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Batman Beyond Universe #4
By Erik Gonzalez
By Christos Gage, Iban Coello, Kyle Higgins & Thony Silas
Both series conclude their first story arc with new creative teams. In Justice League Beyond, the league handles the self-destructing Superman robots and then enters the Phantom Zone to save Superman. As the story concludes, the true mastermind is revealed and someone returns from the Zone with the Justice League. Batman Beyond continues with Rewire wreaking havoc in the city and Terry, after being unconscious, devises a plan to stop the new villain.
Christos Gage builds on the theme of whether or not the League can still make a difference without the use of their superpowers/technology. Case and point is when he has the majority of the Justice League enter the Phantom Zone, knowing that each of their traits is useless there, to save their comrade. Gage vividly details what truly makes a hero is their courage, heart and determination. It was such a fun read! Christos is also able to maintain enthusiasm by introducing new threats that will undoubtedly come into play later in the series–hopefully sooner than later because they have the potential to be great arcs in the Beyond universe.
Batman Beyond seemed to take a more contemplative approach to the conclusion of its storyline. By doing this, Kyle Higgins retains the heart that Batman Beyond stories are known for. Two pages in particular just nail it; Terry McGinnis meets up with Dick Grayson, who points out how Rewire and his relationship with his father is reminiscent of Terry and Bruce’s. Higgins shows his understanding of great villains by noting some possible similarities between the antagonist and protagonist; two sides of the same coin. Why Wayne and McGinnis are not speaking to each other is still unclear, but it’s evident that Kyle has a firm idea on where he wants to go with this book. He has proven himself as a Batman Beyond scribe, so let’s just go along for this awesome ride.
Iban Coello and Thony Silas have demonstrated, throughout these two arcs, their talent for the bringing the material to life. There wasn’t much in either book that stuck out in the panel layout or artwork; it was just solid work all around. Although, Coello’s depiction of Batman Beyond is still one of the best to date!
These comics can be purchased digitally first, they alternate weeks. If you’ve become a fan or just enjoy stories in the Beyond universe, buy them as soon as they are available. If not, wait until they are compiled, in print, in this book each month. With two options to be reading these great books, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be picking them up!
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Erik Gonzalez
I was exposed to comics early on, one of my earliest vivid memories was picking up the entire run of Dark Horse’s Aliens vs. Predator(1990). Odd and perhaps morbid choice for a kid, I know...At the same time, I was immersed in the pop culture of the time which included, but not limited to: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and of course, Batman: The Animated Series. Upon reflection, it’s fairly evident why I’m such a zealous geek. My day job is in television operations, so basically I’m exposed to media at every turn, which is where I want to be! Writing comic book reviews is another outlet to convey my respect and fanaticism for the this graphic medium. I hope what I have to say will resonate with others and also spark heart-felt discussion. Simon Pegg said it best, “Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
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Anti-NSA Surveillance Protests Gain Traction on Independence Day
July 5, 2013 at 9:15 am PT
Every day, more details are revealed regarding the National Security Agency’s classified surveillance programs, courtesy of whistleblower and former NSA employee Edward Snowden. And ever since his first revelation that the spying wing of the U.S. government is especially interested in electronic communications data, the Web public at large hasn’t taken it lightly.
The Internet Defense League, a coalition of thousands of websites formed to fight “bad laws and monopolies” against the Web at large, organized a large online protest on the Fourth of July, an attempt to voice the rallying cry to end “unconstitutional government spying,” as the group put it.
The Independence Day protests were the largest online effort by the group since the SOPA blackouts — a mass effort in early 2012 in which many major sites “blacked out” for a period of 24 hours in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act bill — according to the IDL.
Reddit, the popular link-sharing social media site, ran ads in support of the protests on its site all week long, and posted a missive in support of the movement on its official blog on the Fourth. In June, Reddit had more than 70 million unique visitors come to the site.
WordPress, the popular content-management system and blogging network, added a widget that let site owners automatically display support for the IDL with a click of a button. WordPress powers more than 67 million sites across the Web (including this one).
The Internet Association, which represents the interests of a large coalition of websites (including Google and Facebook) and argues for more Web-friendly public policy issues, also posted a strong statement of support on its official page.
While a great many other sites supported the movement online, there were also local showings of support in major cities, including New York, San Francisco and Chicago. In Manhattan, hundreds of protestors rallied on Wall Street. As you can see below, hundreds of Californians turned out to for the “Restore the Fourth” rally in San Francisco.
The government’s response thus far? It’s not budging. Top leaders in the NSA have testified before judiciary committees, saying that a number of its programs have foiled terrorist plots against America, and are invaluable to the country’s safety.
Still, in a statement posted to its website, the NSA still respected Americans’ right to peaceful demonstration, especially on a day like the Fourth.
Tagged with: blackout, NSA, online, protests, SOPA, spying, surveillance
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Nobody was excited about paying top dollar for a movie about WikiLeaks. A film about the origins of Pets.com would have done better.
— Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com comments on the dreadful opening weekend box office numbers for “The Fifth Estate.”
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Home » Sport » Lionel Messi referee slams Argentina star over ‘corrupt’ talk – saying he is ‘surprised’ at the reaction – The Sun
Lionel Messi referee slams Argentina star over ‘corrupt’ talk – saying he is ‘surprised’ at the reaction – The Sun
THE referee slammed by Lionel Messi in Argentina’s Copa America defeat by Brazil has spoken for the first time – saying he's surprised at the Barcelona star.
Ecuadorian official Roddy Zambrano has spoken about the controversial semi-final, as the Brazilians went on to lift the trophy.
Argentine maestro Messi lashed out at South America's governing body Conmebol after his side beat Chile 2-1 in the third-place play-off.
The Barca ace called the refereeing "bulls***" after officials opted not to use VAR for two clear penalty shouts for Argentina against Brazil.
Speaking about Messi claiming the referee had “favoured Brazil in every play” of the match and the “officiating was crazy”, Zambrano retaliated on radio station Super K-800.
Zambrano said: “He is dedicated to playing and I’ve never had a problem with him, the truth is his words surprised me, but everyone has their own opinion.”
Speaking about possible penalties for Argentina’s Manchester City stars Nicolas Otamendi and Sergio Aguero, he said: “Otamendi went in hard and it wasn’t a nudge [on him].
"VAR reviewed it and decided it was 50-50 and I wasn’t called to see it. They didn’t think it was a clear penalty.
“On the first one, it is almost a reckless foul [by Aguero] on the defender. Why didn’t they show the camera angle from behind?”
After the collision between Aguero and Dani Alves, Brazil stormed up the pitch and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino scored their second goal to seal the match.
Alves later slammed Messi for his comments, calling him "disrespectful".
The former Barcelona star said: "A friend is not always right just because he's a friend. You can say it in the heat of the moment, but I still won't agree.
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"Firstly, he's disrespecting an institution such as the Selecao, in my view.
"Secondly, he's being disrespectful with several professionals who put a lot of things aside so they could be there fighting for a dream.
"I'm a friend who always tells the truth when it's due, and I think he was wrong for saying these things."
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Vol. 11, Issue 352 - Monday, December 18, 2006
M | T | W | T | F | S | S
RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM
The Tower Records store on Keeaumoku Street, shown here, closed yesterday for the last time along with the store at Kahala Mall. A store at Pearl Kai closed Saturday. CLICK FOR LARGE
Tower Records sounds final note
Shoppers scoop up last-minute bargains as three stores close
By Rosemarie Bernardo
rbernardo@starbulletin.com
Cradling an armful of compact discs at Tower Records on Keeaumoku Street yesterday, shopper Joanne Amende described how the popular store was a hangout for her when she was 12 years old while growing up in Chicago.
"This is a piece of my history gone. That's how I look at it," Amende, now 39, said.
At that time, Tower was one of the few places that had punk music, she said. "You couldn't find that kind of music anywhere. Tower had it."
Known for its broad selection of music from indie and punk to rock and pop, Tower Records' stores on Keeaumoku Street and Kahala Mall shut its doors yesterday as part of a nationwide closure. Tower Records' in Pearl Kai, the third on Oahu, shut down Saturday.
Walgreen Co., a major drugstore chain in the U.S., has expressed interest in opening a store at the Keeaumoku Street site.
Many shoppers took advantage of the closeout sale at Tower Records at Keeaumoku Street and Kahala Mall yesterday, with remaining CDs available at only 99 cents each. But there wasn't much left. Most shelves at both sites were empty as some shoppers filled their baskets with CDs and DVDs.
Music downloads from the Internet and big box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Circuit City and Best Buy that offer CDs at low prices contributed to the demise of Tower Records in the United States, according to some employees.
In October, Great American Group purchased the 89-music store chain following bankruptcy filings from Tower Records. A representative of Great American declined comment.
Nevertheless, the music store will continue to operate at franchised sites in several countries overseas, including Japan, where Tower Records thrives.
Shopper Kelly Nakasone said it was just a matter of time before Tower Records would be impacted by music downloads such as iTunes. "It's inevitable," Nakasone said. "It's easy to plug in an iPod and listen to a song for a buck."
Some store employees described Tower Records as an "icon of the music industry."
But with the combination of technology and a drop in computer prices in the mid-1990s, music lovers began to download music, a sign that a decline in store-bought CDs was eminent.
Some loyal customers continued to shop at Tower Records, knowing they would be able to find catalogue items at the chain store.
Flipping through rows of CDs, Makiki resident Celeste Vallentyne said Tower Records was the only retailer where she could find indie and underground music. Vallentyne, 26, said she spent about $200 on CDs at the Keeaumoku Street store within the last few days.
Cashier Shelley Kim, 19, said, "When we first found out that the store was closing, I thought I was going to cry."
What Kim will miss most, she said, is the chain's signature red-and-yellow sign displayed outside of the building.
"It will be hard to see that sign go," she said.
"It's an end of an era," said Eric Ripley, store manager of the Kahala store.
Ripley, who worked at Tower Records since he moved to Hawaii from San Francisco in 1993, said, "It's sad to see it come to an end."
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» Data reveals new tsunami risk
» Kayak tours emphasize care of nature
» UH graduation
» Bus drivers applaud no-ring bill
» Business class helps entrepreneur blossom
» Tower Records sounds final note
» Collapse of massive lava shelf appears imminent
» Dinner wraps up Filipino centennial
» Photo Finish
» Sherman still playing the name game
» Billy Joel forges strong connection
» Portfolio: The Southwest
» Keiki Kalikimaka
» Growth on the horizon for LeJardin
» LeJardin: Freshmen volunteer at home for ill kids
» LeJardin: You Asked
» Cel Shaded
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» Hawaii At Work: Offering a new perspective
» Tech View
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Austin youth invited to Halloween celebrations
By AustinTalks | October 30, 2018
One party is being held from 5 to 9 p.m. Oct. 31 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 846 N. Menard, and the other will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. at the 15th Police District, 5701 W. Madison St.
Free Halloween celebration
State Rep. La Shawn Ford has organized the event, which will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 at 4800 W. Chicago Ave. All are welcome.
Former Brach’s candy plant to be demolished
By AustinTalks | August 10, 2013
Owners of the property plan to construct an industrial building they hope will make the site more attractive to tenants.
A spooky Halloween celebration in Austin
By Corina Ferrer-Marcano | October 31, 2012
The Oct. 25 event was held at the Austin Town Hall Park. More fun is yet to be had on the West Side. Read more to learn where you can celebrate Halloween tonight.
ACT planning “innovation park” and arts district
By Ellyn Fortino | August 30, 2012
Working with Eco-Vidal Design and others, the Austin community coalition is looking for input on the project they hope will include the old Brach’s Candy factory.
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Sarah McQuaid Concert
"The precision and sophistication of the writing and playing blows me away. I am so glad to be involved," writes guitar legend Michael Chapman in his introduction to Sarah McQuaid's fifth solo album If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous - which he offered to produce after meeting Sarah at a festival where they were both on the bill.
Recently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ards International Guitar Festival in Northern Ireland, Sarah?s also drawn critical praise for her voice (which has been variously likened to malt whiskey and melted chocolate) and her engaging rapport with audiences: "I?ve attended hundreds of concerts of all kinds, and her subtle mastery onstage launches her straight into my fave shows ever," wrote The Huffington Post.
With the release of her new album, the Madrid-born, Chicago-raised, Cornwall-based singer/songwriter has expanded her battery of instruments to include piano, electric guitar and drum, and it's drawn critical raves internationally: Dutch music magazine Heaven hailed it as "an early contender for folk album of 2018," the UK's fRoots said it was "a collection to savour" and the USA's PopMatters called it "a gateway into a true innovator's soul."
"Seeing a shared world in a new way, from a different angle, is the role of the songwriter. Sarah gets a gold star on that front. This is a fabulous album." -The Afterword
"A darkly melodic, richly layered folk tapestry ... haunting and sparse, yet beautifully rendered ... a voice as thick and soft as fur." -Elmore Magazine
"A work of formidable passion." -FolkWords
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FGBI «ARRIAH»
Thesis Council
Scientific Library
Branch in the Republic of Crimea
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FGBI “ARRIAH” Was Visited by Delegation from Uganda
On August 12, 2014, the Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” was visited by the delegation from Uganda, which included representatives of Quality Chemicals Limited Company. The goal of the visit was discussion of cooperation matters.
Experts of the FGBI “ARRIAH” Assessed Anti-Epidemic Measures Taken on TOO Alata-Kus Poultry Farm
Viktor Irza and Andrey Varkentin, experts of the FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor, visited TOO Alata-Kus poultry farm (Republic of Kazakhstan) on July 22 - 25, 2014 for comprehensive assessment of anti-epidemic measures against contagious avian diseases.
Autopsy of dead chickens was performed and the vaccination schedules for parent hen flocks and final cross-bred chickens were analyzed during the assessment.
Advanced Training Was Carried out for Experts from the Crimean Branch of the FGBI “ARRIAH”
From July 28 to August 1, 2014, advanced training on methods for animal disease monitoring and diagnosis was carried out in the FGBI”ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor. Four experts from the Crimean branch participated in the abovementioned training.
For each participant an individual training program was organized by the Center’s laboratories:
FGBI “ARRIAH” Experts Participated in the Workshop of Chelyabinsk Oblast Ministry of Agriculture
On July 31, 2014, a workshop “Issues of Avian Disease Prevention on Poultry Farms of the Chelyabinsk Oblast” was held. The workshop was organized by the Minister of Agriculture of the Chelyabinsk Oblast for poultry disease specialists from the poultry farms located in the Urals Federal District. The Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “ARRIAH” was represented by Sergey Starov, Deputy Director on Quality; Viktor Irza, Head of the Poultry Disease Department; and Mikhail Volkov, Head of the Laboratory for Epizootology and Monitoring.
FGBI “ARRIAH” Participated in 10th European Pesticide Residue Workshop
During the period from June 30 to July 3, 2014 the 10th European Pesticide Residue Workshop (EPRW 2014) was held in Dublin, Ireland. The Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate “Federal Centre for Animal Health” was represented by Vasily Amelin, Tatyana Nikeshina and Dmitry Lavrukhin, members of the Laboratory for Chemical Analysis.
Participation of FGBI “ARRIAH” in joint meeting of OIE and CIC devoted to ASF early detection and prevention
The meeting of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and International Council for Game and Wildlife (CIC) was held from 30 June till 1 July 2014. The meeting was aimed at discussion of issues in reference to early detection and prevention of African swine fever (ASF) and consideration of issues concerning animal health protection at the interface of interactions between wild animals – farm animals – humans.
Visit of the Secretary of the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and- Mouth Disease (FMD) and FAO expert to the FGBI “ARRIAH”
During the period from 30 June till 1 July 2014 the FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor was visited by Mr. K.J. Sumption, Secretary of the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and-Mouth Disease, and Mr. G. Grigoryan, FAO expert. The visit was aimed at discussion of issues on cooperation between the Centre and the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and- Mouth Disease (EuFMD).
Participation of the FGBI “ARRIAH” in the Scientific Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease Aspects
The Conference “Methods for foot and mouth disease prevention and control in Taiwan, analysis of field cases, exchange of experience with the OIE Reference Laboratory for Foot and Mouth Disease (FGBI “ARRIAH”). Foot and mouth disease vaccine control and use of actual strains in vaccines for foot and mouth disease prevention in pigs” was held from 17 till 20 June 2014 in the People’s Republic of China (Haikou).
Participation of the FGBI “ARRIAH” specialist in the International Conference for Animal Infectious Diseases
The International Conference “Future tasks in the area of animal infectious diseases and transmitted from animals to humans infectious diseases – global foresight initiative” was held during the period from 18 till 19 June 2014. The FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor was represented at the event by Sergey Rybakov, Doctor of Science (Biology), Professor.
Delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam visited the FGBI “ARRIAH”
On June 24, 2014 a delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam consisting of the representatives of the National Agro Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIKAD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development visited the FGBI “ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor. The aim of the visit was to discuss perspectives of scientific collaboration and of joint research programs in the sphere of prevention and control of terrestrial animal infectious diseases.
A visit to FGBI ARRIAH high delegation from India
On the 17th of June 2014 delegation from India has visited FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” (FGBI “ARRIAH”) which is subordinated to Rosselkhoznadzor. The delegation consisted of veterinarians and commercial director of the company International Health Care LTD which is part of PVS Group. The purpose of visit was discussion of scientific and technical cooperation.
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Organization: Company A, 1st Delaware Infantry
Entered Service: Wilmington, Del.
Birth: 28 September 1840, Camden, Del.
Date Medal Issued: 22 July 1892.
Voluntarily delivered an order in the face of heavy fire of the enemy.
"Postles deed of valor came on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. There, the 1st Delaware Regiment was a part of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Smyth's 2nd Brigade, Brig. General Hays's 3rd Division of Major General Hancock's II Corps."
"This day, July 2, 1863, the above soldiers were placed between the Taneytown and Emmitsburg roads just west of Cemetery Ridge. Located about one half a mile in front of the Union lines was the Bliss Farm consisting of a house and barn. All day both sides fought over possession of this farm. Around 6 o'clock in the evening Rebel sharpshooters gained the Bliss house and were causing a great deal of problems for the Union soldiers. To help put a stop to this four companies of the 12th New Jersey Regiment aided the 1st Delaware Regiment in gaining possession of the barn some 60 yards from the house. The Rebel's however wouldn't leave the house and continued to wreck havoc on the Union soldiers."
"General Alexander Hays, division commander, sent word to Col. Smyth to have his men in the barn 'take that damned white house and hold it at all hazards!' Col. Smyth turned to his men and said 'Gentlemen, you heard, who will take the order?' "
"At that moment Postles was sitting on a rock a few feet away with his head in his hands having been sick for several days. Not hearing any response to Smyth's request, Postles raised his head and answered: 'I will take it, sir.' "
"Postles mounted his horse, crossed the Emmitsburg Road, and headed at a gallop in the direction of the barn half a mile distant. The moment he crossed the Emmitsburg Road, Postles began to draw fire from the Rebel sharpshooters in the house which became so hot that he wondered why none of the bullets hit him or his horse. The closer he got, the thicker the bullets, but he reasoned he was safe as long as he was in motion and wondered what he was going to do when he stopped to deliver the message at the barn? Surely the bullets would then find their marks because they were firing at him from every window and door of the house just 60 yards away."
"As he got closer to the barn, he dug his spurs violently into his horse's sides. He later wrote: 'The poor brute, his sides torn up by my spurs and his mouth lacerated and bleeding from the cruel curb-bit, reared, and kicked and plunged, so that I was as bad a mark as though in full gallop.' He stopped and shouted out his message to the barn and as soon as they acknowledge it he raced safely back to his lines."
"When he got about 300 yards from the Rebel sharpshooters and felt safe, he reined in his horse and turned in his saddle. Taking off his cap, he waved in at the Rebel in defiance. That brought on the Rebel yell as they stopped firing at him. He rode back to the Union lines amidst three cheers and the congratulation of the corps commander himself, General Winfield Hancock."
"Out on the farm the Union soldiers attacked and took possession of the house, taking 40 prisioners and burning both the house and barn to the ground. As the prisoners were brought in, they recognized Postles as the daring rider and one of them said 'Well sir, I guess your time hain't come yet.' Postles asked the man what he meant and he related to him that he himself had three clean shots at him and so had others and neither the horse nor rider had been hit once."
(from Martin, Roger A., Delaware"s Medal of Honor Recipients)
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Los Cabos Film Festival Announces the Films of the Horror, Environmental and American Specials Programs | October 20, 2015
Los Cabos International Film Festival is known as its program focuses on North American Cinema, strengthened by a selection of outstanding films acclaimed at the world’s most important festivals. In its fourth edition the Festival will premiere much-awaited films in its After DARK, American Specials and Green programs.
For the second year running, the Festival presents its After Dark program, with a provocative selection of films that are on the borderlines between horror, science fiction and black comedy, exploring the full range of contemporary genre cinema.
We are proud to present the following three flawless films that have done the rounds of prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Cannes and Fantastic Fest, and whose elegance raises terror to a higher level:
“Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense.”
Peter Bradshaw. The Guardian
Dir. Matteo Garrone (Gomorra, Reality)
Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones
Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival.
“…an impressive feature debut with this gripping historical horror-thriller.”
Justin Chang. Variety
THE WITCH (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Robert Eggers (The Tell-Tale Heart, Hansel and Gretel)
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
“…offers a compelling vision of life pushed to extremes.
A gorgeously executed picture that prizes its characters as much
as the elements of genre film.” Fantastic Fest
WHAT WE BECOME (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Bo Mikkelsen (First Feature)
Cast: Mille Dinesen, Toels Lyby and Ole Dupont
Premiered at Fantastic Fest.
In the new American Specials program, we present the following American films that have won critical acclaim and set box-office records, among them the Mexican Premieres of:
“Depp shines in a solid gangster biopic.” Todd McCarthy. The Hollywood Reporter
BLACK MASS(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival.
“A scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy.” Leslie Felperin. The Guardian
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Marielle Heller (First Work)
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård and Kristen Wiig
Premiered at Sundance.
In this fourth edition, Green is presented by Discovery Channel. In this program awareness-raising films prompt us to ponder on our responsibilities vis-à-vis the environment, and on the urgent need to establish a balance among all the links in the chain of life on our planet.
The films in this program are:
“Whereas marine activist Louie Psihoyos’ ‘The Cove’ took an environmental crisis — specifically, the slaughter and sale of dolphins off the coast of Japan — and turned it into a white-knuckle suspense thriller,
his even higher-stakes follow-up, ‘Racing Extinction’.”Peter Debruge. Variety
RACING EXTINCTION(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Louie Psihoyos (Oscar Winner for Best Documentary for The Cove, Chaising Ice, Dinosaur 13)
“The journey of Hurricane is, for me, like a kind of pilgrimage which no-one has ever undertaken before” Hurricane co-director
and cinematographer Cyril Barbancon via Screendaily
HURRICANE 3D (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Cyril Barbançon y Andy Byatt
“Powerful eco doc fronts up to climate change deniers.”
Andrew Pulver. The Guardian
LA GLACE ET LE CIEL(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Luc Jacquet
This film was the closing gala at Cannes Film Festival.After Dark, American Specials and Green are part of a carefully chosen comprehensive selection of films that exemplify different ways of telling and visualizing stories. From November 11-15, Los Cabos Film Festival invites you to enjoy this selection of the best films launched in 2015.
COME AND SEE WHAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE DOING
MEXICO, USA AND CANADA SHOWCASE THEIR BEST FILMS TO THE WORLD
New CTT EXP & Rentals + Chemistry Platform Award valued in $3,073,372.20 MXN 2018 Call For Entries are Open ‘BATTLE OF THE SEXES’, ‘DOWNSIZING’, ‘MOLLY’S GAME’ AND ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI’, WILL HAVE THEIR MEXICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN PREMIERES DURING LOS CABOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DISCOVER THE NEW LOOK OF #LosCabos6 The Los Cabos Film Festival 2017 announces the projects selected by Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund
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Technologies review
Headings of Inventions
Alternative power sources
Electric power industry
Radioelectronics
Engineering industry
Alternative welding techniques
Protective coatings for metals
Nano-doped diamond-like films
Military industry
Technologies of multidiscipline application
Processing of transparent crystals
Technologies of desalination and purification of salt water
Medicine and pharmaceutics
Energy-saving technologies in construction
Utilization, treatment and recycling of waste
Oil-refining industry
Machinery and engines
Research institute of progress of technologies
Innovation Technologies
» Static electric power generator
» Self-charging generator – converts ambient energy into electricity
» High-selective chemical metallization of laser draught on ceramic substrates and crystals
» Technology of diamond-like films using in solar batteries
» Manufacturing technology of alloy for welding of aluminum to stainless steel without previous steel aluminizing
» Cold soldering of metals to metals and metals to ceramics and glass
» Technology of chemical nickel plating of products of steel, cast iron and plastic
» Efficient seawater desalinator
» Technology of non-waste and environmentally friendly utilization and recycling of used disposable medical droppers, syringes and needles
» Universal technology of utilization of batteries of any type
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Technology of chemical nickel plating of products of steel, cast iron and plastic
As a result of its undeniable advantages and specific qualities, chemical nickel plating can be used in automobile manufacturing, instrument engineering and in many other branches of production sector.
The most important among them is the fact that chemical nickel plating has high protective qualities and it is more effective to aggressive environment in comparison with electroless nickel.
The technology provides more qualitative covering of not only the products of metal, cast iron, plastic but of inorganic dielectrics which include ceramics, glass, porcelain, glimmer, ceramized glass and ferrites.
Advantage: offered technology has high effectiveness and quality and is profitable economically
The technology allows electroless nickel plating of ferrous and alloy steels, cast iron articles, as well as for coating of plastic, glass, ceramics, and so on.
Electroless nickel plating is widely implemented thanks to the valuable properties of its coating:
– high uniformity,
– high hardness,
– significant corrosion resistance and wear resistance.
Electroless nickel plating has higher protective properties than nickel electroplating.
Protective properties of electroless nickel plating are defined not only by their own chemical resistance of the deposited metal, but by its structural features.
Electroless-reduced nickel after may be used to cover wear parts and the parts which operate under high temperature conditions.
It is found that the electroless nickel plating is less porous than electroplating of the same thickness.
Determining porosity of nickel plating of different thickness, it was found that under porosity parameter electroless-reduced Ni-plating 8-10mm thick corresponded to electrolytic precipitations 20 microns thick.
It should also be noted that the plating obtained by electroless method contain hydrogen several times less than electroplating.
The ability to protect the main material against corrosion under the following conditions is important for nickel-coated products:
– at high temperatures (560-625°C)
– and the pressure of 1250 MPa, in the air and steam environments.
Because of its specific properties nickel-plating finds application in many fields of mechanical and instrument engineering:
– coating of metal articles of complex profile (with deep channels and blind holes);
– to improve wear resistance of wearing surfaces of machine parts;
– to improve corrosion resistance in boiling alkali media;
– to replace chromium coating (with subsequent thermal treatment of electroless nickel);
– to use cheaper steel with chemical nickel plating instead of corrosion-resistant steel;
– for nickel plating of large-size equipment;
– for coating of plastics, glass, ceramics and etc..
There were conducted comparative tests of nickel plated coatings.
Under conditions of these test there was proved – that the products coated with nickel by electroless method have higher protective capacity than those coated by electroplating method.
Conducted tests showed that Ni-coated samples of 25 micron thick do not change their appearance after spraying them with a solution of sodium chloride in the corrosion chamber over 8 days; after spraying outdoors – over 80 days; in water, heated up to 82°C (with air blow) – for 42 days.
Also as a result of the tests of electroless nickel plating and nickel electroplating regularly sprayed in a corrosion chamber with 3% sodium chloride solution, there was proved – that the corrosion pits appear on electroless coatings, but further surface damage does not take place even after 2000 hours of tests, while they spread quickly coatings made by electroplating.
Additionally, for purposes to compare the use of electroless nickel plating to protect the parts against corrosion under conditions of tropical climates, we used steel samples which were coated in solution.
– And also samples with coatings made by nickel electroplating (matte-finished and glazed-finished).
The samples were placed in a chamber for 21 hours at a temperature of 35 ± 2 and 20 ± 2°C.
The first corrosion pits on the samples with coating made by nickel electroplating showed up on the matte-finished nickel -in 7 day after testing, on glazed-finished nickel – in 14 days.
Corrosion pits occurred on none of the samples with coating made by electroless nickel plating within 84 days of testing.
In 14 days a thin purple film occurred on them and remained until the end of testing. By assumption of scientists the presence of this film contributed to enhancing of the corrosion resistance of these coatings.
Testing the samples under conditions of sub-tropical climate, indoor with humidity and temperature of the outer atmosphere, – coating made by electroless nickel plating were also covered with an oxide film of purple color and it remained within two years.
It should be added that with the help of electroless nickel plating the problem of creation of light and wear-resistant friction pairs made of different aluminum alloys can be solved.
Electroless nickel plating may be used to coat non-metallic materials (plastics and inorganic dielectrics).
Inorganic dielectrics include ceramics, glass, porcelain, mica, glass ceramics, and ferrites.
Metallization of inorganic dielectrics is used to make the following surface properties to the metal parts:
– Conductivity
– Ability to soldering,
– Thermal conductivity.
Metallization of glass is used to produce mirrors. Silicate materials (glass, quartz, glass ceramics, mica, etc.) at first are subject to chemical degreasing, and then are treated in a special solution.
Parts made of non-metallic materials with metal coatings are widely introduced in radio engineering, automotive and other industries, so the question of the methods of electroless plating of metals combined with galvanic one is up-to-date.
If you are interested – we will provide additional information and designer’s supervision over implementation of the technology.
p.s. We expect proposals for mutually beneficial cooperation
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Steampunk-inspired Musical Adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast"
Fri & Sat at 7pm, Sunday at 2pm
World Under Wonder Playhouse
Ascutney, VT
World Under Wonder performs a steampunk-inspired musical adaptation of the French folktale, Beauty and the Beast, on August 16 & 17 at 7pm, and August 18 at 2pm.
Many different theatrical effects are implemented, including haze machines, projections, and LED lighting within costumes. Vegan steampunk cupcakes will be available before the show. At intermission, audience members may take part in a steampunk costume contest to win tickets to future shows, and a steam punk art silent auction. Photos with the cast will be available afterward.
Tickets are available by emailing WUW at director@worldunderwonder.org or by calling Sean Roberts at 603-381-3344. Only 100 seats are available per performance. August 16 & 17 at 7pm, and August 18 at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for those under 18, over 65, or veterans.
Ascutney VT
Ticket Telephone Number 603-381-3344
Website: www.worldunderwonder.org
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Older and Wiser
Can You Really Age Whiskey In Space?
Suntory is planning to leave their whiskeys on the International Space Station for at least a year to see if it will accelerate maturation. Can you really hurry a good thing?
Aaron Goldfarb
Updated 04.14.17 9:52AM ET / Published 08.08.15 12:01AM ET
Aging whiskey is somehow both the simplest thing in the world…and a process the (mostly) old men who do it might not even fully understand.
The simple part: a distilled white spirit—typically corn-based in America—is put into a barrel—typically charred oak in America—and then left to sit around for a decent stretch of time.
The complex part: over these many years, the climate’s changing temperatures cause the whiskey to seep into the wood, then get pushed back out, extracting with it flavorful compounds like vanillins and hemicellulose which naturally linger in the barrel staves.
Whatever the case, when the whiskey ultimately comes out of the barrel, the product will be darker, have (usually) had the white dog’s rough edges smoothed away, and become a now-complex offering packed with flavors such as caramel, vanilla, and even tobacco.
Unfortunately, creating great whiskey has always meant dealing with that annoying little time factor.
Straight bourbon legally must be aged for two years, someone like Eddie Russell (the co-master distiller at Wild Turkey) has told me he thinks bourbon hits its sweet spot around six years, and, of course, some of the world’s most coveted bourbons, ryes, and scotches often take ten to upwards of twenty-something years to become truly divine.
But what if there was a way to cheat the system? Why, you’d immediately revolutionize the industry and surely become quite rich in the process.
Suntory doesn’t exactly need to revolutionize the industry any more that it already has, and it’s already plenty rich enough, but this ancient Japanese distillery is still trying.
This week, the world’s fourth-largest liquor company announced that on August 16 they will send some of their whiskey to the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” aboard the International Space Station.
Interestingly, the six glass flasks being sent aren’t even new whiskey. Instead, Suntory is sending ten, eighteen, and twenty-one-year-old whiskeys, planning to leave them on the station for at least a year.
Reportedly, the company’s researchers believe storing the whiskey in an environment without temperature fluctuations or gravity could lead to a mellower flavor profile upon its return to earth.
“Our company has hypothesized that ‘the formation of high-dimensional molecular structure consisting of water, ethanol, and other ingredients in alcoholic beverages contributes to the development of mellowness,’” notes Suntory’s mumbo-jumbo-y press release.
At first glance, this may seem like a gimmick, similar to Ninkasi Brewing’s recent “out of this world” experiment.
Last year, the Eugene, Oregon brewery rocketed several vials of yeast 400,000 miles above earth, seeing if anything might happen to it.
When it returned, brewery scientists found nothing had really been altered chemically, and the resulting Ground Control Imperial Stout got fairly pedestrian reviews.
Having said that, back in 2011, noted Scottish distillery Ardbeg also sent to the International Space Station half a liter of scotch terpenes alongside shards of charred oak inside a NanoRacks MixStix.
Once aboard the station an astronaut activated the experiment, causing the spirit to mix with the oak particles to simulate barrel-aging.
Though the vials returned to earth in September of last year, we are still awaiting the results of Head of Distilling & Whisky Creation Dr. Bill Lumsden’s exhaustive studies, the findings of which will eventually be released in a white paper.
A slightly less interesting, but perhaps more viable place whiskey has been aged is on a boat. While fishing with a friend, Trey Zoeller, the founder and master blender of Jefferson’s Bourbon, had an idea: what about aging his bourbon at sea?
He figured that just maybe, the constant sloshing of the bourbon due to the natural waves of the ocean might cause the product to age faster.
Conveniently, Zoeller had a friend, Chris Fischer, who was the founder of OCEARCH, a great white shark tracking group.
Fischer allowed Zoeller to put a few barrels of unaged white whiskey on his boat when the researcher went off on his next global tracking mission. Some four years later, Zoeller tried the bourbon and was stunned.
“The bourbon went in (the barrels) clear as water and came out black,” he told NPR. “Bourbon always picks up color in the barrel, but this four-year-old bourbon was darker than thirty-year-old bourbon.”
What had happened was the more frequent than usual contact with the barrel wood had stripped away bad, astringent flavors quicker than usual, while helping the positive flavors become faster extracted from the wood.
As a bonus, the sea air had also somehow gotten into the exposed barrels as well, adding a unique briny taste to the bourbon.
First released in just a few-hundred bottles in 2012, Jefferson’s Ocean is one of the most intriguing bourbons I’ve ever tasted, one actually worth its higher $85 price tag.
Others clearly agree, as it has become a now regular expression in Jefferson’s catalog. They are now on “Voyage No. 4,” which was released earlier this year, and Zoeller often notes: “I can tell the difference between each voyage.”
Maybe his method isn’t so bizarre. As Zoeller told Food & Wine: “Whiskey was aged for the first time when it was floated down the Mississippi then up to New York. This was the original maturation process.”
Somewhat luckily for Jefferson’s, they don’t actually distill their own bourbon, so they have plenty of time to worry and wonder about aging techniques.
Jefferson’s buys most all of their bourbon already aged from factory distilleries like MGP in Indiana. Furthermore, recent batches of Ocean have seen barrels already six- and seven-years-old put aboard the boats.
At the same time, some craft distilleries have opted for aging their whiskeys via methods that don’t have them deciding whether to put their distillate on planes, trains, and/or automobiles.
These companies are banking on that fact that it’s less important where whiskey has been aged, and more important how it has been.
Virginia’s Copper Fox Distillery tries to speed up the aging process with a tea-bagging-like method, adding a mesh sack of toasted oak and apple wood chips to the distillate for a year.
Meanwhile, the Tuthilltown distillery in upstate New York ages its Hudson Baby Bourbon in tiny, three gallon barrels to facilitate more wood contact (traditionally, bourbon is aged in 53-gallon barrels).
Additionally, low-frequency sound waves pulse through the aging warehouse at all times, the distillers believing it agitates the liquid, causing even more barrel contact.
There’s also Cleveland Whiskey which pumps its white distillate briefly through barrels—to legally attain the designation “bourbon”—before adding it to stainless steel tanks with chopped-apart barrels.
The tanks then undergo “disruptive pressure-aging technology,” causing the wood chunks to act almost as tiny sponges, pulling the liquid into their pores, then squeezing it back out again. The newly-released Highspire Rye is intriguingly aged in California wine barrels for 130 days with a blend of oak staves added inside.
I must admit that, while many of these techniques sound like they might logically work, I’ve yet to find any that truly do.
True, most of the aforementioned “rapidly-aged” whiskeys come in gorgeous bottles and have bombastic founders who are absolutely, 100% certain their whiskey is as good as the well-aged stuff you’ve actually heard of.
Unfortunately, while I can tell you that none of the aforementioned booze tastes “bad” per se, none of them truly taste like anything other than young whiskey.
So what’s next? Can the science of aging spirits actually be cheated? Is there some special place to put white dog whiskey that will truly speed up the process?
Perhaps buried in the desert, atop a skyscraper, at the North Pole, or maybe even at the bottom of the ocean like the rum-maker Seven Fathoms has recently tried.
Or maybe it’s more in discovering a special process that can act like a time machine. It still seems unlikely, but one man might have come closest to cracking the mysteries of aging.
Though details are still scarce, Lost Spirits master distiller Bryan Davis has reportedly developed a patented, hyper-speed reactor that can provide the equivalent of twenty years of barrel-aging in just a week (and without a single barrel necessary).
The few bottles of artificially aged single malts and rums he has already sent out into the world have been massive hits, lionized by geeks and critics alike.
If his technique is proven truly viable when his prototype is finally unveiled to the public next month, Davis may very well revolutionize the way we all drink aged spirits. If not…well, many, many good men and women might be headed back to the drawing board.
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ESPN Axes Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis After Misconduct Investigation
Danny Moloshok/Reuters
ESPN has severed ties with former NFL stars Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis following an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the NFL Network. In a statement issued Saturday, the network said the two football-stars-turned-TV personalities are “no longer working for us.” They were taken off the air on Dec. 12 after a former NFL Network employee filed a lawsuit accusing them and five others of sexual harassment. McNabb was accused of sending sexually explicit text messages, while Davis was accused of making lewd comments. The former employee who filed the lawsuit, Jami Cantor, worked at the NFL Network for 10 years before she alleges she was wrongfully terminated after complaining of the alleged harassment.
Read it at Associated Press
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CAN'T MAKE IT UP
Laura Ingraham Doubles Down on LeBron James Attack
The Fox News host wasn't backing down from ripping a black athlete for daring to criticize President Trump.
Margaret Carlson
Updated 02.19.18 9:52AM ET / Published 02.17.18 2:54PM ET
Fox News host Laura Ingraham spent a segment of Friday’s show defending herself against charges of racism. She was just making a joke, a pun, a funny aside, really, when she said that Cavaliers basketball player LeBron James should just “shut up and dribble.” She was offended when he said in a video that President Donald Trump “doesn’t understand the people, and really don’t give a f--- about the people.”
She could have apologized in that non-apologetic way famous people have of being sorry in the off-chance someone was offended. But why do that when you’ve got a made-for-TV ratings hit? There’s James, whom she went after for trying to go pro a year early, and for his "barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical," way of speaking versus a right wing anchor of the sort Fox cloned until its sexual harassment scandal sent it’s most famous scurrying for higher ground.
While James was growing up poor and fatherless to become a successful businessman, model father, and pillar of the community, Ingraham was becoming rich and famous by way of Dartmouth College where she was known for hunting and bagging liberals as an editor at the conservative Dartmouth Review. Her most hateful stunt was sending a reporter to infiltrate a gay group on campus taking down names and addresses. Ingraham then wrote letters outing those students to their parents. She regretted that publicly when she found out many years later that her brother was gay and later that his partner was dying from AIDs, as if treating a gay person properly was possible only if you had one in the family. She didn’t discover a black relative so she never took back attacking an African American professor for being himself, including having hair resembling “a used Brillo pad.”
In taking after James, Ingraham is in step with Trump whose favorite sports figures are white owners, coaches and quarterbacks. Commenting While Black violates the unspoken sports ideal where whites sit in the expensive seats watching blacks throw a ball for their entertainment expecting them to always be seen and not heard. For weeks, Trump took time away from TV watching and golf, with Ingraham’s approval, to urge owners to fire any African-Americans who dared to take a knee to protest police killing unarmed black men on behalf of those who don’t have a voice. Does anyone think that the first to kneel, Colin Kaepernick a record-setting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, being benched is not Trump’s dream come true?
Ingraham found two black commentators to come on Friday night to confirm that she was right to take on the uppity James deemed “a clown” who should be “fired by the NBA” and extol Trump as the jobs president for blacks. Ingraham spent a lot of time expanding on a statement put out earlier by Fox that with “shut up and dribble” she was simply paying homage to her book Shut Up & Sing. She believes a polemic of 15 years ago is such a cultural touchstone, like Star Wars or Harry Potter, she can drop a reference into conversation and everyone gets it. To make her point, she cited another of her bon mots like telling Jimmy Kimmel to “Shut Up & Make Us Laugh,” and this week counseling San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich to “Shut up & Coach.” Of course, both of them were spouting liberal sentiments at odds with Trump on health care and guns. She granted herself immunity to criticize anyone who veers into her lane of political punditry, rightly reserved for her and the High Church of Fox. She had no criticism when another sports celebrity, Tim Tebow former Denver Broncos quarterback who appeared in a pro-life commercial famously broadcast during the Super Bowl in 2010.
On this long weekend celebrating President’s Day, maybe Ingraham will have time to watch more of the video where James admired the cop on the beat in his childhood neighborhood and how he works hard at being the good father his absent father was not. Foretelling what was to come, he brought up how some people, no matter what you become in life, will always remind you that you are beneath them recalling the racial epithet spray painted on the front gate of his house.
For his part, James posted "#wewillnotshutupanddribble" on his Twitter Friday night along with a picture of a neon sign that read "I am more than an athlete."
Away from the klieg lights Ingraham might ask what Ronald Reagan, her former idol and boss, would do. There’s no explaining how she got from him to a blowhard nationalist with a spotty relationship to the truth like Trump, except in her desire to be with a winner and pass Fox’s loyalty test. James vowed to repaint the fence and build it taller. Let’s tune in Tuesday to see what Ingraham is going to do.
Editor's Note: This column has been updated to correct an error. It previously stated that Ingraham's brother had suffered from AIDS. It was her brother's partner.
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Driverless Bus Collides With Pedestrian in Vienna
The accident put a self-driving bus trial on hold.
FOX & EPA FRIENDS
Watchdogs Call on EPA to Probe Its Dealings With Fox News
Maxwell Tani
Media reporter
Updated 12.13.18 10:47AM ET / Published 12.13.18 10:46AM ET
Two left-leaning government watchdog groups on Thursday called upon the EPA to launch an internal investigation into whether the agency broke federal laws in its friendly coordination with Fox News. Last month, The Daily Beast reported that before an interview with former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt last year, a Fox & Friends producer sent a script to be approved by the EPA’s communications team. In a letter to the EPA’s office of inspector general on Thursday, Democracy Forward and Restore Public Trust said the EPA may have “violated federal laws that prohibit government funds from being expended to engage in covert propaganda” by approving the script without disclosing it had been government approved. “The Trump administration has a history of deceiving the public, and this is just another glaring example,” said Caroline Ciccone, Restore Public Trust’s executive director. “The American people expect that government officials honor long-established boundaries between the government and the press - and shouldn’t be using the media as its own publicist.”
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Using creativity to bridge the mental health divide
By Lalita Kaplish | The Researcher’s View
For the seventh in our series on the Asylum and Beyond, Victoria Tischler considers creativity as a way to share experiences of mental illness.
I’ve been thinking about the line between those living with mental health problems and without. As someone who works in the field it is often obvious, even at social events, which side you are on. Anyway, it isn’t really a divide at all, it’s a continuum and we all fall somewhere along it. An artwork in Crichton Royal Hospital archive by William Bartholomew – ‘Cake Month – ain’t it ridik’lus?’ (1861) – reminds me of the plethora of factors involved in mental illness and of the power of art to captivate. The decorative and stylized work features a jumble of text, bizarre and seemingly unconnected images and historical references, reminiscent of a word (and image) salad.
‘Cake Month – ain’t it ridik’lus?’ Drawing by William Bartholomew, 1861. Library reference: DGH/1/7/3/1/17.
Bartholomew was treated at by W. A. F. Browne, the medical superintendent at Crichton from 1838–1857, a very early proponent of moral treatment, and an enthusiast for the use of art in mental health care. Browne recognized the artistic talent of his patients, authoring a treatise on ‘Mad Artists’ in 1880. Thus began the one of the earliest formative attempts to document the creative potential of mental health.
Whether you ascribe to genetic, social or environmental causes, countless of us will experience mental illness, yet many remain reluctant to reveal this publicly. It’s mainly to do with stigma and fear. People are afraid, of a world upside down, rather like that portrayed in another work by an unknown Crichton patient – the ‘Dipsomaniac’.
Seascape with upside down view. Watercolour by unknown patient at Crichton Royal Hospital, 1850s. Inscription on reverse reads ‘Dipsomaniac’. Library reference: DGH/1/7/3/1/91.
We continue to be haunted by images of the raving lunatic of yore locked up, out of view. Madness has long been associated with otherworldly possession, deviance and criminality. In the past incarceration in an asylum was a spectacle; worthy of public visitors, for others out of sight was out of mind. This dilemma still resounds in the public imagination; a place where morbid fascination meets denial. Even more pertinent nowadays is the prejudice and discrimination that those living with mental health problems experience.
In some respects contemporary mental healthcare has not changed much. Asylums that were once places of respite are now voluntary yet locked repositories for the mad and insufferable, offering scant regard to aesthetics. The closure of asylums and moves to provide care in the community mean that mental health problems are more visible yet the stigma remains. High profile revelations by people such as Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, Vice President of the British Psychological Society, and celebrities such as Emma Thompson and Catherine Zeta-Jones about episodes of mental illness have brought the issue into the mainstream, although the dark shadow remains.
As someone who has worked in the mental health field in clinical, academic and voluntary sectors for more than two decades, I still struggle with how best to help those who experience mental health problems.
Using powerful art as its focus, and led by those with lived experience of mental health problems, the ‘Expert by Experience’ led organisation, Daily Life Ltd, uses innovative and creative methods to challenge stigma and negativity and to change thinking about mental health. A recent Daily Life Ltd event- The Roving Diagnostic Unit Late Spectacular – demonstrated how role modelling, authenticity and creativity could engage the public in a fun, playful and attractive way. These latter factors are key. Mental health issues are not typically associated with fun, play and attractiveness.
Power pants at the Roving Diagnostic Unit Late Spectacular. Image credit: Priya Mistry.
A stellar line up of talented artists including Dylan Tighe and Priya Mistry (my personal highlights) mesmerised their audiences and got people involved, indeed some proudly wore their personalised Power Pants all night long! The evening culminated with a performance by the enigmatic and legendary Bobby Baker, artistic director of Daily Life Ltd. The entire event embraced and enhanced by the wondrous ambiance of the William Morris gallery. It was all about mental health but it didn’t feel like it. It was quite simply an amazing and memorable night out.
This approach works yet I wouldn’t advocate it for everyone. Mental health is fluid, and people are heterogeneous, so one approach doesn’t suit all. There is still much to do and to learn, especially from people with experience of mental illness. They continue to live with multiple and severe disadvantage. In parts of the world, being mentally ill means being physically chained up, some remain shackled by pharmaceuticals or demons within them, provoked by childhood adversity or other traumatic experiences. Social and economic inequality divides us all, not just those who experience ill health.
Yet we all retain the capacity to be creative. Creativity offers a bridge across the divide between those who experience mental illness and those who don’t, in doing so it can create connections and profound change.
Victoria Tischler is a freelance curator, researcher and psychologist. Her research interests focus on art and mental health.
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One Response to Using creativity to bridge the mental health divide
Mentally unhealthy
I really don’t agree that it is obvious ‘which side of the line’ people are on. If you look around a room, some may obviously have mental health issues. On a bad day, I’ll be one of them.
However, do you then assume that all others are mentally healthy? Even people you know and think are mentally healthy may not be. I hid my mental health issues for as long as I could, in fact it took a long time for me to identify that I had mental health issues.
Also, I don’t believe that there is a black and white line. People are not either mentally healthy or unhealthy. I think it is a continuance.
I’m sorry, I don’t think that your comments help the stigmatisation issues. It comes across as increasing the divide between healthy and unhealthy. Of course, the reality is that everyone has a mental health status, mine just happens to not be so good right now.
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Another former Colorado player makes NBA — remember Chris Copeland?
By Tom Kensler
Chris Copeland. (Associated Press)
BOULDER – Chris Copeland completed his eligibility at Colorado almost six years ago, but he has made the 15-player roster of the New York Knicks, making him one of the NBA’s most unlikely rookies. He will turn 29 years of age in March.
Copeland, a 6-foot-8 forward from Richmond, Va., averaged 7.5 points and 3.8 rebounds during his college career (2002-06). After leaving CU, Copeland played in European leagues for teams in Belgium, Germany and Spain. He also played for Fort Wayne of the NBA’s D-League, but earned his spot on the Knicks roster with his play on the team’s summer league squad, where he averaged 13.8 points.
Copeland became the fourth former CU player on a current NBA roster — the first time ever for the school to have four in the pros in the same season. He joins joins Chauncey Billups (L.A. Clippers, injured), Alec Burks (Utah Jazz) and Cory Higgins (Charlotte Bobcats).
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Summer play of point guard enables Colorado to sign 6-8 Dustin Thomas
Entering the current recruiting season, Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle was searching primarily for wing guards.
Mission completed. Boyle and his staff have received an oral commitment from 6-foot-5 Jaron Hopkins, a four-star talent from Mesa, Ariz., who coaches hope will follow in a lineage of scoring wing guards to come through the program: Cory Higgins, Alec Burks and Carlon Brown.
In addition to Hopkins, Boyle would have loved to have landed 6-5 Jabari Bird, had the five-star prospect not committed last week to Pac-12 rival California.
The Buffs also wondered if they needed another ball-handling guard. But the solid play of freshman point guard Eli Stalzer during the team’s five-game summer tour of Europe allowed the Buffs to use their second scholarship on a 6-8 forward: Dustin Thomas of Texarkana, Texas.
Thomas averaged 20 points and 14 rebounds as a high school junior. He could fit right in as a replacement for 6-7 Buffs forward Andre Roberson — as soon as next season if Roberson has a big year and decides to turn pro.
My take: The 6-3 Stalzer appears to be a steal as a spring signee. Look for the former Mater Dei HS (Santa Ana, Calif.) teammate of prior CU signee Xavier Johnson to get important minutes this season. And credit his performances during CU’s European tour for enabling Boyle to go after Thomas and help the overall roster.
Categories: College Basketball, Pac-12, Recruiting, University of Colorado
Colorado basketball eyes small forward Tre’shaun Lexing in Tacoma
Those who criticize the July evaulation period for college basketball recruiting as a “meat market” may be overlooking what it can do for the prospective student-athlete.
Tre’shaun Lexing, a 6-5 1/2, 195-pound small forward at Tacoma (Wash.) Lincoln HS, watched his offer list grow in quantity and quality after competing last week at a tournament in Las Vegas.
Lexing presumably was spotted by Colorado’s coaching staff and, according to Rivals.com, left Las Vegas with a CU offer.
According to the recruiting-based website, Lexing also now has offers from Washington State, Gonzaga and Oregon State. Prior to the Las Vegas event, it appeared his best offers came from Boise State and Santa Clara.
Lexing, who averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds and five assists as a junior, told Rivals.com that he expects to take an official visit to Colorado in September.
Colorado’s Tad Boyle and his staff seem to be scouring the nation, and especially the West, in search of a quality “2 or 3” wing (shooting guard or small forward) type of player with big upside, perhaps hoping to land the next Cory Higgins or Alec Burks.
As a senior-to-be, Lexing can sign a national letter of intent during the November signing period.
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Colorado Buffs hoops recruiting 6-foot-5 guards
The Colorado men’s basketball team has lost three tall guards in recent years — Cory Higgins, Alec Burks and Carlon Brown — so it’s no surprise that head coach Tad Boyle and his staff are recruiting to fill that position.
Adam Munsterteiger of the local Rivals.com site BuffStampede.com uncovered two CU targets for the current recruiting cycle: 6-foot-5 Brandon Parrish of Arlington (Texas) Juan Seguin HS and 6-5 Elliott Pitts of Concord (Calif.) De La Salle HS. Both are seniors-to-be and can sign in November.
Pitts said he received an offer from Colorado among a list that also includes California, Arizona, Boston College and others.
Parrish said CU coaches said they would like to evaluate him during the summer tournaments. “I am hearing they really like me,” Parrish told Rivals.com. “They don’t have that many scholarships for my class, so while I am high on their list they want to evaluate me further in July.”
Parris said he already has offers from Kansas State, Oregon State, Tulane and Rice.
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Scouting report: Buffs outshot Oregon in previous meetings; Ducks scored more
Here are some things to consider in tonight’s Pac-12 tournament quarterfinal between sixth-seeded Colorado (20-11) and No. 3 seed Oregon (22-8), with much of the research by the CU sports information department.
*** The last time a No. 6 seed ousted a No. 3 from the Pac-12 tournament occurred in 2009, a Southern California win over California. That Trojans team went on to become the only No. 6 seed to win the tournament title.
*** Tonight, senior forward Austin Dufault will tie the Colorado record for most career men’s basketball games. Cory Higgins (2007-11) holds the record with 132 games.
*** Colorado made only one 2-pointer Wednesday night in the 53-41 victory over No. 11 seed Utah. That was a trey by Andre Roberson in the first half. Colorado went one-for-11 from 3-point range, and better shooting likely will be needed tonight against Oregon. But Roberson’s trey at least continued CU’s string of 326 consecutive games with at least one made 3-pointer.
*** Although Oregon has outscored Colorado 80.5 to 76.5 in the two regular-season meetings, the Buffs outshot Oregon from the field: 41 percent to 48 percent. The deciding factor? Rebounding. Oregon’s 33 to 28.5 edge on the boards enabled the Ducks to get a total of 18 more field-goal attempts than Colorado for the two games.
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Congrats to CU’s Roberson for making coaches’ all-Pac-12, but …
… I think it’s ridiculous for the coaches to pick a 10-man, all-Pac-12 “first team.”
Andre Roberson, the only player in the Pac-12 averaging a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds per game, should be a shoo-in for a five-player all-Pac-12 team. Having it a 10-man team dilutes the impact, significance and prestige of being named “all-conference.”
And if the Pac-12 insists on a 10-man first team, why does it only have a five-man second team? What sense does that make? The ridiculous seems even more ridiculous.
Roberson is on the Pac-12 all-defensive team (Thank God, that’s a five-man team), and Colorado’s Spencer Dinwiddie made the five-man all-freshman team.
I don’t have a problem with Jorge Gutierrez of California earning Pac-12 player-of-the-year honors. The coaches realize that the former Denver Lincoln product does so much for the Bears at both ends of the court, much more than his stats could show.
But I would have voted Colorado’s Tad Boyle as coach of the year (instead of Washington’s Lorenzo Romar). As a conference newcomer, CU finished in the upper division (tied for fifth) after having lost two players (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) to the NBA and 75 percent of the 2010-11 scoring.
The Pac-12 is down this year but I can brag to some of my sportswriter friends who cover other leagues that the Pac-12 all-stars would beat another more highly rated conference.
Hey, it would be 10 players against five.
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CU men’s hoops frosh guard Dinwiddie scheduled to start
Colorado men’s basketball is listing freshman guard Spencer Dinwiddie as a starter for tonight’s 8 o’clock season opener against Fort Lewis at the Coors Events Center.
It’s been my experience in covering college hoops for more than three decades that when a freshman is put in the starting lineup for the first game it portends a bright future.
Sure enough, in recent years, CU’s Richard Roby, Cory Higgins and Alec Burks were all opening-game starters.
Dinwiddie has grown at least an inch since he signed with CU last November and is now listed at 6-feet-5. When he plays his natural position, he will be among the nation’s tallest point guards.
A native Southern Californian, Dinwiddie averaged 11.2 points, 7.7 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game as a senior in leading Taft High a 29-3 record. He was named Los Angeles “City Section” player of the year.
Dinwiddie told me recently that he figures senior Nate Tomlinson will be the point guard when Tomlinson is on the court.
“It doesn’t matter to me where I play,” Dinwiddie said. “I’m just looking to contribute. Coach Boyle doesn’t like to categorize us. We’re just guards.”
Dinwiddie is scheduled to be joined in the opening lineup by seniors Tomlinson, Austin Dufault and Carlon Brown, and sophomore Andre Roberson.
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CU men’s hoopsters getting no love in preview magazines
On the way back from Colorado’s football game at Ohio State, I picked up a couple of college basketball preview magazines and quickly turned to the Pac-12 Conference section.
CU is getting no love in the predictions.
The Sporting News picks the Buffs to finish 11th in the Pac-12 standings, ahead of only fellow league newbie Utah.
Athlon Sports doesn’t even give Colorado that much credit. It has the Buffs finishing last in the 12-team conference.
Here’s an excerpt from the analysis of CU in the Sporting News, written by longtime Pac-12 beat writer Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury-News:
“Colorado’s first season in the Pac-12 figures to be a rough one. No team inthe conference was hit harder by attrition than the Buffaloes (losing NBA first-round draft choice Alec Burks, 2000-point scorer Cory Higgins and fellow double-figure scorers Marcus Relphorde and Levi Knutson), and there isn’t a close second.”
Wilner sounds like he believes he is doing Colorado a favor by not picking the Buffs to finish all the way at the bottom:
“There is so little proven talent that the Buffs could finish last in the new-look league. But (head coach Tad) Boyle did such a marvelous coaching job last season … he’s worth a run in the standings himself.”
Athlon writes: “The Buffs have to meet or exceed last year’s performance in three areas to give themselves a shot at being relevant in their first season in the Pac-12. They must improve defensively, be mentally and physically tougher in the post and continue to make the Coors Events Center a difficult place for opponents to get a win.”
My take: I’m not sure Colorado has enough firepower or post presence to contend in its debut season in the Pac-12, but I would be surprised if the Buffs don’t surprise — and finish better than predicted, perhaps much better. My guess is that the Pac-12 teams located at sea level (which is most of them) will find it difficult to keep up with Boyle’s up-tempo pace in the rarefied air of Boulder. If CU can win most of its home games, that alone will enable the Buffs to climb in the standings. Sophomore rebounding machine Andre Roberson will focus more on offense this season, and points are expected to come from Utah transfer Carlon Brown and freshman guards Spencer Dinwiddie and Askia Booker.
By the way, in the Mountain West, the Sporting News has Colorado State fourth, Air Force fifth and Wyoming eighth (last). Athlon has CSU fourth, Wyoming fifth and Air Force seventh.
In the Sun Belt: Denver is picked for fourth in the West Division by the Sporting News, third by Athlon.
In the Big Sky: defending champ Northern Colorado is picked to finish fourth by the Sporting News and sixth by Athlon.
CU hoops recruit on ESPNU top 100
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Lewis-Palmer's Josh Scott has cracked the ESPNU's top 100 recruits.
Recruiting continues to look promising and exciting for the Colorado men’s basketball program.
Josh Scott, a 6-foot-10 center who is about to begin his senior year at Lewis-Palmer High in Colorado Springs, is now on the ESPNU recruiting list of the nation’s top 100 prospects.
Scott is ranked No. 99 — the only Coloradan on the ESPNU list. He gave an oral commitment to CU last spring and at that time said he will sign a national letter of intent with the Buffs in November during the early signing period.
Amazingly, CU now has two all-time leading men’s scorers
What were the odds of Cory Higgins finishing his CU men’s basketball career tied with Richard Roby (2004-08) atop the school charts at 2,001 points?
They had to be astronomical. I know I have never seen another school with co-leaders in career scoring.
Nothing against Roby, but I’m sure most were pulling for Higgins to claim the top spot to himself because this was new and fresh, and it’s always fun to see records broken. And to think that another basket by Higgins would have beaten Alabama and sent CU into the NIT championship game.
Roby and Higgins overlapped one season, playing together in 2007-08, when Roby, a 6-6 guard, was a senior and the 6-5 Higgins was getting his feet wet as a freshman.
Higgins told me countless times that he respected Roby for helping him “learn the ropes” of the college game.
“I saw how he handled himself that year, with the team and with the media as the leader,” Higgins told me recently.
Higgins became the team spokesman beginning in his sophomore season.
And certainly not to be overlooked or forgotten is Brittany Spears completing her eligibility this season as the CU women’s all-time leading scorer with 2,185 points.
It was a privilege to cover them for the past four seasons.
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What will next season’s CU men’s hoops lineup look like?
With the 2010-11 season for the Colorado’s men’s basketball team having come to a close in the NIT semfinals, Buffs fans can say their final good-byes to scholarship seniors Cory Higgins (16.1 points per game), Levi Knutson (11.7) and Marcus Relphorde (11.2), along with senior walk-ons Javon Coney and Trent Beckley.
And if sophomore Alec Burks (20.5) declares for the 2011 NBA draft, the Buffaloes will face a major rebuilding year in Tad Boyle’s second year as coach after going 24-14 to set a school record for victories.
Without Burks, here’s taking a stab at what Colorado’s 2011-12 starting line-up could look like, barring another late signing.
POINT GUARD: Nate Tomlinson, 6-3, senior; or Spencer Dinwiddie, 6-4, freshman.
GUARD: Carlon Brown, 6-5, senior
GUARD OR FORWARD: Jeremy Adams, 6-5, sophomore; or Damiene Cain, 6-7, freshman.
FORWARD: Andre Roberson, 6-7, sophomore.
CENTER: Shane Harris-Tunks, 6-11, sophomore.
Scoring must come from:
Brown, a transfer from Utah who averaged 12.6 points in 2009-10 as a junior for the Utes;
Adams, a transfer from Navarro (Junior) College in Texas, averaged 27 points as a high school senior in Mississippi before redshirting as a freshman at Texas A&M;
Dinwiddie, from Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft High School, who was ranked among the nation’s top 150 players by HoopScoop and will pose matchup problems for opponents as a tall point guard;
And Roberson, a rebounding dynamo who is expected to make dramatic improvements in his offensive game.
Tomlinson also will be asked to look more to the basket. And a recruit from California, 6-1 Askia Booker of Los Angeles Price, could be next year’s Knutson, with an ability to provide a spark and instant offense from off the bench.
When going big, Boyle could use Cain, a 230-pound power forward from the L.A. area who is said to have natural rebounding skills like Roberson but could be further along offensively.
Also vying for a starting position will be 6-9 senior Austin Dufault, who did a commendable job in playing out of position this season as the starting center when Harris-Tunks suffered a season-ending knee injury in October. My guess is Dufault will be utilized as a valuable backup to both Harris-Tunks and Roberson, as Boyle strives to get bigger and more athletic with his starting unit.
Boyle could sign one more in April (it will be a surprise if he doesn’t land another post player), which could alter the rotation.
Bottom line: If Burks returns, Colorado likely will once again be no worse than a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament. Without Burks, another NIT bid may be more likely.
Next season’s roster is not devoid of talent, but there are many unknowns. Will Harris-Tunks live up the expectations? How much rust will Brown have to knock off after sitting out the season as a transfer? Can Roberson, Tomlinson, Dufault and sophomore-to-be Shannon Sharpe contribute more scoring? Will the newcomers come through? How will Colorado adjust to competition in the new Pac-12?
In any case, Boyle seems to be building a solid foundation with recruiting. Two athletic, in-state junior forwards from Colorado Springs, 6-9 Josh Scott of Lewis-Palmer and 6-7 Wesley Gordon of Sierra, announced they will come aboard for the 2012-13 season.
Perhaps CU’s Burks should talk to UCLA players
ANAHEIM, Calif. — While preparing for today’s interview sessions at the West Regional here, I spotted an article in today’s Los Angeles Times that was of interest to me, and could — or perhaps even should — be of interest to Colorado sophomore guard Alec Burks.
UCLA coach Ben Howland said a potential lockout of NBA players could influence his advice to Bruins players that, like Burks, are considering turning pro early.
“I can tell you in the NBA, in my opinion, this is going to be a serious lockout,” Howland told the Times. “They will not be playing, in my opinion, next December and maybe even January. … You’re not even going to get paid next year for half the year.”
Howland later was quoted in the article as saying it’s usually unwise for a player to declare early for the NBA draft without assurances that he will be among the first 15 players chosen.
“I’ve done all the research,” Howland told the Times. “I mean, you look at the guys who get picked between (draft slots) 22 and 31 and where they are five years later, versus guys who are one-to-15. It’s vastly different when you look at career paths.”
The latest NBAdraft.net mock draft has Burks being selected No. 8 by Cleveland.
College nonseniors have until April 24 to declare for the draft and may withdraw by May 8 to retain their college eligibility.
NBAdraft.net does not have Colorado senior Cory Higgins projected to be selected in the two-round NBA draft. But a former Buff, 6-4 senior shooting guard Xavier Silas of Northern Illinois, is projected to go No. 57 to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Did CU’s Boyle predict NCAA tourney bid for Buffs in near future?
Hmmm. It sure sounds so.
Regarding missing out on the NCAA Tournament, CU coach Tad Boyle said:
“I feel bad for the seniors who won’t get to experience the NCAA Tournament. Our coaches will, the young players in our program will. But those five guys won’t, and I feel bad for them.”
One current CU freshman, 7-foot center Ben Mills, could be a candidate to red-shirt next season, with the return of 6-11 Shane Harris-Tunks. But CU freshman forward Andre Roberson has three more years.
Boyle, obviously, is not expecting a long rebuilding process as the Buffs look to replace current senior starters Cory Higgins and Marcus Relphorde, top sixth man Levi Knutson and sophomore Alec Burks, who likely will make himself available for the 2011 NBA draft.
Boyle is counting on immediate contributions from three November signees, two guards and a forward from the Los Angeles area. And one or two additional recruits could be signed next month.
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KSU’s Martin: CU bad matchup for us
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State entered Thursday’s Big 12 quarterfinal with Colorado riding as much momentum as any team in the league. The Wildcats had won six games in a row, eight of their last nine.
The afternoon ended with Colorado beating Kansas State for a third time. No other team, not even Kansas, was able to beat KSU more than once.
“They’re a hard matchup for us because their two wings (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) are real good off trhe dribble,” KSU coach Frank Martin said, “and our weakness the whole year has been our (in)ability to guard the dribble.
“That presents a problem for us. Alec obviously came out of the chute and was as aggressive as he can be. Then Cory played like a senior that was determined to get his team deep into this tournament and hopefully to play past this tournament.
“They’re to be credited for that.”
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CU makes Pullen work — at both ends
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – One of the keys to Colorado’s 87-75 victory Thursday over Kansas State, CU coach Tad Boyle said, was the defensive effort of Buffs senior guard Cory Higgins on the Wildcats’ Jacob Pullen.
Higgins had some help – from what was happening at the other end, Boyle added. And that also involved Higgins.
“The one thing today, (Pullen) had to expend a lot of energy on defense,” Boyle said. “They put him on Alec (Burks), then they put him on Cory. He was expending a lot of effort on that end of the floor, which sometimes he doesn’t have to do.
“But against us, they has to do that.”
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Hoiberg: CU’s Higgins will get selected in NBA draft
First-year Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg spent 15 years in the NBA, as a player or executive, so it spoke volumes when, during Monday’s Big 12 coaches teleconference, Hoiberg said Colorado guards Alec Burks and Cory Higgins are “two players that I think will be (NBA) pros.”
Burks, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, has long been considered a probable first-round NBA draft choice, as soon as this summer, if he chooses to come out early.
Higgins?
“I do (think he will get drafted),” Hoiberg said of the 6-5 Higgins, a senior. “He can play two positions (point guard and wing/shooting guard). He’s got very good size for a point guard.
“And he can create his shots. He does a terrific job of getting to the free-throw line. That’s something that in the NBA … that’s a luxury to have, a guy that can create contact and get to the line.
“He shoots the ball well. And he’s a very smart player. Having his dad (Charlotte Bobcats general manager and ex-NBA player Rod Higgins) having been in that league for a long time obviously will help him.”
Iowa State (14-8, 1-6 Big 12) plays Tuesday night at Colorado (14-8, 3-4), beginning at 7 p.m. (telecast: FSN)
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20-point game by Knutson big lift for Buffs
What should be really encouraging for the Colorado men’s basketball team after Wednesday night’s 74-66 victory at No. 21 Kansas State, is that the Buffaloes (13-4, 2-0 Big 12) were led in scoring by somebody not named Alec Burks or Cory Higgins.
Senior guard Levi Knutson came off the bench raining 3-pointers and topped the Buffs with 20 points. That marked only the fourth time in 17 games that one of CU’s “big two” did not lead the team in scoring.
Colorado guard Levi Knutson drives to the hoop during the Buffs' big win Wednesday night.
Knutson did it in back-to-back November games against Texas-Pan American (18 points) and Oregon State (20). Junior forward Austin Dufault led the Buffs with 18 points in the 92-65 blowout of Maryland-Eastern Shore on Dec. 29.
First-year CU coach Tad Boyle has been preaching to his players that the team needs balance to reach its potential and can’t count on Burks and Higgins every night.
“When we struggled early in the season, it was because we weren’t taking good shots and weren’t sharing the ball,” Boyle said before the team departed for Manhattan, Kan. “I guys have figured that out.”
It’s amazing that this marked the first time a CU men’s basketball team has defeated ranked opponents in consecutive games.
Unfortuately, that says something about the lack of tradition.
But it also says something about what the future may hold.
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CU players: Buffs fast-paced style better suited to play Mizzou
Western New Mexico's TJ Riley, left, battles Colorado's Shannon Sharpe for loose ball on Wednesday Jan. 5, 2010. (Marty Caivano, Daily Camera)
In recent years, the Colorado men’s basketball team has fared about as poorly against Missouri as has the CU football team. That means ugly blowouts.
Colorado has lost eight straight to the Tigers, dating back to a Feb. 25, 2006 win by the Buffs in Boulder.
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Basketball Matters: Colorado State Duo leading Rams Resurgence
By Christopher Dempsey
FORT COLLINS – With most sports fans’ attention focused on Tim Tebow or Carmelo Anthony, Colorado State has flown under the radar as one of the better stories in the region.
The basketball program is not just healing under fourth-year head coach Tim Miles, but is showing signs of thriving. And this season, which featured one huge Cancun Governor’s Cup tournament win highlighted by victories over Ole Miss and Southern Miss, he has leaned on the senior duo of Andy Ogide and Travis Franklin to lead the way.
They are the first two players on every opponent’s scouting report, the duo that has to be stopped in order to have a shot at beating the Rams. From Baton Rouge, La. (Franklin) and Marietta, Ga. (Ogide) they are Colorado State’s ‘DSD.’
“Down South Duo,” said Franklin, smiling wide.
Or, Dynamic Scoring Duo. At a combined average of 30 points per game, Ogide and Franklin account for 39.4 percent of the Rams points; and with a combined average of 12.3 rebounds the two account for 36.7 percent of the team’s rebounding output.
If things are getting done these two are more than likely in the middle of it.
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CU’s Higgins recovered from head knock
Colorado senior guard Cory Higgins did not miss any practice time after complaining of headaches from a collision during the overtime victory over Colorado State last Wednesday.
CU took a few days off and then returned to the practice court on Sunday.
Boyle said Higgins, CU’s second leading scorer (16.9), practiced Sunday and again Monday morning.
“Cory’s health is good,” Boyle said Monday on the Big 12 men’s basketball coaches teleconference with the media. “He’s been banged up a little bit this early part of the season. He’s had some nagging things happen. But he’s good to go. We’re going to need him to be healthy, obviously, as we move forward.”
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Girls of Yachting 2007 Calender available now!
If you would like to buy a calendar and support this cause to help Jody Hill, they cost Euros 20 (£14) or Euros 25 (£17) by post. You can buy them by making £ cheques payable to Alex Howard and Euros cheques payable to Eli Plenier. Send your order and cheque to Alex Howard, c/o Plenier, 24, Rue des Casemates, 06600 Antibes, France. Further details are available from Alex at AlexisHoward@compuserve.com. 100 per cent of all money raised goes to Jody. Alex says please feel free to send more money than the advertised price!
Jody tells us what's going on.......
Maltese Falcon Fundraiser
Today I met Captain Chris Gartner aboard the stunning Maltese Falcon (M.F.) to discuss the Dock Party Fundraiser they held recently for Jody.
The M. F. was due to leave Falmouth Harbour, Antigua and weren’t scheduled to return until November 2007. The crew wanted a dock party and organised one at short notice on 27th March 2007. An hour before the party was due to start Second Officer Timmy Attard decided he wanted to make the party a fundraising event for Jody. Timmy is good friends with Arvid who was travelling in the car with Jody at the time of the accident.
The news spread around the harbour like wildfire and within an hour around 200 people ascended upon the dock beside the M.F. The party revellers indulged in drinks and food from the BBQ all kindly provided by the M.F. The crew and guests partied hard to the sounds of DJ Van of Cay Electronics who kindly donated his time for the party and then the serious fundraising began.
The M.F. decided to auction the services of their professional onboard masseur and offered the winning bidder an hour’s massage aboard the yacht together with a tour and complimentary champagne. The winner bid was $1000 US pledged by Alex who has a yacht moored in the harbour as a gift to her husband. Chris tells me he was amazed by the pure generosity but that was only the beginning.
Chris and Timmy and the rest of the crew wanted to raise more so they started selling M.F. T-shirts. People were also buying the ‘Yachting Girls of 2007’ calendar and many people just wanted to give and they did so generously. Before they knew it they had raised around $4800 US for Jody – a staggering amount. The partying didn’t stop there and many of the guests and crew descended upon a nearby bar to enjoy a local band.
The following day Butchy flew out to visit his good friend Jody in Houston, Texas and personally delivered the money.
Falmouth Harbour said goodbye to the M.F. who wasn’t scheduled to return until November although she surprised the locals with a brief return visit.
Many thanks to Chris, Timmy, the rest of the crew and everyone who attended and donated their time and money. It was a memorable evening and a spectacular fundraising event. I know Jody is very grateful!
Timmy says they are hoping to hold a similar fundraising event in Europe in the summer and he will keep us informed.
Thanks again guys for all you've done!
Charlotte Cayless – 17/4/07
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The Big Bad Dread & The Baldhead
Dread's 3rd UK tour
Looking for an excuse to plan a party this summer? Well now you have one, as The Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead are coming to the UK between August 15th and September 8th for their third tour and are available for gigs.
If you are interested in booking the guys, they can play up to a maximum of 2 and 1/2 hours (but normally play for 1 and 1/2 hours) and are happy to travel anywhere in the UK as long as it fits in with the Lashings World XI program. Travel expenses will be included in the fee. Discounts are available if an adequate PA system is provided. For live performances they do a mixture of their own music and covers, often including a bit of Disco, Soca and Rock ’n’ Roll.
The full line up is as follows:
Guitarist... Richie Richardson (Former West Indies Cricket Team Captain)
Bassist…Ambassador Curtly Ambrose (Former West Indies Fast Bowler)
Lead vocalist….Davidson (Bankers) Benjamin (1996 Antigua Calypso King)
Drummer…Jason Jacobs
Keyboardist....Dave Bridgewater (One of Antigua’s Premier Musicians)
Percussionist…Murphy Charles
To book the band, call Lashings World XI Head Office on 08704 606 561 now!
‘Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead’ and are just about the release their fourth album.
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Railing Against Gender Inequality in Mumbai
The Jakarta Globe, Phil Hazlewood
Indian train driver Surekha Yadav at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai. Yadav cites Indira Ghandi, India’s only female prime minister, as an inspiration. (AFP Photo)
In her canary-yellow sari and gold earrings, with a pair of thin-framed spectacles perched on her nose, Surekha Yadav could be any woman stepping down from the train at Mumbai’s main railway station.
But the 44-year-old mother-of-two stands out from the crowds on the platforms at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as she doesn’t just travel on the trains — she drives them.
Yadav was the first female passenger train driver on Mumbai’s Central Railways and has become a standard-bearer for women in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
Since she first jumped into the cab of Mumbai’s packed commuter trains 10 years ago — attracting curious looks from commuters — one other “motorwoman” now plies the same suburban route. Two are assistant drivers.
There are also women train drivers on the Western Railway network, ferrying many of the six million people who use the city’s overstretched network every day.
Yadav, who admitted having no interest in trains before applying for a job as an assistant goods train driver in 1989, said she has had nothing but support from her male colleagues.
“They encouraged, helped and took care of me,” she said, adding she had taken special training to become the first woman driver of a “ghat loco,” the two-engined passenger trains that climb the hills of western Maharashtra state.
“Because I was the only woman, they were curious whether I could do it or not,” she said.
Women like Yadav can be found throughout Indian history, from warrior queens like Rani Lakshmibai and members of the independence movement to the first — and so far, only — female prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
Prathiba Patil, the current president, is the first woman to hold the post, the lower house of parliament has its first female speaker in Mira Kumar, while women are well-represented at many of India’s largest companies.
But although India’s Constitution “guarantees to all Indian women equality,” differences between the sexes still exist, particularly in rural areas, in terms of access to education, health care and even food.
Just over a third of Indian women aged 15 to 49 said they had experienced domestic violence, according to a 2007 National Family Health Survey.
Overall violence against women increased by nearly 25 percent between 2003 and 2007, the latest available government statistics show. The highest rises — over 30 percent — were recorded for kidnap, abduction and torture.
Madhu Purnima Kishwar, of New Delhi’s Center for the Study of Developing Societies and founder of leading rights group Manushi Sangathan, said that in the workplace gender was no bar to success — provided women were strong.
“In India, women who demonstrate that they are stronger than men usually find men falling at their feet,” she said, linking it to the worship of Hindu goddesses and the importance of mothers in Indian society.
Apart from being India’s first “motorwoman,” Yadav has also been part of the attempt to curb another problem: complaints about sexual harassment — or “eve-teasing” as it is known in India.
Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced “Ladies Specials” trains in India’s four largest cities this year to improve safety for female commuters, whose numbers are increasing as more urban women forge careers outside home.
Yadav drove the first service into CST.
She is positive about her job and the opportunities it has given her, attributing her determination to succeed to her family, who sent her to convent school before she earned a diploma in electrical engineering.
“Everybody was given the chance to chase their own dream. Whatever they wanted to do,” she said. “We had freedom for education. We took advantage of that. We were very lucky to get that.”
“[My mother] never said that being a girl child you should do cooking. You should study first then we will see. You need to be bold.”
Nevertheless, Yadav — who cites as influences Indira Gandhi and Lakshmibai, the 19th century heroine of Indian resistance against the British — admits it has still been tough.
The job is physically demanding and time consuming, giving her less time to spend with her two teenaged sons and police officer husband.
Working in an all-male environment since college has also taken its toll on her social life, she said.
“I miss the friendship with women for the last 23 years. I feel shy talking with girls now,” she said.
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Labels: India, Train
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Creating gender transition
In brief, our genetic heritage is in conflict with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love To love the other sex, to love our children – by a Stage II definition of love. The challenge for a woman is to create enough economic independence that she doesn’t compromise love for an economic safety net. The challenge for a man is understanding how preparation for Stage I protection is really preparation for disconnection – from children, wife, and life. The Stage I man had a role that was more disconnected from intimacy than the Stage I female role of nurturer. Which is why the challenge for men to enter Stage II is even greater than the challenge for women.
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To conclude that men did not have the power, though, we must be more secure that the male role in the past has not, after all, been just a way of keeping women in their place. We must deal with denying women the vote, treating women as property and second-class citizens; objectifying them as concubines, harems, and prostitutes, stoning them as witches; not writing them into constitutions; denying them access to roles of leadership, jobs outside the home, and so on. We must see if power, patriarchy, dominance, and sexism were code words for male privilege or male disposability.
CHAPTER З
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The Dusty Bookcase
A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
The Good Doctor; or, Love, Love, Tiresome Love
The Side of the Angels
Basil King
London: Methuen, 1917
Thorley Masterman is another of Basil King's good young men. A son of wealth, he has chosen to devote his life to others as a medical doctor. Such is Thor's dedication that he has purchased a runabout in order to reach patients with the greatest of speed. Thor borrowed money to purchase the automobile, but that wouldn't have been necessary had he waited a year or so. The novel opens in 1910 with the doctor approaching his thirtieth birthday, on which day he will inherit his maternal grandfather's vast fortune.
Thor's need for speed is unwarranted. He hasn't managed to attract so much as a single patient until eccentric Uncle Sim puts him on to Mrs Fay. The Fays were once the Mastermans equals. A couple of generations back, they worked neighbouring fields, and often lent each other a hand. Now, Mr Fay operates a gardening centre of sorts on land he rents from Thor's father. Mrs Fay isn't so much ill as fed up. She's tired of the struggle. The city encroaches, the rent rises, and Fays fall farther and farther behind the families who had once been their peers.
Faced with impending defeat, Mr Fay has retreated into book reading. Matt, the son, is doing time for stealing money he'd intended for the rent. Hardworking daughter Rosie is the only thing keeping their failing operation together.
Thor doesn't quite fall in love with Rosie Fay at first sight, but he is shaken. Since boyhood, he'd intended to marry Lois Willoughby, daughter of Mr and Mrs Len Willoughby, whose considerable investment had aided in making his father's banking and broking house a real concern. Now, leaving the Fays to call on Lois, something has changed:
It did not escape his eye, quickened by the minutes he had spent with Rosie Fay, that Lois lacked color. For the first time in his life he acutely observed the difference between a plain woman and a pretty one.
The doctor begins frequenting the Fay home, ostensibly to care for the ailing Mrs Fay, but really in hopes of seeing Rosie. What Thor doesn't know is that for months she has been sneaking away for moonlight trysts with his caddish half-brother Claude. Because this news, delivered by his father, is too much to be believed, Thor confronts Rosie. In the ensuing exchange, the doctor allows it to slip that he is in love with her. Rosie, in turn, reveals that she'd have married Thor to save her family from financial ruin.
It's all a bit uncomfortable.
Thor decides to use part of his inheritance to enable Claude to marry Rosie, while he, of course, follows through with his decades-old plan to wed plain Lois Willoughby. But Claude, cad that he is, puts off marrying Rosie. And then Lois discovers that Thor was in love with Rosie, Claude learns the very same thing, and the novel dissolves into a very long treatise on the nature of love. For the most part, this takes the form of letters exchanged between Thor and his now estranged wife:
"You ask me what love is, and say you don't know. I'm more daring than you in that I think I do know. I know two or three things about it, even if I don't know all.
"For one thing, I know that no one can do more than say what love is for himself. You can't say what it is for me, or isn't, or must be, or ought to be. That's my secret. I can't always share it, or at any rate share it all, even with the person I love. But neither can I say what it is, or isn't, or should be, or must be, for you. You have your secret. No two people love in the same way, or get precisely the same kind of joy or sorrow from loving. Since love is the flower of personality, it has the same infinite variety that personalities possess. We give one thing and we get back another. Do not some of our irritations – I'm not speaking of you and me in particular – arise from the fact that, giving one thing, we expect to get the same thing back, when all the while no one else has that special quality to offer? The flower is different according to the plant that produces it. When the pine- tree loved the palm there was more than the distance to make the one a mystery to the other.
"Of the two things essential to love, the first, so it seems to me, is that what one gives should be one's best – the very blossom of one's soul. It may have the hot luxuriance of the hibiscus, or the flame of the wild azalea in the woods, or no more than the mildly scented, flowerless bloom of the elm or the linden that falls like manna in the roadway. Each has its beauties and its limitations; but it is worth noticing that each serves its purpose in life's infinite profusion as nothing else could serve it to that particular end. The elm lends something to the hibiscus – the hibiscus to the elm. Neither can expect back what it gives to the other. Perfection is accomplished when each offers what it can.
"Which brings me to the remaining thing I know about love – that it exists in offering. Love is the desire to go outward, to pour forth, to express, to do, to contribute. It has no system of calculation and no yard-stick for the little more or the little less. It is spontaneous and irrepressible and overflowing, and loses the extraordinary essence that makes it truly love when it weighs and measures and inspects too closely the quality of its return. It is in the fact that love is its own sufficiency, its own joy, its own compensation for all its pain, that I find it divine. The one point on which I can fully accept your Christian theology is that your God is love. Given a God who is Love and a Love that is God, I can see Him as worthy to be worshiped. Call Him, then, by any name you please – Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, Christ – you still have the Essence, the Thing. Love to be love must feel itself infinite, or as nearly infinite as anything human can be. When I can't pour it out in that way – when I pause to reflect how far I can go, or reach a point beyond which I see that I cannot go any further – I do not truly love."
The most tedious Basil King novel I've read to date, it says something that its most passionate characters are those who don't philosophize.
Object: A poorly produced book in light brown boards, my copy was published in 1917, during the Great War. The "New and Cheaper Issue," it lacks the eight Elizabeth Shippen Green illustrations (above) found in the older and richer issue. The novel is followed by a 31-page list of other books published by Methuen. Basil King favourites The Wild Olive, The Street Called Straight, The Way Home, and The Letter of the Contract figure, as do novels by fellow Canadians Robert Barr and Gilbert Parker.
Access: The Side of the Angels first appeared serially in Harper's Magazine (August 1915 - April 1916). The first edition was published in January 1916 by Harper & Brothers, followed nine months later by Methuen's first British.
The novel is held by Library and Archives Canada and most university libraries. Once again, our public libraries fail.
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The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry
Thomas P. Kelley
Toronto: Harlequin, 1962
Oh you who hail from Ontario
Know the tale of the Donnellys Oh
Died at the hands of a mob that night
Every child and man by the oil torch light
— Steve Earle, 'Justice in Ontario' (2002)
It's likely because I hail from Quebec that I didn't know much about the Donnellys until well into adulthood. My introduction came through a work colleague when I was living in Toronto. Together, we made up a very small department in a very large book retailer – so large that it had its own publishing arm.
We were it.
After a few months working together, he suggested we reprint Orlo Miller's The Donnellys Must Die. I nodded in agreement, though Miller meant nothing to me, and I'd never heard of the book. The new edition of The Donnellys Must Die we ushered back into print sold twelve thousand copies. It's success led us to consider reviving Miller's next book, Death to the Donnellys. We joked about commissioning a third book to be titled Die, Donnellys, Die!
What Steve Earle refers to as "the tale of the Donnellys" is infused with bloodshed of a sort that we Canadians like to think of as foreign. It begins with the 1842 arrival of Irish farming couple James and Johannah Donnelly in what is today Lucan, Ontario. They had with them a son, who had been named after his father. Six more boys and a daughter would follow, all born on Canadian soil their parents had cleared. The respective births were punctuated by violence and murder. First to be killed was neighbour Patrick Farrell – "John Farrell," according to Kelley – whom patriarch James hit on the head with a handspike. The murderer then hid in the woods, and dared work his fields disguised in his wife's frocks:
Johannah was almost as tall and heavy as her husband; appareled in her clothes, Donnelly was taken for her by those traveling the road and seeing him in the fields, and he was able to get in the seeding. Later, still dressed in women's clothing, he brought in the crops, working with his sons, and did the fall plowing.
Murder by handspike aside, this episode is the lightest part of the Donnelly story. Kelley doesn't do as much with it as I thought he might, though he does go for laughs here and there throughout the book. Poor Johanna receives the brunt:
She looked like and should've been a man; her sex undoubtably robbing the bare-knuckle prize ring of a prospective champion. In later years she sprouted a miniature Vandyke, wore red flannels, and told of never having been "much of a beauty." Her picture proves the words to be an understatement.
In Kelley's account, the matriarch directed many of the misdeeds attributed to her offspring. Beginning in 1855, various members of the Donnelly family were charged with larceny, robbery, assault, and attempted murder, amongst other crimes. The events that most troubled this reader concerned animal mutilation. It all came to an end on February 4, 1880, when a mob descended on the Donnelly farmhouse, beat its residents to death, and set the building alight. They then moved on to the home of second son William Donnelly, where they killed third son, John Donnelly.
Steve Earle is wrong. Not every child and man died that night. There was a survivor in John O'Connor, a hired farm boy, who hid under a bed when the mob broke in. No doubt that mob would've murdered him, too, just as they did Bridget Donnelly, James' twenty-two year-old niece, who was newly arrived from Ireland. No one was ever convicted of the slaughter.
That Kelley records John O'Connor's surname as "Connor" is typical. He made his living as a speedy magazine and paperback writer. He had a reputation as a man who could be relied upon to fill pages in a pinch. The Kelley technique is on full display in this passage:
The writer first heard of the Donnelly feud – bits of it, at least – more than twenty years ago when travelling around the Lucan area. Twenty at the time – ah, my lost youth – the history of Lucan and its violences of bygone years did not interest him. A pair of blue eyes in the nearby village of Exeter, did. Eventually marrying the owner of the eyes, and as time went on, learning more of the feud, it became apparent at last, however, that mere hearsay, a thorough knowledge of the Lucan district or even the tales of oldtimers, would not be enough to write the true story of the Donnellys. Seemingly endless hours of research were and did become necessary – the reading of old files, old newspapers, police and court records, etc.
It's unlikely that the seemingly endless hours Kelley spent researching the Donnellys were many, but they were lucrative. They resulted in "The Donnelly Feud," a 1947 article written for New Liberty Magazine. It was reprinted in his book Famous Canadian Crimes (Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1949) and then reworked as "The Terrible Donnelly Feud" for his next book, Bad Men of Canada (Toronto: Arrow, 1950). The Black Donnellys, which followed four years later, is said to have sold more than a million copies.
The Black Donnellys is not the best place to begin reading about the family and its fate; I recommend The Donnellys Must Die or, better still, The Donnelly Album by Ray Fazakas. Kelley's book is a fun read, but is wholly unreliable – which is not to say that it is without value. What I find most remarkable about the book has less to do with its contents than it does its impact. Sure, those who hail from Ontario know the tale of the Donnellys, but this wasn't always so. I don't doubt that Kelley (1905-1982), an Ontario boy who toured the province with his medicine man father, claims he hadn't heard of the family until "travelling around the Lucan area" at the age of twenty. After they faded from the headlines, very little was written about the Donnellys. Published a full seventy-four years after the bloody events of February 4, 1880, The Black Donnellys was the first book about the family and its fate. It's inaccuracies and – here I'm betting – commercial success encouraged Miller to write The Donnellys Must Die. More than a dozen Donnelly books have followed.
In this way, it is Kelley's greatest achievement as a writer. Would that we could all have such influence. He's owed a debt of gratitude.
Postscript: I left the very large book retailer in 2001, and began writing books that were published under noms de plume. Eight years later, when living in the Ontario town of St Marys, roughly twenty-five kilometres east of Lucan, I was commissioned to write a YA book on unsolved Canadian mysteries. A chapter on the Donnellys – "Who Killed the Donnellys?" – seemed a given. The St Marys Public Library then held seven books on the family, each of which was represented on the shelves by a block of wood bearing its title. Patrons interested in checking out a volume brought the appropriate block to the front desk. This system had been put in place to prevent theft.
Object: A paperback original, The Black Donnellys was first published in 1954 by Harlequin. My well-read copy, a seventh printing, was won for $7.50 in a 2009 auction at a St Marys, Ontario, thrift store.
Access: A 2002 Globe & Mail story reported that The Black Donnellys had to that point sold over one million copies in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. I point out that that same article refers to The Black Donnellys as a novel. The only American edition (right) is a 1955 paperback published by Signet. I've found no trace of a UK edition.
The Black Donnellys helped build Harlequin. The original 1954 printing was followed by fourteen others. The last was in April, 1968, long after Harlequin had (otherwise) come to focus exclusively on romances. Subsequent editions have been published by Greywood, Pagurian, Firefly, and Darling Terrace (it's current publisher).
Unsurprisingly, dozens of used copies are listed for sale online. Prices begin at US$2.99.
Easily found in academic libraries, but uncommon in the public. I suggest instituting the St Marys Public Library block system.
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Labels: Arrow Publishing, Booksellers, Collins White Circle, Darling Terrace, Fazakas, Firefly, Globe and Mail, Greywood Publishing, Harlequin Enterprises, Kelley, Miller (Orlo), Music, New Liberty, Prospero, True crime
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Brian Busby's Dusty Bookshelf
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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The Philadelphia Young Playwrights and InterAct Theatre presented the winning monologues from the 2011 Young Voices High School Monologue Festival Feb. 16-19 at the Adrienne Theater.
Thirteen of the monologues presented, which dealt with such issues as identity, bullying, culture, and current events were from public school students, representing such schools as Constitution High School, The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Academy at Palumbo and Science Leadership Academy.
“The monologue festival gives both organizations a chance to spread learning to schools not in our core [playwrighting] program,” said Glen Knapp, Executive Producing Director of Philadelphia Young Playwrights. The monologue program gives students the chance to work with local theater actors, directors and dramaturgs, who help develop and edit the pieces, then act them out on stage.
In addition to showing students the professional side of a monologue production, Knapp noted that the other important part of the program was making students’ voices heard.
“[Youth] don’t feel listened to very much…but this turns that on its head. They can come in this safe place we create as artists and explore all their [concerns].”
Students agreed that the festival gave them an outlet to express some inner issues.
Academy of Palumbo senior Ivan Tsang wrote “Leaving the Cage,” to reflect his experience trying to become his own person. “It shows what happens to me when I was younger. When I used to go to private school my parents had full control over what I had to do. I had to … be the perfect person,” said Tsang, who added that when he began high school, he became more vocal.
“I started saying, ‘I want to do this.’ They accept it to a certain degree. Some things I can’t cross the border, but they are more lenient now. Like, now I can decide what college I want to got to.”
Akil King, also a senior at Academy of Palumbo, said his monologue, “I Wanna Fly,” is based on his devastating experience of not making the high school basketball team, but still figuring out a way to make basketball a part of his life.
“It’s about a young boy who realizes he can’t make it to the NBA, so he decides he’d rather follow basketball by being a journalist and writing about it. I didn’t make my high school basketball team so I was kind [depressed]. When I was given [this] assignment that’s all I was thinking about.”
King explained that he now wants to make a career writing about his favorite sport, since he will not be an actual athlete. “I would really love to cover it as a journalist,” he said, adding that the lesson of his monologue is to always follow your dream.
“You should never give up on what you want to be. There’s going to be a lot of obstacles in your way but you have to strive forward and if you can’t make it one way, there’s always different routes to take.”
Samaria Bailey
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Rd1 Gm2 @Was: Canes dig early hole, fight back and lose heart breaker to the Caps in OT
by Matt Karash | Apr 13, 2019 | The Drive Home
Quick hitters posted shortly after game ended
–The Hurricanes looked overwhelmed and disoriented out of the gate, and that more than anything was the difference. The Canes fairly quickly got their feet under them about halfway through the first period, but starting from a 2-0 deficit again is tough sledding against a good hockey team.
–How the Hurricanes survived and actually won the second period is surprising and had the potential to be a ‘resiliency’ type turning point somehow playing almost half of the period shorthanded but still netting the period’s only goal. That could have been the series turning point if the Hurricanes could have scored first in the third period and held on.
–Winning: The penalty kill did yeoman’s work keeping the team in the game in the second period. Petr Mrazek was phenomenal down the stretch. The forecheck was disruptive at times.
–Losing: The Caps best players are still deciding the outcome. In the instances when the Caps did beat the first layer of the forecheck, the Hurricanes were largely a mess trying to defend off the rush or against a secondary attack in their own end.
Game recap
Perhaps realizing that they were lucky to escape with a win with only one really good period in the series opener, the Capitals came out on Saturday looking to aggressively attack early. From the opening face-off, the Capitals played fast and aggressive especially in transition. The result was a dicey start for the Hurricanes who looked some combination of overwhelmed and disoriented. Nicklas Backstrom scored his third of the series with another back door tap in when the Canes lost track of him at the side of the net. Then T.J. Oshie sniped a shot past Mrazek skating in mostly uncontested off the rush to make it 2-0 Capitals less than 10 minutes into the game. Washington could easily have had another goal or two during that opening stretch that saw the Hurricanes defense look baffled trying to defend in transition. The formula for the Capitals right now when they can beat the forecheck with numbers is to push the puck with pace up the sides and leave the center lane open for players to slash into from the sides. But with the game seemingly destined for a 7-1 slaughter, the Hurricanes found the on button about midway through the first period and surged from there. The two halves of the first period could not have been any more opposite. Courtesy of a couple power plays and being jolted awake, the Hurricanes out-shot the Capitals by a 10 to 2 margin after the Capitals second goal. More significantly, Lucas Wallmark tipped a shot past Braden Holtby to get the Hurricanes back to within 2-1 to end the first period after a treacherous start.
The second period was outright bizarre. Micheal Ferland took a penalty early to kick off a special teams second period with a penalty only 1:11 into the second period. Shortly after returning to the ice, Ferland was whistled for a 5-minute major for coming across the ice looking to annihilate a Nic Dowd. When the puck rolled ahead of Dowd, the hit became a borderline interference call. And when Dowd lowered his head to reach for the puck, the check became a potential head shot. And that is what the referees called after meeting as a group. Ferland picked up a five-minute major and a game misconduct. But here’s the thing – the contact was not to the head. Upon first seeing the replay on his bench monitor and then being told about the call, Brind’Amour went ballistic. He very regularly looks intense, but this was a whole different level. The Hurricanes spent six of the first eight minutes of the second period on the penalty kill. When Dougie Hamilton took an elbowing minor later, that escalated to eight out of less than 14 minutes. But the Hurricanes penalty kill and Petr Mrazek rose up and stood tall keeping the Hurricanes in the game. When the settled on the run of penalty kill time, the Hurricanes had to feel fortunate to still be within a goal. That situation became even better when Sebastian Aho found a small opening through Holtby from the side of the net. Had you told me that the Hurricanes would have to kill off eight minutes of penalties in the second period, I would have figured the Hurricanes would be being beaten handily. Instead despite the 16 to 6 Caps shot advantage in the second period, the Hurricanes won the period 1-0 and entered the third period tied at 2-2.
The third period saw the Capitals resume attacking at even strength. Again, the Canes defense in transition looked porous at times. But Mrazek found his higher gear and did whatever it took to keep the puck out of his net. His saves included a big swipe with the glove the get a piece, a save reaching out with the pad, quickly taking away any angle from point blank range and a couple other dandies. But the Caps struck next off the rush when the Canes again had trouble sorting things out in transition. The result was a Tom Wilson goal off of a 3-on-2. After failing twice to score a tying goal on a power play late in Thursday’s loss, the Canes received another chance late in Saturday’s game. This time, the Canes capitalized when Jordan Staal tipped a Dougie Hamilton shot past Holtby to tie the game at 3-3 with exactly five minutes to go in regulation. The finish would see the Capitals challenge again, but Petr Mrazke holding the fort to set up overtime hockey.
The Capitals would score a heartbreaking goal only 1:48 into overtime when villain Brooks Orpik received a pass coming in off the bench, took advantage of Teuvo Teravainen not having a stick and fired a shot through traffic to win the game.
In the playoffs, there are no OTL points, so the loss and 0-2 series deficit are obviously not ideal. But on a positive note, the Hurricanes have played the Capitals pretty evenly despite digging sizable early holes in both games. And the fact that playoff hockey is returning to Raleigh is in itself reason for optimism.
Player and other notes
1) Lucas Wallmark
He now has three points in two games and is making assertive plays with the puck on his stick in terms of distributing to line mates. I think it is fair to say that he has been more noticeable offensively than Aho through two games despite Aho’s goal on Saturday. He also won 13 out of 15 face-offs for 87 percent which assures that his line would mostly play with the puck instead of defending.
2) The penalty kill
The way the second period went down was a recipe for a 5-1 Capitals blow out. But the Canes penalty killers did yeoman’s work keeping the team in the game. Slavin logged 6:41 of penalty kill ice time on the way to 28:54 total. Pesce logged 5:22 on the penalty kill and stepped in front and blocked six shots. Faulk logged 4:41 of ice time shorthanded. The group in total gave the Hurricanes a chance even when the officials decided to be a bigger part of the game than necessary in the second period.
3) Petr Mrazek
He was lights out in the second half of the game. When the Capitals pushed in transition in the third period, Mrazek had an answer for everything regardless of the defense in front of him. He was not horrible in game 1, but his game 2 performance was at least one notch higher because of his late-game heroics.
4) Pesce/Faulk
As much as Pesce and Faulk were good on the penalty kill, they were victimized by the Capitals transition game on Saturday. The first Caps goal was eerily reminiscent of a similar back door goal (except on the power play) on Thursday with the defensemen leaving a passing lane wide open. Part of it was the Capitals ability to transition quickly and get behind the forwards, but even given the tough situations a few times, Pesce/Faulk had a tough time defending speed coming at them. It will be interesting to see if Brind’Amour considers changing things up at home where he can better dictate match ups.
5) Micheal Ferland
The major and misconduct were a significant error on the part of the officials, but I still think that Ferland needs a bit of a reset. On the one hand, his big hits are a positive for the Canes. But on the other hand, he seems a bit over-focused on trying to deliver massive checks instead of just letting the game and the hits come to him. He has the potential to be valuable as a scoring power forward and needs to make sure he dials up that part of his game too.
6) Is it over?
In a word, no. The 0-2 deficit is a big one, and winning four out of five against the Capitals rightfully sounds like a daunting task. But the Hurricanes have been right there in both games after digging early holes. With a better start, ideally the first goal of the game and maybe a bounce or two, the Hurricanes can climb right back into it.
Next up is a HOME PLAYOFF GAME IN RALEIGH on Monday!
lessthanstable on April 14, 2019 at 10:54 am
The Canes are close, but not quite there to breakthrough and win vs the Caps. Coming out inexplicably flat footed and the poor play of some Canes “stars” was the difference in this game.
The Caps deserve a lot of credit. They are a big, strong, and talented team. They are dominating the Canes on the walls. Aho and Wallmark are faring poorly. Teravainen doesn’t even try on the wall. Soft doesn’t work in the playoffs especially against a team as big as Washington. The Caps are playing tight on the Canes D in their defensive zone just daring the Canes to win a battle against the wall and create offense from there. Outside of Svechnikov, Forgele, and Saku that isn’t happening. The daisy soft combo of Aho and Turbo needs to be broken up, IMO.
