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Ministry of Justice: Prison Officer recruitment
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Data and Ducks: The Self Assessment Campaign
The HMRC self assessment campaigns help 11 million UK customers to do their tax returns on time and avoid penalties. This campaign faced the challenge of improving on the record breaking results of 2017 when 93% of their customers filed by the deadline, without spending more money.
Going against accepted industry practice of using ‘positive insights’ in order to influence behaviour when developing their creative, HMRC instead used ducks in order to personify the negative ‘niggling’ feeling customers said they felt when putting off doing their return.
With messages such as ‘don’t let the thought of your tax return peck away at you’ and ‘whatever you do, don’t duck it’ to add charm and engagement, the ducks received 98% positive press coverage. The campaign’s approach led to a record-breaking 94% of customers filing by the deadline, helping to generate £30 billion for the UK economy.
The campaign was also even more cost effective than the year before with the results showing similar levels of awareness and recognition, despite the 46% reduction in media spend.
First World War Centenary Commemoration
In October 2012 the Government set out its ambition for a truly national First World War (FWW) centenary commemoration on which to build an enduring educational and cultural legacy.
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Creating emotional resonance was crucial in bringing the FWW to life and making it meaningful for 21st century audiences. This meant working with descendants and creating case studies that would engage people across the UK. This was a fully integrated campaign which was digitally-led with bespoke social media content plans for each major event and a steady drumbeat of awareness-raising activity in between.
The campaign achieved some impressive statistics social media coverage of the armistice commemorations had 1.2 million mentions and achieved 809 million impressions with engagement in 164 countries around the world. Also, since the start of the campaign, the Imperial War Museum has welcomed over 9 million visitors to its museums. A 21% increase on the previous four years. The campaign helped drive more than 8 million life stories to the IWM ‘Live of the First World War’ website
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By Staff Writer on January 4, 2018
Welcome back to your daily serving of Ghion Water. It’s Thursday and “bombogenesis” is on our minds! If you have not heard yet, “bombogenesis” is the name they have given the new snowstorm that is hyped to be the storm of the century. I don’t know how many storms of the century we can have in one century, but here we go again. A quick clarification here, this is not to throw our lots in with climate change deniers. It’s just a recognition of the fact that corporate media has come up with these storm naming gimmicks and catchy slogans like “snowmagedon” as a means to keep our eyes glued to their medium. This is a form of disaster capitalism, get ready for wall to wall coverage of #bombogenesis throughout the weekend. Parenthetically, did you know that the weather segment is the most profitable part of local news networks. Corporate media will be doing a happy dance as mother nature reverts to Gap Band mode and drops a bomb on the East Coast. Now on to the news and happenings from non-corporate journalists and independent media sources, enjoy these tall drinks of Ghion Water.
The Valor of Dissent
When you take the journey of dissent, you lose friends, alienate family, confuse confidants and become a lonely voice in your professional world. I’ve spent years sitting in military classrooms from West Point to Fort Knox to Fort Leavenworth as the odd man, the outlier, the confusing character in the corner. It’s like leaving the church, becoming an atheist, all while still living in the monastery. Still, the truth is that the military is more accommodating than one might suspect. I wrote a critical book, published some skeptical articles, but it’s not as though anyone ever outright threatened me. The pressure is different, more subtle: veiled warnings from superiors, cautious advice from mentors.
I waited too long. I admit as much. Maybe I needed a decade to stew, or perhaps my brief sojourn in civilian graduate school shook something loose. Nonetheless, a few years back, the emotional weight was unbearable and out poured the dissenting waves. [from Truthdig]
About Cancerous Corporatism
Crucially, it is impossible for workers to take collective action if a sizeable portion of the workforce can be sacked in a day. This makes advocating for important things like health and safety or productivity improvements almost impossible. As a result, manufacturing in places like Norfolk and Suffolk is in a grim state. The majority of workers we spoke to said that firms hire agency workers instead of permanent staff to avoid having to pay redundancy when the inevitable closures happen.
Options for Britvic workers in Norwich are limited. One worker “didn’t know anyone who’s come out [of a factory] and is better off… or on the same level”. Their most likely destinations are low-skill, low-wage jobs in service industries on part-time or zero-hour contracts. [from Naked Capitalism]
Reviving McCarthy
There really is a vast conspiracy to strangle radical dissent in the United States, under the broad heading of suppressing “Fake News” — meaning reporting, analysis and advocacy that challenges the corporate narrative. The most active early conspirators emerged from Hillary Clinton’s campaign tent, packed with Wall Street and Silicon Valley operatives, lobbyists for all the profiteers of imperialist war, most of the corporate media, and the spies, assassins and information manipulators of the national security state. All were now Democrats – virtually the entire ruling class, brought together in terror of the unpredictable Donald Trump, a man known for his hatreds, but who failed to exhibit sufficient malice toward Russians or rhetorical loyalty to the free movement of global capital.
Amazingly, the Democrats attacked Trump from the Right, reprising the McCarthy era of three generations ago. Trump was soft on the Kremlin, which is depicted as the home of Euro-Asiatic totalitarianism, no matter who is actually in charge. However, the new “Red Scare” requires the linking of Trump/Putin with domestic Reds – thus, the vilification of BAR and other Left sites by Prop-or-Not, a toy in the hands of Amazon and Washington Postowner Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man and business partner with the CIA. [from Black Agenda Report]
Reprising Apartheid
“Temporarily protected” individuals technically have no right to work, and their identification cards state as much, although the Israeli government has avoided prosecuting businesses who employ individuals with protected status. Much like in the U.S., this ambiguous situation leaves migrants with little bargaining power at their workplaces, and migrant populations are consequently highly vulnerable to labor exploitation. In a shockingly brazen and petty attempt to make day-to-day life even less livable for these individuals, the government recently passed a law allowing them to confiscate 20% of all migrants’ wages and place them in an escrow account, claiming that it would be returned to them as a lump sum when they chose to leave Israel. (There is no procedure for returning wages to individuals who eventually win asylum, presumably because the government has no intention of allowing this to happen.) For migrants who are already living on extremely meager wages, the loss of a fifth of their income is a huge blow that can make subsistence a practical impossibility. [from Current Affairs]
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And then there are the smaller things, suspicious little details that might fly over the heads of Westerners seeking to analyze the situation in Iran. For instance, the protests have not been widely televised within the activist Iranian community. It seems many of the individuals who would have been fertile ground for a typical protest (the youth who want reform and who are suffering under economic stagnation) have not been included in the memo to get out into the streets. Even the people who took part in the 2009 Green Revolution are claiming that this current protest is not their doing and that they have no links to the organization of the demonstrations. Many of them are simply looking at one another, wondering what is happening in their own country. [from Activist Post]
World War Omega
Chinese military officials have recently conducted the so-called “war ceremony” – urging their troops to be ready to fight. If the media report is accurate, it would suggest that China – fearing the worst – is preparing for war on the Korean Penisula. Previously, internal documents leaked from China’s main state-owned telecommunications company shows three villages and cities in the northeastern border province of Jilin, have been designated for refugee camps-if war breaks out. China is afraid a swarm of refugees from North Korea could cross the Tumen River into China. [from Zero Hedge]
Military-Financial Complex Boondoggles
Anti-terrorism funding has proven to be a boon for the travel industry. Many DHS grant recipients paid to send their employees to the HALO Counter-Terrorism Summit in 2012, which took place at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa on an island near San Diego. Invitees were told that “this luxury resort features over 460 guestrooms, five pools, three fantastic restaurants overlooking the bay, a world-class spa and state-of-the-art fitness center. Paradise awaits.” The highlight of the conference was a “zombie apocalypse” show featuring “40 actors dressed as zombies getting gunned down by a military tactical unit…. Conference attendees were invited to watch the shows as part of their education in emergency response training,” as a Senate investigation reported. This type of federally subsidized mass-shooting rehearsal did not spur any protests from anti-gun groups. [from FEE]
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Dining on Crow and Humble Pie this Weekend....
By NewColtsFan, April 27 in Colts Football
In my 7 years here, I don't recall being more wrong than I have today. And I'm OK with it. I never think I know more than Ballard. I have complete trust in CB, and it would take a long string of failure for me to lose it. And I don't see that happening. As I've said before, he just oozes competence and professionalism. So glad he's our GM.
But to all my mistakes. We can start at the beginning... for roughly 6 months I've been convinced we'd pick a DL in the first round, and for a fair amount of those months, I thought we'd double up and take another DL at pick 34. Wrong and Wrong! And I certainly never saw our first overall pick of the draft being a cornerback?! Cornerback?!? Wrong again! I guess Ballard's definition of "Premium position" is limited only to the first round. Ballard has now had 3 drafts and take a corner in the 2nd round twice. Can't be a coincidence. I would've thought that a top-50 pick would be premium. Wrong again! So, for those posters who I have pounded on, trust me, it will STOP from here on out. After R1, I guess anything is possible.
At pick 49, I didn't see Ben Benogu going that high. And I posted here that I thought he'd play DE for us. And then the Colts called him an OLB. And Kevin Bowen said we talked to him about playing next to Darius Leonard. At his presser, Ballard said BB can play all 3 LB spots, plus DE and could even kick inside to DT. Called him a "rusher". They're very high on him. Tested as a top athlete for his size.
At pick 59, I wasn't surprised we went WR. But I had no feel for whether we'd go tall like Butler, or small like Isabella, or someone in the middle? No idea. Ballard and Reich gushed over Parris.
And, even as a Stanford fan, I confess to being surprised at Bobby Okereke going at pick 89. I posted in the last month or two, that I thought Bobby was a quality back-up, but wasn't sure he was a starter, especially for us since I think he'd play the same spot as Darius at WILL. I thought he might be a R4 or R5 guy. But tonight. CB says Okereke can play all three spots, which surprised me. Bobby has been mostly an under-achiever at Stanford. Even this year, his best, people were not wowed by him. He was listed at 6'3" and 235, and those close to the program chuckled all the time about that. They claimed he was neither that tall, nor that heavy. And then he showed up at the Combine and under 6'2", so he was shorter, but weighed 239. That shocked everyone. I'd guess he put on 8-12 pounds of good lean muscle after the season. That also surprised the Stanford community. He tested surprisingly well at the combine and pro day. And Ballard seems very high on him.
Ballard talked tonight about adding, speed and athleticism. He and Frank seem very happy with their results. They gave no hints for tomorrow.
I'm eating crow. A little garlic salt helps! Washing it down with water. Topping it off with some Humble Pie! Bon Appetite!
7 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:
Yeah, I said early he may take a CB first because they may fall to us, and it happened. Sometimes logic, and adapting to the draft, are the things that win out in the end. In any case, I'm glad Ballard beat the Cornerback run, and enjoy that crow!
Irish YJ 773
I think it's fair to say, you're not the only one that was wrong. All the experts were wrong. Most fans were wrong.
I'll never be a guy who thinks a GM is omnipotent until he has a solid track record of 5+ years........, so I have no problem saying this draft was pretty meh. It had many chances to be much better.
I'll just be happy with what I can be happy with, be optimistic that the picks that I like will do well, and hope the picks that I don't like will prove me wrong.
stitches 5,276
@NewColtsFan good post. Noone here can be perfect with our assumptions when we don't have perfect information of what Ballard/the league is thinking. We can only strive to get better with our understanding of what Ballard is trying to do and every free agency period and every draft gives us more and more sample to form a coherent strategy. One of the reasons I thought CB early was an option is precisely because I didn't think the sample of 2 drafts is enough to conclude what he likes or doesn't like so I ended up prioritizing other information we have(his background, his hirings in personnel(Dodds), him drafting a prototypical single high safety, etc)
Anyways... I wanted to point out something about Okereke. Our system relies heavily on athleticism and on our LBs being extremely fast and flying all over the field. IMO weight is not very important for our system. Just an example - last year Leonard measured at 234 at the combine. LBs almost always bulk up for the combine, because they think more teams will consider them for their team if they have a more universal for the league size for the position. Last month Leonard shared with Indy media that he played last season at about 220 and that he wants to be in that 220-225 range for next season too and that the speed is more important for him in this system. My point is... even for MIKE and SAM IMO the premium is on speed, rather than on ability to fight the hog mollies in the run game. This is why I loved both him and Okereke for us. Just like Ballard said - they can play both WILL and MIKE and even SAM if for some reason we need them to. IMO Okereke will drop to the 220-225 range too and will not have a problem playing at that weight at MIKE and WILL.
cbear 732
1 hour ago, NewColtsFan said:
NCF, I thought Ya-Sin and Campbell were GREAT picks. Ben and Bobby.....not so much. But I'll gladly and happily join you at the table a few months from now.
Right now though, as hard as I'm trying to find game tapes from last year that might make me feel better about those two, well, I'm not sure the naysayers are wrong this time. Banogu especially looks terrible as a #2 pick pass rusher (though I was a bit relieved to hear CB say he might be used in other ways). We'll see....
akcolt 2,563
I’m at the table with you NCF. I never thought we’d go CB with the first pick even with it being at the top of the 2nd. I was happy to see Ballard and Co add to what I thought was a thin group of LB’s. Although BB was a head scratcher for me I am interested to see how we use him.
I can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow. There are some guys still out there on DL I thought we’d have interest in. Omenihu and Wren for sure then Jackson Jelks and Crosby are still there. Crosby had a good showing at the combine. I like him and JJ probably more then most
We can still have big name options at S with Thompson, Hooker and maybe the biggest surprise for me Gardner-Johnson all available. Man I mocked GJ to us at 34 and he’s still there day 3. I’d still love to get him but what am I missing?
I like what’s still available and I really like that we have 2 picks in the 4th and 5th rounds tomorrow.
7 minutes ago, akcolt said:
I don't know what it is, but there appears to be some negative buzz about GJ... perhaps attitude or character? Not quite sure....
One thing I did/do like about our approach. Defense! Defense! And more defense!
I was hoping for at least three defensive picks out of four, and that happened.
Great. Defense travels. Defense works on the road, and it works in the winter when weather plays a factor. I'm still hoping for more defense on Day 3, (but some offense, too) and I'm sure I'll want some offense next year as well.
We are not done!
@NewColtsFan, I did not have us taking any of the guys we have taken either. I think most of us are surprised with the draft so far but Ballard is unpredictable. Having said that I like it so far, I had to go bed early last night so I just seen we took Campbell at 59 which is a good pick. We also now have LB depth and potentially a solid CB. We will just have to wait and see how these guys pan out but the potential is there with the guys we have taken.
4 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
I knew we were taking Banogu before the draft and was very high on him. Rock Ya-Sin and Parris Campbell were my 3rd favorites WR and CB. I heard of our 3rd rounder (won't spoil him to you), and was mocking him to us later in mocks. He has a great comparison. Also an extra 5th this year and 2nd next year. Ballard predicted the runs at cb and wr and we did well. Check out the press conference!
5 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said:
I can't wait to see Campbell on our carpet in Indy. He is lightning fast. Stick him in the slot along with TY and Funch and Ebron.
Rally5 532
4 hours ago, Jared Cisneros said:
4 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
Ahh, no need for this, predictions are all for fun, nobody actually knows who or what will be drafted, at best you get lucky. I was completely wrong on Oline and Dline, so allow me to dine with you! I do assume you have some sort of income not related to predicting draft picks?
That said, I'm a massive Ballard fan and I like these picks but I'm not sure I love them, it does raise some questions like:
1. Are any of these guys starters? I'm not so sure, I see some freakish athleticism but not sure we drafted a started today, maybe Ra-Sin. Keep in mind we drafted two guys who are not scheme fits in Ra-Sin and Bangoku, can they learn, I'm sure.
2. Did we give up too much in trading back in round one?
3. We have some great athletes that will have to figure out how to play differently and we need to figure out how to use them which doesn't scream starter to me. I only mention that in the context of we usually think of the first two or three picks as bonafide starters and these guys may not be that. Perhaps our roster is so good at the moment that we don't draft sure fire starters anymore. We could have a nickel corner that matches up with TE's, we could have a pass rush guy, a backup LB and a third-down slot receiver. I watched a ton of tape on the LB from Stanford, there's a ton of his game tape on YouTube and like you, I wasn't impressed. I don't see what they see in that guy, I'll be honest. He had a ton of miss reads and got lost in space a lot, you can call me skeptical on that particular pick.
Again, I 'm not being overly critical, I don't know more than Ballard, I trust this team to choose wisely. The fan in me woke up this morning with these thoughts rattling around in my vacuous head. I do look forward to seeing them fly around the field this year, we definitely got faster and more athletic which is very good!!!!
If the 2nd rounders pan out, Ballard will be known as the king of the 2nd rounders .
dodsworth 948
Ballard preaches line play, line play, line play then picks a
cornerback, line backer, wide receiver then follows that up
with another linebacker. I haven't a clue what this guy will
do with future picks?
This is a dump off and check down league anymore, so I guess
his thinking is to find players that can defend against the dinking and
dunking that is prevalent in today's game.
We all thought we had it figured out what he was going to do in this
draft Newcoltsfan, until he did a 180 degree turn. One thing I won't
do is question his eye for talent though.
DougDew 3,097
OK, so you were wrong about who Ballard would draft, but all three could be busts or underachievers, so there's that.
wig 901
Hate to break it to you, but Ballard would take a corner at 26 if the situation were slightly different. You seem to think a corner in the first is some sort of boogeyman. He doesn't.
I think what’s very indicative of Ballard’s talent for finding gems is that after 3 years, even the most negative posters on this board have been very tepid in their criticism, if any, of this years picks so far.
MikeCurtis 1,233
5 hours ago, Irish YJ said:
Yep......
I think that Simmons coming off the board early messed up MANY of our expectations
(As well as the "experts")
I expected a WR in rounds 2-3.
Surprised by a CB in round 2, I saw value in round 3-4
Expected at least 1 DL in rounds 1-2
Expected a SS in round 2
Oh well....... hit some.... missed some.......
Happy with the draft so far........ I hope one of the SS left on the board, slides to us
14 minutes ago, dodsworth said:
That is the beauty of it. He doesn't want anyone to know what he is doing and I do not blame him. It is strategy and not letting other GM's know where he is leaning. I love his unpredictability. A lot of fans probably do not because they have their favorite college picks and mocks but I love it.
krunk 11,106
5 hours ago, cbear said:
Aint nothing terrible about Banogu. Banogu is a tough ball player and he put up the same sack numbers as Burns who im sure you would have jumped for joy if we got in Rd 1. And he did this on more than one occasion. And what i like best is Banogu is way better than Burns against the run. He runs a 4.5 so hes fast also. Banogu brings value to the table.
Predictions are always fun to me. Sometimes you are right and sometimes you are way off. I have had both happen to me a lot but that is a part of predicting.
I have read many posts before the draft that cornerback isn't
a high priority in the Colts defensive system and can get by
with marginal talent.
Then Ballard goes and spends our first pick on a cornerback.
The guy would make one heckuva poker player for sure when
almost everyone thought he would go trenches early.
Matthew Gilbert 311
I knew we were taking Banogu before the draft and was very high on him
Really? Tell me more.
1 hour ago, Rally5 said:
Exactly why would Banogu and Yasin not be scheme fits? They fit just fine. Fit is a word Ballard uses all the time. Its important to him. He doesnt bring guys in who dont fit what we do in our schemes. Hes been known to say i would never force a player on our coaches. The player has to fit how we want to play. And besides this ive watched the film and i see no issues. Both of them fit.
1 minute ago, Matthew Gilbert said:
We had multiple meetings with him i do believe. Doesnt guarantee anything though.
1 minute ago, krunk said:
aaron11 2,024
5 minutes ago, dodsworth said:
maybe they dont want to play cover two all the time, but had to because of the guys we had.
10 minutes ago, Matthew Gilbert said:
Don't skip over him knowing the 3rd rd pick but not wanting to spoil us.
BigQungus 49
He was high on Ben Banogu before the draft. I was reading the thread about us trading back, and Jared said after Day 1 Now let's go get Ben Banogu. What I'm confused about is him "not spoiling" the 3rd round pick when they already announced it...
hate the ppl on here that act like they know everything til they end up being hella wrong. ppl w common sense aren’t surprised at this draft at all. Ballard picks fast athletes w upside.
37 minutes ago, krunk said:
He fits our culture, not our schemes. If you watch Banogu for example, he plays as a 3-4 LB and a DE who at times goes inside to DT and we're going to play him as a 4-3 backer. Do you see that as a natural fit, if you do then we have different definitions of the term. Ballard sees an athletic guy, so do I, who is a great cultural fit that we need to find a way to use, which we will but he's not a natural scheme fit by any means. Yasin, I have already explained. He's a press cover corner and we play Cover 2 zone, so he has to learn to play zone and we may incorporate some press man into our defense. So that's what I'm saying. Both guys, accordingly to Ballard, are great culture fits who bring the athleticism we're looking for but they will have a lot of adjusting to do..a lot. Try not to be offended by my opinion its grounded in fact and I'm not suggesting they were bad picks, so be cool.
6 minutes ago, Rally5 said:
He fits our culture, not our schemes. If you watch Banogu for example, he plays as a 3-4 LB and and a DE who at times goes inside to DT and we're going to play him as a 4-3 backer. Do you see that as a natural fit, if you do then we have different definitions fo the term. Ballard sees an athletic guy, so do I, who is a great cultural fit that we need to find a way to use, which we will but he's not a natural scheme fit by any means. Yasin, I have already explained. He's a press cover corner and we play Cover 2 zone, so he has to learn to play zome and we may incorporate some press man into our defense. So that's what I'm saying. Both guys, accordingly to Ballard, are great culture fits who bring the athleticism we're looking for but they will have a lot of adjusting to do..a lot. Try not to be offended by my opinion is grounded in fact and I'm not suggesting they were bad picks, so be cool.
Yasin fits what we are looking to do in 2019 which is play a bit more man coverage with our zones. He has no issues with tackling, and they certainly would not have brought him here if they didnt feel he couldnt play zone. Banogu they have talked about him playing some Sam in our scheme so hed be standing up like he did at TCU. He will be pass rushing also im sure which isnt much of a transition.
Just now, krunk said:
Ya, I agree, both guys will be learning and adjusting to that, right? Meaning it's not what they've done but doesn't mean that can't, or won't and that's where the character comes in to play. Call us aligned.
1 minute ago, Rally5 said:
Ya, I agree, both guys will be learning and adjusting to that, right? Meaning it's not whatif they've done but doesn't mean that can't, or won't and that's where the character comes in to play. Call us aligned.
If there are fit issues you bring in guys whose transition is small scale. Not a huge transition to where it blocks them from success.
1 hour ago, dodsworth said:
speed is what matters ppl that aren’t oblivious and old school put the puzzle together easily
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I didn’t think we would go CB that early either. But seeing who we picked it makes sense. It gives us a CB on the outside we don’t have. We can play some man to man if we want to switch it up with him being so physical.
1 hour ago, krunk said:
The issue with BB is that he tended to get his numbers the same way Jerry Hughes got them at TCU, sort of using the speed to run fast around the undermatched OT. It took Jerry a while to figure out other things. BB seems to have tested well on athletic tests at the combine which raised his stock. Which points to the idea that despite that tested athleticism, it took a combine test to notice it because it wasn't as evident on play tape.
I put BB and the Stanford Backer into the same description as Turay. They test well athletically, but need polish. And Ya-Sin seems eerily similar to Quincy Wilson, but maybe with better mental make-up.
Leonard and Smith both seemed more plug n play ready, by comparison. JMO
Buck Showalter 3,800
If there's anything I've learned from watching the Colts draft over the course of the Polian & Grigson eras, & now under Ballard, it is that there are likely gonna be some surprises come draft day...
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In your defense, I seem to recall Ballard saying the pundits have it all wrong, talking about prospect rankings. He turned out to be right. There were a lot of surprises, seemed to me to be more than usual.
10 minutes ago, DougDew said:
I put BB and the Stanford Backer into the same description as Turay. They need polish. And Ya-Sin seems eerily similar to Quincy Wilson, but maybe with better mental make-up.
If you are using "speed" to run around overmatched tackles as you call it means the speed is evident on tape and you wouldnt need a test to confirm that. The combine testing should only confirm that. I dont buy the notion the Colts jumped up and wanted him after they learned he ran a 4.5.
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Spoiler Rules - Updated 5/20
Bad Player
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There are various games in various states of release, which means that not everyone will be able to play all the games. As such, we have spoiler rules to make sure people don't get spoiled before they play the games, considering spoilers are especially bad for Ace Attorney. The penalty for breaking spoiler rules is a week-long suspension, so... don't break them!
Dai Gyakuten Saiban (1+2): Spoiler rules are in place indefinitely. Discussion of DGS spoiler material, including DGS2 pre-release info, must be tagged in the post and/or thread title, and they should only be discussed in Trial Minutes or Baker Street.
Also try to be considerate about spoilers in general, especially from newer works. If somebody asks you to tag something, we're probably going to come down on their side if a problem arises. This doesn't mean you need to tag everything, though; we aren't going to come after you for revealing that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
The bottom line is to be cautious and considerate. When in doubt, it's always safer to tag it.
(One last note: if you ask someone to tag a spoiler, if you do so by quoting their post, make sure you put the spoiler in the quoted post in your post in a spoiler tag. Not doing so completely defeats the purpose of asking them to tag it.)
Credit to Evolina for the sig+avatar!
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Re: GS5 Spoiler Rules in Effect!
MrAwesome
Ace what-ever-my-ranking-is
Spoiler: testing with spoiler
Like this right?
Lusankya
About the spoiler rules: Is it really necessary to tag everything you write about the content of e.g. a new trailer when the whole purpose of the thread is to discuss said trailer?
Deputy of Self-Esteem
"Everything"? No. But unless the topic title boldly states "SPOILERS" and even then, it's best to use Spoiler tags for the juicy things.
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AnsweringNOW
I wish I WERE the best.
I think the main post needs a little revising now considering all the new promotional material shown after the first post was typed.
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Just wondering...
Spoiler: GS5 Sig
Is it ok to use the sig?
I am asking due to the typo.
"The hammer that strikes too fast has no time to aim."
Bolt Storm
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That would be fine; it doesn't spoil anything about Simon that's not in his official profile.
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Wooster wrote:
If there was such a thing as the "Wooster Seal of Approval", this post would get it.
Is it ok to use a direct quote from Blackquill in the sig?
henke37
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Does it say something obviously spoilery?
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henke37 wrote:
Not really, it is just one of his sword-quotes.
Re: Spoiler Rules - Updated 6/22
Spoiler rules have been updated!
GK2/AAI2: Spoilers only in Gourdzilla's Lair. With the release of the patch, spoiler rules will probably be lifted... but not yet
PLvAA: Spoilers only in Labyrinthia. Spoiler rules will be lifted some time after the NA release.
DGS: Spoilers only in Courthouse Steps. While we don't have much info yet, we're being clear about spoiler rules now for when more info invariably comes in.
DD: Spoiler rules have been lifted!
September 14 Update:
GK2 spoiler rules have been lifted! It's been 3 months since the English patch was completed and released, which we feel is enough time for people to play it (especially since it's free).
Since it seems DGS info is starting to come in, I reworded the DGS section of the post a bit. The actual spoiler rules for it aren't changed at all, though!
I also removed the note about DD at the bottom of the post. It's old news now
Wait wait does this mean people can freely post GK2 spoilers without care? It's still common courtesy to tag right?
I've kinda been saving it for times when I'm on night shift and so I'm cracking through the final case now.
JesusMonroe
People can post spoilers without care, but it's still common courtesy. I mean, some people still tag Dual Destinies stuff. General rule for me is to just tag it if you wouldn't want it spoiled for you. Saying L'Belle is the murderer of 5-2 is not a spoiler because it's revealed at the beginning
Yep, people can technically freely talk about GK2 spoiler stuff, the same way I can just open and casually mention how Krissy is the big bad of AJ.
Like you said, it's still common courtesy for people to tag, and people shouldn't just randomly go "HEY GUYS THE KILLER OF GK2-5 IS [whatever]" in, like, the random convo thread out of nowhere, but it's no longer insta-1 week suspension for posting spoilers outside of a marked thread.
The final paragraph of the post will always apply:
Bad Player wrote:
Re: Spoiler Rules - Updated 12/20
As it has now been more than three months since the international release of Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, the spoiler rules have been lifted. Dai Gyakuten Saiban is still subject to the spoiler rules, though.
Re: Spoiler Rules - Updated 9/8
Spoiler rules have been updated for AA6!
DGS spoiler rules are also still in effect.
Hello! Hello! *squawk*
Just testing spoilers.
This is a spoiler.
Slightly unrelated matter but some folks, myself included were interested in spoiler rules being put in place for games in general. Is that going to be discussed?
CatMuto
If this is going to be discussed, I'd like to add the question "Would these spoiler rules also be in place for remakes of older games?"
Well, we can discuss it at the next staff meeting and see.
We've decided to beef up spoiler rules a little bit. We're not going to be micromanaging spoiler rules for all games or anything, but we're making it clear that "be cautious and considerate" applies to all spoilers, not just the ones for the games explicitly mentioned in the rules. The newer the game, the more likely we are to rule that untagged spoilers are problematic. You don't need to tag everything, but use your common sense, and if someone asks you to tag something, even if you don't think it's a spoiler, it's still better safe than sorry.
Also, a note: if you ask someone to tag a spoiler, if you do so by quoting their post, make sure you put the spoiler in the quoted post in your post in a spoiler tag. Not doing so completely defeats the purpose of asking them to tag it.
Does that extend to spoiler avatars and signatures as well?
I'm gonna say yes. It's really not considerate to put massive spoilers for a game that just came out in your avatar/signature, now is it? (Plus it'd seem like a pretty big loophole.)
Of course, you also have a bit more leeway with avatars/signatures, since they have no context, so you might be able to hide minor spoilers like that. But, y'know, just try to find a non-spoiler image of whatever it is that you want.
But, y'know, just try to find a non-spoiler image of whatever it is that you want.
Which is difficult to do if something a character does or says happens at a rather important, and hence rather spoilery, moment. For example, Luke fon Fabre cutting his hair. It's a big moment, because it's a symbol of him vowing to change into a better person - sure, the game is over a decade old now, so it's not the same as having an image of a recent game's spoiler, but it is technically still an important enough even that most people would consider it a memorable twist.
CatMuto wrote:
Yeah but its not a spoiler moment. If it's just a picture symbolising character change. Its not a surprising plot twist or obvious what the detail is. To any onlooker, even one who is currently playing the game and knows who the character is (I.e. the real target this rule protects) it would just look like "oh, he cuts his hair at some point. Wonder why?"
Let's go back to the classic Aeris dying scenario. Imagine it was new, fanart of angelic Aeris or Sephiroth stabbing Aeris or Cloud holding the body...iconic images that would generate plenty of art are outright spoilers at the time. The Luke one I would say is quite subtle and doesn't give away much as you need to have played the game to get the context.
Though I suppose this is a fair point in highlighting these will probably need dealt with on a case by case basis.
"oh, he cuts his hair at some point. Wonder why?"
Cough Cutting one's hair is generally considered a major thing in most videogames. It symbolizes the desire to make a new start, to change their way of being or could be the result of something traumatic that makes them want to symbolically say goodbye to their old self. Say those reasons could be because of a plot-important breakup or realizing what a horrible person one was.
It's not as not-spoilery as you might think. The Luke example certainly doesn't tell you the reason why he decides to become a better person, but it shows that something so huge happened that it caused this spoiled little brat to man up. If anything, it's an implication of a spoiler or major event.
For your Aerith example, think if the big event involved a near miss and it cut majority of Aerith's braid off. Or even if she were to cut her, say... post-Golden Saucer, when she has a scene with Cloud. She cuts her hair and the implication could be that she is letting go off Zack, whom she's held in her memories as an important treasure - she's not forgetting up, but decides to move forward.
I'm not saying it's not a meaningful event but it doesn't imply any real content or context that an outside would get. It doesn't explain anything about the "plot-important breakup" or the "horrible person" or the "maybe they need to go in disguise at one point?" or the billions of other explanations people can think of for why someone cuts their hair. To the untrained eye it looks like a character cutting their hair, it implies that maybe an event happens that causes him to cut his hair but nothing of the event. Ergo, nothing is spoiled as "bad stuff will happen to people who then struggle against it" is a given in most games. Character development is expected in most games, so all that image would spoil is "something happens that necessitates character change? or a haircut."
I think we've miscommunicated something here. I'm not referring to a hair cut for Aeris like from the Luke example. I'm meaning if someone straight up posted a deviant art of the iconic stab or the iconic lowering into water scene. Those are clear implications that "Oh snap, Aeris Dies" that would kind of ruin it for someone.
But like I said, it'll probably need to be judged on a case-by-case basis by the mods.
Yeah, I think a lot of this will have to be a case-by-case basis.
Luke cutting his hair is actually kind of a bad example, since he's shown with short hair in the intro :P
My personal opinion is that an Important Haircut is probably something that shouldn't be shown shortly after the game's release, but would be fine sooner rather than later. Like Pierre points out, a visual change in a character is not nearly as spoilery when it's devoid of context. To use your own example, Cat, in this hypothetical version of FF7, if someone saw a picture of Aerith with short hair, they wouldn't know if Aerith's hair was cut because Sephiroth tried to kill her or because she's finally let go of Zack. It's a spoiler that something happens, but I don't think it's a big secret that games nowadays tend to have plots.
The American COVER of the game spoiled you, including the manual as well. Hey, at least the Japanese Cover and manual of the game made sure to not spoil the haircut there.
Well I only have the Japanese 3DS version so
The 3DS cover was the same for Japanese and localized releases. It was just that everyone was spoiled who grabbed the localized PS2 version. I mean, I know westerners don't put that much emphasis on the whole 'cutting your hair is very symbolic' thing, but we do have that idea, so why would they change it? The cover wasn't 'fluffy' in the Japanese version. It didn't need to be made 'hardcore'.
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Do you see the black one...or the white?
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To put it into perspective for me, it reminds me of Garnet in FF9. Prior to having played the game, I knew little to nothing about Final Fantasy 9. I happened to know she had long hair and I found out that later, she cut off her hair. I didn't know why or anything and when I eventually played the game, that scene where she cut off her hair came off as a complete surprise and had an emotional impact on me. Knowing prior that she was gonna cut her hair at some point didn't detract from my experience in the slightest.
Basically, I'm saying that I really feel that unless you know the game, a character getting a haircut isn't huge as far as spoilers go and personally, I see it as very minor.
Personally, I think if we were to address an aesthetic change playing spoilers so to speak, using Final Fantasy 4 for example, something like Cecil changed as a Paladin or showing a grown up Rydia is something that warrants more spoilers.
Then again, it's all subjective and I think we all need to use our best judgment. I actually appreciate this small argument and point Cat brought up about what she considers spoilers, even if some other people don't. Goes to show that others are going to have different opinions on what qualifies as a spoiler and that even if we disagree, we should go out of the way for that and respect their wishes. And if we, or someone else puts something up that someone else considers spoilering, even if the original poster doesn't, we should tag it anyways. Like what Bad Player said, it's better to play it safe than be sorry. Especially on newer games.
Just hope people actually pay attention to this because I have been bothered as of late with some spoilers just being out in the open all willy-nilly, especially on newer popular games.
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Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)
I feel the same
So I want to make this image my avatar:
Spoiler: SoJ
Does it count as a spoiler?
Southern Corn
Simply Batty
So how much longer till SoJ spoiler rules are in effect?
Also with the new fanslation coming out soon,is it alright to talk about DGS more freely?
A Kirby and AA fan
Southern Corn wrote:
Wait, really? It's already close to release? Got a source, maybe? For... reasons.
Slammer
Location: Japanifornia
Nurio wrote:
Actually, it's only the translation of the first episode that is coming out soon™. It is not known how soon, though.
I think you can already talk about DGS, just be sure to tag every potential spoiler.
Re: SoJ: We haven't spoken about it, but spoiler rules typically last a couple months after release, so they'll probably be released in a month or so. (We might extend it a bit further than usual, since there might be a surge of people who get it for Christmas or something.)
Re: DGS: It will probably be the same deal as GK2, where it won't have spoiler rules lifted until some time after the full release of the fan translations, if/when it comes out.
So now that Christmas has long passed,what is the stance on SoJ spoilers?
Southern Corn (SC) wrote:
We're still deciding exactly what we want to do, but they'll probably be lifted soon-ish.
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Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645
David Wallace
Clarendon Lectures in English
Fluent and fascinating account of the shocking and dangerous lives - and complex textual afterlives - of four 'strong women': Dorothea of Montau, Margery Kempe of Lynn, Mary Ward Yorkshire, and Elizabeth Cary of Drury Lane
Impressive historical reach, spanning 14th to the 17th centuries
Generously illustrated
It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (c. 1373-c. 1440); Mary Ward of Yorkshire (1585-1645) and Elizabeth Cary of Drury Lane (c. 1585-1639) and and the fate of their writings. All four shock, surprise, and court historical danger. Dorothea of Montau punishes her body and spends all day in church; eight of her nine neglected children die. Kempe, mother of fourteen, empties whole churches with a piercing cry learned at Jerusalem. Ward, living holily but un-immured, is denounced as an Amazon, a chattering hussy, an Apostolic Virago, and a galloping girl. Cary, having left her husband torturing Catholics in Dublin castle, converts to Roman Catholicism in Irish stables in London. Each of these women is mulier fortis, a strong woman: had she been otherwise, Wallace argues, her life would never have been written. The earliest texts of these lives are mostly near-contemporaneous with the women they represent, but their public reappearances have been partial and episodic, with their own complex histories.
The lives of these strong women continue to be rewritten long after this premodern period. Incipient European war determines what Kempe must represent between her first discovery in 1934 and full publication in 1940. Dorothea of Montau, first promoted to counter eastern paganism, becomes a bastion against Bolshevism in the 1930s; her cult's meaning is fought out between Gunter Grass and Josef Ratzinger. Cary's Catholic daughters, Benedictine nuns, must write of their mother as if she were a saint. Ward's work is not yet done: her followers, having won the right not to be enclosed, must now enter the closed spaces of Roman clerical power.
1. Borderline Sanctity: Dorothea of Montau, 1347-1394
2. Anchoritic Damsel: Margery Kempe of Lynn, c. 1373- c. 1440
3. Holy Amazon: Mary Ward of Yorkshire, 1585-1645
4. Vice Queen of Ireland: Elizabeth Cary of Drury Lane, c. 1585-1639
David Wallace studied for a BA (1976) in English and Related Literature at York and for a Ph.D. at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Following a Research Fellowship at Cambridge (1981-3) and a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford (1984-5), he taught at the University of Texas at Austin (1985-91) and then at the University of Minnesota, where he was Professor of English and Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts (1991-6). He has been Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania since 1996, with stints as Visiting Professor at King's College, Cambridge, Melbourne University, Princeton University, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has done extensive work for BBC radio, with documentary features on Bede, Malory, Margery Kempe, and John Leland. He is currently editing what will be the first literary history of Europe, 1348-1418, for OUP: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/regeneration/
"Few books in this field are so richly and widely erudite, yet such irresistible page-turners. Wallace's prose sparkles (at one point he translates lunatica di poco cervello as "a bear of little brain" [241]), making Strong Women a must not just for church historians and literary scholars, but for anyone who enjoys a rollicking good read." --Speculum
"[A] fascinating series of readings of four Catholic women's lives/lives, pre- and post-Reformation. Scholars of medieval and Reformation studies, and any general reader of women and religion, travel, and European culture would learn much from this book...It will shape the field for years to come."--Recusant History
"Readers in Reformation and Counter-Reformation history will enjoy grappling with Wallace's provocative introductory statements about the male domination of Reformation studies...There is much of interest in this book for literary scholars as well as historians. It will shape the field for years to come." --Recusant History
"Wallace's groundbreaking and fascinating work will be of interest to feminist scholars, historians, and all those concerned with the premodern female experience, and the evolution of Catholicism in England and Europe." --Renaissance Quarterly
Strong women: hitting the streets
By David Wallace Jewish and Christian traditions alike praise the strong woman, a colossus of work and ingenuity who, according to Proverbs 31, rises early and prepares food, plants vineyards, conveyances land, feeds the poor, manufactures and sells linen garments, weaves tapestries, and speaks wisdom.
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Grey Cup 2015
Updated: November 25, 2015 1:26 am
Edmonton Eskimos touch down in Winnipeg ahead of Grey Cup
By Caley Ramsay Online Supervisor Global News
The Edmonton Eskimos arrive in Winnipeg Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 for the 103rd Grey Cup Sunday.
Josh Arason / Global News
EDMONTON — It’s official. The Edmonton Eskimos are in Winnipeg ahead of Sunday’s 103rd Grey Cup.
The Eskimos flew out Tuesday morning and while they’re still coming off a big win over the Stampeders in last Sunday’s CFL West Division final, the players know they still have a big challenge ahead of them.
“When we put our goals down on the sheet it’s not to make it to the Grey Cup, it’s to win the Grey Cup,” said Eskimos QB Mike Reilly.
“We’re far from finished yet. We’ve still got another game and it’s the biggest game of the year and it’s against a very good opponent… We want to win this Sunday. Last Sunday’s win was great, but this is the big one.”
We're heeeeere! pic.twitter.com/zp6mjQDzdh
— Edmonton Eskimos (@EdmontonEsks) November 24, 2015
The Eskimos will face the Ottawa Redblacks, a team they haven’t seen since Week Four.
“Those guys, they came a long way, like I said, from last to first,” said defensive lineman Odell Willis. “Hats off to those guys because those guys worked just as hard to get in the same position we’re in and like I said, hopefully Sunday we’ll just give the crowd something they want to watch.”
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The Redblacks also arrived in Winnipeg Tuesday, planning to enjoy the festivities — but not too much — while they prepare for the big game.
“Yeah, we do curfew,” Ottawa Redblacks coach Rick Campbell told reporters shortly after the team’s plane landed.
“I think there’s a balance you can strike of being able to participate and see some things without being in full party mode.”
Players didn’t seem bothered by the idea of a nightly curfew — 11 p.m. in Ottawa’s case.
“I don’t mind because I’m going to be in my bed,” said Redblacks fullback Patrick Lavoie. “We know what we have to do.”
Sunday’s tilt will also be the first time the Redblacks see Reilly in action. Backup Matt Nichols got both previous starts versus the Redblacks as Reilly was sidelined with a knee injury suffered in Edmonton’s season-opening loss to Toronto in Fort McMurray, Alta.
Ottawa comes into the Grey Cup having won five straight but has had trouble this season against Edmonton. The Eskimos swept the season series 2-0, outscoring the Redblacks 69-29 although one victory was by a 46-17 margin and both contests were played in July.
“They were a very different team when we played them early in the season and so are we,” Reilly said.
“It’s not a coincidence that they’re in the Grey Cup. They’ve been playing great football and they deserve to be there. So we’re going to have to put together a great performance in order to get the win.”
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Jason And The Argonauts (1963 UK/USA)
By Geoffrey Valentine · Leave a Comment
I’m sure it takes some artistic license in retelling the myth, most notably how it’s rushed conclusion neglects to finish the whole story. But it manages to convey such strong suspension of disbelief I find myself not minding. A very-colourful idea-level-fantasy from the 1960s. This was a stop-motion animation project, and an unusually strong production at that.
The subject is a mythical Argive hero of ancient Greece. Historians have theorized his voyage actually took him to South America, the Black Sea or other destinations; an epic poem was written about him. Here Colchis is not located, except “at the end of the world”. The storyline takes this disenfranchised rightful young king on a voyage aboard the ship Argo. He recruits the greatest athletes of Greece to be his rowers and companions, then sails off to the Land of Colchis to bring back The Golden Fleece and win a kingdom.
What he does not know is the man who sent him after the great prize is destined to be replaced on his throne by Jason, and so is looking for ways to get rid of him and kill him. Even sending his son along to carry out this goal. The casting is curious. Todd Armstrong looks manly, but was dubbed because of an intrusive US accent. Nigel Green excels as Hercules. Nancy Kovack and Douglas Wilmer are very good as Medea and the evil king.
As the gods of Olympus the co-director Ray Harryhausen cast – Niall Nacginis as Zeus, athletic Honor Blackman as Hera, and effective Michael Gwynn as Hermes. The film is stolen by Laurence Naismith as Argus, the ship’s designer who goes along to participate in many adventures. And there are monsters: a talking figurehead of Hera, bronze god Talos, Poseidon who heroically parts the clashing rocks, the harpies, a seven-headed hydra that guards the Fleece, and especially the army of skeletons sown from the dragon’s teeth of Cadmus by King Aeetes of Colchis, with whom Jason and his men wage a fascinating battle of swords.
The story is slender but it holds up well as a fun-level adventure for all ages. The musical main theme by Bernard Herrman is magnificent and memorable. The costumes and sets are surprisingly authentic. But the finest delight is the ideas in the script by Beverly Cross and Jan Read; the most-quoted line is spoken by Zeus when he tells an eager Jason that the gods love those best who call on them for help the least. Don Chaffey directed with Harryhausen very energetically. This important line stands as the opposite in meaning to the philosophy that did not help an expensive sequel made by Harryhausen years later, “Clash of the Titans”.
Some scenes in this narrative are very memorable such as the clashing rocks, the court of Colchis, the attack on a city by the evil king, the contests (all too brief) to choose the champions as crew for the ship and the Olympus segment where Jason, standing onto a god’s hand, is introduced to the gods and is granted only three pieces of help from Hera. During his quest we also have the escape of the Argo in the fog from Aeetes’ fleet, and the aforementioned battle with the skeletons. It is curious that US filmmakers have never made a single fictional film about the ancient Greek or republican Roman past that is their ethnical heritage. Could it be the individualism of men in the classic Age that Hollywood tsars could not grasp? This is not quite a great film; but it is vivid and in all areas – entertaining.
Filed Under: Film Reviews · Tagged: 1960s, action, adventure, ancient Greece, blog, entertainment, films, myths, Ray Harryhausen
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The Province of Manitoba has announced the cannabis retailer that has been chosen to serve the Town of Niverville.
The name of the company selected for Niverville is Canna Cabana Inc. The selection process consisted of a randomized draw from approximately 100 pre-qualified candidates who are seeking to open cannabis stores in the province. In the event that Canna Cabana does not choose to take the opportunity, Red River Coopoerative Ltd. has been announced as the standby retailer.
Niverville Mayor Myron Dyck says town council has done their due diligence and has identified where a cannabis store can be located in the town.
“We’ve taken out our maps, we have looked at the provincial regulations as far as 1,000 feet from institutions such as schools for example and we have identified two areas in town where it could go. One being on the eastern portion of Bronstone Drive just off of PR 311, where our new town office is, or in our business park.”
In late March, Niverville was selected as one of seven rural communities to get a cannabis store as the province tries to fulfill it’s pledge to have an outlet within a 30-minute drive of 90% of the population.
Dyck says once the chosen business decides to move forward, the town will handle it the same way they do all other local businesses.
“The next step is in the hands of the primary selected. They have 10 days to accept if they are prepared to set up in the community. Once that is done then obviously they would be looking for a place to set up shop. At that point, we would have to do a conditional use like we would with any business looking to set up in our community. Right now it is kind of wait and see on the towns side.”
Dyck says council has heard from a number of residents and they have been meeting with a few community groups such as the Niverville ministerial to discuss how retail cannabis could affect the town. He says he has been encouraging residents of Niverville to educate themselves. He recommends reading the health information made available by the Province of Manitoba.
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Birthdays, Commemorations, Community, Seniors August 3, 2015
Agnes Fenton of Englewood, NJ Turns 110, Has “Nothing to Complain About”
God and Johnnie Walker Blue are the keys to longevity says Agnes Fenton, who turned 110 years old on Saturday. Fenton still lives in her own home in Englewood. NJ. (AMY NEWMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
“The birthday is just another day,” Agnes Fenton whispered, pooh-poohing the milestone she reaches Saturday. Fenton, who has a lovely face, celebrated No. 110.
And just like that, the beloved Englewood resident — who has extolled the wonders of Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker — punched her ticket into the ultra-exclusive “supercentenarian” club.
Of the 7 billion people on the planet, a microscopic number are 110 or older. Robert Young, director of the Gerontology Research Group, which keeps track of supercentenarians, estimates 600. Dr. Thomas Perls, founding director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University School of Medicine, of which Fenton is a participant, puts the number at 360.
That means roughly 1 in every 10 million people in the world is a supercentenarian. Which makes Agnes Fenton special. Just don’t tell her that.
When a reporter visited her in the run-up to the big birthday, Fenton answered “lousy” when asked how she felt. But she warmed to the conversation and emphasized that God is the reason she’s lived this long.
“When I was 100 years old, I went to the mirror to thank God that I was still here. And I thank him every morning,” she said in a voice one must strain to hear. She sat in a wheelchair at the kitchen table in her green-shingled, Cape Cod-style home near Route 4.
“He gave me a long life and a good life, and I have nothing to complain about. … You’ve got to have God in your life. Without God, you’ve got nothing.”
Agnes Fenton was born Agnes Jones on Aug. 1, 1905, in Holly Springs, Miss. She spent her early years in Memphis and ran a restaurant there called Pal’s Duck Inn. Fenton, who has no children, came north to Englewood in the 1950s with her second husband, Vincent Fenton. She worked as a cafeteria manager for a magazine publisher, then as a nanny. Her husband, whom she called “Fenton,” died in 1970.
Nurses stay with Agnes Fenton around the clock. Neighbors and firefighters check on her, as does 66-year-old Lamont Saunders of Teaneck, who has known Fenton his entire life and calls her “Aunt Aggie.” Fenton was a dear friend of Saunders’ late mother, and from Aunt Aggie, Saunders said he has learned “honesty and being true to yourself.”
Fenton, whose eyesight and hearing are intact, reads The Record daily and listens to news on the radio. She enjoys visits from fellow parishioners of St. Mark’s Methodist Church in Harlem. She says her prayers. She sleeps a lot.
Since becoming a centenarian, Fenton’s been quite the Englewood celebrity. She’s received government proclamations, and birthday greetings from President Obama and Governor Christie. NVE Bank tossed its longtime customer a 107th birthday in conjunction with its own 125th anniversary celebration. Englewood has proclaimed Saturday “Agnes Fenton Day.” The city’s first Agnes Fenton Day was 10 years ago.
Just before her 105th birthday, Fenton was introduced to the nation. In an ABC World News report on the secrets to a long life, Fenton admitted that she had enjoyed beer and a whiskey every day for decades.
She told ABC that her only serious health problem was a long-ago benign tumor and that the doctor discharged her with one word of advice.
“He said, ‘Agnes, you must drink three Miller High Lifes a day.’ ”
“So Aggie’s enjoyed three beers and a shot of scotch every day for almost 70 years,” the ABC correspondent marveled.
Fenton prefers Johnnie Walker Blue Label, the top-shelf stuff. “Each of our centenarians has their different secrets,” said Stacy Andersen, a project manager with the New England Centenarian Study. “If Agnes feels hers is alcohol, maybe it is, but certainly we don’t find that to be consistent across all our centenarians.”
Fenton has been enrolled in the genetic study for five years. Researchers communicate with her and her caregivers by telephone and written questionnaire.
Unfortunately for Fenton, the daily booze is now history. Because she eats little now (her favorite foods are chicken wings, green beans and sweet potatoes), the caregivers do not want her to have alcohol.
Researchers say centenarians typically show such characteristics as a steady routine and avoidance of stress. Family history plays a big part, too. Dr. Kenneth Wasserman, Fenton’s personal physician for close to 20 years, can’t explain her astonishing longevity.
Declining to go into details, he said: “The few things she’s had wrong with her have disappeared in ways they should not have. Her health has been phenomenal. … She’s completely, thoroughly amazing.”
article by Jay Levin via northjersey.com
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4 thoughts on “Agnes Fenton of Englewood, NJ Turns 110, Has “Nothing to Complain About””
jf says:
need to try this, problem is I am allergic to beer, guess whiskey will have to do. God bless her
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Ah, longevity…I like Ms. Fenton’s recipe for it! I enjoy Johnnie Walker Blue Label as well.
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Th3rd World Studios Serializes the New All-Ages series Thanatos Diver for FREE online
Posted on May 12, 2015 by Brett
Th3rd World Studios is following their hit, NY Times Bestselling series The Stuff of Legend and critically acclaimed fantasy graphic novel Finding Gossamyr with a new fun filled adventure title, Thanatos Diver, sure to please fans of any age. The series, which was released internationally on this year’s Free Comic Book Day, follows a young girl named Samantha on an underwater treasure hunting adventure that leads her to a strange and exciting uncharted world. With only a week under its belt, this exciting new story is already drawing high praise from retailers and news outlets alike.
The series is created by Archaia alumni and best pals Nick Tapalansky and Alex Eckman-Lawn. Their mutual love of old school video games and a healthy dose of classic anime and manga was a huge inspiration for the series. Thanatos Diver will be serialized for FREE every Tuesday and Thursday at www.thanatosdiver.com. For fans who can’t wait to read ahead, completed chapters can also be purchased digitally (DRM FREE) before wrapping up on the website via ComiXology or the Th3rd World Studios website. Completed chapters will eventually be collected and released in incredibly handsome and irresistible print books you can use to impress your friends.
The series, which debuted to fantastic reviews on Free Comic Book Day, already has the first 13 page preloaded, with updates to begin today! So suit up start your dive into adventure!
Th3rd World Studios Dives into Adventure with the new All-Ages series Thanatos Diver
Posted on September 14, 2014 by Brett
Th3rd World Studios has announced a new all-ages JRPG inspired title called, Thanatos Diver. The series, which will hit comic shop stands across the globe this November, follows a young girl named Samantha on an underwater treasure hunting adventure that leads her to a strange and exciting uncharted world, is already drawing high praise from retailers and comic professionals alike.
The series is created by Archaia alumni Nick Tapalansky and Alex Eckman-Lawn. The two’s mutual love of old-school video games and a healthy dose of classic anime was a huge inspiration for the series. That inspiration is easily apparent in the dreamy landscapes and whimsical characters that inhabit the world of Thanatos Diver.
The series, which is set to be released this November, is currently in Diamond Previews for pre-order. Variant covers will be available for the series, featuring a wide range of artists from Jeremy Bastian to David Petersen to Carey Pietsch and Anissa Espinosa.
You can pre-order the book now, and check out some preview pages below.
Review: Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, V.2 #1
There’s something about mice with swords, fighting battles, living lives in complex, visibly-medieval societies in a world full of other rodents and creatures with similar societies that is charmingly appealing, if not downright awesome. Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Volume 2 #1 is just such a comic, following in a long tradition of rodents in literature, comics, and film, from Stuart Little (1945) and its movie (1999), to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), its movie version (1982), to the Redwall series (1986), Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo (1984), and to Image’s The Mice Templar comics (2007). Rodents seems to be culturally recognized around the world in mythology and folklore, partly because some of them learn quickly and can be trained, so they make great pets and cuddly companions (and the most vicious guardians, as Monty Python taught us). Wikipedia even has lists of fictional rodents in literature, comics, and animation!
Mouse Guard is a comic series begun in 2006 by David Petersen, who both writes and illustrates the series for Archaia Studios, and is an Eisner Award-winning publication. The Legends of the Guard imprint is an anthology series based in the Mouse Guard world, which allows other authors and illustrators to tell their own stories with Petersen’s creation.
This issue is the first in the second volume, and features stories by Stan Sakai (“Autumn Tale”), Alex Eckman-Lawn and Nick Tapalansky (“Leviathan”), and Ben Caldwell (“A Bone to Pick”). These three stories are embedded rather sweetly within a larger narrative drawn and written by Petersen himself. The premise: a bunch of mice have been lodging at a tavern, all of them racking up large debts to the owner, who offers that whoever tells the best story will have their debts cleared. This provides an easy entre into the Mouse Guard world, and though I’ve never read a single Mouse Guard issue before I felt right at home with the tales, each of which was tenderly written and could easily be understood by children but which are still mature enough in thematic content (or cute silliness, as with “A Bone to Pick”) to be appealing to adults.
The art for each of the three stories differs from beautiful watercolor-esque panels by Stan Sakai (47 Ronin, Usagi Yojimbo) to the more sketched, ethereal look of Eckman-Lawn’s illustrations, and finally Caldwell’s very fun, yet still complex art in the final story (reminiscent of The Secret of NIMH animation, actually). The pacing between stories and in the Petersen interludes allows for each story to be satisfactorily told, with enough interest created to desire just a little (or a lot!) more from each story-teller.
This is my first experience with Mouse Guard, but I have to say that I’m not only looking forward to delving into Petersen’s rodent world, but I’ll for sure put the next issue of this anthology, Legends of the Guard, Volume 2 on my pull-list. If you’re a fan of any of these artist, love rodent stories, or just want something fun to read and beautiful to look at, then this is the book for you.
Story: David Petersen, Stan Sakai, Nick Tapalansky, Ben Caldwell Art: David Petersen, Stan Sakai, Alex Eckman-Lawn
Story: 8 Art: 9 Overall: 8 Recommendation: Read
Archaia provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Preview: Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 2 #1 (of 4)
Posted on June 22, 2013 by Brett
MOUSE GUARD: LEGENDS OF THE GUARD VOL. 2 #1 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.50 U.S.
Page Count: 24 pages
Format: staple bound, 8” x 8”, full color
Ship Date: June 16 in comic shops
Rating: E – EVERYONE (all ages, may contain minimal violence)
Written by David Petersen, Stan Sakai, Ben Caldwell, and Nick Tapalansky
Illustrated by David Petersen, Stan Sakai, Ben Caldwell, and Alex Eckman-Lawn
Cover by David Petersen
The 2011 Eisner Award winner for best anthology is back with a second volume! In a mouse tavern called the June Alley Inn, a new round of storytelling begins between the patrons. Their goal is to be declared the best story of the night in hopes of having their outstanding bar tabs cleared! Legends of the Guard continues the tradition of featuring hand-picked artists and storytellers by series creator David Petersen. This issue features Stan Sakai (Usagi Yokimbo), Ben Caldwell (The Dare Detectives!), and the Awakening team of Nick Tapalansky and Alex Eckman-Lawn!
Archaia Announces Volume 2 of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard
Posted on March 22, 2013 by Brett
New legends will be forged! Archaia has announced a second volume of the Eisner Award-winning anthology miniseries Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard. The first of four issues is set to debut in May 2013. Mouse Guard is the best-selling fantasy comic book series created by Michigan-based David Petersen about a group of elite warrior mice who serve to protect and guide the common mice under their care.
As in the first volume, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 2 finds a group of mice at the June Alley Inn trying to outdo one another in a storytelling competition, spinning typically fantastic tales of the Mouse Guard and their adventures. After all, the mouse that tells the best story gets their bar tab cleared! Petersen writes and illustrates the tavern scenes, while each contributor (or team of contributors) writes and illustrates the different mouse tales.
Petersen has assembled another all-star lineup for this four-issue miniseries. The contributors to issue #1 of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 2 include Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo), Ben Caldwell (The Dare Detectives!), and the team of writer Nick Tapalansky and illustrator Alex Eckman-Lawn (Awakening).
Subsequent issues will include contributions from Christian Slade (Korgi), Rick Geary (The Adventures of Blanche), Jemma Salume (Unicorn Life Cycle), Jackson Sze (concept art on films like The Avengers and Iron Man 3), Cory Godbey (Fraggle Rock, the upcoming Jim Henson’s Labyrinth), Eric Canete (Fear Itself: Spider-Man), C.P. Wilson III (The Stuff of Legend), Bill Willingham (Fables), and fantasy illustrator Justin Gerard.
Archaia will release the hardcover collection in late Fall of 2013.
Archaia Debuts First Softcover at Baltimore Comic Con
Posted on August 20, 2011 by Brett
ARCHAIA ENTERTAINMENT TO DEBUT ITS FIRST SOFTCOVER TITLE ‘AWAKENING OMNIBUS’ AT BALTIMORE COMIC CON
BALTIMORE, MD (August 19, 2011) – Eisner Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment will debut its first softcover title, Awakening Omnibus, at Baltimore Comic Con, it was announced today by Archaia Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Christy.
Known for its reputation for publishing beautifully designed, high-quality hardcover graphic novels, Archaia ensures the Awakening Omnibus will be produced under the same high standard of quality in an eye-catching, sturdy and durable softcover volume.
Awakening Omnibus, by writer Nick Tapalansky and artist Alex Eckman-Lawn, tells the story of a small town besieged by a series of bizarre deaths. When the town crazy suggests a zombie outbreak, retired detective Derrick Peters sets out on an investigation that will prove whether this witness is truly insane, or whether reality itself has a taken a bizarre turn into the macabre. The Omnibus collects material previously published in two hardcover volumes.
“The Awakening Omnibus softcover is the perfect way to introduce this title to new readers, especially since copies of the Volume 1 hardcover are no longer available at our distributors,” said Archaia Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy. “Our intention is to open Archaia to a new market of readers who may have never read one of our books before, and with softcovers, we believe we can entice that group to give us a try.”
The Awakening Omnibus (softcover, full color, 320 pages, $24.95, ISBN-13: 9781936393213) goes on sale Sept. 7 in comic book shops, but Tapalansky and Eckman-Lawn will debut copies of the book at Baltimore Comic Con on Aug. 20-21, held at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Archaia plans to continue offering quality softcover titles in the months to come, including Fraggle Rock Classics Vol. 1, a digest-sized collection of Fraggle Rock comics from the 1980s. Subsequent softcover titles will be announced for release in 2012.
About Archaia Entertainment
Archaia is a multi-award-winning graphic novel publisher with more than 50 renowned publishing brands, including such domestic and international hits as Mouse Guard, Return of the Dapper Men, Gunnerkrigg Court, Awakening, The Killer, Days Missing, Tumor, Syndrome, Artesia, Engineer, and an entire line of The Jim Henson Company graphic novels. Archaia has built an unparalleled reputation for producing meaningful content that perpetually transforms minds, building one of the industry’s most visually stunning and eclectic slates of graphic novels. Archaia was named Graphic Novel Publisher of the Year according to Ain’t it Cool News, Graphic Policy, and Comic Related, and was honored with nine 2011 Eisner Awards nominations. Archaia has also successfully emerged as a prolific storyteller in all facets of the entertainment industry, extending their popular brands into film, television, gaming, and branded digital media.
Preview – Archaia Announces ‘Moon Lake’
ARCHAIA AND DAN FOGLER GET THEIR FREAK ON WITH ‘MOON LAKE’
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL IS A HORROR ANTHOLOGY FEATURING ALIENS AND FREAKS AND BEARS! OH, MY!
Los Angeles, CA (August 23, 2010) – Fangs, freaks and fright fill Archaia Black Label’s newly announced horror anthology, MOON LAKE, an original graphic novel hardcover coming October 2010 in association with the diversely talented writer/director Dan Fogler and his company, UNKATUSH, Inc.
MOON LAKE (oversized hardcover, full color, 112 pages, 7.25” x 11.25”, $19.95) is a collection of short horror stories based in and around the titular, haunted body of water, which was the basis of Fogler’s independent horror movie, HYSTERICAL PSYCHO.
“The idea for the graphic novel came from wanting to expand the world of HYSTERICAL PSYCHO,” said Fogler. “The movie takes place up north at the eternally haunted region called Moon Lake. The tone of the film is like Alfred Hitchcock on acid meets EVIL DEAD, so I thought, why not do HITCHCOCK PRESENTS on acid, or TALES FROM THE CRYPT on crack, or TWILIGHT ZONE on THC…you get the picture. MOON LAKE is an anthology telling the hysterically horrific tales of Moon Lake from prehistoric times through today and into the possible future. Not all the stories are funny but they sure as hell are freaky…”
“Anyone who loves 50-foot tall zombie dinosaurs, naked women from the dawn of prehistory, horny sasquatches, secret wars on the lunar surface and learning the truth about how humans were created by aliens who spliced their DNA with the DNA of Earth monkeys, I guarantee that MOON LAKE is the one book that you absolutely cannot miss this year,” said Archaia Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy. “Dan Fogler is one of the most amazing creators I’ve ever had the honor to work with, and I feel so lucky that we’ve been able to bring his vision to life here at Archaia. I’m only sorry that Dan and I will have to wait to share the wonders of ‘Cannibal House’ and ‘Ben Franklinstein’ until MOON LAKE Vol. 2.”
Fogler’s illustrated alter ego, the Man in the Moon—a demonic spoof of Alfred Hitchcock—will introduce each story in the chapter breaks, featuring the art of rising talent Brooke Allen. Fogler will also write a bonus prose story as part of the extras in the back of the graphic novel, with illustrations by Scott Newman (TUMOR).
Joining Fogler will be a group of some of the most talented writers and artists in horror and science fiction comics. Following is a list of the stories appearing in MOON LAKE and their respective creators:
“Camp Sasquatch” short story
(W) Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH)
(A) Robbi Rodriguez (HAZED)
A group of randy camp counselors has a close encounter of the Sasquatch kind.
“Desensitized Deirdre” short story
(W) R. H. Stavis (DEMONS OF MERCY)
(A) Jeffrey Zornow (GRIMM FAIRY TALES, HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE)
A peppy cheerleader has the worst day of her life, transforming her into a manic mass murderer.
“Black Bear Blues” short story
(W) Stef Hutchinson (HALLOWEEN: NIGHT DANCE)
(A) Jim Daly (BAD PLANET)
A spoof of the documentary “Grizzly Man,” in which a man goes out into the wild to commune with grizzly bears—this time, with different results.
“Cave Girl” short story
(W) Brian Holguin (SPAWN)
(A) Tommy Castillo (BATMAN, EVIL ERNIE, TOETAGS FEATURING GEORGE ROMERO)
A prehistoric adventure following the exploits of Cave Girl and her pack of zombie dinosaurs.
“His Final Escape” short story
(W) Nick Tapalansky (AWAKENING)
(A) Alex Eckman-Lawn (AWAKENING)
A Houdini-like escape artist performs one last, fatal stunt in the depths of Moon Lake.
“Moon Wars” short story
(W) Blake Leibel (SYNDROME)
(A) Josh Finney and Kat Rocha (TITANIUM RAIN)
Evoking 1950s, sci-fi B movies, a group of soldiers in high-tech gear battle dozens of Godzilla-like creatures on the dark side of the moon.
“Archaia has put together a great crew,” marveled Fogler. “Each story is a unique puzzle piece that fits together beautifully to create MOON LAKE Volume 1, and in my opinion, the variety of artistic styles throughout the book rivals that of classic issues of HEAVY METAL magazine. My good friend, R.H. Stavis, co-creator of ‘Desensitized Deirdre’—one of my favorite Moon Lake residents—said to go with Archaia because the books they put out are classy and they are extremely creator friendly. And she was absolutely right! I hope to do many more books with Archaia.”
MOON LAKE will be published under Archaia’s new Black Label line of titles, which specializes in co-developing intellectual properties with prestigious partners who are seeking to flesh out and realize their original ideas through the use of Archaia’s resources.
Limited advance copies of the MOON LAKE hardcover will be available at New York Comic Con (Oct. 8-10 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, NY) and go on sale in October wherever books are sold. To pre-order a copy, use ISBN code 978-1-932386-96-7.
About Archaia
Archaia has built an unparalleled reputation for producing meaningful content that perpetually transforms minds. Archaia is: Artesia, Awakening, Beautiful Scars, Berona’s War, The Black Knight, Critical Millennium, Cyclops, The Dark Crystal, Dark Fall, Days Missing, The Devil’s Handshake, An Elegy for Amelia Johnson, The Engineer, Everlast, Feeding Ground, Fraggle Rock, God Machine, The Grave Doug Freshley, Gunnerkrigg Court, Hybrid Bastards!, Inanna’s Tears, Johnny Recon, The Killer, Killing Pickman, Labyrinth, The Lone and Level Sands, Lucid, Miranda Mercury, Moon Lake, Mouse Guard, Mr. Murder Is Dead, Okko, One in a Million, Primordia, Return of the Dapper Men, Robotika, Saga, The Secret History, Some New Kind of Slaughter, Starkweather: Immortal, Syndrome, A Tale of Sand, Titanium Rain, Trial By Fire, and Tumor.
For more information on Archaia or any Archaia titles please visit www.Archaia.com. Archaia can also be found on Facebook (facebook.com/archaiacomics) and Twitter (twitter.com/archaiacomics).
Moon Lake Original Graphic Novel Hardcover
Retail Price: $19.95 U.S
Format: hardcover with dust jacket, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
Ship Date: October 2010
Written by Dan Fogler, Brian Holguin, Stef Hutchinson, Blake Leibel, Tim Seeley, R.H. Stavis and Nick Tapalansky
Illustrated by Tommy Castillo, Jim Daly, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Robbi Rodriguez and Jeffrey Zornow
From the hilariously demented mind of Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” “Balls of Fury,” “Fanboys”) comes Moon Lake! Moon Lake isn’t just any normal body of water—it’s a mysterious portal into the weird, drawing all manner of macabre mysteries to its shores. In the spirit of classic horror tales from EC Comics, Moon Lake combines comedy, horror and adventure into a fantastic anthology, where each story is centered on the strange happenings of Moon Lake.
Mature Readers (contains Nudity, Graphic Violence and Adult Content)
Editorial – This looks and sounds so good. A great line up of writers and artists. It’s one comic I’m looking forward to reading.
Archaia: October 2010 Solicitations
Posted on July 30, 2010 by Brett
DAYS MISSING: KESTUS #2 (of 5)
Format: saddle bound, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
Written by Phil Hester
Illustrated by David Marquez
Cover by Jorge Molina
Archaia and Roddenberry Productions continue the history-making series DAYS MISSING! Since the dawn of mankind, the enigmatic Steward has guided our destiny in solitude. But during his attempt to prevent raging fires from consuming Egypt’s legendary Library of Alexandria, he discovers he’s not alone. A mysterious figure from the Steward’s past reveals herself, and alters The Steward’s existence in ways he never thought possible.
T +13 (Contains material suitable for teen readers age 13 and above)
FEEDING GROUND #2 (of 6)
Written by Chris Mangun and Swifty Lang
Illustrated by Michael Lapinski
Cover by Michael Lapinski
A local enforcer, Don Oso, terrorizes the Busqueda family as their father Diego makes a solitary trek home through the horrors of the Devil’s Highway. Meanwhile, US Border Patrol agents unearth a shocking discovery that threatens to reveal a secret buried in the desert for generations. Also included are 24 pages of bonus content in Spanish!
LUCID #3 (of 4)
Written by Michael McMillian
Illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk
Cover by Anna Wieszczyk
LUCID barrels toward an explosive climax as Agent Dee is pulled deeper into a dark conspiracy fraught with bold, unbridled evil! After a dangerous Magical Artifact created by Matthew’s infamous ancestor disappears from the archives of The School of Black, Matthew travels to London to team up with England’s Combat Mage, the beautiful and enchanting Wren, to hunt it down before all Hell breaks loose. LUCID is Archaia’s first title published in association with Zachary Quinto (“Heroes,” “Star Trek”) and his company, Before the Door.
THE KILLER: MODUS VIVENDI #6 (of 6)
Written by Matz
Illustrated by Luc Jacamon
Cover by Luc Jacamon
The latest volume in this Eisner Award-nominated series comes to a sharp and violent end as our Killer tries to extricate himself from the American plot against Venezuela…
Mature Readers (series contains Nudity, Graphic Violence and Adult Content)
MOUSE GUARD: LEGENDS OF THE GUARD VOL. 1 Collected Edition Hardcover
Retail Price: $19.95 U.S.
Written by David Petersen, Jeremy Bastian, Alex Sheikman, Ted Naifeh, Mark Smylie, Katie Cook, Terry Moore, Alex Kain, Lowell Francis, Guy Davis, Karl Kerschl and Craig Rousseau
Illustrated by David Petersen, Jeremy Bastian, Alex Sheikman, Ted Naifeh, Mark Smylie, Katie Cook, Terry Moore, Sean Rubin, Gene Ha, Guy Davis, Karl Kerschl, Craig Rousseau and João Lemos
Collects the first volume of LEGENDS OF THE GUARD, a new MOUSE GUARD anthology series featuring the work of artists and storytellers handpicked by series creator David Petersen. Bonus content includes an all-new Epilogue illustrated by João Lemos (AVENGERS FAIRY TALES), cover gallery, character lineup, floor plan of the June Alley Inn and creator bios.
AWAKENING VOL. 2 Original Graphic Novel Hardcover
Written by Nick Tapalansky
Illustrated by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Cover by Alex Eckman-Lawn
The truth is unavoidable: There are zombies in Park Falls and, seemingly, the rest of the world. As the situation in the city spins out of control, Detective Derrick Peters and others search for answers amid a mass exodus and murders perpetrated by monsters of a different sort. Follow the conclusion of Park Falls’ harrowing year in the second volume of the critically acclaimed zombie noir series!
Mature Readers (contains Adult Content and Graphic Violence)
THE GOD MACHINE Original Graphic Novel Hardcover
Written by Chandra Free
Illustrated by Chandra Free
Cover by Chandra Free
Stricken with grief from the death of his girlfriend, Sith, Guy Salvatore struggles to make sense of his world. He’s plagued with hallucinations of monsters that torment him with outrageous requests. Enter Satan: a strange, old man who implores Guy to call upon his latent power to break through his world’s plane to rescue Sith, who he claims is floating aimlessly in and out of dimensional planes known as the “Dream Worlds.” But is Satan to be trusted? Is he ever?
