bar in conditions of sulfate-calcite transformation. Temperatures of 150°C measured in aqueous fluid inclusions from calcite hydroveins are in favor of a thermosulfatoreduction mechanism. Early diagenetic sulfates are reduced by organic acids, and CO 2 comes from organic matter decomposition and/or previous decarbonation. A second phase of quartz growth is evidenced by the homogeneous entrapment in fluid inclusions of more mature oil in 60% CH 4 and a large amount of water at temperatures reaching 150–170°C. This late production of CH 4 agrees with δ 13 C depletion (−20 and −36%o) measured in veins and the crystallization of saddle dolomite. Thrustpack ® modeling shows that the onset of hydrofracturing and quartz precipitation at 1.5 km (1 mi) depth and 15–10.8 Ma (middle Siwalik) began when temperatures of 65 ± 10°C were reached at the end of sedimentation in the basin. It lasted until 4–6 km (2.5–4 mi) depth at temperatures as much as 170°C and reached the development of the thrust sheet at 5 Ma. Thus, circulations of hydrocarbon-rich fluids may be considered in thermal equilibrium with host rocks in both cases. The oil could then be derived from source rocks in the deep Mesozoic formation for the first input. The second input originated from the deep part of the basin itself and mixed with tectonic and meteoric water along the circulation pathways. The fluids are mainly driven by tectonics. They are expelled from the hinterland farther to the north and move updip toward the south in the Chorgali conduits, below the Kuldana seals. The potential source rock for organic matter is known as type II and type III kerogens in coal and black shales from the Paleocene.
Early-Middle Miocene paleodrainage and tectonics in the Pakistan Himalaya
Yani Najman, Eduardo Garzanti, Malcolm Pringle, Mike Bickle, John Stix, Imran Khan
GSA Bulletin (2003) 115 (10): 1265-1277.
Modeling of thrust fronts above ductile and frictional detachments: Application to structures in the Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan
James T. Cotton, Hemin A. Koyi
GSA Bulletin (2000) 112 (3): 351-363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2000)112<351:MOTFAD>2.0.CO;2
Structure and shortening of the Kangra and Dehra Dun reentrants, Sub-Himalaya, India
Peter M. Powers, Robert J. Lillie, Robert S. Yeats
GSA Bulletin (1998) 110 (8): 1010-1027.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1010:SASOTK>2.3.CO;2
Siwalik Paleosols (Miocene, northern Pakistan); genesis and controls on their formation
Michael J. Zaleha
Journal: Journal of Sedimentary Research
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
Journal of Sedimentary Research (1997) 67 (5): 821-839.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/D426864E-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D
Structure and evolution of the northern Potwar deformed zone, Pakistan
Tariq Majeed Jaswal, Robert J. Lillie, Robert D. Lawrence
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
AAPG Bulletin (1997) 81 (2): 308-328.
Sandstone petrology and provenance of the Siwalik Group (northwestern Pakistan and western-southeastern Nepal)
Salvatore Critelli, Raymond V. Ingersoll
Journal of Sedimentary Research (1994) 64 (4a): 815-823.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/D4267ED3-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D
Rapid, long-term rates of denudation
Douglas W. Burbank, Richard A. Beck
Geology (1991) 19 (12): 1169-1172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<1169:RLTROD>2.3.CO;2
Fold and thrust propagation in the western Himalaya based on a balanced cross section of the Surghar Range and Kohat Plateau, Pakistan
James W. McDougall, Ahmad Hussain
Structural interpretation of seismic reflection data from eastern Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan
Edward S. Pennock, Robert J. Lillie, Agha Sher Hamid Zaman, Mohammad Yousaf
Overview of the geology and structure of the Salt Range, with observations on related areas of northern Pakistan
Lawrence L. Malinconico, Jr., E. R. Gee, Robert J. Lillie, D. G. Gee
Book: Tectonics of the western Himalayas
Series: GSA Special Papers
DOI: 10.1130/SPE232-p95
The Salt Range and its Trans-Indus extension bridges the reentrant between the outer ranges of the northwestern Himalaya and the Sulaiman Mountain arc. Upper Proterozoic to Recent successions occur in the range, which makes up the southern thrust front of the orogen. There are two regional features of particular interest. The first is the occurrence of thick saliferous deposits of Eocambrian age, overlying Precambrian basement in the Potwar Plateau and thrust southward in the Salt Range over the alluvial Cenozoic. Thick, saliferous deposits also occur within the Eocene sequence of Kohat. These incompetent formations played a significant role in determining structure. The second feature is the presence of four major unconformities: between the marine Eocambrian to Cambrian sequence and the glacial, Lower Permian conglomerates, and below the Paleocene, the Miocene, and the late Pliocene–Pleistocene formations. Metamorphic rocks, linking with the Precambrian crystalline basement of northwestern India, crop out only in the Kirana Hills some 80 km south of the Salt Range. Within the Salt Range and related areas, unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks compose the exposed succession, mainly shallow-water marine, until mid-Tertiary time, and lacustrine and fluvial from Miocene time onward. Prior to Quaternary time, only epeirogenic forces affected the region, accompanied occasionally by local warping. In contrast, during Quaternary time, the effects of the Himalayan orogeny extended southward. Accentuated by movement within the Eocambrian saliferous formation, the Salt Range developed as a complex anticlinorium, emplaced southward along a major thrust, which has recently been determined by seismic reflection measurements to involve a décollement of at least 20 km. Complex fold and fault structures resulted elsewhere within the region.
Early Pliocene uplift of the Salt Range; Temporal constraints on thrust wedge development, northwest Himalaya, Pakistan
Lawrence L. Malinconico, Jr., Douglas W. Burbank, Robert J. Lillie, Richard A. Beck
DOI: 10.1130/SPE232-p113
Recent chronologic and stratigraphic studies in the northwestern Himalayan foreland basin have led to better constrained deformational and depositional histories. In order to test the hypothesis that considerable pre-Pleistocene uplift occurred in the Salt Range of northern Pakistan, the stratigraphic record adjacent to the central and eastern Salt Range has been examined. Unconformities, paleomagnetically documented tectonic rotations across these unconformities, and changes in the paleocurrent directions, provenance, and rates of sediment accumulation serve to delineate an interval of early Pliocene uplift of the Salt Range, as well as several late Pliocene–Pleistocene uplift events in this range and adjacent structures. Stratigraphic, reflection seismic, and structural data indicate that these uplift events resulted from thrusting related to the salt-lubricated Potwar detachment. When considered in conjunction with the chronology of deformation in other parts of the foreland, these data clearly indicate that out-of-sequence thrusting has occurred on a large scale (>100 km) during the past 6 m.y. This pattern of deformation supports the concept that an irregular spatial and temporal distribution of shortening should be expected to occur within an advancing thrust wedge.
Tectonic and geomorphic implications of Siwalik Group heavy minerals, Potwar Plateau, Pakistan
Lawrence L. Malinconico, Jr., P. F. Cerveny, Robert J. Lillie, N. M. Johnson, R.A.K. Tahirkheli, N. R. Bonis
Heavy mineral and paleocurrent direction data suggest that the ancestral Indus is an analog of the modern Indus River (Pakistan). During the past 18 m.y., the Indus has maintained a relatively stationary outlet position along the Himalayan Front. Sandstones from three sections of Siwalik strata have been sampled and their heavy mineral suites analyzed. These stratigraphic sections cover some 200 km in an east-west direction in the Potwar Plateau area. In the western and central Potwar Plateau sections, blue-green hornblende makes a conspicuous first appearance at 11 Ma, the boundary between the Chinji and Nagri Formations. Above this boundary, blue-green hornblende dominates the heavy mineral assemblage of Siwalik sand. In the Upper Siwalik beds the heavy mineral suite contains as much as 75 percent blue-green hornblende. Unroofing of the Kohistan Arc terrane is the most likely explanation for this detrital hornblende. In marked contrast, the eastern Potwar region does not show the same abundance of blue-green hornblende. Significantly, the modern rivers of the eastern Potwar do not carry abundant blue-green hornblende either; only the Indus River does. Paleocurrent measurements taken in the Chinji Village section near the center of the Potwar Plateau indicate a northwest-to-southeast flow direction, whereas those in the Trans-Indus 120 km west of Chinji Village indicate a northeast-to-southwest flow direction. These data indicate that the Siwalik sequence of northern Pakistan is configured as a large-scale alluvial fan with the ancestral Indus shifting course back and forth across the Potwar Plateau region with a frequency of 10 4 to 10 5 yr/cycle. River sinuosity varied systematically from side to side of this fan, with minimum sinuosity attained along a north-south axis. As indicated by the absence of blue-green hornblende, the ancestral Indus did not reach the eastern Potwar Plateau (Kotal Kund area, 100 km east of Chinji) during the past 11 m.y.
Subsurface densities and lithospheric flexure of the Himalayan foreland in Pakistan
Lawrence L. Malinconico, Jr., Yannick Duroy, Robert J. Lillie, Abul Farah, Robert J. Lillie
Gravity data along a north-south profile from Kohistan to the Punjab plain of Pakistan have been incorporated into recent interpretations of the gross structure of the foreland fold-and-thrust belt of the Himalaya. In northern Pakistan, large deviations from Airy Isostatic equilibrium are observed. An excess of mass characterizes the northern Kohistan arc, and a deficit of mass underlies a broad area extending from southern Kohistan to the Salt Range, while to the south a slight excess of mass seems to prevail in the region of the Sargodha high. This anomalous distribution of mass can be understood if the Indian elastic plate, which is assumed to overlie a buoyant “fluid,” is flexed down under the weight of both the overthrust mountains and the sediments eroded off the mountains and deposited in the foredeep basin. In many respects the intracontinental subduction of India beneath the Himalaya is similar to island arc formation, including the seismically active Sargodha high, a basement ridge analogous to the flexural bulge encountered seaward of oceanic trenches. Analysis of Bouguer gravity anomalies along a profile extending from the Sargodha high to the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) shows that most of the negative-northward gravity gradient can be attributed to crustal thickening. In the Sargodha high area, an additional contribution of about 25 mgal appears to be due to excess of mass at lower crustal or upper mantle levels. The Moho discontinuity is interpreted to bulge up beneath the Sargodha high, then gradually increase in dip from 1° to 3° beneath the Salt Range and Potwar plateau (approximately equal to the change in dip of the basement surface). The Moho is interpreted to change from upwardly convex to upwardly concave beneath southern Kohistan. Finally, north of the Main Mantle Thrust it appears to bend down again, but at a steeper angle of about 15°. Shorter wavelength anomalies, superimposed on the regional Bouguer gradient, are modeled in terms of upper crustal density changes, including those due to: (1) offsets of the basement surface; (2) variable thickness of the Eocambrian evaporite sequence that forms the basal décollement; (3) thrusting and folding of relatively high-density, older parts of the stratigraphic section to higher structural levels, particularly in the Salt Range and northern Potwar plateau; and (4) thickening of the low-density Neogene molasse sequence into the axis of the Soan Syncline, a structural depression between the Salt Range and northern Potwar plateau. Subsurface densities of the overthrust wedge, as well as the definition of the shape of the top surface of the Indian plate interpreted from seismic reflection and drilling data, place bounds on the flexural rigidity of such a plate and the forces that deform it. In northern Pakistan, a steeper Bouguer gravity gradient suggests that the flexural rigidity of the elastic plate (D = 4.0 [± 2.0] × 10 23 Nm) is a factor of 10 smaller than the current values interpreted for the central and eastern Himalaya. Moreover, the maximum flexural stresses are probably concentrated within the crust, which may account for the seismic activity of the Sargodha high and southern Kohistan. At the end of the Indian elastic plate (arbitrarily chosen at the MMT), a large positive vertical shear stress, 9.2 × 10 12 N/m < S 0 < 1.6 × 10 13 N/m, is applied to account for the topographic load north of the MMT. In addition, to fit the gravity constraints it was necessary to apply a large negative bending moment, −1.4 × 10 18 N < M 0 < −0.85 × 10 18 N, at the end of the plate. The negative bending moment can be explained by the combined effect of the northward migration of the Indian plate and the southward differential compressional force generated by the crustal rocks stacked at mid-upper crustal levels beneath the northern Kohistan arc. In addition, buoyancy of the crustal rocks at deeper levels beneath the Kohistan arc may contribute to the negative bending moment. Consequently, in southern Kohistan the surface of the Indian plate is concave up; compressional stresses in the upper part of the plate are probably the primary source of the Hazara seismic zone, where incipient reverse faulting seems to take place. In contrast, the pronounced upward convexity developed along the flexural bulge can account for (1) tensional stress in the upper part of the Indian plate, which is large enough to produce basement normal faults interpreted beneath the Salt Range and Sargodha high; and (2) compressional stress in the lower portion of the crust, which causes the excess of mass and seismicity beneath the Sargodha high.
Geology of petroleum in Kohat-Potwar Depression, Pakistan
M. A. Khan, Riaz Ahmed, Hilal A. Raza, Arif Kemal
Neogene mammalian faunal change in southern Asia: Correlations with climatic, tectonic, and eustatic events
John C. Barry, Noye M. Johnson, S. Mahmood Raza, Louis L. Jacobs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1985)13<637:NMFCIS>2.0.CO;2
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IndiaRoots.com
IndianRoots.com, NDTV’s e-commerce venture, raises about Rs 32 crore in fresh funding
The company will use the amount, raised on Wednesday, to scale up the portal’s logistics and delivery mechanisms, and expand its marketing activity as it aims to be the market leader in Indian fashion in the year ahead.May 14, 2015, 16:19 IST
Online fashion brand Yepme aims to sell global fashion apparel in international markets, the first homegrown online retailer to do so.To begin with, the company will target the NRI market with a new portal yepmeworld.com, which will also act as a test marketing site to gauge international demand for India-made fashion.