Number 27 has been scary bad. His turnovers and terrible decisions defending the rush are killing the Canes. I expect Faulk will be moved this summer, but don’t expect much. Every team in the league has video.
breezy on April 14, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Dude, there will be takers for 27, Pit signed Jack Johnson for goodness sake.
I think the team sorely misses Calvin. He’d stabilize Faulk on a second pairing, leaving Pesce and Slavin to reform at the top, or move Faulk down to a third pairing and provide a partner for Hamilton. Fleury has played ok, but he’s no more than a top 6/7 guy. That’s ok if that’s how he is used.
Faulk has not been fantastic but I’ve seen worse.
It’s the Aho/TT combo that disappoints me the most, that is not how two thirds of a team’s top line should be playing with everything on the line.
The national TV casters kept talking about TT’s poor defensive plays.
Nino has also disappeared,. His size and style of play should translate well to this matchup.
And Ferland has been a disappointment. You win hockey games by scoring goals, not by taking dumb penalties that put your team down a man (granted the 5-minute major was BS, but he got it coming).
Ferland from the first half of the season just disappeared completely in the second half.
His salary, if resigned, need to be the average of a true top 6 forward for half a season and a fighting 4th liner for half a season.
Gauthier has been on fire down in Clt, so I think he’s got a prime opportunity to come up and impress, maybe even tomorrow, if not then in training camp.
I think Walmark has actually played quite ok, he’s got 3 points, and his role is that of a third or fourth line center.
All is not lost, but the Canes have to start playing at the drop of the puck, not 10 minutes into the game down by multiple goals.
lessthanstable on April 14, 2019 at 1:28 pm
Big difference in signing a player and giving up prospects or high round picks.
I appreciate Wallmark in the circle and the nice pass to Svechnikov, but he has been mostly lucky. His goal was a whiffed shot that went in because the goalie did a pirouette trying to get a call. His play on the boards has been poor. Points don’t always tell the story of how someone is playing especially in the short term.
Nino is a good example. He is one of the few Canes that actually competes with the Caps on the boards. He’s a finisher, not a playmaker. The playmakers around him have stunk through two games. He’s not going to make many of his own opportunities. He never has.
Ferland is an odd player. A decent finisher who has a physical edge to him. He hasn’t had much to play with and hasn’t spent enough time in front of the net, IMO. He’s not worth big money. I expect we will see the Ferland/Wilson matchup in Raleigh. Ferland rightly avoided it in DC as it would have energized their crowd. With the hit on Dowd Wilson will come calling. Ferland will oblige when he feels the team needs a boost.
I agree that the Canes are still in this. They should get a charge from the home crowd on Monday and hopefully come out flying.
breezy on April 14, 2019 at 2:45 pm
There could be a lot of teams under pressure to change in the offseason.
Tampa, if they don’t put it together quick, can lose to Columbus and will inevitably try to reconfigure their roster over the summer, making some forwards potentially available for Faulk plus an AHL player.
I suspect that the Leafs are too heavy on forward and will lose to the Bruins, in which case they may try to make some roster moves, D men with scoring are what they need and Faulk could sneak into that bracket.
Either way, we can save the offseason speculations for the offseason, it will be long enough no matter how well the Canes will do.
Well, we agree to disagree on Walmark. 😉 That is given his role as a third or forth-line center, not as a top 6 forward. Even that one pass was worth it and he was 15 for 17 in the faceoff circle. Faceoffs do not necessarily lead to wins, we know that after having a team that has consistently ranked high in faceoff percentage for years without even making it to the end-of-season dance, but it helps keep the puck in the O zone.
If Ferland can be resigned for 3 to 3.5M per for 2 to 4 years (no more than 4) I think it’s a good deal, any more than that is overpaying (jeez, here I am again talking offseason).
If we forget the first goal of game one, Mrazek has been pretty good, at times spectacular, but I think bit Mac deserves a chance to play tomorrow.
The Canes are not Caps good, it’s nobody’s fault, they’re one of the youngest teams in the league (the youngest in the playoffs) against seasoned veterans (Caps won the president’s trophy for years but always faltered in the playoffs, Ovechkin knows it and is not holding anything back knowing that his chances for a cup are numbered).
The Caps are just a freakin good team and despite questionable performances from some of our guys, the Canes have been there with them until the end both times. Win tomorrow, and anything is possible.
haunski on April 14, 2019 at 11:58 pm
I respectfully disagree with Ferland. Canes need him and his style of physical play. We have too many young talented players that would get picked off without him. His numbers may have fallen off the second half of the season but he is a presence every night. This isn’t the same team without him. Come to mention i have been more disappointed in McGinn then anyone else through the first 2 playoff games then a bad call and an early Ferland exit. I hope we resign him. Aho, Terravienan, Svechnikov, Wallmark, Fluery, Slavin, Pesce all have a big bullseye on their backs with guys like Wilson roaming around. If it cost more come summer to protect out assets then fine but for the love of god stop trading hypothetical points from future stars for the physicality and clean old school hockey guys like Ferland provide. Ask Tampa Bay and Pittsburg how all those regular season scoring numbers are working out against smash mouth teams in the first round. And for the record its been a while since ive seen someone as physical as Ferland have the potential offensive upside and hands that he does. He gets a pass from this caniac
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The majority of studies seem to be done on types of people who are NOT buying nootropics. Like the elderly, people with blatant cognitive deficits, etc. This is analogous to some of the muscle-building research but more extreme. Like there are studies on some compound increasing muscle growth in elderly patients or patients with wasting, and supplement companies use some of those studies to back their supplements.
Vinpocetine walks a line between herbal and pharmaceutical product. It’s a synthetic derivative of a chemical from the periwinkle plant, and due to its synthetic nature we feel it’s more appropriate as a ‘smart drug’. Plus, it’s illegal in the UK. Vinpocetine is purported to improve cognitive function by improving blood flow to the brain, which is why it's used in some 'study drugs' or 'smart pills'.
A randomized non-blind self-experiment of LLLT 2014-2015 yields a causal effect which is several times smaller than a correlative analysis and non-statistically-significant/very weak Bayesian evidence for a positive effect. This suggests that the earlier result had been driven primarily by reverse causation, and that my LLLT usage has little or no benefits.
Much better than I had expected. One of the best superhero movies so far, better than Thor or Watchmen (and especially better than the Iron Man movies). I especially appreciated how it didn’t launch right into the usual hackneyed creation of the hero plot-line but made Captain America cool his heels performing & selling war bonds for 10 or 20 minutes. The ending left me a little nonplussed, although I sort of knew it was envisioned as a franchise and I would have to admit that showing Captain America wondering at Times Square is much better an ending than something as cliche as a close-up of his suddenly-opened eyes and then a fade out. (The movie continued the lamentable trend in superhero movies of having a strong female love interest… who only gets the hots for the hero after they get muscles or powers. It was particularly bad in CA because she knows him and his heart of gold beforehand! What is the point of a feminist character who is immediately forced to do that?)↩
In contrast to the types of memory discussed in the previous section, which are long-lasting and formed as a result of learning, working memory is a temporary store of information. Working memory has been studied extensively by cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists because of its role in executive function. It has been likened to an internal scratch pad; by holding information in working memory, one keeps it available to consult and manipulate in the service of performing tasks as diverse as parsing a sentence and planning a route through the environment. Presumably for this reason, working memory ability correlates with measures of general intelligence (Friedman et al., 2006). The possibility of enhancing working memory ability is therefore of potential real-world interest.
Taking the tryptophan is fairly difficult. The powder as supplied by Bulk Nutrition is extraordinarily dry and fine; it seems to be positively hydrophobic. The first time I tried to swallow a teaspoon, I nearly coughed it out - the power had seemed to explode in my mouth and go down my lungs. Thenceforth I made sure to have a mouth of water first. After a while, I took a different tack: I mixed in as much Hericium as would fit in the container. The mushroom powder is wetter and chunkier than the tryptophan, and seems to reduce the problem. Combining the mix with chunks of melatonin inside a pill works even better.
As already mentioned, AMPs and MPH are classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Schedule II substances, which means that buying or selling them is a felony offense. This raises the question of how the drugs are obtained by students for nonmedical use. Several studies addressed this question and yielded reasonably consistent answers.
A fundamental aspect of human evolution has been the drive to augment our capabilities. The neocortex is the neural seat of abstract and higher order cognitive processes. As it grew, so did our ability to create. The invention of tools and weapons, writing, the steam engine, and the computer have exponentially increased our capacity to influence and understand the world around us. These advances are being driven by improved higher-order cognitive processing.1Fascinatingly, the practice of modulating our biology through naturally occurring flora predated all of the above discoveries. Indeed, Sumerian clay slabs as old as 5000 BC detail medicinal recipes which include over 250 plants2. The enhancement of human cognition through natural compounds followed, as people discovered plants containing caffeine, theanine, and other cognition-enhancing, or nootropic, agents.
The term “smart pills” refers to miniature electronic devices that are shaped and designed in the mold of pharmaceutical capsules but perform highly advanced functions such as sensing, imaging and drug delivery. They may include biosensors or image, pH or chemical sensors. Once they are swallowed, they travel along the gastrointestinal tract to capture information that is otherwise difficult to obtain, and then are easily eliminated from the system. Their classification as ingestible sensors makes them distinct from implantable or wearable sensors.
Hall, Irwin, Bowman, Frankenberger, & Jewett (2005) Large public university undergraduates (N = 379) 13.7% (lifetime) 27%: use during finals week; 12%: use when party; 15.4%: use before tests; 14%: believe stimulants have a positive effect on academic achievement in the long run M = 2.06 (SD = 1.19) purchased stimulants from other students; M = 2.81 (SD = 1.40) have been given stimulants by other studentsb
…The first time I took supplemental potassium (50% US RDA in a lot of water), it was like a brain fog lifted that I never knew I had, and I felt profoundly energized in a way that made me feel exercise was reasonable and prudent, which resulted in me and the roommate that had just supplemented potassium going for an hour long walk at 2AM. Experiences since then have not been quite so profound (which probably was so stark for me as I was likely fixing an acute deficiency), but I can still count on a moderately large amount of potassium to give me a solid, nearly side effect free performance boost for a few hours…I had been doing Bikram yoga on and off, and I think I wasn’t keeping up the practice because I wasn’t able to properly rehydrate myself.
Unfortunately, cognitive enhancement falls between the stools of research funding, which makes it unlikely that such research programs will be carried out. Disease-oriented funders will, by definition, not support research on normal healthy individuals. The topic intersects with drug abuse research only in the assessment of risk, leaving out the study of potential benefits, as well as the comparative benefits of other enhancement methods. As a fundamentally applied research question, it will not qualify for support by funders of basic science. The pharmaceutical industry would be expected to support such research only if cognitive enhancement were to be considered a legitimate indication by the FDA, which we hope would happen only after considerably more research has illuminated its risks, benefits, and societal impact. Even then, industry would have little incentive to delve into all of the issues raised here, including the comparison of drug effects to nonpharmaceutical means of enhancing cognition.
Barbaresi WJ, Katusic SK, Colligan RC, Weaver AL, Jacobsen SJ. Modifiers of long-term school outcomes for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Does treatment with stimulant medication make a difference? Results from a population-based study. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2007;28:274–287. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e3180cabc28. [PubMed] [CrossRef]
Another classic approach to the assessment of working memory is the span task, in which a series of items is presented to the subject for repetition, transcription, or recognition. The longest series that can be reproduced accurately is called the forward span and is a measure of working memory capacity. The ability to reproduce the series in reverse order is tested in backward span tasks and is a more stringent test of working memory capacity and perhaps other working memory functions as well. The digit span task from the Wechsler (1981) IQ test was used in four studies of stimulant effects on working memory. One study showed that d-AMP increased digit span (de Wit et al., 2002), and three found no effects of d-AMP or MPH (Oken, Kishiyama, & Salinsky, 1995; Schmedtje, Oman, Letz, & Baker, 1988; Silber, Croft, Papafotiou, & Stough, 2006). A spatial span task, in which subjects must retain and reproduce the order in which boxes in a scattered spatial arrangement change color, was used by Elliott et al. (1997) to assess the effects of MPH on working memory. For subjects in the group receiving placebo first, MPH increased spatial span. However, for the subjects who received MPH first, there was a nonsignificant opposite trend. The group difference in drug effect is not easily explained. The authors noted that the subjects in the first group performed at an overall lower level, and so, this may be another manifestation of the trend for a larger enhancement effect for less able subjects.
No. There are mission essential jobs that require you to live on base sometimes. Or a first term person that is required to live on base. Or if you have proven to not be as responsible with rent off base as you should be so your commander requires you to live on base. Or you’re at an installation that requires you to live on base during your stay. Or the only affordable housing off base puts you an hour away from where you work. It isn’t simple. The fact that you think it is tells me you are one of the “dumb@$$es” you are referring to above.
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Recent developments include biosensor-equipped smart pills that sense the appropriate environment and location to release pharmacological agents. Medimetrics (Eindhoven, Netherlands) has developed a pill called IntelliCap with drug reservoir, pH and temperature sensors that release drugs to a defined region of the gastrointestinal tract. This device is CE marked and is in early stages of clinical trials for FDA approval. Recently, Google announced its intent to invest and innovate in this space.
It is known that American college students have embraced cognitive enhancement, and some information exists about the demographics of the students most likely to practice cognitive enhancement with prescription stimulants. Outside of this narrow segment of the population, very little is known. What happens when students graduate and enter the world of work? Do they continue using prescription stimulants for cognitive enhancement in their first jobs and beyond? How might the answer to this question depend on occupation? For those who stay on campus to pursue graduate or professional education, what happens to patterns of use? To what extent do college graduates who did not use stimulants as students begin to use them for cognitive enhancement later in their careers? To what extent do workers without college degrees use stimulants to enhance job performance? How do the answers to these questions differ for countries outside of North America, where the studies of Table 1 were carried out?
2 commenters point out that my possible lack of result is due to my mistaken assumption that if nicotine is absorbable through skin, mouth, and lungs it ought to be perfectly fine to absorb it through my stomach by drinking it (rather than vaporizing it and breathing it with an e-cigarette machine) - it’s apparently known that absorption differs in the stomach.
Past noon, I began to feel better, but since I would be driving to errands around 4 PM, I decided to not risk it and take an hour-long nap, which went well, as did the driving. The evening was normal enough that I forgot I had stayed up the previous night, and indeed, I didn’t much feel like going to bed until past midnight. I then slept well, the Zeo giving me a 108 ZQ (not an all-time record, but still unusual).
Capsule Connection sells 1000 00 pills (the largest pills) for $9. I already have a pill machine, so that doesn’t count (a sunk cost). If we sum the grams per day column from the first table, we get 9.75 grams a day. Each 00 pill can take around 0.75 grams, so we need 13 pills. (Creatine is very bulky, alas.) 13 pills per day for 1000 days is 13,000 pills, and 1,000 pills is $9 so we need 13 units and 13 times 9 is $117.
Some of the newest substances being used as ‘smart drugs’ are medically prescribed for other conditions. For example, methylphenidate, commonly known as Ritalin, is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). So is Adderall, a combination drug containing two forms of amphetamine. These are among a suite of pharmaceuticals now being used by healthy people, particularly university students, to enhance their capabilities for learning or working.
This calculation - reaping only \frac{7}{9} of the naive expectation - gives one pause. How serious is the sleep rebound? In another article, I point to a mice study that sleep deficits can take 28 days to repay. What if the gain from modafinil is entirely wiped out by repayment and all it did was defer sleep? Would that render modafinil a waste of money? Perhaps. Thinking on it, I believe deferring sleep is of some value, but I cannot decide whether it is a net profit.
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In the framework of the revised inter-agency regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) for Europe, released on 10 June 2016, the Plan amounts to USD 669.9 million with UNHCR appealing for USD 380.3 million in additional support for affected European countries in the eastern Mediterranean and western Balkans countries for 2016. This appeal supersedes the original 2016 requirements for participating organizations. Under the RMRP, UNHCR is appealing for 300 million USD for Greece, and as of 31 December the total recorded contributions for the country amount to 184.5 million USD.
Special thanks to major donors to the refugee emergency in Europe – the European Union, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom – as well as to all government donors and private donors for their generous contributions. The financial support provided by donors who have contributed with non-earmarked and broadly earmarked funds, as well as for those who have contributed directly to the situation and the Greece operation allows to provide direct assistance in protection and help find solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers. In this changing operational context, UNHCR is appealing to donors to provide contributions that can be allocated as flexibly as possible.
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36. Faculty and Staff of the Flint College, 1959
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College in 0chenecta,dy, New York, and at the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear
Studies for which institution he also worked as a Traveling Science Teacher.
He has taught in the New Jersey p'ublic schools for six years. Mrs. Galley
(Desiree) is also from New Jersey. Her B.A. was granted by New York
University and her M.A. by Columbia. She attended the S orbon.ne also.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Galley enjoy reading;. jazz. and art.
Mr. Marshall G. Greenberg
801 Miller Avenue1 Apt. 16
Normandy 3- 2094
Office Ext. 272
Mr. Greenberg is commuting to Flint College from Ann Arbor to fill
the position of Lecturer in Ctatistics. His undergraduate work was done at
Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He received his M. S. from the
University of Michigan where he is now working on a doctorate in psychology.
Upon completion of his thesis, Mr. Greenberg hopes to combine teaching
and research in mathematical psychology. His outside interests include
bowling, tennis, golf, and bridge.
Mrs. Mary L. Rhodes
5 617 Edwards Street
Flint, Michigan Sunset 9-1369
Mrs. Rhodes is teaching the course in Methods of Teaching English
in Secondary Schools at Flint College. She received her B,A. from Eastern
Michigan College and her M.A. from the University of .Michigan. She has
taught at Linden, Northern High School and in the evening program at Flint
Junior College. Mr. Rhodes (Dusty) is employed at radio station WAMM.
They have three daughters: Martha, Beth, and Jane.
OTHER FACULTY Oi:Z STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN RESIDING IN THE FLINT AREA
Mrs. Margaret Bush
213 Commonwealth
Cedar 3-7211
Mrs. Bush (Marge) has the position of Field Co .. ordinator of the Flint
Youth Study. She is a 1959 graduate of the Flint College and has been a case
worker at the Bureau of Social Aid. She has three children: Pat, 14;
Penny, 12; and Rick, 10. She enjoys music and dancing and has had nominal
interest in Flint Ski Club and Community Players. Her special ''hobbies"
at present are 9th grade Latin, 7th grade Common Learnings, and 6th grade
Arithmetic.
Title 36. Faculty and Staff of the Flint College, 1959
Description This served as both a directory and a personal guidebook and probably was written by Dean French himself
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Transcript - ,,_ College in 0chenecta,dy, New York, and at the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies for which institution he also worked as a Traveling Science Teacher. He has taught in the New Jersey p'ublic schools for six years. Mrs. Galley (Desiree) is also from New Jersey. Her B.A. was granted by New York University and her M.A. by Columbia. She attended the S orbon.ne also. Both Mr. and Mrs. Galley enjoy reading;. jazz. and art. Mr. Marshall G. Greenberg 801 Miller Avenue1 Apt. 16 Ann Arbor, Michigan Normandy 3- 2094 Office Ext. 272 Mr. Greenberg is commuting to Flint College from Ann Arbor to fill the position of Lecturer in Ctatistics. His undergraduate work was done at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He received his M. S. from the University of Michigan where he is now working on a doctorate in psychology. Upon completion of his thesis, Mr. Greenberg hopes to combine teaching and research in mathematical psychology. His outside interests include bowling, tennis, golf, and bridge. Mrs. Mary L. Rhodes 5 617 Edwards Street Flint, Michigan Sunset 9-1369 Mrs. Rhodes is teaching the course in Methods of Teaching English in Secondary Schools at Flint College. She received her B,A. from Eastern Michigan College and her M.A. from the University of .Michigan. She has taught at Linden, Northern High School and in the evening program at Flint Junior College. Mr. Rhodes (Dusty) is employed at radio station WAMM. They have three daughters: Martha, Beth, and Jane. OTHER FACULTY Oi:Z STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RESIDING IN THE FLINT AREA Mrs. Margaret Bush 213 Commonwealth Flint, Michigan Cedar 3-7211 Office Ext. 254 Mrs. Bush (Marge) has the position of Field Co .. ordinator of the Flint Youth Study. She is a 1959 graduate of the Flint College and has been a case worker at the Bureau of Social Aid. She has three children: Pat, 14; Penny, 12; and Rick, 10. She enjoys music and dancing and has had nominal interest in Flint Ski Club and Community Players. Her special ''hobbies" at present are 9th grade Latin, 7th grade Common Learnings, and 6th grade Arithmetic.
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Full text SEVEN Special Rules for the Acting Awards ( 1 ) Only Class A members of the Screen Actors Guild shall be invited to take part in the nomination vote. (2) Ballots in the final voting shall be sent to both class A and Class B members of the Screen Actors Guild, to Writers eligible for active membership in the Screen Writers Guild, to Directors eligible for Senior membership in the Screen Directors Guild, to Assistants eligible for Junior membership in the Screen Directors Guild, to members of the Unit Managers Guild, and to the members of the Producers Branch, the Science Branches and other Branches of the Academy. EIGHT Special Rules for the Directing Award ( 1) All Directors fulfilling the minimum qualifications for Senior membership in the Screen Directors Guild, shall be invited to take part in the nomination vote. (2) Ballots in the final voting shall be sent to Directors eligible for Senior Membership in the Screen Directors Guild, to Assistants eligible for Junior membership in the Screen Directors Guild, to members of the Unit Managers Guild, to Writers eligible for active membership in the Screen Writers Guild, to Class A members of the Screen Actors Guild, and to the members of the Producers Branch, the Science Branches and other Branches of the Academy. NINE Special Rules for the Writing Awards ( 1) All Writers fulfilling the qualifications for active member· ship in the Screen Writers Guild, shall be invited to take part in the nomination vote. (2) Ballots in the final voting shall be sent to the same groups who participate in the final voting for the Directing Award. TEN Special Rules for the Art Direction Awards Black-and-White Art Direction (1) One picture shall be nominated for this Award from each studio Art Department, each nomination to be made by the Supervising Art Director concerned, in consultation with such Art Director members of his department and such of the executive staff of his studio as he may deem fit. (2) The one production to receive the Art Direction Award shall be chosen from those productions nominated in accordance with Paragraph (1) above, by a Committee to be known as the "Art Page Fiue
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The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation (DISLF) supports the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in its mission, “to provide wise stewardship of the marine environment through education and research”. The DISLF provides funds to sustain the activities and programs of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The foundation is also continuing to build the George C. Crozier Endowment, as well as the DISLF Endowment for the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
Mobile Bay National Estuary Program
The mission of the Mobile Bay NEP is to promote wise stewardship of the water quality characteristics and living resource base of the Mobile Bay estuarine system. Administered through and funded by the EPA under provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1987, the initial task for the MBNEP was the development of a Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan (CCMP) as a blueprint for conserving the estuary.
K12 Discovery Hall Programs
Discovery Hall Programs marine education programs include K-12 students, teacher training/ enhancement programs, and public outreach. It promotes conservation through education, research, and outreach.
The K-12 School Year Programs are available through Discovery Hall Programs. These programs are available September through May, and are by reservation only.
The Discovery Hall Programs offer a variety of programs for your children during the summer, ranging from single-day programs to residential camps and academic courses.
Discovery Hall Programs strives to provide current and relevant continuing education opportunities for teachers and informal educators through hands-on workshops.
Discovery Hall Programs has developed a variety of activities focused ROVs, to take advantage of K-12 students’ interest in robotics, marine biology and oceanography.
ROV Competition
ROVing the Gulf
Technology in Marine Science
Marine DeTECHtives
The BayMobile is DISL’s science classroom on wheels, whose mission is to visit underserved schools in the state of Alabama which do not have the opportunity or the means to visit the Dauphin Island Sea Lab on a field trip.
University programs at DISL consists of two parts: our Summer Undergraduate programs and our year round Graduate Programs.
While the DISL serves as the focal point of graduate education in marine science in the state of Alabama, it is not a degree-granting institution, and graduate degrees are offered through ten of the 22 DISL Member Schools.
Graduate Overview
Over three sessions DISL offers over 25 marine science courses of varying amounts of credits for undergraduate students.
NSF REU
The focus of the REU Program is to provide participants with the opportunity to carry out an independent research project while working under the direction of a faculty mentor.
Research Experience for Undergraduate Program
University Programs hosts a seminar series throughout the year on campus. The Sea Lab faculty invite researches from around the world to speak about their work. The majority of seminars are streamed live and archived on The Sea Lab’s YouTube channel.
Seminar Listing
DISL YouTube Channel
University Experience
See what you can expect when you come to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab for Graduate and Undergraduate coursework.
Since 1971, The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island team has collected valuable environmental and ecosystem level data as part of research and monitoring efforts in the fields of oceanography and ecology. These data are valuable to researchers, educators, managers, policymakers, and the general public.
NOAA’s Restore Act Science Program
Gulf of Mexico Science Journal
MyMobileBay.com
MyMobileBay.com is freely accessible by the public with ten sites monitoring the water quality. The information is updated every half hour and is gathered from eight water quality sampling stations that are located around coastal Alabama, including a new site off-shore.
Since 1971, research personnel at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) have collected valuable environmental and ecosystem level data as part of research and monitoring endeavors.
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) has been a practicing member of American Academy of Underwater Science since 1992 and currently provides scientific diver training and oversight for all participating schools within the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium (MESC).
A Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative consortia led by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, the Alabama Center of Ecological Resilience (ACER) investigates how biodiversity influences an ecosystem’s resilience. Specifically, the ecosystems of the northern Gulf of Mexico to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island’s digital library gives the public access to more than 200 publications authored by faculty, staff, and students dating back to 1974.
Public Aquarium
Find all the information you need to make the most of your visit in our public aquarium. Hours, Pricing and even our live streaming webcams can be found here!
The Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab hosts a number of events for the public. The free, twice-monthly Boardwalk Talk program offers the public a chance to engage with the experts at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The Summer Excursion program takes visitors into the habitats studied by our marine scientists, researchers and students at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
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Shop our online gift shop for apparel and more.
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Make your next function a memorable event for you and your guests at this beautiful and unique location.
Join the Friends of the Sea Lab and you will receive the opportunity to the visit the Estuarium year round for just your yearly membership fee. There are many other amazing perks as well!
Discovery Day is the Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s open house for the public. Once a year, the public is given a tour of our research facilities to learn about our coastal environment and the research our team is working on.
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is the perfect place to host your next meeting, wedding, or birthday party. Let our special events team guide you to creating a memorable experience for you and your guests.
Forks and Corks
Join us on September 27! This unique seafood culinary art competition features area high school hospitality and culinary arts programs’ students transforming marine science education into delicious seafood dishes to enjoy throughout the evening.
View Our Venues
Discover an authentic Gulf Coast experience at The Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Our 5 unique venues combine on-point technology and amenities to keep you focused.
From inviting breezes on the open decks to the unmatched visual exhibits of the fourth largest estuary system in the United States, the Estuarium at The Sea Lab is the perfect venue for your indoor or outdoor functions.
Climb aboard the Miss May May, and set sail for a birthday destination to remember. Both entertaining and educational, the adjacent aquatic and hands-on exhibits inside the Estuarium provide hours of excitement while guiding your child through a journey of our precious coastal habitat.
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Playing ‘tag’: Tracking movement of young oysters
Home » About » News » Playing ‘tag’: Tracking movement of young oysters
(June 24, 2019) --
A new publication in the journal Estuaries and Coasts investigates the use of a fluorescent dye to track movements of young oysters. The publication, “Field mark-recapture of calcein-stained larval oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in a freshwater-dominated estuary,” provides new knowledge on methods for tracking oysters in low salinity environments common to coastal waters, particularly in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This information is important to understand where oysters settle and grow compared to locations of parent stocks and to guide management practices of oysters or any marine species with larval stages that live in the water column.
Free-living aquatic animals have the potential to be transported long distances during early life development. These movements can influence adult distributions and subsequently how populations are connected. By understanding larval transport pathways, we can better inform restoration efforts of remaining marine invertebrate populations globally. This information is particularly important for commercial species such as oysters, which are a valuable resource for Alabama and other coastal waters.
Calcein-stained oysters
“By knowing where larvae originate and where they end up, we can determine what locations are better for oyster populations and provide managers with information to select sites for oyster restoration,” said Haley Gancel, Ph.D. candidate, who is lead author on the research study.
Gancel is a student at the University of South Alabama and works with Dr. Ruth H. Carmichael at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
Determining larval transport pathways is a challenge due to the microscopic size of larvae, high mortalities rates, and dilution in the marine environment.
In this study researchers used a harmless fluorescent dye called calcein to track oyster larval movements in Mobile Bay, Alabama and found that oyster larvae are transported from lower Mobile Bay to Mississippi Sound, using dominate freshwater flow paths.
The approach used in this study can be applied to a wider range of marine species and help understand how larvae are transported in the marine environment and aid in restoration and management of this and other species throughout their range.
You can read this article by clicking here.
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Do Umbrella Businesses Have a Pension Scheme?
{ Umbrella Company Pension Schemes — Everything You Want to Know |} Pension schemes assist employees put money aside for retirement directly from their own commission. The problem for self-employed professionals is thatthey will need to manage themselves,by simply setting up a retirement strategy or saving cash from their earnings. Fortunately,umbrella firms course contractors as employees,providing them all of the advantages of employment. Including a pension scheme,which nowrequires contribution from the umbrella company also. Let’s take a better look in the statutory retirement strategies available through umbrella companies. {In 2012,the UK Government decided that workers weren’t saving enough for their retirement. |} People were relying too muchon the State Pension,that had not received adequate funding to match the ongoing increase in life expectancy and an ageing population. {To fight this,they introduced automatic enrolment. |} The new system,rolled outfrom 2012 to 2018,requires companies to automatically enroll qualified employees on a workplace retirement strategy. Employers are also responsible for deducting donations from their pre-tax income and making a minimal statutory contribution to the employee’s savings. In October 2012,this minimal contribution has been set to 1 percent for employees,that was matched by companies,rising in 2018: October 2012 to 5th April 2018: companies 1 percent,employees 1 percent 6th April 2018 into 5th April 2019: companies 2%,employees 3 percent 6th April 2019 onwards: employers 3 percent,employees 5% However for anybody that doesn’t want to donate to a pension as soon as you’re registered it is still possible to opt out. Umbrella company pension scheme {Working through an umbrella company,contractors are classed as an employee. |} That means,yes,You’re automatically registered on the umbrella company’s pension scheme as long as you fulfill the following criteria: Your job is primarily UK-based You earn more than #10,000 per year You’re between 22 and the state pension age. Until 5th April 2019,3 percent of your pre-tax wages will proceed directlyinto a pension fund,with the umbrella company contributing a further 2%. From 6th April 2019,5% of your pre-tax wages will probably enter precisely the same pension fund,with your umbrella company contributing a further 3%. The Advantages of an umbrella company pension Some contractors may worry that this may eat away in their wages. Do not. {Pension contributions are made before your wages are taxed. |} That means anything which goes out of your wage in your pension fund is tax-free instead of being taxed at 20% or even 40 percent. So,instead of getting 60% of your earnings,you receive 100 percent via a pension fund. Let’s say you earn more than46,351 annually,which puts you in the higher rate band of income tax. {Anything you earn beyond that #46,351 annually (approximately #3,863 per month) is taxed at a rate of 40%. |} You receive just #60 for each #100 of income. Why not place the full #100 directly into the pension fund instead? That’s why lots of individuals,especially people in the higher rate band of income tax,choose to place more than the minimal in their pension fund. And this is completely possible. Contractors can contribute to #40,000 to their pension scheme each year,comprising tax-free income and company contributions. At this time,there’s a life allowance of 1,030,000 that can be contributed before incurring any tax. With your funds {Together with the increased earnings of contracting,it’s typical for contractors to retire early. |} As an alternative,you might simply want to find some of the cash out for a holiday,new car or home improvement. The fantastic news is: you don’t have to wait till the state pension age to get the pension capital you have built up through your umbrella company pension. Once you’re 55 or more,you can get up to 25% of your pension pot as a tax-free lump sum. Anything outside the 25% will be taxed as an accession to the rest of your earnings that tax season — 20% over #11,850,40 percent over #46,351 or 45% over #150,000,as things now stand. That’s why most people decide to take their pension as regular income as soon as they have retired,to minimise the amount of tax free. What about limited companies? {Contractors who operate as a limited company can still benefit from the tax relief of a pension scheme. |} However,as with the majority of things relating to limited companies,this requires a lot more effort on their part. Primarilythey have to find the right balance between wages and dividend payments to boost the limit in their pension contributions. Because employer contributions,such as pensions,count as a business expense,they are subject to tax relief. Thus,when you donate to your retirement strategy,as a manager,the company can spend less in business tax. But this has additional complications because it ought to be completely compliant as an allowable expense. Any other employees,by way of instance,ought to be given comparable packages to prove to HMRC which it’s a real business investment. On top of all that,utilizing a limited company pension scheme means setting up and paying to the pension fund yourself. Along with the rest of the administrative work for limited company owners,it’s definitely worth seeking advice and assistance from a trustworthy accountant. Get the Ideal assistance Whether you are looking to compare umbrella firms or find the right accountant,you can make the right decision with . Our online comparison tool allows you evaluate multiple companies in a couple of minutes. It couldn’t be much easier to take the hassle from contracting. Contact us today to learn more.
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Joo Jin-Mo cast in SBS drama series “Big Issue”
Joo Jin-Mo is cast in upcoming SBS drama series “Big Issue” co-starring Han Ye-Seul. For drama series “Big Issue,” Joo Jin-Mo will play lead male character Han Seok-Joo. He was once an elite photo journalist for the biggest newspaper in Korea. His career and personal life was ruined because of a photograph. He then meets Ji Soo-Hyun (Han Ye-Seul) and becomes a paparazzi photographer.
“Big Issue” first airs February, 2019 in South Korea (takes over SBS’ Wednesday and Thursday 10PM time slot after “The Last Empress“).
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Awaiting for Joo Jin Mo’s new drama for long time, can’t wait to see this drama♥️
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The Mechanics of Baseball (Jul, 1930)
The Mechanics of Baseball
By Babe Ruth
The Sultan of Swat! The Bustin’ Babe! The most colorful player the game has ever seen! In these terms we habitually think of Babe Ruth. In this article he reveals many of the secrets that have made him the game’s most valuable player.
IT SEEMS strange to talk or write of baseball mechanics. Yet the term is a good one, for we who play baseball are as much mechanicians as the engineers who develop airplanes, the men who operate engines or the mechanic who tinkers with an automobile in a garage. The only difference is in the engine. Instead of carburetors and differentials we deal with legs and arms, instead of cylinders we have lungs, and instead of gasoline we burn nervous energy. There are two sides to baseball. One is the mental side which includes alertness, baseball knowledge, quick thinking and keen perception. The other side is mechanical—and that includes the business of throwing and hitting; the mechanical act of running bases, of making balls curve or making hits go in the direction you want. It is as much a superiority in baseball mechanics as it is a superiority in baseball mentality that distinguishes the big leaguer from the sand lotter.
Take the matter of pitching for instance. The average sand lot pitcher works entirely with his arm. His chief idea is to get the ball over and keep the hitter from hitting. And that’s just the kindergarten of pitching. The big league pitcher pitches with his head. He is not half so much interested in striking out the batter as he is in making that batter hit where he wants him to hit. The big league pitcher tries to complete his game with as few pitches as possible and naturally the best way of doing that is to make the batsman hit.
A pitcher like Herbie Pennock or Waite Hoyt for instance can, nine times out of ten, make a hitter hit the ball in the general direction he wants it to be hit. And there are general rules governing. For instance suppose there is a runner on first base, none out and the score is tied. The natural play for the hitter then is a sacrifice which will get the runner to second and put him in scoring position. The pitcher’s job is to stop that sacrifice and the green sand lotter nine times out of ten will either pitch a waste hall or try to fool the hitter with a curve. But not the big leaguer. No indeed. He pitches a fast ball high and inside knowing that such a pitch is the hardest ball in the world to bunt.
There are other rules, too.
With a right handed hitter the ordinary rule is to pitch outside if you want him to hit to the right or inside if you want him to hit to left. With a left hand hitter the process is reversed. Of course, there are exceptions. But no rule is perfect, and where there is an exception the pitcher must study the hitter.
Fans frequently asked me how a pitcher knows what to pitch to a given hitter. Until you’ve pitched to a hitter once or twice and know his style that’s a hard thing to answer. There are some general rules however even for that. If the hitter holds his bat rested on his shoulder, standing loosely at the plate, a fast ball inside is apt to be the best pitch. If he stands far back from the plate and is inclined to step away on his swing, then a curve ball on the outside is apt to be the medicine.
Here’s another tip to young pitchers. Every pitcher who ever pitched a ball game has his favorite pitch. Perhaps it’s a fast ball. Perhaps it’s an overhand curve, perhaps it’s a side arm curve. (The one we used “to call an out-shoot when we were kids.) The young inexperienced pitcher pitches that pet of his every other pitch until opposing hitters lay for it. The real pitcher uses his “pet” only when he’s in a hole*—saving it up until he really needs it. Then it’s worth something.
Take Herbie Pennock for instance. Pennock’s best pitch is an overhand curve that breaks down and out. He may go for three or four innings without showing it once. But when he gets in a hole —when he has to make sure of the hitter and wants him to hit the best he has— then he comes in there with that overhand curve.
A lot of people seem to think that because a pitcher is in the tig leagues and winning ball games he must have something wonderful in the way of “stuff.” That’s not always true. I’ve seen sandlot pitchers who were just as fast and had just as much break on their curve ball as any big leaguer. But they don’t know how to pitch. Nine-tenths of pitching success is control and the ability to “mix ’em up.” No pitcher can get by on one thing alone, whether it be a fast one or a curve or a slow one. But a pitcher who has good control and knows how to pitch can get by with very little stuff on the ball.
In this connection I always think of the late Urban Shocker who was with St. Louis and the Yankees for so many years. As a young fellow Shocker had a lot of stuff but during his later years he got by on his head alone. His curve ball, as he used to say himself, “was just a wrinkle,” and his fast one wouldn’t sting much if you caught it with your bare hands. But he was a great pitcher just the same—because he had perfect control and could put that ball right where he wanted it.
Control, you know, consists in something more than merely getting the ball over the plate. Good control means the ability to hit a catcher’s glove, wherever he holds it, in fourteen tries out of fifteen. And there’s only one way to get it. That’s to practice and practice some more. Old timers like Pennock or Bob Shawkey or Walter Johnson or fellows like that never pitch a ball that they’re not throwing to a target. If you watch them when they warm up before a game you’ll see what I mean. Young pitchers just always around the corners, never giving the hitter a good hall to hit at. You know the toughest pitch in the world for a hitter is a ball that’s so far outside, or inside, so low or so high that you can’t quite get hold of it and yet one that you know will be called a strike if you let it go by.
Anybody can throw a curve ball. If you grip the ball firmly and let it roll out over the side of your fingers when you deliver it, the thing is bound to curve. Natural twist and gravity will take care of that. But the real curve, the sort that gets by in the big leagues, must be sharp breaking and quick and that sort of curve is obtained only by a quick snap of the wrist at the time the ball is delivered. The quick snap of the wrist gives the ball the added twist that makes it break quickly. And every pitcher knows that it’s not the width of the curve that fools the hitter so much as it is the quickness of the break. The old round house curve that breaks^ eighteen or twenty inches is a lot easier to hit than the fast breaking curve that breaks only two or three inches. i
Yet a curve ball alone, no matter how good, doesn’t make a pitcher. The best curve ball I ever looked at was possessed by Walter Beall, and he couldn’t even make the big league grade. He had all the stuff you’d want to see. His fast ball zipped down there with a great hop and his curve ball was almost unhittable. But he couldn’t get control —and as I said before, control is the biggest single item in pitching success.
Maybe you’d be interested in a word about the mechanics of hitting. The poor hitter can improve his hitting if he’ll work at it. The first secret of successful hitting is complete relaxation. That sounds funny but it’s true. You’ve got to stand up there at the plate naturally with your muscles relaxed and ready to move in any direction. Despite the fact that I get paid for hitting home runs, I think it’s a mistake for the kid player to attempt distance hitting. The minute you try to drive that ball for long distances you press, and in baseball as in golf, pressing is bad business. Nor does it pay to take too long a swing. Ever since the home run became so advertised ball players have had a tendency to grab their bat at the end and take a swing from the heels at every pitch. That’s bad. They’re thrown off balance and as a result are suckers for any sort of change of pace. The ideal batting type, according to my way of thinking, is the style used by such hitters as Ty Cobb, Joey Sewell, Eddie Collins and Earl Combs. Here are hitters who hit any type of pitching and the reason they hit so well is that they are constantly on balance. They choke their bats, take a shorter swing and stand flat footed at the plate. Being constantly on balance they can wait until the ball is almost .on them before they start their swing and the result is they are less likely to be fooled by curves or slow ones. In my own case for instance, where I have to take a long swing and consequently must start my swing with the pitch, I’m more likely to be fooled. You can look over the big league strikeout records each year and without any further evidence you can separate the long full swingers from the “poke” hitters. The swingers are the strikeout victims. The other fellows may not hit many home runs, but they’re always in there hitting that ball.
One other thing about hitting. Don’t try to kill the ball. Just try to meet it squarely. A bunt, you know, if it can’t be fielded, is a lot better than a long fly ball that the outfielder gets under. The perfect hit is the line ball that zips over the heads of the infielders and lands inside the range of the outfielders. Just remember that if you get your percentage of hits like that the home runs can run for Sweeney. And don’t press Take it easy! Relax! Choke your bat! Don’t be over-anxious. And above all else don’t swing at the bad ones.
If you will only do those things you will have mastered the first steps in the mechanics of baseball. In our game as with an automobile engine coordination is the thing. You can’t expect success if the carburetor is clogged; nor can you expect success if the motor, which is the legs, aren’t working in conjunction with the spark plug which is the brain and the steering apparatus which is the eyes.
Electric Eyes Gauge Speed of Baseball (Sep, 1939)
EVERY MOVE IN BALL GAME IS SHOWN ON SCREEN (Dec, 1924)
Television – a Season Pass to Baseball! (Apr, 1947)
Psychic Baseball (Dec, 1930)
Mechanics of Magic (Apr, 1934)
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THE GLORIOUS QUR’AN TEACHES NOT TO ABUSE OTHER RELIGIONS
December 1, 2015 admin 2015, e-Magazines 0
Translation: And do not abuse those whom they invoke other than Allah, lest they sho uld abuse Allah trangressivly without knowledge. (Surah Al-An’am Verse 108)
Explanation: Noword which could be taken as abusive was ever said by the Holy Prophet (saws) or had appeared in the Holy Qur’an. This verse also stopped Muslims from doing so.
According to the background of revelation as narrated by Ibn Jarir (ra) that the Quraish chiefs formed a deputation who would go to see Abu Talib. To Abu Talib, the deputation said: You are our elder, and a chief, and you know that your nephew, Muhammad (saws) has been causing great pain to the idols we worship. We wish that you would talk to him and prevail on him that he should say nothing offensive against our idols, in which case, we shall make peace on the principle that he acts as he wishes on his faith, takes whoever he chooses as the object of his worship, against which, we shall raise no objection.
Abi Talib called the Holy Prophet (saws) to him. The Holy Prophet (saws) turned to the deputation and asked: What is your wish? They said: We wish that you leave us and our idols alone. Do not speak ill of them. We shall leave you and your object of worship alone. This will end our mutual hostility.
The Holy Prophet (saws) said: All right, you tell me, if I were to accept what you were saying, would you be ready to say a Kalimah (Statement in words) by saying which you would become masters of the whole Arabia with even people from beyond subscribing to your authority?
The Holy Prophet (saws) said: There is no god (worthy of worship) but Allah]. That infuriated all of them. Abu Talib said to the Holy Prophet (saws): O my nephew, say something other than this Kalimah because it has left your clansmen all confused.He said: As for me, I cannot say a Kalimah other than this. If they were to bring the sun down from the skies and put in my hands, even then I will not say a Kalimah other than this.
Thereupon, this verse was reveled (And do not abuse those whom they invoke other than Allah, lest they abuse Allah trangressivly without knowledge). This verse is to teach all Muslims not to abuse other religions while Prophet Muhammad (saws) was already free from abusing.
WORSENING MORAL VALUES REQUIRE ALL-OUT EFFORT
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Venezuela says it thwarted 'coup' bid
Venezuela's socialist government said Wednesday it had derailed a coup bid, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general and former defense minister in his place.
Maduro warned that he would be "ruthless in a revolutionary counter-offensive against an attempted fascist coup -- ruthless!"
In a speech broadcast nationwide on radio and television, an agitated Maduro denounced a "fascist attempt to assassinate me" -- and lashed out at Colombian President Ivan Duque saying his "complicity" was "evident."
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez earlier said the alleged coup involved active duty and retired military officers, and was to have been executed between Sunday and Monday this past weekend.
"We were in all the meetings to plan the coup d'Etat. We were in all the conferences," he said, suggesting informers had infiltrated the alleged plotters -- at least six of whom had been detained.
In his televised speech, Rodriguez also accused opposition leader Juan Guaido of planning "a bloodbath."
Guaido for his part dismissed the coup claims as fiction, saying the media had "lost count" of how many times the same accusations had been repeated.
Recognized by the United States and more than 50 countries as the country's interim president, Guaido said he would continue to call on the armed forces to abandon Maduro.
- Moles among the plotters? -
Rodriguez accused Colombia's Duque of being closely involved in the alleged plot, and implicated Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and US National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Without referring directly to the charge, Colombia's foreign minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, said his country would "continue to act through political and diplomatic means" in Venezuela.
Rodriguez presented testimony from one of the detainees -- Lieutenant Carlos Saavedra, identified as the nephew of retired General Ramon Saavedra, who was arrested Wednesday by Venezuelan intelligence agents.
According to Rodriguez, surveillance of the plotters and Saavedra's recorded "confession" revealed that the plan envisaged the takeover of three military bases, including La Carlota air base in Caracas.
Maduro, his wife Celia Flores, and top Socialist Party official Diosdado Cabello were to be assassinated, along with other officials, the government said. In his speech, Maduro briefly referred to an "Israeli group" he said was to carry out the killing.
- Recordings, surveillance -
The plotters hoped to spring Raul Baduel, a former defense minister under the late president Hugo Chavez, from jail to proclaim him president, Rodriguez said.
Maduro demoted Baduel last year as part of a purge of senior military officers. Also purged was general Antonio Rivero, allegedly another leader of the coup bid.
Maduro said he would seek the arrest and extradition from Dominican Republic of a third former general, Eduardo Baez, accused of plotting the coup along with Rivero.
The head of the National Assembly, Guaido proclaimed himself Venezuela's interim president in January on the grounds Maduro's 2018 re-election was illegitimate.
Venezuelan authorities recently said that 17 people had been charged with attempting a coup on April 30, during Guaido's failed attempt to inspire a military uprising.
Only some 30 military personnel joined Guaido, and the revolt fizzled after two days of deadly clashes.
Several people close to Guaido have since been detained, though not the lawmaker himself.
However following Rodriguez's accusations he told reporters he had "frustrated" an attempt to kidnap several members of his entourage on a Caracas highway. The kidnappers were armed and "dressed as civilians" he said.
- Ex-intel chief 'a mercenary' -
Rodriguez accused Maduro's former intelligence chief Cristopher Figuera -- who has defected to the United States -- of seeking "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for supporting the abortive uprising.
Figuera "turned out to be a mercenary," Rodriguez said.
In a series of shock claims made to US media, Figuera said members of Maduro's family and his government were engaged in money laundering and corruption, and alleged that Hezbollah cells were allowed to operate in Venezuela and raise funds.
On Wednesday Ivan Simonovis, a former Venezuelan national police chief who fled house arrest in Caracas where he was being held on murder charges, was in Washington to talk to US lawmakers about "criminal activities" of the Maduro government. He backed up many of Figuera's allegations.
Washington has imposed crippling sanctions on Maduro's government, holding the president responsible for the collapse of the Latin American oil giant, which has seen millions flee amid widespread shortages of basic goods and medicines.
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How would Lynch/Frost tackle Season Four?
Re: How would Lynch/Frost tackle Season Four?
Postby Mr. Reindeer » Fri Jun 01, 2018 5:02 am
NormoftheAndes wrote: There is no way a further season would be at all like season 3 and that hazy and dream-like. I am certain that they know they need a very strong plotline this time. Something on a par with 'Who Killed Laura Palmer?' The missing diary page must feature in that too!
If you believe a new season will become more plot-oriented and less dreamlike, I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to DKL’s evolution as an artist over the past two decades. I really think that if a new season is ever announced, you need to recalibrate your expectations to avoid disappointment.
I’m with you, though, in the sense that I just can’t see the show hitching its star to an “alternate timeline” approach. That just feels way too Lost S6 / Fringe. I’m sure L/F would put their own innovative spin on it, but in the abstract, I just can’t get excited about the idea of the show going in such a conventional genre direction at this point.
NormoftheAndes
Postby NormoftheAndes » Fri Jun 01, 2018 5:53 am
Yes I agree with you. I don't mean that the show would become ALL about the plot - was Twin Peaks ever like that anyway? I don't think so.
But season 3's plot seemed to me about asking what is real or unreal, loss of memory, loss of identity even. All I mean is that those sorts of things would need to be tied to a strong plot hook for a further story. I'd go more with the idea of Lynch never following any clear evolution anyway, he 'Swerves' (to use the title of Martha Nochimson's book - highly recommended!) - I mean, this is my view but INLAND EMPIRE has a more clear plot to me than Season 3.
NormoftheAndes wrote: Yes I agree with you. I don't mean that the show would become ALL about the plot - was Twin Peaks ever like that anyway? I don't think so.
I guess IE feels slightly more plot-oriented, or at least more focused, than TP:TR simply by nature of the fact that it is shorter and revolves more or less around one character. But I think the themes you mentioned (loss of memory and identity) are prominent themes in IE and almost all of DKL’s post-TP works, and are likely to remain prominent in any future season. Although your “swerving” metaphor is well taken, and a new season might well be something entirely unpredictable (as S3 was in many ways). But I just can’t imagine the narrative being more linear/lucid/in line with the original series.
Postby Xavi » Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:36 am
I think the odds for another season of TP is close to zero. It's wrapped up.
Also, I don't see any profound similarity between the major themes of IE and TPS3. In a way IE is much like Eraserhead; a very personal movie and a spiritual one on top of that. When Lynch finished IE at last, the first thing he did, was paying a visit to his former wife Peggy and their daughter Jennifer, to show them his latest creation. The three of them spend a heartfelt artistic togetherness, while watching.
There is no ground at all for Lynch to share such a moment while showing TPS3, but maybe I'm wrong.
Xavi wrote: I think the odds for another season of TP is close to zero. It's wrapped up.
Twin Peaks is a continuing story. It will never be wrapped up.
Jen Lynch actually said that INLAND EMPIRE was her least favourite of her Dad's films and that it sorely needed Mary Sweeney's editing on it!
Postby Harry S. Truman » Fri Jun 01, 2018 3:15 pm
Twin Peaks is not over. I am sure of that there will be a Fourth season. you look Lynch said about a possibily continuity of the series: I don,t talk about that. he is saying the same before the return was emited!! Apart, Lynch, Frost and Showtime are opened to more twin Peaks.
krishnanspace wrote:
NormoftheAndes wrote:
krishnanspace wrote: I'm sure they are.
What endless possibilities?
I can't see them going with that idea for a new season but starting instead from a totally new standpoint.
There are soooo many storylines yet to completed,So many yet to explored.
Postby baxter » Fri Jun 01, 2018 3:43 pm
I find The Return much, much more comprehensible than Inland Empire. I can't even reliably get to the centre of the story in IE, whilst with The Return I have a range of theories, but it feels more plot driven. I really like IE, that's just my impression of it.
All of which goes to show that there is so much ambiguity and richness in these marvels that none of us can agree
IcedOver
Postby IcedOver » Sun Jun 03, 2018 7:40 am
Really? I disagree with that. "IE" is the shortest feeling three-hour movie I've ever watched. It really feels like half that. Because things keep changing, it's not a long plot or exposition slog of the same a-b plot that gets tiring, like "Return of the King" or whatever. It couldn't be much shorter and be as immersive. I'd actually say that S3 has less plot momentum than "IE", as crazy as that sounds. Very little in S3 is followed up on in a satisfactory way; interesting plot points and characters are just dropped for no clear reason. "IE" has a feel that things are more resolved, even if it's extremely abstract.
I DON'T FEEL GOOD!!!!!
Postby LateReg » Sun Jun 03, 2018 10:37 am
The Return feels just as personal and spiritual as INLAND EMPIRE to me, and just as much a return to Eraserhead. It's just that it's so large that it's also an exploration of other areas of Lynch's career, relationships and interests.
Postby Mr. Reindeer » Sun Jun 03, 2018 12:44 pm
LateReg wrote: The Return feels just as personal and spiritual as INLAND EMPIRE to me, and just as much a return to Eraserhead. It's just that it's so large that it's also an exploration of other areas of Lynch's career, relationships and interests.
What makes TP:TR completely unique in the DKL canon to me is...well, obviously, the length/format. But, that aside, he abandoned two career-long edicts of his filmmaking approach (likely for reasons related to the length/format, at least in part).
(1) Before TP:TR, DKL was firmly committed to telling what he calls “neighborhood stories,” i.e., storytelling on a small local scale...a lesson he learned the hard way after departing from the formula on Dune. Even more geographically spread-out works like W@H and IE seem to fit this model in an abstract sense, keeping the story focused on the insular community of Sailor & Lula in the former and on Nikki/Sue and the various reiterations of the Vier Sieben myth in the latter. TP:TR feels, in terms of scope, closer to Dune than anything else in the DKL canon, and I think that epic quality is very much by nature of Mark’s influence.
(2) DKL notoriously overshoots, a LOT, and has stated that he values enforced runtimes to help him keep perspective. He obviously decided to take the opposite tact on this production, leaving EVERYTHING in. As IcedOver noted, even the three-hour IE feels shockingly lean, whereas I don’t think too many of us would use that word to describe TP:TR, even if we love it.
One of the things that makes TP:TR so interesting to me is that DKL is throwing out his own rulebook and operating outside the comfort zone of what has worked for him during his 40-year career. That being said, in terms of mood/tone/pace, the piece feels more like a return to the Eraserhead style to me than anything else he has done since.
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Postby IcedOver » Sun Jun 03, 2018 6:03 pm
^I didn't get the "Eraserhead" vibe much at all in mood, tone, or pacing. The overly clear and hi-def cinematography kept it from having that surreal, truly dark feel that film has. It actually felt more absurdist, playful, and even more comedic than anything he's done in a feature film, so that's the way I feel it differs. The Dougie stuff is a lot of self-aware, audience-jabbing absurdist comedy (particularly having him not know how to pee), a comparison to which I can't find in his other works.
Postby Xavi » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:28 am
LateReg wrote:
Xavi wrote: The Return feels just as personal and spiritual as INLAND EMPIRE to me, and just as much a return to Eraserhead. It's just that it's so large that it's also an exploration of other areas of Lynch's career, relationships and interests.
I did not write that. Plse, correct.
In August 2006, father, mother, and daughter, David, Peggy, and Jennifer, had a special get-to-gether at Lynch’s studio. Like Eraserhead (which Lynch had made when Jennifer was a little girl and he and Peggy were still married), INLAND EMPIRE was an independent production, and Lynch, free from any constraints imposed by co-creators or corporate bosses, shot hour and hours of footage at leisure. But now he was in a frenzy of “editing, editing, edit-ing!”359 by himself, since Mary Sweeney, his editor for twenty years, was out of his art-making life. And Lynch had a drop-deal deadline: the Venice Film Festival would give him their prestigious Golden Lion Award for Career Achievement achievement award on September 6, and INLAND EMPIRE had to be ready to show on that date. Lynch screened his rough cut for Peggy and Jennifer, who he loved so much and whose intelligence and artistic acuity he valued and trusted. And they lovingly told him what was fabulous and confusing, too long or too short, beautiful, mysterious, funny, and scary about his new work. Father, mother, and daughter were touched by a feeling of creative and family communion. Jennifer says the gathering was “one of the best days I ever had.”360 It was an Art Life afternoon.
~ from Beautiful Dark
Postby Mr. Reindeer » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:33 am
Xavi wrote: I did not write that. Plse, correct.
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Going dark on a topic
(May 2, 2018) This is obsolete. Some pages are still hidden, being reviewed before being re-opened. The content here has been misrepresented elsewhere. Simple documentation has been called “attack.” If we are attacked by reality, we are in big trouble no matter what others say!)
I have been documenting the Anglo Pyramidologist sock puppetry and massive disruption. Because of what I have found, and the tasks before me over the next year, I am going dark. All pages in the category of Anglo Pyramidologist will be hidden, pending, and possibly some others. Some have been archived (often on archive.is) and will remain available there. If anyone has a need-to-know, or wants to support the work, contact me (comments on this post will be seen by me, and if privacy is requested, that will be honored, the comments will not be published. Provide me with an email and a request for contact and I will do so.)
The connection with cold fusion is thin, but exists and is significant.
Warning: documenting AP can be hazardous to your health.
As well, the next year’s journalism will need support, some of this may become expensive. I will be asking for support, to supplement what is already available or in the pipeline.
Sometimes reality comes to our door and knocks. Do we invite her in? Other times we need to search for her. Ask and you shall receive. She is kind and generous.
Don’t ask, and reality might seem to punch you in the nose, and you might be offended. In reality, you just walked into a lamp post. Who knew?
The sock family known on Wikipedia as Anglo Pyramidologist is two brothers, Oliver D. Smith (the original Anglo Pyramidologist) and Darryl L. Smith, perhaps best known as Goblin Face, who continues to be highly active with the “skeptic faction” on Wikipedia. It is possible that there is a third brother involved.
They have engaged in impersonation socking, disrupting Wikipedia while pretending to be a blocked user, leading to defamation of the target user, and they have engaged in similar behavior elsewhere.
I was attacked for documenting the proven impersonation and other socking. My behaviot did not violate any policies or the Terms of Service,
The Smith brothers were able to coordinate or canvass for multiple complaints, (they have bragged about complaining) and it is possible that this led to the WikiMedia Foundation global ban, but those bans are not explained and the banned user is not warned, and has no opportunity to appeal or contest them.
Substantial damage was done to the long-standing tradition of academic freedom on Wikiversity.
Action to remedy this will continue, but privately.
Author Abd ulRahman LomaxPosted on April 3, 2018 May 2, 2018 Categories Anglo Pyramidologist, This blog, Wikipedia, WikiversityTags Darryl L. Smith, Oliver D. Smith, RationalWiki, WikipediaLeave a comment on Going dark on a topic
If you see this on an archive site, check the original URL to see if it has been updated, errors corrected, responses received, etc.
This page is under construction. Due to restoration from a crash, after starting to recreate it, it has redundant material. It’s a mess. Read it only if insanely interested in following this as it is edited. (This is not a blog post, it is an information page. Blog posts always have a date in the URL. Information pages may exist in information hierarchies, and multiply like bunnies as information is organized, which takes time.)
As the initials imply, this RationalWiki account is Oliver D. Smith, who apparently decided to register a new account at RatWiki, and he has openly acknowledged being the well-known troll and harasser. He is being protected by his brother, Darryl L. Smith, who is currently using Debunking spiritualism (DS), which would be a classic Darryl Smith user name. In a number of communications, Oliver has essentially outed his brother. But this page is about Oliver.
ODS contributions.
The following sequence took the cake, and shows what DS is faced with, attempting to handle his brother. It also shows a small piece of the cross-wiki behavior, with massive socking on Encyclopedia Dramatica (at the same time as ODS crows about small-scale socking by his enemies).
With his first edits he lied about the Emil Kirkegaard page on him. (Archive copy just in case). Contrary to his claims, and as can be seen by reading the Kirkegaard page linked, Kirkegaard did not claim that “every single editor on his article is Oliver Smith.” This is a classic AP straw man argument, both brothers do it. Oliver claims that “Like 90% of the accounts he lists are not mine and he provides no evidence I’m any of these users.” And then, “For example “igobymanynames”/”Skeptical”/”Antifa Ireland”/Dinocrisis etc I’ve never edited or posted on. Basically he’s looked at the history of the [[Emil Kirkegaard]] article, sees it has about 25 editors over past years, now says I’m all of them, when I;m not.”
Kirkegaard made no such claim. He quotes Oliver (in the archived copy): “Also, I created both their entries at Rationalwiki to warn the internet about these people.” (Referring to John Fuerst and Kirkegaard). Both articles were created by Ben Steigmans, an impersonation account. [redacted, original name has two n’s at the end and no second s] was the user attacked on Wikipedia and Wikiversity by Darryl Smith; the interests are crossover, but Ben Steigmans’ focus was Oliver, and we have Oliver’s admission. Then, showing a screenshot of the edit history, Kirkegaard claims:
Skeptical is Oliver’s chosen sockpuppet in this case. He appears to have spent 2 days writing my page on this occasion. A list of suspected sockpuppets and IP’s is given later
When Kirkegaard wrote that, the extent of Darryl’s socking was not widely known. Skeptical was very likely Darryl, certainly Oliver claims that. Darryl was also definitely some accounts listed by Kirkegaard. AP socks have played on the confusion caused by the massive socking. Oliver claimed, in email to me, that “99.9% ” of the socks I had identified were his twin brother, based apparently on my Rational Wiki article list page. That was an obvious exaggeration, since he was some accounts and I had not claimed a thousand of them.
When I asked Oliver to identify his accounts, he wrote that it would be too much work. The following identifications are based on the preponderance of the evidence. In many cases, there is not enough evidence to definitively conclude which brother it was, or even that it was an AP sock (and on Wikipedia, suspected socks will be listed based on thin evidence. Many of these end up being confirmed where checkuser is run.) My sense, however, is that few of the identifications listed on the List page are incorrect. The Smiths often claim this is all stupidity, but they don’t actually point out errors. Notice, the only error Oliver claims is that certain accounts were not him. But that allows them to be his brother, and the two have created massive confusion.
(The following has not yet been thoroughly researched. Links will be added as found)
Asgardian
Aza]
Skeptical probably Darryl
Welliver I suspected Oliver, from interest, but other evidence points to Darryl.
Antifa Ireland single edit to RW. Oliver interest, but Oliver denies.
BenSteigmans
OldSword
Krom As I recall, Oliver admitted this.
Kromscape Encyclopedia Dramatica, definitely Oliver
Krom1991 Reddit account, Oliver from interest
Atlantid well known.
BlackGoatCabal early Smith account
Scionic Evil old account, widely identified as Oliver
AngloSaxon
Hyperboreanar
pyramidologist old account
Truthseeker
cassiterides
Anglo_Pyramidologist
Boglin the name would indicate Darryl
DinoCrisis certainly Darryl
PS2 see the RW account contributions
Goosebumps the name would be Darryl
Arcticos
Onion_hotdog
HaraldBluetooth the name would indicate Oliver
BenSteigmann ( Reddit impersonation)
BenSteigmans (RatWiki impersonation)
EvilGremlin
Jean_Lusaz
… and 100s more (list here, meta-Wiki investigation found ~190 sockpuppets) [most of these socks could be Darryl, though.]
This is a list of suspected Anglo Pyramidologist socks and I have seen many more not yet added to the above list. The socks claimed that the original AP account was not the same as the massive army of socks that have been blocked as AP. I consider this likely to be true. It was Darryl (as Oliver said in 2011 and repeated recently.) However, I have bolded accounts that I would consider Oliver, and have put in italics accounts where I don’t have an opinion. I have not yet researched some of the names, but out of a list of 31 specific names (as this was originally), 15 appear to be Oliver. That’s quite about more than “90% not me” would suggest.
That was not a list of editors of the Emik Kirkegaard article. See the list page for a non-yet-up-to-date list of suspected AP socks (which would include Oliver and Darryl). (and the same for the talk page).
The use of straw man arguments has been common, for both Darryl and Oliver. They depend on most users not carefully checking sources, reading them with expectation bias.
(I will continue with this page, to add what Oliver Smith revealed as to his Encyclopedia Dramatica activity, and how his twin reacted to this.)
User talk:ODS history currently shows DS hiding edits, including mine (expected) but also very embarrassing edits by Oliver.
ODS had published the WikiMedia Foundation response to his emailed complaint about me. DS advised that this was unwise. Gee, I found it quite useful!
First of all, there was [ material added] to ODS talk that extensively explored the account history. It was reverted by Darryl as DS.
What this will come to is a trolling page added to the Encyclopedia Dramatica Forum, created by Oliver, with proof that this was him from the timing of his creation and archiving, and adding the archive link to his user talk page, in response to a comment that pointed to his very recent ED socks. He did not deny the socks (which were obvious), but attacked. The page he created may be seen here: http://archive.is/oAiGe
He has not changed his behavior at all. His brother tries to hide it…. Meanwhile, in many places, Oliver outs Debunking spiritualism as his brother, and denies that the massive socking was him. He is lying, but behind that is a likely truth: much of the socking that has been blamed on “Anglo Pyramidologist” was actually his twin.
Right now, I only see two active socks (aside from socks impersonating me): ODS and DS.
A system reset — Windows Update Sucks! — caused the disappearance of this content from a previous version of this page. This is now a mess. But it does show what is mentioned above. I will clean this up later.
If this page is seen through an archived copy, check the original URL for possible revisions or corrections. Errors may be noted in comments here, and replies from affected parties will be allowed, as long as they are not, themselves, illegal.
This page will document the RationalWiki user ODS, who is openly Oliver D. Smith. He is widely known to have a twin brother, Darryl L. Smith. First, a brief incident.
Because there was a section there discussing me, I had commented on User talk:ODS. This was later collapsed by Debunking spiritualism which is DS, the twin brother, convenient as a name. DS, in his comment accompanying the collapse, lied about the content of my blog pages. That’s been typical.
Cheeseburger face had pointed out that the alleged doxxing above wasn’t. (That is one reason I reached out to him, but . . . too bad. So far, he is either actively enabling AP socks or he has his head firmly wedged in the sand. I had actually been careful, but AP socks call any identification of their accounts “doxxing.” Whereas they freely identify the accounts of others . . . and practically nothing is done about it.)
ODS commented on his talk page. It’s been revision-deleted. He wrote:
I have to laugh at crazies like Lomax calling me an “internet harasser” for merely documenting and debunking pseudo-scientists. Also, the vast majority (90%+) of my articles creations for past 6 years are/were not on people e.g. [[Multiregional hypothesis]]. So he just cherry picks a few articles, disregarding my main contributions that have helped many people over the years. What a nutcase.[[User:ODS|ODS]] ([[User talk:ODS|talk]]) 07:46, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Of course, here ODS admits being Oliver D. Smith (as he has in many places, no biggie), but . . . Oliver D. Smith is widely known as a harasser, and little of it has to do with “documenting and debunking pseudoscientists.” This page will document some of that history. However, what has come up is that at least some of the most serious harassment, that got me involved in the first place, was not him, but his brother, DS. But that is not the point here, it’s coming up.
After a series of sock puppets were created on Encyclopedia Dramatica, and with discussion of me standing on User talk:ODS, I dropped a post there.
How is ED treating you?
Hey, Oliver, have you created enough socks on the Dramatica Encyclopedia? I don’t see any today. Are you sick, or what? Wait! Never mind! What am I thinking?
You are sick!
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By the way, “average male life expectancy” of, say, 76, doesn’t mean that if you are 66, you have an average of ten years to live. That’s from birth. Average male life expectancy at 66 is another 17 years. Your education is quite deficient. —159.65.88.110 (talk) 01:54, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Some comments about this post: RatWiki has an edit filter that prevents naming or linking to Encyclopedia Dramatica. I have, here, linked to the sock accounts, that was not done in the post. But, of course, Oliver knew full well that they were his. It’s not deniable. The comment about age was in reference to this edit of his.
Further, this was trolling. a form of harassment. It is normally reprehensible. There are exceptions. What I found, more or less by accident (including observing their interaction with others), is that when they are trolled, AP socks (Darryl and Oliver) often respond with actions that reveal more information, and information is the advantage I have, I have no “weapon” other than the collection of true evidence. Darryl Smith basically declared war on me on the WMF wikis, threatened what actually came to pass.
(Two wrongs don’t make a right, but sometimes they right wrongs, and this is ancient law, and the ancient law also limits such reactions. I have done nothing with the Smith brothers that they have not done with others, more extensively and without justice.)
I continue to trust the truth. What Oliver had written was also trolling, you can judge what was more reprehensible. In context, “harming back” can not only be allowable, but obligatory. These people have harmed many, over many years. He had written:
You will be dead old man, so why bother with this?
You’re 74 years old, and the average life-expectancy for a male in the US is 76.9 (77).
So why bother with this pointless internet feud and stalking my family? You will (hopefully) be dead in 3 years, and all the nonsense and lies you write on your blog will be deleted. You’re just wasting the final years of your life with this. Herodotus (talk) 11:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
To answer his question here, I “bother with this” because I care about the society that I will leave behind. Oliver is an anti-natalist, who believes that having children is immoral. So he only thinks about himself. Consistent with his beliefs, his parents were immoral to have children. There has been no “stalking” of his “family,” only documentation of the harassment managed by his brother and him. My blog has a backup administrator, it is not likely to disappear. While it is possible I won’t live long, Oliver’s understanding of life expectancy was deranged, like much of what he writes. Now, this comes to the real point.
Oliver responded to that comment. I can imagine his brother seeing it. “Idiot! Why don’t you keep your mouth shut!” Oliver’s response apparently kept him up late, photoshopping.
http://archiv e.is/oAiGe ODS (talk) 03:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
This was all revision-hid by Debunking spiritualism (i.e., Darryl Smith).
This was perfect. Oliver could not link to Encyclopedia Dramatica, the edit filter will prevent it. But they cannot filter out archive.is, they use it extensively. They could filter out an individual page, but anyone could re-archive a page and bypass that. In any case, the archive shows Oliver Smith in all his trolling glory. Really. It’s hilarious. The archive is timestamped 13 Mar 2018 03:39:01 UTC, and it shows the comment as being created “1 minute ago.” Then his RW edit linking to it was at 03:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC).
This definitively shows that ODS on RW wrote that attack thread, and archived it and then linked to it, and the context confirms what as already obvious: he was the ED editors named, and they connect with other editors there, eventually I may document them, but the ED socking has been so voluminous, I’m not sure I’ll get to it.
His brother, DS, didn’t see this, apparently, until 10:46, 13 March 2018 . DS removed not only my comments, but his brother’s, and revision-deleted, covering up for his brother. The comments were archived only a few minutes before DS removed them. I did not do that, then. I believed I had archived the material, but couldn’t find it….
ODS, meanwhile, was today given autoconfirmed status. Does RoninMachbeth know what he or she did? I don’t know. RM is generally sane, but RatWiki is a corrupted and corrupting environment.
Was RoninMacbeth aware that ODS triggered the edit filter 9 times as of today?
(Some of these were innocuous, to be sure, though they show the Oliver Smith obsessions.)
12:00, 13 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered filter 50, performing the action “edit” on Michael Coombs. Actions taken: Tag; Filter description: Section blanking (details | examine | diff)
11:59, 13 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered filter 50, performing the action “edit” on Michael Coombs. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Section blanking (details | examine)
11:56, 13 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on Michael Coombs. Actions taken: Disallow; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
11:53, 13 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on Michael Coombs. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
14:14, 10 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on RationalWiki:Pissed at us. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
12:12, 7 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on RationalWiki:Chicken coop. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
10:52, 4 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on Wikipedia We Have A Problem. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
06:16, 4 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on RationalWiki:Saloon bar. Actions taken: Disallow; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
06:02, 4 March 2018: ODS (talk | contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action “edit” on RationalWiki:Saloon bar. Actions taken: Warn; Filter description: Edit caught by spamfilter. If this is not spam, please go to RationalWiki:Technical support.
There are secret filters that are not documented in the log. March 4, ODS was attempting to edit the Saloon bar. His edits including that time are here. My guess is that he was attempting to mention the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on Oliver Keyes, or on Emil Kirkegaard — which links to it. Naughty. There is a lot more that could be said about Oliver Keyes, but not here and not now.
March 7, a minute later, Oliver edited the Chicken coop.
I don’t see how anyone could miss it, if they look. This is the infamous Oliver D. Smith. The possible problem is that ODS is a serious troll and will use the ability to edit protected pages. How much difference this will make, I don’t know. (None of my comments anywhere should be construed as defending Rightpedia, which is beyond racialist and deep into racism, unapologetically. They do have a copy of a public record showing the former home residence for Oliver and Darryl, and, in addition, the names and ages of other residents. Contrary to frequent claims, I did show the data from that briefly, but quickly redacted it, it now shows only the two names — as highly relevant to the socking — and the UK postal code. The street name has been removed, but AP socks continue to claim, long after it was removed, that I publish their home address, It is not on this blog. [January 27, 2019:, more has been published, actually, on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Plausible. By objecting to it, Oliver has confirmed it, as he did before.]
(Remember, I was accused of promoting the “paranoid RationalWiki Smith brothers conspiracy theory, and my RW article still calls me a “conspiracy theorist,” and still has:
He now uses his personal blog to spread a paranoid conspiracy theory and misinformation campaign that the two brothers described above created and edited his article, for which there exists no evidence.[63]
This is a straw man argument. I identified a family of socks, using the Wikipedia name Anglo Pyramidologist. That family was originally, in 2011, self-identified as two brothers. I did not distinguish between them. Nor, in fact, did I emphasize the “brother theory.” I considered it likely, but did not publish it until I had far more direct evidence, much more recently. The two brothers did not create and edit my article. One of them did, and this would be Darryl Smith. So showing that there were two brothers, twins, that shared residence at some recent point, which could cause checkuser identification, was important. to the research. The actual address was not so important. The geolocation was, and the house location is still on the map, but not precisely, just good enough to show how the IP addresses locate with respect to the residence.
This was not an attempt at harassment. If harassment were my motive, this would not have been on an obscure page that hardly anyone would have noticed except for Darryl Smith obsessively following everything. They accuse others of stalking, but stalking (of me and others) became totally obvious very early on, and what was done to create my RW article was detailed and extensive searching of everything Darryl could find. And this was obvious, and, like many other article targets before, when I simply responded on RatWiki, I was desysopped and then blocked.
Oliver and Darry Smith were being protected, this became obvious, and the extent of this is still becoming visible.
March 10, 14:14. A minute later, this edit.
Michael Coombs is an obsession of Oliver’s. This is “mikemikev,” and a checkusered Darryl Smith sock (that’s a long story) pointed to mikemikev as a suspect for the sock master. It tricked one sysop for a time. I never trusted it, don’t trust SPAs bearing gifts, unless they can be verified. (They may point to “evidence,” but evidence can be misleading if taken out of context. These sock masters are expert at setting that up.)
Obsession with Michael Coombs is an Oliver Smith characteristic. (There are many of these, as will be found by anyone who actually studies the history, and we now have the benefit of beyond-doubt Oliver Smith accounts, admitted openly to be him.) So this shows up in the next filter triggers:
March 13, Oliver was putting together this edit.
Update January 27, 2019
I will add recent accounts here and later will add other Oliver accounts to extend the list. Most accounts before were classified as “Anglo Pyramidologist,” which is not specific to Oliver, even though he was the original Wikipedia editor by that name. Oliver has claimed that most disruptive accounts were his brother, Darry L. Smith. As distinct from Darryl, Oliver, of late, has created short-term accounts. He “retires” then starts new ones. (Both Smith brothers do that, commonly.)
Buxton Obvious. Buxton is allowed to claim that another account is “Wyatt,” but if an IP announces that Buxton is Oliver, it is to be immediately blocked and the page deleted. But the deletion log makes the point: 20:44, 18 November 2018 GrammarCommie(talk | contribs) deleted page User:Buxton(Harassment: content was: “Note to mods, Buxton is another Oliver D Smith sock account. 82.132.245.95(…”, and the only contributor was “82.132.245.95” ([[User talk:82.132… Wyatt was not banned, but blocked as Merkel by Debunking spiritualism (Darryl) in his last spree (before disappearing with the claim that I had hacked his account). Oliver had cooped Merkel as Wyatt and it failed. It appears that the average RW sysop is nearly brain dead, or they want this troll protected. Pick one. (The cooping comes very close to admitting that ODS and DS are brothers.)
Punisher claims to be Oliver here.
JosephGreen entirely focused on Oliver obsession.
Nissan common pages with Oliver socks: Octo, M87, Buxton
Aeschylus has come back after almost a year.
This story has legs. See Oliver desperate and Oliver D. Smith/Smith on Smith (the latter page has a copy of a bio that Oliver wrote about himself on RationalWiki, then when it was deleted, blamed it on Mikemikev.) Aeschylus has clearly claimed to be Oliver, there is no doubt about it, not that it was in doubt anyway.
Because he is being sued, because he revealed that on RatWiki, the sysop who gave him sysop tools has not only desysopped him, but blocked him indefinitely.
Oliver created biographies as hit pieces, pursuing private vendettas, and used RationalWiki because it was open for that. He misrepresented sources, all with blatant defamatory intention. The RatWikians think the articles are missional, but in fact, that aspect to the RatWiki mission was largely created by Oliver and his brother Darryl. Before them (starting in roughly 2012) it was not filled with hit pieces. Oliver convinced RatWiki that the targets were worthy of condemnation even if there was little or no connection with the RatWiki mission. He and his brother learned to weaponize the wiki.
And he’s back
Doesn’t take him long. Oliver is back, using an old account, Arcticos. These are so obvious. I spotted it as a redlinked user name in Recent Changes. Sure enough, contributions made it obvious. Oliver Smith, not a doubt. He’s ranting about Encyclopedia Dramatica, where I was blocked the other day, by the same admin who blocked a series of Oliver Smith socks. He never mentions that part!
The history of Arcticos:
logs. Registered 13 July 2015.
Immediately attacked Mikemikev, first edit.
At this point, that this was Oliver was already highly likely. In the next few edits, Arcticos continued the attack. Posts displayed strong Oliver traits, which I’m not going to list because WP:BEANS.
Then, two days later, Krom (clearly admitted and well-known Oliver sock) showed up on Talk:Racialism.
Arcticos was inactive until two days in November, 2016, when he made another series of Oliver Obvious edits. Atlantis. RomeViharo (which could indicate Darryl Smith, the twin brother, but attacking Viharo became routine for Oliver also. Talk:Racialism.
16:56, 2 November 2016 FuzzyCatPotato (talk | contribs) blocked Arcticos (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of 314159 seconds (about 3.6 days) (account creation disabled) (mikemikev or troll again)
Classic RatWiki idiocy. This was not at all like Mikemikev. “Troll,” yes, but Oliver is nothing if not a troll. He creates articles on RatWiki to annoy and irritate enemies, as revenge for this or that disagreement. Why did FuzzyCatPotato block? Well, Oliver made an intelligent argument on Talk:Racialism, and Mikemikev also makes intelligent arguments. So by making an intelligent argument, and Oliver knows far more about racism and racialism than FCP, FCP assumed it was Mikemikev. So many RatWiki users think in cartoons.
Usually Oliver just disappears when blocked. I think I have never seen him request unblock except many years ago. The block expired in a few days, and then Arcticos was silent for well over two years, showing up 17 February 2019 with even more Obvious Oliver. That first day back, having been blocked as Mikemikev or a troll, he edited Anatoloy Karlin, an article he had created as SkepticDave as part of his attack on anyone who pointed out how he had presented misleading evidence about Emil Kirkegaard, which he simply denies without evidence, emphasizing “child rape apologism,” and then two edits to my article, and a comment on the Talk page, he was granted autoconfirmed by Paleonictis, and, the next day, with more Oliver Obvious, sysop by Dysklyver, who had just a few days before blocked Oliver as Aeschylus “for his own good.” Oliver is still doing the same things. “Child rape apologist” is almost as defamatory as “child rapist.”
Oliver does this: if anyone points out that Emil Kirkegaard did not actually condone child rape, that to think so requires taking a quotation out of context, ignoring the rest of his post (where he suggests that the idea was a very bad one, and that perhaps the only ethical solution if one is a pedophile is castration), he then attacks them for “defending pedophilia” or “defending a child rape apologist.” He creates news by misleading reporters and then reports the news created as proof of his claims. In the Karlin article, we see pure guilt by association in what he added. He bragged about causing that media coverage on the London Conference on Intelligence to appear; he not only wrote the RationalWiki article but he also directly communicated with reporters. Why would they call him? He was still trying to maintain some anonymity then. No, he called them and he fed them the same garbage as he has long fed RationalWiki.
He actually hates RationalWiki, at least he has acknowledged that elsewhere. But he has found it very useful for attacking his “enemies.” And if they respond, then, of course, they “have a problem with RationalWiki,” and the RationalWikians all rush to defend the wiki from these trolls and banned users.
There are those who love the drama, and those who are using RationalWiki for their own purposes.
So with his brand new sysop tools (which he has held many, many times, and still has sysop accounts, we think), what does he do?
02:01, 19 February 2019 Arcticos (talk | contribs | block) blocked Street scoop (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of π×infinity! (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Block evasion: abd lomax) (unblock | change block)
02:11, 19 February 2019 Arcticos (talk | contribs | block) protected Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (expires 00:00, 18 February 2020) [Move=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (expires 00:00, 18 February 2020) (Excessive vandalism) (hist | change)
What was the “vandalism” Street scoop had only two edits. In one, he followed up on a comment on Talk:David Gerard where Street Guy had made a misleading comment about my activity. (Street Guy could be Darryl) Street scoop gave links to the posts that Street Guy had mentioned.
And then yesterday, Street scoop similarly added a link to verify what Arcticos had pointed to, the actual Arcticos edit not actually showing anything to substantiate the claim made, other than “blocked,”
What articles did I allegedly create? The one who has created many, many defamatory articles on Encyclopedia Dramatica is Oliver, and he has hundreds of blocked sock puppets there. I have, at this point, one blocked account, blocked without warning, for doing what had previously been done by long-time ED users.
I wrote about it here, and it is obvious that Street scoop, at least, reads some of my work. So he linked to an archive.is copy of that article. It’s an interesting article, because it shows Oliver describing himself how he wants to be seen, not as he would be described by Mikemikev, on whom he blamed the article when he wanted to distinguish his obvious sock from the one who had created one of the articles probably mentioned in the lawsuit filed against him. By claiming that Mikemikev was the author, he was then able to delete the article immediately.
Claiming that an article was created by Oliver D. Smith, even though Smith has in many places (including where his identity was validated independently, such as emails to me, from a public address) admitted to creating them, has been and remains grounds for immediately blocking the user and often hiding their edits. This kind of operational bias has been going on for a long time on RationalWiki, but it used to be that RW actually welcomed dissent. Dissenters were more likely to give up from being gratutiously and commonly insulted than from being blocked. That changed over the years, and a large part of that shift may be related to the ramping up of use of the wiki by the Smith brothers, who have created hundreds of socks, possibly thousands. I keep finding more; they are obvious once one knows what to look for. It is possible that there are socks designed to not be so visible, socks that avoid the obvious signals, and that, then, the accounts that do show such signs are throwaway. But what I find remarkable is that even the obvious socks are protected and specially privileged. Rapid assignment of ops is common, whereas other users, with no problems and good edits, may not be opped for a long, long time.
I suspect off-wiki communication, requests for ops. It happens a bit too often to be a coincidence.
And if it wasn’t clear what is going on, another sleeper appeared, Jean. From those contributions, even before the edit to my article, I’d suspect Jean as a sock of Oliver. The interests of Jean are identical with Oliver. Then, the edit to Rightpedia is diagnostic. Who would know about the “demise of Wrongpedia”? Very, very few. It all aligns. Two hours after the Street scoop edit to my article, Jean reverted that edit claiming “sock of Abd Lomax.” The edit itself appears harmless, adding a related link to substantiate what Oliver (Arcticos) had added.
1 minute after that edit by Jean, Arcticos blocked Street scoop. Log out, log in. That is not enough time to communicate, say by email. It was at 2 AM their time. To be sure, it is possible that they communicated first and that Jean then did the revert. But Street Guy was already sure that Street scoop was Abd.
Right, is that you Lomax? By the duck dest and log in times, Abd Lomax or an associate of his (maybe Rome Viharo) is “rationalwiki” guy, playing a false game to cause this drama, he is desperate to try and close down this website because of his own article. According to JzG a Wikipedia admin – Lomax has a history of impersonation. If you check Lomax’ blog he is requesting for Kendrick to sue Rationalwiki (Don’t link to the Lomax blog though, it contains apparent dox). [[User:Street Guy|Street Guy]] ([[User talk:Street Guy|talk]]) 21:35, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
(Who would have been in communication with JzG? Oliver and/or Darryl Smith, that’s who. I have never impersonated, and JzG, to my knowledge, has never claimed I have. JzG is such an implacable enemy, as revenge for my getting him reprimanded by ArbCom on Wikipedia, that when the impersonation sock issue was live on Wikipedia and Wikiversity, he might have suspected me of creating that whole mess — but for what purpose? — but . . . I never impersonated anyone. Yet there are many many socks created on RationalWiki that impersonated me. Naive RatWiki users lap it up. Clever technique they use. They vandalize RationalWiki with text copied from me, often adding a twist, like a threat of lawsuit, or claims that so-and-so is a sock — when I have made no such claim nor do I even suspect it.)
(and what was “false” about that post? It was verifiable. David Gerard did not object to it. Street Guy was making false claims with no evidence at all.)
(rationalwiki guy was probably Darryl Smith, following up on his rather novel impersonation tactic. Socks had claimed that Skeptic from Britain was a certain young man, name and links given, but, oddly, no links to his Wikipedia account — under his real name. And then the SfB account “retired” because of the “harassment.” In fact, Jimbo Wales, a few days later, called SfB an “abusive POV pusher” or something like that. So people were angry with the other young man — who was completely innocent –, and Darryl, who was obviously Skeptic from Britain, had not been mentioned. So I pointed that out, and discussed the implications, hence the attack on David Gerard talk. The Wikipedia account was not mentioned because it would then be obvious that this was a user who had disagreed strongly with Skeptic from Britain on his WP talk page. Oddly, though, I had been alerted to the whole mess by Oliver Smith, who trolled me on Encyclopedia Dramatica, where I had been paying no attention, which must have unfuriated him, so he “made a joke” that I was Skeptic from Britain, and claimed he was going to tell all those angry people. Meanwhile Michaeldsuarez, a long-time reliable ED user (yes, there was such a thing at one time), pointed out that Oliver knew it was his brother, Oliver had disclosed this on the ED Forum, and posted screenshots. So why did Oliver effectively out his brother. All is not well in Smithland, I suspect. Having a schizophrenic brother can wreak havoc on family unity and one’s nice little schemes for profit from “skeptical organizations,” which has been hinted at by both Darryl and Oliver. Probably JREF or something connected with Tim Farley (Oliver claimed he had lied to Farley in an email to me, pretending to be his brother, after the S had hit the F and it was all unravelling, one more desperate attempt to reduce harm, but they never do what would actually clean it up: simply tell the truth.
I’m not sure that Oliver even knows what the truth is. And that is not an attack, it’s a possibility. He’s on the dole, apparently. Young man, 29, apparently living with his parents. (or are they his parents?) Regardless, these trolls have done a lot of damage, wasted many people’s time, gotten people fired (the mother of the owner of Kiwi Farms), caused harassment and blocks based on lies and impersonations, and destroyed the academic independence of Wikiversity, something I always knew was possible, but it had not really happened until they arranged it. They did exactly what they threatened to do if I continued to gather the public information about their activities on WikiMedia Foundation wikis.
Anyone who interferes with their agenda can expect to be attacked, both on the related web sites and anywhere they can find some traction. I have a daughter who is somewhat notable, easy to find. She got an email warning her that he didn’t know if her father was a pedophile, but he was defending them. Many others have reported similar retaliations.
I have not seen signs of Darryl activity on RationalWiki since the last edits of John66, over a month since this writing.
Another 10 minutes later, Arcticos protected the article, “excessive vandalism.” What vandalism? The only users to edit the article since August, 2018, had been sysops and Jean, and one edit by Street scoop, which was certainly not vandalism, it merely substantiated the claim, but perhaps in a way that Oliver would not want, exposing his own activity.
That article was actually created by Darryl, Oliver’s twin brother, as “attack by Google,” which the brothers are fond of accusing others of. For what? Well, I had documented the socks of Anglo Pyramidologist. (The name on the Wikipedia Sock Puppet Investigations archive, known to be Oliver and Darryl Smith), and in particular the impersonation socks used to attack a user and resources on Wikiversity. I had not outed them, except once I used a URL that contained the name of Oliver Smith, which was immediately deleted, the revision hidden, then the rest of it restored. Those studies and the vigilance created had led to many successful checkuser requests and then, rather suddenly, the wind shifted. There were obviously off-wiki communications. A steward became openly hostile, for no known reason. There were private complaints to the WikiMedia Foundation (later admitted) that lied about events. And then the big news, that Abd was “office banned,” which is indeed very rare. Office bans are not explained, even to the banned user. (But, of course, the Smiths tell the world why the person was banned, even though there is no actual evidence that doesn’t come from the Smiths. As I have seen over and over, the Smiths create news that they then report. Rome Viharo was banned on Reddit. What is quite clear is that there were many complaints, from many socks, and the Smiths do know how to make it look like socks are not the same user. Administrators seeing many complaints, and especially if they seem to come from different people, will often block first and ask questions later, if, indeed, they ever ask questions.
It is obvious: anyone pointing out how RationalWiki is being abused is to be immediately exiled, and then, of course, if they object and use socks or IP, they are “block evaders” to be blocked with no further thought. But if a sock appears that is Oliver or Darryl Smith, no matter how obvious, they are welcomed with ops. There are policies which are totally ignored. Ban first, rigorously enforced, and then maybe a chicken cooping, occasionally with the person not allowed to defend themselves.
It is a system wide open for abuse. It didn’t matter so much when RW was a joke wiki, designed to annoy Conservapedia. No wiki is a reliable source, but the Smith brothers learned how to create “sourced” claims that are based on even gross misinterpretations of sources. If they can put up what the RatWikians will consider a “killer quote,” they do it. And then later the sometimes-scurrilous accusation are preserved because “sourced.”
Oliver is getting desperate as RatWiki gets wise. Well, some get wise. Some may need a pie in the face or something drastic.
Every so often I look at RatWiki for the lulz. Today I see my name being bandied about. With a little history, (described in detail above):
19 February 2019, Arcticos (Oliver Smith) edited the RatWiki article on me, adding news from ED, and labelling me “King of the Trolls.” Pot/Kettle/Black. If am a troll at all. I took out a Wikipedia sysop by dangling defiance in his face, and, yes, I knew how he would respond. Technically, that was trolling. But nothing else was working, the guy had too many friends. Blocking me in the middle of an ArbCom case over whether he had the right to unilaterally ban me and enforce his own ban, was a bridge too far for even his faction. Making it very obvious who he is, Arcticos wrote:
However, in Feburary [sic] 2019, Encyclopedia Dramatica permanently banned Lomax for attacking other editors by creating defamatory articles about them. http://archive.is/owjUS [(as common for Oliver, link shows nothing of the kind)]
19 February 2019, Dysklyver removed the King of the Trolls caption, “Title disputed.”
19 February 2019, Arcticos added more hyperbole and a different link: http://archive.is/WiyJi , which also does not confirm the claim.
23:38, 18 February 2019, Street scoop corrected the spelling and added a link to point to an allegedly defamatory article. (That article was easy to find, because I had pointed to the page. I was blocked because the article was “unfunny,” and because that admin had blocked a series of Oliver socks and I knew that he might block me if I edited anything about Oliver at all, or maybe just anything. A touchy kind of guy, very much Obay Ma Authorite. Anticipating the possibility, I had archived the page *immediately* and also pointed to it on Talk:Oliver D. Smith. So anyone could have found it by reviewing the contributions display Oliver put up and by suspecting an archiving and checking — or by reading my blog, since I mentioned it here.
02:00, 19 February 2019, Jean, possibly Oliver or Darryl (interests cross over), reverted, with “sock of abd lomax”
02:01, 19 February 2019, Arcticos blocked Street scoop. From the timing, Arcticos is likely to be Jean.
02:11, 19 February 2019, Arcticos protected the page, “excessive vandalism.”
03:53, 19 February 2019, Arcticos fixed the spelling error Jean had reverted back in.
16:12, 21 February 2019, Dysklyver cleaned up the article, removing non-missional Smith rants (The whole article might be non-missional, though that may be about to change.)
18:08, 21 February 2019, Dysklyver (Removed protection from “Abd ul-Rahman Lomax“: the vandals interested in this page are sysops already)
The next piece of business is classic Smith trolling. It works, at least on RatWiki, and sometimes elsewhere, which is why they keep doing it.
20:14, 21 February 2019 Lomax_is_back reverted: Undo revision 2044222 by Dysklyver
“Ah, that will not look like Lomax, it will look more like Oliver, so I better vandalize some.”
20:15, 21 February 2019 Lomax_is_back replaced lead with Abd ul-Rahman Lomax will close down rationalwiki
20:18, 21 February 2019 Ikanreed reverted Lomax is back with (I don’t even know who this person is or why your username references them, and frankly I don’t care. This edit sucks.)
Gee, who could it be? Let me think … The article is about Lomax and the account is named “Lomax is back”. Probably Mikemikev, maybe Rome Viharo or one of the other trolls. Mikemikev, however is not hostile to Lomax, nor are the others, but there is someone who wants the article to be semiprotected, the person who protected it in the first place. And that person has a long history of impersonations, and uses them to great effect. Hint: the fast easy guess, when Smith brothers are involved, is usually wrong. They are not subtle. Real sock masters only rarely telegraph who they are. Impersonators do, that’s the point!
And by the way, I will not publicly answer questions about non-disruptive socks, socks that do not violate site policies (other than possibly “block evasion”), and I recommend the same to others. It used to be Wikipedia policy that checkusers would not investigate alleged socks unless they were disruptive, and accusing someone of socking was considered uncivil unless done through formal process with disruption. Gradually, in spite of an early understanding that content was more important than identity, obedience to authority took over.
20:24, 21 February 2019 DuceMoosolini blocked Lomax is back with an expiration time of π×infinity! (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Ban evasion:: I breathlessly await the day when you manage to close down Rationalwiki)
This idiot is a moderator. The quality of moderators has gone way down since I was active on RatWiki. The person behind the sock is doing everything he can to abuse RationalWiki, including creating legal difficulties, at least for himself, but also possibly for the project. It has never been my goal to “close down RationalWiki” and all the socks claiming that were impersonations. Most accounts blocked as me on RatWiki have been impersonations. I used to disclose all socks, but it did no good at all, so if I sock again I will not disclose it. The behavior of others is trained by how we treat them.
20:44, 21 February 2019 Cold fusions reverted.
20:45, 21 February 2019 DuceMoosolini blocked Coldfusions (Block evasion: fuck off already)
This is standard RatWiki insanity, sysops get their rocks off telling “block evaders” to fuck off. This, with any self-respecting block evader, will encourage more evasion, it’s like clockwork. Most RatWiki sysops are not aware of WP:INSULT. Or they DGAF. If they want more trolling, their behavior is perfect. Encyclopedia Dramatica wants more trolling! In order to stop troll sock attacks, ED shut down account registration, which, I am sure, caused that troll great joy. He won!
But does RatWiki want more drama? How does this further the mission? Comments like that on RatWiki will be called “concern trolling.” Charming, they are. Not.
These trolling accounts were almost certainly a Smith brother. Oliver claimed that most troll socks, impersonations, were Darryl. Then he claimed he was lying. Then he took it all back. In periods when Darryl is active, it can be possible to tell, otherwise, what is very clear is that when the Smiths are involved, and when it serves their purposes, massive troll socking, with provocative names, appear.
20:45, 21 February 2019 Bongolian semi-protected the article with “Excessive vandalism: Chronic vandalism by abd “.
This is typical for Bongolian. Also a moderator. It was exactly the response the vandal wanted.
I have never vandalized RationalWiki. Not ever. All vandalism claimed to be me has been impersonation, generally blatant (like this), since they want to blame it on me. Unless as impersonation, where it is illegal but often effective, vandalism is pointless, all it does is to waste some time of RatWiki users. That’s not enough benefit. I prefer to document what actually happens.
00:17, 22 February 2019 LeftyGreenMario edited the section on ED. Did he notice that the link does not support the claim in the text? Did he become curious and look for that “defamatory article?” Did he check to see why I was blocked? I rather doubt it. He’s stupid, not necessarily vicious. Actually, most RatWikians are teenagers or not much older, social misfits. Exceptions are rare. Genuine skeptics who have become involved burn out rapidly.
They lie about my position on skepticism. Skepticism is essential to science, one is not “pseudoskeptical” merely by disagreeing with something. “Pseudoskeptical” is pretend skepticism that is actually a belief in something without clear evidence. Gary Taubes is now under attack by a Darryl sock. He is a genuine skeptic, he wrote the classic book on Bad Science (referring to cold fusion). He is also documenting and writing books about Bad Science in other areas, some of which have become information cascades, where something is accepted as “mainstream” through reputation and not through actual clear science. The author of the RatWiki article is either ignorant or lies. For example, the Atkins diet does not encourage high protein. That is an old myth. The diet is HFLC, i.e., high fat, low carb, moderate protein.
Expose mainstream idiocy (which he did, quite effectively), and there will be plenty who will attack in return, providing lots of quotes for the RatWiki trolls. The Wikipedia article has problems, but is much more neutral and fair.
As to the RatWiki article, if someone creates a straw man argument, attributing it to the article target, that then becomes a source to smear the target with the argument. There is a highly critical quotation from a skeptical physician, but the actual review contradicts much of what the article claims. This is a disagreement, focusing mostly on other issues, where the physician indulges in some hyperbole, while, in fact, agreeing with much, and what he asserted as what Taubes is “preaching” is not a fair representation of Taubes’ actual positions.
RatWiki “skepticism” tends to be a belief in the infallibility of the mainstream, which is definitely not “scientific.” They use “skeptic” about what they call “pseudoscience,” which means, for them, whatever they believe is wrong; if someone is skeptical about mainstream opinion, they are called “denialists,” “pseudoscientists,” “quacks,” or “cranks.” In the cited physician article, much of the “mainstream” view is rejected. This kind of cherry-picking is common, not only on RatWiki, but also on Wikipedia. The physician joins Taubes in cautioning against confirmation bias. An editor searching for material with a slant can find it!
2019/02/24 at 23:17 (UT), using an open proxy, a troll, calling himself “Chinese Communist,” posted a comment to the Dysklyver page here. It pointed to the Wikipedia Contributions page for Deleet (Emil Kirkegaard) and claimed he had been “banned.” Calling a block a “ban” is a common Oliver trope. He claims that “six people” emailed the WikiMedia Foundation about his “racist edits.” He named one of them, in fact. I’m not repeating it because nothing from this troll is reliable. There may be a core of truth, though, which could be that he, and certain others, in collaboration, emailed the Foundation or ArbComm. That is more or less how I was Office-banned. No warning, no explanation, and then the Smiths claimed it was for this or that, and they have even claimed a list of complainants, most of whom were plausible. But “plausible is not proof.”
However, Deleet has not been banned. He has been blocked without explanation, and he may appeal to the Committee, and his email access was left so he could do that, authenticated as the user. This would be common ArbComm practice in certain situations and there is an obvious possibility. I suspect he was accused of threatening Wikipedia users with legal action.
Technically, that should not disallow off-wiki warnings of a defamation action, the policy on No Legal Threats only applies to on-wiki threats, but the Committee is not always precise in its responses. Without knowing what actually happened, it is impossible to assess this.
ArbComm would be very unlikely to ban a user privately for “racist edits.” (The Office might. I’m half-way hoping they do, because it would be nice to add another plaintiff to what I intend to file tomorrow.)
That Emil Kirkegaard is a likely plaintiff in the very real lawsuit against Oliver Smith (which was just claimed to be a Mikemikev fantasy, do they actually believe that people will trust them?) could be a relevant fact to an ArbComm decision. I have no information as to whether or not Deleet has questioned or appealed this. Frankly, he doesn’t need Wikipedia for anything.
So, I thought, if this is a Smith, he will not wait long to announce it on Rational Wiki. I looked. Sure enough, eight minutes.
23:24, 24 February 2019 User account Muslim guy (talk | contribs) was created
23:30, 24 February 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+607) . . Talk:Emil Kirkegaard (Adding comment about his recent ban)
00:26, 25 February 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . N Talk:Alt-center (Another example)
00:27, 25 February 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+38) . . m Talk:Alt-center
00:52, 25 February 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+2,115) . . Talk:Emil Kirkegaard (→Kirkegaard whitewashing Wikipedia articles)
00:54, 25 February 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+152) . . User talk:Arcticos (→Sysop) (current)
There is zero information on Wikipedia about the alleged ban (which isn’t a ban). It is only visible if you look at Deleet contributions (or in other logs, where it would be buried in a mountain of information). There were allegations of conflict of interest (some from Smith socks), against Deleet, but ArbComm would not issue a private block like that over conflict of interest, that would be handled on the Conflict of Interest noticeboard. That someone is somehow involved with a subject does not necessarily create a COI, and even if one were found, the user would normally be warned, not blocked, unless they violate the warning.
There is no notice on the Deleet talk page, so someone watching that page would not see anything. Only if someone were stalking him, frequently checking on contributions, etc., would they notice it. And someone who was complaining, trying to get him blocked, might very well see it, but not necessarily immediately.
And, in fact, the block was on February 21, so all this flap was three days later. Unless Deleet did something I’m not aware of — I certainly don’t follow most of his activity — he has done nothing worthy of a block or ban. His communication with ArbComm will be private. I think there is a good chance the block will be lifted, possibly even with an apology, or not. ArbComm, and Wikipedia in general, are terrible about apologies, and huge messes are created and never cleaned up, because “beating a dead horse” and “it doesn’t matter for improving articles.”
Muslim Guy (liar, he’s not a Muslim, trolls with similar names appeared as attack socks about me), asserts this about Deleet:
On his Wikipedia user-page before he was banned Kirkegaard wrote he was recruiting people off-site to help him edit Wikipedia (link to Wikipedia). What he meant by this was getting his friends to create articles for race realists, this is a conflict of interest and meat-puppet issue which is against Wikipedia rules.