Mature Readers (contains Nudity and Adult Content)
THE GRAVE DOUG FRESHLEY Original Graphic Novel Hardcover
Written by Josh Hechinger
Illustrated by mpMann
Cover by mpMann
Douglas Freshley, a former schoolmaster, is hired by his longtime friend, Shane McNally to tutor their rambunctious son, Bat. But when the Delancey gang raids the McNally ranch, killing all the adults, it’s up to the corpse of Doug to rise up, protect Bat and exact some good ol’ frontier justice. Little does he know, however, that he is being stalked by the Deadliest Gun in the West (or anywhere): the Grim Reaper himself.
T+13 (contains material suitable for teen readers ages 13 and above)
Archaia San Diego Comic-Con Signing and Appearance Schedule
ARCHAIA’S SIGNING AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE FOR SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
OVER 40 ARCHAIA WRITERS AND ARTISTS WILL BE ON HAND TO MEET FANS, SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AND OFFER EXCLUSIVE ITEMS
Los Angeles, CA (July 20, 2010) – In anticipation of the largest gathering in North America of comic book and pop culture fans, Archaia Entertainment announced it will be hosting over 40 writers and artists for autograph sessions and meet-and-greet opportunities at its booth at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Calif., to be held July 22-25, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Guests of special note include Brian Froud, a veteran of The Jim Henson Company, who will be on hand to sign exclusive posters for the upcoming Dark Crystal comics; actor/writer Michael McMillian (“True Blood”), who will sign copies of Lucid #1, the first comic to come from the partnership between Before the Door and Archaia; actor/writer/producer/director Dan Fogler (“Fanboys,” “Balls of Fury”), who will be signing a preview book of the upcoming Moon Lake, a hardcover anthology of comedic horror stories; Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen, who’ll be on hand to sign copies of Mouse Guard; Tom Siddell, who will sign copies of the two volumes of Gunnerkrigg Court; Matz, the Eisner Award-nominated writer who will sign copies of The Killer, a popular series originally published in France that has captivated American readers; and Eisner Award-nominated writer Phil Hester, who will sign copies of the Archaia and Roddenberry Productions hardcover, Days Missing. Plus, writers and artists who contributed to the Fraggle Rock comic book will be around all weekend to sign copies of the new hardcover collection.
“Our mission for San Diego Comic-Con is twofold: to thank our loyal readers by rewarding them with the opportunity to meet their favorite Archaia writers and artists, and to reach out to those who may have not yet heard of us but are willing to try something different,” said Archaia Marketing Manager Mel Caylo. “By having over 40 creators rotating at the Archaia booth throughout the weekend, I believe we’ll accomplish just that!”
Archaia will be located at Booth #2635. Here is the schedule* of signings and appearance times:
5:30-7 p.m. TITANIUM RAIN (Josh Finney, Kat Rocha)
7:30-9 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey, Jesse Labbé)
5:30-7 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Sam Humphries, Jeremy Love)
7-8 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Leigh Dragoon)
8-9 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Adrianne Ambrose)
5:30-7:30 p.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
7:30-9 p.m. MOON LAKE (Dan Fogler, R.H. Stavis, Robbi Rodriguez, Tim Seeley)
5:30-7:30 p.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
7:30-9 p.m. STARKWEATHER: IMMORTAL (Dave Rodriguez, Patrick McEvoy)
Featured Table
5:30-9 p.m. GUNNERKRIGG COURT (Tom Siddell)
9-11:30 am. GUNNERKRIGG COURT (Tom Siddell)
11-30 a.m.-1 p.m. THE GOD MACHINE (Chandra Free)
1-3 p.m. THE ENGINEER (Brian Churilla, Jeremy Shepherd)
3-5 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
5-7 p.m. RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN (Jim McCann, Janet K. Lee)
9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Grace Randolph)
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Leigh Dragoon)
12-1:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Sam Humphries, Jeremy Love)
1:30-2:30 p.m. FRAGGE ROCK (Katie Cook)
2:30-4 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Michael DiMotta)
4-5:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Heather White, Jeff Stokely)
5:30-7 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Adrianne Ambrose, Nichol Ashworth)
9-11:30 a.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. MOON LAKE (Dan Fogler, R.H. Stavis, Robbi Rodriguez, Tim Seeley)
2-4 p.m. KILLING PICKMAN (Jason Becker)
4-6 p.m. DAYS MISSING (Trevor Roth, David Marquez, Phil Hester)
9-11 a.m. TITANIUM RAIN (Josh Finney, Kat Rocha)
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. TUMOR (Joshua Hale Fialkov)
12:30-1:30 p.m. STARKWEATHER: IMMORTAL (Dave Rodriguez, Patrick McEvoy)
1:30-2:30 p.m. HYBRID BASTARDS! (Tom Pinchuk)
2:30-4 p.m. ARTESIA (Mark Smylie)
4-7 p.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
9-10:30 a.m. FEEDING GROUND (Swifty Lang, Michael Lapinski, Christopher Mangun)
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MOUSE GUARD (David Petersen)
12:30-1:30 p.m. TUMOR (Joshua Hale Fialkov)
1:30-2:30 p.m. STARKWEATHER: IMMORTAL (Dave Rodriguez, Patrick McEvoy)
3:30-5 p.m. THE DARK CRYSTAL (Brian Froud, Wendy Froud)
5-6 p.m. MOUSE GUARD (David Petersen)
6-7 p.m. ARTESIA (Mark Smylie)
9-11:30 a.m. RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN (Jim McCann, Janet K. Lee)
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. THE ENGINEER (Brian Churilla, Jeremy Shepherd)
2-3 p.m. THE GOD MACHINE (Chandra Free)
3-5 p.m. GUNNERKRIGG COURT (Tom Siddell)
9-10:30 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Michael DiMotta)
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Sam Humphries, Jeremy Love)
12-1:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Adrianne Ambrose, Amy Mebberson)
1:30-3 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Heather White, Jeff Stokely)
3-4:30 FRAGGLE ROCK (Nichol Ashworth, Leigh Dragoon)
4:30-5:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Katie Cook)
5:30-7 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Grace Randolph,
9-10:30 a.m. STARKWEATHER: IMMORTAL (Dave Rodriguez, Patrick McEvoy)
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MOON LAKE (Dan Fogler, R.H. Stavis, Robbi Rodriguez, Tim Seeley)
12:30-2:30 p.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
2:30-4 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
4-5 p.m. FEEDING GROUND (Swifty Lang, Michael Lapinski, Christopher Mangun)
5-7 p.m. LUCID (Michael McMillian)
9-10:30 a.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AWAKENING (Nick Tapalansky, Alex Eckman-Lawn)
1-2 p.m. TITANIUM RAIN (Josh Finney, Kat Rocha)
2-3:30 p.m. TUMOR (Joshua Hale Fialkov)
3:30-4:30 p.m. KILLING PICKMAN (Jason Becker)
5:30-6:30 p.m. THE KILLER (Matz)
9-10:30 a.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
12:30-2 p.m. THE DARK CRYSTAL (Brian Froud, Wendy Froud)
4-5:30 p.m. THE KILLER (Matz)
5:30-6:30 p.m. AWAKENING (Nick Tapalansky, Alex Eckman-Lawn)
9-10:30 a.m. THE ENGINEER (Brian Churilla, Jeremy Shepherd)
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
3-4:30 p.m. THE GOD MACHINE (Chandra Free)
9-10:30 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Leigh Dragoon)
10:30-11:30 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Katie Cook)
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Heather White, Jeff Stokely)
1-2:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Michael DiMotta/Bryce P. Coleman)
2:30-4 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Amy Mebberson, Sam Humphries)
4-5:30 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Adrianne Ambrose, Nichol Ashworth)
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. LUCID (Michael McMillian)
12-1:30 p.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
9-10 a.m. AWAKENING (Nick Tapalansky, Alex Eckman-Lawn)
10-11:30 a.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. TUMOR (Joshua Hale Fialkov)
1-2:30 p.m. AWAKENING (Nick Tapalansky, Alex Eckman-Lawn)
6-7 p.m. HYBRID BASTARDS! (Tom Pinchuk)
9-10:30 a.m. LUCID (Michael McMillian)
12:30-1:30 p.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
4-5:30 p.m. MOON LAKE (Dan Fogler, R.H. Stavis, Robbi Rodriguez, Tim Seeley)
5:30-7 p.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
9 a.m.-12 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
12-2:30 p.m. THE ENGINEER (Brian Churilla, Jeremy Shepherd)
2:30-5 p.m. THE GOD MACHINE (Chandra Free)
9-10 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Katie Cook, Nichol Ashworth)
10-11 a.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Leigh Dragoon)
1-2 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Sam Humphries, Jeremy Love)
2-3 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Adrianne Ambrose, Bryce P. Coleman)
4-5 p.m. FRAGGLE ROCK (Heather White, Jeff Stokely)
9-10:30 a.m. MOON LAKE (Dan Fogler, R.H. Stavis, Robbi Rodriguez, Tim Seeley)
10:30-11:30 a.m. FEEDING GROUND (Swifty Lang, Michael Lapinski, Christopher Mangun)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (Andrew E. C. Gaska, Daniel Dussault)
12:30-2 p.m. LUCID (Michael McMillian)
2-3:30 p.m. SYNDROME (R.J. Ryan, Daniel Quantz, David Marquez, Blake Leibel)
3:30-5 p.m. DAYS MISSING (Trevor Roth, David Marquez, Phil Hester)
9-11 a.m. THE KILLER (Matz)
11 a.m.-1 p.m. TUMOR (Joshua Hale Fialkov)
1-2:30 p.m. KILLING PICKMAN (Jason Becker)
9-11 a.m. RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN (Jim McCann, Janet K. Lee)
11 a.m.-12 p.m. THE ENGINEER (Brian Churilla, Jeremy Shepherd)
12-1 p.m. BERONA’S WAR (Anthony Coffey and Jesse Labbé)
2-3:30 p.m. THE DARK CRYSTAL (Brian Froud, Wendy Froud)
*Schedule is subject to change.
Archaia has built an unparalleled reputation for producing meaningful content that perpetually transforms minds. Archaia is: An Elegy for Amelia Johnson, Artesia, Awakening, Beautiful Scars, Berona’s War, The Black Knight, Critical Millennium, Cyclops, The Dark Crystal, Dark Fall, Days Missing, The Devil’s Handshake, The Engineer, Everlast, Feeding Ground, Fraggle Rock, God Machine, The Grave Doug Freshley, Gunnerkrigg Court, Hybrid Bastards!, Inanna’s Tears, The Killer, Killing Pickman, Labyrinth, The Lone and Level Sands, Lucid, Miranda Mercury, Moon Lake, Mouse Guard, Mr. Murder Is Dead, Okko, One in a Million, Primordia, The Return of the Dapper Men, Robotika, Saga, The Secret History, Some New Kind of Slaughter, Starkweather: Immortal, Syndrome, Titanium Rain, Trial By Fire, Tumor and 10 more new titles in 2010.
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Home/around the world/Canadian city flooded dozens of fur seals. Residents can not do anything because of local law
Canadian city flooded dozens of fur seals. Residents can not do anything because of local law
Sohail January 10, 2019
In Canada, it is forbidden to interfere with the life of marine mammals.
The small Canadian town Roddikton-Bid-Arm (population – about a thousand people) faced an unusual problem – the invasion of dozens of fur seals. Animals that took to the streets of the settlement, blocked the roads and entrances to some buildings. Residents had to ask for help from the federal authorities, because Canadian laws do not allow them to solve the problem themselves.
Fur seals usually do not spend much time on land: they are either in the water or on ice floes nearby. According to the experts of the BBC, in the case of Roddikton-Bid-Arm, the animals went ashore, and then wandered too deep into the provinces and lost orientation. One of the possible reasons is a sharp cooling in early January, which is why the water in the area of the city froze.
The mayor of the Canadian settlement, Sheila Fitzgerald, said that about 40 sea lions remained in Roddikton Bid Arm. They overlook the roads and block the buildings. At the same time, city dwellers cannot help them return to the ocean: the laws of Canada prohibit interfering in the life of marine mammals. Therefore, Fitzgerald appealed to the federal authorities.
Fur seal found in the back of a pickup truck
Seal near the gas station
Seals near the city
Few out for a crawl today pic.twitter.com/Qbb5pazTmD
— Brendon FitzPatrick (@BrendonFitzPat3) January 6, 2019
The seals have taken over in Roddickton-Bide Arm
They've been spotted all over town, and two of the animals have died, but DFO says that's normal https://t.co/jT0HnKdt31 pic.twitter.com/ce6gG6oFyo
— CBC N.L. (@CBCNL) January 9, 2019
During the week of the invasion of fur seals, two animals brought down cars. Locals are worried that the rest of the fur seals are weak and starved. “We are overwhelmed with calls to help. People see animals suffering, ”Fitzgerald said.
Canada laws Social network
WWF launched a stream with the decomposition of a plastic bottle
A three-year-old boy told the police that his father had killed his mother, but they did not believe him. 20 years later he found her remains
In the “unlucky notes” on Channel One “censored” rock carving
The head of Primorye promised to release all animals from the “whale prison” in the natural environment
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Story file
Requires a Quest interpreter: http://textadventures.co.uk/quest/desktop
This game requires an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details.
Microsoft Word document.
The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas
by Luke A. Jones
4 member reviews
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...
Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the bottom of the garden where he lived.
This is a text adventure game in the classic puzzle parser style (but with less hunt the verb/phrase frustration).
This game uses the Quest engine (which is free to download: http://textadventures.co.uk/quest) and you can then play the game file offline (recommended), or you can play online here: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/dwh6ap1wbkqtujkhgxzrog/the-mouse-who-woke-up-for-christmas
First Publication Date: October 1, 2018
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Quest
IFID: Unknown
TUID: 2972hkbtewi2l19d
39th Place - 24th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2018)
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Cute Christmas-themed game, March 2, 2019
by Spike
The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas is a parser game written with the Quest design system. It starts off really cute: You’re a mouse, and it’s Christmas Eve. You have a few more things to do to get ready for Christmas, including finding a present for your young daughter (endearingly represented on the cover art). It turns out that all she wants is (Spoiler - click to show)to have her mother back. Mom went out to the garden months ago and never returned. Nobody knows where she is.
I had fun playing as a mouse. Actions that a human wouldn’t think twice of performing aren’t so easy for a mouse, some of which the author has turned into features of the game. For example, (Spoiler - click to show)you can’t take the spade in the garden; it’s too heavy. Also, you can’t carry anything else if you pick up the cricket ball.
I do think the size aspect of the PC could have been exploited for a few more interesting puzzles, though.
My critiques of The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas are the same issues that so often bedevil us parser authors: a few underclued puzzles, like (Spoiler - click to show)wetting the rock to create a "whetstone" (it's a nice pun, but really hard to come up with on your own) and knocking out the weasel with the cricket ball; some guess-the-verb problems like (Spoiler - click to show)FILL BUCKET, when PUT WATER IN BUCKET and GET WATER don't work, LIGHT/BURN something isn't understood when you clearly need a fire for something, and THROW HOOK to get in the pet shop; as well as not enough feedback when you try something close to the solution, like (Spoiler - click to show)how the text says, "You can’t use it that way" when you try to use the match on the lump of charcoal before pouring lighter fluid on it. It would clue the player that they’re on the right track if the text response was something like, "You try, but the lump of charcoal won’t catch fire. It’s too dry."
My ten-year-old son played through the endgame with me. He really liked (Spoiler - click to show)the ninja outfit, as did I.
The story is sweet in a way that’s endearing rather than annoying (as opposed to certain children’s television programs). The ending is (Spoiler - click to show)predictable but still moving. Meeting Santa Claus and having his elves help save the day was a nice touch as well, storywise.
Overall, a cute Christmas-themed game.
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An expansive and imaginative animal-centered Quest game, June 12, 2019
by MathBrush
Related reviews: about 2 hours
This was the only IFComp 2018 game I had never finished. I finally finished it today. There was no walkthrough at the time of the comp, and the one in there now doesn't work for the last area.
But I finished it today, and that last area wasn't too bad!
The reason I had so much trouble is because Quest has synonym trouble, and the author didn't implement very many synonyms. Quest also has context-sensitive commands, which is great except when it makes commands seem wrong when you're just using them out of order. So for instance, "USE MATCH ON LUMP" gives an error unless you've done everything else completely right.
Other issues are unguessable puzzles, leaps of intuition, etc.
But the characters are fun, and it's all very imaginative. I remember Steph Cherrywell made the switch from Quest to Inform and ended up winning IFComp. I think almost all the issues here are with the Quest engine, and that the author has great ideas that may possibly be expressed in a different format.
Luke A Jones strikes again, November 2, 2018
by R Headkid
In this game, we get to play as Gerald Mouse, who has appeared in a few of Jones's previous games.
This short work is a lot like the author's other Christmas games (trading items we acquire for items on our list), except this game has a bit of adventure at the end.
As another reviewer has noted, there are a few typographical errors, but not so many that it detracted from the fun.
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‘How to be Single’ Delivers an Uninspiring Tale of One Lady’s Promiscuous Journey to Self-Discovery| Mifa Adejumo
With her critically acclaimed performance in the erotic romance thriller “50 Shades of Grey”, one would have expected the next character take for the beautiful actress, Dakota Johnson to have a slight deviation from being an object of one man’s licentious desires and pseudo-sadistic obsessions to something a little more, dare I say, inspiring. Instead, what we have her character ‘Alice’ bring to the table in the February ‘Valentine themed’ Romantic comedy “How to be Single” is nothing more than a giddy, better dressed, and overly coquettish version of ‘Anastasia’ in the E.L James best-selling erotic novel’s screen adaptation. However, it would be a great disservice to Liz Tuccillo, the writer on whose book the eponymous movie is based on, not to note a couple of thin-veiled nuance in her lead character’s preferences and emotional psyche from that of E.L James’.
First, unlike Miss Steel, in the movie “How to be Single” Alice isn’t quite the frail and reticent embodiment of cuteness. She is instead more of a concupiscent and free-spirited every-day girl, who channels the sole desire of the ladies of her generation; a desire to take a break from the dogged routine called life and live out their hedonistic youthfulness with zest. Also instead of being one man’s kinky pet, Alice serves as the libidinous faucet for a number of men in the movie. Plus, there is her sudden transition from geeky-girl-next-door to a flirty, party-girl deviant; traits that I suppose would take Anastasia years to develop or maybe Christian Grey’s improbable demise.
The concise synopsis of the whole movie is centred on Alice’s desire to be free from the restraints, which often encumbers a modern day heterosexual relationship. As such, she temporarily dumps her college boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun) and heads into the Big Apple to work as a paralegal. There she meets and befriends her co-worker Robin, who is played by the ever ebullient and jovially inebriated Rebel Wilson, while she squats with her sister, Meg (Leslie Mann), an OB/GYN who repetitively declares her stale but obviously untrue desires not to have a child or any form of relationship.
The movie tries to superimpose two parallel storylines. There is the tale that revolves around Alice, Meg and Robin and the other which gives a cheeky glimpse into the lifestyle and drab emotions of local bartender and playboy, Tom (Anders Holm) and his Wi-Fi stealing customer Lucy (Allison Brie). Although, Lucy and the rest of the girls never meet or share any screen time together, Alice and Tom do; sleeping with each other twice and being disingenuously unperturbed about their tryst. Alice does however get serious with David (Damon Wayans Jr.) later on. The two hit it off and lost it vaguely apace, in what I would term one of the corniest break-up scenes ever. Her sister, Meg against her asseverated lies of not wanting a baby or a relationship ends up auspiciously with both.
Leslie Mann is an incredible actress but her portrayal of the big sister and emotional unstable aged single lady felt a bit vapid. Nevertheless, she and Allison Brie’s presence can be said to have fostered a positive hype for the movie given the latter’s moderately successful Rom-com “Sleeping with Other People”. But, they both seemed to have held back a little; not giving their characters the full push of their incredible talents; a strategy I suspect, was done in favour Miss Johnson; aimed at helping her prove critics wrong as regards her blockbuster debut as Anastasia Steel, being a fluke. Unfortunately, she does very little to negate such presumptions. Her portrayal of Alice, for lack of a better word, is quite rote. Her character’s emotions seemed forced and dispassionate.
And one may also find it quite ironic that for a movie titled “How to be Single” neither Alice nor any of the ladies involved in her search to find ‘Singledom’ where ever really single in the context of the word –save for Rebel Wilson’s type-casted comical character, Robin.
However, this is not to say that the movie in its entirety never had its moments because that would be untrue. Type-casted as her character was, Rebel Wilson remains a delight to watch. She is the ‘com’ in this Rom-com and literally talks so much about ‘cum’ you would think she was auditioning for a porn role. Props also have to be given to relative new-comer Jason Mantzoukas (Sleeping with other People; Bad Grandpa). The dude plays the eventual love interest to Allison Brie’s character Lucy and is great at it. One of my favourite scenes was his character’s repartee with Tom at the movie’s denouement.
A movie with an ensemble cast such as this is expected to give more. Before its release, I am quite certain that a lot of feminist would have been excited to sit and enjoy 110 minutes of pure pleasure where male actors had to take the back seat while the ladies took the wheel. Not sure if they felt any sense of fulfilment after stepping out of the cinema. The movie is anything but feministic in its take on love, relationship and life. It is enjoyable but uninspiring; and on a scale of 1-10, I give it a 4.
Mifa Adejumo is a writer and novelist. He is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he Majored in Mathematics. He is also an avid music, movie and book lover.
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A Curious Addition to Rey and Kylo Ren's Official Bios Could Be the Key to Star Wars' Future
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Warning: This could be nothing or it could be everything. Sometime in the past few months, the official Star Wars database entries for Rey and Kylo Ren were updated. Admittedly these get updated fairly regularly, adding detail as plot points slide from being considered spoilers to becoming simple facts. But these last updates are very, very curious.
Both entries have added the specific language that Rey and Kylo Ren have a “mysterious connection” and a “strange connection” to one and other.
We know what you’re thinking because we thought it too. “So what?” The film makes it pretty obvious these two Force users have some sort of connection, even if it’s something as simple as a rivalry. But it’s the timing of this addition that really makes us scratch our head.
It’s difficult to find out when specifically the changes were made but, using web.archive.org we can look back at the most recent captures of both pages. For Rey, that last capture was in October 2016; for Kylo Ren, it was December 2016. Neither archive of the page had the phrases in question. We’ve contacted Lucasfilm for comment but have yet to hear back.
For now, we’re left with speculation. Most people are obviously going to assume it proves they’re siblings, a theory that’s been around since The Force Awakens premiered. That may be a “mysterious connection” for Rey, but it’s not a “strange” one—it’s a pretty normal connection.
I’m gonna swing for the fences here, which could mean a home run or a strikeout but, screw it. The Force did “awaken” with the emergence of Rey, right? And what’s the biggest thing that’s happened in the Star Wars universe recently that could have inspired these additions to their official profiles? The title of Episode VIII being revealed as The Last Jedi, of course.
Many people have wondered if the title refers not to just one or two characters, but the concept of Jedi as a whole—that the Jedi themselves are ending. Over the course of the seven films, it’s become pretty obvious that the Jedi, and their specific tenets, haven’t been doing a great job keeping peace in the galaxy. It seems even Luke hasn’t been successful at reviving them, thanks to the Knights of Ren.
And ever since Disney took over the Star Wars canon, it has introduced a great many Force-connected characters who aren’t Jedi. People like Maz Kanata and Lor San Tekka from Force Awakens. Or Chirrut Imwe and the Whills from Rogue One. The same can be said for the Dark Side, as both the Knights of Ren and the Inquisitors of Star Wars Rebels aren’t specifically “Sith.”
So maybe the mysterious connection between Kylo Ren and Rey is they’re the yin and the yang that’s going to change the interpretation of Force. Maybe their struggles will once and for all get rid of the archaic ideas of “Sith” and “Jedi,” ushering in a new era of Star Wars where anyone with Force ability can be whatever they want to be without needing to pick a side. That certainly would be a nice way to clean the slate of the Skywalker saga and start fresh with, say, Episode X, right?
Again, this is pure conjecture. But, maybe...
[StarWars.com via Heroic Hollywood]
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Home Music Frank Kimbrough Quartet
Frank Kimbrough Quartet
The ideas of pianist Frank Kimbrough that echo in the mind find remarkable expression not only in his pianism, but also in the playing of saxophonist Steve Wilson, bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Lewis Nash. With good reason. There is some fine writing for the Frank Kimbrough Quartet on its eponymously titled release. And each of the players seems to have related to their individual roles with a symbiosis that will be the envy of many an ensemble. Once again Mr. Kimbrough strikes out on a bold adventurous course, leading the rest of his ensemble into the profoundly beautiful repertoire with unfettered panache. The romance of his playing provokes them to make music of great emotional power. The pianist leads into the music almost imperceptibly as though through a morning mist, before soaring aloft with a chaste tenderness that captures the reflective nature of the music to perfection. This gives the music a wonderful rounded form and exhilaration, as well as a sense of forward motion. In this regard he finds a staunch ally in Steve Wilson, whose own infections rejoicing is fetching, and between the two musicians the bassist and drummer are holed as well. Through it all Mr. Kimbrough demonstrates commanding musicianship.
Frank Kimbrough is a quiet virtuoso pianist. His technical brilliance has been swathed in the gorgeous arrangements of Maria Schneider’s Orchestra. On his own, however, his ability to express himself with an almost spiritual fervour is legendary. His playing flows with a delightfully natural ebullience and conjures magic in the delicate manner in which he expresses himself throughout the reading of the material at hand. The ruminative “November” and the exquisite beauty of his (and Steve Wilson’s) playing on “Ode” are classic examples of this on the disc. Both men play with tight precision and give virtuosic figures in the music new meaning. The spacious cadenza of “Ode” combines limpid vocalise with insouciant runs. And yet Mr. Kimbrough seems to play with unselfconscious simplicity. Mr. Kimbrough also keeps things splendidly in control and this characteristic is infectious. The intense concentration of other musicians makes for always staying “in the pocket”. Mr. Wilson’s playing must also be given due respect. His warm tone and statuesque gravitas is combined with superb application of light and shade. His playing also relaxes the mood of the pieces artfully and melodies are despatched with airy grace and charm. Such is the imaginative playing of these two men, and their equally supportive rhythmic colourists that the music is ushered home with harmonically loaded melody and rhythmic excellence. Listen to “Afternoon in Paris” and you will see how true this is.
Through all of this comes music that is unfailing in clarity and innate elegance. There is an unerring sense of proportion, a finely-honed mastery of style, melodic finesse and unobtrusive grasp of harmonic rhythm. These are to a note, exemplary performances. Tellingly the record is led to its final dénouement with an almost unbelievably beautiful performance of “It Never Entered My Mind”.
Track List: The Call; Blue Smoke; November; Kudzu; Trouble Man; Herbivore: Ode; Beginning; Afternoon in Paris; It Never Entered My Mind
Personnel: Frank Kimbrough: piano; Steve Wilson: alto and soprano saxophones; Jay Anderson: double bass; Lewis Nash: drums
Label: Palmetto Records | Release date: December 2014
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~fkimbrough/ | Buy music on: amazon
About Frank Kimbrough
Pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough has been active on the New York jazz scene for more than 30 years. He is currently a Palmetto recording artist, having previously recorded as a leader for OmniTone, Soul Note, Igmod, and Mapleshade. Frank was a founding member and composer-in-residence of the Jazz Composers Collective (1992 – 2005) and during the Collective’s existence played in nearly twenty of its associated groups. He continues to perform solo concerts and with his trio, and is otherwise in demand as a sideman. Frank’s playing has been recognized by his inclusion in the Downbeat Critics Poll each year since 2001, and his recordings are often included in jazz critics’ year’s-end top-ten lists. QUARTET, Frank’s latest CD, is new on the Palmetto label, and features Steve Wilson on alto and soprano saxophones, Jay Anderson on double-bass, and Lewis Nash on drums. It includes seven of Kimbrough’s original tunes, with Kurt Weill’s “Trouble Man”, John Lewis’ “Afternoon in Paris”, and the Rodgers and Hart standard “it Never Entered My Mind” rounding out the program..Read more…
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Home > 2011 > 10/25 > Mark Stuart: Player-Hitting, Shot-Blocking Machine
Mark Stuart: Player-Hitting, Shot-Blocking Machine
October 25, 2011, 11:48 PM | Jonathan Willis
Judging by the reaction to Gary Lawless’ column in the Winnipeg Free Press, Jets fans really like defenseman Mark Stuart. He’s something of a throwback defender; he plays a physical game, blocks a lot of shots, and contributes minimally in the offensive zone.
For a defensive defenseman, Stuart has been used in interesting ways by the coaching staff.
Of interest is the number of offensive zone starts that Stuart has been on the ice for. Gabriel Desjardins tracks this information at Behind the Net, and it turns out that Stuart leads all Jets blue-liners in terms of the percentage of shifts that he starts in the attacking zone (usual partner Zach Bogosian ranks second), which is odd usage for a defensive defenseman. It’s particularly odd when one considers the other players on the roster – Stuart’s well down the list of offensively capable defensemen, and while Bogosian has shown flashes in the past he is certainly an inferior scoring option to players like Tobias Enstrom and Dustin Byfuglien.
League-wide, among defensemen who have played more than five games, Stuart ranks fourth overall in percentage of starts in the attacking zone. There’s an interesting mix of names around Stuart, including a lot of inexperienced defenders (players like Yannick Weber, Adam Larsson, Jakub Kindl and David Runblad, to name four). Also on the list are guys with offensive ability; Marc-Andre Bergeron, Brent Burns and Mark Giordano all make cameo appearances.
The player at the top of the list, though, belongs to a third category. Sheldon Brookbank is an extremely limited defenseman with the Anaheim Ducks who has typically filled a “reserve” role – he’s big, mean and can fill a penalty-killing slot, but he’s a liability at even-strength. Typically, players that get a lot of offensive zone starts from their coaches get that work because either a) they contribute offensively in a way others don’t or b) they’re well down on the coaches’ list of preferred defensive-zone options. No matter how poor the lighting, Brookbank doesn’t fit in the first category; clearly, he’s getting those offensive zone starts because the coach wants to protect him rather than because he will fill the net.
It is tempting to label Stuart the same way. He hasn’t gotten a sniff of power play time, because the team has a long list of better offensive options on the back end. A lot of the value that he adds comes on the penalty kill – Stuart’s playing more than three and a half minutes per night shorthanded – and he brings a physical element that the blue line doesn’t get from a lot of other players.
That analysis finds some confirmation in the shot data. In an average hour of 5-on-5 ice time with Stuart off the ice, the Jets outshoot their opponents 27 to 22. In that same average hour, this time with Stuart on the ice, the Jets get outshot 27 to 25.
It’s also not a case of Stuart and Bogosian playing against the best opponents. In Monday’s game against the Rangers, Stuart’s defense pairing barely got a sniff of Gaborik and Richards – instead, they drew New York’s second line. He played roughly 20 seconds against Eric Staal when the Jets hosted the Hurricanes. Tobias Enstrom and Dustin Byfuglien are the players drawing top opponents night after night, and they’re giving up offensive minutes in exchange – among Jets defensemen, only Johnny Oduya has started a higher percentage of his shifts in the defensive zone than Winnipeg’s top two offensive defenders.
That’s not to say Stuart doesn’t have a role. He is logging heavy minutes on the penalty kill. He has earned the admiration of fans for his willingness to stand in front of a shot – something he’s done 21 times, nearly twice as much as the next-best Jets’ skater. He plays a physical style, without taking an undue amount of penalties. There is value in those things.
Going back to Lawless’ column, it’s difficult to agree with the entirety of it. Stuart’s physical play is noted, and obviously the coaches see value in it. But the ideas that Stuart is “essential” and keeps getting ice-time because of “trustworthy” play are more problematic. Stuart’s usage is not that of a player the coaching staff leans on in key situations. Rather, it’s been the usage of a player the coaches like because he can fill a role (physical play and penalty killing) but one that needs careful handling at even-strength.
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I’m a long time (old) modeler that started building back in the early 50’s. My modeling efforts eventually led me to aviation photography and that eventually led me to aviation writing. I have authored a number of IN ACTION books for Squadron/Signal Publications with a special interest in the F4U Corsair.
1/48th Tamiya F4U-1A
by Jim Sullivan on February 21, 2019
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This Corsair is modeled in the markings of VMF-422 as seen on Engebi in May of 1944. The kit was great to work with and went together smoothly with the exception of the joint line where the wing outer panels mate with the wing center section. S[...]
1/32nd FG-1A Corsair
by Jim Sullivan on March 1, 2018
I suspect most any modeler who has been at it for a while decides to take on a challenge to do something a bit off the beaten track. I've always been attracted to the F4U Corsair and have lost track of how many of them I've built over the years.[...]
1/48th Hasegawa P-40N
by Jim Sullivan on January 4, 2018
Built pretty much out of the box except for seat belts and TD wheels, this P-40N was a smooth, trouble-free build. After-market decals were used to mark the plane as one flown by the 8th FS Commander Ernie Harris. He scored 10 kills in that Warh[...]
1/72nd Minicraft PBM-5 Mariner
by Jim Sullivan on June 29, 2017
I found the Minicraft PBM-5 to be an enjoyable build but not without its challenges. For the most part, the kit is nicely engineered with clean crisp parts and finely recessed panel lines. On the negative side, I found that the PBM-5 is a re-pop[...]
IPMS Gastonia, NC Show 4-29-17
by Jim Sullivan on April 29, 2017
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Here are a few of the models seen today at the IPMS Gastonia, NC Show. There were just over 450 models displayed including aircraft, ships, armor, figures, cars and more. Since I lean toward aircraft, most all of the photos I shot were planes. I[...]
1/48 HobbyBoss Early F4U-4
by Jim Sullivan on March 15, 2017
More often than not I now find myself building a model based on some photo that grabs me. Such is the case with this Corsair build. I used the HobbyBoss F4U-4 with the curved windscreen or as HobbyBoss calls it, the early version. The model is i[...]
More Hellcats…
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To join the Hellcat parade, here are four from my shelves. Pic #1 1/32nd Hasegawa built as a F6F-3 Pic #2 1/48th Hasegawa F6F-3 Pic #3 1/48th Eduard F6F-3 Pic #4 1/48th Hasegawa F6F-5
1/48th Hasegawa F4U-5
by Jim Sullivan on August 7, 2016
I Just finished this 1/48th Hasegawa F4U-5 in the markings of VF-41 as seen aboard USS Midway during a Med cruise in 1950. The model is finished in Model Master glossy sea blue over-sprayed with Testors clear gloss. The decals were dug out of ye[...]
1/48 Special Hobby F2G as XF2G-1 14692
by Jim Sullivan on October 22, 2015
While bringing the F2G Corsair into production, Goodyear modified a number Corsairs with different components that would be used on their production F2G's. The R-4360 was test fitted and flown on a F4U-1. Some components tested on other Corsairs[...]
1/48th AMT F7F-3N Tigercat
by Jim Sullivan on September 4, 2015
I found this F7F-3N AMT kit to be a smooth build with no noticeable problems other than those that were self-inflicted. Despite filling the nose with lead, I found the model to be a dedicated tail-sitter. AMT must have been aware of that as they[...]
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CSL Plasma Plasma Lab Technician in Indianapolis, Indiana
Plasma Lab TechnicianUnited States of AmericaR-0799822015 CSL Plasma
With operations in 35+ nations and 22,000 employees worldwide, CSL is driven to develop and deliver a broad range of lifesaving therapies to treat disorders such as hemophilia and primary immune deficiencies, and vaccines to prevent influenza. Our therapies are also used in cardiac surgery, organ transplantation and burn treatment.
CSL is the parent company of CSL Behring and Seqirus. CSL Behring is a global leader in the protein biotherapeutics industry, focused on bringing to market biotherapies used to treat serious and often rare conditions. CSL Behring operates CSL Plasma , one of the world's largest collectors of human plasma, which is used to create CSL’s therapies. Seqirus is the second largest influenza vaccine company in the world and is a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness and a major contributor to the prevention and control of influenza globally.
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Responsible for the accurate and timely sampling, testing, shipping and storage of plasma collected from donors.
1 In compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), responsible for collecting plasma samples and moving plasma units to freezer to ensure product quality.
2 Ensures plasma units are properly stored according to SOPs, which could include unsuitable plasma units and samples.
3 Ensures accuracy of unit labeling by verifying the pre-printed label matches the dynamic label.
4 Utilizes sterile technique to draw samples and uses heat sealer to assure the sterility and quality of plasma unit samples per SOPs.
5 May ensure samples and units are packed and shipped in accordance with SOPs and center procedures. Prepares shipping and unit disposal documentation.
6 Monitors freezer and refrigerator temperatures and immediately informs appropriate personnel if equipment is not functioning properly. Records variances.
7 Conducts daily calibration of equipment according to SOPs.
8 Ensures the accurate recording of donor data in the electronic donor information management system as outlined in the SOPs.
9 Understands the policies and procedures associated with hyper immune programs at the center if applicable.
10 Maintains clean efficient work environment, and ensures sufficient operating supplies and forms are available as needed. Follows all Health Safety & Environmental (HSE) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) policies and procedures. Promotes safety in all actions.
11 Maintains confidentiality of all personnel, donor and center information.
12 May be cross-trained in other areas to meet the needs of the business.
13 Bilingual skills may be required, at the discretion of the organization, to meet the needs of the business.
14 Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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19 years of Jessica Lall murder case: A look backhttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/19-years-of-jessica-lall-murder-case-a-look-back/
19 years of Jessica Lall murder case: A look back
Manu Sharma was convicted by the Delhi High Court in 2006 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentencing was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2010.
By Express Web Desk | Published: April 30, 2018 6:07:00 pm
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Model Jessica Lall was shot dead by Manu Sharma after the former refused to serve him liquor at the Tamarind Court restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani in Delhi. (File photo)
On April 29, 1999, Siddharth Vashishth alias Manu Sharma shot dead model Jessica Lall after the 34-year-old refused to serve him liquor at the Tamarind Court restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani at Qutub Colonnade in south Delhi’s Mehrauli. When Jessica was rushed to Apollo Hospital, doctors declared her brought dead on April 30.
Following a nationwide public outcry against the incident, the Delhi High Court took up the case through a fast-track trial that ended in Manu Sharma’s conviction in 2006 on murder charges.
Manu Sharma. (Express photo by Renuka Puri/File)
In May 1999, Delhi Police recovered a Tata Safari belonging to Manu Sharma from Noida in Uttar Pradesh. A few days later, Manu surrendered before a court in Chandigarh, even as 10 other co-accused in the case, including son of UP politician Vikas Yadav, were arrested. After a chargesheet was filed against the accused under various sections of the IPC, a magistrate court committed the case to a sessions court for trial. The sessions court framed charges against nine accused, discharging one Amit Jhingan.
Jessica Lall’s mother May Lall died in 2000 awaiting justice for her daughter. In May 2001, several prosecution witnesses turned hostile. But in July the same year, Malini Ramani, Bina Ramani, George Mailhot, and Surinder Sharma deposed and identified Manu in court.
In December 2006, the Delhi High Court convicted Manu, Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Singh Gill, and acquitted Aloke Khanna, Vikas Gill, Harvinder Singh Chopra, Raja Chopra, Shyam Sunder Sharma and Yograj Singh. The court awarded life imprisonment to Manu Sharma and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000, while it awarded four years’ prison term with Rs 3,000 fine each for co-convicts Amardeep Singh Gill and Vikas Yadav.
Jessica Lall’s father Ajit Kumar Lall died in 2006 and was undergoing treatment for brain haemorrhage.
Amandeep Gill leaving High Court after the sentencing. (Express photo by Partha Paul)
Shayan Munshi, a primary prosecution witness in the Jessica murder case, and Manocha stand accused of lying under oath during trial before the sessions court. The Delhi High Court registrar had filed two separate complaints against them in September, 2013, after the High Court passed an order on March 22, 2013, directing their prosecution for perjury.
Munshi was granted bail by the Delhi court in 2014 and was also imposed several conditions, saying he would regularly attend the hearings and shall not influence witnesses or tamper with the records in any manner and would inform it before leaving India.
Shayan Munshi at Economic Offences Wing. (Express photo by Vikram Sharma)
In early 2015, the murder convict Manu Sharma completed his post-graduation from Indian Institute of Human Rights after he was released on a thirty-day parole by Delhi High Court for appearing in the exams. Later on April 22, Sharma got married to a Mumbai woman whom he had known for the last 10 years but had to delay his marriage plans due to the conviction.
In 2016, Sharma was granted two weeks parole by the Delhi government to appear for his LLB course exams.
For the past six months, Sharma has been moved to an “open jail” considering his good conduct. The 41-year-old is allowed to leave the prison every day for work and return in the evening.
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CASE STUDY: TOUR FIRST
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Standing at 230 meters, Tour First is a 44-story office tower in Paris, home of the financial services firm EY and insurer Euler Hermes, a subsidiary of Alliance Group. On a daily basis, over 4,500 people work or visit the building. Tour First was built in 1974 and extensively refurbished earlier this decade. Architects added 200 feet to the height, making it the tallest building in France, brought the interior up to modern standards and added a number of sustainable features that transformed the building into the largest fully HQE and BREEAM In Use-certified office tower in France. With renovations complete and the office tower up to world-class standards, Beacon Capital Partners, the owners at the time, wanted to ensure that the tenant services matched the quality of the newly remodeled space, and offered a differentiated work environment from newer assets in the area.
Solution & Outcome
CBRE Asset Services was appointed in April 2015 as Property Manager of Tour First. CBRE’s initial focus was to elevate the standard of services offered at Tour First and in doing so raise the level of tenant satisfaction and ultimately tenant retention. To do so, CBRE implemented its Premier Property Program, offering tenants global standards of service that rival those of five-star hotels. It reorganized the security and reception teams and retrained both on-site employees and service providers to new standards of excellence. CBRE improved reception areas; launched a VIP hostess desk and green spaces; developed a number of new tenant services such as a cloud-based room booking tool; and began offering distinct events in the tower including culinary experiences, film nights, “detox” days and charity events. To measure the effectiveness of the program, CBRE commissioned a Kingsley survey 9 months after beginning the Premier Property Program. The survey results found tenant satisfaction scores rose 24% during that time period. As a result of the improvements, key building tenants EY and Euler Hermes both extended their leases in 2016, and one firm expanded their footprint to include an additional floor reducing the overall vacancy rate of the building to less than 15%. In 2016, Tour First was acquired by AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, acting on behalf of its clients. Based on the success of the asset under CBRE’s leadership, AXA IM - Real Assets extended CBRE’s contract in order to maximize the value of the asset and deliver on its business plan, including expansion of amenities such as a new fitness center for tenants.
“The excellent feedback from our premier tenants – EY and Euler Hermes – and the high quality services in place are tangible evidence of the value CBRE is delivering. The CBRE team is proactively managing the asset, always looking for opportunities to continue to deliver world-class results and positive impact on the investment we made on behalf of our clients in the building, which was the single largest asset deal for the last 2 years in the French market.“
Jérôme Delaunay, Head of Asset Management & Transactions France, AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets
“CBRE’s global platform has been key to our success. Our teams in the Premier Property program collaborate across Europe, the U.S. and Asia to bring together the best customer management knowledge, allowing us to offer exceptional services at an international standard. The buildings in this program, all exceptional in terms of size, design and quality, benefit from a service designed to enhance their value and safeguard their respective brands.”
Aymeric Canivenc, Business Development and Marketing Director, CBRE Asset Services
“The success of our mission was achieved by a flawless collaboration and communication between service lines, including Asset Services, Accounting and Financial, Project Management and Capital Markets. We also worked closely with the leasing team in the marketing of vacant space.”
Marlène Clément-Demenge, General Manager, Tour First, CBRE Asset Services
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N.C. Senate passes Jordan Lake Rules
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Update (6/19/09): The House chamber will vote on Monday, June 22, whether to approve the Senate's technical changes to HB 239--the final vote required before the bill is presented to the Governor for approval. The House previously voted 106-8 to approve a similar version of the bill.
Today, the N.C. Senate approved House Bill 239 (also known as "Restore Water Quality in Jordan Reservoir"), which would allow a state-mandated pollution-reduction program for Jordan Lake to go forward, while curtailing some of its reach. A critical drinking-water source for the region, Jordan Lake has been on the EPA's Impaired Waters list since 2002, due to pollution from development. (For more background, see the "Jodan Lake rules" tag on Triangulator.) The House previously approved a similar version; the bill is headed there for a final vote, in order to approve technical changes to the bill's language, before ratification.
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Sara Bareilles’ Waitress to Play Broadway This Spring
After its current run at the American Repertory Theater, Waitress is heading to Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre this season. Directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, the show features a score by Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson. Broadway previews will begin in March 2016, with opening night set for April. Exact dates will be announced later.
Though no official casting is set for the Broadway engagement, the ART production stars Tony winner Jessie Mueller, along with Keala Settle, Jeanna de Waal, Eric Anderson, Joe Tippett and Drew Gehling. The production will close at the Cambridge venue on September 27.
Based on the 2007 film by the late Adrienne Shelly, Waitress follows Jenna, a pregnant waitress in the south trapped in an abusive marriage and looking for a happy ending. She finds relief—and potentially that happy ending—by making creatively titled pies and forming a romance with an unlikely newcomer.
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Difference Between Leader and Manager
Last updated on December 31, 2018 by Surbhi S
There is always a buzz when we talk about a leader and the manager. Leadership is a skill and the person who possess this ability is known as a LEADER. On the other hand, Management is a discipline, and the practitioner of this discipline is known as the MANAGER.
Leader and manager have a great role to play in any organization, in the sense that a leader is the one who inspires, encourages and influence his men, to work willingly, in the attainment of the organization’s objectives. On the other hand, a manager is an important link between the firm and its stakeholders, i.e. employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, government, society, and so forth. He is the one who performs basic managerial functions.
This article excerpt might help you to understand the difference between leader and manager, take a read.
Content: Leader Vs Manager
A leader is a person who influences his subordinates to achieve a specified goal. A manager is a person who manages the organisation and is responsible for planning, direction, coordination and control
Approach Sets Direction Plans details
Attribute Foresightedness Mind
Subordinate Followers Employees
Style Transformational Transactional
Decision Facilitates decision Makes decision
Aim Growth and development. Attainment of the required result.
Focus People Process and Procedure
Change Leaders promotes change. Mangers react to change.
Conflict Uses conflict as an asset Avoid conflict
People Aligns people Organizes people
Strives For effectiveness For efficiency
Definition of Leader
A leader is a person who influences his followers to achieve a specified goal. He is a person with a vision and inspires his followers in such a way that it becomes their vision. He helps them in making the strategy to achieve the goal and possesses a good foresightedness along with the other qualities like- motivating the subordinates, creating teams, innovation, developing trust among the stakeholders, etc.
A leader is required at all levels of the organization which acts as a representative of the organization. He encourages the whole team to work together and supports them in accomplishing their tasks, as a guide or a philosopher.
Definition of Manager
A manager is a person who manages the organization such that he is responsible for planning, organization, direction, coordination and control. They are the ones who get their work done by the employees through several ways and has the authority to hire or fire the employees. There are various types of managers present in an organization such as top level managers, functional managers, project manager, general manager.
The role of these managers depends on their nature of work like top level managers are held responsible for the vision and mission of the organization, functional managers are responsible for different areas of their work like marketing, sales, accounting, etc. Project managers take the responsibility of accomplishing a certain project, and the role of a general manager is vivid i.e. the various activities performed in the business are managed by him.
Key Differences Between Leader and Manager
The difference between leader and manager can be drawn clearly on the following grounds:
A leader influences his subordinate to achieve a specified goal, whereas a manager is a person who manages the entire organization.
A leader possesses the quality of foresightedness while a manager has the intelligence.
A leader sets directions, but a manager plans details.
A manager takes decision while a leader facilitates it.
A leader and the manager is that a leader has followers while the manager has the employees.
A manager avoids conflicts. On the contrary, a leader uses conflicts as an asset.
The manager uses transactional leadership style. As against this, transformational leadership style is used by the leader.
Leaders promote change, but Managers react to the change.
A leader aligns people, while a manager organizes people.
A leader strives for doing the right things. Conversely, the manager strives for doing the right things.
The leader focuses on people while a manager focuses on the Process and Procedure.
A leader aims at the growth and development of his teammates while a manager aims at accomplishing the end results.
Video: Leader Vs Manager
In an organization, it is the manager who performs the five major functions, i.e. planning, organizing, leading, controlling and coordinating. So, if we say a manager is also a leader, the statement will be correct, but not all the managers are leaders as only those managers are considered as a leader who performs the functions like leaders such as encouraging, motivating, inspiring and so on. Further, the leader can be any person who influences others, the title is not attached to a management position. On the other hand, a manager can only be a person holding a management position.
Qualities of a Leader
Ability to inspire
Open minded
Qualities of a Manager
Committed to work
Effective Decision-Making
After discussing a lot about the difference between a leader and a manager, we can conclude that both are necessary for the organization success. A good leader and manager can help the organization, to survive in the long run and compete with its competitors.
The role of a leader is positive, wherein he figures out the hidden talent in his followers and gives them a proper guidance to achieve the goal. While the role of a manager is a little negative, wherein he criticizes its employees just to make them best in their fields, but not to demoralize them.
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Coach Mac Takes Over At Valor Christian
posted by Mike Rice - Feb 6, 2018
Former Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey is introduced as the new head coach at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch on Tuesday night. (Photo: Mike Rice/KOA NewsRadio)
HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO -- Now, you can call him Coach McCaffrey.
Tuesday night, former Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey was introduced as the new head coach of the Valor Christian High School Eagles.
"I love coaching," McCaffrey told Mike Rice of KOA NewsRadio and Orange and Blue 760. "I love the commraderie with the coaching staff, I love teaching the kids. I love pushing them to be good but showing them some love, the smiles when they do something right, the feeling of fulfillment when they push themselves farther than they thought they could push themselves. For all the reasons we all love football, I love coaching."
McCaffrey, a three-time Super Bowl champion during his 13-year NFL career with the Giants, 49ers and Broncos, has coached at the youth level but this will be his first head coaching job at the high school level or higher.
Valor linebacker Ethan Zemla, who played for McCaffrey as an eighth grader, knows Coach McCaffrey will fit in just fine.
"I had a great experience with him. He's a great coach. He really focused on mentoring his players, focused on development and improving his guys," Zemla said.
McCaffrey has a decade-long history with Valor, going back to when the school opened. Each of McCaffrey's four sons -- Max, Christian, Dylan and Luke -- have attended Valor and played for the Eagles. Luke will be a senior next fall.
"Valor wasn't even accredited ten years ago. They were 3A in football and had a losing record when we first dropped our son Max off at the school. We didn't send them here for football. We sent them here because we fell in love with the faculty members and the coaches and the people we hoped would serve as mentors for our kids away from our home," McCaffrey said.
McCaffrey said he previously resisted coaching in any capacity with the Valor football program.
"I didn't want to be a distraction. As hard as it was to not coach with these coaches over the last ten years, I did it because I thought it was what was in the best interest of my sons and the program."
"But deep down inside, it's been a passion of mine and I've wanted so badly to join the staff and coach high school football."
He never, however, expected to be one day be the head coach of the school that has meant so much to him and his family.
"I've been offered several head coaching jobs at other schools across the state over the years. I was very grateful they presented those offers to me. But it just never felt like the right place for me because this is where my heart is, at Valor Christian High School, McCaffrey admitted.
"I never thought this opportunity would present itself but once it did, I felt like this was probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve and give back in the best way I know how."
McCaffrey takes over a program that won five straight state championships from 2009-13 and won it all again in 2015 and 2016.
"There are high expectations here. But I don't coach for wins and losses. I didn't play for wins and losses. I didn't look for a microphone; I didn't look for a camera. Honestly, for me it was a way to show thanks to the Lord through my efforts. That's really what it meant for me," McCaffrey shared.
"Hopefully if I can get, along with my coaches, some of these kids to really tap into tap into their spirituality, playing for something bigger than themselves and being part of a team [then] they're going to create those friendships on their team that'll last a lifetime. And they'll be able to go out and transform the world for Christ in their own way, whether it's through business or coaching or sports or philanthropy. If there's any way I can contribute to their experience and their path, it's a blessing for me to be able to do so."
With the previous success of Valor football, McCaffrey certainly has big shoes to fill. Athletic director Jamie Heiner believes McCaffrey will be a great fit.
"We're very thankful for the tradition and the foundation that has been laid by Coach [Brent] Vieselmeyer and Coach [Rod] Sherman. Those guys have been tremendous," Heiner said. "Now to be able to introduce a guy like Coach McCaffrey, I feel very confident" the program is in good hands.
Heiner notes the excitement does not simply stem from McCaffrey's impressive accomplishements on the football field.
"He's a guy that has enjoyed that level of success but also loves pouring into and mentoring young men and is so passionate about the game of football. It's very exciting for our school to have a leader like that," Heiner added.
Below are the full interviews with Coach McCaffrey, Valor athletic director Jamie Heiner, Valor linebacker Ethan Zemla and Valor running back Joshia Davis.
Pictures from Coach McCaffrey's introduction on Tuesday, February 6 and the school's press release follow.
Coach McCaffrey with Mike Rice.
Valor athletic director Jamie Heiner with Mike.
Valor linebacker Ethan Zemla with Mike.
Valor running back Joshia Davis with Mike.
All photos: Mike Rice/KOA NewsRadio and Orange and Blue 760
New Valor Christian High School head football coach Ed McCaffrey.
Coach McCaffrey addresses Valor players, parents and faculty during his introduction as the school's new head football coach.
New Valor football coach Ed McCaffrey speaks to players, parents and staff during his introduction on February 6, 2018.
(l to r) Max McCaffrey (wide receiver, San Franciso 49ers), Ed's wife Lisa, Christian McCaffrey (running back, Carolina Panthers), Luke McCaffrey (junior at Valor Christian), Ed McCaffrey.
VALOR CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCES ED MCCAFFREY AS HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO — February 5, 2018 — Valor Christian High School Athletic Director Jamie Heiner announced today that the school has appointed Ed McCaffrey as the Eagles’ next head football coach.
“Ed has been a part of the Valor community for 9 years, and now we’re honored to call him Coach McCaffrey,” said Heiner. “In addition to the incredible experience he brings in developing athletes and their competitive skills, he has a heart for mentoring young men, desiring to help them build character and leadership that will last well beyond their high school years.”
McCaffrey’s four sons have all attended Valor Christian and have played for the Eagles.
“I am committed to the Valor community and genuinely care about our student-athletes as I have prayed and cheered for them at every football game since 2009,” said McCaffrey.
The Eagles achieved consecutive state championships over five straight years from 2009 through 2013, and again in 2015 and 2016.
Now the team anticipates a new season with Coach McCaffrey, whose professional record includes three Super Bowl wins from 1991 to 2004 as an NFL player with the New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos.
During and since his NFL days, McCaffrey’s athletic leadership has benefited thousands of players through youth sports camps and clinics and through his coaching of youth football teams. In 2010, he co-founded the Dare to Play Football and Cheer Camp for children and young adults with Down Syndrome. He is also an analyst and media commentator for the Denver Broncos and the NFL.
“Today I no longer play the game, but I continue to live a life filled with faith, family and football,” said McCaffrey. “I believe coaching football is the best way for me to serve God. Playing football at Valor is not a four-year decision but a lifetime decision that will form our young men as athletes and as leaders.”
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Camus is a international brand of Cognac that has been produced by five generations of the Camus family since 1863. The family has always controlled every stage of the cognac making process from the soil and the grape to the finished blend and the bottle, ensuring that every CAMUS cognac is marked by the personality of the family and the floral character of the Borderies, the smallest and rarest cognac growing area where CAMUS‚ vineyards are located.
21 rue Cagouillet BP19 – 16100 Cognac
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The Hennessy museum is the most recent, the most ambitious and the most modern of all the Cognac houses. The building is made only of materials that are used in the making of Cognac : limestone, copper, wood and glass.
It harbours a wonderfully rich museum on Cognac which covers, of course, the history of the Hennessy house, world leader in sales of Cognac, but also has a cultural calling. It hosts an international exhibition every year. In 1996, inaugural year of the museum, the exhibition was devoted to Ireland, land of the founder of Hennessy Cognac.
Quai Maurice Hennessy – 16100 Cognac
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Martell offers a gigantic step back in time with a “gabare” (Charentais boat) built to the image of those used to transport Cognac to the sea during the 18th century. The gabare was built recently by a local shipyard. You are then taken through the traditional steps in the elaboration of Cognac (from the ageing cellars to the bottling plant) before entering the private home of the founder, Jean Martell, which he acquired in 1750 : The kitchen with the table set, his office, the sitting room as if nothing had moved in 247 years….
Place Edouard Martell, 16100 Cognac
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A mysterious voice announces a voyage into the secrets of the Gods of Cognac. This is how you begin the visit on board the Remy Martin train in Merpins, about 4 km from the main offices. After a visit through the biggest cooperage plant in Europe, you enter the ageing cellars. The train then leaves the darkness and takes you outdoors into nature : through a vineyard, a plantation of maple trees, beautiful flower-beds…
20 rue de la Société Vinicole, 16 100 Cognac
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On the banks of the river Charente, discover our story and experience our craft for yourself. Our exclusive tours offer unforgettable moments for you to savour. From sensory tastings to our historical museum. From our famous Paradis cellar which houses cognac dating back to Napoleon himself, to visiting the cooperage where our ageing barrels are hand-made to exacting standards.
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Garment factory fire confirms Bangladeshi inspection agencies are not yet up to their task
Clean Clothes Campaign, International Labor Rights Forum, Maquila Solidarity Network and Worker Rights Consortium
A fire in a Bangladeshi garment factory in Dhaka this week injured eight people, local media reports say. This tragic incident happened during a period of uncertainty and negotiation about the future of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh: the one international safety programme that has significantly improved worker safety in the garment industry since the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse. This week’s fire confirms that, despite the Bangladesh government’s assertions to the contrary, national inspection bodies are not yet ready to take over this important work.
Bangladeshi media report that the fire broke out on 4 March in the Anzir Apparels Ltd factory in Baipail, Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Anzir Apparels (Unit 1) is listed on the website of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, a safety programme established by Gap, Walmart, VF, and other North American brands in response to the Rana Plaza collapse. According to the Alliance website, the factory failed to make adequate remediation progress after inspections in 2014 revealed massive safety problems. In response, the Alliance removed it from its factory list, meaning that none of the Alliance brands could produce there. The factory then closed in March 2016. Issues identified included a lack of an adequate fire alarm system, fire-fighting equipment, and safe emergency exits. According to the workers, the factory did not stay closed, but re-opened two months later. An Accord brand placed an order in 2017, but within three months the factory again closed instead of remediating as required.
This week’s fire shows that the factory started producing yet again; according to the workers already in 2017. It did so without properly addressing the glaring safety issues that were identified in the original inspection reports that were made publicly available and shared with the authorities. The inspection body that should have overseen this, the Bangladesh Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE), seems to have registered the factory’s resumed activity, but failed to take any action. On its website and on the website of the Remediation and Coordination Cell (RCC), an umbrella organization for Bangladesh’s inspection authorities, Anzir Apparels Unit 1 is listed as ‘in operation’, showing a summary of the initial damning inspection report by the Alliance, but without further signs of action.
The factory not only disregarded safety measures, but also workers’ rights. It recently changed its name to BP Fashion in an apparent move to break the factory union, that is registered under the factory’s old name. The union has not been able to register again in the supposedly ‘new’ factory. This is particularly worrying as the ability of workers to organize is central for workers to safeguard their own safety by raising dangers collectively and refusing unsafe work. The Accord recognizes freedom of association as a central part of its mandate.
National inspection bodies thus knowingly allowed a factory to operate that had repeatedly failed to address alarming safety hazards when requested and has been active for all these years, except for two brief spells in 2016 and 2017. Such a flagrant lapse in responsibility once again demonstrates that Bangladesh’s national inspection authorities are dangerously behind on inspecting, monitoring, and enforcing remediation in the garment factories under their purview. This observation is demonstrated by numbers; for example, according to a September 2018 report co-signed by the government of Bangladesh, only 29% of initial safety defects found in factories covered by national inspection bodies have been remediated. Many of the safety issues that remain pending constitute immediate dangers to garment workers and most of the remediation deadlines have expired years ago. Assessment of the situation is further hampered by a lack of transparency: not a single follow-up inspection report is publicly available.
Over the past few months, the government of Bangladesh has attempted to assure brands, foreign governments, and journalists that its national inspection agencies are up to the task of inspecting and enforcing remediation in all of the country’s garment factories. It has repeatedly stated that it is high time that the international safety programmes that were created in response to this tragedy hand over their responsibilities to national inspection agencies; applauding the Alliance for rounding up its activities and actively attempting to curtail the Accord.
Ineke Zeldenrust of Clean Clothes Campaign says: “In light of the national inspection bodies’ lack of capacity once more demonstrated by this fire, and further exacerbated by the fact that they also carry the responsibility for all other industrial buildings in the country, at this time any handover of Accord covered factories to these bodies would be extremely irresponsible. There can be no further transfer of responsibilities until both the government and the Accord have fully remediated all factories under their purview.”
The witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord – Clean Clothes Campaign, International Labor Rights Forum, Maquila Solidarity Network, and Worker Rights Consortium – call upon the government of Bangladesh to respond to this fire by publicly and unconditionally supporting the Accord’s life-saving work in Bangladesh until the job started since the Rana Plaza collapse is fully completed.
Liana Foxvog of International Labor Rights Forum says: “This fire should be an incentive for the government of Bangladesh to put its own shop in order: speeding up and improving follow-up inspections, enforcement, and transparency. The Accord in turn should make haste in implementing its plan to broaden its scope to include boilers and related industries, and continue to offer its support to build up national inspection capacity. The Accord should also seriously investigate complaints from factory owners about unfair pricing that restricts remediation efforts.”
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Paper Reading – F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales
Posted on February 9, 2018 by kunigami
In this post we’ll discuss F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales. We’ll provide a brief overview of the paper’s contents and study in more details the architecture of the system and the implementation details. At the end, we provide an Appendix to cover some distributed systems and databases concepts mentioned throughout the paper.
F1 is a database used at Google to serve data for the AdWords product. This is the system that displays embedded ads in external pages using Google’s
F1 is named after a term from Genetics, F1 hybrid, in analogy to the idea that it combines the best aspects of relational databases and NoSQL systems (my initial thought was that it was named after Formula One).
In a high-level, F1 is a layer on top of the Spanner database which we covered in a previous post. It adds features such a SQL interface (worth noting that Spanner recently has evolved to support SQL natively too). Spanner handles a lot of the distributed system difficulties under the hood, providing some guarantees and F1 builds relational database features on top of that.
The paper mentions that AdWords migrated from a sharded MySQL solution, which was very expensive to maintain, especially when the data outgrew the instance and re-sharding was necessary. Now, this data redistribution is handled transparently by Spanner and while F1 is theoretically slower, in practice they were able to structure the data in such a way that it’s performant in practice (5-10 ms for reads and 50-150ms for writes).
F1 is deployed into multiple servers, across geographically distributed data centers. A client sends requests to a load balancer that then redirects to an F1 server, usually in the closest datacenter.
Architecture of F1: In display are two datacenters containing multiple machines running F1 servers, Spanner and CFS instances.
F1 servers are usually in the same Data Center as the Spanner servers that contain their data. F1 can communicate to Spanner servers outside of its datacenter directly, but Spanner only communicates with the Colossus file system (CFS) within the same datacenter because CFS is not globally replicated.
F1 servers are stateless except when the client performs pessimistic transactions, which make them easier to scale, since no data movement is required.
In addition to F1 servers, there are F1 master and a pool of F1 slaves. According to the paper the master controls which processes are in the pool, and that F1 slaves execute part of the query plan on behalf of F1 servers, but it’s not clear why they need to be a separate component.
The table data can be organized in a hierarchical schema much like Spanner (see
“Data Model” in the post about Spanner). This hierarchical schema is optional but it’s a key piece in making the performance of F1 competitive with the previous sharded MySQL system AdWords used.
In this hierarchy, we have a root table and a child table. For each row in the root table, called root row, we have rows clustered under that row based on their matching keys.
For example, say that we have tables Customer and Campaign. The Customer table has customerID and Campaign (customerID, campaignID). A possible structure for the rows would be:
Where Campaign rows with customerID=3 are clustered together under the corresponding Customer row.
The paper mentions that a given cluster of child rows fall within the same Spanner directory, which means that a transaction would query a single Spanner server, avoiding the overhead of synchronization between multiple servers (see Read-write transactions in the Spanner post).
Indexes. Tables support two types of indexes: local or global. Local index entries are stored in the same Spanner server of the rows the index but it must include the key of the root table. Global indexes do not have such restrictions but they can be distributed across multiple Spanner servers and very expensive to update within a transaction.
Schema changes. Updating the schema of a table is challenging because the rows of the table are distributed, which makes schema consistency expensive to achieve, and the system cannot have downtime.
The proposed solution is to break schema changes into smaller steps, such that as if no 2 severs are more than 2 steps apart, the changes are safe.
Writes
F1 supports 3 types of transactions: snapshot transactions, pessimist transactions and optimistic transactions. It relies on the transactions supported by Spanner, so it’s worth re-reading the Implementation Details of the Spanner post.
Snapshot transactions are read-only transactions and map to the corresponding read-only transactions from Spanner. The pessimistic transaction maps to the read-write transactions from Spanner.
The optimistic transaction consists of multiple reads followed by a single write. F1 stores an extra column with the last modified timestamp for each row. When the client performs the reads, it stores the largest timestamp it saw for any row it received. It sends this timestamp together with the final write request. F1 then performs a pessimistic transaction to read only the timestamps of the affected rows. If any of them differ from the timestamp sent by the client, it aborts. Otherwise it performs the write.
It’s worth noting that F1 didn’t create a transaction until the very last write request was sent. It’s assuming there were no writes between these reads and the final write, so we say it’s optimistic. This is the default transaction type and the paper describes a few advantages over the pessimistic type.
F1 supports very granular locking of the tables, including row level and cell (set of columns for a given row) level.
F1 stores change history of the data. The changes are stored as regular tables in a structure called ChangeBatch, children of a root table. If a transaction updates multiple root rows, several ChangeBatches are created under their corresponding root tables.
This feature allows clients to subscribe to changes in F1 tables using a publish-subscriber system. Whenever the client receives a notification, it can ask for incremental changes after a specific timestamp and apply to the data it has stored locally.
F1 supports both NoSQL and SQL interfaces. The SQL dialect was extended to support Protocol Buffers, which are complex data types with strong types (as opposed to loosely typed structures such as JSON). This extension allows, for example, to read and update internal fields of such structures.
Local vs distributed. F1 supports centralized execution (running on a single F1 node) or distributed. The query optimizer decides which one to execute. The paper details the process of executing the query in a distributed fashion.
Distributed Query Example
The paper describes an example of a SQL query being mapped to an execution plan. It involves two joins, filters and aggregations:
This SQL query is parsed and converted to a query plan that will be executed by multiple machines called operators. A possible execution plan for the sample query is:
The arrows indicate the data flow, starting at the bottom. The first join is a lookup join (hash join). The operation reads rows from the AdClick table until it has about 100k unique lookup keys stored in a hash table. Then it performs a single (batch) lookup to the other table, AdGroupCreative. The rows from the AdClick table are kept in memory for faster lookup.
As soon as the join for these keys are completed, they’re streamed to the next stage of the pipeline.
The second join with Creative is a distributed join. It first repartitions each row from each table based on the values of the columns listed in the USING clause. Each partition might end up in different machines for the next stage which consists of joining the columns of matching rows.
Finally, the rows are again repartitioned, now by the values from the group by columns and then aggregators apply the aggregation for sets of rows under the same partition.
Distributed Execution Overview
More generally, the query plan created by F1 is a DAG (directed aclyclic graph) where each node is an operator like the join or aggregator described above. Note that there are multiple operators running the same operation in parallel.
The paper says:
A technique frequently used by distributed database systems is to take advantage of an explicit co-partitioning of the stored data.
It’s not very clear to me what they mean with that, especially because they don’t cite any references, but from context it suggests that the base operators (the scan and lookup join) are in the same machine as the data (co-located) and they do as much of the processing upfront as possible. This helps minimize data transfer which can become the bottleneck in a distributed computation. F1 cannot do that because Spanner abstracts the data location from F1.
A side effect is that there’s a lot of network traffic. The authors claim that Google has network switch hardware improvements which allows servers to communicate with each other close to full network speed.
When the hash tables in memory grow too large, they write part of the data to disk. So while F1 doesn’t store data in a persistent way, it still needs to write to disk for intermediate operations.
For efficiency, F1 doesn’t write checkpoints to disk. The downside is that the system is not fault tolerant. Failures in any stage of the execution causes the entire query to fail. Retries are done transparently but long queries (>1h) are bound to fail.
F1 exposes data from intermediate nodes to clients. This avoid having all the data concentrating at the last node of the query execution. They cite Map-Reduce jobs as examples of such feature.
In this post we learned about one of Google’s many distributed databases, F1. It’s a loosely coupled layer on top of Spanner to provide a more familiar level of abstraction which are relational databases.
It seems that we could make an analogy between Google’s systems and similar open source solutions. The Colossus File System (CFS) is the distributed filesystem that could map to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and Spanner would map to Hadoop’s YARN, and F1 providing SQL semantics on top of Spanner could be mapped to Hive which does the same for Hadoop. It’s a very rough comparison, and maybe Spanner is more similar to Spark but it’s interesting to see the patterns and relationship between these systems.
[1] F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales
[2] Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
Appendix: Terminology and Concepts
I was unfamiliar with several of the terminology and concepts used throughout the paper, so I had to do some extra research. Here I attempt to explain some of these topics by quoting snippets from the paper.
We also have a lot of experience with eventual consistency
systems at Google
Eventual consistency means that a set of servers might not contain the most recent updates but eventually will. For example, the client might issue a write that affects multiple machines. If the system only provides eventual consistency then a subsequent read is not guaranteed to get the data up-to-date with those writes.
The quote mentions experience with eventual consistency in a negative way, because of the extra complexities that clients have to deal with to work around this limitation.
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Joseph E. Lewis - Page 1
128 T.C. No. 6
JOSEPH E. LEWIS, Petitioner v.
Docket No. 6284-06L.Filed March 28, 2007.
P filed his 2002 income tax return late. P
included payment for the reported tax due with his
return. R assessed additions to tax under sec.
6651(a)(1) and (2), I.R.C., for late filing and late
payment. P requested an abatement of the additions to
tax, which was ultimately denied after a hearing before
R’s Appeals Office. R then initiated a collection
action, and P now seeks review of his liability for
additions to tax under sec. 6330, I.R.C. R moves for
summary judgment pursuant to sec. 301.6330-1(e)(3),
Q&A-E2, Proced. & Admin. Regs. R argues that P had an
opportunity to dispute the underlying liability in a
conference with R’s Appeals Office and thus cannot
properly raise the underlying liability again in a sec.
6330, I.R.C., collection review proceeding.
Held: Sec. 301.6330-1(e)(3), Q&A-E2, Proced. &
Admin. Regs., is valid.
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Pathogenic Strains of Microorganisms
Pathogenic Strains of Microorganisms – Lab Report Example
Introduction Pathogenic strains of microorganisms are the causes of many infectious diseases including ailments such as typhoid, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis among many others. Bacterial infections may either be caused by Gram-negative or Gram-positive bacteria. In a hospital setting, it is necessary to identify the causative microorganism for an accurate diagnosis of a patient’s disease. Such identification may be based on the morphological characteristics of the bacterial colonies as well as the biochemical traits of the pathogens (Vasanthakumari, 2009). Thereafter, the healthcare provider prescribes the most suitable antibiotic depending on the identity of the pathogen.
Recently, it has been shown that certain strains of bacteria have developed resistance to particular antibiotics. Therefore, antibiotic sensitivity tests help in determining the most effective antibiotic against a certain strain of microbe. As a result, the patient can get the most effective therapy.
This lab aims at establishing the biochemical characteristics of two bacteria namely Salmonella and E. coli using Microbact and IMViC test kits. It also aims at testing the efficacy of five antibiotics against these bacteria.
Microbact Biochemical Identification Kit (12A) was used to evaluate the bacterial utilization of 12 substrates. Sample inocula were prepared by diluting one to two colonies the provided pure cultures of Salmonella and E. coli in 2.5 ml of normal saline. Each well of the two test kits were inoculated with four drops of the inoculums and incubated for 18 to 24 hours at 35 oC. Thereafter, the color changes in the 12 substrates observed and interpreted to depict the utilization of the substrates by the microbes.
The IMViC test kit was used to carry out the indole, methyl red, Voges-Proskauer and citrate tests. D BBL™ Sensi-Disc™ Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Discs were used to determine the antibiotic sensitivity of five antibiotics namely penicillin G, polymyxin B, streptomycin, tetracycline and vancomycin the two bacteria.