ET Retail Bureau New Delhi: IndianRoots.com has received fresh funding of $5 million (about Rs 32 crore) from Jaipur-based KJS Group, valuing NDTV’s e-commerce venture, which operates under NDTV Ethnic Retail, at $85 million or about Rs 545 crore.
The company will use the amount, raised on Wednesday, to scale up the portal’s logistics and delivery mechanisms, and expand its marketing activity as it aims to be the market leader in Indian fashion in the year ahead.
Launched in mid-2013, the company showcases more than 100 designers and over 700 brands on its curated online marketplace. It has a worldwide customer base, with India and USA being the largest markets.
“With the fresh investment in the business and the complete backing of the NDTV Group, IndianRoots will be able to push harder in achieving its plans for the year. We look forward to our partnership with the KJS Group in strengthening the IndianRoots venture,” said Prannoy Roy, co-chairperson of NDTV.
NDTV Ethnic achieved gross merchandise value of Rs 61 crore in 2014-15, a twelvefold jump over that in the previous year.
Speaking about the company’s investment, Kamaljeet Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman, KJS Group and Karanpal Singh, Director, KJS Group said said, “Given our interest in the e-commerce sector, partnering with a respected and credible organisation such as NDTV was the obvious choice for us. Given the clear positioning of IndianRoots and its achievements in the Indian fashion domain, we are confident that the business has a great growth story ahead.”
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Teenagers steal bicycle from 12-year-old boy in Glendale
Photos via Twitter @NYPD104pct
The suspects pictured are wanted for strong arm robbery in the 104th Precinct.
By Ryan Kelley
A group of teenagers is wanted for strong arm robbery after allegedly stealing a bicycle from a young boy in Glendale.
According to police, the theft occurred on Aug. 9 at approximately 9:30 p.m. at the corner of Cooper Avenue and 72nd Street when a group of six teenagers surrounded the 12-year-old victim.
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The suspects are described as black males between 14 and 17 years old, police said, and the group is believed to have committed other bicycle robberies in the area.
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We have had reports of Robberies happening on Cooper Ave from 72 Street to 80 Street. There are 3-7 Male Blacks targeting teenagers with bicycles and forcefully removing the bicycles. Be Vigilant. If anyone has any #INFORMATION or #TIPS on these incidents please 718-386-2723.
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Quiz: Match the Movie Character to the Car They Drove!
Match the Movie Character to the Car They Drove!
By: Robin Tyler
Image: dtavres / Pixabay
Movies and cars go hand in hand, don't they? You will be hard pressed to find a film that doesn't have a vehicle in it. Of course, some cars appear fleetingly, while in other movies, cars can be real heroes. Some even take on a personality of their own, sometimes in a good way, and other times in a terrifying way.
But in movies where cars play an important role, we often see them in the way the director would like them portrayed. For example, a film might show a car as a performance machine, a racer, a reliable family vehicle, or perhaps the transport of a serial killer.
In their way, each of these cars fit into their roles to perfection. We mean, you're not going to see a serial killer ride around in a VW Bug with the number 53 on its hood and doors, are you?
So for this quiz, we have a simple task for you. Match up the car in the image with the most likely person listed that associates with it. Of course, some are so easy; you won't have to look twice, while others are going to test not only your movie knowledge but that of motor vehicles as well.
The car in this image is driven by which of these characters?
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Dr. Emmett Brown
Although most of the movies in the Batman franchise had their versions of the Batmobile, the one in "The Dark Knight" was very different. Powered by a jet engine, Batman's Tumbler can make jumps without ramps and features a range of weapons including machine guns and rockets.
Not only decent on land, it could go underwater as well. Who drove this vehicle?
Doc Emmett Brown
This Lotus Esprit is one of the most iconic Bond vehicles. Not only because it looked beautiful but it also was able to fully submerge and travel underwater like a submarine. This was filmed using scale miniatures as well as a fiberglass mock-up of the car.
Who drives this classic Ferrari in a 1980s cult classic?
Although an original Ferrari GT50 was used in the close shots, most of the driving shots from the John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off featured a replica called a Modena, which was created by Mark Goyette and Neil Glassmoyer and three were ordered for the production.
A classic trilogy from the 1980s features this vehicle. But who does it belong to?
RegularCars via youtube
Although the DeLorean tanked in terms of sales and pretty much as a sports car as well, it gained a lot of fame thanks to the Back to the Future trilogy. A total of six DeLorean chassis were used during filming with only three remaining today. Of course, the time-traveling version of the DeLorean was the brainchild of Dr. Emmett Brown.
Any idea as to which movie characters would drive this vehicle?
The Ecto 1 in Ghostbusters is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance conversion. Although two were purchased for the movie, only one was used during filming with the other used during pre-production.
The Sunbeam Tiger was the favorite ride for which American agent?
RK Motors Charlotte via youtube
Maxwell Smart
Maxwell Smart, secret agent, driver of the Sunbeam Tiger! Only 7,000 were ever made, but the most famous belonged to a super spy. It appeared in the series for five seasons between 1965 and 1970.
This iconic Ford is remembered in the final scene of a classic 1991 movie. But who drove it?
Thelma and Louise
Many remember this movie classic for the debut of Brad Pitt although car buffs will tell you that the T-Bird, in fact, stole the show. Interestingly, five Thunderbirds were used during the production of the movie.
This vehicle first appeared in a TV series and later a film based on that. Who drove it though?
ScottieDTV via Youtube
Bo Duke
"The Dukes of Hazzard," a popular TV series that ran from 1979 to 1985, saw the Duke boys riding around in a 1969 Dodge Charger named The General Lee. A Hollywood movie of the same name was then released in 2005 starring Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville.
From a movie classic, this 1974 Dodge Monaco is driven by who?
Car Chase Wonderland 2 via youtube
Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers
The 1980's iconic film "The Blues Brothers" sees Dan Akroyd and John Belushi driving an old police cruiser, a 1974 Dodge Monaco to be precise. Eight were purchased for use during the film and all eight were destroyed during the production.
Although there were plenty of cars in this movie, one stands out, the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. Who did it belong to?
Starring Burt Reynolds, 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit" features a host of great cars. The star is undoubtedly the '77 Pontiac Trans Am driven by Reynolds, however. Four were used during production, with three totally destroyed. For the sequel, the producers asked for 10 more vehicles. Pontiac agreed. Nothing like film advertising for your vehicles now is there?
Their leader loved it when a plan came together but who drove the A-Team's black and red van?
Robert Videobob Moseley via Youtube
B.A. Baracus
From a cult classic TV series from the 1980's to a Hollywood movie adaption in the 2000's, the A-Team are a beloved franchise. And their mode of transport? A GMC Van driven by BA Baracus.
A movie about NASCAR racing? Yes, please! But name the driver of the vehicle in this image, please.
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Clarke W. Griswold
Cole Trickle
"Days of Thunder," starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman brought NASCAR racing closer to the movie-going public than ever before. And of course, the real stars of the show were the vehicles themselves: in fact, to get the authentic racing scenes, the vehicles including the Chevrolet Lumina (Cruise's car in the movie) raced in three NASCAR races during production.
One of the new breed of sports cars, pictured here, used the Iron Man films to help market it. But which movie character did it belong to?
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A model of German company Audi, the R8 features prominently in the Iron Man movie where it is driven by Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.)
The ride pictured here belongs to which movie character?
Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski
Like Jeff Bridges' character, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, his Gran Torino is a little worn looking. During the course of the movie, it gets stolen and set on fire but still somehow manages to drive. "The Big Lebowski" was released in 1998.
Can you match this vehicle to its occupants? It appeared in the 1981 movie, "The Cannonball Run."
BA Baracus
The Lamborghini babes
Certainly one of the sleekest, most daring-looking sportscars, even to this day, the Lamborghini Countach was way ahead of its time when first produced in 1974. It played a prominent role in the 1981 movie, "The Cannonball Run" starring Burt Reynolds amongst others.
A long running movie franchise with many great cars. This, however, is probably the best of them! So who would have driven it?
Fifth Gear VIA YouTube
Perhaps the most iconic Bond car, the Astin Martin DB5 has appeared in seven Bond movies! Other than its stunning lines, this car is dangerous and is armed with machine guns, blades that shred tires, and an assortment of other gadgets.
They say he designed a car of the future but his dream came crashing down around him. Who designed this car?
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Preston Tucker
"Preston Tucker: The Man and His Dream" is based on the true story of Preston Tucker features a car designed and marketed by him, the Tucker 48, also known as the Tucker Torpedo. Only 51 of these cars were ever built before Tucker went out of business after been accused of stock fraud, something he was later acquitted of.
A classic cop story which became a Hollywood hit features this distinct Ford Gran Torino. Can you match it to the characters who drive it though?
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A successful TV series and later a movie starring Ben Stiller, Starsky and Hutch sees two detectives spending a lot of their time riding around in their Ford Gran Torino with a bright red color scheme and white stripe.
You should not have any problems linking this vehicle with one of the characters below. There were three movies in the franchise.
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Elwood Blue
Famous for its Union Jack livery, the Shaguar, which appeared in the Austin Powers movie franchise is an E-Type Jaguar. Even Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the legendary Italian marque called the E-Type the most beautiful car ever made.
Party time, excellent! Who would you associate with this classic vehicle from the movies?
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Garth Algar
An AMC Pacer, 'The Mirthmobile' stars in the slacker comedy, "Wayne's World." Who can forget the epic scene where Wayne, Garth and their buddies sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" while cruising the streets of Aurora?
This post apocalyptic vehicle is best associated with which character?
CYBERDYNE FIREFOX VIA YouTube
'The Dude'
This heavily modified Ford Falcon (an Australian produced Ford) was one of the highlights of the cult classic, "Mad Max." It appeared in three movies in the franchise.
Which is more famous? This car, or the song about? We not sure but we do know which character associates with it best! Do you?
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Clark W. Griswold
Just as important as Sandy and Danny (played by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta) was the famed Greased Lightning, a 1948 Ford Deluxe Convertible. Although it starts out in a dilapidated condition, the T-Birds turn it into a looker that can race as well.
Although this VW Bug has had a few owners over the years, who drove it first?
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Jim Douglas
Of course, Herbie is nothing more than a classic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. Or is he?
Although this American agent drove the Sunbeam Tiger, he also was associated with this car. Who is he?
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Bo Hazard
Maxwell Smart is remembered in the Get Smart TV franchise and movie for driving the Sunbeam Tiger. But he also is associated with other cars such as this Opel GT.
The vehicle belongs to a less-famous superhero, shall we say. But who drives it?
Drive by the Green Hornet's butler Kato, Black Beauty is an 1966 Imperial Crown hardtop. It cost a total of $50,000 to be customized for the movies with the customization undertaken by Dean Jefferies. Two were eventually made with one now in the Petersen Automotive Museum and the other in the hands of a private collector.
The vehicle in this image is featured in one of the most iconic car chase scenes ever filmed. Which character do you associate it with?
"Bullitt" is still recognized as having one of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. In it, Steve McQueen (Bullitt) drives a Ford Mustang GT. The car was modified for the movie, removing the pony grille, Mustang lettering, driving lights, and GT badges.
A Chevy Nova and Dodge Charger make an appearance in a Quentin Tarantino double bill. Which character listed below is associated with them?
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Stuntman Mike
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Nothing special about this car from Steven Spielberg's first ever movie, other than it is chased by an 18-wheel truck for much of its duration. Which character drives it?
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This Steven Spielberg movie features a number of unique car chase scenes. The whole plot of the movie sees David Mann (Dennis Weaver) followed and chased by a truck that he dared to pass early in the story. For the rest of the movie, the truck driver and his battered vehicle attempt to push Mann of the road and kill him.
Which movie character does this vehicle belong to?
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This car chase scene, at night, sees Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) on the run from the law. Interestingly, the chase features no music and all of the stunts and driving were by Cruise himself. The car featured is a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
The movie character most associated with this vehicle is ____________.
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Another James Bond movie, another car chase. This time it's Daniel Craig in the role of the British super spy as he drives his Aston Martin DBS away from a host of baddies in Alfa Romeos. The action takes place not only on roads but in a construction site as well! Obviously, Bond wins!
This car feature in a classic chase scene in action comedy with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Who is the character that owns it?
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Are you able to identify the character that associates most with this vehicle?
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"John Wick," starring Keanu Reeves, is one of the best action films in recent memory so it is no surprise that it has an excellent car chase scene in which Wick, in his 2011 Dodge Charger LTD chases down the baddies.
Another classic 70s drive movie features this vehicle. What is the name of the character that drives it?
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A brilliant action movie from early 2000s sees this vehicle driving by who all over Paris?
Universal Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
What's not to love about the car chase scene in "The Bourne Identity" as Matt Damon takes a classic Mini everywhere in Paris as he tries to evade the police.
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Edward Lewis
Perhaps one of the most famous romantic comedies of them all, "Pretty Woman" also has a pretty classic car in it, a 1989 Lotus Esprit. The producers at first approached Ferrari and Porsche but both turned down the chance to supply a vehicle for the movie. Lotus had no such qualms and handed over three.
This Hummer features in a brilliant chase scene in the 1996 action movie, "The Rock." Who drives it?
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Stanley Goodspeed
In a brilliant chase scene in this prison escape action flick, Stanley Godspeed (Nicholas Cage) chases after Captain Mason (Sean Connery) through the streets of Los Angeles. Its Ferrari vs. Hummer!
This Alfa Romeo 1600 Duetto Spider comes from the 1967 classic, "The Graduate." It is driven by Dustin Hoffman's character. What is his name?
Ben Braddock
"The Graduate," featuring Dustin Hoffman features a 1966 Series 1 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600. The film helped promote the car and in 1980, a special edition Graduate Spider was unveiled.
This vehicle is most associated with which character below?
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"Diamonds Are Forever" sees Sean Connery return to his role as James Bond. The Ford Mustang Mach 1 is the star of a chase scene in the streets of Las Vegas as Bond attempts to get away from the police. It includes a glaring continuity error in which at one point the Mustang is driving on two wheels on the right-hand side of the car but in another shot a little later, this has changed to the left-hand side of the car.