This is standard Oliver Smith BS, and an example of how he creates misleading sourcing. If you have what he claims in mind, i.e., his mind-reading of Emil’s purpose, you can look at the link and it looks real. But this is what Deleet actually wrote, it is on his current user page:
This is my only account despite claims to the contrary.
I strongly agree with an inclusionist approach to editing.
I think intellectual diversity is desirable among information workers such as researchers, journalists and Wikipedia editors.
I am working towards recruiting more subject matter experts to Wikipedia in the academic fields I’m active in.
I am building a FAQ page for intelligence and related research based on mainstream statements, textbooks by reputable authors, and surveys of researchers.
There is nothing reprehensible or contrary to Wikipedia policy or guidelines there. The “recruiting” item refers to an essay on recruiting subject matter experts. Many consider this a good thing to do. I don’t, because Wikipedia never became welcoming to experts who disagree with the views of dominant factions. So it is encouraging experts to waste their time debating Lilliputians, too often.
The FAQ would belong more on Wikiversity. On Wikipedia it is highly vulnerable to deletion. (It would also be vulnerable on Wikiversity, but much less likely unless Deleet were to edit it aggressively and without regard for consensus.) And if it is imbalanced, which it certainly could be, it could be balanced, either through consensus by editing, or by creation of an alternate FAQ, and I developed procedures on Wikiversity, the result of which were an almost complete lack of revert warring, as well as deletion of good-faith work, compared to Wikipedia, and improved neutrality overall. It can be done if the editors are willing. The community generally favored it, but also became, too often, distracted and not paying attention to central process. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and if liberty is lost, it can be too late to protect it.
Kirkegaard does appear to be an academic. When his RationalWiki article appeared, he seemed to welcome it. Then he found that the claims of RationalWiki to welcome civil disagreement were vacuous hypocrisy. They don’t. They actually used to, but that disappeared, and I’m suspecting that a big part of that disappearance was the result of enabling the Smith brothers.
(To keep diversity, it is not enough to tolerate minority opinion, it must be actively protected. Academic institutions have a long history of doing this, often at high cost. There are conditions and situations where simply telling the truth can raise a lynch mob to string up the “liar.” Democracy is superior to dictatorship only where it protects diversity, even diversity that disagrees with democracy. Hence the ACLU, and when I said something that promoted the ACLU ideals, these fascists quoted it as proof of Something Bad. They are actually fascist, i.e., oppressive and intolerant and willing to use whatever power they can gather to crush dissent, while pretending to be “anti-fascist.” Give them admin tools, they will use it to exclude contrary opinion. Oliver, as admin on Metapedia, did exactly that, there was a beautiful example I found.)
So: from the timing, very high probability that “Chinese Communist,” who also used “Chinese dude” in his email address (compare with “Asian dude” for an obvious Oliver sock on the Encyclopedia Dramatica Forum), is “Muslim guy,” and from the focus and arguments, this is very likely Oliver, playing with himself when he commented on User talk:Arcticos, or it’s the brother, Darryl. I will check timings, because Darryl is active and sometimes this provides information.
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Hulslander, Kenneth Wayne was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1490 O RD, LOMA, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2800904.
Hulslander, Matthew Justin was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10115 S Peoria ST # 6-204, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601352150.
Hulslander, Maureen O was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 24615 Arapahoe RD, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6576330.
Hulslander, Russell Evans was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 754 Tulip DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 6325280.
Hulslander, Ryan Thomas was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7107 S Hudson CIR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600510169.
Hulslander, Ryan Timothy was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2867 Hillcroft LN, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601886341.
Hulslander, Sarah H was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 875 S Jersey ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2558406.
Hulslander, Ximena was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 322 Passgo LN, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601298170.
Hulslander-Wiethoff, Heather Renee was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1813 Pheasant CV, SILT, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5516351.
Hulsman, Aubrey Ann Marie was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8044 S Zephyr WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200286246.
Hulsman, Christina Marie was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7370 E Florida AVE APT 1013, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600260776.
Hulsman, Robert Daniel was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8044 S Zephyr WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200286307.
Hulsman, Sarah Catherine was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9 Boulder CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601613037.
Hulsmann, Danielle Pele was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19675 Belatrix DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200117665.
Hulsmann, Jeffrey S was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19675 Belatrix DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 85596.
Hulsmann, Sarah Elizabeth was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19675 Belatrix DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600936459.
Hulsnof, Christian Paul was born in 1997 and registered to vote, giving the address as 423 E Cucharras ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Hulsnof voter ID number is 601803035.
Huls Smith, Melissa Nicole was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 37410 County Road 45, EATON, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6326392.
Hulst, Alexandra Elyse was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1203 Ouray AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601499936.
Hulst, Alison Chalmers was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10282 Lauren CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601867837.
Hulst, Amy Elizabeth Sun A was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2061 S Columbine ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601520821.
Hulst, Connie Kay was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6116 S Galena CT, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 770773.
Hulst, David Jay was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2311 Park Center DR # 1-302, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 3931193.
Hulst, Douglas Meyering was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6116 S Galena CT, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 774575.
Hulst, Jack R was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6561 S Pontiac CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 784715.
Hulst, Joshua Mark was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1203 Ouray AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601042652.
Hulst, Kimberly Ann was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 512 Haynes LN, NORWOOD, San Miguel County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6579599.
Hulst, Larry R was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1513 S Cascade AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 405133.
Hulst, Laura M was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1513 S Cascade AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 405134.
Hulst, Madison Cole was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10282 Lauren CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601383895.
Hulst, Mary Armacost was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6561 S Pontiac CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 890478.
Hulst, Matthew Leigh was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1649 S Lafayette ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600694780.
Hulst, Michael Lee was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 512 Haynes LN, NORWOOD, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 5001142.
Hulst, Robyn R was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10282 Lauren CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5824185.
Hulst, Stephen Mclay was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10282 Lauren CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5943859.
Hulst, Tonia Marie was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1649 S Lafayette ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200362732.
Hulstead, Michael Kenneth was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1499 Blake ST APT 5S, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601802945.
Hulstein, Julie Elaine was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4146 S Sheridan BLVD, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2496503.
Hulstein, Ross Andrew was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1333 N Fillmore ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200324912.
Hulstein, Sarah Carr Sourk was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1333 N Fillmore ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2834983.
Hulstine, Betty Sue was born in 1935 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9944 Gwendelyn PL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601510262.
Hulstine, Bonnie Jean was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 935 Alta Vista DR, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5580754.
Hulstine, Cindy Jean was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 33168 Oak Park DR, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3842840.
Hulstine, Dale Gene was born in 1931 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9944 Gwendelyn PL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601510236.
Hulstine, David Michael was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 190 Anderson ST, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 3844307.
Hulstine, David W was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 33168 Oak Park DR, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 3842727.
Hulstine, Guadalupe Manuelita was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 23 Amherst AVE APT 12, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2906729.
Hulstine, John Thomas was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 935 Alta Vista DR, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 601213770.
Hulstine, Kim Elizabeth was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 630 Pierce ST, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3843583.
Hulstine, Louis Frank was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 91 Nolan ST, GENOA, Lincoln County, CO. His voter ID number is 601848827.
Hulstine, Marisa Claire was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 935 Alta Vista DR, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601621436.
Hulstine, Mark A was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 935 Alta Vista DR, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 5579324.
Hulstine, Moses Lee Jr was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1119 Highland AVE APT 302, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600940846.
Hulstrom, Amy Christine was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9928 Harbor DR, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6386761.
Hulstrom, Bradley A was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1477 Eagle DR, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6886383.
Hulstrom, Britt Clarence was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2716 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600485028.
Hulstrom, Chandler Theron was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4401 Redmond DR APT 25102, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600563873.
Hulstrom, Cody Joseph was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1022 Traildust DR, MILLIKEN, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6420772.
Hulstrom, David Joseph was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2600 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6421494.
Hulstrom, Deborah Lea was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6163 Urban CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4224389.
Hulstrom, Denise Joan was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10384 W 58Th PL # 36, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600495794.
Hulstrom, Genell F was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2714 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6380264.
Hulstrom, Ginger L was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7801 Pontiac ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6798471.
Hulstrom, Jan Louise was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2716 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6380144.
Hulstrom, Jason David was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2600 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600962704.
Hulstrom, Jessica Lynn was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1022 Traildust DR, MILLIKEN, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 772579.
Hulstrom, Judith A was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 920 W 152Nd AVE, BROOMFIELD, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7139754.
Hulstrom, Kay Melissa was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 136 Eagle AVE, MEAD, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6319502.
Hulstrom, Kelly Joan was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1913 Newland CT, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3987869.
Hulstrom, Kevin E was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 136 Eagle AVE, MEAD, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6319503.
Hulstrom, Leslie Ann was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2680 Blake ST UNIT 7, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2461573.
Hulstrom, Matthew Wayne was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1050 W 152Nd AVE, BROOMFIELD, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112501.
Hulstrom, Melissa Nirelle was born in 1997 and registered to vote, giving the address as 136 Eagle AVE, MEAD, Weld County, CO. Hulstrom voter ID number is 601390945.
Hulstrom, Michelle Annette was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7099 Estes DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4256724.
Hulstrom, Nancy D was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15021 Huron ST, BROOMFIELD, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7046630.
Hulstrom, Nicholas Allen was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3645 N Clayton ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600792833.
Hulstrom, Ricky Clarence was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2716 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6380249.
Hulstrom, Robert Wayne was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7099 Estes DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601170116.
Hulstrom, Roland L was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 920 W 152Nd AVE, BROOMFIELD, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7044561.
Hulstrom, Ronald C was born in 1937 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2714 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6380263.
Hulstrom, Seth Ronald was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2600 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600990778.
Hulstrom, Shannon Jean was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7099 Estes DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600806108.
Hulstrom, Sharon Renee was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11123 W 103Rd CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4255911.
Hulstrom, Stephany Ann was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7126 Stuart ST, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601915906.
Hulstrom, Teresa Joan was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6887 W 53Rd PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4093414.
Hulstrom, Timothy Wayne was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7099 Estes DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4257299.
Hulstrom, Tory Genell was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2716 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600643640.
Hulstrom, Tricia F was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2600 County Road 7, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6420848.
Hulstrom, Troy Allen was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11123 W 103Rd CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 7028609.
Hulstrom, Victoria Lee was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1050 W 152Nd AVE, BROOMFIELD, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112502.
Hult, Amanda Helfrich was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 456 Lorraway DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600370054.
Hult, Amy Christine was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 712 N Briarwood RD, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1420101.
Hult, Anthony Joseph was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10637 W Lehigh PL, DENVER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4218543.
Hult, April Danielle was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8654 W Quarto AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4047665.
Hult, Ashley Jordan was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8783 Chase DR # 214, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600096746.
Hult, Ashlin Renee was born in 1999 and registered to vote, giving the address as 6558 Legend Ridge TRL, NIWOT, Boulder County, CO. Hult voter ID number is 601813326.
Hult, Caroline Smith was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1497 Brown CIR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112612.
Hult, Chloe Laurain was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1625 Bonforte BLVD APT 17B, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601671319.
Hult, Christopher Roy was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 353 Toronto ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600013478.
Hult, Christopher Thomas was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3005 Black Canyon WAY, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 2647861.
Hult, Dana Jill Blow was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11700 Elizabeth CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200292989.
Hult, Danielle was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2887 Cascade Creek DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600347350.
Hult, Dennis E was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3880 Chippewa DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112613.
Hult, Diana S was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11825 W 73Rd DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4075929.
Hult, Elizabeth A was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6801 Grandview AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4093942.
Hult, Elizabeth Rachelle was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3005 Black Canyon WAY, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600112667.
Hult, Gregory Eugene was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6558 Legend Ridge TRL, NIWOT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 200093855.
Hult, Hunter Renn was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4555 W 36Th PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200167364.
Hult, Jacob Paul Neil was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11700 Elizabeth CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 4258830.
Hult, Jeffrey Earl was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 712 N Briarwood RD, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1418756.
Hult, Kelly Richard was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8654 W Quarto AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4049772.
Hult, Kimberly M was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1837 Mapleton AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112616.
Hult, Laura L was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9455 Carr ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4182324.
Hult, Linda Sue was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 353 Toronto ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1398566.
Hult, Logan Parker was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1611 Daily DR, ERIE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600202256.
Hult, Marcia Fay was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3880 Chippewa DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112617.
Hult, Michael Anthony was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4365 Iris ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4231760.
Hult, Michael Benjamin was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7892 Everett WAY, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4091278.
Hult, Michael Dean was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11825 W 73Rd DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4073579.
Hult, Robert John was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5554 Ponderosa DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5856873.
Hult, Robin Kent was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1611 Daily DR, ERIE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112618.
Hult, Roy Earl was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 353 Toronto ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1398565.
Hult, Sally J was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5554 Ponderosa DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5717558.
Hult, Samuel Leroy Iii was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4967 Artistic PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601696512.
Hult, Sandra Godwin was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 101 S Union BLVD # 245, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601554497.
Hult, Sara Rhea was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9680 W Cornell PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200162270.
Hult, Scott Allen was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 456 Lorraway DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600384443.
Hult, Stephen Everett was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2887 Cascade Creek DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600321541.
Hult, Timothy Edward was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1436 N Ivy ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2485090.
Hultberg, Bryan E was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2829 B RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601478183.
Hultberg, Caroline Anne was born in 1970 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1210 E Colfax AVE UNIT 201, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Hultberg voter ID number is 601816526.
Hultberg, Gary Owen was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6810 W 35Th AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4033210.
Hultberg, Janet L was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6810 W 35Th AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4232908.
Hultberg, Janielle Elaine was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 998 W Beaver Creek BLVD # D-103, AVON, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600393240.
Hultberg, Polly Leeanna was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 603 Roma CT UNIT A, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601595808.
Hultberg, Rebecca Sue was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 323 W Ute AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601455639.
Hultberg, Ronald Glen was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 24045 E Willowbrook AVE, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5650507.
Hultberg, Zishan Karim was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 24045 E Willowbrook AVE, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5935876.
Hulteen, Alexander was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 26075 Redlands Mesa RD, HOTCHKISS, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 601089213.
Hulteen, Aliona Nikolaivna was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 26075 Redlands Mesa RD, HOTCHKISS, Delta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601668617.
Hulteen, Bradley James was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 26075 Redlands Mesa RD, HOTCHKISS, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 3541281.
Hulteen, Enriqueta was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22475 Fruitgrowers RD, AUSTIN, Delta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600280093.
Hulteen, James M was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22475 Fruitgrowers RD, AUSTIN, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 3536476.
Hulteen, Jared Alan was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22292 Antelope Hill RD, AUSTIN, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 601821076.
Hulteen, Keith Alan was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22292 Antelope Hill RD, AUSTIN, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 3544283.
Hulteen, Madison was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 702 N Colorado ST # 1201, GUNNISON, Gunnison County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601444258.
Hulteen, Mary A was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 800 Luther ST, EADS, Kiowa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601528302.
Hulteen, Mishelle Waynette was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22292 Antelope Hill RD, AUSTIN, Delta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3540406.
Hulten, Lauren Jacqueline was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 108 S Holman WAY, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4265918.
Hulten, Richard Robert was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 108 S Holman WAY, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200127884.
Hultenius, Algert Maurice was born in 1928 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2224 K RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2338839.
Hultenius, Mary Lou was born in 1929 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2224 K RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2355738.
Hulterstrom, Robert Marion was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4175 Lacy LN APT 21, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601336538.
Hulterstrom, Sherry was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3611 Reindeer CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600685256.
Hulterstrom, Winifried I was born in 1936 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1326 Kachina DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 248484.
Hultgren, Allen Lee was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1620 Centaur CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112620.
Hultgren, Amber Stephanie was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6846 Sullivan AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 473978.
Hultgren, Andrea Mae was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4872 Haystack DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600041269.
Hultgren, Barbara Ann was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7342 View Pointe CIR, WELLINGTON, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1593850.
Hultgren, Barry Allen was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4872 Haystack DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1612836.
Hultgren, Brian H was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 27445 E 160Th AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 8881970.
Hultgren, Brice Lee was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10552 Vaughn CT, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600314730.
Hultgren, Bror O was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 408 22Nd ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4040845.
Hultgren, Carolinn Kristen was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3002 W Elizabeth ST # 11G, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600633567.
Hultgren, Chris Jeffrey was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10695 Thomas RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600113495.
Hultgren, Christine was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 343 Sprucewood CT, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200094416.
Hultgren, Claes Leonard Jr was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6735 Delmonico DR # 202, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 494038.
Hultgren, Clinton Marlowe was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1630 Sagewood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1440438.
Hultgren, Cody James was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3005 Ross DR # U12, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600108732.
Hultgren, Cynthia Elizabet was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4872 Haystack DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1612798.
Hultgren, Debra A was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 857 Snowberry ST, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112624.
Hultgren, Donald P was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1705 Leoti DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 255276.
Hultgren, Drew Venditti was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2047 S Milwaukee ST UNIT 7, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600775591.
Hultgren, Edward Conan was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7886 E Kettle AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 791763.
Hultgren, Emma Venditti was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 408 22Nd ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601179534.
Hultgren, Erin Lynn was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3232 S Newcombe ST # 205, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600353590.
Hultgren, Grant Wesley was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 180 S Garrison ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601453452.
Hultgren, Hans was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1285 Snowberry DR, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4288178.
Hultgren, Helge Carl was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10755 Worthington CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600887617.
Hultgren, Holly M was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 550 Mapleton AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112629.
Hultgren, Isaac Jesse was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5865 Pierce ST # 203, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601028651.
Hultgren, Jason David was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 105 5Th ST, KERSEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601526382.
Hultgren, Jennifer Nast was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1742 Eastwood CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1437309.
Hultgren, Jessica Nicole was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22441 E Princeton DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5880198.
Hultgren, Julia Ann was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1756 N Clarkson ST APT 301, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200088777.
Hultgren, Julia H was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6125 Colony CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 493123.
Hultgren, Justin Edward was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1705 Leoti DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600066013.
Hultgren, Kim R was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 448 Sylvestor TRL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5895872.
Hultgren, Kyle Christopher was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10695 Thomas RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200378236.
Hultgren, Lars Erik was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7886 E Kettle AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600988760.
Hultgren, Lisa Denise was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10755 Worthington CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600896020.
Hultgren, Louann Venditti was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 408 22Nd ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4040843.
Hultgren, Lucas Allen was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4872 Haystack DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601202776.
Hultgren, Mae Marylou was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4399 Quest DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1442928.
Hultgren, Mark Christopher was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12316 Pine Vista TRL, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 943081.
Hultgren, Mark D was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 448 Sylvestor TRL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200203962.
Hultgren, Marsha Ann was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1630 Sagewood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1436906.
Hultgren, Mary C was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1620 Centaur CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112633.
Hultgren, Mary Katherine was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8557 W 70Th WAY, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601832377.
Hultgren, Megan Mcneirney was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7886 E Kettle AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 791764.
Hultgren, Michael Paul was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7342 View Pointe CIR, WELLINGTON, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1590442.
Hultgren, Miranda Elizabeth was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 271 River Birch ST, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600277030.
Hultgren, Nancy Diane Milleret was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10552 Vaughn CT, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200011368.
Hultgren, Patricia K was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1285 Snowberry DR, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4169638.
Hultgren, Paul John was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 343 Sprucewood CT, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112634.
Hultgren, Robert Craig was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1742 Eastwood CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1436683.
Hultgren, Robert Marlowe was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1630 Sagewood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1437838.
Hultgren, Sara Barrett was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1284 N Logan ST APT 308, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200120993.
Hultgren, Sarah Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1589 Zinnia CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6378141.
Hultgren, Shea Mckenzie was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3005 Ross DR # U12, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200237006.
Hultgren, Shelby Durene was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10695 Thomas RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600113491.
Hultgren, Steven Ander was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 550 Mapleton AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112636.
Hultgren, Tammy Lynn was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1215 Cedar DR, YUMA, Yuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601571586.
Hultgren, Titus James was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4872 Haystack DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601017323.
Hultgren, Troy Allen was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10329 Oak ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200272652.
Hultin, Andrew Jacob was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 614 W 6Th ST, LEADVILLE, Lake County, CO. His voter ID number is 601265132.
Hultin, Andrew Peter was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3500 Rockmont DR APT 13303, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2946612.
Hultin, Anna Lee was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1060 N Grant AVE, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600051060.
Hultin, Bobbe M was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1610 N Ivy ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2511744.
Hultin, Brian Robert was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9440 Harlan CT, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4290697.
Hultin, Jane A was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1560 N Ivy ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2380994.
Hultin, Jill Oesterle was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2807 Mckeag DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1530125.
Hultin, John M was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1610 N Ivy ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2504414.
Hultin, Lander Reed was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1060 N Grant AVE, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1531015.
Hultin, Mikkel P was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5282 W 116Th CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4290702.
Hultin, Rachel Grace was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4690 Balsam ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2513280.
Hultin, Steffan Dane was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 423 Concord AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 200276608.
Hultin, Steven Robert was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2807 Mckeag DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1529757.
Hultin, Walter B was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3863 S Newport WAY, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2502321.
Hultine, Bradley D was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6673 S Ouray WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 7110701.
Hultine, Christopher Michael was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5112 Tabor LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600871068.
Hultine, Hannah Jane was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5424 Tejon ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600534308.
Hultine, Rene Dewayne was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10996 Hidden Brook CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601949753.
Hultine, Riris was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6673 S Ouray WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600651038.
Hultine, Stephanie Lynn was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6790 S Quail LN, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4270466.
Hultine-Smith, Michelle Rene was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9451 Palladium HTS APT 402, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601839366.
Hulting, Brenda Lee was born in 1940 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2320 Cornerstone DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601365483.
Hulting, Christian Thomas was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 35 Van Gordon ST # 701, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601525838.
Hulting, Deborah Anne was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1701 Falls CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1649559.
Hulting, Deborah Crist was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15762 Split Creek DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200086280.
Hulting, Robert A was born in 1935 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2320 Cornerstone DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601365492.
Hulting, Russell Wayne was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1701 Falls CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1650451.
Hulting, Stephen Torey was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15762 Split Creek DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200086294.
Hultkrans, Jean Belknap was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 51 Birch CT, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112642.
Hultkrans, Sylvia Farmer was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1850 Folsom ST APT 1008, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112644.
Hultman, Alyssa Lynne was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 20918 E 44Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5913956.
Hultman, Benjamin Joseph was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4050 Walking Stick BLVD APT 507B, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600866934.
Hultman, Brent was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 200 Summit BLVD # 244, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112645.
Hultman, Brian Kenneth was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13618 E Bethany PL # 211, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601635231.
Hultman, Donna J was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8305 W 18Th Street RD, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601892218.
Hultman, Dustin Lee was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2728 S Patton CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601813374.
Hultman, Eric Andrew Jr was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2575 S Syracuse WAY # G106, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601578268.
Hultman, Erik Matthew was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7242 Moss Bluff CT, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601553453.
Hultman, Ethan William was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 37253 S Big Buck CIR, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 601962561.
Hultman, Jennifer Lynne was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5455 S Tibet ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600088642.
Hultman, Jody Liane was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13154 Krameria ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600276081.
Hultman, Joseph Thomas was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 200 Summit BLVD # 244, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 600723461.
Hultman, Katie Lynne was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10591 Forester PL, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200063538.
Hultman, Kenneth L was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 563 W Hawthorn ST, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112761.
Hultman, Kylie Breanna was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17710 E Hamilton CIR # 122, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601494728.
Hultman, Larry Dean was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 689 Harrison ST, WALDEN, Jackson County, CO. His voter ID number is 1391638.
Hultman, Linda K was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 563 W Hawthorn ST, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112762.
Hultman, Linda M was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13618 E Bethany PL # 211, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601635230.
Hultman, Megan Elizabeth was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 36465 I-76 Frontage RD, ROGGEN, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601687612.
Hultman, Michael Arthur was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1705 Trumpeters CT, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 6404912.
Hultman, Michael Brent was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10591 Forester PL, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600324834.
Hultman, Michael D was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3664 S Lisbon ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 909828.
Hultman, Patricia Ann was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3664 S Lisbon ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601436767.
Hultman, Robert James was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 20918 E 44Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 4271703.
Hultman, Robert Melvin was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 224 High PL, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1597736.
Hultman, Sonya Lynne was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9772 W Unser AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112764.
Hultman, Theodore Robert was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3665 Paseo Del Prado UNIT 2, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601699215.
Hultman, Todd Douglas was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3890 S Dayton ST # 305, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601221564.
Hultman, Todd Wayne was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13154 Krameria ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600188036.
Hultman Ortiz, Linsey Dawn was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 37253 S Big Buck CIR, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. Her voter ID number is 729860.
Hulton, Robert James was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 57355 Venus PL, CLARK, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6568422.
Hultquist, Agatha Skierkowski was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 568 W Greenfield CIR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2865996.
Hultquist, Ann Marie was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6741 E Cornell AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3916970.
Hultquist, Beth Ann was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 45 W Silverbell PL, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5532834.
Hultquist, Brent Steven was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5275 Grand Fir CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5659963.
Hultquist, Bruce W Sr was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2605 Sierra DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 259160.
Hultquist, Charles Benjamen was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 568 W Greenfield CIR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 200033215.
Hultquist, Darlene May was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2605 Sierra DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 258715.
Hultquist, Donald Lee was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3132 County Rd 243, NEW CASTLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601264387.
Hultquist, Doretta K was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1561 S Foothills HWY LOT E-5, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112766.
Hultquist, Georgia L was born in 1926 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 329 Ash ST, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3566738.
Hultquist, Ginger J was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 540 Ridge RD, NEW CASTLE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5542727.
Hultquist, Gregg Arthur was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4354 Crane CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 4005713.
Hultquist, Gregory Phillip was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4105 Silene PL, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200205140.
Hultquist, Harold Marvin Jr was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5992 S Sheridan WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4103354.
Hultquist, Joseph Hayes was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 540 Ridge RD, NEW CASTLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 200279234.
Hultquist, Kristin Darleen was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5275 Grand Fir CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601836536.
Hultquist, Matthew Ira was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11967 County Rd 320, RIFLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 5519738.
Hultquist, Megan Taylor was born in 1996 and registered to vote, giving the address as 7290 Glacier View RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Hultquist voter ID number is 601501789.
Hultquist, Per Martin was born in 1940 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2875 Cascade Creek DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112771.
Hultquist, Rachel Morgan was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7290 Glacier View RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600492338.
Hultquist, Sarah Michelle was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12021 E Ford CIR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 951895.
Hultquist, Stephen Sven was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7290 Glacier View CT, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112772.
Hultquist, Theresa Ellen was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7290 Glacier View RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8112773.
Hultquist, Thomas A was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 550 E 12Th AVE APT 304, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2610081.
Hultquist, Warren Robert was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1820 Mapleton AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8112775.
Hults, Angelique was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7431 S Clermont DR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601700951.
Hults, Craig Andrew was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3428 Arapahoe DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1592992.
Hults, David Daniel was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16853 Trail View CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200138110.
Hults, Elaine Laughton was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3333 S Lincoln ST # 706, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 856595.
Hults, Elizabeth Anne was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7431 S Clermont DR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 886213.
Hults, Gabriel Sylvan was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11820 Saddleback CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601363301.
Hults, Ivan Henry Iii was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 237 Arapahoe CT, LYONS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601603848.
Hults, Jake Taylor was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8317 Saddleman RD, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601406223.
Hults, Jessica R was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 103 S Zenobia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 870344.
Hults, Jodie M was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12188 Hadley ST, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600071376.
Hults, Latosca Jade was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5587 S Sicily WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 751659.
Hults, Michael Alan was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2456 Cana CT, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600259777.
Hults, Rebecca Jo was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 196 Darlington LN, JOHNSTOWN, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601667591.
Hults, Ronald Eugene was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 103 S Zenobia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 870346.
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CD/DVD Duplication
CD/DVD Media
CD/DVD Replication
Video Production Tools
Video Streaming and Streaming Codecs
Major Labels’ DualDisc Releases Could Land Them in Court
By Debbie Galante Block - Posted Apr 12, 2004 Print Version Page 1of 1
For the first time in ages, it appears that all of the record labels might be playing on the same court, no pun intended. The Big Five of the recording industry—Warner, Bertelsmann, Universal, Sony, and EMI—released DualDisc titles in test markets in early February. But was it their product to release? Dieter Dierks, CEO and founder of Germany-based DVD Plus International, says no.
"In April 2000, I signed a contract with Warner Brothers that gave them permission to manufacture DVD Plus for their artists and record labels," says Dierks. DVD Plus and DualDisc are based on the same concept—hybrid discs with a DVD on one side and a CD on the other—and Warner sold its patent on the technology to Dierks, though the label retained the license to manufacture products under the Warner name. "The contract called for them to use the DVD Plus logo. The Warner Group seems to have omitted my logo. "The contract does not allow Warner to produce for other labels or artists," Dierks told EMedia.
Additionally, Dierks has given EnXnet the sole license to market these hybrids under the OneDisc name in North America, according to Mark Pempsell, national sales director of EnXnet, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rounder Records has released The Kathleen Edwards Special Edition and Edwards' Live from the Bowery Ballroom under the OneDisc name and with a DVD Plus logo.
But the fight over who owns the patent—and therefore the rights to release the format—isn't the only problem dogging DualDisc. Consumer Electronics Daily reported that the DualDiscs on the market are out of spec and therefore do not play in all players. "The difference is that the Kathleen Edwards disc was made under our supervision on Singulus machines. Singulus is the only machine capable of replicating a dual-sided hybrid disc to our specifications. In short, DVD Plus works everywhere and DualDisc does not," says Dierks. Ordinary CDs and DVDs are 1.2mm thick and, according to specs for both media, can't exceed 1.5mm in thickness. While DualDisc makers claim their discs are in spec, industry sources have indicated that there is a problem with balance because the two layers are not equal in thickness.
EnXnet's Pempsell says he doesn't know whether DualDiscs are in spec, but he says that DVD Plus discs are 1.48mm and can play in every player. Right now, only Digital Valley in France is actually replicating DVD Plus product. Will the DVD Plus/DualDisc battle go to court? No one is saying for sure, but the lack of comment from most parties leads one to believe just that.
The record labels have remained quiet. A Warner spokesperson responded with a written statement, the gist being that "DualDiscs are being tested in select markets." This is old news, since that news was widely spread in early February as the five major labels released a total of 15 titles in Boston and Seattle. Warner has released DualDisc albums by R.E.M., P.O.D., Barenaked Ladies, Donald Fagen, and Linkin Park. The CD side of the disc contains standard two-channel, 16-bit/44.1kHz audio, while the DVD side features a high-resolution, 5.1-channel mix of the album. BMG, on the other hand, has music videos on the DVD side of its Usher release. Sony has released DualDiscs by AC/DC, Audioslave, David Bowie, and Good Charlotte. RCA has issued an EP-length DualDisc by the Calling. In addition to the Kathleen Edwards disc, Rounder Records is reportedly planning more DVD Plus releases this year that will have a film on one side and audio on the other.
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Folio A&E
Fall Into Film
Autumn Movie Preview 2018
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:00 am
Folio Movies
story by DAN HUDAK
The headlines for this fall’s new releases are sure to get any movie fan excited, and given that statistics suggest October and November releases are the most likely to win major Oscars, it’s possible that the next Best Picture Oscar winner is right here. So let the Oscar bait begin! Remember release dates are subject to change, but you’ll want to keep this lighthearted preview handy so you can catch the films that spark your interest.
Opens Sept. 14
Yet another Predator movie, this time about the efforts of soldiers and a science teacher as they fight the titular villain after a kid welcomes it to Earth. Damn kids.
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig helms this crime drama in which Anna Kendrick tries to figure out why Blake Lively disappears from their small town. It begs the question: If Blake Lively disappeared from Hollywood, would anyone notice?
Matthew McConaughey stars as the father of a street hustler, drug kingpin and FBI informant. Nothing about that seems all right all right all right.
This adaptation of John Bellairs’ novel stars Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, directed by horror maestro Eli Roth. With the PG rating, it seems the only thing horrific about it is that title!
Fahrenheit 11/9
Documentarian Michael Moore goes full throttle on President Trump, no doubt similar to what he did to George W. Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).
It’s a Western/comedy/crime movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin Phoenix as brothers (whose last name is Sisters) who are assassins, but its title has me thinking about how our mothers have fathers, aunts have uncles, etc.
As the title character, Keira Knightley—perhaps best known today as the author of Gigi—writes for her husband, then for herself, and has relationships with women in early 1900s Paris.
Kevin Hart plays a man who must earn his GED, and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) plays his teacher. If you’re familiar with these two, you’ll likely find this idea funny; if not, never mind.
Here’s a twist: The animated tale is about a Yeti (voice of Channing Tatum) who hears there's a new, potentially dangerous creature living near his tribe: Humans.
The Old Man & The Gun
Robert Redford’s final performance! The 81-year-old plays a bank robber who falls for Sissy Spacek while being chased by a detective, played by Casey Affleck.
Oct. 5
They’ve given a Spider-Man villain, Venom, him/its own movie. This is not a Marvel Cinematic Universe release, so here’s hoping it’s better than the last time Sony put Venom on screen in in 2007.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga step into the lead roles of a story that’s been filmed three times already. The good news? The trailers and buzz are cause for excitement!
Damien Chazelle follows up his Oscar-winning La La Land with his go-to guy, Ryan Gosling, as astronaut Neil Armstrong in the story of Apollo 11. It’s the movie I’m most looking forward to this awards season.
Bad Times at the El Royale
The El Royale is the kind of 1960s hotel you check into, but may not ever check out. Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth and Dakota Johnson are among the guests in this twisty crime-thriller.
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) plays a drug addict whose story is recalled through the eyes of his father, played by Steve Carell. Expect tears and pathos, and possibly Oscar noms for both.
It’s a direct sequel to the original (1978), and Jamie Lee Curtis returns with David Gordon Green directing. If nothing else, Green knows that it can’t be worse than any of the other sequels!
Matthew McConaughey again, this time as Anne Hathaway’s ex. They conspire to kill her new husband. It makes you wonder if her character has any friends at all.
This is the first time Rowan Atkinson’s oddly goofy yet lovable (up to a point) Johnny English has struck since he was Reborn in 2011.
The Nutcracker & the Four Realms
Isn’t it about time somebody brought this story to the big screen during the holidays>
Is this the story of Freddie Mercury’s real life? Or is it just fantasy? This Queen biopic—as well as Rami Malek’s performance as Mercury—is guaranteed to rock you.
Of all the movies opening this fall, this one is the most likely to be immediately profitable. Why? Because Tyler Perry made it, and his films almost always turn a profit opening weekend.
Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman play religious parents who send their homosexual son (Lucas Hedges) to gay conversion therapy. One wonders if such therapy ever worked for anyone, ever.
Yup, they’ve remade Dario Argento’s horror classic, and it’s Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino who did the remaking.
Lisbeth Salander lives, just not in a story written by the late Stieg Larsson. The film, based on the book of the same name by David Lagercrantz, stars Claire Foy as Lisbeth and Swedish actor Sverir Gudnason as Mikael Blomkvist.
Benedict Cumberbatch voices The Grinch in this new animated interpretation of the story of the green misanthrope that no one asked for.
The Front Runner
Hugh Jackman doesn’t sing or slash people with long, sharp claws in this interpretation of Gary Hart’s ill-fated and scandalous 1988 presidential campaign. Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno).
Holmes and Watson
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play the Brit detective duo in this Sherlockian spoof. Ralph Fiennes is Moriarty!
The second prequel has Newt (Eddie Redmayne) and Dumbledore (Jude Law) squaring off against Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).
Director Steve McQueen’s follow-up to <12 Years a Slave> is about four widows left heavily in debt when their husbands die, so they take matters into their own hands. Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya and Michelle Rodriguez star.
You’ll be excited to learn this is a Joel & Ethan Coen () film, but that joy will be dampened upon your discovery that it was intended to be a Netflix anthology series and was edited down to two hours, 12 minutes.
The Wreck-It-Ralph sequel tells of Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) going into the Internet (as opposed to video games). Disney princesses have much-buzzed-about cameos!
This sequel to the stellar Creed is about Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) as he fights Ivan Drago’s son, Viktor (Florian Munteanu). Remember: Ivan killed Adonis’ father, Apollo.
Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Moonlight with this adaptation of the James Baldwin novel. For the record, La La Land is still better than Moonlight.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Saoirse Ronan is Mary Stuart, and Margot Robbie is her rival Elizabeth I in this drama about their relationship. Both women were Best Actress nominees last year, and if this is as good as it looks, they may well be on top again this year.
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in the latest from Adam McKay (The Big Short) that includes Amy Adams as wife Lynne Cheney, Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush and Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld.
Twenty years later, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to find a grown Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael (Ben Whishaw), and a family in need of her magical help once again. Meryl Streep, Lin Manuel Miranda and Dick Van Dyke also star.
We know director James Wan (Furious 7) can handle the action. The reality, though, is that all DC Comics Extended Universe movies not named Wonder Woman have been disappointments, and the trailers give little reason for optimism here.
If the Transformers movies have been losing money, why does Paramount think a spinoff will be a success?
Fantasy and reality merge once again for Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) in this story of a man (the now-ubiquitous Steve Carell) who uses photography and figurines to recover from a brutal attack. This is the third Carell movie this season! He's everywhere.
Biopic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, starring Felicity Jones as Ruth and Armie Hammer as Ruth’s husband, Marty. Along with the doc RBG earlier this year, the “Notorious RBG” continues to create headlines in her mid-80s.
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Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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I've been in a number of restaurants over the past week, each packed to the gills, have had several taxi drivers tell me that their takings are excellent, and the shops have had their best Christmas for years.
(Have been in the Westbury and Shelbourne over the w/e also and the Champagne bars are back in business in a big way).
Are we on the way back up ?
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Post subject: Re: NAMA thread Revisited
Location: Worst Mod ever, so sayeth the mob
Would you not expect a surge at this time of year, or is that relative to last year.
Minnosu
Turned another corner
lorcanoworms
I hope so,lot of friends and young relations heading to the states in the new year.
Further good news :
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 17:05
Exchequer returns show tax revenues up €2.6bn in 2012
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan published full-year exchequer returns today.
Income tax revenues are EUR230 million behind target | 04/12/2012
Exchequer remains on target for 2012 tax take | 03/11/2012
Coalition parties sign off on bulk of budget despite rows | 03/12/2012
PRSI budget increase proposed in return for welfare safety net | 10/10/2012
The Exchequer deficit in 2012 was €10.8 billion lower than 2011, end of year figures released by the Department of Finance have shown.
Tax revenue was up by €2.6 billion, a 7.7 per cent year-on-year increase. When adjustments are made, it is a 5.3 per cent increase in tax revenue in the year. Total tax receipts for 2012 were €36.65bn.
December taxes were better than expected with a surplus over €440 million in the month. Corporation tax, VAT, stamp duties, capital gains tax and customs were all ahead of normal, but income tax, excise duties and capital acquisitions tax were below normal.
Figures showed non-tax revenue was up by €45 million
The expenditure for 2012 was in line with target with overspends in health and social protection offset by underspending in other areas.
The non-voted capital expenditure was down by €8.3bn as a result of the settlement of the IBRC promissory note with Government bonds and the fact that July 2011 banking recapitalisation payments were not repeated last year.
On the negative side, the non-voted spend was up by €1.49bn, mainly due to servicing the debt while capital receipts were down €236 million.
In a statement, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said the figures show the “continued improvement we are making”.
So deficit below 8% this year, with a target of 7.5% for next.
With even a minimal PS cut we should be aiming for a budget deficit of below 5% for next year.
iarmhiman
Location: Dublin
You can feel things are going in the right direction again. At this stage it all depends on external factors. Provided they stay like this it's all go with the recovery.
Unemployment is still really high, hopefully it starts to drop again.
Agree with the first post though, go out with the missus every month or so for dinner and town tends to be rammed, restaurants and pubs both.
Gavin Duffy
Targeting rampant dole fraud and the black market should sort that out to a reasonable extent.
Until there is finance for spec development, that will remain.
Alternatively if the govt were to go ahead with three or four of the big 'mothballed' infrastructural developments at the same time, you would see those numbers fall.
Irrational exuberance. Just because people are anecdotally spending more this Christmas - it really doesn't tell us that we've turned a corner. I reckon that a lot of the previous fear of a total meltdown has abated, albeit irrationally. I see the property sector is hitting the media hard this new year with the erroneous message that things have stabilised. They have not, the rate of decline has merely decreased.
I'd agree re property outside of Dublin 4, 6, parts of 8 and Sth County.
But then any recovery is going to be Dublin led.
It's dangerous to take small wealthy enclaves and try to extrapolate this to a nationwide recovery on the basis that Dublin will lead the way. Dublin isn't leading the way, small parts of residential Dublin have recorded a blip on the graph relative to last year. We need more data to draw any conclusion about a trend.
http://www.daft.ie/report/
I've read the report, Duff, and take your point.
But, touchwood, these may really be the green shoots poking their heads above the ground.
The state of the construction sector is still a massive drag on the economy regardless.
What would be a healthy level of residential construction for a country like Ireland? I gather its close to zero at present, with most of the oversupply in unattractive areas. Nama are also distorting the situation. My philosophy is that low house prices are in general a good thing for an economy.
--DD--
When I was home at Xmas I noticed a new development being launched in Milltown, Orwell Lodge I think. Shocked to see the advertising hoardings up, not something you see much of these days!
10 -15% of GDP would be healthy.
We are at about 5%, maybe a bit under now.
It is a very labour intensive industry, and money spent on construction tends to go straight back into the local community.
EDIT AT the tippy top of the boom construction was approaching 25% of GDP.
If anyone is in need of a good laugh/cry:
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/nama-e ... 1-Jan2013/
We've got 3.6billion in the bank
Would the fuckers not spend some of it by letting a developer or two develope some really large commercial buildings in Dublin, which the IDA is crying out for.
And more good news :
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Friday, January 4, 2013, 08:58
Services buoyed by surging exports
Stability returning after four years of turmoil but challenges remain | 04/01/2013
Services growth at five year high | 05/12/2012
Rise in business from abroad helps push up services activity | 06/12/2012
Services sector still growing - survey | 06/11/2012
EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY
Activity in Ireland’s services sector grew for a fifth month in succession on the back of the biggest surge in new export orders since September 2006.
The latest NCB Stockbrokers purchasing managers’ index (PMI) of activity for the sector fell slightly to 55.8 in December from 56.1 the previous month. However, it remained comfortably above the 50 mark which separates contraction from growth.
The index is compiled from a survey of more than 600 companies, ranging from hotels and hairdressers to IT firms and telecoms
Both the sub-indices for new orders and new export business were in positive territory again last month, pointing to continued momentum in the sector.
The volume of new export business received by Irish service providers rose for the 17th successive month, with December’s figure of 61.3, the highest recorded since September 2006 and the third highest rate recorded since its inclusion in the index a decade ago.
The NCB’s sub-index for new business also grew sharply, with survey respondents mentioning launch of new products and also more new business from overseas markets, with the Middle East and UK cited as areas of particular strength.
Also encouraging was the rate of job creation in the sector which grew for the fourth successive month to remain at a five-year high.
The survey indicated three of the four components of the services sector - travel and leisure, business services and technology, media and telecommunications recorded growth in staffing levels during December while financial services remained unchanged.
The NCB’s survey did, however, point to an ongoing mismatch between input costs, which increased for 25th successive month and output charges which have been in negative territory since August 2008. “This continues to weigh on profitability in the sector,” said NCB economist Philip O'Sullivan.
I don't think a bit of irrationality is a bad thing. I think we talked ourselves into a worse situation than it needed to be initially so no harm talking our way out of it a bit.
In terms of a total meltdown, I would think that's now down to external factors out of our control?
Time to bump the thread of record, now in its third incarnation.
More good news from IDA Ireland.
Job losses in IDA Ireland companies lowest in a decade
Updated: 10:53, Monday, 07 January 2013
IDA Ireland says prospects for 2013 are promising Barry O'Leary says key global companies continue to select Ireland as a destination of choice
IDA Ireland has said that 6,570 net jobs were created by IDA companies last year.
In its end of year review, the Government agency responsible for attracting foreign direct investment said that job losses were the lowest in a decade.
A total of 12,722 positions were created by IDA-supported companies last year, but 6,152 jobs were also lost.
The IDA said its client base in Ireland now employs 152,785 people, a level last recorded before the global financial crisis in 2008.
The biggest single project last year was the creation of 1,000 positions at Paypal in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Other big investments included Northern Trust, Apple, EA Games, Cisco, Allergan and Eli Lilly.
There were 145 individual investments last year, with 66 (over 40%) from companies coming to Ireland for the first time.
The IDA said the prospects for 2013 are promising, but there are challenges due to the global slowdown and competition from other countries.
According to figures from Forfás, IDA client exports rose by 7.5% in 2011, faster than the national average of 5.7%.
It also noted that IDA companies spent €18.8 billion in the Irish economy in 2011, up 10% compared to 2010 data.
Expenditure on Irish sourced materials rose from €1.5 billion to €1.7 billion, while IDA firms also spent €9.6 billion on Irish-sourced services last year, up from €8.5 billion in 2010.
IDA Ireland Chief Executive Barry O'Leary said that key global companies continue to select Ireland as a destination of choice because of the country's talented workforce, technology capability, corporation tax and our strong FDI track record.
Mr O'Leary said: "Ireland's leading FDI companies have strong economic substance here in terms of large-scale employment and investment.
"But Ireland faces a highly competitive landscape, with notable strong competition arising from the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland and many other countries."
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0107/job-lo ... iness.html
eweeg
Your Deccie Out levels of enthusiasm on this thread are just what the country needs Camroc!
So we've got mortgages in arrears out the wazoo but there were just 10 evictions carried out in Dublin in 2012. The owners of all these properties would like to extend a very warm new year message of thanks to the taxpayer for funding this largesse.
apurelegend
The guy who built the Elesyian in Cork was on the paper last week claiming property was rebounding so it must be true.......
Strikes are coming...
About bloody time. Will be a perfect opportunity for the general public to give the PS unions some valuable feedback from the general public who pay for their services.
Uncle Fester wrote:
Go on strike in protest against cuts that your employer is making to stay in business.
Do these guys do logic at all ?
Did I hear right that the semi-states have been insulated from ALL pay cuts and pension levies?
Good news from the bond markets. From the IT.
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 12:48
Ireland raises €2.5bn in bond sale
The National Management Treasury Agency has sold EUR2.5 billion worth of debt.
Government raises EUR1bn after strong demand at bond auction | 19/08/2009
Bond sale attempts to raise up to EUR5bn | 14/01/2010
State to tempt markets with EUR2bn bond deal | 08/01/2013
NTMA takes surprise plunge into the bond markets | 27/07/2012
FIONA REDDAN
The National Treasury Management Agency has sold €2.5 billion of 2017 bonds in its first syndicated sovereign deal since 2010, having received orders worth more than €7 billion.
The last time Ireland raised funds through a syndicated deal – which differs from an auction in that the price is pre-agreed – was before the EU-IMF bailout programme of December 2010.
Ireland looks likely to become the first sovereign to successfully exit a euro zone bailout programme and is expected to issue approximately €10 billion of debt this year.
"It was an excellent deal for Ireland ... There was a decent spread of demand across geographies. We've seen a few accounts getting back involved after the two-and-a-half year hiatus from the (Irish debt agency)," a trader said.
Irish five-year yields initially rose ahead of books opening on the deal but the strong demand saw the bonds recover early losses to trade flat at a yield of 3.36 per cent.
Given that Ireland's average cost of bond funding was circa 4.7 per cent prior to entering the bailout, to fund at such a level is a remarkable turnaround. It also represents a level lower than that which Ireland is borrowing from the Troika, about 3.5 per cent.
Somebody forgot to CC Fitch on the memo:
"Fitch anticipates depressed mortgage lending, continued declines in house prices and pressure on incomes and consumer confidence. The ratings agency said that access to mortgage lending will continue to hamper property markets in a number of countries, including Ireland. "Banks maintain strict underwriting guidelines and are strongly restricted in their willingness and ability to lend, especially in peripheral eurozone countries," it said.
anonymous_joe
The state would have to foot the bill if they sought council housing to replace the houses they lost.
anonymous_joe wrote:
Think you might be responding to the wrong post.
And no, not necessarily. Those with jobs but who are over-loaded with debt will lose their homes but they'll also lose the debt and can start again with a nice rental in Newbridge, i.e. something within their means.
And it's not taking into account the likes of Brendan Kelly who are funneling rent directly to themselves (from 20 properties in their case) and refusing to make any repayments at all.
Another example of same.
More debt. Great news.
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:11 pm
Minnosu wrote:
The interest rate is a lot less than that for a lot of the existing stuff. There will be a lot of substitution.
So our interest rate now is lower than before we entered the bailout?
I wish I understood all this financial stuff.
Regardless of the lower interest rates, Ireland's children and 20 something's will be paying for the greed of the older generations.
Disgusting really.
It was the wrong post.
I see your point, alright.
I doubt it'd happen though, at a basic level, evictions are unbelievably unpopular. The banks know that if they evict, they're left with a house they can't sell and bad PR. I can see that being enough to calm them down a bit.
Wolfe Tone
Here's what the Germans make of Ireland's situation:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/ireland-seeks-to-have-europe-share-in-risk-of-ailing-banking-sector-a-876124.html
Ireland Lobbies to Have Europe Share Banking Risk
By Christoph Pauly
Ireland's reform policies have been widely praised for helping it emerge from the crisis, but the truth is bleaker. If the government fails to get European taxpayers to assume some of the risk of its ailing banking sector, the country could soon require another bailout.
In his home country, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, 61, has a reputation for being somewhat wooden. But when he meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other top German politicians, he's capable of unaccustomed gallantry, as the Irish have noted with surprise. For instance, Kenny has recently proved that he's a master of the diplomatic art known as "air kissing."
This Tuesday, the Irishman will have yet another opportunity to demonstrate his skills. Kenny is traveling to the southern German village of Wildbad Kreuth, where the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) -- the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) -- is holding its annual gathering. At it, Kenny hopes to schmooze with Horst Seehofer, the CSU's chairman, and Gerda Hasselfeldt, head of its federal parliamentary group. Shortly after breakfast, and before a speech by the chairman of the Bavarian Farmers' Association, Kenny plans to present his country as a model of successful reform policies.
Kenny's charm offensive is not entirely altruistic. For over two years -- and to the delight of the Anglo-Saxon media -- the conservative leader has been trying to get European taxpayers to foot the enormous bill for bailing out Ireland's ailing banking sector. But, taking their cue from the Germans, the Europeans have so far balked at the idea.
Instead, Chancellor Merkel has been quick to praise the way Ireland has implemented economic reforms and used money from European bailout funds over the past few years to emerge from the crisis: Exports have risen, the country has regained its competitiveness, and it has even succeeded in getting private creditors to lend it some money.
Unfortunately, this gleaming façade obscures a rather dismal reality. Although Ireland's economy has stabilized, its debts continue to mount -- despite the fact that the country has been diligently fulfilling all of the demands made by the troika of lenders, which consists of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB). This year, Ireland's public debt is expected to increase to 122 percent of its annual gross domestic product (GDP) -- in other words, beyond the limit at which the IMF believes long-term debt sustainability can be achieved.
The €68 billion ($90 billion) in bailout funds are only expected to meet the country's financial needs until the end of 2013. But Ireland has a trick up its sleeve that it hopes will allow it to avoid a second official aid package: Kenny would like to transfer one-quarter of Ireland's public debt -- the amount that was amassed solely from bailing out the country's banks -- to the EU. "By June, following the decision of the European Council, we expect agreement on the modalities of reducing the burden that the Irish taxpayer took on from the recapitalization of the going-concern banks," Kenny reportedly said shortly before Christmas.
Spreading the Pain
On Jan. 1, Ireland assumed the presidency of the European Council, which rotates every six months. During this period, Kenny is expected to forge important compromises among the EU's 27 member states. But, more importantly, he intends to use his position to highlight Irish concerns.
Ireland's demands are very precise -- and could be costly for the Germans. At stake are the €31 billion that the country received from the system of European central banks to save two crisis-ridden Irish financial institutions in 2010. The country is expected to pay this money back in installments over the next 10 years.
Already last year, the Irish pushed long and hard until they were allowed to pay back the first installment with the help of a new loan. But that was not a long-term solution. Starting this year, the state will explicitly be liable for the debts of Ireland's nationalized banks. This has prompted the Irish to look for a more creative solution this year. "We would like the payback period for the debts to be extended and the interest rates to be cut to a reasonable level," European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton told SPIEGEL.
This notion has met with resistance from the ECB, however. ECB President Mario Draghi regularly snubbed Kenny when he broached the topic at the numerous Brussels summits last year. The ECB wants to avoid any more accusations of directly financing ailing euro-zone member states. For Draghi, the simplest solution would be for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the euro zone's €700 billion permanent backstop fund, to step into the breach and take over the debt.
Kenny would ideally like to use the ESM as a way of getting European taxpayers to shoulder the risks associated with all the debts of the Irish banking sector. He intends to use the six months of his European presidency to push through a banking union that would also make the bailout fund responsible for dealing with toxic assets in the European banking system left over from the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
But to achieve this, Kenny will need the support of Chancellor Merkel and Germany's parliament, the Bundestag. If he manages to push through his agenda, Europe's taxpayers will have to absorb a significant portion of the risks of Ireland's banking sector. If the Germans refuse, it will become more likely that Ireland will have to be bailed out a second time this autumn.
It looks as if Kenny's newfound talent still has to be put to the test.
Translated from the German by Paul Cohen
If they are cheap enough they'll sell in a flash. Not sure that they'd sell them cheap though.
apurelegend wrote:
Why wouldn't they? They have balance sheets to repair and losses to crystalise.
I read that Clancy Quay has been repo'd and this one is a biggie. BoSI want it off their books asap. Planning for 700+ apartments granted originally. 420 built. They sold 60, leaving 360 needing to be dumped. There's 2,432 ads for Dublin city lettings on Daft.ie tonight. 15% of that current total for the entire city is going to come on stream from that one complex!
They have entire vacant blocks (4/5 I think) so they'll be able to sell those to a REIT who'll achieve far better economies of scale when letting than flippers but that's still the D8 rental market flooded. Whatever doesn't get picked up be a REIT will be flogged by Allsop. Amateur landlords in the area could be in for a bloodbath.
This could spark a race to the bottom if the non-NAMA banks holding all the other empty complexes follow suit.
What's the betting that NAMA is the one left without a pair of trousers by the end?
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[News] IGP disbands tactical squad over search of Edwin Clark’s house
The Inspector general of police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Special Tactical Squad (IGP-STS).
A statement by the spokesperson of the force, Jimoh Moshood, said the ban is as a result of the recent invasion of the residence of Edwin Clark, Ijaw national leader. Moshood said senior officers of the squad who were linked to the raid were undergoing disciplinary procedures.
“The tactical operations and statutory core police duties that the dissolved Special Tactical Squad were charged with are now collapsed and will be carried out by other operational, investigative and response units of the force.
Senior officers attached to the erstwhile Special Tactical Squad (STS) who were linked with complicity or played conspiracy role(s) in the unauthorised, illegal and unprofessional misconduct in the search of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark’s residence in Asokoro, Abuja on the 4th of September, 2018 are now undergoing strict disciplinary procedures.”
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Jonas Lencer
Director, dRMM Architects
Jonas Lencer is a director of Stirling Prize winning architecture practice dRMM. He oversees the design, construction and delivery of major projects including Faraday House; a bold and imaginative residential building within the Battersea Power Station development. With a focus on prefabrication and engineered timber, he specialises in combining design concepts with innovative construction techniques. Jonas lectures internationally on dRMM’s pioneering work in engineered timber, he is an assessor for the University of Brighton and is currently on the Wood Awards judging panel.
You spoke at the launch of this year’s call for entries for the Wood Awards, held at the Building Centre in London. Can you please give us a quick summary of what you spoke about and why you think the Wood Awards are important?
I spoke about the development of timber design within the past 15 years, linking my experience growing up in rural Germany where I learnt traditional forestry and how to make things from wood. I am very excited about recent developments in digital design and manufacturing which are breaking down the barriers between design and make. I think the Wood Awards are tremendously important when it comes to highlighting exemplary forms of this. The world is looking to these awards as UK design ingenuity, along with European technology, which is continuing to lead the way in modern timber construction.
You designed the Endless Stair with Alex de Rijke, (which won a Wood Award) during the 2013 London Design Festival. Can you tell us a little bit about that project?
Alex and I were inspired by MC Escher’s drawings of impossible perspectives. Our aim was to translate this concept into a real life experience, which was a challenge. We only knew the 3D experience of the illusion was going to be successful once we had modeled it physically and digitally. The result is a freely-accessible installation which defies people’s cognitive experience of space. With Andrew Lawrence from Arup and David Venables from AHEC (the American Hardwood Export Company) we developed a system of identical flights to be assembled in any orientation and space. The best part of six months was spent developing a system which joins without special parts or steel, and can be reassembled in endless iterations.
Alex de Rijke and Jonas Lencer, Endless Stair factory visit, image by Jonas Lencer
The Endless Stair, made from American tulipwood CLT was hugely technically ambitious. How has timber construction moved on since then?
Endless Stair wouldn’t have been possible without the development of American tulipwood CLT. The inherent strength and refined surface quality allowed us to develop the stair elements in very small thicknesses. Since then, we have collaborated with Züblin Timber to factory produce the CLT in panel form. The structural advantages, as well as visual and haptic qualities, are well-beyond those of standard softwood CLT. Last year, we completed Maggie’s Oldham, a cancer centre which utilises this new material. It is the first permanent building in the world made from hardwood CLT. The structure is the finish, and in some cases even the furniture.
Can you tell us a little bit about the significance of projects like Maggie’s Oldham?
The Maggie’s project is very close to our studio’s ethos when it comes to making architecture for people and the environment. We embrace Maggie’s ambition to create an architecture of hope and providing a space of comfort. The use of wood is part of a bigger intention to innovate the norms of healthcare architecture, where clinical institutionalised environments can make patients feel dispirited. In wood there is humanity, scale and warmth. Timber itself increases recovery times and reduces heart rates.
Maggie’s Oldham, image by Alex de Rijke
dRMM picked up the 2017 Stirling Prize for Hasting Pier. How important are awards for your practice?
Winning the Stirling Prize public vote and the jury vote for Hasting Pier was really satisfying. It’s popularity is exciting because the design principles were born out of discussion with the community. Winning confirms to us that we are prioritising the right aspects of design and architecture. I feel that highlighting exemplary projects is crucial to supporting further innovation.
Hastings Pier, image by Alex de Rijke
What is dRMM working on now in wood that you can tell us about?
We are always challenging the status quo of the construction industry and architectural typologies. The London Plan highlights the loss of industrial space in London, and as a design community we need to rethink how to densify use-classes and intensify workspace, in a way that allows neighbourliness to flourish. dRMM is currently working with the Greenwich Enterprise Board to develop a vertical stack of workshops in CLT. On this occasion the vertical stack functions as a sculptural grid, but the application of lightweight timber will allow for more complex mixed-use developments in the future.
Charlton WorkStack in Greenwich, image by Alex de Rijke
And finally, what are your thoughts on timber skyscrapers?
Although the race for increasing heights of timber buildings pushes innovation and increases visibility of timber construction in general, timber is not necessarily the right material to make very tall buildings. Hybrid solutions with steel and concrete, however, offer advantages in prefabrication, quality, and carbon sequestration. The question of our time is how we build dense and livable cities, which may or may not necessarily result in further tall structures.
Rundeskogen in Norway by dRMM and Helen Hard, image by Sindre Ellingsen
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Home ECONOMY BioMarin expands its Cork facility with €37m investment
BioMarin expands its Cork facility with €37m investment
Minister Simon Coveney welcomed the news
A LEADING drugs firm has confirmed a €40 million investment at their Cork plant with the creation of 51 new jobs.
BioMarin unveiled plans to develop a new drug product filling facility at their plant at Shanbally outside Ringaskiddy in Cork.
The investment will bring to BioMarin’s workforce to more than 400 people at Shanbally.
Tanaiste Simon Coveney said it was further proof of the attractive nature of Ireland for industrial investment.
BioMarin envisage that the investment will allow them cope with the global demand for treatments for rare genetic disorders impacting children.
“This announcement is an exciting development for BioMarin, a company which has thrived in the Cork biopharmaceutical cluster,” he said.
“This investment will not only bring opportunities for regional employment but also positive knock-on effects for the local economy.”
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“It demonstrates the success of the Government’s commitment under the Regional Action Plans for Jobs to provide quality jobs in regional locations. I congratulate BioMarin on their success to date and look forward to welcoming future announcements as they continue to further develop their plant here in Cork.”
Planning for the new BioMarin facility will be lodged with Cork Co Council within weeks.
During he building phase, more than 100 construction jobs will be created.
BioMarin’s Executive Vice-President, Robert Baffi said it was an exciting development for the firm.
“The introduction of fill finish capacity at Shanbally provides for fully integrated manufacturing from bulk to drug product onsite,” he said.
“During our seven years of operations at Shanbally we have seen tremendous growth at the site. This expansion assures that an increasing amount of our commercial products will be manufactured at the site.”
Executive Director of IDA Ireland Mary Buckley said it was further proof of the importance of Ireland’s pharmaceutical, chemical and biomedical industries.
“As a global leader in the manufacturing of treatments for rare diseases, the company has quickly gone from strength to strength in Ireland,” she said.
“The Shanbally operation is ideally positioned to accommodate this latest expansion due to the existing skill base and the proven track record of success in Cork over the past 7 years.”
“This high value investment in Cork further consolidates Ireland’s position globally as a location of choice for biopharmaceuticals.”
Since beginning operations in Shanbally in 2011, the company has grown to more than 400 people in Ireland and more than 2,600 employees globally.
Last year ago BioMarin completed an expanded warehouse, new administration and utilities offices, a canteen and conference facilities.
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Olympic runs: the best places to stay for the Games within easy reach of London
From punting on the river, exploring the grand university colleges and picnicking in the parks to dancing to live music at night, Cambridge gets a first for its attractions. This summer, there’s a Sculpture Promenade and Han China exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum (fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk) and sports-related exhibitions and events at the Cambridge and County Folk Museum (folkmuseum.org.uk).
The new Varsity Hotel (01223 306030, thevarsityhotel.co.uk, doubles from ?165) has a rooftop terrace with a cinema, a spa, and rooms with four-posters and Union Jack pouffes.
• 45mins to London’s King’s Cross station, or to Stratford for the Olympic Park (via Tottenham Hale) in around one hour 20 minutes
Oxford’s charms are similar to those of Cambridge: you can poke around the grand college buildings, go punting on the river, or embrace the nightlife, shopping, and burgeoning microbreweries trend – look out for pubs serving beers from the Compass, Shotover and White Horse breweries. There are two tastefully arty hotels in the centre: the Old Bank (01865 799599, oldbank-hotel.co.uk, limited availability, doubles ?132) and the Old Parsonage (01865 310210, oldparsonage-hotel.co.uk, doubles ?220).
• Paddington 55 minutes
The posh Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames is quintessentially English, boasting rowing regattas, historic pubs frequented by royals, manor houses and iron age forts nearby. The Hotel du Vin (0845 365 4438, hotelduvin.com, doubles from ?130) is a modern boutique hotel with a Georgian facade, just 50m from the riverbank.
• Paddington 58 minutes, via Twyford
The Cotswolds has dozens of picture-perfect honey-coloured villages, thatched inns, amazing restaurants, and posh farm and antiques shops. To randomly pick one of dozens of fabulous hotels, The Wheatsheaf Inn (01451 860244, cotswoldswheatsheaf.com, little weekend availability, doubles from ?130) in Northleach has hip decor and celebrity fans.
• Paddington to Kemble (20 minutes by taxi to Northleach) 1 hour 18 minutes
The city of St Albans, with its Roman museums, golf courses and children’s wildlife attractions, is also home to a 500-year-old country house hotel, St Michael’s Manor (01727 864444, stmichaelsmanor.com, doubles ?165), which is offering free taxis to the station during the Olympics.
• St Pancras 17 minutes
Vincent Van Gogh once walked from London to Old Welwyn to visit his sister, so it’s definitely within easy reach of the capital. The Welwyn area has several attractive country homes to hide away in, just like Elizabeth I did at nearby Hatfield. Only the Tudor banqueting hall of Hatfield Palace, and the wonderful gardens, remain, but on the site is Hatfield House (hatfield-house.co.uk), an example of superb Jacobean craftsmanship. In Datchworth, the Coltsfoot (01438 212800, coltsfoot.com, doubles ?139) has 15 suites, with exposed timbers. In Welwyn, the White Hart (01438 715353, thewhiteharthotel.net, doubles ?115) is a 17th-century coaching inn.
• Welwyn North to King’s Cross 27 minutes
Geoffrey Chaucer would recognise Canterbury today, from the towering cathedral – England’s oldest – ruined abbey, castle, churches and city walls. But the city these days also is a great shopping destination, and a hub for the arts. Head to the King’s Mile for quirky, independent shops and then catch a show at the Marlowe Theatre (marlowetheatre.com), which has a lovely riverside restaurant. The House of Agnes (01227 472185, houseofagnes.co.uk, limited availability, doubles from ?89) dates from the 13th century, with a walled garden, an honesty bar and a library.
• 56 minutes to London St Pancras
Chichi Whitstable and arty but kitsch Margate are the obvious Kentish coast options. Broadstairs is truly the British seaside: sandy beaches, Punch and Judy shows; fish and chips; ice-cream parlours and old-fashioned arcades among higgledy piggledly Victorian architecture; fishermen’s cottages and cobbled streets. Dickens holidayed there regularly for 20 years, and you can stay at Bleak House, where he wrote David Copperfield, on the cliffs overlooking Viking Bay. It has recently been restored and has four luxury bedrooms (01843 865 338, bleakhousebroadstairs.co.uk, doubles from ?195), plus tearooms and a smuggling museum in the basement. Or try Belvidere Place, a gorgeous contemporary boutique hotel (01843 579850, belvidereplace.co.uk, doubles from ?130).
• 1 hour 22 minutes to St Pancras
The most atmospheric area of elegant Tunbridge Wells is the Pantiles, a Georgian colonnade with specialist shops, restaurants and bars. Some B&Bs and attractions are offering discounts over the Olympic period – go to visittunbridgewells.com for details. The Brew House (01892 520587, thebrewhousehotel.net, doubles from ?75) brings gloss to a period building.
• Around 50 minutes to London Cannon Street or Charing Cross
Around Ashford – itself unlovely, but with good rail links from Ashford International – are country pubs, vineyards and several charming villages, such as Pluckley, where the Darling Buds of May was filmed. Just outside, Elvey Farm (01233 840442, elveyfarm.co.uk, doubles from ?135) has stylish rooms in the converted stables, barn, oast house and granary, surrounded by Kentish countryside. The top suite has exposed rafters and a hot tub. Tenterden is another very cute village, with a 10-mile steam train ride to Bodiam, the Chapel Down vineyard and bargain B&Bs (tenterdentown.co.uk).
• 35 minutes to St Pancras
With tons of fun on offer, Brighton is almost a (smaller) alternative to London. It’s great for foodies (especially vegetarians), party people, shoppers, the gay scene, kitsch fairground rides, arts and sports. There is masses of accommodation in the city too: top picks include Kemp Townhouse (01273 681400, kemptownhousebrighton.com, doubles from ?95), Drakes (01273 696934, drakesofbrighton.com, doubles from ?115, limited availability) and The Twenty One (01273 686450, thetwentyone.co.uk, limited availability, doubles from ?95). Neighbouring Hove is more chilled.
• London Victoria 52 minutes
East Sussex’s county town, Lewes, is also its best-looking, with unspoilt buildings in an idyllic setting along the banks of the River Ouse, flanked by rolling South Downs countryside, perfect for rambling. Stay at the Pelham House Hotel (01273 488600, pelhamhouse.com, doubles from ?190), a boutique hotel in a restored 16th-century townhouse with views over the Downs.
• Victoria 1 hour 10 minutes
East and West Sussex meet Surrey and Kent in East Grinstead, an ancient market town with 14th-century timber-framed buildings, a 17th-century almshouse and an imposing 18th-century church. Winnie-the-Pooh’s adventures took place in nearby Ashdown forest (ashdownforest.org), and the Bluebell Railway (bluebell-railway.co.uk) heritage line’s steam locomotives chug past. The best hotels are slightly out of town: Alexander House (01342 714914, alexanderhotels.co.uk, dinner, bed and breakfast ?159pp, a five-star country house hotel and spa, or Gravetye Manor (01342 810567, gravetyemanor.co.uk, limited weekend availability, doubles from ?290), a 16th-century house with lovely gardens.
• 55 minutes to Victoria
Colchester is Britain’s oldest recorded town and was once the capital of Roman Britain. Visitors can brush up on their history at the well-preserved castle and several museums. The North Hill Hotel (01206 574001, northhillhotel.com, doubles from ?64.50) has some cute beamed rooms with sloping ceilings; or try Trinity Town House B&B (01206 575955, trinitytownhouse.co.uk, doubles from ?75).
• Around 45 minutes to Stratford or London Liverpool Street.
Towards the coast, the new Life House Spa (01255 860050, lifehouse.co.uk, ?149) in Thorpe-le-Soken makes a really relaxing retreat from the city, and offers an array of treatments, gyms and fitness classes, a great pool, gorgeous gardens, creative health food and bikes to borrow to cycle to the sea.
• Free pick-up from Thorpe-le-Soken station. Trains to Stratford (1 hour 10 minutes) or Liverpool Street (1 hour 20)
Saffron Walden is a charming market town with medieval and Tudor buildings, small cafes and craft shops in the historic Rows streets, and the wonderful Bridge End Garden with its hedge maze and recreated Victorian gardens. Debden Antiques (http://www.debden-antiques.co.uk/find-us-i-4.html ) is a 17th-century barn with a fabulous collection from Persian rugs to decorative clocks, and outside town are some of England’s vineyards.The Cross Keys (01799 522207, theoldcrosskeys.co.uk, doubles from ?90) is a timber-framed pub with six new rooms featuring iPod docks and freestanding baths.
• Audley End (two miles from Saffron Walden) is 53 minutes from Liverpool Street)
Near the beautiful North Downs, a great area for walking or cycling, are gorgeous villages such as Sheer and Haslemere, and appealing towns such as Dorking, near to Box Hill, focal point for spectators in the Olympic road cycling, and the setting of scenes from Jane Austen’s Emma, near which you can stay at the Denbies Wine Estate (01306 876616, denbies.co.uk, fully booked during the cycling, otherwise available Monday to Thursday, doubles from ?98).
• London Waterloo is 50 minutes from both Dorking and Boxhill & Westhumble stations
Suffolk is a lovely county to explore, especially its old wool towns, once the focus of medieval England’s textile trade. Pretty Lavenham has historic buildings, a 16th-century guildhall, a “wool church”, antique shops and art galleries. The Old Rectory (01787 247 572, lavenham-old-rectory.co.uk, doubles from ?225) is a stunning Georgian house with cosy pastel-coloured rooms with modern bathrooms, and three acres of gardens. Or in the centre, The Swan (01787 247477, theswanatlavenham.co.uk, doubles from ?195) has a real sense of history with its timber beams, leaded windows and medieval wall hangings, but modern furnishings. Other notable villages nearby include Long Melford and Stoke By Nayland, where The Crown (01206 262 001, crowninn.net, limited availability, doubles ?120) is a revamped inn with luxury rooms.
• Colchester is a 30-minute taxi ride from Lavenham; direct trains from Colchester to Stratford take 45 minutes
With a 900-year-old cathedral, quaint shopping streets and a medieval Great Hall, Winchester is a stunning historic base among rolling countryside. Day trips could be to Laverstoke Farm (laverstokepark.co.uk) Portsmouth, Southampton, Jane Austen’s home in Chawton, or even the Isle of Wight. In town, the Hotel du Vin (01962 841414, hotelduvin.com, doubles from ?145) is set in an early Georgian building dating from 1715.
• One hour to Waterloo
Pangbourne is a pretty village on the river Thames with views of the Chiltern Hills, and for a day trip, Basildon Park (nationaltrust.org.uk), an 18th-century Palladian mansion with 400 acres of parkland. The Elephant (0118 984 2244, elephanthotel.co.uk, doubles ?40 during the Olympics, limited availability) is an opulent Empire-themed hotel in the village.
• London Paddington 51 minutes
Windsor is a must for many tourists, with its palace, Great Park or – for kids – Legoland (legoland.co.uk). With the rowing at nearby Dorney, it’s busy for the Olympics, but try staywindsor2012.co.uk for a list. Alternatively, not far away is glorious Stoke Place (01753 534790, stokeplace.co.uk, doubles from ?105), a beautifully decorated classic Georgian boutique hotel in Stoke Poges, famous for Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
• Windsor-Paddington 29 minutes; Gerrards Cross-London Marylebone 25 minutes
The hills and woodlands of the Chilterns form a beautiful area for walks and country pubs. You could base yourself in Great Missenden, a quaint village where Roald Dahl lived and which is home to a museum about his work (roalddahlmuseum.org). The Nags Head Inn (01494 862200, nagsheadbucks.com, doubles from ?140, not 28-30 July) is a transformed 15th-century inn doing Anglo-French food. Walk from Princes Risborough to Wendover and you’ll pass Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat. Or book a stay at stunningly stylish The Crown (01494 431283, thecrownamersham.com, doubles from ?95, not 4 August) in Amersham – it’s hard to believe you can reach somewhere so rural and lovely on the tube, yet it’s the last stop at the western end of the Metropolitan line.
• 46 minutes to Marylebone from Great Missenden; 50 minutes on the Metropolitan line from Amersham to Baker Street, or 39 minutes by overground train to Marylebone
All prices and availability correct for the Olympics period at time of going to press. Fastest train times quoted; check nationalrail.co.uk for delays/disruptions during the Games
• This article was amended on 30 June to correct the sentence which stated Hastings and Rye are in Kent. They are in East Sussex
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Volume 8, Issue 3 (12-2006)
2006, 8(3): 249-257 Back to browse issues page
Prediction of cardiovascular disease by metabolic syndrome in individuals aged over 40 yrs according to the ATP III and IDF definition: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Introduction: Different results have been reported on the association between metabolic syndrome (MS) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The aim of this study is to determine the role of the Adult Treatment Cholesterol Program (ATP III) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definitions of metabolic syndrome in predicting CVD. Material and Methods: In this cohort study, all individuals aged over 40 yrs, phase I participants of the TLGS, with no histories of CVD were selected. Based on the APT III and IDF criteria of the MS syndrome, they were divided into those with and those without the condition. All of the subjects were followed for a mean duration of 4.9±0.8 years for occurrence of CVD. The predictive ability of different definitions of the MS was evaluated in different regression models that included only the MS (model 1) and were also adjusted for age, sex, family history of premature CVD and smoking (model 2), serum LDL (model 3) and other components of the MS (model 4). Results: There were 3777 individuals’ aged 54±10 years 1536 (41%) where normal according to the both criteria of the MS and 1714 (45%) and 1900 (50%) subjects had MS according to the ATP III and IDF criteria respectively. New CVD occurred in 143 individuals (3.7%). In our study, the MS was the predictor of CVD in the first three models according to ATP III and IDF criteria however, in model 4, none of the definitions of MS predicted CVD. After calculation of the area under the curve (AUC) for model 2 and 3, it was observed that the power of the ATP III criteria in model 2 for prediction of CVD was significantly higher than the IDF (AUC 0.760 vs. 0.735, p<0.001) but no significant difference was observed between the 2 criteria in model 3. Conclusion: The ATP III and IDF definitions of the MS, it seems can similarly predict CVD after adjustment for the common CVD risk factors and LDL, whereas neither of the 2 definitions had this predictive power after adjustment of their components in addition to the earlier mentioned ones.
Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, ATP III, IDF, Cardiovascular events
Type of Study: Original | Subject: Endocrinology
Received: 2007/02/13
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Prediction of cardiovascular disease by metabolic syndrome in individuals aged over 40 yrs according to the ATP III and IDF definition: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. Iranian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2006; 8 (3) :249-257
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PRE – RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP – Message for employees within the next six months
CG News02:30Anubhav, Government Employees, Indian Government News, Pension, Pension Portal Orders, Pensioners, Pensioners Issue, PRE - RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP No comments:
PRE – RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP ON 29 APRIL 2015
PRE – RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP
Important message for employees retiring within the next six months
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare is organizing a Pre-retirement counselling workshop on 29th April, 2015 from 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM in the Lecture Room-II, India International Centre Annexe, 40, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi-110003.
The employees of Government of India retiring within the next six months and who have not attended the workshop yet are hereby informed that they may attend the workshop. Confirmation with Name, Ministry & Phone No. may be sent at the email address mkumar.mol@nic.in. The persons desirous of attending the workshop are also requested to bring their PAN and Aadhar No.
A write-up on the Commendable works done by the retiring employee during his entire service is also required to upload the same on ‘ANUBHAV’ on website persmin.nic.in/pension.asp
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Money Order Service Continues with Addition of Online Money Transfer
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The Department of Posts has denied some media reports that its Money Order service has been discontinued. The Money Order service continues to be available to the common man at the same service charge with the same facility of the money being delivered at the door step of the addressee. The Department in a clarification further said that this service had been made more reliable and fast by communicating information about the money to be transferred electronically between the booking and delivery post office. Thus, the money reaches faster to the addressee. The nature of service remains the same and it is also being called an electronic Money Order or eMO.
Department of Posts also has another service offering instant online Money transfer service called as Instant Money Order (iMO), where the receiver can receive payment in cash through Post Office.
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IRCTC plans to reduce the payment transaction time about 1.5 to 2.5 minutes per ticket booking online
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15% of online rail tickets booked from Bihar
Patna (PBNE): The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) created a record on April 1 by booking about 13 lakh e-tickets on its site, www.irctc.co.in. Normally, 5 to 6 lakh tickets are booked online from the IRCTC site every day. Bihar has become a major state accounting for about 15% e-tickets being booked daily.
According to IRCTC manager Sandip Dutta, Patna and Darbhanga are the leading places in Bihar for booking e-tickets these days. Interestingly, Bihar and UP are the major states from where online tickets are being booked from rural areas yielding good revenue to the railways, he said, adding the maximum number of e-ticket service agents in rural areas are also in these two states.
Dutta said out of 13 lakh e-tickets booked on April 1, about 15% were from Bihar alone. About 1.5 lakh people in Bihar book e-tickets every day. Buoyed by the increase in the online ticket booking system, the IRCTC has planned measures to providing better services to its customers duly registered with its site www. irctc.co.in, he said.
Railways online ticket reservation through the IRCTC site has registered a big increase compared to about 40,000 bookings per day in 2008, sources said. According to sources, the IRCTC has been making all possible efforts to expand its network to other private sectors.
Confirming the rush for the IRCTC site for ticket booking either online or through SMS system, the IRCTC senior official said, “The IRCTC has managed to maintain its lead position in the domestic travel ticket bookings. But it is keen to make its portal a ‘one-stop shop’ for planning tours and other services,” he said. According to sources, the IRCTC, a Railways’ wing, has already become an agent of International Air Transport Association (IATA). The IRCTC has tied up with Air India and Jet Airways to provide services to passengers, sources said.
The IRCTC ticket business constitutes about 40% of its total revenue. It is also planning to reduce the payment transaction time which is about 1.5 to 2.5 minutes per ticket booking online.
Read more at: Times of India
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Category: Manners of Greeting with Salaam
Is it bid’ah for a person who is already there to say salaam to one who has just arrived?
With regards to greeting salaam. I have notice some muslim people don't greet salaam when they arrive so it prompted me to greet them salaam which is the opposite of what should be. My question is am I doing bidaa because of this (greeting salaam to the person who arrives who does not say salaam).. did I sin and second thing should I greet next time with salaam a person who just arrive with he / she didn't say salaam.
Does shaking hands with one’s sister-in-law (wife’s sister) break wudoo’?
Ruling on shaking hands with one’s mother’s maternal aunt
The Sunnah is for one who is walking to greet one who is sitting, and for one who is riding to great one who is walking, and for the younger to greet the older, and for one who is coming in to greet the people who are in a place, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“But when you enter the houses, greet one another with a greeting from Allaah (i.e. say: As‑Salaamu ‘Alaykum — peace be on you), blessed and good”
[al-Noor 24:61]
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The one who is riding should greet the one who is walking, and the one who is walking should greet the one who is sitting, and the smaller group should greet the larger group.” Al-Bukhaari, 6234; Muslim, 2160. According to a report narrated by al-Bukhaari: “One who is passing should greet one who is sitting.”
It is well known that initiating the greeting of salaam is Sunnah and is mustahabb (encouraged), and responding is waajib (obligatory).
If the one who is coming in does not say salaam, but the one who is in the house does say it, or if the one who is walking does not say salaam but the one who is sitting does say it, there is nothing wrong with that, rather he has done something good and has fulfilled the Sunnah of salaam, and the other one is obliged to respond.
Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Note that initiating the greeting of salaam is Sunnah and mustahabb, but not obligatory. It is Sunnah on the basis of kafaayah (a communal Sunnah). If it is a group that is giving the greeting, it is sufficient for one of them to say the salaam, but if all of them say salaam, that is better… As for returning the greeting, if it is one person that is greeted, he is obliged, on an individual basis, to return the greeting, but if it is a group then responding to the greeting is a communal obligation (fard kafaayah) for them; if one of them responds, then there is no blame on the others, but if all of them fail to respond, then all of them have sinned. If they all return the greeting, this is best. This is the view of our companions and it is clear and good. End quote from al-Adhkaar, p. 356
Then he (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Chapter on etiquette and issues of greeting with salaam. It is narrated in Saheeh al-Bukhaari and Saheeh Muslim that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The one who is riding should greet the one who is walking, the one who is walking should greet the one who is sitting, and the smaller group should greet the larger group.” According to a report narrated by al-Bukhaari: “The younger should greet the older, and the one who is walking should greet the one who is sitting, and the smaller group should greet the larger group.”
Our companions and other scholars said: What is mentioned here is the Sunnah, but if they do it differently and one who is walking greets one who is riding or one who is sitting greets one who is riding or walking, that is not makrooh. This was clearly stated by Imam Abu Sa’d al-Mutawalli and others. Based on this, it is not makrooh for a large group to greet a smaller group first, or for an older person to greet a younger person first. End quote from al-Adhkaar, p. 369
Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar narrated that al-Maaziri said: If one who is walking initiates the greeting and says salaam to one who is riding, that does not mean that he is not following the command to spread the greeting of salaam, but paying attention to what is proven in the hadeeth is better. It is mustahabb to give the greeting in the manner prescribed, but not doing what is mustahabb is not necessarily makrooh, rather it is contrary to what is best. If the one who is enjoined to initiate the greeting fails to do so, and the other one initiates it, then the one who was enjoined has failed to do something mustahabb and the other one has done something that is Sunnah unless he hastened to do it, in which case he has also failed to do something that is mustahabb. End quote from Fath al-Baari, 11/17
The phrase “unless he hastened to do it, in which case he has also failed to do something that is mustahabb” means that the one who is in the house, for example, should not hasten to say salaams to one who is coming in, rather he should give him time to say the salaam, then if he does not do so, the one who is in the house should greet him with salaam.
Conclusion: If you say salaam to the one who enters upon you but does not say salaam, this is not a bid’ah or a sin, rather it is reviving the Sunnah and spreading love, so long as you do not hasten to do that, rather you should give the one who is coming in time to greet you with salaam, then if he does not do that, you should say the salaam in that case.
If there is no one in the house should he still say salaam?
Ruling on greeting women with salaam and returning their greeting
The importance of saying salaam and returning the greeting
When should a person make the intention to fast, and what if he finds out during the day that Ramadan has begun?
Ruling on women visiting graves
The proper way to make du’aa’ during prayer
If her period begins before sunset, even if it is just a moment before, her fast is invalidated and she has to make it up.
What are the rulings on ‘aqeeqah for a baby boy?
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Category: Kind Treatment of Spouses
Obeying one’s husband comes before obeying one’s parents and siblings
how important is a husband to his wife, are her sisters more important than husband, who should she listen to, how up on the importance ladder does husband comes. is husband more important than her own parents and sisters.
Should he go back and live in a kaafir country?
What is the reward for spouses treating one another kindly?
The Qur’aan and Sunnah indicate that the husband has a confirmed right over his wife, and that she is commanded to obey him, treat him well and put obedience to him above obedience to her parents and brothers. Indeed, he is her paradise and her hell. For example, Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allaah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means”
[al-Nisa’ 4:34]
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is not permissible for a woman to fast when her husband is present except with his permission, or to allow anyone in his house without his permission.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 4899.
Al-Albaani (may Allaah have mercy on him) said, commenting on this hadeeth: Since it is obligatory for a woman to obey her husband with regard to his satisfying his desire, it is more appropriate that it be obligatory for her to obey him in that which is more important than that, namely raising their children, guiding the family, and other rights and duties.
From Adaab al-Zafaaf, p. 282
Ibn Hibbaan narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If a woman prays her five (daily prayers), fasts her month (Ramadaan), guards her chastity and obeys her husband, it will be said to her: ‘Enter Paradise from whichever of the gates of Paradise you wish.’” Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, no. 660.
Ibn Maajah (1853) narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Abi Awfa said: When Mu’aadh came from Syria, he prostrated to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) who said, “What is this, O Mu'aadh?” He said, I went to Syria and saw them prostrating to their archbishops and patriarchs, and I wanted to do that for you. The Messenger of Allaah (S) said, “Do not do that. If I were to command anyone to prostrate to anyone other than Allaah, I would have commanded women to prostrate to their husbands. By the One in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, no woman can fulfil her duty towards Allaah until she fulfils her duty towards her husband. If he asks her (for intimacy) even if she is on her camel saddle, she should not refuse.”
Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.
Ahmad (19025) and al-Haakim narrated from al-Husayn ibn Muhsin that his paternal aunt came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) for something and he dealt with her need, then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do you have a husband?” She said, “Yes.” He said: “How are you with him?” She said, “I do not neglect any of his rights except those I am unable to fulfil.” He said: “Look at how you are with him, for he is your paradise and your hell” – i.e., he is the cause of you entering Paradise if you fulfil his rights and the cause of your entering Hell if you fall short in that.
Al-Mundhiri classed the isnaad of this hadeeth as jayyid in al-Targheeb wa’l-Tarheeb; it was classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Targheeb wa’l-Tarheeb, no. 1933.
If there is a conflict between obedience to one’s husband and obedience to one’s parents, then obedience to one’s husband takes priority. Imam Ahmad (may Allaah have mercy on him) said concerning a woman who has a husband and a sick mother: Obeying her husband is more obligatory upon her than (taking care of) her mother, unless he gives her permission. (Sharh Muntaha al-Iraadaat, 3/47).
In al-Insaaf (8/362) it says: She does not have to obey her parents with regard to leaving her husband or visiting etc., rather obedience to the husband takes priority.
There is a hadeeth concerning this issue which was narrated by al-Haakim from ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) who said: I asked the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), “Who has the most right over a woman?” He said: “Her husband.” I said, “Who has the most right over a man?” He said, “His mother.”
But this is a weak (da’eef) hadeeth, which was classed as such by al-Albaani in Da’eef al-Targheeb wa’l-Tarheeb, 1212, and he criticized al-Mundhiri for classing it as hasan.
Can Muslims settle in kaafir countries for the sake of a better life?
Can he force his family to move far away from him so that they will not live in a kaafir land?
What is the ruling on a man having intercourse with his pregnant wife?
Celebrating birthdays is not allowed
Ruling on marrying cousins
Celebrating the night of the Isra’ and Mi’raaj
Meaning of the word Pokemon
Medical benefits of female circumcision
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Category: Voluntary Prayers
Virtue of praying four rak’ahs before and after Zuhr
I read in a religious publication that whoever prays four rak’ahs before Zuhr prayer and four rak’ahs after it, Allaah will ransom him from the Fire on the Day of Resurrection. If this is true, when should I pray the Sunnah of Zuhr prayer?.
Ruling on praying Witr in the same way as Maghrib
A non-Muslim is asking why Sunnah prayers are offered before the obligatory prayers
Yes, it is mustahabb to pray four rak’ahs before Zuhr prayer and four after it. Al-Nasaa’i (1817) and al-Tirmidhi (428) narrated from Umm Habeebah (may Allaah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever prays four (rak’ahs) before Zuhr and four after it, the Fire will not touch him.”
The version narrated by al-Tirmidhi says: “Whoever regularly performs four rak’ahs before Zuhr and four after it, Allaah will forbid him to the Fire.”
The hadeeth was classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Nasaa’i.
These rak’ahs are not something different than the regular Sunnah (Sunnah raatibah) of Zuhr prayer, rather they are the regular Sunnah.
But what is certain and should not be abandoned under any circumstances is praying four rak’ahs before Zuhr and two rak’ahs after it. As for doing four rak’ahs after it, if a person does that following this hadeeth, then he has done the Sunnah and Allaah will reward him, but if he limits it to two rak’ahs, that is sufficient.
The time for offering the Sunnah prayer before Zuhr is between the adhaan of Zuhr and the obligatory prayer.
The time for offering the Sunnah prayer after Zuhr is from after Zuhr prayer until the adhaan of ‘Asr.
Should he do more tawaaf or more prayers in al-Masjid al-Haraam?
Is there a text that limits “greeting the mosque” to the first three rows of the mosque?
Al Sunnan Al Rawatib (Sunnah Prayers associated with Fardh Prayers)
Ruling on covering the face, with detailed evidence
What is the best way to treat anxiety?
Differences in Prayer for Men and Women
Qunoot during salaah
Are the five daily prayers mentioned in the Qur'aan?
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JUDGE MARY BARZEE NOMINATED TO FEDERAL COURT
BREAKING NEWS ..............
JUDGE MARY BARZEE FLORES HAS BEEN NOMINATED TO THE FEDERAL BENCH
Numerous news agencies are reporting that President Barack Obama has nominated Barzee Flores to an open seat in the Southern District of Florida. (This is the open seat from when Robin Rosenbaum was elevated from the District Court bench to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit).
Judge Barzee started her career as an associate with the law firm of Sonnett, Sale & Kuehne and she worked there for two years before becoming an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1990 - 2003. She then ran unopposed for Circuit Court Judge in 2002 and won a seat on the Circuit bench in Miami-Dade County and served there from 2003 - 2011. (She won reelection in 2008 without opposition). While on the bench, she served in both the Criminal Division and the General Jurisdiction Division as well as having the honor to sit by designation on the 4th DCA. She resigned from the bench and joined the law firm of Stearns, Weaver where she concentrates her practice in commercial litigation and arbitration. She also serves as a private judge, arbitrator, special master, and umpire in appraisal disputes. She is a UM law school graduate.
The two finalists who did not make the cut were U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer and Circuit Court Judge Peter Lopez.
Good luck to Judge Barzee as she makes her way inside the beltway and through the confirmation process.
CAPTAIN OUT .......
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
Posted by CAPTAIN JUSTICE at 5:27 PM
Labels: Federal Judge, Judge Mary Barzee, President Obama
F'ING SORRY
When we last left the Honorable Jacqueline Schwartz (Motto" Last names matter") she had told the supporter of her opponent "F*&K YOU" literally and after winning he election, "F%#K YOU" figuratively to Miami's Latin Community. Here's the recap of her insulting the Cuban Community and her apology. Basically, after winning a contentious race where she cursed like a sailor, she reflected on her victory by saying "that voters had "gone past the days when any nondescript Hispanic could go on the ballot and defeat any Anglo sitting judge."
We covered the most infamous judicial victory speech here.
Now the Florida Supreme Court will publicly reprimand Judge Schwartz. For those of you not familiar with a public reprimand, the Supreme Court summons the offending judge to Tallahassee where basically they yell at her and ask "what the F%^K were you thinking?"
How will this all play out?
No F'ing idea.
See You in F'ing court.
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/11/miami-dade-judge-apologizes-for-saying-she-defeated-nondescript-hispanic.html#storylink=cpy
Labels: Judge Jacqueline Schwartz
ASTOUNDING COURT NEWS
There was a Florida Supreme Court workshop on Courts today in Miami. Judge Soto was there. So were a host of other judges. The public participated, mostly asking questions about how and why they got screwed in their particular case, which of course the judges couldn't answer.
Here is the startling news to come out of the workshop: (steady now) The court system is out of money, it works inefficiently, and the technology is thirty years old.
Yup, that is a big blow for most of you to read, but the truth will out no matter how difficult to hear.
ELECTRONIC FILING.
Electronic filing is the glaring example of Florida court system incompetence that we cannot figure out.
Roughly a decade ago the federal court system went to electronic filing. There are also electronic dockets. Anyone with access to the CM/ECF system can access any case and see any document (that hasn't been sealed) that has been filed. The government files discovery electronically, a sample of which we have included below.
As much as we hate to say it, the Fed system works. You can file the same document in Dallas, as in Miami, or anywhere else in the federal system and you file it the same way (except in Dallas where your pleadings have to include "y'all").
With this template before it, Florida apparently ignored the Feds. We understand the sentiment, but in this case Florida ignored the Feds to their detriment. Couldn't Florida have hired the same software developers? The biggest flaw in the Florida system is that the documents are not accessible. So If you come late into a case you can't simply go on-line and download the documents to get up to speed. The Florida system looks cheap, it acts clunky, there is this ridiculous requirement that if you don't enter the exact number of pages in the document the system makes you start all over. Overall, Florida bought a "compuserve" system in an Apple world. Or put another way, Florida has a rotary phone system in an iPhone world. Or put another way, they got ripped off and screwed. But that's technical legal jargon, better left for the civil blogs to discuss.
Basically, the Feds got it right and we dropped the ball. Ouch. There. We said it.
See you in court.
Here's an example of the wonderful discovery that you get in federal court, not including Jenks material, which as we all know must be disclosed within two dozen years after the verdict.
Labels: E-Filing.
ON A DIME
Life turns on a dime. The pages of this blog in the new year have shown a much, as a seemingly never-ending litany of death an illnesses are recounted day after day.
From noted neurologist and NY Times contributor Oliver Sacks:
A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver...but now I am face to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third of my liver, and though its advance may be slowed, this particular sort of cancer cannot be halted. It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can…
Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life.On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world. But there will be time, too, for some fun (and even some silliness, as well).
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. I shall no longer look at “NewsHour” every night. I shall no longer pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming.
A beloved judge falls ill and has a serious operation and is hopefully recovering. Judge Morton Perry lives a long and productive life before passing away this year. Ditto for Judge Marshal Ader. And yet every so often we walk into the courtroom on the sixth floor once occupied by Judges Manny Crespo and Rob Pinero and we remember that there are no guarantees. The days of our lives are not fixed by anything other than….what? Luck? Happenstance? Providence?
How can we believe in Providence when we recall the case of the innocent child cut down by the bullet meant for the drug dealer? The Miami Dade Police officer murdered in his car in a tragic case of mistaken identity? The family killed by a drunk driver, when leaving the house five minutes earlier or later would have avoided the confluence of lives and tragedies?
Is Dr. Sacks lucky to be able to confront his mortality? Are the precious days in which he will squeeze every ounce of juicy life worth the fear of the near, impending end? Or does the certainty remove the fear?
Questions; we have thousands. Answers; we have few.
It may sound trite, but we know this: in the end it is the quality of the life you live, not the quantity. The stand taken for principal. Character is celebrated when a small woman won't go to the back of the bus. But real character is what you do when no one is looking; when you pause as you rush to your next case and hold the door for the overburdened woman pushing a stroller or stop and spend a minute to assure an elderly woman that her grandson will be released shortly, or the money you slip into the hands of a hungry person, or the anonymous donation you make to the charity. There are the smiles on the face of children when the work you have done results in their father or mother walking through the door of home that night. The teenager who completes drug court after you refused to give up on her and the parent who can do no more than say a heartfelt "thank you" when she has her daughter back.
This is life. Not the life of your family, but the life of our work, and it is what we do that hopefully, when the end arrives, will allow us to say we took our skills and made a difference. That we squeezed from life every last ounce of juice and drank deeply and with satisfaction. It is what, we think and hope, will allow Dr. Sacks to live these last months, and hopefully more, with a smile on his face.
Posted by Rumpole at 9:44 AM
This email went out today.
Friends & colleagues, many of you have been inquiring about our good friend Stan. Stan underwent a very lengthy robotic surgery at UM for oral throat cancer, the surgery went very well, and in about 6 weeks he will undergo intense radiation therapy. Stan is still in ICU, and will be at UM for the balance of the week. Obviously he has taken a leave of absence from the Family Bench. I spoke to him this morning, and he is upbeat and positive, and sends thanks to all of his well wishers for their prayers and support. Feel free to email him gatorjudge13@gmail.com, since talking is difficult for now. Best, Bruce
Labels: Judge Stan Blake
GEORGIA AYERS HAS DIED
Miami activist who helped found the Alternatives program- Georgia Ayers, has passed away. The Herald Obit is here.
Ayers commanded the attention of local judges, city officials, public defenders and the media.
“Mrs. Ayres was one of Miami's most influential civil rights activists who worked tirelessly to guide troubled young people away from the criminal justice system and encouraged them to lead productive lives. Her work as the founder of the Alternative Program will always be remembered as well as her contributions to Miami-Dade County’s history,” said Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez in a statement.
If four of the best words a baseball fan can hear is "pitchers and catchers report", then the two best words in the English language- first place obviously being "NOT" & "GUILTY" are "Play Ball."
Pitchers and catchers reported yesterday. Opening day is not that far away.
Great job by the Captain getting Judge Emas to write about his memories of Irwin Block.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article10523009.html#storylink=cpy
Labels: Georgia Ayers
IRWIN BLOCK HAS DIED
IRWIN BLOCK HAS DIED ............... Services at 3PM today.
On July 31, 1963, two gas stations attendants were murdered in Port St. Joe, Florida, a small town located in the Panhandle of the State. Within hours, the Gulf County Sheriff's Office had arrested Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee. Pitts and Lee were indicted on two counts of First Degree Murder. On August 28, 1963, Judge W.L. Fitzpatrick sentenced both men to death.
You did not read that incorrectly folks. It took 28 days from the day the crime was committed until the date that the death sentence was ordered.
For most of the next decade, a young attorney by the name of Irwin J. Block took on the cause of Pitts and Lee, pro bono, in a case that all Criminal Law 101 law students now study. Block, along with Former Miami-Dade Public Defender Phillip Hubbart represented Pitts and Lee before the 1st DCA, the Florida Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court; they also represented the two defendants in their 1972 retrial, (where they were again found guilty), and didn't stop fighting for the two men until Governor Ruben Askew pardoned both men in 1975.
The Miami Herald summed it up best by saying of Block: "He was one of South Florida's most highly sought defense attorneys, a legal legend who helped get two black men off Florida death row in a 1963 murder they didn't commit." Block also represented Clarence Gideon for a period of time as part of his work with the ACLU.
We did not know Irwin Block personally, but 3rd DCA Judge Kevin Emas did. We asked Judge Emas if he could provide us with some personal words. Here they are, unedited:
Captain: I had the privilege of working with Irwin for six years while I was at Fine Jacobson Schwartz Nash Block and England. Here are a few thoughts. Thanks for doing this.
Mr. Block
Irwin Block was old school. 87 years old and still going to work. He loved the law. He loved being a lawyer. He loved being a trial lawyer. And make no mistake about it. Irwin was not a litigator. He was a trial lawyer. And he was extraordinary in trial. Even opposing counsel in a trial would sometimes find themselves becoming spectators, watching with admiration as Irwin held the witness and the jury in the palm of his hand.
Many of you know that Irwin Block (together with Phil Hubbart) represented Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two black men charged with murder in St. Joe, Florida in 1963. As a result of the efforts of Irwin and Phil, and those of Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Gene Miller, Pitts and Lee were pardoned after twelve years on death row for murders they did not commit.
Irwin Block was involved in many high-profile cases over the course of his exceptional career. But for all his talents as a trial lawyer, Irwin was a humble man. He never sought the limelight, and bristled at the notion that he should ever be honored for just doing his job. But honored he was, including the American Jewish Congress’ Judge Learned Hand Award, History Miami's Legal Legend Award, and the DCBA’s David W. Dyer Professionalism Award.
Irwin was more interested in fighting for clients than fighting for causes. Old school indeed. He taught me much about being a trial lawyer. I’ll never forget his cardinal rule: “You can’t always outsmart the other side. But you can always out-prepare them.” As good as he was in trial, he was even better in pretrial strategy, motions and deposition. He won hundreds of cases that would never see the light of a courtroom because of the damage he had done in deposition and pretrial motions. Irwin left a legacy of excellence. Each of us who knew him, who worked for him, who worked with him, who learned from him, has a profound respect that is difficult to explain in words. But here’s just one example: Nearly every lawyer who worked with him, even after leaving the firm and establishing their own successful practice, would continue to call him Mr. Block when they saw him. They felt it somehow disrespectful to call him anything else. (I must confess that my first draft referred to him only as Mr. Block. I hope he will forgive this final version.)
I’m not just a better lawyer for having known Mr. Block. I’m a better person for having known Mr. Block.
A celebration of his life will be held on Monday February 16th at 3 PM at Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, 1115 Jog Road, Boynton Beach, FL - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald/obituary.aspx?n=irwin-j-block&pid=174159601&fhid=5131#sthash.FEeVtFpE.dpuf
A celebration of life will take place on Monday, February 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM at Beth Israel Memorial Chapel located at 1115 Jog Road, Boynton Beach. Block was 87 years old.
His obits can be found here and here.
A celebration of his life will be held on Monday, February 16th at 3 PM at Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, located at 1115 Jog Road, Boynton Beach.
CAPTAIN OUT .............
He was known as someone with impeccable ethics and the highest level of professionalism and spent his career fighting for civil rights. He received numerous awards during his law career, including the David Dyer Professionalism Award (2011), the Judge Learned Hand Award (1989), the Dade County Bar Association Criminal Justice Award (1990) and the Metropolitan Dade County Florida Certificate of Appreciation. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald/obituary.aspx?n=irwin-j-block&pid=174159601&fhid=5131#sthash.FEeVtFpE.dpuf
Posted by CAPTAIN JUSTICE at 1:05 AM
Labels: Irwin Block, Judge Kevin Emas, Pitts & Lee
ROCK-A-ROBIN
Continuing our theme on social media and forgiveness, we highlight a NY Times Magazine article this week: "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life".