Table 1: Microbact Kit results for Salmonella
Xylose
ONPG
Indole
Urease
V-P
Citrate
Table 2: Microbact Kit results for E. coli
Table 3: IMViC Result
Methyl Red
Voges Proskauer
Table 4: Antibiotics results for E. coli, Staphylococcus and Salmonella
Clearing number (mm)
Penicillin G
Polymyxin B
PB=204 colonies
P=53 colonies
PB=1 colonies
S10=7 colonies
P=3 colonies
E. coli was positive for indole, methyl red, and citrate tests implying that it contained tryptophanase enzyme and was able to ferment glucose into a blend of acids. E. coli was also capable of utilizing citrate as a carbon source as indicated by the positive citrate test. The Voges-Proskauer test was negative showing that E. coli could not generate acetoin from the degradation of glucose via a 2,3 butanediol fermentation. Salmonella, conversely, was positive for methyl red and citrate and negative for indole and Voges-Proskauer. These findings implied that Salmonella could ferment glucose into acids and utilize citrate. However, it did not contain tryptophanase and could not generate acetoin from glucose.
Salmonella could not utilize glucose, mannitol and xylose and did not contain ornithine decarboxylase enzyme. Salmonella did not contain tryptophan deaminase enzyme. The Bactrim and IMViC test results were consistent with the methyl red and Voges-Proskauer tests for both strains. However, there was a discrepancy between the indole test for Salmonella between the two kits. Both strains were capable of hydrolyzing urea.
The antibiotic resistance tests showed that all the three bacteria were resistant to Vancomycin as shown by zero zones of inhibition just like in the negative controls. The three strains were also resistant to penicillin G. The three strains were susceptible to polymyxin B and tetracycline. E. coli was highly susceptible to polymyxin B as it had the largest inhibition zone of the three strains. Salmonella and Staphylococcus showed intermediate susceptibility to streptomycin while E. coli showed susceptibility to streptomycin. However, the antibiotic that had the largest inhibition zones in the three strains was tetracycline. Therefore, it was concluded that tetracycline was the strongest antibiotic against E. coli, Salmonella and Staphylococcus.
Vasanthakumari, R. (2009). Practical microbiology. New Delhi: BI Publications Pvt.
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Home EUROPEAN STARS Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts
LB presents the Full Story of a Football Genius best known with the name “DIY“. Our Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story plus Untold Biography Facts brings to you a full account of notable events from his childhood time to date. The analysis involves his life story before fame, family background, relationship life, and many other OFF-Pitch facts (little known) about him.
Yes, everyone knows he is a well-rounded midfielder but only a few consider our Moussa Sissoko’s Bio which is quite interesting. Now without further ado, let’s Begin.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Early and Family Life
Moussa Sissoko was born on the 16th of August, 1989 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France. He was born to parents of Malian decent whom little is known about. Sissoko mother was a housewife while his father worked as a construction worker at the time of his birth.
Sissoko was born as the eldest of four children, with three younger sisters. Growing up in Le Blanc-Mesnil young Sissoko was actively involved in playing football with passion and figured out early that the sport would have good stock for him in the future. In his words;
“I quickly realised that football could lead me to have a better life”.
Having faith in his conviction which was also shared by his parents, Young Sissoko was positioned to begin building a career in football as he was enrolled at a youth club, Esperance Aulnay when he was only six. Esperance Aulnay is a youth club based in nearby Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb in northeastern Paris.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Career Buildup
Sissoko committed the next three years of his life to Esperance Aulnay where he played football with passion laced with self-motivation of better days ahead. Back then, he trained three times a week at the club under the supervision of trainer Adama Dieye, who now serves as a correspondent for the club’s futsal team. Sissoko describes Dieye as an important mentor in his development stating;
“I am here today because of him”
His youth club career took a progressive turn when he joined Red Star Paris on a season-long stint. It was at Red Star that Sissoko put up impressive performances that secured him a move to Toulouse where he first beheld the good life that football had in stock for him.
Armed with the determination of playing better in every game, Sissoko did not only impress his managers at different levels but rose through the ranks of the club.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Rise To Fame
It was at Toulouse that Sissoko made his Champions League debut in 2007. He did much to impress and was called up the following season. The re-call up got him several award nominations amidst other opportunities including a qualification to play in the UEFA Europa League.
It wasn’t long before interests from Tottenham Hotspur in the year 2009, as well as subsequent interests from Manchester City, Inter Milan, Juventus and German giants Bayern Munich, made him popular outside french football. Although a move never materialized due to his club’s unwillingness to let him go, Sissoko’s finally left for Newcastle in the year 2013.
On 31 August 2016, Sissoko signed for Tottenham Hotspur on a five-year deal, for £30 million. The rest, as they say, is history.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Relationship Life
Moussa Sissoko is one of many footballers who love to keep their private life private, away from the poking noses of social media users and the press. However, there’s no denying that he has a heartthrob of whom little is known about.
Sissoko has made a wag or girlfriend out a lovely French woman known as Marylou Sidibe (not related to Djibril Sidibe). The duo who are not married try their possible best to stay out of public radar. They are seldom spotted together during outings and only release photos that capture them enjoying their privacy during rides in different cars.
Nonetheless, Moussa Sissoko has a 6-year-old son (at the time of this post) named Kai.
Little is known about Kai’s mother who once was spotted hugging her son before a kick off game between Newcastle and Manchester in April 2016.
Sissoko has these to say about his relationship with his son:
“My son is old enough to understand my job, when he sees me in a stadium, on TV or in an ad, he goes crazy (smiling).He is very proud He even boasted about it to his classmates when he goes to school saying that his dad plays for the France and Newcastle teams”.
As noticed earlier, Moussa Sissoko’s son and Rafa Benitez seem to have a very close relationship as seen in the photo below.
What many would call “a tactic” played by Rafa didn’t prevent Sissoko from leaving the club for Tottenham in 2013.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Music and Comics Taste
Sissoko has proven that the life of a footballer does not absolutely revolve around football. This is exemplified by his love for comical characters, especially superhero “Superman” and “Spiderman” of the DC and Marvel comics respectively.
It does not end there, he is also a lover of French music; Zaz, and has a thing for the comical roles played by American comedy actor Jim Carey in movies like “Bruce Almighty” as well as “Dumb and Dumber“. Who could ever think Moussa that Sissoko, despite radiating seriousness on the pitch could have the heart of a kid and a taste for good music?.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Personal Life
As regards Moussa Sissoko’s personality off-the-pitch, he once said;
“I’ve always been discreet, reserved and respectful. This does not prevent me from speaking out if necessary.
Despite his professional status as an international player, Moussa does not feel superior to others. He is like a home bird who hardly go out but watching movies, playing with his son and seeing friends or family.
Back then in his neighbourhood (Aulnay-sous-Bois), Moussa had almost all nicknames. Ideally, he loved to tinker with things when he was young. This earned him the nickname “DIY”.
“It’s pretty funny that people still call me that. I take it well. It reminds me of our little kid dreams. It’s always nice to see friends and to not forget where you came from. Today, I do a lot less ‘DIY’. I do not have enough time and I prefer to buy already assembled furniture, it’s easier.”
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-0ther Interests
Sissoko loves playing video games and swimming. He is a lover of cars specifically Audis, Range Rovers, BMWs and Mercs which decorates his Garage.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Leadership Skills
Sissoko was considered a born leader by the then Newcastle Coach, Neil Cameron. This led the coach to give Sissoko a captain’s armband after the former skipper Fabricio Coloccini suffered a setback caused by an injury.
Sissoko, who was in his second season at Newcastle was marvelled by the surprising responsibility but never betrayed his coach’s trust as he gracefully led his team to gain important points from matches against some of the big teams of English football. However, the points were not great enough to prevent Newcastle from falling into relegation that season.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Seemingly Rough
Sissoko is not the clean slate player that Ryan Giggs and Andres Iniesta were. Sissoko collected his fair share of caution and was yellow carded a lot of times. He received his first yellow card on his UEFA Champions League debut against Liverpool on August 15 after coming on for the final 7 minutes of the game.
In December 2013, Sissoko had his first disciplinary issue with English Football Association over hitting referee Mike Jones on the face.
This was however dealt with as ‘accidental‘, as it only occurred while he was trying to pull away from Southampton’s goalkeeper.
Moussa Sissoko Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts-Chef Sissoko
Has anyone ever wondered a footballers life in a kitchen?
Well, Moussa Sissoko is one of the Tottenham stars who has been featured on the Healthy Living With AIA & Hotspur TV show.
In the show, Moussa Sissoko and Hugo Lloris are guided by celebrity chef Jeremy Pang and Spurs nutritionist- Hannah Sheridan as the two players try their optimum best to cook Prawn Fried Rice and Thai Green Curry.
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How that tastes, No one knows, but it sure looked great. Aside his culinary skills, Moussa Sissoko is a lover of French recipes and Italian dishes. For fast food, he enjoys the taste of pepperoni pizza.
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Letters from an Islamic Front
The following letters I share with you after almost 12 years and on the 8th anniversary of the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks. In late 1997, as a study away student at the American University in Cairo, we found ourselves riding a wave of terrorism which was not to crash upon the shores of New York and Washington for another 4 years. This is part of the story…
On September 19th, 1997 explosions could be heard in our classrooms near Tahrir square. From the roof of the university we could see the commotion and the smoke. As I made my way via taxi from school and through the rotary traffic by the museum, a burnt black and shattered bus was still smoking. A bus load of German tourists had been machine gunned and firebombed just outside the Egyptian Museum moments before. Back at the dormitories across the bridge in Zamaleck we sat around in various states of shock, disbelief, and panic. A fellow student came back that evening white as a ghost. He was at the dorms at the time and had heard of the attack. As an aspiring journalist he took a taxi to the square and with his camera pushed his way toward the bus. The way he told it, his voice trembling as he made it to the front of the police barricade he pulled out his school ID and picture which he kept on a chain and shouted Time Magazine, Time Magazine!” and was quickly ushered under the ropes. He entered the bus to a stench of burnt flesh and corpses of the recently dead before him. He took photos of the scene however after nights of sleepless nightmares he destroyed the photos and turned down offers of thousands for their purchase.
On November 17th 1997, a week before we were to travel down to the valley of the kings
in Luxor, a group self-proclaimed “The Battalion of Havoc and Destruction” carried out a massacre outside the Hapsetup temple. Shortly after, I obtained a copy from a fellow student of U.S. embassy translations of two letters left at the scene. Reading these letters in our dorm rooms shortly after the attack, we wondered out loud what references such as the “regime in the Scaffolds” might mean; Whether the repetition of the certain phrases had some meaning; whether the mention of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the so called “blind sheikh” had special meaning as he was in prison in New York for the bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26 1993.
We wondered at that time what the these letters could possibly forshaddow. On the crystal clear morning of September 11th, 2001 I stood watching the second plane hit the World Trade Center from televisions in the John Hancock Towers in Boston from where it was said the plane’s had taken off. The following letters and my experiences in Egypt four years before flooded immediately back to mind. Latter, I questioned why if a group of students with so little prior knowledge could see four years ago that there was some terrible attack being planned, why couldn’t the United Stated Intelligence services connect the dots and prevent this. Little did I know that the same group of Egyptian terrorists had joined a larger network of Al Qaeda in order to make good on their promise to “undermine the economy of every atheistic and profligate regime that has diverted from God’s sound law… destroy its establishments… burn its entity; and… bring down with God’s might its foundation.”
The following is the full transcripts of the two letters with Embassy commentary:
1) Subject: “The Islamic Group in Egypt” leaflet found at the sight of Luxor terrorist attack. Egyptian State security sources have given Embassy a copy of a leaflet found at the site of the terrorist attack at the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor November 17 (1997). According to the leaflet, the “Islamic Group in Egypt” (IG) claims responsibility for the attack. Mustafa Hamza, mentioned at the beginning of the leaflet is one of the IG leaders living outside Egypt. Informal Embassy translation of the leaflet follows: Begin text:
“There is no God but God
Mohammed is the prophet of God.
The Islamic Group in Egypt.
The Battalion of Havoc and
Destruction responds to the call and
Submits an apology.
Here we are, Mustafa Hamza. Here we are at your service s a strong leader of Al-Muja Heddin. Here we are at your service, and here we are at your service, and here we are at your service. We, the Muslims in the Egyptian Armed forces have responded to the call and followed your command. Your command is always obeyed. Our souls are a sacrifice for this great religion. We will revenge our brothers who were killed by the regime in the Scaffolds. We will undermine the economy of every atheistic and profligate regime that has diverted from God’s sound law. We will destroy its establishments; we will burn its entity; and we will bring down with God’s might its foundation. (A grave in) the depth of the earth is better for us than its surface, if we live to see our sister’s lying in prisons and our brothers and families in police stations. We here see our sanctities desecrated, and our honor violated, and disloyal rulers oppressing us. What life is this? Yes, death is better for us. Yes, our patience has run thin. Yes, our patience has run thin.
We will not let an atheist desecrate our land and spread atrocity and vice. We had warned all foreigners against coming to Egypt, but they are people who do not listen. They thought the police would protect them while the police themselves are the one’s who need protection. We have sworn not to leave this spot of Egyptian territory until we have cleansed it from desecration or until we have met God as martyrs. We apologize to our leaders for not being able to accomplish the first mission. We dedicate our happiness with the victory to our great martyr and apprentice engineer Samir Abil Maati who died of despotic torture after being arrested on his way to his battalion at Luxor Airport. Let everyone know that the revenge for our martyr brothers, foremost of whom is Dr. Yasir Fathy Fawwaz, is not like any revenge, and we will see who is quicker than us in execution. God is greater, and power be to God. His prophet, and the Believers. The Battalion of Havoc and Destruction.”
2) Subject: Second “Islamic Group in Egypt” Leaflet found at Site of Luxor terrorist Attack. Embassy obtained a copy of the second leaflet found at the site of the terrorist attack at the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor on November 17 (1997). Embassy sources said the leaflet was stuffed into one of the corpses at the murder scene. According to the leaflet, the “Islamic Group in Egypt” warns foreign tourists against visiting Egypt and demands the US and the west to release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman from detention” Informal Embassy translation of the Leaflet follows:
“In the name of God, The Merciful, The Compassionate The Last Warning The Battalion of Havoc and destruction warns all foreign tourists against coming onto Egypt, and demands the United States and the atheistic west to release Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman, the Imam and reverend preacher of Muslims, from detention, otherwise the consequences will be grave.”
On September 19th, 1997 explosions could be heard in our classrooms near Tahrir square. From the roof of the university we could see the commotion and the smoke. As I made my way via taxi from school and through the rotary traffic by the museum, a burnt black and shattered bus was still smoking. A bus load of German tourists had been machine gunned and firebombed just outside the Egyptian Museum moments before. Back at the dormitories across the bridge in Zamalek we sat around in various states of shock, disbelief, and panic. A fellow student came back that evening white as a ghost and described what he had saw. He was at the dorms at the time and had heard of the attack. As an aspiring journalist he took a taxi to the square and with his camera pushed his way toward the bus. The way he told it with his voice trembling, he made his way to the front of the police barricade and pulled out his school ID and picture which he kept on a chain and shouted “Time Magazine, Time Magazine!” and was quickly ushered past the officers. He entered to a stench of burnt flesh emenating from the corpses of the recently dead melted into the seats of the bus before him. He took photos of the scene, however after nightmares and sleepless nights he destroyed the photos after turning down offers of thousands of dollars for their purchase.
On November 17th 1997, a week before we were to travel down to the valley of the kings in Luxor, a group self-proclaimed “The Battalion of Havoc and Destruction” carried out a massacre outside the Hapshetsut temple. Shortly after, I obtained a copy from a fellow student of U.S. embassy translations of two letters left at the scene. Reading these letters in our dorm rooms shortly after the attack, we wondered out loud to each other what references such as the “regime in the Scaffolds” might mean; Whether the repetition of the certain phrases had some meaning; Whether the mention of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the so called “blind sheikh” had special meaning as he was in prison in New York for the bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26 1993.
We could not know at that time what the these letters were to forshaddow. On the crystal clear morning of September 11th, 2001 I stood watching the second plane hit the World Trade Center from televisions in the John Hancock Tower in Boston from where it was said the plane’s had taken off. The following letters, and my experiences in Egypt four years before flooded back to mind. Latter I questioned why, if a group of students with so little prior knowledge could see four years ago that there was some terrible attack being planned couldn’t the United Stated Intelligence services connect the dots and prevent this? Little did I know that the same group of Egyptian terrorists had become part of a larger network of Al Qaeda in order to make good on their promise to “undermine the economy of every atheistic and profligate regime … destroy its establishments… burn its entity; and… bring down with God’s might its foundation.”
Omar Abdel-Rahman
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How state policy affects how guns move between states
By Denise-Marie Ordway
The December 2015 mass shooting at a holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif. raised questions about how the two suspects acquired their assault-style rifles. California, which has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the country, prohibits assault weapons with magazines that detach for quick reloading. Law-enforcement officials eventually confirmed that the rifles were purchased legally but noted that they were illegally modified to make them more powerful.
The renewed debate on assault rifles since the attack has focused in part on how easy or difficult it is to move guns across different states. A study written for the National Bureau of Economic Research that was published in 2013 in the American Economic Journal takes a close look at this issue. In “State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing,” Brian Knight of Brown University used 2009 data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to trace guns recovered from crime scenes back to the states where they originally were sold by gun dealers. Knight analyzed the movement of 145,321 traced guns. He also investigated the gun regulations of individual states.
About one-third of the guns found at crime scenes had been purchased in different states.
Southern states and Mountain states tended to have weaker gun laws. States in the upper Midwest and along both coasts tended to have stringent ones.
In some cases, the strength of gun laws varied substantially among neighboring states. For example, Illinois had “relatively strict regulations” but the states that bordered it – Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin – had “relatively weak regulations.”
Gun-trafficking flows are connected to gun regulations. Guns are often transported from states with weak regulations into states with strict regulations.
Guns move more often between nearby states than between two states that are far apart.
The author notes that his findings have numerous policy implications for a nation in which gun policy is largely decentralized. As of 1999, there were a total of about 300 state laws related to guns.
Related research: A 2015 report published in the American Journal of Public Health, “State Firearm Legislation and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries,” examines whether stricter state laws are associated with fewer non-fatal gun injuries. A 2009 study published in the Journal of Urban Health, “Effects of State-Level Firearm Seller Accountability Policies on Firearm Trafficking,” explores the relationship between restrictive gun-purchase laws and gun trafficking. A 2009 study in Criminology and Criminal Justice, “The Illicit Firearms Trade in North America,” looks at gun misuse and the sources of crime guns in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Citation: Knight, Brian. “State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing," American Economic Journal, 2013. doi: 10.1257/pol.5.4.200.
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Facebook IPO Expected to be $100 Billion, Largest of Any Tech Company in History
Posted by: Valerie Jennings, CEO of JSMM
While it hasn’t been confirmed, reports are circulating that Facebook Inc. will go public this year. Facebook has kept quiet about the move, but many anticipate the IPO to hit this May. If and when this happens, it will be huge.
This article and infographic posted by Joann Pan of Mashable, projects Facebook’s IPO to be six times larger than Google’s and will be the largest of any tech company in history.
How Facebook’s Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down [INFOGRAPHIC]
Rumors are flying about Facebook Inc. going public this year. So, just how much money is the world’s largest social network worth?
Reports project that Facebook will go public some time between April and June. The company itself has remained hush-hush about the initial public offering.
The infographic below shows how the company’s projected valuation of $100 billion breaks down and which Facebook Friends will be getting a piece of the pie.
Facebook’s IPO will be the biggest of any tech company in history — six times that of Google’s, according to Accounting Degree Online.
The company itself is preparing to raise $10 billion this year, according to reports, to push the company’s public value to $100 billion. More than Disney ($61 billion), Amazon ($88.3 billion) and McDonald’s ($95.6 billion).
Who will be cashing in? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder Eduardo Saverin, co-founder Chris Hughes and Sean Parker, Napster co-founder and Facebook partial owner (he owns 4% of Facebook). Zuckerberg will make an estimated $25 billion, owning 24% of the company.
And just how will Facebook reach the $10 billion excess profit by April or June? By increasing Facebook revenue from advertising, Facebook fan pages and display ads.
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Is Chris Clarke the Final Piece for Texas Tech to Repeat as Big 12 Champs?
Rob Breaux
Chris Clarke was a 4 star prospect coming out of high school in Virginia back in 2015. He chose Virginia Tech and had three productive seasons with the Hokies as a 6'6" bruiser that did whatever was asked of him. Through his first three seasons at VT he averaged 6.5 rebounds and 9.2 points per game. Clarke wasn't a starter full time but he did start 29 games in his freshman and sophomore seasons before settling into a 6th man role as a junior and playing in all 33 games logging 24 minutes per game.
The numbers on Clarke are incredibly effecient offensively. He lives inside the paint and can finish effectively at the rim. He finished with a shooting percentage over 60% in his final two seasons at VT and while he's not known as a three point shooter he did convert on 42% of his minimal attempts as a junior, though that's not a number I would expect at Texas Tech. Clarke also excels at getting to the rim and drawing contact, but as a 64% free throw shooter he didn't make the opponent pay as often as he should.
As a high school recruit Clarke was billed as "Virginia's Most Exciting Player" and he lived up to the hype. As a grad transfer he was rated in the top 10 players moving teams by ESPN's Jeff Borzello.
The move to sign Chris Clarke has been widely praised as a slam dunk for Chris Beard with most of the national prognosticators saying things like Jeff Goodman said:
Here was my favorite description of Clarke after the news broke he was committing to Texas Tech:
There is a dark cloud of smoke above Clarke though as he moves from Virginia Tech to Texas Tech. According to roanoke.com Clarke was suspended during the 2018-19 season for internal reasons. In March, before the Hokies were set to play in the NCAA tournament, a fellow Hokie and the suspended Clarke were both arrested for possession of Marijuana. Clarke's roommate was still playing on the team at this point was tested and the results were negative.
This could certainly be a case of the wrong place at the wrong time though the same article states that Clarke was charged with "a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense for alleged marijuana possession" which makes it sound like a recurring problem. An update to the story says Clarke is slated for a court appearance in July.
The good news is that Chris Beard knows the situation better than the public does and he has drawn the conclusions that this won't be a problem in Lubbock.
Strictly on the court, Texas Tech hit the lottery with Chris Clarke. Defensively he's a nightmare and will seamlessly transition into the bait and switch defense that Texas Tech runs. Guarding the 1-4 anywhere on the floor and getting a body on any 5 in the Big 12 in help defense won't be a problem. Offensively I have a feeling Texas Tech will be more wide open next season with a transitional nightmare squad being built with Jahmius Ramsey, Chris Clarke and the rest of the athletes on the roster.
With Chris Clarke claiming the 12th available scholarship, barring any more transfer portal news, it looks like Clarke will slip into an extreme glue role that either gives you 25 minutes from the starting tip or off the bench. Wherever he starts the game Clarke will be in the mix to be a game changer. What Clarke won't be is the final piece to this puzzle.
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Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction into Prostitution
Sophie Hayes
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The haunting, unforgettable memoir that took the UK by storm, Trafficked is a gripping first-hand account of a young woman who survived the horrors of human trafficking.
Sophie Hayes, a young, educated English woman, was spending an idyllic weekend in Italy with her seemingly charming boyfriend. But the day of her return home, he made it clear she wasn't going anywhere. Punching and shouting at her, he threatened to kill her adored younger brothers if she didn't cooperate to help him pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars he'd racked up in debts.
Over the next six months, Sophie is forced to work as a prostitute in a country where she didn't speak the language, nobody knows her whereabouts, and escape seems impossible. She struggles to survive, constantly at the mercy of her boyfriend's violent moods and living in fear of being killed by any of her customers. When a life-threatening illness lands her in the hospital, Sophie has a chance to phone her mother and escape--if her boyfriend doesn't get to her first.
Chilling and captivating, Trafficked is one of the first memoirs to present a stunning personal look at the criminal human sex trafficking trade and bring this disturbingly widespread abuse to light.
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Kept Darkly
Hiding far from her father, Riona never believed her life of isolation could change, much less change so drastically. For years, she has remained under the protection of the Seelie Queen and existed as a blemish on the face of her people. Riona knows her place and understands that she, for many reasons, must remain in hiding. When Riona, also known as Molly, is snatched from her home and finds herself assigned as the mate of the queen’s captain, Sel, she is more than baffled at her new station in life. Riona can’t help but wonder, and worry, what this actually means for her future.
Kept Darkly, the third book in the Darkly series by Tarrant Smith follows the unlikely pairing of Riona and Sel. Riona, by all rights, is far below Sel’s station in life and is painfully aware of the love he is said to have for the Seelie Queen. Smith’s decision to match Riona and Sel makes for an interesting plot that keeps the reader guessing as to the ultimate outcome–and hoping for a happy ending for the oppressed Riona.
I am always amazed at Smith’s character descriptions. Gloric is a prime example. An unseelie and questionable character all on his own, he is capable of metamorphosis. Smith draws a detailed picture of Gloric’s complete transformation in front of Riona. These types of scenes are definitely worth a reread and one of the hallmarks of Smith’s installments in the Darkly series. In addition, I was quite intrigued at the way in which Smith incorporates shapeshifting as one of Riona’s characteristics.
In the previous Darkly book, Smith provides readers with moments of comic relief, and Kept Darkly delivers the same. These brief scenes are welcome as the overall theme of the book is primarily thoughtful and brooding. With this installment, it’s not so much the dialogue that makes for the moments of comic relief but the images conjured by Smith’s narrative. I was particularly drawn to the levity created during the interactions between Sel and the sprite, Urias.
Smith’s characters are fascinating on many levels. Crank is easily my favorite of all Smith’s characters–I am partial to the unseelie. He is a no-holds-barred type of guy who says exactly what he means and has no problem making himself clear to anyone fortunate enough to listen to his tales. As with the metamorphosis of Gloric, I was impressed with the transfer of energy that takes place between Riona and Sel. What appears as a hopeless situation for Riona is suddenly turned around with minimal effort on Sel’s part.
Smith’s writing is beautifully descriptive and rich with character development. Readers following the series will enjoy getting to know Sel and watching his relationship with Riona bloom. The better part of book 3 feels dedicated to developing character relationships and describing the unique struggle between the seelie and unseelie groups, and fans of fantasy romance will find Smith’s work particularly fascinating.
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je 2 days ago | link | on: Tilde Social is a flat-file social network
I really like the tilde verse!
feoh 2 days ago | link
Me too. There’s something beautiful about creating a real honest to god community based around UNIX, plain text, and nothing else.
And some of the things people build there are just awesome. Are they technological marvels for all time? Often probably not, but when you can, for instance, take part in a giant text based planting simulator where you can grow cool plants of your own and water and feed others, that’s not something you see every day.
je 1 month ago | link | on: Elm and why it’s not quite ready yet
.. think of it as a competitor to React or Vue, and is used to create websites and web apps.
This seems a bit shortsighted.
Debugging looks awful and is largely unhelpful
This is very true. After using Elm and some other things in the last couple of years, I’ve made the commitment to try and never use anything that doesn’t have good built-in debugging, and sane errors.
.. but that doesn’t work for our app so we can’t use it …
They mention this really casually, but it’s a well-known problem (and affecting us too).
You cannot install Elm packages from anywhere other than the official package repository.
This is technically true. A work around is to fork a project and import it in your elm.json.
Lacks the ecosystem of its siblings
This is almost uninteresting a comparison. Also there’s https://korban.net/elm/catalog/
What if you want a service worker in your app for offline support?
The author didn’t mention ports at all, which was surprising. There is the Process package for sort of this, and you can also use service workers via ports.
Anyway. I agree with some of the post (I’ve used Elm professionally for almost 2 years), and I’ve wondered what else is out there that’s a better Elm? Purescript? ReasonML? Something Clojure or Lisp based? Any suggestions?
Vaelatern 1 month ago | link
Something Clojure or Lisp based?
Of course there is a ClojureScript. If I need any JS over a few dozen lines, that’s where I go.
je 1 month ago | link
I hadn’t written any Clojure (or any Lisp, really) before, so I did the simple HackerRank “counting valleys” question in Clojure and it was really nice. Having used Elm for the last while had me already in a functional mindset, which helped a lot.
I’m curious to get some feedback on my ~28 lines of Clojure as well, so I’ll see if I can find a willing soul to critique it.
I can be happy to critique, if you like. I’ve not worked with many other Clojure programmers, but I’ve read a bunch of code and have written a bunch as well.
That’d be nice! It’s only 27 lines of code, and solving the simple HackerRank question I mentioned, so it might be hard without the full context (the question). But anyway, I’ve put the code in a gist: https://gist.github.com/jesse-c/bd7605b53cb4cb9390192475514bf9fb
Vaelatern edited 1 month ago | link
I responded in full in the comments on the gist. Welcome to Clojure!
kqr 1 month ago | link
I have been exploring F#-to-JS with Fable, which has been surprisingly pleasant. For this project I also considered Elm and Purescript, but decided that Elm might be too foreign, and the company being a .NET shop made F# an easy choice over Purescript.
Fable looks interesting! Unfortunately I/we have never used .NET.
If you’re on Windows, that’s not a major issue. If you’re on a non-Windows platform, it might be slightly confusing to get started with – to the point of perhaps being worth it to look elsewhere.
zem 1 month ago | link
i’m personally a fan of ocaml, but i would also use clojurescript with great pleasure if i had to join a project involving it.
I just replied to someone else who had suggested Clojurescript about my first time having just used Clojure. [1]
[1] https://lobste.rs/s/brvwey/elm_why_it_s_not_quite_ready_yet#c_rwwjoo
alexkorban edited 1 month ago | link
Re installing packages: have you seen elm-git-install? Not a mature tool etc. but at least there’s an option.
A note about the Elm package catalog (it’s my project): it’s far from complete. There are ~1700 packages available, but the catalog is currently at 390. It’s probably not a fair indication of the breadth of the ecosystem (yet).
We had tried either that or something similar last year but had to move away from it some reason (vague, I know). At the moment we’ve gotten rid of all our forks, but if we have the need again, I’ll suggest it. Thanks!
yawaramin 1 month ago | link
Why? Elm’s tagline on its landing page says, ‘A delightful language for reliable webapps.’.
Do you want to stay with the Elm architecture but move to a more powerful, older and battle-tested language? Then check out bucklescript-tea. Do you want the benefits of the language with a more type-safe take on ReactJS? Try ReasonReact.
That’s true! I suppose my reaction was more that React/Vue are purely frameworks, whereas Elm is a whole language with its own frameworks, etc.
ReasonReact
Is probably of more interest for me. I have no idea about the ReasonML ecosystem, community, governance, etc. so I’ll have to check it out more.
je 1 month ago | link | on: Homebrew Bundle
I have a side-project that was basically https://www.gitignore.io/ for Brewfiles that was basically done, but then didn’t get around to launching it publicly. I should do so!
sibeliuss edited 2 months ago | link | on: What have you learned from adopting Typescript into an existing JS codebase?
This has been nothing but a net win for our team, and we have a similar setup as you, with CoffeeScript + Backbone + React -> And now TypeScript. Adding TS support was also painless thanks to @babel/preset-typescript. Then TSC is only used as a type-checker.
If you want a peak at our codebase, see: https://github.com/artsy/force. (These days it’s mostly used as a shell for components / apps imported from https://github.com/artsy/reaction, though. Reaction is 100% TypeScript.)
As far as typings go – this is important – unless you have someone holding folks’ hands and helping them through, i wouldn’t turn on strict TS settings. When things aren’t strict it’s basically just JS and then everything is additive. As your team learns more and becomes more familiar with TS, more types will be added and things will get stricter on their own, organically. For entirely new codebases, it’s very worth it to start with strict settings. For old code-bases, migrations, or teams who need to onboard, not worth it.
Don’t be afraid of any if you can’t figure something out! Use any to keep the flow of things going smoothly, with // FIXME: any attached. Momentum is important. Keep the momentum! Then later, go back and fix the any’s. If you can’t figure it out now, that’s ok too – your codebase is already safer just being in the type-checking pipeline in many other ways.
For typing react children, there’s React.ReactNode, JSX.Element, React.FC and so on. It can get as strict or as loose as you’d like it to get, but typically ReactNode and JSX.Element will cover things.
Go slowly, you’ll learn more with time. At Artsy we had a few (two) people who were familiar with TS, and the rest not. We’d never go back to untyped code now, even though in the beginning it was a little confusing at times. Absolutely, without a doubt, it was worth it.
vosper 2 months ago | link
Thanks! How did you deal with the CoffeeScript, if at all? I assume the Typescript compiler doesn’t know what to do with it?
I think my team is pretty over the CoffeeScript, anyway - I think they’d all rather be writing ES6. I thought maybe we should compile the Coffee to JS and commit it, then delete the Coffee, just as a way to get to an all-JS codebase that Typescript can understand.
sibeliuss edited 2 months ago | link
How did you deal with the CoffeeScript, if at all
Everything is piped through webpack and babel, and things all exist side-by-side: https://github.com/artsy/force/blob/master/webpack/envs/baseConfig.js#L21-L23 https://github.com/artsy/force/blob/master/webpack/envs/baseConfig.js#L38-L49 https://github.com/artsy/force/blob/master/.babelrc#L13
For files we find we touch a lot, like lower level lib code, we’ve converted that from Coffee to TS, but 99% of the CS we’ve written is still CS, and we tend to not touch it – its just maintenance code at this point.
As mentioned below, rather than getting bogged down worrying about your large code base, it’s best to setup TypeScript and then use it to write new code, and then – if need be – convert older, more critical parts later via something like https://decaffeinate-project.org/.
Thanks, I’ll look into that. Out of curiosity, have you ever thought about just committing the compiled Coffee, so that you don’t need to support it anymore? I have increasing numbers of engineers who don’t know Coffeescript (even though it’s just a different syntax) and don’t want to learn it, but we do unfortunately have quite a lot of coffee that still needs updating. If I’m going to ask them to learn one thing it’ll be TS, not Coffee, which is why I’ve wondered about just getting rid of it…
sibeliuss 2 months ago | link
No, we have the assumption that if need be people will have to work with it, which is a bit annoying but also not the worst thing. It’s still a pretty nice lang all said, just not type-checked :)
Yeah, I mean… it’s not that hard IMO to learn CoffeeScript. I don’t personally think it’s a big ask for people on my team to deal with it occasionally.
je 2 months ago | link
I just want to say that I love Artsy and your guys’ work.
je 2 months ago | link | on: Into the Personal-Website-Verse
I love the webring [1] that Devine Lu Linvega has.
[1] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#webring
jgt 2 months ago | link | on: Get These Dependencies Off My Lawn: 5 Tasks You Didn't Know Could be Done with Pure HTML and CSS
I’d love to rely more on pure HTML and CSS. In fact I did just remove an entire Elm application from one of my projects as I managed to implement it with (mostly) just HTML and CSS.
The problem — as always — is browser support. And even when caniuse says that a feature is implemented in most browsers, it often isn’t implemented the same way. Some UI component e.g., a date picker, could work nicely enough in Chrome but then work horrendously in Safari for example. The argument may be “don’t change the way the browser natively behaves”, but that’s just not how businesses work.
In fact I did just remove an entire Elm application from one of my projects as I managed to implement it with (mostly) just HTML and CSS.
I’d love to see a before/after diff of this
jgt 2 months ago | link
It’s mostly red.
je 4 months ago | link | on: How I revamped my Vim setup
Nothing on language servers. There’s a few different plugins/clients, and Neovim even has an official, built-in one coming too.
I’m currently using https://github.com/autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim because I believe it was the best/only one at the time I was looking.
I haven’t spent the time to compare the other new ones.
je 4 months ago | link | on: Secure Meteor
I haven’t used Meteor in quite a while, but nice work on this!
je 5 months ago | link | on: Introducing draft pull requests
From the GitLab side, they have a “WIP” you can put in the title that prevents MRs being merged in before they’re declared ready.
je 5 months ago | link | on: How I organize my cloned git projects
git get sounds like https://github.com/motemen/ghq. I use this a lot and have my path as ~/src.
so_it_goes 5 months ago | link
Interesting! I was unaware of this when I made this script. Will check it out.
stip 6 months ago | link | on: kitty - the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
I’d be interested to see a side-by-side comparison of kitty to alacritty. In particular, I’ve been using alacritty at work for a while and while it’s barebones at the moment, it’s exceptionally fast (which is probably my core feature for terminal emulators). That said, kitty looks like a fine emulator.
faitswulff 6 months ago | link
Honest question: what need do you have for a fast terminal emulator?
stip edited 6 months ago | link
I have a minor obsession with input latency and scroll jank. It seems to creep up everywhere and is hard to stamp out (Sublime Text is a shining counterexample). I noticed a bit of weird input latency issues when using Terminal.app (purely anecdotal), and haven’t seen the same thing since using alacritty. So that’s the need I have for a fast emulator, it enables a smooth input and output experience.
swifthand 6 months ago | link
I am sensitive to the same.
This is what kept me on Sublime Text for years, despite open source alternatives (Atom, VS Code and friends). I gave them all at least a week, but in the end the minor latency hiccups were a major distraction. A friend with similar sensitivity has told me that VS Code has gotten better lately, I would give it another go if I weren’t transitioning to Emacs instead.
I sometimes use the Gmail web client and, for some period of time, I would experience an odd buffering of my keystrokes and it would sometimes completely derail my train of thought. It’s the digital equivalent of a painful muscle spasm. Sometimes you ignore it and move on, but sometimes you stop and think “Did I do something wrong here? Is there something more generally broken, and I should fear or investigate it?”
cout 6 months ago | link
Web-based applications are particularly bad, because often they don’t just buffer, but completely reorder my keystrokes. So I can’t just keep typing and wait for the page to catch up; I have to stop, otherwise I’m going to have to do an edit anyway.
bityard 6 months ago | link
I have to admit, I thought for certain this was going to be Yet Another JavaScript Terminal but it turns out it’s written in Python. Interesting.
Anyway I would have a hard time believing it’s faster than xfce4-terminal, xterm, or rxvt. It’s been a long time since I last benchmarked terminal emulators, maybe I smell a weekend project coming on.
wezm 6 months ago | link
kitty is written is about half C, half Python, Alacritty is written in Rust.
There were some benchmarks done for the recent Alacritty release that added scrollback, which include kitty, urxvt, termite, and st. https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/#benchmarks
I just did a few rough-and-ready benchmarks on my system. Compared to my daily driver (xfce4-terminal), kitty is a little under twice as fast, alacritty and rxvt are about three times as fast. If raw speed was my only concern, I would probably reach for rxvt-unicode since it’s a more mature project.
Alacritty is too bare-bones for me but I could be sold on kitty if I took the time to make it work/behave like xfce4-terminal.
I like xfce4-terminal, but it renders fonts completely wrong for me. It’s most noticeable when I run tmux and the solid lines are drawn with dashes. If I pick a font where the lines are solid, then certain letters look off. It’s a shame, because other vte-based terminals (e.g. gnome-terminal) tend to be much slower.
igorclark 6 months ago | link
For me it’s the simple stuff that gets annoying when it’s slow. Tailing high-volume logs. less-ing/cat-ing large files. Long scrollbacks. Makes a difference to my day by just not being slow.
nomto 6 months ago | link
I don’t care that much about the speed it takes to cat a big file, but low latency is very nice and kitty is quite good at that. I cannot use libvte terminals anymore, they just seem so sluggish.
feoh 6 months ago | link
For one thing, my workflow involves cutting and pasting large blocks of text. If the terminal emulator can’t keep up, blocks of text can come through out of order etc, which can be a bad time for everyone involved.
je edited 6 months ago | link
I’m on macOS.
I used alacritty for a while, then switched to kitty as I’d get these long page redraws when switching tmux windows—so kitty is at least better for me in that regard. Both have similar ease of configuration. I use tmux within both, so I don’t use kitty’s scrolling or tabs. The way I was using them, they were more or less the same.
I’m going to try alacritty again to see if it’s improved. I’d honestly use the default Terminal app if I could easily provide custom shortcuts (I bind keys to switching tmux panes, etc).
I came back to Alacritty on MacOS just the other day after trying it last maybe 6 months ago and finding it “not ready” in my head. It’s been significantly updated, there’s a DMG installer (and it’s in brew), a lot more polished overall and it works really well and really fast. No redraws in tmux switches. Weirded redraw artifiact while resizing main window, but snaps to fixed immediately you stop, and doesn’t bother me much. Using it as a full-time Terminal replacement right now, liking it so far, will see how it goes!
Good to know! I’ve installed it via brew now and double-checked my old config. My font (as in, not the default Menlo. I’m using a patched Roboto Mono) looks a bit too bold, so just gotta figure out what’s wrong there.
phlm 6 months ago | link
They’ve updated config files with additional info about aliasing and rendering fonts on Mac. So take a look at that if you are using your old config. It’s not a bad idea to start from scratch.
Thanks for the tip! I did start from scratch and moved over changes bit by bit, but I’ll have to check the new macOS specific lines.
stip 6 months ago | link
Cool, thanks for your input! I also use tmux, and I haven’t seen anything like what you described (I also don’t really use tmux panes, only tabs). I know there has been a longstanding vim + tmux + osx bug as well, but I haven’t used vim proper in a while.
I think that’s my exact problem (turns out I’m even subscribed to the issue haha). I use neovim so I think it is/was applicable to both
enow 6 months ago | link
do any of those really measure up when benchmarked.
I remember doing some writing to stdout and it alacritty turned out to be slower than say gnome-terminal or whatever.
Might’ve been that there was a bug with my intel graphics card though, don’t remember to well.
jonschoning 6 months ago | link | on: What are you doing this weekend?
working on https://github.com/jonschoning/espial my open-source, web-based bookmarking server.
Looks interesting. Is it effectively aiming to be an open-source clone of pinboard.in?
jonschoning 6 months ago | link
When you have over 67,000 bookmarks, as i do, I feel open-source/self-hosted becomes a higher priority due to for data ownership and performance reasons.
By moving to self-hosted, i was able to bring down my “cold-start”/“non-cached” wait time on tag filters from 30s to ~1s.
AFAICT most folks don’t have more than a couple thousand at the high end, so they probably don’t run into these perf issues — although it was my motivation, it’s probably not relevant to them.
My use case involves creating marks as part of browsing for things i want to return to later in the day, and also for long-term recall or aggregation when researching a topic, with as low/minimal-effort as possible (which is why I’ve accumulated so many)
Ah, I see—That’s a huge amount! I’m around ~14,000 bookmarks with ~1,400 tags, and so far performance is fine. I slowly moving as much reliance off third-parties as well, so I’ll keep espial in mind. I’ve definitely felt some latency with Pinboard sometimes too.
je 6 months ago | link | on: When you code, write down everything
I have a text file for every day that I jot notes down about anything throughout the day. I also keep a personal journal. They’ve both been so helpful, and a good outlet.
For my personal projects, I have a template file for the project outline, and I also have a mini-log.
For work, I have a notebook I use regularly (as the author describes), and also have a Vimwiki file for each day noting what I want to do and did.
It might sound like a lot of work, but it’s actually very little. I get the benefits the author spoke about, which makes it well worth it!
lojikil 6 months ago | link | on: Philip2: An Elm-to-OCaml compiler
It’s interesting, I’ve seen way more ReasonML content of late, are people still working on Elm? I’ve had a few clients come in with Elm apps, but otherwise it seems like ReasonML won out. I’d be curious to know more, if anyone has any data or the like on it…
rs86 6 months ago | link
My few interactions with Evan were disappointing - he is too closed. I love the developer experience that Elm offers, but I wouldn’t trust it for the long term.
The developer experience is great, when everything is going to plan, but otherwise terrible for me. Littering _ = Debug.log "x" x around is awful. The fact that there’s a known compiler bug preventing the debug mode working in some cases, and appears to be ignored (or is just under Evan’s philosophy of to not say anything) is amazing. There’s also no good/official equivalent of something like the React developer tools AFAIK too.
brendan 6 months ago | link
Littering _ = Debug.log “x” x around is awful.
Yeah, Elm could really benefit from typed holes for this kind of stuff! (OCaml/Reason also lacks these AFAIK, which is a shame)
yawaramin 6 months ago | link
Merlin apparently has typed holes ( https://github.com/ocaml/merlin/commit/ef97ebfa23bb81c4b4b1c8fb2316a29f7052a514 ), but I’m not totally sure how to trigger it.
lojikil 6 months ago | link
Interesting; do you still use it often, or have moved away? was it because of that?
Yes, it’s safe to say there’s high interest in Reason. The annual State of JavaScript survey backs this up: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/conclusion/ –long story short, it’s something to ‘keep an eye on’ for mainstream users.
There are other interesting data points in there. Strikingly, Elm’s ‘heard of it, would like to learn’ metric is declining: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/elm/ and Reason’s is shooting up.
ah, that’s a great pair of posts, thank you! it’s interesting to see the shift away like that, even if it’s likely from people who may not have used Elm first.
I wonder if that’s just natural settling or issues folks see with it or what?
Folks are still using Elm heavily, and there’s lots to like about the language. I prefer much of the language design and library design to ReasonML (although the Reason/OCaml’s module system would be super nice to have in Elm). But it just seems very hard to trust the community model. There doesn’t seem to be much work put into trying to upskill contributors to be as effective as Evan at design and implementation, and the compiler has a high bus factor.
Agreed! It seems to have some nicer design points compared to Reason, and I like what it has done (tho last I seriously looked at it Signals were still a thing).
That’s interesting re: Evan, as that’s been mentioned here and elsewhere. I wonder why that is?
In case you’re interested, I reviewed Elm’s ports here: https://lobste.rs/s/1jftsw/philip2_elm_ocaml_compiler#c_prnskf
oh very much so, thank you for the link! That’s an interesting set of critiques as well… I need to try rewriting something large in Elm again to see where the edge cases are (I was originally waiting for Elm in Action to be finished and work through that, but…)
Popularity and hype are not excellent indicators of whether a technology functions well and/or is appropriate for your use case.
I will continue using Elm. It’s good. It works. Aside from the common “community” complaints — which I don’t care about — most people’s complaints around Elm seem to be that it makes synchronous IO hard. None of my projects need synchronous IO. I can’t think of a case where anyone needs synchronous IO. Every time I have this discussion, it goes along these lines:
“Elm broke us! We can’t use synchronous IO anymore!”
“Why can’t you use ports?”
Are the issues mentioned here still valid? https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/7fx856/seeking_problems_with_ports/?st=jqiy249g&sh=54bfcdb4
Ports are one-way only and don’t support the request/response model
Ports can’t be packaged and distributed for reuse. So, ports aren’t portable?
Here are the issues I see from reading https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/ports.html :
They provide a very restricted window to the JS world–the more dynamic interactions you have with third-party libraries, the more complex your messages grow
Message complexity and and handling logic complexity grows on the JavaScript side as well as on the Elm side–not only do you have to remember to implement the JavaScript side of things, but your JavaScript code grows along with your Elm port code. In time, you might find yourself managing quite a lot of JavaScript–and your original goal was to get rid of JavaScript and just write Elm
Some of the advice and commentary there doesn’t really gel. It talks about how using ports isn’t ‘as glamorous’ as rewriting everything in Elm, but it helps when you’re trying to port an existing JS project to Elm. Well, no, I don’t have an existing JS project–I have a pure Elm project but now I need to write ports because Elm doesn’t support my use-case
Apparently ‘package flooding’, the desire to contribute Elm bindings to JS packages, would be a pitfall of allowing FFI or other non-port techniques.
The first two issues seem like non-issues to me.
Ports are one-way insofar as one would use subscriptions as the other side of that coin. It’s not clear how this would not “support the request/response model”. I have written an application that did HTTP requests through ports. It’s not a difficult concept — you call the function that Elm is subscribed to in the response callback.
For those curious: I only needed to use ports because the server streamed back JSON, which I needed to incrementally parse.
As for making it awkward to call external JS math libraries — that’s the cost of safety. If you want an escape hatch from type safety, you could use Html.Attributes.attribute. Otherwise you can use ports.
The people complaining about this don’t understand why it has to be this way. They also don’t understand that they don’t understand, and they complain that Evan Czaplicki has an “I know best, you are wrong” attitude. I’ll address an example from this post:
In response to these kinds of problems, the current supported way to integrate Javascript in Elm is to use ports. Ports are often fine for side-effectful code that you do not trust. Compared to using Tasks (which compose in ways that ports do not), they can be very ugly. But without a shadow of a doubt they are very often hopelessly inadequate when it comes to pure code [12], and anyone who tells you differently is smoking something or a victim of Stockholm syndrome.
In the linked post, Evan assumes that if it possible to get rid of native modules from your project, then that will be an acceptable solution. It ignores the many reasons why people might not want to get rid of native code. These include:
The overall architecture of my app is much better if I have this native code implementing a pure function or Task, as opposed to using ports.
My current code has been thoroughly reviewed,
or was compiled to Javascript/WebAssembly from a much better language than Elm,
or has been subject to formal analysis techniques,
or has been war-hardened by years in production.
I don’t smoke, so apparently I am qualified to address this.
It does not matter if an Elm user thinks some arbitrary JavaScript function is pure. It is fundamentally, mathematically impossible to guarantee this, probably for more reasons than I know of. One of those is the halting problem. You don’t know that a supposedly “pure” function won’t recursively call itself infinitely and blow the stack resulting in a runtime error.
The overall architecture of my app is much better
This is subjective, and context specific. If the argument is that everyone knows what’s best for themselves, I’d argue that no, they just don’t. There’s an incredible amount of stubbornness and cargo-cult in the JavaScript “community”.
My current code has been thoroughly reviewed
Elm cannot prove this, so it is irrelevant.
or was compiled to Javascript/WebAssembly from a much better language than Elm
??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
or has been subject to formal analysis techniques
or has been war-hardened by years in production
It is not clear to me why anyone would want to package and distribute highly context-specific glue code.
nb. My understanding of the word “portable” in a software context is that it’s synonymous with “cross-platform”. That doesn’t really apply here.
That’s quite necessary, and it’s not like collaborators having to adhere to a protocol is an issue specific to Elm and/or its port system. Everyone sends JSON back and forth between their server and client — I don’t hear anyone complaining about this.
Nobody is forced to work this way. Programming is always about trade-offs. You can implement things in Elm, or you can implement things in JavaScript. I don’t really see what the issue is here. It seems like the argument is “I want to use JavaScript, but also I do not want to use JavaScript.”
I have no idea what this means. Why is “glamour” being used as a unit of measurement here? If anything, this would show that other people’s advice and commentary can be incredibly [and in this case, this word functions in the sense of the commenters being not credible] irrational.
The final “issue” I won’t comment on, because I don’t maintain a package repository and so it isn’t something I care about.
It’s not clear how this would not “support the request/response model”
Let’s look at a concrete example, https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/evancz/elm-http/latest/Http#getString :
getString : String -> Task Error String
This is a pretty standard example of a request/response model, a function from an input to a ‘promise’ of an output. To my understanding you can’t implement this with an Elm port. Happy to be proven wrong.
As for making it awkward to call external JS math libraries
I didn’t actually bring that up, but are you saying that Elm makes it difficult to do pure mathematical operations?
If you want an escape hatch from type safety, you could use Html.Attributes.attribute.
I don’t see how that is an escape hatch for calling JS math functions.
Did you forget the other criterion? ;-)
I think this is the crux of the problem. Elm is not the be-all-and-end-all of type safety. There are lots of things it can’t prove. Other languages have explicit escape hatches for these cases, look at Rust unsafe for example. I hate to say ‘people say’ but really, this is why people say Elm’s philosophy is ‘my way or the highway’.
Yes, the ports guide encourages writing ports in a highly-coupled way to your application, but even looking at the simple LocalStorage example, it’s clear that they could be written in a more generalized way, just wrapping the actual LocalStorage API. E.g.:
port module Main exposing (..)
import Json.Encode as E
port setItem : E.Value -> E.Value -> Cmd msg
JavaScript side:
app.ports.setItem.subscribe(function(key, value) {
localStorage.setItem(key, value);
I understand that the guide specifically discourages that, but that just means it’s possible but we’re being told not to do it. (Why? It’s not clear, but it seems mostly because Elm doesn’t allow packaging and distributing ports.)
My understanding of the word “portable” in a software context is that it’s synonymous with “cross-platform”. That doesn’t really apply here.
It was a pun :-)
You can implement things in Elm, or you can implement things in JavaScript. I don’t really see what the issue is here. It seems like the argument is “I want to use JavaScript, but also I do not want to use JavaScript.”
Well, no. If you want to write Elm, and do anything outside of its supported API surface area, you are forced to write and maintain glue JavaScript for ports. If you need sophisticated behaviour, the JavaScript side might grow quite complex with business logic to support that. In fact, the more tightly coupled it is to your Elm app, the more complex it would become. This is one reason to make ports just dumb wrappers over JS APIs, because you want Elm to own the business logic, not JavaScript.
Why is “glamour” being used as a unit of measurement here?
You should ask the person who wrote that–Evan, re: https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/ports.html#notes
This sounds like:
jgt edited 6 months ago | link
I don’t think this maps 1:1 exactly, but I achieve this with:
app.ports.foo.subscribe(function(a) {
// …
app.ports.bar.send(b);
No, that is not what I am saying.
I took that example from this post which you linked to. I was addressing the comment “This makes simple use cases, like calling out to a synchronous Javascript math library, more unwieldy than you would expect.”
window.foo = function () {
return Math.ceil(Math.random() * 100);
input [ attribute "oninput" "this.value = window.foo()" ] []
Sadly, I did spend some time living in Stockholm, so I may not be qualified to chime in after all :-/
Also, yes, I know what SS is. :)
I’m not sure it’s claimed to be any kind of be-all-and-end-all either. It takes a strong position on how much safety it wants to enforce. If a developer finds it too much, there are less safe alternatives available. Personally, I want constraints and safety. I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot or struggle with runtime errors.
I think localStorage probably ought to be wrapped, and in this case I think it’s the exception rather than the rule. I’m also not sure what assumptions tooling can make around where Elm code is being run. Should a package give you both some Elm port code and some JavaScript port handler code?
I don’t intend for it to sound that way. I think the claim is that the package repository maintainers don’t want to worsen the signal:noise ratio. The claim may be valid, I don’t know. Since I’m not a package repository maintainer, I don’t have the insight to form a valid opinion.
I don’t think this maps 1:1 exactly,
Right, you need two ports to achieve a simple request/response model like a -> Task b c. Why am I harping on this btw? Because this is a function (an effectful function to be exact) and functions are composeable. That’s the essence of FP and Elm breaks that model for ports.
It does but it’s a classic case of what happens when the philosophy is ‘abstinence is better than protection’.
I’m not sure it’s claimed to be any kind of be-all-and-end-all either.
It’s implied by saying: ‘Elm cannot prove this so it’s irrelevant’.
If a developer finds it too much, there are less safe alternatives available.
Of course. But the claim I’m responding to right now is the one that people have no valid arguments against ports. As you can see, they do.
I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot or struggle with runtime errors.
No one does :-) but the fact remains that Elm forces you to write JavaScript for anything but the most trivial example code. Here’s an assertion: when people talk about how Elm eliminates runtime errors, look carefully at how they phrase it. I’ll bet you they say it like this: ‘We’ve had no runtime errors from our Elm code!’ Of course they’re not gonna talk about how Elm eliminates runtime errors from the JavaScript port handler code! It’s classic Stockholm Syndrome.
in this case I think it’s the exception rather than the rule.
And other people think that other cases are exceptional :-) But don’t you find it interesting that the one case you think is the exception, is pretty clearly called out by Evan himself, in the ports guide, as not a good idea to wrap?
Should a package give you both some Elm port code and some JavaScript port handler code?
That’s a good question that arises when you try to package up interop code that relies on writing JavaScript handler code. I don’t know the answer because I haven’t thought through it deeply. I don’t know how deeply Evan thought about it, but as we can see, his answer is to disallow packaging as a reuse mechanism for ports. Of course, this won’t stop people from just packaging and distributing them as npm packages. So in practice you may end up with a hybrid Elm/npm application.
Since I’m not a package repository maintainer, I don’t have the insight to form a valid opinion.
Fair enough!
Because this is a function (an effectful function to be exact) and functions are composeable. That’s the essence of FP and Elm breaks that model for ports.
Fair point. Perhaps monadic IO like in Haskell would work here. Or, perhaps it would alienate less experienced developers. I don’t have a strong opinion on which of the two is more true.
it’s a classic case of what happens when the philosophy is ‘abstinence is better than protection’.
In earnest, I do not know what is meant by this and/or how it applies here.
the fact remains that Elm forces you to write JavaScript for anything but the most trivial example code.
That’s quite a bold claim, and I don’t believe it would stand up to much scrutiny.
Perhaps I was too terse, and I should unpack what I am driving at with that repeated sentence. I mean it doesn’t matter if the user “knows” some foreign code to be safe. Elm can’t prove that in the general case. Elm makes guarantees about the safety of the code it manages, and makes no guarantees of the code it doesn’t.
Elm cannot make guarantees about the safety of foreign code unless it can prove that it is indeed safe. The language could of course be modified to allow for developers to arbitrarily declare some parts of foreign code as “safe”, but then Elm is no safer than e.g. TypeScript. It would then not be able to make the safety claims that it does.
when people talk about how Elm eliminates runtime errors, look carefully at how they phrase it. I’ll bet you they say it like this: ‘We’ve had no runtime errors from our Elm code!’ Of course they’re not gonna talk about how Elm eliminates runtime errors from the JavaScript port handler code! It’s classic Stockholm Syndrome.
I’m confused by this. Why would people talk down Elm for not protecting them against runtime errors in foreign code, when the tooling has never made the claim that it can do that?
So in practice you may end up with a hybrid Elm/npm application.
This is what all my projects have anyway. Perhaps I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?
yawaramin edited 6 months ago | link
It’s an analogy referring to the ineffectiveness of abstinence-only birth control education ( https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/23/545289168/abstinence-education-is-ineffective-and-unethical-report-argues ), which fell flat. But the point was that I just fundamentally disagree with the ‘disallow all unsafety’ philosophy. You can’t stop people from doing what they’re going to do, you can try to protect them though.
I’m surprised to hear that, because there’s port handler JavaScript code even in Richard Feldman’s Elm SPA starter example: https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-spa-example/blob/c8c3201ec0488f17c1245e1fd2293ba5bc0748d5/index.html#L29 . And I’m not the only one making the claim, people experienced with Elm are saying, ‘In my experience (with 0.18), the JS part is likely to be large’ ( https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/99bzf8/elm_or_reasonml_with_reasonreact/e4n83jk/?context=3&st=jqk20s8w&sh=7e54fe5e ).
By the way, note how The Elm SPA example port handler code above has business logic (both adding and removing data from the cache in a single port).
Elm makes guarantees about the safety of the code it manages, and makes no guarantees of the code it doesn’t.
Right, it does that by disallowing code that it can’t verify.
The language could of course be modified to allow for developers to arbitrarily declare some parts of foreign code as “safe”
No, you don’t make that code as ‘safe’, you mark it as unsafe, like Rust, so that people know where to look if things are wonky.
but then Elm is no safer than e.g. TypeScript.
There’s a wide gap between Elm-level and TypeScript-level.
Why would people talk down Elm for not protecting them against runtime errors in foreign code,
Because Elm forced them to write the foreign code. You seem to keep seeing port handler code as ‘some weird JavaScript stuff that we don’t have to worry about’, whereas it’s an intrinsic part of your Elm project, by design.
Perhaps I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?
Perhaps! Certainly the ELM Spa example project is a pure Elm project, no sign of npm anywhere. That’s presented as the idiomatic way to write an Elm project, and yet we both know in practice you need more.
Edit: Richard Feldman says you don’t need NodeJS or npm to use Elm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17810088 , which at the very least deserves an asterisk and a footnote.
Perhaps we’re arguing two slightly different things here. My point was, Elm already treats all foreign code as unsafe. The guy who wrote the article I quoted from wanted a way to say to the Elm compiler “don’t worry about this part, I’ve checked that it’s safe with formal proofs/code review.
It seems you’re saying Elm should have something akin to unsafePerformIO (sorry, I’ve never written any Rust) directly in the language, without the need for ports.
It seems this boils down to a difference of opinion on how much JavaScript there ends up being in a non-trivial real-world business application. In my experience, the JavaScript code doesn’t grow that much. You may call this Stockholm Syndrome, but I’m going to back it up with numbers.
Two of my three businesses are taking revenue. I quit my day job, so these are now all I have (I say this to defend against the idea that these are “toy” projects). All three are primarily Haskell and Elm.
In one of my revenue-generating businesses, JavaScript accounts for 3% of the UI code I wrote:
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.80 T=0.12 s (456.3 files/s, 64683.8 lines/s)
Language files blank comment code
Elm 19 243 6 3194
CSS 11 260 38 1612
Haskell 20 287 199 1578
Sass 1 38 0 191
JavaScript 2 25 0 98
HTML 2 0 0 28
SUM: 55 853 243 6701
In the other revenue-generating business, JavaScript accounts for 8% of the UI code I wrote:
Haskell 42 608 90 4252
JavaScript 1 48 0 196
Markdown 1 5 0 25
SUM: 59 857 90 6840
I’m not suggesting the small amount of necessary JavaScript code isn’t something people should worry about.
Right, basically a section of the code you can jump to, to look for potential issues.
In one of my revenue-generating businesses, JavaScript accounts for 3% of the UI code I wrote
I see, thank you for providing that analysis. I personally don’t have any Elm apps, but I took a look at Ellie as a ‘representative sample small app’ and it seems to have six ports: https://github.com/ellie-app/ellie/search?q=app.ports&unscoped_q=app.ports . Let’s look at one of these ports: https://github.com/ellie-app/ellie/blob/45fc52ef557e3a26162b33b950874002b43d9072/assets/src/Pages/Editor/Main.js#L25
This looks like a catch-all logic port for doing various top-level operations. It’s quite clever, in the way that it uses a JavaScript array to encode a sum type. But again here’s my problem. This is quite a significant chunk of logic, in JavaScript. I have to test this, and update it in parallel with the Elm code. I get no help from Elm’s compiler while I’m doing that. So let’s say realistically, port handler code is somewhere around 5 to 10% of a typical Elm project. It’s likely to be the most stateful, effectful, and complex code in the project.
Here’s another thing that goes to your initial question, about people not being able to come up with good reasons to not use ports. The thing is, they did, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/81bo14/do_we_need_to_move_away_from_elm/dv3j1q3/ . But often they did it in one of the forums controlled by the Elm mods, who very quickly shadowbanned those posts and their entire discussion threads from visibility. They did it, ostensibly to avoid flamewars and hurt feelings. But a side effect is that a lot of valid criticisms got swept under the carpet as well. Elm’s community management does this, effectively–it hides valid criticisms and gives people the impressions that everything’s good.
That post I linked above, and its surrounding thread, from ten months ago–all the criticisms of ports are there. Exactly as I came up with in the past couple of days during our discussion. But I bet you never saw that post before, or if you did, you quickly forgot about it. Out of sight, out of mind.
Edit: look at the overall Philip2 discussion thread, btw. You’ll see it’s hidden by 4 users (maybe more by the time you read this). Want to bet whether they’re Elm users or not? :-)
But again here’s my problem. This is quite a significant chunk of logic, in JavaScript. I have to test this, and update it in parallel with the Elm code. I get no help from Elm’s compiler while I’m doing that. So let’s say realistically, port handler code is somewhere around 5 to 10% of a typical Elm project. It’s likely to be the most stateful, effectful, and complex code in the project.
I’m not sure what you suggest as the solution to this. Ideally, you’d implement whatever you can in Elm. Where that’s not possible, you can use ports. JavaScript being unwieldy and dangerous is hardly an argument against Elm.
It’s not reasonable for you to criticise Elm for not managing the code that it explicitly states it will not manage for you.
But often they did it in one of the forums controlled by the Elm mods, who very quickly shadowbanned those posts and their entire discussion threads from visibility. They did it, ostensibly to avoid flamewars and hurt feelings. But a side effect is that a lot of valid criticisms got swept under the carpet as well. Elm’s community management does this, effectively–it hides valid criticisms and gives people the impressions that everything’s good.
I don’t agree with this either. Let’s take a look at that user’s comments (emphasis mine).
Asking people to write their own port implementation every time they want to use LocalStorage is insane.
Typical Elm-speak for “this is fine” while the entire room is on fire.
I understand what ports are and how they work. They suck.
Frankly, the guy is being a total asshole. A petulant child. This is not valid criticism, it’s one prima donna saying that everything is terrible because he can’t get his own way.
I would have banned him too.
It’s tiring enough for me to hear people make the same arguments over, and over, and over again. “I want to run unsafe code from anywhere!” “No.” “But reasons reasons reasons! Screw you, community! I’m leeaaavvviiinngggg!!!”
…And I’m not even a maintainer!
look at the overall Philip2 discussion thread, btw. You’ll see it’s hidden by 4 users (maybe more by the time you read this). Want to bet whether they’re Elm users or not? :-)
To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t Elm users. You should know that programming is mostly pop culture these days, especially in the front-end world. Everybody cargo cults and adopts a technology as their own personal identity.
I think it’s pretty unfair of you to project malice onto other people based on the technology they choose to use.
I’m not sure what you suggest as the solution to this. … It’s not reasonable for you to criticise Elm for not managing the code that it explicitly states it will not manage for you.
Look, I’m not here to criticize Elm and provide armchair solutions to all its problems, Elm is a great language, I’m just replying to your original assertion that people can’t come up with good arguments against ports. The fact is that ‘Elm explicitly makes you write JS for interop’ when the alternative could be that you could bind explicitly typed Elm values to existing JS code, is a valid criticism of ports.
This is not valid criticism, it’s one prima donna saying that everything is terrible because he can’t get his own way.
Really? The criticisms he made included that ports can’t be composed, which you’ve already acknowledged. But you don’t acknowledge it if it’s put in the wrong tone? I get it, those words can be hurtful. They shouldn’t have said it like that. I don’t think it takes away though from the strength of the arguments though. People expressed similar thoughts in the thread. Those comments got plenty of upvotes. Not everybody spoke up, but they did vote up.
“I want to run unsafe code from anywhere!” “No.” “But reasons reasons reasons! Screw you, community! I’m leeaaavvviiinngggg!!!”
From my perspective, it was more ‘I want to run unsafe code.’ ‘Why would you want to do that? You haven’t understood Elm, you need to rearchitect.’ ‘I need it because of X, Y, Z.’ ‘That’s not valid and we’re not going to support that.’ Then people getting frustrated and speaking rash words. Rinse and repeat. It’s not fair to either side, I think.
I think it’s pretty unfair of you to project malice
OK, in retrospect, I shouldn’t have added the last bit. I wasn’t projecting malice, but more a stubbornness to not see criticism. But I guess that’s more a human quality than an Elm community quality, so it’s not really valid. I apologize, and retract that.
Well, I wouldn’t argue that, I just noticed that there seems to have been a shift from hype about Elm to hype about Reason. I’ve used both and like both, so I was curious what others were seeing here, yknow?
Every time I have this discussion, it goes along these lines
yes, these are good points. is it education based? like the Elm in Action book is… still going. I remember hearing the same arguments about Node way back when, and those mostly died off as folks figured out how to do things.
I couldn’t say definitively, but pessimistically I suspect people are resistant to change. Like “Oh, this is how I’m used to things working in JavaScript; why can’t it just work the way I expect.”
I can empathise — I remember on multiple occasions wanting to use unsafePerformIO when I knew less in Haskell. I also recall being frustrated when several experienced Haskellers on IRC told me not to do that.
maxhallinan 6 months ago | link
Again, I’m not sure which complaints or discussion you’re referring to. It would be helpful to provide some links or quotes. Of course there will always be some people who want to do things with a tool that it wasn’t meant to do. But that doesn’t account for all of the recent frustration. Here’s an example that might help you understand better:
My company uses an app-shell architecture for the UI and uses hash routing to route individual apps. Hash routing was supported in 0.18 and is not supported in 0.19. Upgrading to 0.19 means a non-trivial architectural change for all of the apps. We can’t justify the cost of making that change, so we won’t upgrade to 0.19 unless hash routing is supported again. The specifics are described here: https://github.com/elm/url/issues/24
akavel edited 6 months ago | link
Can’t you just copy the code of the old parseHash and vendor it with your codebase in 0.19? At first glance, it seems to be written in pure Elm, so no Native/Kernel code required that would preclude such a copy? edit: also, first page of google results for me seems to show some workaround…
The point is not that there aren’t workarounds. And even if we were to use a workaround, it would still be hours of work because we have to update, test, and deploy every app that uses hash routing (which is around 20). The point is that there are legitimate frustrations related to breaking changes in 0.19. I offered this example as evidence that a frustrated user should not be assumed to be incompetent, e.g. “Oh, this is how I’m used to things working in JavaScript; why can’t it just work the way I expect.”
I don’t really understand the part about “assuming incompetence”. Other than that, I do understand that migration from 0.18 to 0.19 is a non-zero cost and thus needs to be evaluated, and accepted or rejected depending on business case. I only replied because I understood the last sentence as if parseHash was the only thing stopping you from upgrading. That made me curious and confused, as on first glance, this seemed to me easily enough resolved that it shouldn’t be a blocker. Based on your reply, I now assume I was probably just misled by the last sentence, and there’s more missing than just parseHash for you; or otherwise maybe you generally just don’t have resources to upgrade at all (regardless if it is Elm or something else; React also has breaking changes on some versions I believe). Though I may still be wrong as well.
Can you provide a link to someone making a complaint about synchronous IO? I’ve read a lot of the user feedback and discussion about Elm 0.18 and 0.19, and I’ve never seen anything about synchronous IO. I’m curious what the use case is.
This article was widely discussed when it was published: https://dev.to/kspeakman/elm-019-broke-us--khn
There are two complaints:
No more custom operators — solved easily enough with a find/replace across the project.
No more native modules — this is what I’m referring to when I say “synchronous IO”.
In Elm, IO effects should all be run asynchronously. Any effects not modelled by an Elm library should go through ports. Despite having asked many people, I’ve never seen a clear answer for why any given problem can not be solved with ports.
Now I understand. Yes, I was also surprised by the amount of people who depend on native modules. But not every use case is related to effects or impure function calls. Sometimes native modules are used to wrap pure functions that haven’t been implemented in Elm. One example is currency formats. Not every currency uses the same numeric notation (number of places to the right of decimal varies), so you need a big dictionary to map currency to format. Last time I looked (it’s been awhile), this doesn’t exist in Elm. Of course, you could use a port for this and you could implement this is in Elm, but both incur a complexity cost that isn’t clearly justified.
Here’s another example of when using a port is not clearly the correct answer: https://github.com/elm/html/issues/172. There’s a legitimate use case for innerHTML, which has recently been disabled, and using a port means that you have to do a lot of accounting to make sure the inner html isn’t clobbered by Elm.
Elm’s inner circle has lately recommended using custom elements. To me, this is essentially a tacit acknowledgment that some form of synchronous foreign function interface is called for. The argument has always been that FFI is unsafe. But custom elements, which run arbitrary JavaScript, are just as unsafe. And they’ve been used to wrap libraries like Moment, not just to create custom DOM elements. So they are essentially foreign functions that you can’t get a return value from. The same people encourage the community to use a less-useful form of FFI on the one hand and respond with very opinionated criticism of full FFI on the other hand. This is the kind of thing that causes frustration in the community.
maskd 6 months ago | link
Here’s the previous discussion (I was curious about it).
je 6 months ago | link | on: Philip2: An Elm-to-OCaml compiler
What was the motivation for switching away from Elm?
https://lobste.rs/s/1jftsw/philip2_elm_ocaml_compiler#c_hahlj8
jscn 6 months ago | link | on: TLA+ is hard to learn
…the notion of an entire system as an evolving state variable…
Is this similar to what’s been happening recently in front end development, for instance, with Redux, or The Elm Architecture? I don’t have a physics background and I’m not sure if he’s using the terms in the same way.
It does seem similar, yup. I actually use Elm a lot at the moment, but it feels quite simple compared to what the author was describing. There’s no constraints (outwards in) as in the article as well.
je 6 months ago | link | on: TLA+ is hard to learn
Anyone know of a good introduction to modeling systems/state machines as in other engineering disciplines and physics?
je 8 months ago | link | on: elm-ui: Forget CSS and enjoy creating UIs in pure Elm
I’ve used elm-ui a bit and it’s not bad, but it can become quite leaky, and when that happens, you pray that those htmlAttributes work (and they usually do).
What downsides have you found with elm-ui?
alexkorban 8 months ago | link
You’re right, it’s still very much an evolving project, and not everything is possible to do without workarounds. Fortunately, there is the escape hatch of html/htmlAttribute. I haven’t really run into problems myself because I haven’t had to build really complicated UIs with it; I’m not sure what the story is with animation, for example.
prussian 8 months ago | link | on: Why I'm Ditching Android
What makes you think apple or any of the apps you’d use on apple are any better or worse? Because apple claims platitudes about how their business model isn’t “ad based?” It’s utterly ridiculous; any company that isn’t building user advertising profiles right now is losing. Apple may not have as mature of a data collection process or team, but they are doing it.