It's not difficult to identify this vehicle out of a recent Hollywood remake of 1960s classic. Which of these characters drove it though?
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Stella Bridger
A remake of the 1969 classic of the same name, 2003's "The Italian Job" stars Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron and a couple of new Mini Coopers. In fact, 32 cars were used in the production with many of them heavily modified. Sales of the car increased by 22 percent in the year following the movie.
A family holiday needs a family car. Who drove the 1983 Wagon Queen Family Truckster?
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The Wagon Queen Family Truckster in "National Lampoon's Vacation" is none other than a modified 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire. Five vehicles were used during the production. Chevy Chase who played Clarke W. Griswold was the character mostly with the car as he drove it although it was a family affair.
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Australian Railway Association Working With Academics on ‘Smart Rail Route Map’
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA), Rail Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and Deakin University, Victoria, are working together to produce a Smart Rail Route Map for the rail industry in Australia.
The map will present a long-term vision for the development and implementation of technology in the rail industry over the next 30 years by identifying common priorities, themes, timelines and actions. The key focus areas are customer service (passenger and freight), traffic and network management, and high-performance rail. The results will be used by the rail industry to support the introduction of new, efficient and cost-effective technologies and services.
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The map will be ‘technology-neutral’ and the information will be accessible to people without knowledge of the software. The total funding for the project amounts to $500,000. The ARA and CRC have provided $200,000 and the remaining costs will be covered by contributions in kind. The project should be completed by 31 December 2018.
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Professor Douglas Creighton from Deakin’s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation will provide expertise in systems mapping to develop and model the results. Professor Creighton said:
“The project team is collaborating directly with a newly established steering committee, made up of representatives across the Australian rail industry, to define industry goals, map the key challenges for the rail sector over the next 30 years relating to technology disruption, and identify focus area objectives and initiatives.”
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Fight against Rotherham hate crimes in wake of racist murder
A new initiative to tackle hate crimes has been launched in Rotherham following the racist murder of a Muslim pensioner.
Retired steelworker Mushin Ahmed, 81, was kicked to death by Dale Jones and Damien Hunt after they attacked him as he made his way to morning prayers at his local mosque in August 2015.
Police have now launched Operation Solar over concerns that hate crime is being under-reported in the town. It follows increased racial tensions following the town’s child sexual exploitation scandal, largely involving men largely of Pakistani heritage.
A new email address – operation.solar@southyorks.pnn.police.uk – has been launched for people to anonymously report suspected hate crimes.
Link… http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/fight-against-rotherham-hate-crimes-in-wake-of-racist-murder-1-7921278
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8 thoughts on “Fight against Rotherham hate crimes in wake of racist murder”
David on May 19, 2016 at 9:30 pm said:
I have tens of thousands of hate crime to report. They have occurred over the last twenty years. They are:
Acts of rape and prostitution of children.
Malfeasance in public office
Perverting the course of justice.
The hacking to death of Laura Wilson in the so called honour killing
Labour out on May 19, 2016 at 10:52 pm said:
They don’t count, they’re only interested in fictional assaults dreamt up by the racist BMY & its supporters.
Tom Roberts on May 20, 2016 at 11:05 am said:
Only ethnic “minorities” can be victims of hate crime.
That is the agenda.
reg reader on May 20, 2016 at 1:02 pm said:
Nonsense!
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/discrimination/hate-crime/what-are-hate-incidents-and-hate-crime/
David on May 21, 2016 at 8:41 am said:
Nonsense indeed. A brief look at the list of ‘hate crimes’ would instruct most that it is a list of crimes against the lefty narrative with a few real crimes thrown in to fool the unwary.
Why was Laura Wilson’s crime an ‘honour killing’ and Mr Ahmed’s a racist murder?
What happened to Laura Wilson – however evil it was – was from within a relationship with her killer. It was not just because she had a white skin.
The killing of Lee Rigby was a hate crime – the killing of Mushin Ahmed was a hate crime.
In both cases there was no prior relationship, and in both cases all that really mattered was the race of the victim (and in Rigby’s case that he was a soldier).
These crime categorisations are for mainly for statistical purposes – but they influence policy.
… and was the killing of Laura Wilson categorised as an “honour killing” ? I have only taken your word for it.
Anonymous on May 20, 2016 at 2:34 pm said:
Not sure about the anonymity of emails sent to the address given above. Surely they can trace the ISP?
Woody on May 20, 2016 at 3:44 pm said:
Why would anyone want to trace ip address from above .its there opinion ,i too think that in rotherham there is a 2 tier law and the minority community benifits from it
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Ask any RMBC worker, if they are being bullied into submission to the Commissioners way or the highway. If whistle blowing was ever needed, I think about now would be a good time.
Posted on June 16, 2016 by Rik
Ask any RMBC worker, if they are being bullied into submission to the Commissioners way or the highway. If whistle blowing was ever needed, I think about know would be a good time.
Mmm…Rotherham’s old guard were bullies, so the government sent us bullies to replace our elected bullies.
In fact bullies with experience.
Mary Ney was CEO of Greenwich council.
The (Jay) report damned “a pervading culture of sexism, bullying and silencing debate” in Rotherham – A DESCRIPTION THAT RAISED EYEBROWS IN GREENWICH.
“Ney blocked an attempt by this website to obtain a document detailing allegations of bullying in the council”.
Greenwich Council bullying: Ex-town hall boss pitches up at scandal-hit Rotherham | 853
https://853blog.com/2015/03/09/greenwich-council-bullying-ex-town-hall-boss-pitches-up-at-scandal-hit-rotherham/
Alex Grant cllr (Greenwich I believe resides in France now)
“the tip of an iceberg”.
He wrote: “Councillors and council staff were routinely shouted at, threatened with disciplinary action for speaking their minds at internal meetings, or quite literally airbrushed out of [the council’s weekly paper] Greenwich Time like victims of a Stalinist purge.
You just couldn’t make this up if you tried.
The select committee and the LGA should be ashamed of themselves, anything is only open for scrutiny, providing someone shows them the way.
Can anyone explain the difference between ex leader cllr Roger Stone and commissioner Mary Ney?
Yes… you’re right one was elected!
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contributor on June 16, 2016 at 5:02 pm said:
Mary Ney worked at Greenwich Borough Council, which used Common Purpose in 2009.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/greenwich_borough_council_common
Mary Ney was a Member on the Capital Ambition Programme Board
Also, an example:
Meeting to be held on Monday 14 April 2008
“The initiative will be led by the
Young Foundation, working in partnership
with OPM and Common Purpose.”
“Common Purpose will lead on
developing an overview of the key
managers in London, and will be central
to the leadership development initiatives
after the initial formative stages are
With reference to bullying, here’s a snippet from Julia Middleton, advising Common Purpose people:
Always worth repeating this quote from Middleton:
‘You start with clear and defined objectives … Then you establish what the obstacles are … they are usually people. So you have to establish what motivates them, and then decide if you can win them over by the power of the idea …Sometimes, if it gets messy, you might have to run over them, undermine them, go around them or discredit them. As a last resort, you consider bullying them, or buying them off.’
Beyond Authority by Julia Middleton, Common Purpose
So, any surprises that there is a culture of bullying?
Caven vines on June 16, 2016 at 5:18 pm said:
Allegedly word had it that Manzies was no different shouting at people ringing people late at night and at weekends one thing is for sure she is not missed
Hotspot on June 16, 2016 at 7:21 pm said:
Sir Derek Myres…what have you got to hide.
The perpetual wheels on the LGA’s bus go round and round, round and round.
FTHN: From the Hornets Nest: MYERS PICKS UP A K FOR TRI-BOROUGH BALLS UP
http://fromthehornetsnest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/myers-picks-up-k-for-tri-borough-balls.html?m=1
trambuster on June 16, 2016 at 8:11 pm said:
The government’s Communities and Local Government Committee, led by Sheffield MP Clive Betts, is to investigative how effective the Commissioner takeover of Rotherham MBC has been.
Well here’s a bit of info for Mr Betts – last year, Bramley Parish Council complained to Commissioner Manzie about the culture and conduct of senior RMBC officers. Included within the letter of complaint were many examples, that demonstrated how there is indeed a prevailing negative attitude toward the Parish on the part of those officers.
And what did the very expensive Ms Manzie do with the complaint? Well, she back-heeled it across to those same officers and they dutifully compiled a diversionary letter of response for her.
The response simply dealt with each example, with the usual contrived excuses and evasiveness and waffles on with the inevitable self-indulgent platitudes – “keen to work closely with all of the council’s key stakeholders”, “fresh start”, “work to change and move forward” yawn! and made no effort whatsoever to address the core issue i.e. the culture and conduct of senior RMBC officers.
These commissioners are classic ‘independent’ advisers, or seagulls as many of us refer to them – swoop in, crap all over the place and swoop back out again, to crap all over the next town.
rothpol on June 16, 2016 at 9:12 pm said:
A couple of letters that readers may wish to view, first is a letter from The Secretary of Bramley Parish Council sent to Commissioner Manzie and her response. Finally the whole sorry saga showing the way their subsequent FOI was handled in one .pdf.
So nothing has changed
rothpol on June 16, 2016 at 10:00 pm said:
The final piece of information.
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information 1017
Thank you for your request for information received on the 27th January 2016, please find detailed below the response from Rotherham MBC.
Last year, 17th July, Bramley Parish Council wrote to Commissioner Manzie, by email, advising her of its concerns about the conduct and culture of senior management at Rotherham MBC. A response was received by the Parish Council, by email, from Ms Manzie, 4th Sept.
In that regard then and under the Freedom of Information Act, would you please arrange to provide me with copies of all internal communications between her and any RMBC staff, which relate to the issue raised by the Parish Council.
If you feel there may be an interpretation of Data Protection whereby the Parish Council letter and internal communications refer to the Clerk to the PC by name i.e. Robert Foulds, well that of course is me and I hereby grant waver to any such confidentiality.
While there are no records of items of internal communication between Commissioner Manzie directly and RMBC staff with regard to the letter from Bramley Parish Council dated 17th July 2015, in the spirit of responding positively to this request please find enclosed copies of internal emails between RMBC staff and Commissioner Manzie’s office regarding the letter and the Commissioner’s subsequent response of 4th September 2015.
These emails relate to the request on receipt of the Parish Council’s letter (via email) for a draft response to be prepared by officers for the Commissioner’s consideration, and subsequent emails that relate to the Commissioner’s request, on sight of an initial draft provided by officers, for it to be amended, on the basis that it was not sufficiently comprehensive and was in need of further work.
The Commissioner’s intervention led to a revised draft being prepared that aimed to address more fully each of the specific matters listed in the Parish Council’s letter of 17th July 2015. This was finalised by the Commissioner and submitted to the Parish Council via email on 4th September 2015.
Please note that certain officer names in the attached document have been redacted, Rotherham MBC only discloses individual names in respect of its senior management officers. The exemption we are relying on is Section 40(2) – personal information, the disclosure of which would breach the first data protection principle as outlined in Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998.
This exemption applies because we consider that disclosure of this information without the consent of the individuals concerned would not constitute fair processing and we consider that the individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
If you are not satisfied with this response you have the right to an internal review by the Council. Please contact us via the above email address or by post to Gary Walsh, Information Governance Manager, Legal Services, Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1AE.
If you are not satisfied with the internal review, you can appeal to the Information Commissioner. Contact details are: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. Telephone 01625 545700. Alternatively go to http://www.ico.org.uk/
Wayne Singleton
Records & Information Management Officer
Information Governance Unit
Resources Directorate
Timawells on June 17, 2016 at 10:26 am said:
I would say the commissioners are as much use as chocolate fireguards.
All they do is a tick box exercise laid down by the Secretary of State go through the motions for the next 4 years it will then be all forgot and same old same old
All they have done is replaced local government directors with another local government director at a increase in salary
They have allowed the labour group to install unfit for purpose councillors in decision making positions and councillors who were part of the cover up to remain in post
This an establishment run control and full of common purpose
Caven vines on June 16, 2016 at 10:15 pm said:
One question why has Newsom bailed out maybe he realises that it is a lost cause now they have returned the same unfit for purpose councillors same old same old nothing has changed who is controlling reed just look who’s constituency the main players are from ????
There was me thinking it might have something to do with a few ill-judged appointments?
nigelsimpsonblog on June 17, 2016 at 11:10 am said:
In a still pending case, an 86 years old was Persued by a council office with demands leading to a court summons, despite council officers knowing the case and advising of no need to pay. The ” other office ” were sending out bills at any given opportunity This was bullying even intimidation and caused great distress.
Where does the line of bullying start and end..?
Rotherlad on June 17, 2016 at 4:02 pm said:
The Councillors we have now we’re chosen by the people of the town they don’t care what went on in the past . They want a labour council no matter how bad they are . I have a very good relationship with Chris Read. I pay my. Council tax he wastes it . After that I don’t give a s**t. Because I can’t change it
So difficult to argue with that.
OWR on June 17, 2016 at 11:40 pm said:
So do we all just roll over or try to do something ?. Do we give up or keep trying, I know it is not an easy task but if we do not try we let down ALL the people who have tried before. TRUTH must out.
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Jewish temple project on hold
CLIFTON – A proposed Orthodox synagogue in the city’s Rosemawr section that’s drawn strong opposition from neighbors has hit a snag.
The city Planning Board did not hear the application Thursday night, removing it instead from the agenda after the city zoning officer wrote that the project should be judged by the Board of Adjustment, which would postpone the hearing to July 15.
The reason given was that the site plan does not meet the conditional use requirements for parking.
But Frank Carlet, the lawyer for Congregation Shomrei Torah of Passaic/Clifton, argued Thursday night that the Planning Board should review the site plan because it met all requirements, including one for parking and interior landscaping.