The highlights in case you missed it as it unfolded:
Justine Sacco was 30 years old, a NY'er, and senior director of corporate communications for IAC. Flying on her way to South Africa to meet her family, and clearly punchy from dozens of hours of airports and airplanes, she engaged in a series of dopey tweets like this: "Chilly- cucumber sandwiches- bad teeth- Back In London!" There was another one complaining about the body odor of a German gentleman in first class, and then finally, as she boarded her flight to South Africa and the last leg of her trip, the tweet that changed her life (for the worse) forever: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get Aids. Just Kidding. I'm White!"
By the time she landed, her twitter account was the number one trending account on Twitter world wide. Her phone had blown up. A high school friend she hadn't heard from in years texted her "I'm so sorry for you." The Twitter-universe arranged for other tweeters to be at the airport and snap pictures of her in the terminal. In short order she was fired, shunned, and pretty much had ruined her professional career in the blink of an eye.
It was a stupid tweet, no doubt. But what happened to her, and the magazine article lists a few other shocking examples of social media wreaking people's lives, should cause anyone to think twice before ever tweeting or posting anything on Facebook beyond a picture of a puppy and a kitten sleeping together.
Who amongst us hasn't put their foot in their mouth? We remember that intense argument that unfolded in front of a federal judge a decade ago where in the heat of the moment we blurted out (to the judge) "just shut up for a moment"!. Whoops. The judge was a friend and actually leaned back in his/her chair and laughed and we took a break and of course we apologized and life went on.
But what if a media outlet was covering the case and went with the headline on Twitter or Facebook "Lawyer tells judge to shut up!" ?? Would we have had to face that reputation in court for the next decade or so?
Isn't our authoring of this blog enough to wreck our professional reputation when we reveal ourselves ?(To recap, we have agreed to reveal our identity upon appointment to any court at the level of the 3rd DCA or higher, win the lottery, or retire, resign from the Bar, and move out of state. Don't expect a revelation anytime soon.)
Like our previous post on the Brian Williams saga averred, there is a vicious and perverse pleasure people take in using the anonymity of the internet to destroy other people for the slightest comment, tweet, or post, that does not completely conform to the norms of our social ethics. It's why we had the foresight to start this blog anonymously several years ago.
So be forewarned. That Tweet about the size of someone's ankles, that Facebook page relaying the stupid joke you heard in the bar ten minutes ago after your fifth shot of tequila, may well end your career. Something to think about.
No court tomorrow.
It's a long way from the hallowed halls of clerking for a federal judge and the appellate division of the US Attorneys Office to the rough and tumble of the REGJB.
Some people can take the rough and tumble and others crumble and flee for civil court or a quiet practice in a big firm.
Judge Luck earned his stripes On Thursday when a mentally ill defendant attacked him and gave him a scratch and a lump on the back of the head.
Tough Luck.
Ricardo Garganelly. Unlucky. Attacked Judge Luck.
The Herald and Ovalle have the article here.
After the attack, Luck went to the sidelines where the trainer gave him some smelling salts, cleaned him up and then the Judge re-took the bench. Luck is tough. But tough in a good way. We're glad the judge is OK. He's been on the bench a while now, and in fact he has a campaign website up and running here for his retention which we heartily endorse. But you're never really an REGB judge until you've ducked a few punches or some contraband thrown at you while you're on the bench. Well done judge. Well done indeed- and we're glad you're ok.
Labels: Judge Robert Luck
What is it with apologies these days? They're never good enough.
NBC News Anchor Brian Williams makes misstatements (here come the comments, so let us do it for you: "he lied", "he dishonored veterans", "we can't trust a journalist who lies", etc) about his experience in Iraq. Williams admits his mistake, calls it a "conflation" of two events, and Twitter and social media explode in a frenzy to the point where NBC has to suspend him for six months.
Shouldn't "I'm sorry" be enough?
Not in 2014.
We say "Dwight David Eisenhower" and you think: "President", "Supreme Allied Commander in WWII", made the call of the century to send the D-Day forces in when his weathermen told him there would be a break in the weather sufficient to land his army.
Do you think "Kay Summers" the young aide he had an affair with? Nope. That happened in 1942-44.
We say "General David Petraeus" and you think…"Iraq & Afghanistan" commander; "Head of the CIA", "resigned in disgrace after having an affair."
As commander of the 101st Airborne Division, Petraeus was awarded the Bronze Star with the coveted "V" meaning with Valor for his command decisions under fire during Operation Iraqi freedom in 2003. But we remember Petraeus not for his competency or his heroics, but his foible in having an affair.
Why do we today seek to drive any person of talent out of the Public Arena when their human foibles are exposed?
Does having a marital affair disqualify you from leading troops in battle or heading a governmental agency, or being President or a member of the cabinet?
Should Brian Williams' misstatements about his experiences in Iraq or Hurricane Katrina prevent him from reading the news off a teleprompter? Why do we care so much?
Schadenfreude is the the feeling of pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The word is taken from German (one of our favourite languages, and literally means "harm-joy".
The 2000's-2020 is the era of Schadenfreude. It seems that the internet is almost a perfect tool to expose the flaws in anyone, and then drive wedges through those cracks until the person crumbles under the avalanche of criticism and mockery.
We think the explanation lies in the cowardice and incompetence of the critics. Cowardice because their comments on social media can often be anonymous. And incompetence because the incompetent seem to derive a certain pleasure of dragging the competent down to their level. We see it in the comments section of this blog every day.
The problem is that when we need a world leader; when we need someone to deal with global warming, the Russians in the Ukraine, the Chinese in the Pacific, religious extremists in the Middle East causing chaos and destruction, the best and the brightest of us will remain safely out of the limelight- unwilling to risk personal destruction as the cost of using their talents.
It's a poor trade- the acceptance of unblemished but mediocre individuals in lieu of remarkable leaders who can't pass the personal morals test. And we are all the worse for it.
Long weekend coming up. Enjoy.
EN BANC
On Thursday the 3rd DCA will hear the appeal of former FBI agent John Connelly en banc (literally "we the many are upset at those the few").
Background: John Connelly was an FBI agent in Boston.
For most of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's the FBI was chasing the boss of Boston- Whitely Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang.
During that time, it was alleged that Connelly became a member of Bulger's crime organization. Connelly was known, in Boston lingo, as "a worka".
Bulger had his fingers in everything, including Jai Alai in South Florida. On orders from Bulger, Connelly and Steve "The Rifleman" Flemmi killed CPA John Callahan and Jai Alia owner Roger Wheeler. ("The Rifleman": Is that the best nickname for a hired killer or what?)
If you want to read the definitive book on Whitey Bulger, read "Whitey Bulger" By Boston Herald reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy.
In 2005 Connelly was tried in Miami and convicted. And that's when the problems started. Connelly was convicted for second degree murder and the statute of limitations may have run on that charge. Judge Stan Blake denied the motion for discharge post verdict, but then PD Appellate lawyer extraordinaire Manny Alvarez joined the fight, never a good sign for a faltering prosecution.
The 3rd DCA found the case so troubling that Manny Alvarez had to file a writ of mandamus with the Florida Supreme Court to get them to issue a ruling. The supreme court did just that, ordering the 3rd to issue an opinion. In May 2014, the 3rd ruled 2-1 in favor of Connelly. Shepherd and Suarez for the majority (24 page decision). Rothenberg, dissenting (47 page dissent).
We grant Connolly’s motion for rehearing, vacate the conviction and sentence in Case Number 01-8287D, and remand with instructions to discharge him because the trial
court impermissibly relied on an uncharged firearm to enhance the only crime for which he was convicted. Without the fundamentally erroneous reclassification, Connolly’s conviction for second-degree murder as a lesser included offense of
first-degree murder was barred by the applicable statute of limitation.
Reflect on that bit of spectacular lawyering for a moment. Alvarez, has, to use specialized legal vernacular, kicked some ass in this case.
The state moved for an en banc hearing, and that rare procedure will take place this Thursday. All the seats at the 3rd are sold out, but you can watch it on the internet.
Here's where it gets fun. Alvarez filed a writ of habeas corpus which is now in the Florida Supreme Court. Alvarez wants his client out on bond, since the 3rd's original opinion didn't just reverse the conviction, but they ordered Connelly discharged.
Last week the Florida Supreme Court issued an order requiring the prosecution AND THE 3RD DCA to file a response to the writ.
Take a moment. Reflect on that. Yes, you read it correctly. The Florida Supreme Court has required the 3rd DCA to file a response to the PDs petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
Petitioner has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Respondent is requested to serve a response to the above-referenced petition. Further, because this Court has determined that it would be helpful to the resolution of this case to have the benefit of a response from the lower tribunal, the Third District Court of Appeal is requested to file a response as well. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.100(e)(3).
So who writes the brief for the 3rd DCA? If we were assigning it, we'd have Emas do it. He's the brightest of the bunch.
Great job by Manny Alvarez. Is someone nominating him for the FACDL's Rodney Thaxton Against All Odds Award?
Labels: John Connelly, Manny Alvarez
MARSHALL ADER HAS DIED
He was a county court judge, he was clerk of the courts, he was recognizable by his bow ties and fastidious appearances. He was Marshall Ader, an REGJB original, and he passed away at age 95 on February 6, 2015.
Ader was instrumental in using video for bond headings, ending the parade of defendants back and forth across the street. Ader expanded traffic school as a way of keeping points off your license. As the Herald reported in their obit, he was knighted by Malta in 1962 for work he did as a treasury agent. And finally, he was somehow involved in the wonderful 1800 club, which is long gone but well remembered.
Marshall Ader was a true Miami original. He brought innovation and verve to our courthouse. He lived a long life and he has been missed and will be missed. Ader's impact on our courthouse and our community will be long remembered.
Monday was a bit of a slow news day. More winter storms, Republicans don't like Obama, and …hmmm, oh yeah- the Chief Judge of the Alabama Supreme Court issued an order in violation of a Federal Court Judge setting off a legal crisis not seen since Governor Wallace stood on the steps of the University of Alabama and tried to block the entry of Vivian Malone and James Hood, while the US Federal Marshals and Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach told Wallace to step aside.
Wallace refused. Katzenbach called his boss, President Kennedy, who federalized the Alabama National Guard and Malone and Hood entered and desegregated the University of Alabama.
Bama has a proud history of defying federal law, which continued Monday when the CJ of the Bama Supreme Court issued an order prohibiting judges and clerks from marrying people of the same sex, while the US Supreme Court denied a stay of the order of Federal Judge Callie V.S. Granade allowing same sex marriage in that portion of Dixie.
Roll tide….
Labels: Judge Marshall Ader
STREET CRED-REP: WORKING LATE.
A reputation. Street cred. "What do I want people saying about me?"
Every new Judge at some point sits back and wonders what the lawyers are saying about them; what the lawyers are telling their clients. And for reasons that baffle us, every new judge seems to strive for a reputation of being tough (there are some current exception, especially Judge De La O, who no longer can be considered new).
First they go with the alliteration, the most famous being "Maximum Morphonious", the moniker of the late Judge Ellen Morphonious. For those judges not fortunate to have a surname beginning with M, they look for other ways to establish their reputation that they are tough. Eventually they come up with one, and then they get smug, thinking they have thought of something no one else has. This great idea, they say to themselves, "will quickly distinguish me from the rest of the newbies. I will work way past midnight!"
The quickest way to tell you're dealing with a new and inexperienced judge (who is worried about how others view them) is when they tell you they want to start voire dire around 3:30, openings at 7, and closings after midnight. "This" the new judges tell themselves "will get the word out about me."
Let us disabuse you of that notion.
First, why strive to get the reputation of being a tough sentencer? After all you have went though to become a Judge, isn't "fair" the reputation you want to have?
With the advent of minimum mandatories, there are more than enough cases to try. Being known as tough is not going to get those cases to plea anyway, and quite frankly the lawyers don't discuss your audit numbers, so nobody cares how many cases you have open.
Second, the unfortunate litigants held hostage to your desire to create a reputation pay the price for your ego. This is the most important day in their lives. They want a fair trial, with prepared and well rested lawyers and jurors who aren't falling asleep. Your desire to work the lawyers on the case past midnight as a way of somehow getting everyone to know that you are not to be trifled with will do nothing more than back fire- everyone will know you are scared of your own shadow with no confidence in your abilities.
Third. Your staff will resent you to the point of hate. And trust us, a staff that hates you can make you life as a judge miserable. They don't get paid enough to work those hours. Some of them have second jobs.
You new judges have been on the bench now for a month. You've been to "judge-school" where you were told that when you hold a lawyer in contempt it means you've lost control, and you were instructed on how to bang the gavel ("stiff wrist, bend at the elbow…").
People have lives. Trials should end between 5-6 p.m.
Welcome to the bench.
IT'S GREAT TO BE ME! (SMILE)
Casablanca: In case you're interested, he greatest movie of all time is on tonight, PBS, 9:00 p.m. Enjoy.
Judicial investitures tends to be happy events. But dignified. Until now.
The Judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit file in, robed, distinguished, the great legal issues of the day on their minds (Joes for lunch? That new sushi place in Midtown for dinner?).
The Chief Judge calls the proceedings to order. Friends of the new judge introduce him or her. There is a spiritual moment, when prayer is offered for the judge to find the wisdom to rule on the difficult cases ahead.
And then the Judge speaks.
Such was the investiture today of Judge Veronica Diaz. Yup, she made it to the bench despite the inherent difficulties of being named " Diaz" in Miami. And here's what she wants you to know:
Her life has been great. A great upbringing. She flew to Miami with a stuffed animal of some sort next to her on the plane. Everything has been just fantastic. No Horatio Alger story her. Unlike some of her colleagues who scraped by on scholarships and grew-up in the projects and routinely heard gunfire in their neighborhood and took the bus to their first job in law because they didn't have a car, it's been a fairly easy ride for her.
Good for her. Nothing wrong with that.
And then, a first.
Some Judges follow precedent, others set it.
Judge Diaz is already in the latter category.
Finishing her acceptance speech, standing on the podium, the elite and power of Dade County law before her, she, to the best of our knowledge, took the very first ever….
JUDICIAL SELFIE!
Ed Cowart is rolling over in shame.
Beautiful weekend. Enjoy. See you in court Monday.
"And when you smile for the Camera, you know I love you better…."
Labels: Judge Veronica Diaz.
ARTHUR BERGER HAS PASSED AWAY
UPDATE: Mr. Berger's funeral has been moved up and will start Friday at noon.
Peter Heller sent out this email with the details.
As Mr. Heller writes, Arthur Berger was a long time appellate attorney who served this community as a prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General. He was a mentor to many young attorneys and a brilliant appellate lawyer. The funeral is tomorrow.
It is with a heavy heart that announce the passing of Arthur Berger. Arthur was a dear friend, had a heart of gold and was one of the most brilliant minds I have ever known. He was a former assistant attorney general as well as assistant state attorney in the appellate divisions. He loved the law and was in his glory when a novel legal issue was brought to his attention. He not only looked forward to such challenge, would dive head first into finding a solution based upon an obscure, yet logical legal theory, and would thrive as well. He was so helpful to me both personally and professionally on so many levels and will sorely be missed; especially his wonderful, yet quirky sense of humor. A consummate gentleman, everybody loved him; especially me.
Rest in peace my friend. It was a honor to have known you and to have worked alongside you.
Arthur Berger’s funeral is scheduled for Friday, February 6th at 12: 30 PM
The location is :
Menorah Gardens
21100 West Griffin Road
Southwest Ranches , Fl. 33332
Their tel. is 954-434-1531
Call Menorah Gardens for directions
Labels: Arthur Berger
COUNTY COURT NOMINEES
In 1932 John "Cactus Jack" Nance Garner was elected the 32nd Vice President of the United States. In March of 1933, before resigning his seat in the house, he became the second man to ever be Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on the same day.
Garner is famous in history for describing the Vice Presidency as "not being worth a warm buck of ____" the final word being variously described by historians as "piss", "spit" or "shit".
Now on to news of County Court. Any resemblance to the above portion of the post and the following is purely coincidental.
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A COUNTY COURT JUDGE .......
The JNC was in their own Beast Mode this past weekend, logging two full days of interviews on Saturday and Sunday. They interviewed a total of 30 applicants for the two open County Court seats of Judge Gladys Perez and Judge Rudy Ruiz.
Here are the names they sent to Governor Scott:
To replace Judge Perez:
Laura Ann Stuzin
Diana Vizcaino
Gina Beovides
Jonathan Meltz
Karl St Hope Brown
Elijah A. Levitt
To replace Judge Ruiz:
Joseph Mansfield
John William Wylie IV
Alexander Spicola Bokor
The Governor has 60 days to choose the two replacements. If you would like to weigh in on any of the finalists, you can contact Governor Scott's Office of General Counsel at 850.717.9310.
Labels: JNC, Super Bowl 2015
KIERAN FALLON HAS PASSED AWAY
Kieran Fallon, superb lawyer, restauranteur, husband of Criminal Defense Attorney Rae Shearn, passed away today. Many of us knew Kieran was in the fight of his life.
Bruce Fleisher has sent out tis email with details:
Friends and colleagues, it is with deep sadness that I inform you that our friend and colleague Kieran Fallon passed away early this morning. Rae Shearn, his wife and our friend and colleague, requested that I convey the following details:
VIEWING/WAKE Wed Feb 4 @ Stanfill Funeral Home 10545 South Dixie Highway 33156 7-9 PM:
FUNERAL MASS Thurs Feb 5 @ 11AM Holy Rosary-St. Richard Church 7500 SW 152 St, Palmetto Bay 33157.
Gathering to follow after funeral mass @ 899 Bella Vista Ave, Gables By The Sea.33156.
I am certain that many of you will want to pay your respects to Rae & family. Kieran was a fine lawyer, special guy in every sense of the word, and I had the pleasure and honor of working with him for the past 25 years. He will be missed, and I hope to see you at the services. Bruce
Labels: Kieran Fallon
It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.
It was the best of calls.
It was the worst of calls.
For all we dislike about the super bowl, which we wrote about yesterday, there is value in sports. The value is in the simple moments. The moments of truth. When the player confronts their talent, their opponent's talent, when their coach makes the call to put his or her team into position to win. Or lose.
Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll did both yesterday. As the first half wound down, with his team down by 7, six seconds left, a penalty putting them a dozen yards from a touch down. The safe play was to kick a field goal. Championships are rarely won by the safe play. Carroll called a pass play, his team executed and scored and rode the momentum of that play to a ten point lead by the fourth quarter.
Then the Patriots came back, and then, with an improbable pass reception, the Seahawks and their QB Russell Wilson found themselves down by four, at the one, less than thirty seconds left.
In Basketball, John Havlicek stole the ball. Then a generation later, Bird stole the ball. Jordan made last second jumper after last second jumper, and won six championships.
Mazeroski hit the first bottom of the ninth, game 7 walk-off home run in 1960, and a generation later in the World Series Kirk Gibson limped to the plate and knocked one out of the park causing Vince Scully to memorably exclaim "I don't believe what I just saw!"
Sports are about those moments of the man or woman confronting their own short comings. The moment of truth when the player emerges and beats the better opponent- or fails and faces a life time of "what ifs?"
There is no better example of a man confronting his fears than Ali, on the ropes for seven rounds in Kinshasa, Zaire, taking a pounding from the most terrifying opponent in the history of boxing, and then reaching deep inside and throwing the best right hand in boxing history. Ali beat Forman, but in reality, he conquered his fear and allowed himself to win.
Russell Wilson walked to the line of scrimmage as the seconds ticked down. He had timeouts to call if necessary. He had the best short yardage back in the game, and he had the athletic skill to run a yard and win a championship. Pete Carroll or his Offensive coordinator called a pass. The Patriots countered with a goal line defense- their largest players on the line to stop the run- but with a twist- cornerbacks positioned to stop the play-action pass.
Bobby Thompson hit the home-run and "The Giants Win The Pennant. The Giants Win The Pennant."
Wilson called the play and took the snap and stepped back to pass.
Mookie Wilson stood at the plate with two outs and his Mets one out away from losing the series in 1986 to the Red Sox in game six.
Wilson threw an interception when the game was on the line.
WIlson swung and sent a soft roller down the first base line, but improbably Bill Buckener let the ball roll through this legs when the Red Sox were on the verge of their first world championship.
That's why they play the game. And it wasn't a bad game at all.
Labels: Super Bowl 2015
SUPER ….WASTE OF TIME
The Super Bowl has become a national holiday, morphing into a world-wide event. Good for the NFL, where players beat their families during their days off while recovering from head injuries that will make them drooling, limping morons at an age most men are tuning up their golf and tennis games.
Here is the dirty legacy of the NFL: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive brain injury resulting from being battered in the head sixteen weeks a year plus practices. The recent list of victims: Chicago Bear Dave Duerson who killed himself in 2011; KC Chiefs Javon Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and then himself last year. And Junior Seau, who killed himself, and was honored yesterday by election into the NFL Hall of shame Fame. Seau's price for admission into the HOF: a decade plus of violent hits that destroyed his brain and drove him to suicide. But, he has a bronze statute to glorify all those hits. He just won't see the ages of 50, 60, 70, and even if he didn't kill himself, his brain was wrecked.
Do you get the impression that we are (mostly) done with football?
A good football game is a fun thing to watch. A good football team going on a run to the super bowl can create a life time of memories for fans. But this madness has gone too far, and we've had enough.
Sorry to rain on your parade on this nearly religious day of national pride and celebration.
There's a 20 kilometer moderate mountain bike route in Moab, Utah, that we will be riding today while the nation gathers to worship at the NFL's trough. There's more to life than eating chicken wings and drinking beer and watching ignorant athletes bash each other senseless. We prefer the memory of cresting the hill of a long bike climb, to a Seahawks pick six. But that's just us.
For those of you watching the game:
There has been a safety in the last three games. We think the trend will end today, so we wouldn't take the 6-1 odds. Although it would serve the world right if the game ended 4-2.
Tom Brady scoring (meaning running the ball in or catching a TD pass) the first touchdown at 35-1 is a nice play.
The Seahawks are -1. Take them.
The over/under is 48.5, although we got a point less in Vegas earlier this week. We took the over and then parlayed it with the Seahawks to win. We will post a picture of the winning ticket later.
Over 3 1/2 FGs- take the over. 4fgs wins, 3 or less lose.
We like the pick-6 prop bet as well. Fact: team with a pick six in a super bowl is 12-0. So if, as we hope, Richard Sherman takes one of cheater-Brady's deflated balls to the house for six, good-bye Patriots.
In A Superbowl, we will always pick the team with the better Defense. Bears, Ravens, Steelers, Giants, etc. It's why the evil genius and his cheating QB are riding an unenviable two game losing streak in the big game.
The Seahawks are a well rounded team. Great Defense, a beast of a running game, a QB who can go deep while in the pocket or scramble for a first down and more. These are the types of teams that win two super bowls in a row- Cowboys of the early 1990s, Broncos of the later 1990s, the 49'ers in the 80s and the Steelers in the 70s- twice.
There will be a point during the game today when we will get off our bike and sit in majestic silence, surrounded by desert and red dusty sandstone on Slickrock trail, and we will eat a sandwich (gluten free bread these days) and drink some coconut water, and pull out a well worn copy of King Lear, and just rest and eat and read:
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
The last thing on our mind will be some senseless game.
But we will want to know if our one, lock-solid bet paid off:
Coin flip: Heads.
See you in court when we come back.
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Who should pay for the independence of the Boards of Appeal? Why the users, of course!
Merpel Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - appeal fee, Boards of Appeal, Eponia, reform
Merpel thought that nothing at the European Patent Office could surprise her any more. How wrong she was. She has now received news of a draft of the latest proposal from the EPO administration to reform the EPO Boards of Appeal. The background is given in her previous post, second and third headings.
As she wrote before, the previous proposals from the EPO President to the Administrative Council for the reform of the Boards of Appeal were criticised since they conflated independence with efficiency and seemed fixated on moving the Boards to another physical location. The new proposal suffers from all the same defects, but now adds another one - the Boards are not sufficiently self-financing, according to Battistelli and his team.
Actually, Merpel should not have been surprised, because she had heard a whisker whisper that Battistelli had been observed to "note with interest" that the UPC is intended to be self-financing from Court fees, and he clearly had his beady eye on applying a similar idea to his own troublesome Boards of Appeal. He claimed that it was all very well for the Boards to wish for independence when someone else was paying for it, with the clear implication that proper independence means having your own source of funds.
But Merpel did not believe for one moment that the idea that the Boards should pay for themselves would survive any scrutiny. It is clear that the founders of the EPC did not consider that it was in any way appropriate for the Boards to be funded to any significant degree by appeal fees. In fact, that realisation is almost certainly why the compromise on the independence of the Boards in the EPC is the way that it is - they were going to be dependent on the rest of the Office for funding, and so could not be completely administratively independent of it; the EPC tried to achieve the maximum practical autonomy while keeping the inevitable financial link.
Now, to be fair, the current draft proposal for reform does not suggest that the Boards be completely self financing. But it does suggest that the "cost coverage" (ratio of fee income from appeal fees to calculated cost of the Boards of Appeal) be gradually increased from what is apparently 4.2% today to around 25%. This suggests, over time, something like a 5-fold increase in appeal fees. The proposal does of course suggest that the 25% figure could also be contributed to by efficiency improvements in the Boards. While some improvement in throughput of cases could be envisaged, the requirement for 3- or 5- person Boards for appeal cases, plus the serious responsibility that the Boards have that, in the case of a negative determination, they are the final arbiter, suggest to Merpel that any improvements in efficiency are likely to be modest or at the expense of a much reduced quality.
An increase of the appeal fee is suggested in the draft proposal, from the current level of €1880 to €2940 in 2017, and rising to €7350 by 2021.
Merpel thinks that this is completely outrageous.
Firstly, one reason for appeal is that a refusal by the Examining Division is wrong. As examiners are put under greater pressure for productivity, wrong refusals are expected to be more, not less, common. Applicants will be penalised by such a massive fee increase. There is a provision for refund of the appeal fee in the case of a substantial procedural violation, but it is perfectly possible for the examination to be shoddy without amounting to a substantial procedural violation.
Secondly, considering substantial procedural violations, are the Boards now going to be under pressure not to adjudicate that one has taken place, because it will reduce their funding? That would have the complete opposite of the alleged effect, to decrease their independence not increase it.
Thirdly, Merpel has seen no corresponding proposal to decrease other EPO procedural fees to offset the effect. She will be very surprised if one is forthcoming.
The EPO is not funded only by procedural fees. A major portion of its income is renewal fees, both those it charges directly on pending applications, and those that are remitted to it by national offices after grant (50% of the fees paid to those offices). Merpel thinks that she can suggest another, better way to make the funding of the Boards of Appeal less open to political interference from the President - benchmark it at a certain proportion of the renewal fee income. That would tie it, in an indirect way, to the work that the Office was doing, while not making the Boards dependent every year on the President agreeing to their financial requests.
This new focus on the cost coverage of the Boards of Appeal may suggest another reason for the Battistelli obsession to move them out of the Isar building (which they share with him). If they move to different, rented premises, their office costs will be easily identifiable, without giving rise to awkward questions about what the rest of the Isar building may be costing. Incidentally, the draft proposal suggests to juggle staff from PschorrHöfe to Isar, and then rent out some office space in PschorrHöfe. Is now the EPO to be expanding into the office rental business?
The next Administrative Council meeting is at the end of June. Merpel sincerely hopes that this mad proposal will be ditched before then, or rejected by the Administrative Council.
Who should pay for the independence of the Boards of Appeal? Why the users, of course! Reviewed by Merpel on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Rating: 5
Proof of the pudding Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 11:08:00 BST
If we went down this line would we not need to change the way in which appeals against ED decisions were handled? That is, would we not need to make the ED party to appeals against their decisions, and allow applicants who win on appeal to recover their costs from the ED?
Anonymous Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 11:27:00 BST
Bringbackalib.Says
F reshly pumped up and ready to pedal
I deas of reform,threatening to meddle
V ery high increases that could brake the bank
E xtremely tyresome,is this some kind of prank?
F or these proposals he must Raleigh the troops
O ne spokesperson referred to too many holes in the loops
L et's not get saddled with another fee hike
D on't vote for it! Get on yer bike!
Cathy Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 13:03:00 BST
This is another example of how Batistelli's changes result in exactly the opposite of what the AC told him to do and how they go completely against the interests and criticisms of the users.
Kant Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 13:19:00 BST
More analysis needs to be done on the costs of the boards.
An applicant who appeals a decision refusing the application generates a massive annuity windfall for the office. For an applcation refused after ten years experiencing a four year appeal procedure, the extra annuity payments which the office receives would be €6,000 odd. Similarly, a proprietor in an opposition appeal against a decision revoking the patent effectively generates cash for the EPO thorugh the national renewal fees. Once these have been factored in, I am sure the 4% figure would rise to around the 25% mark
Friend of Appeals Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 14:03:00 BST
CA/90/13 (point 31) seems to indicate that the recent increase in appeal fees from €1240 to €1860 would result in a "cost coverage per appeal" of about 6%. Was this found to be overly optimistic or is 4.2% an outdated figure? One assumes that the further increase from €1860 to €1880 did not make much difference. Presumably, neither the 4.2% nor the 6% figures include any renewal fees. This seems unfair since it would seem that a significant portion of those renewal fees result from applications that would be refused (or granted, resulting in shared fees) without the appeal, such that the fees would not reach the office if the appeal was not filed.
Sharaz Gill Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 14:05:00 BST
I think that Merpel has got this right apart from one glaring error. The increasing productivity demands on examiners are far more likely to lead to an increase in "wrong grants" rather than "wrong refusals." The purpose of the the productivity increases is to raise renewal fee revenue and there are no renewal fees for refusals. The whole system is set up to pressure examiners to grant more patent, so from a production point of view, it is still far easier for an examining division to grant a patent than to refuse it. The German Federal Patents Court and English Patents Courts both revoke the vast majority of hi-tech patents that come before them. Of the ones that survive, it is rare for the claims to survive in the form in which they were granted. That would appear to suggest that the EPO examination is becoming redundant.
My guess would be that in the future, the EPO will be refusing very few patent applications. They may even stop examining (or pretending to examine) them at all. So, let's not worry too much about the BoAs. They will probably redundant if a few years anyway.
Charley says:
As others have commented here, if the Office really wants to fund the Boards differently, then it would seem equitable to credit the Boards with at least a proportion of the renewal fees earned while a case is under appeal.
On the other hand, since the Office is obliged by TRIPS to provide recourse to a court/board of appeal, one could instead say that the Office should just suck it up and pay for what is a necessary running cost (part of the "deal" that it has to grant EP patents).
The Cat That Walks by Himself Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 16:51:00 BST
As far as I understand, presently EPO appeals are funded similarly to a car or health insurance.
For example, in case of car insurance, everybody pays a small amount every month to cover a very rare/expensive case of a car accident.
The same, I guess, happens with an EPO appeal fee.
I.e., everybody pays various fees during patent prosecution. In each of those fees, a small percentage (%) is reserved for a relatively rare case of appeal. In this way, a high one-time appeal payment is avoided by paying it in parts with various 'office actions'.
A proposed increase of appeal fees would mean decrease of all other EPO fees, respectively?
The suggestion of a five fold increase to cover the costs strikes me as being spin to hide the real intentions behind the suggestion. Raising the appeal fee to such a punitive level will dissuade parties from filing appeals except in the most important of cases. The net result will be a reduction in workload and a corresponding shrinkage in the BoAs. A punishment, therefore, for having dared to say boo to the President.
Meldrew Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 18:28:00 BST
Comparing filing, search, examination, designation and a few year's renewal fees with the proposed level of appeal fee, the phrase "double or quits" springs to mind.
As we know Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:39:00 BST
For the EPO president, the quality of the search and the examination at the European patent Office is the best of the world.
For obscure motivations, a small group of applicants (a minority) is challenging this excellent quality, and are lodging appeals to the BoA.
It is logic that such bad behaviour can not be encouraged. A way to improve the system, is to increase the fees of the appeals.
MaxDrei Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:09:00 BST
How is it that, at the AC, a large number of the smaller EPC Member States support BB? Does it not remind you of the support Mr Blatter could count on, within FIFA? Could it be that BB (from his palace on the top floor of the Isar building) just like cunning old Seppie, pays these Member States each year an ever-bigger dividend? At the EPO, how might he do that? Here are some possibilities:
1. Shrug off the costs of DG3 (but keep the filing, prosecution, opposition and annuity fees high).
2. Hold annuity fee income high by giving Applicants the possibility to defer patent grant more or less for ever. Take care though to provide, for those few who want it, a quick and dirty grant (and the huge burden of multiple national annuities that goes with it).
3. Squeeze ever more output from ever fewer highly paid employees. "Never mind the quality, feel the width" as the cynical old saying goes.
Seen through that lens, everything BB does makes sense. Sad isn't it?
Millipede Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:43:00 BST
I do not know why sloppier examination (i.e. more grants) would reduce the number of appeals. It will certainly cause an increase in the number of oppositions and since the number of oppositions is more or less proportional to the number of appeals with an increase of oppositions also the amount of appeals will increase.
It would be illogical (and indeed I agree with Merpel) injust to ncrease the appeal fees to credit the balance of the costs of DG3. If that would be the case also the fee for opposition should be increased in the same way (but I probably should not raise this, because it might give BB some ideas). Anyhow, the idea to only raise the fees for appeals seems to be very biased.
High costs of appeals indeed would seem very harsh in appeals from decisions of the Receiving Section and/or the Examining Division. But how about appeals in disciplinary cases: do our EQE candidates who want to protest about the decisions of the Exam committees need to suffer by paying an appeal fee that they hardly can afford? Or can we see a reduction scheme? Maybe also some reductions for the poor SMEs?
I would suggest to allocate the budget that is needed for the inventor-of-the-year festival (which can easily be discarded with) to DG3. In any case that will already make up for a large part of the current deficit.
glupek Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 22:19:00 BST
It is the attitude of the member states that I do not understand. Inside the Office, almost everybody would agree that we are heading against the wall – and still speeding up. Now I can understand that the President and his friends favor short term profits; most likely, he will not be in charge any more when the bubble bursts. But the member states should have long term interests in maintaining the European patent system (and their most cherished unitary patent, which is built on it) alive. Why would they let the President kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and even applaud? I really do not get it. They are either extremely naive (but normally they are not when their national interest is involved) or strangely apathetic. Even the Albanian representative who hardly knows what a patent looks like must understand that his country will get less money once people realize that a German patent might be better value than a European one, must he not?
I am afraid we get the world we deserve.
Clauseboards Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 07:28:00 BST
Millipede rightly suggests to allocate the budget that is needed for the inventor-of-the-year festival (which can easily be discarded with) to DG3, which would make up for a large part of the current deficit.
The same applies to the budgets for media "partnerships", body guards, investigators, "technical" cooperation with members states, "medical care" for AC representatives, incompetent VP´s and secret remuneration of the president and many more. As a result the appeal fee could be dispensed with entirely.
Kant Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 08:20:00 BST
The Presidium and AMBA have commented on the proposed reforms of the BoAs:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/05/31/amba-epo-reform.pdf
as reported by The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/epos_boards_of_appeal_rail_against_king_battistelli/
PB Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 09:33:00 BST
An Appeal Board that is funded from patent renewal fees is clearly not financially independent, hence not independent.
The law of unintended consequences should make everyone careful over what they wish for.
Anonymous Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 15:43:00 BST
The Boards can (and do) order a refund of the appeal fee when the first instance decision is found to be marred by a substantial procedural violation.
If they were to be obliged to show some sort of "financial result", would they be less inclined to order the reimbursement?
On the other hand, if the appeal fee is raised to a truly exorbitant level, would they be inclined to refund it more frequently?
Or would they be able to order the first instance to pony up for the shortfall?
Meldrew Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 18:38:00 BST
"An Appeal Board that is funded from patent renewal fees is clearly not financially independent, hence not independent."
So is an Appeal Board paid for only by the rich more independent?
L'angelo Misterioso Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 10:37:00 BST
Yes, that's like saying that if the judiciary is funded from general taxation, it's not financially independent and thus not independent, which is nonsense.
The point of the separation of powers is that a judiciary (or, in this case, DG3) has its independence from the executive enshrined in statute (or, in this case, the EPC). The present executive seeks to impose a structural reform which, in some aspects, actually leads to a loss of independence of DG3 with respect to the executive.
Interesting to read today that Frans Timmermans has censured the PiS government in Warsaw for changing the law in such a way as to place the Polish constitutional court subject to the executive. Thus is the separation of powers so easily removed, in a country that claims to be a democracy.
And the EPO, as many have observed, is not exactly a democracy...
PB Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 21:02:00 BST
"more independent"? Than what? One paid for by the poor? One that only eats blancmange?
I don't get your point meldrew.
"Yes, that's like saying that if the judiciary is funded from general taxation, it's not financially independent and thus not independent..."
No, it isn't.
"...which is nonsense"
Therefore, it isn't.
Your argument leads to the conclusion that it is irrelevant who pays for an Appeal Board, judge, or sports referee. General taxation is not directly or indirectly under the influence of an Appeal Board.
An appeal fee of 7.350 Euro is insulting. I am surprised that nobody so far mentioned that such a fee is a clear disincentive to file with the EPO in the first place.
For that amount of money, you can get your application translated into French/Dutch, file it as national application, and you get the search report together with an opinion from the EPO. After that, you pick just the two or three countries you are interested in and go there directly. Go for Germany - biggest market, no translation needed for filing and search, France/Netherlands - you already have the application, and Great Britain. That will secure two additional search reports (DE, GB). With some luck you will have a good overview of the relevant prior art. Infringement in Düsseldorf (DE), period. No hassle with EPO appeal fee, UPC, etc. All things considered, you are likely cheaper even without an appeal.
Sure, that strategy is not fit for everybody. As alternative, go EPO for the search, either with an EP or a PCT, and then proceed on national level, again completely sidestepping EPO examination and appeal. Going PCT will also avoid the nasty exchange of search results, making sure that the EPO does a proper search instead of considering mainly the national search report. The EPO did not lower the search fee when that exchange was introduced, although it is supposed to save time.
Poor guys who want 4 or more countries:)
MyBits Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 21:30:00 BST
What is kind of shocking about the proposal to have a self-financed DG3 because of self-financed UPC-courts is that it shows an utter lack of understanding of the function of DG3 and the UPC-courts by BB and his freaks.
DG3 is a judicial instance, there to correct/review 1st instance decisions ... such a correction mustn't cost a lot of money for the appelant(in particular SMEs).
DG3 should be regarded as a futher liability of the EPO(rg) ... similar to the AC - I do not think that they are self-financing.
... but well, what could one expect from BB ...
As alternative, go EPO for the search, either with an EP or a PCT, and then proceed on national level, again completely sidestepping EPO examination and appeal.
Be careful with France. A direct French regional phase from a PCT filing isn't possible; the application will have to go through the EPO. So you will need a FR either a FR first or second filing. As a bonus, a first filing will give you an EPO Search and opinion. Mais pour ça, il faut rédiger la demande en français.
Let's not talk about the utter idiocy of the "PCTdirect" thing currently peddled by the EPO, where applicants are encouraged to amend their second filing in order to overcome objections of the authority who handled the first filing. If you like endangering your Paris priority and finding new reasons to go all the way to the EBoA, this one's for you...
My suspicion is that through impossibly high work quotas, the EPO examiner will have no other practical option but to rubber stamp whatever is filed, without looking at it too closely, unless he feels suicidal and/or wants to end up a homeless wino sleeping under the bridge. But everything is fine, since the EPO is ISO 9001 certified.
PB said "I don't get your point meldrew."
Sorry, I must stop being sarcastic.
My point was that if you change from a system where the judiciary are paid for by general taxation to one where they are paid for by user fees, you introduce direct financial incentives for the judiciary to make appeal an attractive option (e.g. quick and with a high probability of success)
Even more incentives would be introduced in a system where fees are based on the value of the dispute and the judiciary can decide on what that value is. But of course no one would be crazy enough to introduce such a system.
But really the damage being done is not through sarcasm, but through the suggestion of lack of independence.
Can anyone point to a case at the EPO where lack of independence was a serious (as opposed to theoretical) issue?
Is anyone allowed to point to such a case?
MaxDrei Friday, 3 June 2016 at 08:06:00 BST
As Lord Darlington observed, more than a century ago, a cynic is a person who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Do we have more cynics in the world today? I think so. Everywhere one looks (as a patent attorney) one sees Administrative Council members, business people, economists and politicians monetarizing everything, as fast as they can, putting a price on everything, with nary a thought about the value that they are destroying.
But there are a few straws in the wind (politicians take note). In particular, the economists heading up research at the IMF have started to put out Papers that argue that neoliberalism is routinely destroying more value than it creates. It is easy to price everything, very hard to quantify "value". Measuring what you can measure and dismissing any thought about anything else might be excusable in a professor of economics but not for a politician or business person.
So perhaps it's not too late for the AC, first to see the error of BB's Master of Business Administration ways, and second to do their F-ing job, namely exercise some control over their attack dog, and curb the beast. In 40 years since the creation of the European Patent Convention, it has come to be the world's premier (go to) corpus of rational patent law, thanks to DG3 at the EPO. Europe has precious little "soft power" in the world today, but here is a jewel in its soft power crown.
Meanwhile BB, in what seems to be a bizarre and ever-more emotional fit of pique, is bent on wiping it out, regardless of the cost. In my opinion, a disgrace, a tragedy, and deeply lamentable.
Hardened Cynic Friday, 3 June 2016 at 09:09:00 BST
"So perhaps it's not too late for the AC, first to see the error of BB's Master of Business Administration ways, and second to do their F-ing job, namely exercise some control over their attack dog, and curb the beast."
Just two quick points.
As far as I was aware, it's not BB who claims to be an MBA but the one who signed off on this.
http://www.dziv.hr/files/File/go-izvjesca/godisnje_izvjesce_2010.pdf
Apropos exercising control over the attack dog, haven't you ever heard the old adage "Don't bite the hand that feeds you". The guys to exercise control are the ones in the ministeries. Refer to Article 4a EPC. Long overdue by now.
PB Friday, 3 June 2016 at 17:24:00 BST
MaxD, patent attorneys in private practice also know the price of everything. About £400 per hour. Plus disbursements (those fax machines are apparently still whirring away.
Don't understand your thinking PB. All a bit "last century" for my taste, quite frankly.
My clients insist on copy invoices for all my "disbursements". No copy invoice, no payment. They set the hourly rate for each person in my firm who bills out his or her time per minute. And they promptly switch to a different firm if mine doesn't offer good value for money, for every "buck" they pay me enough "bang" to keep them happy. It's a tough competitive world out there, one in which I can survive only if my "bang" has to be bigger and better than yours. If "bang" is like "value", I certainly do know very well not only what "price" means but also what "value" means. My very survival in the profession depends on it
What do your clients do? That is, if you have any.
Anonymous Monday, 6 June 2016 at 16:36:00 BST
From HelloKitty
What should really worry the members of the Council is that Battistelli is simply mocking them, not doing anything of what he is told to do. Whatever the reason for his behavior, he is leading the Office in a direction which is not what the Council wants. Eventually, they will have to show him who is the boss or they will have to accept that the power is not in their hands.
Bringbackalib. Said
P eople at a loose end next week
U can consider taking a peek
B enny's fifedom hosts the trial of the year
L et the fun begin,you can't bring beer
I n room 131,14th June,prepare to queue
C os The Sun King doesn't really want you!
If it was true that in the pending disciplinary case concerning a member of the Boards, the EBA has decided that the oral proceedings on 14th of June shall be public, as suggested by Bringbackalib, this would be a quite extraordinary development. It would indicate that the President is actually loosing the control in the campaign he launched against the Boards as a reaction to decision R19/12. Public exposure, shortly before the next meeting of the Administrative Council, of his behavior and of the doubtful actions of his investigative services might turn into a disaster for him.
Two previous decisions in this disciplinary case, both favorable to the accused judge, have never been officially published despite express orders of the EBA to this effect. This time the truth will come out and it might be somewhat different from what had been propagated by complacent newspapers.
Room 131 might not be large enough to accommodate all those interested, from both inside and outside the EPO.
Anonymous Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 06:36:00 BST
Well http://www.epo.org/applying/online-services/proceedings/calendar.html? for 14th June does not list the proceedings or indeed any proceedings in 131. Note that proceedings in appeal are public unless particular circumstances dictate otherwise. Could that be the case here?
As neat as you please Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:21:00 BST
Since this morning, access to the IPKat is blocked from within the European Patent Office.
Users get the following message:
"Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Malicious Sources/Malnets".
I am sorry Merpel, I doubt you can continue to publicize your blog as "Recommended by the European Patent Office as reading material for candidates for the European Qualifying Examinations 2013" ...
Any official announcement of the ban? Could it be that the ipkat site does have some form of embedded malware which the epo security is picking up? I don't know - I'm just asking (hoping?).
From "Lucky-me".
Had I known before that Ipkat was a malicious source I would have never dared even having a look at it.
Luckily we have our wise president for protecting us. Than you so much!
To be on the safe side I will also destroy my laptop and smartphones at home to prevent any further malicious attack from malnets.
Adieu, naughy Merpel. Adieu Techrights. Adieu FossPatents. Ah, no. Mr Mueller is now accessible again from the EPO: he must then be a nice guy after all. I will read only his posts, but he does not publish since last May. Is it maybe time for a new post on the EPO from a nice guy?
Uncle Bob Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 10:38:00 BST
Could it be that the ipkat site does have some form of embedded malware which the epo security is picking up?
Yes, it could be, and it's probably the same malware that also affected Techrights - it's called "Criticising the EPO management" ...
Kay Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 11:47:00 BST
Weirdly enough, I cannot access ipkitten.blogspot.de for the reason mentioned above (malicious/Malnet).
ipkitten.blogspot.nl works find.
.co.uk too.
If one knows how Google (and thus blogspot) work, it become obvious that there is no malware automagically detected by the firewall software, but the reason is very fabricated. Well, it works for Munich. DG0 cannot access this site anymore. Nor the AC-members coming to Munich.
Censored Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 11:48:00 BST
Well spotted.
And in the same vein the EPO site does not provide access to the previous decisions in cases Art. 23 1/15 and Art. 23 2/15 - despite the fact that the Enlarged Board determined that they be published.
Who cares as long as Wikipedia is available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_23_1/15_and_Art_23_2/15
But probably not for much longer at the EPO ...
Violetta Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 12:13:00 BST
Interestingly, in the recent survey conducted by SUEPO, IP blogs are considered as a relevant source of information for 45% of the respondents - far higher than the 9% for Top management and 17% for Internal communications ...
https://suepo.org/documents/43311/54958.pdf
See page 19.
But I'm sure it has nothing to do with the banning of the site within the EPO ...
Nothing to see here Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 12:53:00 BST
@Censored
the hearings next week in the case of the suspended member of the BoA are public and planned to last 3 days - but I am ready to bet with you that as soon as a critical level of interest in them will be reached, despite the attempts of the Office to hide their occurrence, the President will find a good excuse to block access to the public.
As you said: "unless particular circumstances dictate otherwise."
Merpel Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 13:12:00 BST
Article 12a of the Rules of Procedure of the Enlarged Boards of Appeal, setting the procedure of proceedings under Art 23(1) EPC states:
(9) Unless and to the extent that the Enlarged Board decides otherwise, the proceedings shall not be public and shall be confidential.
Has the EBA really decided otherwise in this case?
The Bike has been expertised and only normal wear detected on the brakes ...I guess it will not make it to the intranet.
Bicycle Repairman Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 14:21:00 BST
The Bike has been expertised and only normal wear detected on the brakes
You are joking, right? Expertised by whom, anyway?
Meldrew Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 19:23:00 BST
A few thoughts on the effect of the last big increase in appeal fees can be found here
Meldrew,
Perhaps a table of number of grants against number of ex-parte appeals may help (or refusals even). Given the increase in productivity, could there be a simpler link - less refusals = less appeals
"Perhaps a table of number of grants against number of ex-parte appeals may help (or refusals even). Given the increase in productivity, could there be a simpler link - less refusals = less appeals".
Not according to EP Bulletin, which shows more refusals in 2015 (4336) than in 2014 (4146), but less than in 2013 (4591). Based on these figures the appeal rate seems to have dropped from 26% in 2013 to 24% in 2014, to 19.9% in 2015.
Of course, it is difficult to say what is the "right" level of appeal, and perhaps the "quality" of refusals has grown so high in the last two years that fewer applicants dare appeal.
Et sinon je reprendrais bien des croquettes ... Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 12:57:00 BST
Merpel sincerely hopes that this mad proposal will be ditched before then, or rejected by the Administrative Council.
What the Administrative Council will see is "Increased appeal fees = More Money for us".
You can imagine the rest.
What the Administrative Council will see is "Increased appeal fees = More Money for us"
Just like the 2008 increase in claims fees that resulted in a collapse in the number of claims, and consequent damage to claims fee income?
Having a Headache from construction works.... Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 18:21:00 BST
Appeal fees do not translate to patent renewal fees, the only fee the Member States receive/keep a share of.
Higher appeal fees = less appeals, likely also lees DG3 decissions reversing refusals, ths even less renewal fees for MSs.
schweinsteiger Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 22:08:00 BST
@Merpel
An announcement of the oral proceedings in Art. 23 1/16 can be found in the public area of the Isar building.
Schweinsteiger,
Public? If the accused him or herself is banned from the building?
My clients insist on copy invoices for all my
"disbursements". No copy invoice, no payment.
What accounting codes do you use on your time sheet for "IPkat" and "Patently-O"?
@ Merpel
Indeed, the public announcement of the oral proceedings in Art. 23 1/16 at the entrance of the Isar building indicates the hearing is public.
It is also known room 131 is a very small one! If the EBA as it seems in fact decided to held a public hearing, the administration was again creative in finding way to circumvent the effective presence of the public…
The EPO Jester
slartibartfast Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 20:28:00 BST
Ah yes, the famous "Hitchhiker's Guide" approach to public proceedings:
M. BATTISTELLI: But, Mr Dent, the notice of the hearing has been available in the EPO for the last week!
ARTHUR DENT (PATENT ATTORNEY): Yes! I went round to find it yesterday afternoon. You’d hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to pull much attention to them have you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.
M. BATTISTELLI: The announcement was on display.
ARTHUR DENT: Ah! And how many members of the public are in the habit of casually dropping around the EPO of an evening?
M. BATTISTELLI: Er – ah!
ARTHUR DENT: It’s not exactly a noted social venue is it? And even if you had popped in on the off chance that some raving bureaucrat wanted to fire a member of the Board of Appeal, the announcement wasn't immediately obvious to the eye, was it?
M. BATTISTELLI: That depends where you were looking.
ARTHUR DENT: I eventually had to go down to the cellar!
M. BATTISTELLI: That’s the public area of the Office.
ARTHUR DENT: With a torch!
M. BATTISTELLI: The lights, had… probably gone.
ARTHUR DENT: So had the stairs!
M. BATTISTELLI: Well you found the notice didn’t you?
ARTHUR DENT: Yes. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”.
Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged Monday, 13 June 2016 at 20:51:00 BST
Meanwhile at the EPO, AMBA have produced another polite but scathing critique:
http://amba-epo.org/
Anonymous Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 17:54:00 BST
At the end of today´s public oral proceedings in relation to a petition by the AC of the EPO to the Enlarged Board of Appeal to remove a judge from office, the EBA announced
1. that its members had received a threatening letter from "an authority which is not a party to the procedure"
2. that it had requested the petitioner in its quality of the members´ appointing authority to distance itself from the threats in that letter
3. that in its response the petitioner did not adequately distance itself from the received letter
4. that the EBK could not in the circumstances pursue the procedure, which accordingly was terminated without the EBA proposing removal from office of the respondent.
Dismiss him Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 18:58:00 BST
Finally, Battistelli is showing to everybody his true face.
Et sinon je reprendrais bien des croquettes ... Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 19:10:00 BST
According to a source cited by Techrights - always to be taken with a pinch of salt, still Techrights was the first to disclose the threats of Battistelli to the EBA:
"inside sources say that Mr. Battistelli sent a threatening message to the Enlarged Board of Appeal dealing with the case, to the effect that they should not let the public be present during the hearing. The EBA is said to take this very seriously and to have forwarded the president’s threat to the chairman of the Administrative Council.”
Mr. Battistelli sent a threatening message to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
If true, then according to the Guidelines for Investigation, everyone concerned has a DUTY to report Mr. B. to the investigative unit. According to what had been presented as his contract, he is after all submitted to the same staff regulations as every one else...
When Mr. Battistelli leaves service in one way or another, will he be submitted to the whim of his successor before applying to a new job?
And if there is a vacancy at the top, does this mean that no one can leave the EPO anymore?
Anonymous Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 07:16:00 BST
BB is appointed by the AC so it is they who would decide his future employment? But if he leaves within 10 years is his pension still retained by the EPO?
Anonymous Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 15:27:00 BST
Why is this blog still silent about the Administrative Council approving the proposed reform last Thursday, with only some relatively minor amendments? This approval is apparently perceived as unbelievable by anybody (except the EPO administration) who dares to express an opinion on the matter.
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Conference Report: Should we say "no" to automatic injunctions and "yes" to proportionate remedies?
Annsley Merelle Ward Thursday, April 04, 2019 - #IPKat, AmeriKat, conference report, FRAND, injunctions, patent injunctions, patent remedies, proportionality, SEP
The AmeriKat mentioned a few days ago that she was unable to get to a conference in Germany that was devoted to debating the enforcement of patents. That conference entitled "Enforcing Patents Smoothly: From Automatic Injunctions to Proportionate Remedies" was organized by Institute of Law and Technology/Chair of Private Law, Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Germany was obviously the appropriate venue, given that the bifurcated system enables the grant of injunctions before validity is assessed. A "problem" that many on the implementer side of the fence have been seeking to address, with a focus on, in the absence of US-style eBay v MercExchange dicta, "proportionate" relief. Although stuck at her desk, IPKat friend Ralf Uhrich (Google) was able to source some excellent guest Kats in the form of Franziska Kurz, Hanno Magnus and David Berger who summarize the conference for the IPKat's readers.
Over to Franziksa, Hanno and David for their fantastic summary of the day's proceedings:
"What remedies fit patent infringement? Patents are all around us, even if we cannot always see them. So, what if I hold a patent in a complex product – say a chip for mobile devices – and you build smartphones using my chip without a licence? What if I hold a patent in a screw and you use this screw in an industrial plant without my permission? Would an injunction always be the fair and adequate response? Generally, if I can prove infringement, the courts in Germany and other countries on the continent will require you to stop your infringing activity and deliver up or destroy the infringing articles. Shouldn’t courts grant more individually tailored remedies – for example, by awarding compensation in lieu or granting “grace periods” to use up the infringing articles or to switch production? And what about standard-essential patents (SEPs)? Can their owners be forced into FRAND-licences?
A conference organised by the Institute of Law and Technology/Chair of Private Law, Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, addressed these questions through talks and discussions on how to enforce patents smoothly (programme here). When ruling on patent infringement, courts have so far been considering various competing interests. The question is, however, if they should further expand their discretion (in common law jurisdictions) or balancing leeway (in EU law or civil law jurisdictions) explicitly to the “remedy-level”. Should future case law lead the way from automatic injunctions to proportionate remedies?
To begin with, Prof Dr Franz Hofmann, LLM argued that remedies in general are an important tool to balance interests (on remedies in European private law, see here). Particularly in patent law, this tool might be utilised more, because patent law is confronted with various competing interests. Whereas balancing is a well-recognised task at the stage of exceptions and limitations, opportunities to strike a balance via remedies are considered more controversial. However, they should not be missed. Via proportionate remedies, patent law enforcement could reach a desired level of “fine-tuning” and “sophisticated enforcement” and strike an optimal balance between the competing interests of patent holders and infringers. Hence, the question “what is the appropriate remedy” should be answered with regards to the individual interests in each case. For example, an injunction might not be granted because switching costs could cause individual hardship. Yet, remedies must not be misunderstood as a general tool to get access to certain technologies.
Prof Dr Tochtermann
Prof Dr Lea Tochtermann, in turn, was more reluctant. Tasked with laying the groundwork for the upcoming discussion, she analysed the question of whether we should scrutinise the automatic grant of an injunction in cases of infringement from the statutory perspective. Spoiler alert: we don’t. At least, according to L. Tochtermann. Starting with TRIPS, she found no sign of proportionality when it comes to granting injunctions. Arguably, neither Art. 44 para. 1 nor Art. 41 para. 2 include a proportionality requirement. And since the wording of Art. 30 is clearly about limiting the scope of the patents as such and addresses members to TRIPS, not individual judges, a broad interpretation is inappropriate. After that, L. Tochtermann analysed the EU IP Enforcement Directive and came to the same conclusion: whereas certain provisions on remedies explicitly spelled out a proportionality requirement (i.e. Art. 8(1), 10(3)), Art. 11 on injunctions did not. Art. 3 might stipulate that every remedy should be “effective, proportionate and dissuasive”, however, L. Tochtermann deemed this to be a "quite general statement". Finally, L. Tochtermann argued with reference to German law: if preconditions of s. 139 German Patent Act were fulfilled, an injunction had to be granted. Though the infringer could raise the good faith defence according to s. 242 German Civil Code, the courts set a high threshold and had yet to refrain from granting an “automatic injunction” in patent cases. In her conclusion, she saw a danger of legal uncertainty and highlighted the function of the patent as a temporary monopoly compensating for the duty to disclose. Therefore, any codification should come with high standards.
After that, Prof Thomas F. Cotter gave an introduction to the economic side of injunctions in Patent Law. Conventional wisdom is that property rules are a good fit for IP rights. The parties might be the best judges of incremental value. Moreover, transaction costs will normally not impede bargaining because patents are public documents, and if necessary parties can form pools and collective rights organisations to mitigate transaction costs when they are high; also, some observers argue that judicial remedies are systematically under-compensatory (although Cotter expressed doubt about this). But there are reasons to question this conventional wisdom: especially when patent owners use injunctions to extract ex-post royalties that exceed the ex-ante value of the invention (‘holdup’, see Thomas F. Cotter, Erik N. Hovenkamp & Norman V. Siebrasse, Demystifying Patent Holdup). In cases in which the risk of holdup is high, courts could deny the injunction. Cotter then showed that this is not without risk, because it may encourage a “holdout” by the infringer if damages are not fully compensatory. Moreover, eliminating the risk of an injunction may discourage private efforts to reduce transaction costs. In theory, the path to the optimal solution is clear: courts should award injunctions only when the social benefits outweigh the social costs. Cotter, admitting this was not very helpful, provided some rules of thumb for the judge.
Prof Dr Nordemann
The next session was opened by Prof Dr Jan Bernd Nordemann who portrayed grace periods in so-called “soft IP”. After a short overview on the development of the principle of proportionality and grace periods, he focussed on the preconditions and characteristics of a period to use up infringing goods. In Unfair Competition Law, he argued that two questions were decisive: who is affected by the infringement in which way and who is protected by the corresponding legal provision. Hence, in unfair competition cases consumer protection and public interests were relevant factors to determine if a grace period could be granted. Trademark Law, by contrast, is focussed on the individual interests of right holders and infringers. Nordemann then outlined the relevant interests to be balanced when (not) granting a grace period in Copyright cases. An additional statutory basis for faultless infringements (s. 100 German Copyright Act) would exist but is barely used due to the broad interpretation of negligence. In the end, he underlined that a grace period is only relevant when an injunction was disproportionate and its exceptional character should by all means be considered by the court. In contrast, grace periods are usually contained in settlements.
After these elaborations on “soft IP”, the conference was guided back to “hard IP” by Prof Dr Christian Osterrieth who depicted grace periods in German Patent Law. According to Osterrieth, the dogma of automatic injunctions has changed due to two cases: “Toll Collect” and “Wärmetauscher” (leading case of the German Federal Court of Justice, BGH GRUR 2016, 1034). He argued that both cases emphasised the question of whether the “old” system of patent enforcement covers all types of cases or whether injunctions should be granted more flexibly and noted that problems arise when complex devices are concerned. Especially when infringers are facing disproportionate"replacement" costs, “tailored” injunctions should gain in importance, bearing in mind the definition of the protected subject matter, even if injunctions should remain the starting point of patent enforcement. Thus, “grace periods” would not lead to compulsory licences but provide a “soft” enforcement tool for “hard IP” rights.
After lunch, Prof Dr Peter Georg Picht addressed injunctions in the context of FRAND cases. As a result of the CJEU decision in Huawei v ZTE, obtaining an injunction has become harder for patent holders. In his opinion, unFRANDly behaviour is an additional layer on top of the requirements for an injunction to be granted. According to Picht such behaviour can be divided into two scenarios: (1) unFRANDly negotiation conduct and (2) unFRANDly content. Following some statistics on injunctions in Germany and the UK, selected issues were discussed. For example, German courts accept claims for injunctions even if the parties do not fulfil their negotiation duties prior to commencing litigation, as long as they “catch up” regarding their conduct during litigation, which might incentivise patentees to “sue first and negotiate later”. On the other hand, courts in the UK accept “conditional injunctions” in cases of untimely litigation (see Unwired Planet v. Huawei, [2017] EWHC 71 (Pat)). They tie the effect of the injunctions they grant to the existence of a FRAND licence (“FRAND injunctions”) [See recent decision of Henry Carr J in TQ Delta which demonstrates that injunctions are not always tied to the FRAND licence]. Whereas UK judges refer to their discretion when granting injunctions, German courts pursue a stricter approach. But even their general procedure of granting injunctions might be modified in a FRAND context, especially when antitrust aspects are involved. Finally, anti-suit injunctions might be used by UK litigants as a strategic tool to safeguard UK jurisdiction in patent claims. Anyhow, a “dialogue of the courts” in cross-jurisdictional disputes would be helpful to avoid contradictory judgments (see further P Picht et al, The Effect of FRAND Commitments on Patent Remedies).
Danny Alexander QC
Later on, the alternatives to injunctions were discussed in more detail. At first, Daniel Alexander QC considered the underlying question “why do the UK courts grant injunctions or alternatives in IP cases”. He emphasised the need to understand the origins of the UK approach to granting/refusing injunctions that are rooted in real property law (Shelfer v City of London [1895] 1 Ch 287). After summarising the current English law against the background of a rise of proportionality requirements via European law, he focussed on two cases: (1) life-saving pharmaceuticals and (2) FRAND determinations in SEPs. The overall themes were the tensions created by the long duration of patent litigation and a fast-developing modern patent system as well as the problem of assessing financial remedies in lieu of injunctions. The latter issue revealed interesting connections to the general debate on “negotiating damages” (Morris-Garner) and the scope of a reasonable licence fee (Reformation v CruiseCo [2018] EWHC 2761 (Ch)). In the subsequent discussion, he further highlighted the interesting tension between the principle of territoriality of IP rights and the assessment of damages via global licence fees.
Next up, Prof Dr John M. Golden considered injunctions in the US after eBay v MercExchange. He reminded us of the need to distinguish between preliminary and permanent injunctions before and subsequent to the eBay decision. Whereas the former injunctions are still difficult to get, Golden analysed that the real change happened with regards to the latter, especially concerning the burden of proof (see further Mark P. Gergen, John M. Golden & Henry E. Smith, The Supreme Court’s Accidental Revolution? The Test for Permanent Injunctions). Overall, he focused on three controversies: (1.) ongoing royalties as an alternative to injunctions, (2.) staying injunctions and (3.) judicial discretion to tailor an injunction with respect to (a.) its timing and (b.) its scope—for example, to be more fitting to the particular infringing aspect (on tailoring injunctions, see John M. Golden, Injunctions as More (or Less) than “Off Switches”: Patent-Infringement Injunctions’ Scope).
Dr Martin Stierle
Nearing the end of the conference, Dr Martin Stierle was tasked with identifying underlying legal principles. Highlighting the very different approaches of common and civil law, Stierle admitted that at first glance he took this task for a “mission: impossible”. However, he considered the fundamental conflict between administrability and flexibility to be the same. The injunction is the default remedy, but do we need exceptions? Stierle concludes that the majority in German academia nowadays says exceptions are needed. The question of whether a non-automatic injunction is a compulsory license in disguise is also common in both legal systems. From a purely theoretical point of view, Stierle’s answer to that question is "no"". If a compulsory licence is granted, there is no infringement of the patent, whereas compensation in lieu of an injunction would be granted in the event of an infringement (see Paice LLC v. Toyota Motor Corp., 504 F.3d 1293, 1313 (Fed. Cir. 2007)). Based on his concept of abuse of right, which Stierle defines as a “dysfunctional exercise of right”, one must consider the function of patent law as creating welfare by innovation. This is why seeking an injunction for an infringement of a non-practiced patent could be deemed an abuse of right.
Finally, Dr Peter Tochtermann presented his perspective as a German judge. He highlighted the issue of proportionality as an argument being put forward by many defendants in current patent litigation proceedings. He argued that a wide judicial discretion could, inter alia, lead to a decrease in predictability of litigation. Nonetheless, P. Tochtermann emphasised that – at least in German law – proportionality is rooted in the constitutional basic rights and the principle of good faith in private law (s. 242 German Civil Code). Thus, German judges already need to take proportionality considerations into account, i.e. by granting a grace period, irrespective of legislative changes. However, the crucial question should always be whether an injunction would indeed be disproportionate in the respective cases.
The final presentation led to a panel discussion chaired by Dr Ralf Uhrich, LLM (Google). The speakers, P. Tochtermann, Patrick Schmitz (Deutsche Telekom) and Dr Clemens-August Heusch (Nokia), discussed the controversial role of the parties and the courts in patent litigation. Should judges grant injunctions more flexibly? And if so, are they well-prepared to do so? Against the background of a current suggestion to change the statutory provision on injunctions in German law (s. 139 German Patents Act), the discussion focused on the need for and consequences of a change in the patent enforcement system. At the end of the day, the remaining overall question was: Where do we see the law of enforcing patents in the future?"
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RIP Grant Tinker
Television has not just lost a giant, it lost its Babe Ruth. Grant Tinker has died at the age of 90. The man who presided over MTM Enterprises in its heyday and then turned NBC into the number one network was 90. No one in the history of television has done more to lift the quality and advance the medium than Grant Tinker. And that’s not even what made him great.
As for those accomplishments: At MTM he was responsible for THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW, RHODA, PHYLLIS, HILL STREET BLUES, ST. ELSEWHERE. Taking over NBC, which was mired in last place, he brought the world CHEERS, COSBY, TAXI, FAMILY TIES, GOLDEN GIRLS, MIAMI VICE, HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN, and dozens of other hit shows. Come Emmy time NBC would usually sweep. Compare that to today when broadcast networks are almost shut out at Emmy time.
His famous dictum was: “First be best, then be first.”
And he practiced it. He brought class, sophistication, and humanity to everything he touched.
In the early ‘70s he was married to Mary Tyler Moore. Coming off the DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, she had a series commitment from CBS. Grant’s idea was to start an independent production company. MTM Enterprises was born. From there he produced other shows (such as THE BOB NEWHART SHOW) and built the company into a powerhouse.
But for me his greatest achievement was how much of a mensch he was. As a leader he was kind, thoughtful, smart, and treated everyone with respect. His philosophy was to hire the best people (like Allan Burns & James L. Brooks for THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW) and let them do their thing. Instead of injecting his own creative input (i.e. “notes”) he took on the role of protector – standing up for his writers against the networks, shielding them from unwanted interference. There’s no one like that today. Not even close.
MTM was Camelot for writers in the ‘70s. It’s where all TV writers wanted to work. When David Isaacs and I were starting out, MTM was our brass ring.
Happily, the first staff job we were offered was at MTM. It was for THE TONY RANDALL SHOW, produced by Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses (who had produced THE BOB NEWHART SHOW). We were hired at such a low level that we didn’t even have a title or on-screen credit. The only time we’d see our names on TV would be when we wrote episodes. But we didn’t care. We were at MTM.
Driving onto the lot that first day was one of the greatest days of my life. And it got better. Later that afternoon we went down to the stage for our first runthrough. Grant Tinker showed up, specifically to see us. He introduced himself, knew our names, welcomed us to MTM, and told us to call if there was anything we needed. Again, we were NOBODIES. Baby writers. We stood there in awe. That he would take the time and make the effort to do that astounds me to this day.
That same level of respect and protection was afforded all of us on CHEERS the first year of that show. Grant was running NBC by then. The ratings were dismal, but he didn’t care. He loved the show, believed in the show, and not only kept it on the air but left us all alone to do it our way. Ironic that his name was Tinker when tinkering was the last thing he ever did.
Whenever I would see him I felt I was in the presence of greatness. And I was always surprised he knew who I was. Even after our tenth encounter. This was like "the prettiest girl in school knew my name."
There was a flap over a joke from an early CHEERS episode that David and I wrote. Some adoption agency took issue with an adoption joke we had written (a pretty funny one actually). The complaint somehow made its way all the way up to Grant. He called us personally to say don’t worry, he’d take care of it. Who does that? I mean, seriously, who does that???
Over the next few days you will read tribute after tribute. If it seems like the industry is praising a saint that’s because (in this one instance) it’s TRUE. Television and popular culture can never repay the debt owed to Grant Tinker. And for those of us lucky enough to work for him, it’s a loss of incalculable measure. He was a visionary, a father-figure, an inspiration, a leader in the true sense of the word, and like I said, a mensch.
He was the best. And he’ll always be first.
dandy_lio said...
I have some articles planned on Tinker's place in the Golden age of the sitcom in USA. He was pretty brilliant. Enjoyable read, cheers!
Ryan Patrick said...
A touching tribute. Thank you for giving us insight that other stories and obituaries won't.
thevidiot said...
I remember the day he called a meeting at NBC Burbank to inform us all that we would be owned by people who made light bulbs. And not coincidentally, he would not be making the trip with us.
I was considering other options & took one, partly as a result of that meeting. I always trusted him & he never let me down. RIP Mr T!
I always voice my respect for Brandon Tartikoff, but I somehow overlook Grant Tinker. For all of us who either work in TV or wanted to, this is a big loss. Thanks, Mr. Tinker, for all you gave us.
Michael Berk said...
My partner and cousin Douglas Schwartz and I were the first writing team Grant made an overall deal with to develop drama series at his new studio GTG (Grant Tinker Gannett). We developed Baywatch. At first Grant didn't like a show about lifeguards with all those bikinis on the beach. But nevertheless he supported us with Brandon Tartikoff at NBC to do a 2-hour movie back-door pilot. The movie did well and Baywatch got on the air on Friday Nights. It did well in the ratings, but by the end of the season Gannett pulled its funding and GTG went out of business. As a result Baywatch was cancelled. We were devastated. But our uncle Sherwood Schwartz (Gilligan's Island and the Brady Bunch creator) suggested we go to Grant and try to get the rights back. After all the studio was out of business. Once again Grant was more than gracious. He sold is the rights to Baywatch back for $10. As a result we were able too get the series back on the air in first-run syndication, and on May 19, 2017 the Baywatch Movie starring The Rock and Zac Efron will hit the big screen worldwide. If it were not for Grant Tinker's support and generosity Baywatch would have been another cancelled show that was a mere footnote in television history. Instead Baywatch as provided my and my family the most successful project in my career that today is stronger than ever 28 years later. Rest in peace, Grant. And thank you for everything.
Among noteworthy MTM series, I'd add Lou Grant and The White Shadow, which were (I think) MTM's first forays into hour-long drama.
With the passing of a true giant in the world of entertainment like Grant Tinker, I can only ask: what giants are left? And, even more sadly, will there ever be any more like him again?
I think TAXI was on ABC, so it doesn't belong in the 1980s NBC camp.
Also, what are the odds of losing Tinker and Fidel Castro both at age 90 within a week?
Frank Beans, what are the odds that three great men like JFK, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis ALL die on the exact same day?
ODJennings said...
Come on, don't leave us hanging--what was the adoption joke?
jcs said...
Since I was a teenager during the 80s, I grew up with Tinker's fare. I am still amazed that he was able to put on unconventional shows like HILL STREET BLUES and ST. ELSEWHERE. Dire work environments, flawed heroes and a lack of happy endings were staples of these Tinker-approved dramas. Tinker allowed his writers and directors to inject a much higher dose of realism into their scripts than other network executives. Many shows during his era were more than a tad above the rest in quality and originality.
Actually, Frank, NBC picked up "Taxi" after ABC cancelled it. Maybe Danny DeVito's hosting "SNL" and having his cast do one "last" bow on the show had something to do with it as Tinker was on the network by then...
I'm re-watching episodes of Cheers, along with my teenage daughter who is discovering it for the first time. I am so, so thankful that Cheers wasn't cancelled after one season. It's so superior to virtually everything on TV today. Such a great show, always laugh-out-loud funny, yet always poignant. Great writing, great acting, great directing. The end credits (with the clarinet) always bring me to nostalgia. For this and many other pleasures, thank you, Mr. Tinker. Job well done.
While I always enjoy reading your tributes, it's sad how often you've had to write them this year. The quality of his reign at MTM and NBC probably will likely never be repeated, also sad to say.
LouOCNY said...
It should also be remembered, that before MTM, Mr Tinker was a highly placed executive at NBC, where he was among those responsible for a lot of cool shows NBC had on in the late 60's such as THE MAN FROM UNCLE, GET SMART and of course, STAR TREK. A lot Trek lore seems to indicate he was one of those that gave Trek the chance for a second pilot and therefore a second chance.
Thanks for all of the great TV and RIP...
Michael Spadoni said...
I remember back in 1970, when our family tuned into CBS on a Saturday night and watched a new kind of sitcom. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a revelation--no witches or genies, no bucolic humor, no formula families with formula children. It was bright, gentle and honest. From that point on, I became a fan of most MTM shows (especially "Lou Grant," which was required viewing for this budding journalist; and "Hill Street Blues," whose innovations live on in this so-called "dramatic golden age"). Everything I have read and learned about Grant Tinker matches your observations, Ken. No wonder the industry has responded to this brilliant, humane and driven television executive. I'm mourning his loss as well. Here's to Grant and the legacy he has left. May it never be forgotten.
Yes, Taxi started on ABC, but it's last season wound up airing on NBC. Foggy on the why.
I wrote a press kit for "Cheers'" 100th episode, and needed to talk with Grant Tinker for one of the feature pieces. So I called his office, fully expecting to get his assistant, who would set up the real interview for a few days from then. Just my luck, Grant Tinker answered his own phone. I hadn't prepared any questions, but knew I had to take advantage of talking with him right away. Total mensch. His legend is earned and well-deserved. RIP.
Re: TAXI--I stand corrected, I didn't realize that it migrated to NBC for its last season. I guess it got the reverse DIFF'RENT STROKES treatment.
peabody nobis said...
Sorry for your loss, Ken. I didn't know the man, and yet I feel a tremendous loss. He did a helluva job at a helluva hard job. And he was once married to Mary Tyler Moore, which was a pretty damned good accomplishment, in itself. Kudos, Mr. Tinker.
Thanks for the many great hours of TV you supplied us, Mr. Tinker -- and thanks for letting creative people create with minimal distraction. Many in the entertainment industry could learn from you.
Marco said...
Awesome. And whatever business you are in: Behaving the way Mr. Tinker obviously did will always pay out long-term.
Max Clarke said...
I watch an episode of Cheers! at least once a week. Still the best sitcom on the air.
Only today, I met somebody who owns the California license plate SYZYGY3. I told him about the episode Everyone Imitates Art, when Diane believes her poem has been accepted by the literary magazine Syzygy.
Good to see an appreciation of the man who saved the show when nobody else knew about it.
David Nichols said...
I never had a chance to work with Mr. Tinker directly. But the wonderful Allan Burns gave me my first staff writing job at MTM in the late '80's, so I always felt like I was benefitting from those bloodlines. (BTW, Brooks and Burns only got together to create "Mary Tyler Moore" because Grant Tinker put them together and said: "I think you two could come up with something good together."). But I was lucky enough to write a couple of pilots for NBC after Brandon Tartikof took the reins. I remember being in a meeting with Brandon in the Spring, when NBC was trying to decide which shows to renew for Fall. He didn't complain about GE at all. But he did say :
"I remember walking down the hall with Grant after a meeting and we were talking about what we should pick up. He said 'What about CHEERS?' I said 'It's dead last in the ratings. But I really like it.' Grant said 'So do I. Let's keep it.' And that was the end of the discussion."
I can only hope that there are leaders with that courage working in all of the new platforms that deliver our entertainment now. I'm happy to have worked under his influence.....
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From Warren Littlefield's appreciation of Grant Tinker:
"Early on after Grant arrived at NBC, he called me down to his office. I was a VP in comedy development and current comedy and this was a big deal being called into the chairman’s office. He stood at his desk — he was decades ahead of the trend to have standing workstations — and was reviewing the weekly ratings ranking report. He was chewing gum and asked me, “Do you have a warm winter coat?”
Huh, what? I thought, we’re living in SoCal, why would I need one?
He then explained: “It’s going to be a mighty cold winter for you. I’ve seen the shows on our lineup — there’s a reason we have none in the top 10 or even top 20. It’s going to be very cold for you.”
I wondered if this is how network execs got fired? Then he said, “Find better shows. Work with better people. You’ll enjoy working here much more, and you won’t need that coat.”
That was Grant Tinker. No screaming, no firing, a dose of reality, a waspish sense of humor and words to live by.
One evening as Brandon, Jeff Sagansky and I pondered what to do about the future of the lowest-rated comedy on all of network television, Cheers, Grant weighed in.
“Do you have anything better?”
“God, no.”
“You like it, right?”
“God, yes.”
“I think the discussion is over.”
Cheers of course went on to be the award-winning tentpole of our Thursday night schedule for the next decade."
willoughby productions said...
Mr. Hollywood asks, what giants are left? Not many is the answer. Les Moonves will likely go down as one for his contributions, but beyond that, the days of Tinker, Tartikoff are fast becoming just a memory
5w30 said...
Another NBC voice here, who in the early 80's worked at 30 Rock.
Through some project and Merryle S. (Bud) Rukeyser Jr, his press VP I was able to get 15 minutes with Grant Tinker. He knew all 21 years of me was shaking in my Weejuns when I walked into his 6th floor suite facing the nice bar Rockefeller Center puts in its plaza in the spring/summer. Tinker put me at ease right away. Told me about his first try at NBC as an executive trainee. Quite a different NBC back then, and quite a different NBC now in 2016.
Thanks for your generous musings and memories, Ken.
Klee said...
That cat is in mourning...MTM Enterprises was truly legendary as his years as NBC's really true golden era!
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Welcome to Australian Lady GaGa & Katy Perry Show
The Australian Lady GaGa & Katy Perry Show is a Sydney based band set up in tribute to the LIVE performances of Lady GaGa & Katy Perry .
Together with a Full Live Band, The Australian Lady GaGa & Katy Perry Show delivers a high energy tribute to Lady GaGa & Katy Perry , reproducing not only the sounds of Lady GaGa & Katy Perry, but the Onstage Antics, images and Costumes.
The Australian Lady GaGa & Katy Perry Show and Tribute Performs all the Worldwide hits such as, ‘Just Dance’, ‘Poker face’, ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Paparazzi‘, ‘Alejandro’, ‘Born this way’, ‘Telephone’,‘Love game’, ‘Edge of Glory’, ‘Kissed a Girl’, ‘Hot n Cold’, ‘California Gurlz’, ‘Firework’, ‘Waking up in Vegas’ and so much more.
This show can be combined with the Australian Pink Show for the ultimate entertainment package.
The Australian Lady GaGa & Katy Perry Show is one of the best respected tribute acts on display in Australia. So come along and have a ball !
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LIVE Video – Kidz Concert
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Video: Q&A Panel #1 at A Celebration of Harry Potter
Posted by Megs February 7th, 2016
Welcome to our longest video from A Celebration of Harry Potter. We recorded the full 40 minute cast Q&A panel for your viewing enjoyment. This panel took place on Saturday January 30th. Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Matthew Lewis, Katie Leung and Evanna Lynch answered questions from fans attending the event.
Filed Under: Bonnie Wright, Celebration of Harry Potter, Evanna Lynch, Katie Leung, Matthew Lewis, Rupert Grint, Universal Orlando Resort, Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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Video: Exclusive Cast Q&A at A Celebration of Harry Potter
Welcome to the first of our post-Celebration of Harry Potter videos! To start off we have the press exclusive chat with Evanna Lynch, Rupert Grint, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright and Katie Leung from Friday January 29th.
7 Things We’re Looking Forward to at Universal’s Celebration of Harry Potter
Posted by Megs January 25th, 2016
In a few days we will be headed down to Florida for Universal Orlando’s 3rd annual Celebration of Harry Potter. We’ve gone every year and are excited to see what Universal has in store for fans this time around! Vacation packages are sold out, but admission to the event is included with any Park-to-Park admission ticket or Annual Pass. The schedule of events for A Celebration of Harry Potter can be found here. Here is what we are most looking forward to. We only listed 7 because that’s the most magical number, but be sure to share what you’re excited about!
1. Then amazing cast lineup! This year we get to spend some time, with Matt Lewis, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Write, Katie Leung and Evanna Lynch! They will be participating in two Q&A panels and also signing autographs and taking photos with fans who bought Premium Vacation Packages. In the past the cast panels have brought some great conversations and amusing filming stories.
2. The Harry Potter Expo. The expo is always full of fun. This year there will be booths for Harry Potter™ The Exhibition, Pottermore, Scholastic, MinaLima and Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter™.
3. Pottermore. I know this is included in the Harry Potter Expo, but Pottermore has teased they will have something very exciting during the weekend! On their website they say:
If you’re coming along to the Celebration in person, be sure to pop down to the Pottermore booth with the free augmented reality app Blippar downloaded to your smartphone or tablet. You never know what you might find…
4. The Scavenger Hunt. This year Universal have set up a fun Harry Potter scavenger hunt that fans can participate in throughout the weekend! There are eight clues for you to find and take photos of/with.
A scavenger hunt is just 1 of many wicked good times to look forward to at #HPCelebration: https://t.co/C5v0Ihx6is pic.twitter.com/7WpaQdWUgH
— Universal Orlando (@UniversalORL) January 24, 2016
5. Graphic Design for the Harry Potter Films with MinaLima! Our owner Megan is a graphic & web designer by day so seeing how the design team came up with the designs and props for the film is always a highlight! Who knows, we may even get some Fantastic Beasts tidbits! Fingers crossed!
6. Kids Beauxbatons and Durmstrang lessons. We may not be kids, but we can’t wait to see kids learn to dance Like a Beauxbatons student & battle Like a Durmstrang with a Universal Orlando choreographer.
7. Paul Harris’ Duelling Demonstration & Wand Masterclass. It’s always a blast learning how to duel with Paul, especially during the first year when Mark Williams demonstrated a battle sequence!
Filed Under: Bonnie Wright, Celebration of Harry Potter, Evanna Lynch, Katie Leung, Matthew Lewis, Rupert Grint, Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Celebration of Harry Potter Schedule Released By Universal Orlando
Universal Orlando has released the schedule for their third annual Celebration of Harry Potter. Events for the Celebration will be taking place at both Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios. You can download the schedule and read more about the event here.
The Harry Potter™ Expo: 9AM – 6PM | Soundstage 33
Movie in the Park: 1:30PM – 4:30PM | Music Plaza Stage
Opening Night Event: 7:30PM – 8PM | Music Plaza Stage
The Harry Potter™ Expo: 9AM – 4:30PM | Soundstage 33
Kids’ Duelling Demonstration & Wand Masterclass with Paul Harris: 10AM – 10:30AM | Music Plaza Stage
Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 10:45AM – 11AM | Music Plaza Stage
Bringing the Harry Potter™ Films to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™: 11AM – 11:30AM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 11:30AM – 12PM | Music Plaza Stage
The Global Impact of Harry Potter™: The Exhibition: 1PM – 1:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 2PM – 2:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
Graphic Design for the Harry Potter™ Films with MinaLima: 2PM – 2:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 2:45PM – 3:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
Harry Potter™ Props Showcase with Acclaimed Prop Maker Pierre Bohanna: 3PM – 3:45PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4:15PM – 5PM | Music Plaza Stage
House Rally: 5:30PM – 6PM | Music Plaza Stage
Harry Potter™ Film Tribute: 6:45PM – 7:45PM | Music Plaza Stage
Harry Potter™ Props Showcase with Acclaimed Prop Maker Pierre Bohanna: 11AM – 11:45PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Bringing the Harry Potter™ Films to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™: 1PM – 1:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4PM – 4:45PM | Music Plaza Stage
Lineup for Universal’s 2016 Celebration of Harry Potter Announced
Posted by Megs November 10th, 2015
Universal Orlando Resort have announced the line up for the 2016 Celebration of Harry Potter! This year, which is the event’s third, will see some past guests as well as new ones that are sure to excite fans! Matthew Lewis and Evanna Lynch will all be returning to the event! Bonnie Wright, Rupert Grint and Katie Leung will also be joining in on the fun from January 29th – 31st.
Access to “A Celebration of Harry Potter” is included with regular theme park admission or with an annual pass, with admission to certain activities being granted on a first-come, first-served basis. While most of the activities for “A Celebration of Harry Potter” will be open to all Universal Orlando park guests and will take place at both Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida theme parks, guests who purchase the exclusive event vacation package will enjoy certain special benefits and reserved sections for the panels and demonstrations.
Full details from the press release are as follows:
HARRY POTTER EXPO (Universal Studios Florida theme park)
The Harry Potter Expo will be held inside a Universal Orlando soundstage and will be open to guests throughout the weekend. The expo will include the following booths and exhibits that will give guests deeper insight into the global phenomenon that is Harry Potter:
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London offers visitors the chance to relive the magic through the eyes of the filmmakers who brought the Harry Potter film series to life. Visitors can step on to authentic sets and admire the real props and costumes used during filming at the series’ production home in England, UK.
The Studio Tour is bringing an interactive taste of the experience to ‘A Celebration of Harry Potter’ 2016, giving you the chance to see the incredible behind-the-scenes talent that went into creating the iconic film series.
Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Sorting Hat Experience
Are you a Gryffindor or a Slytherin? A Hufflepuff or perhaps a Ravenclaw? At the beginning of each school year the Sorting Hat places new Hogwarts students into a house, and now you too have the opportunity to get sorted in a Great Hall setting inspired by the blockbuster films.
Step inside the Expo and the red carpet is rolled out welcoming you to an area celebrating the global impact Harry Potter: The Exhibition has had during its 7-year, 13-city tour, including an exclusive Quidditch inspired photo opportunity.
MinaLima
Graphic designers Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima worked for ten years on the Harry Potter films, creating countless unforgettable graphic props, some of which will be on display including iconic pieces such as The Marauder’s Map, Daily Prophet and Hogwarts school books. Since working on the films, they created the MinaLima Store selling authentic reproductions of the film artwork with limited edition art prints and stationery. They are currently in production on the new feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Pottermore from J.K. Rowling
Pottermore is the digital heart of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World and if discovering more about her magical universe excites you, Pottermore has a surprise in store for fans attending this year’s Celebration of Harry Potter. And keep your eyes peeled for their new Pottermore Correspondent (Rita Skeeter she certainly isn’t), who’ll be there hunting out exclusive scoops and bringing you updates on pottermore.com from the weekend’s activities.
Celebrate Harry Potter at Scholastic’s booth by sharing a message about what Harry Potter means to you. Color in a magical page from our brand-new Harry Potter coloring book. Be sure to enter daily raffles for a chance to win a copy of the new illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, a box set of all seven Harry Potter books, or a Harry Potter coloring book. Collectible giveaways are available for Harry Potter fans of all ages.
To join the conversation, use #HPCelebration. For more information about the event, tickets and available exclusive event vacation packages, visit www.universalorlando.com/celebration.
“A CELEBRATION OF HARRY POTTER” PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS (Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida theme parks)
Demonstrations and Q&A sessions will be available featuring Harry Potter film talent and crew, with special panels and demonstrations for kids. Admission into panels and demonstrations will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Specific times will be released at a later date.
Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter Film Talent Discussion
Enjoy a fascinating and interactive Q&A session featuring some of your favorite actors from the Harry Potter films. Discover what it was like to work on the most successful film franchise in history.
Behind-the-scenes of the Harry Potter props with Pierre Bohanna
Ever wondered how long it takes to make a wand? Or where the inspiration for the hundreds of wand designs in the Harry Potter film series came from? Warner Bros. Studio Tour London presents head prop maker for the films, Pierre Bohanna, who will answer these questions and more. Once you’ve discovered how they were made, raise your own wand as Death Eaters invade the stage to demonstrate how battle scenes were brought to life.
The Global Impact of Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Join us in celebrating the touring attraction that’s visited 13 cities in 9 countries and hosted almost 4 million guests. Harry Potter: The Exhibition is in a unique position to reflect on the global impact of the franchise. Get an exclusive look at the exhibition’s creation and the excitement it continues to deliver to fans around the world. Panel will include exhibition creators, film producers, and film actors who have participated in the openings.
Graphic Design for the Harry Potter Films with MinaLima
Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, from the graphic design studio MinaLima, will share insights into their role as graphic prop designers, and how their paths crossed at the WB film studios while working for 10 years on the Harry Potter movies. They will discuss and show some of the iconic props they created for the Harry Potter films, including The Marauder’s Map, the Daily Prophet, and The Quibbler, amongst others. Still immersed in all things Harry Potter, they will also talk about their involvement in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley, for which they designed all the street and store graphics. During the panel they will welcome questions from the audience.
This year’s “A Celebration of Harry Potter” will also include kids’ demonstrations and interactive experiences such as a ‘Dance Like a Beauxbatons and Battle Like a Durmstrang’ experience, as well as Harry Potter film trivia.
Filed Under: Bonnie Wright, Books, Celebration of Harry Potter, Evanna Lynch, Harry Potter Illustrated Edition, Jim Kay, Katie Leung, Matthew Lewis, Rupert Grint, Universal Orlando Resort, Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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Trailer for ‘Danny and the Human Zoo’ Featuring Evanna Lynch + Photo of Phelps Twins
Posted by Megs August 16th, 2015
BBC has released the trailer for the television film, Danny and the Human Zoo, which will be released later this year. Evanna Lynch plays Bridget O’Riordan, the girlfriend of main character Danny Fearon.
Danny’s world is a series of complex minefields which he has to negotiate: his home life – which his ebullient mother rules with an iron fist in an iron glove; his love life – where the Irish girl he’s in lust with won’t give him the time of day until he wins his first competition; and finally the ups and downs of his emerging career.
When Danny wins a talent competition at his local club it’s not long until he’s working the comedy circuit. Audiences can’t get enough, applauding as he effortlessly morphs into Mohammed Ali, Tommy Cooper and Frank Spencer, and eventually he hits the big time on TV – an unheard-of achievement for a young black boy.
But an unscrupulous manager takes advantage of Danny and forces him to star in a show, the ‘Musical Minstrel Cavalcade’. Danny hits rock bottom. Having made his name by becoming other people, Danny has to save himself by finding out who he really is.
The film also stars James and Oliver Phelps as Mr. Carter and, you guessed it, Mr. Carter. A photo of the two in costume may be seen below:
Last day on set filming with @OliverPhelps and @James_Phelps ???? #DATHZ #actors pic.twitter.com/ThCp9ZO9TV
— Leonie Elliott (@leonie_elliott) May 20, 2015
Filed Under: Evanna Lynch, James and Oliver Phelps
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Posted on June 9, 2016 by Vivi in VISIT BUENOS AIRES
Article by Daniel Whelden.
Ask any resident of Buenos Aires, local or foreign, where their favorite restaurants and bars are and they’ll be quick to name the neighborhoods of Palermo, Recoleta, and San Telmo. A mention of the neighborhood Almagro, however, simply wouldn’t evoke the same response, and would likely fluster a newcomer to the city who perhaps hasn’t ventured out quite so far.
Excluded from the typical touristic route of Buenos Aires, and unexploited when compared to more popular parts of town, Almagro currently remains unchartered territory for most visitors to the city, regarded instead as simply a middle-class residential neighborhood. In recent years, though, this former dairy farm and brick factory region of Buenos Aires has begun to make a name for itself as a gastronomical and cultural hidden treasure of the city with plenty to offer for those willing to wander off the beaten path.
La Catedral – Sarmiento 4006
A former dairy factory and barn warehouse converted into a rustic tango studio, La Catedral is a classic cultural event space in Almagro with an unmistakable bohemian ambiance. This well-known milonga offers 80 peso (April, 2016) tango lessons for various levels of expertise earlier in the night, and also admits guests in as the evening slowly transforms into a tango dance hall later in the night for a cover fee of 60 pesos, although this deal is sweetened to two entries for the price of one before 10pm. Apart from its charming atmosphere and reputable tango scene, La Catedral also offers an exclusively vegetarian menu with bargain prices.
Las Violetas – Av. Rivadavia 3899
No excursion to Almagro is complete without a visit to Las Violetas, Almagro’s prized confiteria. Inaugurated in 1884, this historic and sophisticated café is a porteño favorite for everything from American-style breakfasts to the more traditional Argentine meriendas, lunches and cocktail hours. Complete with ornate doorways, Italian marble columns, white-jacketed waiters and French stained glass windows, Las Violetas is truly a testament to the cherished old-world European ancestry that Buenos Aires loves to pay homage to. Tip: Stop by Las Violetas to indulge in tea and pastries on a weekday or before 4pm on a weekend to avoid both a bustling crowd and higher prices.
Parque Centenario
Although the neighborhoods of Almagro, Villa Crespo, and Caballito all share ownership over Parque Centenario, a trip to this park is a must while in Almagro. Unlike its more refined Palermo counterparts, this unique park maintains a more bohemian atmosphere with a skate park, drum circles, free yoga classes, and live music populating its green spaces. On weekends, a modest bazaar occupies the outer circle of the park where unusual bargain items can be found.
Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora – Hipólito Yrigoyen 3999
Architecture-enthusiasts and those passionate about history should without a doubt make a stop at Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora when passing through Almagro. Over one hundred years old, sixty-four meters tall, and covering one thousand eight hundred square meters, it’s hard to ignore this religious landmark when in the neighborhood. Step inside on a Sunday when the church is open to the public and gaze up at its domed roof, painted blue and covered with glittering stars, for a quiet afternoon of reflection.
Teamim – Av Diaz Velez 4431
Satisfying a craving for Middle Eastern food in Buenos Aires may be no challenge in neighborhoods like Palermo, Belgrano, and Villa Crespo, but the same can’t be said for Almagro. Luckily, a tiny Israeli restaurant has emerged near Parque Centenario in Almagro that serves authentic and affordable dishes. Though the majority of customers order take-out, there is a small seated area in this open-kitchen restaurant to sit and enjoy a quick shwarma or falafel sandwich. Tip: arrive earlier in the lunch or dinner hours before the crowds have depleted their more popular items.
La Cresta – Bulnes 829
When asked where to grab a quick bite to eat in the neighborhood, experienced Almagro residents will quickly recommend La Cresta for its reasonable prices and creative menu. This small take-out shop serves gourmet, and innovative fast-food with relatively healthy ingredients, making it a no-brainer that they’ve expanded across town to San Telmo. Whether you’re craving salad, a wrap, rotisserie chicken, or a hamburger, La Cresta has you covered (and begging for more). Tip: order the Chilli Chutney burger, their all-star menu item.
Cúrcuma – Sarmiento 3685
Vegetarians and health-nuts, rejoice! The health food frenzy has reached Almagro, and Cúrcuma is the place to be. This cozy, rustic restaurant serves up delicious vegan and vegetarian meals and hosts live music on weekends as well as periodic poetry readings. Popular items on the menu include palm heart ceviche, whole wheat pizza, mushroom risotto and lentil hamburgers. Head to Cúrcuma for a healthy home-cooked meal, attentive service, and an intimate, bohemian vibe.
Los Trujillanitos – Av. Corrientes 3564
Almagro is certainly no stranger to Peruvian cuisine with several popular restaurants competing for attention on Avenida Corrientes that offer traditional dishes and affordable lunch specials that entice larger crowds around midday. For a classic Peruvian menu and speedy service, head to Los Trujillanitos, where a mixture of Peruvians, locals, and expatriates quench their appetites over large portions of their favorite meals. Popular items on the menu include seco de carne, papa a la huancaína, aeropuerto de carne (an eclectic stir fry dish) and fried banana. Tip: rather than ordering water, wash it all down with a cold glass (or liter) of Inca Kola for the authentic Peruvian dining experience.
Pin Pun – Corrientes, Av. 3954
Lovers of the traditional Buenos Aires-style pizza can take refuge in Pin Pun, a humble, old-fashioned pizzeria on Avenida Corrientes that fills with taxi drivers grabbing a quick bite to eat. While Pin Pun is anything but a luxurious restaurant, it remains a classic nonetheless for pizza al molde and fried empanadas that will leave you drooling. The decor will remind you of a bygone era, with 1950’s signs cluttered along the walls and vintage items on display for your viewing pleasure. Tip: eat at lunch or dinner hours when the pizza is hot out of the oven, and avoid going in the off-hours when food is being reheated.
La Granja Converso – Lavalle 3501
In a city where barbeque-culture reigns supreme, both locals and expatriates are quite familiar with the custom of visiting butcher shops for various cuts of meat. In Almagro, however, a specialty carnicería by the name of La Granja Converso offers unconventional options including llama, alligator, deer, boar and buffalo meat. Pay a visit to this unique butcher shop to pick up a novelty meat for your next barbeque, and check out their website afterwards for suggested recipes if you’re unsure how to prepare it.
Lo de Roberto – Bulnes 331
For a truly authentic porteño experience, head to Lo de Roberto in Plaza Almagro, where the spirit of tango lives on through music every single night of the week. This charming, intimate watering hole fills quickly with patrons eager for an earful of traditional tango sung from only an arm’s length away. As drinks are poured, and melancholic tunes fill the room, a hat is passed around to collect tips from those enjoying themselves in the bar that Carlos Gardel once frequented.
(photo courtesy of Sr. Duncan’s Facebook page)
Señor Duncan – Av Rivadavia 3832
Don’t be confused if you’re standing outside this unmarked bar on Avenida Rivadavia, wondering if you’ve jotted down the incorrect address. Tucked away above a flight of stairs inside what appears to simply be an old home, Señor Duncan is a hidden bar known only by word of mouth. Fans of this unadvertised bar, known as “Duncaneers”, flock to this hideaway cultural center for affordable drinks and live music, as well as dance and theatre lessons. Visit their Facebook page for their weekly itinerary of events.
El Banderín – Guardia Vieja 3601
Finding a classic neighborhood bar can be tricky in modern day Buenos Aires, where posh cocktail bars are the norm and password-protected speakeasies are popping up left and right. For those who prefer a simplistic, antiquated sports bar and an unpretentious environment, El Banderín in Almagro is the perfect location. One of the oldest cafés in the neighborhood, this humble, one-room bar offers a laid-back, friendly alternative for grabbing a beer with friends.
Guardia la Vieja – Billinghurst 699
Located directly across the street from El Banderín lies Guarda la Vieja, a trendier yet relaxed bar in the neighborhood filled with twenty and thirty-somethings. Expect to wait for a table when arriving later in the night, as this colorful bar is well-known for its festive atmosphere, reasonably priced menu, and a large projection screen that has cult-classic films (such as Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) running silently in the background with music playing overtop.
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"No Pen can describe it, no Tongue can express it, no Thought conceive it, unless some of those who were in the Extremity of it; and who, being touch'd with a due sense of the sparing Mercy of their Maker, retain the deep Impressions of his Goodness upon their Minds, tho' the Danger be past: and ...
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
"The following Treatise is but a small part of a Volume of Criticism intended to be publish'd in Folio, in which in Treating of the works of the most Celebrated English Poets Deceas'd, I design'd to shew both by Reason and Examples, that the use of Religion in Poetry was absolutely necessary to r...
— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
"It is plain then that these Persons by designing totally to suppress the Stage, which is the only encouragement that we have in these Islands of Poetry, manifestly intended to drive out so noble and useful an Art from among us, and by that means endeavour'd with all their might to weaken the pow...
"Nay, wise Men and great Philosophers, have accounted it as the Archet or Musical Bow of the Mind. And certainly it is most true, and as it were a Secret of Nature, that the Minds of Men are more patent to Affections, and Impressions Congregate than Solitary."
"For the Spirits being set in a violent emotion, and the Imagination being fir'd by that agitation; and the Brain being deeply penetrated by those Impressions, the very Objects themselves are set as it were before us, and consequently we are sensible of the same Passion that we should feel from t...
"But as soon as Religion was sufficiently imprinted in the Minds of Men, and they had leisure to Treat of Human things in their writings they invented Prose, and invented it in Imitation of Verse, as Strabo tells us in the first Book of his Geography; but after that Prose was invented by them; ne...
"Superstition, and Despair of Eternal Salvation are wont to imprint on the sensitive Soul, the Blood and Body, in a manner the like affects of Melancholy, as Love and Jealousie, tho' some way after a different manner of affecting; for in the former, the Object whose getting or loss is in danger, ...
— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)
"In those kinds of affects, the Corporeal Soul being carryed away, as it were by Violence, both Divorces it self from the Body, and being modified according to the Character of the Idea imprinted, is wont to take a New Species, either Angelical, or Diabolical; mean while the Understanding, inasmu...
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"The monstrous Affectation of being thought artful, immediately kills all Thoughts of Humanity and Goodness, and gives Men a Sense of the soft Affections and Impulses of the Mind (which are imprinted in us for our mutual Advantage and Succour) as of meer Weaknesses and Follies."
— Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison
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Peace and War Seminar
More than 40 people attended ‘PEACE and WAR’, this year’s Wellington Theological Consortium seminar, held at All Saints Church in Hataitai, Wellington, on Saturday 29 August. The theme reflected this year’s centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign.
Professor Chris Marshall
There was an exciting range of papers presented:
Christian pacifism and peace-making (Professor Chris Marshall, VUW);
Is just war an option? (Canon Deborah Broome);
The changing nature and ethics of warfare (Professor Richard Jackson, Acting Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago);
Politics, injustice and terrorism (Dr Jim Veitch, previously at Massey & VUW); and
Lest we forget? The significance of Gallipoli today.
This last paper shared History teacher and Wellington College Deputy Principal Robert Anderson’s experiences taking groups of College boys to sites at Gallipoli and the Western Front, and brought home to the audience the stories of the men who went to war and the people they left behind.
All who came found the seminar extremely rewarding. People went home with plenty to think about, having had their ideas of warfare, justice, and peace challenged and extended.
Professor Richard Jackson
The seminar was organised for the Consortium by the Diocese’s Wellington Institute of Theology (WIT). The Consortium is a partnership between Wellington-based institutions for theological education: Wellington Institute of Theology (Anglican), the Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand, Wellington Pacific Bible College and Booth College of Mission (The Salvation Army), to advance the intellectual exploration of Christian faith and mission.