Did you miss the part about the Digital Content Next paper?
prussian 8 months ago | link
I did, and the experimental setup is not very well described–literally device running idle with either chrome or safari in focus or “consumption of google services.” Most of the paper talks about Google specifically with little to no investigation into Apple’s data collection affiliations. They also only filtered traffic to identified google and apple service endpoints–I’m assuming the ones enumerated in the appendix. and all the paper showed was that Apple was in many ways doing similar data collection but at much lower volumes.
Apple is an advertising company, they depend on understanding consumer wants and needs to sell new iPhones and other high margin consumer goods.
je 9 months ago | link | on: Practical TLA+ Now Available
Great work mate! It’s been fun reading along the past few months (?) on your blog.
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79111, 2014; Meyer,.C., Signature in the Cell: DNA and the evidence for Intelligent Design, HarperCollins, New York, 2009. Valedictorian: His mom sold drugs and he became a foster kid. Contribute: give agniveer NOW, kill love jihad. This is all standard evolutionary talking point stuff which is again, like with the big bang and naturalistic origin of life, blindly accepted as fact. Science OF building ships AND airplanes Swami Dayanand has detailed Mantras regarding these in his Vedic commentary and Introduction to Vedas (1876). Part Two Tight Tearing Trollopbr After seeing the fragrant Satine sucking my cock with gusto it was difficult to imagine that only weeks ago she was on her bended knees in front of the Pontiff Anyway all that. In looking at the odds of it happening, Ann Gauger, an expert in developmental biology, concluded: Given these numbers, it is extremely improbable, if not absolutely impossible, for us to have evolved from hominin ancestors by a gradual, unguided process. It was a matter of pure chance, as far as we can tell (pp. CastAkasha Coliun and her pussy problembr Akasha Coliun has problem with her pussy. Rig Veda.85.9, moon decided to marry. Gibbons,., Neandertals mated early with modern humans, Science 356 :14, 2017; Woodward,., We may have mated with Neandertals more than 219,000 years ago, ; Posth,. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural (p. Org, motion OF earth, rig Veda.22.14, this earth is devoid of hands and legs, yet it moves ahead.
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Sapiens ) mitochondrial DNA in a Neandertal bone (a femur) from Germany, dated by evolutionists to 124,000 years ago. Sarfati,., The origin of life; in: Carter,. A review of: Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, vintage Books, London, my grandmother essay wikipedia in marathi 2014, the book. More from this section, whats happening in Tampa Bay food: Free ice cream from Jenis, Margarita and Music Festival. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump (p. Et., New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens, Nature 546 :289292, 2017; Richter,. A recent study reported evidence of human activity in California about 130,000 years ago, 10 and so if you accept evolutionary age dating methods, which I presume Harari does, then his date for human arrival in the Americas appears totally wrong. But if we believe that we are all equal in essence, it will enable us to create a stable and prosperous society. 9 At this rate, in addition to evolution not being able to explain the arrival of information, it cannot explain the preservation of information over timespans of millions of years. If there are any other girls built like Marissa living there that we should know about please enlighten us Workin At The Big Tit Carwashbr Marissa Kert does a fine job washing the photographers car and an even better job soaking her giant boobs.
The reasoning seems to be that, even though a certain view is wrong, it may be best for society if we nevertheless hold on to this belief (imagined order). 46 and then mentions an evolutionary psychology theory that problems in modern marriages all result from forcing humans to live in nuclear families and monogamous relationships that are incompatible with our biological software (p. 122 which he translates into biological terms, as follows: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure (p 123). Rays prospect Brendan McKay being promoted to Triple-A Durham. However in last my grandmother essay wikipedia in marathi 100 odd years, this belief has come under scrutiny due to the advances that modern science claims to make. The verses are difficult to translate in English here, but readers are advised to review Introduction to Vedas by Swami Dayanand or interpretations of following mantras: Rig Veda.116.3,.116.4,.62.1,.116.5,.116.6,.34.2,.34.7,.48.8 etc. By Quran and Hadiths, we do not refer to their original meanings. See,.g.: Wieland,., Making sense of apeman claims, Creation 36 (3 3841, 2014; Line,., Fossil evidence for alleged apemenparts 1 2,. And Galway-Witham,., On the origin of our species, Nature 546 :212214, 2017; Gibbons,., Oldest members of our species discovered in Morocco, Science 356 :993994, 2017. The book does not attempt to argue the case for evolution, rather it just assumes it to be true, and then conveniently selects tales, from the evolutionary just-so stories approved menu list, that suit the narrative of history being espoused. Disney's newest ticket deal will get you into all 6 parks this summer. 73) was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet. This translation tool is not controlled by Military OneSource, and the Military OneSource Member Connect Privacy Statement will not apply.
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Make a contribution and help revive Dharma. Some refer to it as a member. Then a teacher took him. "Love all, hate none" is one of our slogans. A Docile Secretarybr Lucy Heart the new secretary of the office tries to make a place for herself thanks to her special assets Very docile she stands at the complete disposal of her boss wich will not regret that new recrue. You can refer to original mantras at yasamajjamnagar. Perhaps he should consider the possibility that belief in evolution is an imagined orderone detrimental to society. May 22, more from this section. Shes a dominatrix but she didnt whip him so he described her as very nice. Their response is likely to be We know that people are not equal biologically! It is said that Humans first evolved in East Africa about.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called. With evolutionary atheism, any moral code can only ever be relative, just a reflection of human imagination.
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The typical pattern would be english translation of some mantra followed by a Veda Mantra reference. Homo denisova is briefly discussed, as is the alleged continuous evolution in Africa, producing species such. Whatever this supposed Tree of Knowledge mutation was, it seems to have given humans special powers, but as explained above, such mutations, including ones said to have given rise to Homo erectus, are essentially impossible. No mention is made of where the mutation (or mutations) occurred in the genome, or how many were involved. The dwarfing of some of these archaic humans on the island of Flores is the tale put forward to explain the emergence of the tiny human knowns. Thus Vedas would contain seeds for all forms of knowledge and would urge humans to explore further. As a creationist, I would dispute the early dates for the appearance of agriculture mentioned above, believing it was more recent, and would also dispute the idea that hunter-gatherers existed for thousands of years before agriculture. Marc Topkins takeaways from Rays 7-2 win Thursday against Indians. Light OF moon, rig Veda.84.15, the moving moon always receives a ray of light from sun.
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Although the former Soviet republic might seem remote, Uzbekistan once sat at the very center of the world. In the first millennium, no traveler could pass from Asia to Europe without stopping in the Silk Road strongholds of Bukhara and Samarkand, and as a result these cities evolved into rich cultural centers. For intrepid travelers, today’s Uzbekistan is a promised land: a Muslim-majority nation that’s both safe and affordable, with few tourists and an abundance of well-preserved mosques and harems. And since the death of authoritarian president Islam Karimov last year, the new regime has taken steps toward reform that have given both Uzbeks and the international community reason for optimism. Improving relations with Iran could soon bring a rail link to the Persian Gulf, and in 2016, the Afrosiyob high-speed-train line began connecting the country’s major cities. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan should benefit from the so-called Iron Silk Road, or Trans-Asian Railway — a Chinese-funded network of routes knitting together Beijing and Europe — once a segment connecting the country through Kyrgyzstan is completed. Book a customized journey with Exeter International, which specializes in the region. —Heidi Mitchell
Travel to the Danish capital has jumped more than 80 percent in the past decade, thanks in part to René Redzepi’s influential Noma restaurant (slated to reopen in its new location in February), as well as Scandinavian Airlines’ ongoing flight expansion. Today, Copenhagen is teeming with inspiring places to eat and drink, in addition to a number of sleek new hotels — so much so that the New Nordic food, beverage, and design movement has now spread worldwide. Even before it debuted in July, Restaurant Barr — the beer-centric boîte by Redzepi and chef Thorsten Schmidt that occupies the old Noma plot — was already garnering international attention. Then there’s Apollo Bar & Kantine, the recently minted, design-focused restaurant in the Kunsthal Charlottenborg gallery from Frederik Bille Brahe, proprietor of hit café Atelier September. Brothers Mikkel Borg Bjergsø and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, of Mikkeller and Evil Twin Brewing, respectively, have in the last couple of years introduced the world to experimental Danish craft beer, and their brews can now be sampled at bars and beer halls across Copenhagen and beyond. Stylish new places to stay, such as Hotel Danmark and Sanders, as well as a revamp of the classic, Arne Jacobsen–designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, reinforce the reasons the Scandinavian aesthetic is so popular right now. —Kat Odell
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Certain that his team erased his memory of the previous day, MacLaren retraces his steps in the case of a disturbed youth with a horrific future. The future is changed due to his positive impact on the boy. Jeff, confronting the Travelers with his knowledge of their existence, is overwritten by a new Traveler. Grace grants the predecessor of the Director, an AI called Elsa, access to the Internet so MacLaren and his team can use it to find Traveler 001.
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A suicide bomber and his victims are set to become travelers, but the bomb explodes and only Donner, the bomber, survives. Devastated by his failure, Donner tries to betray the traveler program to the authorities, but the entire hearing is populated by travelers who hold a trial and convict Donner of treason. Donner is overwritten by a new traveler, who must serve Donner's prison sentence, and reports that things in the future are getting worse despite the changes enacted by Traveler teams in the 21st. Luca approaches Donner in prison, implying that he has lost faith in the Director. Ken, David's boss, believes David's relationship with Marcy is inappropriate. Upon meeting Marcy, he believes she has defrauded the system. Marcy saves David's job by repaying her benefits. Grace, Trevor's guidance counselor, and Jacqueline, Carly's social worker, genuinely care about them, respectively. Grace tries to help Trevor with his academics, and Jacqueline promises that she will not let the system fail Carly and her child. Philip discovers that gambling outcomes are deviating slightly from the historic record.
The Emerald Isle has seen a rush of American visitors recently, spurred by favorable exchange rates and increased airlift. If you haven’t yet made the trip, now’s the time to go. Adare Manor, a hotel set in a grand 19th-century mansion on 840 acres of rolling County Limerick countryside, reopened in November after an 18-month overhaul. The picturesque estate now has a new 42-room wing, a redesigned golf course, and the first La Mer Spa in the British Isles. Ireland’s whiskey scene has been quietly blooming for the last decade, and recently historic estates have embraced the trend. In August, Slane Castle in County Meath opened its new distillery to the public, and later this year, the iconic Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow will debut its own craft facility. In Dublin, Pearse Lyons, a wealthy Irishman with Kentucky-bourbon bona fides, recently opened his namesake distillery in the former St. James’s Church, and more whiskey destinations with visitor centers are soon to come from the Dublin Liberties and Roe & Co. And now that Luas, Dublin’s light rail system, has finally completed its latest expansion, getting around the city is a breeze — the $433-million project has linked two lines and added new stops near many of the city center’s most popular sights. —Lila Battis
In an interview with Exclaim!, Nick Thorburn explained that the overhauled lineup was a product of his desire to try new things. "That's important to me ― to be able to constantly try new things. That's why this record's largely informed by electronic stuff like drum machines, sequencing, and programming, which really scales it back from the last record." [2] Thompson once again left the band prior to the summer 2010 tour, and was again replaced by Aaron Harris.
MacLaren and Forbes stake out a criminal transaction that becomes a shootout. MacLaren's team is directed to assist an older traveler team: the incident's survivors, whose leader, Rick Hall, reveals that the deal was the assigned transfer of a device with a Russian traveler team. MacLaren is shocked by the violence between teams and by Hall's jadedness. Hall's teammates, Carter and Luca, are both dying, but Marcy saves Luca by transfusing Carter's blood; Marcy suspects Luca is her brother due to his suffering from night terrors. Hall demands that he become the leader of a merged team, and demands MacLaren kill Forbes to prevent their exposure. MacLaren and Forbes arrest Hall and Luca, and the team transfers the device. Trevor quits football to focus on his grades, but is grounded. Ray demands more gambling information from Philip. Carly rebukes Jeff, who harasses Marcy. Carly and MacLaren sleep together.
Known as the Tibet of Japan, the remote Iya Valley is tucked away in the mountainous interior of Shikoku, the least visited of the country’s four main islands. Tourism to the region took a leap forward when it hosted the World Rafting Championship in 2017 — putting its turquoise Class Four rapids firmly on the adventure-travel map. New ziplines and hiking trails are sprouting up in the canyons, while upgrades have been made to accommodations in the area’s traditional thatched-roof farmhouses, or minkas. Chiiori House is the most luxurious; the property also maintains an excellent portfolio of more affordable options. —Adam Harney Graham
A third type of volcanic oceanic island is formed over volcanic hotspots. A hotspot is more or less stationary relative to the moving tectonic plate above it, so a chain of islands results as the plate drifts. Over long periods of time, this type of island is eventually "drowned" by isostatic adjustment and eroded, becoming a seamount. Plate movement across a hot-spot produces a line of islands oriented in the direction of the plate movement. An example is the Hawaiian Islands, from Hawaii to Kure, which continue beneath the sea surface in a more northerly direction as the Emperor Seamounts. Another chain with similar orientation is the Tuamotu Archipelago; its older, northerly trend is the Line Islands. The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu. Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean. Another hotspot in the Atlantic is the island of Surtsey, which was formed in 1963.
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The band played various shows around the US and Canada throughout mid-late 2005, followed by an opening slot for Metric on their early 2006 tour. After Return to the Sea was released in April 2006, the band embarked on their first full headlining tour, playing small clubs around the US and Canada throughout May. They were joined by Cadence Weapon and Why? on the first half of the tour, and Cadence Weapon and Busdriver on the second. The band generally received critical acclaim for their live shows, which sometimes ended with the band leading the audience out of the venue "pied piper style" and onto the surrounding streets.
Florida vacations can be anything you want them to be. Whether your idea of a great time is camping in a nature preserve, building sand castles, shopping at outlet or boutique malls, trying local cuisine at fine restaurants, tubing down rivers or riding roller coasters, tailoring a trip to your own level of adventure or relaxation is easy when you visit Florida. The state is filled with things to do, people to meet and places to explore, and each region, city and neighborhood has carved out its own identity, suiting a variety of visitors of all ages.
Landlocked Laos might be quieter than Southeast Asian neighbors like Vietnam and Thailand, but 2018 could transform the country into the region’s next hot spot. Wattay International Airport, in the capital of Vientiane, is set to complete a terminal expansion to accommodate more international links next year, but the biggest changes are foot in the UNESCO World Heritage–inscribed town of Luang Prabang, in central Laos. This serene riverside spot lures travelers to its golden Buddhist temples, French-colonial architecture, hiking trails, nearby elephant sanctuaries — and now, glamorous new digs. Last year, the design-forward Azerai opened inside a century-old French-colonial building that was formerly an officer’s quarters. The debut concept from Aman Resorts founder Adrian Zecha has airy, light wood interiors that nod to local culture in their use of batik textiles and Laotian artwork. There’s also an 80-foot swimming pool in a tree-shaded central courtyard. The upcoming Rosewood Luang Prabang aims to be a destination in itself. Opening in mid 2018, this highly anticipated resort will feature pavilion-style villas, luxury tents, and a spa that seems to float above the jungle. —Kate Springer
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U.S. travelers have historically overlooked Mauritius in favor of other Indian Ocean destinations like the Seychelles and Maldives. That could all change, though, now that this remote, idyllic island some 1,200 miles off the African coast has become easier to reach. A flurry of new airline services launched at the end of 2017: KLM began servicing Mauritius from Amsterdam, and British carrier Thomas Cook Airlines introduced biweekly flights in November. Upon arrival, travelers can take in dreamy lagoon views from the newly reopened One&Only Le Saint Géran, fresh off a multimillion-dollar renovation. Every room and suite now has a private terrace or balcony, marble baths with cascade showers, and sophisticated teak, stone, and leather accents. Guests can also look forward to updated dining experiences — like lunch spot La Pointe, which grills fresh-caught seafood over firewood and coconut embers, or open-air restaurant La Terrasse, which offers Mauritian specialties. Unchanged at Le Saint Géran is its aura of exclusivity, thanks to the resort’s unique position on a private peninsula jutting out from the island’s eastern shore. —Melanie Lieberman
With its recent 150th anniversary celebration, pop-culture cred (Drake, Ryan Gosling, and Justin Bieber have Canadian roots), and charismatic prime minister, the Great White North has finally begun to receive the international recognition it deserves — and Toronto has been preening itself for this lead role. Luxe properties and forward-thinking restaurants have been popping up across the city: there’s Queen Street’s historic Broadview Hotel, which reopened in the burgeoning East End with guest-room details like vinyl turntables and burgundy velvet drapes, and the stylish Bisha Hotel downtown, where the likes of Lenny Kravitz and celebrity chef Akira Back have lent their design and culinary expertise. In stereotypically modest Canadian fashion, Brothers Food + Wine — one of the city’s most exciting new openings — is housed inside a tiny, nondescript space just above the Bay Street subway station, but dazzles with seasonal dishes like crispy steelhead trout with braised gem lettuce and yogurt-and-caper sauce. Next up: in Spring 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Art will move into a century-old former factory in the Junction Triangle. —Jennifer Salerno
This German town lays claim to not one but two of the world’s greatest opera houses. Most music lovers know about the acoustically perfect Bayreuth Festspielhaus, built in 1876 by composer Richard Wagner as the home for his summer music festival. But the city also contains the grandest Baroque theater in the world, the Margravial Opera House, built between 1744 and 1748 by Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia. Named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, the theater has been closed for repairs for the past six years. It reopens in April 2018 with a performance of Artaserse by the 18th-century German composer Johann Adolph Hasse (tickets go on sale in February). Bayreuth also makes an excellent starting point from which to explore the rest of the region, famous for its hundreds of Bavarian biergartens and vineyards producing internationally renowned Franconian wines. —Christopher Tkaczyk
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.[2] Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago, such as the Philippines.
The word island derives from Middle English iland, from Old English igland (from ig or ieg, similarly meaning 'island' when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch eiland ("island"), German Eiland ("small island")). However, the spelling of the word was modified in the 15th century because of a false etymology caused by an incorrect association with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword isle, which itself comes from the Latin word insula.[3][4] Old English ieg is actually a cognate of Swedish ö and German Aue, and related to Latin aqua (water).[5]
With an exciting influx of new and revamped hotels, an up-and-coming restaurant scene, and a blossoming wine industry, Idaho’s capital city—traditionally known as a convention destination — has started to attract the attention of leisure travelers. Boise’s invigorated downtown is evidence of the trend, with the newly opened Inn at 500, a 110-room boutique property whose perks include balconies overlooking the capitol, and its on-site restaurant, Richard’s, owned by James Beard Award-nominated chef Richard Langston, leading the way. (Meanwhile, Hotel 43 and The Grove both recently unveiled swank renovations.) The city’s craft-beer scene continues to impress; one noteworthy newcomer is White Dog Brewing, whose rustic taproom features a 24-foot “frost rail” that keeps your beer, well, frosty. In other toast-worthy news, Boise has become a hub for Idaho’s growing wine industry. Oenophiles shouldn’t miss a stop at the new downtown tasting room of Coiled Wines. Owner Leslie Preston — a native Idahoan who sharpened her skills at Clos du Bois and Stags’ Leap in California — makes a spectacular dry Riesling. Getting there is easier than ever: to meet rising demand, American Airlines has launched new nonstop service from Chicago O’Hare, while Southwest now runs a nonstop from San Diego. —Blane Bachelor
To better accommodate the millions who visit Iguazú Falls, a UNESCO site of 275 mighty waterfalls straddling the border of Argentina and Brazil, nearby Cataratas del Iguazú Airport is being modernized and enlarged. Within Iguazú National Park, the Ecological Jungle Train, which takes visitors on a 25-minute journey to the epic Devil’s Throat cascade, is converting from gas to environmentally friendly electric trains. Starting this February, travelers will be able to bed down at the long-awaited Awasi Iguazú resort where 14 rainforest villas will each have plunge pools and guests will have access to a personal excursion guide and 4WD vehicles. Expect visits to native Guarani tribes, river kayaking, and jungle treks led by a resident biologist. Selvaje, an upscale 12-room lodge, will also open early this year and will offer a menu of couple-friendly activities, from picnics to spa treatments. For the ultimate in romance, though, Argentinean travel outfitter Mai 10 (run by Travel + Leisure A-List Agent Maita Barrenechea) can arrange private dinners alongside the falls under the light of a full moon. —Nora Jean Walsh
The Greek highway system has seen several recent upgrades, with a new route making the 2,000-year-old olive trees and lesser-visited ruins of the Peloponnese, the country’s southernmost swathe of mainland, more accessible. Completed in late 2016, the new A71 highway from Lefktro to Sparta shaves off two hours of driving time from Athens, and has also connected the Lefktro region to nearby Kalamata Airport, about 90 minutes away. Meanwhile, ports have been expanded at Gytheio and Katakolon — the latter a stopping point for the Viking Star, which launched in 2014. Farming is still integral to the region, and agritourism resorts like Eumelia constantly refresh their food and wellness-themed workshops, in addition to serving local dishes like maniatiki pasta with dry mizithra cheese, and moustokouloura, or cookies made with grape molasses. Goddesses seeking more temple-like accommodations should head to Porto Heli, on the eastern side of the Peloponnese, where everyone is talking about Amanzoe’s new Villa 31, a serene space with grandstand views of the surrounding coastline that contains a unique installation by light artist James Turrell. —Adam Harney Graham
Last summer, the museum expanded its artistic footprint by over 130,000 square feet, making it the largest contemporary art space in the country. The new Building 6 houses long-term installations by artists like James Turrell, Louise Bourgeois, and Jenny Holzer. Two new museums are still in the works for North Adams, both spearheaded by former Guggenheim director Thomas Krens. At the Global Contemporary Art Museum, curators will work directly with artists to acquire and commission site-specific pieces, while the Extreme Model Railroad & Contemporary Architecture Museum will showcase works by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, all built in miniature as part of an elaborate model train system. Design is also top-of-mind at Tourists, a modern take on the roadside motel that’s set to open this summer. The resort — situated on 55 acres at the convergence of the Appalachian and Mohawk Trails — will have 48 rooms, each with floor-to-ceiling windows that put the focus on surrounding vistas. —Fiorella Valdesolo
In 2018, four unconnected people suddenly undergo personality changes at what would have been their moments of death: Marcy, a young, intellectually disabled woman, is assaulted but fights off her attackers and is no longer impaired; high-schooler Trevor concedes a mixed martial arts fight after being overmatched; heroin-addicted college student Philip drops his syringe just as his roommate injects a fatal overdose; and young mother Carly stares down her baby's abusive father. FBI agent MacLaren tracks their subsequent communication and confronts them; they reveal that they are among thousands of time travelers sent from the future to avert a global crisis, and that MacLaren was to die that night while pursuing a murderer they have already killed; MacLaren is taken over by a fifth traveler, who happens to be the team's leader.
Located at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, the two small colonial towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo have become the hottest vacation destinations in Mexico in recent years. With wide, pristine beaches, lively nightclubs, glam resorts, and a farm-to-table food scene, the oasis of Los Cabos is drawing tourists in record numbers. As a result, the hotel scene is booming, with a clutch of new developments and renovations completed this year along the Tourist Corridor, including the sleek Chileno Bay, an Auberge Resort, and a stunning beachfront Solaz resort.
Tel Aviv has attracted a lot of attention for its nightlife and creative culinary scene in recent years. These days its center of gravity has shifted south, to the site of the ancient port town of Jaffa (technically part of the city itself). This month, the Setai opens in a former Ottoman prison; a new W Hotel housed in a 19th-century former convent and pilgrims’ hospice is scheduled to open in March. It’s just the latest in a growing list of upscale hotels, restaurants, and boutiques to arrive among the winding streets of this former fishing village. Jaffa’s once-shabby flea market is now populated by a number of high-end antique dealerships, which sit alongside trendy cafés and bars — many offering live music into the night. Don’t miss Maskit, an iconic Israeli fashion house known for its embroidery that has been recently reincarnated after closing in the 1990s. Numerous interesting chefs have also set up shop among Jaffa’s churches, mosques, and archaeological sites. Try Beit Kandinof, a restaurant housed in a 17th-century building, where creative dishes like artichoke-and-pesto bruschetta are served alongside local art exhibits. —Sara Toth Stub
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POSTSCRIPT / June 20, 2019 / Thursday
Has our President been compromised?
By FEDERICO D. PASCUAL JR.
HAS President Duterte been compromised in the course of his dealings with the Chinese?
There are just too many wide-awake Filipinos asking this disturbing question. It is high time it is posed publicly so, in fairness to the President, he will have the chance to answer it candidly and clearly.
We sense that the public wants an assurance directly from the President, although he may totally ignore the question. One of his subalterns had said that his boss “must never stoop to listening to the gutter.”
In whatever manner Mr. Duterte reacts, we are quite sure the question or its variations will keep cropping up to hound his presidency until a satisfactory answer is given or his veneer of pro-Chinese bias vanishes.
He could duck and demand a bill of particulars – although we see no need for that since he must be aware of the issues publicly raised in relation to his perceived pro-Chinese predisposition when handling China vs Philippines situations.
The most recent, we hope the last, situation is the ramming and sinking on June 9 by a Chinese vessel of a Filipino fishing boat with a 22-man crew in Philippine waters near Recto Bank some 85 nautical miles off Palawan.
It pains the fishermen and families to hear their President, after a week of silence, casting doubts on their recollection of that harrowing night of their boat’s sinking while giving more credence to Beijing’s version of the incident.
We expect his apologists jumping to lawyer for him despite his being capable of dispelling by himself suspicion that he has become – for whatever reason — vulnerable to pressure or manipulation by Chinese entities or China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
The President may simply ignore the issue, or his spokesman can just throw a curt “No, he has not been compromised!” We doubt, however, if such a dismissive response can put to rest the question arising from his demonstrated disposition to favor the Chinese in either-or situations.
• ‘It’s a felony to abandon people in distress’
THE PHILIPPINES reported to the United Nations on Monday the ramming of a Filipino fishing boat on June 9 near Recto Bank off Palawan, leaving its 22 crew distressed in the brine until Vietnamese fishermen saved them.
Speaking at the 25th anniversary of the coming into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Foreign Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr. stressed that the “duty to render assistance” is enshrined in international law and in the International Maritime Organization’s International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and the IMO Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue.
While officials back home were tossing around confusing statements on the Recto Bank “accident,” Locsin was telling the UN that “it is a felony to abandon people in distress, especially when we cause that distress.” His speech:
“The Philippines was one of the original signatories of UNCLOS in 1982, and ratified it two years later. Recently and famously, on the basis of UNCLOS it filed a carefully crafted and successful complaint at The Hague to clarify the legal situation in the South China Sea; to remove the confusion or the pretext of confusion on the part of those violating it.
“We have strongly supported and upheld UNCLOS because it provides a comprehensive legal regime for the oceans and the seas. As the ‘constitution of the oceans,’ it affirms the rule of law in maritime space. Rule of law must be adhered to by all States Parties in the belief that no one can thrive nor survive for long in anarchy. Whether international law can be enforced is another matter. And it doesn’t help that parties with the strength to enforce it — and who have invoked a lot the need for it — have not joined it.
“On 9 June 2019, a Philippine fishing vessel anchored in Recto Bank in Palawan, in the West Philippine Sea, sank after an incident with a Chinese vessel. The incident’s location is at an area within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
“The 22 Filipino crew were left in the water until a Vietnamese vessel took them on board. We are eternally in debt to our strategic partner, Vietnam, for this act of mercy and decency.
“The incident, to put it diplomatically, highlights the moral and possibly legal —though one wouldn’t wager on it — imperative of coming to the rescue of persons in distress at sea. Article 98 of UNCLOS explicitly provides for the ‘duty to render assistance’. This duty of the master of a ship is three-fold:
*To render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost;
*To proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be expected of him; and
*After a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which it will call.
“The same categorical imperative is found in the IMO International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, as amended, and the IMO Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue to which we have appealed.
“It is the obligation of every member state of the UN and of the IMO to pay, not just lip service to these conventions but to observe them in real life-and-death situations. The rescue of persons in distress is a universally recognized obligation of people and governments; and in the civil law and, maybe even in common law, it is a felony to abandon people in distress; especially when we cause that distress; and more so when it is no bother at all to save them at no risk to oneself. While no sanction is available in international law, it should be a cause of some concern.”
(First published in the Philippine STAR of June 20, 2019. Follow the author on Twitter as @FDPascual.)
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PLOEN: Student media pushes you to your limits, but for the better
Brendan Ploen, Outgoing Assistant Sports Editor|May 7, 2018
Brendan (right) smiles with John Steppe and Andrew Goldstein after the special edition of the Marquette-Wisconsin rivalry in December.
Photo by Aly Prouty
Reporter John Hand, sports content executive Andrew Goldstein and I barged into the second floor Wire executive office at Johnston Hall, uninvited and unannounced one day in early December. Becca Carballo, the Tribune’s managing editor, was sitting at her desk working on a different story and spun around to see three wild-eyed “sporty peoples” walk in.
“Becca, I’d like to run a middle finger in the paper,” Goldstein said.
Carballo’s facial expression was a mix between confusion, bewilderment and mostly curiosity.
“You want to do what?” Carballo asked incredulously.
“Yep. We want to run a photo of a middle finger in the paper,” I chimed in.
Carballo’s face turned from confused to intrigued.
“Tell me more,” she said.
Those three words were all we needed. We finished the pitch, and Carballo approved it. To this day, Carballo said it was the most memorable pitch she’s ever heard.
I bring this memory up in my senior column because of all the work that went into the story before the pitch ever happened. Hand, Brian Boyle and I pushed ourselves to the limit with countless, largely unseen hours of work put into it. With the help and encouragement of Goldstein and fellow assistant sports editor John Steppe to keep pressing on, the story came together against all odds.
By the time we published “One Finger Salute,” we had interviewed nine sources, gathered 30-plus pages of notes and full interview transcriptions and changed our opening lede at least four times. But the story was so worth it.
While the feature was praised at the time of its release and even became an award-winning piece later on, the accolades did not matter. At the end of the day, we pushed each other for the simplest of reasons: to tell a good story.
And when you want to tell a good story, there’s no shortage of people who are willing to chip in at a place as special as Johnston Hall. That’s the beauty of student media: everybody comes together and makes a story so much more authentic. In my two years on staff, I have grown as a person and truly embraced what it entails to be a multimedia journalist because everyone around me is striving for excellence in everything they do on a variety of platforms — MUTV, Marquette Radio, the Journal and the Tribune.
There is no way that I could have gotten through basketball season, let alone putting together the paper every Monday night, without Goldstein and Steppe. Their wit, dedication and expertise is unmatched. Additionally, I am so grateful for Jack Goods and Grant Becker for teaching me the ropes last year and giving me an opportunity.
In fact, my first beat, cross country and track and field, remains one of my favorite teams I’ve ever covered because of the diversity of stories I could tell. That only came after I learned how to make a beat truly my own.
Executive director Patrick Thomas has taken the organization to unprecedented heights. Meanwhile, Carballo has been the rock that held the Tribune together week in and week out, always willing to go above and beyond to make every story come to life (including the many adventures that came with editing my ledes). The entire executive board has helped make this organization truly one of the best student media organizations in the country.
The senior class on the Wire constantly encouraged me to look beyond student media and helped push me to greater heights, including taking on an additional part-time job and subsequent internship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They have given brilliant insight on more than just story ideas, but also life. They’ve truly become a family to me.
Each of the five teams I covered were a joy to write about every week. I cannot give enough thanks to the sports information directors I’ve worked with for always helping our staff in a tight pinch. As a desk, we pushed ourselves to find the most compelling stories no matter the sport or athlete, and the athletic department gave us the access to tell stories with respect and high quality.
I have no doubt that the sports desk and the Marquette Wire will succeed next year and far into the future because everyone constantly pushes each other to be better. It’s how this organization won 75 awards this year, and I hope there will be even more awards next year.
The reason I went into journalism was for the love of a good story. I get just as much joy from writing as I do interviewing and finding out other people’s stories. It’s part of what makes journalism exhilarating.
I don’t know what my next chapter will be or where this industry will take me, but I do know one thing: the lessons that I got from the Marquette Wire will be with me wherever I go, and as a result, I am always willing to push myself to tell good stories. As Carballo said to Hand, Goldstein and I back in early December:
“Tell me more.”
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What it's really like in a college a capella group
Noelle Douglass, Assistant A&E Editor|October 22, 2018
David Klinger and Larson Seaver
Photo by Jordan Johnson
With the widespread “Pitch Perfect” trilogy and booming career of vocal quintet Pentatonix, days of brief barber shop quartet appearances have been replaced by modern interpretations of the world of a cappella music. Characterized by instrument-free arrangements and often matching outfits, recent producers and writers have run with different ideas in order to paint a pop culture picture of what an a cappella group is.
While every a cappella group is bound to have a different mix of the renowned traits, having a case study of sorts on the record can certainly be both beneficial and entertaining.
Therefore, without further ado, if you’re curious as to how accurate “Pitch Perfect” or Andy Bernard of “The Office” portrays an actual a cappella groups, this article is for you. Rated on a scale of “Blue: it’s true!” to “Gold, that’s old!” I give you a painfully honest, often personal debunking (and sometimes confirmation) of a cappella stereotypes as a member of Marquette University’s premier coed a cappella group, the Gold ‘n Blues.
We sing whenever we hang out: Blue, it’s true!
Whether walking to or from a practice, performance, meal or simple hangout, a sudden song is absolutely guaranteed when with the Gold ‘n Blues. Our apologies for all the times it happens from the apartment above you or in the classroom above your chapter meeting — but hey, at least the harmonies are good.
We practice each year with the main goal of doing well in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA): Gold, that’s old!
Though many groups are primarily motivated by doing well in competitions, the Gold ‘n Blues has never entered a competition. Our goal is simply to make music together and hold performances around our community — it always has been and perhaps always will be. Believe it or not, the ICCA is not everything in college a cappella.
We have rivalries: Blue, it’s true!
I won’t lie and say we don’t try to sound our very best at events when the all-female Meladies or all-male Naturals are also performing, but I also won’t say we have vendettas against them. There are definitely a fair amount of jokes made about other groups, but no real hatred exists.
And when it comes to groups beyond Marquette’s campus, there’s absolutely no animosity — only fangirling, really. (We’re looking at you, the Nor’easters.)
We have ridiculous initiation ceremonies: Gold, that’s old!
Our initiation ceremony is the farthest thing from formal and technically involves only one thing: singing your audition song for the entire group at a gathering. Drinking a special Gold ‘n Blues drink is encouraged but not required, making the word “ridiculous” the true opposite of any group initiation rituals.
All the guys are gay: Gold, that’s old!
Nearly all of the guys that have come through the Gold ‘n Blues since its inception have been straight. Most guys in the current group have been in committed relationships with lucky ladies for years, and when it comes to the single ones … let’s just say men who can sing give typical Marquette boys some fierce competition. However, we really don’t discriminate, or care, either way!
We say “aca” before everything: Gold, that’s old!
Never, ever, ever have I heard a member of our group, or any real a cappella group for that matter, say “aca” before anything. Not even as a joke. “Pitch Perfect” really missed the mark on that one.
Now saying the letters “G-N-,” a Gold N’ Blues reference, before everything, that’s another story … and something that we definitely do.
We don’t have friends outside our group: Gold, that’s old!
The Gold ‘n Blues really is a campus family. And when you think of it like that, it makes total sense that a member would naturally have (and perhaps even need) friends outside of it. After all, the members of our group have always had different majors, taken different classes and came from various hometowns. That’s not to say the family isn’t there for each other in ways beyond other friendships on campus — but for all members, there’s more to life than your a cappella pals.
Basses are the most easy-going, even-keeled members of the ensemble: Blue, it’s true!
With a few exceptions, this is a pretty accurate stereotype for the lowest singing members of our group. Our a cappella basses are super reliable — often literally holding the song together — and fly under the radar with their incredible talent. because of the typical vocal ranges of the male artists we draw our music from, solos only come every once in a while for the section. However, that fact often makes the songs our booming basses solo on all the more special, fun and memorable for the group.
We have one soprano in the group who is the group “mom”: Gold, that’s old!
While there are total “mom” moments from Gold ‘n Blues seniors in particular, having a group mom isn’t vital or even expected. It is true, though, that our sopranos have typically been the more steady mentors (while our altos fall more into the role of “crazy aunts.”)
We have one tenor whose voice makes the ladies all swoon: Gold, that’s old!
Luckily for us, it’s not just one tenor or voice that makes the ladies swoon — it’s several of them. Especially on a sultry riff or belted chorus, our guys hit their stride (in their own ways) almost every time we sing. Though different voices certainly lend themselves to being heard more during different seasons, our performances have never been “solo shows” with peppy background noise. And that’s a blessing, not a curse.
We have a resident musical prodigy: Blue, it’s true!
Almost like clockwork, there has always seemed to be a resident music fanatic in the Gold ‘n Blues midst. These leaders can truly arrange any song, pick out any flaw and recall any harmony — sometimes to an extent that can even be a bit annoying. Thankfully, while some personalities may clash and some encouragements may nag, the true good intentions of each musical prodigy shine through to bring about a best case scenario for our (sometimes grumbling) ensemble.
We have a group leader who is incredibly infectious, bubbly and optimistic: Gold, that’s old!
With both a music board and an executive board within the group, the Gold ‘n Blues has been characterized by an abundance of leadership opportunities filled by an abundance of leaders. Therefore, while a fair share of bubbly spokespeople have come and gone over the years, so have quite chill and steady leaders whose love for a cappella is articulated in different ways.
The Gold ‘n Blues is infectious and optimistic with devoted members that do sing a lot and fall into certain musical stereotypes. Yet as a whole, we and our leaders attest that most of the tales told by “Pitch Perfect” and Andy Bernard are, in fact, simply good comedy.
Tags: a capella, Gold 'N Blues
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Arsenal continues their ascending start to the season when they visit the St. James’ Park to take on Newcastle United. The visitors seem to have successfully put the past behind them after recording an uninspired loss against Manchester City on opening day, and going on to lose to Chelsea, albeit putting up an improved performance, the following week.
Since then, the Gunners have picked up all three points from the games against West Ham and Cardiff City. Fans of the London club would be hoping that they have their mojo back, as the Gunners came up with the win against the Hammers, after going down to a goal in the 25th minute. However, there could be some fear and uncertainty surrounding the credentials of the backline, as the Gunners, in the game against the Bluebirds, went up twice, but allowed the Bluebirds, each time, to get back into the game, to make the scores level.
Only a thunderous strike from Gunners’ forward, ex-Olympique Lyonnais frontman, Alexandre Lacazette, was able to create the divide between the two sides.
With the Gunners about to face a Newcastle side, who have let in the minimal amount of goals against Chelsea and Manchester City, albeit losing both times, they would be hoping that they can get their scoring boots on while keeping the Newcastle frontman away from the defence.
For Toon fans, this period of the season, they would be thinking, can’t end quickly enough. The Magpies have visited Chelsea and Manchester City, coming away with 2 – 1 loss in both outcomes. The hosts would feel unfortunate, as, on both occasions, they were successful in keeping the Wolves at bay, however, losing in Chelsea through an 87th own goal, while they successfully defended the attack from the League champions, after going down to a goal in the 8th minute.
The Magpies forged resolutely to get back into the game, with an Andre Yedlin goal in the 30th minute but had to watch helplessly as Blues’ fullback, Kyles Walker struck an unstoppable shot toward the left corner of the goal.
Toon’s boss, Rafael Benitez would be hoping the players and fans can put this period behind them, and steer their season on course, though in the Arsenal game, this might be an expectation too soon to hope for. However, he would be hoping that as the defensive setup working, his side riding the storm in the previous two games, only going down to fortuitous circumstances, while getting the goals in, Toon have a chance of causing an upset.
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SUN PRAIRIE/MONONA—Thomas B. Suchomel, age 67, died in the loving arms of his wife and son on Monday, July 8, 2019, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. He was born on December 29, 1951, in Madison and was the son of Bert and Florence (Jesberger) Suchomel. He married Nancy Rademacher on August 25, 1973, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Bristol.
Tom overcame cancer, two strokes, and spine surgery, but lost his courageous battle with ALS. Tom was an extremely generous, hard working, and honest man who was devoted to his family, friends and farming. He was a member of St. Albert the Great Church. He enjoyed NASCAR, Monday night Euchre, his numerous side jobs, and his humorous one liners.
Tom is survived by his wife Nancy; son, Paul (Sarah); granddaughter, Madison; expected grandson, Logan Thomas; grandson, Paul Priolo; brother, Eugene (Jan); sisters, Carol (Ed) LaMere, Patricia (Chuck) O’Brien; brother-in-law, Robert (Betty) Rademacher, Jr.; sisters-in-law, Susan (Bill) Paulson, Barb (Frank) LaVoy, Chris (Denny) Poffenberger, and Lisa (Don Wedd) Rademacher; five godsons; numerous nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two children, Amy and Scott; one granddaughter, McKenzie Quinn; one sister, Mary Jo Suchomel; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Frances and Robert Rademacher, Sr.; brother-in-law, Joseph Rademacher; and numerous aunts and uncles.
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Biosorption of Heavy Metals: A Review Salman H. Abbas1, Ibrahim M. Ismail2, Tarek M. Mostafa3, Abbas H. Sulaymon4 1-3
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Baghdad University, Iraq 1 [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 4
Abstract-Industrial effluents containing heavy metals may consider a major source of contamination causes serious environmental problems. Decontamination of heavy metals from wastewater has been a challenged for a long time. A number of methods have been developed for removal of toxic metal ions from wastewaters such as precipitation, evaporation, electroplating, ion exchange, membrane processes, etc. However, these conventional technologies are providing expensive due to non- regenerable materials used, high cost and generation of toxic sludge. Biosorption is a process which represents a biotechnological innovation as well as a cost effective excellent tool for removing heavy metals from aqueous solutions. It represents a typical technique for using economical alternate biological materials for the purpose. Today, biosorption is one of the main components of environmental and bioresource technology. Application of microorganisms (specifically bacteria, algae, yeasts and fungi) as biosorbents for heavy metal removal have received growing interest due to high surface to volume ratio; large availability, rapid kinetics of adsorption and desorption and low cost. The aim of the present study is to review the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions using various materials of biological origin such as fungi, algae, yeast and bacterial biomass. This review discuss the significance of heavy metal removal from waste streams and provides brief overview of potential of biosorbents and biosorption technology, highlights the undelaying features of biosorption and the operation conditions such as pH, dose required, initial concentration, temperature, and treatment performance. Also sorption isotherms, sorption kinetics as well as models used to characterize biosorbent sorption are reviewed. Keywords- Biosorption; Adsorption; Heavy Metals; Wastewater; Fungi; Bacteria; Algae; Yeast
Heavy metal pollution is one of the major environmental problems today. Most of heavy metal ions are toxic to living organisms, the sources and toxicity of certain material ions are listed in Table 1. These metal ions are non-degradable and are persistent in the environment. Therefore, the elimination of heavy metal ions from wastewater is important to protect public health. Industrial effluents are a major cause of heavy metal concentration, these effluents are coming from many industries such as corrosion of water pipes, waste of dumping, electroplating, electrolysis, electro-osmosis, mining, surface finishing, energy and fuel producing, fertilizer, pesticide, iron and steel, leather, metal surface treating, photography, aerospace and atomic energy installations etc. [1]. Thus the removal and recovery of heavy metals from effluent streams are essential to the protection of the environment. TABLE 1 TYPE OF HEAVY METALS AND EFFECTS OF HUMAN BEINGS
Major source
Mining, paint, pigments, electroplating, manufacturing of batteries, burning of coal
Plating, copper polishing, paint, printing operations Plastic, welding, pesticide, fertilizer, mining, refining
Zinc Mercury Nickel
Arsenic Chromi -um
Mining, refineries, manufacturing, plumping
Toxic effect
Batteries, paper industry, paint industries, mining Porcelain enameling, non-ferrous metal, paint formulation, electroplating Smelting, mining, rock sedimentation, pesticides, Textile, dyeing, paints pigments, steel fabrication
Anemia, brain damage, anorexia, malaise, loss of appetite, Liver, kidney, gastrointestinal damage, mental retardation in children neurotoxicity, and acute toxicity, dizziness, diarrhea
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Kidney damage, bronchitis, Gastrointestinal disorder, bone marrow, cancer, lung insufficiency, hypertension, Itai–Itai disease, weight loss Causes short term „„metal-fume fever”, gastrointestinal distress Damage to nervous system, protoplasm poisoning, corrosive to skin, eyes, muscles, dermatitis, kidney damage Chronic bronchitis, reduced lung function, lung cancer,
Bronchitis, dermatitis, bone marrow depression, hemolysis, hepatomegaly, Carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenicity, epigastria pain nausea, vomiting, severe diarrhea, producing lung tumors
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Methods for removing metal ions from aqueous solution mainly consist of physical, chemical and biological technologies. Conventional technologies, such as chemical precipitation, lime coagulation, solvent extraction, membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, on exchange and adsorption, are being used for the removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous wastes. Each process has its own merits and limitations in application, so these traditional metal removal methods have certain disadvantage
(incomplete metal removal, high reagent and energy requirements, generation of toxic sludge or other waste products). Most of these methods are often ineffective or uneconomical when heavy metal concentration is higher (10-100 mg/L) than permissible concentration less than 1 mg /L), which require a high cost when they used for disposal the heavy metals from aqueous effluents. Increasing environmental awareness and legal constraints being imposed on discharge of effluents are major factors for using cost–effective alternative technologies. In recent years, microbial biomass has emerged as an option for developing economic and eco-friendly wastewater treatment process., therefore, applying biotechnology in controlling and removing metal pollution has been paid much attention, and gradually becomes hot topic in the field of metal pollution control because of its potential application. Alternative process is a biosorption, which utilizes various certain natural materials of biological origin, including bacteria, fungi, yeast, algae, etc. [1]. Biosorption can be defined as the ability of biological materials to accumulate heavy metals from wastewater through metabolically mediated or physico-chemical pathways of uptake [2]. Biosorption, which is the ability of certain microbial biomaterials to bind and concentrate heavy metals from even the most dilute aqueous solutions, offers a technically feasible and economically attractive alternative [3]. „Biosorption‟ has been defined as the property of certain biomolecules (or types of biomass) to bind and concentrate selected ions or other molecules from aqueous solutions [4]. Algae, bacteria and fungi and yeasts have proved to be potential metal biosorbents [5]. It is consider an ideal alternative method for removing contaminates from effluents Biosorption is a rapid phenomenon of passive metal sequestration by the non-growing biomass/adsorbents. It has advantages compared with conventional techniques [6], some of these are listed: (low cost; high efficiency; minimization of chemical and or biological sludge; no additional nutrient requirement; regeneration of biosorbent; and possibility of metal recovery). The biosorption process involves a solid phase (sorbent or biosorbent; adsorbent; biological material) and a liquid phase (solvent, normally water) containing a dissolved species to be sorbet (adsorbate, metal). Due to the higher affinity of the adsorbent for the adsorbate species, the latter is attracted and bound there by different mechanisms. The process continues till equilibrium is established between the amount of solid-bound adsorbate species and its portion remaining in the solution. The degree of adsorbent affinity for the adsorbate determines its distribution between the solid and liquid phases [7]. Biosorption process, in which microorganisms are used to remove and recover heavy metals from aqueous solutions, have been known for few decades but have emerged as a low cost promising technology in the last decades. In this process, the uptake of heavy metals and radioactive compounds occurs as a result of physico-chemical interactions of metal ions with the cellular compounds of biological species [8]. As a result, the idea of the use of biomaterial for the uptake of heavy metals has been extensively studied for the last two decades. Biotechnological approaches can succeed in those areas and are designed to cover such niches. Microorganisms have evolved various measures to respond to heavy-metal stress via processes such as transport across the cell membrane, biosorption to cell walls and entrapment in extracellular capsules, precipitation, complexation and oxidation– reduction reactions [9-16]. They have proven capability to take up heavy metals from aqueous solutions, especially when the metal concentrations in the effluent range from less than 1 to about 20 mg/L [17]. Besides, flexibility to handle the range of physico-chemical parameters in effluents, selectivity to remove only the desired metals and the cost-effectiveness are some added advantages of biological metal cleanup techniques. These factors have promoted extensive research on the biological methods of metal removal. This paper reviews the use of different types of bacteria, algae fungi and yeasts and its wastes as biosorbents to remove heavy metals from wastewaters; these biological biosorbents have a highly effective as well as reliable in the removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater. Hence, this work attempts to summarize recent studies in the removal of heavy metals using biological biosorbents published between 2000 and 2013. Equilibrium studies in biosorption of heavy metals using various kinds of biosorbents are also reviewed. II.
The use of natural materials for heavy metals removal is becoming a concern in all countries. Heavy metals have been excessively released into the environment due to rapid industrialization and have created a major global concern. Heavy metal ions have great effects on all forms of life. Heavy metal pollution is one of the most important environmental problems today because of their toxicity, bio-accumulation tendency, threat to human life and the environment [18]. Heavy metals are presented in nature and industrial waste water, so the presence of heavy metals in surface and ground water pose a contamination problem. Large number of industries can produce and discharge wastes containing different heavy metals into the environment. The main source of heavy metal pollution are metal plating, mining, smelting, battery manufacturing, tanneries, petroleum refining, pigment manufacture, printing paint manufacture, pesticides, etc. The term “heavy metal” is entirely applied to a group of metals (and metal-like elements) with density greater than 5 g/cm³, atomic number above 20 and is toxic or poisonous at low concentrations [19].
The main elements that considered as a heavy metals are chromium(Cr), manganese(Mn), cobalt (Co), copper(Cu), zinc(Zn), molybdenum(Mo), mercury(Hg), nickel(Ni), tin(Sn), lead(Pb), cadmium(Cd), antimony(Sb), etc. Three kinds of heavy metals are of concern, including toxic metals (such as Hg, Cr, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cd, As, Co, Sn, etc.), precious metals (such as Pd, Pt, Ag, Au, Ru etc.) and radionuclides such as U, Th, Ra, Am, etc. [1, 20]. Lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium (VI) are at the top on the toxicity list from among various metal ions, the first three, called “the big three”, are in the limelight due to their major impact on the environment [5]. Heavy metals are natural components from the earth‟s crust. They cannot be destroyed or degraded. However, most of these heavy metals become toxic at high concentrations due to their ability to accumulate in living tissues. Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater is of primary importance. Cadmium, zinc, copper, nickel, lead, mercury and chromium are often detected in industrial wastewaters. Table 1 gives the main sources of heavy metal pollutants and its effects on human lives. A.
Copper, one of the most widely used heavy mental, is mainly employed in, electrical, electroplating industries, and in larger amounts is extremely toxic to living organisms. The presence of copper (II) ions causes serious toxicological concerns, it is usually known to deposit in brain, skin, liver, pancreas and myocardium [21]. Copper usually occurs in nature as oxides and sulphides. Copper is an essential substance to human life. Copper is found in a variety of enzymes and is used for biological electron transport. Like all heavy metals, it is potentially toxic, especially at high concentrations. Thirty grams of copper sulfate is potentially lethal in humans. In high doses, it can cause anemia, liver and kidney damage, and stomach and intestinal irritation. Wilson‟s disease, a disease that causes the body to retain copper can lead to brain and liver damage if untreated. Inhalation of copper produces symptoms similar to those of silicosis and allergic contact dermatitis. Copper normally occurs in drinking water from copper pipes, as well as from additives designed to control algal growth. The suggested safe level of copper in drinking water for humans varies depending on the source, but tends to be pegged at 1.3 mg/L according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Too much copper in water has also been found to damage marine life. The observed effect of these higher concentrations on fish and other creatures is damage to gills, liver, kidneys, and the nervous system. Common oxidation states of copper include the less stable copper (I) state, Cu+, and the more stable copper (II) Cu2+ [22]. Environmental contamination due to copper is caused by mining, printed circuits, metallurgical, fiber production, pipe corrosion and metal plating industries [23] the other major industries discharging copper in their effluents are paper and pulp, petroleum refining and wood preserving. Agricultural sources such as fertilizers, fungicidal sprays and animal wastes also lead to water pollution due to copper. Copper may be found as a contaminant in food, especially shell fish, liver, mushrooms, nuts and chocolates. Any packaging container using copper material may contaminate the product such as food, water and drink [24]. In some instances, exposure to copper has resulted in jaundice and enlarged liver. It is suspected to be responsible for one form of metal fume fever [25]. Containing is linked to an increase in lung cancer among exposed workers [26]. B.
There are two stable oxidation states of chromium found in the environment, Cr (III) and Cr (VI) which have contrasting toxicities, mobility and bioavailability. Chromium compounds of oxidation state Cr6+ are powerful oxidants. Chromium hexavalent (VI) compounds are used as pigments for Photography, and in pyrotechnics, dyes, paints, inks, and plastics. They can also be used for stainless steel production, textile dyes, wood preservation, leather tanning, and as anti-corrosion coatings. While Cr (III) is relatively innocuous and immobile, Cr (VI) moves readily through soils and aquatic environments and is a strong oxidizing agent capable of being absorbed through the skin. Trivalent chromium, Cr (III), is an essential element required for normal carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. C.
Lead is a heavy metal poison which forms complexes with Oxo-groups in enzymes to affect virtually all steps in the process of hemoglobin synthesis and porphyria metabolism [27]. Toxic levels of lead in human have been associated with encephalopathy, seizures and mental retardation [28]. D.
The most severe form of Cd toxicity in humans is “itai-itai”, a disease characterized by excruciating pain in the bone [29, 30]. Other health implications of Cd in humans include kidney dysfunction, hepatic damage and hypertension [31]. However, it has been suggested that overall nutritional status (rather than mere Cd content of food) is a more critical factor in determining Cd exposure. Table 1 shows the sources and toxicity of certain metal ions.
III. BIOSORPTION PROCESS Biosorption, the process in which a microorganism is used to remove and recover heavy metals from aqueous solutions, has been known for a few decades but has emerged a low cost promising technology in the last decades. In this process, the uptake of heavy metals occurs as a result of physic-chemical interactions of metal ions with cellular compounds of biological species [8]. Biosorption may be simply defined as the removal of substances from solution by biological material. Such substances can be organic or inorganic, and in soluble or insoluble forms [42]. Biosorption is the removal of materials (compounds, metal ions, etc.) by inactive, non-living biomass (materials of biological origin) due to “high attractive forces” present between the two [6]. Biosorption is a physico-chemical process and includes such mechanisms as absorption, adsorption, ion exchange, surface complexation and precipitation. It is a property of living and dead biomass (as well as excreted and derived products); metabolic processes in living organisms may affect physico-chemical biosorption mechanisms, as well as pollutant bioavailability, chemical speciation and accumulation or transformation by metabolism-dependent properties [42]. Biosorption are passive, metabolism independent physico-chemical interactions between heavy metal ions and microbial surfaces. It could be interpreted that biosorption process consists of two phases: One phase is a solid phase (biomass/ sorbent/ biosorbent/ biological material) and another is a liquid phase (solvent, usually water) containing a dissolved species to be sorbet (sorbate/ metal ion) principally, process, which is metabolism- independent accumulation of metals, is often rapid. On the contrary, bioaccumulation is metabolism-dependent intracellular uptake of metal ions by living microorganisms and is slower process compared to biosorption [43]. Generally, biosorption is a property of certain types of inactive, dead, microbial biomaterials to bind and concentrate heavy metals from even very dilute aqueous solutions. Biomass exhibits this property, acting just as a chemical substance, as an ion exchanger of biological origin. It is particularly the cell wall structure of certain algae, fungi and bacteria, which was found responsible for this phenomenon. Living as well as dead (metabolically inactive) biological materials have been sought to remove metal ions. It was found that various functional groups present on their cell wall offer certain forces of attractions for the metal ions and provide a high efficiency for their removal [44, 45]. Reference [46] suggested the following comparison of characteristic features of heavy metal biosorption and bioaccumulation processes (Table 2). TABLE 2 COMPARISONS OF CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF HEAVY METAL BIOSORPTION AND BIOACCUMULATION PROCESSES
Biosorption process
Bioaccumulation process
The passive sorption of the dead microbial cell walls is called as biosorption Higher under favorable conditions
The active process of metal removal by living cells is referred to as bioaccumulation Toxicity affects metal uptake by living cells, but in some instances, there is high metal accumulation Normally slower than biosorption
Metal affinity Rate of metal uptake Selectivity Temperature Versatility
Generally rapid, a few seconds for outer cell wall accumulation Variety of ligands involved, hence poor Within a modest range Metal uptake may be affected by anions or other molecules. Extent of metal uptake usually pH dependent
Better than biosorption, but less than some chemical technologies Inhibited by low temperatures Require an energy source Dependent on plasma membrane ATPase activity
Advantages of Biosorption Process
Overall, compared with the conventional heavy metal removal methods, the potential advantages of biosorption process includes [47]: • Use of naturally abundant renewable biomaterials that can be cheaply produced; • Ability to treat large volumes of wastewater due to rapid kinetics; • High selectivity in terms of removal and recovery of specific heavy metals; • Ability to handle multiple heavy metals and mixed wastes; • High affinity, reducing residual metals to below 1 ppb in many cases; • Less need for additional expensive reagents which typically cause disposal and space problems; • Operation over a wide range of physiochemical conditions including temperature, pH, and presence of other ions (including Ca (II) and Mg (II)); • Relatively low capital investment and low operational cost;
• Greatly improved recovery of bound heavy metals from the biomass; • Greatly reduced volume of hazardous waste produced. B.
Factors Effecting on Biosorption of Metals
Biosorption depends on many factors that can effect on it. Some of these factors are related to the biomass and metal and the others are related to environmental conditions. The major factors that affect the biosorption process are: 1) Temperature: In contrast to bioaccumulation process, biosorption efficiency remains unaffected within the range 20-35 ᵒC, although high temperatures, e.g. 50 ᵒC, may increase biosorption in some cases, but these high temperatures may cause permanent damage to microbial living cells and then decreasing metal uptake [7, 48]. Adsorption reactions are generally exothermic and the extent of adsorption increases with decreasing temperature. The maximum biosorption capacity for Ni and Pb by S. cerevisiae was obtained at 25 ᵒC and found to decrease as the temperature was increased to 40 ◦C [49]. 2) Characteristics of Biomass: The nature of the biomass or derived product may be considered one of the important factors, including the nature of its application such as: freely-suspended cells, immobilized preparations, living biofilms etc. Physical treatments such as boiling, drying, autoclaving and mechanical disruption will all affect binding properties while chemical treatments such as alkali treatment often improve biosorption capacity, especially evident in some fungal systems because of DE acetylation of chitin to form chitosan-glycan complexes with higher metal affinities [20]. Growth and nutrition on the biomass, and age can also influence biosorption due to changes in cell size, wall composition, extracellular product formation, etc. 3) The Surface Area to Volume Ratio: It may be important for individual cells or particles, as well as the available surface area of immobilized biofilms. In addition, the biomass concentration may also affect biosorption efficiency with a reduction in sorption per unit weight occurring with increasing biomass concentration [50]. 4) Acidity: pH seems to be the most important parameter in the biosorption processes. Biosorption is similar to an ion-exchange process, i.e. biomass can be considered as natural ion-exchange materials which mainly contain weakly acidic and basic groups. Therefore, pH of solution influences the nature of biomass binding sites and metal solubility; it affects the solution chemistry of the metals, the activity of the functional groups in the biomass and the competition of metallic ions. Metal biosorption has frequently been shown to be strongly pH dependent in almost all systems examined, including bacteria, cyanobacteria, algae, and fungi. Competition between cations and protons for binding sites means that biosorption of metals like Cu, Cd, Ni, Co and Zn is often reduced at low pH values [51, 52]. Generally, the heavy metal uptake for most of the biomass types decline significantly when pH of the metal solutions is decreased from pH 6.0 to 2.5. At pH less than 2, there are minimum or negligible removal metal ions from solutions. The metal uptake increases when pH increases from 3.0 to 5.0. Optimum value of pH is very important to get a highest metal sorption, and this capacity will decrease with further increase in pH value. 5) Biomass Concentration: Concentration of biomass in solution affects the specific uptake [53]. At a given equilibrium concentration, the biomass adsorbs more metal ions at low cell densities than at high densities [54]. So electrostatics interaction between the cells plays an important role in metal uptake. At lower biomass concentration, the specific uptake of metals is increased because an increase in biosorbent concentration leads to interference between the bindings sits [55]. High biomass concentration restricts the access of metal ions to the binding sites [2]. 6) Initial Metal Ion Concentration: The initial concentration provides an important driving force to overcome all mass transfer resistance of metal between the aqueous and solid phases [56]. Increasing amount of metal adsorbed by the biomass will be increased with initial concentration of metals. Optimum percentage of metal removal can be taken at low initial metal concentration. Thus, at a given concentration of biomass, the metal uptake increases with increase in initial concentration. 7) Metal Affinity to the Biosorbent: Physical/chemical pretreatment affects permeability and surface charges of the biomass and makes metal binding groups accessible for binding. It can be manipulated by pretreating the biomass with alkalis, acids detergents and heat, which may increase the amount of metal uptake [7].
IV. BIOSORBENTS The first major challenge for the biosorption field was to choose the most promising types of biomass/ biosorbent from enormously available and inexpensive biomaterials. Even though several materials of biological origin bind heavy metals, biomaterials with sufficiently high metal-binding capacity and selectivity for heavy metals are appropriate for full-scale biosorption process [1]. Biosorbents for the treatment of water and wastewater containing heavy metals are discussed by many reviews [6, 16, 57-61]. A. Types of Biomass Biosorbents for the removal of metals mainly come under the following categories: A large number of biomass types have been tested for their metal-binding capacity under various conditions, these includes agricultural products, such as rice straw, coconut husks, waste coffee powder, dried plant leaves, wool, cotton seed hulls, waste tea, cork biomass [59, 62, 63]. Sewage sludge and microbial cells such as bacteria, fungi, algae, yeast and Peat moss [64, 65]. Industrial wastes, such as Scerevisiae waste biomass from fermentation and food industry), and other polysaccharide materials, etc. [59]. These biosorbents primarily fall into the following categories as a native biomass. The development and implementation of cost-effective process for removal/recovery of metals is essential to improve the competitiveness of industrial processing operations. Disadvantages, together with the need for more economical and effective methods for the recovery of metals from wastewaters, have resulted in the development of alternative separation technologies [66]. In recent years, there has been a trend toward the implementation of passive treatment schemes. These take advantage of naturally occurring geochemical and biological processes to improve water quality with minimal operation and maintenance requirements. Biological removal includes the use of microorganisms (fungi, algae, and bacteria), plants (live or dead) and biopolymers and may provide a suitable means for heavy metals treatment from wastewater. In particular, some waste mycelia are available in large quantities for the removal of heavy metals [8, 20]. Microorganisms like, bacteria, fungi, yeast, and algae from their natural habitats are excellent sources of biosorbent [1]. These biosorbents possess metal-sequestering property and can be used to decrease the concentration of heavy metal ions in solution from ppm to ppb level. It can effectively sequester dissolved metal ions out of dilute complex solutions with high efficiency and quickly, therefore it is an ideal candidate for the treatment of high volume and low concentration complex wastewaters [8]. Table 3 shows some examples of types of native biomass that have been used for preparing microorganisms biosorbents. TABLE 3 TYPES OF NATIVE BIOMASS THAT HAVE BEEN USED FOR PREPARING BIOSORBENTS
Category Bacteria
Industrial wastes Agricultural wastes Natural residues Others
Examples Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus sp., Corynebacterium sp., etc.). Gram-negative bacteria (Eschrichia sp., Pseudomonas sp., etc.). and Cyanobacteria (Anabaena sp., Synechocystis sp., etc.) Molds (Aspergillus sp., Rhizopus sp., etc.) Mushrooms (Agaricus sp., Trichaptum sp., etc.). and Yeast (Scaccharomyces sp., Candida sp., etc.) Micro-algae (clorella sp. Chamydomonas sp., etc.) and Macro-algae (green seaweed (Enteromorpha sp.,Codium sp.,etc.), brown seaweed(Sargassum sp., Ecklonia sp., etc., and red seaweed(geildium sp., Porphyra sp., etc.)) Fermentation wastes, food/beverage wastes, activated sludges, anaerobic sludge, etc. Fruit/Vegetable wastes, rice straws, wheat bran, soybean halts, etc. Plant residues, sawdust, tree barks, weeds, etc. Chitosan-driven materials, cellulose-driven materials, etc.
B. Factors Affecting Biomass Choice When choosing biomass, for large-scale industrial uses, the main factor to be taken into account is its availability and cheapness [5, 6, 67]. Considering these factors, native biomass can come from: (i) Industrial wastes, which should be available free of charge; (ii) Organisms easily obtainable in large amounts in nature; and (iii) Organisms that can be grown quickly or specially cultivated or propagated for biosorption purposes [6, 67]. Adsorptive pollutants like metals can be removed by living microorganisms, but can also be removed by dead biological material [68].
Strong biosorbent behavior of certain micro-organisms towards metallic ions is a function of the chemical make-up of microbial cells. This type of biosorbent consists of dead and metabolically inactive cells. Some types of biosorbents would be broad range, binding and collecting the majority of heavy metals with no specific activity, while others are specific for certain metals [7]. Biomass used for biosorption may be living or dead. While the use of dead biomass or derived products may be easier by reducing complexity, the influence of metabolic processes on sorption is often unappreciated. Feasibility studies for large-scale applications using non-living biomass are in fact more applicable than bio accumulative processes that use living microorganisms, since the latter require a nutrient supply and complicated bioreactor system [59]. In addition, maintenance of a healthy microbial population is difficult due to toxicity of the pollutants being extracted and other unsuitable environmental factors like temperature and pH of the solution being treated. Recovery of valuable metals is also limited in living cells since these may be bound intracellular. For these reasons, attention has been focused on the use of non-living biomass as biosorbents [54, 59]. As mentioned above, dead biomass has advantages over living microorganisms. However, many attributes of living microorganisms remain unexploited in an industrial context and are all worthy of further attention since they may be of use for specific applications [68, 69]. Recent biosorption experiments have focused attention on waste materials, which are by products or the waste materials from large-scale industrial operations. For e.g. the waste mycelia available from fermentation processes, olive solid residues activated sludge from sewage treatment plants bio solids, aquatic macrophysics. C. Economic Aspects of Biosorption Technology The major important economic aspects of biosorption technology are: (i) The biomass used must be natural and cheap (low cost and large availability). (ii) The selectivity elimination of heavy metal must be under a wide range of pH, temperature and rapid kinetics of adsorption and desorption. (iii) The high surface to volume ratio of microorganisms must be found, and (iv) Superior capability to detoxify heavy metals [1, 70, 71]. Several important parameters that affect the performance of living biosorbent must be taken into account, these are: (i) The physiological state of the organism, (ii) The age of the cells, the availability of micronutrients during their growth, and (iii) The environmental conditions during the biosorption process (such as pH, temperature and the presence of certain coions. D. Types of Biological Biosorbents Generally, the most important biosorbent of microbial origin can be classified into the following categories: 1) Bacteria: Bacteria are the most abundant and versatile of microorganisms and constitute a significant portion of an entire living terrestrial biomass of about 1018 g [72]. Bacteria have simple morphology. The most commonly bacteria present in three basic shapes: spherical or ovoid (coccus), rod (bacillus, with a cylindrical shape), and spiral (spirillum), although there are a great variety of shapes due to differences in genetics and ecology. Bacteria vary in size as much as in shape [1]. There is a great deal of heterogeneity among different bacterial species related to: (i) Number of surface binding sites; (ii) Binding strength for different ions; and (iii) Binding mechanisms. Bacteria have polysaccharide slime layers and readily provide amino, carboxyl, phosphate and sulphate group for metals biosorption [72]. Bacterial biomass is generally produced as a waste by-product of industrial operations or can be specifically propagated in large scale. The uptake capacities of bacteria generally range between 0.23 to 0.90 mmol/g [73, 74]. Bacteria are used as biosorbents because of their small size, ubiquity, and capability to grow under controlled conditions, and their resistance against a wide range of varying environmental conditions [75-77]. Bacteria species such as Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Streptomyces, Escherichia, Micrococcus, etc., has been tested for uptake metals or organics. Table 4 summarizes some of the important results of metal biosorption using bacterial biomasses, according to some published references [59, 70]. Heavy metal
binding onto the surface of bacterial cell wall is generally, a two-stage process. The first stage involves the interaction between metal ions and reactive groups on cell surface and second stage includes deposition of successive metal species in greater concentrations [78]. TABLE 4 BIOSORPTION DATA OF BIOSORBENT BACTERIA WITH METAL SORBENT AT OPERATING CONDITIONS
T (°C)
Cₒ (mg/L)
Wt (g/L)
Ns (rpm)
Time (h)
q(mg/g) or % removal
2 4.5 3.5 6.0
193.6 100-150 105 10-200
24.1% 100% 14.5% 5.6
Pb Cu Cr(VI) Hg Cd
67.9% 78.9% 55.8% 43.23% 58.9%
Bacillus sp. Pseudomonas sp. Micrococcus sp.
Cu Cd Pb
Pseudomonas sp.
Cr(VI) Cu Cd Ni Zn Cu Cr(VI) Cu Zn
200 150 100 100 300 (25-350) 25 25 25 (20-100) 1-10 mmol/l
Cu Pb Cu Zn Pb
50 25-250 1000 1000 1000 (0-1000) (5-100)
8.9-238 8.9-238 500 556 95.24 39.84 1.07 0.67 1.33
50.32 36.71 57 18 53
Cu Zn Pb Cr(VI) Fe Cu
5 5 4 3.5 3.5 2.5
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Actinomycete sp
Cd Ni Cr(VI) Ni
Biomass type Staphylococcus saprophyticus Sulphate-reducing bacteria(SRB) Enterobacter cloacae
Thiobacillus thiooxidans Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Bacillus cereus Geobacillus themodenitrificans
Geobacillus themocatenulatus Bacillus licheniformis
Micrococcus sp.
Metal studie d
Cr(VI) Pb Cu Zn
0.5 0.5 2.0 (0.5-3.0) 1.0 1.0 1.0 1200 1500 1500 (200-1500) 50 10 20 (0-140) (50-400) 100 50
Where: C◦ is initial concentration of heavy metal in solution, (mg/L) Wt is the weight of used adsorbent, (g/L) q is the uptake removal of pollutant, (mg/g) Ns is the agitation speed of shaker, (rpm) T is the temperature of the experiment, (°C)
65 12.3 54 95% 52% 32%
32.63 36.55 92% 90%
2) Algae: Algae are considered one of the most promising types of biosorbents which are interest in search for and development as a new biosorbent materials [90-93] because of they have high sorption capacity and are readily available in a large quantities in seas and oceans [94, 95]. Algae have low nutrient requirements, being autotropic, they produce a large biomass, and unlike other biomass and microbes, such as bacteria and fungi. They generally do not produce toxic substances. Three groups of algae are found: (i) Micro-algal(green algae or fresh water algae); (ii) Macro-algal (brown algae or marine algae; (iii) Red algae. which take more attention in biosorption processes, brown algae distinguished higher uptake capacity compared with red and green algae [96], therefore, the metal uptake capacities exhibited by non-living biomass of micro-algal (green algae) and macro-algal species (brown algae) varies from 0.066 to 1.20 mmol/g and 0.65 to 1.21 mmol/g respectively [5, 97]. Using algae as biosorbent material have been less compared with the other kinds of biomass, especially fungi (15%) and bacteria (85%) [60]. Binding of metal ions on algal surface depends on different conditions [98], these are: (i) Ionic charge of metal ion; (ii) Algal species; and (iii) Chemical composition of the metal ion solution. Potential metal cation-binding sites of algal cell components include carboxyl, amine, imidazole, phosphate, sulphate, sulfhydryl, hydroxyl and chemical functional groups are contained in cell proteins and sugars [99]. Microalgae can sequester heavy metal ions by the same biosorption mechanisms as other microbial biomass as well as by the formation of phytochelatins which they synthesize in response to toxic heavy metal stress. There are two principal mechanisms which involved in biosorption by microalgae appear: (i) ion exchange wherein ions such as Na, Mg, and Ca become displaced by heavy metal ions, and (ii) complexion between metal ions and various functional groups such as carboxyl, amino, thiol, hydroxy, phophate, and hydroxy-carboxyl, that can interact in coordinated way with heavy metal ions. In general, the mechanism of biosorption is based on a number of metal-binding processes taking place with components of the algae cell wall. The algae cell walls can reversibly biosorbed metals, and thus function in a similar way to an ion-exchange resin. Thus, the biosorption mechanism can be considered as being dependent on the composition of the algal cell wall. Algal cell walls can be made up with further polysaccharides: mannan, xylan, alginic acid, chitin, etc. these components, along with the proteins present, can provided acid binding sites such as amino, amine, hydroxyl, imidiazole, phosphate and sulphate groups [99]. The biosorption mechanism has been described as not involving van der Waals‟ forces at the cellulose network of the cell walls, thus both ionic charge and covalent bonding are involved in the metal biosorption process. It is thought that the proteins and polysaccharides are the major components responsible for the biosorption. Covalent bonding could be expected with amino and carboxyl groups and ionic charge bonding with carboxyl and sulphate groups associated with these components. Studies with the micro algal (Scenedesmus obfiquus) indicated that the cell wall behaved like a weak acidic cation exchanger containing various cell wall ligands with different exchange capacities [3]. Table 5 listed several types of algae used as a biosorbent including the main effective parameters used as operating conditions. TABLE 5 BIOSORPTION DATA OF BIOSORBENT ALGAE WITH METAL SORBENT AT OPERATING CONDITIONS
Biomass type Calotropis procera(Ait) Bifurcaria bifurcata, Oocystis
Green algae Sargassum filipendula Filamentous alga of pithpphora spswas
Metal studie d Pb Cu Cd Cd Cu Pb Zn Zn Cu Ni Cd Cr(VI) Pb
pH 4 5 4.5 7.5 5..5 5.5 5.5 5 4.5
Co (mg/L)
2.5 28,51 4.4,60 16-80 0.5-157.5 3
10-350 0.5-35 0.5-25 10-30 2-12 20-350
2-30 2-30 2-30
0.17-14 0.13-4.9 0.12-10.3
q(mg/g) 22.8 14.5 95
References [100] [101] [102]
Sargassum sp.