“We’ll go to court,” he said. “They’re dead wrong.”
The Orthodox Jewish congregation is seeking to build a synagogue and ritual bath for women.
David Gross of Clifton, the congregation’s president, said the point was to construct something within walking distance of members, who live in that part of the city.
Orthodox Judaism forbids work on the Sabbath. From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, observant Jews are not permitted to drive, and many families walk the stretch of Dwasline Road to attend Sabbath services in Passaic.
Initial plans for two buildings were changed to accommodate objections from residents. Sidewalks also would be constructed in the revised plans.
Gross said changes were meant to mollify residents, who have objected to the temple for a variety of reasons, including the size and scope of the project, and their view that the temple wouldn’t conform with the nature of the neighborhood.
But an attorney representing residents opposed to the project said it would not fit into the area.
“It’s totally inappropriate for the neighborhood,” Ira Weiner, who’s based in Montvale, said before the meeting. Weiner cited the size of the addition and parking as issues.
Fred Komarow, 50, of Virginia Avenue is one resident against the project.
“I’m pro-synagogue but I’m against one in this neighborhood, of this size,” he said.
The city planner had objected to the plan because its use would be too intensive for a residential neighborhood and because of lack of sidewalks on Dwasline Road.
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Passaic teen to undergo counseling for posting inappropriate pictures on MySpace
CLIFTON — A 14-year-old New Jersey girl accused of after posting inappropriate pictures of herself on MySpace.com has been ordered to undergo counseling but won’t face more serious charges.
The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said the girl must undergo at least six months of counseling and stay out of trouble. If she does, all charges against her will be dropped.
The Clifton teen was initially arrested and charged with possession of child indecency and distribution of child inappropriate pictures. If convicted on those counts, she could have been required to register as a sex offender. NJ.COM PCJN
Categories : Clifton, Passaic County
Breaking News 2 Robberies in the last 10 minutes by gunpoint
The passaic police department is on a search for a green Mercedes older model with scratches on the side door. Shots were fired at victim #1 but Thank G-D the gunman missed, nothing was taken from him. A 2nd victim was outside the Home Depot in Down town passaic. Victim # 2 was robbed but no shots were fired and a hand gun was displayed.
Update; 11:17Pm 6 Passaic County Units are in passaic searching for the gunman.
PCJN is first to report this story as well as all Breaking News
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Categories : 911, Clifton, Gary Schaer, Jewish Community, Jose Garcia, Maritz Colon-Montanez, New Jersey, Passaic, Passaic County, Police
Footprints in snow lead to suspect
Photo from: http://fotoblogg.wordpress.com/ (with permission)
CLIFTON — Police say they tracked a teenager they suspect of robbing another youth by following his footprints in the snow Tuesday night.
About 9:30 p.m., a 17-year-old Clifton teenager was walking alone on Van Houten Avenue when he was approached by someone wearing a mask and pointing a gun, said Detective Capt. Robert Rowan of the Clifton Police Department. The thief told him to turn away and stole the victim’s cellphone. He fled on foot toward Passaic on Van Houten Avenue.
When Clifton police responded, they found a distinct set of footprints heading toward Passaic, Rowan said. They tracked the prints a few blocks to a house on Albion Street.
Police spoke to the homeowners, who told officers that a nephew was in the basement with a group of friends. Officers searched the teens and found the pellet gun and cellphone in a 16-year-old’s sweatshirt pocket.
The Passaic boy was charged with robbery in the first degree, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of an imitation firearm in the commission of a crime. Police arrested another teenager in the group on an outstanding $1,500 warrant on disorderly conduct charges in Passaic, Rowan said.
On Wednesday, the 16-year-old was held in the Passaic County Juvenile Detention Center in Haledon.
Categories : Clifton
Campers jump at chance to help at the YM-YWHA Jewish Community Center
CLIFTON — Alex Braun, 4, usually jumps rope just for fun.
But Friday afternoon, Alex was among about 100 children ages 3 to 12 who participated in a “Jump-A-Thon” to raise money for Parents of Autistic Children, a non-profit autism advocacy group.
The children were all campers at four summer camps housed at the YM-YWHA Jewish Community Center on Scoles Avenue.
“We raised money to buy Band-Aids for the kids who have boo-boos,” Alex said.
During the event, which took place on a field near the community center, camp counselors counted how many jumps their charges could complete in 10 or 20 minutes, depending on their age. Parents and other supporters pledged to donate between 25 cents and $1 per jump.
Sarah DePeri, 10, of Clifton, said she jumped 110 times in 10 minutes. Why?
“Because we wanted to help raise money for the sick people,” she said.
Gary Weitzen, executive director of the Brick-based Parents of Autistic Children, attended the Jump-A-Thon and handed out hats and wristbands to the children.
Camp officials said they didn’t know how much money was raised Friday. Last year, the Jump-A-Thon raised $5,300.
“They all enjoyed it,” said Mike Vallila, director of YM-YWHA’s KinderCamp and K’ Ton Ton summer camps. “They had a good time.”
Alex Cabrera, 10, said he wanted to get involved because one of his close friends is autistic. His favorite part of the Jump-A-Thon?
“Falling on the floor all sweaty,” he said.
Reach Jennifer H. Cunningham at 973-569-7162 or cunningham@northjersey.com.
Categories : Clifton, Jewish Community, New Jersey, Passaic County
Passaic woman charged after leaving tot in SUV
A 33-year-old Passaic woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child yesterday after she accidentally left a toddler inside her SUV for about three hours in Clifton, police said.
The 2-year-old boy, also of Passaic, was not breathing and had al most no pulse when she finally no ticed him and got help, but the toddler was expected to fully recover, Clifton Detective Sgt. Robert Bracken said last night.
Meira Lebovitz spent part of the day carpooling six children, including several of her own. Later, after dropping off five of the children, she stopped at the Home Depot in Clifton at about 2 p.m., not realizing the 2-year-old was still asleep in the back, the detective said.
While in the store parking lot on Bloomfield Avenue, Lebovitz suddenly noticed she had forgotten to drop off one child, who had fallen asleep in the rear of her Chevrolet Suburban sport utility vehicle, Bracken said. Lebovitz, a friend of the boy’s family, rushed the child into the store, the detective said.
The child was dehydrated, had a temperature of 102.6 degrees Fahrenheit, was not breathing and did not have a noticeable pulse, Bracken said. The boy ap peared to have advanced heat stroke, he said.
Two customers in the store began cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child as they waited for emergency rescue crews, according to the detective. Nj.com
Tags: 911, Clifton, cpr, Passaic, Passaic County, Police
Categories : 911, Clifton, cpr, Gary Schaer, Mayor, New Jersey, Passaic, Passaic County, Police, United States
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US7901276B2 - Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals - Google Patents
Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals Download PDF
dibromo
James L. McNaughton
Eric W. Liimatta
Albemarle Corp
2004-12-23 Application filed by Albemarle Corp filed Critical Albemarle Corp
2004-12-23 Priority to US11/722,630 priority patent/US7901276B2/en
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A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
A23B—PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS
A23B4/00—General methods for preserving meat, sausages, fish or fish products
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Methods of processing four-legged slaughter animals for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s) are described. The methods comprise: I) contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin, such contacting occurring at least once when the animal is en route to being slaughtered but before it is killed by exsanguination; or II) contacting the carcass of the animal, after exsanguination, with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin or III) contacting at least one raw meat product and/or at least one processed meat product derived from the carcass. The contacting can be done one or more times in each of I), II), and III). Considerable advantages, which are described, are realized when using such methods.
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is the National Stage of International Patent Application PCT/US2004/43732, filed on Dec. 23, 2004, which application is a continuation-in-part of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 10/603,132, filed Jun. 24, 2003, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Reference is hereby made to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/029,329, filed Dec. 21, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,908,636, issued Jun. 21, 2005, and to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/028,631, filed Dec. 21, 2001 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,919,364, issued Jul. 19, 2005, (presently owned by one of the two joint owners of the present application), both of which Applications are continuations-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/893,581, filed Jun. 28, 2001, now abandoned, and to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/313,245, filed Dec. 6, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,986,910, issued Jan. 17, 2006, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/029,329, filed Dec. 21, 2001, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/893,581, filed Jun. 28, 2001, now abandoned. application Ser. No. 10/029,329 is owned by another party, and application Ser. No. 10/028,631 is presently owned by one of the two joint owners of the present application. Reference is also hereby made to PCT International Application No. PCT/US02/41479, filed Dec. 26, 2002, which is also presently owned by one of the two joint owners of the present application, in which the United States is one of the designated countries or regions, and to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/603,130, filed Jun. 24, 2003, currently pending (presently owned by that other party). Three of these applications relate, inter alia, to use of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins as treating agents for water used in the field of animal processing, while the fourth application relates, inter alia, to use of 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins other than 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins as treating agents for water used in the field of animal processing.
Contamination of meat and meat products with various pathogens such as species of Listeria, Escherichia, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and others, is a problem that has existed for many years. While various other microbiocidal materials have been investigated for efficacy, antimicrobial substances typically used in actual practice in animal processing in slaughterhouses have been certain acids or certain chlorine-based biocidal agents such as sodium hypochlorite and calcium hypochlorite.
Huge numbers of four-legged animals are slaughtered and processed for meat and meat products consumed either by humans or pets. Such animals include, for example, cattle, swine, horses, sheep, bison, rabbit, camel, kangaroo, alligator, crocodile, and other such existing or potential sources of meat products, such as buffalo, goats, and llamas. These and other four-legged meat-producing animals used for food and food products, e.g., deer, antelope, elk, squirrel, opossum, raccoon, and nutria, are sometimes referred to collectively herein as four-legged slaughter animals. Also the term “cattle” is used in a generic sense to include steers, heifers, cows, calves, and bulls; “swine” is used in a generic sense to include hogs, sows, gilts, barrows, boars, and pigs; and the term “sheep” is used in a generic sense to include lambs, rams and ewes.
Many four-legged slaughter animals, especially those from which beef or pork are obtained, are processed by high-output meat packing plants using state-of-the-art technology. Despite modern processing procedures, bacterial contamination of fresh meat occurs as an undesirable but unavoidable result of converting live four-legged slaughter animals into food. Although current Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMPs) and/or recent government regulations can reduce this contamination, the total elimination of bacteria from fresh raw meats has not been achieved. Since deep muscle tissue is considered sterile in healthy animals, essentially all of the contamination originates from the carcass surfaces. Soil, dust and manure on the hair, hides and hooves of the animals represent one significant source of contamination. In addition, in some cases internal organs rupture during the removal process, resulting in further contamination of the carcass.
The general nature of the procedures and equipment used in the processing of four-legged slaughter animals for food is well-known to those of ordinary skill in the art. Indeed the literature in the field is extensive. For example, Outlines by G. R. Acuff, PhD, Professor of Food Microbiology, Texas A&M University, of a Pathogen Reduction Dialogue held May 6, 2002, describes a typical cattle slaughter operation as involving the following steps: Cattle Receiving & Holding, Stunning, Exsanguination, Head and Shank Removal, Hide Removal, Evisceration, Carcass Splitting, Final Wash, and Chill. For hog slaughter, Dr. Acuff, id., identifies the following steps: Hog Receiving & Holding, Stunning, Exsanguination, Scalding, Dehairing, Singeing, Scraping & Polishing, Evisceration, and Wash & Chill. Other authors give descriptions which are along the same general lines but which may vary to some extent. For example, slaughtering and processing of cattle as described in a chapter entitled Overview of Meat Processing refers in part to and explains the following processing steps: Pre-handling of cattle, Stunning and bleeding, Dressing and hide removal, Evisceration, and Cutting and boning. In addition, the chapter further explains that carcass cutting and boning often take place after chilling but that recent developments have made it possible to undertake boning while the carcass is still warm, a method referred to as “hot boning”. The same chapter describes and explains the steps in slaughtering and processing of pigs as including: Pre-handling of pigs, Stunning and bleeding, Dehairing and finishing, and Evisceration and splitting, with a statement in this latter section that, finally, the carcasses are chilled rapidly overnight before the subsequent processes of cutting and boning. Thus anyone unfamiliar with the steps or operations involved in the processing of four-legged slaughter animals for food can obtain a vast amount of information by reference to the extensive literature on the subject.
A number of the conventionally-used steps in the processing of four-legged slaughter animals for food constitute opportunities for microbial and pathogen contamination. A need thus exists for one or more new methods for reducing or eliminating such contamination of animal carcasses or parts thereof during the processing of four-legged slaughter animals for food. Another need is for the provision of one or more methods which do not involve excessive expense in reducing or eliminating such contamination. A further need is for the provision of one or more methods which do not involve undue interference with existing slaughterhouse and/or meat packing operations.
Besides fulfilling the foregoing needs, it is vitally important that the method used to fulfill the foregoing needs not cause any noticeable degradation in the quality or properties of the meat from the carcasses, especially in the appearance and taste of the meat.
This invention is deemed to enable fulfillment of the foregoing needs, and to cause no noticeable degradation in the quality or properties of the meat from the carcasses resulting from the use or the methods of this invention.
This invention provides methods for decreasing microbial contamination of (I) a four-legged slaughter animal (for convenience hereinafter often referred to simply as “animal”) being processed for slaughter and/or (II) the carcass of such animal and/or (III) raw meat products and/or processed meat products derived from the carcasses of such animals.
Pursuant to one embodiment of this invention, in the processing of a four-legged slaughter animal, the exterior surfaces of a live four-legged slaughter animal are contacted prior to slaughter with an aqueous microbiocidal composition formed by mixing at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin with an aqueous medium to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition.
In another embodiment of this invention, at one or more suitable stages during the processing of the animal carcass, carcass surfaces of the slaughtered animal are contacted with an aqueous microbiocidal composition formed by mixing at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin with an aqueous medium to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition. Depending upon the type of animal carcass being processed, such contacting can be conducted before, during and/or after removing the hide from the carcass, or before or after removing the hair and/or bristles from the carcass.