The consortium hopes to upload the papers from Saturday’s seminar to its website so that those who could not attend will be able to read them.
Family Picnic coming up
City Missioner encourages parishes to make a difference this Christmas
Thank You! Resettlement of Syrian Refugees
Team Training Day: inheriting the family business
Covenanting together: Bishops’ News, February 2019
Congratulations to our new priests and deacons!
Christian community effort brings housing solution to Hutt
Red Cross partnership inspires church unity
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From National Geographic:
From National Geographic Sea of StarsPhotograph by Doug Perrine, Alamy
Pinpricks of light on the shore seem to mirror stars above in an undated picture taken on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives.
The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton—and now scientists think they know how some of these life-forms create their brilliant blue glow.
Various species of phytoplankton are known to bioluminesce, and their lights can be seen in oceans all around the world, said marine biologist and bioluminescence expert Woodland Hastings of Harvard University. (Also see"Glowing Sea Beasts: Photos Shed Light on Bioluminescence.")
"I've been across the Atlantic and Pacific, and I've never seen a spot that wasn't bioluminescent or a night that [bioluminescence] couldn't be seen," Hastings said.
The most common type of marine bioluminescence is generated by phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. A recent study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time identified a special channel in the dinoflagellate cell membrane that responds to electrical signals—offering a potential mechanism for how the algae create their unique illumination.
—Ker Than
Equinox, Pollen and Science related Art
In celebration of the first day of Spring, yesterday, and also to recognize the record setting pollen levels here, I am posting a picture and BBC report on Chilean artist's installation at Somerset House UK, Out of Sync.
From the BBC World Service
An art installation made up of 10,000 handmade clay flowers has been unveiled at Somerset House in London.
Out of Sync, by Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere, marks the start of the venue's new programme of events.
Casasempere individually made each flower, ensuring no one bloom is the same.
Somerset House said the artist "hopes to give an impression of conformity and yet show how we are always able to spot subtle differences in repeated images".
Casasempere is best known for his clay sculptures and brought twelve tonnes of his own clay with him when he moved from Chile to London in 1997.
Somerset House said he "regularly pushes the boundaries of the discipline by experimenting with different mixtures and materials".
It is hoped the free display will "remind visitors of the wonder and accuracy of nature's clock in our ever changing man-made environment".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17399137
For those in midst of pollen induced sneezing fits with the record pollen count, an interactive explanation for what happens during a sneeze courtesy of the Washington Post.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/cold/
Hey Ms K where are the muscles? I couldn't find it and I looked everywhere......
The current topic of muscles for the SL class is found in Options Exercise Physiology. Check out the clip on that explains movement of myosin across actin contracts muscle fibres. Come in to class prepared with questions and note cards.
Midterm Exam Reminder: Don't forget to look in Physiology Immune System too.
Pathogens are listed under IB Topic 6 Physiology subheading is Immune System. You will find information and links related to that topic in the Immune System. Please check out that page for more information. You can find knowledge audits, How To's and general IB requirements in the General Documents. Study hard and get some sleep!
Movie science links. Not all are kid tested and scientist approved
I have not seen all of the movies that are listed on this site focusing on cognitive science in the movies, nor do I recommend any. You know by now that I think you should be reading science and watching science documentaries instead of movies! There are other science in the movies compilations, usually by science discipline, that I will add later. If you come across any in all your Google searches, pass them along. Something to pass the time on your Friday half day. https://www.indiana.edu/~cogfilms/about.html
Midterm Exam study break item
Very cool look at the size of things. Take the Learn Genetics interactive and apply that to the whole universe. Take a peek while you are taking a break from all those note cards you are making for your upcoming quiz. Who knew the scale of a Yoctometer or a Yottameter ? These makes nanometers seem pretty simple. http://scaleofuniverse.com/
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Man City star sends ‘lucky’ message to Liverpool FC
Ilkay Gundogan is confident Manchester City will win the Premier League title, adding that Liverpool FC have been “lucky” this season.
The Reds have managed to keep pace with the defending Premier League champions throughout the campaign after coming through some difficult moments.
Liverpool FC left it late to wrap up victories over Fulham and Southampton on the road in recent weeks to ensure they don’t lose ground on the Citizens.
Jurgen Klopp’s side required Toby Alderweireld to net a late own goal in added time to secure a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield.
Manchester City are the only Premier League team to have beaten Liverpool FC this season after a 2-1 victory over Klopp’s men at The Etihad.
Germany international Gundogan believes Liverpool FC have benefited from a lot of fortune in the Premier League title race this season. “Liverpool are desperate to be champions,” Gundogan told Fanatik, as quoted by Metro. “They want to win the Premier League more than the Champions League.
“But everything is in our hands. I think we have played the better football. We were seven points behind them and then we went ahead of them.
“If we win our game in hand, we will go past them and be the leaders. We shouldn?t forget that.
“I think they have been very lucky in the past one or two months. They have scored a lot of late goals recently.
“Everything is in our hands. If we win the last six games the...
source: thesportreview-liverpool
URL source: http://www.thesportreview.com/tsr/topics/liverpool/
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We supported young designer David Koma from graduation – launching the brand to the UK and international markets through the NEW GEN scheme during London Fashion Week, positioning David as a leading design talent within London and establishing his brand as a serious contender within the world of international fashion.
Over six seasons we supported David Koma’s presence during London Fashion Week, building brand awareness through on schedule catwalk shows alongside a series of introductions to key influential editors to develop strong personal relationships, securing show reviews, designer profiles and celebrity VIP dressing.
I would like to thank the agency for playing such a fundamental role in introducing and establishing the David Koma brand in the UK market. Their guidance and insight at the start of my journey provided invaluable support.
--- David Koma
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Marijuana medical uses
January 19, 2008BlogComments: 0
Case Vignette
Marilyn is a 68-year-old woman with breast cancer metastatic to the lungs and the thoracic and lumbar spine. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy with doxorubicin. She reports having very low energy, minimal appetite, and substantial pain in her thoracic and lumbar spine. For relief of nausea, she has taken ondansetron and prochlorperazine, with minimal success. She has been taking 1000 mg of acetaminophen every 8 hours for the pain. Sometimes at night she takes 5 mg or 10 mg of oxycodone to help provide pain relief. During a visit with her primary care physician she asks about the possibility of using marijuana to help alleviate the nausea, pain, and fatigue. She lives in a state that allows marijuana for personal medicinal use, and she says her family could grow the plants. As her physician, what advice would you offer with regard to the use of marijuana to alleviate her current symptoms? Do you believe that the overall medicinal benefits of marijuana outweigh the risks and potential harms?
Which one of the following approaches do you find appropriate for this patient? Base your choice on the published literature, your clinical experience, recent guidelines, and other sources of information.
Option 1: Recommend the Medicinal Use of Marijuana
Recommend the Medicinal Use of Marijuana
J. Michael Bostwick, M.D.
Within established doctor–patient relationships, I endorse thoughtful prescription of medicinal marijuana for patients in situations similar to Marilyn’s. A largely anecdotal but growing literature supports its efficacy, particularly for pain or nausea that is unresponsive to mainstream treatments.1 In 1970, marijuana was designated a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, a classification indicating a high potential for abuse and a lack of medical value.2 But physicians face a catch-22: although 18 states have legalized medicinal marijuana, physicians in those states who write prescriptions violate the law of the land.
Federal policy has failed to keep pace with recent scientific advances. Laboratory research has elucidated the far-flung endocannabinoid system that modulates neurotransmitter networks throughout the body through cannabinoid-1 (CB1) receptors that are preferentially distributed in the brain and cannabinoid-2 (CB2) receptors that are prominent in gut and immune tissues. Among dozens of cannabinoids in raw marijuana, two show medicinal promise. The first, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), is the CB1 ligand that recreational users prize. The second, cannabidiol (CBD), acting on CB2, lacks psychoactivity but works synergistically with Δ9-THC to minimize “highs” and maximize analgesia.2,3
Arguments for and against medicinal marijuana are manifold. Under federal law, the drug is illegal. However, given widespread state defiance, the cannabis horse long ago burst from the federal jurisdictional barn. In Colorado, a handful of physicians write half the state’s prescriptions for medicinal marijuana, for questionable indications
.4 Just because a few rogue doctors flout lax legislation to abet pot-mill commerce, that doesn’t justify depriving all physicians of the right to prescribe medicinal marijuana. No trials under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have compared medicinal marijuana with traditional analgesics.5 Because of marijuana’s Schedule I status, industry is thwarted in its attempts to develop compounds with endocannabinoid agonist or antagonist qualities that might have analgesic, appetite-modulatory, immunosuppressant, antiemetic, neuroleptic, or antineoplastic effects, among other possibilities.2 Some people may contend that dose determination by patients deviates from modern medical practice,3,6 but adjustment of medications by patients is ubiquitous in hospitals through patient-controlled analgesia pumps. Some people argue that as a drug of abuse, marijuana has no business being used for clinical purposes. Yet, several Schedule I drugs have close cousins with legitimate medical applications. Heroin and morphine derivatives have an illicit–licit kinship, as do “ecstasy” (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and stimulant drugs central to the treatment of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder, as well as phencyclidine and ketamine, an anesthetic agent.2
Meanwhile, Marilyn seeks relief from the consequences of metastatic breast cancer. Neither acetaminophen nor oxycodone has proven to be effective against the serious pain of spinal and visceral metastases. Neither ondansetron nor prochlorperazine has relieved the nausea, which may have been induced by doxorubicin. More aggressive narcotics could be prescribed (risking the worsening of gastrointestinal symptoms), but Marilyn asks her doctor whether medicinal marijuana might offer the singular advantage of reducing pain and nausea simultaneously.
Inhaled pharmaceuticals are commonplace, but in the United States no vaporized inhalant is currently available as an alternative to medicinal marijuana, pending FDA approval of nabiximols, currently in phase 3 trials (ClinicalTrials.gov number, 01337089).6 With slow onset and unreliable bioavailability, oral cannabinoids are ill suited to relieving Marilyn’s acute distress.2 If she had no recreational experience with marijuana, Marilyn could find medicinal marijuana’s psychoactive effects unacceptable, although noxious psychoactivity also limits opiate use. Should Marilyn experience benefit, however, she would channel 5000 years of medical history, including the century when cannabis derivatives routinely resided in American doctors’ black bags.1
In sum, I believe that physicians who prescribe medicinal marijuana should do so only when conservative options have failed for fully informed patients treated in ongoing therapeutic relationships. As federal gridlock prevents much-needed research, patients such as Marilyn deserve the potential relief that medicinal marijuana affords.
Option 2: Recommend against the Medicinal Use of Marijuana
Recommend against the Medicinal Use of Marijuana
Gary M. Reisfield, M.D., Robert L. DuPont, M.D.
Marilyn’s query should be recognized both for the words — a straightforward question about medicinal marijuana use — and for the music — a plea for symptom relief. Both must be addressed. Although marijuana probably involves little risk in this context, it is also unlikely to provide much benefit. Simply to allow a patient with uncontrolled symptoms of metastatic breast cancer to leave the office with a recommendation to smoke marijuana is to succumb to therapeutic nihilism.6
There is burgeoning interest in the therapeutic potential of targeting the endocannabinoid system. Although most of the research into this system involves the use of specific cannabinoids, a small body of high-quality research shows evidence of clinically significant analgesia from smoked marijuana, primarily for neuropathic pain. There is little evidence to support the use of smoked marijuana for Marilyn’s nociceptive pain, and less still for her other symptoms.
Smoked marijuana is a nonmedical, nonspecific, and potentially hazardous method of drug delivery. The cannabis plant contains hundreds of pharmacologically active compounds, most of which have not been well characterized. Each dispensed quantity of marijuana is of uncertain provenance and of variable and uncertain potency and may contain unknown contaminants.
There are other questions to consider in Marilyn’s case. Could marijuana’s cognitive side effects, particularly its effects on memory, promote or exacerbate chemotherapy-induced cognitive dysfunction? If Marilyn’s pulmonary disease includes lymphangitic spread, could smoking cause hypoxemia? What effects will marijuana’s potential immunologic hazards (e.g., chemical constituents, pyrolized gases, viable fungal spores, or pesticide residues) have on her health during periods of immunocompromise?7How will marijuana, alone or in combination with other medications associated with potential cognitive and psychomotor impairment, affect her ability to safely operate a motor vehicle?8 What are the possible effects of marijuana on tumor progression? The putative cannabinoid receptor GPR55 (G-protein–coupled receptor 55) is expressed in human breast cancers, with higher levels of expression correlated with more aggressive phenotypes.9 The marijuana constituent Δ9-THC has been shown in some studies to act as a GPR55 agonist, raising the possibility that it can promote cancer-cell proliferation.10
Two prescription cannabinoids are available, dronabinol (Marinol) (a synthetic Δ9-THC) and nabilone (Cesamet) (a Δ9-THC congener), which are FDA-approved for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. These medications have shown efficacy in the management of pain and distress. In contrast to smoked marijuana, they feature oral administration, chemical purity, precise dosages, and a slower onset but sustained duration of action. They may be less likely than smoked marijuana to induce anxiety, panic, and negative mood states,11 but they have otherwise similar side-effect profiles.
Cannabinoids, however, should be used only as lower-tier therapies for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, since other medications, such as 5-hydroxytryptamine3-receptor antagonists, dexamethasone, and aprepitant, have superior efficacy and fewer side effects.12
Assure Marilyn — and follow through on the assurance — that throughout her illness she will be accompanied, cared for, and helped to live as well and as long as possible. Reassure her that meticulous attention will be paid to symptom relief. Discuss the patient-specific potential risks and benefits of smoked marijuana and of the administration of pharmaceutical cannabinoids. There is little scientific basis for recommending that she smoke marijuana for symptom control. As Bernard Lown remarked, “Caring without science is well-intentioned kindness, but not medicine.”13
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Double taxation : taxes on income : protocol between the United States of America and France amending the convention of August 31, 1994, signed at Washington, December 8, 2004, (electronic resource)
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New Books in Geography — November 2016
Staff December 5, 2016 New Books in Geography — November 20162017-10-20T14:38:37-04:00 New Books Received, Recent News
Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirqazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar (Indiana University Press 2016)
Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Arcaeobotany by Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard (University of Arizona Press 2014)
Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia by Neil L. Whitehead and Stephanie Alleman (eds.) (University of Arizona Press 2016)
Cannabis: Evolution & Ethnobotany by Robert C. Clark and Mark D. Merlin (University of California Press 2016)
Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil & Norman Sims (University of Minnesota Press 2016)
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press 2016)
Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America’s Small Towns by Jack Williams (University of Virginia Press 2016)
Eating The Ocean by Elspeth Probyn (Duke University Press 2016)
Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology by Allan S. Gilbert, Paul Goldberg, Vance T. Holliday, Rolfe D. Mandel, and Robert S. Sternberg (eds.) (Springer 2017)
Food and Power in Hawai’i: Visions of Food Democracy by Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata (eds.) (University of Hawai’i Press 2016)
Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy by Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla, and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (Russell Sage Foundation 2016)
Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen (eds.) (University of Manitoba Press 2016)
Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries that Revolutionized Geography by Joseph J. Kerski (ABC-CLIO 2016)
Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation by Carl Schmitt, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (translator), and Russell A. Berman (ed.) (Telos Press 2017)
Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West by Sara Dant (Wiley-Blackwell 2016)
Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, Eighth Edition by A. Jon Kimberling, Aileen R. Buckley, Phillip C. Muehrcke, and Juliana O. Muehrcke (ESRI Press 2016)
The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America by Andrew Russell and Elizabeth Rahman (eds.) (Bloomsbury 2016)
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration by Karen C. Pinto (University of Chicago Press 2016)
Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation by José E. Martínez-Reyes (University of Arizona Press 2016)
Mountain: Nature and Culture by Veronica della Dora (University of Chicago Press 2016)
Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson by James D. Rice (Johns Hopkins University Press 2009)
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops by Paul E. Minnis (University of Arizona Press 2014)
Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia’s Petroleum Sector by Stephen C. Cote (West Virginia University Press 2016)
Peanuts and Philosophy: You’re a Wise Man, Charlie Brown! by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (eds.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2017)
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NEWS: ART 50 WEEKENDER
Claire Dupree previews a weekend of art and performance which examines what it means to be British in a post-Brexit Britain
By Claire Dupree on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Image: Barby Asante, Declaration of Independence, Diaspora Pavilion May 2017 Image by Francesco Allegretto
Unsurprisingly, given the current political and social predicament we find ourselves in at the moment, national identity and our place in the world is a hot topic and it’s inevitable that the art world reacts to the zeitgeist. A project commissioned by Sky Arts (alongside Storyvault Films, the Barbican and our very own BALTIC and Sage Gateshead) will examine what it means to be British, with 50 commissions examining the attitudes, opinions and experiences of people from cities, towns and villages across the country.
The Art 50 Weekender will take place at Sage Gateshead and BALTIC on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th February, with performances, music and art free to attend (although some require a ticket). Across the weekend, BALTIC will present a series of new commissions, collaborating directly with three artists to develop site-specific pieces and working with the local community. Indian composer Jasleen Kaur presents her film about second and third generation Sikhs living in London who use music and rap as a political tool; Newcastle-based photographer Kuba Ryniewicz works alongside intergenerational groups from the region to focus on the relationships between art and nature; while London-based Barby Asante’s Declaration of Independence installation is a performative forum, mirroring the kind of spaces used to negotiate independence, coalitions and trade deals. A performance on Sunday 24th will invite the public to make their own individual declarations.
The Art 50 Weekender promises a thought-provoking exploration of how we see ourselves at this pivotal moment in our history
A series of further commissions in the gallery’s Level 1 space will include Common Vision’s Brand Identities For Millennial Britain, which displays witty products that re-brand today’s Britain; filmmaker Matty Crawford and Joe Argent’s film, His England, focuses on the story of a football loving young Asian British kid; the screening of Simon Wade’s Huntington Gardens attempts to find the lighter side of the debate, with a comedic look at the microcosm of post-Brexit Britain; poet and playwright Simon Armitage explores the relationship between Britain and Europe in his film, The Brink; there’s quirky animation from Gadzooks’ Mad Dogs; Stock, an absurd post-Brexit fairytale set in Manchester by Naqqash Khalid, plays with language and communication; while Sarah Maple’s paintings explore colonialism through the experiences of her own family’s migration.
On Sunday 24th Sage Gateshead’s spaces will play host to several events, kicking off with a performance of When We Collide, a collaboration between composer Alex Groves and writer/director Rebecca Hanbury and written by people from schools and community choirs across the UK; a poetic conversation by Chloe Florence and Laurie Ogden will be set to music by artistic collaborators Lyrix Organix; a rehearsed reading of Martha Bennett’s And The Band Keeps Marching On takes a view of British identity from a Northern Irish Loyalist point of view; music and spoken word performance Backbone Of Our Land, first premiered at Folk on the Tyne, will see poets Degna Stone, Kim Moore and Andrew McMillan collaborate with musicians Peter Brewis, Bella Hardy, Sarah Hayes and Dan Rogers to discover what it means to be Northern. In the evening, DanceXchange’s This Is An Island? uses dance, spoken word and installations to present a no-holds barred vision of Brexit through the eyes of Birmingham residents.
The Art 50 Weekender promises a thought-provoking exploration of how we see ourselves at this pivotal moment in our history.
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Artigo publicado online na revista Scientometrics (FI= 2,173) em 30 de abril de 2019:
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Montefusco AM, Nascimento FP, Sennes LU, Bento RF, Imamura R. Influence of international authorship on citations in Brazilian medical journals: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics. 2019 April 30. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03104-0.
The challenge of increasing the impact of regional journals has received much attention. While funding and research agencies require the acceptance of papers from foreign authors as a means of increasing citations, Brazilian journal editors dispute the impact of this measure. This study aimed to evaluate, for Brazilian medical journals, whether the number of citations a document received was influenced by the authors’ institutional affiliations or other predictive factors related to the paper or the journal. Sixty-one medical journals published in Brazil in 2012 were selected for analysis. SCImago and Scopus were used to extract the articles and their data. The number of citations a document received in 5 years was analyzed according to the authors’ affiliations, language, document type, SCImago Cites per Document, and journal subject category. After adjusting for covariates by multivariate analysis, documents with collaborative international affiliations showed a citation increase of 0.17 (95% CI: 0.084–0.216) over documents by Brazilian authors. Significant increases in citations were also observed for bilingual documents (0.329; 95% CI: 0.236–0.380), English-only documents (0.159; 95% CI: 0.078–0.203), articles (1.590; 95% CI: 1.363–1.714), reviews (2.752; 95% CI: 2.355–2.972), and those under the subject category of hematology (1.280; 95% CI: 0.756–1.604). In summary, while collaborative international authorship increased citations in the investigated journals, language, type of document, and subject category had a stronger impact on the number of citations.
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Searching for work, he hopes bus sign will be route to job
By Shirleen Holt
Seattle Times business reporter
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Torsten Reinl wants a job badly, and he's paying $888 to put his message on three Metro buses.
Talk to us: What have you done to stand out from the pack in a job hunt? Did it work?
By the end of next month, more than 100,000 people will have seen Torsten Reinl's face plastered on the outside of a Seattle bus. But there's only one person he's concerned with: his future employer.
That, is if his gamble pays off, if some desperate recruiter spots his 2-by-6-foot ad with "Hire Me!" in block letters, jots down his phone number, calls him, interviews him and offers him a job.
It could happen. And monkeys could fly out of the tailpipe.
"If this doesn't work, what will?" asks the 33-year-old unemployed IT worker. "It's just so out there."
Actually, Reinl is more of a realist than he lets on. The benefit of this stunt is the publicity a chance to stand out from the 97,000 other people also looking for work in the Seattle area, a way to get his face in the door.
And for him and others out of work longer than a year, advertising on the back of a bus, handing out résumés in a public market, offering bribes for jobs all seem more hopeful than the alternative: waiting at home for the phone not to ring.
Although there are no statistics on, say, the number of people posing as pizza-delivery people and taping their résumés to the inside of boxes, the longer the recession and jobless recovery go, the more some creative job seekers resort to extraordinary measures.
Former insurance executive Richard Wilcox stood on a suburban Boston street corner with a "job wanted" sign, a desperate act that drew a Wall Street Journal feature and eventually brought him work.
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In February, Buck Cockrell, an unemployed 31-year-old marketer from Seattle, offered airline tickets to Hawaii to anyone who found him a job.
That gimmick earned him a story in The Seattle Times and play on CNN. (Did it work? We don't know, Cockrell didn't return our phone calls. Dude!)
Gimmicks that worked
Creativity definitely gets you noticed, and sometimes it'll even land you a job. Brandon Toropov listed some stunts that worked in his 1996 book, "303 Off-the-Wall Ways to Get a Job."
Take an ad out on the side of a bus. Seriously, this worked for someone. Reinl, we take back that comment about the monkeys.
Send a "verbal résumé," a cassette tape for the decision maker to listen to on the way home from work.
Customize the envelope for your résumé packet. One applicant use the brochure for the hotel he was applying to.
Send a huge jigsaw-puzzle piece. With the obvious message: I'll make a perfect fit on your team. Some employers would find that clever, others may think it's corny. Know your audience.
Attach a balloon to your application. (See cautionary note above.)
Write a one-sentence Post-it note. This accompanied one woman's résumé, stating simply, "I am the right person for this job and I can prove it to you; call me at ... ' "
Put your résumé on a bottle of wine. Toropov writes that this was started in France, when a winemaker wanted to help jobless college students by putting résumés on the backs of bottles. Apparently, employers loved it.
"I would say the percentage of stunts is probably a little bit up because there are a lot of people looking for jobs," says Tracy Wong, who has seen his share as creative director for Seattle's Wongdoody advertising agency.
His favorite was a job hopeful who pasted a life-sized photo of himself, complete with a squished face, on the elevator doors.
"Nobody knew when he did it," Wong says. "Everybody came in the next morning and, boom, the doors came together and there he was."
Did the agency hire him?
Reinl, laid off as a project manager for Bellevue game maker Sierra Entertainment in 2002, hadn't had any luck with his traditional job search, so he figured he'd go gonzo.
He recalled seeing a résumé posted on a bus shelter in his native Germany and thought, "You have to take it one step further, you have to be on the bus."
Viacom Outdoors is the company that handles bus advertising. It's never gotten a request like this, says general manager Bob English.
"We did have a fellow who proposed to his girlfriend, though. She said yes."
The company gave Reinl a deal, three buses for the price of two: $888.
"I've been slowly but surely running out of money anyway," Reinl says. "I might as well spend it on something that's, bang, out there."
Dana Briggs says a master's degree in management, and a background in technical writing and corporate training haven't been enough to end 17 months of unemployment.
Nor have the 2,500 job applications or his 165 visits to local businesses.
So the 48-year-old divorced father of two is raising his visibility sort of.
He stands in high-traffic areas such as Kirkland Market with a stack of résumés and a sign: "Have graduate degree, homeless, need living wage nonprofit job."
It's not the most effective method, acknowledges Briggs, who sold his Bellingham home at a loss 10 months ago and has moved between homeless shelters and friends' homes.
"It's been a very interesting social experiment. Most people don't even look at you."
Dana Briggs, who has a master's degree in management, says he once had a six-figure income but is now homeless and jobless. He advertises and hands out résumés in downtown Kirkland.
Those who do have tried to give him money and, in one instance, bring him food. He'll accept neither, nor does he want pity. He just wants a job.
So how well do such extreme gambits work?
Tom Washington, Bellevue career counselor and author of "Interview Power," says they certainly don't hurt.
"People are desperate, and if other things aren't working, maybe this will," he said.
"Research shows that people who use multiple strategies have more success than those who use one or two. So yeah, give some serious consideration to unusual, even odd ideas. But don't stop doing the other things."
Bill Toliver, who heads the Seattle advertising and branding firm Sweetgrass, is impressed by job seekers who take extraordinary measures. It shows initiative, creativity, determination.
"We call it the X factor."
Toliver hired his current senior art director, Larry Burke-Weiner, in part because of his off-the-wall introduction.
"He sent around a brain in a jar. It said 'Buy Larry's brain.' It was impossible not to notice."
Toliver and Wong, who are, after all, in the business of selling, say the stunts that work best are those appropriate for the position and the company.
"You might offend somebody with a strip-o-gram," says Wong. "And you don't want to be doing that."
Likewise, people who use corny gags or don't sense when their cleverness has turned to pushiness are harming their chances more than helping them.
Most important, the stunt needs to be clever.
So does Reinl's bus ad qualify?
Good medium, dull message
"The stunt itself is clever, but the message itself is not all that clever," Wong says. "So I probably would say hmmm, probably not."
This raises another challenge for job seekers hoping to gain an edge with a gimmick: the more people who employ stunts, the more original those stunts need to be.
Yvonne Yeager discovered this last winter. The 35-year-old unemployed program manager from Sumner wanted publicity for what she thought was a novel idea. She would pay $500 for anyone who would get her a permanent full-time job.
Problem was, Buck Cockrell had already been all over the news with his airline-ticket offer. The story had no legs.
"That's too bad," Yeager said in an e-mail to The Seattle Times in February.
Then she had another idea. What about a reality TV-type newspaper series on job-hunting?
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One Piece Pirate Nation » Grand Line » Paradise » Enies Lobby » Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task]
1 Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:59 am
Alias : Hawkeye
Task Name: Trapped with 10,000 marines
Location: Enies Lobby
Crew, Team, or Personal: ground Crew [Melissa]
Description: So your trapped. This island is the home of the marines, and currently about 10,000 marines inhabit it. This is a bad, and good thing, 10,000 marines mean no one will know every single face in the marine core. Splitting up seems like the smartest plan. Three pieces of key information are needed.
1. How many marines are on the island.
2. How long it takes a Log pose to change from Enies.
3. What would be the easiest way off the island.
Split in to three different teams, and fan out. Be careful, marines will occasionally be on to you. Figuring out a way to stay hidden would be ideal. During said thread a boss will enter each thread. As two of these bosses are tier 2, the remaining thread will have to deal with both tier 3 opponents.
Enemy Details: 10,000 marines of mixed tiers.
Boss: Yes
Christoph:
Boss Name: Officer Christoph
Description: Christoph is actually a reindeer, who ate the human human fruit. He is a valued marine and has access to four transformations via his devil fruit, he is strong beware.
Devil Fruit: Human Human Fruit
Haki Aura: Savage
Equipment: N/A
DF: 3
Melee: 3
Trip:
Boss Name: Trip
Description: Trip is a rather new marine though is rising through the ranks quickly, he is currently captain level and can call forth allies at any given time. His method of fighting is The Nuki Ashi and his weapon of choice is two gloves with large blades each a few inches smaller than a katana.
Devil Fruit: N/A
Two cat gloves with five blades on each.
Melee Weaponry: 6
Haki: C
WORDS: 479 | TAG: @Uroboros | NOTES: Ennies Lobby Arc Outfit
So far so good... One week ago, If you had asked Linnea about the odds of successfully infiltrating Ennies Lobby - also known as the Island of Justice, or the Lion's Jaws for Pirates like them - she'd have called it foolish; hell, she might have even laughed at it. But here they were, infiltrating that same Island, and so far so good. They had managed to get inside without being shot full of holes, but it was far too early to call themselves truly in the clear. Linnea had been thoroughly fascinated with both Melissa and Nicky's abilities to have all of those Marines dancing at the palm of their hand, simply by smiling and looking rather friendly. Being born to a comparatively innocent, monogendered race, some of the finer concepts of romance and seduction were mostly lost on her.
She looked up into the sky as she pulled her platinum ponytail into tight bun, pulling her stolen Marine cap over it. Only a few blonde strands still framed her face, and other than her curvaceous figure and the bow strapped to her back, Linnea looked just like any other Marine. She found that most Marines ranked corporal and above were allowed to carry their favorite weapons, so not many people actually seemed to notice the odd detail of a Bow wielding Marine. Guess some good actually came out of being surrounded by ten thousand Marines... Still, she couldn't get over how the weather never seemed to change in this Marine forsaken island; ever since entering the Grand Line she'd gotten used to scanning the skies more often, lest the weather suddenly change over her heard, but here in Ennies Lobby she had none of that problem. It was almost boring...
Lin was a highly adaptable woman and despite the stress of the place they were in, she looked perfectly cool, her breathing and heart rate as calm as she always was. Her scruitinizing eyes assessed her surroundings, scanning them with her strongest Haki as well; drawing a detailled map of this area:
"We should split up... With so many marines around and our disguises, we're unlikely to ever be found unless we stick together. We need to scout out an escape route as well as pick out how many enemies we might have to deal with to get there. Once that Log Pose is ready, we're high tailing out of her.", Linnea explained her overall plan with a calm but stern tone, after ensuring no enemies were within earshot, looking at both Melly and Flash in turn. Captain, First Mate, and Navigator. The three of them were by far the most visible members of the Uroboros Pirate crew and even with their disguises, seeing the three of them together might raise flags among some of the Marines stationed here.
Using A-rank kenbu Haki
In the Lion's den...
"Knowledge is power."
- Naga D. Linnea
credit to nat of adoxography.
Theme ~ Linnea's Sheet ~ Uroboros Pirates (Updated)
2 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:30 pm
Alias : Flashdance Nicky
So far it seemed like their little plan was coming along swimmingly. In their disguises, nobody had yet recognized the three of them and they blended in perfectly. To be honest, Nicholas was a little surprised that nobody at least recognized Melissa or Linnea, since they were basically the faces of the crew. As much as he hated to admit it, he had the easiest time blending in, essentially because his bounty was so small.
When Linnea suggested that they split up, Nicholas nodded. "Seems like a good idea," he replied, keeping his voice low, "I can take a look around, see what sort of stuff I can grab from them. Maps, charts, that sort of thing. And if I can sabotage anything on the way out, well, more goodness for us then." He gave a small smirk. He had been hiding in the shadows for a bit too long. He wanted to make sure he left his mark on this place, even if they didn't know it was him.
Once everyone was in agreement, Nicholas would turn and walk away, taking one last glance at the two lovely ladies before rounding a corner and vanishing. To anyone looking on, it would just look like the guy going back to work.
However, before he got his work done, there was a little something Nicholas needed to attend to. His clothes. These marine duds were not suitable for a man such as he. He needed a better attire, and quickly. Thankfully, the flashy pirate didn't have to wait long before he spotted someone. Unlike the others, this man wasn't dressed as a seaman. Dressed in a black turtleneck with white pants, a matching longcoat and black shoes, he had short black hair and a pair of spectacles over brown eyes. This guy looked like he was of some importance, at least better than the rest. More importantly, he was better dressed.
And, well, Nicholas was a pirate. And pirates did steal stuff...
Nicholas waited in a small gap between buildings, making sure nobody was around and keeping out of sight. He waited as the unaware man, who was busy looking at reports or something of the sort, came by. Before the man could even let out a cry, Nicholas grabbed him and yanked him into the alleyway.
A few minutes later, Nicholas was stepping out of the alley in his new attire, picking up the dropped reports and going on his way, acting like he owned the place. Nobody was the wiser...until somebody would eventually find the clothing's former owner unconscious in the alleyway some time later. But for now, Nicholas was stylish!
3 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:03 am
MELISSA#DEVAROUX
Vagina Falange
One week, they had already been there for an entire week, and Melissa had not been able to keep her head down, that fucking Toge Toge No Mi User had been here, she was worried her entire cover had been blown but as of now it was so far so good. Rumours had floated around, apparently members of the CP-9 were spotted in enies, if those rumours were true, that meant things had gotten even worse for the three pirates. "I miss the moon" Melissa would say as she joined Naga in looking up to the sky. For the enitreity of the week, night had never came, it had been a struggle trying to sleep while the sun was shining so Melissa looked a little worse for wear, thankfully she had managed to find a shop and was also in the process of adding foundation to her face. She needed to conceal those bloody bags that the nightless nights had granted her as punishment for her flirtatious ways.
Clasping the mirror in one hand, finishing the touches to her make up, including a bit of mascara, the disguised pirate would look at her small group, originally they had planned to take more than just the three of them, thankfully though they had decided against it. The small group was hard enough to keep track of in the first place. "I agree, splitting up may be the best course of action, but we can't keep getting lost, we need to arrange a meet up place, simple enough we meet up at the fishy palace, [the hotel]. That way we know were to meet, Naga, if your getting information, no torture, use your womanly body, Nicky, make those females swoon. Our goal is three vital pieces of information, so we should each take one. Naga take the train times. Nicky find out how many marines actually inhibit this island, I'll find out if theres any easier way of this island, in case the trains don't go to plan" Melissa would say, looking at her band of misfits. "Lets just hope that log pose changes soon, I wan't to get out of here, being on guard, on edge all the time, its not good for my beautiful complexion" she would say with a wink to her team mates. Granting each a quick nod, the young not a maiden would disappear, blending in to the crowd of marines that would obscure her from her friends.
WORDS: 420// TOTAL WORD COUNT: 420 || NOTES: We only have like 3 Log pose points, after this we should have eight|| POSTCOUNT: 1
All of her friends agreed with her course of action, enough to put a sweet smile on Lin's face. She never fancied herself a leader after all, so she just understood their reactions as a sign of trust from close friends. Even if she one day grew into a powerful, respectable general and strategist, these crewmates who now sailed with her would always be her closest friends, who made the shy young Kuja smile everytime she managed to help them out somehow. She turned to Nick, nodding in agreement as he expressed his plan to scavenge goods and gear from the countless Marines on the Island. It was indeed an ideal task for him due to his low bounty, yet his flashiness could prove to be a problem too... She trusted his ability to keep it to an acceptable minimum and not get caught however... Next up was Melly. Lin turned to her, looking into her eyes to see how she'd react, and nodding when she said she missed the moon... Moonlight never felt quite as beautiful after you'd been unable to see it for so long. She blushed heavily at Melissa's admonishment of not using torture but her womanly figure instead. Deprived of a hood she could tug on, she tugged on the scruff of her shirt instead, hiding her lips and blushing cheeks:
"M-melly, don't say perverted things like that...!", Linnea answered, embarassed, quickly changing the subject bashfully, "A-anyway, fishy hotel works perfectly. I'll keep track of you two with my Haki as well. Alright; meanwhile, I'll keep an eye on the marines from above. I might also spot a decent escape route while I'm at it."
With the plan set up, she her eyes darted between the two of them, nodding understandingly at Melissa's comment how all this stress wasn't good for her skin. She understood that perfectly, but all of these years surviving by herself in the jungle had allowed her to condition herself to the damaging effects of constant stress, by staying calm more often than not. Thus she answered with a longing, yet reassuring look, as if thinking back to a time when she was a lot more innocent (for things other than sex at least), "You'll get used to it... Though it's not really something one should want to get used to."
Nodding their final goodbyes before their mission was over, the three of them went their separate ways, with Linnea heading for the docks first. Melissa mentioned wanting a Sea Train Schedule and Linnea would get her one, but she had a better idea. Of course, it went more in line with Melly's appetite for destruction than her appetite for lewd things. Fortunately, she was certain she'd like it. Linnea looked at the docks from further up in the harbor, spotting the sea train they'd left earlier: This could work... Those rails, Linnea's Ice, Melissa's snow, and Flash's dials. Both Melissa and flash could make powerful enough winds to move a ship slightly, or something smaller at a faster speed. She had to be careful though, there was a rather powerful aura wandering around these docks. All she hoped for was that whoever it was wouldn't be able to recognize her, but even then she didn't plan on giving it any chances.
Active A-rank kenbu Haki (20 HS)
5 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:54 pm
Nicholas whistled a small tune as he walked along, looking at the documents in his hands. He wasn't really paying any attention to them. Just supply invoices and the like. Really, he was simply doing it to put on appearances. Make himself look like a hard working bureaucrat here while he slipped into more sensitive areas of the island. None of the documents he had collected featured anything on the number of troops stationed here on the island, but maybe, just maybe this disguise would get him access to that information. At the same time, as he walked, he glanced now and then at the log pose he had stashed in his coat pocket. The damn thing still hadn't adjusted yet. Just how long was it going to take for this thing to point the way off of this island? He was making a mental note to track down whoever Melissa got this log pose from and punch them stupid.
He hadn't been watching where he was going and thus ended up bumping into someone, causing him to stumble. He was about to snap at them to watch where they were going, but decided better of it. No sense in causing a fuss. "Sorry about that," he settled on, turning to see just who he had bumped into. He was surprised to see, not a regular human, but what appeared to be some bipedal beast. A large pair of antlers emerged from his head, and looking at his furry arms revealed his fingers to look sort of like hooves. He only realized moments later he was staring when the reindeer man was giving him a look. "Never seen a zoan before?" he said in a somewhat sarcastic tone. "Well, erm, no actually," Nicholas replied truthfully. Well, there was that marine they had fought some time ago, but he hadn't really been paying attention to him. This was the first one he saw up close. "Sorry about that," Nicholas apoligized. The zoan nodded and was about to walk away when Nicholas stopped him. "Erm, could you direct me to the main office? I'm new here and I'm getting all turned around in this place." he rubbed the back of his head, acting sheepish. The zoan was quiet for a moment before pointing back towards one of the larger buildings. "Right over there. You can't miss it."
Nicholas nodded and turned to leave. Then a voice called out. "Hey!" Nicholas paused, almost frozen for a moment before turning around, trying to keep his cool. Was he found out already? "What's your name?" the zoan called out. He didn't seem that suspicious of him. Probably just learning a coworker's name. Nicholas was about to use the name Mel had chosen for him, but he had a better idea. He gave a salute, "Corporal Dick Gozinya." he replied, trying his hardest not to laugh. The zoan nodded before turning away, a strange look on his face as Nicholas turned to walk away.
Yeah, he like that name much better.
6 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:49 am
Her smile would still be painted upon her face, the way that her captain had acted when prompted to use her femine wiles instead of her ability to kill and torture was certainly a sight to see. The image would most likely be painted within the mind of Melissa for a long long time. In fact it would probably never leave her. Definatly one to keep in case she needed embarrassing moments to tell tales of when Linnea became queen of the pirates. It certainly seemed she was heading that way, Melissa was glad, she felt somewhat peaceful in this crew. In her previous crew she was cold, harsher and more willing to annihilate everything in her path to please her man. Perhaps Leonidas had been right, she had changed when she became entwined with him. Melissa would dart in between marines. Every so often she would hear whispers of her deed in the tower of justice. It turned out her blue rival had died. Yet nothing had been done about it, she had recieved no repramand no warning nor no punishemnet. That did not feel right.
Shaking these thoughts, Melissa would find herself close to a single tavern, sure of course an entire island of marines had a place to go and unwind. What better, no WHO better to get information from than a bunch of drunken bastards. Surely she could use her appearance, her BODAY to get the information she wanted. Hell she was only asking if the train was the only way out of the island. That should be simple enough right.
So she entered the tavern and the stench of beer hit her like a brick wall, it wasn't even nice beer, it was like socks mixed with beer. Like someone had run the beer down their b.o stained armpits. She had to try hard not to wretch. After a few seconds she grew accustomed to the smell...slightly and turned her wretch face in to one of sexual desire. You know that look, the eyes were penetrating, the mouth quivered....okmaybe the smell was hindering her abilities slightly because she kinda might have looked constipated.
Setting her sights on an older man, like WAAAAY older, Melissa would order two foul beers and drag them over to him. "Mind if i sit down" she would say, flashing him a gentle wink. Well he sat up so fast Melissa thought he was going to break, blood almost trickled down his nose, but the disgusting old bugger sniffed it right up. "Y...yeah, yeah please" he said, drooling from the right side of his mouth. So she did, taking a seat as gently as possible. She did not realize she was being watched by a green haired man, armed with five katanads on each glove, they were to the side of him as he drank.
WORDS: 481// TOTAL WORD COUNT: 801 || NOTES: 4 log pose points|| POSTCOUNT: 2
7 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Sat Mar 26, 2016 11:36 am
Linnea grabbed the sea train schedule the moment she passed by a pile of them, for the curious marine or tourist (as much as she hated it, the Island of Justice was a lovely place for tourists to visit if they werent' worried about the ungodly number of Marines scurrying around like ants), and immediately memorized the schedules: The sea train departed Ennies Lobby twice: Once at noon, and yet another time late in the afternoon. It's only direct connection was the not so distant Water Seven. A quick look at the station confirmed the absence of the sea train, a howling steam chimney signalling its departure. It wouldn't be back for a few hours now...
Feeling that strong aura approach once more, Linnea left her place at the edge of the docks and quickly climbed down the stairs, saluting some of the higher ranked Marines she passed by in her best impersonation of Miranda Hugnkiss or whatever lewd code name Melly had given her. Bow aside, there was little to nothing capable of identifying her as the Pirate Naga D. Linnea; even her recently eaten Devil Fruit was a mostly unknown variable after all. Thus it wasn't really hard for her to mingle among the crowd of Marines, explaining how she was new and her superiours had assigned her to patrol everywhere around the island. So it was true, wherever you go, newbies always get hazed... At least that was the conclusion Linnea got when the other Marines laughed and told her to carry on. It was just like that in Amazon Lily too, even without any men around. Thus, believing the cute platinum haired Marine was being hazed by the others, they didn't pay much attention to her lone patrolling...
Thus, the Kuja ranger approached the Sea train tracks unimpeded, taking a closer look at them. Without a doubt, this could work... The sea train was the fastest way off the Island, not many battleships seemed docked here on a regular basis. Thus, if they got rid of the sea train, they could then use its tracks to get away. Linnea would make a sled with her Ice, once that was done Flash and Melly could push it off. But for this plan to work, they had to ensure the marines had no other way to go after them. Whatever battleships they had docked in here would have to be sunk. Alas, Linnea was pulled from her train of thought by that same strong aura wandering close. Tch... How persistant. Why was it after her? Was it simply a coincidence or had it seen something it shouldn't. Still, the grunts were easy enough to fool and before long Lin approached the other staircase away from the docks. Now it was time to go back to see the distribution of Marines on the Island... But before she could leave, she felt another strong aura, dead ahead...! What a pickle...
Used A-rank kenbu Haki (20 HS)
8 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:34 pm
This was Enies Lobby, the great court house of the world. A place where pirates feared to tread, lest they be captured and their careers, and lives be brought to an ubrupt end.
So, why the hell was it so easy for Nicholas to sneak in and get access to sensative information? Seriously, all he had to do was put on a disguise, pick a fake (if not hilarious) name, and he was being allowed to simply walk in and look around! Maybe it was because, due to the fact that this was basically the biggest marine hub outside of their headquarters, they never expected pirates to be here to begin with. Those poor, poor men. Nicholas sat at one of the desks, looking at some of the documents he had gathered. Most importantly, the list of all the marines stationed on the island.
It was not a pretty sight. Roughly nine thousand marines were stationed here, and a number of them of fairly decent rank as well. And that wasn't including the island's resident security. If their cover was blown and they had to fight their way out...well, best that they not have to fight their way out.
Unfortunately, fate seemed to have either ideas for him. There was a ruckus coming from outside the room before he heard one of the doors opening. "There he is!" Before Nicholas could react, someone charged at him and the blonde pirate found himself flying out of the building window, bouncing along the ground. Did a truck just hit him or something? He cleared the spots from his eyes as he climbed to his feet, seeing who had tackled him. Lo and behold, his attacker was none other than the reindeer zoan that he had run into earlier. Nicholas groaned as he rubbed his aching neck. "What the hell was that for?"
The reindeer's eyes narrowed, "You never answered my question," he said slowly, "Who are you? And what do you think you're doing impersonating a marine?" Nicholas was about to protest when he noticed something out of the corner of his eyes. A small smirk appeared on his face. "So you figured it out huh? Not bad for an animal." The reindeer's eyes narrowed. "It was that ridiculous name you picked out. 'Dick Gonzinya'? That couldn't sound made up. And what's so funny?" he looked back at the marines accompanying him, who were trying not to snicker.
Nicholas raised an eyebrow. "Something tells me it wasn't the name." he said, pointing behind the reindeer. Standing behind him, along with the marines, was the same man Nicholas had stolen his clothing from. It looked like someone had dumped garbage on him before he was found. The reindeer's face fell flat, his little moment of glory taken from him. He gave the pirate a sharp glare. "You still haven't answered my question. Who. Are. You?" Nicholas smirked. "Sorry my furry little friend. You're going to have to earn that little privilege. I don't just give my name to every stray I come across."
The reindeer snarled. "Fine then! I'll just beat it out of you!" The reindeer charged towards him, antlers ready to strike.
9 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Sat Mar 26, 2016 1:08 pm
"WOW, its a little bit stuffy in here isnt it?" Melissa would say, utilizing her most sultry of voices, she utilized her right hand to fan herself for visual effect, reaching up to the hat which contained most of her hair, pulling it from her head she pulled the bauble containing the vast amount of hair from its bun. Shaking her head it would fall gently behind her. She would give the old man that "Come hither look". Her hand then gently lifted to her top, unbuttoning the top few buttons to reveal the out line of her breasts. Well it was safe to safe the auld Geezer didn't know what hit him. He moved with speed thorugh, as if he had grown accustom to such a thing happening. What you may ask? Well a guiser of blood seemed to erupt from his nose and down the drain that was at his feet. Usual table perhaps?
He halted the flow of blood with? Tampons, pure and simple, what a lovely way of halting a perverted bloody nose. But Melissa was a pro, this was not the first old bastard whom she had tempted. She allowed her hands to rest on the table, using them to slighlty push her bossom out revealing more of her clevage. "The names Vagina Phalange who might you be?" she would ask as she pretended to swig from her beer, making sure to try not to wretch as she put it to her mouth. At the same time she handed the second one to the old man whom devoured it, as though he were parched. "Names Samual Gootsburg" she said with a drunken slur. "YOu look like you've been here...uhmm shall we say...a while. would you answer a novices question about this place" "Promise me a Blowjob sweety and the answers are yooours".
Ugh, how crude right, you'd think this would have put her off, "Answer my question and I'll give you more than that", as if to show her truth, her leg moved upslowly rubbing the old mans, she could feel the wrinkles....EW yet she continued, feeling across his thigh until she got to the crotch, she wouldn't touch it, she would simply let the old man have this moment of bliss. "I notice the islands all well circular and theres a void down below us, is the train the only way in and out of Enies?" she asked, a harmless question. "Pretty much, apart from the Gates o" Justice, but they hardly ever open unless we gots a prisoner" the man said, his tampons almost blowing out of his nose from the touch of Melissas foot amongst his inner thy. "And whats passed the gates then?" she asked curiously.
"Why Impel Down of course"
WORDS: 470// TOTAL WORD COUNT: 1271 || NOTES: 5 log pose points|| POSTCOUNT: 3
10 Re: Over 9000 Marines [Arc Task] on Sat Mar 26, 2016 1:30 pm
Tch... One was coming from up ahead, the other from behind. What to do, what to do?! Her eyes darted around her surroundings, spotting and being ignored by several Marines. Where she escape to? There were the rooftops, but she couldn't climb up there in front of everyone and not draw attention, this was hardly a skill taught at the Marines' academy, and outwardly displaying would draw waaay too much attention to herself. She needed another course of action. It really felt like the Strong aura behind her was after her specifically, but the other one had only just popped up... Well, she had no choice now did she? Without any better alternative, Linnea chose to gamble on the second strong aura not being specifically after her... Putting her best "proud patrolling Marine aura" to work, she carried on, Marching ahead as if she was only concerned with the patrol route ahead... She was actually sweating off her forehead; would it work, would they not notice her? Her outward expression may not betray any of these emotions, but anyone with a strong enough Kenbu Haki would pick up on it easily.
But for all her worries, it paid off in the end. Though she could pick up on the strong Marine's presence thanks to her haki, and even realize he was a bit stronger than the others thanks to the amount of stars on his lapel, the same didnt' hold true for her... The guy glanced at her the same time he glanced to any of the other Marines he passed by. Watching the others, Linnea saluted him as she passed by, earning herself a shorter salute before carrying on her path. Exhaling deeply with a keen sense of relief, she kept on patrolling. She had done her job with investigating the way out of this island... But what about teh number of Marines? Without wasting a moment, she slipped into a nearby alley. Though one of the stronger Marines was still nearby, she had no way of knowing what that guy was about to do; and that ultimately cost her. Linnea noticed his aura behind a building, but failed to notice him looking at her through the windows, and as she climbed onto the rooftops the guy immediately chased after her; and she'd only realize this far too late. Linnea had made a mistake and now she would have to deal with this.
Nicholas had attempted to match the reindeer's charge with a kick straight to the head. However, he underestimated just how much power was behind the tackle and Nicholas was sent flying back, rolling along the ground before quickly recovering. He could see the kick had some effect, but not a lot. Not to self, kicking a charging animal was not the way to go. At least not without a dial handy. "If it weren't for the antlers," Nicholas spoke up, "I'd swear you were a bull man or something. Your head's hard enough." The reindeer shook his head, giving Nicholas a smirk. "A bull man? Nah, I'm something much better than that. I'm a man reindeer!"
Nicholas paused for a moment. Man reindeer? That was an odd choice of words. Then it hit him. "Wait a minute. So, you're not a reindeer zoan?" The reindeer shook his head. "Nope. I'm actually a reindeer that ate the Hito Hito no Mi." Nicholas was quiet for a moment. "So...someone went a fed a reindeer a devil fruit? A reindeer? Wouldn't it make more sense to feed a fruit to something a little more badass? Like a dog, or a bear, or a shark? A man shark would be awesome! Sorry, just reindeer does not scream 'deserving of a devil fruit'." The reindeer simply snarled at the insult. "Not deserving huh? Well get a load of this!" The reindeer's body seemed to shift and change, his hind legs bulking up to an insane degree. Suddenly, the reindeer shot at him like a cannon ball. Nicholas barely had time to dodge as he shot past, slamming into the wall and shattering it. "Holy hell!" Nicholas yelled out. A reindeer bullet? Just what would people think of next?
Through the dust of the hole, Nicholas could see the reindeer stand up and turn around, seemingly worse for wear by his trip through the wall. Eyes locking on Nicholas, he prepared for another shot towards the pirate. "Oh to hell with this," Nicholas growled, reaching into his pocket and pulling something out. The reindeer shot towards him at high speeds.
Only for him to get a face full of flames as he shot past, Nicholas diving to the side. The reindeer screeched to a halt, his fur on fire. "Hot hot hot!" he yelled out, quickly patting himself down to try and extinguish the fire. Nicholas laughed as he stood up. "Ladies and gentlemen, our special this evening is going to be marine venison! Would you like that medium rare or well done?"
T2 Flame Dial used. Cooldown for two posts.
"Didn't expect that now did ya" the old man said. Melissa had gotten what she wanted, her foot move and the tip of her shoe cradled the crotch of the mans trousers. The blood stained tampons erupted and the old man collapsed on the table. Funny enough no one really paid attention, apparently this happened a lot. Enough they had a personal seat over the vent just for him. A sigh would escape her lips, so it seemed the train was the only way out alive, it did mean that they only had one way out. A sigh would escape her mouth. "Not the news you were hoping for, Right Melissa Devaroux" Upon her real name being called out [people be trying so hard to know her]. The yuki yuki woman activated her haki for the first time since actually bring on the island minus the power battle to keep on her feet at the "welcoming ceremony" Thankfully this gave her enough time to roll over on her seat as the katanas passed over her.
"WHY DOES EVERY..." "Enough, when Melisandre was killed we had our contacts in the blue explain about you, we know your no longer travelling with Leparo, but are accompanying Miss Linnea. We checked the databases and we recognised you both after our artists drew this" the man said throwing the posters on the floor. There were two side by side images, a picture of Melissa normally and her in the marine outfit, the same with Naga...it would seem Nicky had not been noted, this was good news to Melissa.
"You must have been an idiot, or the log pose simply did not go in your favour, but whatever, now i have the honour of catching the Elegant Fist of the Blue Seas." The man said as he clenched his fingers, thus making all ten Katana's move. "Looks like you got us, Your right I am a PIRATE" Melissa would shout in the busy pub. The marines would stand to attention...some swayed to attention and a couple actually passed out so they werent paying attention at all. "Me and Naga, we been living here a week now, thanks for all the information and the layout though, but i think i'll be going now" "Good luck witch, we know your have the Yuki Yuki, we know you have ungodly strength, and your intuition seems good, but with Haki i can kill you, if you manage to flee these posters will be scattered across Enies lobby in a matter of hours" the green haired man would say.
"Oh, I'm so scared" Melissa would say, As if that set them of, ofcourse it did. Trip began to sway from side to side and soon he vanished from her vision, yet not her haki, At the same times the marines charged.
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As soon as she arrived up on the roof, Linnea's Black Den Den Mushi woke up: "I found a suspicious woman wielding a bow and climbing walls. Going to investigate!", how annoying... It was no doubt the guy who had seen her climb up. Yet unlike her, he had no Haki and no Black Den Den Mushi, allowing Linnea all the time in the world to find herself a hiding place. Frantically darting her eyes around as she felt the aura get closer, Linnea knew that simply fleeing would no be enough. Eventually she spotted the next best thing. Quickly scooting between a few crates, Linnea picked up a tarp cloth laid over them and quickly used it to cover herself. Steadying her breathing and staying still, Linnea waited, and waited... Stepping boots could be heard right outside her little hiding place, the strong Marine took his sweet time looking around. But eventually he found nothing, apparently ignoring the Crates Linnea had hid behind. And she was finally able to breathe deep and relaxedly again... She was in the clear, for now...
With this out of the way, Linnea climbed down from the rooftop and hurried on to the meeting point. If they arrived on time, she'd quickly spot them by recognzing their familiar aura. After crossing much of a distance at ground level, she eventually slipped into an alley and climbed back into the meeting point, having gotten a bad feeling from some of the Many marines around them... What was going on here, had they been found out already?! No, if they had, these disguises would have turned useless a long time ago... But clearly some of the Marines did. Regardless, taking the high road allowed her to look left and right; and wherever she looked she would find Marines. Marines as far as the eye could see and she wasn't looking at the whole Island. Trying to figure out an exact number was as complicated as it was useless. Linnea would wait atop the the hotel for her friends, and once they finally arrived, she'd climb down to meet them, relaying the first bit of information she dug up: "I estimate a minimum of Over 9000 Marines on this island. Whatever rumours said that ten thousand Marines were stationed on this Island weren't too far from the truth."
With this she would wait to hear more of what they had found out, namely Melissa and her quest for other ways out of this Island aside from the Sea train. Regardless, Linnea had a solution involving the use of the sea train, "The train comes back later in the afternoon. There doesn't seem to be any other reliable way off this island, but the same holds true for the Marines. If Melly goes to town on the train, we can use the rails to make a sled with my Ice, and use Nicky's Jet Dials for propulsion. We'll be long gone by the time they fix the train..."
Used A-rank Kenbu (60 HS)
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Nicholas waited until the reindeer had put himself out. A pirate he may be, but he wasn't a dirty fighter (at least, n when it didn't require it). As the reindeer put out the last burning patches of fur,cNicholas's face scrunched up into a ball, covering his nose. "You may want to have a bath after this. Burnt fur is NOT an appealing scent."
The reindeer snarled in rage before suddenly letting out a roar. S body suddenly bulked up to massive sizes, his arms almost as thick as tree trunks, in this form, he looked more human than beast. "I'll grind you into dust!" he bellowed, charging towards him, Nicholas smirked as he pulled something from his pocket. "Yeah, I'm going to have to go with 'no'," He thrust the dial out and suddenly an arc of electricity shot from the shell, striking the charging zoan head on, the reindeer practically froze in his tracks, spasming as the electricity coursed through him, with a smirk, Nicholas pulled out two more dials and charged towards the stunned marine, leaping towards him. "Safecracker!" The blow struck him right in the head, sending the large reindeer man flying. He bounced along the ground before slamming against the back wall, falling unconscious. The other marines watched on in shock, staring at the fallen marine before looking at Nicholas, who couldn't keep the smile off his face.
"Well, that was interesting. However, I can't stay. Time flies, and so do I!" Triggering the jet dial on his foot, Nicholas was sent rocketing into the air, landing on a nearby building before breaking into a run, putting some distance between him and the surprised marines. Nicholas had an appointment to keep.
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Nicholas arrived at the hotel shortly after the others did. He remained quiet as the captain gave her report, the navigator nodding his head. "That sounds about right. Nine thousand, plus whatever local security they have here. An, well, I don't know about you guys, but it seems our presence here hasn't gone unnoticed. Not to mention the Log Pose still hasn't adjusted itself yet." A small smile spread across his face. "So, since our cover is blown and we have time, I'm going to do a little something I've been wanting to do since we got here. I'll meet you lovely ladies back at the docks."
With a formal bow, Nicholas took off in a run. What he had in mind was going to be remembered by everyone on Enies Lobby for years to come!
T3 Thunder Dial used.
T2 Impact Dial used.
T1 Axe Dial used.
T2 Jet Dial used.
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Honorific Speech in Japanese
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Grammatical and syntactical feature of Japanese
The Japanese language has many honorifics, referred to as keigo (, literally "respectful language"), parts of speech that show respect. Their use is mandatory in many social situations. Honorifics in Japanese may be used to emphasize social distance or disparity in rank, or to emphasize social intimacy or similarity in rank.
The system of honorifics in Japan is very extensive, including various levels of respectful, humble, and polite speech, and it closely resembles the honorific systems of the Korean language and, in some elements,[which?]Chinese. It includes both special vocabulary and special grammatical forms.
Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to.
Honorific speech is often longer, and sometimes much longer, than more direct speech. Some extreme, but not uncommon, examples include the following:
When asking a question: the first is casually between friends, the second is a junior person asking a superior in a formal meeting:
Kiite ii?
Ok to ask (a question)?
Kikasete-itadakeru to ureshii no desu ga.
I would, however, be delighted if I may be permitted to ask (a question).
When asking for cooperation: the first is usual and polite, the latter is very formal, but often found in writing, especially in posters or flyers.
Go-ky?ryoku-kudasai.
Your cooperation, please.
Go-ky?ryoku no hodo o-negai m?shiagemasu.
We respectfully request the favor of a measure of your cooperation.
This latter example includes two honorific prefixes, nominalization of a verb (for formality), a respectful form, and two humble forms.
Types of honorifics
Honorifics in Japanese, or keigo (), fall under three main categories: sonkeigo (), respectful language; kenj?go (),[note 1] humble language (or "modest language"); and teineigo (), polite language. Linguistically, the former two are referent honorifics, used for someone being talked about, and the last is an addressee honorific, used for someone being talked to. Sometimes two more categories are also used, for a total of five categories: teich?go () "courteous language" and bikago (), "word beautification", but more often these are included in the above three: teich?go as a kind of kenj?go (humble), bikago as a kind of teineigo (polite)--these two other categories use the same forms as the general categories, but are used in different contexts, hence differentiated by some linguists. Each type of speech has its own vocabulary and verb endings.
For example, the standard form of the verb "to do" is suru (). This form is appropriate with family members and close friends. The polite form of suru, the addressee honorific, is shimasu. This form is appropriate in most daily interactions. When showing respect, such as when talking about a customer or a superior, however, the respectful word nasaru and its polite form nasaimasu are used, and when referring to one's own actions or the actions of a group member, the humble word itasu and its polite form itashimasu are used. These respectful and humble words are referent honorifics, and thus can coexist with addressee honorific -masu.
Polite language
Polite language, teineigo, is characterized by the use of the sentence ending "desu" and the verb ending "masu" and the use of prefixes such as "o" and "go" towards neutral objects. Television presenters invariably use polite language, and it is the form of the language first taught to most non-native learners of Japanese.
Polite language can be used to refer to one's own actions or those of other people.
Respectful language
Respectful language, sonkeigo, is a special form or alternate word used when talking about superiors and customers. It is not used to talk about oneself. For example, when a Japanese hairdresser or dentist requests their client to take a seat, they say o kake ni natte kudasai to mean "please sit down". However, they would use the verb suwaru rather than o kake ni naru to refer to themselves sitting down. The respectful version of language can only be used to refer to others.
In general, respectful language is directed at those in positions of power; for example, a superior at work, or a customer. It also implies that the speaker is acting in a professional capacity.
It is characterized by lengthy polite expressions. Common verbs may be replaced by more polite alternative verbs, for example suru (do) by nasaru, or hanasu (talk) by ossharu when the subject is a person of respect. Some of these transformations are many-to-one: iku, (go), kuru (come), and iru (be) all become irassharu, and taberu (eat) and nomu (drink) both become meshiagaru.
Verbs may also be changed to respectful forms. One respectful form is a modification of the verb with a prefix and a polite suffix. For example, yomu (read) becomes o-yomi ni naru, with the prefix o- added to the i-form of the verb, and the verb ending ni naru. The verb ending -(r)areru can also be used, such as yomareru.
Nouns also undergo substitution to express respect. The normal Japanese word for person, hito, ?, becomes kata, ?, in respectful language. Thus a customer would normally be expected to be referred to as a kata rather than a hito.
Humble language
In general, humble language is used when describing one's actions or the actions of a person in one's in-group to others such as customers in business. Humble language tends to imply that one's actions are taking place in order to assist the other person.
Humble language (kenj?go) is similar to respectful language, in substituting verbs with other forms. For example: suru (do) becomes itasu, and morau (receive) becomes itadaku. These two verbs are also seen in set phrases such as d? itashimashite (you're welcome) and itadakimasu (--a phrase said before eating or drinking).
Similar to respectful language, verbs can also change their form by adding a prefix and the verb "suru" or "itasu". For example, motsu (carry) becomes o mochi shimasu. The use of humble forms may imply doing something for the other person; thus a Japanese person might offer to carry something for someone else by saying o mochi shimasu. This type of humble form also appears in the set phrase o matase shimashita, "I am sorry to have kept you waiting", from mataseru (make wait) with the addition of o and shimasu. Similarly, o negai shimasu, "please [do this]", from negau (request or hope for), again with the addition of o and shimasu.
Even more politely, the form motasete itadaku literally means "humbly be allowed to carry". This phrase would be used to express the idea that "I will carry it if you please."
The same forms may also be used when the speaker is not the agent, as a courtesy to the listener, as in the common phrase ? (densha ga mairimasu "a train is arriving") at rail stations. In the case, the announcer him or herself is not arriving, but he or she is simply being courteous. Some linguists distinguish this from kenj?go (where the speaker is the agent), calling it instead teich?go () "courteous language", and defining it formally as:[1][2]
Honorifics by which the Speaker shows consideration to the hearer through all expressions of the subject matter.
This category was first proposed by Hiroshi Miyachi ().[3][4] Teich?go, as an addressee honorific, is always used with the teineigo (-masu) form, the politeness sequence (using "go" as an example) being , ?, ? (iku, ikimasu, mairimasu).
In humble language, name suffixes are dropped when referring to people from inside one's group. Thus, Japanese-speaking company executives would introduce themselves and their team by saying "I am Gushiken, the president, and this is Niwa, the CEO."
Similarly to respectful language, nouns can also change. The word hito, ?, meaning person, becomes mono, written ?. The humble version is used when referring to oneself or members of one's group, such as one's company.
Respectful verbs
Irregular respectful verb forms
dictionary form
respectful (sonkeigo)
humble (kenj?go)
polite (teineigo)
see / look / watch miru go-ran ni naru ? haiken suru mimasu
meet au regular (ex. o-ai ni naru) o-me ni kakaru ? aimasu
be (inanimate)1 aru gozaimasu ? arimasu
be (animate)1 iru irassharu
oru imasu
come / go1 kuru (come)
iku (go) o-ide ni naru ukagau (to respectful location)
mairu (to other) /?
kimasu / ikimasu
know shiru go-zonji zonji ageru ? shirimasu
eat / drink taberu (eat)
nomu (drink) meshi-agaru ? itadaku ?/?
tabemasu / nomimasu
receive morau ? itadaku2
? ch?dai-suru2 moraimasu
(when the receiver is respected) yaru (considered rude today, except in Kansai dialect)
ageru (once the humble form) sashiageru ? agemasu
(when the giver is respected) kureru ? kudasaru ? kuremasu
do suru nasaru itasu shimasu
say iu ossharu m?shi-ageru
m?su ? iimasu
put on kiru omeshi ni naru kimasu
sleep neru o-yasumi ni naru nemasu
die shinu o-nakunari ni naru ? shinimasu
ask kiku / tazuneru ukagau ?/?
kikimasu / tazunemasu
visit tazuneru ukagau ? tazunemasu
1 The distinction between these three verbs is lost in some respectful forms.
2 Both are the humble form of receive ( morau); it can also be used for related verbs like eat ( taberu) and drink ( nomu).
Word beautification
Word beautification (bikago, , "beautified speech", in tanka also sometimes gago, , "elegant speech") is the practice of making words more polite or "beautiful". This form of language is employed by the speaker to add refinement to one's manner of speech. This is commonly achieved by adding the prefix o- or go- to a word and used in conjunction with the polite form of verbs. In the following example, o- before cha and senbei and the polite form of the verb are used to this effect. Generally o- is used before native Japanese words and go- is used before Sino-Japanese words, but there are exceptions.
O-cha ni o-senbei, yoku aimasu ne
Tea and rice crackers go well (together), don't they.
In finer classifications, the above example is classified as word beautification--rather than honorific speech--as the speaker is voicing a general opinion regarding tea and rice crackers and is not intentionally deferential towards the listener. In the following example, the speaker is directly referring to the listener and items received by them and is regarded as honorific language:
O-taku-sama kara itadaita okashi wa taihen oishuugozaimashita
The sweets you gave me were most delectable.
See the section on honorific prefixes, below, for further discussion.
Honorifics are considered extremely important in a business setting. Training in honorifics usually does not take place at school or university, so company trainees are trained in correct use of honorifics to customers and superiors.
In groups and out groups
When using polite or respectful forms, the point of view of the speaker is shared by the speaker's in-group (? uchi), so in-group referents do not take honorifics. For example, members of one's own company are referred to with humble forms when speaking with an external person; similarly, family members of the speaker are referred to humbly when speaking to guests. Similarly, the out-group (? soto) addressee or referent is always mentioned in the polite style (though not necessarily with honorifics).
Mastery of politeness and honorifics is important for functioning in Japanese society. Not speaking politely enough can be insulting, and speaking too politely can be distancing (and therefore also insulting) or seem sarcastic. Children generally speak using plain informal speech, but they are expected to master politeness and honorifics by the end of their teenage years. Recent trends indicate that the importance of proper politeness is not as high as before, particularly in metropolitan areas. The standards are inconsistently applied towards foreigners, though most textbooks attempt to teach the polite style before considering to teach any of the other styles.
Depending on the situation, women's speech may contain more honorifics than men's. In particular, in informal settings, women are more likely to use polite vocabulary and honorific prefixes, such as gohan o taberu to mean "eat rice", whereas men may use less polite vocabulary such as meshi o k? with exactly the same meaning. This is part of a general pattern of speech differences by sex. However, in many settings, such as in customer service, there will be little or no difference between male and female speech.
Grammatical overview
Japanese has grammatical functions to express several different emotions. Not only politeness but also respectfulness, humility and formality can be expressed.
Expressing politeness
There are three levels of politeness, plain or direct ( futs?tai or j?tai), polite or distal ( keitai or teinei), and formal (generally, keigo or saikeitai). Formal and polite can be combined. For example, for the sentence "This is a book",
polite formal
kore wa hon da.
kore wa hon desu.
kore wa hon de arimasu. ?
kore wa hon de gozaimasu.
The informal style is used among friends, the distal or polite style by inferiors when addressing superiors and among strangers or casual acquaintances, and the formal style generally in writing or prepared speeches. The plain formal and informal styles of verbs are identical, with the exception of the verb de aru used as a copula. However, formal language in Japanese uses different vocabulary and structures from informal language.
In some contexts, where both the imperfective (incomplete: present/future) and perfective (complete: past) tenses are acceptable, the perfective is considered more polite. This is only at the completion of an activity; common examples are arigat? gozaimashita "thank you (for a completed favor)", ? go-chis?-sama deshita "it was a feast (for a completed meal)", shitsurei shimashita "I have been rude (when leaving, after a visit)". For example, when entering someone's office, one conventionally says shitsurei shimasu, as the visit is not complete yet, while when exiting one may say either shitsurei shimasu or, more politely, shitsurei shimashita. Many phrases cannot be used in the perfective in this way, as the referent is as yet incomplete. For example, the standard greeting ohay? gozaimasu "Good morning" (lit. "It is early") cannot be said as × *ohay? gozaimashita "It was early", as it is used only during the morning.
Expressing respect
Further to this, there is another factor, respect, which is indicated in yet other ways. For each politeness level there are two respectful forms ( keigo).
The respect language ( sonkeigo) form shows respect to the subject of the sentence.
The humble language ( kenj?go) form gives respect to the (direct or indirect) object by a variety of means, the most common being to humble the speaker.
These respectful forms are represented by different verb endings. Since verbs come at the end of the sentence in Japanese, most of the factors of formality, politeness, and respect are expressed at the very end of each sentence.
Plain form ?
Jon san ga Sat? san wo matsu.
John waits for Sato.
Respect for subject
Sensei ga o-machi-ni-naru.
(The) teacher waits.
Respect for object
Sensei wo o-machi-suru.
We wait for you, Teacher.
The o-machi-suru humble forms carry an implication that the waiting or other activity is being (humbly) done by the speaker for the benefit of the person being addressed. Thus a humble sentence is unlikely to take a third person subject. For example, a sentence like jon ga sensei wo o machi suru (John waits for the teacher) is unlikely to occur.
Honorific titles
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Japanese requests and commands have many set forms depending on who is being addressed by whom. For example, the phrase yoroshiku o negai shimasu, meaning "I ask your favor" can take various forms. At the bottom of the scale comes
yoroshiku tanomu,
which might be used between male friends. Its more polite variant
yoroshiku tanomimasu
might be used towards less familiar people or to superiors.
Going up in politeness, the phrase
yoroshiku onegai shimasu
means the same thing, but is used in business settings. It is possible to go further, replacing the polite "shimasu" with the humble itashimasu, to get
yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.
In extremely formal Japanese, such as that used on New Year's greeting cards, this may be replaced with an even more polite expression
yoroshiku onegai m?shiagemasu.
When making requests, at the bottom of the politeness scale comes the plain imperative tabero or kue, literally "Eat!", a simple order to be said to an inferior or someone considered to have no choice, such as a prisoner. This form might convey anger. Similarly, the "no/n da" suffix can make an order: taberu n da, or kuu n da "Eat!". To express anger, the suffix yagaru also exists: "kuiyagare", an extremely forceful and angry instruction to eat, expressing contempt for the addressee.
Negatives are formed by adding suffix na: taberu na "do not eat", gomi o suteru na: "do not throw away rubbish". Similarly, the negative of da, ja nai, can be used: taberu n ja nai.
More polite, but still strict, is the nasai suffix, which attaches to the i-form of the verb. This originates in the polite verb nasaru. Tabenasai thus is an order perhaps given by a parent to a child. This is often colloquially shortened to na, hence tabena. This form has no grammatical negative.
Requests can also be formed by adding to the "te" form of a verb. The plainest form adds kure, an irregular form of the verb kureru, to the te form. For example, tabete kure or kutte kure: "eat it", less forceful than "tabero". Negatives are made by using the negative "te" form: tabenaide kure or kuwanaide kure "don't eat it".
Going up one scale in politeness, the more polite verb kudasai is added. For example, tabete kudasai. With this polite form, the rough k? verb is unlikely to be used. Similarly, tabenaide kudasai: "please don't eat it".
A similar entry on the scale of politeness is made by using the imperative form of a polite verb. For example, meshiagaru, the polite verb for "to eat", when turned into meshiagare, the imperative, becomes the response to the set phrase itadakimasu.
Further, more polite forms are also possible. These involve the "i-form" of the verb rather than the "te form", and an honorific prefix (see honorific prefixes: verbs, below). Beyond simply increased politeness, this form is more formal, and is used when addressing a group, or as a general instruction, rather than directed at a particular person. For example, tsukau, "use", becomes o tsukai kudasai: "please use this". In the case of phrasal verbs the honorific o appears before the entire phrase, not simply the verb, as in o-ki (w)o tsuke-kudasai (), from ki (w)o tsukeru (). Politeness can be carried even further by conjugating kudasaru into its masu form and using the imperative, which becomes "o tsukai kudasaimase." The most polite form of this would probably be along the lines of "o tsukai ni natte itadakimasen deshou ka." "You will probably not bestow the favor of honorably using this?" Language like this, however, is rarely used.
Other ways to increase politeness involve indirection of the request: kore o tsukau you ni o negai shimasu: "I humbly request that you think about using this".
Honorific prefixes
The beautifying prefixes o- () and go- () are commonly used for certain words, such as (o-yu) and (o-cha)--hot water and tea--on this tea machine.
The bikago (beautifying) prefixes o- () and go- () (both written with the character ? in kanji) are honorific prefixes which are applied to nouns and in some contexts to verbs. In general, go- (the on'yomi) precedes Sino-Japanese words (that is, words borrowed from Chinese or made from Sino-Japanese elements), while o- (the kun'yomi) precedes native Japanese words. There are many exceptions, however, where the o- prefix is used for Sino-Japanese words, including o-cha "tea", ? o-daiji-ni "get well", o-denwa "telephone", o-keiko "practice", and many others. There is also one common exception for the go- prefix, go-yukkuri "slowly", where the main word is clearly not of Chinese origin.
These prefixes are used for two purposes: to speak respectfully about a stranger or social superior's family, belongings, or actions (as part of , sonkeigo); or to speak in a generally refined or polite way ( keigo generally, specifically , bikago).
Prefix usage
Although these honorific prefixes are often translated into English as "honorable" ("o-denwa," for example, would be given as "the honorable telephone") this translation is unwieldy and cannot convey the true feeling of their use in Japanese. These prefixes are essentially untranslatable, but their use indicates a polite respect for the item named or the person to or about whom one is speaking. A shorter translation is "dear"--for example, o-ko-san, ?, translates idiomatically as "your dear child"--and a similar sentiment is expressed in such English expressions as "Would you care for a spot of tea?" or "Would you care for a little tea?" (as opposed to the plain "Would you like some tea?").
As with honorific word forms and titles, honorific prefixes are used when referring to or speaking with a social superior, or speaking about a superior's actions or possessions, but not usually when referring to oneself or one's own actions or possessions, or those of one's in-group.
For example, when referring to one's own order at a restaurant, one would use ch?mon, but when referring to a customer's order, the restaurant staff would use go-ch?mon. Similarly, kazoku means "my family," while go-kazoku means "your family" (or, broadly speaking, someone else's family).
There are some words which frequently or always take these prefixes, regardless of who is speaking and to whom; these are often ordinary items which may have particular cultural significance, such as tea (o-cha) and rice (go-han). The word meshi, the Japanese equivalent of Sino-Japanese go-han, is considered rough and masculine (). The honorific o- is also sometimes attached to verb stems (, ren'y?kei, continuative form, -masu stem--see stem forms) of native verbs (hence native o-) to refer to a specific item associated with the verb, as in oshibori () "hot towel", and onigiri/omusubi ( and ) "rice ball".
In rare cases, both a base form and honorific are in use with different readings. A notable example is ri-eki "benefit, profit (e.g., business)" and go-ri-yaku "divine favor, grace"; plain ri-yaku is sometimes used, but go-ri-eki is generally not. The former, an everyday term, uses the usual kan-on reading, while the later, a specialized religious term, uses the older go-on reading.
Honorific prefixes can be used for other items, possibly for a comic or sarcastic effect (for example, o-kokak?ra, "honorable Coca-Cola"). Overuse of honorific prefixes may be taken as pretentious or simpering, and, as with other polite speech, they are more used by women than men.
In tea ceremony, common ingredients and equipment always take the honorific o- or go-, including water (o-mizu), hot water (o-yu), and tea bowls (o-chawan). However, these terms are often heard in daily life as well.
Foreign loanwords (gairaigo, except those that come from Chinese; see above) seldom take honorifics, but when they do o- seems to be preferable to go-. Examples are o-b?ru (b?ru: beer), which can sometimes be heard at restaurants, o-k?do (k?do: card, as in credit card or point card), which is often heard at supermarkets and department stores, and o-s?su (s?su: sauce).
For verbs, a respectful request--or rather a polite command--addressed to a group may be formed by using , followed by the masu-stem (), followed by kudasai (, please). For Chinese verbs (kango + suru), the prefix is generally pronounced go-, while for native Japanese verbs the prefix is pronounced o-.[5] This is generally written in kana. The most commonly heard use is go-ch?i-kudasai (?, please be careful) (Chinese verb), which is used pervasively in recorded announcement in Japan (escalators, trains and subways, turning trucks), but other verbs are also used frequently, such as o-suwari-kudasai (?, please sit down) (Japanese verb).
The respectful prefix can also be used in honorific verbs, when speaking about a superior, in which case it is formed by o-, followed by the masu-stem, followed by -ni-naru (?) (suitably conjugated), as in o-kaeri-ni-narimashita (, went home).[6]
O- was also commonly used as an honorific prefix to female given names in pre-war Japan, particularly in combination with dropping common suffixes such as -ko (?, literally "child"). For example, Hanako () would be referred to as O-hana (), Harumi () would become O-haru (), Yuki (?) would become O-yuki (), and so on. This was a less polite honorific than "san". For example, a female servant named Kikuko would be referred to as O-kiku rather than Kikuko-san. This usage has disappeared in current Japanese, and has been replaced by using the diminutive suffix -chan instead (compare to male -kun), as in Aki-chan for Akiko.
Rare forms
There is also a rarer prefix mi- (kun'yomi), which is mostly used in words related to gods and the emperor, such as mi-koshi (, "portable shrine" in Shinto) and mi-na (, "the Holy Name" in Christianity). However, in this context it is often replaced by ? ("god", also pronounced mi-), and then a further ? (pronounced ?-, o-) may be added, as in (o-mi-koshi). Sometimes the reading is ambiguous--for example, "mausoleum" may be pronounced either mi-tama-ya or o-tama-ya. When pronounced as mi-, the prefix is usually written in kanji (unlike o- and go-, which are very frequently hiragana), but in some case it is written in hiragana, with a notable example being mi-hotoke (, "Lord Buddha") often being written as , partly to avoid confusion with the incorrect reading *go-butsu.
The honorific prefix generally does not fall in the middle. In compounds, where the honorific would fall in the middle, the honorific is almost always dropped. For example, / o-cha "tea", but mugi-cha "barley tea", not ×/ *mugi-o-cha. There are exceptions, however, such as inui-go-mon "northwest gate (to imperial palace)"; note that inui-mon "northwest gate (generally)" is also used.
Rarely, ? is used instead as an honorific suffix, notably in oigo "your nephew" and meigo "your niece".
The character ? has other readings, notably on (kun'yomi) and gyo (on'yomi), as seen in on-sha (, your company, literally "honorable company") and gyo-en (, imperial garden, literally "honorable garden"), but these are not productive (they are not used to form new words, but only in existing words).
Another prefix, pronounced o- () and potentially confused with when written in hiragana, is o-, which also has affectionate connotations, but is a separate term and not productive. It was previously used for endearment for women's names, and today is most notable in / (o-ta-fuku, o-kame, "moon-faced woman, homely woman"), which are frequently written as /, which may be mistaken (partially) for hiragana forms of ×/×. The character ? is more frequently pronounced a, and used especially in words and names from Sanskrit, such as the a in the syllable "aum", hence unfamiliar in this use, creating the potential for confusion.
In one case, a triple honorific prefix may used, namely in the word o-mi-o-tsuke, a polite term for miso soup, which is ordinarily referred to as miso-shiru (, miso soup). This may be spelt in kanji in multiple ways, including (?, honorable-honorable-honorable soup), but also as (?, honorable flavor honorable soup) (? = mi, flavor), and the ? spelling may be considered ateji, punning on ? and ? both having the reading mi.
English analogs
While English has different registers, its levels of formality and politeness are not as formalized or as clearly defined as in Japanese. However, they can be instructive in gaining a feel for Japanese speech. English imperatives range from very blunt ("Give me the book"), to very indirect and elaborate ("If it's not too much trouble, could you please be so kind as to pass me the book?"--note the use of potential form, as in Japanese).
Similarly, changes in word use can make language more flowery or respectful--rather than "Do you know?", one might say "Are you familiar with?" or "Are you acquainted with?", which convey some of the feel of shiru versus ? go-zonji da. In English, words of Germanic origin are generally plainer, those from French are generally more flowery (compare "drink" versus "beverage"), and those from Latin are more formal and technical (see Anglish and related articles); similarly in Japanese, words of Japanese origin are plainer, while words of Chinese origin are more formal. These are not hard-and-fast rules, but they give a feel for the gradations.
Humble language is less common in modern English, but is found in some contexts, such as guests saying "I am honored to be here," (rather than "I am glad to be here" or "I am happy to be here") and in various valedictions such as "Sincerely", which were formerly more formal and humble, with such forms as "I am, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant," and the like.
Manual keigo
Some convenience stores and fast-food restaurants teach their young and part-time employees to verbally interact with customers in strictly prescribed ways laid down in instruction manuals. These forms of speech are known as ? (manyuaru keigo, "manual keigo") or (baito keigo, "part-timer keigo"). Manual keigo includes forms which would be considered incorrect or at least non-standard in terms of traditional usage (keigo and otherwise). A common example is udon ni narimasu (literally "[this] becomes udon", "[this] will be udon") as a polite form of udon desu ("[this] is udon"), instead of the standard udon de gozaimasu ("[this] is udon (polite)")--this manual keigo form is often criticized on the basis that the udon is not "becoming" anything, and therefore ni naru is incorrect, both as keigo and more generally.
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^ kenj?go () is more rarely called kensongo (), "kenson" being an alternative word for "humility, modesty".
^ Keigo Ronko, Tsujimura 1992, ISBN 978-4-625-42077-1, p. 98
^ Language change in East Asia, Thomas E. McAuley, p. 51
^ Tsujimura 1992, pp. 173-174
^ McAuley, p. 67, footnote 12
^ Genki II, Chapter 19-2 "Giving Respectful Advice", p. 140
^ Genki II, Chapter 19-1 "Giving Respectful Advice", p. 138-140
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• CYANOPHOS
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The following are symptoms from organophosphates in general, which are due to the anticholinesterase activity of this class of compounds. All of these effects may not be document for cyanophos, but could potentially occur in individual cases.
USES: Cyanophos is an insecticide for use in the treatment of Lepidopterous larvae that may be found on apples or vegetables. It is available as a powder, oil-based liquid spray and emulsifiable concentrate.
TOXICOLOGY: Organophosphates competitively inhibit pseudocholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase, preventing the hydrolysis and inactivation of acetylcholine. Acetylcholine accumulates at nerve junctions, causing malfunction of the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and peripheral nervous systems and some of the CNS. Clinical signs of cholinergic excess can develop.
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Exposure to organophosphates is common, but serious toxicity is unusual in the US. Common source of severe poisoning in developing countries.
MILD TO MODERATE POISONING: MUSCARINIC EFFECTS: Can include bradycardia, salivation, lacrimation, diaphoresis, vomiting, diarrhea, urination, and miosis. NICOTINIC EFFECTS: Tachycardia, hypertension, mydriasis, and muscle cramps.
SEVERE POISONING: MUSCARINIC EFFECTS: Bronchorrhea, bronchospasm, and acute lung injury. NICOTINIC EFFECTS: Muscle fasciculations, weakness, and respiratory failure. CENTRAL EFFECTS: CNS depression, agitation, confusion, delirium, coma, and seizures. Hypotension, ventricular dysrhythmias, metabolic acidosis, pancreatitis, and hyperglycemia can also develop.
DELAYED EFFECTS: Intermediate syndrome is characterized by paralysis of respiratory, cranial motor, neck flexor, and proximal limb muscles 1 to 4 days after apparent recovery from cholinergic toxicity, and prior to the development of delayed peripheral neuropathy. Manifestations can include the inability to lift the neck or sit up, ophthalmoparesis, slow eye movements, facial weakness, difficulty swallowing, limb weakness (primarily proximal), areflexia, and respiratory paralysis. Recovery begins 5 to 15 days after onset. Distal sensory-motor polyneuropathy may rarely develop 6 to 21 days following exposure to some organophosphate compounds, however, it has not yet been reported in humans after exposure to cyanophos. Characterized by burning or tingling followed by weakness beginning in the legs which then spreads proximally. In severe cases, it may result in spasticity or flaccidity. Recovery requires months and may not be complete.
CHILDREN: May have different predominant signs and symptoms than adults (more likely CNS depression, stupor, coma, flaccidity, dyspnea, and seizures). Children may also have fewer muscarinic and nicotinic signs of intoxication (ie, secretions, bradycardia, fasciculations and miosis) as compared to adults.
INHALATION EXPOSURE: Organophosphate vapors rapidly produce mucous membrane and upper airway irritation and bronchospasm, followed by systemic muscarinic, nicotinic and central effects if exposed to significant concentrations.
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Right on Crime | June 7, 2018
Dear Senators Cornyn and Cruz:
As Texans, we are getting pretty accustomed to our state leading the nation, whether it is in creating jobs, achieving energy independence, or in improving our criminal justice system to deliver more public safety at a lower cost to taxpayers. Now, Washington D.C. has another opportunity to learn from the Texas experience by passing the FIRST STEP Act, which would bring some of the reforms that have cut crime and costs in Texas to the federal prison system. We hope you will join us in supporting this important legislation that received 360 votes in the House, including the entire Texas GOP delegation and all but two of the entire Republican Caucus.
The FIRST STEP Act is supported by numerous stakeholders in business, the faith-based communities, and the conservative movement. And in his State of the Union Speech, and again at a White House Summit on May 18th, President Trump called for federal prison reform, and it is now within our grasp. Our friend, former Governor and now Energy Secretary Rick Perry explained it best in 2015:
“During my leadership as governor, Texas shut down three prisons, and we saved taxpayers $2 billion. When I left office, Texas had the lowest crime rate in our state since 1968. My administration started treatment programs and drug courts for people who wouldn’t be served well by sitting behind bars. We made sure our parole and probation programs were strong. Most of all, we evaluated prisons based on whether they got results. Did an ex-offender get locked up again? Did he get a job? Is he paying restitution to his victims? In Texas, we believe in results.”
We have seen the benefits of this approach in the Lone Star State, which continued to accrue since Governor Perry left office. In 2007, Texas was at a crossroads as it faced building more than 17,000 new prison beds that were projected to be needed. Instead, policymakers adopted reforms that expanded drug courts and mental health treatment. It cleared backlogs for treatment programs behind bars that had waiting lists of many months. Such programs are often a condition of release even after approval by the Parole Board. This enabled more people in prison to be good candidates for parole, leading to higher parole rates and thousands fewer new crimes by parolees. Meanwhile, the parole system implemented graduated sanctions and incentives, and restored the chaplain program so parolees could connect with churches and other religious congregations, rather than gangs.
In 2011 Texas doubled down on reforms by enacting a policy allowing those in state jails to earn time by completing programs, such as educational, vocational and treatment interventions, that are correlated with reduced recidivism. Since then, thousands of individuals confined in state jails have earned up to 20 percent off their sentences as a result of being incentivized in this way.
The results speak for themselves. Texas has closed 8 prisons and achieved a reduction of more than 20% in its incarceration rate. Most importantly, over the last decade, Texas has seen its crime rate fall by more than 30%, reaching its lowest level since 1967.
Turning to the federal prison system, the FIRST STEP Act would help ensure those leaving federal prison are less of a danger than when they arrived. While there is an element of luck in our daily lives, those of us who do not live in prison generally experience a connection between the efforts we expend and the results we experience. By allowing many of those in prison to earn time by completing programs proven to reduce recidivism, and expanding the availability of such programs, the FIRST STEP Act would enable the federal prison system to gain from what Texas has learned.
Of course, the FIRST STEP Act recognizes that not everyone behind bars should be eligible for a reduction. Had Osama bin Laden not met justice courtesy of America’s finest and ultimately been placed in federal prison, he certainly should not have received any such opportunity. So the FIRST STEP Act appropriately excludes the most serious offenses such as terrorism from earning credits through
completing programming. Here in Texas, since we began our reforms in 2007, we have seen the prison population go from 60% nonviolent offenders to 60% violent offenders, so we know a thing or two about making sure we lock up those we are afraid of.
The FIRST STEP Act includes many other important reforms, such as ensuring pregnant women in federal prisons are not shackled during childbirth, and that prisoners are – whenever practical and safe – kept within 500 miles of their families, thereby promoting visitation and successful reentry. The FIRST STEP Act does not solve every problem in the federal prison system, but it is a worthy start.
We all recognize some offenders commit such evil acts and are so dangerous that they must never be free to live among us, but many more offenders can find redemption and become productive, law-abiding citizens with the right intervention. We know that some 40,000 people will be released this year from federal prison to live near our families. Many of them will not have completed programs that could
have reduced the risk they pose to society and improved their chances of holding jobs.
We encourage you to support the FIRST STEP Act so that the federal prison system can follow Texas in recognizing that public safety demands that we not simply warehouse, but actually rehabilitate the thousands of prisoners that will be reentering our society.
Thank you for your consideration. Should you have any questions, please contact Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation at dcohen@texaspolicy.com.
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Going Home with Wendell Berry | The New Yorker
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[Too much to quote, so here’s what Anne quoted:]
“Lancie Clippinger said to me, and he was very serious, that a man oughtn’t to milk but about twenty-five cows, because if he keeps to that number, he’ll see them every day. If he milks more than that, he’ll do the work but never see the cows! The number will vary from person to person, I think, but Lancie’s experience had told him something important.”
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David F. Noble: A Wrench in the Gears - 1/8 - YouTube
“Documentary about the later professor, critical historian and anti-corporate activist David F. Noble. www.revivalfilms.ca”
[Full playlist (trailer and all eight parts):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjSpVmQJimhdKIR392skWxQCcI27P824Z
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGMotwh46dw
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Arthur Jafa: Not All Good, Not All Bad on Vimeo
"We went to Los Angeles and visited the winner of the prestigious Venice Biennale's 2019 Golden Lion, American artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa. In this extensive interview, he talks about black identity in connection with his critically acclaimed video ‘Love is the Message, The Message is Death’, which became a worldwide sensation.
“I’m trying to have enough distance from the thing, that I can actually see it clearly. But at the same time, be able to flip the switch and be inside of it.” Jafa describes how he has rewired himself to push towards things that disturb him. He grew up in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in America, and admires the fearless and relentless pictures from that region by Danish photographer Jacob Holdt in ‘American Pictures’ (1977): “They exist outside of the formal parameters of art photography. I think they exist outside of journalism. They’re something else.”
Since childhood, Jafa has collected images in books, as if he was window-shopping, “compiling things that you don’t have access to.” The act of compiling and putting things together helps him figure out “what it is you’re actually attracted to.” When he “strung together” ‘Love is the Message, The Message is Death’, it was engendered by the explosion of citizen cellphone-documentation – the point in time where people discovered the power of being able to document. Jafa comments that his “preoccupation with blackness is fundamental philosophical” rather than political, and considers ‘whiteness’ a “pathological construction that’s come about as a result of a lot of complicated things.” In continuation of this, Jafa is against “highs and lows,” and some of the power of the work, he finds, is that it doesn’t make those distinctions. Instead of doing hierarchies, it accepts that opposites don’t have to negate each other, and tries to understand the diversity, differentiation and complexity in the world: “It’s not all good, it’s not all bad.”
Arthur Jafa (b. 1960) is an American Mississippi-born visual artist, film director, and cinematographer. His acclaimed video ‘Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death’ (2016), shows a montage of historical and contemporary film footage to trace Black American experiences throughout history. Jafa has exhibited widely including at the Hirshhorn in Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Tate Liverpool in Liverpool and Serpentine Galleries in London. His work as a cinematographer with directors such as Spike Lee and Stanley Kubrick has been notable, and his work on ‘Daughters of the Dust’ (1991) won the ‘Best Cinematography’ Award at Sundance. In 2019, Jafa was awarded the Golden Lion for best artist at the Venice Biennale for his film ‘The White Album’. Jafa has also worked as a director of photography on several music videos, including for Solange Knowles and Jay-Z. Jafa co-founded TNEG with Malik Sayeed, a “motion picture studio whose goal is to create a black cinema as culturally, socially and economically central to the 21st century as was black music to the 20th century.” He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Arthur Jafa was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in Los Angeles in November 2018. In the video, extracts are shown from ‘Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death’ (2016) by Arthur Jafa. The seven-minute video is set to Kanye West’s Ultralight Beam.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
Supported by Nordea fonden"
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Opinion | How High School Ruined Leisure - The New York Times
"Summer is coming.
The season for school sports and activities is ending. For most high school seniors, it’s not just the season — it is, in some weird sense, their “career.” As a hockey, soccer, lacrosse player. A violinist, a debater, a singer in the a cappella choir. Unless they have professional aspirations or college commitments, whatever they’ve done outside of school — and for many kids, that thing has become a core piece of their identities — is shifting into a different gear.
It’s no longer going to help get them into college. They won’t step up to a better chair or make varsity. The conveyor belt of achievement has reached its end.
Now all that remains are the kinds of questions everyone comes to eventually: Do you still do your thing — whatever your thing is — when no one is watching? What do you do when it doesn’t matter any more?
“I’ve recently had to come to the realization that I won’t have a next year to prepare for as a member of this team,” said Sawyer Michaelson, a tennis player and senior at Southwest High School in Minneapolis. “This is the first time I haven’t had a future to look forward to. I hope to play tennis in college, but things aren’t set in stone like they were for me in high school.” This, he said, is “unnerving.”
“This is a real moment for a lot of kids,” said Christine VanDeVelde, an author of “College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step.” “For some, who’ve had adults guide them all their lives, they don’t know what they want or what they like or what motivates them. For others, who’ve been competent or successful at a lot of things, it can be hard to know which one sustains them.”
In many ways, that challenge is amped up by the rigorous approach teenagers are encouraged to take to what used to be seen as hobbies, done outside of school and on a student’s own time. (Thus the term “extracurriculars.”) As the sports and activities kids once did “just for fun” sometimes led to prestigious academic opportunities, the grown-ups caught on and took over, and everything from baseball to math modeling was commercialized and turned into a means to an end.
The message was clear: These activities were important. What they weren’t was optional, at least beyond the initial decision to sign up. The season was mapped out, the schedule on the fridge.
It’s that structure that makes this shift more than just a standard rite of passage for new graduates. Teachers, coaches and parents strive to give students the best experiences in competing, performing or creating, but the more professionalized the process becomes, the more difficult it can be to return to an amateur approach. When your artwork has been given the gallery treatment and your entry into the final game was marked by fireworks and a sound system worthy of the Super Bowl, painting for yourself or playing a pickup game in the park might feel pointless.
Add in the college admission process, and even the most passionate teenagers say they feel as if things have reached an end rather than a turning point.
“There is definitely this sense that you are putting work into activities so you can get some sort of payback — admission to a top college — and afterward, your work is done,” said Ella Biehn, a senior and a songwriter and guitarist at DeKalb School of the Arts near Atlanta. She plans to keep performing in college, majoring in vocal music, and yet, “In a lot of cases I feel like a spent battery.”
Ironically, in placing so much value on activities that our children came to out of love or interest, we grown-ups replaced the intrinsic motivations we often claim to value with extrinsic ones. When you’ve been taught that every action has a purpose, it’s harder to find meaning in just doing something you enjoy, and much more difficult to persuade yourself to do it.
And so, with an anticlimactic awards ceremony and a round of applause and tears, we welcome our former student athletes and artists into the real world, where art and sport beckon alluringly in other people’s Instagram feeds, but leisure itself — the act of engaging in something merely because we enjoy it — is not much valued. The opportunities are there, but the will to take advantage of them, to make choices for reasons other than profit or productivity, has to be yours.
Maybe this is the most important lesson our new graduates can learn. “This is part of the human experience,” said Susan Avery, a college counselor at Harvest Collegiate High School in Manhattan. “These kids have spent 17 years listening to adults. Now they have to learn to listen to themselves.”
Ms. Avery’s daughter, a dedicated pre-med student who never pursued the arts in high school, signed up for theater club for fun at a freshman fair in college and will soon be graduating as a theater major. “When she first mentioned it, I was like, ‘Do it!’” Ms. Avery said. “‘I like it, I want to try it’ — that’s a good reason.”
The secret of adulthood, the one those high school seniors don’t know but soon will, is that there are some questions we never really resolve. Do you still do your thing — whatever your thing is — when no one is watching? Both the magic of that question and its existential angst lie in the freedom it presents. Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t.
It really only matters — really only has to matter — to you."
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6 weeks ago by robertogreco
"Field Experience is an organization dedicated to the cultivation of curiosity and creativity through inquiry and the art of exploration."
"Field Experience was founded by Minneapolis-based designer and researcher Julka Almquist. She has 15 years of experience as an ethnographer and design researcher. While working at IDEO she found that people were profoundly impacted by the inspiration phase of research, and that exploring the world was far more transformational than sitting in an office giving presentations. Since then, she has grown passionate about the art of exploration and how it can heighten curiosity and creativity. She holds a PhD at the intersection of design and anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and has taught at Art Center College of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Julka collaborates with an extraordinary team of experts to craft learning experiences. Explore with us: hello@fieldexperience.co"
[See also:
https://www.instagram.com/field_experience/
"Reading List"
https://fieldexperience.co/readinglist
""Landscape: An Education Program"
https://fieldexperience.co/programs
"Throughout 2019, we are curating an experience-based learning program in Minneapolis/St. Paul called Landscape. We will be exploring creativity through a variety of events situated within our natural landscape. Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
We are partnering with local and international artists, designers, naturalists, and biologists to craft experiences for our community. The monthly programs will be free and open to the public. We have an events calendar with programming updates, and a reading list where we post articles, chapters and other forms of inspiration to accompany the programs.
Our programs are grounded in the following ideas:
Local Landscape
We have increasingly been asking questions about how our relationship to the natural world influences our creativity. We aim to expand creative practice through new ways of engaging with our local landscape, and in particular with plants. Our programming will be shaped in response to the changing seasons.
Place-Based Pedagogy
One of the fundamental goals of this program is to build community in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and to foster a deeper connection to place through creative learning experiences. We acknowledge the history of place, and that we are working on Dakota and Ojibwe land.
Experiential and Sensorial Inquiry
The modes of inquiry for the program are embodied, experienced-based, and multi-sensory. We encourage everyone to get out of their offices, studios, and classrooms and into the world. In order to engage the senses, the workshops and events will primarily be outdoors, with the exception of the deep winter months when our extreme climate brings us indoors.
Creative Experimentation
Many of our programs will offer an opportunity for making. We want to encourage people to make things that may not be central to their practice and to push the boundaries of creative experimentation. We also hope that the experiences and discussions are transformational and inspire new possibilities for creative practice."]
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10 weeks ago by robertogreco
Are.na Blog / Unlearning hierarchy at the Free School of Architecture
"The Free School of Architecture is an experimental, tuition-free program founded in 2016 that brings architectural thinkers to Los Angeles for several weeks of participatory learning. Four of the original participants – Elisha Cohen, Lili Carr, Karina Andreeva and Tessa Forde – took over the project in 2017 and organized the 2018 edition, which is extensively archived on Are.na. We caught up with them via email to hear their thoughts on alternative education in art and design."
"FSA takes a maximalist and inclusive approach; this has the advantage of allowing us to connect seemingly different people and projects who might never have met, and between whom unexpected collaborations start to happen. It attempts to bridge the gap between academia and practice and allow the space for conversations about architecture that are often overlooked. This maximalist approach means that there will be some unavoidable confusion as a result. We focused on growth and development of participants over clarity to outsiders. Still transparency was a constant topic of conversation and a goal for us as the organizers, and we realize that this is an area we drastically need to improve.
At the core are a few aspirational (and perhaps naive) values that we hope FSA can act as a testing ground for, no matter how the program evolves in the future:
- Non-hierarchy
- Interdisciplinarity and inclusivity
- Freeness (free from constraints of academy and practice, tuition-free, free to be silent or to question)
Leo: How did you structure things in 2018? Were there instructors and students, or did every participant take on a range of roles in relation to one another?
FSA: We sought to challenge the typical hierarchy of a school and emphasize the value of those attending by removing the impetus on the ‘teacher and student’ relationship. We purposefully avoided using those terms. Everyone involved became a ‘participant.’
This began with the application process. Anyone could apply to be a participant by writing a statement and demonstrating experience engaging with a form of practice relevant to architecture. Then, those who wanted to could also submit a teaching proposal. Not all participants had to host a session, but those who did were also there to listen to others.