Cr(III)
Cu Zn
Green algae(Spirogyra spp)
Cr(VI)
Cr Zn Ni Cu Cd Hg Fe
Sargassum tenerrimmum
Brown algae(Fucus vesiculous
Cu Pb Ni Cd
Brown marine macro algae
Cd Zn Pb
Sargassum glauceseens
Ascophylhum nodosum
Cd Ni Zn Cu Pb
Fucus vesiculosus
Brown algae(Sargassum sp.)
Cladophora fasicularis
Spirogyra hyalina
Sargassum Sp. Sargassum Sp. Wightii(Greville)
Cd Hg Pb Cd Hg Pb AS Co Cd Cr
100-400 100 100 20-500
300 beads 4.0 0.05-8
.01-.4 mmol/L 20-80
68.9 0.72mmol/g
265 20.2 15.4 26.1 18.6 22.2 14.8 14.6 70% 0.4 mmol/g 0.97 1.04 0.80 1.12 mmol/g 24-40 19-32 32-50
[131] [106] [107]
114.9 50 53.2 70.9 204.1
1.85 mmol/g
20 20 20 9.832 39.212 15.471 8.719 7.856
3) Fungi: Fungi are one of the industrial fermentation waste biomass which is really excellent metal sorbets. So, fungi including yeasts have received increased attention. Fungi gives good efficient and economical for sequestering heavy toxic metals from dilute aqueous solutions by biosorption because: (i) It offers the advantage of having a high percentage of cell wall materials; (ii) It shows excellent metal binding properties; (iii) It is available in large quantities from the antibiotic and food industries; (iv) It provides an eco-friendly environment. Three groups of fungi have a major practical importance: the molds, yeasts and mushrooms. Filamentous fungi and yeasts have been used in many wastewater treatments to bind metallic elements. Fungi are found entirely in natural environments and important in industrial processes. The structure of fungi has a wide range of morphologies from unicellular yeasts to polymorphic and filamentous fungi; many of them have complex macroscopic fruiting bodies.
In the field of biosorption, both living and dead fungal cells possess a remarkable ability for taking up toxic and precious metals [1]. Two different modes are found for removing metal ions by living and dead cells: The first mode of metal uptake is independent of cell metabolic activity and involves surface binding of metal ions to cell walls and extracellular material; this is referred to biosorption or passive uptake. The second mode of metal uptake into the cell across the cell membrane is dependent on the cell metabolism, and is referred to intracellular uptake, active uptake or bioaccumulation. The active mode can contribute significantly to metal removal for yeast, but at high metal concentrations active mode may not contribute significantly to metal uptake, especially for filamentous fungi. The mechanism of intracellular uptake is complex and not fully understood. The biosorptive capacity of dead fungal cells has been studied extensively in comparison to living cells. The biosorptive capacity of dead cells may be greater, equivalent to or less than that of living cells. Use of dead biomass in industrial applications offers certain advantages over living cells. The dead biomass can be procured from industrial sources as a waste product from established fermentation processes [113]. Intracellular uptake of the metal ions occur by the cells‟ metabolism using only living cells, while cell surface sorption allows interaction between toxic metal ions and functional groups such as carboxylate, hydroxyl, sulfate, phosphate and amino groups present on the cell surface. These interactions occur through ion-exchange, complexation and physical adsorption. Fungal cell walls are complex macromolecular structures mainly consisting of chitins, glucans, mannans and proteins, but also containing other polysaccharides, lipids and pigments, e.g. melanin [114-116]. The sequestering of heavy metal ions by fungal biomass has mainly been traced to the cell wall. Many types of polysaccharides are the main (up to 90%) constituents of the fungal cell wall. In the fungal cell wall, several types of ionizable sites affect the metal uptake capacity: phosphate groups, carboxyl groups on uranic acids and proteins, and nitrogen- containing ligands on protein as well as on chitin or chitosan [117]. In yeasts, higher concentration of heavy metals can be accumulated by bioaccumulation process than biosorption. However, general biosorption is responsible for the major uptake of heavy metals for many filamentous fungi. A wide range of biosorption capacities from 0.012 to 1.979mmol/g for fungi has been reported [118]. Biosorption of heavy metals by macro fungi or mushroom is a known phenomenon later but till now a little work has been done, because of mushrooms grow under natural habitats, the pollutants of heavy metals found in the soil or in the natural substrates are removal by the fruiting bodies of mushrooms and the result, that the metals are accumulated in the mycelia and sporocarps [119]. Tables 6 and 7 give real examples for using several types of fungi and yeast with its operating conditions. TABLE 6 BIOSORPTION DATA OF BIOSORBENT FUNGI WITH METAL SORBENT AT OPERATING CONDITIONS
Biomass type
Rhizopus nigricans
Trichoderma longibrachiatum
Pleurotus ostreatus Aspergillus cristatus
Pb Cd
Aspergillus niger Hydrilla verticillata Aspergillus flavus I-V, Aspergillus fumigatus I-II p. chrysogenum
Cd Cd Hg
Waste tea fungal
As(III) As(V) As
Ni Ni Cu
Waste tea fungal Aspergillus niger Waste activate sludge Pleurotus ostreatus fungal
300 (10-300) 100 (25-100)
5-10 1-100 100 100-500
q(mg /g)
0.7 3-9 10
6 0.33 8
4.84 23.2 6 13 15 95.3 %
0.004 mmol /g
7.69 11.4 4 4.0
A.lentulus Fomes fasciatus Waste mycelium of Aspergillus awamori
Cu Cu Cu
Penicillium canrscens
Living mycelium of phanerochaete chrysosporium
100 100 50 25-100 100 10-750 100 20-500
50 50-400 175
0.0165 3.75
Mucor
Cu Cr(VI)
Trichoderma viride
Aspergillus niger
14.35 4-20 50 25-200
16.3 9 1.97
TABLE 7 BIOSORPTION DATA OF BIOSORBENT YEAST WITH METAL SORBENT AT OPERATING CONDITIONS
Metal studies
Metal studied
Co(mg/L)
0.008 0.091 0.006 0.003 0.075 0.82 0.027 25-150 25-150 5.0mm/L 10-60
6 5 5.8 5.2 5-6 6.5 5.2 5.8 5.5
Saccharomyces cervisiae
Hg Cu Ni Zn Cd Co Cr Fe Al Hg Zn Cd Pb Fe Cu Cr Zn Cu Cd Cr(III) Cr(VI) Cu Pb Zn Cr(III)
Candida utilis
200 50 5-100
100 100-1000 100 100-400 20-80
Candida spp
Thiobacillus thiooxidans Saccharomyces cervisiae
Candida pelliculosa Schizosaccharomyces pombe Spent yeast
0.25 0.25 80
q (mg/g) or % removal
Ns rpm
76.2 29.9 14.1 11.8 12.3 8.2 6.2 5 4.1 2.74 31.16 2.05 1.03 25.68 28.08 9.28 95.24 32.36 65.3% 55.3% 49.0% 50.7% 50.2% 47.6% Static =35 Aerobic =86.3
Dried =28 cell=8.7 Native=5.5 95.04%
[135] 120 160
120 10-250
6 [188] 1 [189]
[108] 96
[190] 200
Yeast biomass
[134] 1
[136] 0.75
Agarose gel polymers Saccharomyces cervisiae Saccharomyces cervisiae
Mycelial biomass of Pleurotus floida Saccharomyces cervisiae Strain of Saccharomyces cervisiae
Mucor rouxii
Cu Cd Pb Ni Pb
Cr Sn Cu Ni Zn
Cd Cr Cu Ni Zn Pb Cd Ni Zn Cu
50 25-200 --------
1% (w/v) 0.4
0.64 0.66 0.60 0.68 115 29% 33% removal 91 mmol/g 64 mmol/g 110 mmol/g
5 -50 5-200 5-50 (5 , 100) 10
[191] [138] [139] 150 1 125
34mmol/l
U(VI)
25 10-250 250 50-350 100 25-300
17.13 10.07 6.07 6.28 120.7 55"dead cell" 36 "live cell" 7.89
[141] 125 15 [193] 200
The realization of mechanisms by which biosorbents uptake pollutants is essential and very important for the development of biosorption processes for the concentration, removal and recovery of pollutants from aqueous solutions [42, 142, 143]. Fundamentally, many types of biosorbents are derived from various forms of raw biomass, including bacteria, fungi, yeasts, and algae. The complex structure of raw biomass implies that there are many ways, by which these biosorbents remove various pollutants, but these are not yet fully understood, therefore, the mechanism of uptake metal ions considered a complicated process. Several factors are found to influence on the mechanism of metal biosorption: -
The state of biomass (living or non-living);
Types of biomaterials;
Properties of metal solution chemistry; and
Environmental conditions such as pH, temperature, etc.
The unclear definition of sorption may be gives a clue that the mechanisms involved in biosorption are often difficult to characterize, except perhaps in the simplest laboratory systems. Biological material is complex and a variety of mechanisms may be operative under given conditions but are not fully understood. Biosorption mechanisms may be classified according to following criteria: -
Based on cell metabolism: in this criteria, biosorption mechanisms are classified as metabolism dependent and non-metabolism dependent;
Based on location where biosorption occurs: in these criteria, biosorption mechanisms are classified as extra cellular accumulation/precipitation, cell surface sorption /precipitation and intra cellular accumulation.
Biosorption of metals occurs mainly through several interactions such as physical adsorption, ion exchange, complexation, precipitation and entrapment in inner space [144]. In the biosorption process, two types of biological cells (living and dead cells) as well as chemical pretreated biomass can be used. The metal ion uptake by living and dead cells can consist of two different modes. The mechanisms of uptake by living materials (bioaccumulation) and removal by dead ones (biosorption) are entirely different.
The first uptake mode is independent of cell metabolic activity and involves surface binding of metal ions to cell walls and extracellular material. This is referred to biosorption or passive uptake. The second mode of metal uptake into the cell across the cell membrane is dependent on the cell metabolism, and is referred to intracellular uptake, active uptake or bioaccumulation. Intracellular uptake of the metal ions occur by the cells‟ metabolism using only living cells, while cell surface sorption allows interaction between toxic metal ions and functional groups such as carboxylate, hydroxyl, sulfate, phosphate and amino groups present on the cell surface. (a) Metal biosorption process using living cells Two steps are found for metal biosorption process using living cells: First, the metal ions are adsorbed to the surface of the cells by interaction between metal and functional groups found on the surface of the wall. Second, due to active biosorption, metal ions penetrate the cell membrane and enter into the cells. Active mode is metabolism dependent and related to metal transport and deposition. (b) Metal biosorption using dead cells Metal removal by non-living cells is mainly in passive mode which is metabolism independent and proceeds rapidly by any one or a combination metal binding mechanisms such as complexation, ion exchange, physical adsorption etc. It is a dynamic equilibrium of reversible adsorption-desorption.it is independent of energy. The use of dead materials has several advantages because: (i) There is no need of growing; (ii) Growth media is not required; and These materials are available as wastes or by-products. These interactions occur through ion-exchange, complexation and physical adsorption. The use of dead biomass seems to be preferred due to: (i) Absence of toxicity limitations, absence of nutrient requirements in the feed solution and reuse of regenerated biomass; (ii) Live and dead cells of fungi and yeast are capable of removing heavy metals from waste streams; The toxicity of heavy metals on the growth of fungi is well known. Figs. 1 and 2 represent biosorption mechanisms according to the dependence on the metabolism of cells and biosorption mechanisms according to location where the metal removed is found. Transport across cell membrane Precipitation
Complexation Fig. 1 Biosorption mechanisms according to the dependence on the metabolism of cells [145]
Fig. 2 Biosorption mechanisms according to location where the metal removed are found [145]
A. Effect of pH on Mechanisms of Biosorption Process: The acidity (pH) is an important parameter for adsoption/biosorption of metal ions from aqueous solution because it affects the solubility of the metal ions, concentration of the counter ions on the functional groups of the adsoption/biosorption (i.e. the surface charge of adsoption/biosorption) and the degree of ionization of the adsorbate during reaction. Since, it influences not only the solution chemistry of the adsorbate but also the activity of the functional groups in the adsorbent/biosorbent and the competition of adsorbate/sorbate ions. The variation of pH affects the effectiveness as hydrogen ion itself is a tough competing adsorbate [196]. Table 8 shows the functional groups present in biosorbents responsible for the binding of sorbent and their acidity constants. The surface charge is predominantly negative over the pH range of 3.0–10.0. Below a pH of 3.0, the overall surface charge on microorganism‟s cells becomes positive. TABLE 8 MAJOR BINDING GROUPS FOR BIOSORPTION [4]
Binding group
Hydroxyl Carbonyl (ketone) Carboxyl Sulfhydryl (thiol) Sulfonate Thioether Amine Secondary amine Amide
Imine Imidazole
Phosphonate
Phospodiester
Structural Formula
Ligand atom
Occurrence in selected biomolecules
―OH C=O
9.5 – 13.0 -
PS, UA, SPS, AA Peptide bond
―COOH ―SH
1.7 - 4.7 8.3 - 10.8
O S
UA, AA AA
―SO3 -S ―NH2
1.3 8.0 - 11.0
O S N
SPS AA Cto, AA
-NH ―C=O
N N
Cti, PG, AA AA
11.6 – 2.6 6.0
AA AA
TA, LPS
NH =NH
OH ǀ ―P=O ǀ OH P=O | OH
PS: polysaccharides, UA: uronic acids, SPS: sulfated PS, AA: amino acids, Cto: chitosan, Cti: chitin, PG: peptidoglycan, PL: phospholipids, TA: teichoic acid, LPS: lipo, PS.
At higher solution pH, the solubility of metal decreases sufficiently allowing precipitation, which may complicate the sorption process [197]. The activity of binding sites can also be changed by adjustment of the pH value, for example, during the biosorption of metal ions by bacterial biomass, pH 3 to 6 has been found favorable for biosorption [59]. A protonated bacterial biomass releases H+ ions during the biosorption of metals, which in turn decreases the solution pH. These changes in pH are rapid during the initial period, as most of the reaction tends to occur during the initial stage, followed by slow attainment of equilibrium. The pH value should be controlled over the entire contact period until equilibrium is reached [198]. The biosorption of heavy metals onto Pseudomonas aeruginosa was influenced by pH value during the uptake of cations on the surface of biomass. Moreover, it has been shown that the industrial biomass Pseudomonas aeruginosa is efficient for the removal of heavy metals at pH between 3 and 5 [199]. Adsorption of Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions onto treated Azolla filiculoides by H2O2/MgCl2, in a batch biosorption experiments was investigated. Results showed that the decreasing of biosorption levels by lowering the pH can be explained due to competition between protons and metal ions for capturing the same sites [200]. The removal of cadmium by dead biomass of mycelial in batch experiments at different pH values ranging from 3-8 was studied. The adsorption of metal ions depends on pH value, which influences the electrostatic binding of ions to corresponding functional groups. The result indicated that maximum adsorption of different metal species occurs at pH values of 4. The formation of metal hydroxide and other metal complexes significantly reduce the amount of metal ions adsorbed at high pH value. Table 9 shows the pH values for metal hydroxide precipitation [119]. TABLE 9 METAL HYDROXIDE PRECIPITATIONS [201]
pH value 6.3
VI. EQUILIBRIUM AND KINETIC STUDIES A. Biosorption Isotherms Biosorption is usually described through isotherm. Adsorption isotherm is relatively simple method for determining the feasibility of using a certain adsorbent material for a particular application. It is represented the equilibrium relationship between the adsorbate concentration in the fluid phase and the adsorbate concentration in the adsorbent particles at a given temperature. It is a plot of the amount of adsorbate per unit weight of adsorbent qe against the equilibrium concentration of the adsorbate remaining in solution Ce The quantity described is nearly always normalized by the mass of adsorbent to allow comparison of different materials [146]. By knowing the adsorption isotherm, the affinity of the adsorbate for an adsorbent is quantified. For most applications in wastewater treatment, the amount of adsorbate adsorbed is usually a function of the aqueous-phase concentration [147]. Some typical isotherm shapes are shown as arithmetic graphs as shown in Fig. 3 [148]. From the above curves, it will be noted that the adsorption is specific property related to the nature of the adsorbate-adsorbent system [149].
qe (mg/g)
Favorable
Strongly favorable Linear
Unfavorabl e
Ce (mg/L) Fig. 3 Types of adsorption equilibrium isotherm relations [148]
B. Biosorption Isotherm Models 1) Single Isotherm Models Isotherm curves (Fig. 3) can be evaluated by varying the initial solute concentrations, while fixing the environmental parameters, such as pH, temperature and ionic strength. In general, the uptake increases with increasing the concentration, and will reach saturation at higher concentrations [150]. Empirical models are simple mathematical relationships, characterized by a limited number of adjustable parameters, which give a good description of the experimental behavior over a large range of operating conditions. The model used to describe the results should be capable of predicting heavy metal binding at both low and high concentrations [151]. a) Freundlich Model: The first mathematical equation fits to an isotherm was published by Freundlich and Kuster in 1907. Freundlich showed that adsorption from solution could be expressed by empirical formula:
qe KC e 1 / n
Where K (mg/g) (l/mg) 1/n and n are Freundlich constants related to adsorption capacity and adsorption intensity respectively. b) Langmuir Model: In 1918, Irving Langmuir published a new model isotherm for gas or liquid adsorbed on solid, which retained his name. The Langmuir adsorption model is valid for single-layer adsorption. It is based on the assumption that maximum adsorption corresponds to a saturated monolayer of solute molecules on the adsorbent surface, that the energy of adsorption is constant, and that there is no transmigration of adsorbate in the plane of the surface [152, 153]. The Langmuir isotherm equation is:
qe
q m bCe 1 bCe
The Langmuir isotherm is used most frequently to describe the adsorption isotherm which is limited by the assumptions of uniform energies of adsorption on the surface of adsorbent. It is based on four assumptions [154]. The surface of the adsorbents is uniform, that is, all the adsorption sites are equivalent. There is no interaction between molecules adsorbed on neighboring sites. All adsorption occurs through the same mechanism. Molecules are adsorbed at the define sites on the adsorbent surface. The important characteristics of a Langmuir isotherm equation can be expressed in terms of a dimensionless constant separation factor or equilibrium parameter, „Rs‟ which is defined by the following equation [155]:
Rs
1 1 bC o
The separation factor as described above was calculated using the Langmuir model constants. yields the type of isotherm as shown in Table 10:
This separation factor
TABLE 10 VALUES OF SEPARATION FACTOR AND TYPE OF ISOTHERM [155]
Values of Rs Rs > 1 Rs = 0 0 < Rs < 1 Rs < 0
Type of isotherm Unfavorable Linear Favorable Irreversible
c) Temkin Model: Temkin isotherm takes into account the adsorbing species- adsorbent interaction, and the adsorption isotherm expressed as:
RT ln( K T Ce ) b
qe B1 ln KT B1 ln Ce
qe The linearized form of the above equation is:
Where B1 = RT/b; R is the universal constant (8.314 KJ/mol.K) and T is the absolute temperature (K). In the previous equations KT (l/mg) is the equilibrium binding constant corresponding to the maximum bending energy and constant B1 (KJ/mole) is related to the heat of adsorption. d) BET Model: Often molecules do form multilayer, that is, some are adsorbed on already adsorbed molecules and the Langmuir isotherm is not valid .In 1938 Stephan Brunaur, Paul Emmett and Edward Teller developed a model isotherm that takes this possibility into account, their model is called BET isotherm model. This model extends the Langmuir model from a monolayer to several molecular layers. Above the monolayer, each additional layer of adsorbate molecules is assumed to equilibrate with the layer below it and layers of different thickness are allowed to coexist [156], it takes the following form:
BQCe (C s C e )[1 ( B 1)(Ce /C s )]
e) Harkins-Henderson Model: This model explains multilayer adsorption and also for the existence of heterogeneous pores distribution in the adsorbent and expressed as:
1/ nh
Kh Ce1 / n
Where, Kh (mg/g)(mg/L)1/nh and nh are the model parameters related to adsorption capacity and adsorption intensity respectively [157]. f) Redlich-Peterson Model: The Redlich–Peterson model expressed by the following equation:
AR Ce 1 BR CemR
Where, AR (L/mg), BR (L/mg)mR and mR are the model parameters. This model expresses the adsorption process when dealing with a certain pollutants at high concentration. g) Toth Model: This model is derived from potential theory, is used in heterogeneous system. It assumes a quasi-gaussian energy distribution. Most sites have adsorption energy lower than the peak of maximum adsorption energy, the model is expressed as:
K t Ce ( a t C e )1 / t
Where, Kt (mg/g), at and t represents the Toth isotherm constants. h) Radke-Praunsitz Model: The Radke–Praunsitz model expressed empirically by the following equation:
K RP C e K 1 ( RP ) C e1 N RP FRP
The KRP (L/mg), FRP and NRP are the model parameters, which are obtained by a non-linear statistical fit of the equation to the experimental data. The Radke–Praunsitz equation has several important properties makings it suitable for use in many adsorption processes. At low concentration it reduces to a linear isotherm. At high concentration it becomes Freundlich isotherm and for the special case of NRP = 0 it becomes Langmuir isotherm. For the adsorption of lead at low concentration (below 0.07 mg/l), it was found that the obtained experimental data fit well with Radke–Praunsitz model [158]. i) Combination of Langmuir-Freundlich Model: This model is referred as (Sips model) is widely used for a single component adsorption. When a single component adsorption process obeys Langmuir isotherm in some condition and turned to obey Freundlich isotherm or vise-versa. This variation in the behavior is found clearly in the adsorption of a single heavy metal component onto peat, and maize husk especially for zinc removal [159]. The Sips model can be expressed as:
bq m C e1 / n 1 bC e1 / n
j) Khan Model: This model is derived by [160] to represent the adsorption isotherm of phenol onto activated carbon. This model is expressed by the following equation:
qmax bk Ce (1 bk Ce )a k
Where, qmax (mg/g), bk (L/mg) and ak represent the model parameters. 2) Multi-component Isotherm Models: The experimental measurement of multi-component adsorption/biosorption isotherm is time consuming because of large number of variables involved. Thus, the problem of predicting multi-component adsorption isotherm from single component adsorption data has attracted a lot of attention. Several isotherms have been proposed to describe the competitive adsorption. Most of these isotherms are based on single component isotherm parameters and correction factors extracted from the experimental competitive data [161]. Some of these models are: a) Extended Langmuir Model: The Langmuir isotherm can be extended for multi-component system to give the following form [161]:
q e ,i
q m,i bi C e,i N
1 bk C e,k
k 1
Where Ce, i is the equilibrium concentration of the component i in the multi-component solution, qe, i is the equilibrium uptake of the component i, qm, i and bi are the single component Langmuir parameters for component i. This model is applicable when each single component obeys the Langmuir model in a single component system [161]. b) Combination of Langmuir-Freundlich Model: The competitive Langmuir-Freundlich model related to the individual isotherm parameters is expressed in the following equation [162]:
q m ,i bi C e,ini N
1 bi C e,ini i 1
c) Redlich-Peterson Model: The competitive Redlich-Peterson model related to the individual isotherm parameters is given by the following equation [162]:
K Ri bRi C e,i 1 bR ,k C e,k N
mR , k
Where KRi (L/mg), bRi (l/mg)mR and mR,i are the Redlich-Peterson single component parameter for component i. d) Extended Freundlich Model: The empirical extended form of the Freundlich model restricted to binary mixtures can be given by following equation [163]
q e,i
K i C e,i N
ni n1
C e,i K j C e, j n1
j1
Where Ki (mg/g)(L/mg)1/n and ni are derived from the corresponding individual Freundlich isotherm equation for the component i. Extended Langmuir, extended Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson models were applied to describe the competitive adsorption of phenol and nickel onto dried activated sludge. It was found that, the experimental data fitted very well to the Redlich– Peterson model [164]. Five models (extended Langmuir, combination of Langmuir-Freundlich, modified Temkin, Harkins-Jura and Halsey-Henderson) were used in competitive adsorption of Pb2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+ onto GAC. Extended Langmuir model was found to be the best fit to the experimental data [165]. C. Kinetic Modeling of Adsorption/Biosorption in a Batch System For any practical applications, the process design, operation control and adsorption kinetics are very important [166]. The adsorption kinetics in a wastewater treatment is significant, as it provides valuable insights into the reaction pathways and the mechanism of an adsorption reaction [167]. Also, the kinetics describes the solute uptake, which in turn controls the residence time of adsorbate at the solid-solution interface [168]. Adsorption/biosorption is a multi-step process, comprising of four consecutive elementary steps [169]. 1. Transfer of solute from the bulk of solution to the liquid film surrounding the particles; 2. Transport of the solute from the boundary liquid film to the surface of the particles (external diffusion); 3. Transfer of solute from the surface to the internal active binding sites (intra-particle diffusion); and 4. Interaction of the solute with the active binding sites. Over 25 models have been reported in the literature, all of which have attempted to quantitatively describe the kinetic behavior during the adsorption process. Each adsorption/biosorption kinetic model has its own limitations, which are derived according to specific experimental and theoretical assumptions. Even though they violate the fundamental assumptions, many adsorption models have been used to successfully test experimental data [170]. Of these, the following models have often been used to describe adsorption/biosorption kinetic process. 1) Pseudo-First Order Kinetic Model: The Lagergren rate equation [171] was the first rate equation for the adsorption of liquid/solid system based on solid capacity. The Lagergren rate equation is one of the most widely used sorption rate equations for the adsorption of a solute from a liquid solution. It may be represented as:
dq k L (qeq qt ) dt
Integrating Eq. (17) for the boundary conditions; t = 0 to t = t and qt = 0 to qt = qt, gives:
log(
qeq qeq qt
)
k Lt 2.303
which is the integrated rate law for a pseudo-first order reaction, where qeq is the amount of pollutant adsorbed at equilibrium (mg/g); qt is the amount of pollutant adsorbed at time t (mg/g); and kL is the equilibrium rate constant of pseudo-first sorption (l/s). Eq. (18) can be rearranged to obtain a linear form:
log( qeq qt ) log qeq (
k Lt ) 2.303
In order to fit Eq. (19) to experimental data, the equilibrium adsorption capacity, qeq, must be known. 2) Pseudo-Second Order Kinetic Model: There are certain assumptions in description of this kinetic model [167]. 1. There is a monolayer of adsorbate on the surface of adsorbent. 2. The energy of adsorption for each adsorbent is the same and independent of surface coverage. 3. The adsorption occurs only on localized sites and involves no interactions between adsorbed pollutants. 4. The rate of adsorption is almost negligible in comparison with the initial rate of adsorption. The kinetic rate equation can be written as follows:
dqt k s (qeq qt ) 2 dt
Where ks is the rate constant of adsorption, (g/mg.s), qeq is the amount of pollutant adsorbed at equilibrium, (mg/g), qt is amount of adsorbate on the surface of the adsorbent at any time, t, (mg/g). Separating the variables in Eq. (20) gives:
dqt k s dt (q eq qt ) 2
For the boundary conditions t = 0 to t = t and qt = 0 to qt = qt; the integrated form of Eq. (21) becomes:
1 1 kst q eq qt qeq
Which is the integrated rate law for a pseudo-second order reaction? Eq. (22) can be rearranged to obtain:
qt
t 1 t 2 k s q eq qeq
This has a linear form of:
t 1 t 2 qt k s q eq qeq 3) Weber and Morris Intra-particle Diffusion Model: Weber and Morris proposed intra-particle diffusion model, which can be written as [172, 173]
qt k id t 1 / 2 C
Where qt (mg/g) is the amount adsorbed at time t (s), Kid (mg/g s1/2) is the rate constant of intra-particle diffusion, C is the value of intercept which gives an idea about the boundary layer thickness, i.e. the larger intercept; the greater is the boundary layer effect. The linear plots of qt versus t1/2 with zero intercept indicates that intra-particle alone determines the overall rate of adsorption. In this case intra-particle diffusion is not the only determining mechanisms; in addition other mechanisms such as electrostatic interaction, ion exchange may be operating to different extents. 4) Elovich Kinetic Model: A widely used equation to describe the kinetics of chemisorption is the Elovich equation:
dq a exp( bqt ) dt
Where a (mg/g.s) and b (g/mg) are parameters of the equation. The parameter (a) is regarded as the initial rate because dq/dt → a as q → 0 and parameter b is related to the extent of surface coverage and activation energy for chemisorption. Given that q = 0 at t = 0, the integrated form of Eq. (26) becomes:
1 1 ln(t t o ) ln t o b b
1 1 ln ab ln t b b
Where t0 = 1/ab. If t >> to, Eq. (27) is simplified as:
The application of the Elovich equation in liquid phase adsorption is gaining in popularity [174]. Pseudo-second order kinetic model was applied on biosorption of lead onto dried activated sludge with correlation coefficient of 0.994 [20]. It was found that pseudo-second order model could be represent the adsorption of lead onto GAC better than Elovich model with correlation coefficient of 0.994,0.726 respectively [175]. Some researchers applied first and second-order-pseudo models in GAC adsorption of phenol. Pseudo-second order model fit the data with 0.998 correlation coefficient for the concentration of 1000 mg/L, and pseudo-first order model fit the data with 0.900 correlation coefficient for 100 mg/l concentration [176]. VII.
In the present study, the sources of heavy metal ions as a toxic materials as well as the reason why they need to be removed from our environment have reviewed. Conventional methods of removal are expensive; hence the search of using low cost, friendly ecosystem material must be needed. From the above literature study, it is observed that biosorption is the most economical and eco-friendly method for removal of heavy metal from domestic as well as industrial wastewater. It is being an alternative to conventional methods for the removal of toxic heavy metals from industrial effluents. It offers several advantages including cost effectiveness, high efficiency, minimization of chemical/biological sludge, and regeneration of biosorbent with possibility of metal recovery. The process of biosorption has many attractive features including removal of metals over quit broad range of pH and temperature, its rapid kinetics of adsorption and desorption and low capital and operation cost. Biological biomass can be regenerated relatively easily and used again. Most significantly, the metal removal capacity of biological biomass is a good or better than other conventional adsorbents. The new biological – based technologies need not necessarily replace conventional treatment approaches but may complement them. So, the biosorption technology becomes more beneficial and attractive than currently used technologies. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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VANDENBERG’S MOONKINGS Release Lyric Video “Burning Heart” From Upcoming “Rugged And Unplugged”
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VANDENBERG’S MOONKINGS will release their new acoustic album, entitled ‘Rugged and Unplugged’, on November 23rd via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group. Today has been unleashed a lyric video for the song “Burning Heart”, watch it below:
Adrian Vandenberg on Rugged And Unplugged and Burning Heart:
”We decided to strip down a bunch of songs to the bare basics and let them speak in the most essential way. Purely relying on Jan’s expressive, dark brown voice and my acoustic guitar, the intense, honest performance and the songs themselves. For me personally it’s very special to have included ‘Burning Heart’ and ‘Sailing Ships’, performed straight from the heart by two friends with a passion for real, ‘handmade’ music. Two songs that have been two of the most important landmarks in my career this far, and I’m just getting started…”
Like the two MoonKings albums, ‘MoonKings’ (2014) and ‘MK II’ (2017) it was produced by Adrian Vandenberg himself. It was recorded between Vandenberg’s home studio and singer Jan Hoving’s farm which gives it the relaxed, intimate and natural feel, away from the clinical studio environment. It is Vandenberg and Hoving doing what they do and love the most, playing music straight from the heart.
‘Rugged and Unplugged’ is a beautifully stripped back acoustic album which features songs from across Adrian Vandenberg’s career. From his first band Teaser as a 20 year old he has always used an acoustic guitar in his recordings, which along with the electric guitar creates the light and shade dynamic that is the cornerstone to all of his records.
“For me, the sign of whether a song is good or not, is whether it still stands up when it’s completely stripped down to the bare essence of it,” says Vandenberg. He continues, “What I find with acoustic versions of songs you already know, is that they can touch you in a different way than the full band and even orchestral versions. You don’t get ‘impressed’ by big guitars, drums and even orchestras. As a performer you can’t hide behind all that, so what’s left is the emotional content of the performance and the actual song.”
This project created the opportunity to strip down the big orchestral arrangements on songs such as ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ and ‘Breathing’ to just Vandenberg on acoustic guitar and the voice of Jan Hoving. His 1983 hit ‘Burning Heart’ gets a stunning reworking, “my favourite singers ever since my teens have always been guys like Paul Rodgers and David Coverdale. Since I wrote this song in 1981, I’ve always pictured it sung by a singer with such a tone of voice and vocal abilities. Jan is absolutely such a singer as you can hear,” he explains. ‘One Step Behind’ has a graceful warmth and ‘Walk Away’ feels both intimate and anthemic.
Originally from WHITESNAKE’s 1989 album ‘Slip of the Tongue’, ‘Sailing Ships’ has a delicate beauty to it that makes the hairs on your arm stand up and has become a favourite and regular in the MoonKing’s live shows. ‘Out Of Reach’ is the only song that features drums, bass and violins and has a warm cascading elegance. The album closes with a new song, the instrumental ‘Sundown’. Talking about it he says, “It was one of those beautiful early evenings in the late summer, the light turning pink, it was quiet and I was doodling away on my acoustic guitar. The melody that pretty much rolled off of my fingers really matched the vibe of that moment so I decided to record it and end the album with it. It felt like a very natural thing to do.”
‘Rugged and Unplugged’ tracklisting:
1. What Doesn’t Kill You
2. Sailing Ships
3. Out Of Reach
4. One Step Behind
5. Burning Heart
6. Walk Away
7. Breathing
8. Sundown
BAND: http://vandenbergsmoonkings.com
LABEL: http://www.mascotlabelgroup.com
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Category Archives: Children
The Spy in Black (1939)
Aka U-Boat 29. Who’d be a U-boat captain? A German submarine under the command of Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt) is sent to Hoy in the Orkney Islands in 1917 in order to determine British fleet movements around Scapa Flow where he is supposedly helped by The School Teacher (Valerie Hobson) assisted by disgraced British Naval Lt. Ashington (Sebastian Shaw). However they are double agents who actually want Hardt to bring together many U-boats for the attack on the Grand Fleet and then have a destroyer flotilla wipe out the U-boats with depth charges. The arrival of the original schoolteacher’s fiancé (Cyril Raymond) complicates matters …What an idea, putting a motorbike in a submarine. From Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, brought together for the first time by Alexander Korda, armed with a scenario by Roland Pertwee (Jon’s dad) adapted from Joseph Storer Clouston’s novel, and the best German ever, Conrad Veidt (loved him since Terry Wogan used to play his Lighthouse song at the crack of doom), this World War One tale has all the best aspects of that new collaboration – an exciting premise, taut plotting, attractive characters and a great setting, these islands off Scotland. The early kidnapping of schoolteacher Anne Burnett (June Duprez) in a scene reminiscent of The Lady Vanishes, Hobson as a sort of femme fatale, the sight of Veidt with his big eyes and goggles and motorsickle leathers among the sheep, the fog shrouding night time action, witty banter, romantic betrayal, spy and counter-spy, memorable shot after memorable shot – all combine to make this much more than a propaganda film – it was released on the eve of World War Two (in August 1939). It’s a hugely entertaining and well-turned thriller that’s just bursting with atmosphere and irony because who wouldn’t begrudge Veidt? And yet, and yet … You almost persuade me to become a British subject
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Otley (1968)
If they are the cowboys we’re supposed to be the Indians. Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a petty crook and wannabe antique dealer mistaken for a British secret agent when he sleeps on a couch belonging to his friend Eric Lambert (Edward Hardwicke) who’s really a suspected influence pedlar and document smuggler and who is found murdered while Otley wakes up two days on the runway at Gatwick. Otley trails double agents and double martinis at a posh cocktail party before discovering the villains have the cooperation of top government officials. He’s pegged to pose as a possible defector to oust the criminal mastermind who plans to sell stolen documents vital to national security to any enemy agent with the most money. British secret agent Imogen (Romy Schneider) first has Otley beaten up by her thugs before combining forces to go after the real villains … I was last year’s winner of the Duke of Edinburgh Award for Lethargy. Directed by Dick Clement and co-written with his regular collaborator Ian La Frenais, this adaptation of a novel by Northern Irish author Martin Waddell is funny and characterful, laced with real wit and a bright British cast including James Bolam (from Clement and La Frenais’ The Likely Lads), Alan Badel as MI5 overlord Hadrian, James Villiers as the resurrecting spy Hendrickson, Phyllida Law (Emma Thompson’s mum and you can see the shared mannerisms), Geoffrey Bayldon as a police superintendent, Freddie Jones as an epicene gallerist, the dulcet tones of radio DJs Pete Murray and Jimmy Young, and Leonard Rossiter – as a hitman! Great mileage is got out of the mistaken identity scenario, everyone changing sides constantly, with Courtenay wonderfully charismatic as the feckless cheeky chappie protagonist street trader in way over his head between teams of rival spies who believe everyone has a price, while Schneider has fun as the perky intelligence agent. With fantastic location shooting (by Austin Dempster), the action scenes are atypical of the spy genre although the golf course sequence will remind you of a certain Bond movie, a titles sequence in Portobello Road market shows uncooperative shoppers staring into the camera as it tracks back from Courtenay strolling among the stalls and shops, there’s a rumble among the houseboats at Cheyne Walk, a sequence at the Playboy Club and a disastrous driving test that turns into a nutty car chase. This comic approach to the wrong man spy thriller is uniquely entertaining. Damian Harris, Robin Askwith and Kenneth Cranham play kids and the music and theme song are by Stanley Myers. I’m Gerard Arthur Otley and I’ve had enough
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street. In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo ‘Fonny’ Hunt (Stephan James), who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for the rape of a Puerto Rican woman he has never met by a grudge-bearing beat cop Officer Bell (Ed Skrein). Tish’s mom Sharon (Regina King) determines to get justice for her prospective son-in-law and tracks down the rape victim who has disappeared to her home country; while her husband Joseph (Colman Domingo) and Fonny’s dad Frank (Michael Beach) have a more pragmatic approach and resort to theft to make money. Meanwhile, Tish is pregnant and Fonny is in prison … Love brought you here. Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary success with the singular Moonlight has led him to adapting James Baldwin, a classic author who has been underrepresented insofar as screen adaptations are concerned and this shares that film’s flaws with scenes of charming and alarming domesticity alternating with slowed-down moments of expressionist beauty and entire sequences of unremitting tedium – Fonny’s conversations with Daniel Carty (Brian Tyree Henry) are a case in point. Not content to both under- and overdramatise the story, this draws into its narration a bigger issue about police brutality, corruption and racism, overloading the slight balance which then relies in turn on terrific performances which are rather unhinged by a comic book crooked cop as stooge. Enchantingly scored by Nicholas Britell who enlivens a very uneven, occasionally wearying experience. Written and directed by Jenkins. I’ve never been more ready for anything in my whole life
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All Is True (2018)
I’ve just bought a pension. I can’t die for at least 10 years or I’ll be ruined. It’s 1613, and Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh) is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground and he decides he will never write again. Devastated, he returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death 17 years earlier of his only son, Hamnet (Sam Ellis) he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife Anne Hathaway (Judi Dench) and daughters, Hamnet’s twin sister, spirited spinster Judith (Kathryn Wilder) and unhappy Susanna (Lydia Wilson) who is married to a noxiously stern Puritan, John Hall (Hadley Fraser). He is forced to examine his failings as an absent husband and father when 28-year old Judith finally gets involved with a suitor alleged to have impregnated another woman and Susanna is accused of adultery … A garden ain’t a play. Screenwriter Ben Elton has been wowing on the small screen with his very clever parody of Shakespeare in Upstart Crow but this is only occasionally in the same pantomimic vein albeit its nod/wink title (the original title for The Life of Henry VIII) toys with the idea that this is anything other than a confection of falsehoods and assumptions. And it is a bit of a joke to start with – an old conqueror finally comes home and gets in the way of his wife and has the temerity to mess up the garden she has so carefully cultivated for the last 20 years. And then there are all those long country evenings when all you have is a candle for company. Irony is writ large here. At its heart a melancholy meditation on age, family and what you leave behind, Shakespeare is confronted with the long-hidden truth of his young son’s death, a boy whom he believed to have been greatly talented but who had actually been presenting the work of his twin, who was left unable to read and write, being but a girl. The discovery is poignant indeed. There’s a sonnet-off (# 29) when Will is confronted with another truth – that the now elderly object of his affection Henry Wriothesley (Ian McKellen) is not interested in him but appreciates his art. How wonderfully odd that two of the great contemporary exponents of the Bard are quoting him at each other. Anne’s feelings are nothing – when the poems were published (illegally, without Will’s consent), he never thought about her reputation or what people might say. I’ve never let the truth get in the way of a good story. The bedrock of his entire life it seems has been other people and what they say – what was said of his father, what was said of him, and now, what is said about his daughters, both caught up in scandals of their own. He is a man for whom all truth is literally relative. Retirement is not easy and revelations about what happened at home when he was enjoying fame and adulation come as a shock to someone for whom all the world’s a stage and now his daughters are ruining the name he literally wrote out of disgrace to redeem his father’s blackguarding. Branagh is very good, prosthetics and all, capable of being hurt and amusing and rueful. The motifs are striking in a beautifully shot production – two fires dominate the visuals: the opening conflagration at the Globe caused by a misfiring cannon in a production co-written with John Fletcher; and the smaller one in the grate when Judith attempts to destroy what Hamnet transcribed – because Will needs to believe it was his dead son who wrote the poetry and she is guilty at being a gifted woman because he has such a low opinion of her. And Will loves the word on the page – when he sees his son’s name written in the funeral record in the local church his face comes to life. Anne chides him that when Hamnet died he was busy writing The Merry Wives of Windsor. Dench is wise and moving in the role of the much older wife protecting him from terrible knowledge. However the slow pace and ruminative setting, autumnal and somewhat bucolic, hide the sad drama within. It’s stunningly shot by Zac Nicholson, not just allowing us to see the wide open spaces juxtaposed with interestingly shot and lit interiors – so many dimpled with pure candlelight as the sole source – but telling us that there is always a bigger story and hinting where to look. There are funny scenes with the ridiculously ingratiating local MP Sir Thomas Lucey (Alex Macqueen) and some wild put-downs. There’s even a jibe about authorship and how it was that a man who owns up to having lived such a little life could have ended up knowing everything. Lest we forget, Elton is the best Elizabethan historian we have, when you think about Blackadder. It’s not Shakespeare, but it is very lovely. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Nothing is ever true
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You, Me & Him (2017)
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and all that. Forty year old lawyer Olivia (Lucy Punch) is in a relationship with younger lazy pot-smoking artist Alex (Faye Marsay) and she desperately wants to have a baby so has fertility treatment and undergoes artificial insemination without consulting Alex, who really doesn’t want children. Then Alex gets mad drunk at party held by their freshly divorced womanising next door neighbour John (David Tennant) and has sex with him. When Olivia does a pregnancy test Alex finds she is pregnant too. John wants to play a role in the baby’s life and their lives become incredibly complicated … You have just put my entire life into a salad spinner of fuck! This is a pot pourri of British acting talent. Actress Daisy Aitkens makes her directing debut with her own screenplay, produced by Georgia Moffett (Mrs Tennant) who appears briefly in a horrifying birthing class conducted by Sally Phillips, while another Doctor Who, Moffett’s father Peter Davison, plays a small role as a teacher trainer and her mother Sandra Dickinson appears as part of a jury. Familiar faces pop up everywhere – Sarah Parish is Alex’s friend, Simon Bird is Olivia’s brother while David Warner and Gemma Jones are her parents. There are some truly squirmy moments as Olivia’s experience of pregnancy evinces all the worst problems – in public. Comedy lurches into tragedy 70 minutes into the running time and there is no signposting. The return to comic drama is slow but not completely unhappy, with a few scenes necessary to recalibrate the shrunken family relationship. Punch is fantastic – she’s such a fine comedienne and she gets more to play here, even if she and Marsay appear to be from very different even incompatible worlds while Tennant raises the stakes of every exchange, trying to figure out how to be the hipster daddy in a couple that has no place for him. Pain is being fisted by a 300lb rich white guy because you haven’t enough money to pay the rent
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Eden was never like this. A man considers committing suicide in the wake of the Wall Street Crash when he sees a letter marked Personal, Urgent! … In 1917 young Mary Lane (Margaret Sullavan) has a one-night stand with soldier James Stanton Emerson (John Boles) and she becomes pregnant. She moves away from her small town to live with her free-thinking aunt Julia (Billie Burke) and gives birth to Emerson’s son. Their paths cross again when he returns from France but he doesn’t even recognise her and she finds out in a newspaper that he has married. Ten years later when he is a successful businessman he seduces her again. She falls ill. Subsequently she learns she is dying and writes to him … I’ve never known anyone as lovely as you are. Adapted by William Hurlbut, Arthur Richman and George O’Neil from the 1931 non-fiction bestseller by Frederick Lewis Allan, but the relationship with the putative source is very loose and in fact this has the ring of Letter From an Unknown Woman (written by Stefan Zweig in 1922 and translated into English ten years later). Nowadays this film is principally of interest as the screen debut and charming performance of the intensely charismatic Margaret Sullavan and as part of a rehabilitation of director John M. Stahl, renowned for his melodramas or women’s pictures, as they used to be called. I’m not ashamed. I suppose I ought to be, but I’m not. In a new volume about Stahl, historian Charles Barr makes the case for this being among the best films of the Thirties. I’m not sure that it is, but we should be grateful to director/producer Stahl for bringing Sullavan, his Broadway discovery, to Hollywood. As a Pre-Code narrative of illegitimacy and men and women’s very different experiences of romantic love, it’s very well dramatised, filled with moments of truth. If he had changed a thousand ways I would still know him. Some key lines on contemporary womanhood are delivered by Billie Burke playing Mary’s suffragist aunt: It’s just another of those biological events… It isn’t even good melodrama. It’s just something that happened. There is little indication of WW1 in terms of costume, everything speaks to the time it was made, but the characterisation is everything – Sullavan is sweet, Boles is a dirty cad. It is truly terrible when he returns from the war and doesn’t even remember her. And any film with Edna May Oliver is something to love. We’ve turned that double standard on its head
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Liz & Dick (2012) (TVM)
He treated me like a queen and I loved his voice. God how I loved his voice. Anyone who knows anything about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton knows one thing above all else – they were never called Liz and Dick. Nobody would have dared. That aside, this is a gloriously kitschy exercise in flashback framed by an interview with them (that never happened in reality and culled from the many letters and notes Burton wrote to Taylor) in which they discuss their fatal attraction on the set of Cleopatra in 1962 , their subsequent adulterous relationship despite having children in their respective marriages, living together and making The VIPs and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Taylor insisted), tricky divorces, their wedding, their peripatetic lifestyle and decision to live on a boat because of the living expenses of two families travelling from set to set and regular house moves in the middle of a never-ending international paparazzi hunt. It’s all here, with the immensely welcome if odd presence of the great Theresa Russell as Taylor’s mother Sara. Surely some mistake. Punctuated by fabulous jewellery, newspaper headlines, make-ups and bust-ups, heavy drinking, Taylor’s weight gain, Burton’s jealousy of her Academy Awards, the need to make films to solve financial problems and finally Burton’s alleged affair with Nathalie Delon which drove Taylor to a supposed assignation with Aristotle Onassis – at the centre of the chaos and tantrums is a couple whose sexual attraction to one another is overwhelming and quite incomprehensible to other people (a truism for most couples – the only thing these icons ever shared with mere mortals). What we have outside of the relationship is the nature of celebrity as it simply didn’t exist prior to this scandalous duo whose newsworthy antics even attracted the ire of the Vatican (‘erotic vagrancy’). Hello Lumpy! Lohan was roundly criticised for her portrayal and it’s true she doesn’t actually sound, look or move like Taylor but boy does she revel in the lines, like, Elizabeth wants to play. Strangely, she convinces more as the older Taylor with the frightwig and makeup. Bowler is adequate as Burton (even without the disproportionately large head) and underplays him quite well, but what is essential is what surrounds them – glamour, beauty, incredible locations. They literally had a dream of a life. What is clear in this evocation of the Battling Burtons is their need for constant reassurance and the one-upmanship resulting from their shared drive to always do better to keep on an even keel. I will love you even if you get as fat as a hippo. Burton’s descent into full-blown alcoholism upon the death of his brother Ifor (David Hunt) following a desperate fall in their home in Switzerland is the pivot to the real conclusion of the famous relationship, a second short-lived marriage following one of Taylor’s serious illnesses notwithstanding. There are a lot of books about them but if you want to see something as crazy, turbulent and tragic as they seem to have been, watch this. It’s wonderfully made, completely daft and utterly compelling. Written by Christopher Monger and directed by Lloyd Kramer. I want more
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The Left-Handed Gun (1958)
You’re not like the books! You don’t wear silver studs! You don’t stand up to glory! You’re not him! Volatile young drifter and gunfighter William Bonney (Paul Newman) works for kindly Lincoln County rancher John Tunstall aka ‘The Englishman’ (Colin Keith-Johnston) and they develop an unbreakable bond. When Tunstall is murdered by a corrupt sheriff and his cronies because he was about to supply beef to the local military company, a distraught Billy swears revenge and goes on a rampage through the New Mexico Territory, endangering the General Amnesty established by Governor Lew Wallace. Billy finally guns down all the men who killed Tunstall – but in the process he endangers the life of his old friend Pat Garrett (John Dehner), who is about to be married and doesn’t take kindly to the Kid’s erratic behaviour and vows to hunt him down as newly appointed sheriff ... One shot – one ten cent bullet, and that’s it! Gore Vidal’s 1955 Philco Playhouse TV feature gets the big screen treatment by screenwriter Leslie Stevens with Arthur Penn making his directing debut and Newman inheriting a(nother) role that James Dean was expected to play (and which Newman had played in the TV episode). Occupying that space between the psychological western and authentic approach to biography it’s a revisionist exercise that’s not 100% successful but remains a fascinating picture of Fifties acting styles as well as being a rather beautiful historical narrative. You been called. Newman plays Billy as a juvenile delinquent, a typically doomed misunderstood teen of the era who loses it when his substitute father is killed but it’s the underwritten edges he can’t quite fill out, ironically making his character all the more credible because this is all about perceptions of the heroic. There’s nice support from Lita Milan as Celsa, Dehner as the conflicted Garrett, James Best as Tom Follard and especially Hurd Hatfield as Moultrie the travelling companion who transforms Billy’s life into a series of dime store novels that Billy can’t read and who ultimately betrays him. Got myself all killed. A dramatically arresting and visually striking, much imitated taste of things to come from all concerned, not least of which would be Penn’s own Bonnie and Clyde. I don’t run. I don’t hide. I go where I want. I DO what I want!
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The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Put a bag over my head. I’ve been in prison for 15 months! Secret agent Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) poses as an Australian jewel thief and is quickly convicted of stealing £140,000 of diamonds and imprisoned in order to infiltrate an organisation headed by Home Secretary Sir George Wheeler (James Mason) who organises Rearden’s escape along with that of MI6 intelligence officer Slade (Ian Bannen) who was gaoled as a Soviet mole … I don’t know about you, Slade; I’m not ready for death. The rest I’ll drink to. Adapted by Walter Hill (along with director John Huston and William Fairchild) from Desmond Bagley’s The Freedom Trap, this starts out quietly and continues that way for some time – tricking the susceptible viewer into believing that Rearden himself has been tricked by MI6 into taking the fall for a jewel heist and for more than a half hour it’s a prison movie. However the sleight of hand is revealed as it becomes clear Rearden has gone into deep cover to smoke out a dangerous organisation in this Cold War tale. Of course you will recognise the contours of the real-life story of George Blake, whose daring prison escape is the stuff of legend. For an action film and spy thriller this is a work of smooth surfaces and understated performances, especially by Newman, enhanced by the cinematography of the great Oswald Morris and a beautiful score by Maurice Jarre. The locations around Galway – Oranmore and Roundstone – were local to director Huston who spent much of the Fifties onwards at his house St Cleran’s. The palpable anger and keen sense of duty comes in fits and starts, usually at the conclusion of realistically staged action sequences, including a chase across an Irish bog and using banged up cars rather than Aston Martins. There are also some small gems of supporting appearances – Leo Genn as prosecuting counsel, Jenny Runacre as Gerda the nurse, Noel Purcell and Donal McCann in the Irish scenes. There are also scenes of misogyny and violence (even against a dog) that might shock in this more politically even-handed climate. The strangest character Mrs Smith, played by Une femme douce herself Dominique Sanda, gets an incredible payoff. You might even say she has the last word. The cool, straightforward approach to treachery, duplicity in the modern state and something of a twist ending just raises more questions, making this a palpable pleasure, a film which tells one simple truth – trust nobody. Produced by John Foreman who had a company first with Newman and then made a cycle of films with Huston. Our deaths would mean little or nothing to anyone, anywhere – only to ourselves
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The Best of Everything (1959)
Here’s to men. Bless their clean-cut faces and dirty little minds! 1950s Manhattan: three young women meet in the typing pool at Fabian Publishing and later share a home together: glamorous Gregg Adams (Suzy Parker) is an aspiring actress secretly yearning for domesticity whose director David Savage (Louis Jourdan) is using her; naive country girl April Morrison (Diane Baker) is left pregnant and alone by callous playboy Dexter Key (Robert Evans); and ambitious Radcliffe graduate Caroline Bender (Hope Lange) finds solace in the arms of editor Mike Rice (Stephen Boyd) while her fiancé is abroad. Together the three contend with unwise entanglements, office politics and the threat that their dreams for a fulfilling career will be cut short by marriage and children, while their romantic obsessions attract tragedy and the office is ruled with an iron fist by bitter chief editor Amanda Farrow (Joan Crawford) ...What is it about women like us that make you hold us so cheaply? Aren’t we the special ones from the best homes and the best colleges? I know the world outside isn’t full of rainbows and happy endings, but to you, aren’t we even decent? Rona Jaffe’s1958 novel was an electrifying publishing event – a book by a woman about women trying to make it with explosive stories of sex and illegitimate pregnancy, featuring a spectrum of female experience in the workplace. Its influence is all over the presentation of corporate NYC in Mad Men and its cast represents a showcase for stars new and old in an era just before Women’s Lib. Edith R. Sommer and Mann Rubin’s adaptation fillets the material yet the throughline of forging your way through a chauvinistic office and patriarchal world retains its edge and raw emotion. Crawford supposedly made some script revisions but whether they were retained in the released film (as opposed to the tantalising trailer) is up for debate. She sure gets the lion’s share of tough lines as office witch Amanda Farrow who at heart is just a lonely disappointed older woman albeit with a hell of a list. She is the benchmark for female achievement in a drama about the perils of settling for less and the sacrifices you have to make to succeed. She has a carapace of steel but it can be pierced … Martha Hyer also impresses as Barbara, the divorced office siren, while Lange is a sympathetic heroine and Brian Aherne is fine as the loathsome Lothario Mr Shalimar. An entertaining romance about whether or not you can have it all which limns the realities of being female – the contemporary detail may be different but the song remains the same. Directed with his customary zest and smooth visual finesse by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald. Author Jaffe – who was a Radcliffe alumnus working at Fawcett Publishing in NYC when the book came out – appears briefly as an office pool stenographer. She graduated to writing extraordinary culture pieces at Cosmopolitan and enjoyed huge success with her subsequent books. I’m so ashamed. Now I’m just somebody who’s had an affair
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Category Archives: Neo-noir
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Swimming’s a good way to relax but I know a better way. LA based private detective Lew Harper is hired by old flame Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), who is being blackmailed about an extra-marital affair she says never happened. He travels down to Louisiana to investigate, but things take a turn for the worse when her mother-in-law (Coral Browne) is killed and her nymphet daughter Schuyler (Melanie Griffith) appears to be involved with the family’s disreputable ex-chauffeur Reavis (Andrew Robinson) who Iris believes is responsible for the blackmailing … I ran a check on you, Mr. Harper. You are not stupid. Adapted by Tracy Keenan Wynn, Walter Hill and Lorenzo Semple Jr. from Ross Macdonald’s titular 1950 novel, this rather laidback followup to Newman’s previous outing as Lew Harper a decade earlier relocates him from his familiar California setting and the New Orleans and Lafayette backdrops provide an easy atmosphere for this most likable of PIs. Beyond the visual attractions of the bayous and plantation home shot by Gordon Willis, there’s the spectacle of real life husband and wife Newman and the marvellous Woodward sharing screen time, Griffith as the jailbait daughter with the squeaky voice, Murray Hamilton as crazed oil magnate J.J. Kilbourne, Anthony Franciosa as Police Chief Broussard and Richard Jaeckel gets some very good moments as a corrupt police officer. You’ll recognise Robinson as the shooter from Dirty Harry. Less deftly plotted than Harper, it’s rounded out with a score by Michael Small arranged around the liberal use of the modern classic, Killing Me Softly, an exceedingly apt choice considering the denouement. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Harper, you’re not such a tough guy
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Why so fast, Harper? You trying to impress me? Struggling private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) takes a simple missing-person case that quickly spirals into something much more complex. Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall), recently paralysed in a horse-riding accident, wants Harper to find her missing oil baron husband Ralph, but her tempestuous teenage stepdaughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin) thinks Mrs. Sampson knows more than she’s letting on… The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise. Brilliantly adapted by William Goldman from Ross Macdonald’s 1949 mystery The Moving Target featuring private eye Archer, renamed here because Newman believed the letter ‘H’ to be lucky following Hud and The Hustler. With that team you know it’s filled with zingers, like, Kinky is British for weird. Macdonald’s roots in the post-war noir world are called up in the casting of Bacall, who reminds us that it was The Big Sleep, among other films based on books by the great Raymond Chandler, that brought this style into being. Of course Macdonald’s own interpretation is consciously more mythical than the prototypical Chandler’s, with allusions to Greek tragedy in its familial iterations but it continues in that vein of a ferociously stylish, ironic, delightfully cool appraisal of California’s upper class denizens and their intractable problems. Newman is perfectly cast as a kind of wandering conscience with problems of his own, while Janet Leigh as his ex-wife, Robert Wagner as a playboy, Julie Harris as a junkie musician, Shelley Winters as a faded movie star, Robert Webber as her criminal husband and Albert Hill as a lovelorn lawyer, all add wonderful details to this portrait of a social clique. A flavoursome, perfectly pitched entertainment with lovely widescreen cinematography by Conrad Hall and oh so wittily and precisely staged by director Jack Smight, underscored by the smooth Sixties jazz orchestrations of Johnny Mandel with an original song by Dory and Andre Previn. I used to be a sheriff ’til I passed my literacy test
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Reel him in. Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain who leads tours off the tranquil enclave of Plymouth Island in the Florida Keys with assistant Duke (Djimon Hounsou) motivated by eventually catching a big tuna he calls Justice. He enjoys sex for money with Constance (Diane Lane) but his life is disturbed by inexplicable visions that seem to connect him with the son he hasn’t seen since his time in Iraq. His routine is soon shattered when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down. Desperate for help, Karen begs Baker to save her and their son Patrick (Rafael Sayegh) from her abusive husband, criminal Frank Zariakas (Jason Clarke). She wants Baker to take the violent brute out for a fishing excursion – then throw him overboard to the sharks. But a late night visit from a mysterious company representative Reid Miller (Jeremy Strong) throws a spanner into the works … A hooker that can’t afford hooks. I like a boat thriller. Something about the infinite dramatic possibilities played out on the finite dimensions of a floating vehicle, all at sea. Like Knife in the Water. Masquerade. Dead Calm. There are enough clues in this gorgeous looking melodrama that things are off – the World’s Greatest Dad mug; the seemingly telepathic connection with Patrick; the inter-cutting with Patrick creating a world in which he is catching fish on his computer; and the frankly hysterical sex scene with McConaughey and Hathaway, a ludicrous interplanetary femme fatale, on a boat lurching in a rainstorm: she promptly gets up and puts on her trenchcoat and hat and trots off up the pier. Bonkers. McConaughey strips off regularly evoking quite a different take on the inspirational Moby Dick: Mobile Dick, perhaps. Sex with your ex, indeed. Lane out-acts everyone by being discreet; Hounsou mutters incomprehensibly bizarre aphorisms like he’s read them off a matchbook, everyone else speaks in similarly random non sequiturs. I would have laughed out loud but I struggled to hear much of the unintentionally hilarious dialogue. I get the meta stuff and video games but like I said, I also like a boat thriller. This ain’t it. Bad and utterly irrational, like you would not believe. Written and directed by Steven Knight. If someone invented me, how come I know who I am?
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Against All Odds (1984)
Guys are crippling themselves for you, lady. I could give a shit what you believe. Having been cut from his professional football team the Los Angeles Outlaws after sustaining a shoulder injury, ageing down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) is in desperate need of money. Crooked nightclub owner and bookie Jake Wise (James Woods) offers Terry a hefty sum to go to Mexico and find his girlfriend, Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward) the daughter of team owner Mrs Wyler (Jane Greer). Terry is broke and cannot turn the offer down. When he finds Jessie on an island off Mexico, the two fall in love and he reveals to her his guilt over his points-shaving scam with Jake. Terry reports that he failed to find Jessie but Jake sends someone else – the team trainer Hank Sully (Alex Karras) who reveals that he had identified Terry and other debt-laden players to Jake to make them work for him. When a gun falls into Jessie’s hands during a struggle the twists of the plot start being revealed to Terry, the patsy of all time … You got problems now, Terry. You want trouble too? One of the great Eighties thrillers, this remake of Out of the Past (adapted from Daniel Mainwaring’s novel Build My Gallows High, its alternative title) written by Eric Hughes, this is dangerous, surprising, gorgeous to look at (shot by Donald E. Thorin) and literally drenched in sex (one scene is frequently cut from TV broadcast). The central relationship between Terry and Jessie is one of the most cunningly constructed of all movie pairings, a brilliant homage to Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, the original amoral noir girl nicely cast here in the role of Jessie’s powerful mother. Key roles are played by Saul Rubinek and Richard Widmark. The action is superb – what about that chickie race down Sunset! The plotting becomes convoluted, its neo-noir narrative nodding to Chinatown with a property/environment conspiracy backdrop but it’s the twists and turns between this sexy couple that’ll have you panting for more. A sensational film that gets better by the year with a performance by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, one of the many acts on a soundtrack distinguished by the famous title song, by Phil Collins. Directed by Taylor Hackford. Don’t leave without saying goodbye
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Broken City (2013)
Your Honour, it’s murder. Even when the police do it. Former cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) sees a chance at redemption for his past sins when New York City’s Mayor Nicolas Hostetler (Russell Crowe) calls on him for a special job. Hostetler thinks his wife, Cathleen (Catherine Zeta-Jones), is having an affair and that it may hurt his chances for re-election. However, a bigger scandal than expected pulls in Billy right at the start of his investigation. Double-crossed by the mayor, Billy begins a relentless quest for justice… There are some wars you fight and some wars you walk away from. This isn’t the fighting kind. A fantastically entertaining neo-noir written by Brian Tucker and directed by Allen Hughes (minus twin brother Albert). Beautifully shot (by Ben Seresin) in NYC, this has all the tropes you want from a genre entry about corruption in the body politic, including Jones in a wonderful old-style performance like a Forties broad. There are some nice character roles for Griffin Dunne, Kyle Chandler, Jeffrey Jones and Barry Pepper in an expansive ensemble who give this slick outing some grit. Alona Tal is a joy as the wisecracking secretary. Maybe you’ve seen it all before – and there are whiffs of Wahlberg in The Yards and even a slight touch of Chinatown, with a passing flash of Sidney Lumet – but it’s coated in a starry lustre and never fails to crackle with atmosphere even when Crowe is actually phoning it in.
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Just because he’s got a library card doesn’t make him Yoda. Police Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) has a week left on the job when he is set the task of tackling a final case with the aid of newly transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt), they discover a number of elaborate and grizzly murders. They soon realize they are dealing with a serial killer calling himself John Doe who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins. Somerset befriends Mills’ wife Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is pregnant and afraid to raise her child in the crime-riddled city. By using an illegal FBI trick of tracking certain public library book titles they find a likely suspect and enter an apartment building where they’re attacked by a gunman who just might be their target but there are two more sins to go … Andrew Kevin Walker’s dense and sharply written script is given an astonishingly immersive workout by director David Fincher and it’s one of the key films of the Nineties. Into those rain-slicked NYC streets run two great movie policemen, the grizzled Freeman and the ambitious impatient young Pitt who take such a long time to get into each other’s working rhythm. And when they do, they’re chasing the man who’s really chasing them. This is a brutal, violent work which raises torture to a kind of poetic, along the lines of John Doe’s literary inspirations, Dante and Thomas Aquinas. As he works through the various sins the sheer horror of the scenes still shocks. This wouldn’t be the last of Walker’s dark screenplays but in some ways he has never written anything as truly horrifying as the last scene shot in the bright outdoors in stark contrast to the claustrophobic interiors that characterise the sadism at the center of the narrative. There’s a subliminal cut which will make you think you’ve seen something you haven’t. Oh my gosh this is absolutely compelling. Even if his brain weren’t mush which it is he chewed off his tongue long ago.
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Miller’s Crossing (1990)
There’s nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat. Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne) is the hardman and advisor to Irish American gangster Leo O’Bannon (Albert Finney) who’s at war with Italian Mafia boss Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) at the height of Prohibition. When crooked bookie Bernie (John Turturro) the brother of Leo’s mistress and Tom’s lover Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) is threatened by Caspar, the dark-hearted and brainy Reagan is found out by Leo and appears to switch sides in an escalating rivalry over liquor distribution that has a huge body count… It’s hard to pick out a single sequence of brilliance in this positively baroque outing but today I’m choosing the attempt on Leo’s life to the sounds of Frank Patterson warbling Danny Boy: what a stunning declaration of visual bravura (kudos to DoP Barry Sonnenfeld). Brutal, witty, dazzling, beautiful, postmodern and classic, this is a masterpiece. The dialogue is straight out of old gangster movies (and Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key) and coming out of Byrne’s accented mouth sounds hilarious: you gasp at some of the lines, they’re so stunningly written. The narrative is constructed on well known gangster tropes and turns them inside out in a film that acts as a commentary on the genre – Tom’s asides with the Irish policemen are an excruciating Greek chorus! – as well as exulting in its excesses, its ghastly violence, its humour, its morality, its sheer decadence. Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen and directed by the former, this is one of the modern greats that engages the brain, the heart and the mind with Reagan’s psychology supplying Byrne with a career-defining role. Astounding.
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In the face of the fabulous new your thought is to kill it? Los Angeles 2049. K (Ryan Gosling) is a blade runner for Wallace, the new incarnation of the Tyrell Corporation led by blind Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) whose right hand woman Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) is enchanted by K’s story that a replicant may have had a child. He is ordered by LAPD (in the guise of Robin Wright) to get rid of any evidence that a replicant could have given birth in order to see off a war between replicants and humans. He returns to the site of a dead tree and finds something that makes him think he can remember something from his own childhood and it leads him into a spiral of discovery that involves tracking down his predecessor before Prohibition and the Blackout, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who appears to have something to do with the rebel replicants underground …. Where to start? This hybridised metafictive spawn of one of the greatest achievements in cinema is no easy ride. The way it looks for one. It’s horrible. Mostly greys with occasional harking back to the navy and neon and a sour yellow, a nod to the burnished autumnal shadings of the original. The Orientalised appearances are now more subtly rendered but are even more prevalent as though mixed into a Caucasian blender. Then there are the women. Luv is clearly meant to remind us of Rachael (Sean Young) while the reference to Nabokov’s Pale Fire is intended to tell us that there are two fictional characters sparring with one another here – but the question is, which two, and of them, who’s real and who’s a replicant? The quasi-Oedipal story steers right into a quagmire of identities and dreams and purported flashbacks. Other quotes – Kafka, Treasure Island, and even the songs that play as holograms in a burned-out Vegas – also serve to get us to look one way, instead of another. The idea of relationships as a figment of your imagination – literally, a hologram – is conceptually brilliant and well executed (in every sense) but takes too long as a narrative device to be told and then unravel. The ending is enormously clever and draws on facets of Philip K. Dick’s own backstory: it’s literally a tidal wash of action and memories. But are they real? Are they implants? Hampton Fancher is back but with co-writer Michael Green this time instead of David Webb Peoples. You can see the spliced DNA with Harlan Ellison (an insistence on procreation) as well as PKD (what is humanity? what is reality?) and the literary turns which have some good jokes. There are some nice lines too and even if they’re on the nose they actually future proof it somewhat: You’ve never seen a miracle. Or, I know it’s real. Or, Dying for the right cause is the most human thing you can do. They actually conceal what is paid off by misdirecting us. It gets away with its visual tributes to the original cast with the prostitute who looks like Darryl Hannah and Hoeks who clearly resembles Sean Young even in ill-fitting costume. Directed by Denis Villeneuve who is one of the most audacious mainstream directors at the present time with Ridley Scott producing, I appreciate what they’re doing here but it’s a pale twenty-first century facsimile, more replicant than human. Ford enters the fray so late and Gosling is not my favourite actor albeit he acquits himself well as someone who starts to feel things he shouldn’t given his somewhat obscure origins as a police functionary. But I have feelings too. Nothing can compare with the sensory overload that is Blade Runner, the daddy of the species. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as all the best legal minds argue, the ending is brilliant. Oh! The humanity.
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Los Angeles 2019. A rebellion amongst replicants in the off-colonies has to be put down and blade runner (or detective/android killer) Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is recruited to assassinate the leaders – Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Pris (Daryl Hannah) and Zhora (Joanna Cassidy). The replicants are returning to Earth in order to extend their four-year lifespan. His employer, the boss of the Tyrell Corporation introduces him to Rachael (Sean Young) his most cherished creation … Hampton Fancher and David Peoples loosely adapted Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and with Ridley Scott at the helm created an utterly beguiling brand of future shock which is beautiful and dazzling, grand and depressing. It’s a rain-slicked Metropolis where life is cheap and detectives prowl the streets like Chandler was scripting with robots: human nature never really changes. The mise-en-scène falls into both the sci-fi and film noir genres (echoing the identity crisis at the heart of the story). A proliferation of signs from both cinematic traditions, coupled with overwhelming production design (by Lawrence G. Paull and David Snyder based on sketches by Scott and Syd Mead) calls to mind modern-day Hong Kong, music videos and the fog and teeming rain associated with America in a World War II era familiar from hundreds of noir movies, this is a virtual essay in postmodernism (which supplants the concept of genre with that of textuality). This is such a complex quasi-generic film, awash with implications for representation in the age of modern technology which are obvious: ‘authenticity’, ‘realism’ are artificial constructs. A play on our familiarity with other cultural products is central to postmodernism’s perceived jokiness, while the traditional relationships between time and space are condensed (a condition of postmodernity) and undermined to create virtual reality so that a ‘real, knowable world’ is just that – a world in quotation marks, as real or unreal as you choose to make it. The film represents a summary of this problem with a jumble of signs referring to other signs – its pastiche of styles telescoping the ancient world, 1940s, 1980s and 2019, its electronic soundtrack (by Eighties maestro Vangelis) and a raft of references to other movies, other characters, ideas and themes. It’s about dystopia and imperialism, dehumanisation by a Tyrannical Corporation, totalitarianist tech companies and class revolution, the nature and function of memory, what it is to be free, what it is to have power and to have none, the fragmentary nature of identity in a dying culture, what it means to be human. No matter what version you watch – and there are nine (variously with and without voiceovers and certain revelations/clarifications) if you include The Director’s Cut and The Final Cut – you will never be able to stop its imagery searing your cortex. Philip K. Dick saw some footage before his untimely death from a stroke – and loved it. It is visionary cinema and it is astonishing. This is my 1,400th post on Mondo Movies. Thank you for watching.
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Category Archives: Peter Sellers
Meglio Stasera 1963
Get into the skiing swing of things with The Pink Panther!