In still another embodiment of this invention, at one or more suitable stages before, during and/or after the preparation of raw meat products and/or processed meat products such products are contacted with an aqueous microbiocidal composition formed by mixing at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin with an aqueous medium to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition. A few examples of raw meat products include steaks, chops, rib sections, meat roast cuts, hams, loins, animal organs, and ground meat. A few examples of processed meat products include ready-to-eat deli products, sausages, frankfurters, and sliced meats.
Substantial benefits can be achieved by the use of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition formed from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. Besides being more effective on an equal halogen basis than other halogen-containing biocidal agents such as hypochlorite or N,N′-bromochloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins form aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions that are less corrosive to the nozzles, fittings, cabinets, transporting apparatus, and other parts of the various washing, showering, spraying, and/or misting systems used. Moreover, because of their greater effectiveness as antimicrobials, 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins such as 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin can be introduced into an aqueous medium at suitably low dosage levels and yet form compositions having enhanced microbiocidal effectiveness, and with no appreciable adverse effect when applied to a live four-legged slaughter animal being processed for slaughter. In addition, the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins form aqueous compositions that are stable over a range of temperatures from as low as just above the freezing point of the composition to about 70° C. and which throughout this temperature range are highly effective against microorganisms and pathogens even when such compositions are formed using low dosage levels of the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s). Thus, the microbiocidally effective compositions of this invention can be effectively utilized under most, if not all, temperature conditions encountered in the processing of four-legged slaughter animals, at least for meat. Furthermore, experimental results have shown that, surprisingly, the practice of this invention will not cause noticeable degradation in the quality or properties of meat from the carcasses resulting from the use or methods of this invention. Thus the combination of extremely high antimicrobial effectiveness and lack of adverse effects upon meat enables the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition formed from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins to also be effectively used in sanitizing raw meat and/or meat products at any stage before, during, and/or after their preparation.
Various embodiments and features of this invention will be further apparent from the ensuing description, accompanying drawings, and appended claims.
International Application WO 03/001931 A1, published 9 Jan. 2003 describes, inter alia, use of aqueous solutions of certain halogen based microbiocides such as a solution formed in water from bromine, chlorine or bromine chloride, or any two or all three thereof and a water-soluble source of sulfamate anion; or at least one 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin in which one of the halogen atoms is a chlorine atom and the other is a chlorine or bromine atom and the alkyls independently have 1-4 carbon atoms; or at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin in which one alkyl is methyl, and the other alkyl has 1-4 carbon atoms to disinfect carcasses and/or parts of poultry resulting from the processing of poultry. It is shown that the color of chicken skin and the taste of the chicken meat are not adversely affected by the disinfection processing used. Processed carcasses of poultry have a coating of substantial water impervious skin covering the meat. In contrast, carcasses of four-legged slaughter animals after removal of the hide, have no such water impervious protective coating. As will be seen hereinafter, it has been shown that direct contact of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention with raw beef produced only a slight change in the color of the meat indicating that the microbiocides used pursuant to this invention in appropriate proportions do not adversely affect the quality of the meat. Accordingly, the treatment of four-legged slaughter animals such as cattle with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention especially before hide removal, and/or carcasses of such animals after hide removal, should also have little, if any, effect upon the quality of the meat.
It is also noteworthy that poultry processing especially in modern highly automated plants, involves at least in the chill tank, long periods of time, e.g., an hour or so, during which the microbiocide can exert its microbiocidal activity. In contrast, in high-output meat packing plants and slaughterhouses in which cattle or pigs are processed, sprays of relatively short duration are typically used. Therefore, the time available for a microbiocide to exert its microbiocidal activity is usually considerably shorter in such plants or slaughterhouses than in a plant processing poultry for edible meat products.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating typical stages during the processing of cattle at which, pursuant to this invention, cattle and/or cattle carcasses can be contacted with the aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions used pursuant to this invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating typical stages during the processing of swine at which, pursuant to this invention, swine and/or swine carcasses can be contacted with the aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions used pursuant to this invention.
FURTHER DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention are formed from components comprised at least of (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin. These components are mixed in microbiocidally-effective proportions, and such proportions can vary depending on various factors such as for example the animal species being processed, the time of the year the animals are being processed, the amount of microbial contamination on the animals being processed, the kind and extent of contamination to which the animals, carcasses, and/or parts thereof are exposed during the various operations conducted in a slaughter house or meat packing plant, and the type of object(s) being processed or prepared, whether live animal, animal carcass, raw meat product, and/or processed meat product. In general, however, the components water and at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin are proportioned such that an effective microbiocidal amount of microbiocide formed from water and the one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins is present in the resultant composition. In forming such compositions, typically up to about 400 parts by weight of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins are mixed with one million parts by weight of water (i.e., the amount of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) used in forming the composition relative to the amount of water used in forming the composition is up to about 400 ppm wt/wt). Preferred compositions are formed by mixing up to about 200 parts by weight, more preferably up to about 100 parts by weight, and still more preferably up to about 50 parts by weight, of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water used. Typically a minimum of at least about 0.5 part by weight of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water will be used in forming the aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention, especially those compositions used for sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products. Preferably at least about 10 parts by weight, more preferably at least about 20 parts by weight, and still more preferably at least about 50 parts by weight, of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water will be used in forming the aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention, especially those compositions used for sanitizing or decontaminating live four-legged slaughter animals and/or carcasses of such animals. From the foregoing it will be seen that ranges of concentrations that may be used pursuant to this invention include the following: about 0.5 to about 400 ppm, about 0.5 to about 200 ppm, about 0.5 to about 100 ppm, about 0.5 to about 50 ppm, about 10 to about 400 ppm, about 10 to about 200 ppm, about 10 to about 100 ppm, about 10 to about 50 ppm, about 20 to about 400 ppm, about 20 to about 200 ppm, about 20 to about 100 ppm, about 20 to about 50 ppm, about 50 to about 400 ppm, about 50 to about 200 ppm, and about 50 to about 100 ppm. Particularly preferred especially for sanitizing or decontaminating live four-legged slaughter animals and/or carcasses of such animals are aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention formed from an amount of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins in the range of about 20 to about 100 parts by weight per each million parts by weight of water. Preferred compositions used for sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are made from in the range of about 0.5 to about 400 parts by weight of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water. More preferred compositions for use in sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are made from in the range of about 50 to about 200 parts by weight of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water. Still more preferred compositions for use in sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are made from in the range of about 50 to about 100 parts by weight of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins per each million parts by weight of water.
Another way of expressing the amounts of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins that are dissolved in water to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is in terms of bromine residual. Thus in the practice of this invention the water is mixed with at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin microbiocidal agent in an amount to achieve a bromine residual of up to about 400 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine, preferably up to about 200 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine. More preferably, the amount of at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin microbiocidal agent mixed with water achieves a bromine residual of up to about 100 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine, and still more preferably up to about 50 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine. Typically a minimum bromine residual of at least about 0.5 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins will be used especially in those compositions that are used for sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products. Preferably a minimum bromine residual of at least about 10 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine, more preferably of at least about 20 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine, and still more preferably of at least about 50 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins will be used especially in those compositions that are used for sanitizing or decontaminating live four-legged slaughter animals and/or carcasses of such animals. Particularly preferred especially for sanitizing or decontaminating live four-legged slaughter animals and/or carcasses of such animals are aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention having a bromine residual in the range of about 20 to about 100 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. Preferred compositions used for sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are compositions having a bromine residual in the range of about 0.5 to about 400 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. More preferred compositions for use in sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are compositions having a bromine residual in the range of about 50 to about 200 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. Still more preferred compositions for use in sanitizing or decontaminating raw meat products and/or processed meat products are compositions having a bromine residual in the range of about 50 to about 100 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine from one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. The product solution is typically used at a temperature of about 5 to about 39° C., but can be used at higher temperatures, e.g., up to about 70° C., if desired.
There are two general types of four-legged slaughter animal processing wherein this invention is applicable. They are:
I) administration of aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions used pursuant to this invention to exterior surfaces of the live four-legged slaughter animals being processed for slaughter; and
II) administration of aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions used pursuant to this invention to the carcasses of freshly-slaughtered four-legged slaughter animals being processed for meat and/or meat products.
As noted above there is another category of processing wherein this invention is applicable, which is:
III) administration of aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions used pursuant to this invention to the raw meat products and/or processed meat products derived from the slaughtered animal at any suitable stage(s) before, during, and/or after any operation used in the preparation and/or processing of such raw meat products and/or processed meat products.
Type I Processing
As can be seen from the above, Type I processing pursuant to this invention relates to reducing microbiocidal contamination of meat and/or meat products to be produced from the processing of the animals, by contacting exterior surfaces of the animal during one or more of the initial stages of the processing while the animal has not yet been killed. These stages include any pre-handling steps taken with the animals before they are killed (i.e., while they are still alive) such as receiving & holding the animal, moving the animal to the stunning area, stunning the animal, and handling or moving the stunned animal before exsanguination. Thus pursuant to an embodiment of this invention exterior surfaces of the animal are contacted with one or more aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention during at least one such stage or step while the animal is still alive.
Preferably, prior to application of one or more microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention to the live animal, areas such as animal hind quarters, legs and hoofs and other areas where fecal matter exists on the animals, are initially cleansed of fecal matter by hosing or use of sprays of at least water or aqueous detergent solutions.
Whether or not such preferred cleansing is conducted, pursuant to this invention the live animal is exposed to spraying, showering, misting, partial bathing, or any other suitable method of applying at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to exterior surfaces of the animal while it is still alive. Preferably such at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is applied to substantially the entire animal before the animal enters the area where exsanguination (i.e., bleeding and thus killing) is to occur. This can be accomplished, for example, by providing at least one shower zone and/or spray zone at a location where the animals are caused to move from holding areas toward the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant. As the animals pass through such zone or zones, they are showered and/or sprayed with one or more aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention so that the exterior of the animal becomes wetted by such composition. Such sprays can be fixed or articulated sprays. Also, the shower and/or sprays can be of different intensities so as ensure thorough wetting of the hide and flushing of debris from the animal. Preferably, the animal is then caused to walk through a bath of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention so that at least the lower leg area and hoofs of the animal are washed by such composition. Such bath can include subsurface forced spray jets to improve washing efficiency. It is preferred to locate such bath outside of the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant, and/or at least in a perimeter area of the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant as such positioning will help ensure that the amount of microbiocidal contamination brought into the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant is effectively minimized by practice of this invention. This in turn greatly reduces the likelihood of cross contamination during subsequent processing operations conducted in the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant.
Another Type I operation pursuant to this invention is application of mists of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the animal in lieu of, or in addition to, sprays as the animal moves toward the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant. Also the sequence of passage through zones can be varied, e.g., causing the animal(s) to walk through a bath of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition can occur before or at the same time one or more showers and/or sprays are applied to the animal. Another option is to provide a misting zone in which at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is applied to the animal after one or more zones where showering, spraying and/or bathing (in whatever sequence is desired) of the animal with at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention take(s) place. In short, any sequence of applying at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the live animal can be used. And such application preferably takes place as the animal is moved toward the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant and/or is in a perimeter area of the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant.
Still another embodiment of the invention is a novel way of applying one or more showers and/or sprays to the live animal. This is accomplished by utilizing a portable shower and/or spray stall which may also contain a misting and/or partial bathing zone. The animal or a procession of animals is caused to pass into and through such stall in which the exterior(s) of such animal(s) are contacted (e.g., showered, sprayed, etc.) with at least one aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention before proceeding into, or further into, the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant. Such portable shower or spray stall can be sized and adapted to be transported from one place to another by means of an 18-wheeler truck-trailer or railroad car, or can itself be constructed as a unitary suitably-wheeled trailer adapted to be transported from place to place by means of a truck tractor or farm tractor. Such trailer can be equipped with its own supply of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention, or the trailer can draw from a supply of such composition located on the site where usage is to occur. Similarly, the power to drive the pumps which feed the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the shower(s), sprays, and/or misting devices can be generated by an on board power supply or generator, or the power can be provided by the site where usage is to occur. Preferably, the waste water from use of such portable shower and/or spray stall is collected by the stall itself. After solids are removed from the recovered waste water and, if necessary, additional microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is mixed with such solids-free waste water, the resultant waste water can be reused in the portable shower and/or spray stall. This embodiment is especially useful in the case of small abattoirs where, periodically, only one or a relatively small number of animals are slaughtered, as a portable shower and/or spray stall can be delivered from place to place for use at different small abattoirs when the animal slaughter operation is to take place therein.
Where more than one live animal bathing zone, showering zone, spray zone, and/or misting zone is used pursuant to this invention, the microbiocidally-effective concentrations of the respective aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention used in such zones can be the same or at least two such compositions can differ in concentration. The actual concentration ranges are typically in the ranges described above but can be increased to suit the needs of the occasion, such as in cases where animals have been exposed to extraordinary amounts of fecal matter due to unusual circumstances such as unanticipated microbiocidal contamination of a supply of animal feed or drinking water, sickness of some animals within a herd, transportation delays, or the like.
The temperature(s) of the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition(s) of this invention used in the above Type I processing pursuant to this invention can differ over a suitable range. Thus the composition(s) used can be applied after being heated to a suitable warm temperature or conversely cooled to a suitable cooling temperature to assist in calming the animals as they approach the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant, and thereby improve the movement of a procession of animals from the holding area to the slaughter house or meat packing plant and/or as they approach the stunning area. Also, by suitably adjusting the temperature of the composition(s) it is possible to prevent or at least reduce heat-related sickness (e.g., heat stroke) of stressed closely-packed animals.