This included the organizers—we also submitted our own application statements. This was important because the second stage of admissions was peer-evaluation. We sent each applicant three other essays to respond to in order to be accepted. Some responses were funny, some were graphic, while some wrote long, thoughtful reactions. Here is one example. Most importantly, it generated a dialogue before the school was in session and set the tone for what was to come.
Leo: What do you think you took away from the challenges and advantages of being a more "horizontal" organization?
FSA: The structure and organizational model was a huge learning experience for all of us. It had some incredibly powerful results, including a truly non-hierarchical working dynamic between the four of us that enabled unanimous decision-making and open discussion. We shared responsibility for almost every aspect of the organization. To do this productively took time, discussion, and trust. It is certainly not the most efficient, but we believe in its benefits over this downside.
Despite our intentions as organizers to make the program itself non-hierarchical, it became difficult for us to blend into the participant group and separate ourselves from those roles as we attempted to hand over the torch. The incredible complexity of running a school and the huge amount of admin work involved proved almost impossible to part with. This is an area that we plan to focus on in the future. In many ways we did too much, and further iterations of the school may reimagine it with more flexibility and with a more established system for handing off responsibility."
"Leo: Has working on Free School of Architecture offered ways to share knowledge with other groups thinking about alternative education?
FSA: We are only one example of many types of alternative educational initiatives arising, in the architecture education world but also in the art world, as education becomes increasingly more expensive and continues to perpetuate the agenda of those with cultural power and capital. We have been in touch with other schools with similar intentions, like Utopia School, Learning Gardens, and Aformal Academy, and there is an incredible opportunity to develop a kind of global network of knowledge and ideas exchange. Eventually, we would like to compile a “Free School Tool Kit” to allow others to run similar events and build on what we have learned so far. In fact, we used are.na throughout the summer as part of this same intention towards knowledge sharing. We wanted it to be both a resource for participants but also a growing archive to document the summer in the hopes that it might be interesting or useful to others. It still needs another layer of editing and uploading in order to work as a full archive or tool kit, but it did act as an ongoing platform for exchange at the time. Hopefully in the future we can continue to use it as a way for non-participants to engage as well.
Next up, we (the organizers) are traveling to the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany to take part in their “Parliament of Schools,” along with others from around the world, including Public School for Architecture, Open Raumlabor University, and many more. It should be a fantastic occasion to engage with and learn about other organizations and explore the future of pedagogy within the architectural field. We’re very excited about how it might influence what we do next!"
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Duke University Press - Designs for the Pluriverse
"In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders."
[via: https://twitter.com/camerontw/status/1113556591976914944
in response to: "Student Question of the Week: "Is design an essentially unethical pursuit due to its unavoidable enmeshment with global capitalism?" Who wants to take a stab at this? 🤗"
https://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1113540248284188672 ]
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april 2019 by robertogreco
The Parasitic Reading Room | dpr-barcelona
"“[Books] can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”
‘Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming.’ The Guardian, 2013
Aristide Antonas and Thanos Zartaloudis define ‘The Parasitic Council’ as that place “where a public space can be the plateau for the occupancy of a commonhold in order that it performs multiple parasitic functions of common use without claims to property.” Following this protocol of action and occupancy of the city, and connecting them with the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial ‘A School of Schools,’ dpr-barcelona and the open raumlabor university joined forces to set up a Parasitic Reading Room for the opening days of the IDB, in September 2018, a nomad, spontaneous and parasitic set of reading spaces that took place along the biennale venues and other spots in the city, with the intention to ‘parasite’ the event participants, visitors, ideas, contents and places, and to provoke a contagion of knowledge. The Parasitic Reading Room is a spontaneous school, made by reading aloud a selection of texts that are related with the biennale’s scope.
On his book Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich states that most learning happens casually, and training of young people never happens in the school but elsewhere, in moments and places beyond the control of the school. When claiming for the revolutionary potential of deschooling, Illich makes a call to liberating oneself from school and to reckon that “each of us is personally responsible for his or her own deschooling, and only we have the power to do it.” This is why the wide domain of academia needs to be challenged in radical and unexpected ways and we need to envision other spaces of encounter and knowledge exchange out of its walls. Similarly, Michael Paraskos rightly pointed on his essay The Table Top Schools of Art, that “we might well say that if four individuals gather together under a tree that is a school. Similarly four individuals around a kitchen table. Or four individuals in the café or bar. By redefining the school in this way we also redefine what it means to be a student in a school or a teacher.”
Perhaps the essential question at this point is what kind of readings should form this alternative bibliography on different pedagogical models, about other sources of knowledge, that come not only [but also] from the pages of our favourite books? This question can have multiple answers which all of them are to be intertwined, multi-connected, overlapped. Poems, films, instagram photos—and its captions—, songs, e-mail exchanges, objects, conversations with friends over a glass of wine or a coffee, dreams; we learn from all of them albeit [or often because] the hectic diversity of formats, and sometimes its lack of seriousness.
By reading aloud we share a space of intimacy, a time and place of learning not only from the contents, but from the nuances, the accents, the cadence of the reading. Abigail Williams called this ‘the social life of books,’ “How books are read is as important as what’s in them,” she pointed—we call it ‘the book as a space of encounters.’ This means spaces where different books coexist and enrich each other; books as the necessary space where the author can have a dialogue with the reader, where different readers can read between the lines and find a place of exchange, where to debate, and discuss ideas. Books and encounters as an open school.
If everywhere is a learning environment, as we deeply believe, and the Istanbul Design Biennial intended to prove by transforming the city of Istanbul into a school of schools, we vindicate the importance of books—be them fiction, poetry or critical theory—as learning environments; those spaces where empathy and otherness are stronger than ideologies, where we can find space to ‘parasite’ each other’s knowledge and experience and create an open school by the simple but strong gesture of reading aloud together.
Because, what is a school if not a promise?"
"For the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial ‘A School of Schools,’ dpr-barcelona and the open raumlabor university will set up for the opening days of the IDB a Parasitic Reading Room, a nomad, spontaneous and parasitic set of reading spaces that will take place along the biennale venues and other spots in the city, with the intention of 'parasite' the event participants, visitors, ideas, contents and places, and to provoke a contagion of knowledge. 'The Parasitic Reading Room' is a spontaneous school, made by reading aloud a selection of texts that are related with the biennale's scope. As initial readings—that can be paratised afterwards—we have collected some remarkable texts about education, radical thinking, literature, and many other sources of knowledge, and published them at The Parasitic Reader 01 and The Parasitic reader 02. Feel free to parasite them as well and share them."
https://issuu.com/ethel.baraona/docs/parasitic_reader_01
"Based on previous conversations around the topic in the frame of “Body of Us”, the Swiss contribution to the London Design Biennale 2018, the project’s curator Rebekka Kiesewetter has invited friends to continue the discussion around political friendship: dpr-barcelona, initiators of the “Parasitic reading room” [along with the Open raumlabor University] at the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial 2018; architect Ross Exo Adams, one of the contributors to Body of Us publication, and continent., the experimental publishing collective, initiators of “Reading Friendships Paris“ at Centre Culturel Suisse 2016. At this same venue, three years later, the stage opens for an edition of the “Parasitic Reading Room” and a reprise of “Reading Friendships”, an evening of readings, thinkings, creating and discussion. A collective reading in Paris on March 20th, 2019."
https://issuu.com/ethel.baraona/docs/friend_ships_reader ]
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march 2019 by robertogreco
Recommendations for an optimal conclusion to Hampshire College (opinion)
"Hampshire College: Fold, Don’t Merge: Michael Drucker proposes what he thinks would be an ethical conclusion to the experimental college."
"When I say my alma mater is an experimental college, I mean it literally. No grades. No majors. No tests. We are different by design and intention.
My academic adviser would ask me, “What are you curious about in the world?” and “How are you going to find the knowledge you need to answer those questions?” Since we have no majors, we have no list to follow telling us exactly what courses to take to complete our degree. Students must not only study the material in their chosen areas of concentration but also figure out what that will be. Simply being a student at Hampshire College is an act of experiential education.
Hampshire’s educational philosophy asks: What is possible if students are studying for the sake of learning instead of competing for letter grades? What is possible if students are studying not only for the sake of learning but also for innovative, interdisciplinary applications of that knowledge?
Do Not Resuscitate
In January, President Miriam E. Nelson announced the search for a long-term strategic partner for Hampshire and questioned first-year class enrollment. Student activism ignited. Alumni, faculty and staff comments in support and dissent flooded in. A petition calling for shared governance collected thousands of signatures within days. On Feb. 1, Hampshire announced it would enroll only early-decision admits and students who previously deferred.
A partnership, or a merger, could be great if I’m allowing myself to be optimistic. But it’s increasingly difficult to sustain optimism, as my idealism feels more like naïveté with each passing day. Staff layoffs may begin as early as April. Early-decision admits are told a new affiliate will likely control how any diploma they earn will be awarded. Notable alumnus Jon Krakauer writes in The New York Times that in the merger “it is not at all clear how much of the Hampshire philosophy -- to say nothing of the Hampshire soul -- will survive.”
I feel more and more confident that Hampshire’s soul will not survive. If that’s the case, I do not want to keep our institution on life support. I respectfully submit my request to the Hampshire Board of Trustees to consider ordering a DNR for our beloved and complicated alma mater.
Without our educational “soul,” what remains is still something beautiful: a liberal arts campus with provocative course material, progressive ideologies and the harmonious clashing of overlapping countercultures. But that’s something students can find at many other colleges around the world. It’s not enough for me to want Hampshire to continue for the sake of its name living on.
The pedagogical tenets of our educational experiment make us who we are. Without them, we are not Hampshire College. Some might ask if it’s really that bad to have majors, grades or tests. No, it’s not the end of the world, but it is the end of Hampshire.
I’m only 27, and I’ve lost both of my parents. My dad died when I was a third-year student at Hampshire. The day he passed, I was at ACPA’s annual convention with Hampshire student affairs representatives. My first professional mentor was there and consoled me the night I found out. My mom passed in the summer of 2017 -- too young and too soon.
I know what loss, mourning and grief mean. I’ve already begun mourning Hampshire as I’ve done before while preparing myself emotionally for the painful departure of a loved one. I do not want Hampshire to close, but I know that it is an option. My personal experiences make it easier for me to consider it as a viable one. I’m not afraid of it.
My preference for Hampshire to close, rather than merge, is not about me throwing in the towel on a good fight to save our college. It’s about respecting its legacy. It’s about preferring to honor it in memory rather than seeing it diluted in its new form. It’s about thanking Hampshire for what it has been and letting it pass peacefully.
It may be over, but it’s not a failure. We had 50 years of magic. We existed. We were here. It mattered. It will continue to matter.
An Ethical Conclusion
Closing Hampshire College is not as simple as one human being dying (which is, of course, not simple at all). Closing the college would have an immense economic effect on its employees and the local Amherst community. It has four classes of active students to consider. But I would support closing rather than merging if we could spend our energy and resources developing the best conclusion possible. There is potential here for us to truly live out Hampshire’s philosophy until the end.
From what I can gather, however, what is happening right now is not an ethical termination. Amherst College faculty members wrote an open letter to President Nelson criticizing the recent decisions made without adequate faculty input, noting, “No leader in any field can violate long-standing professional norms for long without compromising his or her credibility and losing the confidence of core constituencies.” Hampshire’s Executive Committee of the Faculty authored their own letter declaring that the president’s Jan. 15 announcement considering not accepting an incoming class “turned a financial crisis into a catastrophe” -- in essence making it so that Hampshire then had no choice but to fulfill this self-defeating prophecy and spiral down toward helplessness. The staff, faculty and administrators are now in the midst of learning of layoffs. Those who must leave have only 60 days to prepare; those who stay are headed into the unknown. Either way, there is harm done. It seems the employees and students living and working on the campus right now are being neglected in the shuffle.
Do this, but do it right. Gather all Hampshire constituencies for planning the conclusion of Hampshire in the spirit of shared of governance. Generate ideas, cross over disciplines and break boundaries -- discover the beauty in something tragic. Lengthen the window of time for shutting down. Create a four-year plan for closing up shop. Do everything we want to do in that time.
Provide accurate information to all employees with at least six months' notice, if not more, for changes or termination. Use your remaining resources to financially ease the transition for all your employees.
Let current students grieve and be angry. Offer them what you actually can offer them. Don’t hold out with information you know is inevitable. If current first-years need to transfer to have full college experiences, tell them as soon as possible and help them do it. Learn from other colleges that have closed. Replicate their better practices and learn from their shortcomings.
Last, let’s throw Hampshire the most perfectly Hampshire going-away party we’ve ever seen. Let’s celebrate what we’ve done. Let’s document our innovations and accomplishments. Let’s show others how to resurrect what Hampshire did if the financial and political tides turn. Invite alums back to campus for a weekend of acknowledgment, celebration and community. If we were to lean into this direction now, we have the potential to do something extraordinary.
Before anything, the people making the decisions need to reveal the status of the merger’s development. The board and senior administrators must gamble on showing their cards. It would take a radical amount of vulnerability to show us all what our options are -- and an even greater amount would be to let us all have a say in which direction we go.
The students organizing in Hamp.Rise.Up are demanding just that: a say in what’s happening. It’s not typical for a college to do that in this dire situation, but we’ve never been typical. What would it mean to have a Hampshire-wide democratic vote on the future of our college? Even if we vote to close the institution in light of unfavorable mergers, what could we teach to the rest of higher education by the process through which we got there?
We are a college that lives our motto, Non Satis Scire: “to know is not enough.” So far, we don’t know much, and that is clearly not enough. But given the chance, what could we create?"
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🅃🄸🄼 on Twitter: "1/ I grew up in the service industry. Great products and great service are the same."
1/ I grew up in the service industry. Great products and great service are the same.
2/ Know your audience: there’s a difference between a Michelin Star restaurant and greasy spoon. You would rightfully be annoyed if someone came and folded your napkin between slices of pizza. You build a restaurant for your customers, not for yourself.
3/ You learn how to listen to customers. If you ask “How is everything?” no one ever says things were terrible—and if they do they are probably taking out something else in their lives on you. *How* they said “everything is fine” is what matters.
4/ If a restaurant has perfect food, perfect service, perfect decor—it becomes perfectly forgettable. People expect to pay for an experience not just with their wallets but with their own effort. The lines, the waits make everything worth it. Effortless=forgettable.
5/ Don’t talk shop in front of house. Customers don’t care that a server missed their shift or that the cook is in a bad mood today. Customers literally don’t want to know how the sausage is made—they just want to eat it.
6/ Finally, churn matters. There’s only so many people who will try you once, let alone come back. If no one comes back, you’re done.
[See also: "The Internet Needs More Friction: Tech companies’ obsession with moving data across the internet as fast as possible has made it less safe."
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9q33/the-internet-needs-more-friction ]
https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1073649771905204224
Stifling your cough so "smart" devices don't report that you are sickly and thus unemployable is now part of the nightmarish (near) future. https://cacm.acm.org/news/233329-smarter-voice-assistants-recognize-your-favorite-brandsand-health/fulltext
[image with starred part highlighted: "Yet the new sound detection capabilities also offer the potential for controversy, as the speakers now collect low-level health data. Snoring and yawning a lot, for instance, could be signs of obstructive sleep apnea, so leaked data might impact somebody's health insurance, or even car insurance rates. **A lot of coughing and sneezing might impact employability, too, if somebody seems too sickly too often.**"]
"[Smart speaker] users express few privacy concerns, but their rationalizations indicate an incomplete understanding of privacy risks, a complicated trust relationship with speaker companies, and a reliance on the socio-technical context in which smart speakers reside."
Here's the link to that study on smart speakers if you want it: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3274371
TFW you realize that Black Mirror is actually too optimistic.
[image with starred part highlighted: "Mitchell says **Audio Analytic is pursuing a number of avenues for its technology, such as designing drink cans so that when opened, they make different, distinctive kinds of sounds that precisely identify the drink "and so rive some kind of interaction."** However, the drink does not have to be identified; simply knowing you're drinking from a can could be valuable, says Mitchell, and might spark a verbal request from the smart speaker to recycle the can when you're finished."]
Tech bros' obsession w/ eliminating "friction" is really just trying to eliminate the messiness of dealing with humans w/ the messiness of interacting with machines, which they can better monetize. Opening a can will initiate an interaction? FFS. 🤦🏿♂️"]
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december 2018 by robertogreco
An Official Welcome - The New York Times [California Today]
"I’m a California native — born at U.C.L.A. Medical Center. But when I was 2, my dad got a good job in Kansas City, so my parents packed up and left the place where they grew up for the Midwest.
Now, I understand it for the smart career move that it was. For the 10 years we lived outside the Golden State, though, I only ever wanted to go back.
Whenever we’d fly into LAX to visit my grandparents and my cousins, it felt like coming home for reasons I couldn’t really articulate.
Part of it was that in Kansas, I never quite forgot that I looked different from my tawny-headed classmates, who sometimes asked if I was Chinese. That was hurtful only because it underscored that I’d never be like them at an age when I just wanted to fit in.
My mom is Japanese-American and my dad is of Russian Jewish descent. And in California, I felt like I could be just another face in the crowd — whether we were at an udon restaurant with my mom’s parents in Gardena or the West Hollywood comedy club where my paternal grandmother worked.
I share this because it captures the peculiar magic of California for me.
[image: "Out on one of my favorite assignments: Squid fishing off the Orange County coast in 2013. [photo by] Don Leach"]
We eventually moved back, to the Mission Viejo area. Then I went to college at U.C. Berkeley and worked in Bakersfield, Orange County and Los Angeles as a reporter. During that time, I learned California is a place that’s impossible to explain, to encapsulate in any one way.
But it’s a place where almost anyone can feel at home.
And that’s what I want California Today to help you feel. I want you to look forward to opening the newsletter every morning, knowing that you’ll start the day understanding your state a little better, even if it’s boundless.
To achieve this, we’ll be rethinking the newsletter from greeting to kicker. You’ll notice us trying different formats and features."
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Nick Kaufmann on Twitter: "Civic tech needs to study history and explore the "usable past". Everyone in #civictech / @codeforamerica network should read Professor Light's upcoming book States of Childhood, ill attempt to summarize her talk below, although
[this is the event:
https://architecture.mit.edu/computation/lecture/playing-city-building ]
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"Civic tech needs to study history and explore the "usable past". Everyone in #civictech / @codeforamerica network should read Professor Light's upcoming book States of Childhood, ill attempt to summarize her talk below, although it's only what i could grasp in an hour or so.
https://twitter.com/nickkauf/status/1071162000145817601
At @mitsap tonight tweeting about Jennifer Light's lecture "playing at city building" #urbanism #education #civictech
Light opened the talk with the observation that more disciplines are looking to study history to "look forward by looking backward" #civicfutures #usablepast
In #civictech we know this isnt the first government reform movement with a "techie spin" in the world or us. At the last turn of the century, anxieties about cities birthed the "good government movement" the "googoos" were reformers kinda like #civichackers of today
Like @codeforamerica and also #smartcities boosters, the goo-goos believed scientific models and tech tools were a source of progress. They were worried about "boss rule" and wanted to "rationalize government" compare to cfa's mottos today
After discussing the good govt movement, Lights set the historical context of shifting expectations around young people's behavior. Child labor laws did not stop children from working however, it was just framed as "play" now
In this context early models of vocational education and educational simulations emerged, including William R. George's "model republic" movement. @Erie @pahlkadot model republics were all over the usa, not as franchised like #cfabrigade but more grassroots diffusion of the idea
There were miniature republics run by children in boston(Cottage Row), Cleveland (Progress City) Philadelphia (Playground City), etc, where children worked as real pretend public servants
media coverage of the time hailed these civic simulations as educational opportunity/chance for a "second life" for youth. Some of the tenement kids that George put into his program ended up in ivy league schools, and as lawyers, Pub. Servants and admins of their own model cities
The educational theories at the time of the model republics were very similar to today's trends of "gamification" "experiential learning" etc. Light referenced Stanley Hall (imitation/impersonation) and 'identity play'
Long before Bateson and Goffman were muddling the boundary between seriousness/play, model republics were also using that ambiguity to educate and also cut costs of programs literally built and maintained by children. Imagine 1000 kids and 3 admins
John Dewey's philosophy of learning by doing was also heavily referenced in the talk, as George took great inspiration from him and Dewey was a supporter of the model republics.
Light stressed just how much model republic citizens did in their pretend-real jobs, building housing, policing, data collection, safety inspections, and they did it so well that they often circumvented the adult systems. Why send some1 to adult court when junior court works?
This dynamic reminded me so much of #civichackers today with our pretend jobs and weekly hack night play that quickly turns into real jobs for our cities
Another point Light made was that the model republics were very much about assimilation of immigrants into a certain set of white american middleclass values. But before rise of consumerism those values heavily emphasized DIY/activecitizenship/production.
One reason for the decline of the model republics might have been the rise of consumerism and passive consumption valued over production. But we still have things like model U.N. and vocational programs, vestiges of this time.
Again today we have a perceived need to train people for the "new economy", so what can #civictech #civicinnovation #smartcities learn from looking back to historical examples? For one thing, we learn that youth contribution to civic innovation is important and undervalued
When model republics were introduced into schools the educational outcomes were not the only advantage, they saved schools gobs of money through "user generated" labor. Again think about civictech volunteerism today...
At Emerson School, Light said, kids were even repairing the electrical system. And in some cities kids would stand in for the mayor at real events.
Heres a page describing the establishment of a self-governing body of newsboys in Milwaukee https://www.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/cuap/db.cgi?uid=default&ID=4167&view=Search&mh=1 …
Light closed the talk by remarking on the "vast story of children's unacknowledged labor in the creation of urban America". slide shows how their labor was hidden behind play. Although they couldnt work in factories,can you call it "play" if it involved *building* the playground?
Although Light's upcoming book focuses on America, she said there were civic simulations like this in many countries including the Phillipines, China, England, France...
Model republics were not however a well connected, branded international civic movement like modern #civictech. Light said that while they were promoted at national educational conferences on education or public housing, George lamented not having control of the brand/vision
The result of George's lack of guidelines and a organizational network of model republic practiciorners was many different, idiosyncratic models run by different ppl in different places. @pahlkadot George really needed a "National Advisory Council" it seems!
For example an Indiana model republic the kids put on their own circuses! George thought some model republics werent following his original values/vision but couldnt do much about it...another theme in #civictech now Fortunately @Open_Maine is allowed to be weirdos too @elburnett
Light emphasized that although the model republics were a tool to assimilate children into a set of values (presumably including colonial, racist, patriarchal, capitalist ones) they were also a site of agency where kids experimented and innovated.
For example, girls in coeducational model republics held public offices and launched voting rights campaigns before the women' suffrage movement gained the rights in the "real" world. Given the power of the republics to do real work this wasnt just a symbolic achievement.
George for his part believed that the kids should figure out model republics for themselves, even if it meant dystopian civics. One model republic kept prisoners in a literal iron cage before eventually abolishing the prison.
Light's talk held huge lessons for the #civictech movement, and the model republic movement is just one of many pieces of history that can be a "usable past" for us. every civic tech brigade should have a "historian" role!
At @Open_Maine weve always been looking back to look forward although I didnt have the "usable past" vocabulary until I saw professor Light's talk today. @ajawitz @elburnett and I have consciously explored history in promoting civic tech in Maine.Other brigades are doing this too
For example, early @Open_Maine (code for maine) posters consciously referenced civilian conservation corps aesthetic #usablepast
We also made a 100y link w/ charitable mechanics movement @MaineMechanics makerspace never happened but @semateos became president and aligned org. with modern #makermovement. we host civichackathons there. #mainekidscode class is in same room that held free drawingclass 100y ago
So you can see why Light's talk has my brain totally buzzing. After all, @Open_Maine has been dreaming of #civicisland, an experiential #civictech summer camp! Were currently applying to @MozOpenLeaders to develop open source experiential civictech curricula we could use for it.
Next steps here: I want to write an article about the "usable past" concept for #civictech. So if your brigade is engaged with history I wanna talk to you. @JBStephens1 was it you talking about the rotary club model on slack? @CodeForPhilly didnt you make a history timeline?"
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Dr. Michelle Fine on Willful Subjectivity and Strong Objectivity in Education Research - Long View on Education
"In this interview, Dr. Michelle Fine makes the argument for participatory action research as a sophisticated epistemology. Her work uncovers the willful subjectivity and radical wit of youth. In the last ten minutes, she gives some concrete recommendations for setting up a classroom that recognizes and values the gifts that students bring. Please check out her publications on ResearchGate [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michelle_Fine ] and her latest book Just Research in Contentious Times (Teachers College, 2018). [https://www.amazon.com/Just-Research-Contentious-Times-Methodological/dp/0807758736/ ]
Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center CUNY.
Thank you to Dr. Kim Case and Professor Tanya L. Domi."
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november 2018 by robertogreco
Libraries, Gardens, Museums. Oh, and a Clothing Store. - The New York Times
Shopping areas in Asia are about the experience, not just the retail sale.
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This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes - The New York Times
"What does life look like for girls turning 18 in 2018? We gave young women photographers around the world an assignment: Show us 18 in your community. This is 18 — through girls’ eyes."
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Carol Black: Alternatives to Schooling on Vimeo
"Carol Black is an education analyst, television producer, and director of the film Schooling the World. This is her plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local Futures, a non-profit organization that has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years."
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october 2018 by robertogreco
Carol Black on Twitter: "I'm sorry, but this is delusional. If you don't read the book the first time for rhythm and flow, just *read* it, you haven't read the book. You have dissected it. This is like the vivisection of literature. There is no author ali
"I'm sorry, but this is delusional. If you don't read the book the first time for rhythm and flow, just *read* it, you haven't read the book. You have dissected it. This is like the vivisection of literature. There is no author alive who would want their book read this way."
"Look, the reality is that most people do not want to analyze literature. It's a specialty interest, a niche thing. There is absolutely no reason all people should have to do this. By forcing it we just create an aversion to books.
[@SOLEatHome "Would you consider someone re-reading a book they love and noticing things they missed the first time analysis? It at least fits what has come to be known as "close reading""]
Kids who become writers (or filmmakers, or musicians) re-read, re-watch, re-listen to their favorite things repetitively, obsessively. They internalize structure, rhythm, characterization, language, vocabulary, dialogue, intuitively, instinctively.
Close reading & analysis is a separate activity, it requires a whole different stance / attitude toward the book. It can enhance this deeper intuitive understanding or it can shut it down, turn it into something mechanical & disengaged.
I think it's a huge mistake to push this analytical stance on children when they are too young. I was an English major, & I don't think I benefited from it until college. Younger kids should just find things they love & process them in ways that make sense to them.
This is one of the many delusional things about the way literature is taught in HS. The reality is you have to read a book at the *bare minimum* twice in order to do meaningful analysis. But there is never time for this. So we just club the thing to death on the first reading.
One of the principal things a writer does is to work incredibly hard at refining the way one sentence flows into the next, one chapter springboards off the last. To experience this as a reader you have to immerse yourself, turn off the analytical brain, just *read* the damn book.
To insert analysis into this process on a first reading is like watching a film by pausing every couple of minutes to make notes before continuing. It's fine to do that in later study, but if you do it the first time through you've destroyed everything the filmmaker worked for."
[@irasocol: How a teacher destroys not just reading but culture. Can we let kids experience an author's work without dissection? How I tried to address this in 2012... http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-do-we-read-why-do-we-write.html "]
[This was in repsonse to a thread that began with:
https://twitter.com/SOLEatHome/status/1053338882496958465
"This thread details a real school assignment that was asked of a high school student to do while reading a book they hadn't read before. I assure you this is is not something isolated to one school:
Annotate.
Inside front cover: major character with space for...
...character summaries, page reference for key scenes or moments of character development. Evidently these are enormous books.
Inside Back Cover: list of themes, allusions, images, motifs, key scenes, plot line, epiphanies, etc. Add pg. references or notes. List vocab words...
...if there's still room. (big books or small writing?)
Start of each chapter: do a quick summary of the chapter. Title each chapter as soon as you finish it, esp. if the chapters don't have titles.
Top margins: plot notes/words phrases that summarize. Then go back...
...and mark the chapter carefully (more on these marks to come)
Bottom and side margins: interpretive notes, questions, remarks that refer to the meaning of the page (???). Notes to tie in w/ notes on inside back cover
Header: Interpretive notes and symbols to be used...
...underline or highlight key words, phrases, sentences that are important to understanding the work
questions/comments in the margins--your conversation with the text
bracket important ideas/passages
use vertical lines at the margin to emphasize what's been already marked...
...connect ideas with lines or arrows
use numbers in the margin to indicate the sequence of points the author makes in developing a single argument
use a star, asterisk, or other doo-dad at the margin--use a consistent symbol--(presumably to not mix up your doo-dads?) to...
...be used sparingly to emphasize the ten or twenty most important statements in the book.
Use ???for sections/ideas you don't understand
circle words you don't know. Define them in the margins (How many margins does a page have?)
A checkmark means "I understand"...
...use !!! when you come across something new, interesting or surprising
And other literary devices (see below)
You may want to mark:
Use and S for Symbols: a symbol is a literal thing that stands for something else which help to discover new layers of thinking...
Use an I for Imagery, which includes words that appeal to the five senses. Imagery is important for understanding an authors message and attitudes
Use an F for Figurative Language like similes, metaphors, etc., which often reveal deeper layers of meaning...
Use a T for Tone, which is the overall mood of the piece. Tone can carry as much meaning as the plot does.
Use a Th for Theme: timeless universal ideas or a message about life, society, etc.
Plot elements (setting, mood, conflict)
Diction (word choice)
The end. ::sighs::"]
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Christi Belcourt on Twitter: "Education in schools is not the only form of education. The land has been my teacher for 25 years. I will never graduate and will always be an apprentice to her. The animals educate. The stars educate. Not everything can be t
"Education in schools is not the only form of education. The land has been my teacher for 25 years. I will never graduate and will always be an apprentice to her. The animals educate. The stars educate. Not everything can be taught in a brick box. Not everything should be.
Education from and on the land is needed for children. We need the next generation to be free thinkers. Unintentionally, the structures within the current education system are contributing in assimilating all children into a form of thinking that teaches them to conform.
Education in schools is affecting Indigenous nations. It’s not all positive. Hardly any of our kids knows the lands like the back of their hands any more. Hardly any knows animal traditional laws, protocols. Hardly any can survive on the land. And almost all are taught in English
Without intending it, by sending ALL our children to school, we are creating a society of dependence. Because unable to survive on the land means a dependence on goods and services. It also means a continued decline in our languages as the day is spent in English.
Even communities once entirely fluent not long ago are noticing their young people conversing in English. I was just in a community where the teenagers were fluent. But pre-teens weren’t. How can communities compete w/ English when their children are emmersed in it all day?
I don’t want to offend educators. Educators are some of the most selfless and kind people I’ve met. They go above and beyond for kids every day. My observations are about some of the long term boarder effects re: institution of education and its detrimental effects on our nations
The late Elder Wilfred Peltier once wrote that the education system harms children in a few ways. He was speaking specifically about Indigenous kids but his thoughts could be applied to all I suppose. He said it sets kids up with a skewed sense of self. (Con’t)
Elder Wilfred Peltier said children are taught early in school to be graded. He said the harm isn’t only in the child who gets low grades and is made to feel less than. The worse harm is to kids who get higher grades and are made to feel better than others.
He also said the structure of the classroom is problematic. It implies the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing. In Indigenous communities we talk about how children are teachers and each one has unique gifts. But schools don’t nurture those gifts.
A child might be gifted in reading the stars or knowing traditional medicines. Schools eliminate that as a possibility to be apprenticed in those things. And they take up so much time in a child’s life there is no time left over for language and apprenticing in their gifts.
We will need scientists and people who have gone through school. But we also need medicine apprentices, land knowledge, language keepers and star readers. We need experts of the lakes and animals. This come from apprentiships w/ kokums and moshoms. It comes from the land itself.
In this time of climate change the world needs Indigenous knowledge more than ever. It’s in our lands and langusges. It can’t come from school. So we have to question this. And really look at it to suss out the good and the bad in a non emotional and non judgemental way.
Is there a way to have half of all Indigenous kids apprenticed full time with kokums or moshoms in land/water based education? Is there a way to identify what gifts kids will have early on and give them the life long training to nurture those gifts?
My concluding thought is the tendency will be towards “improving” or “fixing” schools to allow for more Indigenous languages or teachings etc without fundamentally changing anything. My point is the kind of education I’m talking about cannot be within the school system."
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lalitha vasudevan on Twitter: "Overhearing tutoring session between adult tutor & suburban hs student. I despair at the extensive focus on relatability (between student & text) as strategy for responding to comprehension questions and essay writing, where
"Overhearing tutoring session between adult tutor & suburban hs student. I despair at the extensive focus on relatability (between student & text) as strategy for responding to comprehension questions and essay writing, wherein to relate to have personally experienced.
Being able to relate, in and of itself, isn't the cause of my despair. It's the over-reliance on experience to the exclusion of other ways of creating conditions for understanding that worries me. This bent away from the traps of "cultural literacy" began w/good intentions;
but this response -- understandably, in resistance to the hyper-testing mania that overtook and still dominates much of the schooling landscape -- may err too far in the direction of allowing some young people to never have to stray too far from their own thoughts.
I want to know what young people think, what they notice and see, how they navigate and experience the world. AND, I want their insights on what others notice, see, conclude, design, and decide; for that, too, concerns young people --
not only in their immediate, local, kinship networks, but about how they perceive others' perceptions of the they things they have noticed, or not. They are civic beings, active in their citizenry, and to deny this and allow otherwise is educational malpractice.
I want young people to be seen and engaged as real interlocutors, not discursive window dressing to be written into curricula and grant proposals as the "participatory" element. I don't just want to hear what they think; I want to think with them, toward new questions.
So, I return to a familiar, frustrating thought: My, how standardization, answer-driven teaching, & the greedy pursuit of efficiency-driven uniformity has royally screwed over kids & schools.
And (some) big data efforts want to help do more of the same.
#smalldatabigmoments"
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august 2018 by robertogreco
A Smith Family Vacation - YouTube
"If you're scared you can't beauty. Fear kills your ability to see beauty. You have to get beyond fear, back to a comfortable space before you can even start looking around. Fear ruins life.
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Paper Road, by Nicole Lavelle
"PAPER ROAD is a book. It is a research narrative capturing my process of re-orienting myself to an important home-place. A heart-place.
This book is the final document of a year-long research project conducted while I was a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts from July 2016 to July 2017.
What is PAPER ROAD about? See a weird concept framework I made for this project.
The research process and story both begin at my family's summer cabin in Lagunitas, California. I have spent a lot of time in this place. I use houses as vessels for situating my own located experience within broader California cultural contexts and land use histories. The book is a non-linear narrative of fragments, recontextualized image and text collected from private and public archives and collections. The content I assembled from research materials is annotated in first-person narrative, explaining the wild connections that emerged between everything.
The book contains 450 pages of annotated narrative, an introductory essay, a conversation with archivist and independent scholar Rick Prelinger, a non-functional (but poetic!) index, and a bibliography."
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How to look at Los Angeles: A conversation with D.J. Waldie, Lynell George and Josh Kun
"Arriving at a not-quite-real place, falling in love after a sometimes brutal wooing, and love's disillusionment, is the briefest and truest history of California." —D.J. aldie
"I actually think most stereotypes about L.A. are true, and that's not only OK, it's part of what it means to live here." —Josh Kun
"for me, as the child of South American immigrants, California was never the West; it was the North. And it was never the last stop. It was the first. It was the beginning." —Carolina Miranda
"That is ultimately the key. To let go of these expectations of what L.A. is supposed to be, supposed to fix, supposed to cure — all of the projections we've lived in and around for decades." —Lynell George
[quote selections via: http://cmonstah.tumblr.com/post/125092712185/talking-with-josh-kun-dj-waldie-and-lynell ]
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july 2018 by robertogreco
SUPER. AND HUMAN
"The Why
I learned recently that my story doesn't belong to me. Also, it worries me that if I don't tell my own story then someone else might do so incorrectly or coopt it.
When I look up stuff about this, I don’t find many Black & Brown men speaking from a position of experience. There might be an academic type talking about the research and statistics. You might find media personas talking about the phenomenon not being acknowledged or addressed. Maybe there's a celebrity who's open about it with a smile and they talk about how much they love their therapist. What is hard to come across is someone with whom I can relate. A low income, previously religious, Black/Brown man who's a first generation college grad that's not exactly on the other side of the mountain. Representation matters.
I don't know exactly where this will lead. I have considered the potential outcomes and some are not favorable. Stigma and misconception abound. It's also possible that this will be beneficial to someone. I guess that's what matters the most.
So here it is. My truth.
So, what is this exactly?
It's a look at the intersection of race/ethnicity, education, and mental health. All through the lens of me. It's that simple.
Some vignettes to start. Later, something a little more op-ed.
After that, let's see..."
[Via: "We explore…gifted students, twice exceptional students, educators who shift from traditional to self-directed education, civic connections, the truth about college, and giving black and brown children more access.
Anthony Galloway wasn’t willing to be another cog in the system.
He’s a smart, twenty-something year old African-American man who chose to go into the field of education. He came up through the system, and learned how to excel in it. He also knew that he wanted to be part of the change in public education that allowed children of color access to the same resources and opportunities as children in white schools or private ones.
Anthony co-founded an Agile Learning Center, now facilitated by both him and long-time educator, Julia Cordero. I think you’re gonna find this discussion interesting because Anthony’s an educator who saw the school system for what it was and is, and started his own school to create something better."
http://www.akilahsrichards.com/heartwood/
"In this episode, Atlanta-based SDE facilitator and education entrepreneur, ANTHONY GALLOWAY II, speaks on moving past the mental aspect of self-care over to the literal practice. You’ll also learn about two Atlanta events in support of Self-Directed Education, both of which Anthony is playing a major role in bringing to the city. Also, the Jamaican patois term “Dat nuh mek it” basically means “that isn’t nearly enough.” In other words, something needs leveling up, because in its current state, it just won’t do. You’re welcome! #POCinSDE"
http://www.akilahsrichards.com/61/ ]
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Cory Doctorow: Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the...
"Anton Troynikov: [https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115 ]
• Waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it’s of poor workmanship and quality.
• Promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out.
• Living five adults to a two room apartment.
• Being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you.
• ‘Totally not illegal taxi’ taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet.
• Everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex.
• Mandatory workplace political education.
• Productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites.
• Deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences.
• Networked computers exist but they’re really bad.
• Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason.
• Elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges.
• Failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs.
• Otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it’s the only way to get ahead.
• The plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work.
• The United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default.
• The currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless.
• The economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users."
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick a Sky and Name It
"How did Momtaza Mehri go from net savvy 6th former to successful millennial poet?
A house belonging to her grandmother is the closest poet Momtaza Mehri has ever come to having a permanent home. Aside from summer months in London, Momtaza's family picked its way across the Middle East.
"Then I just realise, I'm having this typical Somali experience where we're literally going to the places that would be considered the bad 'hoods."
Across a sea, another gulf, was the country her parents no longer called home.
Talking with her mother, Momtaza revisits the childhood experiences that shaped her outlook and her coming of age as a millennial poet.
Poetry extracts are taken from:
I believe in the transformative power of cocoa butter and breakfast cereal in the afternoon
Manifesto for those carrying dusk under their eyes
The Sag
Wink Wink
"The internet just switched up the entire game," Momtaza says.
Producer: Tamsin Hughes
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4."
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Thread by @ecomentario: "p.31 ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… p.49 ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… ecoed.wikispaces.co […]"
[on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ecomentario/status/1007269183317512192 ]
[many of the captures come from: "From A Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation from Pedagogy" by Gustavo Esteva, Madhu S. Prakash, and Dana L. Stuchul, which is no longer available online as a standalone PDF (thus the UTexas broken link), but is inside the following document, also linked to in the thread.]
[“Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis" edited by C.A.Bowers and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
https://ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A.+Bowers,+Frdrique+Apffel-Marglin,+Frederique+Apffel-Marglin,+Chet+A.+Bowers+Re-Thinking+Freire+Globalization+and+the+Environmental+Crisis+Sociocultural,+Political,+and+Historical+Studies+in+Educatio+2004.pdf ]
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june 2018 by robertogreco
The Convivial Society, No. 4: Community
"More recently, however, I've come to think that community is a yuppie word. Let me explain. I'm borrowing the formulation from Bob Dylan, who, when asked if he was happy on the occasion of his 50th birthday, after a long pause responded, "these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed." I suppose one either takes his meaning or not. It occurred to me that Dylan's sentiment worked well with how the word community tends to get thrown around, especially by someone with a new technology to sell. It's just another commodity or accoutrement of the self.
There's another problem, too. I once heard someone observe that only sociologists talk about community. No one who is actually in a community calls it a community. They call it what it is: a synagogue, a family, a neighborhood, a school, a sorority, etc. Or you don't call it anything at all for the same reason that a fish wouldn't talk about water, the reality is too pervasive to notice and name. If it names anything at all, it names an absence, a felt need, and object of desire. Unfortunately, it might also be the sort of thing, like happiness, that will almost certainly not be found when one sets out deliberately to search for it. What we find, if we find anything at all, will probably not be exactly like what we hoped to discover. A pursuit of community in this manner is burdened with a self-consciousness that may undermine the possibility of achieving the desired state of affairs. On this score, social media does not exactly help.
To express wariness of community talk, whatever its sources, is not, however, to dismiss the importance, indeed, the necessity of the thing we desire when we talk about community. That thing, let us call it Community with a capital in order to distinguish it, is vital and people suffer and die for the lack of it. At its best, Community sustains us and supplies the context for our flourishing in the fullness of our humanity. Apart from it we are less than what we could be. Community, in its most satisfying forms involves the whole person, including the body. It nurtures us as individuals precisely by directing our attention and our care outward toward those to whom we are bound. And bound is the right word. In a Community, we are bound by ties of obligation and responsibility. To be in a community is to have the self spun out into the world rather than in upon itself.
The question that remains is whether or not that thing we seek can be found online. Or, whether it is useful to think of Facebook, or any other social media platform, as a community. Consider, for example, that the root from which we derive our word community reminds us that a community is bound together by what the hold in common, by their common wealth. But what exactly do we hold in common with every other user of a social media platform? For that matter, what exactly do we hold in common with those who are our Friends or Followers? What is our common wealth?
I have no interest in the denying the obvious fact that genuine and valuable human interactions occur online and through Facebook everyday. I'm certain that some have found a measure of companionship, joy, and solace as a result of these interactions. But do these interactions amount to a community? Or, to put it another way, what definition of community is being assumed when Facebook is called a community?
It seems clear to me that connection does not imply the existence of community much less Community. It also seems clear that while we may speak of Facebook as a platform that can theoretically help support certain kinds of communities, it is meaningless to call the network as a whole a community. Moreover, if the only fellowship we knew was a fellowship mediated through a social network such as Facebook, then our experience would be impoverished. But I don't imagine that there are many people who explicitly and consciously choose to use Facebook as a substitute for fully embodied experiences of community.
There are also important questions to consider about how we are formed by our use of social media, given the design and architecture of the respective platforms, and what this does to our capacity to experience community on the platform or find Community beyond it. Chiefly, I'm thinking about how social media tends to turn our gaze inward. The platforms foreground for its users the experience of being a self that is always in the midst of performing for an audience, and at a consequential remove from the immediacy of a face-to-face encounter. Moreover, it seems to me that the experience of community ordinarily presumes a degree of self-forgetfulness. Self-forgetfulness is not something social media tends to encourage.
Belonging is a critical aspect of the most satisfying kind of community. But belonging is an interesting word. When we speak of belonging to a community, we ordinarily mean to say that we associate with the community, that we count ourselves among its members. We might also mean that we are at home in the community, that we belong in the sense that we are accepted. But the word also implies that we belong to the community in the sense that the community has a claim on us. I think this last sense of belonging is critical; the most satisfying and fulfilling experiences of community presuppose this kind of claim upon our lives and we will, ultimately, be better for it, but it is also the case that we tend to mightily resist such a claim because we value our autonomy too much. As is often the case, we haven't quite counted the cost of what we say we want. "
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may 2018 by robertogreco
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"I’m distrustful of content-based pedagogy because I’m distrustful of any desire to reproduce identity, to make more of the same. I think pedagogy that seeks to reproduce little versions of the teacher is as suspect as parenting that seeks to reproduce little versions of the parent.
I think that good teaching, like good parenting, demands helping a younger person articulate their best self and understand themselves in relation to the world; it can’t do that by determining for a student who they are or what they need to be.
My approach to pedagogy is equally rooted in philosophy and in pragmatism. In my experience, you just can’t make people think or be what they don’t want to think or be, or what they’re not ready to think or be. You can point people in a certain direction; but if they don’t want to run with you, they’ll just be gazing vaguely in that direction while you sprint off towards the sunset.
It is inevitably the case that in a class with 6 or 12 or 40 students, only a few will share your investments and interests. It can be more or less depending on context and institution, but as a teacher you always have to be prepared for the possibility that you walk into a room and not a single student in there gives a shit about what you have to say. What do you do with those students? How do you serve those students? I absolutely reject the idea of just writing students off. I think if you’re going to stand in front of someone for 45 minutes and tell them what to do, you have to either bring in something they can find a way into or have the excuse of a prescribed curriculum. Nothing else will do.
This is why I consider my job to help students learn how to think whatever they’re thinking, rather than telling them what to think. I would love if my students learned about socialism or psychoanalysis or Spinoza from me; I would love it if they came out of the closet after I teach Sedgwick or whatever. But that’s not always going to happen, and it’s never going to happen with every student. Unless I am in a position to vet or choose each student individually - and unless each student is also in a position to leave my class - I don’t consider it ethical to demand students think or know in a particular way, in part because I know people can’t always overcome the modes of thinking they’ve internalized without a lot of work. I’ve never taught a graduate seminar, but if I could teach, say, a grad seminar on Spinoza and interview each potential student for 20 minutes first to see if they could hack it, that would be one thing. But if I’m walking into a room full of undergrads or high schoolers, some or all of whom don’t want to be there, I have to be able to offer them tools and concepts that don’t demand allegiance to a specific content or ideology.
-Fuck Theory Tinyletter"
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The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
"Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undignified. To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism.
For all its influence as a shaper of individual decisions, the greater power of convenience may arise from decisions made in aggregate, where it is doing so much to structure the modern economy. Particularly in tech-related industries, the battle for convenience is the battle for industry dominance.
Americans say they prize competition, a proliferation of choices, the little guy. Yet our taste for convenience begets more convenience, through a combination of the economics of scale and the power of habit. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus the easier it becomes to use Amazon. Convenience and monopoly seem to be natural bedfellows.
Given the growth of convenience — as an ideal, as a value, as a way of life — it is worth asking what our fixation with it is doing to us and to our country. I don’t want to suggest that convenience is a force for evil. Making things easier isn’t wicked. On the contrary, it often opens up possibilities that once seemed too onerous to contemplate, and it typically makes life less arduous, especially for those most vulnerable to life’s drudgeries.
But we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, convenience has a dark side. With its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency, it threatens to erase the sort of struggles and challenges that help give meaning to life. Created to free us, it can become a constraint on what we are willing to do, and thus in a subtle way it can enslave us.
It would be perverse to embrace inconvenience as a general rule. But when we let convenience decide everything, we surrender too much."
"By the late 1960s, the first convenience revolution had begun to sputter. The prospect of total convenience no longer seemed like society’s greatest aspiration. Convenience meant conformity. The counterculture was about people’s need to express themselves, to fulfill their individual potential, to live in harmony with nature rather than constantly seeking to overcome its nuisances. Playing the guitar was not convenient. Neither was growing one’s own vegetables or fixing one’s own motorcycle. But such things were seen to have value nevertheless — or rather, as a result. People were looking for individuality again.
Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that the second wave of convenience technologies — the period we are living in — would co-opt this ideal. It would conveniencize individuality.
You might date the beginning of this period to the advent of the Sony Walkman in 1979. With the Walkman we can see a subtle but fundamental shift in the ideology of convenience. If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second promised to make it easier to be you. The new technologies were catalysts of selfhood. They conferred efficiency on self-expression."
"I do not want to deny that making things easier can serve us in important ways, giving us many choices (of restaurants, taxi services, open-source encyclopedias) where we used to have only a few or none. But being a person is only partly about having and exercising choices. It is also about how we face up to situations that are thrust upon us, about overcoming worthy challenges and finishing difficult tasks — the struggles that help make us who we are. What happens to human experience when so many obstacles and impediments and requirements and preparations have been removed?
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of making most of our life experiences a series of trolley rides.
Convenience has to serve something greater than itself, lest it lead only to more convenience. In her 1963 classic, “The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan looked at what household technologies had done for women and concluded that they had just created more demands. “Even with all the new labor-saving appliances,” she wrote, “the modern American housewife probably spends more time on housework than her grandmother.” When things become easier, we can seek to fill our time with more “easy” tasks. At some point, life’s defining struggle becomes the tyranny of tiny chores and petty decisions.
An unwelcome consequence of living in a world where everything is “easy” is that the only skill that matters is the ability to multitask. At the extreme, we don’t actually do anything; we only arrange what will be done, which is a flimsy basis for a life.
We need to consciously embrace the inconvenient — not always, but more of the time. Nowadays individuality has come to reside in making at least some inconvenient choices. You need not churn your own butter or hunt your own meat, but if you want to be someone, you cannot allow convenience to be the value that transcends all others. Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution. It can be the solution to the question of who you are.
Embracing inconvenience may sound odd, but we already do it without thinking of it as such. As if to mask the issue, we give other names to our inconvenient choices: We call them hobbies, avocations, callings, passions. These are the noninstrumental activities that help to define us. They reward us with character because they involve an encounter with meaningful resistance — with nature’s laws, with the limits of our own bodies — as in carving wood, melding raw ingredients, fixing a broken appliance, writing code, timing waves or facing the point when the runner’s legs and lungs begin to rebel against him.
Such activities take time, but they also give us time back. They expose us to the risk of frustration and failure, but they also can teach us something about the world and our place in it.
So let’s reflect on the tyranny of convenience, try more often to resist its stupefying power, and see what happens. We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest. The constellation of inconvenient choices may be all that stands between us and a life of total, efficient conformity."
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february 2018 by robertogreco
Diverse Recruitment: Can Film Education Improve? Student Deborah Findlater Provides Insights | Women Of The Lens Film Digital Broadcast Festival
"Feeling like you come from nowhere, with no sense of being rooted, can be dangerous"
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Classroom UX: Bring Your Own Comfort, Bring Your Own Device, Student-Created Context | Ryan Boren
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An Autistic Education - The Autistic Advocate
""School is like a universe of sensory and overwhelm shoved in a bottle, cork applied and shaken up. Remove the cork and it explodes in your face."
I've never written much about my children, because I firmly believe that their story is theirs to tell, not mine. But what's been happening in the last few weeks directly relates to me and my story, it's especially relevant.
Quinn, my eldest, who is 8, was struggling hugely at school. His teacher was off sick and had been for a while. He was having a supply teacher, who he only describes as 'VERY TALL', in an ominous voice. She must really be tall, Michelle is nearly 6 feet tall so it's not like he's not used to tall women. Or maybe it's because, when you're anxious everyone seems to loom over you and oppress you.
Quinn's Headteacher has taken his class a few times, which Quinn likes, because he's the kind of man who adds a corny joke in every third or fourth line, which appeals to Quinn's sense of humour. He also has another class teacher standing in, who has kind of become a rock to Quinn as she represents the only piece of stability he has at school at the moment.
School had Ofsted inspections in last week, which obviously made the teachers anxious, which probably fed into Quinn's anxious state. It also didn't help that no matter how much we tried to change his mind, he remained convinced that they were there to inspect him, not the school.
School was also off-timetable because it's Christmas. That time of year which absolutely screws up Autistic children and adults. Houses turn into some deranged Madman's idea of Santa's grotto, with Christmas scenes outside made up of a million high powered searchlights, searing into your eyeballs and your soul. The music blares everywhere you go, the same songs on repeat jabbing into your ears, your skull.
Tinsel. Evil, evil tinsel. It glints and winks at you, sparkling in a merrily Christmassy way that can't help but catch your eye, hypnotise you with its twitch inducing, irritating twinkling. Then some evil entity wraps it round you for a 'joke', where it scratches and scrapes at your skin and feels like it's throttling you.
Our house is always little threadbare on decorations beyond a tree.
Bah humbug.
Every year though I do hang up some Mistletoe, which I keep, with my manly, handsomeness, trying to lure Michelle to stand under, but I always end up with Olivia somehow.
Chocolate and milk breath kisses from a four year old.
How delightful...
Sorry, I got sidetracked on the horrors of Christmas. It's pretty overwhelming.
School have been brilliant and supportive as ever, they listen to us, work with us and, more importantly, listen and work with Quinn to make changes to support him as best they can, but it's still affecting him negatively and hugely.
Basically he's all over the place. One morning he had a huge meltdown and ran to his room, slamming his bedroom door.
Immediately there was a crash.
I went running.
I opened the door and there he was in a crumpled heap on the floor.
As he'd slammed his door, his whiteboard (where we write his timetable for the next day and Quinn draws), had fallen off of the wall and landed on him.
Physically, he was fine, but the look on his face utterly destroyed me. His eyes were dull and raw and wet, with huge bags under them, his lip was actually trembling. His world was crumbling around him.
The teacher he worships was gone, along with the safety and comfort she brings.
His routine was all messed up. Routines are part of what keep us Autistic people safe. They are our comfort and our safety net. We cling to them and they help keep us together, because they don't change. Change is hard to process. Change involves reassessing situations and scripts, people and places. Change brings us uncertainty, uncertainty brings anxiety and, oh dear me are we anxious creatures.
In that split second between seeing him lying there and picking the whiteboard off him, what he was going through hit me with a Flashback. I've blocked out a lot of my time at school, mostly due to the constant sensory overwhelm, being surrounded by people i struggled to relate to, the bullying, the isolation, and having to learn in what, to me, was a poisonous environment. I look back at school and beyond certain standout moments there is nothing but black. I look into my mind and most of my school is locked behind the door I described in 'The Inside of Autism'.
This Flashback hit me pretty hard. I actually physically staggered and fell to my knees as I knelt to lift the board off of him. The door in my mind, the door that holds my darkest thoughts and memories, exploded open and overwhelmed me with over an hours worth of memory in a split second:
I haven't done my homework.
I got distracted last night, I was supposed to read a chapter of a book and write a book report, but I read the whole book and then I had to go to bed.
I knew I needed to write the report, I tried to tell Mum, but the words were locked in my head. All I could do was comply and quietly nod and agree with Mum when she asked me to clean my teeth and get into bed.
So I did, I lay there, eyes wide open for hours, wanting to wait until Mum had gone to bed so i could get up and write it.
It got later and longer and longer and later and I must have fallen asleep.
I wake up and already, inwardly I'm panicking, screaming and shouting inside my skull.
I try to follow my routine quicker so I'll have time to write it, but i start forgetting things and have to keep going back. I forgot my sock three times and ended up stuck in a causal loop, staring into space, swaying gently.
My Mum shouts at me again and again and inside, like pushing myself out of thick mud, I feel myself rise to the surface enough to shout "Coming!"
It comes out wrong though, it sounds rude and angry and I didn't mean it to sound that way.
Mum is cross, she's shouting at me, my Dad is lunging up the stars ready to smack me and I'm sat on the bed in my trousers, rocking harder and harder, one sock half hanging off my foot, no shirt.
My brain seizes up and i explode.
Screaming and crying, just an explosion of noise and outpouring of pain and frustration and it goes on.
And on...
My Dad dresses me roughly as I'm still screaming and carries me out to his van. I quieten during the three minute drive to school.
We pull up outside. We're late.
Inside, a version of me is screaming to be let out.
Outside, the Mask comes down.
I turn to my Father and ask "Do I look like I've been crying?""
"I lay back on the bed, looking at the familiar cracks in my ceiling. Lines i have followed for years whilst waiting for sleep.
I'm so tired. Tired to my bones. I don't want to die, not really, I just want to step out, I've had enough. I don't know another way of doing it though. Nobody sees what I see. Nobody is what I am. Nobody else stands on the periphery of life stuttering and farting and misfiring like Mr Toad's car.
79 tablets sitting in my belly. I can feel them there, slowly dissolving.
I close my eyes. I can feel the softness of the pillow as my head sinks into it.
A lifetime of being separate from everything, disjointed and apart starts to feel different, starts to feel like it happened to someone else...
I think of school again, as I did before I took the tablets. It's still just black, still just a sense of hurting and pain and fear, but it feels distant now, far away. It's a nice feeling.
I feel waves of comfort slowly washing over me, almost as if each wave is a tablet dissolving and disappearing into my bloodstream.
I can hear my clock ticking on the wall, it seems to synchronise with my heartbeat.
I'm relaxed and calm for probably the first time in my life. My head is quiet. The Rolodex of my mind has slowed to a crawl.
I'm floating now. Watching myself lie there. Not screaming now, not trying to fight with my body to get anything out. I'm Mute, but in a good way, because I choose to be.
I'm stepping out.
No more confusion.
No more pain.
No more exhaustion.
No more alone.
I sleep.
Just darkness.
I awake to my alarm
The fleeting calm gone.
I sigh and sit up. I look around the room of a teenager who tried to kill himself and failed, the teenage posters, my books. It all feels a little redundant.
Last night I was leaving.
Last night i was dying and i wasn't scared.
The thought of not having to do this anymore made me happy.
And I failed at happy."
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january 2018 by robertogreco
An Xiao Busingye Mina on Instagram: “My #2017bestnine includes talks/panels at Harvard Law School and the V&A Museum as I started looking at memes in the physical world and the…” • Instagram
"My #2017bestnine includes talks/panels at Harvard Law School and the V&A Museum as I started looking at memes in the physical world and the political implications thereof, signs of the resistance in the United States as I rediscovered photography after a 6 year hiatus, artsy selfies, a real-life security robot, a rainbow on a road trip and falling snow while we worked on @thebagx.
Amidst this are many things I didn’t Insta about so much — countless misinformation events, new software initiatives, research with refugees in Berlin, an artist residency in Lijiang, the birth of @thecivicbeat’s Meme Lab, and the end of something started nearly 3 years ago. In 2017, I also submitted my book manuscript — by this same time in 2018, it will be ready to come to life (fingers crossed). It’s a book about Internet memes, movements and, I think, the rise of authoritarianism, and it reflects 6 years of thinking.
2017 was a privileged one for me, as I got to travel the world, but it was not a rosy year. I saw the rise of swastikas and open hate in the United States, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, a clamping down on the internet in China and increased demolitions in Beijing, the ripple effects of the war in Syria, and the global ravages of new digital forms of propaganda and manipulation. I didn’t write about these things specifically here, but they influenced me nonetheless. These, and two things I did post about — visits to the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and Manzanar — left me with a deep sense of how fragile peace and democracy can be.
Along the way, this little Insta account has become a blog of sorts, tapped away and edited on buses and planes and trains. Thanks for being here with me on this journey."
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Gender "pronoun war" is about freedom for sure, but not free speech - NOW Magazine
"In 2000, I started a new job, and on my first day of work I got up the nerve to ask my co-workers to try using the pronoun “they” to help me make the space I needed. And help they did.
Though I didn’t know it at the time, in a cluttered corner office at a community health centre in Winnipeg, an oddball team of sexual health educators did the unthinkable: they just listened. They just believed me that it mattered. They took my word for it that I was not deriving pleasure from imposing random meaningless limits on their linguistic freedom. They learned to adapt; I learned something, too. We didn’t realize it was so earth-shattering.
Did my new co-workers understand why I needed this? I really don’t know, but clearly they didn’t think that was the most important issue. We don’t need to understand something in order to sense the value it holds for others. In fact, the ability to treat experiences that we don’t understand with care, is a marker of the kind of society I want to live in.
What would have happened if, as a reply, my new co-workers had instead pulled out the organizational policies and said, “You can’t make me”? I’m grateful that I don’t know. They would simply never have behaved that way.
At that job, our task was to teach the sexual health curriculum in Manitoba’s high schools. The teens we worked with didn’t seem to notice that my co-presenters called me “they.” We came to their class, we talked about relationships and birth control, dating violence and HIV, racism and homophobia, we answered their urgent, timid, voice-cracking questions as honestly as we could, and we headed home.
But when we visited what were known as the “special needs” classrooms, I noticed something different. Here, for some reason, the students corrected one another without being prompted, they used “they” without explanation or fanfare.
Why were these kids, labelled with an “intellectual disability,” effortlessly able to do what others are unable or unwilling to? Maybe these kids intuitively understood something about respect, through its painful absence in their own lives. Maybe they had never been led to believe in the first place that their freedom trumped that of others."
"Just as the Black Lives Matter movement demands of white people, and as the Standing Rock protest demands of settlers, those who move easily through a gendered world that blocks and stops and harms others at every turn, are simply not “free” to ignore injustice.
Fortunately, while the internet argues on, most non-binary folks are not waiting around. They are miles ahead, busy creating space for themselves and others, building the society they want to live in. I hope, like me, they get to have moments of freedom when they can see that the society they long for is, sometimes, already here."
[via: https://twitter.com/cblack__/status/934465157366890496 ]
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Frontiers | Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning | Psychology
"Executive functions (EFs) in childhood predict important life outcomes. Thus, there is great interest in attempts to improve EFs early in life. Many interventions are led by trained adults, including structured training activities in the lab, and less-structured activities implemented in schools. Such programs have yielded gains in children's externally-driven executive functioning, where they are instructed on what goal-directed actions to carry out and when. However, it is less clear how children's experiences relate to their development of self-directed executive functioning, where they must determine on their own what goal-directed actions to carry out and when. We hypothesized that time spent in less-structured activities would give children opportunities to practice self-directed executive functioning, and lead to benefits. To investigate this possibility, we collected information from parents about their 6–7 year-old children's daily, annual, and typical schedules. We categorized children's activities as “structured” or “less-structured” based on categorization schemes from prior studies on child leisure time use. We assessed children's self-directed executive functioning using a well-established verbal fluency task, in which children generate members of a category and can decide on their own when to switch from one subcategory to another. The more time that children spent in less-structured activities, the better their self-directed executive functioning. The opposite was true of structured activities, which predicted poorer self-directed executive functioning. These relationships were robust (holding across increasingly strict classifications of structured and less-structured time) and specific (time use did not predict externally-driven executive functioning). We discuss implications, caveats, and ways in which potential interpretations can be distinguished in future work, to advance an understanding of this fundamental aspect of growing up."
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Geetha Narayanan, Founder-Director, Srishti School - YouTube
"Design helps people to develop within themselves the capacities to make the world a better place to live - Geetha Narayanan , Founder-Director, Srishti School."
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Geetha Narayanan - YouTube
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Teju Cole (@_tejucole) • Fotos y vídeos de Instagram
"Is it he or is it I that experience this?
Is it I then that keep saying there is an hour
Filled with expressible bliss, in which I have
No need, am happy, forget need's golden hand,
Am satisfied without solacing majesty,
And if there is an hour there is a day,
There is a month, a year, there is a time
In which majesty is a mirror of the self:
I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
from "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction""
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A Conversation About Growing Up Black - Video - NYTimes.com
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avoiding the high-brow freak show | sara hendren
"Oliver Sacks is probably the only author many people have read about disability at length. Sacks wrote many books with such a keen eye for description and also a literate, humanitarian lens—he was able to link together ideas in natural history, the sciences, and the humanities with sincerity and warmth, and always with people at the center. But which people? The subjects of the book, or the reader who is “reading” herself, her own experiences, as she takes in these stories? In any good book, many characters are involved: author, characters, reader. But there’s some particular tricky territory in disability narratives.
It’s challenging to write about this subject for a mainstream audience, perhaps because there are so many well-rehearsed pitfall tropes in characterizing bodily and developmental differences. Descriptions of physicality, speech, or idiosyncratic movement can slide so easily into spectacle. And revealing the ways that disabled people* cope, make sense, and create joy and humor in their lives can collapse into inspiration, easily won.
I’m thinking about Sacks as I write my own words, interpreting my own many encounters with disabled people in a way that both engages readers for whom the subject is ostensibly new, and that also does justice to the integrity and singularity of those people involved. I’m trying to write about disability and its reach into the wider human experience, that is, without making individual people into metaphors. Now: those ideas might be laudable—interdependent life, a critique of individualism, all bodies and lived experiences as endless variation, necessarily incomplete in their own ways—but they are ideas nonetheless. How to make this tradeoff? How to help the uninitiated reader by saying See, see here, your life is caught up in these stakes too, but without flattening the individual subjects on whom those ideas are based?
I keep circling around this review in the LRB of Sacks’s An Anthropologist on Mars and The Island of the Colorblind—analysis of which includes his book Awakenings and could also be applied to The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. Jenny Diski admires Sacks’s projects and his craft, but she also has this to say:
“A story needs a conclusion whereas a case-history may not have one. In fact, stories have all kinds of needs that a case-history will not supply, and Sacks is insistent that he is writing the stories of his patients, not their cases. This is not intended to fudge fact and fiction, but to enlarge patients into people.
On the other hand, he is describing people with more or less devastating illnesses— that is his raison d’être—and his explicit purpose is to generalize from these, usually unhappy, accidents of life and nature, to a greater understanding of the human condition. In Awakenings he states: ‘If we seek a “curt epitome” of the human condition—of long-standing sickness, suffering and sadness; of a sudden, complete, almost preternatural “awakening”; and, alas! of entanglements which may follow this “cure”—there is no better one than the story of these patients.’
He is offering life, death and the whole damn thing in the metaphor of his patients. And it is true that these patients and others show us what it is like, as he says, ‘to be human and stay human in the face of adversity’. But metaphors are not in fact descriptions of people in their totality. They are intentional, and consciously or unconsciously edited tropes, not complete, contained narratives.
I don’t know any kind of narrative, fictional or otherwise, that can present people in their totality, so perhaps it doesn’t matter, but Sacks is offering us people because of their sickness and the manner of their handling it. This is hardly an overturning of the medicalizing tendency of doctors. And when we read these stories, as we do, to tell us more about ourselves, we read them as exaggerations of what we are, as metaphors for what we are capable of. Their subjects may not be patients as freaks, but they are patients as emblems. They are, as it were, for our use and our wonderment. Around their illness, the thoughts of Leibniz, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Proust are hoisted like scaffolding, as if to stiffen their reality into meaning.”
Stiffening their reality into meaning! It’s a cutting and exact criticism, especially when it seems that Sacks was utterly sincere in his search for human and humane connection—with these patients as clinical subjects and in his engagement with readers.
Diski hints at the pushback Sacks got from scholars in disability studies, too; scholar Tom Shakespeare took a swipe at him as “the man who mistook his patients for a career,” calling his body of work a “high-brow freak show.” And when I re-read Sacks’s New Yorker essay, excerpted from the Anthropologist book, on autistic self-advocate Temple Grandin, I see a little bit what Shakespeare meant. There is something of the microscope being employed in that encounter, and somehow we walk away fascinated but maybe less than conjoined to Grandin’s experience. It’s rich with connection and with pathos (in a good way!), but there’s distance in it too. So—it’s not perfect.
And yet: people read and loved that book, saw themselves in it. And Grandin went on to write several books in her own voice, to have a wide audience for her work and wisdom. The visibility of autistic self-advocacy has been greatly amplified since Sacks’s writing about it. (And yet—also—Diski says that Sacks has a way of making meaning out of disability that’s essentially a wonder at the human body via its ailments, as in “My God, we are extraordinary, look how interestingly wrong we can go.”) Is there a way to affirm the extraordinary without ending at: there but for the grace of god…? Without ending with gratitude that we don’t share someone’s plight? I want readers to come away uncertain: about where there’s joy and where there’s pain, about how they might make different choices, ordinary and extraordinary choices, if handed a different set of capacities in themselves or in their loved ones.
But can a writer really calibrate that level of nuance? Lately I’m thinking that I can only write what I can write, knowing that it will be incomplete and partial in its rendering.
I want a world full of disabled voices, people telling their stories in their own ways, with their own voices intact. But I also want a world of people to read about the collective stakes inherent in disability—and not just the rights issues that are being ignored, urgent as they are. I want people to see that spending time thinking about disability is an invitation to see the world differently, and to locate one’s own experiences differently. Not to erase the particularity of any one person’s very material experiences, but to help remedy the invisibility of disabled experience outside the inner circle of people who talk to one another, who know that these issues are important. And some audiences will need some interpretation, some cognitive-linguistic bridges to understand the import of disability—its wonder, its overlooked importance, and yes, even its lessons, if we may call them such. Lessons without moralizing, lessons without abstractions.
*Yes, “disabled people,” not “differently abled” or even always “people with disabilities.” There’s no one right answer or moniker, but soon I’ll write a short piece on why “disabled people” is a preferred term among many activists."
[See also this response from Alan Jacobs: http://blog.ayjay.org/writing-by-the-always-wrong/ ]
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Teju Cole: ‘My camera is like an invisibility cloak. It makes me more free’ | Books | The Guardian
"The final piece in Cole’s 2016 essay collection, Known and Strange Things, is a description of that traumatic occurrence. It is called Blind Spot. Next month, his first book of photographs is published. It is also called Blind Spot. Why, I ask him, did he reprise that title for a book that is, in essence, about a sustained way of seeing? “Well, there is some dark humour in the title that people who have read the essay will hopefully pick up on,” he says, “but, as I write in the afterword, there is also the fact that the act of looking is limited. We only see a small part of what we are looking at, so there is a constant blind spot even with the kind of attentive looking that photography entails. There are many resonances in that title – how difficult it is to see clearly, how difficult it is to tell a dream, how difficult it is to make pictures that are new in some way.”
How well Cole succeeds in all of this is difficult to say, not because his images aren’t strong – they are in a detached and rigorously formal-to-the-point-of-deadpan way that was pioneered by the likes of Stephen Shore in the 1970s – but because Blind Spot is not simply a book of photographs. Instead, each image is accompanied by a corresponding passage of prose. The book unfolds – and succeeds – as a deftly choreographed dance of words and pictures, with Cole’s characteristically allusive style of writing here condensed to what he calls “fragments”. Sometimes, but not often, the words refer directly to what is in the picture, but more often the photographs are conceptual starting points for musings on his now-familiar obsessions: memory, myth, culture, politics, race and dreams.
The associations, though, are often not entirely clear. A photograph of a telegraph pole on a deserted street in Selma, Alabama prompts a memory of a dream Cole had about crossing a street but never arriving at the other side, which, in turn, calls up a quotation on consciousness and time by the French phenomenological philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. A street portrait of the back of a blond woman in New York City (see below), redolent of the work of Joel Meyerowitz, is matched with a fragment from Greek mythology concerning the painter Timanthes’s mysterious portrait of the grieving, veiled Agamemnon. This is, for want of a better phrase, quintessentially Cole-ian.
“I see it as a unified story,” he explains, “but one in which each fragment of prose is dense in the way that a poem is dense. There are thematic breadcrumbs scattered throughout the text, but, yes, it is oblique. It’s not meant to be obvious, but a more psychologically resonant series of fragments that detonate on some deeper level.”"
"Taken alongside his fiction and his essays, which range from the reflective to the polemical, as well as the photography column he writes for the New York Times, Blind Spot further enhances Cole’s already burnished reputation. He is a writer for our times, prodigious, wide-ranging and supremely confident in his reach. In Known and Strange Things, to give just a few examples, he discourses passionately on race in America, explores the poetics of Saul Leiter’s pioneering colour photographs and, in two consecutive essays, lauds VS Naipaul, the elegant writer, and nails VS Naipaul, the dreadful old reactionary.
If there is a personal touchstone for this kind of cross-fertilisation, it is surely the late John Berger, one of his heroes, though Berger, as I remind him, never took photographs. “I actually asked John why photography was not part of his practice,” Cole says, “In his case, to photograph a subject was to foreclose some part of what he could write about it. He saw it as an interference in his writing faculties. I don’t think like that about it. In fact, for me, taking a photograph of something often induces further thoughts on it.”
In the flesh, Cole is both charming and intense. When I met him briefly last summer at a party in Manhattan thrown in his honour by his editors at the New York Times, he was warm and inclusive, but, even in casual conversation, there is a palpable alertness about him that intrigues. He seems acutely conscious, too, of his own place in the intellectual firmament. In Known and Strange Things, he revealed that his antidote to insomnia was to “rise from my bed and watch Jacques Derrida talk”. In his deftly elegant takedown of Naipaul, there is also the distinct suggestion that a literary baton is being passed from the older master to the heir apparent.
Cole’s precocious literary talent must surely have been honed in childhood. Born in Michigan, he was taken back to Nigeria as a child by his parents when they had completed their studies. His upbringing, he says, was solidly middle-class and aspirational. His father worked in middle management and his mother was a school teacher; both instilled in him the notion that “the child had to do better in education than their peers”. When he travelled to America in the early 90s to commence his own college education, he felt he was returning home. “For sure, I had conflict and a certain nervousness, but not the kind that comes from thinking of oneself as an immigrant. I had a sense of my rights as an American. There was a period of adjustment – there still is – but the feeling I have sometimes of being lost in the world is more to do with my own personality than America.”
Cole studied art and art history at Kalamazoo College, Michigan – “a good liberal college with the kind of leafy campus you get in American campus novels” – and later tried and failed to apply himself to a degree in medicine, in part to appease his parents. That failure haunted him for a while and, he says, he suffered from a bout of depression around that time. “I had no money, no time to read or go to concerts and I felt starved of that. Plus, I was very cold in Michigan and isolated. For two years, I was struggling to do well when I was used to doing well. I do not want to dwell on it but, for a time, I was phenomenally not myself. All the things you hear about depression were there.”"
In Open City, his descriptions of his New York evince a keen, roving attentiveness reminiscent of the city’s great street photographers: Garry Winogrand, Meyerowitz and Leiter are presences in his prose alongside the more often cited Berger and WG Sebald. Cole, as he is keen to point out, has been taking photographs longer than he has been writing fiction. In Every Day Is for the Thief, the text is punctuated by Cole’s black-and-white photographs evoking the swaggering, chaotic thrust of Lagos, his childhood home.
In both novels, Cole’s writing style recalls Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated description of his own prose: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”
Cole cites the great experimental film-maker Chris Marker as perhaps the crucial influence in his novels. “In his great film, Sans Soleil, Marker moves between zooming out and watching the flow of life and zooming in to look at the pattern of the details of everyday experience. He is not telling you one thing about a place, but allowing it all to come in and making the connections visible. He is a major influence on Open City and even more on Blind Spot, where the subject itself is that kind of interconnectedness.”
In many ways, then, Blind Spot continues in the vein of Teju Cole’s fiction. This time around, though, he is the peripatetic narrator on an altogether more epic global journey through cities in which he is often a lone stranger. The experience of travel – by air as well as wandering alone on land – is central here. Since the success of Open City, Cole has travelled extensively – to literary festivals, teaching programmes, writer’s residencies and promotional events. As the novelist Siri Hustvedt puts it in her introduction: “Teju Cole really gets around.” Thus, each photograph and fragment of prose is grounded in a specific location: Auckland, Basel, Chicago, Lagos, Nairobi, New York, Paris and so forth. “In each place I have travelled,” he writes, “I have used my camera as an extension of my memory.”
The images, and the reflections that follow from them, are also a way of fixing moments that might otherwise be lost in the sheer overload of global memories he has stored in his head in a relatively short time. “Certain experiences became more vivid as I was walking around and thinking about what I was photographing,” he elaborates. “In central Bali, for instance, there was an afternoon that has survived very clearly and vividly in my memory but also in the false memory of the photographs I took that day. They are stilled moments, fragments from a much bigger experience, a film that could only have been captured with a camera attached to my head.”
Given that he takes his camera with him wherever he goes, how visible a presence is he when he shoots on the street? He laughs, anticipating the underlying thrust of my question. “Well, a solitary black tourist is not a common sight in Switzerland or Kathmandu or northern Italy or even in upstate New York,” he says, ruefully, “so, I am already a little strange. But, there is a way in which having the camera makes me more free. It is a kind of invisibility cloak, especially when you are on a strange street far from home. But, oddly enough, I was more free in Kathmandu than in Lagos. The first assumption everywhere is, ‘there is a black tourist’ – but, in Nigeria, that question becomes more complex. There is more suspicion.”"
"“One of the responses to all that is to do the work I do. My essays are not political in the main, but they are trying to advance a humanist argument. Likewise, my photographs are complex, but I hope, … [more]
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10 ways to have a better conversation
"Celeste Headlee is an expert in talking to people. As part of her job as a public radio host and interviewer, she talks to hundreds of people each year, teasing from her guests what makes them interesting. At a TEDx conference two years ago, Headlee shared 10 tips for having a better conversations that work for anyone:
1. Don’t multitask.
2. Don’t pontificate.
3. Use open-ended questions.
4. Go with the flow.
5. If you don’t know, say that you don’t know.
6. Don’t equate your experience with theirs.
7. Try not to repeat yourself.
8. Stay out of the weeds.
9. Listen.
10. Be brief.
Watch the video for the explanations of each point. I’m pretty good on 1, 5, & 7 while I struggle with 3, 4, and sometimes 6. 9 is a constant struggle and depends on how much I’ve talked with other people recently."
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The Truth About Stories - Thomas King - Lecture 1 - YouTube
[Lecture 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daw7cGjrORE
Lecture 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICKluOS9Ic
Lecture 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJEMPf1hSE
Lecture 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2ETIxnYyo ]
[See also: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2003-cbc-massey-lectures-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative-1.2946870
"In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination.
Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Thomas King holds a PhD in English/American Studies from the University of Utah and has taught Native Studies at Utah, California, Minnesota, and Alberta for the past twenty-five years. He is currently Professor of English (teaching Native Literature and Creative Writing) at the University of Guelph. His widely-acclaimed novels include Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and Truth and Bright Water, and he has been nominated for the Governor General's Award as well as the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. He is the editor of All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction, and co-editor of The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. His popular CBC series, The Dead Dog Café, is being adapted as an animated television series. His father was Cherokee, his mother is Greek, and King is the first Massey lecturer of Native descent."]
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Eight Theses Regarding Social Media | L.M. Sacasas
"1. Social media are the fidget spinners of the soul.
2. Each social media platform is a drug we self-prescribe and consume in order to regulate our emotional life, and we are constantly experimenting with the cocktail.
3. Law of Digital Relativity: Perception of space and time is relative to the digital density of the observer’s experience.
4. Affect overload is a more serious problem than information overload. The product of both is moral apathy and mental exhaustion.
5. While text and image flourish online, the psycho-dynamics of digital culture are most akin to those of oral cultures (per Walter Ong).
6. Just as the consumer economy was boundless in its power to commodify, so the attention economy is boundless in its power to render reality standing reserve for the project of identity construction/performance. The two processes, of course, are not unrelated.
7. In the attention economy, strategic silence is power. But, because of the above, it is also a deeply demanding practice of self-denial.
8. Virtue is self-forgetting. The structures of social media make it impossible to forget yourself."
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crap futures — Back to nature
"We live on a remote island - mountainous, mid-Atlantic, still heavily forested and pretty wild - and for that reason nature sometimes sneaks into our otherwise technology-centred work. It is hard not to think local when you live in a place like this. We’re neither farmers nor pioneers - except in the sense that resident aliens on this island are few - but lately our reading has got us thinking about ancient paths and rural places. We’ll discuss the paths today and save most of the farm talk for a future post.
Paths v roads
In his 1969 essay ‘A Native Hill’, Wendell Berry - the American writer, farmer, activist, and ‘modern Thoreau’ - makes a useful distinction between paths and roads:
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. A road, on the other hand … embodies a resistance against the landscape. Its reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. Its wish is to avoid contact with the landscape. … It is destructive, seeking to remove or destroy all obstacles in its way.
Aside from conversation as usual, the reason we are talking about Berry is the arrival of a new film, Look & See, and a new collection of his writing, The World-Ending Fire, edited by Paul Kingsnorth of Dark Mountain Project fame. Berry and Kingsnorth, along with the economist Kate Raworth, were on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week recently chatting about the coming apocalypse and how it might best be avoided. It is a fascinating interview: you can actually hear Berry’s rocking chair creaking and the crows cawing outside the window of his house in Port Royal, Kentucky.
The normally optimistic Berry agrees somewhat crankily to read ‘the poem that you asked me to read’ on the programme. ‘Sabbaths 1989’ describes roads to the future as going nowhere: ‘roads strung everywhere with humming wire. / Nowhere is there an end except in smoke. / This is the world that we have set on fire.’ Berry admits that this poem is about as gloomy as he gets (‘blessed are / The dead who died before this time began’). For the most part his writing is constructive: forming a sensual response to cold, atomised modernity; advocating for conviviality, community, the commonweal.
Paul Kingsnorth talks compellingly in the same programme about transforming protest into action, although in truth no one walks the walk like Berry. Kingsnorth says: ‘We’re all complicit in the things we oppose’ - and never were truer words spoken, from our iPhones to our energy use. In terms of design practice, there are worse goals than reducing our level of complicity in environmental harm and empty consumerism. Like Berry, Kingsnorth talks about paths and roads. He asks: ‘Why should we destroy an ancient forest to cut twelve minutes off a car journey from London to Southampton? Is that a good deal?’
It’s a fair question. It also illustrates perfectly what Berry was describing in the passage that started this post: the difference between paths that blend and coexist with the local landscape, preserving the knowledge and history of the land, and roads that cut straight through it. These roads are like a destructive and ill-fitting grid imposed from the centre onto the periphery, without attention to the local terrain or ecology or ways of doing things - both literally (in the case of energy) and figuratively.
Another book we read recently, Holloway, describes ancient paths - specifically the ‘holloways’ of South Dorset - in similar terms:
They are landmarks that speak of habit rather than of suddenness. Like creases in the hand, or the wear on the stone sill of a doorstep or stair, they are the result of repeated human actions. Their age chastens without crushing. They relate to other old paths & tracks in the landscape - ways that still connect place to place & person to person.
Holloways are paths sunk deep into the landscape and into the local history. Roads, in contrast, skip over the local - collapsing time as they move us from one place to the next without, as it were, touching the ground. They alienate us in our comfort.
Here in Madeira there are endless footpaths broken through the woods. Still more unique are the levadas, the irrigation channels that run for more than two thousand kilometres back and forth across the island, having been brought to Portugal from antecedents in Moorish aqueduct systems and adapted to the specific terrain and agricultural needs of Madeira starting in the sixteenth century.
Both the pathways through the ancient laurel forests and the centuries-old levadas (which, though engineered, were cut by hand and still follow the contours and logic of the landscape) contrast with the highways and tunnels that represent a newer feat of human engineering since the 1970s. During his controversial though undeniably successful reign from 1978 to 2015 - he was elected President of Madeira a remarkable ten times - Alberto João Jardim oversaw a massive infrastructure program that completely transformed the island. Places that used to be virtually unreachable became accessible by a short drive. His legacy, in part, is a culture of automobile dependency that is second to none. The American highway system inspired by Norman Bel Geddes’ (and General Motors’) Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair almost pales in comparison to Jardim’s vision for the rapid modernisation of Madeira.
But when you walk the diesel-scented streets of the capital, or you drive through the holes bored deep into and out of towering volcanic mountains to reach the airport - and even when you think back in history and imagine those first settlers sitting in their ships as half the island’s forest burned, watching the dense smoke of the fires they lit to make Madeira favourable to human habitation - it’s hard not to think what a catastrophically invasive species are human beings.
Bespoke is a word we use a lot. In our vocabulary bespoke is not about luxury or excess - as it has been co-opted by consumer capitalism to suggest. Instead it is about tailored solutions, fitted to the contours of a particular body or landscape. Wendell Berry insists on the role of aesthetics and proportionality in his approach to environmentalism: the goal is not hillsides covered in rows of ugly solar panels, but an integrated and deep and loving relationship with the land. This insistence on aesthetics relates to the ‘reconfiguring’ principles that inform our newest work. The gravity batteries we’ve been building are an alternative not only to the imposed, top-down infrastructure of the grid, but also to the massive scale of such solutions and our desire to work with the terrain rather than against it.
Naomi Klein talked about renewable energy in these terms in an interview a couple of years ago:
If you go back and look at the way fossil fuels were marketed in the 1700s, when coal was first commercialized with the Watt steam engine, the great promise of coal was that it liberated humans from nature … And that was, it turns out, a lie. We never transcended nature, and that I think is what is so challenging about climate change, not just to capitalism but to our core civilizational myth. Because this is nature going, ‘You thought you were in charge? Actually all that coal you’ve been burning all these years has been building up in the atmosphere and trapping heat, and now comes the response.’ … Renewable energy puts us back in dialog with nature. We have to think about when the wind blows, we have to think about where the sun shines, we cannot pretend that place and space don’t matter. We are back in the world.
In a future post we will talk about the related subject of sustainable agriculture. But speaking of food - the time has come for our toast and coffee.
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Espacio y sujeto | Arquine
"Pienso que la arquitectura comienza por la ropa y gradualmente va creciendo; de la ropa pasamos a las herramientas y de las herramientas al mobiliario, que prácticamente es como la primera morada."
"El problema viene cuando se relaciona con museos y se vuelve una nueva versión de iglesia. Como sucede en las iglesias, forma parte de la vida cotidiana donde las cosas no se tocan."
"Cuando veo o leo cosas demasiado abstractas siento que es algo que necesita de una creencia a la fuerza, como pasa con la religión, por esto mismo la arquitectura mas específica y detallada como Archigram da una esperanza que tal vez eso puede funcionar o pueda ser construida."
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Everyday smells, sights and sounds of children in the city | Child in the City
"Building genuinely child friendly cities must begin with an appreciation of the child’s own daily perspective on their built environment, argues Jackie Bourke. Here, she describes how her research with inner city children in the Republic of Ireland capital, Dublin opened a window on the sensory and imaginative richness of children’s ‘everyday walks through a complex urban landscape of belonging’.
Increased attention to meeting children’s needs is an encouraging shift in urban planning, with models like the UNICEF Child Friendly Cities and Communities Initiative supporting cities to move in this direction. Dublin City is among those taking the first steps towards achieving child friendly status, with an initial focus on creating a playful city.
The urban public realm is of course not only a potential site of play for children and young people. Much like adults, they use public space to go to the shop, access amenities, visit friends and family and make the trip to and from school. A key question underpinning efforts to ensure cities are child friendly is how they experience these everyday journeys.
Research undertaken by the author, with 9-11 year olds based in Dublin, suggests it is a very rich and varied experience. Twenty children participated in the study, all of whom live in the North West Inner City. This part of Dublin has a diverse built environment; ponies kept down small cobbled laneways contrast with heavily trafficked arterial routes, bringing commuters in and out of the city.
The children who participated in the study all walk to school on a regular basis. As part of the research the children photographed their routes and captured their experience. Through their images they described journeys through an urban landscape at once social, sensory, imaginative and pragmatic.
Their social interactions with local shop keepers, business owners and neighbours are much treasured. Through small daily exchanges the children foster social capital and help knit the community together. Their experience is an embodied one and the children capture a range of sensory moments on their walks: they see and appreciate the aesthetic detail of buildings they pass, and describe the sounds of the city that gives texture to their walk: from the daunting clang of the tram, to the roar of traffic drowning out their conversations.
Certain smells are evocative, particularly for the children who walk by the old fruit and vegetable market each day. Their sensory experience is also quite tactile and they described both the hard feel of the footpath beneath their feet and the more gentle touch of the sunshine on a warm sunny day.
At the same time the children mapped out an imaginative experience. They identified haunted houses, a visitors’ centre where, apparently, a broken lift has left a number of tourists stranded for several years, and even a forest of trees “full of life” hidden behind a high wall. Inevitably there was a pragmatic dimension to these walks and the children were quick to point to the challenges presented by the high volume of traffic. Equally, poorly designed spaces, neglect, decay, dereliction and rubbish must be navigated on their routes.
The childhood landscape of the urban public realm revealed through this study is rich and complex, both inviting and hostile, and it sheds valuable light on the city world children that inhabit and shape. This kind of insight into children’s everyday lives is an important starting point on the journey towards creating a genuinely child friendly city."
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Learning Ecologies: Can the City Be Our Classroom? - Urban Planning and Design - architecture and design
"Over the past few months, Gensler San Francisco’s EDU 2.0 group, a cohort of emerging designers, strategists and leaders in the Education practice area, hosted a series of three roundtable discussions around the experiential learning trend and what it means for educational institutions and cities.
Project-based approaches to teaching have been disrupting the educational landscape for several years and many institutions have fully embraced experience-based curriculum; however, the built-environment has not kept up. This approach requires environments that encourage both self-guided and group learning, provide maker spaces and allow students to personalize their educational experience. Participants in the roundtable discussions included thought leaders and innovators from elementary education, high school, university and cultural institutions, as well as organizations involved in education for all ages. While our conversations varied due to the diverse participants, our question for all of the discussions was the same:
In a world where resources for learners are pervasive and abundant, where institutions may no longer play the role of primary purveyors of information, and abilities may be represented in ways different from the traditional diploma, what role will the institution of education play?
Commentary from some of our roundtable participants included:
• “We’re striving to build a university as it should be, not how it may have accidentally evolved over a hundred years.” –Mike Wang, Minerva Schools
• “I’m going out and using a series of experiences and apprenticeships to create a new form of higher education.” –Dane Johnson, Experience Institute
• “What could it look like if you designed a school rooted in equity and innovation and its goal was to bring disparate groups together?” –David Clifford, Design School X, Stanford d.School
• “At CCA we remake our physical environment…and our curriculum constantly in a way that is incredibly agile and it benefits the students.” –Mara Hancock, CCA
Through these conversations we identified the following trends on the horizon that not only apply to educational projects, but also retail, cultural and civic work:
• Curators of Experience: Learner-Centric Education
The goal of this kind of education is not to impart information nor to create experts, but to allow the students to learn how to identify questions, themes and problems.
For campus-less institutions and legacy institutions alike, place, identity and community remain important.
• Irresistible Places
Our most impactful memories of school often surround these special, irresistible places; a corner of a library or the place where you ate lunch with your friends. These places encourage and enable memorable learning experiences.
• Technology is a Tool, Not a Solution
Information delivered online in a vacuum, unrelated to real-world experience, is difficult to internalize and doesn’t feel relevant to the student.
• In Defense of the University
When we demand that learning be unencumbered by reaching a specific goal, a learner has the opportunity for free intellectual exploration.
• Tinkering
This educational practice includes the importance of play and prototyping within a context of experiential learning.
• Beyond the Report Card
Badging, sharing a digital portfolio, a deep network of collaborators and one’s ability to tell one’s story are more important to many employers than the conventional GPA.
• Intergenerational Learning
Age and experience level are not always the indicator of the role of educator.
• Scale It Up
Traditional educational systems can learn from innovative charter schools, cultural institutions and private schools to provide the best opportunities for all students.
The full list of trends explained in more details can be found here. [http://www.gensler.com/uploads/document/515/file/Learning-Ecologies_Gensler.pdf ]"
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Adrian Searle on John Berger: 'Art for him was never apart from being alive' | Books | The Guardian
"I cannot overestimate John Berger’s importance to me. It wasn’t so much his critical opinions or insights I valued, so much as the man himself, whose vitality and receptiveness to the things about him had a force I have rarely encountered.
It was his freedom as a writer I admired most. He had both backbone and playfulness, approaching things at tangents but always illuminating his subjects in unexpected and often disconcerting ways. In his groundbreaking 1972 television series, Ways of Seeing, Berger described the purposes of art, and artists’ intentions, in ways that felt flexible, undogmatic and grounded both in experience and in delight. He helped us look for ourselves, which is the best a critic can do.
Berger provoked intense loyalties and animosities. There were those who saw his defence of vernacular art as waging war against modernism, a man fighting a rearguard action against all kinds of artistic progress. This was oversimplistic, as his writing shows. I got to know Berger largely through our mutual friendship with the late Spanish artist Juan Muñoz. In the mid 1990s Muñoz and Berger collaborated on a radio play, which won a big prize in Germany and in 2005 was turned into a stage production at the Casa Encendida in Madrid. Berger, acting the part of a radio chatshow host, fielded imaginary calls and talked about illusion and presence and Goya’s dog, while an elderly Turkish foley artist, seated on the edge of the stage, provided sound effects. Already almost 80, Berger performed under sweltering stage lights in the Madrid summer heat and never lost his cool. Although there were several other actors in the work, it was almost a solo performance. John carried it; he had presence.
I asked Berger if he had ever wanted to be an actor and he admitted that he had been approached by an agent who encouraged him to go on the stage after seeing him perform in the annual Chelsea School of Art student revue. His stage presence and manner reminded me, disconcertingly, of Frankie Howerd. He was a natural and one of the reasons Ways of Seeing was so good was that he never came over as the patrician smart-arse superior critic. He made you feel he was thinking on his feet, right there in front of you. John would screw up his face and affect an expression somewhere between bewilderment and anguish, before launching into an argument that seemed to arrive fully formed. He was enormously compelling. He made me aware that writing itself was performative.
He reminisced about his time sharing a Paris apartment with the young David Sylvester, who never let go of an early falling out. It had something to do with Berger’s complaints about Sylvester leaving his “voluminous underpants” draped over a chair in a shared room in the early 1950s. Sylvester, I always thought, was jealous of Berger’s abilities as a writer of fiction as well as of art, though his career-long public animosity was also about Berger’s left-wing politics and his championing of socially engaged art.
It strikes me that art for Berger was the beginning of a journey of his own, a way of igniting responses and provoking thoughts. He approached art with a kind of innocent curiosity. He had enthusiasms I couldn’t share (from Soviet artist Ernst Neizvestny to British painter Maggi Hambling) but was open to work as diverse as Rachel Whiteread’s House and Muñoz’s enigmatic figurations. There are things I wish he had written on, but never did. If he was wrong about Picasso (whom he called a “vertical invader”, slicing through tradition) or just plain weird about Francis Bacon (whose paintings he once compared to Walt Disney animations – though Berger later revised his opinion) it didn’t matter. His ideas remained useful, because they always felt part of a bigger, ongoing conversation. It is healthy for a critic to beware of fixed opinions.
Whatever he did, Berger was a teller of stories, and alert to the complexities of all kinds of art-making and writing. Dip into him anywhere – an essay on Courbet, on drawing hands, or Roman Egypt funerary portraiture – whatever it is, his subject is vivid on the page. His writing is filled with insights. That he trained as a painter gave him a sympathy and understanding of the act of making and its difficulties – rare among critics now.
Intensely observant, Berger had the ability to focus the smallest quotidian detail – a penknife in a boy’s pocket, or a pear grown inside a bottle in a farmer’s orchard, bringing in the cows or sharpening a pencil – in order to tell us something about life and human relations, in an unending chain of acts and expressions. Everything he wrote has humour in it as well as sorrow. His writing never forgets the vagaries of the everyday. He revelled in all this.
Art for him was never something apart from the business of being alive. He was grounded. He struck me as a man who was both supremely astute and perceptive, and a sentimentalist. He could be a wonderfully engaging companion. A 1983 television debate with Susan Sontag – both wrestling with what a story could be – remains electrifying, mostly because they were both struggling with thoughts and ideas rather than trading certainties. Always worth reading, even when one disagrees with him, Berger went his own way, which was the only way to go."
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Against a "Life Hack" Approach to Art Education | Claudia Ruitenberg - Academia.edu
"This paper critiques de Botton and Armstrong’s Art as Therapy project (2013-2015), a collaboration with art museums in Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia, in which labels in the gallery, as well a catalogue and website, explain how viewers might use works of art to serve therapeutic purposes in their lives. The paper argues that, instead of making art more accessible to those who, allegedly, do not find access to art on their own, the Art as Therapy project undermines the force and richness of art by first declaring it useless and inaccessible and then repurposing it as therapeutic life hack "
"I commend de Botton and Armstrong for their premise that art is not the exclusive preoccupation of the cultural cognoscenti, but can have a bearing on anyone’s life— as long as we’re willing to let it. I also commend them for highlighting that art is not a purely cerebral affair, that works of art do something to us, and that the emotions are involved in this doing. My main criticisms of their approach are that they predetermine what bearing art can and should have, and that they privilege the therapeutic over the aesthetic value of art.
There is an important difference between a life hack approach in everyday life, where household items are repurposed but also retain their original use-value, and a life-hack approach to art, where the practical utility of “repurposed” works offers redemption for purported uselessness. Life hacks typically repurpose discarded or cheap materials; people don’t turn objects they already value into life hacks. de Botton and Armstrong’s message seems to be that art is useless, but that with the help of their commentaries, these useless works can be turned into something viewers can benefit from.
Whatever else art is and does, it offers an aesthetic experience, which is to say that it intervenes in perception (“aesthetic” is derived from the Greek verb aisthesthai, meaning to perceive, sense). This intervention may have various further effects, including therapeutic ones, but art is not useless if its effects are not therapeutic. Art may make us laugh or cry or leave us indifferent. It may disturb or console us, give us nightmares or fits of giggles. It may do this and a whole host of other things—but it does not inherently need or mean to do any of them. When de Botton and Armstrong cite the “art for art’s sake” credo, they dismiss it as saying that art has no purpose. That, however, is not what the credo says. That art is done for the sake of art suggests that art has no purpose other than to be art —and the latter is quite a bit of purpose."
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Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One? | Hapgood
"What is the digital literacy I want?
I want something that is actually digital, something that deals with the particular affordances of the web, and gives students a knowledge of how to use specific web tools and techniques.
I want something that recognizes that domain knowledge is crucial to literacy, something that puts an end to helicopter-dropping students into broadly different domains.
I want a literacy that at least considers the possibility that students in an American democracy should know what the Center for American Progress and Cato are, a literacy that considers that we might teach these things directly, rather than expecting them to RADCAB their way to it on an individual basis. It might also make sense (crazy, I know!) that students understand the various ideologies and internet cultures that underlie a lot of what they see online, rather than fumbling their way toward it individually.
I think I want less CRAAP and more process. As I look at my own process with fact-checking, for example, I see models such as Guided Inquiry being far more helpful — systems that help me understand what the next steps are, rather than abstract rubric of quality. And I think what we find when we look at the work of real-life fact-checkers is that this process shifts based on what you’re looking at, so the process has to be artifact-aware: This is how you verify a user-generated video for example, not “here’s things to think about when you evaluate stuff.”
To the extent we do use CRAAP, or RADCAB, or CARS or other models out there, I’d like us to focus specifically on the methods that the web uses to signal these sorts of things. For example, the “S” in CARS is support, which tends to mean certain things in traditional textual environments. But we’re on the web and awful lot of “support” is tied up in the idea of hyperlinks to supporting sources, and the particular ways that page authors tie claims to resources. This seems obvious, I suppose, but remember that in evaluating the gun control claim in the Stanford study, over half the students didn’t even click the link to the supporting resource. Many corporations, for business reasons, have been downplaying links, and it is is having bad effects. True digital literacy would teach students that links are still the mechanism through which the web builds trust and confidence.
Above all, I just want something that gets to a level of specificity that I seldom see digital literacy programs get to. Not just “this is what you should value”, but rather, “these are the tools and specific facts that are going to help you act on those values”. Not just “this is what the web is”, but “let’s pull apart the guts of the web and see how we get a reliable publication date”. It’s by learning this stuff on a granular level that we form the larger understandings — when you know the difference between a fake news site and an advocacy blog, or understand how to use the Wayback Machine to pull up a deleted web page — these tools and process raise the questions that larger theories can answer.
But to get there, you have to start with stuff a lot more specific and domain-informed than the usual CRAAP."
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Maira Kalman’s Bohemian Bliss Above a Bakery - WSJ
"The illustrator and writer recalls her artist husband, Tibor, and their first Greenwich Village apartment"
"Artist Maira Kalman, 65, is the author and illustrator of 24 books, including “My Favorite Things” (Harper Design) and “Ah-Ha to Zig” (Rizzoli), both based on a December exhibit she is curating for New York’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She spoke with Marc Myers.
The apartment I shared with my late husband, Tibor, between 1976 and 1982, wasn’t pretty but we were happy. We both came of age in that fifth-floor tenement walk-up at 29 Cornelia St. in New York’s Greenwich Village. I was just beginning to illustrate and Tibor was starting M & Co., his graphic-design firm. We didn’t need much.
The railroad apartment had three rooms, one after the next. What we lacked in space and fancy furnishings was more than made up for by fun and love. Back then the neighborhood was still home to three generations of Italian families and poor artists. Our rent was $125 a month, and everything was possible in our lives and careers.
Tibor and I met in 1968 while attending New York University. Throughout the early 1970s we would break up and get back together, so we lived in a series of places before settling down. When you entered our Cornelia Street apartment, you were standing in our living room. Then you passed into the kitchen—the center room with a rough concrete trough of a bathtub that had a wooden cover when it wasn’t in use. The third room was a small bedroom that faced the back of A. Zito & Sons bakery. In the morning, the smell of bread baking filled the room.
Tibor and I were both strangely content. Even climbing five flights with groceries or with the laundry was part of the experience. We just thought, here we are, we’re together and in love, and isn’t that great.
Our decorating style was no style at all. Our furnishings were hand-me-downs or things we had found on the street. One piece was a beautiful armchair that we had reupholstered. I still have it. I don’t know why someone chucked it out, but that’s New York.
In the kitchen, we had a ’50s dining table. My studio wasn’t set up yet, so I drew at the kitchen table. I’d draw everywhere, from the park to cafes.
One day, when Tibor was at work, I decided I hated our horrible brown wall-to-wall carpeting. I ripped it up halfway before I became exhausted. When Tibor came home I told him the carpet had to go. He ripped out the other half without a word of complaint. Then I painted the wood floor in the living room butter yellow—the walls were already white—and I instantly felt lighter. That’s what’s interesting about changing layers of your living space. How you feel changes, too.
Eventually Tibor and I wanted more space, so we built a loft bed in the bedroom. It had lots of heavy, raw wood and looked rather dreadful. It was a hippie time, so you have to forgive us. At one point we also upgraded the kitchen by ripping out the tub and putting in a shower.
We were always putting up and taking down art from the walls. One night we hung an onion ring on a nail high up on the kitchen wall. I don’t remember why. I was from Israel and Tibor was from Hungary, so we were always fascinated by vernacular. Fast food was part of the American scene—diners, coffee shops and hamburger stands. All of that Americana was joyful and optimistic and funny to us. That was the beginning of our onion-ring collection. The onion rings we installed never deteriorated, which was amazing. We had dozens of them, and some we framed and gave to friends.
When I think back to our apartment now, I think of it as empty—just shapes of rooms and light. What I do remember vividly is that the space was filled with friendship and love and a never-ending curiosity about everything.