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Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Gentlemen you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) goes completely insane and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the ‘precious bodily fluids’ of the American people and takes hostage RAF Commander Mandrake (Peter Sellers) before blowing his brains out when Mandrake wants the code to stop global catastrophe. Meanwhile in the War Room President Muffley (Sellers again) tries to reason with General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and has to make an embarrassed call to the Russian premier while the Russian ambassador tries to sneak photographs on the premises and the creator of the bomb (Sellers – again) reveals it simply cannot be stopped … Peter George’s serious book about nuclear proliferation, Red Alert, got a blackly comic workout by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, producing one of the great films and one that seems to get better and more relevant as the years go by. Sellers’ triple-threat roles were a condition of the financing after his work on Lolita. The spectre of him as the wheelchair-bound Führer-loving kraut by any other name mad scientist failing to control his sieg-heiling arm and utilising an accent familiar to fans of The Goon Show is not quickly forgotten, nor the image of Slim Pickens astride the nuclear bomb, rodeo-style. It’s not just Sellers’ appearances that are brilliant – Hayden is weirdly convincing when talking about depriving women of his essence due to the fluoridation of water; and Scott’s expressivity is stunning. Apparently it was Spike Milligan’s idea to use Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again over the apocalyptic closing montage in which the nuclear deterrent has deterred absolutely nothing and blown us all to Eternity. The end of the world as we know it. A staggering tour de force.
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Locked, from the inside. That can only mean one thing. And I don’t know what it is. Five famous literary private eyes, including Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers), Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), Milo Perrier (James Coco) and Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith) are invited to the mysterious millionaire Lionel Twain’s (Truman Capote) castle for a dinner party despite none of them actually knowing him. There, they are told that Twain plans an unsolvable murder in the house at midnight and he will pay $1 million to the one who determines the killer. But when Twain’s blind butler, Bensonmum (Alec Guinness), dies long before the deadline, the stakes go up for the trapped sleuths and it takes a real detective to figure it out … The country house/locked room whodunnit gets a decent parody and a slew of stars indulge in high jinks and costumed fun. You may notice that certain names were altered for copyright reasons (Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, Miss Marple, Hercules Poirot, Nick and Nora et al) but otherwise the ‘satire’ from the pen of Neil Simon translates as smoothly to the screen as a whiskey down the gullet even with the famously incomprehensible ending and a one-off performance by Capote. There’s a built-in discourse on the tropes and flaws of the genre. An absurdist fun item that is now deserving of cult status with a ton of one-liners. Directed by Robert Moore.
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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Aka Big Time Operators. Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers are shocked to find that his great-uncle’s bequest is the Bijou Kinema aka The Fleapit and the neighbouring Grand has a grasping owner who makes them an offer they refuse – they bluff that they’re going to reopen. Unfortunately commissionaire Old Tom (Bernard Miles) – one of three old-timers in the Bijou’s inherited staff including bookkeeper Mrs Fazackalee (Margaret Rutherford) and drunken projectionist Mr Quill (Peter Sellers) – lets slip to a Grand employee that it’s all a show: so then they have to go through with it. Dodgy equipment, low crowds and a constant supply of American B-westerns don’t help. But a sexy ice cream salesgirl (June Cunningham) brings an audience and Old Tom makes up for his mistake and the Grand is burned to the ground … A fun story of English eccentricity but coming from the pen of William Rose (and John Eldridge) we might presume it’s actually an allegory for Keeping Calm and Carrying On. Produced by Launder and Gilliat and Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, in a kind of Ealing Comedy shot by Douglas Slocombe with added Leslie Phillips and Sid James plus a score from William Alwyn. Charming!
filed under 1950s, Alcoholism, Allegory, Architecture & Interiors, Atmospheric, Auteur, B&W, British, Business, Cinema, Cinematography, Class, Comedy, Costume, Inheritance, Margaret Rutherford, Marital, Music, Peter Sellers, Pregnancy, Rivalry, Soundtrack, Trains, Twist ending
The Millionairess (1960)
‘Socialists make the best employees!’ purrs La Loren. She is trying to woo Indian doctor Peter Sellers but both of them need to meet the terms of their fathers’ respective wishes in this talky Bernard Shaw comedy drama directed by Anthony Asquith. A big hit in its day it seems irretrievably glib if not hectoring despite the actors’ comic chops – and how lovely to see Alfie Bass and Alastair Sim with Miriam Karlin in the wings. Goodness Gracious Me!
filed under 1960s, Alastair Sim, Colour, Comedy, Costume, Doctors, Father, Hospital, London, Marine, Medical, Peter Sellers, Romance, Sophia Loren
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Well it had to be revisited after re-viewing The Pink Panther. Gaspingly funny with Clouseau simply refusing to believe that the drop dead gorgeous Elke Sommer is a murderess in the posh Ballon household despite all evidence to the contrary. This is the one with the nudist colony. Written by William Peter Blatty (of The Exorcist fame, years later) from Harry Kurnitz’ adaptation of a French play. Gosh this is good.
filed under 1960s, Adaptation, Auteur, Blake Edwards, Caper, Cinematography, Colour, Comedy, Costume, Country houses, Death, Deception, Favourites, Marital, Murder, Nudity, Paris, Parody, Peter Sellers, Police, Screenwriters, Sequel, Soundtrack
The Pink Panther (1963)
First there was the music. Then the cartoon on BBC every evening. Then there was the pink chocolate bar! It came as quite a shock to my eight-year old self to learn there was a full-on movie and there wasn’t a cat in sight! What an entertainment this is, the first in the Inspector Clouseau series which led to a lot of seriously diminished returns twenty-plus years later but what joy this brings. Glamour, fun, fabulous locations – Paris! Rome! Los Angeles! Cortina! – and an incredible cast. Sellers picked up the moustache and coat en route to location with no clue about what would materialise. The eternally underrated Blake Edwards had already made some terrific films (see Experiment in Terror, a great home invasion thriller with another Mancini score, if you don’t believe me) but this made him a household name. There are those who prefer A Shot in the Dark, the first sequel. But I love this. Now I’ll just have to watch it again!
filed under 1960s, Action, Architecture & Interiors, Atmospheric, Auteur, Blake Edwards, Cinematography, Claudia Cardinale, Comedy, Favourites, Femininity, Henry Mancini, Italy, Jewellery, Los Angeles, Mountains, Music, Paris, Peter Sellers, Police, Production design, Romance, Rome, Royalty, Scenic, Screenwriters, Snow!, Soundtrack, Theft, Winter sports, Woman in jeopardy
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FORTUNE Small Business
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How one manufacturer drove sales up 500% - by putting its CEO on YouTube.
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Last Updated: April 15, 2008: 12:39 PM EDT
Blendtec CEO Tom Dickson with products he has destroyed on camera
Dickson in what became the most watched video in the "Will It Blend?" series.
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(FORTUNE Small Business) -- George Wright figured a construction project was underway when he noticed wood shavings inside a room his company used for customer demonstrations.
The marketing manager at Blendtec, based in Orem, Utah, he had been onboard for only a year. But he was fairly sure that his brand of food blenders was not packed in sawdust. When Wright, 41, asked his colleagues, they told him the shavings came from one of the CEO's product tests. This time he had jammed a two-by-two board into a blender on full speed.
That evoked images in Wright's head not of his CEO in a padded cell - but of his CEO in an Internet video.
Immediately Wright gathered together his webmaster and his video producer, who usually made instructional and maintenance videos. They spent $50 on a lab coat, a bag of marbles, a 12-pack of Diet Coke, a McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500) meal, a rotisserie chicken, and a garden rake. Then they went to the CEO, Tom Dickson, and asked him to don the lab coat and to blend each of the items they had purchased - on camera.
"He was very nonchalant about it," says Wright. "We knew we were on to something."
Running an entire business from smartphones
That was an understatement. Wright had stumbled upon one of the hottest marketing forces of the Internet age: viral video ads. Whether they are posted on YouTube or some other popular free video-sharing site such as Dailymotion, these cheap commercials can spread from person to person like wildfire - as long as they're fun or useful to watch. More than half of Internet users have watched a video ad online, according to research by the Kelsey Group. Nearly half of those viewers went on to visit the company website, and 15% of those made a purchase. Think of viral videos as Super Bowl advertising that any small business with a $300 videocamera can afford.
Blendtec's first "Will It Blend?" videos became the 33rd-most-viewed series ever on YouTube, and helped drive sales of the company's $399 high-end consumer blender up 500% in 2007. (Until then, Blendtec's $40 million in sales came mostly from commercial blenders for restaurants and bars.) Dickson went on to film 62 other "Will It Blend?" videos, blending everything from glow sticks and a Halo 3 videogame to a Chuck Norris doll. Dickson even blended a videocamera, and then filmed an attempt to return the blended camera to the store.
"Now there are millions of people who know about our product," says Wright.
A good internet video, says Kelsey analyst Michael Boland, can be more powerful than traditional advertising because viewers are sitting at their computers instead of on their couches. Watch a TV ad, and you're likely to do no more than make a mental note of the product. Watch an ad on YouTube, and you can immediately Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) the company's website. "It's that lean-forward medium," Boland says.
Unlike TV advertising, online videos are free to post, and can be uploaded to sites such as YouTube in a matter of minutes. They don't have to be as wacky as Blendtec's videos to catch on. Create compelling information for your customers, and you create a reputation of trust. A tire business, for instance, might produce a video of tips on driving safely in the snow.
"You're entertaining, solving a problem, or providing value to viewers," says David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
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In 2007, Sierra Snowboard in Sacramento posted a "How to Wax a Snowboard" video on YouTube, featuring an employee demonstrating each step of waxing a board and talking to the camera as if the viewer were a snowboarding buddy. Humdrum, perhaps, but the company's target audience - snowboarders - flocked to it. It was viewed more than 117,000 times on YouTube.
Blendtec employees promoted the YouTube campaign by sending the videos to their friends. They also created a separate site called WillItBlend.com, featuring all the Blentec videos, a blog, and a virtual suggestion box for what items to blend next. The company played off media events such as the July 2007 debut of Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500)'s iPhone, which Dickson promptly threw into a blender.
"You could almost hear people saying, 'Oh, no!' as they watched the video," says Wright. News stories popped up all over the web about the video, which got 3.7 million views.
Jetpack International saw a similar spike in interest last December, when a video accompanying an FSB story ("Jetpacks on the Rise") about it showed the Denver company's pilot zooming through the sky in a James Bond-style jetpack. The video became one of the most popular videos on CNNMoney.com, and viewers flooded JetPack with hundreds of e-mail messages each day, said Troy Widgery, the company's CEO.
"Now everyone wants us to do air shows," he says.
Less exciting products can require more creativity. San Francisco-based Vertical Response banked on humor to boost sales of its e-mail marketing software. The company created two video spoofs of the rap songs "Ice Ice Baby" and "Nothing But a G Thang" with hopes of impressing Salesforce.com (CRM), which often recommends e-mail marketing software to business clients. Vertical Response CEO Janine Popick initially posted the videos on YouTube and e-mailed them to the top ten executives at Salesforce, who forwarded them to the rest of the company's 2,070 employees.
Alf Brand, Vertical Response marketing director and star of the videos, even dressed the part in an old school rap outfit and signed autographs at Salesforce.com's annual trade show. The strategy worked. Last year Vertical Response's revenue generated from Salesforce.com doubled to $1.1 million.
"People want to do business with a company that has a personality," says Popick.
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That said, Internet video experts caution that your video should still relate to your product. Vertical Response used custom lyrics in the rap spoofs to tout the company's e-mail products. And because online videos are watched on a small screen, they're best kept simple, with little movement and few people on camera.
"One person talking in front of a webcam is fine if they're doing something interesting," says Michael Miller, author of YouTube 4 You.
Videos should be no longer than two to three minutes. "Better to have a video that makes people want to watch it again than one that is too long and bores them," says author Scott. Companies also should carefully choose the keywords attached to the video, which helps search engines find it. The more descriptive the keywords, the higher the video will show up in an Internet search.
Finally, never try to fake a video by posing as a customer or creating a contrived situation, warns Miller. Diligent YouTube viewers will find you out. Witness the backlash faced by Sony in late 2006, when its marketing firm Zipatoni posted fake videos in which marketers pretended to be customers who wanted the Sony (SNE) PSP for Christmas.
Indeed, sheer realness may be the secret behind the success of Blendtec's "Will It Blend?" series. The quirky feel of the videos boils down to Dickson, who ad-libs jokes and is clearly enjoying himself. After all, he blended two-by-two boards on his own before the videos were even conceived.
"We filmed Tom Dickson as Dickson," says Wright. "It's not an actor. It's not a show. It's the way he really acts." And judging by the sales, people love it.
First Published: April 14, 2008: 3:05 PM EDT
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Pay someone to wait in line for your new iPhone
by Julianne Pepitone @julpepitone September 19, 2013: 3:38 AM ET
Last year, a TaskRabbit named Charlie scored $1,500 for waiting in line for 100 hours for the iPhone 5.
Can't wait to get the new iPhone 5S or 5C, but can't stand the thought of camping out for days or waking up at dawn? Instead, you can pay someone to hold your place in line.
TaskRabbit, an odd-jobs hiring service, is advertising that people can pay "line-sitters" to go to Apple stores early on Friday. Users can set their own rates, but the company is suggesting a price of $14 per hour for people to wait in line.
TaskRabbit launched its "Skip the Line" campaign immediately after Apple (AAPL) announced its new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.
"We were basically sitting there waiting to send the email as soon as someone finally said the word 'iPhone,'" said TaskRabbit spokesman Johnny Brackett.
Here's how TaskRabbit works: Users post a task, along with the price they'd ideally like to pay someone to complete it. TaskRabbits -- who Brackett said go through extensive background checks before approval -- can bid to do the job for more or less than the poster's request. The task-poster then selects one of the bidders.
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Once the poster is satisfied with the job done, TaskRabbits are paid via credit card for the task and reimbursed for any incurred costs. The company also charges the poster a 20% service fee.
For the "Skip the Line" iPhone campaign, the company determined that it's too difficult for TaskRabbits to buy iPhones without the task-poster being present with their data plan information. Plus, it's a lot of money for the TaskRabbit to shell out up front.
So, the company suggests that users post a line-skipping task and swap places with the TaskRabbit about 10 minutes before they reach the beginning of the line. (Apple is OK with this practice, according to Brackett.)
As of midday Wednesday, the TaskRabbit site featured 250 Skip the Line tasks, according to Brackett. Other sites like Craigslist also featured people seeking or offering to be iPhone line holders.
Last year, TaskRabbit said the iPhone 5 launch drew about 350 line-skipping requests in San Francisco and New York City. A TaskRabbit named Charlie scored $1,500 for waiting in line for 100 hours. The poster said he "just had to have the first iPhone 5 in San Francisco," according to Brackett.
"Any time that Apple launches a new product, we see an influx of tasks on TaskRabbit," Brackett said. "Apple has a lot of true enthusiasts who can't wait to get those phones, and there's an obvious opportunity for us to help them out."
CNNMoney (New York) First published September 19, 2013: 3:38 AM ET
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Review: Eddie Vedder, Place des Arts, Aug. 9
Jordan Zivitz, Montreal Gazette
About 30 minutes into his solo show at Place des Arts’s Salle Wilfrid Pelletier Saturday night, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder sang a lyric that summed up the evening’s adventurous spirit: “I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.”
It would have been easy – and expected – for Vedder to play broken-down one-man versions of Pearl Jam’s most popular mid-tempo numbers. Instead, the night was dominated by rarities, underrated album cuts and unpredictable covers. It could have been self-indulgent, but instead felt like Vedder’s vote of confidence in his lesser-known material, his own record collection and his audience’s support.
The latter was there in spades from the standing ovation that greeted Vedder. One suspects the fans would have been content to stay on their feet if it hadn’t been for the host’s hospitality: “We’re in a palace – a palace with velvet seats. Free free to use them.”
The first two numbers – covers of Daniel Johnston’s Walking the Cow and Cat Stevens’s Trouble – prepared the audience to be unprepared. It helped that Vedder’s burnished baritone is such an identifiable instrument, providing an entry point to the unfamiliar. Fortunately, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier’s notoriously unreliable acoustics didn’t tarnish the warmth and power of that voice.
Vedder kept order while staying in good humour, putting a loose lid on the “Eddie!” cries early on: “Thanks. I know what my name is now.” The first Pearl Jam songs of the set – Sometimes and a rousing I Am Mine – gave diehards the opportunity to pledge their love without annoying their neighbours or the guy on stage.
Setting Forth ushered in a five-pack from Vedder’s soundtrack to Into the Wild (2007). The decision to bundle the brief numbers together was a wise one. Taken on their own, these were more vignettes than fully formed songs; taken as a unit, they were a moving suite that spoke of Vedder’s preoccupations with independence and quests of the soul. While Guaranteed was somewhat rushed, Far Behind was almost feral and Rise was an intimate gem.
James Taylor’s Millworker was introduced as “an American story,” but it was really a people’s story; the guitar-punishing climax sounded like the triumph of the working class. It was a unifying moment, like most of what Vedder played. That certainly held true for the sing-along in You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away and the chirp-along in Blackbird.
The main set closed with Vedder ingeniously deconstructing the early-career thrasher Porch into an acoustic shuffle, leading one to wonder how many Pearl Jam songs he couldn’t play solo. I don’t know the answer – deadline called just as the encores began, with iconoclastic support act Liam Finn joining the headliner for Society. But from the first notes of the night, Vedder proved the value of walking paths less travelled. We were lucky to have an intrepid guide, and he was lucky to have an audience willing to follow him anywhere.
Eddie Vedder performs again Sunday night at 7:30 at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts, with Liam Finn. Tickets cost $75. Call 514-842-2112; order at http://www.pda.qc.ca.
— Jordan Zivitz
Review: Eddie Vedder, Place des Arts, Aug. 9 George III, telling it like it isn't
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Posts Tagged ‘Fence’
The word “fence” is so ambiguous. It could mean a barrier or the act of selling an item. Even as a barrier, it can be cryptic whether its meant to protect you, or keep you from greener pastures. It is clear, however, that there’s no protection possible and no fence strong enough that can keep your heart from melting to Josh Jacobson’s creamy crooning and emotive production on the Moving Castle co-founder’s gorgeous new future soul single, Fence. For all its aching desire and lovesick sentiment, Fence is also an opulent and vibrant dalliance. Fence is a ravishing preview off of Josh Jacobson’s debut EP, First Light, due out this September on his new label, Joshua Tree Records. Fence can also be streamed off Spotify, here.
Tags:chill electronic, chill electronica, dance, downtempo electronica, EDM, electro soul, electronic, electronic soul, electronica, Fence, future beats, future soul, future vibes, Josh Jacobson, Joshua Tree Records, music, producer, song
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Rebel Wilson to Host the ‘2013 MTV Movie Awards’
Rebel Wilson to Host the 2013 MTV Movie Awards
— December 21st, 2012
Last night, during the series finale of Jersey Shore, MTV revealed that Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson will host the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Instead of issuing a boring press release, MTV made the announcement with the following video, also featuring her Bridesmaids co-star and real-life roommate Matt Lucas. Get a taste of what to expect when the 2013 MTV Movie Awards get weird on Sunday, April 14.
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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ NYC Location Details Expose New Spoilers
The Dark Knight Rises NYC Location Details Expose New Spoilers
— October 26th, 2011
Yesterday, we reported that The Dark Knight Rises will not be shooting amidst the Occupy Wall Street protest. Today, a new report indicates that the production will be shooting on Wall Street this weekend, as well as in midtown Manhattan. Here's an excerpt from the report below. Be warned, though, this excerpt does contain potential plot spoilers in the second paragraph, so read on at your own risk.
"One of our readers, RL, spotted No Parking signs for "MAGNUS REX" (TDKR's working title) filming on West 58th Street between 7th and 5th Ave in NYC on Friday, 10/28 for 6 AM to Midnight.
In addition to this new location info, we also heard a few rumors about the big scene they'll be filming on Wall Street. There are expected to be more than 1000 extras used in the scene which will be set in a Gotham that has been taken over by Bane. After months of chaos the cops return and the "good guys" battle it out with the "bad guys" for the streets of Gotham. Tom Hardy and Christian Bale are both expected to be there in full costumes as Bane and Batman. Its also rumored that they will begin rehearsing for the shoot in a couple day at Riis Park."
As mentioned above, the plot information should be considered a rumor, since it has not been confirmed yet. The New York production leg of The Dark Knight Rises will run from October 29 through November 11.
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‘ROCKTOBER’ REVISITED: Francis’s gem backs Rockies’ early rally to win NLCS debut
By MHS Staff -
Credit: Aniello Piro
In 2007, the Colorado Rockies finished the regular season by winning 14 of 15 games to leap from fourth place in the NL West into what would eventually become their first and only World Series appearance. Mile High Sports celebrates the anniversary of ‘Rocktober’ by recapping each game from each of those days ten years ago.
ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 1
The National League Championship Series against the Diamondbacks marked the first time in franchise history that the Rockies had made it past the opening round of the playoffs. Despite falling behind early, the Rockies rallied for runs in the second and third inning to take the lead.
After giving up a run in the first inning, the Rockies rallied in the second after back-to-back singles and a walk put shortstop Troy Tulowitzki up to bat. Despite hitting into a double play, first baseman Todd Helton would score to bring the game even at 1-1.
Second baseman Kazuo Matsui drove in a run in the third inning before Brad Hawpe brought home two more, making the score 4-1 in the early going. Matsui would bring home another run on an error in the seventh inning.
Starting pitcher Jeff Francis went six and two-thirds innings, allowing only one run on seven hits and striking out four. The relievers only gave up two more hits across the remaining two and one-thirds innings, allowing no additional runs.
The Rockies won their eighth game in a row and took a 1-0 lead in the series; an impressive debut that would portend even greater things to come.
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← Gerrard Fennell
Thomas Staples →
Lewis B. Horton
Posted on June 25, 2010 by markeminer
Lewis B. HORTON was Alex’s 4th Great Grandfather; one of 32 in this generation of the Blair line.
Lewis B. Horton was born about 1818 in Massachusetts. He married Tryphosa AMES.
Possible parents are William Horton and Nancy Strong.
Tryphosa Ames was born about 1812 in Massachusetts.
Children of Louis and Tryphosa
1. Royal A. Horton c. 1836
2. Rebecca Tryphosa HORTON 7 Apr 1841
Massachusetts Thomas BLAIR
Huntingdon County, Quebec 8 Apr 1927
Franklin Center, Quebec
I can only find two definitive records about this family
The 1850 census, shows Lewis, Tryphosa, Royal and Rebecca were living in Providence, Saratoga County, New York. Lewis was a laborer.
Lewis Horton age 32 born about 1818 in Mass.
Tryphosa Horton age 38 born about 1812 in Mass.
Royal A Horton age 14 born about 1836 in Mass.
Rebecca S Horton age 9 born about 1841 in Mass.
The Town of Providence is on the county’s western border and is west of Saratoga Springs, New York.
Providence, Saratoga, New York
The area was settled before 1786, but that was the year of any definite settlement, located by Hagedorns Mills. The town was formed from part of the Town of Galway in 1796. The early economy was based on forestry with the harvesting of lumber, and the manufacture of pulpwood being important.
Rebecca’s adult baptism when she married Thomas BLAIR She was baptized 19 Aug 1860 in Wesleyan Methodist Congregation in the Russelltown Circuit; Franklin Methodist, Huntington, Quebec. Rebecca’s birthplace shows as USA in the 1881 Canadian census. Rebecca died 8 Apr 1927 at the age of 86 and is also buried in the Franklin Center Cemetery.
Rebecca Horton Baptism – 1860 Franklin, Quebec, Canada
The 1850 census shows Lewis and the baptism record shows Louis. Lewis is probably correct.
In search of Royal Horton
My assumption is Royal Horton must be a family name. I’ve found several men with that name living in 19th Century New England. I’m still piecing together how they fit, but first, here’s a possible 1840 census record for Lewis:
In the 1840 census, there was a Lewis Horton (age 20 – 29) living in Taunton Township, Bristol County, Massachusetts with one daugther (age 10-14) one son (under 5) and a wife (age 20-29)
Suspect 1 ) – Rial Royal Horton
Rial Royal Horton was born 6 Mar 1794. His parents were Asa Horton (27 Nov 1765 Dighton, Bristol, Mass – Apr 1810, Charlotte, Vermont) and Mary Ingalls (21 Sep 1767 Rehobth, Mass – Aug 1811 Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire) Asa and Mary married 3 Nov 1784 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
His grandparents were Jonathan Horton (b. 1 Jul 1733 Rehoboth, Mass. – d. 1774 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.) and Phebe Ormsbee (b. 1734 in Bristol, Rhode Island – d. Oct 1790) Jonathan and Phebe married 5 Dec 1754 in Warren, Rhode Island.
His great grandparents were Jonathan Horton (b. 1695 Rehoboth, Mass. -d . 20 Jun 1774, Rehoboth, , Mass) and Ann Millard (b. 12 Aug 1708 in Rehoboth, Mass – d. 14 Jul 1751 in Rehoboth, Mass.) Jonathan and Ann married 28 Oct 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
His 2nd great grandparents were John Horton (b.6 Jun 1672 Milton, Norfolk, Mass. – d. 15 Oct 1742 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass) and Mehitabel Garnsey (b. 2 Nov 1673 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass. – d. 15 Oct 1742 in Rehoboth) John and Mehitable married 1691 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
His 3rd great grandparents were Thomas Horton (b. 1638 Springfield, Hampden, Mass. – d. 8 Mar 1716 Rehoboth) and Susannah Keney (b. 18 Jul 1673 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass. d. Jun 1700 in Milton, Mass) Thomas and Susannah married 25 Dec 1693 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass.
His 4th great grandparents were Thomas Horton (b. 1602 Mousley, Leichestershire, England – d. 1641 Springfield, Hampden, Mass) and Mary Eddy (b. 10 Mar 1625 in Nayland, Suffolk, England – d. 19 Sep 1683 in Springfield, Hampden, Mass.) Thomas and Mary were married by 1632 in England.
Thomas, his wife, Mary and their first born child, Mary Horton, along with his brother, Jeremiah, soon followed their brother, Barnabas across the ocean in the ship, “John and Mary.” Thomas and Mary arrived in MA in early 1636 and left immediately for Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, where their second child, Jeremiah Horton was born. According to Savage, Thomas and Mary removed to Springfield, MA by 1638, but Thomas’ name is listed in The History of Springfield on page 41, 1636 – Thomas Horton witnessed Indian Deed and died here 1641.
Thomas’ brother BARNABAS HORTON born 13 Jun 1600 in Mowsley, Leicestershire, England, died 1680 in Southold,Long Island, NY. Barnabas was a Puritan and decided to follow after Reverend Youngs when he,with some of his congregation, William Wells,Esq., Wm. Hallock, John Tuthill, Richard Terry, Thomas Mapes, Matthias Corwin, Robt. Ackerty, Jacob Corey, John Conklin, Isaac Arnold, John Budd and moved to America. Barnabas and his family wasn’t long in joining them. They left in about 1635 aboard the ship “Swallow” and landed at Hampden, Massachussetts. In 1640, Barnabas, his wife, Mary, and two sons and daughter, Joseph, Benjamin and Ann left for New Haven,CT. On the 21st day of Oct 1640, assisted by Reverend John Davenport and Gov. Eaton, they organized themselves into a Congregational Church and sailed to the east end of Long Island, now Southold. They crossed Long Island Sound, sailed up Peconic Bay and came ashore at Founder’s Landing. Barnabas died on the 13th day of July, 1680, aged eighty years. He was known as ‘Barnabas, The Old Puritan.” .
In the 1820 census, Royal Horton was living in Lysander Township, Onodaga County, New York.
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Males – Under 10: 1 (Could be our Lewis)
Males – 26 thru 44: 1
Females – Under 10: 2
Females – 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Persons – Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons – Under 16: 3
Free White Persons – Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Royal Horton continued to live in Lysander, New York in the 1830 and 1840 censuses.
Males – 10 thru 14: 1 (Could be our Lewis)
Under 20: 3
20 thru 49: 2
Total All Persons: 5
Total – All Persons 6
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
– 20 thru 49: 4
One of Rial Royal’s brothers was Lovel Lewis Horton (4 Aug 1789 Berkshire, Mass – 17 Jun 1843 Hortontown Cemetery Lysander, Onondaga NY, near Lamson, NY) Today, Hortontown is a farm in the central part of the town. On 14 Sep 1818 [the same year our Lewis Horton was born] in Lysander, Onondaga, New York, he married Sylvia Rathbun (19 May 1796 in Pittsfield, Mass – 4 Jan 1887 in New York) His children :
i Julia Horton (1819 – 1887)
ii. Electa Horton (1820 – 1833)
iii. Ingalls Horton (1824 – 1825)
iv. Elizabeth Betsy L Horton (1825 – 1863)
v. Desdamonia Horton (1826 – 1900)
vi. Delzora Horton (1829 – 1879)
vii. Artemetia Horton (1830 – 1883)
viii. Ingalls Horton (1832 –
ix. Syntha Cyntha Horton (1839 – 1842)
x. Lovel Lewis Horton (1843 – 1928)
Suspect 2 – Royal and Polly Horton
There was a Royal and Polly Horton living in New Albion, Cattaraugus, New York (between Buffalo and Erie) in the 1850 census They were living with Hiram and Harriett Youngs and their children.
Royal Horton Age 56 b. abt 1794 Mass
Polly Horton 58 b. abt 1792 NY
Hiram Youngs 30
Harriet Youngs 30
Mary A Youngs 7
Edmund H Youngs 2
Hiram Warren 12
Amanda Youngs 23
Suspect 3 – Royal Horton and Eunice Lee
There was another Royal Horton born at Rehoboth, 18 Nov 1795. who was the son of Daniel Horton. He married Eunice Lee 4 May 1823 – Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, too late to be our Lewis’s father. However, Royal Horton is an unusual name, so there may be a connection.
In the 1840 census, there was a Royal Horton living in Rehoboth, Mass. (Age 50 – 59) Wife (Age 50 – 59) 2 Males (Age 20 – 29) 2 Males (Age 10 – 14) for a total household of 6. Two persons were employed in agriculture and one person was employed in trade/manufacturing.
There was another Royal Horton in the 1820 census in Rehoboth, Mass. Royal and his wife were between 26 and 44 years old. They had 3 boys and 2 girls under 10. Royal son of Daniel Horton, was born at Rehoboth, 18 Nov 1795 and would have been too young to already have five children by 1820. The older Royal Horton appears again in the 1840 Rehoboth census. He and his wife are 50 – 59 years old. Two of their sons are 20 – 29 and two sons are 10- 14 years old for a total household of 6 persons.
Here is that Royal’s ancestry:
I. Thomas Horton (b. 1638 Springfield, Hampden, Mass. – d. 8 Mar 1716 Rehoboth) and Susannah Keney (b. 18 Jul 1673 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass. d. Jun 1700 in Milton, Mass) Thomas and Susannah married 25 Dec 1693 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass. He was also 3rd great grandfather of the other Royal Horton.
II. Solomon Horton, son of Thomas Horton, was born at Milton, Massachusetts, January 11, 1682. He married, at Milton, December 5, 1701, Susanna Babcock. Children, born at Milton: Sarah, 17 May 1702; Hannah, 19 Dec 1706; Anna, 12 Dec 1708; Solomon, about 1712-15. Perhaps others.
(III) Solomon, son of Solomon (2) Horton, was born about 1712-15. He settled in Rehoboth. He married Mary . Children, born at Rehoboth: Charles, 18 Mar 1739; Constant, 29 Oct, 1740; Solomon, 15 Jan 1742/43; Mary, 10 Aug 1745; Abiall, 14 Oct 1747; Daniel, 30 Jan 1749/50; Aaron, 21 Mar 1752.
(IV) Daniel, son of Solomon (3) Horton, was born at Rehoboth, Jan 30, 1749/50. He was a soldier in the revolution, from his native town, a private in Captain Nathan Carpenter’s company, at Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1776; also in Captain Israel Hix’s company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter’s regiment, marching from Rehoboth to Bristol, Rhode Island, in December, 1776; also sergeant in Captain Israel Hix’s company in 1780. He married, in 1779, Mary Goff. Children, born in Rehoboth.
Children of Daniel and Mary
i. Nancy, 15 Oct 1780, died unmarried at Rehoboth
ii. Silvanus, 20 Sep 1782, married Hannah Slade, and lived at Rehoboth; One of their two children was Henry Slade Horton, born 19 Nov 1809, in Rehoboth, long the seat of the family, who was a farmer all his life until he died 25 Jun 1858; he also was an auctioneer, and a town office holder and selectman of Rehoboth; he married Arabella Simmons, born in Aug 1809, daughter of Constant Simmons, of Dighton, Massachusetts, and died at the age of eighty
iii. Simeon, (27 Sep 1784 – 1833) , married Melvina (Lavina) M. Wheeler; The Wheeler and Horton Cemetery in Rehoboth, Mass is located at “Horton’s Signal” and is one of the best private burial-places in the town, containing about half an acre and enclosed by an excellent wall. The stones are mostly granite and the yard is under perpetual care. Here is buried Shubael Wheeler, a soldier of the Revolution, born Sep. 29, 1758, in the old Wheeler House across the way, now gone. He died Feb 20, 1812. His father was Philip Wheeler, called Capt. Wheeler, born at Rehoboth, May 4, 1733. He was accepted by the D. A. R. as “Patriot.” His grandfather was Capt. Philip Wheeler, who died in Rehoboth Sept. 19,1765, in his 66th year. He is designated as “Colonel Wheeler.” Shubael’s daughter, Lavina, married Simeon Horton, who with his wife is buried in the Wheeler and Horton yard.
He was descended from Solomon Horton of Dighton (Thomas,1 Solomon,2 Solomon Jr.,3 Daniel,4 born Jan. 30, 1749-50, Simeon6).
Some of his children are buried here;
– Daniel M., 1816-1893, with Adeline his wife, 1833-1872, and their son-in-law, Albert T. Cobb;
– Edward Hiram, 1820-1904, and his two wives Hannah and Maria (Nichols); Edward Hiram kept a store nearby for many years. His daughter Mary, wife of George D. Nichols, is buried here, and his nephew Hiram Kingman, and wife Isadore (Baker).
– George Leonard, 1824-1907, unmarried
iv. Rachel, 18 Jan 1787, married John Slade, and died at Somerset, Massachusetts;
v. Polly, 6 Aug 1789, married Isaiah Simmons, and died at Bristol, Rhode Island;
vi. Lettis, 22 Dec 1791, married George Case, and lived at Rehoboth;
vii. Royal, 18 Nov 1795 mentioned below.
V. Royal was son of Daniel Horton (4), was born at Rehoboth, 18 Nov 1795. He followed farming in his native town all his active life, except for a few years when he lived at Bristol Neck, and he died while in the prime of life. He married Eunice Lee 4 May 1823 – Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts . Eunice married (second) Benjamin Childs. By her second husband she had one son, Benjamin Childs Jr., who married Emma Arnold, and died in Providence, Rhode Island.
Children of Royal Horton and Eunice Lee
1. Daniel, married (first) Harriet Amanda Tanner; (second) Mrs. Cornelia Rich ; he was a carpenter and real estate dealer in Providence; his daughter Isabel married Moses W. Horton.
2. Stephen, b. abt 1827 Mass resided at Rehoboth, and died in Providence.
3. Nathan B., mentioned below.
4. Nancy Maria, b. abt. 1830 Mass. married (first) John W. Cole; (second) Stephen Garland; she died in Providence in 1904; and her son, John W. Cole, resides in Providence.
5. Royal b. abt. 1836 Rhode Island. a retired jeweler, died in Barrington, Rhode Island, in December, 1910; married Helen M. Brown; children: Martha, married Charles F. Boyden, and Jennie, married Fred Smith
In the 1850 census, Royal was living with his brother Stephen in Rehoboth, Mass.
Stephen L Horton Age 23 b. abt 1827 Mass
Nancy Horton Age 20 b. abt. 1830 Mass.
Royal D Horton Age 14 b. abt. 1836 Rhode Island.
Benj M Childs Age 4 b. abt 1846 Rhode Island.
In the 1880 census and 1900 census Royal D Horton was married and living in Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island
Royal D. Horton – Son of Royal (5) Horton and Eunice Lee; b. Bristol, R.I., June 28, 1835; m. Helen M. Brown, Dec. 1, 1857; children: Walter, Martha, Dexter and Jennie Bucklin. Barrington, Rhode Island – Member Cong. Church.; member of school committee 25 years; a trustee of Public Library; chairman of Com. on Central bridge; member of Town Committee., and State Central Com., business, manufacturing jewelry.
Suspect 4 Gurdon Horton
Gurdon Horton was born 24 Feb 1791 in Union City, Tolland, CT. His parents were Deacon Ezra Horton (1761 – 1848) and Olive May (1765 – 1833) He married 1 May 1816 to Lucy Davidson. Gurdon died 18 May 1877.
Their first child Royal (Roysel), born 31 July, 1819; died 25 Sep 1820.
Another Lewis Horton
Lewis Benjamin Horton was born 25 May 1817 in Columbus, NY. His parents were Benjamin and Peninah Horton. He married on 13 Feb 1850 in Coventry, Chenango, NY. to Martha Anna Shapley (b. 23 Jun 1815 in Oxford or Guilford, NY)
Their son Albert Lewis Horton was born 3 Aug 1854 and prob. died bef. 1880.
Their grandson Leslie Albert Horton was born in 1873/74. In 1880, his parents he was living with his grandparents. He married Mertie Winston (b. Sep 1872, New York), daughter of Charles G. and Sarah Winston, in 1891. They lived in Coventry, Chenango, NY.
Possible Ames Suspects
Looking for parents of Elizabeth Amos, b. abt 1742. She married John Densmore (Dunsmoor), 15 Apr 1765, Hardwick, Worcester Co. MA. They had 7 children: Amos, John, Eliphalet, Tryphosa, Sophia, Susan, and Nancy. They migrated to Richfield, Otsego Co. NY abt 1792, and Elizabeth died there 13 Oct 1803.
It has been suggested that the name “Amos” might have been spelled “Ames”, “Eames” or “Eams” earlier, and that she could be Elizabeth Eames, d.o. Josiah and Anna Parmenter Eames, b. 7 Apr 1741, Norwich, CT.
Anyone who has information on Elizabeth’s parents, or can shed light on the Amos name derivation, please contact me through this message board, or at rudyskid@hotmail.com
Fisher Ames who married Clarissa Hudson on 8 Mar 1830 in Hinchinbrook PQ is a possible brother of Tryphosa
09-15-1869 Samuel Ernest Ames, son of Fisher Ames, Esq., Franklin Quebec, married Jessie Cain, daughter of David Cain, Esq., of Hinchinbrook, at the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. George Rogers, Wisleyan minister.
http://www.swquebec.ca/results.asp?ID=23543
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qchuntin/gleaner/
http://dunhamwilcox.net/ri/barrington_ri_bios2.htm
New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the …, Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/articles/163.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hortonfamilyhistory/THOMAS%20HORTON%20-%20REGICIDE.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hortonfamilyhistory/Solomon%20Horton-1681
A history of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: its history for 275 years, 1643-1918 …
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hortonfamilyhistory/Robert%20Horton.html
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Hi! I am researching some of my own family’s history and the Royal and Lovell Hortons are related to me I believe- I’d love to share what I have with you-
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Two June concerts from the Echo Ensemble chamber orchestra showcase new works by their director and conductor Noah Max. Barely twenty, Noah’s already a frighteningly accomplished artistic polymath – a conductor, cellist, chorister, New Music advocate and musical entrepreneur who’s also nurturing successful side careers as a painter, poet and filmmaker. As a composer, he’s already lined up a stack of diverse works, performed not only by Echo but by the Ebor Singers, the Marryat Players, the Barbican Piano Trio and Duo d’Oro. (All this, and still no website…) As for the ensemble, they’re a mere couple of years old, but are already making significant ripples in the British classical community and being hailed for their power and imaginative focus.
The first of the two concerts is part of the Albert Hall’s ‘Love Classical’ season, tucked away in the Elgar Room: it also features Mozart’s ‘Symphony No. 29’ and Taneyev’s ‘Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30’. The Max piece is the world premiere of his complete suite ‘Immolation Dances’ which, as he recalls, “began life a year ago as a ballet which wound together tales such as Icarus and the myth of the Phoenix. The writing process has burned away all but the fiery core of the piece, a white-hot suite of warped dances which explore my fascination with heat and light, resonance, pain and healing. Although its narrative has become more abstract, I hope the piece remains a blazing, emotionally charged inferno, all the more intense for its brevity.”
The second – ‘The Ancient Tomorrow’, at St Gabriels Pimlico – presents “a programme spanning from Edvard Grieg’s vision of 1600s Norway to the world premiere of a major new work for string orchestra… via neglected French composer André Jolivet’s neoclassical firecracker of a flute concerto.” The Grieg work is ‘Aus Holbergs Zeit’; the Jolivet is his “spontaneous and symmetrical” 1949 ‘Concerto for Flute and Strings’ which they’ll be playing with guest flautist Frederico Paixão (interesting, too, to note the polymathic interests Jolivet and Max share). The new string orchestra piece (another world premiere) is the Max one, ‘The Chakras’, for which information is thin on the ground: check later for the Echo Ensemble’s Facebook page, which seems to be Noah’s main outlet for comments and updates.
A couple of Noah Max’s previous orchestral pieces are on show below…
Marsyas Trio (featuring flautist Helen Vidovich, cellist Val Welbanks and, since late 2017, pianist Olga Stezhko) continue their mission to encourage and perform new repertoire with a concert at the 1901 Club entirely dedicated to premieres, courtesy of various members of the London Composers’ Forum.
On the programme are Peter Openshaw ‘Caput redivivum’; ‘Drift’ (by former Fin De Siecle frontwoman and current soundtrack composer Isa Suarez); Illumination Chamber Choir leader Miriam Mackie‘s ‘Same Place’; Alan Taylor‘s ‘Muted & Changing Voices’; Michael Regan‘s ‘In The Shadows’, Alan Hilton‘s ‘Trio’ and Elizabeth Sharma‘s ‘Songs Of The Night’. I’ve not been able to find much in the way of summaries for any of these, but you might be able to find out a little more if you wangled your way into the pre-concert LCF workshop at Goldsmith’s on 2nd June (free to students and LCF members).
In addition, below are some previous examples of work from most of the composers involved, including what sounds like a synthesized demo of the Hilton piece (plus a little of the Marsyas Trio in action a few years ago, with soprano Jessica Summers at the much-missed Forge in Camden).
On the subject of Goldsmiths, several of their postgraduate music students (alongside others from Guildhall School of Music & Drama and from the University of Cambridge) will be debuting compositions at a Union Chapel concert on the 10th.
‘Mixture: New Music For Organ and Electronics’ is the capstone concert in a six-month series in which current compositional and performance technology is being brought into play with the chapel’s reknowned Henry Willis pipe organ. For such a grand undertaking, this is a surprisingly undersung event (which I’m going to latch onto as my excuse for not having followed the whole series). The Goldsmiths contingent are Robert Murray Jamieson, Maeve Moayedi, Elisabeth Salverda, Rachel Gibson and Elizabeth Hill-Laurence: that leaves one place apiece for Cambridge and Guildhall, but it’s not clear who those last two composers are. Still, at a ticket price of only £3.50, it’s probably worth dropping by on spec just to find out.
London Composers’ Forum Workshop with Marsyas Trio for ‘Trios For Our Time’
Room 163, Richard Hoggart Building @ Goldsmiths (University of London), Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, England
Sunday 2nd June 2019, 12.30pm and 4.30pm – information here and here
Echo Ensemble @ Love Classical
Elgar Room @ Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2AP, England
Tuesday 4th June 2019, 7.30pm – information here and here
‘Mixture: New Music For Organ and Electronics’
Monday 10th June 2019, 7.30pm – information here, here and here
London Composers Forum presents:
Marsyas Trio: ‘Trios For Our Time’
1901 Club, 7 Exton Street, Waterloo, London, SE1 8UE, England
Wednesday 12th June 2019, 6.30pm – information here and here
Echo Ensemble: ‘The Ancient Tomorrow’
St Gabriel’s Pimlico, Warwick Square, Pimlico, London, SW1V 2AD, England
Thursday 27th June 2019, 8.00pm – information here and here
Tags: Alan Hilton, Alan Taylor, André Jolivet, Edvard Grieg, Elisabeth Salverda, Elizabeth Hill-Laurence, Elizabeth Sharma, Frederico Paixão, Helen Vidovich, Isa Suarez, London (England), London Composers Forum, Maeve Moayedi, Marsyas Trio, Michael Regan, Miriam Mackie, Noah Max, Olga Stezhko, Peter Openshaw, pipe organ music, Rachel Gibson, Robert Murray Jamieson, Sergei Taneyev, The Echo Ensemble, Val Welbanks, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Categories 2019 music, 21st century classical music, chamber music, classical (Western art music), early 20th century neoclassical music
April 2016 – upcoming gigs – Olga Stezhko classical piano fundraiser (London lunchtime, 21st April).
Just quickly mentioning this solo fundraising event initiated by Olga Stezhko: a forty-five minute late-lunchtime piano performance on the north side of central London, this coming Thursday…
Olga Stezhko
St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, St Pancras, London, NW1 2BA, England
Thursday 21st April 2016, 1.15pm – free entry (with fundraising donations encouraged)
Olga: “Please join me at my lunchtime recital in aid of the Friends of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice (UK). I have been a long-time supporter of this amazing charity that provides children’s hospice-at-home care in Belarus. Their comprehensive palliative care creates positive experiences for terminally-ill children and precious memories for their families.
I will be playing two Debussy suites – ‘Suite bergamasque’ and ‘Children’s Corner’ – and Prokofiev’s ‘Tales of an Old Grandmother’. The event is free and all proceeds from a retiring collection will go to the FBCH. Your support will be greatly appreciated!”
Here’s Olga playing another Debussy piece:
Tags: Claude Debussy, fund-raising, London (England), Olga Stezhko, piano music, Sergei Prokofiev
Categories 2016 music, 20th century classical music, acoustic music, classical (Western art music), early 20th century neoclassical music, Romantic music
Upcoming gigs, second week of November 2015 (9th-15th) – Julia Holter’s experimental pop tours the UK; chamber music at the Forge (Ensemble Perpetuo’s galactic tour, CHROMA’s British Music Collection show with Martin Scheuregger & David Gorton premieres); Baba Yaga Hut London rocktronica double (Tropic of Cancer + Shift Work + Telefon Tel Aviv down south, Teeth Of The Sea + Charles Hayward’s Anonymous Bash out east); Olga Stezhko takes her Lucid Dream piano concert to the Wigmore & Bridgewater Halls; Vôdûn rocks out Afro-psych-metal at Westminster Kingsway; Dub Trio/Thumpermonkey mix it up at The Underworld; Haiku Salut/Camden Voices/Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch bring post-folk, soundtrack classical and community chorale to Daylight Music
Since when did November become so generous? There’s plenty to see and hear this coming week, including the continuing Jenny Hval/Briana Marela tour (with Bristol and London dates), Laura Moody following up recent shows in Cardiff and Sheffield with a house concert in Edinburgh on the 12th (email her directly in case tickets are still available) and, in London, the opening dates of the London Jazz Festival and the End Festival. Plus the following:
With Briana Marela, Jenny Hval and Holly Herndon all touring or playing in Britain this month – and with Joanna Newsom having already sold out her lone British date at the Eventim Apollo on Monday – it’s a good month for seeing art-pop with a distinctly female hue or ethos (although to be honest there’s always a wealth of such things around, if you look hard enough and dip under the radar).
To the above, add Julia Holter, who’s working a short British tour over the course of the week. It’s an opportunity to see how rapidly Julia’s exploratory, highly literary work has evolved and altered over a decade of recording time: from the Debussy-an glistenings of 2006’s ‘Eating The Stars’ to the oblique sonic and textual puzzles of 2011’s ‘Tragedy’ (mixing transfigured Greek drama, disorientating found sound and transparent barely-there parings of songcraft) and the impressionistic jazz-novel assemblage of ‘Loud City Song’ in 2013 (which drew on Collette, MGM musicals and belle-epoque).
Julia’s newest album, this year’s ‘Have You In My Wilderness’, is something of a step into the known. Her once-baffling minimal musical stylings – which, on ‘Tragedy’ in particular, hung precariously on the edge of what might be described as “song” – have by now transformed themselves into what sounds like dreamy, distracted takes on late-‘60s/early-‘70s Brill Building songwriter pop. That said, the album’s meditations on solitude and companionship (real, imagined, rejected or deconstructed) retain Julia’s distinctive tone of lateral thinking and musing, and if the songs seem more conservative on the outside they soon reveal themselves as different, more fluid creations, if Carole King had been enticed into French surrealism (note the nods to Dali, Bunuel, Germaine Dulac and Gérard de Nerval in the video for ‘The Sea Calls Me Home’, above). It’s also clear that if ‘Have You In My Wilderness’ does invite a broader audience by way of its more comfortable textures, it’s not a sell-out: keeping firmly in touch with her earlier impulses and schemas, Julia has included a re-recording of Betsy On The Roof (a pre-‘Tragedy’ song best known from her rare 2010 live tapes).
Julia Holter:
Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1UN Monday 9th November 2015) – information – tickets
The Lantern @ Colston Hall, Colston Street, Bristol BS1 5AR, UK, Tuesday 10th November 2015, 7.30pm) – £13.98 – information – tickets
Glee Club Birmingham, The Arcadian, 70 Hurst Street, Birmingham B5 4TD, UK, Wednesday 11th November 2015, 7:00pm) – £16.50 – information – tickets
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London N1 2UD, UK, Thursday 12th November 2015, 7:00pm) – £22.00 – information – tickets
The Hug & Pint, 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9AW, UK, Friday 13th November 2015, 8.00pm) – £15.00 – information – tickets
Brudenell Social Club, 17 Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6 1HA, UK, Saturday 14th November 2015, 1.00pm) -£20.00 – information & tickets
Note that the Leeds gig at the Brudenell is part of their High & Lonesome Festival in which Julia will be sharing a stage with Josh T. Pearson, Neil Halstead &and many others.
There are two chamber music concerts coming up at The Forge in London:
Ensemble Perpetuo presents: Heavenly Sights (The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 7NL, UK, Monday 9th November 2015, 7.30pm) – £10.00 to £12.00 – information & tickets – more information
Founded in 2013 by English oboist James Turnbull, Ensemble Perpetuo is a dynamic and versatile collective of musicians who perform a wide variety of traditional and contemporary chamber music in new settings; bringing it to new audiences through exciting collaborations and innovative repertoire choices; and seeking new pathways in which to experiment and augment the concert experience through multi-art form collaborations. Perpetuo has embarked on a number of exciting mini-residences throughout the UK and is taking music to new venues including concerts in theatres, museums, cafes, found spaces and other unexpected locations.
Join Perpetuo for the final event in their groundbreaking series of chamber music concerts for 2015 – an evening of incredible music that takes you on a journey to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. ‘Heavenly Sights’ is an evening of music inspired by space, flight and motion. Featuring music from Beethoven and Piazzolla to Weir and Muhly, experience over two hundred years of chamber music in one evening.
Robert Schumann – Mondnacht (arr. Colin Matthews)
George Benjamin – Flight
Nico Muhly – Motion
Judith Weir – Airs From Another Planet
Anthony Powers – In Sunlight
Charlotte Bray – Trail Of Light
Astor Piazzolla – Milonga del Angel
Ludwig van Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – My Fleeting Angel
CHROMA: Gorton, Scheuregger and British Music (The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 7NL, UK,Wednesday 11th November 2015, 7.30pm) – £10.00-£12.00 – information & tickets – more information
Founded in 1997, the critically acclaimed CHROMA is an acclaimed, London-based, flexible chamber ensemble dedicated both to new music and to revisiting classic repertoire in fresh and exciting contexts; mentoring the next generation of composers, and involving audiences in compelling, inspirational experiences. Closely associated with the performance of contemporary music the ensemble has forged close links with many prominent British composers through many commissioned premières and collaborations (including work with Luke Bedford, Michael Nyman, David Bruce, Tarik O’Regan, Michael Zev Gordon, Raymond Yiu, Claudia Molitor, Julian Grant, Arlene Sierra, and Marcus Barcham-Stevens) .
CHROMA has a lively strand of intimate chamber concerts combining music and storytelling, which has resulted both in its first own-label album ‘Folk Tales’ and in various opera stagings in association with the opera festival Tête à Tête, the Linbury Studio Theatre and others. The ensemble’s mentoring programme includes ongoing work with student composers at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Holloway University of London and Oxford University.
This concert (featuring Roderick Chadwick on piano) is the culmination of composer Martin Scheuregger’s residency at the British Music Collection. Martin’s new work, ‘Harlequin’, and ‘Burgh Castle’ by David Gorton form the centre of the programme. Harlequin engages with and reflects on the themes and ideas Martin has been exploring through the music of The Collection, whilst ‘Burgh Castle’ – a CHROMA aural-visual commission for piano and ensemble – is inspired by the landscape of the East Anglian Fens. Pieces from the BMC – from both lesser-known and established composers – place these new works in the context of Martin’s residency and the music with which he has surrounded himself for the last 18 months.
Philip Cashian – Horn Trio
Helen Grime – Snow and Snow
Martin Scheuregger – Harlequin (world premiere)
David Gorton – Burgh Castle (world premiere)
Sadie Harrison – The Bride’s Journey In Three Songs And A Memory
On the 12th November, Baba Yaga’s Hut are presenting a double event in London: simultaneous gigs in the east and the south, each blending rock and electronica in different ways and at different intensities.
Tropic of Cancer + Shift Work + Telefon Tel Aviv (DJ) (Baba Yaga’s Hut @ Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB, UK, Thursday 12th November 2015, 8.00pm) – £10.00 – information – tickets
Gauzy, morbid-romantic dream pop project Tropic of Cancer (comprising murmurer and instrumentalist Camella Lobo plus collaborators) return to London for another set of blurred lyrics and slow-burner Gothic psychedelic-tinged tunes. Expect lapping echoes, grey-draped music and a numbed atmosphere with concealed drama: self-confessed romantic and “hyperbolic dramatist” Camella admits that the driving concept behind most of her songs is “a love so supernatural it lasts beyond death, but also a love that is sometimes not strong enough to conquer human weakness in the living.”
The live Tropic Of Cancer band now includes Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv (and also Sons of Magdalene, Puscifer and the Nine Inch Nails tour band) who’ll apparently be playing a DJ set under his TTA moniker. Further support comes from London dance-electronica minimalists Shift Work.
Teeth of the Sea + Anonymous Bash (Baba Yaga’s Hut @ The Brewhouse, London Fields Brewery, 369-370 Helmsley Place, South Hackney, London, E8 3SB, UK, Thursday 12th November 2015, 8.00pm) – £9.00 – information – tickets
At this gig, the increasingly acclaimed Teeth Of The Sea launch their fourth album – the subtly-titled ‘Highly Deadly Black Tarantula’.
The London band’s assured and stormy concoction of spacey psychedelic guitar rock dramatics, heavily-processed Fourth World trumpet, counter-culture festival techno, electronica and drone music – plus their assured-to-arrogant stage presence and mastery of performance – has been winning them a wide range of fans from across the board. The clips below should give you an idea of what to expect both on record and onstage.
Support comes from Anonymous Bash, featuring veteran experimental drummer Charles Hayward (of This Heat, Camberwell Now, Massacre and the myriad collaborations of Accidents + Emergencies). Based on the music springing from last year’s four-week Hayward residency at Salford’s Islington Mill (during which Charles collaborated with over twenty musicians from the Manchester regions), the project features a taut, dubby experimental sound centred around the sonic marriage of his own percussion, melodica and vocals with shifting, abrasive rock aspects brought in by his collaborators. The Salford-based Gnod ensemble (a mixture of kosmiche and cult-spoofery) played a substantial role in the Anonymous Bash album, and join Charles in the ongoing live lineup.
Increasingly a ‘Misfit City’ regular, the Belarusian classical pianist Olga Stezhko (whose superb technique is equalled by her audacious, densely intellectual approach to programming her repertoire) chalks up two landmark concerts at two British classical music institutions this week as she makes her debut at both the Wigmore Hall and the Bridgewater Hall. To each venue, Olga is bringing her ‘Lucid Dreams’ programme – a selection of pieces exploring ideas of childhood and children’s music.
Olga comments “this programme is deeply personal to me. It is a conscious attempt to rediscover those things that were central to the development of my musical identity. Inevitably this can appear to be a sort of light musical psychoanalysis, but as I recall my childhood I remember vividly being surrounded by magic, with all its signs and symbols, which greatly affected how I felt towards the world around me at the time. To some extent, I have never lost touch with my younger self thanks to my extensive teaching work with children. Their distinctive personalities are an endless source for artistic inspiration; I wish therefore to dedicate my concert to those boys and girls.
“The narrative of the programme reflects the development of our perception of reality during different stages of life. It moves from the magical realism of a child’s worldview in the first half (Toys & Dances) to the broader metaphysical questions we all face at some point in life in the second part (Images & Visions).”
Olga Stezhko: ‘Lucid Dreams’ piano recital (Kirckman Concert Society @ Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP, UK, Tuesday 10th November 2015, 7:30pm) – information & tickets
Part One: Toys & Dances
Sergei Prokofiev – Old Grandmother’s Tales Op. 31
Sofia Gubaidulina – Musical Toys
Dmitri Shostakovich – Three Fantastic Dances Op. 5
Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque: Menuet
Lev Abeliovich – Tarantella
Aleksandr Skriabin – Deux Danses Op. 73
Part Two: Images & Visions
Claude Debussy – Images, Series 1
Aleksandr Skriabin – Cinq préludes Op. 74
Aleksandr Skriabin – Vers la flamme, poème Op. 72
Olga Stezhko (The Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society @ Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS, UK, Thursday 12th November 2015, 1:10pm) – £7.00-£11.50 – information – tickets
(Note that the Manchester concert features a much shorter version of the ‘Lucid Dreams’ programme.)
Throughout the programme, Olga explores the further deeper brought up in her music choices, investigating Debussy’s complex psyche and relationship with his daughter, the cognitive differences between children and adults (including the former’s belief, often shared with adult musicians, that they shape the world by thought and action), her own childhood impulses as a pre-teen musician, and the roles of parent figures in successive generations of composers. She also challenges the subordinate role that children’s music seems forced to play, arguing “what is the definition of children’s music anyway? I believe when these works emerge as an innermost urge from a mature master, it epitomizes their most sincere and unpretentious artistic output.
“Such music as Gubaidulina’s Musical Toys (part of my future recording project ‘Toys & Tales’) or, for example, Debussy’s Children’s Corner (to be included into my next all-Debussy album) is as rich with imagery, colour, trepidation, emotion and symbolism as any symphonic masterpiece. Moreover, it is perhaps the most accurate musical description of any composer and their inner worlds. Both performers and listeners can relate to this kind of music precisely because there is something universal about it as we all were children once, authentic and genuine in our relationship with the world.”
Olga’s full thoughts behind ‘Lucid Dreams’ (from which the above notes and quotes are taken) can be found here, and are well worth reading.
Another couple of London rock gigs show up midweek and at the end of the week. Summaries below:
Vôdûn + support t.b.c. (WestkingMusic Live @ Westminster Kingsway College Theatre, 211 Grays Inn Rd, Kings Cross, London, WC1X 8RA, UK, Thursday 12th November 2015, 6.30pm) – £2.00-£5.00 – information
Emerging out of a cloud of voodoo-scented bombast (in the centre of which you’ll find former Do Me Bad /Chrome Hoof singer Chantal Brown) Afro-psych/doom metal band Vôdûn bring a welcome taste of old-school Black Rock Coalition determination back to the party along with their artfulness. A churning bass-less power trio – multi-racial, two-thirds women, and taking on the names of loa spirits – they set wall-of-noise guitar against galloping drums and full-throated soul-power vocal melisma.
The band make much of West African spirit power, possession and cosmology: but from what initially seems like a stew of schtick brewed from heavy metal and voodoo swagger, various Afrocentric and feminist images bubble up (not least in the assertive vigour of the female players, and in the way they remind us of the passionate feminine component in the rituals and worldview of the original vodun culture). The current Vôdûn single Mino’s Army is a tribute to the fearsome all-female musket regiment which (by the nineteenth century) made up a third of the Dahomeyan army, played a leading role in the nation’s military policy, and honed female ferocity into a powerful fighting force which dismayed and won the admiration of male opponents (including the French, whom the Mino repeatedly mashed in early stages of the colonial wars). The blood-and-fire video pays tribute to this, and to the acres of severed heads which the victorious Mino left behind them, though perhaps not to the fact that the Mino came to strive against slavery in their own nation as well as the slavery fostered by the Europeans.
Inevitably, Vôdûn are going to be inspiring questions and challenges about the African traditions they’re playing with, and perhaps a deeper approach to storytelling doesn’t currently fit the spontaneous and immediate nature of the band as it stands. But in spite of this, and behind the surface theatrics, the signs are promising. One to watch…
Dub Trio + Thumpermonkey (Nightshift/Rock-A-Rolla @ The Underworld, 174 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 0NE, Sunday 15th November 2015,…. ) – price – information – tickets
Later in the week, Dub Trio return to London, bringing their live dub/rock skills and their interdependent mutually-looping interactions back to the stage of the Underworld. Here’s a long clip of a full, relatively recent show to get you in the mood.
In support are London’s Thumpermonkey (another bunch of ‘Misfit City’ regulars) whose intricately-constructed heavy post-progressive sound is in some ways the antithesis of Dub Trio’s semi-spontaneous instrumental tightrope act. I’d argue that that was the joy of a well-arranged rock gig – in this case, the contrast between two equally deft, clever and complementary bands keeps one’s brain fizzing away happily, and you leave the gig feeling smarter and more alive than you did when you arrived. Certainly Thumpermonkey’s crammed and ingenious musical constructions, topped off with Michael Woodman’s theatrical songlines and multi-layered lyrics, remain one of the current underrated treasures of British rock.
On the Saturday there’s another Daylight Music – a typically involved crossover gig of post-rock, soundtrack classical and communal musical spirit. Details and promo blurb below…
Daylight Music 206 – Haiku Salut + Camden Voices & Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, UK, Saturday 14th November 2015, 12.00pm–2.00pm) – free (£3.50 donation suggested) – information
The wonderful Haiku Salut are best described as an instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio from the Derbyshire Dales, and their talent for combining joyous folk, intricate electronica and spellbinding neo-classical has seen them compared to everyone from Beirut and múm to Sigur Ros and Aphex Twin. Their second album ‘Etch And Etch Deep’ has received acclaim from ‘Uncut’ (who called it “both warmly familiar and completely, fearlessly new”) and ‘Popmatters’ (“vividly coloured sonic canvas”), while ‘The Line Of Best Fit’ described the opening track and recent single, Bleak And Beautiful (All Things), as “uniquely stunning… isn’t afraid to tear up the rulebook and begin fresh.”
Formed in 2013, Camden Voices is a choir of thirty passionate singers, instrumentalists and teachers, as well as those working outside of the music world. Rehearsing weekly in the heart of Camden Town, they aim for high musical standards whilst keeping a friendly and fun sense of community at our heart. With groove and harmony as their foundation, they develop new approaches to ensemble singing; using new arranging talent, they dust off neglected gems from the worlds of jazz, soul, gospel, and a cappella with a vibrant contemporary twist.
You can also hear the elegant, beautiful music of Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, an award-winning French pianist/composer currently living in London. Spanning film score, bespoke composition and art installations, her work is connected by both its high quality and evocative, meticulous craft – a common sensibility of elegant, instinctual composition. In 2015, she created a sound-walk for London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and her debut album ‘Like Water Through The Sand’ is set for a November release on FatCat’s post-classical imprint 130701.
If ‘ve got a moment over the next few days, I’ll post up something on the London Jazz Festival and on The End – failing that, more November gig news to follow.
Tags: Aleksandr Scriabin, Anthony Powers, Arctic Circle (promoter), Astor Piazzolla, Baba Yaga’s Hut (event/promoter), Birmingham (England), Brighton (England), Bristol (England), Camden Voices, Chantal Brown, Charlotte Bray, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, CHROMA, Claude Debussy, David Gorton, Daylight Music (event), Dmitri Shostakovich, Dub Trio, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Ensemble Perpetuo, George Benjamin, Glasgow (Scotland), Haiku Salut, Helen Grime, Judith Weir, Kirckman Concert Society (event), Leeds (England), Lev Abeliovich, listening to women, London Jazz Festival (event), Ludwig van Beethoven, Manchester (England), Martin Scheuregger, New York City (USA), Nico Muhly, Nightshift (event), Olga Stezhko, Philip Cashian, Robert Schumann, Rock-A-Rolla (event), Roderick Chadwick, Sadie Harrison, Sergei Prokofiev, Shift Work, Sofia Gubaidulina, Teeth Of The Sea, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society (event), Thumpermonkey, Tropic Of Cancer, Vodun
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Upcoming London gigs in early June – A Formal Horse & Ham Legion; Olga Stezhko; The Spiders of Destiny play Frank Zappa; a Bowie Night in Soho
Here’s some quick info on upcoming gigs in early June which I’ve heard about – all of them in London.
Over the last couple of years, Westminster Kingsway College has established itself as one of the capital’s finest homes for quirky art-rock – by which I don’t mean student hobby bands thrown together for campness or for ironic prankery, but a rich, complex, committed electric music spanning the range between gutter-punk and flouncing prog via metal, jazz, folk, avant-gardening and anything else which gets melted down into the stew. Here’s one of those gigs that proves the point.
A Formal Horse + Ham Legion (Westminster Kingsway College, 211 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8RA, Tuesday 2nd June, 6.30pm)
A Formal Horse is a new progressive rock quartet based in Southampton. Although the band’s sound is difficult to pinpoint, their dense instrumental passages are reminiscent of King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra, whilst Francesca Lewis’ lead vocals evoke the whimsical surrealism of the 1970s’ Canterbury scene. Wonky melodies and serene vocals over a brutal sound – their music keeps you on your toes. However, A Formal Horse go beyond simply regurgitating the music of their predecessors. With influences as diverse as Bartók and Bon Iver, the band prove that there is still much territory to be explored in the field of British progressive rock.
In June 2014, the band released their debut EP, which was recorded by Rob Aubrey (IQ, Transatlantic). They went on to perform at London’s Resonance Weekend alongside Bigelf and Änglagård, and were described by Prog Magazine as a “festival highpoint”. Since, they have shared stages with Knifeworld and Lifesigns, cementing their position at the forefront of the British progressive scene.
Ham Legion spent 2014 honing their sound and developing a storming live show. You can expect a collision of beaming up beat power pop, grinding metal outbursts, dramatic changes of mood, sudden passages of twistingly epic prog then moments of restrained delivery and somber reflection. They are striking out in 2015 with the release of their debut album towards the end of the year.
Tickets available here – £6.00/£5.00
Olga Stezkho: ‘Eta Carinae’
Olga Stezhko (the far-thinking Belarusian classical pianist whose ‘Eta Carina’ album impressed me so much last year) has two London concerts coming up in the first fortnight of the month. The second’s likely to be an all-access crowd-pleaser. Given its charity fundraiser status, I’m not sure whether the first is likely to feature or indulge any of Olga’s intriguing conceptual preoccupations with Scriabin, Busoni, cosmology and early twentieth century consciousness, but even if it isn’t it’s a great opportunity to see a fine musician at work in a grand location.
Olga Stezhko charity piano recital in aid of Friends of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice (St Pancras Parish Church, Euston, London NW1 2BA, Thursday 4th June, 1:15pm – 2:00pm)
Programme not revealed – free admission, donations requested.
EC4 Music in aid of The Prince’s Trust (Barbican Hall, Tuesday 9th June, 7:30pm – 9:30pm)
The choir and orchestra of London-based EC4 Music return for their seventh fundraising concert in aid of The Prince’s Trust with a stirring selection of music from both sides of the Atlantic.
Leonard Bernstein – Overture from ‘Candide’
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Eric Whitacre – Water Night
Hubert Parry – Blest Pair of Sirens
EC4 Music Choir and Orchestra
Tim Crosley – conductor
Olga Stezhko – piano
Claire Seaton – soprano
Roderick Morris – countertenor
Thomas Herford – tenor
Adam Green – baritone
Tickets available here – prices from £10.00 – £35.00 plus booking fee.
Some of London’s most active art-rockers are brewing up a free Zappa homage in Croydon at around the same time. Details below:
The Spiders of Destiny play Frank Zappa (The Oval Tavern, 131 Oval Road, Croydon, CR0 6BR, Saturday 6th June, 8:30pm)
Great googly moogly! On June 6th, nine-piece tribute band Spiders Of Destiny come to The Oval Tavern to play a marathon set of music by the late, great Frank Zappa. Featuring world class performers with a sense of humour from notable prog/alternative bands such as: Knifeworld, Perhaps Contraption, Pigshackle, Medieval Baebes, The Display Team, Hot Head Show, Poino, Spiritwo, First, A Sweet Niche and more. So polish up your zircon-encrusted tweezers, trim your poodle, learn the mudshark dance and join us as we propagate the conceptual continuity instigated by one of the masters of modern music.
More info here – this gig is FREE ENTRY but there will be a donations jug doing the rounds during the intermission.
Anyone with an interest in David Bowie, rock history, cabaret, electropop and all of the other things that get swept up into Bowie’s art should head to Soho on Thursday 11th June for A Bowie Night at Gerry’s Club, at which pianist and writer Clifford Slapper launches his book ‘Bowie’s Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson‘ (which also has its own Facebook page).
As well as readings and signings there will be performances of Bowie songs from avowed fans Danie Cox (from “flock-rockers” The Featherz), Ray Burmiston (of ’80s heroes Passion Puppets), club siren Katherine Ellis (Freemasons, Ruff Driverz, Bimbo Jones etc.) and acoustic singer Jorge Vadio. There’ll also be a performance from a longtime ‘Misfit City’ favourite – London balladeer, Brel translator and onetime ‘Pirate Jenny’s’ host Des de Moor, who’ll presumably be singing his Bowie-gone-chanson interpretations from his ‘Darkness and Disgrace’ show. (I’m particularly pleased to see that Des is back onstage. It’s been a long time.)
More on the book below, and more on Gerry’s Club here.
“It is pointless to talk about his ability as a pianist. He is exceptional. However, there are very, very few musicians, let alone pianists, who naturally understand the movement and free thinking necessary to hurl themselves into experimental or traditional areas of music, sometimes, ironically, at the same time. Mike does this with such enthusiasm that it makes my heart glad just to be in the same room with him.” – David Bowie
Mike Garson has played piano on sixteen David Bowie albums, including Aladdin Sane, with his celebrated piano solo on its title track, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, 1. Outside and Reality. He has also played live with Bowie on countless tours and shows, and remains his most long-standing and frequent band member.
For some time Clifford Slapper has been working very closely with Garson to write a book which explores the life of this extraordinary and eccentric modern musician. It documents in detail how as a pianist he was catapulted overnight from the obscure world of New York’s avant-garde jazz scene to a close and long connection with Bowie. In addition, Garson is recognised as a classical virtuoso, a jazz master and one of the world’s greatest exponents of improvisation. He has also recorded and performed live with other rock legends such as the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails. All of this is covered by this first ever biography of Mike Garson.
Its starting point was several days of in-depth and frank conversation with Garson himself, and covers a wide range of themes which will be of interest to all Bowie fans, but also to anyone with a passion for music, social history or the process of creative inspiration. Input has also come from many interviews with those who have worked with him over the years, including Earl Slick, Trent Reznor, Sterling Campbell, Reeves Gabrels, Dave Liebman and many others.
Tags: A Formal Horse, Aaron Copland, acoustic performance, Adam Green, almost acoustic, book launches, Charlie Cawood, Claire Seaton, Clifford Slapper, Danie Cox, David Bowie, Des de Moor, EC4 Music Choir and Orchestra, Eric Whitacre, fund-raising, George Gershwin, Ham Legion, Hubert Parry, Jorge Vadio, Katherine Ellis, Leonard Bernstein, live concerts, London (England), Mike Garson, Olga Stezhko, Passion Puppets, Pirate Jenny's (event), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ray Burmiston, rock books, Roderick Morris, The Featherz, The Spiders of Destiny, Thomas Herford, Tim Crosley
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I don’t go down to Poplar that often, but despite its more confusing aspects – the hurtling convergence of the eastern motorway routes out of London; that strange dislocated/disassociated/dispossessed neighbour’s relationship which it has with the glittering towers of Docklands to the south – the place has always felt welcoming; from the wry hardiness of its shopkeepers to the gentle courtesy of the djellaba-clad pair of Muslim brothers (one twentysomething lad, one eight-year-old kid) who spotted me wandering (a lost, bald, bearded middle-aged white bloke) all nonplussed by the Limehouse Cut, and were kind enough to redirect me to Poplar Union.
PU still feels like a beacon for the area’s future – enthusiastically aspirational in its bright, clean, modern bookishness but also happily embedded in the area’s colourful swirl of cultures; decidedly unshabby but also entirely inclusive. Here are another couple of gigs coming up there this coming week.
Sporting a thirty-plus roster of musicians from all across the world, Grand Union Orchestra have spent two decades playing and personifying an ethic of joyous multicultural cooperation onstage. With a tradition of creative diasporan work, and with an additional set of roots in left-wing community theatre, they’re a living rebuttal to British insularity. Usually there’s about eighteen of them on stage, drawn from a flexible roster of around thirty top-flight musicians from a variety of cultures and generations. You’ll see Bangladeshi, Chinese, English, Turkish, Caribbean, Roma, Bulgarian, Mozambiquian people and more, from striplings to grandmothers, all playing together, long accustomed to assembling rolling caravans of sound into which assorted musics – Carnatic and Bangladeshi classical, salsa, jazz – can be folded.