Among additional advantages of the above Type I processing is that the microbiocidal effectiveness of the aqueous microbiocidal compositions formed by mixing one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins with an aqueous medium is exceptionally high even when using low dosage levels of such compound(s). This in turn avoids or at least minimizes the likelihood of adverse behavioral reaction of the animal if and when, for example, the spray is applied to the eyes or otherwise comes into contact with sensitive body parts of the animal. Avoidance or minimization of such adverse behavioral reaction of the animal is beneficial in that the movement of a procession of animals to the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant and/or to the stunning area is not disrupted.
In small abattoir operations where, periodically, only one or a relatively few animals are slaughtered, the above-described operations can be conducted in various ways. For example, the animal(s) can be sprayed by use of one or more hand held pressurized spraying devices each attached by a hose to a suitable supply of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. Alternatively, the composition can be applied by use, for example, of mops, hand-held rags, sponges, or scrubbing brushes, and/or simply by splashing the live animal with the composition of this invention from a pail or bucket. In operations such as these, care should be taken to ensure that effective coverage of the exterior animal surfaces by the applied aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is achieved. Also, as in any operation where portions of the operator(s) may be exposed over and over again to a chemical solution, it is desirable for the operator(s) to wear at least water-impermeable gloves and goggles, and preferably water-impermeable outer garments as well. As noted above, it is preferable to wash the animal with water before applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the animal.
Other places in the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant where an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention can be applied with desirable results to the animal while it is still alive are in the area where the animal is to be stunned and/or where the stunned animal is handled after stunning but before exsanguination is initiated. Such handling may include, for example, transporting and/or attaching the stunned animal to a conveyor system. At such locations in the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant, application of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to exterior surfaces of the stunned animal such as by means of a shower system, spray system, misting system or bath can be advantageous. Such an operation can be used in addition to or in place of the application of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to exterior surfaces of the animal as it moves from the holding area toward the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant and/or is in a perimeter area of the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant, as described above. In all cases of Type I processing, it is preferred to ensure that the live animal has been thoroughly washed with water or aqueous detergent solution at least once before applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the animal before it is killed.
It is also possible pursuant to this invention to wash the live animal with water or aqueous detergent solution and thereafter apply to the animal while still alive, an aqueous mixture in which one or more surfactants or detergents are included in an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention.
Type II Processing
As used anywhere herein including the claims, the term “carcass” denotes the body of the slaughtered four-legged slaughter animal at any stage of the processing operations used to convert the dead animal into meat. Thus the term “carcass” includes (i) the whole slaughtered animal body, (ii) the trunk of the body remaining after removal of the head and/or legs from the trunk of the animal, (iii) the severed head and the severed legs themselves, and (iv) the parts the trunk of the body after it has been split in two.
As used anywhere herein, including the claims, the term “during” denotes a period of time either (i) throughout the entire time a given operation is being conducted or (ii) at some portion or portions of the time a given operation is being conducted but not all of the time that such given operation is conducted. For example the phrase “during hide removal” means that some specified thing is done (i) at least throughout the entire time a hide removal operation is being carried out on a given carcass, or alternatively, (ii) for one or more time periods—but not throughout the entire time—a hide removal operation is being carried out on a given carcass. Note also that such hide removal operation (or other specified operation) need not be continuous in the sense, for example, that hide must be separated from the animal continuously from start to finish of the operation on a given carcass. Such removal can be continuous or non-continuous with pauses occurring during the overall operation (e.g., hide removal), and thus the specified thing is done either (i) at least throughout the entire time a given operation (e.g., hide removal) is being carried out on a given carcass including any pauses that occur in such operation, or alternatively, (ii) for one or more time periods—but not throughout the entire time—a given operation (e.g., hide removal) is being carried out on a given carcass including any pauses that occur in such operation.
As used anywhere herein, including the claims, the term “product solution” denotes the aqueous solution that results from mixing together at least water and one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins. According to present theoretical concepts, 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins, to at least some extent, lose their original chemical structure when dissolved in an aqueous medium and the resultant composition, whatever it may be, is denoted herein as a “product solution” as it is formed from such specified components.
As used anywhere herein including the claims, the term “directly precedes” means that the specified thing (e.g., contacting a carcass with an aqueous microbiocidal composition) is done before the ensuing operation (e.g., hide or skin removal) has begun without any intervening operation being conducted except for transporting the carcass from the place where the specified thing was conducted to the place where the ensuing operation is to be done.
Pursuant to an embodiment of this invention, the external surfaces of a non-eviscerated carcass of at least one four-legged slaughter animal is contacted at least once with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. This contacting can be effected by immersing the carcass in an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention, by showering, spraying or misting the carcass with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention, or by using any other method of applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention so that it comes into direct contact with the carcass before, during and/or after hide removal or after hair and/or bristle removal, but in each case prior to evisceration. Thus in the case of animal processing where the hide is removed followed by evisceration with or without an intermediate water wash, the contacting in this embodiment of the invention should take place before, during and/or after the hide removal stage but before the evisceration operation commences. In the case of animal processing where the hide is not removed before evisceration (e.g., where the carcass is subjected to singeing or shearing to remove hair and/or bristles, followed by evisceration, with or without an intermediate water wash), the contacting in this embodiment of the invention usually should take place after the singeing or shearing but before the evisceration operation commences. It is also possible to cause the contacting to occur during hair and/or bristle removal when the removal is conducted by a method other than singeing. In either such case (i.e., where hide is removed or where hide is not removed before evisceration), in a moving line of suspended spaced-apart carcasses, the contacting should be conducted such that the exposed surfaces of each carcass are wetted and remain wetted by the aqueous microbiocidal solution used pursuant to this invention for a period of at least 5 seconds, and preferably for a period of at least 30 seconds. Also in either such case the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention can be preheated so that as applied to the carcass before evisceration the solution, spray or mist is at a temperature above room temperature but not higher than about 70° C., and preferably not higher than about 39° C. Since such heating does not materially diminish the biocidal activity of the aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention, the ability to so heat such compositions ensures that customary processing line speeds in automated slaughterhouses will not be unduly compromised.
When applying an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to an animal carcass during hide removal it is convenient to employ either spraying or misting as the method of application. In this way the customary hide removal operation need not be materially altered in order to accommodate the application of the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the carcass during hide removal.
In one preferred embodiment of the invention a series of spaced-apart suspended non-eviscerated animal carcasses is passed into a spray zone such as one or more cabinets or shower stall areas fitted with nozzles and/or spray heads that direct at least one spray or shower, preferably a plurality of sprays, of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention onto the surfaces of at least one carcass at a time as it passes through the spray zone. The coverage of the sprays should ensure that the surfaces of the suspended carcass are all exposed to, and come into contact with, the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. In this embodiment the non-eviscerated carcasses entering the spray zone will either have been skinned (i.e., the hide has been removed) or the hide or skin will remain intact but hair and/or bristles will have been removed from the carcass typically by singeing, shearing or other suitable hair and/or bristle removal technique, the choice between skinning and hair and/or bristle removal depending on the kind of animals being processed. For example, with cattle the hide will typically be removed prior to entry of the carcass into the spray zone for antimicrobial treatment of this invention with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention, whereas with swine, the carcass will typically be singed to burn off surface hair and/or bristles prior to entry of the carcass into the spray zone for such treatment. After the carcass exits the spray zone, typically the carcass will be washed with rinse water by any suitable technique such as dipping, spraying, submerging, etc., and then eviscerated, or will be subjected to evisceration as the next step in the processing without an intervening water wash.
Still another preferred embodiment of the invention involves applying an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the animal carcass during evisceration. In order to minimize the possibility of interfering with the normal or conventional evisceration procedure, it is preferable to apply the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the carcass as a mist or as a low-pressure fine spray during most if not all of the time the carcass is being eviscerated. Such misting or fine spraying ensures that the carcass and the entrails are both thoroughly wetted by the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention without at the same time impairing the effectiveness of the operation. A particular advantage of this preferred embodiment is that microbial or bacterial contamination in the event of rupture of entrails is promptly combated by the presence and continuous application of the highly effective aqueous microbiocidal composition of this invention. As a consequence, contamination of ensuing carcasses by such microbial or bacterial contamination can be avoided without shutting the line down. As an adjunct to this preferred embodiment, the entrails after removal can be transported or conveyed to a washing zone where the entrails are submerged in a bath of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention for a period sufficient to ensure effective microbial and bacterial control.
A further embodiment of this invention is to conduct an inside-outside carcass washing of the eviscerated carcass prior to and/or during and/or after the carcass splitting operation. In conducting such inside-outside carcass washing pursuant to this invention, it is preferred to use a spray delivery system such as a probe or bayonet which pursuant to this invention applies a pressurized spray of the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the interior cavity of the carcass and another spray delivery system such as a series of nozzles, which system applies the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the exterior of the carcass. In particularly preferred embodiments of this invention the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention applied by the spray delivery system to the interior cavity of the carcass has a higher concentration of microbiocide formed from 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) than the concentration of the microbiocide formed from the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) in the water applied by the spray delivery system to the exterior the carcass. The 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) used for forming the microbiocidal content in the water used for washing the interior cavity of the carcass and the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) used for forming the microbiocidal content of the water used for washing the exterior of the carcass can be, and usually will be, of the same chemical composition. However, 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) of different chemical composition can be used for forming these respective aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention for such inside-outside washing.
In another preferred embodiment of the invention a plurality of suspended eviscerated animal carcasses as they are being conveyed or otherwise transported into a cooling zone and/or after they have been received in a cooling zone are subjected while still warm (i.e., the carcasses have not lost all of the original body heat of the animal while alive) to at least one spray, shower, or mist of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention so that such composition comes into contact with both the inside and the outside of the carcass. When the suspended carcass is being transported toward the cooling zone, the spraying, showering, or misting of the traveling carcass can be effected within one or more suitable spray or misting cabinets or within one or more shower stalls or shower zones. Optionally, rinse water may be applied after application of the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. When the carcass is within the cooling zone, typically in a stationary fixed or rotatable position, such spraying, showering, or misting can be conducted continuously for a single suitable period of time, but preferably such sprays, showers, or mists can be periodically applied to the carcass. This preferred embodiment is particularly advantageous for use in the processing of cattle where carcasses are typically aged in a cooling zone for periods in the range of about 6 to about 16 hours. The application of such sprays, showers, or mists, especially if conducted periodically during the aging period, not only effectively prevents microbial development and growth, but keeps the meat from losing tenderness. In sharp contrast, application of a spray, shower, or mist of plain water during aging in a cooling zone in order to keep the meat from drying out and becoming tough, tends to result in an explosive growth of bacterial population.
Another feature of this invention is that the suspended eviscerated animal carcasses as they are being conveyed or otherwise transported into a cooling zone and/or after they have been received in a cooling zone can be sprayed, showered, or misted with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention that is itself at a low temperature of about 15° C. or below and preferably at about 10° C. or below, and more preferably at a temperature at about 7° C. or below, but in all cases above the freezing temperature of the microbiocidal solution. It can be seen therefore that in this operation the cold spray, shower, or mist used serves several functions. First of all, the cold spray, shower, or mist applied to these carcasses provides excellent microbial and/or bacterial control even though used at such low temperatures. Secondly the cold spray, shower, or mist when applied to the carcasses as they are being conveyed or otherwise transported into a cooling zone and/or shortly after they have been received in a cooling zone assists in chilling the carcasses. Thirdly, the cold spray, shower, or mist when applied to the carcasses that have already been chilled sufficiently so as to be at the desired low temperature, will not materially increase the temperature of the chilled carcasses. In all cases the coverage of the sprays, showers, or mists should ensure that the surfaces of the suspended carcass are exposed to the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention.
Pursuant to another preferred embodiment of this invention, effective microbiocidal control in the processing of four-legged slaughter animals, especially cattle or swine, is brought about by use of an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention in at least two of three important animal processing stages or stations, whereby without materially affecting productivity, more effective microbiocidal control is achieved as compared to use of the hypochlorite or other chlorine-derived microbiocides.
More particularly, pursuant to this preferred embodiment of this invention water treated with at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is brought into contact with the carcass of a four-legged slaughter animal during at least two of the following three operations: (1) before, during and/or after hide removal or before and/or after hair and/or bristle removal, and in some cases during hair and/or bristle removal by methods other than singeing, (2) during evisceration, and (3) immediately prior to and/or during chilling. Methods for carrying out each of these three operations have been described hereinabove.
In a particularly preferred embodiment, an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is utilized in at least two, preferably at least three, more preferably at least four, and most preferably in at least five of the following operations for a state-of-the-art slaughter house in the processing of cattle: (1) hide removal, (2) disinfection between hide removal and prior to evisceration, (3) evisceration, (4) carcass splitting, (5) final wash, and (6) chill. Operations other than (2) are typically carried out in state-of-the-art slaughterhouses in the processing of cattle, but of course without using an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention in any operation. Operation (2) is an operation believed to be unique to this invention. Methods for carrying out operations (1), (2), (3), (4), and (6) in accordance with this invention have been described hereinabove. In operation (5), i.e., the final wash operation, any conventional way of carrying out such an operation can be used pursuant to this invention simply by including in some or all of the wash water an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention.
In another particularly preferred embodiment, an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is utilized in at least two, preferably at least three, and most preferably in all four of the following operations: utilized in a state-of-the-art slaughter house in the processing of swine: (1) disinfection between hide removal and prior to evisceration, (2) evisceration, (3) splitting, and (4) chill. Operations other than (1) are typically carried out in state-of-the-art slaughterhouses in the processing of cattle, but of course without using an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention in any operation. Operation (1) is an operation believed to be unique to this invention. Methods for carrying out operations (1), (2), (3), and (4) in accordance with this invention have been described hereinabove.