Tibor and I married in 1981, and the following year we moved to a one-bedroom apartment on 12th Street when I became pregnant with our daughter, Lulu. We soon bought the place. A few years later, Tibor and I had a son named Alex, at which point we also bought the apartment next door. Tibor died in 1999, and I still live here.
I’m about to have my apartment repainted white, as always, but I fear it’s going to be a daunting task. There are too many whites to choose from."
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Austin Kleon — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society Schools are...
"Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets.
Intense book to add to the unschooling shelf. Published in 1972, probably still as radical now as it was then, as many of the “symptoms” of the schooled society he describes have only gotten worse. Some of the big ones, below:
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need the society as it is.”
The pupil is… “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
“School is an institution built on axiom that learning is the result of teaching.”
Teaching, it is true, may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances. But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school… Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.
Most learning happens outside of the classroom.
Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction. Normal children learn their first language casually, although faster if their parents pay attention to them. Most people who learn a second language well do so as a result of odd circumstances and not of sequential teaching. They go to live with their grandparents, they travel, or they fall in love with a foreigner. Fluency in reading is also more often than not a result of such extracurricular activities. Most people who read widely, and with pleasure, merely believe that they learned to do so in school; when challenged, they easily discard this illusion.
“The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.”
School teaches us that instruction produces learning. The existence of schools produces the demand for schooling. Once we have learned to need school, all our activities tend to take the shape of client relationships to other specialized institutions. Once the self-taught man or woman has been discredited, all nonprofessional activity is rendered suspect. In school we are taught that valuable learning is the result of attendance; that the value of learning increases with the amount of input; and, finally, that this value can be measured and documented by grades and certificates.
“School initiates young people into a world where everything can be measured, including their imaginations, and, indeed, man himself…”
People who submit to the standard of others for the measure of their own personal growth soon apply the same ruler to themselves. They no longer have to be put in their place, but put themselves into their assigned slots, squeeze themselves into the niche which they have been taught to seek, and, in the very process, put their fellows into their places, too, until everybody and everything fits. People who have been schooled down to size let unmeasured experience slip out of their hands. To them, what cannot be measured becomes secondary, threatening. They do not have to be robbed of their creativity."
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Design Masters — Deborah Sussman on Vimeo
[via: http://jarrettfuller.tumblr.com/post/149188719257/fast-company-has-a-nice-interview-and-video ]
[See also: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3059969/the-woman-who-made-the-1984-olympics-into-a-legendary-design-event ]
"Before the world confused fame for mastery.
Before young designers were lost in the black hole of on-line portfolios and a million design sites.
Before the number of clicks and followers determined your worth, we used to learn about masters of design through their work on the street, in stores or through a small number of carefully curated design magazines and annuals.
Today, almost all of those magazines and annuals are gone.
But those masters were — and continue to be — the ones we look to for inspiration. Not only because of their remarkable work or enormous talents, but because of their tenacity — and an endless desire to reinvent themselves. The word "retire" never even crossed their mind.
These two short films represent the first of a series of conversations with such masters.
These two masters never ran dry on ideas or patience. Despite insanely busy schedules, they never turned us down, the inheritors of their craft. And we continue to be inspired by them every day. Today, our own hope is to expand upon the vision they established.
We thank ADC Hall of Fame laureates Deborah Sussman and Seymour Chwast for allowing us to create these brief portraits.
With over a century of experience between them both, they never put fame before mastery.
And in these films, it shows."
[The other film: Design Masters — Seymour Chwast
https://vimeo.com/166094009 ]
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Snapchat - 2014 AXS Partner Summit Keynote
"The following keynote was delivered by Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat, at the AXS Partner Summit on January 25, 2014.
I was asked to speak here today on a topic I’m sure you’re all familiar with: sexting in the post-PC era.
[Just Kidding]
I’ve always thought it was a bit odd that this period in our history has been called the “post-personal computer” era – when really it should be called the “more-personal computer” era.
I read a great story yesterday about a man named Mister Macintosh. He was a man designed by Steve Jobs to live inside the Macintosh computer when it launched, 30 years ago from yesterday. He would appear every so often, hidden behind a pull-down menu or popping out from behind an icon – just quickly and infrequently enough that you almost thought he wasn’t real.
Until yesterday, I hadn’t realized that Steve’s idea of tying a man to a computer had happened so early in his career. But, at the time, the Macintosh was forced to ship without Mister Macintosh because the engineers were constrained to only 128 kilobytes of memory. It wasn’t until much later in Steve’s career that he would truly tie man to machine – the launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007.
In the past, technical constraints meant that computers were typically found in physical locations: the car, the home, the school. The iPhone tied a computer uniquely to a phone number – to YOU.
Not all that long ago, communication was location-dependent. We were either in the same room together, in which case we could talk face-to-face, or we were across the world from each other, in which case I could call your office or send a letter to your home. It is only very recently that we have begun to tie phone numbers to individual identities for the purpose of computation and communication.
I say all this to establish that smartphones are simply the culmination of Steve’s journey to identify man with machine – and bring about the age of the More-Personal Computer.
There are three characteristics of the More-Personal Computer that are particularly relevant to our work at Snapchat:
1) Internet Everywhere
2) Fast + Easy Media Creation
3) Ephemerality
When we first started working on Snapchat in 2011, it was just a toy. In many ways it still is – but to quote Eames, “Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.”
The reason to use a toy doesn’t have to be explained – it’s just fun. But using a toy is a terrific opportunity to learn.
And boy, have we been learning.
Internet Everywhere means that our old conception of the world separated into an online and an offline space is no longer relevant. Traditional social media required that we live experiences in the offline world, record those experiences, and then post them online to recreate the experience and talk about it. For example, I go on vacation, take a bunch of pictures, come back home, pick the good ones, post them online, and talk about them with my friends.
This traditional social media view of identity is actually quite radical: you are the sum of your published experience. Otherwise known as: pics or it didn’t happen.
Or in the case of Instagram: beautiful pics or it didn’t happen AND you’re not cool.
This notion of a profile made a lot of sense in the binary experience of online and offline. It was designed to recreate who I am online so that people could interact with me even if I wasn’t logged on at that particular moment.
Snapchat relies on Internet Everywhere to provide a totally different experience. Snapchat says that we are not the sum of everything we have said or done or experienced or published – we are the result. We are who we are today, right now.
We no longer have to capture the “real world” and recreate it online – we simply live and communicate at the same time.
Communication relies on the creation of media and is constrained by the speed at which that media is created and shared. It takes time to package your emotions, feelings and thoughts into media content like speech, writing, or photography.
Indeed, humans have always used media to understand themselves and share with others. I’ll spare you the Gaelic with this translation of Robert Burns, “Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us.”
When I heard that quote, I couldn’t help but think of self-portraits. Or for us Millennials: the selfie! Self-portraits help us understand the way that others see us – they represent how we feel, where we are, and what we’re doing. They are arguably the most popular form of self-expression.
In the past, lifelike self-portraits took weeks and millions of brush strokes to complete. In the world of Fast + Easy Media Creation, the selfie is immediate. It represents who we are and how we feel – right now.
And until now, the photographic process was far too slow for conversation. But with Fast + Easy Media Creation we are able to communicate through photos, not just communicate around them like we did on social media. When we start communicating through media we light up. It’s fun.
The selfie makes sense as the fundamental unit of communication on Snapchat because it marks the transition between digital media as self-expression and digital media as communication.
And this brings us to the importance of ephemerality at the core of conversation.
Snapchat discards content to focus on the feeling that content brings to you, not the way that content looks. This is a conservative idea, the natural response to radical transparency that restores integrity and context to conversation.
Snapchat sets expectations around conversation that mirror the expectations we have when we’re talking in-person.
That’s what Snapchat is all about. Talking through content not around it. With friends, not strangers. Identity tied to now, today. Room for growth, emotional risk, expression, mistakes, room for YOU.
The Era of More Personal Computing has provided the technical infrastructure for more personal communication. We feel so fortunate to be a part of this incredible transformation.
Snapchat is a product built from the heart – that is the reason why we are in Los Angeles. I often talk with people about the conflicts between technology companies and content companies – I’ve found that one of the biggest issues is that frequently technology companies view movies, music, and television as INFORMATION. Directors, producers, musicians, and actors view them as feelings, as expression. Not to be searched, sorted, and viewed – but EXPERIENCED.
Snapchat focuses on the experience of conversation – not the transfer of information. We’re thrilled to be a part of this community.
Thank you for inviting me today and thank you for being a part of our journey. Our team looks forward to getting to know all of you."
[Also here: https://es.scribd.com/doc/202195145/2014-AXS-Partner-Summit-Keynote#fullscreen ]
[via: https://twitter.com/smc90/status/427551803475906560 ]
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Werner Herzog on the future of film school, critical connectivity, and Pokémon Go | The Verge
"EY: Have you seen any changes or shifts in the work and in the submissions over the past seven years?
WH: There are always surprises. All of a sudden there is a film that is not really accomplished, but in the film there is a minute of utterly new unseen stuff that just makes you sit down and take a deep breath. Those are the [filmmakers] I would invite [to Rogue Film School], those who are not following on the trodden path. The MasterClass speaks to you in the same way. Find your own voice, do not just stupidly and blindly follow the so-called rules of storytelling in terms of screenplays, the three-act theory, all these things. Find your voice, find your own identity, don't be afraid just to step into it.
Because today it's fairly easy; you can make a film with a very high caliber camera that's not expensive anymore. You can record sound on your cell phone if you add a good microphone and you can edit your film on your laptop. In other words, you can make a feature film for $10,000 or under. And that's what I keep telling the students or those who watch the MasterClass: don't wait for the system to accept you. You create your own system, create your own [budget] and make your own first feature film or your first own documentary.
EY: More and more that DIY spirit is the dominant attitude of young filmmakers, especially those putting their work directly online. Do you think traditional film school will ever go extinct?
WH: No, unfortunately they are not going to go completely extinct; I wish they would. I wish everybody would come out of nowhere and be self-taught by life itself, by the world itself. No, [film school is] going to stay because there is a general demand for content, let's say, on television. And the film industry has some sort of a permanent demand for content. Let it be like that. I do not want to challenge it. But when you look into my MasterClass you better be out for something else."
"WH: No, you shouldn't watch it [the MasterClass] all at once. That would be completely mad. And be careful with the assignments, because sometimes I would say you do not need to follow them. Create your own assignments, be intelligent. Giving assignments, it reeks of high school and getting homework.
EY: Some people respond to that though, some people like that.
WH: Yes, but I always was reluctant to give any assignments. But it's fine. Let it be as it is. It's part of the format and it's part of the charm of it. When it comes to assignment I'm not the one who should be a high school principal.
EY: Right.
WH: I'd rather jump from Golden Gate Bridge if that happens.
EY: I asked about film school because I graduated from a film program less than a decade ago, and already many of the technical skills I learned are outdated. And it seems the things that remain are very personal lessons that usually don't come from the curriculum itself.
WH: Yeah, certain things you can neither learn in film school nor let's say the MasterClass nor in the Rogue Film School. It's just life, raw life as it is has to give you insight and has to allow you to make the right decisions and ask the right questions and gathering enough courage to do something."
"WH: If you are too much into the internet, yes, because it's a parallel surrogate life. It has nothing to do with the real world or examination of the real world, if you delegate too much to your cell phone and applications."
"WH: You see, I come from a world where you touch things, like a roll of celluloid. But I have to get better accustomed to the virtual world."
EY: Lo and Behold is officially being released in August, but in the meantime you've had the chance to screen it several times. What kinds of reactions have you gotten, especially from people who are perhaps more embedded in the "connected world" than you are?
WH: Well, everybody has been enthusiastic so far and the buzz is enormous. I never expected it, because in the beginning I was to do some YouTube tips on texting and driving. The financiers of the film, NETSCOUT, understood there was something much, much bigger and they supported me with that. The response has been totally unprecedented for me. What is also remarkable I get a lot of emails nowadays [from] 12, 14, 15-year-olds. And that's something really surprising because they speak a different language, the language of their age group. And yet [they are] making some very intelligent remarks."
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Berlin Biennale | All Problems Can Be Illuminated; Not All Problems Can Be Solved
"“There is no technology for justice. There is only justice.”12 Ursula Franklin answered when I asked her in December 2015, what to do. I reached out because I wanted her to tell me how to act on the perspectives she brings to the traditional story of progress. As someone building internet technologies, working within this received wisdom, I wanted a recipe, something I could share with others (with you!) and throw my body into.
She was warm and generous and incredibly insightful, and she gave me no smooth answers, no simple way.
Central to our conversation was my worry about the massive surveillance capacities enabled by internet technologies and the way in which public assent to surveillance is fueled by the racism and militarism of the now eternal “War on Terror.” What could we do to combat this narrative? What could we do to change the underlying technologies such that they respect human agency and privacy?
Franklin agreed. This is a grave problem. But not a “technological” problem:
“Whether it’s heathens, witches, women, communists, whoever, the institution of an enemy as a political tool is inappropriate. The only solution is an insistence on a civilized democratic society. A civilized democratic society combats this and the wish of an authority to collect personal information on citizens and their activities and loyalties. Whether it’s done by spying, by bribing children, by workplace monitoring, by confession in the confession box of the church—the collection is the issue. The means—the technology—is secondary. The problem is a problem of authoritarian power. And at the root of this problem is the issue of justice, and justice is political.”
While justice can be understood, can be felt, there is no template to follow, or checklist to work through for ensuring a just outcome. The requirements are humility, a respect for context, and a willingness to listen to the most marginalized voices. Let these define the basic requirements of whatever you do. You must “put yourself in the position of the most vulnerable, in a way that achieves a visceral gut feeling of empathy and perspective—that’s the only way to see what justice is.”
Understanding justice, honoring those most vulnerable and including them as authors of any plan that impacts them, is a necessary starting place. But the problems associated with our current technologies won’t be solved by tweaking gears or redesigning mechanisms. A roadmap that centers on justice is only the first step. “For a very long time gadgets and machinery have been anti-people. If one wants to get away from the anti-people component, then you don’t argue technology as much as you argue capitalism.” Even with a view of what justice would look like and could be, attempts at radical change will, of course, be repulsed by powerful actors who benefit richly from the unjust status quo. Political change must be a part of the equation.
This isn’t a frenzied call for revolution. The bigger the scale, the bigger the vision for just change, the more difficult it will be to “get it through” a system in which power is aligned against justice (and, of course, the more difficult it will be to truly understand this vision’s vast impact on vulnerable populations and thus ensure it really supports justice.) Not that working to build practices and plans isn’t worthwhile—it is incredibly worthwhile. But you’re unlikely to have much real impact if you start with a grand announcement. “To proceed in a hostile world,” Franklin suggests, “call it an experiment. Admit that you don’t know how to do it, but ask for space and peace and respect. Then try your experiment, quietly.” In conditions not conducive to success, situate yourself out of the spotlight and proceed subtly, humbly, and be willing to downplay expectations while new forms incubate.
“My favorite word is an old Quaker term, ‘scrupling,’ used as an activity,” Franklin begins, addressing how to approach the vastness of the political and social problems we were discussing. “It comes out of the anti-slavery movement, originally. People would get together to ‘scruple,’ that is, discuss and debate a common problem, something they had scruples about—say, justice—for which they did not have a solution. This is scrupling, and this is something you and your friends can do.”
Gather and talk. Empathize and listen. Don’t chase the spotlight, and accept that some problems are big, and difficult, and that what you’re good at may not fix them. These are not the ways of charismatic executives and flash-bang inventors. These are not instructions for entrepreneurial success. These won’t produce bigger faster newer ways of doing things.
Her parting words were meant to comfort me. “For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. If the eggs are scrambled, they’re scrambled. You can’t unscramble them. All you can possibly do is cook them and share them with somebody.”"
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Jan Chipchase: Keynote on Vimeo
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Make Games - This is an excerpt from the Spelunky book, which...
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"Indifference
I played games everywhere as a kid—on my parents’ PC and their Atari 2600, at the arcades, in the car with my Game Boy, and at friends’ houses where I was introduced to Chinese pirate multicarts and exotic game systems like the Neo Geo and TurboGrafx-16. But for me, that era still belongs to Nintendo. My uncle was the first in my family to get a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and I spent entire visits playing Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. When I wasn’t playing, I’d read my new issue of Nintendo Power compulsively until the next month’s issue. No one in the 80s built worlds as magical and well-crafted as Nintendo did. And although many talented men and women deserve credit for that, the one who stands out among them all is the developer who I was most excited to see in the crowd at IGF 2007: Shigeru Miyamoto.
Miyamoto once said that his childhood exploration of the Kyoto countryside was the inspiration for creating The Legend of Zelda, a top-down action-adventure game set in the fictional land of Hyrule. Recalling the time he discovered a lake while hiking, he explained, “It was quite a surprise for me to stumble upon it. When I traveled around the country without a map, trying to find my way, stumbling on amazing things as I went, I realized how it felt to go on an adventure like this.“ It’s the perfect way to describe my experience with The Legend of Zelda as a child, when my dad and I spent many hours meticulously exploring and mapping Hyrule. As I moved from screen to screen, slaying monsters and prodding the environment for hidden secrets, he would mark them down on our map with colored pencils.
It felt like we were Lewis and Clark trekking across the American West. I’ll never forget the first time I entered a dungeon and watched the bright greens, browns, and yellows of the overworld give way to ominous blues and reds—the sound of Link’s footsteps on stairs heralding the eerie dungeon music that still echoes in every Nintendo kid’s ears. It seems strange now, but in The Legend of Zelda no one tells you where the first dungeon is located. It’s possible to wander into the farthest reaches of Hyrule before locating it, and when you find the entrance—a gaping black “mouth” beckoning you into a giant tree—you may not necessarily know what you have found.
In a 2003 interview with SuperPlay magazine, Miyamoto recalled the day the game was released: “I remember that we were very nervous since The Legend of Zelda was our first game that forced the players to think what they should do next.” This bold and risky design, based on the joy of discovery, had a huge impact on me as a game designer. In Spelunky, as in all of my games, I wanted to capture the same emotions I had on that first adventure.
Unfortunately, that feeling about Hyrule waned with each successive game. Even as the worlds grew more beautiful and vibrant, a feeling of disappointment clouded my initial wondrous experience. Part of it is that I grew up. Zelda is 30 years old now, and in that time I’ve played 30 years’ worth of games and released some of my own. But while it’s harder to surprise me now, it also doesn’t appear that the series is as interested in trying. If the original Zelda game was made only for children, I might chalk it up to my age, but revisiting it as a “Classic Series” Game Boy Advance reissue, I was amazed at how strange and wild it still felt compared to the later games, and to modern games in general. It was like returning to the wilderness after a long hiatus, trying to get back in touch with senses that had been steadily dulled.
In Tevis Thompson’s brilliant 2012 essay “Saving Zelda,” Thompson likened modern installments of the game to theme parks, saying, “Skyward Sword, with its segregated, recycled areas and puzzly overworld dungeons, is not an outlier; it is the culmination of years of reducing the world to a series of bottlenecks, to a kiddie theme park (this is not an exaggeration: Lanayru Desert has a roller-coaster).” Gone is the wild frontier that I explored with my dad and the Kyoto countryside that inspired the series, replaced by something that feels too linear, too elegant, too smooth, too… designed? Quests have been turned into fun house games with obvious goals and rewards. “Secrets” are outlined with bright, flashing signposts. A theme park is exactly what it feels like.
Is a theme park necessarily a bad thing, though? I also have great memories of going to Disneyland, Magic Mountain, and other amusement parks. But leaving the park after a full day of riding rides and eating cotton candy, I’m not eager to go back the next day or even the next week or month. The thrills are garish and over-the-top, but also obvious and safe. Compare a theme park to that Kyoto countryside—Miyamoto purportedly came across a cave during his explorations and hesitated for days before eventually going inside. Why did that cave feel so dangerous to him, even though there was likely nothing inside? Why did my wife and I feel the same trepidation as adults in Hawaii, when we ducked into a little path carved into a bamboo field off the side of the road?
Thompson continues:
Hyrule must become more indifferent to the player. It must aspire to ignore Link. Zelda has so far resisted the urge to lavish choice on the player and respond to his every whim, but it follows a similar spirit of indulgence in its loving details, its carefully crafted adventure that reeks of quality and just-for-you-ness. But a world is not for you. A world needs a substance, an independence, a sense that it doesn’t just disappear when you turn around (even if it kinda does). It needs architecture, not level design with themed wallpaper, and environments with their own ecosystems (which were doing just fine before you showed up). Every location can’t be plagued with false crises only you can solve, grist for the storymill.
It’s easy to mistake Thompson’s assertion that “Hyrule must become more indifferent to the player” for an assertion that game developers shouldn’t care about the player or shouldn’t guide the player toward their ultimate vision. What it means is that the guides must be a natural part of the world, and the world, like Miyamoto’s cave, must simply exist. If a world is independent and self-sufficient, so are its inhabitants. If every part of a world exists only for the player, both the world and the hero will feel artificial.
Nintendo wasn’t the only developer to lose sight of that cave in Kyoto. All game creators must control the player’s experience to a degree, and it’s easy to take it too far—this is particularly true of large studios with bigger budgets that they have to recoup from audiences that include many casual players. Designers often mistake intentionality for good game design: We think that a cave must have a treasure chest in it, and if there’s a treasure chest it must be guarded by a monster, and if there’s treasure in the cave, then the player must find it, and if the player must find it, then there has to be a map that leads the player to the cave. That feels like good design because we took the time to plan it out and in the end the player did what we expected. But it doesn’t guarantee that the player will feel like they’re on a true adventure, making genuine discoveries.
Creating Spelunky was the perfect project to help me think about what a true adventure meant to me. Working by myself on a small freeware game made it easier to focus on my personal vision instead of what other people wanted. Using Game Maker allowed me to focus on game design rather than technology. And then there was the randomization of the levels, which made it impossible to fully control the player’s experience. All I could do was create the building blocks of the world and set them in motion—what came out could be as surprising and indifferent to me as it was to the players."
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Ghost in the machine: Snapchat isn’t mobile-first — it’s something else entirely — Free Code Camp
"Snapchat is not mobile-first, and it’s not really an app anymore. Nor is it a meta-app platform at this point like Facebook Messenger is angling to become (at least not yet). Snapchat is a true creature of mobile, a living, breathing embodiment of everything that our camera-enabled, networked pocket computer can possibly offer. And in its cooption of smartphones into a true social operating system, we see the inklings of what is beyond mobile.
When I open Snapchat up to the camera, I can’t shake the feeling that the ghost is banging on the glass, trying to break out into the world."
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The burning issue in Banksy’s Graffiti — Medium
"Over half term Banksy broke into Bridge Farm Primary School in Bristol and drew a giant image of a girl rolling a burning tyre away from a distant school house. Media coverage of this event has, perhaps inevitably, gravitated towards the price of the art work and the disciplinary implications of Banksy’s letter to the children telling them that it’s “always easier to get forgiveness than permission”. What is less covered, and what is perhaps more worthy of a national discussion, are the subversive criticisms of the state of formal education and the lives of children in the UK and around the world which are evident in Banksy’s latest piece of work.
Banksy’s painting depicts a 14 foot stick figure girl with her back to a school house. The school, also drawn in simple lines, appears small and insignificant in the background. Its windows are barred. The one element of the painting that appears vivid and real is the burning tyre, with smoke billowing up into the air. The girl holds a stick in her hand and is pushing the tyre along, away from the school and towards a solitary flower. Her expression is blank and somewhat confused. The game she is playing is hoop rolling, where children use a stick to tap a hoop or tyre along, rolling it forward and preventing it from toppling over. Children used to play it on the streets of England as early as the 15th century, though you are unlikely to encounter a hoop roller on the streets today. Children in many parts of the world, especially in less economically developed countries, can still be seen rolling and racing tyres down the road for fun. The difference in Banksy’s image is that the tyre is billowing in flames.
One’s initial instinct upon seeing the image may be concern for the child. The fire appears large and out of control and the girl is blindly ploughing forward pushing it away from the seemingly safe space of the school building. Does the tyre represent the world outside the school walls? Have we created a world that is so hostile to children that we have to keep them cocooned in schools for 13 years of their lives before they are equipped enough to survive it? Is this why we have created schools that compartmentalize and pre-package the world into safe and “useful” learning parcels rather than letting children learn and be inspired first hand?
Education and learning have always been around in one form or another, yet the ways in which we learned in the past were more diverse, local, contextual, culturally and ecologically sound. However mass compulsory schooling, the idea that every child must spend a vast chunk of their lives in an institution, is a very new idea. It originated in Prussia in the 19th century in order to produce obedient and disciplined soldiers following Prussia’s defeat in the Napoleonic wars. Men did not know how to fight, or perhaps did not want to fight, so they were bred to fight. The model worked well for the industrial revolution as well, freeing parents from childcare in order to work in the factories, and breeding children with basic skills and literacy who would follow in their parents’ footsteps, working for others. During the colonial era, education was used intentionally to wipe out indigenous cultures and create subservient clerks for the colonial administration. As Thomas Macaulay, who was largely responsible for the development of modern schooling in India put it, schools needed to create “a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect”. Today, we imagine that schools are more liberating and have a broader curriculum, but perhaps we need to look again.
I have a vested interest in the different ways formal schooling has been designed and accessed around the world. In 2004, fresh out of university, I went to work in Yemen, on the island of Socotra. I had visited the island in 1997 on a school trip from the capital, Sanaa, and it had left a deep impact on my learning. Socotra is an island of extreme botanical diversity and natural beauty, and one where traditional environmental management systems had maintained harmony between human needs and the balance of the ecosystems which sustained them. When I arrived, Socotra was going through its first real boom in development. An airport had been built, tourists were starting to arrive, and villagers and nomads were settling in towns and sending their children to schools. The schools that were being built were of two types: government schools that promised students a path towards a secure government or private sector job, or faith schools that promised parents and children a route towards a secure religious identity. Both types of schools removed children from the land, the forests, the streams and the beaches they used to roam, play on and learn from. Slowly, children who used to know the names of all the plants and their uses and who used to follow generations old customs to preserve the unique diversity of the island forgot the names of the plants, they forgot how to scramble up the mountains and dive for seashells, and they happily started driving their 4x4s, playing loud music and chucking litter out the windows. The new environmental management system for the island then had to be imported, with computers, international experts, degrees from western universities, and more 4x4s.
My experience watching this transformation in Socotra has remained with me. Since then, I’ve worked and visited schools in other parts of Yemen, in Jordan, in Morocco, in Chad, in India, in the UK and in refugee camps from Algeria to Palestine. Around the world, a similar story can be seen. A story where children’s connection to place and to community is being replaced by a connection to a very narrow idea of what success and happiness looks like. A vision of identity and status being linked to consumption, where learning “useful” knowledge is done in classrooms and not in the real world.
Children in schools today wear school uniforms, blazers, suits and ties. We teach them that in order to be successful they must sit behind a desk and use a computer. School children don’t wear dungarees as uniforms. Most don’t learn that they can be happy being woodworkers or growing food or fixing bikes. They by and large don’t get the chance to learn about deciduous forests by being in them, smelling them, feeling them and playing in them. They learn about deciduous forests by reading about them and answering exam questions about them. When we took a group of year 11 students from my school in London to the south coast, one of them looked at the English channel and asked “is that the river?” One in four of the children in my Modern Foreign Languages class had never seen the River Thames, despite living within a half hour’s walk from it. These children attend a school that sets very high expectations and cares incredibly about the wellbeing of its students. The same children would go on to achieve GCSE results which place them in the top 10% in the country. They are highly successful students.
Schools have discipline and authority. Some schools may have active student councils, but by no stretch of the imagination are our schools democratic structures. We tell our children that we live in a democracy but children know fully well that they have no power to change the status quo, or to challenge authority. I understood this very quickly teaching in London. The school rules stated that “I do as I’m asked the first time I’m asked”. There was no room for negotiation, it was for the greater good of maintaining discipline and not “disrupting learning”. The unwritten rules were even more disconcerting. I quickly learnt that as a teacher, if I were to witness a dispute between a teacher and a student, it was my job to back my colleagues regardless of the situation. It was for the greater good of maintaining discipline. Perhaps we need to look at these dynamics to understand why Britain is struggling to get its youth to vote in the European referendum.
We give lessons about sustainability, and some schools may even have recycling bins and green clubs, but the environmental footprint of schools from construction to transport, energy and water has a long way to go to meet sustainability parameters. Seeing the smoke billowing out of Banky’s tyre, one cannot but think of environmental damage, pollution and global warming. Does the tyre represent the environmental destruction that we as humans are creating? Does it represent the mindset that we instill in our children during their schooling where we are inherently taught to blindly plough forward, producing waste and consuming fossil fuels, because that is the path to growth?
In the international development agenda, the goal of ‘Education for All’ is inseparable from the development path of nations. Children have to learn their Maths and their English. They forget about traditional knowledge systems, local food sources, water resources, languages and community cohesion. The world is a competitive place and they must learn the skills to allow them to move to cities where they too will consume and fuel our endless growth and our endless piles of burning tyres. It is also clear that a lot of very well intentioned work is being done. For example, when I worked on education in refugee camps in Jordan, people were thinking about psychosocial care for children affected by trauma, on creating safe spaces and child friendly spaces for children and on equipping them with the skills they would need to move on after devastating conflict. All of this is important and invaluable work, but where are these learning models coming from? How do they connect to local identities, and what vision of a happy, successful and ecologically sound future do they aspire to?
Maybe Banksy was being kind by sending us a note along with his art. He gave us a red herring to tend to our sensibilities, in case we are not quite ready to face the art. But perhaps one can hope that, … [more]
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Don't Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet. - The New York Times
"In the past few weeks, anxious high school seniors across the country have received admissions decisions from colleges. Some might feel like they’ve won the lottery; others have dashed hopes and diminished confidence. Few in either category realize how little these outcomes matter in the long run; that, as Frank Bruni puts it, “where you go is not who you’ll be.”
Regardless of where the cards fall, a growing number of educational experts and thought leaders have some counterintuitive advice: don’t send your kids to college . . . at least not yet.
Our conveyor belt to college has striking costs. Nationally, one-third of college freshmen don’t return for a second year. Kids take about six years to complete a degree, and only 9 percent of students from low-income backgrounds will have a degree by the time they turn 24. Beyond this, stress among college students is alarmingly high and rising each year with the majority of students feeling consistently anxious, overwhelmed or hopeless. These concerning trends are playing out from community college to the Ivy League.
The outlook for those who graduate is not what it once was: students are saddled by unprecedented levels of debt and few leave campus with the skills employers value most. One recent study showed that while 96 percent of college administrators think their graduates are ready for the work force, just 11 percent of employers agree.
The current system is failing our kids, country and economy. How will we fix it? We need to get back to basics and ask: “What do today’s kids most need to learn, and how do we re-design the system around that?”
A growing number of colleges have begun to embrace a novel solution: change the outcomes of college by changing the inputs. What if college freshmen arrived on campus not burnt out from having been “excellent sheep” in high school, but instead refreshed, focused and prepared to take full advantage of the rich resources and opportunities colleges have to offer?
The “gap year,” a common practice across Europe and Australia, has yet to take root in the United States. A primary barrier is the stigma we associate with the term – it conveys privilege and frivolity and is often viewed either as a luxury for a select few, or remediation for kids who didn’t get into the college of their choice.
And yet, the research shows undeniable, positive impacts in terms of increased maturity, confidence and achievement. A recent Middlebury study showed that students who take a year off before arriving outperform their peers in their academic and extracurricular engagement on campus. And the American Gap Association reports that students who take a year before college are 75 percent more likely to be “happy” or “extremely satisfied” with their careers post-college.
Given its known benefits, it’s time to rebrand the “gap year” as anything but a “gap.” When used intentionally, the year before college can be a bridge, a launch pad and a new rite of passage. It’s the students who find the courage to step off the treadmill – replacing textbooks with experience and achievement with exploration – who are best prepared for life after high school. And a growing number of colleges are taking notice.
Bill Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s undergraduate admissions dean, wrote a manifesto about the need for students to take time off before college. Rick Shaw, Stanford’s undergraduate admissions dean, now speaks about the value of non-linear paths and the learning and growth that come from risk taking and failure, as opposed to perfect records. Princeton, Tufts and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently developed “bridge year” programs that encourage – and pay for – students to spend a year immersed in the world before arriving on campus.
Growing evidence also shows that a structured “bridge year” can be a game-changer for low-income students by helping them develop the growth mindset and grit associated with college persistence and completion. Reflecting this, scholarships for students who have historically not had these opportunities are growing as well. For example, at Global Citizen Year, the organization I founded and lead, our goal is to find the highest potential students we can, regardless of their family’s ability to pay. Since 2010 we have disbursed over $6 million in financial aid with 80 percent of each year’s class receiving need-based financial aid.
Admissions criteria are changing to give preference to students with real world experience. In January, Harvard and more than 80 other colleges released Turning the Tide, a blueprint for de-escalating the admissions arms race by focusing less on personal achievement and more on values, integrity and commitment to others. One proposed pathway is to give an admissions boost to students who take a service year before arrival.
As it becomes increasingly evident that our educational system is failing so many, it’s time to demand a stronger foundation for kids from all backgrounds.
Whether celebration or disappointment characterize admissions season for your family, one thing is clear: regardless of which school your child chooses, you would be wise not to send your kid to college . . . at least not yet."
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In Praise of the Field Trip - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
"I wondered--what is this field trip's ultimate purpose? How will the students apply what they have learned? What are their takeaways?
And--because these are the questions we hear most often in national policy discussion--was this content standards-based? Could it be delivered (and measured) more efficiently and effectively? Say, in a video or interactive computer game?
I'm going to go ahead and answer that question: No.
There is no replacement for the field trip. I know buses are expensive, ticket costs are soaring, and taking 30 ,60 or 100 kids on the road--even for a half day--is a monumental, fraught undertaking. But sometimes, you have to get out of Dodge, into the wider world.
Because leaving the desks and playground behind is much more than a treat, or a reward. It is--when done well--exactly what we should be doing with all children: making it possible for them to explore their world, sample new sights and sounds, interact in different ways. It's even common for children to experience local landmarks and institutions for the first time on a field trip.
A field trip is much more than just fitting new objects, buildings or facts into a mental framework, however. It's understanding that someone's mom or dad has volunteered to watch over you for a day, and must be listened to, and respected. It's the anticipation of a new experience. It's managing lunch, directional signs, backpack and a new restroom. It's being on your own in a roomful of precious objects, listening to an expert who isn't your teacher, and isn't on a screen.
Puff pieces on virtual field trips appear frequently in edu-media. These can be great supplementary instructional materials--pre-packaged, targeted to specific learning goals, a virtual glimpse of the Smithsonian for kids who live in rural Montana. But the non-virtual field trip--probably because it's not easy to set up and accomplish, and always subject to the unpredictable-- lingers in students' memory.
I remember clearly going to Deer Park, the "first grade trip" at Orchard View Elementary, and feeding deer from a flat-bottomed ice cream cone. There were brightly painted plywood cottages and a playground, and we ate our sack lunches at picnic tables. Awesome sauce. (This was the 1950s, mind you, when my family got two black-and-white channels on our new TV set.)
Here are some indelible things I learned on that trip: Deer can be friendly, but are not tame. Their most critical sense is smell, and they have a difficult time seeing the color red. Also: some of the room mothers who chaperoned the trip were smokers, lighting up their Pall Malls outside the fence at lunch, while other moms tut-tutted back at the picnic tables. (You might call that social-cue learning...)
Most of the enthusiasm for virtual field trips is prefaced by the assertion that a computer-based experience is cheap--or even free (with the obvious assumption, of course, that you have "free" devices for every child--and those devices all operate perfectly). In a time when students spend so much time being entertained, drilled and emotionally jolted in front of screens, why wouldn't you opt for a first-hand experience, even if the content was more pedestrian--the fire house, the local library or the apple orchard?
The Michigan Historical Center, in Lansing, offers a five-day immersive experience for local classrooms, bringing students to the museum every day for a week. Students are not led past exhibits (or sent on competitive "treasure hunts")--but instead sit down for discussion, sketching items, journal-writing and share-outs around essential questions about how Michigan was settled and shaped. Margaret Holtschlag, who developed the Big History Lesson program, in 1999, understood the value of letting questions bubble up, allowing students time to wonder what an unfamiliar farm implement might do--or what the impact of a wave of immigrants might mean to an industry or region.
So why don't more museums, zoos, galleries and science centers offer week-long, in-depth programs? It's not the money--money can be raised or donated. It's fear about the time away from tested skills and content. Think about that.
I looked around for the obvious teacher(s) at the MIM, thinking to approach and compliment them on their students' behavior and enthusiasm, and to congratulate them on whatever preparation had made the kids so responsive and excited about the musical wonders they were immersed in. But I couldn't tell which of the adults was Teacher. That, in itself, is success.
Go see the MIM, if you're in Phoenix. It's incredible. I hope you get lucky and go on a day when the place is delightfully full of schoolkids."
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Kurt Hahn - Wikipedia
"Six Declines of Modern Youth
1. Decline of Fitness due to modern methods of locomotion [moving about];
2. Decline of Initiative and Enterprise due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis;
3. Decline of Memory and Imagination due to the confused restlessness of modern life;
4. Decline of Skill and Care due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship;
5. Decline of Self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of stimulants and tranquilizers;
6. Decline of Compassion due to the unseemly haste with which modern life is conducted or as William Temple called "spiritual death".
Hahn not only pointed out the decline of modern youth, he also came up with four antidotes to fix the problem.
1. Fitness Training (e.g., to compete with one's self in physical fitness; in so doing, train the discipline and determination of the mind through the body)
2. Expeditions (e.g., via sea or land, to engage in long, challenging endurance tasks)
3. Projects (e.g., involving crafts and manual skills)
4. Rescue Service (e.g., surf lifesaving, fire fighting, first aid)
Ten Expeditionary Learning Principles
These 10 principles, which seek to describe a caring, adventurous school culture and approach to learning, were drawn[by whom?] from the ideas of Kurt Hahn and other education leaders[which?] for use in Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) schools.
1. The primacy of self-discovery
Learning happens best with emotion, challenge and the requisite support. People discover their abilities, values, passions, and responsibilities in situations that offer adventure and the unexpected. In Expeditionary Learning schools, students undertake tasks that require perseverance, fitness, craftsmanship, imagination, self-discipline, and significant achievement. A teacher’s primary task is to help students overcome their fears and discover they can do more than they think they can.
2. The having of wonderful ideas
Teaching in Expeditionary Learning schools fosters curiosity about the world by creating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to experiment, and time to make sense of what is observed.
4. The responsibility for learning
Learning is both a personal process of discovery and a social activity. Everyone learns both individually and as part of a group. Every aspect of an Expeditionary Learning school encourages both children and adults to become increasingly responsible for directing their own personal and collective learning.
4. Empathy and caring
Learning is fostered best in communities where students’ and teachers’ ideas are respected and where there is mutual trust. Learning groups are small in Expeditionary Learning schools, with a caring adult looking after the progress and acting as an advocate for each child. Older students mentor younger ones, and students feel physically and emotionally safe.
5. Success and failure
All students need to be successful if they are to build the confidence and capacity to take risks and meet increasingly difficult challenges. But it is also important for students to learn from their failures, to persevere when things are hard, and to learn to turn disabilities into opportunities.
6. Collaboration and competition
Individual development and group development are integrated so that the value of friendship, trust, and group action is clear. Students are encouraged to compete not against each other but with their own personal best and with rigorous standards of excellence.
7. Diversity and inclusion
Both diversity and inclusion increase the richness of ideas, creative power, problem-solving ability, respect for others. In Expeditionary Learning schools, students investigate value their different histories talents as well as those of other communities cultures. Schools learning groups heterogeneous.
8. The natural world
Direct respectful relationship with the natural world refreshes the human spirit teaches[clarification needed] the important ideas of recurring cycles and cause and effect. Students learn to become stewards of the earth and of future generations.
9. Solitude and reflection
Students and teachers need time alone to explore their own thoughts, make their own connections, and create their own ideas. They also need time to exchange their reflections with others.
10. Service and compassion
We are crew, not passengers. Students and teachers are strengthened by acts of consequential service to others, and one of an Expeditionary Learning school's primary functions is to prepare students with the attitudes and skills to learn from and be of service to others."
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Education Outrage: Now it is Facebook's turn to be stupid about AI
"What could Facebook be thinking here? We read stories to our children for many reasons. These are read because they have been around a long time, which is not a great reason. The reason to read frightening stories to children has never ben clear to me. The only value I saw in doing this sort of thing as a parent was to begin a discussion with the child about the story which might lead somewhere interesting. Now my particular children had been living in the real world at the time so they had some way to relate to the story because of their own fears, or because of experiences they might have had.
Facebook’s AI will be able to relate to these stories by matching words it has seen before. Oh good. It will not learn anything from the stories because it cannot learn anything from any story. Learning from stories means mapping your experiences (your own stories) to the new story and finding some commonalities and some differences. It also entails discussing those commonalties and differences with someone who is willing to have that conversation with you. In order to do that you have to be able to construct sentences on your own and be able to interpret your own experiences through conversations with your friends and family.
Facebook’s “AI” will not be doing this because it can’t. It has had no experiences. Apparently its experience is loading lots of text and counting patterns. Too bad there isn’t a children’s story about that.
Facebook hasn’t a clue about AI, but it will continue to spend money and accomplish nothing until AI is declared to have failed again,"
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Networked Learning as Experiential Learning | EDUCAUSE
"No one believes that knowing the alphabet and sounding out words mean that a person possesses the deep literacy needed for college-level learning. Yet our ideas about digital literacy are steadily becoming more impoverished, to the point that many of my current students, immersed in a "walled garden" world of apps and social media, know almost nothing about the web or the Internet. For the first time since the emergence of the web, this past year I discovered that the majority of my sophomore-level students did not understand the concept of a URL and thus struggled with the effective use and formation of hyperlinks in the networked writing class that VCU's University College affectionately calls "Thought Vectors in Concept Space"—a phrase attributed by Kay to Engelbart and one that describes the fundamentally experiential aspect of networked learning.5 My students appeared not to be able to parse the domains in which they published their work, which meant that they could not consistently imagine how to locate or link to each other's work by simply examining the structure of the URLs involved. If one cannot understand the organizing principles of a built environment, one cannot contribute to the building. And if one cannot contribute to the building, certain vital modes of knowing will be forever out of reach.
Yet educators seeking to provide what Carl Rogers called the "freedom to learn" continue to work on those digital high-impact practices.6 It is a paradoxical task, to be sure, but it is one worth attempting—particularly now, when "for the first time in the still-short span of human history, the experience of creating media for a potentially large public is available to a multitude."7 Students' experience of what Henry Jenkins has articulated as the networked mediation of "participatory culture" must extend their experience to school as well.8 School as a site of the high-impact practice of learner-built, instructor-facilitated, digitally networked learning can transform the experience of education even as it preserves, and scales, our commitment to the education of the whole person.
The web was designed for just this kind of collaboration. One does not need permission to make a hyperlink. Yet one does need "the confident insight, the authority of media-making" to create meaning out of those links. Such confidence and authority should be among the highest learning outcomes available to our students within what Mimi Ito and others have described as "connected learning."9 Learner-initiated connections that identify both the nodes and the lines between them, instead of merely connecting the dots that teachers have already established (valuable as that might be), co-create what Lawrence Stenhouse argues is "the nature of knowledge . . . as distinct from information"—"a structure to sustain creative thought and provide frameworks for judgment." Such structures can encourage an enormously beneficial flowering of human diversity, one that lies beyond the reach of prefabricated outcomes: "Education as induction into knowledge is successful to the extent that it makes the behavioural outcomes of the students unpredictable."10
Offering students the possibility of experiential learning in personal, interactive, networked computing—in all its gloriously messy varieties—provides the richest opportunity yet for integrative thinking within and beyond "schooling." If higher education can embrace the complexity of networked learning and can value the condition of emergence that networked learning empowers, there may still be time to encourage networked learning as a structure and a disposition, a design and a habit of being."
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An Xiao Mina at Biased Data - An Xiao Mina - Open Transcripts
"Just to close, as we think about the role of language on the Internet, it really biases our experience, and there are a lot of risks and challenges there, especially as people from the Global South are coming online. The ability for them to access content and for them to contribute to important conversations online will be severely limited. It’ll look more like this, and I think some of the most important work we can do in tech is to bring it out into languages that they can understand."
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*: how to write literary criticism
In the summer of 1926, Marina Tsvetaeva corresponded with Rainer Maria Rilke. In December 1926, Rilke died. In 1929, Tsvetaeva wrote: "I don't feel like writing an article about Rilke." She wrote:
An article about Rilke is all the more useless because he didn't write articles about others, and didn't read ones about himself . . . To reveal essence is impossible, approaching from the outside. Essence is only revealed by essence, from within--inward--not investigation, but absorption. Mutual absorption. Allow the thing to absorb you and--thereby--absorb it. As one river flows into another. The point where the waters merge--but it isn't ever a point because--the meeting of the waters--is a meeting without parting, for the Rhine--takes the Main into itself, as the Main does the Rhine. And only the Main knows the truth of the Rhine (its own truth, Mainian, just as the Moselle--knows the Mosellian; the whole truth of the Rhine--of Rilke--is not given to us to know). Like a hand in a hand, yes, but even more: like a river in a river.
Absorbing, I am absorbed.
In 1952, C.L.R. James was interned on Ellis Island as an illegal immigrant and political subversive. There he wrote a study of the American classic Moby-Dick. In the final chapter of the book, he shifts from a discussion of Melville to an account of his detention on the island, describing his illness there, the treatment of the prisoners, and the structures by which both prisoners and security officers were entrapped, much like the men aboard the Pequod. He included his record of prison life in the study on Melville because, he wrote, "the book as written is part of my experience. It is also a claim before the American people, the best claim I can put forward, that my desire to be a citizen is not a selfish nor a frivolous one."
James sent a copy of the manuscript to every member of Congress, asking for $1 in return to put toward his legal costs. His efforts to gain citizenship failed; he was deported in 1953.
"I believe my total experience should be told," he wrote."
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Williams Gibson: On Technophobia and the Power of Film | Literary Hub
"In part one [http://lithub.com/william-gibson-on-phones-fiction-and-the-end-of-the-world/ + https://soundcloud.com/lithub/william-gibson-part-one/s-0Jwns ] of Paul Holdengraber’s phone call with William Gibson, topics included dystopias, the universal screenwriter, and the disruption of the telephone. In part two,
[https://soundcloud.com/lithub/william-gibson-part-two/s-my54E ]
William Gibson on the availability of culture…
If you had never heard recorded music and you didn’t have it as a category of experience—if it simply never existed for you—I think that your concept of what music is would be fantastically different. Something that’s happened, a change that’s occurred over the course of my own life that I think somewhat puts this vague claim I’m making into perspective, is the way in which seeing a film used to be something that was so dependent on so many factors that it made it largely unrepeatable. You could see the film on its theatrical release, but unless you lived in, say, New York, there were no repertory cinemas. So people saw a film once and then lived with it in memory, there was no television, there were no videotapes of films. Film existed primarily in memory, and the experience of actually seeing it was very intense.
William Gibson on Chris Marker…
I first saw Chris Marker’s La Jetée in a film history course when I was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia. I had been vaguely aware of it earlier because it is, you know, technically a science fiction film even though it’s a short avant-garde French film. I had had in my life no opportunity to see any avant-garde French film, so I had no idea what to expect. I wasn’t really expecting very much. It had this extraordinarily profound effect on me, and it’s very, very brief. I actually left the lecture hall feeling uneasily that I had somehow—that something had happened, that I’d experienced some sort of transformation, and I didn’t know what it was.
William Gibson on technophobia…
I’m dubious about ranking… I’m not sure about ranking. I’ve long suspected that what our descendants will find quaintest about us it that we made distinctions of that sort. That they’ll be looking back and they’ll be going, So strange they didn’t think Facebook was “real.” There’s a wonderful, weird book, the title of which I will probably be unable to remember, but it’s a collection of first-person accounts of Victorians encountering new technologies. It’s taken from diaries and letters—it’s not famous people, just ordinary people. The one that always struck me was an Anglican clergyman who went to a garden party, heard an Edison phonograph talking, and went home and wrote this completely terrifying description of this demonic, satanic, mechanical voice speaking to the children in the garden, and how this probably presaged the end of the world. He was just writing for himself, so he wasn’t exaggerating, and I thought, Oh, wow. He had this absolutely intense experience, but I don’t think I could say that what it caused him to fear came to pass."
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First Days Project
"Sharing stories of immigrants' first days in the United States."
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Ashley Nelson-Hornstein - Layers 2015 on Vimeo
"Ashley talks about what it means to work at the intersection of technology and liberal arts."
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- Wonderful passage on NYC #centralpark designer,...
"Wonderful passage on NYC #centralpark designer, Frederick Law Olmsted’s views on nature in #rebeccasolnit’s book, #savagedreams. Olmsted viewed nature as part of society, whereas #henrydavidthoreau saw nature as a refuge from society. This very split epitomizes how the West conceives of what is “natural.” Solnit argues that people like Thoreau and Muir fetishized a form of nature that was pure and that it was waiting there to be discovered by the white man, which allowed them to believe their own narrative that they were the “first”. Olmsted conceives access to nature as a universal right and that it is not a first come first serve situation. I’ve been thinking about what is considered natural after watching #themartian when Matt Damon proudly says that he is the first to “colonize” Mars. What enabled the writers to use that word without any sense of the historical savagery associated with it? NASA is at once a symbol of scientific advancement and also a symbol of a Thoreau-esque view of nature - apart from us, to be discovered, and conquered. Whereas previous colonizers had to deal with human residents in Africa, North America, South America, Caribbeans, space colonizers don’t have to deal any life, making this the most ideal colonial experience.
#triciainreading thanks @hautepop for your pic that spurred me to pull out solnit’s book again!"
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Living In The Novelty: Avoiding Cliché | : the readiness is all
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Why Situated Learning Matters — Medium
"Situated learning as an instruction model is based on observations made by anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. It argues that learning happens best where the knowledge is applied, whether in a specific social setting or a physical place. When learning is situated, it is an experience of a particular sort — one that is open for critical thought but guided by the practices of those who use the knowledge that is being learned in their everyday lives.
Even before Situated Learning was named and described by Lave and Wenger, John Dewey (not the Dewey Decimal System guy), recognized that experience is at the core of learning. He wrote a book called Experience and Education, which criticized the method that teaches something like mathematics independent of how it is used in the world around us. He argued that learning ideas from books and tests gives the appearance that knowledge is static and everything has already been discovered. It gives the impression that learning and discovery involves doing what one is told. While we want learners to understand and learn from the past, too often educational settings stop short of allowing learners to hypothesize and test ideas, and to learn from experiences that both succeed and fail.
Whether a learner is in a classroom, at home, or in the wild, his or her learning experiences are always in a context. The challenge educators face is how to design that context so that it supports the lessons being learned. They also need to be enjoyable and connected with the language and practices people actually use in the real world."
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Learn By Painting - The New Yorker
"What made Black Mountain different from other colleges was that the center of the curriculum was art-making. Students studied pretty much whatever they wanted, but everyone was supposed to take a class in some kind of artistic practice—painting, weaving, sculpture, pottery, poetry, architecture, design, dance, music, photography. The goal was not to produce painters, poets, and architects. It was to produce citizens.
Black Mountain was founded by a renegade classics professor named John Andrew Rice, who had been kicked out of Rollins College, in Florida. Rice believed that making something is a different learning experience from remembering something. A lot of education is reception. You listen to an expert explain a subject to you, and then you repeat back what you heard to show that you learned it. Teachers push students to engage actively with the material, but it’s easy to be passive, to absorb the information and check off the box.
Rice thought that this made for bad social habits. Democracy is about making choices, and people need to take ownership of their choices. We don’t want to vote the way someone else tells us to. We want to vote based on beliefs we have chosen for ourselves. Making art is making choices. Art-making is practice democracy.
Rice did not think of art-making as therapy or self-expression. He thought of it as mental training. As anyone who has tried to write a poem knows, the discipline in art-making is exercised from within rather than without. You quickly realize that it’s your own laziness, ignorance, and sloppiness, not somebody else’s bad advice, that are getting in your way. No one can write your poem for you. You have to figure out a way to write it yourself. You have to make a something where there was a nothing.
A lot of Rice’s ideas came from the educational philosophy of John Dewey (although the idea that true learning has to come from within goes back to Plato), and Rice was lucky to find an art teacher who had read Dewey and who thought the same way. This was Josef Albers. Albers had not been so lucky. He was an original member of the Bauhaus school, but when Hitler came to power, in 1933, the Bauhaus closed down rather than accept Nazi professors. Albers’s wife, Anni, was from a prominent Jewish family, and they were understandably anxious to get out of Germany. Rice heard about them from the architect Philip Johnson, and he sent a telegram to Albers inviting him and his wife to come teach at Black Mountain. The reply read: “I speak not one word English.” (Albers had read his Dewey in translation.) Rice told him to come anyway. Albers eventually did learn English, and he and Anni, an accomplished and creative weaver, established the mode of art instruction at Black Mountain. Everything would be hands-on, collaborative, materials-based, and experimental.
Bauhaus was all about abolishing distinctions between craft, or design, and fine art, and Black Mountain was one of the places where this aesthetic entered the world of American art. (Another was the Carnegie Institute of Technology, in Pittsburgh, where Andy Warhol went to college.) Albers’s most famous (although probably not his favorite) student at Black Mountain was Robert Rauschenberg, and Rauschenberg is the presiding spirit at the I.C.A. exhibition. Although goofier than most Black Mountain art—there is an earnestness about a lot of the work; this was schoolwork, after all—putting an automobile tire around a stuffed goat is the essence of Black Mountain practice.
Black Mountain College was a holistic learning environment. Teachers and students worked together; people who came to teach (and who stayed—not everyone found the work conditions to their liking) sat in on one another’s classes and ended up learning as much as the students. When a new building needed to be constructed, students and teachers built it themselves, just as, at the old Dewey School, at the University of Chicago, the children grew their own food and cooked their own meals.
It seems as though half the midcentury American avant-garde came through Black Mountain in one capacity or the other. The I.C.A. exhibition includes works by (besides Rauschenberg and the Alberses) Ruth Asawa, John Cage, John Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Robert Duncan, Buckminster Fuller, Shoji Hamada, Lou Harrison, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Charles Olson, Ben Shahn, David Tudor, and Cy Twombly. Black Mountain produced art of almost every kind.
Did it also produce good citizens? That’s an educational outcome everyone embraces but that’s hard to measure. In the case of Black Mountain, the sample size is miniscule, and most students left before graduating. There is also the self-selection issue. People who choose to attend progressive colleges are already progressive-minded, just as people who want a liberal education are usually already liberal (meaning interested in knowledge for its own sake), and people who prefer vocational or pre-professional education are already headed down those roads. College choice tends to confirm prior effects of socialization. But why keep those things separate? Knowing and doing are two sides of the same activity, which is adapting to our environment. That was Dewey’s point.
People who teach in the traditional liberal-arts fields today are sometimes aghast at the avidity with which undergraduates flock to courses in tech fields, like computer science. Maybe those students see dollar signs in coding. Why shouldn’t they? Right now, tech is where value is being created, as they say. But maybe students are also excited to take courses in which knowing and making are part of the same learning process. Those tech courses are hands-on, collaborative, materials-based (well, virtual materials), and experimental—a digital Black Mountain curriculum. The other liberal-arts fields might take notice. Arts practice should be part of everyone’s education, not just in preschool."
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"“Fake humans generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them into forgeries of themselves.” (Dick, 1978)
“…the reign of things over life….exiles from immediacy” (Zerzan, 2008b:39, 40)
Verbs become nouns[1], nouns acquire monetary equivalents (Bookchin, 1974:50) and being is exchanged for having (Vaneigem, 1967:chpt8). We no longer ‘garden’ or ‘play’ or ‘cycle’ (or even ‘know’ (Steigler, 2010; Zerzan, 2008b:41). The world is arranged so that we need not experience it (Zerzan, 2008b:40) so that we consume the image of living (Zerzan, 2003). Places exist only through the words that evoke them; their mere mention sufficient to give pleasure to those who will never experience them (Auge, 1995:95). The city of the fully industrialized they[2] ‘have’ (call their own) gardens and green space and cycling tracks; private toys, asphalt playgrounds and indoor play centers on the roofs of department stores at 1000 yen an hour per child plus extra for ‘food’ and parking[3]. All which are made ‘for’ them and ‘paid for’ with taxes by polluting corpo-governmental free enterprise. This vocabulary weaves the tissue of habits, educates the gaze and informs the landscape (Auge, 1995:108) while diminishing richness and working against perception (Zerzan, 2008b:45).
Now, space is stated in terms of a commodity[4] and claims are made in terms of competition for scarce resources (see Illich, 1973:56). The actor becomes the consumer, who gambles for perceived nouns[5]. This is a problem, because experience is not simply passive nouns but implies the ability to learn from what one has undergone (Tuan, 1977:9) – the (biological) individuality of organismic space seems to lie in a certain continuity of process[6] and in the memory by the organism of the effects of its past development. This appears to hold also of its mental development (Wiener, 1954:96, 101-2, see also Buckminster-Fuller, 1970) in terms of use, flexibility, understanding, adaptation and give.
“[The] city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about [..] mental structure.” (Ai Wei Wei (2011)
Primary retention is formed in the passage of time, and constituted in its own passing. Becoming past, this retention is constituted in a secondary retention of memorial contents [souvenirs] which together form the woven threads of our memory [mémoire]. Tertiary retention is the mnemotechnical exteriorization of secondary retentions. Tertiary retentions constitute an intergenerational support of memory which, as material culture, precedes primary and secondary retentions. Flows, Grammes. This layer increases in complexity and density over the course of human history leading to increasingly analytical (discretized) recordings of the flows of primary and secondary retentions (e.g. writing, numeration). Use (movement, gesture, speech, etc, the flows of the sensory organs) is a flow; a continuous chain, and learning consists of producing secondary use retentions but discretization leads to automation – analytically reproducible use as tertiary retention resulting in retentional grains (grammes) – functionalization, and abstraction from a continuum (from ‘Primary retention’ Stiegler, 2010: 8-11, 19, 31). Memories of memories, generic memories[7]. Result: Ever more complete control over individuals and groups who are made to feel that they do not adequately understand themselves – that they are inadequate interpreters of their own experience of life and environment[8].
The exteriorization of memory is a loss of memory and knowledge (Stiegler, 2010:29) – a loss of the ability to dig deep[9] and venture forth into the unfamiliar, and to experiment with the elusive and the uncertain (Tuan, 1977:9). Nothing is left but language, and a persistent yearning arising from one’s absence from the real world; Reductive. Inarticulate. (Zerzan, 2008b:44-5)."
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Letters with John Sharp: Inter-generational conflict in games | Mattie Brice
"A while back, I went on an artist’s tour of the Pennsylvania Hotel as part of Elastic City’s annual festival. An artist had spent months visiting the hotel, walking its halls, learning the habits of the hotel’s staff and guests, and generally coming to really know the place. She then constructed a tour she took a group of a dozen of us on one evening. We explored empty ballrooms, corridors, listened to the silence of the halls, visited rooms, and generally came to have a really expressive understanding of a fairly mundane space. It was one of the more enriching art experiences I’ve had in some time.
As we walked through the hotel, I couldn’t help but think about videogames. What would it be like to make a game that provided a similar experience? I was struck by the emptiness of videogame spaces, and how that always just seems like how it should be. But when in similarly empty spaces in real life, they took on so much more meaning and important, and had so much more powerful impact on me than any 3D game ever has. One of the rooms we visited was an abandoned efficiency apartment that appeared to have been hastily abandoned, with most of the furniture removed. Random things remained, though—a small passport sized picture of a man, a calendar, newspapers, a lamp, paper clips. It immediately made me think of “object oriented storytelling,” and how hollow that feels when compared to a real space with real things, presumably left behind by someone.
All of which made me kind of sad about games, that they aren’t able to connect with me in the same way an artist’s tour of a hotel can."
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Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive: Phuc Tran at TEDxDirigo - YouTube
"Phuc Tran is in his second decade as a Classicist and Tattooer. He has taught Latin, Greek, German, and Sanskrit at independent schools in New York and Maine and was an instructor at Brooklyn College's Summer Latin Institute. In 2010, he served on a committee to revise the National Latin Praxis exam for ETS. Phuc currently teaches at Waynflete School in Portland."
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These 10 principles, which seek to describe a caring, adventurous school culture and approach to learning, were drawn[by whom?] from the ideas of Kurt Hahn and other education leaders[which?] for use in Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) schools.[citation needed]
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A US$35 million housing project next to Phnom Penh International Airport will be completed by early 2011 and is nearly full, despite the economic downturn, a Canadia Bank official said Wednesday. Construction of Airway Complex City, financed by the bank, began in early 2009 and sits on 6.5 hectares of land in Dangkor District’s Chom Chao Commune, said Sok Sambath, a project manager at Canadia Bank. The complex includes 192 flats, 65 three-story connected houses and 32 luxury villas directly across the road from the airport. “We have already sold about 90 percent, and most of my clients are Cambodian businesspersons,” said Sok Sambath, who is in charge of commercial housing and construction. Prices range from $90,000 for the least expensive flats to $300,000 for the most pricey villas, and the bank has established payment schedules between seven and 10 years.
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Japan To Grant Over US$31 million to Cambodia
Phnom Penh, March 16, 2010 AKP
The Japanese Government will provide up to the amount of ¥2,859,000,000, approximately US$31,800,000, in grant for the implementation of four development projects in Cambodia.
The Exchange of Notes on the extension of the grant aid will be signed here on Mar. 18 by Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Hor Namhong, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. Masafumi Kuroki, said a press release of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Monday.
According to the press release, of the total amount, ¥239 million will be used for the Construction of Neak Loeung Bridge (detailed design), ¥720 million for the Introduction of Clean Energy by Solar Electricity Generation System, ¥1,000 million for the Improvement of Capabilities to Cope with Natural Disasters Caused by Climate Change, and the rest (¥900 million) for the Forest Preservation Programme.
Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia will preside over the signing ceremony, it added.
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Owner says $40m mall will open before 2011
A NEW six-storey US$40 million shopping centre will open in Phnom Penh before 2011, the owner of the development said Monday.
“We have completed 70 percent of the whole project and will open our doors to customers at the end of this year,” said Ear Kim Keng, managing director of Happiness City, where the 100,000-square-metre Young’s Commercial Shopping Centre is being built on reclaimed swamp land, about 100 metres on the eastern side of the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge.
“We have attracted 52 percent of the clients we need to rent our space so far,” said Ear Kim Keng.
He added that negotiations are ongoing with KFC, Pizza Company, Cambodian Public Bank, Canadia Bank and City Mart – which he said is interested in a 1,000-square-metre space.
Rental prices at the centre are set at around $300 per month for a 3-metre-by-4-metre shop space. If a client rents a store for 10 years, he can stay for 100 years without charge, thanks to a new promotion.
The capital already has a large number of one-stop shopping centres. The first major mall, Sorya Shopping Centre, opened for business in 2002. It was followed by Pencil Mall, Sydney Mall, Paragon Cambodia, Sovanna and City Mall.
The managers of Young’s potential competitors are not concerned by the new threat.
“We are not worried because we have a good location, good car parking, and we will run promotions such as music concerts and lucky draws every month,” said Chheang Meng, manager of Bayon Shopping Centre in Phnom Penh.
Lam Sopheap, general manager of Sorya, said: “Our shopping mall is still number one because we always update our place to be fresh and fun for customers.”
Taiwanese shoemaker builds new factory
Chun Sophal
TAIWANESE footwear producer Bao Cheng International Group (BCIG) is set to open a factory in Cambodia this year, according to a report released by the Cambodia-Taiwan Trade Association.
YH Chiang, chairman of the association, said Monday that BCIG is constructing a large footwear factory on 40,000 square metres of land beside National Road 4 in Phnom Penh.
It is planning to produce Adidas footwear for international export, he added.
“We hope that the company’s investment will help develop Cambodia’s economy,” he said.
According to the association, construction of the factory started last month. It is set to employ around 10,000 Cambodian workers.
BCIG currently has footwear factories in three countries, including China, Indonesia and Vietnam. It exports millions of pairs of shoes every year.
On Monday, Chiang did not disclose the amount of capital the company would invest in the scheme, nor the number of shoes the company would produce in Cambodia. He said the figures were the company’s private business.
Yun Heng, director of the Department of Evaluation and Incentives at the Council for the Development of Cambodia, said Monday that the investment project had been approved in early January 2010.
He told a reporter that he did not remember the value of the investment and, as he was travelling from Ratanakiri province to Phnom Penh, could not find out.
“We have already approved the investment project of this company because it responds to the government’s policy in striving to create more job opportunities for Cambodian people,” he said.
According to the Cambodia-Taiwan Trade Association, 300 Taiwanese companies are investing in Cambodia at present, mostly in the garment sector and in footwear production.
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SKorean firm plans $300m project
SOUTH Korean developer Hi-Sun Group is set to invest US$300 million on a commercial and residential development in the capital’s northern Russey Keo district, said a company representative.
Joseph Lim, personal secretary to Chairman Kim Byung-hak, said the firm would start building offices buildings and residences, including luxury villas, on the 2.5-hectare site by the end of the year.
“We are planning to start construction on our project this year, but we are not being specific on the schedule for completion, as we don’t yet know,” he said, adding that Hi-Sun was specifically targeting South Korean companies to invest in the development.
South Korea’s Technology Innovation Construction Co Ltd (TIC) would be partnering on the project, Lim added, which will include buildings 25 storeys high.
The start date for the project appeared to be some way off, however, as an official of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction said it had not yet received any request to build on the site.
“This is a big investment for the construction sector, if it is really going to be built,” said Lao Tip Seiha, director of the department, adding that the firm would receive governmental backing were it to apply for the necessary paperwork.
Hi-Sun has partnered with TIC on a number of Phnom Penh construction projects. In September, TIC Sales and Marketing Manager Charles Villar told the Post the two South Korean firms were working together on five projects in the Cambodian capital – two on the outskirts and three within the confines of the city.
The group has already completed a luxury residential development, De Castle Diamond, in Toul Kork district, the largest condominium project in Phnom Penh at 178 units within an 18-storey building on 2,500 square metres of land.
Another project, the $11 million L’Artisan Takhmao Villa Development, features 40 luxury villas on the outskirts of the capital in Kandal province. Construction work began following a groundbreaking ceremony at the site in Toul Krasang Village on June 26.
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Volcano High/Hwasan Go (2002 South Korea 99 mins)
Source: Madman Entertainment Prod Co: SBS/Shin Seung-soo Productions/Sidus Pictures/Terasource Venture Capital Co. Ltd Prod: Cha Seung-chae, Kim Jae-weon Dir: Kim Tae-gyun Scr: Heo Gyun, Jung Ahn-choel, Park Heon-su Phot: Choi Yeong-taek Ed: Go Im-pyo Art Dir: Jang Keun-yeong, Kim Kyeong-hie
Cast: Jang Hyuk, Shin Min-ah, Kim Su-ro, Kwon Sang-woo, Kong Hyo-jin, Jeong Sang-hun
A teacher blasts an innocuous piece of chalk towards a student’s head – he turns the chalk midstream and sends it hurtling back toward the teacher.
Thus opens Volcano High, a Korean Harry Potter for manga nerds and computer game freaks, set within a carefully fenced-off and vaguely futuristic microcosm inside the crumbling buildings of a South Korean high school. Now 17 years into an ageless struggle between order and chaos known as the “Great Teachers Battle”, Volcano High is split into warring feudal camps of students and administrators – the dark forces of Jang Ryang (Kim Su-ro), leader of the Weightlifting team and known as Dark Ox of the Ox Clan, and Yoo Chae Yi or “Icy Jade” (Shin Min-ah), the Princess Leia of the school and head of the all-girl Kendo group. They all seek the lost Secret Manuscript, the holder of “truth” and the end of all chaos, which only the strongest student may possess. Jang Ryang poisons the Dean, leaving the true keeper of the manuscript in a trance, and tries to snare the reluctant hand of the ice maiden Yoo Chae Yi as his Queen; the corrupt Vice Dean, also in cahoots with Jang Ryang, imprisons the manuscript’s secret master, librarian Song Hak-kim (Kwon Sang-woo) and calls in a group of brutal disciplinarians known as the School Five to wage further chaos.
Into the schoolyard battle comes the Chosen One; the bleach-blonde Kim Kyung-Soo (Jang Hyuk), expelled from eight schools for reluctantly using his burdensome super powers, including the chalk incident featured at the start. Both Icy Jade and Song Hak-kim believe Kim Kyung-soo will lead the Forces of Light to victory and encourage him to connect with his extraordinary abilities. Song Hak-kim tries Morpheus’ (played by Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix) trick by taking Kim out of the Matrix and into his mind to help prod him along. Later, a thawing Jade stumbles on a naked Kim in the locker room shower as he begins to harness his power over the streams of water, in an incredible special-effects set piece. This ultimately leads to the film’s final, 30-minute wire-driven showdown between Kim, Jang Ryang and the School Five – trust me, you’ll need patience forged from steel and the Extra Large popcorn for this one.
The South Korean film industry has truly come into its own over the last six or seven years. No longer the poor cousin living in the shadow of the titanic Japanese and Hong Kong film factories, its films are becoming world-class with decent distribution and vocal praise from audiences and critics alike. With Volcano High, brash film pup director Kim Tae-Gyun attempts to out-do all Korean films before his, catering to a young, “hip”, internationalist, Hollywood-centric audience. He claims to have created a unique spin on martial arts fantasy films by throwing every comic book cliché into the mix; the result is a kind of post-modernist masala, a now-familiar concoction from many generations of East/West genre cross-pollination. Westerns and Samurai epics, Hong Kong wire fantasies and Japanese animation, not to mention computer games, John Woo actioners, and the Hong Kong-influenced Hollywood effects films (Dark City, 1998, and X-Men, 2000, to name a few), teen comedies and juvenile delinquent films – they’re all present and accounted for. It can be argued that too much of a good thing is bad for you, and restraint is hardly Kim Tae-Gyun’s byword. The “less is more” approach would have made a much less cluttered film. The filmmakers are just a little too keen to show you their bag of tricks.
From a technical point of view, Volcano High is an impressive achievement for a small, post-natal film culture. The film’s painstakingly composed shots took a staggering 11 months to complete, all carefully corrected into the genre’s regulation colour scheme of greys and dull blues, with the occasional splash of colour from Kim’s shock of blonde spiky hair and Jang Ryang’s red mane. The comic book feel is amped-up by enthusiastic overuse of split-screen, exaggerated angles, and fairly standard wire work, not to mention the predictably two-dimensional characters. But remember, kids, high drama is not Volcano High‘s concern. It’s a live action anime, a purely technical exercise in genre-splicing and effects-mongering; a Korean Matrix with a bleach-blonde Keanu Reeves. It’s also quite amusing, if you dig the oddball, grimacing Korean sense of humour.
The Matrix connections are signposted in huge neon arrows – in case you failed to notice – but the similarities run much deeper. The heretical Gnosticism, a shadowy parallel religion to Catholicism and Protestantism with a strong element of Eastern mysticism, and the founding belief of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar, is often trotted out in the fantasy and science-fiction genres for an alternate spiritual basis. The “order out of chaos” mythology and the Mergovinian Neo character is utilised in the Gnostic underpinnings of The Matrix series, and Volcano High mixes it with more localised mysticism: the dragon iconography, the yin-yang duality of the cardboard characters and their mastery over the earthly elements (fire, water, air). There are Teutonic overtones to the warring clans, and one character makes a deliberate reference to King Arthur – in fact, in its imagery, the Secret Manuscript is deeply reminiscent of the Holy Grail. There’s a vivid moment amidst the wreckage of the school stadium’s girders during the showdown between Kim and the head of the School Five, Mr. Ma, where both figures rise into the air Christ-like with arms outstretched, for the final confrontation between good and evil. If The Matrix series is seen by many as a Gnostic reworking of The Bible, then Volcano High should provide a field day for religious conspiracists still reeling over the one-eyed messiah from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004).
I suspect, however, that Volcano High was never meant to be read as such. It’s visual popcorn, pure and simple. At 99 minutes, the film thuds along at a relentless pace, accompanied by a pounding Korean electro-metal score, and you’re not expected to catch your breath as you move from one action set-piece to the next. Tiring? Absolutely. Enjoyable? Ultimately, yes, if you forgive Kim Tae-Gyun’s endless array of dog tricks designed to impress. Just pat him on the head, and hope he has a muzzle on his next one.
Welcome to Issue 35 of our journal!
Being Michael Brynntrup
Andrew Leavold owns and manages Trash Video, the largest cult video rental store in Australia. As well as collecting obscure, forgotten, and unreleased films, he also curates the "Eat My Schlock" Bad Taste Short Film Festival, fronts a cowpunk caberet combo, co-runs the Turkeyneck Records label, churns out lurid posters and record covers for bands around the country, and is a filmmaker.
La Peau douce
Dan Harper
Hollywood, Germany: The Longing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss
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BMW is building 3-cylinder engines
But don't panic: they pack a punch.
By Chuck Tannert
That's right – BMW announced at the 2013 New York Auto Show that the company is building a new line of three-cylinder engines.
According to BMW Powertrain Engineer Heidelinde Holzer, the company's yet-to-be-released i8 plug-in hybrid
will be the first production vehicle equipped with the 1.5-liter turbocharged engine. Scheduled to arrive to the U.S. during the first half of 2014, the
engine will be able to drive the car alone and in tandem with battery power.
During a sit down at the New York Javits Center, Holzer told us that the new 1.5-liter 3-cylinger engine would be the first member of the new BMW
EfficientDynamics engine family. The engines will boast between 120 and 220 hp and between 133 and 177 lb-ft of torque when fed gasoline. The diesel
variants will feature between 80 and 180 hp, and 165 and 243 lb-ft of torque.
A group of reporters had a chance to drive a European-spec 1 Series with a prototype of the mill shoe-horned under the hood prior to the show at the BMW's
U.S. headquarters in New Jersey. The prototype uses TwinPower Turbo technology, which combines valve variability, direct injection, and turbocharging to
reduce fuel consumption.
Although, BMW didn't reveal fuel-efficiency numbers, it's believed that fuel economy could improve by as much as 15%, and emissions could drop by as much
as 15%.
Holzer suggested that the three-banger will eventually find its way into cars as a standalone engine (read: not as a hybrid), in European models and then
at some point into U.S. models.
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Tag: eLife
White label: the growth of bioRxiv
bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology, recently turned 2 years old. This seems a good point to take a look at how bioRxiv has developed over this time and to discuss any concerns sceptical people may have about using the service.
Firstly, thanks to Richard Sever (@cshperspectives) for posting the data below. The first plot shows the number of new preprints deposited and the number that were revised, per month since bioRxiv opened in Nov 2013. There are now about 200 preprints being deposited per month and this number will continue to increase. The cumulative article count (of new preprints) shows that, as of the end of last month, there are >2500 preprints deposited at bioRxiv.
What is take up like across biology? To look at this, the number of articles in different subject categories can be totted up. Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics/Genetics are the front-running disciplines. Obviously counting articles should be corrected for the size of these fields, but it’s clear that some large disciplines have not adopted preprinting in the same way. Cell biology, my own field, has some catching up to do. It’s likely that this reflects cultures within different fields. For example, genomics has a rich history of data deposition, sharing and openness. Other fields, less so…
So what are we waiting for?
I’d recommend that people wondering about preprinting go and read Stephen Curry’s post “just do it“. Any people who remain sceptical should keep reading…
Do I really want to deposit my best work on bioRxiv?
I’ve picked six preprints that were deposited in 2015. This selection demonstrates how important work is appearing first at bioRxiv and is being downloaded thousands of times before the papers appear in the pages of scientific journals.
Accelerating scientific publishing in biology. A preprint about preprinting from Ron Vale, subsequently published in PNAS.
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. A preprint summarising a huge effort from ExAC Exome Aggregation Consortium. 12,366 views, 4,534 downloads.
TP53 copy number expansion correlates with the evolution of increased body size and an enhanced DNA damage response in elephants. This preprint was all over the news, e.g. Science.
Sampling the conformational space of the catalytic subunit of human γ-secretase. CryoEM is the hottest technique in biology right now. Sjors Scheres’ group have been at the forefront of this revolution. This paper is now out in eLife.
The genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini. The recent controversy over horizontal gene transfer in Tardigrades was rapidfire thanks to preprinting.
CRISPR with independent transgenes is a safe and robust alternative to autonomous gene drives in basic research. This preprint concerning biosafety of CRISPR/Cas technology could be accessed immediately thanks to preprinting.
But many journals consider preprints to be previous publications!
Wrong. It is true that some journals have yet to change their policy, but the majority – including Nature, Cell and Science – are happy to consider manuscripts that have been preprinted. There are many examples of biology preprints that went on to be published in Nature (ancient genomes) and Science (hotspots in birds). If you are worried about whether the journal you want to submit your work to will allow preprinting, check this page first or the SHERPA/RoMEO resource. The journal “information to authors” page should have a statement about this, but you can always ask the Editor.
I’m going to get scooped
Preprints establish priority. It isn’t possible to be scooped if you deposit a preprint that is time-stamped showing that you were the first. The alternative is to send it to a journal where no record will exist that you submitted it if the paper is rejected, or sometimes even if they end up publishing it (see discussion here). Personally, I feel that the fear of scooping in science is overblown. In fields that are so hot that papers are coming out really fast the fear of scooping is high, everyone sees the work if its on bioRxiv or elsewhere – who was first is clear to all. Think of it this way: depositing a preprint at bioRxiv is just the same as giving a talk at a meeting. Preprints mean that there is a verifiable record available to everyone.
Preprints look ugly, I don’t want people to see my paper like that.
The depositor can format their preprint however they like! Check out Christophe Leterrier’s beautifully formatted preprint, or this one from Dennis Eckmeier. Both authors made their templates available so you can follow their example (1 and 2).
Yes but does -insert name of famous scientist- deposit preprints?
Lots of high profile scientists have already used bioRxiv. David Bartel, Ewan Birney, George Church, Ray Deshaies, Jennifer Doudna, Steve Henikoff, Rudy Jaenisch, Sophien Kamoun, Eric Karsenti, Maria Leptin, Rong Li, Andrew Murray, Pam Silver, Bruce Stillman, Leslie Vosshall and many more. Some sceptical people may find this argument compelling.
I know how publishing works now and I don’t want to disrupt the status quo
It’s paradoxical how science is all about pushing the frontiers, yet when it comes to publishing, scientists are incredibly conservative. Physics and Mathematics have been using preprinting as part of the standard route to publication for decades and so adoption by biology is nothing unusual and actually, we will simply be catching up. One vision for the future of scientific publishing is that we will deposit preprints and then journals will search out the best work from the server to highlight in their pages. The journals that will do this are called “overlay journals”. Sounds crazy? It’s already happening in Mathematics. Terry Tao, a Fields medal-winning mathematician recently deposited a solution to the Erdos discrepency problem on arXiv (he actually put them on his blog first). This was then “published” in Discrete Analysis, an overlay journal. Read about this here.
Disclaimer: other preprint services are available. F1000 Research, PeerJ Preprints and of course arXiv itself has quantitative biology section. My lab have deposited work at bioRxiv (1, 2 and 3) and I am an affiliate for the service, which means I check preprints before they go online.
Edit 14/12/15 07:13 put the scientists in alphabetical order. Added a part about scooping.
The post title comes from the term “white label” which is used for promotional vinyl copies of records ahead of their official release.
11th December 2015 By quantixed publishing, science Biology Open, bioRxiv, Cell, cell biology, eLife, metrics, Nature, open access, preprints11 Comments
Parallel Lines: Spatial statistics of microtubules in 3D
Our recent paper on “the mesh” in kinetochore fibres (K-fibres) of the mitotic spindle was our first adventure in 3D electron microscopy. This post is about some of the new data analysis challenges that were thrown up by this study. I promised a more technical post about this paper and here it is, better late than never.
In the paper we describe how over-expression of TACC3 causes the microtubules (MTs) in K-fibres to become “more wonky”. This was one of those observations that we could see by eye in the tomograms, but we needed a way to quantify it. And this meant coming up with a new spatial statistic.
After a few false starts*, we generated a method that I’ll describe here in the hope that the extra detail will be useful for other people interested in similar problems in cell biology.
The difficulty in this analysis comes from the fact that the fibres are randomly oriented, because of the way that the experiment is done. We section orthogonally to the spindle axis, but the fibre is rarely pointing exactly orthogonal to the tomogram. So the challenge is to reorient all the fibres to be able to pool numbers from across different fibres to derive any measurements. The IgorPro code to do this was made available with the paper. I have recently updated this code for a more streamlined workflow (available here).
We had two 3D point sets, one representing the position of each microtubule in the fibre at bottom of our tomogram and the other set is the position at the top. After creating individual MT waves from these point sets to work with, these waves could be plotted in 3D to have a look at them.
This is done in IgorPro by using a Gizmo. Shown here is a set of MTs from one K-fibre, rotated to show how the waves look in 3D, note that the scaling in z is exaggerated compared with x and y.
We need to normalise the fibres by getting them to all point in the same direction. We found that trying to pull out the average trajectory for the fibre didn’t work so well if there were lots of wonky MTs. So we came up with the following method:
Calculate the total cartesian distance of all MT waves in an xy view, i.e. the sum of all projections of vectors on an xy plane.
Rotate the fibre.
Recalculate the total distance.
So we start off with this set of waves (Original). We rotate through 3D space and plot the total distance at each rotation to find the minimum, i.e. when most MTs are pointing straight at the viewer. This plot (Finding Minimum) is coloured so that hot colours are the smallest distance, it shows this calculation for a range of rotations in phi and theta. Once this minimum is found, the MT waves can be rotated by this value and the set is then normalised (you need to click on the pictures to see them properly).
Finding minimum
Rotated
Now we have all of the fibres that we imaged oriented in the same way, pointing to the zenith. This means we can look at angles relative to the z axis and derive statistics.
The next challenge was to make a measure of “wonkiness”. In other words, test how parallel the MTs are.
Violin plots of theta don’t really get across the wonkiness of the TACC3 overexpressed K-fibres (see figure above). To visualise this more clearly, each MT was turned into a vector starting at the origin and the point where the vector intersected with an xy plane set at an arbitrary distance in z (100 nm) was calculated. The scatter of these intersections demonstrates nicely how parallel the MTs are. If all MTs were perfectly parallel, they would all intersect at 0,0. In the control this is more-or-less true, with a bit of noise. In contrast, the TACC3-overexpressed group have much more scatter. What was nice is that the radial scatter was homogeneous, which showed that there was no bias in the acquisition of tomograms. The final touch was to generate a bivariate histogram which shows the scatter around 0,0 but it is normalised for the total number of points. Note that none of this possible without the first normalisation step.
The only thing that we didn’t have was a good term to describe what we were studying. “Wonkiness” didn’t sound very scientific and “parallelness” was also a bit strange. Parallelism is a word used in the humanities to describe analogies in art, film etc. However, it seemed the best term to describe the study of how parallel the MTs in a fibre are.
The development of this method was borne out of discussions with Tom Honnor and Julia Brettschneider in the Statistics department in Warwick. The idea for the intersecting scatter plot came from Anne Straube in the office next door to me. They are all acknowledged in our paper for their input. A.G. at WaveMetrics helped me speed up my code by using MatrixOP and Euler’s rotation. His other suggestion of using PCA to do this would undoubtedly be faster, but I haven’t implemented this – yet. The bivariate histograms were made using JointHistogram() found here. JointHistogram now ships with Igor 7.
* as we describe in the paper
Several other strategies were explored to analyze deviations in trajectory versus the fiber axis. These were: examining the variance in trajectory angles, pairwise comparison of all MTs in the bundle, comparison to a reference MT that represented the fiber axis, using spherical rotation and rotating by an average value. These produced similar results, however, the one described here was the most robust and represents our best method for this kind of spatial statistical analysis.
The post title is taken from the Blondie LP “Parallel Lines”.
20th November 2015 By quantixed computing, science cell biology, dataviz, eLife, Igor, IgorPro, statisticsOne Comment
10th July 2015 By quantixed publishing, science cell biology, eLife, outreachOne Comment
Strange Things – update
My post on the strange data underlying the new impact factor for eLife was read by many people. Thanks for the interest and for the comments and discussion that followed. I thought I should follow up on some of the issues raised in the post.
eLife received a 2013 Impact Factor despite only publishing 27 papers in the last three months of the census window. Other journals, such as Biology Open did not.
There were spurious miscites to papers before eLife published any papers. I wondered whether this resulted in an early impact factor.
The Web of Knowledge database has citations from articles in the past referring to future articles!
1. Why did eLife get an early Impact Factor? It turns out that there is something called a partial Impact Factor. This is where an early Impact Factor is awarded to some journals in special cases. This is described here in a post at Scholarly Kitchen. Cell Reports also got an early Impact Factor and Nature Methods got one a few years ago (thanks to Daniel Evanko for tweeting about Nature Methods’ partial Impact Factor). The explanation is that if a journal is publishing papers that are attracting large numbers of citations it gets fast-tracked for an Impact Factor.
2. In a comment, Rafael Santos pointed out that the miscites were “from a 2013 eLife paper to an inexistent 2010 eLife paper, and another miscite from a 2013 PLoS Computational Biology paper to an inexistent 2011 eLife paper”. The post at Scholarly Kitchen confirms that citations are not double-checked or cleaned up at all by Thomson-Reuters. It occurred to me that journals looking to game their Impact Factor could alter the year for citations to papers in their own journal in order to inflate their Impact Factor. But no serious journal would do that – or would they?
3. This is still unexplained. If anybody has any ideas (other than time travel) please leave a comment.
1st September 2014 By quantixed publishing eLife, h-index, metrics, statisticsLeave a Comment
I noticed something strange about the 2013 Impact Factor data for eLife.
Before I get onto the problem. I feel I need to point out that I dislike Impact Factors and think that their influence on science is corrosive. I am a DORA signatory and I try to uphold those principles. I admit that, in the past, I used to check the new Impact Factors when they were released, but no longer. This year, when the 2013 Impact Factors came out I didn’t bother to log on to take a look. A chance Twitter conversation with Manuel Théry (@ManuelTHERY) and Christophe Leterrier (@christlet) was my first encounter with the new numbers.
@christlet @elife comes out at 8.5 and @CellReports at 7.2 only! MBoC, @J_Cell_Sci and @PLOSONE keep on going down. @Dev_Cell drops to 10!
— THERY Manuel (@ManuelTHERY) July 30, 2014
Huh? eLife has an Impact Factor?
For those that don’t know, the 2013 Impact Factor is worked out by counting the total number of 2013 cites to articles in a given journal that were published in 2011 and 2012. This number is divided by the number of “citable items” in that journal in 2011 and 2012.
Now, eLife launched in October 2012. So it seems unfair that it gets an Impact Factor since it only published papers for 12.5% of the window under scrutiny. Is this normal?
I looked up the 2013 Impact Factor for Biology Open, a Company of Biologists journal that launched in January 2012* and… it doesn’t have one! So why does eLife get an Impact Factor but Biology Open doesn’t?**
Looking at the numbers for eLife revealed that there were 230 citations in 2013 to eLife papers in 2011 and 2012. One of which was a mis-citation to an article in 2011. This article does not exist (the next column shows that there were no articles in 2011). My guess is that Thomson Reuters view this as the journal existing for 2011 and 2012, and therefore deserving of an Impact Factor. Presumably there are no mis-cites in the Biology Open record and it will only get an Impact Factor next year. Doesn’t this call into question the veracity of the database? I have found other errors in records previously (see here). I also find it difficult to believe that no-one checked this particular record given the profile of eLife.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I couldn’t track down the rogue citation. I did look at the cites to eLife articles from all years in Web of Science, the Thomson Reuters database (which again showed that eLife only started publishing in Oct 2012). As described before there are spurious citations in the database. Josh Kaplan’s eLife paper on UNC13/Tomosyn managed to rack up 5 citations in 2004, some 9 years before it was published (in 2013)! This was along with nine other papers that somehow managed to be cited in 2004 before they were published. It’s concerning enough that these data are used for hiring, firing and funding decisions, but if the data are incomplete or incorrect this is even worse.
Summary: I’m sure the Impact Factor of eLife will rise as soon as it has a full window for measurement. This would actually be 2016 when the 2015 Impact Factors are released. The journal has made it clear in past editorials (and here) that it is not interested in an Impact Factor and won’t promote one if it is awarded. So, this issue makes no difference to the journal. I guess the moral of the story is: don’t take the Impact Factor at face value. But then we all knew that already. Didn’t we?
* For clarity, I should declare that we have published papers in eLife and Biology Open this year.
** The only other reason I can think of is that eLife was listed on PubMed right away, while Biology Open had to wait. This caused some controversy at the time. I can’t see why a PubMed listing should affect Impact Factor. Anyhow, I noticed that Biology Open got listed in PubMed by October 2012, so in the end it is comparable to eLife.
Edit: There is an update to this post here.
Edit 2: This post is the most popular on Quantixed. A screenshot of visitors’ search engine queries (Nov 2014)…
The post title is taken from “Strange Things” from Big Black’s Atomizer LP released in 1986.
18th August 2014 By quantixed publishing Biology Open, cell biology, Cell Reports, eLife, h-index, metrics, papers, science, statisticsLeave a Comment
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Biologist: Muscle soreness is painful but stimulates the muscle
Muscle soreness is usually a good sign - despite the fact that it is perceived as pain 24-72 hours after intense exercise, it stimulates the increase of strength and volume of the affected muscle, says biologist Anita Helińska.
Fitness trainer Anita Helińska, PhD student at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw talks about what training should look like, what happens in the muscles during and after exercise, and when we burn fat during exercise.
"Each training session is a stress to which our body has to adapt, which is why there are a number of physiological changes in the athlete`s body during the exercise" - says Anita Helińska.
She explains that movement during physical exercise is enabled by skeletal striated muscles. Up close, this muscle looks like a thick wire surrounded with insulation - membranes that contain more wires - bundles of muscle fibres. "Single muscle fibre consists of even thinner wires - myofibrils. Myofibrils are composed of two main contractile proteins - actin and myosin. The interactions between these proteins allow muscles to contract during exercise, enabling us to lift weights, perform a long jump or sprint" - she says.
MUSCLE SORENESS - SUFFERING THAT PAYS OFF
"According to previous theories, the cause of muscle soreness was excessive accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles. Now we known that this is a myth" - the researcher says. She explains that while lactic acid indeed accumulates in the muscles during training, it is quickly removed from them. Only 1-2 hours after the exercise, lactic acid in the form of lactate goes to the liver and is converted into glucose and than into ATP - the fuel for our body.
Researchers discovered that very strenuous exercises cause high stresses in the exercised muscles, which may result in ruptured connections between actin and myosin or ruptured membranes that surround the muscle fibres.
"We describe such post-workout damage as microtearing of muscle fibres" - notes the biologist She explains that microtearing and incoming inflammatory cells are responsible for the pain attributed to muscle soreness that we feel 24-72 hours after exercise.
"Inflammatory cells are the cleaning crew that removes damaged tissue fragments, creating a space to rebuild and strengthen the muscle scaffolding" - she says. In the meantime, inflammatory cells secrete agents that activate skeletal muscle stem cells called satellite cells near the place of microdamage.
Satellite cells, in turn, are muscle guards responsible for their growth and regeneration. Activation of satellite cells starts a chain of events leading to the reconstruction of damaged tissue architecture. At first, satellite cells begin to divide, and their number peaks three days after the training. Then, when there are enough of them, they begin to differentiate into muscle cells, from which muscle fibres will be formed after about 5 days.
"As a result of regeneration, muscle contractile units are reproduced and new fibres are formed, and consequently the muscle strength and mass grow. Thus, microtearing stimulates the body" - says Anita Helińska.
"This means that muscle soreness - in spite of pain - is something good for the body. It stimulates the growth of muscle mass and strength, and thus increases the blood supply and muscle innervation. Properly planned physical activity also increases the pool of satellite cells that reside in the fibres, which allows our muscles to regenerate faster and slows down the aging process" - describes the trainer.
MUSCLE REGENERATION
Inflammation was once considered something bad that should be eliminated. Ice baths were recommended to athletes. "This idea is no longer promoted because the muscles of such athletes take longer to regenerate, which means that their strength increases more slowly" - says Anita Helińska.
She explains that such a physiological, post-exercise inflammation is an essential factor activating satellite cells, so inhibiting the action of inflammatory cells by very low temperatures is not entirely beneficial.
The biologist advises how to support normal muscle regeneration. "The biggest mistake is not getting enough sleep. Sleep is the best time for multiplication of satellite cells in our muscles and regeneration of the body after exercise" - says Anita Helińska.
It is also important that the day after intensive workout should be a day without exercise. "If we feel pain in the muscle parts trained the day before, we should not push them again on the next day. If we really want to move a bit, the best course of action is 20-30 minutes of light jogging, for better oxygenation of muscles" - she says.
"The right diet is also extremely important. The scientific sources agree that nutrition has a significant impact on both the quality and the effects of training. If we do not provide the body with building materials, that is, the right amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, or supply poor quality raw materials, muscles will not regenerate properly" - she says.
Incorrectly performed exercises, overtraining, bad diet and lack of time for regeneration are factors that carry the risk of muscle fibrosis, when a connective tissue is created instead of new fibers in the microtearing site. "This makes muscles much weaker" - the biologist points out.
BURNING CALORIES - FROM SUGARS OR FATS?
The purpose of exercising is often fat burning. "Excessively intensive exercise is not conducive to reducing fat mass. Anyone who thinks that sweat is fat burned from the body is wrong!" - says Anita Helińska.
She explains that fat is oxidized - as the word suggests - in aerobic conditions, so oxygen is essential for this process. Meanwhile, excessively intensive, for example interval effort, means that insufficient amount of oxygen is supplied to the muscles. As a result, we do exercises in anaerobic conditions.
"We do burn a lot of calories, but 80 percent of them comes from muscle glycogen, carbohydrates not fat. And the point of weight loss is reducing body fat. In this case, the important part is what we burn, not how many calories - she says. Medium-intensive exercise is recommended for fat burning, for example 30-40 minutes of cycling or running on a treadmill. Interval training such as Tabata or Zumba should be used as an extra to supplement aerobic training. They will be a new stimulus for the body to turn up the metabolism, and prevent aerobic training from becoming monotonous" - says the biologist.
The biologist also emphasizes that fashionable fasted training is not always recommended for amateur athletes who want to burn fat. "A lot depends on the body - some will benefit from exercising on an empty stomach, others will not. From the physiological point of view, the lack of carbohydrates in breakfast can result in a too low blood glucose (hypoglycaemia) and fainting during training, as well as weaker muscle regeneration. Fats +burn in the heat of carbohydrates+ so I recommend to eat at least a small amount of carbohydrates, for example a banana, some dates, or drink a glass of juice or an isotonic drink before the morning workout" - the doctoral student says.
HEART GROWS
Anita Helińska also says that regular sporting activities can prolong life, because they also have a stimulating effect on another muscle that is very important to the body - the heart.
"The heart is the strongest muscle in the body. Professional athletes have physiological changes in this muscle, and their size depends on genetic conditions, type and intensity of training. It has been observed that in such athletes regular exercise results in the increased volume of the chambers (mainly the left ventricle) and cardiac muscle hypertrophy. Their hearts are bigger and stronger than in the case of other people" - she says.
In one contraction, the heart of an athlete pumps much more blood into the bloodstream than the heart of an average person. Such a heart may work more slowly in the resting state, more sparingly than the heart of an average person. "It has been calculated that the slower work of the heart at rest translates into a few additional years of life. This fact confirms the conclusion that physical activity is an elixir of youth" - concludes the trainer.
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SCORE Project
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Standardizing Physiological Composite Risk Endpoints (SCORE)
The SCORE Project has a simple goal: help to standardize the creation and use of physiological composite risk endpoints.
As more research studies collect multiple biomarkers, there is an increasing need to "reduce dimensionality" or otherwise summarize related biomarkers into composites, often for use as endpoints, but also as predictors.
The field of psychometrics has long dealt with how to use multiple (potentially noisy) indicators of an underlying construct, like health, or cardio-metabolic risk, or ..., but these techniques are not commonly applied to biological data. Studies that do collect biomarkers and create composites often have slightly different composites, because each study assesses a different set of biomarkers. In psychometrics, standard scales are developed and people tend to use these scales. No such standardized equivalents exist for biomarkers.
The SCORE Project is all about changing this by understanding how biomarkers relate and creating reliable, validated composites that can be used in research or clinical practice.
Metabolic syndrome represents a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that frequently co-occur. Metabolic syndrome comprises:
hypertension (high systolic or diastolic blood pressure)
elevated triglycerides
low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
hyperglycemia (elevated fasting glucose or glycosylated hemoglobin)
central obesity (high body mass index or waist circumference)
Metabolic syndrome is defined as the presence of at least 3/5 risk factors, according to guidelines from a joint scientific statement by the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity (Ref).
Clinical thresholds exist for each of the markers. Different units are provided, where appropriate, and alternate markers that are not in the guidelines, but may be used if no other data are available, along with approximately equivalent thresholds.
≥ 80 cm (31 in) [~BMI ≥ 25] ≥ 94 cm (37 in) [~BMI ≥ 25]
Triglycerides
≥ 1.7 mmol/L (150 mg/dL) ≥ 1.7 mmol/L (150 mg/dL)
HDL Cholesterol
< 1.3 mmol/L (50 mg/dL) < 1.0 mmol/L (40 mg/dL)
≥ 130 mm Hg SBP and/or ≥ 85 mm Hg DBP ≥ 130 mm Hg SBP and/or ≥ 85 mm Hg DBP
≥ 5.6 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) [~HbA1c ≥ 5.7] ≥ 5.6 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) [~HbA1c ≥ 5.7]
In addition to the dichotomous presence or absence of the metabolic syndrome condition, a metabolic syndrome "severity" or "symptom" score can be created, by combining scores on individual biomarkers into a composite. Advantages of such a composite is that it: 1) contains more information than the simple metabolic syndrome present or absent dichotomy, and 2) is more sensitive to change, which may be particularly important as a risk endpoint in intervention or clinical trial research, and in clinical practice. An individual may improve substantially, even though she or he still meets criteria for metabolic syndrome.
The metabolic syndrome severity score (or MetSSS) can be easily calculated using the cloud-based web app below. This work is based on:
Wiley, J. F. & Carrington, M. J. (in press). A metabolic syndrome severity score: A tool to quantify cardio-metabolic risk factors. Preventive Medicine.
Note that when using this calculator, it is important to specify the sex (Female or Male) for each set of values. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) should be in mm Hg. Triglycerides (Trigs), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and blood glucose (glucose) should be in mmol/L. Waist circumference (waist) should be in centimeters.
This chart is a histogram of the MetSSS score in a community sample of adults in regional Australia from the Healthy Hearts Study. MetSSS scores are on the x axis and the frequencies are on the y axis. If you hover over a bar, you will see the midpoint of the bar, the sex, and the frequency.
Allostatic load theory posits that repeated activation of the stress response results in wear-and-tear on the body manifested through physiological dysregulation across the entire organism. Examples of a "normal" stress response, healthy adaptation, and then variants of non-optimal physiological stress responses are shown below.
From left to right, typical single physiological stress response--- reaction and recovery, adaptive response - reactivity diminishes with repetition, non-adaptive response - reactivity persists with repetition, failure to recover - reactivity but no recovery, failure to react - no reactivity.
Example factor models for allostatic load
Sample fully specified factor models for allostatic load
There are many methods used to create biomarker composites. Examples include:
sum of biomarkers at or above a "risk" threshold
sum of standardized biomarker scores (z-score and sum)
latent factor(s) using factor analysis or structural equation models
Mahalanobis distance (may be either from the mean or other normative values, the mean, or some other threshold)
In addition to each of these approaches to creating a composite, there are a number of additional considerations. For example, when summing the number of biomarkers above a "risk" threshold, which threshold should be used? For some biomarkers, clinical guidelines exist, but for others no standards exist. When using the continuous biomarker scores, should the raw scores be used, or normalizing transformations performed? Also, should the raw scores be used or should the deviations from clinical threshold be used? If deviations are used, should scores "better" than the risk threshold be allowed, or only scores beyond the risk level be used? Is it only values that are "too high" that are problematic or can biomarkers be too extreme in either direction, high or low?
These are just some of the methodological decisions faced. Rather than leave these as subjective decisions, the SCORE Project aims to systematically evaluate different approaches, and provide empirical evidence to guide researchers and clinicians in making these decisions, as well as tools to facilitate creating the composite from whatever the decision.
Wiley, J. F., Gruenewald, T., Karlamangla, A. & Seeman, T. E. (2016). Modeling Multisystem Physiological Dysregulation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78(3), 290-301. doi:10.1097/PSY.0000000000000288.
Mplus input scripts to run the primary models from Wiley, Gruenewald, Karlamangla, & Seeman (in press), as well as the Monte Carlo power simulation, and the item parameter invariance models are available online here.
There is an R package called pscore to assist with the scoring and creation of composites from biomarkers, available from this same GitHub repository.
If you'd like to install the pscore package you can get the latest development version from GitHub or install the latest released version from CRAN using the code below.
# uncomment line below if devtools package not available
# install.packages("devtools")
install_github("JWiley/score-project/pscore") # latest development
# From CRAN
install.packages("pscore") # latest release
Currently, the package is focused on metabolic syndrome, but more will be coming soon to support scoring allostatic load. Future work also aims to facilitate building/testing different scoring models, as well as getting predictions on new data from existing models.
Project Roadmap & Overview
Score-project is maintained by JWiley © 2015
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Home Church Missions Extollo International: Raising and Lifting up the People of Haiti
Terese Belme
Sherm Balch saw first-hand the devastation and destruction of Haiti shortly after a 7.0 earthquake struck in 2010, killing an estimated 250,000 people. Sherm and a group of people from his church, Cornerstone Fellowship in Livermore, CA, traveled to Haiti to determine where they could be of help. Sherm resolved to use his gifts and resources and two years later, in 2012, Extollo International was formed.
Sherm felt a call to help in the rebuilding of Haiti and to do the reconstruction in a way that was going to rebuild a stronger Haiti. Key to this vision was Haitian men and women becoming involved and partnering with Extollo in the rebuilding of their communities.