You can pick out the various components (even a quick dip will turn up players like Jazz Warriors trumpet veteran Claude Deppa, Carnatic violin virtuoso Claude Deppa, Roma accordionist Ionel Mandache, guzheng star Zhu Xiao Meng and a poly-hued battery of singers with backgrounds including fado, jazz, opera and Bengali classical) but you’re better off just enjoying the sweeping palette. Just looking at their gig flyers reminds me of the happy, souped-up neighbourly multiculture festivals in and around my primary school. It makes me want to bare my teeth against the chilly white monocultural wind that’s blowing from the future, from Brexit and from the surly side of Englishness; or – if I can’t do anything else – to at least turn up my collar, turn my angry back against the freeze and head for the lights, the warmth and the rhythms.
GUO’s current, workshop-driven project – ‘Bengal, Bhangra and the Blues’ – is helmed by tabla ace Yousuf Ali Khan: it leans back towards the music of the Asian sub-continent with classical ragas, Bengali songs and the aforementioned bhangra at the heart of it. Various young participants, having already enjoyed the previous week’s free instrumental youth workshops incorporated into the project programme, will be joining the main band for the concert.
I know Grand Union Orchestra, but I’m less familiar with PU’s Mishti Dance evenings and their Asian club/dance initiative. The idea strikes a fond chord of memories stemming from the Talvin Singh Anokha nights I’d occasionally attend in the mid-‘90s, in which all of the sounds I’d been vaguely aware of during an upbringing in multicultural Haringey suddenly seemed to grow up and stream together. Anokha, though, had its road laid down for it by the bhangra grooves and post-rave dance culture of the times, and while you could skulk up to the chillout room to listen to Shakti if you wanted to, it was predominantly about immersing yourself in sub-bass, remix chops and tabla frenzy.
Mishi, however, looks like a much looser bag: admittedly hung on the same British Asian peg but more tenuously, with room for just about anything and anyone with a Asian connection and in particular those who are following their own path out of the immediate cultural confines and bringing their innate cultural qualities to question, alter and enrich other spaces. The closest Anokha-type dance exemplar in this month’s gig looks as if it’s DJ Soundar Ananda of Indigenous Resistance, a French-Asian “conscious beats” deliverer, promoter and compilation curator working with “cutting-edge, futuristic, nu-skool, Eastern electronic music influenced by dub, dubstep, d’n’b, breakbeat, jungle, reggae.”
The Tuts, on the other hand, are a long way from Anohka beat culture, although I think Talvin and co would have appreciated their ethic. A fiesty, witty, self-propelled female throw-forward from the all-too-brief days of ’70s post-punk inclusivity, they’re a young DIY pop-punk trio of “proud Caribbean, English and Indian/Pakistani origin” and an immediate, salty working-class attitude of immediate self-assertion and street wit. Full of chop-and-change musical sharpness and girl-group zest (they’ve happily covered Wannabe, though there’s as much Fuzzbox or Slits to their vigour as there is Spice Girlhood), they’ll be inspiring girl moshers and wallflowers alike from Wolverhampton to Leicester, with little for old white gits like me to do but gently get out of the way, smiling as we do so. Bluntly inspirational.
The remaining two acts take us into delightfully eclectic and weird experimental pop and noise terrain. Bringing the majority of the weird noises are headliners Conspirators Of Pleasure: multi-media artists Poulomi Desai (who’s been in here before a few times over the year, toting her polydisciplinary stage shows and their festoonings of gizmos and collated contradictory content) and onetime Pop Group/Pigbag post-punk/funk/dub bassist Simon Underwood (once compared by Dennis Bovell to a white Robbie Shakespeare). Their adventures together have included helping to set Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ to music, and touring with Stewart Lee and other restless upsetters in the ‘Usurp Chance Tour’. Using repurposed tools of the cultural trade (Poulumi’s context-yanked sitar played with everything from an axe to a massage vibrator, Simon’s prepared bass guitar) plus assorted noisemakers, drone-sources, toys, stylophones and radios and a battery of makeshift audio-visual, they’ll spend their time onstage forking over textures and flotsam, touching on the industrial, on dance culture, on noisy improvised chaos and on the voices and ideas which emerge from this conflation.
Glaswegian-Asian singer-songwriter Kapil Seshasayee has parked himself on a junction where a variety of different ideas and approaches are coerced into meeting. He takes his beats from hardcore machine punk and Arca-ian experimental electropop; his guitar choices from a superimposition of Carnatic traditions and skinny-wire Hendrixian note-bending, crashes and hammer-on blues; his song structures from the kind of improvisational bardic rock which itself is drawing from griots or the ecstatic traditions which bubble away in various cultures despite having been vainly tarmac-ed over by Western rationalism.
His voice… well, I’m not entirely sure where that comes from. A beautiful Western/Indian rock clarion with hints of boy angel, Quwalli pronouncer and open-ended Beefheartian abstractioneer, it barrels up out of a position of assured strength only to lyrically splatter itself across parts of the landscape you’d not even noticed before. I could wave in Tim Buckley, Thom Yorke, Nick Harper and Van Morrison as whiter comparisons; I could point to some of the fiery ecstastic pitches and timbres of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, or toward youthful bluesmen with an axe to sharpen; but I still wouldn’t get it across to you or do it the right kind of justice.
Bald and impressively bearded (beating me on both counts, in fact), Kalil additionally decorates his wrenched-cable music with electronic fizz and spookings plus the eldritch acoustic wails he can scratch out of a waterphone. As for his songs, whether they’re upended experimental blues or club-leaning avant-pop abstractions (and often they’re both), they sound like distracted revelations in train marshalling yards, Kapil as a spasming, pointing Blakean figure continually spotting and sweeping the hidden numinous into his narratives and fracturing them into cracked landscapes. Somewhere inside Kalil there’s a bloke who wants to sing straightforward young-man songs about love gone wrong. Fortunately, his own brain continually waylays him in between impulse and expression.
Grand Union Orchestra: Bengal, Bhangra and the Blues
Poplar Union, 2 Cotall Street, Poplar, London, E14 6TL, England
Friday 22nd February 2019, 7.30pm – information here and here
Mishti Dance presents:
Conspirators of Pleasure + The Tuts + Kapil Seshasayee + Soundar Ananda
Saturday 23rd February 2019, 7.00pm – information here and here
Tags: Anokha (event), Claude Deppa, Conspirators Of Pleasure, DJ Soundar Ananda, Grand Union Orchestra, Indigenous Resistance, Ionel Mandache, Kapil Seshasayee, London (England), Poulomi Desai, Simon Underwood, Talvin Singh, The Tuts, Zhu Xiao Meng
Categories 2019 music, acoustic music, Balkan folk music, Bangladeshi music, Bulgarian folk music, Caribbean music, Chinese classical music, cross-cultural music, dance, DIY music, DJ sets, drone music, drum and bass, dub, electro-acoustic music, experimental music, experimental/avant-garde rock, fado, field recordings, folk music, Indian music, instrumental music, loop music, Middle Eastern music, noise, political music, pop, post-dubstep, post-punk, previews, punk rock, reggae, rock, Romani (Gypsy) music, singer-songwriter, sound collage, Turkish folk music
July 2016 – upcoming London gigs – Douglas Dare, Left With Pictures, Stranger Stranger and Joel Clayton at Daylight Music (2nd), Georgina Brett’s ‘Eclipse Collaborations’ (3rd); Yuki Kaneko, Naomi Motomura, Yumi Hara and Poulomi Desai work together at IKLECTIK (6th)
Three more upcoming shows in the Smoke, with various degrees of artiness…
Arctic Circle presents:
Daylight Music 230: Douglas Dare + Left With Pictures + Stranger Stranger + Joel Clayton
Saturday 2nd July 2016, 12.00pm – free event (suggested donation: £5.00) – information
Erased Tapes piano balladeer Douglas Dare has been labelled as “one to watch” by Mary Anne Hobbs. His Daylight Music debut appearance gives those of us who’ve missed out on his music over the last three years an opportunity to judge for ourselves. See below is a song from his 2013 debut EP ‘Seven Hours’, followed by a sixteen-minute small-room performance from Paris, showcasing a live blend of shimmer-rolling neo-classical keyboard work, jazz-weather cymbals and occasional threads of electronica. His delivery (full of emotional focus and rising intensity) involves heartbreaking folk swoops, edgings of Celtic soul and what at first sounds like a stream of post-Radiohead angst: it ultimately reveals itself as being more akin to a Schubert lieder with a window on both James Blake and ‘Astral Weeks’.
A classically-trained trio of Stuart Barter, Rob Wicks and Toby Knowles, London pop ensemble Left With Pictures operate in a similar area, offer a rippling chamber pop with solemn, cavernous grand piano, strands of ecstatic electronic dance and folk instrumentation. Along the way, they manoeuvre along a line which divides the crowd-pleasing piano-pop of Keane, the weightless swoon of a momentary Morrissey and the compelling ancient-futurist folk of Eyeless In Gaza (Stuart’s lovely edge-of-the-ritual vocal often coming across like a gentler, more pop-polished take on of EIG’s Martyn Bates). I’m not absolutely sure what to make of them, and sometimes feel that they’re a little too polite for their own good – but, if so, they also sound like politeness briefly overwhelmed and catching its breath, revelling in the moment of freefall.
What’s known (or spun) about Stranger Stranger is that they’re the husband-and-wife duo of Philip Solari and Marinda Lavut, that they’re Canadian, that “they have bossa, they have jazz”, and that they were plucked from a life of pavement busking after being discovered outside the Montreal Jazz Festival by two of its owners. They immediately won a place at the following year’s festival on the strength of their musical skills. It’s like a reality TV rags-to-fame fairytale, done right. This year, they’ve been resident in London while recording their debut album with Laura Mvula’s producer Steve Brown, and it looks as if they’re going to be playing a whirl of low-key-but-hot-ticket gigs around the capital, for which this is an early taste.
Stranger Stranger also seem to be one of those increasingly rare entities – a growing word-of-mouth sensation, eschewing multimedia methods. They seem to have entirely avoided the latterday rash of Youtube cellphone footage; they’ve not engaged in teaser campaigns of embedding tracks in superblogs: they don’t even seem to have any kind of a homepage. I’ve got no clips, I’ve got no video, so I’ve got little choice other than to simply add to the growing wordpile. The buzz around them seems to be entirely made up of speech and text, as if we’d all headed back to the ’60s or the days of print’n’paste fanzines… and it’s strangely refreshing.
As ever, there’s a Daylight interval act as well – this time, it’s the return of Sunday Driver’s Joel Clayton on sitar, providing “Eastern sounds with a grungy twang.”
Tuesday’s Post presents:
Georgina Brett:”The Eclipse Collaborations” launch party
New River Studios, Ground Floor Unit E, 199 Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN, England
Sunday 3rd July 2016, 6.00pm – information
‘The Eclipse Collaborations’ is a thirty-minute video accompanying voice-looper Georgina Brett‘s new album. Although the video made its formal debut when it was played online and transnationally back in June (as part of the 2016 Solstice event) the formal launch party is taking place at New River Studios (the new home for Georgina’s ambient/progressive Tuesday’s Post night). It includes a full screening of the video, a bar and DJs, interactive visuals provided by Tuesday’s Post regulars Hanzo and Rucksack Cinema, and an appearance by speculative writer Greg Sams (who amongst other things has presented the idea that our sun is a “conscious, providing entity…”).
There will also be a set of improvised music performances making full use of a 7.1 surround sound system. The impressive lineup includes Georgina herself, Martin “Youth” Glover (Killing Joke), guitar/electronics/clarinet cosmaximalists Darkroom, multimedia composer Hems, Steve Finnerty of Alabama 3 and Junk Deluxe, Andy Bole of Bonfire Radicals and Daevid Allen’s Glissando Guitar Orchestra, Jono Podmore of Kumo and “analogue electronic cabal” Metamono, and French experimental/electronic/progressive/jazz looper The Lucid Brain Integrative Project.
Club Integral presents:
Yuki Kaneko + Naomi Motomura + Yumi Hara + Poulomi Desai
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo, London, SE1 7LG, England
Wednesday 6th July 2016, 8.00pm – information
Descriptions taken from the Club Integral press release, with additions and augmentations from me…
“A one-off Club Integral event featuring four of the finest women contemporary improvisers working today.
“In the late 1990s, Nagoya musican Yuki Kaneko was a psychedelic rock guitarist working with Acid Mothers Temple associates Floating Flower. A decade-and-a-half ago, she changed tack to retrain as a violinist and now plays both acoustic and electric instruments in a mixture of styles. Initially training and working in Indian Hindustani and Carnatic violin styles, Yuki has since incorporated synthesizer and laptop into her musical resources: she’s also reincorporated her psychedelic roots in order to explore ambient music, electronica and improvisation. Yuki’s recent projects have included a duo with fellow experimental violinist Yuji Katsui and recurring work with an ensemble led by former Taj Mahal Travellers vocalist Tokio Hasegawa.
“At around the same time that Yuki was becoming involved with Floating Flower, Naomi Motomura was playing guitar with the final 1990s lineup of the long-lived Japanese band Zelda, an all-female new wave/multi-genre group which drew on multiple approaches (including punk, funk, reggae, roots and experimentalism) to form their particular brand of pop. During the twenty years since the end of Zelda, Naomi absorbed various other musics. She resurfaced in 2013 with a solo album, ‘Whole’, which displayed her undiminished guitar skills, her mastery of looping pedals and her knack for a melodic and experimental reshaping of her earlier rock ideas.
“Tokyo-born but a longtime London resident, singer and multi-instrumentalist Yumi Hara has been performing improvised jazz based/prog-tinged/eclectic-experimental music for many years, with her work drawing on everything from Terry Riley and Rock In Opposition to funk and Japanese lullabies. Once a member of cult-pop favourites Frank Chickens, she established herself in the mid-’90s as a determined art-music curator by helming the Bonobo’s Ark music evenings (which drew in contributors including Charles Hayward, Roger Cawkwell, Clive Bell, Kazuko Hohki and many others.).
Yumi has since gone on to work in a variety of situations with a variety of musicians. Her collaborators have included Canterbury/Henry Cow/Faust veterans such as Hugh Hopper, Daevid Allen, Jean-Herve Peron, Geoff Leigh, Chris Cutler, John Greaves, Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson; bands and projects which have sprung out of these associations have included the trio you me & us, post-Cow quartet The Artaud Beats, Faust/Cow hybrid Jump For Joy! and the Lindsay Cooper repertoire band Half The Sky. Yumi is also active in plenty of other projects – both solo and in collaborative duos and ensembles – and is an established experimental composer in her own right.
“A self-taught outsider/multi-media artist since 1980, Poulomi Desai has spent nearly four decades exploring different kinds of work from her London hometown, Born in Hackney and an early practitioner of street theatre, she’d set up the Hounslow Arts Co-op before she’d turned fifteen and has gone on to divide her time between graphic design, curation (she’s run Usurp Art in Harrow since 2010) and multimedia performance art. The latter incorporates text, photography, live electronics and a sitar played with bows, kitchen knives, axes and massage tools, augmented by distortion pedals, modified cassette decks playing field recordings, circuit bent toys, optikinetic instruments, slide projectors and broken banjos.
Poulomi’s live work embraces elements of noise and industrial sounds as well as complex explorations of chance, challenge and subversion; with the sitar playing in particular being a conscious response and reaction to the idea of ‘authenticity’ (seeking to break the rules and expectations of how a ‘sacred’ instrument should be played, including the strictures and assumptions put upon the player and her identity).
“The evening will feature performances by two duos (a violin-and-electric guitar performance by Yuki and Naomi; a set combining Yumi on piano/harp/vocals and Poulomi on sitar and electronics) followed by a quartet performance of all four musicians together.”
Tags: Acid Mothers Temple, Alabama 3, Andrew Ostler, Andy Bole, Arctic Circle (promoter), Bonfire Radicals, Club Integral (event), Daevid Allen, Darkroom, Daylight Music (event), Douglas Dare, Floating Flower, Georgina Brett, Glissando Guitar Orchestra, Hems, Joel Clayton, Jono Podmore, Junk Deluxe, Killing Joke, Kumo, Left With Pictures, London (England), Lucid Brain Integrative Project, Metamono, Michael Bearpark, Naomi Motomura, Poulomi Desai, Steve Finnerty, Stranger Stranger, Sunday Driver, Tuesdays Post (event), Youth (Martin Glover), Yuki Kaneko, Yumi Hara (Yumi Hara Cawkwell)
Categories 2016 music, acoustic music, ambient music, deep listening, DIY music, drone music, electro-acoustic music, electronic, electronica, experimental music, field recordings, glitch music, improvisation, instrumental music, loop music, New Music, performance art, previews, process music, psychedelic ambient music, sampledelia, singer-songwriter, sound collage, soundscapes
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The DCI (formerly, Duelists' Convocation International[1]) is the official sanctioning body for competitive play in Magic: The Gathering and various other games produced by Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill. Created in January 1994, the DCI provides game rules, tournament operating procedures, and other materials to private tournament organizers and players.[2] It also operates a judge certification program to provide consistent rules enforcement and promote fair play.
1 DCI numbers
2 Tournament formats
2.1 Magic: The Gathering
2.1.1 Constructed
2.1.2 Eternal
2.1.3 Limited
2.1.4 Retired
2.2 Major tournaments
2.2.1 Pro Tour
2.2.2 World Championship
2.2.3 Grand Prix
2.2.4 Invitational
2.3 Other tournaments
3.1 Legend membership program
3.2 Planeswalker Points
DCI numbers[edit | edit source]
In order to play in sanctioned events, players must register for a free membership and receive a DCI number (PIN).[3] The DCI maintains a global player ratings database using the Elo rating system and members have access to their entire tournament history online. If a member commits frequent or flagrant rules infractions, his or her membership can be suspended for variable amounts of time depending on the severity, from one month to a lifetime.
Tournament formats[edit | edit source]
The DCI sanctions tournaments for a variety of games. Unlike those of many other game producers, a significant proportion of DCI events are organized and run by independent businesspeople and hobbyists, as opposed to by retailers.
Magic: The Gathering[edit | edit source]
The DCI maintains three format categories for Magic: Constructed, Eternal, and Limited. Each category supports a number of related tournament formats.
Constructed[edit | edit source]
In Constructed tournaments, decks must consist of no fewer than 60 cards, and no more than four of any one card. The basic lands and (in formats where they are legal) the cards Relentless Rats and Shadowborn Apostle, however, may be used in any quantity. A Banned List of specific cards is maintained for each format.
Additionally, a sideboard of at most 15 cards is permitted, from which a player may tweak his or her deck during a match to better deal with their opponent's strategy. Following the first game of a best-two-of-three match, each player is permitted to replace any number of cards in his or her deck with an equal number of cards from his or her sideboard. The original deck configuration is restored at the conclusion of the match.
Standard uses cards from the last three or four blocks in print.
Modern uses cards from the core set and expansions from 8th Edition forward.
Eternal[edit | edit source]
Eternal formats follow the basic Constructed format rules for deck construction, but expands the available cards to include virtually all published Magic sets.
Vintage is the only format to have a Restricted List. Each card on this list is limited to one per deck instead of the customary four. This is the only format that allows the "Power Nine".
Legacy uses the same sets as Vintage, but only has a Banned List and not a Restricted List.
Vintage and Legacy were very closely related until September 1, 2004, when R&D decided that splitting the formats was a good idea. Certain cards formerly banned in Legacy were unbanned and the format was allowed to develop on its own. Legacy once had a reputation for being the "poor man's Vintage" but today has developed into a format very distinct from Vintage.
Limited[edit | edit source]
Limited tournaments are based on a pool of cards which the player receives at the time of the event. Any number of basic lands may also be added to the deck. The decks in limited tournaments need only be 40 cards minimum; all of the unused cards function as the sideboard.
There are three common types of limited tournaments.
Sealed deck: Players each receive six booster packs of 15 cards.
Booster draft: Players each receive three booster packs of 15 cards. After being seated around a table, each player simultaneously opens one booster pack, selects a single card, and then passes the remaining cards to the next player over. After all players have drafted fifteen cards, they each open their second pack, and drafting continues. Players examine privately the cards they receive; direct communication between drafters is not allowed. A booster draft normally comprises eight players, but sometimes fewer will suffice. Once players have built their decks, they compete against the other players in the draft.
Rochester draft: Players each receive three booster packs of 15 cards. One player's first pack is opened, the cards are placed upon a table for all to see, and the players take turns selecting one card at a time until the pack is exhausted. The next player's pack is then opened, and drafting continues. A Rochester draft normally comprises eight players, but team Rochester uses two teams of three players each, who may communicate non-verbally during the draft.
Retired[edit | edit source]
Retired formats are formats which are no longer sanctioned by the DCI.
Extended uses cards from the last eight blocks and the last three Core Sets.
Block Constructed permits only cards from a single "block" of up to three sets. Most tournaments use only the most recent block, but each block is potentially available, if announced ahead of time.
Major tournaments[edit | edit source]
Pro Tour[edit | edit source]
Multiple Pro Tours are run every year around the world. A Pro Tour season begins in August (starting with the 2012 season), with an event held roughly every three months, In the months proceeding each Pro Tour, local qualifiers (Pro Tour Qualifiers) are held around the world, where invitations are earned. Players accumulate Pro Points by attending Pro Tour events and can receive many more by placing highly. Pro Tours are invitation-only events, and only players with either a invitation (For most cases, finishing high in Grand Prix or Regional Pro Tour Qualifiers), high number of Pro Points can attend.
Winning a Pro Tour is every competitive Magic player's dream. Currently, each Pro Tour carries a total purse of $240,245 [US], with the winner receiving $40,000 [US] (the exact payout varies by player's match record). Other benefits to top finishers include invitations to future Pro Tours, with the highest-ranking players over the course of several Pro Tour stops receiving additional prize money for participation.
World Championship[edit | edit source]
The most prestigious tournament of all is the Magic: The Gathering World Championship, where the best of the best in previous season play against each other until the world champion is crowned. World Championships are played over four to five days, and an invitation is required to be eligible for play. By winning pro tour, placing very highly in Pro Point ranking, or finishing overall first in either Standard or Limited portion in previous Pro Tour season.
The World Championships are now held at the end of the year usually in August or September (before the first Pro Tour of the season but after some of the season's openerGrand Prixes), most recently (2016) in Washington D.C.
See also World Championship Decks.
Grand Prix[edit | edit source]
Grand Prix tournaments are open to everyone, both amateurs and professionals. The payout isn't as big as for a Pro Tour and winning a Grand Prix is not as prestigious, but they still attract international competition, as Pro Points and Pro Tour invitations are awarded to high finishing players. Grand Prix tournaments are also held both in the United States and in other countries. Some recent Grand Prix events have been in: New Orleans, Los Angeles, Brussels, Beijing, Taipei, Eindhoven, and other diverse cities. Many players enjoy travelling to Grand Prix tournaments simply to travel and to see the sights around the world.
Invitational[edit | edit source]
Main article: Magic Invitational
The Magic Invitational (formerly the Duelist Invitational) was a non-sanctioned tournament held for the 16 highest performers of the year. The winner of the World Championship, the Pro Tour player of the year, and several fan-voted players are among the contestants in a who's-who of professional Magic. The prize of this tournament is not money but rather the opportunity to design a new card for an upcoming expansion. When the card is printed, its artwork traditionally depicts the victor as well. It was retired after 2007 running.
The event was originally held in locations like Sydney, Australia, and Cape Town, South Africa, but in recent years, the Invitational has been held using Magic Online. Any player who has downloaded the Magic Online software can replay the completed matches.
The Magic Invitational winners to date, the cards they took part in designing, and the set they appeared in, are as follows:
1996: Olle Råde, Sylvan Safekeeper (Judgment)
1997: Darwin Kastle, Avalanche Riders (Urza's Legacy)
1998: Mike Long, Rootwater Thief (Nemesis)
1999: Chris Pikula, Meddling Mage (Planeshift)
2000: Jon Finkel, Shadowmage Infiltrator (Odyssey)
2001: Kai Budde, Voidmage Prodigy (Onslaught)
2002: Jens Thorén, Solemn Simulacrum (Mirrodin)
2004: Bob Maher, Dark Confidant (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
2005: Terry Soh, Rakdos Augermage (Dissension)
2006: Antoine Ruel, Ranger of Eos (Shards of Alara)
2007: Tiago Chan, Snapcaster Mage (Innistrad)
Other tournaments[edit | edit source]
Prerelease tournaments are held in hundreds of locations around the world twelve to thirteen days before each new expansion, or set, is available for sale in stores. The prerelease provides a casual play atmosphere and provides an enjoyable atmosphere to get a preview of new cards. At Prelease tournaments, a special prerelease card is given away.
Friday Night Magic (FNM) and Arena League (currently defunct) are offered in many local game stores and clubs, allowing players to compete for special foil DCI cards and other prizes. These tournaments are mostly for amateurs and are a good place to start your Magic-playing career, but are only available at stores and clubs with Wizards of the Coast Premiere status.
Many other stores, school clubs, and community groups hold DCI-santioned events on a regular basis. Events are also held at almost all gaming conventions, such as Origins International Game Expo and Gen Con.
Changes[edit | edit source]
Legend membership program[edit | edit source]
The DCI originally offered two different membership levels: The free Mana membership and the USD$30 Legend membership. While the Mana membership was sufficient to participate in DCI sanctioned tournaments, the Legend membership provided some additional items, including membership promos[4] and a Magic poker deck. In 2001 the Legend Membership Program was replaced by the Magic Player Rewards program.
Planeswalker Points[edit | edit source]
As of September 2011, a new system called Planeswalker Points was used instead of Pro Points. Planeswalker Points is designed to let all players, from casual to competitive to pro, track and show off how much they play and win in Magic events.[5] Starting in 2012, the number of large-scale tournaments were significantly increased.[6][7][8]
↑ Magic Arcana (August 06, 2009). "The First DCI Tournament". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Jason Carl (June 01, 2009). "The DCI Organizes Magic Play". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Magic Arcana (March 05, 2009). "The Lowest DCI Number". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Magic Arcana (April 11, 2003). "DCI promo cards". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Mike Turian (September 06, 2011). "Introducing Planeswalker Points.". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Wizards of the Coast (April 14, 2011). "Changes to 2012 Tournament and Event Structure". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Aaron Forsythe (November 02, 2011). "Deep Dive into Magic's Organized Play Changes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Helene Bergeot (December 23, 2011). "Addressing Changes to 2012 Magic Premier Play". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
External links[edit | edit source]
The DCI's official site
List of Suspended DCI Members
File:Electronic Tournament Reporting Guidelines (Oct. 1, 1998).pdf
Sanctioned
Limited/Draft
Sealed Deck
Booster Draft (Rochester Draft)
Two-Headed Giant
Magic Online
1v1 Commander
Momir
4-Pack Sealed
Cube Draft
Magic Arena
Arena Standard
Build Your Own Block
Build Your Own Standard
Duel Commander
Pauper Commander
QL Magic
Rainbow Stairwell
Retro-Modern
Supervillain Rumble
Tiny Leaders
Auction Draft
Back Draft
Conspiracy Draft
Continuous Draft
Duplicate Sealed
Fat Stack
Mini-Master
Pai Gow Magic
Pick-a-Pack
Reject Rare Draft
Rotisserie Draft
Solomon Draft
Winchester Draft
Winston Draft
3-Card Blind
Alternating Teams
Challenge Deck
Free-for-All
Grand Melee
Horde Magic
Team vs. Team
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Music Expo, the conference to inspire music makers returns to Miami in 2018
Christopher Simmons Music Expo, SAE Institute Jan 25, 2018
Music Expo, the conference to inspire music makers, announced today its second Miami edition to be held March 24, 2018 at SAE Institute. Hosted in association with Sound On Sound Magazine, the all-day conference will feature production and mixing workshops, music business panels, product demos as well as a beat battle.
“We are a platform to facilitate dialog between music makers through events, social, competition and now in-studio masterclasses to anyone – from professional to aspiring – interested in the art of making music. While we grow, we are making our best efforts to keep the easygoing vibe that our attendees love,” says Loïc Maestracci, Founder and Executive producer of Music Expo.
Confirmed speakers include:
Gary Noble, Grammy-Award Mix Engineer & Producer (Faith Evans, Anthony Hamilton, Nas, Amy Winehouse)
Lu Diaz, Mixing Engineer & Producer (DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Daddy Yankee)
Derek Garcia, Producer & Mixing Engineer (DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Jamie Foxx)
Maria Elisa Ayerbe, Recording, Mixing and Post Production Audio Engineer (Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, JLo)
Guillo Lefeld, Music Producer & Audio Engineer
James Joubran, Musical Producer
ill Factor, Producer (Matisyahu, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Rowland, Jason Derulo)
Natalia Ramirez, Vocal Engineer (Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez)
Felipe Tichauer, Mastering Engineer (Christina Aguilera, Mew, Rod Stewart, CEU)
Richard Diaz, Producer & Mixing Engineer.
In addition to Miami, Music Expo will celebrate its fifth year anniversary at SAE Expression College in San Francisco, November 10, and will come back to Boston in June.
Learn more at: https://musicexpo.co/.
Held in San Francisco, Miami, Boston and coming this year to Nashville, Music Expo is a series of annual events full of educational sessions, studio sessions, discussion and product demos bringing musicians, engineers, technophiles and tastemakers together. Its mission is to inspire to make music.
Music Business /
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From Wednesday 3 July, we're reducing selected 5 year fixed rates by 0.05%. You can also download our latest product guide.
Released: 02.07.2019
What a difference a year makes...
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Annual house price growth slows to its weakest pace since February 2013.
Application tips straight from our BDMs
Time is precious, and the last thing it should be wasted on is a delayed application. We asked our BDMs to come up with their best time savings tips, which we're now passing onto you.
From Friday 30 November, we're reducing selected 2, 3 and 5 year fixed rates.
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Thanks to your support, we have received 5-stars in the Financial Adviser Service Awards.
From Tuesday 20 November, we're changing selected 2, 3 and 5 year fixed rates, and selected Equity Share rates.
Our mortgage New Business telephone number has changed
If you're calling for an update on a case that you've already submitted, please call us on 0800 30 20 11 from 8am-6pm, Monday-Friday (except bank holidays).
Rate changes and product updates
From Tuesday 30 October, we're reducing selected fixed and tracker rates at 95% LTV by up to 0.50%.
Plus, we're increasing the maximum loan size at 95% LTV to £500,000 and increasing the maximum LTV for remortgaging with additional borrowing to 90% LTV*.
Attach JPEGs and files up to 9MB in NFI Online
Your feedback continues to help shape the improvements we make to our products and services. And as a result, earlier this week we made further enhancements to NFI Online, making it easier to do business with us. We've increased the file upload size limit to 9MB, reducing the need for you to split documents into multiple parts.
Selected 5 year fixed rate changes
From Thursday 18 October, we're increasing selected 5 year fixed rates by up to 0.10%.
Our top 5 most popular guides
Did you know that we have a range of useful guides on our website designed to help you deliver great service and client experience?
Yorkshire & Humberside was the top performing region for the first time since 2005, with the annual price growth picking up to 5.8%.
Economic update from Robert Gardner August 2018
Find out what's in store for the UK economy in our latest quarterly update video. Robert Gardner, Nationwide's Chief Economist, shares his views on the outlook for the UK economy, housing and mortgage market and more.
Fixed and tracker rate reductions
From tomorrow, Thursday 23 August, we're reducing selected fixed and tracker rates by up to 0.40%. Here's a summary of the New Business rate reductions.
Helping your armed forces clients have a place to call home
From Monday 13 August, we're extending our lending policy on applications using a Forces Help to Buy loan as a source of deposit.
Changes to selected variable rate mortgages
The Bank of England announced an increase to the base rate on Thursday 2 August to 0.75%. Please find the effect of this increase on Nationwide's mortgage rates.
Bank of England base rate change
Today, Thursday 2 August, the Bank of England has announced an increase to the base rate from 0.50% to 0.75%.
Broker Support Profile: Adrian Scoates, Corporate Relationship Manager
Adrian has been a Corporate Relationship Manager for twelve years, and has been with Nationwide for a total of thirty three years.
Adrian provides insight into the role of a Corporate Relationship Manager and tells us how he helps support mortgage clubs and networks.
3 and 5 year fixed rate reductions across our Switcher range
From tomorrow, Thursday 21 June, we're reducing selected 3 and 5 year fixed rates by 0.10% across our Switcher product range. Our range of purchase and remortgage products remain unchanged.
Here's to those who inspire us (that's you!)
Did you know that for every 10 people we help buy their own home, over 7 are thanks to brokers like you? We just couldn't do it without you. And your feedback has already helped us shape a number of positive changes this year.
Helping your clients pay off their Help to Buy equity loan
From tomorrow, Thursday 31 May, your remortgage clients will be able to capital raise up to 90% LTV for the sole purpose of paying off a Help to Buy equity loan in full. This helps your clients who are reaching their 5 year Help to Buy anniversary, as they'll soon have to start paying interest on the loan, and puts them on the road to full home ownership.
You can now submit Rate Switches earlier
We're pleased to confirm that you can now submit earlier Rate Switch applications on behalf of your clients. From today, we'll accept these up to 2 months ahead of the 3 month ERC waiver period, which is now aligned with what's available to our members direct.
Rate changes and new Homebuyer Report fees
From tomorrow, Thursday 26 April, we're increasing selected 2 year fixed and Equity Share rates by up to 0.10%. We're also making changes to our Homebuyer Report fees.
We're reducing the number of proofs we need for source of deposit
We're pleased to let you know about some changes we're making to NFI Online and NFI MTE from Monday 30 April, which will help provide an improved broker and client experience.
Updating our approach to State Benefit payments
From tomorrow, Tuesday 24 April, we're updating how we verify some benefit income, including Universal Credit.
Broker support profile: Georgia Hunt, Broker Chat adviser
Georgia has worked in Broker Chat within Dedicated Broker Support (DBS) for about a year and a half, and before moving into her current role, had worked in the telephony team within DBS.
Georgia provides insight into the role of a Broker Chat adviser and tells us how she helps support you and your client's applications.
Selected changes to fixed and tracker rates
From tomorrow, Wednesday 21 March, we're increasing selected 2, 3, 5 and 10 year fixed rates, and selected Equity Share rates. Alongside this, we're reducing 2 year tracker rates at 60% LTV.
Improvements to our New Build proposition
We're pleased to announce that from today, Monday 19 March, we're making some changes to offer extensions and valuations, and providing some clarity around disclosure forms - all of which are designed to support the new build market.
Broker support profile: Tom Bolton, BDM
Tom has been a BDM for nearly 16 years and has been with Nationwide, covering Edinburgh, Fife and the borders for almost 10 years.
Tom provides insight into the role of a BDM at Nationwide and tells us how he helps support you and your client's applications.
Mortgage maturities update
From March, when we write to members 12 weeks before their current mortgage deal ends, we'll be including the option of contacting a broker for advice.
This will make it clear to our members who used a broker when taking their current mortgage, that they have the opportunity again now.
2 year fixed rate changes
From Thursday 15 February, we're increasing our 2 year fixed rates at 60% LTV by 0.05%.
Saving you time when submitting proofs
To save you time and to help make submitting proofs easier, from today you no longer need to confirm that you've seen the original documents. This change applies to all documents except for those being used for ID and/or address verification.
Rate changes and remortgage free standard legals
From Thursday 8 February, we're reintroducing free standard legals into our remortgage range while continuing to offer the £500 cashback option, giving your clients improved choice and flexibility.
January House Price Index report
Unexpected pickup in annual price growth in January. The annual house price growth accelerates to 3.2% and the month-on-month pace of increase steady at 0.6%.
Broker support profile: Jayne Matthews, BDM
Jayne has been a BDM for the last 12 years and has been with Nationwide, covering South West Wales, since the launch of Intermediary Relationships back in 2008.
Jayne provides insight into the role of a BDM at Nationwide and tells us how she helps to support you and your clients' applications.
Selected rate changes
From tomorrow, Thursday 25 January, we're increasing 60% LTV 5 year fixed and tracker rates by 0.10%. We're also increasing selected 2 year fixed and tracker rates across our Equity Share product range.
Take five to stop fraud
Every year, serious and organised crime costs the UK economy an estimated £24 billion. In the UK, fraud is the most prevalent crime, with an estimated 1.7 million incidents of fraud in 2016, and UK card fraud losses of an estimated £768 million (Financial Fraud Action UK).
December House Price Index report
UK house prices rise by a modest 2.6%, compared to 4.5% in 2016.
London was the weakest performing region, with house prices down 0.5% year-on-year.
There are significant differences in regional affordability, but saving for a deposit remains challenging.
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Dissent the focus of intellectual debate this year at U of A’s Augustana Campus
Posted on September 18, 2009 by Tia Lalani
Dissent is the focus of intellectual debate this academic year at University of Alberta Augustana Campus.
By Nhial Tiitmamer
Dissent is the focus of intellectual debate this academic year at University of Alberta Augustana Campus. Dissent is about opposing an oppressive status quo, and as the academic theme website describes, dissent is “a central and defining feature of intellectual life and is thus closely connected to the university and its processes.”
For Rani Palo, a history professor and on the annual theme committee, "‘dissent’ moves our world forward. Most of the improvements that we recognize have been spurred on and actualized through individual and collective dissenting voices.”
Indeed, the significance of dissent cannot be underestimated. Today, generations may be living in a much better society than the generations in the past centuries because of dissent.
According to Palo, engagement in positive dissent may help bring to action issues “concerning the environment, poverty, disease, injustice, the status of women in many, if not most, societies.” Some of the landmark historical events which have shaped the way our world is today were helped brought by dissent, and they include, according to Palo, “Emancipation Acts in Britain (1833), the French Empire (1848), and the USA Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.”
Although dissent has played a beneficial role in human society, it has not all been positive. For example, the invasion of Iraqi in 2003 by the Bush Administration is a recent example of a negative dissent, explains Palo.
Asked how human society can engage in a positive dissent, Palo says world leaders should elevate “global dialogue to a higher plane.” He said world leaders should set an example and should work “hard to rise above petty politics … educate and extort their citizens to take action on pressing problems.”
Palo says some of the topics speakers will discuss throughout the year include poverty, war & peace, religion, slavery, race relations, music, pop culture, the laboring classes and politics. Palo will also be one of the speakers, discussing “Slavery and the British Empire.”
The first off-campus guest speaker will be Mrs. Teresa Roane of the US Library of Confederacy. Mrs. Roane will speak on October 1, 2009 about “African American Dissent.”
The theme will be marked by a number of colloquia and several film shows. The first colloquium will feature Augustana Faculty members: Drs. Doris Audet, Neil Haave, and Dave Larson. They will talk on September 21, 2009 about “Darwin’s Dissent with Modification.”
Palo hopes to get “students engaged and fired up.” He said many of the guest speakers will visit classes during their times on campus. Two students, Sarah Haywood and Chad Skinner, sit on the annual theme committee this year and they are working hard to present a series of theme related films to students.
Related article: Augustana Campus to Discuss the Role of "Dissent" in the Society in 2009/10 academic year
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Winery owner busted for ‘illegal moonshine operation’
By Dean Balsamini
May 12, 2018 | 9:59pm
Mark Snyder Tamara Beckwith
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This alleged Brooklyn bootlegger is no Al Capone.
The chichi Red Hook Winery, known for its eclectic selection, waterfront ambiance and celebrity guests like Katie Lee, was raided last week and its owner busted for churning out illegal moonshine, The Post has learned.
Investigators ordered owner Mark Snyder to dismantle four gas-fired stills, which they say were explosion hazards, according to the State Liquor Authority.
It was the first bust of a bootlegger in the city since 1960, state officials said.
Snyder was accused of making grappa, a potent Italian-style brandy that contains 35 percent to 60 percent alcohol. Probers said they found 40 cases of the booze in the back of the Van Dyke Street facility.
“The discovery of an illegal moonshine operation in the heart of Brooklyn is nothing short of shocking, given how easy and inexpensive it is to obtain a distiller’s license in New York state,” said SLA Counsel Christopher Riano.
Snyder was led away in handcuffs following the Wednesday raid, authorities said, and was charged by the city Sheriff’s Office with the illicit manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. The class-E felony is punishable by 1-4 years in prison.
Snyder, a former sound technician for Billy Joel and Peter Frampton, denied any wrongdoing. “It wasn’t a moonshine operation,” he said, laughing. “This is an administrative issue and a misunderstanding. We’re a small craft-beverage producer.”
Alleged moonshine in the Red Hook Winery.SLA
Snyder’s attorney, Diane Ferrone, called the charges “outrageous,” saying her client had already been working with the SLA on getting his distiller’s license.
The license costs only $1,450.
Authorities said the stills were connected to gas-powered heat sources and illegally hooked up to natural-gas lines. Meanwhile, a makeshift electrical box with open, exposed wires was installed directly above the gas burners, the SLA said.
The Red Hook Winery, which remains open, was founded a decade ago by Snyder. It offers over 70 different reds and whites curated by three winemakers including famed Napa Valley vino savant Robert Foley. The warehouse overlooks the Red Hook channel and Governors Island.
In 2009, when the winery unveiled their first bottlings, the party was hosted by cookbook author Lee and chronicled in Food & Wine, which called the winery “the most unexpected example yet of the urban winemaking trend.”
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City Council speaker breaks transparency promise
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Podium for McElrea as Eves wins again
Just one week after celebrating his 20th birthday, Braden Eves extended his string of Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship race wins to four with another accomplished performance in this morning’s USF2000 Grand Prix of Indianapolis. Eves, from New Albany, Ohio, fought off a strong challenge in the closing stages from Cape Motorsports teammate Darren Keane, from Boca Raton, Fla., who in turn remained under close scrutiny from Pabst Racing’s Hunter McElrea.
“We’re only four races into a long championship and we’ve had a pretty good start, aside from Braden winning all four races,” commented McElrea. “I learned from yesterday; it was a race I should have won, but that’s in the past.
“It was a solid race today and good points, so we’re focusing on the long run. It’s very easy to look at something with a smaller mind, like I did yesterday, but I am on the podium at Indianapolis.
“I’ve watched races from here ever since I can remember so this is a dream come true. Thanks to Mazda Motorsports for giving me the opportunity, Pabst Racing and all my supporters at home.”
Eves joined an exclusive group to win the opening four races of the season alongside J.R. Hildebrand, who began his 2006 title-winning campaign by claiming the first seven races (and 12 out of 14 in total), and Jay Howard, who one year earlier won six races in a row to lay the foundation for his own championship crown.
Eves’ domination was such that he led all 20 laps, having started on the pole position with a new lap record of 1:24.5396. He also posted another new fastest race lap mark at 1:24.7440, an average speed of 103.611 mph. A trio of brief caution periods kept Eves on his toes, but on each occasion he timed his restarts to perfection to remain just out of Keane’s reach.
For Keane, the result represented a breakthrough of sorts following a desperately disappointing start to the season during which he has been struck by misfortune of one sort or another in each of the opening three races. This time he spent most of the race focused on his battle with McElrea, who briefly snagged second place just before the second full-course caution period. Keane made amends at the ensuing restart, then mounted a strong challenge to Eves during the final three-lap dash to the checkered flag before coming up just over a half-second short.
DEForce Racing’s Jak Crawford, from Houston, Texas, impressed on his USF2000 debut, taking over fourth place from teammate Manuel Sulaiman on the second lap when the Mexican encountered some gear-shifting problems which caused him to fall down the order. Sulaiman spun off a couple of laps later, then charged from 18th to 12th before making another mistake and ending his day early.
Another strong run for Cameron Shields (Newman Wachs Racing) also was ended by contact. The Australian’s misfortune opened the door for second-generation racer Eduardo Barrichello, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who enjoyed his best result to date as he fought past Legacy Autosport teammates Alex Baron, from Narbonne, France, and Dakota Dickerson, from San Diego, Calif., in the closing laps to finish fifth for Miller Vinatieri Motorsports.
Denmark’s Christian Rasmussen salvaged an eighth-place finish from a disappointing weekend for the Jay Howard Driver Development team, with Venezuelan Anthony Famularo (BN Racing) and Colin Kaminsky (Pabst Racing), from Homer Glen, Ill., completing the top 10.
Brazil’s Bruna Tomaselli (Pabst Racing) earned the Tilton Hard Charger Award after fighting her way from 19th on the grid to 11th at the finish, while brothers Dominic and Nicholas Cape took home one more PFC Award as the winning car owners.
Provisional championship points after four of 15 races:
1. Braden Eves, 127
2. Hunter McElrea, 94
3. Manuel Sulaiman, 65
4. Darren Keane, 65
5. Zach Holden, 54
6. Colin Kaminsky, 52
7. Bruna Tomaselli, 50
8. Anthony Famularo, 48
9. Alex Baron, 47
10. Christian Rasmussen, 40
Next stop for the USF2000 contenders will be their only oval track race of the season, at nearby Lucas Oil Raceway, on the evening of Friday, May 24, in the Cooper Tires Freedom 75.
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We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth
Edward Curtin
Atlanta, Georgia, USA — Martin Luther King Jr. listens at a meeting of the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, at a restaurant in Atlanta. The SCLC is a civil rights organization formed by Martin Luther King after the success of the Montgomery bus boycott. — Image by © Flip Schulke/CORBIS
As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King Holiday and Service Act passed by Congress and signed by Bill Clinton in 1994 – people will be encouraged to make the day one of service. Such service does not include King’s commitment to protest a decadent system of racial and economic injustice or non-violently resist the U.S. warfare state that he called “the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.”
Government sponsored service is cultural neo-liberalism at its finest, the promotion of individualism at the expense of a mass movement for radical institutional change.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Dr. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
How true those words. For the government that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him. This is the suppressed truth behind the highly promoted day of service. It is what you are not supposed to know. It is what Thomas Merton, as quoted by James W. Douglass, called The Unspeakable:
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and officials declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his service.”
The word service is a loaded word; it has become a smiley face and vogue word over the past 35 years. Its use for MLK Day is clear: individuals are encouraged to volunteer for activities such as tutoring children, painting senior centers, or delivering meals to the elderly, activities that are good in themselves but far less good when used to conceal an American prophet’s radical message. After all, Martin Luther King’s work was not volunteering at the local food pantry with Oprah Winfrey cheering him on.
The Assassination
King was not murdered because he had spent his heroic life promoting individual volunteerism. To understand his life and death – to celebrate the man – “it is essential to realize although he is popularly depicted and perceived as a civil rights leader, he was much more than that. A non-violent revolutionary, he personified the most powerful force for a long overdue social, political, and economic reconstruction of the nation.” Those are the words of William Pepper, the King family lawyer, from his comprehensive and definitive study of the King assassination, The Plot to Kill King, a book that should be read by anyone concerned with truth and justice.
Revolutionaries are, of course, anathema to the power elites who, with all their might, resist such rebels’ efforts to transform society. If they can’t buy them off, they knock them off. Fifty one years after King’s assassination, the causes he fought for – civil rights, the end to U.S. wars of aggression, and economic justice for all – remain not only unfulfilled, but have worsened in so many respects. And King’s message has been enervated by the sly trick of giving him a national holiday and then urging Americans to make it “a day of service.” The vast majority of those who innocently participate in these activities have no idea who killed King, or why. If they did, they might pause in their tracks, and combine their “service” activities with a teach-in on the truth of his assassination.
Because MLK repeatedly called the United States the “greatest purveyor of violence on earth,” he was universally condemned by the mass media and government that later – once he was long and safely dead and no longer a threat – praised him to the heavens. This has continued to the present day of historical amnesia.
Educating people about the fact that U.S. government forces conspired to kill Dr. King, and why, and why it matters today, is the greatest service we can render to his memory.
William Pepper’s decades-long investigation not only refutes the flimsy case against the alleged assassin James Earl Ray, but definitively proves that King was killed by a government conspiracy led by J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, Army Intelligence, and the Memphis Police, assisted by southern Mafia figures.
This shocking truth is accentuated when one is reminded (or told for the first time) that in 1999 a Memphis jury, after a thirty day civil trial with over seventy witnesses, found the U.S. government guilty in the killing of MLK. The King family had brought the suit and Pepper represented them. They were grateful that the truth was confirmed, but saddened by the way the findings were buried by the media in cahoots with the government.
Pepper not only demolishes the government’s self-serving case with a plethora of evidence, but shows how the mainstream media, academia, and government flacks have spent years covering up the truth of MLK’s murder through lies and disinformation. Another way they have accomplished this is by convincing a gullible public that “service” is a substitute for truth.
But service without truth is a disservice to the life, legacy, and radical witness of this great American hero. It is propaganda aimed at convincing decent people that they are serving the essence of MLK’s message while they are obeying their masters, the very government that murdered him.
It is time to rebel against the mind manipulation served by the MLK Day of Service. Let us offer service, but let us also learn and speak the truth.
“He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery,” King told us, “Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.”
Edward Curtin writes, and his writing on varied topics has appeared widely over many years. He writes as a public intellectual for the general public, not as a specialist for a narrow readership. He believes a non-committal sociology is an impossibility and therefore sees all his work as an effort to enhance human freedom through understanding. His website is edwardcurtin.com
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by Edward Curtin
We don’t need any more of Martin Luther King, we need another Malcolm X only this time more mature and removed from the context of the Nation Of Islam,
Jan 22, 2019 6:43 AM
King and Mandela have been retrospectively canonised by the Deep State and powerful vested interests who rule over us, to serve their own purposes.
King was a politician and very flawed individual whose personal life would not bear too much scrutiny. However unacceptable segregation and inequality were – though de facto segregation and certainly inequality are probably much worse now than then.
Saint Mandela was a terrorist. I know he was, because Thatcher and Cameron and Bercow said he was. So it must be true. I don’t think he was ever taken off the US terrorist list. Mandela was canonised when he made South Africa safe for global corporate interests. And a small black BMW elite benefitted. The rest of the population carried on living in one room cinder block shacks with no water, no electricity and no job.
Doulton Royal
I had a nightmare!
I had a nightmare that this nation had awakened and lived out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that white men are not our equal.”
I had a nightmare that the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners whipped each other over food and shelter in the hood.
I had a nightmare that America a nation sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, was transformed into an oasis of perverted sexual freedom and racial injustice.
I had a nightmare that little children were preyed upon by church, thug and educators, where they were judged by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character.
I had a nightmare last night!
I had a nightmare that down in D.C. With its vicious racists, with its DNC and NAACP having their lips dripping with the words of “reparations” and “black lives matter” — that right here in America little black boys and black girls are taught to beat little white boys and white girls as punishment for slavery 150 years ago.
I had a nightmare that every city was rioting, and every house and business made low by the burning ashes, while sacred places were destroyed, and thugs and perverts ruled the streets and the horror of Allah was revealed and all infidels were slaughtered together.
In the morning having awakened, I walked out into the streets, heard the cries, smelled the smoke. This was no nightmare, this was real.
Please see Consortiumnews today at this link: https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/20/a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations/
“He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery,”
If we are going to counter the ‘Unspeakable’: and receive the bonus of freedom for knowing the truth …we can neither have a MLK birth or death day. On the MLK day of truth: it would be known that there is no inexistent birth or death …nor is there a substantiated fixed entity – an ‘MLK’ – that passes between the two. At best these are conventional truths and views, or linguistic metaphoric conceptions, part of a set of figurative descriptions we use for convenience. At worst, when the discursive truth becomes literal, substantiated and hypostatised as an actuality – not a complex of abstractions – it takes on the character of the Unspeakable. A linguistic void that sucks the reality out of things. Birth and death then become part of the BIg Lie.
I have read enough of MLK to know that he understood this perfectly, no matter what living metaphors he used to convey the perennial wisdom. There was mutual friendship with Merton and a Vietnamese Forest Monk – Thich Nhat Hanh – who was his co-equal in every way. Passing their understanding into the void of language results in Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama contradicting, without ever understanding, every word they say. Their citation becomes Unspeakable.
To celebrate Dr King’s Day (which is the everyday): overcoming the “Triple Evils” (racism, consumerism, militarism (imperialism)) …we should look beyond the words to see what MLK saw – that which he called the “Promised Land”. Here, birth and death do not apply. Here, Martin, Thomas, (soon to be joined by Thay) are waiting. Here is now. Let us celebrate that.
Since there is no substantial entity known as Big B, who is the “we” in your statement “we use for convenience”? A real man of flesh and blood was shot in the face in Memphis in 1968 – a literal man and left a family.
Yes, what you say is true, but it is not the whole truth, is it? I made it perfectly clear I was not limiting my statement to received linguistic conventions. There is more to life than language: a lot more. Just about everything, in fact.
That language is substantially metaphoric is one of the major findings of neuroscience, and the basis of cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory and embodied cognition.
All fixed conceptualisations and theorisations were exposed by Nagarjuna as ultimately logically flawed and incomprehensible: if taken literally.
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/Chinn.htm
The total set of dualistic propositions – based on birth/death; come/go; live/die; man/woman; etc – constitute a world …the world-as-it-presents (parakalpita). But it is not the world-as-it-is: the world of suchness (tathata). It is a linguistic approximation of it. It is not even a map. It is a discriminatory distortion of reality – a ‘screen of cliches’. The Cartesian/Newtonian/Darwinian architecture of belief does not accurately represent the world at all. If we take this encultured discursive reality as the only reality, we are lost in language. Lost in abstraction. Lost.
It is in language only we find the substantiation and fixation of being – a ‘Big B’, an ‘MLK’, a ‘Thay’. A durational, independent, temporal entity is a linguistic fiction. I’m sure you can relate to Whitehead’s ‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’? So, no, there is no fixed substantive anything, anywhere, (nihsvabhava), let alone a ‘Big B’. Everything is part of the ‘causal spread’; or causal nexus of interdependent interbeing. Nothing arises independently, or is individuatable, (separable, isolatable): but that it remains nondual – intercaused by, and remaining inter-related to, everything else.
According to process ontology, there may well be an intersubjective, inter-relational entity: an identifiable pattern of interconnections …but it is not fixed, independent, or temporally extended. That is our conceit and illusion: the basis of all oppressions. Why should we remain fixed in such linguistic untruth and unreality?
If language defines reality, if it is literally real, if it definitively describes the world as true (the correspondence theory) – then the world is language, and being in the world is individuated, substantiated, and hypostatised as ‘real’. The limits of being in the world are the limits of the word – to paraphrase Wittgenstein. That’s not what MLK or Thay said to me. That is the continuance of recurrent oppression.
The whole of oppression is the discrimination between self and Other; between ‘me’, ‘mine’ and ‘yours’. And the prehension this entails. All of this requires an individuated, fixed, substantive, essentialised I-concept (atma-drsti). One that is subject to birth and death. This is samvrti satya – the conceptual truth that conceals. It is not paramartha satya – the aconceptual truth that reveals. There are no literal men.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/samvrti-satya
axisofoil
My people……When I need inspiration.
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harry stotle
I hate to say it but those who take out inconvenient individuals or indeed multiple skyscrappers in Manhattan can always rely on two certainties.
[1] a MSM that will immediately start pushing the official narrative while disparaging anyone who dare challenges it.
[2] a general public who have always been shit scared of their political illusions neing threatened – such as US intelligence agencies being a force for good.
Neither the judge nor the Memphis police gave any creedance to the lies told about MLKs execution.
John Ervin
Jesus also said that HIS governmental adversaries stoned the prophets, then routinely had children who erected monuments to their prophetic “memory”.
This routine and charade is age-old.
The “laughing gas of the New York Times”, as Gore Vidal called it, was quick to “cover” the result of the ’99 Memphis wrongful death (civil) suit, with an assessment by that epic prostitute Gerald POSNER (“Case Closed”) suggesting that the jury had been “spoon fed” the evidence.
The jury took 59 minutes to find against Lloyd Jowers and the U. S.. Government.
After hearing 40,000 pages of testimony.
Assassination IS Americanisation.
You don’t find it elsewhere the way you do here, though much of it is done by plane crash, Paul Wellstone, Mel Carnahan (running against John Ashcroft) and JFK jr. (And let us not forget his uncle Joe Jr., then aunt Kathleen, who died months apart in 1945.)
And our jackals lick their chops to bomb leaders’ planes offshore too: Jaime Roldos, Omar Torrijos, among others.
Few people know that Francis Gary Powers died in August 1977 in a chopper crash in L. A., as he was covering a brush fire for KNBC news in their helicopter that he was piloting. Seventeen years prior, he had named in a Moscow court, in 1960, the U. S. Marine responsible for his capture.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Powers died shortly before he was to answer a subpoena to testify to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Like Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and so many others.
Wikipedia leaves that data out of their whitewashed webpages.
Hunter S. Thompson put it nastily but neatly, “America…. just a nation of 200 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ”
Well, MLK was kinder in his call.
But Thompson, though a more minor prophet, compared to King’s greatness, was trying to make a point, too:
Comfort ain’t gonna cut it!
Not when the “jury” comes back, with its verdict.
On US.
DunGroanin
First time of hearing of Powers/LHO – got any links?
As I recall, the story was, that Alan Dulles set up FGP to fail in an inferior U-2 and he was supposed to commit suicide on the way down but he realized he was being used and parachuted out. It was all about recking the upcoming summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev… possibly LHO was in Russia to help them shoot down that aircraft.
Hugh O’Neill
LHO was once based at Atsugi Japan whence U2 flights sortied. He had top secret clearance as a radar operator and had inside knowledge of the technical operation. That much is fact. Also when he apparently defected to Russia, he very loudly proclaimed he had secret info of value. Of course, LHO was a CIA asset, and I suspect that his public defection was so that if any questions were asked as to how could Russia have downed FGP’s U2, then LHO was the intended patsy. Dulles had all bases covered. In the event, that story was not required, and LHO’s Patsy mission was no longer required, hence he was allowed to come home, without any trial, unlike FGP.
The U2 destruction was meant to be total, and there is a suggestion that that the CIA had set a bomb on board, because the altitude was too high for defence missiles. FGP survived and did not commit suicide, hence he was a traitor according to CIA.
How do I reach such bizarre conclusions? When you read the book “Mayday” by some hack CIA historian, you can read easily between the lines and join the dots. There is an also an inexplicable smear of LHO suggesting he had murdered a fellow US marine. I wrote a critique on Amazon which is more detailed.
Most likely, FGP was assassinated because he was becoming a liability and writing books etc.
Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they set out to deceive.
A new book available here by Power’s son.
https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Pilot-Francis-Incident-Controversial/dp/1633884686?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ipad-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1633884686
vexarb
An inspiring post on an inspirational man; who died but his spirit lives on. ““He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery,” Martin Luther King told us, “Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.”
“Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make ye Free”. — John 8/32
“The truth rarely if ever convinces its opponents; it simply outlives them.” — “Mad” Max Planck, German physicist
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The grandmother of four grandchildren kept the rifle sight of the offender until police arrived
75-year-old resident of Alabama held the suspect at gunpoint, rifles, until he came to the Sheriff’s deputies to arrest him.
«This is real life, ordinary day, told channel WAAY-TV Marcia black. — If something happens, you need to take action, that’s all.»
According to the grandmother of four grandchildrenon the driveway to the house she saw a man who asked to use her phone.
The man was Cameron powers, who for several hours was on the run after he smashed a stolen car at E&L Lane, near the house of black.
Marcia I met a stranger on the porch, holding the rifle in his hands.
Photo: WHNT/WZDX
«I was calm, I was controlling the situation. The house was the grandchildren, so I wanted to keep him at a distance, of course, was not going to kill him. I just wanted him to think I was going to shoot him.»
Powers continued to go to the house, not responding to trained a gun on him, so the woman shot into the air, and then the attacker fell to his knees. Shortly after that on a scene there arrived representatives of the Sheriff.
«He scared them more than my rifle. Jumped up and ran in a zigzag pattern directly on the field,» he told Marcia.
However, to escape Powers failed quickly caught up with him.
15-year-old granddaughter Marcia, Ellie Ruth black said she will never forget this day.
«I saw how cool can act my grandmother!», — said the girl who called 911 while Marcia was holding a gun on the attacker.
Powers was taken to the Limestone County jail, where he was charged with car theft and trying to escape from law enforcement.
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Platform: In defence of “Bugsby’s Reach”
Mary Mills February 14, 2014 Platform 12 Comments
Thanks to Dr Mary Mills from the Greenwich Industrial History Society for this article - the first in our new Platform series, where issues relating to the river are raised in essays and opinion pieces.
We understand that moves are afoot to change the name of the bit of river which runs from the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula to Charlton. The historic name is ‘Bugsby’s Reach’ but the plan is to change it to ‘Watermen's Reach’ for the 500th anniversary of the Watermen's Company. In the days when the river was the River and had real ships on it, Bugsby's Reach was a place name which sailors worldwide would have recognised and it appears in a great deal of maritime literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
To be fair however to those who want to change the name – it more properly refers to ‘Bugsby’s Hole’. Those of you who knew Greenwich Peninsula before 2000 will remember that The Pilot Inn once stood in a road which went down to the river. Going out into the river was a long jetty and basically the road and the jetty were going to Bugsby’s Hole. So what was all that about?? There are a number of ‘holes’ in the river and it is a traditional term meaning ‘an anchorage’. So we are looking for someone called Bugsby who had an anchorage somewhere off the Greenwich Peninsula
The name ‘Bugsby’ has been the cause of a great deal of speculation, most of which does not seem to have got very far. Maybe there are people out there who can comment and who know much more than I do.
First, I think, we need to establish how long this name has been in use. We know that earlier this part of the river had an entirely different name. It was once called Cockle's Reach or Podd's Elms Reach. The ‘Roque map’ from 1744 shows a great semi circle of trees stretching across both sides of Horn Lane (Horn Lane still runs as a derelict pathway parallel to Peartree Way’)
The earliest reference to the name of ‘Bugsby’s Hole’ seems to be a report in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' of March 1735 to 'Williams the pirate' being hung in chains at Bugsby's Hole'. Williams, incidentally was dead when he arrived here to be gibbetted – have died by hanging with due ceremony at Execution Dock in Wapping. As a further diversion from my main subject it might be of interest to know that Williams had been convicted at a specially convened Admiralty Court for “running away with the ship Buxton Snow, late Captain Beard, bound from Bristol to the Island of Malemba Angola in Africa, and selling the Ship; and also the Murder of the said Captain Beard, by cutting his Throat with an Axe”.
I also think that we need to look quickly at the geographical context of the Bugsby’s Hole. I think it is a given that the Greenwich Peninsula was at that time cut off and fairly inaccessible from the land (it was a gated area with its own staff) – but every river has two banks? On the north bank of the river from about 1617 was the East India Company Yard. By the mid-18th century it was in private hands as the great Blackwall Yard – world famous – then the largest ship building and repair establishment on the River. High tech – cutting edge –vessels in the yard, and in the river, - vessels which were going off to conquer the world. Don’t take this lightly – a considerable chunk of the modern world was developed there. Whoever Bugsby was he/she must have been part of this.
F.W. Nunn discussed the question of Bugsby’s identity in the Kentish Mercury of 5th January 1923. 'Who was Bugsby? The article quoted A.G.Linney who, he says, referred to Bugsby in The Lure and Lore of London's River, and suggests that he was a market gardener. He also cites a 'book published about a hundred years ago' which talked about a robber who had 'a cabin' in the osier beds and who, in order to 'escape the vengeance of the law' 'cast himself into the river' and that later 'much treasure was found'.
I have tried to find out about this, and failed. The records for the Greenwich Peninsula and its riverside, covering this period are very good. I have spent some time going through the records of what was then St. Alfege Parish, through the minute books of the City Conservators and – most importantly – struggled through the handwriting of the Wallscot Minutes, the body who managed Greenwich Marsh. And I found nothing – there is loads of information in the Wallscot minutes if it is nettle and bramble growth in drainage channels you want, but nothing about pirates hiding in the reeds – who I guess wouldn’t have remained hidden from the marsh bailiff and his staff for long, never mind the soldiers guarding the Government Gunpowder Works at what is now Enderbys.
So – all we really have in answer to ‘Who Was Bugsby??’ is a lot of speculation.
Some of that speculation has been around bugs and bugaboos and ghosties – and relates to the aforesaid gibbets. It has been suggested it is really ‘Bugs Marsh’. This is the subject of an article by Muriel Searle in 'The Importance of being Bugsby' (Port of London January 1975) – and the same theme flung into hyper inflation by Iain Sinclair in 2000 in the London Review of Books.
Some other speculation has been around the place name ending ‘by’ which apparently refers to a Scandinavian root. Was it a Scandinavian farm, the author suggested?
I would however like to point to a couple more issues. The name ‘Bugsby’ is fairly unusual. A brief trawl of it on Google will show you that the name is more common in the United States and the West Indies than it is in the UK. Perhaps that might point again to a link with all those big vessels from Blackwall Yard – or even the activities of some of Thomas Williams’ friends on the high seas on the other side of the Atlantic. And dare we mention a possible link with the slave trade??
The other thing - which I think is strange – is that round the world there are other ‘Bugsby’s Holes’. The nearest is to the west of Sheerness on that crumbly bit of the coast where anything that was there in the 18th century is now well out at sea. I have been down to see and it looks nothing like Greenwich. There are however others, for instance on St. Helena.
This, I think, leads me back to my original point – and why I think the PLA and Waterman’s’ Company should not be allowed to change the name. All of these associations, the date and everything connect back to when ‘Bugsby’s Hole’ along with ‘Blackwall Fashion’ were names known to sailors and adventurers around the world. They relate to when Thames shipbuilders developed amazing vessels which soon ruled (and plundered) the world. It isn’t just about the Navy and Nelson and all that – it is also about trade, and economic thrust. But while we might want to distance ourselves from the politics of empire and exploitation, surely we can respect the technologies developed by a hierarchy of shipwrights, artisans and others - along our bit of the river. Our comfortable lives derive directly from them.
In the early 20th century there was a whole lot of romantic literature written about the river and the ‘great days of sail’ – W.W.Jacobs conflated with Treasure Island.. I wouldn’t necessarily want to go down that route myself but it is one with which Bugsby as a name is associated – and it is an attractive medium to many people – and – er – tourists.
As for me – I will keep on with the research. Who was Bugsby?
Updated 03/03/2014 - Link to the PLA's consultation notice on the name change
by Dr Mary Mills, who runs the Greenwich Peninsula History website and is a councillor in the Royal Borough of Greenwich representing the Peninsula ward.
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Jeremy Barraud
Place names can change over time. Sometimes it’s to celebrate an event or an individual; other times it’s to hide a notorious past. The renaming in honour of the Watermen’s Company seems reasonable but it smacks of sanitisation. Like when Victorian boozers were stripped of their original fittings to make way for standardised Victoriana. Bugsby’s Reach sounds odd but Watermen’s Reach is more commercially acceptable. The new name appears like a marketing effort to appeal to buyers wanting a bit of Docklands lifestyle (and the Docklands name itself was dreamt up by consultants 40 years ago when the docks were in their death throes).
The demise of Bugsby’s Reach reminds me of a similar renaming north of the Thames. Westferry DLR Station doesn’t commemorate some local ancient ferry that ran from the river nearby. Instead, it comes from Westferry Road, which passes the station. Look at old maps and the road was known as West Ferry Road as it was the western arm of Ferry Road, which looped around part of the Isle of Dogs. The ferry itself was on the southern tip of the Isle. So, Westferry Station is named after a ferry that was two miles away courtesy of a road that only reached its vicinity in 1960.
The station’s name means that most people call the area around it Westferry. The actual name used to be Limehouse Hole. As the article points out, ‘hole’ meant an anchorage. But ‘hole’ doesn’t have the kind of right kind of ring to it. Westferry sounds far more genuine and more Docklandsy.
Thanks for the comment on the article – and you are so right about sanitising names. It is a real struggle on the Greenwich Peninsula – as it was in Docklands. I understand that consultants were looking at a new name for Enderbys – too many connections to Whaling. And also that they turned down ‘Crowley House’ on Anchor Iron Wharf (which was historically Crowley Wharf) on the associations with ‘Creepy crawleys’. Can I add in what was ‘Surrey Docks Station’.
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Fred mason
I agree with you Mary , do not change the name Bugsby hole, the name ending by maybe a clue ! In Barbados there is a place called hole haven ,I was told ,named after one same name by Canvey Island of course the don’t look a bit alike!
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Richard Cheeseman
Hi Mary. Bugby’s (sic) Hole features in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, published 1722. Regards, Richard.
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Locations, Drusselstein, Heinz Doofenshmirtz, G
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Gimmelshtump is a town in Drusselstein where Heinz Doofenshmirtz, his family, and his neighbor, Kenny, grew up. It is also the place where Heinz created Balloony. It has been hinted that Dr. Gevaarlijk, Heinz's Evil Science 101 teacher, is also living here. It seems to be a rather poor, semi-rural area, located in Europe. ("Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror", "Oil on Candace", "The Chronicles of Meap") It is also where Dr. Phineastein and Ferbgor lived many years ago. Love Händel appeared to have played a concert there too (although this can't be seen as realistic, as they were the same age as in "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" - it was more likely retroactively added by Doofenshmirtz during his flashback). Gimmelshtump life was very negative to Heinz Doofenshmirtz, thus, making him evil. It might have been positive to 2nd dimension Doofenshmirtz, because he only lost his toy train, "Choo-Choo".
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Young Doofenshmirtz invests his fortune (one three-cent coin) here in an attempt to win his mother's love, but Roger merely adds to his own love bounty ("Make Play").
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Gunther Goat Cheese's
Gimmelshtump party palace for kids. Doofenshmirtz reserves a big table there, but no one celebrates with him ("Raging Bully").
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Better treatment for tuberculosis possible with biochemist's findings
by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Recent discoveries by a Virginia Tech biochemist could lead to a more effective drug design to combat the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis infection. Spread through the air from one person to another, tuberculosis is responsible for approximately two million deaths per year, worldwide, and the emergence of drug resistant forms, specifically MDR- and XDR-TB, is an escalating challenge.
Once a person is infected with tuberculosis, he or she typically faces four to six months of treatment, if it is even available, using a combination of as many as six drugs. Symptoms include chest pain, coughing up blood, weakness, fever, and chills.
Marcy Hernick, an assistant professor of biochemistry and affiliated faculty member with the Fralin Life Science Institute, has discovered that the amino acid tyrosine plays several key roles in one enzyme involved in the pathogenesis of mycobacteria, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. Tyrosine aids in the regulation of the binding and release of small molecules, as well as the chemistry carried out by the enzyme.
"When studying pathogenesis, we wanted to map out the active site of the enzyme to understand which amino acid chains were necessary for catalysis to occur," Hernick said. "We found a tyrosine residue on the structure that we wouldn't have thought to be important. But, after further analysis, we think tyrosine moves to carry out different steps in the catalytic cycle."
This information will be useful in the field of drug inhibitor design, Hernick explained, because scientists will want to develop a drug that can interact with tyrosine in order to alter catalysis. Hernicks findings were published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry this month.
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Church Screening of ‘Jesus Film’ Attacked in Pakistan
Posted on December 20, 2009 by particularkev
Muslim villagers injure seven Christians, two seriously; police refuse to register case.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, December 14 (CDN) — Some 50 Muslim villagers armed with clubs and axes attacked a showing of the “Jesus Film” near this city in Punjab Province on Wednesday night (Dec. 9), injuring three part-time evangelists and four Christians in attendance.
Two of the evangelists were said to be seriously injured. The Muslim hardliners also damaged a movie projector, burned reels of the film and absconded with the public address system and donations from Christian viewers in Chak village, about 10 kilometers northeast of Sargodha, at 7 p.m.
Officers at the Saddr police station refused to register a case against the Muslim assailants, sources said.
Compass observed three part-time evangelists – Ishtiaq Bhatti, Imtiaz Ghauri and Kaleem Ghulam – screening the film within the premises of the Catholic Church of Chak, which sits within the police precincts of Saddr police station-Sargodha. Bhatti said the church compound was crammed with Christian villagers clapping as the film showed Jesus Christ performing miracles, raising the dead, casting out evil spirits and healing ailments.
Injured Christians were taken to the Basic Health Unit (BHU) of Chak village. Bhatti was treated for minor injuries, while Ghauri and Ghulam sustained serious injuries for which they received treatment at another hospital.
The evangelists who were screening the film said from their clinic beds that a Muslim cleric instigated the Muslim villagers, who were armed with clubs, spades and axes.
“They charged on us deadly and swiftly and left us injured and broke all our appliances and took away funds collected by congregants to help us,” Bhatti said. “Muslim men also injured those Christian villagers who tried to intervene and stop them.”
The intervention of Chaudhary Nassar-Ullah Cheema, headman of the village, resulted in the rescue of the Christian evangelists and the surrender of the Muslim mob, sources told Compass. The Muslim hardliners were forced to evacuate the church grounds, but only after a stand-off of nearly two hours.
Eyewitnesses who requested anonymity told Compass that numerous Muslim villagers and their clerics had gathered outside the church compound as the film played, with some of them climbing trees to get a clearer view of the screen. The eyewitnesses said that as soon as the Muslim attackers watched the resurrection and ascension of Christ, they became enraged because their version of Islam forbids portraying an image of a living thing and especially that of a prophet.