In conducting spraying operations pursuant to this invention in one or more of the various stages or locations in an animal carcass processing line, the nozzles used for applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the animal carcass can be fixed or articulating nozzles. In addition, during spraying, showering or misting steps used in the practice of this invention, rotary brushes or other ways of increasing contact between the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention and the carcass, such as use of ultrasonic energy, can be used. Thereafter the carcass can be rinsed with clear water, if deemed necessary or desirable. Such rinsing water can be fresh or recirculated water, or a combination of both. The recirculated water should be effectively purged of residual impurities from prior usage.
It is possible pursuant to a further embodiment of this invention to minimize the amount of waste water generated in carrying out various embodiments of this invention. For example, in a system wherein a plurality of individual suspended carcasses are transported through the processing line having various processing stations, at least one given station is provided with at least one suitably-positioned motion sensor or detector operatively associated with apparatus to start and stop the flow of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to that station of the line. When the sensor detects that a carcass is entering a specified zone in that station where the spray, shower, or mist is to be applied to the carcass, the sensor sends a signal to the start-stop apparatus which turns on the flow of aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. This flow can be maintained and then shut off by the system in various ways. One way is for the flow to last for a specified time period coordinated with the travel rate of carcasses through the line at that station so that after a sufficient time period during which a predetermined amount of spray, shower, or mist has been applied to the carcass, the flow of spray, shower, or mist is automatically stopped.
Another way is to automatically cut off the flow after a predetermined the volume of liquid flow has been sent to the spray, shower, or misting devices. Still another way is for another motion sensor or detector to sense when the carcass has advanced to a second position in that station and thereupon to signal the start-stop apparatus to turn off the flow. The motion sensors or detectors can be positioned to sense the presence of the carcass itself. Alternatively they can be positioned to sense the presence of a suitable portion of the carcass transporting system such as the traveling carrier for the carcass suspension mechanism, or the carcass suspension mechanism or a portion thereof such as the wire, cable, chain, shackle, or hook that is holding the suspended carcass.
Suitable motion sensing or detection devices known in the art can be adapted for use in the above waste water minimization embodiment of this invention. The so-called electric eye that senses the presence of a person entering an elevator and causes the elevator doors to remain open or to retract the doors serves as a commonly encountered sensing device. Various other devices are known. See for example U.S. Pat. No. 6,623,348.
In the practice of this invention in Type II operations, the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention can be applied before and/or during making incisions in the carcass for the purpose of inspection as well as for eviseration.
Type III Processing
This type of processing pursuant to this invention comprises contacting raw meat products and/or processed meat products derived from the slaughtered animal(s), with an aqueous microbiocidal composition formed by mixing at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin with an aqueous medium to form an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition. This contacting should occur at one or more suitable stages before, during and/or after the formation or preparation of such raw meat and/or meat products. The methods of applying an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the raw meat and/or meat products are much the same as described above. Thus spraying, dipping, bathing, showering or like operations can be used. Also, in small slaughter houses or meat packing plants, hand-held sponges or washing cloths may be used for applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. The raw meat products and/or processed meat products or precursors thereof, can be conveyed by automated conveying equipment such as conveyor belts on which such products or precursors are carried and transported, or moving tracks, belts, or cables by which such products or precursors are suspended, carried, and transported.
The raw meat that can be contacted with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention can be in any form typically derived from the animal carcass. Non-limiting examples of such raw meat products include (a) meat cuts as for example steaks, chops, rib sections, meat roast cuts, hams, loins, bacon, and other similar cuts, (b) animal organs such as liver, kidney, tripe, chitlins, tongue, and other organs or organ parts, and (c) ground raw meat such as ground beef, ground pork, raw meat sausages, and the like. Non-limiting examples of processed meat products that can be contacted with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention include ready-to-eat deli products, sausages, frankfurters, sliced meats, jerky, and/or other processed meat products.
Preferred raw meat products to which an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is applied include red meat, red meat parts, white meat, and white meat parts. Most preferred is the application an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to raw red meat (beef) from cattle or to raw white meat (pork) from swine.
In Type III processing, the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention used will be a composition formed by mixing water and at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin microbiocidal agent in an amount in the range of about 0.5 to about 400 ppm (wt/wt). The particular concentration of the one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins used in forming such compositions, will vary depending upon the particular raw meat product and/or processed meat product being produced. In many cases such as in the treatment of raw meat cuts and ground or sliced meat products, the concentration of the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin microbiocidal agent used in forming the composition used, will be at the lower end of this range for example in the range of about 0.5 to about 100 ppm (wt/wt) and in some case as low as in the range of about 0.5 to about 50 ppm (wt/wt). In other words, in many cases the bromine residual in the compositions formed from water and one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins will be in the range of about 0.5 to about 100 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine, and in some cases will be as low as in the range of about 0.5 to about 50 ppm (wt/wt) as free bromine.
Reference to the Drawings
The block diagrams of FIGS. 1 and 2 serve to illustrate, but not limit, the invention as applied respectively to cattle and swine. As seen from the cattle processing stages depicted in FIG. 1, and the swine processing stages depicted in FIG. 2, there are a series of stages which typically can be used in a large state of the art slaughter house or meat packing plant. It is to be understood and appreciated that some of the stages depicted can be combined with one or more other stages and that some of the stages may be eliminated. Moreover, some of the stages depicted can be carried out in a different sequence from that depicted. Nevertheless, FIGS. 1 and 2 are deemed to illustrate at least some of the ways by which the present invention can be practiced with respect to live animals and their carcasses after slaughter. To a limited extent the processing of raw meat products pursuant to this invention can also be appreciated from these drawings.
Turning now to FIG. 1, the numerals represent typical stages at which pursuant to this invention, the live animal, carcass, or parts thereof can be contacted with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. Thus, such contacting can be carried out as at 10 during the receipt and holding of cattle, and/or during travel of the live animal to stunning as at 12, and/or during stunning as at 14, and/or during transport of the stunned live animal to exsanguination as at 16. Such contacting can also be carried out at any one or more of the following stages: before head and shank removal as at 18, and/or during head and shank removal as at 20, and/or before hide removal as at 22, and/or during hide removal as at 24, and/or before evisceration as at 26, and/or during evisceration as at 28. At this point of the processing, one of two commonly-used approaches can be utilized. In one approach, the contacting pursuant to this invention can occur at one or more of the following stages: before trimming and carcass washing as at 30A, and/or during trimming and carcass washing as at 32, and/or before cutting and boning as at 34, and/or during cutting and boning as at 36, and/or before chilling and cold storage as at 38, and/or during chilling and cold storage as at 40. In the second approach, the contacting pursuant to this invention can occur at one or more of the following stages: before chilling as at 30B, and/or during chilling as at 42, and/or before cutting and boning as at 44, and/or during cutting and boning as at 46, and/or before cold storage as at 48, and/or during cold storage as at 50. It will be noted that pursuant to this invention the contacting as depicted in FIG. 1 can occur at any one or more of the depicted stages except for during exsanguination. This represents a preference inasmuch as the contacting during exsanguination would tend to dilute the blood released from the animal. However, pursuant to this invention, it is possible to carry out the contacting during exsanguination.
FIG. 2 illustrates in a manner similar to FIG. 1 stages during the processing of swine at which the live animal, carcass, or parts thereof can be contacted with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention. Thus, such contacting can be carried out as at 11 during the receipt and holding of swine, and/or during travel of the live animal to stunning as at 13, and/or during stunning as at 15, and/or during transport of the stunned live animal to exsanguination as at 17. Such contacting can also be carried out at any one or more of the following stages: before scalding as at 19, and/or during scalding as at 21, and/or before dehairing as at 23, and/or during dehairing as at 25, and/or before singeing as at 27, and/or before scraping and polishing as at 29, and/or during scraping and polishing as at 31, and/or before evisceration as at 33, and/or during evisceration as at 35, and/or before carcass splitting as at 37, and/or during carcass splitting as at 39, and/or before carcass chilling as at 41, and/or during carcass chilling as at 43, and/or before cutting and boning as at 45, and/or during cutting and boning as at 47, and/or before cold storage as at 49, and/or during cold storage as at 51. It will be seen that pursuant to this invention the contacting as depicted in FIG. 2 can occur at any one or more of the depicted stages except for during exsanguination and during singeing. The avoidance of contacting during exsanguination represents a preference inasmuch as the contacting during exsanguination would tend to dilute the blood released from the animal. However, pursuant to this invention, it is possible to carry out the contacting during exsanguination. In addition, the avoidance of contacting during singeing represents another preference as the application of an aqueous solution to the carcass during singeing would not be conducive to the ordinary conditions used for conducting a singeing operation. However, if singeing conditions can be devised so that the presence of an aqueous solution would not unduly interfere with such a singeing operation, the contacting pursuant to this invention can, under such circumstances, be utilized.
As seen from the above, one or more aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention are used to effectively control microbial and bacterial contamination of live four-legged slaughter animals, four-legged slaughter animal carcasses, and/or raw meat products and/or processed meat products derived from four-legged slaughter animal carcasses in one or more specified locations in an animal slaughter house or meat packing plant. Such aqueous microbiocidally-effective compositions of this invention are formed by dissolving one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins in water. Preferred are 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins in which one of the alkyl groups is a methyl group and the other alkyl group contains in the range of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms. Thus these preferred biocides comprise 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-ethyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-n-propyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-isopropyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-n-butyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-isobutyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-sec-butyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-tert-butyl-5-methylhydantoin, and mixtures of any two or more of them. Of these biocidal agents, 1,3-dibromo-5-isobutyl-5-methylhydantoin, 1,3-dibromo-5-n-propyl-5-methylhydantoin, and 1,3-dibromo-5-ethyl-5-methylhydantoin are, respectively, preferred, more preferred, and even more preferred members of this group from the cost effectiveness standpoint. Of the mixtures of the foregoing biocides that can be used pursuant to this invention, it is preferred to use 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin as one of the components, with a mixture of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin and 1,3-dibromo-5-ethyl-5-methylhydantoin being particularly preferred. The most preferred member of this group of microbiocides is 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin. This compound is available in the marketplace under the trade designations XtraBrom® 111 microbiocide and XtraBrom® 111T microbiocide (Albemarle Corporation). When a mixture of two or more of the foregoing 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin biocides is used pursuant to this invention, the individual biocides of the mixture can be in any proportions relative to each other. Minor proportions of mono-N-bromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) can be present along with the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) but such compositions are not preferred.
Methods for producing 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins are known and reported in the literature. An especially preferred method is described in WO 01/53270 published 26 Jul. 2001.
The 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) used pursuant to this invention can be blended directly in the water to be used in the various stages or locations referred to herein. For this purpose suitable dispensing devices can be employed that meter into water flowing through the device suitable amounts of the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) microbiocides. Alternatively, predetermined quantities of micronized 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) may be added to water in amounts in excess of the final use level, and the resultant concentrate can be further diluted, preferably with agitation, with one or more different amounts of water to form one or more treated water compositions to be used in the respective stages of the process.
Other additives can be used in conjunction with the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) provided the other additive or additives are non-toxic, are compatible with aqueous microbiocidal solutions formed by dissolving the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) in water to form the treated water used pursuant to this invention, and do not otherwise detract from the microbiocidal effectiveness of the treated water in any appreciable manner. By “in conjunction with” is meant that in most cases the other additive component(s) are fed separately into the water being used; e.g., the other additives, if susceptible to oxidation by common oxidants, are not mixed directly with the undissolved 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s). In general, additives which are compatible with aqueous hypohalite bleach solutions such as certain radical scavengers, chelating agents, pH buffering agents, surfactants, detergents, and polymers described in detail, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,506,718 or other published literature on the subject may be used, if desired. It is also possible to use one or more wetting agents, hydrotropes, thickeners, defoaming agents, and similar functional additives that meet the above criteria. If used, the amount of each suitable selected additive to be used in conjunction with the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin(s) should be sufficient to provide the property for which it is employed. Recommendations from manufacturers of such other additives are useful as guidelines in this respect.
Preferably the one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin or the more than one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin is the sole originating source of microbiocidal activity in the aqueous medium treated therewith. However this invention includes use in the above operations of aqueous media treated with (A) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin and (B) at least one other microbiocidal agent which produce a suitably stable compatible aqueous microbiocidal composition. In other words, the solution products of (A) and (B) should be compatible with each other in the aqueous medium when present in the amounts and proportions that provide an aqueous microbiocidal composition.
The contacting or washing operations when used pursuant to this invention ensure that pathogens such as species of Listeria, Escherichia, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and others, are effectively controlled, if not essentially eliminated from the meat product. Moreover, in large scale four-legged slaughter animal processing lines where high throughput is essential, the microbiocide of this invention used in these stages or stations is so effective that it is not necessary to slow down the line to give the microbiocide time to act. Thus the processing lines can be operated at conventional speeds, if not at increased speeds. Further, the waters used in the respective stages or stations can each be treated with suitable microbiocidal quantities of a given 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin microbiocidal agent, and thus it is possible to use only one such agent throughout the plant, thus simplifying the purchasing, storage and inventory aspects of the plant operation. Indeed it is possible to use water containing the same microbiocidal concentration (i.e., the same bromine residual resulting from dissolving in water a given amount one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins) in the water going to each of multiple stages or locations in the embodiments of this invention where an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention is used at more than one stage or location in a processing line.
In the practice of various embodiments of this invention, aqueous washing solutions can be used before and, especially after, applying the aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention to the live animal, animal carcass, the raw meat product, and/or the processed meat product. Such aqueous washing solutions can contain any of a variety of useful additional components such as for example sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfate, lactic acid, sodium metasilicate, acidified sodium chlorite, polypeptide antibiotic such as nisin, or other known components serving similar functions.