I recently sat down with Keith Cobell, President of Extollo International. Keith started by saying, “Sherm’s expertise is in the area of construction, particularly in masonry and concrete. So when we saw the extensive damage, Sherm quickly realized the primary reason for all the devastation and so much death was because the infrastructure in Haiti was so weak, particularly the buildings. Very few of the structures were built to any kind of international building standards and the earthquake unfortunately caused structures to collapse crushing many, many people.”
Keith told me, “Sherm felt a call to help in the rebuilding of Haiti and to do the reconstruction in a way that was going to rebuild a stronger Haiti.” Key to this vision was Haitian men and women becoming involved and partnering with Extollo in the rebuilding of their communities.
We will probably always want to bring in outside talent from time to time to maintain a high level of instruction and expose our students to the latest construction best-practices
A ripple effect was created when the Haitian men and women rebuilding their communities began helping their friends and neighbors to rebuild their homes. That ripple effect became, “The genesis of Extollo starting a construction company and a trade school that have a synergistic relationship,” said Keith.
A few years later Extollo acquired property in Haiti to begin building the infrastructure for the trade school and construction company. Extollo is still in the early stages of developing the trade school, which now offers entry-level training courses in four trades most relevant for Haiti: (1) Concrete, (2) Masonry, (3) Welding and (4) Electrical.
Each day the trade school starts with a devotion, walking through Scripture with the students teaching them what it means to be a person of integrity and honesty, and teaching them, as Keith says, “We work for our Heavenly Father first and foremost.”
While there is still a need, experienced construction professionals travel from the States to Haiti to help in mentoring, training and quality control for the classes offered through the trade school.
This year, for the first time, a Welding course was offered and was led and taught by the Haitian staff, “…which is really what we want for the future of Extollo,” stated Keith. “We will probably always want to bring in outside talent from time to time to maintain a high level of instruction and expose our students to the latest construction best-practices.”
Currently the courses offered through the Extollo trade school run for two weeks. One week is classroom instruction and the second week is a hands-on practicum where the students are actually working on a project.
Our goal is that our graduates are so competitive in the job market because of their certification from Extollo that they are able to take jobs from expats [someone living in a foreign country] that are brought in to work on the more sophisticated construction projects being built in Haiti.
Students can currently take any of the four trades in level one while levels two, three and four are being developed. “Our goal is that our graduates are so competitive in the job market because of their certification from Extollo that they are able to take jobs from expats [someone living in a foreign country] that are brought in to work on the more sophisticated construction projects being built in Haiti,” Keith explained. “That part of Extollo’s vision is to establish the Extollo brand as a seal of quality that communicates to the prospective employer that the candidate is capable and competent at a high level of quality in building at international building standards.”
Extollo is in the process of determining where they will seek accreditation in order to provide their students with the most highly regarded graduation certificate. Keith said, “We will initially gain accreditation from the government of Haiti, then an international body.”
Hiring Alert! Keith wants our readers to know that Extollo is in the process of hiring a Foreman to live in Haiti for at least a couple of years to help their construction company get off the ground.
Keith explained, “Part of our mission as a social enterprise is to make a positive social impact in the country along with an economic one, providing jobs for our alums and others we can train. Any earned revenue we generate will be poured back into Extollo’s social mission of building up men and women of character and substance that will impact their neighborhoods, families and communities.”
Thank you so much, you helped me start a business
Keith shared this story of one student’s ingenuity after taking the level one electrical course through Extollo. The student had gone home to wire his house and soon his neighbors were asking him to wire their homes. Keith told me, “Within a couple of months this former student came back to us to say thank you so much, you helped me start a business. I have more work than I can possibly do. I’ve even hired people to help me with my new electrical business.”
When the local government of Bercy reached out to Extollo for help in dealing with a road that floods during the rainy season and is used by Extollo frequently, Extollo provided some funding and expertise in how to best construct the canal to adequately drain the water. Extollo offered to help but the local city government needed to own, manage, and provide labor for the project.
On a recent visit Keith saw about 30 men working to build a portion of a 350 foot concrete canal to a culvert where the flood waters will be diverted. Extollo is partnering with the local community by asking what their greatest needs are and to what extent the community is willing to put “skin in the game” to support a project. Keith said, “A larger principle that drives us is to not do for others what they can do for themselves.”
One of Extollo’s goals is to help Haitians maintain their self-agency; own their decisions, unleash their ability to help themselves, and own their sense of commitment and accountability to their co-workers, to themselves, to God, and to their communities.
Once perfected, Extollo’s current social enterprise program in Haiti will have a core platform that can be implemented in other parts of the world that need help. However, there is still so much work left to be done in Haiti that Extollo will expand in Haiti before considering elsewhere. Keith said, “We’re not looking at importing a top-down fix for Haiti. We’re looking at it as a grassroots movement from the ground up – Haitian’s building a stronger Haiti, and we’re just giving them the skills and the capacity to be able to do that.”
We in the States have grown up with fantastic infrastructure and all that we know is that everything works. The roads work, the lights work, you can get your double latte frappacino just about anywhere, all these different things work because the infrastructure that was built generations ago we can benefit from now.
I asked Keith some final thoughts about what he wants our readers to know. He told me, “One of the most strategic ways to be involved in a country like Haiti is through strengthening and improving its infrastructure. We in the States have grown up with fantastic infrastructure and all that we know is that everything works. The roads work, the lights work, you can get your double latte frappacino just about anywhere, all these different things work because the infrastructure that was built generations ago we can benefit from now. In a place like Haiti and many places in the developing world, the infrastructure is so tenuous. And that becomes incredibly apparent when you have a natural disaster.”
To learn more about Extollo and how you can partner with them or information to apply for the foreman position please visit https://www.extollointernational.org/
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Terese Belme is the Editor of Norcal Christian Voice. Her passion is to come alongside others and encourage them in their identity, authority, and inheritance in Jesus as ambassadors to the kingdom of God. Terese is a contributing author to Inspire Christian Writers “Love” (2017) and “Kindness” (2018) Anthologies.
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I am an aspiring author but no matter what you see on “Murder, She Wrote” or “Castle” it is really hard to make a living by writing alone. I am a consulting engineer with my own company to pay for kibble and marketing my writing. I also really do canine search and rescue.
Can the search and rescue team help Gabe find his self-confidence to face down a bully and earn his Eagle rank, or is this one search that comes too late?
Turn is about Gabe Turner, a 15 year old Boy Scout being bullied by a smaller boy. Gabe struggles to fit in and find his place. To top things off, his dad refuses to go to church which threatens Gabe’s efforts to earn the rank of Eagle. A service project introduces him to a canine search and rescue team. Can they help him to succeed in school and Scouting? Will Gabe find a way to help his parents overcome their emotional wounds? Will he find friends that like the outdoors as much as he does? Or will he fail once again to turn his life around and save the people he loves?
The book is endorsed by the Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago
It is available on Amazon and in fine book stores
https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Growing-Search-Rescue-Book-ebook/dp/B01NAL8ZMV/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482876981&sr=1-4&keywords=Sherri+Gallagher
Trust Your Dog, One Teen’s Journey
Growing up in a house that revolves around canine search and rescue has made Shane wise, but has he learned enough to use a partially trained SAR dog to find his missing mom?
This e-book is available through Amazon
Go Find
Can the search team help Blanca find happily ever after?
Blanca Martinez wants to decide her future for herself. Papa wants her to have a husband to protect her. Mama wants her to have an education so that she can take care of herself. Her friends have helped her cope in the brutal and dangerous gang-controlled section of Chicago in which she lives, but, one by one, they betray her until all she has left is her faith, her family, and her dreams.
Desperate for a friend, she joins the wrong crowd and must struggle to find her way. Mama signs her up to work with a canine search and rescue team where she discovers the ability to work with animals and the desire to become a veterinarian.
Blanca wants to trust the two teenage boys on the team and accept the friendship they offer. However, she’s been wrong so many times before. Can she really trust her new friends?
On a training mission to Cancun, the teens rescue a lost tour bus of children, and Blanca discovers the confidence and path to go find her dreams.
https://www.amazon.com/Go-Find-Growing-SAR-Book-ebook/dp/B01N36RCQB/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485883111&sr=1-5&keywords=sherri+gallagher
Bark Alert
Stand or run: Which will Shane choose?
Being the center of attention always unnerves Shane. It was one of the reasons he enjoyed training the search and rescue dogs. Hiding alone in a search area, waiting patiently for a dog to catch his scent was his kind of heaven. But we don’t always get what we want. When Shane uncovers a plot to injure fellow students, he must make the decision to blow the whistle or be forced into participating in the plan.
What will his decision cost him, his family, and his dogs?
https://www.amazon.com/Bark-Alert-Growing-SAR-Book-ebook/dp/B01NCY1XUL/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485883150&sr=1-4&keywords=sherri+gallagher
North Country Series
Sophie’s Search
Sophie Stearns and her search dog, Belle, flee to the mountains that feed her soul and straight into the arms of the one man she could truly love. If only he didn’t hate her.
Widowed and buried in debt, Sophie Stearns is not going to pin her dreams on a man again – even if Patrick O’Brien is the man of her dreams. Making her environmental engineering company a financial success is her only hope for a secure future.
Patrick O’Brien learned the hard way city girls will rip a man’s heart out to get what they want. After his ex-wife’s betrayal, he bolted to the Adirondacks to lick his wounds and forge a new life protecting the fragile mountain ecosystem from development. The best way to stop the newest threat, Shopsmart is to shutdown their environmental engineering contractor, Sophie Stearns.
When a saboteur destroys Sophie’s project and threatens her life, only Patrick’s intervention can save her business. But Patrick must decide which is more important: his principles or his need to protect the Adirondacks. With the project deadline looming, Sophie must choose between using Belle to rescue a special needs child or saving her fledgling business.
Will their choices lead to love or loneliness?
https://www.amazon.com/Sophies-Search-North-Country-Book-ebook/dp/B077L9VVBM/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516746377&sr=1-2&keywords=Sophie%27s+search
Out of the Storm (Coming Soon)
It’s way too easy to die in the Adirondacks.
All of Sloane Westin’s training has drummed the risks of mountain terrain into her head, but she’s promised God she’ll take the risk if she can prevent a combat veteran from suicide. Since her husband took his own life three years earlier, it has been just Sloane and her search dog Orex. Now Incident Command has teamed her with Conor McCollum, an annoying, overbearing man who wants to run the show.
Conor McCollum owes his old Army commander Bill Frasier his life. Payback is due. Conor may hold the key to bringing Bill back out of the storm of hallucinations filling his mind, if he can get close enough. Why Incident Command has teamed him with pretty girlie-girl, Sloane Westin, is beyond him. He doesn’t need a human anchor slowing him down.
A dangerous ice storm is bearing down on the Adirondacks. Can Sloane and Conor work together to rescue Bill out of the storm? Or will Mother Nature claim three more lives in the vast wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains?
Labrador Tea (Coming Soon)
Can Rand protect Sarah from a hit squad, or will they join Manny Santos and sleep with the fishes?
Sarah hates liars; her dead husband taught her that lesson the hard way. It has taken a while to carve out a safe new life but with the help of her German Shepherd, Lektor, she has managed. Sarah finds out safety is an illusion when they respond to a recovery search one degree south of the Arctic Circle and are caught up in a morass of lies. The first lie is that Manny isn’t dead; he staged his demise to escape to the Bahamas with millions of skimmed money. The joke was on him when a skirmish with a bear left him chewed up and without his bank account information, begging and stealing from tourists. The second lie is that Rand isn’t a wilderness guide but really an undercover cop, trying to find Manny’s corpse and hopefully the kind of information to put the bad guys away for a long time. Lie #3: one of the team members isn’t a rescuer but a plant sent by Manny. Lie #4: someone on the team is a mole for Manny’s former employers. When Sarah recovers the missing information the lies unravel and the mob closes in on Manny. Sarah and Rand must race to the Bahamas or Manny will end up trying to walk to New York with more bricks and chains than he can carry. Can Sarah forgive Rand his lies or will their chance for love be the real victim of the search?
Pinecone Motel (Coming Soon)
Shellie, Ronan, Blue and the Pinecone Motel have all been abandoned can they come together to carve out a life?
The Pinecone was an older cabin style motel that had been abandoned when more modern facilities were built. Shellie was forced out of college when she reported being date-raped. PTSD had forced Ronan out of his parents’ house. They took shelter in separate cabins as they struggled to survive. Slowly they start to restore the place in return for living there. As the Pinecone returns to livable condition Shellie and Ronan come to understand how to do more than survive, but the motel owner’s grandson steps into the mix. Will they work together and carve a future together or will they end up fleeing from true love?
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The following information has been compiled to help spread the good news with the hope of placing more people onA the path to greater health, relaxation and happiness. Using a far infrared sauna can help strengthen the bodya€™s immune system by stimulating increased production of white blood cells by the bone marrow and killer T-cells by the thymus.A 2. Far infrared rays improve blood circulation, stimulate endorphins, lower lactic acid, kill certain bacteria and parasites, and burn calories. Proponents of hyperthermia, also known as fever therapy, maintain that using far infrared energy to therapeutically induce higher body temperatures helps fight infections and even cancer. Their argument is supported by the human body itself, which radiates infrared energy for the benefits of warmth and tissue repair.A 3. This is the heat you feel penetrate your skin when you stand in the sun and miss when you walk into the shade.
When people do not receive adequate amounts of far infrared heat, they often can become ill or depressed.A 4. Far infrared saunas are recognized by health practitioners worldwide as perhaps the most effective method of removing both chemical and heavy metal toxins from the body.
Far infrared saunas are thought to be 7 times more effective at detoxifying heavy metals such as mercury, aluminium, and other environmental toxins than conventional heat or steam saunas. For many chronically ill patients as well as people who are well and wish to stay that way by reducing their toxic burden, the far infrared sauna is the detox method of choice.A 6.
Bathing in a far infrared sauna in the early stages of a cold or flu has been known to stop the disease before symptoms occur.A 7. Far infrared heat can penetrate into the skin about an inch and a half to two inches deep and can have therapeutic benefits, such as helping to dissolve fat deposits under the skin.
Since toxins may be stored in the fat, the deep penetrating heat of a far infrared sauna can help eliminate them, especially toxins such as heavy metals and acidic compounds.A 8. The radiant heat of a far infrared sauna is efficient because it warms the sauna bather directly.
The body absorbs as much as 93 percent of the heat, causing perspiration and producing a vast array of health benefits.A 9. Far infrared saunas can help clear cellulite, the gel-like lumps of fat, water and debris trapped in pockets beneath the skin.
European beauty specialists routinely incorporate daily far infrared sauna baths in programs to reduce cellulite.A 10. Generally speaking, far infrared saunas are less expensive, easier to install, and require less maintenance than traditional saunas. They come in many sizes and are often quite portable, making them a great choice when limited space is available.A 11.
Far infrared radiant heat provides all the healthy benefits of natural sunlight without any of the dangerous effects of solar radiation.A 12. Far infrared saunas are more cleansing than conventional saunas because they are designed to generate more than two to three times the amount of perspiration. Unlike in traditional saunas where temperatures range from 140 to 220 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 105 degrees Celsius), the temperatures of far infrared saunas typically range from 100 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit (38 to 60 degrees Celsius).A 14. This allows a person to perspire faster and to tolerate a longer period of time inside the sauna. Typical sessions in a far infrared sauna last 20 to 30 minutes and can be repeated to maximize the benefits.A 15.
The lower heat range of far infrared saunas is safer for people with cardiovascular risk factors or fragile health because lower temperatures dona€™t dramatically elevate heart rate and blood pressure.A 16. Far infrared saunas have been used to treat sprains, bursitis, rheumatism, muscle spasms, neuralgia and hemorrhoids. The effects of toxin, chemical and pesticide poisoning can be greatly reduced by the far infrared saunaa€™s detoxification action. People who work with chemicals, as well as home gardeners who frequently use fertilizers and pesticides, are advised to use far infrared saunas on a regular basis.A 18. Far infrared radiant heat is a form of naturally occurring energy that heats objects by direct light conversion.
Direct light conversion warms only the object and does not raise the temperature of the surrounding free air.A 19. Far infrared sauna use can help promote rebuilding of injured tissue by having a positive effect on the fibroblasts, the connective tissue cells necessary for the repair of injury. It also can help increase growth of cells, DNA syntheses, and protein synthesis, all of which is necessary during tissue repair and regeneration.A 21.
In the electromagnetic spectrum, far infrared wavelengths measure between 5.6 and 1,000 microns.
Wavelengths of between 6 and 14 microns are believed to be the most beneficial to humans and other living things on Earth.A The human palm emits far infrared wavelengths of between 8 and 12 microns. The energy output from far infrared saunas so closely match the human bodya€™s radiant energy that nearly 93 percent of the saunaa€™s far infrared waves reach the skin.A 22.
Far infrared sauna therapy has helped people with cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure and angina. It enhances endothelial nitric oxide, lowering blood pressure and improving cardiovascular function.A 23. The radiant heat of far infrared saunas has been shown to be especially beneficial to people with sports injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and other chronic pain conditions.A 24. There are some definite advantages to using far infrared sauna thermal heaters, such as no high heat claustrophobic reaction and better air circulation.
Far infrared heaters heat the body, not the air, so a bather is more comfortable and cooler. Far infrared saunas require 90 percent less electrical energy than conventional saunas, and no plumbing is required for a far infrared sauna.A 26. A 20 to 30-minute session in a far infrared sauna has been touted to burn as many calories as a six-mile run.A 27. Far infrared saunas are now used in health facilities for a range of health problems such as menopause, ulcers, insomnia, asthma, bronchitis, ear infections, and allergies.A 28.
You dona€™t have to worry about setting the sauna up on a waterproof floor or near plumbing, and you dona€™t have to worry about mildew.A 29. Unlike a traditional sauna, which requires a closed atmosphere to maintain heat levels required for therapeutic results, a far infrared sauna can be used with its door or window completely open if far infrared penetration is the only objective.A 30. Far infrared saunas benefit all your organs of elimination, from your lungs to your liver to your kidneys to your skin.A 31. Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet. Near infrared light is closest in wavelength to visible light, and far infrared light is closer to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. A far infrared sauna is usually warm within 10 or 15 minutes, whereas a conventional sauna can take more than an hour to reach optimal temperatures.A 33.
Another option, although quite costly, is to use far infrared bulbs, which can provide warming and stimulating color therapy.A 34.
In addition to hemlock, wood choices for far infrared sauna construction include basswood, birch, oak, poplar, spruce and western red cedar. When a wood type is stated to be hypoallergenic, it means that the wood contains minimal allergens and is therefore less likely to cause an allergic reaction.
When far infrared heat penetrates a bathera€™s body, he or she can experience a refreshed mind, relaxed mood, reduction of aches and pains, improved metabolism, and systemic regularity leading to an overall feeling of wellness.A 37. Hemlock is a very strong wood that is quite able to withstand the heat of a far infrared sauna. It is also abundantly available, which means the end cost to the consumer is less than it might be for another wood type.A 38. Far infrared radiation is believed to be the only antidote to excessive ultraviolet radiation.A 39.
Certain alternative healing practices such as palm healing, a practice with some 3,000 years of tradition behind it in China, rely on the human bodya€™s ability to emit far infrared radiant energy.A 40.
And weight gain, muscle loss, decreased libido, wrinkles in our skin, and a growing number of aches and pains are probably other distressing concerns.A Some people try to defy nature by undergoing cosmetic surgery, utilizing every a€?anti-aginga€? skin care product available, taking stress management or meditation courses, or relocating to less polluted areas.
These actions may have merits worthy of consideration, but the fact remains that no one, no matter how determined he or she may be, can slow down the passage of time. We start aging even before we are born, and the process does not stop until the day we die.A While our efforts may not influence time itself, they can, however, affect how our bodies respond to and endure it. Qualified health professionals agree, for example, that regular exercise and good nutrition can have a long-term positive impact on a persona€™s quality of life. As well, avoiding the dangerous ultraviolet rays of the sun is universally regarded as an effective way to help maintain healthy, youthful skin. And leta€™s not forget how quitting smoking has been shown to improve respiratory health and reduce the risk of cancer in many vital bodily organs.
A One activity that has been proven to be of great benefit to the lungs, heart, skin and other organs is far infrared sauna bathing. The rays from a far infrared sauna can help improve cardiovascular functioning, strengthen the bodya€™s immune system, reduce fat and cellulite, revitalize skin cells, improve muscle tone and strength, improve nutrition and production of brain chemicals, and much more.A Far infrared sauna bathing also helps to flush toxic chemicals, heavy metals and other destructive agents from our bodies. Exposure to this highly toxic substance can reportedly increase blood pressure and cause fertility problems, nerve disorders, muscle and joint pain, and memory or concentration difficulties. Researchers have also linked lead exposure to Alzheimera€™s disease, a debilitating condition akin to dementia that most people associate with aging.A Various sources likewise suggest a connection between Alzheimera€™s disease and mercury, the most toxic non-radioactive element on Earth.
By definition, red is the color with the longest wavelengths of visible light, and violet is the color with the shortest wavelengths of visible light. Among the types of invisible light or electromagnetic radiation that reside outside of the optical spectrum are infrared radiation (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Translated from Latin, a€?infraa€? and a€?ultraa€? mean a€?belowa€? and a€?beyond,a€? respectively, so infrared radiation, or infrared light, is literally a€?below red,a€? and ultraviolet light is a€?beyond violet.a€?The German-born astronomer William Herschel discovered infrared light while living in England in 1800, about 20 years after his historic first sighting of the planet Uranus.
Measuring the heat from the optical spectrum, Herschel observed that the temperature in the colors increased as he went from violet to red. He also noticed that the temperature continued to increase beyond the color red, into a region of invisible light that Herschel named a€?infrared.a€?Infrared light is divided into three distinct segments with precise ranges of wavelength measured by microns. Far infrared light is sometimes called thermal radiation or thermal light, and its wavelengths measure between 5.6 and 1,000 microns.
The light or energy from sunlight and fire that we perceive as heat is far infrared.The far infrared radiation (FIR) emitted by the sun should not be confused with its deleterious ultraviolet radiation. Chief among the consumer products utilizing the technology is the far infrared sauna or heat therapy room. A key attribute of far infrared light is its ability to heat an object directly without elevating the temperature of the air surrounding the object. This is called direct light conversion.A Direct light conversion is perhaps best demonstrated when youa€™re outside on a summer day and a big cloud moves in front of the sun.
In the shade, you dona€™t feel as warm as when you were basking in the direct path of the suna€™s energy.
Yet, by positioning itself between you and the sun, the cloud has blocked the suna€™s far infrared rays from reaching you.
Thata€™s the reason you feel cooler even though the temperature of the air around you has not changed.A The value of far infrared light to human health and wellness must not be underestimated. Penetrating as deeply as three inches into our bodies, far infrared rays improve blood circulation, stimulate endorphins, destroy certain bacteria and parasites, lower lactic acid, and burn calories.Advocates of hyperthermia, also known as fever therapy, contend that employing such deep-penetrating far infrared energy to therapeutically induce higher body temperatures helps combat infections and even cancer.
Their assertion is supported by the human body itself, which emits infrared energy for purposes of warmth and tissue repair.A Saunas have long been a tried, tested and true source of health benefits.
For centuries, traditional saunas have helped to improve cardiovascular function, promote body detoxification, maintain general health, and foster greater relaxation in sauna bathers around the world. For many sauna enthusiasts, the traditional hot sauna a€“ the Finnish sauna a€“ remains the preferred route to renewed health and a rejuvenated spirit.A Sometimes called radiant heat saunas, soft heat saunas or heat therapy rooms, far infrared saunas offer most of the same benefits that traditional Finnish saunas do, but they do so at lower, more tolerable temperatures. While the air temperature in a typical Finnish sauna bath ranges from 170 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit (77 to 93 degrees Celsius), such temperatures arena€™t required in a far infrared sauna to induce optimal bather perspiration.A By penetrating the bathera€™s body and effecting a deep, satisfying heat of just 100 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (38 to 55 degrees Celsius), the far infrared rays can create an enjoyably cleansing, detoxifying and revitalizing experience for the bather.
In fact, many sources claim that the volume of sweat produced during a far infrared sauna bath can be as much as three times greater than in a Finnish sauna bath. The higher volume of sweat means a faster, more thorough, and thus more beneficial flushing of toxic chemicals and harmful heavy metals from the body.A Far infrared rays are a fundamental, indispensable part of life on Earth. And now, with far infrared heat therapy rooms and other infrared applications becoming increasingly common, we humans are wisely taking action to benefit from those rays and improve the quality of our own lives.A Benefits of Far Infrared Sauna UseThere are many benefits to be derived from proper and regular use of a far infrared sauna.
Far infrared sauna bathing can improve autonomic functions of the nervous system.Further Applications of Far Infrared EnergyFar infrared saunas are just one example of the application of infrared energy in contemporary society. Other uses of infrared energy have resulted in infrared hair dryers, infrared foot massagers, infrared pillows, infrared underwear, and even infrared leg wraps for horses.
There are far infrared ray-emitting paints and wallpaper that combat mold as well as fast-cooking far infrared ovens that reportedly kill E.
Far infrared rays are being utilized to purify polluted air, promote growth in plants, keep newborn babies warm in hospitals, treat injured athletes, and even encourage new hair growth.Far Infrared Is Essential to LifeFar infrared rays are a fundamental, indispensable part of life on Earth.
And now, with far infrared saunas and other infrared applications becoming increasingly common, we humans are astutely taking steps to benefit from those remarkable rays and improve the quality of our own lives. Similarly, you may not pay much attention to far infrared saunas, but these fantastic devices offer health benefits that you may not be able to afford to ignore any longer.A As time progresses, it seems that the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. We live in an age of terrorist activities, nuclear weapons, dictatorships and religious fanaticism. Costly international conflicts show no sign of abating, and just about everyone feels more insecure and vulnerable than they did a decade ago.
Even in our local neighborhoods, many of us worry about rising crime rates and growing threats to our personal safety.A And, as if those problems were not enough for us to worry about, many of us have major health issues with which we have no choice but to contend. Not helping matters are all the poisons and contaminants that have found their way into our environment and into our bodies. Fortunately, though, we are not powerless against these mighty and malicious microscopic menaces.
In fact, we can start doing something about them right now - we can start fighting back with far infrared sauna detoxification therapy.A Far infrared saunas are revered by scientists and health professionals around the world for their ability to help flush out many of the toxic chemicals, heavy metals and other destructive agents that have accumulated deep within the bloodstream, skin and other vital organs of people from all walks of life. For individuals affected by mercury toxicity, lead poisoning, and other life-threatening exposures, the far infrared sauna is often viewed as an essential component of detoxification therapy.A If you think that only people in high-risk occupations qualify for far infrared sauna detoxification therapy, youa€™re wrong. Exogenous toxins, which can be absorbed through the skin, respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract, are those not produced by the body itself, and examples include mercury, lead, zinc and cadmium. Sylver writes that a€?this category consists of waste produced by the body in the course of normal metabolic functioning and also pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites) and the waste they excrete.
Also known as chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), CFS was once commonly referred to as the a€?yuppie flua€? after about 200 people, most of whom were white, wealthy, young females, come down with a strange illness in 1984. National Institutes of Health claim that, for some people, chronic fatigue syndrome can first appear after a cold, bronchitis, hepatitis or an intestinal bug; for others, it can follow a bout of glandular fever.
CDC and CFIDS Association of America announced in 2001 that stress may exacerbate but most likely does not cause the disorder.A On the polemical subject of CFS prevalence, Dr. Buist asserts that toxins can impede muscle metabolism, causing the pain and fatigability of muscles felt by many fatigued people.A Addressing the Well Mind Association in Seattle, WA, Dr.
The affected persona€™s detoxification system is clogged up or destroyed, they get a backlog of chemicals, and their immune system goes down.a€?A Dr. Edelson and Deborah Mitchell, authors of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders, put it like this: a€?The hallmark of CFIDS is overwhelming, persistent, incapacitating fatigue that leaves those afflicted unable to carry on their normal physical functions.
Schmidt writes, a€?Researchers at Uppsala University Medical School in Sweden reported that patients with chronic fatigue contain abnormal levels of mercury within their cells. Of patients with chronic fatigue, 45 percent showed mercury hypersensitivity and 49 percent showed lead hypersensitivity. When the metal burden was removed from the body (in many cases, by removing mercury-containing silver dental fillings), 77 percent of patients reported improved health.a€?A If these conclusions are correct, how can sufferers retaliate after the damage of toxic build-up has manifested itself as chronic fatigue syndrome? Lyon recommend far infrared sauna therapy.A a€?For the chronic fatigue patient, a consistent program of infrared sauna therapy will assist the problem of autonomic dysregulation, which is common to the condition,a€? states Dr. These symptoms are reduced, as regular sauna therapy induces normal autonomic functioning.A a€?Through extensive research, it has been shown that saunas greatly assist in the elimination of accumulated toxins,a€? Lyon adds. It has become well known that people who take regular saunas (2-3 per week) reduce their incidence of colds and influenza by over 65% (a study by the British Medical Association).
While many people use saunas primarily for relaxation and stress reduction, the other health benefits are increasing the popularity of saunas. An often agonizing muscle disorder in which the thin film or tissue holding muscle together becomes thickened or tightened, fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal aches, pains and stiffness, soft tissue tenderness, mild to incapacitating fatigue, and disturbed sleep.A The pain of fibromyalgia is typically felt in the neck, back, shoulders and hands, but it is not exclusive to those areas. Based on criteria set in 1990 by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), a diagnosis of fibromyalgia requires a patient to have experienced widespread pain for a minimum of three months in 11 of 18 tender muscle sites.
Among those 18 sites are the hips, knees and rib cage.A Other symptoms of fibromyalgia include allergies, anxiety, carpal tunnel syndrome, depression, dizziness, headaches, irritable bowel symptoms, numbness, and tender skin. Most sufferers of fibromyalgia are women of childbearing age, but it has also been known to strike men, children and the elderly.As for what causes fibromyalgia, many theories exist. The Alternative Medicine Guide to Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness states that a€?post-traumatic fibromyalgia is believed to develop after a fall, whiplash or back strain, whereas primary fibromyalgia has an uncertain origin.a€? However, in her book Detoxify or Die, Dr.
Nenah Sylver extols the sauna for its ability to increase cardiovascular activity and white blood cell, enzyme, and norepinephrine, beta-endorphin and possibly thyroxin production.
As they, in turn, help to enhance circulation, increase waste removal and nutrient absorption, raise metabolism, and promote the elimination of toxins, foreign proteins and microbes, Dr. Sylver deems the aforementioned benefits of proper sauna use crucial in helping people with fibromyalgia. She notes a€?there are actually very few health problems that cannot be helped (or would become worse) with sauna therapya€? but advises patients nevertheless to consult with their health providers before beginning sauna therapy.A Dr.
Rogers and other health professionals insist that the far infrared sauna, radiant heat sauna or heat therapy room is of greater benefit to fibromyalgia sufferers than the traditional hot Finnish sauna because of a fundamental difference between the two styles of sauna.
Rogers calls the far infrared sauna a€?infinitely more tolerable,a€? particularly for people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome or multiple sclerosis, because it can function effectively at a much lower temperature than a conventional Finnish sauna.A a€?Ia€™m convinced that the far infrared sauna is something that everyone should do to restore health,a€? declares Dr. That such an effective detoxification tool exists should be welcome news to anyone suffering the ill effects of excessive lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic or aluminium in his or her body. A Not everyone may believe they have sufficient reason to worry about heavy metal and chemical toxicity, but many experts are urging the skeptics to think again. Lead is a highly toxic substance, exposure to which can produce a wide range of adverse health effects.
In adults, lead can reportedly increase blood pressure and cause fertility problems, nerve disorders, muscle and joint pain, irritability, and memory or concentration problems. A Because their brains and central nervous systems are still being formed, young children under the age of six are especially vulnerable to leada€™s harmful health effects. National Safety Council (NSC), a€?Even very low levels of exposure can result in reduced IQ, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, behavioral problems, stunted growth, impaired hearing, and kidney damage. Lead can also be found in automobile exhaust, pesticides, hair dye, ink, and some glazed dishware.Mercury, a ubiquitous environmental pollutant that can be found in tuna and swordfish, latex paint, dental amalgams, vaccines, cosmetics, contact lens solution, fabric softener and tap water, has also been classified by researchers as posing a grave threat to human health.
In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that no level of mercury can be considered to be safe, as it is the most toxic non-radioactive element on Earth.A In their book What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You About Autoimmune Disorders, Dr. Like so many other heavy metals, cadmium can be found in air, water, soil and food.A Noting that the highest contributor to cadmium toxicity is cigarette smoke, the Center for Environmental and Integrative Medicine (CEIM) in Knoxville, TN, states that a€?cadmium can weaken the immune system and allow bacteria, viruses, yeast and parasites to proliferate. Cadmium may also promote skeletal demineralization and increase bone fragility and fracture risk.
Department of Health and Human Servicesa€™ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
Eating food or drinking water with very high cadmium levels severely irritates the stomach, leading to vomiting and diarrhea, and sometimes death. Breathing air with lower levels of cadmium, or eating lower levels of cadmium, over long periods of time can result in a build-up of cadmium in the kidneys. This has been seen mostly in workers exposed to arsenic at smelters, mines, and chemical factories, but also in residents living near smelters and arsenical chemical factories.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have all classified inorganic arsenic as a known human carcinogen.A Since arsenic is found naturally in the environment, humans risk exposure to it when they eat food, drink water, breathe air, or come in contact with contaminated soil or water. The same can be said for aluminium compounds.A People may also be exposing themselves to aluminium compounds when they ingest medicinal products like certain antacids, laxatives and buffered aspirin or have skin contact with aluminium metal, antiperspirants, or other substances that contain aluminium or aluminium compounds. Mercola asserts that aluminium has been linked to serious illnesses such as osteoporosis, extreme nervousness, anemia, headache, decreased liver and kidney function, speech disturbances, and memory loss.
He also contends that people who have died from Alzheimera€™s disease have been found to have up to four times the average amount of aluminium accumulated in the braina€™s nerve cells.A Offering its view on the subject, the ATSDR states that exposure to aluminium is usually not harmful but notes that some people who have kidney disease store a lot of aluminium in their bodies. In these children, the bone damage is caused by aluminium in the stomach preventing the absorption of phosphate, (which is) required for healthy bones.a€?Lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and aluminium are just five of an intimidating number of toxins capable of severely compromising your health. Among the other heavy metals most often found at unacceptable levels in the body, according to Edelson and Mitchell, are nickel and tin.
Sherry Rogers writes, a€?The lungs, urine, stool and sweat are the main vehicles the body has for getting rid of nasty chemicals, but by far sweat is the most efficacious.
And Mayo Clinic studies show that (utilizing) far infrared energy is the safest way to induce healing sweata€¦ Far infrared sauna technology is the only proven, most efficacious way of getting rid of stored environmental chemicals.a€?A A far infrared sauna has been cited as the best place to sweat because, whereas bathing in a conventional hot air sauna produces perspiration that is composed of approximately 97 percent water and three percent toxins, soaking in a far infrared sauna has been shown to produce sweat composed of about 80 percent water and 20 percent toxins. As well, far infrared saunas can produce up to three times the sweat volume of a conventional hot air sauna while operating at a considerably cooler air temperature range of 110 to 130 degrees versus 180 to 235 degrees for hot air saunas. Ita€™s worthwhile to also note that, according to author and sauna historian Mikkel Aaland, a 15-minute far infrared sauna session can execute the same heavy metal excretion that would take the kidneys 24 working hours. In other words, sweating in a far infrared sauna can be a very efficient method of detoxification.A Even though sweating is a natural function of the human body, many people do not perspire properly because their skin has been damaged or deactivated by, among other culprits, chemicals in bath water, lotions, soaps and deodorants. Fortunately for these people, far infrared sauna therapy can greatly help to restore the skina€™s eliminative powers. Ita€™s just one more way far infrared saunas work to heal bodies compromised by harmful chemicals.A If you are concerned about how harmful chemicals and heavy metals can affect your health, consider the many benefits of owning a far infrared sauna. Most people have a casual understanding of each of those three, but it is the mercury included in the periodic table of elements that demands greater public contemplation. For if contemporary society placed more of an emphasis on the pernicious effects of mercury exposure, perhaps fewer people would be victimized by related illnesses and diseases.A Mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive element on Earth, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has proclaimed that no level of mercury can be regarded as being safe. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in a 2001 study that one in every 10 American women of childbearing age is at risk for having a baby born with neurological problems due to mercury exposure.A There are three principal types of mercury, and each type presents a serious health hazard to humans. The first type, elemental mercury, is a liquid that gives off mercury vapor at room temperature. Elemental mercury can also enter the bloodstream by permeating the skin.A Inorganic mercury compounds, the second type, can also be inhaled as well as pass through the skin.
Unlike elemental mercury, though, inorganic mercury compounds can also be absorbed through the stomach if swallowed.
Elemental mercury, if swallowed, is not absorbed and usually exits the body without causing any harm. Many inorganic mercury compounds are irritating or corrosive to the skin, eyes and mucus membranes.A The third type of mercury, organic mercury compounds, can enter the body by way of all three routes a€“ lungs, skin and stomach. Exposure to any form of mercury on a repeated basis, or even a very high single dose, can lead to chronic mercury poisoning.
According to the New Jersey State Department of Health, chronic mercury poisoning is characterized by three major symptoms:Gum problems.
People with chronic mercury poisoning frequently experience wide mood swings, becoming irritable, frightened, excited or depressed very quickly for no apparent reason. Some people may become extremely upset at any criticism, lose all self-confidence, and become apathetic. Memory loss, hallucinations, and inability to concentrate can also occur.Nervous system impairment. The earliest and most frequent symptom of chronic mercury poisoning is a fine tremor of the hand.
A person with chronic mercury poisoning may also experience difficulty balancing and walking.A In What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You About Autoimmune Disorders, authors Dr.
Research has demonstrated that the bodya€™s tissues, especially in the brain, kidneys, jaw, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and liver, absorb and store mercury.a€?A With such research findings having caught the publica€™s attention, some people have begun insisting that their dentists use composite fillings, also known as a€?white fillings,a€? as a non-toxic alternative to amalgam fillings.
As well, some dental patients are demanding that their existing amalgam fillings be removed and replaced with composite fillings.A In her book Detoxify or Die, Dr. Rogers writes, a€?Autoimmune disease, heart disease, high cholesterol and triglycerides, chemical sensitivity, allergies, antibiotic-resistant infections, depression, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, leukemia and just about any symptom you can think of have improved once sufficient accumulated mercury was removed from the teeth and body.a€?Going a step further, Dr.
Daniel Royal, member of the Nevada State Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners, states, a€?While removal of amalgam fillings stops further poisoning from mercury fillings, you still need to detoxify the body to eliminate the residual effect from mercury that remains behind in the body. Royal calls the sauna a useful adjunct to safe mercury removal because it induces profuse sweating.
One reason is that far infrared saunas, also known as radiant heat saunas or soft heat saunas, can effectively function at temperatures lower than those characteristic of traditional hot Finnish saunas. The findings of this study make a strong case that far infrared saunas are simply better detoxification devices than conventional hot saunas.A Before you begin a sauna detoxification program, or if you suspect that you suffer from mercury poisoning, you should discuss your plans or share your suspicions with a qualified health professional. And if you decide to purchase a far infrared sauna for any of its many therapeutic properties, be sure to research your choices thoroughly, as satisfied sauna buyers are typically well-informed sauna buyers.A Opening the Sauna Door to Better Healthby Pertti Olavi Jalasjaa You may think of a home sauna as being little more than a luxury, an object that offers pleasure and comfort but is ultimately inessential to your well-being. However, the results of decades of research may just convince you of what sauna enthusiasts have believed for centuries a€“ that regular sauna bathing offers significant, perhaps even life-saving, health benefits.A A chief objective of any sauna bath is to make you perspire, and perspiration is a natural, necessary function of the human body. Ita€™s a means by which the body can rid itself of extra heat and water and eliminate harmful toxins that have, over time, built up inside it. Included among these toxins are mercury, lead, cadmium and aluminium.A The health benefits of sauna bathing, however, go beyond aiding detoxification.
As your body increases sweat production to cool itself during a hot sauna bath, your heart increases blood circulation. Heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate all increase, while diastolic blood pressure decreases, helping to improve overall cardiovascular fitness.A Sauna bathing may also contribute to healthy weight loss. A letter in a 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association asserted that a€?a moderately conditioned person can easily a€?sweat offa€™ 500 grams in a sauna, consuming nearly 300 calories, the equivalent of running two to three miles.
A heat-conditioned person can easily sweat off 600 to 800 calories with no adverse effects.
While the weight of the water lost can be regained by rehydration with water, the calories consumed will not be.a€?A Most irrefutable are the claims that regular sauna bathing helps to relieve stress and promote relaxation.
It has been demonstrated time and time again that spending just a few minutes in a hot sauna bath can reduce anxiety levels, sooth nerves and warm tight muscles. Not only has sauna bathing been shown to encourage deeper, more restful sleep, far infrared sauna therapy has proved effective in alleviating pain associated with arthritis, backache, bursitis, fibromyalgia, headache, sprains, strains and other muscular and skeletal ailments.A a€?I am convinced that the far infrared sauna is something that everyone should do to restore health,a€? contends Dr.
And while the condition known as Raynauda€™s disease has perhaps not received as much attention as those previously mentioned, credible sources suggest that sauna bathing can benefit its sufferers as well.A Raynauda€™s disease is a condition that causes some areas of your body, such as your fingers, toes, ears, cheeks, tongue, and the tip of your nose, to feel numb and cool in response to cold temperatures or stress. Named after Maurice Raynaud, the French physician who first described it in 1862, it is a disorder of the blood vessels that supply blood to your skin. During a Raynauda€™s attack, these arteries narrow, limiting blood flow to affected areas.A Accurately discussing Raynauda€™s can be challenging for some people, as two types of it exist, and each type has two names.
What most laymen generically call Raynauda€™s disease could be either primary Raynauda€™s or secondary Raynauda€™s.A Primary Raynauda€™s, the most common form of the disorder, is what physicians and medical textbooks correctly refer to as Raynauda€™s disease. Although anyone can develop the condition, primary Raynauda€™s mainly affects women between the ages of 15 and 40. Ita€™s also more common in people who live in colder climates.A Secondary Raynauda€™s, also known as Raynauda€™s phenomenon, is caused by an underlying problem like scleroderma, Sjogrena€™s syndrome (both connective tissue diseases), lupus (an autoimmune disease), rheumatoid arthritis (an inflammatory disease), hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid gland), diseases of the arteries (such as atherosclerosis and Buergera€™s disease), carpal tunnel syndrome, nerve damage, or chemical exposure.
As well, people in certain occupations, such as those who operate vibrating tools, may be more vulnerable to secondary Raynauda€™s.A Most typically, cold temperatures provoke Raynauda€™s attacks. Just taking an item out of your freezer, putting your hands in cold water, or exposing yourself to cold air could trigger one.
For some people, however, cold is not even necessary; emotional stress is enough to instigate an episode. In both cases, the body seems to exaggerate its natural response of trying to preserve its core temperature by slowing blood supply to its extremities.
During an attack, which can last from less than a minute to several hours, affected areas of your skin usually first turn white. As your blood circulation improves, the affected areas may turn red, throb, tingle or swell. Raynauda€™s attacks may grow more severe over time.A If the condition becomes severe, blood circulation to your extremities could permanently diminish, resulting in deformities in affected areas like your fingers or toes. Also, skin ulcers or gangrene could develop if an artery to an affected area becomes completely blocked.A Depending on the cause and severity of symptoms, treatment can take many forms. Medications may include alpha blockers, calcium channel blockers, or vasodilators, all of which help relax blood vessels. For example, during a session in either type of sauna, the bathera€™s heart responds to the sauna heat by increasing blood flow and perspiration production to cool the bathera€™s body.
In this way, sauna bathing is a form of cardiovascular exercise.A Perspiring in a sauna, especially a far infrared sauna, also helps the body rid itself of harmful toxins that have built up over time. With experts having already drawn the connection between nicotine, secondhand smoke and Raynauda€™s, this benefit is certainly noteworthy.A As anyone who has stepped into a sauna seeking relief from muscle aches, sports injuries or ailments such as arthritis or fibromyalgia should already know, sauna bathing also offers a proven way to alleviate pain.
A clinical study conducted at Sunnybrook and Womena€™s College Health Science Centers at the University of Toronto confirmed that far infrared therapy can bring about significant improvements in both subjective measures of pain and discomfort associated with Raynauda€™s disease.A Lastly, sauna bathing fosters relaxation and stress relief. To those Raynauda€™s sufferers whose attacks are caused by emotional stress, as well as to the innumerable Raynauda€™s sufferers whose emotional stress is understandably caused by their attacks, this news is likely very welcome.A If you think you may be suffering from Raynauda€™s disease or Raynauda€™s phenomenon, be sure to discuss your concerns with a qualified health professional.
Meanwhile, youa€™d be wise to investigate the many ways a home sauna, be it a traditional Finnish sauna or a far infrared sauna, can improve your health and happiness.A Insomnia and the Far Infrared Saunaby Pertti Olavi JalasjaaYoua€™ve wisely avoided sleeping pills, but it seems as if youa€™ve tried almost everything else to get a better nighta€™s sleep.
The comforting heat of a sauna works to induce healthy perspiration, assist respiratory function, benefit blood pressure, stimulate endorphins, cleanse skin, and relieve sore, tired muscles. By raising your body temperature in a sauna bath right before bedtime, you compel it to normalize itself afterwards, and ita€™s this temperature readjustment following the sauna bath that helps to improve the quality of your sleep.A Of course, other effects of the heat bath can certainly contribute to improvements in your sleep. Regular sauna bathers routinely report that soaking in a hot sauna helps them rid their minds of the anxieties, frustrations and worries that may have been plaguing them prior to bathing. And by helping to alleviate any existing physical pain like headaches, muscle strain or joint stiffness, a sauna bath can effectively disarm many of the aggravations that might have impeded truly restful sleep.A Home saunas are available in many styles and sizes. Around the globe, doctors, researchers and other professionals have discovered the tremendous value of using sauna heat to help increase the human bodya€™s white blood cell count, stimulate its immune system, facilitate detoxification, and produce a state of general relaxation that is vital to the healing process.A In many countries, experts continue to research the therapeutic properties of the sauna. Chuwa Tei, professor of medicine and chair of the department of internal medicine at Japana€™s Kagoshima University, and his colleagues have demonstrated saunasa€™ usefulness in treating heart patients.A In one study, Tei and his colleagues compared 25 men with at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or smoking, with a group of 10 healthy men.
Each study participant spent 15 minutes in a 140-degree Fahrenheit (60-degree Celsius) dry sauna, followed by 30 minutes in a bed covered with blankets, once a day for two weeks.
The researchers then measured how well the participantsa€™ blood vessels expanded and contracted, a sign of the health of the vessels.
The researchers also found that the sauna therapy lowered participantsa€™ blood pressure slightly. The results of the study should be encouraging to anyone concerned about blood vessel diseases like atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and erectile dysfunction.In earlier studies, Tei and his colleagues demonstrated that sauna therapy improved the blood vessel function in hamsters with chronic heart failure. The hamsters that received sauna therapy also lived about three weeks longer than those that didna€™t receive sauna therapy.A German researchers recently studied 22 kindergarten children who took weekly sauna baths and compared them to a group of children that did not take any sauna baths. Both groups were followed for 18 months and closely monitored for any occurrence of ear infections, colds, or upper respiratory problems. The researchers found that the children who did not take the weekly sauna baths took twice as many sick days as their counterparts.A Other findings suggest that it may be more than the heat of a sauna that is so advantageous to human health. Tests have indicated that the practice of tossing or splashing water on heated rocks in a traditional Finnish sauna produces a high quantity of negative ions in the air.
Research has concluded that air abundant with negative ions offers great benefits, while a lack of negative ions or a higher ration of positive to negative ions in the air we breathe can cause physical harm.And while a June 2001 edition of The St. Lying above the 60th parallel, the southern boundary of the Arctic Circle, northernmost Finland receives little sunlight during the winter, which typically begins in November and lasts at least until May. Throughout all of Finland, winter days are remarkably short, with the sun low on the horizon even at midday. In the far north, the period known as a€?kaamosa€? or polar night, during which the sun never rises above the horizon, is nearly two months long.A Light deprivation is a serious concern during Finnish winters, particularly in areas where continuous darkness stretches several weeks.
Many experts believe it could explain why Finland has one of the worlda€™s highest suicide rates.
Each year, 14 percent of northern populations reportedly experience the a€?winter blues,a€? and another six percent suffer from the more serious Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of clinical depression that, by definition, afflicts people only at certain times of the year. A In addition to depression, common symptoms of SAD include anxiety, fatigue and low energy, irritability, increased sleeping, difficulty concentrating, and changes in appetite, most notably carbohydrate cravings.A For many people, Seasonal Affective Disorder is a seriously disabling illness that prevents them from functioning normally without continuous medical treatment. For others, it is a mild but debilitating condition that causes discomfort but not severe suffering. This milder form of SAD, called Subsyndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder, is what most people perceive to be the aforementioned winter blues.A Yet another form of SAD is Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder (RSAD), and it typically strikes during the late spring or early summer and lasts throughout the warmer months.
Also known as summer depression, RSAD is characterized by decreased sleep, weight loss, poor appetite, and other symptoms. Because treatment options can differ for SAD and RSAD, ita€™s important to note that the information in the following paragraphs pertains specifically to SAD a€“ in other words, winter depression.A According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder include monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOs), psychotherapy, and light therapy. Certain sources claim that, in addition to being used to treat SAD, insomnia and jet lag, light therapy can also be beneficial for people suffering from skin conditions such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and vitiglio.A For treating Seasonal Affective Disorder, the most commonly used phototherapy equipment is a portable lighting device known as a light box. The patient sits in front of the box for a prescribed period of time that can be as brief as 15 minutes or as long as several hours.
The duration and frequency of light therapy sessions often depend on the patienta€™s physical needs and lifestyle. As one might surmise, light therapy sessions for SAD typically begin in the autumn months and continue throughout the winter, sometimes even into the early spring.A The light box may be mounted upright to a wall or slanted downwards and set on a table. The light from a slanted light box is designed to focus on the table upon which it sits, so patients may look down to read or enjoy other sedentary activities during their phototherapy sessions. Patients using an upright light box must face the light box, although they dona€™t need to look directly into the light. As for the brightness of the light utilized, the light sources in these light boxes typically range from 2,500 to 10,000 lux (units of illumination). In comparison, average indoor lighting typically ranges from 300 to 500 lux, and a sunny summer day is roughly 100,000 lux.A Before undergoing any light therapy treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder, be sure to discuss your concerns and options with a qualified health professional. If you believe that you suffer from SAD, it is vital that you receive a proper diagnosis from a physician experienced in treating mood disorders. As well, certain risks (like potential eye strain, hypomania and headache, among others) are associated with phototherapy, especially for people who are photosensitive, so consulting with your doctor and an ophthalmologist could prevent additional problems from arising during or after your treatments. If you decide to pursue light therapy treatments without the assistance of a qualified health professional, be aware that different companies hold decidedly different stances on exactly what constitutes light therapy.
A Among the health-related companies that are now making light therapy part of their business are manufacturers and retailers of home saunas. It is a logical development since far infrared sauna therapy has repeatedly been proven to be an effective form of light therapy. The light found in a far infrared sauna is, of course, far infrared light, a type of invisible light located below the optical color red in the electromagnetic spectrum.A An indispensable part of life on Earth, far infrared light has long been used by humans to purify polluted air, keep newborn babies warm in hospitals, promote growth in plants, and more. Little did the early sauna bathers of Finland realize centuries ago that their beloved heat baths might someday become a source of hope and healing, not just for the people of their own country but for everyone who finds the dark days of winter hard to weather.A Sweat and Far Infrared Saunas- Here's the Skinnyby Pertti Olavi Jalasjaa For whatever reason, most people feel uncomfortable talking about perspiration.
For example, ita€™s not unusual to hear someone remark that he or she a€?sweateda€? over an academic assignment, a€?worked up a sweata€? on the tennis courts, or a€?lost a pint of sweata€? while awaiting an important decision. But these are simply colloquial expressions that many of us utilize to make a point about our mental or physical stress or exertion related to a particular undertaking or event. After all, to do so, polite society decrees, would be in poor taste.A And yet much could be gained if people felt free to discuss the natural biological process of perspiration without fear of judgment or reproach. When we perspire in a far infrared sauna, we help our bodies rid themselves of the countless toxins like mercury, lead, cadmium and other contaminants that have accumulated within us over time.
As well, by intensely sweating in a far infrared sauna we benefit our hearts, lungs, kidneys and other organs that are essential to our survival. Far infrared sauna bathing has also been proven to promote pain relief, muscle relaxation, and emotional tranquility.A For people suffering from certain skin diseases, far infrared sauna bathing can be particularly therapeutic.
As the far infrared heat induces an increase in blood circulation to the skin, the bodya€™s defence against chronic skin conditions like acne, eczema and psoriasis is considerably bolstered. As well, thorough sweating helps unclog the skin of whatever unhealthy remnants of soap, lotions, deodorants or makeup may be unnecessarily lodged in its pores. Dead skin cells are also effectively flushed away by a good sweat in a far infrared sauna.A Increased blood flow and decreased toxins and foreign material in our skin mean more natural nutrients and fewer reasons for irritations and disease.
Elasticity, texture, tone and color can all noticeably improve after just a few sessions in a far infrared sauna. These benefits are available even if your skin has suffered harsh damage from excessive exposure to the sun.A You dona€™t have to talk about perspiration if you dona€™t want to.
If you live a mostly sedentary lifestyle and therefore dona€™t perspire much on a regular basis, you must take action for the sake of the health of your heart, lungs, skin and other vital organs. People face stress at home, at work, at school a€“ anywhere opportunities to react to internal or external stimulation exist.A That stimulation can come from a disagreement with a spouse, a conflict with a co-worker, criticism from a teacher, bad news from a doctor, and so on. And the stimulation need not be negative; people often become stressed when they start new jobs or enter into new relationships.
Even a big, surprise win at the casino can cause stress.A A little stress isna€™t necessarily a bad thing.
Stress during a job interview can help you give the best answers to the people asking the tough questions. These hormones are not harmful in moderate amounts, but cortisol is secreted excessively in response to chronic stress and is extremely toxic in these larger amounts.A a€?Cortisol actually kills and disables your brain cells,a€? says Dr.
Chronic exposure to cortisol causes the mental haziness, forgetfulness and confusion that is associated with aging.a€?A People under stress may also be at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease. Stress causes arteries to constrict and blood to become stickier, increase the probability of an artery-clogging blood clot. As well, people who regularly experience sudden increases in blood pressure caused by stress may, over time, develop injuries in the inner lining of their blood vessels.A Studies suggest that chronic stress may increase a persona€™s chances for developing infections, having strokes, experiencing flare ups of multiple sclerosis, and suffering gastrointestinal problems like peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, and inflammatory bowel disease. Chronic stress has also been linked to the development of insulin resistance, a key factor in diabetes. And ask anybody who has ever suffered from headaches, insomnia, skin disorders or sexual dysfunction if they believe that stress was at least partly to blame for their woes, and then construct your own conclusions about how damaging stress can be to onea€™s health and well being.A If you think you have a serious condition that has been caused or made worse by certain stressors in your life, you should discuss your concerns with a qualified physician. If, however, youa€™d like to improve the quality of your life by learning how to better cope with stress, many options exist. Perhaps your first focus should be on discovering the remarkable benefits of relaxation.Relaxation decreases blood pressure, respiration and pulse rates, releases muscle tension, and eases emotional strains. In their quests for greater relaxation, some people choose biofeedback while others opt for massage therapy. Studies indicate that soaking in a hot sauna bath can help improve respiratory function, increase cardiovascular strength, reduce and remove body toxins, strengthen the bodya€™s immune system, relieve headaches, and cleanse and beautify skin. Sauna bathing can also increase blood circulation, relaxing tight, tired or aching muscles by providing them with more oxygen.A If youa€™re searching for a healthy way to alleviate the stress in your life, consider purchasing a home sauna.
Residential saunas are available in a range of styles and sizes, from pre-cut Finnish sauna kits to outdoor barrel saunas and far infrared heat therapy rooms. Seemingly ubiquitous advertisements and TV commercials for antiperspirants continue to convince generations of consumers that perspiration is an undesirable, offensive bodily function. While no one would dispute that sweat can be quite unwelcome in important social and business situations, it would be imprudent not to acknowledge the necessity of perspiration and understand the critical role it plays in human health.A Sweating is an essential function of the human body, as essential as eating, breathing and sleeping. Skin is sometimes called a€?the third kidneya€? for this very reason.A Your body eliminates various toxins through a variety of metabolic processes, one being urination and another being perspiration.
The kidneys filter waste materials from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine.
The temperature in a traditional Finnish sauna is usually between 180 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit (80 and 95 degrees Celsius).
The two types of sauna operate differently, but, at their respective temperature ranges, working up a sufficient sweat in either type should be achievable for even the most inexperienced sauna bather.A Using high heat to induce perspiration has a great number of benefits.
In addition to decreasing the amount of toxins and heavy metals, such as cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc, in your body, an intense sweat bath in a sauna can help cleanse it of other impurities like cholesterol, nicotine, sodium, and sulfuric acid.
By improving blood circulation, regular sauna bathing can help draw the skina€™s own natural nutrients to the surface, leading to better tone, texture and elasticity. Thata€™s why sauna bathing is being increasingly included in high-intensity treatment programs for skin ailments like acne, eczema and psoriasis. Some beauty specialists in Europe even claim the sauna can be quite a powerful weapon in the war against cellulite.A As beneficial and therapeutic as sweating in a soothing hot sauna may be, however, it is imperative that bathers not allow the experience to dehydrate them. As well, be sure to discuss your plans and expectations with your personal physician before you take to the sauna for the first time, as he or she should know of any existing conditions or limitations that pertain specifically to your health and might impact your sauna use.A As for all those advertisements and TV commercials that say sweating is bad, forget about them, and start doing what you know is best for your health.
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Home › Elections 2015 › Tirana mayoral candidates focus on economic concerns as campaign continues
With the electoral campaign for the June 21 local elections in full gear, mayoral candidates for the municipality of Tirana, home to a third of the country’s population, have focused much of their attention on economic issues like employment and taxes, which are also the top concern for voters, according to surveys.
Six candidates are running for the Tirana mayor, and the several opinion polls show three candidates will likely receive a substantial part of the vote – two from the traditional leftist and center-right coalitions and an independent.
Socialist Party-led coalition’s Erion Veliaj and Democratic Party-led coalition’s Halim Kosova were among the four candidates who participated at a question and answer session set up by the American Chamber of Commerce in Albania. Their sessions were separate and did not involve any debating.
Veliaj promised tax incentives to businesses to increase youth employment currently estimated at around 30 percent.
“We have proved that when businesses are given funding incentives for 12 months of social security contributions … and wages they are interested in increasing employment,” said Veliaj.
He added he intends to develop public-private partnerships on parking spaces and warehouses to store local agricultural products.
Asked about his tax policy, Veliaj said the new municipality, which under the administrative reform extends beyond its current borders and comprises around 1 million people including 13 communes outside the capital, will focus on the proper collection of taxes, describing promises of tax cuts as populist.
Veliaj said he will introduce progressive taxation so that people living outside Tirana pay less as is the case property tax.
Industry, agriculture and tourism are the priorities of Veliaj’s program, he said.
Halim Kosova, who is running to replace opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha as Tirana Mayor, has employment and economic development as his top priorities.
“I will focus on two key areas; reducing taxes and a more business-friendly environment but also the extension of the guarantee fund and more public investments in infrastructure, education,” said Kosova, whose project also includes resuming the suspended construction of the Tirana boulevard and building a major public transportation hub just outside the capital.
The center-right candidate promised a cut in local government taxes and a tax free policy for new businesses employing more than 50 people in their first four years of operation.
His administration would also support the handicraft sector and characteristic Tirana products that can create 5,000 new jobs in the tourism and agribusiness sector and strengthening the Tirana brand, Kosova said.
Two other candidates Arben Tafaj, a former neighborhood chief, and Sazan Guri, a green activist, also unveiled their platforms.
Gjergj Bojaxhi, an independent candidate who is expected to get a surprise high showing in the election with polls giving him more than 10 percent of the vote, did not participate in the AmCham event conference because of what he described as a “standard format of unveiling the platforms” and not a real debate between the candidates.
He invited the candidates to hold a direct debate instead.
Focused on the challenges and opportunities facing Tirana in the near and distant future, the conference was a chance for the candidates to discuss issues that are important to voters in a dynamic and interesting venue.
“We hope that there will be more such exchanges, more such efforts to get the information out to the voters, more such exchanges of ideas. From the U.S. Embassy’s perspective, it is important that the voters be informed voters and they that have an opportunity to hear directly from the candidates,” said Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tirana Henry Jardine.
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IBM Simulates Part of a Human Brain, All of a Cat’s
By Matt Peckham @mattpeckhamOct. 25, 2011
Cat lovers allergic to cats (but not robo-kitties), your day of bliss may be closer: IBM’s put together all the supercomputing parts and pieces to replicate the number of neural synapses inside a feline noggin. That, in short, means they’ve managed to simulate the essential pieces of Fluffy’s brain.
And not just a cat’s brain, but other animals’ gray matter as well, up to and including humans (well, sort of—more on that in a moment). How? Buckets and buckets of processors, each one more or less like the one inside your average home computer or tablet, running in parallel.
(MORE: IBM Aims to Build Artificial Human Brain Within 10 Years)
According to Scientific American, IBM’s also simulated the brain of a mouse (512 processors) and a rat (2,048), while the virtual cat brain clocks in at a respectable 24,576. What those numbers mean: IBM’s established a functional ratio between one processor plus one gigabyte of memory, and the correlative crunch-power of a certain number of neurons and synapses. In fact a supercomputer IBM’s dubbed “Blue Gene,” with 147,456 processors configured in parallel, managed to simulate 4.5% of the human brain, claims the company.
“The cat is out of the bag,” quips IBM in the title of a paper (fairly technical, warning) describing its research into “cortical simulations” with 10 to the ninth power neurons and 10 to the thirteenth power synapses.
What would you need to simulate the entire human brain, with some 20 billion neurons and 200 trillion synapses? 880,000 processors, says IBM, something it’s hoping to pull off by 2019…and the singularity, as Ray Kurzweil’s so fond of saying, may be nearer.
[UPDATE: IBM just dropped us a note to inform that the Scientific American story is actually old news, rehashed from 2009, and that IBM hasn’t “done these simulations in years”).
MORE: Scientists Can (Almost) Read Your Mind, Turn Thoughts into Movies
Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Matt Peckham is TIME's video games, science tech and music tech correspondent based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has appeared in Variety, The Washington Post, The New York Times and others.
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In Armenia & Georgia, Data Sites Meant to Bring Transparency to Gov't Face Uphill Battles
BY Jessica McKenzie | Wednesday, May 7 2014
Young Georgians learn how to file a freedom of information request in the video below
The website OpenData.ge launched at the end of February as a place to store, organize and display freedom of information requests. It is a collaborative effort of four Georgian NGOs with assistance from the international NGO Huridocs, which works with organizations around the globe to harness the power of information to advance human rights. Georgia, however, has the advantage of relative government cooperation. In neighboring Armenia an organization of journalists launched PublicData.am with help from Huridocs in 2011 but have since struggled both against an unresponsive government and an indifferent media.
The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) launched the first iteration of OpenData.ge in 2010. A representative of Huridocs, Friedhelm Weinberg, told techPresident that OpenData.ge benefitted from the previous experience, and from the data the government had already made available. (The right to request information from the government has been a Georgian law since 1999.)
However, working with four organizations—in addition to IDFI there is Green Alternative, Transparency International Georgia, and the Georgian Young Lawyers Association—is a challenge in itself. Weinberg told techPresident that its difficult when the organizations don't work in the same way. They don't even agree on what seems like simple matters, like the definition of a Freedom of Information Request.
Examples of available information of OpenData.ge include “hotly debated dam projects, bonuses and salaries of state officials, [and] money spent on cultural events.” It also provides information on how and why citizens should file their own freedom of information requests.
Weinberg explained to techPresident that Georgia has substantially reduced low-level corruption in recent years. Transparency International notes that positive developments in the country include an electronic public platform introduced in 2010, and free online access to public records like the company registry and the land and property registry, all of which encourages government transparency.
Weinberg adds that the “overall government in Georgia [is] relatively responsive, but [OpenData.ge] is still an important tool to keep the pressure on them.”
Armenia is a much different story. There the journalists who launched PublicData.am often receive government responses on paper, and have to manually transcribe the information to the site. They also struggle to get mainstream media to address the need for transparency and government accountability.
Levon Barseghyan, activist and founder of the Journalists Club Asparez, the organization that runs PublicData.am, told the Open Society Foundation earlier this year that mainstream TV has so little credibility, Armenians watch it with “a vice versa approach.”
(The Open Society Foundation supported the launch of PublicData.am in 2010.)
The news site Asparez.am is one of Armenia's top 10 news sites, and in many ways PublicData.am is an extension of their journalism. They track public funding to schools and regional government by sending 3,500 or so freedom of information requests annually, to schools, communities, and government offices.
When requests for information are ignored or refused, the journalists take it to the judicial system. According to the Open Society Foundation, “In the four years since Asparez began its FOI campaigning, they have brought 55 lawsuits seeking full compliance under the 2003 federal FOI law. Barseghyan says they have won or resolved 54 of those suits.”
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Face Off : Hyundai i20 vs Maruti Suzuki Swift
Weekend Warrior Jul 14, 2014 5:10 am Jul 14, 2014 0 823
The Hatchback segment is a heavily contended area of the Indian market. Although a multitude of cars from various manufacturers have entered the fray over the past five years, two names have managed to always stay on top: Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai. The Swift and i20 have been clashing against each other for years now and with both offering a host of features and space at a reasonable price point, the battle in this segment eventually became a two horse race between the Suzuki Swift and Hyundai i20.
Lets take a look at what makes both these hatchbacks so successful and what may be the better choice for you as a buyer.
Swift:
The current gen Swift is more of an evolution from the previous generation than a full blown facelift. As a result merely the dimensions of the headlights and taillights have been changed. While many consider the new look to be more contemporary, the Swift falls a little behind the competition in this department. However, the finish and choice of colours have greatly improved over the first model and the car makes for a far more premium offering.
Verdict: 7/10
i20:
Hyundai’s latest fluidic design philosophy greatly aided the ailing company’s fortunes around the world. With the launch of the Fluidic Verna, the company revived its sales figures to even displace Indian heavyweight Maruti from the top spot in multiple segments. Following the phenomenal success of the Verna, Hyundai applied the very same design methodology to the i20. While the previous generation i20 was criticized for its plane Jane looks, the new i20 is far more edgy in terms of design. Free flowing lines emanating from the hexagonal grille run across the body of the hatchback add to the hatchback’s “fluidic” nature.
Verdict: 7.5/10
Maruti has made tremendous strides with the interior of the Swift. Replacing the conventional beige and grey colours with an all-black cabin vastly improved the car’s upmarket feel. The dashboard has been thoroughly redone with high grade plastics and quality buttons. However, we do find some evidence of cost cutting with some areas where fit and finish isn’t entirely perfect.
The integrated music system is far more appealing and features steering mounted controls. Although the peak volume is quite impressive, cabin acoustics could have been fairly better. Though this can be fixed with after-market speakers.
Cabin space is good but not exceptional with even tall passengers sitting at the back in adequate comfort.
The i20’s interiors are one of the best around. The premium plastics and chrome touches across the dash improve on the premium feel of the car. The blue ambient lighting is quite pretty when compared to the rather low key white light of the Swift. The music system features the conventional USB, iPod, AUX In inputs, however, the car’s acoustics are excellent and give the passengers an immersive experience.
One major flaw of the i20’s infotainment system is the positioning of the rather small monochrome screen. The size, position and control units for the display is simply not ergonomically sound.
The Swift and i20 are powered by both petrol and diesel units. For the purposes of the comparo, we will be considering the petrol variants of both cars.
The Swift is powered by an updated 1.2 L engine that features variable valve timing that improves performance and fuel efficiency. The new chassis has improved weight reduction, which means the power to weight ratio of the current gen Swift is one of the best in its class. The petrol mill churns out 85 HP @ 6000 RPM with a peak torque of 114 Nm hitting at 4000 RPM. Although the claimed mileage is 18.6 km/L, the Swift gives about 14 – 16 km/L in the real world. Still a commendable job from the little hatch.
The i20 is powered by a similar specked engine and also offers the latest in tech wizardry to ensure maximum fuel efficiency and performance. The 1.2 L four cylinder engine puts out 82.8 HP @ 6000 RPM and 113 Nm of torque @ 4000 RPM. However, the Hyundai hatch is much larger and heavier and as a result performance takes a big hit. Although claimed mileage is 18 km/L, the i20 gives about 12/13 km/L in city traffic conditions. Despite the lack of power, the engine is extremely refined and quiet even beyond 4000 revs. Hyundai has done an impressive job with cabin noise insulation as well.
One can argue that the Swift does not posses the refinement of the i20 or the features, however despite its shortcomings in build quality and the like, the Swift runs circles ’round the i20 when it comes to the drive. The Swift has always been a tuner’s favorite and for a good reason, with a superb rev happy engine and good power to weight ratio, the Swift is an absolute blast to drive. Brakes are strong and responsive and react well when put under test. Gear shifts are smooth and the gearbox works with minimal fuss. The turning radius is better than the i20 and the car also offers good rear visibility. Given that it is a Maruti, spare parts are also easily accessible and cheap.
The i20 is a bit of a disappointment here. With a hatchback this large, you would think that Hyundai would put a more powerful engine under the bonnet. Sadly however, the 1.2 L petrol mill provides poor low end torque and as a result the car fails to pull away when you need it the most. Although noise insulation is impressive, Hyundai has skimped on the engine to provide more features. While many may consider a feature loaded car as a value for money product, the i20 fails to impress as a driver’s car. The brakes, despite providing adequate braking capability, feel spongy and lack the bite that the Swift offers.
While both cars are placed in the same segment and cost about the same, the Swift and i20 belong to totally different worlds. While one tugs and pulls at your heart, the other makes a whole lot more sense. One is meant to be driven while the other is meant to be driven in.
The Maruti Suzuki Swift
So for the better driver’s car, it has and will always be the Maruti Suzuki Swift. However, for the more feature loaded and spacious of the two, our pick would definitely be the Hyundai i20.
The Hyundai i20
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Renault KWID Concept – Overview
By Suresh , Jul 20, 2014 5:33 pm Jul 20, 2014 0 745
Renault is considered as one of the most innovate automobile companies around the world. In 2012 one of the renowned news agency Thomas Reuters has ranked Renault among the world’s 100 most innovative companies. Renault follows a principle that makes the company unique from others, as innovation for other company’s mean a lot more expensive R&D that is confined to a group of rich peoples only. But for Renault, innovation means designing and developing an affordable range of products which many people can afford. Renault has a motto of reaching as many people as they can through their innovation. These things make Renault quite different from other manufacturers. In this exploration of innovation, Renault has come up with a new design that can change the future of the automobile industry.
The new concept is called as KWID.
KWID is a concept car unveiled at the 2014 Delhi Auto Show by Renault and it is considered as one of the prestigious concept cars in that Auto show, targeting the new markets for Renault which includes India, and some other western countries. Actually this is considered as a grand release as it was for the first time it was showing a concept outside of Europe. By observing all this, we can come to a conclusion that Renault is considering India as one of its key market place in order to disclose its innovation as surprisingly Renault gives India great importance next to Europe which is considered as the unbeatable arena for Renault cars.
Image Source: cdn.autoevolution.com
When it comes to looks, KWID looks great and is every bit the concept car in its looks. The car is a combo design i.e. it looks a part dune buggy and a part SUV. The dual combination looks very unique, and it stays below 4 meters in overall length. The body of KWID is amazingly designed ( Thanks to the presence of different group of people, such as Brazilians, French and Indians in design team ). The design team comprises of some Indian automobile designers which includes Neha Lad (Color Designer). KWID comes with a mix color that comprises of Grey and Yellow. Neha Lad justifies it saying Grey denotes the earthy nature of India whereas Yellow denotes the hues of Indian spices and flowers like the marigold. The interiors were also designed by yet another Indian Mishu Batra.
Image Source: www.30npire.com
The interiors are designed in such a way that it can fit a family quite comfortably. Considerably there are two twists in the interiors which make it very different from all other cars. The first twist is that, the car is a five seater with 3 seats in front and two at the back. The second twist is, unlike all cars the steering wheel is mounted at the middle so we have to find a new name for this ( other than the Left hand and right hand driving ) in order to denote the new driving experience. The interiors are spacious enough to fit any size of people. Rear view mirrors are replaced with cameras and the output from these cameras get displayed at the top ends of the dash. Apart from these the car is also equipped with a dual-zone mock climate control system.
Image Source: www.mshcdn.com
Tech-Specs:
As it is a concept car, the specification might be change when it turns into a commercial model, and as with the technical specifications, Renault has revealed some of them :
The KWID has been powered by Renault’s 1.2 litre H5ft turbocharged petrol engine which has 120 bhp. This motor is similar to Renault Clio and Captur which are from Renault’s European car line-up.
Easy Start/Stop engine button
6 speed EDC (Efficient Dual-Clutch) gearbox.
Charging socket adaptability to make the car even work with electricity
Battery pack for charging.
Price tag is not confirmed yet, as it is a concept car still under experimental stage.
I will keep updating the specs whenever they are officially announced or confirmed by the company, so keep this page bookmarked for exclusive updates.
KWID Flying Companion: Most desirable and innovative feature
KWID is accompanied with a flying companion,this flying companion is a remote controlled heli-cam that sits in a niche in the car’s roof. It is camouflaged, as the flying companion also has the same color as the car roof and it is present in a compartment made on the roof. The flying companion acts like a recon drone which is used to monitor the traffic or road conditions that lie ahead. The drone can be controlled manually by using the center mounted LCD screen as a controller or the drone can be set into auto mode so that it can work independently. This makes the whole package real interesting and fun. KWID is considered to have the world’s first built-in quad copter.
Image Source: gizmag.com
We have to consider that it is a concept model and still is in the experimentation stage. I will keep updating the details as and when there are further updates.
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Marcus Drinkwater documents West Ham United’s final season at Upton Park
Published July 18, 2016. Words by Marcus Drinkwater.
You can’t manufacture community or build unity; it’s something that comes with time, over 100 years in this case. The blood runs claret and blue over in the East End and its streets deafened by the roar of over 35’000, soon to be silenced.
112 Years follows an event that will soon end, match day at Upton Park. 112 Years is an intimate documentation of a place and community brought together by one passion, soon to be altered indefinitely by London’s unstoppable redevelopment.
With West Ham United’s move to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium in the summer comes Upton Park's eventual demolishment, leaving an area of East London steeped in tradition quite. From East Ham Working Men’s Club to the Boleyn Pub on the corner of Green Street, there is no telling the effect the move will have. If one thing is certain, it is the sense of togetherness that has been forged over a century, the sadness of leaving and the optimism for the future.
Uncertain times lay ahead for the fans of West Ham United, they have known good times and bad over the years, players and managers come and go. Through all this has been the ground, standing like the ironworks the club was once founded on. 112 Years follows match day at the Boleyn, for one last season.
@m_drinkwater
Copenhagen photographer, Christine Lorenzen’s NSFW photo series explores sex and intimacy in personal spaces
Carly Clarke captures Vancouver’s homeless residents
Photographer, Sam Wexham captures BMXers, skaters and skate parks in a series exploring obsession
The Undercroft
A book by photographer, Ryan Munday captures the skaters and brutalist architecture of Southbank Centre’s ‘Undercroft’
Photographer, Marcus Drinkwater captures quintessentially ‘English’ towns in the county of Kent
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Ghost Days
Upcoming book cover that was extremely up my alley. More to come from this project soon!
This past weekend, I exhibited at a tiny table at Spectrum Fantastic Art Live in Kansas City, Missouri, and per usual, it’s brought up a lot of feelings that have taken a while to condense into words. I have difficulty setting aside time to put my inner life into writing, at least on social media. This often applies even when a fairly major life event calls for it, as it sometimes seems that one must maintain a positive shell for the sake of one’s ‘audience.’ Frankly, I find this overwhelming and exhausting. My inclination is often to slip into that weird internetty ironic distance, or simply say nothing at all. It’s sometimes fun, but it’s not necessarily how I want to present all the time, and I’m trying to work on it.
The push and pull of how to go about being open and vulnerable as an artist has been on the forefront of my thoughts for a few months now, and it’s difficult to parse because it always leads back to the question of why any of us picked up a pencil in the first place. Did the little images in your head come to you, graciously, as a life-raft of control when you were trapped in tumultuous circumstances, or were they accumulated out of a collector’s sense to manifest your thoughts, in case they slip away? Is it about curiosity and technical play with your medium, or about sharing your story and gaining validation that yes, it’s Pretty F’ing Cool? I’ve come to think that it’s sourced not in some melodramatic “core of pain” but that the root is buried further, under a feeling of simply being slightly-outside. The impulses to control, collect, manifest, play, and share follow after. As much art-making is a primarily solitary field, it’s not just a mentally outside place, but a physical one as well. Keeping a clear perspective on yourself and your work can become a bizarre dance, its own push and pull between self-worth and technical skill. It's hard to know, fully, where you stand.
After two years off, with all this swirling around in my head, returning to Spectrum Live was like sloughing off a too-tight old skin. Four years ago, Spectrum 2 was my first real convention experience, and the deep-end cold shock of entering a space dedicated to our very specific type of picture-making was the biggest kick in the pants I’ve had since art school. Seeing so many heroes, living legends, many of whom I’d copied and admired for years, as well as new peers whose work spoke to me on levels I couldn’t articulate led me to question every holding pattern, every bad practice, every excuse I’d adopted in my work. Here was proof that there was a space for stories, and room to bring my own visual voice into the world! Here were so many who had kept doing the thing they’d loved, come hell or high water, and had bettered themselves, found support, and seen their work soar as a result.
Until I trundled onto the floor with my suitcases this past Friday and started seeing all the familiar names of friends, peers, and living art legends hung above the tables, I didn’t realize precisely HOW much I needed that environment again. The last two years have been fairly good to me, but my past not-so-nice life experiences often keep me in a state of hyperawareness, readiness that the next bad thing is around the corner, and often paralyzed with fear and self doubt. It’s not a good look. I’ll be turning 34 this year, but despite that, I often feel like a poorly socialized, deeply troubled child with few to connect with. After years of therapy, I have come to understand that it’s a feeling that can be tempered, but won’t be going away - especially in my more raw, stressed moments. To attend an event full of peers, and especially for Spectrum, is to simultaneously fortify my armor while removing it, all while honoring why the armor was needed in the first place. It’s a feeling of being uplifted, supported, and understood in a way I’ve rarely experienced.
The word “tribe” has been used a lot over the past few days, and I find it very apt. There is joy in seeing incredible imagery, discussing techniques and swooning over staggering I-Never-Would-Have-Thought-Of-That compositions, to be sure, but the thing that continually brought me to tears over the weekend was that so many of us, of all levels of experience, remained so kind, open, and bewildered at the love they received. Every "I LOVE YOUR WORK!" was met with an equally ferocious "I LOVE YOUR WORK TOO!" Imposter syndrome and mental health practices were a topic of continual discussion. The awards show on Saturday night was the emotional high, as was tradition, as we all made space for a night of pomp and reverence, honoring new voices as well as established ones. Bill Carman and Jeffrey Alan Love’s speeches spoke to me in ways I’ll be parsing for many weeks to come as I re-enter the studio and start to work again. I hope the show will only see further success, and I can't wait to see what beautiful images are made in the interim.
All of my thanks to Cathy and Arnie Fenner, and John Fleskes for giving us this little time to connect with open hearts, silliness, and curiosity. You guys have created a place for us all. Thanks, too, to Jerry Trapp for opening his home to us all, listening, recording our time there together, and being a relentless font of love for the whole community. Thanks also to Brynn Metheney and Michael Manomivibul for being open to dragging my mopey, self-depricating ass to that first Spectrum, when I was actively hating myself and my work. You two were fundamental in setting me on a very different path, and I’m excited to see where it goes. I’m honored to count you among my oldest and best friends.
I also owe so much to my fiancé, Adam, who is surely among the top ten most patient humans to ever have lived. To have such support and ceaseless encouragement for the first time is something that I never stop being grateful for. <3
This show and its community is something special, and I consider the pilgrimage to Spectrum to be vital. See you guys next year. <3
Pictured: lovely gifts and purchases by Cory Godbey, Ashley Lovett, Kate Pfeilscheifter, Dawn Carlos, and Happy Dragons.
Tags conventions, feelings, community
"Shishigami Forest," watercolor, 14x21"
San Francisco is Feelin' the Miyazaki Spirit
"Kohaku River," watercolor, 11x19"
My two contributions to the Miyazaki Spirit show, which opened at the new Sketchpad Gallery over the weekend. A few months ago, I was privileged to be contacted by Time Beards, the show's curators, to exhibit at an exciting new space alongside a pile of illustration and design talent from my little Bay Area 'scene' and beyond!
In-progress shots for "Shishigami Forest"
The lineup also included work by by Luke Harrington, Craig Drake, Tracie Ching, Nicholas Kole, Kevin Wilson, Malisa Suchanya, Krystal Lauk, Brynn Metheney, Patrick O'Keefe, Chris Koehler, Jacob Magraw, and Jeany Ngo. Eventually, the show received a few high-profile write-ups on various pop culture blogs.
In-progress shots for "Kohaku River"
In no time, the list of attendees shot up into the thousands. Despite the inclement weather, San Franciscans and non-locals alike stood in lines that wound down long city blocks for up to three hours, but none were turned away, and none left disappointed. Estimates topped out at about ten thousand approximate visitors to the gallery over the weekend. The response has been so overwhelming that the gallery owners have decided to host another opening for the weekend of March 12th in order to meet demand.
Ft. fellow artists Patrick O'Keefe, Malisa Suchanya (as Kiki), and Jeany Ngo (as San)
Many of the original pieces have already sold, as well as some of the limited edition poster prints that were available on site, but remaining prints will be available on the gallery’s website once the show is over.
Personally, this has been hands-down the most insane response to an art-related event that I’ve never seen, and I am tremendously grateful to have even been remotely involved!
Tags gallery, illustration, tiffany turrill, tiffany turrill illustration
Month of Love: Leap Day! - Seasons
A surprise challenge to celebrate the leap year! Thanks so much, again, to Kristina for inviting me to participate - it's been a lot of fun!
“Withering Wind”
Watercolor and Acryla-gouache, 13x17
Torn between love of homeland and romantic love, the Irish hero Oisin returns to the mortal world after spending 300 years in the land of youth, Tir na Nog. His fairy wife has given him her horse, and has warned him not to dismount. But of course, his feet touch the ground, all that time catches up with him, and he flits through all the seasons of a lifetime in seconds.
“‘O flaming lion of the world, O when will you turn to your rest?’
I saw from a distant saddle; from the earth she made her moan:
‘I would die like a small withered leaf in the autumn, for breast unto breast
We shall mingle no more, nor our gazes empty their sweetness lone
In the isles of the farthest seas where only the spirits come.’”
-William Butler Yeats,
The Wanderings of Oisin
Month of Love, Week III: Weapons
“The Witch’s Knife”
The proud, long-suffering little mermaid is offered a way out at the hands of her beloved sisters. Romantic love, familial love, love for one’s own ambitions: all take their own course, but after a point, any connection between them cuts like a dagger.
Be sure to check out all of the amazing pieces for this week's challenge over at the Month of Love site!
Tags tiffany turrill, tiffany turrill illustration, watercolor, fairytale art
Month of Love, Week II: Lost in Translation
My first instinct when confronted with conceptual art prompts is to fill the void of the (intimidating!) idea space with narrative, and this piece is no exception. I thrive on the tactile narrative details, the bits and bobs - who is present in this scene? What do they look like? What are they carrying? What's the weather like? What species of tree are endemic to this region? There's a thrill in trying to accurately transcribe the images created in my mind's eye while reading, purely because they're so ephemeral. There's a filter that lies somewhere between brain and hand, and it contributes to a piece involuntarily - whether in the lineweight of a stroke or the stiffening of a gesture. To me, at least, sometimes the sloppiest sketches are most accurate in describing the dream-image, and every step after that is a Sisyphean boulder-roll to return to that font of energy. The process often reminds me of putting words to a dream - poignant moments from sleep feel so much smaller once you relate them out loud.
Very early on, for this piece, I settled on Midsummer Night's Dream, which features three stories of love and disguise, but the most interesting visually is that of the royal couple of the fairies, Titania and Oberon, who are having a bit of a marital spat. I set out to do a straight interpretation of the play, but an Angela Carter story that I’d recently read wound up tinging all of my sketches…. so I gave in and just illustrated that instead. Carter was a British author who is best remembered for her efforts in un-Disney-fying fairytales and distilling them to their baser elements. Inthe short story “Overture and Incidental Music from Midsummer Night’s Dream,” she turns her sights on Shakespeare, and offers a little prelude in the form of a bawdy parody, set before the story of the play begins.
So. In this adaptation, the barely-mentioned reason for Titania and Oberon’s feud in Midsummer, the “Indian changeling,” is drawn to the center of the story, and is transformed into the sexually ambiguous figure of “The Golden Herm.” The stately setting in the play, a forest outside Athens, is replaced with the Romantic's landscape in England: a groomed, if soggy, garden. Queen Titania, now a baby-hungry buxom giantess, seeks to possess the Herm and to mother it as her fertility-goddess instinct calls. Nature is in tumult, and torrential rains strike as a result of King Oberon’s sexual fury at not having the Herm - and, by extension, Titania herself. All the fairies have colds. The Herm punctuates his/her narration with sneezes. Meanwhile, Puck appears as a shape-shifting sex fiend, and he, too, scrambles to possess the exotic little figure. Throughout, the elemental couple never acknowledge one other, each driven my their overt slack-jawed gendered-ness and their inherent instincts - to breed, to seed. The Herm, however, wants nothing to do with anyone. He/she is inherently complete, content (with the exception of his/her cold), held at a distance in a magic bubble, confounding everyone’s desires.
Early washes and detail progress
The story is bizarre, absolutely explicit, vulgar, and a lot of fun. At risk of contradicting myself, for marketability's sake I wasn't willing to draw a literal depiction of the story, but opted to try to show the story in one image. Thankfully, desire can be seen in a glance, a gesture. Titania is wreathed in green, buds and mushrooms, animals and infantile faces peeping out from the moss, while Oberon looms overhead, announced by the dark of a storm. Puck lecherously looks on, twined in his antlers. All only have eyes for the tiny Herm.
The trappings of gender and the instinctual autopilot of desire can make any two people feel that they're not speaking the same language with one another, magical golden changeling or no. Ironically, Carter saw Shakespeare himself as lost in translation through time, hijacked by high culture, tidied up and censored for public consumption by the repressive morality of the Victorians. “Overture…” works from a feminist and post-colonial perspective to un-castrate the popular, sexual, and political thrust of Shakespeare, stripping away the boys-marrying-girls gender binary of the original Midsummer to re-insert a bawdy, dark magic.
Be sure to stop by the Month of Love site for a steady spew of incredible work, and maybe next week I'll go with some less wordy subject matter! :P
Month of Love, Week I: Heroes
“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
February already? If you must.
But the first peeps of spring come with a great honor: a few weeks back, I was kindly invited by Kristina Carroll to participate in this year’s Month of Love art challenge project. It’s headlined by some insanely talented folks who produce jaw-dropping work (and it’s set to become a no-doubt highly-sought book project soon!). Last year, I joined in on a few of the prompts for the sister project, Month of Fear, which runs in October - and found it to be very energizing in terms of setting a pace and theme. Sometimes you just need the right kind of limitations to stretch creative muscles.
So this year, I’m on the official roster, humbled and flattered and ...full of Love!
The opening prompt is a bit of a warm-up, a taste-whetter: Heroes.
The final act of one of my favorite stories, The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin, sees its two protagonists, driven out onto the largest glacier on the wintry planet of Gethen.
The story is somewhat inscrutable, you’re thrown into a wonderfully wrought culture as abruptly as Genly is. There’s days of the week to learn, jargon, mythic histories of the Gethenian people woven in throughout. The story plays with bias, point of view, with what’s left unsaid. In the end, there’s understanding and love: romantic love, friend-love, and love of home …but each is the kind that’s tinged with regret.
Genly Ai is the First Mobile, a lone Envoy from the federation of planets to which Earth belongs, and he’s been sent to attempt to convince the political rulership of the world’s nations to join. But nothing is simple. Gethen’s culture is rich, its history is long, and, to Genly, its people are wholly baffling: the Gethenians exist as both male and female at once, and enter a sexualized state every month. Individuals can be fathers to some, mothers to others. There has never been a war on Gethen. Genly is wholly unprepared for a society and political system without political system without a sexually-derived dichotomy. There has never been a war on Gethen. His one advocate, Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, sacrifices her career as an influential minister to save the in-over-his-head Genly. (Written in 1969, the book uses the “he/him” pronouns for Gethenians in a neutral nonsexual state. In later books, when Le Guin refers to Gethenians, she uses “she/her").
Eventually, they’re forced out onto to the ice. There, Genly and Estraven haltingly bond - they’re truly alien to one another. But they learn to trust, and be comfortable with their differences in order to complete an unprecedented 81-day trek across an inhospitable landscape. During the journey, Estraven enters kemmer - the sexualized Gethenian state - as a female, and Genly, who thinks of her as neutrally male, ignores the implications. Their actions ultimately lead to sweeping change across the entirety of the planet. History will view them as heroes.
A bit narrative-heavy for the first shot out the gate, I suppose, but I get really excited when there’s a rich story working under the surface. That being said, quite a few elements of this piece were some refreshing non-comfort-zone subjects for me - corporeal people, for one, and people wearing bulky clothing, for two. The lighter, stormy color palette came about when the piece was nearly done - I washed a crisp blue sky out in favor of an overcast one. Snow and ice were also a particular challenge - I haven’t seen much of either, so much reference was needed. I’m a forest creature at heart.
Anyhow. I can’t say this enough, but I’m so thrilled to be included on this project! More to come next week!
Are you a Good Witch, or a Bad Witch?
Occasionally I spot the fruits of an art meme going around on social media, and it looks like just-too-much irresistible fun. That's what happened when I spotted some adorable renditions of "witchsonas" going around Twitter. I effectively jumped off the deep end for a morning drawing warmup, and... well... things got a bit... dark. It's barely a self portrait, yet she strangely bears a resemblance to me in the morning, before I've had my tea.
I suppose this is represents the side of my personality that performs blood rites, steals children, blights crops? Sure!
Tags sketches, linework, pencil
Wrinkle in Time, thoughts and process
At nine years old, my assigned seat in the 4th grade classroom was near the bookcase, in a far corner. Being the studious type, I would often speed through any homework in class, and peer at the bookcase. One set of books, in particular, held my attention - each sporting a bizarre illustration with something that looked like a centaur-like-pegasus-like... thing on the cover. It was dark, baffling. Somehow, I had to read it. Very uncharacteristically of my quiet bookishness, I brazenly walked up to the teacher, and simply asked if we could read it in class. Imagine my surprise when, instead of being reprimanded, the teacher allowed it! During the reading, the rest of the children were confused, and often bored - but I was thrilled to my core. The book was Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time.
You know you'd pick it up, too.
Inasmuch as you can be defined as a person when you're nine years old, Wrinkle in Time was a threshold into multiple paths for me - a lifelong interest in science, a love for reading, the soaring interconnectedness of its philosophy, and the odd comfort the story offered me (as a very Meg-like child) that "fitting in" at school doesn't matter a bit when you've got a universe to save. As a rule, I try and reread the first two books of the Time Quintet every year... yet somehow it feels far too hallowed a thing to try my hand at this most-fanly of fan art. Well, until now. I'm intending this to be the first in a series of pieces dedicated to books I've loved.
Very messy thumbnailing.
I scoped out many different compositions, each with the intention of being viewed as a book cover: the protagonists, fleeing or feeling the scope of the challenges in store. Many of the compositions featured a graphic tesseract icon, which eventually I dropped purely because this amazing piece solved that problem so effectively.
Rough linework, no reference used at this point.
Final linework, completed after using reference and some simple photography.
I wanted to embroil the children in something larger than themselves, as they were in the story - not merely to show them fleeing from some undrawable "baddie." The antagonist that Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin face is depicted simplistically in the tale (simply referred to as "The Black Thing") but it collectively refers to anything springing from the worst aspects of ourselves: our fear, our hatred. The Black Thing is in us, in the children. It sings its own song. It caresses.
Above, in the stars, hover the shape-shifting, time-bending entities known as the Mrs. W's (Whatsit, Who, Which). Although they twine tendrils down among the children, they're held at a distance, fundamentally removed. Etched in starlight, they watch protectively, but leave the children to face their challenges alone. They're lit with starlight, bannered by hints at their angelic nature.
Painting in progress, held in my stretching board. This is near the end of the wash stages, before I begin adding strong values,
Charles Wallace detail, in progress.
This piece was finished over a longer period than planned, (a spat of winter illness slowed me down) but I'm fairly pleased with the results. I'd like to revisit the kids' faces, some of the shapes, and perhaps work the graphic tesseract idea back in. While on some level I don't think I'll ever truly capture the joy of discovering L'Engle's classic for the first time with a pencil and paint, it feels just plain good to produce work dedicated to a story that I love. I'm certainly looking forward to more!
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October 9, 2018 October 9, 2018 by Tips NBA
Nuggets (-1) vs. Clippers
The Clippers and Nuggets meet in a preview of the Oct. 17 NBA regular-season opener tonight at the Staples Center (10:30 p.m. ET). See below for betting tips, an expert free pick, and predicted score.
The line has crossed the fence as the Nuggets are currently 1-point favorites following the Clippers hanging the number during the initial offer. Close to 53 percent of the wagering tickets across the major online sportsbooks are backing Denver. The total has shifted from 227.5 to 226 with the public on 60 percent of the action.
The exhibition period has proven wildly different for both franchises. Denver, although 3-0, is “disjointed” to use the synonym uttered by head coach Michael Malone following a dismal display at Pepsi Center against Perth over the weekend. “The starters; we have to find a way to click.”
The issue is the teamwork of Gary Harris (17.5 ppg) and Jamal Murray (16.7 ppg), the team’s second- and third-leading scorers from last year. Both have missed parts of the preseason due to injury, and failed to connect in extended periods sharing the court together. Neither, in fact, has hit double figures yet in points. Malone hinted he will field the two in bunches in the final two exhibition games to build some “synergy.”
Thanks for joining us, #ClipperNation.
? Scenes from tonight’s open practice. pic.twitter.com/OG8aHMhEyo
— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) October 9, 2018
The Clippers, meanwhile, have also won three straight, buoyed by some rim-stopping defense. They are yielding 93.0 points per game headed into their final tune-up. The team is completely retooled without the likes of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan not on the roster. Head coach Doc Rivers is making clamping down the priority. This is no longer Lob City folks.
L.A. will be without forwards Tyrone Wallace (hip) and Luc Mbah a Moute (calf) to injuries.
Malone and Rivers have clashed head to head 10 times. The average combined score is 216.7 points, and this is minus the new defensive philosophy taking center stage in L.A. The UNDER, in fact, has cashed in four of five with the Clip catching points on the NBA oddsboard.
Prediction: Clippers 112-105
Pick: UNDER 226
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Available Now: Moonflower by Leigh Archer
Cover art by EJR Digital Art
Untamed Safari, #2
Leigh Archer
ASIN: B00ZPB4ZNM
Length: Novel
Buy Here: Tirgearr Publishing
Conservationist, Sophie Kyle, takes up a position on a private game farm outside Cape Town in the hopes of paying off her student loans and adding a glowing reference to her resume, while getting the chance to indulge her passion for wildlife conservation.
Reuben Manning is a British business tycoon who has bought a game farm in Africa which he intends to use as a venue to entertain friends and business associates.
With all the suddenness and intensity of a bushfire, a powerful attraction ignites between the conservationist and the tycoon. But their lives are set to play out on opposite sides of the world. Sophie has only ever wanted to spend her days in the African bush, while Reuben’s life is corporate London.
As the wild and sensuous bond between the two grows, they must overcome many obstacles to find common ground or they are doomed, despite their passion for each other, to spend the rest of their lives a continent apart.
‘It’s not funny, you little savage!’
The baboon screamed defiance at her. A moment later, he scooted along the branch and was lost in the foliage. He reappeared suddenly and before Sophie could blink, something exploded against her chest—a large, over-ripe guava. Juice, pips and flesh soaked into her shirt and dripped down her front.
With a shout of triumph, the baboon disappeared along the branch, still clutching the tyre iron. Sophie decided to give up. She’d go back to the truck and radio for help, after she’d changed her shirt. She had a spare in her vehicle.
She took the shirt off to avoid the sticky mess seeping through to her bra and stomped off across the grass. She was several metres from the vehicle when she noticed a man standing beside it. He was in tailored chinos that sported perfectly pressed seams. His shirt was pale blue and the shoes were probably Italian leather.
Sophie tried with as much finesse as possible to unfurl the shirt scrunched into a ball in her hands as the veld began to run out between herself and the vehicle. She pressed the material to her chest, ignoring the squelch of guava flesh against her skin.
A more pragmatic part of Sophie’s brain said: not your fault, can’t be helped. She strode towards the man, doing her best to carry off her approach with as much dignity as her white, lacy bra would allow.
When she got within a couple of feet of him, her heart began to jump up and down like that crazy baboon. The man waiting at the vehicle was Reuben Manning. Sophie groaned.
She recognised him from the photos she’d seen on the internet. If he’d been handsome in photographs, in person he was devastating. For one thing, those pictures hadn’t given the full effect of his broad shoulders and height of at least six foot three. And it wasn’t his height alone that was impressive: it was also the high forehead, sculpted cheekbones, square jaw, thick dark hair; the early morning sun glinting off an undulating wave. No wonder he’d done so well in business. She didn’t think there was a man or woman alive who could possibly say no to him.
But it was the eyes that started a pounding in her chest: they were the closest to navy blue she had ever seen. There was an unusual intensity to them as they slid towards her chest, narrowed and lingered there. Her chest!
Sophie pressed the shirt to her sternum, trying to control the breathlessness that made her full breasts even more noticeable as they moved up and down, up and down.
Neither spoke. His eyes met hers and Sophie quickly looked away from the energy that flashed from them. Not a man to be trifled with. The thought flitted through her mind as she watched the breeze ruffle his hair. She glanced at the sensuous mouth, now drawn into a hard line, the strong jaw. Everything about this man exuded power and success. She hoped he wasn’t cruel.
You’re a professional, Sophie told herself. You’ve worked hard for this, so show him who you really are.
‘Hello, Mr Manning. My name’s Sophie Kyle. I’m your new conservationist.’
Leigh, who writes romance novels set in her native South Africa, has always had a great love affair with Africa’s wild, open spaces, the intensity of its people and sunsets. Her love of storytelling began as a child when she spent every spare moment of her childhood playing barefoot in golden grass, watching meerkats, tracking Eland spoor and dreaming up heroes and heroines exciting enough to stand out in the all the beauty and drama of the African landscape.”
Find Leigh Online:
Website - http://leigharcher.net
Blog - http://leigharcher.net/index.php/blog
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Leigh-Archer/299910886869499
Twitter - https://twitter.com/LeighArcherBook
Tirgearr Publishing - http://tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Archer_Leigh
Posted by Kemberlee at 10:00 am
Labels: Contemporary Romance, Leigh Archer, Untamed Safari Series
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Downton Abbey"s Michelle Dockery and Rupert Grint star in ad to boost UK tourism
Downton-by-sea: Stars of the screen unite to promote UK tourism and our glorious landscapes
Encouragement: Some of Birtain's top stars, including Michelle Dockery of Downton Abbey fame, are to star in adverts encouraging Britons to holiday at home
Some of the nation's most celebrated stars have joined forces to encourage Brits to holiday at home.
Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery and Harry Potter's
Rupert Grint have teamed up with Stephen Fry and Julie Walters for a new advertising campaign which will break tomorrow.
The initiative – which extends beyond television adverts – has cost 5million, making it the country's biggest ever tourism drive.
The 'Holidays at Home are Great' ad features the four celebrities encouraging Brits to explore UK destinations and ends with the line, 'No passports. No jabs. No visas. No Euros. No wonder holidays at home are so great.'
It promotes a number of locations across the UK ahead of the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympic torch relay.
The Government hopes the drive – led by VisitEngland with the support of the tourist boards of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – will discourage British holidaymakers from travelling abroad during an Olympic year, as host nations commonly experience a 'sag' in domestic tourism.
Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for culture, media, sport and the Olympics, said ahead of the launch which took place at the London Eye today: 'This is the first time we've had a national domestic tourism marketing campaign.
'It is completely measurable – we will know how many nights are booked as a result of this campaign.
'As an industry and as a Government, we will know whether this type of campaign works and what the return on investment is.
'That in itself will provide an important template going forward in terms of upping our game in marketing.'
Come hither: Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery pictured at Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, is one of four celebrities that have been recruited to help encourage Brits to holiday at home
It is hoped the drive will discourage British holidaymakers from travelling abroad during an Olympic year
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint surfed at Bridlington beach in Yorkshire for the advert
Consumers will be able to save 20.12 per cent on bookings for accommodation, restaurants, attractions, events and transport via a dedicated website, www.great2012offers.com.
While James Beresford, chief executive of VisitEngland, predicts the new campaign should generate an additional 80m in domestic spend and create 12,500 jobs.
The ads show Dockery at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland and Grint on Bridlington Beach in Yorkshire.
While additional 10-second executions are set to showcase a number of other destinations including Blackpool, Skegness, Yorkshire and Liverpool.
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Despite strong support, some areas of the travel
industry – including ABTA The Travel Association – have criticised the
campaign for favouring domestic tourism over the already-struggling
international tourism market.
Mark Tanzer, CEO of ABTA said: 'We
are very concerned that the Government is sponsoring a marketing
campaign that appears to actively discourage UK holidaymakers from
taking a foreign break: I’m sure the public want to make up their own
mind about where to go on holiday.
'The outbound tourism industry
employs hundreds of thousands of people throughout the UK and generates
27 billion annually in direct spend, making a fundamental and
significant contribution to the economic health of the country.'
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