The sources added that although Muslims hold Christ as a prophet, they believe he was never crucified, having been replaced by a man identical to him.
No doctor was initially available for the four injured Christian viewers and three preachers who were taken to the BHU of Chak, but a male nurse treated their wounds and allowed them to go home. Ghauri and Ghulam sustained critical injuries and were transferred to District Headquarters Hospital in Sargodha.
Asad Masih, a local Christian leader, told Compass that they tried to register a case against Muslim villagers for thrashing (Article 337 of the Pakistan Penal Code) stealing (Article 380), recovery of the stolen items (411) and desecrating the church building, but police scornfully rejected their application. Officers peremptorily told them to settle the dispute in a local jury of village elders, he said.
Inspector Azeem Warriach of Saddr police station told Compass that registration of a case against a large number of Muslim villagers would further create a break-down of law and order.
“Therefore, I’ve directed them to solve the problem at the local level so that they might reconcile and live in perfect peace and harmony,” he said.
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Buddhist Bhutan Proposes ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law
Already suppressed Christians say bill is designed to control growth.
THIMPHU, Bhutan, July 21 (CDN) — Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of “anti-conversion” law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of “coercion.”
The amendment bill would punish “proselytizing” that “uses coercion or other forms of inducement” – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor.
“Now, under section 463 [of the Penal Code of Bhutan], a defendant shall be guilty of the offense of proselytization if the defendant uses coercion or other forms of inducement to cause the conversion of a person from one religion or faith to another,” reported the government-run Kuensel newspaper on July 9.
“There was always a virtual anti-conversion law in place, but now it is on paper too,” said a senior pastor from Thimphu on condition of anonymity. “Seemingly it is aimed at controlling the growth of Christianity.”
Kuenlay Tshering, a member of Bhutan’s Parliament and the chairperson of its Legislative Council, told Compass that the new section is consonant with Article 7(4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which states, “A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No person shall be compelled to belong to another faith by means of coercion or inducement.”
He said that the National Council had proposed that offenses under the proposal be classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one to less than three years in prison.
Tshering said that the amendment bill “may be passed during the next session of Parliament, after the National Assembly deliberates on it in the winter session.”
Asked if he was aware that similar “anti-conversion” laws in neighboring India had been misused to harass Christians through vague terms of “inducement,” he said he was not.
Authorities usually act on complaints by local residents against Christian workers, so frivolous complaints can lead to their arrest, said another pastor who requested anonymity.
Of the 683,407 people in Bhutan, over 75 percent are Buddhist, mainly from the west and the east. Hindus, mostly ethnic Nepalese from southern Bhutan, are estimated to be around 22 percent of the population.
There are around 6,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Nepalese, but there is neither a church building nor a registered Christian institution. The Bible, however, has been translated into the national language, Dzongkha, as well as into Nepali.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has not officially recognized the presence of Christians, whose practice of faith remains confined to their homes.
The Drukpa Kagyue school of Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, with Hinduism dominant in the south, according to Bhutan’s official website, which adds, “Some residues of Bon, animism and shamanism still exist in some pockets of the country,” but makes no mention of Christianity.
Still, since Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 after its first-ever elections – following more than 100 years of absolute monarchy – people have increasingly exercised their freedom, including religious choice.
‘Why More Religions?’
Home and Culture Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji told Compass that Bhutan’s government had “no problems” with Christianity or any other faith.
“But Bhutan is a small country, with a little more than 600,000 people, and a majority of them are Buddhist,” Dorji said. “We have Hindus, also mainly in southern parts. So why do we need more religions?”
Buddhism is closely linked with political and social life in Bhutan. Dorji’s office sits in a gigantic monastery in Thimphu known as Tashichho Dzong. Buddhism unites and brings people together, Dorji said, explaining that the social life of a village revolves around its dzong (monastery).
Dorji said India’s multi-religious society had led to tensions and bloodshed.
“India can survive riots and unrest,” he said, “but Bhutan may not, because it is a small country between two giants [India and China].”
With leaders who have been proud that they have not allowed it to be colonized, Bhutan historically has been keenly concerned about its survival. Bhutan’s people see their distinct culture, rather than the military, as having protected the country’s sovereignty. And it is no coincidence that Dorji’s portfolio includes both internal security and preservation of culture.
The constitution, adopted in July 2008, also requires the state to protect Bhutan’s cultural heritage and declares that Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan.
A government official who requested anonymity said that, as Tibet went to China and Sikkim became a state in India, “now which of the two countries will get Bhutan?”
This concern is prevalent among the Bhutanese, he added.
Sikkim, now a state in India’s northeast, was a Buddhist kingdom with indigenous Bhotia and Lepcha people groups as its subjects. But Hindus from Nepal migrated to Sikkim for work and gradually outnumbered the local Buddhists. In 1975, a referendum was held to decide if Sikkim, then India’s protectorate, should become an official state of the country. Since over 75 percent of the people in Sikkim were Nepalese – who knew that democracy would mean majority-rule – they voted for its incorporation
into India.
Bhutan and India’s other smaller neighbors saw it as brazen annexation. And it is believed that Sikkim’s “annexation” made Bhutan wary of the influence of India.
In the 1980s, Bhutan’s king began a one-nation-one-people campaign to protect its sovereignty and cultural integrity, which was discriminatory to the ethnic Nepalese, who protested. Their non-compliance, however, resulted in a harsh crackdown by authorities, leading to the expulsion or voluntary migration of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese, many of whom were Christians, to the Nepal side of the border in Jhapa in the early 1990s.
“Bhutan did not want to become another Sikkim,” said a local resident, explaining why the government did not tolerate the protests.
Bhutan is also rigorous in implementing its laws related to the use of the national language, the national dress code and the uniform architectural standards throughout the country to strengthen its cultural integrity. Bhutanese men are required to wear the gho, a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt, when they go to work or attend a public function. Women have to wear the kira, an ankle-length dress clipped at one shoulder and tied at the waist. Non-compliance can lead to fine
and imprisonment.
Brighter Future
One hopeful pastor said he expects the government to officially acknowledge the existence of Christianity in Bhutan in the near future.
“Religious freedom will be good for both Christians and the government,” he said. “If Christians are not officially acknowledged, who will the government go to if it wants to implement an executive decision related to religious communities?”
Explaining the reason for his hope, he recalled an incident in the Punakha area in January, when a house under construction was demolished after rumors that it was used as a church.
“The house owner, a Christian, went to his majesty [King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck] and told him he was not constructing a church but would have worship with other believers on Sundays,” the pastor said. “The king allowed him to build the house.”
He also said that a delegation of Christians met with Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmey Thinley in May 2009, who reassured them that there would be more freedom soon.
Christianity is gradually growing, but through word-of-mouth – testimonies of those who have received healing from sickness – and not public preaching, he said, adding that Christians needed to understand and be patient with the government, “which cannot and should not make changes or give freedom overnight.”
Christians’ Skulls, Bones Used for Buddhist Ritual
The ambiguity in Bhutan over the status of Christians has brought with it a new difficulty: A national daily recently reported that at least eight graves of Christians had been exhumed and the skulls and thigh bones extracted for a Buddhist ritual.
Although the report marked the first time the practice had made the news, Christian leaders said more than 100 graves have been dug up as the trade in human bones has been going on for more than five years.
A local resident of the Lamperi area, near Thimphu, identified as Namgay, told the Bhutan Observer that he found eight graves in a “secret forest graveyard” that had been exhumed by hunters of craniums and thigh bone.
“We saw skulls without craniums and a hand sticking out of a grave,” he was quoted as saying in the daily on May 27.
A human skull garners between 5,000 ngultrum (US$105) and 10,000 ngultrum (US$211) in Bhutan, with men’s skulls considered more valuable. The skull of a man affected by leprosy is not considered ideal for purification. Rather, such skulls are considered best for rituals to subdue evil spirits.
In a visit to the graveyard, the Bhutan Observer found at least eight graves freshly dug up. “Hand gloves, khaddar [a coarse homespun cotton cloth], a currency note, a wooden cross, and a wooden hammer lay scattered all over,” it reported.
The daily said the graveyard apparently belonged to the Christian community in Thimphu and nearby areas.
“Christians in the country say that there should be an official recognition that there are Christians in the country, and other things like burial rights will naturally follow,” the report noted.
A local pastor told Compass that since Christians did not have a burial ground, they buried their dead in forests.
“More than 100 bodies have been dug up, even though we have changed several locations for burial,” he said. “I wonder how the traders in human bones discover these locations. Where do we go now?”
Some local residents reportedly believe that a Christian grave brings bad luck.
Damcho Wangchu, a resident of Thinleygang area, told the daily that the area surrounding the graveyard was holy. He attributed all misfortune in the area – including storms, the death of three students and of four others – to the Christian cemetery.
“We never experienced such misfortunes in our gewog [cluster of villages] before,” he said.
The daily explained that the tradition of use of human skulls and thigh bones in Buddhist rituals was as old as Tantric Buddhism itself. “Thoepai Dagpa is a generic name for the text that illustrates the use and study of quality of skulls,” it reported.
Tantric Buddhism, widespread in Bhutan, involves rituals as a substitute or alternative for the earlier abstract meditations.
An editorial in the same newspaper noted, “Our hunt for the criminal will probably lead us from the unplanned graveyard to the sacred altar.”
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Convicted Hindu Nationalist Legislator in India Released on Bail
Stunned Christians suspect bias in case of politician’s role in Orissa violence.
NEW DELHI, July 30 (CDN) — Less than a month after Orissa state legislator Manoj Pradhan was sentenced to seven years of prison for his part in anti-Christian mob violence in 2008, he was released on bail pending his appeal.
Along with fellow Hindu nationalist Prafulla Mallick, Pradhan on June 29 was convicted of causing grievous hurt and rioting in connection with the murder of a Christian, Parikhita Nayak. Justice B.P. Ray heard the petition on July 7, and the same day he granted Pradhan and Mallick bail conditional on posting bail bond of 20,000 rupees (US$430) each.
Pradhan and Mallick were released from jail on July 12 and await the outcome of an appeal to the Orissa High Court.
Attorney Bibhu Dutta Das said that ordinary people don’t get bail so easily when convicted of such crimes, and he questioned how Pradhan could be granted release just for being a legislator.
“It takes years for convictions in High Court,” Das told Compass. “We will not sit silent. We will challenge this bail order in the [New Delhi] Supreme Court very soon.”
The Christian community expressed shock that someone sentenced to seven years in prison would get bail within seven days of applying for it.
“I am very disappointed with the judiciary system,” said Nayak’s widow, Kanaka Rekha Nayak, who along with her two daughters has been forced into hiding because of threats against her. “I went through several life threats, but still I took my daughters for hearings whenever I was called by the court, risking my daughters’ lives – certainly not for this day.”
In addition to the bail, the court has issued a stay order on the 5,000 rupee (US$107) fine imposed on Pradhan and Mallick. Attorney Das told Compass the decision was biased, as the Lower Court Record was not even consulted beforehand.
“This is the normal court procedure, and it was bypassed for Pradhan,” he said. “The judgment was pre-determined.”
Dibakar Parichha of the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Catholic Archdiocese told Compass, “Sometimes the judicial system seems mockery to me. One court convicts him, and another one grants him bail.”
The rulings are demoralizing to those who look toward the courts for justice, he said.
“There is a very powerful force behind this. It is not as simple as it looks,” Parichha said.
Dr. John Dayal, secretary general of the All India Christian Council, said he was surprised by the orders.
“While it is a legal right for anybody to get bail, it is surprising that Pradhan was wanted in so many cases, and he can coerce and influence witnesses,” Dayal said. “His petition should not have been granted.”
The two Hindu nationalists were convicted by the Phulbani Fast Track Sessions Court I Judge Sobhan Kumar Das. Pradhan, member of the state Legislative Assembly (MLA) from G. Udayagiri, Kandhamal for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), filed a petition stating that his name was not mentioned in the original First Information Report filed by Kanaka Rekha Nayak, but that he was dragged into the case later.
The bail order includes a warning to Pradhan to refrain from intimidating witnesses, stating, “The petitioner shall not threaten the witnesses examined.”
Rekha Nayak, along with her daughters Lipsa Nayak (4 years old when her father was killed) and Amisha Nayak (then 2 years old) were eyewitnesses to the murder of her 31-year-old husband, a Dalit Christian from Tiangia, Budedipada, in Kandhamal district. He was murdered on Aug. 27, 2008.
Rev. Dr. Richard Howell, general secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, urged the Christian community to keep hope.
“The case is still on, not that it has come to an end,” he said. “There is a move that is being made to take the case further.”
Attorney Das has said he plans to appeal Pradhan’s sentence of seven years, in hopes of increasing it to life imprisonment.
Pradhan, who denies any wrongdoing, has been charged in 14 cases related to the August-September 2008 anti-Christian attacks. In seven of the cases he has been acquitted, he was convicted of “grievous hurt” in the Nayak case, and six more are pending against him.
Of the 14 cases in which he faces charges, seven involve murder; of those murder cases, he has been acquitted in three.
Cases have been filed against Pradhan for rioting, rioting with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly, causing disappearance of evidence of offense, murder, wrongfully restraining someone, wrongful confinement, mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy houses, voluntarily causing grievous hurt and voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means.
Pradhan was also accused of setting fire to houses of people belonging to the minority Christian community.
The Times of India reported Pradhan as “one of the close disciples” of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP or World Hindu Council) leader Swami Laxamananda Saraswati, whose assassination on Aug. 23, 2008, touched off the anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal and other parts of Orissa.
Rekha Nayak filed a complaint and a case was registered against Mallick and others for murder, destroying evidence, rioting and unlawful assembly. Pradhan was arrested on Oct. 16, 2008, from Berhampur, and in December 2009 he obtained bail from the Orissa High Court.
Despite his role in the attacks, Pradhan – campaigning from jail – was the only BJP candidate elected from the G. Udayagiri constituency in the 2009 Assembly elections from Kandhamal district.
In recent court actions, Fast Track Court-II Additional Sessions Judge Chittaranjan Das on July 21 acquitted nine persons who had been arrested in the Tikabali area for various offenses, including arson, due to “lack of evidence.” The main charge against them was torching of a church on Aug. 28, 2008 at Beladevi village.
At least 132 persons have been convicted in different cases related to the 2008 violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on July 19. Patnaik said that 24 members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal (Youth Wing of World Hindu Council) and VHP have been arrested and jailed.
Revenue and Disaster Management minister S.N. Patro said on July 21 that the 55 Christian places of worship were damaged in Tikabali block; 44 in G. Udaygiri; 39 in Raikia; 34 in K. Nuagaon; 19 in Baliguda; 16 in Daringbadi; nine in Phulbani; six in Kotgarh; five in Tumudibandha; and one each in Phiringia and Chakapada blocks.
India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution
Karnataka – Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh accused a pastor in Aldur of forceful conversion on July 24 and threatened him, telling him not to preach about Jesus. The All India Christian Council reported that the extremists filed a police complaint against Pastor Anand Kumar of forceful conversion. Both police and extremists ordered Pastor Kumar to remove the cross and name plate of the church. At press time area Christians were taking steps to resolve the issue.
Jammu and Kashmir – The state’s Foreigners Registration Officer reportedly issued a notice to a senior Christian worker to leave India by July 20 after a false complaint of forceful conversion was filed against him. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the state succumbed to pressure by Muslim extremists to deport Father Jim Borst, who has run Good Shepherd School in the Kashmir Valley since 1963. The school has been attacked on two occasions by members of other schools who felt they were unable to compete with it. For eight years these groups have led a campaign against Borst, claiming he was forcibly converting people under the guise of providing education. Borst, who denies the charge, has a valid visa till 2014. The interior minister reportedly said he had no knowledge of the deportation order, and Borst’s superiors indicated he would not leave.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists on July 18 disrupted Christian worship in Barwaha, near Indore. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that Pastor Subash Chouhan of the Indian Evangelical Team was leading Sunday worship when the extremists stormed in on the terrified Christians. They accused Pastor Chouhan of forceful conversion, photographed the congregation and told the pastor to close his tailoring school, which includes non-Christian students. This is the second time Pastor Chouhan has been arrested on false charges of forceful conversion; previously he was jailed for three days. The case was pending at press time.
Punjab – Police arrested Christians on July 10 after Hindu nationalists beat them, falsely accusing them of forcible conversion in Gurdaspur. Members of the Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPCG) Western Region were visiting houses in the area on a social outreach mission when a group of extremists began to argue with them and then started beating four of them with their fists and shoes. Later they handed the Christians over to police, along with three more Christian men and five Christian women, complaining that they were converting people from the Hindu religion. Pastor Promod Samuel, along with the IPCG head A.M. Samuel, rushed to the Gurdaspur City police station to help the Christians, but officers detained them as well. Samuel told Compass that the president of the Hindu extremist groups Shiva Sena and Bajrang Dal, as well as many other Hindu nationalist leaders, gathered at the police station clamoring for officers to file charges against the 14 Christians. Hearing of the arrests, Christian leaders of Gurdaspur requested their release. The Christians were not released until Samuel signed an agreement assuring that Christians would not enter any non-Christian home. “The extremists are continuously following us around, to keep a check on us.” Samuel said.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists toppled a church building and attacked Christians on July 6 in Parawada, Visakhapatnam. The All India Christian Council (AICC) reported that local Hindu extremists were jealous and angry that a church stood at the entrance of the village and urged the Christians to move. The extremists threatened to attack the Christian community, claiming that they would allow no church in the area. When the church pastor refused to give in to their demand, they began damaging his household goods and pulled down the church building. The extremists also stopped the Christians from drawing water from a well. AICC was taking steps to resolve the matter at press time.
Madhya Pradesh – Police on July 4 arrested and charged two Christians under the state’s controversial “anti-conversion” law at Jawahar Nadar, Adharthal. According to the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), a member of the Apostolic Christian Assembly, Shravan Kuman Dubey, invited Vishal Lal to lead a prayer service for his 6-year-old son Ravi’s birthday. Around 7:30 p.m., during prayer, a mob of nearly 75 Hindu nationalist extremists accompanied by police entered the house and falsely accused those present of forced conversion, taking 14 Christians to the Adhartal police station. After nearly four hours, police charged Shravan Kumar and Vishal Lal with forcible conversion and sent the others home. With GCIC intervention, both were released on bail the next day.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists belonging to the Dharma Raksha Samithi (Religion Protection Council) on June 28 stopped a Christian school bus and questioned young elementary students in Indore. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the bus was carrying Christian students from Orissa to their school in Indore. The extremists ordered the young students to get out of the bus and asked them whether forceful conversion was taking place, frightening the schoolchildren as police remained mere spectators. After threatening to harm the Christians if they carried out any Christian activities, they let them go. Area Christian leaders condemned the incident as a sign of Hindu extremists’ “reign of terror” in the state and demanded an investigation.
Karnataka – On June 13 in Anekal, Bangalore, Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh beat a pastor whom they accused of forceful conversion. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that, in an apparently premeditated attack, an unidentified extremist telephoned Pastor Sam Joseph to come and pray for a sick person. The pastor agreed, only to be taken to a gathering of Hindu extremists with media people. The extremists accused the pastor of forceful conversion, beat him up and dragged him to Hebbagudi police station. Police released the pastor without charges after forcing him to agree that he would no longer lead Christian meetings.
Himachal Pradesh – State officials on June 5 sealed a Mission India building, claiming that it belongs to “outsiders,” in Bari, Mandi district. The Evangelical Fellowship of India’s (EFI) advocacy desk reported that the government closed the building, which functioned as a Bible study center and orphanage, claiming that no land in the area could be owned by non-native people. Pastor Sam Abraham told Compass that Mission India purchased the plot in 2005, constructed a building in 2007 and began using it as a Bible study center and orphanage in 2008. In July 2008, Hindu extremists filed a complaint against Mission India of forceful conversion and demanded the building be shut down. The extremists have since accused the Christians of forceful conversion, verbally abused them for their faith and threatened to kill them if they did not leave. Mission India officials asserted that the land legally belongs to them and that they have all necessary documents. At press time the Christians were looking for a place to rent that would accommodate at least 10 orphans.
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Peace has deteriorated in the last four years, (local) action is needed!
"The world is less peaceful today than at any time in the last decade". This is the headline of the Global Peace Index 2018 Edition which has been released last week. Tensions, conflicts, and crises remain unresolved leading to a fall in peacefulness. This is a call for action.
The Global Peace Index from the Institute for Economics and Peace has been released last week. As time passes, peace doesn’t necessarily go forward. As a matter of fact the global level of peace has deteriorated over the last year like the three years before.
These findings reaffirm that actions for peace are needed, now more than ever. Actions for peace should also be rewarded and encouraged.
One of the key findings of this study is that peace is strongly linked to (economic) development. In fragile states which are the most likely to witness conflicts on their soil, which better actor than the local government is there to foster (local) economic development, dialogue and peace building? To break the vicious cycle of economic deterioration, fragility and conflicts the local government seems to be at the forefront as it is the level of government closest to citizens as well as the level of action that is the most likely to achieve the most quick wins to initiate a virtuous cycle of economic and peaceful development.
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August 2015, VOLUME 136 / ISSUE 2
Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Aged 5 Years or Younger: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
Albert L. Siu on behalf of the US Preventive Services Task Force
BACKGROUND: This report is an update of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) 2006 recommendation on screening for speech and language delay in preschool-aged children.
METHODS: The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger, including the accuracy of screening in primary care settings, the role of surveillance by primary care clinicians, whether screening and interventions lead to improved outcomes, and the potential harms associated with screening and interventions.
POPULATION: This recommendation applies to asymptomatic children aged 5 years or younger whose parents or clinicians do not have specific concerns about their speech, language, hearing, or development.
RECOMMENDATION: The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger (I statement).
ASQ —
Ages and Stages Questionnaire
CDI —
MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory
IDEA —
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
LDS —
Language Development Survey
USPSTF —
US Preventive Services Task Force
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations about the effectiveness of specific preventive care services for patients without related signs or symptoms.
It bases its recommendations on the evidence of both the benefits and harms of the service and an assessment of the balance. The USPSTF does not consider the costs of providing a service in this assessment.
The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision-making to the specific patient or situation. Similarly, the USPSTF notes that policy and coverage decisions involve considerations in addition to the evidence of clinical benefits and harms.
Summary of Recommendation and Evidence
The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger (I statement). (See the Clinical Considerations section for suggestions for practice regarding the I statement.)
Speech and language delays and disorders can pose significant problems for children and their families. Children with speech and language delays develop speech or language in the correct sequence but at a slower rate than expected, whereas children with speech and language disorders develop speech or language that is qualitatively different from typical development. Differentiating between delays and disorders can be complicated. First, screening instruments have difficulty distinguishing between the 2. Second, although the majority of school-aged children with language disorders present with language delays as toddlers, some children outgrow their language delay.1
Information about the prevalence of speech and language delays and disorders in young children in the United States is limited. In 2007, ∼2.6% of children ages 3 to 5 years received services for speech and language disabilities under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).2 In 1 population-based study in 8-year-olds in Utah, the prevalence of children with communication disorders (speech or language) on the basis of special education or International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, classifications was 63.4 cases per 1000 children.3 The prevalence of isolated communication disorders (ie, children without a concomitant diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability) was 59.1 cases per 1000 children. Information on the natural history of speech and language delays and disorders, including how outcomes may change as a result of screening or treatment, is also limited.
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the accuracy of screening instruments for speech and language delay for use in primary care settings. Several factors limited the applicability of the evidence to routine screening in primary care settings.
The USPSTF also found inadequate evidence on the accuracy of surveillance (active monitoring) by primary care clinicians to identify children for further evaluation for speech and language delays and disorders.
Benefits of Early Detection and Intervention
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the benefits of screening and early intervention for speech and language delay and disorders in primary care settings.
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of screening in primary care settings for speech and language delay and disorders on improving speech, language, or other outcomes. Although the USPSTF found evidence that interventions improve some measures of speech and language for some children, there is inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in children detected by screening in a primary care setting.
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for speech and language delay and disorders on outcomes not specific to speech (eg, academic achievement, behavioral competence, socioemotional development, and quality of life).
Harms of Early Detection and Intervention
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the harms of screening in primary care settings and interventions for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger.
USPSTF Assessment
The USPSTF concludes that the evidence is insufficient and that the balance of benefits and harms of screening and interventions for speech and language delay and disorders in young children in primary care settings cannot be determined.
Patient Population Under Consideration
This recommendation applies only to asymptomatic children whose parents or clinicians do not have specific concerns about their speech, language, hearing, or development. It does not apply to children whose parents or clinicians raise those concerns; these children should undergo evaluation and, if needed, treatment.
This recommendation discusses the identification and treatment of “primary” speech and language delays and disorders (ie, in children who have not been previously identified with another disorder or disability that may cause speech or language impairment).
Suggestions for Practice Regarding the I Statement
Potential Preventable Burden
Information about the prevalence of speech and language delays and disorders in young children in the United States is limited. In 2007, ∼2.6% of children ages 3 to 5 years received services for speech and language disabilities under IDEA.2
Childhood speech and language disorders include a broad set of disorders with heterogeneous outcomes. Information about the natural history of these disorders is limited, because most affected children receive at least some type of intervention. However, there is some evidence that young children with speech and language delay may be at increased risk of language-based learning disabilities.4
Potential Harms
The potential harms of screening and interventions for speech and language disorders in young children in primary care include the time, effort, and anxiety associated with further testing after a positive screen, as well as the potential detriments associated with diagnostic labeling. However, the USPSTF found no studies on these harms.
Current Practice
Surveillance or screening for speech and language disorders is commonly recommended as part of routine developmental surveillance and screening in primary care settings (ie, during well-child visits).5 In practice, however, such screening is not universal. The previous evidence review6 found that 55% of parents reported that their toddler did not receive any type of developmental assessment at their well-child visit, and 30% of parents reported that their child’s health care provider had not discussed with them how their child communicates.7 In a 2009 study, approximately half of responding pediatricians reported that they “always or almost always” use a standardized screening tool to detect developmental problems in young children; ∼40% of respondents reported using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ).8 The USPSTF distinguishes between screening in primary care settings and diagnostic testing, which may occur in other settings.
Assessment of Risk
On the basis of a review of 31 cohort studies, several risk factors have been reported to be associated with speech and language delay and disorders, including male sex, family history of speech and language impairment, low parental educational level, and perinatal risk factors (eg, prematurity, low birth weight, and birth difficulties).9
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on specific screening tests for use in primary care. Widely used screening tests in the United States include the ASQ, the Language Development Survey (LDS), and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI).
Interventions for childhood speech and language disorders vary widely and can include speech-language therapy sessions and assistive technology (if indicated). Interventions are commonly individualized to each child’s specific pattern of symptoms, needs, interests, personality, and learning style. Treatment plans also incorporate the priorities of the child, parents, and/or teachers. Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics, the school or classroom, and the home. Therapy may be administered on an individual basis and/or in groups, and may be child-centered and/or include peer and family components. Therapists may be speech-language pathologists, educators, or parents. The duration and intensity of the intervention depend on the severity of the speech or language disorder and the child’s progress in meeting therapy goals.
Other Approaches to Prevention
The USPSTF recommends screening for hearing loss in all newborn infants (B recommendation). The USPSTF is developing a recommendation on screening for autism spectrum disorder in young children. These recommendations are available on the USPSTF Web site (www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org).
All states have designated programs that offer evaluation and intervention services to children ages 0 to 5 years. IDEA is a law that ensures early intervention, special education, and related services for children with disabilities in the United States. Infants and toddlers (birth to age 2 years) with disabilities and their families may receive early intervention services under IDEA part C, whereas children and adolescents (ages 3–21 years) may receive special education and related services under IDEA part B.10
Research Needs and Gaps
The USPSTF identified several evidence gaps, including a critical need for studies specifically designed and executed to address whether systematic, routine screening for speech and language delay and disorders in young children in primary care settings leads to improved speech, language, or other outcomes. Studies on the feasibility of speech- and language-specific screening as part of routine developmental screening and that identify the most effective screening instruments are needed. Studies on the potential harms of screening and interventions are also needed.
Information about the prevalence of speech and language delays and disorders in young children in the United States is lacking. More information about the specific factors associated with intervention effectiveness, including the potential effects of age at diagnosis, age at treatment, treatment type, and treatment duration, is needed.
Burden of Disease
According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, speech sound disorders affect 10% of children. The estimated prevalence of language difficulty in preschool-aged children is between 2% and 19%. Specific language impairment is one of the most common childhood disorders, affecting 7% of children. More than 2 million Americans stutter, half of whom are children.11
Childhood speech and language disorders include a broad set of disorders with heterogeneous outcomes. Young children with speech and language delay may be at increased risk of learning disabilities once they reach school age.4 Children with speech sound disorders or language impairment are at greatest risk of being diagnosed with a literacy disability,12 including difficulty with reading in grade school13–16 and/or with written language.17
The risk of poor outcomes is greater for children whose disorders persist past the early childhood years and for those who have lower IQ scores and language impairments rather than only speech impairments.18 Children who are diagnosed with language delays may have more problems with behavior and psychosocial adjustment, which may persist into adulthood.19,20
Scope of Review
To update its 2006 recommendation statement, the USPSTF commissioned a systematic evidence review on screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger. The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on the accuracy of screening in primary care settings, as well as the role of surveillance (active monitoring) by primary care clinicians to identify children for further diagnostic evaluation and interventions for speech and language delays and disorders. The USPSTF also evaluated evidence on whether screening and interventions for speech and language delay and disorders lead to improved speech, language, or other outcomes, as well as the potential harms associated with screening and interventions.
The evidence review focused on speech and language delays and disorders with a “primary” or developmental etiology. That is, the review was limited to studies in children who had not been previously identified with another disorder or disability that may cause speech or language impairment. The review excluded studies that focused on acquired, focal causes of speech and language delay. Although abnormal speech and language development may be associated with autism spectrum disorder, this review did not evaluate screening for autism spectrum disorder. The USPSTF is currently reviewing the evidence on screening for autism spectrum disorder for a separate recommendation statement.
The evidence review focused on studies conducted in children aged 5 years or younger in which any child who screened positive received formal diagnostic assessment for speech and language delays and disorders by 6 years of age. Studies of treatment and/or intervention outcomes were not restricted by age at treatment but focused primarily on toddlers and preschool-aged children.
The evidence review included randomized controlled trials and other systematic reviews, as well as cohort studies of screening and surveillance for speech and language delays and disorders. The USPSTF focused on screening instruments specific to speech and language conditions, as well as more general developmental screening tools with speech and language components. All tools needed to be feasible for use in primary care or the results had to be interpretable within a primary care setting. For surveillance studies, the USPSTF considered processes of monitoring speech and language in primary care settings rather than formal screening instruments. Screening and surveillance studies had to be conducted or results had to be interpretable in primary care settings. In contrast, treatment studies were not limited by study setting, which included speech and language clinics, schools, and/or home settings.
The current review differed somewhat from the previous review in that it focused on screening tools that can be administered within the usual length of a primary care visit (≤10 minutes) or those that require >10 minutes and are administered outside of a primary care setting, if the results can be readily interpreted by a primary care clinician. The current review also focused on studies in patients without known causes of speech and language delay (because these are the patients most likely to be identified through screening).
Accuracy of Screening Tests
The USPSTF identified 24 studies (5 good- and 19 fair-quality)9 that evaluated the accuracy of 20 different screening tools. The majority of studies included 2- and 3-year-olds, but the ages varied. Recruitment techniques and venues included advertisements, birth registries, early childhood programs, university research programs, medical practices, and school registration and entrance medical examinations.
The USPSTF considered 7 parent-administered screening tools: the ASQ, the General Language Screen (formerly known as the Parent Language Checklist), the Infant-Toddler Checklist, the LDS, the CDI, the Speech and Language Parent Questionnaire, and the Ward Infant Language Screening Test, Assessment, Acceleration, and Remediation. The USPSTF considered 13 screening tools administered by professionals or paraprofessionals: the Battelle Developmental Inventory, the BRIGANCE Preschool Screen, the Davis Observation Checklist for Texas, the Denver Articulation Screening Exam, DENVER II (formerly the Denver Developmental Screening Test), a standard developmental screen administered by nurses, Early Screening Profiles, the Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test, the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test, the Screening Kit of Language Development, the Sentence Repetition Screening Test, the Structured Screening Test (formerly known as the Hackney Early Language Screening Test), and Rigby’s trial speech screening test.
Test performance characteristics varied widely. Parent-administered screening tools generally performed better than other tools. Among parent-administered tools, sensitivity was generally higher for the CDI, the Infant-Toddler Checklist, and the LDS. Specificity was comparable across the CDI, the LDS, and the ASQ.
The applicability of the evidence to screening in primary care is limited by several factors. Most studies focused on prescreened populations with a relatively high prevalence of language delays and disabilities (usually >10%). The USPSTF found it difficult to compare the performance of individual screening tools across populations because individual studies used different tools and outcome measures in different populations and settings. Included studies used well-regarded instruments used by speech-language pathologists as reference standards; however, individual studies used different reference standards. In addition to small sample sizes, some studies were conducted in countries with health care systems that are not comparable with that of the United States.
The USPSTF identified no studies on the accuracy of surveillance of speech and language development by primary care clinicians.
Effectiveness of Early Detection and Interventions
The review for the USPSTF identified 1 poor-quality randomized controlled trial of screening for language delays in children ages 18 and 24 months that followed outcomes at ages 3 and 8 years.21 This cluster-randomized trial and follow-up study was conducted in 9419 children at 55 child health centers in 6 geographic regions of The Netherlands. Outcomes included the percentage of children who attended a special school, percentage who repeated a class because of language problems, and percentage who scored low on standardized language tests. The authors concluded that screening toddlers for language delay reduces requirements for special education and leads to improved language performance at age 8 years. However, the study was rated as poor quality, and therefore not included in the USPSTF’s deliberation, because of several limitations, including the following: suboptimal rates of screening and low retention of trial subjects, reliance on indirect measures of speech and language outcomes in school-aged children (instead of individualized testing), lack of blinding to screening or treatment status by teachers and parents who assessed outcomes, and lack of adjustment for other potential reasons for placement in special education.
The USPSTF identified 13 fair- or good-quality studies on the potential benefits of treatment interventions for children diagnosed with specific speech and language delays and disorders that reported inconsistent findings on speech and language outcomes.9 The majority of the trials reported improvements in speech and language measures. However, the applicability of this evidence to routine screening in a primary care setting is limited, because many of the studies were conducted in very high risk populations (ie, high-prevalence populations). In addition, these studies did not report treatment effectiveness in children whose speech and language delay had actually been detected by screening; instead, the delays had often been identified as a result of parent or teacher concerns. A majority of the intervention studies were conducted outside of the United States, which could also limit the applicability of findings.
The USPSTF identified 4 fair- or good-quality studies that reported inconsistent findings on other outcomes, including socialization, reading comprehension, parental stress, and child well-being or attention level.
Potential Harms of Screening and Interventions
The USPSTF identified no studies on the potential harms of screening in primary care settings for speech and language delays and disorders, such as labeling or anxiety. The USPSTF identified 2 studies (1 fair-quality and 1 good-quality) on the potential harms of treatment that reported inconsistent findings.9 The treatment group of 1 study reported reduced parental stress, whereas another study reported no effect on child well-being or attention level. Treatment harms were generally not measured or reported; the 2 included studies reported few data on a limited number of outcomes.
Estimate of Magnitude of Net Benefit
The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the accuracy of screening or surveillance for speech and language delay and disorders in primary care settings. The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the potential benefits of screening in primary care settings and treatment on speech, language, or other outcomes. The USPSTF found adequate evidence that treatment is associated with improvements in some speech and language measures, but inadequate evidence on its effectiveness in screen-detected children. The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the association between treatment and outcomes other than speech and language. The USPSTF found inadequate evidence on the potential harms of screening in primary care settings and treatment of speech and language delay and disorders. Therefore, the USPSTF concludes that the evidence is insufficient and that the balance of benefits and harms of screening in primary care settings for speech and language delays and disorders in young children cannot be determined.
Response to Public Comment
A draft version of this recommendation statement was posted on the USPSTF Web site from November 18 to December 15, 2014. In response to public comment, the USPSTF clarified that this recommendation applies only to asymptomatic children whose parents or clinicians do not have specific concerns about their speech, language, hearing, or development. The USPSTF also emphasized that this recommendation applies only to screening in primary care settings, and it noted the distinction between screening in primary care settings and diagnostic testing, which may occur in other settings. The USPSTF also noted that this recommendation does not evaluate screening for autism spectrum disorder, which the Task Force will address in a separate recommendation statement. The USPSTF also called for research on socioeconomic and other factors associated with risks, assessment, and management of speech and language delay and disorders in children.
Update of Previous USPSTF Recommendation
This recommendation replaces the 2006 USPSTF recommendation on screening for speech and language delay in preschool-aged children. The current recommendation is consistent with the previous recommendation, which concluded that the evidence on the routine use of brief, formal screening instruments in primary care settings to detect speech and language delay in children aged 5 years or younger is insufficient.
Recommendations of Others
The American Academy of Pediatrics22 recommends that developmental surveillance be incorporated at every well-child preventive care visit for children from birth through age 3 years. It also recommends that any concerns raised during surveillance should be promptly addressed with standardized developmental screening tests. In addition, it recommends that screening tests should be administered regularly at well-child visits at the ages of 9, 18, and 24 or 30 months.
Members of the USPSTF
Members of the USPSTF at the time this recommendation was finalized* are as follows: Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, Chair (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY); Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Co-Vice Chair (University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA); David Grossman, MD, MPH, Co-Vice Chair (Group Health, Seattle, WA); Linda Ciofu Baumann, PhD, RN, APRN (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI); Karina W. Davidson, PhD, MASc (Columbia University, New York, NY); Mark Ebell, MD, MS (University of Georgia, Athens, GA); Francisco A.R. García, MD, MPH (Pima County Department of Health, Tucson, AZ); Matthew Gillman, MD, SM (Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA); Jessica Herzstein, MD, MPH (Independent Consultant, Washington, DC); Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS (Duke University, Durham, NC); Alexander H. Krist, MD, MPH (Fairfax Family Practice, Fairfax, and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA); Ann E. Kurth, PhD, RN, MSN, MPH (New York University, New York, NY); Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS (Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, and Stanford University, Stanford, CA); William R. Phillips, MD, MPH (University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH (Brown University, Providence, RI); and Michael P. Pignone, MD, MPH (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC). Former USPSTF members Michael L. LeFevre, MD, MSPH, and Virginia Moyer, MD, also contributed to the development of this recommendation.
Address correspondence to USPSTF Senior Project Coordinator, 540 Gaither Rd, Rockville, MD 20850. E-mail: coordinator{at}uspstf.net
Recommendations made by the US Preventive Services Task Force are independent of the US government. They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the US Department of Health and Human Services.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The author has indicated he has no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
FUNDING: The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent, voluntary body. The US Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality support the operations of the USPSTF.
POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The author has indicated he has no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
COMPANION PAPER: A companion to this article can be found on page e448, online at www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2014-3889.
↵* For a list of current Task Force members, see http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/our-members.
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"Only word we could think of was magical," DiRado says of competing in the Olympics for the first and last time
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Olympic swimmer Maya DiRado‘s first and last Olympics was one for the books.
Before the 2016 Rio Games even began, the 23-year-old said the competition would cap off her swimming career – and, boy, did she make it count!
The Stanford grad racked up four medals in Rio, including gold in the 200-meter backstroke and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. DiRado also scored silver in the 400-meter individual medley and a bronze in the 200-meter individual medley.
A highlight for DiRado was being able to share her medal-moments with roommates Katie Ledecky, who has won four gold medals and one silver medal in Rio, and Simone Manuel – who became the first African-American female swimmer to win an individual gold medal.
“There were so many tears last night, Katie [Ledecky] was so excited for Simone, we were all crying. Emotions were so high, everyone was so supportive of each other,” DiRado said on the Olympic Late Night show hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
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“We were all just trying to describe our emotions for Simone!” she explains.
One month after DiRado returns home from Rio, she will begin a career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
“I’m excited!” she said of starting work.
But the lingering memory of winning gold at the Olympics, and being able to share that moment with Manuel and Ledecky will last forever: “Only word we could think of was magical.”
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By Gayle Thompson - June 7, 2019 10:36 pm EDT
Kelsea Ballerini has plenty of fans line up to meet her each year during CMA Fest. It's an honor for her to connect with every one of them, since she was once also waiting to meet her favorite singers as well.
"I've gotten to be a part of it for several years on the artist's side, but I used to be here as a fan," Ballerini told PopCulture.com and other media at CMA Fest. "Me and my mom would drive in from Knoxville, and I have these pictures from the first time I did this at the old Convention Center with these weird flower power shorts waiting in line to meet Taylor [Swift], Lady Antebellum and Justin Moore to get pictures. So to just be able to be on this side of it now, I feel like I really get to appreciate the fans and the lines that they wait in, and saving up to buy these tickets. It's a big deal."
All of the artists perform at CMA Fest for free, with a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales going to the CMA Foundation, which helps support music education in schools. Ballerini recently performed at the CMA Foundation Music Teachers of Excellence dinner, honoring music educators.
"I got to do the CMA Teachers dinner, where they picked the teachers that are incredible, doing amazing things in their schools from all over the country," Ballerini said. "It was my first time actually seeing kind of what's happening in the classroom that this all goes to. That really inspired me. I had a music teacher, her name is Becky Thomas. She's retired now, but she was the first person that encouraged me to be on stage. I was actually in a musical theater band, the irony, as the ostrich. I'm 98 percent sure she wrote that part in for me 'cause I had no talking lines or singing lines, in fact. I just walked across the stage.
"But after that she really encouraged me to write songs and the first time I ever played a song that I had written on stage, it was because of her," she continued. "That's really the heart of what this is all about. So to be able to be a part of that and knowing that there are kids in a classroom right now that are having those teachers that are able to have the funds and resources to give those kids those opportunities. That matters to me. I was that kid, so that's cool."
Ballerini and Thomas Rhett will return once again to host the CMA Fest TV special, airing on Aug. 4.
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By Daniel S. Levine - December 29, 2018 10:36 pm EST
Anjelica Huston may not be directing John Wick: Chapter 3, but her character plays an important part in pulling the strings in front of the camera. A new photo from the film gives a glimpse of the legendary actress in the upcoming movie.
Huston's character is known as The Director. In a photo published by EMPIRE, The Director is seen sitting across a big table from Keanu Reeves' John Wick, who is handing her a chain with a cross.
"We’re trying to make it that there are different tribes, less nondescript assassins," Reeves told EMPIRE. "Anjelica Huston is playing this Roma Ruska character.”
From the new issue, here's an exclusive first glimpse of Angelica Huston in John Wick 3. //t.co/hF2OBoXtFj pic.twitter.com/UyseDis9Go
— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) December 24, 2018
Director Chad Stahelski described Huston's character as “someone who was responsible for [Wick’s] upbringing and his protection" in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
John Wick 3 is really being directed by Stahelski, the veteran stunt coordinator and performer who also helmed John Wick: Chapter 2 and co-directed the first film with David Leitch. The script was written by Derek Kolstad, who also wrote the previous films.
Aside from Huston, John Wick 3 also introduces Halle Berry's Sofia, who Wick meets in the Middle East.
“She has a past with John,” Reeves told Entertainment Weekly. “I end up going to find her to see if she can help me.”
John Wick 3 picks up where Chapter 2 left off, with Wick on the run. It also picks up the canine theme, since Sofia has two Belgian Malinois dogs that tag along with her.
“Whereas John’s puppy was symbolic of his wife, Halle’s two dogs are symbolic of someone she’s lost,” Stahelski told EW. He added that the dogs play a central role in an action sequence. "They work very well tactically."
Stahelski said the new film is "a little bit of an origin story" and said the death count will "land slightly north" of Chapter 2.
Mark Dacascos (Hawaii Five-0) and Asia Kate Dillon (Orange Is The New Black) also joined the franchise as members of the criminal High Table council. Other members of the cast include Ian McShane, Jason Mantzoukas, Laurence Fishburne, Robin Lord Taylor, Lance Reddick and a horse.
Huston is an Oscar-winner for her role in her father John Huston's film Prizzi's Honor (1985) and has a Golden Globe for 2004's Iron Jawed Angels. She most recently appeared in The Watcher In The Woods and Amazon's Transparent.
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Prague was forcibly converted back to Roman Catholicism followed by the rest of Czech lands. The city suffered subsequently during the war under an attack by Electoral Saxony and during the Battle of Prague In the second half of the 17th century Prague's population began to grow again. Jews had been in Prague since the end of the 10th century and, bythey accounted for about a quarter of Prague's population.
In —14, a major outbreak of plague hit Prague one last time, killing 12, to 13, people. He took Prague after a severe and prolonged siege in the course of which a large part of the town was destroyed. However a month later, Frederick the Great was defeated and forced to retreat from Bohemia.
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The effect of surfactants on the breakup of an axisymmetric laminar liquid jet
by Walker, Justin R., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2012, 179; 3517577
The contacting of multiple liquid phases is a complex process, and one that is difficult to study experimentally. Liquid dispersion studies in stirred tanks and high shear mixers frequently involve the use of surfactants without a strong physical understanding of how the surfactants affect the mechanics of droplet production and breakup. In this study, experiments are performed using the axisymmetric laminar jet system. The breakup of a laminar axisymmetric jet is a well-studied fluid dynamics phenomenon. Despite the extensive literature on jet breakup, the impact of surface active agents on jet breakup has received limited attention.
An extensive series of experiments with water-air and oil-water jet systems with and without surfactants has been performed, varying fluid flow rate, jet diameter, jet bulk viscosity, surfactant type, and surfactant concentration. Surfactants were found to significantly affect the breakup of laminar liquid jets. Significant effects on both the length of jets and the size of resulting droplets are reported. In general, the effect of surfactants is to reduce the interfacial tension of the system in question, which results in longer jet breakup lengths and larger diameter droplets. However, the interfacial tension alone is insufficient to explain the physics of the jet breakup phenomena. Several breakup mechanisms were identified, and the regimes in which each operates vary not only due to jet geometry and velocity, but on the interfacial properties as well. The effect of surfactants on the breakup phenomena differs in each of these distinct breakup regimes.
A mechanistic model for the prediction of breakup length for surfactant laden jets is presented. This model results in good agreement between predicted and experimentally observed values over a wide variety of surfactant concentrations and jet conditions and was shown to be useful for both the oil-water and water-air systems, within the axisymmetric jetting regime.
Advisor: Calabrese, Richard V.
Commitee: Dimitrakopoulos, Panagiotis, Duncan, James, Marshall, Andre, Raghavan, Srinivasa R.
School: University of Maryland, College Park
Department: Chemical Engineering
School Location: United States -- Maryland
Subjects: Chemical engineering
Keywords: Droplets, Experimental, Fluid mechanics, Jets, Laminar liquid jets, Surfactants
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What Type of Business Gets 9 Offers
By Mark Daoust and Joe Valley | Quiet Light Brokerage. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.
It seems that with certain Quiet Light Brokerage listings, there is just a mad rush of activity as soon as they come out. Most of the listings that we put out will receive at least 100 inquiries right away, but what does it look like when we put out a “hot listing” that garners two times that much interest?
Today we are discussing the type of business that gets 9 offers. We go over how many inquiries those types of listings get, how much discussion and conference calls happen around these potential transactions in a short time frame, and just what it takes to get these listings under contract. We hope you enjoy this little case study of how to set up for a successful sale from the seller side and tips for how to act from the buyer side. Being thoroughly prepared and running a real, viable business are keys to success.
Episode Highlights:
The main characteristics that made this business so attractive.
How the pricing decision played into the transaction.
The process of selecting the 15 buyers we entertained.
The conference call screening process between the seller and potential buyers, facilitated by the broker.
How to choose a buyer and deal with disappointing those who lost out.
The 4 pillars of success and how this business checked them all.
The one intangible thing that took the business to the next level and attracted the buyers.
How the packages that Quiet Light puts together tell a story about the listing and the journey of the brand and its seller.
Mark: It seems that with some Quiet Light Brokerage listings as soon as when they hit the marketplace there is just an absolute mad rush of buying activity towards those listings. Now to be clear most of the listings that we put out at Quiet Light Brokerage, the vast majority, in fact, it could be an exception to the rule is going to receive at least 100 inquiries from buyers and calls right away. So what does it look like when it we come across a “hot listing”? Well, it looks like a lot of conference calls scheduled very, very shortly and just a mad rush of inquiries probably upwards of 200 and 250 within the first 24 hours in some cases. What’s the difference between a listing that is not as hot like that that gets on a 100, 150, which is still a lot and something that doubles that? Joe, I know you launched a listing 3 or 4 weeks ago from the time that we’re recording this episode that we would definitely throw in that hot category. What were the top line statistics on that?
Joe: It was a let’s call it a 95 to 98% Amazon business. It was 30 months old. It was in the category of America’s fastest growing recreational sports. It was run by a single owner operator that was a stay at home dad that was a CPA by training yet outsourced the bookkeeping to an e-commerce bookkeeper. $440,000 in discretionary earnings and we went out on a 3.3 which is lower than my recommendation. But in this case, the conservative CPA said no I don’t want it to be listed for too long. I really like to get it sold let’s … can we go out at a three. I suggested a 3.5. Rarely does somebody come back and say can you sell it for less and he did in this case and we ended up [inaudible 00:02:50.9].
Mark: The guy sounds like one of these unbelievably likable guys. How many inquiries did you get within that first 24 hours?
Joe: You know I didn’t count the first 24 but I know that you and I were … we were in Dallas and on the way to Houston for a meeting and I think we pulled it up and within the first 4 hours, we had something like 185. So within the first 24, I think it probably doubled to close to 400 would be my guess.
Mark: That is insane. Now I do remember obviously these are all load
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Hosts can talk faster than they can type. Followers can listen while doing any number of other tasks. A business that comes with a podcast following of 15,000 is more valuable than one that comes with a 35,000-person email list. Podcasts are pretty hard to get wrong. They can diminish the laborious reading and writing aspects of emails and blog ...…
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Girl, Bye: Felicity Huffman’s Shame Is ‘Unfathomable’ After Trying To Get Her Mediocre Kid Into College
The college admissions scandal confirmed what we already knew -- rich people get their average kids into ivy league schools.
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A source close to Felicity Huffman is reportedly speaking out on the college admissions scandal. The “close source” is probably someone in Huffman’s team trying to do damage control.
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According to Us Weekly, “The shame and humiliation are unfathomable. Getting arrested is the last thing she ever imagined.”
Allegedly, the drama has caused tension between her and her husband William H. Macy. An insider says, “Felicity and Bill have been arguing. The biggest concern is Felicity’s criminal case and how this is impacting their daughter.” Macy, who is 69, has not been indicted but Us Weekly reports “court documents claimed that the actor was present for a consultation regarding the plan.”
Reportedly, her 18-year-old daughter Sofia “had no knowledge of the actions taken in regards to the improvement in her SAT test score.” Sure, she didn’t…
The 56-year-old actress was arrested at gun point on March 12.
The elaborate college admissions scheme played out through a series of bribes, photoshopped photos, fraudulent test scores and more as a way to admit unqualified students through athletic scholarships for sports the “recruits” would rarely if ever play on the collegiate level. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman became the faces of the scandal, for which they were criminally charged last week.
This incident has invited heavy scrutiny on colleges’ admissions practices that stack the odds against countless applicants who have been denied deserved spots at schools of their choice. Understandably, Black and brown students have been particularly outraged. Students of color have historically been accused of not earning their seat at the table because of race-based affirmative action policies. Their merits have been called into question while, as it turns out, the wealthy elite were benefitting from what has been called a broken college admissions system.
A recent example of this outrage is the 2016 Fisher v. The University of Texas case that went to the Supreme Court. Abigail Fisher claimed the University of Texas denied her admission based on her race. The Supreme Court would uphold affirmative action as a constitutional practice.
Some have even argued that this admissions scandal illustrates the validity of why affirmative action is still important.
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Black People Who Got More Time Than Paul Manafort For Doing Less
1. Crystal Mason
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2. Former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack
Fmr.Trenton Mayor Tony Mack seeks appeal http://t.co/2nUXgCc06O pic.twitter.com/8G6ds7zhkz
— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) November 20, 2014
3. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
4. Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gets 10 years for bribery, money laundering https://t.co/YuWXNyBetB
— DEEE LIVE AAAAHHH (@_CoolStoryCori_) March 4, 2019
5. Former US Rep. William Jefferson
6. Alice Marie Johnson
Alice Marie Johnson, whose drug sentence was commuted by Trump after Kim Kardashian lobbied for her, is writing an autobiographyhttps://t.co/ewbG0lpJQI
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 6, 2019
7. Stephanie George
Hey folks! Stephanie George was released from prison after 17 yrs. President Obama commuted her unjust life sentence. pic.twitter.com/GbmN6JPwzU
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) April 17, 2014
8. Donel Clark
After 22 years in prison, President Obama gave Donel Clark a second chance at life.
This is his thank you letter. pic.twitter.com/avrl9y0EKD
— NationOfSecondChance (@nationofchances) November 23, 2017
9. Clarence Aaron
Happy Birthday to clemency recipient Clarence Aaron!
Until President #Obama reduced his sentence, he was serving life without #parole for a first-time offense.
Today, he’s enjoying his #secondchance pic.twitter.com/uTf7cmCdDf
— FAMM Foundation (@FAMMFoundation) May 9, 2018
10. Alton Mills
The life story of Chicagoan Alton Mills shows why we need to pass the #FirstStepAct. Alton, who received a pardon from President Obama in 2015, was destined to spend his life in prison. He’s now a contributing member of society. #cjreform pic.twitter.com/QZxvYkmK6t
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) December 18, 2018
Continue reading Black People Who Got More Time Than Paul Manafort For Doing Less
Updated March 13, 2019, 1:20 p.m., EDT Paul Manafort received a sentence totaling seven and one-half years in prison after a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered him on Wednesday to serve 43 months on top of the 47-month sentence that he received on March 7. Also on Wednesday, Manafort was charged with mortgage fraud, conspiracy and other counts in a new indictment in New York City. https://twitter.com/ap/status/1105872138215612416?s=12 Original Story The U.S. has a long history of imposing harsher prison sentences for Black and brown people. Paul Manafort is the most recent example. The president's criminal crony faced up to 24 years in prison under federal guidelines but got off with a light sentence instead. See Also: Twitter Is Outraged That Paul Manafort Gets Less Prison Time Than Crystal Mason Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman, was sentenced on Thursday to 47 months in prison for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud. Adding insult to injury for those who were looking to see justice served, Manafort could still receive a pardon from the president. His conviction stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post published a report in 2017 detailing how Black men are sentenced to more prison time for the same crime that white people commit. According to NPR, "the average sentence is nearly 20 percent longer for black men than white men." And the disparity doesn't only exist among men, as shown with the case of Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas who got a five-year prison sentence for the offense of voting in an election. It was that type of racial double standard surrounding Manafort's sentencing sparked a good deal of outrage. Especially when U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis, a white man, expressed some sympathy for the 69-year-old Republican operative and consultant who has political roots in the highest levels of politics, which includes working for the presidential campaigns of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. “He’s lived an otherwise blameless life,” Ellis said of Manafort’s offenses, adding that he’s “earned the admiration of a number of people.” Manafort was one of the 34 people and three companies that Mueller has criminally charged, so far, as a result of the probe into “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” There’s still another chance that Manafort, who was originally charged with conspiracy against the United States, could get a longer sentence that many people say he deserves. He faces another judge next week in the case in D.C., in which he could be handed a prison term of up to 10 years. Still, Manafort apparently has a get out of jail free card up sleeves, thanks to President Trump. All of which leads us to highlight the following examples of Black people who got harsher sentences for doing less than the treasonous Manafort.
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The Surreal News 1/22/2014 Host: Doug aka GoatHollow Join me for a special edition of The Surreal News! Just in time for the New Year to get really started… A reminder that all is not doom and gloom!!! A special show, concentrating on the good news going on in our world!!! I hope you’ll join…
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The Alienist – S1E10 – Castle in the Sky
Posted on March 27, 2018 by James McShane in Featured, The Alienist - S1 // 2 Comments
Previously on The Alienist: Requiem
And so it comes down this: with Joseph on the missing list, it’s time for Moore, Kreizler, and Sara to look within and beyond themselves and search for that one important clue, hiding in plain sight in John Beecham’s room, that will lead them to catching their serial killer. It’s quite literally a race against time. Knowing that Beecham will murder Joseph on the Feast of St John the Baptist, Kreizler, newly reunited with his team of detectives after dealing with his grief over the loss of Mary, senses that if the police get their hands on Beecham first, he won’t get the answers he is looking for – namely why Beecham kills in such a signature fashion. He resorts to lying to Sara, Roosevelt, and the Isaacsons, encouraging them to go to High Bridge Tower to look for Joseph, all the time knowing that the killer will strike elsewhere. Dragging Moore to yet another opera so they can be seen by Chief Byrnes, they wait for a distraction on stage before making their escape. Moore is enraged his friends have been lied to, but he goes along with Kreizler’s plan.
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Tracking Beecham to a different part of the city, Moore and Kreizler come upon the killer just as he’s about to butcher the young boy. Beecham drops Joseph and the men give chase, but the killer gets the better of both men. Although it wasn’t his intention to, Captain Connor arrives on the scene to prevent the murder, putting a bullet in Beecham’s back. He sees the situation and works it to his advantage, planning to kill everyone and making himself out to be the hero of the hour. But Sara has other ideas. Working out where the men were, she surprises Connor as he’s about to shoot Kreizler. Connor thinks he has everything sewn up and allows himself one more jab at Sara and goes to strangle her. She shoots him dead with a gun she had hidden. Kreizler tries to get Beecham to talk to him but the killer dies from his wounds, taking his murderous motivations to the grave with him. The alienist is distraught, but there’s nothing more he can do about it.
Although Moore attempts to take the rap for shooting Connor to Roosevelt, Sara confesses. The commissioner is impressed, telling her she always had the courage to do what needed to be done, and that her father would’ve been proud of her. Kreizler, meanwhile, is disappointed that their adventure gleaned them no new insight into why killers kill. They set out to catch a monster, but ended up finding a wounded child. This analogy ends up being the central theme of the show when it comes to the three main characters. Moore struggles with his relationship to his father, particularly after the death of his brother; Sara helped her own father commit suicide after a botched attempt went horribly and painfully wrong; and Kreizler’s father maimed his son’s arm while either drunk or angry (probably both). The alienist has to satisfy himself with the likelihood for there being further murderers to find and catch.
The series ends on a number of satisfying codas. Because Roosevelt can’t as yet allow Kreizler and his team to take the plaudits for solving the case, and in order to save face in front of the city’s elite, he awards Connor a posthumous medal of honour, thereby saving the man’s family from unnecessary disgrace and hardship. Chief Byrnes approves. (Ted Levine does wonderful eyebrow work in this episode. The actor had no lines of dialogue at all, but his sneers and disdain told more than words ever could.) The team bond over a fancy dinner, pledging to remain fast friends and should the need arise, they would continue to work with each other. Moore and Sara agree to disagree over whether or not Moore is in love with her, but the future is bright for both of them, especially if Moore lays off the hard stuff.
Kreizler visits his father, whose mind has gone to wherever minds go to when they no longer reside inside a person’s brain. Kreizler is gentle with the man who brought him so much pain, telling him that the lessons he learned from his father only served to put him on a path to truth – basically saying that we always have the potential to subvert whatever nature has set in store for us. He walks away a more peaceful man.
As satisfying as the finale was, I still have some regrets. I loved the Isaacson twins. They were a gentler foil to the trio’s inner torments. Yes, they had to put up with anti-Semitism within the department, but their generous nature lifted them above their more reprehensible colleagues. I felt, though, that Marcus’ romantic attachment with Esther could’ve used more screen time. Having said that, I found it cute that Marcus came to his senses at the end of the day. Both Douglas Smith (Marcus) and Matthew Shear (Lucius) were excellent in their roles, imparting knowledge, rational logic, and innocent exuberance at every turn. Less satisfying was the show’s treatment of Cyrus and Stevie. We should’ve spent more time with Kreizler’s wards, and I thought we were going to get just that with Cyrus in particular. After all, he did witness Mary’s death and came so close to putting Connor down for good. Maybe if we get an adaptation of Caleb Carr’s sequel, The Angel of Darkness, we’ll get to see more of them. I hope so.
Overall, The Alienist is a superb production: luscious, exciting, challenging, and so well played out. I’m so glad I got to spend quality time with Kreizler and his team of intrepid detectives. Perhaps I’ll pick up a copy of the sequel in the near future.
The Alienist S1E10 Review Score
Plot - 9/10
Action - 9/10
Dialogue - 8/10
Performances - 10/10
"Castle in the Sky"
The Alienist – Episode 10: “Castle in the Sky” | Starring: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans
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2 Comments on The Alienist – S1E10 – Castle in the Sky
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I enjoyed this miniseries so much. Well written, acted, produced-I hope we get another miniseries w/this group.👏🏾👏🏾
I think there are more books in the series!
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The importance of Diversity and Inclusion for firms
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Diversity is a fact. It is also paradoxical. We need to be capable of seeing and hearing differences in order to reap the benefits of diversity. But seeing and hearing differences hone our discriminating reflexes and can also lead to discrimination. If you take this MOOC, you will: 1. understand this paradox, 2. understand its dynamics, and 3. identify ways to manage it, so that you can better channel the diversity potential in the workplace for greater performance and innovation.
It helped me understand the worldwide practise in the above topic and it has been great learning through the module, my wishes & thanks for the team
An excellent course that opens the mind to the structures, skills and important differences in learning and accepting diversity.
Hi Diversity!
Welcome to the start of your learning journey! In this module, you will start to familiarize yourself with diversity concepts and their relevance in the workplace. First, you will learn about why diversity and inclusion are important for firms, and about the historical development of diversity and inclusion in firms. Next, you will be introduced to key diversity-related concepts and issues. Then, you will discover facts and figures for five diversity categories and the challenges that firms are facing to promote the inclusion of these diversity elements. By the end of this module, you will have a clear understanding of diversity concepts and their application to different diversity categories.
This is diversity!1:46
The importance of Diversity and Inclusion for firms5:04
Junko Takagi
Teaching Professor
Hello, welcome to the ESSEC Business School Diversity MOOC.
From the introductory quiz, you saw that the three most common statements that
firms make about diversity and inclusion are,
first, diversity is a source of creativity and innovation for firms.
Second, diversity is a source of performance for firms and
it's collaborators.
Third, firms need a workforce that reflect the diversity of the costumer base.
Firms perceive diversity as an important ingredient for success by encouraging
creativity and innovation, and helping to understand and develop new markets.
This is generally referred to as the business case for diversity.
In my experience working with firms in France on diversity issues,
I've come across two main approaches to diversity.
In the first approach, firms perceived diversity as an ethical and
social responsibility, in which they have a responsibility and commitment
to address existing social inequalities which are reflected in their workforce.
And to promote inclusion of underprivileged populations
into the workforce and in management.
In the second approach, firms present diversity as an important ingredient for
exchange of different perspectives, and collaboration with the final
objective of encouraging innovation and corporate performance.
In order to achieve this end, firms feel that it is important to have a workforce
that reflects their potential customer base at all levels of hierarchy, so
as to continue to develop pertinent products and services.
Most firms will emphasize both elements in their approach to diversity and inclusion.
But the recent trend is more towards the business case for diversity.
Even though the playing field is far from level for
the majority of minorities, the most important element for
firms to address diversity is the competition for talent and new markets.
For example, according to UNESCO data, women have become
the majority in tertiary level education in most countries,
including the USA, Brazil, Algeria, Saudi Arabia,
France, the UK, Russia, China, etc., etc.
According to these figures, as women become as well educated as, or
better educated than men, they may well become the main driving force for
future businesses.
In the UK, a significantly higher percentage of students whose ethnicity is
Chinese or Indian, attain the British A levels compared to white and
other ethnic students.
All of this indicates that in many countries there are an increasing number
of qualified and talented minorities coming into the job market.
Firms need to tap into this diversified talent pool at
the risk of losing out to the competition.
An important point to keep in mind is that businesses
have been working on some diversity issues for several decades now.
Women have been on the agenda in some countries for over three decades, and
many countries have also been focusing on people with disabilities.
However, when we look at the current situation for both populations,
women are still completely outnumbered by men in the upper echelons.
And still fighting for equal pay,
despite laws in place that eliminate the gender pay gap.
Moreover, many firms are unable to obtain disabilities quotas in countries that
impose them and end up paying a fine to the government.
So in conclusion, previous diversity strategies have not been highly effective
in eliminating differences.
Although diversity and inclusion in the workplace has become an important factor
for businesses, we can see that it is a complex issue that is not easy to manage.
We already know from studies that firms whose top management is driving
the diversity initiative, and whose diversity strategy is integrated into
their core businesses, benefit most from the growth potential of diversity.
So this MOOC is about discovering more about how diversity is
the key to future performance for firms, and for you, as leaders of tomorrow.
You will hone your awareness of your and others diversity perspectives and
reflexes.
You will understand how these perspectives and
reflexes impact our interactions, group dynamics, and group performance.
And why diversity strategies have not been highly effective to date.
As young professionals in all walks of life, this awareness will be an asset in
working with diverse collaborators and generating value at the individual and
collective level through your interactions.
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Louisville Supercon Schedule :: Brian O'Halloran
Brian O'Halloran
Brian O’Halloran is an actor / director best known for his role as Dante Hicks in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse films and cartoons, including Clerks, Clerks 2, Clerks: The Animated Series, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie. Brian has also made appearances in most of Kevin Smith’s other View Askewniverse films, including Dogma, Chasing Amy, and Mallrats. He has recently been seen on several episodes of AMC’s Comic Book Men.
Brian has starred in dozens of other films, including: Drop Dead Roses, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy, Vulgar, Miss December, Mr. Hush, The Sickness, Hooking Up, The Happening, The Junior Defenders, Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party, and Groupies. Additionally, he has provided several voices for Pokémon, such as Mr. Garrison, Official Stadium Announcer, and various CODs.
Appearing Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
VIEW ASKEW DUO W/ BRIAN O'HALLORAN & JOEY LAUREN ADAMS PROFESSIONAL PHOTO OP :: Photo Ops Area - BOOTH 1
Joey Lauren Adams, Brian O'Halloran
BRIAN O'HALLORAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTO OP :: Photo Ops Area - BOOTH 1
BRIAN O'HALLORAN & JOEY LAUREN ADAMS :: Photo Ops Area - BOOTH 1
BRIAN O'HALLORAN PHOTO OP :: Photo Ops Area - BOOTH 1
CUPCAKE BURLESQUE: DISNEY & MARVEL/DC (18+ ONLY) :: Main Stage - Ballroom C
Brian O'Halloran, Jennifer Smith
Sunday December 2, 2018 :: 12:15 am to 2:00 am Details
VIEW ASKEW DUO W/ JOEY LAUREN ADAMS & BRIAN O'HALLORAN PHOTO OP :: Photo Ops Area - BOOTH 2
Sunday December 2, 2018 :: 11:10 am Details
Brian O'Halloran Q&A :: Super Stage - Ballroom A-B
Lisa Corrao, Brian O'Halloran
Sunday December 2, 2018 :: 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm Details
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Effect of repeated intravenous lipopolysaccharide infusions on systemic inflammatory response and endometrium gene expression in Holstein heifers
Fernandes, A.C.C., Davoodi, S., Kaur, M., Veira, D., Melo, L.E.H., Cerri, R.L.A.
Journal of dairy science 2019 v.102 no.4 pp. 3531-3543
Holstein, adhesion, analysis of variance, artificial insemination, biomarkers, biopsy, blood sampling, dairy heifers, endometrium, eosinophils, gene expression, gene expression regulation, haptoglobins, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, inflammation, intravenous injection, leukocyte count, lipopolysaccharides, lymphocytes, messenger RNA, moieties, monocytes, neutrophils, ovulation, pregnancy, progesterone, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, sodium chloride, temperature, tumor necrosis factor-alpha
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of repeated intravenous lipopolysaccharide (LPS) infusions in nonlactating heifers on (1) the systemic proinflammatory state as measured by biomarkers in blood and plasma, and (2) endometrial gene expression of candidate transcripts on d 15 of gestation. Our hypothesis was that target transcripts related to a major functional group would be negatively modified in the preimplantation endometrium by the LPS treatments. In the first experiment (n = 13), a systemic proinflammatory state [defined as increased plasma concentrations of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and haptoglobin for 2 wk] was established using 2 different sequential LPS infusion protocols. In the second experiment, heifers (n = 22; 11 mo of age) had their time of ovulation synchronized by a modified Ovsynch protocol and were enrolled in 1 of 2 treatments: control (CON; n = 11), which received sterile saline solution i.v., and LPS treatment (LPS; n = 11), submitted to repeated i.v. LPS injections (0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, and 1.25 µg/kg) starting 2 d after artificial insemination (AI; d 0) and then every other day until d 15 after AI. At each LPS injection, rectal temperatures were measured hourly for 6 h. Blood samples were collected from d −1 to d 13 for analyses of progesterone, TNF-α, and haptoglobin in plasma, along with white blood cell (WBC) count and differential analysis. On d 15, endometrium tissue biopsies were taken and kept at −80°C until quantitative real-time PCR analysis of 30 target transcripts related to the immune system, adhesion molecules, and endometrium receptivity. Data were checked for normality and analyzed by repeated-measures ANOVA using PROC UNIVARIATE and PROC MIXED of SAS (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). After each LPS injection, temperature was greater in the first 4 h in the LPS group compared with CON. Both TNF-α and haptoglobin increased in the LPS treatment with a significant treatment by day interaction. Total leukocyte count did not differ between treatments, but the differential count increased for neutrophils, band cells, and monocytes, and decreased for lymphocytes and eosinophils in LPS compared with CON. Progesterone concentrations in plasma did not differ between treatments during the experimental period. Out of 30 target genes analyzed, 3 transcripts were differentially expressed: indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO; fold-change = 0.48) and pentraxin-3 (PTX3; fold-change = 0.38) were downregulated, whereas myxovirus-resistance protein (MX1; fold-change = 2.85) was upregulated in the LPS group. Sequential LPS injections were able to induce a prolonged systemic proinflammatory state, but effects on gene expression were limited to transcripts associated with the immune system. These results suggest that a mechanism for subfertility is linked to a proinflammatory state in dairy heifers.
https://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-14616
DOI (10.3168/jds.2018-14616)
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ICYMI: Czech Republic offers Nigerians, others €4,000 to leave country
The Czech Republic has set up a new programme meant to encourage migrants from Nigeria, Iraq, Mongolia, Russia and Vietnam to leave their country and not return.
A local newspaper, Remix, reports that anyone who voluntarily leaves the country and promises not to return not only to the Czech Republic but to the European Union would be eligible for the money.
The programme, tagged Returns is supposed to help them fund transportation costs and integration in their countries of origin, including accommodation, household equipment or domestic animal expenses.
The Interior Minister, Jan Hamáček, announced it will be suitable for all categories of foreigners, those who are legally in the country, illegals and asylum seekers as well.
Allocation for the programme amounts to 60 million Czech Koruna (€2.3m), 75 per cent of which is to be covered from the European Asylum, migration and integration fund.
READ ALSO: UTME: JAMB registers over 300,000 in one week
Each individual could get funds ranging between 40,000 Kč and 100,000 Kč. First funded returns should be processed in the third quarter of 2019, the report said.
Similar programmes are already underway in other European states and they aim to encourage migrants who are unwanted in the respective countries and would not be granted asylum to leave.
Statistically, only 40 per cent of rejected asylum seekers are deported from the EU. And while the allocation will be a burden for the taxpayers, the cost is by far less than deportation would.
The minister noted that especially detention of illegals is extremely costly, which goes hand-in-hand with administrative procedures and healthcare expenses.
Czech Republic euros Migrants
Bodies of five illegal migrants found in South-West Pakistan
One body found as Italy coastguard rescues 1,350 migrants
Two migrant children die at sea between Morocco and Spain
German army vessel rescues 102 migrants off coast of Libya
Deportation of undocumented migrants to begin after July 4 —Trump
Illegal migrants: France, Benelux propose EU aid for Africa
Bodies of 11 migrants recovered off Morocco coast
Mexico detains hundreds of US-bound migrants
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You'll use Puppet's declarative language to describe the desired state of your system in files called manifests. Manifests describe how your network and operating system resources, such as files, packages, and services, should be configured. Puppet then compiles those manifests into catalogs, which across your infrastructure.
Several parts of the Puppet language depend on evaluation order. For example, variables must be set before they are referenced. Throughout the language reference, we call out areas where the order of statements matters.
A quick reference of syntax examples for the Puppet language.
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Puppet and Windows handle directory separators and line endings in files somewhat differently, so you must be aware of the differences when you are writing manifests to manage Windows systems.
To add comments to your Puppet code, use shell-style or hash comments.
Variables store values so that those values can be accessed in code later.
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Most of the things you can do with the Puppet language involve some form of data. An individual piece of data is called a value, and every value has a data type, which determines what kind of information that value can contain and how you can interact with it.
Templates are documents that combine code, data, and literal text to produce a final rendered output. The goal of a template is to manage a complicated piece of text with simple inputs.
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