The animal carcass, raw meat product, and/or the processed meat product after contacting with an aqueous microbiocidally-effective composition of this invention and optionally a subsequent washing solution, can be subjected to additional sanitizing operations. Thus, in accordance with another embodiment of this invention, there is provided a method of processing the carcass of a four-legged slaughter animal and/or raw meat product derived from said carcass, and/or processed meat product derived from said carcass, which method comprises (a) contacting said carcass, raw meat product derived from said carcass, and/or processed meat product derived from said carcass at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin, and (b) subjecting the resultant carcass, raw meat product derived from said carcass, and/or processed meat product derived from said carcass to at least one decontamination process selected from ionizing radiation, UV radiation, microwaves, pulsed light, electric fields, hydrostatic pressure, sonication, infra-red radiation, ozonization, and ozone washing. Steps (a) and (b) can be carried out in any sequence and/or concurrently.
Suitable methods for determining “bromine residual” are known and reported in the literature. See for example, Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 18th Edition, 1992, from American Public Health Association, 1015 Fifteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 (ISBN 0-87553-207-1), pages 4-36 and 4-37; Hach Water Analysis Handbook, Third Edition, 1997, by Hach Company, Loveland Col., especially pages 1206 and 1207; and Handbook of Industrial Water Conditioning, 7th edition, Betz Laboratories, Inc., Trevose, Pa. 19047 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-27257), 1976, pages 24-29. While these references typically refer to “chlorine residual”, the same techniques are used for determining “bromine residual”, by taking into account the higher atomic weight of bromine as compared to chlorine.
The term “bromine residual” refers to the amount of bromine species present in the treated water available for disinfection. Residuals can be determined as either “free” or “total” depending upon the analytical test method employed. In the present case, the numerical values for bromine residual have been given herein on a free bromine basis. Such values can be monitored by use of the analytical procedure for “free chlorine” given below. However if desired, the bromine residual could be monitored on a “total bromine” basis by using the analytical procedure for “total chlorine” given below. In either case the numerical values obtained are in terms of chlorine and thus such values are multiplied by 2.25 to obtain the corresponding bromine values. Typically the values on a “total bromine” basis on a given sample will be higher than the values on a “free bromine” basis on the same given sample. The important point to understand is that this invention relates to the bromine residual that is actually present in the treated aqueous medium whether the value is determined by use of the free chlorine test procedure or the total chlorine test procedure, but use of the free chlorine test procedure is recommended.
A standard test for determination of low levels of active halogen is known as the DPD test and is based on classical test procedures devised by Palin in 1974. See A. T. Palin, “Analytical Control of Water Disinfection With Special Reference to Differential DPD Methods For Chlorine, Chlorine Dioxide, Bromine, Iodine and Ozone”, J. Inst. Water Eng., 1974, 28, 139. While there are various modernized versions of the Palin procedures, the recommended version of the test is fully described in Hach Water Analysis Handbook, 3rd edition, copyright 1997. The procedure for “total chlorine” (i.e., active chlorine) is identified in that publication as Method 8167 appearing on page 379, Briefly, the “total chlorine” test involves introducing to the dilute water sample containing active halogen, a powder comprising DPD indicator powder, (i. e., N,N′-diethyldiphenylenediamine, KI, and a buffer). The active halogen species present react(s) with KI to yield iodine species which turn the DPD indicator to red/pink. The intensity of the coloration depends upon the concentration of “total chlorine” species (i.e., active chlorine”) present in the sample. This intensity is measured by a colorimeter calibrated to transform the intensity reading into a “total chlorine” value in terms of mg/L Cl2. If the active halogen present is active bromine, the result in terms of mg/L Cl2 is multiplied by 2.25 to express the result in terms of mg/L Br2 of active bromine.
In greater detail, the DPD test procedure is as follows:
1. To determine the amount of species present in the water which respond to the “total chlorine” test, the water sample should be analyzed within a few minutes of being taken, and preferably immediately upon being taken.
2. Hach Method 8167 for testing the amount of species present in the water sample which respond to the “total chlorine” test involves use of the Hach Model DR 2010 calorimeter. The stored program number for chlorine determinations is recalled by keying in “80” on the keyboard, followed by setting the absorbance wavelength to 530 nm by rotating the dial on the side of the instrument. Two identical sample cells are filled to the 10 mL mark with the water under investigation. One of the cells is arbitrarily chosen to be the blank. To the second cell, the contents of a DPD Total Chlorine Powder Pillow are added. This is shaken for 10-20 seconds to mix, as the development of a pink-red color indicates the presence of species in the water which respond positively to the DPD “total chlorine” test reagent. On the keypad, the SHIFT TIMER keys are depressed to commence a three minute reaction time. After three minutes the instrument beeps to signal the reaction is complete. The blank sample cell is admitted to the sample compartment of the Hach Model DR 2010, and the shield is closed to prevent stray light effects. Then the ZERO key is depressed. After a few seconds, the display registers 0.00 mg/L Cl2. Then, the blank sample cell used to zero the instrument is removed from the cell compartment of the Hach Model DR 2010 and replaced with the test sample to which the DPD “total chlorine” test reagent was added. The light shield is then closed as was done for the blank, and the READ key is depressed. The result, in mg/L Cl2 is shown on the display within a few seconds. This is the “total chlorine” level of the water sample under investigation. It is to be noted that the test sample may need to be diluted with halogen demand free water in order for the chlorine measurement to be within the measuring range of the instrument. This dilution will need to be taken into account to determine the actual chlorine level of the sample.
3. One method for measuring free chlorine is the Hach Method 8021. This tests for the amount of species present in the water sample which respond to the “free chlorine” test. This test involves the use of the Hach Model DR 2010 calorimeter. The stored program number for chlorine determinations is recalled by keying in “80” on the keyboard, followed by setting the absorbance wavelength to 530 nm by rotating the dial on the side of the instrument. Two identical sample cells are filled to the 10 mL mark with the water under investigation. One of the cells is arbitrarily chosen to be the blank. The blank sample cell is admitted to the sample compartment of the Hach Model DR 2010, and the shield is closed to prevent stray light effects. Then the ZERO key is depressed. After a few seconds, the display registers 0.00 mg/L Cl2. Then, the blank sample cell used to zero the instrument is removed from the cell compartment of the Hach Model DR 2010. To the second cell, the contents of a DPD Free Chlorine Powder Pillow are added. This is shaken for 10-20 seconds to mix, as the development of a pink-red color indicates the presence of species in the water which respond positively to the DPD “free chlorine” test reagent. Immediately (within one minute of reagent addition) place the prepared sample into the cell holder. The light shield is then closed as was done for the blank, and the READ key is depressed. The result, in mg/L Cl2 is shown on the display within a few seconds. This is the “free chlorine” level of the water sample under investigation. It is to be noted that the test sample may need to be diluted with halogen demand free water in order for the chlorine measurement to be within the measuring range of the instrument. The dilution will need to be taken into account when determining the chlorine level of the sample.
One end result achievable by the practice of this invention is that highly effective minimization of microbiological contamination within the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant can be achieved by minimizing the extent to which microbacterial contamination is brought into the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant by the live animals themselves. Another end result is that highly effective minimization of microbiological contamination of the carcass and meat product can be achieved at each of the stages or locations of the animal carcass processing line. In addition, the invention enables the provision of a meat product in which the taste, sensory quality, appearance, and wholesomeness of the product should not be adversely affected in any material manner by the microbiocidal operations conducted pursuant to this invention. And when properly conducted, this invention makes possible achievement of significantly higher microbial control than achieved with comparable levels of previously known microbiocides for use in treatment of animal carcasses, such as hypochlorite in water.
As noted above it is vitally important that the method used for effectively controlling microbial and/or bacterial contamination on animal carcasses and parts thereof, not cause any noticeable degradation in the quality or properties of the meat from the carcasses, especially in the appearance and taste of the meat. The following Example demonstrates the ability of this invention to avoid any noticeable degradation in the quality or properties of the meat from carcasses of four-legged slaughter animals, especially in the appearance and taste of the meat.
A study was conducted in which individual samples of raw meat were directly contacted individually with a test substance to determine the effect each such substance had on the quality of the meat. The raw meat used was top round beef. The test materials were: (a) household bleach (commercially available hypochlorite bleach solution); (b) water-diluted household bleach containing 50 ppm as chlorine bleach; (c) 2% aqueous lactic acid solution; and pursuant to this invention, (d) 100 ppm as bromine of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DBDMH). Individual samples of beef (approximately 30 grams each) were placed in 80 mm×40 mm crystallization dishes. Each such sample was exposed to 30.0 grams of one of the respective test materials for a period of 5 minutes. The beef samples were not totally immersed in their respective test material. Instead, the quantities used were such that one side of each beef sample was not contacted by its test material. After the 5-minute exposure, the area exposed to the test material was rinsed with deionized water and patted dry with a paper towel. After several minutes the color of the treated meat was compared to an untreated piece of the meat, and also to the samples of meat treated with another of the test materials. The beef sample treated with commercially-available household bleach solution was very dark, and the beef sample treated with water-diluted commercially-available household bleach solution was slightly darker than the untreated meat. The lactic acid-treated meat sample appeared to be very similar in color to the untreated beef. Surprisingly, the sample of beef treated with the aqueous microbiocidal composition used pursuant to this invention formed from DBDMH and water was slightly lighter in appearance than the untreated beef. If one considered the oxidation potentials of the test materials used, the following effect would be expected:
Household bleach>dilute bleach >DBDMH
Also, based on the bleach results it would be expected that the meat treated with DBDMH would darken in appearance rather than become slightly lighter in appearance.
Compounds referred to by chemical name or formula anywhere in this document, whether referred to in the singular or plural, are identified as they exist prior to coming into contact with another substance referred to by chemical name or chemical type (e.g., another component, a solvent, or etc.). It matters not what chemical changes, if any, take place in the resulting mixture or solution, as such changes are the natural result of bringing the specified substances together under the conditions called for pursuant to this disclosure. As an example, the phase “water treated with at least one 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin” and phrases of similar import signify that just before being brought into contact with an aqueous medium such as water, the at least one 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin referred to was the specified 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin. The phrase thus is not intended to suggest or imply that the chemical exists unchanged in the water. The transformations that take place are the natural result of bringing these substances together, and thus need no further elaboration.
Also, even though the claims may refer to substances in the present tense (e.g., “comprises”, “is”, etc.), the reference is to the substance as it exists at the time just before it is first contacted, blended or mixed with one or more other substances in accordance with the present disclosure.
Except as may be expressly otherwise indicated, the article “a” or “an” if and as used herein is not intended to limit, and should not be construed as limiting, the description or a claim to a single element to which the article refers. Rather, the article “a” or “an” if and as used herein is intended to cover one or more such elements, unless the text expressly indicates otherwise.
All documents referred to herein are incorporated herein by reference in toto as if fully st forth in this document.
This invention is susceptible to considerable variation within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
1. A method of processing a four-legged slaughter animal for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s), said method comprising contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin, said contacting occurring at least once when the animal is en route to being slaughtered but before it is killed by exsanguination, wherein said contacting is conducted:
(i) at least once outside the perimeter of a slaughterhouse or meat packing plant, or
(ii) at least once in one or more areas of a slaughterhouse or meat packing plant where processing of live animals occurs prior to exsanguination so as to minimize the extent of microbiocidal contamination reaching the one or more areas within the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant where animal carcasses are processed subsequent to exsanguination.
2. A method of processing a four-legged slaughter animal for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s), said method comprising contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin, said contacting occurring at least once when the animal is en route to being slaughtered but before it is killed by exsanguination, wherein said contacting is conducted at least once outside the perimeter of a slaughterhouse or meat packing plant.
3. A method of processing a four-legged slaughter animal for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s), said method comprising contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin, said contacting occurring at least once when the animal is en route to being slaughtered but before it is killed by exsanguination, wherein said contacting is conducted at least once in one or more areas of a slaughterhouse or meat packing plant where processing of live animals occurs prior to exsanguination so as to minimize the extent of microbiocidal contamination reaching the one or more areas within the slaughterhouse or meat packing plant where animal carcasses are processed subsequent to exsanguination.
4. A method as in claim 2 wherein the contacting is conducted at least once in a zone through which the animal passes or is passed while still alive, and in which zone said contacting is effected by showering and/or spraying external surfaces of said animal with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin.
5. A method as in claim 4 wherein said contacting is also effected by causing the animal to pass, or passing the animal, into at least one bath of microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least (i) water and (ii) one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins such that at least the hoofs and lower leg areas of the animal are contacted by said microbiocidal solution.
6. A method as in claim 4 which is conducted in a portable shower or spray stall.
7. A method as in any of claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said four-legged slaughter animal is selected from cattle, swine, and sheep.
8. A method as in any of claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin is 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin.
9. A method as in any of claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin used in forming said microbiocidal solution is at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin in which one of the alkyl groups is a methyl group and the other alkyl group contains in the range of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms.
10. A method as in any of claims, 1, 2 or 3 wherein the microbiocidal solution used in said contacting has a bromine residual as Br2 of about 400 ppm or less.
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WW1 centenary
The Scouts
The Scouts are announcing a three year partnership with The Royal British Legion this September. The launch takes place during Gilwell Reunion at Gilwell Park, the home of Scouting.
The movement has a proud history dedicated to helping young people develop life skills and contribute positively to society. As such, the Scouts played a vital supporting role during the First World War.
On the 4th August 1914, the Government of Great Britain declared war on the Central Powers, Germany and the Austo-Hungarian Empire. As a wave of patriotism swept Britain, Scouts came forward in very large numbers to answer the call from the Founder to 'do their bit' for the war effort.
Scouts throughout the country used their skills to take on a variety of duties and more than proved their worth. From guarding vital installations to the provision of ambulances at the Front, Scouts became even more visible than ever before.
Scouts marked the Thank You movement by wearing special commemorative poppy badges and scarves during 2018.
To buy your own commemorative poppy badges and scarves please visit: shop.scouts.org.uk/events/poppy-range
If you would like to write to us, our postal address is:
Thank You Team, Remembrance Department
London SE1 1AA
Or email us at: remembrance@britishlegion.org.uk
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